skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mask test is an interesting one. Please don’t fry me for this, but the WHO has a report on mask usage from December that notes some inconclusiveness in community settings. It can be very hard to prove something with a rather small effect compared to real-world complexity. This is in contrast to vaccines that have a rather strong signal.

Please read the whole section because I cherry picked just one paragraph without full context. I just wanted to demonstrate that nothing is actually all that obvious when it comes to the pandemic.

> Evidence on the protective effect of mask use in community settings

> At present there is only limited and inconsistent scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (75). A large randomized community-based trial in which 4862 healthy participants were divided into a group wearing medical/surgical masks and a control group found no difference in infection with SARS-CoV-2 (76). A recent systematic review found nine trials (of which eight were cluster-randomized controlled trials in which clusters of people, versus individuals, were randomized) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness. Two trials were with healthcare workers and seven in the community. The review concluded that wearing a mask may make little or no difference to the prevention of influenza-like illness (ILI) (RR 0.99, 95%CI 0.82 to 1.18) or laboratory confirmed illness (LCI) (RR 0.91, 95%CI 0.66-1.26) (44); the certainty of the evidence was low for ILI, moderate for LCI.

https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1319378/retrieve
I actually experimented with this in earlier iterations of the Theme Studio, but I remember running into a bunch of limitations. I think the HTML/CSS simulation is similar enough to the real thing for now (prob 90-95% accurate), but like you said, it would be cool to interact with the theme in a real editor. (clicking buttons, hover states, etc)
All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
This seems to be similar to Internet-in-a-Box.

http://internet-in-a-box.org/
Quite simply, Google Reader is antiethical to an Internet brokered by a central conglomerate. It made total sense for Google to kill it. They wanted the shitshow we have now; however on the heels of Gmail they thought they could take over every other market (social, news, announcements, etc.) too. The irony is that killing Google Reader caused enough customer fallout that none of these other products ever made it. However they wouldnt have made it if Google hadn't killed Reader.

In retrospect Google should have doubled down to monetize Reader. I'm pretty damn sure we'd be consming far less of our news directly from Facebook and Reddit had they done so.
Oh this what I've been trying to explain my wife for years! And every time she rolls her eyes probably thinking that I'm slacking...

I'll show it to her and see if it helps
You have summed my feelings about it excellently. The other day I installed an app in Linux that logs my activities, such as documents opened and programs used, and indexes it into a searchable database ("I can't remember that pdf I was reading last weekend, let me get it"). The most jarring feeling about that was... that for once I wasn't not thinking how privacy invasive all that data collection was! I'm used to seeing programs and websites attempting to collect all sorts of nefarious data and trying my best to stop that collection (including not using the product at all). I was stunned how useful it was once I realised it was all local and serving my interests, not those of its manufacturer.
> The Computational Fluid Dynamics of(strictly hypothetical) Human Sexual Intercourse in a Canoe

SimBudweiser?
Or you know, maybe trying to destroy a creepy serial sexual harasser and pedo apologist and any organization that enables that behavior.
It's about time we hold our leaders to a baseline of moral behavior. Taking out people who victimize women in stem for decades is a great start in my book.
Weird. They never mentioned the amazing power of inserting text and numbers into a boolean column.
China proposes global rules for central bank digital currencies
Startup Lessons from Building DigitalOcean
[1] only "knuckleheads" would take that one on ;) Come join the new club in town https://knuckleheads.club/ - your immense knowledge and experience can help the cause a lot.
That's me, two years ago, when I made the switch from vi.

