skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an excellent point. Flat-earthers as a group are an easy target because their 'belief' is essentially harmless and they're a small enough group that they really don't and can't cause any trouble; they're not, and never likely to reach, a critical mass that can alter society's momentum. Their argument also isn't compelling and cannot act as a crutch or focal point of blame for a perceived societal ill.

Racism and xenophobia on the other hand...

On democracy, I really like this quote:
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Democracy gives equal merit to the intelligent, the stupid, and the wilfully ignorant. This is the best we can do?

If you want a somewhat uniquely American critical-thinking-eschewing topic: Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism. That's a land mine I like to step on occasionally to gauge the current sensitivity.
Calling Forstall the ideal of good design is kind of funny because he invented WordArt as an MS intern.
Plumbing the construction of your object graph manually does not have a particularly high cost/benefit - most of your services are singletons that depend on each other, and it's already clear enough which ones depend on which others without repeating yourself. A very basic "here's a bag of classes that depend on each other, wire them all together and then let me pull out the instances by type" is often worthwhile for avoiding all that boilerplate, even if it does break the rules of the language a little. Something like Picocontainer or even Guice is pretty good IME.
I do not believe that flat earthers exist.

The only people I've seen claiming to believe the earth is flat are youtube celebrities seeking attention or big name celebrities saying it in jest.

I have yet to see a non-celebrity (or celebrity wannabe) who believes the earth is flat. Similarly, internet randos don't count.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole thing is a 4chan joke gone too far. I certainly don't think it has anything to do with our education system.
If you take the single responsibility principle even as much as half-seriously, the problem domain more or less decides which things will create which things. If your software platform can't support that, you get spaghetti mess when programmers inevitably build workarounds.
> And more important than their relative intelligence: who causes more harm in the world

You are much more likely to die on the toilet than you are to die of a gunshot wound. This does not mean guns are safer than toilets.
"Why must T cells be cross-reactive?"

https://www.nature.com/articles/nri3279
Recently I called amazon because I had tried to return something and the shipper wasnt accepting amazon returns because amazon hadn't been picking them up. Anyway, I called to tell them that I wasn't going to waste any more time trying to return the thing, and I wanted my money back. After I explained myself, the agent told me that "because I had an excellent record with amazon" they would refund my money (it was something that was the wrong size due to amazon mis-advertising so no benefit to me for keeping it).

I guess I knew it happened, but I was uncomfortable with the idea that they were making things right because of my record and not on the merits of the situation.

To your question, I'd try calling them one some pretext and asking the agent to tell you how your customer record with them is.
> I have tried Jonnycakes and they are a step down from cornbread.

I love Jonnycakes! I grew up on them though, which may be swaying my opinion.
> Remember, this won't be the last global pandemic, but it is the last one where science has any credibility. The next pandemic hopefully is as mild as this one because you'll never see this level of cooperation with the government and medical establishment ever again. Everyone now knows "two weeks to flatten the curve" means endless abridgement of civil rights. When that happens, remember that it was the actions during this pandemic that lead to the end of societal trust and cooperation.

I have trouble believing that statement, and it seems a bit hyperbolic. If the next pandemic had a 20% to 40% fatality rate you genuinely believe everyone will ignore all science and run around concerned about their civil rights of similar restrictions were put in place at the start of the outbreak? At worst, there will be more dissidence to restrictions put in place for a similar pandemic in the future.

The pendulum does always swing in the other direction, but that's a bit extreme.
well theyd at least generally share the same selection of ingredients because theyre all in north america. wont be seeing any old world vegetables.
Is anyone else having problem accessing the paper? The link on Science isn't working, and the DOI I managed to find in the rest of the coverage doesn't seem to exist. I can't find the paper anywhere.
Does anyone know of a compatible ESP32 development board with a built-in microphone and frequency analyser e.g. an MSGEQ7 (for sound-reactive projects)?

Here's their list of compatible hardware:
https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/Compatible-hardware
I've been averse to the superhero genre for some time, but a better solution for that super-hero laden medium is to follow specific writers and artists.

Like, just forget about the impossible continuity, and just let certain writers tell a story within that world.

Those writers often have other hits in non-super hero comic books, and they often keep the same team around them either for some typography style or art.

This has let me enjoy some real gems!
Confirmation bias is a tricky beast...

Even if Ct values are unchanged between vaccinated and unvaccinated cases, this is conditioned on being infected in the first place, and isn't the whole story. Duration of infectiousness matters.

