skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably not a coincidence that the same people saying "Masks don't work and the proof is I can smell my farts when I wear them", "The virus is a hoax", "The vaccines have a tracking chip in them" are the same folks saying "ivermectin prevents and cures covid".

I live in the Missouri Ozarks, near Branson, and I am surrounded by them. I've been following the use of ivermectin since around June 2020 and still have not seen any definitive proof it works better than a placebo.

But I did suspect there might be a run on it over a year ago so I bought an extra package of it for my two burros. Just a few days ago I had to use it. About a month ago I asked an employee at the feed store I buy it at how their stock of it was holding up. He told me "We're selling out within 24 hours of getting a shipment in."

It won't matter if rigerous studies determine it doesn't work at all, they won't care. These are folks who are still refusing to get vaxxed, wear a mask, and social distance. They don't care that over 670,000 of their fellow citizens have been killed by it here. They don't believe that either. They're "Mad as hell" and they're "not going to take it anymore".
Fr I wish Lenovo used its position to push nvidia for better linux support and open drivers.
I have worked remotely for about 7 years now. I share your sentiment.

With that being said, the signals are still there - just a bit more nuanced. Gitlab has good terminology around this: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/stages/

My signals:

* Do they talk about central office locations where certain people/groups of people work? Does being in that location give you advantage.

* Do they expect you to be in the same chair/desk/location everyday? I don't care to do #vanlife, but I want the flexibility to work from a hotel/other location from time to time.

* How does the team manage work hours? How much of the workday needs to be "the same". In my view, ideal teams have some core hours where it's easy to collaborate then leave it to individuals to round out a productive day elsewhere.
> AMP does have better experience from the users perspective. The backlash is from the techies only.

This is factually incorrect: as the allegations noted, there are many cases where AMP slows page load time – it required a megabyte of render-blocking JavaScript with no fallback. I could tell which sites used AMP because they loaded slower and failed entirely if you had a less than perfect network connection — this was quite noticeable on the subway here in DC. I heard plenty of normal people complaining about it because it was a daily occurrence.

In addition to scrolling, the other thing which people noticed was that AMP broke the URL for sharing. This had several outcomes: one was that desktop users often got less usable mobile pages but the other was that it made spoofing easier because people trusted the google.com domain. This was used by fake news sites in the 2016 election cycle and at least the Russian government used it to spearphish investigative journalists.

They knew all of those risks in advance — and people accurately predicted them in 2015 – and the stated motivation was hard to reconcile with how much less work it would have taken to see the performance benefits by simply incorporating speed into search rankings at a high weight; this suggests that theories about the goal of controlling third-party ad markets were correct.
Not sure how it is today, but I felt DigitalOcean had the right mix pre-pandemic: 50% onsite and 50% remote. We could choose which we wanted as time went, and remotes could fly in and work from the office about once per quarter. This allowed me to be remote while also developing in-person relationships with a lot of employees, as there were always some people in the office (revolving remotes and regular onsites). It was the best of both world!
Candy Crush in React
VMWare vs Native Linux running last Gnome is a very, very different experience in my laptop.

VMWare is crippled performance wise, doesn't detect autorotate, and using it in full-screen requires me to resize the VMWare window every time I reboot the VM.

VMWare also doesn't detect all the buttons in my mouse.
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
When firmware was stored in ROM/EEPROM, most FOSS folks had no problem with it. It was considered part of the hardware, so not that relevant. But when these were moved out of non-volatile memory (mostly for cost reasons), that changed the picture for some. While the result, after booting, is effectively the same. So no, I am not on the side that sees firmware blobs as something that MUST be made open. It would be good if it were, definitely. But it’s not a deal breaker for me, as long as the blobs are freely redistributable, for example via fwupd. Again, that’s my personal opinion.
You didn't know that only European countries are capable of colonialism? Jeez, you are not an ally!
I'm having trouble understanding a use-case for this.

The point appears to be to use it if you are in a situation where for example your abusive partner is next to you, for example on a video call, and you want to signal on this call (as opposed to on a separate call when your abusive partner is not next to you?) that you need help. This then relies on 1) the people on the other end of the video call recognizing the signal, but also 2) your abuser not recognizing it.

This seems extremely unlikely. Am I missing something about its utility?
After you are born, your body keeps making new cells. Once your mass has doubled, is it only half you?

I think that's a variation of the same question that may or may not point to a clearer answer.
What Is Russell Conjugation?
"Why on earth would you be allowed to live in a place where nobody wants to live with you?"

I have no doubt this exact phrase was uttered hundreds of times in the 1950s by redlining commissions justifying the exclusion of minorities from subdivisions.
Uh. I doubt cycling infrastructure is even a minute fraction of the cost we put into automobile infrastructure. I have no proof but lol let’s call it a hunch.

