skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Look into Albert Ellis and "long term hedonism".
What happened at Columbine was the logical conclusion to the upholding of an American ethos that affirms a privilege to arms and violence as a valid response to grievance, which is itself rooted in our history of (race-based) slavery. More directly, the Columbine shooters were influenced by Timothy McVeigh and the militia movement, who was and which were explicitly white supremacist.

What's disgusting is that this keeps happening, and that white Americans are so married to this ethos that they'll sacrifice their children to maintain it, and that people like you would rather flag and dismiss a post pointing out this dynamic than introspect. What's inflammatory is this purposeful and obstinate denial, while all the world watches in pity.
It seems like some segment of people with power have decided that the lesson to be learned from China is that the great firewall is effective.
Federal Minimum Wage of $15?
Honest question. If your back hurt and your primary-care-physician recommended you see a chiropractor but you saw on wikipedia that chiropractic is pseudoscience with a risk of injury; how would you proceed?
Most speedtests aren't designed to test very high speeds. It could just be that the server on the other side was congested.
The universe is too big for that. Civilizations just 150 light years away could not spot us by any means we can even imagine.
I think the joke is that we programmers don't consider such implied requirements.
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Clubhouse is a one-trick pony: by following the scarcity principle on multiple levels (iPhone-only, invite-only, audio-only, ...) it creates the feeling of superiority for the ones who are in the position to join the exclusive circle. That's it.
Except ginger is no more synonymous with orange than tawny or tangerine are, which they do discuss as close color names for orange.
> Could it also be that there is still a bit of a stigma in male circles, for that type of work?

No it's not. You are actually considered a genius if you work in STEM in general

> sitting at your desk "playing" with computers is probably not respected as much as elsewhere.

I'd say this changed in the last decade a lot. But there is a difference between sitting home playing video games while jobless and working in STEM.
Uh, no? _concat is a type-level function and you can't generalize it to receive runtime arguments in any way. I do acknowledge the value of type-level evaluation, but there is a very deep gap between type-level evaluation and dependent typing.
RP2040's PIO is more like TI's [PRU] than ESP32's FSM ULP.

All 3 are specialized "secondary" processor cores, but PIO & PRU are fast (faster than main CPU for bit-banged IO), where ULP is much slower (but low-power).

[PRU] https://beagleboard.org/pru
Especially for youth yes, but there are exercises for that too.
Delays seem to have been "solved" by scheduling the flight to be longer: a flight that takes 90 minutes is now scheduled for 2 hours, and everyone gets to be happy that it landed early (well, except it means you have to wait for the people picking you up at the airport).

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190405-the-secret-abo...

Hah looking at that article, I just realized why airlines even care: bigger time margin to be on-time means the airline would have to pay out less compensation claims for significant delays. (In the example above, now they can be late for 3.5 hours instead of 3 hours).
> In the US, the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) has basically said that employers can require employees to get vaccinated.

Once they're FDA approved, sure, but none of the vaccines currently being distributed are approved yet so I doubt this will be enforceable for another two or three years.
The flu shot is mandatory at some workplaces. https://www.latimes.com/business/newsletter/2020-09-29/flu-s...
Yeah, I honestly think there are some great learnings to be had from fossil that could be applied to git as well. Its unfortunate that ticketing, wikis, etc are all vendor specific for git (gitlab, github, bitbucket, sr.ht, etc) but with fossil you get it all at the same time.
I am all for high bandwidth, but it blows my mind that people have the expectation to do video conferencing at 1080p quality. It is bluray quality, which was only available 10years ago in offline / disk format. It is great if we can but I wouldn't call it a requirement.
You're going to have to provide a link to whatever you're talking about. The Pi Pico is the only hardware product that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is releasing to the general public today. They have partners releasing other products based on the RP2040.

I think you're referring to the Pi Pico, but you think it's called something else. There is no product called "Pi Si", as far as I can find. The link that this HN post is pointing to is about the Pi Pico.

If you're just referring to the chip itself ("Raspberry Silicon", "RP2040"), all surface mount chips have to be used on a "motherboard" (PCB) of some kind, so the question seems irrelevant. Based on the datasheet, yes, the chip seems to have no internal flash, so you have to use an external flash chip, but even if it did have internal flash... you would still have to use the chip on a PCB, so it doesn't matter in regards to the original question.
Is the employer then liable if negative side effects occur from the vaccine?
Indeed --- if HTTP was a binary protocol, with headers and their values being defined constant integers, this would definitely not happen. No one would confuse 1 with 2, and implementations would probably be quite a bit more efficient... but the "lamers" really want their pile of leaky abstractions because they can't be bothered using a hex editor. 


