skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the conclusion:

>The results of this postmortem cohort study demonstrated that COVID-19 infection could cause axon injuries and microvasculopathy in olfactory tissue. Overall, patients with smell alterations had more severe olfactory pathology than those with intact smell.

In layman's terms, people who reported loss of smell had damage to the nerves and blood vessels in their nose. That conclusion, and the paper's actual title, is quite a bit more mundane and less alarmist than the submitted title here ("Covid Smell Loss Linked to Damage in Brain").
> Just fair warning: you seem to be under the assumption that “boring” means “straightforward and just makes sense.” It does not. If you’re looking for that… good luck! Update if you find somewhere and I’ll join you.

I suspect that there's a fair amount of overlap—not total, but quite a bit—between companies that were doing old stuff The Right Way, with lots of well-considered automation and high-quality backups and well-documented, repeatable, largely scripted configuration, and companies that are on some of the "sexy" tech now. So it might be even harder than it used to be to find a company doing things the "boring" way but who don't have a horrible, barely-functioning mess on their hands.

I'd think some of the nerdier, niche tech places probably run things OK and not super new-school. Something like Rsync.net, maybe. Possibly places that like BSD in general will tend not to be on the new hotness. Difficulty: those sorts of places tend to have pretty low head counts so it may be hard to land a job at one (go figure, much of the tried and true stuff Just Works and doesn't require a ton of babysitting if you halfway know what you're doing)
I have 409 tabs open at the moment… (more on my desktop computer)
One reason why it matters is so you can make predictions and plan accordingly. If it is because of a short term shock or a medium term problem or a long term global configuration change then your response to $7 gas will likely be radically different.
There are two parts of the Raspberry Pi organisation - the Foundation(a charity) and the Trading company(not a charity).

The hardware is developed sold by the non-charitable part, and recently announced that they prioritise orders from industrial customers over private ones. You cannot expect them to act like a charity - they aren't one.
Most of those seem to be kubernetes autoscaler plugins that allow your cluster to manage resources in that cloud. That's quite different from cloud providers managing the cluster.
AS&S is, in a relatively literal sense, next door to me. Fun bunch of folks whenever I stop by.

But as a late 70s Gen Xer, I would never trade living through that transition period from pre-Internet to Internet. You can't pay to have had that experience or perspective, and what transpired through those years from BBSes to pre-Web to Web adoption, from technological and sociological standpoints, was _insane_.
>For the most part, though, “racism” is a doctrine we ascribe to others in order to damn and ostracize them.

No, racism is the belief that another race is inferior. It isn't ascribed to hurt people, it's ascribed when someone makes a racist statement, in order to maintain community standards of behavior. Just like we ascribe pedophilia to someone who has sexual relations with children.
> Reputability is not equally subjective

Reputability is the aggregate of individual opinion, which is the definition of subjectivity.
> They see empowering another group as taking something away from their group.

In some cases, it actually is. For example, NYC decided to phase out its gifted and talented program because it "segregated students". [1]

So now, because some students aren't equitably represented in the gifted and talented programs, we take away from the (probably) white and Asian students who would benefit.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/us/new-york-gifted-and-talent...
Yeah I was wondering too. Not that people wouldn't use it, but I wonder about what the transition is from "this is handy" to "I want to continuously pay for this service / enough that it is consistent enough / earns me money back enough to do this and not something else".
The cookie is purely functional and necessary to the functionality, but I'll still ask for consent even if is not required.
Of course. I stumbled on that sentence too. Maybe he meant something else or he is very young. The only difference was that they were called ASPs, not SaaSs.
While some like the NYT and their 1619 project try to paint the US as happily filled with slavers, the reality is that there was already plenty of division around the time of the US revolution. Indeed there were even slave owners like Thomas Jefferson who expressed reservations publicly. He called it “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot." Did he do anything about his own plantation? Well, no. That's the rub. But his writings show that opinions were pretty negative already. Actions, though, took a long time to follow.
$7? Puh! Last week it was up to $9 over in Germany.
I agree that privacy grades are misleading, they could be replaced by the number of trackers blocked.
Inflation in the west is Russia's goal. There is an economic war going on, for those that are not aware.
Ask HN: What can you install on a work computer?
I don't have a whole lot of experience yet working for companies, and I'm trying to plan ahead for what my tool flow might be like when I do and what the approval process might be like for installing tools.

I'm sure the exact procedure varies from place to place, but let's say for example that the work computer is Linux and I want to build & run the latest emacs on it. But to do that I first need to install libsXYZ.deb/rpm. Do I need approval first to install emacs, as well as for each lib that is installed (even if I can install them without using sudo)?

