skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the main page to view New Stories, Top, and Hot stories without needing to refresh the page. Latest Comments are nice to have on the side to see what people are discussing. Hide columns if you are not using them. I think the main feature though is the Story view, I like collapsed top-level comments and clicking on comment body to easily expand/collapse (works well on Mobile), and getting notified with link to new comment while in Story view. You can leave the page open and come back later and see new comments. I just added new feature: tab title gets updated with new comment count so you can see how many new comments while in other tabs

Login was going to add if people like the page. From what I understand there is no HN OAuth, so people would need to enter username/password which is a negative. There is a nice search feature but it is hidden, I want to integrate it better with the site. Feedback is appreciated
> Imagine you have a wife and your wife is being drilled by everyone and you can't do anything about it.

Some people are into that, I try not to judge :)
At Lockheed when I worked there, everyone worked M-Th. Friday was the one flex day that was in play depending on which working arrangements an employee chose.
Does anyone have any experience of dealing with this in the UK? I’ve waited 7 months to get a date for an echocardiogram appointment for further investigation, previously the doctors just put it down as anxiety. When I thought I was having a heart attack I was told the ambulance would be 3 hours.
Agree. I really like the dense/space saving presentation. It reminds me of these stock exchange screens.
No, we really don't need a way to say get the last version from 5 minutes ago.

We need to get the version that we tested with and know works, which is what it does. When we need to update, we say what version we want.

Java can be a pain, but I'm very glad it doesn't handle dependencies like npm.
Thanks, that's nice to know about the swappability. I don't know if my X220 keyboard issue is with the keyboard itself or on the motherboard side. I inspected the tiny ribbon cable connector pretty carefully and didn't see any problems with it. The symptom was that a few of the keys stopped working, then more of them, and finally it seems all of them. Maybe I can try temporarily swapping in another keyboard. I think I have one that I can try.
I do agree. Work and school are those special places where "COVID doesn't spread", according to the powers that be.
Simple: "high-level corruption" isn't part of Europol's mandate (see https://www.europol.europa.eu/about-europol), so it's unlikely that they have data on that in the first place.
> ... I'll seriously consider a regular non-ML position.

What about asking for more money at the end? Multi-stage complex interview process eliminates more candidates. Some, like you say, will opt for a developer gig instead, probably because ML wasn't something they were interested in to begin with. That narrows down the list of candidates even more. Either "play the game" and ask for more money or don't play the game at all. Let employers pay extra for polished candidates.
Say No to Screenshots
All I see there is poorly-presented correlations that ignore a constantly changing environment. Looks like someone picking and choosing numbers to support the position they want to take, while ignoring all the other data and evidence that disagrees.

Where I live, in California, there has been a months-long-and-holding-steady trend that vaccinated people have much lower cases per capita and much, MUCH lower deaths per capita. Total cases went up when we relaxed restrictions which coincided with when vaccines were widespread. That's not the same as vaccinations causing those higher total case numbers! Now total case numbers are going up again due to seasonal factors + omicron having a lot of mutations; it's too early to say just yet exactly how the vax/unvax per-capita numbers will look for this wave when it's over. As of Dec 26, it was tracking pretty similarly, though[0]... it seems to blow up that dude's case: many fewer vaccination doses are being given now than during the last big waves!

EDIT: here are the money bits that I would need to see really compelling evidence to believe are coincidental/misinterpreted/etc:

* From December 20, 2021 to December 26, 2021, unvaccinated people were 3.9 times more likely to get COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

* From December 13, 2021 to December 19, 2021, unvaccinated people were 10.1 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

* From December 6, 2021 to December 12, 2021, unvaccinated people were 16.6 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

Transmission, severity, and death, all. And that's after the omicron variant reached the state, especially for transmission, though admittedly before it has peaked (it possibly hasn't even peaked yet, still).

[0] https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#postvax-status
Now I wonder if someone who got meat alergy after a tick bite could eat these pigs. Is this the same alpha gal in both cases?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
Respectfully, that's your opinion, most of what you said is subjective and emotional, I disagree with your interpretations.

Since you brought it up, let's discuss it, what's your hypothesis on the cause of this death uptick?

Please put us "on the right side of science", which apparently Dr. Malone is on the wrong side of due to his hypothesis, not his contributions.

But to test these hypotheses, we would require investigation into the deaths, which maybe Dr. Malone was just trying to get people to look at.

--

For those interested in seeing the topic you're referencing for themselves:

https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insuran...

> “And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.

> and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64”

> Most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as COVID-19 deaths, Davison said.

