skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I don't know what it is, but maybe the Chinese army deploys so infrequently (almost never?) that they place zero priority on their MREs.

I don't know about the Chinese, but my poor army doesn't have an official MRE. On the rare occasion that they are deployed to where they can't setup kitchens, like disaster zones: storm, flooding, etc.., the soldiers typically make do with instant noodle or ration bar until a field kitchen can be established.
With an average duration of 0.2 seconds, a bolt of lightning therefore has like 355 times the energy of your wind turbine for the same length of time.

Sounds fairly energetic to me.
I'd recommend citing a source that isn't the Epoch Times. And we shouldn't have our medical staff wasting their time on things that we know don't work just because folks who trust Facebook memes more than trained professionals think that some essential oil cures COVID-19.
I'm greatly enjoying https://wasm4.org/play/nyancat

(although it pauses if I switch to another tab or minimize it :( )
I had a new hire last year that did this. He interviewed pretty well and we brought him on as contract-to-hire through a placement company.

We're a small company, so it was pretty easy to have everything set up for him on day one to begin contributing. The first day was spent getting to know other members of the team and we were working to get him familiar with the codebase of a new application that we were working on. We had identified 10 or so tickets, new data entry pages and some UI bug fixes, that we thought would be a gentle introduction to the new app and walked him through a couple.

The first couple of days were okay, but I started observing strange behavior. He didn't contribute in meetings, but he was very outspoken when explaining why this project was substantially more difficult than we'd thought. Also, he kept coming back to the need for us to completely throw out all of the prior work because it was "all wrong." The explanations never got any deeper than that, though. I also noted a couple of exchanges in which I found his behavior towards our project manager to be somewhat belligerent when discussing project details.

At first, I just figured he was carrying some of his previous shop with him and that that was how he was used to communicating. I gave him a week to prototype his architectural recommendations and pulled him off of all meetings so that he could focus on it. This also gave me a convenient way to separate him and the project manager from further confrontation while I examined the situation.

The week passed and his prototype looked like he'd worked on it for about an hour. I asked him if he thought this was working out and he admitted that it wasn't. I then asked him if he wanted to terminate the contract and he jumped at the opportunity.

Speaking with the placement firm later that day, they apologized and said that he had admitted to them that he'd been working another full-time job and that he couldn't keep it up anymore. They offered to forgo charging me for the last two weeks. We still lost a substantial amount of time on the project.

Start to finish, this whole episode took a little over three weeks and we were lucky to get out of it so quickly. The kicker was that I was able to replace all of the shoddy code that this guy wrote over that period in one long Saturday evening.

I'm more afraid of hiring people I don't know now. There's no coding test that will tell you if someone is just going to lie right to your face every day.
But that has never not been true in every time and in every place. Why get existential dread about it now?
You don’t have to presume - the aspects you bring up are well studied. There was no negative effect on employment.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232891/

In fact, a Rutgers study found a net positive effect due to the tax spend on early childhood education.
https://nieer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Beverage-Tax202...

Not sure what you think happened with property taxes, but there was no rash of store closings. Due to consumers periodically bulk buying soda at a different chain outlet or otherwise.
Can you elaborate? Are you saying there is FUD against Kodi or XBMC or BY them?
There have been vans and big tents (10x10' approx) for months, in stable locations.

More of the little booths (4x4' approx) appeared in recent weeks, in additional locations.
Jellyfin is more like Plex. Kodi is more like Roku.
Correct, how do we even know this guy is an actual doctor? Maybe he's some insane person that enjoys collecting internet points.
Would this be similar to VoiceMeeter Banana for Windows?

Reference: https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm
Given the subreddit, I don't think there's much in the way of disguise happening.

I don't find the post itself to be political at all though. It's the recount of a doctor's recent experience being physically assaulted after refusing to treat an unvaccinated covid patient with ivermectin and vitamin-c, believing that the former may be actively harmful to their health, and the latter simply ineffective.

The post isn't political. It only seems political because the rejection of modern science is along a political line.
Unironically yeah, if you heat the pork rib, put it on the hardtack style bread, and pretend you have onion (take a deep whiff of your battle buddy for the pure essence) it's pretty close
That and the cultural norm that we're creating around mental illnesses. I mean, it's great that the few who truly do have mental disorders can be accepted socially but what are we doing to the thousands of kids that just need some structural social target to aim at?

