skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had it March/April 2020 during NYC's first wave right after lockdown and literally just tested positive again this morning, assuming omicron. Early 30's, healthy.

So far, the first bout was more intense which I suppose makes sense. 102+ Fever which broke in ~36hrs and other symptoms which felt a bit "different" compared with those of a normal cold/flu. Loss of taste/smell occurred toward the end and was the most worrisome but has since fully recovered.

This round feels like a bad cold or slight flu. Tonsils a bit more bothersome, some fever but not notable enough to bother taking my temperature. More sore than what I remember. I'm a founder, just closed our A and worked all week as usual (quarantined from home). Took no OTC medication either time other than vitamins and zinc.

Likely an unpopular view, but getting sick early on the in pandemic was the best thing that happened to me. I remember the anxiety and stress I felt early 2020. As soon as I got sick, it completely went away and I haven't lived with it since. *For those of similar age and health*, I personally believe the emotional and behavioral toll I witnessed friends and family suffer on account of media sensationalism caused far greater harm than having Covid would have.

As someone who also unfortunately lost a family member (who was not similar age nor health) and supports getting vaccinated, I definitely believe the risk from Covid is real. I would suggest you take the time to actually look at data, understand context and draw your own conclusions. I wish there was a stronger narrative around improving overall health and preventable "underlying conditions" instead of the constant fear mongering, division and politics rampant today.

Protect yourself as best you can, don't put others at risk and take solace in knowing worry has diminishing returns.
SPAs display in a single HTML URL, but are themselves (typically) comprised of multiple elements, including many CSS, JS, and data elements which are fetched dynamically.

The example URL is a complete website within a single HTML document with no external dependencies and no further round-trip requests. It is a single-page site (SPS) or perhaps a multi-page file (MPF).

https://john-doe.neocities.org/

You can open that URL, disable networking, and browse the entire site to your heart's content in any browser supporting CSS.

If you open the file in a terminal browser (lynx, w3m, elinks[2], etc.), you'll see the full site presented at once, as a single page, without needing to specifically navigate between them (you can scroll the full site). Though the intra-site navigation itself still works --- it just doesn't reveal or hide sections.
Love that dashboard! Makes me wonder what your Line Impact would be for the various projects, seems like you get a lot of business value from each line of code.
Wait, does that mean you park in neutral?
Yeah, that is it. He changed the channel name awhile back.
I’ve tried to learn electrical engineering and bounce off with more advanced circuit arithmetic. It feels like DSP is a level above that. Does this digest well with someone with a CS degree?
From 2007, when this dogma was still not dominant across the scientific disciplines:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20832348

>>Sociological literature frequently claims that scientists across the disciplinary spectrum have arrived at the common conclusion that race is socially constructed, not biologically anchored. I investigate contemporary scientific thinking about race by interviewing more than 40 biologists and anthropologists at four northeastern universities. Contrary to sociologists' expectations, racial constructionism is revealed to be a minority viewpoint. Moreover, this research shows that the usual “constructionist” versus “essentialist” dichotomy a blunt tool for characterizing the debate about race; a third platform—“antiessentialism”—must be taken into account. Recognizing antiessentialist discourse calls for a reevaluation of prior research that emphasizes socioeconomic status and professional affiliation as influences on interviewees' concepts of race; this project demonstrates that such tectors do little to distinguish essentialist from antiessentialist veiwpoints.

The very fact that this satire account repeatedly predicts the course taken by the scientific and academic establishment tells us that ideology is the dominant guiding force of the process:

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/133997795950822604...
Anxiety Inducing Stickers
Just to repeat what others have said I would love to hear more about this
Fiction: Berserk. Not a book, but a long-running manga that began in 1989 by then-22-year-old Kentaro Miura, and which was ongoing until his tragic death this year in May. It is a fantasy; some parts are grim, some immensely tragic, but at its core it is human and uplifting, and we see moments of incredible beauty and deep emotion. On top of this, the art is absolutely gorgeous and is in a class of its own. If you're interested in Berserk, I recommend reading the original manga, but the 1997 anime is excellent as well.

Nonfiction: To Pixar And Beyond. The former CFO of Pixar, Lawrence Levy, tells the story of Pixar's IPO and the making of Toy Story. Very interesting reading for anyone interesting in Steve Jobs, Pixar, or the business of movies and tech.
"Likely":

Translation: I've never used poetry, don't know anything about it, and I'm going to talk out of my rear end and assume that it doesn't use conventional, existing venv/pip under the hood.

There isn't a single python project out there that can't be worked on with poetry. It creates a venv. Poetry is doing a lot of things to manage automatically activating and deactivating it, etc, but it's just a venv.
I get it, but this reminds me of how my car doesn't allow my wife (in the passenger seat) to set up bluetooth pairing while I am driving.

