skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't think it's a good idea to get one eye, tried to do the same but if there's a lot of difference / astigmatism you will get dizzy even if you still wear glasses for the uncorrected eye.

Answering OP's question, I had lasik done in 2015 and while I don't regret it because of the convenience, there were complications that never solved after years:

1. My right eye had to get a correction three days after the initial operation: I left the operating room seeing blurry the first time (worse than before), thought it was normal as there's an adjustment period but next day when I got my left eye treated, vision was great as soon as I left the hospital.

After the correction of the right eye, I left with perfect vision there too. I recall the flap got lifted only by a pair of tweezers and got the laser again, and according to research it never fully heals, so watch out if you are into contact sports.

The problem comes now that I get migraines whenever there's a big light source (sun, bright lamp) coming only from the right. Ibuprofen or a corticosteroid drop quickly resolves it, but there's definitely more sensitivity there that's permanent, as regular checkups later proved.

It does get more irritated than the left one too, more redness around the sclera and visible veins that were not there before. Interestingly, there are less of these events after Bupropion treatment, but more with Vyvanse, that antidepressant has some anti-inflammatory effect I believe.

Now there's less cornea to carve in the right eye in case another is correction needed in the long term, with higher probability of complications, which probably leaves me only with the choice of PRK. Eye centers in the US are more liberal about doing more than 2 corrections using Lasik, but mind you that's treading into dangerous territory, they are obviously happy to take your money though.

2. Visual artifacts like halos and increased eye floaters: Halos are still noticeable, especially traffic lights at night. It doesn't really annoy me.

Also worth mentioning:

Just had a routine checkup a month ago, 6 years later my vision is still the same than after the operation.

There are new techniques to cut the flap like SMILES I believe, but it's a good idea to be realistic about the outcomes.

I'd have been happy with contacts, but I couldn't use the standard ones because of my astigmatism, they had to be toric contact lenses. Those are much more annoying and bigger, more irritation too, so after the trial period I decided to go for lasik instead.
these seem solvable.

there's no reason that a good error message AND pertinent support information are mutually exclusive. show them both.

show the errors that make sense for that action and that error. no one is saying that there should be a small list of "approved" errors that everyone would see. show what makes sense in that situation, and don't show something that doesn't help.

you don't need to have prophetic insight into the actual causes. just show the flipping errors. don't hide things behind friendly messages; show the friendly message and the error. it's insulting when an error message is hidden from me in favor of something like "oopsies! we broke something! so sorry!!" insulting and disrespectful.

there is no need for a single solution. do what's right for you, and most of all, start thinking about ways that things can work, instead of going straight to the reasons that they might not. don't talk yourself out of a good decision because it might not work for every last situation.
Hey,

Fair point, I mainly picked the first contrived example that came into mind, rather than thinking long and hard about what the "correct" error message should be.

Will update the article to clarify that.
Research in Motion thought the Blackberry keyboard was their killer feature for business professionals. They were wrong. The iPhone killed Blackberry, not Android.
>>* The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of

>>* a legal notice, here is a blessing:

>>*

>>* May you do good and not evil.

>>* May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.

>>* May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

Above all, this note at the beginning of the source code impressed me.
Sohu uses Milvus to power their semantic similarity search engine
Because the set of users who actually want that is dwarfed by the set of users who got tricked into installing that keylogger.
This is itself misleading.

There are many examples of government in the U.S. taxing unrealized gains. Prime one is property tax.

The author claims:

> most countries use the very sane solution of staggering sales by only imposing a tax when an asset is sold

States and cities right here in the U.S. impose taxes on real estate long before it is sold, regularly assessing its value. Homeowners are indeed forced to sell or mortgage their homes sometimes to pay. In California this laid the groundwork for Prop 13. But property taxes are common globally https://taxfoundation.org/countries-target-property-tax-refo...

Politicians like Elizabeth Warren have proposed a wealth tax to treat stock and other assets more like real estate.

The author seems to strongly imply the US treatment of stock capital gains is some highly rational system designed by deep thinking experts. In reality it is the end point of a long, ad hoc political process, like all our laws.

While I do wish Pro Publica had examined the roots and benefits of our current system as the author suggests, his own post similarly lacks context in the pursuit (IMO) of a buzzy smack down.
Take the EternalBlue exploit [1] as an example, NSA had been aware of the vulnerability for years, but only informed Microsoft once it slipped out of their control:

"The NSA did not alert Microsoft about the vulnerabilities, and held on to it for more than five years before the breach forced its hand. The agency then warned Microsoft after learning about EternalBlue's possible theft, allowing the company to prepare a software patch issued in March 2017,[19] after delaying its regular release of security patches in February 2017.[20] On Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Microsoft issued security bulletin MS17-010,[21] which detailed the flaw and announced that patches had been released for all Windows versions that were currently supported at that time

...

