skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that some cases of COVID can result in myocarditis as well, not to mention other kinds of damage (such as permanent taste changes, lung damage, etc.). Still waiting on the echo to confirm no long term damage. I'm feeling MUCH better now, compared to even 4 days ago.

Whatever the result, I can't say I really regret taking the vaccine because it _is_ somewhat rare, and the long term side-effects of COVID are just as unknown as these vaccine side-effects. I like knowing that I'm much less likely to be a transmitter of a disease that could be fatal to others.
lol, no - in almost every sense. I was intentionally cryptic, but hopefully only to a degree that reduces the likelihood of prosecution without making a productive discussion impossible. Security classification can be weird, and it rarely aligns with any kind of sensible risk management posture. This is why Snowden, despite disclosing some of the most highly restricted material that exists (ELINT TS/SCI, only topped by nuke stuff), is viewed much more positively than Manning (who dumped low level secret material) by the military rank and file. One disclosed strategic information and the other dumped operational details of no whistleblowing value. No joke - a couple of years ago I spotted a fragment of an inconsequential patrol report I filed in Fallujah, totally useless to anyone but jihadists. So I've got no interest in discussing operational stuff - which is what 99.9% of CI falls into.

Anyway, it wouldn't really change anyone's pre-existing opinion if I directly made any kind of claim without evidence... teach a man to fish, etc. So with that in mind: can you think of any really silly stories, published by an American... uh, "science" magazine, that purported something totally impossible - and then never got brought up again? Something of the GWOT vintage? Something scientifically impossible, due to the way radio propagation works? Ah, I'm so tempted to do a "rhymes with"... but I know better.

Actually I can think of something I can openly discuss as an example - because it was pulled by those damn dirty ruskies, not our boys, and I was long out of the know when it happened: cell tower upgrades to combat cruise missiles [0], and super advanced ballistic calculators being used against ISIS [1]. Can you see what these things have in common? Despite technically impossible claims (15m CEP for unguided munitions dropped from 6km... lol, anybody know how Kalman filters work?) - the message is uncritically spread by western media.

[0] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-plans-turn...

[1] https://www.airrecognition.com/index.php/news/defense-aviati...
The author addresses that idea at the end.
The other advantage of a universal system is, it still works when you're so sick you lose your job. COBRA is not good enough.
I'm disappointed that the author forget about the WordPerfect Suite in Java [1]. That's the cool mid 90s running Java 1.0 on your beefy Pentium 133mhz desktop. You can still freely download and run it (it was unusably slow back then).

[1] http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Corel_Office_for_Java
The FBI’s New QAnon Report Is Scary as Hell
Also, when you trade you expect the value of a security to go up in the future. When it is in the news you have an observation of an event of t-1 due to the fact that people have already written about it and others have taken actions already.
Newborns don't resemble their adult parents at all, except in skin tone. The shape is all squishy, and the hair is barely there if at all.
Many HN readers aspire to someday be Zeus Engineer:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeus-engineer-83b4111b/?original...
the ultimate solution is to release the source code and compile it against the newer ABI.
I will play the devil's advocate here which also express my opinion tho...

Choices have trade-offs, business believe, in general, that things are simple and should be done fast. However, IMO, good design ( independent being software, etc... ) takes time and effort.
The cheapest I've found so far are Walmart's Spring Valley Omega-3, 1000 mg, 180 count for $15.48.
These is, inevitably, a subreddit devoted to it as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism/
Managing Your Data Lifecycle with Time to Live Tables
But they shouldn't be reporting stocks going up or refreshers to Levels

They should be reporting offer letters that get verified by Levels admins

So its $1,000,000
I had a strange experience with LinkedIn today: I had to restart my computer, and when my browser started it re-opened all my tabs. This included about 50 LinkedIn tabs, which I opened sometime over the last 3 months (most of them were opened yesterday).

LinkedIn logged me out and accused me of unauthorized use or some such thing, and then locked me out for a period. When I submitted a help request and explained what had happened (browser reopened tabs), they gave a boilerplate answer that was totally non responsive.