Yes, boosters are necessary to reduce infection with Omicron, the antibodies from the original vaccine are just too big of a mismatch. That's not news. I'm glad to hear you're not taking those negative efficacy estimates at face value - it's almost certainly the result of missing confounders present at the start of their omicron wave. Unvaccinated individuals are probably less likely to live in urban areas, travel internationally, or even seek a covid test, for example.
Succinct article, with a most excellent TL;DR.
That’s interesting. I didn’t realize some solvents got through the RO filter but other filters can manage it better.

> AC filters remove chlorine and certain pesticides and organic solvents that the RO membrane is not as effective in removing

It seems like as long as you have a complete water filtration system, you’ll cover most bases.
Ask HN: If not Medium, then what?
There have been dozens of articles coming out over the past several years detailing how Medium is no longer a great home for the aspiring writer/blogger (largest of reasons is due to their paywall). I fully agree with this.

I used to be an occasional blogger, but had some okay traffic (a few posts took off), but definitely not a name for myself where I could take people with me to my own site. What I liked about Medium was their discoverability, shifting to my blog I believe will lose that discoverability.

Are there other platforms or other ways to get organic readership?
I wish I could bet on this not being true.
> I'm aware of one, and if it's the one I'm thinking of, he didn't so much "give his life for the cause" as tragically commit suicide because he couldn't see a way out of legal pressure put on him (which other people have had put on them and didn't commit suicide over; depression is a terrible disease).

You have described someone as having a weakness and committed suicide where others didn't. For you to know what was going on in whoever you speak of's mind is interesting to me to say the least.

That said, I don't know anyone like that; so I wasn't referring to the same person as you probably.

Sorry!
Same here. Probably clickbait.

Personally, I don't see anyone in Japan using digicams. Everyone's on iPhone.
Depending on the exact democracy: better voting methods, more relevant political parties, more independent judiciary, reduced monetary influence, more transparency. That would be admitting that modern liberal, representative democracies have flaws and need some reform.
I was not. I read a ton of CDC text files though!
You know, you hear Java repeat things like that a lot, while Go programs just tend to stay simple and readable. It's either the culture or the language causing the problem. shrug
While its hard to argue that the chance of a shooting war is NOT decent, it's likely that China will not make real moves for the foreseeable future (maybe 5 to 10 years at least):

In order for China to make a move, they must be able to have confidence beyond doubt that their operation would succeed. As a failed annexation would cause political and economical havoc. In order for China to have high confidence in their ability to over take Taiwan, they need capability that is simply not available to them right now (Or any organization on earth for that matter) because to fight Taiwan means to wage asymmetric warfare against a technologically advanced, prepared, reasonably well funded, and determined nation.

Some considerations that China will have to face:

* Dispersed AA missile launchers (MANPADs) that will deny complete aerial superiority over Taiwan airspace. MANPADs are cheap, work without any centralized command system, can be operated by single user without much training, and can be concealed.

* Satellite and other intelligence technology that can detect boarding ships and potentially guide missiles to eliminate them. This is bad for China as boats are still arguably the highest throughput method of getting a lot of people somewhere, quickly. Aircraft will face problem with AA.

* Cruise missile counterattacks. Taiwan doesn't have that many cruise missiles, and they each don't carry a massive yield in terms of payload. However in the event of real hostility, Taiwan can deploy them against many airfields and supporting infrastructure of the China military. This will definitely at least hinder operation of many facilities.

That's just my understanding so far. And of course, things will change, so we'll see how it goes in the future.
I'm distantly Native and have had a mild interest in Native foods for a while.

Sadly it seems most of the Native pre-Colombian foodways are long gone (in the U.S. at least). There's some wonderful exceptions though, lots of Tex-Mex style foods are direct descendants of native foods. The foods that are kept as Native foods in many areas are often created out of the hardships that came post-Colombian, and often post resettlement.

For example, I spent some time in the Navajo nation and one of the main traditional foods is Frybread -- a tradition that started after resettlement when lard and flour were brought in by the U.S. government to fend off starvation -- and is common on other reservations as well. There's some decent hearty food that's since been built off of fry bread. Is it "Native food?" Or is it food made by Native Americans, who often are trying to modernize folkways and tap into locally available ingredients?

To be honest, pretty much everywhere is post-Colombian now. You can get tomatoes, peppers, corn, squash, and potatoes (among other things) pretty much anywhere on the planet. And the converse is true, as the mass of Euro-Asian-African foodways have spread across the Americas just as well.

Some videos of native foods from the Cherokee people, a tribe that's been putting tremendous efforts into preserving their language, and culture. A few people have even been identified as Cherokee national treasures for their traditional food knowledge.

https://youtu.be/GSBBEYtMPNU

https://youtu.be/kJyYYsEBUWM

https://youtu.be/dKO2UrWwOSw

https://youtu.be/o52BCTqrX_U

https://youtu.be/z_u54Vgv6Z0

https://youtu.be/orW1Gcy3otE

https://youtu.be/laV4uG-iBD4
FWIW, here is a fairly minimal example[0] of broadcasting over websockets reusing the same buffer.

