skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been nice if the congress spent a few 10s of millions for a RCT. Funding could easily be through the NIH. Treatment options with even minor impact could have huge returns on investment given that we have seen 600k deaths and millions of severe cases. Treatment options are not a substitute for vaccination and are only framed as such out of political dogma. The government has an ethical mandate to overcome such dogma and act in the interests of saving lives, especially when the the cost is so low compared to trillions thrown around wildly in pandemic spending. People with public trust who are categorically opposed to treatment research are morally culpable for the deaths that could be prevented.
Absolutely ridiculous, you cannot apply the butterfly effect to everything.
> Put away the Javascript. Forget those modal pop-ups and newsletter sign-ups.

This would make a lot of careers obsolete though (and even entire companies - I'm sure there are "newsletter popup as a service" startups). It's hard to make someone understand something when their paycheck depends on not understanding it.
No paywall

https://web.archive.org/web/20210607151632/https://doctorow....

Acompanying podcast

https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_391/Cory_...
I think a lot of people underestimate how financially important it is for groups like LMG and GN to maintain the trust of their core audience.

In the videos Linus does breaking down LMG's revenue, about a third of it comes from a tiny fraction of their audience - merch and direct subscriptions. I'm sure it's a similar chunk if not more for GN through modmats, mousepads, and Patreon.

Even if they sold out their integrity and still got millions of views, it's that "hardcore" audience they can't really get back. In an enthusiast space where a large chunk of the audience are professionals with disposable income, it's a lot to lose.

I haven't seen anything from Linus or Steve to suggest that's the only reason they care so much about their integrity, they both seem to genuinely care, but y'know parasocial relationships etc.
Ah, I had one of those! i7, 16gb RAM. I loved that computer, but I've spent the majority of the past year and a half at home and I found myself reaching for it less and less. A desktop just makes more sense for a home office (IMO). I did get an M1 MBA for the rare situations that I actually need to travel with a computer.

I handed it down to my fiancée who uses it to edit photos.
Zambia Is Not in East Africa – Google Search Error
Offer more money and better recognition. If your middle managers are unwilling to do so - despite the company needing it - fire your middle managers. Save that money and hire the employees you need.
USB-C ports (the "internal" ones) are soldered to the motherbord on Framework, unlike on MacBooks, FYI
So the Michelin Inspectors are discovering measureable, objectively bad things about the food/restaurant, just as you would be able to identify objectively bad things about the good-enough app? What are those things and what is the objective measurement?
It’s good advice. Although from my experience this is truly automatic and effortless when you’re extremely hungry, tired, and cold. I went through USAF SERE school and you have little opportunity to start worrying about tomorrow, or even 4 hours from now really ;P
Note that this explains _why_ Cory Doctorow gets a new laptop every year... which was one of the central mysteries of the article currently at #1 on HN, "The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used."[0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606962
This style of RTS play is often called "Sim Base".
Yep, that one. I've also reassigned that very quick
Yes, it was made by the same people who invented the Pax. I don't think they'd ever come out and say it but I would fully believe they were just looking for a better way to consume nicotine, in that the Pax was supposed to be a better way to consume THC. I think they probably just wanted to make a better cigarette using technology. Whether it was used by people trying to quit or people who had never tried before, I suspect was orthogonal to their cause, though I believe they were themselves smokers.
> buying from amazon ties me to their devices and they give me a "license" to read on their devices only

This isn't strictly true since you can also read Amazon ebooks on 3rd party android devices that have the Kindle application installed.

It's true in the more general sense that the Amazon ebooks have DRM that limit interoperability.
OKC has a history of these stunts.
I'm (slowly) in the process of migrating an Android app from Java -> Kotlin. The compatibility with Java is pretty amazing. Mixing the two languages feels almost the same as two java files.

There is a bit of cognitive overhead at first, but that's the overhead of learning a new language. Plus I immediately see the benefits, specifically WRT optionals (?. and ?: operator).
You'd rather eat a McDonald's cheesecake?