Many Windows users had not installed the patches when, two months later on May 12, 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack used the EternalBlue vulnerability to spread itself"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue#Details
> To many others, the fundamental end goal of taxation is to fund the government.

But isn't the purpose of a democratic government to keep society functional and peaceful?
Very true, at the individual error level. That said, Fastly fixed the entire issue in less time than it would have taken AWS to update the status page to the blue diamond, so there’s that.
It is funny, but man do I appreciate this as an American. I'm so sick of all cars being huge. I LOVE my little turbo hatchback. But I also have plenty of need for a truck bed as someone on a large rural property. The ad ford released today has me really excited and I am absolutely buying one of these.
What is the mainstream media today?
When did they blame TSMC?

I don't know if the media I consume is "mainstream media" but I haven't seen anyone blame TSMC.
This is fun.
Do the symbols have a semantic meaning or is it just encoded data?
Copyright infringement is not a lawful profession, trade, or business.
And one of tue whole advantages of a drone army is that it can fly between zero and ten feet off the ground - thereby undercutting lots of defenses that are designed to point in the air.
I suspect that alternating to another activity might interfere with the process by using up the bandwidth of the channel for replay.
> Sure and borrowing $750k to buy a house is a nifty way for me to get $750k without having to pay income taxes on $750k worth of income.

That's now how borrowing money to buy a house works.
Your mental gymnastics are impressive.

A person with 10M (or 100M or >1B) only gets to live on a few hundred thousand a year and doesn't have to pay tax.

I live on ~$50k a year and pay tax.

I'm not sure there's any universe where there is anything other than an unfair playing field here.
Moreover I can never, ever, remember the syntax for moving objects around the config. It's really painful.

Edit: the aliases would have to handle moving as well as renaming. You could just have aliases in a global namespace, which means adding `alias = "portable-elb"` and doing one `terraform apply` means you can pick up that config, drop it anywhere else, and it will move it for you. It wouldn't even need to do a full `apply`, just a local JSON manipulation.
Over 47,000 Wild Animals Sold in Wuhan Markets Before Covid Outbreak Study Shows
When I said "the reader", I meant other readers besides me. I am not a knowledgeable man, in fact just about all I know is how little I know. But as you are one of those other readers besides me, maybe you know what courage is, if so then please teach me :)
> What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?

I have a basic theory that 'journalists' don't generally understand math or finance.
For one, if they did, they wouldn't choose to become journalists. As a result, they surround themselves with a bubble of low math and finance skills and are prone to misunderstand and conflate basic concepts like assets and income.
How does a person know which fields to pursue if they do not know wages? You have to look at the trends for which each wages are moving, where they are moving, the number of new job seekers in that field, the number exiting that field.

It is much better now with the internet, but it was not long ago that if you did not know some in a specific business, you had no idea what they would be earning. For a kid in a lower income family, they might never know about what to study to get the top incomes.

> What's the value of a 1999 Camaro? How much should that number influence the price of last year's minivan?

Depends if the buyer is trying to decide between buying a 1999 Camaro or last year’s minivan. Just like a high school student might be trying to decide which field to go into.
I'm sitting on billions of capital gains and invest 20mil a pop in a diversified portfolio of startups like uber, theranos, juicero, etc. 4 years later my shares of uber are worth a billion dollars and the rest of my portfolio goes to 0, so as a recently divorced old balding man I sell enough shares to match my losses and buy a $175mil mansion and a yacht for my yacht. My net long term capital gains for the year is 0 so I pay no taxes.

The point is, you start from a $100 initial investment that has already turned into 100s of billions of dollars of unrealized gains which you can now selectively live off of without paying a dime in taxes by harvesting losses.
Why would there be a 100km limit in the first place?
I have had really good experiences with Bosch engineers helping in data center planning and physical access security. Very knowledgeable and quality work. Too bad the institution I was in would take those discussions present it to competitors who would promise the same with worse quality and deliver neither quality nor the same content.

I was told however, that nowadays, due to a lot of acquisitions it's really hard to tell what kind of quality you get when it says Bosch on the box.
U.S. Senate passes sweeping bill to address China tech threat
I recently started piano, and noticed this. I’d find a set of finger movements impossibly frustrating. Work on it for 30 minutes then give up. Then sit down the next day or two later and just be able to do it.

It’s given me a whole new perspective on how I can learn complex things over time.
How Data Labeling Services Empower Self-Driving Industry 2021? – Part5
"everything needs to work flawlessly, because our CEO is watching"
I just mean that so far as the invention/calibration of the taxes, the idea was that a high estate tax would offset the reset of capital gains. I don't have a strong position on whether the laws do this well or make full sense etc.