In the end, the key combinations are something to learn - but the productivity increase makes them worth learning. And for the handcramp thing: Realize that you have two control, and two meta keys on a standard keyboard.
That's not really how CPUs / RAM have worked since the 1980s. The CPU doesn't operate synchronously out of RAM, fetching data on each clock cycle. It operates from a hierarchical series of on-die caches, with only the L1 cache (typically a few 10s of kilobytes at most) operating close to how you describe. Logic on the CPU will send a series of commands to the RAM (along with data if it's a write), and there will be many commands 'in-flight' around the system at any given time, to hide the relatively high latencies involved (many 10s of nanoseconds). The actual propagation delay (around ~1 nanosecond/foot for cables) barely figures into it. Even the cables can have many 'bits' in flight at a time on them, and typically each 'direction' of the link forwards a clock along with the data (or it's embedded in the data stream) to avoid messy synchronization issues.
> lol, do you seriously think no one was focused on rent extraction in the 50 and 60s? As if that was a recent invention?

No, obviously I don't believe that. You seem to keep going back to black and white arguments, which I didn't make.

> Right now, I can now apply to 100's of startup incubators to get funding for my idea or invention

The biggest, most successful startup examples are incremental. Uber, stripe, Airbnb. Google I would probably argue was a serious innovation over the status quo, but still on an incremental subject.

> Back then, making prototypes involved an entire machine shop and a ton of capital.

I do agree that consumer access to capital, both financial and manufacturing has improved.

But my point in general is that ambition has shrunk and there's less of what Thiel calls 0 to 1 innovation and more energy is going into incremental improvement and rent extraction.
I agree with your point that we should look for a way to pay FOSS maintainers for their time, but my point was that Linux repos are not free of spyware naming the version of Unity that sent what you typed to Amazon Shopping as an example.

The line that separates legitimate features and spyware is blurry, especially when a bad default ends up leaking information of the user.
i wish they'd included all the names at the end.
I think it's Google Podcasts, barely any efforts on features for the app, seems like they just made it because there needed to be a podcast app, Keep, while not given much attention by Google, is still easily accessible within Gmail.
The main reason why I use ffmpeg/edit videos is to take my 3440x1440 screen recordings and crop+resize them in a format friendly for twitter, otherwise twitter will do its own (additional?) resizing and compression which just destroys videos
Depends on the definition of "works ootb". For the most part I would say yes but a few little things here and there not, IMHO. It also depends on the distro but "ALt-Tab" through windows across workspaces (virtual desktops) often requires an install of dconf and setting it yourself. Just as a minor example. But that perhaps admittedly is nitpicking. Overall Mate works perfectly fine of course.
Capital by Karl Marx.

Understand labor exploitation and avoid being a victim of it.
>But to me the sadness comes from seeing the open web continue to fray.

That's really the thing. People lash out at Google because it's a concrete target. And probably one of the worse examples of Google killing something that seemed clearly in the purview of an early mission to organize information. I'm often a bit surprised that Blogger has survived.

But it's also emblematic of the fact that a fairly niche open web activity was becoming even more niche.
This is a slightly more correct command I think:

du -cb $(ldd $(which ffmpeg) | egrep -o "/[^ ]+" | cat <(which ffmpeg) - | xargs readlink -f) | tail -n1

I think this is what the ffmpeg.wasm-core project is compiling in:

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm-core/blob/n4.3.1-w...

Overall I think the wasm size is pretty good, maybe even smaller than the non-wasm binaries to a first approximation.
Cancel culture? Or insisting on a basic levels of humanity in our leaders?
RMS sexually harassed women for decades. FSF is enabling that.
Both are written off in my book.
1. I agree, but they are also the business model. If one platform doesn't use them, another that does will come to predominate.

2. This has some merit and would be a great start (we can dream, right?), but I don't think it would solve misinformation.

3. That sounds nice, but how would it work in practice. What if moderators get death threats from bad actors?
Great news, slow vacuuming is one of my main Postgres pain points.
PWA in Brief: Part 2
In this case, it is no particular assumption, but merely the parent comment celebrating public-sector waste.
I just use 'slur' in the dictionary sense: "a disparaging remark or a slight" (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slur). But ok, I've replaced it with 'putdown' in my GP comment.

