skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first read about the vitimin D observation about a year ago. Since then my wife, daughter, and son, have all made sure to take supplements. I've also read about about famotidine, aspirin, and melatonin being related to those with less or almost or no side effects. None of us have been infected yet.

Both my wife and I got the first jab of the Pfizer vaccine with no side effects at all aside from a bit of soreness where the jab was. My wife got her 2nd shot almost two weeks ago and had no side effects at all. I got my 2nd shot about 5 hours ago and none yet for me (but it's still too early to say I won't).

I think it's fair to say taking those before you get the jab can't hurt. (famotidine is an over the counter heartburn remedy and I'm pretty sure should only be taken once a week at most).

All of the studies I've read on all of these do not conclude anything other than those who had it in their systems at recommended levels generally had less severe to no severe reactions to the infection and the vaccines.
here is a hint for you: you can tell cloudformation to nuke everything in case it fails.
In the Beginning, There Were Taxes
It seems to be mostly confined to small companies. The larger orgs that I've worked for had no problem paying for training classes or tuition reimbursement if you wanted an advanced degree.
Trust in regards to what? It’s an encrypted messaging app. I presume that’s why you, or any other user has chosen it. You trust your messages are secure, and nobody unintended can read them.

What are you suggesting? Are you afraid they will give a back-door to the VC backed crypto vendor? Because my point is, unless you think somehow adding a crypto wallet to some obscure coin is going to jeopardize the security of you messages, I just don’t get it.

Just pretend like it’s not there, and keep using it the way you use it. That’s what I did with Keybase. Yeah there is stellar wallet sitting there that I never click on, but I’m still a happy user.

I’m just not interested in sitting around and fuming about business practices I have no idea about. They are a big company, and in this world all companies have to ’grow’ year in and year out. Yeah maybe it’s misguided, but I think it’s wasted energy to sit around and be outraged over how some company decides to run their business.

And if it is so outrageous, then find an alternative. It’s just so exhausting to read comment after comment of people who think they know better than the people who created the thing. It’s there business they can do what they want with it.
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Looks like they are working on tab management for 2.0, scheduled for the end of the year: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/terminal...
The better title would be "How I made $2B on an educated $300k bet" because even the best startup investors will tell you that investing that early is essentially betting.

And early-stage help and intros are crucial for startups - between YC and Garry's network I'm sure a ton of that contributed to their success as well. At the end of the day still a bet, but just saying.
One of the things I like about Old English is kennings.

For instance, "battle-sweat" to mean blood.
to my recollection you didn't gain karma on funny mods. So a completely boneheaded comment may net -8 karma, but still show up as +5 Funny which would be the "ironic" Funny comment.
> This is essentially a reimplementation of rustc.

And a dishonest reimplementation at that. If you aren't enforcing the promises the language makes, you're delivering a lie.
is the open source community great? Look at the open bugs. Some of them are old enough to go to school.

For extra lolz try killing the terraform process of pulling the network cable. Hilarity ensures and you’re gonna have a bad time recovering what it was doing.

I would not recommend Terraform period.
Here’s one: Chrząszcz.
This is clearly a minority opinion, but in my view well-stated factual anecdotes that the majority find uncomfortable deserve upvote, always.

But that's not what they get, not even here on HN.

The high karma threshold is helpful, but I doubt raising it further would do much. Some qualitatively different vetting mechanism is wanted. Thought about the problem a lot, but so far reached only a few inchoate notions.
I just tested the demo and I am incredibly impressed by the matrix server it was able to build in seconds. I mainly self host to 'learn', so I can't see myself transitioning to Cloudron, but I'm glad it exists.
Novelists are writing for TV more than ever
What Can Be Notarized for Developer ID Distribution?
I wish downvoting harder. I'd prefer a system where down voting requires selecting or writing a reason on why you are downvoting.
I think you and I are making different points rather than arguing over one.

