skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found it weird that working a salaried position means you've got to have your butt in a chair 9-5 regardless of anything else going on - but you also need to be on hand to fix problems at 10PM without any compensation earned. It might honestly be nice if we transitioned professional work to hourly compensation - I think that would strongly reinforce the bounds of what you, the employee, owe the company and what compensation you should earn in exchange.
Asn HN: Does “People Also Search For” feature on Google annoy you?
It's been irritating me a lot, mainly because when I open a link and then go back to the search results, I want to quickly click on another link but they get shifted down due to this "feature".

Does it also annoy you, and have you found it useful at all?

I've tried disabling it using CSS injection, but that doesn't work always.
Outlook desktop client still has problems with really long links in that although they remain clickable, they don't actually go anywhere.
But it's only been a few months since administration, will the gap between expected and actual keep growing, or will they eventually level out?
We use release branches (git) for such cases - mainly because our deployment is based-off release branches, thus gives us flexibility to move a customer to a pre-release or even have then stay at a particular release forever. Bug fixes can be back ported as needed.

Tried feature flags but it introduced complexity.

I wouldn’t charge more as others are suggesting- bugs you’ll address before general availability is worth the trouble.
Hmm. The current trend is to do $20.21, up $0.01 from last year...
That can be covered by double blind tests.
The issue is that there is a fixed supply of oil, and every drop that we pull out brings our species closer to extinction. I’d rather not reward Saudi, but I’d much more prefer to halt production of oil ASAP.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/05/04/sp...

Derek Lowe has a post that discusses this.

In short from what I remember, the vaccine is administered in the deltoid, so most of the spike proteins should remain there. Some may travel throughout the body, but overall it is much much less than a natural infection.

That’s why I’m curious to compare myocarditis rates after vaccination to those after infection, because from what we know, natural infection should result in a higher rate of myocarditis than vaccination.
What happened in the mid 1700's to start a drop? I can understand the drops starting in the 1910's, and then again in the 1960's due to the federal reserve and the removal from gold standard, but what about the 1700's?
Having tooling to acknowledge that in fact no one will be affected by a change is a huge productivity boost.

Yes I do agree with that part
Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail
but that's out of 13m doses, so ~200 out of 13m. I'm not sure how that compares to the expected harm from catching covid but I imagine the vaccine still ends up massively favourable
Whomever manages to sell a product called "Grain Weevil" to farmers must be unfathomably brilliant.
A theory (far from proved, but certainly also nothing I'd consider "disproved") is that the spike protein itself may be dangerous, in which case injecting something into yourself that causes your body to deliberately produce it may not be an unmitigated good.

I don't think we have the data either way to be sure the spike protein is completely harmless, though obviously how dangerous it is is bounded by the fact that many people experience no ill effects. (That is, it obviously can't be super-ultra-deadly, because it's not killing everyone instantly. How dangerous it could possibly be is bounded by the fact that many people have received the vaccine.)
The average person doesn't need an "investment strategy". They "invest" most of the money buying stuff they actually think might help them, and the rest goes in a savings account, index or pension fund where businesses that do have a strategy use it to generate returns. On the other hand, it's better for the average person that need access to capital to grow businesses and create jobs that people with significant holdings of capital have some downsides from not letting anybody use it.

Imagine a wealthy person in 1635 has 1% of the dollars in the US. Their investment strategy regards actually using those dollars to help people as too risky, so they instead bury it in the ground. Four centuries later, thanks to millions of non-wealthy people working billions of hours and some very clever inventions and investments and no thanks at all to the wealthy miser, 1% of the US comprises many of the world's successful businesses and modern cities full of technology. Does the heir of the wealthy miser have a rightful claim on 1% of four centuries of other people's labour and capital being put to better use if he digs up the dollars? I would say no.
This is based on VAERS data. I encourage the curious to look at this data. I did. I would characterize its quality as so poor that probably no conclusions at all can be drawn from it. And I usually find myself defending the use of noisy and/or small data in similar situations.
One needs to actually read the paper to understand what it's postulating; the paper's title is not enough.

There is a temptation to view our capabilities as a complex set of interacting modules. Under that view, each module would need to be separately developed in order to artificially recreate our abilities. The paper makes the case that we need only a single carrot.

Per the paper:

"For example, the ability of social intelligence has often been framed as the Nash equilibrium of a multi-agent system; the ability of language by a combination of goals such as parsing, part-of-speech tagging, lexical analysis, and sentiment analysis; and the ability of perception by object segmentation and recognition.

