skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taxi drivers in Hong Kong were telling me about some bad flu in the Mainland around Christmas.

I guess that's possible as a rumor. I had taken the other comment to mean there was publicly verified information at that time. Perhaps we just miscommunicated.

Certainly Dr. Li Wenliang of Wuhan, who later died of covid, had told friends in a private messaging group [1] to take precautions because something SARS-like was back.

> It was known in Asia far before it'd been reported in western media.

Parts of China, maybe. I wouldn't say "in Asia" as if all of Japan, Taiwan, SE Asia knew.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Role_in_COVID-19_p...
This is my personal site:
https://tacosteemers.com

Occasionally I add a technical blogpost, notes for later reference or a little tool.
Recently I made an online tool to display the color output of web color text notations in code listings. https://tacosteemers.com/files-static/tools/color_values.htm...

I just added two fields of changing colors. CSS only.
I find them nice to look at from time to time. The changes are not fast or flashing, but I don't know if these are safe to look at for everyone.

https://tacosteemers.com/files-static/colours/colours.html
https://tacosteemers.com/files-static/colours/colours2.html
Useful message from the README:

"Note: The existence of unsnap is merely a tool to enable users to switch from snapped applications to flatpak applications. This is not intended as a commentary or slight against any software. It's just a utility."
You cowards won’t even upvote this to the number one comment.
Is Google a good thing? (2006)
Elon Musk also definitely had a lot of luck.
Innovation largely comes from contrarians. If HN is polarized on a topic, to me that just signals it's probably worth MORE attention, not less.

From that perspective, overwhelming negative comments are a useful data point.
> I have to disagree. They spend an inordinate amount of time trying to understand what they see, taste and hear.

To understand yes, however I meant "identify" in the sense of recognizing an object. I show a picture of an apple to a child a bit over a year old, hide it, put it in a basket of other things and present it back to them, they will be able to identify it. Or if you show an object to a child, then hide the object, they can realize that the object is no longer there, regardless of their understanding of what happened to the object.

> Many things we take for granted as being innate to the human experience, are in fact learned (trained) behavior.

I don't think it's that simple, I would say it's both. I don't question learning plays a big role in recognition, just pointing out that a large amount intrinsic knowledge also exists from early child development. Many of those cases where someone regains eyesight happens much later in life, at a time when their brains have largely matured to the point that neuroplasticity is pretty much over for them. Having someone's brain develop with almost no visual input at a young age is bound to mean that their visual cortex and its connections to everything else doesn't develop as it should.

From a quick search, it appears that to some degree children born categorically blind can recover all the way up to teenage life. [1] But indeed it's likely less effective than a younger child undergoing a similar procedure (which I don't think is really that rare: it's hard to diagnose vision problems at young age, and a lot of children who get necessary corrective surgery at young age turn out fine).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14592
> By definition, the primary energy input and electrical energy output are equal for renewable sources that don't require fuel.

When you think about it, this is unfairly disadvantaging renewables due to an unfortunate choice of primary energy. For renewables, the primary energy is solar radiation! Suddenly the primary energy of solar panels would go up 5 fold just because of changing the definition of primary energy. Then everyone would be talking how unfair primary energy is to fossil fuels.
Had a pop tart for the first time in ~20 years recently. Did they change the recipe? Not nearly as good as I remembered from back when I practically lived off them in high school.
> I can give you any number of cellular automata that model our current understanding of quantum physics right now, no problem

Ok, I'm interested in seeing something like that. If you have a link, I'll take a look--thanks. (If you're thinking of 't Hooft's, then I know about it, but its predictions are in serious conflict with mainstream physics, from what I understand).
Absolutely I think it's possible for rumors to have been running around given that Dr. Li Wenliang messaged his group about it as being confirmed to be a coronavirus on Dec. 30 [1]

We seem to have miscommunicated. When you wrote "We heard about 'sars outbreak in china' around xmas of 2019" I thought you meant you had heard about a confirmed outbreak reported by some reliable news source, not rumors.

What I meant to underscore was that this knowledge did not become public prior to Taiwan notifying the WHO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Role_in_COVID-19_p...
And theres even more less privileged who cant take a risk because they dont have anything to catch them when they fail.
> except that if node.land or crux.land go down, you've lost your reproducibility.

I wouldn’t say you lost it, I’d say you never had it in the first place.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they... I forget the rest but sometimes they just keep laughing at you for a long time.
If you are a solo developer you are going to be inundated with complaints from clients who've recently discovered their pagespeed score is only 97%.

They will be particularly aggrieved that the Google are saying their FCP and CLS are in need of serious attention, despite not having the first clue what this actually means.

Joking aside, layout shift can be a tad annoying.
ADHD goes without recognition and diagnoses way more often than it is being identified wrongly.

