skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a lot to unpack there.

We develop a lot of different vaccines concurrently — while I know you mean covid vaccines in general, that’s not even one vaccine, it’s multiple competing products from different manufacturers using fundamentally different methods and licensed/regulated differently.

The reason they all happened fast was everyone was willing to burn money, essentially, to parallelise tasks that are normally sequential for the very good reason that if the first fails the rest are pointless.

AIDS is more deadly (36.6 million HIV/AIDS deaths vs 6.3 million COVID deaths), but also less infectious (56-100 million HIV/AIDS cases vs. 524 million COVID).

“Totalitarian”, I'm old enough to remember when that meant literally Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, not the mild inconvenience of being required to prove you’re not a walking biohazard in situations where that can’t just be assumed, for example that time I went to Kenya in 2015 and had to get a vaccine for yellow fever so they would let me pass through the airport.
It was one of the most upvoted threads just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431224
Very much related to my comment [1] two days ago on Please Stop Using Grey Text [2] that says essentially the same thing with more verbiage

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421666

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420938 (397 points by marban 1 day ago, 376 comments) - https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acf...
However, they certainly like to keep up appearances:

> What do I wear on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train?

You can never be overdressed on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train! For dinner, we ask for formal evening attire and many guests like to don black tie and wear their most glamorous finery for the occasion. Smart daywear is appropriate during the day. At lunch, for example, a jacket/tie or equivalent is suitable. Jeans are not acceptable at any time.

Mustaches, monocles and pocket watches are probably desirable too, although I'm not sure you would get a rebate if you have one...
I've seen quite a few popular extensions die due to browser changes that removed APIs. Somehow that sort of rug-pull doesn't seem to happen much with websites or mobile apps.
People ask OP for help a lot, wants him in their meetings. Should he say: No, I'm browsing the web

Switching company, or starting his own, seems like good ideas yes. Maybe even as a freelancer / contractor
I too want a foldable with the latest generation tech but is that available today?

At the time I bought the z-flip 3 my understanding was that the tradeoff was unavoidable. My opinion at the time of purchase was that the incremental benefit of the latest version of CPU, camera and battery were pretty marginal relative to the large benefit from the unique form factor.

I'm not currently in the market but that could well have changed if new foldables have since been released.
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They'd still need a framework chassis, so this market is probably a tad smaller (either they are late upgraders or something broke). But yes, this works, too.
I'd love to know how "Moderna's HIV Vaccine Prepped for Trials in Rwanda and South Africa" doesn't fit the context.
This thinking likely stems from art studies: in classical painting, black is generally taught as one of the forbidden pigments because of ”nothing in nature is black” and, more functionally, because it cannot be used to darken other colors without losing vibrancy and thus a black area cannot smoothly blend to another color.
It would be a cool little side project to automatically track TODO's and FIXMEs with an issue tracker. There is a lot of monkey work involved with issue tracking currently and a lot of work that isn't tracked or poorly tracked because of it. Lowering the barrier to make work and tasks more visible is useful.
I was born and lived in a small town in Italy for the first ~30 years of my life, with small breaks in Rome, Los Angeles and a few others.
Then lived in Luxembourg, Singapore (two years each), and 9 years in San Francisco.

The noise in San Francisco was terrible. You could hear the highway at all times, and of course you could hear the trash truck 3 days a week, usually twice in the same night (1am or 2am, and 3am or 4am - how DUMB). My sleep quality, you can guess, was pretty bad.
I bet I lost 1-2 years of lifespan just for this. I'm not kidding, and please do not assume I'm exaggerating either.
And then of course the occasional gunshots (once or twice a year - I lived in the Mission district), of the frequent police or firefigthers sirens.

It often felt like VIOLENCE. A first world problem, yes (especially when considering that you are surrounded by homeless people) but violence nonetheless.

For the past 1.5 years I've been living mostly in Venezia, Italy. (you can call it Venice, I found that sometimes when I say Venice, without "Italy", people assume Venice in Los Angeles. What a dumb thing).

Venice is incredibly silent. You can occasionally hear a motor boat, but that's it, maybe with just a few contained exceptions (Campo Santa Margherita at night, where lots of youngsters gather to drink and make quite some noise).

I love it. I think you can fully understand only if you have lived for a long period in the countryside. Otherwise, it's really hard to understand the positive impact of a silent city, and a silent night.

New York will never be like Venezia, but I bet they can improve things a lot.
Artificial Intelligence sleep app may mean an end to sleeping pills
Information density is worse and the design is too heavy/bubbly.
If you're interested in this you need to search under the terms:

psychoacoustics of subjective loudness perception, annoyance, sound
and attention, arresting sound, sound localisation/directivity or
spatial audio in exterior acoustics. These will give you a measure of
the breadth of this research field. For health effects you can start
with the WHO or IOA (institute of acoustics) searching under
cardiovascular effects of long term exposure, accumulative harms or
exposure, and noise harm metrics respectively.
I recommend people with similar interests take a look at uBlock's filter language (yes, the ad blocker). It's a short and shallow learning curve until you can inject your personal CSS into webpages, and incrementally tweak them.

