skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government-backed entities can also make promises that Apple's money can't buy. Who knows what kind of back room deals are made that involve citizenship, safe passage, dropped criminal charges, etc.
Oh right how could I forget that.
Fauci.

Here we have someone in a position of authority literally admitting to lying or adjusting figures based on public sentimen.

That is not science. That is politics, and people are literally saying things Fauci and others say about the pandemic are unquestionable. Yet this guy is literally admitting to not telling the truth to manipulate the public.

If I were you I would at least question why you didn’t know about this, and whether trusting public health officials and politicians (on any side) is the truthful and scientific way to live. And why these people want to censor, if they are so right.
Welcome to..real life?

Broken communities and meaningless jobs, surely add to the underlying absurdism of life, but life is fundamentally absurd and lonely, and you are coming to this realization.

Your college experience is a short dose of hedonistic pleasures. The young and attractive bunch you were drinking with are either changing diapers or the unattractive folks you are refusing to dance with.

Accept it, turn inward and get more spiritual and less judgmental. I'd also suggest joining a community but I think you need to get spiritual growth first because you will also judge those communities harshly and get isolated. Dancing community? you'll think old and desperate, cross-fit? shallow and stupid, family? changing diapers, meditation/yoga? weirdos,

Well, all those folks are trying to find a temporary break out of the absurd just like you.
That's the whole point of a code formatter. To avoid these bike shedding discussions and get back to work.

Where you think a long call should be allowed somebody else will think it should be split.

Pick a code formatter, and fuck opinions, we'll do whatever the formatter says we have to do. Done. It is not that important if you put semicolons here or there as long as it is consistent.
This article was me trying to write down my internal notes on the topic at the time, after having dived very deeply into problems with the set of interlocking network queues inside embedded wifi devices we were working on.

I was probably not the first to realize that this set of rules probably applies to all kinds of networks, not just ones in embedded device firmware, but I hadn’t really seen it written down before.

But I’m surprised the article ever made it to the HN front page, even 5 years later, since it doesn’t even attempt to address the how/why/how do you know sorts of questions. It’s mainly a placeholder just so I don’t forget. (Those rules for muxes and demuxes and backpressure are really confusing, but I believe them to be strictly correct.)

The rule about bottlenecks (there is only ever one) I borrowed from the TCP BBR paper. The rule about queues on a path always being empty except for exactly one that is always full, I think I borrowed from a talk by Stuart Cheshire that I can never seem to find when I look.
Show HN: Talk Out of λtank
...It’s easy to see that the above loop can be implemented without conditional branches. The conditional swapping can be implemented by conditional moves and the conditional pointer increase could be implemented as a unconditional

p += (*it < pivot)

Does that really guarantee that it is branchless? Surely a compiler is free to turn that into a comparison and jump?

Or, to put it another way, the compiler was also free to turn the original 'if/then' structure into branchless code using conditional instructions. My point is, surely neither version guarantees that the generated code is branchless, it's all still up to the compiler.
What do you think it means? As someone who's worked with people in spam fighting, i'd like to understand a different perspective if you have one.

Low quality clickbait is almost always tied to a commercial end, be it ad click fraud, ad view farming or malware/phishing on the extreme end of the spectrum.

Anything policy violating that's considered "Spam" is likely to be tied to illegal activity 9 times out of 10.
Jeff Bezos, a notorious pancake aficionado, per the NY Times is allegedly fond of a recipe from the Joy of Cooking, which he would make for executives that would visit his home.

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/joy-of-cooki...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/jeff-bezos-ama...
All my 20s and 30s I was desperately searching for a couple and socialization the way you describe.

If you ask for a radical solution, and you're from English-speaking country, my radical suggestion is: go teach English in country like Brazil or Russia, Ukraine, etc, but make sure you stay outside of the capitals, where expats are rare enough. I know some guys who did this, they have social life, are rather important people, and have no reason to come home to be the average Joe.

If that's not an option, like it wasn't for me, manage the probabilities. All hobby groups are places where you have a chance to get some social life/couple. But they differ. Invest less time in those with awkward people, but don't abandon completely -- sometimes friends from there will invite you to other, more interesting social groups.

Eco-, new-urbanism or political activist groups are much better than dance groups, because people go to dance exactly to find a couple, whereas any form of activism filters those out and the share of "normal" people is much higher. (Of course, their age and marital status may vary, so choose appropriately.)

Where you live also matters. A metropolis is very un-social, interactions are awkward, and you must be highly active to just stay in contact with some people. A small town has much more social cohesion, but may make you passive in dating. Something in the middle is better.

Living in suburbia is antisocial, it's better to live in walking distance from places to socialize in a walkable city.

Since you're still looking for a couple, it's better to live near a university where the share of young people is higher. Also, write down when you had dates, or was approached, and what social activities you had then -- it can give insights.