You seem to be saying Apple is better than [insert other corporation here] in some way. I see that as irrelevant.

I am saying that corporations - in the larger picture - can't be trusted.

Apple, and in this case Google, behaving poorly reflects that.
I never put any stock in what gear musicians use unless I see them before they became even slightly famous.

Musicians get paid to use gear. I don't know of any moderately famous musician for whom that isn't true.

My favorite examples of this are bands that have that cool Rickenbacker sound and shoot a couple of videos with them. And then suddenly once they get some traction, they're playing Telecasters in public all the time.

Fender paid them. And that's totally fine--musicians get paid garbage so any source of cash is good. I just wish the musicians were more straightforward about it.
It gets faded to signal to other people "this has been downvoted" because you can't see the karma score next to the comment anymore like you could in the early days. One of the things this signal does is it provides the opportunity for corrective upvotes by people who feel "That didn't deserve to be downvoted" which is one of the cultural traditions here.

I think the downvote system here works remarkably well. It's a very big problem to never allow any kind of signal of disagreement or whatever and the system here is intended to keep singal-to-noise ratio high.

It's a big forum and anyone can join. There is no fee to join. You don't need an invitation to join.

You need mechanisms for helping people learn "This is not welcome on HN. This is not how we do things here." to try to keep Eternal September down to a dull roar so HN can do what HN does better than any other forum I have ever seen, which is why I hang here so much even though it's never been an easy thing for me to be here.
The contravening point is my pet peeve on this site. Any title that starts with “How” gets that word edited out, presumably to mitigate clickbaitness, but it changes the way an article might be perceived in a way that makes it less interesting for familiar subject matter. “I did x with y” doesn’t much register to someone who knows y. But how they did it might.
Interesting read :) It reminded me my childhood :D
I would argue that solves the problem, just not in a way that you are a fan of.
Rebought an OP-1 recently after selling it, trying to fill the hole it left with MIDI controllers and software and loopers, and realizing that I really don’t like mingling work and play on my computer. I see it as the musical equivalent of my beloved Fujifilm cameras, especially the X100: behind the retro chic aesthetic is a very capable machine that’s a joy to use. Are other devices cheaper, faster, and less likely to be branded a hipster fashion accessory? Yeah, but they’re not as fun.
*and the people running it. The brand comes from the success of the companies which comes, in large part, because of the partners and network.

You won't find a better group of truly qualified, highly accomplished people giving advice to startups, holding talks for cohorts, etc. in any other accelerator anywhere, period.
you dodged a bullet imho.
Depends in your definition of success. If it's purely monetary and that's what you're looking for then you're likely looking for a disappointment in life. Even if/when rich.

I suggest trying to find a different notion of success and living live without giving so much weight for money. Not that it isn't important and that you shouldn't try to strive for more of course.

I'm particularly in a field that doesn't pay as well as big tech but I'm in my dream job, have very flexible hours, a product I love, a great team, get paid good enough, can enjoy the outdoors and my relationship with others (lover & family & friends).

I wouldn't want to, today, change what I have for more money or a different company. Find what truly moves you, it's usually not money or job hopping every 2 years, or doing leetcode 24x7... at least for me it isn't.
His reporting over last 2 years has resulted in exposing the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil and getting the previous President out of prison:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-new-book-on-journalism-e...

And his reporting on cancel culture and media elitism is exactly what's needed in today's day and age.
Someone who needs types could just write in a strongly-typed language.
Yeah, that's a problem. I'm often as much as a couple days behind in looking through flagged comments.

