skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now, there is no cost to not being vaccinated, but it does cause damage to society. Its an economic externality. So we should do same thing we do with any other externalities such as pollution: you legislate to bring cost in line with the damage being imposed on others.

I don't think this should mean jail time, but anything from being barred from public spaces like schools or government jobs, to tax penalties, should be on the table in my opinion. I'm all for freedom of choice, but I'm against freeloading. No one should have to take the vaccine if they don't want to, but they shouldn't be able to participate in all the benefits of society while refusing to do their part in keeping that society functional.
Reminds me of patriot missiles:

> The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system's internal clock had drifted by one-third of a second. Due to the missile's speed this was equivalent to a miss distance of 600 meters.

> The radar system had successfully detected the Scud and predicted where to look for it next. However, the timestamps of the two radar pulses being compared were converted to floating point differently: one correctly, the other introducing an error proportionate to the operation time so far (100 hours) caused by the truncation in a 24-bit fixed-point register. As a result, the difference between the pulses was wrong, so the system looked in the wrong part of the sky and found no target. With no target, the initial detection was assumed to be a spurious track and the missile was removed from the system. No interception was attempted, and the Scud impacted on a makeshift barracks in an Al Khobar warehouse, killing 28 soldiers, the first Americans to be killed from the Scuds that Iraq had launched against Saudi Arabia and Israel.

So such things happen also in military (although this was early nineties)

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot
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Could you give some examples where the same value needs to be used in integer and floating-point math?

I'm not quite sure if I understood you correctly, but in case you propose that integer <-> float conversion should happen implicitly I have to disagree. While implicitly converting from integer to float/double would probably be fine, implicitly converting from float/double to integer sounds like a recipe for headaches: There are just too many options (truncation/ceil/floor/rounding). Even if you decided that some option should be the standard since it makes sense in 90% of all cases (let's say rounding), you now have a difficult-to-find (since it's implicit) footgun ready to cause damage in the remaining 10% of all cases.

Even in that paragraph lies a small surprise waiting to be found (at least for some people): The floating point standard IEEE 754 defines five different rounding modes - two "normal" modes (Round to nearest, ties to even as well as Round to nearest, ties away from zero) and the additional directed ones mentioned above (truncation, ceil, floor). Interestingly, the default rounding mode (Round to nearest, ties to even) is not the one you probably learnt in school (that would be Round to nearest, ties away from zero). In school, you always round up if you end up exactly between two numbers, i.e. round(0.5) = 1, round(1.5) = 2. However, this introduces a small bias that can manifest itself into a real problem, for example if you round many measurements and then calculate the mean. That's why the default floating-point rounding mode will essentially alternate between rounding up and down, i.e. round(0.5) = 0 and round(1.5) = 2.

Most of the time this is not an issue and you really want the default rounding mode, but I hope this example illustrates why hiding the "implementation detail" of converting floating-point numbers to integers might not be a good idea.

By the way, I just looked up the man page for round(), and to my surprise found that it will always round ties away from zero, independently of the floating-point environment. If you want to round using different rounding modes in C, you apparently have to use nearbyint() and friends after setting up the rounding mode using fesetround().

PS: Of course the rounding modes are all about rounding floating-point values, not necessarily converting them to integers, but I think the point should be clear.
Oh Jesus fuck, what is it about (some) Americans that makes them so aggressively unable to see beyond their own blinkered horizons? Is it something in the water?

Approximately none of your screed had anything whatsofuckingever to do with reality.
What do you believe it is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
Technically Deno supports TS and I assume that is a transpilation step to JS. Not sure if they use TSC or their own “compiler” however. But it is baked into Deno at some point.
They're already launching humans on reused rockets, as of the Crew-2 Mission that launched a couple of weeks ago.
employees here have employer sponsored healthcare. The gap is huge even if you take out of pocket expenses into account.
As a leader, you will have to decide if you push a short or long term vision.

When it's short term, put pressure.

When it's long term, plan.

In a sense, a company run by the owner is more inclined to think long term than one where some CEO takes the wheel for 5 years.
Jesus. Maybe I am old-school, but if you have a disagreement or someone isn't holding themselves to a standard, you don't take it to Twitter to signal to in-crowd.

Yes, even when it's a publicly funded open-source dev-tool.

Just the usual immature behavior of super-genius developers who have no concept of professionalism since any company in the world will write them a yearly check of infinite money.

Out-of-touch, know-it-all.

