skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't been alive long enough to remember tuberculosis, so this is quite bizarrely unique to me.

You're alive right now, aren't you?

From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis):

> In 2018, there were more than 10 million cases of active TB which resulted in 1.5 million deaths.[7] This makes it the number one cause of death from an infectious disease.[13] [..] About 80% of people in many Asian and African countries test positive while 5–10% of people in the United States population test positive by the tuberculin test.[14]

Mentions of tuberculosis stick out for me because there was a scare in my middle school that resulted in lots of us getting tested for it (in 2003, in the US). Luckily it was only a scare, as far as I'm aware none of the tests came out positive (and I know mine didn't).
The straw theory doesn’t make physical sense. It would take a week to drink a soda through a noodle.
Trump administration appeals yet another TikTok ruling
Sorry for that, I will add more currencies soon :)
Findora litigation
if they can offset the cost of the lost income from the (lack of) rent with some other source of gains, they pay less taxes!

Also, if they accept a rent of $5k/m, it sets a new (lower) price ceiling, where as a $9k/m original price was the original ceiling which supports the current valuation. Thus the commercial real estate would have a harder time to capitalize on the equity. S

Therefore, the losses are more than just the $4k/m difference - it's lost capitalization/equity to which one may leverage against, and lost tax offset potential as well.
>Bitcoin's capacity has been limited its entire life, the limits were coded in by Bitcoin's creator.

I researched this and found that Bitcoin had no initial capacity limit and that one was added as a temporary spam measure, not as a design choice.

When I see misrepresentations like that, I'm more suspicious of everything you've written.
Fun article but I can’t seem to match their excitement for the cut... to me it’s just spaghetti that’s much harder to slurp on account of it being a straw.
Google's marketing around Wave was extremely disappointing to me. The invitation system was only a small part of their problem.

I know I was incredibly excited about it because I immediately understood it to be a way to kill email and the things that surround it. To think that Microsoft's Bedlam DL3 incident could have been a bitter memory.

Oh well. I guess we're stuck with email as it continues to exist today.

Reply all. "Remove me from this thread please." Send mail.
> And, if your job is to get people to click on ads, or other socially detrimental (forget unnecessary) things, you, too, have a bullshit job.

What?

In the last 10-15 years so many people have been able to start their own businesses, passion projects and venture into new areas just because of Facebook and Google ads. I have jeweler friends, cloth makers, leatherworkers, people making cakes at home — all of which get their clients on Instagram and other social networks. Also: therapists, astrologists (yes, I'm not a fan, but it's still an occupation), gaming dice makers, photographers, caterers, limo drivers, DJs, hair stylists... And those are just people I personally know that I could remember from the top of my head!

The engineers that "make people click on ads" did it. They enabled more small-scale commerce to compete with the giants, gave a lot of people an opportunity to earn a living doing what they love. Without this "bullshit jobs" all these industries would still have been dominated by centralised gatekeeping institutions that have a budget to advertise in print media, radio, TV and billboards. Now, you can get your first customers with a $10 budget.

If there is such a thing as "making a world a better place", this is it.

There are many jobs that feel like "bullshits jobs" because you don't get to have personal interaction with the person whose life you're improving: you work in a giant system, and the cause-and-effect link between your work and their life is not close. But it doesn't mean that it's not there.
Positioning the tape should become harder, I suppose.

Also, I suppose they limit the read bandwidth with something like what a single Infiniband connection would support; few disk arrays support much higher speeds.
Insane violent cults. I use to believe in UBI, but I'm really not so sure now. I think it would be less Star Trek and more The Expanse. You take away peoples' agency and people degrade. We also haven't solved resource scarcity, so you do have to have a production cycle (or find a way to totally close the production to recycling loop) before you can really worry about a work-less society.

