skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the wikipedia page you linked:

> Molnupiravir is indicated for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in adults with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, and who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.[1][5]

So after the risk of creating mutations in the Covid virus has been assessed and weighed against the chances of patients just outright dying due to not having this medicine available, the board full of medical professionals trained in this matter voted 13 to 10 that they thought the risk was acceptable.
I find this atricle to be rather hollow basing rather big claims on just the success of AlphaFold and Facebook's ability to manipulate people.

Scientific theories will continue to be the pillar of scientific understanding.

Just because we are able to make predictions without preexisting theories (eg. croudsourced protein folding) and just because we are able to make machines capable of making predictions without preexisting theories, does not mean that the nature of scientific understanding changes.

An entity making (even accurate) predictions is an oracle.

Scientific understanding is the deconstruction of the oracle, not the reliance on the oracle.
IIRC, coroutines are split internally into function calls, so switching to a task is actually just a function call from the event loop, in the same call stack.

Threads have separate stacks. Surely this costs at least a little, and adds up with the number of threads?
It's a patchset over firefox removing so called "antifeatures". Anyway being the last commit 34 years old I wonder how do they actually remove the Mozilla VPN ads.
How good or bad is your Startup/Company's ESOP Policy?
Ask HN: Anyone know any epic partnership blowups or VC/founder breakups?
There's so much on the internet about how to amicably breakup between VCs/founders corporate partnerships etc. Seems well intentioned but I'd love some real world examples of things that didn't break up well but ended up well at least for one side. Not as interested in founding team break ups (lots of those documented).
Okay.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/01/25/data-show-racial-bi...
TeXmacs Fork: Mogan (lightweight Markdown editor) plan for 2022
Given the latency for big projects we’d likely have at least a somewhat clear idea of what that storage would be approximately now. Do we?
Amazon had one click buying patented for a long time. It should have expired by now but I don't know whether there's any mechanism to extend it.
Or Rails/Hotwire.
> They are trying to ignore COVID and carry on as usual.

Seems like aren't really ignoring it at all. Everyone is freaked out and their behavior doesn't match the state of "ignoring" at all.
Two points:
1. It’s common (and I think ethical and prudent) to charge for enterprise management of security features. Microsoft, for example, has had a long running practice that in the box with Windows you get everything you need to manage that one system. If you want to manage many systems, you buy a product that does that.

2. I HAVE seen a dark pattern, particularly in “Freemium” software, where security primitives like encryption and access controls are upsells. If you expect me to store my data in your SaaS platform then I believe you owe it to me to provide baseline security controls. Put another way, it’s not freemium, it’s “not-fit-for-purpose trialware” if basic security controls aren’t provided.
Given that we still don’t know the mechanism by which variants achieve their increased fitness I’m a little suspicious of claims of using “AI” to identify new variants.

Claims that spike affinity for ACE2 (or indeed changes to the spike protein at all) haven’t been conclusively proven to increase fitness as far as I know. It’s possible that this tool is simply overfit to the known variants and wouldn’t detect a new one.

I’d be interested to hear what real virologists think of this.
If you want to skip to the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjjSqfp75g
Thanks for the love! Glad you found it useful.

One of the things I enjoy about ExtensionPay is that it really de-risks monetizing extensions — even for my own extensions! I can just throw ExtPay in and see if it makes any sales without spending weeks on the infrastructure.
If the USPTO gets to keep any part of the fees it charges, it is heavily incentivized to allow silly patents through the "non-obvious" gate. Defining "non-obvious" might be tricky, but fixing the incentives would be comparatively straightforward if they are half as broken as they appear to be.
I have also noticed that and it has been really difficult to search for obscure error messages now.
Physics and History of Why USA uses 120 volts and not 220 volts
I see that data is from 2020. I wonder how it has changed in 2021, I hope they publish soon
Cool! Can you recommend any reading resources for getting into hardware design?
On the other hand, socketed parts are prone to corrosion at the contacts in adverse conditions. My old x61 had some issues with the SO-DIMM socket corroding from all the time in my bike bags.

Soldered-down ram and an add-on socket has seemed like a nice compromise to me.
So interesting that we're comparing to buzzfeed, who also has a fairly good investigative journalism group!

Here's a rather interesting one: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/collection/wwfsecretwar
The order of authors varies by field. I believe in biology it usually starts with the person who did most of the work (or people, but if more than one it's explicitly noted), everyone who contributed in the middle, principal investigator (i.e. head of lab) last.

In this case I notice that they first sorted all the instadeep people to the front, and biontech people to the end... not sure what I'm supposed to take away from the ordering, but it's not random.
I'm always hesitant to use such patched versions because you have to trust your security to some 1 random anonymous stranger on the internet.