Two small examples:

"Show all text on the internet as black"

*##*:style(color: black !important)

"Show comment text on HN as bold"

ycombinator.com##.comment:style(font-weight: bold !important)
Quite fascinating to spectate a product systematically destroy its own user experience over time.
That's not the link under the Latest news section on https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stablegains
Oh yes, there are moustaches.
Events from Sochi 2014 and Tokyo 2020 to have medals and diplomas reallocated
I always look for one-way tickets to get the best deals. this site loads really fast and already loaded flights from my country starting $30. amazing, bookmarked for next flight!
Also, with the kind of smug tone op has posted his comment, I'm reasonably sure he doesn't understand that basic techniques fir x86 optimization have actually remain largely unchanged and what worked then also works reasonably well now, despite compiler improvements
Hi, Im afraid not, at least not yet.

Interoperability is not really the idea here, more-so of a simpler language that gets turned into latex.

On the other hand, for your own operators, you may be able to still use this.

Everything that has a "\" prepended like "\sin", "\ln", etc... is defined in a file called "syntax_regexp.json" which keeps track of them, so in theory you could edit the file and change some definitions, but it's far from being completely modular.
To be honest, I like the idea. I have used night trains in Europe before and they are a great way to travel and save a day when on holiday.

The one thing they really need. To get right is the bed needs cannot be perpendicular to the direction of motion. That sucks.
There's a difference between using "soft black" and using low-contrast gray like you're Apple in the 2010s.

The thing about pure black isn't that it's unnatural, but that when paired with white its contrast can actually be uncomfortable and less accessible than a slightly toned down color combination (especially on full brightness).
> The change made here adds a set of new quicksort functions which suit some common datatypes. These quicksort functions have the comparison function compiled inline to remove the function call overhead.

Stuff like this frustrates me. This is what generics are for in most languages. Looking at the commit[0], this is a _perfect_ example of where a sprinkling of C++ features (a very basic template) would outperform the original C version. It's also super disappointing that in 2022 we're still manually marking 10- line functions used in one place and called from one site as inline.

[0] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
Its a shame they don't have the option of AMD processors, the rdna2 igpu's included in the new ones would be more than sufficient for me, whereas my understanding is that the intel igpu's leave a lot to be desired.

As game dev is one of the main things I do with a personal PC, sadly this means Im somewhat tied down to having a decent gpu. RDNA2 would be perfect for me, powerful enough to dev on and weak enough to test on (so I dont need a seperate low-spec machine for testing low-end performance).
It's easy to forget how strong the filter bubble is on Reddit. I very rarely encounter any of the gigantic subs and to me, the quality of discussion is fairly good. But geez, if everything devolves to r/politics then I'm out, permanently.
Some times less is more, when it comes to things like contrast.
It seems a little surprising that GIN indexes have never been improved to allow for efficient sorting. Is this just not in enough demand to receive any attention or is there a technical aspect that makes it particularly difficult?
The feature list basically sounds like Swift.
Somewhat related, Kurzgesagt is amazing.
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It's difficult to say without knowing your situation. Personally I would wait a few months at least to be sure that the biggest bugs are killed. Then if it's a new project or something not critical, I may upgrade without any precaution and hope for the best. For something more critical I would rely on the integration tests and manual testing in a pro-production environment for a few weeks. Before the final upgrade, I would finally do a few practice upgrade runs and be ready to rollback if needed.
There is also an annoying flow in Incognito mode where it asks you to switch to the app, but then directs you to the app store instead. I assume for some security reason they cannot launch the app from Incognito mode.

I don't know why they are so annoying with this mobile app stuff as I would be a big supporter otherwise.
I'd expect most people to install a charger at home so you can charge overnight. Is this not done much in the US?
I worry about structural safety ratios and the inevitable knock off products that end up failing after completion
Justine here. We recently started a Discord chatroom https://discord.gg/WH25psU9 for Redbean / Cosmopolitan Libc / etc. You're invited to join us! You're free to ask myself and others for help on using / understanding Cosmopolitan Libc in this chatroom. You can also just come to hang out and meet the authors.
Risk is situational. Covid is a much greater risk to me personally, given my current sex life.

I don’t know what the fatality rate would’ve been if any given wave of covid hadn’t been contained with all the things the world did, but I can say a naïve scaling up from number of cases to 80% of the global population would imply 75 million deaths, which is more than all the AIDS deaths.
True collectors do exist who collect something purely because it's rare. In MtG the most obvious example are 'misprint' fans who enjoy collecting cards that got accidentally printed off-center, or upside-down, or in the wrong colour. The rarity is literally the only thing those cards have going for themselves, as they're usually mediocre or unplayable in the game itself.

