skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shooting from the hip here as I'm not a "game economist."

Money comes in through whales paying for rare items and relatively fast progression. This isn't a new idea, as games such as WOW had a gold farming economy. As with WOW, the game developers would have to be continuously adding layers of content to progress though, to keep the economy churning. If they're trading tokens, I would guess they would need some sort of burn mechanism to keep inflation in check. I guess the game would be feeding 3 different machines then, play for pay players, the developers of the game, and a void for tokens to disappear into? The pay for play element would likely be to work to create the items which the whales would buy.

Ponzi scheme? It could be in the sense that early players gain enough power in the game that they're better able to adapt to changing conditions. I don't know much about Axie, but an influx of players during the pandemic drove up the price of the required assets to play. I don't know if there is an element for whales to buy fast progression. From what I have seen, it doesn't look like a fun game. It just looks like work for everyone involved.

Maybe the developers could come up with a way to cap how many players could actually earn, based on factors such as market conditions and income from whales. You earn your spot with the bar of difficulty rising or falling. I suppose this would be sort of like mining Bitcoin, except the players are grinding.
Because the text is ultimately copyrighted and it would get DCMAed immediately.
FWIW, not Covid related, but I had shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue- dealt with it for a while, eventually went to a Dr. Full battery of heart and lung tests, turns out heart and lungs are almost flawless for my age and general health.

At Dr’s recommendation, see a psychiatrist, dr gives me some anti-anxiety medication to try, and I feel better almost immediately. Spend a few months working on behavioral response to stress, breathing exercises, etc., then go off the medicine. Total game changer.

The mind and human body are funny things.
It’s small, cheap and has long battery life, but it is not perfect; if those being stalked have a (¿somewhat?) recent iPhone, it repeatedly informs them that they are being stalked. It also requires Apple devices in the neighborhood.

It also is similar to Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SmartTag). I don’t hear stories about those, but wouldn’t know whether that’s because they can be used to _silently_ stalk people or because they aren’t (much) for doing that.
Why a phage therapy is not widespread?
Yes. Code or documentation on this is crucial to make it really last.

edit: Found this on their website under "Every Totenpass is unique":

> Or you may choose to store thousands of documents or photographs to be retrieved at a later date using our proprietary reading technology and smartphone app.

So open source or well documented is probably not the way to go.
To my understanding suse has offered CentOS maintenance for along time already, in a package to migrate you over to SUSE Linux Enterprise. and the service level agreements only apply for customers, as in paying customers.

So it's _customers_ who can trust it.
Not too old, just too grumpy.
Afaik, one problem is that the health agencies can only do so much. Most antibiotics and antibiotics misuse happens in agriculture where a totally different agency is responsible. Yes, they should foster more research into new drugs, but the main challenge remains prophylactic animal treatment.
Wouldn’t Occam’s razor favor bitcoin over the usd in the long run?

Bitcoin monetary policy is dead simple and sound. USD not so much.

I can’t think of any advantage to usd unless you consider having physical money an advantage (eg paper bills and coins)
ZOHO mail works for me. The entry level premium account is €0.9/user/month. Free tier is reasonable too (up to 5 users). I find their web UI a bit overloaded with features, but they have all check boxes crossed.
I think this depends on the approach to links. If you try to link on recall instead of create, it is much simpler.
> I really wish our primary education had any other IT classes than learning powerpoints, emails and making those funky 3D titles in word(I think this might be changing?).

In the US there's definitely a big effort to have CS/programming courses in high schools but the big problem is finding qualified teachers. Since teachers in the US tend to get paid much less than even low-end software developer jobs in the same city, most people with any CS skill tend to go into the software industry instead of teaching.
While I mostly do ignore recruiters that don't put all the information upfront, I think there might be a couple reasons why they do that:

- Incomplete information is provided purposefully to get you to the next step of the funnel which is a phone call

- They don't want competition to narrow down who their client might be

- Possibly they are trying to lowball potential candidates (has happened to me)

Or maybe... some of them are just simply incompetent. Looking both at my inbox and a several LinkedIn groups with jobs that I run, I do wonder how some of those opportunities are getting any replies.

On the bright side though I have interacted with some recruiters that really know what they're doing. It's not a big group but it's worth remembering who they are.
You need somewhere to persist writes from those CGI scripts.
> Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

And a leading cause of skin cancer.

