skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the Suez canal is optional, and comes at a cost just to use it. When the cost of fuel is low, you might opt for the long route.

But there's definitely discontinuities that emerge when the option is taken away -- oil refineries lose supply, which increases the cost of fuel, which makes the long way more expensive.
Now I'm wondering if it would actually make sense in some settings to fill the place with water and use waterproof containers that match the density of water. You could move stuff in 3D with small submarine robots.
AngelSoft toilet paper comes in big cardboard case packs that have a diagonal perforation so that the top half-ish can be torn off and the case set on a self as a sort of display. No one does that with AngelSoft because the boxes are ugly but you see it with other things.

The problem here is that the perforations will easily tear under the weight of a full case so it's extremely common for it to give out if you try to pick it up by the top.

but who cares if the case makes it to the store in one piece because we only care about the packs inside.
Surely you can get over 100Mbps over wifi.. Maybe it's fine for what you do, but modern wifi should get you at least a gig half duplex, half that for 2.4Ghz, right?

As far as no ethernet, if it were me I'd find a way. A lot of sins can be forgiven or forgotten with a little drywall mud when your lease is up. And full duplex wired speeds are worth sinning for (IMO). :D
This is an aspect of AI safety that we don't hear about: if we create genuine gods, then we shouldn't mind ceding our position to them, fair play. The real pisser will be if we are annihilated by programs that just do very big linear algebra.
Is it actually correct to say “they’ve better plans”? It only sounds correct if “they’ve” (they have) is followed by a verb, like “they’ve _sold_ their house” or “they’ve _tried_ their best.” I’ve never heard someone say “they’ve a Tesla” to say “they have a Tesla,” so I would assume this title is wrong for the same reason.
A brain dump on PoS vs. PoW arguments
Why do I have to assume everyone's a preprogrammed droid in order to want everyone to have a fair choice? Why wouldn't you rather just be presented with a fair choice to begin with? Should I have to question your motives whenever you offer me a choice between A or B?

Your M.O. just seems like it would have you bouncing from job to job forever, until you exhaust the labor market, because, if there's one thing I know for sure, it's that if there's a power imbalance in an economic relationship, it will eventually be exploited for profit. To not exploit it would be economically irrational.

And, to be clear, if the workers did freely choose not to unionize, after being presented with all the information on the same terms by both sides, good on them. That's a decision I respect.

But, back to the actual point, why would you support the employer's right to de facto coerce employees in any way?
Mikrotik user here, I find their software really clunky and buggy.

My dream networking gear for my house is whitebox switches that I can run Debian on, but I can't find any at an economical price. Anyone know of 5-12 port ARM switches?
That is a super interesting article, thank you for posting it!

But, I guess my question is more about why the abstraction of "protein chunks" doesn't fall apart when there are relatively significant "diffs" in the RNA sequence.
You don’t need bigger last-mile boxes. They could just “wrap” each item (or many items of the same SKU) in a reusable transport bin for its lifetime in the warehouse; move the bins themselves around; and then pick the items out of the bin (or invert the bin right over a final shipping box) when they leave.
> I would find any older man hanging out with 18-19 year olds sufficiently weird to raise my guards

Weird is not a crime and how old is older?

In many societies including within the US, being with an older man may be seen as providing financial security and stability and is not considered as inherently wrong.
All we can do is flee
Chrome also has it under chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode

its pretty great.
>The situation in the US is quite puzzling.

You'd think we would be leading the world in broadband speeds, right? In reality as long as broadband providers aren't forced to upgrade by either legislation or competition there's no reason to spend money on upgrades for an already captive customer base.
Because the absence of logical rigor is what enables charlatans to continue to make a living off of people's desire to believe in something that is not so.

This is a problem that's bigger than religion - when people can't tell when they're being bullshitted to or when they use emotion instead of reason to decide on matters that significantly affect their lives and lives of others (not just which flavor of icecream to have), it's a problem.
> The reason I'm asking is to understand how the vaccine designers determine if there are any long-term effects of having this artificial material inside your body

The properties of mRNA are well known and have been for decades. Your cells are constantly producing more from the nucleus. It degrades, even more so when it gets transcribed. That's the beauty of this, it's self-limiting.

The only 'artificial' thing about it is the special base that's added to avoid detection by the immune system. Everything else is the exact same compounds present in your cells.
Europe does not have FOX News/Hard Right Outrage factory spewing 24/7 either.
I feel bad for the engineers there, who clearly are not in charge.
Yes, LSD and other psychedelics can trigger psychosis. There's definitely a risk-vs-reward calculation that must be made. I'd either be dead or be a ne'er-do-well without intervention though.
Some Mikrotik hardware can run OpenWRT.
People used to be (or still are?) worried about monopolies because after all competition are killed, your sole supplier can determine the terms of the business relationship. Maybe Amazon is doing the Walmart thing of "you hate us, but you'll keep coming back for our low prices/you've got nowhere else to go".

