skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"More than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the United States each day for the past month"

This is 2 weeks old and already out of date. Numbers are in freefall. It's now at 1,357. And cases have dropped sharply and consistently for a few weeks which means the (lagging) drop in deaths will continue for a few weeks.
You can use DuckDNS through DNSOMatic. That's in many routers. That's what I do
Thanks for your insights, that's really interesting. Also, if you are putting the same amount of attention to detail and focus on pragmatism over beauty that Zoho Mail uses, I think you'll kill it. I'm by no means dogging on Zoho Mail, I think it's good looking. But the reason I love it is that it's loaded with features/settings, and it's done in a way that is intuitive and highly usable.

No connection to Zoho other than being a happy mail customer
Interesting thing about the term "nonce"... that etymology is not entirely accurate. It's not quite a false etymology, but it is a sort of a "backronym" kinda thing.

In linguistics, the term "nonce word" describes a term invented for a specific occasion/purpose where you have a need for a term that isn't met by existing language: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word

So the cryptographic term "nonce" was a reference to the existing linguistic terminology, which IIRC goes back pretty far, maybe into Old English.

I don't know exactly when/how the "number once" thing came about, but it's definitely become a valid definition in its own right... And a very useful mnemonic, as you pointed out.
> Ukraine citizens use the internet to communicate and evade the Russian Military while Russian citizens using it to play league.

I don't know about where you got this from, but my father (who currently lives in Russia) uses internet to communicate with me (I live in the US) and to consume news and information about the war outside of the Russian government propaganda.

Thanks to internet still being generally available there, I didn't need to spend any time trying to drop all that info on him myself, as he already came into the call fully aware of all Zelenskyy speeches and other atrocities Russian government is committing during this invasion. And thanks to internet again, he gave me a perspective on the amount of brainwashing going on in Russian media regarding the situation right now, as well as first hand boots-on-the-ground info regarding protests in major Russian cities right now. I am extremely glad for that, as my other side of the family (the one I don't communicate with) has completely fallen for Putin's propaganda, but that's on them given that internet is still accessible. I wouldn't be able to stand to lose my father to this, and I believe that with no internet access there would have been much less choice in the matter.

Want to cut off access to Russian governmental portals and cripple network capabilities of Russian government/military systems? I am all for it. Want to cut off access to some specific internet resources that might directly assist Russian military with the invasion (e.g., certain Google Maps features and such)? Also fully on board with this.

But I am extremely against cutting off general internet access for russian population en masse, as that's their only window into the reality that isn't Putin's propaganda machine. For once, internet is also used by Russians to communicate with their friends/relatives in Ukraine (and in the west in general) who can give them a direct view into the atrocities happening there and slowly sway the general population.

P.S. a silly nitpick, but you must be getting some really strange info, if you think that League was ever even nearly as popular in Russia as Dota/Counter-Strike.
On average, I'd say about 7 hours.

It depends on how you view "work" though. I'm a senior developer so most of my time is not spent coding.

Some of my time is spent doing support via emails, chats, remote desktop, or phone calls. I also write detailed status emails.

At least a hour a day or more is spent on the product's bug database, opening new bugs, going over new bugs users have opened, closing old ones, or updating the status of existing ones.

Some of my time is spent helping my team with tough deadlock debugging problems, or looking together on a dump from a customer machine, trying to find the fix, or helping them find the correct function for what they want to do. Or helping them with git, or with weird issues on their machine in general. Just yesterday an update by the IT dept broke our app and I helped hunt down the cause and helped with finding the solution (TBH another guy did most of the hard work, I just advised him).

Some of it is spent in meetings with meetings with internal users and/or their managers.

Some of it is spent with our QA team, trying to reproduce issues on their machines, or triaging new bugs and trying to reproduce them to assess their severity.

Some of it is spent on strategic discussions with my team lead about future directions or course changes.

Some of it is spent updating user manuals, or advising other people in the team who update them.

I also work from home, trying out new approaches in our code, some of them actually make it into our product.

So... when I'm not working I'll usually be reading HN... Or watching random music vids on youtube. Or reading news websites. I wish I had time left for video games, but I feel too tired after a typical day of work to invest in them.
Exactly my M1 MBA 4K external display experience: "works perfectly."
> Hopefully this changes with time

Looking at Europe, nearly every gas station is starting to get a fast charger installed (along major roads, at least). A couple of years ago there were waiting lines at super chargers during the yearly migration to the Alps, but I haven't seen any similar stories this year.
I wouldn’t be so sure, but also I don’t have reliable data.

