skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But even as we wait for the fly to help us combat the complex effects of social isolation, Li and colleagues’ study reminds us that there are benefits to everyday interactions with others.

> And like humans, flies develop "drinking problems."

Am I like a fly now? :/ (I observed similar behavior on me with similar circumstances.)

Yeah, I know community is good[1], but I am estranged from family and have 1 friend who is busy with his own life. Possibly it is because of me being weird around people? Or me being socially awkward? I will screen myself for ADHD, but every attempt to connect with people failed. :(
I seem to connect with people on platforms like HN, but I cannot connect outside of platforms like HN for some odd reason. Furthermore, I really tried to connect with real people, but I got rejected many times. I am afraid that I am an annoyance to people and that's why they don't want to connect with me.It is stressful to be alone.

Anyhow, I was chronically lonely and still am, and I can confirm the stress reactions that flies experience when they are chronically lonely.

It is stressful to be alone. At least HN gives eases a bit of the stress for me. HN is essentially providing me a venue to connect with people. I am happy about that.

[1] > Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-8...
I love F#, it's my #1 favorite language by far. But I code in C# at my day job and I gotta say, while I haven't exactly kept count, it's hard for me to agree that F# has fewer constructs. To be fair, much of that comes from the fact that F# has to do nearly everything C# does for compatibility, and have its own stuff too. It leads to a lot of "wait, which tool do I use for this problem?" questions for newbies.

* [<Extension>] methods vs `type X with member ...` extensions

* let-bound functions vs static methods vs instance methods

* operator overloads vs let-bound operators

* curried functions vs multi-parameter functions

* modules vs static classes

* `exception MyError of string` vs `type MyErrorException(msg) inherit Exception(msg)...`

* polymorphic data: interface vs abstract class vs discriminated union

* Async vs Task

* seq { ... } computation expression vs chain of Seq module operations vs. LINQ methods

* Option vs Nullable vs Result

* Statically resolved generic vs runtime generic (`^a` vs `'a`)

* `for i = 0 to 10` vs `for i in 0..10`

* `upcast` vs `:>` and `downcast` vs `:?>`

* `function` vs `fun x -> match x with`

* .fsi files and the syntax for declarations in them

* `let mutable` and `<-` vs `ref` and `:=`

* sprintf vs interpolated strings with "%d"-style format specifiers vs interpolated strings with FormattableString format specifiers vs String.Format

* Code quotations vs linq-style Expression<Func<...,...>>

I am very comfortable with F# today and feel I have a solid grasp on how I like to do things. But when I was introduced to it, I was a little overwhelmed, even though I already had familiarity with C# and with Haskell.
I prefer a basic income indexed to inflation. It seems like if people are financially safe, they'll be able to implement their own personal ideas about what the minimum wage should be.
Also for lower pings. Starlink only wants LPBs.
Can’t you fix most of this problem by just buying the blox off market. Though discord and other backdoor channels?
A couple of past threads:

How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249920 - Jan 2018 (29 comments)

How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9929333 - July 2015 (69 comments)
good talk! check my about page for a discord if you wanna chat again
Wow, that is pretty awful.
The problem is that the article's explanation makes absolutely no sense: it claims that a full scan is performed because of the computation (function call) in the `select` clause. And worse, that indexing the column used in the function call fixes it:

> But, It will still do a full table scan because we are using "amount" column to calculate the total. So, we need to put an index on "amount" column too.

Seems to me like TFA tried it, saw that the index was not used, and invented a justification for it. And after adding the second index the query planner had collected the relevant information and started using the index, or something.
Evaluation of open source web vulnerability scanners and their techniques
Sorry, no. I am an IT janitor and my brother is a audio solutions engineer for major companies so we have discussed where it breaks down. Someone who is a demonstrable idiot decides to put a wimpy cheap processor in these devices and have them do a bunch of digital processing on the audio to "improve it" and so you get very very bad quality. Idiots literally rule our society I could go on but its basically like that Kurt Vonnegut book where the rich elites are sitting around listening to Beethoven records at the wrong RPM and nobody can convince them its wrong.

These audio engineering guys can do almost anything. Their requirements these days are bonkers.
In other news, 50% of the population represents half of all people
It's worse than that. Points are awarded for degrees. So foreigners just purchase fake degrees they can then use to immigrate. [0]

Of course, no licensing board/employer would ever hire them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHTg5zzFEKE
Do we have generally accepted R0 values for each of these 3 variants?
SARS-CoV-2 has multiple animal reservoirs, and that's one reason why it will be impossible to eradicate. But generally variants that evolve in animals will select for fitness in those different species. So those will probably have less impact on humans.