> “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”
IMO TeX has been such an incredible contribution that, while the art of computer programming is a wonderful series, if I were Knuth I'd be able to rest easy in my old age. The man accomplished so much, he has my sincere admiration
Up-thread there is a comment that the Major on the semver was updated. Which is correct? Was it Major or Patch number?

Edit to Add:
According to this page https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker

The previous version was 5.x.y and the endgame version was 6.6.6

So, which tools defaulted to magically bumping the dependency from 5.x.y to the 6.x.y? Seems like jumping a major shouldn't automatically happen.
Apparently it's both:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytomegalovirus

Most cases of mono are caused by EBV, but CMV primarily presents as mono, and sometimes pneumonia.

EBV/mono is another common childhood illness with lots of nasty potential chronic complications, including lymphoma, other cancers, CFS, and autoimmune diseases like lupus, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Have you used Go? Updating a module is easy and it uses exactly the solution described above.
This isn't the problem being discussed: when something like log4j happens, everyone in the world needs to update. The difference is if one of your dependencies pin 2.14.0, you either have to wait for that project to also ship an update or do something more complicated whereas if they specify less than version 3 you can immediately ship that patch.

Something like log4j or many packages in the NPM world are so widely used that on any non-trivial project the odds approach certainty that multiple dependencies will specify versions. The more specific the pin, the more likely it is that you'll be unable to ship a security update without risk of a functional change or blocking incompatibility. You can mitigate that with good CI/CD infrastructure and lots of automated testing, but that means taking on more infrastructure expense.
My understanding is that the really interesting thing about eukaryotes is their complexity, especially of their genomes and all the machinery needed to maintain them. Eukaryotic cells are just really complex overall compared to bacteria, tons of weird organelles all over the place. The arrival of mitochondria is kind of a red herring by comparison, in my view; we know cellular endosymbiosis has happened a bunch of times so it's not special.

I'll grant my view is mainly driven by the question of how much complex life exists off of Earth, and therefore how hard/unlikely it was for Earth life to reach its current complexity. If it happened a bunch of times on Earth it's probably not a blocker, and therefore not relevant to my interests. :D

Anyway, the evolutionary gradient that drove complexity in the genome is what I'd really like to know about. How it works, how it got started, why it apparently only happened once, etc.
There was a major push few years ago, but it died down. Basically performance benefits of built modules weren't worth it and with that standard library proposal also lost momentum.
Wouldn't most carriers have peering relationships with Apple for Apple TV content? Presumably iCloud Private Relay traffic could be sent over that connection as well, meaning that of all the VPN-esque solutions, Apple's is the most efficient from a traffic exchange perspective.

(Of course, it was likely never about the traffic exchange itself, but rather the ability to route, shape, and track traffic dynamically on a host-by-host basis, as others have speculated.)
John Oliver called out a number of similarly interesting names on The Bugle: https://youtu.be/Q-i1M1Oh3h0?t=220
I don't understand how the former is more comforting. Military inferior enemy with one successful attack is preferable. It is safer the sinister plan inside.
I've spent about 1,000 hours on this with my team using a very expensive (~$250k) lab and I'd love for this to be a great resource for people when choosing a mask.

The heavy lift we are doing here is around our particulate filtration efficiency test in which we do either the NIOSH N95 NaCL (0.3 micron) test or the ASTM 0.1 micron latex particle test.

I'd love HN feedback on how we improve the interface and make this a true resource for people.

Disclaimer: Yes, I'm a mask manufacturer and that's how I justify keeping all of this equipment up to spec, but I'm not big enough to make all of the masks for the world so I'd rather people find a good mask than just use my mask.

Any feedback is appreciated.
But there's a solution where the camera is in a general position. See this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29877311
Careful, or they might eventually become a human heart attack!
If you're mutating any object, it is necessarily a value with reference semantics, period. Objects that do not have reference semantics are immutable.

Some objects that cannot be mutated (like numbers) can have reference or value semantics depending on how they are implemented. For instance, a bignum integer always has reference semantics. Small integers usually have value semantics: they fit into a machine word with no heap part. In that case, all instances of the number 0 or 1, and some range beyond that in both directions, will always be the same object according to eq.

If you're mutating an object (and, thus, something that has reference semantics), the difference that the reference semantics makes is that other parts of your program may hold a reference to that object; your code has not received a copy. If you haven't accounted for that, you probably have a bug.

Sure, this stuff isn't obvious; unless you already know another dynamic language like Ruby, Javascript, Python, ...

Complete neophytes have to be taught it from the fundamentals.
The IT Crowd Season 2 DVD Easter Eggs
wtf is an MFN and why can't you spell it the fuck out
Ok, thanks for the clarification. I got the impression that you were arguing for the "capitalist" viewpoint rather than just characterizing it, as that opinion seems to be somewhat popular here. My mistake if that was not the case.

