skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it also presents goals that seem out of reach - and likely are out of reach. "Don't be a fat slob. Look like a model." If the focus is on building a sustainable, healthy lifestyle, people are more likely to see that as attainable.

Most sustainable ways to be healthy are not as easy to monetize as quick "fixes" like pills and shakes. Don't drink sugar or artificially sweetened products (I haven't kept up on the more recent artificial sweeteners, so maybe they're not as bad - idk). Eat more vegetables and less processed food. Get some exercise - even if it's just walking.

It's good for people to understand that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes and that your goal should be whatever size/shape is healthy for you. This is more of a range than an exact size/shape.

So, yeah, shaming, presenting unrealistic goals, selling bs products/fixes, it's mostly all bad, and it's good for people to push back against these ads and the POV's they create.
> I wouldn't necessarily carve salad servers out of old railway sleepers but I don't see what problems they'd cause if used for the edge of a flower bed.

The anti-rot agents (and, in case your local railway does pesticide spraying to reduce weeds, these too) will leech out into your flower bed and kill it off.
One of the main criticisms in counting covid deaths is that any person who died and tested positive for covid was counted as a covid death, regardless of whether covid was the main cause of death.
Minix 2 is better, it has networking support.

Check my comments at these HN threads.
Except this is not "Art" with a capital "A", it is pretty imagery, with an interesting backstory. The technology is fantastic, but do not get carried away - this is in no way "Art" in the same way human constructions in a museum is Art.

Art is a human expression of an aspect of life, a human reflecting this aspect of life in a manner betraying a comprehension only possible with the emotions and understanding of a human facing our complex society, their limited frame of reference, and describing their situation through the mediums we call "Art".

Art is not pretty pictures. Art is a complex, multi-dimensional communication medium between highly complex, self aware, comprehending entities. AI and AI generated "art" has none of these qualities. These are pretty pictures with an interesting technological backstory. They may be sold as art to unaware consumers, but they are less "art" than a bikini girl poster.
The irony is that most of the spam I get these days comes from Amazon's AWS SMTP service.
TikTok User Smells Pretty Flower, Doses Herself with “Scariest Drug”
When signing up for a trial, the page says:

> To activate a trial account, you will need a reasonably modern browser and a phone number that can receive SMS texts.

It makes no mention of the use of a "hashwall" ... It gives no indication of what the user's browser is going to do ... Just a progress meter with a note saying it will take about 3 minutes.

This feels fishy. Especially if a user doesn't know how to get into the developer console, find out what's running etc.

Just completed my signup. I am going to check if the domain that failed to work with forwardemail.net[1] will work with your service.

If it does, then I'll say goodbye to my $36 and hello to your service.

Update: While setting up, I noticed:

- Ownership record content in `code.codebox` does not fit in the content area and extends entirely too far to the right. I had to inspect and copy out of developer tools.

- In general, UI elements seem not properly aligned, contained.

These are not deal breakers to me. The site might actually benefit from going more old school. Trying to fit everything in a narrow box with large font sizes and padding is hard.

Update: I had already clicked on CloudFlare instructions. It's the friendly stuff that has the problems I mention above. The actual information at the bottom of the page is actually displayed the way I would have expected.

Update: After creating the DNS records, I noticed the checks were still failing. So, I replaced the actual IDN in the textbox with punycode and the DNS checks worked. It would be a better user experience if the punycode conversion step was handled by the UI.

Update: Created a new user on the custom domain. Login box does not accept IDN either but the email composer does show the from address using IDN instead of punycode.

Update: I was able to exchange email with a Gmail user. Did not go to SPAM. But, in my reply, Gmail did give a scary warning about the IDN. To be clear, there is nothing the email provider can do about that :-)

I'll try out a few more custom domains and very, very likely switch. Thank you and good luck.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27523038
Can salt be compressed and then just buried?
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For the reviewers? No. But if we find out people in the journal hand picked reviewers likely to pass the papers in order to see it published, well, I'd like to see at least a civil suit against them. That's not science when you load the dice, it's fraud.
I don’t know that you could really call the 1619 project leftist/progressive though. A good portion of the criticism came from Marxists, such as the series of articles and books that came from the World Socialist Web Site.

https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/1619

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/04/intr-d04.html
Pretty cool. I once drove from Victoria to Calgary and back to get a US tourist visa because Vancouver had a 30 day wait and Calgary had 3 days.

