skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can also vouch for this perspective as, I remember RG3 (and I am Canadian, btw :) ) and thought of him when I saw the name (or rather sounded it out). So definitely non-zero. Just my 2 cents. I like this engine also, just to be clear :)
There's no option for that when submitting. I think it's probably moderator-applied.
It was us! https://fly.io/blog/ssh-and-user-mode-ip-wireguard/

We do more now. Our CLI uses the stack to talk to remote Docker daemons for builds, nats for log streaming, a private DNS service, etc. It's very handy.
Drones are going to force changes to those rules, if they haven't already.
Incredible. At first I assumed that was a lunar record, but Opportunity was in action for 15 years and 'only' drove 45km
Why the debate on Afghanistan is so distorted
There's a similar fundamental problem in maths education: What does "=" mean?
> The best government program is near to no program.

1000x no! We need government to work - that's not negotiable - the question is not whether it works well enough to make you happy, it's what it should work on. The US didn't go to the moon or build the interstate highway system by saying, "Politicians suck, I hope the private sector solves this."
Not a native English speaker so... what does it mean "cooking up" EEG electrodes?
Is a cashier/bagger physical labor? Is stocking the shelves of a grocery store? What about a truck driver or unloader?

I would say all these jobs would be automated but 0 of these would be automated by a humanoid. Driver/cashier/baggers will be computers with sensors and unlouder/shelfer will be robots more similar to that vid. Things like construction I think will be assembled ahead of time and brought to side with more automated cranes and sensors.

The number of jobs that seem like "this can be automated but can't be automated by a robot and isn't worth it to build specific robot for but IS expensive enough to use a robot that will always be more expensive than a car" seems small to me.
Readwise is awesome!
Plug: I made an extension to show you a Readwise quote in your new tab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readwise-new-tab/i...
It's just text as part of the title. The submitter can do it (until the edit time runs out).
It's not like America, the EU, Russia, and China get together for a little meeting every few years to agree on a common specification for the next generation of fighter jets.
Agreed! I would say that parser combinators are the sweet spot and the right choice in most cases.

Scala has them as well, e.g.: https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/fastparse/

And the good thing is, you don't have to learn a completely new language/syntax, you can use the host language's syntax and you have full IDE support as well.
As someone who knows nothing about Semaglutide and is an HN type, I can tell you that anecdotally, marketing yourself as a breakthrough medicinal weight loss solution sounds very similar to packaging found on gas station counters.

Ephedrine was also a breakthrough weight loss treatment...until it wasn't...
I was questioned in high school in the 90s whether I had an eating disorder. I just ignore hunger until it goes away... I simply don't want food. I don't like to eat around other people, either. When I do eat, around 2am every day, I've really looked forward to it so it's pleasurable. But as a functional alcoholic I fully understand counting the minutes to something. This where "eating disorder" self control comes into play. I think of myself drunk just like I think of myself fat with a face covered in food in front of other people, and it's been enough to stop me for 20 years from hitting the bottle until work is over. On the subject of self control, everyone is a hero if you can find any at all.
Yeah, Readwise is great! It feels like one of those things that is so obvious, and yet somehow it took so long.

Personal plug: I made a Chrome extension to show you a random quote from your Readwise in your new tab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readwise-new-tab/i...
As someone who lost 100 lbs (from 278 to around 175)and kept it off, my advice is to stop eating shit food, eat a clean diet (do not go out to eat). Pick a 6 hour window to have your meal(s) and every month over a weekend or your time off take 3 days (72 hours) and don't eat a thing. Wash rinse and repeat. In one year you will lose more weight than you ever thought imaginable. The nice thing is exercise is optional but if you want to then just take long walks as much as you like.

No medication/drugs/gyms.
You take multiple trips.
Overall this looks quite nice. I like the way types can be defined but if they are not they can be anything.

Are these types checked anywhere? I think they should be checked at compile-time wherever possible, and optionally at run time too (I say optionally as the checks might make it slow, so they could be checked in development but perhaps not in production).
Current pleas for help notwithstanding, there were never very many such Afghans. The fact that someone temporarily worked for pay for the violent invaders who had violently taken over is not an indication of trust. An Afghan I met in 2005 really opened my eye on this.
wow, absolutely not. if i'm parsing a programming language I want to basically stop and bail from the current context as soon as possible. there is basically nothing to gain by continuing.

if the shit i'm parsing isn't in the language there is no reason to continue. its invalid.
To remember what you read, following two works for me:

1. Map it to your life or people or situations somewhere..

2. Explain it to yourself..

But I usually don't read books about my core areas, I like to learn about them practically and by facing things. Someone else's experience about it would bias my mind.
State Department hit by cyber attack amid Afghan evacuation: report
I'd like to call out the problem with these things. From the transcript:

> ATTEMPTED TO CAPTURE CAMERA FOOTAGE BUT UNABLE

I assume it's slightly harder than duct-taping a smartphone to a helicopter, but I'm still confused at how the military does not, by now, have high-fidelity panoramic video recordings figured out. They've had fifty years of UFOs nonsense and they still can't film the airspace around them in panoramic HD on command?