I'm not very familiar with vert.x(not a netty expert either), but I think the author of that article is ascribing blame to the wrong place.

[0]: https://github.com/juggernaut/netty-websocket-broadcast-exam...
> Racism and xenophobia on the other hand...

Also: war and economic dominance conducted by democratic countries, decade after decade, whose citizens seem to exist in some sort of a state of hypnosis where they seem fascinated by trivial matters like flat earthers, but have little more than platitudes or "nothing can be done" when it comes to actual harm, which their tax dollars and political complacency support, indefinitely.
That's a rather vague question. I don't pretend to be an expert, but i do consider the vaccine rollout and management to be a success in the country i live in and have followed most closely - France. The global vaccine rollout is decent, but severely lacking in many poorer countries that should be helped.
What precisely does Artblocks need blockchain technology for? What’s the value add versus just a website that auto generates neat art?
I’m Indian and don’t see any problems with all Indian being mushed together into a single place. Honestly that’s par for course even in india, pretty much most restaurants label themselves as “multi cuisine” and make 5 different genres of Indian and fusion food. The question is if they’re still true to heart and make it taste good.
Joe Rogan is entertainment radio for bros. I say that as a bro. I don’t like any of the “approved” talk show type entertainment like John Oliver or whatever else. Can I please just have entertainment I like? If you take his show away I’ll just find something similar.
How is it better to make a dev write out that plumbing and others reread it? I’m made of meat, so I want to automate everything we safely can.
"In five years, you will actually value your time properly, and instead of being harvested for advertisements, or being fleeced for dollars to buy stupid hammers you don't actually own, you will be playing some on-chain equivalent game that will be just as fun, but you'll actually earn value and you will be the harvester."

You can slave away in the virtual mine for cryptocurrecy pennies while the game owners get gas fees.

Sounds dystopian to me.
I guess I agree that discovering extinct life is information about probabilistic filters in earths future. I
But, it does have to be weighed against the newly observed data supporting filters humans have already past.

To take your example, as we keep finding rodent fossils, we become more confident that a filter exists between rat and rocket-men. As we go from 0 planets with rodent fossils to 1 trillion planets, the probability that this is the filter keeps going up.

That is to say, we are not only decreasing the chance of pre-rat filters, but simultaneously increasing the chance that the filter is in the rat stage.
> What the author is saying is that much of what we call science are actually facts that we take on faith

This is true from a practical sense in that most people don't validate scientific assumptions that are widely accepted for themselves. But the reason why we are able to reliably take them on faith is the interesting part to me.

Peer review and the scientific method allow for incentive to "prove each other wrong" as well as to have the ability to replicate (or try to) the results for yourself. When I ask my Catholic friend why he believes the Christian God is real, and he says his evidence is that he feels the holy spirit. I have no way to disprove that and no way to replicate or prove that evidence. Therefore it's not really a reliable way to have faith in that fact.
> The only really good recent food invention from American Indian cultures has been fry bread which, while delicious, lacks something in sophistication.

As well as being lacking in nutrition.
I agree with all of this. I'm also not religious; my sole point was to discharge the lazy claim that religions don't have some logical foundation. It's not a very good one in 2021, but ignoring it serves no particular (non-rhetorical) purpose.
this could be a good blog post to submit
It's hard for it to be unknown, as we have so many place names from Native languages. Around here, we have Snohomish, Skycomish, Issaquah, Duwamish, Sequim, Tacoma and even Seattle. Many, many words in American English came from Native tongues.
*An Israeli Study Finds Fourth Covid Vaccine Dose Is Only Slightly More Effective Than Third Dose At Producing Antibodies Against Omicron
Non mais vous avez mieux que le gruyère pour rentrer en compète avec le comté non?
The vaccinated still get and spread COVID and it is quite possible vaccinated individuals may actually contribute more than unvaxxed to more dangerous variants.
A Man Who Sold the Metaverse
HTTP was invented before SSL/TLS. Does that mean that the web needs to go away completely?
Dependency injection does not have to be dynamic, it can totally be done at compile time. Boost DI is an example: https://boost-ext.github.io/di/
I heard they are building factories outside Taiwan now. Also it’s been like this since 1945. This is not relatively a time of heightened tensions historically
A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
We Need to Close the Gender Data Gap by Including Women in Our Algorithms (2020)
>Yeah that sounds pretty unbalanced.

