skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire article is fine.

The project, if it captures and presents unedited all available comments made by the 300K GIs, will be great.

As the GI comments suggest, Ernie Pyle was the greatest of all the great WWII journalists. The four books that compile his dispatches are well worth reading today, almost as fine literature. I’m on my third reread.

The title is comically biased and revisionist. It reads the way the soiled undergarments from the third-best assisted living facility in Oxnard smells. Sour, strange and deeply wrong in a way that makes you vomit in your mouth. But let me tell you what I really think…
The advice we get in New Zealand is to get underneath something strong like a table. Sitting where I am now I could probably make it under a table in under 5 seconds.

The bigger effect maybe is that prepares you mentally for the impact, so you're already planning your next steps and aren't in quite as much surpise/panic as if you had no warning.

When things are collapsing, seconds can be the difference between life and death. Even if a system like this only saves a few extra percent of lives lost in a major earthquake, it sounds worth it to me.
Because I see what they teach in schools and have asked them if they understand.

Here's an easy answer: Hard work is not racist. If you are now wealthy, you are less oppressed than an equally wealthy black man in America.

Here's another series of easy questions:

Should we educate all of society to the best of their ability? Are black people inherently a standard deviation below whites in educational ability? If so, why can charter schools like Kipp get their black students to perform exactly the same as their white students, who also perform better than they do in public schools? Are Koreans smart or stupid? How did they go from mostly illiterate (stupid) to top of the world (smart) in two generations?
This is a shifting standard, though.

Our immune systems are much worse in our 70s than in our 20s, and we suffer from many more cancers in our old age. This correlation probably isn't completely random.

I am cautiously optimistic about potential rejuvenation of immune systems in older adults. There already were successful experiments (google TRIIM and TRIIM-X by Dr. Greg Fahy) that restored function of the thymus in older people (people, not mice!).

Active thymus likely translates into a better function of T-lymphocytes, vital soldiers in the immune army.
bluesky's not even a protocol though. At best you could call it a working group.

I'd personally call it "vaporware".

and look at the talk page, I said the same thing a few weeks ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bluesky_(protocol)
Woah, who mentioned I wanted businesses to introduce these features? Of course it makes no sense to them. I’m saying we can get rid of them altogether as the majority of their work can be replicated.

Up until now it’s been difficult to do this because the prohibitive cost of centralized services - with Web3 you have all these building blocks available without a high cost central party managing databases, cloud costs, staffing, etc…

Edit: To clarify I’ve seen end users and bands want resale, it’s just not very profitable and hard to control fraud.

To summarize I’m saying that I think and hope that Web3 will have these businesses purpose as features of the infrastructure :)
Cells activating in random positions seems like a high bar. How robust are you to a rock suddenly appearing inside your body? (e.g. inside your heart?)

A lower bar might be being robust to individual spaceships/gliders coming in from outside. But even there a collection of gliders is probably going to break through.
It's not malloc() but mmap() if I understand correctly.

It's a beautifully powerful function :)

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
3rd party twitter clients were the greatest era of Twitter before they killed the API. I tried to deal with the official app until they started showing people's likes and random accounts in my feed. You want to talk about infuriating? I was done and never went back.
I dont 'need' the capability but I also want a to build up a router I can use for a good while. My download is close to 1Gb now but in the next few years could be higher. I was more concerned about the 4-port GbE and 4x4 WiFi 6 and a solid core. My main interest was if someone used PFSense on this hardware as that is what I would like to do.
The best advice — real wisdom, in fact — is often readily available as platitudes on door mats or fridge magnets but they don’t resonate with us. Because real wisdom and the best advice is useless without a certain time and experience to recognize it, and a great deal of practice in putting it to life.

I first recognized this learning to meditate. Life is impermanent and leads to suffering so stop cravings and avoiding! Okay, well I’ve heard that a million times so what. But then learning to observe my experience a lightbulb goes goes on.
It is not competitively advantageous to act in a 'spineful' manner
Who is the "we" that is actually implementing things and putting their skin in the game, if not this "vocal minority" that wants to build an alternative? I don't know of any developer in crypto being forced to work on things against their will.
That’s why I’ll rely on the .eth or wallet address listed by the artist on deviantart. NFT buyers buying from scammers aren’t doing their due diligence to check if it’s legit or not; they could simply contact the artists directly to confirm if the listing is real.. I’ve done just that, contacting the artist directly to make sure.

