skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the actual study from the NYU article that you claim makes this 'well established' science.

> Two hundred and twenty-five NYU students participated in a mass-testing session for course credit

>Two hundred and seventy-two participants filled out our survey on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Here's the study for the scientific American article that you claim makes this 'well established' science:

>Haas put 58 people with diverse political views in a brain scanner

You're clearly being manipulated by the media and don't even have the will power to look at the citations in the pop science article to see if the article is valid?

A liberal supreme Court Justice just said that there's 100,000 children in hospitals from
Covid.

This cavalier arrogant ignorance towards science that has taken root in the Democratic party, who are highly susceptible to CNN and Media influence, is scary.
I found this confusing too. But I assume they mean you're not taking it because they're giving it up voluntarily.
I don't know much about US, but for China it didn't last for months, 1 or 2 weeks maybe. It has been notified to the WHO at the beginning of January, on 23 January Wuhan was going full lockdown. And not lockdown like in the West, citizens were not allowed to step a foot outside even for groceries and the army was bringing rations to the people.

I remember then in March, a French newspaper highlighting how PRC hid the severity of the virus... I mean if they took these extreme measures in Wuhan, it's certainly not for a mild virus.
QT is much faster than Electron.
Reducing amount of sleep is the dumbest idea ever that I fell victim too as well.

It's never about reducing sleep, is about making sure you rest properly. It takes what it takes, if you fight your body, it will fight you back (and make your life a horror for a while).
Right, thanks for the info!
Believe it, or not. We still failed at getting customers to go beyond our incredibly successful POCs. I’ll write a separate article on this. What we were told off the record was, in every case things didn’t proceed due to politics and not our performance.

Sorry to hear it didn't work out, Chris - looking forward to your article. PLC4X was definitely one of the more interesting projects at codecentric.
The VPN provider I use have had diskless systems for years. Is this the same thing?

https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/improvement-of-the-physical-sec...
Oh I agree with that.
>wearing a mask if you don’t have an infection reduces the risk almost not at all.

I remember this, at the time we knew people who were infected (and infectious) could take more than 10 days to show symptoms, and if they didn't wear a mask they could infect hundreds. We also knew that anything less than an N95 wasn't designed to protect the wearer anyway (though as it turns out it does), but rather everyone else from the wearer. So it was really disingenuous of them to suggest your mask doesn't protect you, as they knew its everyone else's mask than protects you..

By the time it hit Italy we knew it was airborne, even if not by official measure, out government and the WHO kept this BS up for months after that.

Maybe we watch different media, as i have seen nothing about this issue. A few articles online, hidden away, nothing proportional to the seriousness of the issue.
Also you dont seem to realize that the corrupt CA Air Resources Board calls the shots because they need Tesla to stay afloat to sell carbon credits to the rest of the car industry otherwise there is no electric car in the US.
Glad to hear your interest, we have a list of sources we want to support here https://github.com/quickwit-inc/quickwit/issues/1000
You can manifest your interest, this will help us prioritise in our roadmap.
Online play "works" with "just" 45000-65535 open. Probably fewer.
It stayed in single person for months, and somehow it got more infectious in this person, without infecting anyone. It is perfectly adapted to stain airborne and pass lungs, but it gained that inside person! And it only gained mutations related to higher infection rate and severity, nothing else, no other random changes.

Omicron DNA was "forked" in July 2020. It was not detected until now, when it spread like wild fire. Unless we find missing links in nature, I find natural origin very unlikely.
I don't know who is right.

A lab that does bat related research and is located where bats have traditionally shown these viruses, it's hard to determine cause and effect.

"When I first heard about the Arctic, I thought about that Arctic ice research institute in a nano second. There are only two places. There are not a dozen places, it's two places."
I'm not sure if it will help.

Best of luck!
Is open source activism the “new” supply chain threat?
What is your point? Can't quote a former president if they did "bad" things?
Deletion and/or non-public is an interesting problem. Obviously, you can store it encrypted and delete the key, but advances in compute and algorithms might render that encryption breakable.

For data that needs to be updated, all you need is an override mechanism, which sounds simple enough.
Hey HN,

In light of this week’s discussion on the corrupted NPM packages colors/fakers ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863672 ) the article describes one of our security features that enforces a delay before new versions from upstreams (like npmjs) are allowed in an organization’s private registry.

This puts a safety barrier between your organization and “the latest” versions, allowing you and the open source community time to react when things like this happens.

Most people seem to agree that something needs to be done in regards to how npm dependencies are managed, the problem is finding a solution that people can agree on…

We believe this solution comes with a lot of security benefits, without creating massive barriers that negatively impact developers day-to-day work.
Every time they go to sleep, they eventually wake up !
I thought this blog post ironic since it said stuff like "free trial of open source" and "Industry 4.0."

