skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dotcom boom was mostly fueled by rabid speculation. Today, people love their tech stocks, even though none of them pay dividends - the only reason to buy GOOG or AMZN is the hope that you can sell that stock down the line to a "greater fool". Some might call it a Ponzi scheme since only way investors make money off AMZN or GOOG stock is from new investors money coming in.

When I look at projects like ethereum, I see a lot of excitement and innovation around how cooperative game theory can innovate new business models and ways of coordination.

The way Twitter repeatedly rugpulled devs is a perfect example of how broken the web2 model can be. And now the founder of Twitter wants to criticize crypto projects for taking VC money, as if Twitter somehow didn't take VC money and enrich those VCs in its rise to power? The hypocrisy is astounding.

As far as the services, the goal posts keep moving. First there's no application, then store of value is an application, then art collection, then decentralize automatic market makers, then social tokens, then decentralized autonomous organizations. These are young, immature ideas but clearly stuff is happening. Whether it will live up to the grandiose promises, we can't say. But if you want to complain about the web3 advocates making grandiose promises about how their code is going to change the world, well, they stole that playbook directly from the likes of the Google and Twitter founders.

When Dorsey and Google execs complain about crypto, I'm reminded of a quote from HBO's Silicon Valley:

"I don't want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place better than we are."
Avast is famous for bundling spyware into their antivirus products
I'm just a layperson in this and could be wrong here, but my understanding is that cancer tends to survive by accumulating complementary pathogenic properties that individually are of little threat to the body. One of these properties is increased expression of ‘programmed death ligand 1’ (PD-L1), a surface protein on the cancer cell that binds with ‘programmed death protein 1’, a person on the surface of T-cells that, when bound, inhibit the T-cell response. I could be wrong here as well, but most immunotherapies today are of the 'checkpoint inhibitor' variety, which interfere with this binding process in one way or another.

To me this is similar to removing an invisibility cloak from the cancer cells. Now the immune system gets a shot at these cells b/c there's nothing indicating otherwise. In the case of some cancers, like melanomas and some lung cancers they may look sufficiently broken that the immune system just kills them naturally. But if the cancer cells still resemble healthy tissue, it's not super clear to me what is going to provoke a kill response.

I do think it's likely we will ultimately have customized therapies in which cancer cells are extracted, unique features are identified and custom mRNA packages created to emulate those features sufficiently to provoke the immune system to kill them. That, in combination with checkpoint inhibitors, would likely create an effective response.
The disconnect is that a lot of people mentally treat implicit multiplication with a higher priority than explicit, which is pretty understandable. For instance:

1/3x

is likely to be understood as 1/(3*x), because otherwise it would’ve been written like x/3. If that’s true, then so surely

1/3(x)

should be the same, right?

Smarter people than I have argued both sides of this, and I don’t have a strong opinion except to use parentheses if there’s any possible ambiguity. Just saying, I totally understand why you’d come to that conclusion, and I probably would too.
> The only GC language I can think of with special stack variables is C#. Are there others? Does Java do this now?

There are tons of languages that allow that, even if many of them failed to gain mainstream adoption.

- Mesa/Cedar (https://yahnd.com/theater/r/youtube/z_dt7NG38V4/)

- CLU

- Modula-2+

- Modula-3

- Oberon

- Oberon-2

- Oberon-07

- Active Oberon

- Component Pascal

- Oberon-V

- D

- Nim

- Swift (RC is a GC algorithm, chapter 5, https://gchandbook.org/)

- Eiffel

- C++/CLI

- Unreal C++

- Linear Haskell (getting there still WIP)

- Pony

I kept Nim and Swift for completion as you already mentioned it before.
Step after that, bitcoin but it's on DNA strands and new coins are generated every time the host cell reproduces. The maximum number of coins is reached when the biosphere is reduced to an amorphous grey goo.
I mean, the lure to do this must be so strong and enticing. the big data people are like "we need more data" (they will always say this no matter how much data they have) and the "whoa privacy" people within organizations are dismissed as "too depressing" and "blocking innovation" (as the big data people see it).

