skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if a job board is at odds with their push to be more Business to Business. Companies might not want to partner with them if they are giving an avenue for employees to find other jobs.
I've taken to buying almost all my clothes second hand recently, both for this reason and I find the selection and styles far better than what fast fashion provides. Thrift stores like Goodwill provide some gems, but the best shopping comes from we-buy-your-clothes type places like Buffalo Exchange and Crossroads, and the prices are better too!
I hope this gets investigated further, the proposed mechanism is actually pretty interesting

My interpretation is that the primary mechanism can be summed up to a modulatory effect lowering the activation threshold on the IRE1α and interferon pathways for breakdown of viral RNA

I'd like to understand if/how/where CBD may actually be binding/interacting to modulate these pathways

The authors also bring up the issue of CBD forming large micelles and being captured by the liver limiting the amount distributed to other tissues. I'm unsure if the formation of micelles is the issue at hand here, but there are cannabinoids products available while have been sonicated and sprayed into small particles with a surfactant to make them water soluble. This could be an interesting delivery method to achieve greater tissue distribution. I'm not sure how much its been studied (if at all) but my personal anecdote with these products is that they do achieve a high blood plasma concentration very rapidly compared to "normal" edibles in a fatty carrier.
when you don't pay for something, you are the product.

When they still have it in mind that you're the product, but demand you pay? no way I'm signing up for that "deal".
…which is a single device for a lot of people.
Google would probably fine you for using the word "retard". /s
As an example: "weerhouden" in Flemish means "to be included", while in Netherlands' Dutch it means "to be excluded".

Or take "poepen" which means "to have sex" or "to take a shit" depending on which country you are in.

I frequently have to ask my friends from the Netherlands to clarify something because, even though I hear which word they're using, I have no idea what they mean because the words mean something different or are just never used that way in Flemish.
It amazes me how such intelligent people can be so stupid when it comes to the topic of meaning. The new terms over time will of course develop the same positive/negative connotations because meaning doesn't have anything to do with the sign vehicle.

I call their strange way of thinking "the magic-spell theory of meaning". New age people have a similar notion of a "true name" like abracadabra.
It's a trend I've noticed with other services, notably Drive and Calendar - they no longer innovate, just get a UI tweak every few years. It's very reminiscent of cash cows, which typically are resourced to just keep going at minimal expense for as long as possible. Another possibility is that the product isn't "sexy" anymore, so they are having trouble finding the great staff they need to stay at the forefront. This would be fine if the rest of the world stood still, but clearly SEO has moved on in the meantime, and so we end up with a quagmire. It's basically another form of bit rot.

Unfortunately DDG is much worse in a different way - it seems incapable of dealing with synonyms. I can't recall a specific example since I switched back to Google, but it's on the order of searching for Python and getting results for Java (wrong subtree of the taxonomy), searching for Wellington and getting results for the whole of New Zealand (ignoring specifiers), or searching for double glazed windows and getting results for Microsoft Windows (no understanding of the semantics of the words being related).
Let's assume "minority" means 5%. Total "confirmed" cases of Covid are now north of 70 million in the US and at 20 million just before the vaccine.

At 1 million people before the vaccine (5% of 20 million), that would make "Long Covid" one of the most common medical conditions.

That 5% number is probably close for Covid prior to vaccines. Look at the sheer number of people who had anosmia and how long it is taking them to recover. How many people would even have mentioned anosmia after having a cold or flu? That sure goes into the "Long Covid" bucket in my book and we're not even discussing the panoply of other damage that Covid does.

Post-vaccine, the "Long Covid" percentage certainly drops by quite a bit.

> post-viral syndrome is a known thing, affecting a small fraction of people

The number of people who got cervical cancer from HPV is small, and yet, before the vaccine, it was one of the more common and fatal of cancers.

"Small fraction" != "unimportant"

In addition, things pile up. Carcinogenesis takes a long time with key mutations as far back as the womb and early childhood. Viruses are part of the landscape that causes those mutations.

