skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phage therapy comes up every so often on HN. Some comments on why it's not more widespread and unfortunately not a cure-all for bacterial infections:

- narrow range: phages have very specific host requirements, i.e. they usually work only on very specific subtypes of bacteria. This means you will need to spend a significant effort on finding a matching phage to a given pathogenic bacterial strain. It's almost a type of personalized medicine. Antibiotics on the other hand are usually very broad and work on a wide range of strains.

- Resistance to phages: bacteria are much more adapted to deal with phages than with antibiotics. Bacteria can become immune to phages within a couple of generations, for antibiotics it takes significantly longer. So if the first problem can be overcome (a broadly acting phage cocktail), resistance will be an even bigger problem than with antibiotics.
Fun fact: the well known CRISPR system used for genetic engineering originally stems from such a bacterial system that deals with phage immunity.

- Manufacturing: antibiotics can rely on well established protocols for large scale production on the cheap mainly relying on chemical synthesis. Phages on the other hand will be needed to grow in a bacterial host culture (you can't build them synthetically) and will need extensive purification steps. You don't want to intravenously inject any bacterial remnants into a patient. Add to that the large diversity of phages with ever changing host requirements and it becomes a nightmare for production.
I didn't realize that knives and fishing poles and access to the woods were things that were unavailable to the general public.
Driving through snow?
Thanks, this is the easy part. The hard part is asking for help. I still haven't figured out why asking for help is so hard.
We also do a lot of beach going.

It still feels crazy for me to be in shorts and putting the barbie on to cook some steaks.

While the northern hemisphere have a celebration in the middle of winter, the young here are preparing for festival season and are on summer school holidays until end of January.

It's a topsy turvy world.

//Plus we can see the Milky Way and far too many satellites to feel truely comfortable looking up at night.
I'm not sure I understand the point of this -but rock on, you crazy VIMmers!
> life is never hopeless

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
To keep a community like HN to be truly informative, helpful and civic is actually not too hard: put aside polarized politics and chill, then discuss.

other social networks divide more than unite communities, sadly, mostly due to politics and ideology differences.

Thanks HN, please stay the same for the next decade. Happy holiday to all.
Does Apple have their own Password sync stuff? I'm assuming they do, but BitWarden is going to be more portable and cross platform.
Merry Christmas everyone, I love HN and all the people here. Just absolutely excellent community with literally 0 complaints coming from me. I’ve learned so much here just by reading comments and submissions and occasionally posting Ask HN posts. You all helped shape the way I think in a really positive way and I’m grateful for that. Thank you.

Have fun and stay safe!
GP's story seems highly unlikely, or at least is missing crucial details. I've lived in London for the last 8 years, and a total of around 11. I'm neither white nor European, let alone British.

I have many friends, Polish, Turkish, British of various ethnicities, Africans from a few different countries, Middle Easterners, Americans (mostly South and Central), you name it.... I have never heard of any of them being treated in such a way.

Also, why was this person flaunting a passport around London? The only times I had mine on me were when coming in or out of the country. Then, he decides to change his name because of how "some of his UK colleagues and investors had treated him over the years"?

Assuming the story is true, I somehow don't think the problem has ever been his name, surname, physical appearance or passport. I don't want to assume a lie but there are definitely important pieces missing.
It’s just fun. I have zero religious background nor do any of my family yet we bloody love Christmas. Decorating the house, lights in the yard, seasonal food that you don’t eat at other times (you “could” but having it only at Christmas is the entire point).
How many of you on HN - like me - do not celebrate Christmas?
Uh, no. This is ridiculous. I’m met plenty of perfectly nice Stanford folks. A bit of an elitist trend in a few, but the “subhuman” and “eugenicist” comments are really unnecessary.
Free/Libre Open Source Software.

“Libre” is French for free as in freedom so it’s sometimes added to emphasise the “free” means freedom of use not necessarily free in price.
I'm also not a Christian and also without family, but it's nice to have a day off and to take some time to make some homecooked food, something I enjoy but don't usually find the time to do. Holidays are a cultural excuse to make something deliberately not "just another weekend", it doesn't have to be a religious thing.

The Christians repurposed the existing holiday date themselves, feel free to return the favor and make your own arbitrary Saturnalia feast. :)
assuming that local access is cheaper than distribution, wouldn't a merge sort be better?
I’m cracking up that you’re making this sound so simple and matter of fact, but reading this description of how one is “supposed” to charge their EV makes me realize i’m many years from wanting one.

Honestly, it’s kind of a joke how badly people want to defend the tech despite its current shortcomings.
It's not like having a huge party during a frickin' pandemic is a sensible idea in the first place. Really, I have trouble getting what people are complaining about. Nobody likes shelter-in-place all that much, but sometimes it is the right choice.
Bird flu culls leave French foie gras in short supply for holiday season
The majority of the country doesn't live in an area that regularly gets extremely cold and even fewer people drive 100 miles every other day. EVs are always getting better, and they’re already good enough for most people.

