skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they teach that as long as you believe and are repentant all is forgiven. Perhaps that doesn't apply to priests.

In Catholic teaching forgiveness does not mean there isn't just punishment due, or that prudential decisions need to be made. An embezzler may be truly sorry but keeping them in a position where they control money would be bad for a variety of reasons (such as putting them in a near occasion of sin). In catholic Theology even those sins which are forgiven still require cleansing due to retained attachment to sin after death, this punishment / purification is called purgation and occurs in purgatory.
I always liked the PNG file format (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/png-1.2-pdg.html) as a good example of a well-designed file format. It starts with a fixed eight-byte signature, followed by a series of chunks, each chunk having exactly the same four fields: the chunk length, the chunk type, a variable-sized data, and a CRC over the type and data. The chunk type includes a flag telling the decoder whether the chunk can be skipped if the type is unknown (since all chunks have a length in the same place, every decoder will know how to skip the chunk). The specification also has a rationale section explaining the reason for several of its choices.
Thank you! I lived in the Netherlands for a short time ('92-93) as a kid and I always thought teletext was so cool!
I feel like a 60% attack rate among fully vaccinated people in one outbreak is pretty chilling, though. Like I'm glad they didn't have severe illness but this news is disappointing.

Delta seems to heavily dominate in Singapore [0], and they don't seem to have Gamma at all. The outbreak in this article was Gamma.

This study doesn't jive well with the in-vitro tests of vaccinated serum against gamma and the numbers we're seeing broadly though, so I'm still hopeful this is a fluke occurrence.

0. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-finds-d...
Ah, this explains why don't remember seeing Teletext:

> Adoption in the United States was hampered due to a lack of a single Teletext standard and consumer resistance to the high initial price of Teletext decoders. Throughout the period of analog broadcasting, Teletext or other similar technologies in the US were practically non-existent, with the only technologies resembling such existing in the country being closed captioning, TV Guide On Screen, and Extended Data Services (XDS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
Ask HN: Is there an alternative Slack client?
I find the desktop Slack client crashes a lot and is a resource hog. Is there any alternative clients I can use that connect to the Slack network that are reasonably fast (doesn't have to have all the features of Slack).

Or I guess I could run the mobile app in an emulator?
Do you really need a connection pooler for most PG installs? I run a SaaS company with a lot going on, and haven’t had to touch a pooler. Average about 500 open connections. That’s a few, but on a DB server with 200GB of memory it’s nots really breaking anything.
> Technical security measures are not and will never be a substitute for proper training.

What would proper training achieve to solve GGP's problem of his machine becoming unusable every week?
Check this out:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21599546

You can do a lot in just one file. Don’t try to grok these stacks. Make one Node.js Express server, and write all your routes in one file. Then send down one index.html file with one js/css, and write everything there. Start with just three files.

Look, I’m not saying industrial level frontend isn’t needlessly complicated. Don’t go down the path of learning a stack until you can build a functioning app with nothing at all.

I don’t know Haskell, but I have a pretty good idea of what the person is doing, all in one file. When you take up a whole stack, then you have to figure out how all the legos connect. I wouldn’t bother with that initially.

You have enough experience to already know that the holy grail to all of this is getting to the point where you can say no to 70% of what the stack offers. Even better if you can get to a point where you can say no to what people say you need to use in our current time (all the frontend stuff from 2013 is still totally fine for building a non trivial app in 2021).
It's open source, send a PR?
The article presents the 75 year old Donald Trump as the iconic "petulant child". The majority of senior citizens voted for him. Unless you are older than 75 it hard to take seriously the implication that your generation was in any way superior.
On calibrating up a ubitx radio, or “why the hell is this so complicated”
Nope, globally we know that re-infection rarely occurs after being infected. This study shows a 60% attack rate for fully vaccinated miners, which is horrendous. The whole point of this study is that vaccination does not stop transmission of the virus. To quote the study:

In conclusion, we describe a VOC Gamma COVID-19 outbreak with a strikingly high attack rate among persons fully vaccinated with BNT162b2 vaccine.[…]Masking and social distancing —even among those fully vaccinated— may be necessary.
No it’s 100% still correct.
What name would you suggest?
> Now we'll wait until someone find / use a way to distribute hidden files using this method.

You mean like the GIFAR attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIFAR)?
Supersonic electric VTOL jet analysis in Python
> Turns out engrampa was reading the file forwards, whereas unzip was reading the file backwards.

Was the second zip less than 64KB in size? If not then engrampa was being extra wrong about looking for the header.
> Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem.

I'm confused by this comment. I do think they are a problem, that's why I am encouraged by a vaccine that reduces covid to something that is not life threatening and that we can stop freaking out about.
At a glance the, developed with years of hindsight later, 7zip specification (the official version of which might be in the SDK?) appears to be a conformant counter-example to a zip file format.

