skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disclaimer: I haven't actually used either, just done a lot of interested reading and a little toying around.

One thing that impressed me about Zig is how simple the language is. I get the impression that it would take very little time to properly learn the language and become effective at it.

Rust, on the other hand, has a whole lot of complexity even without the ownership semantics. So much to learn and understand. And, in some cases, work around. It seems, from looking at others' code, that there is a very strong temptation to lean on `unsafe` instead of figuring out how to solve a problem within the constraints it normally applies.

That has me wondering if there's really all that much safety difference in practice? Simpler code is generally easier to understand, and it's generally easier to find and fix bugs in code that's easier to understand. I can imagine a world where it's a tradeoff between, "You definitely won't have any of this relatively narrow category of bug, unless of course you opt out of the static checks, which you will probably do sometimes, even though we tell you you shouldn't," and, "There are no particular guarantees, but you're generally less likely to have any of this broader category of bug."
>It already does. There's no problem with the system, for people that understand what it is meant to describe. Rainfall isn't a part of that.

I wasn't necessarily saying there was a problem with the system. However, when these terms/systems are used in the primary means of communicating dangers to the public (mass media: tv, radio, web) then they are doing a disservice. For a layman, the only difference between a cat 4 and a cat 5 hurricane is that the cat 5 is worse. Yet, for different areas, the category doesn't actually speak of the dangers. And, you risk people thinking "oh, I was in a category 4 before" and not realizing the potential of a 'lower' storm depending on the conditions.

I think the recent flooding in NY from the remnants of Hurricane Ida speak to that.
Recently did the same. I wish Obsidian had some of the nicer looking UI elements (such as editing a table without switching to markdown). I plan to stick with Obsidian for now, but am looking for something else since Obsidian is too limited(but the devs are great)
The specific part you excerpted, by itself, is confusing. When I read just your comment, having not read the article, I interpreted it as:

"it takes eight times as many antibodies from a vaccinated individual to block the virus [compared to an unvaccinated individual]"

When I went to find the excerpt within the article, I realized in context it meant:

"it takes eight times as many antibodies from a vaccinated individual to block the [delta variant] virus [compared to blocking the alpha virus]"

And separately offers the information that for antibodies from natural immunity, the difficulty jump from alpha to delta is 5.7x instead of 8x. Which would suggest that having natural immunity could be better than having only vaccine immunity, but definitely doesn't suggest that being unvaccinated is better than being vaccinated. So there's no mystery for vaccinated individuals having better odds against COVID than unvaccinated ones.
They as a singular gender-neutral pronoun is far, far older than 30 years[0], so while I believe that you were taught that, you were taught incorrectly. So was I!

It is neither a bastardization, nor grammatically incorrect, to use they as a singular gender-neutral pronoun.

0. https://www.academicwritingsuccess.com/the-astonishing-histo...
You're very intelligent.

Have an upvote on me, good sir!
Like Duh! Steve Job's was CEO of 2 companies simultaneously at one point. If each was 60 hours per week that would be 120 hours per week leaving him 7 hours of sleep each day if he worked 7 days a week and did nothing else. Obviously that never ever happened. CEO's have sociopathic tendencies. They see others working harder than them as the natural order of things.
Attack of the Week: Unpicking PLAID (2014)
I am a huge fan of Docker the tool, and during the prime of Docker the company they were doing some really impressive stuff. Swarm was dramatically easier to use than Kubernetes. The people working on Docker both in and outside of the company were top notch and they should be proud of what they accomplished.

