skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is old news. As of today, there is a suspicious rise in a specific form of blood clotting in Germany, hence the suspension.
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When I read articles like this I'm always reminded of this little story about the law of averages : a few years after WW2 the US air force had a problem : their planes kept crashing. After some investigation they realized the issue was that the cockpit, based on old measurements, was too uncomfortable to control the plane properly for the bigger and taller pilots of the time. So they decided to take measurements from 4000 pilots, averaged them, and got ready to update the dimensions of the new universal pilot seat. Surely it would be adequate for most pilots that were just measured to create the new design. However one young recruit decided to check exactly how many of the 4000 pilots would be within 30% of average for the 10 most critical dimensions. The answer : none. Every pilot was different, and had a combination of different noone else had. The new pilot seat would have to be a fully customizable one, full of knobs that would allow it to be fit to each specific pilot.

You can apply this analogy here (and in fact to most software) : all users use a differt combination of features. Maybe just a few use compact mode. And just a few use RSS inside the browser. And just a few use some other little used feature that was removed without making the headlines. But those are not the same users. When you make the intersection of all those sets of people, turns out it's almost all of them. I don't know if that explains the decline of Firefox's market share, but it certainly is part of the reason.
Yeah, let me know when that gets released in a form that's usable as a daily driver. I'll install it on my production-ready Hurd system, right alongside the first version of GIMP that doesn't send professional designers into fits of rage.

Even then, there is no other ecosystem that has quite the volume of powerful tools and approaches that HTML/CSS/JS have.
This vehicle would be so much more adorable if they'd given it a more face-like front end, like an NA Miata, or anything more fitting to the Cars movie franchise.
+1 — it’s an item a single person without access to the source code was able to diagnose and fix.
Tangential question but hoping someone knows how to do this :

Is there a setting in Firefox that allows me to invert colors without a plugin or javascript? The default Black on white is too painful for eyes.
> "correlation does not equal causation"

I'm familiar with the concept and I do not want to change your mind.

I also wish the best for everybody too, I lived in the USA and still have many friends there and many of them, of course, disagree with me on this and it's ok.

I've said "appears to be strongly correlated" because I know Americans are sensitive about this topic, after all it's a Constitutional right.

But in the end when the stats of your country are the worst among "first World" countries, places like Nicaragua, Mexico and South Africa do better and Colombia is only slightly worse, maybe it's time to try something radically different, because whatever it's going on right now in the USA it's clearly not working.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/2010_hom...
Rust isn't "thrown in", it's what Deno is built with.
Honestly I rarely even notice. It’s pretty slow & patchy on a good day
There are exceptions of course, but computers are a depreciating asset. You should never buy more computers than you need at any given time, because next year offers better computers for cheaper. Similarly: don't "invest" into a car. They also depreciate.

In contrast: artwork, houses, and a few other goods (Magic: The Gathering cards?) seem to appreciate... or increase in price. These stuff you want to buy before they get more expensive.
Fun fact, if you want to reduce the price of houses, increase the supply instead of instituting rent control and hoping for spooky action at a distance.
For how my business works, I'd rather have the person invest a day working on a solution instead of answer it for them in two minutes. My goal is to have the developer attain a position where they can eventually answer a question for themselves in two minutes and that means letting them make mistakes, try things that are wrong, and spend time learning.

If anytime someone needs to invest a day to learn how to research a solution, try something out, gain experience, I simply give them the exact and specific answer in two minutes, then I deprive them of experience. I substitute my experience for their opportunity to grow.

I can appreciate that it's nice to want to help people out by giving them the answer, and my advice does not mean that you leave people to hang or feed them to the wolves and suffer... it's that as an organization, in the long run time is better spent giving people a system they can use to learn and grow and that system will necessarily require developers to invest a lot of time learning seemingly trivial things and learning from mistakes for themselves.
I'm note sure if I have completely misunderstood your comment, but are you saying that scientists exist "just to poison the well for the benefit of the billionaire class"???
Previous discussion (2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10404517

He's updated it since then several times
Yea, if it was a 6 month old bug or it was a hard to repro edge case, then sure it’s embarrassing. Oops! But years long, and highly visible/reproducible, without correcting? That’s veering into shameful.
The scanf and strdup are used in the unoptimized version, which I think is completely fair.
I'm fine with that... but these platforms aren't.

These platforms are driven by what Eric Weinstein, correctly I think, calls E.G.O.s, or Embedded Growth Obligations. You can't convince a venture capitalist to fund something like Twitter without the promise of enormous user growth, because the model only works if you have an enormous userbase on the platform.

I actually think Zuckerberg's dumbass tag line, "It's free, and always will be." is stupid. Facebook is worth about jack shit to everyone except advertisers, because it doesn't cost anything. Putting up a monthly fee is how you separate people who are willing to shit all over something from people who are willing to build something.

