skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always perplexed when I hear that people suffer accidental clicks and poor palm rejection on a MacBook Pro trackpad. I've never had such an incident, but I can see how it's possible.

Some opinions on trackpads:
- Tap to click should _always_ be turned off; it's bad and it should feel bad
- More apps should take advantage of multi-level clicking

Personally, I love Apple trackpads so much that I use one (Magic Trackpad 2) when my laptop is docked to my monitor. Mice just don't do it for me anymore on macOS. They just feel clunky.

Edit: Also, Apple should promote the "three finger drag" Accessibility setting to the Trackpad settings. It's far superior to all other drag-via-the-touchpad options, IMO.
I burn 100GB backups via blu-ray. One or two is enough for my non-movie files. They started stagnating a few years ago when streaming ascended however. Shame as I'd like higher capacity as well.

Cheap USB flash drives are already moving into this space. I just got a compact 256GB one for $35 or so, just a matter of time. SD cards would probably be more convenient, but they aren't sadly aren't read in devices like stereos any longer.
It's nice to know that the specialists who'll be operating these vehicles are autonomous.
David Hestenes’s Geometric Algebra for Physicists, maybe?
I just want to point out that you casually dismissed "a few hundred thousand" users whose lives were impacted as a non-issue.

This is exactly the type of attitude which gives software dev such a bad rap.

I personally support every single user of my products and never force a new version on them.
I guess the post-Gates Ballmer era was prone to these types of acquisition wreckage. My feeling is that under Nadella everything is more nuanced. Still, we'll see soon enough.
I am not sure I buy into the author's calcineurin/mitochondria hypothesis.

There is a much more direct causal link as auto-immunity has been implicated in AD progression for years, e.g. [1-11]. I can't find the paper right now, but I once saw a very compelling longitudinal study where they regularly measured cognitive performance as well as several immunity markers in older subjects. Basically, every transient increase in antibody levels (IIRC, but they may have been tracking some other marker of immune system activation) was followed by a step decline in cognitive performance.

[1] Lopez (1991) Serum auto-antibodies in Alzheimer's disease

[2] Aisen (1996) Inflammation and Alzheimer disease

[3] D'Andrea (2005) Add Alzheimer’s disease to the list of autoimmune diseases

[4] Carter (2010) Alzheimer's Disease: A Pathogenetic Autoimmune Disorder Caused by Herpes Simplex in a Gene-Dependent Manner

[5] Reddi et al (2011) Autoimmunity in Alzheimer’s disease: increased levels of circulating IgGs binding Aβ and RAGE peptides

[6] Sardi et al (2011) Alzheimer's disease, autoimmunity and inflammation. The good, the bad and the ugly

[7] Marchese (2013) Autoimmune Manifestations in the 3xTg-AD Model of Alzheimer's Disease

[8] Li et al. (2018) Dementia and Alzheimer's disease risks in patients with autoimmune disorders

[9] Arshavski (2020) Alzheimer’s Disease: From Amyloid to Autoimmune Hypothesis

[10] Itzhaki et al (2020) Do infections have a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease?

[11] Lim et al (2020) Alzheimer Disease Pathogenesis: The Role of Autoimmunity
What is this population currently doing with cars operated by humans and how would it be any different?
This article isn't very good IMHO because it focuses on emotional considerations rather than the underlying math. The core problems with the PSA test is that it has relatively low statistical specificity and it hasn't been shown to have any statistically significant effect on mortality in aggregate, and the resulting treatment options do have statistically significant morbidity. Hence all the debate about when, how often, and for whom. All the arguments about increased anxiety are pretty unhelpful and obscure the underlying statistical challenges.
Awesome. Can it mill aluminum? If so, would you consider replacing some of the 3D printed parts with machined parts?
I'm not the OP but I wanted to reply to a couple of your queries about life in India.

