skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are tons of people whose immune systems are strong enough to naturally suppress nearly any kind of infection. The stories a doctor serving in the rural areas of Sierra Leone told literally shocked me speechless.

In countries with poor health facilities, naturally resistant people tend to be a significantly higher percentage of the population than in the west, possibly because a lot of those with weaker immune systems (who would otherwise be alive in richer countries) die early.

This might also be an explanation of why covid has claimed so few lives (relatively) in the poorer parts of the world (though another explanation could be that those parts of the world have less air traffic with the rich world).
The article mentions this, and links to the same page.
I think you’re misinterpreting. Dennet is setting up to question Descartes’ assumption, which has been “accepted,” but he spends the first 50 or so pages of the book breaking down.

I’m not saying this book has all the answers about consciousness (quite the contrary — it has been criticized for not really “explaining consciousness” as the title implies), but I think you would find the studies and observations about how our minds generate “drafts” of reality quite compelling.
they use https://localcryptos.com
> Experiment away! But not with mega-scale proof-of-work projects

Are you familiar with any methods to achieve the same characteristics of Bitcoin but without PoW? Perhaps the energy is not the issue, perhaps it's your view to the importance of it.
When currency inflation gets out of control, there is often not much the issuing country can do to stop it.
The rule of law is NOT "coded into the protocol", and you absolutely can cheat the system. In fact, it's far easier to cheat crypto "law" than real law, for several reasons:

1. Real law is not executed by a computer, but by a highly educated judge that can actually interpret the law and contracts, and reject attempts to exploit them. Smart contracts are easily exploited.
2. Real law has a process called "discovery", which is how the legal system gets to determine the facts of the case. This works specifically because of coercive force[0]. Crypto "law" is entirely at the mercy of trusted oracles to inject facts onto the blockchain so that smart contracts can execute correctly.
3. Impersonation is far harder in real law than crypto. In the crypto world, your identity is merely a collection of private keys. These are easily copied[1], and it is common practice for criminals to automate the theft of cryptocurrency because crypto identity is so fragile.
4. Crypto "law" is immutable, which means that if it gets things wrong (very likely because of the above), there is no recourse to change things[2]. In real law, transactions can be reversed and bad rulings appealed, at least for a little while.

Until you can make crypto law that can actually do the above things, I will continue to consider it untrustworthy, if not outright unethical to promote. You may have noticed that a lot of those things run counter to the spirit of decentralization... to which I say, that is the point. The financial system evolved to be a centralized one because centralization is more efficient. Central authorities can prosecute frauds that decentralized crowds cannot.

For example, Bitcoin has no protection against someone making their own fork of the software and minting another 21M coins. This has happened many times over; some of those forks are even branded the same way as Bitcoin[3]. You may argue that this constitutes some kind of fraud, but... you can't really stop it with crypto law; and people fall for them all the time. Hell, some of those altcoins are actually somewhat viable. How is this not a form of dilution or debasement?

[0] Specifically, an escalating scale of sanctions and punishments that make refusing to participate in discovery a very bad idea.

[1] I am aware of the existence of hardware intended to prevent the theft of shining keys. I personally find it offensive that the best argument for using crypto is "lock up your keys with the same DRM shit copyright maximalists use and you'll be fine".

[2] The closest thing we've seen to crypto actually adjudicating crime was the DAO hack, which more or less only worked specifically because crypto is NOT actually decentralized - the developers still dictate the protocol.

[3] Examples: Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitconnect, Bitcoin SV.
It’s only an insult if you deny amorality. They are not pumping and dumping because they have no affinity towards seeing one stock go up. They will pick any stock that has price action.

Let’s put it this way, if the US electorate was shrewd enough to have found Trump boring, it’s would not have been a stock they would have rode. They rode it because they could.

The Steel Dossier was them riding the liberal Trump backlash movement. They just don’t give a shit, they are surfing our waves.
Heh. Late 1990's, I was an admin on a >1,000 user system - which was rooted because it had that feature, and another admin figured that 'meatball2&balloons' was a secure-enough password.
In that case I'd argue use lodash: https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#isNumber

It's well respected, battle tested, and you can just pull in the functions you actually use. It doesn't have isEven, but it probably drew a good line there.
> Yeah no, the Turkish Lira is no longer useful.

Yeah, no, it actually is.

The USDTRY rate doesn't matter nearly as much if you actually live in Turkey, for hopefully obviously reasons.

And if your argument is that realized volatility makes a currency useless, then I'm afraid I have some very bad news about cryptocurrency.
What version of safari are you on?
It may be for a good reason but there should always be an option for the handful of people who know what they are doing and know that they know what they are doing to enable the functionality that they are expecting from the software.

