skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid (in Italy, in the 1960's, yes, lots of time ago) car plates were coded starting with two letters[1] for the province (please read "city") followed by 6 numbers (with some small changes this was the schema until around 1993).

The game was not only spotting the non-local plates, but also "decoding" the two letters to the corresponding city, and then telling to which region it belonged to, it was a small lesson in geography every time, kids learned/memorized these info outside school.

Then there were "special", but common enough, plates like those of Carabinieri (CC), various army corps, etc., that were worth 2 points and the (rare in my area) CD (Corpo Diplomatico - Diplomatic Corps ) and AFI (Allied Forces in Italy) worth 5 points.

[1] with the exception of Rome which was actually written in smaller characters as Roma
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Here's the thing - my wife works for the school system, I have 3 kids, and I'm involved in kids activities. The "shutdown" happened in the Spring of 2020. In the Fall of 2020 all the sports leagues resumed as normal and all the kid activities resumed as normal. The schools were partially open and they went to fully open in the Spring of 2021. In total there were 3-4 months where the kids were "locked up" in their homes. I don't know where this narrative is coming from that kids have been "locked up" for the past two years, but they have not. At least not for the overwhelming majority of kids in the U.S.

There have been cases where a school system makes headline news by cancelling in-person classes as the infection peaks in their area. These shutdowns have only been for 1-2 weeks. The kids are in school. The kids are doing activities. The kids are alright.
This sounds sort of like what SeedInvest does https://www.seedinvest.com/
When I was like 12 or so, I had a thought that if we can calculate everything, we could be living in a full blown simulation.

To be honest, like 30y later, I still go back to that nagging thought _a lot_.
Nitter is great. The Privacy Redirect extension can automatically redirect your Twitter page loads to Nitter:

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

If you are on Android, you can also use the free and open source Fritter client to view tweets and browse Twitter without an account:

https://fritter.cc
FWIW for many it is also seems to be a matter of faith to proclaim that Ivermectin does not work, and this has been going on since the drug was first linked to the Trump camp.

The irrationality in this regard seems to match the irrationality of the concerns over masks in the pro Trump camp.

(I'm in the middle. Triple vaccinated, never took Ivermectin but find it really ugly that every single discussion about it ends in a flag, downvote and shouting competition that makes it impossible to find out what the facts are. The best I've found so far is Scott Alexanders findings but I guess there could be a lot more to learn if people weren't so busily either shouting or flaggind down the stories.)
I didn't realize Atari made a 68030 machine. It's too bad they didn't pivot to high end engineering/academic workstations to compete with Sun/SGI. They definitely had the engineering talent.
Suckless Terminal st just crashes to this day on some emojis so I just have xterm around for things that can display emoji like twitter client.
And yet, you know that it's there, and nobody called it "without microcode".
Perhaps you can contrast with wefunder.com so we can better understand your question?
I agree, the controls and OS integration are what makes the most difference in the whole debate. But: Why aren't there native controls in the browser? Why do they suck?

> Even more «native» toolkits, like GTK and QT are have small discrepancies.

And then there is truly native stuff and you still have discrepancies like bugs that make you write your own UI kits, recently witnessed here:

https://nova.app/

> Here's a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple's text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch.

That is a great example for Panic's dedication and at the same time a sane argument for doing cross-platform development, if you can't even trust the truly native libraries.
Yes. The cell was first created in the real world as part of research about the minimal set of genes required for life.[1] It is known as "JCVI-syn3.0" or "Mycoplasma laboratorium".'[2]

Still amazing that it can now be fully simulated "in silico".

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aad6253

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium
Why did USA start war in Afghanistan? If they were looking for Talibans they could've just peeked in Texas.
Why? I think it's pretty reasonable to only expand APIs deliberately.
It is called crowdfunding....
If your host PC has an NVIDIA GPU, I strongly recommend Moonlight. It's for game streaming, but you can pass it an .exe to enable desktop streaming, and it is much better quality, latency, and bandwidth than any remote desktop experience I have tried. I'm pretty sure you can't use Linux as a host machine though, which really sucks.
> The more code I've written, the less I care about code quality.
..
- I minimize interdependencies (changing a line of code should not affect something un-related)
- I go for abstractions later, only when I need them, rather than trying to think of the perfect abstraction/design pattern which will solve the problem in the most elegant or clever way

It's funny, but those points you are describing are measures of code quality to me. The less interdependencies the higher I value the code, same for abstractions, most of the time it is the simpler the better. Except in those cases where they are explicitly required.
This man is famous on Youtube.com. He runs a computer review channel from Vancouver.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw
In the end no company is obligated to do much of anything. We see that twitter probably wouldn't have achieved the kind of market dominance they have if they had started out this way though. So it feels like a sort of bait-and-switch, which annoys. That now that they have we have to deal with it or be cut out of something so popular, that they can only get away with because they are so popular. But sure, they have no obligation to not do that.
This idea has been formalized: https://www.simulation-argument.com/
It's interesting because it almost makes both political sides (yes, this is politics now) actually true. Ivermectin doesn't work. This is true. But it might reduce covid mortality in many third world countries, which are the studies the so called anti vaxxers claimed. They are also correct.