Edit: I reread this. Adding that no one is perfect, everyone slips up, loses perspective, pouts/whines, etc... We are all human and remember a single angry tweet thread does not define a person. Twitter is toxic signal-fest that brings out the worst in people right or wrong. Cheers!
I like some privacy to go with the convenience. I want to watch TV, not the other way round.
Medium was originally supposed to be some sort of WordPress killer, wasn't it?
Much of the OSS world is critically underfunded yet critically important
I am sorry, I didn't want it to sound like that. I just wanted to express my distrust for IBM as they have not exactly addressed their past and such initiative is potentially sinister.

I understand that the US has its fair share of atrocities, however for me they are the "lesser evil" if that makes sense.
They have re-flown the booster and Dragon2 capsule for the ISS Crew-2 mission.
Goals – Sustainable Productivity (how I become better achieving them since 2014)
It would be great if the JSON data could be easily plugged into a linter so you could quickly validate if you are likely to have issues on a given client or not.
Now you need government workers to decide all this. Costing lot and Reducing efficiency further.
So now the base level price of gas is much higher and you don’t have any extra gas to go around. Everyone is poorer.

Let prices rise.
People will scramble to send gas where it is needed to make a quick buck.

Those that it hits hard will drive a lot less.
Those that hate the high bills will get more efficient vehicles.

Supply goes up, demand goes down, prices fall again.
There is a pretty simple test: attempt to go a week not using any tool, service, or person that relies on electricity or telecommunications even in the slightest little bit and see how you fare.

The doomsday people like to say we are 72 hours away from anarchy, and, if true, it will be the fallout from people instantaneously competing for very scarce resources that will be the real problem.
> As far as I know, I can not buy small parts of real estate.

Of course you can[1].

> Gold supply is not fixed and it’s hard to validate.

Gold supply is more difficult to shock than crypto supply.

> Companies can go bankrupt.

Yes they can, but that doesn't mean you lose your stake in them. Large, public companies go bankrupt very slowly anyway. You usually have years of warning.

> I can not transfer real estate, gold or stocks over the internet to someone else directly, without using a third party.

How many people self-host their wallet? Very, very few.

Also, you can absolutely buy stocks without an intermediary[2]. I don't see why you'd want to, though.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/top-reits-4582128

2. https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
I would definitely spend time and money contributing to a "Universal Dumb Display" (UDD?)

Consider making this a kickstarter!
Fairly large hydrofoil ships have been built before so it will probably work from an engineering standpoint. But the economics are questionable. They're betting on finding customers who want a middle option between slow, cheap container ships and fast, expensive air freight. I'm skeptical that many such customers exist.

Hydrofoils obviously can't operate safely in heavy sea states. When a storm comes up they'll have to delay sailing, or route around. That will add some unpredictability to delivery schedules.
I don't understand - every set listed on that page has a nonzero score for "Smart Features".
This is an open source project, if those discussions were happening they'd still be largely visible as contributions on github.
Not everything is held together with nails.
an excellent question.

however, it may be orthogonal to the question of whether or not other parts of the US, and more broadly, other parts of the world, can be where that continuing development happens. regardless of which of those two paths turns out to be the future, there's still the question of what SV's role will be.
I get it as an innocent misunderstanding. Certainly the role of enabling technologies is often underplayed in lay understanding of technological advancements.

I'm a bit more skeptical when it's a deliberate misrepresentation. You can claim with equal credibility that Guglielmo Marconi invented wifi.
> and that isn't considered controversial.

Well, to me, it is.
I may have misunderstood how CMEs damage things, but I think the problem is the grid rather than the electricity? And even then, it could be designed around, but that’s expensive?

In any event, it is the kind of scale that only governments (and possibly Foxconn, Apple, Amazon, and Google) can really engage with.
> Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium.

When it comes to the purpose of understanding why Medium is popular or why it haven't been replaced yet, imho the question that matters is "who uses Medium and why?". So I think whether HN users is a demographic target or not is less important than the measurement of who amplified Medium's usage, or some variation of that. Like if large portion of reddit users are using Medium, then how significant would content traffic from HN would be, comparatively? Especially since there's so many negative sentiments towards Medium in articles/posts shared here over the years.

> I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.

Yeah, that might be a part of the reason on the answer of why there's no Medium killer yet. I also wonder what their users demography is like, or specifically related to your reply, how popular is Medium among non-tech crowds compared to techies? I think it's safe to say some portion of cryptocurrency enthusiasts/amateurs are using Medium to build an audience. Where do they fall into, should they be considered non-tech or tech savvy?
This is some major corporate speak BS.

