skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be someone in government.

It could be a group of people acting strategically towards a particular goal, in a series of steps. Those steps would include paying funds for the following: Lobbying governmental officials across all three branches, Strategically networking & "giving gifts" (quid pro quo), Sponsoring scientific studies, Paying journalists to report certain things.

For example, Amazon Executives have a financial interests in reducing competition from independent retailers ("Mom & Pop shops"). A lockdown would certainly boost Amazon's position in that case. And Bezos does own the Washington Post.

By the way, have you heard of Operation Mockingbird [1]?

"Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes."

"According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and influenced the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed when a 1967 Ramparts magazine article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA. In 1975, Church Committee Congressional investigations revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
THIS! I had similar problem with watching a movie trilogy on Google play movies. The movie won't play on my computer but only played on android app (no i didn't have any firewall or special ad blocker on my PC). I called google customer service and asked them to fix, it took them 3 days to get back and the problem was still not fixed, needless to say I was mad and they refunded instantly. Next thing I just downloaded it....

I'd have loved to pay but if movie studios (or whoever is responsible for this sh#tshow) will go out of their way to not give me a mp4 or similar device/service independent playable format then I couldn't care less about their loss.
> Seems obvious that a structure present in pretty much ALL humans has some evolved purpose.

Contrast with the length of the recurrent laryngeal nerve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve

> The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[27]: 74–75 is cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to Intelligent Design. The nerve's route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish). Over the course of evolution, as the neck extended and the heart became lower in the body, the laryngeal nerve was caught on the wrong side of the heart. Natural selection gradually lengthened the nerve by tiny increments to accommodate, resulting in the circuitous route now observed.[28]: 360–362

Imagine how long the nerve must have been in long-necked sauropods:

https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/vo...

> The course of the recurrent laryngeal nerve appears to be an unchanging aspect of tetrapod embryology, being as developmentally fixed as the presence of a heart and paired vessels to the head. The existence of 28 m neurons in the RLN of Supersaurus may seem fantastic, but they appear unavoidable given what we know of tetrapod embryology and evolution. Other neurons in the bodies of sauropods were even longer, spanning the entire distance from the brainstem to the tip of the tail, and may have been the longest cells in the history of life. These incredible cells represent the interplay of evolutionary innovation and developmental constraint: the acquisition of giant, long-necked and long-tailed bodies built on a deeply conserved tetrapod bauplan.
https://avironactive.com/product-impact

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905467

(Launch HN, not Show HN)
I have sinusitis. Been tested twice by two different ENTs for a common allergy screening. Nothing. Should I be doing something different?
That would be great. Another awesome screensaver is called substrate and included in the set 1) by Jamie Zawinski ( among the founders of Netscape and Mozilla ).

1) https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
>The reality is that even if the knobs and the touchscreen were identical in cost, the touch screen allows for a separation between the software and hardware design teams.

A touch screen is not required for that separation. Physical controls can also be interfaced to hardware in the same fashion. A knob control can be a "soft" knob, where it only reports the direction of rotation (or the current knob position, and the software determines the delta).
Comedians reflect on the joke they most regret
Sure but we're talking about staff/principle engineer, not senior. Assuming there is a meaningful difference (which is not always the case) then it's a bit odd for principle engineer to report to senior engineer/manager-in-training, no?
You can always follow the money to see who benefits from a decision, and who gets penalized.

The initial lockdowns penalized many small businesses (small shops, hairdressers) that could not operate and benefited large online retailers and chains like Walmart that were declared exempt, that got extra business.

The lockdowns also justified large-scale payout of benefits, that were funded by increasing the money supply. This benefited the owners of limited-supply assets (stocks, real estate, even the f*cking crypto) at the expense of people with cash savings and those with fixed/slowly changing income (most salaried employees).

Since most members of government are major real estate owners and stock investors, they absolutely had benefited from the lockdown-related economic measures more than an average salaried employee.

It is also notable that the effects of increasing the money supply are delayed. We are starting to see the inevitable rise of inflation over a year after the start of the pandemic. It will take a long time for it to taper down, and we are yet to see how it will affect the average quality of life (i.e. salary/expense ratio).
The synthesizer is the part that makes the waveform. Some of them have keyboards attached. Some don't. Some performers do indeed use a MIDI controller and VST plugins on a laptop.

The main problem with this is that software runs on computers, and sufficiently portable computers are generally just not reliable enough for a lot of live performances.
I would love for a COVID variation for with low severity illness to become dominant ... forever?
Based on people I've discussed this with their explanation is: The data doesn't support lockdowns and madates for the masses. Deaths are typically a select subset of the population. Hospitalizations much the same. Using a one size fit all solution - when surgical solutions are more appropriate -makes them suspect.

