skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the video with the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

To me, I like to see when they stutter or slightly-fail, since that to indicates the dynamics and real-time part of the thing, that it is not a 100% scripted thing (although the blog post mentions the engineers fine-tuning the celebratory arm-pump, to what extent is that scripted then?)
Good talk!

> Its been three years since I used Androids but there was absolutely a way to kill / freeze background Apps

I mean that in iOS is have a toggle in Settings as to which apps are allowed to run in background at all. This toggle is turned off for everything like Twitter and others dodgy apps.

> You probably never heard of the ".nomedia" flag right?

It is still marked as a bug in their bag tracker AFAIR so that doesn't count. The solution need to be better/smarter/easier customisable.

> privacy

Yeah, with the recent move it went out the window.

For everything else - I acknowledge your preference =)
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Love posts like this!
If we're going to move to a target-based approach, why advertise through Google who knows a mash-up of topics from sites a person visits, instead of just making a deal with topic-based websites directly? Instead of trying to catch them in transit, catch them at their destination. As a bonus, it cuts out the middle man and no none has to know anything about specific web visitors because they are already pre-filtered based on their interests.
Not sure how your comment relates to that point. The bias of the Economist is well known. Same for the NYT and the Guardian, for example. Who their readership is and how they are funded is more or less public knowledge. The tint of their lens is more or less a given. So it's a known quantity, we can deal with that.

What isn't so well known is who is funding the people making content on Youtube, or Facebook or TikTok. It's a unknown quantity, with the potential to do a lot of damage (to whoever the target is, good or evil), so much so that regimes like the China/CCP (and Russia to an increasing extent) are adamant that it must be controlled at all costs.

Information is a tool. It can be used to do good, but also do terrible things and this is regardless of whether it is traditional media or social media.
>but it isn't the one that makes me the most money and is not my 'favourite' OS

Is it your favourite OS because it makes you the most money, or does it make you the most money because it's your favourite OS?
No, it’s heavily implied. As if Americans are uniquely qualified to generate “the bad things”.

“In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man…”

“Over frequencies our American never tuned in to…”
Sounds like the game isn't made for you then.

This would be like attempting to play Go, and complaining that it's nothing like Chess because the optimal move generally isn't obvious even after 10,000 hours of play. And then loosely tying it into "part of the joy of being human" instead of simply stating that "this is my preference".
We've received day old chicks via USPS several times. The local post office had different procedures. Rather than trying to deliver, we were called as soon as they arrived requesting us to come and pick them up.

It's pretty neat and kind of surprising at first. Of the hundreds of birds we've received via USPS, none of them were DOA.
Israel isn't even 60% vaccinated. Hospitalizations are way down. Serious infection in vaccinated people is 1/6th the rate compared to unvaccinated. That's an 84% reduction in risk. Looks to me like things are going well for vaccinated people in Israel. What's the story I'm missing here?
When I worked in a USPS facility, it was always a mix of emotions when a box started chirping. On the one hand, cute baby birds! On the other hand, they’re going through an ordeal right now (they got special non-machine handling, but it still wasn’t pleasant for them to be packed into cartons) and their destination was most likely a factory farm.
From the second paragraph:

> For him, information was in its right—that is to say, unquestioned—place. And that was good, too.

They're saying that the pre-Internet media felt reliable to the average American because they were blissfully ignorant. Which is to say they agree with you.

Personally, while I agree that there were issues with the media before, I do get the impression that the issues were fewer and farther between. It was usually the media going to bat for the establishment on issues of major policy (e.g., a war effort), and today it's the media going to bat for an ideological agenda (or rather 2-3 ideological agendas) for every single little thing that can possibly be framed along that particular ideological axis. Of course, there were publications that skewed liberal or conservative before (and someone will certainly respond to this with a short list of such examples before dropping the microphone triumphantly), but they hewed closely to the standards of journalism or else they were widely discredited.
As someone who is still trying to grow technically, this was a good reminder that at the end of the day we put our effort towards solving problems that matter.
One would also think of confusion in people as a shared risk regardless of where any of us may be. Despite best efforts, everyone has a risk unless they are inactive.
If they completed the trials then they'd have some protection against major lawsuits. But no amount of legal protection would prevent low sales due to widespread public mistrust. Especially at a time when Lyme wasn't as rampant and terror-inducing as it is now.
Hey guys, for the record, in our description we used "Standard American accent" as a bit of a catch-all term, not quite in the most technical manner.