You have provided no evidence to counteract my statement so I still stand by it: Viruses period, Covid or not, apparently do a lot more damage and require a lot longer to recover from than we expected.
I'm sorry you had a bad time at a place.

But what does your comment even mean? "Texas" is your benchmark for how racist places are? Where in Texas? It's about as large as the average country. If you lived in Austin, or in the city of Houston, or in Dallas, you lived in a place with substantially more Black folks than San Francisco.

Dayton, for what it's worth, is a weird benchmark for the state of Ohio. It's a declining city with a troubled economy.

The Intel factory is apparently being sited on the outskirts of Columbus. Columbus is not Dayton, any more than Ann Arbor, MI is Livonia or Cadillac.
There's a number of ways that you can expose paywalled content to Google without showing it to the user. The obvious one is paywalling content on the client side and hiding it from the user. I actually think this probably explains why client-side paywalling is so prevalent even though it's obviously far less effective. You can also serve your content in structured data that google's bots read (e.g. json+ld). I also think it's a tricky question because people often want to see authoritative sites high up in the search results even if they're paywalled, so "delisting these sites" isn't a solution that satisfies most people.
Startpage Search Engine Launches Privacy Protection Extension
Needlessly divisive?? It's literally one of the central issues guiding the project. Also, your last point makes no sense. Reassuring people that they'll be supported down the line as well, is a good thing.
How do you feel about:

void foo1(int *p) {
*p = 7;
printf("%d\n", *p);
free(p);
}

May the compiler replace that with puts("7") and free()? Recall that free() is a no-op when the pointer is NULL.

Are you arguing that each function may reduce pointer accesses down to one but not down to zero? What about

int foo2() {
int *p = malloc(400);
*p = 0;
/* ... code here was inlined then optimized away ... */
ret = 7;
free(p);
return ret;
}

? May we remove '*p = 0;', whether we remove the malloc+free or not?

Generally speaking the compiler tries not to reason about the whole function but just to look at the smallest possible collection of instructions, like how add(x, x) can be pattern matched to mul(x, 2) and so on. Having to reduce to one but not zero memory accesses per function is not easily compatible with that model. We would have to model branches that make the access conditional, the length of accesses may differ (what if 'p' is cast to char* and loaded), read vs. write, multiple accesses with different alignment, and maybe other things I haven't considered.

Both gcc and clang provide -fsanitize=null which checks all pointer accesses for null-ness before performing them. These can be surprising, your code (libraries you didn't write, headers you included) may be dereferencing NULL and relying on the optimizer to remove the invalid access. IMO there should be a "pointer is null-checked after use", it's a clear example where the programmer wrote something other than what they intended.
The office Save As dialogs have been butchered to make saving to your local drives take many more clicks off the primary path. It's dark patterns ui to force people to cloud and azure rather than defaulting to local storage.

It's been this way for at least a few years and I think actually near half a dozen.
Pathetic as usual, Google...
I had to poke around a fair bit to figure out what this thing is.
You won't:

https://flipperzero.one/
Steam Deck Anti-Cheat Update
So, if you would want to test if, say, a pair of shoes improves running performance, it's not enough to compare to peers without change, or the situation before the new shoes, but you will reject the study unless you also have a third group where you break people's legs? How would that be necessary?
Randomized controlled trials happen all the time. The OP is echoing a common Austrian economics approach in claiming that economics cannot apply the scientific method ever.
"And remember this well: If you are not one up, you are one down".
Add some fake coffee mug stains and lens flare :D
My city in eastern Europe was close to a nuclear target. So much for USA liberating us from Russian influence.

I guess we can't be under communist regime if we are dead.
Stocks and currencies don’t behave the same, currencies in the long term are bearish.

