skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mysterium: Decentralised VPN
Ivermectin is hawked as a COVID miracle cure within right wing circles and spoken about constantly on right wing media programs. Many millions have been convinced ivermectin will save them from COVID, discouraging vaccination and even prompting some to remove family members in critical condition from hospitals because staff refuse to prescribe the de-wormer. It’s killed people and there is an organized effort to push the drug for cynical partisan gain. So yea, it is appropriate to “pounce” on this study or at least be very clear why it is not applicable to first world countries (very few people have worms)
Who decides which is just between left and right wing riots? One man's riot is another's righteous rebellion.
The military should evaluate wholesale replacement of spinning hard drives with SSD, rather than replacing many thousands of computers.
Very, very lucky. Taking into account the kinds of vehicles you come across every day, hazardous goods, school buses and so on.
VC meeting Monday, what to expect?
I launched in December and emailed some VCs for potential seed raise. Few firms replied back and I have the first partner phone meeting scheduled for Monday

I do not have many users yet. I am experimenting, still trying to figure out which acquisition channel would be the best.

What should I expect during this call? What are they looking for?

I'd really appreciate any feedback
Bankers' rate 'rigging' not criminal, says US
Not in popular culture like television or media. Media seems like an important part of culture but it is by far one of the smallest aspects of culture. Product and business infrastructure of the entire world is tightly integrated with China and that is definitely culture.
A solution to that attitude is to do things not in a race to please others, or for the sake of doing something impressive, but for their inherent value. Doing so might require a change of one's personal value system, but it's probably a change for the better. Extreme example, but curing cancer to impress people is kind of missing the point.
At the risk of seeming callous, I am not convinced it is obvious that bridges should never collapse. This is an unreachable goal that will just make bridges more expensive and create excessive regulation. No artifact of man is 100% reliable, the only rational goal is a certain number of "nines." The users of a system should decide how many nines they are willing to pay for. For me personally, A bridge with a 99.9% chance of not collapsing in a given year is good enough.
You imagine it like suing them will resolve the issue at hand. What you miss is the concept for barrier to entry. Even without an explicit policy to ban competition (which is imho a libertarian fiction), the capital and man-hours of investment necessary to enter a market could be enormous. Even more if you want to compete with established players there. E.g. you have hundreds of carriers around the world, thousands of banks, and god only knows how many hardware configurations needing support to a 99.995% coverage of user needs. Not even counting the language barrier for dealing with them, this is overhead that nobody can afford without good backup investment and a clear path to profitability.
So will the command "python" be available out of the box (as python version 3) Or do scripts and users explicitly need to say "python3"?
> who would want to buy an appartment in a mall

If it wasn't expensive and crappy, I'd totally do it. We're at the mall twice a month anyway, the mall has the best local stores, there's fun extras for the kids (carousel, arcade, a gym) and adults (bookstore, coffee shops, etc), it's heated in the winter and air conditioned in the summer so you don't have to carry coat+hat+mittens+boots everywhere, there's a decent food court with some variety and it's cheap, it's the only place nearby with a reliable bus stop (and it's also mostly enclosed and protected from weather), it's got great ADA-appropriate accessibility, and it's got lots of parking and convenient freeway access, so visitors can stop by easily with no fuss.

Of course, these apartments will be like $2500+/month and be tiny. But like, hypothetically if they built family-appropriate condo-style housing at family-appropriate prices on a mall, I'd totally do it.
Black on white? The readability of this text is... totally unremarkable?
I carried my MacBook in my motorcycle luggage for over 40,000km, and I dropped it from waist height at the airport. It's still running smoothly.

The only issue is the keyboard, which is now on its third replacement. The extended replacement program ran out last year, but they still replace keys for free.

This is a 2017 MacBook. They upgraded my 2012 model for the price of a battery swap because the 2012 parts were out of stock. In other words, I've been going for 10 years on the same laptop purchase.

They're not perfect laptops, but they're still the best ROI I've had on a laptop, and far better than any laptop I've had before.
It looks like that's still more bridges per capita for Pittsburgh, maybe that's the metric they're using.
"It has also been hypothesized that the changes in brightness could be signs of activity associated with intelligent extraterrestrial life constructing a Dyson swarm; however, further analysis based on data through the end of 2017 showed wavelength-dependent dimming consistent with dust but not an opaque object such as an alien megastructure, which would block all wavelengths of light equally.[17][9][19]"

Fun, to think about, and who's to say the Dyson Sphere isn't somehow transluscent, but this sounds like pretty good evidence to my pea brain that we're observing a non-Dyson Sphere object. Definitely exciting candidate target though and I'm happy we keep searching for our celestial cousins.
A just riot is like saying a just mental breakdown. They happen for all kinds of reasons, typically stressors, but not always injustice. People have rioted because they've feared social change, political change, religious change, they've rioted because they've run out of bread, they've rioted due to systematic abuse and racism, and they've rioted because a black man and a white woman wanted to date.

