skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the media as a whole. It isn't accurate to insist that it's only Fox News promoting misinformation about election fraud or HCQ, in the face of MSNBC promoting misinformation about the mortality of COVID, or promoting misinformation about hydroxychloroquine, or CNN promoting misinformation about BLM riots, or both of them promoting misinformation about Russian active measures, etc., or vice versa. It is emphatically all media. To say otherwise is just engaging in partisan flamewar.

With regard to HCQ, the evidence supporting its use was from small scale studies and not reproducible (hence why Fox News's take was misinformation); however, there was evidence that it improved survivability, especially in some less-developed countries, so saying "no evidence" or even "bogus" like MSNBC did was also misinformation.

(Personal theory: Comorbodity of COVID and other conditions HCQ is effective against was a confounding factor in less-developed countries; and the remaining delta is due to HCQ's immunosuppressant qualities calming the cytokine storm.)
Extensively, yes. Having housing & non-housing in the same area is rare in much of the US.
Home Assistant, ZigBee2MQTT, OpenWrt and Grafana+Prometheus as they are plugged into my home automation system.

I have many complaints and issues with this stack but it's the only thing I had this year that brought me the pure joy of hacking and just making something work because it was cool and fun.

Not bogged down with bullshit deadlines and requirements. No advertising, subscriptions or monetization nonsense. No messed up approval processes or limits of what is allowed. No new workflows or another half baked product trying to convince me it will make my life easier when in fact it actually does the opposite but hey I get charged for the privilege and oh yeah everything is locked up in the cloud and slow as molasses.

None of that. Just some cool software doing fun things and being wildly successful at it.
Best way to hide files on Windows: \$Recycle.Bin :)
Well he recently posted a meme suggesting that climate change, homosexuality, and vaccines are brainwashing liberals
The region that is now Germany was part Roman, part not. We know very little about the parts that weren't, and most of what we know is from a few failed Roman expeditions. Of those places not even those expeditions reached: some pottery, some traces you might call ruins if you're very generous, some tribe names that Romans picked up third hand.
I also planned to go from a leaf+tesla household to a double-tesla household, but likewise recently had a change of heart.

However, for me it's because I've been blown away with the versatility and dependability of the model Y so I see no reason to get a new car for the next decade.
Library's and brick and mortar mom and pop bookstores are some of the coolest places to explore. So much has yet to be digitized or summarized or even catalogued in some parts of the world.
> If Spain does know that it’s occurring they can ban products or fine/jail the manufacturer.

Spain has heard that some slavery is used by Subcontractor A at Mine B in Zimbabwe, which sells to Distributor C which also works with Mines D, E and F and sells bulk lithium on the international lithium markets where distributors G and H also sell, and where Battery Factory I buys some of their lithium but they also buy from J and K, and they manufacture cells under contract for battery brand L which sells them to home solar battery assembler M who also buy cells from brands N and O and actually only sell things ex-works in China, and Reseller P imports them into the EU.

Subcontractor A says the reports of slavery were wrong, that was actually perfectly legal prison labour. Mine B says actually they no longer work with Subcontractor A, and a local government inspector has certified them as slavery-free. Between C and O all the bulk materials get commingled, records occasionally get a bit mixed up, and precise sourcing details are commercially confidential. The battery reaches the shores of the EU with no known links to slavery.
That parent implied average people affect Tesla revenue, so asking if they can afford the car is very relevant. Only opinions of potential buyers actually matters.
I can see where you're coming from, there are multiple angles. B&N is setting themselves up as a bookstore for book lovers, and Inigo is setting themselves up as a book store for culture lovers.

Many paths to the same destination.
The stock prices was inflated because people thought Tesla was the iPhone of cars. Recently it seems they're closer to being the My Pillow of cars.
PuTTY is used for SSH or Telnet, right? Windows 10 has had SSH built in for some time.
Your links suggest some better ways around syncing sound and timing to browsers than my hacky timers. Will definitely look into this for a revamp. Thanks marci!
I rotated the screenshot to be upside down, set it as a background and then rotated the whole screen on Display settings. So that the background would be on the correct orientation but the mouse cursor and everything would be reversed.

