skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't looked into Labdoor in a while but many years ago they weren't very reputable, they had questionable testing methodology and their scoring was heavily weighted just based on what ingredients were in a product and ignored the claims of a labels accuracy.

Did they improve their process over the years or just marketing and brand recognition?
Czech activists cut giant Pac-Man into rapeseed field
This is one of those things that sounds bad on first glance, but doesn't withstand deeper scrutiny. It's largely either a good thing or else not true.

If the 1000 lives were not in imminent danger or else could have been saved by other means, it's not trivially true that only killing 1 in 1000 should be neglected. How does that compare to the alternative methods? Could it have been avoided with small or reasonable changes to the product? Were people properly informed of the risks? There's a bunch of stuff to unpack here. It's not trivially and obviously true that it's A Bad Thing to get sued if you save 1000 lives and kill 1.

On the other hand, if you are in the situation where those 1000 people are absolutely going to die imminently, your product has the only possible chance of saving them, and in the end 1 person dies sooner than they would have without treatment... you're not going to see a major and massive lawsuit out of this. You can be sued, but your annoying neighbor can also sue you for being annoying if they want. Doesn't mean it'll go anywhere, or that you'll lose your pants from it.
I did read the first page. The rhythm of sentences seems simplistic, words too short, sentences too short. Too much telling, not enough showing.
According to page 128 of their S-1 filing [0], their claims bot "AI Jim" processes claims without human intervention in a third of cases, including automatically denying claims. So either the second tweet in the thread is a lie, or their S-1 filing is a lie. This was pointed out by Rachel Metz [1].

[0]: https://sec.report/Document/0001047469-20-003416/#cy40510_bu...
[1]: https://twitter.com/rachelmetz/status/1397625251257753606?s=...
Appsumo is looting from my credit card, what can I do? Please help
What I want is a big 5 personality test and test about my interests. Then I want to be shown where on the internet there are like minded people interested in what I am interested in.
I want people who are highly agreeable, highly open and totally not conscientious and who want to discuss philosophy or mathematics or social change or whatever. Where are my people? Don’t you want to find your people? Build my app for me. I don’t have the time...
And maintenance. I like the idea of having to give them a key to your house to replace a disk when the SMART alert phones home. :)
> Editing/moving over text is just way faster with vim then any other editor (not just slightly faster, light years faster).

Text? Yes. Code? No. Since editing moving code is a subset of refactoring, and Vim has no knowledge about code.
That's the exception that proves the rule. /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians have heavy handed moderation to keep quality much higher than the rest of Reddit.

I don't know how one can disagree with the fact that most of Reddit is quick engagement posts (images, memes, even if they don't fit the subreddit) and witty one liners voted to the top. There's good stuff, sure, the point is that it's hidden behind a ton of crap.
They will use Illumos with Bhyve, @bcantrill said it in a podcast just a few months ago. I have linked it somewhere in my comments (look at my profile).
People already incorrectly buy USB A when they should have bought USB C or visa versa. Changing the physical form-factor doesn't solve this problem.

"I thought I needed a USB cable"?

Also it's a huge waste if say an HDMI 2.1 cable cannot be used on an HDMI 2.0/1.4 device. People would complain about that too.
Ireland Says ‘Real Risk’ Hackers May Release Stolen Data
Bitmapped displays were rare in 1982.

The Apple Macintosh was 2 years away, as was X11 (the X Windowing System) for Unix. Even the Macintosh predecessor Lisa was released in 1983.

The Andrew Project dates to 1982. The Xerox Star and Apollo systems date to 1981, the year prior to Ariel's release. Only the Xerox Alto significantly preceded Ariel (1973), but it was not widely used.
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The same also happened with Daoism. The West took the philosophical part and ignored for many years the cultural aspects, belief system, and worshipping rituals (i.e., the religion) behind it. Until some scientists pointed out (quite recently actually, if I remember correctly) that you cannot just do that.