Accountability is not a skill. It's a value when a person reaches a certain level of maturity. You cant teach it as a checklist and expect people to go, "Okay, so the next step is for me to admit mistakes were made and it's my fault, which can potentially cost me my job." Or where you sacrifice your free time to help push the project forward for the better of the team. This is inner motivation to always look back that you were the bigger person in a situation, not a fucking selling point. 99.9% will hate you for your up front honesty when being accountable. That's the whole point. 0.01% will notice and want to be around you more. Accountability, at least taught in the shithead sales manner as this article is a thinly veiled attempt of a company trying to say, "You can totally trust us". You cant tell, you show this through action. I'm a hardcore capitalist, but this bullshit is obviously written by someone who had never held a shovel in their lives. Responsibility is you showing up on time. Accountability is you fessing up you were late immediately and offering to stay later by more time than you were late to make up for it. I hate generational white collar twats that try to intellectualize blue collar ethics. Stay in your lane.
If we would just 'move' our natural satellite to the bright side of earth, we could shield a part of earth.

What are the odds of having a (total) solar eclipse during a CME coming straight to earth? astronomically small for sure.
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The “reproducibility crisis” is largely overblown. Individual scientific papers have always been close to junk on average. Look at a wide swath of papers from say the 1950’s or even 1850’s and you see not just poor methods but also outright fraud.
Thanks :) That's very kind
gotta get that Harbor Freight gold plated ratchet though.
For 100K, you can write your own version. It's not hard.
Does https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-dimensionality-re... already scale?
It is found in nature, it just has a slightly different number of protons when it's raw.
On the other hand, car batteries full of energy would be useful while the grid was being brought back on line.
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I'm sorry but how does this not sound worse?

"My job is to manage a team of employees who code." vs "my job is to manage a team of unpaid volunteers who code, while I earn a proper salary".
from a year ago when this was news, on old url, lots of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761395

or even 16 hrs ago some pts and talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111650
In my experience, the chances of getting something counterfeit on eBay is higher than it is on Amazon. I had an issue where I bought a blu ray on eBay to save a couple bucks; the product the arrived was clearly a pirated BD-R. Another time, I bought a couple of batteries for my laptop on eBay; the batteries were clearly counterfeit and of inferior construction than the more expensive original batteries.

I have never had experiences like that with Amazon, but I have read stories on the internet. I believe Amazon making it easier to leave negative feedback than eBay is one reason this kind of nonsense is less common on Amazon.
That’s not an alternative to memory safety. That’s just a basic security measure even if you write everything in a safe language like Rust or Zig (let alone the fact that you have enormous C/C++ legacy codebases that are likely still seeing ongoing development due to switching costs). The reason is you will always have some amount of unsafe code when dealing with the hardware and this is a hardening measure to protect against slipups.
first paragraph of the article:

>These are catastrophic design failures for the new UX, and directly harms both end-users due to eye-strain, and directly harms visually impaired individuals due to lack of visual clarity. It makes the app less accessible, and is not only visually displeasing, but actively ableist in nature.
Terence McKenna used to remind people that tea and coffee benefit an employer more than an employee - it's not a break to rest, it's an employer encouraged chemical stimulant to make you work harder. As an employee, you're hyped to work harder - which isn't necessarily a benefit to you at all.

That companies have then reframed it as an "employee perk" is a very slick PR move.
Seeing as the smart TVs update themselves into submission, one would have to be covert enough not to trigger suspicion before disabling all update mechanisms.
You could try Toptal. It sucks big time, but it puts a six-figure floor on my (yearly) income, and gives me exposure to a variety of decently paying clients.
the odd thing to me is that the space shuttle underwent so much refurbishment that it doesn't seem comparable.
My point was that the article describes few achievements that would merit that description.
That is what I thought as well, I also have no idea why Medium is so popular still aside from the initial hype of being "a good experience" for writing.
For some people, being unemployed (even mostly) means living on the streets and eating scraps of food to get by, so I do not understand what you are trying to signal here when you say can still be generous and donate despite being mostly unemployed. Unless of course, you have a several years worth of savings or a stable source of food and shelter, in which case you being unemployed is irrelevant. I understand the desire and passion to help, but speaking of empathy, some people may have a very different idea of what unemployment means.
A bidet is less then that.
If one product becomes extremely scarce, find an alternative.

Trying to force the price down causes a lot of problems.
Understanding astronaut muscle wasting at the molecular level
There's an Ada compiler as part of gcc.

The most prominent project that i know of written in ada is ghdl.
If you look deeper, he is not the one commenting on pr's. Only approving
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By “agenda” I meant it in the sense that this isn’t about accessibility as much as it is this person getting points for a call out.

