skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone that takes the time to do little digging rather than making wild claims based on surface information. The UK has released data via freedom of information requests, and from those we definitively know that COVID is far less deadly than it is being portrayed. This Nature article is naive at best, and horrifyingly dishonest at worst. Watch for yourself.

https://youtu.be/1O7ugdwv3iY
>No getting trapped in a job you hate. No pretending it costs hundreds of thousands a year to raise a kid.

Yeah, this is basically what I meant. You don't see the crazy situations like they have in the US where dads are driven into bankruptcy by obscene alimony/child support payments. At worst, it's a pain in the arse.
CF cards can operate in three modes: memory mode, PC Card/IO mode, and IDE/fixed disk mode. Since CF cards were originally a type of portable storage for cameras, etc., it makes sense for them to be treated as removable devices. One would plug it into a computer, download the files, then eject the card. The OS would like to know its removable so it can make any writes immediately and not buffer or cache them like it might do for a fixed disk.

Some cards, usually marketed as "industrial", support a fixed disk mode. This one for example can be set to fixed disk by grounding pin 9 (output enable):

[PDF] https://resources.winsystems.com/datasheets/cflash-g-xxxm-i-...
You should think about the kind of behavior either of these feelings encourage, or discourage.

Also, if the experience of spending itself was valued at the amount being spent, this economy would break down in an instant.
It's not a "supply chain attack" when you wantonly deploy unreviewed code on your server. We don't need a fancy term for it. It is just jackass behavior.
Seems similar to Django[1] and SQLAlchemy automatic migrations[2], where you can modify your model definitions and derive the necessary SQL to emit.

Although I guess this tries to diff against the actual database state rather than previous known model state.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/migrations/
[2] https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/autogenerate.html
>Yes, I would say it's false.

Have you any comments to make about these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Credit_A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commerci...

"there is one common element in the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies"

>It also misrepresents the nature of the relationship between the two powers.

How? As you say, Germany was gearing for war, how does that contradict the Soviet Union supplying them with the means?
> The point of this little sub-thread is that saying the author is always the expert is oxymoronic.

Writing the code makes me the expert in that code. Meaning how it works. Why it was built the way it was. How it was intended to be extended. Yeah, it might be shitty code and maybe someone with more domain or even just general expertise would be able to do better. But if I write the code, I’m still the expert in that specific code. Someone else can of course roll in and become and expert in that code, too. Expertise in my code is not a bounded resource.

If you took my comment to mean that writing the code makes me the expert on all possible implementations or choices for the solution, or that I am best qualified to decide what the best solution is, I must have communicated poorly.

(Also, this is pedantic, but that’s not what oxymoronic means.)
It's been requested a number of times over the years:

Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? | 780 points | May 15, 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

Upvote for HN Darkmode? | 344 points | Feb 23, 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733

Ask HN: Please Dark Mode for HN | 89 points | 8 months ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26978950

Here is dang's response in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062

And here is a dark mode mirror: https://darkhn.herokuapp.com
FSF's hardline attitude has always rubbed me the wrong way. I respect and support their goals but at the end of the day software should respect the needs and desires of their users

I saw this on the nonguix repo for all non free software for guix

> Please do NOT promote this repository on any official Guix
communication channels, such as their mailing lists or IRC channel, even in
response to support requests! This is to show respect for the Guix project’s
strict policy against recommending nonfree software, and to avoid any unnecessary hostility.

To do my job and boot my laptop nonguix is required but not even allowed to talk about it with the OS it intends to support, is not something I can agree with

I think the above is the type of side-effects seen with a hardline policy of the FSF. Obviously I'm not the target of this type of policy, but I still feel more good can be done in the long run with a little compromise to the realities of using a computer today
I think Kitty's terminal graphics protocol is the most advanced, although I think there are a couple of others in use as well:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
> you can take all the people who agree with the commenter you're talking to and put them in giant Tokyo-style megacities

So, funnily enough, this is actually a similar argument that I often make. I believe it benefits everyone, if yuppies like myself, get what we want with Tokyo megacities, so that we don't cause all these problems with the rest of society, with our high income, driving up prices of everything around us.

Someone who described this very well, was noahpinion. He called this strategy, the Yuppie Containment Protocol. Society creates "Gentrification Containment Units", so that we the Yuppies don't cause this horrible harm, of extra income and wealth, hurting everyone else.

Us yuppies, bringing in demand for gentrified coffee shops, fancy skyscapers, and upscale restaurants drives out existing residents. It is better to just give us a couple megacities somewhere, so our horrible terrible income and wealth, and willingness to spend it on the economy doesn't hurt those gentrification vulnerable people.
That's right. I did forget that but it's still a texture issue. Rubbery steak just grosses me the fuck out.
Improving end-to-end test reliability
> You already accepted it when you bought the CPU and it came with the base version.

