skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strategies proposed here are sketchy at best. No specifics given, very la-la land. While I agree that proof of work cryptocurrencies are currently weighing on our power-generation abilities and on the environment, one could argue banks are worse.

Decentralized currencies do away with reckless money printing and other evils, and for that reason they are the future.

I'm sure many were concerned about the environmental impact of the internet, and yet here we are. We'll find a way to make it work.
I support your right to discern your own risk level and act accordingly, and I hope you will allow me the same. After all, the fool is both the highest and lowest-value card :)
Solar geology: deducing the Sun's pre-telescope history
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/52/2/2.13/206404

Evidence of a Monstrous, Ancient Solar Storm Found Hidden in Greenland's Ice
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a268179...

BC 660 beryllium-10 / chlorine-36 spike https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a268179...

AD 774–775 carbon-14 spike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spik...

AD 993-994 carbon-14 spike https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2783

See Also: Atmospheric Production of Carbon-14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-14#Natural_production_i...
The overall mRNA is different due to different signal peptides, untranslated regions (UTR), etc. But the mRNA sequence that encodes the spike protein is identical, and presumably that is what would give resistance to variants.
Maybe? As far as I’ve found there is zero correlation between education and competency, at least in the candidates I’ve interviewed.

This is mostly in the Asia/Pacific region though, it might be different elsewhere.
Samsung – Notification on modem vulnerability in Qualcomm chipsets
Makes me wonder. My Thermapen sucks. I got it as a gift 5-10 years ago, and it seemed to come in nice official packaging. It has never met the settle time claims.
He didn't actually call it "dumb", rather "my dumbest". Maybe compare to his other tweets for context.
I'm remaking my workplace's transactional emails these days (order confirmation, receipt etc. for an online shop - emails customers also reply to when stuff doesn't go as expected). We want something responsive for smartphones, but are primarily a B2B company.

I made what they wanted with MJML. Looked good in a browser, gmail and phone.

Outlook had a few issues, can't remember which right now.

But replying from Outlook simply broke the styling completely. Gaps between each section, complete mess. Not the impression you want to give the customers when their order goes wrong. B2B means Outlook is what out customers use.

I've found that replying via Outlook is the ultimate integrity test of an eamil.

Now I'm making them by hand and it is a madening cargo cult bonanza. Takes a lot of time.

I guess MJML is fine for marketing.
This kind of thing is enabled by crypto. It could still happen without it out of pure malice, but ransomware had little incentive before since it was so hard to collect on.
Those are just ascii characters. You really don't want them to touch the font?

(If your client interprets them, then you're not actually asking for plain text anymore.)
Sanctity is just another word for exclusivity.

Knowledge used to be reserved for the elite, locked behind closed doors that the majority never knew existed.

Then the printing press came along. Knowledge was commoditized, no longer reserved for those born into families of status. Society changed, and I’d like to think for the better. We began to see innovation like never before.

This evolution was not without burden. Knowledge can be irksome at times—after all, it requires a certain degree of mental exertion to process. Fortunately, the means to publish knowledge remained somewhat exclusive; one need not look further than a book store for an authority on any subject. If it’s in print, it’s trustworthy.

Then the internet came along and commoditized that, too. Now, we’re forced to analyze all information presented to us should we seek the truth. How do we tell what’s trustworthy? Why must we expend such effort to sort fact from fiction?

I see this as a natural progression, given our history as a society. We’ll adapt, and we’ll be better for it.

On the other hand, I’m some random person typing into the digital abyss while lying in bed. Am I a subject matter expert, or am I a 13-year-old who’s presently failing History? You’ll never know, and that’s the beauty of it: you’re stuck judging my statements without the context of authority or a librarian’s recommendation.

Nothing has changed here. You should always be questioning what you read. Open an encyclopedia from a few decades ago; you’re quite likely to find numerous mistakes on each page.

Ah, but you don’t want to waste time reading something that never even tried to be correct, right? Well, that’s a problem we haven’t solved yet: give everyone a voice, and all you hear is noise. Maybe some young, enterprising VC will sort that out for us, but exclusivity isn’t the solution.
TL;DR: I was wrong (but I did understand the distinction you are drawing)

I'm aware that there is a difference between devious Monty and dumb Monty. The question I was trying to answer is whether this difference affects the actual outcome of the game, or the choice you should make.

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test my analysis, and this proved that my previous analysis was in error. If Monty doesn't know to avoid the door with the car, then it makes no difference statistically speaking whether the player switches or not after Monty reveals a goat.

If the rules are such that you win when (dumb) Monty picks the car, then your overall chances are now 2/3 instead of 1/3, since you effectively get two guesses (your guess and Monty's guess). But it makes no difference whether you switch after Monty picks a goat.

