skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, which part?
The debatable claims are: 1) that RNA vaccines tell the body to make spike proteins and it will do this indefinitely, 2) the spike protein is not an indefinitely relevant marker by which to eliminate COVID, particularly as it evolves and 3) spike proteins aren't great to have around in the body, (yes I've heard they get cleaned up fairly promptly via mechanisms)

I'm not saying it's nanomachines or anything, and I'm not making a fuss about how long they've been around; I didn't mention it. I got vaccinated. I'm on the team. But if these planks of my understanding aren't sound I'm interested.

Fundamentally, I want to understand how these things work. The protein based vaccine is uncomplicated, I understand the basics of the mechnism, the RNA one leaves lingering questions that I can't source answers to. I'm an educated professional, and I've read some papers and watched a lot of the news on the matter on here and other platforms, and that hasn't settled my questions.
Absolutely true, we are probably in the middle of the handful of generations of humans that have spent all of earths oil reserves. Did we pay a fair price for it?
Consumer products are only part of the problem. PFAS are emitted from industry, like from farms and smoke stacks, straight into the atmosphere where they deposit and precipitate back down onto everything.

That's one of the main issues here: you don't avoid it just by avoiding the consumer goods in your post.
Well, sorry, then you're certainly qualified to reorganize the whole world's economy.
If yours is the primary account on the mac then, essentially, your account is “root”.
Vitamin D deficiency is well known enough it should stand up to the simple concern trolling done by people who demand a source like every post must be an academic journal.
This was an interesting post to me because I've never heard of that distinction, and I think I'm similar. I've often had issues with "being tired" but it's probably more accurately what you call languor. I'll have times when I'm bored throughout the day and sleepy but then a video game or stubborn coding problem will get me engaged and I'll suddenly spend hours and not feel tired at all while the time flies.

Likewise, I do find exercise helps when I do force myself to do it. The issue is often I have days where I struggle to motivate myself to do stimulating things, but perhaps that's another issue. Not really sure what could help there.
My understanding is that it is the next level of knock-on effect.

So, maybe an example of turning on & engaging the motor of a boat on a lake would be the primary effect is the boat accelerates, the secondary effect is the wave/wake created, and the tertiary effect is the wake bouncing other boats and it's effects on shore.

So with this land tax example, the primary effect of the tax is increased revenues for the city and costs for the landholders, the secondary effect would be restring ownership/renters to a wealthier set of people, and the tertiary effect might be changes in the mix of transportation used like more private cars and less public transport...
I can’t read this article, but I tried to get one of our students onto Fusion 360. For 9 months they futzed about, blaming our network, blaming the student, blaming the third party company who verified student age…

After month 9, I managed to find the email of the EA to the CEO and politely asked if she could help with a 9 month support issue.

Fixed in 48 hours.

Autodesk is slack.
Lost me with the invocation of covid as a total invalidation of harari's suggestion that we "sapiens" have a great amount of control over our environment, and may only be majorly threatened by manmade viruses.

I simply don't see how covid was ever a major threat to our species, and to me it seems clear that the vaccines we manufactured were extremely effective.
Do we need a meta build system, to tie together lots of build systems, so that anyone can use the build system they like while also working with other people's build tools?
Maybe they're humans with agency? Just a thought.
back to coal gas it is?
Hee, that is my hobby- I would also love to do it in a more disciplined way, but first I will need to find out where they keep the discipline.
Quirky computing books
So basically, serving up crypto emails makes them a target for hackers who want to send deceiving emails.

Sounds fair.

If you’re going to offer a service to people, you have an ethical obligation to protect them from harm.

That looks different for different customers.

A downside of crypto is that nobody is ensuring you against losing the money. No FDIC or identity theft insurance.

Combine that with the supposed anonymity, and you have a major security risk.

The company is currently being sued by people affected by such a hack, so this isn’t hypothetical.
Nothing to do with with operators. Again, physics, notably tcam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory#Ter...
very expensive.
Sounds great! Our email is in our profile.
Yup.

I ask people to point at something not made out of chemicals.

5% of time there's enlightenment.

95% of the time I get a testy "you know what I mean", to which 70% of the time I manage not to respond with "yes, but do you?? "
We really should shorten patent lifespans to like 10 years. And like 5 (or 0) years for pure software patents.

Things are moving faster these days, with the interwebs and all.
The only thing more "just around the corner" than better battery storage is fusion..
Ask HN: Why is version control so hard?
So I'm trying to teach one of my friends how to program yesterday

We are working on a project in Unity.

