skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As to #2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00926-1 says:

“we sought to reproduce the findings in two animal models of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In hamsters infected with SARS-CoV-2, the length of string vessels increased on day 4 after infection […]. Interestingly, _the_increase_was_transient_ and normalized at later time points. A similar finding was observed in K18-hACE2 mice”

⇒ patients who are seriously ill have brain damage. If you subsequently die, you won’t recover.

I read this more a (possibly tiny, possibly large; I can’t tell) contribution to the discussion on whether COVID enters the brain than about long-term damage.
Current companies paying for past output.
Silicon Valley Giants Built an Open Culture. Now Workers Are Holding Them to It
It is mentioned in the article, one of the last optimizations done there was switching to array. Also, Clojure’s HAMT was designed with CPU cache in mind and it’s performance characteristics don’t degrade over time. Immutable data structures will be slower than arrays - that’s true, but Clojure standard library works on arrays just fine, as demonstrated in the article.
Surgery Without a Scar (Performed on Mice)
Some more:

Have a deterministic work environment that can be set up and torn down in a single command.

Use standard names in build tool configurations (buildtool clean, buildtool lint, buildtool build, buildtool test, buildtool run, etc).

Set up your project such that there are only 6 steps to getting everything working:

- Commands to download

- Commands to install required support items that can't be automated

- Single command to install everything that's needed in the right places / start your deterministic work env

- Single command to build the project

- Single command to run the tests

- Single command to run the live app

Default to running all of one thing, with options to run a subset (i.e. run ALL tests if not specified otherwise).

Be an adequate typist (40wpm or so). If you're doing software development right you'll be spending around 10% of your development time typing, so after a point typing speed won't help you anymore.

Know how to use your debugger. There are some problems that are simply easier to solve with a debugger than by other means.

Know when to use what debugging technique.

Set things up such that everything gets autoformatted automatically.
Big companies don’t touch AGPL stuff with a ten foot pole.
In the Star Trek world, I think the transporter and the replicator are the same technology just applied differently. When transporting goes wrong, they mention things like “pattern buffers”, where (presumably) information about how to reconstruct the person’s matter is held until all info arrives. I suspect you hold on to the pattern buffers for things you want to replicate. Unanswered by this… where does the matter come from? Maybe just reconstituted energy from the engines.
Do non-celebrities sell nfts? I can imagine someone buying nft from celebrity but from a random joe? Aren't nft like diamonds that you can buy them expensive but nobody will give you more than 10% for them?
This is where I always end up with these kinds of things. Riker didn't die, and in fact neither life nor Riker ever really existed as a coherent entity.
Absolutely. Polio for example does not infect the nervous system in most of the cases, but in a few cases every 100 thousand people it does. And this can cause life long paralysis. Much of the fight to eradicate polio is because of this rare effect.

Contrast this to something like rabies, which always affects the nervous system (and always kills you and there is no cure, but vaccination shortly after a bite can avert that outcome).
> Of course, living in the countryside also involves a huge amount of things that need to be done

That's why living in a community has upsides. Of course, getting along with your "neighbors" is a prerequisite, but it fixes problems such as:

- who's going to take care of X while i'm sick?

- i'm familiar with water pumps, but i have no clue about repairing truck engines; who will do it?

- i'm very good at farming but i'm clueless about making bread

In addition, communal living enables economies of scale which urban individualized lifestyles have completely dismantled. For example, the video mentions communal cooking and laundry, which overall consumes much less resources than each household having their own fridge/stove/oven/laundromat.

> but living closer to the nature just feels more right, a sensation that's utterly devoid from urban life

It feels more right because it is more right. There's nothing inherently wrong with some level of population concentration, but modern cities are car-centered nightmares where everything is concrete and pollution and where life without money is utterly impossible, and where the population concentration is such that any form of self-sustaining lifestyle is impossible (if only for energy and food).
How are limits defined on what one entity can buy or sell at once ?
Apple could have done it with the Apple Silicon transition and yet didn’t. More inclined to believe actions over words at this point.
Because kids like to play with stuff? Most people in the world (outside the US) will never hold a gun in their hand in the lifetime, so learning vs not learning to pointing weapons doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of it all.

Also, not sure what children playing with guns have to do with this accident on the Rust set.
Isn't everything a rat race if you boil it down enough?

Working for yourself? Rat race
Working for others? Rat race

The human reward system works in a way that doing something repetitive, that is just novel enough and just challenging enough makes us feel great.

There's no such thing as a non rate-race life. The point is enjoying it. Otherwise you end up feeling dread and existential anxiety.

