skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So how big is such a market of potential customers that don’t trust Docusign to not tamper with the attestation? I’d hypothesize the potential customer segment is very small.

This is sort of my point. This market probably exists, and it's almost certainly too small at the moment for Docusign/Hellosign/etc to consider going after. Which means any nimble startup that wants to can claim that market without much competition. That forms your core set of users, who are sticky to your service, and from whom you can fund development into adjacent markets (e.g. any attestations which are currently secured only by reputation. there's a fair amount of that in the auto industry, in housing/property, and in supply chain management, at the least).

I'm not saying that of all the business opportunities around, this is the best one. But it is a business opportunity, in an environment where most other investment opportunities are heavily oversubscribed.

> I always go back to, who’s going to invest in actually building the new blockchain solution and for what reason?

This was the original line I was responding to. Have we settled it? VCs would be one group to invest, and for the reason that there's an underserved market that no one else appears interested in serving and with the possibility to expand from there. Apparently, neighbor poster has actually already invested in this. So that seems pretty cut and dried to me.
the relative deadliness of delta... we'll just not ever really know. Though IIRC, some early surveillance with all the controls (only looking at unvaccinated, etc) suggested that it was LESS deadly for the elderly, more deadly for other age groups, net less deadly.
Because of course all companies exist in the same time zone as all their clients... Have you ever worked at a SaaS company? Having customers from around the world is literally a thing from day 1, especially if you are not US or (to a lesser extent already) EU based. Try starting a SaaS company in Australia and see how far "doesn't matter if it goes down at 3am" gets you.
I can 3-ways diff merge with three windows, side-by-side, each 120 characters wide. That is fine with me.

When I write my own code I try to not get after the 100th column on the line though (and that is never 100 characters per line with all the indentation going on).

But in case I stumble on code with long lines, I'm still fine.

One should also not forget that some language some of use are forced to work with are incredibly verbose (a combination of culture, lack of type inference, the existence of every and any modifier under the sun, etc.).

ECPrivateKeyParameters privKey = new ECPrivateKeyParameters(privateKey, Sign.CURVE);

That's 84 character for you (not even counting leading indent characters) from BouncyCastle, the Java crypto library. Maybe you'll even want so slap a "private" modifier in front of that line.

And that's not an hardcore example: this is relatively soft.

Now thankfully, like Linus, I don't think 80 characters-wide code makes any sense at all whatsoever in 2021 (not that I especially like verbose language btw).
This is fairly accurate for how a lot of vaccine resistance works.
Spanish guy working in Japan in an international environment here. Little by little I'm forcing YYYY-MM-DD for file and directory names, and DD-Mon-YYYY as the display format for applications and for the documents I write.

Time for a rant. I recently had to fix a web application where the guy who originally installed it set all the fields to free form text, and dates were a mix of:

- D/M/Y: good, European order.

- Y/M/D: also good, CJK order.

- M/D/Y: who the hell did it, if we never had an American in the project????

- Years with two or four digits. Every time I see a date written with only two digits for the year, I want to kill the motherfucker who did it.

- Months written as numbers, full names, or abbreviations.

Well, at least nobody used Japanese era years, or Roman numerals for months, but any other combination you can think of was there. 600 records, took me several hours because the software is not exactly user friendly and I had to convert each date to its internal representation by hand.

After that, I force every single web form to use date pickers for date fields. But of course text fields are still a mess, maybe I will adopt your approach too ;)
My father used mechanical tools. Every time he skinned his knuckles my vocabulary expanded.
Omicron is descended from an early, mostly dead branch of SARS-CoV-2
You can grow your own (assuming you can find clean soil…). I harvested enough oregano this year to last months.
The first constitutional convention was ratified by 9 out the 13 colonies, 2/3s. Rhode Island rejected it by referendum but ratified it by convention in 1790. It's a complex story. I remember reading that Washington avoided Rhode Island while it hadn't ratified.

That was for the Constitution, not the Bill of Rights which came later and were ratified by Congress + the State legislatures.

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog...
My elementary school gave out small milk cartons in the 90s (which I suspect is why, to this day, carton milk tastes much better to me).

The first time I recall seeing milk bags was in the DFAC in the Army circa 2001. I remember it feeling very weird the first time I saw them replace one of the bags.
Copyrights have very little to do with paying content creators. From the very first copyright law (the Statute of Anne) it was about securing profits for the industry, who invariably give only a tiny slice of those profits, if anything, to the content creators. Hollywood studios are famous for trying to screw actors, screenwriters, and others out of their share of blockbuster movie profits. Likewise with the music industry -- most musicians do not make anything close to enough money on record sales (or the modern equivalent) to live on, even as the studios themselves bring in vast sums of money.

