skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1, I would highly recommend people check out Privacy.com. I have been using it for years.

Create virtual card numbers, set spending limits, frequency, and burn or pause a "card" at any time.
This is why I use VSCode for notes lol, the built in markdown preview and built in markdown table of contents makes it so fucking awesome
> Still, the article seems to showcase some questionable points about the AGRA initiative.

And that would be a fair criticism. The problem I see with the article like this is that if we are talking about problems that need immediate or at least short-timescale solutions, you often don't have an optimal choice. You might have a choice that's somewhat less shitty. All the hand wringing isn't productive in the best case, and is a deliberate political tactic in the worst.

Hence, I think that the "angle" situation is a serious one. There are a lot of right-wing and left-wing outlets that push an angle that often muscles out any objectivism out of a topic.

> The whole idea of introducing IP law for seeds to improve yields then show a 17% increase, just like the baseline, seems a monumental mistake.

IP laws for seeds are a mistake in general, in my opinion. The optimal solution would be to either soften or repeal IP laws for seeds. Can we attain that short to midterm? Probably not. Does that mean that nothing should be done? No. So we are left to work in a space with solutions of varying shittiness, which still worthwhile to engage.

> You set a pretty high bar to criticise such huge initiatives. They can fail based on the externalities they create, not only as a model that guarantees an output given some assumptions.

I don't think so, but that is more the result of how I understand the word "fail". I think it is fair to say that the initiative has failed to achieve the hoped for results due to reasons A, B, C, etc., one of which is that the initial assumptions have proven to be wrong. That way it is pretty transparent.
I don't think this snarky comment is justified. Geothermal energy plants as I describe them already exist - I'm just surprised that this source of energy is not exploited more.
SQLite is just an amazing project.
Not really. Even in his first tenure with Apple, Steve Jobs held Sony in high regard as a sort of blueprint for Apple.

This idea of the consumer electronics leader, that Sony was in the 80s with the Walkman etc, inspired Jobs long before he founded NeXT. Apple was "Apple Inc." instead of "Apple Computer Inc." in Steve's head for a very long time.
Even if it's still cardboard, just some carefully thought-out size standards that take into account packing small boxes to fit perfectly into large boxes, and large boxes to stack perfectly onto trucks/forklifts/shipping containers, would have major effects because of the scale at which it would act.

It would also have knock-on effects -- by creating Schelling points for what are generally free variables, your water bottles would be more likely to fit in your car's cupholder, your tupperware would fit in the fridge, and so on.

Oh yeah, and you'd be able to ship your cousin's wineglasses using the boxes that your order of hand soap arrived in, and it would pretty much just fit perfectly.
> Since we're distributing to old and vulnerable first, I speculate we'll see fataility rate plunge in as little as 3 weeks.

As others have said, there's more lag than you think, so it'll be more like 6-9 weeks, especially with a Christmas surge. The other thing to remember is that we have a poor understanding of how it spreads. I don't mean that it's airborne, but that there isn't much evidence to suggest vaccinating the elderly and first responders is the best way to stop the spread. It's not an unreasonable choice, but there's a lot we failed to understand going into the winter.
Autocomplete Your CloudFormation Resources in vs Code
Many cloud/VM providers like Digital Ocean offer one-click deployments of popular applications now.
Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren't Living in a Simulation (2016)
'Paste' is an old word for pastry, too. It makes old recipes rather odd sounding [1]:

> make six or eight ounces of paste as No. 319, roll it to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, or a little more, put pudding-cloth in a basin, sprinkle some flour over it, lay in your paste, and then the meat, together with a few pieces of fat; when full put in three wineglasses of water; turn the paste over the meat, so as not to form a lump, but well closed; then tie the cloth

And who could resist paste pudding [2]?

[1] http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/beefpudding.htm

[2] http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/pastepudding.htm
I think what OP means is rather than trying to fix deceases one by one, why aren't we focusing more on the root cause (aging)? This seems like a much more efficient way of solving many of these things. There are a bunch of initiatives in this area already, but not nearly enough to be proportional to the potential.

> but you can't just spend a trillion dollars and make people live an extra decade.

This I don't get though. Why not? We already do that. Making people healthier for longer is a massive win.
3245 words should be more than enough for that :) My greatest concern about the text that it would be too much of it for something called "Visual Guide", so I tried hard to keep it to bare minimum.
Given that this is supercomputer time we’re talking about, likely from a national computing center, I doubt they paid in cash or grant money for it. They probably have X amount of time pre-allotted, or managed to apply for some more. Then translated the compute spent on the problem to a dollar amount to illustrate the rough amount of resources spent.
I wish this would be automated...
Can anyone do the math and tell me how big that resistor would need to be? I’ve always wondered how many watts are being dissipated by my brake pads and rotors when I stop.
Popular online library launched Zlibrary Telegram Bot
Same in the US but only because areas that are like that are so small and are only location based, not intentional.
I question their numbers. How many bedrooms are in that 1156-square-foot apartment? At least three? I've lived in several two-bedroom apartments throughout my life in areas with a relatively low cost of living, and they ranged from about 650 to about 900 square feet in area. The latter felt unnecessarily spacious.

