skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
darkhttpd is cool, and it's pretty featureful for a small program, but it's also 2500 lines of code.

If you liked it, you might also like my server httpdito: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s which has documentation in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme. It's also an HTTP server in a single source file, but it's i386 assembly, for Linux, that doesn't use libc. It's only about 700 lines of code, and the executable is up to 2060 bytes now that I've added CSS and PDF support to it.

httpdito is, to my surprise, practically useful on occasion as an alternative to things like `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`.

Unlike the server in Koshkin's excellent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672683 httpdito does send CRLFs as the HTTP standard demands. Unfortunately it also requires them in the request. Also—and this is a key point on which most software falls down—httpdito's documentation contains a section entitled "Are you insane?", which really is a question every programmer ought to answer in their documentation.

It doesn't have most of the things darkhttpd has, though. It doesn't support IPv6, HEAD, directory listings, byte ranges, conditional requests, keepalive, name-based virtual hosting, sendfile, logging, chroot, or privsep, and doesn't run on Solaris, SPARC, or ARM. But if you're looking for features like "small memory footprint" and "no installation needed" and "no messing around with config files" it may actually be better than darkhttpd. Due in large part to improvements in modern Linux and its small memory footprint (normally 5 pages) it's efficient enough to saturate a gigabit connection.
The excerpt from the study quoted above says "Rate ratios were greater for individuals aged less than 70 ... with the largest differences seen for respiratory disease (10.5 (95% confidence interval 9.7 to 11.4) for age less than 70 years v 4.6 (4.3 to 4.8) for age ≥70)"

Isn't that a clear indication that there's something besides "general trends in old people" going on here?
A wetransfer-style model is popular for contractors and small businesses who often need to share files with clients and don't want to run their own file hosting service.

I think a few small businesses I worked with in the past paid something like $10/mo for 250gb of file sharing w/ links that worked indefinitely + custom branding on the upload/download pages they created.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26451220
Yeah; not sure how to work around that. They could have put a common, inexpensive SKU on it. Perhaps for a pencil or something known to be at stock at the retailers, and also likely to have loose inventory controls. (So, they end up with 10 extra pencils when they do inventory at the end of the month; not exactly a disaster for anyone involved.)
Agreed — I was trying to capture a lot in a small space without being hand-wavy. (Not sure if I succeeded)

My big “beef” is that assumptions that require active, intelligent building management and maintenance have their own risks. These are hard to quantify and thus discounted.

Case in point: I worked for a decade in a building with professional management and all sorts of efficiency programs where chronic issues like a leaking roof were ignored for 30 years. In theory, the HVAC did a great job of moisture control. In reality, there was 3 feet of water on the roof. (Water wins) Point being, budgets drive suboptimal behavior.

In my personal case, my house was designed with features that permit user-controlled airflow and thermal flow. It has modern windows, enhanced attic ventilation, etc that improve performance. Many buildings are not and are dependent on active ventilation to be livable or mold-free.
He said: "Not to say there aren't a lot of people with clear-cut long covid syndromes."

But, also, you'll find people with long COVID who are finally paying attention to other symptoms and ascribing them to the C-19 infection.
This is a fun tool, but it's also pretty revealing of the arbitrariness with which "genre" is labeled. Though I get that there is frequent innovation in electronic music, I would argue the same is true of all music, yet electronic music is the most likely to see that innovation as a "new genre."

Searching this page for "jazz" I find results that don't really capture the space, and instead go deep into interesting but likely unrepresentative niches ("icelandic jazz") that musicologists probably wouldn't consider genres/subgenres. There's also things that clearly aren't genres but are just keywords people like using ("jazz organ", "jazz clarinet").

Overall, again this is a fun music discovery tool, but if you want to learn about music genres I'd suggest reading about music history. This doesn't just mean old/classical music (though it is influential), there's lots of fascinating books about modern music as well.
> just $65/mo

"just"? That's very expensive.
Tell that to users, authors and contributors of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Firefox, Apache, nginx, mySQL, Postgres, Redis, PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, Kotlin... Jeez, such an awful example of narrow-mindness and ignorance.
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$80 ETH $10 BTC $10 COIN
It isn't over until it's over. However, COVID and the response governments around the world made it's clear they are NOT treating climate like an emergency.

The issue with climate are feedback loops which cause non-linear responses. These are dangerous because they have a tendency to sneak up on you. We are being way too conservative in our climate response and the uncertainty around the future should not make us feel better.

I believe Michael Mann is wrong that scary headlines prevent action. Look at Greta and the youth climate movement and XR. It exploded BECAUSE of the dread and anxiety. Yes, it's true people on the sidelines might get scared away, but you only need a small group of REALLY committed actors to make real change. Those on the sidelines will come along after the fact.
I don't understand that. Can you spell out the circumstances in which Coinbase increases in price faster than any of the underlying?