And I feel like Olive Garden is the definition of naive Italian cuisine
First let me say I really dislike Rust. Personal preference.

However, having worked with Node for almost 10 years now, with a number of bundlers, most in Javascript but some in other languages, Javascript tools rarely win the performance race.

We switched our medium-sized app from Rollup (Javascript) to ESBuild (Rust). Our build times went from 5-15 minutes, to just under 1 second - with full feature parity.

I'm sure a lot of this boils down to algorithms and whatnot, sure. But I still would like to think it's in part the language choice, too.
Maybe use MacBook only for watching videos?
Then their cousins and very close friends will do the trading on their behalf.
At what point does Apple just skip a year?
I made the mistake of buying a used Thinkpad T420 and setting it up w/ Xubuntu as a fun fixer-upper side project. Now I'm way too used to it. It's my 1/2 daily driver (the other half a boring dell XPS desktop; Xubuntu) and I gave my much more capable MB Pro to my son, who uses it to watch YT videos and play games.

So far I keep finding workarounds for things that require too many system resources. It's been kind of a funny experience in that way. I really, really like that it's forced me to slow down and think.

It's a similar situation with my 2012 MSI Wind netbook, which runs Puppy Linux and is surprisingly capable with Falkon, Geany, Puppy utils, nim, Object Pascal, etc. I feel like I should be getting rid of this machine but it can really do a lot.

T420 Dislikes: It's heavy. The screen is terrible in terms of viewing angles. It doesn't show the color orange properly, so when I use it for graphics or illustrations, I have to check my work on other devices. The speaker volume isn't loud enough. The DVD drive randomly springs open every so often. I can't stand the way the trackpoint gets in my way when I go to type the B key. The literal LED lamp that shines onto the keyboard is annoying but at least it's there. There are 3 dead pixels.

This computer also dual-boots Windows 10 so I can run the sketchy software that has come with about 20 different Chinese ham radios. Thanks to the Chirp team for making this easier.
HackerNews points out that ice is not wet.
Is this considered concern trolling? A hostile actor could send you an MMS with illegal content, leave a bunch of voicemails with illegal content, clickjack/DNS hijack while you're getting coffee.

Every time I see this (and no offense, person whom I replied to) - it smells like someone is asking how much illicit content is available and how much policing there is.

Everything can be used for evil, if you try hard enough.
What you said is rooted in very vague facts. Lewis Latimer created a more durable affordable filament, now all of a sudden he invented the light bulb.
Well I left Kentucky back in '49 and went to Detroit work'n on assembly line..
WhatsApp is an app to communicate with another person or persons. "chatting on WhatsApp with friends and relatives with no specific topic discussion" -- sounds like someone looking for human companionship.

I can't believe this is a serious paper.

I noticed the paper was published in India. This screams excuses for patriarchy.
Yeah, but take the random trades of 435 people and a normal distribution is still going to have a top (and bottom!) outlier. It's certainly reasonable to assume an investment manager (her husband, who is making most of the trades) might be part of the reason to be such an outlier.

And even discounting that and looking for shenanigans, well..."she timed buying NFLX almost perfectly" with a purchase a month before it was announced they were going into the video game space; why the heck would she have known that? That isn't related to legislation, that isn't something they would have gone to the government for; that would be a purely business decision by Netflix. How the heck would she know about it?
>People put their phones down when their semi-subconscious driving “algorithm” detect anything out of the ordinary.

I think this ignores the fact that people can’t actually pay attention to more than one thing at a time, generally. Meaning, they aren’t simultaneously looking at their phone and being vigilant of “weirdness” That switching overhead from one focus to the other may be enough to delay reactions to cause accidents.

So while they’re not offline, the sensory input cycle is slowed enough to be much less useful.
So far, I've only read the abstract, but I see two problems with this approach.

