skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I block all Google and Facebook domains at a router level, and haven’t really had many issues. I’m sure there’s sites that don’t work with those blocked but for whatever reason they’re not sites I visit. I get cloud flare captchas occasionally but barely enough to be annoying.

I also use a VPN 95% of the time, only turning it off for Netflix occasionally.
Board Games Have a Colonialism Problem
Is it even fair to call it "underpowered" when the aims are achieved so well?
My first SaaS failed even thought people really liked the idea I never managed to get a single paying customer. My second SaaS was something I needed but my market research showed barely any interest, especially as it had no free model. This SAAS organically grew to the point of living nicely from it. Maybe I am just bad at validating but I do think luck is a relatively important factor.
I find it pretty concerning that they don’t mention this issue in their discussion section, which was also the first thing that came to mind when reading the abstract: people who’ve caught COVID may differ significantly from those who didn’t. Did none of the authors nor the reviewers think of this?
Your differing experiences are an interesting data point in the question of whether the SAT is a fair and neutral evaluation.
There's a UK brain imaging study - small, due to the fact that one required the "lucky" confluence of having participated in the study before the COVID-19 epidemic, and having gotten COVID - showing the kind of longitudinal effects you are asking for. Alarmingly, it shows shrinkage of various brain structures even among the mildly ill.

Note this is a not-yet-peer-reviewed preprint.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...

IMO, while I'm not inclined to take either study at face value immediately, I think a serious person should be equally reluctant to join the "it's just a flu" camp either.
I agree. I suspect many "long covid" cases are probably not caused by covid, but by the lockdown and psychological impact of this phenomenon.

People complaining of fatigue or having difficulty concentrating or having brain fog are in some studies already counted as suffering from long covid. No causual relationship required.
Quote from the TV drama script being referenced:

Valery Legasov : Yes, 3.6 roentgen, which, by the way, is not the equivalent of one chest X-ray, but rather 400 chest X-rays. That number has been bothering me for a different reason, though. It's also the maximum reading on low-limit dosimeters. They gave us the number they had. I think the true number is much, much higher. If I'm right, this fireman was holding the equivalent of 4 million chest X-rays in his hand.
Very cool innovations coming out from the Oculus team. I just wish the headset was more comfortable! I get immense pain on my face after using it for a few minutes, it seems to be a trade-off between fitting it snugly or having it slosh around my head.

The tech is great but the comfort is poor. Surprising because the Rift is decently wearable. Maybe Oculus 3 will have some strong improvements with the comfort level.
Iirc those still need a Facebook for work account.
Sampling bias, I'd guess. While unlikely, it could be possible that Android users just happened not to use the apps that you were developing.
Show HN: Grow your own with the Raspberry Pi
MNT Reform review: Your DIY laptop fantasy is here at last
I wonder if you can even reliably measure a 0.4 IQ point loss. Factors such as aging, changes in environment, perhaps even work from home will act as confounding influences.

On the other hand, 7 IQ point loss on ventilation does not surprise me as much. Being in a half-suffocated state for weeks must have some adverse effect on oxygen-hungry brain.
We have 28 people participating now, with live-previews, lots of Twitter activity and prizes to give away for folks who complete the various parts of the challenge.

The code is open source and includes a data logger and Grafana dashboard that's fun to use even if you are not growing things.
> They have very low cycling latency, so it's a no-brainer.

I read somewhere that that makes it difficult to accurately control the brightness. With HDR content already requiring 10 bits, anything that interferes with that is a problem. Future panels might require 12 bits or more.
The FUD around Rusting the kernel reminds me of similar sentiments surrounding autonomous vehicles. Better != perfect; it's an evolutionary step. Even if there are unintended negative consequences of Rust code, if they are less frequent than the rate we deal with bugs today, then it's worth using.
A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale
All of your solutions require extra manual work, and are therefore inferior.
Why do you think adjusting the model for: "Nuisance variables were age, sex, racial-ethnicity, gender, handedness, first language (English vs other), country of residence (UK vs other), education level, vocational status and annual earning." doesn't cover what you ask for here? (including graduate degrees) With the described adjustments and enough data points, the distribution of infection cases shouldn't matter.