> What do you use when baking sweet pastries? Crushed sugar cubes? :D

When OP says sugar cubes, he doesn't mean the sugar cubes you might be thinking (large cubes of sugar used for tea, or fed to horses), although that is something found pretty ubiquitously out here too. Our sugar generally comes in a grain-like consistency shaped as tiny cubes measuring about 1-2mm squared, in general. A simple Google search for "India sugar" should provide visual reference. This is a personal anecdote but the size of these sugar grains vary in size based on how expensive they are. More expensive = finer sugar.

At my home, we either use icing sugar or powder the sugar in a spice grinder attachment on our blenders. That's how I prefer my sugar, just so much easier to work with. Wish it was more common around.

> Again I don't know what the limits are over there.

We don't have any limits, AFAIK, but that's mostly because without a PIN/OTP, no one is going to get any money out of your debit/credit card. I should mention I've used my card on a few US/EU-based websites and didn't need to input any PIN/OTP so it's still possible.
Sustainable Classroom Robots
I bet you actually have "unlimited" storage.
There's no need to shrink it. It can be done in software, ignore touches/dragging in the periphery.

Actually what could be done is to give tactile feedback when you cross into that ignored region so it feels like your finger just went over an edge. Then the area on the outside of those edges can be configurable tap areas: more buttons! The logical conclusion is to make it a display too so you can see the buttons.
Yes sure, they want to stop piracy and extortion to guarantee their trade activities. Exactly the same classic reasons given by the Dutch and British East India company to their respective government to intervene and colonize any strategic foreign land!

It seems you have cherry picked the definition that best suited your own skewed agenda. Please check the main definition from the dictionary (and also other parts of the Wikipedia), "a person who helps take control of an area or a country that is not their own, especially using force, and sends people from their own country to live there". Please check your history, Chola dynasty did sent their own people to these conquered foreign places and some of Chola descendents continued to rule several parts of South East Asian countries.

Mysore and Mughal dynasty are both from India subcontinent and according to some reputable historians that includes Afghanistan. Yes their ancestors are perhaps from somewhere else similar to Chola ruling class or upper caste who ancestors most probably from Aryan descendents originated from northern regions [1]. It just like saying now that cosmopolitan American including Irish, Chinese, Jewish, Scandinavian are all the US colonizer because their ancestors are from somewhere else eventhough they have lived there several generations for hundreds of years.

Genuinely asking you for a third time any reliable source of references regarding massacre done by Tipu Sultan, if not it's just hearsay and evil slander to systematically tarnish this Indian hero of independence, and shame on you.

[1]Tiruvalangadu Inscription States That Cholas Are Descendants of Aryan King Bharata:

https://www.indictales.com/2019/02/20/tiruvalangadu-inscript...
Yoooooooooooo homies. I'm dippin out! Tom the new homie now. This a legit cruise. One love to y'all. Always remember, Snitches get stitches.
Peace out braphogs.

-Phat Nat
Almost everyone is an end user of Apache Traffic Server without really knowing it. It is used by Yahoo, Apple, Comcast, Wikipedia, AT&T, Cox and many other companies.

Some companies that use it at very large scale don't like to talk about what technologies they use.
Did this article at some point give up and jump straight into something too difficult?
1982 is calling but expects to be connected to some HN pedant "helpfully" pointing out that you can't actually shoot stuff.

https://youtu.be/j4OLnrwLcJA
FWIW, you could use a different app, other than Google's. For example, you could use an app called Authy or the Microsoft authenticator app. Then AT LEAST, the app is outside the Google network.
The Race for Critical Race Theory
It seems there is no safe cell phone. They all run closed source software, written in unsafe languages (C and C++) and can be abused by cyber criminals and governments to spy on and track people at will.

Why do we carry these things in our pockets?

And I'm not convinced Signal or any other privacy protecting app is really useful. If we assume all cell phones are owned (or can be at any time) then the criminals own all the private keys on the phones as well.

