skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So one of the oldest known prion diseases is a disease of sheep called scrapie. It is not transmissible to humans, thankfully.

It turns out that there is genetic resistance to it. There's a specific gene, of which there are two forms, called Q and R. If a sheep is Q-Q, it has no resistance. If it is Q-R is has some resistance. If it is R-R it is completely immune.

All of which is to say: we should not just assume that exposure to prions results in a 100% disease rate, nor should we assume that prion disease itself has a 100% mortality rate. Because the diagnosis for prion disease is clinical. In other words, we only know someone has the prion if they show signs of the disease. And we only look for the disease once someone starts showing significant signs of disease. But there is no test that shows that you ave been exposed, nor is there a test that shows you have been infected but that your infection is spreading so slowly that (say) prostate cancer or heart disease will kill you long before the prion does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie
I agree with your view on political rhetoric, however, that doesn't mean these things aren't issues of national security.

Having access to the fastest chips is a matter of national security, at least for the US. The AI race (even if it's just faster NN processing) has massive implications for modern warfare and national security.
There wasn't even much of a choice in the first place.
According to a quick Google search, the idle power for the 4B (not sure about the CM4) is 2.7W: https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption. That seems quite low, no?
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Voting to restrict other people's freedoms based on their ethnic/national origin is - indeed - xenophobic.

Being a minority doesn't excuse you from being racist and xenophobic.
I completely understand your point of view and I would think the same if I were you, but that's probably the kind of work I'm trying to avoid.

I only have one life, and I just don't want to be paid to "stay around and do the boring bits", or at least not full-time and in an office. Just as an example, having to stay in the office if there's nothing else to do for the day was absolutely soul-crushing for me. I might be happy doing that kind of work part-time and remotely (almost nobody offers part time work) or I might want to do that later in life.

I read a post about Gumroad here on HN, and that's how I want to work. The way Gitlab does it is also very interesting.

There must be other people who feel and think the same, and the post is just a way to try to reach them.
Why should it be clear? What evidence do you have? I can't read the report, you could easily find where they say "Huawei was responsible for the unauthorized access" that for some reason the articles don't directly quote.

Instead you're acting like I'm being dumb for not making baseless assumptions. The articles aren't titled "Huawei eavesdropped on KPN" for a reason.
Pay me what you want but possibly in cryptocurrency so I can commit tax evasion should be the title
I think the banks are far more worried about medium term "the government de-facto prohibits the business your customer is engaged in and they go bankrupt en-mass" than long term climate driven macroeconomic problems.
That’s fair Lee. I think I’d accidentally stumbled upon the logic for .join acting on the separator rather than the iterable, but I do agree it’s awkward unless you’re trying to figure out why it is (which is poor design), and certainly not how most people think, especially with the inconsistency of split not acting on the separator.
Funnily enough that law is empirically false, and most of the time (although it's near a coinflip) the answer is yes
> it's an allocation

Most people probably think "heap allocation" when you say this. Go doesn't do dynamic allocations within a stack frame (alloca in C), so when you say "it's an allocation", what does that mean? It could be a stack allocation that occurred at compile time as a reservation in the size of the stack frame for that function. It could be a heap allocation. Only the compiler knows!

The Go compiler is the ultimate authority on what becomes a heap allocation. It tries to make everything into a stack allocation when possible, and stack allocations are "free".

Beyond that, a sufficiently smart compiler can reuse stack "allocations" within a single function as certain values become "dead" (never used again). So there isn't even guaranteed to be a 1:1 correspondence between "stack allocations" and variables that you declared inside the function.

So, I completely disagree with your statement about Go being "relatively explicit about allocations." It's one of the least explicit compiled languages in that regard.

Go makes a distinction between declaration and assignment, which is the syntax you're talking about. It really has nothing to do with allocations.
I was always deathly afraid of this, in fact I was never really interested in wage labor period. For some years my ideal was doing independent consulting where I had control, I could pick what I worked on and could get a ton of exposure both to technical issues and wider business experience.

Well it quickly became apparent that that really wasn’t an option for some dumb kid. I had tried freelancing for a few years but got sick of the overwhelming amount of people who just wanted me to update their WP site. After humming around for a year or so I gave up trying for anything greater and just accepted a string of low paying, “boring” development jobs.

> I genuinely believe that for those of us who feel this way, there is nothing else to do but pursue it.

