skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I was thinking. The Romans would use lead bowls to make their water taste better.
I always sort of thought it was because we are mostly water.
Oh, I missed that :)
The principle of in the GNU manifesto would be that the software is available for anyone to use in the same way, such that Elastic isn't elevated to not disclose their closed source additions to the software.

At this point, they are directly violating that core principle as well as the uncontroversial OSI directive 6 which copyleftists like myself don't really have a problem with... So I'm not sure what the issue here would be other than you dislike the larger companies' involvement in OSS? I think myself and others would appreciate clarification.
In Praise of Industrial Policy – Francis Fukuyama
I think there are several parallels in other industries - financial, pharma, etc. Very smart people, working on products that are (on some axis) detrimental to our society (or at-least one vision of what a society should look like).
I have one for my 20m2 shed, it works down to -5c at least.

Granted my shed has quite good insulation, but still.

Worst comes to the worse you could use a ground source heat pump.
Cheap, 4K, bigger than 24 inch monitors.

I think a lot of people are only allocated one monitor in most industries. This will change the way they work.

It will also change design.
hahahaha. I like your definition or responsible as AWS Linux 2 comes with 2.7 and macOS comes with 2.7

glad to know i'm such a hellion running such irresponsible OSes! down with the man!! I do what I want!

Or more likely, the world isn't as clear cut as you might think
I disagree. There are plenty of instances where a truthful statement isn’t worth standing up for. For example: statements that are unimportant, irrelevant, inconsequential, etc, in the context of the broader situation.
I use vscode and used sublime text before it.

If multicursor was to ever break in vscode, I would switch back to sublime text in a heartbeat.

Multiple cursors is the dealbreaker feature for any editor I use.

Everything else is just too painful.
Writing a Problem Report
The salt is used for ion exchange. You trade calcium for sodium. So while you don't drink salt, it does have sodium.
Challenging the Link Between Childhood TV Exposure and Later Attention Problems
Sovereign identity, DAOs, NFTs (not just the art stuff which atm is a little cringe but game items, land registries, deeds), stablecoins (usdc, dai, yes there is also wilder experimentation here).

I think people can quickly get dissuaded by some negatives like lack of scaling or environmental issues. These are real but are being solved. We really need communities like HN to engage because if proponents are right then the change will be vast and we are unprepared.

My personal favorite outcome is playing out right now. When a tech company is successful they capture near 100% of the value, despite leeching content off users. Ethereum based projects generally share rewards with the community of users that make the protocol/network successful. Applications are forkable, not just the code but the community, too. The community is in control.
Palmetto is no longer available at Costco. Some have attributed it to the founder (and mayor of Pawley's Island) making some less-than-tasteful comments about BLM protests in a neighboring city. I don't know that Costco ever officially confirmed that, though. Source: https://news.yahoo.com/costco-pulls-palmetto-cheese-120-1534...

Our local Costco has started carrying "Taste of the South" brand pimento cheese: https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/taste-of-the-south-lo...
Garbee looks like he could be it (he's a programmer, not just an activist), but I'm wondering if he could continue the philosophical work of free software with the same kind of vigor, like the commentary on new tech trends through the freedom lens that RMS has been doing.

If there was one single reason RMS should remain in any function at FSF at all, it would be his writing as a philosopher (being a jerk is actually a plus in this case, cf Diogenes).

I myself probably would wish RMS to retire honorably in time and contribute with writing. Would end well for everyone involved. Doesn't make the smear campaign any more justified, against fucking anyone.
Surprised to hear this is uncommon, I received allergy shots >20 years ago and it was the only allergy treatment (after many attempted medications) that had a sizable impact.

Besides the delivery vehicle, what are the differences between allergy shots and these droplets?
This pattern is quite common in React to do conditional rendering:

{isLoading && <Loading />}
> Why is this post so downvoted?

Oddly, HN is over all rather closed minded about cryptocurrencies/blockchain. I can understand being jaded at all the bitcoin maximalist out there that are frankly ignorant or even just being generally weary about the idea of such currencies... but it seems like the general sentiment is very negative in almost every thread with very minimal understanding of cryptocurrencies or frankly currencies in general.

Shame, tbh. I wish there was better discussion on the topic. Blockchain is very cool, even if you don't believe bitcoin is replacing your dollars ever.
Hence "the dose makes the poison".
I conducted an experiment once to settle an argument about identifying vodka by smell and taste. The argument was since regulations require 95+% neutral spirits to be diluted with water, the smell and taste should be uniform. We used 3 store bought vodkas reportedly made from potato, corn, or grain and our own mixtures of 95% grain alcohol with various water sources to matching dilution. Participants were allowed to sample the solutions and told what they were, then given the solutions blind in a random order and asked to identify each solution. Our participant group was too small and controls too loose to make any significant conclusions, but our guess was that pH was not regulated and could be a discerning factor. One of the participants scoring a near perfect score settled the bet. Even the smokers scored higher than what we expected for purely random guesses.
There is also https://www.opensearchserver.com/ which is the first result when your search "opensearch docker".
The TV remote only has to understand TV-related things, like inputs, channels, volume, and program names. Siri and Alexa have to understand everything.
Not really: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/.
yay, now it's at the whims of connectivity to a global computer network and cheap energy (not only in the past, but also in the future).
The particular FBI agents involved have probably learned how to best approach this, so reality is probably different than what you imagine.
I'll give you an example.

