skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I caught it in September when numbers here in the UK were quite low.

I'm not sure how I caught it. I had left my car into the garage a few days before I showed symptoms and had to get an Uber home, then back to the garage to pick it up, so my strongest suspicion is one of the Uber drivers or previous passengers had it or potentially a mechanic had it and it remained in the car.

The strangest thing is my girlfriend and I had spent the day before I showed symptoms together and she slept over that night but she didn't seem to catch it off me. She even had an antibody test about a month after which was negative suggesting she hadn't already had asymptomatic Covid.
Right now I have two. One that has letterforms I like in the roman alphabet, and one that has Japanese and Chinese letterforms.

(Unlike a web browser, I'm using a text rendering engine that doesn't merge fonts together behind my back, so I pick letters that I like in the languages that I need.)
It’s extremely speculative. While I’m allergic to ad tech, I’m even more allergic to poverty, so I have occasion to work with/around that side of the industry.

The best way to explain it is that a lot of companies have been making significantly more money than their technology is worth. A number of initiatives have attacked the data-in side of the equation so the underlying tech is showing how questionable it really is.

This type of research should be filed under “could be big” but at this point it’s closer to public relations for ad tech firms than “the sky is falling, become Amish.”
There are two sound business options.

The first is to decide the potential (not actual) customer is not in a market segment you serve. Educate the non-customer to the simple fact your product doesn’t meet their requirements. Wish them well. Continue periodic relationship management in case their requirements change or staff change. And move on with your business.

The other alternative is to move into the potential customer’s market segment. This makes sense if doing so is significantly profitable. That means having a conversation about the potential customer’s budget. You have to know whether or not the budget matches the scope.

The simple economics is to charge enough to provide dedicated full time staff. Say three engineers so there is redundancy. At Silicon Valley rates with overhead, call it a million dollars per year….or better $100k per month. That breaks down to -$35/location/month so call it $50/location/month plus expenses. Which works to $150k per month. At that rate you can probably make it work and it is probably worth doing.
Not sure if there is any case where this thought is useful. The only thing this says is the primitives are correlated and we don’t understand them. It’s similarly not useful to think about atoms “talking” when they exchange heat.
I feel like all these numbers are bogus. Housing? Seeing as it's nearly half of people's spending, I feel it should be weighted appropriately. And if so, real prices would be closer to 20% inflated in most markets YOY.
They push Apple Music promos from time to time. They also send notifications via the Apple Store app about new product releases.

To be fair, they don't ABUSE it to the extent that it happens frequently. But they are still promotional messages I didn't want. I'd say they send 6-8 per year.

The Apple "Tips" app sends TONS of messages too. Granted that can be fixed by deleting the app. But people like my Mom still gets those messages to this day because she doesn't realize they are tied to that app and I don't believe they are opt-in, I think they are opt-out, meaning they are enabled on new phones by default (like Messages app and your Phone app). I know everyone here has deleted that app, but I bet most of our parents or children still have it installed and still get those messages.

The funny thing about this comment in general is that many people probably don't realize they get notifications from Apple either. But as I mention examples they probably think, "Oh yeah, I've gotten those too". That is the biggest problem. We get so many notifications that many of us simply forget them. You get a notification that the new Macbook Pro is released and you simply read it on the backthread of your brain and dismiss it without much intentional thought. That is how Notifications have become for people. I tried to get my mom to clear up her notifications recently and she simply doesn't think about it anymore. It is just something you deal with if you own a modern phone. It isn't something you control. Like how you don't really control the billboards that you see while commuting to work. You can't disable billboards (other than actively driving to avoid them). But you brain doesn't dwell on them either. You are aware of their presence, but don't expel energy to digest every one. Notifications have become the same way. But they shouldn't be that way. We can (technologically speaking) disable them and the tools to disable them or control them should be granted to smartphone users.
Solving bugs is important but more to your point a good senior dev knowing those things provides flexibility and empowerment. Sometimes there is a more direct solution than what the internally available tools provide.
I am all in favor of the idea of pipelines, because they improve on rail/road transport from an efficiency perspective.

Having said that, the US seems not to have the legal or ethical framework in place to make them work, because the leaks are too common, too slowly-discovered, and too enormous. So maybe doing pipelines correctly is actually uncompetitive with other forms of moving oil, because time and time it again it seems to be a rejected option by the people building leaky pipelines.
As I was reading I was thinking "Why doesn't the Follower proxy the request to the Leader?" which I see was covered later on in "Transparent request forwarding". Good stuff!

