skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! I went by my real name "Grant" for a long time because I knew I would have to tell the story of how I got my trail name 1000 times and I wanted it to be a good story. Then one night I told people that's why I was waiting to take a trail name and a woman started calling me "Bear Bait" and there was no story...

Edit:

Couple of my other favorite trail names I heard

- Pissbag -- on his first night on trail "ol' Pissbag" peed in a ziplock bag while on the second floor of a A.T. Shelter[0], and then "bragged" about his "brilliant" idea to not wake people up in the middle of the night the next morning and _instantly_ earned the name "Pissbag". I heard stories about "ol' Pissbag" for the first 700 hundred miles of the trail and I was super excited to meet (what I assumed to be) the degenerate who was _proudly_ going by that name. I was shocked when I finally ran into him and he turned out to be a super put together former SF enterprise software salesman. He ended up getting a pretty serious case of lyme disease and had to take several weeks off from the Trail.

- Ballsack -- A former ballerina who carried a leather bag with two massage balls on her pack. Her favorite was when she would meet 70 year old women from church groups who came out to feed hikers and when they would ask her her trail name and she got to see "the light drain from their eyes" when she proudly said 'ballsack'. The woman who went by "D*ck Nipples" told a similar story about how she enjoyed seeing the reaction of little old ladies when she told them

- Chingona -- A woman who didn't speak Spanish got called "Chingona" by a man who did speak spanish, who told her that it meant "Badass Woman". She was insanely proud of it for 500 miles until someone told her that word had some vulgar connotations in spanish and she switched to "Chin"

- High Five -- When someone would ask his trail name, he'd raise his hand up and say "High Five". It usually took people several minutes before they figured it out...

-- 5 & 6 -- A man who's this was his 5th attempt to finish and a woman who would sneak up "on people's 6". Who got their trail names totally separately and ended up hiking the last 800 miles together. Everyone assumed they were a couple because of the names...

-- Pack Professor -- Former traveling musician who was very serious about gear (especially his pack). When we would start drinking he'd turn into "Party Professor".

-- China -- She'd tell people her name was "China" and people would instantly try to guess how she got that trail name. Then she'd let them know that "China" was her real name and she went by it because it was funny to watch people guess and "her parents already gave her a trail name"

-- Schrodinger -- I asked him if he was called "Schrodinger" was because he was really into physics and he replied "No, it's because I'm like schrodinger's cat but with whether I've ** my pants". Later we started calling him "Tool of war" because we found out he had that phrase tattooed on his genitals and he was honestly kinda a tool

[0] https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/hike-the-a-t/thru-hikin...
Yeah. Considering they led to a President resigning after 20 years of systematic power concentration, to the head of intelligence services being thrown in jail, to a purge where prime ministers, ministers, generals, the head of the Police, and a bunch of other people going to jail, and the people still demanding that those who are throwing these 'corrupt' people in jail and the judges and prosecutors be removed, as they themselves are considered corrupt.

In complete darkness internationally for three years.

There are massive numbers of people fleeing the country not because there is violence, but because they don't see hope. I think there are more who left the country now than during the decade of civil war.
> if it rises on certain exchanges, then it would arbitrage until it rose on other exchanges as well?

More like the opposite. The fake price rise would be arbitraged away to match the real price.

At some point there has to be a real buyer/seller, otherwise arbitrage doesn't work. And a real buyer/seller is trading at the real price.
even as the vaccine fails to do its job,

Wait, I was led to believe that the vaccine doesn't necessarily stop you from catching covid, it just doesn't put you in the hospital on ventilators. If that is correct, then the vaccine IS doing its job, no?
I don't understand how 2FA would stop this attack. The attack described involves phishing for a one time code like what most 2FA methods give.
That's not the question; at best it's a naive frame. The question is: is there evidence that shows they're counterproductive?

> in lockstep fashion

A not so naive frame.
Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Starting any kind of joint venture which involves money seems like a sure way to end friendships.
Primary elections have any number of candidates running and are often only loosely Democrats or Republicans.
In Germany a MP has compared statistics of various states and noticed more excess deaths in states that have higher vaccination rates. She has asked to German Ministry of Health to look into the cause.

https://youtu.be/iKVOqYUAHTo
"ownership" of a copy of something infinitely reproducable.
I learned a lot of my 16bit ASM by studying the QB 4.0 compiler's assembly dumps. It really was a good compiler, too.
Isn't that entirely expected with most of the population vaccinated? I imagine most car crash deaths are from those wearing seatbelts too.
If 100% of the people are vaccinated, 100% of the infections will be from vaccinated people.
Somehow everybody in this system claims they're not the ones making bank on this swindling. The doctors say they're underpaid. The hospital admin says they're underpaid. The insurance companies say they're barely covering their payouts. So who is lying?
They do not state anything like that; that's the entire problem with that linux-libre patch. It is removing a message that informs user that their computer is at risk without an update, because they don't want people to know, because if they did most people would choose to install the proprietary update to the proprietary microcode they are already running, and that would expose the existence of that microcode, and the FSF's utopia only exists in the minds of people who aren't aware of all the proprietary firmware they're running anyway.

