skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the difference is that unlike RAM or some other random technology Urbit is quite explicitly a sort of socio-economic experiment. The 'digital homesteading', the liege-like relationship between owners of "stars/galaxies" etc individuals and people in their respective domains, the scarcity and deflationary aspect of it, it's very much a 1:1 software version of the political views of the original creator. The things that differentiate Urbit are all in the mechanisms of governance that users of the system take part in. So rather than thinking of it as a 'technology' it is much more like a political experiment.
I thought it was funny to have such an obviously impossible instruction in the FSF form and never once thought it would bother anyone. If it bothered you that I submitted this, I do apologize.
> Roads and schools is always a cop out because that’s typically funded through property taxes

A significant share of road and school funding comes from the federal government, which doesn’t levy property taxes. Another significant chunk usually comes from the State, which in many states does not rely on property taxes.
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Those (spike protein) are the tests that are readily available, although they do have others that target other relatively stable portions of the virus. In fact the way that the "English'-B.1.1.7 and "South African" B.1.351 were originally discovered (before sequencing) was that they didn't replicate one of the PCR primers, but they are still targeting the functional element, which is required for replication/infection.

There are lots of things your body might respond to and even effectively fight off a COVID infection, it's just that not all of them are particularly stable. If you go to Nextstrain you can actually see which protein the different mutations are in (S is for spike). They're all over the place, but many change so much that you could have multiple strains within a single infection. RNA viruses are not very stable. Only the required functionality of the spike provides a relatively stable attack point.

spike (S), envelope (E), membrane (M), nucleocapsid (N)

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
> because no one needs it.

Engineers making pronouncements like this bring me no end of amusement. Surely we've learned by now that we're pretty terrible at these sorts of guesses?
Although things may change a bit with the arrival of Apple M1 systems, the marketing mentions of VST in this context are fairly weasely.

For users, good look finding more than a couple of plugin developers that make their plugins available for (a) a Linux based system AND (b) the ARM architecture.

For developers, VST is just an SDK, and doesn't require OS support in any meaningful way. So sure, if you want to create VST(3) plugins for a Linux+ARM platform, you can do that, with or without Elk.
Allowing elected representatives to talk to their constituents makes sense to me.

Are you against freedom of speech? Why exactly?

Would you feel the same if Democrats/Marxists were deplatformed after the next election?
It's been a while since this was updated (2014), but it indicates that over 50% of people consider religion "very important" in their life. Only 11% said religion was "not at all important."

So while you could imagine a society where 80% of people believe they aren't religious at all, the United States at least does not appear anywhere near that number.

https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/importanc...
Right, "at least -40 outside" also does not make any sense at all. "At most -40 outside" would. Or else, how can "at least -40" and "at most -40" mean exactly the same thing, when "least" and "most" are antonyms?
On subjective qualitative questions, the average should probably be above 50% because everybody has different scales and are probably following their own scale better than average.
eg. If you believe good driving means following traffic laws, you probably follow traffic laws better than average. If you believe good driving means low lap time on a race track, you might have a better lap time than average.
> the Lena image on that wiki shows the sorts of results you get from applying a blind deconvolution algorithm naively to this sort of imagery.

the edges seems to be restored fine on that image - this is exactly what you'd need for fingerprints.

Also, the image have clear partial palm prints which police may have had in their db on this guy too.
When you look at a copy of Nature and you look at Bret Victor’s work it’s so clear that scientific publishing needs a massive massive upgrade.
Thanks John - I did not expect this comment :)

The biggest complaint I have is: I couldn't navigate between different files using some keyboard shortcuts. The only way is to use mouse clicks, which can be quite slow and prone to errors. In modern IDEs you usually can bring up a file search box with hotkeys. The same goes for switching between PDF and tex.

Another thing bothering me is that the hot-key CMD+Enter for compiling doesn't always work. I couldn't figure out when it works and when it doesn't. When it doesn't, I again need to click on the compile button which is inefficient. I also sometimes use CMD+S, but that saves the entire webpage when the editor isn't in focus.

One other classic UI issue - the only way you can expand a folder in the left side bar is to click on the tiny little arrow. This is too inefficient. A much better way would be allowing folder expansion when I click on anywhere in the row containing that folder.

Despite these issues, I want to say a huge thanks for creating OverLeaf - without it it'd be much harder for me to get my degree. :)
When a player rolls 38 6-sided dice in a tabletop game, I'd like to have something similar.
There was a meme on the Internet that people would rather be tortured by the CIA than have to endure watching 20 hours of mandatory intersectional feminist videos.