Life is meaningless, and at the same it's meaningful. It truly depends on your perspective, and a bit of self delusion.
> Internal documents confirm that Google knows its users are deceived by its misrepresentations

Yeah. These silly terms of service mean nothing to anyone. Even Google knows this! Almost nobody reads them. Those who do, won't understand them. Who can really consent to all this surveillance under these circumstances? This is NOT a deal between equal parties, the user is severely disadvantaged. People click the checkbox because it won't let them create an account otherwise. They don't have a choice.

Courts should just invalidate the contracts and start treating Google as if nobody consented to its exploitation. Apply heavy fines for every single user wronged.
My wife and I are excited to work overseas after being unable to travel since 2019.

We will both be resigning in the near future to move overseas.
> they don't impede or force users to use Mac App Store

.. yet. The notarization and signing requirements are steps towards that; there's an escape hatch, but they could close it when it suits them.
Have you ever tried to do work in it or use it as a general purpose desktop?

It wasn't really feasible (IMO) until they put out that initial x64 build in August, but in my ignorant understanding with x64 compatibility there's nothing stopping someone from running VS Code or whatnot on there right?

What're your opinions on ReactOS?

The 30 minutes I played around with it on QEMU were amazing.

We've truly regressed so much in functional UI design. I genuinely felt able to focus better because there was less "going on" on the screen. Felt like my brain wasn't overstimulated with visual information.
congratulations!

I don't want to come across like I'm anti remote work. I want a company to support full remote, I think there benefits to how the company structures communications to allow full remote. I just don't think its wise to go all in either way, either full onsite or full remote.
Good News Your Willpower Isn't Limited–Don’t Believe the “Ego Depletion” Theory
It's perfectly fine to enjoy a day job. I truly love mine. I enjoy working at it, and I enjoy the freedom it gives me to do other stuff after work.

I enjoy the monetary reward but also the act of solving hard problems every day.
Please don’t wear a computer on your face
> It was sort of like claustrophobia combined with the sense of multiple people touching me or something. Really bizarre.

I think there's many layers to it, but the super sweet ambient music with suspiciously-happy people also made me very uneasy. One aspect of why could be because video fails to capture the actual atmosphere: for example we have no smells. Another one is because such scenery immediately reminds me of cult clichés: in mainstream media and movies when we're presented which something that looks so nice there's usually a plot twist coming up :)
> I think covid was a splash of cold water that's caused many of the people in my circle to re-evaluate how they spend their time. Tech workers are so in demand that we can freely change jobs so it follows that many people would availing that option.

This sums it up.
I assumed that was the intent behind writing the comment? After all, why does it matter where the virus came from unless you're more interested in assigning blame than fixing the problem?
It looks like xkcd #792 has its answer.
Right, but how does old Kirk feel about it?
Only God creates souls.

I think the idea of two bodies sharing a soul is plausible. But I’m not a canon scholar.
What does it mean to be alive? The arrow of time in our consciousness comes from the direction of memories. What happens if Kirk gets transported and two Kirks come out the other end? The simple answer is that both are Kirk. Once their experiences diverge they will be different Kirks, but consciousness state is contained in one's memories so it can be copied, moved, time travelled, whatever.
> does this happen when we sleep?

I did wonder this too for a bit but I think if you have experienced very bad sleeping patterns you start to realize that sleep is more of a transition than an off switch and what is happening around you can enter your dreams, you can remain conscious and in control from dream start to end with lucid dreaming and also what you dream can come into the real world in high fidelity for a few moments through hypnopompic hallucinations.

From experiencing this it makes me feel sleep is more like you maintain your self you were the night before and the on off switch feeling is just because your brain chooses not to remember it.
Your only criticism of Firefox is that they get money from selling the default search engine spot to Google, but then your alternative recommendation is a browser that's fundamentally dependent on Google?

The day Google stops open-sourcing Chromium or start delaying public releases, or when another privacy-busting oopsie slips in the open-source codebase and Brave devs miss it, Brave is done. They don't have the manpower or experience to develop an actual browser.

The day Google stops buying Firefox's ad space, Mozilla has hundreds of alternative options for generating revenue.
The song contains the line "The pandemic ain't real/They just planned it".

I believe that the solution to incorrect or dangerous speech is only more speech and oppose YouTube's takedown. However, it's absurd to say this is "political" and thus not medical misinformation. It's clearly a political statement in support of a political movement that maliciously lies about public health.
I've seen 5 digit years in use online in some places, but not 6-digit (so far). Maybe it's influenced by the Long Now project?

For long timescales (geological deep time) I believe using SI units are more appropriate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#SI_prefix_multipliers
My friend, your [0] is almost a decade old. I can pull the repository and prove that Chromium is even more than 35 million sloc.

There's also nothing "incomplete" about what I said. I did say that they claim they're leaving blocking webRequest intact.

