skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of my first year in college. A big group of us all thrown into a wild party town, on our own for the first time, learning about ourselves and each other. Only it wasn’t centered around alcohol, it was centered around crystal meth. Of course alcohol, weed, and various hallucinogens were always present but the big thing tying us together was the meth.

Everything was great, if a bit intense, for the first few months. It felt like it was us against the world and we were invincible. Slowly but surely, though, cracks began to emerge. One of us would hit a rough patch, drop out, and move home (sometimes after totaling a vehicle). Others started getting into petty crime and became convinced the FBI was after us - it didn’t help that one girl’s Father actually was a fed who became increasingly concerned about his daughter’s erratic behavior. I think all of us started seeing shadow people and realized the downward spiral we were in.

Things kind of ended after that first year when most of the group couldn’t handle the lifestyle and school simultaneously. The few of us who didn’t drop out went on to varying degrees of success from solid middle and upper middle class lives to one guy who started a company and is now worth a couple hundred million. It was a crazy time with some pretty wild memories that I wouldn’t take back - but certainly wouldn’t recommend.
If it's like other crypto giveaway scams it works like this:

Twitter account impersonating some celebrity, e.g. Musk: "to show my love for crypto, I am giving some away. Send bitcoin to <some address> and I'll send double back!"

Replies from other Twitter accounts controlled by the scammer: "wow, I had my doubts but I sent some money and got double back. Now I'm rich. Thanks Musk!"

Marks: send crypto to that address and never get anything back.
I’m surprised they haven’t found a way to lift the curse yet. Perhaps because it was imposed by a Kentucky Colonel, they don’t have enough expertise in Western mysticism in Japan. For some reason, animal sacrifice comes to mind as a possible solution. And the number eleven… convince Millie Bobby Brown to conduct the ritual for maximum effectiveness.
IEEE Spectrum.

Second choice would be MIT Technology Review.
and default in ChromeOS. But simply not an option in any Linux I've tried.

Bit of a tangent, but it's always funny to me to discuss ChromeOS and Android as distinct from Linux distributions. I get that they're each practically as "Linux" as TiVo (and might not even be that forever, depending on how Fuscia evolves), but it actually might help avoid confusion if we started using the term GNU/Linux unironically in some contexts.
No, Haiku is basically a carbon-copy of BeOS. Still, Essence's BeOS vibe comes from the tabbed windows and the strong emphasis on single-user computing.
Would extinguishing this or other “eternal” fires qualify to be sold as carbon credits? Or would it actually be worse for global warming since carbon could escape as methane instead?
Yeah I’ve stopped wearing a mask period. Omicron has made it pointless.
That still doesn’t explain the scam.
There remain benefits:

- Hospital capacity is limited, staff burnout is real, and delayed treatments for non-Covid conditions are occurring. Given Omicron's tremendously fast spread, slowing spread even slightly helps.

- Infection isn't an all-or-nothing strategy. Innoculum, that is, the amount of virus you're exposed to, matters, and a smaller innoculum may reduce severity of symptoms.

- There remain many individuals who are immunocompromised or who have multiple risk factors for Covid.

- Though Omicron's severity is lower, it is not zero. Looking at South Africa, it appears that net total deaths are about 1/3 of previous Covid waves. South Africa's peak was early enough that we're probably seeing peak mortality about now.

- Further mutation of Covid is likely, and the more cases and more variants of virus are spread, the more likely those become. We've seen variants with greater severity (Delta) and greater infectiousness (Omicron). A variant combining those traits would be highly unfortunate.

There are countries which are likely to see major Omicron outbreaks. I've been watching India's new daily cases double every 3 days since January 4, growing from 59k cases then to 533k on 13 January, pretty much precisely as I'd projected. (I was, and am, very much hoping for that trend to break. Given India's pretty clear testing and data reporting issues, hitting a numeric target may not be especially significant. But the point remains that in a country of 1.4 billions, even with a relatively low incident fatality rate, India could be looking at 20--80 million deaths. More if healthcare services are overwhelmed.

