skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wait, this suggests that Canada and Australia are highly misreporting, but Russia isn't? I thought it was well established that Russia's count was very, very off. This would imply that this model doesn't work very well.

Ontario officially admitted they inflated numbers significantly early in the pandemic because we didn't fit the global trends. The numbers were fudged by over 50%.

We also had the problem of Fauci chastising Ontario for running PCR cycles far too high causing significant false positives. This actually accounts for the significant portion of 'symptomless spreader' having not actually been covid but rather just false positives.

Vaccination numbers were also impossibly high. We had a shortage of vaccines available and it was reported ~80% of the population had 1 shot when nobody under 40 could have the shot without some high risk diseases. The numbers were either false or Ontario is far worse off than official numbers allow in terms of aging population and illness. The assumption is that Ontario also misreported how many people were vaccinated. The actual real numbers seem to be much more in line with the USA, at that time period it was most likely more like 30-40%.

The next problem is the misrpresentation of covid being the problem. How many people go to the hospital for not-covid and get tested but test positive. They aren't there for covid but they are represented as being there for only covid. Which is not right.
4 years as a React Native OSS maintainer: a retrospective
Here you go: https://qubes-os.org
Kept Bagram air base until the evacuation was complete for starters.

Not droning innocent civilians and then fibbing on the way out would have been nice as well.

Maybe not left so much heavy equipment and arms?
I recently discovered https://excalidraw.com/ for informal diagrams that work well in presentations
I think they mean “western” animation typically records the voices first and then animates to them, where anime records the voices after the animation is complete. But I’m not familiar with either production practice, so this is just a guess.
> Same can be said about slaves. What conclusion should I draw?

Well damn, I guess breathing is in question since slaves can breath. /s

Honestly, I'm not sure the point you're trying to make with this.

> [Modern travel is] incredibly geared towards empty experiences. However, I believe this is because people only have a few days to travel. What irks me is seeing "43 countries visited!" because, as you allude to, it is a vanity number. It takes months to fully immerse oneself in a culture or even be invited into local life.

Maybe that's true, perhaps for many. To an extent I think it also is caused by a homogenization of global culture. In my case, it's that and the fact that once you've seen enough cities, enough forests, enough museums, enough shows, and eaten enough food... it all blends together and, after 30+ years of being on earth, as much as I cherish the existence of all of it, I don't necessarily find value in continually experiencing it all in order to cross them off the list of things to do. With the way so many of us are broadcasting our lives, we create this FOMO around travel that creates an illusion that we haven't truly lived unless we've been to all the major cities and historical ruins.

But yes, it's hard to live in the moment when you know you only have a handful of days to do what you want to do before you need to be back in the office, and the clock is ticking. Someone the other day was talking about the effect that meetings have on one's workday where, if the meeting is timed in the morning, you're less likely to get anything done before that meeting because the mind is anticipating having to switch gears for the meeting. If travel can only be done in a few days, the mind has to handle anticipating the travel and anticipating having to go back to work.
1. XState is open-source and MIT-licensed: https://github.com/statelyai/xstate, as well as the extension https://github.com/statelyai/xstate-vscode and various other tooling. The editor is closed-source.

2. Really good example – yes, the Stately editor is intended to be the tool for that! Whether it's just diagramming, in the same way you would use any other diagramming tool, to going even further and simulating those diagrams or even using them directly in your code, the editor is meant to be a tool for making executable diagrams where you can also document and share complex logic.
In any case, SpaceX signed a 20-year lease in April 2014:

https://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/april/nasa-signs-agreement-w...
It's NOT his brain. The article is 100% wrong.

Read the Nature article linked at one of top comments. It is also mentioned in every interview the researchers gave recently. The muscles are controlled with the software only, the brain doesn't participate at all.

"... the first implant specifically designed to control movement by mimicking the signals the lower body usually receives from the brain and upper spinal cord."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00367-1
Imagine if DIsney+ allows access to 65,000,000 assets from Disney Animation's nearly hundred-year history...
>A man named Bruce won some medals

This is exactly what I said, so I guess I don't understand the argument.
Don’t Over-Complicate Things
Our first cable TV "remote" was freaking amazing. Similar to this one:

https://www.nj.com/parenting/guest_bloggers/2011/09/the_thin...

Freaking incredible. You could physically switch to any station instantly.

punch a button and the new station would immediately start playing

The digital-enhanced FM stuff in cars now, like what's being referenced in the article, isn't laggy in my experience. Not quite as instant as a full analog radio, but it's as snappy as any other digital FM tuner dating back to the dawn of digital FM tuners in the 1970s or whatever.

The FM signal is still analog; there's just some digital metadata embedded in it that receivers can optionally demodulate. In my experience the audio starts playing immediately and then the digital metadata (track name, thumbnail) pops up a bit later. So you can still flip through stations with little perceptible lag.

