skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems clear that there was a catastrophic fall in science

Name one scientific discovery that was known in Late Antiquity that was not known in the Medieval period.

This is easier to do for technology, but that shouldn't be misconstrued as part of a generalized collapse of civilization. A large part of technology requires passing knowledge from individual to individual via a kind of apprenticeship, so if something stops happening for a few generations, it's easy to be lost. To use a very recent examples: battleships. We can't make battleship-grade steel armor anymore, because no one's been making it for several decades. But that's not because we've somehow "regressed" in technology--it's just that battleship-grade steel armor has no use anymore, so we stopped making it.

The major decline associated with the Roman Empire is the decline in administrative capacity of the state. And yes, this does bring economic depression and deurbanization, and also loss of several civic engineering techniques. You don't see a decline in scientific knowledge--after all, medieval people were using the same textbooks the Romans were. Maybe there's a pause in development of new scientific knowledge, but it also has to be remembered that the Romans themselves weren't all that prolific in science (as compared to technology). As for technology, well, by the 600s, there's already new technologies kicking about that the Romans never had.

And that's why people push back against the kind of claims embodied by the dumb graph (https://goingmedievalblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/worst.... )--it's just not actually borne out by the evidence.
I think the articles you link are mistaken and that OP is correct. This is quote from one of them says it all: "I've tried to maintain to-do lists at various points in my life."

Of course don't do that. Todolists are there to help you remember things, not to be "maintained" or to provide you with a sense of "achievement" or whatnot. They are basically the same thing as a shopping list. Nothing more, nothing less.

The first step to actually use a todolist is not to use fancy Todolist apps. Just use Notepad or whatever simple text editor that can do cut/paste.
- No face masks to protect against lead particulates.

- No hand gloves to protect against lead absorption through skin and acid burns.

- No eye protection against sulfuric acid splashes and spills.

Not good!
Thanks for sharing that story!

I’ve been using outseta (free) for the last couple of months as I build a product using it and it has been pretty straightforward, and has really pushed me from my inefficient “build-it-yourself” to “just buy it and save months of development work!”

I find really interesting how you found out that most of what you do is customer support instead of marketing, since for me marketing is the thing I don’t know how to do, and honestly the thing that terrifies me… :)

Good luck in the rest of the journey!
Ironically, those are all arguments against a mirrorless camera and towards a DSLR, swapping an EVF's circuitry and screen for five lightweight mirrors. My Pentax is built like a brick and quite sturdy, but a modern low-end Canon DSLR is amazingly light and really quite surprisingly so: the 250D is 419 g.
Ask to work remotely, win-win!
Turn into a snob? When a tutorial from a certain domain disappoints you, stop following links into that domain. Seek operating systems with smarter people, and fewer errors. Look for languages with high quality in implementation, documentation and ecosystem.

See you in a few years, when you you'll ask for advise as there aren't jobs for people whose stack is arm, *bsd, sqlite/postgres/redis, cl/elixir/go.
Well, I don't think HN will ban accounts for that. They ban accounts for being mean or starting flamewars. Being republican is NOT a reason for bans here.
You should consider this a real treat-- it's like you're getting to travel back to the 90s open source scene for free.

-Tom Sawyer
This is like giving central-bank levels of power to private entities. Which obviously follow from de-centralization. It’s insane.

The only way this could be a reliable replacement for our existing financial systems, would be with strong oversight from.. some kind of central entity that acts on behalf of society’s collective best interests.. staffed by people chosen through popular voting..
That's just not true at all. Children have a 13% chance of getting long covid, for one. MIS-C is another (rare but) serious risk that comes along with covid. Children can and do end up on ventilators or dying. Why would you argue against that? Are you OK with families running that risk?
j u s t d o i t

when you actually get started on a task, it motivates you to do more.