Anyway if you think about bulls and bears you are not thinking of currencies, you better put your money into more volatile markets. A bullish currency is against our modern conception of how economical models work, so I wouldn’t place my money on it.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t place your money on BTC or other crypto, it’s kind of a good time right now since we are full bear and a bull period is probably starting soon. I mean, by watching historical trends and aknowledging the contingencies that pushed down values in those last months, maybe we’ll have to wait some time but it should bull during 2022.

All in all, crypto market is still not a currency market but an asset market. Just for one simple reason: crypto (currencies?) are still not currencies. When crypto will turn into currencies you’ll start seeing a inexorable slow bearish course for all of them, it’s economics baby ;)
Supporting USB enumeration and reads/writes to arbitrary endpoints on windows took an act of god, maybe 200-300 hours of work to get it working similar to node-usb (libusb) on macOS (which maybe only took 100 hours). I’m probably underestimating hours by a factor of 2 or 3. Early pandemic time/math is fuzzy.

Managing 10+ levels of JS promise chains can be a chore if not architected and named properly. Or worse, when you write a feature that’s close to the user and realize it requires asynch all the way back up through 10+ sync calls so now it’s refactoring across 30 files and you forget one edge case that doesn’t resolve/throw and it takes days to track it down. Normal solo project problems.

Integrating fabricJS with a custom wasm module to dither images. That was a 10x speed improvement but took a few hundred hours.

Early on I chose react/flow/redux/immutable/semantic-UI as my front-end “stack” and it’s been mostly good to me. Of course, I wish my codebase was all perfect typescript but eventually I’ll get there.

The node ABI changes over the years has really stressed me out. It seems like it breaks all the native code every 3 months. Ugh!

Customer support has been delightful. Out of a few thousand emails only 2 or 3 have been awful. Sometimes I’ll get an email at 2pm on a Sunday saying “I have to print 5,000 labels by Monday morning or else I’m fired!” and we are always successful. That feels good. The toll free number on the website rings my cell and sometimes I wake up to missed calls from Nigeria or UAE and I think that’s pretty special. Call volume has not been overwhelming. Thank god.

Marketing is a huge chore and I mostly disdain it.
The Houthis began their rebellion in response to Salafis (who are Sunni) encroaching in their region, interfering with their way of life, building Madrasas and pushing their brand of Suna - just like said Taliban does. But since then it's been about territory, resources and political control.

Your numbers are wrong. Zaydis (Shia) make up around 50% of those centres. During the rebellion half of the national army fighting the Houthis was Shia (the same sect) as was the former president leading the country at the time.

This isn't a religious war. It's been a lazy media pushing that narrative.
Table "Total Coronavirus Deaths in Portugal" helps a little bit with the context as it goes back to 15 Feb 2020

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/
That's conspicuous consumption gone mad, it seems to me too many people have far too much disposable income.

What is it about people that they cannot be content with their clothes in that they have to change them long before they're worn out? This is fashion gone mad.

I never throw out clothes, and I can keep the same items for many years - I've still got jeans, BD dungarees, etc. that I bought over 20 years ago. When they eventually become threadbare I tear them up for cleaning rags.

What the hell is wrong with these people that they can be so wasteful?
Except UBI is simply a guarantee of a minimum income, not a distribution without other means of income. If UBI is 5k, everyone makes at least 5k. If you make 15k before, now you make 20k (modulo market adjustments).
Assuming, for comparison, a V6 Toyota Highlander, approximately 0.5 – 0.7 gallons of gasoline burned per hour at idle, or 6 - 8.4 gallons of fuel burned in total. Fuel tank capacity is 17.9 gallons, so about 30%-50% would be consumed in 12 hours.
It's like FOSS - it's up to us.
Huge congrats on your success!

I'm really curious to know what happened between $10k MRR and $1mn ARR. That growth happened in a span of 1 year which is just amazing.

