skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes as long as we never prescribe a remedy because we believe it works but because we know it works, anything else is fine.

We can even find drugs in dreams, for all we care, as long as we test them later.

Now can you explain me why homeopathy and acupuncture still exist ? They just dont hurt, but they cure nothing.
That 0.4% category includes simply taking a sick day from work/school. I would hardly call that life-threatening. You are also using the word “reaction” when it’s not clear that the SAEs were due to the vaccine and not something else.
I think major cities would fall apart but I can speak from experience that the where I grew up in the deep south would fare just fine. Still lots of old world knowledge left to keep local farms and towns running. Of course it would be the stone age but a lot of people live for it there.
The inference system and the type system are separate. Pyright uses a very different inference algorithm than mypy for better incremental support. It remains pep 484 compliant like mypy. Pyre's taint analysis is separate from pep 484 and is something different from type checking. Pyre explicitly describes taint analysis as separate from base type checking, "Pyre has applications beyond type checking python code: it can also run static analysis, more specifically called Taint Analysis, to identify potential security issues. "

My base statement of 4 main type checkers are pep 484 compliant and that's main type checking most people refer to for python. If you get a type error that's inconsistent with that pep that's a bug. If you use a feature outside of any pep like plugins, taint analysis, pyright stub generation, then yes that is unspecified and can vary. Most engineers I work with python type checking stops mostly at basic type system and I'll sometimes point them to newer peps for better type definitions. My actual experience is most places don't consistently do any type checking at all although people tend to be open to it if you're fine guiding them/setting it up.
Because Covid kills grandma.
I don't know, but I've hidden my own personal HN karma score from myself, and it has greatly improved my experience. I use uBlock Origin's element blocking to hide my karma number at the top of the page next to my user name, and I use Leechblock to block my profile page.

I have no idea what my karma is now. And I don't care, or at least I didn't think I cared, but I used to spend significant time checking on it. Stupidest waste of time ever, and it told me something about myself.

Blocking my profile page also frees me from going back and nursing my recent threads, which was also mostly a waste of time.

There's some cost in engagement, but the site is less stressful for me now.

For example, I won't be coming back to check on this thread, partly in case some joker posts my karma here, but also just because I've gotten what I want from the comments (in a good way;
user motohagiography's comment in particular threatens to make me spend a day reading about stochastic thingies).
Maybe this is a hot take, but I actually love this artstyle. I love minimalist art/clean vector art in general, and this is more of that, so I'm a big fan. I'll be sad when it stops being trendy.
> If you close down all the businesses that can't survive paying more for unskilled or semi-skilled labour, what do all the unskilled and semi-skilled people do?

They get deployed in other commercial activities that can make more efficient use of their time, and hence, pay them more.
I was lucky enough to already have a partially remote job before the pandemic and it was already six figure paying. Now after the pandemic what few investments I had all blew up into the 7 figure range. I told my boss at our last one on one that once we are required to be back I'm putting in my two week notice. It's not because I don't want to work. It's because I don't want to work in the city where he chose to locate our office. I grew up, went to college, and spent my early career on the east coast so when covid hit I realized I'd be stuck there forever if I didn't gtfo now. So I did. I moved to Hawaii and I've never been healthier or more fit in my life. Going back to the east coast just to get seasonal depression for 5-6 months a year is just off the table now.

This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery. You might get lucky and your 401k might grow in value but chances are you won't be able to retire till your 50s. It turns out that capital is everything.

Covid has shown us all that you might still die young so why work instead of enjoying life?
You don't have to be a comic-book villain to do bad things.

Also, you seem to be asserting the people at FB can operate the machine without being aware of what it is or what it does.
Racialization - making everything about racial characteristics and pitting races against each other - is what has been 'on trend' recently and the world is a poorer place for it. Anti racism has been around forever and always should be, because drawing attention to and excluding people due to their race is completely unacceptable in liberal democracy merit based societies.
They had a lead because they were optimizing for a different target than Qualcomm. Apple was more concerned about single core performance while Qualcomm was focusing on lower cost and efficiency.
I suspect when people compare digital against film, they often mean the 35mm film or aps size, not something like medium format or larger. Of course, there is hasselblad medium-size digital back, but it is not often seen.
Are you still bitching on Linux, Bill?
Sure, if you want to get into a semantic argument. The point is that the mechanism isn't complex, there is decades of research and multiple studies showing us it's likely safe, and still people are out here saying things like, "It's totally untested!"

Like, at some point we have to trust science and accept that studies and test groups will give us some reliable safety guesses. People generally have no idea how much research has already gone into this vaccine because they've been taken in by all the media coverage around the mRNA vaccines claiming the technology is new.

