skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't imagine they want those features until they see someone else in their social group using them – fancy status in the form of stories is a great example of this.

People have a strong desire to imitate and one-up others in their social group.

If you build a feature that even 1% of users self-start to use, then the social network can snow ball that with the right mechanics. And these feature need only be used by 20-30% of users for it to be considered a success. Every user is not expected to use all features.
With so many studies being done on covid (by basically every lab in the world capable of doing so), the self selection biases are especially strong. That is, every study that confirms some statistically significant effect (often with a small sample size) will be published, and all of the corresponding studies which confirm the null hypothesis are buried. So you get a flood of seemingly compelling early evidence for covid effects or treatments, most of which will turn out to be false
What’s the proposed mechanism of action?
There's a lot of toxicity on twitter, but also some interesting discussion that I have not found anywhere else online. I routinely block people who get too political or are gratuitously mean. It makes twitter much more pleasant.
> Why has it never been appropriate?

Because UTC has never worked that way.

UTC is an international standard for a "time of day" standard where every second is exactly one second long and is boundedly synchronized to the rotation of the Earth. But the Earth wobbles. The UTC solution is to occasionally add or remove leap seconds, so sometimes you see 58, 59, 60, 0, and we might someday see 58,0.

People complain that "leap seconds are hard" but there's a reason for them. Here are your options:

* If you want to always have 58,59,0, and you don't really care that time always increments exactly 1 second per second, then you can keep the time synchronized with Earth's rotation by smearing the time or having the time "jump" a little bit around leap seconds. This is what actually happens in many Unix systems. When we get near a leap second, the "seconds" are briefly not quite correct. It's a bounded error of a second or less and doesn't accumulate. For most people this error is just fine, which is why Unix time works for most people.

* If you want to always have 58,59,0, and you DO really care that time increments exactly 1 second per second, then don't keep the "time of day" the time synchronized with Earth's rotation. That's what TAI and GPS time do. But most people feel that ordinary civilian "time of day" should have some relationship to the position of the sun in the sky, which is why this is not the normal civilian "time of day" value.

* If you want to always have 58,59,0, AND you want time increments of exactly 1 second per second, AND you want time synchronized with Earth's rotation, then you need to regulate the Earth's actual rotational speed. I'm not sure how anyone would do that, but I suspect that will be very expensive :-).
I've tried reporting to Google, but they want the ad id, which is, of course, impossible to get from a screenshot. If only it were possible to contact a human. Sigh, platforms...
That’s a very true statement. I feel like they have them there just in case things ratchet up. Even though things got way way way out of control - I’m curious if had the capitol police been armed there might have been a bigger confrontation with more casualties. I’m in the highly speculative category here.
It took 24 months of effort to get a particular system to barely run every hour by some contractors. After 3 weeks, I rewrote most of it and still have a month left, but it runs in 5 seconds. I'm having trouble right now convincing my boss it's better to work on the 5 second version even if he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the 1 hour version. It's the most annoying sunk cost ever.
> We're up to 5 deaths now.

... only one of which involved a firearm, and that one was in the hands of a Capitol Police officer.
What is a NEO?
I think you're right. A little surprised about Mastodon because I've only heard that from people I follow on twitter who tend to not be crazy, but I guess it makes sense.

I have an idea for an app whose primary motivation is offering a comment section for websites that don't normally have comments or have them disabled (yes, this idea is old as dirt and has been tried many times).

The part I'm really struggling with is how one would market such an app without targeting free speech absolutists and nutters, despite it being really useful for everyone. It seems like the moment you start highlighting free speech as a feature you become a magnet for the absolute worst kind of people.
Every day we stray further from god’s light
It was so obvious, that I didn't even think of mentioning Canada.

Not to mention that Canada's too heavy tar sand oil is being mixed with USA's too light tight oil, forming in this way a single system.
Just released my MVP for my ‘Airbnb for Musicians’: https://noisycamp.com

I don’t have that many studios yet, but my goal is to make it super easy for musicians to find and book practice and
recording spaces.

I built the website using Scala, Vuejs, PostgreSQL, running on top or Heroku and BunnyCDN. The code is Open source: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/noisycamp.com !
I looked into existing windows apps, there was only one extremely janky one that didn't do what I wanted, so of course I had to try and write my own
While I agree that all protests and riots are a response to feeling disenfranchised or angry about a situation, it’s important to think of the cause in each case.

For BLM protests, the cause is partly real police violence that lots of people have experienced. Lots of people have this firsthand, negative experience with the police, and are frustrated that they cannot feel safe in the hands of people meant to protect them.

For the voter fraud protests, the cause is a propaganda and disinformation campaign. For months and even years, Trump has been saying that things are stollen from him, that the election would be stolen from him, etc. He really incensed this narrative of voter fraud with a lot of lies. The cause is not people’s firsthand experience of voter fraud: republicans were not turned away from the polls nor were their votes discarded. It’s that they were told by Trump and other republicans that if they loose elections, then it must be fraud.

