skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking because I have no idea - Will other mRNA vaccines have short-lived efficacy like the covid one does? Will you need an AIDS vaccine booster every six months?
I did a little math of my own, and found that while the ratio of these distances is on the order of 10^15, the ratio of the sizes of these objects is on the order of 10^19.

In other words, Webb is only one TEN THOUSANDTH the apparent size of a galaxy that's a _billion light years away_

That's just mind numbing to consider!
TIL! I wonder why it isn't exported. There's also apparently a `Base.getpass`, that doesn't echo the entered characters and returns a `SecretBuffer`.
there was a 1-hour full outage at 0200 immediately preceding it. without inside info into what they're doing, I believe it's a combination of new cpe terminal firmware, satellite firmware/software loads, and more of the recently launched satellites being put into use at their intended orbits, so there's greater simultaneous satellite coverage over my area now.
I like projects like this; totally unnecessary, but fun in a kind of absurd way.

I tried to post a comment but I didn’t really want to fork your repo, is there no other way of doing it thru github’s api?
If you are interested about this topic (what OSes should do today) I can advise this talk: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-ke...

A bit long but I didn't get bored
I wish theoildrum was still running, since they devoted a lot of intellectual effort into exploring questions like this in great detail. For oil you need the Hubbert Curve: http://theoildrum.com/node/7072

Remember that depletion is asymptotic, so a possible answer is "never"; extraction just gets smaller and smaller. Individual wells work like this anyway, what comes out is an oil/water mixture at gradually reducing pressure. At some point it's uneconomic to pump and filter it, so it's capped off when not empty.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I often don't notice, and I've never heard anyone comment about those things. Most end users don't even know what those platforms are. Some apps look different than others just like some websites look different than others.
Is there a scientific consensus on 0.1g-7g/week of alcohol causing cancer? I know there are studies that exclude former drinkers in the reference group that purport it, but it's not clear to me.

And I have not seen studies that show <7g/week of wine drinking causing cancer.
>worse real-world outcomes

This is subjective. Pro social just means that its beneficial for a social relationship(s)
Airbnb Could Start Crypto Payments, Hints CEO
Hmmh, I'd think since much of JWST is i) one-off and ii) state-of-the-art, a lot of it was actually designed by PhD students, which are cheap.
And this is based on frequency correct? So frequency is direct component.

Right, frequency and wavelength are inverses of each other. You can turn one into the other by dividing the velocity by either, f=c/m or m=c/f. Of course c isn't really c, but depends on the transmission media.

Gain does not require amplification, the transmission gain of antenna is not based on it, nether is reception.

By default, power gain is what an RF engineer refers to when s/he talks about "gain." And that does require amplification. You can increase voltage or current through impedance transformation, but never both at once.
I heard about the study and wondered if they controlled for BMI. This correlates with both severe COVID and diabetes. They didn't control for this or many other relevant factors.

I don't know this doctor or his reputation. He seems even keeled and rational. Has anyone seen a response to the types criticisms he's raising? They all seem legit to me.
How do you know it increases IQ?
Very cool idea, and the results look great.

If I were using this practically, I would add a "fuzzer" to find intractable situations and add new tiles to fit them. You could even add a high cost to make certain tiles undesirable, so that the generator tries not to place them but can still use them to get unstuck.
In the US I think it's entirely up to the school. Or at least the accreditation bodies in different fields and regions.

When I was in school, one applied to "MS/PhD" programs most typically. And all imaginable variants existed in terms of funding and likelihood of leaving with only a MS. Some schools would fund no one till they finish the MS stage, and others would fund everyone from the beginning (just give every accepted student a full fellowship for the first couple years). And also some schools were pretty notorious for kicking people out at the end of the MS stage, with a difficult exam at this step or not enough advisors to take them on for the PhD.

One positive side, though, is if you wash out of a PhD program at any later stage, you at least walked away with a Master's.
Never come close at all. Been doing the multiple full time job thing for several years. As long as you're getting work done and communicating fairly well people don't seem to question things.

Getting the right meeting cadence down is the toughest part. I make sure to understand the company's meeting culture well before taking any offer. If the meeting schedule doesn't work I leave, it's the biggest factor in any job for me.
Somehow I never heard of Matrix until now. I'm now running Element with a bridge to the Libera IRC network. Thanks!
Any sources for your claims, I've read the opposite?

