skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax – that its severity was exaggerated or that the virus was deliberately released for sinister reasons – functions as a “gateway” to believing in conspiracy theories generally, new research has found.

The severity absolutely was exaggerated. Covid near the beginning was 'as bad as or worse than the spanish flu' and we all had to isolate to our homes or else die. Stores had to close, people had to become unemployed. >7% mortality rate regardless of the person's health status. These we now know were all false.

There was pictures of chinese doctors(Dr. Yi Fan and Dr. Hu Weifeng,) turning black/blue and then dying of covid. There was pictures of people on massive respirator machines and we ran out of respirators. Precipitating folks like Prusa to 3d print respirators.

In reality these were all false. Yet for some reason when people list out the 'misinformation' of covid. They always seem to exclude any cases where the misinformation was an exaggeration. Doing this is a cost, a cost to your reputation.

This reality comes at a cost to those in public health. If you could jump in a tardis and do the correct thing. When fighting misinformation and applying censorship, you have to do it on both sides. Since you lack a tardis, you have to address the misinformation on your side. Not denying there was any misinformation on your side.
Pontypool. Pontypool. Pontypool.
Labor tightness seems to be one of the drivers of the broader inflation. Additional labor may help keep that inflation under control without having to nuke the economy.
I don't have actual stats of course but intuitively if you tally:

- All the FAANG/FAANG suppliers

- All startups or established projects that involve data gathering, advertising, SEO, skinner boxes, dopamine response, parasocial relationship manipulation, optimizing time spent on controlled platforms and products

- All projects that facilitate the above as suppliers or second-order businesses

- All gig economy/surveilled/taylorized work facilitators

- All coding work that involves ranking and surveilling people for life altering services such as loans, insurance, healthcare

- All coding work done to optimize the wealth of the noble class (themselves the main beneficiaries of surveillance)

...there's probably not much left. Even if you maintain a strict definition and include only direct adtech shenanigans I wouldn't be surprised if that were a huge number in and of itself.
Just like gold miners sell gold, it’s not a good idea for Bitcoin miners to hold Bitcoin that they will need to keep their business running, as they are already doing leveraged Bitcoin play.
Is that really compassion, to favor predators over victims?
That sounds like the opposite of terrible. We are long overdue for some bloodletting in residential real estate markets.
What you described misunderstands or at least poorly describes the problem.

> Right, because which blade half is on the bottom affects which direction you need to apply force so the blades meet tightly.

That would violate Newton's Third Law of motion, so no.

You don't have to apply force in any different direction if you put scissors with symmetric handles in the wrong hand. You will, however, end up tilting the scissors to the side so that you can see what you're doing. But that's not the same as needing to apply force any differently. It's a required sight issue not a required force issue. Anything else only comes from handle shape.

If the scissors don't have ergonomically sloped handles, an ambidextrous person can comfortably cut with either hand if they don't look at what they're doing.
Yup.

It was pretty much all avoidable if policymakers had been more responsible. But they weren’t.

Dropping rates to pull wealth from the future into the present finally hit the brick wall of inflation.

This whole scenario has made it clear we’ve been abusing monetary policy for what fiscal policy should have been used for
Most of the products from tailscale just seem to be "look at the inner platforms we can build that replace the outer platforms".

Having an SSH client in your browser join your VPN violates all the principles of modern computing.
There's sites where you can buy other people's unwanted gift cards at a discount. I've had plenty of luck with them - both as a buyer and a seller.
Paypal owns Venmo.
(For a Cortex-M based microcontroller)
Congratulations on the launch!

