skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those instructions are for Apple employees. If you want to build XNU, follow this: https://kernelshaman.blogspot.com/
I can't for the life of me understand why your last statement isn't what the world is driving for at the moment. mRNA vaccines are easily(-ish) updated, so punch out an Omicron specific dose and get on with the regular single/dual (if needed) regime.

It seems strange we'd opt for 3-4-5 shots given the benefit of mRNA was its ease of creation and modification.
Then they just rush-approve the mRNA vaccines with the modified payloads for Omicron and possibly Delta. The same delivery systems, merely different mRNA sequences, so I would think there's reasonable chance the (side)effects are the same. I thought this is already happening on the normal timeline.

And there's a whole lot of vaccines coming on line that use different delivery systems and/or targets. There's a chance that one of them is effective vs. Omicron. If so, there's a number of govts that have gobs of money and the ability to direct what gets manufactured if they so wish. Others can break patents on a national security justification and manufacture locally.

Whether people will take them is a different question, but Darwin might keep having some effect with this. As others have said, the ultimate goal is keeping people out of hospital not from sniffling.
What is "immunity in general" for you ? This shot is not vitamin C
>> the only blockchains that are relevant are just colossal energy sinks

> I couldn’t care less :) if you want to pretend the rest of the ecosystem doesn’t exist it’s up to you.

Eh... You're the one defending a system that doesn't give a shit about the ecosystem. You know, the real actual ecosystem, the one POW[1] blockchain so immensely contributes to destroying. It's almost as if you guys are all pretending it doesn’t exist.

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[1]: And what an apt acronym that is, in this context.
An emerging solution I've been investigating is using Nix as a build system for docker. The syntax is fairly lightweight and you can build containers that are scratch + coreutils, or whatever else you decide to put in there.

I was originally turned onto this by a post on the repl.it blog about using Nix this way.

You can also do this with other build systems or using weird docker file hacks by hand.

Here's some idea of what the syntax looks like:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...
Lockdowns have known serious and long lasting effects.
They don’t need devices. Parents choose to give them devices because hanging out with kids can be tedious.
> Hard to find good sources but Kuwait had a median household income of $40k. Meanwhile, almost 1 million workers make less than $300 a month, so Kuwait citizen families likely make a lot more than $40k.

Yeah that sounds pretty unbalanced.

> The purpose of money is a medium of exchange for goods and services. Giving money for the sake of nothing defeats the entire purpose of money, because you're giving everyone money without creating new good and services. Note that this is different from conditional payments like food stamps or pensions, which serve the purpose of insurance. This is also different from welfare, which is targeted towards certain people in hopes of improving their well-being.

People get lots of things for "free", like infrastructure, and that doesn't defeat the purpose of money. Basic income isn't "for the sake of nothing".

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

If a certain level of low income is good enough, that's basically equivalent to universal income plus progressive taxation.
Awesome! Since switching from Mac to Linux I've been really missing Monodraw[1] for generating diagrams suitable for code comments. Emacs artist-mode is nice but I struggled to get the hang of it, will definitely be trying this!

[1] https://monodraw.helftone.com/
Wow that looks cool. It reminds me of what Orange.app was for regular data viz, this Gephi is for graphs.

It's pretty notable that the coolest data viz is for discovery, whereas most managers just need to know whether the line has gone up or down. I'm thinking there may be a fundamentally different cognitive orientation to whether one is hunting for opportunity or managing a resource.
Yes it was. But such consistency is double edged sword because it also leads to “if all you have is a hammer” UIs where UI elements are abused for roles that they shouldn’t be used for, because the alternative custom UI costs so much development time.

In general I’d say UIs are much better these days functionally, at the cost of much less consistent look and feel (UX) across apps.
> the amount of antibodies returns to the level it was after the third vaccine, not more. It’s nice, but it’s not what we expect from a booster

So basically it doesn’t confer any long term benefits - the only value from it would be if you want to keep your circulating antibodies high by perpetually boosting on a regular interval.
I disagree.
While finding dead life on other planets decreases the probability of some filters, it also increases the probability of other filters.

For example, if we go to every planet in the solar system and see evidence of extinct multi-cellular life, but no sapient life, this would suggest that the filter is indeed behind us, and not in front of us.
Hey Karl,

Great seeing you today. I wanted to connect you with Charles Darwin. He’s working on some interesting ideas and thought you’d be interested.

@Charles - Karl is a friend of mine who has been working on some new economics ideas you might find interesting.

