skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Missing from this is 1) They are not handsome guys and that is a real factor (you don't have to be pretty, but it's hard to to be ugly) and 2) They are way to old looking to have inspired their most recent hits. Kids won't go for that.

I know this is some very hardcore marketing realpolitik but this is it.

Sia covers her face because she's not pretty, not because 'it's art'.

Adele's albums are closeups of her face not anything else, because she's attractive there, that said, she always wore herself well enough it didn't matter that much.

One of the few 'not good looking' is Ed Sheeran, but he's at least young, he's not going age well in front of the camera, it may not matter that much.

Google 'famous singers' and they are all quite attractive. Shawn Mendez and Justing Bieber are both one in at least 10 000 attractive. The ladies it's much harder to tell because of their makeup.

What would have made this much more interesting is if Daft Punk decided to actually 'replace themselves' and just let others take on the helmets. If they really wanted to milk it they could have gone for 'multiple versions' i.e. a standing show in Vegas, NY and Duabi or something with stand-ins. That's completely selling out but hey. There are possibly some legit ways to do that, like actually getting extremely talented producers and artists into the masks for a while to help kick of their career. They could make some really nice PR out of a culty thing like that.
The Guy Making a Million a Year Delivering Cookies to His Hood
Some interesting stuff here about business opportunities related to food in today's social climate.
I'm on the "Agile Octopus" tariff in the UK and this is broadly how it works - the next days prices are available around 4pm the day before, giving you time to plan. There is also a cap of 35p/kWh (the standard fixed rate tariff is 15p/kWh for comparison) which limits the downside risk somewhat. In peak hours during the winter it regularly hits the cap. Bit of a halfway house between pure time of use and fixed tariffs.
From December 22nd, for a hospital to be ready in 7 days.
The divergent timeline model is indeed even necessary in the first place to achieve exponential growth. If there is only one timeline, only linear growth is possible (because the subjective history doesn’t split if the timeline doesn’t split, so there’s ever only a single subjective history overall).

Exponential growth furthermore requires that the time jumps are done “atomically” in increasingly larger groups (of people). If each member jumps separately/individually, they would each create their own separate timeline and thus again only add 1 to the member population on that timeline.
This is why the trickiest landing with a floatplane is when the air is still and the water is glassy smooth. You can't tell where the surface is as you descend!

Have a little wind to make ripples in the water and your job as a pilot is much easier.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/january/fl...

https://www.flytheshark.com/guide-to-seaplane-flying/takeoff...
or "Something to keep us entertained until they made those Conan Movies"
Memory latency often has a bigger impact on performance than capacity. Your CPU spends a lot more time waiting around than you'd expect.

With NVMe, I'd rather have 16GB LPDDR4X than 64GB low-JEDEC, high latency DDR3 memory. More RAM is still good in many cases, but it's not vital like it was 15 years ago when you'd end up in swap hell or OOMing constantly over a GB or two.
Allowing every participant a set amount of time to speak during each motion, no matter whether they are engaged with the motion, is individualist. It's most often abused by individuals seeking to filibuster the later motions on the agenda, against the democratic will of the group.

An alternative would be that points for and against a motion could be agreed collectively in advance of the formal decision-making meeting, and communicated in a way which does not interrupt the voting session. A system which worked like that would potentially be much more respectful to everyone's time (since everyone doesn't have to sit through one rogue senator's bullshit).
> You could even have a long cable that hangs behind the plane and keeps an electrical connection until you're a few hundred feet up.

I can assure you this will never ever happen. It’s wildly impractical, improbable, and sounds extremely unsafe. Sure, it’s theoretically possible, but that’s about it.

The NFPA is not going to add a code section in the NEC for hundreds of feet long live electrical conductors being pulled into the air by a plane and then disconnected in mid-air, and the FAA isn’t going to allow it either.
My good bank (First Direct) gave me a physical OTP code generator, so I need a PIN and the physical device to get codes which are needed to log in. Once upon a time read-only activities like "Check balance" didn't need a code, but they got rid of that functionality because it's presumably a security risk with little benefit.

The same physical device constructs confirmation codes (proving I know the PIN) for specific inputs like if I want to send money somewhere I've never sent it before or a much great amount of money than usual.

However unlike U2F or its modern successor WebAuthn that's still in principle vulnerable to phishing, if thirstdirect.example pretends to be firstdirect.example and I don't notice, the codes I give to the wrong site work on the real one.
Étienne de Crécy is one of my faves.
Hahahahahaha I love Weird Al.
I bet if I said that in a meeting I’d get promoted.
The most astounding (but logical) thing to me is that those guys are looking at that maneuver without being able to do anything to correct any error. Literally a recording from the past.
> So even a disease that threatens .1% of the population with death

The IFR for COVID is likely ten times that, at least in societies with decent numbers of older people.

