skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know. It's a nightmare. Several people I used to admire in the space have succumbed to the NFT virus. All they do now is shill for their latest 'drops'.

The demo scene this is not anymore. It used to be about fun, experimentation and showing off mad coding (and lately ml) skills. Now it's a pyramid scheme. I'm unsubscribing.

Or maybe I'm just getting old
Just because there is a low vaccination rate doesn't mean there is not a shit load of vaccinated people in the region. Sub-saharan Africa has more than a billion people. Is there any solid evidence this variant actually evolved in Sub-Saharan Africa anyway?
I don't think it's illegal where I live. I can send you the email I received from Thoughtworks when I was based in the USA if you like. You don't seem to have an email in your profile though.
Arguably, not all of those consumptions are equal. I'd compare that to paying a supermarket tax because it sells alcohol and alcohol is bad for the health.
What's the best way to learn Shortcuts? I've made a couple of ultra-simple things, but get stuck with anything slightly more complex.

For example, I have a spreadsheet where I want to log my workouts. I have a shortcut that opens numbers and adds a blank row and that was easy to make. But now I want to add the current date in column A of the new row and I've never been able to figure that one out.
https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021...

Omicron is more transmissible. Less pathogenic. It evades immune responses from vaccines, and previous delta infections. But: it creates an immune response that seems to protect against delta, and possibly future variants.

Looks like the spec sheet of a miracle ... and now we find it was optimized through (accelerated?) selection in mice?
Symbolics provided Pascal, Prolog, Fortran 77, C and I believe Ada (but I never seen that one) implementations that used ZetaLisp as intermediate language.

The Pascal one was used to build TeX, indeed.
Yes, and it's sad because there's so much to say about the Game Boy and its followers, and I'm not even talking about being more complex, just more information would have been nice. And it might have been better with real pictures of the inside of the consoles, instead of the scans which look cool but add nothing else (it hides more than it shows). Just looking cool might of course be enough as it attracts some people not interested in the subject, so I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just disappointed as someone mildly interested on the subject.
It’s a Ponzi scheme cos it’s not being used for purchasing goods and services.

Bitcoins only value is it’s value relative to dollars, euros etc, which have purchasing power.

So ultimately all the Bitcoin has to be converted back to dollars, euros etc for people to see a return on their investment. The only way to do that is to sell the Bitcoin to someone else who has dollars (presumably for more dollars than you bought the Bitcoin originally).

So as the cycle continues each new generation of investors needs to find another bunch of suckers to offload their Bitcoin to and get their dollar reward. And they need that next set of people to consistently pay a higher price than they did.

Eventually people will struggle to find buyers and be left holding the bag.

This wouldn’t necessarily be the case if Bitcoin got used as a real currency. But that’s clearly not happening at this stage, people laugh at the idea of buying Pizza with it or whatever. So it’s just a Ponzi-like scheme. Tbh it’s more like a penny stock scam of old.
Because human nature is hostile and self-destructive.
I often let my phone run out of battery and put it in a completely different room (not charging). Like your locked box, the only way I don’t get distracted is if I can’t access the device even if I wanted to.
You need a man and a woman plus a bit of time.
Pleased to see this pop up here today as I'd just finished the book yesterday.

I've been putting off buying it for a long time as I'd assumed it was another great blog turned into a book that contained 90% filler.

As someone else said below, there's a small amount of filler in here, but it feels like the right amount and allows you to take the time to absorb the content more fully.

I honestly feel like this book has fundamentally changed the way I view work, side projwects and tasks in general. I've procrastinated on a number of things as they felt like huge efforts that were not achievable - reading Mr Clear makes me realise that I can achieve those by not focusing on the end goal but getting into a habit, a system, and chipping away at it over time.

You could say the book's content is obvious stuff, but it's certainly opened my eyes and changed my thinking.

Highly recommend.
Disagree. The nhs doesn’t provide it for free, but it’s paid by everyone. international tourism is not really a necessity, if you can afford that, you should be able to afford a test too. There are many test providers, but they are all in high demand right now, so it’s expected that the prices and waiting times are higher than they used to be. The cost of travel during the pandemic has certainly increased, specially when going through the peak of a huge wave as we are right now. I don’t think it’s unreasonable.

I do get the complaint regarding going back and forth from Ireland. The transit between NI and Ireland should be smoother and not require you to pay extra. However, if you’re coming from Portugal, the US, etc I think it’s entirely reasonable,
Interesting.

* 30.12.2021 RKI Wochenbericht reads "1.097 Patientinnen und Patienten waren ungeimpft, 4.020 waren vollständig geimpft, von diesen wurde für 1.137 eine Auffrischimpfung angegeben."

* 23.12.2021 RKI Wockenbericht reads "186 Patientinnen und Patienten waren ungeimpft, 924
waren vollständig geimpft, von diesen wurde für 161 eine Auffrischimpfung angegeben".

