skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest benefit will be that mRNA vaccines may be used more in cancer treatments.

Now that we know they are safe (we've just had an informal clinical trial with hundreds of millions of patients) maybe they will get used more.

This is just the first article I could find on treating cancer with mRNA immunotherapy: https://molecular-cancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

I'm sure there are many more.
From this knowledgeable crowd I would like to know how does this compare with spaceVim. For somebody coming new into vim, what would be the right one.
If you really think this is merely a supply-chain issue, you haven't been watching the continuous stream of Fed easing that has been happening since the GFC, and arguably almost since the end of the .com burst.

The Fed is buying $120 bln in debt per month, every month. Is this because lumber isn't in stock at Home Depot? The Fed now purchases 40% of the debt produced in the economy...maybe it really is because of the pool chlorine supply issues.

I see your response as just another variant of the HN denial on this topic...you're literally suggesting our only problem is not being able to keep up with the awesome.
This is interesting, and I broadly agree with Kieran's complaints about the quasi-REST-lite that passes for web APIs today.

Sadly there's not much tooling or guidance around to try and encourage people to do REST properly. It's really not done well at migrating out of academia, as the author points out, and that's starting to look like a missed opportunity for industry. Other comments here seem to tacitly accept that (lots of "Oh well... is what it is.") Everyone's learned to operate within the status quo, but it's quite costly for API consumers to deal with a range of idiosyncratic APIs (and it's bad for providers too: trying to produce something ergonomic and consumable takes significant effort). Hypermedia would make a lot of that cost go away by making APIs inherently discoverable and eliminating all those unique client libraries and boilerplate.

(Plug follows)

To try and address that and, in the process, nudge the world towards building and using true hypermedia APIs, I and a couple friends started building https://intertron.dev - a mechanism to turn any web API into a proper, hypermedia REST API. Contact us on that page if this is a topic of interest, we'd love to talk. We can let you have a play with the pre-launch version too.
suncreen works by blocking UV rays before getting to the skin. how does something rubbed into the skin block UV rays?
UK didn't do widespread testing in the first few months. People into hospital were tested, and those figures suggest that there were 3.5 million cases by the end of April 2020, and over 10 million now.
The Engines of the Largest Container Ships in the World (2018)
This does seem like it would be helpful. They started coloring the USB-A ports blue for those that were compatible with USB 3 high speed data. I think the challenge may be to get people to understand it more than being afraid to plug blue in to black. I know quite a few people just assumed the color choice was a design choice and if the cable fits, plug it in.
To clarify further, even the "innocuous" chemicals in sunscreen might not be so innocuous when inhaled. Benzene doesn't even have to be part of that equation.
Your second sentence does not follow from your first. Trillions of dollars in stimulus have allowed millions of Americans to retain the bulk of their income while not working to produce anything.
That's the perfect way to do it. If it's docked, you likely don't care as much about the charging speed. And if you're using on your lap or coffee table, you probably care more about the MagSafe aspect.
Decentralized Internet Service Provider
> In my opinion, accessibility should be implemented at the OS level.

Which it is. Apple has been praised for the accessibility of both macOS and iOS for years if not decades, accessibility concerns have been baked into Cocoa forever. And accessibility is literally a top level category of the Settings app.

And I know that Windows has been improving by leaps and bounds.

> The OS can, for example, run OCR on the entire screen and turn bitmaps into selectable text, read text out loud, etc

That exists (look up VoiceOver Recognition). However it can not be reliable, and will never be anywhere near as good as actual semantic annotation.

Image recognition has no way to understand that the physical UI layout has no relation to its logical setup, nor does it have any way to differentiate between semantic and decorative content, or to see through invisibility to know that a button is a menu versus an action.
That study wasn't controlled. The most common reported symptom was fatigue. Many people who have never been infected also report fatigue symptoms. We'll need more research to reliably quantify how many patients experience long term symptoms.
Is there any basis to this theory, at all, in science?
agreed on all points, except the assumption of evil. There is certainly evil in the world, yet "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

Malice or stupidity, they both should be held accountable. They are prepared to be held accountable using this fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
A lot of impressive and intricate work has gone into getting their project to this stage. I think especially something like only supporting running on NetBSD >= 9.1 can be forgiven, but even the build OS requirements seem quite justified for now (Linux, macOS, and Windows supported, the latter two require the GCC ELF toolchain though).
Literally never got a stimulus. Students, especially poor students on scholarships, are so thoroughly fucked by the US tax system. It's gotten to the point that schools like Princeton and Stanford encourage low-income full-ride students to avoid declaring their tax liability at all, arguing that they're better off dealing with that monster when they actually have income (in software, finance, etc where the tax liability is negligible in comparison to a full-ride to an elite college).
Your Thunderbolt cables don't have the lightening bolt logo on them? I didn't think it was a 'requirement' but every TB cable I've seen always has the thunderbolt icon.
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The issue there needs to be a mechanism, say an added/increased tax, to extract more value from the companies covering more services or industries due to the economies of scale and other advantages - and then that money funneled into smaller, new(er) entrants so there are competitors that can exist as a fallback/failsafe.
So more people are adopting smart shopping practices by avoiding name brands, and plan to tighten up their budgets. Basically things I already do.
This might depend on the device, I'm using the Fire stick and I think it bundles the seasons under one show.

