skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been studying WW1 for a long time so its kind difficult. A lot of new stuff, specially because of the 100 year just happened. Some revisionist stuff that was good, some that was less good. Some was just rewriting the old narrative and package if for modern audiences.

A big narrative specially in the US is about Isolationism and that is why the Wealth of Nation failed. This is totally incorrect, see this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ

I certainty don't agree with all of these, but these are all good about WW1 and Inter-War history.

- July 1914: Countdown to War

- The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War

- Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

- The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

- The Russian Revolution: A New History

- Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia

- The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution

- Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

- Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

- The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization
Polkaswap the cross chain decentralized exchange in Polkadot
https://youtu.be/RC82sG2HHRc
I think the fact people like HN's readership are living in a golden age is underappreciated. Think about it: we block ads while the people who don't subsidize our digital lifestyle. Sooner or later the providers are going to decide we're getting too much for free. Instead of an easily-blocked separate video, the YouTube ad will be part of the video stream and the server will refuse to send any part of the video until such time as the ad has had time to play. You might be able to blank the player for the ad but you'll get a fifteen second black screen instead of a fifteen second video.

So I resolved to sit back and enjoy what time I have left for getting a great experience.
A Google subscription would likely need to cost over $20/m - considering how many people wouldn't pay even one dollar for paid search. Google had $186Bn in revenue last year and ~1.8Bn monthly active users. The revenue comes almost entirely from search - with 1.2Tn searches per year - that's $0.15 per search - hardly anyone would pay that - and to get the same amount of revenue and profit with less users - they'd have to charge many many multiples of that. It's just not feasible.
A lot of this just makes me think of precipitate. I’m sure there are papers on the Mars environment, I.e. low temperature low pressure geology and physics, but I didn’t immediately see any references.

I recall reading another paper indicating there is an unresolved increase and decrease of methane ? in the Martian atmosphere as well. But I’m still inclined to think this is geological not biological.
This study is looking at the appendix, not any brain tissue. Without considering symptoms, it's possible that altered PrP expression and/or folding in the appendix does not cause vCJD or result from exposure to PrP(Sc).

Also, these antibodies are not very selective for a given confirmation. Idk how this made it into the BMJ because standard in the PrP field is a protease resistance assay given the issues with Ab specificity.
This is good for the company, too. It's a form of fraud detection. When employees take two weeks away in a block, the company can more easily detect ongoing fraud or other funny business going on. That's how a French rogue trader was finally caught:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444914904577615...
If your identity was used without your consent, I wonder if you could sue?
Universal Healthcare, free at the point of delivery.
It's never too late to stop making things worse.
The government would act as an insurer, that is all. All hospital services stay private. And having all medical services have to go through one system to get paid would streamline it SIGNIFICATLY.
Sure, it reduces STI transmission rates, because the mucous membrane (the inside of the foreskin) gets cut off, and the exposed glans also becomes keratinized due to years of abrasion against the underwear. No mucous membranes = lower chance for pathogens to enter the body.

Now, whether these would worth the tradeoff with reduced sensitivity, surgical risks (e.g. reduced sexual function due to tight scar formation), the psychological trauma for the infant, etc. is another question.
What? I want to put together a yo dawg meme for this but I’m too lazy. This is just another corporate cog rationalization.

Unless your company is rocketing toward bankruptcy, your salary is by definition a (much) smaller number than the impact your work has on the world. You cannot offset your day job even by what seems to you a large fraction of your personal income.
The issue in this case is not security clearances, but getting authorization to share ITARed data with foreign persons.

There are SpaceX jobs that require security clearance, too, but they're in the minority.
Yes, but consider how much volume there is in the stock market - doubling to a 64-bit integer would increase RAM and network volume, and there are plenty of downstream consumers who’d need to test this. None of that is intractable but there’s literally one company affected - the next highest share price is two orders of magnitude lower - so there must be a strong temptation to see what Buffett would want to do a split.
Ok, in practice the US basically only accepts doctors who went to Canadian or American medical schools.
It seems like if a tool is so essential to successful development in a language, it should probably not be a 3rd party library but instead baked into the language tooling itself, no? (I have never used Clojure and am not trying to be inflammatory)
My guess is they didn't consider the possibility when they designed the system, and had forgotten the limitation existed by the time it became obvious that it would happen.
Good for you! I can't stand the dismissive attitude toward unprotected rotating shafts.
Is it just a "protest" if the organizers intended to storm into a federal building and use force to prevent a free and fair election?
You're asking me to cite examples for a claim that I never made. It should be obvious that the claim I actually made is true as long as you understand the difference between income and consumption (spending) and how the GINI coefficient works.

