skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon have a cult like following, he can manipulates stock prices and crypto prices with a single tweet, also Tesla was first, and its brand recognition is amazing. Most people think of Tesla when they hear "electric car". I also doubt that Chinese electric cars will ever make it to the US. You cant get Vivo, xiaomi, huawei phones in the US anymore in traditional ways.
What if I use this as a read-only API of sorts for sending regular reports from a Blazor app db to legacy systems?
They've overlaid all US jurisdictions with Covid-19 stats in the area for the past 12 months, all while cities were emptying out and actually descending into a mixture of unrest and literal fireworks.

I have been finding that much more useful than before for a variety of reasons. Did my Walgreens get looted again? Where is the protest right now? Gunshots or fireworks? R0 is increasing, ICU capacity is getting closer to full, alrighty then. What's the name of that local politician again, let me check the comments to see who everyone is blaming in this area.

I don't have notifications on for it to tell me about mostly irrelevant things that were always happening, and thats the main difference. I never noticed they were also selling a paid paranoia product.

I don't check the app unless I see something like smoke in the distance or hear many emergency vehicles. Things I used to check twitter or snapmaps about.
Astronomer Geoff Marcy Has Been Kicked Out of National Academy of Sciences
Related threads:

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27259953 - May 2021 (343 comments)

How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184998 - May 2021 (235 comments)

More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160898 - May 2021 (341 comments)

The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432 - May 2021 (537 comments)

Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26750452 - April 2021 (618 comments)

Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540458 - March 2021 (985 comments)

The Lab Leak Hypothesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640323 - Jan 2021 (229 comments)

Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585833 - Dec 2020 (351 comments)

Wuhan lab did research on bat viruses, but no evidence of accidental release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070031 - May 2020 (76 comments)

Experts disagree on whether Covid-19 could have leaked from a research lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22695825 - March 2020 (6 comments)
"Humanity is going to get through it" doesn't feel like good enough.

Basically it's close to saying your children or grandchildren are going through some Ethiopia-style hunger and Syria-level conflict. But some will survive!

Imagine if we know before 2100 there's a chance of a devastating war all over the planet, we'd try everything we can to prevent it. Of course in reality the richer countries will probably survive (although their morals would probably be gone), although food shortages can also topple countries, doesn't matter how rich they are. Hah, I guess military might is a clever thing to have. Hungry population? The US president has decided to deploy troops to take over the grain harvest of (insert some weaker country here)...
The best (quickest, efficient) way to close the wealth gap is to take from the wealthy and give to the poor. Sending kids to college helps, but seemingly too slowly to counter the affects of automation/outsourcing working against it to widen the gap. There is also another problem with the current implementation of sending more poor kids to college such as wasting time on unproductive degrees due to blank checks from the government, but that's a separate issue.

I am not a fan of rescinding admissions requirements just because they correlate with parental income/wealth.

What these measures are trying to do, however, is to mitigate the advantages that children of richer parents have and the disadvantages children of poorer parents have to overcome. And in that endeavor, there is simply no other solution than reducing the income/wealth gap between richer/poorer parents.

These other measures will not work, and simply lead to more games being played and more bureaucracy, and will further disadvantage the children of poorer parents, since the more opaque the game, the more resources you need to play it (or discover its rules).
One problem with globalization is that it takes forever to pull everyone up to the global middle class (around $10k per capita). That's not just bad for low skilled workers in the US. A lot of countries get stuck in the middle income trap because foreign investors move on to the next cheapest country.
This video perfectly sums up my views on the "fatness apologist" movement:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6YjAk_l71Vk
I always assumed poor people had midwifes

Source: born in a house not a hospital like my whole family
The article does touch on aquifer drawdown. It is a problem that needs continuous attention. Drip-feed irrigation helps, which uses less water but more power, and needs sensor networks and active electronic control, thus power again and sophistication, and tuning to local needs, thus more sophistication.
It set off the flamewar detector as well as getting a lot of user flags. I've turned that off now.

As for 'suppressed' please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27309238.
People keep conflating 'lab leak' with 'made in a lab'.

Think about this: If it was a natural virus that escaped from a lab, China wouldn't necessarily even know about the escape for sure. We could imagine a scenario where maybe China started to suspect that might be what happened around Jan/Feb 2020. So then you don't need a collosal cover up, because hardly anyone knows for sure anyway - you just need to obstruct anyone asking questions that lead in that direction, and obfuscate any clues (publications from the lab saying what they were working on, reports of staff illness etc)
$116.5M in Prizes for Vaccinated Californians
Decades of doing nothing has resulting in nothing being done...
DropBox did it [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...
Is there anyway to do it magnetically using inducted currents? I doubt you can stop the saw that way, but you should be able slow the blade down so it does not do as much damage.
> Personally, I will never be okay riding in a car that is on autopilot.