Brave also doesn't make sideloading extensions easy. Enjoy your constant nagging from having developer mode enabled. Most users won't even go through the trouble.
Do you really scroll using the keyboard? I always use the trackpack, which is just between my hands as I type, and I find it incredibly slow to use the keyboard for navigation unless it's just a few lines up/down... with the trackpad, without moving my hands more than a few centimeters, I can go anywhere in a file instantly.
I semi-agree with you, in the sense that until we better understand the "substrata of consciousness", there are two possible interpretations:

1. We keep "dying" and being replaced by our future selves, in which case transporting may not be different then just staying at the same place. But we still die, at least in that sense, on transportation.

2. There is some kind of continuous substrate to conscious existence. And we die on transport.
The more successful the rollout, the more the ratio goes up - this is counterintuitive, but happens because the number of unvaccinated people around that could possibly catch it in the first place becomes comparatively tiny.
It's one command and you're forever in test mode[1], i.e.: don't enforce driver signatures:

bcdedit /set testsigning on

You just have to disable Secure Boot in UEFI first. (And I can confirm Windows 11 doesn't actually require Secure Boot to boot, I've had it off for months as part of win11 certification testing.)

I'm not sure but DRM might revert to lower levels (e.g.: 720p), but that also happens on macOS when you disable SIP IIRC.

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/in...
What's similar between them? A spam host will likely be high volume of similar-looking email sent to users who will never reply and most probably trash/spam-categorize the email. A small, single-user sender will likely be *very* low volume of fairly different-looking email sent to users who will likely answer and otherwise interact with the mail. They have literally nothing in common.

Before I moved to fastmail, my email was consistently getting nullrouted by microsoft. Everything was setup correctly (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC, etc...), and every other mail host I tried would receive my mail correctly. I send out a very low amount of email (3-4 per month?).
difference is WSL2 is more of a virtual machine than a translation layer like wine or WSL1
Just ban advertising straight up. This will kill Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the other companies ruining the web. Not one tear will be shed at this point.

Also, make it a huge liability to store any kind of personal information. Apply heavy taxes on every single bit stored. These companies should be trying really hard to forget all about us the second they send our HTTP responses, not hoarding our personal information like a bunch of stalkers. Make it exceedingly expensive for them to do it and they'll stop.
It’s just two women talking in the video (assuming we watched the same video). Is your feeling really about the video or the content they are talking about?
> I stop and think

thinking is auto completing by your brain. You don't create thoughts. It appears automatically. Sam Harris explains it perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FanhvXO9Pk
> I am somewhat planning to start building my own full off-grid setup soon but I'm planning to go it alone. I'm not a hermit but I think I need space to myself more so than others.

You can live in a commune and have personal space. Not all communes have dormitories (it's really an anti-soviet cliché)... most have individual or small collective (consented) housing with strong collective infrastructure.

Anarchist ideals have been instrumental in building free communes over the past two centuries, and they refuse a false dichotomy between individual welfare and community building. We can have the two at the same time, as long as we choose carefully who to live with, and properly define what our collective project is.
There is also one reason many here don't see:

you don't have to bother with the console. Everything can be installed and run with a mouse.

Don't take me wrong. I understand the good sides of console programs. You can do a lot there but your average user doesn't care.
> I mean, the only real answer is "it depends on the writer," but given the general way the transporter is supposed to work most of the time (converting matter to energy, transmitting the energy somewhere, then reconverting the energy back into matter and reassembling the original thing) then... yes, the original Kirk dies, and a facsimile Kirk comes out the other end.

I agree.

> what does it matter if the "you" entering the transporter ceases to exist?

A lot! Most of us are hardwired to know that If you die, you die and knowing that a perfect copy would exist, doesn't compensate that.
> But if I had kids I wouldn't really let them participate. Even with the police escort, they might lose the group and be on their own in this busy city.

Don't underestimate the resourcefulness of kids - in many ways, Goonies was a documentary ;)

I would have been comfortable with my kids doing something like this at 7 years of age. I recently had to chaperone on a schoolbus for a week - the 5 and 6 yo are still "small" and easily scared, but from 7 up they are basically fearless balls of energy.

Sadly, as society, we don't give kids the level of independence they deserve, because we've been shocked and somewhat indoctrinated by 50 years of newscycle scaremongering. We expect every kid to end up like James Bulger if we let them roam - except statistically there will be one Bulger in millions, maybe billions, of kids. When I think of what I could do at the age my kids are now, I feel like I've let them down - but if I'd done anything differently, I would have had social services on my ass.
Once you recognize this problem, it can be solved by grandfathering people in, basically paying off the people who used to benefit so that the rules can be changed to be fairer in the future.

This feels a bit icky but is a recurring pattern. For example, when slaves were emancipated the previous owners were often compensated, because if not they would politically block it happening.

