skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just happy that HackerNews hasn't generated into a groupthink platform like what Ars Technica devolved into. Check the comment sections over there on articles regarding COVID and perhaps it's more to your liking and perhaps in your opinion the standard of discussion is higher over there.

I am one of those people that would trust Ivermectin more for treating (or prevention) of COVID compared to a mRNA-based vaccine and I have plenty of reasons for thinking so.

Some reasons I would avoid mRNA based vaccines:

- There's plenty of strokes into my family and I worry that I could easily get a stroke as well, perhaps due to genetically smaller arteries in my head (just a hunch). Seems many deaths of mRNA based vaccines were caused by blood clots.

- Looking at the numbers, I really don't believe COVID is very dangerous for most people. COVID is mostly dangerous for obese people, old people, people with co-morbidities and for those people it might make sense to use a vaccine (same we used to do with the flu every year).

- I feel the number of reported deaths are not correct, since in many countries, if people die with COVID, it's reported as a COVID death, while people might have died from e.g. cancer. As such, actual deaths are probably much lower.

- The media's unfair and sensationalist reporting of "horse dewormer" is one of the reasons I don't trust big media anymore (and there's many others in the past as well).

- Overall, Ivermectin is really very safe when using dosages based on body weight. It's cheap and easy to get. It's easy to mass produce. So even if Ivermectin would not work, there's very little risk when using the medicine responsibly.

- I've read many articles and looked at graphs of countries using Ivermectin and to me it seems there's a clear relation with the use of Ivermectin and the reduction in deaths and COVID cases.

- Even if the whole world would take the vaccine, it's very unlikely we'd stop COVID due to immune escape. Several sources already believe COVID is here to stay, like the flu. And I don't wanna bother to take every year a booster for some COVID mutation.

- In my view we can't be sure if the mRNA vaccines are totally safe in the long run. I will wait a couple of years (5 or more) and see if people receive any adverse long term effects. If not, I will be ok to accept mRNA-based vaccines in the future, but not going to take one right now.

- I was actually open to get the (traditional, e.g. weakened or killed off virus) Sinovac vaccine for COVID if it would make movement around easier in Thailand, but since Thailand now wants to combine the Sinovac vaccine with AstraZeneca, I won't bother.
Absolutely this. Having accidental null values floating around a program should not be a thing in the year 2021. And that’s exactly what some languages are fixing, like Swift. This problem is also one of the reasons why I got so frustrated using clojure.
Apple is not a democracy nor is Epic, the one with most raw power generally wins in such scenario.
A bit off-topic...

The best online programming puzzles were the ones ITA Software posted to entice people to apply for jobs there.

What was effective about them was that, reading the problem, you wanted to know what a solution would look like, and knew the only way to know was to solve it. Having solved it, you wanted to know how your solution compared to others'. The only way to find out was to send it in. Having sent it, you might get an invitation to visit, and then how could you not?

After Google bought ITA, the puzzles were up for a while longer, then seemed to vanish. If they are archived somewhere, I would like to know where.
Inactivity Monitoring for Remote Chronic Disease Management
Just wanna throw this out there: Plex now has an app for accessing music in a way better way than their movie/series-app, called Plexamp. [1]

I dont see it solving discoverability yet, but it worked completely fine on my Android devices. It also does some automatic tagging of your music to generate dynamic playlists.

it is limited to plex pass subscribers for now though. i'd say it's worth trying a free trial at least.

1: https://plexamp.com/
Interesting, I've been using KeePassX(C) for over a decade too. I store the .kbdx file in a Dropbox folder and can access it from other devices. Never ran into issues with this setup.
It is kind of crunchy.

Imagine the wet type would go rather well on Carr's Table Water crackers. Could jazz it up with a name like Pate di Cane, perhaps add a dollop of creme fraiche for appearance
Really, this sounds a lot more like something that accomplishes the supposed goals of that eternally-flogged, janky $500 piece of equipment than it does.
What are your qualifications for making such a statement? Do you have any sources to back that up?
USB-C? It really pissed me off, Kindle left the old style USB well past the industry shifting.
> Pretty coovenient.

the irony of the typo in your comment is not lost :)
They're a bit hard to find now, but I've had good luck with the T-Mobile rebrand of the RT-AC68U; although I ended up debranding them and flashing them to Merlin.

OTOH, I live on a large parcel in the woods and can barely see any neighbor's wifi. I can use all 3 2.4 Ghz channels and the four outdoor rated 5 Ghz channels, with basically no interference, so it's wifi on easy mode.

