skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your occupation is terrible for the environment and there’s no sleight of hand with localized power sources that will change that.

All these dreams of decentralized money will be worth nothing when global warming and the associated chaos kick in.
Yes, of course! I agree it’s interesting, and think it warrants a special name.

Generalizing that notion, I think it would be interesting to take the directed graph of all patterns of a given dimension, turn it into an undirected graph, and look at the distribution of sizes of connected components (a state which is stable, and which has no other state leading into it would be a component of size 1)
Equating the replacement of the radio with an annoyance to deafening you and forcing you to crash is a bit extreme.
Block Hashing Algorithm
If you copy a file to a another drive, is it the same file?
The fact that no Boing or FAA leaders are going to prison points to severe structural issues in our society.
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You acknowledge then that you were wrong when you said that "One includes the starting wealth of the gambler and the other does not."

Good. We're progressing. You've learned something today. "

No, one does include the starting wealth of the gambler and the other does not.
It would not be out of character for a government contractor...
I just finished reading the book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal". Very highly recommended for anyone interested in the early days of computing and the internet and the people that helped make it happen.
Mosquitos and many other aquatic based insects can be killed by a cup or so of vegetable oil on the water too
It is quite cold in that part of the world
in February and early March.

I am worried that with no one to feed the cats or put fuel in their heater, they will suffer or die before he is able to get out of jail and back to caring for them. :(

Fuck the police.
It does say the website is under construction, but for those of us who are not statisticians, an explanation of the terminology and what the simulation is doing might be helpful.

However, I'm giving a thumbs-up because I think that simulations are an under-utilized tool in stats, math, or any kind of quantitative science. I use statistics just often enough that I don't trust myself to just remember how to choose a technique. I find that feeding some random data through a calculation helps me clarify how I interpret my results.
Rich people absolutely do donate things for the tax writeoffs. Land and art especially can have on-paper values significantly different from what you could actually receive from selling them at a given time.

I can't find it now but a few months ago there was an interesting article going around about this written by an accountant. A large part of the work of accounting is matching different appraisal methods to best fit the needs of the person at any given time. Donations definitely factor into this.
Found through this Wired article: Microdosing's Feel-Good Benefits Might Just Be Placebo Effect (https://www.wired.com/story/microdosing-might-be-a-placebo/)
> Google does not give a fuck about black people.

They care about them so long as the posturing that they engage with can make them money.

In my opinion, they get away with this because the word equality, when they say that they "care" about "equality," no longer has any attachment to class consciousness.

Amazon does this right in front of our faces. Nike and Apple do it but you have to peek behind the curtain a bit. Google, as well, but now you really have to dig, hence this article.
It wouldn't surprise me if the pandemic had an influence on some of these hacks. E.g. at our company there are some PCs still running Windows 7. For that reason they had no direct internet access, only to the internal network. But since about half the workforce, or at times more, had to work from home, and the licenses of our ERP software are bound to hardware, IT had to connect those PCs to the internet again, so the office workers could access them from home.

Of course the whole situation was less than ideal to begin with, but now it's even worse.
The above plus who is maintaining the code ? Did they put an intern to manage issues and do they understand the issues ? Are pull requests quickly accepted or refuse ?

For example, there's a library we rely on for our product where they put an intern in charge of issues and take 5 months to accept pull requests or fix the bug. This has lead us to develop plugins instead of contributing or maintaining a fork (not to deal with conflicts).
Perhaps it would make sense to do domain verification? Otherwise I think it'll get quickly become super spammy.
Is something like "dolt diff master..somebranch -- mytable" possible?

Same question: Are in-between branch comparisons possible in dolt? Which "diff" subcommands to you plan to support in the future?
> He has no training in pedagogy, epidemiology, sanitation, or really anything else relevant to the missions of his organization

I'm confused by this statement. It only counts as training if you did it around age 20? Or what makes you think that someone who is spending this much time, effort and money on a given topic would not arrange for appropriate (or rather, excellent) training on it?

Or is this something you conclude by starting from the assertion that Bill Gates must be a bad guy?
I don't know why you are getting down voted. For what its worth I appreciate the analysis.

I kind of feel like this post shouldn't exist without the author taking the time to explain his POV better than a few bullet points on a slide. The postscript kind of goes there but its not enough IMO. What we are left with here reduces whatever his point is to a few reductive statements that probably over simplify his arguments and leave the rest of us either nodding emphatically or shaking our heads in disgust because its just generalized enough to confirm any pre-existing bias we already have. In other words this wont change any minds.

I guess the one good thing to come out of reading this is that I'll pick up that "Pattern Language" book and give it a read. Perhaps this post will gain some value in retrospect with that context.
Assumption 1: people don't actually use Zig.

