skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I considered that but given it was being compared to the Bosch chip factory which did open on time felt it would be worth clarifying for those in other regions not familiar with the situation
The vaccinated are still vectors for the infection of those who cannot be vaccinated.
Imo, a good way to teach developers how they can help other roles is by having a shadow program where developers work together with a different specialized role for a couple of days but don't have to carry the responsibility. That improves cross team communication a lot, while being much less stressful for your employees.
Yes probably the best news I've read today. A friend got sick of it sometime back and it was one of the most harrowing experience of his life. The amount of pain is just indescribable. He had blood coming out of his gums and whatnot. Anything to eradicate this and malaria is just amazing news.
> The slowness is the result of people trying to merge into the highway, not "bad drivers".

I stand by my point on "bad drivers". It's a well-studied phenomenon[0] and it's not a matter of opinion.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4m-OJosGaI
"It's just a cough, couldn't possibly be the respiratory disease that's defined the planet for the last year."
Yea, when the person who is disposable quits, she gets a farewell lunch at best. When a person who is determined to be indispensable quits he gets a counteroffer.
This is addressed specifically.

> "Since there is no source of revenue that would repay investments in bitcoin, there is no way to make a rational estimate for its value (above zero). There is no explanation for why the price is now 7300 USD/BTC rather than 0.73 or 73,000,000" (section 1.3)
To be fair this seems more on the mentor side than on your side (which is bad for the junior engineer)

Having been in both sides of this I try to be helpful when people need my help (unless I'm doing something very urgent, naturally). But yes.
It's thawing out with or without people being there, it's just a matter of time. Do you really think ex-permafrost shouldn't be studied? Hopefully with pandemic still ongoing there will be more precautions, that's all.
What I don't understand is: why don't you take a train instead?

I have never been to US, but whenever I hear about self driving cars I think: why don't people just use public transport if they don't want to drive?
Is that stack-ranking? /s
Why would there be no consequences? The person would have a driver contract, have passed driving tests, etc.

Not sure what you mean with Bangladeshi click farmers
I suspect they're talking about this (sort of) simulation

https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
I agree, meanwhile they prefer giving me a raise than start looking for backup or replacement
>How is autonomous driving an increasingly scarce resource?

Space is the scarce resource. In a city that's full of 90% of the time parked cars it doesn't really make sense for everyone to have their own car. Autonomous driving just combines the best of Uber and car sharing.
Andrew, that lecture you gave was fantastic. The Deutsch oracle example in the lecture was especially helpful -- I'm surprised it doesn't get used more frequently in other explanations of QC. I think one of the most interesting moments in the video was when the audience (me included) jumped to the conclusion that the QC was more powerful than it actually was and you helpfully brought everyone back to reality.
You can? There are tons of kits and circuit boards and parts and everything electronic imaginable available for quick delivery right now. Back in the day we had Radio Shack, but it couldn’t hold a candle to all the circuit boards and electronic components available today. It’s an embarrassment of riches.
> Now the Euro is heavily traded in forex markets, and surely the price fluctuates. Is this statement true?

It is not true, because currencies aren't assets. Currencies are a medium of exchange. Their job is to hold value for only as long as it takes you use them to buy necessities or invest them in assets. That's it. Any longer is a non-goal. Goals include low transaction costs, high transaction speed, fungibility, stability and predictability.

As for the FOREX market, that's a highly leveraged speculative trade on the relative purchasing power of a pair of currencies. That's not an investment and it's certainly not an asset.

With that in mind FOREX is widely regarded as a zero-sum market in the same way options and futures are. Money from the winners goes to pay off the losers.

> In this case, citizens of Zimbabwe who bought Euros very likely got back more of whatever currency they eventually converted it to than they would have if they had kept their money in Zimbabwe dollars.

This would have been a zero sum trade, not negative sum. Zero sum doesn't mean reversible or that there aren't winners and losers, just that considered as a whole, between all participants, no money left the system and no money entered - what was there was simply redistributed.
> BigTech is trying to make open computer hardware and software illegal, because "security".

I wonder what they stand to gain from this, since they wouldn't bother if there wasn't a benefit.

Android I can possibly understand, what with Google being an ad-company and expecting to track users. But Apple doesn't seem to be doing that all that much anymore.

For the tractor situation, John Deere & friends expect to capture the business of independent repair shops, so there's a gain in their locking down the devices.

