skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like 90%+ of people aren't buying the """vaccine-skeptical""" bs and downvote """vaccine-skeptical""" bsers to oblivion.

You could be skeptical 9 months and 3b+ vaccinated people ago, as I was, now it's just ridiculous. The vast majority of people either don't care or are actively pro vaccines, you feel like a minority because you are part of one.

Also, remember that any platform, HN included, is prone to being used by people attempting to sow discord/misinformation, that might explain why a lot of what you call "vaccine-skeptical articles" are posted while the vast majority of commenters have a different opinion.

And finally, I find it funny how any "XXX cure cancer on mice" is raided by "on mice..." comments but somehow you expect that we take this chicken vaccine article as an argument to be vaccine skeptical, even though it has nothing in common with the current situation at all besides containing the word "vaccine"
Exactly. I feel your pain.

I write software for Apple systems. It’s modern, high-quality code, but it’s for Apple.

There are people that have never met me, and have never had any prior interactions with me, that hate (and that’s not hyperbole) me; simply because of that one fact.

I’m constantly reading stuff about Apple, and people that use/like/support/develop for Apple, that is intentionally insulting and demeaning.

I should know better, and wish you nothing but the best. Perl is a language easy to learn, and difficult to master.

You have my sincere respect.
Thank you for the hint! This looks like as if it should solve the issue.
> Croissants are great for holding all kinds of tasty and nutritious fillings like eggs, liverwurst and headcheese.

Yuck! A joke, I assume? They are meant for dipping in your coffee, or perhaps having with a little extra butter and marmalade or jam.

I've actually made croissants from scratch a few times - it's not hard as it might seem, but is a bit of an effort.
Free hectare of land in the East - check

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_on_the_Far_Eastern_Hectare
you do realize that ENIAC, i.e. the computer that arguably helped the US win ww2, only had about 15 bits right?
Wait what, is this for real? Do phones automatically beautify photos taken with the selfie cam? Why is this legal?! Isn't this a surefire recipe to create a generation of adolescents with insecurity/body issues?

Every time you take a selfie it subtly confronts you with what could be better about you. It's like a fridge that whispers "you're a fatty" every time you open it.
Could be an interesting series. Love the throwback Web 1.0 styling.

Im a little surprised that WorldsAway wasn’t talked about! Maybe that game was more popular in my mind than it was in reality. From 15-18 I was on there constantly! I still remember getting a $400 phone bill because my compuserve dialup number was local long distance ;(
I use a sacrificial USBC extension cable for this situation. It isn't cheap to replace, but it is easier than the USBC hub or power brick I have may laptop plugged into.
I don't think most people spend time thinking about such things. They are likely more focused on finding/maintaining clean water, food, shelter, and health.
50% by 2025 seems like the right goal.
> history is always written by the victors

You know, I always thought this too, but the US Civil War history is a very good counter example.

Southerners had an outsized influence on civil war history in two ways that I know of.

One was the Lost Cause ideology [0].

The second was in writing about the war and its participants. For example, understating the number of troops Robert E. Lee had at decisive battles to make him look better.

The Lost Cause mythology is alive and well. While there’s a good deal of new scholarship looking at the historiography of the civil war.

[0] https://time.com/5013943/john-kelly-civil-war-textbooks/
Syncthing is one of the "fire and forget" kind of programs. It takes some time to setup when doing for first time, but then you pretty much forget its there, and when you need it, you realise it has been chugging along doing its job.

Two things I like about it in particular, are

1. It can and favors syncing over local network. This has a huge cost savings in developing world. Even when you do have massive bandwidth, local network sync still has more throughput and lower latency. My music is shared between devices and if I add a track, it takes less than a second to appear on my other devices.

2. You can set conditions, such that delets can be ignored. Eg. I have a WhatsApp message+media backup going back almost 7 years now, ~65GiB. But I don't need all that on my phone. So I just disable syncing delets on my storage. Now my phone can get away with ~3 GiB of whatsapp data (only because I don't delete very often) and I still have complete backup in case I need it.

3. Absolute rock solid stable. At $DAYJOB we use syncthing to sync multi dozen GiBs of new data every day, total file count in 10s of thousands in about ~300 directories. And in past 5 years we have had about 3 instances where we had something that needed attention, out of which 2 were not syncthing's fault.

I've been using Syncthing for years and have absolutely zero complaints against it. Everyone with 2 or more devices should give it a try, just to see there are better options out there.
> I really like the old SGI computers, the design was amazing. Not sure how much fun those are nowadays even if you happen to be into CAD or 3D modelling.

At least they can be easily repurposed to do something useful:)

https://www.instructables.com/Convert-a-Silicon-Graphics-Ser...
Just because you stand out doesn't mean you stand out in a positive way.

