skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is remarkable in its ability to completely misreport the research it claims to be describing.

Quotes from the article:

> A new Caltech study found that ants search for and remove loose grains of soil when digging their tunnels, much like humans remove loose blocks while playing Jenga.

> The ants tap the individual grains to assess the mechanical forces being exerted upon them.

In fact, this is completely wrong, and is exactly the opposite of what the researchers found. The idea that the ants tap dirt grains like a Jenga player was a *hypothesis* that the researchers held *prior* to beginning their work:

> "We hypothesized that maybe ants were playing Jenga."

> "We thought maybe they were tapping grains of soil, and that way they could assess the mechanical forces on them."

But their research showed that this is NOT what the ants do:

> "It turns out that by removing grains in this pattern that we observed, the ants benefit from these circumferential force chains as they dig down."

> "What we discovered was that they didn't seem to 'know' what they are doing," Andrade says. "They didn't systematically look for soft spots in the sand. Rather, they evolved to dig according to the laws of physics."

Source: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/the-science-of-undergroun...
"up to" makes the article worthless. To be fair I guess most chips usually fall in price over time.
I've heard the industry is full of exaggerated orders now to, everyone ordering more than they need, to see what they can get. Not a great way to have efficient trade.
is an excellent example of why that kind of naming is stupid, given that it likely first appeared in the US and primarily became known as "spanish" because Spain (not being at war) was actually talking about it instead of censoring reports about it.
Eh, if you look at the other refugee subs that propped up for people who were banished by the main r/india sub you'll see they feature the kind of toxic content that would anyway get banned in any kind of country-specific sub context. The bias existing in r/india comes from the overall general left-leaning tendency of redditors, not from any sinister conspiracy.
> Want to get data from inside a device onto your computer? Nope, it’s not a mass storage device.

MTP exists, Windows and Linux can use it... but OS X still doesn't have a native MTP client.
Google is by far the best search engine.

Google pays Apple to set it as the default as its a positive sum to both sides. Google gets more than $15bn of value from the traffic and Apple gets $15bn for the obvious decision. Google could call Apple's bluff and refuse to pay, but Apple could pull through on their threat to replace default search with an inferior engine. They did it with Google Maps by replacing it with Apple Maps, which was a widely unpopular decision
Fleshlite. Obvs.
Tell HN: Fastmail may be routing Calendar reminders via your work SMTP server
I have set up Fastmail to read (IMAP over SSL) and send (SMTP over SSL) work emails. Over the last couple of weeks my Fastmail Calendar reminder emails started turning up in my Fastmail inbox as attachments to "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" instead of their usual avatar as "Reminder: Do XYZ" emails.

On raising a support ticket over this issue I learnt that Fastmail uses my work SMTP server to send these reminders (to my Fastmail email address!). I checked some recent reminders, and indeed, they have my work email address as the "From:" address, and they have been sent via my work SMTP server.

That is: Fastmail Calendar logs in to my work SMTP server as the "work me", whenever it wants to send me a reminder to my Fastmail email address.

If you have been---like me---working under the assumption that your personal Fastmail Calendar and your work email don't mix, it may be time to update that mental model. All your Calendar reminders may have been first sent to your workplace, before they come to you.
At the beginning of the pandemic, people theorized that public health will influence future media for a generation, much like WW2 did. For decades, we got war TV shows, war movies, war comics, etc. Hogan's Heroes ran into the '70s, Sgt. Rock was published until the late '80s, and so on. And I think we're about to see the same with media based on public health efforts.

One of the things that'll come out of this is that mRNA vaccines as miracle wonder drugs that cure everything are going to get huge amounts of attention, and media will reflect that. Especially if the Lyme, Malaria, and HIV vaccines prove successful. We are going to see mRNA vaccines as plot devices and MacGuffins in media for decades to come. It's going to get the same treatment radiation got in the '60s and '70s and genetic engineering got in the '90s and '00s. For example, it wouldn't surprise me if, the next time Marvel decides to make a new adaptation of Spider-Man, the spider will have been treated with mRNA instead of radiation (the original story) or gene therapy ('90s cartoon, '00s movies, maybe others).
> It already has a politically popular slogan, "polluter pays".

