skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's because there's absolutely no statistical evidence that any kind of serious, lasting long-term consequences are more common with covid than with existing respiratory viruses.

Well, there are indications to the contrary: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/long-covid-these-factors-mak...

The key problem is that there is a vastly higher number of total (and severe) cases of covid than the flu which means that inevitably the amount of long-covid cases will be higher. Add to that that covid19 is linked to multi-organ distress including neural symptoms, and you have the recipe for a perfect storm of hundreds of thousands of people who will be dependent on others for the rest of their lives.
Say sorry, why not, but demanding to pay back I don't understand.
It is not the same people in power nor the same population, why should they pay for their parents? It is preposterous. And where do you stop with this logic, neolithic?
They could still do the "game sales will offset hardware" idea, right? They could offer a platform locked down to Steam. Sure, it will be hacked at some point, but it's not a comfortable general-use device, so they can expect most people to actually buy games to play on it.
> Well the problem is exactly that they do change sometimes.

Well they shouldn't! And if the API arbitrarily changes URLs around without reason, then surely they might also change the URL for the initial request.
"Most Americans" really? What you describe is not at all most Americans.

Also people want different things at different points in their life. I dont see why it's "weird".
New USB-C Type 2.1 standard offers up to 240 W power delivery
Remember when Obama’s State Department made the Red Dawn remake people switch the antagonist from China to North Korea? Cena was probably just doing what our government was told to make him do by China.
I like your analogy to GitHub, and can appreciate / change my original viewpoint as a result to the channels aren’t the property of FN, so they don’t have a right on what to do with them
Meh, people don't care that much about STDs (hello herpes) either...
It would be enough for each node, to know the whole contact graph, and have that stored in a open format?

Like a xml adressbook, that could be parsed by any software and could be created even with limited apis as provided by discord etc.
Yes I made similar shell scripts and it did work. Initially I wanted to use Docker Rust or Go libraries, but none actually allowed to start a functionnal interactive shell. The output is a bit prettier than my shell scripts so this version still wins in the end.
I'm in the US, so I should be fine now, right? Nope. I got sick last March, before testing was a thing, the case was mild, I lived upstairs in isolation from my family for a month. However, ever since I'm short of breath.

It's been a year, I went through all the tests, heart, lungs, and even had an invasive probe of the pressures inside my heart. They had no reasons. Then I got laid off and insurance went away. Recently I found that If I stand, my heart rate rises 15 beats per minute, and goes right back down when I sit. Nobody knows how much damage this has done to those who are "over it". This is "long covid".

I've been physically tired for a year. To know there are so many people like me, to see the pollicization, and subsequent complete disregard for the tools of science, is heart crushing.

Sure, go ahead, think it's over... but what is over is a normal world. We HAD the chance to stop this, but blew it.

What we're going to find we are collectively left with is the most horrid words anyone can hear in medicine, "a new normal".
At least you can switch networks. With apps like discord you don't even have that option when the admins misbehave.
There are a lot of people vaguely guessing around at what the "real value" of a home is. In a world where you need shelter to produce income the value of a house is essentially all your income over the entire span of your life. So really arguments that houses are "overvalued" are ridiculous to me, houses have never decreased in value historically, why would they do so now? I am fully expecting single family residential properties to reach 7 and 8 figures in my lifetime. Why wouldn't they continue the track of the last 100 years?

No, increasing the supply will do nothing, speculators already own most of the available real estate so that will only drive the prices up further. Look at the number of single family home that are being bought and immediately rented out, in new construction the renters far outnumber the owners.

Until speculation is banned or the government locks in reasonable prices, prices will continue to rise in perpetuity.
The way I'd see this working is if it's not for playing games locally at all. Just boot straight into Big Picture, and allow for streaming games either from your local network via Steam Link or from a Steam cloud streaming service that gets announced together with this.

I think you could hit a really attractive price point for a a device like that, and it seems like a compelling device for Steam's existing user base. At least for me, I think it'd mean tossing the Switch into the junk drawer.

Targeting it for playing games locally just makes no sense. It's either going to be too expensive to have any real market, or too slow to run the stuff modern PC gamers want to run. Either way, it'll be a niche device that Valve shouldn't waste their time with (PC manufacturers will do it anyway). But nobody is making a dedicated portable streaming device as far as I know, and it seems like something that'd fit really well with a streaming service.
The basic idea is that distributed ledgers, tokenization, and smart contracts are enabling new paradigms for what it means to "own" digital property — in such a way that it is provably secure, transparent, and decentralized (i.e. built on distributed trust).

The other important aspect is that these systems and their tokens are programmable: "NFT" is just a standard set of functions within a blockchain smart contract, but new markets are emerging that explore alternative uses of the same tech, such as governance and/or entrance tokens that allows holders to participate in decentralized structures (multi-signature collaborative wallets, DAOs, etc).