The counter-argument — just as much of an applause light as your quote — is this from Cardinal Richelieu:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

I’m definitely not suggesting governments shouldn’t be investigated — indeed they should, and I suspect that only hostile governments have the resources and motivation necessary to do this effectively, more than opposition parties — but I expect that even the best government has enough skeletons inside it to fall to propaganda that is merely selective reporting of true things.
Reading HN comments on stories like this can be so disheartening. So many people seem to buy into the lies about criminality that created the situation we’re in now. Just wanted to say I agree with everything you’re saying in this thread, and thanks for saying it.
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the idea of "fact checking" has a false premise - its begging the question[0]. we need to disabuse ourselves of this notion that we can know the Truth or the "facts" if we just checked enough. there is no such thing as contextless infromation.

is the sky blue? depends. maybe it emits a certain spectrum based on gas content on our planet, but color is a perceptual experience.

did trump\biden say X? maybe; is that the whole question - that their mouth made a set of sounds? did they say it, or did they mean it? could they have changed their mind? did they mean it but only tried halfheartedly?

this can be true of hard sciences too. aspects of newtonian physics were known to be true, verifiably by all experimental data, until one day they were proven false. not that physics are so dogmatic, but if facebook can factcheck the bmj, im sure theyd fact check some patent clerk.

i have been pondering the words of the history enthusiast dan carlin[1]. he thinks the most important person in history was JFK because he chose peace and didnt deploy nukes when everyone around him was forcefully recommending WWIII due to the known motives, the "facts" of russia and cuba. i wonder what the fact checkers would have been saying about that.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

EDIT: the due dilligence required to learn about a topic and have the gall to report about its "truth" is called journalism, not fact checking. its not called facebook journalism because that would too obviously be a steaming pile of shit.
The HN guidelines ask submissions not to edit the title except for certain narrow exceptions.

Also, here's a BBC article on the topic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60058120
I hope his mother eventually received the help she needed.

I know it can be difficult as a child to see through the flaws of a troubled parent, it's difficult to feel more than resent when you have to live through it night and day - an occasional glimmer of their vulnerability might open your eyes as child, that they are just another human struggling like you, but it can be fleeting.

I've been in a similar but far less extreme situation. With time it's possible to appreciate what was essentially a dysfunctional yet supportive parent, she was clearly a well intentioned, good person trying to do the right thing. As much as her mental health troubled her, she clearly cared far more than many better positioned parents out there.
I did a pharmacy degree circa 1983-87 in the UK.

Antibiotic resistance was already a pressing problem. Penicillin-V was little more use than a placebo as of 1984; Amoxicillin was in danger, MRSA was already out there. The big short-term hope was Augmentin (Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid) -- clavulanic acid was a beta-lactamase inhibitor, beta-lactamase being the primary pathway for penicillin resistance in bacteria, so it was somewhat effective against penicillin-resistant infections. But resistance was already showing up for almost every antibiotic on the market except vancomycin (which is pretty nasty stuff, toxicity-wise). Today, resistance to vancomycin and other antibiotics of last resort is a thing. So there are infections out there that will kill you gruesomely, just as there were in the 19th century and earlier, because we collectively dropped the ball.

As with anthropogenic climate change, the writing has been on the wall for decades -- and has been systematically ignored by policy-makers. Adding antibiotics to animal feed improves weight gain in farm animals so farmers still shovel the stuff by the bucketload. But it also applies a selection pressure for antibiotic resistance to the bacteria infesting those animals, and when they go to the slaughterhouse the resistant strains migrate into the human reservoir.

And this says nothing about the structural incentives to discount antibiotic R&D in the commercial pharmaceutical industry. (Bluntly: they're not profitable enough to bother with, because bacterial infections are acute disease -- you cure it in a few days or weeks, your customer goes away satisfied. Unlike antidepressants or anti-hypertensives or diabetes meds, which the patient is typically on for years to life.)

We should have restricted access to antibiotics the way we (try) to restrict opiates. Failing that we should have government funded R&D via non-profits. Only now it's too late and corrective action won't take effect for years.
While I appreciate the free trade view, could you point to the part where they say setting the price high helped in a considerable way?

ERCOT has authority to load-shed, regardless of price. From the article:

> For the entirety of 2020, Texans paid $9.8 billion to keep the juice flowing. On February 16 alone, they spent roughly $10.3 billion. Costs for the month of February totaled more than $50 billion.

The price reaction time is generally too slow, and judging by the bills incurred, ineffective as a control mechanism - hence the massive outrage on incurred costs. Do the costs seem appropriate?

While I haven't read the whole article, blackouts mentioned were the effect of load shedding and the principal action that prevented grid failure. The price was fixed only after the critical period, by an unknown criteria and questionable need. Yes, you don't want price to drop too low after a load-shed, but do you need it maxed and do you need it for days?
Well. There are two old St.Aureus vaccines which, in combination, allowed me to eradicate MRSA which I got during a hospital stay. One these vaccines was created long time ago in USSR for veterinary workers, another one - to treat skin infections in babies. Both are still produced and available though most of the doctors are not aware of them. Both, of course, were never tested in proper trials.

