skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main technique from my engineering undergrad days was extremely effective and yet very simple and easy to describe and/or implement. It is:

1. Attend the lectures and take good notes. Don't write things down that are obvious or that you already know.

2. Before any exam, go back over the dozens of pages of notes and condense them down to 3 or 4 pages, omitting details that will be brought to mind by the things you are writing down.

3. Go back over the 3 to 4 pages, condensing them down to a single page, compactly written.

4. Go back over the single page, condensing it down to a single notecard.

The act of condensing requires you to internalize the knowledge enough to know what you have memorized and what you must still note down. And the act of repeatedly writing down the hard parts commits those to memory too.

By the end, the notecard has a handful of difficult to remember formulas and a bunch of keywords that prompt your memory to recall the salient details. In the US at that time, a single notecard was often allowed during exams, so the final work product was also that card.

(My recall 20 years later is excellent, so this is not cramming.)
Whenever this idea is mentioned, I cannot resist posting this project: https://github.com/jasonelle/jasonelle
Between this, and a few other examples below, I can't help but notice a not-so-great trend among Chinese tech brands:

1. OnePlus: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/hds41u/oneplus_has...

2. Xiaomi: https://www.androidauthority.com/remove-ads-xiaomi-miui-1019...

3. Huawei: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/06/14/huawei-apparently-d...
Bundling Emails with Script.google.com
Religious zealotry divides families.
Fair point, but two wrongs dont make a right.
Do not expect these people to understand. Make it impossible for them to act instead. Your average marketing person pushing more and more intrusive ads has the technological prowess of a 3rd grader. They cannot do their malicious business without support from programmers that actually understand the technology they abuse.
I’ve heard they can be a bit stinky
If they are generating even the slightest bit of revenue, you'll likely find a buyer and will probably be surprised at the multiples people are paying.
My first laptop was a Toshiba Satellite in 2003 and it was crawling with bloatware, e.g Norton/Mcafee Antivirus popups.

If you want to go bloat-free, buy from the business product lines, not the consumer ones.

Although with the always-online Windows 11, it might be time to dump Windows altogether.
I find it interesting that write realistic near-future sci-fi with social commentary — the kind we had so much of during the 1960s and 1970s, with John Brunner, Philip K. Dick, Thomas Disch, and so on — is so rare these days. Off the top of my head, I can't think of many: Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Omar El Akkad, any others?

I recently read an NPR article [1] about the best sci-fi and fantasy of the past decade. With one exception (El Akkad's American War), it's pretty much all space opera or similar. I guess Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven isn't, but I haven't read it.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science...
Isn't that marketing?
It seems like a lot of trouble to run Javascript on the server. I still do not understand, why?

Deno is a huge step up from the enormous clusterfuck that is node.js with its broken design. But why use Javascript on the server? What is the point? Why use it as a general purpose programming language when it is so unsuited?

That is the thing I have never understood.

I use node.js extensively in scripting tests with Appium, I chose Node.js because (a) it seemed the the system the Appium people supported the best and (b) I needed to deal with my prejudice and actually use this system I was so dismissive of.

I am horrified that anybody would think, at this point in the history of computer languages, that Javascript is a suitable system for application development. I like the syntax, but the rest of it is, in the context of the competition, complete crap.

It has got to the point that people are writing financial software, that has the capacity to utterly ruin the user in a very real sense, in Javascript.

Just do not do it!! There are any number of better systems!!!
I just got a brand new precision (XPS but with a Quadro card) and it’s unusable. Trackpad straight up broken, maybe due to battery swelling. Had to update firmware to get the headphone jack to function. Camera has strange flickers. Cleary I got a lemon but that’s terrible quality control.

We used XPS 13s as lab computers at a previous job and they would just stop powering on eventually. Sometimes removing and reinserting the battery would bring them back, usually not.
No, the Chinese aren't going that far yet.
I think you might be overestimating the success rate of drug discovery and underestimating the complexity of the situation. Starting from 10,000 compounds chosen on the basis of reasonable mechanistic or chemical arguments, one or two working drugs are typically discovered.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Drug-discovery-and-devel...
> So I intend to live as a human being, not some database record

You are already a database record, so are you not currently living as a human being? Do my medical records prevent me from living as a human being? I have so many questions.
> they don't believe it posed any additional health risks

> So likely nothing to worry about at scale

> About 500,000 people have received shots from the three suspended Moderna batches

Why are you so confidently advocating for a "safe until proven unsafe" mentality here? The health impacts from this contamination are completely unknown, and could impact a lot of people, and their children, etc.