The wokeness of spy agencies is nothing new and was even covered in the past by Glenn Greenwald before this new viral video.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1389607206505664514

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/big-corporations-now-deploy...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dbbyd/the-cias-woke-ad-is-a...
There must be a term for this, but I imagine no one is average across all attributes. Curse of dimensionality maybe?
Tiny individuals imagining a free web aren’t going to build their own international infrastructure.
What about Apple's fight with the FBI over iPhone encryption? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

It's definitely not common, but it happens.
you're not averaging actual numbers, its just "X than the average person"
Given the title, I expected praise for the nap as a problem-solving tool.

Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution?

Glad that my superpower remains secret.
Thoroughly surprised the lack of difference between read latency on SATA SSD and NVMe SSD. I thought NVMe was significantly more performant than SATA. Guess the difference is all on the writing end, so if you had some sort of mostly read workload it's fine.
The reason why people choose #1 is because your grant vests over 4 years but you lock in the price per share at year 0, so you are effectively leveraged for free, and if the stock grows your comp is going to compound nicely, it is entirely possible that by the end of year 4 your annualized comp would be $1M+. It would be hard to replicate that just with cash, because at year 0 you don’t have the entire value of the grant to allocate and lock in the price, so your invested money cannot compound as much.

As for me, I do not invest in FAANG, too risky for me. I prefer to get paid cash higher than FAANG and invest in a diversified portfolio (I’m in VTI/VXUS/BND).

With this strategy I am at $3M at 34, and I have almost enough savings to fire before 40 that I don’t need FAANG returns and volatility, SP500 will take care of me just fine with reduced volatility.
I believe in this. Smarts are more like a distribution curve, even in a single individual.

There are areas I am in the 1 percentile, I think I can say without exaggeration. Those areas I seem to have insights in without effort, coupled with thousands of hours of focus.

But I experience a high cost of many things I do very very badly compared to almost EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know.

I am not alone in this assessment of myself. Friends & family all agree.

My many areas of remarkable incompetence, besides occasionally causing me great shame, make it very clear to me that everyone I know or meet has something to offer, at least to me!
There's not one bit of nuance in this. Not a single look at what the Palestinians are doing wrong or at the other side of the conflict.

It has been mostly a waste of time talking with you, as I predicted from your first comment, but it wasn't without entertainment value.

Your ideas about a one state solution are kind of interesting. Honestly, I'm not sure the Palestinians would even want that if it were on the table.

My prediction is similar to yours. The Palestinians will refuse to compromise (capitulate?) Sufficiently for the Israelis. They'll keep losing power and territory and leverage and the deal on offer will keep getting worse. Until they've all moved on or been assimilated.

Their best hope is make a bad deal now, because it's not going to get better for them. It's not fair, but it is the reality.
Totally agree. I ran a very large and influential political sub of over 100k users. The amount of revenue that the subreddit produced from advertising must have been very healthy, the activity of the sub became newsworthy multiple times and in a way that made Reddit look much better than the media typically did. Top-rated AMA of 2019 I believe, just a real juggernaut of reddit-energy.

Reddit never did a single thing to support that community. They never assisted the mods when we were being slandered by other political camps, submitting concerns about death-threats was a labyrinthine task, every aspect of moderation was a grind. In that time they implemented the emails, the app telemetry, the thinning of controversial political communities, and a general abandonment of the core ethos of the platform. The admins have horrible reputations for abuse, censorship, editing user comments without consent.

They don't even honor Aaron Schwartz anymore.

I loved and dedicated a huge part of my life to Reddit for years. It's over now. I'm a refugee here because people can actually talk to one another with a sliver of respect, which you cannot say for the most popular communities on Reddit.
I wonder what HN's result would be for "I am more/less likely to rush to HN to post banalities about the survey sample"
Just buy one share of stock on Robinhood and attend a shareholder meeting on the roof of one of the Frank Gehry designed buildings.
There may be a reverse-Woebegone effect operating here that tends to make people answer something other than what they might initially think.

Maybe that's the point.
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The problem with having such options in surveys is that everyone then picks it, even though it is statistically unlikely. So better to force them to make a decision instead.
> I'd like to have a different recommendation for a "garbage collected Rust"

I have exactly the same problem. Rust is nearly perfect to me, due to its non-nullable type, traits, package manager. It's just that losing garbage collection is not justifiable in my use cases. I've researched several languages but nothing "clicks" unlike what Rust did to me several years ago. C# might be my best bet but it lacks statically compiled binary. Go is my next bet but it lacks a sophisticated typesystem. Kotlin is my third bet but the Java toolchains are slow and too "enterprise-y". Swift is too Apple-centric and has weird corner cases like you can't change the order of the keyword parameters, due to its Objective-C origin. Life is full of trade-offs, I guess!
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Its a great project. It's intended to help hardware makers bring pro audio gear to market with less cost and less risk. Not as a retail vst host.
> because their functionally is so small it's always going to be obvious where the flaws

That, sadly, won't scale.

