skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the studies I thought they were mainly quoting for that, I thought they usually showed there was similar reductions in both directions, but a greater reduction for source masking. That message somehow then got turned into there being no filtering for inhaling and that a masks only purpose is to protect others

All that being strongly dependent on picking a mask that has decent filtration though, since many don’t and only some do.
Here in Cologne I see most people paying with debit cards, with the exception of very old people.
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> I'm sorry I don't understand what you're talking about at all.

Have you ever written or maintained recipes for building software? PREFIX= support exists, but its not consistent and many packages need individual workarounds. Adjusting it is quite some work.

Which distro do you use? Made by whom? Be grateful that these guys do this work for you.
In the spirit of dreams and poetry:

__________________

Spreadsheets are my desired cuisine. Excel the dish I adore.

But fill it up with too many ingredients, and you’ll find Excel on the floor.

It happens all the more frequent now, as my grocery store is now a warehouse

So I pound my fists and curse and yell, and leave Excel in the guesthouse.

Lost without Excel, in a ‘landscape where nothing officially exists’

I saw a single cell appear above the dune in a hazy mist

Running up the dune, the grid displayed with all its might

A new spreadsheet designed for my growing appetite.

__________________

I’m one of the founders of Mito [1] (and a very bad poet). Like Spreadsheets are Dreams discusses, we believe that spreadsheets are the most powerful low-code tool because of their versatility to capture the simplicity or complexity of nearly any analysis.

As my poem tries to highlight, existing spreadsheet tools like Excel are not designed for today’s growing data sets. Today's spreadsheets should help users leverage their Excel skills while upgrading to a more robust and powerful environment like Python.

Mito is a spreadsheet extension to your Jupyter environment. You can display any Pandas dataframe as a spreadsheet, and edit it in a very similar way to Excel. For each edit you make, it generates the corresponding Python code below for those edits. Practically, you can think about Mito as recording a macro, but instead of generating VBA code, it generates Python.

[1] https://www.trymito.io/
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Yep, it was purely calling out the irony I saw in that.

I in fact I completely agree with the criticisms, though I personally find high level things like the list helpful at times because it causes me to think or provides me a heuristic to engage with. "When you lead, your real job is to create more leaders, not more followers" for instance, is not directly actionable, but it's a solid summation of and validation of a lot of the more tactical decisions, risks, and investments in people I've made as a manager. It's not directly actionable, but it succinctly puts into words a series of tradeoffs I've intentionally made in the past, which is helpful. Others on the list -are- directly actionable; for instance, I -did- use it as an excuse to go pull up a city tourist guide...and I found a few restaurants I now intend to check out, including a Spanish one with a Flamenco show that my wife will probably love, that I didn't even know existed.

I actually find specific advice very hit or miss (mostly miss); I've seen similar comments on journaling in the past, and I haven't found it helpful for me. Whereas anything I can hold in my head (and aphorisms fit, if as I thought about them I found them to hold weight, rather than just being truly empty statements, tautologies or statements of empty optimism that are meant to make you feel good rather than influence a decision) means it can pop up when suitably relevant and influence my behavior. For instance, with relationships, I missed my grandfather's funeral. Not a big deal to me at the time; he was dead, and I'd get to see my grandmother a few month's later at Christmas time when the semester was over. Except...she passed the day I was supposed to drive down. And it further drove a wedge between me and members of my family (that initially was there due to circumstances beyond my control) that I've only really begun to overcome in the past few years. All of that means I periodically, at random, have "what relationships are you neglecting?" pop into my head, as well as in response to certain occurrences (weddings and funerals are always a "yes" from me now, no matter how much of an inconvenience it is), and that implies action; "Oh, I haven't heard from my cousin in a while, let me just check in with her", etc.
Yeah, his complaint about newtypes is just incorrect.
Ask HN: Where does it make sense to Airbnb instead of LT Rent?
I do not understand why people put up their rental units on AirBnB. I've tried this past year, and I make so much more money just renting the property to long term tenants (Or even short term tenants who rent by the month). The prices that airBnB suggest are below what I would charge a monthly tenant. Throw in random cancellations, scammers, and how much work it is to manage a property that you're renting to multiple people each month, and I simply do not understand who chooses to use AirBnB outside of vacation destinations.
I use gnupg for this because it’s widely used/battle tested

https://blogs.sap.com/2022/04/23/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-...

For anything critical, I try to avoid tools that are neat/cool but developed by small teams or individuals where the maintenance could suddenly disappear, which is common.
They mention it elsewhere in the post, but there are a few types that are essentially pointers but don't look like pointers. Slices, maps, interfaces, and channels (and also functions, but that isn't that important here). So you cannot just think that anything that doesn't have an asterisk is a copy.

