skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that comes down to different models of ethics.
In a clinical setting when you know what you're looking for, blood tests are great. Randomly running panels on yourself, you'll have a hard time distinguishing signal from noise. Or even worse interference. Say, taking high doses of Biotin is known to interfere with many tests.

By all means, I'd rather have that data on myself than not. But I can see why the doctors wouldn't be too crazy about it.
The “open web” withered and died the moment Berners-Lee decided he’d cut some corners for convenience and released a web browser that was read-only.

Mosaic took that interpretation and ran with it, and a global information platform that should’ve been as easy for anyone to read and write as opening, editing, and saving a file in MS Word became the plaything of the technocratic elite while the ign’ant plebs looked on none the wiser of how they were robbed.

Can’t blame the Jacks and the Zucks for taking the opportunity that was handed to them on a plate. That’s what happens when you create gatekeepers and single points of failure.

“Just techie on techie.”

Oh bless your heart, child.

Once again, it was the techies who created this mess—and were perfectly happy with it too while they were the ones in charge. So until technies accept and acknowledge that they are the root of the whole problem, they’re not going to do a thing to usefully change it. ’Cos right now they’re one gang of children trying (futilely) to grab back a prized toy from another gang of children, to have all for themselves.

But as long as someone controls the read and write, the conditions that enable these vast walled gardens to take root and thrive will continue to exist. The only way to change that is by restructuring the platform at a fundamental level so that everyone controls their own read and write, and no-one else can just take that from them.

..

Personally I believe the first step should be reshaping Firefox into a full-blown WYSIWYG document editor, analogous to MS Word except that instead of reading and writing to a local filesystem it reads and writes them via HTTP[S] requests. And then go sort out the stagnant mess that is Apache et al so that they actually speak HTTP right, and provide that client with the “distributed filesystem” it needs to read and write to.

Read-write-publish-share. Simple foundational mechanics, and there’s no reason nor excuse why it shouldn’t all work correctly.

(Plus, Firefox desperately needs to differentiate itself from the Chrome/WebKit hegemony if wants to justify why it should continue to exist. Well, there’s a reason—and opportunity—right there.)

If geeks can make that bit work correctly then they might have a chance at resetting the balance of powr. It’s not a complete solution: there’s still the problems of document search (currently owned by Google) and name ownership (for he who owns your name owns you, and right now all our names are owned by the quasi-libertarian shakedown artists of DNS registrars and squatters), and others. And then there’s the questions of how do you sell it (and Dog knows most geeks couldn’t sell ice cream to Arabs). But it is the first step in the right direction: putting the control into the hands of the Users. All of them, this time.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

https://digital-archaeology.org/the-nexus-browser/
I studied engineering and got a degree in computer science. So I like to call myself a software engineer. At my job I do a lot of things: analysis, design, development, project management.
It's more that such a focus on 'efficiency' actually in practice comes from people who either place an extremely high moral cost on cheats or mistakes (far greater than the actual monetary cost of such issues), or from (more cynically) those opposed to the goals of such institutions in the first place (i.e. they believe the welfare itself is wrong and even those allowed under the rules do not deserve it). This is born out in the reactions that such critics tend to impose on the system, i.e. imposing draconian and expensive checks on those who seek it, both rejecting or impeding legitimate claiments while also not demonstably reducing costs (any savings due to catching fraud or even just rejecting those who need it being swallowed up by the cost of the checks).

See the UK government's current (over the last 10 years) approach to welfare. Lots of money spent on checks which are run almost seemingly malicously incompetently, the vast majority of rejections not being upheld when they go to court (even more expensive), assuming the claiment hasn't died by then (as many have due to extreme poverty).

It's the kind of argument which carries a lot of emotional weight (everyone hates a cheater) but it's really hard to believe is being taken in good faith from a rational, cost-reduction perspective.
The nomex suits they all wear only are designed for 20seconds in fire. (The gloves and shoes/socks are only 10secs hence his burns there).

He was out of the car within 18seconds.

I highly doubt if he had been stuck in or knocked out they would have been put the fire out in less than a few seconds more. They only had one person with the right fire extinguishers there at the time. The rest all add ones for smaller fires.

I don't know how long it took them to put it out, but all the drivers could still see the fire driving back to the pits so probably a minute or so.

In short of the many things that save Romain sunday, being able to get himself out was probably the key one.
python setup.py bdist_rpm is also useful (although it's quite naive, doesn't always do the right thing and you'd usually want to add dependencies).
LFS is kept up to date. It has systemd and sysvinit variants, and the latest version was published in september. Thank god for this, because it's one of the only source to get a comprehensive list of all the components running on a Linux machine.
LTUI v2.4 released, A cross platform terminal UI library based on Lua
National Theatre launches paid streaming service for filmed plays
You don’t want to open up that can of worms. Thousands of war deaths would qualify as murders if you used a declaration as the deciding factor.
I think as long as you have the desire to win, you will naturally focus on improving. You might have plateaus and have to refocus sometimes, but in general I think more hours > more deliberation.