Here's two interesting & positive examples off the top of my head:

[1] Hicetnunc.xyz - https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-brazils-diy-nft-art-mark...

[2] Mirror.xyz - a blogging platform that allows authors to create new markets, e.g. this crowdfunding campaign for a DAO creative residency that rewards backers with governance tokens https://creators.mirror.xyz/20Eyc57rknNJYL9vJa11zvupU_MXP7NZ...

EDIT: I should say I haven't looked at this OP's GameStop link, and there is tons of junk and unnecessary ideas in the NFT/crypto space. But if you look beyond the mainstream media headlines you may find the technology interesting.
50 volt @ 5 amps? Better make sure your ports don't have any lint inside. And don't forget your special EPR certified 240W USB-C cable, of course. The U in USB stands for "universal", but it feels like USB is trying to target a very niche market with this.
What Makes a Person Boring?
With Tile deal Amazon’s Sidewalk network just became more interesting
If we want more accessible UIs, we need to demand better standard accessibility APIs from OS vendors Microsoft and Apple.

Unity has no official support for screenreaders or colorblind modes. Unreal has both. If an major game engine developer like Unity cannot be bothered to add support, can we really expect the little developer hacking away on some OpenGL side project to?

Most people working with OpenGL use GLFW (or sometimes SDL), neither have any cross-platform API for supporting screen readers. Why? Because not only do Windows and MacOS have different APIs, but different screen readers, braille displays, etc. have different APIs.

But okay - let's look at the web. It's the most accessible platform of them all, right? What have Google/Apple/Mozilla done to support developers adding screenreader support from WebGL and Canvas-based applications? -> not a whole lot. You need to inject text into a hidden div, which also has performance implications so you need to build a UI to toggle it on/off or detect accessibility the way Flutter Web does.

We should have better accessibility, but as long as we expect developers to run through several hours/days of hoops to get even something basic working - it's just not going to happen, and that is mostly the fault of extremely poor platform APIs.
Both copyright predator and counter copyright predator industries are huge in Germany. These two together will absorb any volume of money you'll throw at them.
Allowing lawyers to create their own cases is a dark, dark pattern.
> It likely works in more browsers too

Never underestimate Safari. Its support of WebAudio is pathetic.
Having one USB-C dock powering your laptop (maybe with a hungry GPU), as well as a couple of monitors with everything through just usb-c cables is my hope, and this is one step closer.
Can confirm. We use PIDs in espresso machines to control the temperature of the water used in brewing. Some machines have simple thermostats that over/under shoot ideal brewing temperature and a PID will help keep a consistent temperature or even let you override the temperature (if your machine runs too hot or too cold).
Because GCC and Clang don't get to decide what hardware does with the register…
Yeah extensions need to deal with ads and tracking and the only way to do it is to nuke the site from orbit.
How to destroy your reputation in a few easy steps!

It's over for Freenode. The biggest channels have already moved to Libera. The Arch Wiki for example doesn't even mention Freenode anymore. Hopefully it won't take long for everyone else to move as well.
for the size and the topography of the country, yes, it's huge. shinkansen network alone is 1700 miles.

or, if you prefer a larger country, china's network is 24000 miles.
It's all fun and games until someone leaves a laptop in one of these places out of complacency and it gets stolen.
Yes, both networks are starting with metaphorical trustworthiness level at zero.

Libera, however, has a lot of implicit trust and goodwill because it is run by all the people who have been successfully running Freenode for all these years. These people have had a lot of time to screw users over for whatever reason, but have proven themselves to be honorable.

Freenode, on the other hand, is right now accruing "negative goodwill" by the bushels almost every day, thanks to its heavy-handed actions and communication.

Time will tell, I guess, but the optics are looking pretty one-sided, in my opinion.
They are entirely unrelated.
Making a PC like console might backfire. PC games are full of botters and cheaters (not saying you can't cheat on console, but I see 1-2 cheaters in a year on console compared to 50% of PC games population). It's the main reason I play games on console only.
John Cena Apologizes to China for Calling Taiwan a Country
This is very complicated and interconnected market segment.

You cant just play games on this device out of the box (some games yes) you need some game devs to adopt it and have releases on this yet another platform.

Valve would have to have a dedicated support team and long term strategy for it to become a switch rival.

And with Valve track record it will be an abandonware from the get go.
Andrew Lee is the number 2 who just took it all away. Now he's desperately trying to keep the prize he won from becoming worthless, and like many people with control issues and a fragile ego, he's doing it in exactly the way most guaranteed to make it worthless faster.

No FOSS project has ever had any particular obligation to keep their IRC presence on Freenode, and migrating from one IRC network to another has always been a pretty standard thing (if uncommon for any given community).