But I go back to the underlying theme of the original Star Trek series with Kirk and Spock. Countless times they were presented with paradise, only to find humans were not quite ready for it. Even in a Federation which had solved resource scarcity, removed money and harvested limitless energy, the desire to explore and seek out new life, and even new dangers and disaster, could not be quenched.
Not sure if I got it from the atlassian post or the original hacker news post - I am aware of both. It don't see the need for anything more complex. My first config commit is in early 2017.
This is a good dollar amount for continued research, but anything more than this level is just taking money from moving from fossil fuels to alternative energy and batteries.

Per the projections, we are in a critical period for mitigating climate change.

Nuclear obviously has great long-term potential, but the annual 5-10% improvements in various solar/wind/BEV/grid storage technologies that are ALREADY at consumer production and ALREADY are sliding under the LCOE of even natural gas turbines, make any tangible power generation project for the next 5-10 years that is NOT wind/solar/gridstorage basically a guaranteed boondoggle.

And I used to love all those cool LFTR presentations with proliferation resistant isotopes, brayton cycle performance, meltdown proof, breeding, high availability of thorium, using spent nuclear waste as fuel, etc.
Now I wonder how many people have hooked up via HN.
It's a good point though. Why/how is something unsafe for an American, but safe for an Italian or Spaniard?

Differing regulations and standards between countries usually makes no sense and just harms the consumer.

How is a Volvo made for the Swedish market unsafe on Canadian roads? EU and Canada recently signed a trade agreement so that they won't tariff eachothers' cars, but consumers still can't buy a car from a European dealer and have it shipped over.

Or vaccines. Why isn't there a global approval system?

Yeah yeah, everyone can point to an example where their regulatory agency's anxieties/delays/negligence prevented some issue, but fail to consider the impacts of all of their other delays/rejections.
The iMac looks so beautiful and modern even today. Whenever I see one I want to buy it. If I had the time it would make an amazing case for an electronics project too.
Linux desktop lacks UI and UX consistency. A GTK and a Qt application look and operate completely differently, and even within those there is no consistency. Windows certainly isn't perfect in this regard either, but it is much rarer that I download a new Windows program and immediately notice how ugly and poorly laid out it is.
That's a fair take too - maybe TDD wasn't as widespread in general so I just got onboard when everyone else did. Although I should note I'm not a fan of TDD and it's not something I would recommend for games or anything similar - it's a very narrow tool - I think you agree because you put "TDD" in quotes I just don't want to make it sound like I'm recommending it - I'm a fan of automated testing.
Fair, I trimmed my comment to remove the text you were concerned about.
The curse-blessing of getting to the top of HN has jumped the digital-physical barrier.

Which is more likely:

Error 404: Bucatini not found.

MySQL Error: cannot get connection to deliver Bucatini.

/me shows self out
Specifically in 2019 the average single family home was 2611 sq ft, apartments 1156 sq ft, acc’d to

https://themreport.com/daily-dose/09-02-2020/as-more-stay-ho...
That's a cool project. I appreciate the concept of typing with a typewriter, which serves as input only. Your description of 'maintaining the flow' is very accurate.
With computers it seems that using 'notepad' (in Windows, for example) to type ideas quickly is the closest to using a typewriter, and avoiding distractions. Just get ideas diem as fast as possible.
I wonder what would be involved in making that all work with a classic old electric typewriter, for instance the gigantic Selectric. It was a wonderfully clunky machine. You could really type with emotion!
(Ps- on the other hand, I remember a long time ago, dreaming of getting a computer so that I could type ideas; articles, projects, papers, books.)
I've only been up that way to see The House on the Rock. I can't stand the winters though, or Mayor Lightfoot's disastrous policies. I'm definitely moving down south.
The concept of air-rights is a good one - if a developer wants to build higher, they can acquire the air rights of the properties close by, at a price the residents find acceptable (for losing their unobstructed views etc).
Out of curiosity, what does "doesn't suck" mean to you?
That's what I plan to do :) Although I realised that creating a meaningful "score" from all the different sources is quite hard. Have you ever started working on your "Metacritic for products" idea?
People who write about programming in their spare time are people who really like programming. You aren't going to read a blog post by a software 'mercenary' describing their tribe because mercenaries don't work for free.