Besides that, there is also the fact that slices share underlying array storage, and `append` doesn't make a copy unless there is still capacity, which means that you should be careful when working with subslices that get appended to.

https://go.dev/play/p/Iqd84_eAMNF
Take it for what its worth from a random internet stranger, but Matt is a good dude. I'm a founder and I wouldn't change any of the advice he's laid out here.
Super cool! I've wanted something like this for months now.

It would be great to be able to edit texts that I've added. If that threatens to break the SRS model, I'd accept append-only edits.

My use case is that I'd like to memorize the recent Beowulf translation by Maria Dahvana Headley. Afaict the full text isn't floating around anywhere, so I need to transcribe from my physical copy. That's a lot of typing. I'd like to do it, say, 100 lines at a time, and add them into linebyline.app as I go.
Those indices are ridiculous, and at best merely reflective of the values of the people who compose them.
Disclaimer: This is not medical advice and I’m not a medical professional.

This may sound snarky but it’s not. Focus on life and not career and do not give into impostor syndrome. I’ve been where you are and after a significant illness for my then 3 yr old (pre-covid, and she’s doing really well now) made me re-evaluate my choices.

Work smart in your career and make sure life is taken care of first. Working hard rarely nets results unless you’re working hard for yourself (i.e. your own business, startup, hobby, side hustle, etc.).

If your immediate friend circle is mostly people who are focused on career and advancement (if I’m being presumptuous is where the feelings of regret are coming from) I would work to slowly change it and find some other hobbies. At this point, with your paycheck you are doing a whole lot better than 95% of the worlds population.

If this is overwhelming you - please seek professional help fast.
That's a very fair point - thank you!

I don't have a demo video to hand (I will make one soon!), but this is an example of a saved recording: https://share.repro.dev/ZESo4eZ7ZUf279k7RazOZ/#GLsenWjJJPxXY.... If you click the "Devtools" tab in the header, you are taken to an inspector view when you can interact with the recorded DOM.
I wish for either a proof that ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Log) is in BPP (Bounded Error Polynomial Time) or a proof that it isn't.
But I'd also accept the genie's statement that neither is provable in ZFC...
A couple of things to add to this: the language spec is like a page long and very readable. Also the entire compiler toolchain and everything is written in Go and doesn’t depend llvm etc. This doesn’t help the developer but is a pretty unique aspect of Go.
Send promotion emails with Shopify Orders at random
Isnt this the fallacy? Aren't those minimum prize percentages set in advance? As in, if a machine has a 0.0002% chance jackpot it will have that with each pull and no less (ie minimum prize percentage). Minimum prize percentage just means it never goes below a certain percentage (eg it can't go to zero). Also, the smaller payouts can be higher minimum percent. But over the long term the payout is always less than the cost to play.
She appears to be a crank pushing a "live vaccines are magic" theory.
Unrelated (though a fun read) to the content: Thank you for making your blog readable. The typography choices are exemplary.
Check out this album too: https://lazerhawk.bandcamp.com/album/redline
Why train when you can optimize?
I don’t believe so. Choosing a language that is faster (and still productive) from the get-go has almost no cost but reduces the risk of rewrite.
Good god, enough with this "fascist and nazi seem to have lost all meaning" nonsense. Let's call it the "No true fascist fallacy". I could bring the corpse of Himmler here and some people would regurgitate the same "Bu-bu-but that's not actually fascist enough!". OP was basically quoting the definition of Ur-fascism by Umberto Eco. Is that historically accurate enough for you? Or should we check beforehand if whoever he was referring to has ever took part in the Salo republic, before we commit the grave sin of not being taxonomically accurate?
My thought as well, trucks will always be more flexible, using existing road infra. It’s hard to see how tunnelling is a better idea, cool as it sounds.
But here it's really important, because people might mistakenly believe that this research proves that (a) you shouldn't wear a mask (b) you shouldn't tell people to wear masks.
As long as we are acknowledging that this isn’t allowed.

I know a lot of countries turn a blind eye to enforcing immigration and labor laws. Thailand being one of them.

Even Pieter Levels works out of Thailand and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a Thai work permit.
> To rapidly reveal the true character of a person you just met, move them onto an abysmally slow internet connection. Observe.

I like to think of myself as a levelheaded and rational person, but nothing gets me enraged more than barely working technology.
There is literally no reason or evidence that think that the restrictions had any effect at all let alone a significant one worth the trade offs. If for some reason you are allergic to Sweden you can compare England Winter 2022 with Germany, or Scotland or Wales. Or Germany to Switzerland after Feb, 16th 2022 when they dropped their measures. Or Florida with Cali. It didn't do anything. I am sorry but it's time to learn the truth.
On the contrary, historic fascism was obsessed with masculinity, strength, nationalism and created an environment of narcissism and cynicism.

It's well documented by historians.

TheOtherHobbes is using the term correctly.

To the naysayers: I recommend you travel and visit museums.
I think that you are conflating two different types of systems.