Yeah I’m starting to feel this way again, so fuck it, might as well. I haven’t been nearly as productive as I should have been the past years though. I have a better idea of what I want and there’s really only two choices. One of continuing stagnation or one of putting in the work and attempting to pursue something better. We’ll see though, I’m not betting on anything working out.
Show HN: Curated Parenting Book Directory with No-Code
Tools I used:

- Webflow. I could have completed this project much quicker using software like Pory.io or Softr, but I wanted to challenge myself using Webflow

- SystemFlow - a Webflow framework for layouts and components

- Jetboost.io - a really simple tool you can use for dynamic filters, search, favoriting, liking etc...

- Airtable - This is the form and database for the 'Submit a book'functionality.

- Zapier (to come) - I'll automate any approved books from Airtable into the Webflow CMS

Why I built this:

- I'm a dad of two. I love reading books about how they'll develop and what things I can do to support them. I wanted to curate a list of books that I'd be proud to suggest to other new parents. Many of the books I've read, others have been suggested from other parenting friends of mine.

- I've always been an "ideas guy" and hid behind the thought that I needed a developer. The latest no-code tools have a ton of potential to create simple ideas like this.

The hardest parts:

- Truthfully, the fear of putting something out there.

- "Perfectionism". Wanting things to be perfect. But that really meant I was scared or fearful of putting myself out there. See point 1.

- Webflow is not the easiest tool to pick up, but once you get the hang of it, it's very powerful. Plus there's a great community out there.

The best parts:

- Making progress

- Getting over the fear of putting something out there

- Shipping!

What's next?

- I'll continue to build this out and see if I can be more helpful to new parents. I've had suggestions on the 'coles notes' of these books, so I may create a weekly themed email.

Thanks for reading this far into my post. If you're a parent, soon to be parent, have nieces/nephews or have friends becoming parents. Feel free to share the love.

And finally, if you want to simply help a newbie maker, I'd love some support on Product Hunt just to keep me going.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hey-parents
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Go supports untyped constants -- https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants. It's useful for defining a named constant, and then using the name to initialize variable values of any compatible type.
Cwd is essentially the same as bse and cjd and scrapie. It's actually the one that you have to worry about the least. For unknown reasons, there is not species crossover between deer and cow/sheep/humans (I was briefly investigating the molecular mechanisms for this but finished my phd before getting results).

As for why the grazing animals can spread prion, my guess is that the prion protein is highly concentrated in the tongue, and grazing animals are likely to be able to pass the protein down to the ground via the saliva. Scrapie and bse are cross-transmissible

Incidentally, you probably shouldn't eat beef tongue.
In order to evolve there has to be some kind of genetic information passed on to descendants. But for prions there is no such mechanism. A lower energy state is assumed and that's that.
Agreed. What 2020 has shown us is that many humans can't cope with change well. This is what would cause us to be in a tight spot (IMHO)
"Fulfil the prophecy!"
No surprise here. Two peas in a pod.

The assault on independant journalists (e.g Substack), independant voices (e.g. Clubhouse) and others continues unabated by the likes of NY Times elitists like Taylor Lorenz. Corporate media like NY Times even covered the original 2004 Harvey Weinstein expose and regularly lies on so many internatonal issues as well.

https://www.thewrap.com/harvey-weinstein-new-york-times-bill...

Look at coverage of the caliphate series, Iraq war, Bolivian coup, Honduras, Guatemala and so many more....

The corporate media just wants to muzzle the truth by falsehoods by omission and so much more
Whilst BigTech is busy eating News institutions at the top, PE firms are busy devouring the bottom.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/GvtNyOzGogc
I think I didn't communicate my point clearly. Consider this hypothetical program:

x := make(map[int]int)
x[0] = 5

y := &x[0]
*y = 10

print(x[0]) // 5 or 10?

x[0] = 6

print(*y) // 6 or 10?

// force the map to grow and reallocate the buckets
for j := 1; j < 100; j++ {
x[j] = j
}
*y = 11

print(x[0]) // 5, 6, 10, or 11?

The crux of the problem is answering what y actually points at: the value in the map bucket, or some freshly allocated value? There are problems with whichever one you pick.

edit: changed the second print to *y instead of x[0]. thanks
masklinn for catching this error.
1 year old app is worth $4 billion.. is it really going to live up to its hype in the long run? They don’t even have a monetization strategy right now other than sending money to creators for free.. I must be one of those grandpas these kids talk about.
a little marketing tip: summarize both the rationale and the conclusion. it’s tempting to think just one or the other is enough to entice the potential visitor, but no, it’s much easier to dismiss a link if it comes off as fantastic, implausible, or unsupported, which is more likely when you leave out one or the other. it’s more enticing to get an obvious full bite rather than an elusive nibble.
I have no problem whatsoever with staying around and doing the boring bits. But if those are exclusively the job, that’s when I take issue.
A network on chip protocol. Probably something ACE5 compatible, but Apple hasn't been public about those bits AFAIK.
There's some space for prion evolution, but it's a very small set of possibilities. And more importantly, the little they can evolve, they do so at random, there is no genetic recombination step to merge the selection of unrelated features.
I think it's telling that the user posted again at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26862720 without replying to your concerns.
The thing I don't get about these acquisitions is, if ARM was this awesome design shop owning essentially all mobile chipsets and then some, why did they need the money? Were they going broke?

