skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Q: Because consciousness is all there is.

But then the question becomes, why exactly is consciousness manifesting in exactly this way as quantum mechanics? There is no escaping addressing this question somehow.
And that the person making these inquiries is a, "founding member of the House Freedom Caucus"? (Thanks @finite_jest for the news article https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/texas-school-books-r...)

Unfortunately just like putting "democratic" in your country name - if you have to put "freedom" in your name it's a good sign you are going for anything but.
One reads this article and thinks "would I want to live in one of these apartments?" Or possibly, one considers a conveniently-located store that will close.

The question that should come to mind might be "what happens to retail workers employed in malls?" Will they all be exerting themselves optimally in Amazon warehouses? Will they vanish from the workforce?

The market is speaking loudly. Society does not seem to have an answer.
Software tycoon Mike Lynch loses Autonomy court battle with Hewlett Packard
Maybe OBS will work on my Mac now. I struggled to get it working, everything recording as I wanted. Thought it was just "crappy open source" stuff, so gave up.

Some time later, I tried OBS on Windows, and it just worked, first time, no fiddling required. And I realised the problem was on the Mac side, not Obs.

I know, its just one anecdote.
The main point of the critique, that people didn't take it consistently, is actually strengthening the study, isn't it? Even with only a partial treatment, you still see a significant effect.

(Having said that, I don't think there's much evidence for Ivermectin overall, but this specific critique of the study seems weak.)
It's bogus that jet fuel can be renewable, at least in anywhere near the quantity we currently use. Mainly because the amount of arable land needed is staggering, and we already are destroying virgin rainforest just to feed the world.
A two-billion atom cell ... isn't that a bit small for a cell?
>For example, iTerm2 considers the "rosette" emoji to have width 1

It's not the case here, but for some emoji there's another issue: Unicode 9 changed the width for some codepoints (mostly emoji) from 1 to 2, and iTerm until very recently (don't know if it's released yet) defaulted to the Unicode 8 widths, with an opt-in escape sequence to change to Unicode 9.

>This approach comes from the wcwidth utility, and the comment at the top of the C source file provides further insight into the difficulties faced here.

That's link goes to Markus Kuhn's implementation from 2007. It supports Unicode 5, and is by now woefully out of date. You don't want to use it anymore.

Most terminals have their own definition, and the annoying part is that the client application and the terminal need to have theirs in sync or they get weird glitches when moving the cursor.

Shameless plug: Fish's solution is widecharwidth[0], which is a python script that parses the Unicode data files and generates a wcwidth for C++, Javascript and Rust. It's still a wcwidth, meaning that it has issues with joining code points, but it's at least a start. It's up-to-date with Unicode 14 and, unless they change the data format (again) should be easy to update to future Unicode releases.

It's public domain and used by at least fish and WezTerm.

[0]: https://github.com/ridiculousfish/widecharwidth
Even if it was, (I don't know why you believe that), protease inhibitors need to match the enzymes a virus uses.

It would be very odd and surprising if a pharmaceutical with a completely different mechanism and purpose would just happen to inhibit coronavirus proteases.
Ummm, you’re being ridiculous, and not supported by evidence. there are plenty of open source OS’s with accompanying hardware platforms wherein this doesn’t happen.

Take PinePhone for a example. They aren’t being sued by any top players, and they certainly aren’t being banned at the domain level.
One of the things I really like about Wordle is that it has no ads, trackers, or anything -- the dev just wanted to make something fun.

Wordle is a miniature showcase of what's possible on the modern Web without all the modern-Web bullshit.
I think clean means the most simple solution that works. Maintainability is not exactly correlated with code size, but being less verbose helps.

Otherwise if you want clean code you should wipe your monitor.
My Mum was deaf (totally in one ear, hearing aid in the other), but sadly she died in 1992 before these were widespread.

A few years ago my daughter had a play date with another young girl wearing one, and apart from the fact it was visible, you wouldn't have know she was deaf. I wish my Mum had lived long enough to have the option.
Well, not lending itself to testing really is a big problem. But one does not need to sacrifice much in terms of understandability to make code testable. For instance, one does not always need an interface. You could also just inherit from the thing that you want to mock. Another problem that might be going on here is that you might be trying to test on a level that is too low. I think it is in many cases not a good idea to test individual classes and methods. Often it is better to test some small number of classes working together. The problem with testing one single class or method is that you are likely testing implementation details that are very much subject to change and also that at some point one is testing trivial things like 'is the standard library of my language still capable of adding items to a container'. When testing at a bit of a higher level one can write tests that are about properties of the software that are actually valued by the customer. These are much more likely to be stable. If one tests at a level that is a bit higher, one also needs to mock fewer things so the interface thing is also less likely to be much of a problem.
How about PinePhone then?
Yes, particularly in India [1], and other countries with widespread poverty. Given that, it's not surprising that the promising Ivermectin studies came out of such countries - most Western researchers at the time simply didn't know, think or care about parasite prevalence as an explanation and the general public has even less knowledge as parasitic infections are incredibly rare in developed countries. And by the time it became clear, too many people already had jumped on the hype train.