Access to, and proper protocols for masks, could help.
0 to 10mm!? Some study. That’s barely a beard. Loses 40% effectivenes at 10mm.
Maybe! It's not like the compilers, documentation, and emulators needed to launch a hobby OS are getting any harder or more expensive!
Log4j and Oracle Database
The situation is an entire generation of kids from one point forward were systematically misled about the sure thing security of the benefits of taking a student loan investment vehicle in order to secure their education. When the financial sector was misled about the same regarding "secure" mortgage backed securities in 2008 they were completely bailed out - despite being the sophisticated investors that should have known better.

To allow the same for entire generations of students affects our society - causing declining birth rates, poorer health outcomes, poorer life quality. And why? To enforce fiscal discipline that we have not enforced even on sophisticated actors that systemically made a poor choice?
Do all 21 year olds have optimal immune systems?
StarCraft never had randomly generated maps, by the way. I'd use Age of Empires as an example in its stead.
Dude, honestly, going out shopping during the cold and flu season without a mask, seems a little gross. And, at least around here, it's super cold and flu and covid season right now...
Show HN: Weird JSON
Except it isn't. In order to deal with something as simple as unifying how keyboard shortcuts work across the UI (the desktop environment, intra-UI idioms for movement & selection, etc.) I'd have to unpack 30 years of legacy X11 decisions and idiosyncrasies, sort out how to reform numerous different UI toolkits, and often dig into the applications themselves on an application by application basis.

It's often impenetrable despite its being open source.
Fortunately CDC data clearly shows that there is no significant risk for those under five years old. COVID-19 is less dangerous to them than other common viruses such as RSV.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00443.asp
They explain it in the first paragraph.
No not really. I’m ready for the government and everybody else to move on from this whole debacle.
Alcohol isn't special in this regard. There are many ways to shake oneself out of their standard mental cycles. There are lots of other drugs, and there are also plenty of non-drug techniques and experiences.
AKA the EVE Online Jita chat scam.
TypeScript is language that allows you to work like that. You may use as many and as few types as you need at any given stage of development.

As you start adding types to your working program compiler debugs your program for you finding various corner cases.

This motivates you to add more types.
People usually try with a small amount first. They might get that small amount back - which "confirms" they are getting something back. Then they send a larger amount.
Mix and match mental models
For those interested in a more personal take on this amazing spice, I recommend Amitav Ghosh's essay, "The Spice of Life" (2017).

https://www.slowfood.com/the-spice-of-life/
I think there's one just a couple a miles from where I live.

Here it is, almost a 100 years ago:

https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/isl...
Also the whole paradigm breaks down on macos if you have multiple desktops. Suppose you have one terminal open on desktop 1, and a browser and terminal on desktop 2. From the browser, if you cmd tab to switch to terminal, it will never go to the terminal on desktop 1, even if that was the last window in focus.
It would be great to highlight some successful remixes. It looks like the currently list is just people offering original tracks to others?
It's mind blowing how 3 years into a pandemic, we're just having the conversation about N95 and mask fit vs kn95 vs cloth mask. What a huge miss in public health. Should have been done summer 2020.

The most effective, cheapest solution was just to wear a properly fitted n95. Sure, vaccines good, retrovirals, yes, but this should have been done long ago. Given the airborne and aerosolized nature having a real mask would have gone a long way to reduce community spread. This was a known thing, not new science.

I think the issue is sadly political, once masks became a lightning rod, the idea of more mask guidance or more restrictive masks became a problem. Hard enough to get people wearing masks in the first place.
This looks awesome but I feel like it would get old really fast writing any amount of code on that tiny keyboard. Somehow doesn't stop me from wanting one though.
Alcoholism vs abstinence is a false dichotomy. There are safe consumption limits, technically there is no need for total abstinence. But it has to be said that one of the best ways to maintain such equilibrium is precisely to avoid the exact situation this article glorifies. Drinking alone raises the risk of addiction very significantly.
I remember this being an annoyance for a long time.

