skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NoScript (front-end) source code repository
I read some of the “Long COVID” studies a while back, and they all included things like anxiety, depression, and mental state weeks or months after testing positive for COVID. Linking this to COVID is an example of bad science. Correlation does not equal causation. People could be experiencing these symptoms for a multitude of reasons including, but not limited to, government mandates, rules, policies, inflation, economic difficulties, isolation, remote work, etc.

Even their comment about the impact of vaccines can be explained in this context:

> The vaccines are certainly helping. Before they became available, about one-third of everyone infected with the virus came down with long COVID, Koralnik says. “There is brand-new data showing that if you’ve been double vaccinated and boosted, then the risk of developing long COVID, if you get COVID, is probably more like 16, 17 percent

If your state of mind and anxiety about things are included as “long COVID” symptoms, it makes sense that the peace of mind offered to people who get vaccinated would put them in a better head space to not experience these symptoms regardless of how effective the vaccines are.

None of this means that it is impossible to have lingering COVID symptoms. Of course that can happen, but that can happen with any disease.
I agree, and I think that's a big part of why so many people got excited for the Cybertruck, as an attack on aesthetic blandness.

80s-era movie and TV vehicles were a helluva lot of fun too:

A-Team van, Ninja Turtles party wagon, K.I.T.T., Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308.

And since you mentioned the Countach: https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?t=115
The best solution would be a QR mode with a standardized cryptographic signature.
>The huge win is the 99% of the year where supplemental heat isn’t needed

People advocating for heat pumps seem to be convinced the normal climate, if it isn't warm all year round, is in-between for most of the year. I have never learned why.

Where I live, and it's not Alaska, northern Minnesota or Maine or something like that, there can't be any "win" for six months of the year because there's essentially no need for burning gas anyway. That's separate from the question of exactly how cold a heat pump can be effective.

But from November through April, lows here range from the high 30s to below zero (F). Based on some poking around .gov websites, that is plausibly well into the resistive range.

And again, it doesn't matter how well it works above 40F, because all of the months (6) with lows above 40 require virtually no furnace use.

I've been told that my experience with a heat pump in an apartment where it had to be set to "emergency" (resistive) heat all winter is outdated...but I can't shake the feeling that people are not understanding climates where heating is needed in the first place.
What if they suddenly got covid?
In my previous life as an F/A-18 avionics technician I ordered from Mouser and Newark more than a few times when supply didn’t have the parts.
I feel the HN readers could have helped Space Cop:

Space Cop: Every day I'm haunted by how I couldn't save her.

"But you have a time machine."

(Sadly) Nothing I could have done.

"Your Space Cop Car has a time machine. You use it all the time."

"But here I am, trapped in the past."

"It's only seven years from now. And you have a time machine."

"Knowing seven years from now she's going to be murdered."

"Let's just go to where she is living right now."

(Heavy sigh) "It's all so hopeless."

mkay, I couldn't find the real quote but that's how I remember it
I don’t think it’s any surprise that a smartphone can capture a decent image in perfect lighting conditions. That’s been the case for a while. You’ll notice though that all pro photographers still reach for their real camera when the quality of the pictures matter.
I just searched on LinkedIn. 52k people whose status has “career break” in it. So, you aren’t alone.

As a principal SRE at a FAANG you are highly desirable. I can’t imagine that would change too much in a single year.

Take a break for your health. You can always get a new job but you only have one body and one mind.

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/search/results/all?keywords=...
I think this is a great angle but I am guessing there will probably be trains left on single tracks.
i am rewritting all of our projects (about 20 or so) to get off akka as we speak. Pain in the arse, but has to be done. It's a shame. Was fun while it lasted.
Oh. Hey! Learn sumptin new ery day! I never even noticed that button! I’ll take the positive view of, great minds etc (as opposed to the more correct view that I’m an idiot! :-)
My first thought was some tech article referencing RLM in the title. Nope. Ooh a new video!
I believe it is mostly just pulled muscles in the neck, so pretty hard to diagnose with imaging or that sort of thing.
The technician profited in time, not money. She sat at her station and did whatever it is that one does when not performing one's actual duties.
It emulates a completely different architecture to the Switch, the Wii was really just an updated and more powerful Gamecube.
Tesla assigned my Model 3 to some random person in Europe
or akka on java.
Still 403 for me too.
The Federal-Funded EV Charging Stations Are on the Way
I guess they really wanted a thinner website.
Marketing and front end people would have SHIT FITS. That's why.
If you are in the HTTP proxying business, you might not even know. It's just customer workflows using those status codes. And you can pick either to support them, or to lose the ability to handle traffic for those customers.
They went full minimalist.

iPhone XV will have a text based menu to replace app icons.
Joke's on the people who paid you. The more people who do this, the smaller amount of money they all get. It might work for the first person, but once people catch on the payout goes towards zero.
>If your state of mind and anxiety about things are included as “long COVID” symptoms, it makes sense that the peace of mind offered to people who get vaccinated would put them in a better head space to not experience these symptoms regardless of how effective the vaccines are.

