skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like it was a heart attack.

Unfortunately, with all the noise about virii and cancer, good old-fashioned heart disease is the biggest killer of Americans in his age range (and I'm almost a decade older than he was).

A "heart attack" could have many causes (including a CIA heart attack gun, I guess). It could be congenital, or exacerbated by lifestyle.

He could have dropped dead of a congenital MI, during his daily 10-mile run, or after a "heart attack hit" on a crack stem. It could be a number of reasons.

I seriously doubt that he was selected for assassination. It seems he lost a significant number of his cases, and was probably more of an annoyance, than a real threat to anyone.
Anything that raises your body temperature is not good before sleep.

Your body temperature has to actually drop a bit lower from normal before all your regular sleep cycles can kick in.
Indeed, a project started at Google due to his arrival there, hence the jab at Swift being available in RISC-V due to the new position.

He went to Tesla first, by the way.
Yes, I had to use it in a Node.js project.

Would imagine, with the right tooling and TypeScript it wouldn't have been that bad.
Most EU countries reached high vaccination rate without extreme measures because people here are not poisoned with right wing propaganda.
Not JSON, but related: Kaptain.

https://github.com/mviereck/kaptain
>if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread

I'm curious about this. I understand "doesn't prevent all spread", but surely it prevents notable amounts of spread by reducing the amount of people walking around with high viral load, reduced hospitalization, herd immunity, and so on.
what would you recommend as a supplement to someone that is currently studying computer science to better learn programming?
Show HN: Gokarna, a minimalistic hugo theme with a focus on simplicity
The CDC disagrees with you[1].

"COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of people spreading the virus that causes COVID-19."

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/keythings...
Gooey is a great northern star to follow, but this hypothetical app should work with any command-line app.

Idea would be to define UI structure that outputs (and executes) essentially a string (command) to run.
> This seems like a terrible idea unless you specifically want to learn how to program specific kinds of things on specific languages.

Many people learn from specifics and generalise later.

Do you think there's anything wrong with that?
“The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database contains information on *unverified* reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. *Reports are accepted from anyone*…”
No, I said the major difference is existence. Destroying something that exists is different to not making it in the first place.
It's not only about implementing. QA, Monitoring, Regression tests ...
This is probably the most willfully ignorant and blatantly selfish comment in this discussion. Bravo for this twattastic display.
It has been my impression that ESP SOCs are really just hard-configured FPGAs. Is this correct? (There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that, except for possible clocking / reduced power state oddities as reported in the older ESP products. I would love to learn more details about that!)
Whether or not you agree if there is legal authority for mandates for this vaccine or this pandemic, where does it end? The trajectory we're on is for all people to be monitored by the State for compliance with the vaccine programs.

Israel is already saying 4 shots (and more) will required [0] to participate in that society. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are quasi-police states [1] and will probably mandate vaccination+boosters soon.

The writing on the wall is that the 'booster' is being repackaged as a 'series' of vaccines. The health authorities and pharma are going to modify and approve vaccines for endless mutations. Will these be independently tested? I don't expect so, despite using the novel mRNA platform. The end game is to treat Covid vaccines like annual (or semi-annual) flu vaccines. Moderna is already packaging both together [2]. Except flu vaccine is not mandated (yet). There is a LOT of money to be made in mandatory vaccine mandates. Think how easy it would be to grow rich if everyone had to use your products, you had no competition, and the government indemnified you against any responsibility for harm. It's hard to see how this stops. The pandemic is a gift for technocratic-authoritarians everywhere.

Here's a prediction. In a few years, if the people don't stand up against this, the pandemic will not be 'over' politically. Nominally 'free' Western governments will have become de facto CCP-style management firms. We will be required to comply with ongoing health directives from the central authorities for vaccination to prevent further restrictions. Our compliance will be monitored via digital passes (or onerous paper-work for the poor). Our employment and freedom of movement will depend on our compliance. Those who disagree and are foolish enough to say something will find themselves censored (for health disinformation) and fined (or imprisoned [3]). Traveling to see grandma without having gotten the latest booster will risk quarantine.

So, if you're pro-mandates, I invite you to come back in a couple of years and ridicule me and this warning if it's wrong (if it hasn't been scrubbed from the internet). I hope you're right! I wonder what you'll say if you're wrong? Maybe post your predictions for posterity.

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/virus-czar-calls-to-begin-read...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/world/australia/new-zeala..., https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/austr...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/01/austr...
The five most impressive geological structures in the solar system
The most evil invention here is the cobalt bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb

A theme for example in Nevil Shute's On the Beach. Where people in Australia spent their last days waiting for the cloud to eventually reach them.
> It's like when the medieval Catholic Church refused to print a bible in anything but Latin so that they'd remain the sole authority on its content.