[1]: https://ciff.org/news/worms-india-scale-and-success-world-le...
Dubious. I prefer that style myself, but there's a lot of value in squashing multiple commits around a feature into a single, "this commit implements this feature" commit. Is it valuable to retain the entire development history of a feature, or just the feature itself? What if during the development, it was rewritten a dozen times? What if there's a dozen commits where the author meandered and only in the last three commits got to the point?

Ruthless interactive rebase is one way to fix that last point, but if you take the final result and squash that into a single changeset, there's a point to be made about that as well.
The Little Miracles in the Invisible World of Plankton
This still sounds like sarcasm tbh.
>> is dangerous in the same sense that believing rubbing butter on your elbow is a cure against covid.

So we should follow the CDC recommended advice of not doing anything until it’s bad enough to be hospitalized as a good alternative?

>> Taking ivermectin in dosages at for the body weight of large animals puts people at high risk of overdose.

Are you talking about that single mass media article that was later completely retracted because it was discovered to have been completely made up, or are there other instances?
The official Apple one, at least, does not do that. I don’t know if there are others which do.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29610441
For me, and this is very subjective of course, I prefer the most simple but solid editor, and Nota's editor is great. The little things; excellent preview editor, cmd + d to multi cursor select the next occurrence, option + up/down to move lines around, just like in VSCode. It just gets out of the way and let me do my thing.

Also what I missed in Obsidian when I tried it. I will also simply not use all of its fancy features, not to say they aren't useful, just that I'm not that organized haha.

I also really like how Nota looks; neutral, under styled, minimal. This is oddly important to me haha.

Nothing against Obsidian though, it seems to really excel in its purpose of knowledge base building.
> Why do we absolve some people of guilt for being a product of their genes and environment and not others? Where do you draw the line?

These questions are decided in legal contexts all the time, so you can look up precedent. Generally there are considerations of coercion, mental fitness, and age/experience, because your responsibility is proportional in some sense to how much you know/have learned. If you literally have never learned right from wrong, say you were raised by wolves, then you are generally not held responsible until you do (or rather, you are held responsible, but the penalties are teaching you right from wrong rather than something more severe).
> If users change their opinions easily, they will be attracted to the extreme ends of the polarity spectrum.

This is an interesting result. In general, I think most would agree it's a good thing to change your opinion based on new information. Yet if their model is correct, doing so leads one away from what the author implies is the ideal neutral position. So, is it a bad thing to change your mind, or do thinking people naturally gravitate away from "ideal" neutrality?
Democracy is not a criminal state. That's nihilism. Nihilism tells us to let criminals off the hook and not hold them accountable, because of course they're part of a criminal state, "the government". But that's just as wrong as what these officials did. These people infiltrated my government, allowed their personal prejudices to affect their professional decision-making and the result was a man-made catastrophe. We can't let them off by saying "oh well it's a criminal state, this is normal behavior for them." No, it's not normal. Hold these people accountable. Fight against it.
Scientists explain mysterious finger-like features in solar flares
Is Hunt, Gather, Parent worth reading? I'm curious to check it out but I'm worried that it will be another book that falls prey to the "noble savage" literary trope[1].

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobleSavage
"Our European visitors are important to us."

And yet you didn't find the time to add a GDPR cookie plugin to your site
I changed my internet provider once, after I was pissed off by their constant stream of calls about their new offers I might miss. It was a good provider for some time, but after his merger with an other calls begun. I told them every time to not call me, because I'm not interested and if I was I'd contact them. They didn't listen. I tried to shout at them, it didn't work either, so I quit. But it was not the end. They kept contacting me for year and half, trying to convince me that they are the best provider here and I should choose them. I was angry beyond sanity, I'm still angry at them.

I just do not dig it, how people stand this.
This mentions a form of playful teasing by close family members other than the parents. I wonder if this practice used to be more common in lots of cultures but has died out due to how disconnected many people have become from extended family. My wife grew up constantly seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins. Now we see my sister's family often, and my wife has a sort of playful teasing relationship with our nieces.
a recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734395
did you want to own your computer? Too bad, that's no longer compatible with what big companies want to sell you.

I see a day when the "locked down xbox" dedicated console they're needing for some games now has become a commodity and every employer issues you their own custom "cyberdeck" access hardware for their operations.
HN, whatever it's faults is not just one side on this (or many other) political battles.