It's impossible to have private communications with a cell phone.
How did the system work before? My sense is that doctors spend more time on administrative work now than they did before. How is the new system better?
You are incorrect in your belief that a modern Linux graphical stack centered on Wayland ever resamples or interpolates a virtual or actual framebuffer except for compatibility with apps that have not been adapted for Wayland. (Those apps use something called XWayland, which is blurry if the user has configured a non-standard size for things.) 99.9% of fonts these days, most icons provided by the OS, and most other graphical elements (e.g., rounded corners) are specified as mathematical descriptions of curves that can be rendered at the display's native resolution regardless of what size the user chooses them to be. (I believe the 0.1% of fonts that are not mathematical descriptions of curves are called bitmap fonts.)

Note that I am not talking about multiple displays, but rather a single display, but the user wants things to be bigger than they are by default.

I know this because have used all 3 major operating systems recently (MacOS, Windows 10 and Linux/Gnome) on plain-old 96-DPI monitors such that if there were any interpolation or scaling algorithm I would be able to see the effects.

On a monitor 1680 pixels wide, Gnome gives me a choice of the scaling factors 100%, 125%, 150%, 175% and 200%. On a monitor 1920 pixels wide, Windows 10 gives me a choice of the scaling factors 100%, 125%, 150% and 175%. Some apps are blurry as hell, but on both Windows and Gnome I was able to live my life using only those apps that don't have the blurriness problem, but then I am not forced to use old Windows apps provided or specified by my employer and don't need to share my screen (which I am told does not work yet on a pure-Wayland set-up like mine).

On Windows 10, I used Google Chrome, some apps such as Settings and Timer provided as part of the OS and VS Code. On Linux I used (and continue to use) Google Chrome, modern Gnome apps and Emacs. On Linux, I need to open Chrome with specific flags to get it to be non-blurry while the visual elements are a non-standard size, and I need an Emacs built from a git branch called feature/pgtk. Both apps have some bugs when used in this way, but the bugs are definitely live-with-able, and I expect the bugs to be fixed eventually.
Still apparently hydrogen fires in daylight are basically invisible (the produce mostly infrared radiation). NASA engineers used to walk with a broom in front of them so as not to accidentally walk into a thousand+ degree invisible fire when testing hydrogen equipment.
Driving the Future Mercedes with No Steering Wheel [video]
In this hypothetical, creating a new entity seems like a fair bit of work, but adding the new entity to the list so it faces the same controls is trivial. What am I missing?

I certainly wouldn't send technology subject to export control to anyone I knew to be a part of NSO Group or any successor.
A/C isn’t just about resisting ambient temperature, but also solar gain.

About the latter, that’s where smart grids come in. Clouds move and it’s incredibly unlikely to be sunny but cloudy a few miles away for an extended period of time.

(Obvs don’t build solar where fog sits regularly).
Yeah, why is everyone so mad, you don’t get to decide how someone writes their farewell letter.
And in return for said aid, Israel has become an American puppet and stays about the size of New Jersey without us having to use force. Between sending in troops and paying them, the US decided to pay. Imagine if a bully promised to not beat you up as long as he could pay you a small sum to sit in a corner in a fetal position all day. These politics are a lot more complex than you're making them out to be.
Seek times always matter even if they're not the top priority. And especially if we're talking about a storage medium that takes in a whopping 500 TB.
Cold calls/letters from recruiters are a waste of time. I've never had a cold call or letter from a recruiter that resulted in a job.

If you have any talent at all, reaching out through your professional network is the way to go.
> Taxis do serve a purpose even with the best subway system in the world

And from what I have read, while Manhattan is the best Subway system in the United States, it is far from being the best in the world (see for example, Tokyo).
I'm not a touch typist. I learned to type by having a computer in front of me and hitting the keys as I learned where they are. Having said that, I am actively trying to find a way to trigger the issue that this person has and I just can't do it. Can someone explain to me how they are accidentally hitting the track pad? I rest my palms on the laptop (16") and they are nowhere near it. Also, even when I deliberately rest them on the trackpad in order to emulate this issue, I still can't do it.
Yeah I’d be as likely to buy a magical anti-dementia rock as invest in this.
Sounds like a great reason to train the model on a closed road with a trained (and consenting) driver playing the role of "lane-blocking-driver" (in that example).
Egypt was defeated by Israel who had no intention of keeping their land, and they have had a better relationship than most other countries in that region for a long time.
> You also need power to heat

Most heating in NY will be carbon-based. For now anyway.
I've never seen love for the lenovo trackpad before.