EDIT: down vote all you want, armchair reasoning does not prove that this contamination is safe - cite some relevant scientific literature to support your claims
What exactly this audit certifies? That the software has no bugs? But I don't think this is possible, even theoretically.
Classic bait-and-switch.
Instead of focusing like that, think about crossing your eyes but keep them in place. It is like changing the depth of focus, but different.
the fact is, no vaccines against coronaviruses exist.
no one.
all and every trial vaccine resulted in death of the vaccinated animals.
not immediately, but after a while.
it was the ADE.
do you still want a try?
> Understanding is beyond GPT-3’s reach because understanding cannot occur in an isolated computation or behavior, no matter how clever.

Ah, right, it won't work because it doesn't have a soul. Got it.
The US does have runaway inflation of financial assets, due to the policies of the Fed. Housing and stock prices have been growing at a ridiculous rate for years. The country hasn't tripled its entire productivity in the past decade, but the stock market has been acting like it.
I've always wanted to make one of those giant 10-foot slide rules that hung in our science classrooms when I was in high school.

Now that I own considerable acreage, with this I no longer have to limit myself to 10 feet. Heck, I can probably go for 4 or 5 significant digits if I can find the right lumber.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 I live in the US so some code stuff may be different but have found this book to be super helpful while working on my own house.
I still buy ThinkPads and run Linux on them.
Banks have given interest rates lower than inflation for as long as I can remember. If negative real interest rates are natural, then it is weird people are so alarmed by nominal interest rates being negative as well
> I'm the only person I know that had an adverse reaction to my 2nd dose (Moderna)

I don't _personally_ know anyone who died from COVID. Yet people are clearly dying from it. They are also sometimes getting adverse reactions to vaccines, up to and including death. Personal anecdotes are not data, however, and it's annoying and alarming that COVID deaths are inflated (got run over by a bus, but had COVID that only shows up at 40 PCR cycles? you died "with covid"), whereas vaccine adverse effects are carefully swept under the rug. It is also extremely counterproductive if the goal is to persuade people to get vaccinated, and it demolishes what little trust in the authorities people still had.

I wish responsible adults, and not political operatives (or former / future Big Pharma corporate board members), ran our health authorities such as the FDA and the CDC.

PS: I'm vaccinated, obviously, since I'm not an idiot.
Money Stuff: Putting the Meme Stocks in the Index
> Banks are required to have a certain amount of capital in reserve to make loans

Not if these loans are secured then they can make as much money as they want from thin air.

> Deposits from consumers give the banks the reserve capital they need to make those loans.

No. At least in the US, they just need to secure the loan with an asset that can be held from the dealers. Most of the time, if you got your mortgage from a bank, they'll just liquidate for real cash.

> Without a way to use the deposits to make money the banks would just as soon not have your money.

Which is why, in this new system, banks have become hostile to customers. Banks are no longer in the business of helping customers but trading money market funds.
> When they release an AMD motherboard I'm definitely going to order one.

Aaaaand you have just validated the GP's point. :)

I love the concept and will check them out when I'll need a new laptop. But I am definitely a "fickle unique snowflake" kind of a customer.
I think that, in this case, "without the bloat" is not a very meaningful ask.

Most of the size of the app bundle is the image for the virtual machine it uses to host Docker. By comparison, the GUI bits are quite small.
Hopefully, informed people. Unfortunately I don't have a definite answer to your question but that does not make "the market" a valid one (maybe it is, though I don't think so because I don't trust people for making decision virtuous for the community through individual ones, there needs to be something more clever and functional).
Nvidia already bought the greatest company, Mellanox, & thus should not be allowed to by ARM too. ;)

BlueField is super interesting, mixing very wide data processing with gobs and gobs of high speed I/O.

I'm also just aghast that we let Nvidia by basically the online Infiniband company out there. What are we going to do for high speed RDMA interconnects now? There still feels like nothing even close to infiniband out there.

(The BlueField-1 DPU processor was announced by Mellanox in June 2016.)
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There could be something immutable that boots the BIOS that also checks for things to flash the BIOS with.
It's the hacker mindset -- and this is hackernews after all. Isn't this kind of like walking into a wood shop and saying, "you know you guys can just buy this stuff at Ikea, right?".
> you shouldn’t hold cash

I don’t think they intended to be holding cash, they were setting up for a large purchase and the timing was bad. But yeah, arguably when there’s no immediate prospect of the opportunity resurfacing, probably reinvesting that paper would be more congruent with the system we have before us.
> media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster.
kube-state-metrics doesn't specifically matter. Prometheus has built-in Kubernetes service discovery, and you can drop labels/annotations or not. Most people never see this because they take an opaque blob from a vendor (helm chart, prometheus-operator), etc. -- but it's there: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/c...

kube-state-metrics does its own service discovery and outputs prometheus metrics that it cares about, but any app could do that.
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Many people I know felt rotten for the twenty-four hours after the 2nd Moderna dose, and I was one of them.
We have known that the ISS has been approaching end of life and attempts are being made to extend usability, but there is only a certain amount of effort that can be made before key components start to fail.

