skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> slows it

Not necessarily. Because vaccines suppress symptoms, people who would otherwise isolate in the presence of symptoms could be unaware they are infected and transmitting to others.
I think there's a recency bias for Google search results, that cuts both ways. I searched "Eric Clapton" and "Neil Young" and both pages have a mix of expected results (Wikipedia, social media, official website, Spotify) and news/tabloid/opinion pieces about their recent covid takes. I've certainly had searches in the past where I couldn't find the Wikipedia link because there was too much noise about a recent controversy.
That's amazing! Thank you so much! I've always had a little back-burner dream of making a little blog that does like one of these allegories per week.
I doubt that. Consider no one was vaccinated and 1% of humans would need medication because of a "serious" case. Then the medicine would need to be 100x more expensive than the vaccine considering the alternative is everyone was vaccinated. Now consider many people got 3 or even 4 shots. It's 300x-400x now.

Also you can give the medicine to already vaccinated people that also have serious cases. So you still can sell it in a lower capacity. Also you can sell both vaccines and medicine to states in large batches which is great.

It's a big golden goose for the pharma industry.. let's never forget that.
You'll also find tons of people who swear by their home "witches brew" medication. People who are just feeling a placebo. Or people who think they have the forum's banner illness but actually have something totally different and much more benign. They heal over time naturally, but attribute it to gum root jelly concentrate.

I've been there a few times before. And while inevitably monkeys popping random pills will find something, separating the signal from the noise takes time and studies. The things that doctors pay attention too.

Disclaimer: Yes there are out of touch doctors and yes random medicating has lead to amazing discoveries.
Might be a long shot, but GRCs Spinrite has saved a couple drives of mine. It won't work if there's a problem with the physical connection to the drive but almost everything else it can fix (at least momentarily) and actually grants a nice speed boost in the process for drives that have gotten too messy.
Oh we can, there was this guy in Germany that failed art school, he had a couple mates, they figured that with good genes, training and education they could...

You see where this is going, right? Oh, what you describe actually might fit the book Brave New World as well.

Anyway yeah I know what you mean, this is why things like education, well-paying low-stress jobs, housing, health care, access to food are so important. They encourage an overall healthy and happy population without imposing on them.

But the US is a bit of a shithole in that regard; low paying jobs, food deserts, financial worries, crippling debts to pay for a lifestyle that people can't afford but need, etc. The country and its policies are self-destructive, and, dare I say it, a kind of economic eugenics - if you're too poor to afford health care you'll be removed from the gene pool.
Interesting, I assume SPyQL uses eval internally? Couple of years ago I wrote [RBQL](https://rbql.org) which is based on exact same principle and also supports JS expressions, would be curious to compare design deccisions in SPyQL and RBQL.
This is like the opposite of

https://github.com/ponyorm/pony/

https://macropy3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pinq.html#pinq
Share Jupyter Notebook as web app
At least Apple pays to recycle them, which is more than most companies making devices like this would do https://onezero.medium.com/what-really-happens-to-airpods-wh...
>After several years of usage, my first two pairs of AirPods both developed a buzzing noise which became unbearable. The only solution I found was to buy a new pair.

Is that really acceptable for premium headphones? My Bose QC25s continue to work fine after almost eight years of daily use. I realise that there's more which can go wrong with the AirPods, but two (?) years isn't much at all. The author should've taken the issue further rather than just giving Apple more money.
I was arrested. In my wallet was a $100Tn bill. Law enforcement send it to the State crime lab for analysis. Lab report says it is the most sophisticated piece of currency forgery they have ever seen. It checks 8 of their 9 boxes (it's been eight years since I saw the report) which I remember some were: correct paper, correct ink, metal strip, hologram, dots.. I don't remember the rest. I can't remember which one it failed.

They finally decided not to follow-through on the prosecution for it. I guess someone eventually realized that:

a) It was a real bank note, not a forgery

b) It wasn't US currency as they had believed, but a note from Zimbabwe:

https://www.banknoteworld.com/zimbabwe-currency/100-trillion...
I'm still recommending WordPress. Focus more on the content and less on maintaining or developing a new platform.

Right now I have a personal blog running on a wordpress docker container. After many hours of programming as my daily job, I am tired of tweaking and maintaining something unstable.

Like someone said in other comment, it matters only to allow you to publish posts easily.
A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro
At the same time you must have went one step further, which is to find how they do the hashing to get the next word based on the current date (that's to tell the word for tomorrow), so well done.
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-Ma...

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935#c10

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Adding "hacks" but not testing to ensure said hacks don't cause issues:

Lennart Poettering 2014-02-21 13:49:25 UTC

To make this work we'd need a patch, as nobody of us tests this.