Do I need approval for every proceeding emacs minor mode, Linux lib, Python package, etc. that are installed? I currently tend to install many open source tools and libs to aid me and that would seem like a hassle getting approval for each one. That also seems like it would slow down debugging what packages are missing when resolving Linux dependency issues etc.
My sense is that its no longer a crisis because the media is not hyping it nearly as much as it was. Of course, that's probably a reaction to ratings.
The article is saying that Zapier is ripe to be unbundled.

Meaning it does many different things across many verticals, and that some of them are big enough that a company could be created around building a more specialized / better version of zapier just for a specific vertical.
Modern ("scientific" [1]) racism was born out of a misinterpretation of Darwinism. Under such interpretation there's no concept of "punishment" or "guilt", so saying that "racism is wrong because collective guilt is wrong" will not dissuade any bona fide "scientific" racist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

The term "scientific racism" is very unfortunate, because it is all but scientific (i.e., it is basically entirely disproven by our modern knowledge about human genetics). Hence my use of the double quotes.
Demand Evidence to Worry
Those people were probably just as excited when NSO's Pegasus became commercially available. For the rest of us, that wouldn't be the case.
Same!
I'm actually going this year... last time was 2010!
furthermore, if you're a house-owning boomer who bought their first house for $25k and it is now worth $1m+, inflation can be seen as quite good
My (rather out-of-date) experience with banks is that they have no problem adopting new tech but they don't retire the old tech. Add in a bunch of mergers and you get an unholy mess.
I think I got it now. Thank you.
> I'm super happy for all the random interaction, problem solving together and coffee breaks. The social interaction enables us to work better in the team.

Ah yes, the pervasive disruptive social din of an office. Unstructured, random and disruptive interactions. How anyone achieves optimal focus and gets into the zone when in an office is beyond me.
I'd try to frame the experience as a sunk cost (i.e. cannot be changed) and try not to quantify it. Instead focus your energy on developing your skills and keeping yourself healthy going forward. Easier said than done of course.
Predictions on where it goes from here?
I'll take a stab at it.

Imagine you sit at your desk all day answering emails. Emails come in, responses go out. Except when you step back from the desk, it's just a black void. Information from your eyes? That's just an email saying what grandma looks like. Pain in the leg? Re: URGENT. Nothing exists beyond the emails. The emails are reality. The brains representation language is the same as it's actual language. Why have more than one language?
Given the amount of confusion here, it's not universal. HN can do better than Bloomberg or WSJ. Clarity matters, mods should change the title.
This argument only works against a particular type of racism that is rather antiquated. People exploring racism contemporarily focus on presumed-heritable characteristics such as intellectual potential or "capacity" for violence and crime. Moral arguments are harder to land in modern societies, but utilitarian ones can stick on just a few statistically-insignificant quantifiers – to the purpose of racists and anti-racists alike.
I will try this once, be amazed, and promptly forget it.
"If you don't include war, other countries, or a shipping crisis, all inflation is due to the fed!"
Diminishing returns? Covid vaccines that can be developed over a weekend due to computing power don't sound like diminishing returns, more like we are just getting started.
An update that fixed most download issues went out recently -- are you still seeing any issues there?

On blocking, it is as comprehensive when it comes to trackers, if not more so -- see comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31002232. However, from the post: "Our built-in tracker blocker isn’t a general “ad blocker”, but it does have the effect of blocking most creepy ads. Let me explain. Using our best-in-class tracker data set we block invasive trackers, which then typically blocks the invasive ads themselves. In other words, if you use an ad blocker to avoid creepy ads and tracking, you should like DuckDuckGo for Mac."
What you've done looks pretty smart and definitely worth a deeper look. My main interest is in visual design generating code, especially for animation timing.

The concept may be portable - the devil is in the millions of details on which I've seen many promising tools bog down and die.

Also, please, don't say _first of its kind_ unless you've done enough research to be confident.
The fact that people take GitHub stars so seriously is a perfect example of how tech lost it's way. What should be worthless Internet Points now is now a resume bargaining chip.

By this logic, a tiny self-bootstrapping metacircular Lisp evaluator is orders of magnitude less cool than Webpack.

The reality is: only one of those projects is beautiful, and actively expands the imagination.
Urban renewal was the realization of Le Corbusier's ideology at a large scale. It really was his vision. Focussing on a detail whether corridors have light or not, I think is somewhat of a diversion.

Urban renewal did not fail because it was done cheaply, or dumbed down (which it was). It failed because it was fundamentally the wrong approach to city building.

We're still living with the consequences. Our current built environment is modernist; mediated by technology, planned, bureaucratic.