There's a pretty wide variation in how these words get understood across different parts of the world.
Yes, before search engines stopped working so well, perhaps to defeat spam, it was a lot easier to stumble on something valuable. It's sad to think there are kids out there with only a narrow view of the huge web that they can find from a cold search.

Before search engines worked well, we had link directories and web rings. Maybe enthusiast-oriented federated or p2p servers will become the same thing. There are already a few Youtubers headed in that way (e.g. EEVblog and Defpom publishing on Lbry). Rebuilding the tree-lined avenues that succumbed to jungle, I guess.
Amy advice for someone trying to write code against the ffmpeg api for the first time? It's...esoteric and the "correct" way seems to be reading a bunch of ten year old blog posts by random uncertain people. Even the python binding devs have a disclaimer they aren't confident they understand everything they document, despite doing their best to read the source.
I folded right away with at least 2 Lenovo's that have never run Windows. I think lenovo has saved a huge sum even if this motivates the few people who have gone through the steps to go after similar damages.

The base €42 seems well bellow the threshold where someone could create a whole service that does the process like the airline delays. But maybe a Linux or EFF style charity could provide guidelines per vendor/country with a donate request.
If you work on a team, being reachable is part of your work. There are (few) opportunities for solo thinking, and Cal is lucky to find one. I hope you find one for yourself.

But as a team, the answer "I can't reach the expert because they secluded themselves" is not acceptable. Because as a senior figure on a team, you job is to become a force multiplier for others, not a solo force. Not to do work that magnanimously benefits others, but work that makes others better.

You need occasional deep work time, sure. But the whole "I must disconnect from everything, always" thing does not work for any social endeavor - and most meaningful things are of a scope that requires a team.

I wish I had a better answer here, because I too like thinking quietly for long times - but I also see that I fulfill a useful function when I'm reachable, and ultimately, you get paid for usefulness to the larger endeavor.

(This points strongly towards solo/entrepreneur tracks if isolation is your only useful mode of work, but even then, you'd be well advised to find a partner who handles the people parts)
I doubt the mere presence of the phone itself is distracting, but rather it's the fact that putting it somewhere far (or allowing it to be taken from you) requires a conscious intention and is sufficiently absurd that it triggers the novelty feeling, which helps your focus.

I just put my phone away in the closet. Perhaps this will become part of my new "focus" ritual.
Agreed regarding Industrial society and it’s future
Fu claims:

Tailwind used/inspired by Windi’s idea without even mentioning Windi CSS once and claiming it’s their own ideas

Adam Wathans tweet:

Props to others who have explored this approach in the past like.. @satireven who proved this could work with Tailwind's API with Windi CSS

For years I had wanted to explore an official CSS-in-JS library to get some of these same benefits, but Windi CSS especially gave me hope we could do something universal with zero runtime cost.

So, what specific ideas are being used here? The idea of a CSS-in-JS library, or something more implementation specific?
Considering that we're on sqlite3 already, it'd probably be something for the v4 ;)
Actually writing CGI scripts was a bit before my time, but I have very fond memories of installing and using Newspro and Imagefolio on my old web pages.
Web frontend in Rust?

Horror!
You're trolling, right?
I believe it's chrome that killed RSS altogether. Even today, there is not native RSS support in chrome. Before chrome all major browsers had native RSS support. You could just subscribe to any website.

The killed RSS, then the reader. It's all on Google for demise of RSS.
German regulator held that the use of Mailchimp by a German company was unlawful
I've read many many books that have changed my life.

That's probably one reason why I read.

To say that Pound's translation of the Analects was more profoundly important than the Tao and Faulkner's The Town and Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Hobbit from my youth and The Three Little Pigs read nearly nightly to a child doesn't make sense.

Sometimes I walk through Castaneda's world.

Sometimes Knuth's.

Other's I am in my head with Vonnegut.

Profoundness is out in the world.

And many books point to it.
> Is there a way to have emacs with custom shortcuts as a ready package where I can modify those shortcuts before digging in with all the rest.