One is that they are looking specifically at open source projects, which, as other comments have pointed out, can technically meet their definition of a "hero project" without anyone engaging in the types of heroics normally associated with that term.

The other problem is that they talk about comparing hero developers to non-hero developers, when they should be comparing hero projects to non-hero projects.

If hero projects (as the paper defines them) are so common, then the pool of non-hero developers is going to include a lot of non-hero developers working on hero projects. Of course those people make more mistakes than the heroes, they're less familiar with the project. But those mistakes were made following the hero project model and should count against it, not for it.
Not so much. Here we have an example of a memory pressure problem that's evident only under high load in realistic environments. This is a classic problem with performance engineering: it's usually difficult to do realistic automated load testing. Instead, you end up running lab experiments, which are time-consuming to set up.

The whole post is essentially about how tricky it was to surface the problems their customers were seeing in the field. I'd resist the urge to respond to that with a platitude about automated testing.
Channels are not always the best solution (unless you're referring to Rust channels?)

https://www.jtolio.com/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-s...
That's a well written article covering the basics of simulcast.

If you're interested in seeing an implementation of an SFU doing simulcast forwarding written in Rust, we (at Signal) recently open sourced our SFU:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Calling-Service/blob/mai...
> I think with this one it is, because everyone has tasted before, but comparatively few have coded before.

I don't think this is an apt comparison. Tasting is consuming something, coding is creating something. An apt comparison would be tasting to using apps, or coding to cooking. And now sure, you could say that most people have cooked before, much like most people have performed rudimentary medical procedures before; but most people have not performed complex medical procedures, or successfully made complex Michelin-starred dishes, or coded high-quality apps.
No electricity supply means really cheap energy bills.
Buuuuuuuut Mommmmmmmmmmm, I don't wanna write Another ETL Script! stamps feet
It's ages since I've been and I rarely ate then; I agree it's not great, but I personally I never expected anything more than decent supermarket sandwich level, except I suppose that they can toast it. Overpriced/more expensive for sure - but what're you going to do, bring cheaper food in to eat? They somehow prey on that being poor etiquette, even if you've bought coffee etc., I suppose.
Matrix protocol has a extreme low bandwidth mode, and I know a couple of other things are aiming to be more "iot/off grid capable"

Even packet radio would allow some of this stuff to flourish in remote areas - not matrix, it's encrypted.
When stocks only go up, every trading strategy appears to work. Let's see what happens during the next sustained bear market.
+1 same here. I only really use a computer for work, and these days the three things I use are web browser, office suite, and ssh into a linux server. The 2017 still holds it's own, and suits my work very well - basically by having a browser without any memory / cpu issues, supporting MS office, and not annoying me every 10s with some kind or advertising or survey or notification as a windows machine does.
I listened to the entirety of this podcast and felt it to be friendly to Juul to the extent of being sort of bizarre. The host routinely brought up criticisms of Juul but then immediately dismissed them and moved on without further analysis---seemingly never even entertaining the idea that Monsees and Bowen could have been complicit in their ignorance of underage abuse, and much less that they might have been intentionally deceptive (which seems, to me, like a pretty strong possibility). Juul was repeatedly depicted as the victim in the whole thing.

Even odder, the podcast makes it sound like Monsees and Bowen invented the concept of the electronic cigarette completely from scratch, making no mention of the decades-long history they have in China. It's completely possible that they were unaware of the Chinese precedent and working independently (I feel like e-cigarettes in the Chinese style had started to appear in the US, although not yet taken off, by 2007 when they launched Pax but I could be remembering this wrong), but the host not mentioning it at all was another factor that made the podcast feel very shallowly researched and, in general, like a puff piece for Juul.

Further, the podcast makes it sound like the popularity of Pax for cannabis, which was not yet legal anywhere at the time, was unforeseen and unintentional. Maybe this is true, but it strikes me as a bit odd as I have never known the Pax brand to be associated with anything but cannabis, and my first exposure to it was around 2009. I would be very interested in digging into old Ploom/Pax advertising around this point. I don't begrudge Pax as a cannabis product but this just felt like another questionable and self-advantageous claim by Pax/Juul that the podcast just took for granted.