It's too bad they didn't make the business side of things work, though I agree that at the time there was a certain feeling of too much money chasing an uncertain future for an open source project. I hope this next iteration of the company works out for them.
I noticed this too! Thought it was a random advertisement that I happened to receive in perfect irony. The irony is even richer since it’s being shown to everyone
I haven't found one. The features I really need are:
- decent filters, portable across all clients (macos + iOS for me)
- reader mode
- shared read/unread/starred (i.e. keep even if read) state
- ad blocking works

I don't really like in-browser but could tolerate it if it could do all of the above

I use ReadKit on the Mac (has filters, but local to the client) and Reeder on iOS. I am using FeedWrangler as the back end; its filter language (at least as documented) is unfortunately inadequate for my needs. Otherwise it's been fine.
So are all STDs so why bother with this new stealthing law then?
See, I see that as the opposite: it is easy to get offended by the joke precisely because it is not true. IMHO, the second version is better because, by removing the language at hand, it directs the joke at the idea of re-writing everything in the first place, rather than at some specific niche of people who may or may not even actually exist.

I could/would also get into a debate about "satire" and what exactly it is and means, but I have complicated feelings about it, how words change over time, etc.
I own a Corolla Hybrid which gives 57 MPG combined and am pretty happy with it considering I got it under $25K. Now Toyota knew that their Hybrid electric systems are working great as they are a leader in it and selling millions of such vehicles over the years and still they have not trusted the electric batteries enough and went on Hydrogen fuel cell side. Very perplexing to me!
US right/wrong track polling
Calico continues to do early stage research and has some molecules moving into clinical trials. Suffice to say, Larry Page is not immortal yet.
Nope. White has never had that meaning at all.

Please look into the etymology of a word before making whimsical arguments.

You’ll have an awful time with Chinese where words have many different meanings depending on context.
The ironic thing is that Docker became successful only because of the tremendous hype they generated about themselves, and then failed to see the K8s hype train barreling towards them.

Swarm is still what 99% of companies need when they adopt Kubernetes, and is probably 1/10th to 1/20th the cost. Somebody needs to re-invent swarm as an independent project so that we can stop investing in K8s. The cost of K8s isn't even in the complexity, it's in all the millions of side-effects of the complexity, like security, fragmentation, and specialization.
True for all x86 virtualization i know of.
But not true for IBM Power LPARs where only the entitled CPU resources have to be licensed and can even be shared between LPAR (Power Enterprise Pool).
I don't know for sure but would therefore assume that it's the same for the IBM mainframe platform.
Chiron is a planet.

Chiron is a comet.

"Wikipedia" agrees with both of those statements.

Since it cannot be both, "Wikipedia" also agrees with the statements that Chiron is not a comet and is not a planet.

tldr: we don't know, it could be either
Almost hilariously the exact definition of a Logical Fallacy of a Loaded Question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

Ex. "When did you stop beating your wife?"

We need to educate more people against logical fallacies, and we need to educate and arm people with better critical thinking skills.
But is this essentially like arguing that terrorism justifies all of the security theater at the airport?
>Maytag does not build them like they used to.

that has been my experience across their entire lineup since the early 2000s.

some of their industrial style earlier stuff is fantastic, it's a shame they couldn't keep up with those standards.
Unless they know something that the rest of the world doesn't, hydrogen fuels cells is a bad bet.

There is not enough time/space to explain all the reasons why; it is a very long list of factors working against hydrogen --- and it starts with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.
FOSS for Amateur Radio
> phone rules have been tightened

I don't think there have been any material changes in the rules. The problem is the scale at which these companies operate and the question of responsibility. While the regulators occasionally impose financial penalties on these companies for violating norms, I have no idea who verifies that every single customer has been vetted.
Low intensity is fine as long as it’s above zero.

For many jobs being available to do work has value, but a doctor on call that’s sleeping in the hospital isn’t actually working. As such it’s a perfectly reasonable to separate working from bing available to do work.
Breaking news: life is hard for everyone. You actually have it easier, but not easy. Figure it out, don't man up. Shocking fact, caring about others might help fix yourself.
Didn’t have to fingerprint for a passport, but did for a Texas driver’s license with some hand wavy reason I don’t remember.
I was very surprised by a recent shooting at Chicago Union Station: Amtrak finds out this murderer on the run is taking a train across the country arriving in Chicago. They don’t tell anyone on the train this, they don’t intercept the train in the middle of the night in a small town - they wait until the guy detrains at one of the busiest stations in the country before chasing him and shooting him. Bizarre.

https://abc7chicago.com/union-station-shooting-chicago-shoot...
> How should I interpret for example the data from Israel?

