skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got bitten by a fake SNES Classic off of ebay a few years back. I was super excited to play Super Mario RPG on the real thing, only to find out that it was running with all sorts of glitches due to how the clone device had been designed, to the point where it was unusable. I suppose it's a pretty good scam since the thing goes for $200+ these days and I'm guessing it's some kind of a low powered android device on the inside.

Haven't quite figured out how to play those old classics again.
Like the surgeons who have been dropping like flies for the past 100 years because they wear masks all day at work?
>> An honest question, how do you feel about the WHO? I personally have severe distrust in them, at least the leadership. They have show they are heavily influenced by China, and that should be enough to remove them. They really botched early covid.

> Flawed, but better than not having a WHO. IMO China’s influence is more because they did a great job at committing hard to diplomacy and working relationships at WHO at the exact same time the US pulled away. It turns out diplomacy and leadership matter.

Yeah, exactly. It's weird, but for things like this it seems the complainers often actually cause the things they complain about (e.g. create a void, then complain when a competitor fills that void). It's understandable because this stuff is often hard to perceive at a general-interest level, but that doesn't excuse it.
I get the feeling they wrote this paper just to make this joke, lol.
I don’t know anything about neuroscience so I’m just naval gazing out loud, but my grandpa always answered “the more synapse connections in your brain, the better. Don’t worry about when you will use this” when I whined about learning something. I suspect intelligence and knowledge acquisition is something like training layers in a neural net. Having pretrained edge detections and such is valuable even when the specific task is changed. There’s an underlying structure to most of the part of reality that we interface with.
You're absolutely right with the last sentence.

Nobody remembers the flu seasons and want to treat Corona differently. Which makes zero sense when the vaccines are now in effect.

And as long as we get bombarded with Corona news on a daily basis, there will be no significant change in people's attitude.
Prevention and detection of tampered files in /home/* is definitely a major aspect of 'Securing the workstation'; As attacks are not just for exfiltration of data and could very well be to place .murder_VIP.doc; There seems to be a need-gap[1] for solutions in this space.

But considering immutable OS increases overall security of the system and that the system/software likely has to be compramised first to tamper /home/* I think they're useful to prevent this attack as well.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/188-proving-computer-hack-proof... (Disclosure: I run this problem validation forum).
>The sole name on the paper is someone who sells psudoscience plant-based debunked theories that the majority of our health issues come from lectins

A professional cardiologist with decades of experience who now runs his own cardiology practice. Do you feel you're more qualified to assess his qualifications than the editors of Circulation just because you read a wikipedia article?

>psudoscience plant-based debunked theories

He has published papers demonstrating health improvements in patients after treatment, which is more than can be said of most supplements. The absence of large RCTs for something does not mean it's been "debunked".

> If there's something to this wait for a real research group to come out and say it - if there's a chance of world-changing science that will happen (would have already happened).

You understand doctors have been fired for questioning the safety of coronavirus vaccines? You understand that publically-funded research groups risk having their funding withdrawn if they question the safety of the coronavirus vaccine?
Whoa, I've never heard of that one before. Any off the wall homepage with mid-2000's aesthetics that lays it out for me?
On a whole, the world is better off with the FDA's and their equivalent per nation. They approve and oversee the distribution of health and food products and set out minimum guidelines that influence how said products are marketed, recalled or banned; which on balance is a positive for society in the absence of a better regulatory body.

By definition, these groups are political though. Almost none of them conduct their own studies, relying almost entirely on what the manufacturers provide them. And all of them have limited practical ability and experience to actually enforce their guidelines. What are they are exceptionally good at though is reviewing submitted trials and monitoring for adverse effects. Some people get hurt when dangerous products are given pre-approval / full-approval, but this is mitigated by quick recalls / banning.

So to your question, political bodies likes the FDA's are a benefit to the greater populace and by extension the medical community. Keeping the obvious scams and harmful products out of general reach from the population is a pretty clear positive.
The PyPy team demoed a networked multiplayer browser-compiled Python game at EuroPython in 2006. Anyone remember the details? Seems it has dropped off the face of google.
> We lived in a house with lead for a few years. I had my kids tested every six months.

> It worked, we never saw elevated lead levels.

How does testing them for lead levels result in them not inhaling or ingesting lead?
RSS scrapers I want: something that consolidates twitter threads like threadreaderapp into articles.
And that's how this stuff keeps spreading. People who don't really understand what they are passing on passing it on as though it means something to them. If you didn't really understand it, why did you pass it on?
This one was recommended to me by a specialist, I hope it works out for you!
Grocery Bag Using Django (Part-3) – User Authentication
I'm fully vaccinated and also got mild COVID once, so as someone in my 20s with no underlying health conditions, I don't really care about ventilation anymore.
The WHO has no credibility anymore. They parroted the CCPs words.