> Why should we cycle more? Only one reason is really valid: save the environment.

It’s better for the environment, it’s cheaper, it’s more efficient(more bikes can occupy less space and move more people), it’s fun, it’s good for your body, it’s safer(if we don’t have to share the road with cars- for instance if the infrastructure for bikes were to actually exist), bikes are easier to maintain, bikes can access a variety of terrain most cars can not. I could probably go on and on.

IMO the only reason bicycles are seen as an unnecessary luxury is cultural. We aren’t all Lycra clad snobs who ignore stop lights, but for some reason this perception persists.
I thought CalIF0rnIA iS iN A DrOuGHT!

Climate change! Climate Change!

We're all going to die!!

ARGGGGH!H!H! REEEEEE!!

Don't go outside without a mask on!!!

Get your vaccineEE!!!!

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
This site is notionally devoted to Unix timestamps, but it covers a few popular formats: https://www.unixtimestamp.com/
Another solution could be to make cars half as wide and twice as tall as they are now. That way they would take up less space, you could effectively double capacity on roadways and foster a lot of technological innovation relative to maintaining balance and safety.
Correct if I'm wrong, but FLTK is not using native widgets so it is not the same thing.
Yes - Google Cloud breaks console logins for Firefox on a regular basis. They’ll eventually respond to a bug report but it’s clearly not a priority, and that can’t be intentional when tiny open source projects have much better automated testing.
"That is exactly what they did by saying he was taking "horse dewormer""

He did.

"He was prescribed this off-label by a doctor."

For a treatment regimen that's not recommended by the AMA nor approved by the FDA for this type of disease.

Which is why it's risky to apply one potential quack doctor prescribing a one-off vs. a rigorously studied treatment regimen.

"I have not been able to understand the hostility towards this treatment or unwillingness to even consider that it might help."

Absolutely no hostility here, at least. However, unproven and unapproved treatments are dangerous, especially when they're always anecdotal.
There is an obsession with working until you die. Take no vacation either or minimally. As a European living in the USA I say No. I'll retire as soon as I can support myself permanently without needing to work. Can't wait for that day. In the meanwhile, I'll use all my vacation and never logon to work during it.
> Who is actively working on this and what is proving so challenging? What is stopping us from creating a viable Google clone, with the same level of high quality results?

Search is hard. Organising the amounts of data that Google does is hard. Just look at Bing. Even with MS' resources it's terrible.

As for maps, look at Apple maps. Again, nowhere close to Google. There's also OpenStreetMap, Waze and probably others, none are quite on the level of Google. Definitely none can give you the experience of search -> navigation so quickly. Searching for and then navigating to a location on Google is just so much easier than the alternatives.

As for mail, at least there's tons of viable options there. Protonmail, Outlook, my personal fave is Hey.com (I hate email so their minimalist/focused functionality appeals to me).

Google got to their position by being very, very good at what they do. It's just a hard problem. Most other tech companies have tried and fallen short.
The performance difference between webpack and esbuild is like night and day
This is one of those nice ideas that only works if you completely ignore reality.

"Blockchain enthusiasts are also testing an approach that begs the question: are traditional countries still necessary?" It doesn't matter if they're necessary - you can't get rid of them. The system of dividing the world into countries and giving them domain over their citizens is so powerful that just by virtue of being born in the US you're obligated to pay the country taxes for as long as you shall live, unless you renounce your citizenship, but you're not allowed to do that without the country's permission (and not until after paying whatever fees they demand for the privilege).

The idea of a digital country is nonsense... it's just an overwrought term for an online community.
Well people have already made decently fast homebrew computers with FPGAs. The problems are threefold:

- To what extent do you interop with existing (closed?) hardware, vs trying to recreate the world from scratch. Do you implement usb, pcie, etc, or do you make your own philosophically free equivalent that isn't compatible with existing devices?

- In any case you will have to cope with the fact that homebrew CPUs will always be a decade or two behind the cutting edge intel/amd cpus in terms of performance

- Your system has to be useful in order to get people to use it, but it has to have people working on it consistently in order for it to get to a state where it's useful. A chicken and egg problem.

There is, however, at least one off-the-shelf free computer system - I'm thinking of the Raptor Talos platform. But even then, you're paying significantly more for a computer that performs worse, unless you're running supercomputer-esque workloads on your desktop PC
I would love to switch to FF but the persona tabs in Chrome are just too convenient. I have a persona for Work, for Personal and Neither (spammy stuff of things I don’t want to get indexed recommendation engines etc). Is there a way to replicate it on FF?
I didn’t say skip it. I said speed up the process. Add more staff, bring deadlines closer, reduce systemic complexity.
Dang didn't engage with my argument at all. He threw up a smoke screen and claimed they're not journalists (they just happen to have called the site Hacker News, but it's not really news I guess?). The parent is correct, dang is not acting as a moderator, but as a pro-YC participant in many threads. That along with the lack of transparency, "launch hn", yc hiring threads with no comments, opaque moderation (no mod log)... are all exactly what you'd expect from a site run by a venture capital firm.

