skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people are too naive/uneducated/dumb/pressured to make decisions which are in their own best interests.

Raising the bar for employment conditions should help everyone.

A "living" rather than "minimum" wage wpuld help, but the businesses sponsoring governments round the world don't seem to want that.

It's very hard to get out of a place of desperation and poverty. Few people take the time to help.
The problem comes when confident drivers meet their new best friend, alcohol.
I never understood why the right decided to be against logical public health measures and decided to tie their ideaology to it. It never use to be like this. Care to explain?
Depends on the region, Portuguese mustard to this day is quite harmless in comparison with its German cousin.

But yeah, there were some flavours still.
Are people really that stupid to give some mobile app company access to their contact list? On iPhone you have to explicitly give permission, I presume on Android as well. I find that hard to believe everyone is doing it.
Huh. I'm not sure I want to know the logic here.

Thanks.
According to the screenshot: All members plus every single number in each of their phone books.
All of them have burnin it's inevitable.
Clubhouse does the classic “share your contacts with us to find your friends here” thing, but it sounds like they just upload your entire list into their database instead of doing anything remotely privacy aware. I’m mostly curious how much else they uploaded with the numbers - is this name + number + email etc? And if this dump is just numbers, do Clubhouse have the rest somewhere else?
>I think the blockers are more economic than technical.

I don't see why it can't be both.
I run an eCommerce website and pay $5/month to DigitalOcean for what is basically a VPS running Wordpress and Cyberpanel (free and good cPanel alternative).

The reason I'm happy to pay that $5 is because it makes a whole host of technical problems disappear. I don't have to worry about maintaining hardware or dealing with an outage if my (consumer) internet is down for maintenance. I don't have to configure my router or set up the CDN, and the bandwidth they have at these data centres is 10x what I have at home.

If these technical problems disappeared, I wouldn't need to outsource the hosting to an external provider and could save myself the hosting fee. On the other hand, if cloud hosting were significantly more expensive (or if I was just running a website as a hobby and didn't care about downtime), I'd definitely spend the time learning to self-host.
I think discussion of topsoil needs to be a part of this conversation. Mechanized farming is stripping the land of topsoil and by design increases surface area that leads to evaporation. Compare to healthy topsoil that retains moisture and produces more nutritious crop. Total water demand would be reduced.
https://twitter.com/UnderTheBreach/status/141888964970820813...

this tweet says it's BS (they validated the japan sample)
That was what made Clubhouse so famous:

"After registering, the clubhouse app asks for access to your address book. This must be granted if you want to invite friends."
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If it was the “real” Theraflu, which contains pseudoephedrine, then it happened because all sales of products that contain pseudoephedrine are tracked. It’s to prevent it from being used in bulk as a raw material to make meth.

Most stores sell non-pseudoephedrine versions of the same medications that usually have phenylephrine which does not require showing and tracking your ID. But anyone whose taken it know that phenylephrine is a poor substitute and barely acts as a decongestant.
The X-Frame-Options header is sent by YouTube, not by the website. The website appears to be trying to embed a normal YouTube.com link (/watch?) instead of using its normal embed path (/embed/).

This is probably intentional behaviour by YouTube to prevent clickjacking and the like. I don't think this has ever been how YouTube intended embeds to work, so you can't really blame browsers here. The author should fix their link to get the video to show up.
https://zerforschung.org/posts/clubhouse-telefonnummern-en/
I hope the French keyboard (AZERTY) will be the standardized AFNOR layout, NF Z71-300 [1], and not the old non-standard layout.

[1]: https://norme-azerty.fr/en/
Why are you so convinced that there is a link between race and intelligence? There is a link between biased measure of intelligence such as IQ tests and race. But no actual link has been proven.
uLED works but only at large sizes.
I don't know why you're surprised, considering Biden's son was literally given diamonds and a stake in a Chinese entity worth millions which was under investigation by the DoJ. [1] [2]

This kind of influence peddling is common on both sides of the aisle.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-family-name-aided...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-federal-tax-investig...
You are over-interpreting.

The SSN has a name attached to it. That has to match the birth certificate (probably with some rules about other records for name changes and the like).
They did control for race.

And no, controlling for socio-economic attributes does not fulfill the role "approximated via race."

Statistically, racial differences tend to include:

- Cultural differences, including preferences for field-of-work, family structure, socialization patterns, etc., all of which affects R0

- Economic differences (e.g. Does one need to take a Tylenol and show up to work even when sick?)

- In some cases, medical differences (e.g. vitamin D, which appears to play a major role in COVID19)

- Geographic differences (communities tend to segregate by race, and outbreaks are geographic in nature)

- Trust of institutions (which impacts vaccination, testing, and treatment rates)

... and so on.

This is about group-level statistics, and isn't helpful with individuals.

