skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a gallon of some stuff early into the pandemic from a online retailer that sells commercial fog machine supplies. It smells likes farts. I felt bad giving bottles of it to friends and family but it wasn't like there was much else available on the shelves and at the time touch contamination was still a big concern. I added some fragrances so it smells mostly like lemons now and only a hint of farts.

We bought another gallon from a cosmetics supply wholesaler and it was much less stinky.
If you think bitcoin will cause military to go away you are naive in the extreme.

Military is there because we don't know how to do better.

Just like democracy is a shit show of inefficiency but we just have not figured out better system of government yet.

But we know how to transfer money without burning huge amount of energy and that is the point.
Excelsior Pass: digital proof of Covid-19 vaccination or negative test results
Isn't that a feature of literally every currency? Has 1 USD ever not been worth exactly 1 USD?
That's unfortunate, but I still think it would be best if you could at least add support for one or two servers in the core, with extensibility for others. Or officially adopt and support the community LSP plugin. My experience with the community LSP plugin has not been good, and it almost led met to switch to vscode. (That and debugging which is a whole other can of worms.) I really think working on LSP would be a better use of your time than continuing to improve the current fuzzy indexing engine.
YETI: a graduallY Extensible Trace Interpreter (2008)
Cuba Is a Vaccine Powerhouse
I really like Sublime Text, but I have mostly moved on to VScode. I will probably buy a license just to support their software, especially Sublime Merge. For me the Sublime Merge git client is an essential.
> "new" and "delete" considered as bad practices.

Depending on what kind of work you do, you may not have a choice as to whether you get to you smart pointers or not. Our students go into work with decades-old codebases littered with new and delete. They need to know what they do.

> You claimed that you don't have to teach Manual Memory management in Rust so why not do the same for C++?

Because there are no old rust codebases where manual memory management is an issue.
Here's a summary of my personal CFN best practices:

1. Don't
I hope the rest of the tech youtuber jump on this especially LTT and other PC/phone hardware channels.
Unlike youtubers planting 20 million trees this would actually be useful.
Someone wants to be paid for that energy dissipated. I don't see how Netflix could be profitable this way.
I've had too many CF stacks get stuck in states that don't allow for rolling forward or backwards to buy this. You have to purchase a premium support plan to get access to the AWS personnel who can help you out.

CF does actually kind of try to behave transactionally, which is interesting--you don't often get stuck between states like you do with Terraform, but I rarely have had much of a problem getting Terraform out of one of these states either.

This isn't to speak about the abysmal expressiveness of CloudFormation. Reuse is a joke--I'm tempted to call it a programming language in which you encode the AST manually as YAML/JSON, but that would be overly generous because any programming language AST allows you to express the concept of a function that takes complex arguments (e.g., an object, list, or list of objects).

Further still, if you want to extend CloudFormation to support third party services (e.g., if you want to create a user pool in your identity management provider for your new stack, or otherwise manipulate non-AWS APIs), you have to write and run your own lambdas--which each require their own infra-as-code--which just takes a lot of effort (not to mention how hard it is to write these correctly) and so you end up compromising with a half-manual workflow, missing out on much of the promise of infra-as-code.

I don't love Terraform, mind you. I think there's a Better Way out there somewhere (maybe it's Pulumi or CDK, I'm not sure), but CloudFormation is brutal.
What? That is a genuinely optimistic statement.

The "forcing" way through brute shaming and various 'strict guidelines of social distancing'

Much forcing all around...
Give an example of an armed population which has effectively governed its government.
So given these data points, isn’t it reasonable for Apple to refuse to play along this broken tune and just roll out their own dialect of a wireless protocol? Why, if not in the name of scarcely affirmed “standards”, drag suppliers through an endless contractual game, when you can direct your own capacity toward the quality standards that fit you?
There is nuclear waste in the cliffs in San Onofre. They reportedly have nowhere to put it, and expect to only be able to store the depleted fuel there for a few decades.
> go and implement the technology on their own

Samsung could obviously do this too, but as you say, they lack the will - and motivation.
Great post.

After just going through a 6 month, pain-filled fund raise for an open source database (big on integration), this is probably the most upsetting thing I have ever read in my life.

Far away from Silicon Valley with no flashy credentials, 13 days is an impossible dream.

