skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first lockdown in early 2020 was very well timed, and ruthlessly enforced using police violence on a massive scale. The streets looked like something out of 28 days later. The lockdown was executed on a national level. Freedom to travel between states was curtailed. Freedom to gather together was curtailed for 1.3 billion people.

As a result it was very effective. We never experienced the full brunt of Covid infections and deaths. We used to look at European and American news and wonder why we haven't seem to have been affected much at all. Most people, including myself, started to think that maybe there is something in the climate, and something in our genetic makeup that makes us less susceptible.

This time, the Central government has refused to do any sort of national lockdown. Travel between states is totally open. States are also careful not to restrict too many liberties,since business disruptions greatly deteriorate the state's revenue. It also pushes people to the edge of starvation and desperation. People are not as careful as they were the last time, because of the previously mentioned superiority complex. The result is what you're seeing.

The problems with oxygen and vaccine availability are another problem. But that is true for almost anything else. The government imposes very high taxes on any kind of machinery or anything that is used in manufacturing or construction. On top of that there are very tight controls on movement of material. You have to apply for a license from the central government for any item that you are moving across state lines. The truck driver who transports your product will be stopped by police at various points, and he will have to pay them off to be able to continue. In this way, the market is heavily distorted, and natural flow and ebb of supply and demand is subdued. That's why, despite having more than enough oxygen production in the country, we couldn't transport it where it was needed. That's why despite having the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, and several indigenously developed vaccines, we are still waiting to be vaccinated.
So long as individuals want to transact on the Bitcoin network, miners will be there. There IS something to be said about all this “off chain” settlement — let’s hope Coinbase and others remain honest. For that matter, what stops individuals exchanging private keys instead? And, oh yeah, USDT...
Just because I'm not the owner of the server, though I have been given permission to ask, look through my comments. I've mentioned it before, and mentioned who to contact on Reddit for it. Just mention you came from hackernews and he'll know it was me.
On Intellectual Slavery
I just...I really want to like Clojure, but I cannot get past the brackety notation of lisp-likes. Surely there's a way to do it where I'm not in bracket hell?
Twitter is perhaps the biggest change in how people communicate in the 21st century so far. I would say that was a laughable underestimation. Would you like to expand on your point?
Isn't it too early to think about mRNA therapies?

VAERS data released today showed 118,902 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines, including 3,544 deaths and 12,619 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and April 23, 2021: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-significan...

The Orange County Coroner's office is investigating the death of a woman who died just days after she received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine: https://abc7.com/health/oc-womans-death-after-vaccination-sp...

Meanwhile: Using a protocol of zinc, hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin and one antibiotic in combination with inhaled budesonide and/or intramuscular dexamethasone... The early ambulatory treatment regimen was associated with estimated 87.6% reduction in hospitalization and 74.9% reduction in death (p<0.0001): https://trialsitenews.com/texas-physician-researchers-case-s...
Thankfully “most of the people you now” don’t get to force their ethics on others.
Yeah if you weren't hiring him to be one of those roles... why would you hire him?

I'd worry he'd jump the moment he had a shot at one of those / not work out.
You’ve also got stuff like the keeper modelling amp and newer axe FX models that can sound indistinguishable when coming through good full range speakers.

One thing that can make even modern solid state amps sound bad is crappy speakers. The bulk of solid state guitar amplifiers are combo amps with a single crappy 10” or 12” inch speaker in a cheap cabinet.
Sigh... really? This is reddit-level "Yakov Smirnoff" of rebuttals. But I'm going to break it down for you anyway and operate on the shared assumption of good faith since you may have genuinely misconstrued my intent.

I couched my words - stating that I only found one particular piece of content unbelievable - once again now, FOR ME PERSONALLY. Irrespective of whether the "1950s women in the workforce" quote actually transpired, her overall experiences still cast a powerful light on the continuing toxic nature of the work environment for women.
Horn antennas have radiation pattern tens of degrees wide, so it's difficult to target one room across the street. I'm not sure intersecting a few of them helps, maybe by a factor of two or so.