If you ask “well, how do you know that’s their real deviant profile?”, at that point, it’s not a crypto/NFT problem, but an identity problem. My understanding is that keybase.io was one way to do that, but I never used it so I can’t say much. What if a scammer registered the keybase first before the real artist? Not sure what happens in that case.
Distrusting massive corporations is a far-right opinion now, apparently.
Sorry, meant to say 'Modern Nations' have Justice Systems.
I'm saying you have to be respectful of this community and its rules if you want to participate here. That's reasonable: you're getting something, so it's fair for you to give something in return. The HN guidelines explain clearly what you need to give.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Angry internet noun phrases like "peak Silicon Valley technocrat mindset" are a distraction from this, not to mention (god help us) porn/voyeur. All we're trying to do is have an internet forum that doesn't suck. IMO that's a goal that benefits everybody here, and everybody here should do their part.

Users hurling nationalistic insults and ideological talking points at each other goes in exactly the wrong direction for that. This shouldn't be hard to see. It also, by the way, does nothing to help vulnerable human beings, and invoking something noble like that to excuse garden-variety internet mudslinging is a smidge distasteful.
> However, when popular websites like Youtube added "2x" speedup function to videos, the general public suddenly noticed how it made many lethargic and dull videos more bearable to watch.

Perhaps it just means that some (many?) are watching too many videos and/or videos of a particular kind. So many people are imitating 'news voice' or waste energy and our time with production value. Most videos shouldn't even be videos at all.

It's a non problem to me. I just don't watch so many shitty videos.
Use stack overflow like you use Wikipedia. It’s good to check out but you should really be using it for the references. I find the comments tend to point to documentation quite well.
An important point was to be non-proprietary, wasn't it? Clean and Miranda were proprietary, although the implementations are now available with permissive licences.

Edit: I don't know about Scheme debating laziness as such, but there's Friedman and Wise https://help.luddy.indiana.edu/techreports/TRNNN.cgi?trnum=T... and there was Lispkit Lisp, as in Hoare's CSP book.
yes, because the spread of coronavirus by unvaccinated persons in groups in indoor spaces is a scientific fact. additionally, the hospitalization rate and death rate for unvaccinated persons vs vaccinated persons. and further, the severity of case and death outcome rate per capita of infections for breakthrough-of-vaccinated persons with covid19 in hospital, vs same per capita of unvaccinated persons in hospital.
Could just buy lotto tickets or put $10k on 00. At least those are regulated.
Sorry, I was getting riled up about the "majority" part of your statement and trying to find some references with quantitative estimates (which you were also wondering about in your response to a sibling comment). The other comments snuck in meanwhile...
I feel like scammers would just put in stolen credit cards, then FB would get hit with fraudulent charges.
You can take advice or leave it. If you take it and it works, it's not bad. If you can't or don't take it, that doesn't make it bad if somebody else could. It's bad only if, when you take it, it will produce a worse outcome for you. Most advice is not bad in that way.

The most useful thing a piece of advice can be is something you would not have thought of yourself, that somebody else learned by hard experience, that you wish somebody had said to you before you got it.

It is in the nature of the very best advice that it is not obvious why it is good advice. If it doesn't seem like good advice, it might be because you have just not thought it through.

What we can say is that most posts on substack are bad.
At work I have a colleague that is basically a 10x software architect/engineer. You can throw anything at him and he masters it in record time. He's just in another league.

He uses pen and paper for notes and todos. Nothing else.

The other oddity is that he uses the internet read-only, except for email. Zero social media accounts, forums, no mobile apps other than the standard ones. He doesn't exist online.

I admire him. There's no need for productivity suites or "life hacks" when you keep things simple, focus, and remove all distractions.

Besides avoiding personal distractions, he's also my role model in avoiding work distractions. He commits to one or two projects and ignores everything else. He won't answer your email or chat and won't attend your meeting. He cuts through nonsense like a human laser.
Email me at hello [at] tatatap.com and I will sort it out for you.
Criticize all you want. But be prepared for criticism of your own argument too.

FB is completely within the law to manage their own platform. If you don't like the law then change it. Maybe your comments are misplaced.
>> If you really want

> The people of America seem to be fine with it.

The people don't care that they're being watched. That's the main lesson I took from the snowden leaks. I think most people might even like it because they think it means there will be less crime.
Molnupiravir increases Covid mutations, will it breed the next variant?
It’s regulated now, is it not? I suspect enforcing the existing regulations would be a reasonable next step. My house fronts on a four-lane road. I’m quite sure a lot of what I hear isn’t in compliance with existing regulations. (Full disclosure: I can’t reasonably be that bothered when other people do it, because I’ve owned modified cars in the past that weren’t in compliance either, because nobody cares to enforce the regs.)
Imperialism is different than Nationalism and nobody is exempt from it.

But China is like the West in the 1930s with the level of direct control of communications and propaganda, not allowing alternative narratives to form.
Who cares that it's not set up for simd?

Seriously, who?

This project is interesting because of how well it does compared to other systems of much higher complexity and without optimizing the implementation to high heaven. We can all learn something from that.
Ah yes, they're not scammers masquerading as the artist, they're authors of genuine artisanal hyperlinks, flawlessly typed with the same hands they lovingly Ctrl/C Ctrl/Vd the image to the handcrafted hyperlink endpoint.
What about the permissionless angle.

