skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In February or March of 2020 there were two interesting and not well distributed studies. That of immunity of heavy smokers - and/or those who were heavy smokers but had quit, and the other was about the effects of hibiscus on the mucosal lining of the lungs preventing respiratory infection.

I'm overburdened right now, I can't deal with any more COVID studies. But when I read the title and seeing some comments I wonder if the prior art is related.
Your LGBT example is misplaced, but the real question we should be answering is: what happens when you make vices illegal. The answer is that the black market provides them, with all the relevant disasters that follow from that.

If you want to avoid having people gamble more than they would like, there is a simple way: have them set a limit (of their choosing) that they can change at any point, to take effect 1 week from now. Yes you need to coordinate the gambling across different companies, but gambling is already legally limited.
They're electric pressure cookers, right? My slow cooker (Ninja 9 in 1) also does that, and it's super helpful for when I forget to put things on in the morning.
Yes it's not as bad as some other stringly typed languages, but compare it to literally any other language with proper types. Even terrible ones like PHP don't have those issues.
Does that measure epidemic-spread-rate somehow?

I understood masks were not about making you proof against infection, but instead for slowing the spread so hospitals could respond. That's the critical measure of mask effectiveness.
They have a hosted on major clouds service called crunchybridge which seems reasonably priced.

https://www.crunchydata.com/pricing/calculator
I follow a YouTube channel (VASAviation) which posts notable ATC recordings. JFK, AUS, and this collision are unusual in a short period of time. In 2017 there was a similar "trend" including two Air Canada incidents at SFO, which seemed like a lot for one airline and one airport? Most likely these are uncommon but any commonality or closeness in that randomness seems like cause for a person to change their perception of how likely it is.
You have a right to do whatever you want with it. You can take a hacksaw to it, hit it with a hammer, flash the BIOS with random noise. You won't be imprisoned, the government won't disappear you, the company won't sue you and won't care at all.

What you are demanding is more like "after I bought it and the transaction is complete, I want the company to put person-years of unpaid work into making it work a different way which was never offered or part of the deal". That's completely different.
Humanity spent 200,000 years living communally in social abundance. This is settled science in anthropology and biology [1][2][3]

Social community is an essential requirement for human life and the loss of community has now been used as proof of some kind of lamarckian anti-social evolution which has zero evidence.

[1] Chan, E.K.F., et al. human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations. Nature 575,185–189 (2019)

[2] Graeber, David, Wingrow, David (2021), The Dawn of Everything. (126)

[3] Sahlins, Marshall (2009). Hunter-gatherers: insights from a golden affluent age. Pacific Ecologist. 18: 3–8
Most modern processors run at a speed that makes it cheaper to check than to not check. Some people might argue for lower-level optimizations like this, but in this case, I don't think it's a big deal.

Bottom line: enabling this doesn't hurt. It might help, and it doesn't cost anything to check
Everyone wants to be part of something. Some people think they are part of the Rebellion when it's actually the Dark Side.
>My experience has been that "good" programmers follow the most prevalent conventions of the language so their code is easily parsed by other humans used to seeing it that way.

Agree. To take this a step further, I would say good programmers follow the style that exists in the codebase, if applicable, for consistency and therefore maintainability's sake.

It' doesn't necessarily mean they are a good programmer, but it means they are fairly meticulous, which can be a trait of a good programmer.
Cultivate gratitude for what you have, joy for what others have, and an appreciation that what's here one day may be gone the next. Easier said then done.

PS the juxtaposition of "wisdom" with "subscribe for new posts and become a member" is amusing. Want enlightment? Then make sure to smash that subscribe button! Why not just share your wisdom without all those trappings?
Even without AI assistance it's no longer the best search product.
Ah, TCL. Takes me back to the fun days of IRC and Eggdrop! :)

https://www.eggheads.org

edit: ooh, and https://tclarchive.org
One day, we'll have crypto where "mining" is helping train the AI. It'll be allowed nowhere.
Yeah completely agreed and good point; in my team’s case our guidelines are to never re-format something you didn’t touch in the commit - we request spurious whitespace changes to be reverted during code review, whether accidental or deliberate - but we also request that the block of code that is touched gets formatted. Every once in a while, like maybe once a year or less, we’ll re-run the formatter on the code base because too many things are drifting, and we’ll do it by first broadcasting the intent to the entire team, and then scheduling a good time for it, and lastly changing only formatting and nothing else, and finally if it causes any major problems, reverting and re-scheduling. Formatting the whole code base is never something I’d do lightly.
Could you elaborate? What problem would using CRDTs solve in the context of a web-based app, especially one built with WASM? I've heard of offline-first web apps but am not aware of much use cases for CRDTs there.
Lucky you, that it didn't quote some wrong answer somewhere.