World of Warcraft is, I think, a fine example of this, especially versus a game like League of Legends. WoW's userbase, will still filled with the occasional troll and troublemaker, has far fewer than League. Why? Because you have to buy the game itself just to get started. Then you have to spend $15 a month to play it. You're invested from the word "go". For League, you play the entire game, from start to "finish" for free, only paying if you want to. Hence you see a ton more trolling and shitty behavior, because the vast, vast majority of players aren't invested - its just a way for them to while away their lives with no investment.

I guarantee you, if you had to pay $5 a month for Twitter and $5 a month for Facebook, you'd see a lot more reasonable behavior, because after the first few months, only people who really got "value" from the platform would keep spending the money to use it. And the sad part is, even 100,000,000 users at $5 a month would be an enormous moneymaking enterprise - with almost guaranteed higher quality interactions.
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Hello fellow long form fan! If you're out of the Magnet, might you know some of the Honey folks? I'm in Phoenix and their shows at our improv fest were always a joy to behold.
I kind of feel like we need a "Year Zero" clicker game where once you get up to 1.7m "clicks" you'll see Pol Pot start dancing in the corner. Then as you accumulate more clicks, you'll see Hitler, Stalin, and Mao make appearances as well. Then, finally, once you've overflown the 32-bit integer, the year resets to 1970 and dennis ritchie and brian kernighan start dancing in the corner as well.
Or a language to describe reality. There’s a whole philosophy of mathematics. Fascinating stuff
Oh, I keep messaging the presenter things like "so what did the doctor say about your genital rash?" to mess with them.
Part of SMS verification is to raise the cost of Sybil attacks. Well known sources of cheap bulk phone numbers are often banned for that reason.
Researchers in Switzerland can get electricity from wood
> Rather than buying new-old-stock CPUs, why not just buy all the CPUs the long-term program will ever need when they're still cheap, and stockpile them?

You might not know how many you need. Suppose one of your data centers burns down and has to be replaced or you have triple the expected customer demand.

Also, time value of money.
Should We Quit Teaching Cursive in a Digital Age? (2020)
Junior to Mid level is pretty significant, even outside of the bay area. At a finance company, Junior to Senior for me was about $45k base salary over ~5 years, with another $20k in bonuses annually. If you can only find say a $70k job, I would think its not unlikely that you would be able to work 2 years at that, and jump for $90-110k.
Depends on what you want. If you want to whip out your phone and be able to look up and message your uncle’s ex-wife’s second cousin and message them, even without speaking the same language, you probably won’t get that without large networks. Same with if you want to gather an audience of 5m followers for your brand.

If you just want to talk to your buddies or your church group, yeah you don’t need an ad supported network for that.
Hard pass. I used a site that did something like this. I found it extremely frustrating not to just be able to look at the entire document with multiple code samples. This to me is fluff and animation because you can, not because it's a good idea.

You can show a snippet

function log(...args) {
}

and show additions with highlights or colors

function log(...args) {
+ console.log(...args);
}

show deletions with strikeouts, etc.. Much better than having to scroll up and down, up and down, up and down, and watch the animations to divine what actually changed from one segment to the next.
It's a great way to reduce inequality, sure.

It's one way to reduce housing prices, but generally just increasing supply is simpler and more palatable.
Ah, cross-platform development has been difficult.

Thank you for the kind words. I'll be sure to update the site, and let you know when it is out on ios!

Hopefully soon, if React Native and Expo are as good as they say they are :)
Science isn't a religion. Scientism, basically is - they're not the same thing. I used that word specifically.

Scientism is the fetishisation of science.
It's hard to comment on the qualitative difference of a speech from a celebrity scientist vs a religious leader. Do I want to know the latest and greatest on why Interstellar's depiction of black holes was interesting? I'll listen to Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Do I want to know the latest and greatest on how philosophers or theologians interpret reality and meaning? Then I'll listen to any number of my favorites on these subjects.

There are world-class experts in both areas and they address different needs.
Interestingly, I used to use Instagram like this, only posting stories, and only reacting to others stories. It makes the interactions more personal and often spurs a nice private conversation.
LOL! Back to the Future! LOL
Munich.
Vrlo ste dobrodošli! :-)

You are very welcome! :-)
Not really.

Islington (London)'s population is around half what it was in 1914, but rents are out-of-control.
I think a large part of it was the sheer mental fortitude that he had to persevere in the face of incredible obstacles while at the same time continuing his scientific work. What he was able to do and accomplish given those challenges was absolutely awe inspiring.
I can't imagine that there are many people in the world that would be able to break out of the mental prison that his body put him in and accomplish so much in spite of it.
It’s not hard to use. But it’s not a one click signup that everyone knows how to use. It’s sort of how “the dark web” isn’t hard to use but your grandma isn’t on there and wouldn’t know where to start, let alone why she’d want to be on there.
Complete crap. Anyone who makes statements about solar energy costing 2c a kwhr is either a fool or a liar. I'd suggest the latter in this case.