I quickly realized setting up Git, with ignore and LTS is just too much.

I told him for now, just make sure to zip up the project and upload to Dropbox once a week or so.

And Unity themselves tried to add collaborate, to the editor but didn't work right.

Why ?
Note that word 'repeatedly'. I banned you not because of one comment but because of your account history, which was clearly breaking the site guidelines.

This has zero to do with demographics at companies or any of the other topics you've been breaking HN's rules about.
How is it possible that Alexander Grothendieck was able to work for 12 hours everyday for many years, same with Nikola Tesla studying for almost 20 hours while in the University and also Newton Comes to mind ..how did these men do it if I may ask?
It would be nice if environmental activists didn’t block us from burying the waste…
They also did lock people up, no worries.
Out of curiosity, why aren’t you on other platforms? Is it mainly due to the size, maintaining rights, or a combination?
I found the opposite. to me it felt like retracing the same two - admittedly interesting and valuable - meta points over and over*, while refusing to describe what the film was actually like to watch. I assume it did actually get to that point, but I stopped reading after the nth paragraph that I didn’t feel provided any new information.

this isn’t to say you’re wrong to enjoy it, or that my impressions were correct, just that I felt differently. I’m also extremely aware of the irony of complaining about the length of an article about the experience of watching an 857 hour film, but c’est la, as they say

*i.e. how it is an art piece about capitalism compressing time and space into innocuous objects; and how much of a time and schedule commitment it was for him
Eh, born after he became wealthy, taken care by nannies, and scattered across like 3 wives. His 18 year old daughter went to court to legally separate herself. :)))
Get kids
What was the hardest thing about accomplishing this?

What was the easiest?

Any advice for other film-makers?
faster ETAs improve conversion :)
No irony here. Just first impression.

Rambler TOP 100? MyNickName.com? WTF is that?

I would never trust an admin who puts such shit on his website.
Completely agree. Been to all three, very different culturally, both within and compared to Russia, but still with a noticeable Soviet heritage.

Especially Tallinn is becoming a hugely interesting city with the mix of centuries old history, some soviet heritage, new and tech.

They still make an interesting thought experiment since they actually were wholly integrated into the Soviet Union. The other examples near EU are Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova which have ended up on completely different paths.

In comparison to the former East Block nations which more were in the Soviet sphere which was a similar but different existence.
Back around 2008-2012, investors were dumping massive amounts of money into cleantech. It's interesting to see how much the definition of what "cleantech" is, has changed since then. Back then it was solar, energy storage, hydrogen, carbon capture, biofuels. They found out that basic science and material research are extremely difficult, involve a ton of failures and don't really fit the 10-year payback timeline that VCs expect. (The odd man out here is fusion research, which is currently hot but definitely not possible in 10 years.)

Now cleantech VC is all about eliminating waste and finding efficiencies in existing industries. I guess that's a good thing, it's low hanging fruit that's un-sexy enough that most investors ignored it in Cleantech Hype 1.0. But I do wonder who, exactly, is now funding the stuff that burnt VCs the first time around.
oh nice! didn't know about this book.
In 1967, Moshe Safdie did something like that in Montreal [1]

[1] https://www.habitat67.com/en/
I think you are speaking about accuracy. My point is that I don't benefit from a continuous stream of information about current events interspersed with advertisements -- it just doesn't serve me whether it is accurate or not.
if you don’t need video, vscode live share is pretty good.
I’m not asking you to advocate
> Since landlords are already charging for this value, an increase of taxes does not increase the rents.

This seems to assume that a rental property is forever a rental property and will continue to be rented at market price no matter what.

But that's not true. It's only a rental property if the owner can rent it out and not be losing money. If the conditions change (like taxes on it) so that's it can no longer be profitable, it is taken off the rental market (most likely by selling to someone who wants to live in it).

If that's one unit, no problem, the renter can go elsewhere. In the proposal being discussed where all rental units have a 4x tax increase, this applies to all rental units at once. Rent prices go way up and most rental units disappear from the market.
The “doomers” who were right are what we call “modern health and safety regulation”. All that stuff is written in blood.
That icon tho
Any uninterrupted and coherent hours long monologue is impressive to me.
What is your alt?
> arguably most chemicals produced (esp. medications) have benefits that easily make the risks/downsides worth it

Without some heavy qualification, this seems unlikely to be true.

Maybe if you restrict it to things that have successfully gone through some sort of heavy trials, but even then there are plenty of things that get through with a tiny upside (like the recent alzheimers drug that made headlines). And most things don't make it through trials.

If you open it up to any concoction that humans have discovered or whipped up in a lab, hoo boy.

