skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It broke my heart. A smart, good, kind man that I knew had been brain damaged. Like some kind of fucking psychological cancer.

You're applying your view of the world to him. You're also condemning him in your mind.

How about you do this instead: you know he's a smart, honest person. Listen to his argument, see where he's coming from, and try to understand _why_ he choose that conclusion.

Nothing is all cut and dry. I do think CoV2 is a real virus, but I think our reaction to it has been absolutely disastrous. We're seeing lowering fatalities rates. Some of that is due to better treatment (early on doctors were just putting people straight onto ventilators, which was a death sentence. Since then ventilators aren't used immediately and we've seen survival go up).

With all the measures put in place, people who do get exposed are also getting low exposure, which can result in minor infections/cough/cold and quicker recovery and possibly even resistance. We've known for a while the amount of exposure matters. No one is talking about how the NYC/Michigan/Kirkland (Seattle) high death counts were directly the result of issues with elderly car facilities and cramming tons of old people into places not equipped to handle them.

I have a Bachelors and Masters degree, have published several papers, and consider myself a reasonable person, and my person view is that we are overreacting. I've been writing about it just to see if what I write tracks in 5 years:

March: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-disease...

May: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...

July: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/

We've watch the media go into a crazy hyper-overdrive mode on almost all information, with headlines that are contradicted by the actual text of the story. We also see zero coverage of the insane 40~50 cycles used in the current PCR tests, which generate tons of false positives. Every media outlet is focusing on "cases" but what if that "case" had minimal symptoms and required 45 PCR test cycles? That's either a very low viral load or a false positive, a good thing. But no one is covering that data.

Elon Musk found issues with the rapid test; and yes the rapid test is used for antibodies and has its limits. Instead of kindly explaining it to him, someone ranted on Twitter insulting him, implying he was a fool. But many people are buying these tests and are not aware of their limitations, so from that perspective, Elon did something good for bringing the issue to light, and he was insulted by someone who wanted to shame people into a certain narrative.

Things are super complex right now. The truth is somewhere in the middle of all the bullshit we're being fed.
So that assertion is only sorta true.

Initial discovery research is pretty much entirely tax payer funded. There's then a second phase, moving from that discovery to POC, that is extremely underfunded, and which a lot of charity and such funding goes toward. It's only the last phase, taking POCs -> product, that companies really invest in. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50972/

Now, that capital investment is not a trivial amount of money (about 80 billion in 2018 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/265085/research-and-deve... ), but it still is only 17% of drug company revenues - https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-dru...

Note, too, that private companies tend to fund research toward common first world diseases, since they're profit driven, and far less to niche and/or common third world diseases. So not only do they not fund early discovery (government does that), nor generally moving those discoveries to POCs ('valley of death', and charitable foundations and the like do that), they also leave plenty of potential meds untouched, since the likely profitability is low.
Your comment proves the article's point. In the entire country, they could only find a single professor to say that the federal government doesn't have the power to issue a mask-mandate for occupants of vehicles on interstate highways.

Given that these roadways in question are interstate the federal government's power to regulate activity thereon is assumed as the power to regulate interstate commerce is one of the constitutionally enumerated powers of the federal government.
You might like this blog post, We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154
> What's the difference between a recommendation algorithm and a moderation algorithm?

They both just seem to be versions of spam filters to me. The real power that Twitter would have is a historical dataset that could influence the weight of certain users' content in recommending/rejecting to a viewer. Algos are only as good as the data behind them, right?

> Recommendations pushed in your face by an algorithm should be considered publishing.

Interesting distinction!
> but when your email is received by many people it's an unkind act that shows disregard for the recipient's time and attention.

most of my e-mail are just chat conversations with a title
Yeah, housing prices in the south bay have been solid/trending upward throughout all of this. Lots of good deals on apartments though.
Why do you say "an actual"? Are you meaning that you think that Browsh is not an actual take on text based browsing?
The best book on this subject is Clayton Christensen's "Competing Against Luck", where he details the 'jobs to be done' paradigm. It's a great book which contains his usual combination of empathy and insight, and I recommend it to all.
Deduplication and compression do not imply diffs.
I think it is, but the real virus is the Media and Big Tech. The Ministry of Truth in 1984 was government, but the version we see today is Big Tech + Big Media, backed by the political party that is encouraging the censoring and labeling of information they don't like.

You assume the nam-shub are the conspiracies, but what if it's what MSNBC/FOX/CNN are pumping into your brain?
I remember people using socket adapters to put Pentium M chips on their desktop. I also have very bad memories of my P4 Prescott around the same era. What an absolute trash pile of an architecture.
MacVim is my favorite when it comes to UX. It starts instantly and stays fast even on huge files. It's very customizable and works exactly how I want, including the layout of nested horizontal and vertical split panes.