Or are you making some other point I'm missing?
That fails without personalization. Take the example of Dublin. My IP is in Europe, but DDG returns a bunch of results about Dublin, Ohio when I look for "Dublin McDonald's" before eventually linking McDonald's Ireland. Imagine how bad it'd be in Dublin or Pittsburgh, CA or worse, large cities that share a name like San Jose or Ontario.
It's not practical in a lot of organizations, but something I like to do, when possible, in the face of a non-consensus decision is simply to wait.

That might seem inconceivably frustrating for people who like to make continuous changes - especially if the delay is weeks, months or even years. But sometimes a good idea or answer will develop during that time.

If a good solution doesn't emerge, then sure, it's possible that outside pressure may make it necessary to select one of the options anyway. But I think that's rarer than people expect.
Fair point. I wonder what the reason for the lack of output is. They’ve yet to make an orbital launch vehicle, and can only land from a straight up launch… that feels like an easier problem to solve.

Meanwhile SpaceX are onto their 3rd/4th generation of launch vehicle and are doing more launches than everyone else combined.

Tesla when Elon “took over” made the roadster (a drive train for a lotus Elise), no real brand and no real identity. The founder-in-name is a pretty shitty dig. He has been directly involved in the Model S/X/3/Y

Wozniak built the Apple II. Is Jobs less of a founder?
None of the pandemic benefits in the US required people to claim to have long covid symptoms.
Self-hosting means that the person who does the administering, has no control over the infrastructure, configuration, etc. There are millions of ways in which something could be configured. The user could have installed a kernel extension that panics every 2 days, for all he knows.

This means that the administrator must be sufficiently skilled to be able to handle all anything that might come at him. Which means that he's expensive. This makes it economically hard to compete against hosting, where they administrators can be cheaper due to having more controlled environments.

One solution is for administrators to insist on that environment conforms to some sort of standard. But no meaningful standardization currently exist for this context.

Making the device/software resilient enough, is also very hard, and suffers the same problems as with human administrators. If you install a device in a network with a faulty router, then what is that device supposed to do? How does it even know the router is the culprit?
I'm French and I don't find the statement insensitive at all. English is the de-facto language of the web, trying to deviate from that is making it harder for people that read your content. This is not a value judgement, there are lots of language with a beautiful history and culture, English included. But what's used the most and thus the most useful is a simplified version of English.
KartaView: Yet another street-level imagery platform
This is our exact journey so far.

1. On prem hosting managed by 1 person who works out of broom closet in some budget colo. Zero compliance or official procedures involved.

2. Cloud hosting managed by whoever needs a thing taken care of. (We are here)

3. On prem managed by dedicated in-house team in multi-colo setup. (We really really want to be here)

I think we will skip the 4th stage. If we are forced to build our own datacenters, something went very badly.

The 30k/m figure posted elsewhere in this thread is a fairly reasonable line in the sand for jumping from 2 to 3. We also have unique regulatory requirements that could move that threshold lower.
Good point. And different in different regions such as Texas vs NY. Upstate NY vs New York (the city). Even in the same cities within different cultural areas just blocks away from each other!
I think it's reasonable to be way more cautious about COVID than the "just a flu" and "it'll become endemic" (for some value of 'endemic') crowd seem to think.

The UK brain imaging study is a (small, not-yet-peer-reviewed) data point in that direction also:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...

There seems to be somewhat of suggestion that COVID may have serious long-term neurological effects. Given the massive numbers that it has affected already (and how many it would affect if it becomes endemic), even relatively small risk factors (i.e. single digit percentages) for things like Lewy body dementia and Parkinsons could have huge effect on public health.

