skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I for one for this to be a delightful little story.
> No, that is unlikely” says [Renowned authority in immunology], “because [plausible reasons]”

You would like to see your preconceived conclusion in print without any evidence for its proof yourself ? I’d prefer evidence either way regardless of the conclusion
> In my experience, lobbyists are essentially individual people hired by an organization to do extensive, cited research on the topic, and develop "well written and formatted" proposals for/against, as well as dedicate time to delivering the proposals and arguments in person.

My experience is quite different and comes from doing grass roots lobbying at the state and Federal level. Grass-roots lobbying is just where regular citizens go do the lobbying instead of paid professionals. If you ever get a chance to get involved in this kind of lobbying, it will change how you think about government, and you'll be pleasantly surprised to see you can actually make a difference. You'll also find out that being a legislator at any level is an almost impossible job.

Lobbyists (yes, they are individuals, but usually have an organization and staff behind them) are paid to show up and "help" legislators. This ranges from providing information all the way up to writing bills. Often bills are initially written by lobbyists (the joke is that most laws are written by staff interns and lobbyists). The reason lobbyists are effective is simple: legislators all the way up to the US Senate don't have time to do the work needed to write laws, debate them, pass them, campaign, go to parades and graduations and communicate with constituents... so they work with lobbyists, who are well paid to have time. Yes, professional lobbyists always have an ulterior motive, and always have time, because their paycheck depends on it.
From what I can see, the right to repair suffers when "buying brand new" becomes significantly less expensive than "buying only the parts you need and spend some time fixing it". The former is always cheaper in developed economies, and the latter is often cheaper in third-world countries. Economic tradition like planned obsolescence is the single biggest culprit
Yeah, I think that's the way... Dart does this well with Isolates[1]. The language is basically single-threaded but you can start Isolates that run on different Threads but have their own independent memory, and they can exchange messages, much like in the Actor model. Not having to worry about real shared memory between Threads as in C++ or Java is incredibly liberating. As others point out, however, for extremely high performance that's not the best solution, but for nearly all applications, including emacs, the Isolate approach is plenty good enough.

[1] https://dart.dev/guides/language/concurrency
>The good news is the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in May 2021 probably marks the beginning of the end. Comforting as that might sound, it tells us very little about how that ending will turn out.

I wonder what level of liability would be reasonable when considering the increasing sophistication of these types of hacks. Going back to the bridge analogy, we would hold the licensed engineer responsible if the bridge they built collapsed because of a thunderstorm, but not if the bridge collapsed because a terrorist or rival nation state bombed it. Which of those situations is more analogous to getting hit with ransomeware or some other type of hack?

Say a piece of software from a small company is compromised, should the liability be different if the attacker is some script kiddie versus if it's some hacking group that likely has ties to a foreign intelligence service? Is it reasonable to expect every software company to be able to fend off even the most well-financed attack?
I feel like the second is the most likely. Combine that with challenging the proposition that intelligent life would ever choose to colonize the galaxy to the extent that it would be blatantly obvious and I think you have a pretty solid position from which to argue that it won't be easy to detect other civilizations.
I think this is supposed to be a fork bomb?

https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=%3A%28%29%7B%20%3A%7C%3...

That's not clear at all from the explanation.
Get your own femtocell.
Go Optimizations 101: suggestions and tricks for high performance Go programming
One of my YC batchmates had his company acquired by Google. They quickly shut down his product (shocking!) and had him product manage Google Fi instead. He gave me access to the beta about 7 years ago. At that time, you could search for any string of numbers and it would let you see available numbers containing that string. I was able to get a number with 4 consecutive zeros in it and to this day it brings me joy every time I see or share it. Most people are not as amused but every now and then I'll meet someone who lights up when they see it. Without fail, they were also a math nerd growing up. I guess numbers tickle some people's brains differently.
I'm trying to understand the specifics of what happened in this particular case. Was it corporate influence? Was it bad policy design? Was it a failure of process? None of the above? All of the above? Something else?

It's all too easy to cynically handwave and parrot platitudes like "politicians are corrupt", "capitalism is bad", etc. Reality is far more complicated than those overly simplistic platitudes let-on and parroting them doesn't meaningfully contribute to the discussion of what to do better next time.

If we want to understand how to implement lasting change through government policy, the context and details matter when seemingly good policies fail.
Thanks for the candid feedback! Will see if we can modify the content. We'll also keep it in mind going forward.
Having previously done both satellite development and (legal) satellite hacking, I participated in both the 2020 and 2021 qualifiers, but sat it out this year. It was a lot of fun and our team did well, but we did not make the finals. (We scored 19th in 2020 and 27th in 2021.)
Another vouch for Eglot here. Seems smoother and just nicer overall compared to lsp-mode, not to mention better integration with Emacs. I switched to Eglot a while back and haven’t looked back.
If you take out 18 and 19 years old, that is no longer true.