In this paper, we consider an alternative hypothesis: that the generic objective of maximising reward is enough to drive behaviour that exhibits most if not all abilities that are studied in natural and artificial intelligence."
There's a reason why construction requires permits and it's not just because governments are being dicks about it. Amateurs have a habit of building structures that are dangerous in subtle ways. If they don't tear that bench down now, the first time a child gets caught between the back supports with the large space between them, they will.
The spike protein causes cellular damage, doesn’t matter if it comes from the vaccine or virus
I just did a web search: the results seem to be in the range 1800 t 2400 gallons per pound of beef produced.

Were did you get your numbers from?
Thanks, that's interesting.

I wonder how much the lack of sleep is what causes the problems, versus other effects of the drug.
Except it's wrong. I recently had the same misconception about the Plank constant somehow being some minimal unit, but it's not. This video from Fermilab's website helped set me straight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzB2R_qiC28
That's about the same rate as clots in AstraZeneca's vaccine.
> Under the veil of ignorance I would choose to live in a low/deflationary country than a high inflation country

Well, few people would disagree with you that high inflation is bad.

Between steady low inflation and deflation though, there's problems with deflation related to the fact that it's hard for the interest rate to go below zero (since people can just put money in their mattress to get a zero return).

Basically, the Fed lowers the interest rate to limit recessions (and raises it to fight inflation). But what really matters is the real (inflation adjusted) interest rate.

If the Fed cuts interest rates to zero, but deflation is 3%/yr, that raises the real interest rate to 3%. And raising the interest rate is itself deflationary, so I'm sure you can see the problem with this - it's a positive feedback loop. Deflation raises the real interest rate leading to more deflation, less investment, more loan defaults, etc. That's the classic deflationary depression spiral that often ends in massive, rapid currency debasement and/or political instability.

Because that's so undesirable (and historically the currency ends up debased anyway after a lot of chaos) there's an argument for targeting a small, but positive, amount of inflation every year just to be on the safe side.
I see a lot of this from People on Nextdoor. They see their favorite landmark demolished to build yet another block of apartments and condos. I've seen a sporting goods store gone, a furniture store gone. A bowling alley was saved but it will be built around. Some places I've seen low density industrial being replaced with housing. Some people fear that at the end it will just be housing and big box stores left.
So we can expect ecmascript 7 to include some dyadic operators ? :)

thanks for this story btw
"Has the whole world gone CRAZY?"
Certainly the case with the PCR test, because it is so sensitive. It can detect Covid fragments at such a low level that no symptoms would show and no adaptive immune response would arise. That's not enough Covid to generate memory and immunity.

You could be PCR tested positive, while experiencing a cold or flu (which you would now understandably think were Covid symptoms), but would not have immunity for a future, larger infection from Covid.

Though statistically unlikely, it's bound to happen sometimes.
The main issues I’ve faced with Jellyfin are chromecast streaming and the auto-organize plugin failing. I’ve been using it for 2 years now, and still very shaky.
New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation
The lack of demand for gold is based on artificial trust in artificial dollar.

We still had private currencies in 1900's, where the issing bank would go bust and the paper woupd become worthless.
I am really impressed by the ideas here. I read the whole thing from top to bottom (rare) and I was shaking my head yes the whole time. Bravo. I hope Apple implements all of this.
One of the interesting things that happened at my company is that productivity instantly doubled when we started working remotely. The reality at my company is that people are only getting 20 hours or so of work done in the office - the rest is socialization, pointless meetings, lunches, or trying to look busy. When we went home for lockdown and kept working 40 hour weeks, not only did productive output double, but everyone burned out in a few weeks.

In my opinion, the reality of working from home is that 20-30 hour work weeks need to be acceptable and we should use the rest of our time on non-working things, just like we did in the office, but now that time can be more meaningful to us.
So we're okay with pollution now?
Slightly off topic, but it is quite interesting that US media very consistently uses "Pfizer" if the news is good and some variant of "Pfizer/Biontec" if the news is bad. The opposite holds of course for the German press, which addresses the vaccine as "Biontec" when the news is good.
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Yes, but the route in which a vaccination takes place (IM injection into deltoid) should mean that much much less of the spike protein ends up in the heart and lungs vs a natural infection. As well, the overall amount of spike protein in the body will be less.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/05/04/sp...

“Consider what happens when you’re infected by the actual coronavirus. We know now that the huge majority of such infections are spread by inhalation of virus-laden droplets from other infected people, so the route of administration is via the nose and/or lungs, and the cells lining your airway are thus the first ones to get infected. The viral infection process leads at the end to lysis of the the host cell and subsequent dumping of a load of new viral particles – and these get dumped into the cellular neighborhood and into the bloodstream. They then have a clear shot at the endothelial cells lining the airway vasculature, which are the very focus of these two new papers.

