skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought an ultrasonic humidifer after a recommendation from wirecutter but after doing some research I am returning it.

I think the tone of this article is a bit alarmist but there is a truth here: ultrasonic humidifiers significantly increase measured PM2.5 particles in the air. PM2.5 is used here because they are tiny and will travel deeply into your lungs and can be absorbed into your bloodstream. Now, with respect to the _kind_ of particles that ultrasonic humidifiers put into the air... well it's whats in your water. If you have easy access to distilled water then ultrasonic humidifiers can be both efficient and you don't have to worry about particles.

I think there is some reason to believe that the particles in your water even if absorbed into your lungs are less likely to cause damage than say PM2.5 smog particles just from a comparative point of view.

As someone who used to get bronchitis from sinuses too often I both want to use a humidifier and also not worry about this sort of issue in the first place so for me it's just not worth evaluating the risk not that there is enough information to do so anyway.

My opinion is get a simple hot or cold evaporative humidifier, clean it regularly because you should be doing that anyway and move on. I think it's pretty useful to use a few drops of some water treatment as well since it will reduce bacterial and mineral buildup.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922954/
> These results indicate that aerosol particles released from ultrasonic humidifiers operated with tap water initiated a cellular response but did not cause severe acute inflammation in pulmonary tissue. Additionally, high mineral content tap water is not recommended and de-mineralized water should be recommended in order to exclude any adverse effects.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51859262_Indoor_par...
Thanks for sharing - both the stories and the code snippet. I'm sure this will inspire more people to experiment.

The ending of the first one is hilarious, too... "Nah, you're just not very nice - byeee". The AI has healthier boundaries than I do.
Testing and clinical trials!
You're not wrong.

However, the system works "well" for the status quo, and questioning their rule and methods can also be dangerous. You could end up with your name smeared in the media, tortured for years, and imprisoned without a fair trial.. Or chainsawed up. Or sent to prison for trumped up charges. Etc

Honesty is very, very necessary in figuring out how to solve the problems we are facing as a species - but lies are cheap, and power corrupts, and a lot of people just have other shit to do than pick through the mountains of manure to find truth nuggets.
If they had built five Hubbles that each had defective mirrors and all of them needed a shuttle visit to correct the issues and make them usable...
Hmm did he mean that it doesn’t affect transmission (as in reduce R0) or that it literally can’t prevent transmission (R0 reduced, but still >>0)?

The latter is trivially true. I’m guessing he said it anyway because it was intended for a different audience.
Most of Brazil is pretty temperate year-round, so they don't really have a very sharp flu season, but what they do have typically peaks around June, which fits with when the covid drop started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Timing -> https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/165/12/1434/125289

> In the Fourier analysis, the seasonality of influenza in Brazil was characterized by a semiannual pattern, peaking in the winter month of June (amplitude = 27 percent), with a second, smaller peak during the summer (January; amplitude = 13 percent; figure 2).
... can we talk about the fact that it has a copyright year of 2003??? Sure, I totally believe there aren't a billion known vulnerabilities in that OOB management chip's code... the damn thing is old enough to vote!
Feels harsh to call C programmers "crappy" but ok
> It's sad that someone can't be true to their own beliefs.

Have you considered how strong of a vortex it is to not sway from a close groups' (including your entire family) belief about the most important thing in the entire world?

A spouse could lose their marriage. A child could estrange from their parents and siblings. A pastor that loses faith would lose his job, marriage, and entire community.
Also pretty sure customers using hosted Redis / Memcached offerings like Google Cloud Memorystore or AWS Elasticache etc. get sub-1ms times for service-to-VM responses. Those aren’t over HTTP of course… so perhaps they don’t count as “web services”?
The main complaint still stands: the report provides very few details about the incomes and expenses. Out of almost 100 slides, I only see one, titled "Financial Disclosures". And it does not contain many disclosures.
> However, the topic is errors, not exceptions.

Idiomatically, go uses errors for the purposes other languages use exceptions, so if this makes debugging harder, it's an important consideration.
> "they're talking about preserving the diversity of life on the Planet."

Something utterly worthless to humans unless humans are part of said diversity. There is no advantage to a planet full of marmosets patiently waiting for the Sun to die. We are all there is in the way of serious tool users, and quite possibly now we've drained the surface coal and oil and tin and iron, all there ever will be. There isn't time left in the world to go through another fossil fuel era, another Dinosaur era, another mammal evolution.