I lucked out a drove there and back during a chinook, so roads were good, the drive was epic.

I recall I was able to see the bookings available at each consulate, but I think I’d been preliminarily approved, or paid something at that stage.

Nice work on the site, adding any opacity to beauracratic processes is a positive in my book.
It’s due to changes in pressure. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Ph...

At 5ATM water condenses at a higher temperature than it boils at 4ATM.
Dictionary definitions are for everyday meaning of words. Academic definitions are for academic discussions - which the article refers to. Both can diverge, and often do significantly (i.e. the meaning "crypto" right now in the general internet vs. its meaning in computer science).
My highly uneducated guess on this would be that the water molecules moving up are cooling down a tiny little bit.

Being cooler would then be making it unable for them to climb further when a certain threshold is reached, meaning they would need the surrounding environment to heat it up a little again to allow it to move further.
> The US instead is built on citizenship.

If you put it that way, I read it as "in contrast with e.g. Germany or France". However those countries are also built on citizenship. Oh of course you will have far-right people wanting to stop all immigration (and be racist against people they don't find similar enough, physically, culturally, or because of some arbitrary amount of ancestry origin), etc. but given that the same thing happens in the US, I don't get the substance of the difference.

You aren't a nation until you become one. And I would find it depressing to refuse to become one just because of the variety of random physical traits and/or a kind of fossilization of cultures. Complete assimilation and convergence to a mean may be undesirable, but even more is excessive segregation...

So the question can boil down to when can the "common ancestral origin" stop? Because if e.g. 3 generations is enough (and why not) it could be easy enough to agree on becoming one.
Lives are -always- at stake. Everything in science and society is high consequence. Delay approving a good drug? People die. Prematurely approve a bad drug. People die. Every dollar allocated in the wrong place results in people dying needlessly.

It's not the job of scientific journals to worry about what irresponsible journalists might do with what they publish. Journals should just publish whatever they believe are interesting findings, and if science progresses society wins out in the end.
A 5k-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis
And we all would feel healthier with a block-list for identity politics so that our lymbic system can once in a while take a break and not be triggered by the latest outrage.
I've lived in half a dozen U.S. states and have visited most of the rest, and the exact opposite has stood out to me.

The fact that places like Seattle, suburban Los Angeles, rural Maine, most of Nebraska, and Miami are in the same country seems almost absurd.

If your experience of the U.S. has been concentrated on cities, I can see how the regions may seem similar, but things that seem absolutely normal in LA (using Uber Eats to order delivery of roasted crickets because you want a snack, for an actual example that happened to me) make a visitor from nearly anywhere other than a few major cities feel like they're on a different planet!
Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
I think it's a combination. Bad papers that reach conclusions scientists agree with will be generally ignored, while bad papers which reach conclusions they don't like will trigger protest. This is especially problematic in fields where individual studies are extremely noisy and meta-analysis is needed to see the truth. Because the meta-analysis then just ends up showing the prevailing bias.
Huh? All were researchers. One was a physicist, and one a data scientist. One of the reviewers was a chemist.
I wonder why nobody has mentioned tutanota as an alternative in this thread. It's not too expensive and quite safe as far as I'm aware. If anyone knows a downside to it please share it with us.
Without going into the debate about this paper, worth noting that the same assumption is made about covid deaths, ie it covers everyone who was diagnosed or was assumed to had covid before their death, even if the person died of terminal cancer. And since hospitals were a major place to catch the virus, I don’t think we can assume that the misattribution of the cause of death is immaterial.
This chunk from the article is, unfortunately, an outright lie.

By definition, removing salt from seawater leaves you with water and salt. The article handwaves the salt away by supposing that the desalinator will float on top of the ocean.

In actual production configurations other than towing it behind your sailboat, you will end up with a brine pool that needs to be disposed of, or a concentration in the wicking material that prevents low-concentration seawater from entering, or a pumping system.