I'd say reading the Bible, or any other deep philosophical/spiritual text in a translation is almost an utter waste of time (unless that actually helps you psychologically, then it is not), if not harmful.

The original words and phrasing with all their possible meanings make a huge lot more sense than specific translations.

Something that sounds banal or weird can actually mean something entirely different and deep once you carefully analyze the original words.

It is, however, important to remember Latin is not the original for the Bibile. But it still has a lot of what has been lost in many other translations.
> The genie is somewhat out of the bottle already

Very much so. As early as 2012, maybe 2013, retailers were piloting technology that would offer guest wifi networks, then track you using the in-store surveillance cameras. Don't even need facial recognition, just tie the person's identity to the phone they logged in with. The camera adds better location data than you could get with the wifi alone.

This was about the time that Amazon was offering a Black Friday discount if you used their app to scan the barcode of a product in a retail store, then bought online — and back then, only checkout was https, so if you were in the data path you could detect that sort of a lookup.
My Favorite Git Aliases
Yeah. I transferred a music file at ~6mb. Sure enough a binary payload of that size is POSTed to their `/api/upload` and then downloaded from a CDN on the receiving side.

This is basically an ordinary file upload service using sound instead of sharing QR-codes or public links.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

EDIT: My spidey sense was tingling when a 6mb file was transferred "via sound" in seconds. That would've been pretty incredible.
With this kind of testing, they might find so few acceptable customers that it wouldn't be worth being in the insurance business anymore.
From the tallest cliff in the solar system to its largest impact basin, geological processes on other worlds are similar to our own.
I use git aliases to automate complicated or repetitive operations. Here are my favorites.
Core language feature and package are not necessarily the same thing. No reason to bump heads. Instead you could provide a link to the RM: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-7-6.html
Ada was one of the first language I learned academically then I've never had the chance to use it again. It's not one of these fancy languages everyone want to use for their toy projects. However, I remember it was a pretty cool language. Better static checks than C, including a robust module system, clear semantic.

I'd like to give it a try again as an experienced programmer and see how the language has evolved over time.
How come you don't do both yoga and strength training, just like other people do both sports and strength training? Is it not possible to get a bar and a rack to the island?
No, they're definitely replaceable.
Fmr FDA Comm.:Fauci Funded Gain of Function on Deadlier MERS-Like Coronavirii
This is cool! Syntax might scare off many developers, I think one of the goals should be approachability, it should be super easy to transform your favorite command-line app into a GUI.
Benchmarking ClickHouse vs. TimescaleDB
apl.k: apl style glyphs for ngn/k
FWIW, RISC-V does have a invalid instruction trap mechanism that can be used to provide a software implementation of missing instructions. So at least if the platform provides a software implementation of the B instructions, user code can still use them (much more slowly, of course).
I'm using json schema all the time. The big step forwards for me is I can validate data everywhere down the application pipeline, no matter the programming language, using a single document (single source of truth), and it's human readable.
Tom (Monzo) thoughts on early stage fundraising
Guessing Swift didn't stick at Tesla either.
Because this way, the students learn our concept of physics from the ground. How it was developed and the limitations each time and struggle, to make further sense of it.

If done right, this leads to much better understanding, than just presenting the latest model.
I don't think anyone should be forced to take any medicine against their will as long as they are not in a coma or incapacitated and unable to reason.

I personally had the vaccine because I have very high blood pressure, have pretty high blood sugar (even though I'm fit/in shape) and am almost 40. It was MY CHOICE in the risk vs reward game of numbers it I did it only for myself with a good life insurance already in place that covers death/incapacity from medication too(covers COVID vaccines too).

What if I would of ended up like that BBC presenter? Dead. For me it's down to my family and that is it.

This will be a bit exagerated but (hopefully) shold get the point across: At the end of the day anyone else is disposable as long as my family is safe from harm.

As long as the vaccine is not 100% safe nobody should be allowed to force anyone else to take it.

Edit: One thing that puzzles me though
- Why is nobody talking about those that are immune or already have the antibodies and don't need a vaccine? Why force them to have it if those vaccinated are safe?
Deep in the internals of Google, we actually had a system that was putting incoming requests not in a queue (first-in-first-out), but in a stack (last-in-first-out).

The system in question was essentially not meant to have any backlog of request under normal operations. But when overloaded, for this particular system it was better to serve the requests it could serve very fast, and just shed load on the overflow.