By reading the following analysis and familiarizing yourself with Simpson's paradox:

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

You're spreading misinformation. Stop it.
Did you buy an AirGradient monitor or any brand you recommend that is not DIY?
But you see how locking people out of risk locks them out of reward right? The interface to regulate should be on the educational front, not on the access front. Instead the regulatory framework we have leads to the accredited class being protected from competition and is a direct antecedent to the neo gilded age landscape we are in now. IMO the want for regulation that "protects" investors on the margin while hurting the majority by locking them out of risk is the wrong approach, and always has been.
It's arguable what hard labour is. For me a person running a company with 100 thousands of people working under you, is also very hard working.

As for earning $1B by letting working hard for you, I don't see anything wrong with it. I am sure lot of them have taken their share of risks to be where they are today.
Tera/giga are globally standardized; trillion/billion are ambiguous.
> If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

Because I like it.

But, then, you probably wouldn't think of me as "successful." I'm not on anyone's payroll, and I won't be zipping around in any private jets, in the foreseeable future.

I would not agree with that assessment (I feel very successful), but it's not worth arguing about.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to work I go...
Congrats on retiring to what you want to do! What are your plans?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693321 Show HN: Toy C Compiler written in Rust

(the repo is https://github.com/utam0k/r9cc and https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2018/10/12/r9cc/ is a blog post from 2018 that describes it)

There's also https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater and https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc, but they are inactive. Saltyrust seem pretty complete though.
I've worked extremely long hours and there's a very big difference to me between working on a saturday on green-field development where what you're doing takes time but isn't particularly full of surprises - and trying to grind out a hard to find bug instead of enjoying the outdoors. I don't hate hunting down bugs myself - but dealing with fatigue from overwork while trying to find a needle in a haystack is much different from being able to cruise through some reqs like a badass using half your brain.

It's quite likely that the billionaires putting in long hours are doing so in tasks that are diverse and decisive enough to not be soul crushing - while outsourcing those soul crushing tasks to their subordinates... in fact if that isn't the case then they're executiving wrong.

Finally, being a found who benefits directly from every penny your company earns differs significantly from working plebs that might just be randomly fired tomorrow and will never see any benefit from the company doing slightly better. The motivation is there for Musk in a way it isn't for those who surround him.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking
There are quite a few RSS out there. The list below is standalone including self-hosting software.

QuiteRSS (Win,Mac,Linux), RSSOwl (Win,Mac,Linux), RSS Guard (Win,Mac,Linux), Ravens.js (electron), TT-RSS (self-hosting), FreshRSS (self-hosting), LifeRea (Linux only), Arss (macOS).

If you are fine with self-hosting, then I recommend getting FreshRSS over TT-RSS and FreshRSS have support for RSS Bridge which will make FreshRSS a powerful tool. I prefers FreshRSS because I can set it up in my XAMP easily, TT-RSS moved to Docker only. Also FreshRSS provide their RSS feed API for other RSS software to hook into it. So you can use mobile app with FreshRSS feed directly to it.
Possession is a legitimate purpose. The primary function of money is to be a store of wealth. Medium of exchange and unit of account are secondary.
In my opinion, this is just statistics worship, and is not unlike a form of utilitarianism. Murder rates are low, but we spend an incredible amount of resources preventing, investigating, prosecuting, imprisoning and executing murderers, even those who have murdered just one person.

