skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moderna seems to have moved, or removed, their initial testing results but you can still find an archive here. [1] The pharmaceutical industry was initially claiming that vaccination would completely prevent infection, as it typically does, let alone spread:

"There were 11 COVID‑19 cases in the Moderna COVID‑19 Vaccine group and 185 cases in the placebo group, with a vaccine efficacy of 94.1% (95% confidence interval of 89.3% to 96.8%)."

It's easy to create false memories because the politicians and pharma industry simultaneously swapped the narrative to stopping hospitalization and death once it became completely clear the vaccines were not stopping infection, but that is not what their initial purpose was.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210202223626/https://www.moder...
This hand-written parser is a functor:

data Parser a = Parser { actualParser :: HandWrittenParser }

instance Functor Parser where
fmap _ p = Parser $ actualParser p

instance Applicative Parser where
pure _ = Parser undefined
_ <*> p = Parser $ actualParser p

instance Monad Parser where
p >>= _ = Parser $ actualParser p

parse :: String -> Parser a -> Either ParseError a
parse str p = fmap unsafeCoerce $ handWrittenParse str $ actualParser p
We found all these ICS devices 5 years ago. Also, there's more.

--shodan.io, probably

https://www.shodan.io/explore/category/industrial-control-sy...
Africa’s B2B e-commerce startups are struggling to survive
I keep seeing people bringing this up, but what this misses is that a significant portion of road construction and maintenance costs are not due to damage from tires, but other factors like weather (especially freeze/thaw cycles) and the need to widen roads to accommodate the amount of space cars take up while driving.

I support the idea of factoring in axle load to any future road use tax, but it's definitely not the only factor or even necessarily the biggest one.
Or we could tax carbon and internalized the negative externality.

If you think that without capitalism we suddenly would take care of the environment, compare the destruction of the environment in communist countries to capitalist ones. Soviet Russia had a "nuclear lake" they just dumped nuclear waste into, Bitterfeld in the GDR was known for having it's creeks discolored from the chemicals dumped into them, the amount of smoke coming out of old, massive rural Chinese factories is hard to imagine if you haven't seen it; The Trabant spewed out orders of magnitude more exhausted than any western car. The problem isn't capitalism, but resource constraints.
If there are fewer features, then there are naturally fewer bugs.
A parser is not a functor, you can represent a parser as a frankensteined combination of functors. What I'm saying is that you probably shouldn't.
> I don't get sunburns though.

Only if you fall down on a stretch of asphalt on a hot summer day (or at least I've read this happened to several people this year).
The second set of commandments is like watching a movie (the first ten commandments) with director's commentary. It's a lot of insight and clarification but fundamentally the same thing

> And not go towards the Beatitudes

The 10 commandments and the Beatitudes are fundamentally different and serve different purposes. The 10C gives very specific things that you should and should not do - very concrete and prescriptive. The Beatitudes are very poetic and descriptive, not prescriptive.
I'm doing it again - this is another lazy repackaged piece of "journalism". It's a bunch of links to other publications which did the actual heavy lifting, with some limp commentary thrown in. The "Bloomberg reported" link doesn't even go to the Bloomberg story (it goes to the Guardian... because its actually from the Guardian). The "according to Greenpeace" bit also straight up quotes it wrong (Yahoo says Greenpeace says yearly ghost flights cause pollution equivalent to 1.4 million cars, the Greenpeace headline says yearly ghost flights _in the EU_ cause pollution equivalent to 1.4 million cars).

It's also funny because by fusing together a bunch of semi-unrelated stories, you end up bizarre combinations. The majority of the article isn't about airlines flying empty flights to keep their slots, it's about Qatar straight up avoiding taking up 'slots' (of sorts), but the call to action is about slot preserving ghost flights.

Finally, it's a completely limp call to action, because the obvious solution (increase carbon taxes) is almost certainly unpalatable to the typical target audience of this article.
Many good suggestions already, but I’ll throw my hat into the ring.

You could say something like “you and I have very different tastes in travel, but I still like traveling when it’s on my terms.”
You’re not required to use a breathalyser. You can choose to simply go to jail, spend the night, and when you wake up in the morning you should no longer have excess blood alcohol concentration and there is no hard evidence of driving under the influence, only conjecture.
Work from Home Works
OK, you've attracted my interest. What are some examples of official database documentation pages that do a great job of covering these advanced deployment topics?

It's important to note that "boring technology" doesn't mean the official documentation will answer all of your questions: it means that there is enough experience out there in the user community that you can find the information if you go looking for it.
It helps to be the largest country on Earth (11 timezones), with a population > 140 million.

They have all the natural resources and manpower they need to make ammunition till the end of time, if that's what they want to focus on.
The article says a few passengers continue on to the final destination, so they’re not saving much in terms of crew / logistics.