For the sake of discussion let's say you can either own some amount of Coinbase or a weighted average of the top 5 coins offered on Coinbase itself.

In my view any instrument or tool that leverages a coin with a fixed supply means more popularity which means higher price for the coin. In the end Coinbase absorbs much of the benefit as it has expenses. I don't see any scenario in which Coinbase is more successful than a basket of the underlying.

Now if coins were inflationary I could understand, but they're not. Seems dumb to buy Coinbase IMHO.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'll take the the time to learn and use open source software over navigating a corporate hierarchy looking for budget to buy something any day.

It's worth noting that contributing, in whatever capacity, to OSS is similarly rewarding.
Does anyone have more context on this?
What's the usually figure for (1) patients of flu admitted to hospital, (2) patients of flu with this sort of age breakdown?

Are their unusual or particular symptoms compared to other people with long term issues after viral infections?

I full believe "long covid" is a thing. But so much of covid news has been shitty "studies" that get a lot of press despite shedding very little light and go on to be rapidly disproven but still repeated (Vit D, Chloroquinine etc).
> Don't write up some lame webpage to make people think you did it.

But are we sure this is just some lame webpage? If the prank is to gaslight the internet into believing the Microsoft Coffee prank took place wouldn't the news segment covering the prank also be fake? I have no idea if that was the anchor for that TV station in the 90s. That would be way more entertaining to me than some press release or fake product page.
And throughout their stay. My father was vaccinated in January, went into hospital after a siezure (not unknown) a in mid febuary, he was tested on arrival, and was negative. Continued to be tested, and by early march (2 weeks after admittance) he tested positive.
It's pretty inspiring to know that, even though I'm not that smart, I must be Microsoft material.
>But having leaders who say things like (paraphrasing) “masks are better than vaccines” isn’t helpful, and I don’t see how that could be caused by the media.

In context, he was right. Face masks were and are the most widespread, and cheapest way to combat the disease.

The issue is that phrase got turned into a soundbyte by the media and then FWD:FWD:FWD'd by grandma on facebook twisting the message into "CDC SAYS VACCINES DON'T WORK, THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK WILL STOP BILL GATES FROM TRACKING YOU".

>specific disease control institutions suffer from cultural rot and antipathy towards the little people.

The United States public health system has been a beacon of hope this past year. With a complete breakdown of executive leadership (due to preoccupation with politics and media), local public health offices from every state and county have picked up the slack. They are the ones organizing testing, disease tracking, vaccine drives etc. They all haven't gone smoothly, but we've actually done a lot better than most of the world.

This isn't a new phenomenon either. The same thing happened in 1918. Breakdown of executive leadership which resulted in local public health being on their own. The only difference between now and then is that the death toll was kept much lower because of modern medicine's intervention in severe disease.
You and the Algorithm
I believe GTS certs are Google (employee) only, correct? The hostname also goes to 1e100.net.

host `dig www.microsoftcoffee.org +short | tail -1`
51.165.217.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pnatla-aa-in-f19.1e100.net.
They mostly play politics with their peers, they need on site presence for that.

They also need to keep an eye on developers and need to feel thigs out, the relationship, their management status known and so forth.

That's very hard to do remotely and they feel their status diminished to that of the "resources" they manage.
I understand your points and think they are fair in general.

But leading with “stupid” makes you sound uninformed, and your theories are misaligned with longstanding sociopolitical climate in Oakland (not saying they don’t still apply). In fact, all participants must have a child minor, and be at or below 50% of median Bay Area income poverty line. 50% of participants must be 138% below federal poverty line. So the fact, not assumption, is 6/6 poor people of color are being targeted.

And yes, that is unfair to poor white people in Oakland, and it’s unfortunate that the sociopolitical climate in Oakland allows for it. But color-blind policies still yield such inequities. Case in point, affluent SF and Marin county residents flocking to vaccination pop-ups in poor neighborhoods where there are no eligibility screens.

We should keep debating these things (it’s healthy for addressing the problems) but I don’t think any idealistic approach will ever be politically or logistically successful.

