skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be very disturbed, if it turned out that all the memes were eventually owned by organized crime!
Oh yes, undoubtedly there are more sophisticated fixes. This is just the minimum-effort, stock approach, which should hopefully also be robust and widely compatible.
what is the constant wattage output of the RTG on that? 20kW steady state all the time?
> Africa really needs to be the target rollout for these vaccines if and when they materialize.

I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Africa is the most affected continent of the HIV pandemic.

> Although the continent is home to about 15.2 percent of the world's population, more than two-thirds of the total infected worldwide – some 35 million people – were Africans, of whom 15 million have already died. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Sorry, but I think this is a poorly thought-out argument.

Main reasoning:

All in all, though, the desktop database industry has entirely collapsed since the early '00s. Desktop databases are typically viewed today as legacy artifacts, a sign of poor engineering and extensive technical debt. Far from democratizing, they are seen as constraining.

What changed?

I posit that the decline of desktop databases reflects a larger shift in the software industry: broadly speaking, an increase in profit motive, and a decrease in ambition.

...

The software industry, I contend, has fallen from grace. It is hard to place when this change occurred, because it happened slowly and by degrees, but it seems to me like sometime during the late '90s to early '00s the software industry fundamentally gave up. Interest in solving problems was abandoned and replaced by a drive to engage users, a vague term that is nearly always interpreted in a way that raises fundamental ethical concerns. Computing is no longer a lofty field engaged in the salvation of mankind; it is a field of mechanical labor engaged in the conversion of people into money.

In short, capitalism ruins computing once again.

A far more likely reason, and one which I believe is the true cause, is that there is relatively little demand for desktop databases:

* there is a non-trivial degree of tech knowledge needed to run and maintain them

* they are tied to the desktop, and not ubiquitously accessible

In short, people want to focus on the task (running their household; keep track of collections; running their small business; logging inventory; etc) and not the technical means of accomplishing that task

This is all about a collapse in demand, and a shift to an alternative that better suits the needs and desires of the end-users.

It has nothing to do with "capitalism" ruining things. (Side note - the author has not defined capitalism, and I don't think it actually means what he/she thinks it does.)

Edited to add: there are still many desktop database programs offered to users. If there were still a huge demand for them, they would outcompete the supposedly evil industry products that so upset the author.
I _do_ run opnsense in a VM and am very happy with the setup. My requirements for APs are simple but hard to satisfy. Ceiling mount, PoE, present-day-best 802.11 standard, and openwrt-capable.
The government is saying that he threaten employees with the loss of stock options if they voted to form a union.

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2021/03/25/elon-musk-...
A surprising remark! The usability of Lotus Notes was so bad that it earned itself an entire section on a site called the User Interface Hall of Shame.
No. I think if we teach machines to be creative, then they’ll be beneficent toward us, rather than just keeping us around as household pets.

I don't think great art is simply about "being creative", I'd say the art that is valued the most involves a nexus of personal creativity, mastery of various formalisms and a relation of the whole of culture and society. A particular work of art is significant not simply for being beautiful but for being part of a dialogue within the whole of society.

And this situation today makes art problematic even without computers. Once society's "dialog with itself" was confined to the "best" magazines, high class publishers, renowned galleries and so-forth.

For good or ill, attention is spread much widely and in a more arbitrary fashion. The formal gatekeepers are gone. There are still barriers to fame but they seem even more arbitrary.

Will computers somehow produce works which become integrate with the zeitgeist, so to speak? I don't know but it seems like if computers are doing this, this cultural realm will have been colonized by these electronic devices and human will indeed being kept as pets.
AFAIK, microsoft was never threatened by SCO and the payment was entirely voluntary. So, they were effectively giving money to a group that was attacking open source and free software.
Its such a shame they don't offer accreditation. I'm a prime candidate for their courses by the loom of it, but won't undertake without something to show for it.
Yeah, VanillaJS is perfect for this.

Works perfectly with https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ platform too.
Normal kindergarten is correlated with achievement because most kids who don't go to kindergarten have higher-poverty low-health home lives.

"Kindergarten" in many cases means something as simple as "human contact instead of bad TV" and "difficult nutrition for the day".
I think you’re misguided if you think this is a partisan issue. It’s an American issue where neither party has really adequately done anything about affordable healthcare and gouging like this.
Musk tweeted “Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare.”

And there are big regulations about not doing anti union things.

