skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree, though I think those articles are a lot harder (eg requiring more skill) to write well because you need to quickly ramp your readers on all of whatever the context is that's necessary to actually appreciate the nuance of the design decisions under discussion. You're basically by definition going to be out of the realm of "just follow best practice X" or "apply pattern Y or you're doing it wrong."

As a small example, I've been working on a small asyncio-based web service (Python) which is oriented around an expensive process that generates a result, where the result is stashed in sqlite and returned. I knew upfront that I needed a way to track when a particular result was already being prepared so that if I got a second request for it, it would collapse it into the first one and only do the work once. I wrote this as a twenty line memoizing decorator, but it turns out this issue as a name— cache stampeding. Once I realized that, I discovered that there are existing (and much more complicated/tunable) solutions to this problem, such as https://github.com/DreamLab/memoize/, but the article pitching that solution spends quite a bit of time getting to it— enough so that if I'd discovered it before building my own, I'm not sure I would even have appreciated its applicability:

https://tech.ringieraxelspringer.com/blog/open-source/cachin...
A common technique is that somewhere in the email you'll see something like:

<img src="https://example.com/cd726f02-d2f4-4c0e-a717-e69044180c59.gif" height="1" width="1">

The image filename is a UUID. The UUID is of course unique for each email sent, but the Web server is configured to serve the same image for any given UUID (after recording the UUID as an "open" into a database).

There isn't a way for an email client to be certain that the image is or isn't a tracking pixel.
> Turning on FLOC brings nothing to the user in return and feels like charity towards advertisers.

I would call it a charity to the site owner whose (presumably) free content you're consuming. What it brings to the user is the ability of the site owner to continue making content.
The spike protien binds to ace2 receptors, so the immune response may be more likely to bind to ACE2, which also binds to ace2 receptors, but that isn't a given because the part on the spile the immune response targets don't have to themselves match with parts of ACE2.
None of us can really do anything about that history other than think and vote for the future.

If you look back even further, many of our ancestors were cannibals. Much of history was a pretty horrific time. All over the world.

I think (hope) that the world is getting better.

I wonder what people will look back and think of us.
Redundancy Is Life, Except When It's Death
No. I'm just using "processed" as a shorthand for "ultra-processed".

All of the "ultra-processed" examples you give are exactly what I'm talking about -- industrialized bread and breakfast cereals are made of precisely the flour, sugar and oil I'm referring to.
I don't believe I spoke with any ideological or political basis. That you think having an opinion & being upset with the status quo constitutes political or ideological battles is only true in as much as you have continued to make a battle out of my opinion & to rain nastiness upon my stance.

You continue being a snipe-ey rules lawyering nasty person to me, & saying things about me & characterizing me, rather than addressing anything I say in a substantial form. This is disheartening.

> You went on an epic rant about how you have no patience with the existing arrangements because they were made in the past. You may call that "making your case", but it sure sounded whiny to me.

That is not how I would characterize my assessment of the situation. I feel you've stripped out any nuance or respect by simmering it down to such simple words, such overt naked conflict. And I think it's a waste of everyone's time to try to surmise whether it's whining or not, and that we'd both have time better spent trying to engage with each other's stances, rather than pick at one another's character & person with shitty snipey assessments like that.
I thought I remember seeing some article on dashboard design and how distracting everything is now to driver. I thought I saw a quip in the article about how Honda was going to put out several 2021-2022 models that went back to some kind of really stripped down dashboard?
Basically the same piece (maybe different source) and much more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27466374
Im not so sure that there is anything wrong with being 40 and cynical. I would question the sanity of anyone who isn't.
Ask HN: Technically, what is better? Plaid vs. Teller.io
I have been seeing a lot of praise,criticism and praise for especially Plaid. I know it also has much much wider adoption. Teller.io's founder, however, always argues that Teller has a better backbone and fundamental infrastructure.

From your understanding of the two, which one is more robust, secure, standard compliant, performant and dare I say 'future-proof', whatever you may make of that.
Digging into Apple’s iCloud Private Relay
> searching for thyroid cancer treatments

Subtle note, this would probably fall under the "sensitive topics" category discussed and not be tracked, but insert niche hobby here and your point still stands
various interpreters have ways to make external calls via com/web/etc. APL is basically python calling C++/C#/Java/etc.

Seeing pure APL for XML parsing is.. interesting. Most interpreters support saved/read of functions in a more procedural way.
Paddle uses Currency Cloud for that, which charges a true mid-market rate and a very low transaction fee. It's what Transferwise uses behind the scenes.
I"m not an anti-vaxxer at all, and despite what I'm about to tell you, I do think the COVID vaccine is a good idea for most people.