P.S. Therapy works only as painkiller. After couple of meetings therapists open up their stone-age beliefs: NLP, positive thinking, hypnosis, homeopathy.
In this particular case, where the result is negative, we humans can easily recognize that something is wrong. But in other cases, where the exact match is also the best match, it’s not easy to dig through all the pages to know something is amiss. Of course, I understand that SE like Google was not designed to produce exact match for long texts like this one. But no one can deny that exact match is extremely important for finding rare/obscure stuffs. Can a search engine especially for rare, obscure stuffs (in contrast to popular search) have a niche market?
I’ve experimented with NOWEB in the past and it’s cool. I would imagine it being good for teaching. Like “these are the steps we have to take to accomplish the desired result” and then break down every step with the ability to actually build the code at the end.
> The distinctions between countries will become meaningless;

Quoth the Internationale:
And end the vanity of nations. We've one but one Earth on which to live.

Put like that, doesn't sound bad.

> Sounds depressing. Personally, I'll settle for lower GDP.

Lower GDP reduces the amount of wealth that can go around. Sure, it won't matter for those who already have a high standard of living. But for others, it would mean a hollowing out the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to decorate the top.
He has Sanjay Gupta on, a well known doctor that supports vaccination. Even Gupta couldn’t make a firm argument that everyone must get vaxxed, even with the fact checking in real time
My local in NYC does a booming cash business (they offer a hugely popular cash special on Tuesdays & if you pay cash, tax is “included” - I think charging tax on card orders is to cover their transaction fees? But maybe a bunch of this is unreported.)

They’re on apps, but they write your order on a paper ticket if you are a phone, pickup order and only take your name.
It doesn't appear that the Obsidian devs have any plans to open source the project [1]

[1]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515
The Nintendo Switch Dock wants 2.6A at 15V, so it doesn't work with the 30W Macbook Air charger which provides a max of 2A at 15V. The higher powered Macbook chargers work just fine with the Switch Dock.
However we achieve this, Web3 will definitely be part of the solution.
>>Injecting capital doesn’t magically increase the supply of real estate.

It's not magic. It reliably increases supply by raising the return on investment from building new units, and thus increasing the number of potential projects which find investors.

>>Both involve speculators, but only the latter increases the supply. Why shouldn’t policy discourage the former—a market inefficiency, but a very sane local maxima—and encourage the latter?

I fully support encouraging the latter and discouraging the former. I would support utilizing a land tax to discourage, and eminent domain to outright prevent, the former.
The first page gives users control on what code ends up being loaded with access to their data over API. First page coming from CDN, would not just be an issue for cross-origin resource sharing, also removes the ability to use SRI hash for subsequent JS.

Also, the HTML page on CDN wouldn’t know what endpoint (domain, port) user has deployed their API on. One more thing for user to configure. Here, the HTML configures window.postgrest_url which the JS code can use.
I recall someone (nameless) who tried to teach Pascal by putting the semicolon at the start of every line. It actually works (as the Pascal semicolon is a separator, not a terminator), although you end up with many null/empty statements.

Sound confusing - very. I could see his "logic" but as to teaching programming students ... yes confusion all round, and wait till the poor students move on to any other language #@%%!$#!!!
I'm not sure that qualifies as halfway (or even remotely) plausible, but with sufficient pipelining (tens of thousands of optical printers with parallel IO hardware and an equal number of people developing slides and loading them up), miracles may be possible. Given resources on the scale of the Apollo program, you could make some super sick demos. Way cooler than collecting moon rocks.

Joking aside, this essentially hardcopy-to-film is a thing that I never considered existing, yet sounds completely plausible. Even so, a color framebuffer with a CRT attached was certainly not unobtainium by the early to mid 80s.
Honest question - was this sarcasm?
Bonus points for being on top of (topping?) a story about pancakes.
In case you’re wondering what happened, from the thread:

He sent ETH to the WETH contract, received WETH as expected.

Then he wanted to do the reverse and sent WETH, but will not receive anything, because you're supposed to swap your WETH to ETH in exchanges like Uniswap, or call the "withdraw" function in the contract.

For contracts that want to only work with ERC-20 tokens, you use WETH, which comes from a contract that takes 1 eth and gives you 1 WETH.

A known problem with ERC-20 tokens is that transferring them to a contract that isn't made to access them is equivalent to burning them. You should almost never transfer ERC-20 to a smart contract. You instead use approve to give the smart contract permission to withdraw, then call the function you want to receive and tell it to make the withdraw (the contract will internally call transferFrom).
> in just about every sane language (not to mention plain-old mathematics), extraneous parentheses don't behave like this.

Let's test that out.

