skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here was my HN comment in July of 2020 with a few months of hindsight referencing research from March 2020:

“I am still shocked: months after research has shown that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne stable in aerosol form for over 3 hours, we still aren’t telling the public that room air purifiers are a ‘good thing’ (for making indoor air like outdoor air - in regards to virion density per cubic air volume)

The filter technology is essentially the same as in the N95, orders of magnitude more effective than cloth masks.

Put these indoors, multiple per classroom/working space to help the air refresh in sub 5 minute intervals.

…

Aerosol transmission is leading cause for indoor superspreader event, ergo N95 masks are required when someone is indoors for an extended period of time.
The govt. response failure is from the fact we weren’t making N95s at full production for the past decade plus to prepare for this.”

My expertise is adjacent to this area, so it was easy to see through the incompetence. It might just be the government doesn’t pay enough to hire competent scientists who typically go straight to industry.
Yup. Toss a Big Ag CEO in prison for hiring illegally and watch the issue resolve itself the next day.
> Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed [...] ([...] or colloquially, ice ages),

Looks like both sides are right in this case.
> to toppling hostile regimes and creating chaos

From a real world perspective you're being awfully cavalier with the lives of people who are just as much victims of their own government as you perceive yourself to be.

> measure disinfo operations in the US

Yet you take no stock of the same operations the US already runs in other parts of the world. What a petty short term victory you're aiming for.
How is value created? Every accumulation of wealth is countered by an equal loss of wealth somewhere else. If you’re in a service industry and devise a process that saves $20 per transaction for a customer, then charge $10 for it, you’re making $10 per transaction in efficiency gains. So that compensates and is still altruistic.
Not all businesses work this way of course, but there are ways of extracting wealth without leaving the other side worse off.
I've just tried both `devenv` and `flox`, and the latter had two related niceties:

- Direnv wants to put its config inside the root of a git repo, which makes it hard to ignore. Flox's config is all in a `.flox` directory, so I could `echo * >> .flox/.gitignore` in any repo without changing the repo's gitignore.

- There seems to be no way to run `direnv` on an environment that's not the current working dir, see https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/67.

OTOH, `flox` was a bit harder to install in an existing nix setup and requires trusting their cache, at least if I wanted to do a cached install. You can follow the instructions in https://flox.dev/docs/install-flox/#__tabbed_1_6, or you could add yourself to Nix's "trusted users" (which makes sense only if you're the only user on the computer using Nix). See also https://github.com/flox/flox/issues/1179.
yep! It is trivial if you are giving instructions to 230,000 employees. One dumb idea or sentence can waste the work of 1000s of man years. Same for one good idea.
The 1000 lines of code is open source, the $100,000,000 in electricity costs to train is not.
I would highly recommend a book that covers the business and motivations behind a lot of philanthropy: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take...

MrBeast is unfortunately just one part of this. And he's not even the worst offender sadly.
Yea, the poor innocent US government, who only /looks/ bad because of things Russia says on social media.

The CIA spikes the Kool-Aid, Americans engrossed in false neo liberal culture drink it readily.
So, like Musk with X.
It's not just the newer generations. I have multiple friends who are literally afraid of using ad blockers and sideloading apps on their Macs in fear of some imaginary boogeyman out to get them. And VPNs are exclusively the domain of criminals, apparently. There are a dominating amount of people who have turned into the caricature of the perfect CONSUMER. It is so frustrating.
Are you not seeing the progress in the articles? It went from a lab proof-of-concept to a working prototype producing in real life 5000 liters/day passively. That's impressive as hell.
I think one could claim that the editorial department was trying to make a decision that could/would be interpreted as a company stance, rather than a department stance, to the average person. Sure, you could blame the average person.

I also can’t comprehend the benefit of a biased editorial department, from a business or quality perspective. A diverse set of views is always more interesting to read, but I’m surely in the minority with that perspective. If someone could explain the benefit, I’m very interested.

I don’t see this is any different than the media black out that nearly all corporate employees enjoy, that exists for one reason: don’t make your opinions appear as those of the whole. Looking at the mixed responses to all of this, across the internet, that does seem to be the case, where people are confusing it all.
With games it seems like accessibility allowances would be dual-use, making it easier to cheat or make a bot.
Thank you for the full story here as I just gave the issue a cursory glance. As someone quite ingrained in Elixir, I see an issue referencing specific patch versions of Elixir and OTP and immediately understand it's very specifically targeting that specific Elixir/OTP combo. But depr brings up a good point that not everyone is immediately going to understand this, especially newcommers to the language and it’s generally hard not to just read the headline.
Do they currently have a merchant account, or are they relying entirely on third party services?
The original McDonald's menu had nine items. One was a milkshake.