* The OA screenshots a line that reads "186 Patientinnen und Patienten waren ungeimpft, 4.020 waren vollständig geimpft, von diesen wurde für 1.137 eine Auffrischimpfung angegeben." Either they doctored the data, or the 30.12.2021 RKI Wochenbericht perhaps contained an error that was since corrected and the OA panicked seeing the initial version?

One more thing. Using omicron data from 30.12.2021 RKI Wochenbericht and vaccination data from https://impfdashboard.de/en, the omicron incidence rates don't look too good. This is difficult to do correctly in absence of data explicitly broken down by age because <18yo have significantly smaller vaccination rates (thus more "unvaccinated" at virtually no risk) compared to the adult population, but even so:

total unvax vax 2-vax 3-vax
pop 83.2M 21.5M 61.7M 26.9M 32.3M
cases 5117 1097 4020 2883 1137
/100k 6.1 5.1 6.5 10.7 3.5
It’s depressing, honestly. A few years ago I read a graduate textbook about Bitcoin as well as the original white paper and some papers about ethereum, etc. My main takeaway is that Bitcoin itself (although not all blockchain proposals) is a horrible medium for almost all useful products. The privacy properties are bad, it’s incredibly inefficient, and everyone ends up going to a middleman instead of interacting in a decentralized way as it is. Almost always, a regular database is what you want. The drumbeat of cries ‘let’s build X, but on a blockchain!’ rarely even make sense.

This is compounded by the fact that the people who promote Bitcoin the most in my personal circles are known to be experts in wishful thinking and outlandish claims about the world in general.

Having said that, smart contracts are actually really cool. In practice a bank is probably just as good in the developed world but — darn it, I want to make clever money programs too. Also, there are alt coins that have much better privacy preserving properties and superior (energy efficient) consensus algorithms so there are still reasons to be hyped. It’s just that most of the web3 stuff doesn’t seem to touch the actually interesting possibilities in favor of ‘go blockchain, Bitcoin to the moon!’
Open source has been serving big tech for the past 15 years. Millions of man-hours to build better tools for the cloud overlords. Structure everything to fit the needs of amazon and apple, not the little guy who self-hosts a forum. Mozilla was abandoned. There is no open-source mobile phone. The web became a bad fascimile of mobile app platforms. Google doesn't care to integrate touch-interfaces and functionality in the browser. Academia jumped in the cloud as well.

Why do we even need the internet at this point? Google has stored all the content and amazon and cloudflare carry all the traffic. They 'd be far better off with optimized proprietary centralized protocols instead of the distributed mess that is tcp/ip.

Maybe that's what the internet needs, competition from another network

We also need to be able to pay for little stuff. Remember game arcades? All you needed to play a game was a coin, anonymous, impersonal, not-tracked, easily accessible and effortless to use, and it made them sustainable. Try to ask your users for $1, it's entirely impossible considering the fees and dangers involved. We need anonymous mini transactions like this for the internet. Browsers should implement it, and it can be secured with legal limitations (e.g. your wallet cannot spend more than $200/month on websites).
What I mean is that you need it to use an increasing number of private and public services these days.

Speaking from my experiences in Europe and South Asia.

So effectively companies and the government are telling us that we need one of these to get avail conveniences and in some cases to be able to use their service at all…

With policies that mandate the use of digital vaccine certificates, apps and QR codes being ubiquitous, we’re effectively being forced to become a customer of Apple or Google one way or another

I cannot enter or place an order at most coffee shops today without a smartphone
Haven't tried Neeva but I can vouch for Kagi.

Also search.marginalia.nu puts a smile on my face almost every time I use it :-)

(I should try Neeva, I keep hearing good things about it.)
1) There is a precedence for twitter posts in HN: https://harishgarg.com/writing/hacker-news-front-page-tweets...

2) How am I breaking the guidelines? "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

The person writing the twitter post is the author of "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" so I believe his comment does follow the On-Topic criteria as he is a renowned person in the science community.
Isotope (Picture Language)
> there is only one reason the media rejected the lab-leak hypothesis - it was forwarded by Trump

Nonsense. There is media outside the US, and no one really cared about that.

The problem has been that literally no one in charge had any interest to investigate. Obviously not China, but the US was involved in the gain of function research in Wuhan too; France/EU knew about the problems there.

And rightfully so, the first few weeks of media coverage were focused on other things than pointing fingers. Trump talking about blame, was seen as a distraction from the catastrophic handling of the pandemic by the administration - and there was clear evidence for that.

I think we will never know the origin of this virus, but we can prevent a possible lab leak in the future, outlaw gain of function research and internationally enforce lab safety standards on the highest political level.