One of our dialect coaches, Ron Carlos, slacked me the following blurb: The accent taught in American theater schools (which we're calling SAE here, most would call it Mid-Atlantic) is an accent that was popular in Hollywood in the 40s. Many schools have modified it to sound more modern. And we definitely don’t use that accent in BoldVoice. Ours is more modern: for example, can’t and Cod will have two separate vowel sounds, and Tune and toon will sound the same.
What’s the point of such a hostile, sarcastic and off base comment, man?
It does if you follow rules #1 and #2.
Researchers have done autopsies on Lyme patients who have been treated with antibiotics multiple times, and they have still found in some cases that the bodies of the deceased had active, post-antibiotic infection.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.6280...

There are also some new treatments on the horizon such as dapsone (the antibiotic used for leprosy) and disulfiram, that appear to be giving chronically ill post-treatment lyme patients new relief. This would imply that the antibiotic treatments used before were simply not the right ones to knock out persistent infection.

To my mind, the biggest issue with post-treatment lyme is that the current medical model is wrong and outdated. We think of Lyme as like strep throat - cured with a short course of antibiotics - when we should be thinking of it like TB and Leprosy. TB patients have to take a long, grueling course of antibiotics, and even so sometimes TB can be isolated from bone marrow after treatment.

The variable nature of the disease coupled with the fact that some people do indeed improve with short courses leads medicine to make lazy generalizations that leave out about 20% of the population's disease experience.

My hope is that Covid will help us to learn about other post-infectious syndromes. Long Covid was initially brushed off, but the tsunami of cases coupled with some patients' improvement after vaccination has changed the general opinion to be "Long Covid does actually exist." I hope that will help sufferers from Long Lyme, Long Epstein-Barr, and so on finally get some validation and perhaps even better treatments.
I feel like "hail mary" would imply some sort of negative consequences for failure in this case. But short of the third shot just dropping dead everyone who takes it (unlikely), it will be easy enough with our media ecosystem to suppress adverse events and handwave away any problems with efficacy.

I mean, we're already seeing numerous countries experience higher cases and hospitalizations with 50%+ vax rates than they ever did before the vaccine rollouts but hardly anyone is asking "hey, what's going on here?"
Show HN: A tiny type safe functional lenses library for TypeScript using proxies
I know that lots of people who sell CV advice on the internet say this, I just find it such a bafflingly trivial piece of advice that it's strange to have strong feelings about it. Most CVs aren't written like this and I don't find myself marking them down for writing like a normal person. Maybe this is a US thing (although I have lots of US people's CVs to look at) but the idea that anyone would be shocked at seeing "I" in a CV is just nuts, and honestly, if someone filters on minutiae like that you wouldn't really want to work for them anyway.
> Then I realized that those abstractions (elastic springs) are easier to understand than the flexbox/grid/box model for UI layout.

I think so too! I enjoyed using Bootstrap precisely because my mind treated those auto-layout 12 columns as equally elastic springs, but this abstraction leaked very frequently.

Really cool to see such notion embedded into a layout builder.
I'd like to know what the downvoters think. Those vaccines have become a kind of dogma...
Split.io Announces Series D
"Serverless" as in one of the peers is nominated as the Source of Truth? Or truly decentralized state? Because the first option is just changing who owns the server.
Most likely a reference to the word in the serenity prayer, which is what SerenityOS is named after (Andreas mentioned it a few times in his videos).
> Google genuinely is trying to find a good path forward.

Google is that earns 80% of its money from online ads. There's literally no incentive for Google to "find a good path forward".
I wouldn't call it a breakthrough as the ideas are not new, but I consider Rust to be a major practical advancement that brings ideas into the mainstream that were formerly just for "academic" languages.

It's the first IMO viable alternative to C and C++ for systems programming ever, and its safety features represent a successful transfer of provable-safety ideas of academia into a practical language that people actually want to use for real stuff.

As for true breakthroughs I'd say the last big one was modern deep learning.
Zelle took a long time to be developed, so it has essentially no network effects - most people don't have Zelle.

Zelle can only be used by people who have banks that support Zelle, which many people do not (my bank for instance does not support Zelle, nor does my SO's - so we have no way of using Zelle to transfer money between each other.)

Zelle doesn't allow you to use credit card AFAIK.
Zelle doesn't have QR code AFAIK.
Even if it worked, it would be trading too much.

We already accepted destroying conviviality, limiting freedom of movement and taking a vaccine that has been fast tracked. At this point, I think I've done my part in concessions, especially in regards to following the directives of people and groups that have shown not to be trusted multiple times in the past and have been spreading so many contradictory messages in the last 2 years.

So no, officially accepting global tracking, in addition to the secret and scandalous one, is a no-go.
Hm. Sounds like a fun job for your team, but I'm not hearing a compelling business reason for it:

I have found that tech debt sticks around not because we lack coders, but because there are higher priorities. If we had spare money to hire more coders, they still would go to those higher priorities. And when the tech debt finally does bubble to the top, I want people in the codebase who understand why everything was done, not just refactoring line-by-line to meet "best practices".
Too many words, but the basic analysis is good.

