skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ivermectin is now well-known as a prophylactic against COVID-19 and its variants if administered in appropriate dosages.

Please share some reliable source corroborating your statement.
The environmental risk is from unexposed silver halide that you rinse off the film in the fixing step. The developer isn't really the harmful chemical; though do read the MSDS for the developer you use and follow its instructions. (I wouldn't want to absorb it through my skin, breathe too much of the vapor, drink it, etc. True of the chemicals I use to clean my bathroom, too. Risk can be mitigated through proper safety measures!)

People reuse fixer, or at least I do, but there is a point where it's exhausted and needs to be discarded. My understanding is that the environmental risk from hobbyist developing is exceedingly low and dispose of it accordingly. If I were deeply concerned, I'd just let the liquid evaporate and store the solids in a plastic bag in a drawer. (That seems to be the NileRed approach to metal waste. When you're tired of the bag, you pay for professional service to take it away.)
I don’t understand what you mean by criticizing it for not being officially supported.
Don't really agree with this. It like saying "why did you use a phone to do that math when a simple calculator or even pen and paper would work"

Sure it would work, but the phone also works and does way more. You might be able to use some trivial processing on duck hunt but it won't work on anything slightly more complex so why would you bother learning a method that only works on the most basic of games when you can develop something that can be applied everywhere.
> Shadowbanning is an essential tool for moderation

Does it really work? A lot of people have no trouble working out that it has happened to them. The theory is that a troublemaker won't realise they've been banned, and so will continue sending their trouble into the void instead of coming back as a new account to cause more trouble that everyone else can see. In practice, it doesn't take long for the troublemaker to work out what is going on, so this only slows them down slightly at best. For some major sites, people have even created shadowban detection tools, so even troublemakers who are too clueless to work it out for themselves can discover it.

This site only really has half-shadowbanning. A lot of people have showdead on, read the dead comments too, and vouch for interesting/constructive ones. Maybe that works for this site; but even if that is true, it doesn't really tell us how well a pure shadowban implementation, without showdead, works. Very few sites with shadowbanning have an equivalent to showdead.
If you are a current Visual Studio subscriber with access to Windows downloads, chk builds are available on https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads/Featured like regular builds. Search for "checked".

I don't recommend chk builds for routine use by anyone outside the Windows teams because even if the regular Windows release still receives updates, the chk build typically doesn't. CDN disk space isn't cheap, and neither is CPU time on the build or test machines.
shhhh, you'll ruin the virtualness of it
So what is the public policy value of this study? We all should try to get Covid to get immunity to Covid? This is nonsense.

This other study add some value:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

It says that if you already got covid, the possibility of reinfection is 2.4 times lower if you also get the vaccine than if you don't get it. Now I guess that you multiply that natural immunity from 13x to 31x. Isn't cool?
Ford’s debt is misleading. A lot of it is due to their customer financing operations, if I recall correctly.
Imagine thinking we should, literally, police engineering techniques.

If you build a bridge then you are expected to use techniques and systems that provide at least some degree of planned safety for the users of that bridge. It is virtually impossible to write a C++ program of any meaningful complexity that processes untrusted data in an unsandboxed environment that does not expose the owner of the device running that program to harm. To say otherwise is to ignore decades of observation.

Every single person who starts writing a new application in a memory-unsafe language that will deal with untrusted inputs is declaring up front that they are willing to tolerate the inevitable vulnerabilities and exploits caused by that decision.

I think it is very important that our industry develops a path to getting all such programs off of unsafe languages, since it is very clear that techniques like testing, fuzzing, and audits are not sufficient to actually produce safe programs.
Auto mechanic is like electrics/electronics/computer repair, but most computer mechanical parts have been integrated into single boards, and electronic repair is not less cost effective than replacement and salvage.
The summary is the lock downs resulted in +4,155 excess deaths under 65 for 2020?

Thats pretty damning for the government and a confirmation of what anti-lock down protesters have been saying since last year.

