skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had fun years ago with FPGA's, first on a digilent nexus 3 and then a terasic de0 nano. I kinda gave up as the IDE's sucked and sucked harder if you were on anything other than windows. I spent hours getting Quartus running on Ubuntu, something to do with the draconian licensing software. I also had issues with ISE on Linux and never bothered to move on to Vivaldo for the same reason, didn't want the headache.

Open your stupid bitstream formats FFS.
It’s “data humans might be interested in” rather than “data as we happen to implement using semiconductor circuits”.

“Data-centric” is an overloaded concept that means different things to different groups of people (all legitimate).
USB mice alone was a mistake. We didn't need anything more complicated than rs-232.
The entire medical devices industry tackles this issue just fine (for example, I have a percussion vest for respiratory therapy that uses strong magnets, and there's no shortage of warnings).
> I don't know what a FxHashMap is

It is the stdlib hashmap with the default hashing function changed from siphasher to fxhash.

I fully expect there to be some low hanging fruit, for instance the hashmap should probably be created with some default pre-allocated capacity but instead it's just initialized with `new`. It's as you said though, it seems plenty fast (at least to me) at the moment so while the rabbit holes are interesting I'd probably be better served by cleaning up certain bits of code.
What could this mean for speed ?

That's Python's greatest weakness imo.
Indeed, losing email would be worse, but the usual arguments to let Twitter ban whoever they want don't rely on the premise that getting banned from Twitter isn't that bad.
I hear what you are saying but I can see this spiraling out of control. What happens when global warming and over population is considered to be a dire threat to the continued existence of human life? Do we allow hospitals to refuse services to women on their third child or men / women that refuse to be sterilized after the government approved x children. Seems far fetched but our definition of clear and present dangers can shift over time to fit the scenario something similar has already happened in China. I am very much not for allowing institutions to make those sort of decisions regarding the care provided to people as entities don't usually relinquish power once granted.

Edit: I am ok with triaging the vaccinated over the unvaccinated in a scenario with limited space as mentioned by another poster below.
I recently set up yubikey 2FA for several of my important accounts. I was dismayed to find that several of them (Vanguard, BofA, etc.) require SMS security codes as a backup.
Given the age of this particular ASCII diagram (28 years), it was likely hand written, however.
IMHO, it should be there as soon as you arrive on the site and then reappear on every page load.
Antibody tests can be negative in some cases because people don't always produce detectible levels. You might want to get a T-detect test, although it still isn't 100% reliable at identifying past infections.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
Idea: What if we had a search engine that would search only web sites without ads...

It could have some type of "readability / usability / user friendliness rating" (score 0-10) ...
I just take a super hot shower. It works for all kinds of itching: bug bites, poison ivy, eczema...
Totally! I leave in BC, the few mosquitoes which make it into my house despite nets usually give me big bumps that last for a few days and scratch like hell. When I get into the deeper woods, I get eaten alive, but these bites' effect seems to last only a few hours. Might also be the blood pumping though, but I do think that natural selection, even over a short variation of geo, results in such differences
Sounds like mosquito saliva can yield new drugs to treat immune system problems.
What use is a PUK for sim swapping? Sorry, am I missing something here? What would be the next step after knowing the PUK of a mobile phone number?
Is another viable frontend design framework to use.
That's why I called it triage. You can give steroids and O2 for home consumption? I guess it depends on the seriousness, on average, of the other people who are unable to use the hospital's services because it's overloaded and what their mortality rate is vs the unvaccinated who show up and are given some reasonable treatment to try, but not a bed. Not an easy decision or calculation to come up with.
It will be interesting to understand the long-term impact of covid on immunity. Given that covid came from GoF research have we developed defenses (albeit at an ultimately very-high price) that will protect us from future novel coronaviruses ?

other classes of virus? (ie how the plague resistance in those of european descent gives some level of protection against hiv [0])

Is this something we have a way to measure or will it be impossible to tell once everyone in the world has some amount of covid immunity?

0: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.h... (first thing i could find)
And an instance where a correctly learned gesture led to confidence and success: the Naked Gun Student Driver Car Chase scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz6A6t55qXk&ab_channel=MarkC...
Has anyone used this in the wild? (ignoring the obligatory "RustPython is not totally production-ready" comment on the github page)

Would love to hear how well it works, even anecdotally.
Do Rational People Exist? (2014)
I think that's basically the same situation here in the US, bike shops are super busy but the supply chain can't keep up. I also have to say that most bike shops I've visited aren't that good. They seem to have an over-supply of awkward young sales staff giving middling advice while facing an undersupply of bikes and parts. Also, the constant churn in componentry is not helping.
> the NVICP is perfectly sufficient for my own needs

How do you reach this conclusion?