There's nothing independent about this clown
Free? I’m not sure if that’s a joke. Ansible licensing is about as far from free as you can get.

Having to hire someone to customize ansible is the exact opposite of what op asked for and just reaffirms my point: ansible does nothing without significant customization.
No, not scientists. Scientists are wonderful. I'm particularly talking about celebrity scientists, especially those who ran with the new-atheist horsemen back in the 2000s and early 2010s when they were more popular. Thanks for the comment, I went ahead and edited the original one to be clearer about who I am talking about.
I advocate a twenty minute rule. It's not hard and fast, but shouldn't be more than an hour, and shouldn't be less than 20 minutes.

This is the amount of time the person needing help should try to solve it themselves. After that they should write down what they've done (they should be doing this anyway in an engineering notebook or worklog file), and then ask for help.

The delay is to make sure an attempt is made to solve it themselves. It's long enough to get them to try to understand the problem, and short enough to not put them far behind.

I've also found that if they need to get help often then it's not their problem, but the problem of who is tasking them. Their tasking, or the context of that tasking, is probably not being communicated well, or might not be defined well-enough.
Actually the actions work out at about $50k per qaly in US. We spent $5tn to save 1m lives Who each had about 20 years left to live. That would be $250k per qaly but hopefully not all of the $5tn was wasted/spend on additional health care costs, lot of it was to build roads and bail out mafia run multi employer pension systems in US which would have happened anyway
That would be more applicable if IRC had the broad appeal or ease of use of major social networks, however despite being around longer it has been repeatedly eclipsed in user count by every contending service.

IRC has no power to shape national discourse, international politics or even quotidian humdrum discussion topics because it has a high barrier to entry, low user friendliness and no additional features.

Personally I wouldn't have it any other way: IRC is perfect as is, but it is not a social network that has ever gained enough steam to devolve. It's like saying your family blog has a great comment section, therefore all comments sections can be great without devolving: that's not even universally true for family blog comment sections.
I can't tell if this comment is a self-parody or not. In my experience, people complaining of "scientism" or Bill Nye seldom have a better grasp of the scientific procedure than those they criticize. They usually sound like they read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions once and decided to roll with it.
You don’t think that would just lead to even more intrusive ads in an attempt to make them more effective to offset the cost?
This is hilarious and I love it.

I'll put on a serious face: Marx would say that religion reduces the psychological pain of capitalist alienation, so it is bad, because it reduces the impetus for revolution. Whereas scientism would generally help to advance dialectical materialism -- the definition of good and bad in terms of material class interests. So your argument that religion helps class consciousness, while not without precedent (Christianity, notably from Quakers, helping to end slavery; certain parts of American Christianity in the Civil Rights movement; monotheism as a source of universalism more broadly...), is 180 degrees from Marx himself.

Probably religion is better for building solidarity across classes than it is at cultivating one class' resentment of another. You get some voluntary redistribution instead of violent revolutionary redistribution. You get a kind of "we are all children of God" classless consciousness, instead of a class consciousness.

And, in reality, I think you'll find billionaires of varying degrees of religiosity.

But, nice post.

[Edit: Later, I see that you are serious, and not just doing a highbrow kind of joking-around. Well -- then I think you'll see that I basically agree with your point. The only quibble is about the idea of "class consciousness" (or "race consciousness", or whatever "subgroup consciousness" is relevant). Religion creates something other than class consciousness. Rather than dividing people along existing sociological lines, it unifies across them. This isn't free: It can create new conflicts with those outside the religion. But when we consider fault lines of class or race, I would say that monotheism tends to unify rather than to divide. You could call this "solidarity", but not "class consciousness". It's a bigger solidarity than class.]
We don't need "social networks". We need forums, or something similar.

The problem with social networks is moderation. Moderation can only really be done well by users; not by some corporate top-down approach like Facebook, Twitter, et al have been trying.
Super cool!
1. How many bowls can this produce per hour?
2. Do these machines have the capacity to hold two cuisines at once? E.g. Mediterranean and Indian?
Great, now I have to worry about THAT! :-(
How to File Your Small Business Taxes 2021 Easily with Bench Accounting
It's Tax Season.
I believe the practical solution for many people is to switch the 2FA to an authenticator on-your-phone code generator, which someone cannot hack easily.

Most important account / banks / etc services now offer this option.