On the other hand, if (dumb) Monty choosing the car results in either (1) you losing or (2) a reshuffle and redo, then your overall chances are only 1/3. In this case, it also makes no difference whether you switch after Monty's guess.
Why not just switch to proof of stake? Isn't that supposed to be much less environmentally costly?
What a textbook response. Do you think American consumers, to take one example, are orderly enough to abide by a $1000 roll of Charmin?
Since you are a game developer with kids, I have to ask... what about the addiction? Have you seen your kids getting addicted to games? Does that bother you? Have you pondered your own contribution to that problem?
Yeah, I’d seen that one. I wouldn’t consider the Beirut explosion a natural disaster though ;)

I think that, due to global warming, the actual number is increasing.
And here's my most awesome example: https://gossips.cafe/

(Click/tap the cup in the lower right corner if you visit outside opening hours) :-)
The 360 always seemed like pointless theatre to me sense its done at the beginning and someone else can easily come in and assist after the sweep around
I took civil engineering. Our introductory computer science course was in javascript, but course work later was in Fortran (which I didn't mind) and then python. There was also some matlab for labs but the programming was mostly fortran. One of my professors was doing some research in spring and dampener systems and the models were all in fortran as well.
yes, but no. while it’s technically the same protein, the way it was optimized differs (not by much but it’s different). the vaccine itself has the instructions to produce something that resembles the spike protein (to which your immune system
goes in overdrive and generates antibodies)
Game companies lose a ton of great developers due to their atrocious salaries and this is (IMO) reflected in many ways, from ever-lengthening development cycles to quality issues at release to feature cuts and crunch. I believe this affects the bottom line pretty significantly, and game publishers would look at the problem more seriously if they weren't making profits hand over fist due to the expansion of the industry as a whole lifting pretty much all boats. Seriously, for every one dev I know who actually works in the industry I probably know 10 who would much rather work there than their current job if the salaries were even close to competitive.
I'd argue against frameworks and for providers to simply update the HTML and CSS they support. Its still bloody tables.
Walmart’s profit is generated by the workers. Why should my taxes be used to subsidize worker exploitation by the Walton heirs?
I think constant exhaustion might have some effect on your satisfaction levels ;)

In my case, I’m also moving around a lot more, so I guess the added exercise compensates for the exhaustion in terms of effect on overall happiness.
> acknowledge the geopolitical hurdles

Each of those vaccines come from a UN/WHO member country.

Geo politically power is wielded by globalist financial elites. These elites generally believe the world is overpopulated. Bill himself is well known for his this belief. Bill as an example runs a charitable foundation that only ever seems to make money.

These conspiracies are not constituted of a flat earth and aliens. They are of human hierarchies, corruption, and psychopaths.
Eh, probably true but the petro-people are good friends with the drone-strike & secret-detention-site people. I wouldn’t plan on international travel if I were in the ransomware crew.
I grew tired of the ever-growing body count in the Expanse books - it's kind of depressing if you think about it. But one thing I did enjoy was in one of the books where some of the protagonists score some bicycles on a devastated Earth to get around.

The bicycle is the most efficient means of human transportation on any kind of reasonably surfaces road or trail.
Yes and no, my assumption is that the company only cares about the programs being useful enough to sell the washing machine.

There is no incentive to be any better than that. When the average washing machine lives long enough that the majority of consumers will come back to their next purchase without feeling annoyed about software related issues. Extra frills that pushed them over the line into purchasing a particular model didn't quite work out how they hoped, the iPhone app didn't get updates and looks bad on their new phone, etc ... these things wont factor into their next purchase. It's a psychological time horizon thing, enough water passes under the bridge and the customer stopped caring long enough ago.

So as long as it was otherwise a solid washing machine that didn't have mechanical issues mechanically or wash poorly they aren't likely to hold the manufacturer to account for their poor software quality breaking the "nice to haves".
Crime is subjective, hence every country on earth having different laws. I'm guessing but I imagine the vast majority of the crime is just drug sales which is becoming less and less criminal as society awakens to the realities of the underlying problems that cause drug use and the facts about its relative danger.
The Machinery of Freedom (1989) [pdf]
Better an overly close reading (which I think is actually correct) than the one in which you literally misquoted their words inside quote marks.
It's a good point but that's a particularly bad analogy. Brewing and distilling are strongly culturally ingrained, at least in the west. I live in a state where (last I checked) no legal method exists to distill ethanol for personal use. Nonetheless, a surprising number of acquaintances over the years have had stills and offered me samples.
I also prefer plain text email. HTML email is no good, I think. However, you can use a multipart message with a plain part if wanted; Heirloom-mailx and other plain text email clients will then display the plain text part in that case.

You could specify "Content-type: text/markdown" if you want Markdown (although I don't know which email clients will understand that), although I think that plain text is OK.