For the record, my intention was to contrast that to the antiwork sentiment, and how it is understandable, if not a direct consequence, starting from the "capitalist" model of thinking about work.
It would probably have to be a gorilla, chimp, or orangutan to be big enough to work in an adult human, and those are all endangered species.
I started using Notion to organize and keep track of my digital life, including storing all of my bookmarks. It's been great so far, I can categorize the bookmarks and add notes and comments on them to get the gist of the information that is at the linked site. Before having bookmarks sucked because I had to go to the link and re-read the site to remember why I bookmarked it. Now I just write down little snippets of important information from the site, and I can just reference that instead.
Substitute COVID with the shots and your statement is just as relevant. Both a virus and a pharmaceutical can cause bad things to happen.
I'm continually astonished that discussion of the vaccines seems to continue as if we can't plainly see that they are totally ineffective at preventing infection and transmission, and that the virus is a very minor threat for non-elderly, healthy people. It's as if some people are living in a parallel universe where vaccinated people are not getting infected, and other people are still dropping dead on subway platforms in viral videos.
"Nothing will ever be prepended to this file" "we guarantee it"
You might want to add -b:

-b, --basename
Match only the base name against the specified patterns. This is the opposite of --wholename.

To ignore files which have .cfg somewhere in their path, but aren't called .cfg. Or you might not!
Plastic Liberated and Entombed Us
This is part of why cars cost $30k apiece. If open source maintainers saw the same kind of revenue as car component suppliers, there'd be a lot more paid QA jobs.
I've never been more excited about tech in my lifetime.

Fusion, Quantum Computing, Carbon Capture, AI, Robotics, Space Travel, Bioengineering. So many fields are undergoing massive revolutions. More I'm sure I'm forgetting or don't know about too.

My biggest problem is that I have to pick what to work on. I'm currently going with VR which I've fallen in love with the same way I originally did with computing.

At some point I plan to make some educational experiences that touch some of the other areas I mentioned so I can explore those ideas more too.
People who refer to anyone that doesn't believe their same exact dogma as conspiracy theorists are not worthy of good faith or respect.

There's nothing conspiratorial about wanting to do science to explore unknowns consequences of known potential outcome. I'm done entertaining respect for folks that claim otherwise. It's bad faith and just generally being an asshole. They can take it if they're gonna dish it out
mRNA has been in development for like 3 decades.
I've heard nicotine addiction described the same way by more than one person.

It's not about the cigarettes, it's about the smoke break, which gets you away from your desk, outdoors, and socializing with strangers.
> That includes leaving Facebook with $850 million USD in shares on the table for leaving early and telling people to delete their Facebook accounts.

Honestly this action was one of the things that really made me like Acton. It was more than words. Granted, he already had a few billion dollars at that point -- and I'm under the opinion that $2bn isn't much different from $1bn (except bragging rights) (current work 2.8bn[0]) -- but it shows that money isn't his (only) motivating factor. It is also pretty hard to tell people to leave something you built.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/profile/brian-acton/?sh=13ea0bdb5cfc
What about doing it the old fashion way and just stealing said information?
More the better. Makes me sleep good at night knowing my money are secured by the wall of energy. Also, mining is competitive business and more miners every day going off-grid plugging to energy source that would have been otherwise strained (solar, wind, hydro, flared gas, ..).
I'm typing this on my daily driver, a T500 (manufactured May 2009), and it's fine for Linux development workstation after a few tweaks.

The tweaks are to install SSD, max out RAM at 8 GB, swap in the second-fastest P-series CPU, and install an older and better T60 keyboard. The T500 is hopeless for anything GPU-heavy, but I have a GPU server for compute jobs.

Before moving from T60 to T500, I bought and tried a few newer models, but decided the T500 was the best balance for lines of code and laptop ergonomics (sadly, the T520 was just too wide and heavy to be comfortable using in all the laptop ways).

About the only compute-bound thing that's painful right now is a very small number Web sites that are doing grossly-inefficient JavaScript to secretly spy intimately on my browsing behavior, yet are not yet blocked by the uBlock Origin ruleset I maintain.
It looks like T-Mobile isn't actually preventing or blocking Private Relay, but that it doesn't function while T-Mo's Content Filtering is enabled. Here's more information on that.

https://tmo.report/2022/01/t-mobile-blocking-icloud-private-...

tl;dr - disable T-Mo Content Filtering on your account and PR will work just fine
Vaccines with far fewer negative side effects.
It's always interesting for me to read posts like this by (former) caffeine addicts (soda anyone?). I'm so sensitive to the stuff that if I have a full cup of coffee in the morning, or a soda in the afternoon, I sleep poorly that night - so I have to avoid caffeine as much as possible.

