skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to remember a technique based on listening to static or whitenoise and taking the least significant bit. You then take that stream of bits and postprocess it by looking for bit changes and don't use them directly.

That's a vague and I'm sure inaccurate description, but it isn't enough for me to google it ... anyone know what I'm referring to?
How do you get leftists to have a conversation on that basis?
Removable CPU modules make no sense for a laptop. I do want a more serviceable laptop but I want that accomplished via an open form factor. Modules just limit the thermal performance and take up valuable interior volume that could be better filled with a bigger battery, discreet GPU, or more useful ports.
> “The team found that the Delta variant virus was 5.7-fold less sensitive to the sera from previously-infected individuals, and as much as eight-fold less sensitive to vaccine sera”

I read this as “natural immunity is better”. Unless I’m reading that wrong, why don’t we hear more about this? I’m vaccinated AND got a breakthrough infection and I’m worried that my immunity is weaker than that of my wife who was unvaccinated but recovered.
Decent and self-respecting people will be aware of and dismiss hate-driven material.

Topics involving (ironically) censorship, freedom, and opinions on the appropriate role of state and private (tech!) sector on those matters are aggressively policed. Anything remotely hailing from cypherpunk era is verboten; those guys look like outright philosophical renegades in comparison.
If you've used both, could you compare them? Why did you like Coda better than Notion?
Crypto’s latest trend is to play games before they’re even built
Dust in the toaster?
So if some heavily armed stranger touches your neck and that makes you nervous, you're probably guilty of something?
We will see what happens when Sinopharm and/or Valneva become available in the EU. J&J is not mRNA but it's also not an old style inactivated virus vaccine. As far as I can tell viral vector vaccines are just a little bit older than mRNA, having only been used against ebola since a few years ago (2018?).
I always felt like they should have made MissingNo a canonical pokemon.
Carbon removal technology reaches early milestone
When you are succesful your work has been very rewarding, you will keep chasing that feeling.
I don't work that much. I do not hate my work at all. I went for something I really enjoy, and I don't really need many holidays to "recover" like I hear other people say.
Hasn't it happened? They basically stop paying all federal employees and it really just ends up making life quite difficult for the low-wage government workers.
Yep, and to be honest even the UK (shitty as we were to Ireland throughout history) didn't have a complete economic blockade of Ireland during its early years, like the USA did on Cuba.
There is limited capacity to provide care for people. If people are without COVID dying because COVID cases are taking up that capacity, then COVID is a factor in those deaths as well.

One of the earliest fears about the spread of COVID was exactly this issue: too many cases would overwhelm the healthcare system and cause deaths to rise even more. Even if we couldn't stop the spread of the virus, one of the goals was to slow it down to keep the number of simultaneous cases to a minimum.
yeah, it's always hard to find senior devs for a specific position when it's not an industry standard for what's required in that role
I've been paying attention to Zig posts on HN, mostly just because it seems well-liked and I think Andrew Kelley is interesting/smart. Would it be fair to say that Zig is to C, what Rust is to C++? Or are they both just kind of...low-ish-level systems languages solving similar problems, differently?
Anything that opens with the word "manifesto" and uses words that mimic critical theory like "post-materialist" immediately has me worried. The material world is the domain of scientific inquiry. There is a good reason for this since it is the domain of the falsifiable. This doesn't mean that other domains are not important, just that that do not fall in the framework of hard science. I smell an agenda.
Unfortunately, every time Sars-CoV-2 spreads and increases its infection tally, mutation can occur which has a chance to beneficially influence selection in the next infection cycle.

Unlike how bacterial infections could gain or incrementally increase some of its antibiotic immunity or other attributes thanks to the conditions in a single host, for example incomplete or unnecessary antibiotic regimens, viral infections need to be infecting new cells in order to experience meaningful mutations. This is where immune function influences viral mutation.

Less immunity will result in more cell infection which directly creates opportunities for mutations as the virus replicates. If a vaccine improves host immunity enough that they replicate less virus, they will cause much less mutation. The relationship is non-linear because of the multiplicative nature of viral spread (r0?)

My opinion is that isn't anybody's "fault" that a pandemic virus is causing such unbelievable mayhem, but vaccinations and immunology is the truest course to achieving excellent results going forward.

Edit: Virus does not require fresh host to mutate
I know of a finance company where years ago, IT was outsourced to IBM. Many of the VPs and Directors lost huge pensions when converting over to IBM. Once the IBM contract was discontinued, and those VPs/Directors returned to direct employment, an interesting thing happened. Those VPs and Directors colluded to eliminate the mainframe at any cost. Hypothetically, redeveloping an application in Java cost $5M to save $1M in mainframe cost - approved. Anything to hurt IBM’s chance of taking over IT again.
The point of what? Life?