This is never going to happen.
Not endorsing a presidential candidate is neutral in this context. Easy.
Remember when 10,000 papers endorsed Hillary?
Most of these cases don't involve any actual harm beyond hurt feelings, so that's largely a red herring.
I didn't see the OP campaigning, just stating fact. People vote against their personal interests when convinced to do so. I don't think that's a particularly controversial statement.
You're looking at this from the perspective of a haunted domain owner. And from that perspective your idea is fine.

A good technique to evaluate ideas though is to try and view it from different perspectives.

In this case from the owner of a non-haunted domain. Can you see any potential problem with your idea when viewed from that perspective?

Now, if there are potential problems, consider the relative sizes of the two groups. Do the benefits to one outweigh harm to the other?

This technique can be used every day with pretty much any idea.
Think about it this way: the company previously allowed employees to get credit card points for re-inbursable expenses. They didn't have to, they could have required all purchases be made with a company card or something. That is basically a perk/benefit. Then the company took that perk away, which is effectively a decrease in compensation.

I don't think an employee is entitled to credit card rewards as a basic right. But taking it away after employees have an expectation of having it is akin to taking away free lunches.
Good question. Uncovering some more things here, with a wider web.

Another tax-exempt org was established in 2021 (like the others), named NORTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER CORPS. This one, though, was established in Asheville, NC. Like the others, it was moved to the same P.O. Box in 2022. It was registered under the care of a different name. Its taxes were also filed by ChurchBiz.

Another entity registered at this address is AMA AL PROMIJO. This has a web presence like the other original sites[0]. It was also registered in 2021 and changed address in 2022 to the P.O. Box, but was registered in care of another different name. The fact that the website has the same feel as those others that branched off Small Town Truth is odd, though.

There is also a BORN BROWN INSTITUTE, which has some different presences on LinkedIn and such[1].

Now that this address appears associated with some different non-profits, I wonder if there’s some entity that acts as an agent for helping establishing non-profits operating out of this P.O. Box, hence the mix of entities I’m now bumping into.

Still. It’s an interesting web here I can’t quite make sense of. I’m also being a little circumspect here in order to not accidentally dox someone, but the research is fairly straightforward with the Exempt Organization Search site and some googling.

[0] https://www.ama-al-projimo.org/

[1] https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/6...
Not quite haunted but I've had people report that my website hosted on a .quest domain is blocked on their work computer. My best guess is that their filter thinks it's gaming related (it's not) or maybe they just block all "weird" domains.
Media companies that stitch sentences together to make an interview coherent might be misleading.
"Russian disinformation" is so overused, it started to loose most of the meaning. Russia gets attributed to anything politicians do not like. It's an old trick of shifting blame from internal failures to external enemies.

Remember the "Russian disinformation" about Hunter's laptop? And then people are surprised by the falling trust in government and mainstream media.

Russia/China/Iran/North Korea/etc. certainly try to play on potential weaknesses of the US, but, let's be honest, they are amateurs compared to the US actions across the globe. But the root issue is with existence and expansion of various weakness points, not with hostile actors pressing on them.
> "I have had personal experience trying (and failing) to drive down retail cost of electronics below this rule of thumb"

Didn't have to make such a statement because I paid attention to people who knew what they were doing. If someone had been this "insulting" with my attempt to beat Craigslist, OTOH, I'd have saved $1.4 million of my own money. I'm happy to be "insulted" by people with more experience.
3 slurs upon entry. "lol"
>What's wrong with corn?

it sucks as a cereal, nutritionally speaking, iirc, based on what I've read earlier. i could be wrong, but don't have time to check it now.

may check out millets and other alternative cereals instead of, or in addition to corn, wheat and rice.

some of them are nutritionally or agriculturally superior.
First puzzle I got had four equally good solutions, none of which violated any of those.
Its a general posture. Amazon is an industrial powerhouse and Trump has signaled that he can and will attack his political opponents no matter how rich they are. If he wants to, Trump may actually nationalize Amazon; the alternative is presumably becoming his toady.
> People are destructive to the planet in every way possible,

Are we already on track to cause our planet to no longer be a planet?

> It's not as if we'll solve the mysteries of existence twice as fast by having twice as many people

Imagine if the people at ASML (or your favorite other one-of-a-kind cutting edge place) had twice as many hours in their days. Or alternatively, if there were twice as many of them. Shouldn't that make them able to do more cool things?
In 6 more days there's be a fresh copy, but the "Who Wants to Be Hired (Oct, 2024)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709299 is likely the best way to advertise that you want a new role

Its counterpart "Who is Hiring (Oct)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709301 is likely to be more helpful since it doesn't require a bunch of hiring managers to read anything but responses

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring (I wish they had an RSS feed, but here we are)
Why would it put it to bed? It’s worth people knowing that the media leans over 90% left from all the stats that exist.
Usually the worst that happens for services in foreign countries is that they get blocked, and wikipedia will survive not being accessible in India.
Can you give a summary of what is it about?
I'll take "What are loitering munitions?" for $100, Alex
Kamala Harris currently has a popular vote advantage on the order of 51-49, but in the American system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg...) effectively only the "swing states" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_state) matter.