Not like anyone cares.

https://www.rlsnet.ru/tn_index_id_5850.htm

https://www.vidal.ru/drugs/therapeutic_staphylococcal_vaccin...
complex. it is made per bacteria type as far as I know and it does not scale like a chemical compound.
There are so many reasons for this. Here are some of them that I can write without much thinking or checking my notes.

1. Enterprise problem domains are usually much more complex than the ones which are targeted by the OSS.

2. Enterprise problem domains are full of unclear, wrong and even contradicting requirements.

3. Enterprises usually have lots of legacy code/systems.

4. Enterprises usually have lots of glue code duct-taping various internal systems.

5. If nobody will see your code publicly, then you have less incentive to invest in its UX/DX/documentation/code quality/etc. You incentivized to take shortcuts and use quick-and-dirty solutions.

6. Even though usually enterprises have internal SQA teams, it's no match to many testers in the open-source world. Internal SW is only deployed in a single environment/platform and tested with the happy path only. OSS is tested in lots of different environments/platforms with lots of edge cases.

7. Unlike the OSS world, the developers working in enterprises are usually 9-5ers, working-to-live, not living-to-work.

8. The quality/skill level of developers is usually lower. They're usually become experts in their business domain, but their coding skills may remain on the "advanced beginner" level.

9. They usually working under micromanagement-like SDLCs which impede their productivity and code quality: "Agile"/SAFe/Scrum/daily standups.

Some of the things I wrote might be anecdotes or stereotypes, so certainly not all enterprise developers are like this.
Ask HN: Scraping API that can handle “unsemantic” (HN-style) threaded comments?
Lead with the positive curiosity of wanting to know how the author did this rather than your negativity of “what’s the point?” The author could very well post a follow-up article detailing how
As far as I can tell there is no way to change the owner of these files. Youcan presumably make a copy of these one-by-one after sharing with a new account?
It could be partially related to anxiety as well. However, I am a very calm person, I live in an emotionally positive environment and I am for the most part happy of my life.
The MMR Vaccine and Autism
I have a few theories.

- a mass psychogenic
illness/somatic symptom disorder.

- malingering

- a cover story for bringing new personnel in and the installation of new surveillance equipment.

I think its all of them but it began as #3.
> started "idolising" past scientists [..] whose primary purpose on life had become, basically, how to best kill other people

We all should be careful to judge people in history with our current set of morals. The scientists in the photo all experienced the horrors of WWII. I don’t think it requires to much mental gymnastics to have the position that the deterrence of nuclear weapons would lead to a safer world, especially in the post WWII context. Note that this is not a blanket statement against judging people in history. I just don’t think this applies to the scientists here.
Wikis work for notes if linking to other pages isn't a chore and is either completely automatic or so simple you can do it while you write.

If I need to start adding some (link markup)[linkmarkup.example] while writing, I can't be bothered.
I've not got this either and its not in the admin console. I'm guessing I'll see it in the next couple of days. Think I'll be moving to Zoho mail.

Fortunately, all my Google stuff like Youtube and Google Play purchases are tied to a gmail account. I intentionally didn't use my custom domain for that, as I thought this would happen one day. I didn't expect the free email to last so long though.
Does GitHub Copilot Know Rickroll Lyrics
That's the notation adopted by the Long Now Foundation (https://longnow.org/) rather than octal, I believe
Once the water settles and you’re completely still, it feels like absolutely nothing on your skin. Zero change from moment to moment in any kind of signal. Sensory deprivation is apt. When you move slightly, you can feel the water.
Users won't lose anything purchased - your google login will stay the same (Same as you can use your Yahoo e-mail as google login), you will just lose g suite domain hosting.
Cuban Missile Crisis, anyone?
This does not make sense. Fewer obese people means (much) fewer covid hospitalizations and fewer hospital beds occupied. There is a clear causal link from both vaccination status AND obesity.
> The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive.

It's not the cost, it's that their removal is a disincentive for people to use VPNs to hop outside of their usual residential territory.
> Experts believe it is the first felony prosecution in the United States of a driver accused of causing a fatality while using a partially automated driver-assist system.

I have a really hard time believing this one. Nobody has been prosecuted with a felony after killing someone while using cruise control?
Previous related submission, with a nice context comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29951145
1. The screenshot shows Facebook is telling owners groups of group that the information is "partly false." "Partly false" is obviously a distinct claim, and one that does not appear to be supported.

2. Quality reporting is being censored by selectively applying a label that belittles its objectiveness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here

I have encountered Invented Here Syndrome when I joined my current employer about a popular open source application I wrote. They didn’t realize I wrote the application they were advocating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004405

Selection bias in hiring is also a factor. As an open source author I have noticed the biggest difference between populations is a preference for criticality away from accepted norms that does not so much exist on internal teams or may even be despised. It’s the difference between doing what’s popular because that appears to work versus doing something that becomes popular because it works better.