A lot of what's being currently said about "disinformation" is completely incoherent and makes little sense if you just track it over time. As late as in 2014 social media was presented as a force for good. ("Wisdom of the crowds", etc.) Just couple years later it was rebranded as some kind of machine where evil people brainwash idiots into becoming evil people. Who are the idiots? Well, given that YouTube and Facebook have billions of users, it seems most humans on the planet are shoved into that category now. Everything they see and say needs to be carefully curated by professionals, lest the crowds go mad.

Meanwhile, what are the incentives to, say, post an intelligent and comprehensive YouTube comment? There were none in 2014 and there are none right now. The UI, the up-voting process, the very (lack of) structure in how comments are displayed and sorted all encourage verbal vomit, and that's exactly what YouTube gets. In general, social media structure usually provides zero incentives to engage in real discussions and deep thinking. I don't see this being addressed, let alone changed, no matter what the executives say.

I recommend everyone to read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. Despite being written in 1964 it presents a much more useful analytical framework to really understand social media than anything I've seen published in the last few years.
> Cheapest option is to download a free landing page design and code it: https://www.sketchappsources.com/

Sketchappsources looks promising.

> A better option is to purchase something off of https://themeforest.net/category/site-templates

I found templates on themeforest fall short on the aesthetics that you find in SaaS websites like linktree.com that I alluded to in my post description. Please correct me I have the wrong impression of themeforest.

> As you spend more time optimizing your product you'll see design patterns being used by your competitors and learn along the way.

This is where I'm at. I'm able to build a front-end but competitors products look way good and I want to bridge the aesthetic gap.
Has your wife considered that her symptoms are PPD (https://ppdassociation.org/diagnosis), i.e. have a psychological cause which can be unconscious?

I had been suffering from unspecific aches, extreme tiredness, insomnia, sore throats, and other non-specific symptoms for the past 8 months. I had to take months of medical leave and went through 10+ doctors, accumulating negative tests and inconsistent diagnoses as I went along. Then, despairing, I read The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. Sarno and realized that my symptoms were due to repressed unconscious emotions. Since starting a free online recovery program a couple of months ago, I've gotten 80% better and I'm planning to resume work in a couple of weeks.

I know this sounds just like more quackery, but I promise you it isn't. There's more and more peer-reviewed research supporting the theory behind PPD, and the track record of long-term recovered patients speaks for itself. Feel free to email me at me [at] bobmichael [dot] io if you or your wife would like to chat more about this.
Ha would be something to see it in Ninja Warrior show or something one day, needs hands.
You can add Dr. Peter McCullough to that list. Youtube removed his video [1] which contained a few slides from one of the most highly cited and extensively authored peer-reviewed publications on treating COVID-19 patients with existing medicines.

The video has since been reinstated, only after the issue was escalated all the way up to the state attorney general.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmhvZ6eEI4
It is funny how slow and steady Monero adoption as been. It gets very little coverage on most platforms.
Look at my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28211268
~something~ is one of the worst diagnoses to have.

I had a bad concussion when I was 12 and ever since (I’m 33 now) I’ve had issues. Fatigue is the big one, but I also lost 2 inches of height, my feet shrunk two sizes, and my hands are as small as my mom’s. I’m male. There are other possible symptoms too, like cold hands and feet and too much heat/sunlight making me worthless for the next day or so. As I’m sure you know it can be hard to know which symptoms to group together. Are my cluster headaches related? Who knows.

The only actual treatable aspect of this that they’ve found is my testosterone being too low. Supplementing that helps significantly, but it’s not enough. I personally think my growth hormone levels might be off, but my GP doesn’t know how to run the test for that and endocrinologists are the worst.

I’ve been to Mayo quite a few times. The last time I was there the best guess they had for the testosterone problem was that my body thought it was dying, so it was diverting resources.

I know that we don’t know everything and sometimes you’re out of luck, but it’s still frustrating nonetheless. It’s even worse when they can’t find anything physiological to test for. Before I asked to have my testosterone levels checked they just threw me on antidepressants and called it good. The only thing I was depressed about was being so damned tired all the time.
the scorpion lobby, heh
Is this a serious comment? We shouldn't stop a cause of death because it's not in the top ten?
As a small business, I personally partnered with a nomad trader and a local-to-me Catholic charity, to ship clothing from the US West Coast to a popular port city in Chile. The emphasis was on getting the clothing to real people who need it; jean clothing preferred. I got plenty of clothes (six tons over ten months perhaps) and did an OK job on the paperwork, saving money at all stages. The clothing was shipped succesfully.

