skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I don't see 100 as being very much money based on the poster's previous declaration that it's his favorite book melded with his kid's favorite book. Most people spend 100 a month on stuff they don't actually use/need/enjoy.

If there was an edition of my favorite X that had been blended with my daughter's favorite X then 100 dollars is a steal.
My undergrad is in biology and I got it many years ago. I can only imagine how much has changed since then.

Does anyone think that in the infinite complexity of the human body and the immune system that we think we have 'figured covid out' by discovering a single spike protein?

There's such an endless possibility of how Covid can interact with the body.

We are just touching the surface of how the body works.

They just discovered a new organelle in cells this year.

So for any single group to claim a monopoly on truth and censor other views, especially with only a year and a half of study... is a major problem.
Really, extending the todo.txt todo-list format (http://todotxt.org) to being a blog platform is as simple as having a heredoc style delimiter for each post. Then of course, you're just recreatin org-mode from first principles.

Social media is also merely the exchange of plain text and media files.

If only we had a simple and free platform that had the following features:

* Supports multiple simultaneous users
* Has simple user and group access control
* Treats everything as a sharable file
* Easy for admins to securely deploy out of the box
* Easy for users to securely connect out of the box
* Uses few enough resources that it can be ran on effectively any computer, no matter how powerful.

If only we had such a mythical system, we could decentralize the net. If.
If you're referring to the Metreon target, this is some
good old fashioned fake news.
https://hoodline.com/2021/10/false-claim-of-target-closing-m...
The very old school way: church/religious group. Doesn’t have to be fundamentalist/conservative - if you’re in a US metro area, I guarantee you have the more open-minded variants of all the major religions rather close to you. They’re often a good way to get plugged into long-term volunteer work, even if you aren’t particularly interested in attending worship services.

(Personal taste: Episcopal Church, after growing up Southern Baptist. Childhood friend who got a harsher dose of Southern Baptist now enjoys occasionally doing stuff with her local Unitarian-Universalist congregation, and appreciates their youth programs for her girls. Your mileage will vary.)
This account matches my own experience as a firefox user.
None of these are contagious and thus threatening to large numbers of people (far) removed from the problem. It’s like a big fire… Put the damn thing out before worrying about who started it.
Looks like CSV described. Gzip the json and don't care about the biggest selling point
From "A => B" does not follow "(not A) => (not B)"

edit: swapped A and B by mistake, see comment below
They don't need a backdoor anymore. Microsoft now routinely collects your data and pushes mandatory updates through the front door.
Looks neat. I don't see a formal spec. Question: if I have two optional fields of the same type and the first one isn't provided, how does a parser know which field is provided? The optional fields seem unclear to me.
I don't really see the difference between this and a coop apartment building except that it's in a rural setting. So, many of the social structures of traditional old world villages but cooperatively owned and in the USA. I don't understand what's "eco" about it (vs any other rural community, I mean). Am I missing something critical?
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945312
People are being awfully credulous of two sentence fragments quoted in an editorial paragraph. Much of this could certainly be true but my bullshit meter is going off on the level of narrative they're reconstructing in all the non-quoted portions.

I dislike AMP because the UX is bad and Google strong armed it in the news carousel anyways instead of focusing on performance for all sites, but this would be a lot more convincing with the source emails entered into the record.

edit: and this is just talking about ad content, right? Unless somehow a publisher made their entire page blocked until the page's ads load, throttling the load of ads would just make the ads load slower. And from what cletus quotes in another comment:

> To respond to the threat of header bidding, Google created Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”), a framework for developing mobile web pages, and made AMP essentially incompatible with JavaScript and header bidding. Google then used its power in the search market to effectively force publishers into using AMP.

Is the claim that ads in AMP pages don't run javascript or do header bidding and so are "fast", but javascript and header bidding isn't inherently slow so Google could have made them faster (and/or not intentionally throttled)? I've never worked much with ads so maybe someone with knowledge of header bidding can comment.
Borne Sulinowo: secret cold war Soviet base in Poland, built by Germans [video]
Salary increases are minuscule if you stay at the same company, but switching around let’s you avoid the power imbalance between structurally underpaid employees and overpaid CEOs..

Especially considering that the current expected salary of a CEO is extremely distorted by the fact that it’s decided by a board usually filled with other CEOs..

The embarrassing thing is that bloody Adam Smith warned us of this a few centuries ago:

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices”
I don't really agree. Cache friendliness is almost always a relevant factor as soon as performance becomes an issue. I get what you're saying but as I see it immutability gives you architectural efficiency and in some cases space efficiency, but rarely processing speed.

