skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This mindset- let the weak fend for themselves while the strong go on- is literally the justification for eugenics.
A combo of fasting plus Vitamin C is effective for cancer treatment, study shows
Yeah; it’s also missing the venerable Microsoft Chat:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

Though I’m guessing it’ll never be updated again. Would love it if they decided to open source it though!
Probably many reasons. One reason is that SMS was already ubiquitous, and it doesn't require an additional data plan the way 3rd-party apps do.

Why did the rest of the world adopt WhatsApp and alternatives? I don't think they were any later to text messaging than the US..
> (May have been featured on HN recently, I can't remember how I got there).

John Carmack tweeted about it a few days ago (it always annoys me when I can't remember where I saw something).
You can have type checking in Common Lisp:

https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/static-type-checking-in-t...
sorry that premise (and reality) is for Common Lisp ;)
Please don't leave comments like this.
it's entirely possible I'm already out of touch. but I'd guess it's more of a "why can't you just be like the rest of us?" than "haha this kid's parents can't afford an iphone".
The Best-Kept Secret in History – Brian Muraresku [video]
What I'm saying is, that I, in slovenia, pay around a half of my gross income in different taxes and "benefits" to the government. If my income is around the slovenian average (average is a bit below 2k eur montly, but i'll round it up), my "gros-gross" from 2k(what my employer has to pay, because of additional taxes) is 2.322eur, and I get 1300eur net to my account (55%) - the rest goes to the government. (employer pays 27.864 yearly, and you get 15.600 yearly)

If you're average, or a bit above average, you pay around a half of what you make to the government.

Due to income tax brackets, this percentage changes (eg, my 10k gross, means 11.610eur the employer, and I'd get 5176eur (~45%) into my account)... 10k is basically "rich" here. (Employer pays ~140k yearly, and you get ~62k net yearly)

But, if your employer is willing to pay 11.610eur per month for you, and you want to get more out of that, you can become an independent contractor in slovenia (to have medical and pension insurance), and this will cost you ~500eur per month (including the costs of minimum accounting and a new bank account), so ~6k per year. Then you open a LLC in bosnia, which will cost you a smiliar amount of money (paperwork, accounting,...), so another 6k eur. Then your bosnian company charges the 140k for your work to your employer, and get taxed by bosnian rates, at only 10% on the first 100k of profit (so 140k-12k is 128k, so the first 100k is taxed at 10%, and i'm not sure about the next bracket, but let's say 30%, so 90k net from the first bracket, and ~20k from the second one), which means you get ~110k net income, or a bit over 9k monthly (almost 80%)

So, if you don't earn a lot, you're stuck with high taxes. If you earn a lot (by slovenian standards, 10k is a lot), you can avoid most of the taxes, by starting a company in bosnia. If you earn a lot-lot (millions), you have even more posibilities of avoiding taxes, and pretty much every rich person does this to minimize their taxes.

So, I don't want the current 55% (sum of all) taxes to be raised to 90% (or whatever) for the rich, I just want them to pay the current 55% at all, and not be able to avoid them and pay only 20% (which is less percentually than a minimum wage worker pays).
I was used to the level of civility from the 1980s to mid 2010s (my lifespan), and I consider it to be a material change in atmosphere.

Perceived trajectory is perhaps even more important than one’s current position. So if you are used to a few decades of a rosy outlook, and then a few events start trending in the opposite direction one after another, I can see it being cause for one to think an inflection point has been passed.
> "Does this mean HN is preventing people from talking?"

I see this not particularly clever argument against the "free speech absolutist" strawman frequently enough that it's getting stale. Can people really not distinguish between the free speech issues involved in suppressing legal but controversial speech (e.g. "We support $DEPLORABLE_CANDIDATE and their $BAD_POLICY.") versus the entirely separate issues of suppressing illegal or unwanted speech (e.g. threats, spam)? This simplistic binary "all or nothing" thinking cannot capture the nuances involved in the complex philosophical and legal quagmire that is the principle of freedom of speech.

Beyond that, it's particularly ironic to attempt to use HN as the example given that the HN moderation team has tried very hard to be evenhanded on controversial threads while enforcing the rules to the extent that they routinely get accused of favoritism by all sides.
Fauci is dying to hear your anecdotal revelation.
Really? Because I can go buy a feature phone right now that begs to differ.
great nick! --written on my own server
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we're trying for a different sort of discussion here.

You can make your substantive points thoughtfully, without name-calling, swipes, and the like. If you'd please do that instead, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> AFAICS there's no easy way to send GIFs in Chat, like WTF?

