skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Football is similar to boxing, the helmets don't help because the concussion results from your brain rattling around in your skull, and which cannot be prevented in that sport.

It is a different situation, though, the helmets in football have evolved into weapons people use to slam their head into their opponents as hard as possible. People have argued LESS protection would be better, because it would change the way the game is played.

The same incentive does not exist in skateboarding, however. You want to land the trick, not hit someone with your helmet. Additionally, even if the helmet does not prevent a concussion, it will keep you from cracking your head open on the pavement.
Of these, Georgians are as anti-Kremlin as one could be, they were at open war against Russia in 2008. Armenia is a pro-European democracy. Azerbaijan, probably the least democratic of these, doesn't long for Kremlin either. In general, all eastern-European countries were happy to become independent from Russia and there is no reason for them to choose Russia over the EU.

So one would never refer to them as "Russia and associated eastern european states" because, frankly speaking, Kremlin has no friends in Eastern Europe. (I specifically differentiate between Kremlin with its cold-blooded war crimes, and Russian people, who are normal nice folks and are a significant part of the total population of Eastern Europe.)
> Clearly, nobody is afraid by it: I am getting buried insanely any time I criticize GDPR in any way. It is a thing you are not allowed to critique on HN.

Not if your criticisms are entirely unfounded and bordering on paranoia, no.

> But why shouldn't we be? I have no representation in EU law.

What? Do you think only EU citizens have rights in the EU?
> For anything longer than hours they are always going to (and IMO should) remove a suspected person from a position that directly involves children.

This is the bit I disagree with personally, as I think it conflicts with 'innocent until proven guilty' when a person can be removed from their position and have their reputation destroyed by the police without sufficient evidence to convict (remember - no charge was ever made from the police).

It's pretty feasible to do an initial scan of a few devices within a few hours - and if you don't find enough evidence after a few hours of looking then IMO you don't have enough evidence to ruin someone's life (go get more evidence first in that case!).

The 'blast zone' of this investigation was ultimately two innocent people's reputations ruined in an attempt to find one guilty person (who wasn't found).

(Again, reasonable people will disagree on how far an investigation should be able to go prior to charge - my own view is clearly more on the 'protect the innocent, even if it means investigation is harder and a few baddies escape justice' side than some others might be!)
I agree in part that it's a C thing. More accurately it's an offset from the array base thing.

The first element is at index 0 because its address is base + 0 * sizeof(element)

The second element is at index 1 because its address is base + 1 * sizeof(element)
I have read papers for similar genetic engineering in eyes. They infect the eye (or specific retina areas) with a virus, there is local inflammation while the immune system does its job with some mild side effects for a few weeks at most.

After the viral infection i never saw any mention of immune rejection or other reaction to the modified tissues.

From my limited understanding, in order to have an immune response there has to be something different for the immune system to “see” usually on the surface of cells... expressing a protein inside apparently doesnt raise to that level.
Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
Am I the only one that has a problem with audio that defaults to maximum volume? Amazon does this too. But I keep my default to a volume that lets me crank up soft stuff enough to be audible. For pages like this, the sound just about makes my ears bleed before I can mute it.
A little marketing never hurt anyone;)

But jokes aside, there actually is an insane amount of technology that we built to make this possible. Thankfully we are standing on the shoulders of giants and NLP has developed a lot of the past few years.

For starters, we have to find the right person and successfully differentiate them vs others with their name. Next we extract their quotes vs what others said about them (from text + videos). We also built AI models to tag and organize the person’s Ideas by emotions and other helpful insights. Essentially it’s a knowledge graph that’s dynamically built mapping a person’s opinions and worldview.

It’s still early, but we are getting closer to a search experience that does the research for you. What’s a killer search feature you always wanted?
Yeah if you are not getting any kind of air you are probably fine without a helmet.
Personally, I'd say this is a point of view, or a framing, that is relative. IMO, it's not that climbing specifically has been de-emphasized, it's just that the downhill experience has been emphasized more. Glass half full, etc...

Downhill issues have gotten a ton of attention, because there were problems to solve. Suspensions and geometry are making bikes a lot more stable feeling on descent. Try renting a 29er with a longer wheel base and a six inch suspension, and go down one of those previously risky feeling hills, you'll be surprised how much less risky it seems now.

Uphill issues have gotten relatively less attention, because, perhaps, a climb is a climb. There's little that can be done to improve climbs. Except suspensions are pretty good at firming up on the fly. And dropper post seats are amazing at being able to switch from descent to climb instantly.

In other words, climbing on today's mountain bikes is better - slightly better - than it used to be. Going downhill today is much better than before.
Can't wait to finally try out COBOL!
> My understanding is that most cryptocurrencies intend to be extremely democratic. More democratic than all previously existing currencies, even.