Is this what normal people feel like when I tell them that I got addicted to a video game?
Actually, the idea that humans may be primate-pig hybrids is one of the more believable explanations for our extremely unusual skin which is more similar to aquatic mammals than primates.
Sure but even a meagre 8% return on $950M is $76M. Buying and holding SP500 index funds in 2021 would have returned more than triple that, at 26% or so.

You can give away 50 mil a year and still get tens of millions dollars richer if you're sitting on $1B.

It's only "easy" to lose $1B if you have absolutely no idea what you're doing.
Sometimes it blows my mind that every 5 days I get two days off. You're off almost 30% of every week by default.
That’s trivial to disprove.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-hospitaliz...
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu: Can’t Help Myself (2019)
My father got a brand new cow valve a few months ago. He had to choose between that, a pig one and a mechanical one, each one is better for each specific case from what I understand. But yeah, crazy stuff.
Transplant recipients are on immunosuppressants forever anyway, so this is as inconvenient as receiving a human heart. And hey, it beats being dead!
Not quite, as the risk would be spread out. Lessening concentrated risk is providing real value.
"You're a Blizzard, Harry" is fantastic
Long ago, in the 90's, before the internet, there was a belief and a saying.

We believed that computers would increase people's thinking skills, would make them smarter.

The saying, by a famous snake oil seller back then was that computers were "bicycles for the mind" in the sense that they'd make the mind's efforts more productive. There are still videos around with that guy saying that.

We were soooo wrong...
it isn't. there was a recent Wall Street journal video on YouTube that tries to make a case for it. But it's just cryptocurrency shills trying to associate with the metaverse to sell useless plots of "virtual land" in a game no one will play. Instead of development efforts going into fun gameplay, the value prop comes from Ponzi scheming.
Yup, you're exactly right. I wrote it without thinking much (but wasn't fully serious), and didn't realize it would generate this much discussion. That's my bad for being a little careless with my rant. Thanks for clarifying it a little on my behalf.
Why not 4x6? Seems much nicer and I'll get just as much done as 5x8.
Makes me think we might have been able to use Jeffrey Epstein's heart after all
Polio has different vaccines for normal and pandemic situations IIRC so I’d expect the same thing.

I didn’t say there were no effects from the vaccine. The fever is enough to make it not worth taking current formulation boosters twice a year.
“It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running. If too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day.”

Twitter thread with more: https://twitter.com/artursciencenew/status/14805735457218764...
Yes – they also discussed this pretty extensively in the RadioLab segment.

In the second segment (linked by GP), they first re-played the previous segment (also linked by GP) about alpha-gal allergy. They then revealed that the company behind the alpha-gal safe pigs (which are being grown for medial research purposes) heard the previous one about the alpha-gal allergy, and after hearing it decided to seek FDA approval for alpha-gal safe pigs in the food market (which they received).
If we keep improving the whole animal, refining its physiology, appearance, personality, behaviour, judgement, presentation skills, longevity and resilience, the USA will eventually have the opportunity to elect a leader who can heal and unite a divided nation.
Mozilla – We need more than deplatforming (2021)
I see it more as attempt to protect against another similar action. Not so much to punish as in "teach him" or "get revenge".
All cars have to deal with the v squared air resistance, but EVs also have motors that get less efficient at higher speeds, and the more power you draw, the hotter your battery gets and that's a negative too. So really everything is aligned to punish you for going faster than a threshold speed.

With a convential vehicle, it's not so simple. A lot of things get worse, but engine efficiency is usually better with higher temperatures (which is why the VW TDI NOx emissions fix results in more CO2 emissions; NOx is a result of nitrogen in outside air being exposed to the hot engine, lowering the temperature reduces fuel efficiency and NOx production), and the gearing is designed to get maxium fuel efficiency at higher speeds. Of course, if it would be commercially acceptable, an engine and gearing could be designed to get max efficiency at a lower speed and have a 40 mph super efficient vehicle. Hybrids can do a lot better at running the engine near peak efficiency or having the engine off, allowing for higher mpg all over the speed spectrum.
I'm not sure what they said specifically but https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COLORS-2331906 and https://snyk.io/advisor/npm-package/colors show that the version went from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1.

Edit: your comment makes more sense now that I see it was talking about faker.js.
>What's a computer?

Apple trys to manipulate public opinion constantly.
There's a Mr Plow because that's his name, Mr Plow.
Is it censorship proof?
> I would think Apple has some leverage to force it if they really wanted.

No, because then people will ask why they also don't use the leverage to enable this feature in China/Russia/...
Mobile readable version: https://outline.com/ZAAtSk