Comment 3 Michael Shigorin 2014-04-04 06:30:57 UTC

Hope all of you either test all the combinations or do not break at will those you don't have the time and inclination to test, at least in system-wide components that are not specific to systemd, while pushing the latter hard.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2014-04-04 14:56:43 UTC

Well, cgroups-less kernels are explicitly not supported by systemd. However we added some hacks to allow it to boot to a certain degree even if a lot of things will not work correctly afterwards. In this mode when you boot you will actually get a warning on screen and bootup is delayed by 10s to make sure the user understands this.

Now, this mode recently broke, and it will segfault early on. I am happy to take a patch to 'fix' this again, but I will not work on this as i dont run kernels like this, and as mentioned its not really supported anyway...

Another option is to simply be honest amd stop supporting in entirely, and refuse booting completely. And I figure this is what I will eventually do if nobody cares enough to send me a patch to fix that segfault.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74589
> Skilled labor becomes unskilled labor.

Which is bad for skilled labor (wrt. that set of skills) but good for unskilled labor.
I'm amazed that the author doesn't recommend Pair-programming as one of the techniques to avoid "Doing too much before looping in others"

He mentions:
> an engineer on a project should never go more than a week without showing something, and usually it should be more like a day

But in my experience by pairing you can shorten this feedback loop to seconds.

A few other people have commented about pairing: It's clear people have different preferences and that it's wise to use pairing at the right moments, but it still seems a glaring omission from the article to me.
YC HBCUs
I can not find studies about Omicron right now, but Nature reports that vaccination provably reduces the spread of Delta variant, but requires boosters in the 3 month range to maintain effectiveness:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
These imagined scenarios have very little to do with real life in the poor world.

Living in the modern rich world it's hard to imagine, but the natural state for humanity is being a dirt poor subsistence farmer. Only since the start of Industrialism 250 years ago have regular people been systematically getting wealthier.

In the early industrialized world this path to wealth also started with sweatshops. They were awful, but less awful than the earlier life, life expectancy and wealth grew steadily decade by decade, science and industry prospered, and now we can talk about this on this technological miracle.

No society has gotten industrialized without going through a sweatshop phase. It is now happening across Asia and Africa, and I think it's wonderful.
Of all the proposals I've seen this one actually seems to be the most sane. Trivial to opt-out or set manually, done completely locally, and doesn't expose any information I wouldn't be fine telling a stranger. Ya know if it means I stop getting those cringy Panera ads I might even opt-in.

* "But what's stopping Google from ___ in the future?" The same thing that's stopping them collecting your full browsing history today.
LTE/5G is a hardware thing, you can't add it with a software update. Yet another point that it's not the sealed battery which is the problem.
I'm using AirPods Pro & Max and multiple Macs. They're frustrating sometimes, but still substantially better than most Bluetooth devices especially Bluetooth headphones.

Bluetooth is such a crappy technology that blocks for better wireless implementations we could have.
They were well off.

Rent was 12% because rents generally were lower, but eg clothing for sure was way more expensive.

You can compare to the maid and see how she was doing.

How long did the maid have to work to be able to buy a shirt, vs how long do you have to work to buy a shirt?
Very interesting! Great article
>> I had a bunch of other things I wanted to say here, but mercifully, I've forgotten them.

I'm stealing this lol
I don't understand what you mean by a few people get to define it. This stuff is used by basically every desktop environment on Linux. You have to either use it or write something very similar to it if you want to have permission prompts that actually work. They all give the option to turn it off but they still have to support it for the average user you described. Unsurprisingly, the requirements for shipping a desktop are really not that different on Linux compared to other operating systems. The users all want the same things.

From what I have seen, the amount of users that want to go back to the Windows 95 style of security are an even fewer people. You can find distros that still ship a desktop from that era but they don't seem to be for much beyond novelty.
Having cycled through WH1000XM3, XM4, AirPods Pro, I am back to my trusty Shure SE215 that I use wired.

— They never deafen me with connected/disconnected sounds (which can never be configured quiet enough) or music briefly playing at insane volume after switching or connecting.

— I know I get the source quality.

— I would never lose one randomly (always a chance with “true wireless” models).

— I don’t get weird phased low-frequency rumble from active noise compensation gone wonky.

— Most of all, their passive noise suppression with Shure’s black sleeves, depending on exact noise profile either beats or is on par with top-of-the-line active isolation (both according to rtings’ test benches and my subjective experience), and does not end when battery runs out inevitably at the most inconvenient time.

Addendum: 1) I connect them via a tiny Ikko Zerda DAC, which I started using way back when I still had a phone with a headphone jack (this is subjective, but with lossless sources I hear more detail—as in literally small instrument parts I didn’t hear before in complex arrangements—compared to built-in DAC). 2) I generally pass the wire under the top layer of clothing, and personally taking an earbud out and letting it dangle is about as difficult as switching on the transparent mode on AirPods (and without audio degradation inherent to such modes).
tldr: Google sometimes uses headings instead of titles. Match them to prevent title rewrite; stop using long, verbose titles
In the same way python and js are basically the same.
> PETA doesn't like [...] anyone

FTFY. PETA is a shit organization.
Which mainstream website is actually nice to use? The only one that I use on a regular basis that is pretty good is GitHub.