If I buy an iPhone to run myOS on it, how's this a loss to Apple? Especially since they don't charge for IOS updates, and they also support their phones for a long time, so if I don't buy a new iPhone every year it's not because I'm running some custom OS. My iPhone 7 still has all the latest updates and I haven't paid Apple one cent ever since I bought it used more than four years ago.
Ah, that makes more sense, thank you. I thought this was constant synchronization, but IIRC the Apple II only has one oscillator from which all clocks are derived (as was common for 8 bit machines).
The _actual_ sharing economy is great. Your beef is probably with corporations that masquerade as part of the sharing economy in order to exploit regulatory loopholes (e.g. Uber, Airbnb).

For an example of the actual sharing economy: I'm a member of a local cooperative that owns and maintains a fleet of ~3k cars, distributed across the country at most train stations and in many neighborhoods. For an initial deposit of $1k, "my car" is whatever I need it to be at that moment. If I need to transport furniture in the morning, it's a Mercedes Vito. For a leisurely drive in the countryside at lunch, it's an Audi convertible. And for a quick grocery run before stores close, a cheap Citroën C1 will do the trick. And because the whole thing is a cooperative, per-km prices are around what I'd pay if I owned any of the cars myself.

Sharing is great. Regulatory arbitrage masquerading as the sharing economy, less so.
Assuming that the universe can be simulated by a Turing machine is a strong and weird claim that needs to be defended, not the other way around.

We know that Turing machines are very limited things and that the computational processes they carry out also very limited in applicability.

What's the evidence that the universe is more limited that a Turing machine?

Just the fact that we can imagine things that can't be computed by a Turing machine should clue you in that it's probably otherwise.
I wonder if companies that have your phone number and do such careless things as "phone-number based 1fa", will not also simply do that if you don't even have 2fa enabled... As long as they have your phone number, they'll abuse it.

So you are not against phone based 2fa or 1fa, your are against giving companies your phone number. But them, if they are soooo careless to try phone based 1fa when they can get away with it, they are also probably open to some social engineering.

In the words of RMS: "We should all try to make those companies fail."
I was thinking it was more like "Life found a way!"
I thought cyber insurance was a scam for awhile, but our beezly underwritten policy specifically covers us up to 100k of exactly this scenario.

I can recommend their portal/system so far, maybe it’s shit, I don’t think so though.
People definitely get paid for work on more than half of those projects.
If I understand your situation correctly, you are working in Argentina, but not paying income tax because you are a non-resident, and the source of your income is outside Argentina.

In that situation, I would look into setting up an offshore corporation with a bank account to hold the income, and then get a debit card that could be used in Argentina.

This would be a hedge against the volatility of bitcoin (but maybe you see that as an advantage) and it would not require you to get cash from strangers, which I personally would be a little hesitant about, since there is a non-zero chance you are accepting dirty money and/or helping people circumvent currency controls, but I do not know the laws of Argentina, and whether or not you are violating any laws here.
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I'm curious, why do you think it'll be bad for them to learn programming?

I mean sure, don't force them into them, but I don't think hiding what's underneath is fair either.

I actually learned to program for the first time while playing Minecraft around 2011, and I started programming without my parents even knowing.

There was a mod for Minecraft called ComputerCraft that allowed you to program inside the game (using virtual computers) with Lua. This led to me on a path to Java to mod Minecraft, then Python to script things and many tools and projects later I ended up becoming a programmer.

For me, Minecraft opened me to a world full of wonders; something I never knew was possible, and I definitely don't regret it.
That's not accurate.

Dividends are just one of the many ways that companies accrue value. Companies use revenues to invest in the business, to repurchase shares and also to issue dividends. This net welfare accretion must be considered in its totality.

Just because a company doesn't issue dividends doesn't make it a Ponzi scheme, and it doesn't make it a zero sum investment (like precious metals) or an negative sum investment (like PoW coins and to a lesser extent, most (all?) other coins).

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”
I assume they mean multiple 15 A (standard) sockets with a combined load no more than 19 A
>AWS isn't a scam on companies too poor to buy servers.

It often is, for small and medium business (traditional ones) it's often cheaper to rent DC-Space and buy some servers yourself...but hey if you pay and don't do the math, that's your problem.
> While we do not know the probability of abiogenesis, we can make an educated guess as to the range of probable likelihoods. ie, the probability of the probability.

No, we can't.

> Treating Earth as one data point is an unwise oversimplification.

It is one data point. We have no other. We can't know anything about any others.

Doing anything else is wishful thinking hidden in fancy methodology, just like this article. It is all nonsense.

We really, really do not know a single thing about the likeliness of life appearing. Not until we find a second data point.
Show HN: Early beta of clubhouse profile generator
I've been working on a Clubhouse profile generator. A form with guidance info helps you to give your input, and by the click of a button you get a themed (for now, 1 really) generated profile.