My MIL just died as a result of her second Pfizer shot. It was a rare side-effect that's happened to less than 100 people in the US, according to another person in my neighborhood who I found out had the same thing as my MIL happen to him, who is more informed than they normally allow a patient to be, purely due to the fact that his heart tissue is being used by Mayo Clinic.

Both him and my MIL went into cardiac arrest a few hours after their 2nd shot, while suffering a fever from the shot. He is 35, healthy, and fit, with no heart issues. My MIL was early 60's, no heart issues detected after a week of doctors testing her while she was on life support. He was in Colorado. She was in Omaha at Nebraska Medicine, which is a solid hospital.

Her death was not investigated "thoroughly" at all. The team eventually reported it to the VAERS system and stated to us that their opinion was that it was vaccine induced. They did nothing beyond that. The only reason her case is now being investigated is because when I got back to Colorado, a neighbor heard my story and introduced me to another neighbor, the 35 year old, who went through it a month ago. He survived because he was young. His case was being thoroughly investigated, but nobody did shit for my Mother in Law. I had to contact the researchers myself and point them to the hospital in Nebraska to initiate anything.

It was sheer luck that I encountered this guy, and that he happened to be in comms with researchers on his case. In both cases, the doctors gaslit both families for days, ignoring and dismissing any connection with the vaccine, until they eventually arrived at no explanations after test after test.

My experience is an anecdotal data point, but based on it, I have ZERO confidence that the majority of cases like my MIL are being investigated. The doctors were clearly getting pressure, likely from their employers and especially from licensing boards, to not talk about it. The lack of curiosity was the most shocking part for my family and the 35 year old's family. Our experiences in 2 different hospitals in 2 states were shockingly similar in how horrifying they were.

At this point, the researchers have found that the team in Nebraska didn't conduct nearly as many tests as they did, and their research into her case is being hampered due to this. Because she was on life support for over a week and a half after the initial incident, and we had to remove her from life support and let her suffocate, an autopsy isn't useful. They needed samples taken initially, but the ones that should have been taken weren't.

This is a long reply, but I wrote it because I think your trust in our health institutions is misplaced in the face of the social and cultural pressures for this vaccine.
Why not ? If you have small transactions you end up not paying a lot, and the more you make money the more you pay Stripe. If you make so much money that you can have your own tax system, good for you ! Implement it and don't pay Stripe :)

Fixed price schemes would be less fair for small businesses that want to grow. Stripe helps you to grow, so that your company becomes the one big enough to "subsidize" the small ones after benefiting this pricing in the first stage
I don’t disagree that airlines should -be allowed- to do charge more. I sort of don’t think they should do it. But in the US anyway, hey that’s the free market…if they try it and the market doesn’t like it then they’ll stop (bc people will fly other airlines…unless there’s collusion between the big airlines but that wouldn’t ever happen in America right…)

But I also think it should be a two way street. If we have a strong tail wind we should get a little bonus. If passengers fail to look into weather forecasts and there’s a strong head wind well tough we get charged extra. That kind of thing.
In the end, I got my answer because somebody in the medical field made personal introductions until I got an actual expert working in the field. So clearly it's not such a moronic approach.
Not specifically talking about this particular self-driving service - moreso the recent uptick in proposals around subscription features in cars like heated seats, premium audio, etc etc. And besides, with a subscription service as proposed by VW, you're still going to be paying for the fuel/grid electricity on top.
This is the same bad idea as hiding file extensions.
From your citation:

> Bioterrorism had already started 14 centuries before Christ, when the Hittites sent infected rams to their enemies.

The non-modern world was indeed a vary barbarous world. It is amazing how far we have come in such a short time.

Continue to vote and push forward.
How dare people be mad at me for kicking pupies! No one is mad at the anti-animal cruelty people! It's censorship and the nanny-state (also PC culture or some bullshit like that).
not sure the billionaire class will care, just get 10 of rhem
You know how when you watch the news and they talk about something that you have first-hand experience of? You instantly realise that they have no clue what they're talking about! Half the article is gibberish, the other is a willful misunderstanding.

Then the next article goes on about some topic you don't know, and suddenly you have this nagging suspicion that... hey... maybe they're bullshitting about this too!

That observation doesn't just apply to news media.

In my own industry, I'm constantly up against peers and colleagues who are highly paid, highly educated consultants. Customers turn to these people for "expert" advice. Most of it is something they picked up in the 1990s that is now thoroughly outdated. The other half is them jumping on board with the latest fad, typically badly.

But I have this perspective because I can recognise the bullshit and errors in my own industry.

Just like the way I now watch the news much more critically, I am now similarly critical of other professionals such as doctors or lawyers.