When you deviate from industry standard (especially in a negative way) and intentionally prevent reversion back to industry standards you're doing it wrong.
My company is hiring frontend engineers (React/Typescript stack), but we do have a technical coding interview. What exactly do you mean by "coding exams"? We have a ~2 hour, synchronous technical challenge that all of our engineers go through (as well as screening questions before that point). No leetcode style problems, no take-home tests though.
That's great, will have to give it a try!
I am not sure if Debian can really keep give packages security updates without feature updates. For example, Debian packaged Chromium seems really outdated and having many unpatched CVEs: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/c...
How do I use that on my phone?
They kept insisting that a 20-character password is safer than one with 30 characters. I couldn't get them to understand otherwise.
I could see alternative currencies becoming and increasingly available option. Something like SDRs used by the IMF could emerge for example, made up of multiple international currencies. Not necessarily a replacement, but a decreasing reliance.

Russia, the EU and China are fairly aggressively de-dollarizing, and encouraging trading partners to do the same.[1][2] See CMIM for example in the Asia region, INSTEX in the EU to get around Iran sanctions and the creation of the "Petroyuan". Lyn Alden has a great overview.[4]

[1]https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/2021-07-23_IF11885_09a6...

[2]https://www.csis.org/blogs/new-perspectives-asia/chiang-mai-...

[3]https://infobrics.org/post/32689/

[4]https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/#fraying
Use Obsidian Mobile with Git on Android
User-friendly link: https://scribe.rip/trendyol-tech/contributing-the-go-compile...
Nonsense. It wasn't 20k and it was corrected.
I love Clojure. As with Python, Clojure comes with batteries included. It's dynamic typing and REPL makes development really quick and the JVM runtime allows to achieve better performance than Python in many cases. You can even go as far as compiling to native executable with GraalVM.
There is no world- none whatsoever- in which I would trust a browser embedded wallet.
Traction with rich fools using "distributed" casinos to gamble their shitcoins? Absolutely no one in the real world uses any of this.
He wouldn't happen to be called Edward?
Oh, that's awful. It depends on ansi-wrap (another pretty much 1-liner package) with 2.6M weekly downloads.

Is there a site or code snippet where I can see which of the popular dependants was fooled into using this crap and is driving most of the downloads?
Yes, and it's full of little packages that are made to make sure one package will work with the other. In my example, this would be duplo to lego connectors, duplo to mega blocks connectors, lego to mega blocks connectors, etc. I also often write myself glue code between two packages.
I think they're always A/B testing stuff in a prod env, since they need the data.
JavaScript was hacked together extremely quickly and Eich almost certainly had no idea we'd be where we are today.
I personally want to find a company that has some OSS software and do a paid contract to improve the software. Some reasonable contracting rate for 1 to 3 PRs.

Basically, everyone wins. You get a good signal and you don't impose something unreasonable on the candidate
Can I ask what length your passwords are (roughly)? I don't understand the motivation for anything long in the context of randomly generated passwords for websites. 8-10 characters should be plenty.

(This isn't to excuse silent truncation.)
Yes, but idea is that you use your Matrix server to authenticate, not an SSO provider
Detecting Extreme Data Events
How to automatically detect and understand extreme events in real-world data
> Reading around it seems like the data is not correct. At a minimum the headline says 100 people died but later on there's nothing, not even their own chart, to support that claim.

This is exactly true.
I do indeed live in/near a city, as do most people.

Obviously gas cars are better for road tripping, I never said otherwise. If you road trip every weekend then you’re going to be frustrated with an EV.

But I’ll reiterate that it is absolutely possible to road trip in an EV if you want or need to, and there is almost no reason why you should be sitting there charging it for 60 minutes assuming you are within range of other fast chargers further in your route.

If you spend most of your time driving around town and only road trip once every few months, the extra time you spend charging in the occasional road trip is generally not as big of a deal as people assume. Is it something that I personally like? Obviously it would be great if it were as fast as a gas car. But class cars have trade offs too. I haven’t had to make a separate trip to fuel my car since the last time I went on a road trip!
Their FAQ [1] clarifies this somewhat:

> Every time a query retrieves a row from the database, it is counted as a row read. Every time a row is written to the database, it is counted as a row written.

[1] https://planetscale.com/pricing (FAQ at bottom of the page)
Thanks for that! Seems like older versions of Safari don't support the webp format of images that we are using on the site.

The actual product does not use this format, so it has full safari support and will work as expected.
Make them required, they will take off. Most phones made in the past few years can operate as one.
Port Roberts commandos strike. Canada should investigate which Intelligence organs were funding their efforts...

This, of course, means that supplies of bread, milk and cat litter have vanished amongst rioting.
I like the article. I am the kind of person who thinks things hundreds times before acting, so it would probably taken me weeks just to settle for an architecture which would probably been overkill for an MVP.

Lesson to learn: not everything should be planned as a complex enterprise app.
I would want some Ham radios, solar, and some spare batteries.