I think if we build any more software around banning/penalties, it might be some kind of probation system, i.e. a series of temporary bans, maybe with exponential backoff, and with permanent bannage only as an end state. I can think of reasons why it might work better, including: (1) humans tend to do well with feedback loops; (2) it might feel less personal (in the bad sense of the word); (3) it would be easier for moderators to do a lot more of it. In the optimistic scenario, we'd get a better community and less ill feeling about getting moderated, which would be great. The current path is psychologically too hard and leads to burnout.
I saw this book in Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/137472.Rich_Hickey_s_Clo...
(haven't read it myself, yet)

For some reason it is called "Foundations of Databases: The Logical Level" there.
Whether or not the earth is overpopulated (and I agree it's not), it is plausible that there are people who, no matter what they do, will increase net suffering. Peter Singer is pro-euthanasia of course. Personally, I'd pick a moral philosophy that forbids liquidating useless people but that's just me.
> ‘I've come to just avoid commenting anything like this that might get "hive minded" into oblivion.’

that’s exactly when you should be commenting, otherwise the community is lulled into false conformity. contentious topics require more diversity of thought and more considered words, not less. internet points don’t matter, just the food for thought that comes with broader discussions.
So can you poison someones wallet if you send them 1 satoshi that’s from a tumbler?
> upgrades between versions are smooth

I use tf and ansible regularly. I wouldn't call ansible upgrades exactly smooth, they deprecate features just like anyone else.
Absolute risk reduction is naturally going to be low in vaccine trials if we don't intentionally infect all the participants with covid-19.
Oxygen False Positives on Habitable Zone Planets Around Sun‐Like Stars
You could address that to have the benefit only usable once per year.
Or, “Steve was a fungi”.
Can recommend Old Reddit Redirect -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... (minimal permissions and background.js is trivial to inspect)
Yeah, I have https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255 bookmarked as an example of great maintainership
Any dangling resources may cost money and/or open up security concerns.
It's possible to work around without forcing wrong type on parameter

def f(l: List[int]=cast(Any, None)) -> int:
if l is None:
l = []
...

f()

Using casts is useful for all sorts of things like this when sentinel values/objects are involved. People often feel it's somehow 'wrong', but it's fine to trick the type checker as long as it's localized to neighbouring lines of code :)
"Their primary goal is to not require a Rust compiler in the build process"

Do you mean their goal is not to require `rustc` in the build process? Because I'm not sure how they're going to compile rust code without a rust compiler.
> dotcom bubble

where can I buy things with my beenz and flooz?
I feel like this is a bit of a false dichotomy.

For example, my reasons for my (relatively insignificant, but still) FOSS contributions include everything from altruism to scratching an itch to satisfying my intellectual curiosity. If I didn't have bills to pay, I'd probably be making a lot more FOSS contributions, and a lot more regularly.

However, at the end of the day I do have bills to pay, so for better or worse the code I write ends up being the code that gets me paid. Right now this is from a day job. Bounties could instead position FOSS as the code that gets me paid. Maybe one of these days I'll have Patreon/Liberapay/etc. contributions sufficient to keep me afloat (or, for that matter, greater than $0), or my country would extract its cranium from its rectum and entertain the idea of a universal basic income, and then I can dedicate my time to whatever I wish, but today is unfortunately not that day.

That is: the "conflicting" motivations of "money" v. "fun" ain't mutually exclusive. These are both "compensation", in a sense. If I'm already making contributions because they provide "fun", then said contributions only need to provide as much money as I'd need to save up money and not starve; anything beyond that is just gonna go toward fun anyway, which contributing to FOSS already (hopefully) provides.
it just went up $6600 in 7 days. and it’s only $2000 off the highs right now.
Or you could be mature and realise that the reason everyone in your pub is a Nazi is that you never said “no” to the first Nazi sympathiser, after which all the non-Nazis left.
What is merely offensive to you is a persistent death threat to lots of other people.
I must say, you make an excellent point.

Normally when I hear Critical Race Theory in the workplace, I hear Privilege Theory too, but really White Privilege Theory.

Do you think that the elites will push back more at any serious attempts to analyze the status quo, given the economics dominate far more than do mere exteriors?
https://teddit.net/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zhang_...

much less hostile link
> Don’t use downvotes to signal disagreement. It goes against the implicit and explicit guidelines of HN. And it drags HN closer to reddit.

