skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without implying anything about the source of covid, let me make an observation.

Covid19 is a perfect experiment to determine what might happen if someone were to release a devastating biological weapon. From this test case someone contemplating releasing such a weapon might conclude that even the most stringent controls (like those in China) could not hope to protect the nation that released the weapon.

If covid19 was indeed released as such an experiment, one hopes the results are clear.
Sculpting Miniatures in 3D (2018)
Westone makes great plugs for sleeping. I think they are called DefendEars. Swear by them. Talk to your audiologist.
I'm just now finding that webpack is mostly a foreign concept in backend nodejs tech, but it's mind boggling to me that the norm was to ship code with the node_modules folder instead of bundling and minifying. Seriously, why? It's so wasteful... :'(
> - Sharing hard-to-remember workflows

Those get codified into ansible and deployed on CI/CD pipelines. This is an anti-feature. The day that someone suggests using a terminal to manage hard-to-remember workflows is the day I start a huge crusade to fix whatever process led to introducing yet another tool.
This was recently on my radar for a thing i wanted to do, but what you have might also fill the same gap.

https://materialize.com/
Have tried Kagi for a while as a beta user. It generally works fine, but I am just reminded every time when I try to do a search via Private Browsing - and Kagi, a subscription service, will apparently ask me to login - that each of my search history will be able to be linked to an individual.

Then it's definitely not what I want.
While I understand what you’re getting at, this is basically pointless, because nobody is going to accept hand wavey “you can never know, so don’t even try!”-type answers. Even if that is the best way to go.
Fair point, but I was just thinking of a way to buy some time. Thinking of cases where a tactical entry (to a wrong residence) startled the resident while they were sleeping, and the startled reaction lead to a bad outcome (multiple stories recently on this).

In a perfect world, I'd like to see a setup where when there is police error, the target can still be protected from a panic shooting while still demonstrating that they are not a threat. The other option is to buy enough time to scramble to the attic, then scramble over to a shaft that gets you down into a wall cavity with access to a better hiding spot or an outside escape.
Thank you for this additional information. I had never heard of the man or his work but deeply appreciate the unique and (surprisingly?) affirming perspective.
The basic fallacy in the writer's argument is that your odds of being prepared for a societal collapse are astronomically higher than your odds of needing an air bag.

The difference is distribution.

With apocalyptic events (pandemic, war, coup, hurricane, etc.), 100% of the population is affected in any given region perhaps every 50-200 years on average.

With serious car accidents, a fraction of a percent of the population is affected every day.

We don't tend to prepare well for rare events (like wars, famines, plaques, etc.). We do for frequent low-probability ones. Indeed, we're probably most worried about things rare enough to make the news (like school shootings), as unlikely as they are.
South Korea: Why so many struggle to sleep
I looked into MorphOS before, but IIRC you need PowerPC hardware to run it. Is there an x86 or ARM version I'm not aware of?
How could you trust the responses though.
Yep. Imagining nontechnical users would endure paths of greater resistance to avoid shady privacy and openness practices is magical thinking. Privacy and openness are important, but having tools designed to maximally reduce the overhead of solving your problems is more important.

I know I get on people's nerves on HN by harping on user needs and FOSS usability and interface design and such, but I think we as a group need to start taking user needs much more seriously. Open-source alternatives will always be alternatives until without taking usability and the overall experience seriously.

Many, if not most FOSS software developers choose some commercial tools— count how many MacOS and Windows laptops you see at OSCON or FOSDEM. Consider how different the cost/benefit analysis would be for people without the most basic requisite knowledge to reason about software problems, let alone troubleshoot, or throw in a PR to address them directly. Commercial companies don't get these seamless experiences by magic— it involves research, design, development and testing to deliberately remove friction and stumbling blocks rather than assuming your use case is universal, or that docs are a suitable replacement for fixing usability problems. There's nothing stopping any open source project from doing any of it. Volunteering isn't unique to coding— people volunteer to cook and build houses and clean up trash, too. But developers run FOSS and developers need to deliberately incorporate those other perspectives into their projects to get the benefit.
I used the example of a dead parent because death is something that many young people do not really understand (do any of us?). They may never have experienced the death of a family member or friend. This is similar to how many young people don't understand homosexuality.