I live in an area that does get below freezing, and my car preheats the battery before I unplug it to go somewhere while the cabin warms.
https://archive.today/AqwnN
Yes. We had virtual worlds and an internet that wasn't yet completely broken. The Patriot Act was yet to be fully implemented, and we were recovering from the dotcom meltdown.

Good a peak as any.
This idea peaked in 2002. Second Life fills a valuable niche, and I’m glad it exists, but most people prefer videogames.
The recommendation is to not charge BEVs inside garages due to the fire risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/04/tesla-f...
Requiring pre-registering parties is dangerous precisely because it is a control lever and a slippery slope.

Students and administration will always disagree.

Ergo, any requirement that can be abused by administration eventually will be abused. Exactly as apparently happened here. The only check is to prevent that lever from ever existing.

Anarchy has many problems, but its foremost strength is standing in direct opposition to outside control.

And that's an unfulfilled and critical need in our modern society, as liberties are bricked up bit by bit.

(And before someone tosses it in, we can have the militia vs police end debate some other time, because "a bunch of college kids getting in trouble" is far short of anything that serious to themselves or the surrounding community)
Nice, add some fuel to this fire, let it burn.
So far most of the resources I've found for this kind of thing don't really provide enough guidance in what algorithms to choose and why, mostly because they're usually designed as competitions. I'm not interested in competing with other programmers, I want to learn from them.
The title would make more sense with quotes around the CSS keywords:

I'm sure LastPass setting the delete account to "display: none" was coincidental
Both, for content creators we provide a way to remove the dependency from big techs. :) you can read more here https://www.lemeno.io/creators
Are you suggesting to use flywheels as an energy source in EVs??? There is a heap of issues with this idea, the main ones:

- They are VERY heavy. Typical energy density for flywheels is 10-40 kJ/kg (if you account for the whole flywheel), while Li-ion batteries and gasoline store 300-1000 kJ/kg and 46700 kJ/kg respectively (the latter does not account for ICE efficiency).

- They are relatively big, since you can store more energy with a bigger diameter (limited by material's strength-to-weight ratio).

- Flywheel is a big gyroscope. You do not want to rotate it around while it spins.
I have learned over the years that when you go around looking for subtle discrimination or microagressions against you, you basically activate two dangerous parts of your “brain” which are fear/threat detection and pattern recognition. Its much better to have thick skin and count only real overt discrimination, or you can get bitter and paranoid too easily.
Although it is somewhat embarrassing to admit this, when I wrote JACK [0] I was unaware of topological sort, mostly due to a lack of any formal CS education. This was a major error/failing on my part, because that codebase was more or less made for TS. There have been few other instances where a lack of formal CS training has been an impediment, but not knowing that there was a well-known algorithm for ordering node execution in a directed graph was ... bad.

[0] https://jackaudio.org/
I’d estimate I have driven cars 10,000 times and I have never done that. Just take it to a mechanic every 5k miles. And nothing that touches the oil has ever gone wrong.
> Given this, I would say 92% US citizens don't care.

That's what is so mind-boggling to me.

The US as a whole spends more on healthcare than any other OECD country, and the fact that most people in the electorate don't care about this is kind of depressing.
Do you use an existing solution, or did you make one myself?
The evidence here is incredibly weaksauce. I spent 5 minutes trying to reread a gpt3 summary of right wing social theory & it basically seemed to do it without bias & faithfully. The author seemed to say it was doing ok but injected commentary, but frankly it want there.

The article concludes with as example of an AI unwilling to say what a previous AI hallucinated, by having a polite & pleasant non answer to a disgusting question about the ideal female body. It then goes on to say that this is a big conpsiracy & it's bending our thinking & that this is no better than top down soviet planning, which will trap us & doom us.

There is so little here worth responding to at all. This article is a joke. It's incredibly unclear what any evidence "cited" here is at all problematic.

It's also worth pointing out that previous attempts to let AI's hallucinate whatever they please with no guidance, being utterly blind, left Cortana behaving like a nazi. These systems dont have cognizance or understanding. Thet are bayessian parrots. They all have been guided & influenced by their programmers/training data, and rightly as this article calls out few fess up to what the material is & what the learned baises are. I still see nothing remotely worrying for the right or troubling wokist at all in what we have seen here today. This is a flat nothingburger, crying wolf. Grow up, author.
There is probably some middleground

The beef is with ingridients, not automation per se.
Many times, when I see cool software projects are posted here, I go onto the about pages or personal blogs of the authors, to see what else they've made. And what I often see is a lot of absurd, hateful, deranged, wrong, extremist takes on their blogs and twitter feeds. Stuff that I find distasteful or outright horrifying. But they're leftist (or "centrist"), so there's no point complaining about it on HN.