This is one piece of circumstantial evidence why some virologists suspect the virus was produced in a lab doing gain of function research using transgenic mice with human like respiratory systems. When the virus first appeared in Wuhan it was already really good at infecting humans. That would be unlikely if it had evolved in wild bats or pangolins and then jumped straight to humans. But we don't know for sure, maybe it was just natural bad luck with no lab involved.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25589660/
Generally speaking, the higher the orbit the higher the chances of unrecoverable Kessler syndrome. For example if something went wrong way out in geosynchronous orbit and caused a chain of collisions, there's basically nothing we could do except clean it up manually — on its own it'd remain a mess for thousands of years.

For the lowest orbits, worst case scenario is just waiting 2-5 years for it to clear itself up.
> The probability of cascade-crash space-junk barrier is crazy small? Right?

Yes
Advocating for Open Source
After thinking over Apple's recent announcements I managed to get my thoughts together and in black and white. I'm submitting them to Hacker News not because I believe others need to read it, but as a sanity check. A lot of the discussion I've read has been here so I know many are invested in this issue and it's repercussions.
Related from yesterday:

The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231581 - Aug 2021 (181 comments)

A YC startup in the current batch is working on this:

Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28061725 - Aug 2021 (111 comments)
I see the sentiment here expressed, that Covid is far from over. To be honest, I stopped following news since being fully vaccinated some time ago, so I am kind of ignorant here.

Is the main problem, the unvaccinated, or that the Delta (and co.) variants are still, too dangerous for vaccinated people? Or is it the fear, that they will get more dangerous?
I agree with you that it isn't a significant or important factor in most cases, but it is technically a counterexample, and is probably the most significant or relevant counterexample.
Wouldn't that still be expected if they make up half the satellites? Or do these numbers also include near-misses of two non-satellite objects, in which case Starlink would do worse than non-steered space junk?
Assuming you itemize, which most taxpayers don't do anymore.

11.4% of taxpayers itemized in 2018*

* https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-tax-stats-at-a-...
Play Minecraft?

Learn a programming language and write small games in Unity/Godot/whatever? Make levels in LittleBigPlanet/Dreams?

To be fair, those options can get exploitative too, but Roblox feels on another level. The only time I played Roblox, I distinctly remember thinking "the only people who would put money into this are kids who don't know any better".
> But since these are public/free APIs, I would be careful using them into production work, mainly for stability/scale reasons.

Many of the ones I saw are "free up to N requests, then $". That is, things that have a free tier.

Which is still valuable, but is very different if you want to be able to scale. Scaling by writing a larger check is a nice safe path forward.
Welcome to HN! :) thanks for contributing to the community.
This. The Astra zenca vaccine, originally designed by the Oxford University, was supposed to be open licenced. But the gates foundation convinced them otherwise. The top priority should have been to get as many vaccine factories open as soon as possible but even functioning factories had trouble starting talks with bigshots like pfizer

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/have-gates-...

https://apnews.com/article/drug-companies-called-share-vacci...

https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-gl...
Exactly. Which is why I'm happy that they have limited powers.
> but I always wondered how much the locals' perception of this individual - as a non-white foreigner - and his attendant social status played into it.

Honestly, a lot of foreign universities are... questionable to say the least.
just checkin. I hope the unintelligent fly problem isn't causing you too much nuisance.
Sentimentality. The 6502 has been around for almost half a century now. Often the processor in an older programmer's first computer or video game system. It's horribly limited, but assembly programming for the 6502 has become a kind of code golf.
When I started doing serious digital location (field) recording,

MiniDisc was utterly, completely game-changing.

In the days prior to USB charging being ubiquitous, it offered "near-CD" quality and noise floor, battery consumption that defied belief (8 hours' recording on a AA or two), extreme portability, removable robust stable media, and, for a golden moment, Sharp and Sony offered extremely well-engineered recorders which were a high point of quality in a consumer-tier device. The early Sharp recorders like the MZ-R50 had titanium chassis etc.; and Sharp and Sony competed to have the best set of features for users like me: extremely quiet analog preamps with high-quality DAC (prior to ATRAC compression); then, un-compressed PCM recording; pre-roll buffers... it was divine.

This was me fawning on the technology, 20 years ago: https://quietamerican.org/links_diy-recorders.html

The site still hosts a few dozen hours of raw recordings and composition made almost entirely from recordings made on MD.

