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>I think my previous comment ([...]) highlights why it's problematic to link to release notes from an organization that is not the same organization that actually does the work/releases.

You're characterization of it being "problematic to link to Github" vs Git's official mailing list is overlooking the cause & effect of how stories end up on the front page. If most readers would prefer more "official" links from domain *.kernel.org, people can submit them, as they have done so in the past. Examples:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Of course, after submission, people also need to upvote them. It's wrong (and misleading) to later change a submission linking to Github blog to the kernel.org url. The upvoters may have found the context and explanations from Github's post to be more helpful than the kernel.org post. (And as stated before, the Github post has the extra bonus of leading readers to the kernel.org release notes. But the opposite is not true, the kernel.org post does not lead to Github's extra explanations about the repack algorithm.)

In your opinion, where is the root cause of the "problem" as you call it? The submitters? The upvoters? The HN mods that leave the original thread url unchanged?

>In this case, GitHub didn't mention anything about `send-email`, because it's a direct competitor to themselves.

Hang on... let's level set here with some realism and not exaggerate. The "git send-email" is not a "direct" competitor to Github. Maybe GitLab could be described as a direct competitor.

Here's a previous thread where some folks don't want to mess with send-email because it's a hassle with a bunch of replies lecturing them that they're doing it wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13631069

It doesn't matter if those posters' complaints about send-email are wrong. The point is that send-email caters to a different type of git user and it's not a direct threat to Github at all.

Also, if Github was truly worried about users defecting to "git send-email", why would they deliberately link to the official Git notes that highlights git send-email as the 1st bulllet point ?!?

If we entertained your theory that "git send-email" kills Github's business model, wouldn't they omit the link to keep readers in the dark?
The article we are discussing here. You read it, right?

(And the article got that number from the FDA.)
There is also another cool feature of moderns phones - updates. Unless a corporation can prove that each and every single release and test version in the past and the future didn't and will not do something, then it is always possible that some versions did this or will be doing in the future.
It is very unfortunate that in the world of ubiquitous information, ability to just look up a reasonable solution to a well known and well studied problem that has already been solved long ago is practically a superpower.

As a developer, I regularly am in a situation where I solved some kind of large problem people had for a long time with significant impact for the company and this mostly with couple google searches.

Once I solved a batch task that took 11 hours to complete and reduced it to about 5s of work by looking up a paper on bitemporal indexes. The reactions ranged from "You are awesome!" to "You red a... paper????" to "No, we can't have this, this is super advanced code and it surely must have bugs. Can't you find an open source library that implements this?"
I know when I bring my deer into the vet for their annual checkup, they'll probably offer the shot pretty soon.
This! Usually CSS doesn't even make sense outside the context of the page/component it's styling.

There's also some nice stuff with modern tooling, where CSS is global by nature but writing it with your JS allows for the platform to automatically namespace your CSS, making styling behavior much more consistent.

Separately it also often makes sense to style things not just based on the HTML produced but also based on data stored in JS; writing your CSS with your components allows for a greater level of dynamic styles (which, to be fair, if you can achieve with pure static CSS is preferable, but it's not always the case).
Because the HepB could disappear within a generation with mass vaccination, the vaccine is rather cheap, almost lifelong and offers a full protection. And I bet it wasn't because of a bunch of antivax. Fuck them for ruining everything.

As a French who was teenager in the 90s, I got vaccinated as almost everyone in my class age, and I am glad that French had it as otherwise I could have catch this fucking virus.
It's amazing how many awful comments this is drawing. Is this just bots getting autotriggered on keywords or something?
HIV is incredibly sophisticated. It's actually kind of amazing how effective it is. I mean obviously the resulting disease is bad, no question. You can still appreciate the sophistication.

HIV has resisted efforts to develop a vaccine for 30+ years at this point.

I am already beginning to wonder if the 2020s will be the story of the social transformation caused by mRNA vaccines. An effective and relatively cheap HIV vaccine will be huge.

Apart from Covid and HIV, mRNA is going to have a huge effect on the flu vaccine too. For anyone who doesn't know, predictions are made about what flu strains will dominate the coming winter 4-6+ months ahead of time and the vaccine is made from that. Those predictions may not be accurate, which largely explains the variance of efficacy. mRNA has the potential to reduce that down to 1-2 months so you can potentially react to the actual dominant strains.

Cancer of course isn't a single disease. Even something like lung cancer are a collection of different diseases. But some cancers are caused by viruses. A notable example is cervical cancer where it seems like most cases are caused by HPV strains. Australia is on track to essentially eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 [1]. To be clear, this isn't an mRNA vaccine.