FWIW, I'm not okay riding in a car that's driven by ~50% of nonprofessional human drivers; people are, in general, really bad at the task.
They might still be using BSD stuff, but they developed new IO and compression offload functionality that doesn't match any off the shelf capabilities I'm aware of.
What do patents (which I oppose, btw) have to do with environmental degradation? and Bill Gates being rich?
It’s a nice idea, but all consumption taxes are unpopular and federal tax revenues are just thrown into one big pile. Can we just spend a trillion a year to remove the CO2 instead?
I'm not a trademark lawyer so take this as you will, but the term Medicare has been trademarked since 1957, assigned to the Executive Director of the US Army.

https://trademarks.justia.com/890/00/medicare-89000008.html

Just because you haven't run into a trademark issue yet doesn't mean that you will not in the future. And I don't think I'd want to be fighting the US Army lawyers for the naming rights.

I love your initiative, but you may want to look into the naming issue a bit further (since this is what trademarks are explicitly designed for, to prevent confusion about one product/service doing the same thing under the same name).
I know that in Russian culture, pregnancy is often treated somewhat like an illness. Not in the sense that it's bad, but it's commonly believed the pregnant woman needs a lot of bed rest, should avoid any physical activity more strenuous than walking, etc. In the last trimester, the woman is treated similarly to someone recovering from a major surgery. Medical supervision is handled by a doctor throughout the pregnancy.

This is in complete contrast to the thread starter's Danish approach, or the approach where I am in Sweden. Women are encouraged to remain physically active, to only abstain from very major activities (think skydiving or marathon running), and to generally keep doing things as long as they're physically comfortable. Midwives handle everything from the first checkup until labor, a doctor only gets involved if there's something that requires a doctor's skills in particular.
How exactly does this mechanic work? If I hide likes on one of my posts, can no-one who views it see like count?

Does this mean the liker's are also hidden? Or is the information about the number of likes just one more click away for the viewer or the post?
I always thought that if bitcoin crashed, the mining centers could be refactored someway into other use for computing power alone.

Now with this new currency, you could maybe even run cloud storage. Maybe we are accidentally building the futur alternatives to Amazon cloud services.
> I had no idea how to manage an open-source project, establish the licensing model, coordinate where the community invests effort, take contributions, redesign the release process, and all sorts of other things I'm sure I haven't even thought of yet.

It's interesting how I (having worked on FOSS for a decade) took for granted all these things, assuming they'd be obvious to anyone.

Good work there, HIBP team!
People reject data (lies, damn lies and statistics). They reject rationalism. They go with their gut, their gut is programmed by the headlines they see
Twitter was on a laptop, then it was in ruby, then it was in java. Companies grow and change, and if your seriously scaling, then your behavior in different environments needs to adjust.
It's simply a strategic planning issue for the CIO.
Something is wrong with this picture
Laser pulses travel faster than light without breaking laws of physics
Some companies have terrible IT outsourcing and procurement practices such that getting something comparable to aws infrastructure is effectively not possible, as it would require massive internal change whereas moving to the cloud is easy to get buy in.
Mainstream media no longer sees CCP as an ally against their domestic political opponents.
> getting 'random' records that correspond to a given ID but that's for the wrong table...

That's why I use GUID instead of integers. If you get a result, it was the right column.
> The initial cluster was found at Wuhan, because there's a lab there

Citation needed. This seems hand-wavy at best. As a matter of fact, people were uncertain about disease itself [1]. I havent seen any article yet that asserts the fact that Wuhan cluster was detected because of the lab. Furthermore, Wuhan lab is a research lab. It's not some diagnostic lab that people go there to get tested for new variant of SARS viruses.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50984025
Users contradict them on the statement that no bank details were visible. [0]

Although Esra (the user whose tweet is linked from the original thread on this topic on HN) gets it wrong in saying that Klarna pretends this wasn't a data breach in the sense of the GDPR.[1] They don't say that, they only say it wasn't sensitive pii in the sense of the GDPR.

This is technically true [1], but seems misleading. Actually 'sensitive' pii in the sense of the GDPR is never submitted to Klarna in the first place.

Also, it's unclear how they count the number of affected users. It would have to be those whose details were shown to other users accidentally for it to make sense, not the number of users who saw other people's information.

