skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a guy (Jasper Lawrence, who had a horrible allergy problem) had heard of a study where they were testing to see if allergies was related to parasites. He was rejected from the study, so, long story short, he ended up flying to northern Africa and walking around barefoot to get hookworm. He now monitors and manages his hookworm infection with low doses of anti-parasite medication, and he sells soil infected with hookworms so that you, too, can get infected by hookworm and reduce/eliminate your allergies. Oh, and his allergies are gone.

I read about it here: https://www.ksl.com/article/20838871/man-infects-self-with-h...

But there are lots of stories and some studies on the subject as well. The original hypothesis was proposed in 1989 by David P Strachan. According to the theory, many modern diseases have gotten out of hand and are rapidly growing in industrialized western countries because of chlorinated drinking water, vaccines, antibiotics and the sterile environment of early childhood. Moreover, it is theorized that since we have become so good at preventing infections, we have upset the internal balance and ecology in our bodies. One missing element of hyper-clean and sterile environments is that our inflammatory responses do not function as they should. Parasites and bacteria play a symbiotic role in preserving our health.
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I have dipped my toe into teaching programming to beginners on Tiktok. But I have not gotten very far into it. There is a small audience there, but not enough to become rich or famous doing it. I think longer form video on YouTube still dominates the learn to program niche.
I like line numbers because when I'm editing code in a remote meeting, I or someone else can refer to lines by number. The current line is not the only one that matters. I use relative line numbers because I like doing e.g. 9k or whatever. Others on a remote call often refer to other parts of the code with "9 up" or "9 down" (since "9k" and "9j" sound too alike in a noisy call).
In many european languages it definitely does not sounds similar. A is a and e is e.
So you don’t know what the court did, but one time you had a bad experience with a law, so you’re gonna assume the court did a good thing?
I don't doubt that you are right, but I am fairly ignorant when it comes to older American movie production, so I cannot pinpoint any examples.
I mean, every column counts, even in a 32" 4K display.
Also, not all of us have the space to fit these screens everywhere we work.
Gold has pretty big downsides as a store of value. It's heavy, hard to transport, ... .

The key to a cryptocurrency store can be memorized in your head. That means I can have 2mil in my head, with no other way to access it. I take it wherever I go, and can access it when there is internet. I can also send it to whoever I want, no limit.

This is literally a 1st. How high people value that, is not up to me alone. But you cannot deny that it has some value. And as long as it has some value, the above works. It basically bootstrapped itself. Claiming it has a value of 0 is very short sighted.
If you can't see what's wrong with this, you aren't intelligent.

There aren't many ideas I'd make this claim about but this is one of the most obvious cases where it is true.
I hope that Rust is the last language to be written, because frankly there is so much rewriting-into-Rust going on that it will be super demotivating if it turned out that everything has yet to be rewritten again!
> I'm not too familiar with what the Supreme Court did with TCPA ...

June 24, 2021 - https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ripple-effects-supreme-...

> If you work in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) space, you are certainly aware of the landmark unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court in Facebook v Duguid, in which the Court narrowed the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) to equipment that has the capacity to either store or produce numbers using a random or sequential number generator.

> ...

> On June 10, 2021, the District Court for the District of South Carolina held that the Aspect predictive dialer did not qualify as an ATDS because the evidence proved that the system could neither randomly nor sequentially store or produce numbers to be dialed

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So, if you're working from a list of numbers, it's not an ATDS. It is only an ATDS if you're dialing random numbers or sequential numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Duguid

> The Supreme Court's ruling was seen to be favorable to the telemarketing industry, since the decision narrowed the definition of an automatic dialing system of which are regulated under the TCPA. As few actual automated dialers in use at the time of the decision incorporate the random or sequential number generator, telemarketers would be able to use other automatic dialing systems that do not meet this definition to engage in their business, according to the National Consumer Law Center. The National Consumer Law Center as well as Consumer Reports expressed concern that there would be a significant increase in unwanted telemarketing calls due to this decision.

> Senator Ed Markey, one of the authors of the TCPA, along with Representative Anna Eshoo, called the ruling "disastrous", as the Congressional intent of the TCPA was "to ban dialing from a database", and announced the same day of the decision that they would be looking to introduce amended legislation to address the Court's decision.
Why is this a thing in the US? Feels like a unique american thing. I’m in Europe and I don’t think I got more than 2 or 3 spam SMS or robocall in the last 20 years.
> just as large voice service providers are required to since June 30, 2021.

So you're saying that, judging by the 3 spam calls I've gotten today on my (very large) phone carrier, these rules don't do very much.
OK, I should have been clearer on what I have been arguing with. Specifically, you expressed this sentiment a few times:

> Even if you don't care at all about individuals getting fleeced by scammers, there's a societal reason. We need investment capital for growth, and we need it to be reasonably sanely allocated

Anytime people start talking about what is acceptably sane and what is not and start restricting investments based on this characterization we create self-reinforcing, traditionalist setups that suffocate everything else.
> Forcing your code to be open forever is guaranteeing freedom of all users of [your] code

No, that’s forcing restriction on all users of your code.