> Many double blind studies over the past 40 years have uniformly agreed that stimulants such as methylphenidate, dextro-amphetamine, as well as other substances, are very effective in the treatment of 70%–80% of children and adults with ADHD. One of the myths of ADHD is that ADHD children show a paradoxical effect of being calmed by stimulants, while “normal” individuals are stimulated by them. However, studies have shown that the activity levels are decreased and attention levels are increased by stimulants in individuals with and without ADHD. The difference is that since the levels of hyperactivity and inattention are much higher in ADHD subjects, the improvement is relatively much greater, giving the impression that they respond, while non-ADHD subjects do not.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC2626918/

I also have ADHD, and I feel like the medication benefits are vastly overstated. To use an analogy, I was lead to believe that the medication is as effective as opioids for severe pain, but my experiences have been about as effective as Ibuprofen for severe pain. I've tried many different formulations, brands, drug classes -- many of which multiple times at multiple dosages, and I don't feel "magical" yet.

I still take some meds because they're better than nothing, but I am starting to wonder if people are just being overly hyperbolic, and I had too great of expectations.
Can I use it to find foreign films? Right now my best option is yts torrent tracker[0] but there's a ton of hindi films which I don't really like.

Would be cool to find all non-english films from europe and america.

0: https://yts.mx/browse-movies/0/all/all/8/latest/0/foreign
If you pop a window, everyone puts on their oxygen masks and the plane makes an emergency descent. The point isn't that nothing at all can go wrong, but rather that the plane will get its occupants onto the ground safely even if something does.
> How does anyone (issuing bank, acquiring bank, Upwork, or contractor) figure out whether "the client was authorized by the cardholder to use the card"?

This is a reasonable question, but the answer is quite simple: The bank asks. You'd be surprised how readily cardholders admit to giving their card to someone.

If the cardholder claims charges are unauthorized, that claim is investigated as fraud, not as a billing dispute. In either case, for the amount of these charges, the bank would do more than a minimal investigation. Lying to pursue a chargeback for your own charges is just as fraudulent as someone else making unauthorized charges.
That's pretty close to my approach. I'd suggest not just limiting yourself to just the initial set of papers amassed in your "Review" step, though. Feel free to add new papers to your queue at any time if you come across an interesting term or citation. It's okay for this to be a breadth-first search.
UV A/B is oxidizing, which is why plastics left outside degrade rapidly, discoloration occurs, etc. It's bad for your eyes, bad for your skin in excess, and creates ozone in the air which is an environmental pollutant.

Normal indoor plants have no need for UV at all. Nor do most food plants -- greenhouse glass blocks UV, for instance.
comparatively "rich" countries might have a boom in seawall construction and coastal related construction, but I'm much less optimistic about places like Bangladesh.
I used to work on the Gmail spam filter. There weren't any rules or policies specifically about punishing small operators of course, but:

1. PBL (policy blocklist) was used like in all spam filters, to stop residential IPs sending mail. You can get yourself removed from this if you have a static IP normally just by asking.

2. Smaller senders are often sitting in cheap IP blocks that aren't too picky about the neighbours. Spam filters do use IP proximity as a signal for better or worse, so if you sign up with a company that doesn't do anti-abuse work then, well, all your IPs will have been heavily abused in the past. An individual IP can still stand out from the crowd but to do that, you have to get people to mark your mail as not spam, so there's a nasty catch 22 there. But fixing it seems fundamentally difficult. Something like what Authenticode does with EV certs might have worked.

One way to make progress here might be to have a SOCKS proxy service for SMTP-TLS connections, that does ID verification, requires large crypto deposits or has some other way to try and discourage spammers from signing up. Then if you have an account, the service will find and buy clean IPs and let you proxy through them. The service can sign up to exchange ARF spam reports from the major providers to locate abusers and shut them down before it's too late.

I'm not sure SOCKS provides quite enough detail to fight outbound spam properly, but you could also experiment with an SGX enclave. That way basic anti-spam logic like "is it DKIM signed, does it advertise SPF, is there an abuse reporting address in the headers" could be made auditable. You still face the question of "pray I don't alter the deal further", but just running some SMTP proxies isn't a very difficult task - kinda like a VPN service - so there'd hopefully be a competitive market of them.
Cryptoland [video]
Show HN: Keyboard Drill – Minimalist Typing Drill to fix common mistakes
I've created this small project to fix my own typing and thought you might benefit from it as well.

To calculate the WPM words with 5 letters are taken. To reach e.g. 80 WPM you'd have 150ms per character.

The application uses ~1000 most common english words and only gives you the next word once you've cleared the word in the calculated time.

The time is measured only as soon as you press the first key.

Give it a try.

Controls: [Space] or [Enter] to complete a word. [Esc] to move on to a next word

Click [wpm] to set your target speed. The default is quite low but you might still find words that you can't type within the time limit. Click [log] to see a log of your individual attempts.

How it was build:

No dependencies, single html file

Respects system preferences for dark them

Keyboard friendly (autofocus, tab & enter for settings, etc.)

