skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rapid tests have been available since autumn last year at least. They're a lot easier and cheaper to produce than vaccines, for example. Producing and supplying them at scale is just a matter of demand. Most countries just didn't bother to buy them early on.

It's true that getting tested frequently is invasive, quite literally so.

We seem to forget too easily, though, that lockdowns and the civil rights restrictions that come with them are much more invasive (albeit perhaps not that literally in most cases). Yet, we still put up with those.

> Track and trace was introduced and failed in most countries.

That's because most countries made a half-arsed attempt at best, sometimes hampered by largely imaginary privacy requirements.

The main concern with the track & trace apps available in the EU, for example, was to supposedly comply with GDPR and local privacy laws, rather than protecting people from contracting and spreading a disease.

This is why these apps were expressly designed to only store data in a decentralised fashion, which effectively kept local health authorities from using that data to do their job.

The funny thing is: In terms of GDPR, there of course is nothing that keeps you from storing such data on a server (much less so even, if you're a government agency) as long as you have the user's consent and explicitly state how that data will be used.
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Climate Change Causing More Than 5M Deaths Annually, Says New Study
> there is no easy solution that makes the "I ran a tool, gimme $100" people go-away

I use the "mark as spam" button :)
The feedback loop the recommendation algorithm generates is really powerful. I personally have to treat youtube cautiously the way I treat any addictive drug otherwise I end up watching it long after I would have liked to.
hackaday.io and libera.chat (IRC)

Twitter is not a community and I'm not on Reddit but not all subreddits could be called communities.
Covid might have created some habits in people, not sure the deliveries are gonna drop that much
Open-sourcing the Raspberry Pi hardware would simply be irrelevant. You can't purchase BCM283x series SoCs, nor the other Broadcom parts on the board, without a purchasing agreement with Broadcom.
Well there is nand2tetris.org and probably others.

Wirth and his systems are a treasure of the CS universe.

I also rather like Wirth's Lola hardware language and RISC CPU. Great stuff.
> You AND SOCIETY will benefit if you check out of it and just meet your neighbors.

Not if your neighbors are staying at home consuming corporate/government approved social media messages.
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I had planned on selling my own property without an agent but a different video warned if I did that, Zillow would immediately reduce my Zestimate by ~20%. Because of that I ended up using a agent, only to find that Zillow immediately removed the zestimate once we listed the property which defeated the whole purpose of hiring an agent.

The above was for Austin and whether or not a zestimate appears for an active property seems random.

Now I would like to sell my property in Reno, NV without an agent and I am not sure what will happen to the zestimate. Perhaps I am overvaluing the importance of Zillow's estimate. There are other stories that Zillow will immediately knock down the estimate of a For Sale By Owner home and then call the seller with an offer that is slightly above their lowball estimate. But that level of manipulation seems hard to believe.
Technically, if it’s a personal license, that’s violating the license terms since jetbrains only grants it to you for non-commercial use, but I’m not aware of them enforcing this to any degree.
For those haskell functions which operate on lists of arbitrary items, the items can indeed be themselves lists. However, the code is still fundamentally item-oriented. Those haskell functions which operate on lists of specific types (such as 'lowers', which operates on lists of characters) cannot readily be applied to higher-ranked lists of the same.
Look up 'Posts Correspondence Problem' which is almost like this problem and is probably equivalent to the halting problem.
If you're shocked by this, you would be appalled at the state of Open Source Hardware.

I've gone over the OSHWA Certified Project list [1], go into the repos, and actually take a look at what these projects offer. The _majority_ of projects only include a schematic PDF, which by OP's own assertion is not Open Source. If you find some mechanical bits of projects, you'll find some Solidworks files, too -- good luck opening that without calling a Dassault sales rep. And of course there are the projects where the links to project files are just dead. Only about 50% of OSHWA-certified are editable in any software.

Unsurprisingly, one of the best contributors to OSHWA-certified projects is Adafruit, with Sparkfun close behind. Everything is just there (needs a bit more organization, imho), sitting in a Github. Almost everything is in Eagle, though, which is non-free and sure to annoy some Open Source advocates.

There are a few theories on why this is, most notably that 'Open Source' is a replacement for the cost sink of producing real documentation. The fact that companies (Adafruit and Sparkfun) are the largest contributors of OSHWA certified hardware supports this.

[1] https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html
The risk is spontaneous engine failure to stop the AC is lower than the risk of children running in different directions among moving vehicles.
I wouldn't take Greg's opinions on security too seriously.