Please don't shoot this messenger. I'm just providing context that tends to be missed elsewhere.

p.s. fwiw, there were these in the past week or so:

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211122-could-mrna-make-...

Both of those certain raise a reasonable eyebrow.
Not sure what you're getting at. You said zero covid was never a goal anywhere. And the above poster showed you were wrong.
Why does code have to be "read like a book" to be considered "continuous text"? Of course code is continuous text.
I think it is the other way around, there is no pressure to maintain a high severity as long as the virus can spread thus leading to mutations that lose the severe traits.
I would volunteer. It turns out that I have COVID right now, giving me a mild headache, nasal congestion, and a persistent cough---annoying, but not more than that. I would have gladly volunteered for this level of mild discomfort in order to advance the cause of science. Wouldn't even be hard.
Yeah the Latex thingy is a click bait, but otherwise he has some good points
Seaweed could become an airline biofuel
Half of it is payed by the employer. You pay around 7.5% of your income before taxes (up to a certain limit aka Beitragsbemessungsgrenze).
But you have to do new work (and a lot of it, requiring energy and time), compared to the trivial cost of generating another signature as in PoS.
Content preservation is a seriously underrated aspect of piracy. Prior to getting shut down in 2016, what.cd was practically the modern-day Library of Alexandria of music. Literally anything you could ever want to listen to was available in lossless FLAC format, made available by anonymous volunteers purely out of a love of music.

Now it's gone, and who knows how much music has been lost to time as a result.
The Agentic State
you know how some people have a talent for story-telling, painting vivid landscapes and heroic deeds with words and prose?

you have a talent for story-telling, but sort of from the opposite end of the spectrum; you sucked all of the heroism and bravado out of the story without actually misrepresenting any of the facets of it.

nice work.
In actual fact, games need to be kept up to date in order to run okay on newer OS versions, and most of them are trying to get you to subscribe or otherwise DLC / microtransact you to death. Shame really
Yes please, I lost this skill myself
Which ones do you believe are level headed?
There's a 10-20% proportion on any poll that'll pick the insane option.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739...

Sometimes out of ignorance, sometimes out of "I'll pick one at random".
But what about the frogs turning gay?
I wrote some code (I'm an engineer) that ended up being the core logic of a HW driver that was linked to linux. One of the actions by the SW dev team was to reformat it to 80 chars wide. Made it less readable by a long way, even spilt up strings into multiple sections, if they heaven forbid, ran over the golden limit. They assured my it was a requirement to be upstreamed. It does not seem to be based on this, so who is pushing this 80 char standard?
South Africa's COVID-19 adviser, Prof Barry Schoub told Sky News that so far, most Omicron cases, were mild.

https://youtu.be/3RSRtuRm92o

Edit: "South African doctor who raised alarm about omicron variant says symptoms are ‘unusual but mild’"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

"Dr Angelique Coetzee said she was first alerted to the possibility of a new variant when patients in her busy private practice in the capital Pretoria started to come in earlier this month with Covid-19 symptoms that did not make immediate sense.

They included young people of different backgrounds and ethnicities with intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a very high pulse rate, she said. None suffered from a loss of taste or smell."
I agree with both of you guys. It's clear to me that this sort of decentralization will prove to be revolutionary. People who immediately equate NFTs with JPEGs are idiots and don't get it. They won't get it until they're using them to buy and sell tickets to events, which is probably the next major use case.
Use https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath instead. This code is horrible spaghetti.
More examples here!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330810

If anyone knows even more, it would be greatly appreciated.
Octal is a good client for HN on iOS
well, you can always program in wenyan: https://github.com/wenyan-lang/wenyan

But seriously, it's 2021. We are no longer slave to ASCII, or even English.

Most of the newer math oriented langs have heavy use of unicode (julia, agda, lean, etc).
I think the ulterior motive is ass-covering.

If you don't order a lockdown and it was needed then lots of people die, this is very bad.

If you do order a lockdown and it wasn't needed then you can say that you were just being safe. And it's hard to even tell when a lockdown wasn't needed because the very act of doing it changes the result and leads to less cases. The lockdown was successful!