The response, then, is totally different. In the one case, addressing the cause means to reform the police. In the other case, addressing the cause means... what? I would say it is addressing the propaganda campaign. This is what news orgs and social media sites have tried to do.

No matter how secure this election was, or how many policies got implemented, the election fraud claim would persist because the cause is propaganda, not evidence. People (even republicans) who know way more elections than I do say that this election was one of the most secure ever. The few instances of fraud that occur — and always occur in events of this scale — are hardly proof of a sinister campaign.

While I’ll agree to make voting as secure as possible (I’d support voter ID if it didn’t take 5 hours at the DMV just to be eligible to vote), that’s not really the narrative voter fraud protests are about. That’s why we push back when people try to say that the election was fraudulent: these folks are really trying to say that they should have won. They are not (primarily) trying to say that we should fix the handful of fraud instances that happened even though it wouldn’t change the result.

If I said “you’re right to be angry here,” I would be heard as saying, “you actually should have won.” Therefore, I must be honest and say “you’re wrong to be angry about this. The evidence of fraud will not address your anger about this loss.”

And let me be clear: I support trump folks right to protest because of their anger over loosing. But I cannot agree that it ought to be addressed as they say it should be.
An anecdote from a more modest realm on the unrepayable value of editors:

I recently volunteered to write my first couple of articles for the always-excellent LWN.net. As expected, I went through several rounds of editing with them. This was after several of my own "look again on a fresh morning" rounds of private editing. The process was quite instructive.

I benefited from a range of "bug fixes" from the fine editors—suggestions to make the lede paragraph more robust; small rephrasings that greatly improve readability; and seemingly minor edits that contribute to the overall structure and coherency. The value of an experienced and judicious editor is hard to describe well. (Thanks Jake, et al!)

I relished the back-and-forth review rounds, good-natured arguments, and "nitpicks" that greatly benefited the end product. As William Zinsser puts it, "Rewriting is where the game is won or lost; rewriting is the essence of writing."

- - -

For those who're curious, I did this as part of KVM Forum[1] conference round-up for LWN. Here's[2] one of the two articles; it should be accessible without login. If you're the patient kind, I certainly recommend contributing to LWN.

[1] https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kvm-forum/

[2] Challenges in protecting virtual machines from untrusted entities — https://lwn.net/Articles/838488/
Got hit by a car and I’ve concluded doctors are largely a decade or more out of date on a lot of things, especially diet and non-obvious injuries.
Do you support the seasonal / annualized quarterly estimated payments tax form? I used that for many years for fluctuating freelance income, but I’ve not seen an app that supports it.
My app: http://hanami.run/

It's an email forwarding service. You point your domain to us, and we will forward email to your domain to your personal email. We also support webhook so you can do creative thing with email workflow.

Still need lot of work on backend to improve spam filtering and add privacy/tos pages, fix typo/grammaer. fix small UI/UX weirdness here and there.
About a month ago, I began developing Diggy [0]. It started as a simple Python notebook to explore small datasets, visualize results so can share them with my friends. Its initial purpose was to create a Python playground that I can run entirely in my browser without relying on server-side code. Zero setup, just type some Python code in the browser and instantly see results.

I don't feel joy when I work with Jupyter-like environments. They are powerful, but feel complex especially for exploratory programming and for those of us who enjoy playing with ideas. That being said, Diggy is not for large-scale applications where you need Docker containers, cloud providers, integration with enterprise platforms, big data. It’s for those who like learning, coding, sharing and making it for fun.

Diggy is a tactile and visual notebook:

* It’s reactive. You don’t have to remember which blocks to run if you change a variable. A notebook will be automatically updated. There’s no hidden state, a notebook is always up-to-date.

* You don’t need to install anything on your computer. You don’t need to create an account to run Python code. It’s as simple as clicking a link.

* Web-native, runs completely in the browser pushing boundaries of edge computing.

It was hugely inspired by Observable & Repl project. Overall, it’s a small attempt to move towards tools that bring joy to programming.

Under the hood it runs Pyodide [1], and I’m planning to add extra languages at some point.

[0] https://diggyhq.com

[1] https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide
Stick with me here: your own website connected to a webring[1].

Unfortunately, both went all but extinct when we gave up autonomy for convenience and shininess.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
It all depends on a given implementation's choice of a threshold to use. Two objects will give a score which indicates similarity/dissimilarity and then some further logic needs to say if that score is good enough for a match. Some NIST certifications for instance end up placing requirements with false-match-rates at 1/10,000 (e.g. one left index finger matching someone else's left index finger at that frequency when trying a lot of random pairs).
Great point. In a weird way it makes the whole relanding the boosters thing SpaceX did seem like it was obviously within the realm of our capabilities if we were ambitious enough. And it makes their next goal of 'catching rockets' seem less ridiculous too.
On Brand Activism or the “Façade”. What's your opinion on that?
Today, on my instagram, many posts on Brand Activism popped up. This theme is becoming a real trend, and we have currently reached the point where we consider ourselves as decisors rather than simple choosers. But is this real or a perception we crafted through enhanched post-modern world sensibilisation?

