skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is an epic false equivalence that tries to suggest

> everyone has an equal impact and an equal voice.

The message "improve yourself before improving others" is really such a controversial thought? Winning hearts and minds is really the most effective method for making large impactful social changes.

Idealistically, equality across the board. But various social dynamics mean that yes, some people do have more social influence than others. But I'm not entirely sure what your point is here...

> People who are good asking people who are bad to stop what

> they're doing is quite reasonable, especially on an

> objectively measurable topic like the environmental impact

> of mining.

I think where this generally breaks down is that Autodesk is not "good" or "bad", it should be (and is acting like) a neutral body. The people within it are political, the activist is political, you're political, I'm political, but Autodesk itself is not. We shouldn't want companies to become political, the company's best interests (generally to maximize profit) does not align with those of the average person.

As political entities we can influence politics, where regulation could prevent mining that destroys the environment. In terms of efficiency, rather than convincing * every * commercial 3D tool to drop support for them and then somehow stop them using open source tools or developing their own, this method seems better. It also allows for an open discussion in the public sphere, rather than bypassing the democratic process.

> Honestly, the suggestion that software shouldn't be

> treated as a political issue is something I never thought

> I'd see being argued in a relatively intelligent and

> enlightened community like HN.

Now you have. I do like the way that an argument that opposes your own must be unintelligent and unenlightened. I remember a time when diversity of opinion was celebrated.

> Software runs the world. It's obviously political.

I'll remember to ask my smart-bulb what it thinks of Trump (/s). It's not obvious at all that software (or the company selling it) is political. I think there are very good arguments for companies not to be political.

> From governments embargo'ing the sale of strong encryption

The politicians obviously act politically.

> to companies EULA'ing their products to stop them from

> being used to design nuclear weapons how could you

> possibly imagine software as "just a tool"?

Companies acting in such a way might be acting politically, or they might have a special version that they sell specifically at a higher price. Companies can act politically, but out of all the licenses I read, very few have a political position on nuclear weapons.

The question is, do you really want every company to take a political stance on everything? Say for example you are an environmental activist, do you want banks to take a political stance supporting oil companies (which they do), and therefore ban you from using their services?

The truth is, what you actually want is companies (software or not) to be political when it aligns with your interests. When it doesn't, then what?
India :)
Less often than meetings start and end on time.
It seems that with experience, you sometimes just understood that something's theoretically possible, and lose interest at that point. At least, that's how I try to rationalize my laziness.
There is a very wide range of openings and talent out there. And of course you're aware that one uses different tools for different needs right? There's plenty of room for those who aren't so ace like you to land that AWS gig in six hours.
Cool idea but the web site seems to have problems, primarily that it shows only one result out of many, with seemingly no way to scroll through the rest.
What's a floppy? /s
Pseudocode, perhaps?
damn, the amount of time that must have taken, the landing gear and the wing ribs are insane
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson is dead. Independence is not.

If you want to take down a statue of a Jefferson, go take down a statue of Jefferson Davis. If you can find one.
What the f*ck is wrong with these people, this is so transparent. First they didn't want the "bad" immigrants coming, or the illegal immigrants, but now they don't want the students in higher education that are studying in the USA to be here either?!?!?! As if it's the students fault that the school they attend is forcing them to do online classes temporarily.

I'd imagine a good bit of these students have pretty extensive lives and plans in the US since they're here LEGALLY.
"Hold my America," said the beer.
> However, DuckDuckGo may not be the most relevant comparison to Neeva. The new search engine is planned to be a second-tier provider, with public results sourced from Bing, Weather.com, Intrinio, and Apple.

DDG is also a second-tier provider that is sourcing its results from Bing.

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

Source: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
You pay a larger percentage of income tax your entire life for this "free" benefit. You could argue the costs and outcomes are better, but it's not free.
In addition Harvard is a private institution and not a government school.
Yeah, and I’d rather not fly on a DC10.

Nuclear reactor technology has come a long way since the 60s. It’s much safer. Fukushima had multiple reactors, it was only the oldest that had any problems, the rest were fine.
So you agree there's a lot more than classes, but think that the claim that classes can be held means that schools should just stay in regular mode.

I don't disagree with you about the cash flow. My disagreement is with ICE telling students they cannot remain here just because schools went online-only.
For those wondering, it is talking about the movie, not the book. For those that are confused about this comment, the book and movie are very different stories though the movie takes place in essentially the same universe. The director, Verhoeven, claimed "the book was too boring to finish." The movie has a lot of Nazi symbolism.

As a sci-fi enthusiast I love the book. As a lover of bad movies, I love the movie. I recommend both, but for completely different reasons.