Usage restriction is the opposite of freedom…

Forcing all of your code to be GPL is like saying “I am on a diet, so now I will force everyone else be on the same diet. Freedom!”
Inter-state phone calls are clearly subject to the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, and therefore within the regulatory purview of the US Congress. Even Clarence Thomas would agree.
You can selectively turn them on as a meeting aid, no?
I don't set anything. I use vim as vi.
The median is meaningless anyway, with the bar to entry being so low. If enough people publish games that no-one buy the median will be $0.
I have done the same. AFAICT it has made no difference in call volume.

I did make some vacation package scammers feel bad and hang up a couple times. Claiming that I no longer travel because I lost my legs In a car accident years back.

Family that can use the vacation package? Nope, they are all dead too. The last of them died in the same fiery crash.
it's complicated ;) Why do you think you can help?
> No, assuming programs are sentient, then they obtains rights. They become members of society. It's a not a little thing.

The alternative is not giving rights to something that actually is sentient. I don't think that's an adequate alternative. Chickens have some level of protection under the law, I don't see how it's a hang up to extend that logic to a silicon brain.
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Limiting bandwidth is the downlink to terminals. Probably the birds will have edge service contracts to proxy content, saving on uplink from hubs.

They might even be equipped to broadcast identical real-time content (e.g. world cup) once for all terminals following. (Anyway I would make that work, in their place.)
When Github anounced its impending acquisition by Microsoft unlike many others who just flooded gitlab, I took it as a sign to just go ahead and host my personal git repo. Sure it takes some more effort and it "hurts my pocket" yet.... hosting a git repository on a raspberry pi costs no much more than having a lightbulb on permanently and having a cron job to back it up and save it somewhere once a month its not too much maintainance, my code is as free and/or private as I want it to be now and I actually think I gain so much more control of what I get to do with it instead of being limited to be a hostage of making my code opensource in order to get full feature capabilities.

And no, I have not switched (yet) to a non propietary git system, I am using Bitbucket (yes on a Raspberry PI) since it has plenty of already built in integrations, sadly they ended their offer of self hosted for small teams. It used to cost 10 bucks to get a licence to host your server for 10 users... lord most OSS is a lone effort or surelly under 10 guys, i am sure they would have continued that offer given they had more small customers. Anyhow there are plenty good alternatives as Gitea that someone might use, and that would be the true intent of git as a decentralized platform... nontheless while software is one of the best paid professions nowdays it is full of cheap (greedy) people
Regulations so strict that nobody subjects themselves to them don't reduce the harm done to workers.

Of course relaxing our regulations is not the only solution here, we could go all-in and enforce our labor laws on any ship that wants to dock at an American port. Regardless, the status quo isn't doing anything to reduce harm.
It's not, but insisting on using it even though there are perfectly fine alternatives and you know that there's a sizeable chunk of people that considers it racist is just being an asshole.
Pretty much every culture around the world 100 years ago had some staple fermented food. Nowadays, a lot of people in western culture at least outright refuse yogurt or other fermented foods like saurkraut or pickled cabbage that used to be staples in these people's ancestor's diets a few generations ago. People are becoming even lactose intolerant. You have to fertilize your microbes so to speak and eat these sorts of foods. Plus once you are doing stuff like making your own yogurt, a jug of whole milk works out a lot cheaper than the chobani stuff.
Ah, you’re right. The team blogged about the move at https://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2017/08/21/eclipse-ceylon/, and they use the present tense when talking about Red Hat

> As you surely know, Red Hat has been the main sponsor of Ceylon over the years, and we're all eternally grateful for this support. It would have been simply impossible to kick-start a project of this scope without the backing of Red Hat. (Full disclosure: we ourselves are employed by Red Hat.)

I had a faulty recollection of this post on the ceylon/dev Gitter https://gitter.im/ceylon/dev?at=5d2765cff5dd14574268bcb3. Funding dried up at Red Hat. Gavin King said that he might try to convince IBM to revive it, but only if he had a clear business case.