Because the href is `text-decoration:none`, this page appears to be blank: https://www.movinglake.com/docs/security/ only by hovering over "Data Privacy" does one realize it's a sub-page

I would guess in general the docs need some TLC, since https://www.movinglake.com/docs/destinations/http/ doesn't help me know what knobs I have influence over, as best I can tell "page 2" is the same as page 1 (https://www.movinglake.com/docs/destinations/page/2/), and for sure please do not require static AWS credentials (https://www.movinglake.com/docs/destinations/s3/) -- we actually have a Service Control Policy that outright bans the use of `iam:CreateAccessKey` across our entire AWS Org. Also, the "IAM view" is missing its protocol, causing the browser to think that the link is https://www.movinglake.com/docs/destinations/s3/console.aws....
So I can't modify a book I purchased (add comments, strike out words etc)?
Show HN: Food Does Not Exist, Updated
We have released a new version of our food generation models:

https://nyx-ai.github.io/stylegan2-flax-tpu

We keep scaling up StyleGAN2 training using more data, larger models, and more compute.

In this release we open-source a 5-class model able to generate images of burgers, cheesecakes, cocktails, cookies, and sushis at resolution 512x512.
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> What is frustrating here is the lack of respect

You gotta be kidding me.

My attention is mine. It is part of me, a part of my mind, my consciousness. There is not a single person on this earth that is entitled to it. It is not a currency they can pay their bills with. It is not something that they have any assumed right to.

So it's funny to see you talk about respect. Advertising's inherent property is its complete lack of respect for me, my choices and my attention. They don't ask if I want to see this crap, they just show it to me. They insert their noise into my mind without my consent. I block them and they double down on it by finding ways to get past my blocker. And to you this mind rape is okay just because it funds your site?
None. Bitcoin is the only way to solve this problem, 100% outright. As long as trusting other humans is a part of the equation, problems of corruption, censorship, etc. will always be a problem.
When the goal was set it was achievable and we didn't do anything, why would it be different the second time around?
The cost for the electricity net was around 7.5 cents in Germany last year: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Energie/strompreise...
All data I can find says expected lifespan is decreasing, not increasing.
>"The ancient historians, like Herodotos, that recorded Khufu, mention that he was a fierce and stern ruler."

>"These accounts are from over 2,000 years after Khufu lived, however, so we might not be able to believe them."

I thought that second sentence was an unnecessary take.
Given this is in the SF bay there a number of high quality observations that you can use to validate the forecast skill (unlike India and Africa). I have not bothered doing this here since… well that’s too much like my day job.

I’m always excited to see new forecast products, generally. If I were to guess (as an above comment did) it looks like they are applying some dynamic downscaling on top of either a custom WRF model (expensive and complicated) or more likely already available weather model data like the HRRR, which still would represent a 10x resolution increase.

I’m more curious what the refresh rate is. Anyone can get a super accurate forecast for the next 3 hours that takes 10 hours to run, but at that point it’s no longer a forecast by the time the data is available.

I still think that windy has set the standards as far as modern weather visualization goes. Not saying everything has to be particles but other things (like the inclusion of isobars) is really clean and not trivial to execute.

Either way this has definitely piqued my interests and I will be keeping an eye on it, their advisory board looks legit (at least in the meteorology end)
[Caution: contains strong language.]

I can't believe I'm the only one who considers advertising as an active negative signal. That is, if you're pushing ads, you are loudly telegraphing that your offering is not good enough to be discovered organically, and is therefore shit.

Paying for so-called influencers is even worse: if you do that, you are - and there's no kind way of putting this - paying for others to whore their opinions on your behalf.

If you want to make your wares visible in my sphere, find ways to make these appearances interesting, original, inventive and sufficiently unobtrusive. If you can't, tough. Take your toxic waste where it belongs.
"the Panasonic CF-AX3 is refreshingly straightforward in this regard — after removing the main battery and removing 19 small screws on the bottom-side, the rear panel of the laptop lifts off easily. "

Sarcasm? I cursed our hardware designer for making me remove half as many screws. I mean, my motorcycles' gas tank is secured by a single bolt and you'd think that would be more important to keep in place ...
To me this comment falls somewhere between "No true Scotsman" and whataboutism. Just because we're benefiting from history, doesn't mean we can't criticize it.