That said, massive kudos to the team for such clear storytelling & delivery.
Whoever Valisure are, they’ve never heard of baby Yoda.
IMHO those dynamics are changing. Custom chips are becoming table stakes for new products. Look at Apple M1, W1, or Amazaon's Graviton2 chips. All of those are core parts of products and services which would not be possible without the custom silicon. The pool of talent and resources to build these things is extremely small, and there are geopolitical issues putting ever more pressure and scarcity on them (i.e. China pivoting to reduce dependency on Western designed chips and hoovering up as much chip design talent as possible). The TL;DR is amazing new hardware and services need custom silicon, but custom silicon is only getting more difficult and more challenging to build in the near future.
Betting on US politics seems like easy money to the dispassionate observer. Unfortunately, my government has banned online gambling, and none of the nearby casinos offers such bets.
I'm just waiting for them to start routing the remote control signals over the same modems. Want complete privacy? Congrats you can't use the remote either!
> Sadly, for the fledgeling enterprise that was Android, it was better to start from Linux, and use Apache/BSD style licensing and write their own userland.

Curious about your take on this. Why do you think it would be better if Android were mach kernel + BSD userland akin to Mac/IOS instead of Linux?
They standardized international shipping to everyone's benefit. I wonder what is keeping them from standardizing international transaction of government issued money?

It seems that bitcoin was useful in this particular instance only because of the failure of multiple other systems. Fixing those failure would seem like the easier option indeed.
Comment on ProtonMail's password-based key derivation (by Solar Designer)
Almost every chemical factory which had license to Ethanol where I live started making hand sanitizers to meet/exploit the demand last year. Most of them where just white-labeled and so I wouldn't be surprised if there was other harmful substances in it.

Doctors here advise to use soap over hand sanitizers if there's water available. But now there's another problem, all these obsessive hand wash with soap is making the skin dry[1] and causing other skin problems.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/198-hand-wash-liquid-which-does... (Disclaimer: It's a problem validation platform I built).
The other additives in hand sanitizer can be anything from methanol to discourage consumption (and avoid liquor taxes) and fragrances. I've bought some little bottles before that leave such a strong fragrance you have to go wash your hands before eating anything anyway.
Bitcoin cash will win given a long horizon.
How did you get in contact with investors? I went to the accel website but I can't tell what role they play.
Ask HN: Covid Long-hauler's in tech, how do you cope?
If you're in a similar boat post-covid, how are you coping? Are you? Is there anything you've done that has helped alleviate the brain fog and focus issues or the anxiety/depression?

My story:
I'm a covid survivor, and to say I'm struggling is an understatement.

I'm 41. Not young or old...in the middle I guess.

Symptoms I've had:

- Brain fog - I can't remember common aliases and commands I run almost daily. Sometimes I'm driving and I feel like I'm in a foreign land, and I can't remember where I'm headed and nothing looks familiar (I'm on my own street like two blocks from home when this happens sometimes). I once forgot my wife's name, I mean I couldn't remember it for nothing - then it came to me and I called her Alexa, and immediately knew that wasn't right and then it came back to me.
- Random depression/anxiety/panic attacks... my heart rises, I can't breath, my o2 checks out but my HR is up ten points usually.
- Pain in joints / back.
- Constant fatigue
- Numbness in arms/hands (like icy-hot mixed with lidocaine poured inside them).
- Heat issues when I get over-exerted (doesn't take much -just walking to the mailbox). I get super itchy all down my back, but there are never any hives or anything. This has never happened to me, ever. Not even when I used to do crossfit.

According to advice on /r/covidlonghaulers I began taking Pepcid + Loratadine for the antihistamines which is supposed to help as well as b3/niacin + l-tyrosine (stacker2 energy shot has these in them).

Two days in on these and I've had the most clear two days of the past year. I felt very fatigued and about to collapse yesterday evening, just unable to function but it was about the time my Vyvanse was probably wearing off, so I was probably due a crash, but other than that I was able to code/work and just feel normal for once.
The larger metaphysical claims are not testable. Some of the narrower claims are, such as that self-replicating evolvable structures cannot arise naturally.

This basically amounts to the claim that the complexity floor of life is too high for such a structure to arise naturally over terrestrial time spans.

Obviously a demonstration of abiogenesis would invalidate that claim. This could also be challenged by computational models that are sufficiently physically plausible, or the discovery or creation of even simpler lifeforms that extend the lower complexity bound of life down to regions that challenge the argument.

Of course another possibility is that this is our Fermi paradox answer: life is in fact so profoundly unlikely that its frequency of occurrence is e.g. less than once per billion years per galaxy!
Good points. There's also the argument that some of us want nothing to do with interest and usury. And fiat currencies by definition are usurious currencies due to how the government runs its finances.
London Review of Books - not only book reviews, and the best newspaper I found so far (the Economist is close).
Stan is nats streaming. The clients don't have to be updated since they're forward compatible since jetstream. NATS streaming will be deprecated after jetstream is GA is my understanding. Is there a bug in the library you found?
This led me to look up Honey's own privacy policy and I do not see such a disclaimer regarding change of ownership, in fact it specifically references what they can share with PayPal. [0]

>We know how important your personal data is to you, so we will never sell it. We'll only share it with your consent or in ways you'd expect (as we explain here). That means we will share your data if needed to complete your purchase, with businesses who help us operate Honey, or if we are legally required to do so.