If they let under 65s free while sheltering the vulnerable and keeping mask and distance protocol would there be 4x the covid deaths, probably not.

And we could have avoided the ~$400+ billion dollar deficit.
Original source without lots of ads: https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/new-study-examines-achilles-heel...
It is private conversation because it is not meant to be made public by its users. Not because Facebook isn't "common carrier".

Piece of paper isn't common carrier. If I write a note to my wife and give it myself it is private because I wanted and expected it private. If I taped it to a billboard it means I no longer expect it private and it is public.
well they don't call it a steaming pile of shit for nothin!
As long as it isn't the goatse guy, it's all ok :D

This thread brought memories...
> In 2021 people spent developer hours testing NetBSD 9.2 on the NeXT cube...like what the www started on before the USSR fell.

Yes; isn't it fantastic? Someone has to laugh in the face of obsolescence, planned or otherwise:)

> Anyway I guess everybody needs their hobbies...

They do; why did you pick being dismissive of others as yours?
I wonder if it would be better to start with a new codebase at this point.

~20 years of code, fixes, workarounds, and with a lot of outdated methodologies[0]. I'd love for there to be a competitor to something like Eve or Elite Dangerous in the free software space, and VS is the closest thing I know of. but I don't know that it's worth trying to figure out the cobwebs.

[0] I'm not a SWE, so I may be completely wrong. This is from my limited perspective only.
I'm scared to even think about the NAS in my attic. It's running firmware based on a long dead version of Debian. I have no idea how long it's been running without a reboot but I'm guessing 2+ years.
Have you really trimmed all the expenses you can out of your current situation?

Other than money, what are the good and bad parts of your current situation? What parts of the city bring you joy, and pleasant surprises from time to time? What really makes you sad or angry?

Money is a tool, the tool shouldn't drive your decisions, it's what you can/can't do with the tools that really matter.
I use company with lsp. Perhaps it's dependant on language (server)? I was hacking some Go at the time.
You’re comparing mortality rates with lockdowns and determining that we’d be better off without lockdowns. But your benchmark then needs to be covid19 mortality without lockdowns and with potential healthcare collapse.
The Emacs user community is absolutely fantastic. Lisp is an amazing language to work in, and Emacs gives it to you for free. VSCode is an excellent piece of software, but you have to jump through hoops to extend it. I can extend Emacs by switching to my scratch buffer and hacking until I get what I want inside of 15 minutes in most cases. And then I drop it in an .el file and go from there.

And org-mode is absolutely fantastic when it's integrated into the editor you're writing your code in.
True but you're not supposed to say this out loud because reasons
It also doesn’t offer smooth scrolling on macOS except in a third party port.
It's important to remember that this is what the mortality looks like after all the measures that were put in place to protect against covid. I.e. after repeated reasonably strict lock-downs, masks, travel restrictions, and so on and so forth. The increase in alcohol and drug deaths shouldn't be compared to the number of covid deaths that did occur to judge those measures, but to the number of covid deaths that didn't.
100% did not work during the election. I was able to convince my siblings to leave Messenger (where we had our “sibling” chat) because if it. Censoring public FB posts is one thing, but I don’t need zuck telling me what I can say in a private conversation. That’s too far.
I’m not complaining about the censorship - I’m complaining about the UI pretending to have sent the message.
This partly exists. But could of course be much simpler to use:

1) some banks/fintech offer virtual cards. For example, whenever I need to pay with credit card at a site that seems to be using some homegrown system I create a new virtual card in transferwise and destroy it right after.

2) I've seen banks offer virtual cards with CVC codes that change every 24h hours.
This isnt anymore even about freedom of speech but about a product constantly and intently manipulating and deceiving its users. It must be pretty shitty people working there, who relish in playing games with humans as if they're monkeys. Even their automated systems sound like total crap. I have a game on facebook for a decade, where users sometimes try to send some link to their friend through messenger. FB blocks it every few weeks and users have to beg them to unblock it every time. What a terrible company to invest in
> If inferior programming languages are being picked continuously by “the business”, we’d expect that businesses that pick “superior” programming languages to out compete the other businesses.