I remember building a janky version of sqlite+raft for Stripe's 2014 CTF. I'm sure others here have made a similar comment when rqlite gets posted to HN.
Into the 80's, Queen were arguably the most popular band in the world. After Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, they slowly faded; and a decade later the floods started being a bigger problem and the water levels out west varied more with the seasons...

Probably no connection at all, tho, must have been climate change.
The story that's being told (I won't comment on whether I think it's true) is that UI benefits are too high, that means workers aren't taking low-wage jobs, and firms are raising prices due to rising labor costs. That type of inflation is good for those at the bottom end of the income distribution.
The replit guy needs to study your post so he can learn how to handle mistakes the right way
but in the end, you decide who gets promoted or not, you decide who has to put the "extra effort" to satisfy whoever you work for. So of course everyone is a major player, it's your best interest.

but you're also the one who gets the time to see the big picture and hopefully realize that, yes, the development side of a project, while the most fundamental, is also just one of the part. The other being : handling customer expectations, making sure the budget use can be explained, making sure people stay happy even when confronted to "absurd" customer's request, making sure to understand the project ecosystem to make sure you get the right customer contact person in front of your team, making sure the one dev with a broken back gets a proper chair, making sure good project are rewarded, you make sure HR's department craziness don't alienate your devs, you-f*g-name-it (been there, done that, got the tshirt : I've been in dev, business consulting and management :-))
Shoot me an email with your account ID and I'll make sure you're enabled by the weekend! kmoriarty@stripe.com
The actual paper also doesn't test the biodegradability of material.

That said, they don't use anything exotic. It's just soy protein, acetic acid, water and glycerol. It would be interesting to see how long it would last in a compost pile, but I wouldn't be surprised if it broke down fairly rapidly.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23813-6
Credit card fees in general are like an extra tax. And credit card companies have so much power they have pushed the cost onto all transactions, even those that use cash (by forcing merchants to eat the cost difference, they push all prices with that merchant up).
Xeriscaping is fortunately starting to grow in popularity, but the majority of people I discuss it with are still surprised (and often insulted) at the idea of not having and maintaining the traditional grass monoculture.
Thank you for your opinion. The billing alerts I actually had set up, stupidly I set up a budget of 1000$ hoping the budget in that case means all services will be shut down when they reach that limit. I received an email after the first 500$. I never thought I could spend more than $100 a day, so I didn't check with the Budget Manager often enough.

It's my own fault for working on that premise and not checking what budget means on AWS.
I like this idea a lot, but I’m no longer sure that the stated premise holds true:

“Its business is not built around ads.”

https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/13851944692224081...
> I have some nostalgia for the past world of "supercomputers" that were actually purpose-built devices, rather than clusters of off-the-shelf hardware.

From mainframes to supercomputers, these parts are still far from off-the-shell hardware. They might use components that share a common heritage with their COTS cousins (in that they're not being developed specifically for a single supercomputer), but from CPU to interconnects you won't be able to source the components as-is new on the free market. Everything is still customised to varying degrees to meet customer specs and -pricing.

Packaging and cooling has been solved, btw. and the company indeed sells a "plug-and-play" system complete with software support for relevant software packages (e.g. TensorFlow and friends).
As a bioinformatician, I cannot wait to use this quote on someone.
Author here, and keen to discuss anything about the content :)
> It's important to remember that inflation hurts the poor most.

Is this actually true? Do you have any articles that could describe this effect in more detail?

As I understand it, inflation by itself doesn't seem sufficient to describe people's bottom lines - in theory, if wages, prices, and stocks all go up by 10% in one year then 10% inflation has been neutral to the poor, neutral to holders assets correlated with the stock market, positive to fixed-rate debt holders, and negative to fixed-rate asset holders (like the lenders for that debt).

Right now we're seeing a major crunch for labor on the low end, like fast food joints offering higher wages than ever with bonuses even for just interviewing in some cases. So it doesn't seem to me that the poor are necessarily being hurt, at least not yet.
Add education and health care to this and you get some pretty serious numbers.
That is the most impressive use of the word 'just' in a long time. Note that all the other bits are solved, and have been solved since the 60's. It's the 'just think' bit that has proven to be a little bit harder than we thought it would be.
> A good example is the airline industry that claims it needs the First class section to subsidize coach [..]

If you talk to travel nerds and insiders you'll quickly find out pricing, inventory and revenue management in the [traditional] airline industry is labyrinthine on a good day.

It's also not true that the biggest comfiest seats necessarily subside the rest, it's far more likely that those booking last minute _in any class_ and those requiring ticket flexibility do subsidize everyone else.