If YC was going to take on the herculean task of trying to prove that their venture capital run message board was somehow not biased, they would need to really lean into transparency. As it is, they've done the exact opposite. I strongly disagree with dang that the general sentiment is that HN is unbiased, maybe amongst the faithful here people will say that (hoping someday to get some YC cash), but in the wider industry no one thinks HN is anything but YC's media outlet and the policies, features and moderator actions here back that up.

The onus is on the platform to prove that their conflict of interest isn't effecting the contents of the site, not on the audience to take their word on faith.
Exactly. The same argument gets peddled out against any Apple product. There was a capacitive touch screen phone before the iPhone. There were app stores before the iPhone’s. There were music players with X before the iPad. Rinse and repeat.

Apples magic is the entire packaging and intuitiveness such that every layperson can use it. But that’s not on the spec sheet…
I know about that page. They too think it's absurd to name every user space software when referring to the system. This is where I disagree:

> The principal developer is the GNU Project, and the system is basically GNU.

I think the system is basically Linux.
Root cause yes, but that's not what sustains the inflation. Inflation is sparked by an increase in the money supply. Hyperinflation is what happens when rising prices then trigger an increase in the velocity of money. The government has control of money supply but not velocity, which is why hyperinflation is essentially impossible to stop without abandoning the currency once it gets started.

The concrete manifestation of an increase in money velocity is things like people running out to the store to spend money as soon as they get paid; wages getting set month-to-month or even day-to-day rather than annually; prices not being posted, and instead being set as you walk in the store; and zeros being added to dollar bills. The wage/price spiral is not a separate thing; it's the concrete manifestation of the abstract model of money velocity increasing.
>"we have all seen bug reports like: “it crashes for me after a few hours"

Here is a gem from my collection of user "bug reports". The email with this exact words and nothing else - "something is wrong, what do I do?". I was biting my fingers trying not to reply with the first thing that came into my head.
Yeah, but there is a tight limit.

And they get removed after some time.
I've driven bikes on -5 while snowing no problem. I've also not driven a bike when the temperature increased to positives because the bike lanes weren't cleared of the snow that fell on previous days.

Then again, raincoats are far more convenient to me than an umbrella, I prefer them when walking as well. That may make me an exception instead of a rule. As for my hands and face, can't say I care if they get wet, but my opinion on that would probably change if I was wearing makeup.
What on earth version of Firefox are you using that has ads?!
In an alternate reality where cyclists stick dogmatically to their allocated space that might be true. Outside of Centraal is a total mess.
God damnit... Clickbating is ruining any shred of useful information...
We've been working on one such alternative - Kagi Search [1]. Kagi Search is currently in beta and we are also creating our own Maps app and a browser. In the future we will have email too so hope to offer an alternative way to experience the web.

[1] - https://kagi.com/faq
To dissolve lignin? I haven’t read the paper yet but doubt it’s anything terrible or too exotic. Probably a recipe based around sodium hydroxide (NaOH).
Was this written by a Markov Chain generator? Or at least one used to come up with the lines? It starts off with a line relating white bedsheets to old timey French Clowns!
Reasons for Sadness According to Mahabharata
I also remember. The previous generation DRM tool (macrovision) only needed a simple ~5 dollar filter to defeat. You could buy aftermarket boxes that would strip it in-line, plug and play style, for about 10-20 dollars in the early 90s.

Thankfully for the rest of us, the inevitable failure of all rent-seekers is that rent-seekers don't tend to be very smart / innovative (by definition, I suppose).
I use FF dev tools fine, I think it was just a case of getting used to them!
If one older unit is being replaced by multiple newer units, that's still a net increase in housing which will cause other old units to become more affordable. Again, it's expected that new developments will always be high-end, but they make other existing housing cheaper in the process.

> The roads in these older neighborhoods are ill prepared for increased density

Infrastructure is a problem. Many American cities seem to be stuck on 50-year-old (or more) infrastructure and unwilling to fund anything new. But blocking development isn't the right answer, investing in better infrastructure is. Build a damned light rail network, like Minneapolis (my home town) is doing. Rail commutes are nice, you can read or play video games. Then it doesn't matter if you can afford to live in the city center.