Also, know what you want to accomplish by the end of the day. Set a concrete goal
Is this the "if the subject is suffering from worms, then treating the worms allows them to fight the virus" result? (So not relevant in the US)
> As engineers, we all know that there are different circumstances. Sometimes they are technical, sometimes political.

Agree. I'm just curious what it is at Apple. Their hardware seems fine, even excellent. But the software is really not at the same level. So I wonder how that happens.
I think it's a catch. As it points out, even if you didn't ever want to meet your benefactor, the requirement is still a problem. There you are walking around Italy on vacation, totally care-free, when suddenly -
Somewhat unrelated to this link, but I really think that it’s interesting how much effort we put into the theory side of languages/types - with almost no one in industry applying these lessons. The essence of this is just something along the lines of “What if we unified values with types, so we could have more useful type checking?”
We have billions of dollars being spent and thousands of smart people working for decades, who don’t even get to use a proper type system - forget about statically-checked polymorphism or dependent typing. It’s not even as if we lost the ball, we’re running in the wrong direction.
It’s almost trivial to bolt on gradual typing to a language. It’s also not too hard to retrofit dependent types (just don’t bother with Turing-incompleteness). The whole point of these type systems is to better model systems, so why not go the extensible route of letting anyone hook into the “type checking” phase? Import affine types (that decades old thing that got rust popular); write your own domain-specific checker, even.
It’s so frustrating to see how beautiful ideas just die because we feel comfortable the way things are now. Maybe language was the wrong abstraction to begin with. Sorry to derail, but this feels like the only path to truly popularize the lambda cube as a concept.
The biggest question is "Why?."

AFAIK very few cargo planes have ever been shot down by a MANPADS IR-homing missile.

I still remember this Airbus A300 out of Iraq that got hit by one and lost all hydraulics but still managed to land safely.
I imagine this might be interesting for longer distances in which broken shielding might not be so easily replaced. In such cases, regenerating your shielding via life-support systems is a feature, not a bug.
funny enough, B2+Cloudflare will still be cheaper, since Cloudflare R2 from the blog you linked is at the cost of $0.015/GB/month for stored storage, where as B2 is $0.005/GB/month for stored storage, and there is no download cost when using the B2+Cloudflare combo
Example on a Lisp Machine in ZetaLisp:

Command: (zl:defun my-if zl:fexpr (form) (list :my-if form))
MY-IF

Command: (my-if (> a b) a b)
(:MY-IF ((> A B) A B))

Thus one can see that the original source of the arguments is bound to the symbol FORM as a list.

A more recent language with FEXPRs seems to be the language R.
In that case UTC is the wrong answer to the question "What timescale will produce robust results for this application?" As soon as leap seconds were recommended by the CCIR in 1970 radionavigation system administrators announced they would switch to purely atomic TAI-10s and astronomical almanacs continued to use just plain UT. Proceedings of international standards bodies show them discussing how the new CCIR timescale with leap seconds (not yet officially named UTC) need not apply to anything other than radio broadcast time signals.
not sure I fully understand your comment, I said correct as my first statement agreeing with the parent and thus your explaination (ie FTPS is FTP over TLS)

at what point did I mention that FTPS is SFTP??

my comment regarding SFTP was in reference to the parents comment

>but I left FTP for ssh long ago and never looked back.

but you're correct that >SFTP is a protocol specifically for SSH
I feel like you are still making the case for it. “Should I promote the logic of the dependency to the calling module?” No, I shouldn’t. That’s why I made them a dependency. They could be dependent to many modules, or there could be many implementations based on ioc implementations or a some random factory or strategy pattern. Or maybe I do not control the dependency as it is external to our platform. I can understand all too well the engineering bias to do less work. “But now all my tests are broken” may be the correct result.

