skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> millions of people who don't know basic biology or medicine, and vaccines are no more fathomable than magic.

But you could say the same about most things that most people do every day.

Nobody needs to become an amateur biologist.

But everyone needs to have the self awareness to step back and realize that vaccines are one of a hundred things they do that they don't have the expertise to build or explain, and that the only reason they're hesitant about this one is because they've been drawn into a culture war about it.

Whereas the rest of life that's equally unfathomable, we do it without controversy because nobody's found the value in making us pawns over it.
That's a dumb example, there's no life in those environments.

You could look to the intertidal regions near the equator for more reasonable comparison. They are much less rich in life compared to the waters around Vancouver.
Yes! "Now" is not a constant. It's a function. It's a function that takes no arguments. It's also a function that can be lazy-evaluated.

f() != f()
A != A

You seem to be agreeing with me but your response to me starts with the English phrase "I disagree".
Teams is Electron, is it not?
I build my dev and prod environments using the same scripts with just a few changes. To make the two match closer, dev is just a vagrant vm. It works great and I’ve never been tempted to change. If I wanted to run micro services, docker might be nice, but I’m told that microservices are really unpleasant to work with in the long run

Some other commenters are taking about problems with dependencies and your production environment getting config drift without docker - this need never happen if you just use scripts to build your environments and never modify your servers manually, always do it via updating your scripts in vc. That’s just infrastructure as code, it doesn’t need docker. A few bash scripts and environment variables can do the same job
Analogy: "As a hobbyist rocket builder, what are reasons NOT to build a rocket hangar?"

Sort of like:

1. Do you take 2 hours to spin up a server with a few web apps. Maybe you'll have to do it 1 or 2 more times within the next year.

2. Take 200 hours to learn Docker, in order to be able to spin up that same server in about 10 seconds. You'll only have to do it 1 or 2 times within the next year.

Whereas the real use case is #3, where you tack onto #2 the following:

+ where you have 20 developers

+ meanwhile 4 developers per year churn through your team

+ you have dev ops experts who can take advantage of all the connectivity & modularity of Docker & its ecosystem (including Kubernetes)

In this case, it's useful to have people who know Docker.

Whereas if you're not doing any of the things above (and/or other container-related activities), then no need to dig into it (unless it's for fun, which Docker is pretty fun to learn and can teach a dev new things).

Mostly: The cost vs benefit does not exist at your scale.

Its economics: Cost vs benefit.

The cost of time to learn it and put it into practice (and understand its quirks), vs benefit of it on a prototype or small project is a negative relationship.

Docker is cool, it's useful, but it's just an extra layer of stuff you won't need unless you need its extra dev ops benefits.

That said, I don't need Docker, but I still find it fun & interesting to learn Docker. I've used it for tangential purposes:
- Personal projects: such as experimenting with something new: to run Grafana or a new type of database that I don't want to install directly but want to play around with and even integrate into a project.
- At work: to connect to a database
Outside of special circumstances, I don’t think I’d use Docker as solo founder. I find the quality of life enhancements it offers are more desirable in a team setting. Since you know the tech intimately, you’ve probably got a solid deployment strategy that you can easily repeat and debug. That, generally, is good enough.

Adopting Docker means learning a ton of tiny details to get your development experience working well, to iron out deployment quirks, inevitably slower development experience, and other various trade offs.

Sometimes the trade offs are more than worth it (and we happily use it on our team of 5), but if your deployment strategy is already reliable and efficient it seems unlikely to be worthwhile. For us, the ability to deploy around the world instantly and with reliability is the feature we wanted most.
> and no budget is ever allocated to finish the product because they actually seem to be managing with the half-baked version just fine.

TFA talks about BANKStar 5.1c but the wikipedia article mentions that BANCStar 10 switched the screencode (bytecode) to binary, so it looks like the thing kept on trucking for a while.