This project got some play, the voice-over was recorded later but all the source sound was MD:

https://quietamerican.org/related_annapurna.html

Here's a track which were more adventurous sonically:

https://quietamerican.org/download/disc-va/01_-_Three_Trains...

Here's a straight recording:

https://quietamerican.org/download/sources-nepal/donkey_trai...

NB: [good] headphones a must; these are near-binaural recordings with highly-spatialized sounds stages.

Paired with high-quality electret "binaural" style microphones, recordists like me could carry in a very small bag a recording kit of unprecedented quality.

Here's another piece made with all-MD recordings:

https://quietamerican.org/commissions_ge.html

MD replaced DAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape) , which was incredibly expensive, finicky, non-direct-access (it was tape after all..), battery-hungry, big, etc... once MD supported uncompressed PCM DAT was pointless in the field, to some extent.

MD died in the face of the rise of HD then solid-state player-recorders like the iPod and its record-enabled alternatives.

Today the closest analog for recordists is to use SD/SSD recorders.

A tear for the old skool. <3

Footnote: MD makes a cameo in the original Matrix as the medium on which Neo delivers some content to the client who takes him to the "White Rabbit" party. While later-generation HiMD did support storage of arbitrary files, I assume this was done because it looked cooler/more unfamiliar than a CDROM. :)
> It may already be getting harder for SARS-CoV-2 to make big gains in infectiousness. “There are some fundamental limits to exactly how good a virus can get at transmitting and at some point SARS-CoV-2 will hit that plateau,” says Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. “I think it’s very hard to say if this is already where we are, or is it still going to happen.” Evolutionary virologist Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research guesses the virus still has space to evolve greater transmissibility. “The known limit in the viral universe is measles, which is about three times more transmissible than what we have now with Delta,” he says.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/new-sars-cov-2-varia...
I wonder how well we are able to maintain focus relative to years past, what with the mental damage of consuming content in thirty second or so intervals for long chunks of time for years and years. My internet addiction as a teenager 15 years ago was bad enough, if I grew up with fast paced junk like TikTok I feel like I would probably develop ADD just from the rewiring process that happens while growing up coupled with these short spurts of junk food tier content meant to engage you for as long as possible. Hopefully in another 20 years people see social media like a cigarette but for mental health.
> After that date all liability for fraud perpetrated using an SSN as a shared "secret" will be assigned to the party who accepted the SSN as "authentication".

lol. How do you think it works right now?

The party who accepted the SSN (or their insurance) is liable for footing the bill for the fraud, except in the ridiculously unlikely scenario where they’d manage to collect money from the fraudster.
Isn't guessing ages (reliably) valuable to marketers?
Moderna to start first human trials of mRNA HIV vaccine
> "This problem is really getting out of control," Siemak Hesar, CEO and co-founder of commercial autonomous space traffic management system Kayhan Space, told Space.

Well, there are certainly no obvious conflicts of interest behind this quote.

/s

I'm sick of this FUD. SpaceX is, I believe, the largest operator of satellites by count, so it makes perfect sense that they would account for the lion's share of these "close encounters". None of these articles offer a meaningful quantification of risk, or much in the way of constructive discussion; instead they shotgun-blast vague soundbites from "experts" and wave around the Kessler Syndrome boogeyman with about as much technical precision as can be found in the related joke at the beginning of WALL-E.

In the context of Starlink, the "SpaceX Bad" narrative basically boils down to saying we should not develop space further because reasons, much in the same way single-family-home NIMBYs poison urban growth now that they've got theirs. There are obviously tough problems that will need to be solved, and I agree that some distributed "traffic control" system will ultimately be necessary, especially when we start filling up higher orbits where Kessler Syndrome is actually a serious concern. But it's disappointing to see the media engage in so much of what basically amounts to concern trolling, polarizing and poisoning the public discourse.
> LPBs

Can you expand on that if you have a moment? Thanks.
In literally all other games I know of the ratio is 1:0 since you can't cash out their in-game currency at all. Do you have any of example of a game or a platform where you can sell the in-game currency for the purchase price?
Maybe you feel you can trust everyone in your family, but this is far from universal. Many, _many_ people have family members who are self-entitled moochers who think that everything bad that has happened to them was because of other people instead of a lifetime of own poor choices. When they find out that someone close to them has come into some money, they feel (and act) like they "deserve" some of it and will try all manner of tactics to get at it, including pity and made-up stories, all the way up to blackmail, threats, and physical violence. In a word: toxic. Sometimes it's just one family member, sometimes it's the whole family.