> Think video games like braid

Braid doesn't use immutable data structures, it uses a historical record (and immutability would be incompatible with some of the mechanics).[1] The author of Braid is actually quite famous for his dislike of functional languages and immutability. He doesn't even like garbage collection because of the overhead it introduces.

Interestingly, he was talking about data structures for codebase representation (in the context of a compiler) a while back, and someone mentioned HAMTs. I'm definitely curious if they would work well there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dinUbg2h70
Why are people on HN so obsessed with this concept? I've always found these communities require a lose of freedom to fully integrate and typically anything "other" in these communities is quickly expelled because the community could not function otherwise.
I think the primary issue is the continuity of self (or an object).

So let’s say in the Ship of Theseus experiment all the boards are replaced one after another pretty quickly. I think it’s not the same ship. If it’s done over a longer time period it’s the same ship.

Similarly to your body - your cells get replaced but you maintain continuity. So nightly yea you’re the same person. But you probably aren’t the same person as you were 10 years ago. This is true in many ways, some simple examples are your tastes and preferences changing. Beliefs, etc.

> I think the view of "self" is what's to blame.

Agree completely and I think this bleeds into discussions around consciousness as well.
No, it’s working but vaccination has not been completed. And, depending on the location, it doesn’t look like it’s going to complete.
You can go on Twitter and do it.

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1448892208191467520
> There are things known as facts, and things known as lies.

Yes, I understand that. But if you want to give the state the power to ban speech (or 'throttle' speech, whatever that means) then you need to give someone the power to determine which speech falls into that category. Please... do you really not see this problem, after so many people have explained it?
ISO 8601-2:2019 defines quarters in section 4.8, "Sub-year groupings". Your example of "2021-Q1" can be represented as "2021-33".
This is a great question, and I think the trouble here is that there is a temptation to answer with one off anecdotes from the idiosyncratic example of a single use case. The more peculiar, individualized, unique, and unrepresentative, the more likely it is that we're going to hear that.

This temptation is very strong on HN. I honestly would be fascinated by a blog that gathered together all the extremely specialized use cases that people use as examples of why product XYZ wasn't good enough. That way of thinking leads to interesting to discussion but needs to be tempered by stepping back and looking at how representative those examples are, and I think that step is the point in the process where these conversations always break down.
More nominal wealth that reduces actual physical wealth (by slowing the improvement of land via adding denser housing) is not a good outcome. It’s just redistribution of wealth from newcomers or renters to existing homeowners.
> modern chips are a lot more reselient against crashes according to the telemetry Microsoft collects

Sort of a side point, but this got me wondering...Is there something inherently less stable about these older chips, or maybe is their stability somehow a function of their lifetime that would really matter here? My own anecdata (which is from a far smaller dataset than what I imagine Microsoft would have access to) would suggest that this isn't really the case, at least for anything otherwise capable of running something like Windows 10 or Windows 11, but I'd be interested in reading more about it.

Is it that old systems tend to not be physically maintained as well thus resulting in cooling issues and more overheating?

Is it that these "crashes" are application crashes due to the attempted execution of instructions in (newer) x86 extensions not implemented by these (older) chips?
Are you aware of the enormous amounts of blood, sweat, and tears expended by people on XDA Developers just to unlock bootloader to use functions as simple as custom gesture controls?
How centralised is AMP in theory and in practise?
and hes absolutely right. it needs to just work. WireGuard takes the same approach.

And you're talking about the default ciphering setup golang in no way prevents you as a developer from changing ciphers as a developer of an application. it just doesn't expose it directly. you can go and change the golang runtime and since its open source you can.

but wtf ever would you? you're just opening yourself up to self inflicted pain.
I am fine with this tbh, I am a pragmatic person.

In spirit, I love FOSS, though I won't cripple myself by sticking to if something that works better for me comes along/use it to my own detriment.

In fact, I would be willing to pay a good amount of money for Windows 98/Windows 2000 with a modern kernel, x64 support, and icing on the cake would be a Linux shell.

If there was "Ubuntu: Windows 2000 UI Edition" they could take my money.
I came across this because I read an article about people looting old shipwrecks for the steel.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/24/as-me...
>Given that Google is critical for US intelligence supremacy and technological dominance, I am curious what the US chooses to do with it.

Peter Thiel says Google is anti-American because it chooses to work with China but not with US. I wouldn't quite agree with Thiel but I would say that Google's neoliberal culture and neoliberal agenda is starting to become destructive and counter- productive in the long term.
> also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post .

It indeed is. As a layperson who knows nothing about a field, not even a closely related field your best bet is to accept the scientific consensus. And by best bet I mean that that that is the choice that will give you the highest expected value of success.

