skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me give a more dramatic example. Using figures from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.

In 2019, 1.4 million US adults tried to kill themselves. 47,511 died. Why do so many survive? It is because information about effective ways to commit suicide exist but is not well disseminated. Men have a fraction of the suicide attempts of women, and yet commit suicide at several times the rate. Suicide rates are also unevenly distributed across races. By my understanding, the primary reason for these differences is that men and specific races are more likely to pick an effective suicide method.

Teenagers are particularly likely to be suicidal and grow out of it. As the parent of such a teenager, I'm perfectly OK with not disseminating knowledge about the most effective ways that she could try to kill herself with common household items.

(I'm also happy to disseminate the knowledge that the method you should never use is drinking anti-freeze. You will not kill yourself. You will destroy your liver and kidneys, and will make your life suck a whole lot more than it does already.)
I admire their objective but as a former DWIM user I hated it (I also disable autocorrect on my Apple devices). Part of it is simply that I prefer determinism from my devices and some of it is the “damn you autocorrect” phenomenon.

Unfortunately, in Interlisp-D DWIM could not be disabled without also disabling macro expansion!

I am perfectly content with “autocorrect” with my dog or with other humans.
Thank you for your reply. That is a lot to process.
I will definitely watch Rupert Spira.
As I said it's a lot and I need more time to think about this. It's all a bit foggy right now
> Inflation is IMHO less harmful than real wage decrease or unemployment

For minimum wage workers and in general unskilled labor, this is just not true. Minimum wage workers can't afford to hedge against inflation by buying assets, and their income is artificially kept high by a price floor (minimum wage + legally mandatory benefits). When you inflate the USD their real income will drop to its true market value since the price floor doesn't move with inflation. Low paid workers also don't benefit from their debt reducing in real value because their nominal wage won't increase as fast as inflation due to the price floor I just talked about.

Government checks made sense in the beginning of the pandemic but the 2nd round of stimulus passed later on by reconciliation did not. At that point there was a vaccine and a strong economic rebound. You need only look at the popularity of Dogecoin, WSB, etc. to see that people did not actually need that extra round of stimulus.
I recommend reading this review

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...

I guess there are limits to ensemble methods if the underlying accuracy doesn't increase. I don't work on gene sequencing algorithms but from what I understand of ML ensemble techniques, there are certain assumptions regarding the underlying independence of the errors. The errors for nanopore should be uniform but I am not sure. Any molecular biologist here care to comment?
I have had very few troubles sending outbound email directly, however there was one email provider that always rejected me because they were blocking all of DigitalOcean's IP space. This provider was quite niche, but it still bothered me.

My solution was to set up SMTP relaying based on the recipient domain. So nearly all my email can still be sent direct, but I have a list of domains that get routed through mailgun.com (or you could use SES or whatever).

More info here:
https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/issue...
Outside of email (which I do pay for), I can't think of an online service I'd pay for. HN is about as close as it gets, but I wouldn't pay for what it is today.
> Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful.

Wonderful to hear. Thank you.
Sometimes I think people care more about what distribution something is, or is based on, or uses, than really matters. For example: as a distro user, I generally don't care what language something is implemented in. If it's in the distro's repositories; I can use it and it is reasonably well integrated and supported regardless of language.

Similarly, a lot of the time it doesn't really matter what distro something is based on, because I can just consume it in a container or VM and don't need to care.

What does matter are properties such as supportability, the availability and ease of security updates, and so on. So if you ship a container that requires something obscure that I'm not sure security updates will be readily available for, then that matters. But just the fact that it's "not my distro" doesn't really matter.

It's also self defeating to use an obscure distro if you're going to need help and the people you're going to ask for help don't know it.
> This isn't about stealing water from the Great Lakes(that's a common worry)

Yes and the people who worry we Canadians because we border four of five lakes with the USA. It's often been said if the USA ever attacks us it will be for water not oil or land. Or at the very least force us via some obscure trade agreement clause to sell or allow the sale of water to the USA.
The high demand is for experienced developers and not juniors. In recent years there has been an uptick in coding interest and the pool of newcomers is bigger than ever before. However, the _quality_ of this torrent of new developers is seen to be lower than previous years.
Each of those hire thousands of employees and they are saying that 40 years experience is less important than 6 months of leetcode. The analogy doesn’t fit
It may be that the size of precent of businesses that went under in the US and other large economies isn't that significant.

It could be that this is how large economies grow. The realignment of spending and reopening was growth on top of growth.

On top of that more remote jobs opened up and I want to hear about people who moved to LCOL areas or moved to a bigger job center because they could finally afford to.
You’ll need to get up to speed with modern interviewing practices. Unless you know someone - people don’t care what you’ve done. They care about how you perform in the interview.