While the Russians (specifically Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos) have been increasing the amount of negative press about the Russia/NASA/ESA/JAXA relationship, I view the ISS as an international success and would really like to see Russian involvement continue. It may not be a popular opininion, but I would also like to see international cooperation with China in space. China is clearly charting a course into space and I think it is a shame there isn't a way to coordinate the efforts of all the various space programs.
99% of runtimes out there are not written in the target language.
Blue board is designed to accept a skim coat of plaster well. Which makes it easier to get nice looking flat walls without having to texture like is common with drywall.
Mass-market paperbacks frequently include ads (usually for other books in the publication line) in the back.

One could also think of "Read this excerpt from the next book by $AUTHOR" as an ad.
Thanks, kixiQu. I'm the author of the linked post and I enjoyed - and agreed! - with much of the thinking behind the original article. I'd use a static site generator in a normal use case, but I think it's fine to experiment on my own site.
Intersectionality is about marginalized groups working togther and supporting each other. Basically when Caeser says "Apes alone weak. Apes together strong" in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

The "Oppression Olympics" narrative is an offensive and bizarre strawman.
On the whole Caddy/TLS bit: Did I miss something or wouldn't he also have to purchase a domain for the admin interface? (And then setup pihole such that the domain is resolved to the pihole server itself inside the LAN).

Of course it might be that he already had a personal domain available from some other project, that he could use.

But actually buying a domain just so your raspberry pi can use https seems like the ultimate overengeneering.
Same here.
IMHO ThinkPads are still the best laptops (again, IMHO), and I've been running nothing but Linux since 1999.
Have you already felt being conscious of your breathing and feeling like being unable to let it go back to automatic control ? Well …

> one could "hold their heart"

… now that sounds creepy.
Salman Rushdie Enters His Substack Period
> I can't sleep well, trying to do everything in my power to make sure I get enough.

Just a word of warning, I've experienced this becoming a bit of an obsession. I was losing sleep over not getting enough sleep. I'd bring the subject of sleep up in conversation a few times a week, making it almost part of my 'identity' that I was a bad sleeper, and I'm convinced this made it worse.

For anyone who thinks they might have the same problem, my unqualified anecdotal advice would be: Don't tell people you're a bad sleeper, even if you are. Generally don't talk about it too much. Do define some sensible rules (e.g. consistent wake-up time, no snooze, etc) and follow them blindly for a month - don't allow yourself to review or change these rules for at least a month, or you'll be thinking about sleep too often. If you have a sleep monitoring device, definitely don't look at the data more than once a month.
> Brexit did not make people in the UK happier, quite the opposite.

Do you have sources for this?
If you're looking for other similar gems I also highly recommend Huygens Optics [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/HuygensOptics
Anyone knows if this is something that will be sold in EU?
I could import it, but that would be quite expensive. :(
Lithium supplements maybe? There are over-the-counter supplements available. Prescription lithium has proven uses for some mental treatments. I read some positive things about areas with naturally occurring lithium in drinking water. As far as elements go, it is the first solid element at terrestrial conditions, so one might expect it to be a trace nutrient for organisms living in terrestrial conditions.
One reason would be to reuse existing libraries that are written in JavaScript. Since it's a popular language, there are lots of low-quality libraries, but also some higher-quality ones.
> I also try, about once a year , to use it on the desktop for a week. It is pure torture, a system that is not even half baked for interactive usage

You can't seriously claim that when there are lots ( millions? Tens of millions? Who knows) of people running various Linux distros as daily drivers. Hardware support can be spotty in some places depending on the specific hardware vendor ( but funnily enough old stuff works better under Linux than under Windows), and some things might not be as polished, but "pure torture" and "not even half baked" is a terrible exaggeration doing nobody any favours.

