skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please help correct it for the record.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and experts need to debate each other openly, and be willing to be shown as wrong.

Hard in real life, I guess.
Influenza is not a coronavirus. There is no cross-immunity.

My guess is that the reason why we've seen a drop in cases of Flu during the Covid pandemic is strictly related to lockdowns and Flu being less infectious than Covid. In other words, the lockdowns were very effective against Flu.
Count me with the "more healthy" crowd. Work from home has made it much easier to keep a healthy lifestyle. Eating at home with food I cook. No time commuting to work. No temptation to go out to some restaurant for tasty, but horrible for me, food and a couple of cocktails.

I have a good deal of empathy for those who don't get to work from home, but I'm the opposite of "healthy habits got worse."
Creating a Zelda style game in Python [with some Dark Souls elements]
There's a newer post on medium by her which mentions the AirTag [0]. Sorry I didn't spot that myself when I linked to the older medium post in an earlier comment.

[0] https://lilithwittmann.medium.com/bundesservice-telekommunik...
A year or two ago I bought my nephew a chess board/game and since then I've been struggling figuring out how I can teach him the game effectively. He seems to prefer playing on ipad/phone because he can see the legal moves.

I'm going to use these mini games the next time we play to help him learn the piece movements a litle better. This is great!
I’ve worked there and I can confirm that the customer service was very impressive and able to deal with particularly gnarly problems, in so many languages and cultures. It was a very large part of the company. It was under-utilised to understand customers’ concerns. There was some effort to include them: dedicated product org, include impact on CS metrics in A/B test results, but it often felt like the ugly duckling.

I was thinking or re-investing since the pandemic looked like slowing down and travel stock migth take over but that move tells me unequivocally not to bother.
How many people might respond positively to a text message like this: “There’s a Covid vaccine appointment available today at 2:30, at 123 West 2nd St. Free cookie and drink. Reply YES in the next 10 minutes to sign up.”
some day I'll share my war stories with oracle and rac. definitely on par with this story.

that said, I'd still much rather spend my days inside Postgres than inside oracle.
I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
I wasn't aware of either of those books. I was referring to the book by Forrest M. Mins III which was sold in Radio Shack stores.

Bummer. I would have really enjoyed either of those. The Mims book didn't even cover interrupts...
I’ve also tried many products to replace Trello and finally settled with Taiga. It doesn’t look complex, and the UI is great too. The only missing bits I find are native mobile apps.
Similar to me. I am (was?) a healthy mid-fifties life-long cyclist and the first dose (Moderna) caused 10+% PVCs that I'm now on beta blockers to try and manage. Both my doctor and now cardiologist have advised me against receiving the second shot.
Get off your high horse.

This is a long term international effort where irrelevant Western countries in the peripheries (that’s the EU) have nibbled away at encryption protections to make it easier for the US to do the same. It’s part of a two decades long effort by Western elites to correct their mistakes from the nineties - namely loosening the noose on information and privacy.

Australia, France, UK all have draconian laws that would cause outrage (or are outright unconstitutional) in the US. The only data protection the EU has is because fussy Eurocrats are annoyed that the US (and not them) get to syphon all of European’s data.

The US is really flawed, but I wouldn't move back to the EU for double my family’s income.
> they shouldn't be build anywhere near areas where people live

Surely, that societies have a clear idea that noise pollution must be a concern would be duly and civilized -

but, that territory impairing infrastructure is placed in the few quiet places remaining, is a special kind of madness in itself.

Also considering that urban areas in many territories already are a huge compromise in terms of quiet, so you will want to keep the few unpolluted places remaining as a reserve...
Learning Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata
That smooth Slack huddle music
Added now. Thanks for the heads up!
This was also my experience. Never needed to call Customer Service and didn't know they had a functional one.
I’m in the high power rocketry hobby. I want to get to the karman line. This year I’m on track to reach 130k feet which is about 1/3 the way there.

There’s no making money or early retirement possibility with this hobby nor fame and glory. Just something cool, so if i do it that’s awesome but if not it’s still fun trying.
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/technology/airtags-gps-su...
Everybody agrees that OOP was killed by getters and setters. But I don't think that there is much consensus about how long it would have survived without.

(I'm not saying that OOP doesn't have its place, but it has clearly turned from a way of structuring code to universally strive for into something to avoid if possible)
This poll does not account for the users that believe dang is a lizard but did not know that HN allows you make polls.
I bet not 5% of business leaders would have the audacity to make that jump right after crushing blockbuster. It really is one of the great self-disruption business stories.
Ok maybe I was being overly hyperbolic before, but the facts here are clear:

The CCP used people in Australia to get close to, and pay off, politicians who they thought would be inclined to favor their cause. Every single one of them belonged to the Labor party. I don't think anyone can call this spin, and I don't think any honest person would doubt that the media would be going absolutely bananas right now if all these people were Liberal party. Hell, they even tried to smear a Liberal party politician as a Chinese spy simply because she was a member of an overseas student club, that is how low they would sink.

