skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what is really mind blowing ? I remember Kim Stanley Robinson's character(s) discussing spherical, shell(?)-looking volcanic pebbles first mistaken for fossils in his book The Martians. Which came out 5 years before this study !!
Would love to see some highlights of differences between Gleam and Elixir as someone who has never used something Erlang based but has been wanting to try
The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and challenges of reversal (2020)
The fight is over whether ISPs should be able to leverage their position in the uncompetitive infrastructure space to extract rents from the very competitive internet application space.
For anyone else who didn't know, QALY stands for "Quality-adjusted life year."
I seek a kind person: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis
I think GAE isolation nowadays is done by gVisor[1]?
Looking at the doc [2] however, it seems like the old "proprietary" mechanism is still used for old (first generation) runtime. Probably this post is about that version.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-gvisor-protects-google-cloud-services-from-cve-2020-14386
[2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/runtimes
Thread poster is a Bitcoin maximalist, and thinks all crypto projects that are not Bitcoin are scams.
It's missing my favourite: voiced alveolar fricative trill
Yeah I've always wondered what the hell is with that. Like, 1990s level web design taken to some crazy maximalist level. rense.com is like that (eesh i dont even want to make a clickable link to that)

my other favorite crazy person website must be https://arngren.net/ -- see if you can find the hoverpod
Yes - I said 64-bit because that’s a natural size now and for high volume like this it seems likely that they’d prefer a fixed size to savings which make decode and recovery logic harder and less cache line efficient.
Previous discussions:

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065912

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10234849
"nor exactly colonized (Hitler aside)"

You would have to put a lot more aside. Pretty much the only two eras of national self-determination since 1621 were 1918-1938 and 1989-today. This nation is located on a crossroads of powerful interests.

We have two major non-white communities in CZ. One of them are the Vietnamese, who came as guest workers in the 1980s and are climbing rapidly on the societal ladder. Their kids are integrating into the elite of the nation very fast, universities are full of them.

The second one is Roma (Gypsies), with whom the mutual relations are pretty bad. Welfare dependency, crime etc. Once Roma start moving into some neighbourhood, an exodus of everyone else follows. This is not unique for CZ, though, this pattern of failure is seen everywhere with sizable Roma communities, from France to Bulgaria and Russia.

One of the reasons might be that successful Roma leave the community and intermarry with whites. That was case of my dear friend from the ground school. She is 100 per cent Roma, her kids are 50 per cent, but they no longer have any contact to the community. She says it would be too dangerous; too much of a drug habit there, kids not exempt.
Not all opposition to Net Neutrality was faked. An argument is that Net Neutrality regulation can be gamed to harm independent ISPs via regulatory capture, where NN protects against throttling traffic by ISP's to harm independent content providers. The people who thought the cure of regulation was worse than the disease opposed Net Neutrality.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but would Net Neutrality effectively subsidize high bandwidth providers, such as Netflix & torrent providers, presumably creating latency across the network? It may no longer be an issue, as rate-limiting can be applied to the consumer.

The context of the Net Neutrality debate is different today than it was a few years, as content providers have more capitalization compared to ISPs, technology has improved, & new markets are in play. A big benefactor to NN nowdays seems to be distributing computing platforms such as IPFS, cryptos, Holochain, etc; which I find beneficial.

But then, as systems are designed, where does Net Neutrality stop? If there were a bill that includes NN, would it be written in a way where lawfare can be abused to require any load balancer or proxy service to provide NN? Which leads back to the primary legitimate (IMO) concern of regulation being abused by entrenched powers to stifle competition. Is regulation better or is less more? At this time, what harm is being perpetrated that NN would solve?
Exactly right. I hate even having an opinion on this kind of thing. Software people tend to be filled with concepts on the way-things-oughtta-be-why-are-people-so-stupid usually without any domain knowledge and it's good to watch out for that tendency.

Medicine is like tax law, there's a whole lot to it. Some historical, some arbitrary, some greed, some altruism.
Hah! So the bassist was only a touring bassist for Third Eye Blind after the dissolution of his original band, the criminally underrated "The KGB," (not to be confused with the likely hundred other bands with the same name) which is how I knew him.

I played in a basically unknown Bay Area band called Red Lantern.
I tend to agree with Bill Hicks on the subject of advertising and those who work in the industry:

https://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-a...
> if the borrower can prove undue hardship (probably hard to do, especially with income-based repayment)

Yeah, it's pretty hard to do. You have to have an "adversarial proceeding" (i.e. a lawyer from the Department of Education or whoever shows up and argues against you).
I always thought the next programming language for the Law will come from some curious Cryptocoin with a very specialized contract programming language...
Even in his examples, the screening itself does not seem to be the problem. It's relatively cheap and quick.