When you are playing games at very high volumes then you also tend to improve rapidly, since even in the 95th-99th percentiles there are usually dumb mistakes that cost you the game.
Mostly we can learn that when the entire population follows recommendations to wear masks, close businesses and socially distance, those measures work. That "extreme" measures taken early, like closing all borders, can prevent asymptomatic travellers bringing it in and spreading across the country. That being willing to quarantine an entire town can cut off an outbreak early.
It doesn't make a great story, because the audience is already pretty fixed in positions that will produce responses of either "no shit, guys" or "LIES".

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/08/1070852
How to Read a Balance Sheet Like a Seasoned Pro
>My laptop screen is about as the same thickness as my phone (OnePlus 3)

OnePlus 3 is 7.4mm thick. You will have to measure your laptop screen thickness. Most Modern laptop dont have a lip that is anywhere near that.
The thing you described seems like your own personal social problem to me. YOU want to communicate with someone who uses different tools which he is happy with. What would you want them to do? Use some different tool you approve? That doesn't sound very open to me.
I agree the article might have been more explicit there.

If I'm understanding correctly, it's all about possibility of this statement throwing an exception, as for example the cool.ico file might not be found or might be corrupt:

icon.Icon = new Icon(GetType(), "cool.ico");

I think the point is that the 'bad' version can make the icon visible in the UI and then throw an exception. The 'not bad' version has a more transactional flavour: if the aforementioned statement throws, then, because of the better ordering, the 'not bad' version doesn't make the unfinished icon object visible, it just bails out with the exception having made no change to the UI, and the unfinished NotifyIcon instance gets garbage-collected.

I presume that the real-world code included some extra machinery to hook it up to the existing UI objects, omitted for brevity in the example. It's a bit confusing as it looks rather like it's just building up and returning a NotifyIcon instance for the caller to make use of, but I think the icon.Visible = true; is meant to represent truly making the icon visible in the UI.
>certain old-time online communities are available and haven't been swamped

Would you mind sharing some of the links, please?
We can certainly dispense with analogies that only serve as memory aids.
I used to spend far too long (in my opinion anyway) hovering under a towel over a bowl of hot water with some menthol-bearing substance added (exactly what varied over the years) when I was a kid. It worked though, really eased the congestion in the nasal passages... just don't be dumb enough to stick your nose in the water!
Watch Robert Whyte's presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 The basic problems have all been solved, the science has been solved too. Tokamaks have already made net fusion power. The only difference between JET, which already succeeded, and ARC, is using Magnets with 2.6x the field strength. The B^4 power scaling, gives you about 50x the power, so ARC will generate 500 MW of power whereas JET (remember, already proven engineering), generated 10MW.

So without a doubt, this is just an engineering problem at this point. A prototype device that didn't have to be maintained, could be built exactly like any other Tokamak, just with REBCO magnets, and you'd have the required fusion power.

To get the required electric power, and add in maintenance, you need to at the FliBe liquid blanket, replacable toroid sections, and a heat exchanger, but again, these are known engineering problems with known solutions, akin to knowing that landing a rocket is possible, but figuring out the grid fins, heat shield, landing legs, and guidance software.

Fusion devices on a small scale have been proving the plasma physics since the 90s. We don't have fusion yet simply because of people being conservative and sticking with traditional "known to work" magnets, which is why ITER is a huge, hulking monstrosity.

As Dr Whyte says, cost scales by R, R can be reduced by a factor of 10 from ITER simply by using different magnets, so ARC will produce the same power as ITER, but significantly smaller and cheaper.

The basic papers have been peer reviewed by Nature, and the science and engineering have been found solid, and thus, the economic arguments as well. Ergo, this is exactly like the SpaceX scenario vs ULA and NASA (e.g. SLS). Small allows fast iteration, fast innovation. ITER's going to spend $20 billion and 20+ years of development just to turn around a realize that the follow on to ITER will need to use HTS magnets and a smaller design.
You’re describing the first sale doctrine. Unfortunately, it doesn’t apply to digital licenses; at least not today.
That looks like a loophole for Apple. I wonder if soon you'll have to log in with your biometric identity document in order to use it plus always recording camera will ensure only the person who is licensed to use it, use it.
Who even cares? You always have your phone. WiFi hotspots are trivial. It's a feature few would use.
So? What does that have to do with the free web? Those companies where not forced to acceppt Facebooks deal. Anyone is still free to start a new social network or other web service.