[0] https://twitter.com/AskKlarna/status/1397912074630569985?s=2...
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Summary: Both dark matter and modified gravity are true. Could be caused by wave-particle duality.
You can't do this here. Since this account has been abusing HN by using this site primarily (almost exclusively) for ideological battle, I've banned it. Would you please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Buckminster Fuller predicted PoW, Bitcoin and it's consequences(1981)
"In this cosmically uniform, common energy-value system for all humanity, costing will be expressed in kilowatt-hours, watt-hours, and watt-seconds of work. Kilowatt-hours will become the prime criteria of costing the production of the complex of metabolic involvements per each function or item. These uniform energy valuations will replace all the world’s wildly intervarying, opinion-gambled-upon, top-power-system-manipulatable monetary systems. The time-energy world accounting system will do away with all the inequities now occurring in regard to the arbitrarily maneuverable international shipping of goods and the top economic power structure’s banker-invented, international balance-of-trade accountings. It will eliminate all the tricky banking and securities-markets exploitations of all the around-the-world-time-zone activities differences in operation today, all unbeknownst to the at-all-times two billion humans who are sleeping.

The world energy network grid will be responsible for the swift disappearance of planet Earth’s 150 different nationalities. We now have 150 supreme admirals, all trying to command the same ship to go in different directions, with the result that the ship is going around in circles — getting nowhere. The 150 nations act as 150 blood clots in blocking the flow of recirculating metals and other traffic essential to realization of the design science revolution. "

from "Critical Path" (1981)
How do we overcome “alternative” software/services' brand problem?
Hey yes everything is just tiny on my iPhone.

You can see it really easily with Chrome dev tools.https://www.browserstack.com/guide/view-mobile-version-of-we...

Should only take you 5 minutes to just bump up font sizes.

Another useful thing is to set the device width meta tag which tells mobile phones width to use. I find it helps me standardise how things look - whatever width you put in there you can use that as the cut off for your media query

<meta name="viewport" content="width = 720, user-scalable=0, minimal-ui">
Eurozone is barely growing, where are all those people shouting hurray for a dysfunctional monetary union?
I’d suspect the warping of mental health might be primarily concentrated in younger people?

You probably don’t make it to 35, get all established in life, then Instagram tanks your whole sense of self worth.

Seems more plausible you’d be growing up, trying to find your place in the world, head on Instagram and get depressed cause it seems like everyone’s lifestyles are just so much better than yours.
A paradox is only at the most coarse-grained level. Cloud makes sense because of its cost-efficiency in scaling from nothing upwards. Then fails because of cost involved in keeping it running at scale. The thing to recognize is that what cloud is good for is rapid change. Once you have something stable, even at not-huge scales, bare-metal hosting may still make more sense.

All this happens willingly unless growth happened with your eyes closed, or really had no choice keeping up with it. Sure, use the cloud, but don't use every cloud-proprietary convenience. Use opensource software in a near-standard way. Even if using the cloud-vendor's offering, refrain from using proprietary extensions. If your plan is to grow and get out before things stabilize, then that's on who's come onboard, not resisted the conveniences, and remaining.
If moving to another cloud provider, or on-prem, has a "very high cost" then you're doing it wrong.
* Figure out which bits of javascript consume the most CPU time globally.

* Rewrite those bits of javascript in C++, and patch them in whenever they are seen byte-for-byte in the wild.

* Have both a fuzzer and a webcrawler verify the two implementations never differ.

Obviously it's vital the C++ and javascript implementations behave identically - so probably best to have a bunch of checks that the input is in the exact form expected, and fall back to the javascript version if the C++ version can't be guaranteed to behave the same.

The C++ versions of say the globally most popular 25 MB of javascript source code could be shipped with Chrome, or as a seperate download-on-first-use component.
I believe it is normal and have heard advice against training in the evenings.

The explanation I’ve heard is that it is the adrenaline production is what keeps us from falling asleep.
McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun (2010)
Sometimes I miss the days before protected memory.
This makes me wonder whether 34PB (+1PB per month) of analytics data creates more value than it costs to store and process all of it. I’d think that storing only aggregated information would provide nearly as much business insight to make strategic decisions at a fraction of the cost.
Illumos is the project that multiple distributions build on from what I understand. In a way, it could be likened to GNU/ Linux as Illumos probably contains not only the kernel but other tools and libraries as well. There is e.g. omniosce.org, perhaps Nexenta and Joyent/ Samsung SmartOS.
A lot of the authors verbiage is straight out of the 4GL talking points, so that's unsurprising. I agree it's probably a topic that is probably evergreen.
> The film was a commercial flop at the time, but has since gained a bit of a cult following, which is easier to understand if you watch the film when not entirely sober. Unusually for a film, the costumes were offered to the designer, and he’s kept them in storage ever since — and now they’re on display, along with rarely seen before photos from the sets and of the actors in their outfits.