Back of the envelope math: per Wikipedia: "The gain of horn antennas ranges up to 25 dBi, with 10 - 20 dBi being typical." Let's say you are transmitting 4 kW with a 20 dBi horn, thus having 400 kW EIRP. At a distance of 15 meters, the energy spreads across a sphere of 4PI15^2 = 2800 m^2, for an energy density 140 W/m^2. So yes, this indeed exceeds health limits (in .cz: 50 W/m^2 for workers, 10 W/m^2 for civilians) and is kind a lot.

On the other hand, having a 400 kW EIRP source anywhere nearby should be immediately obvious to a NSA or probably anyone with almost any radio receiver, the interference would be terrible.
When you accelerate away from me in an elevator, only one of us experiences additional forces during that acceleration. Only your body feels heavier as the elevator speeds up.

Here’s a minute physics video that shows how acceleration explains the twins paradox (the “common” explanation) https://youtu.be/0iJZ_QGMLD0

After you watch minute physics video, you might feel like you understand. Nope, can’t have any of that. Now, you must watch this Fermi lab video that says the common explanation is “not fundamentally correct” https://youtu.be/noaGNuQCW8A
I have been using SQLite databases for a few user application that has been running for close to a decade now. They are usually about 1.5GB.

BTW, SQLite has a (theoretical?) max size of 140TB! (or so I've read)
I am just saying that if you are talking about it, as if it is a magic experience, that is going to cause you to have a magic, life changing revolution, then you need to take a step back and revaluate your life.

Thats all. Yes, you can like voice chat apps. Thats fine. But if you start talking about a voice chat application, in these kinds of terms, then you have a problem.

As in you are actually, probably, mentally unwell, if you breakdown into tears, with your vison quest that you have completed, when you discovered a voice chat app.

And that legitimately seems like how some people are describing clubhouse. There are actually people out there, where it feels like when they talk about clubhouse, they have discovered their new religion of apps.

If that is you, then get help.
Most consumers really don't care since they can just buy an iPhone and call it a day, largely distancing themselves from most dark patterns (which doesn't eliminate them). Maybe leadership or culture in the agencies involved has changed to the point where they'll actually look out for consumers before they start complaining on such a large scale.
Where can I get the Fortran sources? Article didn't mention anything, sadly.
I think burning PVC can produce dioxin, which would be very bad if it's not filtered out from the exhaust. Then it depends on how much you trust the facility to have an effective filter installed, and test and maintain it diligently. That costs money, so there will be a tendency to skip the maintenance.
Minor correction. It is a “i” and not a “j”. Julius Caesar said “Alea iacta est” when crossing the Rubicon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est

Although there is the WarCry album with the “j”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_Jacta_Est
if that's μblock Origin, then

##.js-consent-banner
##.js-dismissable-hero

in your filter config does it.
This just seems like it’s fetishizing “hands on, small farms where you can taste the passion in their products”. Basically marketing.
Same as Gretsch Filtertrons (and most of their other pickups too, I guess). No height adjustment at all.
Don't know how long it's been since you were there but IMO vallarta's across the street from coti has basically surpassed coti's. I would say it's like 25% better.
This is an example of some meta bigotry and projection...
I mean I already talk to scientists, engineers, artists and assorted people from across the world without Clubhouse. This has nothing to do with the people and everything to do with the platform. It sounds like fun to me.

Personally, your description of how you use Clubhouse sounds sad to me. Different strokes for different folks, my man.
No, this is not true in the least. Research has been done that shows that cheap, mass produced produce is just as nutritious as organic produce that costs several times more.
> when the women asked him to stop he couldn't

As a functioning human adult, "wouldn't" is the correct word here. It may seem like a small matter, but it's not: saying "couldn't" is a very popular way to represent the idea that men aren't responsible for behavior that others find unacceptable, especially when it's towards women. Please take more care around your phrasing in the future.