That said, it appears that the bottom 20% of the USA live at a similar standard of living of the average household in Finland: https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than...
No, it's very clear that life on Mars is the extraordinary claim. We don't know of any abiotic structure that would be even half as complex as bacteria, and multicellular life is an absurdly complex possibility to take as 'the simpler one'
You can get a similar effect in Elixir with # TODO comments if you're using Credo.

It's just a code comment, but by default Credo will exit non-zero if it sees one so if Credo is part of your CI pipeline it will fail it by default.

I'm one of those annoying people who puts # TODO comments all over my code though, so I set Credo so that TODO's wouldn't fail the build.
Our 33-LY neighborhood, green are detected planets: https://gruze.org/fly_10pc/
Always have a back up! Always be backing up!
Why would NN need astroturfing when it's wildly popular?
> Quote from their white paper: "this is not friendly to deeply pipelined processor architecture."

There is zero reason you can't rename the VL register. "Speculating" that it doesn't change is only one design point.
Well except the part of the internet that relies on the Material Icon font (please website designers stop doing this; just use SVGs or something instead!).
The EU also spent the most time negotiating down prices. It's not surprising we're last in line.
I would be incredibly skeptical of anyone claiming that 5 meters of growth in a day in a Martian environment may have something to do with fungi.
The GP comment was originally extremely trollish, which was obviously why it got downvoted and flagged. The commenter later replaced it with something completely anodyne, making the original responses seem unreasonable. That's abusive. I've responded in more detail below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066921.
This is actually such great work. Great examples (they look good don't just read good ;)) and an attractive API. You're a talented developer!
Try being a physicist surrounded by frontend developers babbling on about coding in Atom, using Electron as a framework and catching that rocket ship by deploying everything as micro-services with Nuclio.
I think I (mostly) agree with you on this, with one caveat: network effects. If my friends and family and local businesses and community groups all use Facebook to organize events, plan socialization, announce things... I'm sort of trapped into using Facebook, because there's no alternate way to get that information! Now, I've done the cost/benefit analysis myself and actually ditched Facebook a couple of years ago. But that gives me even more insight into just how many things I can't do because I don't use Facebook.

Perhaps a better comparison would be a multiple choice test that's a requirement to do something you really want to do -- scuba diving, or renting a bike to ride around a national park, something like that. Sure, it's not essential. But it sounds fun, and you could question the necessity of the test in the first place. But the test needs you to submit your name, birthdate, address, and answer a bunch of personal questions about your interests before you can do the fun thing. At some point, you feel like you're being taken advantage of.
>I also think that dealing with vaccine hesitancy effectively is the mark of a good healthcare system, but of course there can be many causes of vaccine hesitancy and there is no good way to measure outreach.

The French health care system consistently rates as among the best in the world. France has the highest vaccine hesitancy among developed countries (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/03/fr...).
>People will also attack new ideas when they have a vested interest in the old ones. It's not surprising, for example, that some of Darwin's harshest critics were churchmen.

Nah man, it's because every time they’re asked about security they say “yes we did an audit no we won’t release the results”? I don’t know about you but I’d like to keep my passwords to myself
The problem is that early on dangerous and hard are sometimes synonymous; people argued Uber was dangerous, and in some cases, it was - relatively unvetted drivers driving people around the city without a taxi license. But now it's changed how we move about the world.

It's hard to predict how the end of a startup will look from the beginning, but ambitious ideas often look dangerous, scary, hard, or impossible at the beginning.
That's right. It's been a while since I've looked at it and I forgot about that aspect.
Chilli No.5 – The Gift of Spice
I guess my point is that they are, at minimum, not in the mainstream in discussing this phenomena. That is not a refutation of their research or logic but gives context to what other serious scientists have concluded. Even this article [1] on NASA's astrobiology site (a.k.a. "Life in the universe") concurs that they are hematite mineral concretions and that the only real implication to life is the ancient presence of a large volume of water.

[1] https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/check-type-iron-blueberri...
It's hard to say NN is a democratic process when it was done unilaterally by the FCC and not through congress.
First author definitely creative with his titles.

This kind of papers are testament to the amount of data that we are bringing from Mars: multiple rovers with progressively better and better resolution cameras, and the orbiters.

As the amount of data coming from Mars will increase over the years we will see more such "creative" attempts to pick convenient subsets of this data and try to reach for conclusion.