Personally, I was an emotional basket case until well after college when I decided that I should give the "be normal" thing a try. Turns out being normal makes a lot of things easier in life.

It's amazing how much freedom you have to be weird on the inside when you're normal on the outside.
I'm aware, they created the account at the start of the pandemic. I've never been on reddit but I doubt they're the most dedicated liar in history. Reddit is a breeding ground for sockpuppets and astroturfing. Don't believe everything you read.
Research has shown that it spreads a lot less in the lungs than in the nose, which could be an indicator of what's happening with the severity (= less) and why it spreads much easier.

https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-c...

If you call him irresponsible, at least back it up with numbers why. He's got a similar estimate of what i think is happening.

We're all grown-ups here, there's no harm in interpreting the current situation. Anyone can come by and refute his assumption to improve discussion.

As an example:

@bruce511: To me, the core question is how much the cases in south Africa can be compared to other countries, because of high infection rate during previous waves.

There's still a reasonable risk if previous infection with delta protects better than vaccines.

And for that, we will have to wait :(

I'm hopeful though.
Yes, among symptomatic cases we really need statistics of not only hospitalized vs. not hospitalized but also severe vs. mild.
Of course the correct security solution is to put a physical switch for the mic (that is not software mediated) on the hardware, together with an LED that behaves like this "orange dot."
I think if an economist looked at this they would say workers have identified areas of inefficiency in the economy and found a way fill the gap. However, if every person takes two jobs, that means there's 2x competition for jobs and will depress wages over time. Limited arbitrage opportunity. If you actually work two jobs at once at reasonable efficiency, the businesses aren't going to be paying for this, we are.
Unclear why unvax Omicron infection is 14%, when unvax Delta infection is 44%, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29633440
Yelp is a social network that also happens to have business reviews. So I don't mean a social network, I mean a site specifically focused on reviewing books and other consumer products. I don't mean some rando opening an app and writing their opinion about the food they just ate.
The overwhelming majority of things have been launched and soon sank with little trace just because they were not enough better than the competition. (I count Modula, D and C# among those, from different arenas.)

It is still far from clear whether Rust will achieve the miracle of becoming mainstream. That puts it far ahead of most languages, where it is obvious from the outset that they will fizzle.
There's not yet any sign that it's less dangerous than delta, and a more infectious but equally lethal virus is going to kill a ton more people owing to the higher infection rate, especially among the unvaxxed or unboosted. It's a bit counter-intuitive, and we'll see what the real-world numbers bear out if you don't believe the models, but immunologist twitter's on the grim side right now.
First death from omicron in US wasn’t vaccinated per breaking news just now.
Get a mini x86 device as a wired router on which you can run any number of OSes (openwrt, debian, *sense etc.) and a separate AP (ruckus unleashed devices work well).
My Walmart is awful compared to the Costco. Messy shelves and aisles, carts that clank and clatter. Costco is neater, the employees are friendlier and more helpful... like the two stores have two different cultures. And I appreciate that Costco usually has just one good option—it simplifies things, and it's great when they happen to stock something I've been thinking about buying. I just bought a folding wagon that's bigger and beefier than the Amazon ones for the same price. My experience has been that Costco provides a better shopping experience than Walmart, in the same league as Target, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe's.
A PBX – Discovering a Firmware Backdoor
I've been working in this space for about 10 years. I've struggled with the business side of things, especially pricing and more so, the idea of it being easier to have return customers than new customers. Prior to working in this, I worked in development economics consulting in East Africa and also struggled with the idea that if development aid is working, then many consultants work themselves out of a job. If the market is large enough, yes, people can help one customer fully resolve a problem and then move to another, yet, it still can seem easier to maintain the same customer.

That being said, I imagine that same idea comes into play in most service-related fields that are trying to solve a problem: consulting, law, healthcare, and more. But maybe it feels more scary because with emotional health, it can cut deeper than most consulting gigs.
> If it is so complex why would a lay person googling things suddenly be the better way to diagnose?

It's not about "be the better way".

It's about being able to to entertain & consider multiple theories, versus just being an asshole who won't even regard any convictions except your own.