Compare this, though, to what happens in vaccination. The injection is intramuscular, not into the bloodstream. That’s why a muscle like the deltoid is preferred, because it’s a good target of thicker muscle tissue without any easily hit veins or arteries at the site of injection. The big surface vein in that region is the cephalic vein, and it’s down along where the deltoid and pectoral muscles meet, not high up in the shoulder. In earlier animal model studies of mRNA vaccines, such administration was clearly preferred over a straight i.v. injection; the effects were much stronger. So the muscle cells around the injection are hit by the vaccine (whether mRNA-containing lipid nanoparticles or adenovirus vectors) while a good portion of the remaining dose is in the intercellular fluid and thus drains through the lymphatic system, not the bloodstream. That’s what you want, since the lymph nodes are a major site of immune response. The draining lymph nodes for the deltoid are going to be the deltoid/pectoral ones where those two muscles meet, and the larger axillary lymph nodes down in the armpit on that side.”
Exponential growth is always like that. The question is, what happens on a log scale? Does it still jump at the industrial revolution? And what has happened since then?
How do you do coffee through your nose lol
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. Comments like this are tedious and the perceptions are notoriously in the eye of the beholder.

(No, we don't care if people criticize the government. We care about comment quality and ensuing discussion quality.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
never mind that when I'm taking a photo outdoors on a bright sunny day, there's no way in fuck I'm going to be able read your LCD screen.

Never mind us older folks, who often have vision problems with up-close viewing, which is a solved problem when you can spin a shutter or aperture wheel by touch. But not when you need no-glasses to view the objective, but reading glasses to view the fine print on the screen.
> Those torture methods, according to the report, included "beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, the unlawful use of restraints (including being locked in a tiger chair), sleep deprivation, being hung from a wall, being subjected to extremely cold temperatures, and solitary confinement".

> The "tiger chair" - the existence of which has been reported elsewhere - is said to be a steel chair with leg irons and handcuffs designed to shackle the body in place. Several former detainees told Amnesty they were forced to watch others locked immobile in the tiger chair for hours or even days at a time.

I hadn't heard of what a "tiger chair" was, and found a picture at the Daily Mail. It's apparently just a metal chair, but staying immobilized on it for days can be torturous and causes swelling or bleeding on the legs and buttocks: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3421938/China-claim...
Last I checked, airbags are not required by any government nor are they a standard option on motorcycles. If you wish to wear one, either spend the $400 upfront or pay for the subscription for the months you do ride. The monthly subscription sounds just right for someone who can't afford $400 but can afford $12 to wear an airbag vest on their daily commute on a motorcycle. It's much cheaper than ending up in the ICU. Vice is trying to start some shit but the interviewee from In&motion sounds perfectly reasonable.
They also haven't died of cholera or due to a broken leg. I doubt an average child saw a coral reef, iceberg or a glacier in their lifetime at any point in history.
Well, all water users should not be subsidized. What is wrong with letting the free market set the cost of beef, almonds, rice, etc. based on water costs?
Trains are pretty laughable compared to pipes https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-263B-3126

If paywalled maybe you can still see https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-FR879_expert_G_...
> But in lieu of that, we need to make choices about how to maximize the efficiency and safety of the oil we do use. Pipelines in some cases might actually be a good way to do that.

Pipelines make oil cheaper and safer, which is the exact opposite of what we need as a species. This both delays transition to cleaner technologies, and it causes even more consumption among those who already use it. People’s consumption of oil is primarily limited by their financial ability; making oil cheaper usually results in them spending the same amount to consume more.

If I had my druthers, I’d fight any expansion of oil exploration, drilling, and transit tooth and nail. At this point drilling for more of it is like continually ordering pizza and swearing that the diet starts tomorrow.
It might be a feature by accident. All documentation about this is about it's use for local media but it works for Youtube. You need the Youtube addon, and the .strm file contents should refer to the plugin with the video id.
Pure, unadulterated speculation:

It felt like the mRNA took hold in both my arm, _and_ my heart. Which given the proximity and paths between, is not entirely surprising.

It felt like the vaccine entered my bloodstream and was taken up, in part, by the heart. Which then started making spike protein and soliciting an immune response.

I'd really love to learn more about this, but haven't been able to find any good resources. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'm all ears!
The whole idea of a salary is relatively new, since the industrial revolution. There were examples from earlier, but for the most part, everyone was what would now be a contractor. You'd negotiate to do a project for a set fee, or you'd negotiate to do whatever the boss needs at an hourly or daily wage for however long the boss needed you.

The tradeoff was stability for flexibility. People at the low end of the wage spectrum accepted lower daily wages for the stability of employment, and then the trend moved upwards.

It looks like the trend is now reversing at the highest salary levels. Most people now realize that having a salaried job isn't all that much more stable than being a contractor (in the US) with at-will employment in 49 states.