Let me try explaining via an analogy. It's like the folks who are really worried about 5G signals because they are new. On the one hand, yes, humankind has not had long term exposure to 5G signals. On the other hand science has a fairly complete understanding of various electromagnetic spectrums and is the phenomena of using electromagnetic phenomena is hardly new.

So yes, mRNA vaccines are 'new', but only in the way 5G is 'new'. We may not have deployed it widely before, but we're pretty dang sure we understand it.
You identified that you need a lot of money or a lot of time, but ignored for most people it's a combination of these two. It wont be $30,000 once, it will be more like $5-10,000 per year and the money out will be a combination of the higher investment spread over many years plus the compounding interest.
The reason why TimescaleDB is so fast relies really a simple concept; keep indexes small enough to keep in memory. If you have a small enough index, you only need to do 2 reads from disk; one for the index to locate the data, and then one for the actual data.

Fetching data becomes much, much slower once your index is too large to fit in main memory. TimescaleDB segments the indexes into chunks (the “hypertables”) and makes sure these chunks are all “small enough”.

This alleviated further by having the data sequential by time; inserting new data does not need to alter older index chunks, which is what makes inserts fast.

I can imagine that if that’s not the case and your inserts are altering “older” chunks so data needs to move between lots of chunks could make the database prohibitively slow.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is much more intelligent than I am. I don't know why there's such a taboo over saying some people are more intelligent than others. It's not a moral judgment or a be-all-and-end-all of a person's value.
We’ve done the experiment with firefighting over and over again. It doesn’t end well...
Starlink?

I'd rather have fibre on the ground for a lot of reasons, but if enough people moved to LEO orbit sats, and then huge numbers of them get affected by reduced magnetosphere protection, the compounding problems here are huge.
> As a salaried developer I don't think I was ever expected to work more than 60 hours a week, and then after the crunch was over we always got 1 or 2 weeks of extra vacation ("comp time"). To be clear, the normal working schedule was 40 hours per week. Crunch time is like 1 or 2 times a year, for maybe 1-2 months each time. And like I said, depending on how much you crunch, you would get extra paid time off afterwards. So for me, that was a pretty good trade. I'd much rather work my ass off for a couple months and then get an extra 2 week vacation at the end of it.

Just to be clear, you're saying that crunch time can be up to 1/3 of the year, and you get maximum 4 weeks of additional leave off as a result. Compare that to anywhere overseas, where 4-6 weeks leave per year is the minimum. Moreover, if you're working 50 hours a week on average during that crunch time, and you get 1 week off per month of crunch, you're already marginally behind on equivalent compensation since there's more than 4 weeks per average month.

That sounds like an awful agreement and I don't understand why you're trying to hold it up as a great opportunity. I'd instead describe it as an abusive working relationship that further shifts the benefit to the corporation at the employee's expense.
Echoing other comments - cartoons I’ve seen at the moment are just hyper visuals with loud noises and linear cheap narratives.

The only cartoon I’ve seen recently for a 3 year that isn’t terrible is Bluey - and Australian English cartoon.

Only one I’ve seen where there is actual emotional development/content illustration of cause and effect.
I believe they are alreading working on increasing the tax rate for similar reasons.
Just a classic case of someone driving their extremely fast car just that bit too fast. Sad to hear.
Donald Trump was elected by promising a trade war. The people freaking out about a "labor shortage" and a "trade war" are on wall street and in the media. Real people understand free trade was a bait and switch. NAFTA was never popular, Clinton was elected to veto it and signed it instead.
Perhaps, but no one is perfect. Keep in mind that perfect opsec also encompasses physical security+surveillance, where intelligence agencies are much better than this than criminals.

People say that part of Ulbricht’s shitty opsec was that he left his laptop unlocked, but think of this - the FBI was already ready to grab his laptop the very moment he left it alone. Clearly, they knew he was the criminal well beforehand, and were just lying in wait for him to slip up just one single time.

All in all, this is really cool work. I wonder what it would be like to work for the FBI or NSA solving high profile cybercrime. I imagine it would definitely feel more impactful than my current FAANG position, even if the compensation would be lower.
Where is it shifting back to labor? Everywhere I see the gig economy making so that even previously white collar jobs are now commodoties.
They don't, so there will be much more unrest.
What are some other remarks? Please do tell!
There's a lot of space in between "all employees are good and decent" and "cackling comic book villains".

Is it possible that reality is somewhere in between those two extremes?
I think those latter people are just as capable of being my customers and providing an environment where _I_ can invent/produce something of note.

Why should I care whether they toiled miserably in order to be able to buy my thing? Maybe it would be better if they were leisurely, the better to go and search out the best things, allowing me to devote my efforts to MAKING said best things. Let 'em be thing-mavens, sipping lattes. They can compete over who is the coolest thing-maven.