As for Stan Grant, he has been approached multiple times by both the National party and Liberal party to run for parliament with them. He was then put into the ABC by Ida Buttrose after she came to the ABC with express goal of evening out the extreme left wing bias at the ABC. His purpose at being at the ABC is literally to give a different perspective to their usual stuff.

As for the ABC and Guardian, they are constantly pushing their audience to believe that democracy is deeply flawed. They are also constantly talking about what an amazing economic system China has and that their model is the way of the future. The only reason they are anti CCP in particular is because the entire word-wide left turned anti-China back in January 2019 overnight.
I’ve seen increasing numbers of people who are triggered by capitalism.
Maybe Texas should be more like California, which banned same-sex marriage repeatedly through both popular votes of the public (Proposition 8) and its legislature (Proposition 22).

People in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses.
I have already takes 3 doses. These studies are insufficient and have to be conducted long term. It is about isolating the effects of the components. I don't think it is disputed that the vaccines did not have the expected safety profile. Further research will give us a clearer answers.
I'm not sure it's either one but I got a headache watching those videos so... Thanks!
> you don't seem to be the target audience

You are missing the point.

They are not the target audience, but they are affected negatively by it regardless. It's for Apple users at the expense of everyone else.

The criticism is not about the individual utility of airtags, it's about how it creates a privacy issue for everyone who is not an Apple user.
Different strains of Covid compete with each other because antibodies that block one version are very effective at blocking another. If you've recently had Omicron, your body is well prepared to fight off Delta.

If you've already had the flu, your body might have some level of preparedness against a Covid variant, but it's nowhere near the same level. Plenty of people who died from Covid had already experienced the flu at some point in their life. Covid variants compete with each other far more than they do with flu variants.
Baserow might be interesting.
If you want to get back into it IL2: Sturmovik is great for online play and even has stellar VR support.
Covid is caused by a "corona virus".

The Flu is caused by the "influenza virus".

So even though they are both contagious respiratory illnesses, they are caused by completely different viruses.

The reason we've seen far fewer influenza cases these past 2 years isn't related to the 2 viruses out competing eachother.

It's much more likely that the pandemic measures we've had in place, over most of the world, like social distancing, mask wearing, lockdowns, closed borders, etc., has had a greater impact on the flu, because it isn't as contagious as covid.

When we remove the pandemic measures, we're probably going to see the usual flu numbers again.

Maybe even worse than normal, for the first couple of seasons. Since we haven't been as exposed to the flu for 2 years.
BEAM is not fast. You're probably going to get better performance with Node.js. It is however really really low-latency. But that doesn't help with handling load. Anyway, even so I'd guess bandwidth or the database is the issue.
Other commenters (rightly) pointed out this is a stretch to the term "habitable".

What's becoming clear though is the only thing stopping us from lots of Earth-mass planets is the abilities of our detectors to detect ever-smaller gravitational wobbles and ever-smaller transits. Bear in mind we only tend to find planets around stars where we're on their ecliptic planes.

So planets seem to be really common. If they weren't the odds of finding planetary systems on our nearest stellar neighbour would be quite low.

But the distances are still so vast that the energy expenditure and timelines are completely impractical (if you assume the speed of light of a hard cosmic limit, which I do).

So if planets are common and interstellar travel is impractical, the only way to expand really is around your own star. This is the Dyson Swarm. This would actually solve the energy issue of interstellar travel (ie"stellar highways") so it's almost a prerequisite. Thing is, Dyson Swarms are likely detectable from vast distances due to their IR emissions (ie the only way to get rid of heat is to radiate it into space and that has a specific frequency depending on the temperature of the radiating object).

But if planets are really common and we don't see any Dyson Swarms it seems that spacefaring life is extremely rare and the most likely number of such civilizations in the Milky Way is 1 including us.
A better fusion of audio and visuals for live shows: http://www.planmixplay.com

Examples of usage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-40ITVSRBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J1hhTWgCXM
Right now you’re being bathed in microwaves and, indeed, “any frequency the electromagnetic spectrum has on offer.” Dose is everything.
> The employee says he's french, so either he didn't have a french work contract, or what he is saying is untrue.