Any pointers for others who are at a similar phase of their business looking to grow from 10k->83k MRR in a short span?
Doesn't really matter, as long as it's fun. Some people play games, so people enjoy re-configuring their setup (I do enjoy it too). It's not a business / prod env setting.
I am turning a room in my house into a technology-free space. No phones allowed, just books and a typewriter, pen, and paper for writing. This could be another use of that room.
I find it odd the CISO gets two weeks to transition things while the Head of Security (does that get an acronym?) got shown to the door. The latter doesn't seem as much like a straight-up termination for ordinary performance reasons.

Then again, I was at a large company where the CISO managed to get insta-fired in a 1:1 with the CIO. I actually saw the person about two minutes after it happened while they were grabbing their jacket and heading for the door — I don't know what was said, but judging by appearances things got really heated and the CIO had enough. Corporate security appeared shortly to begin boxing things up.
Matt Damon was the Peak Crypto signal.
Regulate fashion.

For example you might make destruction or stockpiling of unsold clothes a crime. Also ban exporting clothes that were manufactured abroad.
You know the name Roosevelt for the central man in the piece. How quickly would anyone know the name of the others in it?

Your feeling 'sour', that stems from a place of ignorance into the artist & Roosevelt's life, is popular enough, that they are hiding the statue. This obsession with not 'feeling' wrong will destroy everything, until nothing remains of learned interpretation.

I can see the future of Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron' coming our way.
if you think of paxos/raft as having fault tolerance of losing n nodes, then the "decide what happens" part of 2 phase commit can be thought of as distributed consensus with a fault tolerance of 0 nodes. iirc leslie lamport has a paper that goes over this, and demonstrates that at n = 0 parts of paxos are vestigial and removing them directly maps to 2pc.

EDIT: found it! https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/consensus-on-transac...

i am being a bit hand-wavey here because what the paper is talking about is an application of paxos to generate a new algorithm (paxos commit) that devolves to 2pc.
> My city in eastern Europe was close to a nuclear target. So much for USA liberating us from Russian influence.

How are those two sentences related?
"The Public" also need our institutions to be Denial of Service resistant.

As a number of sanctioned and disbarred lawyers have demonstrated, several groups in the US are quite happy to launch Denial of Service attacks against our institutions.

The easiest way to solve this is "You get <X> pages per month. If you want more than that, bring FDA certified folks to handle the job and pay them from your own coffers."

I don't see the people requesting the data to also be ponying up the money to get the data faster.
> On the other hand, that means that services built over-the-top pay a higher cloud tax. Not sure how this one plays out.

It’s unlikely services will continue to build on top and pay a high cloud tax for two reasons:

1. It’s not safe to bet on any entity remaining at the top forever, applies to corporations being on the top of their game too.

2. Tech tends to be an upward moving pendulum as it converges on an optimal solution. Back in the day, companies owned most of their stack from top down (initial position of pendulum) and now companies own only the top part of their stack by building on top of Azure/AWS/GCP (pendulum swing). There’ll be a pendulum swing back but it’ll be an improvement over the status quo for at least some use cases.

It’s likely new technologies and regulations will make building/owning deep vertical stacks a viable option and it’ll be worth it for some use cases. For example, visual/audio stacks should be deep and owned by an entity, I suspect there’s a large margin of improvement in this area that can be attained with fine-tuned vertical stacks (e.g. https://tonari.no/ is doing some low level stuff to build a better audio/visual experience in meetings). I think companies like https://oxide.computer/ will inadvertently, collectively help make building deep vertical stacks an option on the table.
It’s less the DDG/Bing is good and more that Google is declining.
> First, employers in the US and Europe have reported that they can easily pass on minimum wage increases to customers. To ‘blackboard’ economists this makes no sense – after all, if customers were prepared to accept higher prices, the companies would have already tried to increase them

Wouldn't competition between businesses for those customers keep prices low than the max customers were willing to bear, and then a minimum wage just raise the min bar?
iirc, Termux on the Google Play store has been softly deprecated for a while.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
DDG is a necessarily inferior product.
With two phase commit, once each member pre-commits, the only next state is for both all parties to actually commit. The entire system will wait forever until everyone commits. If one node that pre-commits blows up, the entire system is frozen until it commits. So it’s inherently a fragile system with indefinite outages if nodes go down or if the coordinator goes down.
A difference between telcos and IaaS is IT is 'baked into' AWS. AWS's IT team (people, software, automation) silently becomes an extension of your team. It makes AWS more than a dumb pipe, and makes it difficult to leave AWS (generally you have to be very purposeful to avoid this lock-in).