The idea that every piece of writing or open-source code you produce in public will be seen as a positive by everyone out there is patently absurd. Yes, you can put "creative" stuff on your resume. Some companies might appreciate it, many will ignore it, and most will judge you for it.

One obvious outcome of putting your blog on your resume in today's environment is that you will have to scrub it of anything anything even remotely controversial or unusual. You will have to constantly self-censor from that point on.
Facebook announces sweeping new restrictions on criticism of protected groups
The answer is clearly yes, as money was granted to WIV, which specializes in corona viruses.

The questions are:

- why was EcoHealth Alliance/Daszak used as a cutout between the NIH and Chinese govt? The US govt. sends money directly to the Chinese govt. for many programs.

- why didn't Fauci admit he granted money to WIV in 2020 when he did hundreds of interviews?

- did Fauci pay for GoF research in Wuhan because there was concern about it inside the US? or paid for what exactly?

- why is Fauci combative when the Senate attempts oversight?
Enterprise Grade Kubernetes Storage for VMware Tanzu Data Services
-ish; the Apple one no longer comes with an AC extension, though you can still get them and attach them.
Chris, we’re good. As others have pointed out, sometimes an edgy joke gets an edgy response.
>If local taxes were done at a uniform rate statewide, would it helps

In general, Americans hate taxes because they hate the idea that "their" money might go to someone undeserving.
use English; is handy for making the special global variables something you can actually google search.
> Its actually obligatory under treaties of near universal acceptance;

Of course - such treaties, in order to be ratified by as many countries as possible, go for the minimum common denominator, which must be able to accomodate the views of such maximalists too.

Also, to be fair, the ranks of these maximalists tends to change with the fortunes of military power. France and UK, for example, used to be much more aggressive in claiming entitlements.
As is often the case on these type of topics, Slate Star Codex had a really good roundup of the evidence:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smoki...
I feel bad about upvoting this given that I kind of agree with the tweet that this sort of responds in an inappropriate tone to (if you resonated with the message).
Show HN: Cloud Sidecar – Make your apps work in multiple clouds
There's some serious misunderstanding here. You do not have to disambiguate the function call, only the construction of the object. You would write

m1 = TensorFlow.model()
fit(m1, data)
m2 = Pytorch.model()
fit(m2, data)

Julia knows which version of model you are using.

YensorFlow.fit and Pytorch.fit are just different methods of the same function.

You've formed some strong opinions based on a pretty big misunderstanding.
Several averse effects have been reported when taking the 10 day silent meditation course. See the studies mentioned in
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acps.13225
Gitmemory et al are awful. They've made me think seriously about the plausibility of building a custom search engine.

From what I've heard, the biggest problem with building a general-purpose search engine seems to be the index—indexing the entire web requires data centers many times larger than most can afford, and deciding what is relevant in such an index requires excessive training data. But while working, I typically only want my search engines to search the same 200-odd sites (GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, MDN, language docs, high-quality technical blogs, etc.) It's too many to know which "site:" query to use, but it's a small enough set that it should be a manageable problem for an upstart search engine.

It also seems like this is likely true in many domains. Taking on Google directly by trying to build a general purpose search engine seems to be a non-starter (most competitors just crib off of an existing player, and don't do much better). But a bunch of sharded search engines for specific domains could theoretically outperform Google/DDG/Bing within their respective domains, because the human using them has already narrowed the domain down dramatically. They wouldn't dethrone Google (general search is always going to be needed) but they could compete for a segment of traffic.
> I would often write huge refactorings thinking that they would be a solution to a borrow checker error, just to get another one at the end of the refactoring.

That sums up my experience nicely. And I didn't even try to implement my own GC, I used a library.
thanks, i will look that up nonetheless.
>NK is known to obtain foreign currency via cryptocoins. And they need it to pay for developing rockets and atomic weapons. If they ever hit a city in Japan or the US, 20 years would be absolutely mild.

Interesting. Now do everyone in the last thirty years who helped create the situation where North Korea has nuclear weapons. Starting with Jimmy Carter.
'Tesla moment' is right. They put all-electric cars in the public's consciousness. And then they went into the luxury auto business of charging and arm and a leg for repairs and parts.
> If you really will just be sitting doing nothing

Never assume this.

The last 2 weeks aren’t just about finishing your assigned tasks. In many cases we reduce or even cancel an employee’s remaining tickets when they put in their two weeks. This frees them up to help train the people who will be taking over their domain.

The last 2 weeks are primarily about documenting your work and training someone else to take it over.
Schizophrenia is a bucket diagnosis that a large number of mentally ill people are placed into because other diagnoses do not fit or do not fit completely. Once psychiatry doesn't know what's wrong with you, and your symptoms have a certain severity, you get diagnosed with schizophrenia.