But mRNA vaccines may greatly reduce the time required to develop a vaccine and make it possible to eliminate whole classes of diseases.

This is all super-exciting.

[1]: https://www.vcs.org.au/blog/our-impact/news/australia-can-co....
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I used to desperately want one of these. Now I have a real dog, and I can't imagine a robot one being any fun at all. I also have a house and a yard and a family and a job that lets me stay at home these days, though; a robot dog probably would have fit better into my bachelor lifestyle than a real one.
large metal spaceships that can take you from planet to planet.

wtf are you talking about? SpaceX is going to Mars in 3 years and is designed to go past it with extra fuel transport ships.
Wait, governments are still using zoom? WTF?
Many African countries actually prevent import of second hand clothing. They can produce clothing locally for quite cheap with local labor (that is cheap), but having literally FREE clothing showing up actually decimates your local industry.

That's why you have anti-dumping laws in the western world.
Yep - and I live in Minnesota, I've had Lyme's before but it thankfully was an obvious rash that taking strong antibiotics for a few weeks took care of. I would take it if I could.
Recycling education is awful in America. I made it about 33 years without hearing that take out containers, etc. can’t be recycled.
That video is just insane. The way the HIV virus completely hacks the T-cell to become a factory seems akin to a very complicated computer hack. It would be elegant if it weren't so deadly.
Investing in a country so that manufactures raise the standard of living of the population, and of course the lack of dependence on foreign countries.

If all you do is exporting raw materials and import manufactured good you're a colony. There's a reason for countries like China wanted to be the manufacturing center of the world.

I think you can come up with a more intelligent reply, unless you think this is all about tennis balls.
Germany had the conditions precedent to democracy, as did Japan: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-afghanistan-occupation.... Things like rule of law, market economies, etc.

An authoritarian regime that liberalizes the underlying foundation of the country often creates the stage for a functional democracy. That happened in Germany, South Korea, Singapore, etc. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Freedom

But you can’t go from being a tribal society based on kinship ties and the only rule of law being the decisions of village elders to democracy.
I disagree fundamentally with the premise here. An accent is simply someone applying the rules of pronunciation from one language to another. No accent is right or wrong but your product seems to imply that North American accents are desirable or correct while accents rooted in non-english languages are less desirable.

Instead of trying to "acquire an accent" why not focus on clarity of speech and pronunciation? If someone is unable to understand an accent, it is more often a case of that person not being exposed to differences in pronunciation which speaks more to the listener's lack of exposure than something wrong with the speaker.

Many regional accents from the UK are difficult to understand because they use non standard grammar, sentence structure and place stress and intonation differently.

I agree with the focus of most existing language learning - vocabulary and grammar are the foundation. Intonation and pronunciation are important. An accent is just top dressing - it is relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of clear communication. The goal should be clear communication, not a north american accent.
A substantial proportion of long covid cases share similarities (particularly demographics) with other syndromes of unknown mechanism, particularly chronic fatigue syndrome.
Is there a big list of things a human can do, to reduce/minimize their risk of getting cancer? "dont smoke" is obvious but a lot of chemicals/behaviors are less well understood in terms of cancer risk.
Sure. In the past, I've been a person with a strong desire to be right in every situation. If I thought I was right I would be very willing to stubbornly argue my point, without any consideration of the counterpoints that were presented to me. Rationality is in part about understanding that every piece of knowledge I have is probabilistic - that there's a chance that each belief I have is wrong, and that I need to be able to let go of a belief if I encounter enough counter-evidence. I'm sure you've met people who can't be swayed from a belief no matter what you tell them, and you know how difficult it can be to get along with those people. Internalizing the methods of rationality have helped me transform from one of those sorts of people to a more reasonable one whom people have a more pleasant time interacting with.

As a specific example, I made a comment to my roommate last winter about how I thought his girlfriend's hyper caution around COVID was limiting my personal freedom. I realized that I had been crass and apologized to him, but he told his girlfriend anyways and it caused a great deal of tension between the three of us. My own girlfriend told me I should apologize to her. I believed I had nothing to apologize for since I hadn't said anything to her directly, I didn't believe my roommate should have repeated the comment to her in the first place, and I had apologized to him for it already. My girlfriend gave me reasons why an apology was in order, though, and I assigned a lot of weight to her reasoning since I know her to be a more sensitive and emotionally intelligent person than myself. I was able to let go of the belief in my own righteousness and write a heartfelt apology which did wonderfully to mend the relationship.