I'm not praising that app at all btw, that's just why I think the award for worst app goes to CBC gem on the Fire stick. It shows you which episodes you watched. Past tense. To watch the next one you have to search for the show again and navigate to the episode. Why on earth would anyone want that?!
It doesn’t sound like 100w was arbitrary. Increasing power always means increasing either the voltage or the current, or both. Increasing the current means you need larger conductors, i.e. a larger connector and thicker wires. Increasing the voltage means mitigating arcing concerns, which was mentioned in the article.
I was planning on adding the search, but held it off before i could validate the need for it. I'm glad you liked it
For most users the M1 is fast enough that a nicer user experience (no fan noise) is more worthwhile than slightly better performance.

My friend recently purchased a MacBook Air with M1. There's no fan at all. It's incredible. It's a block of metal that just works.
"in NTM" - (next twelve months)
Some of the value statement around community impact is done in-person or through outreach leveraging the tools from Streetmix.

Other projects such as 3DStreet and A/B Street that I posted in another thread are also working on downstream impact of street configuration changes on quality of life. In A/B Street they work on the cascading effects of the change on other transportation users on surrounding routes. In 3DStreet we are working on impact for noise and pedestrian safety conditions using XR tools.
Is there a good nontechnical analysis of what would’ve happened if the government did not give out any stimulus?
> And many people know that specific colors are really just wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. [...]

> There are many systems involved to turn an RGB triplet value into a specific wavelength of light

I think this wavelenght-color connection, often perpetuated in high-school classrooms, confuses people more than helps. In particular when talking RGB colors, your display (or really, any part of the process) will not really change the wavelenghts of outputted light based on the input.

Also colors really are not just wavelengths in EM spectrum. Color is more of a perceptual phenomenon, something that happens in our heads, more than physical phenomenon. And there are many things that can impact the color perception, most obviously the other surrounding colors and ambient lighting.
Simulating Update or Delete with Limit in Postgres: CTEs to the Rescue
They could rationalize it as only capturing the commands and not the arguments, or something. (If that's indeed the long-term plan. No clue; for all I know data collection isn't intended as the business strategy whatsoever.)
It's surprisingly plausible that wages would not rise and inflation would speed up.

This can occur because companies lay off employees due to rising costs and lack of demand (while raising their own prices) or because the money is going to some alternate consumption.

Food prices could increase today simply because one or more of the beneficiaries of those trillions of dollars has allocated it to land acquisition. Retiring of productive capacity for other "economic" purposes will increase inflation.
Continuous LOD research dropped off dramatically when GPUs got vertex shaders. At that point, having the CPU touching the vertex data at all became more expensive than it could be worth.

Instead, 3 or 4 static LODs have been the way to go. Those static meshes can be individually well optimized. There are surprisingly few good options for auto generating static LODs even today...

Mesh Shaders are opening up whole new opportunities that are only starting to be explored. You get far more general purpose, compute shader like features. But, you have to work in small packets. Funny enough, they are a lot like PlayStation 2 vector unit programming made modern. That design really was ahead of it’s time. But, the fundamental physics advantages of SIMD working on a small chunk of SRAM are as valid as ever.
I’m often fallback on the sed match-replace strategy for things like this.
So basically control, who has the power in a relationship.
You might want to checkout A/B Street which is an agent simulator. https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet
Thx. I didn't know that and did a search on it [1], some more details here [2], [3] but they still dont explain why they dropped Unreal and made their own in technical details. I guess partly to protect their IP partly to protect Unreal's PR.

I am also wondering how much did it cost for them to develop their own Rendering Engine.

Or could it be Epic was too busy with Unreal 5 they dont have the manpower to help ILM for their specific feature request.

[1] https://80.lv/articles/a-look-at-ilm-s-work-on-the-mandalori...

[2] https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/mandalorian-season-2-virt...

[3] https://www.engadget.com/the-mandalorian-season-two-stagecra...
Shell could certainly shut down to force their will upon the Dutch people...for about 10 minutes or so; after that, the entire board will be behind bars and the company nationalised.

Don’t be silly. Energy is a national interest.

