skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Isn't human history littered with such examples? How long have we been doing physics for, and how stupid are we as a species?

Actually, no. That's a common misconception, but what tends to happen is that we observe that the models we use to describe the universe almost but don't quite work, as we advance enough to make more and more accurate observations, so we create updated models based on observation and experimentation.

What doesn't usually happen is that we discover that everything we knew was entirely wrong and we need to scrap it all and start over. Rather, we refine an understanding of the universe that builds upon what was already known.

Einstein didn't render Newton obsolete, we still use Newtonian physics, but now we understand that Newton isn't always accurate. Whatever we discover after Einstein isn't going to render him obsolete - that model has been tested so thoroughly that it obviously describes something very accurately. Whatever comes after relativity and QM still has to correlate with their observations.

We can fly a helicopter on Mars and stream it over the web. We can genetically engineer organisms. We can build pyramids out of atoms and photograph black holes. We detected the background radiation of the Big Bang a hundred years ago, and then made a heatmap of the entire visible universe. We've detected gravitational waves and the Higgs boson. We're really not that stupid.

>Also FTL doesn't seem to be necessary. An alien civilization could feasibly have sent out Von Neumann probes at sub-light speed and have populated an extremely large radius over the span of a few billion years.

Except what people claim to observe are craft that appear to violate the laws of physics, which doesn't seem like something a probe designed to drift aimlessly in space until it hits matter, consumes and replicates would do.

Also, the Fermi Paradox suggests that if a significant amount of our local space was colonized by Von Neumann machines, we'd know it. So either it isn't feasible, or it hasn't happened anywhere near us. If it hasn't happened anywhere near us, how did they even get here? Von Neumann machines replicate and launch from star to star. Why did they apparently bypass so many stars between whatever their last spawn point was, and us? And if they're here, why aren't they colonizing our planet or sun?

>It could all be CGI or ball lightning, and the burden of proof is higher than mere video, but not all footage is low-quality.

Fair enough, but most of it is.
Digging for more truth then.
further down in the same results.
cdc April 2 21 doc ( https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br... ) includes this:

"
A growing body of evidence suggests that fully vaccinated people are less likely to have asymptomatic infection and potentially less likely to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to others. However, further investigation is ongoing.
"

8th result from healthline ( https://www.healthline.com/health-news/if-youre-vaccinated-c... )includes this:
"
While all the approved vaccines offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 and hospitalization, the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines block fewer infections than do the mRNA vaccines.

None of the vaccines are 100 percent effective at preventing infections. So even if people don’t get very sick with COVID-19, they may still contract an infection and can potentially transmit the virus to others.
"

So it seems that indeed people that have been fully vaccinated with either the mrna (seems like after 2 doses up to 90% protection?) and the lesser ones to a lesser extent..

both types of "vaccines" do not 100% full stop people from getting it an transmitting it.

This is very different from vaccines as I had previously known like polio or shingles vaccines which 100% prevent them and prevent you from spreading them right?

So I guess my point to the OP would be that sure it's fine to not want to go to an office where everyone has not been vaccinated, but this is not like the polio vaccine - depending on the vaccine given there is a 10% or higher chance that those people can still get it and still transmit it right?

It's fine choice to want people to get vaccinated - I just think some people are using the term to think like eradication.. full protection - like polio vaccines.. but this is not that (right?).

Again, happy to be wrong on all of this. But also want other people to not be confused by terms that at this point I feel are being misused, and sure, perhaps for the greater good - but nonetheless can be abused to create a false, and for some people deadly, sense of security.
I don't think one can talk about Shabbas and elevators without mentioning Feynman's take[1].

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ev3gy/excerpt_from...

PS: I am linking to where I easily found a good quotation with enough context. It is not an argument for atheism.
Nice! Nylon is from the 1920’s, so it only took 100 years
I seriously can’t understand who would downvote this or why. The grey area of gut is literally the purpose of discussions like this one. I’m in that grey area and it’s like being stretched out by the limbs and waiting to find out which will give.
Agreed. Better option would be to hire someone to cut the grass and bill the property owner for it.
Reminds me of https://zettelkasten.de/ except they focus on note-taking while you have some emphasis on reading as well.
That's a very limited dataset, no?
> I would also like to see technology interfaces developed for animal use.

I'm working on a device for this! Stay tuned.
LMAO fail.

Radio is optional as you can switch it off at any time, change the volume, is not imposed by the manufacturer, and you had the option to listen to your own cassetes and later CDs and digital for 50+ years.
Startup idea - computerized grading Go!
Ahh, I missed one or two substitutions. Fixed now.
They were always better, but the price delta narrowed a lot because of HD price increases.

If you only had space for 1 drive, you did have to choose between small capacity with high speed vs. High capacity and slower speeds.