Update: another factor is that this is philanthropically supported, and my assumption is that they either required or signed off on race-based programming. So if you are the mayor, are you saying no to free money for your constituents?
As someone else pointed out, this isn't just a lame webpage. The YT video of the news broadcast, if it was faked, would have been much more involved.
I can't recall but I read a study once which had a look at how nutritients are affected by CO2 induced faster growth. The conclusion was pretty much that stuff grows faster but has less nutritients. (The study looked at rice I think)
Remember that the prank preceded the mainstream web, and MS PR clearly went to great lengths to cover it up. I don't think the internet was "remembering everything" yet at that point
Your views are not weighted by your race, that's silly. Your thoughts are 100% valid and worthy.
> The increase in risk was not confined to the elderly and was not uniform across ethnicities

> Rate ratios comparing patients with covid-19 and matched controls were greater in individuals aged less than 70 than those aged 70 or more for all outcomes

> An alternative approach might have involved comparing outcomes after covid-19 and other hospital admissions; such research has recently been conducted with similar data sources to those in our own study (although with a smaller covid-19 cohort), and comparable rates of organ dysfunction were found between patients with covid-19 and patients with pneumonia who were discharged from hospital in 2019.36 We believe that our study design, where comparisons were made with the expected risk in the general population, was more relevant to public health policy, and complementary to the study that used non-covid hospital admissions as the comparison group. Also, the use of non-covid hospital admissions as the comparison group does not allow estimation of excess morbidity because non-covid admission does not necessarily represent an appropriate counterfactual situation to admission to hospital for covid-19, and the size and direction of the inferences will depend on the choice of control admissions.
I wish people would realize using pointers in go doesn't automatically mean better performance.
You should really stick to using values and only use pointers if it's necessary/makes for better code/increases performance.
Using pointers makes escape analysis harder and results
in more pressure on the gc which can effects performance more than usage of pointers saves.
If tmux or screen had two rows worth of UX like nano does... it’d use them way more. I see the value of those programs but they are so not core to my workflow that I can never bother to remember the keyboard shortcuts.

Ubuntu has some wrapper for tmux called byobu that does exactly this. It is the only time I really enjoy using this sort of tool.

https://www.byobu.org/
I'm not much of an investor, but I would probably do both. Coinbase is (or at least was) an important company for making bitcoin and other cryptos usable for the general public. If you only bought bitcoin and coinbase and other exchanges died on the vine, it hurts your value.

Also diversification is a good thing.
readme for whole project is at https://github.com/andrewarrow/t1m3l1n3/blob/main/README.md
But the opposite would be misleading, too, in that the hospital contact was induced by COVID.

It's all confounded. If you compare to other hospital admits, you're finding an even-less-healthy population (because they had a reason to show up to the hospital -without- COVID). If you compare to the general populace, you risk inadequately controlling the comparison.

But if you want to know the increased risk people have subsequent to COVID hospitalization, perhaps the latter makes the most sense to measure.
Unfortunately, the northern lands don't have good top soil for growing crops. Top soil takes a LONG time to develop. We would need to ship a lot of soil north for us to use the land. Or we need to grow without soil.
> It's gone way, way up in dollar terms over that time frame, in a low-inflation economy. Abrams tanks aren't billed by '% of GDP'.

Something costing a constant or decreasing percentage of GDP, but going up in dollar terms, is indicative of inflation.

Year Budg $bn Budg/GDP YOY Infl Budg $bn ('21)
---- -------- -------- -------- --------------
2009 705.9 4.89% -- 865.4
2010 738.0 4.92% 1.6% 890.2
2011 752.3 4.84% 3.2% 879.6
2012 725.2 4.48% 2.1% 830.8
2013 679.2 4.05% 1.5% 766.8
2014 647.8 3.70% 1.6% 719.7
2015 633.8 3.48% 0.1% 703.3
2016 639.9 3.42% 1.3% 701.2
2017 646.8 3.31% 2.1% 694.0
2018 682.5 3.32% 2.4% 714.9
2019 731.8 3.41% 1.8% 752.9

Within a decade, the budget varied so greatly that there was a 22% difference between the high and the low in real terms. When you have drastic budget cuts, you have to cut projects. Those projects can't just be picked up again where you left off when you get more money - contractors will have moved on, and in most cases the new contracts need to be re-competed.

These are structural disadvantages we as Americans place on our own military, and from which the PLA does not suffer.

Data from:

- https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...

- https://www.statista.com/statistics/191077/inflation-rate-in...

- https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
If you think about that a bit more deeply, if Washington and Jefferson had been fans of a strong federal government slavery would've been a federal policy as opposed to a per state policy and likely would've been much more difficult to end as the northern states would've contained slave owners as opposed to only the southern states.
Are covered puts gambling?

I don’t think it’s rational to talk about “options” as if they’re all created equal.

I think you’d find fewer people disagreeing with you, if you disambiguated by specifying naked puts and long calls.

Covered puts are downside insurance, like buying flood insurance for your home. It doesn’t make sense for these to be spoken about in the same category, but by talking about “options trading”, it gets lumped in.
Glenn Greenwald is raking it in at Substack
Why don't credentials belong in the environment? They're definitely not visible to other users there, as opposed to on the command line where they definitely are, or in a file where they can be if you don't set the permissions correctly.
An empirical epistemology (ie, science) would suggest that events we did not observe are proven by finding undeniable evidence that they occurred. "Consensus" and "best available" are not part of it. We cannot say for sure that a theory is fact simply because we form a consensus around a hypothesis supported by the best available evidence. That evidence may be insufficient to incontrovertibly support the hypothesis and consensus has often been wrong in the history of science. I would go so far to say that there has always been a consensus view that later turned out to be totally wrong.

