skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're quite upset. It doesn't help.

Ok, yes you're right : medical stuff never yields zero risk nor side effects, I should have been more nuanced. And yes, Zika infection probably doesn't cure GBM either. There. Happy?

Yet, there have been clinical trials where people have voluntarily been inoculated by a live zika virus shot to test if a Zika vaccine was working. So real doctors have done it before, and on people who were not going to die 6 months later.

See here:

https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/how-human-challen...

So you can blame me all you want for suggesting this CrAzY IdEa, but you should also be pissed at those doctors who actually did it in clinical trials.

From my point of view the situation is:

1. There is a non-zero probability that the Zika virus aggressively attacks GBM cells, as suggested by a whole bunch of medical literature.

2. Current treatments are not working well and do induce extremely debilitating side effects.

3. There have been clinical trials where people have been voluntarily infected with Zika.

It seems to me that the logical conclusion is that we could try and cure GBM patient by infecting them with a live Zika virus, exactly the same way as we did to test the Zika vaccine.

But instead doctors say we should follow a protocol that we know doesn't work and is very heavy in terms of side effects. And people just keep dying really fast, without trying anything new.

It just pisses me off.

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Re: my friend has cancer and not me. Is there anything I wrote that suggests I am forcing anything upon him? I haven't told him anything about the research I am looking into. You're just too angry for some reason...
You made this account just to comment on this post? I dislike Elon but that’s extra
Satellites Capture the Rise and Fall of a "Ghost" Island in the Caspian Sea
> Originally, people meant that you were inclusive and caring about all people. Except, you know, those hateful people on the right. Because fuck them. (I'm not even kidding. This is how they really felt, somehow.)

Surely you have evidence for this claim that would counter all the other evidence that disputes it?

Your definition doesn't even stand up to the first paragraph on Wikipedia

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
- https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/woke-meani...
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/06/06/what-doe...

If you're reading "stay woke" and understand it to me "fuck people we don't like" then I'm not sure what reading comprehension program to recommend.
As nobody else is actually using it all I get is spam got investment scams.
Fair! I never considered that covering one’s hair/head in the gurdwara might be difficult or uncomfortable for some people. If you ever want a meal, someone at the gurdwara might be able to load up a plate for you while you wait outside. This isn’t too different from people who take prasad/langar in their cars in Punjab (kind of like a langar drive through).
Three-Quarters of the Land Is Drying Out, "Redefining Life on Earth"
Not sure, but 100% of the white women in my house are married to one.
"Exceptional" Global Warming Spike Continued in 2024
I haven’t gotten too deep on this subject, but I’ve had a good experience with GitHub Codespaces on my iPad. Mostly just use it for quick updates on my site.
Cocaine is so passé. The tech oligarchs are all on ketamine these days.
What about the choice not to optimize for battery efficiency on my Mac?
Ditto, the only time I use Chrome is when some old portals in work require it. I've never had a crash in the past 8 years, but then again, I keep my tabs clean and have uBlock Origin.
Because it's more about trends than current rankings.
Cashless thing in sweden is whatever these days, what is still amazing compared to other countries is BankID. A universal auth, 2FA and digital signing system that any company can use for a very small fee.

You login to pretty much all government services and a lot of private ones using it. In Sweden if you have BankID you can:

- login to the national healthcare service (1177.se) and see your medical records and all drugs that have ever been prescribed to you (although it is not 100% coverage on all healthcare practitioners yet)

- Open a bank account in a lot (most?) banks in a couple of minutes online

- Login to the tax agency and do your tax declaration (which is usually just pressing "Send" for most people)

- Login to the state pension fund and move your pension from one pension provider to another. As well as login to any of the pension providers to allocate your pension on funds you chose

- Authorize credit card purchases (using 3-D Secure)

- Login to the Metro company to attach your metro card to your ID in case you lose it

- A bunch of other things

But yeah, if you don't have this BankID system (which requires a bank account and thus an ID-number/ID-card and thus residency in sweden) it is a nightmare. Affects everyone who moves into Sweden, it can take quite some time to have all the pre-requisites to get BankID.
Yes! That was it! Thanks! I looked for hours...
> CIC was to notify Lieutenant Commander Stanton if the Essex deviated more than 10 nautical miles (nm) from the planned track.