Also because they tend to be someone's hobby project and when they get bored of it (as we all do) you'll be left with an unpatched security nightmare. Which is exactly what happened with Librefox. Looks like it was last updated 3 years ago and is abandoned.

https://librewolf.net/ seems to be a fork, but I have the same reservations..
I checked out the StackOverflow dark theme, the brown background was too bright for my eyes for a dark theme, but for this HN UI the Comments in the Story views do have a light grey background, so you must be referring to the Main page Story titles on black
Constant, needless, routine-breaking UI or UX changes. Really difficult to not get pissed off when features or hotkeys you've used for 10+ years are suddenly changed without warning and for no remotely justifiable reason.
After reading the story about Google taking away a feature from their speakers, due to a patent dispute with Sonos, I can't help but wonder if the reason Google does such a terrible job at messaging has something to do with patents. Maybe they know they need to compete with iMessage but just can't because some patent farm or other company got there first?
Would you agree that every business needs to find ways to earn money?

If we agree on that, could you agree that using a "free" service might be free only in the sense that you don't pay any money but instead they use your attention to sell ad space which in turn pays for their bills?

Me personally, I don't see anything wrong with that.
I agree that the Go deployment model is generally a dream compared to Python. However, the other part of the equation is having access to mature and complete frameworks like Django (a high quality package blending best practices and common patterns), for which I'm not sure there's an equivalent (yet) in Go.
I can guarantee that plenty of people use SMS in Europe.

In fact, here is a small taste only with French data, which I guess is still an European country.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1188330/sms-traffic-volu...
I am 99.9999999999999999% sure it's regulations.
Just Repaired the DDD Game
Yeah. I'm not sure it was a "good" use of time (whatever that means) but I do miss browsing book stores and record stores--especially used ones. I still do it from time to time but, to be honest, it's mostly a "for old time's sake" sort of thing. The music is almost certainly available streaming and there's an almost infinite number of books available for purchase/download (with reviews) online as well.
By writing in this style, you try to imagine what an ancient person who sees the world today would describe it as.

I do not know exactly why, but this style of writing is profoundly alienating to me. I think it's because it sounds like it is before our "rational turn" during the enlightenment and renaissance.

I don't mean this in a bad way, but I think your utilization of it is not compelling on its own for your point.
Well because of this I’ll never buy another Sonos product, and recommend everyone I know to something else. I wonder if lost revenue from people like me will make up for any gains here.
Great find. I would've worded this differently then.
> I absolutely understand why SAAS companies tax SSO.

You don't mention all advantages to the SAAS company to have their customers using SSO, though: improved customer stickiness, happier end users, and no more liability for stored password hashes. Charging for SSO is false economy.
Can we get a source on that? I've successfully used guniron for APIs getting hundreds of thousands to millions of requests a second.

I've also found it's best to question anytime someone suggests a technology "doesn't scale."
Yeah, but we have multiple catastrophes already, despite the vanishingly small number of nuclear plants. If we want to increase the number of nuclear stations by 10x, we need to make them 10x safer just to keep the number of catastrophes at the same 1/30y level. Do you have an idea how to make a nuclear plant 10x safer comparing to today?
>Instead of some cool college student suggesting an old 80’s film, Netflix tells you to watch it’s new 50 million dollar movie. While I love the internet , the world feels less fun now. So many multi billion dollar companies nudging me in this direction or that direction…

This is exactly what I haven't been able to put into words without sounding and feeling like a giant hipster douche. It's not about finding smaller, unknown songs/bands/films. It's about the experience of sharing.

I know that the guy at the record store has nothing invested in suggesting this weird little indie band to me outside of being a fan and wanting to spread the word. Whereas I know that Netflix is going to suggest to me what will keep me hooked and what they need to see a return on their investment.

The internet has 100% made the world less fun. More accessible, sure, but way less fun now that it's mostly corporate (or at least seems that way).
It doesn't even need to be physical media. I switched from buying CDs and ripping them to MP3, to just buying MP3, once I realised that the bit that I value most is simply having a finite music collection that I know well. I take my music collection with me by running a Plex server on a Raspberry Pi at home - some of it isn't available on streaming services. (A couple of albums aren't even available to buy any more, in any format.) I wouldn't say I know every single album in it like the back of my hand - but I'm at least familiar with them all, and that gives me a lot of satisfaction.

I do still use streaming services occasionally when I want something my library doesn't cover - say I'm really in the mood to explore UK grime music one day, or 90s dubstep the next. But I find it a very different experience to listening to old familiar songs.
Today we're in a 24-hour brownout period to help folks find places they might have forgotten which rely on unencrypted git:// protocol. The date where this will go away permanently is still March 15, 2022.