I understand they want to defeat scrapers (whether I think they should or not), but outcomes like this are a pretty annoying way to do it. Can they really not tell when a browser is restarting and opening a bunch of tabs that the user has already viewed (and which are all 1st or 2nd degree contacts)?

edit: added context around when tabs were opened, in response to a comment.
Did you try something simple like "Hi, how are you?"
It probably could be checked statically if someone taught the type checker about this package so that it could track which variables are frozen at which points in the code.
Both iOS and Android have a setting to wipe the device after N unsuccessful attempts to enter passcode.
Please link them.
Just curious, how many tabs do you normally have open?
Corel even made the NetWinder which was a small ARM based Linux computer.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3288

http://www.netwinder.org/about.html
Scaling Vision Transformers
iPad : Papers 3, LiquidText:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liquidtext/id922765270

https://www.liquidtext.net/
I've noticed that when someone who is accustomed to being interviewed is asked a question, they very often reply with something like, "That's a very good question" even when it was not a particularly good question. But saying that gives them time to think.
It's only funny money, nothing to worry about. If we ignore it does it really matter how much debt we have or that the economy is being propped up by the FED. We should all demand to stop paying taxes since they can just create as much money as they need out of nothing. Interesting times.....
For all those times when you look at another product and say "Gee, I wish it were more like Microsoft Teams."
Linux needs a standard set of benchmarks that are vaguely representative of things users use Linux for. Phone, laptop and a few server use cases.

It then needs someone to do a big parameter tuning to select optimal settings.

Too many decent algorithms don't make it into the kernel because there are too many tunables, and the ones that do typically arent well tuned for anyone's use case.

Even big projects like Ubuntu typically don't change many tunables in the kernel.
There's a material difference between Han character writing systems and pronunciation based writing systems -- a Han character carries roughly the same amount of "meaning" as a "word" in European languages, and the written form is standardized and persistent, so it doesn't evolve the same way as European/pronunciation-based languages do (in which spelling evolves over time).

The relatively unique way Han characters work may explain the difference in the focus between traditional etymology that you refer to, and the etymology in the website. I'm not sure "history of writing systems" is a good way to capture what the site is doing... Anyway it's more of a issue of translation (of a traditional area of study in East Asia that might not quite exactly exist in the West)

--

I suppose one thing about "Chinese etymology" is that every native speaker of Chinese seems to feel entitled to dabble in it every once a while. In recent years Hong Kong has seen a resurgence of interest in written Cantonese, and there has been no shortage of self-proclaimed amateur etymologists who put forward the most ridiculous claims that even a high school student could debunk... I contribute to a cantonese dictionary and we have a general policy of disregarding and excluding any etymology claims unless there are strong reasons to add it.
It's pretty apparent at this point that COVID was heavily politicized, which would explain its dominating prevalence in media and culture. An American has a heart attack every 40 seconds, and it's been this way for almost two decades.
I feel this everytime I go to a checkout register or am on the phone with a rep doing some minor account thing.

The person operating the console only has to click an option or fill in some text field, same as 20 years ago. But today, with added slowness.

Knowing the amazing advances in hardware in the meantime, this hurts me.
To me, this quite clearly illustrates the problem with languages like rust.

They're not simple.

Clever programmers flock to them because they have some neat features that seem as if they 'cleverly' simplify the code. The problem is, using these constructs on top of each-other creates code that's increasingly hard to parse as things get deeper.

I'd put rust in the lineage of scala, and even perl. They attract programmers that love the beauty of the code - good programmers - but they don't actually help accomplish making maintainable code that solves problems.

This is, ultimately, why these languages always occupy a niche but never graduate from it.

I'm glad these exist to explore the possibility space. More boring languages will adopt, conservatively, the wins found in the experiment.

But if I want to get something done, it's boring languages with boring constructs.
With some people, it's better to be unreliable at getting and responding to text messages. And NO read receipts. not for them.
At least weev isn't staff... yet.
In general you should expect the number of irregular verbs to shrink over time. If I see a regularized form that grates, I don't even bother to check anymore; I just sigh a "kids these days" and move on.
It's close to "pisser" which would be another slang term for male genitalia.
Or go even further down the rabbit hole with a temperature controlled induction device like the vollrath MPI4-1800S or a Control Freak.

Then watch your household simply cease to use the gas range
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
Do you really think Humphries just decided to introduce a bill while McEntee is on leave? Surely this bill would've been in preparation for months.
It seems possible, but it also seems like a sorta painful problem to solve if locking an account requires dredging through 3+ months of a user's interactions.

At a lot of companies that kind of historical data ends up getting batched and stored in some kind of timeseries datastore (aka S3) and then batch-operated on via Spark, MapReduce, Flink etc in hourly or daily jobs. So instead of implementing account locking and scraping detection at the realtime layer looking at current requests, you have to write some ugly daily aggregate & backfill job, which inevitably ends up super expensive and slow.

Anyway, yes, but I can definitely sympathize with _not_ doing it this way.
I'd like to hear more about this if you could share the details.
Don’t come in with too many ideas and no context on the org.

Don’t try to do too much, you’re new, onboarding takes time.

Don't pass judgment on the team, it’s practices, it’s work, etc until you can establish some empathy and context for why/how things got there.

Do listen a lot. But really do this always anyway as your default mode of communicating.

Do make small improvements to the onboarding process. It’s an easy way to ship in your first week

Do find ways to make small, but meaningful improvements.