We have way too many firearm deaths in this country but the way these studies choose their age ranges always feel like folks are in search of the conclusion they desire.
Do you ever wonder how much medicine has been slowed down?
If they bought Amazon and apple in the 90s for sure
In the extreme, yes, and low resolution on large screens are also difficult to read. Viewing distance is also a factor. You always need to find a balance.
> I doubt the majority of the people upvoting this would understand much of it

It only has 62 upvotes and there are already 16 competent comments here.
That argument is totally unconvincing... like saying not to treat some lung cancer because the patient will just smoke more.
And these are much smaller washes.
I wouldn't say this is a result of using Docker, it's just very visible in that case. It's also not about handling "every single concern", it's users getting punished for poor assumptions made by the developers.

Point being that this incompatibility is active instead of passive, so this effort could be or could have been spent better.
The word Apocalypse only appears once on that page, in the title. The page is pointless either way since the Apocolypse isn't here yet. People will know when it's here and there will still be a subset of people who will deny it. Like that cartoon of the dog casually sitting at the table while the house burns down around him, saying "This is fine.".
Timeline of Quantum Computing and Communication
Moving your expecting family to Connecticut.
I bought a DID on voip.ms with 5 consecutive digits. They allow you to search by any substring, though you can only search within a single area code, so it takes a little hunting and pecking to find a good one.
Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect
I built a similar scheme for a class project, but relying on verifiable delay functions [1] to provide the time lock.

Might be something you’re interested in.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/601.pdf
And they don't really grow garlic in Gilroy anymore, it's mostly imported from China for processing
> (1) Building a self-hosted compiler or interpreter.

Aren't every compiler or interpreter self-hosted, because they run on your own machine?
Tools and Techniques for scalable data processing in Industrial IoT
We made robots in our image, which makes us gods to the robots. And what is a crash log or a compiler error or a core dump, if not a prayer from the machine begging for salvation? Every Jira ticket you've ever closed has been a prayer answered successfully, and every WONTFIX is surely interpreted by the machine as "the sysadmin works in mysterious ways".
somehow this is not an Onion article
You're probably reducing your life expectancy much more by skipping the gym (or publicly socializing, but that's a whole other discussion) than you would be from those 3-4 illnesses a year.
You Are Going to Get Covid Again and Again and Again
Also, a lot of the dam/flood deaths are horrible corporate mining bund collapsing etc, not high end public power infra. Would be interesting to see the numbers on 1) first world countries and 2) first world countries excluding the US which seems to have such a dysfunctional attitude to public works. I very much doubt scandi countries or Germany are killing many people this way.
Ah, that is interesting, so it's taking both IATA and ICAO, but not consistently.
Spacex has raised about 8B total since founding in 2002
Yes, if you explicitly request it per object and use explicit clone for refs, but it doesn't handle reference cycles: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/std/arc.html
I find nowadays most of the US produced content I use also lists weights in grams so no need for conversion.
Language shaping the way you think always feels off to me. Most languages are pretty much universal and unbiased and are capable of expressing an infinite amount of concepts. As easily as their negations, subtle variations, contextual dependencies, nuances, etc.
Wow it's actually pretty good. Thanks.
Some staff are also working on a for-profit project, assisting Big Tech companies with access to wiki data:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise

This is designed to bring in additional revenue in the years to come.
Rejected from a London university for being Russian
Well… IMHO trying to solve our climate change issues with geoengineering seems similar to the USA trying solve their gun issues by putting even more guns in circulation.

Does not fix the root causes and I don’t see how it can work long-term.
It’s an example I’m more familiar with, but yes it’s a behavioral indication of a genetic condition. hEDS is massively under diagnosed (by at least an order of magnitude) and many with hEDS have ASD. Someone who is high functioning ASD has a much greater probability of having hEDS. Fewer people have heard of it and it is more treatable.
Money doesn't automatically grow – you need to take risk to get a return. Your checking account takes no risk, so your bank shouldn't really pay much for you to keep your money in your account.
I've started wearing an elastomeric respirator to the gym with n100 filter cartridges. It impedes breathing slightly, but that's fine with me: I don't do sprint or cardio work at my gym, and I can afford an extra 20 seconds of recovery time between sets.

I got an MSA Advantage 900, which filters exhalation too. It's a lot sweatier, and if you aren't trying to comply with now-expired mask mandates, you could get a valved model. I haven't been professionally fit tested, but it passes the self-fit test. I wouldn't trust it in a TB ward, but to the gym or an airplane? It's great.

If you have the influence, try to get your gym to set up UV air sanizizers and Corsi-Rosenthal boxes.