Google Medical School doesn't have to be right every time. It doesn't have to be the more consistent option to be not "the better way", but simply worth entertaining. It doesn't have to be right 10% of the time. Some suffering patients will find & learn & discover things that do seem to fit their own problems. Being an asshole doctor who disregards, who writes off alternate theories: that's the wrong fucking way, and fuck those doctors, run the fuck away, get them fired, get them blacklisted, & warn other people. That's the wrong way.

There's no one more invested in a patients health than the patient. The resources of time & analysis they'll put in to trying to figure out what could be an issue is far far higher than what the medical system can provide for all but the very very richest of people. The resources out there to figure stuff out are real. Is it a better way? No. The patient doesn't have years and years of medical school. But that doesn't make their way wrong. That doesn't make them caring about themselves wrong, doesn't make their quest for truth & healing wrong. Any doctor that would turn their nose up at a patient, would refuse to hear a patient out, that refuses to acknowledge how wonderful & accessible medical information is in the world, and how helpful that can be: they are strictly worse. Worse diagnosticians, and worse people.
They likely wouldn't be. At the same time, I wouldn't want my doctor to dismiss things just because I happened to suggest it.
Why would they want to take it to a media outlet where it has an even greater chance of getting out ? Reddits fits a niche blog like culture that allows the out-letting of emotions. Stuff like this are exactly why blogs even exist in the first place.
You are, indirectly, by posting on hacker news...
When you use better tooling like vite/snowpack the code produced by fable is served as is, and it's really close to the F# sources, the webpack bundle used in development is what looks horrible in reality
Generally agree, but can also see the other side. What you are talking about are people who are using sources like PubMed or even WebMD, etc. These at least help patients as reasonable questions even if they don't fully understand what they read. Then a discussion can take place.

I think what they are talking about are people using terrible sources (garlic curing HIV example). Then demanding that they are right.

So really, what we see here on both sides as the root cause are people who are not interested in a discussion and simply assert they are right. Dangerous if a patient does it, also dangerous if a doctor does it.
> Given a specific string manipulation task, I'd be happy to provide an example of what it might look like in Swift!

How would you safely get the nth index of a string, clamped to the valid indexes? So if the nth index is out-of-bounds you get the first/last index instead?
The UK used a much higher percentage of AstraZeneca though (because it's produced there and was available first). Which is known to be less effective than Pfizer and Moderna against omikron.

I'm not saying it's not dangerous, just that the situation won't necessarily be exactly the same for other EU countries or the US.

Still, caution is very much warranted indeed.
You don't. You can either proceed to converse taking that they are on faith (and a consistent comment history over time), or not. You're not going to get satisfying confirmation one way or another.

A conversation centered around the identity of the person is much less interesting than a conversation about the contents of their post.
Because of COVID or with COVID when they died?

Why is it so damn difficult to figure out what’s really happening? I’ve read about 10 stories today all telling me I should be very worried about Omicron and not a single one has any data.
We slowed down the economy in 2020 and the rich only got richer faster.
I guess Web developers are planning to take over Linux kernel now by using Rust for it?

Firefox market share has nothing to do with usage of Rust. I very much welcome Mozilla using it in Firefox. They should have gone even further and started using Servo proper. But they didn't have enough resources for that.
> without the need for expensive/complex/insecure libraries.

Maybe because in the formats named, the image format is the expensive/complex/insecure libraries? I know that sounds a bit snappy, but I felt the author of TinyVG made a pretty good case for what they're aiming at: a simple vector format that does not come with a (or even multiple, in at least the case of PDF) Turing complete kitchen sinks.
To add on to ethbr0's good response, a few other things to do:

1. Find early adopters of the thing you're building who are willing to use and give feedback (bugs, friction logs) in the early stages of the feature.

2. Build relationships with your users / VIP users and meet regularly to discuss friction points and upcoming features (feasibility, etc). To make it time efficient, make sure you're talking to staff engineers who can speak on behalf of a significant portion of your user base. Make sure your team is closing the feedback loop with these engineers (i.e. shipping things that address their concerns) in a timely fashion.
This is a great question! In my experience, the differences come down to:

- The doctor is going off a very short explanation you gave in a 30-minute appointment. If you have a serious medical problem, you can dump days, weeks, or months into finding information that matches your experience down to the fine details, which can very much matter - especially if you have an unusual case of something.

- There may be new information since your doctor was trained. Medicine has advanced a lot, and while doctors do their best to keep up, there’s more new research than any one person can digest.