I have a 2021 YOGA and I find the trackpad sluggish and disconnected from my intent. Like, I'll two-finger scroll and there is a noticeable pause, then it scrolls much farther than intended, and when I scroll back, it scrolls too little. I find it very frustrating.
Can't deny that Musk is an incredibly successful man, but if it's the choice between Sundar Pichai's corporate speech and someone who attacks a rescue expert as "pedo guy" because his ego is hurt, I'd rather work for Pichai.

I mean, if we can excuse Musk's behavior as "So what? His companies have been incredibly successful," then, fine, but why can't we say the same for other CEOs? Other CEOs at least have a good sense of keeping their personal feuds out of twitter.
In the current mood, shouldn't it be Chairperson Emeritum ?
Exactly, why is that the top comment.
Steps for Getting into Flow State and Maximizing Productivity
What happens if that phone is destroyed through some sort of accident, possibly involving your office? No matter how unlikely, if that's not a contingency you've planned for, the plan needs some work.
Thanks for making GitHub great , Nat!
"Why not switch to this new process, that, oh, gee, happens to be built around this software product that I sell."
I don't agree with the GP comment's attitude but if you could mention those features then maybe someone can help you, they probably exist in some form.
For defense: They rotate to a quantum proof algorithm

For attack: custody is never provable in crypto, as in you can prove you own an account but you cant prove nobody else does. so a hacker can use that to their advantage. They can also delay rotation by carefully picking their targets and amounts, as all the victims will be victim blamed and not believed for a very long time so a quantum computer hack could exist for a long time unless a large theft was done. Its tricky because many power users will report unexpected thefts and the rumors will start quickly.
People are entitled to their opinions, but I personally just can't take the pearl clutchers seriously in their offense-taking on this one.

The framing on this as a demonstration of deep misogyny in tech is just way, way too morbidly absurd.
Researchers Revise Recipe for Building a Rocky Planet Like Earth
What’s Working and What Isn’t in Researching Influence Operations?
I thought that was factored in when he talked about 3 full-hours of 200W across the full day? The day in Australia is certainly longer than 3 hours, so I figured that accounted for panel inefficiencies, indirect sunlight, and other such things. But could be wrong. Not sure how the 3 hours was calculated, but I am sure some solar calculators will take your location, average annual sunlight, efficiency and spit out an "effective daily solar hours" value that can be multiplied by the indicated solar panel wattage.
I'd hedge my bets and store it multiple ways in multiple formats. Including physical (print off pictures, diaries, etc. on acid free paper with acid free inks)
Inflation is considered a given, as the economy has been inflationary for decades.

> the annual inflation rate in the United States has decreased from 3.2 percent in 2011 to 1.2 percent in 2020.

So right now, wages simply haven't been adjusted to the existing inflation. This is not inflationary itself.
My understanding was that the article was specifically meant to be about the emotional considerations, which are a result of the statistical challenges.

BTW: one flipside of the high sensitivity is that if you have your prostate removed the PSA becomes a fantastic test. I get it once a year and if it's anything other than zero I know I have a problem
An auditory approximation of dementia - what does that even mean?

This is just an album that was inspired by what James Leyland Kirby (The Caretaker) read on dementia. It does not have anything to do with actually experiencing dementia.
Yes - while a slightly different URL, it forwards to the same URL. That submission from Sept 16, 2019 has 451 comments!
I agree - trackpad is way too big on the 2016+ models and misclicks happen now that didn't happen with the 2013 class of MBPs.

I am not simply turning off tap to click - a large trackpad makes clicking even harder.

I've found that using even a basic BT mouse is so much more productive than the built-in or external trackpad (need to disable trackpad when mouse is connected unless you use an external keyboard as well).
Vaccines are dirt cheap. Just the cost of the covid test to diagnose covid (which is required before the appropriate anti-viral may be prescribed) is probably going to be more than the cost of a vaccine.

