skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fake delay is 10's of seconds...
It sounds like you had a very upset stomach and a bad hangover.
> It's a pandemic. Why would you expect a firm end date?

Or an event, and a plausible way the world will get there. Please tell me what the goal is.

I don't think COVID is ever going to go away, just as the flu has never gone away, and every number I've seen indicates that if you're vaccinated (!), the risk of either virus putting you in the hospital is similar.

That seems to me like it's as good as it's gonna get.
> Although, I'm more amazed this post has been up an hour without any rust comments..

There are more comments on any given post about hypothetical obnoxious Rust comments than any actual comments of that nature.
This plus the content of the podcast released last week with Tomasz Lelek make me think something mentally unhealthy is happening with the host. Feels pathological. Loved the podcast in the past, but I'll be moving on. Hope he gets better.
Well, the correct puralization would "biased data". With data, the method of collection matters a great deal in determining the amount of bias inherent in your dataset.

The implication of flipping the expression around is that poorly collected data isn't really data (which is silly). That is a bit silly, but so is the implication of the original expression which implies that simply having more anecdotes resolves issues of data bias.
> Mozilla's management is also to blame. They expanded into a whole plethora of projects that all have been killed, they bought Pocket and did nothing with it.

Pocket is one of the few external revenue sources they actually have.
The Paradox of Successful Leadership
Brain’s plans fail because of his hubris and confidence. They’re always very grandiose, and he cannot accept that they’re flawed. He is delusional to a ridiculous degree. Pinky is a willing and suportive participant, even if he knows failure is assured. He is directly enabling the delusion.

Ignoring how intelligent they may or may not be individually, they’re both pretty insane or bored!
There was also something about Firefox being actively antagonistic to being easy to mass deploy and manage by IT?
Please check my answer to "capableweb" user in this thread.
You snark, but the agenda of a new source such as NPR should be to objectively inform the public.

That means, highlighting the risks of a breakthrough case such as the one in the article with the addition of probability of getting such a case, using data as a means of supporting their arguments about risks post-vaccination, etc.

The entire article is written in a spooky manner, indirectly extrapolating a single anecdotal experience written in alarmist tone.
How many people can someone micromanage?
Well, sure, are you going to confirm to accounting norms when you're not required to and you've got more urgent matters to attend to? Especially if you're in an institution that has ignored accounting norms for many many years?
„"Food grade" plastic is a myth” – do you know any reliable sources where I could read up the details?
Ask HN: Host of [redacted] is not well. Can anyone in SF help?
I've been a fan of the [redacted] podcast for years. Within the several weeks, the [redacted]-based host [redacted] has become increasingly manic, culminating in paranoid messages on his Twitter[1] and a 4 minute episode today threatening Mark Zuckerberg and accusing him of ruining his life. I don't know [redacted] personally, but it appears he his having a serious mental health crisis and may potentially harm himself or others. If anyone in [redacted] knows [redacted], can someone go check on him and get him help?

[1] [redacted]

[2] [redacted]
CloudFlare DNS is not the part that gives you the annoying anti bot checks. Those are from website operators who have opted in to the CDN and anti-DDoS services that CloudFlare offers.
Even more fun, when I actually dig down to advanced settings I can't turn of some cookies like:
"Bizible - Do Not Use
bizible.com
No Opt Out Mechanism
Bizible enables you to drill deep on settled and projected ROI of online advertising, so you can make data-driven budget decisions based on revenue."

Umm what is going on with that one?

Or why doesn't Facebook support opting out here?
^ Just to be clear, I personally don't think there's some conspiracy. I just think a lot of people aren't reasoning about the level of risk in a rational way. They absolutely were in 2020, but now we have widely-available vaccines.
You're probably thinking of mineral oil, which is indeed used as a laxative. But it's much less volatile since it consists of much higher alkanes than the C8, octane, in gasoline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_paraffin_(drug)
It could make sense.

The cannabinoid receptor occurs naturally and for an evolutionary reason.

Another interesting factoid: the cannabinoid signally system is retrograde: its information flow is OPPOSITE of all other neurotransmitters along specific neural paths. This alone makes prior bans on research into MJ tantamount to "Crimes Against Humanity".

What I'd be interested in is how it might tie into testosterone pathways: one reality of T is that it enables you to mentally ignore the pain of exertion in a number of similar ways to cannabinoids.
> > If I travelled at one percent of speed of light, same distance, i suppose 100 years would elapse for me, how much would elapse on earth?

> I don't know how to do the math, but a very, very long time would have passed on earth.

Eh, at .01c, not so much: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation?c=USD&v...