Pretty impressive! USS Essex would cover 10nm in about half an hour, so not much tolerance for going off-course.
> They just don’t think their daughter swimming against “boys” and then using the same locker room is progress.

Do you genuinely think you're presenting the "woke" side of the argument in good faith here?
Icecat it's far more free than Firefox.
As non practicing Hindu, you do know know that free food is available in most temples? Example Anna Prasadam in Tirumala serves 70k each day.
As long as you're not forced to use the cancer that is Android or iOS.. Then it's ok.. Otherwise that should be illegal.
Robin Hanson recently related the story of a firm which actually made data-driven decisions, back in the early 80's: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/hail-jeffrey-wernick

It went really well, and then nobody ever tried it again.
Had to check it out myself, and yes it's there on the www.deliveroo.co.uk website at £100.

Used to live very near this restaurant in Norwich, but now far away in Portugal.

However, funnily enough I just booked transport today to visit Norwich, for business & personal reasons, next week. Tempted to see if this is on the menu in the restaurant.

Agree with 'amenhotep' that this is a publicity stunt.
I just blog as personal tech notes to remember how to do something, or to share with coworkers. And I do reposts manually on Medium / Dev.to / X to attract more viewers. Medium actually pretty good with that.
I am saying that there is 30 second video with a headline, which shows nearly zero information about the events. And that if you take your reality from reddit headlines and 30 second videos, you will soon live an alternate reality, as this kind of messaging is very effective at making you believe things which are false.

If you think my post had anything to do with Kasha Aid (No idea and don't care what it is) or Sikhs, then I am afraid you did not read it properly.
I think the title would be more accurate to say “processed first signal in almost 40 years.” I was wondering what this thing was listening to that hadn’t transmitted in almost 40 years.
It’s a net negative over time if the square footage that was housing a tree is replaced with grassland or a neighborhood. You trade a one-time, one-tree-sized fixing event against all fixing by all future generations of trees on that spot.

The climate math of lumber works if you’re talking about “productive forests” where trees are allowed to grow to replace trees cut down. It doesn’t work for situations when a forest is cleared and not replaced, which is mostly what is happening where rainforest is being cleared.
It's not so much about space to build housing, which isn't much of an issue, but all the resources consumed by each human being, not least when they enjoy the living standards of a developed country. In any case, perhaps we'd also wish to keep wild areas wild [1] (that's also what protecting the environment means).

[1] https://iucn.org/news/commission-ecosystem-management/201806...
Even though I am Hindu by birth (but not at all religious, personally), I always admire Sikhs culture of service.

I want to post this video[1] because I think the HN crew will appreciate this.

When you feed people for free, more people show up. So instead of turning them away, what do you do? You use machines and efficiency to feed MORE people.

It is absolutely amazing.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWWe2U41N8

When I think about how our schools (in America) mostly feed kids processed frozen sad looking food, I think about videos like this.

Where there's a will, there's a way... to feed kids and others fresh food with real ingredients with the help of automation.
It is an interesting point and I do wonder how much harder it makes money laundering?
AI Assistent with file- and shell access
Snyk Research Labs regularly contributes back to the community with testing and research of common software packages. This particular research into Cursor was not intended to be malicious and included Snyk Research Labs and the contact information of the researcher. We were very specifically looking at dependency confusion in some VS Code extensions. The packages would not be installed directly by a developer.

Snyk does follow a responsible disclosure policy and while no one picked this package up, had anyone done so, we would have immediately followed up with them.
Google still has close to 90% market share with DDG being a little more than a half percent.

https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/wo...

