skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankyou! I'll join that sub.
Maybe, but that defacto bans anyone acting as a middle man doesn't it?
Delays in video game releases are highly visible. Many companies had regular schedules that were clearly and obviously disrupted. It would be far less visible in many other software sectors, at least in the short-term. How would I know if AWS launched 18 new services instead of 27 last year? Often new product features/releases are not announced until they are ready to ship.
What exactly do you find arbitrary about this? When gambling or investing, more wealth is better than less wealth.

'Almost surely' is a technical term which means 'with probability 1'.
That is assuming that the app store is a "market" for the purposes of monopoly law, which is indeed the argument that Epic is making, but hardly settled law.
I think we just veered off the path a bit, and people like you are helping bring it back.

I myself am working on a web-based note-taking system which works with every browser since Mosaic. :)
What about safety and natural disasters from rail and cost?
She can go to the store and buy a physical disk, yes.
I think I agree with what you're saying. The more recent challenge though is that calling someone a conspiracy theorist got a lot of traction for shutting down discussions, so it gets applied very liberally to any point of view that the mainstream disagrees with as a lazy way of avoiding debate.
Lurk long enough here and you'll see that HN has an environmentalist bias.

Edit: thanks for the downvote, and for reminding me why I almost always stay away from the political stuff here.
Have they been found to be breaking the law?

Also if they are, are these good laws anyway?
I do think many of the WFH productivity gains seen can probably be attributed to 2 things:

1) Many workers (but certainly not ALL workers) had a much more quiet and focused work environment at home, compared to their buzzing open-plan desk in the office, making them more productive.

2) COVID severely limited socializing, so some people poured that time into work out of boredom.

#1 is constant, and might get better for some when schools and daycares fully reopen.

#2 is starting to go away and will be gone by next year.
For audio, it's hard to go wrong with the OPA1654 for DIY projects that are not cost sensitive. It draws a lot of current. For battery power I'm intrigued by the TLC2264 which, while having somewhat more noise, has very low operating current and rail-to-rail performance.
I am honestly startled by the exhuberant hubris -- from the first link:

"Earlier studies were largely model projections of the future," said lead author Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "We're no longer looking at projections, but at where we are now. We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we're on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts."
> Still, I don't see how public health would benefit from not recommending shots to everyone as there is no downside

The VAERS data suggests there are numerous groups at very low risk from Covid for which this may not be the case.
This is a fantastic idea! I'll be incorporating this.
Yes! https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2032195

Shows a slow decay in neutralizing antibody titers, with a greater degree of viral inhibition months later than convalescent plasma at a month.

"At day 119, the binding and neutralizing GMTs exceeded the median GMTs in a panel of 41 controls who were convalescing from Covid-19, with a median of 34 days since diagnosis (range, 23 to 54)."

Note that antibodies to all parts of the virus aren't necessarily equally beneficial, because only a few functional areas are neutralizing.
> just ask any veterans' advocate group trying to get the government even to acknowledge that there is a problem.

Ask any advocacy group whether the government and/or industry is doing "enough" and you'll always get the same answer.

But clearly some people at the VA care. Just go ask the researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. PTSD is one of their main areas of research, which would be an odd way to spend their time if the government didn't recognize PTSD as a serious condition.
No, I'm making an evidenced claim. I have observed this with my own eyes. And you're moving the goalposts.

I'm saying by taking inventory off the market by buying houses and leaving them vacant, investors are contributing to the housing shortage. I'm pretty sure collectively controlling a small percentage of the market, investors can cause an increase in the cost of housing, per the law of supply and demand.
https://twitter.com/VessOnSecurity/status/139431190766697267...

https://twitter.com/juanandres_gs/status/1394725629640298502

https://twitter.com/fwosar/status/1394465986087161856

https://twitter.com/vinopaljiri/status/1394326993500524545
Note that $2,400 is disks alone. You'd obviously need chassis, powere supplies, and racks. Though that's only 17 12 TB drives.

Factor in redundancy (I'd like to see a triple-redundant storage on any given site, though since sites are redundant across each other, this might be forgoable). Access time and high-demand are likely the big factor, though caching helps tremendously.

My point is that the budget is small and rapidly getting smaller. For one of the largest collections of written human knowledge.

There are some other considerations:

- If original typography and marginalia are significant, full-page scans are necessary. There's some presumption of that built into my 5 MB/book figure. I've yet to find a scanned book of > 200MB (the largest I've seen is a scan of Charles Lyell's geology text, from Archive.org, at north of 100 MB), and there are graphics-heavy documents which can run larger.

- Access bandwidth may be a concern.

- There's a larger set of books ever published, with Google's estimate circa 2014 being about 140 million books.