The ability to doubt a proposition while simultaneously believing that it may indeed be true is a core psychological skill for any scientist. We ought not treat every theory that we believe to be true as "fact."
the webpage is hosted on Google Sites
I wish corn/wheat weren't subsidized.

Half of a typical supermarket is filled with artificially cheap grain based product. The `stick to the perimeter` mantra about how to buy healthy food is directly related to the fact that grain based products tend toward the middle of most stores.
And yet... I've been using screen for 20 years and it never seemed inefficient, even when running on a 180MHz Pentium Pro. These days I have to believe whatever it's doing must be pretty minor compared to the overall system performance, but I'd be interested in hearing what it does so inefficiently.
This is explicitly racist. It discriminates based on race, which is the only acceptable definition of “racist”. The city of Oakland should not be involved in this program at all and I hope someone takes them to court over it.
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No argument from me re: government failing. There are so many failures regarding housing and other issues up and down the bay area. It has got to the point where I question whether the rich culture that does exist is worth the quality of life trade.
>SSL cert is very suspicious. It is by Google Trust Services LLC

There's nothing suspicious about that CA. If you do a search[1] you can see plenty certificates issued for benign sites. My guess is that's the CA for google related products? eg. GCP, app engine, or google site builder.

[1] https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=180754
This is a false comparison because you can run longitudinal studies with smoking populations and compare them to control populations. Let me know when we can run experiments on climate change with multiple Earths and compare them to control Earths.
I'm seriously confused by the backlash to the Voltswagen stunt. The first thing I thought when I read the headline was that this was obviously an early April fool's day joke.

Perhaps people are just upset that they didn't get it and are blaming Volkswagen to avoid admitting that they were a bit too gullible around April 1st.
+1 for this tool. Really makes it obvious what is going on.
I've read Pearl's book too and it wasn't clear if it was possible to systematically "observe interventions" instead of doing them yourself and what the rules would be for that.

I mean there was some stuff about instrumental variables but it seems the theory is a bit incomplete in that area.

What distinguishes an intervention vs just normal observable randomness? Does it have to do with the complexity of the entity performing the "intervention", with the fact that this entity can observe and act on knowledge? I guess it's kind of the debate about where determinism ends and free will begins. Are there mathematical bounds to help us sort it out though? Maybe there is something information theoretic? It's very unclear in my mind.

This is all about fitting generative models that are robust to counterfactual changes, that remain predictive even if you run your models with data you've never observed, this beyond simple interpolation/extrapolation. Are there priors in model structure that tend to naturally make models much more robust to counterfactual changes and that make models work well beyond the data? Do these priors get more effective when they include some latent variables that distinguish between observations and interventions? How to you train these latent variables?
If you’re interested in fraud and finance, I highly recommend this book:

Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings...
The article authors aren't bashing it:

> Trade-offs across LEED attributes account for the absence of energy savings on average. If energy efficiency is the primary policy goal, LEED certification may not be the most effective means to reach that goal.
>I believe GTS certs are Google (employee) only, correct?

Doesn't seem like it

https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=180754
Absolutely. Garden tomatoes taste amazing and can be eaten on their own with just a bit of salt.
> Also, I get healthcare whether or not I'm employed, so that's nice.

Well, that makes sense, you're a serf to the State, not a corporation. Does the State give you freedom?
Formally known as "do-calculus" which helps solve the correlation is not causation issue which usually affect statistical methods (like ML).
https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd for a bash based one (that uses socat or netcat under the covers)
It's quite flickery. I don't remember TV/video being that bad in 96.
GBTC has no redemption mechanism, you can wrap more BTC into GBTC but not the other way around. For ETFs this is what solves the arb.
You can do your arb but you still need to offload GBTC at some point and the only option is to another buyer of GBTC.
https://cuelang.org

https://cuelang.org/docs/usecases/

https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/

https://cuelang.org/play
Right. "World" includes us. When we perform actions we observe ourselves doing them and then we observe the consequences.

That is the only way we can learn anything, by observing. And what else is there to observe than the "world"? We can observe our own thinking process but that is part of the world too. I would say. It is definitely not "out of this world" :-)
They want dollars to make the paperwork and accounting easier. They're obviously not going to hold them for long.
What's interesting is, I used to have this old 486 laptop. With Linux on it, I could run XMMS playing my MP3s and do other things and you could barely tell it was there. In Windows, playing an MP3 file with WinAmp took up so much CPU, you were stuck running only WinAmp.