So either the source claims that the average apartment has three or more bedrooms (and this is false, very few 3BR+ apartments are built in most buildings), or that the average apartment offers palatial luxury. Maybe they miscalculated?
Launch HN: Hacker News Front Page Explorer
> I feel like a basic safety like this would be a prudent and more effective measure for overhead flights than self-transmitting "license plates" (which I agree are at least better than the silly internet requirement).

How is this any different than an aircraft transponder or IFF device?
The point is in the context of lists, not objects. It's in the article.
The idea isn't that people will live in that fragile and unhealthy state even longer, the idea is to also extend how long we're healthy. Imagine being as healthy as a 30 year old when you're 70 for example. This is often also called healthspan and we probably don't want to extend lifespan too much without also extending the healthspan.
580 Terabytes is really impressive. Although, I do not know why I am still waiting 5D crystal tech (maybe durability), and hopping it will be market available some time soon For now Microsoft has taken over the project and status is quite uncertain ...
Aaaw, look at all the little neghead grinches come to hate on someone being kind. So all the people who want to pretend that anonymous strangers saying mean words is meaningless (so they can have cover to do that and unwarrantedly take out their own frustrations on others), also want to pretend that saying kinds words to others is meaningless. Checks out.

--

To the wonderful author of this amazing creation:

No need to apologize. It's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. They had a negative reaction to you doing something positive or neutral, that was not targeting them. Their feelings, their reaction, are not your responsibility. Those things have nothing to do with you at all, and are all about them. It's not something for you to be sorry for, because it's not something you did. But I get if you've got your own emotion about seeing them react like this.

I've been there. Many times. Sharing work and feeling vulnerable and reading people's meanness. One thing I noticed about HN is it is sort of random how this happens. Some time, you share something, and whether it's great or not, people are super positive. Then another time, something is shared, and again, whether it's great or not, people are negative. It's a bit like the tides. Some sort of natural cycle. Which makes sense, I guess...these people's reactions are nothing to do with you...they're just seeking an outlet for some inner mess. It doesn't feel great to see my work as part of their negative experience, so I get it if you're also experiencing that. Just wanna say thanks for this, there are also very good people here, but more important than here, is you, and I hope you keep creating wonderful stuff like this! :)
Correct!

Usually people imply extending both healthspan and lifespan when they talk about longevity.
I agree.
But there is hope. You can also switch to this fork: https://github.com/Xfce-Classic/libxfce4ui-nocsd
I’m surprised about the map thing, too. The period also has two meanings and nobody complains. Compare 1.3 with a.b — same character, two meanings.
I follow a similar but handcrafted approach. I have a dotfiles repo with a setup script that automates the creation or deletion of all the symbolic links: https://github.com/susam/dotfiles/blob/master/setup

So what I do on any new system is just:

git clone https://github.com/susam/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
./setup

And if I want to undo all the setup for some reason:

./setup rm
Yeah, should be similar a lot of the time. Deep blues are the colors that are the most different.
With that kind of precision I would like to know what kind of system they use to reduce outside mechanical vibrations?
Not to mention that many of them (19%[0]) are ex-military with I'm sure some of them having either partially or fully formed PTSD (and whatever other mental issues combat/watching your squad getting blown up by an IED can bring).

[0]: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/30/when-veterans-...
Sorry, but you piqued my interest. What does “getting canceled” mean here? You made some projections which may or may not be correct... but do you think people would remember who you are and hold it against you in the future if you made that comment with your main account? I apologize if that isn’t what you meant, I’m just trying to understand your thinking.
I'm not especially familiar with either MVars or STM, so you'll have to make do with my first impressions...

MVars seem most useful for a token-passing / half-duplex form of communication between modules. I've implemented something very similar, in Java, when using threads for coroutines. (Alas, but Project Loom has not landed yet.) They don't seem to add a whole lot over a mutable cell paired with a binary semaphore. Probably the most valuable aspect is that you're forced to think about how you want your modules to coordinate, rather than starting with uncontrolled state and adding concurrency control after the fact.

STM seems very ambitious, but I struggle to imagine how to build systems using STM as a primary tool. Despite its advantages, it still feels like a low-level primitive. Once I leave a transaction, if I read from the database, there's no guarantee that what I knew before is true anymore. I still have to think about what the scope of a transaction ought to be.

Moreover, I get the impression that STM transactions are meant to be linearizable [1], which is a very strong consistency requirement. In particular, there are questions about determinism: if I have two simultaneous transactions, one of them must commit "first", before the other, and that choice is not only arbitrary, the program can evolve totally differently depending on that choice.