Recently setup the hosting and eager to update this and make it more usable. Multiple theme's, custom theme, mobile friendly UI and more coming.

Check it out here (while the link is working): https://clubprofile-ozk2f.ondigitalocean.app/

Let me know what you like/dislike and what would help you as a clubhouse participant?
A lot of people were convinced they had COVID in Jan-March 2020. You're not the only one. Without a test though, it's impossible to say because the symptoms of mild COVID, which it sounds like you had, overlap a very large number of other diseases. There was also a very bad flu going around in early 2020 that a lot of people had caught so you probably had that.
> The static analysis of the borrow checker is not able to figure out when you're headed for trouble via this route.

This route exists purely because you can't statically prove some programs correct. Without it, the compiler would have to reject some correct programs and the language would be more limited.

This is unfair to complain about it when the GC-based alternatives push all of memory management to runtime, so the surface for getting panics is a lot larger. Rust's solution is not perfect but still the best you can get.

> Designing the data structures for something tightly coupled with concurrency, like a window manager or a game, is difficult.

It is difficult in any language. The difference is that in Rust you face that difficulty when trying to design/compile your program, and in other more permissive languages you face it when your customer reports a bug. The cost of fixing problems is lowest when they are detected early, so Rust has a clear edge here.
In Ansible, you declare a set of actions, that are then performed, one by one. Occasionally being skipped, if a certain condition holds true.

So, you are basically saying "do this, do that, then do that".

In a declarative model, you would say "this is how the end result should look" and the tool would then go off and make that happen, in whatever order its scheduling tools would say.

Sort of the difference between Rust on one side, and Prolog on the other (yes, it is possible to get a specific flow of instructions in Prolog, but it is much easier to let the prolog interpreter/compiler to Just Make It Happen Somehow).

FWIW, Puppet gets closer to a declarative model, but unfortunately, the last version I played around with seriously was actually quite bad at inferring ordering on its own, so a LOT of work ended up going into "well, A has to happen before B, so let us string a dependency here".
Let's assume this was true. Are you saying colleagues with lower IQs shouldn't have been hired?

If so, I would be careful about coming to work thinking that many of my colleagues shouldn't have been hired. If that's actually the case, you're just in the wrong company and you should bail. Caveat: maybe you'll find your new colleagues lacking too, if you think that's widespread.

And if that's not the case, then you have to work with the colleagues that you have, regardless of how smart you think they are. And it's frustrating sometimes but only because you're thinking about the imaginary colleagues that you think you should have.
probably something something dreaming.
Simple - close the door to any possible competition or disruption in the future.

A future with only one or two computing monopolies is a desired end state for history to BigTech.
Uhm, what? How do you mean?
Having been an addict, what's your views on legislation?
But it's called Volkswagen for a reason too ;)
Hi Kragen,

for a long time, I have been pondenring about a high-level 'programming' languages about structured data. It is by far finished, but I am attempting to deal with the problem of different memory models from the other end: starting with an ideal model trying to abstract from implementations.

I have not address the problem of transactions and cooperation yet. Often the problem with implementation of data models start becoming 'interesting' when several actors at the same time are querying and changing it, especially when the dimension of distribution is added.

https://github.com/FransFaase/DataLang
So it's bad to be the cake? I assume he means it's the foundation one falls back on when the more specialized categories of methods are not applicable.

You might not like my analogy either. I think of supervised and unsupervised learning as the majority of the genome of ML, while RL is that little Y chromosome sometimes tacked on to address a few high-profile tasks.
Ask HN: Who is the more energetic efficient? desktop or cloud/sass
Hello,

I was wondering : for two equivalent applications , one desktop and the other cloud/sass. Which may be the more energy performant. All other things being equal obvisouly.

My guess is :
As a cloud application always need a client and as applications' front ends nowadays tend to more and more have CPU heay use : Cloud Application will use the same energy amount on client side than a desktop app plus the server side energy.

Yes, I must admint that there is surely some bad faith for the client side energy use of a cloud application..
> Sometimes buying is better than renting. But sometimes there are economies of centralization. AWS isn't a scam on companies too poor to buy servers.

Your example doesn't apply. You don't rent a server from AWS, you pay for their services. If the AWS cost was just getting you a VPS, then you would have a point.