I've got a very custom Emacs keybindings/shortcuts setup but... Sadly it requires some hackery: basically there's the whole major/minor modes shenanigan where one mode's shortcut can take precedence over the other(s). And if you want to define your own shortcuts which take precedence, all the time, over everything else, you need to dig a bit deep. And then even deeper because invariably there's this or that minor mode you'll want to use where after all you won't want your own shortcut but that one of the mode.

> I am looking for the way to set those by myself but it seems I need to learn a lot before I can do it

Sadly this is true. I've got I'd say about 100 lines of code related only to keybindings. Now, once set up, it's pure bliss. For example I've got mod+{i,j,k,l} to move the cursor around, anywhere (text, menus, anything). It makes even more sense than vim's hjkl (ijkl mimics the cursor arrow keys layout, which is more natural and ijkl is easier to type than hjkl too).

> ... and thus it blocks me from moving forward with exploring Emacs deeper.

I can understand that. I'd say the easiest would be to define your own minor mode as explained here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/683425/globally-override...

This should get you started: if you do it like in the answer and make sure they always take precedence you should be good to go and can deal with the gory details later on.
localStorage is a web API, the storage limit is ~5MB.

However it can only store strings so it's pretty taxing.

Chrome and Safari actually embed SQLite directly as WebSQL, however it's not becoming standardized because Mozilla doesnt consider "add SQLite" as a sensible web standard.
"Capitalism Is Dead, Long Live Debtism"

Isn't debt (loan) the way money gets created?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
When I got to college and got online in 1995, I pretty quickly learned about CGI scripts and the cgi-bin directory, which of course my school did not have enabled on campus-wide accounts (security risks). I really wanted cool stuff like a web hit counter on my page. A lot of web hosts at the time would advertise something like "5MB of space and your own cgi-bin!" and I eventually got to one of these, got into Perl, and start making stuff using Berkeley DB and other on-disk databases. Eventually I outgrew this, found PHP & MySQL, found a web host who supported it, went to work at that web host, ... All said, CGI's were totally the reason I got into internet programming.
The Edwards Go Electric
In 1993 he had a slightly different definition of what is pedophilia. He gave a public apology and retracted his opinion. He doesn't apologize on behalf of pedophiles, he apologized for his previous opinion.
Seems there are 4 pull requests open to fix various math issues, all of them opened in 2019. Most PR merges seems to be about minor changes like translations and version bumps. Not sure we can call it a success just yet.

It's very cool it's open source in the first place though, don't get me wrong. And MS doesn't have to merge fixes if they don't want to of course.
He's a fascinating guy too. I learned on hn recently he lived a parallel life as a mildly popular musician and football (soccer) manager.
I'm allocating a megabyte inline. I can put the containing struct on the heap if I need to (I may be doing that; can't remember), but I don't want that to be the concern of the struct itself.

For example: what if I decide at some point to create a Vec of this struct? I don't want each of those elements then also putting their internal buffers into separate allocations on the heap, when the Vec itself is already on the heap. I want the struct to be as "flat" as possible, and to only allocate for the sake of the stack as a final step when the use-case demands it
This is a great illustration of the problem G+ had; events in g+ were amazing but nobody (apparently) knew. Setting them up was easy, inviting people was easy, privacy for events made sense from the UI, etc. If you set things up correctly, everyone who was invited would have a shared photo album that they would be able to share pictures to with one click.