That said: Go get vaccinated! I'm getting my shot next week, which is the earliest I could possibly get it.
For example, Jinko solar's panels have leading conversion efficiency in the industry. I think that many international products that are made in china are low quality is because when international buyers procure from Chinese manufactures they tend to aim for lower costs, which results in lower quality and standards. You pay for what you get. Chinese companies of course will charge more for high quality, competitive and differentiated products. These products require R&D which can only be paid for with margins.
http://www.jinkosolar.com/en/site/tigerpro
>I'm asking what's a behaviour you can't replicate using a reward system based on real numbers

So glad you asked! I can give an answer which people will love who take the necessary time to understand it. It's complicated, you might have to re-read it a few times and really ponder it. It's about automatic code generation (though it might not look like it at first).

Definition 1: Define the "Intuitive Ordinal Notations" (IONs) to be the smallest set P of computer programs such that for every computer program p, if all the things p outputs are IONs, then p is an ION.

See https://github.com/semitrivial/IONs for some ION examples in python.

Definition 2: Inductively associate an ordinal |p| with every ION p as follows: |p| is defined to be smallest ordinal which is bigger than every ordinal |q| such that q is an output of p. Say that p "notates" |p|.

Finally, to answer your question, I want the AGI to write programs which are IONs notating large ordinals, accompanied by arguments convincing me they really are IONs. An easy way to incentivize this with RL would be as follows. If the AGI writes an ION p and an argument that convinces me it's an ION, I will grant the AGI reward |p|. If the AGI does anything else (including if its argument does not convince me), then I'll give it reward 0.

You can't correctly incentivize this behavior using reals. The computable ordinals are too non-Archimedean to do so.
> There would be licenses, regulations, threat of lawsuit, qualifications and all sorts of other mandatory requirements

These already exist in Taxis, and have you ever been in a Taxi? Their drivers aren't exactly the pinnacle of driving excellence.
Too much autonomy can be too much of a good thing, but this is not universal, and when it turns out to be a bad thing, that says more about the group who has been given the autonomy than it does about autonomy itself.

A sibling comment talks about trust/skill, and these are factors that are more important than just focusing on autonomy as a stand-alone concept.

Open Source projects show both ends of this spectrum, with absolute autonomy yielding both amazing and mediocre results.
I'm out here reading what I imagine is the blog operated by one of the most preeminent journals in the English language. Then I read a sentence that uses the word "tizzy." Illusion, shattered.
Thank you for using an upside down open quotation mark
To be frank, it was the invention of bridges that enabled most of the crime. Bridges and round wheels. Humans lived happily in harmony with nature before that.
NB. I believe the primitive implemented Knuth's dancing links algorithm.

NB. NARS is also very decent, though it only runs on windows.
Paddle does have a solution to this but it is what I would consider to be in eternal alpha - it's functional (barely) but it drives me insane every time I have to use it.
I didn't take it to mean something that they didn't know answer. But as relative experts in the medical field, they considered it a good and valuable question.

I was contrasting this with keyboard experts who berated me for asking but know even less. The former are pro-science. They have studied. They didn't know. They valud the question.

Others knew less and didn't even see why it was a valid thing to wonder about. Instead of any scientific answer, they regurgitated garbage.
> No it doesn't. The entire history of Western Liberalism—since the Magna Carta onwards—teaches us that censorship is quite literally never the answer.

There is basically almost no precedent to todays problem of misinformation spread, so historical examples are near useless.
Censorship is a trivial problem to overcome in the modern world contrary to the last century’s vision, one can’t really hide anything on the internet. The censored information itself will be available in some way. What is much more effective in preventing information flow is the other direction, obfuscation or overloading of information.

A great example of it is an older Russian voting fraud, where video footage leaked of a man repeatedly throwing in ballots. It got quickly shared over Twitter with the name of the town in hashtags — there was no chance of censoring that. The solution was to spam twitter with unrelated bullshit with #NameOfTown, effectively putting out the flame.

And unfortunately bullshit like antivaxx, anti-climatechange, and political campaigns do use this technique very effectively to counter the usually more complex scientific arguments. People prefer taking only a few logical steps instead of the whole “we create the replica of parts of the virus by injecting the …”. Unfortunately I don’t know what would be a solution to this. Perhaps better education..
Explainer: The US investigation into Covid-19 origins
No, you’re missing the difference. Gmail requests the embedded resources when you open the email. So it’s still possible to track open rates through it, even if the proxy obscures your IP address. Apple Mail requests the embedded resources without you opening the email, so you cannot use it for tracking open rates.

A lot of people assumed this is what Gmail did, but it wasn’t actually the case.
He invented the Bayer pattern??!
EDIT: No longer necessary; see edit above.

