skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet hypothesis is Fauci saw an infectious disease / epidemiologists dream thought experiment. What if every human on the planet self-isolated for XX weeks? If most illnesses (e.g. cold, flu, airbone) die out after X days without a host, presumably a large chunk of communicable transient diseases that have been around forever.. would suddenly no longer exist. My thought is there was a sort of power-drunkness, mix of anxiety, and the blissful joy of doing this naughty experiment on 350 million people. With the best of intentions of course.

Of course the problem with it all is one general of medicine. The infectious disease specialist stays in their lane and devises an infectious disease solution. I don't think psychiatrists or economists had much of a say in it. I would speculate there are particular populations such as healthy teenagers, who mostly handle COVID easily with near-zero death rate( HEALTHY teenagers).. where these COVID restrictions caused more damage, psychological and suicide, then the COVID precautions themselves... in order to save the boomer population which did benefit.

The other problem, obvious now, is it didn't work. You can't bottle up people, particularly not muricans, a very individualistic culture. The goal was to knock out COVID in a week or two and look how it went.
The reason:

> Plus it can be demoralising to run a community project which also has a SaaS element. It is free for the community to use but it is costing you money. Your premium tier does not have near enough paid subscribers to cover those costs. Then there are the mounting notifications a lot of which were - let’s face it, noise - making it hard for you to come up for air. If these elements were not enough, you wake up one morning and someone had decided to write a script to keep refreshing their BioDrop Profile page so they would appear in the “Most Popular Profiles” list, which effectively load tested the app and double our costs. And this was not an isolated incident.

I appreciate them rebelling against enshittification and keeping things free but I'm confused: if they wanted money, why didn't they focus on monetization?
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Very good example for American centrism. Esspecially as Ryan Air is only operates in Europe.
Pretty big bubble
Would you use a distribution that doesn't prioritize the use-case for which you intend?

Use a Linux distribution that is intended for professional audio use.

>Once I hook up some midi devices, want things to be recorded, run a synthesizer stack through pw-jack, expect the midi clock to go down the USB bus, etc, all kinds of interesting behavior starts happening.

On Ubuntu Studio [0]/[1] - this Just Plain Works™, you know. I've been doing exactly this for years on my Ubuntu Studio machine, and I just don't have any of the issues you've encountered.

[0] - note that ubuntustudio is a metapackage you can install on most Ubuntu instances, which will set up audio for professional use.

[1] - see also, Zynthian: https://zynthian.org/
Best option to date: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu

A shame most distro's installers don't support it natively, but an encrypted rootfs on ZFS is great once you get it setup.
Backwards compatibility slows things down in the Windows world but it doesn’t halt improvements. In this case, there are two powerful ratchets:

1. Compliance: everyone affected by this bug has auditors. Once safer alternatives are available, the standards like CIS, PCI, etc. will be updated to say you should use the new interface, and every enterprise IT department will have pressure to switch to eBPF tools. We saw this with BootLocker: storage encryption used to be a pain, people resisted it, but over time it became universal because the cost of swimming upstream was too high.

2. Signing. Microsoft can start requiring more proof of need and restrictions for signing drivers. They have to be careful to avoid the appearance of favoritism but after this debacle that’s a LOT easier. I would bet some engineer is working on a draft of mandatory fault handling and testing proof requirements for critical kernel drivers now and I would not be surprised to see it include a timeframe for adopting memory-safe languages.
I only discovered httm thanks to this thread, and I'll definitely be trying it out for the first time today. Maybe I'll add an addendum to my blog post about it.
Soy products contain high levels of plant-based estrogen, not something you want to pump your body with continuously. Or does the process of creating Tempeh somehow removes/inactivates this?
What's the distance you need to cover ? BLE use very little power, is wireless, can go 100m or so, max.
> “TZ is whatever is local, trust me”.

New years is midnight, local time, wherever you are. Trust me.
CrowdStrike CEO Kurtz to testify on mass outage and halted flights and hospitals
This study was looking at data between 2014 - 2021. COVID and the related vaccines are inconsequential to the data presented.
My guess would be the drop in teen pregnancy has increased the average age of the mother, which I assume increases the mortality.
Google is the advertising industry. It's disingenuous to paint them as stuck between themselves and consumers.
https://pernos.co/about/javascript/ is somewhat like that.
Ok, I don’t think we disagree. But knowing that entropy is a property of a distribution given by that equation is far from “being it” as a definition of the concept of entropy in physics.

Anyway, it seems that - like many others - I just misunderstood the “little need for all the mystery” remark.
Sorry, but this is B-S.