Nevermind the fact that some parts of HTTP are really just binary written as text, and now even most non-developers know what a 404 is...
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It's a flexible distinction. Loitering munitions and combined ISR+kinetic portable weapons are a major focus area for medium to small militaries, and consequently as a product for arms exporters.

The key benefit is providing tactical situational awareness for militaries that may not have such a capability at the strategic level (e.g. optical satellites, high endurance drones, air superiority).

Israeli and Turkish systems were used in the recent Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9V9mbC-Esmg
Well, it's a fundamental technique in statistical genetics, so the paper doesn't explain it in depth. MR uses the technique of instrumental variables. [1] looks like a good explanation.

The basic idea is to identify a variable Z (genotype, in the case of MR) that causally impacts your outcome Y (COVID, in this case) only through your exposure X (vitamin D levels). If you can find and measure such a variable Z (which meets a few other conditions [2]), then you can robustly identify whether X has a causal impact on Y only from observational data.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgB2WGGKUw

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variables_estimat...
Yeah I agree with your comment. Also, he could host it somewhere cheaper after launch and just keep the site up. Getting high up in the SEO isn't really built over the course of one day.

I am sure he could self-host it or rent a cheap server somewhere. AWS is crazy expensive so it seems kind of unnecessary to host it there if you are low on cash. I host a site with 40 TB worth of images and my bill is probably way less than his was.
Health and Safety and also the employers duty of care to the employees.
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Let's not argue semantics here. An arbitrary sequence of bytes is an opaque data type, it has no structure, no meaning, no assumption can be made, and it must simply be passed on as is because it can be anything.

That's why they write that it should be treated as opaque data. My point (and the point of the comment I was replying to) is that 'should' is perhaps too weak a word in the context because previous history. In any case for robustness it is a must to treat it that way.
> Cities aren't in any way preventing improvements elsewhere.

Opportunity cost. Why spend your installation technician's time in an unprofitable rural region when you can better-spend their time in a profitable city?
Pretty slick well done!
He was appointed by the Obama/Biden administration, so I'm quite ambivalent on the question. I feel like almost everyone in tech wants him to go but I may be just projecting my own bias.
Interstellar travel simply isn't happening without something like the Alcubierre drive.
it works already - and only the bridge needs to be updated.
Everything else can stay the same.
on the other hand, I'm mostly staring blankly at my webcam with a static background. though admittedly the webcam sensor is a lot noisier :)

but yeah, I suppose the update rate of most screen sharing is pretty low.
Ohoooo, that was a nice one !
> Most scientists and pet owners assumed the only reason that cats roll around in catnip was for the euphoric experience, Miyazaki says. "Our findings suggest instead that rolling is rather a functional behavior.”

There is no incompatibility between proximal and distal, what they call functional, explanations of behavior. Once you have a brain with a reward system, a good way to encourage (discourage) a behavior that is (dis)functional is to make it (dis)pleasurable.

A similar distinction in explanations of human behavior is what anthropologists call [emic/etic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic). The emic viewpoint is that of the subject themselves; the etic viewpoint is that of the anthropologist (the ethologist in this case). A classical, and beautiful example is Malinowski's description of the [Kula ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_ring) in Papua New Guinea. Participants in the ring see themselves as exchanging presents; Malinowski showed that there is a further political and economic significance to the ring. The two perspectives are perfectly compatible.
1) Bitcoin can be powered by renewable sources of electricity such as solar and it is very cost effective to do so.

2) Bitcoin uses about as much power as New Zealand.

3) The amount of bitcoin mining is 6.25 bitcoins every 10 minutes which halves every few years. The more mining, the less the miners make. If bitcoin had 1/100th as many miners, it would use 1/100th as much energy but still function and work the same. However, it would be 100x more profitable to be a miner and less secure.

4)As the mining rewards halve, we can expect the people willing to mine to halve and the electrical usage to halve.

5) Ethereum is moving away from proof of work to proof of stake in it’s transition to Ethereum 2.0. This will make eth use orders of magnitude less power to the point where as long as you hold 32 Ethereum you could be processing Ethereum transactions from just your mobile phone.

6) Many altcoins are more energy efficient or use their hash power for something useful. Remember Primecoin?
More game dev stuff is always good, but the title "game engine" is very misleading. Game engines normally refer to things like Unity or Godot : Not only do they include a framework for handling game logic, an engine provides things like asset management, level editor, etc.