If it is the point for you, that's great, but it's certainly not the point for me. Don't incorrectly assume most people share your purpose or values.
The data out of Israel plainly shows that vaccinated people have significantly better outcomes: They are much less likely to get seriously ill and die.

Stop it.
You started a hell of a flamewar with this, and you contributed to perpetuating it too. That's totally not cool here.

Please follow the site guidelines, which include:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448249 and marked it off topic.
When you approaching airport or train station security theater, you slowing down due to limited throughput. And then bang! - a terrorist blows up in the crowd right in front of security gate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2013_Volgograd_bomb...
Everyone I've talked to (and my personal feeling) is that people are kind of sick of the number of subscriptions they have and have to maintain. I think the microtransaction thing never took off not because it's a bad idea, but because it never was built-in and legit feeling and widespread. If I just had a general crypto wallet where I could add some spending money every once in a while, and I could use that to unpaywall things by clicking a button, I would totally use that.
Thanks, great breakdown! Where did you source this from?
> what's stopping cheap, non-refugee laborers from scooping job postings from refugees? I don't think it would be possible to verify the refugee status of someone without leaking identifying info.

I think problem is solved by the fact if you aren't a refugee you are probably looking for work through normal channels. A job board like this is for people who are either doing something illegal (as a symptom of being a gov resistant platform), or who have no other options due to circumstances.
Leninism may not be by but Maoism was explicitly adopted by parts of the radical left in the 70s, many of whom are still influential for the current generation.
adding paper to a compost pile will give different results than keeping a book stored in the proper conditions
I'm using an Awair Element, I didn't do a ton of research on alternatives, but the app is pretty good and it "just works".
Article was fine. Nodded along to parts of it. Then, hilariously, came the spread of card links below:

-Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One

-How to Build a Brand—From Anywhere—by Embracing Your Surroundings

-99U Conference Speaker Spotlight: Alain Sylvain on the Ever-Changing, Infinite Pursuit of Creativity

It's almost like they were trying to prove this article's point by immediately hitting you with a bunch of "bullshit"
Coincidental variables are a major problem. If any vaccine or medication had side effects the only way it'd be noticed over that duration of time is if it occurred in a majority of recepients and not much at all in anyone else.

Most trial studies only follow subjects for about 6 to 12 months for the bulk of the study, and at longer intervals only to determine if already known good / bad differences between active an placebo populations persist and to what degree.

The number one thing that changes with X years of "long term" study data is the number of study participants.

Around the world we have seen an unprecedented 'Phase 4' trial in response to a global pandemic. In the USA alone over 100 million have been vaccinated with the new mRNA technology and most of us for far longer than it would take for new symptoms to show.

Contrast with placebo patients who shun the vaccines: They're overflowing hospitals right now causing real deaths to OTHERS who need emergency medical care for non-pandemic reasons. Those who survive are at risk of 'long haul COVID' symptoms at a greatly increase rate of occurrence and severity compared to the vaccines. Needless to add, the risk of death from the vaccine is far lower as well; even the J&J / AZ vaccines are still better than the risk of Delta (the variant that ravaged India).
So Twitter should do nothing about it and even make it easier for people to sign up to be for-hire parrots ? And we just all stop complaining about it ?
It's not just political theatre... They also periodically just shut down the government for a bit, denying citizens services they've come to rely on!

Why have just the spectacle without some actual suffering thrown in?
I can buy a whole 32U rack of reasonably spec'd 1U servers with a pair of ToR switches for under $300k, including installation and wiring.

These numbers don't make sense to me.
Quadrant Eye (YC W21) Is Hiring a Head of Research, Engineering, Design
> “We have learned from past debt limit impasses that waiting until the last minute to suspend or increase the debt limit can cause serious harm to business and consumer confidence, raise short term borrowing costs for taxpayers and negatively impact the credit rating of the United States,” she wrote.

> To delay a default, Treasury has in the last month suspended investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund and the Government Securities Investment Fund of the Federal Employees Retirement System Thrift Savings Plan.
That isn't how the immune system works. It's not a binary gate that's either open or closed. It's more like a war between two armies, and it depends on which side musters the larger army and how creatively the armies fight. If the vaccine reduces chance of infection, it will also reduce severity, because both operate via the same mechanism: antibodies killing the virus.
What if the city like NY ordered ALL bars to stop you for your papers.

Now you can't go to any bars. That hurts minorities the most as they are the most unvaccinated.

Its new world segregation essentially.

But yes those people could just pick up and move, and many are. Look at the numbers.

Unfortunately many cannot because they aren't on a SWE salary.
why would the government care if i’m banned from twitter?
By whom? It's a pandemic, it affects everyone. It's right there in the name.

I'm fully vaccinated, and I spent half an hour at a bank yesterday (wearing an N95) and I'm voluntarily quarantining for two weeks.