"It is not surprising that both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have said that, per square foot, premium economy is the most profitable part of the plane"[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/apr/13/premium-econo...
This used to be called jack of all trades, master of none.
Facebook, Apple or the media: Who is flip-flopping their message?
No, you cannot index into a string directly. You must either convert it to bytes to index by byte, or call `.chars()` to get an iterator over unicode scalars. The former is free, but the latter requires searching for character indices.
> such as multi-domains aren't supported

Thankfully this is being actively worked on:
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/944#issuecommen...
Thanks friend!! First, thanks for the link. And second, thanks for mentioning you butchered the quote - I do that almost constantly and I love knowing I’m not the only one. This is a very kind response - thanks for the link and your openness!!
I wouldn't dispute much of what you wrote above, but I do think the French contribution to empiricism and rationalism qualifies as major (difficult as these things are to measure), and that that contribution is at least similar to the other large European nations.

I understand there is a common perception that French academic culture has literary preoccupations, but I don't think the idea that those preoccupations have disadvantaged French science holds up to much scrutiny, much as one might want it to after listening to a fruitless monologue about Derrida.

It's heartening to me that there are people in the EU arguing in favour of pragmatic gestures of friendship to the UK as you point out; I'm all for it and hope it is continued and mutual, regardless of whether the UK is legally part of the organisation.
I'd much rather not have to stop to type in a pin on my own devices.

I mean I don't know why people get so upset about this sort of thing. People who own two recent model apple devices and want to use them together like this definitely have iCloud accounts and are signed in to them. I don't know why someone who doesn't want to use apple services would have the hardware.
Ok. Fair enough. I'll swing again...

If you're buying a VW...alreaady a heft sum, tacking on some added fee and saying that it's disadvantageous the disadvantaged feel like a stretch.
Isn't Neuralink (and other brain interfaces, I assume) also based on the idea that you can pinpoint which neurons are responsible for each function in the brain? If I've read the article correctly, it seems to suggest that they're a moving target. How can permanent implants interface with a moving target?

Might the entire Neuralink concept be based on a flawed assumption?
This is a great little story. Got a chuckle out of it, thanks for sharing.
Where I live that is due to utility deregulation and market competition. The rate increase would have to be the result of regulation that applies to all utility providers in order to work.
Can you describe more about what are the serious problems in the math/numerical parts? (curious, not skeptical)
I've taught 7-year olds, rich kids specifically in technology magnet program.

The pre-requisite information necessary for this would be way above their heads. Adding fractions, conceptualizing fractions to graphs, graphing functions... and that's just the first part!

Most 7-year olds can barely conceptualize fractions. First/second grade math curriculums are centered around basic multiplication, shape recognition and counting.

7-year olds aside, I don't even think most of the high-schooler freshmen I've taught would be able to grasp this content.
That sounds more like the ultimate goal of Facebook and Twitter.

In contrast, Apple's ultimate goal is to sell more devices and get more people onto their subscription services.

The ideas mentioned in the article don't collide with this goal. They are intended to provide more (not less) value to the lives of Apple's customers. To help you when you yourself recognize you're engaging too much, or in a bad way. They seem to be configurable to the customer's preferences too. If you wouldn't want these features, fine, but others might want them, and prefer Apple's products over e.g. Android phones because of having the option.

The only party who could be displeased with these system interventions are the big ad-based app or platform developers that do rely on user engagement.

Update: Apple has some shared incentives with engagement-based business models, like their revenue stream of App Store (in-)app purchase commissions, but it's still much less than Google/Facebook/Twitter's reliance on that stuff.
But the whole point is to be able to send junior to school while dad or mom goes the other way.
This is exactly how FLoC is supposed to work, and this is exactly what privacy watchdogs have criticized about it.

The proper headline should be "Ad tech films test FLoC".
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> edit2: annualized == YOY, so either statement is correct

edit3: These are not defined as the same, they are coincidentally the same number
> no sign of apprehending

I apprehended it perfectly well; I'm still in disagreement, since my argument is unaffected.

> so contradict all available evidence

It doesn't, and that's what you have missed. What I said is logically harmonious with all available evidence.

By observing three fish with the same solution for antifreeze, we know that three fish have the same solution for antifreeze. This immediately contradicts any claim that all unrelated species have different solutions for antifreeze, which makes them worthy of study. It's a "black swan".

As such, whatever mechanism has caused this has not been seen to work this way elsewhere. Therefore, saying "this mechanism is not seen to work this way elsewhere" is not remarkable as evidence.

It's now a neutral statement which matches our expectation, and can't therefore be evidence against the mechanism. It's certainly not evidence for another mechanism.

I could just as well say "I have only observed horizontal transfer in N other cases, and this is not one of those N cases, therefore it is not horizontal transfer". That would be wrong, but has equal logical merit as your claim.
Just like IBM mainframes, you won't be able to just "click here to buy" these.