I also think it's crazy that the government forces businesses to be profitable.
Yes, penal system rehabilitation projects is good suggestion. People do that, and it may be possible to do a UK cons-to-coders ML project (there was one in the US). I've seen people on HN cast doubts on OS projects as a portfolio approach but it's worth contemplating.
Can this be offered as a library that many apps could share?
> I needed a core that was basically a cleaned up C

Why didn't you consider D in 'Better C' mode? (https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html) Not only does it already exist but with very high likelihood is more polished (by virtue of the man-years already invested into D) than a single person's ad-hoc compiler of a subset of Go to C++ could probably be. Unless of course you absolutely needed to use some pre-existing Go code...
But how could that play out? If you're Mohammed bin Salman and you want to maximize your earnings from the oil left in Ghawar and the smaller fields, stipulating that you believe the international oil market will be vastly smaller in a decade or two, how do you do it?
Spidermonkey is quite embeddable by itself [1]. On Linux things like polkit, couchdb, mongodb use it. Still, the compilation process seems to download the whole firefox tarball and only compiles the JS related parts [2, 3].

[1] https://spidermonkey.dev

[2] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/js78/

[3] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/js78....
This is dangerously close to being off-topic but it would be good to hear from people interested in PLC4X:

I would really like to see home appliance manufacturers extend their products with a simple 2.n IO pin interface at the back. Absolutely minimal. For example: a kettle could have an input pin to turn it on/off and an output pin that just writes whether it is on or not. A simple 4-pin interface on the back in this case. An ice-machine that has three size options and an on/off switch. The classic case of the bean-to-cup coffee machine.

Does anyone know if there is a standard (for manufactures) for this sort of thing? If this was a standard that added a dollar or 3 to appliances one could plug-in some IOT board that allows for Home-assistant or similar integration.

Of course I've completely ignored the question of whether or not a market exists.
> I prefer to stay up into the night and wake up around 12:00, but I vary my sleeping hours by up to 4 hours or so. I go to sleep when I feel like it, and don't feel much discomfort by falling asleep at different times.

Yep. Exactly the same here. I tend to wake up 7-9 hours after I go to sleep (usually between 00-04:00) no matter when that happens. With very rare occurences of two part sleep. No side effects by 45, but I do exercise.

Come to think of it, I may get two part sleep more often than I think, because I do wake up during the sleep period. But most of the time I ignore it and fall asleep again in a couple minutes.
I use QtCreator. Here's my experience while editing, what do you think is missing ? https://streamable.com/xm1xw9
Are the (significantly) higher salaries worth it?

Higher?? You'd have to be joking. When most people need several jobs to make ends meet?

When there is no single-payer health-care for the average joe? When a brief visit to an emergency room will set you back thousands. And if you don't have a job, it's very probable that you won't have any health insurance either. In other countries, a you can have a triple cardiac bypass for zero out-of-pocket expenses.

When people have very little paid holiday leave per year, if at all? In some countries, they get four to six weeks holiday per year, paid at normal (or higher) wage rates.

When waiters and waitresses have to survive on what tips they get, instead of getting a reasonable living wage and tips are extra on top.?

When many roads, bridges, schools, hospitals are in bad states of disrepair because there is no money for the infrastructure?

When many of the country's airports look like 1960s hangovers from the third-world. Have you seen modern airports in the Middle East or Asia?

The US is nowhere near the 'best place to live'. Sorry.

Check out the 'most livable places' list 2021:

1 - Norway; 2 - Ireland (tie); 2 - Switzerland (tie); 4 - Iceland (tie); 4 - Hong Kong, China (SAR)(tie); 6 - Germany; 7 - Sweden; 8 - Australia (tie); 8 - Netherlands (tie); 10 - Denmark.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-coun...
Something I was wondering but couldn't find on the site: What is the license for the generated works through the project?
As a Brit and a developer who has ploughed through many a 24h format log entry, I agree!
I just sent you mail.
sure, it's https://ossia.io. Here's a video of my edit-compile-run cycle: https://streamable.com/az397y

To get to something that fast for incremental builds of course requires some tweaks from the buildsystem defaults:

- clang instead of gcc (I use clang on mac, windows, linux)

- ninja instead of make

- -gsplit-dwarf for debug info

- mold instead of ld (I used lld before which was already nice but mold is bewildering)

- PCH (very easy with cmake thankfully !)

- split in shared libraries of adequate granularity, e.g. the software is split in ~40 plug-ins (although with mold I'm not sure this is even relevant anymore, the complete link step if I don't use shared libraries is not that slow).