The fact you think I am trying to say homosexuality is the same as death is quite telling isn't it?

I don't care if somebody is OK with being out. It is not the place of a teacher to tell other students the home life of another student. I don't think a teacher should tell other students what the profession of a student's parents are either.

There is no reason for a teacher to do this.
>If US seekers were good at it, Kerouac's and Watts's books wouldn't be the bestsellers in the category

That presumes that people who learned about Buddhism from Jack Kerouac read his books because they were already interested in Buddhism, when what really happened was that Kerouac and Watts chose to emphasize those parts of Buddhism that they knew people would like to hear about (not being attached to social status) and not emphasize those parts that people wouldn't (not listening to music and sleeping on the floor). You won't attract entertainment-seeking consumers by telling them upfront how difficult "without attachments" really is.
/laughs in texan
Fiddler is fantastic: https://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler
This seems to be more like an IDE or ISE and not like a terminal emulator and a running CLI shell.

At first I thought it was a sh-compatible replacement, but it wasn't, and then I thought it was a terminal emulator, but that's not really what it is either. And then came the intrusive pop-ups all the time and now I don't really know what it is. A teaching tool perhaps? A "use it once a year" tool?
Hypergrowth is really a B2C thing. You don't really get hyper-growth for B2B with capital.

For example, Microsoft has all the cash in the world, but it took ages for Windows server or MSSql to gain significant market share.

Oracle grew "slowly" in a bootstrapped kind of way, selling expensive product and so on. Despite the "hyper growth" of startups (mysql?) oracle is still a gold standard for databases (as determined by mindshare in companies.)

Yes there are VC winners, but as we know most VC companies are losers. Having a VC compeditor is fine, they burn hot, create buzz for your market space, validate your product existance, and then typically flame out, leaving market demand, and lots of trained experienced people to employ.

Bootstrapping is indeed a long hard road, with no easy riches, and again most companies will fail, but if you look around pretty much every company that exists in the world (outside tech) was bootstrapped [1], and even most companies inside tech were bootstrapped.

[1] I'm defining bootstrapped here as no-Vc-money. Bootstrapped companies typically have some small amount of seed money to start, and require a large time investment.
All models are wrong, but
dome models are useful.

George Box.

That’s my take on the article…it’s trying to be useful. Whether it succeeds is another matter.

But to me there’s some potential merit in the radical conceptual reduction.

Merit in thinking about the simplest thing that might work.
My retail customers had to apply for surveillance license when they put up cameras facing streets. I couldn't remember if it was US or UK...
I've heard the ADV sound ones were decent, but haven't used them yet myself.
There is a difference between the truth and a truth. It wouldn't be pretentious to share something of your story and how you saw it in the larger picture.
This is... actually genius. I wonder if that would work with media too, specifying the input type or something, going to test that.
Most software is able to read color-inverted QR codes.
> Everyone has their own rules, some explicit, some secret, most entirely arbitrary, and there is never a proper appeals process.

That’s by design.

The government creates a framework within which you can then create your own private experience.

The free market, freedom of choice, freedom of association, etc. is the balancing act to self-regulate private party practices.

If we start centralizing and standardizing free speech requirements from the government all the way down to your blog, we’d be putting all our eggs in 1 basket. The government does not restrict repetitive speech for example, yet you’d now be powerless to regulate spam. You’d also be powerless to moderate HN or any other topical social community, as off-topic speech is protected at the federal level.