For the record, I've been running Ubuntu since 2017 on a Dell XPS 13 ( not developer edition). I have the occasional bug ( mostly with third-party stuff like Teams, or the VPN client breaking my DNS config (it also does than on macOS), but sometimes if i connect more than 4 Bluetooth devices reconnecting one of them takes ~10s instead of <3s), but overall it works, the tooling i can ise natively ( Dockers, etc.) is awesome and I'm happy with it. And anecdotally, I've had less issues than some colleagues with Windows (also Dells) or macOS.
Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest
I have been looking. I have a Lenovo tablet, it has the "Tips" app. That app cannot be disabled, and does have system control over the tablet, but I have never seen a notification come from it before.
Here is the treatment protocol.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/about-the-gui...
That remind me of why antibiotics are used to treat Strep-Throat/Scarlet Fever. The antibiotics do not make a significant impact in the time it takes for one to recover from the bacteria. If I recall correctly, I think antibiotics speed up recovery by a day or two (someone correct me if I am wrong).

However, antibiotics are used to help prevent one from getting Rheumatic Fever from the bacteria.
Why does this read to me like an overview of a D&D module where our intrepid PCs fight their way to the emotionless lich king at the heart of the keep? Is it the language use? The priming effect of the image?
Ooh, let's do Zodiac next: Bike lock porn?
Tangential but is there a reason Latex documents have such huge margins by default? Nearly 500 pages that could have happily fitted into 300.
The blog post links to Cure53's security audit report, which lists the issues found:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/files/2021/08/FVP-02-repor...
Officially Big Sur is unsupported so you won't be getting updates for much longer:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211238
It is the most effective studying technique when you have spent the entire semester doing bong rips.
Crime like this runs deep and politicians and officials don't seem too keen on stopping it. You'd think that we'd sanction countries that enable this type of behavior, and that we'd label people attacking our communication infrastructure by scamming seniors as terrorist, but nope. They just sort of let it happen day in and day out.
I may be a minority but I’ve only heard his podcast.
Like the rest of engineering, you very rarely start with a novel target.

You’re building things from a library of tested techniques.

Vaccines aren’t drugs.

They’re a method of delivering material to the immune system for it to do its thing.

We do that by finding the thing we want to present, finding a pipeline to extract that, and finding a delivery mechanism that is tested and compatible.

We don’t “discover” a new flu vaccine ever my season, we put together this seasons release.

That’s why it didn’t take years to design and release a new vaccine for covid: we have the technology already, we just needed to pick the payload and select the rocket best suited for the job.
> to lend out and earn interest

Who are you lending to? That’s the key - there’s a ton of money looking for returns but not enough people looking to borrow.
So true.

People don't realize and/or don't care much about all the information that gets lost in e-mail.

I've been struggling for years to push people to document stuff. Often I'm the only one who writes page after page, and send links to docs, until there are hundreds. At that point, others usually start to chime in a bit.
You're right, and I agree about reviewing basic microbiology, thanks for that suggestion.

In terms of the quote about the spike protein, someone else thankfully corrected that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382167). In terms of the quote about invading the cell, I meant that the SARS-CoV-2 virus would also invade the cell nucleus (yes, saying just cell was not correct because the cytoplasm is part of the cell). Those two quotes were the two specific things that were incorrect about my post, that I'm aware of, and I'm happy that others corrected those.

I posted what I did to counter some of the more ridiculous claims I've seen made, not just on HN, but also elsewhere. I consider HN to be a great source of information and I wanted to contribute to that. My intention was to pass on information that I was happy to learn and which helped me understand what was in the mRNA vaccines and how they work (at least at a high level). I would hope that anyone would evaluate and research for themselves, whether they hear it on HN or elsewhere.

If you would care to elaborate any further, I'd be happy to listen, so that I can learn more myself.
> Meanwhile if one person owns all the stocks people can still work and be happy.

I know you didn't mean it quite so literally, but this paints a rather dystopian picture: a single person holding effectively all the material wealth while everyone else happily shows up every day to work for them
Ask HN: Is there a reason online poker is software-only?
I could have sworn I played via a web browser in years past.

Why are all of the biggest poker sites only available to be played on using installable software?
IMO, one of the coolest features of Deno Deploy is that the deployment primitive is the humble URL, rather than being coupled to git or some git hosting provider.

You can simply give it a URL to a JS file and it will fetch all its dependencies and run it. They also offer an API for triggering deploys programmatically [1], which you can use to trigger deploys as a step in your CI pipeline for GitLab.

In fact, their GitHub integration is actually just listening for a webhook on new commits to the default branch, and the deploy is triggered using the raw.githubusercontent.com URL, so they don't have to waste time cloning the entire repository, which can save on the order of minutes for large repos. [2]

[1] https://github.com/denoland/deploy_feedback/issues/29#issuec...

[2] https://github.com/denoland/deploy_feedback/issues/29#issuec...
Beware: The admin ( /u/spez) has a history of editing comments in a similar Reddit drama situation ( https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev... ).