Maybe it’s an attempt to avoid drawing too much attention from the regulator? If they started offering internal flights in Australia they’d be stepping even more on Qantas toes.
"Give me a printout of Oyster smiling"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk

Life imitating art imitating life. Exciting times indeed.
It’s not just science fiction, it’s a software engineering deus ex machina.
"We are so close to figuring it all out! SO CLOSE!!! More funding please so we can get EVEN CLOSER!!1!"
On the ZX Spectrum, numeric values were saved as both text, and in a five-byte floating point format. So making lines shorter often involved using keywords to avoid that: NOT PI, SGN PI, VAL "2" etc.
Apple says it will fix software problems blamed for making iPhone 15 too hot
Like most conspiracy theories, you've managed to construct a hypothesis that is impossible to disprove.

My favorite part is how the western pharmaceutical companies were able to convince the CCP to suppress non-vaccine treatments. But that's as far as they could go. They weren't able to convince China to allow them to actually sell their vaccines there.
mosh? It's a replacement for interactive ssh.
Better Configuration for Less
The price of flights to Melbourne has to be very high to make it profitable to also fly to Adelaide with <10% seats. You could say the people really demanded it.

I agree that this loophole should be closed, but maybe the way to close it is to just allow flights? I don't have a strong take, the original regulation must have been put into place for some reason; but it has a very real cost (which the passengers are happy to pony up for).
One can be supportive of mutual aid and international, cross-cultural cooperation while also acknowledging that a nation doesn't exist without borders, sovereignty matters, and that unchecked migration is not universally good.

When you include the contemporary context of illegal US border crossings at record numbers [1], it's clearly making a political statement. Pretending the development of a programming language is inexorably linked to unchecked immigration is disingenuous.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/08/31/border...
The lock free / wait free datastructure literature is not an especially fertile land to go searching in. The most common flaw is probably assuming you're running on a garbage collector with better properties than the structure you're describing. A close second is assuming CAS on two unrelated addresses exists.

A fair few are just wrong as these things are difficult to design by thinking hard and people don't tend to write the formal proof of correctness.

Even those that look right, actually wrote the algorithm in something approximating a formal language and don't assume they're built on magic, are difficult to search for and to compare with other designs.

At this point I'm just going to continue DIYing the things and previous inventors can only have credit if I know their thing exists and can reasonably determine whether it's the same as my construct. Which will presumably annoy people much like the authors of this post.

I note that I hadn't seen the left/right paper prior to this thread so have no idea whether I've recreated it without proper attribution. Seems likely that'll be the case for other people writing stuff too.
The books that came with the C64 were pretty decent and could take you a pretty long way. Once I got a modem, the world really opened up. We traded software via BBSes and had monthly meetups at a local library where someone would rent out a conference room and everyone would bring their C64 rigs and meet and greet (and copy software).

I agree, Apple is nothing like it. Apple is the opposite because you don't need to know anything about how it works to use one, but that's their niche. With the Commodores, you boot up to a Microsoft BASIC prompt and crack open the manual.
You're speaking from the perspective of someone for whom the virtue of making personal sacrifices for environmental reasons is already obvious. Try putting yourself in the shoes of someone who doubts this. To those people, rich jetset climate activists come across like politicians who agitate against gay people then get caught having anonymous gay sex in airport bathrooms. Their hypocrisy is seen to invalidate the authenticity of their message.
That is why they manage 20% world market share on mobile devices, and about 10% across desktop and laptop devices.

Not everyone can buy a Bentley.
Support for Chromebooks is excellent. I've had my Chromebook for 4 years with zero issues getting patches/ updates.
Lyft/Uber/DoorDash and a host of others have useful notifications when you have a delivery but abuse trust to send a ton of marketing spam.

Apple should make a version of - Allow notifications for 1 hour.

Like how they have allow location use while this app is open.

Sooooooo much garbage notifications email and real mail.

In the name of earning a few more dollars, we subject most humans to incredible amount of decision fatigue. Future definitely isn’t a utopia.
I'm having this issue currently with Elasticsearch and Opensearch. I use libraries for both (since we're in the middle of migration) and not only does it conflate the two, but it even confuses versions of Elasticsearch that have breaking changes, so it ends up recommending all this convincing code that is based on non-existent or wrong-version library APIs. Drives me nuts.
Compared to dioxine? Well yeah.

But you're not wrong and I'm all for dealing with waste another way, primarily by drastically reducing it, but as long as we're burning huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, we might as well burn the garbage.
The packing is not really a problem for me. I've been doing Python long enough to know how to navigate that.

I am not denying any other languages have better toolings. But you cannot beat the ecosystem. Every project you interact with, they'd have a Python SDK, but others may not be guaranteed.

And I am thinking more about developing Sass products. There are performance-sensitive bit, but there is also big part of your application that is not.

And I would say most products can be developed in many languages, and they will perform just fine.

