skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It feels like Pfizer bought off the entirety of Western governments.

They did though [0].

Out of 73 contracts with governments, only 5 were published, and those had "significant redactions". All vaccines were bought on condition of full legal indemnity.

> There seem to be not much research into why there are such differences in people's reaction, how virus actually spreads, the treatment protocols

Why research any of that when you can say that you just need this totally safe and effective [TM] vaccine, no you can't see the safety data, and if you question us then you're a murderous plague rat who hates old people!!

So far they're getting away with this; if anything people's trust in pharma has gone up. Ugh.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/05/wall-of-secr...
Usually, devs use one of Google's web-based code editors. No local editor at all. The web editors are pretty well integrated with the rest of the dev stack... and they just work.

CitC workspaces aren't mounted on laptops, so no MacOS support. I think sshfs is permitted if you want to use something like Emacs or Vim on your laptop rather than on your workstation. I've never tried at Google, but previous experience with sshfs tells me the performance probably wouldn't be great. Maybe some tweaks help.

Honestly, these days I'm much less willing to tinker endlessly to get the 'perfect' setup.
You can do a lot better than that; just electrify the roads so that cars can recharge while travelling at highway speeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-f...

There's basically three options: overhead lines, which are cheap but kind of ugly and don't really work for passenger cars (they'd need a really tall pantograph to reach as high as a truck), rails embedded in the road surface which can be used by cars and trucks but are more expensive than overhead lines, and wireless charging which is much more expensive than rails and the amount of power you can reasonably transfer is pretty limited.

I'm in favor of the rail approach, like they're testing in Sweden. If some billionaire with money burning a hole in your pocket is reading this, might I suggest buying a stretch of land parallel to a busy highway and constructing a parallel road with rail-style charging, and establish an in-motion charging standard. Let people charge for free and see what comes of it.

In the long run I hope all the major highways get electrified this way. It's disappointing that Congress isn't already working on this.
They also tried making a nuclear artificial heart. Source: I've held a non functional prototype in my hands at a place I worked.
You should read up on electromagnetics.

c=lambda*f The wavelength of a red led is ~630nm so the frequency is ~480 THz. The energy of a photon is E=hf so proportional to the frequency. Therefore a red LED photon has approximately 20,000 times the energy of a 25 GHz 5G photon.
> Wages have never been based on value produced, at any time, in any industry.

Yep. The prices of anything (incl. price of labor) are never about the value produced alone. The delivered value only sets a ceiling on the price (i.e. no one will pay for something more than they will get out of it), but, if the commodity in question is abundant, its price may be very well below the value it creates. For example, drinking water is necessary for survival, so the value it delivers is essentially infinite (i.e. you'd give anything and everything for water if you don't have any and are dying of dehydration), but at the same time it's so abundant that its actual price is almost zero.
Hmm, disagree. I feel like most ads are not manipulative or damaging. Most are just informing you about the product's existence in ways that attempt to be memorable. To the extent others are manipulative they're so in predictable ways that can be easily compensated for, like telling you the product is great when maybe there are other people who disagree. For more objective claims there are truth in advertising laws that seem to work well enough.

Wikipedia's tactics here have long been very scummy. They're a charity not a company, so people's guard is down due to the incorrect belief that charities don't have/care about profits. And the claims they're making aren't of the subjective type you learn to ignore in advertising - they tend to strongly create the impression that they're in dire poverty and Wikipedia might shut down if they don't raise enough money, which is just flat out untrue.

Frankly, I'd rather have advertising than this situation. Advertising can be annoying but it wouldn't create a culture of dishonesty at the Wikimedia Foundation, as relying on donations has apparently done. Especially for an encyclopedia organization, honesty and trustworthyness are some of their most important assets, and every time they do this they set it on fire.
Probably due to the blueray release. Also it’s set in 2021, so there’s a recent anniversary of sorts.
If his prediction does come true despite reducing emissions then we better start looking a whole heap harder for explanations - if it turns out the current scientific consensus has been massively underestimating the likely effect of historic emissions or completely missed some other factor leading to sudden sea level increases then we're truly in strife.
> From what I’ve read on this page[0], Ghost does allow other providers which I presume includes self-hosted emails.

Yup, "transactional" emails can be sent via a variety of methods, but "bulk" email can't.

I think the differentiation between transactional and bulk email is also bullshit (and a result of a broken underlying ecosystem) but that's a different story.

> I don’t know anything about self-hosting, but I’m curious to know if there’s no place for self-hosted email servers when it comes to integrating with Ghost.

Just to be clear, transactions emails are fine, but bulk email is not.

I personally think Ghost just didn't want to unleash a wave of under-prepared people into the difficult problem of email deliverability.