I feel it's going to get to a crunch in some places before people do anything about it but various places will start adopting variants of this to deflate the bubble.

Basically passing some of the land value tax onto the lucky current property owners as an annuity, and allowing them to move somewhere cheaper and decouple safely from the local property market.

Probably needs enough of a threat that they'll just be forced to pay the full tax before they'll cave though, so it's just politics at that point. Who has more power and/or propaganda will decide the outcome.
Consciousness is reconstructed about once every 1.5 minutes. You just don't (normally) notice the short gaps, because during those gaps you are (by definition) unconscious.

just like a movie (collection of still images) is seen as motion.
I guess they're a well established source of statements to be accepted as fact 'on faith' without further examination.
Or if we replace every single cell of our body, at what point do we are still the same person?
No, we only have issues with this because of mathematical induction. "Suppose Riker was cloned during transporter malfunction and now there are two Rikers" is false statement because to store information about 10^27 atoms of human body is impossible. The statement is false. Anything you base on the false premise is false, nonsensical.
Cities have always been describe as worse than the country side, even as far back as Epicurus.

I would argue the main issue nowadays is that people born and raised in cities are so disconnected from nature that it seems hostile to them, they lost all the connections rural people grew with and learned to love. All they want is instant gratification, convenience at all price, least amount of friction and physical work, constant internet connection

I remember watching the stars with my grandma when I was 6 or so, we'd get deckchairs, a cup of tea and warm blankets and stare at the sky for hours, she told me about the moon, stars, the milky way, satellites, potential alien life out there &c. It was magical. It was absolutely silent, public lights were switched off after some time so the light pollution was very low. There was nothing better than waking up with the sound of owls or cicadas

I went mushroom picking with my dad every year, learning about the right timing and conditions for optimal mushroom growth, learning which ones are the best, which ones are comestible but not very tasty, which ones will make you sick or kill you, we'd see wild animals, their tracks, their skeletons, &c.

We had a garden in which I spent a lot of time, you could notice how the different seasons had effects in the flora, which insects, birds, small mammals came out of their hiding spots and at what time of the year. Seeing how vegetables were growing, bending down and snacking on the strawberries you planted yourself.

Living in the country side means living in sync with the seasons, you witness their impact on the world surrounding you, trees, plants, insects, wild animals, type of food you have access to, occupations you can enjoy. In the city you're kind of locked into a sort of constancy, sure it gets cold or warm, you have more or less sunlight, but that's about it, everything else stays the same, same activities, same dull concrete jungle, same cars going the same way every day, same dark empty sky, same constant noise

Now I live in a city, I never get a single minute of silence no matter what time of the day or night. I can't see stars, let alone the milky way. Insects are pretty much gone besides the occasional fly or mosquito. Pigeons and crows make up about 99% of wild animals you can spot

I very often go for walks late at night, covid was a blessing for that, the streets were virtually empty. During that time I've seen a howl, foxes hunting for rats almost every day, hares, some kind of weasel, a beautiful heron enjoying the lack of tourist boats. Now that people and tourists are back life has disappeared again and the noise/cars are back to pre covid level

I truly pity people who did not experience this, I wouldn't be surprised if it is a big part of the modern alienation a lot of people seem to go through
I like the concept of ISOs in general, but I personally prefer RFC 3339. The space makes it so much easier to read at a glance, and I can't imagine it makes parsing much different algorithmically?
Project is open source at https://github.com/akmittal/webstats
Surrey researchers breathe new life into paper books with the Magic Bookmark
Computing at Cornell and the Internet (1994) [pdf]
This is a slippery slope way of thinking. One would argue that appearance of computers is similarly evil, but many of us can confirm that this is not true.

It all depends on who uses the tool and their motives, not on the tool itself. The tool is powerful but it's totally neutral. And can be used for both bad (dominance, ransom) and good things (security).
There's a whole episode of The Orville about that sort of thing.
At least you got a response! Most people don't. According to some previous blogposts and threads on this topic, apparently if you just contact them often enough, they will after a few months escalate the problem to the competent team and get you unblocked.
Is FB on an engineering resume actually bad?
Yep, anyone still using tabs to navigate between files: stop doing it! Learn to use the recent files switcher plus the general find-file, find-type shortcuts etc.

First thing I do on a new installation of IntelliJ or VSCode: remove the stupid tabs.

EDIT: emacs doesn't have tabs, obviously as it doesn't need them, but some crazies have been pushing to make the tabs package installed AND active by default so newbies can feel more familiar with it... that's incredibly backwards: newbies should learn to not rely on inferior methods of file navigation and use the appropriate tools for the jobs, as a recent-files-switcher that's present in every editor I know... in emacs do this:

(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)

and bind `'recentf-open-files` to some shortcut.