Assumption 2: the more we do with a language, the bigger the language has to be.

I am sceptical about (1), and the only way (2) can possibly be true is if the standard library is part of the language (which it really is not: it's user space stuff, curated approved by whoever's in charge). Don't be excessively pessimistic. It's just as irrational as misguided optimism.
> It was much easier to get money donated for a new building, than to maintain an old one, so you can have a situation in which new buildings are being built while old ones fall apart.

That seems logical enough to me.

I mean, if every new building is an unprofitable drag on university finances, they wouldn't be building more of them. At the very least a building should pay for its own upkeep, if not its original construction costs.

And given that the fundraising department will surely want to tell rich donors that buildings are good for the university, simultaneously saying that the previous buildings were all bad for the university would be a very confusing message.
There are so many situations where an error payload is either mandatory for properly handling the error, or required to get somewhat decent error output...

Side channels are not really a feasible implementation option.

So you have to resort to maintaining the logical information on intermediate levels, returning a result sum type, or stick to good old C paradigms and use a output param.
Which negates all value that error sets offer.

I understand that it's not trivial to implement, but for me it's a sort of must to avoid ending up with messy APIs.
And the A in ARM stands for Acorn. And the ARM1 was based on a Berkeley design, now on version 5 (Risc V). Connections, connections everywhere.
Bearing lube?
" to the extent I have looked I see no clear benefit"

The elimination/near elmination of polio? rubella? measles? Soon COVID? Etc..

" the burden is proof is on the vaccine to show that is near completely safe"

They do.

"My guess - only one 1 or 2 are effective, rest are either useless or harmful ... I could be wrong."

Yes, completely wrong.

"don't forget to look at the drugs Thalidomide ..."

There are thousands upon thousands of drugs. Some are going to fail, many will be misrepresented. Like everything in life. It doesn't mean they don't work.

"My default today is to mistrust anything that medicine has to offer."

This is irrationally conspiratorial, indicative of a broader problem.

"who in their right mind does not want to protect their health?"

The above statements are not so 'right of mind' unfortunately.

There are no Lizard People trying to control us, and most of the people in non-political power are doing their jobs reasonably on some level. There are some systematic failures (i.e. Walmart over-subscribing oxycontin) but most of us are not surprised when that happens.

Approved vaccines are overwhelmingly more effective than they are detrimental, i.e. the 'balance of outcomes' is monumentally positive.
It's called manufactured spending...
And in some cases, designs seem to deliberately not handle simple edge cases. Like, it would probably be actually easier in the code to not separate your name field into three separate ones for first, middle, and last, and track them separately, but we go out of our way to do that! I've seen text inputs that go out of their way to flag names with special characters as errors (whatever the hell "special" means anymore, in a world with unicode). Maybe it's because the underlying database requires these assumptions, but that's an excuse, not a reason.
If they have been operating for six years, they really went all the way out on minimalism. Their website barely have any information about how it works and what are the requirements. List of supported countries and banks is also absent. Is https://teller.io/ maybe not the main page?
I thought this thread from Dan Held was really good:

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1351235080103096331

It starts off with:

"1/ Bitcoin’s energy consumption is not “wasteful.”

- It is much more efficient than existing financial systems

- No one has the moral authority to tell you what is a good or bad use of energy (ex: watching the Kardashians)

Let's debunk this FUD"
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OK read the article again because it addresses two different and significant reasons why that doesn't solve the problem.
Client Hints is a draft standard (currently supported in Chromium browsers) that allows servers to request some details like viewport-width.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...

* I work at Google but not on Chrome
There are good examples of countries getting together to shut down destructive activities when market forces were unable to. Bans on leaded gasoline and ozone-depleting CFCs, for example.

IMO it would be enough if regulators take action against crypto exchanges. Tax outflows heavily, audit companies located in the EU, track bank transfers received from exchanges outside the EU. Controlling the exit ramps to euros is achievable. People can still trade on IRC or whatever, but the scheme is much less appealing when you don't have easy retail money flowing in to buy those coins.
About fucking time those commie chinese bastards get their shit stolen.
Hopefully now I won't get those shit calls about my car warranty. Assholes.
That's like saying you like cars, but motors have to go. There are no interesting digital currencies that are not proof of work based (yet). Hopefully that will change soon.
Can we stop calling everything a “black swan?” This would not be a black swan; nation states should be expected to have the ability to find a vulnerability in an application such as coinbase.