True with most of the top paying companies. I’d suggest doing a 100 problems on LC (try the subject study guides first) before interviewing again.

Doesn’t sound fun but that’s how it is now. The bar is high for all candidates - at least for top paying companies. Haven’t seen one yet that lets you skip the bs unless you know someone high up.
Ironically reading and engaging in commentary on the article is a girardian desire
i thought remdesivir has been proven totally useless a while ago ?
The "developer" experience is pretty great compared to the alternative, though. If you can set up your corporate presence on a social media platform that means you're paying nothing for (and not dealing with the hassle of) hosting or domain name registration or even email (if you only communicate via your platform of choice). Sure, you're a slave to Instagram, but -practically- that doesn't matter to most businesses that choose this path.

The only way to break this I can imagine would be for someone to provide a pipeline that seamlessly automates the domain name registration and hosting for these businesses (similar to how Let's Encrypt popularized HTTPS by reducing the technical hoops to jump through). It would probably have to be funded similarly to Let's Encrypt as well, because in countries where Instagram is the de facto business platform, they're certainly not going to pay for this service.
> but to also encourage the successful to share their insights with others

laughing my ass off ... I expect the successful first and formost to share their success through actually paying taxes - then we can talk about their advice which won't be useful for the majority anyway b/c success in monetary terms is always defined by being focused on a minority.
oops, I was wrong..
Let's say I'm tired of self-hosting my email (for all the reasons previously mentioned by others). What's a good option of privacy-conscious provider I can move my domains to?
There are a lot of people who take vitamin B megadoses daily. Also, Americans are not known for getting much calcium. If micronutrients were really this powerful in clinical use, you'd simply expect to see a lot more miraculous recoveries anecdotally than we actually do.
I think the way this works is having the code to execute an ssl session encoded in a zkSnark. One of the zkSnark based blockchains is doing it.
I’m an hour south, and woke up to 3-4” with more falling.
One possible cause is that municipal workers (cops, teachers, firefighters) require much higher salaries due to the higher CoL
And now think of young people entirely raised with access to this kind of virtual work space when it matures a few decades into the future. We will all look just as dumb and unproductive to them, as 1950’s mad men guys in offices with armies of copywriters do to us today.
The problem is we try and grow crops in places like Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma (corn, soybeans) that have no business being grown there. There production could disappear overnight and no one would notice. Problem is what are you replacing the economic activity with? Ideally it would be pasture fed cattle, but again that's 'inefficient' compared to other production tactics.

I'd rather people in Nebraska/high Plains use the Ogallala aquifer than California residents.
it gets even worse.. Maybe a teenager author wrote it?

"Along their travels, these migrants encountered the indigenous Ancient Western dogs, mated with them (doggy style, presumably), and effectively replaced them."
Are people not remembering the issues with PGP?
Spend less time applying and more time truly polishing up one or two repos/side projects. Cleaning up a few repos is the bare minimum here.
Its only valuable if somebody also interprets it for you, such as telling you whether you have a genetic predisposition for certain diseases.
this is cringeworthy humble bragging ...
> they prototyped roadside billboards thay could infer what radio stations the cars driving by were listening to

Any idea how this was supposed to work? I don't know how that information would leak out unless it was just listening for the audio from a car with windows rolled down.
Something that Desert really drove home was that the universe doesn't owe you a solution. Just because we back ourselves into a corner does not mean we will be able to innovate our way up and out.
Yeah that’s one of the caveats, or if there is nobody around to invade you at that particular moment it will be the AI as well I think.
Internet culture has changed permanently.
> Such negativity for just showing something I knocked up in half an hour. - something that I thought might be helpful, with experiences on how to make it more Gmail like.

GP's feedback is direct but quite right imo. I trust the author had only best intentions in mind but "Knocking something out in half an hour" and sharing, but good privacy and security engineering requires probably much more time. Quite frankly, the wording of the article can be insulting even for folks that are working on that problem professionally for several years.

Were it presented differently, it would get different feedback I'm sure. More like "hey HN, i made the first three steps what would be next?" -- i.e. efforts towards trying to understand the problem better.
Yet, those legacy operators haven’t invested a bit in an engineering and software organization capable of competing with the apple’s that ride their network.
You can prove that a TLS session happened, but nothing about its contents, so you can't really prove indexing.
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
I don't know if this is the exact nanopore USB dongle used in the article, but this one is $1,000 for the base package, first released in 2014

https://store.nanoporetech.com/us/minion.html

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/190409-minion-usb-stick-...
> This is much better behavior than taking over /usr/local, which is generally for packages you install manually. It's much more portable and much less prone to compatibility problems.