> we're actually better off doing the wrong thing.

You aren't actually doing the wrong thing. At 3 employees the maximum complexity your team can handle is pretty low. It's also trivial to pass on institutional knowledge since well... the whole team can share one extra large pizza.
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It's interesting how the US has such a different cultural view of rights than other English speaking commonwealth countries that you'd expect to be culturally similar. I can't speak for other countries but as a Canadian I view the idea of "inalienable" or "god-given" rights as preposterous. A right is a promise a government makes to a people. I have a much more expansive right to free speech than someone in North Korea does, that's just an objective reality since the North Korean government does not make the promise of free speech to their people. I have no right to be granted employment if I cannot find it myself, but that right has existed for others in various places and times. You can say that people should have certain rights, but to me it's wrong as a statement of fact to say that they already have them.

This view of rights also makes it easy to say that we should have the right to healthcare, or food and water, or housing. You don't have to debate about whether those are "inalienable human rights" to decide that it would be better for our government to make those promises to our citizens.

More of an aside, it is weird to me that you would include the right to not self-incriminate among the set of inalienable rights. That one seems like a much more arbitrary detail of your justice system than some more obvious right like access to food and clean water.
The 'confidence' question was hard to answer. In some areas I am confident, in others not so much. I think most people are like that. There were a few other questions that I found hard to answer as yes or no. Or maybe I am misunderstanding confidence or don't want to see myself as lacking confidence.
It would be great if go.mod file’s replace directive also supported a replace that applies to all downstream users (url to url , not just url to local path) This would allow us to maintain simple forks (ones where you are only fixing a few lines and awaiting PR approval to upstream) but still don’t want to wait for the whole cycle to finish for your own internal company dependencies. I feel this is better than changing all imports.

If you are truly forking with no intention to merge back, isn’t the manual find-and-replace by IDE just fine?
The Infinite Loop would be a perfect name for Apple's roller coaster.
Caveat: I did not read the paper but can weigh in on this:

1. The eye has immune privilege, similar to that of the brain, meaning it can tolerate antigens that would normally trigger an immune response elsewhere, like your arm.

2. Fragments of proteins expressed internally are normally presented on the surface of cells through a process called antigen-presentation. This allows immune cells to "see" when cells are infected and expressing proteins in the cytosol they normally would not.

Together this means that exogenous expression of proteins in the eye do not trigger inflammation because the eye is immune privileged, but if those proteins were expressed in the arm, there would be an immune response even if proteins are only cytosolic.
This is my position, too. I think everyone agrees that we want to get generic tuples, but there are other higher priority issues still, so it’s mostly more a backburner project worth thinking about when designing things, and slowly working towards as good a design as we can come up with which fits in with the rest of the language (including future possibilities) as well as possible. Even in a vacuum it’s not trivial to design something both satisfactory and implementable, and when you add other language features, corners the language has been designed into, and corners you want to avoid painting the language into, it gets much harder still.
Yep, if both parties are behind NAT, or some sort of firewall that prevents inbound connections from the other, they'll fall back to using the pre-configured public relay server (or any other server you tell them to use).

I need to build some better stats dashboards, but at a glance it looks like maybe a third of the connections wind up using that relay. I'd like to add better hole-punching code (using WebRTC sounds like the right approach), but haven't had the time or found the right library yet.
After his death, that studio was preserved exactly as it was and moved piece by piece from London to Dublin, where it remains on display. See here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/francis-bacons-preserved...
"75% of participants think they have fewer friends than average."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
This is taking it too seriously. It is just something different.
To quote the article

> Bonkers, brilliant and definitely NSFW.
I know people learn this in middle school, but I've never seen an actual scholarly work call the median or mode "the average"--and I think I'd find it slightly misleading if they did.

"Typical", "likely", (etc) are all fine, but to me, "average" strongly implies "mean."
This is amazing. We’ll done.
The bottom half is the controller, so you really only get a 5.6 in screen.

A switch screen is bigger than that, and if sound is your major concern it also docks into an actual TV with audio output. Presumably if you’re playing handheld headphones are no big deal (in contrast, not using headphones just pisses off everyone around you)
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These questions and some of the percentages really makes me wish I could see what other people think average is.