Rioting should never be normative or just. Protest, direct action, striking, sure. But setting a random person's storefront on fire because you're unhappy with something completely unrelated is not just.

If rioting has to happen (and I would agree that it does), it should not be seen as normative or just. It should be seen as an extreme and unjust but necessary action to wake society up to a problem which must be dealt with. If it was considered just, that would be rationalizing the abuse of some members of society by others as a way for them to "vent" about their "injustice". Today the riot could be for civil rights, but tomorrow it'd be for white supremacists.

This article takes great pains to position its argument as "The Crowd" versus "The State". But it's not the state that is harmed by a riot, it's the people. The state is fine! They have a military and can defend themselves. But the innocent people who are the victims of riots can't defend themselves against either the crowd or the state. Some riots don't involve the state at all. Genocidal riots have happened within social groups without the intervention of the state time and again.

Which side of a riot is just? A racist riot and an anti-racist riot are still both riots; how do you tell which one is just? Your own personal morals are not a rational basis for justice, because somebody else's personal morals are going to throw your whole theory out of whack.
lol, are you me? Only thing you didn't mention is the importance of .git/info/exclude so my custom scripts don't distract me on a git diff.
I worked at a internship one time where by the end of the two month stint my machine would take upwards of 45 minutes to login because there was something that was running on login that had to timeout (because it was broken). Sometimes IT pushes policies that conflict with other stuff and rarely do they check every configuration (or setup alerting for these bad cases).

There's lots of reasons it can happen though (especially on Windows, where the mood for 20 years was "cram it all into apply on login GPOs and scripts"). My guess in this case since the machine costs $109 (used, I assume), is that it is running spinning rust and 4GB of RAM, which on Windows 10 isn't a lot of fun. Couple that with all the security crap the DoD has to put on there (which probably spends half its time trying to grab resources from the other security software) and I could definitely see an hour.
Wasn’t the military which overthrew democratic governments though. It was the CIA.
> can we just say everyone was right

No, because neither claim has been proven true. Both are speculative. Correlation is not causation.
And if you change your default back to bash, every new terminal you open complains that you should switch to zsh
It's a 10 bit number so I think you mean 1023, but yeah.
The "free" service is also there to hurt competition, establish market dominance and later or do all sort of bait-and-switch.

Reminder: by dominating a market a company removes options and better alternatives from the end users.
This is more or less the same argument.

The only difference is perhaps your mental image of the "engineer" and his methodology.
“Amazon says it has disbanded the Twitter army it paid to tweet about how great Amazon is” should be the title.
Yeah, the game is just a bit of mental math after the first guess. It's no fun if you use programmer mode in your calculator.
Contact tracing fizzles across America
Plenty of people use websites (including this one!) without accounts to just browse around. I get my comments linked around all the time, and the freedom to share this information is a good thing for the internet. Putting up a login wall or other annoyances makes me cautious to want to share Twitter links with other people, or even perhaps want to post there in the first place if it’ll reduce my audience.
A better toolbar for Thunar
I went through the same phase at 12. I am nearing 18 now, and I am very thankful for nondeterminism.
Perhaps because Typescript is a Microsoft baby?
check out Autonomous Pod https://www.autonomous.ai/pods/autonomous-work-pod
All of them, except those compromising their integrity or bending their results to please the money providers
Deadly, but "just as deadly" is not really supported by the facts. There have been maybe 2 high casualty car attacks.
To be fair it's more annoying to have python default to 2.7, I have rewritten everything in python 3 years ago. So.. Yay! and good riddance.
What's funnier is people rediscovering this fact today, we went full circle aha

Modern phones have tiny sensors. Pre 50s camera had massive sensors. Sensor size does a lot, the larger the sensor the less optical performance you need from the lenses. It also helps a lot with the "3D pop" due to depth of field, the larger the sensor the more depth of field you get.

4x5 cameras from the last century out-resolve modern 150mpx sensors.

35mm film, which has the same area as modern "full frame" cameras was called 'miniature format" until fairly recently.

Iphone vs full frame size: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-de59d641fcb2cb69218544...

full frame vs medium/large format size: https://www.quinnimages.com/wp-content/uploads/_mediavault/2...
Care to back up any numbers with long COVID? Or am I again going to have to suffer with hand waving and zero quantitative analysis?

Throughout this pandemic, measures were taken with a public health benefit in mind that was purely limited to the virus, and any and all mentions of weighing the cost of these measures or even trying to quantify it was met with "You're killing people!!! You shouldn't have a platform. You should be silenced!" Shaming tactics are the last resort of people with bad policies and bad ideas.