Even if it gets it right mostly, well that's dangerous in its way. When it's egregiously wrong but continues to sound like it actually knows what it's talking about, it will lead folks into error.
> Maybe they should make a persuasive demo if they want people to care.

This is the right response for Google's AI news, but not Deepmind.

Building products isn't Deepmind's purpose. They have essentially "demo'd" it by releasing the paper and simulation videos. They don't build any products. This research is absolutely irrelevant for most people right now, but hopefully will be used by other researchers to make progress.

It's like saying "Stanford should build products and do demos instead of just releasing papers".
Enjoy - https://youtu.be/YnGH8aS5NyU
It's a real-world analog.

Imagine there is an object recorded at location x,y,z at time t. This is all we know.

If I later tell you the object was recorded at location x,y,z, you have no idea what time it was captured.
If I later tell you the object was recorded at any location other than x,y,z (even if only z changed by some epsilon) you know that that it was captured at some time other than t.

If you guarantee the second recording I'm showing you was not taken before time t, you know it is a more recent recording, because it would be not earlier than and not equal to time t.
> Imagine if lawmakers got this hung up on indentation. Not the wording, correctness, or effect. The indentation.

I mean that seems reasonable to me. If someone submits a giant bill with no indentation/paragraphs/punctuation etc. then it should be rejected. Being able to grok the bill itself would be an important part of then determining whether or not to pass it.
is the CRT in the room with us right now?
It's hard to build a profitable blogging platform because the economics of writing itself makes it unworkable.

The tech stack isn't even on the top 100 hindrances to profitability.
More 8086 reverse-engineering for your enjoyment. Let me know if you have any questions.
In Japan if you buy, say, a 65" TV, it will be labeled a "65 style" with a note that it's about 160 cm diagonal (panel inch sizes are never exact).

The main exception? MacBooks. Those will be labeled e.g. "14 inch" (14インチ).
I'm just curious about the backstory; did the RPi foundation pay BTStack to be ok with this sudden open sourcing?
Russia doesn't have a Casus Belli. It's not Russia soil, and the pipeline isn't even owned by a Russian company.
I tried WebAuthn for the first time on MacOS a few weeks ago (on the WebAuthn demo site), and the site inexplicably didn't support the key that I've been using for the last 4 years for 2FA. It didn't even bother explaining what the problem was, but I assume they want me to buy Yet Another Physical Device if I want to participate. It's definitely still not there, and at this point I don't have high hopes for the future.
Same! I looked into how pytest worked and got bogged down in its plugin system (which is great, but very distracting when trying to read the code). I've always been curious how the assertion rewriting works.
def greet(bow=None):
...
if bow:
bow()

def elsewhere(gesture):
def bow():
print(gesture)
greet(bow)

Wrap that.
It's worth noting that Guido himself had an, um, "interesting" time getting Python Readability at Google.
TikTok Is a New Kind of Superweapon
Hint: Starts with “adv” and ends with “cash”
There's another thread further down of us. Personally I think the author (or editor, whoever chose the title) feels it and is projecting onto everyone else.
More pertinent in regards to COVID?
"Desitka" ("10" meaning 10 plato degrees of sugar content before fermentation) is very popular in Czech Republic. It usually has 3.5% - 4% ABV. Beer consumption in Czech Republic is about 130l per person per year. That's 0.35l per person per day. It used to be closer to 0.5l but the average ABV % probably went up so alcohol consumption stayed about the same.
>> i've noticed that anyone who no longer does that thing is typically quite vocal and negative towards said thing.

Well ya? Is that not self-evident?

See, there's this thing I enjoy very much, but I was forced to stop because of evidence of the negative consequences. Now, since I am a kind person, I can share the knowledge of those negative consequences so may be you could avoid them, too.

Said another way, if I were not negative to said activity that I enjoy, I would still be doing it. And if I were indifferent to the well-being of others, I wouldn't be vocal/share.
I wish more people would say "I don't know" when they don't know. It not only increases your credibility, it doesn't waste other people's time.
Images here [1] and a before and after gif someone uploaded here[2] give a better a better idea than the article's included image of what it looks like. Also, there is a video of the earthquake here[3] that is positively terrifying.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-earthquake-...

[2] https://gfycat.com/mellowblindflickertailsquirrel

[3] https://www.twitter.com/pusholder/status/1623815189257719810...
For the more (most?) recent example, child tax credits reduced the number of US children living in poverty by 46%[0]. Late 2021, all 50 Senate Republicans + Joe Manchin opposed expanding it.

In other words, 51 people decided to put 3.7 million children back into poverty. In one month between Dec 2021 and Jan 2022 the percentage increased from 12.1% to 17%[1]. Each and every one of those 51 people had the power to singlehandedly keep 4.9% of all children out of poverty. None of them did.