Also since there are now 2 tribes, I wonder if they're thinking they can trash talk Warren and Sanders and at worst they'll always have customers, i.e. the people who demonize these 2 politicians.
Whole motherboard, and no data recovery possible.
I'm sure this is great for people in certain fields, but personally when I want to do nontrivial calculations (which isn't very often, to be fair) I just open the JS console
U.S. Abandons Four- Year Antitrust Battle Against Qualcomm
I was using Netlify but now prefer Render.
Sorry! It was this one. I guess it wasn’t the article so much as the comments on it. Former employees were lamenting the management at Ubiquiti, and users in the thread mentioned they noticed some rumblings of a decline in quality. Like I said, I’ve been happy so far, and I’m hoping that lasts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735032
> Our body runs a powerful antivirus system (“the original one”).

Awwww
If the author of Mint sites Elm as an inspiration, it might be worthwhile to explain the ways Mint differs from Elm? It seems like, if the things Mint offers are things a dev is interested in, they'd be better off using Elm, as I would hazard a guess Elm is better supported/maintained than something Elm-like?
Might be Karl Rahner.
I'd even go as far to say the "wisdom" gained in church is often far less insightful than the wisdom gained from a pure moral and philosophical perspective.
Sure, it happened, but the rate of single parenthood has historically been in the single digits. Today I believe around a third of children are born into single parent families.

To be fair I don’t think it’s entirely a lack of religion to blame for this trend though. I think a less religious but more culturally conservative society would also see lower levels of single parenthood. It seems likely to me to be partly the absence of religious beliefs alongside the promotion of more destructive cultural values that has done the damage.

A third component is the way in which the welfare state (at least here in the UK) “rewards” people who make poor life decisions. My sister rightly understood the only way a working class girl with no qualifications is going to move out of her parents’ home is to have a kid. In the past she would have been forced to have found someone who could provide for her or she would have needed to find a way to earn a living.

Now if despite she would have made all the same bad decisions anyway I suspect you’re right, past societies would have looked on her decisions much less favourably and she would likely be far worse off. But I doubt this would have happened. She was always a smart kid - far smarter than me. But when everyone around you is skipping school to smoke in the park or having kids at 15 while being given a new home by the government it’s hard to resist what seems like an obvious path.

I guess what I’m saying is that I would acknowledge that it’s not entirely a lack of religion at play here, but the decline of family values that religion promoted and the lack of moral objection to certain lifestyles has given room for less preferable cultural attitudes and beliefs to arise. The fact people think I’m wrong to criticise my sister for choosing to have a child with an alcoholic she barely knew to move out of my parents home, for example. It honestly annoys me how many people say her selfish decision which her child will bare the brunt of is something that she should be proud of. I love with all my heart but it’s selfish and wrong, and she was failed by everyone who didn’t plainly tell her that.
Sorry for the off topic comment but the site chat icon completely overlaps the cookie “opt out” button, such that you have no way to click on it. I have to say that’s a new dark pattern in cookie pop ups that I’ve never seen before.
Read the article, it answers your question in detail:

> The very end of mRNA is polyadenylated. This is a fancy way of saying it ends on a lot of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Even mRNA has had enough of 2020 it appears.

> mRNA can be reused many times, but as this happens, it also loses some of the A’s at the end. Once the A’s run out, the mRNA is no longer functional and gets discarded. In this way, the ‘poly-A’ tail is protection from degradation.

Also, your cells continuously make mRNAs, depending on what proteins they need to synthesize. And those (have to) get discarded too. And also this is what happens to the actual viral RNA when the virus attacks you for real.
I have no idea how more kids don't say "if Santa isn't real, is God real?"
One of the best explanations and examples of mixing React and D3 I have ever seen, not to mention the presentation is beautiful and well thought out.
I still suspect the endgame of the tracking arms race is server-side tracking vs. VPNs.
My teenage nephew got a RAT malware, that someone used to record him watching porn. Then they used that to blackmail him, saying that they would report him to the FBI for watching porn as minor or something. I believe looking for crypto as a payout.

My brother (his dad) caught wind of it and had some fun messing with the attacker. But for a moment my nephew was in some serious deep shit that he would have sneaked around to buy and send crypto to get out of.

So that's a scenario that could have happened, and would explain why he wouldn't want to tell the truth.

Alternatively - Ledger got hacked and a list of customers for the Nano S was stolen. So someone could use that for a targeted phishing attack. Perhaps the above would be a similar strategy

Edit: Aha! There are indeed warnings of active phishing attacks from Ledger:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/ck6o44/be_car...