I have a friend who had an amazing wedding photo album created this way; to this day they swear that if it had been marketed better g+ events would have put wedding photographers out of business...
>> "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

I really like this for a different reason. It’s one of the reasons I can appreciate flat-earthers (or other discordian-ish reality tunnels) from a slightly more philosophical standpoint: it really doesn’t matter
People with “Maladaptive Daydreaming” spend an average of four hours a da (cont)
Memorializing life online is the reason people get fired for saying homophobic stuff at a time when even most left wing politicians were anti gay marriage (>= 8 years ago). I don’t want this. I would use social media a lot more if everything was deleted after 24 hours because I can’t tell the future and I don’t know what will be taboo in 5 years
Yeah definitively. But when I wrote that, I meant you as an individual consumer wouldn't need to worry about that. Or someone who writes libraries or packages. Only if you were running a for profit business. The remaining would have to be on trust of the community running the packages but I can definitively entertain the idea of it not working as expected.
The promise of a 20-minute neighborhood is not trading 20 minutes stuck in traffic in your car for 20 minutes stuck on a crowded train. The promise is that most everyday needs can be met within the radius of 20 minutes of "active transport" like walking, cycling, or scootering. Frequent public transport service just further extends that radius.
The vast majority even.
Life is absurd
Half of arguments on the Internet are someone trying to win an argument they lost elsewhere. If I could get some people I work with to actually run the numbers on how much it costs us to make everything dynamic, versus how much we earn versus static, I think we’d quickly arrive at an agreement that most of it should be static with a little AJAX thrown in for the 10% that needs to be special.
When we were dating my wife took an introductory CS course to humor me and I remember how difficult it was for her to grasp the concept that the programs you run on the command line happen in the context of a directory and you can change that directory. In her mind a directory was exactly a picture of a folder that you can double click on, not something that you run programs inside of.
I don't know if we currently operate under the assumption of a single truth.

There's also a big difference between different perspectives and things that are blatantly wrong.

Decentralization is interesting, but 20 years ago, there were many small "social networks", even if they didn't go by that name. FB and it's portfolio are the first ones to create 1B+ member "communities". There are very strong economic incentives for smaller communities to grow into larger communities (FB illustrates the possibilities and perils of focusing on growth).
I was a huge ScreenHero fan, and will never forgive Slack for killing it
I don't think there's much to be done. I just like the fact that I don't have to think about replicating individual databases, regardless if I rename, delete, re-create them.

It's being done at cluster level, it's one time setup and I can forget about it.
No easy answers. We're trying to address that at Snowdrift.coop but are ourselves struggling volunteers not getting fully launched still (but not giving up, still at it).

Most efforts do seem focused on corporate open-source. The under-funding of that stuff is indeed an issue. But it doesn't result in real public goods that treat the public well if it's all upstream stuff that only serves to make proprietary downstream end-user products.
New Study Shows That More Money Buys More Happiness, Even for the Rich
Fair point, we all grow and learn.
The creepy sexual harassment of women? That's still enough in my book.
> used as System RAM, just as slightly slower System RAM

Intel Optane DIMM and Intel Optane SSD. Although Micron is selling their "Optane" Fab and Intel has yet to announce if they intend to buy it.

>such links might include optical fiber

Intel has been working on this for many years, Silicon Photonics and the goal is to have Compute, Memory and Storage in different "box" or even "Racks".

>can be connected via high-speed serial links

IBM OpenCAPI and OMI. Which allows up to 5PB of memory ( No more Big Data crap ) , and if I remember correctly with additional 10ns latency.
H&M Is Erased from Chinese E-Commerce over Xinjiang Stance
Thanks for trying it out, and for this candid feedback! You're right, the product is still a ways off from becoming a true "GitHub for knowledge" — things like "forking" a trove, live collaborative editing, and more powerful search are some of the missing elements.

We'll keep working!
Maybe it wouldn't improve because people mostly argue over differing values, not differing research.
There are certain cash machines in the Square Mile which reliably dispense £50s
Same. Wrote a complete database-driven web application in C, an online bookstore. Switching to Perl 4 was a vast improvement in terms of development productivity.
If you have to pay, the network effect won’t take hold.
Apt and dnf/yum.

90% of Linux usage is rhel based (personal machine is fedora). And the other 10% is aws Ubuntu.

Id saying get good at 1 and know thr basics with tht other.
According to the article these clocks are accurate to 2 parts in 10^18, so...