Why? If you asked all 51 of them, the most common answer will most likely be a variation of "no handouts".

[0] https://archive.is/3vZnb (census.gov link, using archive.is because census.gov blocks connections outside of the US)

[1] https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/monthly...
Humans aren't reliable either. This is why we write tests, have code reviews, fact-checking/editing, etc.
If you, personally, end up restricted from doing things you used to (pay for my software, for example) — you gave up liberty for security, and now have neither.

I’m Canadian, by the way. We now can go to prison for wanting to call our children the name we gave them at birth.
Discussed (a bit) at the time:

How to train large models on many GPUs? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28657797 - Sept 2021 (9 comments)
That sounds exactly like what I want out of the game. My characters tend to go a little bit more like this:

I run outside, and die from a hoarde of zombies.

Or:

I run outside, and am killed by an automated tank
Aldous Huxley took that idea further (improvements he made include the use of artificial wombs and the realization that it’s not only the upper classes that need more children), but the tech didn’t exist yet, so he could only develop the theory.

I think there is consensus is that it may not be a good idea.
Parchement with the game from IFDB would be far better.
https://teddit.net/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_weeken...
The idea that capitalism (as it is practiced) has anything to do with "survival of the fittest" and rampant individualism needs some serious double checking as it doesnt match the data.

In such an ultra competitive system how does one explain oligopolies, cartels, corporate dominance, regulatory capture, skyrocketig inequality with the benefits acruing to infinitesimally small groups.

If competition was universal society would be much less unequal and flat in structure. In fact humans have an instinctive tendency to cooperate and this is evident everywhere in social structure. Unfortunately that cooperation is seldom extending to encompass everybody in the community.

Rather than a simplistic choice of "compete or cooperate" between two individuals our societies are dominated much more by competition of distinct groups of internally cooperating (colluding) groups.

Competition is for the fools. The mafiosi find codes of cooperation and extract dues from everybody else.
The point where once-enjoyable services start turning to shit to make a buck is inevitable; it was the VCs footing the bill, but now it's the user's turn. The illusion of 'startup disruption' collapses once it reaches what I call the "somebody has to pay for all this shit" phase.
This conversation is clearly talking about the good or bad that the EU does. Are those books banned because of the EU? Would they stop being banned if Poland or Hungary was not part of the EU?
>I feel like a router is best served by a purpose-built OS, that is heavily focused on that task, and restricts the execution of arbitrary software, for obvious reasons

well, in this case, unless something changed recently this is definitely not openwrt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting Parties can and do win despite most people voting against them if those against them don't vote for the same party. Other voting systems don't have this problem, but allow voters to be represented in the proportions in which they vote.
You self-promote here often¹ (not judging, just an observation), and here are some thoughts that have occurred to me while reading your posts and comments.

• Your vision for Didget is blurry. Sometimes it's a database (or "general purpose data management system"), sometimes it's a file system. Products that are dessert toppings and floor waxes rarely find purchase. My advice: Decide which problem domain you're playing in, then which problem(s) within that domain this solves.

• The Postgres comparison seems naive. As the Postgres wiki notes, "PostgreSQL ships with a basic configuration tuned for wide compatibility rather than performance. Odds are good the default parameters are very undersized for your system." A comparison with a system-appropriate Postgres configuration would be more interesting.

• Promoting a new closed-source database seems anachronistic when there's a plethora of fine open-source options. If you're wondering why you're not getting many leads from HN, I'd imagine this is the main reason.

¹ https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>it takes offense at virtually everything

That's been the most annoying aspect of my ChatGPT experience so far. If you use the wrong language it will sometimes go on for multiple paragraphs about how xyz is harmful to society and how I should change my ways. Put that into a personal voice assistant and you've basically got Alexa from the South Park Covid Special.
> In the event of a fire or other catastrophe, your credentials would be lost forever, correct?

If you intentionally did the hard path of owning all your keys then didn't back them up - yes.

But most users would be subscribing to some auth service (Google, their bank, etc) and that organization would have recovery issues.

> I would like to have a hotkey I can push that

This is already super simple with no new tech - just make your login button of class "LoginButton" or something we pick, and the plugin will just click it via code.

The UI really is slick. When the site requests auth the browser pops up a window with the help of the system's secret storage and shows you your identities. This could be automated to avoid even that single popup if desired.
My memory failed me when I wrote the comment. The video where I heard them talk about analytics was about founder mistakes, not about analytics. https://youtube.com/watch?v=D56QeyyQMLI
FWIW, people had started to post obscene ASCII drawings, were using various curse words, and there were many, many repetitive comments across the ~400 comments posted.