> Folks I guess I owe you a bit of a response here, but obviously I have my reasons for not wanting to say too much in public

> As of yesterday I'm an IBM employee which hopefully means that in the medium term there will be more money available for R&D around here, for projects which can make a reasonable case for being worthy of investment
in the last couple of years of Red Hat's existence as an independent company, there was essentially no funding available for this kind of project, and Ceylon was a victim of that shortage

> However, obviously, if I'm going to try and convince my fund a new development team for this project, I will have to find a convincing reason to do that, and I will have to think very carefully about what precisely a "next" Ceylon would look like (of course I already have some ideas of mistakes we made, and opportunities that now exist that didn't before, but no clear business case)

> It's probably better if I don't say any more on this topic in this place
Do you care if the ship is crewed by slaves who were stolen from their homes?
A possible middle ground here is to allow GitHub OAuth2 logins to your Gitea instance - then at least GitHub users can join in your project without too much friction.
I'm not going to deliver a commission over BitTorrent or IPFS. That's absurd.
What a classic, I remember when people would call you crazy for claiming that governments were working with corporations to perform mass domestic surveillance
I mean all Bram had to do was accept the async patches instead of ignoring them.

Then neovim wouldn't have got off the ground.

Once they started building, they wanted to "cut the cruft" and just went from there
> Do you really think they will make a publish statement about this?

No, but that's why I'm skeptical about your claim; I don't think they'd tell you that either.

If they did, I'd encourage you to whistleblow.
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An alternative: https://alistapart.com/blog/post/content-first-design/
Forcing people to run JavaScript does not guarantee that Analytics or Ads will run as these might get blocked by DNS, Extensions or even the browser itself. I understand the need for them but I don't think it excuses the need to run JavaScript to see text. By the way Hacker News has ads on their main page and the website works perfectly without JavaScript, and even better with it enabled! IMO the job of JavaScript is to enhance the UX, not render the webpage. With modern tooling such as NextJS and Svelte Kit it's possible to code everything in JS (without duplicating logic between backend and frontend) and still have some stuff work without JavaScript, even better when using something like Remix.
Imo, "it's not a democracy it's a republic" is a pretty empty statement, because there are no pure democracies (and they are likely to be completely impractical anyways). It seems to be a weird meme among Americans that hints at some kind of exceptionalism, but has very little in the way of practical implications.

For the most part, everyone in the world means approximately the same thing an American does when they say democracy ("a representative constitutional democracy, probably with some degree of regional federalism and bicameralism"). The US neither resembles a pure democracy or the republic the founders created at this point anyways, so it doesn't really matter. These terms are pretty fluid.

Pure democracy is basically never the goal anyways. It's not a bad thing for a system of government to be not entirely democratic, there do have to be checks on pure majoritarianism somehow, but the particulars of the US' democratic lacks seem to be both worse than most Americans imagine them to be, and also far more vestigial if not accidental than they ought to be (many were really there to help uphold slavery and/or prevent reconstruction from fully succeeding).

At this point, the net effect of the US' democratic failings is to create a tyranny of the minority, which can hardly be considered a better failure mode than a tyranny of the majority.
It's not anger but I think the article (while probably written by a competitor or lobby) is reminding the public that Musk often makes empty promises and we should not let him continue to be subsidized by the US tax payer for an inability to deliver on time and on budget. I now see Musk also complaining about 5G interfering with Starlink. It's all a game, which is fine, but I dont want to pay for billionaires entertainment.
It could be a new type of scram jet, right? A normal jet engine has to slow down supersonic air to subsonic to combust it which is inefficient.
The D language uses the Boost license because it is the least restrictive. Anyone is free to use it in closed-source non-free commercial apps if they like, or Open Source if they like.
I agree with your concerns about thrashing. I think that the fact that justices aren't elected politically, together with their typical lengthy tenure, is intended to buffer against that. But as politics becomes more polarized, perhaps the buffer doesn't serve as well anymore.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/documents-aclu-case-reveal-more-de...

>The FBI's role in the process is a condition of the Federal Communication Commission's equipment authorization issued to the Harris Corporation.

The result is that members of the public, judges, and defense attorneys are denied basic information about local cops' use of invasive surveillance gear that can sweep up sensitive location data about hundreds of peoples' cell phones. For example, when we sought information about Stingrays from the Brevard County, Florida, Sheriff's Office, they cited a non-disclosure agreement with a "federal agency" as a basis for withholding all records. When the ACLU of Arizona sued the Tucson Police Department for Stingray records, an FBI agent submitted a declaration invoking the FBI nondisclosure agreement as a reason to keep information secret.

Yeah it works really well
Right, but some of these passion projects in turn become breakout hits that breach the 100k barrier then presumably generate revenue for Unity - think of indie games that break out into mainstream built on Unity like Among Us or Valheim. If the reduction in passion project games is significant enough it might well have an impact - especially as fewer "AAA" style development houses pick Unity.
Or a moose. My sister was bitten by a moose once.
My understanding is that enforcement will start tomorrow. But I'm not especially familiar with the Telco environment. My understanding is also that there is still a remaining loophole for international telcos, which will close in another year's time.
> In this case, the motivation was simply insufficient. Some people wanted vimscript+lua instead of vimscript. They felt the code was too difficult. They wanted to develop on their own.