Do have a “beginners mindset”[1] regardless of what you’ve accomplished in the past.

Do appreciate what is different about this place, it’s culture, working norms, values, etc - esp the unspoken ones that might be taken for granted. Write those down for future new people.

Do schedule 1-1s with your lead and teammates. Maybe your skiplevel. Connect with them as people.

Do be open and growth oriented. Expect to not like something at first, but give it time to let it grow on you and gain context before passing judgment.

Do collaborate a lot. Pairing is caring when you’re new. Esp when remote, building together can help grow your relationship with teammates. (They should want to collaborate to help onboard you)

Do demo a lot, but make it about what the team did together in your collaboration, not about you.

Do couch your observations and ideas as questions, not strong assertions or pronouncements. It lets you probe the issue. Instead of “WE SHOULD TEST WITH PYTEST!!!” Maybe try “I notice we used pythons built in unit testing, just curious if there’s history there on how that came to be?”

Do understand how your team is measured and incentivized.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
Jesus that's unreal. You devs make so freaking much (coming from a penniless non-dev trying to remain at peace with his rsu package)
Linus Torvalds Tells Anti-Vaxxer to Shut Up on Linux Mailing List
This is why I ride gatorskins
[dupe] already other discussion/posts about this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27501512
Kind of switching subjects here, but I don't have a real problem with steroids either. Society is already fine with the idea that athletes will destroy their bodies as a part of competing at a high level. Plenty of kids around 15-16-17 will have torn their rotator cuff just from pitching in highschool baseball; or given themselves a concussion from a hard hit in football or a header in soccer. Weight lifting, even with proper form, is bad for your joints once you get to a certain point. They take a lot of supplements that aren't really healthy to chase maximum performance. A lot of the time, they're engaging in the same sort of practice that recreational drug users will find themselves in: using drugs that accomplish roughly the same thing before enforcement agencies know to look for it. Arguably, it'd be safer for them to just use well-researched steroids under the supervision of their team doctors.

I don't see why supplementing your endocrine system is categorically different than anything else these career athletes do.
I feel validated in my prior flagged comment[0]. The guy clearly has no place running a community or user-facing service of any kind, IMO.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499083
The "Where did the virus come from discussion" is looking too much like how we handle the endless debate on climate change. We should not wait for certainty about the origins of the virus to have a discussion about how we should handle these labs. If we are going to have them, and let them research "gain of function" these labs should only be in very remote areas. Travel to and from them should be restricted and staff should subject to long quarantines and extensive testing before coming back to civilization. Putting them in the middle of cities and sending their workers out into that city every night is a recipe for disaster. Since the virus has already killed many more people than a nuclear weapon would have, even if there is only a minor chance it came from one of these labs we should demand these labs be isolated.
Assembly? Ha! A real engineer would write code directly in binary.
David Petraeus?
Why so many? Seems highly irregular.
It's fine, just have the legislature pass a Bill of Attainder that declares the thing you know is a proven fact, and you're peachy. It worked great in the Trial of Thomas Wentworth.
Fair enough, although 30 of the tabs were opened yesterday, as I was researching people who will be attending an upcoming presentation I'm giving.
Cue, an open-source data validation language
no one makes it out of here alive!
Well I'd like to see some regulation on commercial data brokers too.

I think individuals should have the right to know whether they are in datasets and the right to be deleted from that dataset upon request if they never gave direct consent to the entity holding their data. It seems extreme from where we are now, but maybe data brokers should be required to notify people when they're added to a dataset without direct consent, including instructions on how to be removed if they don't want to be included.
Maybe 100? I use a Chromium-compatible version of the Tree-Style-Tabs extension, which makes it easy to organize and navigate dozens of tabs.
The arch linux of tents?
This may be true as some kind of rule of thumb, but it's not an axiom. In spite of its complexity, the most appealing thing about rust to me is that it very specifically allows me to write very very maintainable, very re-factorable code in ways very few other practical languages have.

To me it is the language that learned from the experiments, and brings most of the safety promises of, for eg., haskell down to earth.

It is also complex, and certainly does create a lot of opportunities to get lost in the weeds, but I have literally never trusted a compiler to help me write correct, safe, and reasonable code more than I do with rust.
> Some people, including virologist David Baltimore, say the presence of the furin cleavage site could be a sign of human manipulation of the virus, whereas you and other virologists have said it naturally evolved. Can you explain for readers why you don’t think it is proof of an engineered virus?

> Furin cleavage sites are found all across the coronavirus family, including in the betacoronavirus genus that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to. There has been much speculation that patterns found in the virus’s RNA that are responsible for certain portions of the furin cleavage site represent evidence of engineering. Specifically, people are pointing to two “CGG” sequences that code for the amino acid arginine in the furin cleavage site as strong evidence that the virus was made in the lab. Such statements are factually incorrect.

