skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Especially not headers or footers

What drives me insane: website with floating header and footer, and I read, then hit space to scroll down to the next "page", but it doesn't take into account what's hidden behind header and/or footer, so now I'm missing two lines, and have to grab mouse/arrow keys to scroll back up two lines. It just works and then you put in extra work to make it not work thank you very much arghhhhhh
And none of that is what this discussion was ever about.

Conflating criticism with calls for government censorship is a dishonest rhetorical tactic.
I would call that a blessing in disguise. From my experience the alternative is indeed worse.

It’s much better that your pressure valve opens at a lower pressure and forces you to take some time to care for yourself. Rather than letting the pressure build until you break and then not much can be done but wait for the slow process of healing to rebuild you.
> I see what happened, and why the the judge made the decision, but how can a judge tell a business where they can be and how many they service

Essentially, A judge found that the UC Berkeley campus and the UC Board of Regents violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to consider relevant factors in their handling environmental impact statements regarding UC Berkeley expansion, and directed the Regents and campus to nullify their illegal actions and halt further expansion until such expansion was lawfully approved.

> if there's nothing illegal going on?

The “if there's nothing illegal going on” premise is directly contrary to the ruling. The campus and Regents actions regarding the required environmental impact reports related to the expansion were found to be illegal, that's the whole basis for the decision.
NCOSE is the renamed successor to the puritanical group "Morality in Media," which was literally founded by some Catholic priests to oppose everything from pornography to blasphemy in Monty Python films.

They don't give a shit about children or sex trafficking– it's all about eliminating availability of things that the Religious Right deemed verboten in the 1960s.
Ubuntu is only ~17 years old. Shuttleworth is ~48 years old.
The ethical concern is consent. The situation would be very different if they paid him as an 18 year old to use his baby picture but that's not what happened. Using naked children in commercial work is always on sketchy ground ethically.
All information is physical. The information you're reading right now could conceivably be stored in electron charge, or spin, or polarization on optical storage, etc. Information simply must have some physical form.

Accepting the destruction of any information means that none of the physical symmetries we observe actually hold up, like conservation of momentum and energy. That would change literally everything.
> During that episode I have came to conclusion that Bill Burr is who ~~Joe Rogan~~ people on the internet see~~s~~ themselves as~~himself~~. Eloquent, humorous, says-he's-stupid-but-he-is-actually-smart, able to step back and look at all the stupid stuff everyone does (including himself).

FTFY

Side note, on /r/Math the other day I saw a great joke.

People in real life: Ops, I'm bad at math. I need a calculator to calculate a tip.

People on the internet: Allow me to demonstrate to you why I'm bad at statistics but confident I'm right and all the scientists are wrong.
Seed-only clients that can't be self-hosted, I can understand, because what you care about is not the client but the infrastructure that the client runs on (network, etc).

What's the use-case of Wangpan? I assume it's not "I don't want to torrent illegal things on my home network" because such a service could rat me out just as well.
The downvote button is a tool for crowdsourcing the (very large) task of censorship.

Agree?
Nope, no return you just throw the perfectly good equipment in the bin. The hardware was still really good and perfectly usable, just intentionally bricked by Sonos. Ultimate waste.

A shame as I have lots of sonos equipment and otherwise I think they are great and their kit has good support and lasts a long time.
Well maybe I used it wrong. But it also seems to differ by state? The 1-2k/mo for two people was actually the quote I got through the NY exchange (which I think Healthcare.gov sent me to).

The CORBA cost was even higher.
_you_ might have food, yet
over 10% of american citizens do not (https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/the-united-...). the later two categories you mentioned are classified as public utilities by the federal government (water and electricity).

the vibrancy of the health care in the United States is not the issue. by all economic measures, the health care market is incredibly vibrant and profitable. there are numerous companies that exist in each state, and dozens of options to choose from nationally. the problem is that there is a market for medical supplies which the government does not strictly limit and control, and multiple perverse profit layers which should not exist. your health care provider is not incentivized to help you, only exploit as much cash out of healthy people as possible while ensuring their "losses" (paying for those who are ill) are minimized. under a free market health care system where the goal is profit, this will always be the case
It's because they kinda follow the same rules as finitely sized sets. Say you have two sets: A and B. A has five elements and B has seven. That means that for each element in A there is a unique corresponding element in B, but the reverse is not true: B has elements that do not map to elements in A. OK, now say A is the set of integers, and B is the set of points on the x-axis. Same deal applies, you can map every integer to a point on the x-axis and still have points on the x-axis that do not map to integers. So we've formalized infinite sets in a way that preserves our intuitive notion of what it means to have more or less of something, without having to count or measure the sets which would be bloody impossible! Yes, it's a game but so is all of math!