Apart from the italian article I liked to share with you (I hope you can go through thanks to google translate), a professor of mine, while I was a visiting student at Lund University wrote a very interesting and insightful article on this topic: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/cont....
Here he analysed the example of IKEA: a brand ambassador of Swedish Values, women equality above all. They fell under huge and murky scandals, such as the one of airbrushed women in the Saudi Arabian catalogue, where the inner reality of Brand beliefs emerged.

At the same time popular brands are leveraging on this "façade" by means of a "bluffing" communication, cases to be considered are the one of Nike exploitation of children work and Adidas decentralised, low-pay workforce in Taiwan while promoting sustainability with limited edition sneakers. Here the situation tips over and the customer really feels to be the one that impacts the world with his own choice.

In these days something really huge just happened: Twitter and Facebook position on Trump behaviour. Something that is going beyond the simple "façade".

Now I'd like to know from you what's your opinion on that and if you know some virtuous, relevant example on this theme that you'd like to share.
Pronunciation issues have never stopped us from posting GIFs even though too many people still mispronounce it
I do not have much experience in awk, but after reading Solene's and your code, I am curious about why < > are escaped with \ ?

In your m.awk, I also noticed that the markdown formattings (bold, inline and links) are not turned off in code blocks.
Near-earth orbit
How effective is it to use one of those molecular simulation tools to quickly calculate if the antigens created still have high affinity to bind to the mutated spike?
Compared to all the other places we could discuss the recent affairs online, HN is a unique place because we are the ones who’ve built the big tech industry. So we’re in the unique position of having to grapple with whether we’re failing the American people, or if we’re actually enabling good moral and ethical decisions

Personally I fall more on the former side. Whatever your stance, the tech industry is going through a deep existential moment right now
Apple's original wasn't that bad, at least it was close.

> Provided each vendor design conveys the concept of a bagel in a sufficiently clear way, the job of the emoji is done.

Microsoft and Samsung's just look like donuts cut in half. Twitter, no clue what that is.

> Our bagel was drawn by someone who has eaten a bodega bagel before.

Google's stylized version is certainly recognizable. As far as eating a bagel from a bodega (which most of the time are plain with no seeds), if you want the good stuff you're going to a bagel shop in Brooklyn.

As a New Yorker I may have put too much thought into this. ;)
A flippant response is all that a bad faith question merits. It may surprise you but I would encourage people to read my post history as well, all of it. Anybody not hopelessly mired in today's hyperpartisanship will see that I am criticizing the left from a liberal perspective.
Well written post mortems can be full of interesting and useful information. I wanted to aggregate them and make them searchable by tech, company, etc. Not near half-baked yet (don’t have well defined tags or anything), just chipping away when I can.

https://postmortemr.com/
>...and the scale of supporting such a centralized network in the future could be unsustainable.

I don't think this is borne out in practice. Centralization seems to be the rule for large systems since networking scales O(n^2) otherwise, so decentralization has to provide pretty compelling advantages to overcome this large disadvantage.
No, it's strictly Fluvoxamine as far as we know.

SSRIs aren't all interchangeable, especially when it comes to side effects. Fluvoxamine is very different than other SSRIs because it has significant effects at the sigma-1 receptor. The only other SSRI with significant sigma-1 activity is Sertraline, but it has the opposite effect at sigma-1.

However, it's possible that the anti-COVID properties are unrelated to Fluvoxamine's actions at the serotonin transporter or the sigma-1 receptor. We just don't know.
Setting up your own Wordpress blog can be done with a domain name and server hosting outside the United States, and with some effort this can be done anonymously. In that case, you don't need to worry about Section 230, you only have to worry about the (possibly laxer, possibly stricter) local laws. The reason that big social media sites are vulnerable to this particular US law is because they are businesses that chose to incorporate in the USA.
Electromagnetic linear servo actuator. Not finished due to limited time, maybe I'll finish it this year.

https://hackaday.io/project/19547-electromagnetic-linear-ser...
How to Sell 10x More – From the Number One Sales Guy at My Company
I posted this in the Side Projects discussion about a week ago, but I'll post again here.

Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music production - https://www.pulselyre.com

The concept is to create 'instruments' in the editor (2nd screenshot) by building a pipeline/graph of basic modules that create and transform audio based on user X/Y touch coordinates. Then, lay several instruments out on screen and use your fingers to loop sequences of notes live on stage. The demo video ( https://youtu.be/Qk85IrgXRj0 ) shows how that part works (I'm not a musician).