This looks more like a "game framework", which is basically a wrapper around opengl/directx/etc. which abstracts the low level stuff and gives programmers an easy way to render sprites, have a gameloop and whatnot.
The Viking Origins of the Iconic Bluetooth Name and Symbol
The Reply All episodes on the real life version of this are a really good listen if you haven't heard them already: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2hx34/

(Short interview with one of the hosts on the episode: https://www.fastcompany.com/90249924/reply-all-podcast-nypd-...)
Why now's the time for a new microservice catalog
>I've always thought of Fermi's paradox as ultimately a math problem, assuming a conservative amount of time between a civilization in one star system colonizing a neighboring star system, over billions of years every star system in the galaxy should be colonized by now.

I've never found this argument particularly compelling, as it seems too simplistic and ignores a vast number of possible confounding variables such as stars not being equally amenable to colonization, or even equidistant to each other, and the likely stability of civilizations over such timescales.

It seems far more likely to me that any civilization that colonizes another star sees diminishing returns given the risk and reaches some limit rather than seeking infinite, exponential expansion.

>The fact that we are not getting signals from the considerable number of stars that are within a reasonable distance is concerning. It does point to a great filter that we are not seeing or understanding. Or at least an enormous misconception about our universe.

For one thing, the observable universe contains billions of galaxies, which means the vast majority of stars are unreasonably distant.
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Yes. Was supposed to step down yesterday.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/30/21726645/ajit-pai-fcc-...
My 2 cents:

Algebraic data types (tagged unions) are very useful for representing syntax trees and other things of the sort.

I'm not sold on the idea of going 100% purely functional (a-la haskell) though. Even a compiler written in a nonfunctional language is already going to be architected as a series of passes. The thing that makes it hard is not the presence of mutable global state. It's more the actual algorithms and optimizations.
Why wouldn't we assume that? Even with the ability to synthesize full DNA molecules, we haven't yet figured out how to make a living cell from scratch. If our best synthetic biologists still find it impossible to assemble a viable cell while having all the tools to do so in theory, I wouldn't expect it to be likely to happen by accident, barring some quantum weirdness that makes the starseeder hypothesis seem positively banal.

As to deliberateness... I see the difference between starseeder and panspermia hypotheses that in the former; life happened once in a gravity well, became multicellular, figured out a means to escape the gravity well, and then spread throughout the galaxy while in the latter; life happened once in space, drifted a while, got stuck in a gravity well and then figured out how to be multicellular.

I suppose - particularly given the vastness of the places with no gravity wells compared to places with gravity wells - that it's my own gravity-well bias that makes me reach for 'starseeder' hypotheses before panspermia ones. But I think whether life was multicellular before or after the bulk of the interstellar spreading, the instinct of life to spread would be the motive force whatever its problem solving capabilities.
But then that becomes a paradox because the fact that the statement is useless makes it useful.
> Nevertheless, [Quietism] was embraced by a thinker who had a significant influence on Beckett’s personal outlook and literary vision: the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860).

anyone who wants to read more about Schopenhauer, it took me a while to start as a non-philosopher so maybe this is useful to some.

Schopenhauer assumes one is familiar with not just all his previous work, but also all the thinkers influencing him, as well as Greek, Latin and several European languages (who wouldn't!!?). Despite, this his "Parerga and Paralipomena"[0] provides a very accessible glimpse into his ideas and the person (it has been translated into other languages too).

Reading him (oddly) has also made Kant more accessible to me (something I thought I had given up trying to understand). While I don't agree with every single thing Schopenhauer said (he is a raging critic of Hegel & Fichte - probably anyone that he didn't agree with lol) his ideas remain worth looking at. A shame he doesn't get more recognition in the non German speaking world. (maybe some people here into philosophy know why he hasn't gained more traction (especially for Parerga and Paralipomena)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parerga_and_Paralipomena
[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=Parerga%20und%20Paralip...
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That's pretty clearly not it. The UK for example has seen no spike in murders:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283093/homicides-in-the-...

The most obvious explanation is also the simplest: American cities spent most of 2020 attacking their own police forces, psychologically and financially.
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I know this joke, but in the version I've heard it's mechanical engineering students instead of programmers, their professors instead of conference participants, and the aircraft itself instead of the flight control software.

But the structure is the same.
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I find it difficult to respond without emotion, to such a comment. We likely know very very little about physics right now.

My point with Newtonian physics is that at the time, it was The Physics. According to observation capable at the time, it seemed to make sense, with a few little oddities.

To them, they thought they had a small hole in current physics. Does that sound like your "small hole" in current physics today?

You believe we are knowledgeable, for we posses knowledge our ancestors do not. You believe we are right, for our observations tell us so. Yet how will we observe the universe 1000 years from now? 100? What tools will we have?

