skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to panic when there's mindset scarcity. Right now people think...vaccines everywhere, here to stay. But if you see how people reacted to toilet paper, and not recently gasoline...I bet if Biden says "These vaccines expire and we're going to export them by July 4th and slowly reduce our stockpile" I bet you people start lining up again.

Right now there's no "end date". Give people an end date.
I see no point to it. As another commentor mentioned below, humanity is unlikely to travel to another star system. To me, terraforming Mars is like going camping in your backyard. It's different, it's harder, fun, but ultimately has no real purpose. Mars is more likely to be colonized for exploitation of its resources than as some utopian egalitarian human endeavor. To me that would be a shame. I would like to see it preserved more or less as-is as a record of its own history.
Slightly OT but still Google related - you did hear horrible stories of Google having close to zero customer support when it comes to their free products, but you kind of hoped it will be somewhat different with Google Suite, since well.. you are a paid customer? Well, today I'm here to tell you that after 3 months of back-and-forth thru their customer support ticketing system, I finally called my bank and asked them to file a chargeback dispute and give me back my $18 for 3 months worth of Gsuite email account. Yes, we are talking about $6 per month. But the amount of crap I witnessed thru their "customer support" is astonishing and someone should write a book about it! I was literally asked for the same questions over and over again with different reps. I was asked questions, I answered then 3 days of silence so that next rep will ask same questions. Forwarded previous questions - 3 days later another rep asks exactly the same. My favorite was argument that you cannot answer question under the question we ask - you have to add a colon ":" and then answer question next. "We cannot accept answers if you use your Enter key answering question". Unbelievable. One of the most valuable company on the planet. Fuck Google! And today, I finally have switched to Duck Duck. Even If I have to force myself to like the differences, I will not go back to using Google. /rant
Craft is really slick, but it's not really an option for those not using Apple products. Well, I guess until the web editor is out of beta.

I'm keeping an eye on AnyType

https://AnyType.io
BTW came across this in some other reading today: https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mechani...
No, the different sizes were done by the original creators, not by some committee. They had to: a PDP-11 is a 16-bit machine, a PDP-10 is 36-bit, etc.
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For the folks who find Notion slow or otherwise unreliable, I’d love to hear your feedback on minimal.app (or minimal.app/#beta, depending on where you’re located).

Collaborative Notes just went live, making it a lighter, more focused alternative to Notion.
quarantine is definitely more expensive than $0, unless their time is worthless
I tried Notion for a while, but vendor lock-in makes these tools too risky for me. I'va ahd a good run with git+md notes. A while ago i successfully migrated to org-mode and not looking back.
I strongly disagree with this. We have several hundred million years left, and we've only been around as an intelligent civilization for what, 100K years?

200 years ago nobody would even think of flying on Earth, and yet here we are, taking it for granted that you can get almost anywhere on this planet within 24 hours for a couple thousand dollars, and within a century of inventing the car we landed a robot on freaking Mars.

Now I do think that we will take charge of evolution and invent a form of life that will be our successor to withstand a much harsher range of conditions and absent from the "bugs" of current life such as cancer and heart disease, rather than our current unreliable meat bags, but we'll make it happen nonetheless.

All that said -- I do want to see more attention toward terraforming Earth as well. Even with zero global warming, the sun's brightness will increase such that our oceans will boil away within 1 billion years, even though it won't actually engulf the Earth for another 4 billion. I would think it's realistic to extend the habitable period of life on Earth from ~300 million years to maybe 2 billion years with some terraforming tricks. That will buy us more time to terraform Mars or Saturn's moons in preparation for the red giant phase of the sun.

Also, learning to terraform the Earth can reverse global warming, because, you know, politicians don't give a fuck about stopping it, so we should attempt to learn to reverse it as a backup plan while the political environmental efforts continue in parallel.
Regarding the DoD purchasing data from data brokers, I would much rather first focus on laws or regulations that set legal standards for the collection, sale, and other distribution of personal information. For example, make the sale of personal information to a government agency an act that requires posting notice on a public register. Also, a hefty tax on the sale of personal information would be nice to see.