So... can we just say everyone was right, and maybe start killing worms across the world?
I already have wasm outside browsers, it is called JVM and CLR bytecode.

> More than 20 programming tools vendors offer some 26 programming languages — including C++, Perl, Python, Java, COBOL, RPG and Haskell — on .NET.

https://news.microsoft.com/2001/10/22/massive-industry-and-d...
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Google will let legacy G Suite users migrate to free Google accounts
Hacktivism and State-Sponsored Knock-Offs. Attributing Deceptive Hack Operations
If what you are selling has to be 1/20 as ubiquitous as Coke to be viable, you are already killing off approximately all business ideas.
I like that it's robust to adversarial tweets!

I did something similar last week using the Twitter Stream API: https://github.com/basile-henry/twitter-wordle

It's not resistant to adversarial tweets, but it usually collects enough tweets to have an answer in around 1 minute, so it's not too bad to restart if some bad tweets were sampled.

Maybe I should try to use your wordle-tweets dataset to make it work offline as well. :)
My dream scenario would be Twitter and reddit effectively killing their api so we don’t have Apollo or Tweetbot anymore.

These apps doesn’t help with addictive behavior because they absolutely remove everything wrong from these networks and gives me a stellar user experience.
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They finally got me to sign up a few months ago with that crap. Suddenly other sites started working better, after I did: apparently that twitter cookie smooths the ad auctions and all the other underlayer horseshit on the modern web.

Kinda makes me wonder how hard it would be to anti-optimize a site so that if you have a twitter / FB / youtube / etc account and are not using private browsing the pages load slow or incomplete etc. Presumably most of use crotchety enough to use such a thing in anger have already bowed out and fallen off the web already.
> They can't control the underlying content.

This is the only place where I would like to see more control from platforms. And I believe they can. Youtube already requires to label video containing paid promotion. They can require to label exact time interval so that it can be auto-skipped (without sponsorblock).

Instead they release one shitty "feature" after another.
Insinuation of motives in other people was part of that too.
I think you simplify the problem: cochlear implants are far from perfect and many users suffer from headaches while their hearing doesn't improve to the point that they can function like any other hearing person (eg typically they will have trouble discerning multiple voices speaking at the same time, hear anything in high background noise situations). So the choice for then is between being a disabled person in the hearing world, or a normal person in the smaller signing world. That's a hard choice, I'm glad I haven't had to make it.
Sources: My linguist partner cooperates with many sign language researchers, so might be biased. But also, an acquaintance (also linguist) decided to not give their congenial deaf daughter a CI for this reason after considerable deliberation (please don't judge).
After creating an account, you will be prompted to give them your phone number, and afaik, you cannot skip this step
Developing countries do have a higher prevalence of worms[1], as Scott Alexander discusses in his post[2] on the subject.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20587392209599...

[2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
I don't have these issues with $8 wired earbuds. Manufacturers are removing headphone jacks from mobile devices, causing us to buy expensive buggy Bluetooth ones that are easier to lose. Our world is getting dumber every year.
As long as the false positives never happen to cause great harm to you or your loved ones in particular, am I right?
We spent 20 years seeding the web and our phones with popups, and now we are surprised when we have popup people?
Show HN: RandomCoin – A cryptocurrency that changes its price every second
You can disable update checks using the setting `"update_check": false` if you do not wish to transition to ST4. Note that only licenses older than 3 years require an upgrade (3 years relative to the release of any future ST update). Additionally any previously purchased license will still prevent the nag popup even if it's not valid for that version.
They tried at the end (with the TT/030) but it was too late. They folded two years later.

I remember a snippet about Unix on the TT030 in UnixWorld from around then: "Up from toyland." They weren't going to be taken seriously.

Atari's last two years of engineering were excellent between the TT030 and the Falcon030 and the last versions of TOS after they hired Eric R Smith to fold his open source MiNT project into the official OS.

But at that point in time nothing could compete with x86 and the 68k architecture was end of life. Even Apple had a rough time of it (after switching to PowerPC) and barely held on for the next 10 years.