I like being able to configure just about everything in just a single config file, but still getting an additional escape hatch for overriding OS default keybindings I want to use.
I concur. He rants about things that aren’t actually issues, and is simply wrong on some of the things that are. For example, WiFi has transitioned to 5ghz and will be moving to 6 so the coex story solves itself and isn’t the biggest problem. Your device isn’t in discovery mode all the time because, unlike your router, it’s not plugged in always. Unless you want a standby time of an hour instead of a day, you can’t always be in discovery. Additionally it’s a UX and security thing - currently people expect that pairing also connects. If you make the device always discoverable the complexity of negotiating that goes up. Multipoint BT audio works so poorly that AirPods went with a totally different UX solution that works way better.

Unfortunately the author is wrong in the substance enough that the condescending lecturing style makes it even more of a turnoff. I just hope people don’t take this too seriously but it does speak that the BT engineers driving the standards need to do a better job focusing on issues that end users have. The challenge is that the bulk of these (excluding Google and Apple) are chip designers looking to sell more chips so they’re incentivized to solve different problems.
Gates Notes: Data could hold the key to stopping Alzheimer's
I mean that Moderna has more data on storage than pfizer. They've been working on mrna vaccines for quite some time.
One word: strtok

It takes more code to use it correctly than to hand-code what you think it is supposed to be doing for you. strtok is Cursed.

strlcpy is similar. If you don't write that much more code, you are not using it correctly, and it is not giving you the value that is the reason you thought was why you were using it.
Amazon selling prescription drugs in US, Prime discounts
Google cache copy (no paywall): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LbmYDM...
Oh, yes, I grossly misinterpreted what that meant. It’s “of the children living with one parent, these are how the ages are distributed within mother only and father only households.”
Only in the context of SF is NYC (esp. Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn) a cheaper CoL city. (Though I think it does demonstrate that building up isn't some magical elixir for housing prices. See also e.g. Hong Kong.)
Deception and manipulation are much different things. In any cases, babies lack the ability to lie or pretend.

You really need to stretch definitions to absurd to get near to deception too. They cry cause discomfort and really have no idea how you will react or what you will think f about that.

Babies are dumb and simple biological mechanisms from this point of view.
Although I don't 'love' Ansible I use it nearly daily and have written thousands of lines of Ansible YAML. It suits, but yes, I share your view; this stuff should be unnecessary. Docker as well.

Docker is a fairly precise proxy for the inadequacies of Linux; all it's really doing is papering over the missing, badly needed parts of the OS.
Finally a true random number generator available as a web app.
Except that book didn't have "a similar high-level of comparison to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". To quote the judge: "The contrast between the total concept and feel of the works is so stark that any serious comparison of the two strains credulity"[1]. There is a sort of "know it when I see it" nature that is hard to define, but copyright certainly protects works that are substantially similar even if not straight copies, at least in the US.

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-12134288
That's what I thought 3 years ago. It hasn't happened.
This is not about a single search engine instance replacing all your search engine needs.

There could be a community of Software developers running one instance of the OS search engine that focuses on programmers needs: documentation, vcs hosters, dev blogs, tech news websites and on topic blogs.
Great if you need to search for how to solve a software issue, terrible if you need to figure out how long to cook spaghetti.

The lists of crawled pages i guess would be visible/searchable too, at least on instances that you could trust.

If you don't like the list, and the maintainers for whatever reason don't want to change it to your liking, feel free to use another instance or set one up yourself.
If you actually read the article it says they made these changes after receiving complaints from just four parents and have already begun to receive criticism from every side.

How is this news? (I know, I know, it fits a narrative, gets the clicks, etc. Still kinda disappointing to see stuff like this here.)
It did, and I'd been meaning to show my appreciation. I just bought it (finally).
pussycat was changed to sensitivecat lol... i'm not sure this thing thought through
Chose your list of favorites, or subscribe to someone whose curation you trust. No worse than trusting Google/Twitter/Facebook/etc.

In other words, this is precisely how a market functions.
mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1294/
It's a pity you got downvoted (due to an immediate first reply -- happens more and more), but my first reaction was exactly the same as yours. Amazon got richer during COVID19. Bezos got way richer. To be honest, I am not actually convinced that monopolies are by definition bad, but Amazon strikes me evermore as a bad instantiation of it.