This link between marijuana use and schizophrenia will be tenuous at best. Look deeper (into an article published on the well-respected academic journal that is CNN) (a intern probably wrote your article) and you'll find nothing but unscientific hogwash, irrelevant sample sizes, questionable procedure, and just about everything else you usually find that isn't helpful when the subject being discussed is repleat with cultural bias instead of fact.

In short, this is pseudoscientific poppycock written and published to sell you ads.
> But we must be honest about Tesla; he was a semi-broken weirdo who needed a Westinghouse to bring discipline to his researches and make money.

That was the appeal of his story to me; and a reason to try being more socially effective. "What could he have done if he'd been a better communicator?"

The inspirational parts of so many of our idols' stories depend on their flaws, which is one reason (I think) it's become so important to modern society that they be torn down over those flaws. Heroes can't be human anymore.
This is a side project of mine that allows you to take your existing apps and make them work on multiple cloud apis without much code change.
The problem with this argument is that it's begging the question. You're assuming that the Universe is behaving in a way that is consistent with how it appears.

There is no possible experiment you could in principle do to verify that the universe stays the same when you're not looking. We can say that the universe behaves consistently as though it does, and I'm not saying that doesn't matter, but it's not quite the same thing. Furthermore we can't tell whether the universe is tricking us some of the time, or all of the time, or never.
Good for you. How does this have any relevance in this thread though?
Is this a replacement or an augment for the Merlin ID project from Cornell?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/merlin-bird-id-by-cornell-lab/...
Transformation is the name of the game with Svelte. None of the Svelte syntax is run at runtime because it's all compiled down to vanilla JS (and therefore ships with 0 runtime libraries).
Driverless Cars Are Already Here
I have to admit, I agree. I have friends that plow through audiobooks, but I don't absorb them well either. I like them for fiction, which I personally read for pleasure and don't analyze as closely as nonfiction, and to act as a bridge between print reading sessions. I've also found listening to podcasts sort of 'trains' your mind to attend more closely to long-form audio.
Certainly, people's preferences change, their lives change, etc. Nothing wrong with that, just have to make sure all parties are aligned.

And yes, my blade is quite dull at this point!
People laugh at the absurdity of IoT yet couldn’t live without a smart tv. Do “dumb” TVs even exist any more?
Because there's no benefit over a central system. If you trust the central bank (which a vast majority of participants in the financial system do), you don't need distributed anything. Blockchains are for trustless systems. The US financial and capital systems are built on legal and regulatory trust. Your smart contract will never override a judge or a regulatory body.

The federal government need not deploy a crypto token in order to kill Tether. They will simply regulate it out of existence. It is clear this is the path we're on from Yellen's statements and the nomination of Gary Gensler to the SEC (who previously taught about cryptocurrency systems at MIT) [1]. Globally, China is cracking down hard, and Europe seems to be preparing to do so. None of this should be unexpected to an educated scholar of history and nation state mechanics.

> It is important to note that a CBDC might not be the only way to address some of these
problems; for example, in the US we might improve financial inclusion by requiring commercial
banks to provide free, no-minimum accounts to users [2] [3], or by limiting or eliminating fees, as these
were some of the reasons listed when the US unbanked were asked why they don’t have bank
accounts.

So, instant payments are coming in the next 18 months [3] (it is actively in testing currently with a handful of participants), and free accounts for everyone is a stroke of legislative pen. What's blockchain solving?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6vE97qIP4 (MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Instructor: Prof. Gary Gensler)

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/357... (Banking for All)

[3] https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_faq.htm (FedNow Instant Payment system, 2023 GA)
There is a link to the source code: https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET

I doubt that it will work on a Raspberry, but you can run it elsewhere and just send the audio to it.
It, in fact, is their money. There was a time in American history when income taxes were not a thing and still we got along.

It’s not a bad thing to pool money for common causes, but to claim it isn’t their or our money is kind of odd.
I use syncthing to keep keepass and my private keys in sync across my devices, it's great for that works perfect with easy setup and its cross platfrom.

I tried to use it to sync SASS and webpack between developers and it didn't work, it seems to have an issue with node_modules has too many files for it to deal with and it thinks the directory is hundreds of gb and just stalls with a million years eta.

The versioning is cool too but I found it a bit flakey.