These communities don't belong to Lee or to Freenode, and acting like moving to LC or any other network is somehow a violation of any reasonable IRC policy is just ludicrous. Any network that had a policy that that was in violation of is not a network I would ever want to be part of a community on: it's draconian and entirely self-serving.
Halfway through my third reading and still not sick of it. It’s without a doubt my favourite Sci Fi of all time.
240W through those little pins in that little plug? I don't know if I want to power that large of a laptop with such a little plug.
Lee is a person unironically considering himself a prince. This explains a lot about his governance model.
Yes, but it is not that we don't use (or at least it is possible to use) ashes in "modern" concrete, typically we use ashes that are a by-product of (carbon based, yes I know) electrical generation plants.

The bigger difference in components is the kind of cement the Romans (and we "moderns" until a few years ago) used, i.e. pozzolanic cement, nowadays everything is "portland" cement.

BUT the definite difference is the kind of structures, Romans did not use "reinforced" concrete, only various types of "plain, non-reinforced" concrete, and all their structures are based on the main characteristic of concrete, which is its resistance to compression.

The idea of reinforced concrete is all about adding to a material with excellent compression resistance (but no resistance on tension/traction) a material (steel) with excellent resistance to tension/traction and relatively poor (in the quantities used in reinforced concrete) resistance to compression, obtainining a composite material that excels in both.

About ashes, overall it is more about their size that about their nature, concrete is a composite and if you have all possible sizes of aggregates (ashes are very, very small sized particles) in the "right" amount you essentially fit "better" the space, i.e. you have a higher density of the resulting composite, and, particularly when compression resistance is the goal, the higher the density the better the resistance.

Imagine (say) that you have to fill a 100x100x100 mm box with 10 mm balls, you can fit in them a certain amount of these balls (roughly 10x10x10=1000), but you are leaving lots of "air" between them, a single 10 mm ball is 2/3x3.1416x5^3=262 mm3, so the 1000 balls total 262,000, but the volume of the box is 100x100x100= 1,000,000, now if you have some 2 mm balls you can add them in the same volume, and then if you have some 0.5 mm balls you can put some of them in that same box as well, etc.
Most modern servers use TLS so it isn't any worse than imessage.
You're perfectly allowed to be upset but you're expected to avoid break the social contracts and rules that have been set up and kept as part of the community. If you can't do that then it makes sense for the community to abandon you.
IRC is inherently non-private because anybody can join and then do whatever with what they saw.

IRC isn't really unencrypted in transit though, you can connect via SSL (most people do so, probably) and there are channel modes on some networks that prevent people from joining if they aren't using SSL to connect.

You can also encrypt messages yourself and then send those on top of the IRC protocol.

As for anonymity, most IRC networks allow you to use a cloak to hide your IP (requires user registration, which would require one email interaction), some IRC networks hide your IP (or parts of the reverse DNS) and some IRC networks allow you to join using Tor.
The USSR collapsed from the inside.
>It is not clear who the owner is

The owner are the members of the organization. Look up what an Ideell Förening is.
People are starting to call it "Leenode" to honor Freenode's legacy. RIP one of the epic IRC servers.

It's strange that the downfall of the server is very similar to the downfall of a business. It's eerie how similar the mismanagement is. Or at least, what I saw at some past companies.
This isn't hyperbolic. The battle lines are a deeply fascinating "animal model" of real political tendencies. I've noticed a marked political split between those who stayed on Freenode and those who moved to Libera. You can probably guess which side is which - the side that stayed is the side afraid of change.
> They are now the network that tried to build a Berlin Wall to keep the users in.

If the free speech of official project channels is off the table, then the community has already been destroyed. How the result of these actions were not painfully obvious to Lee is beyond my comprehension.
The end of a certain Internet epoch, I should say.
My favorite example is that Aristotle came to believe, through sound reasoning, men had more teeth than women. And then never bothered to count.

I've never checked if this story is true. But it sounds like something Aristotle would do, so I believe it. ;-P
NFT's applied to real world things or stuff like video clips does seem kinda silly. You are right, NFT seems geared towards things with no redeeming value whatsoever ... in the real world. Video games have had the concept of tokens for decades and those even have printed on them that they aren't redeemable. That is why NFT and video games are a perfect combination, possibly industry changing.

Think of it in terms of an operating arcade. A video game NFT is like a special physical token only you can own (or maybe limited numbers of them) and when you drop it into a game, it gives you a unique item, exchanges for currency in-game, etc. If this is what GameStop is doing, they could be the backbone for all of this - the token machine at the arcade. Or the token machine for every arcade.