It's due time Le Corbusier is getting his comeuppance. It took a long long time. The first criticism were in the 70s, but postmodernism could not get beyond pageantry. And when I was in college 20 years ago, modernism was still venerated in the architecture departments, because the architect-as-god remained so appealing (btw Ayn Rand was similarly infatuated, it's an odd quirk of history how both communism and libertarians found common ground in this one domain). It's slowly fading. I think the dyke is going to break, and we'll put Le Corbusier where he belongs. A hugely influential misanthrope, who made categorically bad architecture.

(also really sad, because early in his career, Le Cobusier's single family homes were really quite appealing).
doesn't work with floats, due to NaN, infinity
> It's impossible to overlook that single character because your code won't compile otherwise

I was thinking about the case where there is a `?` in the code but the reader glossed over it, thinking it didn't return an error.

> Unlike Go, you cannot accidentally ignore an error condition in Rust.

There is no way to discard the error without explicitly doing so, and even then you still have to decide on a non-error return value to return (because Rust functions that fail provide an error or a value and not both, unlike fallible golang functions). I agree, I think Rust is strictly better in this capacity.

> People who believe Golang is explicit and hard to ignore errors but think that Rust is implicit and easy to ignore errors have never used both languages, full stop. I challenge you to provide me with an example of Rust code that ignores an error without explicitly and obviously doing so.

You seem to be unduly defensive. This was never my claim. I have used and enjoy Rust. We're all friends here :)
AIM subprofiles were my first foray into writing HTML, hosting web servers, and "hacking." I used a server called SmallHTTPServer to host my subprofile that I later ended up bundling into a self-extracting ZIP file. The trick was to make people think the ZIP was just photos. When you did Direct Connect to people, you could see their IP address in your command prompt. So when they opened the ZIP it started serving their C:\ drive over FTP/HTTP at a known IP. Good times.
As a middle-aged software engineer, I really don’t get this. I am massively more productive WFH and have issue tracker stats to prove it.

Team velocity? What do people who say this do all day? Are you in sales?
Lol, realized your first comment was rude eh? (He originally asked how brain fog related to the article)
Isn’t that ESP8266, not ESP32?
Yes, that's not incompatible with what I said.
The exterior of the Notre Dame du Haut is simplistic, not beautiful (although the slope of the roof is nice). The interior design is striking in its layout, but overall both are ugly due to the materials used.

This building looks like a first draft of the final design, and really does not deserve to be used for religious purposes.
Search algorithms are preferential and biased by design. They are always tuned for a certain result, and usually that's with a bias towards accurate information. Obviously they've failed at this in the past, present, and future, but it should hardly be surprising that literal propaganda produced by a highly militarized government run by a tyrant is being down ranked.
On premise can be a lot cheaper for bandwidth intensive app. We have a 10gbit/s dedicated fiber we use at like 80%, it cost us 1500$ per month (power+fiber). This kind of bandwidth is 10 to 100 times more expensive on the cloud depending on the service. Of course, no CDN, but as our customers are mostly local, we don't need global presence.

Also, we serve this from a single epyc based server, using elixir/phoenix. It's at about 6gbit/s outbound traffic. I realize this is not uber redundant, but it works and keep the costs low.
There's no accountability for spreading misinformation. Or for spreading opinions and casting them as facts.

There are no retractions. There are no apologies.

There's no value.

Making claims without evidence, especially pretending you have expertise when you do so, decreases the signal to noise ratio on HN.

And yes, it's exhausting to watch. I wish we would hold each other to a higher standard.
Mind you, it can get even more archaic than .NET/JVM ("hey, never change a running system, plus, even if we wanted, we wouldn't have the money to pay for it")
The "value of a dollar relative to a real asset" is called inflation.
It's not unambiguous. In fact when people say the dollar loses value over time they are almost always talking about local currency only, not in relative to foreign currency terms.

"USD is down" is only implied to be about foreign currencies in a trading/finance context
Oh I remember using fake CC generators in the nineties, as a teenager, and being amazed that it permitted to create accounts on some* websites.

* yes, porn
It's for people who think racism is wrong and want a reason to avoid being introspective about what they can do about living in and benefiting from a society built on racism.
Wow I think this one is the best yet, I really like the visual look too. But it doesn't seem ready to be used? A part from the confluence link there's no mention of a license or how to use it a part from a "contact us" form.
The human brain also forgets, something that may be a feature instead of a bug. Also, beyond compression––brains are simulation machines: imagining new scenarios. Curios to understand if ML provides anything analogous to simulation that isn't rote interpolation.
"educated" ... right there in the lede
Ask HN: What is this mental technique called?
I read about this in a kind of new-agey self-help book more than 10 years ago and I don't remember the author or the book title. I'm looking for the source. It's something like this:

1. Something happens to you - interaction with a person, some mundane or significant event, whatever it is.

2. You have your "first response" to it - that's the first thought that comes to you after the event, maybe it's your first reaction when you read a comment online, or when a colleague does something you don't like etc.