What I mean is, imagine 20 people come together in a little society. They use something like Bitcoin as their currency, and one of them has far more wealth than the others combined. They cannot decide by majority vote how to use the wealth democratically. If the one doesn't play along, they can only resort to violence to get his coin. (You could argue that this property of crypto serves to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority, but IRL minorites rarely have crypto riches. And usually the way you'd protect the minority would be by law or constitution.)

Because crypto is not "credit" in a book, but a proven mathematical algorithm, there is no room for negotiation, discussion, redistribution.

I wonder if you could make a cryptocurrency from the opposite principle - everything is up to negotiation, and you could have crypto councils or parliaments which can reallocate resources as neccessary?

> Also, no need to add "fun fact"; Yarvin's involvement is by far the most well-known thing about this odd project

I didn't know until very recently. This piece of information made everything else about Urbit fall into place and make sense for me. It wasn't mentioned here so I thought it was useful to bring up.

> What's potentially unethical about the core idea of IPFS or those general categories of ideas?

Unethical? I don't know. But I don't want to live in a world where we use crypography this way. People are getting into hot water due to stupid stuff they said 10 years ago on Twitter. Imagine how bad this will be when everything is stored immutably in a blockchain or journal. Social mores change, and society might become more error-friendly again. Or in a few years we might be back to Richelieu: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."

Likewise, I just don't want to use a net ruled by Urbit "dukes" and "earls".

It just comes down to this: Certain uses of technology, especially from people with a libertarian or anarcho-capitalist agenda, give me the creeps. I hope I'm not alone with that fear. A quote from Terminator comes to mind:

> That Terminator is out there. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with. It doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop. Ever.
You can use Cmd+o to open a program (and the "return" key to rename it).
What were the political views of the people who wrote my current OS? My current browser? The channels on my chip that the electrons flow? The drive of the server that stores this comment?

Can you truly be woke if a bigot designed your RAM?
If the aiming in this was only on the x axis, then what you said makes sense. Otherwise, I agree with OP, hitboxes are off.
>> TouchID for login works....but not often enough - it constantly pesters me for a password

> Unless Touch-ID is disabled for something (long sleep, location change, reboot, etc.) It never failed to recognize my finger.

Touch-ID will periodically demand the password. I've always guessed this is done so you don't end up forgetting it. It also demands the password on reboot.

I wonder if the person you are replying to is rebooting a lot.
Both Stadia and xCloud. Any sort of ultra-low-latency / UDP-based protocols suffer with my kind of internet (Monkeybrains ISP in the Bay Area) because of jitter / packet loss.
How is it anything other than a stunt? There was nothing stopping the jet from returning to Russia. The only reason the plan landed was because the pilots claimed they were "unable to get a correct indication of the fuel level". So either it was a totally innocent technical failure that forced the plane to land, or it was a pretext to land in Austria.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/07/03...

I don't disagree that the US should not have pressured countries to deny overflight, but that is _very_ different from sending a military jet to intercept a commercial airliner and force it to land at a specific airport for the purpose arresting a journalist (where he faces a potential death sentence for "terrorism").
What's also interesting is that transportation & communication are very much easier than they were for past generations. This is also combined with shorter times that a worker stays at a single job before moving on for another opportunity. Put all this together and nobody wants to stay in a single house for 10+ years, or even in the same city for that length of time: at this point, buying a house would be counterproductive -- even if you could afford it -- because the transaction costs eat you alive.

For these reasons, a lot of us younger generation folks actually value a high-quality rental property more than buying exactly that same house. [Yes, sure, you buy the house and you'll eventually pay it off, but you'd be surprised how many people don't believe they will be able to afford to retire at all, much less accumulate any wealth whatsoever.]
Take a look at how pybind11, wrenbind17, sol2 or Chaiscript do it. That is how easy I want it: I can expose custom types and global state easily. I do not want just ints and const char */double.

These bindings do from decent to great.
I don’t even trust dry run for some things.

Yesterday I wrote a cleanup tool. In fact it’s two tools: one that outputs a parseable list of things to clean up...

# snapshotX # keep
snapshotY # delete

...and another that consumes the list and does stuff. It’s the only way to be sure.
>Apple is NOT a monopoly... you can buy another device

They're a monopoly on imessage which most people who own iphones think is just more advanced text messaging. You'll get left out of groups if you do this.

All we want is to be able to run our own binaries, I can't believe this is even controversial especially on a forum full of software developers.
As attractive as catalog content can seem, it's not the reason why new customers join, and stay with, a streaming service. New content is King.
It wasn't clear in the documentation, but should I take this too seriously?
One disease expert working with the WHO told CNN in February that the lab's researchers were tested and there was no evidence found of Covid antibodies.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/politics/us-intelligence-repo...