This has nothing to do with the web, and if anything it's a general antitrust case.
We've had 2.6 and 3.x series ARM32 images under 2Mb on our older products. 4.x is around 6Mb indeed, but these are also on hw with more peripherals.
Nordic bought ImaginationTech WiFi unit
Boycott Apple completely. How did we go from open development to some overpriced, only half decent and walled mess that's now worth $2 trillion? Shame.
If that was really the case, than it's a thing that antitrust laws have to sort out... How does that relate to the web technology wise? Everyone is still free to offer their own services on it.
Water is fine as a cooling medium, the reason for the lithium blanket stuff is to produce tritium for fuel.
Source "in the preferred form for making modifications". IMO that means a VCS checkout rather than a code dump.
Exactly. They denigrate one racial group by point out how they were more apt to denigrate another racial group.

So they are basically doing the same thing they are accusing the group of.
Intellectualism hasn’t matured as Barbarism has (still going through refinement). Your gym partner is never going to even attempt to prove to you they are stronger, and you yourself won’t even care if they are (or vice versa). There’s a natural understanding of the physical, and mostly we as a society realize how futile it is to exert physical dominance on one another. So you are stronger, what are you going to do, beat me up every day? We realize this is a stupid game.

Ironically, it’s the intellectual stuff that hasn’t come full circle. So you’re smarter, is your plan to just out smart me everyday? Well actually, yes, that is the plan. I will out smart you, establish dominance, hierarchy, status etc - all of which is systemically quantified via prestige, status, income, life partners (all the stupid shit physical dominance once got us) . It’s hard to find synergy in this realm when we as a society haven’t gotten over ourselves on this front, the same way we got over all that physical beat people up bullshit. We haven’t yet accepted that this too is a waste of time in the context of civilization.

We are all more than capable of collaborating intellectually, but as a society we are just too dumb at the moment to do so. Hard to collaborate with barbaric intellectuals.

Long story short, you are probably part of the problem, as we all are at this inflection point in humanity.
I fail to see why reasoning by analogy is a problem. After all, the utility of a formal system lies in the way it's elements and rules map to some world context. .. in which case when we "reason" with the formal system we're invoking the analogy to actually conclude something about that world context.
M1 is also the only TSMC 5nm chip that is widely available and there is nothing remotely comparable from a process stand point.
If you're getting imposter syndrome while still in school, buckle up :)

If getting things done is your goal, then put energy into it. That's what very accomplished people do. Just accept that's not always enough and accept that's alright. Doing the best you can is literally all you can do.
> But the consequences of doing nothing are reasonably well known.

What do you think happens if we do nothing? Seeing that Sweden's cases didn't spiral out of control as initially expected I am sceptical about how much use lockdowns actually are.
Ask HN: Unsolved hard problems like protein folding?
Dear HN,
Learning about AlphaFold, I was wondering what other big open problems there are that people are aware of but which seem impossible to solve?
If you want tinfoil theories, my theory is that the massive lobbying power of the fossil fuel interests delay R&D and implementation of alternative energy. And as some of the alternative energies are getting momentum, like wind&solar, they are also lobbying against potential competitors.
Agreed. That people think it is an improvement just highlights their short-sightedness and naivete. Of course it gets troublesome if life intervenes. Responsibilities to others or sickness will quickly burst that bubble.

People might be attracted because it simulates freedom to a degree while that is under severe threat from bad policy crafting for decades.

I hope this trend already widespread in the US doesn't infect other modern countries.
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Cant wait to see this chip in the 16-inch.
I assume you mean this blog post:

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/lock-free-ring-buffer/

Could you explain what you think the misunderstanding is, and what the consequences of that misunderstanding are?
Actually I think the secret is probably a total let down. The MI games are (potty) humour kids games (which nobody in my country due to lack of language skills realized, and it felt much more mature and cooler than it was intended)
That's nothing like a monopoly in anyway though. It's just a business that had the correct business model.
Where to Buy Keto Body Trim?
You will get this improvement from online so to speak. You don't need to go to any shop or market to buy this improvement. Essentially head to their site and register yourself, and you are closer to making the dream body you have ever required.

http://wintersupplement.com/keto-body-trim/
this. Human bodies are different in subtle ways. Medical trials exclude outlier results, for good reasons. But if you're an outlier then it matters.
On Windows the smallest exe can be achieved by writing in assembly and compiling as .com executable.

These literally just contain the compiled assembly and are usually used on, for example, the 4k demoscene.