Edit: If you're leaving a downvote care to explain? Do you want me to cite that Verhoeven didn't finish the book? (which is in the article here!) That the book and movie aren't different? Or what? I'm very confused. I'm just trying to say that the article is talking about the movie and not the book.
> To describe the implementation in a way which is less precise, but simpler, shorter, and easier for the reader to understand.

I'm waiting for the textbook that offers formulae with code and a but of regression data.
There’s sometimes a trade-off between privacy and utility and Apple are very good at making tough decisions on users’ behalf. Not perfect, but very good. Clipboard “snooping” could be anywhere between enthusiastic developers providing utility to ZOMG THE DEEP STATE IS SPYING ON ME, and the original article is a bit breathless and eager to stick it to Apple. There are a limited number of Access All Areas passes doled out by iOS and that number is shrinking.
Sounds like a reasonable plan.
This is one of the things I love about the area I moved to.

There's a train station nearby, but there was a lot of open area as well. We are also in an opportunity zone. Within the last couple years, construction has started for over 1000 housing units on all greenfield sites (except one of the 200+ unit complexes which was on a single family lot).

I'm not sure if the term gentrification applies here, but I'm really hoping it turns into a nice little transit oriented development. Construction is still ongoing, so we'll see.

This is all within 4 miles of downtown Denver.

Edit: I'm aware this will likely create more demand for the area, and might cause some displacement, but seeing that development is taking place around a transit station, on green/brownfield sites, and nearby an urban core gives me some hope regarding city planning.
Building a Secure Signed JWT
I agree with GP on this.

Alternatives to <= that could be more Pythonic:

document.append(node)

node >> document

which parallel

# list append
list().append(item)

# print to stream in Python 2
print "example" >> sys.stderr
As you say:

> The appeal of a console is that it's an appliance - you can just plug the thing in, not worry about any of the technicals, and go play games with minimal fuss.

Also there was certainly a chasm in capability between the 386 and c64 but the games weren’t there and you would have had to spend a lot more. At that stage anyway we had Amiga which really wasn’t surpassed by PC architecture until maybe the late 90s
I'd be more interested on what the local population thinks about this.

AFAIK, most want to be under UK control.
Show HN: Npx No-Masters
`npx no-masters`

https://github.com/good-idea/no-masters

I spent my 4th of July putting together a one-line command that changes your default branch from `master` to `main`, and optionally:

- Deletes the local master branch
- Updates the origin's default branch to main
- Deletes the origin's master branch
- Updates your local git config to use main as the default branch when using git init

I know there is a lot of debate this topic. I'm obviously for making the change, and wanted to make it easy for others. I won't be in the comments to debate things. If you have any (constructive) feedback, open an issue in the Github tracker, or DM me on twitter @typeof_goodidea

https://twitter.com/typeof_goodidea
https://developer.apple.com/programs/universal/
Parent here: in Massachusetts, you just file a form with the school authorizing specific people to pick up your kid. Those people have to come in to the office and present their driver's license or similar. That's all the bureaucracy.
The budget cap was revised down after Covid hit (down to $145 million from $175 million), to stop the midfield from going broke, and Ross Brawn says they’re going to lower it further in the coming years [0].

You can’t figure out exactly what teams that’s going to hit, because publicly available finances don’t have enough detail. But it’s either going to bring spending more or less in line with Haas or Racing Point, who are both pretty close in terms of spending anyway. The reason McLaren (a relatively big spending team) are so publicly in favour of it is that they’ve had some pretty serious financial trouble going on recently.

[0]: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-news-f1-...
Read the info, there is an explanation of what's happening and why. Also, it's open source so you can suggest improvements.
There is a very interesting and creepy story about this called The Gig Economy [1]. Machines end up sending gig workers to do inane tasks, like photographing a certain building at a particular time, to take advantage of bizarre arbitrage opportunities too complicated for a human to notice. Eventually, everyone is just a peripheral of this enormous, inscrutable system skimming money off the real economy.

[1] https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...
Ironically, that dictatorship was set-up partly in thanks to the US.
I have a hard time taking an essay that discusses the philosophy of the movie starship trooper seriously when the book of the same name was so much better developed.

It's a bit like dunking on libertarian idiots on facebook, but refusing to engage with Richard Epstein[1]. Sure, it's a thing one can do, and it's good for laughs from time to time, but ultimately, engaging with a weaker version of an idea betrays a weakness in the interlocutor, not the subject.

___

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhqXIc5CEpU
Do you mean to say we in Western Europe are wearing masks and have it right?