If so, then it seems like the right thing to do would be to nationalize. If not, was it just a leadership decision for purposes of expanding the company?
Why is that a problem?

If there's not sufficient voter support for legislating morals then democracies shouldn't be legislating morals. The voters should get what they want even if it's stupid.
It is not a federated protocol. It is an app that has some internally developed protocol, which makes it hardly more than an app, really.

As long as one for-profit company decides how it changes and evolves, it's nothing more than that.
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For additional context, the author is JB Classen. From his Wikipedia page:

> A widely-reposted 2021 Facebook post claiming that the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 could cause prion diseases was based on a paper by Classen. The paper was published in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, whose publisher, Scivision Publishers, is included in Beall's list of publishers of predatory journals. Vincent Racaniello, professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, described the claim as "completely wrong".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bart_Classen
It's probably a video issue, this preview video only has a few frames per second i'm guessing. As we see it pop up and then it's back on the ground
Wait, wait, wait. Your advice seems contradictory:
"there is not species crossover between deer and cow/sheep/humans"

and

"Incidentally, you probably shouldn't eat beef tongue."

Can you clarify?
If there wasn't a wide spectrum of opinions on this then you'd be objectively correct. As it stands, the zeitgeist is undecided.
As the biggest players leave, maintaining that level of investment will require the remaining players to concentrate their portfolios into an increasingly unpopular industry. Those investors will price that elevated risk into their offerings, and the result is lower profit margins for the carbon industry. I think this is fully in line with the goals of the movement to divest
I stopped reading at “vaccines cause diabetes”.
Not yet! Will give a shot on coming weekend, thank you.
Every time you sell your credibility, you have to reduce the price.
They can just lie to the old apps. Tell them they're getting the full list when the API is called.
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> So `&` doesn't cause a heap allocation but lack of `&` (or new()) confirms that there isn't one. (I don't actually know if that is true but I can't think of any counterexamples)

I think assigning to a pointer would cause an escape.

Just taking a reference wouldn't though, the reference still has to escape (of course you'd usually take a reference so that it can escape but that's not always the case, especially with inlining).
I definitely sympathize with the author's dissatisfactions. It's difficult to find meaningful, interesting work that pays well, and when you find yourself sacrificing one part of that equation, it can be very disheartening.

However, the answer to this is not to just cut out the "pays well" part of the equation and assume that the rest will follow as a result. As others in the comments here have pointed out, interesting work is hard to find, full stop.

I would actually think that the non-conventional nature of the author's offer would actually decrease the quality of the work. In my experience, work can be enjoyable based on two dimensions: the technical aspect of the work (am I learning? is this engaging?) and the "organizational" nature of the work (is the company well organized and run? are there clear expectations? or is there just chaos everywhere?). Even if work you can find from this kind of offer is better on the first dimension, I imagine it'll be far worse on the second dimension.

That being said, I hope the author proves me wrong and finds a work situation which makes them happy. Good luck!
I'm pretty sure if your honest all you projects end up having this bus factor (check all your dependencies). If you really care to look, most projects are run by a small group of people.
If you're after intuitive language, why not use "raises the question" or "leads to the question" instead?
They don't really know, but the evidence suggests that it doesn't, or at least hasn't yet. There have been a few studies following up on groups of people who consumed CWD positive deer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/02/21/zombie...
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That depends on your job title and where it falls on the explore-exploit spectrum.

If your job is to keep the gold mine running all your underlings are working on the mine. If they go do something else its a waste of your time and resources.

If your job is to explore the jungle for new mines, then the story is very different. Its more about finding as many curious cheap chimps as you can and sending them out in every direction. In such cases imaginative managers use all the chimps they can find.
> There's no reason a bank account shouldn't be programmable

Agreed.

But until we have a better system of plainly showing access levels to one's account its a scammer paradise to allow access via said API.