they all forget who they're doing this for. who is the group of people who see these things? customers. but customer happiness doesn't get the big data people to shut the hell up and stop nagging management, and customer happiness doesn't improve anyone's yearly review, and ultimately bad decisions are made because the incentives to make the right decisions are only there when you lay in bed at night and stare at the ceiling and think about what you're doing.

so customers get bad stuff.
Well yes, but the technology behind NFTs is explicitly just for solving the problem of double-spend/duplication. The authenticity is always provided off-chain since identity and reputation is still managed off-chain, so while "is this NFT real or impersonating an existing contract" is off-chain, the "who is currently owner" question is answered on-chain and requires no further trust or approval of the original artist.
I don't like how those tin foil hats I used to laugh at were just ahead of their time. Your TV spying on you or your phone apps waging war against Christmas ...
Almost every one of those Facebook reposts with an ambiguous math equation features an obelus. It only seems to create confusion.
I was making a very pedantic argument. It can simultaneously be true that Facebook is guilty of censorship, and they are in the legal / moral right by doing so. I have complex feelings on the topic, but that most accurately describes my position.

I'm not saying Facebook is infringing my rights (I explicitly meant to say the opposite). But I do feel strongly that they are guilty of censorship, in the literal sense.
Is there some blog article on how to do that? Would be interested in trying it out.
Too complicated, just use http://nuftu.com and get a "real" NFT from your artwork in like 5 minutes.
Hence the attention economy promoting informational junk food.
Is (3) either implementable or necessary (for the former case, are you liable the if you hold stock the moment the decision is made? What if the decision is kept secret from public stockholders?)?

Agreed, though, that quality of life would be higher if decisions that materially degrade the quality of life for members of a society were judged as crimes against society, with antediluvian punishments (lifetime imprisonment at least, and stripping of all assets from the family) for all culpable corporate officers. Of course this also runs into problems, chief of which is: when does something materially degrade quality of life? How many tons of carbon emissions is permissible, for example? Once something is known to be bad, does a public oversight panel determine how much is to be allowed for a given company? And if so, how do you avoid (1) dramatically slowing innovation (which would be fine except we're still in competition with other countries) and (2) corruption of such processes over time?
MCMC for big datasets: faster sampling with Jax and the GPU
You're right. The division sign is also unambigious. Unfortunately, it's not usually found on keyboards so many people are accustomed to using slashes.

SpeedCrunch and other calculator apps still need to have an unambiguous way of interpreting the expression when the user types or pastes in a slash. The apps could convert slashes to division signs before displaying them on the screen, since that's how the symbols should be interpreted. This is how GNOME Calculator resolves the ambiguity.
Unless I'm forgetting (Unless I've forgotten, Unless I forget, Unless I forgot...I'm not sure!), LWN is the only "content" I've personally had a paid subscription to for years. Always fun to read a bit of its own story. Thanks Rebecca, Jon, and all!
"Here grandpa - it's an NFT! No, not just a picture of a monkey. Well, not even the picture because the copyright wasn't transf... no, you own a verifiable entry on the blockchain that... What is a blockchain? Well it's a distributed ledger system that allows people ... ok yes I can see if I can get a refund"
I work for a startup and we use k8s for our web service deployments for two reasons - there is ample material available, and there are hosted services available. As we've grown its been helpful to be able to utilise all of the ecosystem around k8s. It's been a huge kick-start for our team.
Here's a twit from the MP himself if you don't believe it: https://twitter.com/markstrahl/status/1473394902390222850

That said, I don't think there are many non-partisan sources left. The shift from paid physical issues limited by the physical page count to limitless online space with free access killed it. Each source now tries to generate as much low-quality clickbait as possible, and predictably picks topics that would resonate well with their audience's confirmation bias, turning a blind eye on anything outside the picture.