There are some situations where this "competitive concurrency" is desirable, but I think most of the time, we want concurrency for the sake of modularity and efficiency, not as a source of nondeterminism. When using any concurrency primitive that allows nondeterminism, if you don't want that behavior, you have to very carefully avoid it. As such, I'm most (and mostly) interested in models of concurrency that guarantee deterministic behavior.

Both LVars and logic programming are founded on monotonic updates to a database. Monotonicity guarantees that if you "knew" something before, you "know" it forever -- there's nothing that can be done to invalidate knowledge you've obtained. This aspect isn't present in most other approaches to concurrency, be it STM or locks.

The CALM theorem [2] is a beautiful, relatively recent result identifying consistency of distributed systems with logical monotonicity, and I think the most significant fruits of CALM are yet to come. Here's hoping for a resurgence in logic programming research!

> There's one exception in particular that I've seen begin to gain steam in the industry which I think is interesting, and that's Elixir.

I've not used Elixir, but I very badly want to. It (and Erlang) has a very pleasant "functional core, imperative shell" flavor to it, and its "imperative shell" is like none other I've seen before.

[1] https://jepsen.io/consistency/models/linearizable

[2] https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/an-overview-of-the-calm-th...
Of course I make bugs! But I strive to make less of them.

For instance, after I've reached programming maturity (i.e. the stage at which I'm not attached to a specific language, but are proficient in several, and can do basic work in any language you ask me to), I've learned to appreciate and make use of strong typing, precisely because it lets me add more (compiler-checked) rigor to my code. Even my Common Lisp code is as typed as the type system will allow me to (which is quite much). Programming this way is still difficult and fuzzy, but a little less fuzzy. Same with embracing certain styles and patterns of programming, that all help to narrow down the scope of things any piece of code could be doing at runtime.

I stand by my point: the more difficult your field is, the more care and rigor should be used in approaching it, if you care at all about making some kind of definitive statements about something that can survive the test of time.
this is especially interesting in the context of the hyperion books by dan simmons
Sure, why not:

1. I go to a job interview at a company that uses a chromebook with a restricted account. The interviewer sits next to me as I go through the process.

2. As we go through the steps in a google document, I need something from my resume on my website. I fumble with the URL bar slightly which hopefully has the doc ID, possibly because I once closed the document "by accident" and brought it back up.

3. While discussing whatever brought us to my website, I click on something but act like I am switching tabs.

4. At the end of the process in their document, I point out how strange the Google Docs looks now and press the feedback button to show my corporate soft skills.

5. The companies hiring interview document is now floating around my school and in 10 years half of their engineering is my Alma Mater.
What's an example of a person being "canceled" by leaving a good faith Hacker News comment?
My PCP is at a large local hospital chain, and I recently got an e-mail from them saying that they would notify people as soon as they met the eligibility criteria.

At least here, large multi-state hospital systems are expected to get shipments directly from the feds, and the state will be coordinating distribution to smaller providers.

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/Vaccine (See "How will vaccine distribution work?")
Building a Miro digital library to replicate the serendipity
How 'Big Data' Has Come to Mean 'Small Sampled Data' (2019)
Which is why FreeBSD has taken the world of UNIX by storm and is now the main UNIX clone in existence. /s
More broadly, if housing is so expensive people with full time jobs can't easily afford it, build more housing. Subsidizing it for certain groups is NIMBY-enabling tokenism.
I'm very skeptical about the claim of bucatini holding more sauce, because the hole is on the inside, and the sauce is on the outside.
The Biontech vaccine has actually been approved and distributed in the EU a couple of days ago. But the EU seems to have done a bad job on procurement, and vaccination will take longer as a result, with general availability in the summer, if and only if the AZ vaccine is approved.

It's a disaster and I'm pretty sure unless they can conjure up a solution, there will be a public outcry. But the EU and its members are pretty good at disavowing responsibility to one another when something bad happens.
Yes. Does it mean it's bad? For people that just start to learn the library, it's sometimes useful to have a visual representation. Also, helpful to have a list of main features.
> Everyone can have a six pack

Not really true. Some people's genetics make it difficult for a 6 pack to show even at a low body fat %.

> Not everyone can have hair

I mean, this is the whole problem that is trying to be solved here.

Imagine if everyone _could_ have hair!
Or build something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHyxakXed34
Yep :) I totally forgot about the backlit screen, a few people have also mentioned it in the comments. It was definitely a killer feature too! Playing in the night without a worry!
Frequent fliers are still a thing.