Pretty inconvenient during road trips to have to pull off the highway, because the car doesn't trust that it's the passenger working the center console...
I love the simplicity of this so much, I built a whole CMS using that, with markdown and a single HTML file!
https://github.com/arnaudsm/raito
My favorite blogger of all time: dadgum and programming in the 21st century
Not to get too dramatic about this, but if you're that scared of any JS, why are you using the internet?
I don't know if that's a great use case. My experience with old people says that they (mostly) hate tech and cannot operate it without someone else.

Also with old people you'd want the tech to be familiar to them so that you don't have to video call them to show them how to reset the WiFi.

And if you're talking about old people who cannot even walk without stumbling their memory would be so far gone that they'd forget how to operate half the devices half the time.

Maybe it would be more helpful to future old people such as ourselves, but I think simpler, robust, and familiar tech is better for old people.

Just another perspective.
The biggest advantage that bitcoin has is that’s it’s the only major crypto that is completely decentralized. Every other crypto project has people or agencies that have some kind of leverage over it.

Bitcoin is controlled completely by the node operators that run the network. And they have to all agree on any change to the bitcoin protocol.
Is there a way to use this on a phone? Particularly to not have AMP links.
I have a case management and billing system for Medicaid providers that brings in ~$3k/month annualized. It was a lot of work up front, but generally requires little effort to maintain outside of new features.
I prefer the denotation of a single file site (SFS). Perhaps alternatively a multi-paged file (MPF), as there might still be multiple such pages on a site, or a site comprised of a mix of MPFs, SPAs, and traditional static single-page URLs.
This is categorically false.

There have always been other tools for producing PDF (E.g. TeX) and there are also tons of free converters, print-to-PDF drivers, etc.
It seems like they could’ve used the occupancy sensor to detect a passenger.

A passenger playing a game on the screen which are also where your only instruments are located seems like an unnecessary added distraction so I’d say they made the right call.
I actually agree with the sentiment, but there is just no way to realistically apply this. There will always be a significant number of people in the "gray" zone (can't get vaccinated because of some other health condition, as a simple example) and so the burden of determining who is "good" and who is no tis on the already over-burdened staff. This is why triage has historically been, and will conceivably always be, the way hospitals adjudicate care .
absolutely absurd coddling of the end user
I came to say that my favorite book read this year is her "The Birthday of the World and Other Stories".

Very nice to read science fiction that is about people rather than things.
> but I don't think that's true.

How old are you? I ask because if you want to see what people said about Amazon in 2008 look at what they say about Tesla today.
I use goatcounter, self hosting the script and proxying the metrics endpoint through my website's server. This way there are no 3rd party assets to block. Also, there's a noscript image tag in case js is disabled that just lets me know how many times the page was accessed. The script prevents most bots, but the noscript probably causes a bunch of bots to count.

https://kar.goatcounter.com
Not there yet but.

I am at $204/m for https://Bruzu.com

Cool API to generate Images on the fly.
You can set google as a search engine then when you type "google.com <space>/<tab>" and it will switch the search engine for this one query. You can edit the exact keyword and set whatever search engine you want in settings -> "search engines" in google.
I wish I had seen this when the kickstarter was still open. Looking forward to being able to buy these.
Aren't the religious some kind of protected class, though?

Billionaires, on the other hand, are fair game.
The multi-page format makes access all the more inconvenient.

Copyright status means that anyone who glues together the set will find themselves pursued for infringement.

In practice, the question's moot as the Feynman Lectures are available via LibGen, ZLib, and similar resources.
Yea - way less mathematical abstractions than other DSP books. It has a more practical bent. I'm reading through Oppenheim and Schaefer's text, which is far tougher.

I mean, if you're using your CS degree for Haskell, I'd recommend something like O + S instead!
It feels inevitable. Between the scent of subscription models in the water, paired with a desire to do away with the concept of ownership and potential of inflated maintenance margins by limiting where vehicles can be serviced, it feels like consumers will "choose" these things because there will be less choice available in the first place as all the manufacturers jump on the bandwagon.

I'm having flashbacks to certain trends in the video game industry. Can't wait for an ad on my dashboard when I start the car offering to unlock AWD for a "season pass" promotion because the always on GPS told the manufacturer the weather forecast was bad.
The “smart” tech is affordable and costs less than renovating or rebuilding a home, a luxury which many people cannot afford.
I just finished this one so it might just be fresh in my memory, but I really enjoyed Kiril Yeskov's "The Last Ringbearer". It's a sequel/retelling of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" written from the Mordorian perspective and based on the premise that LOTR is "a history written by the victors".

It has a completely different feel than Tolkien's writing, and sort of stuffs something resembling Cold War politics into Middle Earth. It's obsurd, but somehow makes perfect sense.