It just seems weird to me that that's not a part of the media's discussion of this.
Why wouldn't I use this? I've built enough validation sites like this that I bought a React boilerplate project. From there changing the text and deploying to Heroku or Vercel takes me an hour or two.

I like the idea but I'd get worried about using something that's not extensible. I don't want to have to shoot down ideas on website improvements from the non technical folks strictly because I'm limited by the framework I used. Just me though.
Workaround: Use the unicode description for every non-ASCII character in your name, submit a change request to change this text file to UTF-8.
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Hehe thanks! I don’t think you’d be surprised at what most people’s first search is.

Do you do much deep research on people today? How do you go about it today?
Are there names that cannot be transliterated? Somehow all the banks and passport issuing governments in the world seem to manage this, if it's good enough for the banks and tax authorities it's probably be good enough for the FSF.

Every single passport has a transliterated version of the holders name in the MRZ.
I think that moore's law was a huge contributor to the success of silicon valley.

It let people predict the future 2 or 4 or 10 years out, from the conservative people in charge of finances to the wildcats who are creating new technology that will need something cheap or fast or just viable to match up with when they ship.
Stopped reading when the author referred to the combustion in an engine as a detonation.
A16Z Co-Leads $61M Investment in Chia Network
I think it depends on whether the resulting hole was taken over by giant corporations or not.
I think Joshua summed it up best. "The only way to win is not to play."
They will probably ruin it with feminism just like the rest of them.
This simply doesn't check out. Land prices even in countries with low barriers to construction are skyrocketing.

The simple fact is that private ownership of land leads to the value of the land capturing the value of its inhabitants. It's an inevitable trend, housing prices will increase until people start moving out in a free market. There is no purely free market solution that doesn't simply delay this.
It feels like this may be a legacy document. The actual root website has a Japanese version with definitely-not-ASCII characters. Seems like a simple oversight of not updating a form.

Now, if the administrators are still 100% behind this being the only way, then maybe there's reason to get upset.
One of the standard anti-capitalist arguments for redistributing wealth is that the super-wealthy do not, in fact, use their wealth to have others at their beck and call to an extent even remotely proportional to how much better off they are. The usual framing is that less wealthy people spend far more of their money on goods and services, therefore we're better off if they have the money instead of the super-wealthy, but of course it's the same thing really.
Finally, a human-readable explanation of Urbit!
Other than using apply functions instead of loops, coding R is a lot like coding python only you get a lot more of the data science python package functionality already baked into base R. The syntax differences are slight enough where it's pretty easy to move between the two (or find relevant stackoverflow answers instantly to common annoyances). R generally inputs your data and outputs your statistical test results in less code with less headscratching than doing the same in python in my experience. I prefer plotting in R as well.
I am well aware of the sizes of the stores. Are you aware that the relative amount of malware is is not merely proportionally less? Are you aware that F-Droid-style reproducible builds are not possible on iOS? People using an iOS device can never be sure they are installing the secure app they wanted to install or some switcheroo.

On the other hand, Google's and Amazon's app stores are not open source but built for an open source platform, together have far more users than the Apple App Store and far fewer malware installations. Discovery in the Epic case dug up some documents showing that Apple had no dynamic analysis for App Store apps at all. Google and Amazon both run Android VMs in their datacenters to catch fishy behavior that can't be found via static analysis.
Of course difficult and easy exist. It’s hard to run a marathon it’s easy to eat popcorn.
It’s hard to learn Japanese it’s easy to watch tv
I think gp got it the wrong way round. Single front rings came in because front mechs were always a reliability weak spot as unlike the rear they must shift chain under tension. Also if you ditch them you can run narrow wide chain rings which hold the chain better on rough ground, and you get more clearance under the bottom bracket.

After we realized we didn't need 30 gears, new suspension designs also became possible.

You're right that rear mechs frequently die though.
> Collecting does not transform us and always postpones learning and transformation to the future. Collecting creates debt that we >promise to pay back in some future that never arrives. The collection allow us to imagine ourselves in the near future as a person >who has read and understood the collected material. This makes us feel good. We like that person.
File in the API?
I don't understand. You can contest your fine if it is really too big, but honestly, at my last job we had one client project that got "caught". The CNIL (GDPR watchdog for France) was really helpfull, gave them 6 month to get into shape and proposed them a plan on what to do with the data to meet their goals. The kind of plan that cost a company 5-10k euros to elaborate (2 man/day of a good architect), and 10k (10 man/day of a junior db dev) to implement. So between a third and half the price to make the business legal again was basically paid by the CNIL. I think that's fair tbh.
The obscurantism is both part of what makes it intriguing, and what makes it utterly useless. It's intentionally anti-intuitive at many turns - for every clever name, there's dozens of arbitrary ones. 'Casks' with 'Marks' for a descriptive wrapper around a value? Clever! Doors for generators with cores and batteries? A disaster!