True collectors do exists, but they are outnumbered 1:1000 by ordinary players who sigh and say "oh man, I'd love to play $card, it's perfect for my deck, but I don't have the money for it, this shit sucks".

Modern video games have found a satisfactory compromise by allowing everybody to enjoy the game on a level playing fields without restrictions, and then using cosmetics to bait the collectors into getting addicted, with all the dark patterns we know and loathe - artificial scarcity, FOMO, etc.

If MtG took the same lesson to heart and released every year a 'play set' where you can pay like $50-$100 to get all the new cards needed in regular form, and then had separate randomized products for collectors with a chance at shiny or alternate art versions, I'd get back into the game on the spot.
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If you want to start your own forum, I recommend FlaskBB. Discourse is awful on so many levels.
Definitely looks pretty bad - but on the other hand, an accelerator not making any bets in crypto is not a sensible accelerator. You need to make bets everywhere and hopefully some stick. The other side of that is some don’t stick, and some go proper pear shaped. Make enough bets, it has to happen.

I’ve got no idea what their original pitch is, I certainly wouldn’t back a crypto startup that ostensibly aims to do something like what it looks like they tried to do, but if I was making 300 bets a couple times a year I’d be silly not to do something in the space.

Whether a ycombinator seal of approval lead to investment which lead to consumers getting fleeced and culpability in that situation, I don’t know. It’s crypto. If you’re silly enough to think it’s a safe investment, you’re blind. A company can also say a lot of things differently from first pitch to accepting millions from consumers. As an investor with 10%ish equity, you’ve got some sway, but you don’t have much sway. And who is to say their bet isn’t the right one.

A stain, but I don’t know about righteous indignation, I don’t know how much culpability transfers back to yc… but I don’t feel it’s a whole lot
That's exactly the kind of calculation that led to phasing out Google Reader. How did that go? ;)
Yeah... everything on old.reddit works fine for me as well.

Maybe OP was confused that Reddit blocks all comments on posts older than a certain amount...?

Not really sure what to make of this.
Serious question, and I hope someone could help me: I am going through a restoration work next year (2023) which involves concrete and a very delicate environment (city of Venezia, Italy), and would love to try to use graphene to strengthen the concrete. Quantities are not huge, so cost would not be a big issue for this particular project.

What would be the best way to experiment with it, other than contacting Levidian Nanosystems and/or Dr. Tour and ask them?
MI5 agent used secret status to terrorise girlfriend
Dear Author/Maintainer,

Why do you even accept giant patches which you can’t review?!
> Americans ate more calories in 1909 than in 1960

They also did A LOT more manual labor back then. Heavy construction projects (roads, dams etc.) were still performed by thousands of people literally swinging a pick-axe 10 hours a day, slowly chipping away at the hill that stood in the way. That must have required couple thousand of extra kcal per day. Meanwhile, in 1960, a lot of most energy-consuming work was already performed by machines.
My personal favourites would be the Bounty title track, which is incredible because it just tells the whole story musically in about 4 minutes!

And the title sequence of Antarctica (the Japanese movie from 1983), which nobody has ever seen, I mean the movie is good, even if a little strange, but the title... I cannot imagine what it would have been like watching it on the big screen and listening to it in a theatre... back in 1983.

Secret tip: you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/fNaV3CHCs6g
Riding a motorcycle is absolutely not "a problem of ones own making". My commute for about 5 years was between 2-3 times quicker on a motorcycle than it would have been in a car on average and it reduced congestion for other road users. You could apply your logic for basically any form of transport - "We shouldn't have bus lanes, they're just solving a problem of bus riders' own making by annoying everyone else".

There's no reason for stupidly loud exhausts (although ICE motorbikes will likely always be louder than cars due to the exposed engine and not enough room for a larger muffler), but that has nothing to do with your apparent irrational hatred of motorcycles.
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Same here (Even though I've not used reddit in an age!), However I do have "Use new Reddit as my default experience" disabled in my prefs - https://old.reddit.com/prefs/
here in India, a bunch of 10-minute grocery delivery startups have raised literally billions over the last few months. All operations are extremely capex heavy - they have to create hundreds of dark stores in every city to service a 2-3km area.

Growth has been stellar, but what the numbers don't tell you is that the growth is simply achieved by subsidizing users. Delivery is completely free, prices are discounted, and they'll deliver any amount. I know people who will order half a dozen times a day for something as small as a pack of potato chips and a coke (order value: $1). Because why not if you're getting it for free?

What happens to these startups if funding dries up and free delivery is off the table is anyone's guess.
fighting fire with their own fire
I suppose you're referring to ÖBB's Nightjet - didn't they buy the old sleeper cars from DB?
Yes. Through third party wrappers which do the render, and a bust cache or some other stuff up which misattributed a flag.