Good times :D
Any company using the word "buy" for DRM-encumbered media should be required to put keys in escrow so that the DRM can be removed if the company fails to permanently maintain access.

We shouldn't let marketers tell outright lies just because regular people are smart enough to recognize them for lies.
Kobo readers at least have Pocket built-in.
"Support [company] because maybe some of your friends invested in it" is a really lame argument that could be applied to virtually any company. Support Exxon because the firm that manages your grandmother's pension might be invested in Exxon... please. All this argument leads to is uncritical cheer-leading of everything.
I dunno. It’s kinda crummy in some ways. Maybe because I’m not a streets ahead kid with friends to teach me all the ways of the Instagram? Off the top of my head:

- you’re supposed to know that various edge swipes get you things

- I have two feeds apparently? There’s the home page and the middle bottom button

- you can’t do most things to an existing video, you must record it live, in Instagram, for most of the effects (eg. my kids did a hilarious Christmas morning dance and I realized it would be a good Boomerang)

- I’ve had multiple comedians DM me and then say “sorry I meant to reply to the comment!”

- beware that adding comments to those videos at the top are actually DMs

- almost every video cuts off 1 second early

- almost every video has been cropped to fit the aesthetics of my tall screen so I can’t even read the
While I disagree with the author’s overarching opinion on ReDoS vulnerabilities, I agree that some CVEs make it through with incorrect severity scores. If you find a CVE like this, MITRE can be contacted to mark it as disputed for investigation.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512004/elon-musk-start...

https://time.com/6229960/twitter-bans-accounts-elon-musk-imp...
there are some emerging metal 3d printing techniques that might overcome that, like rapidia
Supporting the Russian invaders, calling for prosecution of Fauci (for what crime? And doubly ironic considering his tweets about how covid would be down to 0 cases by April 2020), tweets supporting Kanye, joking about sexually harassing his employees, spreading baseless conspiracy theories from disinfo sites like the Santa Monica Observer, etc

I'd like to think he's just being an edgelord to drive engagement on his platform, but considering he tweeted stupid stuff before he owned twitter (eg accusing his critics of being pedophiles), I have my doubts.
Hero vs. vilain real life storytelling is something we see too much of, and I'm always amazed that otherwise smart people partake in this without seeming to realize. Is it just me or hasn't everyone been taught that idolization (and it's reverse) is generally not good?
Sometimes I feel like shit working on mundane business problems.

What always perks me up is just trying to find something that someone wants and that I can be invested in. There's things you make for the sake of the business, but there's also things you make for the sake of other people to improve their work life. If I know the person who wants a thing, then I feel invested because I can get feedback and I can see how happy they are with it. Whereas the usual things I work on are so disconnected from me that I feel no satisfaction, like no one is congratulating me on adding a new API endpoint, it's business as usual and I don't even know the names of the people using it.

I just ask managers other non-dev roles about quality of life things they want, or their far away wishes of how they want things to be.

Sometimes it makes me want to start contracting for small businesses. I feel like I'd get satisfaction from solving their problems and seeing how happy they are.
I would say, and this is just a thought so I'm not sure if it's true, Rome also brought centralized society. Writing was a component of this. They are not necessarily tired together but in practise are.
> Why do vegans and vegetarians insist on disguising vegetables as meat

Most of them don't. These are attempts by the manufacturers to sell vegan foods to meat-eaters.
Other than hyper-luxury brands, which manufacturer commands margins higher than Tesla's?
Twitter moderation was famously bad before Elon, and has seemingly only slightly improved.