The variety in free speech rules is a feature not a bug.
Panic rooms are already cheap for the "rich people" mentioned in the article, which is the point I was making by characterizing "cheapness" as being relative, not absolute, so the analogy holds.
I likely do double that and have done for 20 years now. For me its simple, run on soft surfaces (trails) or a treadmill if its really rough out there.
Something worth knowing if you're going to take part in this conversation is the "serotonin hypothesis." Ignoring the conversation about whether antidepressants work* or not, depressed people don't have depleted serotonin or anything like that. It is not like a diabetic taking insulin.

There are many articles about this. Here's one. Feel free to google for more (try "serotonin hypothesis".)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405681/

*"work" in this context is a bit hard to define, and may be temporary, or may work for some and make other people worse, or may have side effects, etc.
> The stock has gone nowhere since its IPO and Twitter has never paid a dividend.

This is a terribly short-sighted and impoverished definition of stagnation. If Elon shakes things up and Twitter generates 2x the profit and 2x the social destruction as Facebook would you call them a vibrant and successful concern?
lmao the same happened to me
This also depends on how much wall space is in common between the bedroom and other parts of the house. In a previous house I lived in, the door was at the top of the stairs, and you would need a ladder / scaffolding to get to the part of the wall that was facing the stairwell. In that case there would be fairly little wall to reinforce with extra studs. Basically, wall studs are 16 inches apart on center (so a 14.5 inch gap between studs), so you would at most have to double the number of studs to have a somewhat less vulnerable room. Or, if retrofitting, several 3/4 inch plywood sheets screwed onto the vulnerable wall section, with decorative paneling covering them, may also be somewhat effective.

Also remember that the object is to buy time. And most threats wont be a tactical threat, but from a random break in from someone that doesn't know much of what they are doing (but will know enough to panic shoot an occupant when they see one).
I expected some sort of implementation at the end; something like, "and here's how you implement all of these ideas in one novel framework", maybe something to do with Gemini or something, but there wasn't anything. I get that the concept of linking is important, no one would deny that, but I thought they were talking about implementing all of these things in literal hypertext links.

Assume you have your filesystem as a set of HTTP links, and you have tagging, and whatever else. How do you tell the difference between a link to a file and a link to a tag? It seems like you'd need to impose an additional structure, or type system, on top of just links.
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?
> or other multiple element structure

Right. It's a relational database with lots of many-to-many relationships. We need to stop trying to make it a flat file. A FOSS SQLite schema that everyone can embed, or even a turnkey little db, would be wonderful.
You don’t need to be a doctor to ask:
* are you sleeping enough?
* are you exercising?
* do you have social connections?
* do you eat enough fruits and veg? Omega-3s?
I tried it. It’s nice to be able to interact with the text input in a more familiar way. Tab completions are good, but not much better than what I had with zsh in Terminal.

Like others have mentioned, I am confused about why I have to sign in, why telemetry is recorded, etc.

From the comments, seems the team is well-meaning. Time will tell. The privacy blowback reminds me of Kite’s first post on HN.
Is it really Hilbert?

A project I worked on a couple of decades ago had interleaved the bits of the x and y indexes to get that effect “for free”, I imagine a Hilbert curve decode would take quite a bit of silicon.
It’s not about keeping your number, but having the primary account holder’s name show up. Quoting one example from the article:

That realization came publicly for Derek Forbort, a 30-year-old hockey player for the Boston Bruins, when he was on the Boston sports radio show Zolak & Bertrand.
… Bertrand asked who “Mary” was, referring to the name that popped up on caller ID.

“Um, no comment on that,” Mr. Forbort said. After more pressing, he copped to being on the family plan—Mary is his mom—but said he pays his portion of the bill. After he hung up, the hosts razzed him, wondering if Mr. Forbort, who makes $3 million a year playing defense, still got gas money from his folks. Mr. Forbort said later the radio show caught him off guard, and he didn’t realize caller ID “was still a thing.”
Interestingly AC3 (with Joint Object Coding) is also what Apple Music uses to deliver Spatial Audio, although the OS makes it difficult to decode to any layout beyond 5.1.
That accounts for deaths prevented but does not credit any injuries avoided or made less severe. Those are going to be some multiple of deaths.
It's even more common with windows-only software.
I never really considered how overzealous prescription could impact the efficacy and side-effect data. I guess if your case isn't that severe you are also more likely to quit due to side-effects also which is intuitive but not something I had considered before.

