skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just-in-time works really well when it works really well. But the ripple effect of a global pandemic upon every sector of the globe...causes a lot of companies to feel the immobilizing weight of the ball attached to the supply chain.

We are now feeling the problems that come with the limits of this kind of global supply chain (which is the outcome of a political-economic project which has been underway, outside the spotlight of mainstream media coverage, for about three decades). The problem and possible solutions are inevitably more political than technical (who gets to decide where things are made, how, and how much is not something the average citizen who has to bear the brunt of the effects has any control over--a political problem).

I also recently learned about how single-use production techniques exacerbated the supply chain fragility, esp. as regards the US covid response. Interesting stuff. Big, long-term problems.

https://exhaust.fireside.fm/18
So their aim is to solve the societal problem of "How can we monetize the concept of FOMO". I see why it is both popular yet despised.
> talking about a simple voice chat app

Says someone who has never tried running a voice chat app at scale. It's not a flying car or a spaceship, but it's technically difficult.
Nicotine upregulates ACE2 expression, but I don't know about women.
That's a really decent price. If it was still available here in Spain I'd get one. I like the off-grid feeling while still being reachable in emergencies.
One of my favorite "did you know?" relates to early shoegaze bands using "vintage" jazzmaster and jaguars. The bands would buy those, sometimes original 60's instruments, because they were cheap. And the foam under the pickups would be almost gone so the pickups would be almost bottomed out and be much further away from the strings than originally intended. The guitarists didn't know this of course, but that became part of the "shoegaze" sound so people now buy brand new jazzmasters and dump the pickups all the way to the body.
Chip shortage highlights U.S. dependence on fragile supply chain - 60 Minutes
1.3 GB? It's 2021, I can read that from SSD into memory in less than the blink of an eye. Hard disk is fast and cheap enough that it's worth keeping builds around to incremental rebuild against new libraries. Also, typically tests require a build tree, and you are going to rerun tests on the relinked binaries, aren't you?
Searching the Common Crawl does similar byte level access to S3 based on a smaller index of indexes. Really great, actually.
Yup, I read the 2nd tweet and then the profile pic of him flipping me off caught my eye...I filed him in the "smug tech knowitall" category as I closed the tab.
Apple very recently added preferences for default browser/maps apps to iOS but as far as I can tell it’s totally broken. Resets all the time and only about 2/3rds of links open in the correct app even when it’s successfully set (especially for maps). Can’t speak to macOS. (The resetting may be fixed finally now, I’m not sure. I gave up for maps because it wasn’t worth it, which I guess was the goal).

Windows forces you to use bing/edge when you accidentally search from the launch programs menu, but I never intentionally search from there so it’s a minor inconvenience (for me). Never had it fail to respect that setting elsewhere. It also does a good job letting you set default apps for all types of files (and in fact letting apps change that setting themselves with a little user interaction) unlike iOS which only lets you change it for a few types of apps (and then through the worst designed settings menu I’ve ever seen). Can’t leave iOS behind though because I need my iMessaging.
The frustrating part is we know that some people are fine catching SARS2 and others die, yet the never want to compare the biology of these people. We have the largest data set ever of something that could lead to the prevention of illness yet they just want to treat everyone the same.
> Probably because of age difference, she's much younger than me. And also because of the way she behaves - i perceive it as a bit childish/immature

Dude. No.
That actually seems like a "very German" thing to do --- see the discussions here and elsewhere about maintenance on German cars for another example.
I have the oddball anti union stance of, "maybe we should have a better society that doesn't require folks to stay in a job for benefits and pay..."

That is, I'm not anti union. I wish they were completely superfluous, though.
Except you can't copy a grain of sand, but you can endlessly fork a blockchain.
I was totally with them until this bit: "The burritos already came conveniently wrapped in aluminum foil - it would be trivial to accelerate them with powerful magnets."
Even my digits-only pager had an out of range indicator. I visited some caves back in the day and it was the only time I ever saw it. You just never really saw it as the service was so good.
Make it last something like half year and I'm keen. Packaging in regular shops isn't particular great either. Hand soap and tooth paste being worst. The amount of packaging we throw with food is completely crazy.
Can happen with non-TOR, too. Cloudflare is a cancer on the web for this kind of awfulness.
Except NFTs aren't artificially scarce, I'm not sure why people claim this. You can fork these chains just like how Bitcoin Cash was forked from Bitcoin.
For anyone wondering what what3words is, it's some kind of stupid way to refer to a geographic location using 3 numbers... sort of like a quadtree. Except for patent purposes, they replace numbers with 40,000 english words, so instead of 128.0.1 your house might be located at battery.horse.staple. The UK seems to be head over heels for this advanced technology, and the company that sells it has millions of dollars to spend on harassing people who try to make open-source clones.
Avocados don't breed true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWAR_DotvZs

So it's likely that his avocados cannot be found elsewhere. Find the avocado man, purchase clippings from his amazing tree and start an orchid.
I will subscribe to a site I like in an rss reader. Then you can search your feeds. If that fails, you can broaden your search (e.g. Google).
I'm not sure why people buy NFTs, but I suspect they think it somehow implements digital rights management of a bill of sale, and it doesn't.
In the ink cartridge industry those are known as "autoreset chips", and they do count down, but reset once removed from the printer (and presumably because that means you have noticed and now refilled the cartridge.)
Especially if and when they detected nothing and continued to claim they were being attacked by dastardly enemies.
It’s also a proof.