Here, we are also struggling to get the message across that it needs to be worn.
Finding an old protocol that has been marked up by a former lab member is like finding the Half Blood Prince's potion book.
How to Create a Secure Password
If only. Sometimes they smooth or bin the data points and then post r2!
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE OK

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The article has:

> For trace failure, the probability of failure is linear in the size of the radiation dose that the chip is exposed to.

No it's not. Impossible. Wrong.

Does anyone not see why it's wrong?
I'm quite interested in what Nvidia is planning. Nvidia purchased Mellanox last year (they make high-end network gear often used in compute clusters). Nvidia is very involved in machine learning with their GPUs. The only missing part of puzzle is CPUs which was either Intel or AMD (a direct competitor). ARM changes things and means they're not dependant on those companies (and the x86 licensing clusterfcuk preventing newcomers), and they have some room to tailor it to fit their needs (like Amazon & Google recently).

These definitely are exciting times. Most Brits born in the 80's and 90's will have used Acorn computers in school, no one predicted that what would grow out of it (they weren't particularly fast).
I find functional code much shorter and cleaner, but also when you want to change something along a new axis you need to do a much bigger rewrite than with imperative/procedural/object-oriented code.

OO code: "here's a detailed and long-winded description of what happens that's hard to understand. Ignore 95% of it and change that 1 little detail and hope for the best"

Functional code: "here's a concise and easy to understand description of what happens, understand it fully, throw it away, and create a new, just as clear and concise description of what should happen from now on"
Logic. The visa is for people with a genuine need to be in the USA for education. Obviously online school is no such reason.

Regardless of how you feel about immigration, the education visa is not the way to permit non-educational immigration.
how does this compare to milvus?
You are correct that it breaks down into co2, but it is not part of the long term problem.

The CO2 from methane breakdown was sourced from the atmosphere in the first place. And it goes back into the atmosphere. It's part of the permanent surface-atmosphere CO2 cycle.

Atmospheric CO2 -> Grass -> Ruminant animal -> Methane -> Atmospheric CO2

Fossil fuels, OTOH, bring up CO2 from deep in the earth where it has been sequestered for eons.

If we ate less meat and turned the pasture into woodland, we could sequester quite a lot of CO2 on the order of 50 years or so. Longer if we buried the wood. And I'm not against that.

But it seems silly to me to focus on these minor hacks to surface cycles for temporary gains when the clear long-term problem is fossil fuel. We need to keep focusing on fossil fuel.
How can they even do this, they have a VISA they're attending the schools classes, how does ICE suddenly get to dictate that it must be in-person classes?

This is some seriously blatant nationalist shit to try to just get rid of foreigners, Like I said on a different post first it was they didn't want illegal immigrants, then they didn't want "bad" immigrants, supposedly the good immigrants were ok, but now suddenly college students that were forced into online only semesters are also not wanted?

Good schools should do something about this like have 99% online classes, with a "check-in class" that counts as in-person attendance, or something to protect these students.
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It's kind of off topic, but your description reminded me of the executioner's sword "Terminus Est" from the Book of the New Sun series. It had a liquid metal (mercury I think) core that would collect at the base when held upright, making it easy to hold. When it was swung, the liquid would flow to the tip, putting more weight at the point of contact.
>Again, a reasonable person might think the probability of those occurring is either (1) low enough to begin with or (2) not much decreased by the lockdown, that the negative effects of the lockdown outweigh it.

If you think your average anti-mask anti-lockdown American is making that kind of analysis then frankly I think you are disconnected from reality...

>Do you have any non-anecdotal discussion of (1) how common permanent disability from Covid is

Permanent disability is obviously impossible to prove at this point.

Perhaps the best microcosm we've had to learn from so far is the Diamond Princess cruise ship. The Japan Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital did an in depth study: "Of 104 cases, 76 (73%) were asymptomatic, 41 (54%) of which had lung opacities on CT. Other 28 (27%) cases were symptomatic, 22 (79%) of which had abnormal CT findings."

54% of asymptomatic cases had lung opacities, and 83% of those were ground glass opacity. That usually indicates pretty nasty lung damage. Symptomatic cases as expected showed more and worse damage.

Here's an analysis, what is the expected economic cost of achieving herd immunity? If you expect 60% infection rate to provide herd immunity thats 196 million cases in the US. Play with the numbers, 1-5% mortality rates, 50% of asymptomatic and 80% of symptomatic cases had some degree of lung damage. We're talking 500K - 1M+ deaths and tens of millions of people with lung damage. Have you actually factored that into your "The stonks must go up so lets sacrifice grandma" argument?

This is also a pointless exercise because virtually every major developed country on the planet has basically beaten this thing with... wait for it... LOCKDOWNS and MASKS. Crazy right?