So Python's ecosystem saves you time and money to write your own lib because certain things you want to use do not have an SDK in your chosen language.
But, unless you are working for the gov, it's also unlikely most apps you might build depends on any of the encoded meaning. So random digits should work fine for most people's testing purposes.
Depends on how far you get, I suppose. Wozniak's apple employee badge has ID #1 on it, and that's cool as heck. I also remember ICQ users sorting themselves based on how many digits their identifier had.
Thanks for the source! And I'm not saying I'm 100% right but I do remember reading articles from the economist and other solid publications about them not having any restrictions. I won't be able to find the article but I will look...and also look at this one.

/edit I actually found this in my bookmarks fyi: https://archive.ph/7y7gF
So he actively sabotaged an Ukrainian attack against the Russian navy, just as I initially stated? His excuse is bullshit too

> If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation

Refusing to help the defender is siding with the offender by allowing them to continue their senseless war of agression and genocide.

> Calling someone a fascist is a pretty wild accusation, especially when it seems it was motivated by a misunderstanding.

And he isn't flirting with fascism just because he helps Russia or mocks Zelensky having to beg for help from other countries to ensure the survival of his own, but for a whole host of other reasons. Just take a scroll through his Twitter timeline and see him getting scolded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on migrants' lives, or him commenting, liking, retweeting memes full of racist or otherwise fascist-adjacent dogwhistles.

PS: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-... I'm even less inclined to agree with Isaacson's statements now
It's a bit of a joke that doesn't have universal support. Works on my phone. Apparently you can also try en_IE (Ireland).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62316/why-is-there-...
> I'm not so sure. I used to use a 30Hz display while waiting for a driver update (was a 4k early adopter), and I found programming with a 33ms key latency to be maddening

Because of stupid software licences, I have to work a lot in remote desktop when I'm working from home. So I work with latency while typing all the time. It was maddening in the beginning, but I got used to it quickly.

I think the key is that you have to be able to touch-type without relying on close-loop feedback. If your error rate is low enough, you quickly learn to trust your fingers. After that, all you need to relearn is cursor positioning - you can't hold down arrow keys (or HJKL in vim) ever. It forced me to rely on moving the cursor x words/paragraphs at a time, and to use the mouse a little more.
It's my older clients who are inundated with prompts constantly. I can't even have a Zoom call and maintain their attention. On their side it's ding... ding... whoosh... ding...

I don't know if they know what DND is and how to turn it on. I suspect they do, but it doesn't cross their mind not to see an email or answer a phone call the moment it arrives.
Are Chromebooks not profitable? They seem to have done a great job with the education sector.
It would be great to include more screenshots showcasing the features before I decide to download and install this.
Sounds like this opens up the possibility of a “virtual” power generation company to operate entirely by, say, leasing rooftop space (for solar cells) all over a grid and trading on the open market as a single producer rather than needing all of the individual property owners to do their own trading. Seems reasonable to me!
Maybe the middle is an unstable equilibrium? You’ll either get a race to the top or to the bottom?

I have no idea but it seems like a plausible idea.
The problem they describe is not about sorting: it’s about data locality. And for the latter, clock skew should not be a problem. Even with significant clock skew, data will end up clustered anyway, much better than with a random spread.
I decided to ask the bing bot to type one out for me, and it told me "no". When I asked it why, it told me it was because it wasn't "creative" so it wrote me a poem in Python. I then asked it to write a diagram that was funny. It told me "no" because it wouldn't be creative.

:sigh: technology.
Ask HN: Why Haven't We Solve Content Moderation Online?
>I'm one of those people "on the fence".

Versus

>I can tell you now that honestly a good study won't convince me to trust the prevailing narrative.

You're not on the fence.
Cloud services such as API gateway. I don’t think load balancers show up in the survey.
In the US the police can take you directly to the hospital for a blood draw.
What an absolute maniac. But Paris in 1976 looks a lot quieter than I remember it from 10-15 years ago.
Unsurprisingly, Less Wrong has covered this one too: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/p7hW7E3fHF3PDzErk/sabbath-ha...
Seems like a bad plan (and if you are drinking and driving an unethical life tip), but you should probably indicate where you believe (as you haven't indicated you're a legal expert) this is the case as the rules aren't the same across the world and this is a UK article where people are charged with "Failure to Provide".
The title is definitely nonsense. The reality is that for most people, they will never need to know the gritty details of how to encode or decode UTF-8. The article is interesting, but I was pretty put off with how the author led with such a hyperbolic (and untrue) claim.
I'm disappointed that their embed demo video showed at 360p when I have a fibre connection and shows Spanish when I have English captions selected, but I'm only a little surprised. You might think that when they control both frontends and backends end-to-end that they could do it right. Why should people trust a product from a "web company" that can't play a video properly?
It's estimated that Chick-fil-A loses billions of dollars every year because of this.
To be clear, I think it's as much about the aggregation of "Distributed Energy Resources," DERs, as about the aggregation of generation.