The most "mainstream" revolutionary idea in crypto right now is automated market makers (AMMs) like Uniswap. These essentially allow anyone to create a "pool" to trade between two assets and earn fees from it.

You can tokenize any asset, pair it with a liquid token (such as ETH or USDT) and offer it to anyone to trade while you earn fees. Or you can join an existing, popular pool (such as between wBTC-ETH) and earn fees on any trades that happen on it.

Essentially, anyone can:

- Create a decentralized exchange economy

- Participate in existing exchange economies with any amount of capital and earn fees from it

The latter part is important because that's been the purview of banks. Countless trades happen between currency pairs daily. Banks earn all the fees because they supply all the liquidity. You can't participate in that market even if you wanted to (or unless you had tens of billions in capital).

AMMs turn that around. You could have $1 worth of liquidity but you can still earn fees on it.

This is the first time in the history of finance that creating and participating in exchange economies has been so cheap and accessible. I think that alone is revolutionary. It makes previously inaccessible financial avenues available to the little guy
https://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/
The Oculus Quest 2 is so cheap for a very high quality and high resolution experience. And even more importantly, it’s extremely simple to setup.

Wireless VR really is a necessity for it to become more than just a tiny niche.

Not yet mainstream, but it’s actually a joy to use and I think we’ll have significant marginal improvements over time which will keep making it more and more worthwhile.

I think the real thing will be commercial applications of VR, where companies use it because it’s the best way to get certain kinds of work done. And NOT desk work, either. We’re maybe a decade or two from that being mainstream, but it’s going to be a significant improvement.
I am working on GraphBLAS-based implementations right now. While the API itself is great, using it full-time I notice documentation is still quite behind and still not too many features. Also there is almost no community outside academia. Crazy efficient though, and very solid overall
> tasks that people either cannot currently do, or cannot easily do.

A todo entry or flipping lights via assistants also qualify as such tasks, if we broaden the definition of "easy". The flow from having the thought of an idea or a song to making a note or playing the song by just speaking out loud is just so convenient, without having to context switch from whatever one is doing. Controlling a set of IoT devices with custom commands is another good usecase.

Of course, not everyone has a workflow where a digital assistant fits well today. However, I expect that their usefulness will increase exponentially with time. We're surely heading to the sci-fi future where each house will have a personalized digital guardian responding to the wishes of the family, Jarvis style, no?
https://github.com/aws

https://github.com/awslabs
I think in a lot of cases that is because they tried. You can tell 90% of Google's focus is ad consumers when they develop new services, whereas Nuance has sold medical-focused dictation tools for over a decade.
How the Federal Government Can Free America from Its Zoning Straitjacket
For many people in the US, over the past couple of decades:

1. Housing has become much more unaffordable.

2. Higher education has become much more unaffordable.

3. Retirement income has become much less guaranteed.

4. Employment is much less stable than it used to be.

Just look at the coming eviction tidal wave that will happen after the eviction moratoriums in the US end. Telling people "But look at all the other modern comforts you have now!" will smack as "Let them eat cake" when someone gets kicked out of their house, while the rich got much richer over the past year.
Identity is necessary but boring. US SSNs were used by third-parties far beyond the original purpose. Any identity system that achieves global scale can be used to anchor a risk score. Which systems do you consider good candidates for global digital identity and credit score? Cryptocurrency exchanges are using driver's license and utility company bills. The IaaS KYC EO basically says "record as much as possible", https://www.steptoeinternationalcomplianceblog.com/2021/02/u.... If we take inspiration from online advertisers, no formal "identity" is required, they can construct a profile from online signals, but there would zero legislative recourse for false positives.
Daily reminder that slavery existed in Africa for a long time and was not something the western people brought there.
Coronation Bank, MTN Nigeria to raise N125 bln Commercial paper, 7-year bonds
I wonder if ES had originally been AGPL licensed would that have helped them? If Amazon adapts AGPL code to integrate it with their own infra=structure doesn't that in fact mean that all of Amazons' software-based infra-structure would become AGPL as well, and thus easily reproduced by Google Cloud, MS Cloud, Oracle Cloud etc.? Or even inhouse? In other words wouldn't it mean it would be easy to replicate the Amazon Cloud-business (on a smaller scale)?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!
Facebook: Relay, Cassandra, React Native, RocksDB, Presto, Reason, btrfs, osquery.