Horror story: imagine the Amazon Pharmacy being flooded with Chinese sellers. This is also why I don’t like to shop on Amazon anymore. You can find the same sellers on AliExpress – cheaper and from the same source, if that’s what you want (and sometimes, it is what you want). (Even if you'd want to offer as a counterpoint their other ventures in e.g. cloud, one could offer a rebuttal again in the way how they're treating their engineers.) I was a huge Amazon customer in the past, but I implicitly feel less and less inclined to buy there. The only benefit for me is the very forthcoming customer support (if you chat with a rep and honestly complain about a bad product, they’ll go all the way -- in fact it's only lately I've seen other local web shops finally approach this central point).

It’s always the same with them: “look, here’s this new innovative thing where we streamlined the product and ignored the possible ways to game it.” Great on the former, why didn’t you care about the latter.

Also: what I find funny is that everyone defending Amazon today as a shining example of capitalism, often the same types being against that “horrible” communism, might find it interesting to ponder the question how Amazon is organized and how much revenue they’re generating. It’s a planned economy. Not by a state, but by a company. With one head at the top.
> First it was C++ (we know how well it did...)

it did well enough that C stdlibs (at least MSVC's, LLVM's) and compilers (... pretty much all the big ones) are implemented in C++ and just export C symbols nowadays, likewise for newer OSes like Fuschia.

SerenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity) was written from scratch in two years in C++ and goes as far as having a custom web browser & JS engine. Where is the equivalent in C ? Where are the C web browsers, C office suites, C Godot/Unity/Unreal-like game engines ? Why is Arduino being programmed in C++ and not C ?
hah, gave me a picture of a base plate ontowhich one can click on top an infinite number of hardisk enclosures or additional base plates to the 4 sides.

You get a subscription and the index updates (enclosure+preloaded drive) are send to you periodically.

The front of the enclosure says: 2020 4th quarter
> More independent blogs.

The problem is that content farms have mastered the art of writing like an ostensibly independent blog. This is most visible in recipe blogs, where for example the site will look independent, the blog owner’s "About Me" page will say that she is a young woman born and raised in Louisiana and passionate about her home region’s cooking, but the English is replete with the sort of mistakes that non-native speakers make. You can tell that the content writing was farmed out to someone from Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia, and basically the whole blog and its owner are fake. (Even all the recipes were drawn from other blogs, but someone was paid to rewrite them slightly.)
The problem with that is thinking a directed acyclic graph is a flat sequential list. Try `git log --graph --oneline` or `gitk`.
If you need minimal JS support, check edbrowse.

This is just a hipster like brag trying to be "modern".

If I can't run it under a Pentium3 (at least) at astronomical speeds, this is just a bad try.
This is the single suggestion that got me excited, instead of a behemoth do-it-all engine, have focused search engines. Exciting idea.
> I’ve since found enormous value in employing a version of this framework as we built Oculus social features

Not sure what those "social features" are, but if it's the integration with Facebook it's a massive failure in understanding their users.
All I really need is showing imgs in the console, which w3m-img can do along with w3m but you need an xterm instead of the modern consoles(gnome-terminal, konsole,lxterminal, none can show imgs)

the docker images of brow.sh needs firefox and the whole pull size is a few hundred MB, can someone list the advantages over lynx/w3m/links2 etc.
The Age of Infinite Leverage
Anu (successor of Pijul), of course. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25001539
The insight that Doordash is in the business of finance, not food delivery is important.

They are out to extract market share from folks with less information, primarily drivers and owners.
When you talk about having a "decent shot at a normal life", I think you're assuming what's desirable for you is what's desirable for other people. It's hard to imagine someone finding fulfillment in being the lifestyle you had in mind for them if they're finding anguish in it already.
I couldn't find any shares owned by YC (pp 302). Could they be in 'Other Selling Stockholders' that represent less than 1%?
Not only is this particular piece of advice beaten to death by nouveau motivational speakers, it ignores the rational reasoning behind avoiding the most “scary” project ideas.

An example? Any project that’s basically infeasible for one person to undertake given their skillset or simple “physics,” and by that I mean the physics of time and money.

For example, I feel like there should be a good alternative to iCloud and Google photos with agnostic storage and native apps for all platforms and extremely simple self-hosting.

Now should I go out and start this project because it’s the one I’m most afraid to start? Hell no. I know that these are products built by teams of dozens over decades. I also don’t even know how to write a hello world mobile app. So I could waste years of my life doing this, and all I’d get out of it would be an alternative to a product that costs me $4 a month.

Or maybe instead of an open source project I could try to start a company to do this. I could raise funding and build a team to do this - congratulations, I now have a high-churn consumer facing product that at most makes $10 per customer per month with high support costs.