GIFs work fine. https://owo.whats-th.is/ABjVcCQ.mp4
Billionaire Austin Russell to ‘unleash the potential’ of Orlando with $70M
I do understand it depends on the kind of person you are… but I can’t really relate to those who suffer from luck of social interactions! Lockdown for me was a bliss! And I still fondly remember when I was 12 and got a very severe pneumonia that forced me to stay at home for almost 2 months! It was amazing… and when I got back my marks immediately among the highest of my class (and we are talking about the 90s… I was calling classmates to get book pages to read)
Thank you for sharing. Where in the tropics are you? I am in the South Pacific
> Europe dosent have to deal with the absolute cluster fuck mess colonialism was.

England is the product of many waves of colonization. Spain was colonized by the Muslims.

Why were the Europeans able to colonize these places in the first place anyway?

> Gtfo your talking about highly corrupt administations propt up by western interests, that only providing aide for un-repayable loans. Look up what the IMF or World Bank has done and its failures.

LOL! I’m from Bangladesh. The World Bank is the best thing that ever happened to the country. It basically teaches developing nations to get rich the same way European countries got rich. It’s native and organic cultural dysfunction that stands in the way.

Blaming Europeans for the dysfunction of the developing world is a false kindness. Ordinarily, you get better by copying the people who succeeded. People study how Steve Jobs built Apple. Blaming colonialism makes it easy for developing countries to falsely imagine that if they could only overcome colonialism, they would have been prosperous too.
This is the most ridiculous thing about Netflix. So many great brains there yet none of them can perceive a world where not everyone has a high end home cinema.
> Which is like keeping your tap water running into the sewers at full blast 24/7 and saying you're stimulating the desalination industry.

It's a bit more sophisticated than that, no? I thought the argument was that renewable energy sources could use crypto mining to monetize power which would otherwise go to waste during periods of low demand.
Would be interesting how this compares to leasing a car as many do. Mindful there are many who already buy and sell back to dealers within 3 years and then buy new again. How well Toyota will be able to compete with that and the second-hand market will be the sink or swim for this initiative.
Could well be that too
Agree to disagree.

Maybe because I've worked in embedded Linux for so long (including on inits of various forms), but that description clearly articulates exactly what systemd is and does and I appreciate the direct, crystal clear technical language rather than some long form essay written assuming a clueless reader with 0 technical background.
Interesting. This looks weird though, because now there is `def_` (not `def`) and `lambda`, instead of only needing `lambda` or only `def`. I am guessing you would also need to `def_` from somewhere. And you need to change a lot of parens inside to brackets, making it even more unnatural in Python sense.
Title is a little click-baity but many of you are familiar with the science being discussed in recent articles on patients being treated with psychedelics. There are some interviews with him where he covers research he has been doing on the ancient uses of psychedelics. [1][2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS5qjEXS6oM

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8VCBNGBeqg
Is it hate to not like China due to how China treats minorities?
Not every part meets the criteria to be a "critical" spare. You don't have a complete set of spares for every component.
At best Avira is a PuP and only after long term legitimacy
Wild volume swings, insane punches for explosions but silent dialogue.
https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
I have Acerola cherry too—but the only ones that fruit or flower are in full aun.

Will need to try small Caimito.

My understory plants are coffee and cacao. Also banana can grow.

We have a Zapote tree and we need to find a place between the Coconuts…your comment makes me want to find a new spot for the lemon tree…

Would love to connect!
What kind of images can we expect? I understood it's an infrared telescope. Will we get visually ... interesting images? Or just data?
So we're down to 10x the flu, the previous poster's question still stands though.
I don't think contracts can replace law. Imagine having to read and understand a unique 3000 page contract in order to buy a share of stock, or a house, or to get married. Imagine trying to do something like loan money if you have no way of knowing what someone's existing financial obligations are. I think the volume of economic activity would plummet.

"Monopoly on violence" is something I've heard about before. Is this theory supported by evidence? Actually I think that a monopoly on violence might be a good thing. The number of bodies that can engage in violence is either 0 or 1, or many.

I read a translation of Njal's Saga which takes place in pre-literate Iceland. The erstwhile "government" had no monopoly on violence, except to assign cash damages in lawsuits. What the saga describes is basically a continuous blood feud.
I have found Vimac [1] to be an okay alternative to mouse keys. Unfortunately I find that it's still slower than just grabbing the mouse. Performance can also vary depending on the number of clickable elements on the screen.

I kind of just rely on Vimium and Vim mode in editors/IDEs now.

[1]: https://vimacapp.com/
What Fortran standard have you used? About your specific pain, you need to visit a doctor, it is unrelated to Fortran or programming in general.
give kids the chance to choose to go to school or not ... most won't go and then outside of learning the biggest benefit of socializing/making freinds/fully enjoy being human which to me is with others is lost. People at my job have given the same choose and really no one goes in.

COVID is scourge to the world ... whose is to blame for it? Does any one country benefit from it? What's going on with Covid in China ... when will they rank as the number superpower in the world ... last i saw in the next five to ten years.