I would bet 98% of all open-source software written is by left-wing or apolitical people. Suckless is one of the few islands of (crypto-)right wing outlook. And if that bothers you and you have to make a fuss, go ahead. But maybe ask yourself why you can't be satisfied with a mere 98%.
The article brings to mind the cognitive changes associated with literacy. As socrates put it at the time: You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so. These days when people hear about someone reciting an hour long story from memory after hearing it once, the assumption is they must be some kind of savant, but it used to be much more commonplace.

I worry particular about broad systematic losses in empathy relative to the previous baseline. Maybe this is a side-effect of changes to our attention, but it sounds like a much bigger problem. Writing made us more forgetful, but it also had tremendous upsides. I struggle to see comparable benefits from the skim/filter mindset. It seems like it's more of a defensive reaction to the amount of garbage online than something that can elevate human thought as a transformative mental tool.
Imo acid works for me almost the way that the famous saying about writing claims it does - write drunk, edit sober. Except it is more like "think about stuff and write it down on acid, act on it and process it again sober".

The main difference compared to alcohol, weed, and a lot of other drugs is that it leaves a fairly long-lasting change. And not in a way that's like "oh, I am still feeling it", but more like how I imagine ketamine is supposed to work (never took it, so cannot validate personally) - while the drug is acting, you process and realize certain things that you had been unknowingly suppressing in your daily life, all while feeling funky. Once the drug wears off, you don't feel funky anymore, but you remember the parts you had been suppressing until that point, and now you can think through and process them normally and fully sober. So it isn't the drug itself still acting, you just ended up realizing certain things, and that realization let you consciously think about them later.

Of course, it is also possible to have an acid trip where you don't realize anything and just waste your time on it. But imo that's a fool's errand, because acid doesn't feel that enjoyable just or "fun" on its own. At least it never did to me. But I am immensely glad the few times in my life I gave it a try. I would not call those experiences fun at all, but certain realizations about the direction of my life and my place in lives of others stuck with me (after i processed them sober later). And imo I, and people around me, are better off due to that.

P.S. I am one of those people who cannot write any good code or be productive when drinking alcohol at all, not even the smallest amount that will make me feel it. Same with weed. And I am acutely aware of it.
It feels like there’s some confusion over the overloaded term “bandwidth” here. The bandwidth limit in place of the symbol rate is 2.8 kHz. As in, you can use any symbol rate you like as long as your emissions do not exceed 2.8 kHz of space in the band when measured from the 3 dB mark.

I feel like the intended use of the word “broadband” in this context was the more commonplace (but imprecise) “data rate” definition.
You need to configure the DPI, either via xrandr --dpi or via xrdb.
Well, color me shocked.

I think this is something that's widely known (edit or heavily suspected), but the people who use TikTok as a rule don't care.
By the way: Near real-time elonjet reporting is still up and running on Mastodon:

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
Took me a while to understand. OP, you're encouraged to kindly make the CSS terminology stand out a little more obviously in the title.
In a wintry Adirondack forest, an oasis of holiday light
Germany's Steinmeier calls for 'fair peace' in Ukraine
> My feeling is HDM is to Dune what Eragon is to Lord of the Rings.

This is an interesting comparison. I have not read Eragon, but I have read reviews that say it's a transparent reskinning of Star Wars. Assuming that's true, the form of an analogy between Eragon and Lord of the Rings would be

Eragon : Lord of the Rings :: Star Wars : The Sword of Shannara

But that's one of those somewhat-malformed analogies where the relationships cross the :: instead of mirroring each other to either side of it. Like "Shakespeare : Tolstoy :: Romeo and Juliet : War and Peace"; there isn't actually a relationship between Shakespeare and Tolstoy, but if you have three of the elements, you can force the fourth.
I expect people to feel like this (and the downvotes was thus expected).

In concept it is no different from getting into a bus or taxi. You specify your destination and choose when to drive, but the passenger do not decide the exact route. A FSD is in concept no different from having your own personal taxi chauffeur.

City engineers often uses one way roads to spread traffic out on multiple roads. By preventing people from using the shortest route they can force traffic to spread out and thus reduce congestion. An other common trick is to prevent left or right turns, so that the shortest route become artificially longer and thus force some part of the traffic to use alternative routes which is less congested. When there is some really nasty recurring congestion there is also other more extreme tools that get deployed to really discourage drivers from all choosing the same road, like excessive road tolls or speed bumps. Cities has a long history of using hostile design to shape traffic in order to address congestion.