> Almost nobody notices or remembers blips of abnormally high "excess deaths" for a particular year

This isn't a bad flu season in a 5 year cycle. The excess deaths caused by COVID last year are not just 'abnormally high'. They're more like once in a lifetime abnormally high.
Is this something that is actually thought to be possible in the near future? It sounds like in this case they needed a living female to do the clone. How would that work in the case of a Woolly Mammoth? Are elephants a close enough relative?
How Auth0 Hire Engineers
In order for "most places" find a state that is close to their ordinary vacancy rates of 30%.
It does increase naturally. The catch is: If the overall gene pool is too small, the viability of successive generations will decrease faster than the rate at which the gene pool can expand.
Right. Regardless of how you go about doing things, if a UI is going to compose more than one kind of resource (which in reality is pretty much every UI), there's going to be some kind of n+1 problem hidden in there somewhere -- unless you go down the route of building a bespoke endpoint per screen or operation, which isn't the worst thing in the world, but it's not the work I want to spend my time doing when building products.

What GraphQL essentially gives you is a mechanism for providing a specification and getting back an endpoint, either fully dynamically at runtime, or at build-time if using persisted queries.
It’s integrated in the motor as specified in the post
When do the drops reach their max potency ?
The onerous budget item we are talking about here is a feature that multiply days sentenced by 0.7 if the inmate completes one checkbox item. You know, just to keep things in perspective.
Reminds be of a broadly used industry specific database that packs multi-line addresses in a delimited string with an initial integer which indicates the number of lines. Some addresses were written to the database without the initial integer and were addresses in a city with East/West streets with number names. Addresses like 1425 East 34th St commonly written as 1425 E34 were casted as exponents, so an address with 1.425E37 lines, which was a problem for the ETL-downstream database that attempted to make that many rows for address lines. It caused much confusion and delay for the downstream DBAs.
It isn’t mentioned in the article, but in a linked article it says the the conclusion seems to be based on a report by ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. https://www.aspi.org.au/
Declutter your torso: why I gave my kidney to a stranger and you can too
It's hard to see the VCs as victims of commoditization because the VCs commoditize it themselves. They hunt for cash-starved startups by sending out tons of rubber-stamped emails without having any clue about what the recipients do and what makes them special.
>Send ISO date/time in utc.

With offset, ok. As UTC alone, it doesn't work if you need to know the local time when something occurred, like medication administration, especially when the things may occur across time changes like DST.
Research was normal UX/cust research... interviews, polls, etc.

Customers were intelligent and motivated by a desire to do their own hedging rather than have an REP in the middle with an opaque profits. There’s a lot of profit in there and customers wanted to keep it. Customer ultimately knows his own demand and tolerances better than any REP. When I say “he” I mean men. Overwhelmingly male market. Lots of small business owners, day traders, cognizant their investment performance. This was very early. Few had even heard of Griddy at this point. I think it’s a fantastic addition to the market. What’s missing is the ability to hold futures. That would really level the playing field for sophisticated customers.
I find trauma to be quite interesting. I believe it's real and significant, but what I'm trying to figure out is why, evolutionarily speaking. People were routinely exposed to very traumatic, violent things in our ancestral history, much more often than in present society. How would it have been adaptive to then respond to those events with trauma, which would seem to reduce our genetic fitness?
I really don't understand what would possess someone to publish something like this.

It's one thing to decide that your own company has such little value to you that you'd prefer to damage it by hiring people based on random arbitrary criteria rather than by how well you think they can perform the job. It's another thing entirely to actually decide to publish such idiocy, and tie it to you and your company's image.

When hiring for a junior position, you can probably get away with applicants knowing that you're using nonsense criteria. They likely don't care, don't know any better, or have no other options. But some day you're going to want to hire a senior developer, and they're going to do research on your company, and see that your hiring practices are so bad that you let CV-jokes and the presence of profile pictures affect your rankings, and they are going to rightfully identify those as red flags and go elsewhere.

I'm also sure many people take special issue with the author's desire for a picture of the applicant on their Github profile, considering how often that kind of thing represents a source of bias in hiring. No, your company should not be encouraging applicants to reveal their race, gender, and physical attractiveness at the time of application so the author can factor those things into his hiring decisions.
My understanding is that the actual payouts have gotten much worse for employees due to lots of special priveleges that the investors get: employees get paid last, and therefore get paid less. So the 'f you money' for an early employee these days buys a new car and that's about it. (In exchange for lost sleep and lower salary, and, oh, a high chance that you don't even get the car because most startups fail.)