Spender has a much more nuanced, informed view. I think it covers the issues of the CVE process well, but doesn't make the same mistakes that Greg does.

https://www.grsecurity.com/reports_of_cves_death_greatly_exa...
My main laptop is in the shop so my Tadpole Viper has been my daily driver for a little bit. 1.2 GHz UltraSparc IIIi with 2 GB of RAM running OpenBSD 6.9. As others have remarked, the lack of a broadly useful web browser is the main pain point.
The chance you're pwn'd is really unlike as generating these kinds of binaries are nearly impossible.
As expected, I see the Economist leading the charge against transhumanism here in a near-future scenario I'll call 'the pointless war for a natural and well-regulated humanity':

"The question now is whether governments can put the genie back in the bottle through concerted, co-ordinated action. Many politicians say the power to tinker with biology is too dangerous to have in the hands even just of doctors and must be regulated."

Similar arguments are being made regarding the public's access to general-purpose computing, 3D fabrication equipment, AI agents, and indeed: drugs (both psychoactive and medical). Putting this increasing number of "genies back in the bottle" is infeasible and I would argue harmful. We'll be putting an ever-growing amount of our civilization's resources into controlling technologies and behavior just so we can act as if it's still 1975, while unaccountable mega corporations reap all the benefits of modern technology.

I am utterly unconcerned by what people choose to do to their own bodies and minds. What does keep me up is the potential harm to bystanders, both in premeditated acts of terrorism as well as uncontained accidents. I really don't have an answer to this, but I do know that iron-fisted government control of citizen technology is not going to prevent these horror scenarios.
I don't quite understand why some are riled up for this? It's a single product line(for now a single product). It's understandable an industrial control board warrants the extra QA, manufacturing and layout quality. In their shoes I would also ask the Chinese: "Hey can you design your own layout, with it's own branding and name?"
I read “A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins, and it now is clear to me that our neocortex (like computers, or AI) is just a lot of general purpose computing infrastructure with ZERO aims. Our emotions (which drive everything in the interest of gene propagation- as there is no purely logical reason to do anything) would need to be intentionally duplicated to give AI a reason to desire anything beyond what we instruct it to do.
> so there is no easy solution that makes the "I ran a tool, gimme $100" people go-away without causing a much bigger problem to now exist.

Maybe consider setting up a free-tier HackerOne bounty program? I think they triage to some degree on your behalf.
mpv will often allow that.

This of course is predicated on a site supporting MPV, often meaning the content is independently downloadable, even if not officially.

Industry's track record with user-specified anti-dark-pattern preferences (DNT, prefers-reduced-motion, etc.) is not encouraging.
As a kid we lived next door to a guy that was a CB or maybe HAM nut. He had a big antenna on his roof. We were constantly getting interference on TV, radio, even the telephone. He gave zero shits when we talked to him about it, said it couldn't be him, etc. but it only happened when he was home and when he moved a few years later it never happened again.
Ask HN: Why can’t I make any progress
Hello Everyone , I am self taught programmer with a medical degree . I have been tinkering with computers since 2016 but somehow I haven’t made any progress in terms of turning it into sustainable career .

I learnt python at first and then JavaScript , dabbled with competitive programming and web dev but somehow I never went deep into any of that . All this while I couldn’t secure a job with this skills , I’ve seen people way less skilled than me go on to get good remote jobs and the rest .
Fast forward to 2019 I decided to dive into web application security and do bug bounties . While I have gotten a few bounties , my bug bounty career is also shit and nothing worth celebrating at all .

This year I decided to focus primarily on Go programming language while doing bug bounties on the side . I’m currently going through “the ray tracer challenge “ with go .

Why have my career stagnated this bad , how come from 2016 till now I haven’t be able to get a full time job . I should admit that I rarely applied for job due to massive imposter syndrome . What do I do to change my situation , other than my LinkedIn and GitHub I don’t even think i have a good resume . Thanks in advance .
Human Leadership Principles – Respecting the Humans We Work With
Fads are a sociological information-theoretic emergent dynamic.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/62uroa/clothin...
...Arizona, Texas, Nevada

It's a very longstanding cliche to complain about people from California moving into the nearby states. Lots of that when I went to school in AZ in the 90s.
Long before the pandemic, I enjoyed playing Plague (mobile app game).

It's surprising accurate with its headlines — and was quite unnerving to live it irl.

And it's educational in the sense that the player must get just the right balance of transmission and symptoms before mutating ever-increasing lethality before becoming detected to 'win' the game (ie kill all humans).

https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc
Some past related threads:

Data Structure Visualizations (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082943 - Feb 2019 (33 comments)

Data Structure Visualizations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15480517 - Oct 2017 (9 comments)

Animated Data Structures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15306593 - Sept 2017 (1 comment)

Data Structure Visualizations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064865 - April 2017 (2 comments)

Data Structure Visualizations (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183811 - Sept 2015 (3 comments)

Data Structure Visualizations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6928904 - Dec 2013 (35 comments)

Data Structure Visualization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505862 - May 2011 (7 comments)
The space shuttle wasn't as bad as its reputation though. Both accidents had organizational causes and were entirely avoidable. And its huge payload bay and the fact it was a mobile base allowed for the construction of the ISS.