I, for one, can’t see anything particularly wrong with this tweet and don’t really care what the law says, I’m opposed to unions and labor boards having the power to silence somebody saying this.
This wasn't about the security of their "software", as in the thing that's running on your device. This was about their backend security. That's a much, much tougher call to make.
This looks great -- well done! I'd love to be able to use it (the CSS in particular) in a number of different projects where creating such nice readable output is a hassle. However I couldn't find a license mentioned anywhere -- either for the associated repo as a whole [0] or the CSS specifically.

Would it be possible to add a license so it's possible to know whether others can use this in other projects without rewriting the CSS from scratch?

[0]: https://github.com/ashok-khanna/pdf
Makes sense, thanks for explaining the bigger picture.
>he didn't say causation, she said correlation. "I began to think that there was an important correlation between this data and my symptoms."

Read on, because she then becomes convinced and send a message to her property manager that starts off with "The chemicals are still pouring out full blast." and starts her crusade until the management company lets her out of her lease (she wonders why they would do such a thing, but from sidelines, it's obvious - they don't want to deal with her anymore because even after they paid a contractor to test her apartment and surrounding area, she's not satisfied).

>She was open to the site not being the cause. "I was thinking: If you don’t want me to be worried about this chemical’s impact to my health, you should tell me exactly why it wasn’t included in the clean-up despite being above residential limits."

Are we reading the same thing? She's already down the rabbit hole by this point. She's asking non sequiturs and setting irrational standards. She wants answers to a thing that has nothing to do with anything she's going through. Again, there were multitude of reports, tests, and assessments that deemed the site safe - she just doesn't believe any of them (almost like she's asserting a consipracy)

>Also, she mentioned a few times that doctors, government, and even Irvine Company's public relations person admitted VOCs made her sick, but just didn't know where the VOCs came from.

Are you sure they did? And if they did, how would they know? And if they didn't, why would they challenge her? They don't know the situation. If you're a government employee tasked with handling her complaint, at some level all you can do is be empathetic and courteous. She seems to mistake this for agreement. None of it is convincing at all.

Again, I have no idea what the cause of symptoms are but the way she became convinced that this MUST be the answer 'smells' off to me.
Indeed I found my name and phone number in the new Facebook leak, but my email address wasn't listed.

I would recommend people check for themselves.
This giant phosphogypsum stack is not naturally occuring.
As a Swiss German, Yiddish sounds a lot like Swiss German to me, though it's certainly easily distinguished (and I couldn't speak it easily).
A citizen being unable to contact their elected official about legislation that could have an impact on their life because said elected official only uses Facebook as a contact page isn’t a strong example?

Yeesh.
There is nothing that you can do about it, so people are just apathetic. Only way to change something is by voting, but there is no party that would have a chance of winning that would support freedom of speech. People literally think that if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about. When I tried to move some of my friends to Signal and told them that someone can read our messages, they just said so what. You also have this propaganda about being open, transparent with everything that you do and people share things themselves and they find it enjoyable.
Some overlapping reasons:

Ash is smaller:

- small binary size

- low memory usage

- smaller attack surface

Ash is faster:

- startup time is far lower; this is actually noticeable to me as an end-user.

- better run-time performance

Ash is simpler:

- Ash sticks to POSIX much more closely than other shells and avoids almost any non-POSIX feature; if you're writing portable scripts, Ash is a good shell to test against

- Some non-standard shell features can be footguns; ash lacks these.

- Codebase is simpler to grok, relatively speaking

- See the "Size" section above

It's also easier to build ash as a static binary, which can be useful.

Ash won't replace your interactive shell; it's better for running shell scripts.
I was about to link his video as well. It's really amazing how the ubiquity of all this technology makes people not realize how friggin hard the problems JPL faces are.

The friggin rover comes down off a SKYHOOK. Off a rocket platform. And it weighs almost as much as a compact car. CMON.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688591
Ice baths before workouts boosted testosterone
fny did it for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693761
Maybe you know more than I do, but Microsoft has always had services running on unix-like systems - even back then I'm sure they had Linux servers in places. So they know they would have been next. $6M was just administrative money for them back then and they would have just paid it to make it a non-issue.