Your nephew got phished, and is leaving that bit of the story out
Fluent Python is a great book. 2nd edition is accessible as well https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/fluent-python-2nd/...
Nostaliga really kicked in here - seeing things like this for the first time, and feeling the unfurling of the future and a thousand new ideas in front of you, one so new and beyond all of your sci-fi expectations, and yet so real.

I feel so incredibly fortunate to have been old enough to see and understand the start of all of this, and later, to be a part of all of it.
To be fair, I can imagine these being the people who voted against him being reinstated, so they've just ended up consolidating his control over the FSF.
I use the technique. I also made an app to help manage the sessions. It is in a very early stage, but go check it out at https://focuser.app.
I mean, it was a mobile first app, with a substantial server component and infinite scroll, at a time where very few people were iOS experts.
I've never succesfully sustained interruption tracking. Only a few timers support it, and the ones that do are the ones that try to be a task manager too. Since I already have tasks tracked elsewhere, I've never wanted to use the very rich Pomo software packages and just chose not to track them, instead.

Similarly, I don't tend to feed back the actual duration info into my system. I could--my task tracker has an estimate field I don't use since I estimate in numbers of pomodoros, so I could put real times there. But I doubt I'd look at them so I haven't bothered. So I don't necessarily get the benefits Pomodoro outlines re: making estimates better. I do think that having to break stuff down into sub 2 hour (and preferably sub 25m) chunks has helped me there, but it's an indirect benefit.

But the timer itself is invaluable.

I have ADHD and anxiety issues, and big tasks get intimidating enough that I have problems starting them. I was already using an "I'll put N minutes on the egg timer, then I can decide to bail if I want" technique to cut intimidation and get started. It's a very well-known way to get over that first hump.

Pomodoro just formalized that a little more for me: now I make that call at the end of each 25m Pomodoro. I invariably end up stringing a few together before I bail, so it works for me.
Interesting timing. The Atlantic had an article arguing the same thing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america...
The abbreviated playbook for becoming a fake course millionaire
Have only recently started with Postgres, but have been really impressed with the whole product and yes totally agree - the language seems to be designed by people who actually understand the DML tasks that programmers want to perform.
Until parent poster chimes in . . . :-)
The reason God is not "just saying, you know what, I forgive you", has to do with His system of justice and righteousness.
As the final Judge and Creator of the law, sin must be judged.
You are either committing a sin or you are not. Jesus dying on the cross for our sins does not change the fact we will be judged. But Jesus that had no sin, took our sin upon Him and paid the price of death that we really were to pay. By believing in Jesus Christ we take part in His death and resurrection, and as a result: An everlasting life with God.

About 800 years before the birth of Christ the prophet Isaiah wrote the following prophecy (Isaiah 53:5-6):

"But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all."

I encourage you to read the the whole chapter of Isaiah 53 here:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah+53&versi...

As Christians this is our salvation and what we believe when Jesus died and rose from the cross.

Happy Easter! :-)
My point is that in an overwhelming number of situations, it's not sufficient to merely identify the locations and possible trajectories of all of the moving objects. If you assume everyone will act "rationally", you will end up killing someone every few days. If you assume everyone will do the worst possible thing, you'll never get anywhere.

This situation forces you to predict behavior reasonably accurately. There's a big not-so-long tail of people doing stupid things. If you drive in a bar area late at night, you will fairly often encounter drunk people in the street. You may notice some swerving on the road or walking erratically and infer that they might be distracted or drunk or a small child and give them a lot of extra room.

Human drivers typically develop something of a sixth sense observing people on the road and know who it's safe to drive past at high speed and who needs lower speed and more room. If humans didn't have this, the road would be a lot more dangerous.

AVs can compensate for this by having (potentially) faster reaction times, and sensors that can see longer distances. There are a lot of scenarios though where better prediction is more important than either of these. Behavior prediction is a very active area of research in the AV world.
Children of Ruin
I just noticed PrivacyBadger is blocking Google Analytics on the management interface now, has it always been like that? I just did the update and I'm not seeing that ad.
Write software, grow from your experience and - sometimes - mistakes. Worrying and getting caught in analysis paralysis is the best way to stagnate.

Tons of brilliant people and huge companies have made software in X and found out it would have been better in Y. There's always tomorrow, as long as you learned today.
Work peak and professional decline (2019)
Haha, or e.g. "Welcome to our gas station. We're optimistic that you're getting the number of gallons that you paid for."

But in reality I think the other responses get it right. I would say it's a marketing decision to publish the range in best case and worst case. In this case, the other automakers are publishing closer to the worst case or average case, while Tesla publishes best case. By comparison, the mass of meat doesn't really have a best or worst case (unless you market "our packaged meat weighs 1lb when travelling at 0.9c!!")
Yeah seems to me it'd violate the Fifth Amendment.