Regardless of causation/correlation, that lab in Wuhan could have been the source of this pandemic, which killed 5.5 million so far and crippled the world economy for 2 years and counting: The french withdrew collaboration, because the lab wasn't meeting standards for the proposed risky research, and the exact gain of function seen in SARS2 was proposed to be researched there.

The possibility of a lab leak should not have existed in the first place. We can prevent a next pandemic of lab origin, now.
Not saying your prefs are wrong but just fyi: hot drinks are best in hot weather, people who live in the desert (arabs, nomads for example) have traditions where they drink coffee or tea at high noon very hot. Same with cold weather, iced drinks and ice cream are best when the weather is cold.

The reason they told me is that your sensitivity to temperature is relative to your internal temp. Drinking a hot drink raises your internal temp, reducing the relative gap with the outside temp and therefore making you feel less hot. Salty food and hydration are adequate to let your body naturally stabilze to the temperature. Of course there are limits.
Here's the publication, in case anyone would like to read it: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c06801

"Nanometer-Scale Ge-Based Adaptable Transistors Providing Programmable Negative Differential Resistance Enabling Multivalued Logic"

Seems like it's behind a paywall, though.

Edit: Here's a public PDF, seems to be the right article: https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_298561.pdf
This sort of thing makes me think fondly of using Fortran many years ago (I forget which version).

Then every subroutine was separately compiled into a separate object file. The linker linked only those that were actually used (if I remember correctly).

Of course there was no dynamic dispatch so it wasn't difficult to prove what was and wasn't needed.
> I'm also a little worried about putting a lot down because prices might go down when interest rates go up.

Get married, move to a cheaper place - remote work is all the rage now after all - and use that cash to buy some real estate without the need for any mortgage (in this order or the other way around, your choice). You'll gain the financial security of having your own home, the social security of having a family and the freedom to explore whatever befits you. Who cares what interest rates or housing prices do, you're not affected by either.

Source: I more or less did this and have never looked back with regret.
I would’ve gone for savings, definitely. I think it’s the most cost effective way to get things sorted, second best would be to ask friends/family since I’m guessing it would be an interest -free loan.
It’s not disgusting, it’s a superb feature of shell scripting and a manifestation of feature composition. That you can write things like `while git diff --exit-code` is delightful.
The privileged (finally I can use that word!) set of people having access to Stallman's office in MIT does not represent the free software movement in any way. The people who complained have most likely not contributed anything to free software.

Stallman's five stupid statements haven't impeded the free software movement in any way for decades. What actually harms the movement is corporate involvement by parasites and hypocrites, who are using social justice as a wedge to either take credit for projects they didn't write or to destroy the movement.
Is "race-based discrimination" always "racism"?
The HN audience, friendly as it is, is probably not your best advisor on these matters.

Your accountant or tax adviser should have advised you about this ages ago. Either improve communication with your current accountant or fire him and get a new one able to properly answer this question.
I've been hearing "web3" since '05.
Seems possible, but risky. You could end up with mutations that go the other way too. Imagine something super contagious and virulent escaping the lab by accident and killing millions of people.
This thread is painful. I love coffee like a Finnish developer only knows, but I had to give up drinking it due my Meniere's disease. Sometimes I relapse and have a half a cup only to realize later that it was a mistake.

But I used to have my coffee black.
Inflation is worst for the rich with piles of cash sitting around (and it incentives them to invest which is beneficial too).

For workers it’s not a disaster if wages rise. For people with mortgages it can be great.
In my opinion, there are two big things that Kernel brings to the table:

1) Arguments are not automatically evaluated before being passed to the underlying "operative" in Kernel-speak. This is important because it obviates the need for the macro machinery. This is fairly similar to Tcl.

2) Environments are first-class in Kernel. This is important because you can now constrain the scope explicitly. Do I want to evaluate this in the defining context (lexical scope)? Do I want to evaluate this in the calling context (dynamic scope)? Do I want to evaluate this is global or initial scope? All of these things are possible because environments are a thing that can be passed around.

The downside is that this level of mutability seems to constrain the ability to pre-compile things.

One of the "problems" that I would consider Tcl to have is that certain "atoms" don't self-evaluate. There's really no good reason for why you have to write:

% if 1 {expr 2} else {expr 3}

instead of

% if 1 2 else 3

And no good reason why you can't write:

% + 1 2

3

instead of

% expr 1 + 2

3

This seems like going gratuitously out of the way to avoid "looking like Lisp" which was in its down phase by 1990.
I intend to use the prompts to learn python scripting in blender. Geometry nodes are great and I love the instant feedback, but for anything requiring iteration or recursion it can be quite cumbersome as there is no loop node yet.