1k with rust is certainly a nice squeeze.
If you are interested in that kind of work, i recommend you to look into the work of Rob Landley.
Yes you can. It is complex, will take plenty of time and effort but you can. And that is what open means.

Now if you complain about complexity that's another thing. Yes it is complex a lot. But it did evolve this way for some reason. Our communities, desires, tools, problems, they are all complex and that's why web is also complex. But if you don't like the complexity you can use only subset of the technologies. You can read only plain HTML blogs on web and don't use any eshops for example. Or not use technology or even web at all.
This argument is silly in the presence of open-source web browsers that can accept extensions.

> proliferation of an ecosystem geared around breaking and integrating-with the walled-gardens

Youtube-dl works just fine. What kind of things did you have in mind that people might want but are unachievable because of https?
What nonsense. Nobody is forced to use Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Blame the people who keep using them, not the creators of those networks.
Keyboard space is another somewhat important factor. My layout for dzaima/APL already uses all altgr keys, so I could definitely not afford multiplying the number of needed characters by 2. Not having ambivalently callable operators would also mean needing 2 versions of most of them.

dzaima/APL being written in Java means getting it to run in a browser would be a bit hard, and ngn has given up on ngn/apl, but BQN[0] could definitely get a web canvas based graphics interface.

Somewhat interesting to add to the conversation about Under is that, in my impl, calling a function, calling its inverse, or doing something under it (i.e. structural under) are all equally valid ways to "use" a function, it's just a "coincidence" that there's direct syntax for invoking only one. (Dyalog does not yet have under, but it definitely is planned.)

0. https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
Also you can check out the previous three editions :-)

https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2018/

https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/

https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/

PS: See stefanha's post in this thread, if you want to contribute a disk image.
> It was well argued by alt.space community, the kinds of XCOR, Beal Aerospace, Armadillo Aerospace, Scaled Composites etc. that it's not the case.

They had a hypothesis. It was untested and, by any reasonable definition of common expert knowledge, a far bet.

Saying this list’s existence disproves SpaceX’s technological work is arguing home brewers as evidence that Apple did nothing groundbreaking. Or Alberto Santos-Dumont as evidence the Wright Brothers were just incremental inventors.

Yes, they weren’t the only ones on the bleeding edge. But they were right there on it, and doing the lion’s share of the pushing of it.

> better equipped than many, though not all

SpaceX is miles ahead of all of them. Literally, hundreds of thousands of miles of flight time ahead. Ahead in vehicle manufacturing. Number of engineers working on number of problem domains. Hell, out of your list, only Scaled Composites still builds anything.

If we say SpaceX does no science, we must argue that the Japanese and Indian space programs do no science. Which nobody claims because it’s baseless. Designing new motors and engines and control systems and crew capsules and space suits and ultrasonic reëntry systems requires new science, technology and production expertise.
It's not reasonable to say "I can do bad things until the law says I can't", because that makes you antisocial. Perhaps you are, or you are arguing in bad faith. In any case I don't feel like explaining to you why you need to be a good person. Nobody reading that is going to learn anything new and you won't either.
Ask HN: How to disable my analytical side after work?
I'm highly analytical and this has helped me a lot in my careers as an engineer and scientist. But outside of work, in personal life, I really suffer from it, and the overthinking resulted from it. The situation has become much worse as a result of living alone during the pandemic.
Is there anyway to become intellectually shallow like having an IQ<100, after work?
(Except meditation that is probably useful for overcoming overthinking)

P.S: Sometimes I think a CS career just reinforces this issue. Sometimes I think I should get out of CS for the sake of my own sanity.
Why is it so obvious that there wouldn't be any severe cases in vaccinated patients 18-55, when there have been severe cases in infected people 18-55 (outside this trial, I don't know enough about this trial to make a comment about that)?
Strange, we used to be able to pull of megaprojects like the Manhatta Project or the Apollo Program.
That's a DOS executable though, and won't run on 64-bit Windows.
That's an improvement on ITER, which weighs as much as a WW1 battleship.
I have found this https://github.com/HugoPlatzer/tiny-rust-binaries.

Can you test it and see how it behaves with msvc toolchain?
>Unfortunately, IP theft is a big deal and we can’t really touch China.

But Amazon (the marketplace) sells that stuff. So touch Amazon not China.
WTF? If you already have the infrastructure to coredump, they are without a doubt the most convenient way to debug. A stacktrace does not even begin to compare. It is like limiting yourself to printf-debugging in the presence of gdb.

Actually, it exactly is! Now I'm not sure if you were /s or not.
Dunno. HTTPS is kind of a pain but you can stick the HTML up on github and serve it on your own domain for free with HTTPS in a few minutes. Or a digital ocean or a bunch of other services with letsencrypt. It seems quite easy really.