It's all a big lie. There's proprietary firmware everywhere. The FSF just doesn't want users to know about it, so they can live happily in their blissful ignorance believing they are freer than everyone else.
> Not sure what level exactly a beginner is, but I have my problems with Guix docs too.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying guix is better (I have absolutely no idea), just that the experience with nix is extremely rough so nix being a bit more popular is not necessarily that much of an edge (or one at all).

> I like Guix as package manager, but their docs can definitely be improved with loads of examples and tutorials.

In fairness I'll say that especially if you're a long term user it is very easy to be blind to the early user experience. Sadly most projects don't push new users towards really reporting their experience or even contributing to the docs, but if you have the time and inclination to do so I'm quite convinced your experience would be extremely valuable to those who'll come after you, even if the project doesn't necessarily value them that much (but even then it can be useful as evidence of issues with the early experience / uptake, and possibly efforts to rectify them later on).

It's also useful on a personal level, because memory is a fickle thing and a year from now you may not even remember your struggles.
> a syndicated stream of uncredentialed nobodies who have just happened to win an algorithmic [lottery]

This might be the most appropriate description of social media that I ever got to read.
Maybe I have just developed a certain habit, but after having compared mechanical keyboards with the standard Apple external keyboard, I definitely prefer the flat profile of Apple keyboards over the deep clicky travel of mechanical keyboards, especially if one uses an external touchpad rather than a mouse.
The controller comes with the TMK firmware, but the real way to use it is to put the fork of TMK, QMK [0], on it.

You can do pretty much anything you can think of. Tap for escape and hold for Ctrl on Caps Lock is in fact something I got on mine. I also coded it for function keys on double tap for the number row, F13 on tap and F14 on double tap on the left corner key (Left Ctrl or Caps Lock depending on your preference) etc.
And that's really basic, people put whole macros in there.

[0]: https://qmk.fm
So would you say that protests work?
It's per 100,000 people, based on their vaccination status. It's already normalised.
Huh? The NHS COVID Pass does. It allows sharing vaccine status in both domestic and international contexts.
> But the vaccinated are being infected at higher rates than the non-vaccinated according to UK govt data

Good god I'm so tired of having to explain vaccines to people.

Vaccines do NOT prevent you from being infected. That is NOT their purpose. That is NOT why they are created. The vaccine would have to somehow physically prevent the virus from entering your system. Not a single qualified, authoritative person on this subject has ever claimed they do.

EDIT: Downvoters, you're downvoting fact. Do you realize this? Healthcare professionals all over the world are absolutely sick of the willful ignorance. Your actions are getting people killed.
Maybe I missed it in the article, but if he was injured on the job, shouldn't the construction company pay the bill?
> The app should not be the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson, editor of The Car Expert website, told the BBC.

Why did they pick a headline that suggested the cars were completely unusable? Just another example of the BBC's poor tech journalism to be honest.

I assume there is a proper manual key-based unlock that would've enabled Tesla owners to use their cars.

> Technology makes things convenient, but relies on a server working 100% of the time.

Some tech does, but that's far from a universal design element intrinsic to all things "technology". It's a trade-off between convenience and reliability/security.
The hospital and the doctors. Almost $500 for a tetanus shot is simply not justifiable
Show HN: Korbinsky – A Reverse DNS API
Hello HN,

over the last few weeks for an internal project we (CKIN) have been building Korbinsky, an API allowing to retrieve which hostnames corresponds to a given IP.
Coming from a different background (security and embedded software) this has been an interesting journey tackling various techs and we see no reason not to open (a moderate) usage to developers.
We have created a key for HN so you can start to experiment without registration (which is of course free and available [0]):

curl -v -H "apikey: l86WRM0NC2bBHMfEBQdkhXbDp2BoQw0O" http://ko.ckin.it/api/v1/ip/2620:0:862:ed1a::1

of course it works also with other IP addresses :) even the good old IPv4:

curl -v -H "apikey: l86WRM0NC2bBHMfEBQdkhXbDp2BoQw0O" http://ko.ckin.it/api/v1/ip/91.198.174.192

there is a quota associated to the key so if you intend to build something it would be better to register your own (or ping us in case of different quota needs).

thank you in advance for your precious feedback.