It just failed at reusability, it was more like refurbishability :) But many lessons have been learned from that.
In my experience, "low quality clones" means "clones that work perfectly well but don't bring in any of the money we spent on R&D", which is fair.
Amazon raised $54 million in its IPO in 1997.
I don't know a single homeschool parent that tries to replicate public education at home. Most go for something that falls under the Montesorri umbrella, which seems to work well.
Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27764806 - July 2021 (27 comments)
I can teach a human to drive in < 1 day. An AI… so far 10+ years. I agree there is crazy progress and investment, but it’s also not entirely certain how far we can push AI.
Offering more favorable terms means being able to hire better employees
You should watch the first adaptation from 1931. While not as good, it does have some of the more risque parts of the book.
The article is of interest to me, although it is a bit light on details.

I'm increasingly finding myself considering some form of alternate schooling for my children.

The public schools in my area are sub-par. Quality public schools exist, but are zoned and therefore my children are not permitted unless we move (expensive and non-desirable).

Private schools are absurdly expensive, we've decent public metrics in Australia and they're frequently no better than a decent public school. Worse, they're essentially universally dead set on trying to indoctrinate children into one cult or another.

My wife is a primary school teacher. She's incredibly hands on and is renowned for her ability to form relationships, and take a special interest in her students' wellbeing. She's demonstrated her ability to function independently, by taking existing resources and expanding them; having recently launched a small well-being book + play subscription for young children (https://mybookbag.com.au/).

I'm quite interested in teaching, hands-on learning and mentoring myself. I've worked from home for the last 7 years and will continue to do so.

I've a 3 year old daughter with Type 1 Diabetes, and I don't much trust her care to others, at least while she's too young to take a more active role in her own care.

I'm aware my situation is perhaps uniquely ideal for some form of "home schooling", and yet I'm still extremely hesitant to take the idea seriously. Socialisation is of course a concern, but I think it's more the stigma and also lack of data/oversight.

Is there anyone here with much experience in alternate education structures that has any insight to share?
CB is pretty straight forward. Buy a radio and an antenna, no license or training required. Pick a handle. Consider using ten-codes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code.
Perhaps, but debatable whether knowledge itself adds something to cognitive capacity. Two thoughts: (1) Some theory of mind researchers equate having strong ToM abilities as roughly equivalent to having consciousness. I think knowing precisely how consciousness emerges may help develop our ToM. It would also be a tough sell to claim a mind with zero knowledge (a so called tabula rasa) has consciousness. On the other hand (2) Do feral or isolated tribes of humans have the same level of consciousness as those in developed societies? I suspect they do.
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You can also add federal taxes, some states take an income tax as well.

And this assumes no children, so no costs for child care. Throw that in the mix and it can actually cost some people money just to work.

We need to fix the incentives when businesses would rather scream and close their doors than make less and pay a living wage for their location.
Minneapolis built their light rail right down the middle of a main roadway, and the train does have to stop for red lights, but there is no train conductor because the train is wired into the stoplight system and slows down/stops/accelerates appropriately. The lights have also been re-timed to allow for the train. Works pretty well in my experience.
Meta-analyses in their best form are subject to many biases, but this one seems particularly guilty. It mentions causation only once, in a single sentence referencing this study.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-77

13 years is a long time. Have these results been reproduced?
As you are talking about extinction level events, I'm not very confident that if humans have ultimate say over nuclear weapons, we will continue to not end our species with them.

It might in fact be a good idea to establish an AGI overlord which watches over humans and enforces nuclear non proliferation policies. If you look through history, it's full with war, genocide, and similar. Human societies are bound for change, and while it's been a peaceful few decades in which we had the nuclear button, it's basically ensured that we'll press it in the next 10 thousand years. How will technological civilization become million years old if not with the help of an AGI that enforces basic rules like "don't nuke each other"?
Validating a Social Connection Problem
Hey team - looking to validate a problem I've identified around social wellbeing and social capacity post(ish)-COVID. Would love it if you could take 3 minutes to fill in the survey!
> No, that's not a lot. It's only 1%. Much less than the cost of lockdowns.