This applies to both sides of the political spectrum. "Left" sources won't publish anything criticizing censorship, "right" sources won't say anything against Trump. If you want an objective picture, you need to piece it yourself from both sides.
FLAC and ALAC can be losslessly converted to back to WAV and cuts the file size in half.
Or in a car: Stop the car.

And indoors:

- Drop down; take cover under a desk or table.

- Stay away from bookcases or furniture that can fall on you.

- Stay away from windows. Glass may shatter from the shakings
It isn't abandoned at all, it was one of the milestones for .NET Core 3.1 release and is currently up to date with C++17.

Much easier than dealing with P/Invoke declarations or dealing with COM over RCW/CCW layer.
There was still 1-1.5K deaths per day, something the previous administration was attacked for every single day.
Depends on the projects in your time sheets. My time sheets were various businesses (customer) that I was billing time against
Bad earthquakes aren't short. They can go on for several minutes.

I'm not going to interrupt may day for a 4.0. For a 6.0+, I will probably turn off anything on the gas stove and walk outside if I can.
At that point, it’s not a NFT problem, but an internet identity problem..

What about keybase? Have people figured this out in a decentralized way?
> Except it's literally the other way around. EU companies will be at a disadvantage because they cannot use the data to neither improve their service or to monetize it in some way.

As if ROHS weren’t printed on each single piece of hardware produced on the planet.
New? No. There's actually a solid decade of practice by now.
You may like qalc. It's an apt-get away and does all those units.
I have a single, but major, complaint with Soulver: version 3 for iOS/iPadOS doesn’t exist yet. There are a lot of calculations I’d want to do both at my desk and out on the road, and I’d like them synced. Calca handles that pretty well and I’ve been using it over Soulver lately for that one specific reason. I like Soulver more than Calca, though, and the second Soulver 3 for iOS comes along I’ll switch back.
I suppose the point here is that those critics have all been "proven wrong."
Bitcoin has proven a great vehicle for speculation but the other promises seem unfulfilled.
Nobody is saying that other countries haven't done horrible things. That's a separate issue, unless your argument is that it is okay for the CCP (not the Chinese people, this is political, not racial) to commit crimes against humanity. The response to the possible horrors in Xinjiang, and Tibet, should not be countered with whataboutisms. Don't we all want everyone to have a quality life free of suffering and abuse by others?
Very much this. If you're looking at it from a pure productivity standpoint and want to try it out, and aren't a regular toker - don't - because you'll just get really baked. :P
200% recommend this tool. It has saved my workflow for tons of day to day interactions inside the Microsoft/Google/Salesforce ecosystem.

I use it daily as Microsoft's handling of sharepoint links is always a mystery and tries to load in the non-sense in-browser Sharepoint/OneDrive viewer, and it's really bad; so slow for everything, when it _can_ load the document the built-in viewer is filled with so much garbage the actual content is super restricted; when it can't load the content, it spends a good couple of seconds trying to load it just to tell you it can't display it and to generate a new download dialogue which takes another couple of seconds; all for which should just be a download link. This plugin solves that instantly.

Same methods with Google to force sane behavior (e.g., actual download links instead of built in google apps that are slow except for Chrome), same for Salesforce which tries to push its Lightning experience which is completely unoptimized for anything as best I can tell (and you're just screwed if you're not in a country that hosts a Salesforce instance, the latency on every load is 150 ms+, and lightning increases this even further with even more calls).

Redirector saves me so many minor frustrations every single day I cannot thank the author enough. Once you start to think about it less as a general privacy tool and more how to skip a bunch of hoops and load specific content exactly where you want, the power of this tool becomes apparent.

I even wrote the author once to thank them and got a response fairly fast as well as a brief comment on their surprise how "big" the tool got.