Most of all I would want a good library at hand. All those ebooks would be gone or be a pain to access.
Epic Games CEO Calls for a Single, Universal App Store
The Spectrum was a pioneering home for isometric-ish games: see eg. Ant Attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Attack and Knight Lore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Lore as well as Head over Heels.
I would venture to state that Kubernetes is not a good, cost effective solution for >90% of the applications it's used for.
The code of ansi-red for those interested:

var wrap = require('ansi-wrap');

module.exports = function red(message) {
return wrap(31, 39, message);
};

And ansi-wrap:

module.exports = function(a, b, msg) {
return '\u001b['+ a + 'm' + msg + '\u001b[' + b + 'm';
};

Now imagine those things inside a real utility that gets adopted by some popular package.
- GNOME forced on people, the things that come to mind was pushing of tech like Wayland that makes it hard for little DEs. As for the default I remember clearly a giant anti_unity mob , there were some big Youtube channels giving Ubuntu and Linux a chance and the GNOME fanboys popped up in chat and convinced the dudes to purge Unity and install GNOME, this was idiotic because it was not a correct procedure so they created a broken Ubuntu and gave Linux a bad image.

About the "vision" comment, at my work there is always a support team, they get feedback from users and we never give a response "it is our designer vision or our dev leader vision that things are like this". The differences are that

1 we care for each and even one of our users so we never say "go use our competitors because we don't care about your problem"

2 we do not have a big birocracy or a tyrant with a big vision, so we can think for ourselves, propose solutions and implement them. Sure it happen that later the designers demand we simplify the GUI but we know that each complex feature is still used by some power users and w propose ways to keep it in, but more hidden so designers don't complain.

Maybe GNOME does not have enough money for their big ambitions but they have a lot more then other DEs.

My summary would be, vision is fine in your hobby toy project, GNOME, Chrome, Apple's OSX are not toys, if you do a radical change only based on a dudes vision IMO you are doing it wrong, you forgot about the users and are only thinking at your ego/CV.
At PNS [0], I believe our only rule is 9-100 characters.

[0] https://www.peachesnstink.com
"To find out how many deaths actually occurred during the last two decades among FIFA players (2001-2020), we used Wikipedia - "List of association footballers who died while playing". To know how many cases occurred in 2021, we used the list collected by us in "Real-Time News" (which includes the cases noted in Wikipedia for 2021)."

There are cases that didn't make it to wikipedia (14 for 2021). The graph there is just not accurate to what is in Wikipedia e.g. more one listed in 2018.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_football...

That said the cases are elevated in 2021
It might be hard to play, but I'm confident I could work my way up from Knee-Deep in the Fluoride through Thy Brush Consumed on a single tube of paste
Seems to me that the name is satire. As in, the author didn't actually vote for trump but wants to make it look like people that voted for him are creating packages like that.

I don't think such packages should be on NPM either way.
>The only way to drive between the coast and the rest of Canada at this time is through the United States. Residents would need a COVID-19 test to re-enter Canada

The Canadian Federal Gov (AKA Trudeau/Tam) are so fucking stupid requiring Canadians who are vaccinated to get a COVID test (3 days before, like it helps) before driving into Canada. Looks good on Tam the dumb shit. What a Kakistocracy.
It also seems to support hardware wallets.
"Serverless Database"

It's just a database service. You don't run the servers. You pay someone to do that and you just connect to it and use it and someone else maintains the servers, storage, scaling, backups, patches, etc., according to some SLA and other terms.

There are indeed servers somewhere. "Serverless" is misleading cloud speak for the otherwise easily understood concept of a service.
What skillsets are needed to contribute to a DAO?
The reasonable thing to do is often to add the original developer as a code change reviewer. They should know about what the code is doing and about any pitfalls involved. If they don't like the changes, then it is easy to take the discussion then.
>Gold has uses. Even if every gold bug in the world lost faith, and we developed a strong cultural aversion to yellow shades, gold would continue to be consumed. Its price is pretty much guaranteed to never drop to $0.

I don't get this argument. If you're worried about the value in case of economic collapse, you really shouldn't be in gold or bitcoin. Sure, bitcoin would perform worse than gold, but both would perform worse than copper. Why would you invest in gold then?
Get it while you can!
Mixpanel: $200M Series C
As an employer, I have caught people paying someone else to do the job they were hired to do. This is literally fraud... The company believes it is paying for a highly qualified individual while someone not qualified is doing the work. This can result in serious quality or quantity problems. Not to mention legal issues from someone doing the work who has not signed the NDA and invention assignment. Be very careful doing this as it could result in prison time.

I do have an employee who has another job as well. As long as they are not working on the second job during the first job shift, I'm okay with it.