And the programmer kept stretching the thing for purposes it was not really intended to (possibly because it was difficult to get approval for better techs), as reading between the line and other articles on the subject it looks like BancSTAR was really a glorified forms creator / manager, which makes some of the limitations make more sense e.g. 2000 labels, choices and fields in a single form (even across multiple screens) seems like a pretty generous limit at first glance.
Can you think of anyway we could measure individuals doing this? I’m thinking reverse Bitcoin - provide a kit for people to start generating terra preta and deploying it and then give them coins for the amount of carbon they store.
China’s first human infection case with Monkey B Virus dies
Is this book for real-time or offline rendering?

Because I think PBR is used in both now days
True, since the absorbing surface turns it into heat. If I recall correctly, the issue with microwaves is that they primarily absorb below the skin's surface.
The world has always changed. We only have moderately good climatic records from dendrochronology for the past 1000 years or so. A meteor impact or supervolcanic eruption could disturb the climate far more rapidly than a few tens of decades burning fossil fuels. Life will go on. It always has.
> Not for any known negative reason though.

That statement applies to most medical interventions before testing. If a public health organization thinks they’ll need to mix doses, they should have the foresight to sponsor a trial. It’s very ethically questionable to foist untested interventions on your citizenry.
You are correct. However, iluvcommunism is criticizing the fact that ProtonMail isn't improving on filtering out real spam. Getting duplicate spam, again and again, is a waste of time. I would look at the spam folder once a day instead of deleting n-numbers of spam mails in the inbox.

When I moved an old e-mail domain to ProtonMail, the number of spam e-mails hitting my inbox increased dramatically. So it's not even close to as good as its competitors in this regard.

I moved to Tutanota. I now get even more spam :(. Google, Zoho and Yandex handle spam better (IMHO).

Regarding ProtonMail, they will tell you something like this:

Moving the messages to spam will automatically add the address to your blacklist.

And as we all know, spam is always sent from the same address, right? The Blocklist is useless in this context. They just need to improve their spam filter. The rest is fine (IMHO).
I didn't use Docker, but I also don't use containers or virtual machines in general.

Serverless all the way, because I don't have the peoplepower for such low-level things.
Already posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867643
I fear that much of the poison we leave behind, and the extinction of so much biodiversity, will make such regeneration much slower than it would otherwise need to be.

My greatest fear -- I've seen individual animals loose the will to live. What if a biotope loses the will? What if life decides not to come back?
No. Edge Webview
So we’re one plugin away from writing it in TS?
Which version, and what networking did you have between the cluster nodes?
Ah really, there’s no life on the sun? Hey, come to think of it — that was my point exactly!
"We don't understand how to prevent obesity."

Please reference below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25196414/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606061/

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesi...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/obesity-resear...
As a solo founder (assuming you don't have a gazillion users and just starting out), the general response to "Should I be using/doing X" is "Will X increase/help with my user growth/traction".

Growth article by pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
> Are these people free to quit and start a remote-work job?

Got it. I see what you mean. No, they are not. Practically speaking, these jobs are not ones that can be done remotely. (But maybe another could.) More practically, absent these measures, those workers are commuting in.
Huh. This OC frames the debate as imperative vs declarative. Is that right? It just now occurs to me that React vs vanilla is another iteration of the MVC debate.

I lived thru the Java AWT to Swing transition. One of Swing's Big Ideas was for every component (aka view & controller) to be backed by a separate model, finally mainstreaming the MVC design pattern.

Then of course all the web frameworks got nutty over MVC.

My only takeaway from the many, many MVC debates is that the only way to win is to not play.
" Nope. Here in Sweden, your employer reports your pay to the tax authorities, and deducts your tax from every paycheck. Banks report your capital gains and losses."

It's literally IDENTICAL in USA yet there's a hellscape come tax time. The IRS already has all th e info they need and know the amount. Lobbyists (intuit & H&R block) have made it worse for decades.
Crazy isn't it?
I see that you're talking about the Discovery mode in some of the recent games, where you don't interact with the plot at all, but can wander around and look at all the models. That's very cool!