Next up:

Using Service Workers to allow offline usage
One great advantage of these separate silicons is that side channel attacks are greatly mitigated; it's everything else that worries me (closed platform, no transparency, unusable once vendor stops supporting it etc)
I don't know, "act like I'm "working" for the rest of that time" sure sounds like there's intentional deception for financial gain.
Recently I started writing out all my ideas and designs of personal coding projects in a notebook of graph paper. It's pretty incredible how I can see and think about high level things (like general architecture) much more easily than if I'm in front of a screen staring at code or a project template. The cycle of thinking, building it out until you reach the next tier of work, and then stopping to think again is a lot more efficient in the long term than continuously solving the next problem without having a concrete target direction.

One of these days I'll start seriously building my Graph Paper Markup Language processor, which will use scanned notebook pages with special symbols recognized by OCR to automatically tag and add dates to my notes. It's all sketched out already.
No, I continued to decline and created a plan to end my life. I told my psychologist and she referred me to a psychiatrist to begin a concurrent pharmaceutical treatment to go along with talk therapy.
When you can define a cell depending on another cell and can expect that other cell to be run after its dependencies have run, then you can make sure, that a cell will always give the correct result, not a different one, because other cells have already run, which mess up the state. It would allow you to scroll to the end and see the last layer of abstraction, just run that, and implicitly also run all its dependencies (other cells).

In a top to bottom typical notebook, you will have to run the notebook from the top. There is a menu item for that, of course. However, what if you also have some cells in there, which do not have to be run? They will waste time unnecessarily or even worse, will change the result. So you will need to take a look at each cell to make sure you really can run everything sequentially. Either the notebook has to be created to make sure, that running top to bottom always works and gives the same result, or you will have to look at everything. When code segments can define their dependence on other code segments, they can be designed to that it does not matter which one you run, it will always give the intended result.
Bingo. I think people have a hard time understanding this. I always get asked, "What happens if you get fired?", I have 4 jobs... I certainly don't want to lose a job, but it's not a big deal to me.

Also, finding a new job has never been that difficult, especially in this market.
What's the risk from dead pathogens - immune overreaction?

It's a screwball idea, but I wonder if there might actually be health benefits to reliably killing pathogens without filtering them out of the air - sort of like low-dose inactivated-agent vaccines for everything you would have actually been exposed to otherwise.
Website got hugged to death?

Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220109194733/https://keckobser...
As a counterexample, this [0] was a paper that I read and summarized for some colleagues a while back. It's fairly related to my area of expertise, so I didn't find it too bad -- maybe a couple of hours to grok it and do a write-up.

However, among my colleagues (all very talented in their own unrelated areas) it generated a fair amount of consternation, because although they had a week to read it, none of them felt like they had a good grasp of it until after I had presented it. The key takeaways that had jumped out at me immediately were lost in the noise.

Whether or not a week is the right time, I can definitely empathize with taking more than a day to evaluate a paper, particularly in an area not very near to your own as there might be a lot of missing background to fill in. In contrast, my PhD advisor could flip through a paper in 30 seconds and pick up the key points it took me an hour to extract. In that sense, I really think that reading papers is a skill that can be trained.

[0]: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/13109/pdf/LIPI...
Featured in FT Alphaville today. Is this real? Feels like FYRE 2.0

https://www.ft.com/content/c79ea41b-41c0-4900-90ee-6e6347449...

https://cryptoland.is/
I like to have something like this in my shell:

y2j () {
ruby -r json -r yaml -e 'puts JSON.dump(YAML.load(STDIN))'
}

Makes it easy to use json tooling for yaml, although of course it flattens out anchors etc.
> beyond my boss believing it

Even worse, the boss might not care what is true/false.

The boss might win if she has many reports that seem to be working hard on hard problems, not achieving something measurable.
I've had mixed experience with brand-name drums as well.
I’ve used MergerFS and SnapRAID for my media server for about two years. Together they’re really flexible and I’ve been able to drop extra drives into the array as I’ve needed the storage. On that capability alone I highly recommend using them.

I haven’t had a failure yet but I imagine I wouldn’t be in trouble unless I lost a significant portion of my parity drives at the same time.
*print screen and phone cameras.
The cat that pamphlet is about, Nightlife Mingus: http://achewood.com/?date=06202003
I wonder if glancing at the wrong thing in the Metaverse will send you to jail.
> > this is false.

> Not exactly

Yes, exactly.

> Federal Law supercedes State Law

Not on state issues. The federal government has to stay in its lane.

> no State Constitution can contradict the US Constitution

Yes, they can, unless explicitly overridden. For example, most states do not have grand juries, even though the U.S. Constitution requires one before charging someone with a felony.
That's a start, for sure, but to do a super accurate calculation (the kind I feel unqualified to carry out), you need to take into account apparent size, redshift, whether or not there's gravitational lensing, interstellar dust in the way, etc etc.