As for "almost all", in statistics we have this notion of "almost surely", which is formally defined as "with probability 1". It turns out that a probability of 1 doesn't guarantee that something will happen, because 1 less an infinitesimal is still 1! So roll a spherical die that yields a real number between 0 and 1; if you roll a 0, you lose. The probability that you will win is still 1, but you might still roll that goose egg! So we say that you will "almost surely" win at this game.

If you think of rational and real numbers in terms of our two sets with different cardinalities, not only is there a real number for every rational number (because the rationals are a subset of the reals), but you can map an infinite number of real numbers to each rational number! Take your pencil and put a dot on a random point on the x-axis; you might hit a point whose coordinate is a rational number, but your chances of doing so are infinitesimal! Therefore, in a formal probabilistic sense, you will "almost surely" choose a point with an irrational coordinate. Therefore, we say that "almost all" the real numbers are irrational.
I can't edit the original post, but here's the script if anyone's interested: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431384-switch-to-mobile-wi...

The one to rewrite all WP links on all pages is part of a larger script which I haven't cleaned up yet, but this already provides an automatic switch to mobile if you happen to load a desktop version of the page.
I was also an idle subscriber: I'd start listening to perhaps one in five episodes, with guests who interest me (think of people like Elon Musk or Jonathan Haidt). When Rogan left Apple podcasts/Stitcher, I stopped listening. Your statement echoes how I feel: "I only ever showed up for the guests. Generally also the case for many other podcasts, Lex Friedman, Tim Ferris, etc.... the value they bring is more the guests they attract and the space they create for the guest."
Likewise, it feels like new territory with wonderful hardware to try creating something you otherwise probably wouldn't.
> Why should I do that?

If you're writing a spell checker, for example.

> hypothetical example

Spell checkers, string search, sorting strings, etc., are all real programming tasks.

> the same character with different styles can have different semantics

Yes, I know that. Unicode exceeded its charter by adding invisible semantic content like that. For the simple reason that it cannot succeed at that task. The semantic meaning of text is imputed from the context, not the glyph.
I imagine they're trying to discourage people from getting deliberately infected to avoid a shot.
While lying to those creators, claiming that pornography* would still be allowed.

*just not the kind of pornography that any of those performers create
Is which object orbits which actually relative to a reference frame though? Does not seem like it should be.

The Sun has a certain mass, the Earth has a certain mass, the center of the point of orbit of both (barycenter? That seems to be the right term) is inside of the Sun no matter what frame you hang out in. What am I missing?
It's hard to listen to recently, he's suggesting working out and eating vitamins instead of a vaccine. He still has an influence on people and he's spreading misinformation.

Rogan is against wearing masks but demands all of his guests to be tested for COVID-19 before going on his show which is kind of contradictory.
The image has nothing to do with the success of the album, it's the music. They could have put a deflated football on the cover and it would have still been iconic.

Given the easy availability of newborn babies, I think $200 is fair.
> And while I agree that a lot of what saladino says doesn’t have enough evidence to be totally sure, what everyone always ignores is when saladino points out that there isn’t enough evidence to be sure of the lipid hypothesis of heart disease.

This is a common, but lazy, trope trotted out by people like Saladino. It's the same "It's just a theory" argument that climate change deniers use.

There is a lot of evidence showing that things like elevated LDL cholesterol has a cumulative (area under the curve) negative effect on heart health, and that saturated fat consumption is directionally negative for heart health. You'd be hard pressed to find an actual cardiologist or researcher who believes these things aren't true. So why do you choose to believe a known salesman with a conflict of interest in promoting his expensive supplements and books on the topic?

You seem to be assuming a specific conclusion is true and cherry-picking the single person who wants to sell that conclusion to you. There are plenty of citations to the contrary, many of which are in the article linked above.
Because you happen to be using the good old Apple's MacBook. I mean a 2011 MacBook Air could still be sold for $120 2nd hand.

2016 Macbook has the worst reselling price out of all MacBook History. I think this tells a bit.
Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents
This has been my experience. I have simply learned to look for emotional fulfillment and creative output elsewhere in my life and am far happier for it. I find I’m actually a lot better at my job when I have some distance from it. It allows me to connect with people — even at work — on a human level because I don’t particularly care about my actual work and basically forget about it as soon as I stand up from my desk.
Managing our expectations from the get go.
Thank you! That's really nice to hear. (Appreciate the support too.)
So basically you're saying "they lied but it's OK because it was a well-intentioned lie".

That's what's making people lose trust in institutions.
I'm not knocking them, but if what you say is the case it would appear orthogonal to their career choice and so complaining that your college was expensive and you can't get a job is incoherent.
If it's that simple why is burnout so topical now at month 17 of covid19?