What Elon has done however is put the spotlight on Twitter, almost every issue people have with it is a “preexisting condition”.
> The current version (v18.0)

I'm thinking you meant the version installed on your device. Have you tried upgrading to at least 19.4? The improvement in fit and polish will likely be quite clear.
I made this because is useful to me for self-hosting servers in places where the public IP is dynamic.

For now it is able to update Godaddy's DNS records and notify using Telegram Bots.

Let me know what do you think :)
Would be curious to see what you make - feel free to email me directly (also can fix any annoying bugs you encounter).
My email is in my profile.
Finally decided to splurge on a Davinci Resolve license.
I'm an amateur at best, but rendering on the GPU is very nice.

Besides, Wireguard and Tailscale do not cease to amaze me.
That's pretty funny. I worked at a unix shop and occasionally got a kick out of things like the following, if I ever saw one of my buddies logged in at the same time as me:

echo 'Terminal overheating, please blow on screen' > /dev/tty0
Reddit when they had their old frontend and bad mobile expierence was much better than it is now.
https://archive.vn/2022.12.29-112227/https://www.ft.com/cont...

But the full article doesn’t say the EU is rejecting it. There are only states (from north EU) that are saying that a block is pointless (and I agree with them).
Extremely long duration != unlimited. Stating "until this person's death" isn't unlimited, it is a very exact end condition which will happen.

A 99 year lease still has an end date on it. These licenses do not have an end date. The only time it is generally supposed to become unavailable is "due to potential content provider licensing restrictions or for other reasons."

https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=202095490&view-type=c...

Buying a limited license which allows "an indefinite period of time" is still inherently different from renting. It is definitely different from buying a physical good, I do agree. But I still don't seem to be convinced that its "renting" or "leasing".

If Amazon had to put an end date ahead of time on all the movies they listed with "Buy", do you think they'd put that date as 99 years or would they make it more like one year? Personally I'm perfectly fine with the tradeoff that sure, some move I "bought" 15 years ago on Amazon might some day disappear from their service, as I knew it ahead of time that was the trade-off of "buying" a license on their Unbox service versus owning a physical copy of the VHS or DVD at the time. But in the end I felt it was worth the tradeoff for the connivence.

For all we know Amazon may continue on forever, offering some kind of version of its streaming service and continue to offer these movies forever. Its not guaranteed Amazon will lose the rights to some of these movies, its not guaranteed they'll stop offering a streaming service, its not guaranteed they'll eventually be replaced by Walmart which will buy out Weyland-Yutani. There's no real pre-defined end condition to it at all, other than until the rights holders say we can't or until some other situation happens that makes it unavailable.

Its definitely different than owning a physical good, I completely agree. Its still very different from renting or leasing.
I think you're confusing hydroxychloroquine with ivermectin.
True that. A network is its users. What intrigues me about Nostr is its adaptability. The Twitter replacement is being touted but it also holds the possibility of creating new secure messaging apps. It could undermine FB Messenger a bit with the right app and evangelizing.
I agree for assets like those, the point is that for many other assets (art, Bitcoin, cash, stock), receipt of the asset for less than market value is also taxable.

But those usually have more developed secondary markets where prices can be widely known (and also nontrivial value). I can at least see the argument.
Most command line programs are open source so you can do something about that if it really makes sense.
I love the podcast, it would be nice to hear what a historian thinks of the episodes.

BTW they also have a podcast about vaccines which is IMHO just as good and especially good to listen to for proponents of vaccination.
Interesting! I liked the configurability, but it was horribly slow with SSL. Possibly due to uncached DNS lookups but I didn’t dig too deep.
Context: I've been working in the cryptocurrency space for a decade.

One of the most interesting technologies the crypto space is working on are the SSI (self-sovereign identities).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity

Even if the whole idea of cryptocurrencies is found to be a dead-end, the fact that it invigorated the research and development of SSI will change some important things about how we operate online.

There exist prototypes of tech that allows you to prove you are indeed a unique human being online [1], and reveal nothing else about your identity. Most importantly, this tech is not owned or controlled by any FAANG or government, it's an open protocol just like email.