That assumes that the software business is efficient in the market sense, which my experience suggests is very much not true. On the contrary, I've found that success hinges primarily on the ability to find and execute good business deals (which is the work of executive team and/or sales&marketing). Software side has so much slack in it that it can (and often does) do extremely bad job at making the actual thing and still succeed.

> I have never seen a non-programmer executive demand a “bad” language be used for a startup.

I've worked for one many years ago. I was actually promised the free reign over technology stack for a project, until the CEO decided to override me and order me to use a very particular and shitty combination of technologies. He was very up-front with me about his reasoning: he said, "yeah, I could let you write this in something more reasonable, say Ruby or Python, but programmers for those languages are expensive, PHP programmers are much cheaper, and I'm going to be hiring more people to help you".

(I run the project solo for the next year, because he eventually decided not to hire anyone.)

> picking the boring language that lets the business focus on its core domain is better than picking something that excites the most vocal engineers.

Be careful not to mix up topics here. What usually "excites the most vocal engineers" these days is the things they can use to pad their CVs. This usually goes against what the management wants, which is whatever stack they've read about on HBR or whatever one is cheapest to hire people for. Neither of those tend to have anything to do with powerful and advanced tooling.
Decided I’d try it out today. Drove into the service area, parked, and summoned a Waymo for a trip to the Chandler Mall. A short 10 minute wait until the vehicle arrived, fully autonomous. For the 4.4 mile drive I could have completed in 11 minutes, I was charged $11.30. Immediately, the Waymo failed to properly merge and replanned its route through a quiet neighborhood. It avoided the fastest route, the freeway, instead opting for surface streets. It ultimately arrived after 5.4 miles and 16 minutes. Overall, the braking at stoplights was better than I do, but it drives extremely cautiously, staying behind a bus for a good quarter mile, where a human driver would have passed.

On the return trip, I compared pricing to Lyft and Uber. $9.75 for Waymo, while Uber attempted to extort me for $18.25, and Lyft offered a ride for $8.99 with a 3min wait, or $7.99 with a 10min wait. Again, Waymo avoided the freeway, snaking through residential areas instead.

If my Tesla Full-self driving (tried the subscription - I’d recommend against wasting money on even a single month of the subscription at this point) drove like this Waymo, and I could avoid liability for being intoxicated, I’d gladly fork over the $10k Musk is very proudly asking for his offering. I’m skeptical Tesla’s going to achieve Waymo levels in the next 5 years, or ever, without an improvement to the sensors.

The Waymo experience was much better than I expected, however, the car only fits 3 adults! There’s a child seat occupying one full seat, plus the middle in the rear seat. Both front seats were unavailable.

If I were offered an electric car with Waymo for $25k more than a Tesla, I’d gladly pay. It was impressive.
Nah, it takes a lot of attention to keep $10 million under control. Unless you want to risk running out suddenly.

Having $10 mil in a bank account somewhere is pointless. No matter what philosophy you want to apply choices must be made. Investment, consumption or hedonism. The money will quickly vanish (decade or two) if the balance is wrong or the millionaire goes all-in on indexing at the peak of some bubble.
Let’s go ahead and caption this comment “On The Cusp of a Revelation (2021)”
>I work on ZenDesk all day every day

>I'd only say that about maybe one other thing, GitHub

Curious: what's your job function that has you both "working on ZenDesk all day" and also using GitHub?

Are you using the Jira integration to track tickets/bugs?
I think you bring up some good points, but it's factually incorrect to state that mongodb is not ACID compliant (it has been since its 4.0 release). The way to win is not by hyperbole and lies. It's to your point by focusing on developer experience.
You can borrow cash from a bank.
Serious question: What's the difference, for your definition of "private communication", between a FB Messenger message and Reddit DM?