I think NFT might become a marketable term for things that aren't an actual crypto currency but use blockchain simply because there is a lot to unpack and understand to explain to someone like a grandma. Some possible uses based on my limited understanding of NFT's/blockchain:

- Revenue sharing of second hand digital games with developers. If a game purchase is an NFT and gets resold, my understanding is there is the possibility for royalties to go back to the original owner. This would make second-hand games a very profitable business for GameStop and game developers.

- Novelty/Collectibles - say a sports star purchases a digital game as an NFT, sells it at auction for charity and now someone gets to own the single copy of that game that sports star owned, with a one of a kind in-game item.

- In-game currencies, cross platform, cross-game. You have a stack of tokens usable across anything. Kinda like old school arcades. Yeah that's not NFT more of a wallet concept, again think of NFT as a marketing concept.

- Verifyable leaderboards, speedrun records, esports trophies.
Sounds like the Aya Neo...
It is legal as far as I understand.
I look forward to USB 4.1a Type C.2 Phase iii.b Gen 3E and the 482646282 different cable capability combinations that all plug in and have no distinction of those capabilities whatsoever. I also look forward to all the necessary and helpful posts telling me how the identical ports on my laptop are in fact diffferent despite their identical appearance.

But at least everything uses the same plug, so that’s nice.
Good usecase for Solid (https://solidproject.org/).
> Writing code to build Fuchsia OS does not involve great violations of morality and ethics that call out for something like the 'Nuremberg defense'.

Respectfully, while I don't think that Fuchsia warrants invoking the Nuremberg, I do think that it is highly likely to enable violations of morality and ethics down the line. The way I see Fuchsia, it's basically an effort to undermine the Linux kernel and switch it out for something with an MIT-style license. I see this as objectively immoral.

Linux is the de-facto open source kernel for the majority of people, and the fact that the open source kernel uses GPL (which strongly prefers end user freedoms) is one of the few things that holds the tide of privacy violations, user disempowerment and proprietary tech capture of our infrastructure, institutions and societal conventions. A world without a strong GPL base is a morass that drags down useful developments.

Quite frankly, I see no reason for Fuchsia to exist, and plenty of reasons why it shouldn't exist (not least because Google is in control). It should be boycotted. The society will be better off for it, though it may make a few billionaires cry.
Laptops shouldn't ever need 240W. That's just getting stupid. Buy a desktop if this is what you need!
On Windows, test it with NVDA[1] or JAWS[2]. On Linux, in Gnome, there's a screen reader that can be enabled in the settings under accessibility. I'm not sure what there is for Mac, Android, or iOS offhand.

Also, test in high contrast modes, and screen magnifiers.

1. https://www.nvaccess.org/

2. https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/
Just use a magic pipe.

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

The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats.
Yeah, imagine if people could do the stuff that they were not allowed to this past year, and so many things had not been postponed. Productivity would be through many roofs
Is m1aculpa like the mar1o spelling of the word? MamaM1a!
What I don't understand is what is Lee's motivation for doing this? He'll just end up in charge of a bunch of dead channels with all the staff and communities gone. I don't see a profit motive - is it pure vandalism?
I disagree. If someone writes the great national misery is over and they say it in South Korea or they say it in Bulgaria, I mean, great!

I don’t go and say, I’m glad it’s over for you but we’re still in the midst of it, so it’s not really over so get off your high horse!
What support is needed outside of controller support and whatever OS it runs (I'm assuming linux)?
Graphene-based concrete in commercial setting; improved CO2, strength, cost
ble.sh[0] is also good autocompletion and syntax highlighting solution for bash.

[0]: https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh
This is just how science works: we find evidence for some things, and we don't have evidence for others, so the things we can explain is limited to what we can back up. For example, we don't know why people yawn but that doesn't mean that we can't explain in detail how sedatives work.
What I find more interesting is how singlehandedly Libera ate Freenode's lunch. You might expect all of these FOSS communities to splinter apart, but they all seem to be gravitating toward the same place. I wonder what the story behind that is?
Not to mention that "running an IRC server" isn't just a technical job, it's a social one. You have to interact with channel owners, ban abusive users, combat spam etc. Much more efficient and convenient to consolidate all that into some sort of community.
Can you prove that this Ideell Förening exists? Can you prove that libera.chat domain name is registered on behalf of that org? These are things that should be provable!

Anyone can say: "I am the chairperson of an Ideell Förening called Libera Chat, and it holds every privacy protected domain on the planet (apart from the ones you know of that belong to others).". Prove me wrong.

Show the official registration information for that organization. Show the official registrant of the domain. Thats all Im asking for.

Honestly...

As I mentioned, if they hold a bank account (which clearly they should, to pay for the domain if nothing else, to reinforce "ownership" of the domain), then they need - BY LAW - a company registration number.

EDIT: So many downvotes for asking for proof that this non-profit exists and "owns" the domain. What a silly thing to ask... I'll be putting off migrating until its clear its not another bait and switch.