It's worth reminding ourselves that we don't have any data on the mid-to-long term effects of COVID beyond about a 2 year window.
It's not so much about raw specs for me, but how I can utilize what I have. I use a GCP instance that usually is set to a bit weaker specs than my laptop (I can resize it pretty quickly, so that's not always true), but I can run it at 100% utilization for hours, use all of its RAM without worrying about browser tabs swapping, use TBs of storage, yet my own device stays nice and cool and battery doesn't get drained as fast. It's not about what I can torture my laptop hardware into delivering, but what it can handle easily, and what I do could be done completely locally on a beefier laptop (it's not that resource-intensive), but I'd rather not have anything bulkier than a 13" Macbook (and would rather downgrade to something even more nimble) than upgrade – maybe a 12" M1 fanless?)

So I guess this may be aimed at a similar niche – laptop not enough to run everything well, but the most important things, and use such a service for the occasional peek into a CAD file or the like. Pricing would still turn me off, but I'm certainly not their target audience.
What do Bing syndicates say/not say/write?

Ecosia: https://info.ecosia.org/privacy

- IP address (obfuscated), user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.

- Additionally, by default Ecosia sets a Bing-specific “Client ID” parameter to improve the quality of your search results. If your browser has “Do Not Track” enabled, we disable the “Client ID” automatically.

Qwant: https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/

– The first three bytes of your IP address;

– A salted hash generated from: your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes at least every 3 months.

Neeva https://neeva.com/privacy

- I heard that they pass first 3 octets of IP (as I have heard from others seeking syndication with Microsoft) - edit: CEO Sridhar explains that in this podcast (40 minutes in) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recode-decode-sridhar-...

DDG https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

- Not declared but say "What search engines generally do when they anonymize data is get rid of part of your IP address or turn it into something that doesn't look exactly like an IP address."

Self-disclosure: CEO of Mojeek search engine
I was in a hotel today, where I was staying with my family, in a small 20sqm room.

When we went to the restaurant to have breakfast, they adamantly refused to remove the clear plastic partition dividing the table in two.

We couldn’t move it to the side, we couldn’t move it anywhere else. It had to physically separate my wife and I. To what purpose, I have no clue.

Oh, we’re both vaccinated. But it is corporate policy, so nothing we (or the staff) can do, even though anyone with a brain could see that it was pointless.
No, it's enough to turn off Javascript. Virtually all tracking code is in Javascript.
My solution for this: open an incognito session. So ctrl+shift+N instead of ctrl+N (or RMB and select from menu)
Outbreaks of a drug-resistant superbug fungus spread in two U.S. cities
... in the US, period. (Nota bene for old asymmetric standards used in other countries, and 5G is still asymmetrical unless there's a street-by-street deployment due to conservation of physics).
"these types of ads" is not quite "has started showing ads" from your headline, is it? (Especially if you use uBlock and it's thus no wonder you didn't see ads it has filters for already)
$0.10 per day. Which is fine.
I don’t think you are generally in a state of mind to symphatize with someone that just refused to sell you a perfectly legal product regardless of your age.
Who Runs the World?
I am not sure if you are joking because a lot of UFO proponents actually do believe that
> Ancient Greeks were Indo-Europeans, though,

So were the Hittites, and the ruling class of the Mittani.
There's a company local to me that's been working to commercialize this for the past ten years: https://www.oceanrainforest.com/
This comment here is what I come to HN for.

I think that OS X was the first OS that did hardware compositing. How come that WindowServer consumes so much CPU instead of GPU?
> Abolish the water rights system and auction the water at a reasonable price.

This is a good idea but tough to do. Prior appropriation claims are legally considered vested property rights.

A good start would be to change the rules in order to make the rights much more transferable. By Coarse’s theorem that should get you to much the same place. The money going to ex-farmers forever is a tough pill to swallow but better that than the status quo.
Hurting others: spreading homosexuality and lgbt agenda hurts society and will cause its decline and collapse: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin
The original Latin text of Apicius is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200214163251/http://users.ipa....