It’s one thing to code around issues it’s another thing to actually run on metal
Jeeps (of Wrangler/Rubicon variety) are good for a particular use case--high clearance 4WD. No, they don't last a long time doing that.
Linked in also makes you create an account to view more than one profile/month. Facebook might also, but I never use facebook so I’m not sure.
Energy transfers back and forth between the strings and body, which is why the body can generally be expected to have some impact on tone. How much energy transfer goes on? I don't know, but you can use a mechanics stethoscope to at least hear what the vibrations sound like when they transition into the neck and body.

I also suspect that bridge placement makes a big difference in the amount of energy transfer that goes on. Electric guitars generally have the bridge near a node, so that limits the energy transfer somewhat. Basses have the bridge further back; partly that's due to ergonomics, but it also has the effect that more vibrations transfer to the body, which ought to reduce sustain. In a guitar you usually want more sustain, but in a bass too much can be a problem.

Nut material makes more of a difference on open strings, but in general a plastic nut is squishier and it absorbs more energy than something like bone, causing the note not to sustain as long. The saddle is the same way, but plastic saddles aren't typically used in electric guitar so it's not usually an issue.
Are you arguing against specialization and trade in general, or just in the specific case of staple food?
> all of it is garbage compared to appliances from 20 yrs ago

There were garbage appliances 20 years ago, too... you just don't see them around anymore because they already broke down long ago.
A great many people are starting to look down on NFT buyers and sellers. I'm not sure what status they provide since either someone has to maintain the chain somehow forever which is impossible, but also there isn't anything stopping someone from creating alternative timelines of sales.
That's a stretch. First of all calling someone a loser cause he seeks other values in life? Also I am a huge loser, cause my car has been in garage for a year(covid homeoffice) and it got very dusty. Is rusty car really a denominator for losers, as I have met plenty of smart people who don't particularly care about 'things'.
Thank you for your kind remarks! As you mentioned, a better name might have been "languages for calculation". In French these subjects are all "calcul". Personally, I would skip the first few and listen to the guest speakers, who have spent a lot more time thinking about these topics. You might also enjoy the lectures from OPLSS, where I learned about many of these ideas. [1]

These three areas are also all linked to historical and current AI research.

Indeed, they all seem to have some fascinating connections to symbolic and connectionist learning. I think the symbolists were originally on the right track, but they were too preoccupied with expert systems when they should have been working at a much lower level of representation. One way to view the current wave of deep learning is as a form of symbolic differentiation with a special order of evaluation corresponding to reverse-mode AD.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDe6N9R7U-RYWA57wzJQ2SQ
I would say it's less overhead than downloading the entire db to query it locally...? What is your suggestion for accessing a static database with less overhead?
How is this a dark pattern? It really just seems like a design disagreement.

If we’re going to call any design we don’t like a ‘dark pattern’, then the term becomes meaningless.

I mean to many people here commercial software is all a ‘dark pattern’ because they prefer FOSS.

But this isn’t what ‘dark patterns’ means.

Generally it’s about tricking people into agreeing to things based on false beliefs, or making things hard to cancel.

I don’t see how it has anything at all with what features are placed in what products as long as there is no deception.
It's partly because of the low frequencies used that penetrated buildings better. My pager was 159Mhz.

At those frequencies you have significantly less bandwidth but pages were expensive so they weren't used for idle chitchat. That made it work with the low bandwidth available.

And there really wasn't that much because with one-way pagers as used in Europe, all messages had to be sent out all over the entire country! Because the network had no way of knowing in which area a pager would be. So all you had was a 2400 bit/s stream for all nationwide users. That's why they made it so expensive.
The evolution of Kubernetes networking with the GKE Gateway controller
That victim blaming just plain doesn't line up with reality. Outright assholes are downright lionized. Perfectly upright people are looked down upon for "weird" fields or ones which make them feel insecure or inadequate.
They're not kidding about that Boeing document they linked. It's a pretty short, clear read. You should read it.
> Does anyone else have good data on the incremental CO2 emissions from either of these?