The key thing is to run wireless routers in access point mode, and use something else (I prefer FreeBSD, but have used carrier modems when I was lazy) to do the routing, then you have separation of concerns. If you want to go crazy, I've actually got two FreeBSD routers with failover (CARP) and a custom PPPoE daemon to handoff the session with failover to LTE when the PPPoE session drops.
Have a look at some maps of plate tectonics. The huge Australian plate collides with the Sunda plate along a boundary which is much closer to Indonesian landmasses compared to the Australian ones.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

population normalized death incidence is down by 10x in vaccinated over unvaccinated (which includes recovered individuals in with the unvaccinated, so the number compared to susceptible is probably 20x). with a bit over half the population vaccinated that suggests that at least the 100,000 deaths since june would have been twice as bad without vaccinations. not including any effects of vaccination on reducing infection/transmission (and for all the hype about "waning" the protection against infection is still substantial).
Do you have a taobao link for Google trusted TPM chips in reel?
Decentralised pirating service.
Can you show any other vaccine which has long term, but not short term negative side effects, which this concern might be based on?

Because this seems like whataboutism, and of course it's impossible to prove a negative, and people are dying while waiting.

> We do have data on the long-term effects of Ivermectin

At bi-annual dosage rates, yes. Not daily or even weekly.
Nice, this looks like a good way to practice basic looping and operators. Has anyone just hard-coded the target board and copied the values instead of calculating?
Your question begs questions. Did you expect Bangalore to remain cheap compared to other places? Why?

What do you think it means, when people want high fixed salary and not stock options?

I work for a non-startup in the NFP sector, we've hired a lot of Indian heritage labour, they're great. But, so are people from under the sea, Mars, Africa. I don't care where you come from if you have the chops. It's a mistake to assume all Russian graduates are maths wizards, All Chinese are spies, All Indian degrees come from a degree-mill. "it depends"

Hiring remote early stage of anything is a huge risk. bandwidth to communicate isn't as good as f2f but you can re-cast this as "be highly specific what you want from remote workers" -There is also a time compression effect of their work hours being offset from yours, for some people. It can be really beneficial in hours-to-complete terms, but .. communication long line sucks.

(I should be clear your questions were read as implicitly devaluing labour from India. If you didn't mean that, I apologize)
Same here. I live in Nairobi. The air quality here isn't all that good, but I acquired a newfound appreciation for it when I visited Gurgaon in India a few years ago. When I first landed, I actually mistook the dense smog for clouds. I came pretty close to passing out once while waiting for a taxi on the street. I was basically in air-conditioned rooms the entire time I was there, save for a short trip to Delhi, which felt noticeably better.

I've been equally surprised when visiting other cities with cleaner air than my own. It might be one of the things that pushes me to uproot my life here and try make a home someplace else.
In my experience the difference between good consultancies and average product companies is not very big. On average I've seen consultancies being able to attract more technically curious and product-minded engineers. The exception are the product companies that are somehow special in the market (e.g. can offer a significantly better pay, or do something very interesting in terms of scale or technologies).

The dynamic you describe tends to get stronger, when consultancies grow. The voices & competence of the technical people becomes less important when it comes to the business and efficiencies in utilization and the company brand start to matter more. The consultancy I worked at was not an incumbent, but an underdog competing with the big players, so the actual execution mattered more, when trying to win bigger customers. Even in consultancies, there are operational effiencies you get from having competent people. Mainly from having less middle management & account managers.

However, there things are useful for the consultancy's business only to a limited extend. You only need to be slightly better than the average consultancy and you're OK. So there is a point, when you either need to be great at sales or thought-leadering, or a consultancy can no longer increase your salary or provide your with work you find interesting.
When we remove subsidies and start pricing in the negative externalities (water, soil, carbon) of raising animals for meat, the calculus will certainly be different. It may well be different enough to make lab-grown meat the more cost-effective option.

The field is also remarkably young, and scientific innovation has a pretty robust history of being non-obvious until after it has happened.
Looks a lot like the planet Astro Slide but with a worse keyboard?
That’s cool that it works for you, but it seems like it will be difficult to win over hearts and minds (and stomachs) with your smug sense of superiority oozing from every word.
Thanks! Yeah it's problematic on mobile, I think writing code on mobile will be cumbersome anyway
Google Cloud Deploy: Continuous Deployment for GKE
One method that has worked for me is following other users that actively buy music on Bandcamp that I like. I get an email digest when they buy new music. That's a strong signal to me: I already know they have similar tastes by seeing what they have purchased in the past, and I can conclude that they really like the music they are willing to spend money on.
They got hacked. The old free Bitcoin scam. Into a black hole it goes, nothing comes back to the poor users.
Solaris was open sourced as OpenSolaris, so they do have access to that. Oracle stopped merging to it, to noone's surprise, but the source of what's essentially Solaris 10 is available and formed the basis of illumos and other related projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris
The SILE Typesetter
Please no. I just want to buy a device...
The "contradictory" results are simply an effect of a well funded industry.