(Also, to whoever was torturing helicopter pilots by hovering above their rotors, that's just mean. Be nice. Yes, you're superior, but don't put their lives at risk to show it.)

EDIT: I read the article and somehow took away military, which is wrong. They're not military, so I can be a little more forgiving. But not much. Hit button to start recording video 60 seconds ago should be standard aviation equipment in the time of drones.
I wouldn’t overthink the tools. I found a mostly minimal toolset was sufficient when I did my PhD: actively used repositories to make sure I never lost my work (private repos so I didn’t have to care what I put in them), plain old emacs for editing, and a mix of Mathematica, Matlab, and Python for my numerical and plotting needs. Used physical sticky notes and cheap legal pads for notes and keeping on top of todo lists. I printed papers to read since I never found a digital method to maintain the deep focus I needed to fully read the papers. I generally discourage students from worrying much about tools: at the end of the day if you’re thinking more about a tool or workflow process than your research work, you’re not making progress towards the degree. Use whatever tools and methods allow you to be productive without thinking about the tools or methods.
This is also my thinking, and doesn't seem too implausible given that the dosage is so much higher than Pfizer (100mcg vs 30mcg).
My relatives who got Moderna had similar reports to some of the posters above. I got Pfizer and barely noticed.
> While their influence on iPhones is absolute, they don't have outsize influence on other phone vendors

Apple isn't exclusively a hardware/OS company. They compete horizontally with digital media services like Amazon (books), Spotify (music), Netflix (video), etc. They use their OS and APIs to squeeze out weak competitors and suck up to stronger competitors. They make more money from apps than hardware.

Keep in mind, it's not just current competitors. It's also the potential competitors that don't even bother to start due to Apple's predatory practices.
I think they fail at places that depend on recurring subscriptions.. so places like showtime mobile, or any place that says get a trial at X dollars, then pay Y dollars per month.. the processors gets some code returned to them telling them that the card is not able to take on recurring payments - and so many places won't work with them..

but they do work for most non-recurring type things akaik.

I have seen people have them fail - because they quickly try to use them, not knowing that many places require at a zip code to be entered that matches the card.. and if you have not logged into the pre-paid-card's portal and set a zip code.. well fail it will.
If you need more visibility into long running processes, pueue is another alternative. You can of course use `xargs -P1 pueue add ./process_file.sh` to add the jobs in the first place. Sends a job to pueued, returns immediately. Great for re-encoding dozens of videos. For jobs that aren’t already multi-core, set the queue parallelism with pueue, after you’ve seen your cpu is under-utilised.

Obviously downside to the visibility and dynamism is that it redirects stdout. You can read it back later, in order. But it’s not there for continued processing immediately.
Your mind stays busy. It is much better to go out for a walk and simply remain present.
No, but that's not the disaster we'd have. We'd have what feature phones were like where you'd only be able to use the carriers store.
WPS is no good in term of privacy and openness tbh.
On PCs, we had something before app stores. We just called it software distribution.
Does everything have to be a “workflow” with a “tech stack” now? What about learning and remembering? Agile-esque, FFS.

Good humblebrag though, halfway there.
Updates / reducer?
> Supercapacitors are an alternative way of storing energy. They act like reservoirs, able to quickly charge and then discharge energy in bursts. They tend to be made out of expensive materials like graphene, but Gomes’ team has turned inedible parts of durian and jackfruit into carbon aerogels – porous super-light solids – with “exceptional” natural energy storage properties. They heated, freeze-dried and then baked the inedible spongey core of each fruit in an oven at temperatures of more than 1,500C (2732F). The black, highly porous, ultralight structures they were left with could then be fashioned into electrodes of a low-cost supercapacitor.

Neat stuff. Last time I looked into aerogel, they required pretty fancy setups involving supercritical fluids, high pressures, etc. Why not start with something spongy to begin with?
scientifically that ineffective vaccines, which can still cause infection, that do not inhibit infectivity, so-called 'leak' vaccines will cause resistance to the virus and this indirectly puts unvaccinated people at greater risk of infection before the 'leak' vaccine is used , this infection comes from people who have been vaccinated

This Unlike previous vaccines such as polio and others, these vaccines are effective, but these mRNA vaccines are not effective so they are called experimental vaccines and humans are experimental on a global scale.