- There are ~300k "conventionally published" books in English annually, and about 1-2 million "nontraditional" (largely self-published), via Bowker, theh US issuer of ISBNs.

- LoC have data on other media types, and their own complete collection is in the realm of 140 million catalogued items (coinciding with Google's alternate estimate of total books, but unrelated). That includes unpublished manuscripts, maps, audio recordings, video, and other materials. The LoC website has an overview of holdings.

Published document scarcity is entirely imposed.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2032195

Shows a slow decay in neutralizing antibody titers in those vaccinated, with a greater degree of viral inhibition months later than convalescent plasma at a month.

"At day 119, the binding and neutralizing GMTs exceeded the median GMTs in a panel of 41 controls who were convalescing from Covid-19, with a median of 34 days since diagnosis (range, 23 to 54)."

There's also data showing much higher neutralization titers against variants in those vaccinated vs. those naturally infected.

Of course, this is only one measure of immune response. Many other things are more difficult to measure, so we don't know too much about e.g. T cell responses from natural infection vs. vaccination. So it's hardly proven but there is some highly suggestive evidence.
I do remember seeing articles about Apple "requiring" Hey to allow signing up in the app, but I'm not sure if Apple relented or if it was just a misunderstanding. Hey does not currently take payment in the app.
Aren't physical disks also liable to give Sony and Microsoft a cut?
Hey @firefly284,

Just letting you know that Piston worked great once I worked out how to enable outbound networking (a requirement for my system).

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Piston!
Android allows sideloading apps and this hasn't happened there - everyone still publishes on the main Android app store too. (except for Fortnite obviously, but that's been removed from the iOS store too so it's not exactly a counter example)

Why do you think it wouldn't work out the same way on Apple devices?

Also if you're concerned about hypothetical "missing out" on certain apps, consider all the developers that already don't release on iOS because of their restrictive practices.
How long is "all my life?"

Because it seems like a relatively recent development that off-grid solar power solutions have become affordable and mature enough to not suck on average.
> We applied to YC with an idea in the restaurant space (we knew nothing about restaurants)

Very off topic, but feels like there's an interesting story here! Can you elaborate?
I think you’re spot on. It’s a summary QA of the QA layer below Eddie van Halen. I think it’s a mindset and extra check, much akin to clearing a handgun after you watch someone clear the gun as they hand it to you. It never hurts to have an additional safety measure.

It’s a signal to a potentially larger issue.
It's a common belief because it's true. We're clearly talking about consumer-level access to install and run native software, not pedantic technical workarounds.
For some fields the for-profit problem never happened at all. For example, in some branches of linguistics, history and archaeology the main journals have always been published by the same non-profit learned societies for decades (since the 19th century, sometimes). Prices for the hardcopy were always reasonable, and with the digital era, these journals became open access.

In other branches of those disciplines, I have seen that recently some big-name editors have founded new open-access journals with the express aim of gradually taking prestige away from for-profit journals. See here [0] (PDF).

[0] https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.c...
Also see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27411631

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater (https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-met...)

493 points | sambeau | 4 days ago | 282 comments
Because that’s their business model which was stated by judge in Epic vs Apple case. Such types of business are legal for decades. You can’t change that for Apple by not damaging everyone else. Like Epic sells nearly same Fortnite skins for kids making millions and not allowing any independent designers to sell them in Fortnite skin market.
Beautiful. There's no good reason for most of us to be in the office these days and I'm glad to see even big companies starting to acknowledge reality
Look up QALY, quality-adjusted life-year. US insurance companies take it into consideration.
Yeah, in theory that would be the obvious advantage.

In practice, don't underestimate how much more inefficient or troublesome a seemingly simple additional rule or exception might be to administer... :P
> To me, the downside of remote coworkers is we've already seen a dynamic at many companies that start with "we'll allow remote workers" straight to "if we allow any in-person collaboration, then remote workers will be second-class citizens, so to pre-empt that, we will actively discourage any in person collaboration."

My perspective on that is that, at my workplace, the L4 lockdown in NZ was actually a significant improvement, which might sound counter-intuitive. That's because there was an implicit decision-making process where people local to your floor/building/city tended to talk together and remotes were second class. Once we were all on an equal footing - forced to be explicit in who we bought into Zoom/Teams/etc sessions - we got improved and more thoughtful interaction.

Since we've left L4/L3 we've managed to preserve that culture, even with people dropping into a cadence of a few days in the office and a few days remote, because it's normalised the idea that every conversation has a remote component. That's persisted for a good 9 months, so we'll see how it persists.
Handwave much?
But it won’t. The impact on price is negligible because of the size of the market.

But trains and trucks will definitely be used. And will use more carbon.