To be clear though, those games are in general not historically accurate. I mean, about the only thing they got right about Pope Alexander VI is that he had an alien mind control staff and he was involved in a battle with cloned assassins inside the Vatican. But other than that, there were a numerous historical inaccuracies...
Right at the start:

"While our brain performs 1^8 power calculations per second,"

Um, no.

Not 1^8 and not 10^8.
Show HN: A modern C++ web application framework
zig cc uses LLVM under the hood.
Iranshahr is the original name in Middle Persian IIRC
Docker is awesome, but it solves a problem that a simple monolith backend app that is built using one of the most popular frameworks simply doesn't have. If you're building an app with Node.js, then you could deploy it to EBS or Heroku or Digital Ocean as is — those tools (as well as many others) support Node.js (and many other frameworks) out of the box without any need for concretisation.

The best piece of code is the code not written, and it applies to Dockerfiles to. Don't waste your time and mental space on something you don't really need.
that's why you install app dependencies into /opt and run your app from there. a simple LD_LIBRARY_PATH update will make your life easier.

docker adds complexity. complexity makes you feel smart but it's the enemy of reliability
What’s funny is I’d have to go to random streamer accounts to find any evidence at all of anti-lockdown protests happening all over Europe at different times. I’ve seen people in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, etc getting beat and firehosed… without a peep from the media here. They sure are selective about which causes are righteous. Covid completely broke my innocence regarding “trusted news sources”
I think it's the same in UK English as well. But in some (most?) European languages billion actually means 1 000 000 million (so a thousand times more). And we use "milliard" for 1000 million.
Geometrical proofs could be construed as such, even with some propositional logic given that someone comes up with a solid, universal way of expressing it (cf. The Golden Record)
I’m having the same problem. Latest iOS, iPhone 11pro, dark mode, and white text on white background in the little white bubble right above the keyboard to enter a list name or a list item. Also, the list items themselves are white on white.
TIL, this is great! I think this could make things even easier instead of writing the raw pages
"Fortunately" wages in Portugal are low, so the associated opportunity cost is not that high :)
This makes sense. Just do a copy or copy-on-write to an existing database file; you could even have the actual bytes of an empty (or pre-DDL'ed) sqlite file in memory in your app, rather than needing to do a disk copy.
Did you see that the link here is to a fully online version already?
I disagree, that's the thing: "now" is a function that takes one implicit argument: time.

So "now" is a trickery to hide the fact you're really saying "now(Ti)", for varying i.

I'm not tripping over syntax, but I think you are:

You think you're saying

A != A

When you're really saying

A1 != A2

(Or rather

now(t0) != now(t1)

)

And of course the second form is unsurprising.
Losing weight == eating less. Not rocket science
>They have no reason to believe that isn't going to happen again.

Come on.

In this case, too, anti-vaxxerism is due to a lack of education.

Whatever we do, we need to improve education, or we're going to continue paying for the consequences of not having enough of it.
Right. Even in an entirely safe language you can have leaks, and valgrind is an effective way to find those leaks if you can afford the virtualisation overhead.

If you can't afford the virtualisation overhead, and you need to find leaks you should try what Raymond Chen suggests in "The poor man's way of identifying memory leaks" (not bothering to link since Microsoft will only move it anyway, they have several times since I read it). If you are too lazy to do it by hand, or find the technique works but wish it less manual, this is what Leakdice does:

https://github.com/tialaramex/leakdice
OR
https://github.com/tialaramex/leakdice-rust
(2008) Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan
I don't like the way they communicate regarding security, but for context: So far there has been an extreme amount of FUD thrown their way from people who pushed WhatsApp and Signal.
I think that for those of us without busy inboxes it’s not that bad of an experience. The only thing I ask myself is if it’s worth paying for a service such as this if I’m not as busy as other people seem to be.
Caffeine is a drug. We take lots of drugs. We are in the infancy of understanding many of them because we're young and because we've been prudes.

