skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone could mockup a modern card-style design for excel incorporating the above, I think people will really get the inefficency of web sites today.
On the personal level, that's the same with startup life, programming, gaming, veganism, cars, PC/Alt-right, environmentalism, body building, nerdery, sex, drink, sports, the stock market, politics, religion, and tons of other things besides, all the way to D&D.

But that doesn't mean psychedelics are especially prone to that.
>is going to be open to the public without any safety driver in the front seat...

Yeah; it will be a remote pilot instead. Nobody talks about this[0]. Nobody but the guy Cowen stole the idea for the great stagnation from (aka me)[1].

>The NYT reports that a compact nuclear fusion reactor is “Very Likely to Work”

I wonder how often the NYT has reported that in the past? Either way: it is almost certainly a false statement.

Citing "impossible burger" as progress is pretty typical of modern technology fans. I am pretty sure we had dystopian soyburgers 10, 20, even 50 years ago. The main difference is we have a larger population of ninnies who will eat them to prove their superior environmental awareness.

mRNA vaccines; for Moderna anyway, it's really hard to square their executives dumping stock back in June with a successful vaccine that won't kill you[2].

[0]https://patents.google.com/patent/US9465388B1/en -I attempted to patent this in 2015, as it was obvious they were mechanical turking it.

[1] https://www.takimag.com/article/the_myth_of_technological_pr...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2020/09/04/why-are-m...
Just out of curiosity, are there any studies on the demographics of FLOSS support? I'm quite curious - with no specific goal in mind - about where the most ardent supporters are, in what fields they work, at what age, and so on.
I don't think I agree with you. Systems have been evolving, some are being deprecated, rewritten, etc. It might be true that the OSS world has been catching up so it is worth less to have a custom made solution. But the fact that systems are aging does not mean that those systems are becoming irrelevant.
Ah, ok. Yes, that does make sense. If you really need the IO bandwidth they were... less good.
Thanks for the recommendation. Watching it now. I like how he takes a top-down approach to writing.
> code search in combination with a monorepo and the somewhat hermetic universe which is Google's code base provides immediate access to all uses of a library. You can see what worked well and what didn't, and it enables effective refactorings. That also means when writing a client, you can quickly figure out from other client code how stuff is supposed to be used.
... If anything like this were possible for open source (indexing code that depends on a library/API, across subrepos in any version control system, in a way that gets near complete coverage), it would enable similar possibilities of systematic improvement.

gets me thinking — this is totally doable for open source code. someone just needs to build some giant indexes across git repos + package repos (maven/npm/pip/etc)...

Then write plugins for VScode/intellij, and when developing you can right-click a symbol and “Find uses in open source code”

Does something like this already exist?
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But Pele played at a time where football was not as polished as today. That also includes Maradona. Messi, Ronaldo are much much better football players than them both. But of course with the strong competition today it is a lot harder to accomplish what Pele and Maradona did.

Football is a team game, and that is a lot more true today than three, four decades ago.
> hCaptcha is making cloudflare money by earning them Human Tokens on the Ethereum blockchain

> Most people do the convenience from Google CAPTCHA, although they sell some kind of info, but they won’t hurt you

I can't even...this is the Cloudflare forum wow.

I've personally had a few hiccups with hCaptcha quite some time back as I "wasn't sure what I was looking for" and consistently fail on VPNs. But in recent months these there's definitely been substantial improvement , and needless to say I hope to see hCaptcha be the majority provider
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Do you not believe that feelings come from thoughts and that your thoughts are not your own? Or do you believe in a more connected and behaviour based approach?
I had a 1997 Micra about a decade ago, lost the key. Had someone come out, they could get in easily enough, but couldn't get it started without the original key. Had to go to dealer to get one programmed.

That seems to me to be far more secure than a modern tesla.

There's far less chance of leaving your key in the car if you have to press the lock button on the fob after you get out -- done that on hire cars before. The key is always in the same place.

Conversely you can leave the key in the ignition if you're popping into the store to pay for the gas and leaving your passengers in the car. I had a keyless fob on another hire car in my pocket, alarm went off when I went into the store.

I don't get the appeal of keyless.
Thanks, indeed, the correct link is https://geti2p.net.
For me, logs processing system and Dremel were probably the most marvelous tools that I've ever seen in my SWE career. Millions of machines are producing trillions of logs records everyday. Then Dremel runs some arbitrary query over those records in an order of minutes (seconds for simple queries), without indexing.
True, but blocking them stimulates them to stop renting them out to such services.
> The GC just wasn't that good yet.