With that said without concrete examples too argue about it’s hard to say if we are even disagreeing. The articles examples were wanting and to what level you break up your code is a hard fought learning exercise. Some don’t care, some say no more than fits on a screen, and on the other end some people use an NPM package to find out if a number is even.
It is a tabletop induction burner, not a glass top electric coil. Its cycle frequency is about 60Hz, I can time it by the coil whine.
However, if you have a potential weapon and you decline to use it because having done so it will be expended and useless to you, you also need to consider that it might become obsolete and thus anyway useless despite going unused.

Over time Europe intends to move to more renewable sources, not only for electricity generation and heating, but in industry too. So the value of this bargaining chip may be reduced over time.

Anticipating the future is difficult. But it seems unlikely that Germany will become even more dependant on Russian gas in say, 2032 than today, so, this seems like as good a time as ever to threaten.
Sciensano is the science authority for Belgium. So I don't think there would be a lot of bias.

The same agency suggested overcounting instead of potentially undercounting, this way, not every death should be tested.
Try reading any newspaper, then read it again a few weeks later. You really have to have been not paying attention for a long time to not have noticed
For anyone wondering why: it is not consistently maintained anymore. I think I remember something about the owner of the repo steppung down? yt-dlp is an actively maintained, direct fork, with the same features and then some. It also solves an issue that has been lingering for months now where videos download painfully slow on youtube-dl.
Thank you. This is something I will definetely investigate further :-)
I really like it, but it needs more work on the navigation.

A more conventional looking navigation similar to Bootstrap's would be nice.
I think it's useful mostly as a sort of Linnæan classification device—it's a lot easier to compare different type systems by placing them on a 'standard' cube, than by choosing ad hoc points of comparison.
Here is a quote from Fukuyama's essay about exactly that:

> Doing little to prevent millions of people from entering and staying in the country unlawfully and then engaging in sporadic and seemingly arbitrary bouts of deportation—which were a feature of Obama’s time in office—is hardly a sustainable long-term policy.
What new cryptography has been invented due to cryptocurrencies?
While i agree, ultimately i don't think it would matter if it was.

Either you have a product that does something interesting or you don't. I don't think it matters at what stage you have the interesting thing at.

(Fwiw, i don't find recent blockchain interesting)
Makes sense in Brazil, but is it applicable to the US or other Western nations?
In the dollar:token pool lets say the ratio is initially set to 1.00 and nobody else owns the token, all the tokens are in the pool. The issuer put all their own dollars and their own tokens in the pool. If it helps to know, the issuer needed capital to do this and is not earning anything from people buying. The liquidity pool is owning all the assets.

When you buy with your dollar, you increase the number of dollars in the pool, and decrease the number of tokens in the pool. So the ratio cannot be 1.00 it must be 1.01 or something above 1.00.

When you want US currency today you sell it back and restore the ratio closer to 1.

It is not possible for anyone to restore further below the initial balance because the maximum tokens in existence could only be used to get the dollars other people put in, but not the issuer’s capital.
Five college students speak out: We’re fed up with campus ‘wokeness’
Filtering out the inexperienced has nothing at all to do with genetics.
IndexedDB isn't sketchy, just annoying. It is the only semi-reliable way to store more than a few MBs of data with JS, but the API is awful and it's a pain to use without some kind of wrapper to make it bearable. (LocalForage is good, it provides a LocalStorage-like API on top of IndexedDB or some other APIs in older browsers.)
I've gotten a lot of productivity out of todo lists.

I've tried Cal Newport's calendaring system as well, which is more or less a bullet journal + timeline and I thought it was somewhat helpful, but in the end it was too tedious.

The thing that doesn't work for me is that If I don't finish something within a timeframe, its not worth context switching. Other times it made no sense to take on a task at a specific time.

Sometimes its just better to have a simple list and wing the rest of it. Don't overcomplicate your life if you don't have to.
> If spacetime is continuous you effectively get infinite precision -> information density - at every point (of which there are an infinite number).

Even if space is continuous, that doesn't mean we can get information in and out of it in infinite precision.