No need to keep me in the loop

Best,
F.E.
There were multi-node PC BBSes around here that did the same thing back in the late 80's, early 90's. An 8 line BBS consisted of 8 lower-end PCs plus a higher PC acting as a file server on a Novell network, running PCBoard. They simply didn't know how to do it any better. Most people knew DOS.

There were a couple of Unix BBSes locally, but they were few and far between. I started mine on an Amiga but eventually moved to Linux.

As for Rust and Edie's, that setup must've been nuts. 100 PCs in a house must've been insane back then, especially in a residential setting. It would've been a pain just getting that much power and phone lines brought in.
Thomas Jefferson's letter copying machine
Elastic/EUI – The New License
> For example subscription services for newspapers often still show ads.

And cable TV.
... That's literally the first line of the article.

Handy tip: When the article provides its source material and even links to it, it doesn't really matter whether you heard of it before or not.

On top of that: "Meanwhile, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) cautioned last week that there was no evidence to back a fourth booster, warning that repeat boosters every four months might actually weaken people’s immune systems". The source for that is also linked in the article.
To those who say that flat earthers don’t exist in reality…

There’s a guy who drives around town where my parents live in Arizona with his flat earth position writ large on the side of his pickup truck. He will stop to debate with you even if you’re next to him at a traffic light. [1]

I think flat earthers do exist but the majority of them may not admit it openly if they’re still sufficiently “there” to fear the social ostracization (word?) that might follow.

I agree to some extent with the original article under discussion and I would point interested folks to an interesting video by Sabine Hossenfelder which makes some tangentially similar points. [2]

I would also add that the western school system teaches us to fear being wrong and finally letting go of this can be a liberating and empowering experience. After that it seems to become a little easier to believe the next similarly counterfactual thing that comes along.

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/InfowarriorRides/comments/gow054/mo...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8DQSM-b2cc
You are correct that the economy is not zero sum. It is not black and white, but the primary beneficiaries of automation are those who have the investment capital to leverage automation at scale. The rest get a better world sometimes, but our benefits pale in comparison.
Bang for the buck in what sense? What “smart self-motivated” kid needs the help? Show us a computer screen just once and our life pattern is set.
If you really want to work someplace dysfunctional, try academia.
I you want some intuition, this Kalid Azad's explanation may help:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/matrix-multiplication/
> perpetually boosting on a regular interval.

... Which is expressly advised against by the EMA, as linked in the article.
If I understand correctly, israel mandates a third shot (to do normal stuff), as do many places in north america, either now or soon. And I can only imagine many people would be happy to mandate a fourth as soon as possible.

What I find most frustrating is that politicians are happy to make these mandates live, during an ongoing situation where we actually don't know a lot about how effective things are (and in the case of the latest variant, we know they are not effective). It's one thing to provide treatment to people that want it, and to share the latest thinking and advice. But it becomes pretty ridiculous when the latest musings go unfiltered into mandates.

I read there is an omicron specific vaccine that will be ready in a couple months. Will that then immediately be forced on everyone, even if they've already had their 3-4 shots? What if we invent another thing?

Vaccines make sense, but real time forcing people to take them as soon as they're invented doesn't. I have my three shots, but I'm terrified now that the precident is set that a government can force me to take something that I might not want to. When was the last time anyone actually trusted a government?
Valuations of biotech startups from Series A to IPO
Never that I can think of, which is why I stated my hope that it wouldn't be like that. But maybe that just means we can't necessarily depend on a profit motivated corporation to do the 'reenvisioning'
Yeah, especially when the artist is super complicated. Like, I'd rather enjoy Michael Jacksons music without having to bring in the weird questions about who Michael Jackson was
Textbooks on Every Subject
for some reason the page is unscrollable on firefox on my computer :(
Gokrazy doesn't expect you do to anything through FFI or shell commands, though. The whole idea is you write your entire app in Go. The kernel, the Go runtime, and a little bit of gokrazy utility/glue code (e.g. bringing up the network and doing DHCP) are the entire platform.

Edit to add: it would actually be difficult to do FFI or shell commands within gokrazy since there's no dynamic loader to resolve external symbols when you try to execute a dynamically linked library or program. You'd have to add this feature if you wanted to call out to anything built with a dynamically loaded C runtime (which is damn near everything these days, with one notable exception being Go executables built without CGO).
Astronomers find growing number of Starlink satellite tracks
Both Pfizer and Moderna, at the minimum, have been developing, or already developed, a version of COVID vaccine targeting Omicron.
For a "random news source", it sure links to the source material better than "random corporate news source".