Right now, anyone can go an build a new notary or governance protocol on blockchain, for their own purposes, without asking for anyone's permission.

Government trust is great, and bank anchored trust is great, but neither of those parties has as yet volunteered to run the kind of digital infrastructure required to run your own stuff on top of, and can you imagine the paperwork? (I bet there are some bank efforts but good luck getting on their platform).
> I miss MsPaint every day.

I’m like you. On Linux there’s KolourPaint that does the job, but on macOS I never found any desktop app that does what I want. In the browser, there’s this clone [1] that mimicks all the features of the original one. You can "open" a file, "save" it, and everything in the meantime is saved in local storage.

[1]: https://jspaint.app/
Well, the new CEO was a leader of that project, so let's see.
It is the "in general" I care about and think it gets too little discussion on the community, because just like some RIR threads, the details get lost in the discussion.
I always wonder if this is why they make us fill out time sheets. I also always gently propose to our management chain to share the money we save on taxes by doing the timesheets as an extra incentive, but so far I was not successful :-)
I was speaking to an older maintenance engineer. He is vaccinated but he was a bit scared of the vaccine and his words stuck with me.

He said he doesn't have the background to understand or weigh up the risks of the vaccine. So he has to trust the experts. In his life time he was told working with asbestos was safe. Then he watched his father die from it. He knows his exposure was high and worries he will suffer the same fate. He knows that they're different experts in a different time but he doesn't like trusting others with his health anymore. Now he has to be vaccinated to work and go most places he enjoys. There was a sadness in his eyes that I've not seen before.
The 115k worldwide (I was trying to talk about the US, but ok) number comes from the WHO: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/345300/WHO-...

Their methodology is based on an assumption that healthcare workers are as likely to die of covid as the general population, that is, their job does not expose them to elevated risk. You can see the start of their methodology as:

"As a start, the number of deaths among HCWs was simply
estimated by applying the crude mortality rate from each
country (namely, the number of deaths reported to the WHO
COVID-19 Dashboard divided by the population size) to
the estimated number of HCWs in each country derived from
ILOSTAT . This simple estimation considers HCWs to have
a similar exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of death
to that of the general population..."

From there they do adjust for some things, but they are the ways that healthcare workers are different, demographically, from the general population. They are not looking at occupational risk.

I could still totally believe that healthcare workers are at elevated occupational risk, but a paper that assumes their risk is what you would expect from their demographics isn't going to help us answer that question.
It’s not a tangent. It’s how these things turn out.

If you want to silence people speaking their minds and instead of humming along and cheer your neo-communist vision of the future.

Then by all means go ahead and cancel me.

Keep your precious silicon valley socialist/totalitarian club to yourself.
> Note taking is a deeply personal process.

Yes. All the more reason not to encumber it with large dependencies, proprietary code, or fragile, transient technologies.

I switched to using git as a repository of structured notes. The schema is simple. I can pull notes to various machines, I can archive the repository, I can track changes.

"Everything should be as simple as possible and no simpler." -- attributed to a rather good physicist.
Hm, but sorry, I'm not alt-right. Looking his wikipedia, looks like he was legit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov. For me looking the whole facebook/russia affair, sounds like same techniques, different media?
Totally agree. In addition, billions of dollars every year are spent on various propaganda wars through advertising firms, political campaigns, and policy groups to convince people that the current state of manufacturing and nationality in the world is both inevitable and desirable.

Forget about the trillions of dollars--the real casualties are social stability, self-sufficiency, and the overall individual strength of the "west". The grandchildren of the people who invented the modern supply chain are wholly incapable of rebuilding it or in most cases even understanding it. How many people involved in the "national discourse" know what a kilowatt is, or have any idea what the country imports and why?
Do you have any issues with the article itself, or are you only interested in attacking the website and the subject of the article?
I’m on year 2 with Brave as my only browser and I love it. Great performance, great privacy, full extension support, no complaints.
Python library featuring CLI tools for encoding/decoding almost anything
Yes. It will happen.
Oh no, you are right, I was just pointing out that jeezuz is not my lord nor my savior.
insect.sh is so cool!

```
(6 Mbit / s) × 1.5 h GB
= 4.05 GB
```

Love that. Thanks the recommendation.
There's also Cuba's lung cancer vaccine that's unfortunately illegal here in the states because of the embargo.

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/cuba-has-lung-cancer-vacc...
I clicked the back button and that did not work (Chrome, desktop). Seems this demo has a ways to go yet. Not bad for an MVP!
And we also lived fulfilling lives before the invention of the smartphone, tv, printing press, sewer system or agriculture. What exactly is your point?