So in a sense you are right, "greed" is the operative word -- not on the part of people who download, but on the part of the people who benefit most from the copyright system.
> these resorts were built before AirBnB

Ever heart of VRBO (est. 1995) or the entire VRMA (est. 1985)?
Following the references, it all seems solid; the referenced authors note this hasn't been observed for human viruses yet (2017), but posits non-sterilizing vaccines in humans might be too new.

On the other hand, it seems like a kind of inverse prisoners' dilemma.

If no one vaccinates, this particular pathway for the evolution of super-viruses is closed (although others remain open). If some people vaccinate, and a super-virus evolves, they're fine and the rest are screwed, classic P.D.

But it deviates where unlike the classic P.D. where things get worse if everyone defects, once everyone vaccinates, it doesn't matter if a super-virus evolves, because everyone is protected.

So while this raises an interesting policy question on whether non-sterilizing vaccines are worth the risk, once people begin "defecting" by getting vaccinated, it seems like a bad move to risk staying unvaccinated yourself.
While I don’t know much about synthesizers, I love when someone makes an interesting or new tone with the YM2612. I can understand how synthesizer sounds became standardized post-DX7, but I’m surprised Trent doesn’t appreciate the experimentation and accessibly of playing with operators.
Yeah I’m perplexed because that matches my experience despite the article saying I should be doomed from this course of action.

I had a problem where if I tried to breathe in deeply, especially while exercising, my nostrils would choke off and I couldn’t suck in air through my nose.

My primary care doctor said I had a deviated septum and sent me to an ENT, who agreed but said it was minor and my real problem was turbinate hypertrophy.

After a painful and bloody operation (with the RF) and a week of healing, I can be easily breathe through my nose, and this was over three years ago and I haven’t noticed anything else changing, so this is diametrically opposite all the doom and gloom.

The ENT was a dick in other ways though.
Most people believe insane things of some form and all of us are usually inconsistent in some way.

It might have tighter correlations with economic and education status, but that’s not all of it.

Whatever skill allows some to see the signal through the noise while others descend down rabbit holes that lead to delusion is hard to teach.

The best community I’ve found that works towards it is the less wrong rationality community, but none of us are immune from cognitive bias or motivated reasoning. It’s all about recognizing it and trying to correct for it in order to struggle closer to the truth.

Even so, I worry most people continually exposed to false ideas will eventually get infected by them - even if you have really good tools, it’s hard.
"Looks like no commits since 5 years ago" = almost always a bad thing; no security updates, protocol updates, etc.

GunJS is more active & better choice.
Damn. Should have changed so that only residents get a vote.
I had this set and sadly never finished it. I ran into a lot of issues putting it together (I forget my age at the time) and then at a given point I found a manufacturing defect in a piece that halted my progress and never moved past that.

Today it's incredibly easy to order a replacement for a missing or defective piece online. I imagine if I had this set intact today, it would've been trivial to continue.
There has never been a proposed amendment to reverse a right within the Bill of Rights. Doing so is antithetical to the entire concept of natural rights. But…

If that’s what they want, that is the only honest way to do so. Good luck.
Seems like for that to work you need to apply it to your skin directly. Diet is more of a whole body effect, but psoriasis is immune system on the skin, afaik. Hence why it’s treated with high doses of vitamin d in lotions.

My mom had some help when she went to an endocrinologist about a condition other than her skin - but getting her hormones observed/controlled helped more than anything.
The wheel hubs are probably available on Brinklink.

Apologies in advance for enabling your Lego addiction.
As a kid I always wanted the 8860 set: http://www.technicopedia.com/8860.html. It was well beyond the means of my family at time, and I had almost forgotten it existed until I discovered my wife's family had it in their Lego stash and thus I had a chance to live out my childhood again.

Building the 8860 made me realise how much Lego instructions have improved, as every step is basically a game of spot-the-difference trying to work out what pieces have been added. Not so bad for a small build, but in these complex builds it's a long process, especially when all the parts have been mixed into a larger collection of bits.
> Uhh there is no amount of lead anyone should have in a day

That's very easy to say, but it's another thing to require that products with lead above the level of detection should be kept from markets and destroyed.

Start clearing products with any detectable heavy metal content, and you'll start clearing shelves.
Repository for benchmark files and submissions: https://github.com/brownplt/B2T2
Well, there's that, I see Amazon listings up near $500. But the official website for the book leads to a fresh and current commemorative printing that... rather than opening the book up to the masses again, is $300 a book.
> If the UK can avoid civil war even with persistent IRA bombings I think we will too

That wasn’t exactly the same, that was people from an occupied territory using terrorism. That occupied territory was effectively converted to a “free trade zone” and other agreements were made for a treaty.

I’d argue something such as a convention of states may be a treaty or a negotiated settlement with the government that’s necessary.

In terms of a civil war this is a pretty common opinion

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/09/16/is-the-us-h...