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryct.2020200110
edit: plz ignore, misread (thanks bb611)

Anyone else think it's suspicious that they paid $3M for a plant to the cofounder's father?
Build Yourself a Linux
Members of the cultural vanguard have a disproportionate impact on our zeitgeist. They don’t deserve their status in the vanguard unless they’re willing to engage in synchronous discussion at near-zero marginal cost using the most human digital communication medium in history. They don’t even need to dawn VR headsets. They can log on in 2D or, in the future, use lightweight AR glasses (hence "VR-style" chat).
The March vs August numbers aren't very meaningful to me without January/February. March was definitely in the thick of it, stay-at-home wise.
> - it can be the same language as the backend, that's a huge advantage (no need to change context, you can more easily have the team for backend and frontend)

Having used TypeScript for both frontend and backend for several projects, I say this isn't as necessary as you might imagine.

The real context is whether you're coding for your frontend or your backend and that context will happen even if the languages are the same.

You can use same set of libraries but usually they don't really overlap either.
AMD blew up, too.
It is likely that your buffer size is too large. When starting jack, try for a buffer size of 256 or smaller and see if it works for you.

Ask this question at linuxmusicians.com and you will likely get some more helpful answers.
I’ve been thinking about prices that make this worth it. Amazon Fresh is free delivery over a certain amount with Prime. I’m sure I’m paying a bit more per item but it can’t be more than the time I’m saving by not browsing and avoiding impulse buys.

It seems like a win-win for me. Does anyone have a counter to that?
I bought a draft beer machine. Best investment ever!
The carousel here serves as a secondary accompaniment to the main article text though. The fact that most people won't look through the pictures is only a bug if you actively care that people look at them. For content that's included in more of a "some people might want to look through this" manner, the carousel feels natural.
One of the reasons people use social media is to get a feel for the generally environment of opinion, even if we disagree with it. We want to know what "people are saying" and understand the rapidly-changing boundaries of what is socially acceptable. That's why I follow people on Twitter and Facebook that I don't trust at all. I would not want to use a decentralized trust system to consign myself to an echo-chamber, even if it is full of believable truthful people.

But the system TimJRobinson describes is flexible: you don't have to simply filter out the less trustworthy posts. You could simply flag them somehow as low-trust.

Right now the major social sites are designed to amplify the voices of users that produce content that drives engagement, even though the most engaging content tends to be offensive or inaccurate. That's why the people I least trust on Facebook always show up on the top of my feed: I sometimes engage with them by telling them I think their posts are inaccurate.

So I can see your system being used not just as a filter for what the users sees in their feed, but as a feedback mechanism for people's posts.

I think a more responsible social site would optimize for positive outcomes, and not just engagement: employing algorithms and techniques to optimize for accuracy, quality, and civility. I think decentralized moderation could be one of those techniques.
I'd love to interview at your company :D
My first response is: Why not, I've been doing it for years.

My second thought is that that: uh-oh, you've got a culture problem, not a remote work problem.

Remote work changes certain work patterns. Innovation bull sessions often emerge from a pressing need, and you want to grab someone right awat]y. In an in-office environment, there are norms built up around use of IM, e-mail, invites, and dropping by someone's workspace. If you have a burning problem and knock on someone's door, it's hard to turn them away and focus on your own problem instead. With an IM, it's much easier to schedule them for later.

One of the more unnatural things in a remote environment is to have to actively accept getting randomized- if some IMs you, check it immediately. Or, god forbid, if someone calls you without IM'ing first (this is functionally equivalent to knocking on door, BTW). I've found once new to remote workers on my team accept that it's the team norm to get a little randomized by others then we get past some collaboration humps.

Since you didn't provide a lot of details, let's assume that I'm wrong and you can easily get your colleagues to spontaneously meet with you. It might be a tooling issue. I've gotten huge mileage out of just screensharing, but there are better ways to collaborate. If you are talking about code, then simultaneous edit tools like VS Live Share can really help. If you are diagraming, there are number of whiteboard like environments available for tablets (or you can get something like an MS Surface Hub for each employee, which is a bit expensive.) I've also had success with just throwing Visio on the screenshare.

Finally, some aspects of remote work are just changing perception of success. Remote bull sessions aren't as FUN as in person bull sessions, just as simulcasting a movie at home with friends or family just isn't the same as watching it in person. That doesn't change anything about the movie. Are you having problems with the solutions you are producing, or do they just FEEL less exciting?

Successfully managing work remotely often means being more formal about measurements or processes than we are in person- do you have evidence that you are solving problems at slower pace, or less effectively? If not, why do you feel innovation has decreased?