Thank you for sharing your experience.
Proprietary closed-sourced crapware.
Morse Code Meme Generator
but they'll never be cheaper for not ultra-rich people, nor will they have the utility to warrant the expenditure.
I think it's fair to draw this distinction, sure. The bean counters aren't necessarily able to change direction of the business, even if they can see it coming.

And I also think it's OK to have an excessively aggressive growth strategy too. Why not? Maybe it will work out.

The problem is when such a strategy can't be falsified until after all the money is spent. That's not a strategy, that's just gambling. It's been really common in my experience - when a strategy isn't hitting its objectives, double down on it, and spend more! Until ultimately all the investor's money is wasted.
they were a couple of years ago
I presume anyone could've written a client for the frontend protocol -- I don't think I ever read that protocol draft. There was a general vibe that good frontends were an important problem and people would want a variety.

Yeah, it's questionable whether their business strategy could've evolved into a winning one even if they'd made it to launch.

I was just questioning the parent's perspective on "right libertarian ideology" -- my impression of Xanadu's vision was not so much "people love markets for information!" as "it's vital for the health of the info ecosystem that basic costs be paid directly", so e.g. the problem of UIs that people can rely on against scams should be faced and not avoided in favor of structurally leaning hard on advertising. (Yes, some kind of ads are inescapable.)

(It sounds like you've gotten to quiz MarkM on Xanadu directly; I'm going by largely-forgotten reading mostly in the last millennium.)
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
So you don't plug servers into an existing switch? Do they just connect via magic or something?
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>So HN, what has your experience been with depression?

I am sharing my own experience, the topic being a taboo does not help people who suffer.

I was also shit scared of medication, and too apprehensive to go to a medical professional... until it was too late and it all collapsed.

I visited 4 different emergency psychiatrists. Only one of them managed to identify the condition and treat me accordingly. His goal: keeping me alive for 18 months. It worked. I did need strong medication, and it had to be carefully adjusted several times. This kicked me out of depression in about six to eight months, but did not solve underlying issues. Once the emergency psychiatrist rated that I was in a stable route for recovery, I switched to a regular psychiatrist that basically checks my medication once every two months.

In parallel, I started weekly therapy with a psychologist. Also I tried two doctors and ended up with the second one. This one is needed to solve underlying issues. It took long time to get it really working, but it ended up great. It's been a year and I am still attending weekly therapy.

Its been 18 months since I started treatment. I am better now than I've been the last 10 years, but change did not come overnight, and I am still working on it with full energy. I wouldn't have made it so well without any off:

a) sport & good food & sleep.
b) amazing doctors.
c) medication.

> Have you tried the drugs?

Yes, quite a few actually.

> What worked or didn't?

What worked: medication + full trust in the doctor + lots of patience.

What it did not work: expecting to be back to "normal" fast.

> Have you been able to triumph without chemical assistance and what did that look like?

I really doubt I would have triumphed without chemical assistance.

> Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?

Terror is due to depression being taboo, and fear of the unknown. Medication is not to be underestimated. It has side effects, for me it was mostly feeling even less energy than normal. So I would not take them unless you have under close surveillance and you trust fully your doctor. On the other hand, they are very very effective. I am weaning-off medication slowly and I am experiencing no side effects.
Telling someone to do their own research and decide for themselves what's best != telling people to ALWAYS disregard what they are told to do by a professional

If the research/gut feeling disagrees with what the doctor is saying it raises additional questions. To me it sounds like you're telling people to blindly follow a doctor's advice. They definitely shouldn't disregard it, but blind faith is just as stupid
Piggybacking off of this, does anyone know of any PS4 apps that can stream Jellyfin content? I have a TV in the spare bedroom with a PS4 attached, but it's not really worth my time to go get some other dedicated device just for Jellyfin.
What worked for me was cutting all drugs and alcohol then waiting around 6-9 months for my mind to heal. Exercise if you want to wake up deliriously happy but the important part was no substances.
A government-controlled way to protest is not a protest, is it?