It's always easy to say "We did it to save lives" and few people will hold you to account for it.
Like the mountain of evidence (videos, photos, scientific proof, testimony from people who have actually gone up and seen it) has shut up the flat earth community.
I just caught myself on the funny fact, that my level of trust for some stranger on HN is higher than the level of trust for WHO. They worked hard to ruin their reputation.
There have been human challenge studies for covid, and people did volunteer. It would have likely been possible to get volunteers for the type of study the grandparent comment describes.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-19-human-challenge-trial-l...
I wish we still had applets. They sucked on dial-up, but that's not really a problem anymore.
Yes, but media outlets that go "hysterical" are the ones that get the most views and get talked about most. Nothing we can do about that in a free society, it's just human nature.
what tape do you use?
Creating a less fragile diamond using fullerenes
That isn’t a selling point when Google has been added mainline support for the hardware since Android 8.0 with project treble and now plans to use a generic kernel and upstream to mainline Linux for android. Lots of Qualcomm chips already have mainline support. Kernel support as a selling point matters little when the hardware both companies sell can't function properly, isn’t currently supported, its proof mainline linux support doesn't really mean a functional device, or real support, it is an empty promise and preys on hope that the long outdated hardware they sell new devices with might eventually might work with modern software of the future one day.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-project-mainline-modu...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Android-...
That doesn't sound right? Dynamic power is consumed by toggling wires, and memory cells are going to be one of the places where toggling is rare because you can't access all memory all the time.

Am I missing something?
It goes the other way as well: Tokyo Disney Sea is pretty unique, you aren't going to get that experience in LA or Orlando. So you have people going to Tokyo to go to Disney as well.
It's also not an open standard. And one cannot just swap it out for another provider.

Which would be a nice uncontroversial feature: "choose your default sync service"
Curve light is not the same.
Great work! Love it
For reference, this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed... is a story that amateur jet fighter enthusiasts have copy-pasted to every edge of the internet, to the point of everyone cringing when they see it.
A potentially fantastic outcome from all this is that many more public and private spaces will be designed and retrofitted with very good ventilation.

Beyond curbing the spread of natural airborne diseases, it also may decrease the attack vector in our societies for airborne bio-terrorism/warfare.

And even beyond all that, we're becoming increasingly aware of how important clean air is for our overall health even without the risk of pathogens.
The Poco does not have working calls or camera, the redmi seems a lot more reasonable though.

As for the cosmos, from what I've heard their linux support is lackluster (as in non-mainline and with a bunch of functionality missing) but that might be outdated. Anyone has first-hand experience?
https://www.yahoo.com/now/u-k-buying-time-mideast-111736790....

> The World Health Organization is urging caution after two South African health experts, including the doctor who first sounded the alarm about the omicron variant, indicated that symptoms linked to the coronavirus strain have been mild so far.

> The initial reported infections were among university students, WHO said, adding that younger patients tend to have milder symptoms.

> “Understanding the level of severity of the omicron variant will take days to several weeks,” WHO said in a statement, adding that “there is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with omicron are different from those from other variants.”

It's likely too early to tell yet.
I expect this to be the case since decreased severity is associated with higher virus reproduction. The main question becomes second order effects.
It baffles me that Fauci etc didn't mention this in the next breath after hand washing and masking. It's easy during nice weather.
> French Canadian don't use the (much better) Swiss/Belgian septante/octante/nonante

Sorry for the mistake (I did check on wikipedia before adding Canada do the list but got it wrong).

> the awareness in Quebec just isn't high enough to hope for a switch.

Same in France. I believe most of us regard "septante/octante/nonante" as amusing and exotic sounding. Sadly, I've never heard anyone advocating for a switch.
I don't do anything specifically to protect myself online. What I have done is to move to a country where opening an account in someone else's name is really quite difficult. Of course I didn't move with this in mind. Identity theft/fraud seems less frequent here in Norway than in at least the US and UK.

This leads me to believe that in the long run it is regulation and the provision of good ways of verifying identity that are the only real solution.
Planning for Change with RFCs
YMMV of course. Did you get skin and blood testing? I've found that dedicated allergists tend to be more thorough about this, but there's no guarantee that allergies are the cause of your sinusitis.
It's not subjective. At least not in the way you are wording it. Bitcoins algorithm has no purpose. It's burning power to mine a resource that has no inherent value.

Gaming has obvious value. Entertainment in all forms is necessary for people to feel happy.
To this day, there is no mandate whatsoever in any public transport to keep windows open. NiH? CDC?
Missing in action thanks a lot.

Uber could simply ask customers to always ask for windows down.

This to me is the biggest unsung crime of the pandemic by govt officials and private industry alike.
Uh, can you point at an example of a pressure to kill your host?
Yeah, not after this: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?s=21
Will it come back after the next automatic upgrade? Because I recall turning it off only to see it reappear every few months with updates.
Usually, being "on call". should mean no alcoho, and have inet + computer closed by i.e. 5-15min or so.

which also means that this should be time that is paid on some hourly rate for the lower quality of live during the on-call time.