But over time, I think, the wind will blow away the chaff and reveal real results, just like the marsian wind moves the sand around hiding and revealing pebbles at its surface.
Some kind of interplanetary spillover would still align with Fermi paradox.
> The US only accepts doctors who went to Canadian or American medical schools.

This is factually incorrect. There are tons of doctors that graduated from European, Indian and Chinese medical schools. To practice medicine in the USA they need to pass the ECFMG tests (US graduates take similar USMLE tests) and then complete medical residency. The last part is the hardest, for the medical residency admission offices are routinely discriminating against the foreign medical graduates.
What other IPAs are there?
Reading 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman had a similar impact on me.
It would be nice if rust could support multiple heaps and tracking their memory usage.

If you are working with a lot of data, you need to use some kind of hybrid cache-friendly memory/disk algorithm. For instance, to find the exact number of unique values, you might choose a hashing approach. If the hash table grows large and starts swapping, that will be incredibly slow. Instead, it's better to limit the hash table to a certain memory footprint, and when it grows any larger, you partition any new unique values you find and write them to disk. Then, you just count the members of the hash table, save the count, throw the hash table away, and read one of the partitions. Repeat until all the partitions are gone.

That requires a few important capabilities:

1. Track the memory usage of the hash table. It might be easy to estimate in simple cases, but when you have variable-width types that have their own pointers, etc., it gets very messy. It would be nice to just deep copy values into the hash table's memory pool, and then ask how big the memory pool is now. If it's over the limit, don't accept new unique values, just send them to the disk partitions.

2. Free the heap all at once and release all the memory when you are done with the current batch.

These things are not easy in C, but straightforward if you have a custom allocator that uses its own regions of memory. But in rust, it's pretty hard to do this in a generic way.
t͡ʃ, t͡ɕ, ʈ͡ʂ all sound so close to my poor ear that I'd struggle to articulate the difference. They sound like exactly the same thing at slightly different speeds.
To both the_duke and sfink, as one who did both embeddings, there were multiple issues during multi-prong integration efforts:

Each has their own challenges based on various JavaScript bytecode detection algorithms (as well as disparate JS engine design) and its varied requirements on the multiplexing of selected external stimuli that it requires.

As a result, after placements of many instrumentation points were inserted throughout both browsers and many custom JS engines based on various detection researches, there are needs to have multiple but separate executables having one or more combination of the following:

- custom ES6 pre-loading,

- Rendered layout memory access

- DOM shadowing

- selectable UI external stimuli (event, drag)

- variable wall-clock timescale compression/expansion

- translated memory access

And that belies my next project, centralization and merger of all these many executables. Various desired functionalities got dropped in the code by Mozilla and Google devs so code reduction/refactoring were done over time for those.

That’s about as detailed as I can put forth.
Seems like this hypothesis shows it is indeed demonstrating “quantum” effects because the math falls out of the quantization of momentum transfer. Of course “quantum” is now widely understood to mean “the weird phenomena like the double slit experiment”... but I get what you’re saying. I wonder what’s with the downvote, though.
X11, glibc
With Medicare For All the government would act as an insurer, that is all. All hospital services stay private.
Fear: The Startup Serial Killer Which Must Not Be Named
What is the BrandonM/Dropbox quip?
> Unfortunately I am too lazy and careless to use Clojure in any serious capacity though. I really need a Haskell or Rust compiler to remind me of all my silly mistakes. I can't be trusted to get to the same level of confidence through unit tests or linting or spec or malli.

I think most developers cannot be trusted to make these mistakes, I wouldn't call it "careless or lazy". Languages exist with tools baked into them to prevent slip ups. Why wouldn't you want to take advantage of that tooling?

Also, as a result of this comment section, this is the second time in the past week that I've seen the suggestion to use 3rd party typechecking/static analysis tooling in a dynamic language, which (to me) brings up the question: Do you really want a dynamic language, or do you just want the ability to be careless intermittently? There is no shame in saying "I just want to get happy-path code working quickly". There is joy in getting happy path working quickly. I just think, as a codebase in a dynamic language grows, codebases seem to build lots of tooling to make that dynamic language less dynamic.
> A new nuclear plant can cost up to $10B

you forget the $40B in cleanup costs if no disaster happens, of course disaster or cleanup costs will be socialized in "developed" countries. all cleanup costs were grosly underestimated, in germany and everywhere else.
I've read the original turtledove readme, maybe there's something better, maybe it went over my head. But there is this request:

> GET https://first-ad-network.com/.well-known/fetch-ads?interest_...