Though I'll note that the scenario you pose never really happens. A billionaire isn't going to cash out a billion dollars of stock just to have cash to sit on. They're either doing it to spend in on consumption (nothing to inherit anyway) or to buy a different asset that would itself have capital gains assigned.
I agree with you on how interesting the issue you raised is. I'm just cynical and I happen to think that won't be the issue that gets decided. I wonder aloud if this will boil down to a question of whether utilities can exist as services on non-utilities, given that we don't presently classify internet service as a utility.
Try searching an older branch manually. GitHub only searches the main branch.
It used to let you all extenstions, before mozilla went full google and crippled it.
Ah, well, this kind of information--entropy--isn't really the same thing as meaningful information (semantic information).

After all, take a dictionary. Lots of meaningful information there. But a lot less entropy than a random sequence of characters of the same length. That random sequence will have a lot more "information", like you said; its a real needle in the haystack, but its all haystack and no golden thread.
> Making them pay 20% CG on $99 and 40% would be far too high.

I don't agree with this and I doubt many other people do either. I'm fine with them paying 20% on $99 and then 40% of 80.20/share they inherit. Due to multiplying percentages, that's only a 51.88% rate.

Of course, you're ignoring a lot when you say "other exemptions". Like the first 5.35 million to each descendant being a "gift" before the estate tax is applied.
Just wanted to say you've made very good points.
Making a gun-type fission bomb, like the Hiroshima bomb, takes a lot of highly enriched uranium, but it isn't complicated. Making a plutonium implosion bomb is hard, for a number of reasons. Making a good implosion is moderately hard. It takes two kinds of explosives and lots of tricks to make it work. Plus techniques for making X-ray movies of an explosion as it happens to debug the process. Los Alamos went through tons of explosives getting that right. "The Curve of Binding Energy", by John McPhee, covers all this.

Making a fusion bomb is quite hard, and there are still parts of that which are classified. US bombs use some material called "FOGBANK", which is not only classified but so hard to make that there was a period of over a decade during which the US couldn't make it.

There's some grumbling in the nuclear establishment that there were too many smart people working on bomb designs in the 1950s and 1960s, and as a result, the designs are too complicated. This is a problem for building new bombs without testing them.

On the enrichment side, the centrifuges keep getting better. The original gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge was a mile long. Everybody who built nuclear weapons in the 1950s had to build up a huge amount of plant. Today, an enrichment facility is about the size of a WalMart SuperCenter or a medium to large data center.[1]

Laser enrichment requires even less plant, but it's hard to make it work. The technology is mostly classified, but the NRC has a self-training course on it.[2] The current leading company in that area is SILEX, in Australia. Their investor presentation indicates that silicon isotope separation, which has some use in quantum computing, has more business potential than uranium separation.

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/Eunice,+New+Mexico/@32.4...

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1204/ML12045A051.pdf
Tape a knife to a roomba and you have a weapon of war.
No. They were replying to & contesting a comment which stated that there was a risk of having to pay legal fees. That risk is indeed there.
I've heard of cross-border drug trafficking: https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/narcodrones-1809749...
> and nobody complains about it.

Lots of people complain about it. Maybe fewer for a few years now that we know it is missing and Google really doesn't care about adding this feature... ever.
Showing the error itself only opens the provider to information disclosure - with the various automated infrastructure monitoring systems running on Fastly or CF they know when and where errors are happening with full traces that help them debug.

> there's no reason that a good error message AND pertinent support information are mutually exclusive. show them both

As the OP stated, there is quite literally nothing support can do for system-wide outages like this, and when you show support information on these pages, the regular users that see them end up asking for support. There are a non-zero amount of posts monthly on the Cloudflare community forum from people asking about error messages they see for sites they don’t own.
Seems like a tautology. By definition anyone the government pays money too for a product or service is under contract and thus a government contractor.
I live in NYC where mask adoption was very high... it has been dropping pretty aggressively since the CDC and the state updated their guidelines.
Exactly usually the real error message behind the “oopsie” is a stack trace containing sensitive information and environment variables.

It is no use to the user since they can’t do anything and is actually dangerous to give out.
> Ignoring countries that obviously flaunt it,N̶K̶ ̶&̶ ̶I̶r̶a̶n̶)

Don't forget Israel
I think part of the problem (although not all of it) is that quantum computers are at a phase that's analogous to writing a "Hello World" program in very rudimentary assembly. Even ignoring the quantum part, there's still a big gap.
> The kid who posted this website could get a notarized affidavit saying ...

Sure. He could. It would mean absolutely nothing, but he could.

> Say they are free to pursue whatever legal action they want, just like you’re free to stand up to a frivolous, insecure bully with too much money and free time.