Also last-minute loading and verification of classes. Interpretation overhead and JIT compilation wouldn't help either, especially on a single-core machine. Many aspects of Java make more sense for servers than for desktop UIs. (This might finally be changing, with recent progress on ahead-of-time compilation of Java without requiring an obscure proprietary JVM.)
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Wondering if I'm the only one :)
Is the "Minister for women" a charge common in other countries too? It's the first time I've heard of it and, quite honestly, it sounds pretty weird (albeit I undertand why it's there).

I guess some push is needed for this kind of change, as the system is somehow natually fit for status quo.

In a perfect world, gender in these matters wouldn't even be part of the discussion at all. These are intellectual, not physical demanding jobs, so the only discriminination should be for one's preparations and ideas anyway.
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I’m surprised the account got banned only after he had brought it to their attention.
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Employee rights !== medical regulations

E.g. truckers still get screwed a dozen ways to Sunday before end of Monday every week, but they get their urine tested regularly and get a good nights sleep.
This is the central statement of our organization. Thank you for pointing it out. I have now made our organization as the originator of this statement clear.
I dunno about that.

The iPad, and iPhone for that matter, are already available in a variety of sizes, another hardware configuration doesn't seem implausible.

And did you see that video from that person who put the headphone jack back in?

Edit to add reference: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/7/16267418/sc...
I acknowledge you're playing devil's advocate, so don't take this too harshly, but the truism that "Shrooms play with your brain" is meaningless as an argument against shrooms—more so when contrasting it to "just an addiction". Where is an addiction anywhere but the brain?

Of course opioids play with your brain. So do SSRI antidepressants for example, whose very name is based on their most commonly accepted mechanism of action. And it's not only strictly psychiatric drugs—ADHD medication also plays with your brain, influencing dopamine pathways. But then so do gambling, and physical exercise, and meditation! Heck, even social media plays with your brain.

The mere fact that something has an effect on the brain is not in itself an argument against it—let alone when it is being proposed as a psychotherapeutic tool.
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>I don't know why you would phrase it that way. What does "believe in" mean?

It's just a casual way to say "If you're all for theories and falsifiliability".

(It's also pedantically correct. In the end everything comes down to believing it).

>I wrote that your original statement is more of an opinion/spiritual statement than a falsifiable scientific statement.

It's also empirically consistent. The observed universe is mostly gas, rock, nuclear reactors we call stars, and so on. Where are the proofs that it has a "purpose" or "meaning"?

>It just didn't sound like you realize that what you wrote is an opinion, and not some hard-cut proved and obvious statement, so I was wondering whether you realize it? Or do you have an illusion that you have provable grounds for it?

No, I have the certainty that it's the only empirically matching to observables conclusion, and that it's the less extraordinary claim (and the simplest one).

It's any further claims that need to bring proof. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, Occam's razor, and all that.
I tried reading some of the later articles in the series, and they're exhausting! All the writing has this incredibly tiring staccato rhythm, and the articles are just gigantic dumps of bullet points and headers. It's like having being machine-gunned with marketing platitudes and writing truisms.
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Yeah, but how do you realize that the brain is not for thinking without thinking?
When I worked for a Japanese company, this became the norm. It made translations a lot easier.

I still believe in short paragraphs; though not necessarily single-sentence ones. Paragraphs are meant to collect ideas, and it’s often a good practice to have a fairly “granular” approach, with “atomic,” self-contained “modules.”

The idea is to allow reading to proceed in a “piecemeal” fashion. This is due to the way people consume prose, these days, with sidebars and interruptions. It also lends itself well to reference reading.

In any case, a “wall of text” approach is disastrous in digital media. It works well, for justified paperbacks, but not so well on a digital device.
For those of you keeping score at home, in the last 24 hours (presumably shortly after this article was posted):

* Bitcoin price dropped by 16%, from ~$19500 to ~$16500

* Tether "mined" $300M in new Tethers (which are NOT "fiat money", why would you think such a thing?).

* Bitcoin price started recovering to, currently ~$17200

I'm sure all of this is completely on the up-and-up, and the Mainstream is just blind to this amazing new world of finance.
> Also, Bitcoin has been the best performing asset of the past 10 years in which most people didn't take it seriously

You're literally describing the bubble. An asset that is worth $20k one day, and worth $6k 6 months later, is worthless to anyone except speculators, speculating on... a bubble.