While I have significant grievances with the US justice and prison system, I'm okay with expending disproportionate resources to ensure that people don't take others' lives just because they want to or feel entitled to.
I stopped using pods/packs/powerballs types and pre-scrubbing after this video. I thought cheaper liquids just didn't work, because I wasn't filling the pre-wash. I tried cheaper store brand liquid detergent with pre-wash, and with pre-wash gels work great.

Right now, I'm using Cascade Gel, really happy for the price and amount. 6 bux. It's the same price as generics if you don't buy it on amazon.

TIL, use the pre-fill
The other problem overlooked in this analogy is that the killings are the most extreme symptom of a tyrannical police force that terrorizes (black) American citizens at an incredibly high rate, from harassment to physical abuse. Protests against the police are using killings as an example of the problem, not the complete summary.

And, to be clear, the police treat white Americans very poorly as well. It's just that they somehow manage to treat black Americans even worse.
Would using containers like Docker soften the PRD distro requirement?
Define comfortable
Get a different job. If you don't love what you're doing, why do it? I you love doing something, why not get paid for it? People can be working 70 hours a week and enjoying it. Because you associate work with being miserable doesn't mean others do.
How do they get cellphones into prison?
> Pretty much if you're a US citizen they already have your fingerprints.

False. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...

My spouse and I renewed our passports in the last 10 years, and got our kids passports for the first time. We did not provide fingerprints.

I am a U.S. citizen. I went through an SF86 clearance in the early 2000s and don't recall even that requiring my fingerprints (but I could be wrong about that). I only recall giving up my fingerprints twice:

1. To unlock my Apple devices, safely locked in a secure enclave.
2. For TSA Pre.
Can you tell me an example of what simply didn't exist five years ago and now exists bc of Web3? And the potential of the tech? Because i used to work in an agency and we develop apps and smart contracts for Ethereum and what they were doing were the most basic and primitive things, slow, fragile, incapable and very expensive to use. Not to mention all the environmental problems with PoW. Only reason we were developing them was that there were loads of money from all the hype around it. The actual usefulness was zero.
Teslas are still selling like hotcakes, and have a 4-6 month wait right now. I see a few more every month in my flyover state. New service center being made in my town.

I have only owned 1 condo, but power meters were right by my deeded parking spot. Would have been very easy to slap a charger in.

Cannot imagine going back to a Toyota after this. The future is now. Just a matter of if Toyota is able to catch up, or if they have missed the train. They had a huge lead with Prius, and so far have squandered it on fuel cell chasing.
General note: if your iPhone won't go dark enough at night even with night mode, look under Accessibility - Display & Text Size -> Reduce White Point. Set the sliding value to what's comfortable for you.

Then scroll down the Accessibility settings page to Accessibility Shortcut. This sets what happens when you triple-click the power button. If you set this to Reduce White Point (RWP), it will turn on/off RWP while remembering the slider setting you selected.

I find this invaluable when I wake up in the middle of the night and want to read for a bit without filling my eyes with light / risking waking anyone.

(Edited for spelling)
"load of crap" seems like the perfect synonym to me. Less provocative of a title, but there's other words that can convey the same.
Sure but then politics becomes about controlling what's on those tests.
‘zig cc’ is more than that. You get a very powerful caching system, and built in support for cross compilation to a huge range of targets (via zig shipping with libc sources). Zig is extremely impressive.
Something similiar happened in 'the last king of scottland'. The protagonist is spinning the globe and says he will go anywhere he will point to. Then it came up too boring so he spun again.
The Android app has 418,000 reviews and over 50 million installs, and the iPhone app has 230,000 reviews. The number of people who use it without an app is probably a lot higher.
I lost faith in Cloudflare when they switched from being a neutral infrastructure service to yet another politically-motivated big tech company. In their blog post around the ban of 8chan (https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/), they acknowledged that they didn't know if 8chan broke any laws but they nevertheless decided to pass personal judgment based on a vague notion that 8chan "inspired" a shooting. That's quite an unprincipled way to operate a fundamental network utility that backs 10% of the Fortune 1000 and 20% of the top 10000 websites.
Are there any affordable CO2 sensors that don’t use outside air for calibration of ppm? I want to know how outside air CO2 levels change as well. Would be interesting to see day to day changes and how big they are in absolute terms. (Also to show people about how CO2 levels are changing globally… without just pointing to a website of someone else’s measurements.)
That unvaccinated people are higher risk of getting and spreading Covid? I agree, although I'm not sure what is the significance of the 4:1 ratio. Ontario's numbers suggest a risk ratio closer to 7:1 or 8:1 right now.
Cameo: The Founding Story
S0ix is the replacement, which allows for connected standby.