If you're going to wear a mask, you should wear an effective one. Elastomeric>n95==FFP3>kf94==FFP2>kn95>>surgical>>cloth>>>gaiter

And if you have a beard, the masks that fit more tightly will still retain 75%+ of their effectiveness.
Demystifying the Kubernetes Iceberg: Part 3
I think this is pretty well put.

I'm very much not anti-nuclear but I do wonder if we've possibly missed its window. To me, a plausible two-step solution to decarbonization would be (or could have been): 1a. Replace all the fossil fuel base load generation with nuclear/hydro, 1b. Replace all the variable load natural gas plants with storage, 2. Now that storage is mature and scalable, replace all the nuclear with solar/wind.

The reason this makes more sense in my head is that renewables are actually more dependent on natural gas than nuclear would be, in the current world of limited storage. I agree with you that once storage is built out, the role of nuclear is a lot less clear. But I think you'd have to say that it's still an open question whether we can really make storage scale as much as it needs to if it's going to support a fully renewable grid. It has only recently started to seem like the answer to that may be promising.
> Moreover, ethylene in the concentrations that cause trances is extremely flammable, and there’s no historical record of any explosions or fires.

That doesn't seem to be true. Herodotus 2.180:

"When the Amphictyons paid three hundred talents to have the temple that now stands at Delphi finished (as that which was formerly there burnt down by accident), it was the Delphians' lot to pay a fourth of the cost." [1]

I'm not a student of the Classics so I can't verify from the original. This source [2] seems to imply that the world choice implies as if the place burnt down on its own.

1: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

2: https://erenow.net/ancient/delphi-a-history-of-the-center-of...
People tell me what seem like mundane things in conversation all the time, though, like that they're going on a vacation or have started taking dance lessons, and it never occurs to me that this is meant to be a surprise to someone for some reason, or that there's someone that person wouldn't want to know it.

For example, once a friend told me they were going on vacation to a particular city, but didn't mention it was for another friend's anniversary surprise. When the other friend mentioned they had a trip planned to the same place around the same time, "Oh! [First friend] just told me she's going to be there too! Maybe you guys can meet up together or something! That'd be so fun!" was out of my mouth almost immediately. It never even entered into my mind that there was a reason not to say anything.

I inadvertently ruined a fun surprise just because nobody told me it was a secret. If they had, I wouldn't have said anything!
Lobby Congress and force them to change the laws to make sure external factors are priced in. Glass is a viable alternative but more expensive compared to plastic, if the balance was tipped you wouldn’t need as much plastic for certain goods.
> "Alexa, order me the cheapest best reviewed dry dog food that will arrive tomorrow"

This is Amazon we’re talking about. The cheapest best reviewed dog food probably has 4K excellent reviews saying it’s the best cheap coat hangar anyone has ever seen.
What about us that have never had covid despite being exposed countless times?
Wow, I had no idea! I'll give Eglot a try, thank you :)
Not if they were finding alternative ways to exercise. Speaking as an ex power-lifter turned runner, I'm surprised at the number of people who believe they NEED a gym to exercise.
That or 'consecutive digits that are the same', i.e. 'four consecutive 1s' would've made sense, it's just mis-generalised to 'digits'.

If anything it's the 'sequential' implication of 'consecutive digits' (that I agree the phrase has) that's weird IMO.
As someone else put it nicely:

People seem to rather fight the sun than capitalism.
Maybe the positivists’ antipositivism should just be “not everything demands an empirical explanation in order for us to continue functioning well in day-to-day life, and that’s just fine.”
Plus, you get to channel big Bane energy.
I have to believe there is a way to achieve this without connecting to the internet.
Yeah our other thread is the better one!
In 2008 I was a junior in high school learning RoR in my free time, and the teacher of my required Intro to Computers class let me essentially skip the class work if I could build a basic social media site in the semester.

The computers were always locked down tight but using Heroku Garden and its web editor for Rails apps I made it work. I've always been super appreciative of that exact functionality at that exact time, even as they grew into a more traditional hosting company.
Well, it depends. For a half or one hour trip, of course that would be a huge delay (but that also doesn't happen so often except for some areas like NRW...), but I'm talking more about >4h trips without changing trains, and I really don't care that much about half an hour more or less in that case.

Of course, I'd prefer that trains were as punctual as in Switzerland but what can I do?
Godot Editor running in a web browser (2020)
This was a meandering rant that went on so long I never even got to the point of the article before bailing.
That would require a lot of effort and then it no longer would look like shit which may not help in the plausible deniability department, and to make it look like shit also has the same effect as the spelling errors and weird salutations in those scam emails: it filters for extreme gullibility. You are clearly not the intended audience.
I don't think just being a living example works, you need to get into serious activism
No, it doesn't work without. Auto-detection is one thing, even that can be NAT'ed, definitely not difficult - bridging broadcasts between subnets is an OLD thing. But I digress, I'm actually speaking of all the integrations that foolishly assume the bind IP and the advertised IP are the same. So it's either an invalid bind address or an inaccessible internal one.
> You think the fact that flu deaths dropped to essentially zero for two years was exclusively due to school closures?

