skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where would the giant red alerts stop? They already have it for S3 after so many people left their buckets open. But is it also not our responsability to properly understand the tools we use?
Interesting, I didn't realize that. Thanks.

When first watching this, it was very believable, exactly because of Canada's recent behaviour regarding discrimination and lockdowns.
It is not fair, nor is it reasonable. It's about as useful a metric as the weather forecast being provided in degrees kelvin.

As someone that's had their ass saved by payday loans a couple times, I'll gladly defend them every day of the week and twice Sunday. At no point was I ever unclear about payback schedules, the cost of the financing, penalties, any of it, and neither is anyone else with the financial literacy to have a bank account, a job, and regular paychecks/deposits, all of which are a requirement from your average lender.
We are currently sitting at at total of over 800,000 COVID deaths in the US and 1,500 COVID deaths per day, which is roughly where it’s been since September 1st. That’s approximately an additional half a million dead people per year.

So yes the vaccine has already saved million of lives, but I sure hope that this is not the new normal this winter or we are going to cross 1 million deaths fairly soon.
I totally relate to this conversation,

If my primary life goal was to be happy I would not have started a small software company, but I've noticed that there's a different kind of maybe more meaningful satisfaction that happens between the painful parts
Exactly. It's crazy how some people think that shutting down pretty much everything within days is a more viable alternative or even more doable than ramping up healthcare capacity in... 2 years. They'll usually wave away the massive repercussions that shutdowns cause but they will become very perfectionist when it comes to standard of care and how we need fully trained doctors and nothing less. It's an emergency, as you said it's not time for perfection because the costs are extreme
> Do you get questioned on your self-expression of status?

I’ve started to apply for jobs in the Vancouver region again and there is a place for self-reporting your race, gender, sexuality, disability, and possibly other information. You can leave it blank or you can enter it in. Options for non-binary are present and so are is asexual, as an example.

I don’t know if this is representative of the market or not. I know my employer has asked everyone to update that information for all existing employees.

Canada is pretty diverse, but the diversity is localized in a handful of large metro areas from what I can see by going through the available census information.

I’m not sure if I’ve answered your question or not?
Vitamin D and healthy eating is not emphasized at all by any CDC or health agency. These two things are significant risk factors for covid. Doctors have widely been prevented from using drugs with generally known safety profiles for emergency cases because Pfizer wants to develop its own new drugs.
TL;DR they used cellular tower anonymised data. The equivalent of: is this place busy right now? function in Google Maps.
> usually the US is doing something more exceptional and extreme than the demonstrated behavior

Actually, it's almost always the opposite.

CCP requiring Chinese companies to hand over all user data unencrypted > USG occasionally sending NSLs to specific companies for information on specific persons.

CCP stealing IP from the US, EU, Japan, and other countries > ???.

CCP Operation Fox Hunt[1] > ???.

CCP police threatening the family of a student in the US speaking about Tianamen Square[2] > ???.

CCP hiring massive numbers of 50c posters to write hundreds of millions of social media posts under false aliases > USG operating Free Radio Asia with the explicit notice that it's controlled by the government.

CCP restricting children to three hours of video games a week > USG preventing those under age 21 from smoking or drinking.

CCP massacring unarmed students in Tiananmen Square with tanks > ???.

CCP censoring all information about Tiananmen Square inside the Great Firewall > USG asking newspapers not to publish classified information.

CCP operating a concentration camp in Xinjing with about a million people indefinitely in it for no reason other than their religion > USG holding a few thousand refugees in cages for a limited time until they can be returned to their country because they crossed the border illegally.

CCP blackmailing various companies for stating that Taiwan is a separate country > ???.

CCP invading Taiwan for holding the former rulers of the country that fled after a bunch of murderous revolutionaries overthrew the government and killed millions of people > USG invading Afghanistan to find a terrorist group that flew planes into our buildings and killed thousands. (note that in the first case, the perpetrators (or associates thereof) are doing the invasion, while in the second case, it's the victims).

In almost every single case that China is doing something bad, America's equivalent is either far less bad or nonexistent.

Even beyond that - no country is perfect (especially not the US), but when the USG (or governments of most other countries) does something bad, the citizens usually get angry about it, and the officials responsible either try to hide or eventually reverse course. With the CCP, the citizens defend it, and the officials claim that they're actually doing the right thing, deny that it exists at all (e.g. the Uyghur concentration camps), or counter with misinformation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/ri95tp/in_response_...
This is an inaccurate submission title. It is a single heading of many from an issue of OI
YC wouldn't do that. I don't know the history here but I do know that both founders left the company years ago (which is pretty unusual). I can only assume that a lot changed since they started 10 years ago (they were in W12).
Yes, but searching stuff like "go programming" or "go standard library" or "go web framework" will get you what you want.