Isn't using `/usr/local` pretty standard for BSDs? I remember that on FreeBSD the package manager installs things there, and I _think_ NetBSD and OpenBSD might also, but it's been so long that I've played around with them that I can't remember for sure.
Indeed, seems like French are better at it and more decisive.
So the US abandons agriculture production and Brazil slurps it up by chopping down Amazon rainforests? Global effects, not so simple.
Haiku is still alive, no need to look for other things in other OSs. :)
I'm not sure to be honest, it's a big issue these days that car companies lock third parties or of the computer systems and diagnostics. Right to repair seems fundamental to something as expensive and long lived as a car.
> That's... not a single major flood event. The worst flood in recent US history only managed ~$30 billion in ~2011 dollars, and many of the more pedestrian "major flood events" are managing to cost somewhere around $1-10 billion.

This is only half of the equation. There are large areas of the US with water shortages. If you could, hypothetically, completely remove the effects of the flooding you would "save" $30 billion in damages and then sell that water for profit to areas with droughts. For example, from 2010 to 2017 water bills for some families jumped 71% [0]. A quote from the same article:

"Bills increased from $86.31 to $195.86 a month for a household of four using 150 gallons per person a day"

So ~0.10 $/gallons. I'm not going to attempt to calculate the amount of water that recent floods have had but statements like "peak flow of 213,000 [ft^3/s]" are used I think we could see how it would be possible to make this math balance out. I'm not saying it does but the napink math leads me to believe that it could be possible if construction and maintenance was cheap enough. It would also improve economic prosperity in the regions (Vegas, etc).

[0] - https://www.kqed.org/science/1920428/californians-are-strugg...

[1] - https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history
The amount of energy used by Electron is minuscule compared to bitcoin mining, electric heating, driving cars, food production, or literally any other activity humans do that I can't tell if you're trolling.
1. I echo josephcsible, shutting down employers is a mistake and likely to cause starvation. If people are banned from improving their own lives, there is a chance that their lives will get worse.

2. Just because there is an emergency doesn't mean everyone needs to sit around twiddling their thumbs. There was more work that needed doing in the pandemic, not less. That could have been parleyed into a job, leading to money for food.
Well, we don’t know, yet.

You could easily turn the clock 30 years back and ask the same question with smartphones/computers.

When a truly profound device hits the market we’ll see a very creative race to come up with all the different uses for it imho.
Yeah the garage in front of my house often leaves their sign on after 8pm (when it's supposed to be off) and it's super bright. Really annoying in summer when I have the windows open.

It would be nice once AR glasses come. Although they probably won't be able to black things out (unless they also have an LCD layer to darken certain pixels) as well as a colour layer.
Life online has improved so much with adblockers. I literally rarely see ads anymore online or on TV.
> a company such as Twitter should have experts at tracing

In a big company, getting the person with the most skills to solve a problem to be the one actually tasked with solving the problem is very hard. This particular problem had many avenues to find a solution - and while I think my proposed route would have been quicker, if you aren't aware of those tools or techniques, then other avenues might be much quicker. When starting an investigation like this, you don't know where you're going to end up either - if it turned out that the performance cliff was caused by CPU thermal throttling, it would be hard to see in a scheduling trace - everything would just seem universally slow all of a sudden.
> Mini-splits are heating and cooling systems that allow you to control the temperatures in individual rooms or spaces.

* https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/residential/what-is-a-mini...

> A single-zone (also called a mini-split) ductless system allows you to control the temperature of one room by connecting an outdoor unit to an indoor unit, with no ductwork needed. An outdoor mini-split unit is placed outside your home and is connected to an indoor mini-split unit by small cables and a refrigerant line through a hole in the wall.

* https://www.trane.com/residential/en/products/ductless-syste...

> A multi-zone (also called a multi-split) ductless system connects an outdoor unit to an one or more indoor units, letting you control the temperature in several different zones of your home. Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) systems are a type of multi-zone ductless systems. VRF systems are energy efficient, and they can be used to heat one zone while cooling a different zone at the same time.

* https://www.trane.com/residential/en/products/ductless-syste...
Or use any SaaS tool that solves problems they dont currently have
Top of g0 0 gle.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34406358/
My favorite is to pull the e-brake and have them drive the car. Basically, they will need to continuously counter steer. Works after a few minutes, and it all clicks.

Next slide will see them execute the correction on instinct.
Pencil is from Cook-era Apple. Watch has a right direction now (health & fitness which goes hand-in-hand with VR), but ultimately it is just an accessory. As Pencil is. However, they have guts to call iPad Pro a computer (as in Mac sense), so I hope this framing will translate to HMD as well, but from the beginning.