The AWS console is slowly getting more consistent.
There was a period between 1996-2000 where we had broadband and the old web and it was faster than today. But I remember an article in Wired around 2000 about two guys that owned a diamond business in Canada who moved to L.A. to start a dotcom for their business. They moved back to Canada after a year and their assessment was the web was nothing more than a massive direct marketing platform. I wish I can find that article because it was quite prophetic.
> Storage costs money

The dumb solution for that is to exclude persistent storage from the limit.

The nice solution for that is supporting both "runrate" and "consumption" limits.

Using a runrate limit, spinning up an instance, creating a file, etc. allocates budgets for running it continuously, which is released when shutting it down/deleting it. Hitting the limit prevents new resources from being allocated, but keeps existing ones alive. This should be used for persistent storage and instances used to handle base load.

Using a consumption limit, the resource is shut down when the limit is hit. If the shut-off is delayed, the cloud service eats the overage, since they control the delay. This should be used for bandwidth, paid api-calls, and auto-scaling instances.

The user should be able to create multiple limits of each kind, and assign different services to such limits. Alerts when going near the limit can help the user raise it, if that's their intention.

For consumption, it might also make sense to have rate limiters, which throttle after a burst budget is exceeded, similar to how compute works on T instances on AWS. But those probably only make sense for individual services, not globally (e.g. throttle an instance to 100 Mbit/s after it exhausted its 5 TB/day bandwidth allocation, or throttle an API to x calls/s).
Relaxation schedule and activities for Canadian astronauts on the ISS
I respectfully disagree. It is patient's right to refuse any medical procedure.

A mere suspicion, impression that doctors are not treating life and health of this particular patient with all sainctity will do a lot more harm than good.

I mean, life is precious, doctors should know this best and act like it is. Recklessness even in words will do a lot of harm. A lot of credit will be lost if standards slip even a little bit.

I know this very well because people around me are not vaccinated yet because they are suspicious of Sputnik-V. Yes, this is reality where I live. People are suspicious and refusing a life-saving procedure.
> Because the better way to spread opportunity is to use that money to pay for poorer people to get an education so they do not have to do menial tasks for richer people.

...and then a data scientist with an advanced degree spends the day hand-crafting SQL to root-cause a customer complaint after Bezos sends a one-byte email, "?"...

(EDIT: I may have focused on one aspect of the parent's point at the expense of the other, clarified below).
It'll be 10-20 years, at least, before this is a valid replacement.

I can't use it to log in to my routers and other SSH gear, and don't expect to for the lifetime of the hardware.

With OpenSSH U2F it'll be decades before you won't ALSO need a more traditional key. That or use passwords (brrr)
There's a new bio of von Neumann "The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann" coming out in February in the US. [0] If you're impatient you can order a copy from Amazon's UK site where it's been available since October.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Man-Future-Visionary-Life-Neumann/dp/...
I hope you mean the 5 or 6GHz range. Bluetooth already runs at 2.4GHz, but that frequency band is cluttered as all heck.

An open protocol would be excellent though.
A lot of the “central tenets of our secular religion” seem like straw men to me.

Tenet #1: The main reason today’s workers have a decent standard of living is that government passed a bunch of laws protecting them.

I mean, if we call equal treatment under the law "protecting them", sure.

Tenet #4: The modern welfare state strikes a wise balance between compassion and efficiency.

This is absolutely a straw man - I doubt you could find anyone saying that, even in countries that do have a welfare state of sorts, which is not the USA. Unless somehow the author of these "central tenets" considers the USA a welfare state, in which case we should ignore them entirely.
I have Pixel Buds and I haven't tried running with them yet (it's been cold since I got them for Christmas).

I used to run with Bluetooth over-ear headphones, which was great in winter, and, uh, less great in summer (the foam would get completely soaked and foul-smelling).

The ear supports on the Pixel Buds are pretty secure, though, I expect it to be OK, especially at my pace.
Tattoos can be removed these days :p

edit: this is not a value statement about blockchains
Next week on HN: “curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax”.