If you downvote me do you think the Chinese govt. is one to trust ... good for societies around the world? The world is now living like they were in the 2000s to present... with a mask on!
I think the whole problem with systemd wasn't just about technology. The results were spectacular. Before systemd normal Linux boot times were well over a minute. After switching you could get below 10 seconds on the same hardware. And that is just one aspect.

I think the core of the problem was somewhere between the style of introducing changes and the way how people communicated. After all, it speaks for itself that pulseaudio and systemd shared a lot of common criticism. Both are technically sound systems today, but in a way, systemd was just the escalation of the pulseaudio debacle.
I agree with this. Comcast, is certainly not the cheapest option. We pay right now around $220/mo to have our /29 addresses routed through Comcast. It was about half that over bonded channels of VDSL. But these rates may be a non-starter for a home setup. But it still seems pretty low cost, given what I hear from most of my friends about what they're paying for Cellular plus Home-entertainment on a monthly basis.
No, it's not normal and it's not natural. I remember being treated like this by the same people I heard spread fear and misinformation about COVID throughout the year before I got COVID. It's incredibly dehumanizing, isolating, and fractures any sense of community. My relationship with those people will never be the same.
My problem is that things start to depend on it, like snapd... I was looking into running anbox on wsl today, but I realized I need to compile stuff, because they distribute anbox in snap form only, so I kind of gave up...
But who had experience with a twin space science probe project.
Youts?
Do you consider cramming 14 classes worth of students in to an auditorium for "study hall" an education?
Would be nice if signal did not blast out a message to contacts that I've joined signal
you could at least give openrc a go.
You have a point, but it's still pretty tangential at a macro level. The main macro-level thing is that the thread at the top of a page should be responding to the core of the story—or on rare occasions, be something surprising and even more interesting than the story.

The UX of a date picker on the page doesn't clear that bar. That doesn't mean it's unimportant, just that the top of an HN page is not the appropriate context for it. Unless, of course, the story is about the UX of date pickers!
Google doesn’t know the difference between aliens and IRS aliens
> the existence of the effect, given the results of the experiment, has a low likelihood, and that low likelihood can be statistically quantified

You have this completely backwards. It means that the likelihood of the null hypothesis was not below some threshold such that it can be "ruled out". It says absolutely nothing about the likelihood of the data if the effect exists.
The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement took abot 8 years to build at near 2B USD cost[1]. If fire is put out, a simple geoengineering tarp with piping underneath and dirt on top will do the job. Those are used a lot in covering up old landfills to capture the gas and avoid water leaking in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
Agreed. As much as the free software movement wishes they could, you can't force the outside world to focus on one connotation (freedom) of word and not the other (free beer).

I quite like the term "libre software" for that reason.
Covid-positive nurses are in hospitals. Biden mandate forbids unvaccinated ones
Just replying to the top comment in the hopes that this'll get seen: He's doing a keynote for linux.conf.au this year: https://old.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/riwm4x/brianwkernigha...
Wonder why they approve the Canon C70 but not Canon C200
When the sound design is targeted for 5.1, most of the dialogue comes from the center speaker.

This is great if you have one.

However if its downmixed on the fly (ie done on the client side) the center channel is often just played out of both speakers. This means that sound can be muffled, because its drowned out by the incidental noise that comes from the left/right channel.
Great way to show kids how the graphics works!
When I let my current computer run Seti@Home unthrottled with the original hardware (overclocked 6 core i7, 64 GB RAM, 4x Geforce 690s), the temperature in my airconditioned home office would quickly rise from the 72 on the thermostat in the living room, to around 90 in my office. I had to throttle Seti@Home to about 25% max resources to avoid destroying my AC bill. This was in a relatively large 1 Bed + Den apartment.

As for longevity? Well, I don't run it at full capacity like that normally. The CPU is still going strong, 8 years in. I replaced the original 690s with a newer card because, better graphics, not that the cards went bad or anything. I have had issues with thermal shutdown due to bad liquid coolers, but no damage to the chips. But, replacing the cooler gets everything back and running again. I'm on my 3rd cooler.

Most of the heat isn't coming out of the CPU itself, but the power supply & the graphics card(s).
I think this is misreading the room.

Lots of people agree that there is a problem with data centralization, access and control that has arisen from of the most fundamental aspects of how "web2" works.

A few people are proposing that a specific technology, actually invented for something quite different, could be used to address some or all of these problems.

A lot more people are concerned that not only is the technology not well suited to the task of addressing these problems, but that seeking to use it for that purpose will actually make things worse, possibly catastrophically worse.

There were similar debates taking place online around the dawn of e-commerce. People concerned that pushing retail online would have dire impacts on physical stores, would upend local and national economies, would change the nature and range of things that we have access to in ways both small and large, good and bad.