BBC horizon documentaries pretty much took the prize when it came to endless stock video with ambient music and aimless "poetic" quotes from various eccentric scientists talking about some interesting but essentially fantastical topic far removed from any reality or future.
Ehh, you'd expect an "oops, didn't mean to" to suffice then. With the article's generally overwrought tone I wouldn't put much weight on its note about the apology as a big deal. Still, maybe I did read it wrong.
> Half of mobile users use Safari on iOS today

Correction, all of mobile users use Safari on iOS today. Webkit is your only option, everything else is just the same browser with a new interface added to it.

Maybe if there were actually multiple browsers to choose from on iOS, we could make that distinction and know for sure. Until then, I think it absolutely holds true.
My original argument still stands.

And the government was perfectly capable of bailing out private companies at the end of Bush Jr’s second term.
This is spot on. I'm really hoping omicron will be the wave that finally helps achieve some level of "herd immunity". It's sad that we had the opportunity to do so via vaccination but failed to capitalize. However a variant with high transmission and low chance of severe symptoms is the next best thing
Counterpoint: If you're a developer and your projects are uninsurable, that is your problem. You're not going to be a developer for very long if that's the case.

And apparently it's not the case.
We should be careful then not to overload the 256 range. If we probe too closely at the QM level or use too many quantum computers it might overload the local processor node and crash it. Be a bad day for everyone.
Yeah, I dunno why 3M even makes the 9205 TBH, the 9210 is just so much better, and while the 9210 are harder to find, when you can there doesn't seem to be a meaningful price difference.
I don't think we lost, we developed a vaccine which reduces your chance of death by a factor of 20. (probably more than that if you are reasonably healthy) That's a win in my book.

I am rapidly becoming in the "vaxxed and done" camp.... happy to get vaccinated and boosted as many times as necessary. But after two years, this is no longer an emergency situation for the vaccinated. It is simply not a big risk anymore. All kinds of things are bigger risks.

I'm willing to wear a mask for a few more weeks but after that (when they say the surge will be mostly over), there is no point anymore.
its astonishing that anyone would fall for this...
Collectively owning nothing and creating a power vacuum that will be filled by violent psychopaths. We all saw how Chaz went.
I thought I was an alcoholic beyond help but it turns out I was just selfish. I used to drink to get drunk almost every day when I was living with someone, they drank too but not to the excess I did. Then one day they were gone, they passed away and suddenly I found myself alone and responsible for maintaining a home and taking care of several animals. I realized I could not risk something happening to me in my drunkenness and have no one around to help me or call for help, end up dead and leave my animals alone in the world with no one to care for them. So I quit, no shakes, no depression just a few cravings now and then for it but far greater of a feeling of loneliness and missing my best friend in the whole world than wanting a drink.

I don't know if it makes a difference but my alcohol of choice was beer and I consumed between 10-15 every night for around a decade. I still would consider myself an alcoholic because if I drink even one beer, I am going to keep drinking until they are all gone, but I guess I have the ability or wisdom to choose not to have that first drink, or maybe I'm just co-dependent without anyone to make it happen. Lucky for me I suppose.
That's different and makes sense. SI features people on the cover who have been outliers in performance recently. Such outliers rarely last, regardless of magazine covers. Hence, the "curse" is really just reversion to the mean.
Why? I’m a living organism, we get diseases. If we don’t get enough of them we often get other diseases. I’ve gone out in public my whole life in all seasons and am not disgusted by a little infection threat, it’s what being alive is.

If you want to wear a mask, go ahead, you do you. But the time is quickly approaching where a government telling me I have to is going to be far beyond their legitimate purview.
I think this is one of those things that people may self-shame over. I've been to plenty of movies on my own. I don't see why anyone else would care.
There likely is no herd immunity to be had. Omicron infects those with previous delta infections, and there are cases being studied further from South Africa of omicron cases getting reinfections of omicron.

