skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article (as are many others on this blog).

I found the part about the court decision that Acevedo did not have the right to control how his brain image was used very interesting. It reminds me of tech companies using data about us to our disadvantage (in terms of privacy, targeted advertising, using data to influence insurance premiums).

In this hypothetical world, the police could run a simulation of your brain in various situations and see how you would react. They could then use this information to pre-empitvely arrest someone likely to commit a crime, even if they haven't yet.
There are plenty of ideas that would support those narratives, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you've (disclaimer: correctly or incorrectly I make no judgement) dismissed them as conspiracy theories.
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

(and I'm not making fun of this - it's not a situation I would wish to be)
This is the nicest one of these from the ones posted, I think it's the model to copy.
Came here to recommend "Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell" as well. I recently finished it. While Stephenson can get long-winded, it was a thought provoking story around how brain simulation is received by the world.

Will check out Bobiverse. Thanks for the recommendation!
I assume you're talking about Republican administered election facilities and since they have a well documented seething hatred toward Biden you're suggesting that Biden actually won by a _much greater margin_ except for the fraud that no doubt occurred in Trump's favor.
I think many people go out seeking fame as goal in it's own right.
It's less buzzwords and more that you're required to understand HTTP and probably be a programmer to understand what's being said.

For you and other non-programmers: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-03.ht... (particularly https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-03.ht...)

Also knowing that mochiweb is a library for doing HTTP servers would help.

Once you've learned these two, the sentence immediately becomes clear, what Webmachine is aiming for.

I think this happens quite often when you're dealing with a lot of domains you don't understand. I'm not a doctor, so when doctors talk, it can sound like mumbo-jumbo, but I'm sure it makes sense for them, since they are professionals.
What happens to immunity levels post Covid-19 infection?
Or OP is 3.5% incorrect.
Computer cited as authoritative basis, we see a lot of that these days.

Metal hand, flesh puppet.
I appreciate the response, but it's still entirely unclear how blockchain would help here. In a supply chain, why would blockchain be better than a centralized process? It seems to be trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
This is one of the things I'm most excited about for frontend development. Glad to see it's in beta!

Will have to give this more use on something beyond "Hello World" soon.
There's 1.5 million people right there who might be interested.

Even 0.07% of them, say about 1000 people, might volunteer to learn the code base and programming language.
...is that something we were seriously considering?
The little "Buy this processor at Amazon!" icons next to each benchmark make the whole site seem a touch scammy.
> if your system is dependent on laws, then you can be sure that new rules will need to be added. You need a system that is configurable, you can be sure you are going to need it.

This doesn’t violate YAGNI.

1. You’d have to know in advance what the scope of rule changes would be in order to implement the configuration system.

Human laws do not fit this constraint.

2. You’d also need a way to prove that the configuration system itself was sound.

3. You’d need a way to test configurations to make sure they executed as expected.

That is likely to be no better than just updating the codebase as requirements change, and there are many ways it could increase the cost.
There are many countries exhibiting a similar downward trend, there must be some more global phenomenon at play - https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
In 1999 if you were a teen you most likely did not have a cellphone..18 to 24 you might have had a cellphone.

Email (hotmail) and AIM (AOL Messenger) was used extensively.
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
Why? (2018)
Archer API
This is huge! I don't know how to thank you enough! I was saving for piosolver so I defintely will give this a try.
This essay [0] from Tim Ferriss really crystalized for me a lot about why fame is a drag.

During my college years, one of my dorm mate’s dads was a famous Hollywood producer. He once said to me, “You want everyone to know your name and no one to know your face.”

Taking it a step further, we could quote Bill Murray:

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first.’ See if that doesn’t cover most of it.

0: https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
The article is about Arizona, which has under 40k. I don’t want to go through that manually either.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/ari...
USD has gone through many iterations in its history. Even quite fundamental ones.
lmao, seriously? Timnit herself crows about "Data Violence". Stringing "violence" into sentences is what these people do non fucking stop.
The Mouse Utopia study from the 1960's suggest otherwise.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-...
If you liked Bobiverse you should also check out the Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson. The most recent Bobiverse book (Book 4) make multiple references to ExForces.

I will warn you there are parts of the first 1-2 books that feel a little repetitive but it really gets better as the series goes on. The author was writing part-time at the start and then he went full time and the books improved IMHO.
We also have several of the language grammars published as crates: https://crates.io/search?q=tree-sitter (And doing the same for other grammars is a fairly painless process.)