(=100.005y, not even two days extra)
But someone needs to do this before the interesting stuff can happen.
All scientific observations may start as an anecdote, but hopefully they continue with a sampling methodology that minimizes bias in your data.
The Met commissioner: Tech giants make it impossible to stop terrorists
Github repository there is a lot of criticism: https://github.com/madaidans-insecurities/madaidans-insecuri...
I think yes, and the answer is more concrete for "oneself", since the molecules that make-up oneself are all accelerating and decelerating with you/as you in your own reference frame.
>I remember getting a call from the fire department commander telling me that they were not sure they are going to be able to contain the fire. "I said, "you know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it". And they made that decision to pull. And then we watched the building collapse.

It sounds to me like Silverstein and the NYFD were talking about pulling firefighters out of WTC7. Once the fire department realized saving the building was a lost cause, there was no reason for firefighters to remain inside and risk their lives further. I don't hear anything in the video about "pulling" the building down.
Maybe in the US, but not in Europe. Health care and the education of your children is largely not dependent on your job. Shades of grey of course, I don't think university education is free in the UK anymore (it was when I was at university) and private health care does exist
As far as I'm concerned, apologizing for the appeal to authority signalled that he was open to being criticized and challenged by layman, rather than choosing to belittle those who disagree with him without having his knowledge and experience.

In short, he demonstrated that he wasn't an "elitist".
Thousands protest new Turkish vaccine and test rules
OpenBSD's ports tree gets compiled using multiple compilers (clang/gcc) and compiler versions (base 4.2.1, ports gcc8/11), across many different architectures. In most cases when an upstream has added -Werror to a Makefile, they have not considered this. It's good for testing, but not for reliably compiling software.
That Google link doesn't work.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5001
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What alternative do you suggest? Lying to the public? Or the government making every decision for them like they're all children? Both of those sound much, much worse.
> Yes, this is why I assumed that it won't just be three or five or seven jabs but jabs forever just like the flu

Those successive vaccines you get are for a wide variety of new flu strains.
Secret, file encryption program and library
Those that admit they are drunk and take an Uber instead of driving do not cause accidents. It's the 'Oh, it's just a couple of beers (narrator voice: and two vodka shots, and three martinis.)' that choose to drive while impaired that cause most of the accidents.
Anyone interested in this will find this channel useful: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes

Loads of essays and resources on urban planning.
Well if you think reality is a Hollywood rhetoric where if youre determined enough you can accomplish anything regardless of obstacles - good luck.

Just gonna leave this list of events where the villains were brought to justice:

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...
That's on top of the reduced risk of catching it in the first place. Estimates of that vary widely, let's use 1/6. So 1/12 risk of long COVID.
Assuming that you're between 18-49 years old, the CDC puts the infection fatality rate for that age group at 0.15%. So, unvaccinated, you would have a 99.85% chance of not dying. Being vaccinated, of course, further improves your odds.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

The younger you are within that bracket, your odds improve even more. If you have no comorbidities, even better.

Basically, I wouldn't be worrying about death as any given young individual, but at a population scale, COVID is quite deadly. I'm personally much more worried about the other reported effects and lasting tissue damage.
Here's something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer (2016)
I'm having trouble finding my notes on the match, but after looking again on youtube, I'm pretty sure the professional was Myungwan Kim.
My understanding is that masks at least cloth or surgical are vastly more about others than yourself.
Yeah, nowadays everyone is special snowflake deserving respect and careful language.
- Sugar.
- Social networks.
- The coddling of the mind.

I think you will find that all three have vicious cycles built into them.
> Although, I'm more amazed this post has been up an hour without any rust comments..

I've actually thought "WTF why porting a project to a memory unsafe language", but actually the PR title is somewhat excessive - it's more of a modernization, indeed described by the author as "the first incremental step of getting libtransmission to compile with a C++ compiler".
Of course you shouldn't forget them. But if you want to honor them, also don't forget people who resisted starting a war of aggression which ended up causing two orders of magnitude more lives lost, helped create ISIS and other things that continue to this day. Remembering the dead doesn't make them alive, and without also holding murderers that still run free accountable it has no sentimental value either in my books. If the American public as a whole had 1% of the energy they have for flowery language dedicated to the values they pay lip service to, George Bush, Dick Cheney and many others would be in jail. They used this for a war of aggression, and enriched themselves and their buddies. How is them still walking free not an insult to all these people who lost their lives in 9/11?

That people help each other in catastrophies, be that earthquakes or anything else, is human. The pattern of war and war profiteering at the cost of the public, of the very same average Joes and Janes that get to die, that's the thing the USA excels at. Just as a random example, look at healthcare: that does not strike me as something that is even possible in a society where caring for others and selfless sacrifice is a priority, much less the ideal.