There are systems that use molten salt to transport heat. Several types of power generation systems are more efficient above the boiling point of water. The most famous of these would probably be solar collectors. The efficiency gains are higher at increased operating temperatures, so these systems are usually pushed to their limits. These can leak without causing an international incident.

Molten salt reactors, MSRs, are nuclear reactors that use a liquid fuel in place of a solid one. As far as I know, only a handful have ever been built and reached criticality. These were all done in the 50's and 60's. These systems have secondary and probably tertiary containment vessels in the case of leaks.

These are two very different, but often conflated, systems. Part of the reason for this is that many MSR designs use a secondary molten salt loop as a temperature step-down.

Here is the Wikipedia diagram for a MSR. Note the fuel salt loop, the molten salt coolant loop, and the steam turbine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor#/media/Fil...
One thing ‘straight shooters’ including me can overlook is that the listener isn’t in your head, and there are usually multiple interpretations of what someone says.

Especially when you factor in what might be implied by what you said. Or what different implications a person might take away from what you said than what you meant, because their context or assumptions are different.

One aspect of being kind (which I am working on) is trying to imagine different ways a simple, matter of fact, direct statement could be interpreted given everything the other person brings to the conversation.
> operator overloading is the spawn of Satan

I used to agree with you, because of the abuse of operator overloading like iostreams and making DSLs with it. D does support it, but in a way that discourages non-arithmetic uses (such as it won't allow < <= >= > to be overloaded separately).

Operator overloading allows for things like complex numbers, arbitrary precision numeric types, etc., to be done with a library module.
The serial interval of SARS-CoV-2 is/was claimed to be at the start ~3 days. So the delay is very short and this is one reason why we can be so sure masks had no effect. If they did, you would expect to see a sharp and visible inflection point in the graph three days later.

However no such inflection points are visible and this happens repeatedly.
Another way to put it: Excel is the leading tool to author boring science fiction.
Nice website and collection! I would remove the animations, they’re pretty distracting from the content
I have a vivid memory around the late 90s on a family roadtrip throug the rocky mountains seeing the car drive in front of us a bit erratically until a fucking entire ass nintendo 64 connected to a couple of controllers came flying out of the window of that car and we had to dodge it.

Uh yeah don't throw shit out of car windows to punish your kids. It's literally littering, and it's really dangerous. Always wondered why anyone would think this is OK and I wonder how much insanely weird parenting 'tips' like this have to do with it
Tell HN: Gmail flagged my Firefox account MFA email as “dangerous”
I recently attempted to log into a new Firefox instance with my Firefox account. As expected, I received an email with a verification code from accounts@firefox.com to my gmail account as part of the login flow.

This email was flagged by gmail. Above the body of the message, gmail inserted a scary looking red banner with the following text:

This message seems dangerous
Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information.

A link with the text "Looks safe" was presented (which I did click).

I made sure to check all the headers in the original message, and everything looked correct.
How to BuildInPublic a Startup?
> At least in the US it is always better to get a fixed rate loan (meaning fixed for the life of the loan, typically 30 years).

I don't know about that. I recently got a 10/1 ARM at 3.75% for my second home and it was a full 1.125% below a 30 fixed due to FHFA changes [0].

[0]: https://www.ezhomesearch.com/blog/second-home-mortgage-rates....
Rescuing the Art of Disagreement
Show HN: Webrtcwork.com – Resources for those working with WebRTC
> influencer videos are filmed by someone else. What if you didn’t need someone else?

This is a solved problem though.. in much higher spec (and not that much more expensive).

Suppose you're an influencer I guess you can shell out a few hundred more for a proper drone.

> Most drones are aimed at people who want to fly something

Also if you're talking about the largest drone maker on the market (DJI, >50% market share). This is not true, they are literally flying cameras, the whole point of those drones are to take pictures and videos.

They don't stick a 4K resolution camera, 3D gimbal stabilization on a 250g drone because customer wanted to 'fly something'. They do it because it is used to make footage (I own one).
No, you could use it to link to anything.

Which is the stated reason why they're killing it off. It was being abused and Github/Microsoft didn't want to take the time to maintain/moderate it.
With the Microsoft-Qualcomm ARM exclusivity deal ending very soon, Microsoft could make Windows 11 available for Apple Silicon platforms. This would benefit both Apple and Microsoft at the expense of Qualcomm (who would need to compete directly with Apple's pace of ARM development).
After flying 150th Falcon 9, SpaceX continues to make efficiency gains
The comment I was responding to listed "and it was when I encouraged a few friends to apply at my company" as the only time they had #1 happen. I was responding to that.
>That said, we still encourage users to make use of one of the many URL shortening services available with greater functionality than the git.io service provided. GitHub support will not be able to update or edit redirection records served by the git.io archive service.

