skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont know, somehow since Apple decided it was going to force spyware onto its most dedicated (all-in-on iCloud) users, my excitement about the M1 and all the cool things I was going to do in the Apple ecosystem has withered away. I am looking around for alternatives, the way I was in thn 00s, when I abandoned Microsoft, initially embracing Linux, but then happily transitioning to macOS and later iOS. Unless Apple does an about-face, I know I will be going back to Linux, on some privacy-friendly hardware vendor. We have cross platform communication tools and decent alternatives to most of what Apple has to offer. Obviously it is not as pleasant an experience, but there are limits to what I can tolerate for the sake of comfort.
It’ll happen, just elsewhere first:

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/china-ev-swappable-batt...

Good overview here:

https://youtu.be/2-xWYScsvts
I doubt he would claim you are over-exaggerating your particular experience, nor do I think he is insisting that no terrible things happen at all (which would be an obviously insane thing to say). But is it actually *worse* now than in the past?

I think we have a way of remembering the past as much rosier than it actually was which leads us to think the present is much worse than it actually is. We tend to think of last summer as a particularly volatile time in the United States but as a point of comparison during periods in the 1970s we averaged 5 bombings a day in the US (https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/). At various periods between the 1960s and the 1990s we had riots in American cities orders of magnitude more destructive than anything that happened during the summer of 2020. Not to mention the long and sordid history of pervasive racist violence from Reconstruction onward (see https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacr...).

That is, the point is not that everything is great now so nobody should complain about anything but it is also a bit ahistorical to think that we are in some sort of unprecedentedly dangerous moment of history.

There is a boarder point as well which I think that we not only see this moment in aggregate as some moment of catastrophic danger but each *individual* issue is something of transcendent importance and we will all be doomed if we don't fix it right this moment. It leads to a sort of paralysis where you can't actually solve anything because you can't make tradeoffs when EVERYTHING is an emergency.
> the English word "bug" is getting used more and more

True, except I've only heard it pronounced "boog".
Artificial sweeteners, from the time that they enter your mouth and encounter your taste buds, cause the release of insulin.

This insulin lowers your blood sugar. Because artificial sweeteners provide only the sensation of sweetness and not the energy content of an actual sugar, your blood sugar falls low enough that your unconscious brain is compelled to eat.

People who drink diet soda consistently eat more calories than they would have eaten if they had drunk a regular soda--even if you include the calories from the soda.
But he originally assigned his viewpoint to politicians and when people pointed out the flaw in his reasoning, he shifted.

But once again, his reasoning is suspect. He claims scientists are of a certain political bent.

His reason for believing they are of a political bent is the alarm they are raising over climate. Which he doesn't trust because of some politicians making an issue of it.

Don't you see how that's circular? He can't use scientists claim of climate change as evidence of their political bent and then use a perceived political bent as to why he shouldn't trust their judgment on climate.

If you wanted to do read in that way, that's a thing, but they also say in their introduction to "Advancing Our Understanding":

> Global climate change moved to the forefront of the international agenda even before the recent growing confidence that a significant part of the observed global climate change can be attributed to human activities. Governments have agreed on the Climate Convention owing to the plausibility of the scientific arguments and measurements showing significant increases in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Global climate models have been used to project how the climate might change, based on plausible scenarios of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases through the next century.

Which is an acknowledgement that it is happening.

And let's not forget Exxon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...). Who accepted it as fact in the 80s and then actively worked to delay acceptance of it.

So you have to see why it would be difficult to get people fully on board when you have a billion dollar corporation working against you. I mean, api wants to bemoan those darn lying politicians, but Exxon has a very obvious and vested interest in fossil fuel consumption and anything that would cause people to cut back is something they would have motive to fight. But he doesn't mention any oil or gas company at all, does he? For some reason, their objection to climate change doesn't raise one red flag for him at all.
Agreed. Some people/institutions have access to more money than can be productively used so they bid up anything that has the potential to make money, be it startups, Bitcoin or housing.
If there isn't already such an app, it sounds like it would solve a big problem and make $$$...
And when it gets worse there too, what then?
I'm sure it'll bounce back
This needs to be legally challenged. No way does this not violate charter of rights and freedoms and probably Nuremberg codes.

If you let a government force or punitively coerce its people to put a drug in their body for a disease with less than 1% mortality, same magnitude as a flue. You no longer have bodily autonomy. You're a slave to the state. They can do anything they want in the future, under any nebulas threat they want.

Keep in mind that a much more reasonable alternative already exists of just letting people be tested before boarding.

The principal of informed consent must be preserved. A person should make medical decisions with their doctor, and be informed of the risks and benefits and then chose freely.