Disclaimer: I am long BTC.
I like the idea! That would be a cool next step after this mvp!

We could either pre-generate (see the first comment - it’s an accurate guess), or generate just in time.

The first is way easier - same architecture, more storage (we are moving from instance’s storage to S3 so it will be an easy step).

On-demand generation would be much more expensive as you have to have a GPU server ready, and queue requests. We have it with https://icons8.com/upscaler ; it’s a bit of work and expense.

Additionally, you have to make it a paid service. Any ideas who could pay for that? Our usual customers are https://generated.photos/use-cases
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That's a good thing imo. Products should get cheaper as patents expire, economies of scale are realized, and processes are streamlined. Maybe we don't need as many optometrists today as we did a decade ago. This is where UBI would help a lot. Instead we see the protracted milking of customers that don't know better, highly trained people desperately trying to hang onto their job and lifestyle, and no ones happy except the three people bleeding the value chain dry.
Unashamedly this happens to me. I really messed myself up meditating an hour a day for six months. It just became like a personal hell. Going into that room and turning off the lights somehow gave power to my fears and nightmares. I did however learn to let go of my ego a lot more, which I really enjoyed, and worked through a lot, but in the end it was deeply upsetting. I want to try it again sometime, but for now I've not gotten up the courage.
Have you seen the rest of the guy's articles?

Buzzfeed has nothing on him.
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Clearly this an issue, and clearly AWS has at least mitigated it. How hard is it for other probiders to do the same?

If they’re not doing it, I suppose they feel that the reputation hit they take if someone misuses it is better than the lost dollars from a little bit more friction during setup.
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No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5.
Maybe it's because I did a bit of embedded development (a long time ago mind you) - but I've never felt the urge to develop software on every device I own. Developing software for devices - absolutely, but on every device - definitely not.
I would argue that the 250ms lag mentioned in the article was not the reason the ePCR system was perceived as being slow.

Consider the new trend in login forms these days whereby you are forced to enter you username or email THEN press a button THEN enter your password THEN press another button. What used to be simple is now no longer simple. Why is it like this? To accommodate the x% of people who seem to get confused in some manner when presented with "too many choices". I forget the reasoning now, and disagree 1000% but don't want to sidetrack my argument any further.

Anyhow... compare the original form to an imagined GUI since we're not presented with the software to make a proper comparison. If you needed to fill out the paper form quickly you can tick..tick...tick..tick..write a bit.tick...tick..read..write.etc.

Now with the software, does it use a mouse? Probably not. It's most likely a touch screen. Possibly a tablet. So now every choice required more interaction. More choices. Opening a dropdown? So you mean to say the developers have decided to hide important information until you request it? The paper version has everything you ever need to know at a glance. One side of a sheet, no need to even flip it over.

This is all conjecture, but I experience this type of thing all the time when a software "solution" comes to fix a real-world "problem". It can be done well. Most UK Govt websites are incredibly well-done IMHO. But usually they're not.
The company that CNN article is referring to is called BioNTech, not Pfizer, and they have been working on RNA based therapeutics (mostly as cancer treatments) for a long time. They started working on the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in January 2020.

As is often the case when a relatively small pharmaceutical company develops a new product, they teamed up with Pfizer to run the trials, manufacturing and logistics.

The article misrepresents this in multiple ways.
Let me guess... You can try reporting it to the authorities, but they need you to solve a CAPTCHA first.
To answer that and above comments - it is a combination of form-factor and software limitations. Lack of adjustable hinge/base part and excessive OS sandboxing.
When the iPhone first launched, Steve Jobs famously promoted web apps as "a very sweet solution". However, in typical Jobsian fasion, he had "forgotten" what he said a couple of months before the launch about the limitations of web apps[0].

[0]: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2007/06/13/a-very-sweet-solution/
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I intend to write about it soon in the coming weeks and I will post my life changing experience here, for sure!
I was with Docker from the very start, and so have playing with this for quite a while. Would be happy to hear more tips and improvements though!
> You think Apple is going to let you have unrestricted access to the cell phone chip and radio?

I mean, why not? At least why not to the level it's already possible on other kinds of machines? I can stick an LTE modem into my laptop and the world hasn't ended yet.
Romanticism works very well sometimes, see GPL license.
> Part of what you think are compression artifacts

I know what are compression artefacts and what is part of the illusion, no need to explain that to me. I just wanted to see the less compressed version.