Place yourself 1000 years hence. Our ancestors will look back, and see our current physics as we view Romans babbling on about The Elements and aethers. Yes, to our descendants, our science is absurdly simple, filled with holes, broken, the list goes on.

We are not even remotely sure if space/time is consistent outside of our local region of space!

Back to your Newtonian statement, what if all of our current physics was thus? A viewpoint which only worked under certain circumstances. From where I sit, this is the reality.

We work with what we have, but must keep the knowledge of our massive ignorance in play too!
I disagree, in fact I have a lot of respect for Netflix for continuing to try and support out of date devices. There's a handful of old tablets and TV boxes that support barely anything these days, but they're still capable of blitting MPEG to screen, so there is still some use in them.

As you said though, no respect for vendors pushing out new devices that are EOL before they've even shipped though.
It's all about computation.

The computer running universe-simulations needs to be able to run fast. Regularities can be integrated quickly. Life not so much.

Life can make computers which can ask computations which can't be reduced.

Therefore as soon as a big enough computer is built somewhere in the universe, the whole simulation-time starts crawling to an halt because the inner computer use all the resources, and future times in the universe where there are many of those computers never get to be materialized.

Alternatively, solutions using time-travel allows to run simulations of longer simulation-time, by introducing a time-coherence force which prevent such computer (aka biological-numerical instabilities) to ever emerge.
I'm curious: what was the situtation when they first ate olives?
> I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4. There is some mental block beyond 'free', yet these same people decry WA's privacy changes.

For some people the issue is not about the money but about giving it to a vendor-locked platform and have access to the app depend on it. I happily did donations to open-source projects such as MyExpenses [1] and Netguard [2] to support the projects and unlock features. And can still use these now that I went for a mobile with Android but without Google Services/GCM.

[1] https://www.myexpenses.mobi/
[2] https://netguard.me/
The real problem is that Go does not actually have a string type. It only has byte strings which can accidentally also be text strings encoded in utf-8.

This is a very, very sloppy way to handle text, and will inevitably lead to a huge number of mistakes and broken software.

Any well-designed modern language really should make a strong separation between raw byte buffers and text strings. They are very different things, and one can definitely not trivially be converted to the other.
What is also interesting in this case is the Indian government's stance on this rollout. They have been quite close to FB and Zuck (he's had several meetings with the PM). The propaganda machine in the country relies heavily on WhatsApp and FB to spread (dis/mis)information and polarizing content. Majority of the country's population which is above poverty line is on one or both the platforms. The older generation amongst them, and many many younger gens too, tend to be more gullible and more conservative minded, which makes this self propagating behemoth utterly indispensable to anyone looking to reach the masses with a message.

Very predictably then, the govt does not want to lose out on the reach offered by this platform and is fighting for users' "right to privacy", which is just a farce to keep opinions positive, if you ask me. I say this because, on the other hand, they have claimed in the Supreme Court that privacy is not a fundamental right [1] and the country capital's High Court has told certain petitioners against WhatsApp that they can stop using the app if they don't like [2].

[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-fundamental-rig...

[2]: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/dont-use-whatsapp-if-...
Hah! Yes, HN seems to have eaten a pair of asterisks.

In any case, double-asterisks is bold in my mind, even if Slack seems to think otherwise.
The first two logisticians, each being a flawed human capable of error, might have answered "I don't know" despite not wanting dessert.
From what I got from the spec, HTTP headers are supposed to be ASCII or opaque bytes.
Thanks for the link, I edited my comment
Surprisingly enough, aside from his grand meme-filled display of repealing Net Neutrality articles, nothing really happened as a result of it.
I'm going to be the contrarian here and agree with this definition. I think it's more important that the government prioritizes making access to 25/3 available to everyone before making 100/15 (or whatever the new standard is suppose to be) available to the people who already have 25/3.
A check with Trump’s signature would have been easier to cash (May 2020)
Harriers, F-35s, and Ospreys are all VTOL aircraft that could’ve launch from a sub. The other airplanes have only one engine and the osprey 2. They already land vertically on carriers.

I don’t think the image in the article would’ve worked where planes take off going straight up without additional thrusters.
> country is so dysfunctional as to not provide free vaccination for this

Vaccines are free in most Eu countries and the USA... not sure what you’re on about
Messages are stored in encrypted form on the Beeper server and the Beeper client has a local search index (the same one used by Element desktop: https://github.com/matrix-org/seshat)
That's brilliant!
This is an interesting perspective I haven't considered. Isn't the exposure here the Vitamin deficiency? And so that could have chronic effects even though the infection is acute.
Thanks for the feedback! I just replied to your opened Github issue (the app requires more RAM to function than your docker can allocate - you can add more memory via docker engine settings).