Correlation does not equal causation.
I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the terminal
It took me a few hours to find the right plugins for neovim. Thought I'd post it here in case anybody was thinking about doing this. Cheers.
FWIW, I implemented[1] the exact same algorithm (except only using 2-way SIMD instead of 4-way as that's what my computer at the time supported, and relying on OpenMP's dynamic scheduling for multi-core, and doing grayscale rendering instead of color) in C 9 years ago. I did care about proper alignment, and IIRC it did help performance. I kept the relevant changes and discoveries in the commit log, although can't see right now what happened without alignment. The code is pretty ugly since I'm not relying on any auto-vectorization at all. I guess I should check which of our versions runs faster.

[1] in the "c" folder in https://github.com/pflanze/mandelbrot

(I also implemented the same algorithm again in C++ later on, cleaner, but haven't published that (yet).)
That was... profane.
More evidence of how anti-car fetishists are ruining HN
I'm pretty sure the bumpers were steel with a chrome plating, so not solid anything actually.
To whom would that distinction be justifiably relevant in the debate over the DAO response?
I would suggest that folks interested in energy efficiency improvement take a spin with NREL's BEopt software.

It allows you to make a simple 3D model of your home, enter its current state of construction (insulation, HVAC system, roof, solar panels, etc.), and then uses the DOE's energy plus (e+) software to run energy analysis for different scenarios of modification to the building.

For example you can find the optimal balance between improvement to your insulation vs getting a more efficient HVAC system in terms of dollars or energy usage, depending on your goals for your home.

https://www.nrel.gov/buildings/beopt.html
I can see why that requirement was dropped, because display name is sometime used as a profile line. e.g.:

- “Corporate, Inc. @ tradeShow Hall A”

- “DisplayName / A Trusted Brand”,

- “Individual (LIVE 09/21 21:00-)”,
etc.

Profile pics change for similar reasons. screenname(@username) is the only bitwise consistent visual element for a Twitter account so there will have to be either a magical audit algorithms to verify user perceived consistencies for changes, or simply a degraded experiences with impacts on engagements for verified users, to enforce that.
I would love to see map layers for other infrastructure as well such as gas and oil pipelines, electric transmission lines, navigable waterways, or aqueducts.
What are "Patigonia Purpose Trust" and "Holdfast Collective"? My brief Internet search didn't yield any obvious explanation of what these organizations are.

Presumably it is not this: https://www.theholdfastcollective.com/
How does a manufacturer of some defective part get ahold of that piece of evidence from a plane crash? NTSB investigates civilian aircraft accidents, and this kind of thing couldn't ever happen. But someone(s) on the DoD or Air Force investigative teams collected this evidence, and at some point someone sent evidence back to the manufacturer, allowing their opportunity to tamper with it? And they weren't even careful enough to not make it blatantly obvious? It's as upsetting as it is crazy.
Curious how these will work. The charging time must be much longer than gas fill ups take.
They're saying that even though small business owners may not technically be CEO, they are the business owner which is just another title for CEO. lol. You're being too technical. Their point is sound.
far less likely being scala
Long Covid is what scares me when my employer keeps pressuring us to get back into the office.
Speak for yourself, I can't tell you how many times I've left my card at the bar because of an open tab. Nowadays I'll favor places that give me my card back when I open a tab.
I agree that growth of the editor base is essential to the continuation of Wikipedia, but are the consumers(as the people I presume donate the most, tho I might be totally wrong) not just as important?
They don't crumple much, despite the size.
US is the same, except the pre-auth is set by the gas station owner, so you may need to go inside to pay with a debit card with less than that amount, and large trucks need two transactions to fill up
This I'm aware of! From what I heard Switch is even easier due to better availability of documentation surrounding the Tegra chips.

I doubt a different architecture would stand in the way of some of these people. Wizardry :)
One thing is Scala plays fast and loose with backwards compatibility. So much so that akka actually prints out messages if they find jars with different versions. It's a pain in the arse.
> targets human rights defenders, journalists, and dissidents

It’s literally spelled out as one of the target audiences in Apple’s press release announcing the feature.
It's like they watched black mirror and thought. "Yeah that. Let's do that."
No who you were talking to. But all corporate shares should be bearer shares. Corporate and income taxes are the real "abuse."
Cocadyne Industries
There are already some comments here making implicit or explicit comparisons between "long covid" and "anxiety", "stress", or "depression". There's a better article about the pathology of covid-related "brain fog" here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/long-covi...

> Of long COVID’s many possible symptoms, brain fog “is by far one of the most disabling and destructive,” Emma Ladds, a primary-care specialist from the University of Oxford, told me. It’s also among the most misunderstood.