Weird how so many people are fixated on that, given that it is trivial to click on any of the links provided.
Vosk powers Dicio, a free and open source voice assistant for Android. If you have an Android device, this app is another way to try out Vosk:

- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.dicio.dicio_android/

- Source: https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android

- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29762526

The accuracy of the English language recognition is not bad. I'm glad to see an implementation of Vosk for desktop Linux.
Nothing can be light forever unless it is opinionated
They are working on Omicron-specific vaccines. Here's an article about Pfizer, not sure about anyone else, though.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-pfizer-omicron-va...
Wow I didn't know the current Polaroid isn't the Polaroid from back then. TIL
FWIW, both Pfizer and Moderna have announced Omicron specific vaccines in March. Approval is at the rate set by governmental agencies. I would be curious why this is being downvoted so quickly and quietly...
>Company that solves hard problems in key industry gets high profit margins, news at 11.

And yet this has to be repeated time and time again on HN. It is actually quite tiring. People used to look at Intel spending $10B in CapEx and felt the number is unsustainable. ( Part of the reason why Intel lost ), while TSMC is on track to spend ~$50B in 2023.
My high school physics teacher didn't tell us the kinematics equations. He had us perform experiments to find them ourselves. I learned more about science in one week than I had in all the years up to that point.

(We were also allowed to smoke on campus. Those were the days!)
All the article is suggesting is that we do more than just have people focus on memorizing facts. It isn't asking _everyone_ to understand and prove _everything_. Just that there is more focus on having people understand the why, not just the what.
I think they are making these strain specific boosters. But it seems “they”* want to keep it quiet until they are ready to release them. My first through on this is that there is over-supply of the OG vaccine and it takes time to switch production and the booster story is designed to give some hope and confidence to the masses (which is good I think). There is also some paperwork involved which takes time, but as we saw with the OG vaccines that can be done pretty damn fast.

Best guess would be the strain specific boosters will come out of nowhere and suddenly saturate news coverage. But don’t quote me on that.

* presumably the pharma companies and national governments funding them. So a conspiracy, but not a QANON conspiracy.
I like the website but don’t find the animation intuitive, sorry! I always position (for Ax = b) the A matrix with the x matrix to the top right of it. To the right of the A matrix, under the x matrix, I draw the resulting b matrix. I then draw a line through the (1,1) position of x downwards to b. It hits (1,1) of b, then I do the same horizontally from A(1,1). I take the dot product of the numbers which the two lines intersect, and repeat for all other positions. This is the only way I can remember matrix multiplication! It made my life so much easier and I am always on the lookout for intuitive visual tools for mathematics concepts. I don’t know if this is a really common tool, it was taught to me by my university professor Burkard Polster (the Mathologer on YouTube).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites

Keep in mind, they classify, for example 'scihub' as a piracy site [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16618874/court-pirate-sci...
handheld flash for phone:

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Certified-Generation-Flashlight...
> There still exist religious scientists. Heck, I even know creationists who fully understand how carbon and uranium dating work, and yet they're still creationists.

You can be creationist and believe in carbon dating, fossils, etc. There's no contradiction. There are unanswered questions, such as "Why would a creator create a young planet that looked very, very old?"

But that's not a scientific question, it's philosophical and irrefutable one, and therefore (IMO) it is not a particularly interesting question to get hung up on.

I mostly agree with your point that these kinds of phenomena are not about critical thinking as such.

Though I do think fans of deductive and inductive reasoning tend to entirely overlook other forms of reasoning. For instance, abductive reasoning: what narrative makes the most sense given the options? Also, reputational reasoning: which experts am I going to trust on this?

Abductive reasoning doesn't apply in the case of the shape of the Earth, but reputational reasoning certainly does. At any rate, they help me understand why people make (to me) consterning choices, including in politics, religion, criminal verdicts, investing, and (lately) personal health care.
Dinosaur Food: the oldest plants we still eat today
Ahh yes. I really love the idea or mental programs, or self metaprogamming, Human biocomputer, self fulfilling prophecy.

They truly run our lives, and sometimes can be drowned out by constant readjustment process, which in itself can be a program.

The simplist of these programs is the common habit. Showering routines, or waking up slightly before an alarm goes off.

They can be more complex, solving problems spontaneously after focusing on them cognitively for days.

Or simple and short term visualization programs that can be ran over a congruent conscious moment with a little mindfulness training -- each little intent of cognition adjusting what's being imagined.

The mechanism behind the muse, or meaningful dream.

PTSD, shyness, suddenly feeling sad, or happy.

Magical thinking, or the depressive voice constantly trying to find a new adjustment to fix things.

Computers in our head are everything. Not really computers in the classic sense, nor programs, but programs and program factories at the same time. Sometimes little programs with hooks to bail us out of other programs that may do us harm.