A previous version of me would have clung to the belief that I was in the right, and either not apologize or write a half-assed apology that would do nothing to fix the situation. The current version of me which strives to be rational was aware of my own biases, recognized that my internal map may not match the territory, and was willing to update based on the evidence from my girlfriend's greater authority on emotional matters.
Technically i think that bacon you throw away is considered part of your consumption. I would be curious how much meat is wasted vs eaten. It is still a large amount of meat but fascinated by the nuances.
One thing that site does not specify is the Imba's license (MIT)
Yes and:

Many like The Well netizens assumed a Platonic Philosopher Kings future. A select group (such as themselves) of educated, erudite, elites would converse amongst themselves, reach some kind of consensus, and then lead the way. Which were unlike the prior self-annointed thought leaders in broadcast and print medias, of course.

While totally ignoring the grim reality of usenet, forums, BBS networks, etc. As former compuserve moderator and hub for a modest BBS network, nothing about today's cesspool surprises me. Trolls, bots, flamewars, all of it.

My only surprise is that other people are surprised. The recurring amnesia, feinting spells, and pearl clutching.

One small bit of progress is we're no longer suffering the technotopian blather of those pollyannas.
So you are basically saying they should make every car significantly worse in terms of weight and driving performance. Despite 95% or more will never swap out the battery.

A fully integrated cell-to-pack architecture where the pack is fully integrated and structural is clearly the best solution for a car.

Otherwise you are just having millions of car driving around far heavier and less efficient then they should be.
Its pretty difficult to do quickly and with numerical robustness, specifically when you have rotation. Here's a talk by the creator of Box2D while he was working for Blizzard on continuous collision detection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nKOET6zwI
Good call! done!
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I think a bigger issue that would need to be addressed is the distrust of Western medicine, the beliefs that they know how to prevent HIV, that HIV was caused by the West in order to kill them, and the belief that they already know the cure of HIV.

There are parallels between the disinformation in the anti-vax Covid community, and the disinformation in regards HIV in Africa.
Supply and demand: if it was more expensive, less people would buy it. The reason fast fashion is popular is because it's cheap as hell, which can give a lot of people "buying things for the experiences of buying it and the novelty of something new". If clothing was as expensive as some decades ago, this experience would only be affordable to rich people as was in the past
Try the buttons around the display. That almost always solves the problem. If none of them work, stop pumping gas and leave. That always solves the problem.
A Pade approximation is generally like that. Especially when you are dealing with singularities, it should be a much smaller polynomial than 17 terms in the numerator and denominator. I think I'm going to have to start a blog, and this will be on the list.
How do I easily pay a friend? Are you just going to say Zelle?
Note that permethrin is very toxic to cats. You may want to be careful if you have them around.
We'll also have to take food for the whole duration, or develop a taste for hydrogen atoms alongside a functioning Bussard ramjet.

Oh, the rocket equation really doesn't like option 1.

(Hypothesis: any process we can devise to turn hydrogen into sustenance will be orders of magnitude less efficient than using it as propellant.)
I'm really glad to see an article like this. I've worked in the space for a while (Fluid Framework) and there's a growing number of libraries addressing realtime collab. One of the key things that many folks miss is that building a collaborative app with real time coauthoring is tricky. Setting up a websocket and hoping for the best won't work.

The libraries are also not functionally equivalent. Some use OT, some use CRDTs, some persist state, some are basically websocket wrappers, fairly different perf guarantees in both memory & latency etc. The very different capabilities make it complicated to evaluate all the tools at once.

Obviously I'm partial the Fluid Framework, but not many realtime coauthoring libraries have made it as easy to get started as Replicache. Kudos to them!

A few solutions with notes...

- Fluid Framework - My old work... service announced at Microsoft Build '21 and will be available on Azure
- yJS - CRDTs. Great integration with many open source projects (no service)
- Automerge - CRDTs. Started by Martin Kleppman, used by many at Ink & Switch (no service)
- Replicache - Seen here, founder has done a great job with previous dev tools (service integration)
- Codox.io - Written by Chengzheng Sun, who is super impressive and wrote one of my fav CRDT/OT papers
- Chronofold - CRDTs. Oriented towards versioned text. I'm mostly unfamiliar
- Convergence.io - Looks good, but I haven't dug in
- Liveblocks.io - Seems to focus on live interactions without storing state
- derbyjs - Somewhat defunct. Cool, early effort.
- ShareJS/ShareDB - Somewhat defunct, but the code and thinking is very readable/understandable and there are good OSS integrations
- Firebase - Not the typical model people think of for RTC, but frequently used nonetheless

I should add... I talk to many folks in the space. People are very welcoming and excited to help each other. Really fun space right now.
I don't buy that. You may not have the budget to hire a great writer with elaborate stories. You can, on your own, not constantly make 4th wall breaking allusions to being in a low quality game. You can also just step back and not have the dialogue at all.