Those debates did not get resolved, of course. Some idiots at Amazon went ahead and did it anyway, and here we are today, picking up after the storm.

Maybe view the discussion around the potential role of blockchain technology to address data centralization in a similar vein i.e. it will likely make no difference to what happens, but will at least leave behind a trace socio-archeological record that there was some disagreement before things changed.
FIN7 actors sent malicious USB drives to US companies with ransomware
They charge for defender ATP and they will lose magnitudes more money than what they can gain from mining. Like, I expect the CEO to resign and stock drop of >15% if they did that
Wouldn't that just mean you'd have to make sure the data doesn't contain private identifying information to start with? Seems like a win-win for the people in datasets and the people who are auditing the code.
We should have zero homeless children.

That said the definition of "homeless" in this count is extremely broad.

For example if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless. Even if someone stays temporarily in a hotel or motel, for example because of a fire or flood, will be counted as homeless. Even wider scope, a child who "qualified moved" within the last 36 months is considered migratory i.e. homeless.

https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento-definition/ )

(I understand pointing out incomplete [is there a better word?] facts is unpopular.)
Good points about lack of cryptography in the current standards, but the fix there seems to be a function of profit: as long as NFT resales are up & to the right evidently security doesn’t matter

The rise of platforms like OpenSea are interesting because the solution seems to be disenfranchisement: if Chrome/iOS/Android had direct node access we wouldn’t need the OpenSea API calls to display the NFT images. But then you’re giving even more power to existing Google and Apple platforms.

The web3 platform wars begun have they…
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I only play one on TV ;-)

Then again, it's not a unique situation for an engineer. It's the same for any situation for construction (and related jobs) estimates, auto-repair, etc. You always want to lean on over estimating time and finishing "early" vs the opposite.
In Japan, Digicams Are the New Film
>There's an interesting phenomenon where, in responding to moderation comments, people often explain what they originally meant in a form that would have been much better to say in the first place.

I am surprised tha this surprises you. It is generally true that in responding to any evolving dialogue, people often explain what they originally meant in a form that would've been much better to say in the first place.

Because that's how dialogue works, and that's what dialogue is for. Elucidating meaning.

What is baffling me in this interaction is that you seem perfectly aware of the fact that my meaning is in my head, but then you also expected to find it in my words without any dialogue.
They are talking about fleet vehicles too, which typically get way more usage then a personal vehicle.
I guess they’re optimizing for customers who do, and then transcoding to lower qualities for all the people who do not?
An antenna is just a passive impedance-matching device, nothing more or less. It matches 377 ohms to whatever the feedline impedance is. Making the antenna's effective area larger is the only way to capture more arriving energy from the transmitter.

At the same time, as its size grows, the area of the antenna that's not exposed to the transmitted wavefront increases even more rapidly than the area that is, making it a losing proposition to keep increasing the size alone. Instead, we use directive and/or reflective elements whose geometry allows a smaller antenna element to receive more energy from one direction at the expense of others.

Just like a lens, in other words. A larger lens or mirror captures more light than a smaller one (focal length considerations aside), but that's not all there is to making a good camera or telescope. The right combination of smaller optical elements can do almost as well as a single huge lens, while being much more practical to work with.

One key point is that in neither case is any amplification or "gain" present. It's just a matter of which approach captures more of the limited number of photons available. Another is that the size of the lenses or antenna elements has to be expressed in terms of wavelength, not absolute spatial dimensions, if you want to compare them directly.

That's ultimately what the path loss equation describes, albeit awkwardly. Path loss increases at shorter wavelengths simply because the exposed areas of the antennas get smaller while the wavefront doesn't.

We can sometimes compensate for that by making the antennas bigger in terms of the number of wavelengths. Mathematically, the path losses involved in the Deep Space Network would be much lower if they could use LF/HF frequencies instead of microwaves, for instance... but to take advantage of that, the antenna sizes would have to increase to ridiculous dimensions, on the order of miles. Microwaves end up being a much better fit in practice. Even if lower frequencies were usable, the resulting increase in atmospheric noise (and decrease in available bandwidth) would swamp any advantages.
Indeed, what I was hoping to convey is that the prevailing belief is contradicted by both the boots on the ground and the teachers unions.
is that 2006 number correct re: gentoo? Although i wouldn't start by comparing against openrc, but rather the previous uhmm "baselayout" init system. (sorry, i haven't used gentoo in a long time).

The previous gentoo init system was already better than sysvinit and initscripts.

I still prefer and use systemd though.
Value Overflow Incident
The Power of Dividends and Their Compounding Effect
Machine shop experience is not related project cost estimations.
It doesn't do that.

There is a setting in Signal to alert you when one of your contacts joins Signal. Only other people who have Signal receive this notification and they can turn it off.

They also don't receive the alert because they were in your contacts. They receive the alert because you were in their contacts.