What I don't think they did is screen grab a tweet and ask their photoshop guy to add a blue tick. À
It's time to learn a new trade.
Yeah, the only part actually relevant to travellers is hidden away under a website which hacks out the scroll bar and is really low on actual information. It is exactly that paragraph which matters.
Like many of you, I had to search to figure out how to book. Checked their social media and they’re lionising Pullman who, yeah sure, revolutionised luxury train travel but who was also an exceedingly terrible human.
I'm mostly thinking of all those landline ISPs in Asia that I hear never got any IPv4 IPs to start with..?
Okay, if the account has been compromised: why don’t you keep a known-good offsite backup?
In context of work/study or any professional time, it depends on the person being criticized, whether the criticism will be taken as a good (constructive) or not. And it is better not to do it publicly.

But when it comes to criticizing a person for what he does in daily life or his behavior with others as long as we don't know him, here we have no right to do, it is simply a part of personal freedom: never judge people's actions until they hurt us...
It's a joke, but these processors are extremely low power. A coin cell can power them for years (depending on what it's doing)
I discovered this some time ago, and I hope to take this trip with my wife some day. I'm certainly planning to go all out on top hats and everything.
Higher rate of 500x errors, possibly from CDN (not sure which they use): https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/3u6RLsL7k/status-page?orgId=...
Highly recommend a tool called Syntorial if anyone really wants to dive deep into sound synthesis. It's an interactive tutorial that walks you through creating a basic sound all the way up to complex synthesis.
Infinite scroll is one of the most obvious. Infinite scroll promotes content consumption and not creation and is one of the most addictive patterns in web and app design. It's also less dense and totally irrelevant to what made reddit great, which was niche discussions and not image macros or whatever.
I'm currently working (on and off) on improving the performance of specific "kinds"/"shapes" of btree indexes by several %s (depending on shape it can be tens of percents). I hope and expect that it'll be ready for Pg16, but that of course assumes that the concept behind the implementation is acceptable.

See https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEze2Wg52tsSWA9F... for specifics
It's a good question to ask, although in the case of this project, there don't seem to be any merged code reviews with large line diffs?
The problem here is not a bet on crypto but a company that basically went "oh hey sorry too bad the USD displayed on your account is actually UST. K thx bye".
Don’t you have to ask the composer for permi$$ion anyway? Or do things work differently in Hollywood?
If the CO2 from cement production is mostly sequestered, it ends up being a net negative CO2 emitter. But that's not cheap.
(Replying to sibling comment)

> It does not make sense (to me) to say that you use dollars to buy a big mac in Paris. You use euros, which your credit card company conveniently bills from you as dollars.

I see your point. To be more precise I use the MasterCard payment network that uses a combination of Mexican Peso, USD, and EUR in the background to settle with the merchant’s bank periodically in the background (and as I use Revolut based Mastercard, it’s even more complex).

Last month the biggest POS company integrated the lightning network, an international payment network protocol, that uses Bitcoin as its settlement currency and Bitcoin network using Strike, and as the POS company does the settlement with the credit card company, the merchant in practice doesn’t see the difference between accepting credit card payment or lightning payment, as it doesn’t handle any of the two (the POS provider handles them).
When was long term memory ever a thing for people. People have completely forgotten about invading an entire country finding no WMDs and the recent Afghanistan debacle.
I hope this happens. This will make me finally quit reddit!
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> Do you mean that just the end of the last season was bad, and it was so bad that people immediately stopped talking about it when it finished?

I never watched the show, but the conversations my friends had about its last season match the conclusions of Lindsay Ellis' second video about GOT[1], namely, "yes, the ending has ruined it all". As she puts it:

> What is the legacy of GOT going to be? Because there are endings that ruin a story in hindsight. I used to watch and rewatch the earlier seasons of the show. But now, knowing how it ends, knowing what they are building towards, knowing how nihilistic and stupid and mean it ends up being, there is just no enjoyment in the journey even anymore. Even in the very long process of making these two episodes, rewatching old GOT was just an exercise in frustration because you know now that the buildup that they are going towards has little or no payoff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGr0NRx3TKU
If it was rolled out it France and Sweden, the title most likely wouldn’t say “in Europe”.
There's this trend of souped up 4 wheelers eg not real cars hammering 2nd and 1st Avenue without mufflers ... Basically a group of hooligans that goes up and down doing tricks and taking over the road. This is likely the primary instigator... everyone is sick and tired of that group
That was the only thing I cared about too - where does it go from and to!
I'm not sure if there is any substantiated benefit to the extreme volume of the UK ambulance sirens. Coming from a country that also has many wide open low rise towns I've never heard any complaints about the volume of our emergency vehicles.