I've spent a lot of time in alternative med circles and spent a lot of years pursuing alternative remedies for my deadly inflammatory condition (many of them dietary in nature). I don't think it's that simple.

I think it makes a big difference how the cows are raised, treated, fed, etc. I've known people who swore by, for example, unpasteurized milk.

We do a lot of things to our food these days that mean that not all milk is chemically equivalent. That's my point.

You don't have to agree, of course. But don't pretend I didn't already say exactly that earlier.
You're not wrong. I'm still very much a fan of meat, but have swapped out most of my consumption for plant-based versions. Mostly from the Linda McCartney brand. It feels much better post-meal digesting the lighter alternative and the flavour and texture is very comparable imo. The sauce and sides carry most of the flavour in our case anyway. Which is I guess why the "tastes like chicken" line became so widespread.

Haven't found a steak replacement yet, but we eat vanishingly few of those so it's not much of an issue. Will jump on a healthy, eco alternative that's full of iron though.

As it stands, I'm really not interested in labmeat. I'll just save my meat consumption for "special occasions", while using plant-based as the daily driver.

They say they could feed the world on plant-based food, if only they'd give it a fraction of the subsidies meat gets. I think it's an avenue worth taking seriously.
I think the bigger problem is that lab-grown meat tastes like despair.
I work at AWS. Region build is separate process per team and guaranteeing feature parity across all regions is a pretty complex task.
Great implementation
well there's https://web.archive.org/web/20111012115624/http://itasoftwar...
I love how honest this is about the limitations and the whole design process. Truly a great example of a real hacker project

I have a Georgi keyboard (mentioned in the article) which I started getting to grips with then put aside during a way too busy period at work. This has made me want to dig it out and try again.

I’m also thinking that two of those faunchpads put together on the long edges could make an even better ‘back of phone’ keyboard (or back of mini tablet) for a handy portable note taking device
Centralized organizational structures (governments, corps and ngos) in the US and abroad must be treated with extreme prejudice and avoided for decentralized/federated and open alternatives if available.

For those orgs above (or those who work apart of them) who will actively fight those from pursing decentralized/federated and open alternatives for all aspects of ones life: there is subversion, exfiltration, exploitation and demolition. The best of those orgs will help people bridge the gap to future where power isn't nearly as centralized to the degree it is now.
I had a lovely time in Kaohsiung. I thought it was the most beautiful city in the country by far, much nicer than Taipei.

Heard the pollution is pretty bad though. And the driving was even worse than Taipei.
If you're not familiar with Japanese language, here is a rough
English translation of the first code example:

The book is
Lambda is x times x times x.
Numbers are 88, 7100 and 55.
A, B, C and null are Numbers.
NewNumber is the sum of A and B.
Display NewNumber.
Result is <apply Lambda to 741> plus 919.
Display [sum of Result and NewNumber].
End.

If it feels to you like a riddle poem, it's exactly what the
original program sounds like in Japanese.

In case anyone is wondering, here is an equivalent Python code:

def main():
f = lambda x: x * x * x
numbers = [88, 7100, 55]
a, b, c = numbers
new_number = a + b
print(new_number)
result = f(741) + 919
print(result + new_number)
You have to speak it to be more confident. I’ve learned English on my own through books. But until I got my first gig and actively communicating with the client, the speaking part was subpar. You will quickly realize that you only use a small subset most of the time. And native speakers are very patient and helpful if you don’t know how to pronounce a word.

N.B. (Speak Haitian Creole and French natively, speak English well and can survive on my own in a Spanish speaking country)
> Nobody else but apple would make ObjectiveSwift too, because for better or worst ObjC & Swift are languages that are for the apple platform and nothing else.

What about all the work done to support Swift on Linux? I had thought that was mostly done by the community rather than from Apple itself, but I could be wrong
The difference is that facebook used to be an elite corner of the web where you knew you were talking to people who would be in the upper 1% of US society.

The reddit tech subs used to be populated with the people writing the software they talked about.

There just isn't a place like that any more that is neutral ground. HN and lobste.rs are the two closest and they ban maintainers of open source crown jewels for political reasons.

I can't even be bothered to finish this post because someone will flag it and then dang will show up saying it's not true.
Greenhouse gas tax on methane emissions?
I've been using Ruby for sound lately. It's a good exercise in optimization because Ruby's not that fast for numeric computation (without calling out to a C lib like Numo), so your algorithms have to be reasonable. I'm hoping that the various JIT efforts will eventually let me run multiple realtime voices in my synthesizer, without having to drop down to C.
The default for country targeting it's not people living in that country, but people interested in that country.

Because of this you can easily get clicks from a person in India that is interested in USA (if you're target is USA).