I also dislike email newsletters or email discussion lists; either way, I would prefer NNTP.
Resources are allocated according to wealth, full stop. If you have money you can always pay someone to obtain it (by waiting in line or whatever)

Recognizing and accepting this fact is the first step towards fixing supply issues.
Jeff Bezos' superyacht is so big it needs its own yacht
Agreed. With normal math notation I can just see how something works. In programming language math notation I cant even always parse the hierarchy.
According to the article, the main storage aka black box was destroyed in the fire. They are trying to pull data from a secondary controller that was less damaged.
I live in Canada so it is age based. I'm guessing it will be either Pfizer or Moderna both of which are mRNA which from my understanding is a form of gene therapy.

My main concern at the moment is: Just as the virus can mutate during it's replicatative phase and produce variants why can't the spiked protien during it's production or the cells producing it mutate also?

If these production cells can mutate or the spiked protiens themselves mutate is it reasonable to assume an autoimmune diseases may result as the cells or protiens accumulate in my organs, limphnodes, fat cells or other areas?

This is an honest concern that I am hoping can be resolved, rather than be dismissed or attacked.
> I have an appointment to get my first jab in 43 hours from now and I am bouncing back and forth between getting it and cancellation.

Cancellation??!??! WTF? Why? You have a free, safe, live-saving vaccine being offered to you! Why would you not take it??

Putting aside the fact that not being vaccinated is a horrible selfish act that hastens the evolution of a more virulent strain and more death, don't you want to relax a bit after this past year?
> there is a lot about it that I won't miss, especially the way it handles serial communication

Out of curiosity, what were the issues you had with OpenBMC's serial communication?
Context:

No power, societal fabric is breaking down, credit cards don't work.

Assumption: people will accept crypto at any value.

Reality: people will barter for tangible items and use force to maintain their desired order. If I'm auctioning a spare 10kw generator the guy offering a 5.56 rifle and 100 rounds has infinitely more value than 100k bitcoins (~$5,000,000,000.00)

Maybe this fantasy can play out if the person you're bartering with knows a lot about bitcoin, knows that the disaster is localized, and knows that they can escape and survive the disaster zone without the tangible alternatives. That's a lot of assumptions. You're better off hoarding 9mm bullets, water purification tabs, generators, trucks without electronics and their repair parts, solar panels, deep cycle batteries, gasoline/diesel, bullet proof vests, and MREs. But at that point any substantial tradeable stock pile is going to cost as much or more than a well designed bunker stocked to run and survive independently for >10yrs. You won't make any money during the disaster, and you must survive it to have the opportunity to be robbed before you can start to realize gains during the aftermath/rebuild period.
This is cool, I may have to play around with it
Hah, this is true. I’m going to keep this. By virtue of having children, I’m objectively better off than anyone that didn’t.
A “conspiracy theory” implies a cover up. That’s very different than a hypothesis. Many hypotheses start out with no direct evidence, just an insight. Relativity is a good example.

The hypothesis that Covid-19 escaped from a laboratory already has strong circumstantial evidence behind it. Lab escapes do happen, have happened, and the WIV is full of corona viruses under study. In fact it contains the closest relatives to Covid-19 known.

Now all of that doesn’t prove anything. It’s just a reasonable hypothesis that’s not yet proven. To characterize it, though, as a “conspiracy theory”, seems disingenuous.
> Some people are going to prison, some other people are going to start taking infrastructure security more seriously...

Can you point to evidence that this has happened as you state it will? There's decades of stuff being impacted by various cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and I'm not aware of anyone going to jail over it (defenders claim Act of God, attackers are in some country without extradition treaties and can't be identified anyway, or just pay off the local government to protect them).

I'm also not aware of much of anything in the way of actually fixing the problems. Ask anyone who has done any red teaming at any level how often the bugs get fixed, and how often the report is filed away with a nice "Thank you for meeting our checkbox of having been red teamed, here's your check." And the same configurations are in play 5 years later. Keep your old notes, they may be useful!

> This is exactly how our brittle infrastructure gets fixed in the best imaginable way.

I'll bet it doesn't.
The NES didn't have a framebuffer either, but its sprite hardware was a lot more capable. OTOH, Atari had a patent on synchronizing the cpu with a scanline, so if you ran out of stuff to do during a scan line, you could wait and start again knowing exactly where the beam was. For the NES, Nintendo didn't build that, so if you do want to do something tricky based on where the beam is, you'd need to work a lot harder (or have something to help you in the cartridge hardware)
These are also a store of value / investments but Bitcoin is different.

As far as I know, I can not buy small parts of real estate. Gold supply is not fixed and it’s hard to validate. Companies can go bankrupt.