Letting people use SMTP servers would immediately lead to people using their own postfix setups, GMail, transactional providers that offer SMTP, etc -- probably instantly leading to many people being banned for unintended use (there's that bullshit again), and people either being angry at Ghost or filing issues against Ghost about email not working.

What's unfortunate is that they didn't really shim it out so it's easy to replace Mailgun... Which is why I'm embarking on this quixotic quest at all. It may end up being helpful down the road though, API aggregation has been a common theme for my ideas lately.
I think they meant that we would have more because of all the ones that disappeared due to take down requests.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience – 4th ed
I'm jealous of people who manage to have an almost normal life. I live in a constant latent distress who might be devastating me. My 1 year old daughter had a good time by being with her parents 100% of her time but I'm very concerned about her future, both health and mental wise as she will soon need to make friends and have a social life.

I try not to go out and when I do I avoid crowded places and keep far from people without a mask even when outside. I'm sure I'm transmitting my distress to my family. Furthermore, the feeling that my behaviour is not understood and judged extreme by people around me, including colleagues and relatives and maybe my wife, is making me feel more isolated.

I think that this only happens to the western world, where people misunderstood freedom for something else. I have recently been to South Korea and I felt much more at ease there, as for example not wearing a mask in public is considered socially deplorable and you might be reprimanded by other people.

This might be the first time I stated it explicitly, but I think that though not having been infected yet, probably my life got ruined irreversibly.
> Let me guess, email is dead? RSS is also dead right?

Sadly, yes. Businesses, and even many hackers, moved their email to the oligopolists; ditched RSS readers in favor of Twitter; switched from IRC to Slack; many people in organizations can't even be called directly, they're on MS Teams.
A classic United States moment.
Final movie was not what he wanted from the very beginning. So it kind of make sense. At least in this case.
The post you've linked doesn't say that it was some unknown/random reason just the fact that the person is locked out of the account, not that the account itself is locked, which may be for variety of reasons(losing 2FA, forgetting password, else?). It's more about that support is slow. The person reached out and the issue was eventually resolved.
What doesn't exist?
https://archive.ph/q9yRI
Elon Musk loses race to sew implant into the brain
Good question, ideally we'd integrate environmental cost in prices, and the market would determine if it's worth or not, but currently not the case. Also I think the ratio marginal_benefit/environmenal_cost for 5G is probably one of the lowest in history. If you think about it, it's almost caricatural.
As always with this kind of post: attention.
Why would a landlord pay good money to build something that they can charge people to use for short periods of time and recoup their investment and start to profit in their sleep over a medium term timescale?

And cities, creating places for cars to park and forcing them to pay for that, either charging the car owner directly at the time or through taxes? I just can't imagine that.
Reading the wiki page, I still don't get why this long S entered usage at all. The article mostly talks about the rules for usage and how it gradually phased out.

What was the purpose or reason for it appearing to begin with? Were words with double-ss needing some typographic distinguishing? What warranted a new character that broke through the normal height of lower case letters, when regular s was doing just fine? And why only one of the S's in a pair? Puzzling.
I'm not sure I can take them seriously if they're "extracting" the data using DBeaver as opposed to some command-line utility that could probably do chunk/batching without spinning up a UI. If it's "crashed multiple times", that'd be a clue to use a more dedicated tool or process even.

How many DBAs do you see starting up DBeaver or SSMS in order to do database backups or restores or any large-amount-of-data action?
> I’ve had covid twice, I’m fine. With that said, my experiences are entirely different.

The submission reeks of ignorant survivorship bias.

Even though fatalities were a fraction of contagion, and even though long COVID seems to only bother those who suffer from it, it's highly ignorant to in the same breath complain about basic public health measures like lockdowns and pretend everything was ok because a) the author survived, b) vaccines were unexpectedly rolled out afterwards.
It's not really the naming causing issues but rather way too much has been put into the single standard which in turn leads to chaotic naming. I don't really know if there would be enough colors for that.

USB-C was meant to fit for all my needs but actually I have more cables than ever as there are so many of them with completely different capabilities. If they were not correctly labeled in the first place, it would be a pain in the neck to sort them out. Unfortunately I learned that the hard way.

USB-C Docks are even more chaotic than cables. I returned 3 docks in a row as none of them worked on any of my machines, doesn't really matter cheap or expensive, generic or brand ones. You just don't know which one is going to work. One from around 4 years ago still goes strong, the other one bought later was deadly long time ago. Aforementioned 3 docks returned, one almost got my laptop rebooted the second it plugged in. I never ever had so much problems.
Funny seeing this on the top of HN when this is also on the top of HN: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/
>I firmly remember all the army trucks sprinting around my home city carting dead bodies and healthcare professionals,

I also remember many media outlets using extremely emotionally appealing images of "scary" hospital scenes and the like (I assume, to prey on our fears and insecurities to drive clicks and ad revenue). I also remember a picture of a pauper's graveyard being used as a image of how "horrifying" the Covid death rate was, and other visceral but misleading stories.