Edit:Wrong year - that was 2020 this is 2024

https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/wo...
It is a problem because most of the internal kernel APIs are GPL-only, which limit the abilities of the ZFS module. It is a common source of argument between the Linux guys and the ZFS on Linux guys.

The reason for this is not just to piss off non-GPL module developers. GPL-only internal APIs are subject to change without notice, even more so than the rest of the kernel. And because the licence may not allow the Linux kernel developers to make the necessary changes to the module when it happens, there is a good chance it breaks without warning.

And even with that, all internal APIs may change, it is just a bit less likely than for the GPL-only ones, and because ZFS on Linux is a separate module, there is no guarantee for it to not break with successive Linux versions, in fact, it is more like a guarantee that it will break.

Linux is proudly monolithic, and as constantly evolving a monolithic kernel, developers need to have control over the entire project. It is also community-driven. Combined, you need rules to have the community work together, or everything will break down, and that's what the GPL is for.
What happens inside a dating app
Problem for Android users like me is Chrome is the default on mobile, so all passwords bookmarks etc are there. Of course we can install Firefox but I find Chrome better on mobile. Just couldn't get used to FF on Android.

Moving to laptop it then makes sense to continue using it instead of installing Firefox over and above Edge anyway there plus Chrome.

So it gets crowded out.
Sites down, but do ants have standups every day just to tell the team what they are doing? Are they forced to attend scrum ceremonies? Do they have a scrum master insisting they set an arbitrary "sprint goal" every two weeks that everyone, including the scrum master, is going to forget about but management will frown at when they realize we didn't work towards? Oh, I'd love to be able to produce like an ant.
I live in Switzerland and use cash on a weekly basis. I typically pay by card when grocery shopping at a supermarket, and cash for everything/everywhere else.

I know a couple of people who live cash-only (they are normal people btw, not anti-surveillance militants or anything like that).

The ability to transfer money anonymously and independently of any third party system (even electricity or internet provider!) is extremely valuable imo and I foster the system by using it enough to help keep it alive.
Today the few file sharing networks left are full of high quality sound, well organized and take less than a minute per song.

I didn't know until recently either, but that literally got way better.
Exactly, jaywalking is also a made up crime that benefits some (car users) at the expense of everyone else. Just like copyright it is a bad deal for society and should be ignored whenever possible. Reclaim pedestrian spaces AND reclaim your culture!
Surmountable, yes, but in practice it is often just too much hassle. If you are doing tons of these tests you can probably afford to invest in the infrastructure for this, but otherwise AB is just so much easier to deploy that it does not really matter to you that you will have a slightly ineffective algo out there for a few days. The interpretation of the results is also easier as you don't have to worry about time sensitivity of the collected data.
Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn't get more awful? They've gone villain mode
With Fast User Switching on macOS it's pretty convenient too. The difficulty is remembering to switch user when changing contexts. I tried to set a different wallpaper/icon for each user to make it more obvious which user I'm on, but macOS just resets them all to be the same.
Aha, makes sense. Thanks for explaining. I see that Forgejo was created at least partially due to concerns that Gitea was trending towards freemium as well. Good to know.
I only see cash being used more often in the suburbs of Stockholm, actually now that I think of it's quite common to see someone handing even coins to the cashiers in Norsborg, Alby, Masmo, Vårby, and some other distant suburbs.
Confronting the Risks of Mirror Life
Who cares? Why are you responding with irrelevant trivia about yourself? I am sure you absolutely know that not 40% of your community is made up of white women and that obviously is the people unloading aren't all Sikhs.

By the way, these responses are exactly what OP was talking about.
Hell no, not even close. You are suggesting using an even more public ledger to do things that ostensibly you NEED cash for.

There is little space for PUBLIC and AUDITABLE ledgers of any kind when discussing private payment.
But it might change what we view as a legitimate mitigation strategy.