I don't know much about Daoism and Buddhism, but I know a guy who compliments people in the West who claim to be Daoists on their excellent Chinese. Most of them don't get the joke (it seems many important texts have never been translated).

Concerning Buddhism, don't certain sub-branches of Zen buddhism come quite close to the Western "no magic" version?
SG1 was a gold mine of genre savvy moments

>Carter: We just passed -40 degrees
>
>Jackson: Farenheit or Celsius?
>
>Mitchell: At that temperature they're the same
It's an "enterprise" product, so you can be certain that some amount of extra money will buy you that capability (if it's not already included).
The Multiple Self (2005)
Even the "live well" philosophies were heavily influenced by India. Democritus, the father of antique materialism which lead to Epicurus and Lucretius was heavily influenced by gymnosophists when he traveled to India.

Realized this when I was talking about it with an Indian Colleague and when I mention the principals of materialism she immediately recognized elements of her own religion.
> and the streaming services don't have ads.

Yet. IIRC, when cable started, it didn't have ads either. It was its selling point.

Advertising is a cancer on society that infects and poisons every communication medium available. It has already metastasized to streaming platforms, though it's not conspicuous yet. You don't have to watch interstitial ads between episodes of your favorite show on Netflix, but if that show is a modern production, it's likely overflowing with product placement ads. When that and other means of making easy money get used up, you can be sure that overt ads will follow.

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again." And that's a salient argument in favor of torching the whole advertising industry to the ground.
Researchers at Johnson & Johnson detected unsafe levels of asbestos in the talc as part of their own internal testing. There are internal emails that show high level executives asking researchers to switch to a less sensitive test which would allow them to make the concentration of asbestos appear lower than it really was. I remember that when the story first dropped, the people writing J&J's press releases were very careful to use only the present tense when discussing the asbestos levels in their talcum products which implies to me that they did eventually rectify it. That's all I know. I didn't follow the story for very long.
You never actually made a cost/benefit analysis, you just said some things have costs that outweigh their benefits. My comment clearly demonstrates that technologies which lead to externalities like drug use, money laundering, human trafficking, and pedophilia clearly don't automatically fail to pass a cost/benefit analysis.
Maybe I'll be able to see MGM movies again. I was sad when Comcast dropped their MGMHD channel.
5 out of 6 as well using a cheap pair of Koss KSC75 with some late 30's ears. It was the Katie Perry Song that I missed. "larger and fuller" is a good way to describe it.
A Covid-fighter's guide to T cells
Why do people hate inflation?
Open-source firmware? Color me impressed! And I must laude the clean, well thought-out UX of the website.
If the drug breaks down rapidly in the body, yes, we can indeed know that. Then there can be no mechanism by which it can have long term effects. That's what happens with the delivered mRNA.
Why Is JRuby Slow?
242,000 acres sounds big but it isn’t a significant percentage of US farmland. A large farm (in the $1m sales class) is usually above 3,000 acres in size. So Bill has bought less than 100 large farms. There are somewhere around 78,000 US farms in that class making up about 4% of farms and containing 25% of existing farmland. In other words, Bill owns squat. He probably bought those farms as an investment, there’s no reason to be hysterical about it.
I have taken to buying long-sleeved (and hooded) fishing gear to wear outdoors in the spring and summer. With modern synthetics it's not bad at all, certainly better than cotton. Same with pants.
A lot of customers are asking for private cloud.
To find short circuits of a theoretical chip. Basically any time you want to know if wires get crossed.
> July 1, 2021: end of support July 1, 2021 will mark the end of support for C1

Haha, I had a ticket open for about 2 years. They escalated it several times, but never worked on it. After this announcement they were very quick to close it. Not that I would have expected them to solve it before July 1st or therafter...