> apart from the fact that he touched the hair of his coworker

"apart from" trivializes and sets aside the most important thing we know about Dick: that he touches women without their consent and refuses to honor their requests to stop. There is no "apart from" that weakens, mitigates, or excuses this.

> just to check if the situation can be transformed into harmless/no consequence and they can get out without having to admit wrongdoing

Men who behave in this way are fully expecting other men to let them get away with it. They are right, statistically speaking.

Men, don't silently let them get away with it. It may feel uncomfortable to try to hold a man accountable for their actions. Bad men thrive on how reliably that discomfort makes other men stay silent. They're depending on you being too socially weak and inept to overcome that. I know it can be difficult, and you won't succeed every time, but it's important that you try every time all the same. Best of luck.
I'm with you.

I have no idea why people don't question anything about the capabilities/consequences of this tech.
If you're talking about Rosetta, it's not as clear that you'd see any successful attacks. It only runs at one CPU privilege level. And even in the browser sandbox escape versions Rosetta heavily uses AOT when it can, so your JS is probably not sharing a translation cache with much if any of the code you'd be attacking.

This is in contrast to Transmeta where the whole system more or less ran out of the one translation cache.

Now Nvidia Denver on the other hand...
- “We’re going to try it our way and if it doesn’t work, we can always go back and do it your way”

- “That’s how the user wants it”

- “That’s how the boss wants it”

- “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”

- so called principles : KISS, DRY and so on

- “eval is evil”

- “early optimization is the root of all evil”

-
>Apple's iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered. Consistent delays in the delivery of important features ensure the web can never be a credible alternative to its proprietary tools and App Store.

Some counter points:

1) What's an "important feature"? Whatever Chrome/Blink rushes to implement on Google's whim, and if often only a "standard" because Google designed it and pushed for it on W3C and co?

2) There are more than enough features to make most kinds of apps already. The more advanced features mentioned (like webcamera support) are all available in the native SDKs, and are more about full blown applications than about webpages. Where does it end? Do we have to replicate or at best wrap the whole native functionality and run it with several layers of indirection (DOM, JS, the browser backend, over html, etc)?

3) Android allows for web-based apps and alternative browser engines. How do those fare? Overtaking regular Android apps any time soon by any margin? If not, why would they on iOS?

I, for one, don't want to use web apps on my mobile phone. If I had the choice, I'd probably prefer not to use Electron based apps on the desktop either...
Right, but the wifi+bt chip is still Broadcom.
I believe this is protomaps approach: re-encode the mbtiles (sqlite-based ) format in to something that can be requested with a http range request and thus served from a single dumb webserver that doesn't need to understand sqlite or mbtiles parsing
There are other commoditized products out there that provide much better customer experience and reliability. The other day my internet connection went down and I needed to use 4G as a backup.

In 2021, in the age of Amazon, Uber and cloud computing, where you can pay to get pretty much any product/service delivered on the same day, I couldn't get uninterrupted mobile internet from any of the carriers here no matter how much I was willing to pay.

I had to work around some stupid billing systems and artificial constraints, and sit through minutes of pre-recorded marketing bullshit just to be able to pay them money. They seemed to be more interested in marketing irrelevant crap to me than actually taking my money and giving me the one thing I wanted and was happy to pay big bucks for: internet access.

In the end I couldn't find anything better than topping up 30 bucks at a time and resetting the "bundle" every couple days when the data runs out. There was no way to just tell their system "here's 300 bucks, give me data until this runs out".

Telecommunications is fucked.
That is correct, they should not care about my opinion on this subject.

I'm happy that I can get by without paying for monthly subscriptions. I am also happy if there are lots of other people who find enough value in these services to make it worth paying for.
A lot of the were written fully in lisp back in the day, and might still be underneath it all. ie. it might be more than just being used as an extension language.
You didn’t answer the question.