Just... wow. That's amazing.
A better argument you could make is name a socialist country (use whatever definition of socialism works for you) that has a better environmental track record.
But isn't this completely useless for the visually impaired? How would they even care about the picture shown on their screen?

This is a useless accessibility feature, if you ask me. It's over engineering.
Yes it does which is what it makes it interesting.
Slack isn’t markdown though, e.g. it never supported links or headlines in it’s Markup.
Basically you have three approaches to tackle code samples in markdown files:

1. run the code with some kind of plugin as part of your doc pipeline

2. generate documentation from your code

3. take some kind of hybrid approach

I went for 3., annotate snippet "areas" in the source code of a project (mainly in tests) and extract the snippets to a folder, e.g. into the mkdocs folder. I commit them to the (docs) repo. If the project changes, usually I fix the tests and update the snippets in mkdocs. This way I can be sure that the code in the documentation is actually working and people can copy&paste it. To scratch my own itch, I (surprise, surprise) created a script and even packaged it[1].

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/snex/
That is a damn good question that historians still argue over today.

The short version is that the Song dynasty appeared to have all the precursor technology needed for industrialization by the 12th century, but then just didn't. The most commonly held view is probably that society and economics is as important than technology, and that while they at that point had the kind of metallurgy that Europeans could only dream of until the late 18th century, what they didn't have was labor shortages and capitalism, which were what made industrialization something people wanted to actually do. But this is by far not the only proposed explanation.

In general, because of the recent history of the west appears like it, I think we are far too predisposed to view of development as a linear progression towards something, that history has a direction, and that direction is up. For most of history, for most societies, this hasn't really been true. As many societies have spent as long stagnating or even regressing as have advanced. It's just that so long as one advances, eventually it's going to influence it's neighbors, either by taking them over or by having them frantically play catch-up to not be taken over, and so the whole thing has a direction.

This leads to my pet theory for why Europe: Because Europe has managed for almost the entirety of it's history to avoid being conquered by a single empire, so everyone was always afraid of their neighbors, yet there was a solid enough foundation of international law that everyone wasn't at war with all their neighbors all the time. This created both a backdrop that forced states to push to be more powerful, even over entrenched interests, and the conditions where the best way to do this often enough wasn't beating up your neighbors and taking their stuff.
> By tracking cloud spend, the company enables engineers, and not just finance teams, to take ownership of cloud spend.

> tie the pain directly to the folks who can fix the problem

That's why we're building https://github.com/infracost/infracost for engineering teams (free open source)
Everyone forgot about Hong Kong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_pr...
These costs are not unseen. They are straightforward ordinary costs and fully accounted for. It only seems expensive and complicated from the perspective of someone that does not have experience with it. To someone that has done it many times before it is relatively simple and almost completely mechanical to get an excellent result. It isn't rocket science, just domain expertise around things like physical infrastructure planning and supply chains that a software developer may not have encountered before but could easily learn.

If a company was going to run their own data centers, they would presumably hire someone that knows what they are doing to lead the effort instead of trying to do it by trial and error.
British East India Company - they should be classified the same as the SS.
Here is a plan from The International Energy Agency

https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050

Edit:

One interesting facet is that it’s adding an extra 0.4 percentage point a year to annual global GDP growth, which is encouraging

On the other hand annual per capita income from oil and natural gas in producer economies falls by about 75%, which sounds like something that can cause political issues
A16Z Crypto Fund Balloons to $2B
I wouldn't call it exemplary, I mean they have to say _something_, and it clearly was an error on their side, so they're only admitting what they cannot avoid to admit.

See my other comment on the hair splitting regarding sensitive information. And we have to see whether it's true that no bank account information was visible.
> ... the thought process of capitalism in some countries.

FTFY.
And the amount of evidence in both cases is equal right now - slim and circumstantial. Just because one is political doesn't make it more worthy of censorship if you're removing content based on "misinformation." There's no real evidence underlying either statement.
"Andreessen Horowitz’s rivals snark that the firm is chasing management fees — those lofty payouts firms receive just for taking people’s money. I hear that the Crypto Fund plans to charge a 2.5% management fee for most of the first decade of the fund. On a $2 billion fund, that could mean $50 million a year in fees alone. Andreessen Horowitz would see plenty of upside too with 25% carry until the fund doubles and then 30% carry after that. The firm wouldn’t take carry if it loses money. (I hear those terms are pretty standard for Andreessen Horowitz funds.)"