We have half the country with different values. To the point where people in Florida today can’t travel to NYC and eat food at a restaurant inside (unless private medical records are disclosed).

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keyton...

California has as a banned state employees from going to Texas.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/california-bans-sta...

BLM/ANTIFA burned down towns and killed people

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...

The mentioned capital riot you mentioned.

The left “fortified the election 2020 election”

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

Historical figures defiled and removed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/23/thomas-jef...

People fired for vaccines, voting for Trump, donating to rittenhouse defense fund, taken off the air and “cancelled”, so on and so on.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-police-officer...

Take a step back to history. Nazis in Germany or marxists in Russia took power in a similar way. They had burnings of businesses, removal of statues, firing people for not being part of the party, concentrating them based on the fact they spread disease (Germanys excuse for concentrating undesirables in camps in the 30s).

Yes, we are already in the throes of a civil war, it just hasn’t been (too) kinetic yet. I personally don’t know if it will be a civil war or authoritarian take over, but what ever happens I think there’s a struggle happening right now.
> The biggest opponents of doing anything about AIDS, anything at all, were conservatives trumpeting family values.

Reagan’s response to HIV/AIDS should be a shameful memory for all republicans. Mike Pence willfully made the HIV pandemic in Indiana worse. Americans learned nothing and instead history repeated itself.
Yes and I'm sure they'll be content going back to the standards of living from hundreds of years ago.
Day lift tickets are up, but season passes aren't changing much. The model is just pushing people to pre-commit to purchasing.
I would also note that the author explicitly does not think it's a spillover event from an introduction to an animal population that later re-entered the human population. The reason being there is a small insertion of complementary RNA from humans that was injected into the virus.

I disagree. The small chunk of the sequence that had been inserted is present in RNA for all primates. It's possible that it was introduced to primates, circulated, and then was re-introduced to humans.
Essentially it’s like JPEG pictures: the quality degrades the more times it’s being shared.
I was under the impression that stem cell treatments don’t require immunosuppression. Really seems to limit the upside of this breakthrough treatment.
I don’t understand.

> The biggest opponents of doing anything about AIDS, anything at all, were conservatives trumpeting family values.

And then later in the article:

> The notion of “pregnancy is the only drawback to sex” ended up setting the groundwork for HIV spread amongst the gay community, as there was no need for the use of condoms.

Diseases which can be sexually transmitted among humans have existed a lot longer than AIDS. Syphilis (as the first STD that comes to mind) does not discriminate by gender or sexual orientation, and while it isn’t a death sentence, it can be fatal, and many of its symptoms can drastically reduce quality of life.

I’m not sure I understand what this article is saying. Did gay men at the time not consider syphilis a threat worthy of protecting themselves?
Well, isn't that a nice comment to receive on a project... Thank you!
It is trivial to view the process of rejecting the scourge of slavery as binary, and reject the 1787 Constitution for its disgusting 3/5ths compromise.

And yet: what if the course of history as it unfolded was roughly optimal?
Nobody should get a vote. Residents are the worst about opposing more housing.

The ONLY constitutional basis for getting a say over how much housing your neighbor builds is excluding Black people (see the appellate ruling, Ambler Realty v City of Euclid). All zoning in the United States is based on the power of that ruling to keep Black people out.
I hope this happens. The world needs more collaboration, especially in pandemic response.
If you say that wasn't your intent, then I believe you.

Just so it's clear why I read it as intending to be positive:

The rest of that paragraph is fairly grounded and with emphasis on the benefits. "No more fighting", "each side got something it wanted", etc. That's typically the kind of thing you emphasize when you're pro-compromise.

I read the "not advocating either position" part as referring to gun rights and abortion.
Also: skiing is fun.
We're all watching Pride and Prejudice – have some revolution with your romance
I'm not sure about force touch, but my windows running Lenovo x230's touch pad is very good.

Just a little different from the apple ones I use but really quite usable.

Trouble with PCs is you're comparing Apple kit with anything from cheap consumer gear by Asus, Dell, and HP with hilarious results.

Whilst they're all running similar chipsets the materials used are all very different.

If fact do any laptops have the glassy feel of Mac trackpads?

I know if I were going from my Lenovo and using a Mac, I'd have very negative feelings about the Mac, until I had three months continuous usage under my belt.
> The only way you’ll stop this thing from mutating into a variant not covered by the vaccine is by eradicating it everywhere, simultaneously.

When I hear words like everything, everyone, everywhere to describe any system I get disheartened failure is almost assured. I wouldn't design software like that for example. Whether they are engineering systems, social systems, or in this case viruses. Relying on every part to comply is the opposite of redundancy. The probability of getting everyone to comply in a group as large as this planet all at once, at the same time without lags (e.g. vaccine rollouts), etc is sadly IMO extremely small.