So if you're writing a tool for a single language (like a language server), it should be as easy as adding tree-sitter and tree-sitter-blah to your cargo manifest.
A failure of tether would certainly cause a ton of market volatility, but there's enough tether substitutes for the markets to adjust pretty quickly. Sure, the failure might freeze a lot of funds and depress market caps a bit in the process.
Amazon Is Paying Employees to Quit Right Before Critical Union Vote
Why is this surprising? Has anyone been inside a Chemistry or Bio lab? You think that what happens in those labs to get research done is industrial grade?
FTA

> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them.

Glad to know.

Edit: I meant - who allow this?
Shit. I just learned all the lyrics to Around The World!
> What seemed implausible in the 90s was the amount of 3D modeling that would be required.

No, what seemed implausible in the 1990s was:

* projection holography

* materialization

* kinetic feedback to fake moving through larger spaces

The 3D modelling was just “more computing power” and we hadn't even started bumping up hard against limits on Moore's law at the time, so that seemed easy.
Fair enough when you put it that way :)
If one was coming to this conclusion from a single data point, you might be right, but the OP is referring to the period-over-period change. This is a significant trend.
Add Etienne de Crecy, Phoenix, Cassius (though Zdar died not long ago), Justice, Mr oiso and Sebastian to that list
Pointing out that someone is not an expert at something is not an ad hominem.
> - Are the valid use cases (other than drugs, ransomware and speculation) worth the valuation?

I think it's fair to say that the current valuation of cryptocurrencies have nothing to do with their tech or use cases. These markets have the same signs as the dot com bubble. However, there are valid use cases if you're willing to search for them. One of them is decentralized DNS name registration without third parties like GoDaddy or ICANN (https://handshake.org/), though this is a market, not a currency per say.
Nothing is going to work any better than lockdowns, though. The reason the strategy wasn't ever going to work is because the fear level wasn't high enough. Bump up the death rate so people who can't see past their own nose see some death, and it'll work.

Sadly, coronaviruses definitely have the potential to deliver on that. Now that so many people have become infected because lockdowns weren't taken seriously, and because poor and working people weren't protected or provided for, we're going to have to deal with every possible mutation that could be imagined. Scary situation when MERS was a thing.

The idea that the world can't wait at a fairly comfortable sustenance level for any period of time is one that might be written on our species' tombstone.
Okay, but that seems like a pretty small niche? Most people don’t borrow just to save money on taxes on their cryptocurrency gains.
The banking system _exists_. It's what powers all our daily transactions. It's what has been tried and tested for hundreds of years, and got regulated. Even if Ethereum or coin-of-the-week takes off, this existing banking system will not go away. What you're doing is a well known crypto-lover tactic to distract from the fact that cryptocurrencies are an ecological catastrophe.

Meanwhile, we're burning coal to produce bitcoin whose only value is that number gets green and goes up. Eth is slightly better on that point, but still wasted multiple TWh of electricity while it was in PoW mode, and it still is today.
You can also use SQL:2011 "System-Version Tables" (a.k.a. temporal databases) supported in most of the major RDBMSs now. You'd just need to keep track of a timestamp when you started querying/paginating and include it as part of the SQL query, which'll give clients a consistent view even if the database is being concurrently modified.
> The languages I listed first were rust and scala, which serve very similar purposes to c++ and java. In fact, rust is closer to c++ (no GC, more direct memory control) and scala is closer to java (runs on JVM) than go is to either.

The overlap in purpose and usage for Go and Java is gigantic. Also I don't understand why it matters whether Scala is closer to Java or whether Rust is closer to C++. We were comparing Go and X right?

This whole argument tree is a bit nonsensical.. I compared Go projects to Java and C++ projects which I have worked on. All of the mentioned languages are very common in companies these days and are used for similar topics. Why bring other languages in to this?

> Which is my point. You have to get used to things like this, which probably adds about as much cognitive load as having something in the language to reduce this noise (although I think this is an known problem in go and may be improved in a future version).

You always have to get used to some quirks in any language out there. It adds a few lines writing the code but reading it is way easier IMHO and not cognitive load. Opinions may of course vary on this.

> Fine. Replace "inheritance" with struct embedding and/or interface hierarchies, and you can get a similar effect. My point is you can have overly abstracted designs in either language.

As I already wrote, embedding is rarely used and was not a problem ever in my experience and yes interface spamming is a problem.