And again, $6M isn't really funding any serious legal action, is it? A couple of lawyers' lunch expenses, maybe!
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If you'd like to typeset HTML/CSS documents (with optional PDF-specific CSS blocks to handle page layout, numbering, header/footer, etc.), then I'd highly recommend Prince: https://www.princexml.com/

It's a typesetting-specific layout engine that supports HTML, CSS, JS, and even styled XML if that's your thing. It independently developed support for all the latest standards... it's not free but it's very good. The inventor of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, is one of the product's developers.

I used it on an app a while back to add a PDF export feature to a web app... couldn't speak more highly of Prince.
If your server is vulnerable to some threat, adding another barrier in front of it could help.
Your comment is a common retort, but I think it highly depends on what I'm building. If I'm building something simple, like a CRUD app, I really don't need a framework and won't end up reinventing core framework features.

Give me basic templating and server-side rendering and I'm good to go.
Rust's Result Type for Python
It's like life insurance that decreases your chance of death.
> I'm just a guy who worked at Ubiquiti for a year

Would you be able to point to unofficial compatible operating systems for Ubiquiti devices? I want to remove Ubiquiti software from the devices I bought and paid for.
This might help: https://www.nand2tetris.org. If you go through this, you will build a computer from the ground up starting with boolean logic. It touches on hardware design/computer architecture, building a compiler for an oo language, and building a basic operating system.
Unwanted sex occurs so frequently in the US that, as I said above, "sexually active" essentially includes all women and all prisoners, in the context of this conversation about which populations should receive this vaccine.

This is not the place to litigate over statistics provided by NSVRC. This is not the place to debate whether the women were intoxicated or not. This is not the place to debate whether all rape is truly rape or is not. Whether you label it rape or label it unwanted sex or label it unplanned intoxicated sex is irrelevant.
Yay, party like it's 2003 or so.

When the SCO lawsuit unfolded I was always looking forward for the Friday afternoon threads on heise about the latest news about that suitcase.
WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/25/tesla-n... says Tesla:

* interrogated workers over suspected unionization efforts

* threatened workers with the loss of their stock options if they unionized

* fired one worker and disciplined another over protected union-related activity

* had a policy prohibiting employees from communicating with the media, in violation of their right to speak “concerning labor disputes and terms and conditions of employment”

Elon's tweet is a side-show.
Has this been studied? My personal experience is the opposite, but it's an interesting phenomenon I'd like to understand better.
It will be a good symbolic battle for the government, which I’m sure they will eventually lose in court on first amendment grounds. But taxpayers will pay the government’s legal bills, while the politicians in charge can show they are “pro-union” - every administration does something like this for the political benefits, whether they claim to be “pro-union” or “pro-business”.
Imagine people could see on their telly what they said during the day and number of likes from the officers who watch them. The more correctly you behave, more likes you get and maybe a tax rebate. This is going to be the future.
Modern politics in the UK is heavy influenced by R Thaler. People are being slowly nudged towards such concepts.
But it looks like none of those variants are going to be able to evade T-cells generated by existing vaccines or previous strains, thats my point.
There was a lot of work involved - someone else's!

OK that's facile. NFTs are a thing. They are legitimised by a blockchain, which is quite a statement in itself (my words)!

NFTs are a thing that is messing with everyone's concept of normal, from young to old. This is not just the cool kids doing stuff - "Groove it dadyo" and all that bollocks. It is quite a neat way of using a blockchain to do something slightly more useful than the usual gambling. It's still gambling though.

The really rubbish bit is still Proof of Work vs Proof of Steak (mmmm steak) sorry Stake. How many unicorns were burned to prove that n owns a particular NFT? If n had instead paid cash they might have felled a couple of small trees but not an entire forest but then they would not be in possession of a NFT. They would still have the forest ...
* NAND2Tetris - https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Teaches you how computers, languages and operating systems work from basic principles

* Little Schemer, Seasoned Schemer

Teaches you about the power of functions, recursion, various CS topics and lisp's syntax

* K&R C Programming Language

Teaches you about lower-level programming
You left out transmission via blood.
I took plenty of OS and compiler classes in college and I was still struggling to grasp some concepts. I think the issue was I was able to understand each individual class in isolation, but when I tried linking everything together, something just didn't click.

I came upon this book/course: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems-se...

From a Hacker News post IIRC, and it helped more than I can express. At least for me it filled in all the little gaps in the computing stack and really made me "get it". I could relate to the old timers complaining about how everything is so bloated now.