At a max $250k per life, paid through a secret court with the deck stacked against the plaintiff, it doesn't appear to be sufficient for anyone's needs.
I visited my parents in the DC area, and there's been a bunch of people developing really nasty rashes from insect bites, I don't know if it's confirmed, but it seems to be attributed to an oak-mite[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyemotes_herfsi
Vanguard also has traditional security questions too. So shit like "where were you born?".
> he's ignoring the work he invested in learning that query language (and where to query it), for instance

>And Bill is ignoring the work of learning how to program.

I suppose if you didn't know how to program you wouldn't learn Sparql. So the investment in learning how to program has already been made.
Biohackers Aiming to Mass Produce Insulin
There are observed biases based on blood type

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15311477/

I'm O negative and have always seemed to get the worst of it when out when friends.

I recently took up cigar smoking (yes i know) and anecdotally have found that I don't get bit as often if I've been smoking recently...to the point of watching someone six feet from me get destroyed while they avoid me completely. My father-in-law has been smoking for 50+ years and they ignore him.
I am not anti vax, I am vaccinated and I recommend to everyone to do the same. However, relying on this vaccine as a long term solution is a very bad idea.

Also you are stating I am anti mask when I stated how I recommended mask usage. Do you not read or do you just force your expectations on people?

Sure, go ahead and dig through my history. not sure what you mean by 'a silent first wave'.
Sure. But I think it’s good that there is diversity of languages being used out there. No skin off my back for them to use OCaml so go for it!
Nice touch that you need to disable the ad blocker to get the cookie privacy thing to show up.
A privileged executable can always launch another executable with less privileges.
> After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former enemies, created the United Front (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban, who were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and Dostum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghanistan

Amazing how it's almost an exact repeat of 25 years ago.
Previously -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19064069
(February 2, 2019 — 430 points, 194 comments)
Yes...
(not a lawyer so grain of salt here)
There are three basic tools for IP protection:

1) Copyright - protects outright copying of an IP asset
2) Patent - protects against the reimplementation of the same IP
3) Trade Secret - Similar to patent, but enforcement is trickier especially for software as you have to demonstrate a benefit to it being secret as well as your efforts to keep it secret.

Non-competes are more of a blunt instrument and a controversial topic. Amazon is infamous for having them. Typically only hear of companies trying to enforce these at executive level as any enforcement at a lower level can impact recruiting heavily.
Problem with security spending is that a lot of it comes down to useless audits which really don't find any holes - they just "enforce" compliance. Yes, PCI compliance is important but how many PCI compliant companies have been breached in the past decade?
Wacom drivers are known to be problematic.

Wacom tablets track every app you open, last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292
Great advice overall, but one nitpick from me.

> Try to earn some money on the side. Most student start at rock bottom when they graduate, as far as their net worth goes. Working during summers and holidays can't help you a long way - because let me tell you this, financial stress during your education is not something you want - it can become all-consuming.

I would actually disagree with this one. If you're studying an in-demand field like CS and you can get internships, you absolutely should so you can get some experience working in industry, a sense of how much you enjoy the work, and a decent amount of $$$ on the side. If you can find a job that complements your education, such as TAing, absolutely do that, even if the pay is garbage (it will be). But unless you're the type who can happily balance work, school, studying, and a social life, I would heavily suggest sacrificing $15 minimum wage work in favor of those other options while you're in college -- the opportunities, memories, and friendships will be well worth the tradeoff.

That being said, if you get an opportunity to do an internship alongside classwork that pays well, that's well worth your time and effort. But if your only option is dishwashing or working at a McDonalds or something I would skip it, not worth the money compared to your potential earnings in 4-5 years.
Agreed - Amazon knows who their real customers are and they have leverage over the sellers.

It does surprise me though that given that there's a lot of counterfeit junk and scam-like sellers on the site (which is a pretty bad customer experience). You'd think they'd shut that down.

In practice it doesn't matter because prime shipping is so much better than any non-amazon option I just deal with that risk (with some exceptions where I'll buy directly from the creator of the product).
Their dropper posts are rebranded TranzX parts as far as I know, which is supposedly common: https://stravaigingmtb.com/2017/11/27/so-who-the-hell-made-t...

I heard before that Trek does the same thing with their Bontrager posts.
How full is your local pediatric ICU?
https://www.google.com/search?q=pediatric+icu+beds

If it's full then risking developmental issues for your child should probably be a less important to you than risking a highly contagious illness with the complications that entails (complications include death, permanent cognitive, neurological, respiratory and cardiovascular damage).