From what I understand of the conversation there, the core Go team said they were going to take some time to digest the feedback, including [0]:

> The goal here is a productive conversation that aims at better understanding of different positions. Many comments here have contributed to that, and I am grateful for them. To be extra clear, the people who have been discussing opt-in vs opt-out respectfully and with reasoned arguments are most welcome here and have been an important part of the signal, not the noise. Thank you to them in particular.

> Much of the moderation is being done by volunteer contributors working valiantly to keep the conversation on track, polite, useful, and non-repetitive. I appreciate their efforts.

> This discussion has in fact scaled somewhat beyond what GitHub discussions can reasonably manage (I just spent a while clicking every "load more" link on the page to make ^F work again), which is causing even more repetition, so I will probably lock the discussion at the end of the day and take some time to think about the feedback we've gathered so far.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom...
The world's most renowned quantum physicists and the Nobel committee are waiting for your explanation and simulation.
Interesting. I've read the exact opposite for FBI notes-only. That the FBI can more easily selectively edit than an exact recording.
I've seen some startup horrors subsidized by nebulous gov't grants. Money laundering for the elite always finds a way.
Does that account for climate changes? IIRC, there was a warmer period around the time the vikings arrived?
It's more like keeping your ID card with you. The hospital would still have your records but wouldn't give you access to them until you present your ID card.

If you lose your ID card, you have to go back to the issuer of ID cards and request a new one. Similarly, with client certificates, you go back to the Certificate Authority to get a new client certificate.
github.com/pkg/errors is dead — it’s been archived for a long time, and doesn’t incorporate go 1.20’s multi-error wrapping. Better switch to fmt.Errorf in new projects going forward.
Why wouldn't a logical clock as described be byzantine fault tolerant?
What really kills communal spirit is low rate of home ownership. I can walk down my street and tell who rents vs who owns based on the front yards. People who own actually invest into making it nice, and will be out front gardening or wave when you walk by. Why would you do any of that when you're going to be gone in a year or two?

It makes more sense that people riot and burn their own communities when you realize they are just renting everything they have.
Is this meant to be irony? You seem to have not read the link. It's a meta-review of 78 randomised control trials. It is literally the opposite of cherry picking.

You then cherry pick one review saying the opposite.
I think the situation is a little more complex than this. I recommend reading https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(2...

In short, we have to consider that other viruses like OC43 and HKU1 either do not have durable mucosal responses, or the response of the immune system is to slow for the viral dynamics of some viruses.
See the October 5 1960 entry in this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
15 Working Principles for a Successful Career
Isn't scrum a thing of the past now. Are their seriously some parts of the world still practicing this foolery?

All teams and companies I'm aware of in my region abandoned scrum many years ago and now run a process that works for their teams, products and industries. Often these processes pull things from many methodologies to create something that works. And she things have been absorbed from scrum. But to still run scrum.... Wow and eww
Technically the basement of the Equadorian embassy
nit: MCU is Micro Controller Unit, so for example rp2040 itself. What you mean is "board".

Completely right on the power consumption though. The NRF52 is also quite good at limiting power consumption while it's running and automatically disabling peripherals while not used (you typically do that with disabling clocks on other chips). It also has the sanest hardware registers I've seen (looks like they were actually designed with software in mind).
IOCCC is one program contest that favors surprisingly unusual styles, and some of the winners are very productive programmers. Probably not so much for what they did in IOCCC, but for the fact that they care about the source code as much as the compiled binary.
Tested positive for COVID
Dupe

Goodbye, passwords, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725322, 2 days ago, 10 points, 2 comments
I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation
Totally agree, that's why I gave up on it myself and created an aggregator.

https://tomatotree.tv
But who created Satan, and the forbidden fruit? If Satan is responsible for the later consequences of his earlier actions, then surely we should apply the standard equally?
At large fields in Germany, ATC has nothing to do with the taxiways?

In the US, we have ATC "ground control" at many airports, which controls the "movement areas" (taxiways), and ATC "tower" which controls the runways. At smaller fields or lighter traffic times, the ground and tower positions might be staffed by a single person. At larger fields, they may have multiple tower or ground positions.

Non-movement areas include the parking areas, ramps, maintenance aprons, etc, which are not controlled by ATC.
DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers
If you have ESP (most of them anyways) you don't really need the RP2040 anymore - you can run all your code on the ESP. Also there are all that geopolitical concerns about Chinese networking gear coming with more than you asked for.
iOS assisted translation of the text below the video:

> On February 6, an earthquake occurred in Turkey and Syria, which, according to the latest data, killed more than 24,000 people. In terms of the number of victims, it has become the largest for the whole world since 2010. After the earthquake, a giant fault formed in the Turkish province of Hatay, bordering Syria. He passed through a field with olive trees. According to the Turkish TV channel NTV, the fault depth is 30 meters and the width is 200 meters.
I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it