I can definitely see a future where more software engineers are paid per project instead of a salary. And maybe some companies will continually hire certain people that they like over and over again.
You can either obfuscate with stuff Like Canvasblocker and Brave, both which expose slightly randomized prints, or 'poison the well' with Ad Nauseum.
Pretrained.ai – Managed Pretrained Machine Learning Model APIs
I'm not talking about "breeding" humans as a deliberate process; I used the term in the passive sense that evolution ever "breeds" anything. I'm saying, evolution is still functioning. Who has children and what happens to those children is not uniform simply because some illnesses that used to kill us are now survivable. That was never the only effect on our evolution anyhow, merely a particularly visible one. Many other effects are still in play. It's a myth that evolution has been shut down just because one particular mechanism has been partially blunted. Certainly the net effect has been a population explosion of late, but that's still only on a short evolutionary time frame (and we kinda already know that it can't continue much longer, re: climate change and such), but that doesn't mean every fertilized egg is surviving completely undifferentiated from any other, nor that there are any other selection processes in play.
Communication Service Providers Are Keeping the World Connected During Covid-19
>It's no longer as socially-acceptable to bully strangers for being “weirdos”. Is that it?

Not at all. People/children still bully each other, always have, always will. Now they can easily bully each other through social media, relentlessly.

>Have you not noticed what's replaced these? We have hundreds of subcultures: weebs, dank memers, bronies, demoscene, lifehackers, outside, Bitcoin, competitive Pokémon… What you're seeing is a change in who you're bullying, not a change in reality.

You may have missed the "etc." part of my original post. Weebs, bronies, Pokemon/gamers, etc. were all alive and well during the scene/emo/etc. times, they weren't "replaced", they live concurrently.

Something else is going on, but it's definitely not "bullying is no longer socially-acceptable". It hasn't been "socially-acceptable" for decades at this point.
Agree. What is HN's budget recommendation for Linux friendly wireless keyboard+touchpad?
I’ve been ripping Blu-ray and dvd for 15 years or so and have hundreds of movies.

Watching all of LOTR each year without switching discs is nice.

Having kids watch their stuff over and over without ads is nice.
This was exactly me last night. After four hours I realized I'd had a headache the whole time (from four straight hours of screen-time), and yet, my lizard brain snatched the reigns right back before I could make a decision to put it down or continue scrolling.
We’ve known this for a month or so. The bottom line is that experts still recommend getting the vaccine.
Any good references on this? Curious
MakeMKV rips everything except the extremely rare DVD-Audio. Even 4K discs.

Encryption hasn't been a problem for a while.
You mean 0.002% not 0.02%
Again, this is a deflection though isn't it? There will always be other issues in the world, so we should deal with everything else before we engage with apple?

And remember, users aren't the customers in this market, they're the product. The customer is the company being asked to fork over 30% just to access those users (who already paid for the phone and the data to connect it...).
oh its funny.. of all the rust trend storm I cannot recall one mention of automotive industry usage (not that I imply it's not used.. I just don't remember hearing about that).. this is a place where I'd really love safer languages.

btw any embedded car ADA shops ?
Concepts can't be represented in matter. That's your secret sauce. Well, the beginning of the recipe, anyway. But you won't be able to make the dish.
Hope they controlled for vaping.
Well, sort of. It's all written in MISRA C and a very special version of the C++14 standard

https://www.autosar.org/fileadmin/user_upload/standards/adap...

Definitely still possible to write buggy MISRA code, but its the best we got unfortunately
I love the idea of having metrics for things like "how long are people spending waiting on builds".

You mention that you're trying to get data from existing tools rather than requiring self-reporting. What are you using to track time spent on local builds?

I'm currently building a service to speed up both local and CI builds. I'd love to talk with you more; my email is in my profile.
Re (3):

It's still an issue in the 2018 Impreza. I've gotten used to it now, but it's still frustrating. Especially if I ended the drive with a phone call. On phone calls I have to really crank up the volume (nearly max) whereas for music and other things I have it very low (10-15? The numbers mean nothing to me, not loud). So when I turn it on after a call I get blasted by NPR for about 5-10 seconds before the audio volume dial actually responds (sometimes it takes the early attempted dialing down but delayed, other times I have to try and dial it down again).

Other than audio controls, though, everything else is responsive, I don't notice any lag. It really seems to be an issue with their stereo system. Either it's not fully booted (and can't respond to controls yet) or there's some mediating system that transmits the controls which isn't booted up as quickly.
Modern cars have more design features that improve crash survivability (better airbags, better crumple zones, tested with more realistic crash tests, etc). Those seem like a pretty unalloyed improvement to me.

I'm not saying you're wrong about the things you mentioned, but cars really have got safer, in important ways.