You're not thinking creatively enough.
Options: The Untold Story
This would work much better as a configurable browser extension
Not the parent, but: it isn't unfortunate that the M1 is so good; it's unfortunate that everything else is so far behind.
CMEs are not actually emitted uniformly over the whole spherical surface of the sun.

Instead it's much closer to a Gaussian distribution centered on the ecliptic.
I'm surprised this article is referring to it as "Corporate Memphis", when Memphis was already commercialized heavily in the 1980s. Every mall in America looked like that.

What we have today I would think would be more like neo-Memphis. Similar, maybe less pastel and less gradients and less soft filtered.
DW is a capability, not a scale problem.

DW lets you gain insight from your available data, whether there's a lot of data, or not.

DW with postgres is probably the right choice if your data isn't petabytes level.
I'm a bit taken aback that YouTube won't let me add these to a private playlist, because they're oriented towards kids. Huh? What does this accomplish?
Becomes especially funny when you consider the ideological origins of Italian Futurism. Hint: What was the dominant ideology in Italy in the 1930s and 40s.
> Confront them with the current problems that the human species currently faces: the ecological, political, and social crisis, and they will not only solve these challenges but will create heaven here on earth, and very quickly.

I don’t think that is a great idea. One thing I have noticed with autistic people is the ability to really concentrate on a problem with full attention. However, the downside is that they can be so focused on that one problem, they end up ignoring other factors.

The danger is that they single mindedly try to solve the problem and try to create “heaven on earth” and inadvertently turn it into hell on earth.
Is the infrastructure in California really atrocious? It doesn't seem so bad compared to many other countries I've visited. Some of the roads that get a lot of heavy truck traffic are a little rough. We haven't had any bridges collapse lately.
2. To be fair, A14 is just 2 big cores compared to other smartphone SoCs' 4(3+1) big cores. (but Apple's core design is richer than others)
> should NOT be treated as an indicator for what "reasonable" pay looks like across the entire industry.

Hard disagree. The comparatively low salaries in other sectors are just that, below what workers should be earning. Things are fuzzier in the indie space, but companies like Blizzard, Activision, EA, Epic, Ubisoft, Rockstar, CDPR, etc. all pay low and absolutely rake in profits.

We should call worker exploitation what it is rather than calling fair compensation at FAANG companies "ridiculous".
Are they implying that みんな is pronounced similar to night night? I don't think it is... is it?!
End the eviction moratorium, cut unemployment, close food banks, cut food stamps and you will get most of the people back to work
> I find myself wondering if there are people who are resistant to whatever mechanism drives the "addiction" to social media (particularly likes).

Sure, measure people on a narcissism scale, to name one huge aspect, and you'll get a direct correlation to the blackhole of needing validation in the form of likes. People that grade low on narcissism accordingly care a lot less about that validation, they simply care a lot less about what most other people think and don't require their approval.

I have almost zero need for approval from other people for example. The exceptions I can count on one hand and are close family / friends. I'm hyper resistant to needing likes on social media, needing that feedback charge. I'm certain it's hard-wired in, you're either born that way or you're not; I didn't have to do anything to be that way, I don't have to resist the urge to seek out likes/approval/upvotes, it's never a consideration in terms of my well-being or needs. The people I know that need that outside validation universally also have low self-esteem, they don't self-sustain so they need to fill that from external sources.
Most engineers I know already have a flag against Amazon and their recruiting approach is “this team is different.”
The way most banks deploy software is downright scary. It usually involves a lot of manual steps running DDL in some enterprise database to create and change lots of views and stored procedures. Those DDL scripts were developed against some shared testing and staging databases that usually have crucial differences not only in the data but also in the structure. Nothing is automated, no easy way to restore stuff. People generating Java EAR files in an IDE and Ops people copying them to servers. Lots of enterprise software that is barely scriptable and need long sessions of point click and type in some awkward web UI. And let’s not even talk when there are mainframes involved. Things working the first time would be the real news here.
They were eating rotisserie chicken.
Stephen King's book on writing is really good: https://stephenking.com/works/nonfiction/on-writing-a-memoir...
Anyone who concludes anything fuzzier than formal algebra with "absolute confidence" is probably not pushing the end of the bell curve anyway.
TriggerMesh – Cloud native integration platform for Kubernetes
Levels.fyi exists. There are internal spreadsheets at various tech companies that share their comp.

Agreed though, I'd love to see this elsewhere in tech.
If portability of other OSes has taught us anything, it is that the interfaces are much cleaner if you are to support multiple architectures.

I think it comes down to having people/companies interested in porting it to ARM64, not about cleaner codebases.
Graphics also matter. My 6yo Inspiron let me develop with 8GB of RAM, last year I bought a new one with Ryzen5 set the very same link setup and even used the same SSD but it would began to freeze or crash...

The APU was reserving 3GB of RAM for the GPU. The next day I went for 8GB more.
I participate in other forums (not pointing a finger at HN) and I've noticed that my posts that might best be described as "pithy one-liners" do way better than long posts that I put a more work and sometimes research into.