It's a deadly disease. It doesn't care about your PR slogans or your political alignment. It does care about transmission, which is why avoiding unnecessary trips, wearing real ventilators (not cloth masks, Fauci is lying to you when he says they work, all scientific evidence is that they don't), and getting vaccinated all reduce the likelihood that either you will get it or you will transmit it to someone else. Nothing gets the likelihood to 0%.
For reference: the spat is that Cloudflare DNS does not leak geographic information of the queryer through EDNS, and the archive.is fellow is requiring geographic information to provide valid DNS lookups. So he intentionally sends back bad results when it is 1.1.1.1 querying his nameservers.

I love the site, but his stance on this doesn't really make sense to me, and it's a shame that millions and millions of people use 1.1.1.1 daily and archive.is is the one website that doesn't work for those people.
Show HN: Buildman.io – Cut your development build time instantly
Hi everyone
Buildman is an Android Studio plugin to build your codes in the cloud. If you are an Android developer, you know the CPU fan sounds like aircraft when you hit the run button. But with Buildman your code gets built in the cloud and no CPU/memory is used on your side.

Feedbacks are welcome
Argon2 Memory-Hard Function for Password Hashing and Proof-of-Work Applications
I doubt it matters much, right?

I would say one thing to consider is maybe getting the same or similar distro that it will be running on in PRD. This can help you eliminate any sort of bugs that might only happen in PRD due to package differences.
Zig/Rust aim to fit in the same systems/general purpose space which can be viewed as alternatives to both C and C++.
The fact that the US treats their citizenry as personal property, able to be snuffed out by assassination at any time without due process, does not in any way whatsoever normalize or justify Russia doing the same.
> I really disagree with this on so many levels, and I believe the market will ultimately reject it too.

I wish this were true, but unfortunately, I think too many consumers don't think critically when making purchases, even on things as large as cars, and that's exactly why we see the proliferation of this awful subscription for everything model. Just look at how most people buy cars. Every ad and salesman talks about "How much do you want to pay per month?". And most people are fine with that line of reasoning, when even a little bit of thinking reveals how dumb it is. I'm fine with a $6,000 a month payment, for example, so long as the duration of the loan is two months. Likewise, a $400 a month payment on a used car can look quite reasonable, unless you're looking at an 84 month loan at 3.5% interest.

Looked at in isolation, the amount of the monthly payment is irrelevant when it comes to the actual cost of the car, but that's all most folks look at, and that's exactly why car salesmen love it.

It makes me shudder even more when people talk about house purchases. I heard someone say something like, "I bought a $350,000 house with $50,000 down". No, at 3.5% interest on a 30-year mortgage you just bought a $534,968 house with $50,000 down. But you can bet your life that it was sold to them as, "A beautiful home for only $X dollars a month".
Sometimes I'm not so sure.
Did you miss the part where after the banning, the teachers admitted they were teaching and would continue to teach CRT?
So what happened between 1996 and 2013 to make the debt ceiling not a perennial issue?
Shutdowns only, with descriptions of them following:

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

All US funding gaps:

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

(this is not in contradiction of the parent poster—just providing convenient further-reading links for others)
Dumb people are going to want to go to covid parties to get infected naturally because it is better immunity..

Public health messages need to be kept simple.

Natural immunity should be better because you are exposed to all the same proteins in the vaccine plus more and also possibly for a longer period of time and at a higher quantity.

Now that you had delta, you should be immune to delta and partially immune to whatever delta mutates into.
How do I create a simple website for free?
I want a minimalistic website to post my blogs, how can create and maintain it for free? Is there any way to use website address of my choice for free?
SF Tries To Tame The Skyscraper (1985): 30-year+ of NYMBYism
Operation Chimaera: TeamTNT hacking group strikes thousands of victims worldwide
Make sure you add :first-child as in my example, otherwise you'll get all the stories smooshed together.
Honestly I think this is because Notion, Slite are mostly frontend apps at the core. And thus attract talents who are strong in frontend, and the culture is biased toward front end (actually in Notion it is even biased toward UI). And thus they neglect backend due to their culture which leads to performance issues.

I agree that you can't do Notion in a weekend, I have been working on something similar and it took me 8 months full time to have something that starts to look ok.

