skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't automatically say 25% as that's pretty steep, but certainly there should be some level of tax on almost everything that gets imported that isn't pure raw material.
Does it matter?

He said he changed the SSID, so my guess would be as the iPhone tried to retrieve its list of previously connected SSIDs, it saw the evil SSID and crashed again...

So the UI probably does talk to a service, the UI said "Turn on WiFi and give me the list of networks you know" (maybe not in a single step), and the service crashed (huh, but why?), and the UI can only say "WiFi is off".

In a better OS there would be a "reset this service's configuration".

Off-topic: Emojis are allowed in SSIDs. I'm surprised no one has abused this yet, but I guess people just leave their SSIDs at LinkSys_BA69BE42 or similar.
They like many of us now, dare speak up against the official dogma of the day.

However, most will argue capitalism has proven to be the most efficient way to allocate resources correctly. So it's quite unclear how to ie. incorporate externalized costs into the system, without breaking it.

Accountants make for terrible leadership.
Is it?

Transport is an infrastructure problem, which is controlled by policy. How many ways do you have to get to work?

I have three. Bus, bike, and car.

- If I decide to ride the bus, I will walk 45 minutes to the bus stop for an express bus, which will take me to my job site, which picks me up 5:50 am and the fare costs as much as gas would for a drive there in a personal vehicle.

- If I decide to bike, there are no direct routes with a bike lane. The remaining routes have been shutdown due to construction, but cars are still afforded a lane. I either have to take very long and convoluted routes through neighborhoods or ride on a 60mph expressway with no median.

- If I drive, I have a choice of several routes of well maintained road infrastructure and I am confident that I will arrive in 30mins.

If we want to place the responsibility of vehicle GHG emissions on consumers, we need to at least stop biasing against non-car transportation options. Otherwise we’ll end up with a lot of blame, and no reductions in GHG emissions. A call to action should be placed on people who have agency over the situation (politicians) and not on people who have none.
An emulated SID won't fit precisely because two emulated SIDs would sound the same :)
The packaging/environments story is really just unacceptable to me in the year 2021. Coming from the JS world, Python's is just a total mess. And it can't even really lean on the "Python didn't start out as a language that needed that stuff" angle, because JS was in the same boat, and overcame it.

Maybe it's too late and it would be an XKCD "now there are 15 competing standards" situation at this point. But Python desperately needs an all-in-one, officially-sanctioned, package manager/manifest format/bundler/etc that keeps all dependencies and environment info in the project directory, not in global symlinks that get shuffled around by a global collection of "virtual environments". It needs to get installed automatically alongside Python itself. It needs to be prescribed by the Python Foundation. And it needs to be here yesterday.
1. Design changes

2. People whine

3. People adapt and forget, maybe even prefer it

Nothing new here.

If people continue to whine after more than a few months, there might be something worth investigating. Reddit comes to mind.
How so? A doctor can always refuse to do a surgery and suggest you see a different doctor. All they would have to say is that I don’t feel comfortable doing the surgery without the test
> You can integrate Paypal as a credit card processor without the end users knowing it's paypal during the purchase. They don't need a paypal account.

Do you have a link to their API documentation on using this? Every search around this leads to their hosted checkout page which lets you pick between PayPal or a credit card or the legacy "Payments Pro" option which is no longer recommended to use and technically labeled as unable to sign up for unless you're a pre-existing user. I have a PayPal business account btw.

> used by many.

A ton of folks are using Stripe too, and this PayPal notification is coming out barely 6 weeks before the change in rates. If you wanted to use their new CC rates it would mean switching your entire billing system over from Stripe to PayPal for accepting credit cards.

Plus there's a ton of 3rd party services that offer SAAS apps around handling billing for you through credit card or PayPal and almost all of them use Stripe for credit cards. This makes switching to PayPal's direct CC payment not an option for many, which translates to a price increase for using PayPal.
This is unfortunately complete baloney, and I really cannot find a better word. The differences between the languages are not greater than the differences between American and British English or German in Germany and Austria. In fact the language spoken by the Swiss cannot be understood by almost all Germans, yet it is still called German. The only artificial part are the names which stem from the inability to come to a compromise, e.g. neither side can accept to speak the language of the others. It needs one name because it is for all intents and purposes one language. Everything else is just politics. This view has recently also been supported by a group of linguists in the region, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Common_La...
Hi Peter,

Thank you for taking time to do this.

Can I get a gun on O1 visa while working in SF?

Thank you!
This is not "pressure being put on Wikimedia", it's the Wikimedia folks trying to re-establish/enforce the underlying principles of their projects, which have existed since these projects got started.
> graphical frontends seem to hang, spin the fans, return little to no information about what is happening, and be terrible in general?

That's a beautiful description of modern GUI development right there.

- What about a 150ms delay on-click for a smooth transition here?

- And that spinner looks too good to rush through, so make it pace evenly in case it finished too fast!