Edgelords and their "Humans are a cancer, everything would be better if we die out" are advocating not just human genocide but committing all known life in the Universe to end. We are currently the only known chance of anything getting off-world, ever. Any people, any machines, any bacteria, any fungus, any tardigrades, anything. We should be flinging life at Europa, Venus, Martian polar regions, asteroids, as much as we can. If life could be screaming at us to save it from being single-planetary, it would be.
That's not my impression. My impression is that official sources are claiming that it reduces the chances that you get it at all, and maybe reduces the chances that you'll pass it on as well.

I have never (that I recall) seen an official source saying what you claim. (Mind you, I'm not saying that you're wrong in your assessment of the effectiveness of the vaccine. I'm not even saying that you're wrong in your read of what officials are claiming - just that I have never seen it.)

Can you point me to someone official making that claim? And, what country are you in?
"Mark Serreze, director of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, also welcomes the new analysis but points out that Arctic amplification is never a fixed ratio. As the researchers showed, the time span used to calculate the rate matters, as does the latitude and season—amplification is far larger in the winter. Serreze adds that Arctic warming has always been more uncertain than the rest of the world, because of the spottiness of the observational records. “As a result, I’m always in favor of looking at it as a range,” he says. “Two times to four times.”"
Are you arguing from a theoretical or practical standpoint? In practical cases the FPGA products do solve my first two issues, as the video output path of the emulation goes directly to the display output in the FPGA. Meanwhile in all software-based emulation products, the video output path goes through a normal Linux graphics stack, which tends to be crap (and not getting better with the silly X11 vs. Wayland fight that keeps Linux's graphics stuck in a bad spot).

That's not an inherent limitation of software emulation, no, but for all practical purposes it is as nobody is doing specialized software emulation for a specific set of hardware to bypass the normal OS/graphics stack. It's instead "throw linux on it, and fullscreen an off the shelf emulator"
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I've tried it a few times, across Intel and Nvidia GPUs. I never went through the trouble of identifying or filing the issues (life is too short), but just off the top of my head, I remember:

- Cursor rapidly changing state for no discernible reason

- Missed inputs, particularly in xWayland

- Drawing issues, where portions of one window would appear and the rest would fail to draw entirely

- Electron apps were hit-or-miss out of the box, but I got most of them working

- Display flickering and seriously messed-up color correction in xWayland applications, rendering a handful of games and apps just completely unusable

It's been a few months since I've given it a run again, but I'm not exactly excited to spend a day figuring out how my display manager functions when x11 works well enough for my uses. Maybe once the KDE bugs get ironed out properly I'll give it another pass.
The Decade of Vertical Farming Is Upon Us
The vertical farming industry is exploding with innovation, and vertical farms are now being operated in many countries across the world. A vertical farm is a type of greenhouse that grows crops vertically. It uses less land to produce more food, making it an environmentally friendly way to provide food for our growing population.
True and I should have worded it differently. Not necessarily cheap but low quality.
You can get designer stuff at high price points that are not really much better quality, just better marketed.

It’s hard to find really high quality clothes today because there just isn’t the incentive to provide them when all the crap can be sold and segmented into fashion seasons so you “have” to buy a new jacket now.

This is not just clothes of course, I’m for example very susceptible to feeling a need to buy the latest gadget because it has more RAM. I might need it someday. Maybe.
And the next paragraph says "Britain gave no details on the death other than the person had been diagnosed in hospital."

However I wasn't referring to the news article but actual statements from UK government ministers and health officials' failure to be specific when questioned. For all we know the person was hit by a bus.
I worked at a place where I had ready access to a large lot of $1,000 "blade" PC's that I could use for experiments, tests, etc., as needed.

The reason I had them available is that they were supposed to go into a machine that we sold, but since someone in Receiving missed a step in their inspection process, they all had to be marked as Non-Conforming and could not be used in the machine, even though there was absolutely nothing wrong with them. Since they were a special order, the vendor wasn't about to take them back.

So it was either toss tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware in the dumpster or try to find a use for them internally.
I can do font scaling in x.org, my screens also just work. I have DPI scaling but it doesn't seem to be switch when I take my laptop off the dock. Wayland sessions seem smoother, most software I use isn't adapted to the new model yet, and for the cost of losing my global hotkeys, redshift, and other useful things that matter, its not worth it to see smoother animations, I'd rather turn them off.

Edit: I never had screen tearing on video.
Delta is more infective than Alpha. The mortality rate is comparable if not worse, but it's hard to say as we've had extensive vaccination, which has made it hard to assess. We're lucky for the moment with Omicron, but there is no guarantee.

The design space for diseases are large, and there is no guarantee what happens next. Maybe the next variant is even less lethal, but leaves 90% of people with long term damage. Maybe the next variant is far more lethal, but has a much longer prodromal period with allows it to infect far more people. Maybe we get a variant which is a little less lethal, but persists on fomites for far longer, so it becomes harder to avoid.