I originally saw it recommended on hn, so thank you whoever you were!
I like the idea of living with just my phone and nothing more. No keys, just NFC and web based authentication.

I do payments via NFC and I can also use NFC to tap onto public transport.

My apartment complex lives in the 1990s still and issues key fobs for elevator access and hard keys for door access. Their fobs use some esoteric encryption method and cannot be copied so I broke open my apartment key fob, extracted the chip+coil, dremiled a housing into my phone's case and hot glue gun-ed it flush into my phone case.

My office HID card slips under my case.

Tried to extract and embed the chip/coil of my AnytimeFitness gym fob into my phone case but I broke the fob (costing $80 for a replacement - yikes). I might try to find someone that can clone it before trying that again - doesn't work with my $100 FOB scanner.

The building manager won't let me install a smart door lock on my door so I still have to carry keys.

So far, I need to carry 1 key for my door and a fob for gym - everything else I can do by just tapping my phone.
If I could do things over again, I would not have allowed my son to be around even vaccinated people indoors without masks.

If her goal is to completely protect her son from contracting Covid, I find it surprising that she'd allow him to be in contact with any potentially infected people at all. Is it really the case that an infected person can be rendered completely safe by a typical mask? Are there studies that quantify the reduction of risk for different types of masks worn by a infected person?
got it early in 2020, march, and it waylaid me for about six weeks.

got vaccinated a year later once vaccines were available.

now have it again, but it's omicron and it's different. much more mild for me, but so far appears like it's going to last just as long. breathing after even a small bit of laughter has been hard since I caught it the first time.

each time I cought it from a housemate who wasn't careful when they left the house, and came back sick, coughing a lot. in a house, if you're sharing the same air as a covid sufferer you're kinda screwed.

mid-40s male
The Java ecosystem is HUGE.

It took python what, over a decade to get people to switch from 2 to 3 didn’t it?

I’m just not sure you could ever pull it off. It seems way harder than that. Even with some sort of compatibility layer. I think you’d really end up in more of a perl 6 situation where it’s a different language that would eventually have to be renamed due to confusion.
If the EU wants an extra-territorial legal framework, why can’t a US website owner do the same in their TOS? That’s a perfectly legal thing to do in the US.

The knife cuts both ways.
Yeah I’m puzzled why people don’t seem to care too. I think it’s mostly the third - complaining about companies acting malevolently is boring like climate change. Most people would rather not think about it.

At the companies themselves, I blame the C suite entirely. It’s a leadership problem. What is the vision for your company? Why do we all get out of bed in the morning? If the goal is to make the world better, then concerns about how your business is impacting the world would matter. But having a goal to simply to enrich the founders (which seems to be the case with most tech companies), is like making an entire car just so you can drive to the gas station.

Companies like Twitter and Roblox change the world by their very presence. It’s shameful to waste that capacity by not making the world better in the process.
> blew up what remained in a spectacular and profitable fashion

profitable?

this kind of spectacle is a net loss for the natural world, for humanity and for all the other species we share the earth with. if you think i'm exaggerating you're not seeing how much waste and destruction our current proprietary paradigm is responsible for.

this whole doing 'fun' experiments on non-modular black-box consumer-grade tech by destroying it or blowing it up for 'content' is the definition of insanity. we will look back from our communist open source future society and shiver with horror, disbelief and fear as we watch back 1080p videos showing how some of us poisoned our watersheds and laughed hysterically while creating the toxic, plastic, holocenic sludge.

think i'm being a crybaby? see images of global north e-waste giving cancer to children in the global south. it's devastating to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I
Youre conflating the technology with its misuse.

The point of the NFT technology is to keep record of who a notary was. "So and so said this link is authentic, per their own definition of authentic." Whether that notary is important is for humans to decide. A counterfeiter can be the notary, and if people believe in them, then they create some value. Just as some art counterfeits have their own intrinsic value for whatever reason.
This is super helpful, thank you!!!
This is excellent work.

I worked on a similar project for my last company. However the goal was portable notebooks that could be executed anywhere, and rapidly deployed to various environments with minimal installation. I ended up using a combination of LinkedIn's shiv library with Netflix's papermill library.

The point was to turn a notebook into an executable runtime with all the dependencies embedded. I don't want to get into the specifics of why we were doing this but it had to do with my previous employers product which is targeted at no code and low code folks, and integrated Jupyter notebooks.

I think the use of poetry is very elegant here. And the fact that you can reuse the same kernel easily is a huge plus.
Bullshit title. Quote from the article:

"I think the right response for them is not to force them to, but rather to insist that they be isolated"

Which makes sense. Which a lot of people do.

I'm twice vaccinated but I'm getting serious worries about this eternal vaccine-three-times-per-year-for-everyone mandate, and I will refuse a third one just out of principle.