I don't necessarily know that I'd allege the podcast to have been bought off by Juul or something, but it very much had the feeling of a newspaper article about a company with that company's own press release as the sole source. I think it may have just been lazy rather than malicious per se.
I have seen them at Hayward shoreline (Bay area). They are efficient at clearing long patches of grass without much supervision. They were bounded each day by a re-installable fence. New location on each day covering approx. 50-60 sq yds. The fence even-though was weak seemed to deter the goats from wandering away.
The only drawback i could see is they eat away everything they like which could mean eating rare or endangered flora.
Oh hey Chris!

Good to see you here again, completely off topic follow up: did you or your siblings ever end up writing about work your father did with three letter agencies?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23812386
I don't understand how this would work. Owning stock is not some kind of investment only the elite have access to.

What about people who worked at a company that gave them a few thousand dollars in equity compensation? Would they forced to sell their stock?

Does this apply to an S&P 500 ETF, if so, why?
The problem is the mandate part moreso than the word that precedes it methinks.
I know the experience would be subpar. But for people who can't afford a new device right now, it shouldn't also be insecure.
You've never been to a bar that swipes the mag strip on your ID? Or the many doctor's offices that take scans of your ID with your insurance card?

I'm totally on board with ID cards not having your address on them because of the stalking potential but it's an ID card, if it has to be secret for it for it to be useful it's a really shitty form of identification.
Ta for sharing your experiences. It's quite clear that you are sharing some pretty raw bits of your life.

"I just finished reading 1984." - No one ever finishes reading that book, per se. It reads you and then spits you out.

"and I still don't have a go-to growth channel" - no idea what that even means. Me and a couple of chaps have been running a little IT business in the UK for 20 years. We have around 20 employees and t/o about GBP1.5M. Nothing fancy. If you can pay the bills and sleep at night, I call that a win.
> The middle east is a jungle

I wonder why? It couldn't have anything to do with Western colonialism and meddling could it? Nah.
How many additional watt-hours of battery would they have been able to fit in the laptop if they didn’t have the carve-outs for such dongles?

Say what you want about the MacBook’s lack of user-replacability, but it’s basically a tiny chip board about the same size as the iPhone’s, with a big box of batteries holding it.
I wonder about this a lot. The IT department where I work is rolling out a new “data platform”. I’m in the finance unit and a prime customer but fairly up to date on the tech. This thing has soooo many logos on it. I suspect there is someone just saying yes to everything their consultant pitches.

Like why have databricks, azure synapse, AND snowflake on the same picture. I’m certain I could do everything they say they’re going to do with this shit with an integration tool, snowflake, a machine to run python on, and our BI tool in the same cloud.
Isn't the stated goal to reduce their contribution to climate change through eliminating meat related CO2 emissions? Seems like it works.
Curiously, what is your opinion of UX/UI researchers? Or of design in general? Is the pretense of 'objectivity' something which denotes more value to you, generally?
When I change glasses I always engage autopilot first. My eye site is pretty bad and so while I’m fumbling with my sun glasses case I have autopilot engaged. Maybe it helps I do keep my eye on the road and one hand on the ready… I don’t know seems like a safer way to do things…
Sometimes adding the right thing can give you the opportunity to subtract. Code running in WASM may not have to run inside a Docker container running inside a Linux VM.
To be fair, McDonalds does call their burgers "sandwiches", I suspect some marketing person thought that "sandwich" sounded healthier than "burger".
I really hope they also do gaming laptops with Nvidia GPUs. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Does anyone know where LiveKit's implementation of congestion control is? I can't find it looking through their code and to me that's a major sign of the maturity or completeness of an SFU. For example, Jitsi, Signal's SFU, and (I think) MediaSoup have it. But I've not yet seen a pion-based implementation of congestion control and I'm hoping that LiveKit has fixed that. But I can't find it.
"the question is if people can supervise level 3 self driving systems or if they need to evaluated assuming generally inattentive drivers."

