skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any true malthusian will of course voluntarily take the first step and remove themselves. Right?
> Was that what you were thinking of?

Yes! This is great. Thanks for the pointers. I'll look into that.
Ctrl-Alt-Del, from the old NT days, was a Secure Attention Sequence, theoretically not interceptable short of a kernel driver, and took you to a separate desktop. NT supported separate desktops, but they're not like virtual monitors you see today; they're more like separate virtual ttys in the Linux console sense, entirely separate desktops with wholly detached window environments running on them. That's where the lock screen lived, and where Ctrl-Alt-Del took you to.

Windows 7 probably changed that somewhat. I know the lock screen in Windows 10 is super buggy wrt customisation.
> I don't agree that they should take my money

I'm not American so I can be mistaken, but isn't it written in the American Constitution that government has the power to tax citizens?

In that case it's the price to pay to be part of the community, like it or not.

Coming from Italy I can only say that mafia doesn't do what they do because some fundamental law that defines a Country and is accepted by every political party gives them the power to do it, but only because they have the means to force other people to follow their own rules, they are violent criminals, out of the law.

Also: being prosecuted in a due process and eventually arrested it's not the same thing as being killed because some mob boss feels like it.
Most parents just let their kids crank on whatever academics are, and maybe help with a difficult assignment or two... even in affluent schools with involved parents.

But having a couple parents show up to reading time and teachers' aides... makes such a big difference in K-1.
Since the rover has a microphone I wonder how through the thin air the helicopter will sound?
> The general public are not scientists, yet they distrust institutions

Of course. They'll lose trust the soonest when they see political statements coming out of the WHO, etc. And they should. An organization that can't stay neutral can't do good work in a politicized climate.

> Few can look at data and know what it doesn’t answer, or what questions should be asked but aren’t being

No, this is actually one of the easiest things to teach. "If you were paid to sneak in and ruin this team's research, what simple bias could you add? If it was the other way around, how would you protect against this?"

Teaching people to recognize a poorly controlled study is not difficult. But it's not PC these days because people are supposed to shut up when told that all scientists agree! We did this to ourselves a decade ago by tolerating the climate change debacle attacking dissent, now everything is fought through fake consensus.

> Correlation is not causation, but that escapes almost all of us

When it's not it almost always means there's an unseen factor though, so that wonderfully dismissive statement is usually just a red herring.

> The people who can (or do) communicate with the public are ...

Lying. They're lying. They're saying things they can't know as if they're fact. The WHO isn't saying that a lab leak seems less likely than other things, they're saying it didn't happen. Unless they can point to what did happen then logically they're not able to make that claim.

People might be scientifically illiterate, but luckily spotting lies is much easier and gets you mostly halfway there, able to spot when you're being manipulated even if you can't tell what the truth is. The real problem the media is having is that people aren't quite as dumb as expected.
Think of pilots like the air traffic controller in a airport

The pilots don't drive anything. they are only supposed to advice on local geography and weather etc.

Most experienced captains will basically ignore them and keep them in their cabins for the journey in crossing the suez.

The system is inherited from hundreds of years maritime practice, back in those days pilots were essential to maneuver through local complexities in geography and weather, and were bribed for better service/smuggling etc.

Giving bribes in ports is very old practice even the US navy got into hot water recently in Asia for it.
I do wonder if there will ever be a reevaluation and integration of the Soviet Union in Western thought, one free of the context of needing to prove ourselves better than that system.

For all its horrors and atrocities, the Soviet economy grew, and worked. Oh, not very well. But better than 0% growth. In 1910 the average Russian was an illiterate peasant. In 1980 the average Russian was a literate urban dweller with electricity and indoor toilets on their floor with twice the life expectancy of their great-grandparents.