But I have at no point not been careful, and will continue to do so. I'm an introvert. I don't open my mouth in the grocery store. When I order at a restaurant I keep my mask on. People can be reasonable and responsible, and have/get natural immunity to the virus.

Edit: To anyone downvoting: How about instead a comment as to why I should get a third jab? I'm not an "anti-vaxxer" - I've already had two shots.
Yeah, you'd expect people who want to talk about why they like the movie to make more accurate reviews too.
On the face of it, your example is dwarfed by mine. Healthcare workers make up only 0.5 percent of the population. That means the direct mental health effects of limitatons on civil/economic liberties via lockdowns are going to impact 200X more people than the direct mental health effects of more COVID ICU cases on healthcare workers.

That's why I asked how you could arrive at the converse conclusion that lockdowns are net beneficial for mental health.
Average Shadow of Convex Objects
Ready Player Two. I kid, skip it unless you really liked Ready Player One.

Dune, to prepare for the movie, I love this book but I could see some of the flaws now that I'm older. The book's recognition that politics is an art and cam be studied, mastered and manipulated brought some of recent history into sharp relief.
> Are you seriously under the impression most of the computers in a modern car have anything to do with safety?

I never said that.

I said the examples pointer out by the GP post were all terrible examples to demonstrate too many computers in a car.

Also ECU is Engine Control Unit. Your seat probably has a tiny microcontroller in it, MCU.

And yes, your examples are all great examples of complexity that can break.

Anti-lock breaks, bad example. Tire Pressure Monitors, bad example.

Computer controlled LED accent lighting, good example.
Why the fuck is this top of HN.

I'm picturing way to many people viewing this today and thinking "Wow! Websites can be made without React? I will upvote!"

Are we at a point where university Web101 classes just jump straight into SPAs?
Are you saying it's never between churches and their followers, given churches don't pay taxes?
As the article says, it was an unfortunate side effect of trying to maintain compatibility.

I imagine C# was able to learn from what was going on with Java at the time and not have to suffer the same fate. Or maybe it was just less popular and could force the issue (I’ve never dealt with it so I don’t know the history well).
The difference is they don't use javascript, a point many commenters apparently missed. This is similar how you can make drop-down header menus in css only - no javascript. Implementing css dropdown menus was one of my first big web dev tasks, since many users still had computers that slowed to a crawl when javascript and dom manipulation were involved.
You could make an ePub of a single HTML file with all the binary blobs embedded.
Can I subscribe monthly, so I can pay only in the winter time? Or more likely, the price will be higher when its cold out.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - by billg

From my level of background knowledge, it was really well-written. He talks about how to think about emissions, and breaks down global emissions into its biggest categories (eg. transportation, electricity generation, etc). As well as promising methods for decreasing emissions in each of these classes. I think the style would really suit a HN audience.
A simple chat app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is called Messages. What value are you offering here that we don't already have built in?

Serious question, I can't fathom the reason for this.
It's always been about free cash flow, Bezos was wise enough to call it their North star since the very beginning, see his 2004 letter [0].

Neither earnings for a company that aggressively reinvests nor sales for a company that's a mixed bag of cloud computing (high margin) and retailing/logistics (low margin) make much sense as compass.

If you look at Amazon's price-to-FCF multiples[1], while Ben Graham would surely pass, it is not as expensive as their price-to-earnings make it seem, IMO (a non-holder of AMZN).

0: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312505...

>[Segment title] Our Most Important Financial Measure: Free Cash Flow Per Share

> Amazon.com’s financial focus is on long-term growth in free cash flow per share. Amazon.com’s free cash flow is driven primarily by increasing operating profit dollars and efficiently managing both working capital and capital expenditures. We work to increase operating profit by focusing on improving all aspects of the customer experience to grow sales and by maintaining a lean cost structure. [...] This focus on free cash flow isn’t new for Amazon.com. We made it clear in our 1997 letter to shareholders—our first as a public company—that when “forced to choose between optimizing GAAP accounting and maximizing the present value of future cash flows, we’ll take the cash flows.” I’m attaching a copy of our complete 1997 letter and encourage current and prospective shareowners to take a look at it.

1: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/price-...
I think its more that they have a monopoly on search in the current zeitgeist. So no, I don't think they've done that, and if they did, there's no pressure for them to optimise for speed, so they'd optimize for something bloated that helps someone get a promotion. This is why, for example, everything Microsoft Office does is a bloated trash fire, and how Apple gets away with telling a whole generation of phone purchasers that they were holding it wrong.
Dec 2020: Two weeks of horrible flu symptoms for me & my wife (in our 60s). After that she needed oxygen, so 2 weeks in hospital and 2 more weeks in Rehab. I have Long Covid symptoms of fatige and lack of stamina still, 1 year later.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"