For example, could we burn oil at 2024's rates with 1900's forests and not have net-positive CO2 levels? Back of the napkin:

- We're producing ~37 gigatons of CO2 (GtCO2) through burning of fossil fuels at the moment [0]

- The current forestation level is ~4 billion hectares [1]

- The net loss of forestation is ~1 billion hectares since 1900, with deforestation rates peaking starting ~100 years ago. [1]

- 1 petagram == 1 Gt

- Current forests consume 157 Gt/yr [article]

Therefore, the billion hectares we cut down in the past century would consume an additional 157 * 0.25 == 39.25 GtCO2/yr if it were still standing, 2 Gt more than our historical maximum global net output.

Obviously, the burning of fossil fuels is ultimate source of the increase in CO2, but without the deforestation it would still (back of the napkin) be sustainable. At least, we'd not be quite so far down this road.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation
Recently I preventively migrated from Vivaldi, and Firefox lacked:

Gestures, "search with" context menu, "add active tab" in a bookmarks bar folder, autorenaming downloads, custom keybindings, tab squeezing (it keeps them wide and shows scroll buttons), last tab standing, proper double-click-drag selection and text editing in general. Probably a dozen more things that I cannot remember now. Also "sync" just doesn't work, something went wrong, try again.

For gestures I used Gesturefy - isn't a mess and has "rocker". For "search with" I just had to write my own extension with hardcoded searches. I'm autorenaming through AHK - external tool, non-general use case. Tab squeezing and last tab solved through about:config.

"Add active tab", custom keys, text editing still unsolved.

In general I'm sort of satisfied with the results, but it took quite a while to migrate. Firefox is sort of extensible but not hacker-ish. Extension store is not generic-developer-hacker spirited either. FF is almost as dumb as Chrome, with a few settings that can make it better if you know where to look and have time for that.
Yeah but we’re not in a simple web. Safari isn’t trying to make it simple for you, they just use it to keep you in their walled garden.

PWAs are a great example of this. The general idea was even a product of the Jobs era of Apple, before the App Store.

Safari and iOS’s poor support of PWAs is exactly a result of Apple wanting to prevent app distribution channels other than their App Store.

Choosing safari is choosing a more closed web, where missing standards means that you, as a safari user, are unable to access certain features or apps that Apple doesn’t want you to access.
Scandinavia isn't doing much to bring down housing costs, or cost of living in general. So I'm skeptical that their policies are really that great. Some of the countries like Sweden have allowed in large numbers of immigrants, many of which ended up working in elder care facilities. While that might be a positive in some ways it also drives up housing prices.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2013.756686
Give o1 ten times more context to get value from it
So Apple shouldn’t make things more customizable?
The replies here seem to give away the change that has brought about the ruining of the web. I have a blog, if I have to do a bunch of research to figure something out, I will write it up and date it and put it on the blog. I may use it as my notes research later, if someone else finds it useful... added bonus... That is much the way the original web used to work, and search engines just helped you find that. They no longer help you find helpful people, only SEO optimized, or ad supported content. If you want to build a following, then you are part of the new web, if you want to contribute to a searchable index of knowledge freely, then you are part of the old... IMHO...
I'd been using Firefox for my work device for years but I only discovered containers and how awesome they are. My company was acquired and we still use microsoft accounts for different purposes. Jira works with this account, but sharepoint works with that account. Can't be logged in with the same azure account at the same time, but with containers, I can. It's great.
Man, I have memories of helping serve in a inner city "missions" as part of my (evangelical Xian) church youth group and with my parents once as well and in all instances there were so many strings attached -- at the time I didn't see anything wrong with it but the older I got the more it disturbed and upset me and led (in part) in the long run to my atheism.

Was only later that I realized that at its onset Christian theology was novel among ancient religious systems in that it is not content with getting you to do deeds and rituals and be part of a religious community .. that's not enough. It requires complete psychological conversion ("ye must be born again") and subservience to the belief system, and also to get other people to do the same. And the "here's some food but what you really need is Jesus" thing goes along with that and really rubs me the wrong way.