I think our best chance is faster vaccine cycles and better targeting of the sequences to impede transmission.
I beg a pardon, but what's wrong with this one? Sure, if you understand enough of the general relativity theory, you kinda get that "X was earlier than Y" starts making less and less sense if X and Y are light years apart, but it's not something you can easily explain to the general audience.

The quoted phrase, on the other hand, understandably conveys the idea that planets are not specific to the solar system, and that other systems have formed and died billions of years before.
Those thresholds protect productivity, they don't protect from alcoholism.
This seems like quite a low effort investigation that also just assumes all transactions are victims.

My guess is that throughout the live stream they would have shills in the chat LARPING as genuine viewers sending their crypto and successfully receiving the reward, so a lot of the TXs would be from the scammers themselves used to fool other sheeple.
Not anymore, but when I did, I've taken on some hairy tasks that were otherwise overwhelming and the code just flows.

Didn't work all the time though - sometimes I'd just be noticeably tired and stupid. And when I hit my 30s that tended to happen more often than not so I hung it up.

Now, with a good night's sleep, the very early morning hours (5am) is when I can get the flow state consistently.
As someone who hangs out in the surrounding countries from time to time: this is a pretty good case where "because you can doesn't mean you should." Like, this is some crazy idiocy and you should know what you're in for with the relatively painless bureaucracy. Some diplomatic spat or tragedy and they will ignore whatever they signed onto with Heaton.

But hey, if I were Heaton's daughter I turn my princess status into a college admissions essay,
I'm in Washington state and seeing that the hospitals are out of capacity again; national guard coming in to help and procedures deferred for a month per the governor. I don't know how it looks in other states.

Whenever hospitals start deferring procedures, it's not great for health outcomes. One might hope that one outcome of this pandemic is more spare capacity in hospitals, but that's going to take a long time, if it happens.

On a personal note, I don't like being sick, so if I can delay or prevent that, wearing a mask isn't awful. And I don't like large gatherings, so I'm not missing out on much by avoind those.
We've been afraid all along that people would try to make masks a forever thing, and saying that not wearing a mask is gross is a big step in that direction.
Do you mean the inline code or code blocks? In any case, I tweaked the background to be more different from the page background (in both light and dark mode) and also gave inline code that same background. Does that help?
https://github.com/azdavis/azdavis.net/commit/55199593abfb6e...
No, that's the figure for KF94 and KN95 masks. For N95s it's only about a 20% loss of FFE.
Rust's Result type and `?` operator makes error handling kinda fun. Every language should strive to be this clean.
"Though Omicron's severity is lower, it is not zero. "

There isn't a zero risk of any number of more dangerous things. This is no longer high risk, at all, for reasonably healthy people who are vaccinated and boosted. (those who aren't are foolish)

I'm willing to wait out the surge, but after that, I am hoping those in my community (bay area.... which doesn't have overcrowding of hospitals because of high vaccination rate) are ready to get rid of the masks and get on with normal life.
It’s a good question. I would be interested to know which economic forces drove the price changes.

I suspect that prices could still increase even in spite of public funding decreases due to the point in my original post.

But to me, all of these side effects can be thought of as fruit from a poisonous tree, and thus unjustified.
None of that speaks to whether the proposed $50k forgiveness is a regressive policy relative to other potential uses of several hundred billion dollars.
From the beginning it has been obvious that the decision makers did not know what to do about this pandemic. I am not convinced that lockdowns and masks have decreased the positive cases based on comparisons between places that were heavy on lockdown and mask mandates and those that weren’t.

Almost no one is wearing N95 masks. And many of those who wear masks only wear them some of the time or incorrectly. On a flight I took recently, they asked a man to remove his N99 mask in favor of the standard issue, light blue surgical mask you see everywhere.

Masks to me are symbolic. People wear them to show that they care and that want to obey the pleas to “do your part”. But with the implementation I’ve seen they probably haven’t helped much.
Fit is critically important. There is no point in having an advanced filter material if the mask fit itself is leaking air everywhere.