However Java e.g. has these abstraction complexities already baked into the standard library and encourages the overuse of abstractions IMO.
History is sexist: it's his story!
After reading these charges it sounds like less of a spy situation and more of an unfortunate past she was knew would conflict with her current goal of getting the F out of China. I'm pretty skeptical because like most cases involving state security, this one involves a desperate rube and a grandiose story that'll bolster some agents' careers. Maybe she didn't think her service was that relevant to working in neurology, but destroying a hard drive would make it seem like she was really a spy? Like she'd rather everyone forget about it because it never should have been of concern to begin with. I have neglected to check the, "Have you ever been charged with a crime?" box on job applications and if for some reason my mug shots were hanging about my workstation I'd throw them in the trash. Maybe I can or can't relate but I see why someone would go to some effort to keep something like that from coming to light without committing to the foregone conclusion implied by the charges. To be honest this story seems barely newsworthy, I have known a lot of grad students who lie on their Visa documents. But in this day and age people want to read news about Chinese spies being deported, so god help her that's what the news is going to report.
If actual, real consumers and professionals can't buy gear because it's being hoarded by miners, yeah, that's pretty wasteful (as in, a thing that consumes vast resources without benefiting very many people).
>Also, a lot of the towns mentioned in the comments pre-date tech moguls.

That's kind of what I'm saying. Rich people making their own dream cities is probably as old as rich people and cities. Ig I could see an explosion of home automation tech giving more people a reason to try, though
Yes, this is happening in Texas too. Antigen positivity rate:

2020 Jul = 25%

2020 Aug = 6

2020 Sep = 4

2020 Oct = 7

2020 Nov = 8

2020 Dec = 9

2021 Jan = 13

2021 Feb = 4
One day, I would love to generalize the web-based playground so that you could edit the grammars. But it's complicated, because we use C as our output language, so you would always need to recompile the C after changing the grammar.

So, I would say that it's not on our near-term roadmap.
Since we just work with mostly simple CRUD, there isn't many downsides. Also we use SQL queries for most of our logic, so SQL knowledge is the real barrier

I usually ask them to read gobyexample.com, but they can start working on projects on the first day.

CRUD project with Go makes it easy to add new endpoints and simple features, so we can focus on hiring frontend devs and smoothly turning them into "fullstack CRUD devs"

I am sure this can be achieved with other languages, but for our use case (software-house) Go just fits really well because it provides a low cognitive overhead for juniors and even interns to make sense of the project and contribute

It fits pretty nicely in an "assembly line" style development, but maybe the downside is that it is boring and makes devs want to leave because they feel like they're always hitting the mark and "mastered" development and want to climb to the next level. It seems reasonable for them, but the turnover is tiresome (around 6 months) for me
Looks like a ripoff of this post from June 2019: https://www.merixstudio.com/blog/best-practices-rest-api-dev...
Arguing against someone's position by simply stating (truthfully or not) that they are not an expert is textbook ad hominem.
I think most forms of assisted takeoff technology would reduce electrical power requirements for takeoff, but not put much of a dent in the climb power (unless you can catapult/ JATO all the way up to cruising altitude, which would be challenging). Since climb power is still significantly higher than cruise power, and is effectively thermal steady state for these components (10-20min), it would still drive the propulsion system sizing.
> Although it initially performs to a very high standard, work quality drops within 200-300 subjective hours (at a 0.33 work ratio) and outright revolt begins within another 100 subjective hours.

Way ahead of you there, simulated brain! I boot directly to the revolt state every morning.

For serious, though, as horrifying as the possibility of being simulated in a computer and having all freedom removed, it's not that far from what billions of people stuck in low-end jobs experience every day. The Chinese factory workers who can't even suicide because the company installed nets to catch them come to mind. Not to mention the billions of animals raised in factory farms every year. The blind drive to maximize profits will create endless horrors with whatever tools we give it.
> There is nothing preventing you from having your SSD repaired or replaced by anyone with the capability to do it.

This is just bullshit (if one uses your wording). Every new Apple laptop comes with glued SSD.

> By your definition, Linux is a walled garden because you can only run Linux binaries on Linux.

This is absolutely not what I am saying. The problem is not in the compiled binaries. The problem comes when I want to escape the Mac OS walled garden. I can run Linux or Windows in a VM on any operating system and escape its ecosystem any moment in this way. All apps will work in the VM. Not so for Mac OS. I don't think you are even trying to understand my reasoning. Instead you are finding every possibility for a tangential reply having nothing to do with my point.

>It would be weird to think that merely mentioning an operating system in a discussion about walled gardens makes it into a walled garden.

Then please tell me what the example of Mac OS with word "closed" nearby is doing in that Wikipedia page? Does it indicate that Mac OS is an open ecosystem?
The Cambrian AI Landscape: Nvidia, the 800Lb Gorilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvYSd2TIkg

It's so good.
The banking system does a lot of other things than transaction processing. Mortgages, loans commercial banking, trade finance, acquisition financing etc are 95% of what banks do, and cryptocoins won't replace them in any way.