(I'm the product manager for Git Systems at GitHub.)
Social Media rewards polarized, highly motivated points of view. This isn't a "both sides" thing, it's a human nature thing.

These highly polarized posts never change anyone's minds. They only make people more motivated. It can be good to be more motivated, but the cost is driving a wedge between people who are differently motivated.

So how can tech solve this?

I have no idea, but people can help by having conversations with a few points in mind:

1. You can't change their mind. If your goal is to change someone's mind, you've set yourself up for failure. Facts don't change minds, yelling certainly does not.

2. You must listen. Try to hear principles that you share. Ask questions about what motivates them.

3. Speaking from shared principles and sharing personal stories can help build common ground.

The problem? These things DON'T SCALE. I don't think this works except on a 1x1 or small group level.

I really don't know how tech can address this.
Sonos makes products that are best in class?
If Homo Erectus had any similarity at all to us, then some young blood decided one summer to take a walkabout, for no reason.
The core problem is that for someone knowledgeable in the field, everything becomes straightforward, but the further away you are from the field, the more novel it becomes -- this is true across the board. Even the great accomplishments where people win Nobel prizes, often it can be argued that it was going to happen anyhow because it was the next step in scientific progress given the context.

Thus defining "non-obviousness" is super hard to do -- because it is all context dependent and humans are like a million monkeys inventing everything that can possibly be invented in aggregate.
While PHP is adding a First class callable syntax in 8.1, first-class-functions have been available in PHP since 5.3.0 (Released Jun 2009) going by the Wikipedia definition:

> This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from other functions, and assigning them to variables or storing them in data structures.

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59293198/368328, https://3v4l.org/rQGk2
This is pedantic. Everybody knows about evolution and natural selection and the intricacies behind the process, it's old news.

Energy flows into and out of a system in a way where the configuration of particles begins arranging itself in lower and lower entropy formulations. The net entropy of the universe remains forever increasing but within this system it begins lowering. One of these low entropy formulation begins self replication imperfectly thereby introducing memory and mutation into the system allowing complexity to build on itself thereby producing particle configurations of immense low entropy and complexity.

Is there any "intent" in the description above? No. But you must consider the factor below:

Clearly your hands weren't designed with an intelligent intent. Yet there is something different about your hand then there is a rock. What is the word used to describe this difference? "Design" flows better, that's it, no need to get into "illogical fallacies."

>We're finding microorganisms that can consume plastic. Does that mean they evolved for the purpose of eating plastic, a substance not typically found in nature?
>In my worldview, no, they weren't. They can consume plastic, but that has no bearing on their purpose,

I don't know if you can see this, but your argument here is not profound. You are making a linguistic argument. You are arguing for the definition of the word "Purpose" or "Design." We BOTH know EXACTLY what is going on with natural selection and "design" is simply an easier way to express a point that your hand is a lower entropy configuration of atoms that is clearly very efficient at grasping things. But my previous sentence is an inefficient way of saying it. I could just say your hand is designed for the purpose of grasping things and the rock is not.
It's impossible to make binding long-term promises in a democracy. Voters are allowed to change their minds, and the risk that they do that and completely destroy nuclear engineering as a career option is always present.

Something like software engineering is a much safer career option, because the risk that your country will categorically ban it is pretty low. And because it doesn't tie you to a small number of possible employers or force you to live in a specific location.
My dad who passed away some years ago on my 50th birthday, worked on the design for the AGR for many, many years. Fond memories of him picking me up from school and excitedly telling me the interesting problems he had to solve that day on the walk home. A lovely way to start my day - thank you for sharing.
Isn't the new wording more morally consistent?

It still means they are against slave labor, including those in Xinjiang, but not blindly banning anything from the region.
I'm all for cheap devices, but I can't believe they're releasing a new model with a 1366x768 (probably non-IPS) display in 2022...
Union wins representation at second U.S. Starbucks location
I use Firefox, and have used for a long time. My history with the browser has been marred with weird and frustrating changes that break the work flow, going back to when Firefox 2 completely changed how the URL bar worked.

I just want a browser that works. Why does the UI keep changing every other year? I would be very happy if it looked like Netscape. I don't care how the window looks, it's a tool, not a fashion accessory. I don't want to have to re-learn how to do things I've done for 20 years every few months. Why can't I have a menu at the top of the window like other windows do? Why can't my browser follow the same UI-conventions as other native applications?

I just don't get why they keep changing this stuff. It wasn't bad. It didn't get better. It just appears to have been changed for the sake of changing things. That's frustrating.