It’s pretty similar arithmetic that this will result in more carbon released.

Comically, the way to stop production is to lower the price of oil so extraction no longer makes sense from these locations. If anything a higher price for oil means more extraction because it becomes more profitable. And more oil transported using dirtier means.
The only point I seem to see from you throughout this post is that you can use physical disks on playstation/xbox, but even that is dependent on having a playstation/xbox with a disk drive. Additionally, Sony/Microsoft still receive a cut from those sales.
Please do not attribute to me things I did not write.

I did not mention positivism, which is not necessarily embedded in the political environment we have today.

The main contributions in rationalism and empiricism are not French.

German philosophy is not generally positivist, but that’s not what I wrote.
Those are the wrong units. A single cell's capacity is measured in Watt-Hours, which is a unit of stored energy. A factory making some number of cells per hour has its production measured in Watts, which is a unit of power.

The article makes this mistake several times, conflating energy and power in some places, but then correctly saying "150 GWh ... annual capacity" elsewhere.

PS: 150 GWh/annum is just 17 megawatts! This goes to show just how difficult batteries are to produce...
> My biggest question right now about sustained wfh is how much of the current productivity is the result of relationships that were built in the office.

None. I started 3 different consulting jobs during the pandemic and always felt very productive and very connected to my colleagues, even though I never met them.
I meant to write most i7 machines with a GPU where I trained my models. My post was about the lack of adequate SDKs for the NE on the M1. I don't know why the fuck you grabbed that tiny fraction and just ran off with it like I was writing an appleboy marketing manifesto on the M1 prowess.
In India almost all security mechanism is through 2 factor authentication that too mainly sms, with very few companies offering other forms of 2 factor authentication like authenticator app etc. If this happens in India there will be massive repercussions.

Does anybody have any work arounds to this should it start happening to a few people?
> If this were true corporations would never become insolvent.

Banks call that "risk". They still demand collateral equivalent to the value of the loan. The more the "risk" of the collateral being worth less than the value of the loan, the correspondingly less they'll loan.

The Fed, on the other hand, offers no collateral at all.

Also, there was zero net inflation in the US from 1800 to 1914. Endemic inflation started then, because that's when the US decided to start borrowing money without collateral (aka fiat money).
Rapamycin changes the way our DNA is stored
How long did it take for the change in environment to make a long term difference to stop using drugs? A month? A year?
I've used an Expert Mouse wired for over a decade. I recently bought a SlimBlade for its lower profile. But the Expert works so well, I'll probably just stick with it 'til it dies.

I do a lot of image processing where stability and precision are a big plus. That, and I love that the inertia from one quick flick of a trackball can zip my cursor across three screens.
Also because interns are looking to be rehired at the end of the summer.
Why not use it as an extra display? Cheaper to get an adjustable laptop stand for ~$30 for my desk than buy another monitor
I’m not sure, but it removes the conflict of interest (and subsequent gatekeeping) created by radiologists who don’t want technology to automate away some of their work.
Asteroid 16 Psyche might not be what scientists expected
Hi Mate,
Can you share console errors screenshot at boxpiperapp@gmail.com

Here's the screen recording of the app: https://wormhole.app/wldZk#A4vhwU31pSMXMtOFGgbE8w (File link will be deleted in 24 hours or after 100 downloads)
>One public instance of the government putting in the effort

They looked at a Blockchain viewer. What was the "effort" they put in?
I know there's always going to be PhDs who believe the earth is flat, because humans are like that... But it's just so hard to relate to super intelligent people believing crazy things. It really does boggle my mind!
Let me quote[0]:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

As to your question:

> I'm genuinely unaware what part of the unedited tweet includes the factors you mention, namely questioning mental state or character.

For clarification: by mental state, I mean simply another person's state of mind (beliefs, intentions, etc) not mental health (sanity or intelligence).

In this case, saying that people would refuse to accept any downplaying of the WEF statement presumes knowledge about the beliefs of others. As Scott Adam's would say, it's "mind reading". Frankly, you don't know whether I or anyone else would refuse any downplaying. You only know that we refuse the ones provided.

Now, we all have to model the beliefs and intentions of others, but we are often a lot worse at it than we think, and even more so in online communication. Therefore it is best to avoid such "mind reading" language.

Of course, I am making assumptions about the intentions of the WEF! But I'm careful to separate what they actually said from what I infer about their intentions.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I bought a house with a large back yard and converted a garden shed into a personal office with an awesome view down the hillside. Wouldn't trade it for the world!
Where can I buy your book?
While this is true - with the caveat that the goal for console manufacturers _is_ to make a profit as they optimize and ramp up production - people generally leave out the part where they make a compelling argument based on this situation.