Encryption is probably the only thing that most people on HN agree with.
I’ve seen micro ventures before, seems a bit more structured that I was expecting probably because of regulations?

If you google for micro investments or micro angels in the context of startups you might some relevant links.

Assuming that the service deals with the vetting of the startups then I can see myself using it.
Reminds me of using Hulu's free service with commercials, then buying a Roku to get Hulu's 'premium service' which confusingly had fewer shows available. Returned the Roku and haven't used Hulu in years.
Before software is going to eat the world, it's going to annoy you to death. Or it does that at the same time, I don't know.
In Brazil worms are very common. Some people take anti-hemlminths prophylactically every 6 months.
I got relax smile 1 year ago with 34.

It is one of the best things I did.

I read up on it before and didn't read something totally crazy but as with everything there is always risk to it.

That's one reason why I have problems to just suggesting it to everyone/anyone while my results are great.

But I also had 5 Dioptrien.
The article mentions that they use minimal cells.
"Minimal cells are simpler than naturally occurring ones, making them easier to recreate digitally."
LogMeIn did this. I paid £17.99 for LogMeIn Ignition on the iPad. A few years later they retired the product & forced subscriptions on everyone. Great way to make people hate your product & brand.
> All terminal emulators I tested consider codepoints with an "East Asian Width" of N to have cell width of 1. This is incorrect in the case of Emoji Presentation Sequences - Unicode recommends they should be always treated as "East Asian Wide" (W).

Sounds like a bug which could be fixed.
This is the truth. Peace be with you.
If an advert is hardcoded by the author into the file they upload, how do you suppose Spotify should remove that? They don't have rights to do that but even if they could, they would need to programmatically detect when the ad starts, ends and cut it out from the file? Soft Skills Engineering does this for example, they record their own audio for the ad and play it like it's a part of the podcast, I don't mind that as it helps authors, but that has nothing to do with Spotify.

I've heard about some dynamic adds Spotify supposedly adds, that are usually not related to the podcast itself, but I've never encountered a single one like that.
Protests flare across Poland after death of young mother denied an abortion
>No. False positives in the justice system are never acceptable. Even a single case will undermine faith in the entire system.

What you replied to is ridiculous, but so is this. At scale, false positives are inevitable. The only way to ensure no false positives is to never convict anyone. And false negatives also undermine faith in the justice system.
> No. False positives in the justice system are never acceptable

Welcome to human systems. Expecting 100% rigor is never going to happen.
Semiconductor Roundup – 1/28/2022
I mean I would just argue that the accessibility APIs are currently tied to the DOM and we should fix that.
Wow, what an insightful video. In nerdy terms, the prosecution will basically p-hack your case until they get statistical significance.
This never happens because they send through services like Sendgrid with thousands of source IPs which never get onto the block lists because they also send some mails which are not spam.

Quote from their website:

> If you are on one of our shared IP plans and you notice a block message from Spamhaus based on one of our IP addresses, please know that we are already working with Spamhaus directly to address the issue.
C doesn’t really have strings at all. It has char pointers, and some standard functions that take a char pointer and act on all the chars starting from that pointer up to the first \0.

When you’re handling any kind of C pointer you need to know how big the buffer is around that pointer where pointer-arithmetic accesses make sense - but for a string, you also want to know ‘how much of the buffer is full of meaningful character data?’ - or else you’re stuck with fixed width text fields like some kind of a COBOL caveman.

But because C was designed by clever people for clever people they figured the standard string functions can just be handed a char pointer without any buffer bounds info because you can be trusted to always make sure that the pointer you give them is below a \0 within a single contiguous char buffer.

And that worked out great.
How many early career university scientists get arrested for not disclosing their ties to China? These are high profile cases with established professors at their core.
Mate, the p-value is given right there. Obviously, the difference is large enough to be highly significant.
Can we not spread propaganda on HN please.
I don't understand how the title follows from the article. The main finding seems to be that low tolerance increases polarization, which is what one would intuitively expect. (And it's actually known as the old folk wisdom, "do not feed the trolls".)

Since polarized system will be less in state of conflict, they seem to conclude that having high tolerance for different opinion means more conflict, and that is worse? Do I read this correctly?
How is TV better than RDP?
...And it would be equally bullshit to encounter someone missing a finger and start berating them. "You don't really have four fingers, biologically you're still five-fingered!"