But if you're doing a population study, yes, this is an important control.
Thanks :-}
"I've been coding since I was 14, and I don't feel bad in saying ... I can't imagine how you could argue this is good and adheres to any philosophy of openness or readability." is like saying "I have experience, therefore that invalidates any experience you might have."

If you don't have any interest in perspectives outside of your own then I can't imagine learning anything can be easy at all.

Since I come from a school where scheme was taught as a first language, I find clojurescript a hell of a lot easier to read than javascript. Half the time I feel like javascript just does things out in the aether with side-effects and I find the code really hard to follow when it does. Clojurescript has a much easier to follow flow for me.

That doesn't mean javascript is ugly and hard to read for someone else.
Reddit-style no context movie quote thread x)
This "only if your time is cheap" argument is fallacious.

Especially since it was originally used in the Linux desktop context.

If you have enough skill (or the willingness to learn) and initial investment of time, then the ROI on these DIY projects can be immense.

I am far more productive with a Linux desktop and self-hosted / managed "solutions" than their commercial alternatives.

For example: My media server setup far outperforms Netflix and Spotify in terms of ROI and /even/ convenience.

Similarly my Linux desktop PC is better for work and play compared to any off the shelf MacOS or Windows experience.

If you have the perseverance and initial time to invest, you end up over time saving so much time and money.
That would be really cool. Like a game that had virtual objects but in the same places as the physical world, but hey don’t need to be the same thing.

Long term I think the idea of a computer almost permanently between us and our number one most trusted sensory organ is a fast recipe for Utopia / Dystopia.
It can be also for people who plan on occasionally sharing their PC. It could be a bit embarrassing to let your friend/family member fo a search and get tailored results
"there weren't a lot of opportunities for anyone to get American plants back to Europe prior to Columbus"

Thinking about this myself a while ago, I wondered - even if someone went there and back, and even brought something along, how could we tell? That Norse saga had a mythical status at most, and even with that it isn't necessarily clear for a casual listener that it may be about reaching another previously unknown continent. Other groups along the history may have also pulled it off, but then their contemporaries, in order to consemnate the event, had to take their word for it? Even with some seeds as evidence, the world was less connected untill very recently and there were plenty of isolated places, yet relatively close, for strange seeds to be found. After thousand of years, it's hard to tell if an annual plant was brought at some point in time by intercontinental explorers, or migrated by some other non-human related way, or has been local since before continents went appart. Then it was hard to discern the magnitude of a discovery. Even the Norsemen, like the later Spaniard colonists, couldn't tell how big their found body of land was, if the Vinland they reached was an island they haven't yet circumnavigated yet or happened to be a continent spanning south down to well into southern hemisphere. No, for a discovery like this to stick, with clear compiled inventories of imported plants, it had to be done by a government-like entity, that could afford the high risks of loss that an exploration program on the limits of available technology pose, and with enough logistics and cultural development to pursue a wide range of interests (as opposed to small groups, for which keeping track of traffiked plants may be of lesser concern).
Google doesn't really care what you want or need.
Everyone doesn't have to. If one person with your number gives up their contact list, they have yours. I'd guess about 10-12% of the populace would have to cooperate.
Not everyone using HN lives in the US.
I don't agree with him and the reason is simple. "Major role" implies that if it had not happened then USSR might would not have collapsed, or it's fate had delayed significantly. But the thing is - even if there were no Chernobyl at all, USSR must have collapsed anyway due to a multitude of enormous internal issues. May be just a little later, but it's absolutely not a question if it would collapsed or not. Therefore Chernobyl just can't have a major role in that.
those are locked out of any apps on the Occulus store though, right?
> I think a serious person should be equally reluctant to join the "it's just a flu" camp either.

The long-term effects of flu are not studied that well, by the way. On the basis we're used to it from before such studies were possible.

None of those symptoms we hear about, getting our breath, unable to smell, brain fog etc., none of them are new. And they imply internal damage that lasts.
Try "Dublin ie McDonald's".
I don't think that's a reasonable analysis. Wannabes want to achieve notoriety but aren't prepared to, or can't, do what it takes to get there. A subjective analysis clearly shows they're not going to "make it" - and if they did some introspection they would realise it too. That's a wannabe, and the World does seem to be chock-full of wannabes.

Some people just want to make great games, don't care about getting famous, etc.; they're not wannabes.

Some people want to do a job, get paid; they're not wannabes.

Some want to be famous and rich, and have the chops to go with it; they're not wannabes.