Edit: my running definition here would be any kind of compound that we've isolated and attempted to sell.
What's important here is that right to repair might require an unlockable bootloader so you can install something that does get updates instead of relying on your crappy phone manufacturer's planned obsolescence timeline.
Yup, the truth is that there are a host of things that are going to make all of our lives slightly shorter. Our doom is that we’re not living absolutely optimum length or quality lives… but the real doom is that some people spend their long lives terrified of losing the last few percent and spread the fear instead of focusing on what makes life worth living.

There is an amount of attention appropriate to give risks, but many people really overdo it and turn it into a kind of religion and obsession.
V in HVAC is for "ventilation" and although home AC unit might not provide it itself, I'd be surprised if there really wasn't any. Unlike AC, V is mandated by law in many jurisdictions.
It seems to me they didn't build the engine and file structure with source control in mind and that it was an afterthought. They didn't make the setup with unit tests in mind either for that matter.

That said, I do track my unity projects in git. It's heavy but works ok these days. What's too much about it for you?
You are trying to teach programming with the wrong tools.

Use python or JS and avoid game programming. Game programming is not for the novice. There is no need to push version control on a beginner, this is just extra stuff which adds confusion.

Start with functions, to show how to build reusable pieces with good abstractions, then scale up

Your best bet will be to help them find a good course and act as the "TA"
There’s a raw nerve around a specific kind of exoticism found in writings about Japan, where they’re so weird and different and secret. I do think the intro plays into that.

Nothing here is super different from most cutting except maybe the decorative cuts, and annoyingly that’s actually the shortest part of the article.
Not sure why you're being downvoted because it seems true to me:

For example, starting out with running feels very exhaustive and draining but once you're in the habit of it you overall feel more energetic I believe.
+1 for XYPlorer. It's powerful, still performant, and heavily configurable.

The free version (discontinued but the last version is available) itself works great.
Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web
News about politics is extremely addictive. Rather than checking daily, or twice a day, or 50 times a day, you could block off a few hours once per month and get whatever the benefit is a person gets from keeping track of political topics.
You can get banned from HN for mentioning far more obvious facts relevant to many peoples lives, ex. race and crime rates. Arguably more well supported than round earth.

So it's just pure hypocrisy and pretending otherwise is silly.
Nationalistic/racial/whatever flamewar will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
You didn't share how old you are, but I'm almost 30 and felt like before while working a highly demanding job my memory and mind was slightly affected. Just from sustained pressure over time.

Almost 1.5 years after quitting my mind feels just like it did when I was 20. Only difference is now just a different personality from being older I'd say. I'll be soon beginning a new job though so wish me luck!
You are mistaken! Here is the proof: https://locserendipity.com/MicroPro.html
Fast and loose with definitions is what gets us to a place where no one believes anything anymore. I’m pretty sure that if one was stuck in a forest somewhere and drank only rainwater for a whole month, they’d come out just fine.
It wasn’t doomsayers spreading that, it was people shining the light on “this is how it is and it’s disgusting”.

More Kitchen Nightmares less “The end is near!”
Cry me a river. The intersection between people who are operating in the few ethical areas of cryptocurrency and those that need an email marketing service is basically empty. If you are promoting your cryptocurrency project via email there is a very good chance that you are part of the problem.

So this seems like a manifestly reasonable action that is hard to criticize. All these crypto-libertarians seem to love the free market until it makes a decision they disagree with, I wonder why?
Well, in a way you're simply describing the job of the C Suite minus the CEO -- the CFO, CTO, CSO, and so on.

But each of the C Suite members can't spend all their time staying up-to-date and coordinated on everything each other is doing, and they'll also often disagree.

So you need somebody to manage the C Suite, understand and integrate and make decisions... and that's the CEO.

At the end of the day, somebody has to be in charge, or else it's either a) anarchy or b) incredibly inefficient as too much time is taken up in NxN communication and lengthy group debating and decision-making.

And somebody who's capable of managing every C Suite member effectively, whose areas span the entire company... that's going to be an inherently fiendishly difficult and complex job.
Legal transformations wrought by the Church abolished "trial by ordeal". What replaced "trial by ordeal"? In the continental Europe, "confession under inquisition"; in England, "jury trail"

"Between 1050 and 1250, a 200-year stretch in the Common Era, the European legal system underwent a remarkable transformation. In continental Europe, trial by ordeal was replaced by confession under inquisition; in England, it was the beginning of the jury trial. In the first case, the judge could appeal to the precise and procedural nature of the law, which ‘dictated’ his judgement; in the second case, the judge could refer to peer judgement to defend his own decision. In both cases, the reasons that led to the transformation were the same: the reluctant witness, who refused to come forth and testify against persons suspected of committing a crime.