This is a more easily accessed derivitive of that specification.

https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/archive_format.html
I tried Squeak a few years ago (on a Mac). It was remarkably painless to get going, instant really. Suddenly you are in a different world.. Highly recommended.

https://squeak.org/
Player how are you supposed to type in a picture?
Jailbreaking is the only way to really use an app that isn’t allowed. And it’s a royal pain in the ass to keep up with the updates, not suited for regular users at all. But it’s still kicking alive and well today
They also cannot show a switch to allow viewing NSFW content inside the app, similarly to how apps can't mention other payment methods in-app.
Still active in Finland as well:

YLE: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv

MTV (not the American one): https://www.mtvtekstikanava.fi/

Some people use them via phone apps as they tend to be faster and cleaner than webpages to check e.g. sports results. E.g. aText-TV (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harjuconsu...) has many channels from a dozen countries.
It is abundantly clear that you are making certain info public when you use Grindr.
I think the answer is because this isn't Indian style. I'm dismayed at the continued Western take on this. This is not the spirit of yoga to be stuck below the muladhara. Yes, you played dress up in saree - why not continue to wear saree or kurti and palazzo?
This is the major one:

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

This one scared me since it was a large, relatively unbiased sample, with before-and-after imaging. It also showed brain damage even in mild cases of COVID19 in >10% of cases.

There are a lot of supporting smaller-scale studies too, replicating the same general result. E.g.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-1...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066611/

If you Google, you'll find dozens of other small-scale studies.
5 years ago we scraped the itunes podcast database to do exactly that. matching was a PITA though.

Then we emailed the creators and got some interesting answers out.

punchline: creators wanted better opportunities for appearing on other high-value podcasts.

Your approach is different. I hope you find success in it. It’s definitely great product development!
/r/baggedmilk may never recover
U.S. senators target tech's legal immunity to stop vaccine misinformation
I think the point of the exercise is to get a specific look of the ‘75 to ‘85 era graphics that can only come with a Scanimate.
> I think is better to use a separate format for archive and for compression (like .tar.gz is, and some others).

That has the bad property that it does not allow for easy random access. With the ZIP format, you can directly read an arbitrary file within the archive without having to decompress or even read the compressed data of any of the other files, and many applications of the ZIP format (for example, JAR archives) depend on that property. With .tar.gz and similar, you have to decompress all data before the desired file.
This is one of those scenarios where the answer is likely to be “both”, but I doubt you’ll get anyone discussing YouTube internal architecture in enough detail to be satisfying. Just look up what Vitesse is and compare what that implies in terms of operational complexity to using something like spanner if you want a straw man technical rationale.
The problem with that code and the reason that it is often considered bad C++ practice is that it is very easy to accidentally move the inner conditional outside of the outer conditional, thus creating undefined behaviour.

Putting the null check in the same line as the usage means that it is much harder to separate them accidentally.
> Before the web, a phonebook was mainly a local thing: you could look somebody up in your area, but you couldn't easily look up somebody across the country. You'd have to dial directory assistance in that other area, and even then, you're only getting a few names that way.

Right, but you still can't easily look somebody up across the country - unless you pay for access to that data - which you could've done with phonebooks.

I strongly suspect that Bell sold their phonebook data to companies, but even if they didn't, it wouldn't be particularly difficult to obtain phonebooks from all the areas your business is interested in...
> MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle

Dear Facebook:

Please fix the wording emphasized above ASAP before we revolt here in outrage with your lack of attention to detail. MySQL was developed by relevant open source project contributors (initially, MySQL AB folks), but not by Oracle and even not by Sun Microsystems. MySQL has been in development for ~12 years before Sun acquired MySQL AB. Please set the record straight.

Sincerely,

MySQL user (not currently, but in the past and maybe in the future [though unlikely, because Postgre...] :-)
Dolphin's progress reports are the best I've ever seen in the software industry.
What do you think makes it impossible today?
I read promiscuously. I want the ideas from disparate topics to have sex and produce novel offspring in my mind.
No, you could not "opt out" of being listed in the phone book. You could pay to be removed. Furthermore, usefulness does not equal consent.
The author might mean "it is history" - i.e. it is no longer a thing. Somehow I doubt that ...
Wait, seriously? I find the exact opposite! I would love it if Gsheets were as performant as Excel with large tables but scrolling gets bogged way down. If you add too many formulas, Gsheets will get stuck recalculating formulas endlessly. I love Gsheets because of the ability to link between documents easily, their comment system, filter views, and native regex… but performance?? It’s terrible!
The NSO “Surveillance List”: What It Is and Isn’t
I don't see the conflict between the two characterizations. He's making an observation, and you're simply defending it.