So how would that be different from Americans getting ~$12000 and buying goods from developing countries where workers also make $300 a month.

>People get lots of things for "free", like infrastructure

Infrastructure serves a specific purpose. Why should we give money to people for free when we can instead use it to build infrastructure?

>What conditions do you think are important for food stamps and welfare?

Welfare targets people who cannot provide for themselves, such as children and the disabled. We don't lose much productivity by giving these people money. Every able bodied adult should be expected to give back to society.
It's actually pretty wild to me that as late as 2001 or so, developers would still be writing assembly code to get games on consoles to run properly.

Like, at what point did the industry graduate to, I dunno, C?
You mean like Intel? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
I have used https://sparkjava.com/ when I still did Java some years back. It was as thin as they come and a real joy to get started and going.
See, this is an interesting problem.

Seems like you might be caught on the infinite abstraction escalator though, as who will manage the DNSNS (Domain Name Service NameSpaces) servers, and who'll take the onus for making the standard selector or display for the user to decide which lookup to consider canon for the request? This would actually be a pretty exciting development.

This would greatly complicate domain squatting (or maybe intensify/arms race it), and add a layer of resilience in the form of building up the interfaces required for users to maintain their own private DNS namespaces. This would conclusively shut the door in terms of centralized seizability of domains, since the user would in effect be empowered to be their own registrar.

You could even keep the traditional stuff seizable I guess. However, you'd be able to ask the fellow down the street if he still had the old DNS entry for x.y.z
There are multiple alternative syntaxes suggested in the proposal, one of them doesn’t use foreign key names, but instead the foreign key column names, similar to USING (), but without the ambiguity:

https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/15b50b65ec343dce94db6249cf...
I propose that a grassroots initiative is started with the intent to develop a new system for implementing democracy, the goal being to run in parallel with the current system and then one day replace it.

And since "people are too dumb" for us to adopt direct democracy is a legitimate complaint, it might be a good idea to address that problem simultaneously. Teaching epistemology and logic to the masses would yield massive benefits across the board imho.
> No one can compete and their global power is assured.

until they get disrupted. For example, a wholly new approach to CPU design using lazers and light, instead of silicon, or quantum computing perhaps.
I agree that studies that look at natural immunity find that it actually does something (also, those who were vaccinated then later got Covid have really strong immune response [0]). My issue is with the CDC, OSHA rules, HHS worker rules, and others that totally ignore natural immunity with their policies.

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787447?gu...
Can you elaborate?

I'd want to understand why some Zoroastrians hold that view, before claiming that it's incorrect.
To further your point, it’s been like this since 1945. There were even periods if active hostility, right now is relatively peaceful
AIUI, the basic architecture of the "Sugar" environment is quite Emacs-like, though not literally built on Emacs. That's why they thought it would be important to have a "view source" feature.
Yeah, because that's what religions are known for: eagerly changing their own rules.
Some filmmakers are so enamored by digital camera aethetics that they opt to shoot entire feature films in digital cameras.

- Anno Hideaki (of Evangelion fame) shot his first feature Love and Pop in digicam.

- Lars von Triers's Dancer in the Dark won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.
Just walk the side streets ... Find the old town ... there is a church in the old town with skull sculpture throughout... On a quiet single lane side street is an ancient church again with a skulls motif ... Naples has a unique vibe ... If you like it I suggest visiting Trapani once there walk towards the western point of the town which is the oldest part ... nice quiet restaurants only locals know incredible flavors
I hope this is sarcasm.. it has to be. Although the term top up sounds like something the government would say, just like boosted. I'm waiting for the ads on television where they show old people getting "boosted" and talk about how great they feel afterwards, when in reality I've known several people that had to stay in bed for a few days after their vaccinations and acted like it was a normal thing.
I imagine less people left because of the "cries" and more because of the _actual_ hostile channel takeovers?[0][1]

Not even mentioning the blocking of IRCCloud users [2] and not handling GDPR requests, despite servers and users in the EU [3].

0: https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse

1: https://redd.it/nyp855

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495358

3: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1407790283308240897/photo/1
I agree with the sentiment. That entire website seems like an excuse to wrap robot generated art into NFT.

Just look at the description of one of the piece

THE SOURCE CoDE is a new techno-mystical framework that channels knowledge from source creation to our digital present. The medium of this knowledge is a set of unique 1024 “karma” cards minted in the Genesis phase of THE SOURCE CoDE. The Hash is a unique entity that drives all aspects of a single card.

What is this even doing.
Has anyone ever had awesome lte and said “I need more bandwidth” on their phone? Idk I just don’t see the need for 5g but I’m definitely not a phone power user.
You don’t need the Ph.D is what I’m hearing.