> If one out of every four "tall skinny" houses was made available at well under market rate to local, low income renters

This is a popular idea but I think it's naive. How are you supposed to decide which low-income renters get lucky and get to live in a much nicer house than their peers? And who pays for it? If you're going to tell developers to foot the bill then that discourages development which ultimately makes the housing shortage worse.
> handle.value(&mut cx) as i32

What happens when the user in JS land passes in an incorrect data type? Does it segfault? Does it truncate the first 32 bits?
Why did Facebook buy Whatsapp, or Google buy Kaggle? Big companies view large
userbases as an asset. Information is the new oil as one neophyte politician
likes to say. These guys are operating on a level beyond our simple-minded
calculus of dollars for doughnuts.
"AstraZeneca is now the largest company in the UK."

Unfortunately the rest of what you wrote is not worth replying to, nor discussing, until you can clarify this conspiratorial-sounding statement.
Tags are obviously very helpful in organizing files across folders hierarchy. But the effort needed is not insignificant. So any solution for the problem requires at least two features: easiest as possible for tagging new files (least mouse clicks + key presses) and automatic tagging. The first part requires a superb designed UI with lots of customization options. The second part can be built using plugins, regexs rules and content classification. I can envision even an open market for the second part.

IMO, the biggest question is however, whether a big enough demand for these kind of file management exists.
I think the iPod competed more with Sony than Microsoft.
They barely deal with the people bringing metal guns.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-fin...
2021-10-24 in UTC+14 (Line Islands) and UTC-10 (Hawaii) are, in fact, 100% off.
I'm not your buddy, guy!
It was the international demand imbalance that tipped it into service disruption; the landscape regulation just set the conditions for the existing bottleneck.
Getting knives past airport security seems not particularly difficult from the experience of my circle and other anecdotal sources. I've had friends and family accidentally get knives through security on many occasions, and I have also accidentally done it myself. To my knowledge none of them has ever been caught in the converse situation and had to give up a knife.

I imagine if one were resourceful and deliberate about it, it would be even more successful.
A scissor can't really compare to a proper forged and heat treated knife, and for the purpose of using a seemingly everyday object for a more malicious purpose there are better things imo.
I’ve recently resigned and will be looking for something new in the new year.

My reasons are:

- done this for a while. Being on COVID projects gave me a taste of different but similar

- was surrounded by talented and some not so talented contractors making silly money whilst I was the only permanent employee making probably half. That wasn’t different but the noise got louder in my head. Why not you? Was the question in my head as I rapidly rose to lead a team of 14

- remote work. One of the things holding me back was worrying (unnecessarily) about having to go to strange places to do contract work. But my role did that already before COVID and since COVID so much more opportunity to do things remote means the size of the pond is bigger

- A colleague did it. Someone I mentor. And they grew and got stretched so much by new contexts in new projects. It reminded me of that feeling i got from the COVID projects. Purpose and being stretched to learn new stuff
Didn't know that. I wonder how if it would be the same for Wood knives as well.
Right.

The “suspiciously happy” thing is (I hope) a tell that the current defaults are off.
The Google founders have managed to create this amazing narrative that they’re the good guys while all the bad decisions are just taken by the new money grubbing execs. I don’t think that’s accurate. I think they presided over a hyper growth stage of the company and left well before the pressures of profit maximization started to direct the company.

It’s extremely difficult for a company to not do things that would maximize its profits. I don’t think the Founder-Good narrative is productive, it doesn’t work. One possible way to limit the harm is by regulations (or enforcement of existing ones), to make “evil” activity more expensive and thus not an option.
yea sure it's not for everybody, but should be totally up to you whether you want remote or onsite.
Those don't look like they can lift a shipping container.
Meh. You live in Gary, IN and you specify the birthday party as 2022-05-01T16:00 America/Chicago but your state representatives lobby to stop using Chicago time because remote work obviated that need and suddenly you’re actually supposed to be using America/Indiana/Indianapolis as your TZ.

It’s ugly whatever you do, unless you use coordinates to specify your time zone (then it’s just hell to decode).
Only, politicians have insinuated themselves into medicine, so that ship has sailed. When a medical professional is both sending strong political signals and their professional opinion is strongly aligned with the party line (and also conspiracy theorists), far out of line with the vast majority of their profession, that's suspect.

Joe Rogan's treatment is a single anecdote, and invermectin was one component of a "cocktail." He recovered, yes, but there's more noise than signal and most people recover from covid without any treatment.
If this is the same bit that's hit this page just recently, the chemicals used were sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfite (to remove the lignin) and then food grade oil to seal it.
Digitally-Signed Rootkits are Back [pdf]
> diagnosing in my bug reports

It's probably fine, if you put it in a separate section, clearing indicating that you are guessing.

At work we have an optional "diagnostic" section in our ticket template, mainly intended for the team, but I'd be happy to see a user try to fill it. At worse it's harmless, at best it gives the actual reason, somewhere in the middle it can give ideas even if it is wrong.
The nature of attention and publicity is sad. Of all the things you could do with very hard wood, we lead with knives because knives can threaten us, and therefore attention.