1960s cultural reactions were particularly radical largely because they were relative to some particularly rigid and simplistic social mores. But both generations can easily be placed on a timeline of increasing individualism. Both the construction and emphasis of the nuclear family as well as the bootstrap moralism are part of this increasing individualist tendency. Indeed, even today these norms are promoted by conservatives precisely because the implication is that failure to conform will (and should) result in impoverishment--there is no community to fall back on, and thus no allowance for failure. 1960s reformers thought they could build communities supporting radical individualism, but the latter tended to result in the dissipation of the former--literally and figuratively.

Note that increasing individualism does not imply decreasing communitarianism. (Which is distinct from a concept of "we". The U.S. was one of the first modern nation-states, afterall, and helped to redefine what "we" could mean.) Specifically, the article doesn't actually claim that there was greater communitarianism before the advent of secondary school. The U.S. has always been strongly individualistic, but this was more a harsh reality and de facto state of affairs than anything else. Interpersonal communities could thrive, but they were often based around religion or economic necessity (or both). There's a plausible case that the accelerated construction of a sophisticated, positive individualist culture did indeed coincide with increasing education. I always thought this was simply an effect of more people being introduced to non-religious social concepts while standards of living were simultaneously improving (i.e. less need for communities of necessity) in large part due to industrialization (with its own implications for the role of the individual), which had the overall effect of compounding and exaggerating our predisposition to individualism. But the thesis that a large part of it may instead be related to adolescent socialization is interesting. Notably, it's falsifiable in ways that most other social theories are not.
Content of this article aside, man, I hate it when sites choose to hijack the scroll event to roll their own (janky) version of smooth scrolling.
>But beyond that, stealing money assets, or even in this case "net worth" is immoral.

100% agree, so lets tax the fucker, and all the other fuckers.
YouTube is brought up in this video, with its similar algorithm which created rabbit holes for users. For example, leading them down holes of alt-right content. TikTok seems to be able to do this faster, but that may be due to the length of the clips.

So, what's different here? It feels like we're talking about the same problem we've faced with YouTube, just through a different medium.
Why bad science is sometimes more appealing than good science
When he apologizes for what Twitter has done, maybe.
“European Spreadsheet Risks Group” is the most European thing ever.
> (workload, new vs. old reading task distribution, scheduling, plus retention)

I've never really understood the appeal of IR as defined elsewhere. My reading queue isn't just wikipedia dumps or some other 100 percent valuable source, often it's somewhat speculative. I really don't want to read 3 sections from random journal papers and then create cards; I need to once over a paper to even be sure the cards created are worth remembering.

Also, I bought a Kindle to read papers from more comfortable locations than a desk, with less direct light, and AFAIK, that is not directly compatible with the IR approaches that want to track reading progress. So I have no idea if these problems are solved, because I've never felt compelled to try.
> But if you want full disk encryption for a server without the need to attend it in person to enter the password every time it restarts …
So TPMs are great if you're a big corporation!

Also great for personal NAS for example. But its bloody hard to implement on Linux/BSD at the moment
The second zip had 109 bytes.
I used to live in the UK for couple of years and I never heard of BBC before I living there. Right now I am hunting for Acorn and BBC and I am planning on flying to the UK just to pick them up. It's funny how these systems were so big, however only on the domestic market.

I would love to get SGI but in the country I live in, it's almost imposible, same as SUN and NeXT.
20mb is totally fine for hd streaming and video conferencing. if that isn’t working well you aren’t getting a steady 20
>I don't think people will stand for this level of inequality much longer.

At the moment it seems like every government in the world is being held hostage by the obscenely rich, while workers with multiple jobs are struggling to even afford rent.

Please give me some hope and tell me how the change might come about? What signs have you seen out there that things are changing?

Because everything I see is just more and more wealth inequality, expanding year over year. Meanwhile the media, also in the obscenely rich's pocket, reports on these billionaire space assholes as if they've achieved something worthwhile, which is sickening to me.
tl;dr: regular nipple stimulation and/or hormone supplementation can allow many males to lactate, perhaps unsurprisingly given they have full, if normally underdeveloped, mammary glands. Rarely, this can occur in males under stress conditions, possibly as an evolutionary adaption during famine conditions. Even more rarely, it occurs in some men with no particular stimulus and no obvious cause.

I cannot grasp the fascination with male lactation. Yes, men have titties. People sometimes lactate despite not recently having given birth. Biology is fuzzy so supposed hard differentiation by sex is really only a suggestion. Is any of this really a surprise?
Dang, what a gambit.

Assuming rational actors, it must look pretty bad from the top of the inside to yolo this kind of hail mary.