Personally, I don't think it's going to be all that long before society's mental model of cannabis is fully turned on it's head from where it was 20 years ago. The dose makes the poison (or drug), after all.

Fundamentally, I see cannabinoids as less like alcohol, and more like a potential new category of vitamin. As we continue to learn more about the endocannabinoid system and build up increasing experimental evidence tying common maladies to endocannabinoid deficiencies, I see cannabinoid supplements eventually becoming as commonplace as e.g. B-complex and incorporated into mainstream multivitamins.

Going back to GP's questions:

Is there a way to microdose? I'd like to be able to have tiny, controlled amounts every time.

Tinctures/oils. Sublingual absorption is the next best thing to pulmonary absorption in terms of efficiency, but it won't cause long-term damage as inhaling hot ashes and gases might, and it'll allow you to measure the dose down to the mg.

Is there a solution to munchies?

Speaking for myself, I've been microdosing 200mg of Sunsoil full-spectrum CBD oil and 50mg of 3Chi delta-8-THC oil first thing in the morning and before bed since around the end of April.

This helps with both my sleep quality/consistency and preventing semi-regular headaches that had been causing an unhealthy reliance on NSAIDs. It doesn't cause a high or any noticeable psychoactive effect.

However, rather than "munchies", it's actually significantly reduced my appetite. Without any other deliberate change to my routine, such as calorie counting/restriction, I've dropped from 210 to 186 over the past 2.5 months with no perceptible loss in muscle strength or mass, and so far see no signs of the trend stopping before I reach my goal BF%. (I use the term "deliberate" because, although I am currently only eating one meal per day around lunch - dinner time, it isn't an intentional IF/OMAD schedule; it's just the current limit of my appetite.)

That being said, I can't definitively attribute this effect to a particular compound. It could be the delta8, it could be the CBD, it could be a different cannabinoid, it could be the interactions between some or all of them, it could be the 200 calories of MCT oil that I'm now ingesting each day (on top of what I was already taking separately pre-workout), and/or it could be the interactions of any or all of the above with the fact that I've been keto for over nine years. YMMV.
Clickbait giant Outbrain set to IPO
This reminds me of https://lnav.org
Read your first link. Literally, from the abstract:

“The evidence base is limited in quantity and quality and insufficient to provide clear guidance“ [1].

The entire paper is about the “major evidence gaps.”

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25196414/
How the blockchain will break up Big Tech
Very very impressive!

Is there anything similar in the works for a Linux-on-Linux scenario? My usecase is gaming without the host needing the proprietary nvidia crap (pass-through of the nvidia card for doing CUDA stuff in the guest already works great, but that doesn't help for e.g. Steam games).
Echo what others say: nice interface, and you found something useful in a very crowded space.

The only feature I would add is: shareable, community lists. I’d like to know the standard list everyone else has voted on to do taxes, register a car in a state, or whatever else. (Diligence a company?)

I feel like I’m missing out on the wisdom of others in how to do some things.
Lawvere's work is elegant! However, Lawvere missed the

crucial importance of Russell's orders on propositions in

blocking the construction of monster propositions using

recursive definitions. Orders on propositions block

construction of I'mFalse, I'mNotSelfapplicable,

I'mUnprovable, and MyTheoremsAreEnumerable.