We use a tool called Time Doctor that lots of employees complain about being overly intrusive as it takes screenshots and webcam shots of the employee. We have to use it is there are lots of people like those in the article above.
Yep, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in... there's even an option for a regex pattern that the password must match.
The "Bitcoin is destroying the world ecosystem and is awful" crowd is way too hysterical for me to take them seriously. They write about Bitcoin like it is a serious evil and injustice in the world. It honestly feels like they're just folks who regret not investing in Bitcoin.
If only because you could get the answer wrong.
Soilless media (commonly used for growing marijuana) was actually a game changer in my apt for indoor plants during the pandemic. If you have any issues with fungus, gnats or any kind of negative root insects soilless media is the way to go. Fertilizers that incorporate beneficial endophytes are also fascinating. However, steer clear of nutrient blends like Noot though - they're watered down and urea derived which is a great way to stress and kill your house plants.
Sometimes banks don't even adhere to their own rules. I have no idea what the rules are for CitizensOne (which does financing for Apple). I enter a password that turns all of the checks green, but it's still not good enough.

https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1459585393175769092
Any great robotics blogs for a younger audience?
I've heard this many times... 'take ownership of your code' ... but the problem is the vast majority of devs work for corporations who own the code, and unless you're a shareholder that code certainly isn't yours, it's corporate property, that's the deal in most employment scenarios.

Realistically, people doing such work care very little about writing 'great code' because they know they have no real 'ownership'. There hopes for higher pay and recognition rely on climbing the corporate ladder by whatever means available. Team member, team leader, division manager, VP of whatever, etc. Blame bad results on someone else, that's the normal tactic for these types. Don't hold up production over code quality concerns, because delays in pushing product to market upset the shareholder board, which they see as lost profits.

The whole notion of a 'skilled technical individual who takes pride in their work because they own it' sounds like some awful corporate in-house propaganda campaign to be honest. And this accounts for much of the current mass exodus from the corporate workforce, I imagine.
Aside from the variety of languages in the extension ecosystem, how does this explain Perl doesn't generally share these dependency issues?
Yes, which means all of whom have recognized mastery of their art. So in a way they all are at the top.

But can we "rank art" at all? I think we can but we need to look not at the masters, but at the multitude of nameless students, most of which will never get their works displayed.

Let's take an thought experiment - an art class of local hobbyists is given the task of copying only one of them, let's say the Pissarro one.

After everyone considers their work done, each student is given the task of distributing the paintings to two groups, "the better half" and "the not-as-good" half.

Are the groupings random, or is there "a sense of taste and quality" guiding the students?

If you agree that it is likely that this grouping can be done in a way that is not random, we can agree on my point that there is a non-numerical-yet-not-random way to rate art that can be applied at least some of the time. If we disagree, we disagree and that's fine.

Another example:

Our daughter likes to draw a lot in her own style. Now she is revisiting her old drawings and redrawing them few years later. While her earlier work has some naive charm, she tends to prefer her later pieces, and indeed I do find her current work "better" in the sense that the characters are "more" there - they are more skilfully renderered and have "more character".

I think she is "a better artist" a few years later. Would others agree on this? Again, I would imagine they do.

I think the condensed version of my claim is "There are scenarios where within a given genre/style art can be rated by a non-random yet non-numerical measure".

I think piano competitions, especially the ones where the contestants play the same pieces work this way - there is a non-numerical, yet non-random measure guided by the jurys taste on who is the best.

I do appreciate you have the patience to continue this dialogue!
Agreed. It's filled with some ridiculous details in the modern age, like (I might be a bit imprecise with this but) requiring you to have a full time Librarian employed with a graduate degree in "Library Studies", among other things.
I guess everyone has bias and then hops onto their media of choice yet media is manipulated for profit trash (i.e. https://www.axios.com/steele-dossier-discredited-media-corre...). Whatever your choice of media outlet you follow you are more inclined to embrace what they are saying as 100% fact/truth. Also point to science they are pushing yet this is new science and only time will tell the true science and story as you see years later with that article I linked. It's shows how the media spun whatever they wanted for their bias agenda and will always/continue to do so especially when greed/money/power is in the aim.

From someone who believes nothing seen on any for profit media and believes in science but only years and years of science! Not what any for profit media machine is saying or the science they are pushing cause we are all learning as we go .. it's fluid yet time (years) is the bellweather!
Even if that happens and they reduce vacancy from 44% to 10%, it looks like each location will still barely cover the location operating expense, with nothing leftover to cover the others. In my admittedly naive view it’s a pretty gory sight.
Probably some developer who isn’t fully up to speed with what event hooks to use in order to trigger their JavaScript validation rules. And yes it is super annoying.

…though not as annoying as sites that don’t let you copy / paste into their login fields.
Hard water is actually one of the worst things you can give to expensive house plants, distilled water is by far the best option to prevent root calcification and ph swings.