(I don't remember more specifics, and even if I could, I would probably not be allowed to give them..)
Whataboutism, really?
> Outliers matter: if you live on a block with 10 houses, you care more about the one which is falling apart and full of rats than the ones which are mostly okay.

What is the plan? Imprison the person living in the ratty house? Fine them into oblivion? I've never heard of a case of a town council taking over someone's house to repair it - I'm sure it happened somewhere once but that is quite the outlier.

I've seen plenty of dilapidated houses, and lived near some quite large rats. There is no reason to think it would be worse in a more liberal society.

> Can you provide examples of the baseline you’re using to say that other systems do worse? Successful implementations, not idealized imaginings.

goes to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index and scans down the list

Hong Kong, jewel of Asia? Switzerland is probably pretty decentralised too, they certainly have the most democratic government I know of. And the highest-ranked superpower on the list, everyone's favourite USA, is famous for having some of the strongest constraints on their government in the world.

To be honest, I'd be happy if we all just did what Switzerland does. I'll take extreme democracy over any specific ideology if pushed. We can argue the details later.
Well "getting closer" isn't really true since he is part of the French far right since 1994
> This is most certainly not true in general.

Are you saying that in other disciplines, the distribution of p-values in published papers does not follow this pattern?
Not true. Germany has the "three g" mandate (and it has faced significant pushback). France has no vaccination mandate but does have policies to encourage it, which have also faced massive protests. Both and the US have first-dose vaccination rates within ten percentage points of each other.

In all three countries, the pushback is primarily from populist/right-wing political movements. This is not a strictly American phenomenon.
Why not solder the SSDs and a GPU while at it?
List of folks who refuse it:

1. Young, healthy and fit people who don't have any prior medical conditions. I checked the stats in Canada and I have a lot more chances of dying in a car accident than COVID in my age group.

2. Minorities who have had very bad treatment by the medical community in the past. Numerous examples of blacks, Latin Americans, indigenous being used for experiments.

3. Similar to point 2, anyone who's low income and therefore had poor treatment by the medical community.

4. Everyone who's already gotten natural infection immunity. There's numerous studies of this being much stronger and longer lasting. While they also say that an extra vaccine might boost the immunity slightly more too, there's very little benefit imo, especially if you are already young and healthy.

5. Many vaccinated folks also oppose vaccine mandates because that requires disclosing personal information. Quebec's vaccine passport app already got hacked including name, date of birth, IP address and which vaccines. And the Quebec government was very dismissive of this whole thing too which didn't instil any confidence in them.

Vaccine mandates are also opposed by many in the minority community as they know this is just another reason which will cause more law enforcement actions.

Here's Aba & Preach, 2 of the largest black YouTubers of Canada, explaining why they oppose such vaccine mandates even though they themselves are vaccinated. They explain how historical poor and unethical treatment explains why many minorities or those from poor families are skeptic of the health care institutions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6yHSIqsT9g

https://youtu.be/Kt1FsXdrX5I

So there's many reasons of not getting the irreversible, non-long term tested, declining efficacy and short lasting vaccine. There's no guarantees of how many boosters and how often they will be required. Israel is already talking about the 4th booster shot.

Also this whole mandate thing just makes the public even more accepting of more surveillance.
Those "social" companies won't stop until they monetize, exploit, and destroy every meaningful socializing we have.

We can barely enjoy few seconds of someone's attention before they share or consume a "story" and fiddle with their phones, and now their glasses...

The end game of this "progress" is a neural link injected straight into our brains constantly streaming content and ads so that we mindlessly consume and share stories with each other all day long in a zombie like state.

Please stop this madness.
I’m from Israel, we were in an excellent condition couple of months ago, but once the vaccination started to lose its potency we see a steep rise in infections and hospitalizations.
Now that we are deep into the booster shot we see the numbers of infections and hospitalizations start to drop again.
You were responding to a tangent about life insurance, that had nothing to do with OSHA nor anything else US-specific.
It's a good heuristic to be suspicious, bit not a reason by itself.
Indeed. Tax that at point of sale, like cigarettes and other tobacco.

Risk pooling in insurance is simply an added benefit, but a less clear moral approach when the disease is not necessarily controllable by the person. Metabolic disorders exist. Tobacco disorders, not as much except conditioning and addiction.

But, it should be a focus for wellness programs so that metabolic disorders are destigmatized.
Just set the email to bugs@lg.com. Problem solved.