> Would the current pandemic situation (health and economic) be different if the early focus had have been on anti-viral treatments rather than vaccines?

For starters, there were no anti-viral medications that actually worked against COVID. And that was not due to lack of trying. Generally speaking, it is harder to develop a small-molecule antiviral medication than it is to develop an effective vaccine. For many viral diseases there are no drugs that work, or you need a cocktail of drugs at the same time.
The Italian mind-couple in the article sound a lot like “Tulpas” — imaginary friends that seem to have their own personality and consciousness separate from their “host”.
According to the Attention-Schema theory of consciousness (AST), there’s no real difference between our own consciousness and consciousness we ascribe to others. If AST is correct, there’s no particular reason that a single brain be restricted to a single consciousness.

Although multiple personality disorders grab attention, it may be that less dysfunctional forms of multiple personalities exist in more common and constructive ways — such as two Italians arguing in one’s head, or as seemingly autonomous fictional characters who are transferred by artists into novels and film. Or in the case of “tulpas”, as imaginary friends that provide relief from loneliness and isolation.

If consciousness is produced by the brain, rather than being a non-material 1:1 artifact of a soul, then fundamentally there is nothing to stop a single brain from producing multiple consciousnesses.

It might be hard for most of us to understand what it feels like to be a secondary consciousness (what it feels like to be Frodo), but that doesn’t mean secondary consciousnesses don’t exist. “Tulpas” certainly argue for their own existence and sentience, which at the very least makes for a fascinating read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/
I just found MacOS, Solaris and OpenBSD man pages documenting sbrk and brk.
I don’t know much about how the biotech industry works, but are you saying that he should “work in the field” before pitching this idea? In software that would be almost laughed at as a suggestion, if the idea is indeed promising.
Very cool, maybe in 10 more years they'll expand to Chicago too.
I remember when I first heard about 5D storage back in 2013 [1][2]. The concept isn't at all new; in fact, there's a 5D storage device floating around in a Tesla in space, and Musk has another in his personal library. Nonetheless, it's great to see that it hasn't just dropped off the radar and that developments are still being made. I hope that this technology can one day be as widely available as CDs are; its potential usefulness to archivers/data hoarders really excites me, and (so long as the price is right) who can really sniff at extremely high-capacity, long-lasting storage?

[1] https://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/news/4282

[2] https://doi.org/10.1364%2FCLEO_SI.2013.CTh5D.9
Why do medical records cause providers to spend _more_ time than before? If the old system was faster for doctors, why not make the new system like the old system but electronic (electronic paper)?

The opinion of most providers (and comments below) is that before medical records, doctors were able to treat more patients and give each a greater level of attention and quality of care.
An actual record player.
>It seems there is no safe cell phone. They all run closed source software, written in unsafe languages (C and C++) and can be abused by cyber criminals and governments to spy on and track people at will.

Why should we have any expectation of privacy when we use a cell phone at all? It is triangualating your location 24/7 even if its not a smartphone. When/why did we expect them to be private in any way? How can you expect privacy when your location data is being broadcast and you're carrying a tracking device?

>Why do we carry these things in our pockets?

Its worth it for the tradeoffs.
Talk to a lawyer. And not to your company's.
I know you like the film roger rabbit, but that's not why trams died.
Is this a joke? Their scaling has been at a snails pace.
How about a Rust interpreter written in Python? Now that would be something worthy of a top HN post!
Prayer app raises $40M Series B, investors include Peter Thiel
Really neat project!

Maybe I missed it, but is there a general cost estimate anywhere? I saw the BoM, and assume most the cost is in the router and stepper motors, but is this like ~$500?
I cycle around London no matter the weather. During the "beast from the East" a few years ago, I found the biggest problem was that any snow sitting on top of our painted white lines seemed to harden. This would mean I'd hit them like they're a kerb and fall off my bike.

Grip issues aside, cycling in the snow isn't too bad provided you have decent gloves.