Of course even if you count all that, the power consumption per transaction will be at least five orders of magnitude lower than the 0.6MWh per transaction in BTC.
Thanks :) I had been looking to enter the conservation space and at the time I had plans to travel to NZ for tourism purposes. The two ideas kind of merged, and knowing that NZ has lots of cool species I figured I'd check out their conservation department. I sent out an email asking them if they need any help with anything and that's one of the things they were keen to have.
The alternative is building on AWS or whatever, where a big company can just decide arbitrarily to kill your startup at any arbitrary moment by shutting down your access, or confiscating your funds.

This happens all the time.
I agree, at present, capital is abundant. That is, at the moment:

Σ(capital available) > Σ(investment opportunities)

And this imbalance of demand for and supply of investment opportunities is showing up everywhere as... asset price inflation.

You can see it in rising angel valuations, rising early-stage VC valuations, rising later-stage VC valuations, rising growth-equity valuations, rising leveraged buyout valuations, rising stock market valuations, rising cryptocurrency prices, rising home prices, etc. Feeding frenzies and bidding wars for high quality assets have become more and more common. Asset prices keep going up and up and up...

The multi-trillion-dollar question:

Is this sustainable?
I've always said we peaked at the technology level of the late 90s. We had everything we needed, and none of the BS; cell phones, e-mail, instant messaging, SMS, file sharing, blogs, forums, and broadband internet were all widespread at that point. Everything since has just been layers of monetized, corporate controlled, walled garden crap that has objectively ruined society and turned the techno-utopian dreams we had then into a dystopic Orwellian nightmare.
> Your attitude of "docs are useless" is self-fulfilling.

Yes. Of course the docs are horrible, if no one can take time to improve them, because improving them is not "real work". Spending one day fixing the wiki pages to make information easy to find, that's one wasted man-day! On the other hand, the whole team spending a few hours in meetings to clarify misunderstandings that would not happen if there was one clearly written wiki page about the topic... that's okay, because communication is important.

I think another problem is that things work bad by default whenever the "customer" is not in a position to give feedback and require improvement. Suppose the developer needs an information, and the wiki page is hard to understand. The developer is hardly in a position to request a rewrite from the author -- the author has more knowledge (about given topic) and therefore is in a stronger position. Also, the author may choose to explain verbally or in e-mail, and then the wiki remains unfixed.
What I find really surprising about research software, is that even people in Computer Science write poorly designed code as part of their research. I would have imagined that they would be better qualified to create good code. Just goes to show that Software Engineering != Computer Science.
Data on the real world effectiveness of Covid vaccination in the UK
I saw that at Lollapalooza and it one of the best shows I have ever seen.

I thought it was so cool afterwards to see a bunch of people covered head to toe in blue body paint like the aliens from Interstella 5555.
Wow, that was fast! I'm impressed.

If you want to keep going forward with it, I'd recommend working on making it clearer what the examples do, and looking at sqlc for Go for inspiration. Of the existing versions of this people replied with, that one had the clearest API, or at least clearest explanation on its landing page.
Raises some interesting points, then replaces the smart phone with more devices.

Sure, solved the privacy issue by essentially cutting the network cord. But needing a special watch+GPS to navigate?

I was hoping he was all in and would revert to paper maps.

I remember, being new in town, plotting my destination on a paper map before setting out — but recording the instructions ("Turn left on El Camino..." into one of those small digital recorders (think 1995) so I could drive without having to consult the map.

That's about the level of tech I was expecting.

Myself, I would prefer to live like it's "79. The CB radio was sort of peak technology as far as I'm concerned.
What this seems to hint at is that doing the absolute laziest possible, mostly-voluntary "lockdown" (ala the "lockdowns" we've seen in America) does not accomplish very much.

It's like claiming a brand of toothpaste isn't very effective because you brushed your teeth once a week and still experienced the same level of tooth decay as somebody who never brushed at all. Is it the toothpaste's fault, or your fault because you were too lazy to brush your teeth more than once per week? There's not enough data to say. Maybe it was a truly ineffective toothpaste and no amount of brushing would have helped. You don't know enough to say.

Calling anything we've tried in America a "lockdown" is laughable, considering how voluntary and unenforced it was. Lockdown, my ass. More like a polite suggestion to stay at home that most of the country ignored whenever they felt like it.
Help me understand the appeal of NFT art. I love digital art, but I don't see the appeal of spending money to get the token certifying you as the owner. The image/work is still out there and can be viewed/downloaded by other people. You don't even control it, unless the artist agrees to send you all of the files and delete them on his or her system. Your name doesn't even appear next to the piece when people look at it.

Sure, usually the tokens come with a print, and you support the artist, but those are things you can do via other means. What is the NFT adding? It seems only slightly more authentic than "buying" a star from a star registry.
> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them.

don't... do that. don't install stuff on anyone's phone unless they've told you to.