FWIW, I'm the type of guy who keeps CRTs around for his retro systems because he enjoys true zero-lag gaming.
And more info from the Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/thanks-to-a-glitch...
> At some point a manufacturer will get wise and start selling manual controls as an upgrade.

Will they really?

Most consumers invest very little effort in researching most of their purchases, and are remarkably tolerant to specific kinds of annoyances. I wish that they invested more effort, but based on my observations of my friends and family (who will spend e.g. about 20 minutes researching their $600 phone purchase), they won't, with a few outliers.

An imperfect comparison might be the amount of effort that the average techie spends on purchasing a MicroSD card or USB drive (usually on Amazon). How many people, even programmers, will spend time looking for durability or third-party performance benchmarking numbers? How many will look for child/slave labor in the manufacturing of the device, or rare earth materials sourced from areas in conflict?

I, personally, know that I should do the above, but I don't - partially because Google is so incredibly bad at finding the information, but also because I know that because most other people don't care, a lot of the above information might not exist at all.
A little ray of sunshine this morning. I'm not a physicist and have no idea how close this technology is to powering our electric grids, but it seems like humanity's best chance for a carbon-free future.
Dubbed means the actors say the lines while watching the characters lips move. The Disney way is exactly the opposite. The animators animate while charting and studying the audio.
That makes sense, but it's a problem when the formatter makes a rather opinionated choice and doesn't allow one to configure it. The primary example I'm thinking of in Elixir is comments for pipelines.

For example, if I use the pipe example on Elixir's landing page and add comments to it (obviously a contrived example):

"Elixir" # string to get frequencies for
|> String.graphemes() # Get all graphemes (i.e., character units)
|> Enum.frequencies() # Get the number of occurrences of each grapheme

This gets formatted by the Elixir formatter to:

# string to get frequencies for
"Elixir"
# Get all graphemes (i.e., character units)
|> String.graphemes()
# Get the number of occurrences of each grapheme
|> Enum.frequencies()

This is a rather strongly opinionated format stance, and as far as I know, it's not configurable.
Grantham has been predicting crashes for 10 years, so I'd say nothing in the last 22 months is relevant to his take.
> Name a single fusion plant that has been running uninterrupted for years.

Minutes, even. Perhaps you meant fission?
https://archive.fo/FriRd

«It all started with flaking paint on an Airbus A350 aircraft. The airline, the biggest buyer of Airbus’s most advanced model, which has a list price of more than $300 million, noticed the deterioration on a plane due to get a new livery in late 2020. Airbus recommended the jet be sent to its main facility in Toulouse, France, for further investigation, while maintaining that the model was safe to fly.» Later, «Other airlines, including Finnair Oyj, have noticed the paint issue, though none has stopped flying the A350. A Finnair spokeswoman described the problem as “cosmetic only” and said in an email it was addressed in connection with routine maintenance. The oldest A350 aircraft in Finnair’s fleet have been more affected, and the paint technology has advanced for newer models, she says.»
The cookie warning as irritatingly implemented is a bit of false-flagging by people who make their money from adtech surveillance. They intentionally make the experience suck as much as possible, then point at the law and say "talk to the government, they're making us do this" when challenged.
Not necessarily. Secondly, banks and money lending are immoral and predatory. Usury is prohibited in the three major religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), so we're better off without this dangerous practice. It goes hand in hand with fiat money by the way, the government is taking loans from the Fed, which is why it keeps needing to print more and more money to fuel it. The sooner we get rid of money lending as a business, the better.

On a side note, Islam requires a 2.5% Zakat from money hoarded in your account, to be donated to charity, so there's your solution against hoarding :) We don't need the government to fake print money to prevent people from hoarding. Better that money go into charity to truly have a more equitable society, as opposed to the fake and useless proposals we keep seeing and pitting parties against each other.
Show HN: Sync your dotfiles into a private GitHub gist
A bash script that syncs a list of local files that you define, into a secret gist, that you own.
Your description made me wonder if it would be possible to make an ICE to extract the power. I then found a paper called Fusion Internal Combustion Engine from 2010 [0]. Does anyone know if there was any merit to this idea and if anything else has come of it since?

0: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215544178_Fusion_In...
Fragmentation is a serious issue for everybody.

With XFS, I can xfs_fsr to undo it. With Btrfs, I can fi defrag to undo it.

With ZFS, reformat the disk. I'm not comfortable with that.

https://tim.cexx.org/?p=1236

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_sum...
Fun facts about AppVTerminator.dll used in the exploit: https://gist.github.com/EvanMcBroom/ac2b9084bf3c84939efcb9c8...
other poster described clamping with is right.