Most likely he is employeed in Amsterdam, where Dutch law applies. There’s local contract (for sales) but CS are concentrated in Amsterdam.
can anyone explain
"CloudFlare supports targeted harassment"?
> I wasn't the one who signed up for a Microsoft account using my email address! How did they let that happen? Have they no validation on email addresses, but want blood work to recover an account?

Speaking as the owner of a popular-ish domain that people enter as a fake email, Microsoft is better than most. They have a footer link to remove the email address from the account. Most services have nothing of the sort

E.g.: If you don't recognize the Microsoft account ***@outlook.com, you can click here to remove your email address from that account.
Yeah, but it is a shame that the rest is closed source. This game could seriously benefit from community contributions and/or from a fork. There is a really strange issue that occurs when the map is far too big; the ground shakes uncontrollably. Given how simplistic the game looks, you'd expect maps to be able to get really big without much of an issue, yet we have bugs like these...

I do remember there being a server plugin of sorts that somehow managed to do things like darken the sky as your aircraft climbed. Can't remember what that was called.
TurboTax and their ilk.

Tax software is fucking evil and by having a FOSS version of it we could remove a huge lobbyist by driving them out of business which will then simplify tax filing for everyone.
As far as I can tell from a quick heuristic perusal, the "Generalization Beyond Overfitting" paper reports "generalisation" _on the validation set_. That's not particularly impressive and it's not particularly "generalisation" either.

Actually, I really don't grokk this (if I may). I often see deep learning work reporting generalisation on the validation set. What's up with that? Why is generalisation on the validation set more interesting than on the test set, let alone OOD data?
How to know if you’re addicted
Now they seem to be mostly Java, let them continue their job...
Booking Holdings is the Nasdaq-listed corporation that was originally called Priceline.com Incorporated, when it was formed and listed in the late 90s. It acquired Booking.com in 2005, but renamed the whole corporation to Booking Holdings in 2018, I gather as Booking.com had become such a dominant part of the business.

That said, this post seems to pertain to the Booking.com business (which is still a somewhat independent division, as are all the properties/brands in the group), rather than the entire Booking Holdings corporation.
A genetic difference affects the likelihood of severe Covid-19 infection
According to Steve Kirsch the medical fraud is so omnipresent even the researchers he directly funded were guilty of it because their data stubbornly disagreed with him about the cures he wanted to find!
What is the neuroscience research upon which the techniques are based? Do you have any paper or book references? It could be insightful for a visitor to the site to be given more context.
You can use Backblaze B2 with Cloudflare in front in the mean time.
TacticalRMM... MeshCetral plus a lot of Django

https://github.com/wh1te909/tacticalrmm
Well, FSVO "disaster". Wood is biodegradable, and a house made entirely out of wood (say a log cabin) might last only 50 years, but that's plenty of time on human scales of habitability.
Defcon Transparency Report Update
> Regarding context managers I would need to come back to this post, as I don’t think IDisposable is capable of solving the same use cases, but it’s not on top of my mind as to why.

I'm definitely not as fluent in python as I am in c#, but don't context managers just allow you to define an __enter__ and __exit__ methods that are called when a `with` block begins and ends, respectively? That closely aligns to defining a constructor and .close() method on an IDisposable class, then creating an instance with a `using` statement.
Thank you for the feedback! We're working on improving the playground and I hope those issues will be a thing of the past soon.
I saw your other posts on the teamblind thread and wanted to ask a question about the compensation breakdown when it comes to negotiating a large salary like yours. But the reply feature is already locked there, so I thought I'd ask here. Can you please share what is your base/bonus/stock split, what you asked for, what they offered and how you negotiated?
> ... overwatch on the Moon.

I'm pretty sure not even that.
List of words known better by UK people than U.S. people, and vice versa
China data (if possible to obtained) could be used as a datapoint, as a country that is highly vaccinated but not with MRNA vaccines.
We at TogetherDB have SQL bookmarks as well and will Open Source in Q2 this year!
The redesign was for showing more ads, not for users to enjoy and want to come back
I think you may be misunderstanding GP's clarity around the intended scope of the project with a lack of enthusiasm about maintaining the project.

Homebrew is critical infrastructure, which is exactly why it shouldn't change dramatically.

Now, if GP has lost interest in the project, or doesn't have the time to keep it running satisfactorily, I'd definitely agree with you - but I didn't get that impression from his post.
> I suppose they could all be lying.

It is what they're known for...

> I've had a letter I wrote to my local MP passed all the way up to central government and received a reply from them. Later, I actually met someone who mentioned a "certain letter" they had to deal with... Which turned out to be the one I'd written!