EDIT: I should also mention the Atari Transputer Workstation project around this time, which was a multiprocessor Transputer + some pieces from the Mega ST attached as a controlling terminal. Another attempt to get into the higher end research & workstation market. Didn't sell any really though.
Oops. You're right. Weird.
I’ve tried gnucash a few times but it was just too much work for not enough rewards. I’ve contemplated just making my own scrape to database script because all I really want is a ledger I can query.

Moneydance has been decent enough and I think I’ve paid $100-150 in 10+ years for an initial version and then an upgraded one.
This is a known bug in st when the default emoji font contains color emojis.
Explained here: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/issues/284

One of the simplest workarounds is to ensure that the default emoji font is black&white; the linked issue above suggests other workarounds.

Also in the official st FAQ: https://git.suckless.org/st/file/FAQ.html

(search for "when trying to render emoji")
Gnome Web on Linux (WebKit based) is sometimes a close enough approximation to troubleshoot Safari issues, but yeah, it sucks.
> need to become a user of the website

Why? You can show people the same advertising either way so signifying up with a junk e-mail address and forcing a login is really kind of a pointless hoop.
I still get over 100 paper letters a year from Spectrum (previously Time Warner) about various deals even when I already had their service. I've had Google Fiber for awhile now, but they keep coming. I've been storing them all in a box to eventually mail them all back to their HQ. It's quite a hefty box a this point.
I'm inclined to agree, but I must ask: Would you have the same standards when it comes to the vaccines?

I'm not aware of any double-blind placebo-controlled trial that is powerful enough to determine risk reduction for death or severe disease in vaccines, much less over several months.
https://republic.com
You, on the other hand, seem to have internalized a class-based worldview. I'm not sure that's healthy either
U.S. employers spent 4% more on compensation last year
This is a paranoia induced reaction that is being fostered by the media and the war industry, who are interested in creating a new cold war scenario.
Guy works in the space for 25 years and asks random strangers on the internet for their ideas. That's the level of humbleness I wish more people had.
There are complexities with taking money from unaccredited investors, but there are some (seedinvest, wefunder, fundable) and many more that do peer to peer business loans for smaller and/or social companies.
No, it is a critique.

When Pfizer does it it is a critique as well.

The question is how much of a critique.

In general…

If you are dishonest about your conflict, you hide it, don’t do anything to control for it then having a conflict is a bigger critique.

If you are transparent about your conflict, honest about what it is, and take measures to control for it or add extra steps to analysis to prevent potential bias - then a conflict is a less strong critique of the study.

Critique in scientific research isn’t a binary. It isn’t “there’s one critique and it’s valid or not and if it’s valid the study is bad”. There can be critiques of ANY study. No study is perfect. But the types and the details of the critiques matter collectively to make the study better or worse.

Collectively, this study falls to the worse end. It’s not just the conflict of interest it’s the conflict of interest + the study design. The critiques of the study design are that this study is design almost exactly the way you would if you wanted to increase the appearance of effectiveness of this treatment.
Right. Typically you have to show that you were harmed.
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I think they essentially questioned why is she 'famous'; is it because of outstanding technical ability, or because of the way she presents, and unwisely chose to try and disprove her technical ability.

The question still stands to some extent though I think. Using 'sex' to sell yourself is accepted in music, film, fashion and so on, but perhaps not in technical fields, and, actually, as I think about it more, I'm starting to agree a little bit.
Last time I tried to create an annoymous account ,they asked for tel verification.
(not exactly when you sign it up but after a few day)
Errr... pretty sure the allegation is more specific than you suggest. The allegation was that he was being paid by China and did not disclose this on grant applications.
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/UcNarG

For those that hate paywalls...
>Apparently the option to hide pop-ups is only available to subscribers in the new subscriber version

Paying for a subscription and yet still receive a debt collection notice doesn't instill a lot of confidence in the business practices of that company if this poster's comments are accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27078542

That previous HN thread and Linus' tweet showing how they abuse their paying customers with nagware are enough to make me avoid them. What's the best paid or free alternative?
Using the advertised final cost of electricity is, in my opinion, a useless way to work out the sustainability of any power source. It is skewed beyond usefulness by government incentives, tax breaks, etc etc.

If we're talking about renewable and sustainable power, the only way to look at it is the embodied energy of the device. As I alluded to, the only way solar panels are as cheap as they are is because they are all made using coal or other fossil power. Solar panels require an enormous amount of energy to manufacture - the energy payback period is over 20% of the panel's expected lifetime. This clearly indicates that the price per unit of energy in a system powered by solar would be much higher than it is now.

We also haven't even touched on the idea of where on earth (literally) all of the minerals required to make this gigantic number of solar panels, will come from. PS. Invest in mining, "renewables" are making it a very profitable business right now.
It's a circle of life in remote admin apps.

First there was Citrix. Good, but ridiculously expensive.