> The fact that SQLite continues to reach for more users is what has made it such a successful general-purpose tool.

I never disputed this. You’re responding to a straw man.
A part of Dan Wang's 2020 letter discusses this https://danwang.co/2020-letter/

This "industrial literacy" is dominated by Asia today.
Python and Me, or When in Rome
Are comments on HN going to make it way to the government?

If not, I hope people realize that they should probably comment on regulations.gov site as well.
That was interesting. Well as soon as I read the first paragraph I knew it had to with the UX and nothing else.
is there a source for that besides youtube? all the scientists, UN, environmental orgs, etc. seem to be in agreement that animal products use the most water.
Reddit does that too for the mobile website. So the job of some programmers is to literally provide a worse experience for their users. Sad life.
Code collaboration (no signup, free and fast)
Looking at the 3 word-based W3W, for some reason they have "horses" and not "horse," but you can find both https://what3words.com/correct.horses.battery and https://what3words.com/horses.battery.staple, and interestingly enough they are both in Canada, one in Nunavut and the other in Quebec.
I started out in print journalism in the 90s, it was such a cool thing back then in my country. I switched to internet content when it just started because it was exciting, not because I foresaw any decline of journalism on the horizon. And then interacting with the devs of the website I was working for reminded me that tech was actually my real passion, so I made the switch to being a developer myself. I'm grateful for that decision pretty much every single day ever since.
“Non profit” organizations employ dark patterns as well. The Burning Man Organization had a stack of them, even iterated on them last year trying to avoid refunding ticket money.
Wow that's really cool. Any plans to share the model?
just stop paying your aws bill! im sure the boss won't mind
Isn't New York trying to require heavy duty vehicles to be electric by 2045? That's a couple decades, but we can't even get people to adopt commuter vehicles because of the inconvenience of charging. How long and how many volts does an F750 need to charge? A 24 foot box truck? A semi?

I commute 40 miles each way. It's going to be a very long time before my workplace has electric vehicle plug-ins. Even longer before my apartment complex even considers them. And can you imagine what they'd charge(hehe)? And God forbid we go on a road trip. A 300 mile range is a joke in the Midwest. It's 100 miles round trip to the capitol if you need something from the shops down there.

How long will a decent size truck go on a charge? What if I'm hauling a trailer? 2 horses? 4? If we can't get a sedan to go more than 300 miles on a charge, how far is a decent-sized truck going to go hauling a load? You can put more batteries on them, but what about when you misjudge and you're between nothing and nowhere? Is someone going to bring a jug of electricity out to you to get you to the next charging station?

I like the idea of an electric vehicle, I really do. It is absolutely not feasible for me. Or the majority of my coworkers. It would make way more sense for me to pick up a motorcycle to commute on as far as sustainability and energy efficiency. But the weather here is prohibitive for that. Even if I could reasonably charge an electric vehicle for my commute, I could not own it as my only vehicle. And I can't afford the taxes and maintenance on a second vehicle. It is just not an option for me or for most of the people I know who aren't upper middle class.
Does it need Qt runtime pre-installed in order to run it in a browser (on Android)?
"...if the solution is to use words, then What4Words would have had a word list of less than 3000, resulting in a word list with less confusable words..."
How would an antibiotic help with a viral infection? Might as well start using some essential oils and homeopathy. If that regimen actually worked, we'd probably see it more widely used and studied.

They investigate each death reported to VAERS to see if it was actually vaccine related. Given how many millions of doses were given out, and especially to people that were already old or clinging on to life, 3,544 is not unexpected. None of those were directly attributable to the vaccine.
What do you think is the size of the average SQLite database?
Social networks do have magical properties to them but there's no playbook for how to create magic. They're in some ways no different than the magic people find in IRL communities. You can't force it. The early years of Reddit was an online experience that was really different than anything else out there at the time. Really high signal to noise, easily being able to find other people with people who shared your niche interests. Tumblr has that magic too and somehow managed to keep it but is focused on a demographic that is damn near the compliment to Reddit. Facebook and Twitter had and lost their magic. Among young and young-ish people TikTok currently has it, time will tell I suppose if it stays.