I think this is why Twitter is successful.
I think this is a Hollywood view of autism - its not like that in real life, sure there's some people on the spectrum that are genius, but there are a lot that aren't and have more significant life challenges.
The solution isn't a solution, it's the idea of giving up on a future you realize doesn't belong to you, working disproportionately hard for a minor bump in standard of living, and instead living in marginal comfort for less effort until you die.
Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants
My experience mirrors yours. 50MP off of medium format and a flatbed scanner is easy. 1980s lenses look great, even with color film. I have one shot I took off the roof of a building, and you can read street signs many blocks away in the final scan. With 4x5, 100MP is pretty achievable, and even with very "inferior" lenses, the resolution is incredible. I have a picture of the Manhattan Bridge from the Brooklyn side, with the main focus being the bridge... but if you zoom in on the background, you can again read street signs. I love this kind of photo, where you can blow it up to wall size and think "nice" but walk closer and uncover tons of details that you could never see in person. It impresses me every time.

Digital is in an awkward spot where semiconductor yields make larger sensors impractical, so they have to focus on hyper-optimizing lenses. This ends up being very expensive. And, there are diminishing returns; the wave nature of light introduces interesting artifacts the smaller your pixels get, so there is unfortunately a hard limit. Compare this to a big piece of plastic dipped in some chemicals, and you wonder how much we really benefited from the switch to digital. It's great for the snapshot market, it's great for people that need to produce 1000s of wall-sized photos a day, but for the large middle ground, it feels like technology for technology's sake. (I of course own a DSLR, being very into technology for technology's sake!)
You get the downvotes when you compare California's infrastructure to the Third World.

Sure, Germany and the Netherlands have excellent infra. Do you know what's "third world" infrastructure like? It's not having potable water. It's cities of 50K people with mostly dirt roads. It's highways with potholes literally bigger than mortar craters.
Yes, gravity is "more like a field". But what kind of field? A force field.

The right kind of object in the right kind of force field experiences a force.

A mass experiences a force in a gravitational field; a charge experiences a force in an electric field.

A point mass is difficult to reason about because a point mass has infinite density, and a gravitational field that gets arbitrarily large the closer that the point is approached.

Non-point masses, like uniform spheres, have a gravitational field that increases up to their surface, and then decreases. A particle at the exact centre of a uniformly dense field experiences no net force.

Also, a particle floating inside a hollow sphere of uniform thickness experiences no net force; the field sums to zero everywhere inside. This is why the field gets weaker toward the centre of a solid sphere. Every point inside a solid sphere can be regarded as simultaneously being inside a hollow sphere (experiencing no net force from that), and being just on the surface of a smaller interior sphere: that part of the sphere which is deeper than the particle.
> Muhc of the low-hanging fruit was picked in the 20th century.

Scientists were decrying the end of physics--back in the 1800s.

They just had to explain this silly black body thing and they would have it all wrapped up.

You are correct, though, in that the breakthroughs come due to the points that don't mesh with our understanding and that the apparatus to reach those point is quite a bit more expensive nowadays. I would point out, though, that you are kind of pointing toward "theoretical" physics--where there is a model that really does mostly work.

However, on the condensed matter side of the world, things aren't anywhere nearly so well-explained.

We can't fold proteins reliably. We can't engineer and explain superconductors. etc.

Look at how long it took simply to engineer a blue LED.

While the theoretical physics folks may think they have a handle on the world, the solid-state folks just chuckle and build another vacuum chamber.
I have wondered about this. From my understanding the reason main power lines etc are affected is that the long cables turn into an antenna of sorts which allows induction to occur from the CMe. So things like small electronics etc shouldn't be affected.

However, that's where I wonder about the "shouldn't" part. Wouldn't a large CME like this cause excessive power surges, which modern electronics don't respond well to? i.e. nearby lightning strikes can kill a computer or microwave even if you've got a circuit breaker, so wouldn't the grid suddenly having a massive surge go through it still be a cause for concern? Or are we talking voltage/amp levels below that of a lightning strike?
I'm pretty sure the karma system has deterred me from making comments that really have no place at the forum a couple of times.

I'm not a karma whore, I don't post specifically to get karma. I just like contributing and engaging, but I also like to see my score go up slowly. I bet I'm not the only one that's in the middle of the road like that. How many overly emotional, rash and knee jerk comments has it saved us all?

And conversely, I think it's trained me to give just a little bit more thought to most comments, and put in a little more effort. And that effect smeared over everyone on HN is what makes it great.
Towards the end of popular software distribution on 1.44MB floppy disks, and when cd-rom became more commonplace in peoples' PCs, it was not super rare for a game to come on five, six or eight 1.44MB disks.