- You will always believe yourself, never dismiss your experiences as “exaggerated” or “drug seeking”, and never blame your conditions on obviously unrelated causes.

That last one is especially relevant to people who aren’t cis white dudes. I’ve witnessed, with my own eyes, a woman talk to a doctor about chronic nasal congestion, and his response was to tell her to lose weight. Doctors habitually not believing the experiences of their patients has done incredible harm over the years.
Jellyfin is actually a fork of Emby, created after Emby went closed source.
Plants need water to live. Man-made structures, however, are not plants.
I run LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi, which is a just-enough-OS for Kodi. It works great, and is even a good choice for playing music over HDMI, because unlike some other music-playing distributions, it doesn't use ALSA, and simply bit-bangs the decoded audio out of the HDMI port. Works very well.
History is limited to the written record and represents significantly less than 1% do the time humanity has been around.
Wow. I didn't notice that. A real C program without types, pointers, or macros. Who'd've thought such a thing would be possible!
Alcohol is the most destructive in aggregate because of its widespread usage though. The destruction per user is far worse on other drugs.
During the Rashidun Caliphate, the caliphs were as powerful as kings but took median salary, made their own bread, and wore tattered clothes. They believe all wealth would be audited in the afterlife. A king who ate well when his citizens didn't would be punished in the afterlife.

So the caliphs tried to be as poor as possible, because that was the easiest way to avoid punishment. There was a story about the kings of Yemen met Caliph Abu Bakr and upon seeing the way he dressed, they donated all their crowns and jewels away.

One moral for this is you can compete to be more humble than the humblest person you can think of.

The theological appeal to humility is that everything comes from God - your family, opportunities, intelligence, inner drive.

You don't need to be a theist to be humble though. Just think back about how you got where you are. What mentors helped you throughout life? What books, what schools, what colleagues, open source? Maybe your parents abandoned you, but what about the rest of society, from your siblings to government and voters. We've had wars to get rid of slavery, that's at least something to be grateful for.

If you ever find yourself saying you were self taught and that you earned it all from your hard work, you should question that. Would you be happier buying that Ferrari? Maybe buy a nice steak for the people who have helped you this far.
I got an XBOX because my late father was a .NET developer and very much into Microsoft technologies so he thought the XBOX was a nifty device. The software on that device was just so lousy. I was into Squaresoft type RPGs/Nintendo 64 era Rare games and the XBOX did not deliver. Only games I ever bought for that console were Shenmue 2 and Blinx the Time sweeper. However that simple 20$ LPC mod chip opened up a world of amazing little games/emulators and tons of entertainment that made the XBOX totally memorable even 20+ years later. The device got hundreds of hours of usage that it would not have otherwise and cemented in my mind the amazing magic of homebrew software. Man I miss those years so much.
Amazon isn't hurting because of shutting down businesses. Small business owners are dying in droves. Slowing down the economy just means centralizing purchases to large corporations.
> Why not just do those things and prove to the people it doesn't work?

Because that takes time away from providing actual medical help. Think of it like a DDoS, all the cranks lining up for their dose of <not even a placebo> taking up the time of actual Doctors, nurses, and other essential staff who chose jobs to try and actually help people.

Imagine being a trained Doctor and spending your day performing worthless procedures on those who refuse to take the advice it took the Doctor years to earn the right to provide.
Early Earthquake Warning System?

That sounds like a very useful app to have on your phone.

https://www.shakealert.org/
They can be had for 10-20 bucks on fb marketplace
You just completely ignored what I just said. Millions of Americans can cut their tax bills significantly by moving 1 mile or less and staying in the same country. In some cases it’s literally a question of which side of the street their on, but only one side gets access to the better school district so it’s also got higher property values because it’s a more desirable location.

That’s got ~zero impact on work, family, or friends and if nothing else they had that choice before moving into that home. Which is real evidence that people are both choosing higher taxes and desire them.
because it's a relatively new strain and it's hard to figure out to what degree previous infection plays a role. A lot of people may have had covid without ever knowing it.
Research shows that nothing doctors recommend has any effect on weight loss except bariatric surgery. This has been shown over and over again in every study. Doctor moralizing is pointless, people know they are supposed to be eating right.

Every legitimate long term study of non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.
it's more like being written in a memory-unsafe language is an anti-feature.