It's appropriate to discuss generalities. It's appropriate to discuss individual cases. What is inappropriate is dismissing individual cases to come to a general conclusion, and then insist that it applies universally.
Could you provide an example of how you would restructure some nested ifs to jumps? I can kind of picture it but can also imagine doing it badly and being in pain.
Nothing follows from the assertion that we do not understand consciousness. Nothing at all.
He Spent 19 Hours a Day Doing Math
It basically comes down to sprawl: for the better part of a century the American model has been oriented around someone driving in a car, usually solo. That encourages businesses like grocery stores to favor big facilities because they don’t pay the extra cost of the roads, cars, etc. and their customers are probably driving anyway. Why pay mall retail space pricing if you don’t have to?

Where you do see this, it’s in areas with more foot/bike/transit biking and the stores tend to be upscale since they can afford the higher real estate costs.
Which stands for What The Flux, obviously ;-)
I wrote a robust-ish bootloader and didn't notice anything missing. It's only the macro/prelude code that differs but that does among all assemblers.
It's Cluster B behavior (you know, narcissists and psychopaths and stuff) on a grand scale. The 'gray rock' method is not going to help you, going 'no contact' is your only option.
sounds indeed like mistrial rather that the allegations having no validity at all. The NYT doing quality reporting as usual in a long piece of fluff.
Generating 500g hydrogen requires 25kWh (and a perfectly-efficient electrolyser would require 20kWh). One gallon of fuel has about 40kWh of energy available.

To put it another way - by this proposed system, assuming 35mpg, an annual personal mileage of 5000 miles would need a dedicated installed solar capacity of 2kW nominal, assuming a 20% capacity factor. This takes up 15sq. meters. Mutiplied by the population of the US, that's 4,500sq km of solar, just for fuel for driving.

The majority of the energy content of the "sustainable" fuels in your scenario would have to come from sources other than the biomass feedstock. Sure solar generates more power per acre than photosysntheis, but it's very expensive - especially in a sustainable world where the solar panel factories are powered by solar panels, and not by coal.
Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account
Occasionally a link to a tweet will be submitted here as a story by itself. Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium by making the site nearly unusable without an account. Until a few days ago you could read all the tweets you wanted but clicking any of them would pop up a “join twitter” screen. Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs.
Steel Machine (CD-i)
* tried to strong-arm. He didn't accept the deal.
> "who would want to buy an appartment in a mall"

I lived in an apartment on top of a mall in Singapore.

It’s awesome.
Interestingly, I paid for premium pretty much since it started until about a year ago but it seems that with a pihole and or Ad block, there are no adverts anyway … so yea I can still listen and no adverts
I went without glasses for a long time until I accepted that sitting in the front and still having issues reading from the board is just stupid.

I already had 5 Dioptrien at that point.

My eye wear guy who took my eye readings had issues properly configure my measurements.

I decided to just take what the machine calculated and the first days it was difficult to wear.

But after thati gained back so so much detail.

It's just ridiculous to play around and not accepting glasses.

I'm mad at myself that I waited for accepting it for way too long.
OK, but that doesn't make it right or good advice. It's just one type of of technical debt due to too much workload.
Just to be clear, this is the same concept the parent comment is referencing.

Posting the link this way from an NIH aggregator seems designed to give the false appearance of NIH credibility to
Maybe I didn’t pay attention before, but I really hate how thirsty brands are allowed to be with unsolicited survey emails, constant pestering to rate them in the App Store, and invasive popovers.

Your need to make money is not my problem. If you made something halfway decent you wouldn’t need to nag customers constantly.
We can only conclude that this must be profitable; i.e. enough customers actually pay money to try and make these bothersome people go away ­– enough customers that is pays to emply special customer-botherers to do this.
> Ivermectin failed in large studies with populations that didn't have worms.

It has not really been studied as a prophylactic as in this study.
People who have been coding for a while learn not to repeat their mistakes. Their code contains good-ish abstractions and other “clean code” features because they intuitively know what they are doing. The code they just wrote to get something done & shipped is probably somewhat “clean” by most standards.

But communicating those ideas to less experienced developers is where the problem comes in and all the prescriptive dogma arises.

But this happens in all fields. How many times do experts give some advice they don’t always follow themselves? Experts understand when and how to break the rules, and that comes with experience.
One assumes that the goal of the China Initiative is to charge people who are actually guilty of espionage. Highly public failings at that goal would seem to be setbacks, right?
They went to all the trouble to create a huge trial and didn’t make it double-blind, placebo controlled? That is so suspect. We know how to create good experiments, so I just have little trust in bad experiments, especially at this scale.

I don’t care what the outcome is, treatments are treatments. I have no hope for a particular outcome. It’s just bad science. And I might argue bad faith science.

Potential biases: for instance in Brazil there is a very high level of prior Covid infections. What I’d previously infected people were more likely to opt in to treatment bc they are more afraid of reinfection, and the result came from reduction due to prior immunity?
What if people that took the Medecine behaved differently than non-takers?