(01) Imperfect Vaccination May Increase Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens https://t.co/pkzEYlExvR

(02) Imperfect vaccines and pathogen virulence evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/414751a
My ideal PhD workflow is to not do it at all. The best stack workflow is what fits the data available to your company, which varies greatly.
While the space programs gave us a lot of technology early on and were definitely needed, private sector entities such as SpaceX have shown they can do it more efficiently. I'd say NASA was a massive outlier in terms of government program effectiveness. I wish they would get more funding tbh, instead they get cuts :(

I'm all for R&D spending, defense spending, infrastructure spending, etc. But time and time again OUR recent government has shown they cannot be trusted with the funds and programs they suggest. They make these massive bills and none of the money makes it to anything meaningful.

I'm for SPECIFIC programs, not UNIVERSAL slush funds.

Name the bridges you want to repair, repair them. Don't try to steal $5 trillion while funneling it to "green companies" without fixing a single pothole.
life long daily faster here. Going out to eat is not the problem if you eat good food. I go weeks without cooking at home, and live on massive orders of Indian, Thai and Ethiopian food that I keep in the fridge and dive into once a night. If "eat out" means fast food or processed food, then, sure - avoid it. But $50 worth of mostly vegan Indian food can last me 5 days. I trust the ingredients and it's more efficient than cooking at home.
> The owner has not disclosed the full list of contents of the tapes to me so far.

Why not? Why would someone want to help without an explanation for that? Seems pretty suspect.
I'm currently working on losing weight and having a fair bit of success, largely because my wife is also extremely serious about it now. I'm basically feeding off her success, and supporting her is making it easier for me to make changes in my diet.

Over the last 2 months she's lost almost 30lbs, and I'm at over 20. Largely this has been serious changes in diet: Little to no carbs, basically a lot of grilled veggies, Soylent, protein drinks, yogurts, fruits... A little more exercise.

Really, the trick has been: She got a sleeve surgery a week ago, and for around 6 weeks before that she was basically on the reverse after-surgery diet to get used to it. And I've been kind of following her diet, though she encourages some tweaks to make sure I'm getting what I need. And this week when she's been just having a cup of broth a day, I've not been anywhere near that.

Short story long, She's on this path enforced by surgery. I want to support her, but I also want to use her journey to help me with my own. I'm fairly healthy, but want to make some activities easier, and I've been having some arthritis in my hips that make me want to ease their burden.

Fella sounds interesting as a way of further supporting my journey. Sounds like it's not available outside of TX, which I assume is related to "board certified". Also a little hard to tell what the final cost is going to be, $450/quarter plus whatever the drug is? I saw one of the other similar drugs on goodrx at $1K (a month? a quarter? Not sure), but looks like my insurance might cover it to the tune of ~$100. Boy, sure hope there's no tie to pancreatic cancer though. :-)

On the one hand, extra support might be nice. On the other hand, we've been going for 2 months and I'm about 20% of the way to my goal, and it hasn't been so hard, but I could also see it getting harder. I've previously lost almost double what I've lost so far, and then plateaued and gained it back over ~5 years. But now I have my wife going through it as well, so maybe it'll be different? Or maybe not...

At $250/mo for the program and drugs, it seems worth trying, but doesn't sound like it's even an option outside of Texas. Thoughts?
Clearly your company is high on the BS scale. I recommend always having your CV updated and look for other opportunities.
Ya know…I seem to recall a bunch of people once thought that same exact thing about some other people about 60+ years ago. They thought they were better than the others, that the others were inferior, dirty, diseased, and less intelligent. Those powerful folks did all they could to keep the others out of stores, restaurants, front seats of buses, off water fountains, etc. and just kind of hoped those folks they hated and didn’t want in their society would just go away too.
The FDA Is Begging You Not to Take Horse Dewormer for Covid-19
Drones are great when up against an enemy without sophisticated air defense systems. Multimillion dollar aircrafts are great for contested environments.
Anti-trust cases aren't decided on binary terms. It's the overall act that's illegal. In other words just because the situation with Apple is different from Microsoft's anti-trust case doesn't mean Apple could not be violating the law. Paying or accepting money for the purposes of a company receiving an unfair competitive advantage is also covered under anti-trust laws such as the Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corp case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....
It’s still a pretty normal level of inflation. I assume 3% in my financial planning.

But yes, being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be.
> Assuming obesity is largely due to mental issues

Obesity increased with the increase of meal size, average caloric intake and urbanization based around cars.
My main workflow improvement over the course of my PhD has been making my papers reproducible. This means: I clone a github repo, then I execute a single command to re-run all computations, re-generate all figures and tables, and compile the final paper.

