skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think the problem is with Americans driving to hospitals. How many staff do you need..how many parking spaces per hospital..how do you schedule and the exposure risk while congregating so many people.

While we are discouraging people to assemble in large numbers due to virulence, it makes no sense to invite people to ‘come and get it’.

Further: The cost of installing storage and refrigeration units for a small amount of doses is a lot more than mobile units because mobile units can service a lot more people and there will be less wastage due to spoilage.
I'd rather ask someone "in contact with aliens" a math question, where we could check the answer, than a question about the direction of technology which 1) gives them a binary choice (easier to fake), and 2) could result in some labs burning years of time, even if they don't blow themselves up.
Tangentially related... I like that data is presented, but I find it rather short term oriented.

I have lived in market rate neighborhoods and have known the angst of lease renewal, each year wondering whether I was going to be able to afford to stay. And I was effectively kicked out a couple of times, forced to pack up and move for economical reasons.

I have also lived in rent controlled areas where, even as a renter, these worries go away. Unsurprisingly to me, the character of the neighborhood changes quite a bit when everyone is not constantly worried about being kicked out. People can build for the long term, engage with their neighborhood organizations, form a stable community. You frequently see people staying in the same apartments for decades.

The nature of the changes induced by market rate housing vs rent controlled housing is much more long-term than what is considered there. Long-term turnover needs to be understood, not just rent rates.
Scott McNealy, under direct examination on 2012 April 26: "you can't license GPL code and then resell it for a profit"

Source: Official Reporters for the US District Court for the Northern District of California (regarding Oracle v. Google, 3:10-cv-03561)
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Wow - that bug can now legally drink in all 50 states!
I've been thinking a lot about the issue of blockchain enery usage recently. And I wonder how much culpability people who simply own cryptocurrency have for the ecological impacts. The logic goes like this: because someone owns cryptocurrency, the price is higher than it would otherwise be. Since the price is higher more miners mine the coin, and therefore expend more energy. So potentially the moral culpability for this lies beyond just the transactors.

In particular, this line of thinking, along with a general disenchantment with the blockchain space I've developed as I've learned more about it, is making me wonder whether I should sell the small amount of ETH I own. It hardly makes sense for me to hold ETH when it's morally questionable to do so, and even more questionable to transact in it, even if I think its price will increase.

Really, one thing that would help is global carbon taxes, so that the cost of ecological destruction is properly accounted for, but that seems politically infeasible to say the least.

I feel like this comment is perhaps not directly related to the article, so I'll add that this is a great accounting, I'd like to see more similar ones.
I'm not suggesting that being open minded requires giving all ideas equal credence, that's a strawman. Just that us humans tend to have strongly held opinions that are wrong far too often - like your sister in this case. If she was more open minded about her own beliefs that would be beneficial.
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I'm thinking the same thing that happened with the Navy sonar and the beached beaked whales... (see https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2018...)
Seems like metal arrowheads would not have been uncommon by 1835.
But when they did shift, it was a...
I have one of these sitting in my closet, the pre-acquisition development module I got off ebay for a few students to work with. The sensation is very strong, but the novelty wore off quickly.
(I forgot to mention it, but that summer could have been 2004)
> What I don't get is that hosting your own bridges requires the same $10/month subscription.

the website says the second self-hosting option is free
Tesla was at $38 a few years back.

Now its at $860ish.

Splits.

If you really wanna go nuts, the stock split king for tech is Microsoft, with 9, yet its also at its highest point per share than ever.

Stock splits aren't a good reason for a low stock price, in fact, usually if a stock is hot enough in demand to split, after the split, the prices almost always eclipses the pre-split price.
What axiom do you have to add, are you talking about the axiom of infinity, defining the set of natural numbers? Because you do need that, but without that wouldn't even be able to define uncountability. After that, you can define the reals using Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences, which was known at the time (I believe Cantor actually worked on the Cauchy sequence construction). But there's an even simpler uncountable set: the power set of the natural numbers. Super easy to define, and the diagonalization argument falls right out.
Go ahead and buy licenses as a show of support, but I strongly suggest that you exercise the converter scripts in both directions, partially to know what will cause them to fail, and partially to have an option when the vendor misbehaves.

Red Hat offers a "no support" server license for $350/year, which is the lowest licensing tier. Tiers with more capability and support are available for $800, and $1300.

https://www.redhat.com/en/store/red-hat-enterprise-linux-ser...

Oracle has a larger range of tiers. The "no support" license is $120/year. Tiers with more capability and support are available for $500, $1200, $1400, and $2300.

https://www.oracle.com/linux/

Oracle Linux can be used in production without a paid license of any kind; Red Hat Linux cannot be used in this way for large deployments (excepting the new 16-seat license for a developer account).