We probably need new approaches, some which may challenge the current status quo. I remember watching a video early in COVID where isolating populations into smaller groups allows quick treatment of each group and the ability to contain the spread (i.e. limiting the R factor). As long as highly available world air travel is around, reducing redundancy and increasing the interconnectness of our populations into a single system the virus will have an advantage IMO.
Tell HN: Canada has confirmed it’s first Omicron cases
> I mean, there are Zero Covid strategies that work, see China or New Zealand.

Are we really trusting China's data? They still have less than 100k cases reported. That makes zero sense from what we've seen from other countries. How would they have tracked down every case after it ran rampant for 3 months in a major city?
This is reminiscent of the way an analog strobe tuner works when sampling a live 6-string guitar, other than just using it for tuning each string before playing.

Each open string is tuned to a reference Natural note without touching the string or fretting the note. The tuner is set for the desired note and when the string is tuned close enough, a bold strobe can be seen in one of the concentric tracks, apparently rotating far slower than the speed of the inner motorized disk. Fine-tuning to the guitar string is made until the strobe is as stationary as possible, minimizing any drift either clockwise or counter-clockwise.

The different concentric tracks in the spinning disk represent the different octaves for that note. When upper or relative harmonics are detected they appear as discernable but much less bold strobe effects.

The tuner is visualizing only one selected Natural, Sharp, or Flat note at a time, as the music goes along you are only going to see the notes and harmonics that are close to that one selected note. And any strobes seen over the full range of octaves when normally playing various stings and frets can be momentary for relatively stacatto triggers, or have various faint features over more sustained decay periods.

For instance if you leave the tuner set for E Natural after tuning your E string, you will get the most hits wben you play in the key of E too.

An adequately tuned & intonated guitar is not fully expected to get very many hits playing in too many other keys than what the tuner is set for.

A very well tuned & intonated guitar will show an abundance of those hits that are absent from the same instrument when its tuning is merely adequate.
IIRC my biology lessons in high school, viruses mutate in order to escape from vaccines. Just like mosquitoes mutate and adapted to DDT, we created new chemicals and then mosquitoes adapted to them, under evolutionary pressure.

So vaccinated populations are creating the pressure on the virus to mutate. And un-vaccinated population may get effected (irrespective of which version of virus they encounter at the time)..

my 2 cents.
Raising prices, and thus pay, would work if the people who drove up housing costs occupied those houses. But the houses are vacant. So they'll eventually drive out the locals, which will cause local businesses to close because they can't get workers, which will then decrease the value of the vacant houses. The investors will then sell, and the cycle will restart.
Get-there-itis can adversely affect code quality too!
Please don't take threads on flamewar tangents, and especially not on flamewars that have already flamed and been rehashed god knows how many times already. You may not feel you owe someone else better, but you owe the community better, because doing that is really bad for discussion quality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That'd explain partially why I loved the vibe of that area so much. I'd live in Northern Italy in a heartbeat if I had the chance.
I've been happy with the cherry tart extract from Nootropics Depot. I take it for have high uric acid levels.

https://nootropicsdepot.com/tart-cherry-extract-tablets/
not a great metaphor imo. gives the impression masks and distance do nothing, and we know they do
Lucid Air DC Fast Charge Follow Up: Charging Losses Explained
Proven, no. But our current best theory after 100 yeasts says “yes, it seems dice is played.” It’s the deterministic curmudgeons who keep trying to find a way to ignore that!
Installed this and it's great.

That said, it's embarrassing how many iOS extensions I have installed just to work around today's shitty websites. AdGuard to make the web usable, AMPlosion to avoid AMP nonsense, Open in Apollo to avoid mobile Reddit dark pattens, now this (which I installed because YouTube's new embed widget starts playing on touch-start instead of touch-release, so it triggers while scrolling...)
I just completed the Bugatti Chiron 42083 set which has a lot of similarities to this set.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/bugatti-chiron-42083
One past thread:

Technicopedia: 8880 – Super Car - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16788407 - April 2018 (14 comments)
I saw the one in Tucson Arizona. It’s not as long as I thought it would be. Incredible machine.
I don't see how cheaper energy would help. Bitcoin needs a certain amount of power in units of cost to be tied up mining to secure the network. If the cost of energy goes down ten times then the same PoW requires ten times the energy.
It was a semi-tongue-in-cheek observation along the lines of => https://abel.sinkovics.hu/download/metamonad.pdf
The 1950s through 1970s were the golden ages of antibiotics. New ones discovered all the time, and minimal resistance. Stuff like syphilis was readily curable.
You're being manipulated by the police. They're purposely allowing crime to happen so they can point at it and say "this is what happens when you don't support your police".

Rather than seeing this as police corruption, you're falling for their propaganda.