Also, there should be a rotation, with enough people to make this bearable.
Indeed. Prof Barry Schoub, mentions two times in the interview that its very early days.
Surely such mutations can and will happen. But will they become dominant, if they do not provide any advantage?
Good ventilation is easy to do in the summer months, but it is winter in the northern hemisphere at the moment, and fuel prices are at all time highs. That means adequate ventilation is likely an expensive thing to achieve. Not to mention the environmental consequences of extra energy consumption, along with the plastic pollution from littered masks and lateral flow tests - they’re absolutely everywhere.
See 2nd paragraph of pg. 23 of https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download for the 21:17 numbers. I can't find the death breakdown for this right now (perhaps it's in this doc, but a quick scan didn't see it), but you can see the previous revision on https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v... - following the supplemental material link to https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/07/28/202... , Table S4 on page 12 gives a cause-of-death breakdown.
Not to denigrate OP, but this reduced version has become a bit of a copypasta meme of its own.
Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
Reminds me of The Lost Art of Steam Heating by Dan Holohan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQB0KK2rxcw
What do you mean by immunotherapy?
Are you blocking Tor browser?
I refuse to go to Disneyworld during the summer peak or X-mas vacation. But fall and spring days that aren't too crowded are on the table. It does take a lot of research to figure out when to go for the best experience, and things like school schedules for school-aged kids can get in the way of having flexibility to go when not everyone else is going.
Yup, tradeoffs forced to select towards survival.
I don't give a shit. I want my life back. I'll take my chances.
Reminds me of Vector:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1175140/Vecter/
Interestingly, I went to an ENT recently with chronic sinus problems.

Me: "My nose has been clogged since the 90s, I'm on three different antihistamine prescriptions, do you think surgery might help me?"

ENT: "Surgery? I mean, it might help a little. Might make things worse. What I'd really recommend is figuring out what you're allergic to. Let me write you a referral to an allergist instead."

Me, confused: "Wait, I'm allergic to something?"

ENT, more confused: "You didn't realise? Did nobody tell you you've displaying obvious symptoms? Why did you think you were on the antihistamines?"

Me: "Uh...."

So yes. I'd certainly recommend checking allergies, but the good news is, some ENTs are sensible. (Then again, this was the NZ medical system, which probably matters...)
Now I know who you are! You gave some excellent advice on a project I was working on! Nice to see you here as well!
It may just be a cultural / linguistic thing. In Romance language cultures, long sentences are a given.
> I no longer want to participate in discussions about anything crypto on HN, negativity is too strong.

And this is how the negativity stays so strong on HN. I get it, I usually just say my opinion on crypto, accept it'll most likely be downvoted, and try not to engage in a back and forth too much, but it's tempting just to let things on here be and have those discussions elsewhere because it's relentless.

Which just makes me wonder what other tech trends people on HN are being intentionally obtuse about.

I don't even mind legit criticism (environmental concerns are worrying for example), it's people saying provably false crap like "it's only used for money laundering and crime" or "it's just the new beanie babies" one line dismissal of a $2 trillion dollar industry (and has a larger market cap than physical silver) that's annoying.
Quick warning: I bought my device before they started offering a subscription service and got grandfathered in for free.

It profoundly changed how I organise my desk and work day.

I used to have a stack of papers which contained mostly random noted and work related diagrams. It was a mess to find anything and most notes were of "questionable" quality (strikethroughs and corrections galore)

Over the years I tried several methods to get better at organising myself (hi-tech and lo-tech aka pen and paper).

For some reason I can't explain, the remarkable stuck and helped me to get my shit together.

I suspect that it was mostly by chance that this specific model came to my attention at the right time with the right design. Most likely any one of several similar products(e-ink, "paperlike writing feeling", no app store or browser) would've done the trick.

It was quite expensive though and had they had their subscription service at the time, I probably wouldn't have bought it.
Lockdowns lead to one of the largest transfers of wealth in history

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/cramer-the-pandemic-led-to-a...

All those mom and pop businesses? FORCED CLOSED, many didn't make it through

Wal*mart, Amazon, Home Depot, etc? NO RESTRICTIONS AT ALL, LOL WEAR A CLOTH MASK
Why not? Bundled solitaire surely has a significant impact on third party solitaire games.
Sure, these houses exist everywhere, but most people avoid buying houses next to them. If Zillow bought such a house they’d take a loss to unload it unless they baked it into their model.
If it’s very infectious one may get it anyways. But doing it in the study would be virtuous, and maybe pay too. If it was a serious study I could do it