Any manual step like "resize the figure window until the proportions look good", or "run script A, then run script B", or "upload this file to Overleaf" creates an opportunity for your results (figures and tables) to become out of sync with your source code. This can cause big problems.

I use Makefiles, Anaconda, and Github CI to accomplish this [1], but the techniques don't matter. The point is the end goal.

More broadly, in research it's always tempting to do things quick and dirty. Conference deadlines loom. Code bases are usually small and short-lived. But in my experience, your 4-months-later future self will appreciate tests, documentation, etc. just as much as your 4-years-later future self.

You can still be quick and dirty when it comes to project scope. This is where you get most of the speedup anyway. Go ahead write a function that doesn't handle edge cases, but add a comment about it!

[1] https://github.com/jpreiss/reproducible_papers
What tech stack do you recommend for that?
I was going to suggest a zettelkasten but while reading this noticed the author namedropped "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens*.

Basically, when you take notes, summarize them in your own words. Look at a tool like Obsidian which uses markdown to save notes in plaintext. Look at people using this on YouTube if you want to dive deeper into the ecosystem.

* https://www.google.com/search?q=smart+notes+ahrens+site:news...
> That number is cited colloquially as 15%.

What? No it isn't; it's cited colloquially as 12% or one in eight.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
I'm not talking about commonly accepted physics knowledge but people contradicting themselves - essentially saying "A and not A are both true" without realizing it. Well, unless the a priori knowledge you're talking about is logic, but then we're in over my head.
> This has saved me from a lot of errors

Are your projects in a dynamically typed language? I struggle to think why a statically typed language would have this problem, because the data being transferred at the boundary between application and database is already well-defined and strictly typed.
I wish more people would realize they are literally working for Google without getting paid to do this work. If it's out of a greater sense of helping people and contributions, OpenStreetMap needs to be better known.
Ooh, thanks for the pointer! Fellow HNers: Check out that blog post. It kind of blew my mind, very clever use of user-mode VPN! Got my mind racing a bit coming up with ways I could do something similar.
it's a lisp descendant it has, most probably, a full numerical tower
Many languages treat the construction

1/3

As a rational type, and do not convert to float unless you cast. Common Lisp comes immediately to mind. Evidently pyret is another.
Great, but let me know when you can install thousands of other everyday apps, like slack?
Can update apps seamlessly. And Fdroid is actually used by masses.
Last I checked (week ago) unless you root, you have to go and click on every app to update it. Too bad if you had 25 apps.
Infact Fdroid community itself complains, its limited in its functionality because there is no store API, inbuilt into android.
According to science, "LEAKING" VACCINE IS "DANGEROUS". All scientists know about this,.

A 'leak' vaccine is a vaccine that is ineffective, imperfect, even people who have been vaccinated can become infected and are generally asymptomatic (OTG) and that do not prevent transmission from people who have been vaccinated, and this indirectly places people who are not vaccinated is more risky than when the vaccine has not been used that comes from people who have been vaccinated.

Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://t.co/pkzEYlExvR

Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence
https://www.nature.com/articles/414751a

leaky vaccines, super-spreads, and variant acceleration
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/leaky-vaccines-super-spre...

Why the evolution of vaccine resistance is less of a concern than the evolution of drug resistance
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/51/12878

Vaccines Could Drive The Evolution Of More COVID-19 Mutants
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965703047/vaccines-could-driv...

Vaccine-driven virulence evolution: consequences of unbalanced reductions in mortality and transmission and implications for pertussis vaccines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31822219/

Virulence evolution in response to vaccination: The case of malaria
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663389/

Vaccine-driven virulence evolution: consequences of unbalanced reductions in mortality and transmission and implications for pertussis vaccines
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.064...

Assessing the risk of vaccine-driven virulence evolution in SARS-CoV-2
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.20241836v...
Epitectus would have said: "take my life, for if that's what you wish, have it, but know it will not be easy."
> Ruby considered harmful

I mean...
> Fancy apps are not needed

Not sure if Anki counts as fancy, but it certainly is orders of magnitude more efficient than taking notes or active reading. See also: Make It Stick [1]. If you're trying to memorize content spaced repetition is unmatched. I've durably memorized entire 300-page programming design books (e.g. Effective Java) in under a month of 30 min/day reading+Anki usage.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267-make-it-stick
The real world is often far more low-key than Hollywood would have you think.
"... unchecked."

This is the difference to me as well.

We are relying on governments to create those needed checks.
Infosec talent is not going to stop data privacy violations. Heck, sometimes it won't even stop data leaks.

The only secure option for maintaining the privacy of data is not to collect it in the first place. Collecting it and then saying, "I'm going to hire better hackers to secure it than the guys attacking me will hire to gain access to it!" Is a bit naive. At scale, you're almost guaranteed to lose that bet.