Anyway, the submission led to several very interesting technical comments so I don’t hate it.
Ask HN: What city has the most open minded and ambitious people?
What city on planet earth currently has the most open minded, free thinking, creative, and ambitious people?
After all, it's just business for them. This is why I also transferred to iPhones because of this one.
Fortunately we can trust that they aren't using any of those billions they have made to manipulate public opinion on the issue, because that would be immoral and therefore off limits.
A lot of what used to happen was a form of altruism. You had to be willing to give up time, money, and hardware to dedicate running many of these tings. That works if you are getting along with everyone. But once you get a 'troll', or some demanding person, or need money because lost job, etc that altruism wears extremely thin. So outsourcing it to some other company to pay, for and keep the software up to date is extremely alluring. There are still people willing to do it. But they will come and go but mostly 'go'. But if you think about it, it makes sense. Someone new coming in is not going to pick up 20+ year old BBS software unless they really want that. They are going to rock onto existing platform and start there. Then in 10 years their members will realize 'if you dont own it you are renting it, if you are renting it you are at the whim of the owner'.
This article has been really badly proofread (or probably not at all)

- "HTLM"

- "includ"

(unmatched parentheses
I did that until I updated the wifi in my house. There’s a combination wired/wireless wire plate under my desk, but I don’t bother wiring it into my work computer, because the wifi is faster than what the cheap USB C adapter can offer.
Those Sony headphones do processing to the signal regardless of whether you're using wireless or a 3.5mm. They can still make sound with no power but it feels more like a backup in case the battery is dead. It seems like a sensible design decision given that most users will want them turned on for noise canceling even if they're wired.
It seems categorically less effective now than before, but you don’t know what you don’t see.

Early on, a client of ours had a domain receiving literally hundreds of thousands to millions of spam a day. Commercial filters were ineffective, the domain was unusable for their common addresses, only thing that worked was /dev/null. On a hunch, we tried moving it to paid Google Apps for Your Domain, which proved staggeringly effective: 100% of spam were filtered, zero false positives.

One thing we learned: turns out Google does have human support engineers / SREs who really badly want to speak to you live if you’re generating meaningfully visible load w/o violating any terms of service. :-)

Today, on a diff @gmail.com account (in public records dating back to launch) that got no spam in the Inbox then despite hundreds in the spam folder a day, gets hundreds a day in the inbox today, same amount in the spam folder. No idea how many are filtered before even hitting spam folder though. Could be that hundreds in the inbox and thousands in the spam folder are just the long tail noise of billions filtered before delivery? Afraid to move it to find out!
This is so far away from my original argument of "not wealthy" I don't see the point in discussing with you. What are you trying to prove? that poor people exist in the EU? of course they do.
BotenaGo strikes again – malware source code uploaded to GitHub
> You can get one of those adapter things and just leave it attached to your headphones if you wanted.

The problem is that I’d have to unplug that adapter to use my headphones with a device other than my phone, including other Apple devices like my Macbook. I would subsequently loose the adapter, guaranteed.

If the world could agree to use USB-C for everything, that might work, but Apple—who started this mess—is a prime holdout there.
Crypto, NFTs Are Rife with ‘Mountains’ of Fraud, IRS Says
I don't know about American towns or India, but that's an option that I would recommend in most of Europe, as well as Japan or Taiwan.
I think you should look at Canada and compare it to the US. In Canada there were lockdowns and aggressive vaccination campaigns with high compliance. Death and infection rates are 3x lower than the US per capita.

It isn't a perfect test but the general populations and habits between Canada and US are somewhat comparable otherwise.

I think it is fair to argue that maybe it wasn't worth it, as most of the deaths were primarily among the old and frail. But it does seem that the policy and cultural differences did have an effect.
You still have that option but you might need to buy an adapter which doesn't seem like such a big deal.

Those wired headphones with noise cancelling and transparency modes probably do require eye-wateringly complex semiconductors.
Back in the day I made good use of those oversized jacket pockets to pop my CD player in - then you just run the cable up under your shirt and you're good to go.

It's surprising how little of a hassle headphone cables can be - I understand that the market is going elsewhere but I've stuck with wired and couldn't be more content. This does have the side effect that I've been soft locked out of Apple phones though, so I switched over to Android devices.
That's his point. They're using the device's DAC when wired which is why it doesn't sound as good as when using Bluetooth through the headphones' DAC.
Yea, but can you just get up and use the bathroom while still listening in a meeting with wired headphones?
I've been using the same technique as you for at least 2 years now, and while I probably do get more done that way, sometimes I feel like it's sapping the life force out of me. Even when what I'm executing is creative, the process makes everything feel robotic. I'm really struggling with that lately.
Everyone who isn’t an HCP “surrenders” medical autonomy since not everyone pretends to know better than the experts.
Burning Among Stars in the Night – Pain as a Portal
https://twitter.com/search?q=airpods%20toilet&f=live
It's so nice being able to bt connect to my Apple watch for the lovely ambience of tick, tock, tick.
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Hey HN check this really cool worlde-inspired project of a friend of mine. :)
Is the instance of Sue Gray related at all to the strength of English libel law? When UK controversies get buried, that often seems to be the reason.