It is a valid condition, with serious and quite predictable consequences, only partly fixable by medication and therapy.
> I wonder if it's at least partly the temperature, since UHT milk is shelf stable (for a good while anyway) you might be drinking it significantly warmer than milk from the fridge?

Hardly. When I was younger I used to have UHT milk at my grandma, and she stored it in the fridge (after opening), so it was same temperature of what I drank home. Still a very noticeable difference with "normal" milk.
I remember once hearing a critic describe “food like grandma made” as not necessarily a good thing, since grandparents of people alive now would’ve been making food during the initial popularity of microwaved and canned foods. Not to mention the weird things from previous eras like aspics and jello salads.
I'm somewhat guilty of this when working on a desktop app. I made a state management library, though I realized I cannot possibly finish it in full so I spent only 100h on it to get it minimally working. I don't consider it a waste though. The waste was trying to come up with some kind of strict error handling ala Rust in TypeScript, I went far with this and got an idea to do it with minimal development, thankfully I pulled the plug on this after a month and went back to work.

As a solo bootstrapper founder it's really hard to do development and business / marketing in the early stages. Focusing purely on development is preferable when time limited, however, I think it's sometimes helpful to stop development and take a break to spend on business / marketing - i.e. some education, or preparing marketing content for the future. This tends to put in perspective how much time sometimes is wasted on meaningless things and gives clarity on what is really important - shipping a quality product.
This is my blog that is morphing into a PKS/zettlekasten: https://johnmathews.is
Irrelevant bullshit?

So you think talking about the submit is "irrelevant"? Or you agree the paper is "bullshit"?

You are just too arrogant to admit that average man on the ground in China do realize what was going on there.
> However I think a lot of that narcissism is confidence [...]

Funny, I see it as the entire opposite: very extreme insecurity, the need to constantly remind us that, yes, truly, he was there, he pioneered this, it _is_ amazing and awesome and will revolutionize everything, believe me, and it's only second to this other thing, which we must remind you, I invented.

A confident person would strip away the fluff and just get on with the message?
I don’t think Britain was very successful in our public health mesures. We were far too slow to lock down and recommend masks and as a result we had twice as many deaths as comparable countries like Germany and France. Our health care system was very efficient at distributing the vaccine though and this was a great success.
Kirov reporting
I was expecting to resonate more with this article, but found that the writer really hadn't been doing much.

I often complain to my girlfriend that I've got nothing done, and then she asks what I've done... and it turns out I've actually done a lot. I'm currently splitting my days between regular contract work producing videos (first two hours of the day, 7am-9am), and then after a short break I spend the rest of the day (until 6pm, with an hour for lunch) working on my house extension. Today I'll be doing more of the roof (weather permitting), or putting in central heating pipes.

Then, after dinner, I'll be working on YouTube content.

But still, I've done nothing, in my mind... because I expected to have the extension finished by now (I'm 9 months in, and about 6 months behind, mostly due to external delays).

I'm 50. I did expect to be much more successful than I am - I'm not in the slightest, financially. I never expected to be a millionaire, but I'm below average earnings in the UK. But I'm (mostly) happy, and I think that's what matters. I hope so, anyway!
That’s really nice.

AOL was a funny gag.
I'm a big fan! Such a fun way to approach a new language! Would make it absolutely perfect (in my mind) if you could click the hiragana to hear the sounds, but I understand that that would require a lot of storage.

(For my self, I'd made this one-word-a-day tool https://dugas.ch/word_of_the_day/)
From a PR angle "donations by anonymous benefactor" sounds a lot better than "we lost invaluable items and didn't even notice"
In spite of all the negativity, I admire Stephen because he has done what many of us want to achieve, namely: Billion dollar SW company that is privately owned, that now enables him to pursue his intellectual interests.
> Fulfilment comes from within, not externally.

I am 26 and this is has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with over the past few years.

I thought I'd be happier with a high paying job. So I got a job that pays at the 99.9th percentile for my age. Didn't really make me happier. Then I thought my unhappiness was because of my weight. So I lost 90lbs. Hardest thing I've ever done. But it didn't make me happy. Today a voice in my head is telling me "you'll be happier if you get muscular," "you'll be happier if you get in a relationship." I plan to do all of those things, but I realize they probably won't make me happy.

What has helped somewhat with fulfillment was placing a fundamentally greater value on myself. Reflecting on my accomplishments has made this a bit easier. And I do value myself a lot more today than I did two years ago - my confidence is higher, even if not as high I hoped it would be...

I can't help but feel a bit lost. My accomplishments did not provide me the concrete, grounding, pervading feeling of achievement I hoped they would find. I wasn't happy after them. Instead, there was... nothing, and now I feel like I'm kind of just floating without direction when it comes to "finding happiness."
To me, it sounds like the author tried to be everything to everyone. That's a recipe for disaster.