Let us first get a better grip on this issue. In order to accuse a person of some crime, one or several witnesses were needed; the judge (whether a civil magistrate or an ecclesiastical authority) could then appeal to legal provisions to pronounce a sentence. But the problem the judges faced was the reluctance of witnesses to come forth and do what was required. There were, to be sure, many reasons for this state of affairs--one chief reason being a scriptural injunction. Being a witness, one risked either lying (‘perjury’), an act forbidden by Scripture (‘thou shalt not bear false witness’) whose violation would send the believer on his way to hell; or one risked blood guilt, that is, carrying the blood of another human being on one’s hands. Despite many subtle attempts by theologians to solve this dilemma, it remained a huge concern; continental Europe and England took different routes to solve this problem." (p.110 of SN Balagangadhara's "Cultures Differ Differently" (Routledge, 2022).
I have so much trouble when trying to refactor projects bigger than a few hundred lines in python. If I could integrate this into Jupyter easily I'd be excited to try it out.
interesting madness, but madness nonetheless
That became an issue in Australia. There is an extensive article here:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/PrecedentAULA/2009/97....
Meanwhile in France.

Because the temperatures are so high and the continuing drought, the nuclear power plants have to decrease their power output.

The cooling water comes from the rivers and the plants have limits how hot the water is allowed to get downstream.
Everything would slowly cook in the rivers …

Even with temporal exceptions of this environmental rules France became a NET IMPORTER of power.

France is like 80% nuclear power electricity.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/france-risks-winter-blackou...
You are right. However they also test that you know and are able apply and recite the fundamentals.
Really good diagrams illustrating where the energy is used.
I got the complete opposite from the article. The very next sentence is:

> Historically, there has been exactly one solution for Nazis. It did not come cheap.

I read that as “punching Nazis isn’t enough on its own, you must kill them until they can no longer act effectively against you, then outlaw their ideology.”
Nope, I was thinking of transactional NTFS, which AFAIK is still supported, but deprecated.

I'd totally forgotten about WinFS - I remember it being touted years back, and it sounded great... and then it got cut before the next version of Windows was released. I was pretty disappointed, as at the time it really sounded like the future of file systems. Maybe just ahead of it's time.
Still doable with pyproject.

I actually wrote a Python tool for downloading binary releases from GitHub and Gitea and wrote a “builder” module that can be used in a pyproject file to tell it to download an arbitrary binary and run some commands.

Here’s an example in action: https://github.com/IamTheFij/release-gitter/tree/main/sample...
I remember seeing that video, and others like it at Oculus. The variety and depth of his knowledge is truly astounding, as is his ability to talk about it without rambling. Every time he switched topics, you knew there was so much more he could have said.

When I was a technical evangelist, I regularly gave hour long technical presentations to relatively large ballrooms and it's ridiculously hard to maintain focus. The fact that Carmack gives a detailed talk rather than a presentation or speech is already a distinction, but mostly off the cuff, for hours, non-stop, to a packed conference hall? Impressive doesn't describe it.
Lead is exempt when used in ceramic capacitors
Nuclear requires exactly the sort of long term rational decision making you decry the lack of. That's the nice thing about other energy sources, they don't require 1000 years of self discipline and self denial...
> a very inefficient use of resources

I wish we would consider prison a very inefficient use of resources.

We put non-violent people in prison and fine the tax payers. It's a lose-lose for both parties.
Tesla makes 1.5 million EVs/year at current run rate, and is targeting 2 million/year by end of year.

You need not replace every vehicle right away, just enough to replace the largest consumers of fossil fuels.

> Run the math.

There are no spherical cows.

https://insideevs.com/news/602725/tesla-3-million-cars-prduc...
We couldn't figure out what sound to have, so we opted for silence. We also hoped it would be more contemplative without sound.

Yes he is aware that the camera is recording, he needed to wash the windows on the bridge.
It's interesting but can't really be done without jailbreaking the iOS first.
The thing to beware is X-free! Products often contain a slightly different X with similar risks.
Clearly VideoLAN isn’t trying hard enough!

/s, in jest, in case that isn’t clear haha
Please don't call names or fulminate or do online shaming or nationalistic flamewar on HN—regardless of how wrong other people or you feel they are.

You may not owe opposing energy activists better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I'm sorry, I had it wrong. I've checked my facts. It works. This is actually a relief for me.