No, that is a version you can't physically modify. The other version is one you can't modify because of it's license and signature verification. You are simply ignoring important differences, like saying an elevator is no different than a flight of stairs, they both get you up, and anyone who avoids elevators must be an idiot.
That’s an interesting point. In Europe at least a lot of buildings have big courtyards and windows face there. In Germany it’s less desirable to have a view of the street, unless you’re on a really high floor.

I currently am on the 40th with a view away from the building. I am trying to move to the 12th with a view across the facilities (pools mostly, it’s Asia). I’m curious whether that will change how I feel about the building.
By the time that day comes there won't be any left to mine!
A friend pointed this out to me yesterday, it's a long, detailed slog through everything wrong in the space, and how we got there. Very informative, and very depressing.
You mean PS3 not PS2. The latter didn't use the cell.
There's always a balancing act between vaccine safety and efficacy. The smallpox vaccine mimics a natural infection, but it's extremely dangerous because people who get vaccinated can actually spread real smallpox to others for a period of time, so they have to stay isolated.

Pre-Covid coronavirus vaccines tested in animals induced antibody-dependent enhancement and were thus deemed unsafe for human trials. A safe, effective Covid vaccine was always a long shot. Maybe one day we'll get one, but maybe we won't. Thankfully, there are multiple other drugs that are effective at preventing and treating Covid.
Then raise wages. And charge higher prices, which is fine in this imaginary world because your supposed only competitor is also raising wages. And then, in no time, it will become obvious to the hospitals that this stupid labor market war in which consumers lose and nurses win is dumb and it’ll normalize.

And again, the regulatory tool to fix this kind of problem is not restricting nurse freedoms even if it did make sense
The responding sheriffs and everyone in the chain of command who approved or overlooked this literal highway robbery, and all related federal employees, should be jailed. This is instead going to turn into a burden for taxpayers at best. Civil forfeiture is theft. It should be legal for victims to respond with force just like they would if they were facing any other criminal.
Which is why the peaceful trading before the invasion miiiiiight have been a miscalculation by Stalin that led to millions of deaths.

Germany invaded because they needed resources that they couldn't get elsewhere. Letting them bootstrap that into the invasion, among all of the mistakes that were made in WWII, seems like it might have been one of the top ones.
If you move to Chicago and want to get together to eat meat you will have no trouble getting me to show up.
> That water bottle that an NGO was supposed to ship you for anything over a $20 donation?

"This NGO better be honest". It's not about the water bottle.

When I spend money, I expect something (to happen) in return. It doesn't have to benefit myself.

If you enjoy wasting money on books you are not going to read, I suggest you just set the money on fire instead. Or bury it and take the location to your grave. You'll do everyone else a favor by driving down the cost of goods, and nobody had to labor or waste resources on something you weren't planning to use. The economy will instead find something useful to do it with that labor and those resources.

Alternatively donate it as in your example - if you want to benefit someone specific. Maybe to the author whose book you weren't going to read?
There's a rich history of poker bots and some sites are already moderating players who exhibit playing patterns that are too consistent/unhuman.

It's possible though.
Are Persistently Low Rates Caused by Persistently Low Rates?
So does the US and every nation that can.
Is this driven by the MBPs? They were a big enough upgrade relative to everything else that they were probably easy and confident purchases for shoppers who were looking for a new computer.
... but you can modify the base version. That's how microcode updates work, they patch it (via a patch register CAM). Are you trying to argue that the physical mechanism used for patching matters? That's an implementation detail, it has nothing to do with freedom.

Your CPU comes with patchable proprietary software. Period.
Building more housing generally is good and does bring down rents.

It still will not make big cities and skyscrapers in specific affordable for the types of people who end up homeless.

Having been homeless and spoken to many homeless and so forth, I think we need some housing stock below $600/month in rent that will take households of up to three people. Skyscrapers are unlikely to be a means to provide housing at that price point, though they can be found sometimes in older low to mid-rise buildings.

More skyscrapers may make downtowns more affordable for more middle class types who are currently forced out to the suburbs. They are unlikely to serve the types of people at high risk of homelessness, either directly or indirectly.

There comes a point past which you simply can't lower the rent any further if your carrying costs are simply too high.
Perhaps I'm coming down with something. I'm uninterested in the sub-thread past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019146#30042174. It feels like willful misinterpretation, like you forgot what I said 2 exchanges ago when you respond to any single comment.

I've said my piece in a bunch of different ways, over ten years and again ten times to you. Perhaps this is as close as we're going to get to mutual understanding, if you think after all this that I'm trying to one-up Ken Thompson or something.