The problem with io is that it already means something in a programing context, so adding extra programming related keywords won't help to disambiguate the search.
This seems like a flippant insubstantial criticism. Facebook is one of many many options—including first-party username+password auth.

It's more like, "Welcome to our federated decentralized service. You can log in with your Facebook account if you want to." Which doesn't sound like a bad thing to me.

More choices for users is usually a good thing. If users' choices have bad consequences, that's not Matrix's fault. Though maybe Matrix should warn people that if 3rd-party cuts them off they'll be locked out of their Facebook account too—choices need to be informed!
for what it is worth it was great being the last person around without a smart phone. I dont know how old you are but people use to be alone with their own thoughts. Amazing things happen if you ponder situations until satisfied with your own conclusions. the delay made for wonderful long form conversations. exchanging text like we are doing here doesnt build relationships either. if i would die in the next 20 min you wouldnt blink an eye.
You mean you want to pause the games that are in progress? The events are created by people finishing their games and queuing for the next pair. You could limit total participants but only if you know the limit ahead of time. Nothing else makes sense.
Micron Explains Reason for DDR5 Shortage and It's Not Because of Memory Chips
This is actually one of the things I like to highlight to folks that talk a little-too-gleefully about socialism. The military implements socialism for convenience and cost effectiveness. The result is atrocious. This was in Camp Lejeune, NC.

I almost never got adequate medical care. The medical system was strange and winding. There were all kinds of approvals needed for very simple things.

The food standards were absolutely terrible. I don't know if it was an actual thing, but I was told there was a threshold for the number of roaches that could be present on food dispensing equipment before they'd throw the food out.

The housing was disgusting. I lived in a barracks built in 1945 with inadequate parking, sewage that once popped a goldfish into a toilet bowl, water that occasionally would turn totally brown or yellow and is now known to have made people sick. There was a door to the interior of the building where ducts, pipes, and internet were run that all contained asbestos and asbestos warnings.

The worst part, you had no option to say, "Give me the dollar amount you spend on this so I can find my own options" but they'll gladly tell you what they spent at an inflated rate.

These are just the ones off the top of my head.
"It's clearly true, no evidence needed"? At a minimum, that's not very persuasive to anyone who doesn't already agree with you.

But worse, that kind of thinking is how you wind up with beliefs that no external evidence can persuade you are false. It's the same approach of both religious cults and conspiracy theorists.

Mind you, you could in fact be right. But the thinking pattern has, at best, disreputable fellow travelers. Be cautious of that pattern of thinking.
> Loans with gigantic interest ruin lives.

Playing the devil's advocate here...loans with interest rates higher than 36% are generally reserved for subprime lending - payday loans being the most prominent. As long as we live in a society (talking US here) where minimum wages don't keep up with inflation and benefits, then these products in some sense need to exist to satisfy that subprime group. Otherwise it's literally impossible to create a profit on payday loans if these rates are much lower.

Note - I don't know what the "right APR" is to make them profitable, but I certainly can fathom why there might be a 1000% interest rate on a 7 day loan of $100 so someone can get their car out of the pound so they can drive to work. The administrative overhead to lend $100 and only make pennies is simply not worth it.

Also, yes gigantic interest rates ruin lives...more importantly predatory sales practices to get people to buy them. But maybe we should focus on why so many Americans get to that in the first place (looking at your healthcare) - thats a much easier market creation.
Yes, and it's a bet they will probably lose, if they really need 500 Wh/kg in three years time. Their battery graph is a fairytale at best.

The current state-of-the-art batteries that researchers build in laboratories that last 10-20 cycles can put out about 400 Wh/kg. You're simply not going to achieve first a 20% improvement over that, then a development of the tech to increase lifetime to something useable, and then scaling that to widespread commercial availability, within three years time.
No because if the law is applied equally to all people regardless of background by definition the reason to protest does not exist anymore. Think about it, this was the whole point of BLM: Please stop shooting/killing/maiming unarmed Black people at a disproportionally higher rate than members of other groups.
If someone wants to assert those similarities in a separate conversation, that's fine. Trying to derail an existing conversation about the actions of one country by mentioning actions of another country is a distraction at best, and arguing in bad faith at worst.
Don't worry, EU has money to throw around on stupid projects as well. Even worse, it's public money.

https://seenews.com/news/croatias-rimac-to-get-200-mln-euro-...
There's construction ongoing on new train lines in the United States. Whether they're being built is up for debate.
Qualcomm’s 8cx Gen 3 for Notebooks, Nuvia Core in 2022/2023
It certainly increases the safety factor, but should never be relied upon as the sole redundant backup system. There are situations where it will not do you any good such as hovering at low altitude. If the aircraft does not have a reasonable glide slope, most people would feel a lot more comfortable with one.
I met an English teacher who did visit China not too long afo. They were arrested and interrogated for days in a concrete room until his government paid a bribe (called a fine) for his release. His crime was teaching English after some regional goon changed the rule silently near the end of his visit in order to extort people. My professor at the time talked about how this was common