Well, you get what you pay for. They were very cheap and the machine was pretty reliable while it lasted.
Working quite well for what purpose?
Life after an internet mob attack
I don't get that reasoning. Obviously the Fed will prevent any such loop from happening, and it won't be the least bit controversial. They have many options to do this.

For example, the Fed can in fact print money and buy treasuries (which they already did). They can (and do) pay the "profit" on Treasury bonds to the government, which they could accelerate to immediately, then buy a boatload. Or they can change reserve requirements on banks. Or ...

Whatever you think is going to bankrupt the US government, it's not going to be treasuries. It's just not.
Not using the proper cable could lead also to fires, for example. We are talking about a significant amount of current. If you don't use a cable rated for that current, the cable or the connector will overheat, and possibly start a fire.

And it's not a remote possibility. It happened to me with a fast charging phone power supply and the phone, and the cable was the one provided by the manufacturer! The type-C connector at the phone side was red hot and started to melt, probably caused by a bad connection caused by dirt in the phone connector. Fortunately I was there, and smelled the burnt plastic and disconnected the cable, but what if that happened at night?

And it's not something trivial that power supplies and phones can detect, there is not a way to determinate the voltage drop in the cable built into the standard (basically all they needed to do was to add a voltage sensing pin on the connector, to be shorted with VCC at the load side, so the power supply could sense the voltage at the other side and determinate if there too much drop, but as far as I know it doesn't have it).
>AMD MILAN

Intel is losing on the client and server. everyone is jumping ship to either ARM or AMD for client/server. hopefully Intel new engineer CEO can turn it around like AMD engineer CEO (Lisa Su)
7 meter rise. If that happens, we're toast.

Yes, an Antarctic melt would be worse, but it's far less likely.
I couldn't find the original source, but here's a link that mentions the comment. Anybody have the original source?

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.5.020563/fu...
I think he wants us to feed the AI our business plans? I wonder what they intend to do with that? Pattern match investments, or something more?
Real-Time Card matching game
This is a real-time card matching game I made which I thought was cool so here is a my githhub repo link: https://github.com/johnSmith-png/CONNECT leave a star if you like it if not give me some feedback
Better still, all modern IDEs have tools that actually work with code, not text.

And navigating code is significantly fatser in an IDE than in Vim. This includes things like juping to definitions and implementations, finding call sites, fuzzy search on symbols (not text) and dozens and dozens of other things.
and about 1/3 getting printed out and faxed and then data entry clerks keying in what comes out of the fax machine on the far side.
Decades ago, I was saying the same thing in the opposite direction when backers of global warming were saying, "look how hot it is." I'm talking the 80's when I said it was a terrible argument, because all it takes is a cold day to refute it...and here we are.

I seem to get downvoted every time I mention this, as apparently people want to forget global warming was ever bolstered by, "look how hot it is" and they would prefer to just now ridicule people for the same errors their side was guilty of for literally decades.

So yes, the event is real. Ridiculing opponents for making the same argument with the same temporary data points isn't winning anything.
BMW will discontinue 3G ConnectedDrive in February 2022 [pdf]
How are things in PR these days? I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with a pandemic while simultaneously trying to rebuild basic infrastructure.

Have you been able to get back to some semblance of normalcy yet?
Yikes dude you work for Intel?
> People already incorrectly buy USB A when they should have bought USB C or visa versa. Changing the physical form-factor doesn't solve this problem.

At least the nature of the problem is immediately apparent to such people the moment they attempt to plug the cable in. If the cable won't fit, they know there is nothing wrong with their computer; they didn't misconfigure anything or click the wrong button. The problem is unambiguous.

Some USB-C cables not working with some USB-C sockets leaves users feeling gaslit.
+1 to congrats -- my read on this:

- There's a bunch of RJ45 up top that I don't quite understand :)

- A bunch of storage sleds

- A compute sled, 100G QSFP switch, compute sled sandwich

- Power distribution (rectifiers, I'd think, unless it's AC to the trays?)