It's a nice effect and others might find your comment useful, I just wanted to say that there was no reason to address your explanation to me.
followed by mysterious explosions killing whole boards of directors of said US tech giants no doubt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
Macs being able to run iOS apps now should give you a hint of the direction where it's going.

I'm convinced a not insignificant number of people high up at Apple see the near future of the Mac as where you go to run multiple iOS apps, at least until iPads start to do that too. I think when the true next gen 14 inch MBP drops next year this will become a lot more obvious.

This is uncomfortable to think about for people who are fans of computers but just look at the profit charts and when you follow modern Apple leadership actions, Macs where they don't get a cut of software and where users do have that freedom are the anomaly and there are some extremely juicy pieces of software that side of the fence which they are currently not profiting from.
There's something I really want from my iPad: support for custom keyboard layouts for attached keyboards. Mine is currently unsupported, so as soon as I need to type something I need to put it away and use another device, even if the iPad would be totally up to the job otherwise. Say, replying to emails or writing some sort of rough draft.
AWS hasn't really mitigated it. You just need to re-create the domain a bunch of times and eventually you'll get the right NS to take it over.
Is that true? Have the Koch/Walton/Rockefeller families ceded control to their management employees? Seems unlikely to me, and unsupported by evidence.
Nice and interesting article. Keep it up!
As with computers in general, it depends on the use case. The Switch is definitively underpowered compared to other consoles or a gaming PC. The competition offers a better at-home experience in AAA games.

But for many indie games and first party titles, I enjoy the flexibility. I don't have to sync data. I can take it to friends and plug it into their dock.

A hybrid desktop smartphone / tablet with the correct ecosystem will offer a worse performance than pure desktop systems. But for most users, it will probably be good enough to browse the web, edit photos and play some games.
What if Apple decided that they don't get to gain that much out of AAA games so they don't care offering hardware that those companies might ran on?

I have the feeling that Apple just cares about Apps for iOS (money wise). What's the minimum they need to do so people write iOS apps?

If this hardware, incidentally, is good for your use case, all is good. If not, they might just shrug it and decide you're too niche (i.e. not adding too much value to their ecosystem) and abandon you.
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I like the term “magpie development”.
I work as management consultant and the iPad+Apple Pencil+OneNote combination has been a game changer for my workflow. No need to have tons of paper notebooks to take notes during meetings (and then misplace 2 months into the project), no need to print powerpoint or pdf presentations or documents to make comments for the rest of the team. The OneNote app works really well and syncs perfectly with my windows 10 laptop (and my macbook pro for personal use). I haven't found another compelling use for it (I wouldn't use it to make powerpoint presentations, nor excel spreadsheets; i could use it for text documents in MS Word, but the full keyboard of a laptop and far superior trackpads make this a non-starter). For emails, the phone is good enough if i need to reply on the go. All this to say that how fitting an instrument is to your work depends on the kind of work you do. From what I have seen, graphic designers and artists have embraced the iPad. Do software developers really crave a touch-first instrument that is barely more portable than a MBP 13"?
1. The guys over there responsible for resolving my domains should probably verify that they're actually my domains. You want to offer an authoritative nameserver service you better take it serious.

2. Someone can register your domain first and you won't even be able to migrate in (at least without customer support).
Mattermost, Element/Riot, Rocket Chat, Zulip - all of them open source.
You can get all this by pinning to a core and DMA to hardware. Think of the OS like a library - if you don't call it and don't ask it to call you it stays out of the way. There's no need to throw away the OS.
By what mechanism does a nanoparticle detect the presence of a virus?

The article mentions the nanoparticle emitting a kind of signal via "nitrogen vacancy" defects in the diamond structure to signal the presence of a target virus, but glosses how the thing is detected. Are these nanoparticles somehow imprinted with a target signature or something?
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Crazy thought:

Sometimes well intentioned regulation gets it wrong. Sometimes it's perverted in Congress. Sometimes it's designed to fail. It is congresses responsibility to police themselves as much as it is the people's. When regulation fails fix the regulation. That's hard when Republicans are dying on the hill of Government Bad.
I had the same issue but i solved it by using Firefox Developer edition instead which allows you to install unsigned extensions. This allowed me to use my Firefox profile (by manually copying the files over the existing profile files) which i have going back several years now.

If that ever changes i'll look into making my own Firefox binaries or whatever that have this check removed.
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I missed that discussion yet had the same trouble grokking the phrase. Even after watching the video and sort of understanding what they do it didn't click until I read your comment.

But then again, I rarely use Zoom since my company is beholden to Gsuite.