Secondly, one of the reasons for this verdict (see 2.5.9 and 4.4.20 in the judgement) is that Shell has known about the dangers of excessive CO₂ emissions since the 1980s. If this wasn’t about CO₂ but H₂S (a foul smelling and poisonous gas) they’d have to have stopped already.
"The fact that everyone keeps talking about more stimulus means that the government knows more than we do"

Like what?
This is great and I wish this mentality was pushed earlier on reddit.

There was a golden era of reddit right before the great Digg migration. Excellent comments, diverse opinions, and really great back and forth being shared of individual's experiences in almost every single subreddit.

Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all the subreddits (on both sides) to try to influence the general groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so disgustingly obvious but doesn't seem to be an issue for the team.

Maybe I am just getting old. I guess what I'm try to say is nothing will beat simply Google searching a topic and typing "reddit" afterwards to query some super insightful and awesome 5+ year old forum post on whatever the content is.
I don't take Rhonda Patrick seriously anymore. After using her Genome Analysis Tool and reading some of the reports I saw that some of the studies she cited in fields I have some knowledge in (nutrition) were known to have methodological issues. She also tends to cite a lot of animal studies, while we pretty much know that they're good for generating hypotheses and further studies and may end up being completely useless for humans.
How often do you rub gasoline on your skin?
Agreed, digital color can be a huge rabbit hole once you start understanding all of the pieces involved. Reminds me of one of my favorite xkcd comics (the alt text is particularly relevant here)

https://xkcd.com/1882/
Indicator recommendations are routinely ignored. There are already color codes for type-A ports, and there's the "lightning bolt" indicator for Thunderbolt USB-C ports, but PC manufacturers ignore them when they want their laptops to have a certain look and feel (e.g. gaming laptops want red or green everything, Apple wants aluminum everything, etc.).

Cable manufacturers are going to do whatever is cheapest.
> IRC is inherently non-private because anybody can join

Servers and channels can have passwords. Channels can also be invite-only.
Is there a reason Aus/NZ won't be able to vaccinate to the level the UK has so far by next summer?
The Freenode channel says it has moved:

> ChanServ: This channel is moving to #clojure on irc.libera.chat
The characters don't understand how it works, which is a key part of the main storyline.

spoiler alert

The books are a couple seasons ahead of the show, and this becomes and even more prominent plot point.

It's internally consistent so far, which is more important IMHO. What I mean by this is there's definitely things that are effectively "magic" to us, but not in the way lazy story writers use it (think ST:TNG where they just invent some technobabble that solves the problem in the last 5 mins of the episode).

I particularly liked where Detective Miller explains to Holden why he can see him, effectively saying something like "there's a few billion neurons in the human brain, like a massive keyboard - we just have to push the right combination of buttons"
> ...anything competes with Mac OSX terminal out of the box...

Would you like to explain how? Maybe not iTerm2, but the Windows Terminal is a pretty capable terminal compared to Terminal.app and it's development progress has been phenomenal.

> WSL1 and 2 aren't super approachable even now...

How so? WSL2 ships with a full Linux kernel, the GUI/Audio support has already hit Insiders and installing Ubuntu is literally two clicks on the MS Store.
I think part of the difficulty here is that there's two separate rebuildings going on: There's the various communities that used Freenode as their IRC location—which I would say are analogous to the book club—and there's the staff of Freenode itself, who are (by and large) migrating together to found Libera.chat. That definitely does not fit, because aside from the raw infrastructure, they're not relying on anyone else's support for this—they're not in someone else's café, they're the café staff.

So just to continue extending the analogy chain, it's closer to there being a café where lots of book clubs hang out, with a hands-off owner or some kind of employee cooperative actually owning the business itself, but through legal shenanigans, someone else gains control of the café business, and wants to drastically change how it's run. The staff all walk out and work on starting a new café down the street, and several of the book clubs follow because they like the atmosphere.
Absolutely. The B-corp by itself is indeed not a magic bullet, but the PBC transition (which is separate) does make a big difference. In a typical C corp the corporation is ultimately answerable to shareholders and it is shareholder pressure that causes buyouts and IPOs as shareholders need a return on their investment. A PBC is able to prioritize its mission (in our case, enabling access to scientific tools to everyone, regardless of means) over these demands.
tax the rich? by whom? the same people have gave the rich the money? a bit incestuous, no? This is my point. stop giving these people the power to take from one group and give to another. It only works out for those connected. And guess what? in the history of the world, the poor have never been connected. Lower taxes (lower spending) and the poor get to keep their money and do as they wish with it.
Do you smear gasoline on your skin daily?
Every time I fill my gas tank
The idea that more cash has driven up the price of basic goods this quickly is almost certainly frivolous. The pressure simply isn't there, especially with wages still so low.

That's not to say prices haven't been suppressed over the years in various ways that combat normal inflation (6oz denim Jeans that are now 10% Spandex I'm looking at you) and there's a ton of money in the system that have mostly went into assets.
All you need is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
Come on, we both know those topics mentioning libera.chat were "Go to Libera.chat instead! Our channel is now there. Details are..."