This is, again, not intended as a defence of that monstrous system. It can be condemned on purely moral grounds alone, in my opinion. And it was not as efficient by most analyses, either. Still, I bring it up because, as a counter-example, it complicates both of the commonly made assertions mentioned in the article: that poverty hasn't decreased in any meaningful sense, and that the capitalist system is the only means of greater than 0% growth in material production.
The easiest way was to send an Intent to the browser with a specially constructed URL. Every phone has that installed.
Get a few dollars from who? The owners of the company will have to pay themselves because they messed up? What a great reason to pay lawyers and clog up courts at taxpayers' expense.
Plan a Better Meeting with Design Thinking
Audacity is perfectly servicable and used by 99% of podcasts, what are.you talking about.
"We recommend that you ask yourself: If this meeting is wildly successful, what will people feel, know, and do as a result? Include these desired outcomes in your agenda, so that participants know why they’re attending and can gauge with you whether or not the time has been productive." -- This post should be shared with everyone in your company. Meetings cost a lot of money, optimize each and every one of them.
Scratch a Malthusian and you will find either a pure misanthrope or a racist. In either case the solution is always for others to die.
There's likely room to pick better monoclonal antibodies to use. There was an antibody identified that smashed variants, for instance.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.21250224v...

Some contextualization at https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1367592606641704961
Does this cure pre-existing infections
I support two Meraki MX64 routers, they are definitely expensive and have repeatedly caused issues for my clients when their ISPs force an upgrade of the associated modem. Not sure what shenanigans Cisco has done with Meraki, but I have wasted hours with them on the phone trying to get these MX64's to DHCP from a new cable modem.

Ended up swapping in an Archer C7 on OpenWRT with a LTE modem to ensure business continuity for the client while working with Meraki's abysmal support to get their router to work correctly.
When I opened this post, I saw it was much wider than any post I have seen on hackernews. I tried looking into the css, I thought it was somehow different, for whatever reason.

I could not find anything and then I encountered your comment. Apparently, your unbreakable long word makes the site very wide.

I didn't know comments can affect how wide the page borders are. Is this not bad UI? I am unsure who to ask.
Next year: folks balking at the high cost of hard drives may want to check out Bitcoin, which runs on surplus graphics cards.
What advantage would this have over snippets?
This is partly true, but I would also like to state things have much improved. I can vividly recall the 2000s where practically every website would look and behave differently in different browsers. I recall a lot of debugging client-state using poorly scripted PHP websites. Tooling so much more advanced and things "breaking" have moved from the user to the developer. In the jQuery days (or even before that) it was very hard to find out if everything was working as it should. Early feedback is a good thing. Understanding a framework is part of understand what you are shipping to the customer or user. Sure, it might seem more complex, but at least complexity isn't pushed down to the browsers and users.
> Many of us just prefer the customary units for many everyday uses for various reasons.

The switch wasn't effective because there wasn't a concerted effort to to make people switch by the government. They could have easily made it such that weather reports use Celsius in addition to Fahrenheit, speedometers in cars display speed in kilometers per hour by default, etc.

Right now, we have a mix because certain products started using metric on their own (e.g., soft drinks with their 2 liter bottles, car manufacturers using liters to measure engine displacement instead of cubic inches, etc.).
OK, so we'll go with "pedantry".

We have both very strong evidence of correlation here, and occasional measures showing causal relationships in randomized studies -- Head Start, children randomized to different amounts of Kindergarten by individual city programs, etc.

And sure, we have very poor data on what happens to affluent kids with involved parents, because this is a difficult population to study (haha, randomize my kids out to a half-day of K? Nothanks.)

But, hey, you thought you could dunk on some bro on the internet, so.. high five!
Burn-proof! (a quick search says there were other names for this, but it was all similar technology)
Several things about this:

1. Uber was already under a consent decree related to ADA violations when this both was happening and got filed. So this was already a known problem and executive management had AMPLE time to remedy it. This is mentioned at the end of the article.

2. Not mentioned was that this case was decided under Uber's own T&C-defined arbitration system (such systems are already biased against the consumer almost by definition) and yet that arbitrator found Uber's role so egregious that they awarded far more than was being sought!