Plus (real or mythical) reliability issues with new tech.
Also, if you’re trying to have half (or fewer) people at the office, you can have the same office assigned to two people, making it just as efficient as an open-office.
SpaceX: Crew-1 Return Mission
Well firstly, it's common courtesy to state it upfront if you have a conflict of interest (E.g. you work for the company being discussed or you're linking something of your own).

Secondly, I suspect some people may not like the idea of these kind of metrics.
Software updates require approval in the EU just like hardware changes if it significantly changes the car. Tesla is already on thin (or rather close to nonexistent) ice by just updating. This won't be allowed in the EU unless new laws are made (and I personally doubt it will be allowed and good riddance!).
Just because speech is biological that does not automatically cause it to be moral, only that it serves, as Plato describes, the "self-moving power" of Life. So then, communism and authoritarianism are contradictory to Nature, as has been visually demonstrated.

I highly suggest Reading Cicero's Laws, it's quite an original reflection and condenses Western classical thought brilliantly - it after all inspired the founders of the American Republic: http://www.nlnrac.org/classical/cicero/primary-source-docume...

P.S. If you believe "nothing [does not arise] from the physical" then how do you explain the ordering principles of logic? Are you to suggest that the mind does not exist independently of the physical brain? If so, where is your evidence?
I mean what’s wrong with beanie babies? If you didn’t hold you made out like a bandit
I did a 360. I was a GNOME 2 fanboy, switched to FUDUNTU because of GNOME 2 support (before MATE / Cinnamon forks), left GNOME because of Unity, etc., had a macintosh, used Xubuntu.

10 years later I'm on vanilla GNOME and I think it's amazing. Truly perfected.
My example was a library, so both the library and it’s caller are in the same release artifact (binary/JAR/whatever).

If you’re changing the interface of an RPC service, then you can’t do that in a single commit, and need to fall back to something like the second approach, but with even more caution to make sure you properly account for releases and the possibility of rollbacks.
I appreciate that notion, but I chose my words under two deliberations:

1. While aggressive, they do have meaning, and aren't meant only for their tone. E.g. "poisonous" is meant to confer that the attitude spreads, and harms discussion. "Noise" is meant in the sense of "signal vs noise". In "creates more problems than it solves", the problems we're trying to solve are the very subject of the comments, whatever they may be in each case, and the problems created are the fallout in discussion. I should have elaborated.

2. The tone they impart was chosen to be commensurate with the behavior they are criticizing and its practical consequences. If I were to be more polite, I could have used a tone like, "I think your choice of words distracts the conversation," but I don't think that communicates my opinion as clearly. Yes, there is a fine line between being honest and being insulting, and I am unhappy if it came across as patronizing, but sometimes it's hard to find that line.

I accept that it's a possibility that my words were uncalled-for (based only on your comment), but they also weren't just expressions of annoyance that I was reaching for arbitrarily. I feel like they aren't comparable to the tone of the post I was criticizing, neither in their severity nor in their meaning.
Yeah there's a thing for a while now in the US where we like to talk about "judeo-christian" values or roots or whatever. I've never really understood it except as a way to exclude islam which I really believe is all it is.

Parts of the white evangelicals going hard into it is weird but not completely out of nowhere I guess.

BUT! Anyway the "judeo-christian" thing is just a rhetorical move. I think overall Americans are very ignorant of judaism and think it's a lot more similar to christianity than it is but no one thinks they're the same religion. Uninformed but not likely to mix the two up like this.
How would someone wash it, if it got dirty?
If I was the person who launched this, being offered a job like this would be really cool even if I didn't take it.
The Screws of Disruption
Sure, I also have conversations in person that weren’t my best or were otherwise problematic. Should we prevent all audio recording from phones, too?
In what ways could a rule giving advantage to people who are taller possibly have anything to do with men vs women? Would it just be a coincidence that the tall person bonuses happen to go mostly to men? After all, they go to a few tall women too, so does that prove there is no reason for women to get upset about this policy?
Oops. My comment was irrelevant :)
JLCPCB is excellent, but there's nothing rapid about them. Sometimes you just want to iterate on a board, and 4-6 weeks per iteration is loooong. Admittedly, 5.5 out of the 6 weeks is postage, but still.
Bundling shared libraries is also used in big apps for faster build times and for more physical separation between modules.

Arguably the final release version could be statically linked, but that could be subtly different than what the devs are using.
They have been repacking old boosters a bit for the most part not really tho
It’s been a while since I tried it (maybe 2018?), but Python 3 support straight up didn’t work despite the documentation. It also seemed like adding support for your own toolchain required you to write Java plugins in a very confusing, inheritance-for-it’s-own-sake, raptly-2000s-OOP way.
Why hasn't everyone banded against cryptocurrency, considering how proof-of-work is heating the world, and most/all cryptocoins have more in common with a pyramid scheme than with anything of any value?
With the convergence of technologies, AGPL should maybe be everyone's default (if they consider GPL, go for AGPL).
The Android kernel has some changes that weren't upstreamed, has features that Linux doesn't, and is missing some features, as well. For example, SysV IPC isn't supported on Android's Linux kernel[1].