This can be achieved with a carbon tax. Or even higher gasoline taxes in places like the US where gas is underpriced.

But people do not want this. It is politically infeasible. The current middle class rather preserves their current lifestyle for next 30-40 years they have left before the end of the old age rather than leaving a better planet for their children.
Who do you use now?
Contracts are what they are, but they don't preclude discussions like "if we honor this as-is, it leads to a situation where we have no incentive to value you as a customer".
They like to crawl up and can do so from your ankles/feet, so it’s not a safe assumption. I spray my hiking boots and socks with deet. If I am going to get into brush, I wear permethrin-laced hiking pants and I tuck the cuffs into my socks. Then I take a shower after coming in from outside.

Deer ticks can be tiny, much smaller than wood/dog ticks so just checking yourself isn’t a great form of protection.
> it's OK for Google to make Chrome into an OS

> Regular web browsers

Chrome is a "regular web browser". It holds a 70% market share among web browsers.

> Regular web browsers don't necessarily need to be on the same feature treadmill/death march (assuming they could keep up.)

They either don't need to be on the same death march, or keep up. You can't have both.

Currently, it's a major problem, because Chrome churns out 40-70 new web APIs with every release which happens every two months or so [1]

So, no, it's not OK for Google to convert Chrome into an OS.

[1] https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/
That might be the reason for rumours of higher storage (1tb). An excuse to charge 30% more to not only offset increased costs but to increase profit margins.
I blame marketing departments being given too much (read: almost any) control over product development.

No developer cares about the level of analytics being pushed today, and unless they're profit sharing they probably don't care about the ads either.

Those anti-features are there because marketing departments want them there and have enough power to get what they want.

Don't let marketing make product decisions.
Yes, I think all the substances should be legal for qualified medical use. Even the substances with serious adverse effects in cases in which they do more good than harm. But a patient should have a right to opt-out and ask for an alternative treatment when there actually is any harm probable to expect.

> forbidden to diagnose it in adults.

This is plain outrageous.
A lower-hanging fruit would be to reduce methane emissions since methane decays naturally in a decade or two.

According to the Economist's summary of the recent IPCC report, the current forcing effect of methane around 30% of that of CO2.
If trust is the main criteria, I guess self-hosting is the only option (albeit a time-intensive one).
There are commercial providers like mailbox.org that offer the possibility to PGP-encrypt incoming mails so that only you can read them.
I’ve read somewhere that they don’t just take a sequence. There’re some tweaks they make to produce effective immune response. CureVac failed to produce a good vaccine for this reason. My take is that mRNA technology is being overhyped, although it’s a massive step up over other approaches.
The mute button works fine - if your mouse is free to click it, and the video window is foregrounded, and you don't need to interject at a moment's notice.

That doesn't work well for gamers, for obvious reasons.
Agree, "self-hosting" suggests it being a tool, that creates and provisions databases on my own hardware-infrastructure and not on AWS.
>Something weird happened over the past decade.

PR happened. The big players have figured out that if they want to keep misbehaving to make money, they needed people to not fight them. To do so, one amazing tool is to make sure the entire way to speak about the topic is controlled by them.

Internet gave us the ability to share more, and we though it would allow us to defend our self better, to make people more aware. But we didn't predict that an entire industry would specialize into creating submarine communication that pretend to be an organic one of such quality that the average human can't tell the difference.

With old school com and ads, you at least knew somebody was trying to sell you crap. Now, you are nicely having a chat in what you think is a community of peers, while being exposed to commercial and political influence that have been crafted to reach you here without raising your BS radar.