TLDR I respect faith communities that serve only for the sake of serving. I never saw that in mine.
> Ok, I'll bite. What is having empathy for the homeless?

Let's start by changing how we think about housing and shelter from an investment to basic rights.

Or maybe stop criminalizing being poor.

> Is allowing unconstrained immigration to increase competition for entry-level positions empathy?

That's not a thing.

>What about restrictions on construction that make housing completely unaffordable?

Which ones? Some like quality and safety standards add cost short term but save long term.

However SFH rules hurt density, and cause grater strain on infrastructure and resources, while also driving up costs.

> Is leaving the drug-addicted portion of the homeless out on the street to battle their addictions on their own empathy[1]?

Medical safe injection sites could be part of the solution. But this requires thinking beyond "drugs are bad mkay"

Investing in diversion and rehab is another good use of resources.

> Saying nice words (not having disdain) is not the same thing as helping someone.

But if you can't even say nice words, your brain is so broken that you look at the unhoused with fear or contempt, how will you ever support investment in those same people?
After coming back to coding after ~10-15 years away, databases are IMHO the most improved element of the dev/devops experience.

Managed Postgres on Google Cloud is a fantastic product (I'm sure other cloud's offerings are also similarly good). Backups, replication, point-in-time recovery, managed updates, plus quick & easy system & query insight tooling. All for less than £1/day.
I don’t think this conflicts with what I’ve said. I’m not claiming Unit 8200 is moral or absolved; I’m saying only that you will run into a lot of 8200 veterans if you interact with any Israeli startup, since it’s a massive unit. Assuming that those people don’t have opinions of their own is likely incorrect, as this letter demonstrates.
The New Canon Wars
sibling, we are on _hacker_ news. if a single command is too much to ask for, i don't know what to think.

ever installed Linux? takes exponentially more knowledge than this windows-local-only workaround.

i'm sure that management is aware of this feature, as it exists for years now and can be trivially found, it's not like this is hidden somewhere in a vault, you know. Same as MAS.

i'm not even a defender of Windows and only use it at home because i game, but if i see that someone has never installed a windows just because they don't want to give M$ their e-mail address (hope they don't have a github or linkedin account, but, you know...), then i want to give them the hint they need :) i use them same functionality to install windows for my parents etc., as they want to have local-only accounts as well. even without this weird work-around, i would still be the one installing windows. OS installation is not hard, but already too difficult or confusing for lots of endusers.

not sure why you chose to reply in such a snarky tone :(
OTC is such a nostalgia name for many in Aus. The dish is here if you want a look: https://www.google.com/maps/place/OTC+Tracking+Station/@-24....

It also reminded me that they released one of the first comprehensive open source C++ libraries way back It originally predated templates and Boost so I'd be very surprised if anyone uses it anymore.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ose/

http://www.pennelynn.com/Documents/CUJ/HTML/14.04/PATAPIS/PA...
Sometimes a clean install isn't even needed. I moved my ~/.mozilla directory across all my main PC installs (and different flavors such as Palemoon and Waterfox) for years and all I had to do was cleaning the cache and every now and then the years long history which can really slow down the browser at each startup (note: system disk on SSD, home on mechanical HD, so YMMV).
Befriend someone in the customer support function ASAP. Ask to see their notes, in particular notes they share with other customer support people.

I once got shown a customer support tips shared spreadsheet that was more valuable documentation than anything else in the entire company.
From: no-reply@ and simlar fake senders should just result in immediate rejection of the mail at submission time.

Tempted to set that up on my server.
> I don't blame Musk for having promised full self driving 10 years ago, but after a decade, we all should know better.

I do. We knew better 10 years ago. Elon simply lies continually. That's probably why he and Trump get along so well.