Ideally every responsible* parent could choose how they want to manage the risk for their child, but that's not always practical. With limited daycare and schooling facilities, there's a strong push to follow the more ~conservative~ (cautious) approaches. And this is at it should be. As they say "Your freedom to swing your arm ends at my face", so to should your freedom to choose the level of risk you are comfortable with be limited by the freedom for others to choose their level of risk.

*A responsible parent considers the welfare of the child first and foremost, not using children as tools to make points or demonstrate a commitment to a particular ideology or to otherwise serve their own interests.
War rules are fascinating. They play a large role in the Mahabharata, which has an incredibly long battle sequence at the end, where the events of each day are detailed minutely. Part of the moral complexity of the epic comes from both sides breaking the rules, all of which are broken at some point and lead to pivotal shifts in the battle. These rule violations muddy the moral waters: what's usually seen as a "good guy"/"bad guy" story turns into a vicious tale of deception, violence, and senseless death. This martial epic contains within it both the call to duty, and, therefore, violence, but also a searing critique of where it leads to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma-yuddha#In_the_Mahabhara...
When you have a persistent cough due to lung damage then your chances of death the next time you catch a minor illness go through the roof. It's why so many of the people who survived SARS initially are no longer alive.
You do sound like my parents. They were mainframe programmers in the 70s and still every time I complain about wierd issues I'm having with programming, they'll keep asking me if I've called tech support.

They can't wrap their head around how you can have useful-ish software with shitty incomplete out of date documentation and tech support via people competing to get noticed on StackOverflow for their resume.

The more time goes on, I'm not sure I can wrap my head around it either...
> Whilst killing all life within 1km of any Taliban is ridiculous and absurd, the thought of a true extermination strategy of the Taliban should be on the table. At the very least as a thought.

It is neither ridiculous nor absurd.

It plain simply involves killing almost everyone in an area. Which is called genocide. It is doable. Nazi done it. Khmer Rouge done it. Hutu in Rwanda done it.

You want to frame it as attacking Taliban, which is not true. Majority of victims would not be Taliban. It would be quite literally going to Afghan to commit genocide in half of it.

> The grand "prize" of all this suffering is the country firmly back in the hands of the Taliban, under Sharia law.

Anyone including women have better chance under Sharia law then they have under your proposal. Cause your proposal is to plain kill them. You don't get to propose killing people and then saying someone else is cruel.

> Altogether, I don't believe it is unreasonable to wonder if the "good intentions" approach's outcome isn't just as terrible or worse compared to an actual extermination approach

Under Taliban, those people are alive. With your approach, they are all dead. So, they are better off now. I don't think few terrorism victims in USA is good enough excuse for that.

> One could at least contemplate what would have happened if the US had directly engaged with the Taliban, and use its full military, diplomatic, intelligence and monetary might to do so.

They did and lost.
Thanks for promoting other options. When recommending books I use worldcat.org links rather than the more-exploitative for-profit vendors.

In the interest of making more art available to more people, independent of spending-money, I’d rather us collectively invest more in public libraries. To what degree do public libraries fund authors?
Dune: Denis Villeneuve’s Science-Fiction Epic
They appear to be two unrelated issues.
An admirable attempt.

But nowhere near sufficient.

- Not NEARLY enough link-litter (social links).

- No Taboola Chumbox. SAD! PATHETIC!!!

- Needs a CTA interruption about 15--30s after landing on the payload page.

- Needs a useless hero image.

- Needs more interstitial nags within the article itself. In bold and annoying context.

- Needs more social links after the byline.

Yes, today's web is an utter and complete clusterfuck.
The primary threat to salmons (and many other species) everywhere are obstructions (like dams and sluices) in rivers.
Only time CDC and WHO were anti-mask were when there were shortages. Save the masks for the healthcare workers, essentially.
FWIW it's not terribly difficult to replace the switches yourself on the G500 if you've got the soldering equipment already:

I know these switches work and can last a fair bit longer then the ones from the factory: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/omron-electronics...
Totally agree. As a user, if I have a program installed, I don't want it to change unexpectedly. Dynamically linked libraries increase the odds of that happening.
> At Texas Children's Hospital in Houston on Thursday, 25 of 45 hospitalized pediatric patients were diagnosed with RSV as well as COVID-19. "A hospitalization rate much higher than for either virus alone," according to officials.

Would be interested to see the exact breakdown here. If 19 children are hospitalized with RSV+Covid, 5 with just RSV, and 1 with just Covid, it could just indicate RSV is particularly virulent for children and they are likely to also have Covid given they have been exposed to RSV. This would certainly fit with what we already know about the relative risks posed to children by RSV vs Covid.

This article from the Guardian suggests that the reason RSV is having an off-season surge is because children now have an "immunity debt" from being isolated as part of Covid protocols. It would probably not be a good idea not for us to double down on the measures that have brought us to this point. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-ch...