I have a guide on how to create new ads to avoid all these traps.
Neuroscientists discover how associative memories are formed
The classic phishing is an email from e.g. Facebook saying your account is at risk of something. So you click the Facebook link and sign in to Facebook (uh oh that was actually a phishing site pretending to be Facebook). I don't see how avoiding SSO helps with this.
The article is as hand wavy with defeatism as enthusiasts. Mars would never support current levels of population on it, it’s too small and tech can’t change that.
19.25x Faster TF-IDF on GPUA with Dask and Rapids than CPUS
This is very similar to the OtterCast, which is an open source and open hardware Chromecast replacement.

Overview: https://cast.otter.jetzt/
Sources: https://github.com/Ottercast

There's also a version with a built-in class D amplifier and color display. On the software side it's neatly packaged with a web UI for configuration, as well as support for snapcast (multiroom), airplay and pulseaudio besides spotify.

I'm not affiliated with them, just very tempted to build one.
Super interesting take! Agree - Moderna has huge potential.

The one thought that comes up in my mind is about how binary / step function like the outcome for moderna is, and its implications on how it is valued in public markets. I.e., if they are able to find 1 new use case for mRNA (like cancer), the upside outcome is an overwhelming 1. Versus if they dont, the outcome is a 0. Public markets generally value companies as a function of

(1) their potential (which moderna has a lott of) and
(2) the probability of that potential manifesting into reality

Regardless, agree! Moderna has massive potential. The above thought was more from the perspective of decoding why the public markets may be undervaluing it :)
> it hasn't been worth your time for at least two decades to spend even 10 hours a year repairing a machine more than about 3 years old.

The median hourly income in the United States is $20/hr. Buying a new computer every three years is certainly going to cost you more than $200 a year, unless you buy extremely cheaply. And that's leaving out the massive environmental externalities of not repairing older equipment rather than throwing it away. Also leaves out the fact that most people have free time that they can not trivially trade for more working hours.

Furthermore, 10 hours a year seems ludicrous. Apple bricked my MBP with the Big Sur update (along with many other people's laptops, it was a bit of a scandal). I repaired the rather infamously not-repair-friendly Apple device in about half an hour with a part I bought on Ebay for less than $10.
On a side note, I'm curious how the sandbox was implemented. For security issues, how does one make sure that the sandbox is not just a javascript eval?
How is the second attack limited? They use the malicious extension to recover the LastPass master password.
Awesome, thanks for your feedback! Yes, I plan to provide continued updates. I have lots of more ideas (block based editor, large calendar view, smart search folders, …). I considered a one-time paid with paid upgrades model, but decided to use a subscription.

What would be your use case and is there something in particular that leaves you undecided between Joplin and StandardNotes?
Great article and insightful on how WP works.
I charge double the fully loaded cost of the average dev salary in Sweden and focus on insurance and pension companies. I’m always booked solid at least a year in advance.
Ask HN: What to do when companies do not honor CCPA deletion requests?
I've found that many companies are slow to respond to CCPA requests or in the worst cases they willfully ignore them.

According to https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa: "You cannot sue businesses for most CCPA violations."

Is there truly no recourse when a company ignores a CCPA request? Can anyone recommend a course of action?

Presently whitepages.com has acknowledged yet ignored my CCPA requests for 58 days. Allegedly companies have 45 days to comply with CCPA requests as required under subsection 1798.130.
Indeed, when attempting to use the initial nested loop as much as possible, its body essentially becomes a pixel shader.

I was reminded of one of my earliest side projects, a Mandelbrot set renderer; amusing that the last exercise is exactly that.
Not vegan but I’ve been going through a lot of meat replacement by sheer curiosity.

A lot of them tasted to me pretty close to run fo the mill “meh” meat. But to be honest, I don’t crave mediocre meat, and somewhat feel like the vegetables used for these ersatz might have actually tasted better than the end result. I still look forward good quality, well prepared meat.

I think a lot of people wouldn’t mind switching to other protein sources that don’t taste like meat at all for everyday/every meal intake, and have actual delicious meat at rarer occasions at higher cost.

Basically, I am not sure our best shot is to try to replace meat with fake meat, and would assume most people wouldn’t bother with meat as much if the price even just reflected the environmental impact.
The problem is that the system you're proposing introduces an extra step before turning. That is, yield to a bus, then to a cyclist, then to pedestrians.

The more steps there are, the more likely one will make a mistake and fail to yield because they failed to account for one of the steps necessary to successfully make a turn.

The traditional system where a right turning vehicle moves as far right as practical in advance of making a right turn reduces the number of step necessary to complete the turn. That is, they only need to account for yielding to pedestrians instead of 3 streams of traffic (bus, then cyclist, then pedestrian).

That's why I asked about having separate traffic light phases for each lane. That would ensure that only a single lane is allowed to enter the intersection and complete their turn without having to yield to any other traffic stream. But, doing that would reduce instersection throughput by a significant amount.
yeah, before capitalism was a thing, before the current human population of the earth was a thing, really.