Now, if you were to say a nation state decides to hack the blockchain, well, I’d call that a black swan.
Intercepting HTTP Requests with HTTP Toolkit
The Web's PKI already has multiple single points of failure because any trusted root CA can issue certificates for any domain. Any problem you list for LE is compounded by every additional trusted root CA. While transparency logs can identify bad CAs it can't prevent them.

Putting certs in DNS with DNSSEC authenticating them might be a more robust design overall, and would eliminate a lot of what is bad about HTTPS-everywhere (namely that LE trusts DNS to begin with, so doesn't add much to the web of trust, and that certificate issuance would be much more straightforward and automated from your TLD).

Unfortunately I have to disagree with you about the end of HTTP. ISPs have historically proven that they can't be trusted (NXDOMAIN interception, ad replacement/injection, DPI) and so for a non-negligable fraction of the world HTTPS (and DNSSEC or similar, although not enough people realize it yet) are a necessity.

I don't see alternative options except perhaps onion routing everywhere, but that only moves the goalposts to exit nodes without HTTPS and a PKI.

Another possibility for securing the existing PKI is to extend support for Name Constraints so that root CAs are only given authority to issue for subsets of domains, and finally making TLS only trust the most specific root CA for a given domain, e.g. if a TLS implementation has a trusted root CA with a Name Constraint of .example.com then it should not accept a certificate chain for anything under example.com from another root CA, and vice versa that root CA could not sign certificates for domains not under example.com. This would allow sites with high security needs to get their own CAs accepted by browsers, and allow breaking root CAs up by TLD which would match DNSSEC.
I'll bet money this is a private corporation that sells 0days taking out their competition.

State-sponsored entities and research groups don't take down forums, for the same reason you don't arrest all the low-level perps on the street. You need to watch them to trail them to the bigger crimes. And blackhats don't take out forums of other blackhats.
The point is it might be worth trading off some repairability for reliability. I'd prefer a phone with more glue if it makes it more reliable when dropped or immersed in water even if that makes it harder to repair.
Sure, but when you're 60 you might not be so hot on technology that you first encountered in your 50s.

I'm sure today's 60-year-olds are still perfectly good at the kind of things they've been doing since they were 20.
Boxers don't. Is that hard enough for you?
No, OVH has DDoS protection built into their service, and it's free, and your connections will not get dropped. I moved to OVH after getting a few DDoS attacks, and since then there have been no problems. I've had a few emails from OVH notifying me about attacks in progress and that they are automatically mitigating it. When it happens, it has zero effect on our service.
Richard Gabriel has a really interesting and more nuanced book about this that I read early in my career https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
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You have a point about ageism, but you also make quite a condescending mistake of your own. You could have say "less tech savvy" than "dumber than average". It is not because you don't master something that you did not use before that you are dumb.
> even though what TRT does is conceptually awesome from a deployment standpoint

I thought the same until, earlier this week, I realized that if I convert a model to TensorRT and serialize it & store it in a file that file is specific to my device (i.e. my specific Jetson Nano), meaning that my colleagues can't run that file on their Jetson Nano. What the actual fuck.

Do you happen to have found a workaround for this? I really don't want to have to convert the model anew every single time I deploy it. There are just too many moving parts involved in the conversion process, dependency-wise.
Never used Proctorio myself, but my syllogism is simple: if you force me to use spyware, I'll go out of my way to sabotage its usefulness
> The average coffee cup is 118ml

Average where? The most standard Ikea cup [1] that I can see in all the offices around here is 8oz, which is around 230ml. Personally, I drink coffee from that, but for tea, I always use some of the 10oz cups, which is more along the line of 300ml. A tea bag for 300ml is perfectly acceptable in my mind.

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/faergrik-mug-stoneware-white-60...
>> What he's probably saying is there is nothing wrong with the plane's design without the MCAS.

That is a common IMHO misconception. Since the new version with "fixed" MCAS requires additional training, it does not follow that MCAS exists simply to avoid retraining and non certifying it the same. In that case, Boeing should have simply dropped MCAS and did the certification and training. Instead they opted for the near financial disaster and disruption to their supply chain AND failure to avoid additional training.

I suspect MCAS is covering for a very bad corner case in the flight dynamics.
Well, if some other organ can influence the mind, and if it is not under the direct control of the mind, in what sense can you say it is separate from the mind?

Or, staying closer to measurable things, glands mean that you should expect the personality of a brain being getting a full body transplant can become significantly different, just because of all the new hormone glands they will be exposed to. So in some sense, you are not moving a person to a new body, but creating a new person that will inherit many characteristics from the brain donor (memories, for sure, probably others), and many other characteristics from the body donor (personality traits, such as aggression or how sedentary they may be, very likely some dietary preferences).

Edit: clarified first sentence.
This seems interesting. It would be really cool to rapidly prototype and modify/refactor apps using this.