Wild stuff.
Record cases across the planet regardless of vaccination rates...how much longer until official sources are willing to acknowledge that these vaccines are not nearly as effective as claimed? How long before official sources acknowledge that breakthrough cases are probably drastically underreported?

I can't be the only one surrounded by fully vaccinated individuals testing positive. Its happening far too often for me to dismiss as anecdote. And if officials are this wrong regarding effectiveness, why should we trust them regarding safety? How can anyone have any trust in these institutions after the last two years?
We really need to get people from countries that don’t have the resources to buy up all the supply vaccinated. It will help the richer countries, too, if variants aren’t mutated there.
Not all creationists adamantly believe the earth is literally only 7k years old. That's a very specific subset called "young earth creationists".

I would venture most creationists at the most fundamental level believe the earth, life, evolution, etc. are not accidental occurrences but the calculated result of creative effort. And that basic belief is not incompatible at all with scientific discovery
Aren't pastafarians just openly mocking religion?
I must have gone to a pretty great school. We did experiments to prove the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell and we spent an entire 2.5 hour chemistry class on deriving avagrado's number and proving it was correct.

And this was public school in LA county in the 90s.

I see a lot of posts about "I'll bet you never saw/did/learned this in high school!" and almost every time the answer is, "yeah, actually I did". Like we were taught that Colombus massacred the locals, and we were taught that Native American's were treated poorly by European settlers.

So I guess I should be thanking my teachers for doing it right.
I've gone through all of mine after getting into Arduino so now I have the opposite problem-- where do you go to get bulk USB cables?
Another big difficulty is the handling of depedencies, as spring boot is bringing in gprc, jpa, jdbc and countless other libraries. One really needs a dedicated team to figure out all these issues!
Biontech (and probably all other vaccine manufacturers) are working on it and expect to have it available in march: https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

The omicron surge is happening now so health authorities are looking at solutions and a third shot worked great, so a fourth one is an obvious (short term) solution. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.
The regulatory arbitrage is a lie they tell themselves. Sure, drugs could be paid for by cryptos, but the ultimate utility of that money requires it to be transferred to fiat (aka, laundering). Unless all of your goods and services can be purchased using only crypto, the tax man and the gov't will always have this weak spot to target.
I’m struggling with a similar situation where I’m at. I’ve experienced significant growth opportunities over the last 5 years, the company I work for is good and growing quickly. I work with friendly and nice folks. I have great benefits, awesome work life balance, and I have basically free autonomy to steer and do what I want.

There is just something missing. I feel like I’ve reached a peak and am not actively learning and growing. However, the last thing I want to do is go to a toxic environment that expects long hours and treats employees terribly.
Interesting how people forget all of the talk of using burner phones and cloud backup services when entering the US. Face it, immigration control in pretty much every country "controls the border". Fence with them at your own risk.
> The answer to all these problems by HN is ”no one cares about privacy so it’s not worth solving”.

I think that's bullshit. It's just that most normal, sane, people think something like ”burning down the planet is no solution to the problem of privacy, and even if it were it would in itself be just as much of a problem, so it’s not worth attempting to solve it that way”.

It is frankly astounding that this isn't immediately obvious to anyone; verges on psychopathy in my book.
They actually have something like this in other countries. I can't recall exactly how it works, but it's something like store sells younsomething, you get the receipt, and then it's somehow incentived so that people send their receipts into the government, so people actually do it and then you have a second party that basically reports sales to the government.
Xcode has plenty of documentation, both first-party and third-party. However, I have yet to really find anything that really explains how you are supposed to use a particular part of it, rather than just instructions on what it can do. Xcode is one of those IDEs that is pretty smooth to use if you go with how it’s “supposed” to work and if you don’t it’s extremely rough, and there’s really no good, comprehensive guide that tells you how to do this. My best advice for you would be to watch various WWDC videos about the part you want to work on, where you’ll watch Apple engineers use it on stage. They’ll usually teach you a few things about the “logic” behind it and you’ll be able to use it productively after that.
A third shot showed large antibody increases. I haven't seen a fourth shot being suggested. Here it was being studied. Omicron specific vaccines are being worked on and expected to arrive in a few months.
From the article:

> A similar trend was reported by the New York City (NYC) Health Department, which reported that about 2% of Omicron cases were hospitalised in comparison to around 5% of Omicron cases.

Huh? I'm assuming they meant: "...in comparison to around 5% of _Delta_ cases." but who knows?

For further comparison, according to data from the U.S. CDC for the 2018-2019 influenza season, the hospitalization rate was about 1.3%.[1]

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html