The problem was the decision to undergo treatment when the complications outweighed the benefit. What if we did more screening but also less treatment?
I mean look, my goal is to communicate to the engineers involved in this business that they are responsible for the product they work on, and the monster they've created. People working for G and fb have options. If they choose to continue to work for these companies for great personal gain, at the cost of exploiting and tracking their own users (basically half of the world population?), they are not our friends and I think should not be treated as such. I don't want to play nice and read your blog and validate you, I want you to stop making the world a worse place.

Why do we grant them such a generous separation of work/personal life? They spend their day screwing us over, in the evening we all sing kumbaya? There's been no accountability.

Yes, my message is not going to bathe them in the positivity sunshine they've likely grown accustomed to in their work environment echo chamber. I am okay with that. Others might be more successful getting through to them with their slider closer to the carrot. I truly respect that ability, I just keep thinking appeasement is a failed strategy.

...I shouldn't have gone with "whoring" I suppose, sorry about that. I like the idea of serving your argument from your own site, decentralization and individuality and all that. But for some it's just another way to pad their resume to facilitate becoming more of the problem.
> Hold your hand in front of your mouth and feel the difference in pressure when you pronounce the first sound of the word "tune" versus the word "dune". This will let you feel that puff of "aspiration."

The aspiration will be even more obvious if you try speaking into a microphone.
Okay, this made me laugh...

In all seriousness, I know this was in jest, but I think this is actually still on topic and applies to the bigger discussion of our mission in finding and understanding what the heck life really is. So upvote.
> at the very least, the ad network will be able to see your IP and know that you like athletic shoes and visited www.wereallylikeshoes.com. If you visit some other domain first-ad-network.com owns with the same IP it within a small window of time, it can be pretty confident it's the same person and even store some client side data at that point. It feels like they can construct a reasonably good profile about their users by using that technique.

Yes, there are a lot of user identifying bits in an IP address. Chrome has two proposals: https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness I'm not sure what other browsers are thinking?

> That's considering the browser doesn't leak out any other potentially identifying information.

Which they definitely do. All the browsers are working on figuring out how to thwart fingerprinting, and it's really hard. I am glad, at least, that we were able to get Google Ads to publicly commit to not fingerprinting.

> when you click on the ad, they know one interest about you and, if you clicked in ads from other campaigns they run, they may reconstruct your profile well

Yes, when people click on ads in Turtledove the advertiser does learn something. This is a huge improvement to the status quo where advertisers learn things just by bidding, or an intermediate stage where advertisers learn things when they win an auction -- users don't click on ads very often, so the amount of information leaked this way is very low.

Exactly how much information the advertiser is able to learn on a click is still very much up in the air, so if you have views on this you might consider participating on the repo?
From TFA:

> No details on the 2nm test chip have been provided, although at this stage it is likely to be a simplified SRAM test vehicle with a little logic. The 12-inch wafer images showcase a variety of different light diffractions, which likely points to a variety of test cases to affirm the viability of the technology. IBM says that the test design uses a multi-Vt scheme for high-performance and high-efficiency application demonstrations.
They are now. They weren't back in the 90s.
Shouldn't Apple be able to recover the data if T2 is intact? It's possible that it's not worth to them, but I'd think it's doable.
FYI, Carol Nichols mentioned this in a Rust video [0] and I thought it was pretty interesting! (yes, previously submitted to HN, but long ago with little traction so I think this is within HN guidelines).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AdN7U24iU
The classic so far seems to be C.R. Hallpike from an anthropological angle [0]

It’s 17 pages, but the general idea is basically ”whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong”.

And just in case anyone boxes & dismisses this as anthropology = social science = progressive relativist criticism, Hallpike is an 83 year old Oxford type who recently spent 200 pages [1] being very angry at popular modern ideas about the realities of primitive society.

[0] - http://www.hallpike.com/A%20review%20of%20Sapiens.pdf

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42109085-ship-of-fools
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A talk from 8 years ago, when he was 18 years old? I mean, even having a semi-half-baked opinion on quantum cryptography at 18 is pretty damn impressive. Just because everything is forever on the internet does not mean that opinions are forever.
Genetically Modified Mosquitos: Biohacking for Disease Prevention
Heh thanks for this. Always interesting when looking back at old threads and half of the required context is just gone.
If you like this you may enjoy the "Pink Trombone" an interactive speech synthesizer that you control by moving around the virtual tongue and lips: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
Oil droplets can model quantum behavior too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
ads don't fund the open internet, rather it funds the huge valuation of the internet company. Why internet companies valuation is so much higher than the grocery store around the corner? it does not need to be.