It ends up feeling like a very compact /Forth/ fused with a Lisp. There's some ideas at its core that feel very cool once you understand them, but also lead you to have to jump through a bunch of hoops when implementing normal functionality. It's worth seeing where changed assumptions led its design, and it /is/ intriguing.

But make no buts about it: the obscurantism is 100% intentional and part of the design. From what I recall, it's obscure to prevent shallow novices from being able to jump in an wreck the ecosystem. You want to learn, you have to be dedicated. I get the impulse, I really do, but this is too far in the opposite extreme.
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Earlier this year, I wrote a small interpreting parser in JavaScript, which takes a grammar from a string and parses some input from a string according to the grammar into an AST. It is embedded in the page https://fransfaase.github.io/ParserWorkshop/Online_inter_par...
Isn't that just an MVNO on top of T-Mobile? How much of the actual network do they run?
Do Not Track didn't work because (1) it was not enforced at the browser level, (2) it had no legal backing and (3) it was not granular enough to be useful. With GDPR, CCPA etc. in place the online privacy landscape is very different, and a new standard is very much possible today. Why did every site in the world implement all the consent popups in the first place when they could have continued to do nothing?
This is a terrible idea put forward by people with no grasp of either economics or history.

First off you can't buy a home in some parts with that kind of money. But that aside, you'd stifle most incentive to innovate, provide jobs, and live in your country. Anyone who thought they might pass your 1M limit will just leave to a country that doesn't do that. No offense, but I've never been interested in living in the US and you'd have to pay me quite a lot to accept a green card. I certainly wouldn't take it if offered freely, because it comes with a major tax liability. There are nicer places in the world by a variety of metrics.

So if you chase away everyone with wealth you'll be left paying 100% of the taxes instead of 60% and with no jobs to pay them with. Good luck with that!

Look to Soviet Russia, Cuba, Venezuela for examples of how that plays out.
This “first” is one in a family of firsts. There have been other in vivo genetic treatments for RP (and perhaps other eye related genetic conditions)

This one involves inserting a nonhuman gene into existing cells to turn them into a kind of hacked photoreceptor.

Another method involves crispr editing in place fixing the mutation to its non diseased human equivalent (apparently not possible in the article related type of RP which causes cell death, can’t fix what isn’t there)

A third kind involves generating a stem cell line of the patient, using crispr to fix the faulty gene, growing, and then implanting fixed retinal cells into the patient.

I believe all three have now had “firsts” in human trials.

The article in question seems interesting, but the less exciting of the three.
That's some pretty poor wording but they probably either mean UTF-8 and/or transliterated into latin characters.
That's a fair point.

I'd add: some GC'd languages solve this with sending around deeply immutable objects (functional languages mostly), in a way that can be more flexible than the way Rust handles immutable objects.
Forgive the hot-take-paranoia, but this tale is exactly what the parallel constructors want you to think.

In reality the criminal was traced using* a government mandated BT Internet router backdoor / super grass / chemtrail deployed insect drones.

*one of the above is not serious.
I think the point here, though, is that the user needs to be explicit on the command line: they have to specify one of `--wet` or `--dry`; specifying neither is an error. It's not clear from your code if you do that, or if you interpret `--dry-run` as `DryRunMode.Dry` and the absence of an option as `DryRunMode.Wet`.

While I kinda like this idea in principle, I haven't really seen any CLI apps that require an explicit option for both modes, so it might be a bit of unexpected UX for people.
I don't really buy that excuse any more. This is a business that wants to have heavy, fast-moving objects automatically navigating complex and unpredictable transport networks using its software. For that matter, this is a business whose golden goose is prioritising content people most want to see on the scale of the entire WWW, which has no shortage of junk sites that exist primarily to game the system. I'm reasonably sure that same business can be smarter about spam recognition than defaulting to assuming new mail from a source it hasn't seen before is bad, which seems close to the practical output of its existing system. But as with so many of the current dominant tech businesses, until someone poses a credible threat to its existing business model and revenue streams, it has no reason to invest in fixing problems even if it could obviously do better.
It codified inalienable rights that exist for all people merely by virtue of their existence ... The fact that some countries may violate those inherent rights is irrelevant

Ok, so what is your opinion on the trial and detention of various foreign "terrorists" in the USA who are / were in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base military prison? If we go by the very US laws you believe apply to every human being in the world, that implies the US government tortured, denied due process and illegally detained and treated many foreign citizens differently because they were not American citizens.