Best regards,
CKIN

[0] https://ko.ckin.it/registration/
The ones running in the primary elections that almost no one pays attention to or votes in.

Places in Maine and Vermont managed to keep out big box stores. Because they cared and cared enough to be informed and vote. It can be more difficult in areas with more people but I think democracy can scale.
But QR codes aren't being tracked. If I'm not mistaking, storing them is in violation of a bunch of laws. If not, such laws can be made. Privacy is hardly an issue.
Is that Paramount+ now? I have the service, but I don't think I've actually watched anything on it yet. My wife wanted Showtime for Dexter and was interested in things on Paramount+, too. She's used them, but she isn't as picky about UIs as I am, but I haven't heard any complaints.
How about we force gastric bands on everyone instead to stop this obesity pandemic, the death toll is unbearable any longer. That sound 'trendy' for you? Just need to media to drum up all the fear about how eating crap is contagious and you eating less saves the lives of others who get your excess food. Still trendy?
And how is the licence enforced?

Is it recognized by the law? Can people sue those who fail to comply with it?

You can do all the circular reasoning you want but at the end of the day everything is backed by violence and coercitive power.

That's why nations have army/navy , to make other countries know that what they say carries weight because they can back it up with bullets and bombs, not just words.
True. El Chapo or Pablo Escobar were excellent leaders and businessmen besides being remorseless killers.
Well, for some people loading an arbitrary binary code without possibility to check what's inside it is a critical security issue as well.
AssiStep – Stair Walking Aid
How to parse TOML document with Java
Alive and respected.

It’s disgusting.
I never understood regular mechanical keyboards either - the fact that the switches are so thick, makes the whole assembly thick, which forces your wrists into a stress position - which is uncomfortable and I'm pretty sure will lead to wrist problems down the line. This also applies to thick "gaming" or "workstation" laptops as well. Call me an unwashed casual, but the most comfortable typing experience for me is on a Macbook. The fact that it's thin, the keys have little travel depth, and take very little to actuate allows me to comfortably type for extended periods of time.
Over here we seem to give more coverage to the anti protests than to the counter protests that we are now seeing with people fearful that pro-health policies will get derailed. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-20/covid-anti-lockdown-v... mentions both, but many more words on the anti protest groups.
For better or worse, companies generally don't directly criticize their competitors products and especially won't make claims they're unsafe. That said, it's conceivable that with reforms to tort law, this could be incentivized in a reasonable way.
i just looked through this website and found a link to their certification process at https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria

it states:

> However, there is one exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software.

>We want users to be able to upgrade and control the software at as many levels as possible. If and when free software becomes available for use on a certain secondary processor, we will expect certified products to adopt it within a reasonable period of time. This can be done in the next model of the product, if there is a new model within a reasonable period of time. If this is not done, we will eventually withdraw the certification.

END QUOTE

According to you, what is deceptive about this?
That's why I try to use cash whenever I can. The less data I generate, the better.
The doctors likely have nothing to do with how much procedures bill for.

In private practice outside a hospital, they perhaps have more guilt here, but in an ER? They set the prices about as much as the janitors do.
One of my banks actually sends two SMSes, a generic warning one, with the actual code following a minute later (the website tells you this will happen). Annoying when you're short of time, but I suspect it's very successful at countering this sort of social engineering. You open the message the scammers tell you they've sent, and it just tells you to beware of people ringing you up and asking for codes. Probably you don't stay on the line waiting for the actual security code.
What is that package called? Is it the "linux-firmware" one?
Just move. California doesn't deserve you. People there think you can only use carrots and sticks are immoral.
Having done just one of the three and suffering through Washington's winter conditions late in October, I'm full of awe when hearing about people who over the course of a Calendar Year Triple Crown had to hop back and forth from one bad weather to another.

In June 2018 I've been lucky to get glimpse of Anish (Heather Anderson) while she was getting her own Calendar Year Triple Crown.
Later I read her first book "2600 Miles to Home" where she tells the story of her 2013 Pacific Crest Trail Fastest Known Time (a term that describes record-setting on long trails as well as the name of the website that track those FKT attempts) of the Pacific Crest Trail, which she completed (unsupported) in 60 days and 17 hours.
She still holds that record as well as the record that she set for the Calendar Year Triple Crown (251 days and 20 hours). I can only wish I had half her drive.
You can go low profile with various switches on any layout, even attaching trackpoint or trackball module. Many designs are open source these days thanks to many MK designer/developers.
The UK is only around 67.6% fully vaccinated. Regardless, these numbers are per 100,000 people based on their vaccination status. They are normalised.
I got the impression that the same phenomenon was present with driving instructors and driving test pass rates. If it's clear after a dozen or so lessons that they might not pass then say that you will stop teaching and suggest a different instructor.
This is not that bad because he ended with a negotiated rate and paid 1,000 or so. I’ve seen much worse

One cause is political. One place I worked govt would only pay a % of the billable rate - this was so politically they could say program was saving money.