The ability for people to travel, and see their loved ones, opportunity to work and live where they want is what distinguishes free societies from those that are oppressive and murderous.

The hallmark of the rise of authoritarian states, and one of the first rights to be taken away it the ability to travel freely.
Wayland is great, imo, but I do not want any part of these alternative package formats. I'm much happier with the guix/nix approach.
That’s excellent advice, thank you.
There are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IPV6 addresses.
With a global population of 8 billion, you can give every individual ~ 42,535,295,865,120,000,000,000,000,000 addresses and then some.
I will not disagree completely. But I will point out that nicotine by itself can actually have benefits that outweight the risks.

Search "benefits of nicotine", yields a wealth of articles supporting this such as:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1859921/
This would provide an added dimension to wearables (notwithstanding the standard issues surrounding data ownership and privacy).
Had Nietzsche existed today, he'd just be written off as some edgy 4chan troll. I'm glad he was able to get his ideas on paper in the time period that he did.
No it’s not. Most of the citizens that desire this think it will achieve them some income or social safety net.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/msnbc-ma...

The fact that a news anchor didn’t realize that was complete bullshit is an example of how mistaken people are about what “making the rich pay” will accomplish.
Well, I think you are filtering things through a lens that is so limiting that it might as well be misunderstanding. This lens, this filter, is so ubiquitous that as far as I can tell, most people can't recognise it. I call it The Gentle Tyranny of Call/Return [1][2][3]

> side effect... which 99% of the time is a bad idea

Nope. A filter does not have "side" effects. It has effects, as in what you want to achieve. And it turns out that having an effect is a good idea about 100% of the time, because otherwise your program is 100% useless. Now when your primary architectural style is call/return based, effects of the program that are not encoded in the return value do become "side" effects, but that's a limitation of call/return (which FP turns up to 11), not a problem of effects in general.

> > You can then have the filter have an out-of-band mechanism

> To me this is a side effect and should be avoided.

Why? Apart from the religious mantra of "it is a side effect"?

When I adopted this pattern, it turned out to be hugely beneficial. It keeps your happy-path happy, no need to pollute it at all with error handling concerns. And it lets you customise and centralise your error handling, which turns out to be what you usually want, but without the call-stack shenanigans of exceptions.

ROP kinda sorta attempts to do something similar, but due to the constraints of C/R, it turns out to be far more complex.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3397537.3397546

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gel8ffr4pqw

[3] https://2020.programming-conference.org/details/salon-2020-p...
> Ah, yes, replace 'sweets' with 'fruits' which are about 50-75% sugar by non-water mass.

What constitutes the rest of the non-water mass matters quite a bit (especially if l, as much of it is with many whole fruits, it is fiber, which is demonstrated to mitigate Type 2 diabetes risk and severity.) Sugar + fiber is much less bad for you than sugar alone.
I don't think either sweeteners are bad, but I agree, beware of marketing terms like natural, bio etc.
The companies are in it for the money and well, heroin is kind of natural too.
$600k Figure Revenue Facebook Ads for Shopify Store
> I'm happy that FB is more stringent on this since guardian isn't exactly great either.

The Guardian has nothing to do with Ad Observer and the research it is used for. They simply ran the article written by the NYU researchers that Facebook banned.
if you have trouble telling your friends from your foes at a distance

buy binoculars
Toml has unlimited nesting as well.

There are also many formats that are "better json" that have comments, multiline strings, trailing commas etc. Such as hjson, json5 (and variants such as json6, jsonX, etc.) and hocon. As well as more sophisticated languages like jsonnet, dhal, and cue.

Many of these can be "compiled" to JSON.

There is plenty of competition, but for some reason, YAML seems to be the most popular.
I see. So the issue isn’t so much a neutralizing antibody mismatch, but rather an antibody production lag in b cells.

That makes covid a long run big problem. We’ll have to be repeatedly challenged with the antigen to keep antibody levels high. Kind of a minor inconvenience for some, but a large % of the population will not comply.

Edit:

It would seem that it is basically speculation at this point. Memory b-cell response effectiveness will depend on the binding affinity of its antibodies. A high binding affinity antibody producing memory cell will much more rapidly mount an effective response than one that must undergo further affinity maturation.
Agreed.

This also has the opposite effect - if there is any old or outdated component or piece of software that you still need to be running for unfortunate reasons, there's always the possibility of putting it in a container with all of the packages and other environment configuration that it requires.

That way you don't have to risk compromising the entire system and don't even have to run VMs with old OS releases, while at the same time only need to expose the ports that the software uses, if even those at all. In my eyes, access to devices and such could still use a few improvements in Docker and other competing container runtimes, but for the most part, the technology is a lifesaver!