Often, for specific devices, the kernels they run are forks with changes that aren't upstreamed. Some of those changes can be significant enough that porting those changes to an updated kernel snapshot is nearly impossible, so it never happens, despite the kernel fork's source being available under the GPLv2.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk/+/4e159d95ebf2...
The Rust ABI is unstable, the C ABI is stable. You can always dynamically link against a C object file, even one written in Rust. I would love to see a restricted stable Rust ABI for types without generics and trait objects and nothing else. That would enable library authors to easily express/provide a dynamic linking surface, while the default remains static linking. I tend to agree that things that "are part of the OS" like QT and GTK should be linked dynamically, while most other things shouldn't.
Kind of on collusion but not very organizes. And not enough to meet the legal definition
I think to a large extent the selfishness just expands to include your kids. Most parents are even less likely to consider the needs of people outside of their family because they weigh the needs of their kids far above others.
If the job is about reaching high shelves, yep, that's an excellent bonus scheme.
This is exactly why data patterns like Observables (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable) and ReactiveX (http://reactivex.io/) are so powerful. You can design your interface to be subjective to both. :)
I wouldn't correlate it with wealth as much as being born with #ideaPrivilege. Plenty of people born not too wealthy who made it big, but they were born to college professor parents or born in the Valley or Redmond or Cambridge et cetera. If you can get access to great ideas early, then you've got a leg up.
For anyone considering contributing to tools and distros that support static linking, check out my StackOverflow answer "Static linking is back on the rise" [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430400/linux-static-lin...
Interesting, but a later paper that cites this one did not get the same result. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-020-00749-6
You're not, this is absolutely the correct solution. There's no reason it needs to be either/or.
More like selling a map of gold veins to a gold digger in this instance.
Suppose we can dispense with the pretext this is all a matter of Science and The Experts, then.
It is not Google's job to fix public transit in the Bay area. But given the lack of transit, if they don't provide shuttle service, many of their workers cannot work from the office. So not really a bubble as much as stating the fact.
What does your process look like? You can validate or destroy a startup idea in a day with enough conversations (if you can get them).
Another benefit of RFID and modern readers is integration with phones. I think Portland, OR is one of the few cities in the US with good support for this.

- Your phone (or watch) can act as an RFID transit card, even when it’s out of battery. (Using apple’s transit card program)

- Any terminal can accept mobile wallets

Maybe as a permanent resident, the difference isn’t quite as big compared to typical RFID cards — just one less thing to carry. But when someone visits, it’s so convenient to not have to acquire a transit card and load it up, or buy tickets, or download an app, or acquire cash or coins. Most other cities (in the US), it’s a whole ordeal to figure out exactly how to pay for the transit system, where to buy the cards, it’s different everywhere, etc. But in Portland, all you need to know is that the terminals accept Apple Pay in any bus or train, and you’re good to go. It’s fantastic! I wish other cities would adopt these sorts of terminals. It makes public transit much more appealing especially as a visitor.
How to Debug Code
That makes so much sense. Which is how I know they'll never implement anything like that :(
I am completely comfortable with having my phone announce to everyone that "your call may be recorded". In fact, add that to caller ID data or something: you dial me, you have to hit "I agree" before the call goes through. Would shut down a heck of a lot of behavior enabled by pseudoanonymous phone calls.
On one hand, I suspect Raptor is still going through initial design problems. One of indications is the "engine rich" exhaust on a recent SN landing.

On the other hand, "staged combustion" and "full-flow staged combustion" are significantly different in terms of required efforts. USSR had the first one working since mid-1960s, multiple designs were made and flown since then, it's a standard design mode for Soviet/Russian engineers. At the same time the second one was not quite completed in late 1960s and wasn't returned to since - anywhere, except Aerojet Rocketdyne prototype - and the Raptor.

So... I think Blue Origin is still noticeably behind SpaceX in terms of engine technology. I wish SpaceX had more competition, but right now they are unquestionably one of world leaders in it.
I think it would be easy but you need cash and reputation behind the service to create legitimacy.
About the last thing driving the CDC's uniquely pusillanimous guidance around school reopenings is the data.
How to De-Risk a Startup · Coding VC
To be fair, some of that growth for those tech companies comes from WFHers (like people buying on Amazon more), but I get what you mean.
I seriously doubt 99% of Google Play developers worry enough that they would take the time and money to run a signing server, and that would introduce a lot of complexity for Google.
Silicon carbide radio circuits can take the volcanic heat of Venus
I still don't think that this constitutes "seizing". YT provides the streaming service for the uploaded video, claims the ad revenue in exchange. I don't like it, but it's not "seizing".