So the ‘rack’ rate went through the roof. The irony? We’d have preferred to charge less to cash payors (this was a nonprofit) because they were much less painful to deal with if they paid when service delivered - but instead it was so costly no one could afford cash payments
This is absurd. Even in a country with liberal economics and "free choice" health system (however with universal care, and state regulation), the same stitches in a world-class private clinic in Santiago, Chile would cost 400 USD, before insurance. The clinics there are not the ones Americans imagine from a middle-income country, most of them have better infrastructure and doctors than the ones I know in Europe. And I don't even need to start talking about health services in Europe, where I live.

This is the kind of things that show how inviable is a market-led economy without proper regulation. Let the powerful profit from the weak and you'll see this kind of thing every time.

If you compare life expectancy in Chile and some other Latin-American countries with universal care[1], they are higher than in the US, despite being a more unequal and/or poorer.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...

Edit: Many commenters miss the point. The US leads the way in too many areas and at least I expect them to be an example of the benefits of free market economy. Some have mentioned that regulation is indeed the problem. I would say, that we need the right regulation so the right incentives are put in place, in benefit of the market and competition. So at best it would be better not to have the industry dictate the regulation.
First, I don't consider auto-playing content a commercial, and I don't consider the promoted content to be a commercial, either. (It's an advertisement, but not a commercial.) To me, a commercial is something that advertises something I'm not watching and prevents me from watching what I want to. A non-skippable trailer for a movie is a commercial, for instance.

So I don't consider Netflix to have commercials... And I'm pretty sure I turned that autoplay crap off in every instance that I could anyhow.

We've also got Disney, Showtime, Paramount+, HBO Max, and ... I feel like there's another. I haven't seen commercials on any of them, though I understand that some of them have forced commercials for certain shows on them, which I think is total BS. The live TV streams on them still have commercials, also, which I don't watch, ever. When available, I chose the subscriptions that eliminated commercials.
Worth noting that BIOS updates frequently ship with ucode updates that are applied at boot before UEFI executes the operating system. So if GP is diligent about keeping the BIOS up to date, it's conceivable that Linux's ucode update has never had any work to do. At the very least this seems to be the case with Thinkpads.
While I agree such transactions and dynamics make more sense in established widely accessed virtual worlds, status can in fact be manufactured. I can give two examples.

In the art world, wealthy collectors will overbid on works by artists within their collection to hugely inflate their price. There is also a large amount of pressure on appraisers to overvalue work and for Art houses to turn a blind eye to some known forgeries. The wealthy will donate to museums to lend to an air of prestige to their collections (with tax evasion by charity write offs a nice bonus) and, whenever forgeries are found in collections, lawsuits and bribes are used to silence all but those with rare levels of integrity.

A less exclusive but still grossly over priced example is the recent world of fast fashion product drops. There, mass produced, cheaply manufactured, labor exploited goods are sold for many times their production costs by creating an illusion of scarcity and prestige. This is done by manipulative marketing tricks where social media and celebrity worship are key vehicles.

This, sadly, is the nature of humans. NFTs are in the process of attempting to install themselves as status goods. That is the psychology when denouncing "right clickers".
The police in Australia have made multiple attempts to access QR code data to track down criminals. So yes, privacy is always an issue.
So that would contradict this statement from the same report: "With the delta variant, vaccine effectiveness against infection has been estimated at around 65% with Vaxzevria and 80% with Comirnaty (4)."

The footnote under that table also says "Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection."

Edit: it would also be difficult to reconcile with the enormous disparity between <18 and subsequent rows.
Yet they still charged roughly $2,000 for a single patient and that is something that did not take the whole day. If I was a physician I'd be happy if I could bill half that amount even if it took me the whole day to treat the patient
> Beautiful pics.

He uses[1] Helicon Focus[2] for focus stacking.

A lot of these die shots are pieces of art, and also quite interesting. I especially like the LTZ1000 voltage reference[3] or the Thyracont Inclinos[4] which is an accelerometer without moving parts. A lot of the MEMS dies are also very interesting, because of their moving parts, like this[5] ADXL213.

[1]: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/transistors-die-pictu...

[2]: https://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconsoft-products/helicon-foc...

[3]: https://www.richis-lab.de/REF03.htm

[4]: https://www.richis-lab.de/MEMS_04.htm

[5]: https://www.richis-lab.de/ADXL213.htm