While i do think that it's nice if the same packages are also available outside of containers, for the OS of your choice, which i'm sure will also be the case for latest versions of PHP and other software, even if done by a third party shortly after Debian's new release, that's sadly not always the case. In those situations, containers indeed seem like a good choice.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-schmitt.pdf
Agreed, absolutely is not what happened. I don't deny a riot happened that day. Which is the kind of thing people are actually being charged with. As they should be. I'm not in favor of riots.

But where do you see "intent to violently usurp" in that footage? That's inaccurate and over the top rhetoric of exactly the kind you call out earlier.

I don't believe false flag. There may (or may not) have been agitators who were other then Trump supporters, but if so it wasn't too hard to do and a large number of Trump supporters behaved criminally. No argument with that. But it was not an "attempt to violently usurp the government" by any reasonable definition.
Race isn’t outdated, they do represent district groups who shared genetic information significantly more frequently internally than with each other. For example Native Americans likely had fairly regular contact via Eskimos to Asia and thus everyone else, but it was a tenuous link. Clearly these groups can be further subdivided or even combined, but they do actually represent something “real” even if the details are more complex than people used to be aware of.

As transportation has improved they’re becoming less relevant. In say 1,000 years things might become so blurred as to render them irrelevant, but for now it still meaningful.

The social concept of race is more iffy. As I pointed out if we treat 3/4 white 1/4th black as black then of course it doesn’t represent the underlying reality well.
There's a new elisp JIT in emacs 28

https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/38/

There's a new portable undump in emacs 27

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-27...

a couple of examples of very core features off the top of my head
Your numbers for the Snickers bar seem too small - a 44g candy bar has 11g fat, 20g sugar.

If you meant some smaller bar, then you are comparing a very small candy bar against 100g or 165g or fruit; not very fair.
> ...doesn't make those issues any less valid.

Certainly, the issues are indeed valid for them and nothing to be scoffed at.

What is fascinating about India of my growing up years was that most of the scarcity was artificial, mostly due to government regulations and policies. So money didn't speed up things in a big way. But all that has changed unrecognisably now. Now, if one has money there's almost nothing that can't be gotten.
With Docker you have the binary running inside something like Alpine Linux. Services (like Database) are connected through a DNS-discovery agent (like Consul) and this whole shebang is managed through something like Nomad.

They are all Hashicorp products, by the way, and kind of the evolution from Vagrant. (Ps: It's also quite of a heavy learning curve to move to such setups).
You can eat a pound of strawberries and feel full for an hour. Try that with a candy bar.

Volume and digestability is key to eating less.
It seems the problem is often mis-stated - there is no calculation problem, the problem is in adequately defining/sampling the initial data.

It's maybe similar to predicting the weather - we can have all the perfect equations in the world for fluid dynamics and heat flow etc, but until we have system-invisible temperature and humidity sensors for every square millimetre of atmosphere and earth volume, we won't be able to predict the weather very accurately or very far ahead.
Everybody can test this with a quick test and see for themselves, there is no insulin spike.
Diabetics wouldn't be able to drink diet coke without insulin shots if it were different.
Was it really just partition size? I vaguely remember Buster cutting support for armel below ARMv5T and the Kirkwood SoC was not quite making it.
Political interest groups vociferously opposing allocation of funds commensurate with the scale of the problem probably also isn't helping. Heaven forbid we do anything that might help the oil companies.
PlanB and Willem Middelkoop: Stock2Flow, Gold and the Big Reset
I think you both need to read a bit more, and also, listen to released (more than 50 years, such recordings must be released) recordings of private meetings at the time.

While no PM is perfect, when the Premier of Quebec phones the PM, and says (paraphrasing here) that "the separatists are everywhere, I don't know who to trust in the police, my own staff, they're all around me", while little girls are being killed by bombs, diplomats are being kidnapped and slaughtered, maybe declaring martial law isn't a completely bad response.

And when you see this at the start of the article:

The Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, supported Trudeau's invocation of the War Measures Act

Well, come on....

I personally find the current laws being passed to be highly dangerous, and very disturbing, but trying to compare it acts taken against domestic terrorists, and lunatics, is a little wonky.
What does “flat” mean here? I tried looking up screenshots of this but they just look… normal.
I have the same experience in C applications, but not in Rust. Rust's problems are IMHO purely self-imposed from unnecessarily nihilistic assumptions.

• There's no problem of "untested error paths". Rust has automatic Drop. Cleanup on function exit is written by the compiler, and thus quite dependable. Drop is regularly exercised on normal function exits too.