Virtually none. Bitcoins get mined with or without transactions, as long as the expected block reward exceeds operating costs, work will be performed. The amount of transactions is fixed (or rather capped), transaction fees are a fraction of block rewards. By performing a transaction, you are bidding up the price for a transaction. Therefore, in aggregate, you are helping keep those miners in the game that are just about to become unprofitable.
Efficiency is an attribute of doing the work. If you're always interacting then you're never doing the work; neither efficiency nor inefficiency can exist at all.
> irritating know-it-all

Sounds like lawyers and doctors (or plenty of people really).

> weirdo

That is a bit of a stereotype. I suspect a large percentage of software jobs are filled by standard people. The weirdos do stand out, but I don’t know anyone who actually fits the Hollywood stereotype.

And weirdo be replaced by equally socially unacceptable traits (arrogant or closed-minded etcetera) that apply to doctors and lawyers.
> Stars That Race through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light

> These hypervelocity stars move at up to 2 percent of the speed of light

Either there is some sense I'm missing in which 1/50th of C is "nearly" C, or this is a click bait and switch title.
> but it's technically difficult

I never said it wasn't technically difficult to do something like that at scale. Although, from what I have heard, they actually have outsourced most of the technical parts of the app, to some other company also.

The point though, is that you should not pretend like this is some revolutionary new thing, that is going to change all of society.

Thats all. Its a voice chat app. No need to ascribe anything magic to it.

> It's not a flying car or a spaceship

Ok great, so you agree with me that the person I was responding too was being kinda silly, by describing a voice chat app, in magic, grandiose terms.
Immunology is wildly complicated so my description is going to fall short of reality, but my understanding of the role of the adaptive immune system as it would relate to mRNA therapies is different.

Lymphocytes, or T cells & B cells, are immune cells which have receptors on their surface that recognize a specific, tiny chunk of protein. For any given lymphocyte, the type of receptor on its surface is fixed for its life and that receptor is able to recognize exactly one distinct protein chunk.

Through some very cool mechanisms, very early on in life we all develop a massive number of lymphocytes, each of which recognize different protein chunks. I've not read any research which quantifies the scope here, but it's not unreasonable for the sake of a thought exercise to the assume that at one point we all have a lymphocyte receptor repertoire that's capable of recognizing every conceivable natural protein. Through what I consider one of my top 10 most jaw-dropping biological mechanisms [0], we cull the population of lymphocytes that recognize self, leaving us with a cell population capable of recognizing and responding to every non-self protein conceivable. No training is needed here, each of us at this exact moment has several T cell and B cell populations ready to recognize proteins produced by the next novel pandemic causing virus, whatever future protein mRNA vaccines might make, and whatever proteins these future mRNA therapies might produce.

What you refer to as training is probably more like immunological memory, which allows for a ramping up of the immune response on a quicker timeline. We give vaccines where it's generally not safe (or survivable) to wait out an effective immune response, because the disease causes so much havoc in the meantime. This doesn't really apply for the introduction of novel, useful proteins.

Your point about Onasemnogene abeparvovec is a very interesting one. I'm truly only guessing here, but people with SMA almost universally produce functional protein via SMN2, but very little of it. It's not enough to serve its function, but is perhaps enough for effective self-tolerance. I'm also not entirely sure about the timeline of self-tolerance development, it's possible Onasemnogene abeparvovec is given young enough to allow effective tolerance development!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_regulator
Also, any solution requiring the roads to be better and in tip-top condition is a nonstarter. It is really not that hard to find reports of a rich-world jurisdiction where the roads are potholed and the paint is barely visible, and we expect the authorities to change their lack of maintenance all of a sudden?
If a star is moving at nearly the speed of light relative to us, doesn't that also mean that we're moving at nearly the speed of light relative to them?

If that's so, wouldn't that mean that the Earth is a "hypervelocity planet" in the article's terminology.. at least relative to some other objects in the universe?
> In lisp, you are learning a new language with every lib because each author think they are a god language designer and that their macro rock. Also they don't need a good doc cause they are obvious. Or good error message cause they never break.

I want to say this is an over generalization but I am living this in clojure right now.
The funny thing is that list of places the mRNA gets to does not have any overlap with my list of "places in my body where I want SARS-CoV-2 spike protein".
The intended difference between contact and lead is that a contact is someone who you have some sort of a business relationship with -- either you are trying to sell them something, you are working with them, or have worked with them in the past. Leads are supposed to be wholly separate from that -- they might be a person, they might be a company, they might just be a rumor.

They way leads is originally intended to be used, is that you'd dump a bunch of garbage into that table -- b2c data from web forms, incomplete records, mass-imported lists from affiliates/events/etc -- and then it would be the job of sales to sort through it to find the records that are of any value. You wouldn't turn them into a contact until it was determined that there was an opportunity to sell them something.