Your post is ill informed FUD.
I guess, only thing left now is to wait to scale, so price will drop to the something affordable.
I used to work for the coop that ran .coop ICANT's technical requirements are very stringent.
The original iMac was nice indeed (bought an iMac DV for my gf back then). But it was nothing compared to the original 9 inch b/w Mac/Mac SE relative to other computers at the time. Also, I liked the no-fan "toaster" G4 with its iconic flat screen display very much (a friend of mine prolonged its life with an aftermarket CPU/GPU upgrade kit) and remember the unpacking experience of my 15 inch G4 PowerBook, which got me excited like a child getting his first home computer, and generated that special smile on my face.
I dreamed once if the car that has a little shopping cart that dicks with the back of the car.
I've been there, too. Let me tell you, at $15K, you had better hope you're young and healthy. If not, you're in for a world of financial hurt.

It's kind of interesting that we have to rely on a social program that didn't exist until 1965 to live like the median 1935 person, though. Hm.
That site looks like a collection of copy-pasted standard "investment wisdom" articles. The word "petrodollar" used in this particular article strongly suggests a propaganda operation, similar to RT or ZeroHedge.
Probably I'm not reading it right. In 2D, .sum(axis=0) operation is column-wise but for .insert() and .delete() it seems row-wise?
Giant screens aren't expensive compared to the cost of those batteries for 500km range. Look at the new Korean EVs. They are basic but they still cost a lot.
I suppose, but couldn’t the author write about how her favorite pasta is actually available through mail order?
We feel like the worst parents in the world because our kids apparently don't need as much sleep as other kids.

We've tried extensive bedtime rituals, tried tiring them out by going to the forest and making em run etc, but we really can't get our 1,5 year old to need more sleep than we do.

Our 4 year old tends to sleep an hour longer in the morning, but the little one is really killing us from a freetime standpoint with his 7 hours a day of sleep he needs (5-6 at night, 30m-1h a day).

Naturally this is driving my wife and me insane.

Daycares were open, but we've decided to take our older one out to reduce his contacts and give the daycare some breathing room as they are also at their limits because they've had staff quitting because they didn't want to risk getting infected for this little money (understandable imo).

The whole situation for parents is absolutely disastrous, my wife should have been looking for a new job already, but it was simply not realistic for her to start working a new job with me retaining mine and the kids at home.

As a young family in a high cost-of-living metro-area we had to decide to move as we can't afford to live here while giving our kids the space at home they need without support that allows us to work effectively.
If you follow to it’s end the principle that makes gifts moral but theft immoral, or sex moral but rape immoral, or work moral but slavery immoral, yes you reach “anarcho-capitalism”
Can someone explain the Utah reference?
yeah why is pagination on HN so bad I've hit more 4 times to see your comment.
AGS-101 are so expensive nowadays that yes, it's cheaper to buy a regular SP + new case + IPS screen.
I read recently that the main reason cameras-on-laptops are stuck in '09, is because there's so little depth to work with in the laptop lid alongside the screen. I'd take that to mean the few additional mm thickness you get in a phone are very precious :)
Care to elaborate? I haven't encountered cancel culture at HN nor do I understand which risk you see should it occur.
Phase 1a, basically health care workers and nursing home patients, is some 24M people. At time of writing less than 10% have received even their first shot, so at current rates it's going to take quite some time to vaccinate them all.
I mean the insert and delete operations with axis value set to 0.
Yes! I’m kicking myself how I completely forgot this. This was as important as the charger to me
As an addendum, you may like to see what my thoughts are on formalizing the modularization of software systems. As noted elsewhere, I frame it in terms of concurrent systems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25567740
Now it turns out that kids at school are spreaders (especially of the new variant) - one of my friends who is a teacher has it.
I don't know satellites at all, so bear with me if I'm being too naive.

Would it be feasible to put a self-destructive program in each satellite, such that when it retires, it moves off the orbit away from the earth, and spirals away?
Time is one factor, it's also surprisingly easy to corrupt vfx master files with just a few missing bits.

Checksums will identify something went wrong, and then you need to redownload the file to a quarantine network and scan it. Takes time.

Much easier to go from trusted source to trusted source and verify the files on drive prior to shipping.

Amazon just released a device (forget the name) for exactly the same use case. We developed it in house.

Not to mention most major studios will contractually prevent you from exposing anything to the web.
It looks to me like Satoshi clearly intended for this to be a temporary limit that would be raised over time -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...

>It can be phased in, like:

>if (blocknumber > 115000)
> maxblocksize = largerlimit

I did try to have an open discussion on r/Bitcoin, but what I found was that answers to my questions were removed, and even my questions were removed. My conclusion was that that forum existed to push a narrative rather than have an open discussion.

I did see that Adam Back was challenged to a public debate on these issues, which I was very interested to see, and might have found very enlightening. Adam Back refused to defend his positions in debate though.

I've read a lot of your responses in various forums too, and while you're obviously very clever, I do find whenever I dig a little deeper into what you're saying, that you've misrepresented facts to support a narrative.