MS has reached an understanding with EU that MS will give other parties the same level of access to the same API.

But nobody forced CrowdStroke to use this access in an unsafe way without any abstraction layers. Nobody has forced CS to parse their config files inside ring-0.

This argument is clearly being pumped by Apple's PR.
Proprietary package vendors often provide a. deb that assumes Ubuntu. Maybe also a. rpm for RedHat if you're lucky.
I come to the conclusion that this is a terrible place to discuss anything money and job related because it’s either people who live in some bubble that has nothing to do with the rest of the world or people who, like you said, are in “trust me bro” mode.
The construction of the type 'Map<string, Type>' is entirely standard in languages like Agda and Coq (and I bet Idris too). In these languages, Type is itself a type, and can be treated like any other type (like string or int). Nothing clunky about it. (If you're curious, Type is usually referred to as a "universe type" in type theory circles.)
TLDR:
i18n is more than just using translation tools; it requires collaboration among developers, translators, and designers. Developers need good DX tools, translators need TMS or CAT tools, and designers need translation visibility in Figma. Proper i18n is a continuous process and should be integrated from the beginning to avoid major issues.

Disclaimer: I have a connection to one of these companies, just want to share some knowledge. I strive to be as neutral as possible.

Fun fact: I'm German and know the challenges with the UI. It's a love/hate relationship!

The problem with i18n (internationalization) is that many developers and product owners believe it’s only about implementing a library and letting Google Translate, DeepL, or even ChatGPT do the rest. As most of you already know, that approach doesn't work well for German speakers. My language will break/destroy your UI design.

The real issue with i18n is that it involves many stakeholders throughout the process. Here are the most important ones to start with:

Developers: These folks need to implement a library and want a good DX (Developer Experience). It means You should choose a library with an IDE extension (e.g., VS Code's Sherlock i18n, i18n Ally).
- Libraries: Please use something that utilizes .json files. Formats like .po are cumbersome and will cause many issues.
- Use tooling that supports an ecosystem around it, like lint rules, to save time and effort.

Translators: Ideally, your preferred solution includes a TMS (Translation Management System) or a CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) tool.

Designers: If your designers can't see the translations in tools like Figma, your UI will break, and users will complain. Figma plugins like Parrot, Phrase, or Weblate can help (just search for 'i18n' in Figma's marketplace).

All the apps mentioned are just a few examples among many tools available.

Conclusion:
The important stakeholders in this process are Developers, Translators, and Designers. i18n is an ongoing process, not a one-time task. If you start your app or project with i18n from the beginning, the annoying parts are manageable, and it won’t cost you all your nerves.
They certainly have resources to expand into that if needed
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It’s simply unrealistic to move people.

A local good developer would cost ~200k in SF, but to move me and my family would take at least 2x that (to compensate for my partner’s lost income), possibly more (so that I can catch up to peers who’ve been saving US salaries for 10+ years, so that I can buy a house in a reasonable time).
My effective rate is already >40%, and you are proposing another 20%. That would mean others are getting more of my salary than I am.

There’s nothing magical about exceeding a 50% marginal tax rate. (Hitting 100%, sure, that would be bad.)

There’s definitely a psychological threshold there for most people. I ran an informal survey a few years back about what tax rates people would consider fair, and there was a very strong clustering at 50%.

I have a hard time understanding it myself. The whole point of taxation is redistribution, so why would you care whether you’re “winning” versus the marginal tax rate?
If I understood the top-level post correctly, no. They are very much not working for a FAANG, nor for a talent agency that works for a FAANG. They're working for a company that supplies software tools to high-frequency traders or something similar. Very, very different.

(Of course, the original question was "not FAANG or HFT", so this still may not be what they were looking for...)
Sure, but 5 years is not that long ago - for example, if they’d started right before the pandemic it’d be almost done by now. The best time to have done that was 5 years ago but the second best time is now.
Microsoft's AI researchers in China must choose between homeland and career
Related post [0] (not having enough).