But that's also why I'm not bearish on having good performance in that kind of app. Notion made very dubious choices regarding their data model which explains why it is slow. Slite did not, but I thought that Slite had better performance though
No, not like them. Those services are not handling the number of transactions a second, reliably, across a single database, as companies like Bank of America or Visa are.
Need to have a big think? Leave phone in office, 30min walk outside. Amazing.
Do you mean "shutdown?" The first shutdown occurred in 1980 under the Carter administration. There's been 20-ish shutdowns of varying degrees since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...
It's sort of interesting but also sort of very impractical. As a buyer the only thing you should care about inside a laptop is the effectiveness of the thermal design. The ability to remove heat from the CPU decides whether your laptop is fast or slow, over a range that is much, much larger than the generation-to-generation improvement in CPU speed. A ThinkPad X1 with an 8th-generation Core CPU is going to outperform a Asus ZenBook with an 11th-generation CPU. So when I look at this replaceable computer on a stick, it just makes me wonder how hostile it is to proper mechanical engineering.
It's not about "never say never". It's about HN being notoriously bad at predicting trends.
There’s also population skew since the vaccination rate is much higher among older Americans, and older people are more at risk of severe illness in general.
The Philly airport employees are some of the least hospitable I've encountered traveling, especially their TSA. They come off as actively hostile about everything
> Arguably lean manufacturing is an anti-pattern.

When taken to the extremes that modern business has taken it to, it is 100% an anti-pattern.
Zig is clearly leaning in hard to the E3 strategy!

(embrace, extend, extinguish) for those not familiar
How would you corrupt a postal election without getting caught? Maybe you could get a handful of bad votes in, but I don’t know how you could do it at scale.
Google Meet's new video conferencing hardware – 27“ and 65” all-in-one devices
Earth sure looks pretty flat from space
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/08/9850327...

It's not new.
> as a person who grew up in a country ruined by "anti-capitalism"

Would you be willing to name this county?
Not exactly volunteer, but you can participate in competitions like Kaggle or maybe data science related ones from DARPA (might be under the heading of another agency).
I use InoReader, its essentially google reader in all the ways that (used to) matter
The money to pay workers gets reallocated to pay creditors, then it runs out and the US is downgraded as a credit risk making it harder and more expensive to borrow in the future.

We can also view it as a mechanism for transferring wealth to the financial sector. It gives lenders an excuse to increase the fees and interest they charge the state.
Seeding test databases in 2021 – best practices
Two wrongs don't make a right. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply, what is happening on Twitter is fraud and disinformation for-hire. That seems factually true.

We can talk about traditional media on an article that discuss traditional media maybe?
ty, if I could fit those charts into a comment here I would.
Just because the average person doesn't know what bills are passed is irrelevant to what I am saying.

All I am saying is that forcing people to vote has no impact on stopping extreme policies. If you were correct Australia wouldn't have passed this and other similar laws over the past few years.

I agree that voter apathy can lead to extreme policies passing. That point is irrelevant to what I was trying to convey that extreme policies are still passed despite mandatory voting.
Cool, thanks: that is useful feedback!

I haven't applied for a lower level dev so far, but it gives me some encouragement to maybe try next time I want to switch positions (though I did work or get offers on some embedded dev shops, but on the web side of things).
Actually they did a study on the masks and proved effective.

It was done by picking a population of 350K, then separating them to test and control groups, encourage mask for the test group.

The results are that at 39% mask use in the test group the covid cases were %12 lower than the control group.

There was also a difference between surgical mask(%12) and cloth mask(%9) use.

[0] https://twitter.com/Jabaluck/status/1433036933400305673/phot...
> You literally cannot create a financial institution without being forced to submit to FINRA

Yes, you can. To trade securities you have to be a member of an SRO, of which FINRA is one and the largest. (MSRB is another. Before 2007 there were non-NASD NYSE members. And if you're starting a bank or a hedge fund or a VC firm, FINRA has nothing to do with you.)

Going back to the original assertion: yes, FINRA was created by and is subservient to the SEC. If FINRA has proper jurisdiction, the SEC certainly does.
> viral infections need to be infecting new hosts in order to experience meaningful mutations.

Interesting! What causes this, is there some keyword i can search for in order to learn more?
Yes I'm aware that there's an ongoing debate about whether a human, or anything for that matter, can truly be random. But I wasn't going to bring this up in this article, or add caveats to every single point, or else this would've been unbearable to read.

I used artistic license in certain instances. But I agree some things could've been worded better and I'll edit those.
A dev built an chatbot so a man speak to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down
Who is "they"? Sounds like you're projecting your feelings on a group of people in your personal life.
Yes. It has a Processor Base Frequency 2.30 GHz · Max Turbo Frequency 3.70 GHz

Your latest Intel® Xeon® E-2386G Processor, not available yet...has a base frequency of 3.50 GHz and a Max Turbo Frequency 5.10 GHz

So even with the latest...your Turbo frequency... is the base from the mainframe core...

And if you happen to be running a memory bound benchmark, with the massive caches in the mainframe, you will be crushed.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Not 3 year olds perhaps, but there is definitely an organized movement to promote early gender affirmation surgery.
that was pretty much the idea behind original lockdown but no rapid testing or red/green zoning got implemented.