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

Then, the actual ad owner could have something in the URL that identifies which campaign you ultimately came from, as they probably know which interest groups they were targeting. So, 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.
Of the people who attempt the pre-med track not all will make it. Forcing students to get an actual Bachelor's degree gives students some fallback.

I think really it's just the system was built this way and nobody's going to change it now.
I still marvel at people who can transcribe IPA in real-time.

That's almost as magical to me as people who look at a sonograph and casually read off what the speaker said.
Yeah... and I wouldn't be surprised if the proponents didn't pay for some astroturfing too.

Like seriously, who has time to write an opinion to the FCC? Not even most people on HN who might even have real, honest opinions about net neutrality. And probably 99.5% of society doesn't have a clue what net neutrality might even be. Is it possible that there's one honest opinion in the batch? I suppose so, but it's probably like Ajit Pai's mom.
The headline news is that they do so with impunity and achieved their goals at no cost. The corporations ("like AT&T, Comcast and Charter"), their association (Broadband for America), the lobbying firm (unnamed - who is it?), and the FCC, to the degree it failed its duties, suffer no consequences - and indeed the corporations get what they wanted; their plan worked.

> The report said investigators had not found evidence that Broadband for America or the lobbying firm it used for the campaign were aware of the fraud. But, the attorney general said, several “significant red flags” had “appeared shortly after the campaign started, and continued for months yet still remained unheeded.”

> The attorney general’s office said it had reached agreements with three “lead generation” services that were involved — Fluent, Opt-Intelligence and React2Media, companies that gather customers for clients as part of marketing efforts. Under the agreements, the companies said they would more clearly disclose to individuals how their personal information was being used. The companies also agreed to pay over $4 million in penalties.
I think they are referring to;

https://store.nanoporetech.com/us/configure-minion-enhanced/
I agree with you at least in theory. But the issue with web fonts is it's difficult to use them in a way that doesn't harm performance and also doesn't cause flashes of unstyled content. Every time I visit wired.com I find the font transition jarring and unsatisfying, honestly I think they'd be better off with system fonts.

Print media just doesn't have any downsides to custom fonts so there's no reason to not use them.
I'd imagine they didn't think that a company would ever get above even 5 figures, much less 6. Buffet's refusal to split is also not normal.
Errrmmm…

https://youtu.be/_9ZGcKA_Vk4

Pretty confident to write this one off to be honest.
Back to the salt mines, slaves.
> They’re buying them to horde so they can resell to other speculators when the price goes up.

It's almost like all interest in cryptocurrency is driven by greed and speculation. I've been learning more about it, and I'm pretty convinced this is the case. Go into any crypto space, and all people are talking about is yield, price action, how much their tokens have grown etc. I think the only thing I've seen that isn't purely about speculation is NFTs, oddly enough, which seem to be basically a fad.
This is a good point, but I'd argue survivor bias doesn't really apply here - successful startups often have naive founders because they are otherwise considered 'too hard' by most people to start. It is simply hard to take down a massive incumbent, for example, so most people don't try.

Lots of startups fail, and a few succeed. I find it an interesting leading indicator that most startups who succeed have founders that are naive in some way.

Doesn't mean you can't win and not be naive, and obviously correlation doesn't imply causation, but the phenomenon is frequent enough that I don't think it's entirely baseless either.
Oh no, you're right.
> Please see Myanmar for what a coup looks like

You're right - that is a coup. There's a reason the post you responded to says "coup attempt" which, as we all know, was unsuccessful.
You claim not to know their true motivation, yet your entire argument relies on the assumption that they had malicious intent. You also note that “the act they claim to be racist may or may not be racist” and yet it is clear that you have assumed that it is not throughout your post.

And this is the crux of the issue. Ones entire interpretation of these issues relies on whether or not one believes racism exists as a structural problem or not. Opponents reduce this down to a simple difference of opinion, but if you see that the world treats certain groups differently than others, it is not mere difference of opinion, there are real, tangible consequences that go along with that disagreement.

The thing that you get wrong, that so many people get wrong on all sides of this, is that the issue at hand here isn’t about whether Singer is himself a racist person. When people speak of “white supremacy” refers to a structural system within society that treats people differently on the basis of their race, in a hierarchy that places white people at the top. It’s not a matter of individual intent, but the culmination of ways that people act differently towards each other that nets out to place people in different positions within society.

I think it’s reasonable to disagree on how you go about remedying that situation, but the assertion that “people are treated differently by society as a whole, based on their race” shouldn’t be that controversial of a statement.