Since the dollar was backed at $20 per ounce of gold, that's what they paid. Then they changed it to $35/oz.
Dolla, dolla bills, y'all
Could be wrong but AFAIU the Pfizer one doesn't encapsulate in a lipid, hence why it needs lower temperatures.
With all the ambitious infrastructural and technological move they did I am honestly surprised coal hasn't been replaced earlier.
you mean an API to train Google's AI?

google.com
I'll note that you didn't start your response here with pleasantries, and no one else has, either. By leaping at the opportunity to condescendingly explain human behavior, you've slipped into attacking a strawman. Take your passive aggressive yikes elsewhere.

Being delayed by a "good morning" from an oblivious coworker? More than just annoying. (Obligatory "pleasantries" from coworkers who otherwise take glee in making you miserable and obstruct you for sport? Much, much worse.) We're not friends--we're coworkers, at least nominally, and I probably have a stack of shit this high to deal with--that you may or may not be the cause of. How about this for being "nice": don't force me into dealing with your bullshit, against my wishes. Where's your recognition that I'm a human with feelings and needs?
You've been breaking the site guidelines badly. If you keep doing this we will have to ban you.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.
> Have you seen the FSD beta videos? Looks like they've pretty much solved it for autonomous driving.

Have you? Plenty of videos where it fails pathetically (like https://youtu.be/antLneVlxcs). This looks nowhere close to “pretty much solved”. In fact, it’s an active danger to the rider and its surroundings.
why is this on HN frontpage?

EDIT - I only mean to say that Google showing this animation is mildly interesting, but there other are far more interesting stories.
So it's connector-specific? In other words, if I have a USB cable with USB-A on one and and USB-C on the other, the USB-A connector will be the thing introducing RF interference?
sequence is actually released by Moderna in their patent:

https://www.modernatx.com/sites/default/files/US10702600.pdf

though they do present multiple sequences, so I guess you'd have to go to the FDA application to figure out exactly which one got used.
> put together their sequences in a weekend

meh, I could do that over a weekend never sounded so scary, or impressive at the same time. That weekend just so happened to stand on the shoulders of prior decades of research though.

i guess this is big pharma's version of `apt-get install`
Check Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), its alright to have a REST endpoint but it would be even better for the interface to be standard and discovery to be automatic with guaranteed interoperability.
1) As someone else pointed out, this molecule substitution would not persist during replication. New viruses being produced in your cells would be made with a normal "U".

2) Your immune system does not usually attack the RNA housed inside a virus, but rather protein fixtures on its "body".
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We don't want tedious flamewars here, including programming language flamewars that were tedious 20 years ago.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604134.
It's git. That part is easy to migrate. Exporting issues and discussions might take a bit of work, but if/when GitHub starts going downhill there'll be a script to migrate to GitLab (or whatever will be the preferred option by then)

(Yes, there's already such a script for GitLab.)
I’m with you. As soon as that page loaded I had warm flashbacks to my first days exploring the early web with Netscape. Incredibly magical time.
It’s been a a bit since I was a C++ developer, but didn’t LLVM spur GCC on to improve significantly? Maybe LLVM and GCC are pretty comparable today with respect to build time and performance, but I think the more interesting question is how LLVM compares to GCC ten years ago (or more precisely, where GCC would be today were it not for competition from LLVM). Personally I’m glad there are multiple options, and people seem to prefer using LLVM for a language backend more than GCC for whatever reason, so it seems like a significant contribution to our digital society.
Node, Express, Mongo with Docker – Easy Setup
It would be nice if failure to connect / TLS handshake failure invalidated the entire related network stack cache for that link. If that were the case I wouldn't mind higher TTLs.
This practice is very common among immigrant/non-Western communities. Oftentimes an educational institution with a religious background offers the highest quality and most prestigious education. In addition, while they might not have the same religious views as the institution, these parents often value the conservative social values that these institutions espouse.
- Python Design Patterns: https://python-patterns.guide/

- Python 3 Patterns, Recipes and Idioms: https://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.io/en/late...

- Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python https://github.com/SigmaQuan/Better-Python-59-Ways
Since 2004 OpenClipart.org published more than 160K SVGs to the public domain
Hofstadter not only asserted that symbolic reasoning is solvable, he explained how to do it. In very broad terms, yes.
Direct link to the FTC Press Release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/03/mobil...
Are these apps you're releasing serving a niche audience, or a pretty general audience that is still finding enough downloads (like the common todo productivity apps).

I've come up with a few app ideas, but while I find them useful I'm not sure if they would appeal to enough people to be worth pursuing.