@Karsteki, I don't think it's intended as an insult, it's more "being realistic, most people making games won't succeed because 'everyone' wants to succeed and most don't really have what it takes".
"meaning he sold to other developer"
No, I was marketing the game on yerba mate groups etc + Argentina gaming and many other places. I don't market my games to game devs because they are not my target :-}
I'm not posting info about my games on dev groups or anything, just from time to time, I'm back with my stats, but those stats are before posting about the game to dev groups, so sales comes from players interested in the game :-}
The majority of reports regarding vaccination are those chastising anyone who hasn't dared got their shot yet along with continued threats of restrictions to our lives until an almost impossible target is met in the near future. Those 'other measures' that include lockdowns, limited social interaction and financial hardship are not positive at all.
The level of scrutiny you're describing sounds unusual for most parts of the US, but the broad answer is that the relevant enforcement authorities are more aggressive in the US than they are in Austria and Germany. This leads to inflexible policies so that the establishment's lawyer can more effectively defend against prosecution for any failures.
> I disagree with you on most of this. Looking at the all cause mortality graphs for the US is pretty sobering, and comparing to the relatively much more flat all cause mortality graph for australia is all the reason i need to be pro lockdown.

You're literally doing what I said. You're using the one metric to justify never ending lockdowns. Because lockdowns Haven't worked or we wouldn't be having them again in Australia. Unless life needs to be continuously cycled lockdowns. Which is preposterous and something many of us warned against. There's no exit strategy out of hygiene theater. Only the blame game.

As for your comment about govs having the best intentions. That's clearly false. They've shown they care about prolonging their political positions so that trumps anything. Which is why protests that are politically convenient can go ahead while those that go against lockdowns are attacked in many ways.

Healthcare in Ireland, for example, has always been bad and "over capacity". Every flu season. That hasn't changed. They haven't invested in healthcare really. Your lockdown proposal will only mean forever lockdowns and, now, a 2 tier society where those who don't comply with every rule get blamed while their businesses and lives get destroyed and politicians are exempt from those rules.

Your anecdotes about colds are ridiculous. I haven't either and I haven't been a germophobe like you seem to now. I've travelled and I've exercised with people and met people against the fascist regulations and will keep doing so. The problem is that, even if I manage to "save myself by moving around" from this insane apartheid and fascist state of things, in the name of the greater good, millions will suffer while the laptop hackernews socially awkward class stays at home with their back yards and their online yoga.

You've had 16 months of screwing people out of choice to live how they see fit. Now you'll attack anyone who doesn't yield Every bit of the way including medical procedures. Now 100% vaccination rate seems to be the goal as to why you can't have freedoms back. It's insane. It's wrong. It's wrong in 1930 levels of wrong. Enough is enough. /Rant
Yeah agreed they would and do. I’m not saying it invalidates anything but what this may indicate is inflated numbers which in the current situation causes overreaction.
You've said it, cryptographic signatures are the way. Then it all becomes a trust economy where someone vouching for a claim puts their reputation at stake, and that is exactly what gives the claim a certain level of reliability.
Niche genre :-}
I know that the game will fail (before release), it's not problem for me :-}
The qsort() performance example in the beginning is a bit misleading. If you give the C compiler enough information (for instance an inline-able implementation of qsort()) then the compiler will happily "disolve" the comparison callback and custom types into a specialized "stamped out" version of qsort, just like std::qsort(). No fancy template magic needed for that, just an optimizing compiler.

The only difference between the two is that the C++ qsort implementation lives as inline code in a header file, while C's qsort lives "out of reach" in the C runtime library. If C's qsort implementation is in the same compilation unit (or LTO is used), a C compiler has the same optimization opportunities as C++.

For example here's a C qsort example where the compiler can see the qsort implementation (using an inline copy of MUSL's qsort). Note in the assembly window how the comparison callbacks have disappeared completely, this is basically C's version of "zero cost abstractions" (which really is just a fancy name for "compiler optimization passes", which isn't unique to C++):

https://www.godbolt.org/z/Mn4PfE9q7
The issue is multi-faceted and more than the sum of all parts. Lack of quality sleep, low-nutrition high-calorie foods, less exposure to sunlight, eating all day long, and many others lead to the accumulation of fat. I do Orthodox Fasting where I don't eat anything for 5.5 days and don't drink water during the first 3 days - and I don't lose any weight. But I get lethargic. So, obviously, the fat in our bodies has became less mobile. When we don't eat, we don't burn it for energy, we just become lethargic, and we need to find exactly why this happens, because it's the key to this issue.
Agreed. I am grateful for the article, but the code was hard to read.
I think of Apple as tech company that has fashion brand retail quality marketing and distribution, and highly developed internal hardware with very strong and well managed supply chain.

Those are more advantageous features in smartphones than they are in desktop.

The products are 'good' but not that much better from a feature/function perspective. They look a little cleaner, nicer, but it's not really features that make them better.

Every employee rants, and thinks that 'the thing they are working on' is really important, and it's common that people think that the company has 'lost it's way' with this or that.