The only thing is, though, make sure to keep backups of the codes you use to initialize the authenticator app, because for some services there is no recovery if you lose your phone or don't have backups.
Each country has their own circumstances to deal with. This design would not make sense in Europe where a lot of the last mile delivery was done by mail carriers on foot or bicycles. However it does boost efficiency considerably in the USA's vast expanse of suburbia. FWIW, mail trucks in Canada also have with right hand drive and low floor so the driver could reach into mailboxes without having to leave their seat.

My local postal service used to make delivery on bicycles but they have gradually introduced golf-cart like miniature EVs. This allow each run to cover a much larger area but probably would not for the most of US because their mail routes are too long.
Nope.

Every time DST comes up people say "I like daylight when I leave the office". Which is fine. And I like not having to wear a mask… but I do it anyway because I don't want to spend the energy reading the papers, so I'll just trust the experts.

My province passed some DST legislation last fall—put forward by some random legislator without any consultations AFAICT—and the experts weighed in after the fact:

* https://twitter.com/ChronobioCanada/status/13161222923180687...

On this topic I'm willing to delegate things out to others. I just pass along the my 'research' in case someone may choose to nerd out.

And given that it appears that most sleep and chronobiology societies, in multiple countries, come to the same conclusion/position, seems that there's a strong leaning in one direction in the research.
(EDIT: The extension is back up!)

I used to work on Mozilla's Add-ons store, and god I hate the reviews. Mozilla used to do them manually. I WORKED there, and wasn't able to get unblocked (for an extension used by almost everyone at Mozilla) because I was using jQuery... which was started by a guy who ALSO worked at Mozilla. So I feel ya completely.

The only thing I'll say is... Extensions have a scary level of access (they're basically almost as easy to use as a website, but with unlimited powers such as recording every site you visit and stealing passwords), and the average user will never understand that. The source code is hidden and updates are pushed to users silently, so a compromised GitHub account could result in a huge hack of everyone's everything. They're far more dangerous than a malicious iPhone app in Apple's app store.

Luckily, this seems automated, and seems like they'll fix it. Especially if it gets traction here.
None of that is relevant to the fact that they are treated like science priests by their audiences.
As a Valve Index owner myself, I will actually disagree with VR being "THE future".

Not all games work well in VR. For example, I would not want to play World of Warcraft in VR. Your character has too many abilities that you couldn't possibly map them out on a VR controller, and even if you could, it'd be immersion breaking.

Games played from a top-down view like RTS or colony/base/city builders, or games that might involve looking at a lot of text, would probably not work well either.
I wonder how much of ceph inspired s3...
I have a lot of respect for Tim Berners-Lee, but he's basically incorrect about this. The problem with social networks is not a technology problem, it is fundamental to what social networks are. We don't call Stack Overflow a social network, because it's got a purpose, even though it has a lot of the same features as facebook. The problem with social networks isn't the software, it's that they aren't for a particular purpose, because if they did most people wouldn't go there (as most people don't go to Stack Overflow, because most people aren't programmers). If you want to make a social network with a billion users, you have to make it general purpose, and that means you do not have a narrow enough focus to keep the conversation on task (because there is no task). This means the conversation falls back to tribal bickering and shouting, because there is no focus/task to keep it from doing so. They're "social", with everything that makes socializing (facial expressions, tone of voice, only so many people able to talk at once) removed. You're not going to fix that with technology, because the thing that needs "fixing" is fundamental to what they are.

The problem with social networks, is that they're social.
I was in architecture for years, and I would help anyone who came to me on one condition. They would need to go back to their desk, and write up a 3 paragraph description of their problem, what they tried, and where they were stuck. It has a lot of benefits.

1. It weeded out the people who wouldn't invest anything.

2. It let a good 25% of the engineers "rubber duck" their way out of a problem.

3. When the problem got past the first two filters, the problem was much better defined when we worked on it together.
HK scientist develops retinal scan technology to identify early childhood autism
Lots of comments here along the lines of "SMS 2FA is bad", but hell, if the phone companies had an appropriate level of liability here (which should be a shit ton), this should be impossible.

And it's not just about 2FA, most of humanity expects that if someone else texts them, those texts will go to their phone and only their phone unless they've given explicit verifiable consent.

I mean, in this case all the hacker did was fill out a form and say pretty please. I hope phone companies that allow this get sued.
They're looking to fill the position with a foreign contractor, almost certainly. I wrote some PHP sites 20 years ago and get contacted every now and then about taking a 2 month contract for $16 an hour writing PHP in Pittsburgh, which I'm sure has its charms but is also halfway across the country from me.
Perhaps individuals should have a say as to which risk is preferable to them. As it is, the antivaxxer gets to choose not get vaccinated, but the provaxxer must wait for someone elses approval.