Bad writing is much much worse than no writing.
I agree with your sentiments, loan-sharks gunna loan-shark....

Though, if there is a good lining here, its not the retarded interest rates check-cashing and pay-day loan places charge... and thusthis seems a step in the right direction...

Although, I am also reminded of MONDO.COM

YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AT MONDO.COM!

THats what this BSP sounded like...

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I wish them well though.
We can send persons without sending humans. With a good enough brain-computer interface we should be able to duplicate our brain contents to a digital medium, which we know can travel to interstellar space and beyond
This is painfully visible in big web agencies with tons of clients.

The flow of designs to be turned into code is relentless, it's almost like a factory.

The reason this doesn't get solved is that you'll always need a developer to smooth the edges, making it responsive, check things work properly everywhere.

There is just too much cruft in the web for full proper automation and there are plenty of frontend developers who barely know how to code but knows how to write React component at a relatively low price.

For individual product companies the effort to create something like this would be too big. Adopting an emergent third party solution instead of throwing frontenders at the problem would be a risky proposition.

Agencies would be the perfect candidate for buying something like this but the cost of developers can easily be passed down to the customer - and if they're big enough to have a lot of clients, they make money because of their brand, not because they're particularly cheap.

I don't think we'll see a solution to this before General Artificial Intelligence; the incentives for building a custom solution for this problem are low and the cost is relatively high.

Maybe if the web as we know were to become simpler / standardised (imagine having native views with native components configured by web services, instead of the wild west of an html page) this could become doable.
The thing is, we have that process at multiple levels from peer-review and the many stages of government approval and it's rigorous to the point that people have questioned whether it's causing problems due to delays and costs preventing development of vaccines for less widespread diseases and increasing costs.

COVID-19 has provided a great example of how well this process works: even the emergency use authorizations required multiple levels of clinical trials and the anti-vax propagandists mining the VAERS database for talking points can do so because there's a requirement to make a public report of anything which happens after someone is vaccinated even if there's no real suspicion that it was related to the vaccine.
Ticks and Lyme are also transmitted by birds (i.e https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210127093213.h...). Especially migrating birds are a big issue as more and more 'tropic' ticks end up north.
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> It is unreasonable to expect every spurious claim to be engaged with

It is absolutely reasonable, and if you, personally, want me, personally, to get a Covid vaccine, wear a mask, and drive an electric car, you, personally, will have to engage each and every spurious claim that people are risking their livelihoods and overcoming censorship to share with me. If you don't care, leave us alone to wallow in our disinformation until we die of Covid.
Why? Apple has had no problem moderating it up until this point, if their service is as great as it claims then developers will have no problem forking over 30% of their annual profits for the incredible developer experience the App Store provides! Apple is offering a superior product here, right?
Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
Can someone explain to me how Tinder has such a bot problem?

I'm not a Tinder user, but the impression I get is that there is an epidemic of bots such that people have to start conversations with silly "Captcha" type tests. Is this impression correct and there is a bot problem? And if so, how has Tinder not fixed that already?! It's not a particularly hard problem to kill off all but the most determined bots. Or are they not motivated to do so due to it inflating user numbers?
I'm a former DCSS player. I actually love the opacity and lack of documentation in the game. One of the truly enchanting elements of older rogue likes was the randomness, undocumented features, and various other things along those lines. It has been very sad to see crawl lose a lot of these elements as the pave of development has increased... The new player base wants everything to be optimal and so has gradually militated for the removal of the more unique and strange elements of the game play.

Simplified combat and magic, removal of extraneous skills, crippled food system... soon no doubt they'll try to 'balance' the mutation system which is the last of these old school rogue like features to still maintain a large presence.

I think the dispute is generational... I love crawl and had some modest victories but never defined myself around it. to me it was a distraction and just a fun game to sink time into in undergrad - not something to be relentlessly optimized.
"the CIA had a very accurate view of the situation but the military loudly and repeatedly claimed everything was going well."

That is what happened here. The CIA has not been saying that afghanistan would not be able to stand on its own.