One of the best respected analysts in the business, Nate Silver, currently has Trump at a 53% probability of winning (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/), in a system designed to magnify the effect of small changes near the halfway point (historically, getting about 65% of the popular vote would net you a landslide worth approximately every seat in legislature - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/11/bidens-vi...). Silver's model can pick Trump as a slight favourite despite being behind in the popular vote, again because of the nature of the system. In particular, each state gets an extra constant two votes on top of the ones apportioned by population, favouring rural areas which currently prefer the Republican party.

The same analyst, BTW, gave Trump a ~30% chance of winning, shortly before the election, in 2016 (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/). This was notably higher than the probability ascribed by pretty much anyone else with any authority or respect in the matter.
the term "open source" means that all of the materials that were used to create a distribution are available to inspect and modify.

anything else is closed source. it's as simple as that.
Walk should rebrand as ‘Darkness’
Thanks for sharing. I have indeed had long slow injections and seemingly every other way to deliver local anesthetic. It hurts but that'd be fine if it worked. Doesn't work at all with me. I feel like I'm being drilled, electrocuted, and whacked with a baseball bat at the same time.
With that weirdos fake ass forced smile- I imagine in years to come there will be many more articles like this one about this boring androids dark side.
“Left wing publications caused right wing movements to be popular” is such a lazy trope and terrible “anti-anti-Trump” argument.

Thinking that newspapers should stay out of publishing opinions about political parties is basically the most authoritarian position you can take.
If you mean to gather data points, no. Never even looked at the job postings on HN.

If you mean to fish for a job, try posting in the relevant weekly thread.
Thanks. I'll check out the YC page.
> The US is helping Ukraine defend itself.

True.

> We are not fighting a war against Russia.

We are fighting (and assisting others fighting) a multifront, miltitheater war against an axis consisting, most notably, of Russia, Iran, and North Korea and various of their proxies.
I think we're learning these stories are more common than dentists want us to know.
Also: Codeium.
> His $750-million company got that way entirely by exploiting people’s misery for views and profit

Uh, what? The guy runs big elaborate game shows. The contestants are thrilled for the chance to compete to win money. How could you spin that as exploiting people's misery?
Politics is simply preference. The shape of the earth is not.
Look these guys have become millionaires and billionaires. That money represents other people's labour. That they command the lifetime output of hundreds or thousands of people's work* alone suggests we should examine how they have come to their positions and what they do with it. That is why they peddle philanthropic PR, which in turn necessitates that we examine their philanthropy.

* https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education... shows the average lifetime earning of an american is between 1/2 and 3 million dollars depending on sex and education level.
> The entire Linux kernel builds in two hours on one modest machine.

I think it is better to compare with something really big and fast evolving, e.g. Chromium. It will take a day to compile it. (~80000 seconds vs. ~8 seconds for a convenient/old Pascal program.)
They don’t have a US trademark on “open source”. Their trademarks are on “open source initiative” and “open source initiative approved license”.
Ai is as good as its training data and there’s vast sql documentation and source code that has been ingested by the AI engines.
Show HN: TLDR Academy – Transform any YouTube playlist into study materials
All -

Wanted to share this cool new feature to http://you-tldr.com: TLDR Academy!

We're expanding our focus to help students who use you-tldr for lecture insights. With our new feature, you can simply paste a playlist URL and you-tldr will:

Scrape all videos in the lecture series
Generate transcripts
Create comprehensive summaries
Extract key takeaways
Provide practice questions based on the lecture content

It's still in early stages, but I'm excited about this feature and looking forward to developing it further!
Every choice of coverage is an opinion about what is important, and shapes the tone of coverage as surely as an editorial. This is actually a very common critique of the News Media, which loves to aggrandize itself by saying that it is neutral.

At least editorials are honest about the views of the institution.
Elon Musk's talks with Putin ramped up during his Twitter takeover
The Washington Post, of all papers, knows the answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
> The guy you replied to is 100% correct.

I don't disagree, my issue is with things like

> We also need to stop giving these so-called unsuspecting and unwitting Americans the benefit of the doubt. At some point they need to educate themselves and stop falling for this crap.

This is divisive and unhelpful, even if the underlying phenomenon ("some people are gullible") is true.
No, they get pissed because the supplements can actually heal illnesses and support better health, which means they wouldn't be able to push drugs on me.

Psychiatrist's parting shot was, "they're all bio-active!"