But, leads as a concept really don't make sense in some industries. In many b2b industries, by the time you interact with anyone at a company, it's already well determined who you are and what product you're interested in. This is properly entered as a contact/opportunity.
> Governments so-far failing to regulate existential threats to themselves is honestly odd.

Factions within governments all around the world are using it to their own ends.
This is not the case on iOS: https://caniuse.com/notifications
Can they help Parkinson’s?
Apple to face Epic Games in court
Intel commits $600M to build new chip R&D centers in Israel
Imagine being so convinced you're correct that you call others idiots and morons, when a cursory read of the relevant wikipedia article would show that you're obviously wrong.

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

Emphasis mine:

> A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, *generally* a state.

> While *all types of organizations have governance*, the term government is *often* used more specifically, to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations.

So you are simply ignorant of the broader meaning of the term. I look forward to your apology. But do please try to interact with more humility and politeness in future, and be familiar with the very basics of a topic before debating it.
There are certainly places in the world, today, where machines from the 60s-70s-80s are running critical processes, and all the original people involved in design and implementation are either dead or retired - so you're stuck with technicians that only have repair manuals, along with spare parts of everything. Bespoke, one-of-a-kind circuits / machines / etc.
What about it? It's a simple device to notify someone "we want you at work" or send a very simple message. Not a chat platform.
People really still post this?
DSS threatens to deal with President Buhari critics
I made a stupid typo, once SMTP gets in your brain it's hard to get it to rattle its way back out I guess. It's corrected now but the old link continues to work.
"Journalists are pushing their own viewpoints and no longer being objective" is a complaint that's been with us since as long as there's been journalism, though. The Nixon administration famously toyed with the idea of creating their own news service because they believed the news organizations of the day were biased against them. Hell, the phrase "yellow journalism" goes back to the late 1800s and the often sensationalist New York World, a paper whose publisher declared it as "dedicated to the cause of the people rather than that of purse-potentates." That activist publisher was Joseph Pulitzer. (His battles with equally sensationalist rival publisher Hearst led to the "yellow journalism" charges.)
LOL

for the uninitiated: dos toros was started by the (bassist?) of third eye blind. it was modeled after the classic sf taqueria gordo. some of the shops have pictures of gordo on the wall.

what band did you play in?
I experience this using Firefox temporary container extension, some other privacy extensions/settings, and a pihole. The worst bit is when it refuses to let you use an audio captcha; I can’t believe they’re allowed to take away accessibility on a whim. Not that it really makes much difference to the website but I’ll usually give up and maybe send them an email if I care enough to let them know that it’s not accessible.

The captcha where you slide the puzzle piece into place I’ve found is a much better user experience and presumably achieves the same goals (minus helping train image recognition). It’s a little bit ugly/looks like one of those spam interactive banner ads but I wish more sites used it anyway if they need protection.
> Well-written apps generally require primitive restart, and it’s almost free for apps that don’t need it.

I'm really surprised that primitive restart is forced on in Metal, but they also have a hardware bit for it! Primitive restart makes your whole pipeline slower, because you can't just chunk your index list when building your vertex packets to send to the work distributors; the possibility of a primitive restart index means you have to linearly scan for it. Though I'm not a hardware guy -- maybe the degenerate tris thing makes it just as annoying in practice.

I'd guess that the limitation to force primitive restart on in Metal came from another IHV limitation (maybe old PVR chips?)

That said, you really shouldn't be using tristrips in 2021 anyway, they have poor locality, and are hard to optimize. Index buffers solve the problems that tristrips wanted to solve to begin with.

IME, a well-written app should just ignore tristrips / restartable topologies, and just use straight tri-lists.
Generating 20k pages in 20mins is impressive, 16 pages a second on average.

In my experience, it can take a couple of minutes just to deploy 20 pages, but that could just be the overhead of Typescript and SASS compilation too...
Because the dot is used in table.column notation when the column name is ambiguous (in a join). Overloading it to also denote JSON field values would be confusing, the very thing the change mentioned in the article seeks to avoid.
SQL and My Friend Ricardo
I don't think that's what it is. It's a bit hard to get an invite (although allegedly there's 10 million users now, so not that hard), but once you're inside, everything is open and free and accessible to anyone.

You could argue that things being realtime cause FOMO, but that's true about conversations. Everything is so "on-demand" now; there's something nice about the ephemeral, realtime nature of it. It encourages spontaneity.
I see one's reaction to Tesla, Musk, "AI" and all the FSD hype as a kind of real-world IQ test. No way in hell anybody should be hired for a responsible, technical role if they paid Musk for FSD.
Red hat want to turn Linux into windows like system.

Switch to `Gentoo` linux. Initial installation takes time but its worth learning.

Also, i have heard good reviews for `GNU GUix`. Didn't tried it so far
I think the developers of the game No Man's Sky faced a similar lawsuit.
Assume spherical cows and whatnot.