> If you care about other people, that’s now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself. Maybe you can become rich, but you don’t care whether other people’s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that.

-- Noam Chomsky

I'm not disrespecting the victims in my own heart, but you could say I'm somewhat unimpressed by the somber display of respect by many people who, with their (in)actions, betray the values that would give such respect weight.
No, this was before the move to Southlake.
There's also no such thing as dangerous technology. There's no such thing as a dangerous idea. Every discovery, every article, every book, every tutorial is good. Knowledge helps us all.
Have you factored in the reduced chance of symptomatic disease? That comes before long COVID.

With (two months after) vs without = ~0.2 vs 0.05×0.5×0.2 = ~20% vs ~0.5%

(Explanation: chance of symptomatic disease 2 months after reported as 5% vs "control"; chance of long COVID after symptomatic infection reported as 2.3% as bare minimum, 13% to other research and 40% to a large interpretation.)

Edit: to the three British studies of 2.3%, 13% and 40%, after this thread I can add 25% from a post from user tfehring, including link to article: «something like a quarter of people with symptomatic COVID seem to have some kind of cognitive symptom (mainly “brain fog” and/or short-term memory loss) 8 months later». I will update the tentative value for the chance of long COVID, but the ratio, half of one twentieth, does not change.
I would zero sleep about sugar additive restrictions. Almost the only sugar I get is from a banana a day.
How factories were made safe
This is a bit defeatist.

There are a finite number of no-click mechanisms on the iPhone which accepts content from arbitrary actors on the internet. If you disable them, there are precious few ways to get hacked without user interaction.

If you disable iMessage, FaceTime, emails, etc, you still need to worry about the WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular stacks. Obviously disabling them all turns your smartphone into something less useful.

But I would argue that this isn’t unique to iPhone. There is more highlighting of iPhones because Apple is better at logging indicators of compromise on the device, so the audit trail of attempted/successful infection is better on Apple devices.

In the past, some of the worst CVEs that affected Apple devices were pulled in from upstream open source projects. The core issue is not limited to closed-source projects (although I personally would like to see Apple support more red teamers to bang on their products).
Graphite Bomb
"We couldn't afford a wind machine for this shot, so we bought a leaf blower from a hardware store. We kept the receipt, so we can return it after we're done."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E
I'd say it depends on the original line art: for anime it seems to put mostly correct colors right from the get-go, saving some time for the basic coloring. But most other art styles, you have to do most of the work yourself, as you said
buddhism suggests we focus on the things we can control, like perception and attitude in the face of otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. i've no doubt the situation for many medical professionals is quite frustrating, even infuriating, but it would have been so in any of the myriad of realistic scenarios. the virus is, and was always going to be, endemic, which means hospitalization and death rates are pretty well bounded no matter what we realistically did. the frustration comes from believing that this isn't true, that there was something that could be done to significantly reduce these rates, but that's mediopolitical messaging, not realistic possibility. accepting this could possibly relieve some of your frustration.

also, no assumption was involved, just the simple logic of multiplying two tiny numbers resulting in another tiny number.
Some people definitely believe that because they've had bad experiences with weed (paranoia etc), it's not a fun drug.

Too many people are getting ultra-stoned instead of enjoying it like you would half a bottle of wine.
“Technically correct” way would be to control the surroundings than adapt representations. High CRI lightbulbs, display hoods, wallpapers, etc.
Yeah, the removal of EE classes was probably the biggest burden for my team (completely unrelated to modules).
I find it beautiful that the LDAC codec used with Sony wireless Bluetooth headphones only works on Linux through PipeWire. macOS is stuck with AAC, and Windows gets aptX. Linux gets all of them.

Who do I thank for making this Just Work?
Have you had COVID? It fucking sucks. This vivid description is pretty accurate to my experience.

Is it an alarmist tone or an accurate expression of symptoms? Why do you immediately take it for an agenda?

Sometimes, if you feel scared while reading something, it doesn't mean that the author is trying to make you scared for no reason; it might mean that they are just describing something that is a little scary.
(In case you need one) Quad9 DNS is far better imo than CF.
Granted my ISP doesn't block many things already and it's fast, so the only concern for me is privacy, which the stated alternative seems to prioritize more than the others.
You write:

A functional and thriving democracy ensures that those voted to power cannot abuse their privilege. Or those who do abuse it cannot do so without repercussions.