How many people actually died of Covid in your home town?
Did you read the entire article? They specifically bring up, amongst others, the role the Chinese state is playing in the development of this technology to ‘control and manage’ its populace
The question is really what applications require such low latency?

AR? Gaming? Perhaps.

But most applications are fine with 10-50ms RTT. I think edge compute will happen but it won’t be as ubiquitous as the telcos would like.
I'm having trouble evaluating his example (having kosher ice cream available on free ice cream days). The logic seems to be:

* The company offers free ice cream on some days

* Some employees, due to being Jewish, can't eat the normal ice cream; so the company offers kosher ice cream instead

* The author is not Jewish, but also can't eat the normal ice cream, since he's lactose intolerant, but he can eat the kosher ice cream. So he figures that since the point of offering the kosher ice cream is to accommodate employees who can't eat the normal ice cream, it's OK for him to take some.

I mean, I don't see anything wrong with that argument? But I'm having trouble constructing a similar scenario that matches my own religion, so it's difficult to be sure. Kosher just means that it's prepared in a specific way; it doesn't mean that it's supposed to be somehow more holy, or imbued with some special religious significance (as far as I know).

By contrast, say that you worked for an explicitly Christian charity, which offered employees daily communion at 10am. You're an atheist, so don't want to celebrate the sacrificial death of Jesus, but you are a bit peckish at 10am -- is it OK for you to have a light snack? In that instance I'd say no -- the bread and wine are imbued with special religious significance, and so it's more respectful to abstain, even if you don't think there's anything special about them.

Suppose, on the other hand, that Ramadan was occurring at a place and time when the sun set at 3:30pm; and so they provided some snacks for Muslims who'd been fasting all day. You happen to do IF, so normally have been fasting longer by that point than your Muslim colleagues (who would typically have eaten before dawn at least, while you haven't eaten anything since yesterday evening). Is it OK if you break your fast with them?

My own guess is that C's issue has less to do with religion, and more to do with the idea of "cultural appropriation".
I get > 1 spam per day on gmail.com.

But I don't find that burdensome at all, in fact I'd prefer that gmail let more stuff through to my spam folder instead of swallowing things that it misclassifies, because I have seen several instances of lost legitimate email, something I still don't understand how is deemed acceptable to the people who wrote it.

But I need to vote with my feet instead of complaining.
Huawei it was.
> While it isn't enough to stop the spread, it has limited the circulation of the common coughing and sneezing diseases.

It should be noted that that's exactly the whole purpose of basic higiene and public health measures: lower contagion rates by putting in place low-effort measures that hinder contagion rates.
I absolutely hate monochrome. The trend of removing colour from something and calling it an improvement. In photography, in film, everywhere.

Is it just me? Is there something different with my visual perception that makes me prefer colour over monochrome after we worked so hard to evolve the right photoreceptors in our eyes and the colour in photography, film and computer screens? Or is it just my general low tolerance of pretentious bullshit?
I've got Covid in oct 2020, probably from my partner (she works in clinics).
No vaccines available and hospitals full struggling with hospitalizations every day, therefore under constant phone checks by our doctor, we spent 3 weeks at home since symptoms never went far from high fever (39c in my case), strong coughing, headaches and muscular pains, and of course the complete loss of taste and smell. In the end we recovered, including taste and smell (took a while however), and everything went well for us. I would however suggest you to take a chest rx as after 2 years mine still show the traces of lung inflammation, which doctors say is very likely due to that Covid infection got 2 years ago.
About your last sentence, you may believe what you're indoctrinated to according to your political faith, but I've seen 5 people die of Covid when I was hospitalized for 2 months after a bad road accident (spine damage, back and other surgeries) weeks later in a Covid ward as I tested positive again, although completely asymptomatic. One of them went the complete path in a few days from mere breathing help like the one I had, then mask, then respirator, then intubation, then pronounced dead and put into a brown bag. The saddest thing is that when I finally got out of that hell I had to hear the same politically-induced nonsense from lots of people, including someone I know. That is however a much dangerous disease than Covid, against which sadly there is no cure.
So why didn't this happen with the prius?
It's an important distinction to make; plenty of politicians do things like following a religion as a box ticking exercise.
my vacation this year was 1500 km one way, at least 80% of which was done at 130km/h or more (both ways). i was one of very many doing a trip of this length judging by license plates at the destination.
Related in the sense that the medium is unusual
[A Zen Guide to Paper and Pen Games](http://zenseeker.net/BoardGames/PaperPenGames.htm)
tl;dr

As it turned out, the old cookie code from 1998 accepted cookies that contained control codes. The control codes could be part of the name or the the content just fine, and if the user enabled the “cookie engine” curl would store those cookies and send them back in subsequent requests.
This! I sucked in school, had to leave early because of my performance. I was just bothered by those linear performance assessment strategies. Though I suck in every piece of information, technologies, biology, mathematics, physics, psychology... Whatever.