Do US doctors relay this risk to their patients?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037116
Elon has good donor area, area from which he had hair transplant. Not everyone have a good donor area and if you are NW7 (north wood scale) then hair transplant will not help you.
The handful of Cubans I've known over the years expressed the same sentiment: Intense hatred for Castro and the Cuban government.
Maybe you can do without a DBMS, but you still need a good schema for your data, and it isn't a bunch of iCalendar records: for example, instead of a stable user ID there are only mutable and repeated email addresses.
Actually, of the examples they showed, all but one clip featured both camera and in-camera motion. Granted not a lot of the former, but according to my non-expert opinion, maybe enough to construct a disparity map.
Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
Unless there's some threshold in how obesity relates to risk factors that such a small percentage still crossed.
GDP is directly and strongly correlated to military industrial capability for sustaining a meaningful war effort. Modern history has shown this time and time again in many wars where enemies seriously applied themselves to pushing onward (I say this to exclude things like the Vietnam War, in which the U.S could have crushed the North but didn't have the political or social will do push it that far). Aside from its nuclear arsenal, Russia is economically and in terms of sustained war production no match for the NATO Alliance, even without the U.S. With U.S support, there's no chance. Putin himself even recently stated this, calling the idea of attacking NATO insane and specifically referencing his country's economic strength vs. that of NATO and the U.S.

Russia is just barely sustaining its war with Ukraine and the production capacity behind restocking destroyed and lost supplies. Never mind a war with NATO, unless they're willing to use nukes and risk utterly destroying themselves, and I don't quite think Putin is that insane. Even if he is, I don't think those surrounding him are, and their sycophancy would rapidly evaporate if faced with a real, immediate threat of their boss unleashing something that makes their decades of hard-stolen self-enrichment become irrelevant.
Specifically for vaccines, I can't answer, for meds in general, USA tend to use much more then the EU.
It only works for some people. You need to have a good donor area and a lot of hair. And even then transplant can be rejected. Doesn't work for majority of bald people in their 30s/40s.
Have you ever met a working dog? They go mad if they're not given something to do.
I agree. I think that this is similar to the appeal of old-school stereoscopy.
Covid itself (and flu) have the same effects on the heart (and other things) as well.
It's not really Telegram that's installing the APK. It's just trying to open the file with your default APK file handler. Which is the system, and by default doesn't allow arbitrary APK installation.

Think using a browser to download an installer. You download the installer, then open the installer file, it's not the browser that's installing the software it's you opening the installer file.

Telegram shouldn't assume it's a video file because that makes it confusing for the user, but tbh if I want to send a friend an APK and they want to install it shouldn't that be allowed? Software freedom, control over your own device and all?
Lost by Schoolgirls: A display of 17th century papercuts
I'd first look at the use of assidted fertility treatments (ARTs). I can't find solid data on trends that cover through 2021, but infertility rates and the use of ARTs have both gone up.

It seems reasonable that there would be increased risks during a pregnancy when the body wasn't prepared to get pregnant without intervention.
Links works for me, two pdfs from the WHO of some years ago about vaccines in economical terms and trends.
From the conclusion in the first study:

chronic COVID-19 infection may have more adverse effects on the menstrual cycle than COVID-19 vaccines, which have so far presented no long-term adverse events linked to fertility or reproduction

So there’s nothing detrimental, just a temporary change (which can happen for many reasons).
It's due to the stacked cache being harder to cool and not supporting as high of a voltage. So the 3D CCD clocks lower, but for some workloads it's still faster (mainly ones dealing with large buffers, like games, most compute heavy benchmarks fit in normal caches and the non 3D V-Cache variants take the win).
True, but I hoped we could become more than animals in the future.
HNers in the Boston area can see a similar feat at the Peabody Essex Museum, where they have reconstructed in detail the house of a merchant from the Qing Dynasty.

https://www.pem.org/yin-yu-tang-a-chinese-home
Limbo is a work-in-progress, in-process OLTP DBMS, compatible with SQLite
When I was growing up in the 90s and early 00s anonymity online was the whole point. Everything online was behind usernames, and usernames weren't expected to be connected to your real identity at all.

You consider that the norm because that's what you grew up with.

Before then, people would sign everything on the internet (and its predecessor networks) with their real names, work/home addresses, phone numbers, and more.

That's why when you create a new user on a *nix box, it asks for that information.
A manifesto, how retro.
> Bringing down teenage pregnancy rates has been a long term health project.

A project that in the US is wildly inconsistent, muddled, and rife with political interference, heavily tinged with US religious prudery.

We know how to reduce teen pregnancy. Fact based sex education, access to contraception, these are straightforward. Instead we have the worst of all possible worlds where schools teach abstinence and the kids learn from porn.
This is from that Toms article:

"Just like AMD's mobile Athlon4 processors, AthlonMP is based on AMD's new 'Palomino'-core, which will also be used in the upcoming AthlonXP processor. This core comes equipped with a thermal diode that is required for Mobile Athlon4's clock throttling abilities. Unfortunately Palomino is still lacking a proper on-die thermal protection logic. A motherboard that doesn't read the thermal diode is unable to protect the new Athlon processor from a heat death. We used a specific Palomino motherboard, Siemens' D1289 with VIA's KT266 chipset."