No thanks for the visit. Not to mention how china is detaining foreigners lately with death penalty sentences to blackmail other nations into obeying them (most recent example I can think of was Canada)

State driven kidnapping and extortion really kill tourism
I don't think there is a movement towards immutable data structures. The const keyword only works on basic types (bool, num, str). Objects can have private member variables, but those are only private on the module level. You can also pass by copy instead of passing a pointer.
Show HN: Jig – a tool to define, compute and monitor metrics
Hi HN,

8 months ago, I posted “Ask HN: I built it nobody came, what now?” and got a ton of (not very optimistic) feedback [1].

I took away 3 things:

1. The message wasn’t properly targeted

2. The onboarding experience was terrible.

3. Someone posted some advice to find leads which actually worked, yeah!

So here we are. 8 months later. I unfortunately didn’t have a lot of time to put in the tool itself. But I improved the website, improved the onboarding, and got a paying customer who seems to really like the software.

So here it is in its current
form. Let me know what you think would make the tool/website better!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26734079
Forgive me if I don't consider dropping lithium batteries from several hundred meters up a safety feature.

A parachute on this system is a lot of extra mass to compensate for a problem solved when the Wright brothers were around.
Is there any reason to think they’ll be mutually exclusive ?
> do black-and-white code editing

You've piqued my curiosity. No syntax highlighting?
In English, Wuhan is typically pronounced with a "w" (/wuːhæn/ or /wuːhɑːn/), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan.
I wonder if the approach is similar to managing herpes. We don't yet know how to eliminate it and yet we believe that if someone has a current outbreak (visible sores, etc) than they should avoid sexual contact with others so they don't spread it...until it subsides again.

I may not have all the details right on that, just seems the approach some are taking to covid is the "yes we won't eliminate it and yet we can try to minimize exposure during times of high infectiousness."
No, I mean I myself am bombarded by people who self-identify as wumao on the various internet forums I visit. I don't read the New York Times or other "mainstream" journalism outlets. The 50 cent army has become extremely pervasive and obnoxious with their off-topic spam over the last 12 months. It's very frustrating to use most of my usual forums because of just how intensely the wumaos spam them now.
The objective way to identify gay men is to ask if they have slept with gay men over a certain period.

The gov. actually do this in some cases i.e. when donating blood and on some other surveys for research.

Of course, you can be gay and celibate, for all intents and purposes (or can you? That's another question) ...

... but we do have a set of objective behaviours for what constitutes being gay.

With Nonbinary trans, Two Spirit, and some of the more exotic categories - we don't.

This is where the Trans effort is going to fall apart: 90% of citizens will accept someone who 'Roughly looks, talks and acts like a woman' - as 'Basically a Woman'.

Trans people could win the war instantly on those terms.

And I'll bet about 75% of Trans people would be happy with that - most of them want safety, equality, dignity.

I believe the majority of Trans people are not hugely concerned that the Pharmacy row for Feminine Hygiene uses the term 'Feminine'.

I will go further: the majority of Trans men and women actually want to be identified as those genders in more traditional terms, and they are not offended that our normative, popular view is that 'Women Have Babies' and 'Men Don't Have Babies'.

But a lot of the people (I believe the minority) promoting the movement want to push it further by dereferencing all popular ideals of 'Male' or 'Female' to make it entirely self-referential.

For example, some want to expunge normative ideals such as 'Women Have Babies', because of course '(Trans)Men have babies as well'. And since 'Trans Men' are '100% Men' in every way, and to contemplate otherwise is bigotry, an erasure of their identities, and therefore a form of 'harm' and 'violence' - the type of language those people use.

It's bit sad actually because the most aggressive voices in the community I don't think are pushing for material progress. Much like regular politics in the US I suppose.

As for UBC, I think they need a better way to accomplish their objectives, which are complicated by the fact that minorities are already technically hugely over-represented at the school.
Thanks! That's a fresh angle for me.

But isn't COVID novel in the damage it poses to microvascular systems (importantly brain and lungs), compared to other viruses? E.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/

My understanding is that this is still different from other viruses.

So if large swaths of a country get that damage from delta vs omicron vs some future weaker variant, that could have very different public health consequences in the coming decades...