• Overwhelming majority of Drop implementations only free data, and don't need to allocate anything. Rust is explicit about allocations, so it's quite feasible to avoid them where necessary (e.g. if you use a fat error type that collects backtraces, that can bite on OOM. But you can use enums for errors, and they are plain integers).

• Probability of hitting OOM is linearly proportional to allocation size, so your program is most likely to hit OOM when allocating its largest buffers. This leaves a lot of RAM left to recover from that. It's basically impossible to exhaust memory up to the last byte.

Crashing may be fine for tiny embedded software or small single-threaded utilities. However, crashing of servers is expensive, and may not even work. When you crash, you kill all the requests that were in progress. This wastes work already done by other threads, and you're not making progress. When clients retry, you're likely to get the same set of requests that lead to OOM in the first place, so you may end up crashing and restarting in a loop forever. OTOH if you detect OOM and reject one offending request, you can keep making progress with other smaller requests.
Let me guess: You will still need to take PrEP, because the vaccine won't be 100% effective, and you will be pressured through your dating app to do both.
But it could, maybe, after tens of VC $millions. Just thing of the potential!111
Why not something like json5 or hjson? They give you the features you listed, but aren't as complex and don't have as many weird edge cases as yaml.
Blergh, I thought about it wrong, it's worse than 20. Obviously the whole PML4 isn't guaranteed to be cached.
You're in a place with some of the most neurodivergent people, often on the Autism/Asperger's spectrum (myself included), who also feel the need to be dwelling/posting on an online forum such as this.

That said, discussions will often get exceedingly hard to understand or relate to, especially on any "normal" emotional level...

Don't think anything going on here is much related to the world we live in as a whole. It's like, a representation well under 0.25%

Go outside, talk with normal people if you've had a little bit much HN
If you're interested in security protocols, I'd recommend Bruce Schneier's book Cryptography Engineering (and Ross Anderson's Security Engineering). If general networking protocols, there are many options -- Kurose, Peterson and Davie, Tanenbaum, etc.
Time will tell. Either we solve it through technology, or ecology will dissolve us, asceticism or not.
Royal Navy Hostages in Iran – What Happened in 2007
Hmmm… I wonder why people make movie adaptation of novels then if text can do everything.
YAML (and JSON of course) has the big advantage, that you can use JSON Schema to validate it and to provide realtime code intelligence in many Editors (VScode, IntelliJ, Monaco Editor in the web, many Web IDEs. Allthough you might need a plugin for YAML, where JSON works out of the box).

So it's easy to hate on the feature overload of YAML or on the lack of features of JSON, but it's hard to throw out the rich ecosystem along with them they already have established.

One format I personally like is JSON5 (https://json5.org/) as it's very much just JSON, but with some more modern JavaScript (ES5) syntax allowed, including comments. Looks like a parser / serializer for it is also still rather consise.

Although, I'm always wondering which features of YAML to best not use / touch. My personal approach would have been to leave some advanced features to optional pre-processors or real programming / template languages.
Without making a value judgement, there's an aspect of the human psychology that revels in certain challenges simply because they are hard and impactful. This can be a good thing, and it can be a bad thing. It can separately be good or bad for the people involved, and for the world that they impact. But it is a normal and recurring part of human nature.
good luck finding a replacement, you'll end up using a custom rom if you are serious about tracking and privacy, and that custom rom will be... fully dependent on donations.
Pedantic point: a vehicle with its wheels locked straight will go straight. It may veer a little depending on the torque distribution, but that’s due to frictional imbalances.

The only mechanism I can think of that supports your example of a vehicle “spiraling” is torque steer, which is a unique issue to a certain subset of vehicles and requires an imbalance to generate in the first place.
That is their interpretation of the meta-analysis, yes ("summary section" == "discussion section"). That is not a statement of fact, but of the authors' opinions about the facts reported. The data stands on its own -- though in this case, since it's a meta-analysis with fancypants statistical re-weighting of the data, the line between "data" and "analysis" is decidedly blurred.

> But I assume you mean that the meta analysis didn't claim masks were useless, those three underlying papers did? I'm not sure what those three were, though, maybe I missed it. I found all the papers used but there were like a dozen in the non-health-care setting.

The data they have presented, aggregating ~all of the prior research literature on masks, shows a weak effect, at best. Only by mixing data from different settings (mostly hospitals) and different types of masks (from cloth to respirators) and re-weighting the conclusions do they arrive at this claim of even weak effectiveness.

Do masks work? Based on the literature, the only honest answer is "maybe they have a small effect, but the evidence isn't very good."

Compare this to what you see repeated in the media and by "experts". The truth is...most of these people haven't read the papers, and are just repeating what they've heard.