But I want to reiterate that what's meaningful about this discussion is in part how unintuitive things at the far edges of our scales of perception really are. It's a muscle that, left untrained, will lead you to make incorrect characterizations like the one I made.
American* government.
Just googled this and couldn't find any results. Is this a term you came up with?
The commit has to be in someone's repo, and GitHub can't reasonably allow you to push to a branch on the original repo, so you have to make a fork.
I've used Miro before for mind maps but after your suggestion, I think it's great as a whiteboard, thanks.

Gather looks fun but I'm afraid it will make you more prone to interruptions and therefore have less focus time. For me, I think it would be stressful to be in a situation like that.

> collaboratively manipulating shared representations

Thanks, I would think this is key to enhance meeting quality.
Lost Connections is a very good book on the topic. Read it, the author points out in countries where people don't have 3k a month for pysc meds, somehow they aren't all miserably depressed. One story is really sweat, a poor farmer is helped by his community after being left unable to work. In the west we'd say file for SSI and get some SOMA.

The entire mental health industry is focused on extracting as much from vulnerable people as possible. Unless you have a spare 1200$ to 1600$ a month laying around you won't be able to afford therapy anyway...
I'm replying to a post in which you specifically called out Wayland and D-Bus, and your criticism of GTK and fd.o is all over this thread. Your lack of criticism of SuSE developers appears to be because you misremembered when/how they switched to systemd - because they did, relatively quickly.

But that raises the real question: If the problem is systemd, and the problem is so bad, why do you only blame Red Hat and not the every other distribution that switched to it? Do you think they were all victims of Tricksy Lennart, or?
Should be be worried that the author of Accelerando complains about things going too fast?

Future is complex, and not only "good" developments happens and start changing everything faster than ever before, bad ones does too. And we aren't rational enough to avoid the bad ones.

Anyway, I'm more worried about the consequences of climate change that are not the slow rise of the global sea level than about COVID. That is a general area where things are happening faster than predicted, and where we act slower than predicted.
Developers in many developed countries (Germany, Belgium) are in ~50% effective tax bracket for the salary, add there company paid taxes for the 'salary budget' or whatever it called properly and you certainly in ~60% territory.
Do you mean cmr, cmi, cmtt, ...?
It is a custom protocol that follows IRC very closely, they just have a lot of extensions on it to add support for the things on twitch. to start a connection you send PASS, NICK, USER and then JOIN, over the websocket so I would not really call it a custom protocol. The url it uses is wss://irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv/ as well.
No that isn't what I am saying, I am simply saying that there appears to be trends in the way technology is going to be developed and used. Facebook wasn't the first to think of a metaverse, but they are a big player in how it will develop based entirely on how big they are. Money has already increasingly become digitized and will continue to trend that way long before any central bank digital currency gets developed.

The point is that nobody knows what the future tools of the internet will be, they can only see trends and act on those. Most are probably stupid and most will probably be useless, but innovation will inevitably happen. Its fine if you think places like facebook can have the metaverse to themselves, just like it is fine for people to think they shouldn't.
> True it may not be a crime, but every company I've worked for (mostly "big tech") has a clause in my contract saying that I can't work another full-time job. If I were, and they found out, I'd probably get fired.

I don't doubt that some contracts state you can't work another job, but I would consider rereading some of your contracts. Especially in work friendly states, it's hard to enforce those types of clauses and companies are really good at wording things like it's a restriction when it's really a legal suggestion.

> and they found out

How exactly would an employer easily find out? I also worked multiple jobs at FAANG level big tech, you would have to explicitly say something to get found out. In fact, the big tech jobs I've had were genuinely the most administratively bloated and least likely to find out.
This article should newer be published without some fact checking. It's very misleading when presented this way. Especially "spreading to the kids" angle.

PCR tests in Serbia are processed in just few official labs. Private labs are not allowed to do PCR testing. Results are typically completed after 24h (sometimes later), and you have to login on government portal (euprava.rs) to check them. There should be an email when results are ready, but email usually comes few hours later. Few days ago my wife got both email and SMS exactly on midnight, looks like there's a cron job. So if you don't refresh page on portal every now and then, you'll get notified even later.

It's very realistic that Novak was tested on 16th but didn't find out results until later on the 17th or even on midnight. I'd like to emphasize these are not exceptional circumstances in his case but quite typical how it works around here.

Also, there's an official possibility to get released from isolation after 7 days with a negative PCR test and if you don't have symptoms. That would explain his movements afterwards. Again, this option to break quarantine is official and available to all Serbian citizens.

Btw. we also have rapid antigen tests which are quicker and more often used, but since they're less reliable you'll typically need a PCR when leaving country, depending on destination. My guess (just guess) is that Novak took a routine PCR, maybe for planned flight or something similar. When you're taking tests every few days without any symptoms it's not reasonable to be isolated while you wait for results.