I have listened to a podcast with an expert researcher in AI, and I remember him saying that he predicts some form of cryptographic identity will arise in order to help deal with the bot problem

[1] https://worldcoin.org/ (note, I don't work for them, and have no idea if this will be the tech that finally breaks out, I just think they're the furthest along of any of their competitors)
I had fun with fork bombs on the VAX/VMS machine at uni. Till the day it ran too quickly for me to stop it. Walk of shame to the CSO to own up and for them to terminate the run-away processes on the Sysop console.
The modern (now past) city model was about economy of scale: competing business in a small area means innovation, lower prices and specialization. Since such model do not exists substantially anymore cities have almost no purposes anymore.

Suburbs where people live but do not have services also suffer.

As a result the classic Riviera model where people live spread, but also find local spread small services survive and flourish. At that point who want to be in cities or suburbs?

I fail to see ANY purposes to "convert offices to residential buildings".
No, I see it very well.

Looking at the bigger picture, very few things in life are under my control, and on the long list of things out of my control, this is a relatively minor, hypothetical problem.
NotePlan 3 - https://noteplan.co
Yeah Putty worked great but was a bit-unorthodox compared to openssh.

Other interesting change is unix style \n line endings working everywhere even notepad.

Its also combined with other changes like browser hosting most apps, vscode being used on linux/mac which is still Windows first class.

Still many unix tools dont work well which is why wsl is handy. docker is handy too.
> It feels like you're coupling your application schema to your database schema, which is something you generally want to avoid.

This is an interesting statement that probably should be expanded more upon!

I agree with it, because it can be nice to be able to change how certain data is returned to any consumers of your API, for convenience or maybe some business rules. For example, you might want to aggregate data from multiple tables into a single list of JSON objects for filling out a table in some application downstream. Furthermore, you might be interested in being able to change the underlying DB schema without affecting how your API returns data, since its consumers don't necessarily care about how you name your tables or what references what internally.

At the same time, I do disagree with my own point somewhat, because you can just use a DB view for pretty much the same outcome. There's no reason why MyAppUserListViewEntity couldn't match my_app.user_list_view in your database 1:1, I'd actually argue that such a mapping for reading data would be really easy to reason about and the discoverability would be pretty good, while at the same time still letting you introduce changes as necessary.

Furthermore, there's something really nice about codegen: being able to tell some generator where your local development instance of your database is running and generating application entities with all of the mappings (for example, JPA) with a single command, or doing the opposite and creating the schema from your entities. Sadly in most cases such technologies are underutilized and for whatever reason many out there still write their ORM mappings manually for something like Hibernate (or write dynamic SQL manually, with something like myBatis).

In the end, I'm not sure. Coupling might mean issues down the road, but decoupling now might mean introducing a level of abstraction/indirection that might just be needless cruft, like the tendency that you sometimes see in Java projects, along the lines of: MyBusinessObject/Dto <--> SomeMapper <--> MyEntity <--> MyEntityDao <--> MyEntityMapper/Repository; Not saying that that's necessary OR that it's a bad approach, Java just has lots of codebases out there that end up with many abstractions, hence the example.
WSL and VS Code are delightful.
as far my experience goes, generally people who stick with veganism are doing it for ethics/morals... it is really hard to keep that life sty for health or environmental reasons, as it is pretty easy for humanity be sustainable while producing livestock (take a read about regenerative agriculture) if we really want or if we implement regulations towards it

i think i got 2 weeks of veganism when i first tried for health, then i got how healthy and cheap one can be with some ocean fish here and there, eggs etc.
some weeks of pause and then the moral part hitted pretty hard and i am going strong for +4 years now

i still carve it when i get in events that have it (i used to eat and like it a lot) but one thing i noticed is that after trying to copy or have some substitute for animal stuff, the thing just flows... the fungi and flora kingdom is pretty vast and there is a lot to-do than worrying in trying to get a fake burguer or cheese
Show HN: Ackal – a distributed gRPC health checking service
So I wrote a thing. It’s called Ackal (https://www.ack.al) and it’s a tool for deploying distributed gRPC health checks and monitoring the results using Prometheus-compatible tools.