It's a great tool if you have to battle with awful online ecosystems and it helps you gain a bit of control again with a bit of curiosity and exploration.
Why would I do this? What I’m doing works for me.
A friend had serious motion sickness issues when traveling by small plane. We tried ginger (worked a little), looking outside (worked a lot, but got boring), the wrist pressure bracelets (didn’t help much), and the electronic shock bracelets for motion sickness (worked great).

Might try those before going for a cumbersome device that likely won’t work better. The electronic bracelet seemed like a gimmick, but it really worked for her.
I'm not suggesting doing the easier thing, I'm suggesting that picking fights you can't win is a bad proposition, especially when alternatives exist.
I've got both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS on 5 1/4 floppy. I can use ADTPro and I recently got (but haven't yet installed) an Uthernet ethernet card.
"US citizens are not uniquely criminal"

US citizens are absolutely uniquely criminal.

The violent gun murder rate in the US is 5x what it is European countries. Those are stats based on deaths, not criminal prosecutions.

The number of 'high speed chases' etc. is considerably higher.

In some 'high crime / poverty' areas of the US, the amount of crime again is multiples of those of other nations.

Moreover, the US has the right to put people in prison for crimes in a different manner than say Sweden, who might only have someone in jail for 4 years for murder.

China is putting Uyghurs in jail for their ethnicity, not for any crimes committed, so the issue is moot.
If they didn’t require it, then that would significantly strengthen the paper! They could have not exposed that API and it would be much more useful. I suspect that they probably did need it though. An immutable GC would only be useful by adding an interior mutability wrapper, which is exactly the kind of friction the paper is trying to avoid.

It matters because the rest of the Rust universe follows this pattern. If they coded their own standard library (and any other allowed libraries) and modified the compiler to not miscompile this usage, then that exploration would be valid. But you’re also going to get friction from miscompiles and fighting with other APIs that do have this property. So it would be more useful to either go all-out ok this idea that Rust’s uniqueness properties are a bad thing, or fix the soundness issues. The halfway step simply confounds too many issues to be truly useful, in my opinion.

I agree that exploring the space is a good idea and useful. My issue is with the methodology, not the concept.
Ways I Use Testing as a Data Scientist
https://vitalik.eth.limo is an excellent resource. You’ll see that his thinking, and the thinking of people like him, is a lot more advanced than the thought processes of the armchair experts who seem to have dedicated their lives to “exposing” this industry to be “one giant scam.” I can’t think of a better resource off the top of my head.
Swift Roadmap for performance predictability: ARC improvements and ownership
DoorDash Employees to Be Required to Make Food Deliveries to Customers
If they don't want to pay upfront for hardware, they can also "default to cloud" while just using cloud-based compute instances.
New “lickable” TV screen in Japan let's you taste what's on screen
> "we don't even need computers for that!"

Upon reading these words, he suddenly awakened to enlightenment.
Any truck or bus has higher road pressure than a tank, because wheels footprint is much smaller than that of a tank tracks.

A very quick search also proves that deaths from anti-vehicle mines number at thousands each year. Even on the very UN website [1] we read:

> The Secretary-General calls on all countries to also regulate the use of anti-vehicle landmines. Such weapons continue to cause many casualties, often civilian. They restrict the movement of people and humanitarian aid, make land unsuitable for cultivation, and deny citizens access to water, food, care and trade.

I believe we can safely assume that anti-vehicle landmines DO pose a deadly threat to civilians.

[1]: https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/Landmines/
Also crash safety is 10x better on current cars than even 10 years ago. You’re not going to appreciate the simplicity of the old car when you’re debilitated for life in a crash you would have walked away from without a scratch in a 2020 base model Civic.
That’s not to mention auto emergency braking, traction and stability control, lane keep assist and blind spot monitoring that would have prevented the crash in the first place

I appreciate the attraction of the simplicity of older cars, but you are accepting that a crash could turn you into pink mist if you are lucky, lifetime of pain and disability if you are unlucky.
I agree with you; there have been studies that showed both that left justified text and proportional typefaces are generally more legible.