Python 3 doesn't like extra parentheses:

a = ['hello', 'world']
print(*a) # OK
print((*a)) # ERROR

Ruby doesn't like extra parentheses:

a = ['hello', 'world']
puts(*a) # OK
puts((*a)) # ERROR

C++ doesn't have a splat for C-style varargs functions but it does have one for template parameter packs and it doesn't like extra parentheses:

template <typename ...Args>
void g(Args... x) {
f(x...); // OK
f((x...)); // ERROR
}

Go doesn't like extra parentheses:

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
a := []interface{}{"hello", "world"}
fmt.Println(a...) // OK
fmt.Println((a...)) // ERROR
}

Lua doesn't like extra parentheses:

a = {"hello", "world"};
print(table.unpack(a)); -- OK
print((table.unpack(a))); -- Only prints "hello"

Perl does like extra parentheses (but then again it doesn't really have a special "splat" syntax and just flattens all lists everywhere):

my @a = ("hello", "world");
print(@a); # OK
print((@a)); # OK

You seem to want `...` to behave as an operator, but it really can't since it doesn't produce a value. If you think it *should* produce a value you then have to decide what the type of that value should be and there doesn't seem to be a good answer for that. I mean, should this be allowed?

let a = ['hello', 'world'];
let b = (...a); // What should the type of `b` be?

// Somehow equivalent to console.log('hello', 'world')?
console.log(b);

I suppose you could introduce some MagicFlattening type into the language and make `b` be of that type. Then every time any function is called the interpreter would have to check and see if the argument is a MagicFlattening object and, if so, change the call from having 1 argument to having N arguments. This would make things slower and make creating a JIT more difficult. It would have unfortunate ripple effects across the entire language. You've now got these magic objects floating around that can unexpectedly change the meaning of any function call in your program. This is probably why most languages have chosen not to go this route.

Instead `...` is a different way of calling a function. You can call a function in the normal way with `(` and `)` and you call it in this alternate way with `(`, `...`, and `)`. Any given call site only uses one or the other of these ways and which one it uses is known at compile time so there's no need for runtime checks and no magic objects.

The `...` is part of the function call so wrapping it in extra parentheses doesn't really make sense. You wouldn't change `console.log(a, b)` to `console.log((a, b))` and expect it to work the same, would you?
Actually it's "λtalk out of λtank", a very reduced fork of the lambdatalk's engine, working in any HTML document, out of its native wiki environmemnt, lambdatank.

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=story
The most likely explanation is that it was an typo error or autocorrect.
>In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States.

Of course not all those deaths were Covid related but I think we usually try to reduce unnecessary deaths...
The NFT Art World Wouldn't Be the Same Without This Woman's Nightmares
He has created a rather large social media presence, though I think he was booted from some platforms for perceived misinformation. They also accept donations on their website, and they list referrals to doctors on their website, not sure if there is any money exchanging hands there, although I think some of the members of the org are listed as doctor referrals.

But, not being wrong is a very powerful motivator. More powerful than money and power sometimes. I suspect he hitched his horse to the ivermectin wagon early on and has been looking for evidence to support it ever since while ignoring anything that hurts his narrative.

I have seen some of the stuff he has posted on social media in support of ivermectin and it was just woefully, obviously bunk. And I never see him respond to any of the criticism directly. It's just all a big conspiracy, oh, look over here, another thing that might support my theory...
DMC++ can built 16 bit x86 code with near and far pointers, and near and far functions.
Which points to a design problem with credit card transactions. They should be able to generate a one time use number for giving X money in a single transaction. I've heard of some experiments in that direction, which is hopeful.
The formed the org in 2020. I'm willing to bet 2021 will have a great deal more donations. Their filings for 2021 are not yet out.
I'm Swedish, and I can confirm that all my Swedish cookbooks contain recipes for "pancakes", "crepes" and "American pancakes", which are definitely 3 different things, and a Swedish "pancake" is a lot like you describe it.

I also have a recipe for what my cookbook calls Danish pancakes, or "æbleskiver" in Danish. Those are more like small round doughnuts prepared in a special frying pan. I'm not sure if the Danish would consider those "pancakes" though.
I was looking into iCloud+ myself, but the biggest issue is there doesn't seem to be support for catch-alls?
Is there a good solution for rendering HTML with PostgREST? Without starting an MPA vs SPA flameware, it'd be useful to be able to do.
What? lol I was literally there watching the waterfalls on three different online receivers at the same time.

You want to die on this hill? Or would you like me to dig up the recorded footage for you?
> A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour

First line of the article. Is it really that constant? Every 3hrs? If so could this possibly be a sign of intelligent life? I mean most likely not, I'm not getting my hopes up.

A while back I read on here a commenter saying that if they were to try and see if there's intelligent life out there, they'd release a signal periodically at fixed intervals - try to make it as "regular" as possible - so that intelligent beings would hopefully notice the pattern.
You're not a very good HAM then.
> For the past decade the market for EV was just not there.