> Couldn't they not convince Bram Moolenaar of proposed changes

I think (but someone correct me if I'm wrong) it started out with one of the persons who started Neovim, tried to get in a patch adding async support in Vim, but Moolenaar didn't want to merge it, for one or another reason.

That cascaded to a bunch of other reasons over time, like adding Lua support and trying to rely less on Vimscript.

But that's how I remember it being started at least, but I could remember it wrong.
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> It's telling that simply saying "this is not a matter for the supreme court but the people's representatives" is so incredibly controversial.

There are of course two followup questions here:

1. Would the current supreme court allow a federal abortion law that codifies roe? The SC opinion explicitly notes that their ruling returns this to the states, but federal representatives are representatives too.

2. Does it really make sense for rights to be up to the whims of the legislature? If it takes 60 votes to pass a national abortion legalization, and 50 senate votes to repeal it, will we end up with lasting legislation, or just a de-facto ban because abortion is repealed every 2-4 years?
That still doesn’t scale. It’s slightly better than ethereum
> barrier of entry to contribute to your code

What barrier, may I ask ?

> it's a lot harder for others to discover it.

The vast majority of stars I got was from a HN submission, not from organic discovery through GH search.
Ultimately software becomes medicine, not human or veterinary medicine, but computer medicine. You have all this code, but you can't read it all and can't check if it's right. Then you end up with tumors in the code (Blas Mena came up with this concept) and they can be benign or malignant, and ought to be contained. Tumors can be 500 lines of C#, ballpark, in a 15000 LOC codebase.

Yes LOC, lines of code, is a bad metric--compared by Bill Gates to weight on an airplane--but at the end it is still meaningful to the complexity--mass of an airplane.

So the whole game in software companies is at some point taking Human Growth Hormone and growing fast, and inevitably getting some tumors, but hoping they are benign and contained. Or they can spread and the software dies.
"#Vaccinepassports are a precursor to Digital ID wallets, offering citizens unparalleled convenience and #security."

https://mobile.twitter.com/ThalesDigiSec/status/142535144657...
This sums up how I feel about so many crypto related comments on HN. Just look at this thread. It's full of people confidently presenting 100% false statements as facts. Several of the comments contain something like "I looked into crypto years ago and then I saw problem X and discarded it." My guess is remorse because they could have been "early" compounded with confirmation bias.

To anyone who spent a few hours, days, weeks looking into crypto a few years ago and thinks you have any idea what's been going on in research in the field since then you're sorely mistaken.
The reason for the complex rules is not to let the Spaniards pretend their head of state is their head of state (few Spaniards do, it seems to me anyway). The reason is to insulate the power cupola from the vagaries of public opinion.

Which is the original argument here, namely that the EU has a large democratic deficit
`cargo add` is such a small thing, but I'm so excited about it. Many tiny instances of friction as you have to open your browser and manually google a crate to find the latest version number so you can copy and paste it into your Cargo.toml
many i/o chips take 3.3V, especially for those with an I2C interface 3V3 ... 5V seems to be the norm. 5V only was 80s.
It strikes me as extremely naive to believe that this same precedent will be applied to agencies like the FBI and NSA. The supreme court is not an automaton bound by the laws of logic to act consistently.
Except they didn't. It doesn't include in the language. Did you read the opinion?
China would do better economically if they were open to more trade and competition, they are shooting themselves in the foot compared to where their economy could go.

and comparative advantage operates just fine without trade barriers. Since it's just a mathematical relationship, i.e. it can't be wrong, it also operates with trade barriers, just not as efficiently.
More research is needed.

However there is an obseity epidemic and a depression epidemic, and its plausible they are related. Which doesn't mean they are, but seems like something worth looking into.
I don't understand Unity's appeal at all, and I only understand Unreal Engine's appeal because of their integration now with Quixel and some other IP among other factors. Otherwise it is barely an engine that makes me feel productive.

Unity does basically nothing for you, and Unreal Engine barely did anything at all for you until recently with some advancements in UE 5.0.

> "The engine itself is a lot more bare basics than I thought it was. For some reason I was under the impression that it was kind of like Source, in as much that it had the main menu, server joining, all the basic deathmatch stuff built in. But it’s a lot closer to Unity than that. It has barely anything, and you add the rest. No main menu system, no player weapon system, no health + dying system. This kind of took me by surprise at first, but I can see why it makes sense."[1]

[1]: https://garry.blog/unreal-engine/
If directly/indirectly impacted folks are reading, we are looking for a js webgl dev as part of the next 10X+ rev of our end-to-end GPU data viz engine (client+server), both contract / full-time, and remote-friendly: build@graphistry
Have you heard of these things called trespassing laws? And stand your ground laws? Don't need a "no soliciting" law if you got those. All you have to do is say you felt threatened by the salesperson and thought they were going for a gun. /s