Intel suggested Siemens D1289 board for the test, board didnt have thermal protection. Intel suggested (or even delivered) Pentium III motherboard with working thermal protection.
That would seem to imply that the increase was already happening before the recent Roe decision?
> interfaces describe behavior, types describe shape and structure

Shape and structure are behavior. There's more to behavior than "abstractly produces X result". Behavior is "produces X result in Y form given Z in W form".
Sadly this is true and I 100% agree. After reading and working through type-level programmin in Idris, this is the conclusion I came to.
This seems like a first for the House Homeland Security Committee. For a security vendor, not a general IT company. Should be eye-opening if he actually comments on risk, QA etc.

We should prepare our bingo cards.
They mothers probably benefit from being in the hospital up to the birth if they have a high risk sickness which I guess most people can't afford in the US.
10,000% this. Sedentary lifestyle with a poor diet and little to no regular exercise is a recipe for health complications throughout life.
I must be the only unlucky one because my linux approved motherboard Intel DQ77MK with a Realtek ALC892 8-channel for audio kept switching between front and back panel (although nothing was plugged in on front) on Fedora 39 :( . It does work fine on windows.
Don’t feel bad about it. I was tasked with improving a calendar in a CMS to support a bunch more functions, and basically eaten alive by it. I had 8yrs of experience or so by then.

It is deceptively hard and requires excellent data modeling skills.
This actually is not that uncommon, as there has always has been a subset of tech savvy users who want to run APKs not approved in the android market. I forwarded this to a few of them based on your comment, so thank you..
> which flavour/version of Linux they use.

> this isn't a distribution problem

Exactly. This all shouldn't be distro dependent when the only things involved are ALSA (kernel) and pipewire/pulseaudio.

Both unfortunately have distros do "things" to them all. Some default to dmix, some to direct hardware with PW/PA dynamically spawned and thus getting exclusive access for a single Unix user while the others are SOL, and other painful conundrums because they thought "we'll just do this and then it just works" for a single basic use case.
You don’t believe in feedback? Huh.
It says that in the next paragraph, guess it's a mistake.
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If that's your perspective it's easy to assume that it's the same for most people, but really reality is probably more gray.
Outside of some genuinely horrible low class (paying) jobs when you talk to other people you will almost always find that there's always things they love and things they hate about their jobs, and they just sit on a spectrum.
If you're really so disenfranchised from your job as to truly hate everything you do about it, what's stopping you from changing it? Like you mentioned, you have a previliegeld position you could find another far less corporate more immediate reward job that would make you happier at work.
Or if you just accepted a worse fitting job for better pay, then it's not really your job's fault, you decided to sacrifice work happiness for other wealth, status or personal related happiness.
This isn’t a zero day nor does it really seem like Telegram’s fault, this is just how android itself works by design and this would likely affect any app that didn’t have specialized logic to recognize a malformed apk file. If an app tells android “open this file” it’s going to search for something that can read it, in the case of something with an apk manifest that becomes the system installer.

It’s still very unlikely to happen since android will warn you and you have to go through several dialogs to enable installing the apk.

This will be an unpopular opinion, and I’m not saying their argument is correct, or that the good doesn’t outweigh the risk - but this is exactly what Apple was talking about when they explained why they don’t want side loading.
It's hard to make a leap from war to company valuation. Also Ukraine support is highly inflated number. If say Ukraine gets supplied with an old design MLRS rockets from US that was slated to be replaced in a few years and had very limited shelf life remaining the number counted is not the market cost of that old rocket (which would be a few 100K) but the 3 mil new top of the line replacement thing that US is producing for itself and Ukraine will never see.
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That's certainly why it used to be important, but it's no indication of future importance.

After all, a similar argument can be made about transitioning from hunting to livestock: we have to take on the responsibility for an extra part of their life cycle, and we do so willingly for the economic benefits.
The second law of thermodynamics is time-asymmetric, but the fundamental physical laws are time-symmetric, so from them you can only predict that the entropy of B should be bigger than the entropy of A irrespective of whether B is in the future or the past of A. You need the additional assumption (Past Hypothesis) that the universe started in a low entropy state in order to get the second law of thermodynamics.

> If our goal is to predict the future, it suffices to choose a distribution that is uniform in the Liouville measure given to us by classical mechanics (or its quantum analogue). If we want to reconstruct the past, in contrast, we need to conditionalize over trajectories that also started in a low-entropy past state — that the “Past Hypothesis” that is required to get stat mech off the ground in a world governed by time-symmetric fundamental laws.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/07/09/cosmolo...