There are many people in all sorts of 'tribes', but only a few of the tribes wrote blogs.
GE chemist, invented Synthetic Diamonds, got 10$ note
> You brought up the Illuminati

That is called a "hyperbole".

> There are dozens of documented examples of Gates doing that sort of thing

Unless you explain what you mean by "that sort of thing", then there really isn't.
Exactly, that's what I am griping about. There's more than enough land to accommodate more housing to be built, but existing neighbors to that land have forbidden that through regulatory capture of city zoning laws.
Confession: the iMac G3 remains one of my favorite computer designs from Apple (with a slight preference toward the later slot-loading models, which smoothed out some rough edges in the original design).

Yes, they’re all cheap plastic and it’s not even close to a “modern” aesthetic these days, but there’s something visually appealing and kind of quirky about the candy-colored translucent plastic and smooth curves of the G3 design that the sterile aluminum rectangles Apple currently produces lack.
>many people choose majors that have no value to society

I think you're missing the word "financial" there, going by the rest of your comment.
LTFS is ok, a multilevel tar file with a file list followed by an FEC encoded block store would be easier and more portable.

It has been 8+ years since I played with LTFS, so maybe it has improved.
Hey dang, is there a moderately strict guideline that says that Show HN articles should have source code? This post is somewhat interesting, but you can imagine marketers abusing the format.
> Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, there have been wave after wave of automation - and yet material prosperity has exploded and unemployment is relatively low.

I'm familiar with the US, not the UK.

In the US, the labor participation rate for adults is about 60%, meaning 40% are not working for whatever reason, and that non-participation rate is increasing annually. It will be sobering to see what it is after corona. Perhaps half of adults will be unable to find work.

Additionally, for the first time in history, we are close to "general vision AI", which will have an effect on unskilled labor. (In Silicon Valley, OpenCV is already commonly used to elimainate QA staff.)

So I don't see how looking at stats from 150 years ago is relevant at all.

And the US has a horrible track record on job re-training, as in virtually none.

Your optimistic post applies to US coastal computer programmers, but is completely tone-deaf to most other people who actively switch employers for even $1/hour more.

The US has also created a self-inflicted wound on college students with debts that will destroy fertility and financial progress for most young people. Western society is ill from a thousand cuts, but worst of all in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if the birth rate halves in the next decade.
Not really. You can buy a 18TB hard drive now. Even if your data is humongous and needs several of those, it will likely fit on a single drive in 5-10y. So it takes an increasingly smaller amount of time to replicate (excluding the copying time which keeps the machine busy but not you).
It's an ideal job if all you need is hours of concentration, reading, and writing or drawing. A writer, a PhD student with a laptop, a comic book author, etc.

Or, maybe, even a Zen monk who spends time meditating.
A typical house in the 1930s cost between 50-100K in 2020 dollars. Houses can be had this cheap all over the country.

To use my hometown as an example, consider this 1948 house that Redfin believes is worth $30K: https://www.redfin.com/AR/North-Little-Rock/707-Gardenia-Ave...

It's 3 miles from the downtown of a half-million person metro area. If you're willing to go up into that $50-100K range, you will find plenty of fine houses in mid-sized cities throughout the Midwest/South.

The apartment I rented was an 1100 square foot, 2 bedroom townhouse a block from the bus stop -- $350/month.
The og iMac most certainly helped turn Apple around, but I have mixed emotions using it to develop on ('cause I was an intern and that's what we had). Most of my bad memories come from that damn CRT screen. We are so much better off not using those anymore. Also, it was just not fast enough for real work, and that damn puck mouse. At home (erm, dorm room), I had the latest, greatest G4 tower! which cost far too much for any 18 year old to need to own, but that thing ripped compared to whatever dull Pentium 233 I had previously had.