I’d really like to find 5-10 beta testers who are willing to test Ackal and provide feedback so that I can improve the system before launch. Any help will be really appreciated: reviewing the web content for errors and omissions; testing the system end-to-end; expectations for such a system etc.

I'm interested to better understand how you are health checking your gRPC services.

Testers need not have gRPC services deployed. However, if you want to test your own gRPC services, these must implement the gRPC Health Checking Protocol (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/health-checking.md) in order to be health-checkable by Ackal.

Testers should be able to run OCI containers locally to access Ackal’s CLI (ackalctl) and a secure proxy (ackalctl-http-proxy) to access service (Prometheus) metrics. I’ve been using Linux for development but would like to have testers on Windows and macOS too.

Testers will need a Google, Microsoft or GitHub account to authenticate. I’m interested to know whether folks would expect to authenticate using Facebook, Twitter or Apple credentials too.

If you’re willing to help, please email info@ack.al. Please let me know whether you’re testing as a personal interest or on behalf of your employer. If, on behalf of your employer, please let me know who that is. I will register an account for you and provide you with the details that you’ll need to proceed.

Until you are registered to use Ackal, you will be unable to use it.

Ackal uses multiple Google Cloud services (Firebase Auth, Firestore, Cloud Run, Kubernetes Engine, kubebuilder etc.) and Stripe for subscriptions.

If there’s interest, I’ll document the experience of developing the system, particularly the split between coding the app and developing everything necessary to support it (Stripe, website, branding, docs etc.).
> I have a low-friction starting point to jump back in, which makes all the difference.

This is potentially the most important idea raised so far.

Making smaller, deliberate steps can many times take you a lot further than 2-3 gigantic, messy sprints.

I don't beat myself up over "only 10 minutes" spent on the side project anymore. Even if no value-add occurs, as long as I didn't make things worse, I see it as a good experience.
Boardrooms will rediscover the value of gray hair
But the Southwest pilot's union is accusing the former CEO, Gary Kelly, of running the company at full speed into operational suicide. I don't see that as picking the right CEO for the moment, even if the stock price did well.
Except he banned a bunch of journalists discussing him using a policy he introduced after the fact, and in one case, without violation at all. His active actions, not pre-existing conditions, reveal his preference against free speech.
Stonebriar Mall in Frisco, Texas.
We've been through this already.

>> On 5 June, researchers in the United Kingdom announced the results from the largest trial yet, Recovery, in a press release. In a group of 1542 hospitalized patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, 25.7% had died after 28 days, compared with 23.5% in a group of 3132 patients who had only received standard care. "These data convincingly rule out any meaningful mortality benefit," wrote the investigators, who ended the study early and promised to publish the full results as soon as possible.

https://www.science.org/content/article/three-big-studies-di...
Why is that the real concern? Are Romanians (or Indians for that matter) somehow less deserving of higher pay than Iowans?
You missed the point, intentionally I believe.

The vast majority of firearms owners are law-abiding. As such, the vast majority of firearms owners are not a threat to anyone.

That’s the point.
I have been a daily user since XBMC was available for the original Xbox. It just keeps getting better. Big thanks to the Kodi team!
Aircraft have to be scheduled for various maintenance checks such as "A", "B", "C", and "D" (which are the heaviest maintenance checks and take them out of service for many days/weeks). They're of course checked by the Ramp Crew and also receive a pre-flight walk around by the pilots before take-off. The only wait time is if there is a necessary repair to deal with a warning/indicator light and related repair time, hopefully does not take the aircraft out of service. Better out of service than break down in-air.