I think it's actually: your boundaries needed to significantly change during the pandemic, and you didn't recognize that in time.

If covid19 had been eradicated in 6-9 months and we were globally back to normal, would burnout still be as much of a problem? I suspect it would not be.
I'm not sure the article's method of measuring influence is valid.

- It assumes Twitter use is constant and its not losing users (I've deactivated my account, even though I hardly used it).

- It assumes Twitter hasn't improved bot detection since before

- It assumes that the issue is with Rogan rather than the guest (maybe it could be argued that Rogan is getting 'uninteresting' guests because of a waning influence)
Graphs for attack suface modelling are great.
I've had a persistent desire for a knowledge management protocol/service that goes beyond the scope of all the software and strategies discussed on HN regularly. I firmly believe that the needs and barriers are pretty universal between people (not personal preference or individual at all) and that in a way, we are rate-limited without it, bound to arrive at solutions only for them to be lost again. I have a dense page in my Zettelkasten dedicated to the idea, but in summarizing it's meant to provide an interoperable framework that accepts different forms of media (not just text, though it would be central) and facilitates various kinds of analysis and thought, e.g. detecting similarities, duplication, extrapolating etc. I'd imagine a specialized form of distributed version control would be needed, and various platforms and tools to solve the capture and retrieval dilemma, and in particular the problem of persistence and link rot. To be sure all I have is a list of problems and some possible clues for solving, but the most hopeful of those is a distributed service that is widely used but very open. It could consist of some commercialized tools or engines, but the underlying protocol must be open for anyone to use.

If the idea I have took off it would take the information age to new heights, with the next phase being ubiquitous use of brain-computer interfaces.

Imagine how productive we would all be if we never forgot. All ideas, perhaps even a collection representing all of humankind, transcribed to a format that respects our time, and aids further thought.

We can reach in and take the ideas that work from other systems, such as Zettelkasten, Nogutchi Filing System, The Web and any of it's parts (markup, protocols), the study of sciences, humanities etc.
Oh I'm sure if Lady Gaga did it once, it would be chaos. I still recall living thru the era of https://blog.heritagepartscentre.com/blog/2016/03/15/remembe...
No.

Read the next sentence in the paper.
Similar thread: "Ask HN: How to cope with the death of a dear person?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27323430 (263 points | 88 days ago | 95 comments) . I hope one of the comments there helps you. In particular look at the quote posted by ColinWright https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324197
The Unknown Messenger
I would go one step further and say only give us security updates and bug fixes full stop.

Every update I’m less satisfied with my OS. I just want it to run other things and stay the hell out of my way.
Secrets management is a problem that was encountered often enough on an ad hoc basis that common approaches became products over time. Dealing with it is inevitable given a certain company size, application complexity and regulatory overhead.

A promising trend is secrets automation moving downmarket. 1Password, for example, has a very accessible secrets product that connects to the same place small teams of non-developers can use to store credit card numbers and analytics passwords. I would expect very good, effectively free solutions to exist within the next several years.
I've had 5 shots so far (pfizerx2, AZx3) because of exactly this. Natural immunity (which I already have) doesn't confer complete protection, but in combination with the vaccines I believe I'm fully protected.
> Like--oh, woe is me, I only made a few multiples of the median personal income in the USA last year.

This isn't helpful. I thought HN would understand more than most, but a lot don't seem to.

It's more like--great I make a ton of money. now that you're here, try to keep it going.

Taking a pay cut (which would be significant my comp is ~FAANG level), feels like gambling. Is it worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamble that my new lower paying job is less stressful?

There are some success stories, but do we hear of people who left their high paying jobs only to be just as stressed in their new positions?
I don't mind this as much. At least they are talking about things that they are knowledgeable about. What I don't like is when people are overly confident about their YouTube degree. The armchair experts that need to prove how smart they are, even if you're an expert in the field they're talking about. It is excruciatingly painful.
It's totally artificial limitations, solely for buying the Sailfish X license. Likely due to support obligations and/or due to software patent situation outside of EU.

In practice you just need to buy the license from a EU IP (so via VPN, europen VPS, etc.) and then you are good to go from anywhere in the world. This can be seen on these global stats for the Sailfish OS community software repository:

https://openrepos.net/statistics/global

Lots of traffic from outside the EU. Also I took my Sailfish OS device for a trip across Japan twice, and everything worked fine for me as well. :)

So in general I recommend getting a EU based VPN and then buying the Sailfish X license for the device of your choice (I would personally recommend xperia 10 II). If you succeed, then I would get the device, just in case. :)
I don't charge for my time, I charge for value created which is always more.