Then please explain to me why Tesla, during the past decade being one of the few BEV manufacturers has always been limited by production only, despite never ever advertising in its entire history?

> Tesla accounts for less than 25% of the EV sold this year, which is a clear indication that the amount of EV sold wasn't limited by Tesla's production abilities.

You're clueless. Try buying a Tesla right now, or for the past year. Go ahead. Try putting an order in and see when you it gets delivered to you and tell me if that's because they love their cars so much, they don't want to part ways with them or it's because they can't keep up with demand.

> Have you ever driven a German car?

I have driven more cars than I care to count. Ask me how Tesla is better than all of them in all the ways that matters.

> The Tesla is a typical American car, less comfortable and less reliable than it should be for the price tag.

And yet the demand for it so high, you have to wait a year to get one. Looks like comfort isn't the only thing that sells cars.

> No wonder why Germans and Japanese took over the US market for ICE cars years ago.

Sun never set on British empire once too. So what?

> Tesla has the first mover advantage.

What, like Apple did with iPhone?

> status symbol (“like Apple but for cars”).

Ye, whatever you say.
Please read your military history.

Soldiers who have never fought are less capable in battle. It doesn't really matter how much they train or how many drills are run. Nothing really prepares you for the trauma of watching your friend of many years die by getting his head blown off next to you, or worse, bleeding out while crying for his mother. There are two kinds of people who witness that: those who curl up and pray for it all to stop, and those who pick up their weapons and keep fighting. Generals never know which kind of men they have unless battles weed out the first kind, by death or discharge. And militaries with too many of the first kind lose wars.

Yes, it's horrible. It's gut-wrenching just to think about it. We'd all be better off if we could resolve our conflicts without war. But in the world we live in, there are too many military and paramilitary actors who are not guided by such Enlightened ideals. What will we do if we are not prepared and they come knocking on our door?

Maybe you don't believe that the same irrational forces that first manifest as teenage graffiti, then grow into organized crime, could ever result in organizations the size of militaries. Maybe you don't believe that, in societies which have abolished all adventure, the only adventure left is to abolish that society. That's fine. I respect that. But what if you're wrong? Shouldn't society hedge that bet, considering the cost? Can no such hedge possibly justify its cost?

There's a reasonable discussion to be had about where the line (i.e. cost) should be drawn, and what shape the line should take. But the opinion that it is worth it to pay some cost should be relatively uncontroversial. And if you understand that society should pay some cost to maintain an effective military, you ultimately understand that, until the diplomats can succeed at building a genuine global peace, war is inevitable.
How about adding tool like dbt there.
Imagine if they could recycle fiberglass matrix composites? You'd get rid of a huge part of the reason for e-waste, the circuit boards.
Ivermectin is being pushed by Dr Kory as both a treatment and a preventative measure.
It's more than that. It's also supporting the 16 bit Windows calling conventions, __ss pointers, __cs pointers, __huge pointers, etc. There's also dealing with chips that don't have an x87 processor.
In my country there's a website that works in every major city and their suburbs that aggregates basically all restaurants, pizzerias, pierogarnias etc.

And you don't have to have an account, the address and payment details are filled in by the browser autocomplete.

So the friction is - click on the menu, click "order", type in the wireless transfer code.

Also - almost nobody orders "pick up" pizza here, so phone requires you to specify the address every time which is significantly more friction.
> In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby...

If you want to meet new people you're going to have to bond around something whether it's a new hobby or an old one. When you're young it's easy, you bond over anything. School, shit jobs, getting high, etc.

When you get older it's tougher. My theory is that because as we get older out time gets more limited so we get more selective. So pick something non-nerdy like sports for example (crossfit, running, hiking). Or maybe work remote from one of those live-in coworking spaces (check out Outsite for example).

I feel you man, I've been there and sometimes still am. My suggestion is do any of the above or reconnect with an old friend and foster that friendship. Having a few good friends goes a long way.

Oh, and for those fun loving 20 something upstairs? You're looking at through rose colored glasses at a brief moment in time. They're probably lonely too. We were at that age.
I did something similar on a thankfully tiny scale. Was screwing around with different cheap coins and did something like sending Reddcoin to Litecoin and yeah I just lost it. But it was pennies.

For more context I was messing around with Shapeshift back in 2018 which you generate a deposit and withdraw address for some crypto currency pair eg. LTC to Doge. I messed up this process.
I think that majority of people sleeps less - 7 and less. (Yes they are somewhat sleep deprived, little bit, but still) I remember reading sleep studies saying that if people sleep regularly and without alarm, it stabilizes around 7:45 on average.
I think this is a problem with crypto that will forever prevent it from becoming mainstream. The average person understands the concept of money but understanding smart contracts is out of scope for a large part of the general population m