As a faang employee, it just looks like the startup space is completely uninterested in trying to hire me.
The legal text is the specification. What you're suggesting is the equivalent of the classic "the spec is whatever the implementation does", and would erase the distinction between correct, incorrect, and undefined behaviour.
They account for health insurance in a different way than you might think just looking at those 13% / 1% numbers might suggest. The short version is that if you pay $10000 in insurance premiums, but get $8000 of health care costs covered, they call that $2000 of insurance cost (since youd be paying the $8000 out of pocket otherwise). Of course, with the state of insurance in the US, its more complicated that that in reality.

I think the overall 8.8% figure is probably reasonably accurate for total health care costs, on average.
> - The locking mechanism is not as secure as it could be, and can be difficult to disengage when the blade is being used for heavy cutting tasks.

This sentence seems particularly bad.

A locking mechanism on pocket knives holds the knife open. "Not as secure as it can be" implies that the knife closes in on itself (possibly snagging your fingers) under heavy use.

But... the next sentence says "hard to disengage during heavy use", which is the exact opposite (the knife will stay open after heavy use, and its difficult to close).

---------

- The blade is softer than most stainless steel blades, so the knife will dull quicker than others.

- Blade will rust easily unless oiled.

These two seem to contradict each other, but that's my knowledge of knife-steels talking. Softer steels are less prone to rusting but dull more quickly.
I’m working on a dashboard side project that I’m very excited about, so I’m always glad to see these kinds of articles.
Australia and NZ had the advantage of being quite remote, true. But they had no vaccines.

With vaccines and a decent uptake, the difficulty level to achieve zero spread should go down significantly.

That said, I totally agree that short but strict lockdowns would be much better than permanent half-assed measures.
From my limited reading, my understanding is that modern fighter jets work in this way. They use their aerodynamic surfaces in ways that are not considered "usual flight", i.e. when we see the very cool looking J-turn. But all the pilot is doing in that situation is manipulating the joystick, the aircraft flight computer figures out how to manipulate the control surfaces.
U2F is (as its full name "Universal Second Factor" would suggest) specifically only a second factor, it doesn't make sense as your first or only factor.

WebAuthn can replace the entire authentication, because it can perform multi-factor authentication locally and then send a claim to have done so, optionally backed by attestation from a vendor saying they promise the multi-factor authentication is done by their product. For example an iPhone can have one press sign-in to web sites or apps using this technology.
> All the "long covid" stuff is essentially fear mongering. There's no science behind it.

That's not true. Studies are showing large fractions, say 10-25% of COVID patients are suffering symptoms after a month.

COVID infections have demonstrably damaged pretty much every organ in the body.

That's very different from the initial assumption, whence all policy, that COVID is like the flu, and passes in two weeks if it doesn't kill you.

> Even after being vaccinated.

However, these vaccines are stupidly effective. Once enough people are vaccinated, COVID will die out in the community, just like measles. You're right that we can't fear COVID forever.
Mark them linguist-generated in .gitattributes. GitLab will show them as changed but not show the diff.
> an apparent implicit economic calculation that one programmer-year is more valuable than the freedom that is being denied to an unknown number of people whom society deems less important

I’m surprised this doesn’t create a massive liability for the state.
To be fair, that code is to illustrate the beauty of the language rather than efficiency.

(Also the fibonacci sequence using 'zip'. Blew my mind.)

Haskell folks are fairly upfront about possible performance issues. Lazy evaluation comes with its own set of tradeoffs.

You can write very inefficient code in C++ if your algorithm isn't efficient.
The complexity goes to where the round-trips are shorter, and where the benefits can be shared between all clients regards of language; how is this not a good thing?
When I was a kid in the 1970’s and early 80’s, my grandparents would drive 100’s of miles along I-95 to visit us from Florida and arrive with the grille and windshield of their car absolutely splattered with bug corpses. You can make that same drive today without killing a fly.

Side note: We also used to see long caravans of migrating birds flying south in the fall. Thousands of them at least, traveling overhead in a steady stream for 15 minutes or more.
Bathhouse dating to the 12th century found in Spanish bar
U.S. College Enrollment Slumps, Bucking Usual Gain in Recessions
The Russian vaccine isn’t certified by the EMA yet, so they can’t really use it in the EU.
>it's not about what we can do to minimize our negative impact, but rather what we can do to have a positive impact

I think it's about both.
I somehow remember something like this

I think I had actually signed up to it as a sidegig, from one of those corporate HN threads
'Clipless' pedals are so called because the system that preceded them was composed of toe clips and straps. Remove the clips and replace with ski bindings, and voila - clipless pedals!
Your probably correct, I just skimmed through the first section when I saw his bullet lists.

I guess that's true for academia in general, i.e. they consider anything but their own field as a joke.
A direct quote from the article that addresses that point:

When his researchers analyzed the data by age, location, and gender, they found that excess deaths tended to be observed in younger cohorts, and in rural rather than in urban settings; nor was there evidence of the usual coronavirus skew toward greater lethality in men
I kindly disagree. Although I think we'd see next to no resistance if we were told "this is the new normal, deal with it", in reality we'll all be told "by this time next year" in order to keep people hooked on the hopium and ensure the new paradigm.