3. You discard your first response and think "if that's not my response, then what is". A second possible response comes up in your head. You get rid of that one too.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for a while - possible ways to respond occur to you and you discard them.

The general idea was that the later responses are more mature, more compassionate, more useful etc. and you're systematically working your way to them.

Any idea where this is from?
This is not what is meant by the phrase, "X currency is down." A decrease in purchasing power of a currency is known as "inflation."
You can also join the waitlist from our Android app. We needed this step to limit people in the beta as we make improvements before general release, and already made an in-app waitlist for our Email Protection and App Tracking Protection betas.

As for Apple Pay, we would love to add Apple Pay to both DuckDuckGo for Mac and iOS, but currently Apple does not expose the APIs to enable us to do so.
Why? They said they already had it which means they'd now have natural immunity. What would be the point of getting a vaccine for something you're already immune to? Am I missing something here?
> I was 13. Not much came out it but some very strong words from a local magistrate, who ultimately they showed clemency.

Same thing happened to a friend. After that, I got into music and developed a more "healthy" approach to the internet... using it to learn about synthesizers and download the occasional cracked plugin.
A friend of mine from some time back chatted about this once. His take was that as you get older, your "mental models" grow and are able to cover larger parts of your day/week/month and your mind simply keeps the important parts but lets the rest fade.

When you're younger, those models are less complete and larger parts of your waking moments are needed to build the foundations of these models, so you feel like time is slower since so much more of your time is kept "fresh".

I'm probably butchering his take on it, but I blame my own mental models for compressing away the finer details!
Now invite the various blogs to which this links to embed it on their web pages, and bring back the web ring of old.
The scope of IT at a JMPC or a BAML is massive, and has grown both through acquisition and organically over decades. Virtually any technology you can think of is most likely being used or (at least being supported) by some unit at the bank. In a recent year JPMC's IT spend was $12 billion. In my personal experience (at JPMC) I knew groups who were using Clojure and Scala (while my manager assured me such technology was not authorized at the bank.) I knew of groups on AWS, on e on Azure and some using an internal Cloud Foundry implementation. (My group was running bond monte carlo's in an abortion of an IBM compute grid system straight out of 1992.) I personally knew of Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and KDB installations. Kapital - possibly the most famous commercial use of Smalltalk originated at JPM.

The point is - it's difficult to make generalizations about orgs that big.
I think a good name for this is 'discontention'. Discontent + contention. People are now dissatisfied with their view of reality being challenged by people they know and talking heads, and because of that there is major contention (in the computer science sense) over what people want the narrative to be, and what decisions they want the people in power to make.

For a long time I have thought Trump being elected was the greatest psy-op of all time. Do you have any idea how much time people spent talking about him, thinking about him, etc? I mean his presidency could have slowed down progress because of that by a percentage point even if you ignore every policy decision he made or opinion he shared. Now people are even more emotional, thus more irrational, and now you are looked down on for not having a strong bias.

There are people who want to centralize power with the unitary executive theory, and make the president even more powerful, because then the president can bypass any level of 'discontention' by the public or other officials. So, basically, my theory is that by creating 'discontention', with either a left or right wing policies or presidents, will always lead to more centralization of power.

Most people define power as the ability to control and influence others. Personally, I define it as resource allocation.
So the state takes care of your kids for most of your work day.

Congratulations— you’ve won the lottery by living in one of the few places in the US that has a functioning public school system (or else you’re going the private route, which means you don’t need t congrats to know you’ve won the lottery).
From what I can tell it is take offs - aircraft coming in to land, even though they are much closer, tend to be inaudible.

It might be because we are relatively high up (about 100m) and most of the distance between us and the airport is over the sea.

Edit: Just checked on a map and when most aircraft take off from Edinburgh's runway into the prevailing wind they are pointing pretty much directly away from us which might make it more noticeable.
I'm not doing either at the moment. Why do you ask?
That's the opposite of the point here.

> The very fact that his designs were so easily modified was, arguably, their strength.
It is not consent if the only option is to say yes.
The Myers-Briggs system distinguishes call these two perspectives "Sensing" (detail orientated) and "Intuition" (theory/model based) [not the best names]. And it posits that it's less a matter of importance people place on things and more that people literally notice different things and perceive the world differently (so it's not even just about remembering, it's about what you notice and how your mind represents the world in the first place).