I can not transfer real estate, gold or stocks over the internet to someone else directly, without using a third party.
Hey, why does Russia always get the blame? Did Putin put Polonium in your underwear?
TikToker Shares How He Earns a Doctor's Salary
I don't see how anywhere could get to count as a "success story with vaccination" under your criteria while also not having "significant numbers of deaths with covid" and so I don't think you end up with a meaningful observation.

New Zealand had zero community cases without vaccination, during 2021 its vaccination programme has only covered some front line workers and very high risk people, and it still has zero community cases. Is that "success"? Is it "not success" ? How would you tell?

Whereas in my own country about two thirds of adults have had at least one jab, but still people are dying every single day from COVID-19, just much fewer than an the height of the pandemic here. Is that a success? Not a success?

One of the reasons New Zealand was so slow? With zero cases they had no reason to do Emergency Authorization. So they didn't. The Pfizer vaccine they picked got the full (albeit accelerated) approval process that any other medicine would get. This behaviour would be crazy in a country like the US with thousands dying, but it made sense in a country where most citizens have negligible risk day-to-day.
I’m a tech worker in California, and my effective tax rate is nowhere near 50%. I suggest you get a better accountant.
Oooh.

I would like to subscribe to more second-order applications of hanlon's razor please.
Still quite an exaggeration, since most of the (ex) service workers I know are going to coffee bars and sharing joints. I’ve seen a few teachers unions get busted for coordinating vacations abroad while they boycotted in-class learning because it was an “unnecessary risk”.

The reality is, a lot of people are abusing the temporary safety nets to avoid what they see as inconveniences because it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity and probably won’t come back to bite them.
Amazing what they were able to do in such a short period of time after completely stopping R&D on both their custom CPU and GPU in 2019, opting to instead form a strategic partnership with AMD for the new exynos chips.
Can you actually link to a source?
I've been using it recently, but just as a vscode plug in for type hints, I don't run any additional checks afterwards, but it seems to catch type errors before execution. But it's been cpu intensive in a wsl container on larger >2k line py files. I haven't tried many others tho, so not really sure if there are better options out there.
> What’s lame is when there is no plaintext alternative.

Or worse yet, when the plaintext alternative version is broken/incomplete.

I regularly receive mail where the plaintext alternative version has templating variable names instead of actual values, where the html version has the values.

Also, systems that send mail where the plaintext alternative version is only something along the lines of “Your email client does not support HTML. Please read this newsletter at” and then a link. But of course, my client can read html too, I just have it set to view the plaintext version by default.

One of these days I will probably just set it to always prefer the html version instead. I use mutt, with elinks taking care of html to plain text conversion. I’ve been running my mail server for years.

But anyways it might soon be time for me to switch to hosted mail. I have a provider in mind.
I advocate getting vaccinated (I am myself) but if people don't want to put foreign substances into their bodies, we should respect their choices, especially since the long-term risk profile is unknown (we are pretty sure it's safe, but who can know?)
Anecdote: Three runners showed up in minutes at 4am when someone on my street suffered a cardiac arrest, beating the ambulance by +5 minutes.

There are so many ways to be cynical about the 4% to 16% improvement, but I think this is the most important takeaway:

> “The patient is dead” — meaning his or heart has stopped due to cardiac arrest — “and if you don’t do anything, 9 out of 10 will be dead forever,” he said.
They're comparing a dev-channel Windows feature to a stable MacOS feature. And they compare an emulated Chrome benchmark against a native version of Chrome. The Windows feature doesn't even run some apps, which is a clear sign that it's not optimised.

It's obvious that M1 is a lot faster, but all the theatrics and data in this video doesn't make up for the fact that this is not a good comparison.
You're not paying for the accuracy so much as the speed and reliability. The packaging matters a lot. A $10 knife and a $100 knife are fundamentally both just chunks of metal, but they definitely don't perform the same way. It's much, much better than a $10 thermometer.

There's a $30 Thermapen (the Thermopop), for what it's worth; it reads in 3 seconds, versus low hundred milliseconds.
Can you recommend a competing thermometer of similar quality, speed, and accuracy?
I'm in a senior position with no degree and the absolute best engineers I have ever worked with almost all have music degrees.

Edit: it's also worth noting as an ex-hedgie that in technical roles most of the firms specifically filter for people with musical ability for this reason.
"modest antibody evading capabilities“

This generally means that a pseudovirus built with the mutated spike escapes some monoclonal antibodies and has reduced neutralization titers against convalescent sera, which is fairly normal and doesn't add up to an escape mutation.

When it mutates enough to form an actual escape mutation that will probably come at a cost to the virus for transmissibility/virulence/viral load because it will need to escape at ~20 different epitopes. And still cross reactive T-cells will likely identify the new strain enough and active your immune system to contain it so that it acts more like a common cold than COVID-19.

Booster shots are probably still not a bad idea though, the more it gets boxed in by our immune systems, the more it'll have to make those costly evolutionary choices and become less virulent.