If I had to give advice to my younger self now, I'd probably go with:

1. Celebrate your science reading habit, instead of awkwardly apologizing that you like mathematics. 1 paper a week might seem like it'll get you nowhere, but in 20 years, that compounds to in-depth knowledge of the field. It'll pay off, but on a time scale you and your peers don't understand yet.

2. Don't compare to Gates, Zuckerberg, or Elon. The 1st had resources you'll never have because of his rich parents. The 2nd is now universally hated as a sicko psychopath whose products drive teens into suicide. The 3rd can't seem to keep a stable enough relationship to have a family. You'd hate being in their shoes.

3. Get more comfortable saying no. People are going to ask you for favors all the time, but your time is very limited. Only help friends or those where you predict they'll reciprocate. Make people get their own hands dirty first, it'll help them learn. Stay away from "energy vampires" who ask for your help for everything but won't help you back.
> you have to admit to yourself that you're just an ordinary human being

This sort of thinking comes from place when you see that to achieve anything ahead in your life you need different skill set than you got and also most of time influence over people. I myself am victim of this thinking, it seems rational but it is demotivating.

What I found comforting in this thought chain is there may be limited possibilities that really can happen for me but can I find the best one of them, if I could that would still make me a Elon for so many people around me.
Scientists, yes.
https://smotesko.com

I've been doing DIY electronics, and wrote about some of the things I've built. It was the nicest feeling to see on social media other people's photos of their builds based on my project files!
https://www.vincentorback.se

A simple index.html portfolio website that’s 6+ years old now so naturally I hate it :)
Reading some of the stuff people used to eat, I have a really hard time understanding how obesity is worse today than back then.
https://chimbosonic.com
Simple CV site. Nothing fancy just what I needed to share info about me and a place for me to publish my CV. Recently started adding some of my projects I've been playing with.
Another website I own is https://spiderfarmer.raphael.digital/ an music album website I built for my brother.

My day to day work is backend focused so it was interesting to try some frontend and design stuff.
Just because he is old doesn't mean he knows anything about those legacy systems.
"poorly documented" is a new one for me. It's got one of the best manuals out there. A little short on examples maybe, but there's a separate cookbook with tutorials, and lots of blog posts.

But maybe I'm just a "GNU zealot".
The Secret City create treasure hunt-style urban adventures through cities across the UK and internationally.

https://thesecret.city

We spend a lot of time creating write ups for the great places we find during our research stages, e.g. for London - https://thesecret.city/things-to-do/united-kingdom/england/l...

If anyone has a passion for creating narrative based stories/games and discovering interesting things around them then please get in touch :)
I understand the frustration with mandates and wish we didn’t have them, but also think the vaccines are sound from a medical and public health standpoint.

> the vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission

The vaccine does actually prevent infection, very well against the initial virus and moderately well against recent variants.

> It was claimed for a good year that the vaccines "protect you and the ones you love and therefore everyone needs to take it in order to meet other people."

That’s because the vaccines did a great job of preventing infection for a good year or so until newer variants came in. Protection against infection with two doses of the mRNA vaccine has dropped from something like >90% in the original trials to <50% with the newest variants.

> Traditional vaccines contain dead pathogens that do not reproduce, while the new ones contains a mechanism that produces new pathogen.

This statement is a bit off in terms of how traditional vaccines and newer mRNA vaccines work. First, the spike protein produced from mRNA vaccines is not a pathogen. Second, mRNA vaccines do not reproduce or replicate. Third, some traditional vaccines are attenuated vaccines [1] that can actually replicate, a fact that is taken into account when they are used.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine
In that case my wording is poor and I apologise for that, sorry.

By 'we' I meant my family and I. My wife is Taiwanese and her family said to be careful because people are saying there was a possible sars outbreak.
It's not managed KNative - https://ahmet.im/blog/cloud-run-is-a-knative/index.html

It's implementing KNative API but on GCP Infra
It's not really that interesting. Can you write it in a computer program? Then you can write it in a cellular automata, because many of them are Turing complete:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110#The_proof_of_universa...
https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Turing_machine

And yes, this is a cheap trick. That's the point. "Porting" our current theories to some new, whacky substrate, peeking at the textbooks all the while, is Not Interesting and will not lead to new results.
Richard Feynman’s Advice to Stephen Wolfram (1985)
I'd just note that if pushed by circumstances (if one was willing to be interviewed in spite of their ways), the interview environment could be (would be) on a throwaway virtual machine...