...except Apple couldn't ship with the original clock speed because G4 Macs were their own g/d drama.

That Macbook G3 - the black one with the removable bays you could put in a battery (or two!) and hot-swap a CD drive in? One of the first ones they touted as being really thin (and probably at least 2x as thick as the current rev?) chef's kiss. That was the first computer that I thought was damn sexy, followed by the Ti Powerbook G4 when that came out.

I can't wait to get my hands on an M1 to feel 1/100th of the excitement I did 20 odd years ago, but it'll feel much more utilitarian, which I'm quite fine with. Better things I guess to do now than pine over laptops. The keyboard better be up to snuff. Even with my humongous hands, I can hum along on those 2015 Macbook chiclet keys.
I agree with this sentiment. To be fair though, the authors did attempt to generate a biologically plausible RNN, which they published in a previous article...

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/45/22811.full.pdf

I'm not fully sold on this model, but the article is fairly dense and I dont fully understand it. (Sejnowski, the senior author, was on my dissertation committee; he fell asleep during my defense lol)
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When the iMac came out, my opinion was the same as yours -- absolutely beautiful design. Unfortunately, everyone copied the look (often quite badly), and now the original iMac looks tacky and dated to me.
I've been living in the USA for a year and I don't think I will ever get over this odd 'spaced out' way of living. I see 3 lane roads that would work so much better as a mixed tram/bicycle lane. Crossing roads is also terrifying.

Nix the thought of walking to do the following activities:
- fetching a missing ingredient from a local shop/store that would take 25min round trip and benefit you with additional exercise.
- spending an evening going between bars being mildly intoxicated but not requiring a taxi.
Also the late 90's were such a different time aesthetically. You'd probably be lounging in your room on a blow up chair that strangely matched your iMac G3, writing in your paper journal, before you set up your LiveJournal in the evening and hung out on ICQ avoiding your physics homework. Oh to date oneself.
I have notes from when I was researching around 2018. I had the Razer Blade Stealth in the running, but I was reading about support and longevity issues with them. Maybe they've been better recently? It's difficult to build a track record of longevity.

I've had stellar longevity out of Apple hardware. I'm usually able to use it for a handful of years and sell it on ebay to put a good chunk towards something new. I have noticed certain models/runs have specific issues, laptop keyboards are probably the most recent and obvious, but for the most part you know what you're getting. Screen lamination problems or pinched monitor cable being a few others.

When looking at alternatives saving only around 20% on the cost made it difficult when not being confident about longevity or resale. Sadly, other aspects weren't appreciably better (soldered on RAM, camera quality, performance, battery).
Ask HN: How can I create the most reliable and durable NAS today? I have a lot of very sentimental, very-important files, such as family photos and videos. And I simply like to hoard data.

I currently have 8TB of data stored on a Synology DS218+ with RAID1, and monthly data scrubs (verifying checksums). It is backed up remotely to Google Drive (in encrypted form), and I also maintain an infrequently-updated, once-per-quarter disk clone with an external HDD.

My biggest concern with my current setup is that the memory is non-ECC. Even though the files are checksummed, I am concerned that specific memory corruption / bit-flips could propagnate into the checksums, and hence result in data corruption.

I am considering:

* Building my own FreeNAS box using AMD Ryzen (which semi-officially support ECC memory). My concerns here are the semi-official nature of support: how do I know if ECC works, before a rare cosmic bit-flip?

* Purchasing a Synology DS1621+. This is AUD$1400 which is a tough pill to swallow, for the equivalent of a first-gen Ryzen quad core and 4GB of memory.