>We may also share information in the following cases:...with our parent company, PayPal, Inc. and affiliates and subsidiaries it controls, but only for purposes allowed by this Privacy Policy;

So that sounds like commercial use of personal data is specifically protected with regards to the new parent. The policy does specify they can share your data in an "aggregate or anonymized format" without any caveats, though.

Sure does still raise the question of what PayPal spent $4bn on. From what I can read online, online retailers see a lot of benefit from the way Honey incentivizes users to complete a purchase instead of abandon the cart.

[0]https://www.joinhoney.com/privacy
Noahbjectivity on Bitcoin Mining
Ask HN: Where do you place bets?
Sometimes I wish I could bet on real world events but I don't know of reputable places online.

I really don't feel like wiring money to a shady Malta-based clip-joint...
You, with no acknowledgement, edited the worst of it out of your initial comment!

My goodness.
Marketing team says "no".
This is probably also true of less noble causes such as hate movements, money laundering, hitmen, human trafficking, drug trade, etc.
This so much.

To say nothing of the fact there is a risk of another AI winter when NN/ML continues to not produce (the promised) results.
Wouldn’t surprise me, given Musk is hoping to do a Mars colony and Bezos is hoping to do O’Neill cylinders.
Discord introduces Clubhouse-like features
Buying a Used Car Isn't Always the Best Bang for the Buck
Also keep in mind that along with the other volatiles, much of the benzene will evaporate into the air after application and you will likely breathe some of that vapor.
Thanks for the entertaining the topic of discussion.

Regarding #2:

> it seems to me like you're arguing in favor of conveniences that CLI-focused static site generators can't easily provide

I'm not sure why not. I'm talking about a specification of the process (transformations) that the site generator applies to the input, and a (slightly more relaxed) description of what steps the human operator needs to perform. This is something that people usually relegate to some out-of-band channel, like the README of a disconnected repo—at least for the latter part; they usually omit the first part entirely.

Highlighting an extremely relevant piece from a blog post from an HNer that I recently came across:

> the first wall I hit [trying to update the website] was that I: Forgot [...] the esoteric Hugo conventions (has documentation, but it's not easy to parse at a glance) [...] not sure how I could have remembered all of the Hugo-isms, especially since I don't update this site very often and don't do static site generator work outside of this.

<https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/ca...> (from <https://corytheboyd.com/posts/2020-03-09>)

Take also, as an example, TBL's comments about the first rough proposal for the WWW:

> [This is a...] hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 [...] Other versions which are available are: The original document file (I think - I can't test it)

Both MacWord and Word for Mac probably seemed "safe" at the time. In a contemporary timeframe, you could have probably also put a copy in the hands of the last dozen or so people in your phone's contacts, and they'd have been able to use it effectively. That you wouldn't expect to be able to do the same with Pandoc is an indicator of the gulf of overcomplexity that I'm referring to.

(Note Cory's takeaway from his blog post: "let's build it up again from scratch, but simpler.")
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/social-mo...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...

Both of these sites show the US as being behind those countries regarding social mobility.
GP is being sarcastic. The idea that a currency is stable because it always has the same value with respect to itself (1BTC is always 1BTC) even though literally every other good or service price is fluctuating wildly is a fundamentally absurdist position to take, and what GGP seems to be suggesting (and others have on here and other places, earnestly, before, not sarcastically or ironically about BTC). It's irrelevant that you can always trade 1 USD for 1 USD or 1 BTC for 1 BTC if the prices for goods are so unstable that every purchase or sale becomes a risk ("Wait, did the pizza price drop by 10,000x? Crap, that delivery guy can retire on his tip now and I'm broke!").
There's other approaches would work for me, yes. I could also download a tar file with what's missing and unpack it over root, I suppose. But then root would need to be read-write, like your solution also requires.

Also, FreeBSD wouldn't work. We use many Linux specific features, and I have no interest whatsoever in porting all that stuff to BSD for no gain in functionality.

Also, I see no issue to somebody else solving my problems and not needing to write more stuff that's unrelated to the actual purpose of what I'm doing.
> A) REITs exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust

Are there REITs that don't deal with interest?
I worked for a company based in NY and had to certify every year that I worked in NY state for less than 10 days a year. If I couldn't make that certification, then I would have owed the state taxes.
That's not quite what they were comparing.

Comparing deaths caused by COVID to deaths caused by contaminated hand sanitizer isn't a fair comparison.