For instance, the primary complaint Epic has is not that Apple gives preferential treatment and deals to some companies - it is that they WOULDN'T give one to Epic. https://www.imore.com/epic-games-would-have-accepted-special...
I assumed `c` was a `String` - my code should be `c.into_bytes()`. If you have a str, then of course mutating the bytes directly is unsafe.

Also, `str::make_ascii_uppercase` would require using `get_mut` which does utf-8 checks.
Maybe Usenet? It already support massive copyright infringement yet it is still around.
Seems related? Making Canadian crude less competitive means less tar sands oil extraction.
> I don't understand this take at all, it's effectively saying that your pay should be driven by your needs as opposed to the value you create.

Yes? Do you imagine a skilled programmer living in India gets paid the same for the same work as a skilled dev living in Indiana?

Look, I'm all for less exploitation of workers, but I don't see how it's suddenly outrageous for American workers to experience employer relationships the same way those in India, Australia, or Vietnam do.
Probably it's the mainstream confusion between anonymity and traceability, as well as between anonymity and pseudonymity. As soon as Joe Sixpack can't see something that resembles a name, they go "ah-ha, I'm anonymous! so nobody can see what I do!"... despite being wrong on both counts (wallets are pseudonyms, and as you say the ledger is public).
Hilarious if true.
I was responding to the parent's last sentence:

>If we agree that we want to reduce demand for certain types of energy than the first thing we should do is promote FF from Canada that are relatively clean, highly regulated and produced by a trusted democracy over the ones that will be used to fill this void from 3rd-world dictators with no environmental controls.

I was pointing out that tar-sands oil probably does not meet the "relatively clean" criteria.
Renting a hotel for a week is probably way cheaper than $8k per person. Your costs were large in part because of the small scale that is done.
"Her big push was that it's all life. Work is a big portion of your time, so if you ignore it you're missing a huge portion of what finite time you have. Hearing it that way made a huge impact on me."

I disagree. It is not black and white. The options are not between working 14 hours a day or not working. There is a huge space where someone can find the best position for them. I am one of those lunatics who between making x for 3 hours a day and x for 14 hours a day, prefers to make x (it is not a typo, it is the same money) working 3 hours a day. Call me crazy. Then, if I want to work more or I get "wired in" for 3 days, fine. But another day I may want to go fishing.

Most of us, myself included, are cogs in a machine in the workplace and thinking otherwise is delusional. Getting fired is the best lesson one can take from work. Which does not mean one has to be unprofessional or a slacker. I am very professional, I take care of people working with me, and I take pride in a good presentation, piece of code or model. After all, if you want a job badly done, it is counterintuitively not the worst idea to give the job to someone with a strong passion for the job or a volunteer. At least, that has been my experience. If we continue my analogy with sports, I have found that "getting the job done" is not strongly correlated with having the most passion for the activity. Not not having none, to be clear, just not the strongest.

Now, if someone finds a job with agency, building an infra that have they have been thinking about forever, with a fantastic upside and little downside, that's another ballgame. That's the alignment of personality and work that make work feel like play. And someone may say, if you don't have that blend of work and life is because you did not find the right job for you. Which is equivalent to say that people who are crashing on the couch with a bag of Doritos every night just have to find the right sports for them.
That's a cool resource, subscribed. One minor thing regarding the website, the placeholder texts for the fields don't reappear when you clear them.
Create Beautiful Tkinter GUIs by Drag and Drop
Unfortunately, the health district won't issue a permit because of the existence of the "will serve" letter from the city. So this is turning into quite the ordeal to get sorted out. I'm really hoping to keep things out of the courts, but that is a very real possibility. And I live in a relatively low-regulation state. I don't know how anybody ever builds anything in CA or NY.
> Hey let's talk to a DBA before we design and implement this feature

It’s because we don’t like half of our application logic to be in random stored procedures that may or may not be there, and may or may not be the same across environments.
That's true, and I don't necessarily think it's a good thing to shut down debate, but I don't think it's also perfectly valid to take whatever action you want to avoid argumentation if you choose. I don't want to go do something I enjoy, but feel less inclined to do so on the basis I might get into an argument with some jackass. Not everything requires me to debate in my daily life, and ignoring people I don't care to engage with changes nothing about the outcomes of the subject matter, most of the time.
Open Rights Group run https://www.blocked.org.uk/ to make blocking more visible and prompt action to contact ISPs about cases of overblocking.

You can enter any domain to test it, the data is collected by volunteers running an automatic tool.
What's reliable is you'll get paid back with inflated dollars, dollars that the government borrowed again. And the national debt grows and grows ever larger...

BTW, personally I don't invest in government bonds. They're a loser of an investment.

Always remember that Roosevelt defaulted on the gold bonds.