(see https://01.org/blogs/qwang59/2020/linux-s0ix-troubleshooting)

Connected standby has been the norm on mobile since ages, quite popular in laptops now and is making its way to desktops.

The OEM cannot both provide S0ix and S3 suspend at the same time though. (togglable through UEFI firmware options on some systems, but that's getting rare)
I have already accomplished a fair bit, on the "side work" that I did over the years.

I'm currently working with a nonprofit team, and developing an app, aimed at recovering drug addicts. I have some fairly relevant prior art in this field, having designed a worldwide infrastructure platform.
I am able to find many journal articles confirming my observations that cooking produces significantly elevated indoor PM2.5 levels, many of which suggest it to be harmful, but I'm not finding anything about the relative impacts of the different substances that make up fine/ultrafine particles. People involved in this research seem to think it will require more study:

>“We know that inhaling particles, regardless of what they’re made of, is detrimental to health. Is it equally bad as inhaling exhaust from vehicle emissions? That we don’t know that yet,” [1]

Regardless, my sensor, at least, doesn't register water vapor as particulate. I can run an ultrasonic humidifier with distilled water to no effect on the measured PM2.5, or with tap water which will spike the particulates from the dissolved minerals.

1) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/17/cooking-...
You can build C projects using Rust and Cargo as well[0], but it requires more work than Zig appears to need.

Rust also has good C FFI story and honestly I think we will still see a lot of important code rewritten in Rust.

That said, a more ergonomic C which seamlessly replaces the often bloated build configuration of C/C++ projects while allowing a far nicer language to slowly replace the existing code feels like TypeScript for JS (which I consider a good and smart thing). Definitely agree it's going to get far more use than I'd originally have guessed.

[0]: https://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/how-to-riir/
Not requiring a battery is actually pretty genius because it covers up failure in testing as user error. "No, no, the device isn't useless - you just don't have enough static electricity to power it!" Repeat until you get an accidental positive result.
It's called therapy, not blaming other people that don't look like you coming up. And yea, therapy is expensive and usually not covered by medical insurance. So vote.
My gut feeling is that if you look at these data they'll tell you "most people should focus on eating well and getting good amounts of exercise." They might also tell you "kids should learn water safety skills and comply with car seat safety rules scrupulously".

It's hazy now but I remember doing some back-of-the-envelope math in April 2020 to compare risk of death via SARS-CoV-2 infection vs. other causes. I think what I remember seeing was that if you're age 80+ getting COVID is similar to driving 10 million road miles in the US (NHTSA: 1.5 deaths per 100 million road miles; COVID: 15% mortality for infection in ages 80+). I think I remember being totally unable to evaluate the risk to a kid but maybe COVID infection is similar to driving 3000 road miles? (per upper bound at https://fullfact.org/health/bbc-children-covid-risk/). This mostly told me that driving was very risky.

Problems with comparing road miles to disease infection:

(1) being infected also means you're infectious; dying in a car crash doesn't spread exponentially to others

(2) I do not know how to reason about the long-term side effects of COVID on quality adjusted life years

> I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you'd save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.

I do a qualitative analysis of this every couple of years: should I bike to work?

(1) Cardiovascular fitness improves from exercise

(2) You might get hit by a car and die (worrying about this adds stress even if you don't experience it).