Just today, this [1] came out. It's time we use our oil-derived products and wealth to demand change.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-cl...
I like how the headline rightly calls the terms "objectionable," which is exactly the word they use for content they don't like, where they alone get to decide how that term is defined and in what context.
I’m very wary of this change but it’s also very hard to discuss it rationally when people exaggerate it. Quoting the new User Agreement:

“If you are a seller and receive funds for transactions that violate the Acceptable Use Policy, then … you will be liable to PayPal for the amount of PayPal’s damages caused by your violation of the Acceptable Use Policy. You acknowledge and agree that $2,500 U.S. dollars per violation … is presently a reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages.”

I don’t think I do agree with that estimate. On the other hand, it’s a complete lie that PayPal said they can withdraw money from your bank account for saying something they don’t like. This is about sellers and transactions that violate the (somewhat vague) AUP.

I think in the end I’ll choose not to engage in extended dialogue with people who misrepresent facts. This kind of crap just strengthens the divide in the US.
Thanks, that’s super clear. That’s such a simple technique when you compare it to using prototypes.
I don't think any private company can give a fine aside from court. Not in my country. Only the goverment can write laws.
Does anyone else see a future of Meta without Zuck running it?
CI can definitely done on mailing lists. The interface is bit worse than PRs, but I'm sure with enough imagination that can be overcome.

Pulling local trees has been absolutely better IMO with mailing list. I can literally with single keybinding apply patch to relevant repo, something that takes much longer route with Github. (convert URL to raw.github/whatever, copy and paste to apply, or do clicky-clicky in the Github app or whathaveyou)
Could you please give the examples of "current history"?
I used to love the Discovery Weekly list as well. But since a couple of years, my account recommendations went into some strange niche solution and they recommend the same rubbish over and over again.
I even get annoyed at certain genres that I used to mildly enjoy before.

If you try to look for a solution, apparently the only way is to cancel the subscription, delete the account, resubscribe and start over ...
I wish there was a way to reset the "intelligent" recommendations for an existing account.

The only workaround I found: put a couple of similar and interesting songs into a playlist and let Spotify continue with recommendations.
Magic – constant time tricks Klaviyo uses to operate at scale
> The inflation of 2022 is also largely an illusion - it's really just that a few percentage points of what should have been normal inflation in 2020 and first-half 2021 was time-shifted into 2022.

Food prices are up 48% at the nations second largest grocery chain.

Rent prices are now through the roof, 20-30% year over year increases are common in major cities.

Things are more expensive, full stop, and it isn't just "an extra year" more expensive.
I don't think that rationale makes a lick of sense in code written today.

Besides the obvious violation of the YAGNI-principle and stinky mixture of data and logic, even if this scenario arises (which it very rarely does) any Java IDE worth its salt can replace a variable access with a method with a few mouse clicks.

Now, in 1995, maybe...
> depends on how you interpret the rows and columns of a matrix

I assume you know everything I am writing below, but maybe it's a clearer version of what I was trying to say in my other post.

Computationally, the definition of matrix multiplication AB = C is identical to multiplying A by each column of B, and concatenating the results as columns of C. The definition works both ways as you said, but this specific interpretation is one consequence of that definition.

Ax is a linear combination of the columns of A, with the values of x as coefficients. This is a direct translation of plugging the x values into a system of linear equations where the coefficients of each equation in the system form the rows of A:

a11 * x1 + a12 * x2 = y1
a21 * x1 + a22 * x2 = y2

[ a11 a12 ; a21 a22 ] [ x1 ; x2 ] = [ y1 ; y2 ]

Moreover, in a matrix that corresponds to a system of non-redundant linear equations, the columns correspond to a basis for the image of the linear transformation represented by A. This follows immediately from the definition of a basis.