Possibility which, by the way, makes the interviewer's cautionary move generally useless.
Source code for both can be found on https://github.com/chimbosonic.
All hosted using Netlify
decrypting Rita! I just acquired a copy of this for the Haslam Polyamory & Non-monogamy Collection at the Kinsey Institute. brilliant job with the work, love that I get to archive it!
Problem may be that there is too much experimental psychology work whose results don't mean anything. To me any argument that is built upon the results of experimental psychology looks rather suspect.
how do you block them in an app like warp ?
iiu
Historically there was also NaDa:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140813120630/http://www.bernar...

but is bloated in comparison, being one byte in size.
Larger portion sizes, more snacking, much less manual labor. Only the wealthy were obese back then.
Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim
Considering that Anaconda removed its free license [0] I hope the project proceeds to also being pip installable.

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974841
Well put. He might be right, he's more likely wrong (and that's not a judgement on the quality of the ideas). But bottom line is we will never get anywhere without thinkers like him.
https://domwillia.ms

I write about Rust side projects occasionally.

It uses a custom static site generator because I needed to procrastinate somehow before starting the first post... Now it's nicely stable and punishing new posts is quick and easy
https://rolandog.com

I had taken it down, but — as I'm learning everything Emacs — I'm in the middle of recreating it with project.el and org-mode... comments be damned... So, there's very little of value at the moment.

However, I've been thinking about inviting people to add annotations with https://hypothes.is
That's reasonable: RISC-V is mostly a cleaned up MIPS, so can definitely go as a MIPS family ISA.
I like this design a lot. I like the margin notes in articles. And the design of /about is just so fun to look at.

A few complaints:

- on phones, the line spacing in the beige boxes on /about is too high

- I think the headers on /cc and /visual need tome tweaking

--- the spacing between the quote to the actual headline is too big

--- on CC, it took me a while to even figure out what the header was because it was nearly indistinguishable from the years

- the feedback tab takes you away from the website, despite looking identical to the other tabs.
I don't think Julia belongs into the same list as C++, C and Fortran. It is true that for some algorithms it is almost the same speed as C++ out of the box, but for many others it is still factors of 10s or 100s of. Also it often requires significant tweaking to get to it's best performance (e.g. don't use abstract types), so it is almost like saying Python is the a fast language, because you can use Cython or Pythran. I really wish Julia fans would stop overstating the language capabilities, it really does a disservice to an otherwise great language.
Just selecting 'sold by amazon.co.uk' returns 4,000 results. It's no surprise that that the incentive to manipulate ratings far exceeds that of just producing a good value product.

https://www.johnlewis.com/search?search-term=headphones
Returns 128, isn't that enough?
https://tasuki.org/

Contains my various personal projects and stuff: tsumego collections, translation comparisons of Enchiridion and Tao te Ching, a mostly unmaintained blog and a photo gallery...
rand() may call malloc()
> and likely will not be for quite awhile, but good luck predicting that.

It will stay at 0% or go lower. Since when did Germany stop exporting? Since when did Germans stop saving? In fact, it gets easier to save with lower interest rates because it means people don't have to pay interest to the rich. 0% debt is much easier to pay off than debt that is growing exponentially at 10% per year.

I honestly think using interest rates as a throttle is a stupid idea. It would be more logical to introduce a minimum yearly payment to principal ratio and let the central banks control that instead, it would most likely be at 3% during normal times and 6% during inflationary times. Paying interest doesn't reduce the money supply only paying off the principal reduces the money supply and inflation. Raising interest rates is actually an ugly hack to create a recession which then reduces demand for loans. If people borrow anyway, like when a government borrows to service interest, it will actually feed itself and inflation will get worse than if the government lowered interest rates and just paid off the principal to reduce the money supply. When you look at Turkey they are forcibly lowering interest rates but not paying off their debt which is weird as hell, an increased minimum payment would be more effective at removing inflation.

If you take this further and introduce a debt brake or austerity, you will most likely get deflation which then means the interest rate must be negative to avoid a recession.
https://metacognitive.me/

This is my blog where I talk about programming mostly but want to write more on other topics.
> full control and minimum maintenance … contradicting

Not at all, every sheet of paper is like that.

For illiterates however it's true what you say.

The open challenge is: how to unclutter writing and educate literates!
I believe you mistook the path for the goal, or the future for the now, if you want.

Exercise will make you happy, but only while you're doing it. Getting a raise will make you happy, but only for a short time period after that raise. "Having" a relationship won't make you that happy, but the process of building the relationship is highly enjoyable.

The key to happiness is to do those things that make you happy while you do them. Sacrificing your personal now for a better future is one of those church ideals that always struck me as weird. That said, if you work on making the planet better, that work will probably also make you happy as long as you keep doing it. But the "better planet" itself is too abstract to make you happy long-term.