LogMeIn appeared, offered free tier and inexpensive subscriptions, got some users.

LogMeIn matured, dropped free tier, jacked up subscription fees.

People left for TeamViewer because of - you guessed it - a free tier and inexpensive subscriptions.

TeamViewer matured, clamped things down, jacked up the fees.

People will now leave for the next thing that - if properly managed - will follow in LMI and TV footsteps.

The reason behind this is that the $$$ are in large enterprise subscriptions. But you can't get them without having a name and a reputation. So you first build yourself up using smaller users, picking up larger ones along the way and then shed the small fish by raising prices. The end result - a handful of large clients, lower operational and support costs, higher margins. The end.
>If you’re trying to scroll deep into conversations or someone’s Tweets, it’s reasonable to expect that you’d need to become a user of the website.

You can't just make throwaway accounts on Twitter though, they ban them after a few hours if you don't verify by phone number. So really it's forcing you to hand over a lot of personal information just to read what is essentially a few forum posts.
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They are resilient, my son will (probably) be fine - but that doesn't mean there wasn't damage done. I ask all his teachers what the effect has on the kids in comparison, and without an exception, they all point out that nearly all kids aren't as far along as they normally would be: emotionally, socially and academically. Most of them will mostly catch up. Some won't, and all will have an imprint of the pandemic on them in many ways.

Minimizing this does nothing for them. And remember, a depressed kid doesn't always look sad, but can seem happy go lucky as they are trying to be what their parents want them to be.
Cadegiani is part of the "medicos pela Vida" a Brazillian group advocating "tratamento precoce/inicial/integral". The pandemic had an hilarious course in Brazil and there are doctors indicating medicines based on their political views.

Brazil health ministry published an on-line service which suggested HCQ for newborn infants and recently they published a table putting HCQ as better than vaccines.

Beaware of Brazillian studies related to ivermectin and HCQ.
Take a look at the 14th Amendment and § 1983.
> At scale, false positives are inevitable.

Perhaps, but they should be treated as grave mistakes and heaven and earth should be moved to attempt to avoid them.
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Are we moving back in the direction of walled Gardens ?
Have you considered basing your work on standard web components? They also don't require any scaffolding or building to be used. Sprinkle some binding sugar on top using Lit and you don't have to invent yet another template language but can just use standard JS template strings.
As far as I know this was explained away with - it's too urgent and it's not ethical to have placebo controlled vaccine trials at this time, since everyone will contract covid. So we didn't have any.
Q1: Why didn’t God just make the universe classical and be done with it? What would’ve been wrong with that choice?

Why mention God? If you're attempting a scientific stance, starting your initial question with an unproven deity who doesn't want us to eat meat on Fridays part of the year, why? Why include that, it's an instant turnoff to any evidence-based reader.
You are welcome. Seeing that MXToolbox was testing STARTTLS on port 25, and a few other indicators made us decide to enable it :)
I have a simple solution: Don't use it.

I do occasionally follow a twitter link but these days I just skip by them on HN (or just read the comments) and most other places. I even have an account but don't bother to log in. I find the website atrociously slow anyways and I don't think 280 characters or whatever they are at now is an enjoyable form of content.
Staying fit in your 40s (inc pro athletes)
I’ve been content with AnyDesk. Personal use. Works well enough, has 2FA.
Ads are a legal risk as the degree of separation required between content and advertisement is surely dependent on the jurisdiction.

For example some youtube influencers lost a court case in Germany because they didn't make that clear enough (or didn't try to at all).

So I'm very surprised Spotify didn't just forbid uploading ads to their platform.
I've had spotify premium for years and almost solely listen to podcasts. The only ads I have ever heard are sponsored ads spots within the podcast itself (that you can fast forward through), never spotify ads. Is that what you're talking about? Because if so, it sounds like you need to be subscribing straight to your favorite podcasts if they offer a membership for an ad-free podcast feed. Expecting spotify to remove sponsor spots is kinda ridiculous.
Getting the audio to work on MacOS OBS is always a pain.
Epimenedies is the pagan poet quoted in the new testament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides
You didn’t debunk the 200 members of congress using ivermectin, you didn’t debunk the history of ivermectins use for coronaviruses and you describe chair of Tokyo Medical Association as “some dude”. You didn’t debunk the other poster mentioning New Jersey’s use of ivermectin either.

Do you think you might have a problem here?
It will make their metrics look better
OK, happy to strike that line and we can stop putting words in each other’s mouths.

What’s your opinion about the rest of my argument?
I came here to say exactly this. I have a Twitter account, but I stay logged out and let their door slamming act dissuade me from scrolling.

I can read the one linked Tweet from some article or post and then return to my life. It’s blissful.