Naturally giving cities more direct control to shape traffic is something that will create new problems, among the biggest being privacy. The car has also very long been the symbol of freedom, so reduced congestion will likely take a while if people choose to do that trade. It is a steep price but the rewards are less congestion and replacing hostile design (which often also cost money to construct) with software.
`Sometimes market liberalization and conservative thinking does not go hand in hand. ` I would say it never has, but that the market liberalization and social conservative wings of the larger conservative party had an uneasy truce and their ultimate goals were always in conflict. Looking at the current conservative movement in the US and how they're pushing back against capital for being "too woke" (whatever that means) it's clear (at least to me) that the market liberalization wing lost a lot of power and doesn't seem to have too much pull anymore.
I understood this title, but I am very much not looking forward to when the language becomes words such as "bet", "cap", and so forth.
The best system is the one that treats all students equally instead of giving special privileges to Greek organizations.

Let them be just like all other orgs, with no special rules just for them. Half the problems will dissappear overnight.
I work at a large company and against the opinion of many engineers and infosec folks, lastpass was picked as our preferred corporate password storage. I'm just waiting for a call from infosec asking me to log on and to rotate a bunch of creds. Happy Holidays.
I remember they said a team from Rivian went ahead and installed chargers in several places along the route. And still they had a huge case of range anxiety. Instead of focusing on places and people they were harping about batteries, recharging, messing the schedule bc of that and so on. Frankly, it was a huge fail, especially compared to their previous trip through Siberia.
if you garage the car it should be ok. I'm outside of Denver and this latest cold spell at night was -22 and my garage temp sensor was 52.

Ya EVs aren't fun in cold areas if you don't have a garage or on a road trip
No for existing construction they will be more complex because the walls are all closed in so routing the 220V cable to the outside or garage is more difficult. Electrical is done before the walls are finished for a reason...

Maybe not if you're lucky and the existing dryer connection is already in your garage but it's not going to be that simple for most people. Again dryer connections get installed at build time and have for the last couple decades so most people already have them.
If you need help, ask. There is nothing wrong with needing help. People want to help.
https://archive.today/pRL05
What I would be interested in is some kind of resource (book, video series, etc.) where someone presents a reasonably "real-world" problem, discusses the thought process in choosing an implementation, and steps through the process of implementing, testing, and iterating on the solution. It's easy to find sources for hard problems to solve, and it's easy to find sources for explanations of algorithms and data structures, but I haven't found much to bridge the gap.
Cold air is denser. Pushing it out of the way saps more energy and drops the effective work done. You're oblivious to it because a motor vehicle has so much available power on tap. It is very noticeable on a bicycle at high speeds.

Conversely. Sailboats get more efficient in cold temperatures because more energy is imparted on the sail.
If it's cold enough a Tesla plugged into 120v/20a charging circuit will actually lose voltage over time. It's consuming over 2000 watts just to keep the battery at an acceptable temp for the chemistry to function.

The weight of the battery pack is great for traction in warm / dry conditions, but when driving on ice that weight is just momentum sending you sliding into snow banks.

After a bumper or body panel gets ripped off during the inevitable extraction from above mentioned snow bank, expect to wait 6-9 months for the most basic of body work.

The self driving is an absolute clown show in anything but perfect conditions (mounting evidence it sucks in perfect conditions too~)

Nothing in the world excites me more than expensive nerd toys with electric power trains, but as a Minnesota native I'll take a $900 rolling trash can beater car over a top of the line Tesla six months out of the year. There is a very valuable lesson in observing the legacy auto industry existing in Michigan where the winters get very cold and cars need to perform with snow or ice on the roads. Meanwhile Tesla mostly engineers their cars to be good at driving from LA to SF and back.
> The worst an attacker who compromised your node and took your staking keys could do is get you slashed

Or maybe do some of the “Byzantine validator” attacks in the paper?

Thank you for the staking keys info - I find it difficult to grok crypto systems.
My youngest child is allergic to soy. The upside is that we're eating better food at home, the downside is that we basically can't eat anything but home cooked food, and then you must be careful because they shove soy into everything anymore. If it isn't allergen labeled, I just assume it has soy in it these days.
Large SUVs with overcooked engines to meet emissions requirements (lower PM2.5 emissions at the cost of slightly worse fuel economy) get bad mileage.

Having all wheel drive or 4 wheel drive, high ground clearance, a poor aerodynamic design (driving 70mph or 80mph sounds bad in many of these cars) also hurts efficiency.
I had the same with my previous MBP, I had the machine for ten years and had to purchase two new power bricks along the way. Thankfully the new cables are nicely braided and replaceable without buying an entire new brick.
Senior LastPass manager: "Decrease customer churn!"

Junior LastPass manager: "Okay!"
https://archive.today/HP1ah
Parties were a separate thing - this was just about students drinking in their dorms (or coming home drunk, etc.). If they weren't causing problems or in danger, RAs just left them alone.