It makes me sad knowing, that the current system focusses on performance and leaves behind so many briliant people, and I don't even consider myself briliant.
The modern day church establishment telling to stop printing presses because it's too dangerous of a tool for the masses.
This multiplayer live coding/composition in lisp is worth checking out:
https://youtu.be/v4rcAIVvPQ8?t=3591

(video linked to in gibber.cc's homepage, which features gibber.cc in other segments)
My mathematics professor used a windows 98 (or 95) computer and created the exams in word. Not connected to the internet, obviously.

This was in 2017.
> “I was an internet evangelist,” he told Protocol. “I was out there talking about how incredible the internet was and how infinite the possibilities were.”

You mean the Web? Which had the speculation fuelled run and after the crash, 90% of dotcom companies died with the remaining 10% still alive today?

> I'm not a big regulations guy. But when it comes to finance, it's just not an area where you can let people run free.

Yes you are, and he knows it will be regulated, and this whole post is completely alarmist ahead of the conference.

> None of us are going to make any money by what we say in this conference. Maybe somebody is making money somehow, I don't know.

Someone (especially the speakers at the last event of the conference) has a book to sell you and not disclosing that they have a competing interest against public chains because their company was killed by another Haskell-based blockchain project called Cardano.

The only thing that is true is this: 90% of these crypto, blockchain startups and technologies are not going to survive and will wither away with the remaining 10% of them still surviving, compliant with regulations with no 'total collapse' or 'all of it burning in a fire' as the critics have hoped for years.

The extreme crypto-critics hoping for all of it to 'collapse' are no better or just as delusional as the crypto maximalists who want 'all of them' to succeed. The truth is: Some of them will succeed, and most of them will not survive.
Not disputing what you are saying but I think the problem is also Nintendo here. Other companies love it when their players make projects like this with their work, and I've heard Sega even hired people who made fan remakes of Sonic. But for some peculiar reason Nintendo seem to absolutely determined to defend their intellectual property. What's annoying is that stuff like this isn't threatening their business model at all, and it could also be beneficial to them by raising interest in their product. But their decision to take revenue off YouTubers years ago was hugely detrimental to them as it lead many YouTubers just to avoid covering Nintendo altogether, and it's insane it took them so long to u-turn on it.
Thanks for sharing this - I found myself watching all 29 minutes of the LTT screwdriver design video [1], previously discussed [2], so it was great to see that their new tool did well in these tests. Fun/bracing delivery, too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32673340
If you hate exercising but want to build and/or maintain your muscles for long term health then I highly recommend the book “Body by Science”. I have been working out for 15 (yes fifteen) minutes one day a week (yes once a week) for a few months now and have more than doubled my strength. I am now leg pressing 260kg. It might not be much by body builder standards but it is way more than I could do starting out! And the complete trip to the gym takes 30 minutes from I leave the house until I am back. Worth it.
Original poster said of Nanite:

> It's brittle, and full of internal relative addresses within the data item, so it's very vulnerable to buffer overflows.

I think the hope was that rewriting it in Rust would make it more robust. But if the only way to write it efficiently is to unsafe your way to writing C++ in disguise, it's not clear it will be any more robust.
I come from the opposite scenario. I lost the toxicity I was living in everyday and I feel reborn.
Some of Musk's stuff is great - other stuff isn't.

SpaceX? Great. Starlink? Sounds neat. Tesla? Pioneered electric cars with respectable performance and range.

But on the other hand, where's the hyperloop? Where's the affordable tunnelling? Where's the $35k Tesla - not available for order on the website, that's for sure. Where's the miniature submarine for rescuing children trapped in caves? Why has my buddy in Europe been waiting over a year for his powerwall to be delivered? Why are these norwegian tesla owners on hunger strike? Where's the full self driving, with taxi service? Why on earth would anyone want to buy Twitter?

Makes it very difficult to know which of Musk's statements are just spitballing, which are unrealistic timescale guesses and which can be relied on.

Getting any serious project architecturally 'locked in' to a special type of CPU you can only get from Tesla would be a bold move.
> here the company trying to do something “nice” for a particular subset of employees.

Or the company is trying to be more inclusive to folks that do not want to eat regular icecream, and would not eat any otherwise. Then his action might have been in harmony with the intention.

Also, I don't see this as favoritism: While it is a special treatment, the ones eating kosher icecream do not have a better outcome than everyone else.
Depending on how much you drive, and how far you live from a fastcharger, you could very well do without a local slower charger.