And with AI, it's going to get worse.
Employment LAW and CANNABIS – LAURA BIANCHI [know your rights]
Today’s Let’s Be Blunt with Montel guest, Laura Bianchi, is one of the nation’s leading experts in cannabis and hemp law. She is a shareholder and partner at Bianchi and Brandt in Scottsdale, Arizona, and co-founder and President of Cannaboss Advisors, an international cannabis consulting firm. Her extensive knowledge and experience has awarded her “Top 100 Cannabis Attorneys In Arizona” along with a “Women Leaders In The Cannabis Industry” recognition. For the last 3 years, she was selected as a Super Lawyers Southwest Rising Star, an honor reserved for attorneys who demonstrate excellence in their practice. Laura talks with Montel about employment law and cannabis, the recent news of Amazon supporting cannabis legalization, the Olympic controversy over suspending Sha’Carri Richardson from competing in the 2021 Olympic Games and more.
Leaving an Unsupportive Work Environment to Start My Business
Why ROS and Docker are not a good fit
Would this help people who already had the disease? Similar to what is happening with Covid https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vaccines-long-covid
cool. i did not know that
There are some reports of collapsing lumber prices, when everyone was talking about the sky falling and prices skyrocketing two months ago. https://financialpost.com/commodities/lumber-prices-collapse... So your idea that semiconductor prices might fall a lot in the future seems reasonable.
I wonder if TSMC made a trip out to OPEC to talk about history :)
uhh.. does pihole have something for it?
Carbon itself is a soil amendment. (think compost). Organic farms use tonnes of the stuff every year as a top dressing. If you have pure carbon you could mix it up with NPK and micronutrients and have a compost alternative for large scale industrial farming.
Any activity with carbon that doesn't involve aerobic activity. Creating soil (worms or bokashi vs compost), creating plastic, creating pencil lead.
FROM frolvlad/alpine-glibc

That namespacing does make it look pretty unofficial to my eyes.
I suspect one printer company is making money hand over fist. The rest look pretty sickly to me. They are all desperately trying to shift to services in an attempt to shore up their profits.
How do you figure? Before everyone went web crazy and started bundling always-on network traffic into their calculator application, programs were a thing you could download and install and use without a network connection at all forever.
Ticks jump quite a distance. I wouldn't use that as the sole basis for assuming I was safe.
Yep, but it is a nontrivial amount of work to produce approximately as much biochar as we have burnt coal.
There's a name for this - when a large bloc of countries require something legally, and the rest of the world end up following.

You can probably "thank" the EU for not having to carry around individual LG, Samsung, Anker, Sony, Apple, whoever charging bricks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
It probably correlates to how many conspiracy theories from 18 months ago have materialised.
yep, morocco is a pretty good deal. Close to europe, most people speak english and/or french and you can easily live off 10k dirhams per month (1k usd)

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...
There's nothing to update. The mRNA allegedly encodes for the 'spike' protein, which is the infection vector. The theory at the time was that by targeting that protein specifically, if the virus were to mutate, it would loses it's ability to infect because it could no longer successfully bind to the ACE2 receptors.

In practice, the efficacy is a fraction of what the trials stated it was. It didn't lose efficacy due to the delta variant, the manufacturers just lied about the efficacy by cherry picking the data.

The only option they have now is to blame people's immune systems for lack of response, thus the 'boosters' are needed.
> No it won't. Unless you ban EU citizens visiting your website and your website doesn't make business with other businesses in EU.

I strongly dislike the move too but this is true. The popups are often based on geolocation by ip. Jurisdictions with GDPR get the pop up and those without don’t. If you want to test this go to the Washington Post on an EU/UK ip and an American ip, clearing cookies in between visits and see the difference for yourself.
Sounds true. I actually had one and only tick in 1955. It was on my testicles, so very embarrassing.
Not since mid-February.

Here's how bad it actually is in Florida, BTW: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/05/watch-how-floridas-sh...