But it seems to me like the much harder part of this problem is 1) developing the nodes, and 2) ensuring that the nodes have the appropriate (sufficiently flexible/extensible) API for connections.

I guess what I'm saying is that this needs a "standard library" of nodes - at multiple layers of abstraction - if it is to gain traction. This is especially true, given that there are several other projects that are at least functionally equivalent.
Edited to rephrase as a question rather than an argument: How much is the "fair duty cycle" mandated by the law, and how much is politeness? My understanding is that multiple providers could be competing in this space and (if this system is popular) they may want larger and larger slices of that cycle. I don't know what the law requires here, so I don't know that there's any requirement that personal WiFi users need to get much if any spectrum once every corporate user has taken their piece.
Will you believe it from the mouth of Ole Peters himself?

This is from the Nature Physics article:

"we had worked out in detail the correspondences between linear utility and additive dynamics; and between logarithmic utility and multiplicative dynamics"

From "The time resolution of the St Petersburg paradox":

"the time-average performance of the lottery is computed. The final result can be phrased mathematically identically to Daniel Bernoulli's resolution, which uses logarithmic utility"

"Equation (6.10) is mathematically equivalent to Bernoulli's use of logarithmic utility."
People needed most in political debates have removed themselves from it.
Right, or if funds are earmarked across the board to some adequate degree.
Sounds like a cool HTTP response code when accessing a page with Selenium.
I just went to a random Wikipedia article and the main page, and neither of them displayed a 'beg' header.
> Perhaps this is due to a combination of frequent life failures, low confidence, and low ability of critical examination.

Ah, nice combination :) Purely anecdotal, I once had very low confidence, but could be very critical to myself. This broke me down quite bad, this was not a good combination. Only after 30 I would learn to not be so negative in my criticism, but be more nice to myself, and I thought I had learned a lot. Just the last few years I learned to just observe situations and myself, and not judge so much, not negative and not positive. Just like I learned from meditation.

I can imagine when having low confidence, it might be so much easier to avoid being critical to yourself. Ofcourse you might then also learn to avoid observing yourself, it feels almost the same. So then you are stuck in some path where you might never get out, you just keep on doing what you did.
Hey HN - Super excited to hear any feedback y'all have on Mito or our docs. Happy to answer any questions here!
Maybe these people (I am one of them) just do not have a reason to object to a consensual procedure that could save or drastically improve lives, and that's it?
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Had a similar experience, not that extreme but when I went away to college was the first time I spent much time in a cold climate. I specifically remember playing ultimate frisbee with friends in the late fall and getting almost a burning sensation in my lungs when getting winded in the cold. It never led to any kind of cough or ongoing symptoms for me, but I remember thinking wow is this just normal for everyone that grows up playing sports in colder climates? Over time I think I just got used to it, and haven't played outdoor sports that regularly as an adult that it comes up that often (more sustained exercise like hiking or even skiing doesn't really bother me, it's really the full-out exertion like sprinting). It doesn't surprise me that it can cause more severe symptoms, coughing, etc.
Hi, I oppose bitcoin and have lots to say about the sheer waste and pollution that most of us take part in.

I also put my money where my mouth is! I drive electric and charge only at my employer, which uses 100% solar. I don’t eat meat. I shop at package free groceries. I eat as much local food as possible. I don’t stream movies or music.

We exist, my friend, but that’s besides the point. There are no saints in systems as complex as energy. You can only take aim at the big stuff and hope you can make an impact.

Bitcoin is entirely unnecessary, unlike eating and driving. Participating is a choice. And it’s a bad choice.
You're mostly right but 47 didn't even raise the line to $950. It was already $950. What it did do is remove the discretion prosecutors formerly had to use a felony charge for crimes valued at less than $950 for defendants without prior violent felony convictions.

By comparison, the same dividing line in the state of Texas is set at $1500.
Could someone summarize what everyone in the comments is arguing about in less technical terms? I don’t have a background in economics but do have a background with physics.
Anything that is marketed as a collectable is not a good investment. The thing must have some other use, a use that causes some (hopefully most) of them to be damaged or destroyed. The one exception to this seems to be sports trading cards, because, as the article says, there are only so many rookies every year. And even fewer who become superstars.
I edited the comment, you make a good point. My bias is that in my experience the elderly tends to struggle the most as it wasn't common in their day, but point duly noted.
Interesting. I always thought it was because of various chemicals used on the tea; we always called it the "cleaning brew."
I love Plausible and use and on mulitple sites. I like the simplicity, great UX and the fact that it's open source and self-hostable (even though I don't host it myself, knowing that it's possible is great).