I think you're using words like "expert" and "strictly worse" way too bluntly. What's better for the author is often not what's better for the user.
Yes that is exactly the sort of thing I mean by timing, consistency and prep dynamics.
I'm interested in what tended to go wrong for you with the reverse sear. One tricky thing is that the temperature increases nonlinearly, so if you take a couple readings and get a mental trajectory of when it's going to hit 115, you're likely to be wrong. The flip side though is that cooking at 250 (or, sheesh, 200, as they're doing across the thread) gives you a _real big bulls-eye_ to hit.

Nobody's gonna say that a circulator steak is bad. It's the second-best way to cook a steak. :)
The location of nuclear launch silos in the US is not a secret.
What’s ridiculous about the quote?
Its a payload delivery. It'll probably drop a capsule or perhaps even more likely just drop something out via parachute.
Testing, while required, is an orthogonal problem. I haven’t seen a “test” in any ecosystem that can detect a malware
They came, they saw, and they went away, and C is still the smallest, fastest and most portable language.

I think the only way to dethrone C is to change the equation of what's expensive to do in hardware - accessing memory, and that's not a problem us software guys are going to solve.
If you have a toaster oven, I strongly recommend the toaster oven. They come up to temp fast, and they have a much tighter band of temperatures than an oven, which is always +15/-15 from your set temperature. Holding a tight, low temperature is all you're asking from the oven, and toaster ovens are built to do that (ironically, they fucking blow at making toast).
I've got a 6" Celestron, and I think it would be capable of following a plane that's sufficiently high up. It can slew a max of 5°/sec, so that would be ~500mph at 10000' or well over 1500mph at 30000'.

Because it's a telescope, it's designed to be aligned at night. It's more of a pain to do during the day (such as for an eclipse or I guess tracking planes). But there's no reason you couldn't align it to stars at night and it will its alignment pretty precisely. I'm not sure how much drift there is in that over say 24+ hours though. It's also smart enough with the Celestron controller to never point at the sun even during a slew. I'm not sure if it has that same safety feature when controlled from a computer, which would be a major concern with daytime use.

But a 6" f/10 (so ~1500mm lens) telescope with a full frame camera is still a 1° field of view so the same as you have now. Smaller sensor would be tighter field of view.

And of course the obvious drawback: None of this setup would be weatherproof
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209015
I'm not an advocate for crypto in any capacity, but if NFTs irk you this much then your best course of action is probably to ignore them?
Personally, I'd love to have a certified device. I'd like to support the cause because I fear my devices can became as locked down as smartphones and video game consoles.

People may mock now, but the trend with regard to DRM, IME and others make me consider "the right to read" as not mere fiction
I don't find this level of panic warranted. They mention the horror of marriage licenses being on blockchain. Ok, so it was switched from one type of database to another. So what? Your marriage was tracked by the state authority before and it's tracked by the state authority after, they are just writing it down in a different place.

"Digital abundance" is also a bit of a myth. Yes after somebody spends all the money and time to make something then it can be copied, but unless you expect the world to run on the backs of pure volunteers at some point you need a way to pay the people making the original work. Which is why we already have IP law, and so even if successful and someday NFT ownership becomes the basis for legal enforcement, it again will just be that people have changed where they write the ownership down.

There's no doubt in my mind vast majority of people plugging NFTs are evangelizing to try to increase their returns, and I understand the disgust at constant insincere pitches by people who really don't care what the future looks like, but I don't see the reason for panic.
The notion that he is "anti-diversity" is at least incredibly simplistic, if not outright wrong. His stance is that institutions should not discriminate on the basis of race. This is not anti-diversity, there are plenty of organization that have a diverse workforce without engaging in racial discrimination. Google, for instance, is majority minority.

The notion that disapproving of racial discrimination against all races (as opposed to exclusively those categorized as "diverse") is a contorted attempt to try an portray an anti-discriminatory position as intolerant and anti-black.

And lastly, you should read the links you're posting. For instance, the post on abortion is about a proposed law expanding the ability to receive third trimester abortions. To oppose this isn't restricting abortion, it's maintaining the status quo in an already liberal state.
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Netlify CMS is pretty easy to set up and has all of the basic features that you need for a simple blog.

And again, I would never recommend a static site generator to someone who doesn't think of themselves as a computer person. The context in which this conversation started was someone who was seriously considering hosting their own WordPress instance. I dearly hope that they think of themselves as a computer person.
Tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine through archaeobotany
How I Cut My Family’s Cable and Streaming Bill by $170
Sorry, didn't see this until now (out all day). Here is a very stupid example that uses `xxbrd` to byteswap a 64-bit quantity.