Downvoting for disagreement has always been ok on HN! There has certainly never been a guideline against it, and the case law is clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314.

I think the idea that things should be otherwise actually comes from Reddit (no?) which takes this to a triple back flip level of irony.
Covid isn't influenza and these were verified cases. You seem to be working from a position of motivated reasoning, so I'm going to opt out of trying to convince you.
Have you never had a failure with CloudFormation? Because when that happens you can’t see what’s going on and you often can’t get out of the situation without engaging support.

More often than not with Terraform, another apply will fix the problems you are complaining about. But if it doesn’t at least you have the power to fix it unlike with CloudFormation.

But ultimately whatever tools you use you will have trouble if you are unwilling to engage with them and learn how they work.
It's cool how defensive people get about this stupid news aggregator. I love to see it
73% improvement reads like "almost twice as fast", to me.

100% faster would be twice as fast.
Also, unlike traditional banks, there is absolutely nothing preventing someone from reviewing that transaction record. No need to ask a judge for permission, no need to ask the bank to reveal records, no need to let anyone -- anyone -- know what you are up to.
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As someone who doesn't have enough technical expertise to build the features in open source projects an active donor to projects I support this kind of idea. I wouldn't call it a bounty though, more like gofundme for certain features. In some cases i'd pay $1000+ for some features to be built, and ideally others would join me.

Here's an example of a feature I'd want to financially contribute to that has a lot of support: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/2049

From my perspective it is the killer feature that enables me to switch from slack, saving my business hundreds of dollars a month. I can't just "hire a developer to do it" - the best deal would be if one of the existing contributors did it.

Also, some open sources struggle with funding and priorities - I'm sure there's features out there where the community would commit tens of thousands of dollars (Kickstarter style)
For me the fuzzy litmus is whether it "promotes knowledge or aids the discussion".

Despite whether I agree with it, I upvote anything that I learn something new from.

Factual incorrectness is often downvoted, but usually only if there is a reply that points it out.
I’d prefer if people realised that moderating YouTube was social work, and not suitable for an algorithms-only approach.
Thanks for sharing, I was unaware of that.

Capital > labor, still. But I guess not as badly as I thought.
thank you for sharing this, it's very interesting to read.
There are assumptions about how the bounty could work here. What if the bounty is $1000/mo for 12 months? What if it is split amongst contributors in a pre - determined way?
Filenames too.
GIFs use run length encoding, which usually makes them quite good for pixelly art, but not when you apply a bunch of vfx.
The number of things I can exchange dollars for vastly outnumbers the number of things I can exchange Bitcoin for, by orders of magnitude.

In this case convenience is necessity, for practical, real-world definitions. Sure, in a theoretical sense, there is no reason why I couldn't use Bitcoin to buy food and clothing, make rent/mortgage payments, buy plane/train/bus tickets, buy furniture, tools, electronics, etc. But the reality is that I can't do it (with some narrow exceptions), and I don't see that materially changing within my lifetime, not to the point where using Bitcoin (or any other up-and-coming cryptocurrency) is more convenient that using fiat currency.
Yeah. I use packer and ansible to build/configure AMIs. Terraform manages the configuration that launches said AMIs (through things like autoscaling, etc...).
It probably depends upon which ISP you have and how "big" or "small" they are. I know 3 families who run their own servers from the home internet plan. Though they use it mostly from small sites and not for anything big/commercial.
I know. But I want to make sure it's not an oversight
Also, try to avoid saying “it’s actually...”
How do you promote signal over noise without being able to attenuate (downvote) the noise? Trying to outshout the noise results in FB style cacophony.
Why does that matter here? Profitability is not a prerequisite for an IPO, and any IPO let's investors recoup their money.
After 0.12 it has been much easier.
No one is _giving_ anything to anyone. There is a €2,500 trade in for old cars with attached stipulations. You can easily get >2500 Euro for most used cars by just reselling them on the secondary market.
Yes, facetious and a little smug—but the rest of your comment is wildly off base from my perspective. Saying that downvoting does no good for HN is like saying white blood cells do no good for an organism. It's critical to the immune system. Yes, downvotes can do harm, just like white blood cells can. But try living without them.
Dvorak plays pretty nice with default vi keybindings, for the most part. Both y (yank) and p (put) are on the left hand, as well as x (delete characters), . (repeat last), u (undo), q (record macro), @ (execute macro) and " (choose register). And even though d is technically on the right hand, it's still in easy stretch range of the left. You can do a lot quite quickly with those keys and a mouse. So I don't miss ctrl-c/v too much when I have vi keys available. Whereas the right hand tends to be a lot of movement keys, which are more important when not using a mouse: h (move left) l (move right), b (previous word), f (jump to character), t (jump before character), n (next search result), g (goto top/bottom/line number/etc).

