skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on.

Was this heroic personal bravery, sword flashing agains the oncoming horde. No. But human society is evolving, and we need new heroes now. Heroes that can persuade us all to act in concert, who can organise as much as fight. The problems of the 21C don't need armies, they need ... whatever happened here.

Quite simply, do you have the phone numbers of enough people in your town to light up a runway. I live in a town of 2,000 houses, probably 2 cars per house. I am afraid to say I could not light up a rabbit hutch with my contacts list.
Statistically significant just means that the results are correlated at greater than some probability, not that the effect itself is significant.

I.E. you can have a statistically significant but unimportant effect.
This comprehensive level of extreme tuning is not going to be directly useful to most people; but there are a few things in there like SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_CBPF that I hope to see more servers and frameworks adopt. Similarly I think it is good to be aware of the adaptive interrupt capabilities of AWS instances, and the impacts of speculative execution mitigations, even if you stick to the defaults.

More importantly it is about the idea of using tools like Flamegraphs (or other profiling tools) to identify and eliminate your bottlenecks. It is also just fun to experiment and share the results (and the CloudFormation template). Plus it establishes a high water mark for what is possible, which also makes it useful for future experiments. At some point I would like to do a modified version of this that includes DB queries.
Last I checked in Canada, N95 masks are still about 3$ a pop for disposable, single use masks from industrial distributors. Pre pandemic, we bought 3M 8210s for about 15 cents in boxes of 160. I wouldn't call the current situation available and cheap.

Oh, and if you thought surgical masks were mildly uncomfortable, N95s are an order of magnitude worst. They pretty much need a perfect seal with your face and the 3Ms use a really tight rubber band to achieve that. 2 bands, actually.

I currently work on site and wear surgical masks all day, it's fine. Not sure I would want to do the same if it was N95s.
There is no evidence that inoculation with sub-viable numbers of virions works at all as a kind of vaccination. It's an interesting hypothesis but no one has done the human challenge trials necessary to test it.
New Gnome Human Interface Guidelines
I dunno I think it is doable. They still have a fairly well known name and a fair number of projects are still there (somehow).

Their real problem is the actual website UI sucks. I don't think they've changed it for about a decade.

If I were them I'd take something like Gogs and rebuild the site based on that.
Speaker components, tools and plywood. I've just finished building my first speaker and it sounds FANTASTIC and I designed and built it myself. It's been extremely rewarding and I highly recommend everyone to make something physical yourselves. So much nicer than making anything appear on a screen.

My first box is a ported enclosure tuned to about 45hz with a cheap 15" driver and a vintage compression driver on an old cast-iron horn. It looks pretty rough, I can just barely move it by myself, but it's beautiful.

Building it made me:

* Calculate the enclosure volume and port tuning and selecting the appropriate drivers.
* Buying amps and crossovers. I got a behringer ultradrive and a 4 channel PA amp
* Draw a plan
* Measure and cut the wood with the shitty circular saw I got (took me ages, came out not terrible)
* Routing the holes for the drivers and speakons
* Assembling: drilling, fitting, screwing, gluing, mounting T-nuts for the drivers
* Finishing: Sanding, oiling, stuffing
* Soldering connectors
* Installing drivers
* Tuning, adjusting crossovers

I started in august and just finished the first box. I have enoug materials for a 2*18" subwoofer and a 12" midrange horn to go with it. Overall I spent about 2000USD in plywood (18mm baltic birch), tools (cheapest I could get), drivers, DSP and amps.
I hope to have a very nice little rig together by the end of summer.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or be a jerk on HN. We're hoping for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is amazing and looks fun! I immediately paid to support the project, so I can play the toy later.

That said, I wonder if it will really make learning circuit easier. I have a hard time imagining that kids would give up learning circuit just because they couldn't get the abstractions. The biggest obstacle to learning, per my limited observation of course, is always lack of innate curiosity or sometimes talent. Those who get discouraged by the so-called difficult abstraction probably do not need to learn circuitry in the first place.

By the way, I find the promotional video interesting. There are a few frames that talk about how a kid had to resort to maths and what not to understand circuits, and videos showed kids checking out oscilloscopes, square waves, some complex circuits that looked like Y-delta transforms, and voltage-ampere curves (or something like that). I mean, if a kid would look into those things, why would we worry that the kid can't learn circuit? And since when looking into math is a bad thing?

Boswell's idea seems aligned with the movement of progressive math education in the US, which advocates that there's gotta be an easy and intuitive way to motivate and enable every kid to discover and grasp math concepts. I think it's a noble goal. I'm just not sure if everyone is born with the drive or aptitude.
Certainly don't get into debt for a wedding and I wouldn't recommend trading a downpayment for a wedding. Otherwise, do whatever you want.