The thing is: the ethics and morals of executive leadership ALWAYS set the tone of how all employees behave. And when both executives and employees behave badly, then contract employees will either do the same or will run "open loop" and "roughshod" over customers and the community.

Clearly that's what happened - Uber has a long reputation for such "bad acts" and unethical/immoral behavior so nothing new.
Then you are better off buying something with a beefier cpu that costs less since it doesn't have an npu.
Guardian is so predictable as a source of bad takes in its mad rush for leftist credentials.

When Donald Trump was elected they saw dollar signs in becoming the paper of leftist resistance.

And I say this as someone with rather left-wing economic beliefs, pro-reparations, tax the rich, etc.
From a now-dead comment:

> He’s a bigoted right-wing conservative who doesn’t want to hear about interesting scientific developments that he views as benefiting people with lifestyles that he condemns.

Perhaps not here, but I think this is a view worth discussing. I'm moderately conservative, and some of that comment's criticism resonates with my own thoughts.

With cases like HIV/AIDS, I find myself pulled between several competing virtues:

One one side there's mercy and compassion; I'd like to minimize the suffering of hurting people. Even if someone is in dire straights because of actions that I view as unwise (extramarital sex, recreational drug use, etc.), I still want to want what's best for that person.

On the other side, there's justice. I live in a society where everyone pays, to some degree, for individuals' unwise behavior. E.g., Medicare/Medicaid for smokers' lung cancer or HIV treatment for persons who chose to indulge in risky behavior. I'm not okay with forcing the community at large to cover the costs of (what I view as) individuals' selfish actions.

I don't know what the right balance to this is. More generally, I'm not sure if there are any good principles for finding the right tradeoff between two virtues. I wish I knew. I want to do good, but the path is often obscure.
A stricter version of this (which I prefer) is baked into latest Firefox: Tick Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows at the bottom of about:preferences#privacy. It upgrades to HTTPS whenever available, and otherwise shows you a warning that you're about to load an unsecured HTTP site.
Okay lets go with the premise that it does it wrong like all other crypto. Now what? Its still wrong? How is this even an argument? And more so how is it an pro argument? Its not less wrong or something its exactly the same wrong.

>I think what it is doing right is making PoW into actually useful computation...

PoW is used for decentral consensus. Its super bad at this but somewhat works anyway. FBA consensus does not need PoW so in general we dont need PoW for a bitcoin like system. FBA system exist since like 2013 or so. Using PoW for something good is still objective worse than not using PoW for the system at all. Else we could add some PoW to literally everything.

Now even worse than that is using PoS (objectively worse than FBA) and then add PoW/PoR for no reason at all (now you have gridcoin).
It doesn't try to be a better bitcoin because if it would there would be no reason to add any kind of PoW since its not needed.
The work/research is not used in the consensus mechanism at all.
Its a PoS system with a PoW/R money printer attached.

The whole thing obviously doesn't come from bitcoin evolving somehow into something better. It comes form BOINIC devs jumping on the blockchain train because why not. It allowed them to print incentives at no cost to attach people to donate they CPU power.
Its literally a money printer to attract donations its ridiculous. If you would say someone that they get a printed griddollar bill for every dollar donation people would laugh. But somehow if you add a bit blockchain flavor it fools people to do exactly that and worse people are even willing to buy the griddollar bill.
Don't forget well-justified suspicion of westerners based on horrible and not too distant history.
Those don't discount Facebook being required. Fortunately this place didn't require hardcore christianity. (I'm hopeful it's not filled with white supremacists, time will tell)
Well, the server-side part of it needs to run somewhere. Looks pretty good to me, very straightforward.
Coal in China supplies 53% of its electrical power. It is dropping slowly though. Hopefully they will succeed. Air pollution from those coal power plants is absolutely atrocious.
I have also noticed this the past couple weeks. I don’t think it’s related to Facebook- I deleted my Facebook account before 2019. However, I’ve also recently had discussions with Twilio (all of the below is non-confidential information according to our conversation):

The carriers are cracking down on sms spam. They are going to force registration of all businesses sending texts, not just with services like Twilio, but with them. And prices / rent-seeking from the carriers is going up - they are going to charge for each campaign/brand you run. So in the end you’ll see less spam, but texting will also cost more for companies that send them.