I don't hate ads, I don't mind it at all to be honest. I use Instagram just for ads :) Restaurants, hotels, we need
The Net Neutrality argument wasn't that Google and Netflix would be slowed down, it's that everyone else would.

Of course Google and Netflix were going to pay for peering and priority. The question was if everyone else who wanted to get into the video business should have to do so. Comcast wanted to basically double-bill for traffic: they wanted their customers to pay, and then they wanted the services on the other end to also pay.

This is all a moot question nowadays, because the video market is dramatically different than it was a decade ago. "Free-to-air" content is basically all handled by YouTube and Twitch, both of which are services run by companies with the money to afford the storage costs. "Premium" content fragmented into a bunch of different exclusive providers that already have business relationships with cable companies. So there really isn't a competitive video market being stymied out of existence purely because Comcast wants them to pay in order to compete with cable. The barriers to entry in video got a lot higher than just getting double-billed on bandwidth.

(As an example of this: Floatplane, an early-access "premium" platform for people already on "free-to-air" video platforms, had far more problems getting onto iOS than paying for bandwidth. Apple was their existential threat more than Comcast.)
You can't call someone questionable just based on the fact that his/her publications are different or his coauthor doesn't believe in X thing which is widely accepted. Science needs people to think out of the box and in an unorthodox way, and history is full of people who have done it and shed light on things we take for granted. I am also not saying that the author is credible, just saying you need more than that to call a persons work questionable.
Will definitely go the not-Amazon route- thanks!
>If you have next to no risk of a disease, don’t get tested for it. You might get treated for it!

If this is true, then clinical decision makers don't understand or are not correctly applying Bayesian priors.
I look forward to the GPT-3 Assisted astroturfing campaigns in the future, only a matter of time
IMHO Static typing => structure,
not necessarily Map<String, String> (which is also a type).
Shaping data is quite important and having an associative array doesn't necessarily means that the data is shaped.
The top 3-5% of software engineers do not work at startups. They work via their own S Corporation... Why? To copy the same way most doctors and high end professions get paid...

1. solo 401k - hit maximum contribution limit (57k-63.5k)

2. cash balance/defined benefit plan - your solo pension plan up to 3 million
For year 2021, the maximum compensation is $290,000 to contribute to your defined benefit plan...

As governments grant corporations better preference in tax treatment, you really got to ask yourself why anyone would want to be a W-2 employee anymore... (w-2 employee of your solo S-corp is the exception)

Nothing stopping any company from giving you options as well...

Some extra rules and costs arise with defined benefit plans but well worth it.

SV wants capitalism and free markets but when forced to do so with workers the hesitation comes up... but but but you gotta come a play foozeball at work on the weekends... and we gotta share a beer and tell me about your dev friends..

https://www.manning-napier.com/insights/blogs/research-libra...

https://saberpension.com/defined-benefit-plans-self-employed

https://www.dedicated-db.com/one-person-plus/
Those two are not mutually exclusive. You an ban images of alcohol while allowing adds for alcohol and bars (as long as they don't have images of alcohol.)

I suspect there may different rules for different jurisdictions/markets which might explain differences in your experiences.
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Thanks for the reply. To clarify I’m not a homeschool hater, rather I have started thinking about it for kid and am in the early research phase. Part of the research is evaluating between the online schools and homeschooling.

Normally I may not have thought about it, but post pandemic I’m thinking why not.
An interesting challenge might be to make an "offline" version. How difficult a randomizer can you make without being able to see the player's board?

You'd lay down some rules such as "the pieces must theoretically have an even distribution over some period" and "piece sequences must come probabilistically and not hard coded."

You could then objectively test the randomizer by pitting a standardized bot against it.
Using open source tools at your company
To get started just text menu to txt@instatext.org
I'd guess an ability to ask questions after the lecture.
Show HN: Online MP4 Editor
Yes. There were many articles lately about heavy writes due to swapping, but in most cases it shouldn't impact the lifespan so much.
When someone has a long history of making false claims, it doesn't mean their current claim is automatically wrong but it does mean their argument for it doesn't count as strong evidence for the claim, IMO.
The alternative, of course, is when a plausible person expresses an implausible-sounding idea which turns out to be, well, wrong. For instance when Noam Chomsky presented his theory of Universal Grammar[1] which managed to impede and derail the study of linguistics for decades[2].

[1] - This is my own personal opinion supported by no evidence whatsoever.