At this point, I also doubt anyone (including Putin) has reliable data - from what I do know, it’s common place for all the low level folks (equivalent of mayors, low level bureaucrats, city police departments) to fudge numbers the way it’s expected to look.

Even opposition politicians, independent reporters (even those that have fled the country), and folks I know with family there have been pretty straightforward in saying he has historically been very popular however.

The 60-70% polled support number has seemed quite legit to them. Propaganda is powerful, and most of the base of support he needs to keep the country running isn’t (ever) going to hang out on Twitter, post on Reddit, etc.

And the propaganda for a long time has been how the west is trying to bring otherwise strong Russia down. Which is, rather explicitly what the west is doing now (albeit for legit imo reasons).

If the opposition can muster enough support to meaningfully impact things, then that’s awesome!

That he does seem to be sweating means maybe it will work, I hope it does.

I’m just hoping to make the dynamic more visible, and caution against the same kind of thinking that had everyone seemingly convinced that Trump wouldn’t get elected in 2016.
Hello JaafarRammal, a simple background is enough as long as the main object is clearly distinguishable, no extra metadata is needed, just the image :)
I feel like its more the assertiveness on how right the information he's sharing is, when not everything he makes a video on is quite so correct but there isn't any of this nuance or doubt in his works. Doesn't feel like any of the professors I've spoken to, there's too much confidence. The only thing we can be that confident in is how wrong humans tend to be
Mozilla actually builds a browser. Brave tacks things on top of an existing browser.
This phenomenon happens everywhere. You cannot deviate from the state narrative on HN without people having the exact same "no, that cannot be" response. I have also observed a generational divide in susceptibility to propaganda: baby boomers seem completely defenseless to modern propaganda techniques, which matches up well with what this article reports.
Putin reportedly blocks Russians’ access to Facebook, Twitter, app stores
It's not "mission accomplished." It's more like our withdraw from Afghanistan--admission of defeat. Omicron was like the Taliban taking Kabul in 2 weeks. We just lost to Covid--at least for now.

Essentially everyone has an immune response to covid now--either by vaccination or because you already had. That is why case number are cratering. The immune response effectiveness will fade, but all evidence points to long lasting protection against severe infections.

Last summer was the re-opening a la "mission accomplished." Then omicron evaded previous immune responses. Why won't that happen again? It might, but less of the population is vulnerable b/c Omicron spread to more of the population. There was a big group of unvaccined protected by heard immunity.

Post Omicron how many people haven't gotten a vaccine or covid? Probably less than 10% of the public.
The last wave amplified the difference. In the UK for example the last wave doesn't show up in the ICU patients chart [1], while it's clearly seen in the death chart [2]. The last wave seems to simultaneously correspond to a sudden spike in death statistics [2] and a sudden drop in excess mortality [3]. Point being, "deaths with COVID" doesn't mean a causal relationship any more, you need to look at other statistics to see how many people are dying as a result of COVID.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[2]: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[3]: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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Estimated effectiveness is not empirical evidence. There's nothing scientific about just guessing random numbers.
If the company isn’t competitive and can’t pay their negotiated rates - they file for bankruptcy. When has a union ever protected workers when a company was in distress? The auto industry? The airline industry? Flight controllers in the 80s?
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I have two questions.

1. How efficient is this process, i.e. how much ethanol does your lab setup produce per litre of reactor volume and hour?

2. Is the need of hydrogen a problem, i.e. is the required amount of hydrogen for real world usage at scale easily available or would this require significant additional hydrogen production capacity?

EDIT: Number two has mostly been answered in another comment.
Belarusian forces will not take part in Ukraine war, Lukashenko says
I live on the DC/Maryland border and I love both state flags.
> "no new data"

There is literally new data every day. Case counts change, hospital usage changes, etc. The change in mask guidance is also not universal - it is dependent on that exact data. The CDC maintains a county-by-county map of the data so you know exactly what the guidance is each day based on the latest data.

If you want to keep up with the data, the map is not a bad place to start: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-...
Is your criticism limited to the CRM tool? I've had nothing but great things to say about Zoho, but I haven't used the CRM tool. Are your criticisms for Mail?
Thank you!

We are going to need low cost green hydrogen. Existing electrolyser technology uses precious metals and so they are expensive/current limiting factor. However there are lots of startups working on bringing to market electrolysers that use non precious metals.

In terms of chemical processes, fermentation is quite simple. In addition to the bioreactor you need a device to control the gas inputs and you need some downstream processing (product extraction). For ethanol distillation is most commonly used but there are newer lower energetically demanding techniques that can be used for extraction. Not all products can be distilled out though, so extraction is somewhat product dependent.
I was surprised to see the Model S and Model X doing as well as the (presumably new) 3 in the chart. Do the S and X have the heat pump? I know it didn't make it to the 3 until ~2021 (ours is a 2018).
I work at a company you've heard of that did something similar (their announcement was on HN) and, at least in my case, the announcements had been made internally a few weeks beforehand.