I'm not saying AWS is (always) a good deal, but the cost is quantifiable, compared to buying a server or renting a VPS where all the extra ops work isn't (easily).
Wait, are you saying that meth is popular among Silicon Valley coders and rich house wives? This is news to me.
Was she coughing when you met her, or had that symptom subsided?
I’d me interested to see this math for subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify and AWS.
Yes, and the electrician doesn't insist on everyone reading all the labels and plans on delivery. They are meant to be references, used at a future time they are needed.
Are you mistaking the difference between legal and won’t be prosecuted?

It’s the latter. And not for nothing, but I don’t think that policy is working out so well for some businesses specifically in the Bay Area.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/organized-crime-drives-...
> I split time between at least two cities

Please don't bring up minority use cases when discussing the average or modal use case.
I am guessing that what GP meant was that some people have started thinking of the brain not as a theoretical computer (i.e. as something that can be modeled as a Turing machine or lambda calculus etc), but as a microprocessor. The compational nature of the brain is a pretty wide held belief (though not universal), one that I for one hold.

However, starting to think of the brain as if it should resemble the organization of a microprocessor, with 'ALUs', working memory, well-defined boundaries etc are definitely wrong, and a misapplication of the notion of Turing equivalence. It is nevertheless somewhat common, especially in popculture.
So this is nice but doesn't do what I'm looking for, which is: given an email with links like OP's (https://www.google.com/...), go over it, follow each link to its final redirect and then replace the href with that (in this case, https://www.slashgear.com/...), letting me (for example) preview the links on mouse-over before clicking.

I thought it might be possible to build something like this with curl -Ls -w %{url_effective}, but seems like it only handles HTTP 302 redirects, whereas this site seems to be using Javascript, so you probably need a real crawler.
This. 5-year-old state of the art is today's incubator open source, and a commodity 2 years from now. There's no reason to think autonomous driving will be an exception.
I guess I'm surprised and dismayed that there isn't more of a market for it. Hire cars are a bland, pedestrian experience, and I'm sure quite many people would rather drive their own interesting car on interesting roads. Not everything needs to be a race to the bottom — there are still people who pay a premium for a better experience. I would think also that government subsidies for this kind of service are justified. Surely it's better for the environment and also safer.
See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27455563

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27456192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27455592
The main problem with this analysis is that it is purely based on the fiat standard. Bitcoin as a store of value is conceptualised as an alternative to this fiat standard. Over the years many "experts" claimed

- Bitcoin will collapse at x and will never recover

- The institutional adoption will not happen

- It can not be used for day-to-day payments

- It will never become a legal tender

We all know what happened to these predictions over the years.
I can't imagine doing this without actively thinking about leaving my current job for whatever company I'm interviewing with.

Which is maybe not a bad idea, say once or twice a year? Even a loyal and supportive manager has certainly run the numbers on life with or without you on the team, and will be told to do so again at some point.
"Eat your own dog food" is one of my guiding principles and it's very powerful.
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27446907 tracking in emails, signup is blocked by Firefox with enhanced tracking protection enabled (which I think is default now). I had to go to previous issues and sign up from there, and solve captcha, and confirm my email address. I hope the newsletter is worth all that work :)
It's the same argument that BMW made, and it's just as faulty here. They said that instead of paying $500 upfront for heated seats, they will be available as an annual unlock for say $100/year. Since they know an average owner keeps a new BMW for only 3 years, this is a saving for new buyers - isn't that great??? I hate this argument with a burning passion though, it's turning ownership into subscription only to extract more money in the long run.
How long does a high last?

How many uses during a normal day? e.g. 125 mg 4x daily or all at once or something else?

Does it keep you from sleeping?
I have not looked closely at CF for a couple of years, but in late 2016, I actively preferred TF over CF. But, I understand that the XML-only has since been changed and since that was the only real issue I had with CF...
The great news is that we had options then and we still have options now.
There is a pretty good free course you can take over at https://zenacademy.com.au/course/landing-pages-that-convert/

It shows you how to put together a minimalist landing page including deriving your features and benefits. Has some templates and checklist.
It's purely due to a dry mouth. People that get radiation therapy for head and neck cancers get severe dry mouth as well (salivary glands affected) and severe tooth decay is common unless you use artificial saliva.
> Added hardware accelerated VP9 and WebM in MSE on all iPads that support iPadOS 15.

> Added support for the Opus audio codec in WebM containers.

tada! I wish MSE also brought to iPhone.
My understanding was that these experiments didn't completely rule out the possibility of a stable sub-population. Also, the olfactory bulb projects to other areas besides piriform, and those might support long-term stability. My extremely speculative unfounded conjecture is that piriform is actually a novelty encoder, and plays a role in encoding new memories in a changing environment. But, I think the data don't quite support this at this time.
We doubled our revenues by just setting the right Incentive Structure