[2] - Again, an outrageously subjective statement without an ounce of evidence to support it.
Imagine how awesome it would be if you could search for a movie choose the service that current has the best cost/byte ratio for your location (they can make this variable to manage load). Then you start streaming. No registering needed. Not even a login.

After 10 min you notice the film sucks so you stop the stream. You only payed for the first 10 min.

Totally friction-less ofc. You could watch on a random TV anywhere and stream the money from your phone.

Sounds like sci-fi but we have all the key tech needed for this.
> Forcing students to get an actual Bachelor's degree gives students some fallback.

That may be one reason, but seems to me that it doesn't really raise the standard of education. So it doesn't really help with proving that "US > the world" in this aspect.

I imagine you could still fall-back from medical college to undergrad & get credit for the completed coursework that is relevant towards the Bachelor's degree you fall-back to. This way, you don't incur unnecessary costs on folks who succeed.

> I think really it's just the system was built this way and nobody's going to change it now.

Channeling my inner cynic: nothing's going to change given that the decision-makers benefit financially from the system being set up like this.
Do you realize I am not the person who wrote the original "chopping block" comment? I'm just adding context here based on my experience. I don't understand why your tone in this thread is so hostile.
> I've come to think of it as an HN tax

That's a great way to put it!

All this stuff about Copernicus, Darwin, Galileo... You're not revolutionizing our understanding of humanity's place in the universe... You're buying companies that make filesharing apps and (often untaxed) hostel booking websites.
> You can't call someone questionable just based the fact that his publications are questionable

Still struggling with this...
For podcasts I recommend Uncommon Core (technical) and Up Only (which despite the name is not just “up only” shilling and has excellent guests lineups)
Not sure I’m understanding this objection. The parameter in question is ability of a society to generate extreme outliers in achievement. In economic $billion net worth is a good proxy, though I’m sure we could look at things like publication citation rank or number of gold medals instead. We would certainly want to scale whatever number by the size of a country since that corresponds to the probability that a given individual in that society can achieve that level of success. Comparing the US to China, for example, in total magnitude will naturally bias to China since it has 4x the population. That
means that although both societies have a similar number of billionaires the probability of being a billionaire in the US is ~4x greater.
This is slightly what I'm thinking, for that particular use case.

The idea that you're going to shove 1TB of data down to the client strikes me as slightly unhinged. Even if we assume you can achieve a sustained transfer rate of one gigabit per second, it's going to take over 2 hours to get a terabyte shoved down to the client. I'm guessing, though, that the actual vizualization is nowhere near one terabyte. Data's going to have to be aggregated somehow, because no computer monitor can display a terabyte worth of information all at once. Even a 4K monitor would fall short by many orders of magnitude.

It would be much faster, and, I think, simpler, to keep the data on a central server, have it generate the visualizations, and push them down to the client.
> and liaison makes word boundaries unclear without context

There's very little blame to be placed on liaison, since word boundaries are unclear in every language, including languages that e.g. don't allow syllable-final consonants. English speakers feel like they have a strong grasp of where word boundaries occur because of the orthographic space, but the space in the writing system does not coincide with word boundaries in the language; it is heavily conventionalized.
Exactly, and the real risk is if you fail. Brakes can overpower motors on these cars. Even if you can exploit the system well enough to trigger full power (you can't) you'd then have a high risk that the person would notice, hit the brakes, and stop in time.

If they didn't stop in time, you'd have the risk that the accident wouldn't be fatal. This can easily lead to an investigation and a failed assassination.

The lowest risk option is the one that works every time, despite how fun the movie plot scenarios are to think about.
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Starting is a rare skill set. Finishing is even more rare.
I actually did build something basic following the book Web Development With Clojure (https://github.com/jumarko/web-development-with-clojure), but honestly the way the code snippets were presented in the book were sometimes difficult to use if trying to follow along and build it yourself.

I think you could probably get code from different chapters from their git repo, but then you're not doing it yourself - you are instead trying to read diffs to understand what's new and figure out why it has been changed.

My experience has been that there is no complete guide, tutorial, or example that is kept current and provides every detail such that you can follow it and learn. I'm sure with enough concerted effort, one obviously can learn it... but there will be some trial and error and some guesswork. Normally that's fine, but it slows the process compared to other tech stacks and their guides.

The Clojure community is nice and helpful, but they're all busy doing real work (rather than teaching). Even the book I mentioned is not yet complete and has been in progress for over two years I think.
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Author didn't complain about performance issues, so I assume thermal throttling didn't kick in for their workload, or it wasn't noticeable.