Micronutrients are no fad, because guess what, they used to come in our fruits, vegetables, and meats.
The fact they pulled it means I will no longer be donating. I can’t support orgs that won’t go the distance to protect a free and open internet when that’s what they argue for.
> One of the best respected analysts in the business, Nate Silver, currently has Trump at a 53% probability of winning (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/)

You mean G. Elliot Morris; Nate Silver has nothing to do with fivethirtyeight any more (since he and Disney broke up, he now has his own private subscription publication—Silver Bulletin—which also does forecasting and which has much better odds for Trump from what I understand, but I can't give you details because its paywalled and I’m not paying him; aside from that gig, he’s also employed by Polymarket, now.)
It's a basic correlation attack. As follows:

- Find the "bad guy" server onion address "hidden service"

- Run a tor relay. Ideally many. No exit node shenanigans needed - hidden service, not exiting TOR. This is quite nice from a legalistic perspective since you're not on the hook for hacks coming off the exit node.

- Run a bunch of clients. Instruct to connect to "bad guy" onion.

- Gather data over time for correlation attacks. Correlate your client to relay to endpoint server.

- At some point, you'll find one of your relays is the guy connecting directly to said hidden service.

Very simple lesson here. One needs to encrypt the information, yes, but failing to consider packet timing as "information" is the fallacy.
I am monolingual but here is Le Monde's English edition endorsing an anti-RN (far right party) plan in the recent French Parliamentary elections:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/06/28/french-...

It was done under the name of the Director of Le Monde, rather than as an unsigned editorial as is common in English language newspapers, but it sure looks similar to my American eyes.
Something people may not realize is that the fish that swim upstream to spawn and then die become food for more than just fat bears.

The carcasses also fertilize the land surrounding the river. The trees take up the fertilizer and are more successful than they would otherwise be[0]

This is a virtuous cycle as the trees provide shade to the salmon eggs and the tree parts that fall into the river provide habitat for insects that the young fish eat[1].

0:https://www.nature.com/articles/news011004-4
1: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view...
Just another UFA.
Tesla headquarters spills gallons of lime-green liquid into Bay Area street
Is there anything stopping a franchise from putting 2? I think it can’t be required because they have to meet some sort of smallest viable footprint.
This should also redact any non-dictionary words. Just_typing_like_this_to_make_a_really_long_unique_"word"_is_silly.
It is possible for everyone to share the blame: Agitators for unleashing the disinformation, companies for amplifying it, and recipients for falling for it over and over.
The odds are like 95%-5% against them, nothing will save them at this point.
Go look at videos from the 70s before we began ingesting chemicals and tons of calories. Everyone is half the size with 99% less body fat.
The guy in the picture is obviously obese. Losing weight through diet and exercise will do much more for his longevity and quality of life than any pill.
Because the competitions are, at least in part, about putting human misery on display for entertainment?
Pretty sure most corn is grown for animal feed. We could help by eating less - or no - meat.
I am (or was, at this point) a cryptographer.

Throwing random cryptography buzzwords at a problem does not magically create a secure solution.

Even if you had a genie to give you all of this, you’d absolutely want to include and build upon the work Apple is doing here.
Mesh networks are a nice idea in theory but none of them have succeeded at scale. There are some serious unresolved technical problems with discovery and routing. And even if those are solved, how do you incentivize enough people to participate in order to maintain adequate coverage?
The effect size is actually pretty similar from what I’ve seen. Both are huge. Tech workers are cross pressured in that they are mostly male and mostly college educated.
Owner of the Los Angeles Times Blocked the Paper from Endorsing Kamala Harris
If the choice is between revealing editors and exiting India altogether, doesn't seem like a hard choice. The people in India will suffer without Wikipedia, but most have VPNs to access blocked sites anyways.
Nvidia dethrones Apple as the most valuable company
Yeah, change the world for the worse.
If you're capturing on a mobile device, why not use Scaniverse? It's about as all-in-one as it gets - you just scan and it'll generate a .ply after a minute or two of processing. They'll host the splat for you in the cloud if you want too.
Let’s put it this way: I would consider myself eligible to be irked by ads on Read the Docs pages if I paid whoever maintains the project.

If they bother you enough, absolutely no one’s going to frown if you estimate how much they would be making on ads from traffic volume yearly, email the maintainer and suggest to pay that in return for turning off the ads for a year.

(Some people might frown if you just block the ads, since after all it is robbing a fellow open-source dev of some income.)

There are two points I am curious about:

— I would like to know if RTD forces the ads. Considering they have a business tier, it would be funny if they had to finance OSS project hosting from ads.

— EthicalAds started as an ad platform for developers, but apparently is now an “AI ad network”. I wonder if Python OSS project owners know about the 180 degree turn that’s happening there…
Newspapers should do whatever they want. The 1st amendment is kind of a big deal.