I've encoded most of these in my cmake toolchain-generator, cninja: https://github.com/jcelerier/cninja/

To give some reference, my hardware is a 8c/16t intel 6900k.

Edit: I did a complete build with everything statically linked instead of through shared libraries.
To give a reference: lld (which is already fast compared to GNU ld and gold) links the entire software in 0.47 seconds ;
mold links it in 0.3
And it works in both directions. You can "easily" (I mean, this is JS afterall so this heavily depends on the degree of toolchain hell chosen) move to the TS toolchain and rename your files to have the .ts extension and you have a valid TS project and benefit from the inferred types for your code. Type annotations can then be added later on as you go. And the syntax everybody already knows stays valid.
This is a huge benefit compared to something like ReScript because it makes adoption really easy. With the obvious downside of not having nice features like pattern matching.
Why is everyone around better than me?
I did it as well. Finished when I was 34. At that time I had no kids and was working 36 hours. Wasn't that hard. I can believe it would be very hard today. Kids, busy work. Its hard to find even 1 hour of free time a day. So conclusion: do it before getting kids :)
Unis are more open to inclusive hiring from what I hear so that may be worth exploring, but they also have safeguarding issues as they have young people there - though as a money launderer not a kiddy-fiddler I'm not sure how worried they be, unless they'd worry about moral corruption!
That's a fair point, although in this case drawing attention to the shortage would have made it even more newsworthy, and might have made the few greedy profiteers more fervent in their desire to buy up all stock, even as the average person reduced their buying. Appealing to morality works better when each person gets an approximately equal vote. If one arsehole can counteract the good behaviour of 10, that weakens the honest approach.

Whether it would have actually been worse or better I can't really guess, but I do see your point that it might have worked and definitely wouldn't have weakened public trust the way the dishonest approach did, so yeah, I'll concede that was probably a bad call.
Isn't this unofficial?
Sometimes I feel like I have a fever and am getting sick, then I realize it's probably just in the 90s and I should open a window. Not great. This is with all my radiators turned off!

The heat is on a timer so it's not like this all the time, but I have to wonder what a world where thermostats have been invented would be like.
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We're currently hiring:

* Senior Platform Engineer (Embedded Software Development) - Copenhagen, Budapest or Remote (European time zone) - https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/5330119002

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https://boards.greenhouse.io/airtamejobs/jobs/5654741002

Meet Airtame engineering team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUqPWEvMlg&list=PLnZhp4hHHk...
Other than RCS is tied to the 3/4/5G carrier networks and cant work over other media or physical protocols. It's more of the same bullshit layers on top of GSM instead of messaging being independent of the device.

iMessage is tied to your Apple ID, not your phone number or IMEI.
A year's break? You mean, nobody work for a year? The death rate would skyrocket as the Swiss died from easily treatable medical problems like appendicitis. Everyone in a nursing home would be dead after a few days, and you'd have mass starvation and riots in every city within weeks. No food would be planted or harvested, so even when the truckers and supermarket workers began to work again the starvation would not end. Politicians in neighboring countries would invade to "restore order" and reopen the banks where their savings are stored.
Devices of Unknown Origin Part I: Mystery in the Caribbean (2021)
> And I’m quite sure they were doing a lot of that back in that time.

Technically, they were all drinking alcohol because water was unsafe. However, beer at least had half the alcohol content that it has today and the wine was strongly watered. For women and children they even added water to the beer.

Googled it once. The information should still be available.
I like your analogy, but how do you find the perfect balance? I mean, you can play tetris at level 1 forever, but it is not ideal for productivity (unless you are really at level 1). You have to reach the level that you are comfortable enough with the speed of the falling pieces.

Is it experience? You have to review the tasks periodically? You use some kind of metric?

Sometimes I think I'm too slow, and sometimes I'm too overwhelmed and I only acknowledge it after some non-trivial time passes (or, at least, that is my perception).
Complete Heated Exchange Between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci
Not only distrust of politicians. I'd say the mainstream media have suffered from a similar loss of trust over the last years because most outlets simply repeat official guidance from the WHO or national agencies.
The key here is that for his business problem, the technology used is completely irrelevant.
Couldn't find the source I was looking for, which was I believe from a french scientist (likely from the French CIRI that co-founded the Wuhan lab studying coronavirusses). So I will have to softer my above assertion that the lab was build "precisely" in Wuhan because it was a place where coronavirusses have appeared in the past, into the less convincing: this lab was build in China because that's were coronavirusses responsible for SARS have come from.

Still not completely random. And yes labs and wild animal markets tend to met in high population density area, so that's another non-random factor I presume.