See the following video for more information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP1VL7shiI

for the following article:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Working from home is great – except for productivity
People binge on sugary drinks when they break the fast then stay up all night eating meat and rice. This doesn't do good things for insulin resistance.
Even with the background knowledge from Peter Shirley's "Raytracing in one weekend" series it's very hard to get into this book.
Exactly.

thousand = 1000
million = 1000 * thousand (or 1000^2)
billion = 1000 * million (or 1000^3)
trillion = 1000 * billion (or 1000^4)

(not to discount regional differences)

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/everett_dirksen_201172
Err ... looks like it is for now, though they are dropping it apparently

Most of the commercial apps I use appear to be electron or java, or at least have components in those (zoom, spotify, jetbrains tools, teams). Regardless of OS - I use them across MacOS, Linux and Windows. So I guess these seem to be the easiest ways to target multiple platforms. These programs can use acceleration, print, whatever AFAICT. Zoom happily uses multiple screens.

Steam also distributes native games which GPU-accelerate, as well as using stuff like proton for windows compatibility.

Again, what is it you think might be the particular problem?
It bothers me that people are not more suspicious of things like this. Setting up a mesh internet grid is not a trivial engineering task. You would need to recruit at least several extremely skilled, extremely expensive network engineers with phenomenal understanding of how antennas work and radio wave propagation. You would have to run operations 24/7. You would need skilled lawyers in local, state, and federal law to fend off the legal challenges. Also you would have to have fierce integrity and honesty to not sell the data to recoup some of your costs.

In addition to all this, you would have to be running an aggressive counterintelligence program internally, because such an operation any intelligence agency would love to be part of, whether you know it or not.

The lack of widespread computer science knowledge in the United States makes it so we all continually fall for what are likely scams or intelligence agency plays.
Did your province not give you an option to report followup symptoms? In Ontario, at the time of shot, we could opt-in to followup symptom reporting. Doing so got you a mail like this, which was followed by a pair of surveys, several months apart:

> The Canadian Immunization Research Network is performing active surveillance for adverse events after immunization against COVID-19. You are being invited to take part because you have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and agreed to be contacted about vaccine studies. The purpose of the study is to see how often health events occur after COVID-19 vaccination. If you might be interested in helping with this surveillance, please visit https://CANVAS-COVID.ca for additional information on how to participate. Your participation is entirely voluntary.
It's actually plausible from the view of natural selection. When you eradicate diseases which are fatal, or where it's easy to explain the mechanism of symptoms and block it... then parasitic "experts in stealth and distortion" can take over.

In other words, modern medical science creates evolutionary pressure toward parasites/infections that have raft of unconnected mild symptoms with complicated underlying biology, which are impossible to replicate in vitro and make a career out of studying it. Or there are cultural taboos involved, for example Chlamydia might be similar silent killer but it's dismissed as trivial venereal disease and that isn't very respectful area of study. (compare https://www.cdc.gov/pneumonia/atypical/cpneumoniae/about/his... and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03069... )

The overall result is, only crackpots consider such a possibility seriously :(
Well if you speak for the NY Mesh project as you claim, and your stance is that taxpayer dollars should go to wire up residents with internet they can’t rely on, can’t get support on, and have to pay for help with a tip-based system or else learn to be a networking engineer, then I think anyone reading can understand our differences in opinion and how sustainable each of us thinks this is. I wish you luck your informal, no-employment, black-market-yet-taxpayer subsidized internet service that no one should expect to rely on in an emergency.
This is pretty short and to the point: https://mtpsym.github.io/
1. They last a long time has zero significance because the content is outdated in a year or less.

2. You don't need studies to know the difference between a natural habitat and cultivated land. And that the former is non-renewable.

It looks like this comment is coming from one of those pulp-farming ambassadors spreading misinformation/whataboutism. This happens every time when a case for online publishing with direct payments to authors is put forward. Ha!
> Why should only those groups be hesitant?

They shouldn’t. But there is daylight between the government having done something unfavourable to a group you identify with and it having abused the specific thing you’re being asked to do (saying you’re being vaccinated while administering a disease).

I agree the precedent exists for all Americans. That’s scary. But “the government has done bad things” isn’t a valid excuse for ignoring the other evidence. (I don’t give Black Americans a free pass on non-vaccination. I just sympathise with the hesitance.)