I showed it on some music production forums and to friends who dabble... but I had made a terrible mistake from the beginning. Since my audio engine was custom, I didn't have compatibility with existing VST plugins. No producer would use a synth app that didn't support their favorite plugins, and no plugin developers would switch to a new system that had no users (my engine was also extensible). I looked into adding support, but VST's architecture is too different from my mine... One suggestion was to remove the audio engine entirely and just make the app a MIDI front-end/sequencer for other synths. This is something I might do in the future, though the limitations of the MIDI protocol would mean removing a lot of functionality. I'll probably open-source the project some day, but I need to clean up some things in the code first.

I created a custom UI manager for the app and decided to split that off into a separate open-source Windows UI framework. I still work on it and have used it for other small utility apps: https://tinyurl.com/upbeatui
AnyFab: free, browser-based CAD and prototyping.

https://anyfab-5d0d2.web.app

The idea is that you can design parts and order prototypes all in one place. It's only working for 3D printing so far.

This version is using jsketcher as the drawing engine until we have finished the custom one.
The webapp is hosted on Firebase and the ordering backend/price estimation uses Rust and Rocket.

Sign up here if you want to see the beta when it's ready: http://beta.anyfab.io
That’s exactly what you call pennies on the dollar
I hear that it hosts a relatively vibrant Hurd community.
One can be moderately conservative and still conservative. If you look at the court's decisions, the only time in the last one hundred years SCOTUS has had a sustained liberal streak was in the 1960s.
> “I have usage of computers that far exceeds 90% of the population (12+ hours a day).”

Pre-pandemic, I trained Brazilian jiu-jitsu 5-6x per week - where people are trying to crank on my neck constantly. Your neck gets incredibly thick and strong as a result.

Even with that, I can say that NOTHING sets off my neck pain like 10+ hours at my computer.
But if you’re going to choose one it makes sense to make it AWS.
From the article:

A potential mechanism for immune modulation is σ-1 receptor (S1R) agonism. The S1R is an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone protein with various cellular functions, including regulation of cytokine production through its interaction with the endoplasmic reticulum stress sensor inositol-requiring enzyme 1α (IRE). Previous studies have shown that fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) with high affinity for the S1R reduced damaging aspects of the inflammatory response during sepsis through the S1R-IRE1 pathway, and decreased shock in murine sepsis models.
Golf is a giant board game damaging the planet: Time for it to go
> I'm ALWAYS looking for a more simple blogging solution.

Why?
Monetization path for selling slash licensing trading strategies
I'm sure you're all familiar with the 90% law in software.

Still after working 15 years and KNOWING about sturgeon's law, I'm not prepared for it: https://imgur.com/a/yGiWnQH

I'm reproducing here a post that I make to a specialized comunity. Got few answers from them and none from the 100,000 quants from Wilmott or nuclearphynance (specialized forums dealing with this: https://imgur.com/a/FvgJr4y
In short I'm a loser who spent the last 15 years working on an "overnight success", which all informed minds know takes 10 years.. tops. So way past deadline I'm a loser and should go where losers go.

=== Monetization path for selling / licensing trading strategies ===

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/monetization-path-for...

[...]

So in addition to the technical roadmap, there's also a business roadmap ahead:
Biz_1) Offer a free version of the client app, bundled with some default / demonstrative / well known trading strategies. Don't expect these strategies to work wonders and also even they may not be free forever because running a server costs money. So it's more like a trial version with extended use.
Biz_2) Offer a premium plan which delivers and runs some proprietary strategies that I developed myself. First one is a relatively HFT one, not bad if you get the executions but too infrequent for me to make much of it. Still $5 / year or so for it would result in almost surely making more than a customer would pay for :)

Biz_3) Offer a "deluxe" plan which basically delivers this:
https://imgur.com/a/VTKiFOp
===
I'm making a community annotated music video database tagged by subject matter. In ex. music videos with chess https://culturevein.com/tags/chess , video games https://culturevein.com/tags/video-game etc. There are over 600 tags https://culturevein.com/tags . It's open source.
I feel like medicine teaches you the facts - the hip bone is connected to the, leg bone - but in terms of 'troubleshooting skills', there is something deeply missing.
I think there are speech issues involved here, but before you go too far down the road of comparing it to your idyllic childhood, remember the media context of the 80s and 90s. Specifically that National News controlled by professional journalistic outlets which set the tone and heavily moderated what the public saw.

In other words we replaced a pretty gatekept national media environment with one that was a civil liberties free for all on social media. Now the pendulum is perhaps feeling like it’s going back the other way where Major social media now will be more moderated around what’s considered a core set of values and facts, a little closer in feel to the boring 6:30 news of our childhood.

I don’t say that to draw judgment either way, but only to give context.