The trader in Chile was hurt financially by black market operators who used similar clothing operations as a front to launder money, and those operations sank the prices of the actual clothing to near zero. The CEO of the Catholic charity was later removed and is now into really different subjects I won't mention now and I do not support. I put a lot of time into this effort for many solid reasons, not for profit, and made almost no money by US standards, and it ended. Meanwhile the housing costs in my area have increased dramatically, and I am impacted by that. YMMV
I don't see a difference between switching between files and switching between positions in a file which is longer than a page or two. In both cases the switching is not free - unless you do something about it (like spliting panes/windows in your editor; bonus: it works for both separate files and long files in the same way!). It's also trivial (well... depending on the IDE/editor I guess) to make it open all 3 files when any one of them is opened and/or to make a command to cycle between files, similarly to how you can switch between .c and .h files in most environments.

For files where the logic, structure, and styling fits on a single page - yeah, splitting it into separate files doesn't make much sense.

> At worst you make working within the system a real pain.

That's what I don't understand - what pain? That it's better not to work with it using nano or notepad? It simply looks like a pain I would never experience, and I'm wondering if I'm right.
522.3, Packaging and Markings:

"A mailpiece marked “If Undeliverable, Abandon” may not be accepted for mailing."

In other terms, you cannot put a dead animal in a box, then give it to the UPS for them to dispose of. I wonder how many people abused this particular "loophole" before they closed it.
Yes, jeff. We all remember your articles in which you argue that invasive, track-all-of-your-life ads are somehow good.

They are not.

The world has survived for millenia without tracking ads.
Give a man a fish you feed him for a day, Teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime...

What is more humane. Having them depend on the charity and free goods of others, or building their economy to be self sustaining
Im pretty sure that HIV is much more prevalent in homosexual communities [1].
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/index.html
Isn't this post a bit weird, coming from the makers of PokemonGo ?
> Having studied physics myself, my opinion is that we may very well be at a similar point right now.

We're not anywhere near a technological plateau, we just lost track on funding. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the US invested a lot of money in foundational research, often not even caring if it would prove useful or possible, and with big enough money behind it that people could plan careers.

These days, researchers have to waste half their working time to chasing the few grants that are still available, and forget about a stable career, job security or enough work-life balance to found a family.
>I’m saddened by the harsh reaction so far, which seems based mostly on the first couple of paragraphs of a thoughtful and well-written essay. The discussion of online persuasion being used by both advertisers and spreaders of disinformation, and the many incentives that exist for different parties to accept that “social media” is an all-powerful manipulation machine, is particularly interesting.

I have read more of it that that, and I found it to be lacking in original thinking, and poorly written. As for the effectiveness of persuasion, this has been studied quantitatively for quite some time now, and it can't be hand-waved away.
Food can be recycled pretty effectively, and if were that good at biotech I assume we could improve on the current state of the art.

They already recycle water very effectively on the ISS. It's the machine that "turns yesterday's coffee into today's coffee."

Of course if we were that good at biotech we could probably hibernate a good chunk of the flight time too. Might be necessary to wake up periodically to reset the body, but you could probably hibernate most of the duration. Maybe you'd do it with some kind of weird circadian cycle with extremely elongated sleep periods, sleeping like 10X-100X as long as you are awake. During each wake period you check to make sure everything is working properly.

You would not need a Bussard ramjet for the long duration flights I'm thinking of. A nuclear thermal rocket could get you a good deal past solar system escape velocity. Nuclear pulse propulsion could get you up to at least single digit percentages of the speed of light if you didn't mind a little boom-boom. Then you just cruse along on an interstellar transfer orbit until you do a retro-burn to enter the destination star system a few tens of thousands of years later. These are all technologies that are already feasible at least on paper. No new physics is needed.
Very useful. Thanks!
>> modern C++

Well, according to Stroustrup himself C++98/03 is considered "modern C++" (see e.g. https://www.stroustrup.com/DnE2005.pdf ); and I can confirm from personal experience that C++98 and STL were a big step compared to what we had before. C++11 and later have some advantages, but nothing I couldn't live without (personally I don't consider policy based design the way to go). Actually Qt itself nicely demonstrated how to do perfectly well without e.g. move semantics.
So if Pizza Hut wants a checkout cart they need to rent a supercomputer to plan the implementation?
Attention is your greatest support
Sudoku Creator Maki Kaji, Who Spread the Joy of Puzzles, Has Died
Does merge-ort also speedup rebase?
Here are a few pictures of a deer tick that bit me in 2020. I got pretty sick from it. Penny and ruler for scale:

https://imgur.com/a/xgF5Zw2

Its body quit tiny is just over 1mm in width.

I got it either sitting in a field of grass that was a few inches tall, or walking through some brush for 5 minutes a Minneapolis park. I wasn't out doing anything exciting like hunting for morels in old growth forests.