- Another CSC sandwich

- More storage.

I assume in reality we'd have many more cables making things less pretty, given the number of front-facing QSFPs on those ToRs.
I'm not sure that's really true. Any publication with 100 different writers almost certainly has some kind of style guide that they all have to follow.
They're not using "telemetry" as a euphemism for "shipping spyware to end users to record their actions on their own machine", in this case. This appears to be a very fancy log aggregation product that has also eaten logging/tracing related configuration deployment functionality.
I'm strongly in favor of prioritizing technical accuracy over perceived urgency. when people realize the sky isn't falling quite as fast as implied by the terminology, they grow cynical.
> - dedicated to virtualization, done their way

> - rather inflexible in hardware specs

> - vendor-locked at the rack - if you have hardware from someone else, it can't live in the same cabinet

This describes legacy IBM platforms quite well. If they can leverage hyperscaling tech to be better and cheaper than what IBM is currently offering, that's enough to make it worthwhile.
Oxide makes the hardware, so it makes sense to use them as the root of trust since you already have to trust them to not make backdoored hardware. Why bother adding more parties? Also, for remote attestation to make sense, it needs to be done in the hardware itself (ie. keys burned into the silicon). I'm not sure how that's supposed to work if you add your own keys, or whether that would even make sense.
I prefer Apple controlling their platform thank you very much. I remember Verizon controlling what I could use to connect to an old flip phone, not allowing me to use bluetooth but some service they charged for.

I remember Verizon controlling what OS version was installed and what firmware and what updates were even supported by them.

Remember when Cell Service providers charged us PER SMS text?

I do.
> However, we discovered that gRPC needed improvements — at least for us. How could this be? After all, gRPC was built by Google and it’s used by all the “cool” companies.

Sounds like the other google product they're using, golang. Wait until they figure out that it sucks.
I've only spent a lot of time with homebrew, apt, yum, dnf, pacman, and the latter is miles ahead in speed, efficiency, with the only drawback behind non-sensical option mnemonics: so instead of `pacman update all`, you get used to doing `pacman -Syu`

Then add Arch Linux's AUR, and you get the best ecosystem in the Linux world bar none.
New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic
That's not specific to technology. Applies also to dialog and action. I don't mind this, but I'm getting tired of the transparent screens and random graphics.
I submitted a chargeback with my credit card provider after I detected this fraudulent transaction. To that, appsumo replied back by giving a false ip report that is not related to me. I had purchased a small product from their site one year back and they are submitting those information. This fake transaction was for 600 usd and I strongly suspect there is security breach in appsumo as the purchased products are transferred to another account.
> Software updates shouldn't leave the user with nothing unless they pay.

I didn't leave it unregistered for long enough to confirm this, but: ST has historically been fully functional even when unregistered -- the only difference between a registered and unregistered copy is/was the nag dialogue they display every 10 saves. I don't think it's accurate to say that this update "leaves the user with nothing" -- the update was fully functional (and reversible!) right out of the box.

> Also, on Linux, there is no indication that the license would be invalid, or that the upgrade required further payment.

Same on macOS. I agree that this should have been made much more explicit.
Yeah, I've used Vim since the mid-nineties too. At first it was my "edit a config file in my RedHat 5.2" tool. Later, the more and more actual software dev I did, it became a daily driver. I am pretty sold on the "Vim way".

I have a workflow. It's hard for me to adopt new things into my worflow because my workflow works so well. I finally made the switch to NeoVim just over a year ago because I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I have to say, it's now firmly entrenched in my workflow. It's to the point where I'd be annoyed if I had to go back.

The one sticky point about your post that I wanted to highlight:

>I personally don't like Lua much

I can say that almost anything is better than VimScript... I hate every moment I have to mess around with it. The hardest part is, I don't use it for anything else so every time I dive in, I have to remember how it works. At least Lua is a multipurpose language and documentation/help are plentiful.