Another factor is hard work. Professionally hard work is often rewarded and encouraged when it should be discouraged. As software developers we should be focused on automating away the hard work, which is often the motivation behind most open source.
You can’t avoid being a speculator. Any currency or asset you hold is your speculative position. You may believe that one position is more speculative than another. But fiat currencies can go into hyperinflation and become worthless, for example.
Interesting product. Do you play the videos from YouTube, if yes how do you embed them in your app. If no, do you host these videos on your end and how are they licensed from those content creators.
I read the entire Internet at once using https://sumi.news
The CIA was involved in the failed 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela when the army took over and dissolved the parliament, temporarily.

In 2018 the CIA was again planning a coup, or disruption at least, revolving around the planned December 2018 elections. The Venezuelans got wind of this and bumped the elections up a few months. The CIA was caught flat footed somewhat, and the December plans went into effect early. The idea floated that the 2018 elections were rigged doesn't really fly. Even Trump didn't like the puppet the US was trying to push as the real head of Venezuela, Guaido. He called him the Beto O'Rourke of Venezuela.
Bit of a "well, duh" headline no?
Thanks for pointing that out and great to hear that you are OK now. I will definitely do more tests to find the root cause. I also heard of a test where you are up on a thread mill, gradually varying load and they are measuring you heart parameters at the same time. Have you done this test as well?
What's 'Mercary_d'? 4 million page views over 90 days and haven't even heard of it yet. Same for 'Welltory'.
It sounds like those kids had some rare luck in having you on their side.
When Peter Daszak drafted the Lancet letter which was published in February 2020 it pretty much shut down any open discussion of origins. "It's of natural origin, or you're a conspiracy theorist".

It took the Lancet 16 months(!) to publish a conflict of interest statement revealing that Daszak was linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance.
Nukes won't fly. Nukes are only useful for deterrence. MAD doctrine is legit.
It's going to be a slow process, but they'll become a regular company over time.

There's a reason (many? most?) people are jerks. Being a jerk works.

Companies, being groups of people, are also jerks.
Microsoft to Inherit Activision’s Legal Woes in Gaming Megadeal
I wonder if your burps smell like farts after taking it.
Off with his head! :-p
We tried to implement an application on DynamoDB about 2 years ago.

We really struggled with implementing adhoc queries/search. For e.g:- select * from employees where name = X and city = Y.

Any improvements in DynamoDB that make it easier to implement such queries?
Doesn't affect me, but that's useful info for those caught up in this - thanks.
I almost spit my coffee out this morning because of this :)
sorry I missed this question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29946486

uses a $20 BME680 on a $10 PI, I am really tempted to try it since the standalone sensor for my weather station is like $150

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3660
The website says that he uses:

"Xitami web server, because it's the only one that does no caching at all, so the website is always served fresh from the floppy."

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220120092324/https://old.bigca...
The coral reefs are in trouble because of how many of those car engines there are. Each one is orders of magnitude smaller than this proposal, but together? I think that’s relevant in this case.
>maybe he gasp likes working as CEO?

Okay so we have this dude who likes working for no pay but he's getting all the money.

Meanwhile there are lots of poor people who need to work to feed themselves but don't get paid. Do you see a problem here? It's a quite simple market failure.
We could use more reporters and fewer journalists.
1. "Not invented here" (western medical practice largely ignored the USSR, where phage treatments were a big thing: journals didn't get translated, treatments didn't get picked up).

2. Not profitable. They were developed in the Soviet bloc hence not patented but it would have invalidated any patent in the west, so there was no lucrative monopoly to pursue.

After the collapse of the USSR western antibiotics flooded in; the home-grown technique (which was somewhat time-consuming and expensive: matching a phage to an infection requires lab work and specialist facilities) was undermined and fell into disuse.
Platinum. more expensive, and we all know expensive means it's good.
Yeah, I think the GP meant to say "puff piece" instead of "hit piece".
I have both goldware and silverware. But that's pretty much irrelevant, as they're alloys. Platinum is the least reactive of the things people recognise as metals.
I wonder if this is the most adversarial you can be. Just having a bigger set of words to choose from isn't worse per se if they're easier to discriminate.
Enticing title. I will!
I know a couple of people who have worked successfully with Oxford Knight, otherwise I wouldn't recommend them.
> We are not opposed to end-to-end encryption, as long as it is implemented in a way that does not put children at risk.

Holy moley.

Even if that were possible, do they think child groomers will have an issue using an "illegal" E2EE service?
The broadband router provided by my internet service has WiFi - I use that.