Look at quantum physics. Maxwell's equations don't suggest existence of photons (quantized information). But atoms being atoms, they can only emit and absorb in quanta.
Given the history of people calling the top of 'big tech' and who is saying this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya#SPAC_Plat...), this sounds like an excellent buy signal.
I do the same thing, I follow Johnny Harris' method[0] mostly. Basically I pick a random date (or an iOS provided "memory") and go through a bunch of photos related to that event. Then I delete all the useless ones, like the 99 takes I did of a sunset, and just keep the best ones.

[0] https://youtu.be/GLy4VKeYxD4
Interested in your thoughts on how most people trade.

Also curious what the ruleset will do, along the lines of existing risk management strategies? (Limit % of account per trade and % per day or strategy to a certain level of loss?)

If it's automated, I think it probably circumvents the more "addictive" type behaviours as they tend to be more prevalent in scalping or day trading strategies. What sort of timeframes are you targeting?
> 2) rely on being reminded about anything important by something or someone else.

Isn't that what a to-do list is—just a reminder of anything important by something else?
Many of those that I saw banned were for those recommending taking ivermectin.

Nobody should take anything without discussing it with their doctor.
I don't understand the distinction this comment is making. Can somebody give examples to show why it's useful? If it's not something you can list off, examples of past heresies and non-heresies would be OK.
The problem is that “heretical” doesn’t seem to map well onto that case. Anti-scientific views usually come from a place of ignorance rather than new knowledge. They’re not novel ideas, they’re usually demonstrably false, or unfalsifiable views.

In the former case the ideas are just wrong (note that this is not a moral judgment), and in the latter case they fall outside the realm of science, meaning the two can probably be reconciled with enough mental gymnastics.

I think there are more suitably nuanced words we can use than “heresy” to more accurately describe ideas in this context.
Ask HN: A good and thoughtful place to discuss cryptocurrencies?
In light of a recent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29949330 - is there a place on the Web where meaningful conversation happens with decently technical people about crypto ?

A well moderated place where at least common scams and "just buy $X" crypto threads are removed so some actual technical talk can happen or are we just lacking a "HN for crypto" ?

The only one I know so far is Vitalik's blog: https://vitalik.ca/ but not much else.
The other advantage of fungi might be in the aftermath of a micrometeoroid event. Does it make more sense to cut a hole in your shielding and use up a store of fungal bricks that you brought with you, or to grow a somewhat custom patch with the right radius of curvature, and slightly larger than the hole, and then recycling any material that gets removed to apply the patch.

If the shield is actually alive (say, a layer around your emergency shelter), then you can just fill the hole with food and let the fungi patch themselves, and any damage caused by being exposed to partial vaccuum. Possibly with a mold that also acts as a temporary, reusable patch over the worst hit areas, so that a subsequent space storm doesn't catch you with your pants down.
> I do feel a certain remorse since we've forsaken on our promise not to expand NATO towards the Russian border

No such promise was ever made, and even Gorbachev who started the myth by saying he felt tricked by the West when NATO expanded into former Warsaw Pact countries (beyond the United Germany where East Germany had been a Pact country) later specifically admitted that no promise was ever made and the issue of potential expansion beyond United Germany was never even discussed one way or the other.
Interesting. It’s not double blind and I’m not sure how practical this is but it does cast a lot of doubt on the conclusion that ivermectin doesn’t do anything unless the dose is lethal.
the only reason to obfuscate salaries is to pay people as little as possible and maintain control. any other argument is trying to pit employees self interest against others.
Why can't we just switch to TAI for computers and anything electronic everywhere and just use UTC for user visible timestamps?
I agree. Light issues are like distance issues. It's about capturing data, which cellphones will never match given their sensor and lens limitations.

Sure Apple/Samsung boats how good their phones are in low light situations these days. But people forget how awful they were in the past. Cellphones were useless for low light even just a few years ago. They've made great strides, but the lower and lower light you go, cameras are the clear winner.
I can't keep standing by as this continues to be parroted here.