Also, boring as it is, and aware as I am that I am in a tiny minority, I do not use a mobile device, and on my browser(s) I have uBlock Origin installed, as well as 69k entries in /etc/hosts to block any and all access to a huge number of known-to-serve-ad domains. I essentially never see YT ads.
Leo Polovets shares a practical framework for how to map out risks, rank them and then figure out how to reduce them. Take that into other areas in your company: leadership capacity, decision making, execution speed etc.
> every distribution's major selling point ... would be obsolete.

Aren't most of the people working on distros doing it for free.
I got a lot of value out of it. I have close to 40 angel investments now, and it rings true. The ones doing best (from a returns point of view anyway) are all in great markets. I have not had any great teams fail yet but a couple that were plodding along and then pivoted markets and that changed everything.

One thing I'm curious to see: if you've got a great team and run a tight ship can you take your time and eventually wait for your market opportunity?
Is it true empirically that independent developer software sales are lower on mobile than desktop? I definitely spend more on mobile apps, and I’m a software engineer who spends a lot of time on desktop. My impression is that the mobile app ecosystem has massively grown the market. Subscriptions are lucrative, so platform support for that only helps developers.
> Doesn't the protocol already need to do something to support that? Presumably it's an out-of-band notification, and they needed to add support for that.

Yep, it does, so you could do this; the problem for the Linux desktop is just that there isn't a standardized out-of-band push notification system yet. (I saw another commenter mention UnifiedPush, which sounds interesting - in any case it's not widely supported yet.)

> As a side note, Jabber did add an in-band way as you suggest

It's been a while since I looked into this in detail, but IIRC Jabber generally doesn't have a server-side way to determine which messages should notify? As I recall, the protocol was designed with smart clients and dumb servers in mind, though I'm sure some of that has changed over time - but that design decision doesn't lend itself as well to clients on battery-constrained devices.

Although with that said, the fact that you aren't required to be in the same set of MUCs on every device helps in battery-constrained devices; for example I only stay joined to the rooms that my friends are in from my phone, unless I need to join another one temporarily.
Employers have always had a right to know communicable disease status (when it could be communicated feasibly at work, not for something like HIV/AIDS or other STDs). Vaccination status to such a disease is just a stochastic level above that and has been required in college dorms, etc. already before the pandemic.
> The preamble of this document directly references God:

No it certainly does not reference "God".

The "Supreme Being" they were talking about was definitely not the God of Catholic Church that came under direct attack in the French Revolution.

The French revolutionaries did not hide their Masonic root. It's right on the tin.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Declarat...

The "Supreme Being" is the Masonic "Great Architect", a metaphysical notion entirely distinct from the experiential spiritual God of religions with visionary prophets and scripture. You can have a 'born again Christian' who experiences a divine encounter, but you don't have epiphanies with "the Supreme Being".

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianisation_of_France_d...
Wow. I’m kind of lost for words…

TBH, I probably would have approached this differently. When we’ve had big datasets, we’ve spun them out into another database entirely and just used Processwire for routing/API/business logic/hooks/security/etc. and hand cranked some DB queries as needed for the underlying data layer. Amazing to see what they did though.
Show HN: MintGate – gate access to any online content using token ownership
From the name, one might think it's made from fat. But apparently it's actually made from unflushable items like dental floss and facial wipes.
Again, the walled garden has an exit. But why would you leave it when you have to fend for yourself outside of the walls, and everything is given to you on a silver platter within them?
I personally loved having this realization. All these creatures of the earth are probably having very rich and significant experiences. If it’s not limited to humanity, then wow, the world really is so alive.

I still struggle to imagine a bug having a conscience that resembles mine. I’m not sure why. I tell myself they don’t have the brains for it or the sensory capabilities or whatever. I’m probably wrong.
> Why do you assume the gender they tell people isn't their legal gender? Some jurisdictions allow changing it.

I don’t. But generally, by the time someone is legally allowed to change their gender it’ll be fairly hard to call them anything else, so most of the issues come from the transitional phase.

> Do you keep track of people's names? Their partners' names? Their jobs?

Fair point, though the answer is somewhere in between. I suck at remembering names too :)

I don’t think I’ve ever had to deal with it, which is probably part of the reason I find it hard to imagine.
So diet cola doesn't make you dumber?
The whole point of this feature is to allow Google to modify the APK by stripping out unneeded resources to reduce file size. If you require both a signature from Google and a signature from the developer, the modified versions would not pass validation.

The issue is that this inherently requires users and developers to trust Google to only make innocuous changes.
Those EULAs are not legally binding in the EU. You do own you cellphone and TV (and apps, movies and music files if the button said Buy). If the US goes down this route the car industry will crash (even more).