Red Hat is aggressive with software audits; I have seen one.

Both Oracle and Red Hat now have complete toolsets to convert support between an installed CentOS/RedHat/Oracle OS.

Red Hat can now convert an installed CentOS or Oracle Linux to RHEL; previously a wipe and reinstall was required ("have fun reinstalling your system" is still on Oracle's CentOS site). The description looks much more thorough in replacing all possible packages with Red Hat versions:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360841

Oracle does not replace CentOS or RedHat RPMs in their conversion (AFAIK), so it is much less violent on the platform changes.

https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol

https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/reasons-for-switching-centos-...
Yeah, this is most familiar to me too. Still, I'd argue it's 1-based.
00:00 is a point in time, but the first second is between 00:00:00 and 00:00:01, and it's "00:00:01" when it has elapsed.

No?
They are able to trust it only because the last rung of the supply chain..the grocery store..discards and wastes so much produce to put out only the best and prettiest looking produce on the shelves.

The wastage is enormous...and unconscionable.
Yeah, this seems like someone said: 'If it's a huge effect, we should be able to see it with a relatively weak study.' As it turns out, the weak study turned up nothing, indicating it's either a weaker effect or the study was pointed at the wrong people in one way or another (eg, northern europeans may have different response from people in india, or there's a smaller subpopulation that it makes a difference for, but they get lost in the bigger study).
One can generalize this joke and use mathematical Induction to tell infinite jokes.
> And even then, audio and suspend/resume didn't work (well, suspend was fine, resume... not so much)

The computer never woke and needed to be hard-rebooted if it was ever allowed to suspend? I ran into this after installing Linux on a MacBook, downgrading the kernel to an old LTS release eventually worked.
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There's a huge difference between doing that and doing it with an interstellar object going incredibly fast and extremely far away.
I'm curious if the people excited about this have tried it. The sensations are IMO not compelling. They definitely don't transform Minority Report-style air gestures into a viable mode of interaction. I think the cooler trick that ultrasonic phased arrays can perform is levitating 3D patterns of tiny styrofoam spheres.

For those wanting to experiment with hand controlled UI, an Oculus Quest is probably the best entry point. Development is very accessible; you can access the hand tracking in the browser from JavaScript and go to town. And if you need more than hand tracking can provide, you get controllers too.
> you don't know who you are arguing with and you don't know what positions they actually hold.

Good point. A lot of argumentation comes down to whether the arguments they make are consistent across similar arguments they make.

Knowing who they are I think is less important.
The fact that "Indigenous People's Day" is placed over top of Columbus Day sends the message that its purpose is, first and foremost, to erase and shame the historical appreciation of European settlement of the Americas. The author shouldn't be surprised that his friends are celebrating the genuine spirit of the holiday.
I find the term "NIMBY" to be an offensive low-effort pejorative. It's a way of using a label to dismiss ideas and policies people have good, legitimate reasons to support.

The article opens with a broad caricature of "Right-NIMBYs", which is completely farcical and made in bad faith:

> We’re all familiar by now with Right-NIMBYs — conservatives who block transit and housing development in order to keep poor people and minorities out of their quiet white-flight suburban neighborhoods.

People have reasons to block housing development that don't have anything to do with poor people or minorities. To ascribe this intention as the primary motivation is ridiculous, and completely self-serving. In reality, the main reason for most people to block development is simply that they enjoy their present neighborhood character, lifestyle, sense of space/openness, access to amenities that are not over-subscribed, etc.
Yes, but only one of them campaigned on the opposite position 3 years ago.
It’s little things like this that keep me from using Firefox. Context menus, various micro-interactions, visual design decisions—they all feel so non-native.
AkkaHttp is written on top of Streams. There are many more things written using it but Http is a good example to learn from.
I’m at least as interested in the pure awesomeness that is cicadamania.com
I like this framing quite a bit :)
Thanks very much for the reply! I've heard that the work hours are much longer for sure than your avg tech job. Is there anything about law that you personally miss in tech?
Facebook’s AI for the visually impaired gets more accurate
It already does. If a new release of the extension requires new permission, it gets disabled till the user gives consent.
You can be asked to leave for the remainder of the day under the standing rules if you violate certain points of etiquette.
Interesting post for me in general (didn't know that Sweden did that "enrichment" + destroys at the same time my idea of "milk" just being "milk").