But yep, any 256-bit string is good.
Other replies already explained how this is orthoginal to IP addressing, but also there's not many virtuous virtuous things and many downsides about using ambiguous addresses your server to server communications. Also invariably you'll eventually end up networking them in a new way you didn't originally plan. It ends up being bad for security because it breeds unneeded complexity and makes your system harder to understand.
Yes

https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20701
Yeah this here's a good post by j cranberry.

At the end of the day, humans and animals are both part of a cycle of nutrient use and recycling those nutrients from waste, be that human waste or animal waste, is a way to cut down on synthetic fertilizer use.

Some bits from the USA [0] [1] [2] that y'all might find informative. Important part is that manure comes in different varieties and it's not all a 1:1 replacement for synthetics in the way farmers use them today.

Also of note is that, just like in Germany, parts of the USA that concentrate livestock have too much bull shit and that's bad for runoff from the livestock operations. But that's the expected result, ain't it? Concentrating feed from fields all over means you're concentrating what comes out of the animal also, which means you need to truck it off somewhere or end up with a local pollution problem.

One other upside of pursuing human waste streams is that we already have a lot of infrastructure in place to process human sewage. Have a look at [3] right here and you'll see the potential— but that's still less than half the phosphorous that Europe uses in the present day. Good news is that cutting back on fertilizer input doesn't result in a 1:1 linear reduction in cereal yields so a reduction in fertilizer availability (after the phosphates get mined out) doesn't necessarily lead to a bad famine.

These are complex systems here and there's no one-size-to-fit-them-all type solution.

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/42731/16741_ap...

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/42731/16744_ap...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-07/documents...

[3] https://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/phos4you-pho...
HN on politics is not HN on tech sadly. The discourse around the George Floyd murder was really horrid at times
Changing your diet could add up to 13 years to your life, study says
> "59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy" means a single burst produced that much.

In what sense is that "sustained"? A typical power plant produces that much energy in less than a second on a continuous (i.e. sustained) basis. Producing 59 megajoules once is basically a joke. It is analogous to detonating a pipe bomb (at a cost of several billion dollars) and claiming that as significant progress towards an internal combustion engine.
> they are just not very security minded (or knowledgeable)

I argue that they are definitely knowledgeable and capable of security. The nuance is they care about their own security, not the users'.

Case in point: Their MacOS installer abuses the pre-installation step to fake a System prompt to obtain root, very much like malware. Before you actually click install, it's already done [1].

In this case it was merely a shortcut to reduce the number of clicks to install, but it clearly betrays their disregard for user control & security.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/zoom-mac-one-click-i...

* SEO Bonus: I couldn't find this article on Google no matter what I queried for. But DuckDuckGo found it on my first attempt.

Guess abusing SEO to hide negative press is among their tactics as well.
You realize that many breakthrough technologies have been created at war time, or during a military (or space) race?

Besides, it makes sense to not depend on resources controlled by your enemy.
> Lack of proper support for PWAs

As always: what is "proper support" as there's literally no such thing as a PWA standard. There are dozens (if not more) standards that everyone picks and choses from to call their own selection "the one true PWA standard".

And the "no proper support" usually boils down to "no push notifications".
Hah, yes, I get hyperbolic. But I did not mean to say that one shouldn't want or enjoy modern conveniences on their travels. When I travel, I always like to make sure my lodging is nearby a convenience store like 7-Eleven. If there's a 7-Eleven, I'm there! lol It's not always possible, but in no way am I saying that the only real travel experience is staying in a grass hut in the heart of Africa.
Reload4j 1.2.19: A drop-in replacement for Log4j 1.2.17 and CVE fixes
It’s too bad the manufacturers don’t just make APIs with swappable standard sized hardware instead of integrated systems.

An average car lasts 12 years. How many 12 year old tablets do people want to use?

My first car was a 15 year old beater with a tape deck. It was trivial to rip it out and put in an (at the time current) CD player. I pity the poor kids who are going to be stuck with these cars down the road.
If the goal is to avoid a mono-culture (as called out by the OP of this thread), then switching to Firefox is perfectly acceptable - perhaps even better than switching to Safari. You've got my encouragement to do so.
I wouldn't be so certain it's not happening "anytime soon".

They speculated about one way to break it. There could be several ways of using QC to break EC.

What is the chance that at least one of those other ways require, say only 1,000 qubits?

Oops, it's a two year time frame now. It might be a small chance, but I don't think we can discard it. Better plan for the worse.
Thanks for the tips! I had not read that about serotonin release.

I'll add riboflavin to the list of things to play around with, along with levomefolic acid as recommended by the author of this comment here, who also mentioned serotonin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27990331

Might try this cyproheptadine/periactin too.
Marketing. Unless you have receipts in hand Intel is not giving out money. They selectively choose specific institutions of where they draw from a pool of some graduates.