If you have none in your family, consider yourself extremely blessed. Most of us are not so lucky.
GP said that both they and the other participant had faster than 25Mbps connections…
Skip Jumpscares on Netflix
I remember back when you could store DDR scores on PlayStation memory cards.
I think you missed this part of their comment:

> Unless you want to be a trend-setter or do some artistic expression through your clothing. In those cases a human stylist does make sense. But for the regular Joe, I think a well trained algorithm can perform better than a human.

And your comment:

> An algorithm will aim to make you look similar to what other people like you look like. It will not push boundaries or riff on creative 'happy accidents' because it can't.

Correct - I think that's what most people want. Style is defined at the high end to a very limited audience and derivative variations of it are built on further derivative variations as it flows down the classes until it so distorted it simply dissolves. Every turn of that crank is another group of people trying to look like other people (and thus offending the tastes of the group being copied).
If you had to repay $30K in two years that would be a whopping 30% of a $50K salary.

I'm also not sure how you managed to graduate from Lambda yet none of your JS/Node/React training is benefiting your current Vue work...
You probably mean "virulence", not "virility". The latter word denotes the masculine ability to procreate.

The confusion arises because the Latin word "vir" means "man" (specifically of male sex, as opposed to human), and the similar word "virus" means poison.
> Well, if you end up using any amount of storage (like backing up the device), they are going to want you to pay for it. You'll probably end up typing in a credit card number and all of that stuff.

I don't get this bit. Are you expected to pay for the cloud backup of your work laptop with your own money?
You pretty much dotted the i’s and crossed the T’s on this one.

The general idea is too complex for me to give a solid, single piece of advice on how to identify genuine vs not, but what I can tell you is this:

I recently became aware of a very real death of a close Philippine friend’s grandmother and I knew their family couldn’t afford a proper burial. So I requested to talk to the eldest of the family, offered to cover cost (less than the price of a new iPad) with their approval to do so, and for my name to not be included in the justification.

For context - I’ve personally been to the Philippines a few times and seen some of the ups and downs (white American since birth). Never sent that friend or their family anything before nor felt compelled to do this. I’m grateful for what I have in life and for those who have done good toward me, so simply paying it forward.
You’d like to think, but an immigrant or first-gen citizen might not trust the TLA agency very much, especially if the first letter is F. High-profile houndings scare off tipsters. Then you try to assess whether the TLA will actually help your relative back home or only get them killed.
My biggest problem of all is the company aren't updating their internal system with these sort of information. If you happen to meet a technician who really really knew his craft, 99.9999999% it has nothing to do with the training provided by the company. But it was his dedication and enthusiasm to solving the problem for their customers.

In the very early days Apple Store has a similar internal system where Genius gets to report and share these sort things. I think it was written by an employees as well. Pretty sure now that thing is gone.
I don't honestly know about Roblox, but I've read that YouTube (to name one of the most popular UGC platforms) keeps 45% of the advertising revenues.

Looking at the numbers they made around $46 billion in the past three years.

Do we know how much of those 46 billions went to creators?

YouTube videos are also very different from video games, one can easily make 30 YouTube videos in 30 days, video games require weeks (if not more), it's easier to give up.

The incentive is very different.

Paying for low effort content posted frequently rewards consistency, YouTube needs their creators to keep making fresh content, not their best content, new is enough.

Video games not so much, they have to be at least appealing and a higher threshold could be better to keep creators focused on finishing their work and/or maintain an higher quality of the product, instead of cashing out quickly by making very cheap games just for the 50 dollars of payout.
Your yardstick is totally wrong - we know how much funding is needed, and we underinvest:

https://amp.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5gi9yh/fusion_i...

The laws of physics have bo obligation to us to be 'researcheable' on a level of funding you deem sufficient.

This should be priority number 1, it should be funding fusion on the same level as we fund the military and healthcare, not some second rate government agency, our future depends on it.
> Once Starlink launches its full 12,000-strong satellite network, it will be involved in 90 per cent of all close approaches, it is estimated.

Bayes' Rule strikes again!
Why is it so much harder and costlier for companies to be able to store credit card numbers, but not SSNs? I mean there is a whole certification process that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to get pci certified, but you could say an SSN has the same of not larger risk profile. You can cancel credit cards, can’t get a new SSN. What is stopping government from implementing the same requirements? No one asks for your card number that is not certified, and certainly you would not give it if asked, even if they said it’s mandatory. So why the SSN leniency?