$10K is like a used 2013 Honda Civic (1). It's really not a large amount of money for many many people. If someone wants to spend it on a day that enables them to celebrate with family and friends in a rare occasion, who are you to judge?

(1) https://www.kbb.com/cars-for-sale/used/2013/honda/civic/rich...
One doesn't usually drive with a monkey see monkey do approach, one drive with a casuality based knowledge of future event from current starting conditions and a combined destination goal with a sense of self preservation

Any computer driving approach that just scan the environment and find a path is doomed to fail
One common example is that religious cultures have a family culture that can propagates through time by having replacement levels of offspring.

So far, to date, every secular and atheistic culture tends towards inverting the demographic pyramid by having about half the required number of offspring to stabilize their culture/viewpoint through time.

This view assumes that there is any meaning to life, of course.
> I would make it impossible for them to acquire drugs

But how? Drugs are already illegal. There is currently a vast government apparatus designed to make drugs impossible to acquire. The US has the largest prison population on the planet due in no small part to the war on drugs. It's not like we go easy on drugs.

And yet, in your city there is an "open-air drug market". Making drugs illegal doesn't make drugs harder to get, because drugs are profitable. To paraphrase Ian Malcom from Jurassic Park "drugs will find a way."

I think you're noticing a correlation and labeling it a causation. If people had a place to safely do drugs, would they be overdosing in the street? If SF had more public restrooms would people defecate in the streets? If the city had more affordable housing would people be living in the streets? If people had access to jobs so they could earn a living, would they be committing crimes? You blame the drugs for the problems, but I see them as a symptom of larger societal causes.
Well for one, House representatives are apportioned based on population.
Oh yes, like Novell default policy to change password every 90 days. So many help desk calls.
I don't know. We had some of the highest mask wearing percentages in the country here in Southern California, yet some of the highest infection rates in the world. Something isn't adding up here. I'm guessing if everyone had N95 masks, we would have seen lower numbers however. I don't think the average cloth masks that people are wearing are very effective.
You’ve hit on my main qualms with the article that I’ve elaborated on elsewhere in this thread, namely that I think she came in with a self-fulfilling prophesy about being an outsider.

>That’s because she WAS an outsider

This is a bit in line with that same problem. Is she an outsider because she’s “poor”? Because she likes different hobbies? I’d like to think we should aspire to define our in-groups by less superficial means. I’m sure she could have been an “insider” if she (and others) didn’t define their tribes this way
Word choice is vital. I was once outed as a non-native english speaker because of a single word.

There's an old MMORPG that I used to play with friends as a kid. It has an item called copper shield. My friends and I didn't speak english at the time so we'd misspell and mispronounce the item as cooper shield. We had no idea what copper even meant, to us it was just the name of the shield. We all know what copper means now, but that didn't change our understanding of the shield.

A few years ago I decided to create a new account and play again for old time's sake. I joined a party and started talking to people. The second I said "cooper shield" I got a private message in my native language from a guy who learned it by playing the game with us. Because of that highly specific misspelling, he could tell not only that I was a foreigner but also which country I was from.
- An M1 Macbook. It's really good. It's a bummer I can't run virtualbox on it yet. Otherwise quite satisfactory.
- iPad Pro. Great for watching television. The sound quality on this is much better than the old (2013) iPad I had.
- A flat-screen TV. I had a CRT television that I ditched over nine years ago and had gone without since. I gave in a bought one during the pandemic. It's good for the occasional movie and night-time viewing in general (you can veg out on the sofa while viewing the program).
What are some things that are too extreme? And what are they extreme in relationship to?
Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I think the content has to be there to do the filtering. Garbage content supplied by recruiter will just yield garbage filtering, right?
There are a bunch more mitigations that can be disabled than he disables in the article. I usually refer to https://make-linux-fast-again.com/
Well if its anything like biology, your first bet would be to get a degree in astrophysics. Doesn't necessarily need to be an advanced degree, but enough to know how to ask the right questions of those doing the work. Second step would be to maintain a continuous love for art/ drawing/ illustration. Third step is to get your work out there/ build a portfolio.

Several colleagues of mine have ended up down the road of scientific illustration in biology. Most of them had BS in biology, botany, zoo, etc..

Also:

https://work.chron.com/become-scientific-illustrator-17160.h...
> For some reason I couldn't 'Reply' to compiler-guy's reply directly, so I'll try here.

Hacker News has a timeout where if you try to reply to someone too quickly, it will hide the reply button. This timeout increases the deeper the comment tree gets.
I don't think anybody is saying thid should happen without following the law so I am not sure what your point is?
And you didn't even touched on the e-waste issue.
How would that lead to the industry the company works in?
> Of course an implementation can do anything it likes, including defining the behavior. That's one of the infinitely many ways of handling it -- precisely because it's undefined behavior.