I would focus on the collection and sale of personal information first because it is often done without the informed consent of the person to whom the information is associated.
The book came out about 11 years before the movie. Are you sure that's correct?
Same, when I've read the docs I've always got the impression that it was R only supported.
The US government has a history of requesting extraordinary powers for extraordinary situations and never give them back. All the modern surveillance apparatus had its beginning during WW2. When the war was over, instead of pacifying the world, they immediately switched to create a cold war against a former ally to justify an even more expensive surveillance apparatus. With the end of former Soviet Union, instead of dismantling the surveillance industry, they started to create new enemies around the world, so people would be coerced to keep them employed against the interests of the population.
Please do not take HN threads into flamewar. It's not what this site is for and not going to end well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, did you miss https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27028363? If you'd please take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. I don't want to ban you!
There's many ways to incentivizes people...This is just one of many.
Removing the liability shield on these corporations who have a history of acting in their best interest and not the public would be the best thing they could do to improve vaccine adoption.
> We have treaties that prevent use of gas weapons.

Ask Syrian civilians how effective those treaties are. You can't, of course.
Doesn't that happen on geological time scales?
This is entirely based on where you live. There's places in the US where the vast majority never wore a mask, and going to the store without a mask was the more "normal" thing to do.

In those places you're almost sending more of a message by wearing a mask.
So, 20TB on a single node? Am I understanding this correctly? I guess it would be mostly for ETL stuff, as you would be swapping indexes in/out of memory too much without a lot of care.
Sure, but I thought there could be no more greater fools in 2013, and again in 2017.

It is shocking how many fools exist.
Yes it’s a vowel distinction, longer and kind of ascending tone quality (like when asking a question). Intervocalically d’s and t’s sound the same in North American English unless you’re enunciating them on purpose to make a bigger distinction.
A some point, I think this is inevitable.

And to be honest, I don't care that much about who is behind a tech, as long as they are making the right choices. (except if it is Apple)
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The Windows and Mac apps are just electron - not much advantage over just using it on the browser which has its own advantages.

So, yes, since they are using electron they might as well provide a Linux one too, but I don't see why the lack of one would hold you back.
Basically I just want to blast off into space where people won't annoy me.
Oddly this turned out to be the right advice.
And didn't the Aegis Combat System do that as well?
Lets have an AI weapon Olympics and the world can see why we can't have them.
I wish there was a version of this for computer science. We don't have a broad flagship journal like Nature, so maybe it would need to be trained on a collection of IEEE and ACM venues.
"it's refreshing for me to capture the entirety of the value given generously at this page, without even the slightest effort to give something in return".

I have nothing to do with the authors of this book/page but this attitude is why I don't do free software.
should someone have perhaps roasted their landing page I wonder
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (2019)
If anyone is curious what this automated missile defense looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biyUjm4KZio

It's an automated, super fast, self-aiming gatling gun.
Apparently HN readers can't stand the truth that Fauci funded this and taxpayers paid for it.
> That cynic would be wrong since chemical weapons are extremely effective in combat.

They are not. It's the most ineffective weapon outside swords and bows.

A sibling comment provided the link discussing it: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
it is a great story and probably even a better book, but the sciences is really lacking https://greyenlightenment.com/2018/08/14/bullshitting-with-e...

There are no peer-reviewed studies that corroborate the claims of the book, and research shows memory champions all have Mensa-level IQs. This is not surprising. Short-term memory is g-loaded and is a component of IQ test (it is called digit span or digit recall), so it is logical to assume that the best at memory would also have high IQs.
Bring on both the carrot and the stick! There should just be a tax on the privilege of choosing not to be vaccinated. Something like a 3% tax on the AGI for individuals who are eligible to be vaccinated but are not. Now use that to pay for the lottery.
As someone said on the earlier thread: "I'd be happy to pay for it, I just don't want to give my email".
It sounds like you (or your enterprise) has chosen not to upgrade you applications. That's fine. But it's hardly fair to blame the vendor for your choice of not upgrading.
We pay professional artists to draw all of our illustrations.

- Roman Muradov: https://www.bluebed.net/

- Iris Chiang: https://irischiangart.com
Doesn't matter: considering that all cryptocurrencies have significant environmental impact, using them would force ESG-screening funds to drop the company.
WWII was fought with the science and economic might of the 1930/40s. We've come a bit farther since then.

People seem to seriously lack imagination concerning what a scientific and economic major power might do if its existence were threatened by a hated enemy. (Gene drives, anyone?)
I don't believe that. First, a pres. in their second term can do it without fear of electoral repercussions to themselves. And these days there's so much made up stuff that half the country believes that it wouldn't make any real difference in the big picture.

There was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee after all. The people that benefit from the current situation would be against changing it of course. But I agree it's extremely unlikely to be changed. I think the reason is that most federal elected politicians have a comfort with what these groups are doing that gives them a sense that we need these things. Something like "we are doing a terrible amount of spying on americans but it's protecting us". Plus they get campaign donations from the military industrial and spying complexes. And not much attention is given to the fact that a dishonorable leader could use this to start blackmailing opponents and maybe even ultimately control the population. Fortunately we haven't ever come close to a leader like that, ha ha.
Ownership means nothing without adjudication and enforcement, and that's still centralized which means ownership is centralized.