The fact is, the 'speed' of the file system on mac and windows isn't very relevant. It works, it's fast enough.

More paradoxically, the Windows UI's are a total confusing mess, always have been, and yet they've dominated on desktop forever.
Resource types in the name is a pet peeve of mine. They should not be part of the name. An RDS instance can never be anything other than a database, no need for 'database' or 'db' or 'rds' in the name. Likewise a Kubernetes cluster can never be anything other than a k8s cluster. It doesn't need 'cluster' suffix.

Terraform makes this redundancy especially obvious because you already include the type in any references to resources eg.

google_container_cluster.payments_cluster.something
I stopped using google mainly for these two issues about a couple years ago and honestly, I completely forgot that these issues can be a thing.
> 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.

But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?

The way I see it, you're bound to catch it no matter how many precautions you take. Case in point: I know a guy with paranoid level of precautions that still got it and while he was confined with his family none of them caught it (this was before we had any vaccines in my country).
Okay that's a perspective I can understand a little better. Making AR more accessible by using cheaper VR technology to implement it seems like a good reason to be interested.

I'm still not seeing the excitement as a consumer because the apps aren't there yet. From a development perspective it also just feels… iterative.
> If only covid were 'only' as contagious as the cold, we probably would have beaten it already

Nope. When numbers go down, we relax. When hospitals fill up, we lock down. It doesn't matter how contagious COVID is. It will remain at endemic levels forever, on the path we're on.

We've turned a billion dollar problem into a multi-trillion dollar one in February 2020. Now, we're turning it into a tens-of-trillions-of-dollars problem.

100% N95-equivalent masks. 100% vaccination. 6 foot distancing whenever possible. Outdoors whenever possible. That would still get COVID today, but it might not in a year. Delta and Gamma are concerning, and we'll only see more mutations, and ones better able to jump our mitigation measures.
Zoox was acquired by Amazon last year.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Have you seen "2.4. Statistical methods" and "Table 1" which discuss this? The whole paper is available below the abstract.
Note that ventilation for more than a week alone damages organs - no corona needed.
Looking at Figure one in the PDF[1], I don't think I do well on this test at all. I mean "lion is to feline as close is to distant, true/false"? Or, "Emotional Discrimination"? What is the "correct" answer there?

I can deduce that "Patronymic" is "a name derived from the name of a father or ancestor", but I do not believe many native speakers I cross paths with can.

In any case, studies like this mention the total number of people who took the test (81,337 participants), but then, by definition, the effects come from small subgroups. E.g.,

> People who had been hospitalised showed substantial scaled global performance deficits dependent on whether they were (-0.47 standard deviations (SDs) N = 44) vs. were not (-0.26 SDs N = 148) put onto a ventilator. Those who remained at home (i.e., without inpatient support) showed small statistically significant global performance deficits (assisted at home for respiratory difficulty -0.13 SD N = 173; no medical assistance but respiratory difficulty -0.07 SDs N = 3,386; ill without respiratory difficulty -0.04 SDs N = 8,938).

The 44 people who were put on ventilators are different on other dimensions. It is hard to separate the effects of the news ("you have a horrible disease"), the medical treatment, and the psychological torment associated with being in a hospital during this time from the actual effects of the actual virus.

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2821...
Raising the curtain on Netflix's ambitious third act
As a long term, very frequent recreational cannabis user I'm interested whether cannabis has real capability to cause this and other health issues. I find it difficult to believe that cannabis directly causes schizophrenia rather than simply "revealing" it, but I don't want to shut my eyes to these possible complications. I personally experienced the reduced motivation and ability to control one's life caused by chronic marijuana (mis)use, bordering on addiction. I hear some people experience pretty strong withdrawal symptoms, but definitely no such thing on my end - were they simultaneously abusing other substances, possibly?

I personally think weed is overall better than alcohol for most people, and I wish it replaced drinking as the primary socially-accepted drug, but I'd like to know if I'm wrong, or to what degree.
Ballasts are only needed on fluorescent lamps (because they have negative resistance, so if you run one by itself without a current limiter, it'll consume more and more current until it explodes)
I don't self host anything, but I have the skills and experience to do so. I think I would rather enjoy using those skills and more than using my skills in my current job. Though my current job over-values my time by a lot.
Less sport on TV? Actually I do follow F1 through the Channel 4 highlights, but last weekend it was all live from Silverstone. I realised my life is too short for hours and hours (and hours) of coverage. The highlights are perfect. Sorry Sky.
Believe it or not, it used to be a lot worse. One of my first dev projects was a contenteditable based editor, and this was back in 2008 so I needed to support IE6-8, which had it's own separate API for manipulating selections/ranges and of course a whole bunch of bugs. Firefox's impmentation wasn't much better!