You and I are educated in the world of API access, so will think twice before clicking "agree" to allowing emoji corp access to my bank account to "verify your identity", but a significant number of people would blindly click allow. Until we have either educated the public, or made an access GUI that stops 99.9% of that kind of use case, its just not worth the hassle.
There's a double connotation being played with there, a web developer vs the web developer
Looks like you drank the SV Kool Aid.
>The USDA prohibits anyone from testing their cows

Huh? Why would they prohibit testing?
What device are you on? It was supposed to work on mobile
Statistics around this are hard to verify. Chicago just had a 13 yr old killed. Police thought he was pointing a gun. Toy gun found on scene. But camera footage showed no gun and hands up when he was shot.

Is that classified as an armed or unarmed shooting?

Philando Castile had a gun is his car of which he informed the officer. Was that an armed or unarmed shooting?
I’ve been on the receiving end of similar requests before.

“I’ll work for free or nothing if you let me do what I love under the umbrella of your organization because I love it so much.”

I did one or two agreements like this and then stopped altogether. The individual would start their work, others would start to depend on its existence and the individual would leave in a matter or weeks or months because something else better came along for them. There was no incentive to keep the relationship going over a longer term. My organization just wasn’t setup to see any upside to short lived but high quality team members.

Is there anyone out there who does work agreements like this currently and benefits from them? Would love to hear more details. Perhaps that feedback could help Franceso with his pitch.

Franceso please come back in a week and let us know what kinds of offers you received. Will be very interested to see where this goes.
If US beef was contaminated, wouldn’t there be thousands of cases of vCJD[1] by now?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Creutzfeldt–Jakob_dise...
There are many dangerous activities in the world.

Electronics repair on ordinary equipment is less dangerous than crossing the street. Folks just need to educate themselves on the basics of electrical safety, preferably with an experienced mentor, and then just get started with a healthy level of caution.

Energy discharge from capacitors found in things like appliances and electronic instruments is very unlikely to be fatal. The way people usually get hurt from caps is from an involuntary jerking response to the jolt and the subsequent scraping of skin on sharp metal edges.
Isn’t Apple News+ the Spotify of newspapers?

If you don’t want the social aspect of news, you can get the AP stories through the AP News app or subscribe to rss feeds to major papers. The AP keeps papers from covering the same story from their own angle, you’ll usually see the same AP stories printed in papers across the country.

I agree it’s hard to filter the news on your own and quality journalism does seem to be going behind paywalls now. This isn’t great for an educated society.
> I read a post about Gumroad here on HN, and that's how I want to work. The way Gitlab does it is also very interesting.

But surely they do a lot of boring work at those companies too, as in all tech companies?
We absolutely need local papers, they're critical to uncovering the kind of small-town corruption that won't make the national news but still greatly impacts people.

We can't seem to support this many journalists anymore - because FB and Google suck up the advertising revenue.

Would breaking up big tech also bring back the local news room? That would be such a bonus.
I think that sums it up pretty perfectly. It's the single reason I watched the video and my first thought was "there's no way that works that well"

From the comments, here, it sounds like it might. There's some interesting applications, here. Thinking back to last night, it would have been really nice if when I was looking at the split-screen in my driving game with my kids, my own corner had that kind of depth to it. Hell, driving/flying games, in general, suffer from realism issues due to not being able to faithfully produce the effect of looking out a window.

Doing this on a larger screen (and throw in a transparent LCD after you work out how to bend all of this into that, assuming it can be done) and you could have a light-switch that changes the scenery from "outside" to "outside somewhere else"[0].

[0] I remember seeing that in Back to the Future II as a kid and thinking it'd be really nice to have on a cold, gloomy, February day in Michigan.
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No. But Mad Cow Disease (also caused by prions) sure did. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...
There's been considerable movement to just get rid of the 3.3v and 5v lines from power supplies anyways. Newer motherboards are being built with the ability to just take 12v and convert it on board, essentially the circuitry on that miniPSU you linked.
Therapy, especially CBT
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Working as product manager, my success depends more on developers & other collaborators. What do you think we as product managers can do to ease your lives and enable better collaboration?
Sorry, the grouping was unclear.

There is not deer <-> sheep, deer <-> cow, deer <-> humans.

There is cow <-> sheep, maybe cow <-> human. I don't know off the top of my head about sheep <-> human

If there had been, the us food supply would be trashed. Cwd is highly endemic among wild deer and wild deer co-graze with cows all the time.

Also unknown if the relationship can be transitive. There might be a species X where deer <-> X <-> human.
It worked fine for me in MacOS on both. How old is your Mac?
American racism is clearly systemic/institutionalized...

>And according to exoneration data, innocent African American suspects are 7 times more likely to be falsely convicted of murder than innocent white suspects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26840501

Unfortunately spreading misleading information without second thought is yet another feature of white supremacist systems, not a bug.
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Is it just me or is php.net returning 500's?

https://www.php.net/
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