I wasn't aware that any schools had completely closed their doors to prevent kids from drowning or were preventing kids from learning to speak by forcing them to cover half of their faces to prevent drowning. The point is that you don't know a kid that's drowned most likely and most of us don't.

Additionally, masks don't stop the spread. So we're sitting here arguing about an intervention that hasn't done anything to prevent omicron from spreading all over classrooms anyway. If you had school age children you would know this, but I'm going to take a wild guess you don't do you?

Your last question indicates that you think making mask wearing in school by children a permanent feature should be explored. I would welcome you to submit your own children if you ever have them to this experiment, but good luck finding researchers that think it would be ethical to conduct this experiment. They certainly wouldn't endorse it for more than a short period of time, but we did it to all of our kids in an uncontrolled experiment born out of panic.

You are on the wrong side of history.
Finally I'll be able to just autocomplete pyt <TAB> on the command line.
For iOS maybe, but for websites couldn’t you just revert the commit?
>I have git, gdb, terminal, and LSP integration. I've got spell check. I've got tags, cscope, snippets, and lint warnings.

Apart from the built-in features (like :terminal), somehow I haven't yet explored plugins to enhance my Vim usage. Granted that coding projects over 100 lines are rare for me, I still feel like I should try them out and see if I can get used to them. If not pure coding projects, at least for things like markdown, having a preview could help.
Right now, Google Play is the wild west. The app store admins are far too lenient when it comes to things like this. No vetting of apps. No inspection of source code for red flags. And the sketchy apps can be rated five stars by a bunch of bots artificially inflating its popularity. Clown show.
Define server.

Public webserver? Unlikely for sure.

Office fileserver? Absolutely.

Build server?
Sure.
These wouldn't count as rare as today he is a rather widely known photographer, but Wikimedia has a large collection of colour photographs from Alfred Palmer, mostly taken from 1941 to 1943 for the American Office of War Information. While effectively propaganda in nature, they're undeniably beautiful photographs.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alfred_T._Palmer

Some favourites:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Rosie_th...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Carpente...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/A-20_Hav...
How big is Apple tax on world?
Another fun wrinkle is that as part of that suit, Sega engineer Takeshi Nagashima also produced two cartridges with different methods of bypassing the screen "using standard components, at a total extra cost of approximately fifty cents". They offered to let Accolade's counsel examine the cartridges, but only on the condition that Accolade's engineers couldn't see them. This convinced the district court that the code triggering the screen was "nonfunctional", but the Ninth Circuit disagreed.

My guess is that these methods involved some modchip-style tomfoolery like reset glitching or forcing values onto the bus, and could have been defeated by Sega in a future revision of the console.
“Readability matters; maintainability matters; functionality matters more. The longer you talk about proper tab spacing, the less time you're talking about algorithm optimization.”

Totally agree, these things matter most. Maybe I missed the point of the article if you think that’s what I’m arguing against.
Usually you can't delete half your codebase and re-build it at zero cost. The cost of developing a codebase is often the primary cost for software companies.
I appreciate React and Angular are difficult to get going without some sort of build step (React can do it, but not JSX, so it's not optimal), but Vue has always made it very easy to start right in the browser. AlpineJS[0] is newer on the scene, but it also focusses on doing exactly what Hibiki is trying to do with a much smaller API surface area.

This demo[1] runs a similar template to the initial few in the Hibiki HTML tutorial via Vue. I've been able to use the full Vue templating features and I've used a minimal amount of JS to set it up. The script I've included is ~4x smaller than the minified prod build of Hibiki, and my data models are in a real JS script tag so my code editor will treat it as real JS, as are my event handling methods which interact with my data model. AlpineJS is actually half the size again of Vue's prod build, I just chose Vue as I work with it regularly.

In trying to save developers the trouble of learning JS where they're not familiar, Hibiki feels like a new, less known, less documented DSL wrapped in non-standard HTML tags and lots of esoteric naming conventions in order to connect logic, data and layout together (it gives me ColdFusion vibes). While I could see the idea with remote actions, replicating this kind of loop in JS is trivial and feels less "magic", with the benefit that a strict data structure isn't thrust on the developer that then leaks into their backend code.

If a developer doesn't want to learn JS, they can get by just fine with server rendered pages which need to update with every action. If they want interactive content without reload, it's probably best for them to learn the small amount JS required to do what they want.

I apologise for being so down on the idea, especially as I'm keen to see more projects embrace the approach of keeping it simple, and ridding themselves of painful build steps and huge node_modules folders. But I'm struggling to see the benefits of Hibiki over the incumbent frameworks available.