It would be interesting to see how often those who are actually less than average said they were more and vice versa.
The latency on the proprietary WiFi woth Xbox controllers is best in the industry. The Bluetooth latency is surely minimum connection interval which doe BT5 is what, 7.5ms or so...

> be handled by the program within microseconds would be ideal for human gaming

Ok, well, for the rest of us humans who aren’t eGaming Professional Athletes staying sharp every moment away from the “the dojo”, I think pairing a controller is probably fine. Yea, microsecond direct register reads though... makes a lot of sense for cloud gaming.
the parent comment and this response are the fairest summary and characterization of the whole debacle.

there were misunderstandings on both sides on who owns what, and actions, while initially well-meaning that were influenced by suspicion and mistrust of the other side. mistrust that was caused by those early misunderstandings.
As a legally blind developer who has worked on accessibility for a while (see my HN profile for more), I'm inclined to agree with you. We use screen readers like VoiceOver because, practically, we often need to access mainstream applications. But I think we tend to get too dogmatic about going mainstream, to the point that some of us are disdainful toward systems designed specifically for blind people, particularly if they involve custom hardware. I've thought about developing a Linux desktop environment with a shell that's designed specifically for TTS, but that also includes a more conventional screen reader for running GUI applications.

Do you remember which speech synthesizer you were working with in the 80s?
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We should totally shame developers/businesses who don't accept valid emails, just as we should continue shaming those with insane password policies or insecure practices.
I’ve never understood the latency requirement for professional gear, are you able to articulate why there’s a need for lower latency than average consumer gear?
Does anyone actually care about this latest wedge issue that is manufactured to stoke a culture war?
I don't think you need the sub-microsecond resolution PTP compatible PHYs offer. I was hoping to get away with software timestamping which I believe should still give you sub ms synchronization.

My real question, I guess, is how in sync do the speakers need to be? Just on the order of human perception, or do we need them to be in phase?
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> That is where France differs — a protest can, from the beginning, be declared unable to occur, and police respond to it accordingly.

I think you are misunderstanding what all of this actually means: The US government doesn't just have to tolerate protests anywhere anytime.

It is in its right to deem certain times, places and forms of expression as not valid, the only thing it can't regulate is the content of the expression.

So you are free to protests for whatever you want, but you are not free to do it whenever and wherever you want, the authorities have the last word on that, regardless of any violence or crimes happening.
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It's unclear if there's a global limitation, but my reading is that the limit of 64k operations is per IORING_OBJECT. There's nothing that says you can't have multiple submission queues; for example, the NVMe spec allows 64k commands per queue on up to 64k queues. (On the other hand, there's nothing that says that multiple submission queues is a good match for any given application either, but in the storage world it often is).

In any case, given how popular NVMe is, I assume IORING_OBJECT would support this model.

https://blog.westerndigital.com/nvme-queues-explained/
hehe I guarantee you I have worked indeed in many large FAANG and not, tech companies. And it is pretty much the same everywhere.

I think when you get at a certain level, people tend to rest and vest, thus producing little to no tangible value for the company. But, since their networking is strong, they keep sticking around.

Large corp => too many "architects" => meetings => ... and nothing gets done.

Ever asked yourself why big corp innovate through acquisition?
Would you say this standard is applied equally?
You are going to have to accept that "general purpose computers" are a niche market. The general public strongly prefers a locked-down, curated experience where the vendor takes responsibility for assuring that the content for the device is of sufficient quality and will not bring harm to themselves or their device.

What's more, Google is re-doing their calculus -- and reaching the same conclusion that Apple did. More restrictions are being implemented into Android with each major release.
I liked this and I felt anxiety just reading about it too. I identified with all this SO much I guess it makes me wonder -- is this how everyone is, on some level? Is this all deeply human? Or am I really mentally ill and in denial?
Automotive EE here, touch controls on vehicles are because it’s cheaper than buttons, dials, and switches... by a lot. Not to mention single supplier, remove the testing an validation for the switch bank, remove the firmware and ECU requirements (you didn’t think there was a wire behind that switch or dial did you?), and they don’t need it “done” before the vehicle goes to production (we have tens of thousands of cars in lots waiting forever flashes before they can ship), so if the HVAC dial is buggy, so what? Fix it by the time they hit the dealer for inspection.

Everyone designing the car knows that touch is dumb. But marketing and bean counters love it.
I don’t know a term for it, but here's a relevant blog post:

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/09/01/multivariate-norma...

> For a multivariate normal distribution in high dimensions, nearly all the probability mass is concentrated in a thin shell some distance away from the origin.