Blender 3.1 (2022-03-09) will have Metal support for rendering. Unity has already a native Apple Silicon build and Unity Hub is starting to feel like a Mac app. I think both will be demoed at the announcement. I think the support for the creative apps will be good at the launch and will get better over time.

Creating new interaction paradigms is a hard problem and it takes time. When a lot of people will have access to the hardware and developer tools, these experiments will be abundant and something will emerge. I highly recommend Daniel Beauchamp as a great example for out-of-the-box interactions in VR: https://twitter.com/pushmatrix
Maybe look for jobs at defense contractors?
Your DNA is almost exactly the same as other people's, just a unique mix.

Not sure what you are concerned about. What would you expect a bad actor to do with your DNA sequences? I'm genuinely curious.
If you know exactly, in advance, with certainty, how a battle between two units is going to end up, that means your strategy is much shallower. You are much less likely to need backup plans for anything.

But it's even more than that. Some units cause the same amount of _mean_ damage, but one may do so in fewer shots. And on the defense side, two units may take the same mean damage on a hex, but one unit has a higher dodge percentage, while the other has damage resistance.

That makes for a much richer variety of units: Reliable hitters vs opportunistic shot-takers; tanks which will are sure to survive an attack, and pestering nuisances which, once swatted, will go away for good. You can't have that without the randomness.
Farming is indeed a big user of water, but I was surprised to see maintaining scenic views and habitat conservation being nearly equal to farming. That's effectively drawing water from other states and destroying other habitats in the name of conservation in California.
Is that not something software can theoretically provide?
Marin County CA has banned outdoor advertising billboards since the 1930s[1]. This results in a noticeable reduction in night time light pollution compared to surrounding areas, and -- of course-- a lack of obnoxious outdoor adds.

[1] https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19380414.2.41&e=-------en--2...
Key quotes:

(1) Dr. Lahn had touched a raw nerve in science: race and intelligence....

(2) Dr. Lahn says he is moving away from the research. "It's getting too controversial," he says.

(3) Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin, criticizes Dr. Lahn for implying a conclusion similar to "The Bell Curve," a controversial 1994 bestseller by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The book argued that the lower average performance by African-Americans on IQ tests had a genetic component and wasn't solely the result of social factors. Referring to Dr. Lahn and his co-authors, Prof. Ossorio says: "It's exactly what they were getting at. There was a lot of hallway talk. People said he's doing damage to the whole field of genetics."

(4) Dr. Lahn ... says intellectual "police" in the U.S. make such questions difficult to pursue...

(5) "I think that Bruce doesn't understand political correctness," Dr. Harpending says.

(6) Dr. Wells says the project team might try to find evolutionary reasons for physical differences such as why Danes are taller than pygmies. But Dr. Wells says National Geographic won't study the brain. "I think there is very little evidence of IQ differences between races," he says...
Which reservoir sites could be built that aren't?

Most of the good sites for building reservoirs in California are already taken. You could dam the Smith River, but that isn't going to be popular.

Same thing goes for the Los Angeles River - replacing the channelized aqueduct with a meandering set of flood plains that recharges an aquifer would require removing large chunks of residential, commercial, or industrial land.
I agree.

Coeur d'Alene, ID here. My advice to "new to the area" people when the topic of snow driving comes up is "go to a parking lot...put your car into a slide, spin, etc". It gives you a very good idea of what the car is going to do on the road and more importantly...allows you to learn how to recover from those situations at a time where you are less likely to have panic set in.

It really only takes a few minutes to get the feel for how the car will react. Learning those things in a controlled situation is a very good way to develop the "instinct" to correct without panic. Most of the time hitting the brakes is the wrong thing to do...that is not natural to a panicking driver.
Ironically this is why I prefer angular to react - people say angular is more complex, but IMHO it removes complexity by being "batteries included": reduced cognitive load because and angular project is an angular project so you only need to learn angular itself, and not a zillion extra libraries or frameworks.
> * At multiple points in the McDonald's self-order touchscreen kiosk flow.

Yeah lately this is really bad. Are you sure you don't want to order another side? And then you have to scroll to the "nope" button which is obviously off-screen. Am I sure I don't want to give 50 cents to the Ronald McDonald stuff? Piss off. I don't trust them to keep most of it themselves for 'overhead'.

> In the biggest international airport in my country, there are now periodical Covid-19 "info spots" interrupting the display of timetables, check-in desk and gate information screens.

Yeah this is really annoying in shops here too. Every minute or so they remind people to use the sanitiser or wear the mask. Yet some of the staff don't even do this. It just serves no purpose, other than virtue signalling. It becomes background noise. If someone doesn't know they have to wear the mask by now they have been living in a cave or something.
How could a richer type system or more choices regarding the encoding be a bad thing?
I don't understand your remark.