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
uint64_t v = 0;
double o;

if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s quantity\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}

v = strtoull(argv[1], NULL, 0);
if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ERANGE) {
perror("strtoull");
return 1;
}

__asm__(
"xxbrd %0, %1\n"
:"=f"(o)
:"f"(*(double *)&v)
);
fprintf(stderr, "0x%lx\n", *(uint64_t *)&o);
return 0;
}

% gcc -o xxbrd xxbrd.c
% ./xxbrd 0x123456789abcdef
0xefcdab8967452301
I just bought that first book. I have a little free time in the foreseeable future, and this seems like a useful thing to learn about. Thanks!
Exactly!
The first commenter didn't catch that article at all...
Weirdly, while I totally get what people love about circulator steak, I have never had a good circulator pork chop experience. The two tricks to pork chops I've discovered are to dust them with sugar and salt as far ahead of time as possible, and then to treat them precisely as you would a mid-rare steak. There's something about sugar and pork, I don't pretend to understand what it is, but it's pretty miraculous.

The one routine thing I make that the circulator is unimpeachably excellent for is sausage. Bring sausage up to 145-150 or so, and then toaster oven on the broiler setting for like 7 minutes.
Back to basics: what is the point of decentralization?
Risky Food-Finding Strategy Could Be a Key to Human Success
Thanks! We forked this version of ProseMirror built by the Outline team which was the closest to what we wanted for our product

https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor
I understand your position, but it would be better if the compromise was made by "the other side".
Starting with an expressive declarative schema and building everything around it is exactly the approach we take in EdgeDB [1]. One of the key ideas is that you should be able to define almost anything not just statically, but as a result of some computation. Think views, functions, and computed columns, but without the traditional limitations and change-rigidity of their implementation in Postgres, because schema migrations are treated as a single logical change unit [2] rather than a bunch of independent DDL statements, so dependencies between schema objects and their changes are understood. The richness of the schema coupled with thorough introspection [3] then enables GraphQL schema derivation [4] and type-safe client generation without any loss in fidelity.

(disclaimer: I work on EdgeDB)

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/
[2] https://www.edgedb.com/docs/guides/migrations/index
[3] https://www.edgedb.com/docs/guides/introspection/index
[4] https://www.edgedb.com/docs/graphql/graphql
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That's a pretty good option, as long as your CMS is thoroughly firewalled and only accessible from your computer and Cloudflare. If you can reach the admin console from the wider internet then you haven't solved the real problem with WordPress, which is security not speed.
Yes. Pinebook pro has one or more other blobs and they are for more significant functionality.
> If you took my comment to mean that writing the code makes me the expert on all possible implementations or choices for the solution, or that I am best qualified to decide what the best solution is, I must have communicated poorly.

No, I didn't think that. You're all good there.

> Writing the code makes me the expert in that code. Meaning how it works.

Go back and reread the bottom of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019146#30040731 that started this sub-thread. Does this definition of 'expert' really help in any way? Ok, so some author wrote some code, they're expert in that code. Big whoop. I don't want to use that code. I wrote a shitty simpler version of what you wrote, now I'm an expert, you're an expert. How is this helpful?

I think the only expertise that matters is domain expertise. Software should be trying to communicate domain expertise to anyone reading it. So that anyone who wants to can import it into their brain. On demand.
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It seems to me like the go ecosystem would rather have a less performant language if it means more similar code between projects.

Take for example json: Go's stdlib json implementation is wildly slow. It has to be implemented in reflection, it can't use any code-generation anything, and for backwards compatibility it can never trim any feature, no matter whether it has a performance implication for all users of the package. It's well known to be a slow implementation.

In java, json isn't part of the stdlib. There's jackson if you want one flavor of fast json, jetty ships its own json serializer, etc.
This means that if you pick up a new java codebase written in a different framework, it's possible you have to learn the right pattern to json serialize things.

By nature of these third party libraries in java being out of the stdlib, they've been able to grow and become more performant and compete with each other.

Go sits on the opposite side. The stdlib http implementation is a little slow. The stdlib json implementation is incredibly slow. No one wants to build these features outside of the stdlib though, and people would rather every codebase have the same looking go code, even if that means the actual code itself is slower.
Boy, Bloomberg loves them some Bloomberg
Disagree. Pascal was no more safe than C
I'm tempted to look up a telephone number for some official there and call to debunk this. It seems like low-hanging fruit.
Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as It Investigates Citizens
IMHO, we need a free hardware foundation today just like we needed FSF in the 80-90's.
Spoiler alert: it does (typing this in Firefox 96 on a little-endian POWER9). In TenFourFox, which ran exclusively big, we had code to byteswap typed arrays to make them look little-endian to scripts. This partially worked (enough for many `asm.js` scripts to run).