The general idea that diseases become less virulent over time is a misinterpretation. Diseases populations and hosts populations co-evolve. Over time, those who are more likely to die from the disease fail to reproduce. Only the most resistant offspring are left in the population.

The rabbit disease myxomatosis killed 90% of rabbits when it was introduced to Australia. Today it kills less than 10% of rabbits. However, myxomatosis is not less virulent.

Lab rabbits have been isolated from natural selection pressure for a very long time. When exposed to today's "mild" myxomatosis the disease still wipes out 90% of them.

The long-term trajectory of our species's co-evolution with covid-19 probably results in fewer of our offspring dying from covid-19 in a hundred years, but that means squat to those of us alive today.
I agree. I think in your scenario, if you try to claim X in case B, after case A decided non-X, that might get you in trouble.

My question was more about when X was not adjudicated in case A. Do you get to claim the opposite in a different case? Or are you bound by your claims?
Omicron doesn't change fundamentally where we were with Delta. Its infection enough that everyone will get it. Vaccines protect you (they are banned for kids under 5). Pfizer's treatment (Paxlovid) is a very effective cure (currently banned). The death rate for vaccinated individuals is extremely low, at its current rate its about 26 per 100,000. The flu killed 24 per 100,000 in california.

We are at the endgame. These are the last things left to "end the pandemic", and they are all policy decisions: (1) allow peditricians and parents to decide if they want to vaccinate their under 5 year olds. (2) Stop banning Paxlovid (3) Stop any mandates, there just isn't the numbers to justify them. (4) Ensure people have reasonable rights to keep wearing masks or something in public.
Diet Go
__attribute__((overloadable)) is also worth looking at...
Sometimes I feel like I repeat myself.

Would someone who is flagging this comment please, instead, respond to it? If it is so trivially dismissed, please show the rest of us.
> Just the one file? I've been hearing this story since 1988.

"If the earth is on a warming trend, we're not likely to detect it before 1995."

-- 1982 Exxon Memo to Management About CO2 Greenhouse Effect [1]

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2805576-1982-Exxon-M...
Same experience, KDE isn't quite ready, but on GNOME it was excellent and "just worked" for the stuff I used it for.
None of the people I discussed this with would ever consider either Respect or the BNP. They were Labour or Lib Dem voter. It was a widespread sentiment in my circles.

I think you're massively underestimating just how many people were angry about it. I know people who voted Lib Dem over their promise of PR who have woved never ever to vote for them again.
The readme contains this section:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot#user-content-configuration

There's also a template in the repo:

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/src/branch/master/foot.ini

So, looks like one has to just set the font in the config file ;)
Nice try NSA!

... Oh wait.
COVID update from work is actually a weekly online meeting that started because of COVID. I forgot by now that it would sound weird for an outsider. Everything is discussed what's happening in and out of the company ( supply chain shortage, COVID variants, cyber security,...) There's a q&a if someone has questions/concerns.

It's actually a worldwide and European meeting ( so 2 times/ week for me actually) and it's a pretty good alternative for keeping company culture and bringing it somewhat online.

Yes, it's not required if you don't want to attend :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769029/
That claim is pretty widespread and ubiquitous among the scientific literature. You might consider reassessing your news sources if they have been telling you otherwise.

I believe that the emphasis on the reduction of the chance of serious illness & hospitalization is because people believe that all the people who would be motivated to get vaccinated out of altruism are already vaccinated.
I would imagine that a virus would eventually adapt/evolve to a point to where it co-exists harmoniously with the host organism. I've heard somewhere that herpes simplex virus used to have terrible symptoms, like genital blisters, but over the years the most common variant has no symptoms, and most people have no idea they have it.... and a huge proportion of human have it.

I would imagine all viral contagions would eventually go that route. Because a virus cannot propagate if the host organism goes extinct, or for whatever reason the host organism is itself not fit for survival, or diminished in any way.... anything that might impact virus propagation.

I've read some where the common cold was probably a pandemic virus originally, and it mutated to a common cold we have today, and we mutually evolved to deal with the common cold. Something like that...
Let's say I have a content website with about 20k content pages. I want to automatically cluster the pages so that the each page has the related content linked. Right now I'm using a hacked together tf–idf using sklearn and Python2, and it just works. The downsides are that I have to compute everything offline whenever I add new content, and that it's one more thing to maintain/upgrade.

I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion of a SaaS or another alternative for my use case? Thanks!
The main feature of the poles is to mark the position of the road when snow is covering the usual markers. You don't need the poles most times, but during the window between snowfall and snowplowing, especially if the snow is being blown into snowdrifts further obscuring the typical "road shape" you would have to look for it the poles weren't there, they're your only means of navigation, and can be used to judge the size of snow drifts.