Any options or recommendations is appreciated!!
How is something like that budgeted? The grants I worked on needed justification to buy extra Kimwipes it felt like. Certainly not 400k lying around in case you need it.
Here's the GitHub with their code for "Working Memory Spiking RNN Model" (This repository provides the code for the model and analyses presented in the paper):
https://github.com/rkim35/wmRNN
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Do you really think that cloth makers, leatherworkers, bakers, therapists, astrologists, dice makers, photographers, limo drivers, DJs, hair stylists, etc. can't exist without Facebook ads? Obviously they can. In fact, most of these occupations you mention function on word of mouth, anyway.

Sorry. Getting people to click on ads is still bullshit. The harm Facebook has done to society, especially over the past 5 years, completely outweighs the fact that someone you know used it to boost their astrology business.
> mmWave

I thought the problem was that houses and most buildings outside of North America have solid internal walls which blocks or attenuates mmWave signal strength to such a degree it's practically worthless for anything besides Wi-Gig between consumer appliances within a few feet of each other?
I think I've given them all the kindness they deserve for the disrespect with which they treat me and everyone else who visits their website.

It's clear they just completely lack empathy.

The downvotes and your response only serves to embolden them and others of their ilk who treat with disdain anyone without the privilege of first-world internet.
You are right of course, that this is not always implemented. I'd add though, that an impure implementation would never allow for such an optimization. The rest is the job of compiler developers. Of course you need to keep an eye on runtime execution cost as well. That is part of your job.
Thank you so much for your responses in this thread. While I do not feel the same way about the value of life, I do understand your reasoning for your opinion, and you've given me some stuff to think about.

Thanks again.
The Unreality of Time
Give LyX a try.

A hybridization of Overleaf and LyX could be pretty incredible.
Is it really a bubble if the overvaluation is created by law? The only way to pop the bubble would be to change the laws. And with Prop 13 being untouchable politically, and homeowners have an iron grip over city councils to keep cities underzoned, there's little chance of the systematic problem being eliminated any time soon.
Eth2 and your DApps: What you need to know
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A Look Back at the MacBook Air
Not quite everything. JavaScript does have some primitives, though it also provides object wrappers for those primitives via the new operator.

> let numberPrimitive = 0;
undefined
> let numberObject = new Number(0);
undefined
> typeof(numberPrimitive);
'number'
> typeof(numberObject);
'object'
> typeof(numberObject + numberObject);
'number'
> numberPrimitive;
0
> numberObject;
[Number: 0]
> numberPrimitive.one = 1;
1
> numberObject.one = 1;
1
> numberPrimitive.one;
undefined
> numberObject.one;
1
> numberPrimitive;
0
> numberObject;
[Number: 0] { one: 1 }
As a neuroscientist, I can tell you with high confidence that many if not most neuroscientists would agree with you.

You might also be interested in "Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?"

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
I mentally filter out "GraphQL spam" with the same rigor and aptitude I mentally filter out "bitcoin spam", but this unsubstantiated ad hominem does nothing to convince me that I'm smart or in-the-right for it.
Enjoyed this one and went ahead and read another of interest to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25567210
The behavior of 3 actually changed in JavaScript1.2
But, that's not the "typical" house anymore. You're equating the very cheapest houses and apartments today with the median/typical house from then.

You can't even live where you could in 1930 for the same money you could then. You can't rent for what you could in 1930. You can't go to the doctor. You can't buy a car. You can't send your kids to college. There are more things you just can't do today on 1930-equivalent money. Need I go on?
I don't want to say that if you are wondering about the trackpad on a Thinkpad you are doing it wrong, but the big benefit of a thinkpad is the knob. I would prefer buying a thinkpad that didn't have a trackpad at all, at least on an ultra book - my first one back in 03 didn't have a Trackpad but I found that I rarely used the external mouse I had attached to it.
All pure functions are idempotent but not all idempotent functions are pure. It has nothing to do with the domain/range of the function.
Very good stealth marketing
When I was looking around a few months ago, the revitalized VAIO looked like it might be the ticket

https://us.vaio.com/

Made in Japan and oodles of legacy ports...