In general I would think that if there are countries that are not poor in relation to vitamin D, then it would be Sweden & Norway, as I understand that fish does contain a lot of vitamin D (random hit here: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-foods-high-in-vitamin... ) (at the same time I'm subjectively assuming that people in Sweden & Norway & other nordic countries eat a lot more fish that others) => I'm therefore conflicted: if that's correct, assuming as well that the population eats fish (relatively often), then why enrich milk with extra vitamin D?
I would have to say the vast _vast_ majority of YIMBYs on here would not support the phrase "BOMB CONDOS NOT MURALS". That's a whole different person. No, the YIMBYs on here are just programmers that want to pay $2200 RENT instead of $3400 - $4000 so they effectively get more out of their $200K salary.
Why does buying stuff matter? Relatively very few if any buy stuff with gold.
It's rather depressing honestly. The catastrophic risk of ecosystem collapse aside, when I have kids it'll be sad if I can't catch fireflies/lightning bugs with them since the bugs seem to be dying out.
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The flow of Tether into Bitcoin generally correlates to the rise in price...

Tether is being used to manipulate bitcoin up and down.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/attorney-general-james-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robkniaz/2020/12/16/the-problem...
I have one and it is not even close to useful. I had similar ideas but it is light years away from being as good as a keyboard shortcut.

I imagined waving my hands around like tom cruise in minority report but it jumps around way too much and is horribly imprecise.
I not arguing about design uncertainty, rather production uncertainty. A failure in the production is more likely to fail on the first flight then the 3rd.
Nobody has an absolute legal right to use a platform. And no platform has an absolute legal right to be hosted by an infra provider. Both the platform and the provider are private sector actors with almost unlimited control/freedom over what they choose to allow on their property.

You're on firmer ground if you argue a moral (rather than legal) right to these things. But to the extent that these moral rights have been violated, that deprivation was undertaken by private sector actors; not by the government or Democrats.
I know this is hacker news but I think an article/review like this is the perfect opportunity to point out the continued injustices being committed against the people native to the land that is now the USA.

After a genocide and several centuries of discrimination, the American government continues to enact and enforce policies that lead to abject poverty on native reservations[1]. The relationship between the US government and native tribes is a disgusting example of how our elected officials have leveraged their power systemically against a minority group and abuses continue to this day[2]. These aren't just people in folk lore stories, they are living tribes condemned to poverty in barren swaths of land by our government.

In Colorado there is still a monument at the capitol in Denver and a prominent mountain named after one of the men that orchestrated the Sand Creek Massacre, an undeniably disgusting and heinous moment in our history.

[1]https://www.indigenouspeoples-sdg.org/index.php/english/ttt/...
[2]https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/9/23/20872713/native-a...
I think by natural world the author meant non-biological.

If the object was biological, then it would be even more support for the existence of extraterrestrial life.
This is lowest of the low level retarded shit all over again.

Taking any chemical in isolation is overall bad for humans. Nutrient-nutrient interaction is hugely underestimated. Taking a lot of one random nutrient can put everything else off-balance.

Humans have lived in the Northest parts for tens of thousands of years and never needed "supplements".
Why is it so hard to horizontally scale a working chip fab (i.e. copy-and-paste the entire plant to get more throughput)?

Is it a bottleneck on staffing people with the required expertise (i.e. are the only people who can run a given process node, the same people who designed/operationalized that process node)?
Thanks for the link to arguman. Looks really interesting.

I'm not the biggest fan of the visual tree and would prefer people not to stray from plain text entry as much as possible - but maybe of course this is not possible!
Pretty sure Rust has supported aarch64 Linux targets for ages. It is just aarch64 Darwin/macOS target support which needed to be added.
> If you're correct, why doesn't anyone point at a famous portrait painting by a renowned artist, or a photorealistic pencil sketch of a fruit bowl and say, "anyone could do that"? These works might have very little creative effort, but people recognize they wouldn't be able to reproduce such a piece, so they don't make that statement.

The reason that people won't say "anyone could do that" about something that is indeed incredibly difficult is simply because it would be a clearly false claim. I didn't try to list all cases where people would not say that. I only explained what I think people generally mean when they do say that. Of course most people cannot do these supposedly "uncreative" yet difficult tasks like running really fast or lifting very heavy weights [0].

People say "anyone could do that" about things which they think are fairly simple to physically reproduce and which they think required very little creative effort. Physically reproducing a famous novel on a typewriter is relatively simple, but the creative effort required is clearly immense. Thus people do not say "anyone could do that." Physically reproducing hundreds of pages of seemingly random text like "asdfasdfasdf" is roughly as easy as reproducing the famous novel, but certainly appears to require much less creative effort. If someone was shown a book with hundreds of pages of that seemingly random text, they very well might say "anyone can do that."