Regarding the "toxic recipe" (Absinthium Romanum), I've made and drunk this several times and have survived to tell the tale. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_absinthium#Toxicity for more information.
How long can you use it before feeling dizzy?
The splash screen on IOS is so annoying long. The birds are silent once the app is ready to record.
Had this in vegas. But it seems to depend on the bar/staff. One would absolutely refuse to serve me without seeing my passport, another wouldn’t even ask.
Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome#Viral...
I, on the other hand, don't understand why people assume that all photos should be great looking. I own Samsung Galaxy S9+ and the quick close photos it takes are very good, but when I want to focus on something that is 20 meters apart it looks bad. Pictures taken at night are super bad. I know that there are some magnificent smartphones in the wild, but I doubt most people have them... Obviously people want to believe and will post grainy looking things as UFOs, but in reality it's also not that easy to make good, sharp photo or video for objects from further away.
>> suffers from at least one significant methodological flaw

Is this not a randomised control trial? As I understand it, RCT is usually referred to as the “gold standard” - why would the gold standard be a flaw in this case?

What you describe sounds to me, a layman, as an improvement over and above but if RCT is good enough normally, why discount it entirely in this case because there’s some other improvement could be made?
They did not have the bravery to control for race. You might as well throw it in the trash, it is already politically colored junk.
Religion can be gotten rid off and nothing bad happens? I take it you haven't seen what the likes of Mao, Stalin, Lenin, and Hitler did.

No, we're here today because of religion. You owe many of the luxuries of modern life because of the Golden Age of Islam. Your definition of "criminal" just happens to follow the latest fad of the day. Read https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin for a very brief overview.
Europol turns cryptocurrency crimes into a game
Because homosexuality is prohibited in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. We take pride that Islam is the only one with the courage to stick to its roots without appeasing the latest fad of the day. This is a testament that it has not undergone corruption.
Well, then my advice would be to practise entering that state of mind when a person deserves it the least (because then you are likely to benefit from it the most.)
In the field of high performance processor microarchitecture, one goal is to increase performance by executing a maximum number of instructions in parallel (increase IPC). For this purpose we identify dependencies between instructions. We identify 4 types of dependencies between instruction registers: Read after Write (RaW), Read after Read (RaR), Write after Read (WaR) and Write after Write (WaW). (the same kind of dependencies exist with memory)

Among these dependencies some are caused by the reduced number of registers, with more registers they can be removed, this is called false dependencies.
3 of these 4 dependencies are false dependencies: RaR, WaR, WaW. And with register renaming techniques we can eliminate these dependencies and therefore increase IPC.

Only the Read after Write (RaW) dependency remains and it really determines what can be executed in parallel or not in modern machines.
The whole point of value speculation is to break the RaW dependency to increase IPC.

The papers you quoted cover value speculation in hardware, while the article covers value speculation in software.

The possibilities and gains relative to these 2 approaches differ since: in software we can predict a whole expression, while in hardware we can only predict a static value (or a pattern of values).
But in hardware it doesn't require any particular effort at compile time and it doesn't increase the code size.

I recently spoke with one of the researchers you mentioned (who deals with value speculation in hardware) and he acknowledged that the performance gain is currently quite low relative to the amount of hardware to be added.

But maybe the research in hardware value speculation will lead to a higher performance gain?
Maybe in software there are more realistic gains?
Maybe even a mix of hardware and software can make the value speculation powerful?

Imagine an instruction `predict <rd>, <r1>, <r2>` where rd takes the value of r1 but the processor is allowed to use the value of r2 as a value prediction
Ask Help for iOS Accessibility Bug of Zoom Controller
I'm suffer a bug on Zoom Controller on iOS.