An implementation can do whatever it likes within the proscribed bounds the standard provides for reacting to "undefined behavior", and conversely whatever the implementation chooses to do within those bounds is consistent with the standard.

Which, again, is the entire point of this: "the loop iterates exactly 16 times" is a standards-conforming interpretation of the code in question. There's nothing outside the standard or non-standard about that. That is, in fact, exactly what the standard says that it is allowed to mean.

> I'm not using "undefined behavior" as the English two-word phrase. I'm using the technical term as it's defined by the ISO C standard.

So am I. Unlike you, I'm merely taking into account the part of the standard that says "NOTE: Possible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results..." and acknowledging that things that do so are standards-conforming.

> You seemed to be suggesting that "ignoring the situation completely" would result in the loop iterating exactly 16 tyimes.

I'm merely reiterating what the standard says: that the case in which the loop guard overflows can be ignored, allowing an implementation to conclude that the loop iterates exactly sixteen times in all scenarios it is required to consider.

All you seem to be doing here is reiterating, over and over again, "the standard says the behavior of the loop is undefined" to argue that the loop has no meaning, while ignoring that a different page of the same standard actual gives an allowable range of meanings to what it means for "behavior to be undefined", and that therefore anyone of those meanings is, in fact, precisely within the bounds of the standard.

We can validly say that the standard says "for (int i=param; i < param + 16; i++)" means "iterate 16 times always". We can validly say that the standard says "for (int i=param; i < param + 16; i++)" means "launch angband when param + 16 exceeds MAX_INT". Both are true statements.
Sounds like something we might have done in #c. Eventually I learned how to act like an adult, some time after I became one.
One interesting discussion point about American values it’s about whether it should be determined by the number of humans inside of American borders, or if it is just a birthright.

I support using satellite imagery to get a day by day census count to include tourists and everyone inside of America as part of the decision making and voting process to improve infrastructure at least.
Lifetime Plex Pass + Synology NAS.

I have an unmanageable amount of media with hit or miss metadata and multiple devices I'd previously have to manually sync to. Now I don't have to worry about it.

Sunday NYT + New Yorker print subscriptions

Very tired of online media. It's nice to sit back and read printed media on paper.

I don't buy much.
The person you were responding to in all likelihood meant majority of the rural / eastern part of the state not the entire state,
After brands, verified accounts are mostly models, sex workers, followed by vain people that are closest to the verification database

Journals and newscasters would then be much smaller

I don’t have any other opinion on the matter (or quantitative sources)
CARA – Covid Airborne Risk Assessment
So the actual tech here is:

* mRNA and lipid nano particles to get the mRNA into cells

* 2 pieces of mRNA. One codes for the change to break the gene for the protein being targeted and another to create a enzyme to edit the first piece into the genome

* both bits of mRNA need to be in the cell, then the enzyme and gene are created and the enzyme edits in the gene

So any cell where this works correctly (and its descendents) no longer produces the protein. It appears that about 60% of cells get hit successfully (based on a 60% drop on the protein level).

They only targeted liver cells. That's good because the liver tends to soak up foreign materials from blood. But edits were found at low levels in other organs (spleen etc). That shouldn't make much difference as the protein in question is only produced in the liver. But beware I guess as a multi-use protein could be altered in multiple organs.

Also, it looks like the edit was very accurate and didn't break other genes at anything like the rate it broke the target.

This is pretty incredible stuff. The biochemical equivalent of keyhole surgery.
> Why are the Kardashians the one thing in our society that is not allowed to be criticized?

They aren't, and I didn't say that. You can criticize the Kardashians all you want. Saying, effectively, "Kardashians are like these ant parasites, amirite guys?" isn't critique.

> I doubt you'd apply your comment toward your favorite political pet causes.

I think you dramatically underestimate how much I enjoy being critical of things I support, in fact much, much more so than things I oppose. Things I oppose I find easy to not discuss and write off/move past, generally.

> This whole "let people enjoy things" is cynical, usually coming from the types of people who don't let anyone enjoy anything unless it is degenerate and mind-rotting.

Let people enjoy things comes from a space of "We're all from different backgrounds, who are you to be the arbiter of what's fun?" Whether you are a furry or a larper or a reality tv show junkie or a gun nut.... who the fuck am I to tell you that you can't enjoy that? Obviously, there are limits when other people are involved (like, no, it's not an endorsement of enjoying murdering people), but I'm not out here trying to say that only lowest common denominator things are allowed.
some people do not speak English as their native language.
The last 30 years in Oregon, Both D's and R's have dis-empowered rural communities (Bill Sizemore comes to mind).

The cultural assumptions present in rural Oregon, Suburban Oregon, and Portland are vast. Go out to Christmas Valley. Go there. Then walk around the Pearl district in Portland.