If you posted hundreds of messages on this site saying go to lobste.rs then you would get banned. If you posted one I doubt anything happen because that is fair. But lets also add in the fact that libera.chat went around bad mouthing the hell out of freenode and are now crying that freenode won't let them advertise their new network on their network.
How does buying up assets lead to price increases in "groceries (96%), gas (93%), dining out (57%), and clothing (42%)"? Are the Koch Brothers hitting up Costco every day?
Note that the list of affected products has several tables with different levels of severity:

– Table 2. Benzene detected at 2 ppm or higher.

– Table 3. Benzene detected at 0.1 ppm to 2 ppm.

– Table 4. Benzene detected at below lower limit of quantification (LLOQ).
unacceptable ;)
Apple patches dangerous security holes, one in active use – update now
On the SCP wiki, you could have two jobs and a kid.
Ok never ever have housing really prices gone down. Look at any chart of average home prices in the US if you bought a house at any time and waited 10 years you definitely made money. Even in neighborhoods where >50% people were in foreclosure their homes are worth more then ever.

If you can find anywhere housing prices are less then in 2008 please say so.

The Brexit thing is just guesswork on your part those properties will be sell at the same prices they were listed at probably nobody actually purchased them in the first place just for speculation.
> I have my doubts on how many other countries would've isolated their entire population and suspended travel in and out if given the same time line and information.

The rest of society is easily the shittiest thing to peg your morality against.
Nice, just found a bunch of my old favorite subreddits I totally forgot about since switching from the Reddit mobile app to Apollo. Thanks!
As a thought experiment.

In an economy where money fell in bags from helicopters from the sky, wouldn't you expect net makers and street sweeping trucks to experience drastic growth?
the formulation of the vaccine was very fast and relatively simple compared to the 12+ year span required to understand the virus to the extent that a working vaccine could be formulated.

we were lucky with this one, and we need to put more effort into surveillance of novel pathogenic threats and facillitate investigation regarding molecular characteristics

if this pandemic involved a pathogen that we have only a nodding familiarity with we would be having some very different concerns and probably have a pandemic that goes full bore until burnout with no vaccine available until such time as we learn how to make one.
Not for GPUs AFAIK but still related: https://www.blosc.org/pages/blosc-in-depth/
I hope this isn't a newsflash to anyone, but you don't need to get sunburnt to get heightened skin cancer risk from sun exposure.
I tend to agree, though I wonder how much of a "surprise" it is now, versus how much of the expectation has been (or currently being) baked in.

When you look at a number of interviews with bankers / investors and the like recently, the general message is "inflation is here, and the Fed will have to raise rates soon - it's not a question of 'if' anymore but 'when.' "
is there a good technical analysis? It's not like we can A/B test universes.
Hey Edwin,

Think it would be reasonable to also simply acknowledge that good small ideas might eventually become features of the platform:

<< Smaller companies make products that build upon, or fill gaps within, platforms from larger companies. The best of those ideas — ideas that truly would be better “built in”, eventually do get built in. The small innovators need to adapt or die (or get acquired, and become the built-in version) >>

from https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/apple_built_in_advantage
> There may be places that have only one provider with only one option in that provider, but are those places really $135/month with all the TV channels?

Yes, I've lived in places where there is one cable company and they abuse their monopoly position with predatory pricing like this. When you're a new customer, they offer you a deal at maybe ~$60/mo and then over the course of a couple years raise the price to over $120/mo, with price increases every year or two after that, as well.
Tasmanian devils have the first births on the Australian mainland in 3000 years
Lockdowns have also had a high negative impact on the poor around the world by preventing them from working and earning income. Hunger is more dangerous to many of those people than COVID-19.
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-sunscreen-creams-dangerous-che...
Very interesting, I didn't know pkgsrc could be used on Linux, I'll check it out. In general the only things keeping me from BSD are non free apps like Zoom so the next best thing is to BSDify my systems.
I work at the company where we made this Slack app

Really other marketing things came after, and it's mostly the Slack App Directory that got the app to 200K+ users–that and the fact that nothing else like this existed that was free.
Throw in a redis client or similar and you could have multiple players battling it out. (Assuming you don't want to put stuff into the actual folder on a per-player basis)
Psst... PS4 and Xbox One rendered 90% of the games at 900p. It's just your pretentious self who thinks it needs 4k.
Please stop the "someone you know or love" emotionalizing, it makes rational discussion impossible by making people overestimate risks.

Anyway:

> many more people would actually die because of this.

Numbers, please?

> 1 person dying out of 1'000'000 is not much on a spreadsheet, until that one is someone you know or love.

...with a probability of 1/1000000, which still isn't much. Nothing tricky about it.