The worst thing I've experienced with Dvorak is typing "ls<enter>" repeatedly. It's really painful on the pinky. Putting L on the right pinky stretch was a really bad decision.

One advantage Dvorak has over Colemak is that it's included with every OS and easy to switch to, whereas Colemak often requires a download and an install to use. And some games include Dvorak keybindings, but I haven't seen one with Colemak keybindings yet.

I learned Dvorak back in college, and got fast by playing muds. Type fast, or you're dead. Took a few months to get up to speed.
The math almost always just doesn't work. I don't think I've ever seen a issue bounty of over $1000, yet all but the most trivial issues are probably going to take at least a few hours to resolve. For issues that attract significant attention, it is probably more like 20-50 hours (or more!). There's just no way to justify that much time to earn what amounts to at most a handful of hours pay on a typical software developer's contracting rate.

The real problem is that a bunch of people pledging $5 or $10 or even $100 just isn't going to add up to enough.
What is the truth of humanity? What world do you wish to “go back to” and can you provide documentary evidence that this ever existed?
Neat stuff. I've become a huge Python types fan. Even on small personal things, my flow is to write the empty classes, add attributes, add method signatures with hints, then fill in the methods. Leads to a lot less rewriting. Writing the hints doesn't take long at all.

What does take a long time is learning about it all. There's the docs, then PEP 484, then at least eight other related PEPs of various impact. It would be a good topic for a small book / website / course, except things change kinda fast.

I do think it could be a hack for a new dev to establish credibility. Spend a few months type hinting code and fixing bugs in popular open source repos. You'll learn way more about real software engineering than following another tutorial. If someone wants to do that and wants some mentoring, hit me up at my last name at gmail.
And yet the demand for rentals is recovering (I know someone whose Airbnb rental is already 85% booked through August), and will recover to previous levels. All that revenue will be back, and Airbnb will be more diversified in its revenue sources. Long-term (even medium-term) I think the pandemic will turn out to be a win for Airbnb.
I gonna share something shocking here: but I have never seen Cloudformation crap out in a manner that was not consistent and clear. Usually it will either try until it succeeds or fail in a clear and predictable manner.

(I have been using AWS since forever and both Cloudformation and Terraform(sad panda) for years. I will preach the shortcomings of terraform to everyone that listens. I have rarely seen developers using it for something non-trivial and being happy about it)
She wants Facebook, not herself, to only allow pushing agenda via democratic human votes... and paid promotions.
I understand your point, but there is a big difference between running a 20 year old program written in C and running a shell script that someone with one or two years of experience hacked out in ten minutes. To answer your question, I do fuzz many of the GNU utilities that I use regularly, and I have discovered vulnerabilities that way. Of course it is unreasonable to read all of the code that runs in our operating systems, but it is not unreasonable to read shell scripts before you run them.
> Tensorflow is just awful, as is anything that touches bazel :)

Mind if I ask why?