The problem we find ourselves in is that we have no competition. If Intel is the only one funding, at very specific institutions, for their own gain, that's not competition. You need competition to innovate. You need a lot of money and equipment to learn. Intel is not putting that in the hands of any institution they don't control.

I'm saying that you can't make a startup for chips out of nowhere like you can software startups. We have to have the underlying education first. The U.S. does not have this, and continues to fall over itself because tech companies have significant Democrat control that won't tax them.
In nearby systems, at 5, 6 or 7 the pupils are (were?) to write some short paragraphs, even disconnected, about a topic; from there on, pages of well connected thoughts.

> be it in math, French or others, kids just need to "fill in the blanks" or worse, check-boxes

This is absolutely criminal in many ways: they will not get scholarized with that. In math, we had to show that we can find a solution and show the steps; in language, you have to exercise sound thought; in notions, you have to show not just that you have them, but that you can use them. The problems with citizens wasting parts of their formative years will be socially massive.

It's not about having the answers, it's about developing the skills... The answers /may/ reveal the skills.
Seems like an opportunity to build one ;-)

The neat thing about simple tools is that they're often relatively simple to build.
This has been submitted many times before (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lamar.edu ) but I'm upvoting it now, because some fortunate soul(s) may be part of today's lucky 10,000[1] and see this for the first time.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Friend of mine in the commercial real-estate sector said that Pelton was recently working on leasing space in airport terminals to set up workout rooms.

Really? Like a business traveler with 90 minutes to kill at JFK was going to swap clothes and do a 45 minute spin class?

Maybe it was just a branding/prestige thing. But it seemed really out of place for their business model.
I thought twitter was OK as a link sharing site. But the idea that people would try and fit their entire message in to a a few words was just crazy to me. Literraly limiting the ideas you can communicate to those which fit in to a sentence or two.
How about "security patch/fix/update"?
Yup. Say what you want about Teams and Meet, but at lease they run in the browser, and relatively well, for my use cases anyway.
Ugh. As a non-American I have not heard a positive thing about American Education in any kind of media at all. There always seem to be a dozen problems with American colleges at all times yet so many flock there for higher education (mainly for Masters).
Interesting that Google return 0 result for CloudpilotEmu while Bing can do that
> And you think that crypto has no fees, that it can't be taxed, and that children can't get it?

I think that companies rolling their own (or adopting low fee ones) can mitigate all this - along with making these problems other people problems (capital gains -> you, KYC -> exchanges!)

Oh, and BTW:

> that it can't be taxed

It's interesting you're shoving these words in my mouth :)

I guess it goes with the usual irrational crypto hate that often flies here... but FWIW, I think reddit may be more concerned with the legal implications of paying cash (W9, and OMG the paperwork, accounting etc.)

Imagine how much worse it would be for reddit at scale (friction!)

About taxes, for a coin, it's up to the individual to declare what they did with that they received, or the parents of said individual :)

Then no need to bother with age checks or expose yourself to potentially thorny contractual or PR issues (ex: parents monetizing their kids' videos on youtube)

Your hate for all things crypto may prevent you from noticing the huge opportunities that await given the various problems it solves, and which may be all that's needed to create the missing market here.
Comparison of Encrypted Raid on Debian GNU/Linux
> Allow me to twiddle the brim of my shiny aluminum hat here and ask objectively one more nagging question, was there any possible benefit to misreporting this data? What resources and opportunities did that afford at the time?

Hospitals were/still are getting subsidies for every covid patient treated. There is a financial incentive to inflating the covid numbers. Couple that with COVID resembling the regular old flu in many cases and you get inflated numbers.

IMO the idea peddled around last year that the regular flu just took a year off while covid was emerging will go down as one of the more egregious examples of
cherry picking data in the covid era.
> Here is the real test for you: “have you seen any major institutions fail, implode or go under?” If not, we aren’t in trouble yet.

Everybody can see danger if there's a red flashing "DANGER" sign blaring.

The point is to be ready before you see that flashing sign and not get caught up in a mad scramble.

We're seeing the danger signs: inflating currency and families paying far more for living expenses.

Heed the warnings or not, but they exist.
Why Is Paxos Hard?
If so then it's impossible to advance, which would be annoying.

What's needed is people who know the subject matter and are experts at running large companies.

SpaceX turned rockets into a production line, experimented, blew a load up, and then fixed the problems with landing. But that's productising last year's thing, not inventing a new possibly impossible thing. Interesting to see how Starship goes.

Need a leader to stay: you do x, you do y, not a committee where every country gets to make one of the 12 magnets because they're a primary school and everything has to be "fair"