You're trying to use pure reason. Go get some experience.
CCS is deployed at 4,375 charging locations in North America (https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html). That number will continue to go up.

The fastest EV cannonball run to date was done with a Porsche Taycan on Electrify America:

https://insideevs.com/news/464763/porsche-taycan-beats-elect...
The staging "workaround" actually strikes me as the exact correct approach. Linux merging some unstable feature to better prove the design of an unstable ISA extension seems like virtuous feedback loop of testing of designs before they are ratified.

That staging is for sketchy drivers but this is architecture-specific code strikes me as especially silly. Never mind CPU vs peripheral: both are hardware with interfaces outside Linux's control. The important distinction is internal vs external interfaces, and staging makes sense for me for dealing with all sketchy external interfaces alike.
One thing to point out is that those states are where the impoverished person must reside. The relative can reside anywhere and the state (depends on the one) can sue you or issue a warrant even if you live in another state.
Masks that aren't worn correctly tend to have very low efficiencies, because the air just bypasses the mask at the edges. Depends on many factors like the type, how hard you are breathing, etc. But filtering just 20% of the air breathed in is quite possible. And let's face it, people intentionally wear them incorrectly all the time because they suck to wear.

If you and I both have 50% filtration, that's the equivalent of 75% filtration. For the person who is vulnerable, that is much less effective than just wearing a 95% minimum filtration valved N95 mask/respirator properly.

It's just ridiculous that an elderly man on a flight, sitting next to a healthy 15 year old more likely to be killed by a flu infection(1), will be told to take off his valved N95 respirator here in Canada, to protect that 15 year old. I have friends who have seen this happen first hand.

1) https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
The Comply tips sound really good, will try them out.

Thanks for the insightful reply.
Time for a constitutional amendment to curb non-consensual government. State and federal government should have a generational opt in.
Please don’t recommend Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue. Bryson has no actual background in linguistics and there is a factual error or urban myth on nearly every page of that book. There are loads of pop-sci “history of English” books written by people who were actually competent in the subject.
> Genuine question: what's wrong with banning plastic straws?

The push to ban plastic straws was nearly entirely based on misinformation or lack of information. Most of the debate was propelled to the highest levels by a 4th grader that literally made the data up[1], but that data was used to prescribe a "science and data driven ban".

Turns out, plastic straws really were never a big problem. Sure, single-use-plastic is a problem in general, but the ban of plastic straws has had nearly zero impact on the environment - or it could be argued it's had a negative impact since companies like Starbucks started using "multi-use" recyclable lids which in reality end up being single-use and are often thrown into the trash instead of recycling bin, and use more plastic material than dozens of straws combined.

The plastic bag ban is the same way too... turns out those reusable cotton tote bags consume way more energy to produce than thin plastic bags, causing dramatic increases in GHG releases, energy consumption, etc[2][3]. We now know plastic bags and straws are not a major contributor (or at all, really) to that massive plastic dump in the Pacific Ocean, which is mostly from fishing vessel waste tossed overboard. Good intentions with poor consequences unfortunately.

It's this sort of "theater" that puts people off...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-b...

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/sustainable-shoppin...

[3] https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotto...

[4] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacifi...
It is. 14 is well above the median number of drinks for the US population.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/how-much-alcohol-do-ame...

One of the rare articles that discusses median consumption rather than mean average.

"The more I thought about these data, the stranger they seemed. My 11-drink-per-week habit corresponds almost exactly to the national average, 556 drinks per year. But according to this chart, that number would be grossly misleading, since it combines the huge number of people who never quaff at all with the much smaller group who drink like it’s their job. (Those in the top decile of consumption swig an incomprehensible average of 74 drinks per week.) When I compare my habit to the median instead of the mean, I find that I’m dosing myself with 10 times more alcohol than the typical American."
Contribute to Firefox or learn Python and C?
How difficult would it be to make decent contributions to firefox in C++, given I'm new to the language? I work as a data analyst programming in R, SAS, and SQL, and have taken a single programming course based on HTDP. My thinking was that learning how to navigate and contribute to a large complex codebase would be a good way to self-teach in an attempt to transition to a software
development role. While this would mostly be for professional reasons, I do use firefox and it'd be satisfying to contribute.

I received some advice recently, saying that I'd be better off following my alternative self-taught plan of building a foundation from learning Python, and that I'd be taking on a bit too much trying to contribute to such a large scale project without a solid foundation. I was going to follow what Trevor
Blackwell suggests in his FAQ (http://tlb.org/#faq), learning Python and C, and reading through some Python libraries and the interpreter written in C. Python is directly applicable to my job and could perhaps help me land a data engineering role.

Which plan would you suggest? Any idea how long it would take to get to the
point where I'd be able to make decent contributions to such a large project?
Thanks!
Gives buyers too much credit for strategy. “Meme potential” matters more than anything in a white paper.