I can't think of any reason one would be considered private and the other not.
> You're putting the onus on new users to modify Emacs into a more beginner-friendly, standards-friendly editor? Their response would be: thanks, but I'll go try out Eclipse instead.

Emacs has grown quite a bit since Eclipse's first release.

So yes, definitely let them try out Eclipse or VS Code instead. It won't hurt Emacs. See my other comment[1].

I've said it in the past, but there's a strange obsession HN folks have with comparing Emacs to VSCode or IDEs. SW development is merely one use case for Emacs. If you look at the last emacsconf, the majority of talks had nothing to do with SW development. Quite a few of the presenters, if not most, are not professional SW developers. Some of Emacs's most popular packages were created by non-programmers. Emacs will continue to grow even as fewer and fewer SW developers use Emacs for professional development.

> It's that emacs is losing userbase at a tremendous clip

Is there any evidence they are losing users? Why do people keep thinking this? As an Emacs user, I see a lot more Emacs packages being published than in the past.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342477
I think there is similarity. Lisp can take its own AST, and modify it with its own fully-capable code. In this sense Rust's proc-macros can too. The difference is that Lisp has bare-bones syntax, so the AST manipulation doesn't get tedious. But Rust's proc macros using the quote crate look kinda Lisp-y.

And just like LOOP in Common Lisp, you can totally make Rust macros that are a new language inside a language, and are too clever for their own good ;)
It says you're able to manage your cash flow well enough that you were never tempted to prioritize something else over the repayment, for months, probably years at a time.

IMO that says a lot about your willingness to pay off future debt.
The script does accept input from a pipe, just as Awk does. Specifying a delimiter seems like it should be doable.

To answer your question, I mainly use this for counting lines of code:

cloc --by-file --csv src/ | awk -F, '/^C/{print$5,$2}' | barchart | less

(The above pipeline counts the lines of C code in files in the src directory.)

EDIT: Actually, the script can pretty easily support alternative delimiters. Let's say you wanted "," as a delimiter. Instead of writing:

barchart data

Just write:

sed 's/,/ /' data | barchart

(This sed invocation will only replace the first comma, so it won't mess with your labels.)
Not really -usenet of old had stalkers and harassers; that's how the killfile was invented.

That is a very, very good analogy, however.

The internet of old had a wider variety of establishments that you could go to. If you wanted a rough-and-tumble dive bar experience it was there. If you wanted a polished experience it was there too.

The effect facebook and other social media has had on the internet is the same effect that walmart had on small mom and pop stores -you can still find one here and there but no, not really.

Incidentally, for all of the censorship and increased barriers to entry (for creating forums) your drooling meth head still presents a danger in the form of doxxing, inciting riots (Jan 6th, any one?) and harassing people.
Seems like a bad one. New concepts are given new names, or borrowed names, when they’re introduced. The first guy to come up with zero didn’t speak a language with a word for zero at the time.
Hundreds of bars and restaurants are packed literally everyday all over NYC with unmasked patrons and that's been happening for months now. And while kid are mostly unvaccinated, they don't tend to be in restaurants much these days. Among adults, something like 80% are now vaccinated in NYC (71-86% depending on borough).

Combine that with the fact that Delta makes up almost every case of COVID in NY now, it's hard to see who is even left for the virus to infect.
I'm not speaking about a particular comment and responded to your generic assertion, "I'm amazed at the quality of posts in HN". But okay, I'll answer to your question.

>> git is a form of blockchain.

> Does this look like a valid argument?

It looks like a claim you don't agree with. I don't agree with it neither but I can see where the OP is coming from and I see no bad intent. I found their comment very reasonable and well-balanced even if I disagree. You seem to see it as an attack against Bitcoin, and you seem to be the one who is involved emotionally into this topic. By the way, notice how we were speaking about blockchains in general and not Bitcoin, you introduced Bitcoin (though I agree that Bitcoin is the elephant in the room when speaking about blockchains).