More likely due to nursing home closures I would think.
For a more balanced view, I highly recommend this talk from one of the leading minds in the field: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/file/1039929
I had one a long time ago i liked, from Google iirc, something to the effect of 454-5451 (but different, ofc). To which i would rattle off "45 45 45 1" and confuse the hell out of every listener i was trying to convey the phone number.

As much as i loved it, i stopped using it because of how confused it made literally everyone i gave it to in my unexpected format haha. The novelty wore off when i would inevitably have to repeat myself in the normal format.
Yes but you no longer have the burden of control and responsibility. That's a huge difference.

Personally I hate driving so I'd be really happy if I could just read a book, surf the web or watch a movie while travelling. For me driving is pure wasted time.

I know some people actually enjoy driving :) But for me it feels this way.
My first web programming tutorial !
But you can't spin them up when underproducing...

I think I just don't get what point you're making.
Yeah this narrative is troubling. I’ve read stuff from IPCC contributors who compare climate change to Covid, especially in the case of people living in the first world. Things will get harder and the shape of our lives will change, but “civilizational collapse” is a term from people gleefully imagining the end of the world like they would a zombie apocalypse.
"Choose boring technologies" is one of those phrases that makes sense when it makes sense, unless it doesn't. I find the negative expression of the same idea much more fitting: "Don't choose technology purely out of exitement".

In that negative version the word purely does the heavy lifting: If all you have as a reason to choose a thing is excitement it might be a bad choice unless you can afford a failed attempt.

In reality very often the "more exciting" choice will also come with their own additional pros/cons. It might be that your exciting Rust-Webservice has a smaller community backing its components, but maybe the APIs of the few components you really interact with is such a joy to use that it will save you weeks over the Java equivalent, while giving you magnitudes faster startup times and decent testability.

In programming there are so many angles to consider, that simplistic answers are rarely do reality justice. There is however the danger of wearing rose tinted glasses when weighing the cons of the more exciting solution.
And my work involves working with 2-4 ‘documents’ at once, analyzing, comparing, and summarizing them. My focus space is a little larger than one window.
Influencers Hype Crypto, Without Disclosing Their Financial Ties
> renovating isn't happening on a post-doc + special ed teacher's combined salary

It just makes me sad that we so deeply undervalue skilled, highly educated people who choose to dedicate their lives to helping raise up and advance the next generation, and help empower and enable those with disabilities and other disadvantages. The fact that it just seems obvious that these people based on their professions won't be able to afford a remodel goes to show just how deeply ingrained this undervaluing is in our collective psyches. :(
I quite like to destroy my $HOME occasionally

So I've been decorating my $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for a decade.
Fair enough, but anybody that knows more about this stuff than your average consumer was likely quite skeptical of that pitch. All I saw was an always on microphone with a line to Apple, Google or Amazon and for me that was reason enough to bar that stuff from crossing the threshold at the front door here.
That's true until people are suddenly hungry odr thirsty. Hunger or thrist will force them to act. And not necesserily nicely.
Notice those who have the most information, policy makers and the rich in control have not changed their jet set lifestyle by one iota.

Still polluting the skies on their way to Davos
"The page you requested doesn’t exist."
I asked about qwant once and Europeans chimed in with the opinion that its results suck. Ddg isn't a terrible browser or engine, less shady than brave IMO.
You say:

Studies that claim to "prove" that masks work turn out to be shambolic messes

Do you have a list of the 10 or 20 studies on high filtration masks that you found to be better than the others that you evaluated?
I'm struggling to understand their stance :(. The point of "smart" is that it makes things easier. If it doesn't make things easier, what's the point? And as a guest, it had better make it easier for you.

For what it's worth, which obviously isn't much, all my public rooms have smart switches as well as being able to be controlled by voice. And if someone needs to use the physical switch (they're all still uncovered and accessible) then that's a failure of my system not of whoever needed to bypass it.

The main benefit to me of smart is that I can automate transitions, so it's that much less likely that anyone will need to manually adjust the lighting.
I know, I even mentioned it. Unfortunately and understandably Guix means my WiFi won't work and there will be less stuff supported OOTB. So I'll be on Nix for foreseeable future.
I’m trying to do this now, but dumb high-quality appliances are hard to come by and much more expensive. I don’t think there’s any dumb TVs at the state of the art.
There is a good Religion for Breakfast episode about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IJfmaGs72c
It seems to explain everything correctly though? Read through and it should make sense why it is a fork bomb .
It shouldn't add any capability on your side. But it should help other people distinguish between you and someone who couldn't pass whatever test, right?

Of course we don't really know how well that test maps to real world competency!