From my understanding, a DER can be as simple as a smart thermostat that can receive a signal from the utility company to set the AC up a couple of degrees during a period of high electricity demand.

As energy is fungible, saving 1kW by turning off 1kW of less-necessary usage is exactly the same as generating an additional 1kW to cope with demand.
I just use Rufus to make the ISO to a USB install.

https://rufus.ie/en/

And when you do that, you get a popup with checkboxes about customizations to the ISO that looks like this:

https://i0.wp.com/pureinfotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...

And so you can do things like disable the online account requirement and even have it automatically make you a local account with a given username as well as a couple other options.

Really simple.
800 parking spots per car in the US.
Probably won’t though. It’s a pain in the ass.
>You’re making a spectacular claim without a source.

Hilarious since you also made a claim without a source in the prior sentence.
Getting Started with NixOS on WSL
I’ve always considered the no-politics at work rule to be a neutral zone in an armistice. It’s been in effect for so long people have forgotten why it existed and see nothing wrong with resuming agitations. The ‘politics is personal’ and ‘bring your whole self to work’ shift is an intentional reinsertion of politics back into work and like the Chesterton’s fence parable I think we’ll rediscover why that rule was there in the first place.
Commodores were pretty affordable, that was why they were so popular. A PC would cost anywhere from $2000-5000 in the mid 80s, but a C64 was $200, IIRC. Vic20s were even cheaper.
Captured Russian Tank Wasn’t Working. So He Called Tech Support–In Russia
> I can't speak for Mastodon as I've never used it, but I was an avid user for a long time of many forums and boards on many topics back in the old Internet. And while we certainly had our share of flamewars about shit related to the topics, nobody was ever building a following invoking the tenets of White Supremacy on any of them?

Ok, but that may be just because they were over at Stormfront, which seems to have existed since 1996.

Although I guess not having to share a platform and having undesired interactions with some groups is preferable.
Why not go for esp8266 if you just want to use sensors? Pi is overkill
VSCode, too.
The current LLMs were science fiction 10 years ago. It's difficult enough to imagine what the tech will be like 10 years from now, let alone 20 years from now.
Well it means that if you've got a parser that returns 'a' and a function from 'a' to 'b' then you can make a parser that returns 'b'. And if you've also got a function from 'b' to 'c' then function composition basically does what you'd expect.

Which, you know, sounds extremely trivial.

The applicative part is a bit more interesting, it means if you've got a parser that returns a function 'a -> b' and a parser that returns an input 'a' for that function then you can make a parser that returns 'b'. This would have been interesting in general categories, but in Haskell function types with currying and application isn't really a remarkable feature so preserving this structure becomes more of a necessity than an interesting feature.
Turn that around.

The intention of many of these campaigns (like paper straws and paying attention to your individual carbon footprint) is, at least in part, to instill the idea that environmentalism should be all about individual action, rather than holding large companies to account for their role in pollution and environmental destruction.

Recycling at a personal level is a good idea—but it can only ever be a small part of a solution, and it also requires that recycling be taken seriously by the places that actually take the recyclables away—that they genuinely recycle the stuff, rather than just sending it to a landfill in some other country.
The beatitudes are much more difficult, with some of them unlikely to be prescriptive (blessed are those who are persecuted), some of them being unclear (blessed be the meek) and others that are difficult to translate to actions (blessed be the pure of heart). In contrast, the simple rules of the ten commandments, most of which just tell you not to do a basic thing you probably weren't doing anyway (thou shalt not steal) are much easier to follow and much easier to confirm you are doing well in. People resonate more with simple yardsticks like the ten commandments than with the vaguer "be a good person and it's ok if things are bad for you now" beatitudes.
I mean, yes? A non-exhaustive list of things found to be happening in private telegram channels we probably want to stop would include: coordination of harassment campaigns, a plot to kidnap a sitting United States governor, a large part of the January 6th event in the United States, a shit ton of hate speech, doxxing, confidence scams, distribution of material to facilitate genocide...
There are several SROs ("Scientific Research Organizations") funded by extremely wealthy folks (typically made their billions in tech). They can offer scientists a number of nice things that universities can't- for example, Arc Institute, created by Patrick Collison among others, has plenty of lab space and computing for its members, compared to the space and computing available on campuses like UCSF and Stanford.
Unfortunately, the people who weasel their way into power, more often than not, don’t have the same convictions as you regardless of whether it’s private or public sector.

At least I don’t have to be a customer of the private sector. Once things are nationalized, the same jerks are running the show based on incentives that are only aligned with their own prosperity, but now impact an entire constituency. Every time you hear a public servant talk about a problem with metrics that make no sense to solving the actual issues, their incentives become more obvious.