Apart from the fact that I can't fathom how you could say that 1% of an entire country's population is "not a lot", do you have a source for how many people died as "cost of lockdowns"? I see this being regurgitated a lot but I doubt that more people died due to lockdowns/restrictions than from Covid19 itself.
A Tour of the Oil Language
Previous thread of this same game from 3 hours earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761279
Thanks, the citation I was hoping for would be a published, peer reviewed paper with listed authors rather than a summary from what looks to be a departmental public outreach project, the grunt work of which are typically farmed out to grad students or RAs.

nonetheless I'm disappointed; the assertion looked so juicy and worthy of a deep dive. you made it sound like "academia" was conspiring to demote slavery to forced labor under specific conditions. yet no evidence of this is to be found in the linked text.

rather, the summary makes a point of distinguishing slavery from forced labor. granted, it doesn't define either term (as a proper paper would) but it doesn't pretend they are interchangeable either.
I have been on the internet for a very long time. Someone telling a story, no matter how emotional or dramatic is merely doing that: telling a story. Until there are real-world facts to back this story up: police report, pictures of any wound, etc. please take it with a grain of salt. There are many implicit biases on the internet and not all of them are obvious. I find it plausible that some people who browse 4chan attacked this person. I also find it plausible that it’s entirely unrelated or fabricated. What do I have which can sway my opinion other than what legally is known as “Hearsay”?
the mycomeditations website is back up.

This practice is totally legal in Jamaica, and mycomeditations specializes in group mediated psilocybin experiences and, rather importantly, includes integration discussions afterwards in a calm environment appropriate for self exploration.
People drive fast to get their children to school in a few minutes less time daily, in the millions.

That’s betting their child’s life (at low probability) by increasing the risk of a serious collision... because they’re in a mild hurry.

Parents bet their children’s lives all the time.

The privilege is being taken seriously while saying something so afactual.
That's not what they're worried about. At all. Forget PR talking points for a minute and think about the very real relationship between macroeconomics and empires. THAT is party elite care about here.

The Party forced the population to HAVE fewer children in 1980. They did this primarily to jump start their economic modernization plans. Moreover, they figured everyone would start having kids at replacement rates second they lifted the rules. If that happened, they'd be able to consolidate their economic gains.

Economic modernization worked. The kids part...not so much. In fact, there's reason to believe (e.g., maternity store receipts) that their birth rates will look like Japan's or Korea's.

To put it another way, not only are people having fewer kids, they're having far fewer kids than Westerners with equivalent per capital wealth/income are. If that happens, China may not be able to consolidate their economic or international political gains. THAT is what Chinese elites are really worried about.

I, personally, am interested in the elephants in the room. For starters, my lesbian friends and I really wonder if the Chinese censorship machine are responsible for erasing lesbians from Western media spaces -- and especially LGBT spaces. Everyone hears plenty about bi and trans women, but lesbians? Nope. But we're still here.

While I'm not the only one who's noticed this erasure, I think I may be the only one who's also noticed how China's quietly been rolling out aspects of its online censorship system in the West over the past ten years -- and how it's REALLY intensified over the past five (i.e., doxxing, career ruining for anyone with political opinions threatening to the current leaders, sex pic leaks against political opponents, etc.). Guess too many of the Chinese kids studying abroad decided to stay abroad, so it's time to make the English internet feel exactly the Chinese one. Sadly, now the air sucks just as much here. Thanks guys.

More substantively, I find it interesting that absolutely no one will discuss how women in fully economically developed Confucian societies have FAR fewer children than equally economically developed non-Confucian societies (e.g., South Korea and Japan vs. Italy and France).
> But if you claim not to know that a 30 second video clip in the middle of your TV show...

The obvious cases are not what make this unworkable, it's the edges. Is a paid product placement an ad? Is simply furnishing clothes for the actors to wear on set an ad? Your original suggestion was that this letter didn't go far enough, and that we need to ban advertising altogether. But it actually seems like what you actually mean is that some additional forms of ads you find objectionable should be banned.

I personally have no problem with ads if it means I don't have to pay for stuff with money. But you asked why people downvoted you, and that was my answer.
So you are repeating my original point, congratulations, it is not only the productivity that factors in the price, go back and read it.
It's being made as we speak.
You are my hero of the day!

I did find that setting for YouTube, but I didn't realize that Amazon had it too.

To change it, go to Prime Video, click the gear icon in the top right, select Settings, then the Player tab to turn off Auto Play.

Bada Bing!

Now I won't have to feel like I should whack someone after each episode.
Some others- Should Youtube develop and use algorithms which lead people down the path of radacalism for the purpose of engagement? Why are people so radically and violently opposed to conflicting thoughts?
> I am utterly unconcerned by what people choose to do to their own bodies and minds.

I don't know, do you think the world would be better if people could sell their organs? "Voluntarily?" Also, I'm confident you think there should be limits on what children can choose to do with their bodies and minds, and I'm confident the line you draw would be as unsophisticated as an age.