People keep pointing at the cases from the past (sometimes from the very far past, like with Galileo) trying to disprove this strategy. There are at least two fatal flaws with this logic:
1. science has evolved a lot since then. And it doesn't just mean that we know more about those specific subjects (be it astronomy or neuroscience) but more importantly, the scientific method has evolved too. I.e. when we think we know something today, is very different from what it was a 100 or 500 years ago.
2. Of course, scientists can be wrong. Even en masse (i.e. the scientific consensus). (If it wasn't so, we may not need research any more after all because we'd know everything.) But going completely wrong is pretty rare and what is exactly your other option? Listening to lunatics? Because every lunatic will say "yeah, but the scientists are wrong all the time, so..." and go on with their 100% unfounded claims. No, it's not that they do research because they don't accept the consensus. That would be totally OK. They just make claims that they support with this very vague critique. "Lobotomy won a Nobel prize, which we know don't work, so who is to tell me that I'm wrong with my claims that I have nothing to support."

> Nothing is certain in life when human beings are involved no matter how comforting that thought is. There is only a narrative of certainty.

Nobody said it was. This is a big fat strawman. But just because (almost) nothing is 100% certain, it doesn't mean that we don't have more probable and less probable answers.
It's simple. Money.
It's very straightforward to debunk the above: atheists don't believe in God. The implication is that everyone is "chemical scum", that there is no purpose to life, and that ultimately nothing matters. Therefore, it doesn't matter if we blow up the entire world, or make everyone suffer to please a handful of people, there are no consequences and nothing matters at the end of the day.
The vaccine produces spike
protein within your deltoid muscle cells, where it is rapidly degraded and presented to your immune system. It’s not running around in your bloodstream. Unlike the virus. Which means, incidentally, that if this is a concern of yours you should definitely prefer getting the vaccine to getting an infection.
I believe there is no such provision in the APGL for a reasonable period of time/delay. Unless there is an exception in the license, one would need to give remote users the source code for the exact version of a program they are interacting with. It is no different from the traditional GPL in this regard.

Imagine getting a (binary) copy of GCC and the README said —

this is version X.Y.Z. Please wait up to two months to download the source code. Until then, you can download the source code for X.Y.Z-2.

IANAL either, but my interpretation was always that you had to treat AGPL code in the same way as GPL, except for the fact that access by remote/internet users was considered a distribution.
> They would walk away from Macs in an instant if the platform stops being useful to them.

Only if there was a better alternative. That is the point, both Microsoft and Apple works towards there not being any better alternatives out there. It wont happen in 5 years, but almost surely in 20, as they have to do it slowly enough for all major programs to get into the appstores.

Just have to slowly make it more and more difficult shipping software that isn't in their appstores. Then you start paying for exclusives, imagine if Apple paid photoshop to only ship in their appstore and not distribute indipendent binaries for macOs for example, people would quickly learn to use the store. Ship cheaper variants of the OS with only access to the appstore etc. There are so many ways for them to reach that destination, and 20 years is an eternity in this space.
Is it really alarmist to believe that Apple would like to make their less popular OS more like their significantly more popular OS?
It’s what happens when you have a community where you can’t just call a person names. You end up having drawn out “discussions” trying to articulate “you’re bitching about this stupid shit in comparison against Google trying to fuck the web???”

Not to say it doesn’t exist on Reddit or something, but yeah. It is a very ‘hacker news’ phenomenon
No email provider seems palatable.
Is that $20,000 just for proof or also showing the method?
Well it's not a controller, it's a post-processor that converts and sends the specific N-Code to the CNC (heidenhein "OS") (serial or ir)...CNC then executes the stored code.
Can we attribute some level of lost market share to a lack of cultural knowledge of the benefits of FireFox (for example my friends aren’t aware ublock origin, superior to adblockers available on chrome, is available in Firefox) and also that Google intentionally makes their products run shittier on Firefox in an anticompetitive measure?
I find it quite distasteful and lacking perspective when hearing Dutch people say "cycling really isn't that great!" (although I know that's not really the point of this article). But still, don't ignore the horrific reality of really a lot of the world at this point: suburban america is just one isolated example. I know there's always some level of "the grass is always greener" but the Dutch emphasis on making cycling out to be not so really a big deal actually is a bit ridiculous frankly.
Text Only Weather Report
Indeed, they did own 40% of ARM as a co-founder at one point. When iOS is 90% of your business you need to reduce the costs of the other 10%
Clubhouse will soon let you pin links to the top of rooms
Page 94 of the document (which is page 99 in the PDF).
Google “COVID triage”. Several us states and Canadian provinces have airlifted COVID cases to different places that have open beds. Elective surgery was on hold, and even procedures involving nursing participation were not occurring. Fortunately the current wave seems to be stabilizing at least here in Canada.
Harmonic Coloring: A method for assigning colors to musical pitches
Yikes. Imagine our shock at this one.
> Re: forced Chrome logins. Don't need cookies if you own the browser!