They do seem to sell actual systems, though. For several millions a piece, so not exactly a product for the masses.
RF does automatic type conversion based on the typehints in the python libraries used. So no need to change types manually. And there is no dictated directory structure. So, stop doing horrible directory structures and the pain goes away. And there is no glue at all needed to share methods at all. Write function in Python/keyword in Robot framework and take it in use using "Resource" or "Library" statement. Done.
Test everyone once a week: Covid in India
Well, no approach works when you have incompetent people doing the bare minimum and trying to subvert anything for their gain, so I don't known where you want to test anything.

The truth is that not all approaches work on your perfect scenario. Many are known exactly for turning competent cooperative people into incompetent individualists.
"kWh Analytics’ most recent figures place the median annual degradation for residential solar systems as 1.09% and non-residential systems at 0.8%. The report states that over a 20-year asset life, project degradation could therefore be underestimated by as much as 14%, resulting in severaly overestimated performance and revenue forecasts produced within a P50 model."
The author himself is advertising the digital copy as free on his website.
Yes it’s called google
Having food is kind of important particularly for very large cities in the desert. You can’t grow food without water.
Quick, make a SaaS of this!
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+million+acres

About 0.2 Wales or 1.3 Rhode Islands
> Even if I hadn't, what point to claiming authority on that basis?

Oh, this was a direct response to the fact that you repeatedly implied that I was ignorant and hadn't done basic reading in the field. You were wrong about that as well.

Someone disagreeing with you is not always a sign of ignorance.
I wonder how does this compare to the state of the art solutions from the author of Nohang:
https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd
https://github.com/hakavlad/memavaild
https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch
in terms of % saved memory or % prevented hangs/OOM / lost base runtime performance
For people that are in software because they love it, rather than for fame and fortune, in fact love the fact that the maths side of your brain can make stuff happen for people. For technical challenges, nothing beats algebraic topology or QFT, but with software you can make stuff that is real, and amaze and deight your family. The problem is management’s persistent blindness to the reality of their technology and development technology. The non-technical folk will hear “we can’t add this new feature without touching dozens of risk places in the code” and not understand the fact that this is extremely risk and is an urgent problem. they seem to think, hire someone that can remember the dozens of places to change” and make for awesome failure analyses where 36 call points where changed but the 37th was missed and . . . Etc.

If you think the software you are making is useless, you should find a different position. Life is short, and it’s thrilling to be responsible for software that people use and enjoy.
The modern southwest is a huge environmentally destructive science experiment, made possible only by heroic Army Corps of Engineers projects. We should slowly phase it out. Plenty of space back here on the east coast and Midwest.
Why do you care about boarding priority? The plane leaves at the same time for all passengers. All you do is exchange maybe 5 minutes on a seat outside the plane for 5 more minutes inside the plane.
Seems to me it would be difficult to not notice your car driving itself.
https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/taxjar
Not sure how it works in the US but in the EU you don't have to register anything. Just keep tabs of what VAT you collected for what country, and then pay accordingly afterwards. No licenses needed.
> If there are 200 people in a shopping mall, with 50 of them with some LocalCDNEdge app enabled and acting as beacons

Given that we still don't have phones that last more than 12h of serious usage and a big issue with xmpp was that it drained battery by not using push... Local P2P on mobile phones is really not something I expect people to use. Android went fancy with opportunistic deep sleep not that many years ago - this would undo all that effort.
Last time I looked at organic milk containers I noticed even the brands with paper cartons still sprayed a plastic liner onto the cellulose.

Edit: Looks like your tea brand is actually plastic free.
The point of icons is to be able to quickly identify something—a button, an application, whatever. That's why people tend not to like changes to them—they're used to the current one, so changes make the icon less useful, at least for a while, and the more drastic the change the worse it is. Changes to a bunch of icons all at once are even worse, obviously.

Ditto other UI changes, like changes in menu or button layouts. People rely on things staying in the same place for speed and confidence using a UI. When they change, you slow them down and make them less confident. Of course people don't like that! Can you imagine the rage if every release of Ubuntu made the kinds of drastic, wide-ranging changes to various command line interfaces that operating systems and major GUI programs do routinely? I think it'd only take about two releases like that to kill the OS, market-wise, even if they managed to do it without breaking scripts and automation (to remove that difference) and even if there were some small benefits to the changes. But when GUI users complain about that stuff people get dismissive and roll their eyes.
How much does it run you?
I didn’t notice pricing being especially weak last year beyond gas in May 2020, quite the opposite actually, at least in my area.
A relevant comment from elsewhere in this comment section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460680