Apple made significant contributions to LLVM and Clang

Hell IBM has more open source contributions (many through the Apache foundation and standards committees) than Amazon, which is saying something.
>a take.

only in the same way like the evolution is "just a theory".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war

"The patent war stalled development of the U.S. aviation industry.[7][10][11][8][12] However, this claim has been disputed in research.[13] Perhaps as a consequence, airplane development in the United States fell so far behind Europe[7] that in World War I American pilots were forced to fly European combat aircraft, instead.[14][15][16][17] After the war began, the U.S. Government pressured the aviation industry to form an organization to share patents.[7][18]"
The best trick for actual debugging is to leverage your browser console.

In a local build you basically have a 1:1 mapping of source code to deployed code and the debugger here basically becomes your IDE. You can hit Ctrl+Shift+P in the inspector and use the same kind of fuzzy file matcher you have in Sublime Text or VS Code, and from there you can set breakpoints, modify the code in memory, and so on. The console will reflect on the entire scope and annotate the code with their runtime values, the same as you get when working inside a JetBrains IDE.

But it's JS, so you can tweak it without committing it to disk and so you get some form of REPL driven development. I can't remember the last time I've used a console.log over setting a breakpoint in the debugger and fucking with the application state at that point to understand an issue.

You can get quite close to that after you've bundled your code and deployed it to a server, so long as you've got good source maps going on.

Print debugging is invaluable, but I can't help but think there's something of Smalltalk or Lisp in how you can mess with your app within a sandbox through the inspector, at runtime. The only thing that breaks the model is the transpilation and minification, without sourcemaps.
Changed the title to one with less partisan salience, because the article itself is good even if the title is designed to increase political team feeling.
I've received allergy shots in the past. Seems to be a relatively common treatment in the south. It's just inconvenient due to office visits.

Looks like the innovation here is the move the serum from intradermal to a liquid, oral treatment?
Hard to want to believe something if it means nobody will care about your work no matter how good it is for reasons out of your control.
Flipr: Making Changes Quickly and Safely at Scale
1. There's nothing wrong with keeping that same notebook by your bed. Also, you might wake your spouse up by talking to Google.

2. Don't get so messy when cooking, also it hardly matters if your temporary notebook gets a bit dirty.

3. Don't multitask when driving. Taking your eyes off the road is the main concern, but testing has shown driver's voice control systems to be distracting to a significant degree. And, voice assistants are at least somewhat similar.
What btilly said!
The majority of economic activity is not "programmable"--if I order a ship load of steel from some country, how is that contract going to be enforceable/verifiable with cryptoeconomic techniques?
Usually? Please ...

That's called insider trading and those who do that ends up in jail or at best have to hide in the sun for the rest of their life.
I presumed screen readers had some kind of standard in the way they interpreted things. The standard allows the user to choose which screen reader they want.

Letting the screen readers interpret things however they want seems likely to end up in a situation like browsers. Horrible shims everywhere to handle the idiosyncracies of how each reader interprets things.
Folks already pay different prices for different movies on the streaming services. I don't think it is a big stretch to think that they would pay more for better movies.
Assuming delivering C4 was the stated purpose of meeting. It's certainly possible, but...
Looks like NVidia broke up with POWER on IBM and made their own chip.

They have interconnects from Mellanox, GPUs and their own CPUs now.

I suspect the supercomputing lists will be dominated by NVidia now.
According to Microsoft's actions, PWA (progressive web apps) are "officially" first class citizens:

0) https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20983886/microsoft-outlo...

1) https://www.windowslatest.com/2021/04/11/windows-10-taskbar-...

2) https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-clears-air-recent-o...
Datadog Completes Acquisition of Sqreen – Datadog
Name one place where you can buy BTC with fiat without KYC.
How so? Isn't it just taxed as normal income at vesting time? Most employers automatically sell enough to cover the tax withholding to solve any issues.
> the majority of that money just goes to Spotify

Last I checked, Spotify's cut is 30%. That's a lot, but even with a significant error it's nowhere near the "majority."

> If, every month, you paid 10€ to a random artist you liked (or split 10€ between all of them), the artists would receive probably more than two orders of magnitude more money.

That's a function of how popular your favorite artists are and how much you listen to them. No matter how unknown they are, if you listen to an average number of streams per month then they'll get at least 70% of your 10€/mo -- a far cry from two orders of magnitude. If your favorite artists are much above average popularity then they'll make more with the Spotify arrangement than if you gave them cash even if you don't listen to them at all.