You can go on like this, but the overall idea is that if you define "a matrix" such that each row contains the coefficients of one equation in a system of linear equations, then you are setting up row vectors to correspond to transformations (as in, y = a1x1 + a2x2), and then it becomes very ergonomic and natural to represent vectors as column vectors.

In short: if transformations go on the left and vectors go on the right, then transformations are rows and vectors are columns.
Not practically. We are talking about huge scales, such that the industrial production, transport, etc., would be as much of an environmental disaster as what it's trying to solve.
I read it's the daughter of an energy mogul using inheritance to try to undo her parent's legacy. But that seems like a cover story to me.
> I just want array of class type hinting

This is pretty much the only thing I still need to use PHPDoc for these days... I guess it shows how far things have come :)
The standard "smooth out the fluctuations" approach gives an extremely low probability of running out of fuel during the winter at a reasonable cost, but only assuming sufficient fuel imports. Because of the loss of Russian gas and not having sufficient LNG infrastructure to make up it, Europe will burn gas faster than replacement when it's sufficiently cold, and if the cold weather lasts long enough they could run out of gas. So they're now using a more expensive and wasteful strategy of keeping storage closer to full, exactly to reduce the risk of people not having heating during winter.
I think there's more drive for that than you'd expect. The camera breakout kit is really popular in my circles. Not for cameras, but for talking to USB audio interfacs.
"Every few years"

There have been three versions of MagSafe (not "Magsave"). The first one was in use for 6 years, the second for 6 years before it was dropped for USB-C. The third version has been around for two years worth of devices now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe
Infrared heaters are just resistive heaters with reflectors to redirect the radiation to where it's needed. You can aim one at yourself while you're working to remain comfortable even when the rest of the room is cold. This can sometimes be cheaper than running a heat pump to heat the whole room.
+1 to koreader. I didn't want to install it on my Kobo because I don't really want to mess with the firmware of some devices like my phones and ebooks, but it's really a game changer when you get over the initial readjustment to the new controls.

The page turning feels snappier, the ui is better (subjective), and for me the killer feature is better dictionaries in different languages (which are present on the Kobo but not all languages). Not sure how it compares to the reMarkable2 ereader, but judging by the thread reMarkable's might not be even as good as Kobo's
Job interviews should require unix admins to write a ten line bash script that passes shellcheck on the first attempt.

Also, write a "find" command without checking the manpage or internet
I try to explain this to people all the time with respect to gasoline prices in the US.

People thing it has to do with the 'oil companies', but crude producers are hedged into next decade for the most part. Even on the refinery side they are locked in long term contracts with distributors for their products, of which gasoline is a very small piece of the pie.
It's a statement about how we are destroying our heritage, our history, and our future.

It makes people think about a world without the famous works of art which tether us to our past, to highlight how far adrift we are now.
Radio Caroline – Pirate Radio Ship Off UK Coast in 1965
Thanks! Will add this functionality soon.
> In addition, winter so far has been fairly warm.

It's Autumn. Winter starts on the 21st Dec.

October in most of the Europe is not that much of a heating season, November will make us start digging into the gas we prepared. It's way too early for early to judge how easy it'll be.
One of the important factors in ensuring heating is keeping the movement of gas from being too unpredictable. One of the important factors in keeping it affordable is having a stable supply.
> Cash

Slowly being phased out.

> checks

Already spotty usage.

> Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover

Censorship possible.

> barter

Viable, but foolish considering it's cumbersome and we live in an age where perfectly viable technological solutions exist. It's like having an iron but pressing your shirts between books out in the sun.
I have a different system, but paper and pen are king. I'm a prolific note taker so I use pen and paper as a landing pad, then periodically I look back and copy the useful information into tickets, documents, wikis, my long term orgmode notes in vcs.
By your own logic, shouldn't you avoid eating samples for products you have no intent on purchasing?
This is so cool! Care to share it? I'm a non-programmer-who-wants-to-be-a-programmer and I loved this approach.
Zelle is more restrictive then paypal, and heavy limits, $500 daily - and more of a black hole then paypal.
No it doesn't. Base copyright is not an EULA, it doesn't govern how someone legally in possession of a copy uses that copy. By your argument every single person in history with a book who made notes in the margin or crossed words or the like is a copyright infringer. Worse if they subsequently sold that book at a used book sale.