Good thread by an MD here discussing these issues and saying that coinfection rates are 50% for kids: https://twitter.com/contrarian4data/status/14298548764151316...
Seven high-rated security threats discovered in Chrome
Things can really speed up once we have robots that grow cells and perform experiments on them, and collect (big) data and automatically analyze the data.
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDNtcBh-3o0

It's a decent overview of Lattice's business and some of their applications. Nothing too technical. A shame Ian didn't ask about open source toolchains.
Missed opportunity to call it copperhead.
Doesn’t hot water make skin conditions worse in the long run?
Can you help me understand why the case count isn't the denominator?

The posted numbers seem to imply that if 37k out of 100k kids had covid, 287 of them end up in the hospital. Does it not follow that if 100k out of 100k had covid that 775 kids would have been hospitalized?
this!

Best of luck to them of course.

But they already built a couple of models before YC.
It makes financial sense to dilute by 7% and use the name recognition to drive a much higher valuation.

But this does squeeze out the true pre-seed teams.
Well there's 1) The businesses that sell hardware are run by people whose expertise is hardware, not software and 2) the type of people who have the right combination of skills and inclination to write drivers are rare but also can earn a lot more doing other type of software (hardware margins aren't all all that high compared to software).
Just a netsplit.
Not really imo.

It may make sense in the short term, but in the long term these websites are losing customers, ie money. Online advertising is a failed business model. All those companies that started like this and succeeded quickly realized this and are constantly trying to pivot or have done so already.

I'd say the main reason for the crap web we have nowadays is: lazy people trying to get rich quick. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money online, like people selling books, educational courses, retail in general.

What pisses me off are people who want it quick and with no work. There are literally millions of people who think that they can just throw together a website (read shopify account), enable drop-shipping through some magic shitty plugin they neither know or care anything about, and suddenly bags of money will descend upon them while they're drinking coffee, eating poached eggs at some hipster coffee shop, and posting trash on any of the grams. This fails of course and some give up while others resort to scams. This is where scummy marketing people shine. They "run the numbers" and decide to buy some bullshit fivver SEO service that litters the shit out of some keywords or engage in some other so dark of patterns that make those million-and-one cookie consent boxes seem innocent. Now take this and multiply it by hundreds of thousands of people over the last decade and a half (probably even more) who are stuck in a loop of seeing some bullshit "success story" on facebook of some random dude who's now a millionaire from selling wallets from china, wanting to do the same but are lazy and know nothing about any of the fields involved, try to scam, mostly failing, and repeat.
You can't really look at the US and say "it doesn't work", because even the slightest restrictions were leveraged into a major political issue.
Who do you imagine this "Linux Desktop" is, that you attribute lack of interest to?

Various groups make desktop environments that may be used on Linux, as diverse as KDE, Gnome, Chrome, and Android. It could possibly make sense to complain about one or other of them, or even several. As it is your complaint is entirely nonsensical, a category error like saying red is too hot.
LGTM

*Merges "changes to apiPromiseFactory.js"
I like your comment, but not this part:

> The thing is, COVID-19 is not endemic yet and, even once it is, will likely retain the capability of mutating into a strain that causes a new deadly pandemic.

I don't think that's possible, since I am not aware of a precedent. Meaning: the other 4 endemic coronaviruses which also started as pandemic and now are harmless cold viruses never caused a new deathly pandemic in a mutated form.
> while we might have built new hospitals in a parallel universe, in this one we really don't want to saturate the beds (again).

Unfortunately, while hospitals can be built, you can't train enough medical professionals to staff the hospital in two years.

More generally, rather like nobody expects the Spanish inquisition, no health care system can cope with a global pandemic. We'd need to 10x health care capacity, most of which would sit unused for most of the time.
You may want to take a look at the Swedish Stridsvagn 103 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsvagn_103): designed for a crew of 2 (a third was later added) where all crew positions can perform all operations.
OCaml compile speeds are not particularly fast.
I don’t see what public blowback has to do with legal arguments, at least without also assuming some kind of legal realism.
At most companies? No. The vast majority of data siphoned isn't being actioned upon by most systems. The more mature data driven organizations will have multiple teams between data and marketing to ensure it is business ready which is code for getting rid of the shit data.
Did someone say it was ok? The point is that it’s silly to say this CSAM mechanism makes a difference in China.

Does the US government have the power to order Apple to scan everyone’s phones for politically undesirable images?

I don’t think so.
I see this repository is working on a jit, so that could lead to speed ups over the common cython implementation. I don't see any benchmarks for how this compares to pypy though, which also has a jit.

The main weakness in this repo seems to currently be lack of support for numpy/pandas and compatibility in general [0].

[0] https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/issues/1940