Finally someone in the thread points out that we are pretending that the agreement "you are responsible for intervening at a moments' notice to avoid a crash" is anything but a cover-your-ass legal fiction. This is like allowing an airline to pass off responsibility for engine failure to it's customer.

It should not be legally valid unless we can prove that this method actually works. It's not just the driver's life at stake, it's also pedestrians and other people around them that did not get a 'choice'
I imagine the actual drift rate is normally distributed around 0 with 2 std deviations within 2 ppm or similar.

Maybe I'm wrong. But I recall having not adjusted the clock for longer than a year and it only being about half a minute off.

I just like to tell myself I got an accurate one out of the batch :P
I'm skeptical. Will the goats really remove the fire risk for 100 acres after a day of grazing? Can it scale?

The pictures show goats eating grass, not forested underbrush including small trees, bushes, and dead branches which provide fuel for these fires.
Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill
Once the world gets more back to normal, you could submit a talk topic to LSF/MM. Or just email the appropriate mailing list.
This is not about using a module vs a cable. My comments refer to using a cable instead of a dongle. People make it seem as though using a dongle is the ONLY way to, for example, connect your MacBook Pro to a TV when you could just use a cable for it.
Hmm, I think the RJ-45 fits well enough on my 2019 Acer Aspire laptop. With the spring-loaded flap shut, it ends up being no thicker than the HDMI port next to it.
Both of those websites detail who runs them:

68k.news - simplified html of google news from a guy who uses retro computers - https://youtube.com/ActionRetro

F6oclock - is a frontend for stories “rising” on /r/politics - https://github.com/j3parker/f6oclock

Sorry for the crappy formatting. I’m on mobile.
Not them, but I also buy a slightly used Thinkpad almost every year on Ebay. Old ones go back to ebay as well.
Reading the Urbit documentation now, it's melting my face.
The one that’s not Android I think ;)
Beg to differ.
From my practice, design and illustration in the analogue times had higher standard due to lack of "technically" available tools, templates and lowest visual standard ever created by corporations or patrons.
You had not be able to produce something without any substantial drawing skill or knowledge.
Today you can. And someone will pay you.

Artwork when done right and with universal message is never dated. This article proves it. Dated are trends created from corporations to sell you some UX and make money. You have to be blind not to see where are we going to end visually - AI generated nonsense which will be publicly accepted as "the only way".
> I just like to tell myself I got an accurate one out of the batch :P

Quite possible. Also possible that they are just doing a good job!
I believe it. There's vapes for everything. Was just focusing on parent's nicotine addictiveness statement that gwern addresses.
I’m curious whether the author has thoughts on:

1. The conceptual overlap between this and React Server Components, which seems to have arrived at similar implementation details from a different set of use cases.

2. Generalizing even further by client libraries allowing you to return existing DOM nodes instead of requesting anything from any networked API.

I’m coming from a perspective where my main interest is performance of mostly static MPA websites, and where isomorphic libraries typically double bundle static content. Just as sending HTML instead of JSON on the wire might have huge optimization benefits, so too would having primitives for transferring nothing at all.
It's not an extreme scenario at all. We just see things differently. Don't ask my opinion if you can't accept my observation which in your strawman would probably be exactly what you suggest because in my experience getting a person who asks a question like that to use a tire gauge is pulling teeth.

That said, there are plenty of inexpensive used cars out there as well that will be both easier on the environment and safer to drive at no additional charge. For this must be a pre-2000 or so car to not have at least an idiot light for the tires and unless they've treated it lovingly (which seems unlikely) it probably has one tire in the grave already.
A loan is a liability, not an asset (for a non-bank).