The first 6 months the WHO basically lied to everyone.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?s=21

We knew it was transmissible in December of 2019.
There are more devices that can use 2G but not 3G or LTE than those that can use 3G but not 2G or LTE. If you're going to leave a little slice of spectrum on something, you might as well catch the most users.
Hand sanitizer is more effective than your average person's hand washing practices, which is pretty poor
Yes exactly - numpy, matplotlib etc available in the browser via sensible JS interfaces could significantly impact the front-end ecosystem IMO. Exciting times and great work from the community.
The core tenet of democracy is that local inhabitants make local decisions. Doing otherwise is... I don't know what, but it's anti-democratic. If a small mountain town doesn't want outside investors to blow up the place, they have the right to make that choice.
> IMO China’s influence is more because they did a great job at committing hard to diplomacy and working relationships at WHO at the exact same time the US pulled away. It turns out diplomacy and leadership matter.

This seems completely revisionist to me. You really think China’s influence was justified in January and February 2020? This is before Trump first criticized the WHO (early April 2020). The US was funding 15% of the WHO’s overall budget, more than twice as much as the next nearest country (the UK), and more than 70x what China funded. What exact levers did China pull “for the last several years” that the US didn’t? It seems to me like the US did far more to support the WHO than anyone else.
> Bypassing the ads is hurting mainly content creators, not Google...

No, it hurts Google too. Google isn’t some benevolent actor operating youtube at a loss. It’s a cash cow now.
All the best Cyber Monday 2021 deals we can find so far
If the FDA had a classification of "We'd Prefer You Thought This Was Safe", it would be a more accurate description for a lot of their approvals. They are ostensibly protecting consumers, but they also protect manufacturers by engendering [sometimes misplaced] confidence. It's reasonable to assume that corruption plays into this when it's sufficiently incentivized.
Not necessarily. I'd be interested to know if the virus samples from those two people were sequenced in order to prove transmission from one to the other. Absent that evidence there could be other explanations such as : transmission was from some third person not known to the contact tracers.
I close my eyes during the ads. Want to lecture me about how unethical that is? I’m “stealing” from the advertiser now because google will charge them for that view.
It's the same system.

Heat recovery works both ways, maintaining heat out the outlets or maintaining heat at the inlets
When I worked in an office, they had all of the windows screwed in to prevent opening to comply with new building codes. I imagine for suicide and accident prevention. It looks like these days you can only have windows that wind out a little. My apartment has these, but it also has an option on the AC controls to bring outside air in which can force ventilation if it isn't windy outside.

This is mostly for tall buildings though. For a school, it could be that they want to be able to control the airflow and AC. Having a window open could be letting out the heat causing the heating to work harder for no reason.
More humid air with higher specific heat capacity: I’d expect the difference to be utterly negligible. Even at 40°C, the isobaric heat capacity of saturated air is only about 5% higher than that of perfectly dry air (~1.05 J/g·K, compared to ~1), and your slightly leaky window is hardly going to be resaturating the entire room.

As for the energy to dry the air, I’m inexpert in this area¹ but under the impression dehumidification is essentially just a byproduct of how compressors work (the evaporator’s low temperature causes water vapour to condense) rather than something that takes deliberate effort—that, if anything, air conditioners are commonly now deliberately revapourising water to avoid dehumidification beyond the desired level.

—⁂—

¹ But I am trying to learn for part of a project of my own, a velomobile and trailer to be able to live out of indefinitely, where in the ideal case that I haven’t determined is feasible I’d really like it if I could have one compressor to drive food refrigeration, cabin cooling, heating a low-temperature slow-cooker-style oven, and providing my water supply.
The beauty of WebAssembly is that you don't need Google's permission to add support. Just send your Wasm blob to the browser and Chrome's existing Wasm runtime will just run it.
YouTube is absolutely amazing for kids if it’s curated properly (admittedly perhaps not that easy). There’s a huge amount of content like this that is aimed at adults, but can be roughly understood by a 5-6 year old.
Free operating systems alternatives to Windows
If other countries had done as well as NZ delta would have never spread in the first place. Attributing NZs failure to how they handled things so far is misrepresentation, they did things by the book, but if other countries keep sending the equivalent of typhoid Mary's into the NZ population then it is a matter of time before the strategy will fail.

If NZ would have kept their borders locked this would have not happened. They will come to regret that decision.
A lot of asia did well in the beginning by ignoring the WHO. Even NZ ignored the WHO and managed to keep it under control for a long time.

If the CCP spent more time being open and honest and less time arresting people for talking about covid and documenting it this would probably have ended up better than they are now.