Nor is funnelling your voice through a private corporation, regardless of whether it is for profit or not.

Thanks for re-making my point for me I guess?
I have to wonder if spending the cost of the safe room on better pay/working conditions for your employees might buy you more safety. Home invasions are pretty rare, but workplace shootings are quite common and have a higher death rate.
If the code is there, it is potentially exploitable. So, opt out is nowhere near good enough. If it can send to remote hosts, this can be abused. This capability should not be there, at all.

Look at the recent logging fiasco for an example.
These are insightful and deep thoughts indeed :)

> I've no problem calling putin a corrupt politician. Just like I have no problem calling zelensky or biden or trump a corrupt politician.

Don't forget Pol Pot. These politicians are all the same.

I'm reminded of murderers Oscar Pistorious and Jeffrey Dahmer.

Likewise the terrorism of the French Resistance and Osama Bin Laden.

What a unique and valuable perspective to have. I'm sure you'd agree that such enlightenment is a curse, which is why the more feeble minded of us hide our eyes from these blinding truths.
It would depend on the legality of the situation -- like in Gibson's Neuromancer where a fully-intelligent AI has Swiss citizenship and yet the software and supercomputer it is running on is owned by a corporation -- “Like, I own your brain and what you know, but your thoughts have Swiss citizenship. Sure. Lotsa luck, AI.” as a character puts it.
Balancing Risks in the 'Séítah' Region – Flight 24
Nothing you can buy is going to protect you from a Spetsnatz team that is kidnapping you out of your home to stuff into a duffle bag marked 'Diplomatic mail'.

But if you in your suburban home are so incredibly paranoid about getting burgled, a heavy bedroom door with a lock will provide you 99% of the protection for 1% of the price.

And, unlike a gun and an itchy trigger finger is incredibly unlikely to kill or maim you, a family member, or an innocent bystander.
Wellbutrin doesn't work for everyone but its been mild / perfect for my depression, which I've struggled with my whole life too. Going to the gym, hiking and getting amped up on new dumb projects helps too but are a little more manic / unpredictable.

Anyway taking meds feels lame but my marriage / kid / career are more important than whatever that feeling is probably.

Right on for asking HN and getting so many response.
Devices like tokamaks use powerful electromagnets to compress a plasma. An alternative uses very powerful lasers to explosively vaporize and compress a pellet of fuel. In comparison, this uses the steampunk-esque method of firing a pellet of fuel into a target with a "hypervelocity gas gun".

This is just a press release, but an unusually informative one. For more information on what they have and have not done, see here:
https://twitter.com/FLF_Nick/status/1511374600575365122

(Link from apendleton: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30923527)

They have good evidence of deuterium-deuterium fusion. IIRC this is harder to achieve than deuterium-tritium fusion, but as tritium is radioactive with a half-life of ~12 years, it is much harder to acquire and work with. In their concept of a power reactor, they would apparently use the deuterium-tritium reaction, which with the latter being created by bombarding a lithium blanket with the neutrons produced by the reaction, something that is envisaged in most other fusion power concepts.
CIEMs completely solved this problem for me. Like you, I could only stand foam plugs for a short period. Nearly 7 years ago now I got a pair of 4-driver CIEMs from Alclair, and they are still going strong today. I can literally wear them for 8 or more hours at a time without discomfort - this is a godsend for air travel. I put them in before boarding and they stay in until I’m back in the terminal.