This coincidence is indeed troubling, but before jumping to conclusions it's good to remember why there is such consensus against lab leak theory, by (re)reading the original report on the origin of SARS-Cov2 (https://zenodo.org/record/5075888) and the short history of SARS past outbreaks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS#Outbreak_in_South_China - which interestingly lists several past lab leaks).

I don't find any of the competing theory very obvious to be honest.
What is very obvious though, and was made even more obvious to me when I was looking for that source, is the amount of political manipulation around this topic. The epidemic of manipulation of opinion is a greater concern that the epidemic of that virus if you ask me.

Can we refrain from posting articles about science from political newspapers, maybe?
It's naive to think that HN is necessarily better than an arbitrary Subreddit in terms of quality of conversations and depth of discussions, especially on non-tech related material. I don't know why one might think it's better/worse than a Twitter thread or Facebook post when it comes to controversial topics. You can find smart and dumb people here. Also, going against the narrative of the comment section may have negative consequences even here.

My personal preference is to treat HN as any other popular social media and be vigilant about what I read here.

P.S. I am not talking about this particular post. Just an opinion about the discussions on HN since you mentioned.

Edit: typo fix
The thing with Electron et al is that the GUI dev tools on it are the best thing humanity's come up with, by a country mile. It's vastly, vastly easier to develop a really good, clean app, with a great UI in it — especially a UI that needs lots of unique, new components that aren't in an OS-level GUI api's standard set. You compare really well-built electron apps (VSCode, Discord) with their competition, and it's such a staggering, one-sided comparison in "fit and finish", attention to detail, and not having weird little bugs that never get fixed. I say this as a former OS partisan, but even Apple, previously the trophy-holder for "best gui-builder tools", is way behind the curve. Steam, too, is now an electron app.

The thing that's just the brutal nail in the coffin is — if it just had the attributes mentioned above, it'd be a huge win. But to have "nearly perfect cross-platform support out of the box with no effort?" Jesus.

The thing about electron is — some 5 years from now, we're likely to start shipping electron apps that run on WebASM rather than JS, and at that point, there won't be any valid counterargument. They'll have all the benefits, and run just as fast and lean. Game over.
"the advice that wearing a mask doesn't protect you very well from getting Covid has held up pretty good; they're a lot better at protecting everyone else from the mask wearer."

They're actually no good at anything. You can compare places that were right next to each other and which differed only in mask mandates, or look at the times mask mandates were introduced and removed. Cases don't shift.

See the graphs here, where the numbers from different nearby regions are overlayed on the same graph with the times of mask mandate rule changes:

https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/every-comparison-shows-masks-a...

That's why when you dig into the citations of a paper claiming masks work, you invariably find some invalid evidence, like they'll be citing model outputs as evidence of real-world effects, or they'll cite a study whose CI includes zero, etc.
There is definitely a difference between art and mass-produced art. In the beginning, we only had art as an expression of human creativity, and it's not until later that we got mass-produced art, whose only goal is to provide profits for the author(s). It'd be useful to distinguish the two in conversations like this.
Ethernet/power brick combo on new macs come to mind ...
Fighting Misinformation or Fighting for Information?
This is your opinion, others find bitcoin useful, 0.5% is a small price for convenience.

They pay price for electricity just like users of ACs.
Adding physical connectors to mains voltage devices operated near water has significant costs. Wireless has managed to cater for this segment though still severely lacking standardization.
Well, nine of the engines are pointed forwards.
Amazing work and progress. The previous version appears almost toyish in comparison.

FYI uBlock Origin complains about the registration link, because it on "Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list".
A curated list of SRE resources
Exactly. Fortran is fine and it has many advantages over Julia. It's not only the legacy code.

For one Julia needs an humongous runtime. I can see in the future a compiler from a Fortran number crunching routine to a webassembly SIMD-ready kernel. Julia in the browser is still a failure and not for a lack of effort. Fortran is much simpler to do.

I tried to work in Julia and it has a whole lot of hidden annoying things, undocumented nuances, etc...

I find myself wishing for a language between bare-bones Fortran and big-but-buggy Julia but I know it won't happen since the community is too small
Alas, people who support more housing, only support it if building it requires no tearing down existing structures, no allocating more land for building, and no conversion of existing buildings.

In other words, people support more housing, as long as it doesn't require more housing. You're free to build anywhere, as long as you leave everywhere untouched.
> I'm...skeptical. Mostly that in a city where houses stretch into the millions now, people forego a can of Coke over a 20 cent price increase.

How can this possibly be your argument? Are you suggesting that prices have no effect on consumption when there are high prices in a completely different market? Your default hypothesis has to be that higher prices lead to lower consumption.