>"An N95 is more protective because it has a better face seal in general than a KN95 or a KF94,"

N95 does not require manufacturers to test for fit. However, the headband normally ensures a better face seal. KF94 has a fit-test requirement, but it's bar is low -- 11% leakage to pass the test. The ear-loops really don't do much and in terms of face seal and filtering inbound air. Leakage is far greater source of pollutants than the filter failure (94%, 95%, 99% filtration).

I use common sense -- if the mask fits loosely and is easy to breathe in with, it probably is not filtering much.

Edit: I didn't mention anything about politicized matters or even covid. I discussed the mask certification standards and filtration effectiveness (well established before the pandemic).
Lol a doubling scam. These scams have existed since MMOs began and you could trick people into giving you items/currency under false pretenses.

Ironically a smart contract is probably the safest way for a customer to engage in a doubling scam.
I thought the DIY air-quality monitor earlier today was neat but this blows me away.

Some serious next-level hardware hackers this generation.

I get worried everyone is turning into dumb iphone+app users but this advanced creation stuff restores faith.
It's fun and small
I think the statement says that there are no legitimate N95s specifically labeled for kids, so any "N95" that has that labeling is suspect and may not live up to performance. But yeah, I can't imagine N95 designers were anticipating kids to ever need them.
The police are allowed to lie to you (non-crime). You aren't allowed to lie to them (crime). This isn't news.
Yeah, as the other person pointed out, it's not that simple.

Like yourself, I also thought Linux would be capable, until you actually dig in to do it and realize it's a nightmare of different conflicts.

For starters, that super key is usually for the main menu/dashboard in most Linux os's and intentionally not easy to remap.

Then each application has its own key mapping, so even if you change the system copy/paste, chrome and any other app may have it practically hard coded - they are not all configurable and that includes most terminal applications.

Seems so simple till you dig in and try to accomplish it. In the end, the best solution was to find a terminal app where I could switch the copy command with the cancel command, and then I just have to remember when I'm on my Linux system, cntrl+shift+c is to cancel a command. 1/2 the time I use the system terminal though, and then the command is back to Linux native.

So now I have to remember that special terminal app to use, and that the cancel command is different, on top of the fact the key binding are on different keys also.

It is annoying as hell. And that is ultimately why I end up using my work Mac, even for personal stuff I would prefer to be on Linux.
Victims already fell for the first part of the scam, buying into crypto without first understanding what it is.
In the US requiring everyone to be clean shaven would be a clear infringement of the religious freedom rights of many people. It would be a non-starter from the get go.
Do you trust Amazon’s supply chain?
So what is the inception of ownership?
How does that make sense. N95s protect against all variants.
Where? For the love of rational thinking, where???
But wouldn't this also run on a laptop that is much older? My pentium 4 computer from when I was not much older than my daughter had much better specs than the minimum they need here. I'm sure there are some other limitations though.
Surely there is a mechanism in these technological marvels which are cryptocurrencies to get the money back?
> if the mask [...] is easy to breathe in with, it probably is not filtering much

For the past 2 years, haven't pro-mask people been telling anti-mask people to stop pretending that masks are so hard to breathe with?
> FP2 or N95 do not work either. You can't stop an airborne virus with a mask.

Bullshit. Not even worth refuting someone so far removed from reality.
My suggestion has long been a viable, long term colony at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Far more hospitable than Mars and exceedingly cheaper to get to and resupply. And as bonus, is an equally pointless waste of resources and possibly lives...
Part of it is the pre-Omicron, it took more virus to typically infect people. So the more typical masks helped a lot. Now even a tiny bit can easily infect, so aerosol (as opposed to droplets) was not nearly as big an issue.
You would think, but I'm a sys admin and
1) live in the terminal.
2) copy and paste to/from the terminal often
3) do not like accidentally cancelling a command when I just meant to copy something.