This is not just a common negative externality, but a casual lie about it.
I could see an app being useful for notifications when a often booked, popular location comes available during a timeframe that the user selected. Or providing an immersive experience for viewing the layout of the rental and areas outside the rental, for example.

Unfortunately, Airbnb would rather geek out on a silly framework that accomplishes little more than avoiding the implementation of 2 relatively simple native apps and making it harder for new developers to come online.
Also a good episode of the podcast '99% Invisible' on the topic (although not specifically in the context of COVID-19).
Yeah, community is a trust-based concept. We have to all trust each other to have shared values, and to turn away from defection, at a high enough rate that this kind of risk is low enough to allow cooperating to still be optimal.

I wonder if there was some kind of social institution that used to encourage this behaviour, perhaps serving as the center of communal life, that the western world has been turning away from in the last 70 or so years?
> If you try blasting mails in or out, your limit will be quickly gone and you will not be able to receive and/or send more. This will also trigged a bunch of alerts on our end.
In most normal situations, you will be warned if you are reaching your limits so you have time to analyze the traffic and possibly upgrade your plan. This allows you to pay only what you really use.

> If no upgrade is made, incoming messages will be deferred until the following day, and sending messages will be refused If you try blasting mails in or out, your limit will be quickly gone and you will not be able to receive and/or send more. This will also trigged a bunch of alerts on our end.

> In most normal situations, you will be warned if you are reaching your limits so you have time to analyze the traffic and possibly upgrade your plan. This allows you to pay only what you really use.

> If no upgrade is made, incoming messages will be deferred until the following day, and sending messages will be refused

https://www.migadu.com/procon/#daily-limits-apply
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Sometimes it's better to have a consistent yardstick than an accurate one. Noise vs bias. This definition has the significant merit of having a lot lower noise than any clinical definition of a Covid death, where you'd have wildly different estimations from doctor to doctor, let alone from country to country.

It does have bias, true, but you can deal with bias. You do pinpoint studies to measure it and use them to correct bigger trends. You compare with the overall mortality change. And once you have an estimation of the bias, you can apply it back to the overall mortality numbers and get a much better result.
It's not that weird.

Mail is the only critical thing most people run for themselves, really; and if the proverbial excrement hits the fan, mail is useful in fixing the fallout.

Sure, I would be able to acquire the skills to run a mail server, and I know how to monitor it all, and I know about what the moving parts are. But why go through all that hassle to save 10-40 dollars a year?
Certainly sounds like it, very strange and angry unsatisfying article that it is
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Personally I just have layers.acceleration.force-enabled: true and that's enough to get me fast 4K WebGL. WebRender and Wayland dmabuf seem to turn on automatically. Intel 915, Fedora 34, dual 4K monitors, distro Firefox 89.
Isn't there an misspelling in the official country name in this article? They copied from Guardian, I suppose, since they provide the reference link and Guardian has it wrong too. Or at least it seems wrong to me.

Quoting the article:

> Қазақстан Республикасы, will henceforth be rendered Qazaqstan Respy’blikasy.

But cyrilic "у" suppose to be latin "u". So it should be "Respu’blikasy". Wikipedia [1] seems to agree, too, according to table from January 2021.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_alphabets#Latin_script
Maybe they are using the meaning of sublime of converting from solid to vapor state
I'm not sure I'd describe 2019 as an integrated, social society. "ships passing in the night" might be a more accurate description.
He canceled himself out of youtube, "good for him" I'd say
The same way the rest of the world most of the time considers the US as a whole -- yet this does not make the individual states disappear.
Windows, VMS and some mainframes/micros have had such capabilities based file systems for years, it was not pioneered in mobile devices.

Now if some people just give access to everything instead of using ACLs, that is another matter.
Ask HN: Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer should know?
Hi, what concepts do you think a backend engineer should know which are language agnostic/independent? An example could be knowing the different ways of how to connect to the database from the backend such as ORM or basic SQL and their pros and cons?
Why Are Gamers So Much Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud?
corporations aren't run and managed by groups of people?
True, but a lot of people seem to be missing that this knife cuts very much both ways.