So, I guess what I’m saying is, fear is only one factor involved in decision-making, and other logical pieces or information can feed into fear. Sometimes, many times, fear is based off of a project idea being legitimately a bad idea.
As a long time puppet user, I started forcing myself to use ansible for my homelab so I can learn it's intricacies and limitations.

Recently I had a use-case where I wanted to re-use some data from a defined variable (list of objects) in a second module, but the format had to be different. In python I would have done something like new_var=[{a:i['a'], b:i['b']} for i in old_var], but apparently that is impossible in ansible. The best solution I was able to find after lots of searching was to to pass new_var to a jinja2 template which would render new_var as text, then run that through a json interpreter and set that as new_var. Absolutely rediculous.

It astounds me that a tool BUILT on python lacks any semblance of python's biggest feature, list comprehension.
95% of your population is _not_ fighting wars and is not manly in the slightest. You just have allocated a sickening chunk of your significant GDP to the military machine.

If you are looking for a high percentage hardass peoples I'd look in the baltic regions, Russia comes to mind. Some African nations too. Americans are lazy and fat and know no hardship. Which is fine. Good actually. Just don't parade the warrior archetype.
Correct. The use case falls under `git status` really, it will give you boilerplate commands like `git add`, `git reset`, `git checkout -- file`, or even `git rebase --abort` depending on a situation.
Measuring Middlebox Interference with DNS Records
Can we electrify our way out of climate change–or must the rich consume less?
I was watching a LinusTechTips recently and he made some comment about heat pipes having an orientation that increases thermal transfer.

I’ve been wondering ever since if my laptop stand is making my heat situation worse or better.
Bryan Cantrill – Principles of Technology Leadership (2017) [video]
> If your code is portable

Yet how do you know for certain if your code is portable if you only build locally?
Then who makes the search engine to search for those search engines?
Seconding this. It wasn't until she turned four that we could assume that we would sleep through the night, instead of vice versa. Takes a long time for the exception to become the rule.
git is a fast, content-addressable, decentralized and symmetrically ad hoc synchronizable, cryptographically verified filesystem, stored as a directed acyclic graph of tags, commits, trees and blobs, in that order, with SHA-1 pointers as edges, backed by a POSIX filesystem, with both a simple storage format and a space- and seek-efficient, compressed delta chained pack format.
I wouldn't expect Adobe to support CS6 in 2020 on my 10.9 system either. What matters is whether the software works or not—which it does on Mojave, and on Windows 10.
Standing on their shoulders: stories about Harvard’s pioneering women
DeepMind Open-Sources Lab2D: Environmental Design for Multi-Agent RL Research
Indeed, what this case actually showed, to people who are paying attention rather than looking for bogus reasons to accuse Apple of things, is that Apple was more committed to keeping older devices running longer. Not less.

That's the opposite of "forced obsolescence". And it's not even a close call. The stupid, credulous media coverage of this issue was embarrassing.
This is great! Does it know ahead of time if we have colors before sending the response?
A Deep Dive into CSS Grid Minmax()
My response was from from emacs perspective. Here's a memory usage comparison: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

Looks like emacs uses at least double the memory.
Thanks I'll look into it.
The three problems mentioned are not the only existing. Most of the people are unaware of censorship DuckDuckGo also does, as do Google and other major search engines.

For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093009
Zulu and UTC: the story behind aviation’s time zone
I guess we're talking at cross purposes. I was just making the point that the 4900HS isn't really a competitor to the M1 because it's in a different TDP class. It looks like Apple wanted to stick with one chip for their first generation products, but they could presumably at least throw in a few extra cores if they had another 10-15W to play with.
I remember reading an article some time ago on how bluetooth audio transmission works. I was surprised to learn that audio is actually compressed (in A2DP and HFS/HFP mode) so for audio some file formats it will effectively be compressing the stream a second time, reducing its quality.
Hang in there, and be true to yourself.
How to structure a react-native project
I use AdGuard for safari (in the Mac app store), which works reasonably well.

It has good standard developer tools, but not the advanced stuff like Redux replay and flexbox inspectors.
Fewer keystrokes.
Dude probably doesn't even know what a co-Yoneda embedding is, either. smh
> In Git tho the staging area is a lie. It encourages you commit half-truths. What I'd really want is to be able to enter a commit mode where the on-disk and staging area roles are flipped.

https://github.com/tv42/staged does something like that by writing the staged content to a temp dir.

(It has some smarts for Go GOPATH adjusting on top, but might not do things right with modules, at this time.)
I use Profiles on Mac and Linux. Don't think Profiles work on Chromebooks - haven't really explored this.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/custom-chrome-browser-profiles...