The course is very hands on and you build a "full stack" from logic gates to an operating system that can run programs. It's truly amazing, and I think I learned more from this book than most of my college courses.

I believe it's also offered for free on coursera and has a website: https://www.nand2tetris.org/

But if you really want to know how a full computer works from the ground up, I think this book would be well worth the time.
There are various exceptions. HPV vaccines for example are useful after the fact.
Don't forget that the ++ operator has been added ; )
So, why wouldn't a superoptimizer AI write a weaponized joke that would suffocate someone by keeping them laughing for so long, or to craft themselves an android body with a form and movements that would make it the most beloved celebrity in all of human history? On top of that, why shouldn't it create music, literature, and art having that sort of effect, all at the same time, in the guise of several dozens of super-ultra celebrities and politicians?

Why wouldn't a superoptimizing AI be able to become Galadriel who took the ring from Frodo?

(Possible answer: The lethal joke and the face that lunched a thousand ships are apocryphal and fictional, but the politicians and the celebrities part is likely doable.)
> you could implement the same thing with DOM elements or simply with SVG

In the same way that writing a REST API is "connecting to some DB and simply exposing data via some endpoints" or building a machine learning model is "simply throwing some data at some algorithm and getting a bunch of analysis out" or devops is "simply starting some remote servers" or creating an OS is "simply writing a bootloader and then some stuff on top."
At first I didn't mind, but it seems to be popping up more and more. Like a little vampire sucking up to 5 seconds of life each time, that I'll never get back.
It's relevant to mention that the patent for every component of Truvada will expire this September.
> It will be a good symbolic battle for the government, which I’m sure they will eventually lose in court on first amendment grounds.

The National Labor Relations Act has survived court challenges since 1935. I doubt it'll go down here.
Simplest thing would be a criminal "buying" an NFT from themselves with ill-gotten currency from an anonymous wallet not publicly associated with themselves and then claim the profit as capital gains.
The Enchiridion (Epictetus, 125 Ad)
Perhaps rather than framing as paying someone to listen you could think about as engaging a consultant to give you some advice. In any case, I wish you the best.
I'd look at the definitions closely, especially for what counts as rape by intoxication. What ordinary women think of as too drunk to consent and what sexual assault activists think is very different.
I'd guess so?

It seems to target cells outside of HIV's production pipeline (to stimulate them into becoming little antibody factories).
Inexpensive tin packs a big punch for the future of supercapacitors
The main benefit school provides at age 5 is socialization. If everything is on zoom, I don’t see the point. I agree with you, the kids will be fine.
As a side note, it was ridiculous that it took so long for boys to start getting the HPV vaccine. If you're a public health person, even if your only concern is cancer in women, you still want to vaccinate boys to improve herd immunity. If you're a heterosexual man, even if you only care about cancer in women, you would like to have been vaccinated if you are a remotely decent person, because you don't want to give women cancer -- especially the women you have sex with, who, generally, are going to be people you care about. And additionally there are male health concerns related to HPV -- for heterosexuals, primarily oral cancer, and for homosexuals, possibly also anal cancer (these being generalizations, of course). These are nasty, lethal diseases. Surely they should be prevented as well? Given the multitude of common-sense reasons to do it, for the benefit of so many people, it was frustrating to watch it happen only with such a long delay.

Much of the opposition seemed to come from a vengeful kind of religious conservative who wants sex to have negative consequences. Those conservatives represent a familiar kind of evil.

Yet I suspect that some opposition also came from women who had a problem with protecting men's sexual health. This is a newer kind of evil, and even less sensible for women who are heterosexual, for the herd-immunity reasons I outlined in my first paragraph.

A more-widely-administered HPV vaccine was literally a win-win for everyone, gay and straight, female and male, and still it came about slowly and faced opposition. This made me despair of my fellow humans.
Yeah, it really didn’t sound healthy to me, but I strongly believe that even the most complete and convincing simulation of a person is not the same person, no matter how strongly the simulation believes it is. It feels weird even having to say that, but I’ve heard other people express contrary beliefs (e.g. on discussions about brain pattern scanning/simulation after death).

If we want to talk about whether a sufficiently advanced simulation of a person might deserve to be considered a person, well, that’s another debate entirely. But the simulation is certainly not the same person (an idea explored further in another post on the linked site, “How do you solve a problem like a Space Fred [1]”).

[1] https://newsletter.eternityhacks.com/issues/how-do-you-solve...