I'm not a Clubhouse user but I wouldn't at all be surprised if it had it based on how people talk about it.
Washington Post keeps sending me "Please subscribe" emails even after I opted out of their emails so many times.
> All ready to be swept away but any real tech or mega Corp.

Regulations around the spectrum and the concept of auctions make it impossible for any new player to enter the market. Spectrum and radio equipment should be owned by the government and communication providers can just buy bandwidth/airtime on it at a fair price. That works successfully for things like the power grid, water/gas distribution infrastructure, etc.
I think Cardano (ADA) which is releasing https://roadmap.cardano.org/en/goguen/ very soon will be where the miners go, to stake vs. mine that is. ETH 2.0 has issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936244 but ADA from get go has been a stake culture. And stake means no more wasted electricity. It's like Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2008 had this great idea, then Vitalik Buterin had a +1 idea but Charles Hoskinson is fixing this whole proof of work mistake from years ago.
Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance
Did you agree to not reverse engineer the tech stack? If so, they can sue you for breaking that agreement.
Pulled the sources.

Expecting DMCA take down in 3, 2, 1....
There only being 21 million bitcoin doesn't matter because that can be subdivided into 100M Satoshis. The whole world would have to adopt it for us to run low on it, and maybe not even then.

But the fact dogecoin is inflationary is interesting. A currency needs to be inflationary or people hoard it instead of spending it, see bitcoin for an excellent example.
There's an ongoing debate over whether people should be allowed to speak freely on the internet without "content moderation". Clubhouse is on one side of that debate, this author is on the other. Behind vague accusations of "not valuing privacy," that's what this article is actually about.

> Rohan and Davison, who met at Stanford and have an estimated nine failed apps between them

This feels nasty.

More boring culture war stuff:

> Clubhouse is yet another example of technology designed by, and largely for, privileged, white, Western and able-bodied men

> In 2020, only 2.3 percent of all venture funding went to female founders (down from 2.8 percent in 2019, as women were hit harder by the pandemic)
Driverless cars? They should test them in Boston in the Spring, after all the lane markings are gone, at night in the rain.

Testing in cities with grid street systems and visible lane markings during fair weather in the daytime is not informative.
They’re bot saying update OR beware.

They’re saying update OR your program is dead.
Use tools like paredit that support structural editing. There are tools like this for all major editors.

https://calva.io/paredit/
I think you missed the main part: the dataset is not in memory. This is not SQLite-in-the-browser but using a virtual file system over HTTP. Neither of those alternatives do anything similar.
but how long before these 160 cores of Ampere variety ARM servers will be entirely affordable prices for at least the average hner?

the most recent NetApp filer I was paid to evaluate for a fairly large business customer, is being sold at a price that I realised isn't actually so ridiculous for my home lab use. The amount of time expended on related work involved with using cloud computing for even very occasionally run jobs has put the likes of these Ampere servers very much inside the bounds of reasonable, even thoroughly sensible, reason for private acquisition. My first thought was "if only I was even ten years younger I'd advertise a house share and load a room with a couple of racks and dump all the interactions involved with setting up what I'm doing in the cloud for higher quality interaction with some housemates who have projects that could turn my practical investment into something much more interesting" I think a ratio of 128 cores per person feels about right?
Please don’t play armchair medical researcher. The question you’ve asked is much larger 3 urls, one of which is an investigation into a single event among hundreds of millions of doses.

Your third link is not remotely relevant. The article is not discussing covid treatments, but rather the category of vaccine. Zinc isn’t going to cure cancer.