If you need reliable versioning and syncing of lots of files use GIT, if you need easy cross platform syncing syncthing is the way to go.
I was able to crash Vista pre SP1 just by copying a few kb file to the network. It's file copy performance was very different from XP.
How is that not the same as the Fed endorsing the Ethereum Blockchain?
Suburbia is centrally planned in extreme detail. American voters understand that when it comes to housing, capitalism must be marginalized to a small box, otherwise the places we live would be “too crowded” with “the wrong kind of people” and “not enough parking.” So it is. And we get out parking, and our open space, and our socioeconomic segregation. And this is what it looks like.
It's just a theory, but I'm somewhat convinced that half the reason Americans hate taxes is because of how inconvenient and in your face they are in the US: IRS requires you to fill in a complex form with no help and punishes you if you get it wrong, and sales tax is not part of the advertised price of goods. I reckon if you got rid of that then people would care about taxes a lot less.
I'll make sure the Actions PMs see this. I _think_ I heard from a colleague that there's progress here.
Capitalism tends to produce more of the thing that people demand. I would wonder why people want this kind of home. I myself am not a US person, don't understand why.
GrapheneOS - android access with better than iphone security
Capitalism wants to build high density in city centers that lasts hundreds of years. Zoning is collusion between landowners to stop other landowners from producing housing - it’s a legal (sadly) monopolist practice that requires government.
It's only their money because the economic system assigns it to them. If the economic system was different then it wouldn't be theirs.
If I were a customer of two different companies for the sake of redundancy, wouldn't I have that same challenge? I could be my own point of failure.

Though, I suppose if I'm responsible for it, I fix it faster for myself.
related work -- zkLedger: Privacy-preserving auditing for distributed ledgers.

15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 18) . 2018.
Because it’s regulation in the form of zoning that produces these homes, not capitalism.
The reality is that companies just don't know. They have a few interviews to vet a candidate, and can't possibly make a truly informed decision. They move from different vetting tactics and follow trends because they can't really measure the outcome of their vetting strategies directly.
Happens at smaller companies too. I just finished a round of job interviews, and interviewed at several smaller companies that didn't give a shit, they had their own pet processes for hiring and didn't care about anything I did beyond the most recent two jobs.

At one of them the guy was the epitome of what I would call "friendly condescending", spending half the interview pontificating on why the vast majority of developers don't understand what they're doing and should spend all their free time having a deep philosophical understanding of their work and suggesting I might be amongst those idiots (I'm really not doing a great job of selling it, he went on and on elaborating all the ways in which all developers but him were lacking and how he couldn't find anyone worthy of working at the company), but with a smile on his face the entire time. To be fair he did call himself "the asshole at the company" during the interview, though.

The two job offers I got were from larger companies, but I talked to some younger guys working there that liked video games and sci-fi novels and going to a summer camp hosted by a popular 80s/90s band and DSLR photography, etc. and being able to talk about those things even a little bit may have helped them get excited about me, actually :) Also helped I did well on their coding tests, though.
Who blinks four times a second?
Ralph Lauren adds wearable tech to the Olympics opening
Looking at those older houses, I would rather have on of those than a soleless suburban cardboard home. But then I never buy stuff with an eye on resell value, I am not a broker or trader after all.
Assuming you're on Windows, you could create a hard link between the files or a junction between directories.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-l...
It's probably difficult for a non-American to understand just how deeply associated dense, urban environments are with random violence and crime.

If I could live in an environment like Berlin, I might consider it, although I'd still get itchy at having that many people around. But that's not a reality anywhere in the US that you have that kind of density.
This thing gets pretty confused if you close one eye and have the other eye open :)
Tomatoes can crossbreed, so the seeds of one plant are not necessarily the same variety as the parent.
> Tech is not developed in secret large scale government run labs of yore.

Real technology (advancement of science vs software+marketing) is still very much developed by governments, because they are the only entities willing to spend billions on possible dead ends. Fusion reactors, CERN, nuclear technology, and those are the ones we know about because we're allowed to know. The US alone spends about 80-90 billion per year on "Special Access Programs." [1]

> From ICBMs to private space enterprises.

"China is building more than 100 new missile silos in its western desert, analysts say" [1]

I'm also trying to be an optimist about the future, but part of that is understanding where we actually are. Technology is still firmly in the control of governments and a handful of corporations.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29092/special-access-p...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-nucle...
My company has an unwritten policy that they won't hire people back if they leave, and they screwed me over a couple times. If I leave (not retire) and have the other job setup already, I will just give them a 1 day notice. Screw them.
Probably wherever's best for someone of any race? I don't see what this adds to the discussion.
In my case, my job requires it. Otherwise I would only have a feature phone.
To Win the Desktop CPU Market, MediaTek Has Taken a Different Strategy
Operation Outward: Attacking power lines with balloons in WWII
Making the case for intranasal Covid-19 vaccines
The introduction of invisible gesture control on iOS was the end of UX for Apple.
I just posted this, thought it was funny too. It also works if you hold your finger or an object over your eye.
FWIW, the originator of "Duff's Device" (an infamously counterintuitive C construct) claimed that "I feel a combination of pride and revulsion". O:-)
One of a thousand Microsoft "papercuts" that drove me to Linux. Admittedly it ain't Windows, but that's pretty much the point. After enough years of daily little Windows annoyances built up, the fact that Linux was not Windows was worth the learning curve to me.