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They always break the law and abuse it. And there are no repercussions for breaking the law. George W Bush onwards there is precedence for lack of liability or repercussions. The same applies to all other countries and sets the inspiration for them for the all tracking surveillance state, which will always be abused. Restrictions exist to curtail and limit human nature. Once those restrictions are removed or above the law then we all subjects are at the mercy of the elites and their elite narrative. Woe to those who try to defy this Brave New World.
I'm sorry, but I would rather have the privacy encryption gives me than safety adding a backdoor would provide. Not to mention that authoritarian governments would abuse such a system left and right.
Late in WWII very high octane 115/145 aviation gasoline (read: lots and lots of TEL) became available for Allied frontline fighters, giving a performance boost. When cruising, pilots had to periodically rush the engines to full power in order to burn off the lead deposits on the spark plugs. And the spark plugs had to be replaced after every flight.
I understand the point you meant to make, but to be honest I've always found it horrifying whenever I have to sit in the DMV and see who all they allow to pilot steel missiles around. Our "licensing" for drivers in the US is abhorrent.
As former military ( I assume that background is the reason for this), I just cannot understand what the deal is over masks. I can literally forget that I'm wearing a fitted surgical mask. They feel like nothing. What is so damn hard about wearing them? I hear so many grown adults whine and complain and dramatize having to put one on, and it just blows my mind.

Maybe I am, unknown to myself, a superhero, and my power is not having a hard time wearing a mask. Or maybe I'm not a spoiled entitled brat. Not sure anymore.
> And let's say, i travel one light-year at the speed of light, that should be instantaneous, right?

Time slows down for the faster moving particles. And by time slowing down we mean all the particles in your body equally all start to move slower and more sluggishly in sync.

This is because it takes more energy to accelerate a particle as it approaches the speed of light. So if you had a pendulum clock moving almost at the speed of slight, that velocity of the pendulum at rest would be at X m/s, but if the whole system is already moving super fast the extra X m/s would take too much energy. So since the energy is constant the relative speed of the pendulum just becomes much slower.
Should have used “protects” instead of “prevents” - bad word choice on my end.
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The compression is the easiest part to emulate. The hard part is the enormous amount of heat you need to generate and quickly transmit into that compressed fluid. Combustion is great on both accounts for that, but you could do it electrically as well given a sufficient power supply.
Did Chevron Imprison Environmental Lawyer Steve Donziger
Your employer should provide an adequate chair. Even the US federal government is capable of meeting that bar, albeit with more delays and paperwork than a private-sector employer.
The section "How high are my chances of getting a breakthrough case these days?" goes into that. If you're looking for a hard number, I don't think anyone can give you that because it's highly community specific.

I have no idea how you got fear-mongering from that article, though. My impress was that it's a reality check on what the vaccine is capable of and what one individual's breakthrough looks like.
uBiome— you’d send fecal samples to them and they’d sequence and tell you what bacteria you have. They claimed to have clinical value and started billing insurance, before eventually being raided and shut down for something along the lines of insurance fraud.
I'm sure the thread is monitored and strike force is being dispatched as we speak.
Biopunks Tinker with the Building Blocks of Life (2011)
> The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light

The Alcubierre drive is only a thought experiment that requires "exotic matter" (aka fairy dust) to work.
There was a class aimed at middle school? Iirc Students where they were taught erlang and by the end of two classes they had built a crude networked chat system, which, believe it or not, gets their attention. You can't really do that so easily in any other language system.

> I don't know that beginners should think about [immutable by default].

Yeah. Beginners should not have to think about mutability. So, immutability by default is the right choice. Details like "why don't integers mutate when passed to a function versus a dict" should not ever have to be answered to a beginner.
I moved to Hollywood, CA from Rockford, IL to live with my father when I was 14 years old. When I started school at the end of Summer there my mid-western accent really stood out and I took quite a bit of ribbing over that. The kids there called me a "Hillbilly" because of my accent. But down in Texas, where I spent a summer a few years before that kids there called me a "Yankee" based on my accent.

But what stood out to me in Hollywood was how many "cliques" there were there. One of the first things kids there told me is I had to join one. They said I could choose from "BMX'ers, Surfers, Skateboarders, Freaks, Motocrossers, Bikers, Stoners" and probably a few others.

Each of those groups had their own phrases and very distinct accents and you had to talk and dress like them to be a part of that clique.

So, I think one could easily conclude the same thing about speech for skateboarders as pot smokers or any other social clique. But I don't think you could detect that influence with my speech, even though I've smoked weed since before I moved to Hollywood 48 years ago. You almost certainly could detect I'm from the mid-west though.
Worth noting that parts of it are trying to be funny, parts of it are plain wrong, and parts of it are dangerously misleading. There may be one or two useful bits in it somewheres too.