A poor salesman charges for his time.

Time does not take into account experience, knowledge or efficiency.
I see. What podcasts do you follow?
I am glad someone is going for the older set (selfishly since I'm in the older set), but it has been a concern of mine as students get attracted to the technology fields. I work at a TCU (Tribal Colleges and Universities) and most of our students start later than average and graduate much later. Age discrimination is problematic to populations that receive their degree when they are already in their thirties. Tech's love of 20 year olds is a real problem.
I was cringing during his discussion with Rogan because of this.

It’s a common pitfall for a certain type of nerd to think that expertise in one area allows them to make claims in completely unrelated fields.

That and he didn’t challenge Rogan’s mostly unfounded claims about the COVID vaccine among other things. I understand that it must be difficult I do so as a guest, but for someone who fancies himself “rational” it was disappointing to say the least.
Good.

Sorry, Joe, but that was a bad move. Let me know when you start podcasting again.

The turf war over the commercialization of podcasting reminds me of the Internet - designed to be free and open, destined to be walled off from free use and exploited to death.
Sorry I’m not quite sure I follow. You’re saying antibodies are the “quick and easy” way to measure whether a person’s body is (correctly) reacting to the vaccine. So when someone has antibodies soon after vaccination it’s a sign it’s worked, but the antibodies dissipating isn’t necessarily a sign a person no longer has immunity? But since testing for antibodies is the only feasible test available to measure immune response in response to the vaccine it’s become conflated with actual immunity?

So someone could (in theory) get the vaccine, have tons of antibodies 6 weeks later, then have greatly reduced antibodies and it doesn’t tell us anything about whether or how much immunity that person will have if they’re infected?
Ancient DNA from a teen girl reveals previously unknown group of humans
Why not a plastic book, more chance of surviving.
An Army of Grain-Harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia
Ah, I'm not worried about explaining any gap in my resume: I'm having trouble putting on my interview face.

Career goals do have to be lofty during interviews, just like the company you are applying with has to be destined for certain and boundless success, and the interviewer wise, profound and physically attractive. :)

Seriously though, job interviews are inherently processes of competitive elimination. A lack of enthusiasm, or of clear professional goals that involve the role involved, are significant red flags.

I'm at a loss as to how to overcome this: I've had too much difficulty to truly believe that work environments can be healthy, or how to hide this from interviewers.
Take a look at Pfizer's R&P charts from the last handful of years. It's hardly made a dent over all. I'm tired of this right wing nonsense on this site that is one step away from claiming these companies want to keep the pandemic going for as long as they can. It's complete FUD. It's one dog whistle after another.

Go take a look at their stock price chart. I'll wait. They're just now recovering from the 2009 crash and that's in today's inflated dollars.

We have too many people who are quick to jump to comment on headlines but who can't look into earnings and revenue reports and see how a company is really performing. EBITDA? Why on earth are you on a forum that specializes in startups and venture funding with this little due diligence?

I'm glad the other comment got flagged but this is just a nonsensical dog and pony show for right wingers who are playing coy, grasping at headlines and asking rhetorical "Gee they wouldn't profit off if it would they, fellas?" trying to whistle their way. Despicable, really.
> In the few short days most infected people need to marshal immune responses and purge the pathogen, the coronavirus has barely enough time to tweak its genome once, if at all. “The virus that comes out is going to be basically identical to the virus that goes in,” Goldstein told me. And any variants that do arise have little chance to accumulate in high enough numbers to matter.

This an egregious misrepresentation of the findings in the cited paper [1]. Here is the line the author was likely referencing:

> Therefore, if we track a single lineage of virions from the time they started replicating in the body until the end of the infection, this lineage would accumulate in the range of 0.1 to 1 mutations on average across its entire genome

The OP completely misses the forest for the trees, so to speak:

> Because the SARS-CoV-2 genome is 30,000 nucleotides long, the 105 to 108 mutations across all of the virions produced over the course of a single infection probably cover every possible single nucleotide substitution (Fig. 3A). They even cover a significant fraction of the possible pairs of single nucleotide substitutions.

> the estimated number of mutations generated daily (105 to 106 mutations per day) likely exceeds the total number of possible single nucleotide substitutions to the SARS-CoV-2 genome (≈105 substitutions) assuming 0.3 million to 3 million new cases a day worldwide. As such, our estimates imply that every single base mutation is being generated de novo and transmitted to a new SARS-CoV-2 host, somewhere in the world, every day. [1]

It's great that these articles cite sources for their claims, but keep in mind that the authors are not necessarily experts (or even remotely qualified) in the subject matter. They are liable to misinterpret and misrepresent the scientific literature they use to support their narrative.

[1] The total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2024815118#F3