Even now the CCP propaganda is still trying to convince Twitter and Facebook users that covid started with deer in the US.
AutoCAD is not like Altium in that the former requires either hitting Enter when the minimum command is entered, or more annoyingly, selecting from a slow-to-render autocomplete context menu with the mouse.

Some common commands can also be annoying when the required minimum characters don't cleanly map to a single hand, e.g. [E][X][P][L][Enter] to explode; or when they map to the other hand, e.g. [P][L][Enter] for polyline.

Altium's approach is literally single hotkey sequencing (i.e. no [Enter] after every command) which map directly to menus that underline each hotkey as a reminder, e.g. to [P]lace a [W]ire or [P]art in schematic capture, it's [P][W] or [P][P], respectively, while the menus change with ever key press. Yeah, your left hand is all over the keyboard, but every key press is a meaningful context switch.
Interesting. The CDC[0] in the US (IPOV insert [1]) states a single doze of 0.5ml for children and adults.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/composition-dosag...
[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/75695/download
Show up in a pickup truck in an orange vest. Use power tools to remove the door or better yet a window. Act like you belong.
I don’t see how that could be done without nerfing a lot of the power of JS. JS was bred by the web and is entirely async. Python has no concept of callbacks or promises etc. JS is perfect for frontend design because that’s what it was created from the ground up for
Apparently, there are many other major religious persecutions that are not well-known today.

These include the Nguyen Lords persecutions and ethnic cleansing of Chams people that used to live and control more than half of modern Vietnam, for more than a thousand years [1],[2].

Interestingly, both of the Catholic Church of Spain and Nguyens Lords of Vietnam regimes employed Pig or Pork Policy as a control measures to forcefully integrate the remaining Muslims community that were not migrated away but chosen to stay behind [3],[4].

[1] Nguyễn lords:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_lords

[2] History of the Cham–Vietnamese wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Cham%E2%80%93Vi...

[3] Pork politics and the Spanish Inquisition:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/pork-politics-...

[4] Spain decides to make up for its persecution of Jews — but won't do the same for Muslims:

https://theweek.com/articles/445777/spain-decides-make-perse...
In general, no they aren't required. However, if we're talking 5% of your customer base, you might not want to lose them.

In Boost's case, they might legally have to. Dish bought Boost as part of T-Mobile's deal to buy Sprint. I don't remember all the specifics of the agreement or what was committed to in terms of non-VoLTE Boost customers. T-Mobile had to give Dish 6 months notice before shutting down the CDMA network and they gave 14-months (now 17 months with the 3-month delay). I don't know if Dish committed to upgrading those customers as part of the deal (I know that it's their responsibility, but I don't know if they're required to upgrade them or if they can just wave goodbye to customers that don't want to migrate).

Ultimately, I think Dish is at least informally required. Dish is likely going to be looking for goodwill from regulators in the coming years. They have major build-out requirements coming due soon and they don't seem to have made much progress - and they have licenses worth tens of billions at stake (worth more than the company's market cap). Angering regulators at this point isn't a great move for Dish.
The Great Tech Resignation
> By the time the iPhone 15 launches in fall 2023, CDMA will be quite dead.

Perhaps in the US, but CDMA is used elsewhere too. In several countries in the recent past, fixed wireless CDMA operators (intended for home phone lines) started operating mobile handsets. Those places may not be on the upgrade path to LTE anytime soon, because of expense.
It's been approved in a number of countries but still doesn't have WHO or European approval.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01813-2

Not being approved could very well be a political move on Europe's part - they have plenty of motives not to approve it, and equally they have plenty of reasons not to trust Russia's claims. In my country it was a running joke that if it's ever available here, the viles would be laced with novichok.

The paper is somewhat questionable though as it shows a 100% effectiveness against severe infection.

Most likely it is a similar effectiveness to other adenovirus based vaccines, which is less than mRNA vaccines, but still better than no vaccine. It has been reported that some countries are paying close to $20 per dose, so it's not any cheaper than mRNA vaccines.
This is good. It means we can recover some of the spending by cutting the police budget. After all, if the police will not enforce, then we can just not have them. We can substitute them with lower paid unarmed people in cars with blue or red lights who go around with flashlights.

The police budget is at $650+ million. I think I could cut that by a $100 million this year using these techniques. I’m willing to do it for 25% of one year’s worth of savings.

If you will increase it to 30%, I can also ensure that the substitutes are trained to say the same things publicly. That way you get the same outcome for less spending.
America has many races. The majority are white or hispanic not black. The opportunities for someone who is black are so much more in America vs Europe. America is a big place.