> Long-haulers with brain fog say that it’s like none of the things that people—including many medical professionals—jeeringly compare it to. It is more profound than the clouded thinking that accompanies hangovers, stress, or fatigue. ... It is not psychosomatic, and involves real changes to the structure and chemistry of the brain. It is not a mood disorder: “If anyone is saying that this is due to depression and anxiety, they have no basis for that, and data suggest it might be the other direction,” Joanna Hellmuth, a neurologist at UC San Francisco, told me.

> And despite its nebulous name, brain fog is not an umbrella term for every possible mental problem. At its core, Hellmuth said, it is almost always a disorder of “executive function”—the set of mental abilities that includes focusing attention, holding information in mind, and blocking out distractions. These skills are so foundational that when they crumble, much of a person’s cognitive edifice collapses. Anything involving concentration, multitasking, and planning—that is, almost everything important—becomes absurdly arduous.

Like, say, autism, covid-related "brain fog" will probably have a lot of people dubiously diagnosing themselves, but it is still a real disorder with an observable set of symptoms that are being taken quite seriously by medical researchers.

I'd also remind people that it took several years of significant research resources around the world before HIV/AIDS became well understood once it spread into the western nations. Setting aside the obvious differences in severity, we've still got a brand new virus exhibiting many different behaviors in many people, and it's likely that we still have a lot to discover about its mechanisms and long-term effects.
I think this is true for everyone. Without ever knowing how google search works, somehow over time you figure out how to do prompt engineering and figure out that the results you want are more highly correlated with certain phrasing.

Wouldn’t something similar apply here though, where after using it for some time you get an inherent understanding of what it works well with and does not?

There’s always some sort of mix of things to learn and make available to the end user though, so that they understand how to use the tool to be successful.

Disclaimer: I also work at Adept
I’m not exactly sure what happens at shutdown - to the active trains stop immediately or do the crews drive them to somewhere comfortable first?
Can you explain more what you're thinking here? I don't see how that would solve anything.

QR codes generally are just a bit of data, like a link to a website. If I cover up an existing QR code with my own link to my own website... what would a signature do to help here?

Even if the original QR code had the link printed on it, do you think someone reaching for their 3rd beer would even notice it?

Humans are not conditioned (yet) to validate QR codes. We scan them without thinking twice. Phishing is pretty sophisticated and it is easy to duplicate a website.
Apple.com/Mac Down
Just imagine how financially successful these folks could be if they put halve that amount of effort into some legitimate projects. =)
So I'm a big dummy, but I STILL don't understand how current stock price affects companies. They've already raised their money. How does the stock going down make them lose money other than lowering their chance at another seed round?
Scala doesn't care about backwards compatibility. They break stuff all the time, And so major libraries are tenuously hanging on to whatever version they were targeted at. Akka prints out messages if it finds jars with even different minor versions.
You don't even need the darknet; there are plenty of clearnet carding forums. Just search "carding forums" — they're right there, hanging about in the open, all Google-visible and everything. (There are dark-web ones, too, but they're not really any different than the clearnet ones.)

From a few cursory searches, it seems like 1. people generally build their own skimming tools by following guides; and 2. this isn't organized crime, but usually just some really obsessive individuals thinking they can get rich quick.

(If you think about it, the incentives for selling the skimming tools themselves are all wrong: if someone with sloppy OpSec buys your tool and uses it, and it gets into the bank's hands to be studied, they've now ruined it for all your other customers.)
The world is on the tail end of an ice age but the thought is compassionate so that's nice.
Why is opt out a thing?

Who told you you could use the data in the first place?

It's copyrighted. Reproducing any of it is a crime.
Moderna-backed mouse study offers first head-to-head BA.5, BA.1 booster data
The bottom line, made explicitly by this commentary (although attributed to only one component), is that various good design choices (improved over its over 60 years!!) make lisp very close to the language of thought and of natural expression. You can almost turn the natural expression of your computation directly into lisp by judicious use of parens and reading the phrase “of the” between function names and arguments, and where you can’t do this, that’s a hint that you need a macro.
The system used in Brazil is a glorified ballot. The machine just computes and prints the tally at the end, and this can be audited by all the parties. Fraud would require more than just compromising the machines. Attempt to spread FUD about it is political, ignoring how the system actually works.
Considering NSO Group is specifically mentioned by name multiple times in Apple’s press release announcing Lockdown Mode, I’d say you’re right…

> Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for the very few users who, because of who they are or what they do, may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from NSO Group and other private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware.
Considering their low pay and high responsibility, I would never take away what little they have such as a little park time.
I had a situation like that with Robinhood and ended up just writing a long email detailing my job history and previous trading experiences. It was enough to satisfy them and my account was unlocked the same day.
My version of the statement reads more like:

If an entity manages to obtain a massive amount of wealth, far surpassing its own needs, and there is a definite need for that money elsewhere, then that is a policy failure.