For the record, I'm not in support of the prevailing COVID containment strategies. Believe me, I'd love to see politicians face some actual backlash over what's been happening.
And, predictably, this starts getting modded down.

Classic HN.
What are gearbox servicing requirements?
> A lot of the people claiming to have debilitating "long COVID" were never actually tested positive for COVID in the first place.

Worth keeping in mind it was impossible to get a COVID test for a large fraction of the first wave.
Not necessarily. I got into Gorillaz when “Clint Eastwood” was popular here in the US. Had never heard of Blur. Didn’t even learn about Blur until years and years and years later, when I realized Damon Albarn had done something before Gorillaz and looked them up.
I really, really was looking forward to the new Daft Punk music video, "Tron 3"
Code Quality with Mypy
For public health choices? Yes! 1 in a million events should not be optimized for.
I was confused by that too. Do they find the word "orange" equally metaphorical, given that it was named after the fruit?
There is a slow rotor variant of an autogyro that has the same efficiency as small single engine plane, which is pretty cool. They also claim it can take off and land vertically.

https://verticalmag.com/news/carteraviationtechnologiesadvan...
Alligators stick their snouts above freezing waters to breathe
Why do you need VC having such growth rate? Get a loan. If you're at least 95% sure that your business will work out (and the growth rate strongly indicates that) why would you want to pay with equity?
In the old days (90's and earlier), nobody really looked at it that way. The early ISPs I'm familiar with typically ran open resolvers, which happened to also be authoritative DNS servers. I ran BIND as an open resolver for probably 15 years on my home network.
But AZ gives 100% no severe cases, no deaths, where BioNTech is at 95%. Isn’t it much better to take the 30% mild to medium case than the 5% you might die regardless?
The solution for things like this is a multi-facet power grid, with renewables, nuclear, and (small ammounts of) fossil fuels, paired with grid-scale energy storage.

For example, the pumped hydro station in Wales [0] can store up to 9.1GWh and can push 1.8GW peak, with a spin up time under a minute.

Systems like these can serve both as buffers until fossil fuel or nuclear reactors can spin up to peak in the even of wind/solar shortage, and can even serve as overnight generation to replace solar if large enough (given the usually much lower demand at night).

If each state was required to implement their own (presumably smaller) grid-scale storage this would have the benefit of removing a single point of failure and spread the cost. A construction project of this scale would also serve to create hundreds or thousands of jobs in various areas, stimulating the economy.

Having grid-scale storage would be drastically improved with a smart grid, since it would have much more real-time data on power demands and allow more seamless management of capacity.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI
Well, according to UFL's International Shark Attack File [1] and the CDC [2] respectively, on average 4.3 humans die worldwide per year of shark attacks, vs. an average 62 humans in the US per year of stings from hymenopterans excluding ants.

Given that the shark attack stats cover a period 25 times as long as that for the bees, wasps, and hornets, I do feel like "considerably" is a fair choice of adjective here.

[1] https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/maps/world/

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/pdfs/mm6829a5-H.pdf
The man in the article has his own site: http://www.fosforpens.com/

I bet the hard part is finding out who actually makes and sells high quality pens. Betting that slick marketers have already copied the artisanal pictures and stories but have very poor quality "clones" shipping
I have fond memories of using ink pens. When any kid in our broader family reached tenth grade, my grandfather would gift them a Parker ink pen. And the last day of exams was the customary throwing ink on each other.
What do you think about relocating population to apartments with central heating?
petit biscuit
I like fountain pens for drawing with. They all have their character. If it fits well in the hand, the ink flows well, and the nib has some variance, then I would put any chubby pen in the rotation.
TK Finance Dictionary: “SPAC”
Mail, or asking another prisoner with communication to the outside to ask their contact to call the lawyer and have them come visit.
That article is probably wrong too.
A changed electric field requires a change in the position of electrons. Hence a fast signal change requires fast position changes.
You could tax at the fiat off-ramps.
> If you get a job at FAANG, you are pretty much guaranteed to be employed for the rest of your life due to the weight the names of FAANG carry.

This is simply false.

I've never been out of work. Ever.
> Per their press conference today, in the Q&A section. https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4025

What was the model? The recording was garbled, and all I could hear was "...we're using a commercial computer, an Intel ???? PC. It's running Linux...
> ...I joined an ad hoc committee formed by our city council to address police policy.

"We'll form a citizens' committee to discuss this and present recommendations" in municipal politics is a polite way of saying "we're not going to do anything about this issue". The committee is not intended to "work" in any meaningful sense.

Maybe they'd be better off self-organizing and presenting fully thought-out recommendations to the city, although the city would more easily get away with totally ignoring their recommendations in that case.