> I also don't see a great reason against its energy use

I intentionally and specifically did not enter this discussion by not giving any argument. This is boring, there are a lot of detailed discussions about this here on HN already.
Last 2 companies I worked at, we used zendesk for support tickets, and the support folks were pretty happy with it. However pricing is definitely an issue - at both these companies us engineers did not have individual zendesk accounts as it was deemed too expensive. So we couldn't check the ticket ourselves for details. Jira-zendesk integration mitigated this to some extent though.
I'm curious what actually causes these effects. The counter rolls over --- so what? The maths still works fine over a wraparound modulo 2^32, and the tick counter is definitely treated as unsigned by the relevant code, or the symptoms would've appeared in half the time at 2^31. Unless there were some misguided/overly-paranoid attempts at overflow checking?

As someone who has written Win3.x/9x drivers for much newer hardware just to see if it could be done, I'd love to read an in-depth analysis of this bug, like https://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-mac... --- if I had more time I might get around to doing it myself, and ultimately coming up with a patch to fix it.
I initially disagreed with your viewpoint and after reading your response you've actually changed my mind.

My only real gripe is I would prefer it came from the IEEE or something and not really from some government agency; or worse -> oracle or someone trying to get everyone to use java/their stuff.
Every platform that tries "we're 100% free speech no censorship or moderation" winds up learning the same lesson which is that their problem isn't with moderation it's that you don't like the kind of moderation decisions that are being made. Parler ran this gauntlet on fast forward [0], Gettr did it too [1], places that have tried holding on to the free speech absolutist position eventually burn to the ground in one way or another like the various children of 4chan.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parle...

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210825/17204647438/trump...
We had a chance to work through some of the lessons. Overall very solid foundation I would say. My son's critique was that it was a little confusing when it came to answer format and that he felt the lessons kind of jumped around. Other than that he found it 'OK'. He's 10 so that means you didn't mess up too bad. lol.

We did have a few issues.

1. The hint on the equation simplification section describes the format of the simplified equation as 6 x l. (actual number varies 2 x l x 3) But the only answer that is accepted is in the format is 6l, sans the 'x'.

2. I found the hints' font coloring very hard to read on my old eyes. Also, we did not find out the desired input methods until fairly far along. The SHIFT-8 etc was new to my son and kind of obscure given how soft the font was. Maybe a heads up of the conventions at the beginning?

3. In the word questions section, sometimes the amount being compared to determine the total amount of cages vs squirrels was the exact same. Actual examples -> 2 cages and 2 squirrels vs 2 cages and 2 squirrels. I assuming the desired question would have compared 2 cages and 3 squirrels vs 3 cages and 2 squirrels. (Although that doesn't make sense either.)

4. The spoken word button is a great idea, but the voice is almost incomprehensible to a 10 year old. I know you didn't create the voice, but if there is another easier to understand voice that would help.

5. My son was initially confused by going some distance in a negative amount as a representation for reverse.

6. My son is very competitive and he enjoyed the speed challenge, but there was no reward or signification of accomplishment at the end of the challenge. He wanted to know how well he did.

6. There are some minor grammar errors.

My impression was that the layout and design was on par with other online offerings that we use daily. I actually liked the lower distraction level. The site and UX were predictable, easy to use and did not add to the stress level of the student. I'll have him do some more over the next few days. Keep up the good work!
There are a few Privateer fan remakes based on this engine. Too rough for my taste but still better flight controls than the original. Here's hoping they can polish this game
Related: http://ripoffornot.org/
That resolves an ambiguity; it's not particularly charitable to call it a 'correction' though, IMO.

Also, I know it's not standard, but this almost wants a '(July)' (or even April?) in the title. Not to mention that it's not the original title.. but then, much like a tweet, the submitter's just trying to call out the relevant/intended part of a much broader page.