Notice how the case numbers explode when they drop all restrictions.
I think it is possible to do this with roles and bot managing those. Ofc, that is not standard solution.
To my knowledge Pfizer didn't really invest anything, it was the German population who financed Biontech through funds paid with taxes: the lab infrastructure pre-covid (through funded cancer research), the vaccine trials, and mass production (both directly and through pre-purchases before the vaccine existed).
I think if you'd want to use other button than caps, then sometimes you may be not sure whether you're on or off

Anyway, I prefer mouse scroll button (mouse3) instead of caps
Human Harvest (Film)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3886488/
The idea is to force you to buy the same content in multiple platforms. Bought content would have DRM; anything stripped of DRM is presumably pirated content.
Let's be real about Netflix: after looking like it was going to disrupt the media conglomerates, I now think that all it has managed to do is wake the sleeping giants. Long-term, I am bearish on Netflix. I would go as far to say that Netflix is slow-declining its way into being eventually acquired by a member of the big six.

Here are the issues:

First: it's basically the most expensive streaming service, topping out at $18/month.

Hulu's most expensive plan is $12. Discovery+ is $7. Disney+ is $8. HBO Max is $15. Paramount+ is $10. (All prices ad-free plans)

I think an argument could be made that all or nearly all of those services are offering a better content library at a lower price when compared to Netflix.

Discovery+ especially...holy hell if you are into reality shows it's endless. And it's $7. I would pay $7/month just for access to every House Hunters episode imaginable without ads, lo and behold my dream came true.

Netflix is doing this clickbait stuff because their content sucks. Clickbait is what you do when your content doesn't speak for itself.

Sure, every content business has to make a "headline" to draw your attention. But when you see a "clickbait" headline in something like The New York Times you know you're being drawn into something that can be potentially rich in effort, and therefore the term "clickbait" doesn't really apply. At least there's an article behind the hook. "Clickbait" more specifically means you're being tricked into visiting something that everyone knows definitely sucks, including its creator.

Netflix knows their content sucks, and I'm not sure they care or can think of a viable business model to improve it.
The one thing it does really well is getting personal user data and metadata while convincing people to defend it.
> Because web pages and simple web scripting is often done by non-professionals, who cannot be expected to follow standards processes in perpetuity

Professionals can't keep up with standards processes either. Because Chrome employs people to work on them. Who's going to pay me to keep track of literally hundreds of standards currently in development?
Also, as we're seeing in the US west or Siberian forests; they cascade co2 release quickly with forest fires.
Generally speaking the adage is “profit is an opinion, cash flow is a fact”
> Who uses search engines anymore?

I do. It is a bas assumption to think all other, or even most of the other users, have similar usage habits as you are or are using the same services as you do, unless there are numbers to back the claims.
This will lead to a lot of in-breeding
because spotify has done so many wonderful things for musicians ... oh wait no it hasnt
Traditional american breakfast..
I had a gutfeel around 3080 launch it was going to be big, so grabbed one on launch day (had to wait for months for the local store to have stock though..). Now seeing them 2x the price. Crazy times.
I'm not sure you can just casually tack on "and the lack of masking". Massachusetts does NOT have a mask mandate and Louisiana DOES - for everyone regardless of vaccination. [1] Mass. has a 1+ vaccination rate of ~75% whereas Louisiana has a rate of ~48%.[2] We can talk about actual mask compliance all day but I'm putting my money on vaccines being the life saver here.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/these-are-t...

[2] https://covidactnow.org/?s=22131139
I mean the principle of relativity (not the theory of relativity), i.e. the fact that the laws of physics are exactly the same in any (inertial) frame of reference and you cannot tell at which speed you're moving except relative to something.

A rotating reference frame is different. A local experiment can tell you whether you're rotating and how fast you're rotating.
Afghanistan is ‘weeks to months’ from economic collapse
Fascinating. Not sure whether this is good or bad. German subreddits are usually either trashy or dead. The german community already did something similar some years ago, and created a dozen localized subs of english topsubs and some localized cultural subs. Most of those did not grew very well IMHO.