You see the same machinations by some percentage of bad actors to take advantage of regulation not existing yet in any and every industry, from fruit, to paper manufacturing.

Yes, in many cases Coinbase doesn't list coins they don't like, and rushes to list ones it does.

This just further highlights the important of knowing, to every depth possible, whose code you're running and who you're doing business with, because the buck stops with you,

and governments can only continue to try to protect from an after-the-fact, further-harm-reduction viewpoint.
> who print their photo

Print? Who is even looking at photos after taking them.
But photos are also used as input for other graphics that can be printed - which is now also less common for reasons you have already mentioned.
The water will accumulate deuterium and tritium over time though. Eventually, it will degrade to emergency drink status. Might be a good way to get at fusion reactor fuel though.
In interpreting this result, one should keep in mind that an active parasite infection produces worse results for respiratory infections of all kinds. Taking ivermectin reduces parasite load.

The size and location of the study suggests that reporting of COVID-19 infections was by presentation, meaning asymptomatic or minimal infections were probably not counted.

tl;dr: These results will probably not translate well to places without pervasive parasite infestation. Wearing an N95 mask has a much larger protective effect than taking ivermectin, in any case, even there.
Of course there are awesome use-cases, but the real problem of the skeptics is that they can't let go of their fiat.

Take Nano for example: sub-second, 0-fee transactions, of any amount, to any (unbanked) person in the world. Of course, there is no way that any other (fiat) system can achieve this (due to operation costs, regulation, etc)

But the response of skeptics will always be "but I have to convert my fiat money". And at that point, it's not free and instant anymore.

But just because the new system loses its benefits because of backwards compatibility with the old system, doesn't mean that it is inferior. Maybe for some things, you don't need to pass through the old system anymore. One example is mining pool payouts, which can do payments through Nano to get the 0 fee transactions. (see https://2miners.com/blog/how-to-get-payouts-for-ethereum-min...).

You can argue that this mining is all a scam etc, but in the end real value is transferred using the most optimal network. More optimal than any central system that you can think of (remember 0-fee, instant trancations).
Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, Sketch, Paw, TablePlus

Just named five I use daily...
I opted to keep using 10 version because 11 both looks like shit (detached tabs, some strange UI tweaks etc) and works like shit (ublock, stylish broken in previous builds). Better to only update tor's core exe.
Software support for moving photos from SLR => disk/gphotos is nonexistant. Huge miss that DSLR companies haven't made this work. They just gave up and ceded the market for "take a picture and conveniently share it on social media"

See this question: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/128140/setup-to-ha...
I would say web3 works to the same level
> Name one scientific discovery that was known in Late Antiquity that was not known in the Medieval period.

I mean that's not hard to do unless your point is that they were rediscovered in the later centuries of the Medieval period. Almost all of Aristotle, all of Ptolemy, all of Archimedes was unknown in the Christian West for centuries.
Yeah, that’s the one.
1. GCam, MotionCam etc were always able to output stacked raws. In case of raws, "computational" is pretty much a marketing buzzword that means very little, it's just good old exposure fusion and stacking in bayer domain, with in-camera alignment robust enough to shoot a long stack handheld. They pretty much have the same exposure/iso priority and controls you expect to simplify capturing the most of the scene data unchanged. There's even experimental RAW video recording in MotionCam, however ridiculous that might sound.

2. RAW is also pretty much meaningless with modern mirrorless since it's not literally raw. They also do a lot of stuff under the hood for years, including "computational" stuff like noise suppression or pixel shift/superresolution in bayer domain.

So the line isn't just blurred, it doesn't exist at all. All this "computational" stuff is here precisely to capture more of the real data, not to draw something that never existed.
Not when we have extremely safe, highly effective vaccines.

But in places where they aren't available it could be interesting especially if Omicron is the dominant variant and reducing transmission isn't of much use (which Ivermectin doesn't help with).