But, I get that the whole intellisense, popup windows, bling... those things are not for everyone. If they don't enhance your workflow, then you're never going to desire them.
I was curious about it, so I asked. Why is that a problem?
> We are talking about a significant amount of current.

Are we?

I'm not sure how they deliver more power in this specification. But traditionally, the additional power (from 5W to 20W to 100W) was through additional *voltage*, not current.

> And it's not something trivial that power supplies and phones can detect, there is not a way to determinate the voltage drop in the cable built into the standard (basically all they needed to do was to add a voltage sensing pin on the connector, to be shorted with VCC at the load side, so the power supply could sense the voltage at the other side and determinate if there too much drop, but as far as I know it doesn't have it).

Surely we just set a current-limit, written into the specification. Then we choose AWG wires / connectors as appropriate to support that current.

Voltage can't go up arbitrarily, but voltage can safely be increased to ~48V or so in most applications. After 48V, humans start to get shocked / hurt, so that's probably the reasonable limit.

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And I'm pretty sure you can sense the voltage drop across a cable. USB-3 delivers 5V by default, and then you send protocol commands to increase your voltage to 12V or whatever. If you detect that the power-supply is only supplying 11V (after the 12V command), then its either a PSU-error or a cable-error. And I'm not sure if it even matters which is which (either way, you're not getting enough power, so your device needs to probably shut off)

You can then disconnect / reset your device and maybe stick to 5V default specs.
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Medical doctors are no more trained to digest scientific evidence than anyone else. Especially when it comes to population epidemiology.

Statistical illiteracy is widespread among medical doctors.[1] There's no reason to trust a doctor to interpret a p-value. For these types of questions you're much better off listening to a data scientist because they have actual training in interpretative statistics.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693708/
You don’t know that you’re going to lose, and trends can be reversed. They have been before. We’re doing the same thing to the global pandemic now with all these vaccines.
loose your credit card, call your credit agency, get new card different number, hope for a sensible resolution with appsumo now made more likely when you have turned of the taps to your bank account.
Name Affects Your Personality
I never realized that Democritus traveled to India. What an amazing journey that must have been.
It could power non-computers too. USB is a defacto standard for ubiquitous DC power, but only for small devices.

Now we might have a standard for a broad range of DC devices.

Those USB coffee warmers might actually heat your coffee. :)
Hey! I've been working on this for the past few days and I'd love some feedback if you have any :)
The standard MacBook charger that comes with any Apple laptop is not thunderbolt.
There was Mosix at the OS layer in the 1990s and Virtual Iron at the hypervisor layer in the aughts. I think the cost and performance of software SSI just doesn't intersect with demand anywhere.
Yeah I'm not sure if there is an "ask" style subreddit for 3D printing, but IME the ask subreddits are a good way to get quality content on a broader academic topic.

There may also be a sidebar on a given sub with more specific related subreddits listed out. These can sometimes be more technical (for example there is a subreddit specific to breaking down NFL plays) or sometimes they are just a way to get a more specific viewpoint (I like to check out both teams' subreddits after some controversy happens, neither side is usually level headed but then you at least get both sides of the story).
I've been recently working on a personal project, and what works for me is defining a relatively small feature that I could implement, implement it and then stop here. For exemple yesterday was parsing. I focused on parsing "let x = <an integer>;", and that's it. This helps me have a sense of progress and build confidence. This is also an application of the technique where you stop working when you're in the flow compared to when you encounter a stopping point. This also helps reduce my anxiety about having to do it again since I know that until now I've been able to complete what I wanted, and again, builds confidence.

I also try to take my sleep seriously, which I think helps. My diet and exercise regimen are lacking, but improving them would probably help too.

> Sometimes, however, I spend a lot of time just staring at a keyboard, unable to type what I want to type.

TDD helps here. I find that often the most difficult thing is to start, and starting by writing a test is way easier for me than starting by writing the implementation.