(https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/145209451374118912...)

The swindle with FLOC was pretty obviously tied in this, but people still went in circles discussing whether it's private or not, and downvoting those who said FLOC is a trap.

Let's consult the plan, nothing is even secret about this:

- Google disables third-party cookies, crippling competitors to its Analytics, and thus their data for ads.

- Google throws them the FLOC bone to avoid being sued, dressing it up as a privacy measure. Meanwhile FLOC is controlled by Google's code in the browser.

- Google itself continues to vacuum up users' stats for all sites through the browser, never needing the cookies or FLOC.

So, if this is not a case of Google using its monopoly on web services (email and video) and the monopoly on the browser to prop up its monopoly on web ads, then I don't know what is.

The baffling part, really, is: with Goog already being ahead of the rest of the planet by having surveillance in The Browser, why don't they chill the hell out and stop right there. It's almost like someone inside decided to set up a multibillion-dollar morality performance and demonstrate what happens when a company is being too greedy.

Also, we probably need to remember that even if Goog is told off and has to dial its appetites back, it still sits on a database of surveillance data on people through the web, the browser, the services and Android. Which database, for example, is used by the US police for location->people requests, of which folks by definition only some are potential subjects of investigation (see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/technology/google-sensorv...).
Are they losing trust though? Many young developers don't remember the height of the EEE days in the 90s and 00s when MS was trying very hard to extinguish free software. These are just stories to them.

Now, MS runs the world's largest source code sharing service and many of these young developers launch proprietary MS code editing tools daily.

We old timers always knew what the end game was, but young people lack the context and so many are already hooked on MS now. It's not obvious to me that they will ever care enough to switch no matter how hostile MS behaves.
A general question whether some mandate X is worth it given that it reduces Y covid deaths. Humans are made to talk to each other.
The shareholders reaped a lot of benefit along the way. It doesn’t seem outrageous to have the company (the shareholders in aggregate) pay fines related to the behavior.
Without an ultimate authority (God), it doesn't make sense.
As long as most computers ship in a manner where the owner can adjust the keys in TPM/SecureBoot - you could argue its a good thing.

Eg,like:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-sign-things-for-secure-boot
> There is very little evidence to show that invasive digital advertising is actually effective.

Ignoring the "invasive" (being a matter of definition) there is an absolute mountain of irrefutable evidence for google-type digital advertising being "effective", in the sense that an advertiser can spend 1$ to make 2$, measurably.

> When was the last time you clicked on one of these ads and actually made a purchase?

The answer is: It doesn't matter. Ads being clicked and thus stuff being sold is not a matter of personal opinion or observation. Spending and tracking online ad money works. Of course, on an individual level you can still lose money while advertising for a myriad of reasons.

By the way, this is by no means an argument for advertisements (online/offline, "invasive" or otherwise). Advertisement as an industry does not create value. It's steering attention while sucking up money and there is also no reason to assume that it provides an inherent bias towards better products (the opposite likely being true).

Also Google/FB could be defrauding their ad customers to an absolutely mind boggling degree. Being the deliverer, and also reporting on deliveries, it's insane that they can operate basically unregulated.
Their site is in a weird state at the moment. The homepage looks normal, and some of the category pages do too.

But I get errors on pages like these:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/zone/pharmacy ("Sorry, there's currently an issue on our website.")

https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/ ("Your browser has failed some security checks" - Lol...I don't think my browser is the issue)
Expect some 'cosmetic' change and back to the norm. The personal data hoarded is too valuable to the surveillance apparatus for us to stop it now. You wouldn't want a Chinese/Russian company taking over these industries, and the West seems capable of only one flavor, the current status quo. Seems like FAAMG is here to stay, they are probably already one with the government, it will be spelled out more obvious in the future, since we need a judge to give us truth, but honest judges aren't in demand
The gulf between OSX apps and Windows/Linux apps in quality was far greater than any sort of edge iOS apps have over competing platform apps. So it’s hard to see how the argument that locking down the platform leads to better apps works.
It's Time for Programming Puzzles
It's just a fork, one click on GitHub.
Well atleast antivaxxers have nothing to lose.

Jokes aside, the study seems more like a Coronavirus can cause long term damage to parts of brain. Vaccinated people would likely end up with less likelyhood of this happening (by a big factor) compared to unvaccinated.

Nevertheless this does not seem to be a big deal that you should worry about.