Why sign up at all? It can only send you an email if you tell it your address.
Those heuristics apply to company twitter accounts controlled by humans.
It's easy in JS too, just use a DOMParser
That's part of why pre-registration of studies is so important.
These guys work at a school district. They're not working somewhere that it's going to make a huge difference to have some impact on production systems.

Honestly, I'd put my money on it being in the organizations best interests long term if the two older employees did leave them in a rut. A lot of times it's good to purge these types of places of the cruft left behind by legacy.
I have the Hifive Unmatched board with an AMD GPU and anything graphics related is extremely slow, to the point that launching and using a browser is unusably slow (I mostly use it via SSH).
Might be related to the low amount of PCIe bandwidth available (AFAICT everything PCIe so both graphics and NVMe share a single x8 PCIe bus).
Also there is a recent patch for the kernel that removes some unaligned memory accesses in copy_to/from_user which should speed things up, but I haven't tried the new kernel yet [1]

Nevertheless it is a useful board for testing software on RISC-V, e.g. I mostly use it to test the OCaml compiler and related programs on it.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/mhng-423e8bdb-977e-4b99-a1bb-b8...
Some folks actually invented a ketchup-phobic bottle coating.
Their company is Liquiglide. It also works for many other things- Colgate uses it in some products but Heinz appears to have settled for upside-down bottles.
Given that the polio vaccine has >99% efficacy [1] and the fact that US has been polio free since 1979 [2], with the only threat being the occasional traveler to a region with polio, being nonsterlizing doesn't seem to be an issue. Quite different from our current situation.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-dur...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/polio-us.html
Besides the (insane and infuriating) politicization of the vaccine, I wonder how much of the problem comes down to a fear of the US healthcare system for those who are uninsured or have catastrophic-only coverage. I worry that people fear they'll go in for a “free” shot and end up getting a $300 bill in the mail, because hidden costs abound in the US healthcare system. (Even though we know that they won't)
I set up a raspberry pi thermometer in our freezer that would email me once a day with a temperature log (hourly averages), and also email me immediately if the temperature ever got too high. But dammit, I opted in for those emails!

(It was a freezer full of the most precious commodity, breast milk. And it actually did save us one time when the freezer thermostat failed, so it was absolutely worth the hassle.)
I was surprised about the entries.

I thought that Ig Nobel is given for useless work but I don't find this completely useless:

- Work about the sounds cats can make

- Work about gum bacteria

- Work about how to transport wild rhinceroses

Therefore I conclude Ig Nobel is not about useless work but about weird work and about work that is not immediately evident to be sensible in creating niche knowledge.

In other words, I find these works useful.
From my read of history, empires start off more like republics and then centralize over time until they collapse under their own weight. It was said best by Aristotle: "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
Namespaces killed xml. Such a bad design. It may have worked out better with every schema required to explicitly flatten in whatever they need from sub-grammars.

I see this json schema thing also seems to use long intricate URLs that you can only copy-paste to identify things... at least in this day and age if one does ID with unwieldy blobs, it'd be good to at least use some hash to get the benefits of content addressing.
that's really just physics. warm air gets in through the opened door, after closing it rapidly cools down, because air does not hold that much heat energy. Because it cools it contracts, which reduces the pressure inside the freezer, causing the outside air pressure to hold the door shut more firmly.

No electromagnets or anything.
> are taking up a non-insignificant portion of available hospital beds

Healthy, non obese young people do not get hospitalized by this disease at any significant rate at all, most aren't even aware they got it. If you're a healthy young person you have rationality on your side to object to a vaccine. Especially one that is trying to hit a moving target as covid is probably now another mutating flu that will be around indefinitely. Especially because you still pass on the disease vaccinated or not.
Wild cockatoos observed using tools as ‘cutlery’ to extract seeds from fruit
The fridge emailed basically a performance report to the address that he configured on setup. One of the performance report items is that it had been opened a lot, which does impact efficiency and food longevity.

It didn't email a complaint. It did precisely what he configured it to do (I will go on a limb and presume the fridge didn't guess his email address), and presumably what he expected it to do given that he paid a large premium for a "smart" fridge.

There is no problem here beyond that often Twitter makes everyone a comedian/performance artist and people often take their routines a little too seriously.
There is no free speech on twitter, there is arbitrary and capricious enforcement of "twitter rules" to remove the voice of everyone they want.
Well. I wasn’t going to go there given the context.
>I learned recently that one winner of an Ig Nobel prize went on to win a Nobel prize in physics. The former for levitating a frog, and the latter for discovering that you can make graphene using Scotch tape.

Ironically, it is not immediately obvious which piece of research led to which prize. Scotch tape is hardly on the cutting edge of science is it?