I wonder what this looked like passing by legal? I mean if PR let this out, assuming they even have that kind of throttle, surely the lawyers would want to take a long look. This will definitely come up in court, wont it?
This is great. Brings back memories of when I used to go to grandads house in the early-mid 90s and play with his teletext tv.
I had a little scare that I wouldn't find Peter Thiel in the list, but I did and now I am subscribed ;) The concept is awesome actually, for the exact reasons you are mentioning: content is scattered, I might not use or be on some of the platforms, etc. Now my question for you is: how do you make sure you don't miss any of their contents? thanks anyway and good luck!
New Software Engineers in the company be like
Yeah for those (assuming it's TCP), you can do "ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev interface0 advmss 500 mtu lock 500" and see if it still freezes up. A lot of paranoid admins break PMTUD because they're terrified of ICMP.
Look forward to trying it out, thanks!

If you find yourself in a position of not wanting a specific website mixed in with your browser tabs again but not caring enough to make another native app, check out nativefier. Quickly makes an electron wrapper for any website.

https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier
Same here about Olivetti. In case you didn't know, last year I learnt about PCem, an emulator to bring back to life those XT 8086 8088, 286, 386, 486... Take a look at my page about it ;) https://juangacovas.info/doku.php/windows/howtos/pcemu-page
Thanks! I acquired my first vintage Mac couple months ago (two Macintosh Classic) and I was very surprised with the machines. I think I need to look more into what was possible. Thank you for the ideas, I will definitely look into getting another early Mac computer.
Nothing on social media, or really any online service, should ever be considered private. It may claim to be, but ultimately it's not in your control.
And here I thought the author was making a pithy observation about the fact that history is always written by the victors, and therefor almost always a form of disinformation about the losers.
I suppose those miners are strong healthy men, wouldnt we expect the same results if they were exposed to the virus while being not-vaccinated?

> In other words, this case study is a relatively ordinary result in line with what we know: that the major COVID-19 vaccines greatly reduce the chance of severe illness but leave nontrivial chance of infection and transmission.

I dont think this particular case is a proof of your claim at all.
The main takeaway here, mentioned above, is that this might throw shade on the "public good" idea of vaccination-- that you should still vaccinate those at minimal risk from Covid.

If you're at high risk, you should definitely still get vaccinated. Maybe just stop telling twenty-somethings they should get vaccinated too.
Analyzing the viability of Ethernet and UDP for robot control (2016)
> The Columbia River Gorge was carved out in two weeks.

This seemed interesting, so I looked into it, and I'm seeing multiple sources saying it was many floods over a few millennia (with one large initial one from Lake Missoula).

About 1800 years ago, the Columbia Basin became flooded when an ice dam broke at Lake MIssoula in Western Montana. This lake help approximately 600 cubic miles of water. Boulders were tossed around the outlet of the break. Others were carried in icebergs as far as Western Oregon towards the Pacific Ocean. The water flowed at appoximately 60mph. It is believed that it took 2-3 days for this water to drain.

During a period of 2500 years, there were believed to be as many as 100 floods that scoured the Gorge area. These were some of the largest documented floods occuring on the planet and in geological history.[1]

The 1800 is likely supposed to be 18,000 years ago, as this other link says essentially the same thing but at the time brame of 18,000 - 15,000 years ago.[2]

That said, neither source their facts well, so it's not out of the question that one is using the other or they are using some other source, and they are wrong and referencing wrong information in a chain, so I would consider a reputable source one way or the other as more definitive.

1: http://www.gorgeconnection.com/how-the-gorge-was-formed.php

2: https://www.pdxmonthly.com/travel-and-outdoors/2012/05/gorge...
One of the best thing that ever happen to me is learning LaTeX to write my paper..

since then, I wrote my resume, cover letter, and everything else with it

Results are beautiful and highly customisable
The Exceeding Cleverness of Laravel's Atomic Database Locks
The Framework Laptop is now shipping
I feel like the next major advancement in spreadsheets is nested hierarchy.

Specifically, iTunes (especially the older interface from iTunes 5 to 10) allowed for Playlist Folders and Smart Playlists.

Workbooks can have several sheets, but not in a nested structure. Same with SQL databases and tables. If I want to organise data (e.g. Country > Social group > Friend name/email/phone number) then it's easy to do in iTunes but difficult with typical Contacts apps.

Web browser bookmarks are pretty good, but the end object has only 2 fields (name and URL). So what I do is I have a fake-radio track object in iTunes, with all the extra tags. Double-clicking it loads a page on localhost, which launches a PHP script that then opens a URL in my browser (for the friend list) or document.
“For example, if you spend 100 florins on wool, that is recorded as a credit of 100 florins in your cash account and a debit of 100 florins worth of wool in your assets account.”

Didn’t he say this backward? I feel like I’m about to lose my mind
"But if you need a begin/end block for the above style; you might as well write in the vanilla style."

I disagree. I use assignments for multi-line functions. It makes the code more aesthetically consistent. It also saves a couple of characters.