I think a major problem for this was the limitations of german community. It's seems most are very young with very specific interessts and culture, so naturally they end up with content that caters to just those people, while the rest just hangs out in the better international subs.
https://emailoctopus.com/ is my current provider and they say they use EU data centers should I should be good.
It's proprietary software. You can't prove it goes off. And there's both history and evidence that things are going against user privacy.
I would personally rather be living in Texas or Florida, but my point is that all of these league tables change on a month by month basis with a limited correlation with restrictions. In a few months a different part of America will be struggling.

Vaccination rates yes maybe we can now start pointing fingers as they undoubtedly keep people out of hospital, but Texas and Florida have been unfairly criticised all year.
A recent thought on carbon credit scheme with trees. If you grow a tree and build a house with it, then that carbon is captured until the house burns down.
Unfortunately it probably works because the business model depends on people forgetting about their subscription, e.g., Planet Fitness.

If you have a nice experience for a week or two and the price is low enough you'll probably never watch Netflix (e.g., ME) and keep on paying for it.
The effect of this has been more smokers go without insurance, not fewer smokers
Elegant Entrepreneur: I Quit What Happens After You Resign
you hired someone on upwork to build the plugin?
> If you can’t sell software you have to monetize in other ways.

For a piece of hardware I buy at a store I'd expect that the price I paid for it is sufficient to not require further monetization - mandatory cloud services (e.g. a web-available surveillance camera) excepted.

Anyway, there is another cause: continuous backward-compatibility breaks from OSes. Windows is ... relatively decent in that the only things that really broke drivers over the last decades were the shift in GPU driver architecture that came with Vista (IIRC) and the shift to 64-bit that began with Windows 7. The only change that busted old games was with Windows 8 and the DirectDraw removal, but other than that you don't need to do any maintenance for Windows drivers and software if you don't have new features.

Keeping software working on macOS or on Linux is a real pain in the butt, in contrast - Apple changes stuff around every minor release, and maintaining any support for Linux is just as a massive effort.

Kernel drivers pretty much have no choice but upstreaming (which is a hassle in itself when you have proprietary blobs/IP), and userspace stuff suffers from fragmentation (x11 vs wayland, flatpak vs deb vs rpm vs self-build/gentoo, systemd vs sysv, kde vs gnome vs ...).

And the worst of all to maintain anything for is Android, where an insane level of fragmentation collides with even more binary blobs, devices that are widespread in usage but haven't seen an upgrade for years if ever, shoddy (or none...) QA and preloaded crap from manufacturers and carriers.
Food availability is driven by weather as much as anything. The North American wheat harvest has been poor this year so the price of wheat is rising around the world.
What gives you so much confidence it was the vaccine? Correlation does not equal causation, as we all know around here.
> It seems inconceivable to me that they or their kids are just expected to die?

Basically, yes. Hospitals are required by law to treat anyone who presents themselves to the emergency room (thus the ER is the primary entry point for many people, regardless of symptom) but they get triaged to the bottom of the queue. Hospital insurance administrators can and do intervene in doctor decisions on care.

Medical debt in the US was already a crisis before the pandemic. It can push people out of their homes and pretty much destroy them. Even some with insurance make gofundme pleas to try to cover their medical bills.
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Interesting point. I read the original point as contesting the idea that insurers are going to have to eat a loss.

In the end I think both perspectives are insightful: insurers aren’t in the red for 2020, but they’re also profiting from COVID less than they “normally would”
My PC is 11 years old this year. I've been waiting to upgrade it for 2 years but held off because GPU prices are utterly ridiculous.

I don't know who can afford these inflated prices, I was hoping things would settle but it doesn't appear to be the case.
Facebook used facial recognition without consent 200k times, says SK watchdog