NFTs don't change anything, they're not real ownership.
Were you wearing a mask in 2019? Because influenza killed thousands of people that year, and we didn't have a 100% preventative vaccine.
Very little, if anything. Which means that it'll be a lot easier to resettle Earth from Mars if something cataclysmic happens to civilization here than it was to settle Mars in the first place.

It hardly matters that the apocalyptic Earth is more hospitable to human life than Mars currently is if we don't have any humans left to resettle Earth.
Yeah, I know the math. That is not what I was surprised at.

As a software engineer in Dallas, TX with similar experience to a new grad, $150k was a staggering number to see. Around this time in my life I was lucky to make $60k. At senior I made, maybe, $110k. Cost of living doesn't even begin to approach $100k between the two places. The reality of which makes me sad.
It matters because you want to scale in integer amounts. So 110 dpi is fine. 220 too. Even 330. So it's not just higher number better, but the right number better.
> It gives an assurance that CPU throttling, suspension, hibernation, will work correctly.

For what it's worth, I had two XPS 13s in a row and the one that came with Ubuntu pre-installed had _way_ worse hardware compatibility problems.
That's your choice but note that your choice is not based in science or statistics. Statistically if you're vaccinated you will not die. You won't even get severe Covid. That's even if you get Covid in the first place which would be very hard. If you want to wear a mask as a fashion statement or virtue signaling then that's fine.
Hmm - turns out it had a thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27119787. We could re-up that one instead, but it's not very good.

Normally I'd agree with you and merge the threads or similar—but I'm not sure I'd call this post blog spam. It's true that it doesn't go deep, but he's raising a general question that isn't quite the same thing as the OP.
> You’ve to do to them what Apple App Store is doing to them.

What a weird use of “you’ve”. Is this common in certain areas?
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
If you trust the client then why sign the JWT?
I was using the generic form of "you". A good fraction of people who end up in the ER are subsidized by the taxpayers. How is offering someone an incentive to avoid this situation coercion? If you have a well-paying job with good health insurance, you are unlikely to be a burden to the taxpayers and should not feel "coerced" by this lottery.
Well, home appraisals are pretty subjective but if the value of a house doubles then something must be causing it. Theoretically, appraisers are supposed to take into account the neighborhood, the value of the other houses near by, accessibility to work, culture, and shopping, etc. This is why an apartment built on top of a shopping center is worth more than that same apartment built 2 miles away on the other side of a public park.

Now doing the above is quite a bit of work, so it's believable that appraisers simply use their experience and 'gut instinct' to determine the value of the neighborhood without actually going out and doing research. If their past experience tells them that houses in black neighborhoods sell for less, then they'll appraise a house with a black owner as valuable.

This isn't racism per se by the appraiser, but it is however discrimination based on race.

It's quite possible that a less lazy appraiser would have realized the neighborhood still rated X price instead of 2X price.
I'll bite. What do you mean?

Any Mathcoin (or any trade) is an exchange based on energy spent (not including Mathcoins insane transaction cost). It's an abstraction from someone mining for materiel from the ground and trading. An energy cost is involved.

What's the killer use case? I can just as easily purchase wine, art, or goods which appreciate and will indefinitely hold a non zero value, even if civilisation comes to a halt, someone wealthier than me will want to get drunk.

If the use case is a fungible, I'm good. If I want to do illegal stuff, I can just as easily launder those goods the same way.

p.s. if you buy expensive wine in restaurants, thanks.
I do some server work for a small company that sells a downloadable product whose target audience is ordinary people, probably not too technologically sophisticated when it comes to computers.

It is unlikely someone would purchase from anywhere than their home Windows PC, and I don't think many are using accessibility-related devices (the site was using a third party component that turned out to be terrible for accessibility, and it was years before anyone complained about it (and we then replaced it with one that was accessible)).

I just took a look at the logs for the past 12 months. Here are the relative numbers of successful orders by browser, normalized to Firefox on Windows 10 = 100.

On Windows 10: Chrome 602, IE11 116, Firefox 100, Edge 94.

On Windows 8: Chrome 44, Firefox 16, IE11 14, IE10 4.

On Windows 7: Chrome 76, Firefox 40, IE11 30, IE9 2.

On Vista: Chrome 8, Firefox 4.