No, wrong. Don't use a URL shortening service. Don't use any of them. Especially not in anything long-term.
When / if the bubble bursts, it will be as bad or worse than the dotcom and subprime bubbles. Tech and vc is not an insulated think like maybe it once was, it's the current equivalent of the 80s junk bonds, it's a ponzi scheme that could unravel hard. That will be really bad for a lot of people.

I added the "if" because I'm not convinced it will play out that way because we're in some weird post-capitalist mode now where money is infinite. I think we're more likely to just slip further into sort of neo-feudilism where there is always VC money to reward the right kinds of people and behaviors and the actual business matters even less. I don't know if that's better than a big collapse, I just think that's what will happen
M1 class? Does that mean it'll be proprietary without the ability to upgrade parts or assume compatibility with common hardware standards in order to squeeze out every bit of performance possible?
The British revolution, which is the first revolution, is still fairly recent on a historical timescale (and the later revolutions would arguably reshape Britain more than the British one ever did). My point is exactly that 2-300 years is not a particularly long time.

> Egypt, even though it was still intact by the times of Socrates, has had a number of changes and shake-ups, rises, falls, attempts to change the ancient state religion, etc.

There were some dynastic changes and bumps along the road, absolutely, but my point is the overall shape of Egypt was remarkably stable even through the Persian conquest.

Nothing comparable to modernity.
Well look at Israel, it had so many wars(some it almost lost). I would argue it made it stronger, more cohesive. I hope the same happens to Ukraine, despite the price it is paying.
Why should I care if Go/Rust/anything else becomes popular? I don't expect that if I don't "fight" against a language I'll be forced to use it in 2 years: there will be space for different techs, tools and so on.

I can agree with you if we talk about "tools" that attacks our privacy, our rights and our freedom: spend you time convincing people to abandon facebook or something similar and you'll do something good.

But in this case, it doesn't change much, imho.
Meh, this blog post is a rather subjective rant. I can offer the opposite opinion, although I'm not sure that's helpful. The more I use Go, the more I like it. I'm very productive with it, similar to -- though not quite on a par yet -- the productivity I had when I was programming in REALBasic. Most of the benefits of Go result from the tooling and the availability of 3rd party, open source libraries with permissive licenses that are "good enough" for my purposes. I could probably also use Python instead and benefit from even more 3rd party support, but there would also be downsides to it. I appreciate Go's compact executables and easy deployment.

Quite honestly, in what concerns choices of languages, my experience is that it's not so much the language per se that counts, but rather the tooling, developer community, and the availability of 3rd-party libraries.
This has perhaps been my biggest pain-point with Golang..

Woe unto those who do not follow the idiosyncrasies of how golang handles versioning, package management, tooling etc.

if this is really your most important part of a language I would whole-heartedly recommend looking at rust which has been a breathe of fresh air in terms of package management and tooling.
You'd still have to actually work there. It'd be for a pretty good salary, but is that the tradeoff you want to make? And a 12% decline is hardly catastrophic (Amazon stockholder).
Dyson Sphere Program - Solar Ring vs. Polar Solar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguTFa9tj3c

Dyson Sphere Program · Covering Half a Planet with Solar Panels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKxkWgknkco

Dyson Sphere Program - Solar Panels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO78pXYnjFA

Full day night cycle of solar panels | Dyson Sphere Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJr4HiVCwE
>What makes it a democracy is that all members of society participate in that conversation. Freely. Anything less is mere tyranny.

I guess the keyword there is „that“, right? Freedom of speech should not be restricted if it helps to support the democracy, but OTHER conversations are different matter. As I said, freedom of speech is not absolute and is checked by other freedoms and rights.
Twitter is definitely a bad place for nuanced discussion. I disagree about the 'and al', though.

Other platforms are much better for for long form communication and open discussion, e.g. Reddit, Zulip, etc.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious to me the author doesn't like Go and some of the arguments raised really aren't concerns in (my very limited part of) the real world.

I've written a fair amount of Go and I am not bothered at all by the general ergonomics of the language. Some of the issues the author points out (like accidentally copying structs with embedded synchronization primitives) are caught by linters which you should be using regardless of what language you are coding in.

Edit: I dabble with Rust from time to time as well.
>I’m skeptical that he can fundamentally change the incentives that make social media amplify extremist views over moderate views. “The other side is terrible” will always get more engagement than “we should work together”, even with validated identities.

There have been a ton of Elon doubters over the last 10 years.

I hope he is successful. We must get people back to the same team.
Also lessons of darkness. An amazing herzog documentary.
For what it is worth now, there a number of mask comparative analyses out there now (eg wirecutter) which measured the filtration and give recommendations on which masks are both easy to breathe through and good at filtering. It is not always the ones that are hardest to breathe through (though the counterfactual is generally true: being harder to breathe through generally corresponds to higher filtration)