It is always possible for there to be multiple plausible reasons for something, and the least generous assumptions can be frequently incorrect
Compares equally poorly. It's a bad joke.
An interesting application might be the grow media for hydroponic farms. While visiting an aquaponics farm it seemed the grow media was styrofoam based which didn't seem quite right. An organic based solution that's also biodegradable would seem much better/safer.
Manipulate parentheses and sexps in Doom Emacs
> since our kids (one of whom likely has ADHD

That's interesting. My impression is that kids with ADHD would function better in a Montessori setting compared to a traditional education. Where do you plan to send your kids?
California proposal would force unhoused people into treatment
Consider a mode with limited uses of the operations too. I liked it, but I thought both normal and hard modes were too easy given I didn't have to think about what operation I was going to use at all.
>I hope this hits the mainstream press, these days, seems all vehicles are only designed for use in Southern Calif.

You realize FUD about EVs is almost constant in the press, right?
Haha well, you could always subscribe to my newsletter for a month. You might get a kick out of it anyway.

I'm glad to have solved your mystery!
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Understand the Russian history, self and world view, reasons for their views, why they are concerned with NATO expansion, why they conduct their security as they do.

Ukraine is as much a justified defensive strike for them as it is an unjustified attack by most of the world. The public rationale are not the real rational and has been in the works for more than 10 years.
Either Putin is a madman willing to trigger mutually assured destruction, or he's not.

From your post, it appears you believe he's not a madman in the face of economic strangulation, and he's also not a madman when the West supplies weapons that kill his forces.

If the sanctions and the weapons work to lose him the war, does he retain his sanity? Or does he only remain sane if the sanctions and weapons fail, and he prevails in Ukraine?
Got that feedback a few times. That's the next feature :)
I don't think poster was complaining, specifically, that the security policy wasn't designed for people who care about security. In my opinion the issue is that they replaced an up-to-date and robust set of policies and tools with out-of-date tools and procedures. In addition they removed agency from their employees by installing an endpoint security tool on their machines.

I have to say, I agree! Once an endpoint security tool gets installed on my laptop and my administrator privileges have been revoked, I would definitely feel like the security of the unit was out of my hands. IMHO, this makes the organization almost entirely reliant on software and policies (which likely go unread) for security.

My belief is that this will result in an overall less secure posture for the organization as a whole. As this poster points out, his password is now less secure because whatever tool judges its strength is behind the curve. Other people may be more prone to open suspicious email under the impression that the endpoint security tool will take care of it. And so on.
This line of argument doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny. First of all, it's quite pedantic and naive to assume that governments and medical bodies in the richest and most advanced countries haven't worked through similar issues of causality with innumerable other diseases. More to the point, the peaks in COVID deaths magically align with proportionately large spikes in all cause mortality not seen in prior years that have yet to be explained by anything else.
At a risk of sounding unfriendly, the best way I know is to look at them side by side.

They are different fonts.

A lot of good looking mono fonts look very similar and there is a reason for that. As designers fine tune features for better legibility (main concern with terminal typeface) fonts converge to look roughly the same. But they still have different feel when you get a lot of text on a screen.
It's not about current employees as much as future recruiting.

PR requires internal employees. That leads me to the logic that, for most companies, PR is targeted at non-employees.
A SQL database, with indexing configured correctly, allows you to look up a row in O(log(n)).

A bag of XML bytes doesn't give you that. It takes, at best, a SAX parser to do an O(n) scan through the whole document to find stuff. Most DOM implementations give you O(1) indexing by ID, but they require you to parse it first, and that's going to take O(n).
How did you set this up? I've been wondering about doing this sort of thing
Yes, i work on exactly this now, for years, many failures.
Co2 output from mushroom is the input to cannabis.
Temperature differential is a real problem.
This has been around for a while, but perhaps not packaged and marketed in this way. Probably quite effective when it comes to clients needing basic design needs. I don't see this working too well for actual building of software products, where it's not about the number of revisions that matter but more about spending time on the client + service provider relationship and building the right thing.
Well yeah, I think it's both, and I'll explain.