Scientists can also be non-objective pro-vaxxers, not wanting to look critical at anything provax and immediately very critical of anything that smells like anti-vax.

Basically double standards are applied everywhere, on both sides.

And imho this is quite a problem in the current situation.
If a tool like this works for you, what stops you from sending validation emails yourself?
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As an artist who uses generation as part of my art (the rest is me) I find these images extremely cool, though I prefer non objective abstractions. Given the technology is still immature, I wonder if improving the technology will lead to less "art" — what we see currently are really imperfections in the process rather than deliberate choices. Maybe in a few years the end result will be more realistic and less fantastic. Will that be better?
#1. Highest Cost

#2. No need to hire experienced staff, as this gives them a framework to quickly build lifecycle experience by making mistakes

#3. Never complete the project, because, agile, you know

#4. Easy to manage because things are changing every day

#5. Hide cost of switching to new technologies with ease.

"agility" is a great idea. software without a careful elicitation of requirements and an actual design before construction is a waste.
(web app people relax. this does not mean you)
Manslaughter is not tantamount to murder, that's the entire point of the concept!

Further, your characterisation of the article as a mere "deviation" is grossly inaccurate: their text is not a honest look at vaccine dangers but rather it maliciously picks data to get the worst result misuse can produce. The only thing they shy away from is outright fabrication.
Be warned: EV-code signing certificates do not work as advertised. There is no instant reputation. My company tried this and it does not work.

I'm not sure what to do anymore. We are a small company with few customers. Slowly gaining reputation over time does not seem like a viable path.
The elephant in the room could be the expansion of icloud subscriptions to include the new apple relay vpn. This could be another step towards the ultimate goal of ensuring that anyone using any apple product needs an icloud subscription to make the product useful. In the end, this is a fitting business model for apple - the hardware is just an enabler for services with really high margins and deep moats.
I think this is a fascinating question. There does seem to be an association between 'better' names and higher quality, and I've been wondering why that might be. Older journals have a wider range of available names so choose better? Association only in our heads between the journal quality and its name subsequent to reading the content? (I got your pop quiz completely wrong; would a junior mathematician who hadn't read or heard of any of them think that 'inventiones' was inherently a better name?) Or is a 'better' name likely, ceteribus paribus, to attract better manuscripts - starting a feedback loop that drives it up? I can't help thinking that a journal called 'Mathematics' has to have better prospects than the average questionable new journal.

My own field is political communication. One of our leading journals is 'Political Communication', which could exemplify any of the above. But another is 'The International Journal of Press/Politics', which should by its name be complete shit and turns out to be excellent.
Why should the outrage only matter when someone “important” has their rights violated? Have you considered that the NSA/CIA have been monitoring Congress for longer than they have been monitoring average citizens?
Oh, I never thought of that, but it could explain why the idea of dinosaur with feather sounds weird even though biologically it wouldn't be surprising at all.
Decibel, as in the volume at which users yell at their display. ;-)
My favorite example of that is from 1909; Churchill describing the number of battleships to be built.

“The Admiralty had demanded six ships; the economists offered four; and we finally compromised on eight.”
An issue with desalination systems of this type (that have water vapor in a carrier gas, so called HDH or Humidification-Dehumidification desalination systems) is the retardation of mass transfer to the cold surface by the carrier gas. Multieffect distillation (MED) systems usually operate without a carrier gas for this reason, but this means they operate below atmospheric pressure, so they have to be sturdy to resist pressure loads.

A few years ago, some people at MIT solved this problem with a bubble heat exchanger: the humidified carrier gas is bubbled up through trays of water (at progressively lower temperatures). The surfaces of the bubbles provide a very large surface area for heat/mass transfer.

https://news.mit.edu/2013/produced-water-cleanup-0205
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/86334
http://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/papers/reviews/HDH-Desalinat...

Some of those involved went on to form a company to commercialize the technology, which has been used to recycle/purify brine from natural gas wells and other industrial tasks. I think they ended up being bought out after several years.
They found a way to renew themselves, especially with Azure.

A third of their revenue now comes from cloud services.