On XP: Chrome 6, Firefox 2.
I am working on a SQL-in-markdown reporting tool called evidence.

It’s feels like a markdown doc that runs SQL.

https://evidence.dev/
This neural rendering is really, really cool. Things like the GTA5 demo, this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLIwQ7yPkA), and pix2pix. The general concept - dumb sketch to real photo or artistic masterpiece - is the most impressive thing I've seen this past year. Seriously.

Best case scenario (from a technology perspective), it means people can make games with the most bare-bones, low-end graphics, plus neural enhancement, and they would look better than top-of-the line AAA games today. Someone with no experience could follow a basic tutorial and in 5 minutes be creating hyper-realistic landscapes, cities, characters, etc. from lazy sketches and clunky 3D shapes. Anyone can be a "talented" artist.

Which is actually really bad for real talented artists and raises serious ethical issues. That's why, best case from a technology perspective, it would be catastrophic if we had this technology today. But it's the best case, too good to be true, we're not going to have it anytime soon.

Right now we have tools like pix2pix, that turn decent-quality sketches into uncanny-valley products. If you squint they look realistic, but they're also obviously AI-generated. And overfitted: you can see what the network was trained on through the output, and you simply can't create anything too far from the training data. That's probably what we can expect in the near future.

But even that is really impressive. And I actually see a lot of practical uses for it. You can make art using these images, it will be obviously AI-generated art, but people won't really care.
As the commentor below stated, I do not believe humans will colonize anything but our own solar system. Things are simply too far away, even assuming there is some breakthrough that speeds up travel by two or three orders of magnitude.
I'm skeptical of this media blackout. I heard lots of people talking about this, he was on podcasts, I saw him interviewed. Look at how much discussion there is about him running in NYC. I think it was much more that there were a whole lot of credible people running and there wasn't enough air in the room for him to get much. I saw every losing group complain of the election being stolen from them in some way, Warren, Sanders, Yang.
Yeah, this is more plausible. I think it’s multiple factors simultaneously including the bad PR from the environmental footprint. And it’s kind of funny because Musk has never been a full throated promoter of cryptocurrency ever. Social media is full of people pumping crypto and yet Musk has regularly made technically-accurate skeptical comments about bitcoin or similar cryptocurrency.
The side ports are just USB-C internally, and they're going to release reference materials for people who want to make compatible modules to plug into them.
The tips were indeed not made of graphite.
Why do people always bitch about Congress? They are playing governments all over the world for this, not just the US government.
It will be a one-liner in Java soon too, once JEP 408 ("simple web server") has landed. In the meantime, this will do:

jbang webster@gunnarmorling

This launches Vert.x, publishing the current directory, via the JBang launcher. Source code is here if you want to see what you actually run: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/jbang-catalog/blob/master/w...
Yes and no. There was still Agent orange in Vietnam. There is still uranium ammo in ie A-10 Warthog which provably sows all kinds of cancer and deformities in children being born in the area decades after usage. Not poisonous gases that burn your lungs per se, but generally if the deal is too sweet to refuse, it stays on the table for some time.
I mean a few hundred years ago people believed humans could not ever fly, but it happened, and we take it for granted now.
There are literally zero downsides to wearing a mask in public, and it's crazy that anyone would shame someone for it. In many Asian countries it is considered civilized and thoughtful to wear a mask when feeling ill to prevent the spread of disease. I too hope this becomes the norm in the US.
While they took some liberties, the gist of the story is very close to actual events. There is also a companion podcast that goes in depth on where they deviated from actual story.
Chemical weapons are great when you have a long line of densely packed, dug in troops. But much less so against modern armies that don't operate shoulder-to-shoulder and carry protection with them.

They are very effective against civilian populations though. Which is likely the real reason behind the ban. Especially when you consider that certain chemical weapons are only selectively banned; they can't be used against a target for toxicity, but it's completely fine to use it to use it in another manner. White phosphorous is most famous example if this, it's a war crime to poison people with it, but a-okay to light them on fire with it, even though that's a horrific way to die.

The only explanation for this hypocrisy is that chemical weapons don't have much value against military targets anymore. So substances are banned unless they are actually useful in other capacities.
> If you want to be included in a group of iPhone users that use iMessage you must own an iPhone.

This is true but also meaningless. If you want to be included in a group of Android users who use Facebook messenger, you must own an Android device. If you want to be part of a group of Windows users who use signal, you must own a Windows machine.

All three are true, but presumably you can see they have absolutely nothing to do with app review.

There is no extreme cost.

You say the protection does very little - but that ignores the numbers: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/app-store-stopped-ove...
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