Great. Are you going to pay for it? (And pay for it when he loses since it isn't even slightly frivolous?)
Many queries are relatively simple questions, and you won't get placement if you don't answer that question. And if you do, they have no need to click through. People care more about the answer than the justification. I've done it myself plenty of times.
And the actual reason c) avoiding all kinds of wealth taxes and public scrutiny. Foundations are the corner stone of wealth preservation strategies for rich people. If they could not do this the forbes rich people list would probably look much different and we may even see a trillionaire or two.
I think even Gmail proxies images and GIFs so how would Apple's implementation be different?
A genuine question.

Also I have seen with many clients especially in outlook and Zoho mail where they specifically ask to load images or not, and I beleive even they proxy images through their servers not revealing your public IP
Generally I would expect philanthropic donations to be distributed in a significantly more cost effective and dollar/societal good maximizing way by private individuals. Unnecessary steps of wealth transfer and redistribution through government institutions are avoided that are always prone to corruption, theft, or at least the ever-present government bureaucracy and inefficiency. You will certainly find examples of eccentric billionaires throwing away charitable money to worthless causes, but I’d argue as flawed as it may be it will almost certainly be more efficient than the government.
TF32 is 19 bits! Default for pytorch and TF is TF32!
More Big Tech protecting us from ourselves. Awesome.
After playing with memory techniques as a child I've come to the conclusion that forgetting is a feature, not a bug.

If you're not remembering something your mind's "garbage collection" system has come to the conclusion that it's not relevant enough for active recall.

I'm for changing approaches to the material to change it's relevancy score, but forcing my mind to remember something's turns out usually to be pointless.

Also... A mind full of irrelevant visual associations from some mnemonic techniques seems littered and distracting.
Now you just need to port it to Raku. (Maybe you have).
Been in embedded for 20 years, and SQL sucks
so what's a good alternative for low footprint embedded these days? i'd rather use json files and jq than sql tbh.
> Are robinhood customers not buying stocks from them? Are stocks not "goods or a service"?

When PFOF is involved, Robinhood users do not buy stocks from Robinhood. They buy them from the Robinhood customer who buys order flow.

> What nefarious activity are you suggesting they're doing?

I pointed out a troubling conflict of interest and a potential ability to act on that conflict in a legally ambiguous manner. For what it's worth, one of Robinhood's customers was recently sanctioned for old-timey tradeahead front running.

> I hope you see the irony here.

I don't see the irony. Can you explain it to me? I was trying to be opinionated, but intellectually honest. Did I fail?
Good. If your sole business is tracking users and selling their data, I have zero sympathy if you go under.

The internet can, and will, survive without constant data mining & advertising.

many of us have already been blocking email tracking for years now anyway. We don't miss you, advertisers.
So wait, Microsoft is still making patches for Windows7, they just aren't supplied via the windows-update ?

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB500...

Is there a third party program that finds/installs the windows 7 updates?
tbf, sum(x)/n is much faster than using pythons built in mean function.
Fwiw we're on the smaller side (~17 people, 3 mobile eng) and have been loving Runway for months. I definitely expect the impact will scale with our team size, but it's already been a no-brainer win for us.

When we started, we had a 100% founder-led development/releases process, and the Runway team was pretty hands on in helping us level up. Spending less founder time/thought on releases has been extremely high leverage.

Two other top of mind benefits so far have been a) increased visibility with our ops team (we're very ops/field heavy), and b) improved QA consistency with the release checklist feature.
Dupe, from a less cringey source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27422449
My experience is that it was definitely a foot gun.

There are too many ways to write fancy abstractions that are unreadable or not extensible, for example.
Terraform 1.0 General Availability
Cheers. Didnt mean to be too contrarian here or pick apart the broader message, which I absolutely agree with. More of an expression of my personal experience struggling with the same problem. As unsatisfying as it is I suspect you settle for getting it right 95% of the time and including enough details that the user can self service, or contact support, in the other cases.
My concern is that determining whether or not they are needed could be a lengthy task. I'm not saying that most of them would lie and say it would take longer than that.
I give this same response when a developer tells me their company does not agree that they should write tests.
When PFOF is involved, what does a Robinhood user buy from Robinhood?
So your argument requires the US being the first empire to maintain a consistent tax policy for millennia, while we watch the heirs of billionaires hoard all this wealth and enjoy living in the lap of luxury (and assume they won’t manage to change the rules sometime between now and the end of time)? It’s not convincing.

Also, couldn’t you make the same argument that wage income, and every other kind of tax should be deferrable if the money gets invested? We should all just not pay the government and the government should give us an IOU until eternity? I suppose the modern monetary theory people would be on board.
Not that I want to get into politics on HN but care we seriously forgetting which party didn’t vote to pass a stimulus bill for the people a couple a months ago?