I too am (well, was would be more accurate) a Meetup organizer. You're right that the fee is steep and the culture of the site is that no users want to pay for anything, even if it's just a buck. Thing is I think that Meetup could have justified that fee by providing a lot more value to organizers. Meetup really isn't very sophisticated; if you get rid of the forums that nobody actually uses, it's one of the most basic CRUD apps you could possibly make. And that's okay, except ~$20 a month (honestly I forget what I've been paying) hardly is justified by a junior dev CRUD app.

Here's all the things that Meetup could and probably should have been doing that they still aren't:

- Support an option allowing people who don't have a Meetup.com account to RSVP

- Likewise, support fungible tickets for events that people can share

- A group message/email composer that isn't a sack of garbage

- More effective event promotion that competes with Eventbrite

- Related to the last point, make events front and center on every page (like Eventbrite) instead of self-congratulation

- Slack and Discord integration

- Just admit that nobody wants to download the Meetup app

- Promote and incentivize in person events over online ones (Let's face it, COVID isn't that relevant anymore and turning meetup into Zoom meetings will kill it. Zoom isn't "meetups", and acting like everyone needs to still hunker down in fear will make Meetup totally irrelevant in the long term when being a coomer-doomer is no longer cool.)

- Allow locking in RSVPs within 24-48 hours before an event

- Allow automatically charging or banning users who are no-shows

- Do more to help organizers find and work with venues to host meetups

- Support the option for democratically-run groups

Last I remember, Meetup either has none of those things or does the in a way that is poorly supported or surfaced.

To top it off, the site is a bunch of wasted space. Compare it to Eventbrite where the events themselves are front and center. The top of the fold on Meetup.com for years has been occupied by useless copy, design elements, and maybe the search box if they feel like it. Right now the search box is below the fold.

So yes, it's not a good deal for organizers monetarily speaking, but both the user and organizer experience is anything but stellar. Meetup is perpetually stuck in the MVP phase; they've hardly gone beyond the basic CRUD app, and that doesn't cut the mustard anymore.
Zoom call with Ukrainian rock climbers
I rarely get excited by fonts, but I'm loving this one. I only recently realized how long machine readable fonts have been around while working on a reproduction of the Apollo 11 flight plan. I love how this one has some of their flavor while still being easy on the eyes.
What if my medium enterprise needs 15 minutes of translate-this-to-french services every day, and hiring someone for 15 minutes per day isn't really a thing?
I'm interested in how you accomplish this. Everything has to be scheduled in a meeting these days, and meeting burn out over zoom is real.

Where as in the office it was just walking around and seeing someone in an elevator, the hall, "hey lets catch up" or "you have a minute" or "lets get lunch"

these types of interactions just don't happen anymore
Which Ultima games are you thinking about? The series definitely was pioneering in simulation elements (day/night cycles and NPC routines in V, movable objects in VI, stacking and layering in VII), but the dialog system was always pretty simple keyword-based stuff, and NPCs mostly do not have any kind of memory. Are you thinking about how companions in VII will abandon or attack you if you do too many crimes with them around?
Assent obtained through diplomatic pressure from a much larger country does not count, the US getting its allies to OK its various invasions counts about as much as Belarus' support of the Ukraine invasion. (It's a complex comparison because Belarus is both subject to much more pressure and is getting involved in a very direct way, but I contend that the pressure/action ratio is similar between the two cases.) There is a reason the UN and the idea of international law is talked about more in the context of Africa than anywhere else[0], it is the only place where none of the countries involved are powerful enough to make a farce of it.

[0] Look at some wikipedia articles describing various armed conflicts and see which ones mention the UN acting in a significant capacity.
> you can only imagine proof of clapping hands because yes that example is useless.

People do it all the time, it must have something. But no practical value. But let's not argue for the sake of arguing. It's like saying Ponzi schemes are good otherwise so many people wouldn't be into them. Or any example of things so many people do that have no value and we'd really rather they stopped.

Proof of Whatever is just about gobbling up some resource (sometimes with incredibly high cost for society in general) for some artificially driven value but of no practical positive consequences to almost anyone in the world. Except for the few that are incentivized to make it look more valuable because they've invested and its actual value never changed. It's still a solution waiting for a problem.

And before you argue more, the computer and internet you're using to post your opinions were created with far less waste and provide far more value. If they go away tomorrow the world will suffer a lot, society will literally regress decades. If proof of waste goes away the "investors" in the pyramid will suffer for being tricked and the rest of the world wouldn't bat an eye.
Really cool stuff...I wish you all the best!
They seem very rooted in the past for lots of ideas, which is ironic given the image and culture they try to project. For example, I've heard at least one story of someone being asked lots of irrelevant CS questions for a front-end role when they interviewed there. He did fine, but he said he felt like the interview somehow felt fifteen years out of date, which really stuck with me.