Updated this gist, so you can also copy the bytecode (into the commented files in src/gen in the CBQN repository) from here: https://gist.github.com/mlochbaum/7208fa5a4dd767102f9a99b363...
I don't understand this. If you want personalized ads, wouldn't you rather subscribe to consumer newsletters, that you can specifically tailor to your interest and are working for you and showing genuine reviews, rather than ads sold to the highest bidder and that try to manipulate you?

Additionally why do you want to view those recommendations while you are actively trying to do something else?
No, vaccines do not rewrite the genome, even in immune cells. The immune cells are constantly rewriting their own genetic code, with or without antigens (vaccines). The vaccines simply cause the cells with an appropriately rewritten code to be selected for, and increase in number.
I was using my Raspberry Pi 4 as a WiFi bridge for a "temporary" networking solution after I moved house. I ended up running it that way for over a year and it worked pretty flawlessly. Only problem was that it didn't get anywhere near my full WiFi speed.
You're participating in a clinical trial. You have no recourse should you experience any side effects.
So what is this really measuring? The curvature of spacetime between two points?
So you're saying 'net net', you think the COVID mortality is undercounted? If I had to bet something valuable, I'd take the other side. That's just what seems most probable to me, based on the evidence I cited.

Another plausible explanation to excess mortality differences is that lockdowns and other measures caused people to engage in behaviors that increased mortality, from putting off necessary medical visits to exacerbated mental health due to social isolation or financial stress.
I did this when I didn't have a dongle but did have a Raspberry Pi on hand.
It’s valuable to know about the specifics of a behavior if you have any interest in stopping it.
Or, worse, "amazon.com.contact-support.something-else-to-confuse-the-user.shadytld". Even with the path part of URLs dimmed, users are really bad at identifying the authoritative part of a hostname.
>not one noteworthy public health figure suggested putting down the donut to reduce the risk of death from COVID-19

Great point. The overweight should have just lost 50 pounds in 30 days.
I do understand it is tough out there for a newsletter.

The problem is, the same tactics that they want to use, that I might put up with for a slightly-trusted sender, are used by spammers for mostly the same reasons.

And I am not willing to put up with the repercussions of that for the benefit of some newsletter operators who are not me.

So there's the problem to be solved.
Read that as "We took classes in observatory building". Imagining the prof explaining how to grind a mirror, how revolvers can be used to make a very high resolution angular positioning system, and so on.
I'll believe it when it happens.
WWDC HomeKit Season Summary
This risk has been acknowledged for a long time. Shortly after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks in 2001, the US began stockpiling enough smallpox vaccine for the whole country[1].

They claim to have kept that stockpile going[2] but they also said the same of the PPE stockpile...

[1] - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2001/11/acambis-...

[2] - https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/...
Those shaming others into participating in a clinical trial are naive at best and evil at worst.
Well you've got a virtually unblockable signal that travels at the speed of light, but other than that there are literally no upsides.

I reckon you might as well use neutrino's, they're easier to detect and easier to produce.
What is wrong with the word "tizzy"?
What the hell did you think kids used to eat, carrion and dirt? Tomato has been a staple food for several centuries now.

My grandparents and great-grandparents and their have all certainly eaten ripe tomatoes and their lifespan covers a revolution, a civil war, WW2 and a famine.

Obviously if you live in a different climate, then a tomato gets replaces by something else.
Is the necessary work still getting done?
5:19 PM PDT

We have restored network connectivity within the affected Availability Zone in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region. The vast majority of affected EC2 instances have now fully recovered but we’re continuing to work through some EBS volumes that continue to experience degraded performance. The environmental conditions within the affected Availability Zone have now returned to normal levels. We will provide further details on the root cause in a subsequent posts, but can confirm that there was no fire within the facility.
It's worth remembering, that Pfizer got to distribute vaccines on special terms that indemnified it from any liability.
Arg. Screw that noise. I refuse to join these "co working zoom hours" where everybody is on the same zoom call. Or zoom happy hour. Or any of that. That stuff is dystopian as hell.

Remote work is great if you are a contractor with well defined scope. In fact it is ideal. You can set firm boundries with your client.

But being an employee who isn't just a cog in a machine, remote is rife with pitfalls. You lose connection with the greater company. People you used to work with on other teams. New hires. There is no doubt a huge chunk of people within my own little org that were hired over the last 1.5 years that I don't even know existed. I've lost complete track over the greater org.

Naw. A year from now it's gonna be almost exactly like what it was like in 2019. There is a reason why we didn't do this pre-lockdown and it wasn't just because of "micro managers" or "the suits justifying their work". FAANG companies pour huge amount of "HR marketing dollars" into their office environments. It literally helps them attract new talent.

I really just don't see these "hybrid" things panning out long run. We'll revert right back to 2019 before anybody knows it.