The initial rollout by AT&T was supposed to start 5/1, though that’s now been pushed back. Spammers are likely in their death throes, trying to get their last spam out before they get shut down or priced out.
That was one example, and personally, not a strong one. That does not stop one from participating in society. Society is much larger than the single example provided.
Pretty crappy results even for a beta - left turn into oncoming traffic in a clear highway seems like a standard test case.
Is ubiquiti a Chinese company?

Really, what a low effort idiotic post.
I don't want to be "blackpilled" about it. But there is literally nothing that can be done about it. None of the politicians in the UK seem to care about freedom of speech, right to privacy or anything else that is classically liberal. Everyone in the UK either supports it or is resigned to it. Also almost nobody in the IT industry seems to care about it either (I've worked at quite a few places as a consultant).
What profitable business do you run? Where do you get your insight? Before I consider it, I want to make sure you’re not armchair quarterbacking here
Show HN: gRPC server for hnswlib – a fast approximate nearest neighbor search
> Most of the value proposition of the Unifi lineup is I can look at a single website ...

> The single pane of glass to view everything when I am many miles from the networks I support is essential

It's also why we're talking about this.
The Soviet economy improved early in 20th Century, as did most thanks to industrialization, but by the end of the Cold War the economy was largely an illusion outside of the military spending. That's why the Cold War ended -- non-"revolutionary" leaders realized the Soviet Communist system was an utter failure economically.
> or try using smart contracts in crypto , for once in your projects.

If someone is willing to fund time spend on researching how to do it safely I would do it.

But I am not aware of anyone willing to fund hundreds of hours on such research. And it includes myself.

> Hating crypto , because news reporters only show you the scammers and the speculators , is blind hatred.

I do not care what 'news' reporters 'report'. I am in contact with several crypto-adjacent messages each week, all of them scammers in in mail inbox, on Telegram, in Discord.

Crypto-adjacent scam spam is over half of ads that managed to reach my on my own computer.

I consider it perfectly good reason to heavily dislike BTC and BTC-adjacent things.

> Crypto has/does much much more , than just act as a form of trading / speculation

Yes, it is also scam platform.

> Are you still gonna say people who use the dollar for daily transactions don’t exist ? That dollar is also a good idea only for scammers and speculators ?

No, because it is untrue. Unlike crypto.
Dumb question: Isn't HIV a solved problem? With current anti-virals they can't even detect HIV in blood tests.
I went with Org-mode and KaTeX, unfortunately there's a bug with Org-mode where it doesn't insert the trailing space after inline LaTeX. I never got around to fixing it. I did try to make mine "beautiful" or at least pleasing to myself.

Demo: https://eddieh.github.io/stix-org/

Code: https://github.com/eddieh/stix-org
My advanced math skills are going down the drain
i'm giving up on pursuing my career, i put in thousands of hours into releasing free software and in my life i have only grown to hate interacting with people, i have never been able to find a proper job and i'm now permanently giving up and doing whatever i want until i'm dead, too bad i have so many great skills
Ships afaik do not have as evolved FDR type systems to record interactions between people they way planes do.

Besides such interactions do not need to be conducted on the bridge at all.

Lot more likely the insurance company will negotiate for actual salvage plus some compensation to the government, plus few palms will be greased.
> 86F/30C is nearly miserable

> 32F/0C is shorts weather if you'll be moving around at all

That really depends on the wind, humidity and the amount of sunlight. I don't live that far north or south, but I certainly wouldn't consider freezing shorts weather or 30 °C/86 °F miserably hot.
Same here, as evidenced when one rainy Saturday afternoon the family were all together after lunch, grandparents drinking tea, me cross legged on the floor reading when I innocently asked the room “hey, what does cunt mean?’