There’s a user need. In this case it addresses the needs of a minority that’s been, until recently, highly oppressed. You don’t get to just say “things were fine before this existed”.

When something imperfect solves a real problem you don’t get to just say “oh just don’t use it”, especially when it’s not a problem YOU have. Talk about privilege!
None of which has got anything at all to do with vaccine passports.
Also, Clean is listed as a particular influence in the Haskell Report.
Then explain to me why it matters. If none of the toy examples in the research actually required multiple mutable references to the same objects, then why would it matter that the compiler allowed it? I think you missed the point of the research: to "explor[e] the usability costs of the restrictions that Rust imposes."
People I know take about four weeks a year. 8 weeks seems nuts. Do their managers push back all the deadlines related to their projects since they take a lot of vacation? I'd imagine managers don't even consider it and plan deadlines according to a typical (e.g., 50 weeks a year) worker output.
I've been using it for well over 10 years now.

Sometimes I want to spend money on things that I think are morally right, but the credit card companies/paypal won't let me buy.

You can search for lists. I'm doing things that aren't even on most lists (things like buying medication - not drugs - at a discount). A good consumer will never be in that situation, they'll stick to the paths well traveled and stick to whatever laws they happen to think exist and apply to them (often without actually checking those laws or applying civil disobedience to laws they don't agree with).

An independent mind will sooner or later get into situations of wanting to do things that the established corporations don't want you to do and then you'll find out how little you can actually do with your corporate approved currency.
Maybe the FB algorithm takes past posts into account? His account has probably been a fountain of misinformation and hate, and now he sends one innocuous message and is surprised it gets blocked. Yawn.
> It's not clear from your comment if my insisting on using files/directories is not the Apple way of doing things, or what the people on Mac forums told me is not the Apple way of doing things.

The latter. You assumed that I meant the former, then I can only assume that you didn’t look for a solution particularly hard.

As to the rest of my comment, it shows that my assumption was correct. The “highly technical MacOS users” are nothing of the sort. It took me all of 5 minutes to Google what was required. You being lazy is not representative of a platform or it’s users.

“Their” solution, by the way, does provide a backup solution, two built-in in fact - iCloud, which is unacceptable to you (which is absolutely fine), and Time Machine.

> They are aware of it, and designed it intentionally this way for a good reason. They have certain goals, and this is explicitly not one of them.

Funny, I thought their goal was to be a DAM. Importing images is part and parcel of being a DAM. The pro-level DAMs certainly do this. Even as an amateur, using separate software to manage importing and organising files seem like a a pain.

> The point I will make is that most Linux users are not members of those cults either…

Funny that, I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a “Linux” user say “just use Libre Office”... You went to, I’m guessing, a Mac based forum with possibly filled with “that type” of user. Again, I have seen, on these very pages’ both Linux, Mac and Windows users espousing the wrongness of someone’s approach. Every last one of them an asshole.

I take umbrage with you because you are lazy. You were lazy when looking for a solution that should take around 5 minutes of Googling and you’re being lazy when generalising about users of a given platform.
> Most importantly you get immediate startup. No need to parse and compile.

Compiling to an IR doesn't mean 'and then interpret or JIT it'. Can can use an IR to compile to native. GCC, Clang, Rust etc all an IR, for example.
On this day, Thor's Day, I wish everyone here a "Merry Christmas" celebrating the Yule season. How appropriate to have our saturnalia on Saturn's Day this year!
So it’s either an expensive way to claim ownership of a resource provided other people are trusted to do the actual work of hosting that resource, or it’s an expensive way to replace JWT’s. Exciting. Truly.
Sounds like an unsustainable business model. Why should we care? Set the rules / laws that are good for society at large and let them figure out how to make a profit or fail IMO.

When it comes to big tech I keep seeing people try to solve their problems for them. We should just legislate. If they can’t make it work someone else will fill the gaps.
Even if it’s not legalized everywhere, I can 100% guarantee you that edibles and vapes are available for purchase in your local community. There isn’t even a question about that.
Wow, that's funny. I really enjoyed the colors he chose! It must be a matter of taste.
If you're buying physical metal and can wait a few days for it to ship, you can wait a day for the ACH payment to clear. Bitcoin is also very volatile, so you can end up losing out on the spread, but not notice it.
Facebook enjoys vast legal protections that (arguably) preclude them from this type of censorship. They are constantly fighting to make sure that (arguably) doesn't start to turn into something more concrete.
Slamming on the brakes can be hard on the electronics. It causes large, high-speed voltage or current spikes that kill (old, tired) components before the spikes can be clamped. Can be made worse by old electolytic caps that no longer filter effectively. Especially hard on power supply diodes and mosfets.

Here's a few references at random:

https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/108034396/ESREF2013...

https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/s30p5.pdf?fileId=5546d46253360...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003811010...
> He cuts through nonsense like a human laser.

I love that metaphor!