Disclaimer: In tech for over a decade, but once upon a time I did an honours degree in biochemistry, so I'm only maybe half-capable of musing my way through some of these papers :)
Isn’t it more of a grey area? They’re unscheduled. Which is why you can get something like Etizolam on the grey market. Or ivermectin
https://archive.md/zKqzu

http://web.archive.org/web/20211222201356/https://www.nytime...
I think you are missing the important part. Lowballing it, a typical 50 year old reactor produces about 10^7 megawatthours or 10^6$ in power per kilo of uranium. And that actually leaves most of the fissile unused. So... How much uranium can be extracted at a reasonable fuel price like 10% of the end user price? i.e. about 10^5$ per kilo?

Its silly to consider availability at 0.03% of the end product price.
People get the government they deserve. If Chinese society, in the 21 century, is still elevating monarchs to engage in genocide and totalitarianism, I’m not persuaded that it’s bigotry to conclude the society is not something to be admired. YMMV.
Why did we call it a Booster Shot instead of a Sequel Injection
Eventually yes, but that will take many years. It won't do anything to prevent power shortages in Germany over the next 5 years or so. I don't think you understand how long it takes to ramp up production across the entire supply chain, and that allocating more capital won't significantly accelerate timelines.
I may have given the wrong impression: it sounds like a good idea to me.

> I was imagining that a full text Wayback Machine search engine would mostly be useful to look for words unique enough that sifting through a lot of results (even if those were not ranked "well") could still be useful..?

If we think about use cases, users may often search specific domains. In that case, results ordered by frequency and/or date might be sufficient and even desireable.

> I was very naively "back of the envelope" prototyping a search engine. I both realize that this is not the way that these things are built

It's often the first step!

> So 20TB...?

That doesn't sound so bad.
This is where it helps to have domain knowledge before pontificating on someone else's architecture. It is an arena tournament. If you want people to join the tournament and get paired with games after finishing their current game you'll need those events. There are no "nice to haves".
I mean will a 7-seater helicopter autorotate sufficient to provide control in a power-loss situation?
> Is it really fair to calculate an annual interest rate when the loan term in question 14 days (literally one payday)?

Yes. Because annual interest rates are the standard of this country. That means you compare the interest rates apples-to-apples.

My credit card is 13% annual rate, even if I only ever borrow money for 30-days at the max. Comparing this platform vs my credit card on an apples-to-apples basis (APY) is just fair.
My door bell is designed to be pressed. But I do have a problem with someone who run down the street pressing every doorbell, because they want to gauge home owner's response time.

Spamming and wrong intentions can make an otherwise legitimate action unethical.
Welcome to the news cycle! The world improves, but one thing remains constant (stubbornly disconnected from whether or not, and how much, things are improving): amount of outrage
The car (a Volvo) seems to ping the sensors at least once per minute when in motion, meaning there's pretty much always at least one ping once we're within range of home. It works perfectly for the home automation use case.
The social negatives of difficult-to-discharge debt and Ponzi-rate lending (wherein debt service cannot be met by an underlying economic growth behavior) are horrific and easily preventable. Letting even one person fall into the pit is a social travesty.
Actually, there are a lot of SDR radios aimed at Ham radio operators. I just got my license this year and was blown away by the SDR radios targeting HF bands. This review of the Xiegu G90 is worth watching - the reviewer is an engineer and towards the second half of the video provides a great overview of the SDR architecture in these rigs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6dK2_QIn-s
Is "vaccine" the right term for this? AFAICT, this is an mRNA treatment for existing cancer.
It depends on many things and will vary wildly by geography. I’m not suggesting this is a population level trend one can safely piggyback on, unvaccinated. If you are unvaccinated in a community with spread, your odds of getting it are likely comparable, plausibly higher, to previous periods.
~60% of Americans don't own a gun. Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms out of a supposed 265m.
The results you describe sound very much like pre-1989 Czechoslovakia to me. I guess they actually did achieve socialism! :)
"Today, we know the brain isn’t divided into puzzle pieces with dedicated psychological functions. Instead, the human brain is a massive network of neurons."

Wow. Speechless. Maybe it's Broca's aphasia?

It's a sad day when nautil.us is publishing stuff like this. Sigh.
Isn't that one of Go's main value propositions? A batteries-and-kitchen-sink-included stdlib?
In Praise of Glitches
I'd also be very interested to know other people's thoughts on affordable SDRs.

I thought https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini looks interesting,

Along with https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/evaluation-hardware-... (the lowest frequency that can pick up is 325MHz though)

I'm very tempted currently at the hackrf pcbs on aliexpress though, which seem to be around £70
No, I didn’t go into the multiple levels of chesterton's fence.

I pointed out how the risk is different than the assumed free for all that is the free market. I will not potentially get thrown in the brig for defaulting on a payment. A private could be.
I don't know what's true or not - one side insists on it, while large scale trials seem to be ongoiong, some have failed, some trials appear to have been fraudulent. Yet some people, including some physicians, seem to insist on it so I'd like to know what's going on. But it's difficult through the fog of misinfo.