When you judge someone by birth location you are also judging someone based on race. Would you accept an Indian person born in Moscow as Russian or would you treat them as Indian? This is harmful..
> The WHO is politically controlled by China

The nonsense in this thread is really painful to read. No, the WHO is not politically controlled by China.
I know their explanation is a weak one but 810K is a lot of people.
Then you agree that the title's association is pretty meaningless?

And apologize for falsely claiming I'm cheering on communist governments?
That's interesting. It's tempting to think that if we build houses in slightly different ways, we could have energy efficient heating and cooling systems. It seems like humidity might be a problem.
Maybe add to the list some kind of long term campaign to have true multi party system (N > 2). Get rid of the first past the post etc. A separate green party is pretty universal in those.

It is probably hard to prove, but it would make sense that the calculated manipulation by commercial ”special interests” is harder and more expensive when it has to influence multiple parties (instead of 2).
I think renv (rather than packrat) is the current go-to for package management, although I haven't used it yet.
Is there DOM access?
Python would be optional here.

You could still use JS while Python support catches up.
It's bigger than a whole Java Runtime Environment, for a "minimalist text editor". What would it be then when not Electron?
Creating, or distributing?
It’s also an intentional strategy by Vail to shift sales into season passes. A day pass is incredibly expensive, $229 at the ticket window. For about $600 you might as well buy a season pass just in case you get to use it a bit. They are taking a page out of the gym membership model.
The WHO did measurable damage throughout the pandemic, but particularly in the beginning. They played down covid, were against travel bans, was anti-mask, and have hindered investigation into the origins of covid.

They also did good, like getting PCR testing available worldwide on a compressed timescale. But let’s not pretend that the good didn’t come with a healthy helping of truly terrible decisions along the way. Enough to make some healthy skepticism seem prudent.
> But we took the numbers from Arabic and kept their left-to-right order and now write them from MSD to LSD...

roman numbers were already “big endian”, though.
The persecution of religious minorities in Europe resulted in a very secular Europe—-because many of them fled—-and a very religious America, because that’s where they all went.
Caveat is they can flop around in bag pitcher/jug/containers and occasionally cause a mess, either when the bag flops awkwardly or from just being leaky due to bad cut. My friend has a fancy, passed down bag holder that pours properly from garage sale that I can't seem to find on sale anywhere. Also, personally feel there should be a bag + container design that can properly seal for freshness. Maybe a plastic straw in the corner that can be easily clamped by a lid. The downside of bags being in small markets like Canada is very little demand to design for form factor. It would be nice to have a bag + holder system that pours as well as a box.
If they are being asked about why they voted against expansion wouldn't it be in their best interest to provide a subjective reason that is difficult to argue against instead of saying "money"
Thanks for sharing this, listening to the episode now and subscribed so will it out.
TL;DW:

1- There are 7 applicants for every 10 jobs

2- Office Perks no longer existed without an office, Tech companies had to scramble to provide alternative benefits that didn't just amount to more cash upfront.
My knowledge is years out of date, but does WASM still require the application to request its maximum memory footprint up-front? Granted, that's what Sun/Oracle's JVM has been doing to allocate its heap from the OS for well over a decade, but I'm also not aware if WASM is able to use the equivalent of madvise() to tell the browser/OS that it's fine to unmap a region of memory and map it back zeroed-out when it's next needed.
China called it the Wuhan Virus. When the world called it the Wuhan Virus. State run media and the CCP called it racist. Then the WHO bent over and changed it. When the “India variant” happened, the WHO didn’t batter an eyelid.

China spent ages blocking Taiwan from the discussion and succeeded as the WHO had to appease the CCP.

Seems like chinas influence on the WHO is a lot.
R is my go-to for ad-hoc data science as well. And you’re right, deprecations are generally replaced with something nicer. From the perspective of a language used for ad-hoc analysis, these are all great features. Hadn’t thought of it that way.

Which further emphasizes the idea of: R might not be the right tool for production processes. I used to fight that concept, but in the past year or so I’ve come to embrace it.
> I don't consider it a fork unless it includes the state.

I think id agree for things like ZCash/Dash etc compared to BTC, but I'm not sure I'd agree when it comes to the all contracts deployed on all EVM networks and none of this has anything to do with decentralized stablecoins.

For example, you can mint MIM (a decentralized stablecoin) on both avalanche c-chain and ethereum (as well as polygon, fantom, bsc and arbitrum), and they are both worth $1, but have different collateral backing it on both networks. If users wanted to leave one or the other, they could just redeem their mim for the underlying, sell it and buy the collateral on another network and mint it on the other network. The collateral might trade lower on one network based on market factors (like if the narrative shifted to that the chain became too centralized or w/e, and this assumes that even the price movement of the underlying overwhelms the over collateralization ratio, it might not) but it would just mean that there would be more or less mim on that particular network as assets are liquidated and not that the MIM itself would be worth less.