There's still a kernel of truth in what you're pointing out -- at some point in the fairly recent past you had to buy the music outright no matter how often you would listen to it, so if there exists a long tail of musicians who aren't listened to much but whose music would have been paid for in a record/tape/CD/itunes market (and I suspect there does) then Spotify is going to be much worse for them.
It's not religious to observe that founders who made a successful exit are well-poised to do it again.

They're swimming in money, they have a bunch of investors in their phone contacts, and they know all the ins and outs from the last time they put a startup through its life cycle. How could they not be in better shape than some kid slurping ramen in his first YC cohort?

This does leave two big wildcards: the idea (specifically its product-market fit) and pure dumb luck. From what you wrote, I'm guessing that you think this isn't realized by the "cult of YC" as well as it should be, whereas I guess differently, but it doesn't matter that much. We all recognize that it's there, and without those two ingredients you can't succeed.

As an aside, I've seen two different kinds of 'luck' come up in these kinds of conversations: the sort I'm referring to above, and the sundry genetic and social inheritances to which a person is heir.

They're both valid uses of the word, I think the first is more obviously lucky than the latter. It is luck of a sort that someone is 2 meters tall, but I bet their parents were also taller than average, so saying that it's lucky that they were able to be a pro at basketball is going to confuse some people. There was no "them" before the peculiar genetic combination which conceived them, and after that, we're talking about some favorable circumstances (adequate time, a court, no crippling car accidents or stray bullets) and a great deal of hard work.

Similarly, you can call it luck that Jeff Bezos was able to borrow a quarter million from his family, or that Elon Musk apparently can sleep for four hours and work for twenty, constantly, for decades (a genetic quirk no less special and rare than being two meters tall): but you can call it fate as well.
I am sure Mao and the Red Guards would be surprised.
That's a big leap for me. I spent 1 hour twice a week commuting to get allergy shots.
I think it's dramatically understated as well how much of a permeant disadvantage not having connections from family/friends is. You can literally work your whole life and not be able to have a single deal be made that another person can ask a "family friend" to help facilitate in a matter of days.

The door to some people is permanently closed, no matter how hard their "hustle".
I can't believe nobody mentioned new natural teeth growth.

No more ceramic implants, no more root canals. Grow new shiny and healthy teeth.
Biden's top economic adviser Brian Deese explains American Jobs Plan
Totally get your point here, however the counter that always gets me is the rate of quantitative easing in the US/UK. Not sure on accuracy of this but I've seen figures(cityam website) saying around 18% of all US dollars were created in 2020. There's a good argument that it's safer financially to put money into crypto. Personally I feel quite unsettled with both traditional finance and crypto at the moment.
> The inexpressible depth of all music, by virtue of which it floats past us as a paradise quite familiar and yet eternally remote, and is so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain.

Schopenhauer, the father of philosophical pessimism, would agree with you: he thought of music as one of the few pure respites from the suffering of the world.
It depends on how you define a troll, in the original sense, no, but he definitely feeds on controversy.

It is not his opinions, and in fact, I mostly tend to agree with these. It is more about if he disagrees with someone, he is going to lose all objectivity and attack him like a rabid dog, backed by all his fans. It is surprising considering that he looks like a competent scientist and promotes rationality.

For example, it looks like he has a grudge against Elon Musk for some reason. No problem with that, I am a bit of a hater myself. However, some (not all) of his argument are simply wrong, or at least incomplete, and he repeats them over and over, mixed with movie clips meant to ridicule, and he never backs down.

Even when it supports my ideas and I enjoy two minutes of hate as much as anyone, I think it is toxic. The only purpose I see to these videos is to reinforce ideas people already have and turn them into zealots instead of educating others. Not so different from the cults he denounces.
I thought about NeXT, but that was a bit of a weird one, because NeXT executives and technology replaced a lot of Apple’s executives and technology. That ended up being a stealth takeover by NeXT.
Inside out tracking is crazy good. I have a Quest 1, and this technology is seriously impressive. Quest 2 is significantly better and cheaper.
First we put doom on everything, now bitcoin miners.
...the worry that one day you could randomly lose the prime on the pump and they'd have to dig to get it back (which happened once)...

Where was this? Pumps are placed at the bottom of wells and avoid this problem entirely. It's physically impossible for a pump placed at the top to raise water more than 10m.
Study reveals alarming trend in US death rates since 2000
Giles Gardam disproves Kaplansky's unit conjecture
Technically, you cannot download an NFT. It's a distributed consensus that you cannot ever truly put your arms around (unless you're running a testnet and operate all of the nodes).
Or just use something like Chakra UI, which is like Tailwind CSS but based on styled system and built with Typescript for React from the beginning and has a nice set of basic components.

I even built something like Tailwind UI but for Chakra (link is in my bio if you want to check it out)
I think this is exactly what the parent commenter meant. You'll be able to retire comfortably after your most productive years, but you most likely won't be financially independent within 5 years and have the means to focus on building a startup.