That’s a bad faith interpretation. So not presenting that as irrefutable fact.
“Theming” for accessibility reasons is something I believe most systems support. Things like larger text size, high-contrast mode, etc.
Your comment, in addition to that of some of the sibling comments to this one, is why I take such in incredibly dismissive attitude to the argument that piracy will mean that no new music, movies, or books will be produced. Even if it were true in an absolute sense—not a single wealthy failson made a passion project, bored teenager wrote better-than-the-original fanfiction, or freepunks made stuff for the joy of creation—there are already multiple lifetimes of music to hear, books to read, and movies to watch. Why should I care that they are not new? If you do have a genuine preference for contemporary works with modern themes, I understand why you would disagree with me. However, either of us trying to argue further in this hypothetical discussion would be less effective than agreeing that we disagree.
Space Shuttles actually went into orbit. The falcon 9 boosters are sub-orbital.

But I'm hoping that Starship will exceed the space shuttle massively!
The linked comment above is one that people interested should read. Especially people who only read the relatively inflammatory and context free initial tweet.
That's true for many Google products, I've been burned myself by Daydream abandonment, but Chromebooks are widely used, provided by many companies, some have an 8 year support policy, and Google bought a company who's business is to support ChromeOS on legacy devices. So it's much bigger than one of their trial balloon products. I've been recommending them for years to different people who don't need a "full OS," and they've all been very happy with them. It's actually much less than half the price of a Macbook for a decent, IPS screen and even convertible/hybrid Chromebook like the Lenovo Duet. I find a lot of pushback from Windows enthusiasts, Apple people are more likely to suggest an iPad which I think is more reasonable, but for many activities a Chromebook is a great choice, and you can buy one and a handset for the same price as an Air.
Thanks, I'll check it out!

(Looks like I found a use for the new Rosetta on my M1 Mac.... I wonder when there will be builds for aarch64 for Darwin)
the author of that post and creator of the chip was a high schooler at the time. (now in college).

it’s a lot of detailed work. it was hard for the creators of the process. for us builders, the steps are there and reproducible. maybe you’re using hard in a different way than i am taking it.

gate count isn’t really the hard part either, to my best understanding.

just like software dev, hobby level and professional level are far apart in terms of what is the hard part. so i think i’m taking offense at your example as being exemplary of the “hard part”
It can't be done.

Technically you can do it but it's not practical.

It is possible and practical but there's no reason to.

Oh, look here we are. Well, sure anybody could have seen that this was where we would end up - we just didn't agree on when we'd be here.
I know almost nothing about this situation, but if I was hired to raise money and did a bad job, I'd expect to be fired. I wouldn't expect to have a blog post written about me.
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Yes, that's why I put in the "if".

We can change the analogy to also look at how many pieces of furniture produced, or whatever, but it starts to just be a pointless tangent.
There is a conflict of interest, but I wouldn't say it's 1-to-1.

It's tough because I think the "optics of productivity" are somewhat important because money is involved. If I was concerned about things, I would have pinged someone in private months ago. Taking this to a public forum, leading with an accusation isn't the right thing to do regardless of how Babel.js was handling these things.
Yes, instead MSFT has quite a few dead/"reprioritized" projects. That drama probably happened internally, you just didn't see it play out in a bunch of tweets.

I'm not sure many strong/passionate people outside MSFT feel motivated to contribute to MSFT open source. Especially to do work that someone already gets paid for, and might get a huge bonus from their boss if the project is a success. I would argue non-corp-backed projects are the ones which get the passionate contributors and community.
But his job wasn't putting nails. In this metaphor, his job would have been increasing the furniture company's output and profits; maybe he found another of doing it. Perhaps for instance, he figured out that instead of nails, he could utilize another joinery approach, like dovetails.
that's really rare, right?
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I believe it is the fact that the solar system was once a spinning ball of gas and dust, and the spinning motion caused the cloud to flatten out into the protoplanetary disk. Like flattening a ball of pizza dough by spinning it in the air.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/astrocourses/ast201/o...
I stand corrected. POSIX apparently never wanted it, but yash, the “most POSIX-compliant in the world” has allowed it as an extension. Also looks like zsh does it—-does that mean bc is obsolete on Mac?
The U.S. Census Bureau is undertaking a privacy overhaul. It’s not going well
Whether or not you're right, you just reinforced my point of there being some (maybe semi-conscious) scorekeeping happening, and the point on there maybe being some underlying issue (psychological or even social - we know young adults living with their parents is becoming a trend and I'm sure in many cases there's much more to it than simply "being coddled as if they're still children").