[0] https://alpinejs.dev
[1] https://jsbin.com/mifiwabuqa/edit?html,output
Not having to pay for physical materials doesn’t mean there are no costs. Throwing hours, days, or weeks of focused work time out the window does not sound cost free to me or Whoever signs paychecks.
ARTBA Bridge Report
Texas is also in a lot of places new build. They will face the same problems when oil for fuel is obsolete (probably within 15 years).
A trivial answer is that the question is moot, as this universe is the way it is precisely due to the laws of QM themselves. (Conceivably, in other universes, ones that we do not observe, the laws could be different.)
I always wonder why this complexity is necessary. For family, just make 1 static graphic with husband, wife, son, daughter. For color just make them all yellow. No mess of joining things like this.
Not everyone. Some people use Mastodon.
about days and a stack of notes :

this is why we have line printers, custom reading tables with balanced soft lighting (print proofing lamps) and more recently, rostrum cameras operated by foot switch.

review with fanfold might be a habit only acquired by formative experience, but once you physically manage the printout, and are comfortably seated with several hundred well spaced lines that aren't directly emitting typically exhausting spikey spectrum light forcing your brain to perform extremely complex colour management to balance your vision, which is the primary factor in concentration depletion in every attempt at testing we've tried over the years, and you mix in modern handwriting recognition and a pico projector display of feedback comments if necessary, I have only witnessed very high productivity. Anyone who is subject to audits will know the satisfaction of dumping fanfold boxes on the auditors desk. Or should.
Worked for a bigtech well known name, large and extremely important project, literally the core of a service serving an enormous number of users, and feature flags were mandatory, no exceptions.

I can't imagine working without feature flags. Being able to enable new features in particular deployment rings (canary, dogfood, various production rings or regions), or per users / user groups, enabling gradually (percentage) and so on, is invaluable. I really can't overstate this.

Heck, we went as far as using feature flags for risky bugfixes even.

We had also internal tools to easily work with and track feature flags. A downside is that although normally you'd want to remove old feature flags that become obsolete, this hasn't been done very often.

What I suggested and we started doing was to tag the feature flags with the name of the author and the date at which they were added, and the same for the config updates, and usually ticket number and title for both case. This did help with tracking obsolescence, but obviously there was still a need to plan and do the actual work. Automating this process further was out of the question, due to the high risks involved.

Edit: added the last paragraph.
I believe that is how malls were originally envisioned. In Naples I believe there is a neighbourhood like that. In Toronto, at the Atrium on Bay, I believe there are apartments.
This is exactly my point: the government advanced exactly this theory and the crucial point is they lost in court. They were forced to weaken the laws as a result. The new laws remain constitutionally untested and the government seems very eager to keep them that way.
For Company A it's a loss, for Company B it's a gain, and for the world it's a gain, because now there are more of those better chips than there would have been. The problem is that if Company A expects this to happen, they may not spend the US$5 billion in the first place, which is an even bigger loss for the world.
This says post-skylake, but both my SKX workstation and i5-6200U laptop have 1 in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/psb_cyc which seems to be the condition, though I haven't tried to use it.
New questions about whether children should wear masks in school
Nvidia is pushing vertical integration hard. There are all sorts of libraries from Nvidia which build on top of CUDA, from simple cuBLAS to smart cities, autonomous driving, robotics and 5G.

They also provide acceleration of open source libraries like GROMACS, used for molecular dynamics simulation.
> the dosage known to be effective is higher than the dosage known to be safe.

This is misleading a little. Only the high dose was tested in cell cultures. That does not mean that low doses are not also very effective.

In the lab, they usually use very high doses to confirm that there is any effect at all. A second set of experiments (not done yet) then calibrate to discover the minimum effective dose.
Ask HN: How to discipline yourself while working alone?
I never got this feeling and a I'm a bit past 30
I've previously worked at a vendor using Python2. Someone brought up this concern. I looked up the number of security releases we had cut in the past due to Python2 vulnerabilities -- it was zero.
I still care, but the things I fret about have shifted substantially.

There are many categories of code problem that you don’t have to get right the first time. Some things can grow organically. But there are combinations that can be extremely resistant to change.

In particular, shared state is both state and coupling. Global shared state is a fucking nightmare, and almost made me quit my current job a couple months in.

I thought I could fix it, but I underestimated the number of hands in the code, and the longevity of the alliances I could make to get it done. The thing with a hideous mess is that the people who don’t mind it stick around, and they probably made it in the first place. Mostly what’s kept me here is the pandemic, and he fact that a lot of my energy is now in a hobby, not invested in my job. The tiebreaker was that some self-aware wolves have found slightly better code patterns and I have been exploiting that all I can. Write more like that, delete code like this ASAP. We have spent much of the last 18 months working on things I identified in my first six weeks. Not always in the most healthy way, but at least some people are looking at it.
This one is another great shot for scale:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKMeYsZXEAYzpan?format=jpg&name=...

[from: https://twitter.com/shadow/status/1487065719028207627/photo/...]
Putting Unicode everywhere is great.

Turning Unicode into clipart collection is not.