[0] I actually reject this part entirely, because I suspect world-class excellence in all of these things actually do require a great deal of creativity and original problem-solving in honing one's mental and physical states. Photorealistic pencil sketches, for example, presumably require no less creativity than photography, and photography is widely recognized as a creative art form.
Power plants use water as coolant. Coal fired plants and nuclear plants with their cooling towers. Oil and natural gas takes water to produce.
Something I find useful, and perhaps isn't widely known is that you can pop curly braces into the format part of an f-string to have dynamic formatting:

value = 5/6
precision = 2
print(f"{value:.{precision}f}")

> 0.83
"But you definitely get a different sense of the Iliad (and one that's not really wrong) if you think of it as Chief Might of the People and Chief Great Leader drawing on their alliances with other chiefs to reclaim Chief Might of the People's wife, who had been abducted by Strong Defender, the son of Chief Courageous."

So when Neal Stephenson named Hiro Protagonist he was being retro.
There would be a __future__ import to turn it on, at least for some number of releases. But yeah, I'm not sure it should ever be the default behavior. It makes most sense to me as a per-module opt-in, but then a __future__ import doesn't make sense. And we've resisted having per-module pragmas, so maybe it's dead in the water.
Awesome, Eric! Keep it up!
Net neutrality is fairness. Access isn't fair if it isn't neutral.

Anyone telling you otherwise (Ajit Pai) doesn't care about you.
Where I am it spans the full political spectrum, I'd say the main determining factor isn't politics but wealth. People that own nice houses in suburbs close to the city are against development whether they're socialists or conservatives.

The problem fundamentally seems to be that both support high immigration for different reasons, but don't want the new migrants to be able to live in their suburb. Both can get elected because they're responsibilities for different levels of government.
It's a boffinism! Some fields/sectors do use it like a mass noun as you point out. Often refers to a set of routines or a library. So something like "ocean model codes" means packages of routines or libraries for ocean weather simulation.
I'm bothered by this because Vim is free, with only a hopeful plea for a donation to a charity for helping Uganda as the "payment."

It feels a tad unethical to be charging for a slightly more fancy, maybe kinda gamified, vimtutor. Like, just make a vim plugin that does this in vim and let that be your community donation.

But I suppose business is business eh.
Gotcha! That's great (and a good reminder for us to reconnect with ThoughtWorks too :) We'll have to see if Globant would be willing to share some lessons learned with us.

One of the problems we noticed in the Middle East & North Africa is a lack of agencies / development houses that do this at a high quality. In Eastern Europe lots of people go from college into a dev house for 2 years, and then qualify for great remote jobs (which usually require at least 2 years of experience).

We believe there's value to getting talent straight into the top tech companies, and that we will be able to develop a more scalable approach to teaching them these skills (communities are powerful & scale quickly). But it can be a challenge to get companies to hire engineers that have just graduated from college and have no work experience, so we'll need to find solutions to that. One approach that is working well for us is internships. Companies like Google have great programs and our talent has been doing really well interviewing for those opportunities.
If the price comes down I'd be very keen.
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OpenBSD has an even better reputation.

I would at least say it is more consistent, without having a split between the man and info commands.
Today-era functional languages (so basically haskell and scala) don't do that at the "host PL" level, but you can model it in-band, and modeling embedded PLs is what most of the cool FP research for the last 5 years is all about. Free monad, tagless-final interpreters, etc. You make a DSL with abstract capabilities and then code your application in that. Any reified behaviors end up encoded into the type. I hear Facebook is using algebraic effects to model and track data access.
Lockheed and Boeing would both easily get government bailouts if it came to it, for the same reason I believe Intel would.

America can no longer cede ground in high-tech manufacturing to anywhere else in the world.

Hong Kong should have been the wake-up call for this. If China can subjugate Hong Kong, they can subjugate Taiwan. I'm not convinced the average American would support a war against China to free Taiwan, even if it did mean no more iPhones for them.

So the only other option is America has to return to being a bastion a high-tech manufacturing. The Wall Street types don't like this because it doesn't make them enormous margins. They're under the belief that offshoring everything will be fine, because to their mind, commerce and trade are the most important things in the world. They lack the mentality to understand that Communist China simply does not share this mindset.

That should be obvious with China "re-educating" their version of Elon Musk or Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg or whoever you want to compare him to - Jack Ma. No one is above "the Party". This isn't something that Wall Street types understand, because this is extremely bad for business, and they don't "get" why someone would sabotage profits for ideology. I would call it a Western failing, but frankly it was America and our Allies that failed in World War II. We should have listened to Patton and finished off Stalin, and then went to work on Mao, but we lacked the courage to do it.

Now this is where we are.
Quite the opposite. I can work about 10x more and better than before. No interruptions, better good, cheaper, more time
The more efficient version of this is .format_map(locals())
>Not consuming meat would reduce transportation of feed

Not consuming meat would also reduce its price. This would enable people who couldn't eat as much meat before to eat more meat. It might have a smaller impact on developed nations, but likely a larger one in developing nations.