> While it’s true that CGG is less common than other patterns that code for arginine, the CGG codon is found elsewhere in the SARS-CoV-2 genome and the genetic sequence[s] that include the CGG codon found in SARS-CoV-2 are also found in other coronaviruses. These findings, together with many other technical features of the site, strongly suggest that it evolved naturally and there is very little chance somebody engineered it.
Would like to jump on this comment to agree with you.

A buddy of mine dropped his s1000rr coming out of a right turn at a traffic light and was up for around $8k in damages... He was only going ~10mph. I envy those who can fix their bikes after dropping them for $20 when they didn't even have frame sliders etc.
I don't care about this at all, I'd assume you still remember how to do things after a year (or even two.) Of course before it gets to the team it might be filtered elsewhere.
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I disagree with this point because most interviewers and interviewees are novices, and giving them a task that gives straight pass/fail feedback optimizes for the wrong solution for people that can solve puzzles but not think about systems well. I've had many candidates be able to zip through puzzles but when asked relevant questions about building an understanding systems they wash out immediately. Most systems are more than one code file and I don't need to waste my hiring expenses teaching them how to think about systems from near scratch and having to heavy hand review them to write good code. I have generally found the only leetcode grind types to be less self sufficient and not really a signifier to success. In my experience the leetcode grind type can't even expand on their own answers to answer any useful questions like 'where and why would you use what you just made' and 'what technologies have you used that might utilize this technique' ends up with crickets. Right now my interview has a wash out coding exercise that is beginner oriented to get the resume liars but other than that it's all systems.
Feels like your own comment explained why “heavily politicized” had nothing to do with it. (There’s a reason almost every country in the world took action against covid-19, despite vastly differing politics and influences)

People have about the same number of heart attacks every year. In the USA, Covid-19 added about a half million deaths additional to what normally would be expected.

People get used to what normally happens but when a new additional source of death comes up, they’ll be more concerned. Especially because covid is contagious and heart attacks aren’t.
is this the word processor software that George RR Martin (and a few other authors) still uses on dos because modern alternative are all not good enough?
I just ordered 3 items for in store pickup today from Home Depot and one of them was wrong. That is going to cost me another 40+ minute round trip that I wouldn't have had to make if I would have just gone inside and picked the items myself. There is 0 chance I will be ordering groceries online in the next 10 years.
Quake 1 ran on a 486 but wasn't very playable, you needed the fast FPU of the Pentium for that. Quake 1 and 2 also didn't require a GPU, they had a software rasterizer. Quake 3 did require one.
Thanks for this great answer.

On a tangent, but since you seem to be knowledgeable of these things: how did attacking troops deal with the barbed wire, and especially with their own barbed wire? Was there a way to take down their barbed wire prior to an assault? If so, could you guess the time of an enemy assault by monitoring the status of their barbed wire? Or could you even mount a preemptive attack when they took down their barbed wire?
I wonder if someday you could make a differentiable kernel and do gradient descent in kernel-parameter-space
Kind of.

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html

Many more instances of that happening discussed here on Hacker News.
Ask HN: Is an objective and profitable review site possible?
My father is an expert in an industry that 95% of Americans consume from, but know very little about. He currently runs a fairly popular blog where he gives advice and answers questions. I've discussed ways he could monetize it, but he says that he enjoys helping people and if he were to accept sponsorships or affiliate programs he would stop being objective and wouldn't want to do the work anymore.

Even if he ran banner ads, he wouldn't want them to be for products he wouldn't personally recommend.

Have you solved this problem or seen it solved in a review site that you use?
If you know anyone who’s been sick with Covid when hospitals were overwhelmed in a foreign country, deaths and bad outcomes are highly different when hospitals can’t help you. They also every single time chose to save younger patients, for obvious reasons.
If you get stock compensation maybe you could sue them for securities fraud.
I’ve been commuting on the extra light Rene Herse tires for about a year in the city and haven’t had a flat. They are set up tubeless though. They are a joy to ride and greatly improved the speed,
comfort, and handling of the bike. I was hesitant to get them because most of my riding is on city roads with debree, but haven’t regretted them at all.
No, that’d be wordstar.
> pay attention to it, and then do the opposite of what the storytellers are recommending

Ignore the advice. Pay attention to the topic. The same heuristic works surprisingly well for politics. Whether a thing is going up or down won’t be gleaned from the news. But the fact that we’re talking about that thing versus this is material.
I've never seen a company burn goodwill among it's users so quickly or effectively.
The website says they have 1033 transmitters and 33 are out/degraded. 96.8% of transmitters are working as expected which I think at least sounds reasonable