The poles have a standard height, and a standard distance between poles.
Noticed it too, they didn't put ids on the input elements
I said apps, not just webapps.

I'm not sure I see your point in this context.
I’m not talking about forcing anyone to do anything.

I talked about carbon taxes to make people pay the true price of their consumption so the market forces can find the right equilibrium, which they can’t when the price doesn’t include all the information.
You're in for a treat. Look up the "Decentralized Autonomous Organization", aka "the first big thing written on Ethereum, in which a huge amount of ETH was (predictably) immediately stolen". Thus leading to a fork of Ethereum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
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And yet in some areas at least so much about the language in math itself seems to be centered about a visual understanding.

I mentioned the s-plane earlier: We talk about poles and zeros in the s-plane, because they form poles and zeroes visualized in an actual plane, a 2-dimensional plate with protrusions into the 3rd dimension. The poles pulling the plane upwards into infinity, the zeroes tacking it down to the "floor". In the z-plane, we talk about getting the spectrum of a signal or filter by tracing the unit circle, because you can imagine tracing a literal circle in the plane. We "shift" signals up, down, left, right, we "flip" spectrums, we "cross" the origin.

To know whether a z domain transfer function is stable, I don't read "the complex roots of the denominator have to have a magnitude < 1" past some initial textbook definitions, it's just "the poles have to be inside the unit circle". In the s-plane, we instead talk about the poles being on the left half.

And yet the subject matter, signals and filters, has nothing to do with "visual objects" per se (like geometry would, for example). Even if the signal is a video signal, what we are manipulating here has nothing directly to do with what the video signal shows. And the signal might be an audio signal or just some nondescript digital data to begin with.

It just amazes me that someone can grasp such a complex subject without working with its ubiquitous visualization, so pervasive that its objects were named accordingly. It's true that I can build enough intuition to say things like "okay, if I put a capacitor there I'll have another pole" and not think about the actual plane for that instant, but as soon as it's something more complex that I don't immediately "know", I have to resort to my visualization again. I probably speak out of envy, because this also means I can never fully have the feeling of "grasping" higher dimensional problems for example, especially when familiar properties that are true for n<=4 break down there. I always only feel my understanding is working with a "shadow" of what's actually happening, to use another visual metaphor.
Private keys stolen from Vulcan Forged in $140M theft
Been using foot for a little while after I had some libgl issues with my alacritty install that I didn’t at the time have time to dig into. foot is great: fast, minimal, gets out of the way. No complaints here.
It's talking about wedding vows during a marriage ceremony where the couple says in front of many people about how much they will do for the other person "for better or worse, in sickness and health", "til death do us part." If you divorce, it's embarrassing because you betrayed all those public exclamations.
You weren't responsible for my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29559534 above, were you ;-)
I work on Pure Data (https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/) which has been 0.x for 25 years now :-) The upcoming release will be 0.52.
Why Not Buying ARM May Be Better for Nvidia
> It's a feature of many cars, and the majority of them buy a standard well working chip for it (usually from Bosch).

We do not have the same definition of "working well" and standard then.

On the 6 non-Tesla cars I drove lately, 4 of them have issues with automatic wipers that goes nuts without reasons.

Automatic high beams tend generally to be even worst for the ones without matrix light.
I'm curious - what is needed for LibreOffice to work?
“But I saw it on hackers news and installed via homebrew.” /s
Multiple finger gestures can sometimes mean more than just "trigger a key". For example, if you're drawing on a canvas and you expect pinch-to-zoom to zoom in and out as you're bringing your fingers together or pulling them apart, that could mean the app needs to integrate with new events at the UI library level. Or two-finger rotation of the canvas, as another example.
Yes, they did, but the whole point of politics is that you can be more convincing than your opponents...
Humans must be using a language model for image recognition when reading though. Otherwise things like failing to spot the the is a duplicate word wouldn't happen so often.
Given how quickly the virus can infect people and put them in the hospital if unchecked by masking/social distancing/etc. and vaccines, just letting everyone get infected would rapidly overwhelm our health care system and cause a lot of deaths that could have been prevented.

If the world had collectively done nothing about COVID over the past two years, sure, the pandemic might be "over" by now, but the total death toll would likely be much higher than what we'll probably end up with when all this is actually over, given our current path.

I'm not thrilled with how the past two years have gone, but it could have been much, much worse. It could also have been much better, if it weren't for people using the virus to score political points.

Even with a mix of vaccines and natural immunity, I don't think we can rely on natural immunity to solve this. That just doesn't pass the smell test.
Yeah, and my point is the vaccine doesn't prevent this, so what else are you referring to, preventatives?