I wonder though - for long-time coders like a lot of the audience here - have we become inured to reading monospaced fonts, such that we read them easier and are therefore an anomaly in such studies?

I know I cannot code at all with variable-width fonts, but is that because I'm old school and grew up coding in the Time Before when there were only monospaced fonts?
> And I’d, in turn, amend that comment to strike the gratuitous swipe at “the media”.

You're flat out wrong, until the media you consume don't report anything at all about politics and at that point it's hard to call it media any more - simple reason: many politicians and even some companies communicate mostly with Twitter "soundbites" instead of holding press conferences.
Sometimes smoking completely makes me suck at programming. I can't get my thoughts into the text editor as code. Other times I work just as well as I would have sober.

Most of the time getting high is a good way to get ideas for what personal project to work on next.
I really liked this article. Thanks for sharing!
Whoops, so sorry! I thought this was an official thing. If it's a WIP, then not a problem. There is going to be a lot of stuff you can list, like email providers taking privacy into account like protonmail or posteo.
That's a very weird thing that Cuban embargo, I never really got what's so terrible about Cuba that you couldn't travel there. And in this context it is terrible assuming that that stuff really works.
" because you want to have your underclass ready to hand for slave labor. Or, generally, to repress them."

This is not unsubstantiated.

Moreover, it's upside down:

The economic labour output from US prisons is negligible and has no material effect on the GPD or industrial basis.

... and those prisoners, were they outside of the prison systems, in 'regular jobs' - would add tremendously more to the GDP in terms of productivity.
That's a hard pass from me. I will keep using Seafile and supporting FOSS by paying for hosting.
It depends on the definition of a simple thing. Is your system so simple that you could teach your parents how to use it?
NFTs are only expensive on Ethereum. You can mint for cents or less on other chains.
I can't virtually punch my friend in the face when he kills me with a hundred-hand slap for the thirtieth time in one day.
There are plenty of good jobs for people who are good with people and know there basics of how to code, though, so that may well work out well for her even if she doesn't end up enjoying full on development.
> The advice we get in New Zealand is to get underneath something strong like a table

Depending on how earthquake-proof a building is, this could be bad advice. If you're in an earthquake-proof building, a table will protect you from falling objects. If the building you're in collapses, you'll want to be next to something that's not very compressible, like a bed or a couch. The collapse will leave open triangles next to objects like this, which are the best place to survive a collapse.
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Except an NFT is basically just a link to some JSON which has a URL to an image. You could easily make another NFT yourself with a different link to the same image, whose NFT is the "real one"? How could you prove who made the original image and who sold it? NFTs don't any actual rights to the image and certainly don't stop people copying and using it. It's a load of crap basically.
I was using Google Docs until one day an inspector demanded my PERSONAL Google account credentials because they were inspecting the company I worked for - for something I wasn't even involved in.

They got a court order, contacted Google, and did a Google Takeout of literally all of my data.

Now I use markdown doc on a remotely encrypted share via WinSCP.
They did. Two comments ago. But it's in Swedish so you probably won't be able to read it.
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
The original title of the article is: "Rethinking Molnupiravir".

The current HN title, "Molnupiravir increases Covid mutations, will it breed the next variant?" is misleading clickbait, since the article dismisses that as being highly unlikely:

> "The third risk factor is that you could cause mutations in the coronavirus, but not enough to make it non-viable, and perhaps even give it some mutations that make it worse as a pathogen. This issue came up during the advisory committee hearing several times. It's a serious question, but for what it's worth, I think odds of this happening are very low indeed..."

As per HN Guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And that would be a non-issue, because the lender would be taking a calculated risk. Businesses of all size go bankrupt all the time.
+1 for Umami. Pretty straightforward to setup and run.
What would you like the current administration to do about those?