The obvious example is a single person who's a billionaire - a person doesn't need a billion dollars for a house and some food. But it could also extend to a company, or even a subsection of the government. It's just in that case measuring the need becomes several orders of magnitude harder (what should an F-35 cost anyway?)

As far as definite need, the GP probably had these needs in mind: Healthcare, food, housing, and an uncontaminated environment. I think the US is failing in these aspects in such a big way that I would agree and say "billionaires are policy failures".
That's not how this works. Copyright owners have the right to control when, where, how and by whom their content may be used.

Not you
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
It seems okay at least to me.

I looked up what the standard says:

> The default interpretation for QR Code is ECI 000020 representing the JIS8 and Shift JIS character sets.

> 8.3.4 8-bit Byte Mode

> The 8-bit byte mode handles the 8-bit Latin/Kana character set in accordance with JIS X 0201 (character values 00HEX to FFHEX).

> In this mode data is encoded at a density of 8 bits/character.

> 8.4.4 8-bit Byte Mode

> In this mode, one 8 bit codeword directly represents the JIS8 character value of the input data character as shown in Table 6, i.e. a density of 8 bits/character.

> In ECIs other than the default ECI, it represents an 8-bit byte value
directly.

So it's just an 8 bit value that may or may not represent a JIS8 character. The referenced table 6 is a lot like the table in the article linked above but for JIS8 instead. There are reserved/unused characters but I didn't get the impression that they were invalid. It seems contradictory to me to prohibit the use of bytes which may be in use in the future. Is this incorrect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208#Unassigned_code_poi...

Gives me the same impression. Plenty of "should not"s and even historical examples where people did something with those characters anyway. So it didn't seem like a big deal to me that binary data might contain those bytes. It even says many unassigned characters were assigned in newer standards which also happens often in Unicode.

The RFC for base 45 is interesting too:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9285/

> Even in Byte mode, a typical QR code reader tries to interpret a byte sequence as text encoded in UTF-8 or ISO/IEC 8859-1.

> Thus, QR codes cannot be used to encode arbitrary binary data directly.

The implication being that it would work if only we could fix those decoders so they stop trying to convert data to text.

That's been my exact experience. The binary decoding problems in zbar were due to character encoding conversion attempts. I just made it output the bytes unchanged and it worked perfectly with arbitrary binary data. I also studied zxing-cpp and it does both: it converts the binary data to text and keeps a copy of the original bytes. There's even comments saying the standard isn't clear.
Haha, this is great! Thank you for sharing! Though you definitely started it with that username and the subject.

My friends have been using warp.dev and claim that the AI autopilot has made them 10x as productive on the shell. I just lament that people who haven't suffered through learning shell primitives as a teenager are now as productive or more than me. In time, all our primitive skills fall to the machine. I love it.
Greyzone isn’t a reliable source because some Wikipedia editors voted they weren’t. I’m pointing out that the motivations of those participating in that are highly questionable to put it charitably.

I don’t know what “employees of the Russian government” you’re talking about (maybe RT articles?) but I’ve watched WaPo and NYT perpetually without criticism or follow up publish White House and State Dept. talking points.
We’re 3 kids into a “softer” version of the Ferber method and also report that it works well.
Im pretty sure a ton of people complain how Google spends their money, quite frequently. As well, one of the major complaints from people has nothing to do with their ad budget. It has to do with the fact they both host the marketplace for advertising and are a competitor in the same space. And they expert that market dominance by manipulating prices, perception, and their own products success.
Something not generally mentioned is that Java can inline what would be virtual methods in C++, it can also remove them as behaviour changes or code is unloaded.
Did you mean to say that are none of my business? I’m not sure what you are getting at here.
It’s a fair question. I think of religious establishments that exist with huge sums of wealth with few actual congregants.

The Catholic Church has this reputation, but the Episcopalian Church is probably a better example, because it has so few memebrs.

A local Indian tribe is flush with cash despite from casinos despite having few actual members.

Best example is the American Prohibition Party. It was endowed by some rich guy 100 years ago, so it’s still around.

I have a hard time seeing anything pernicious in these examples.

Living people donate wealth to silly things all the time.

It’s hard to find a powerful institution that has power only because of some wealthy person long ago.
or FPGA
They're also... growing fast. That probably hurts...
‘ADHD is a coping strategy’

Dr. Mate wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, which I found quite helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9
I've taken lots of breaks, and my career isn't over yet. Relax.
Your original comment was funny, and the ones making fun of you for the sort of important, uh, tweaked detail are also funny, so you are 2 for 2 if the intent was to be lighten hearts.
Works for me. You’re doing it wrong.
“in Rust” is a well known HackerNews aphrodisiac.