Interestingly, considering the OP's comparison, many enterprises are also tethered to AWS via telco dumb pipes (e.g. App user -> WAN -> Private DC -> Colo facility -> Direct Connect (MPLS) -> app in VPC).
Looks like bleach (sodium hypochlorite) plus autoclaving is a method recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), for whatever that's worth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion#Sterilization
The volume of clothes produced and discarded by fast fashion far outweighs whatever is given away at conferences.
There's lots of apps that do it for you too. Scannable is one.
The trick is to not use config languages, but use the same language as you already wrote the rest of the application in.

Your application then becomes a library that is invoked by the config file.

This also enables advanced features such as configuring call-back functions.
The incredible University systems in the US are an amazing asset… failure to recognize their value by craven businessmen turned Republican politicians that only understand money is going to be one of the biggest tragedies to befall America.
Haven’t read it so I can’t comment on it. Economists of a more conservative bent do praise the book, but that’s all I know about it.

Really any intro principles book should be fine for the basics. Mankiw is a popular choice. Wolfers and Stevenson is one I use for examples and class problems. The book my department uses is set by committee and because they give the students at our university a (very good) deal relative to competitors.

Economics does not need to come with any politics at the intro or any level, frankly.

In my class, I do criticize a lot of very stupid things DJT did as president when they intersect the material I am teaching, but I’m happy to note when Biden (who I happily voted for) does something I disagreed with.
Harvey Mudd is an undergraduate-only college. All the others are R1 institutions.
Reality is probably more unrealistic than people think, and funnier to boot.

People who were at least slightly aware of military planning in Poland but not necessarily with the "why" of the plan (this included pretty big portion of citizenry, due to conscription) tend to think Warsaw Pact's claims about defensive warfare were just lies.

Meanwhile the defensive warfare concept was to counterattack once the "inevitable NATO strike against communism" happens, to as quickly as possible take logistic routes that America could use to wage war in Europe. Atlantic is pretty big issue for any invasion not just towards America, after all.

Then you hit the next layer of hilarious misunderstandings (YMMV) which is western planners somehow not getting the memo that Soviet decision makers in Moscow actually believed in NATO first strike (honestly, I don't blame them) and in turn often wargaming first strike from warsaw pact side.

Supposedly at one point, early in 1990s, some high rank officers from both sides got to meet and look at unredacted data about capacity of both sides in Europe, with NATO representative going "oh god, with those numbers you could steamroll us, why you didn't?" and Soviet one being "ugh we could have done with much less forces, we didn't actually want to start a war"
Indexing flexible sampling makes no sense to me. I realize GoogleBot sees Quora differently than a human sees it, but they could easily make back end penalties. Your site loads too slowly? Organic search penalty. Broken rendering on mobile? Penalty. So why is human inaccessible content OK?

If content is blocked to me 70% of the time, shouldn’t there be a commensurate penalty? These publishers are shitting up Google results while harvesting free traffic to goose their new user acquisition numbers.

It’s the degradation of the organic Google product experience, I’ve always been baffled why they allow it.
The 'missing' major US cities can be reached by ocean-going ships.
There is a story about a public figure having to resign for using the word niggardly which derives from an old Norse root (same as "niggling") and has nothing to do with the offensive near-homonym. This is not some principled desire not to offend, it's people looking for something to get upset about. It would not surprise me at all if one could find a real example of "retarded" in its original sense being proscribed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word...