--- Why I post here ---

I have tried many methods to report this bug to Apple since last December. Half a year pasted, it still is not fixed now. All iOS 14 & 15 devices have this bug. And there is no process update for this bug.

So I want to ask help from all over the world.

--- What is this bug ---

The bug is about Accessibility feature, Zoom Controller.

I will try to explain this bug to you. And I record a video to explain it.

For Zoom Controller, after zoomed in, expected behavior are
1. Tap the controller, it should move the zoom window
2. Tap the background, it should move the content of background.

Just like the below gif animation image:

https://ibb.co/r5PhSSm

However. sometimes it break the 2ed role. See below image.
I tap the background, but it triggered the Zoom Controller. It's not expected. See image below

https://ibb.co/fHbM55B

--- Steps to reproduce this bug ---

1. Before zoom in. Place the Zoom Controller at any App Icon that you can remember. (For me, It's "网易云音乐" App icon)
2. Double click the Zoom Controller to zoom in.
3. Find the App icon in 1st step.
4. Try to interact with the the App icon. It should open the App or something else. But it should not trigger the Zoom Controller.

--- Asking for help ---

As Apple does not allow downgrade iOS version, even after jailbreak. Anyone have ideas how to push Apple fix this bug?
An ID (I’m thinking specifically of a drivers licence in Australia) usually contains virtually all information anyone would ever need to identify themselves as you over the phone - name, address, date of birth, drivers licence number, etc. Having someone scan this and save it is not something you really want anyone to ever do.
Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods
It’s funny, it was just the other day I was trying to convince my other half to watch Father Ted. She thought it’d be like that dreadful Mrs Browns Boys.

Ahhh I loved this show. Sadly they chose not to make more because the guy who played Father Ted tragically died of a heart attack after the first series.

Father Jack makes me piss. I love the episode where they’re trying to teach him how to say phrases like “that would be an ecumenical matter” instead of his usual “Drink, arse, feck, girls”, ready for a visit by a group of Bishops. They ultimately succeed and one bishop is very interested in what Jack has to say after he successfully responds with “that would be an ecumenical matter”.

Or, in response to “what you say to a cup (of tea)?”, he shouts “feck off cup!”

Hilarious. I’m not Irish but I was brought up Catholic so maybe that’s what makes it so funny.
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> The flu have this effect for sure.

Any references or background to this?

It's weird because there are major media campaigns to encourage people to have a flu jab (UK) and "flu causes [irreversible] cognitive dysfunction" would be a major 'seller'.

I can also see that governments could have been reluctant to spread such information - if it's true - as it would change attitudes to schooling; schools being known to be a major vector for spreading flu.
That suspicion goes against what the people who are dealing with this every day are saying. What makes you suspect this?

A friend of mine is a doctor and we were chatting about long covid 2 days ago, his description of it seemed pretty cut and dried to me - e.g. a swimmer here in Glasgow with hopes of getting to the 2024 olympics is currently unable to train due to breathing issues post-covid. They’re supposed to be fully immersed in training right now but can’t since covid in December 2020.
You're right, except there is value in calling this out when billionaires are being held up as heroes if not worshipped* for these "feats". Even Musk, who has mistreated his employees, uses government subsidies, and did not even invent anything in the first place. He's just another Bezos/Bill Gates type capitalist.
Honestly I think you could be a little more respectful of the project that inspired yours. I'd be angry too if someone reworked a project of mine with a similar name and made direct statements about my project (true or not) to try and sway people to your project. And you plagiarized part of his readme. Definitely understandable.

And here you're still saying negative things, like pointing out shortcomings (that you don't describe) and calling it spaghetti code (which isn't immediately verifiable). Maybe he wouldn't be so angry at you if you didn't do these things.
Also Microsoft OneDrive used to be known as Microsoft Skydrive and the same company objected.

Wouldn't be so bad if Sky had contributed anything useful to the world in the last twenty years.
Yes. Using caffeine in mg would make for more sense to use.

RE: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-bean...