Grandma turned puce and dad snatched the book from me, wtf are you reading?

James Herbert’s Rats trilogy. Aged 8.

Warped ever since.

Text is plenty.
The original SCO case dragged on because the law firm screwed-up and foolishly offered their services for free, indefinitely. This time around, I can't imagine Xinuos will stumble upon such an amazing deal and instead will have to bleed money to fund an obviously hopeless lawsuit.
It's like this because if you put a price on the box then no one buys it, and on Android it gets heavily pirated (100:1 pirates to purchasers).

I have been trying my whole career to maintain artistic dignity in mobile gaming, but you gotta realise why and how this has happened.

Apple arcade is trying to help.
I tried just now in two different Firefox (ESR and current) versions and it works. Perhaps you have to enable JavaScript, since OrgPad is a web application?

You can also try this not-shortened link: https://www.orgpad.com/o/AWhUSD7lhAjYC0sw-9lcDd
Yes, you're right. But I don't really expect them to make the "smart" or "usual" play. That would honestly surprise me. Now, pinning it on somebody that was generally disliked because they constantly blocked things that had obvious gaping security holes? Basically sicking law-enforcement on somebody out of pure spite? I can absolutely believe that.
Good points. Also, code can change frequently, so the "visual memory" reinforced by pagination becomes less useful, maybe even a hindrance.
Paul Graham Isn’t a Simple Writer, and Here Are Some of His Cool Tricks
Those annual PC Magazine Best Printer of 19XX that weighed the same as a tome - but they really tested in depth - now we just go to the local PC store and buy a crappy $99 inkjet on special from HP/Epson or Canon.
Ask HN: Can build CRUD apps, what now?
I have been building good amount of CRUD apps for the past 10 years or so, but I feel stuck, like a massive wall in front of me.

I started coding in 2010 when I was in High school using JScript and Microsoft PageBuilder with the Help Manual(chm file) that it came with (I had no internet connection). Later I picked up PHP, JS, Java and a whole lot of other technologies which allowed me to be an amazing CRUD app developer, My resume is filled with the latest trendy words like Docker, Scala, Kafka, Spark, Hive, react, K8s or any new framework that seems to make a buzz. All this was amazing but I recently realized that I am not so smart and I can't seem to build anything other than CRUD apps and it is quite depressing.

There is a world out there about compilers, run-times, drivers, emulators, VMs and OSes that I can't seem to grasp, it is just too complicated for me. My Computer Science degree and the newer degrees do not focus on these, they have become 4 year long coding boot camps that focus on getting people job ready with AWS, React, Ruby or whatever trendy. This is true for the majority of the not so prestigious universities out there.

I see a pattern and I feel the older generation is way more capable and knowledgeable when it comes to Computer Science in general. I am pretty sure a lot of people are or were in the same boat as me. I don't really have the time(Have wife & kids) to take a compiler course or set out to build my own OS, what would be the easiest way to learn these lower level things?

Things I have tried so far,

1. Reading the Dragon book(I find this would be useful only once you have built a bad compiler)
2. Paying people older than 40-45 to teach me some C/C++ and some tricks of the trade (expensive but I gained a huge amount of knowledge in a short time)

any other tricks, or comments about your own journey would be helpful.
This quote says nothing at all. Obviously the perp is someone with intricate knowledge of their network.

They might as well come out and say they have well-developed evidence that the perpetrator has an IQ over 50.
That is just speculation I'm afraid. There is much evidence that newer variants are more contagious, more virulent, and affect younger people more severely. Brazil's experience is instructive.

Thankfully the fantastic results of the mRNA vaccines mean that we should be able to suppress Covid down to the levels of measles, if not eradicate it like smallpox.