Comparing lives saved by hand sanitizer to lives lost to sanitizer contamination is what I'm reading here, though it seems pretty difficult to measure either.
1. Look for what interests you most about what you are doing now. Focus in on that and do the best you can at it. Learn some things around it. So, if you're writing tests for something but you realize the thing you're testing could be better, lean into that.

Alternatively, just do your work but pay attention to what others are doing and talk to them about it. See what their pain points are or what they don't have time to do, and see if that lines up with something you're interested in.
Either way...

2. Come up with some interesting ideas that can benefit the business. Keep it simple and do your due diligence. Do some little experiments using around 10% of your time, or during time you're not expected to work (yeah, it goes against the anticapitalist program, but it's a great way to get ahead.... Anyway, you're a knowledge worker not an assembly line person).

3. Try to get buy-in. Bring up the problem that you're solving and be ready to provide the solution along with your due diligence or even a prototype. You might only get a "keep looking into this" but that's your toe-hold :)

This was my basic strategy at the job I had before officially becoming an engineer. I was sooo tired of filling in simple reports, and I realized that I could probably automate it. I took a risk and spent some of the time I had alone at the office writing a script to make some batch edits.... And it worked! Then I was able to get buy-in to build a GUI for it. So if I was able to do this when my job description wasn't even "engineer", I know that you can do it as a SWE :)
Yes please! It's disheartening to engage in discussions where Airbus' autopilot is used as an example of advanced AI.
I appreciate this notion. It seems as though AI has become a fancy marketing term for stats. I also think there are times when knowing which types of models are used would be really helpful. Having built models with neural nets and glms on the same data sets, there are pros and cons to a variety of approaches and oftentimes the simple ones win, even after a 6 month detailed analysis of all the predictors.
Does anyone have an opinion that's strongly in favor of Node/Express and why? May be once past the MVP stage, Node/Express was a better choice for xyz reasons - I'd love to hear what they are.
Yup, people are just wired to think of physical vs digital goods or experiences very differently. Cliche comparison by now, but I know so many people who will spend $4 on a Starbucks latte every day, but the thought of spending $4 a month on a web app that they use for hours every day is unimaginable.
> “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.”

How much more am I as a human really than the machine learning algorithms are?
I watched this last week and was blown away at how useful "used" cells could be in the right hands. Also, imagining what low skill labor looks like a battery offset world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PenPYwa00CA
I didn't mean to imply that Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency will cause militaries to go away.

>Military is there because we don't know how to do better.

This is exactly my point. Many people think we *do* know how to do better: stop spending so much of our resources and energy on militarization.

If we want to say that Bitcoin is a waste of energy, let's also point out all the other things people think are a waste of energy.
There have been gains but one has to see it in the context of health life expectancy which in the UK currently is about 63 years.

Modern medicine helps to extend life expectancy but often those last 10+ years are miserable clinging to life whereas in the past once you got, for example, a chronic heart disease you would not survive very long. The healthy life expectancy in the past can only be a guess but probably not that considerably lower for certain classes.
An “Underdog” Founder Raised $4.7M to Build a Plastic-Free Delivery Service
> Willingly making copies for your friends and colleagues, sure, but that's no different to giving your friends and colleagues the private key tied to the token, which presumably would be possible if you create a new one per transaction.

That would also give said friends and colleagues the ability to sell your license on the cheap.

Which is what I'm getting at: an NFT-like licensing system would make it possible to formally transfer the rights conferred by that license to someone else, without the original vendor needing to be in the loop. And further, it basically replaces the notion of product registration, since that registration is built into the license: whoever owns the token for that license is automatically the registered user.

And on that note:

> Do people actively go around stealing license keys from other people?

Yes, all the time. A large chunk of the market for Windows product keys in particular comes from people "stealing" them; it's a big reason why sharing photos of product key stickers on computers is typically a bad idea.

An NFT-ish license system would eliminate this sort of product key swiping and actually legitimize product key resale/transfer, so it's a win-win-win as far as the original vendor, resellers, and buyers/users are concerned. Pirates suffer a bit, though, since it wouldn't be enough to just generate a key from scratch anymore (but that's what cracks are for, yaharrr).
That’s the one reason above all others why I stopped using ST. I just couldn’t get it to work at all.
Flimsy counter-argument.
Because some have. Phages for example.
Limiting action when things fly in the face of common sense is wise. Limiting the questions you ask to common sense is not always wise.

Some times the world is counterintuitive, and the only way to find something out is to test it. While it probably is not the case there may be poor outcomes from hand sanitizer. Would they be worse than CoVid, probably not. However given the scope of CoVid all we have to do to test this is wait. If hand sanitizer was to cause that much trouble it would become obvious at scale.