There's also a lot of hypocrisy that rubs me the wrong way. Mozilla talks big about privacy, but have you tried turning off Firefoxes telemetry? It's like half a dozen checkboxes you need to hunt down, and even then I'm not sure it's entirely disabled. Yeah I guess it's only bad when other people are doing it.
totally guessing here, but that's not the majority of use cases ;)
There is a booklet about Git integration: http://books.pharo.org/booklet-ManageCode/pdf/2019-03-24-Man...

For 2D graphics, Pharo uses Cairo binding named Athens (and Roassal as another convinient layer above that).

For 3D, you may be interesting in Godotalk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncmERef0EFo, https://pharoweekly.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/godotalk/)
I’ve been working in the infosec industry for some time now. I think that most of my peers are either aware of this practice, and see themselves as powerless or openly criticizing this issue. The criticism happens mostly inside of closed rooms and segregated areas (like Twitter bubbles).
The practice itself doesn’t qualify as a dark pattern though.

Respected infosec Podcaster Patrick Gray had a show recently about this topic exactly:

https://risky.biz/soapbox56/
I went on a tour round Torness a couple of years ago and it's a fantastic engineering marvel to mosey around.

A few things stand out, like the old-tech ring binders and Windows 95 screensavers on CRTs. The safety focus was clear. Nothing was done without a risk assessment, and the young apprentice who was helping with our tour was given a telling off by the tour staff as he wasn't holding the handrails - as had clearly been drummed into them.

What really struck me was how many people were involved in running the plant. I don't know how it compares to similarly sized gas plants, but there were hundreds and hundreds of people employed - mostly in project management/safety roles. I wonder how it compares to how many folk are employed in renewables, we have a lot of wind power here now.

It's a shame that cracks have started to form in the reactors so the plants will be shutdown earlier than planned. It looks like tours are suspended for Covid, but go round if they open up again before shutdown!
That seems much more like an idea than an invention to me.
They're talking about bioprinting which is a rapidly developing field, with a lot of recent successes in "printing" liver tissue:

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/tr-biofab-pulls-off-brea...

Being able to have a 3D printed liver is very plausible within the next decade.

https://www.3dsourced.com/guides/3d-printed-liver/
Interesting take. Here is my view:

If the American consumers of Intel chips -- the people and government actors -- are unhappy with Intel's stance then they can also not buy their chips. This is basically what the Chinese are doing (without owning shares). Now granted the Chinese people have little say in it but the government is ostencibly acting on their behalf. Even if China was a democractic country and the CCP could not ban Intel outright then the government or the people could say that they would not buy Intel chips.

So if Americans did the same to uphold their own belifes then Intel would suffer here and that would reduce the stock price, which would make it easier for people who want to take them to take the progressive position to buy the stock and force them to reverse their position.

The key take away is that there is no scenario in which both sides actuall care about the issue and Intel stock doesn't drop.

Since it doesn't it means that Americans do not care about it as much as the Chinese, or do not know how to express their displeasure :)
> mainly 13-19 year-old idiots

Maybe they are "idiots", but that age group still commits their fair share of violent crimes: https://www.statista.com/statistics/424130/us-violent-crime-...
This post has amazing timing.

I just spent hours yesterday involved in the vaccination discussion thread, which is rare for me.

Cause for a bit of self-reflection.
> Heres my main reasoning: I trust open source and the governance and operations around it. Chromium the engine is open-source licensed permissively, way more hackable than Firefox, and has a ton of organizations work on it actively (even more if you include derivative projects like CEF and Electron)

And what if they stop? Or what if they bring the development into something you don't like anymore? Hard forking a giant codebase like Chrome's is basically impossible for anyone nowadays, so you are stuck with Google's decisions for Blink and Chromium. We still need Firefox.
> No regular buyer or seller has the capital to affect the market price in any significant way

Which is absolutely not the case in crypto, further evidence of how illiquid it is.
Being apparently able to erase old style glass top EPROMs with a camera flash is perhaps a bit less surprising than random power components messing up. UV light exposure is how you erase them normally, although you normally use lower light levels for longer, not a short bright camera flash.

I do think they need to buy higher grade sticky labels to cover the window with though. :-)
Does anyone think bash is good though, like some people on this thread seem to believe about PHP?
Aren’t people in prison to get rehabilitated? They don’t really repay anything to society by working for pennies for a prison run by a private company.

In fact you could argue that prisoners are stealing job from others by working for next to nothing.
how does it fail to boot? error messages or is it evidently a brick?

the time frame says "capacitor discharge" as a twitch diagnosis; check PSU, RAM, NVRAM, flash (SSD) .. but i dunno what to check for other than "any hinky behavior"

More information would of course help. This could be an issue with "software suspend" from your description, too.