Copyright is about distribution.
Just an (unsolicited) opinion - MVC pattern if one of the few mainstays, and it's like that for a reason. It might (or might not) fit your use case, but it is hardly complex. Also any other dev looking at the code wil probably know it.

Apart from that, I would skip framework if I were you. Web is littered with abandoned PHP frameworks which were all viable at some time. If it already works, just clean it up, refactor as needed and identify + resolve any performance bottlenecks.
I don't know specific details about the correctness of any particular VM, sorry. That was just the explanation I got from another engineer that apparently had experience in developing embedded java things.
Mate, this is not the reddit. Debate the point, but do not attack people you disagree with.
> But even those non-tech people should have some USB-C cables lying around at this point

I do have a couple of these, from my old MBP and my iPad Pro. What I don't have many of are USB-C bricks. I have tons of USB-A bricks that work with all of my micro USB devices (wireless keyboard, Beats, bike lights, etc.) and my Lightning devices (iPhone, several iPads, several AirPods).

If all of these devices move over to USB-C and don't include bricks, I'll end up going out and buying half a dozen of them to replace the ones we have around our house currently. We'll also need cables, and in all this will probably cost $100. Not a huge deal, but not something I'm looking forward to shelling out for, especially since there's no gain from my perspective.

> Every MacBook made in the last five years (and most iPads sold in the last couple years) uses a USB-C cable.

Current Apple laptops come with USB-C to MagSafe cables. They are USB-C in the sense that they fit USB-C bricks, but the cable itself (which is very nice/braided, and hopefully will last a long time) is single-purpose. It won't work in anything but an Apple laptop.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. You are absolutely right regarding the AWS credentials. We aim to fix it as soon as possible. And thanks a lot for pointing out the problems in the documentation. We we'll work on them ASAP!
Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth Wipeout Hits $100B as Meta Misses Again
> Silently ignoring sub-commands that exit with a non-zero code is not the same thing as "never failing".

Well I meant the former. Very useful for things like init scripts where you would prefer the script do as much as it can to get something online.

> What shell are you using that doesn't support `set -o nounset`?

You're right, this does appear to be in POSIX, so I guess it's fine. But it is unusual to see in my experience.

> You expect people to know the difference between `[[ ... ]]` and `[ ... ]` well enough to know what the bash version is required?

No, I want them to use POSIX semantics until they have to do something Bash-y. Simplicity when it doesn't cost anything extra is best practice.

> Just set your shebang to `#!/bin/bash` and be done with it.

Homebrew, Jenkins, Asdf, etc may provide their own version of Bash that is required rather than the system default, and some systems have no /bin/bash at all. So you should use #!/usr/bin/env bash for Bash scripts and #!/usr/bin/env sh for POSIX Shell scripts. This lets the user override the PATH with their required version of Bash for this script. (and the script itself can check for versions of Bash, and even re-exec itself)
Effectively, yes. It's a subsidy to individuals of moderate means, particularly those who have spent decades maxing out their holdings.

If you think that's regressive and absurd, wait until you hear about the mortgage interest deduction, 1031 exchanges, depletion allowances, accelerated depreciation, ....
Thanks for the feedback—this is partly due to the way I built the scan tour points. Can revise in the future.
In short there is no way of knowing by looking at a USB-C cable or socket what it supports because there is a myriad of standards all using the same connector - USB Power Delivery, USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, DisplayPort over USB

You have to usually measure to know what does the cable support and what speeds and or voltages are possible.