I can see that as being useful to keep the urban legend alive. What I'd like to see is statistical evidence but I'm thinking that might not be available.
These blocks are supposed to be rare, so a more verbose keyword isn't a problem. It would be better to be precise here and avoid a concept so general as safety.
The best thing we could do for space exploration is to figure out terrestrial fusion.
The reality is both. We have largely focused on mitigating COVID deaths but we need to address the devastation caused from anti-COVID measures because despite it being largely underreported and understated, the impact is there and we all feel and see it.
Toggl Time tracker
>forEach emphasizes you are operating on each element of the loop in a semi-independent fashion and you explicitly don't have access to any kind of intermediary index/iterator variable.

I disagree with this point, specifically for JavaScript the for...of syntax is more pleasant to read and also does not infer that any index access is gonna be done. And as a plus, it is easier to be used with async/await.
Similarly, I've been working on a faster interpreter for Python, making more tradeoffs than the existing alternatives do (e.g. no C ABI compatibility, no eval/exec, etc; but usable auto-migration for real-world projects) and achieving more performance. By now I've learned to ditch parser generators and I usually copy-paste-alter my own derivative-assisted (https://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf) bottom-up chart parser.

It also makes a hell of a lot of use of 'continuous program optimisation' for performance, which I think should be in wider use. In general, the principle of adapting optimisations for the specific program seems to get neglected in favour of treating every program as though it were the lowest common denominator. (Say, maybe you need a top-down parser for your LSP server, but you can use a bottom-up parser for your compiler.)

I have a deep philosophical belief in eliminating wasteful computation – I think we as software engineers have a responsibility not to waste energy, in excess of the logical minimum required by the job at hand – so I have more of an interest in this than the bulk of programmers, who seem to regard performance engineering as some sort of nerd game that's rarely advisable.
It still can never be sustainable since the work needed is arbitrary. Any other mechanism to release more coins would work to. There is no real value extracted from solving the mathematical challenge for Bitcoin.
Why does marginalia.nu use Cloudflare? Have you been hit by DDOSs? I can't think how a search engine would benefit from Cloudflare caching things.
I once booked the worst hotel room on earth via booking.com - I spare you the details, but when I picked the lowest rating on every single scale on the booking.com feedback form, the resulting score was something like ~3.5 out of 10 – instead of 0 points! So, whenever you're looking for a a place on booking.com, keep in mind that the places are rated on a scale from 3.5 to 10, not 0 to 10.
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https://www.3d-beats.com

Depth-camera powered MIDI drum kit. This has been my labor of love for the last several years. The current iteration runs on randomized decision forests trained to identify pixels as different parts of the hand.
When you fund a channel, the Bitcoin is still yours, you're not giving it away.

With batched channel open/closes, it'll be super cheap to open and close channels. The only cost you'd pay is the opportunity cost if your counterparty isn't sending transactions, so you're not collecting routing fees. If that's the case, you can just close the channel if you need to fund another channel and don't have spare Bitcoin for it, but that's about it.
Author, Soji Yamakawa[0], is not only active demoscene performer (few times winner of Demosplash Party) but also is a big fan of Fujitsu FM TOWNS[1] — in last few years he did an open-source emulator, "Tsugaru"[2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=in.coocan.jp

[1] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/FM/e.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269460
The Biggest NFT Video Game's Economy Is Collapsing
>I don't really see this as moral relativism at all? It's maybe a kind of psychological relativism, a la nature vs. nurture

These things all overlap, depending on what you are trying to emphasize. So it can be both. If you say it's psychological relativism, nature vs. nurture, whatever else I think there are senses in which those can all be true.

I think a pattern I'm seeing here, though, is to say that whatever is at stake in questions of advertising, surely it isn't moral. But morality isn't just trolley problems, it's everyday choices too. It's getting people to eat Dominos, getting people to smoke, getting people to accept credit cards with low introductory rates, it's getting people to pay more for Medicare advantage plans.

>This is (maybe a bit ironically) sort of inline with Buddhist views of self. Though I don't think you have to go as far as saying that the self is an _illusion_ to at least acknowledge that the self isn't immutable.

I think that's very commendable and good!

>And there, yes, I'm definitely skeptical of the idea that we have "true" underlying desires/preferences/values as opposed to "false"/influenced ones.

But you're also claiming there are definitely desires that are worse to have than others? And smoking (which is advertised!) is an example.
Can you please explicate your last point?

I don't know about first two but S3 or CloudFront is from Amazon which certainly have too many blemishes. Also, AFAIK Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider so, I wonder why would ethics come here.

Are we going to blame Google for making a browser that is used for hundreds of immoral things?

The only reason I think one will disdain over Cloudflare is due to monopoly. And, many argue they do some DDOS attack, but I have never seen any modicum of evidence.