Alex Martinelli does some really cool stuff with cellular automata and I'd love to be able to get similar results in blender.

https://twitter.com/5agado/status/1476121617415745536
The point I was attempting to make is that what you are looking for doesn't exist within the realm of authentic websites made by people. The only ones making content to match such a query are deliberately attempting to match it because there is so little quality content. So what you get is at best the sort of useless content mills that seem to crop up on Google.
Daniel Ives: Apple’s Services biz alone is worth $1.5T
To me it's the one thing that truly does. I've been here ten years and I think the moderation is the unsung reason it's survived and manages to keep going. It's actually not obvious at all how personal and deep the moderation is until you get on the wrong side of it. If you've never been banned, it's like the invisible protocol that keeps communication flowing smoothly; you don't ask what that protocol is if it doesn't break down. It's quite subtle, at times almost sublime in that it's capable of weighing humanity against dread/mob/internet. So in my observation over many years, I think that is definitely what has made this site unique.
I think of the Internet as a subculture, like a music scene: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

It started with geeks working in labs doing cool shit with computers on government grants. They figured out the technical aspects. This is circa 1980 and earlier.

Then came the early adopters. They recognized the potential and wanted nothing more than to do cool shit with computers, and so they did. They used the technology invented by the geeks with the same spirit of the geeks, for they themselves were geeks. This was circa 1990.

Next came the mops. They saw early adopters and geeks doing cool shit, and wanted to do cool shit too, but they lacked the wherewithal to do it. But they stuck around because they were happy enough to watch others while they did cool shit. This was circa 2000.

Next came the sociopaths, who said things like "They trust me — dumb fucks". And that was it, that was the beginning of the end. Once the sociopaths came on the scene, everything good about the scene was done. No longer was the scene about doing and watching cool things; it was about sociopaths extracting value from "dumb fucks" who didn't know any better, and there were plenty of them at that point. The geeks were powerless to stop them - the technology was well thought-out and commoditized. Other geeks were then in the employ of sociopaths, executing their will. This was circa 2010.

And really, at this point the sociopaths control so much of the space (as they always end up doing, because that's what they aim to do and no one tries to stop them) that they can just pay geeks to reshape their creation in the sociopath's image (see Web 3.0). This is where we are now.

What usually happens at this point is a long, slow decline of the scene as the sociopaths take over and wage a scorched-earth campaign in search of profits. Everything is monetized to the hilt until there's nothing left. If at any point there is an aspect that remains unexploited, it will soon be exploited by a waiting sociopath. This is the future of the Internet.

That's my theory at least. The Internet is user hostile because the people who own the biggest chunks of the Internet really do view you as a "dumb fuck" that deserves to be exploited.
As follow up to my sibbling comment, it appears that SmallBasic is pretty much done.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/678792/wh...
One starting point may be stackexchange [1] I would lurk for a while and see how questions are revised.

[1] - https://security.stackexchange.com/
While I agree that the shared text is more on the "angry rant" side of things, the offending article does a more than sufficient job at discrediting itself without any external help.

With wonderfully absurd sentences like "the notion that differences among humans could be explained by genetics, inheritance *and other biological mechanisms* [emphasis added]", this article should not need any explaining as to why it should never have been published.
Using the method in the article, it should be possible to restrict access to the Shortcuts app itself to certain times (for example to between 5am and 6am ;)), so that the original shortcut can’t be disabled at any time.

I can confirm that screen time doesn’t really work unless a different person controls the code.
Try searching for movie name + torrent for example
The reason? Too many users.

If you don’t want to tolerate something there’s always another user who will. We think of users as more like cattle that have to be herded through various funnels and protected from wolves (hackers).
same, especially things like long weekends 3 weeks before a deadline, feels like im just delaying the envitable
What kind of experience does a regular Second Life player have? Is it like a sandbox for grown ups, like Minecraft for instance?
Not sure if you still have shares but heard they are doing an IPO so you might get a small windfall?
Unfortunately subjective criteria are not alternatives to objective criteria but are generally applied in conjunction with them. From my experience, in the past one year and a half I've been interviewing at several companies, and I've done over 20 different code challenges. Even though I passed 90% of those code challenges, only 1 company gave me an offer and that's the company I'm working for right now. Other companies just rejected my application because I wasn't a "cultural fit" or something.
“It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.”

Fantastic! I can see where Derek Lowe got his writing style inspiration.

Today, he writes about the world of medicines. His Twitter feed is excellent if you want to know more about some of the finer details about COVID related medicines: https://twitter.com/dereklowe?s=21.
In practice crypto isn’t used much as a medium of exchange, though, and when you try to cash in your coins you will get nailed for any evasion or criminal behavior. It’s possible that buying things directly with crypto will become more widespread, but expect this to trigger more laws and reporting requirements so that your transactions can be taxed.
The dominant force in the handheld market is mobile gaming, is it not? Nintendo sold barely 100 million Switch units in five years - that's about how many smartphones are shipped each month.