- Did you see that? There's a subtle but intuitive shade and color change depending on the result. So natural you hardly notice.

- Neat!

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To be honest, while I may not appreciate this kind of design in every place all the time, I do wish I was skilled enough to make any beautiful GUI and web experiences at all.

Intricate design can be such a timesink doing even basic stuff if it's not one's strong area. Kudos to all the UI, UX people.
By accelerating from 0-60 quickly in your 500hp vehicle in rush hour traffic. A vehicle with high horsepower means you can do that very quick, and rush hour traffic means there are lots of people around. Lots of acceleration + lots of people around means significantly higher risk of grevious injury or death. It’s irresponsible and I don’t mind if people disagree with that.
Government of and by the people, is the way I heard it.
I have downvoted you, because I believe that it is a complete fabrication to claim that the mainstream thinking is "that it's the most likely explanation". As far as I can tell, most experts have settled on "unlikely but possible".

I would be happy to "undown" you if you can provide evidence.
They market to US customers, sell to US customers and process payments through US financial institutions, so legally they operate in the US. Just as Prusia himself is protected by GDPR protections from US companies which offer services to citizens of EU even if they aren't physically located there.
And there are papers which show that it does. Rather than descend into a 'my list of papers denoting effectiveness is bigger than your's suggesting the opposite' contest, I suggest you go to http://www.freefullpdf.com/#gsc.tab=0 and do some objective searching yourself preferably without a prior agenda.
Risk Based Vulnerability Management – Let’s Begin with the “Why?”
Beautiful shot. There was a particularly funny xkcd about this a few weeks in advance: https://xkcd.com/2463/
that’s insane, what causes people to act like that I wonder? do they have no compassion?
> You are asking questions for which they don't have answers. That's not how drug studies work

A doctor or nurse might not now the answer many times, which is fine, you can’t be an expert on all at once. But the latter is bullshit - any reputable drug study will elaborate (or worst case, speculate) on the action mechanism of the drug in detail. In the case of ivermectin, it’s supposed to inhibit viral replication, here is an example of a study diving into it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...
In my town, outside of Boston, the water coming out of the faucets in mid-June is about 55F without mixing in hot water; an ambient-temperature shower might be reasonable for a week or three per year.
Some people in Brazil did this. What happened? They got drug-induced hepatitis by wrong usage of Ivermectin.
> it seems one feature of science, as opposed to, say philosophy, is that the conclusions regarding a hypothesis are not knowable a priori.

That should be a defining characteristic of any academic inquiry, regardless of whether it's science or not.

I have no training in non-quantitative fields, and my academic experience is from CS where the "science" part is often so-so. As such this should be taken partially as a layman view. However, my impression is that while in non-scientific academic fields the research isn't necessarily taking the form of explicit hypothesis testing, more or less similar criteria for intellectual inquiry should apply.

The research might be more about observation and critical (often non-quantitative and non-absolute) evaluation of arguments, and as such the validity of the methods (such as whether the hypothesis is assumed or genuinely questioned) might not always be as easy to judge [1].

The process might not be as easily formalized or judged as in science, but the mentality of critical inquiry should be similar. If the hypothesis is assumed and not questioned, that's no longer any kind of academic inquiry. It becomes politics, in the pejorative sense.

> I think in contemporary academics there's some implicit idea that the quality of a researcher lies in their ability to identify hypotheses that are "correct", as opposed to simply following through with good but ultimately "incorrect" hypotheses.

I think that's partially just psychology and human nature. We like results that make us directly know (or think we know) more, and results that basically tell us we still don't know less. Few people like uncertainty.

The society outside of the academia certainly values the former more than the latter, and funding and other external incentives probably exacerbate the underappreciation of negative results.

[1] Or perhaps it is, to an expert, but having that judgment would require the kind of experience in those fields that I don't have.
The Paris Agreement does not define "urgent action." It does offer a broad vision for the end goal (reducing the increase in global temperature), but leaves implementation up to the signatories.

https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/paris_nov_2015/application...

I haven't read the others, but would not be surprised to see similar language.
And they did that because it makes sense from a military perspective, not because they were aping go strategies. Are you being obtuse on purpose? You're taking two radically different problem domains and producing a shaky, extremely high level mapping between some elements in them that is essentially unfalsifiable.
I don't see any reason to think that mikeytown2's comment is being weaponized by politicians or that mikeytown2 is a weaponizing politician.

My purview is limited to HN and I try never to extrapolate beyond that, but as far as HN goes, we've always favored the principle that readers are smart enough to make up their own minds. I've been saying that for 7 years (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and I don't think that the crises and tectonic shifts of the past few years have given any reason to change that. (It has been a lot of work trying to shore up a culture of thoughtful commenting, with mixed results, but that's a separate issue.) IMO you guys should worry less about restricting what other people might see or think and worry more about finding the best information and the best arguments to persuade each other with.

To repeat, lest anyone misunderstand: my remarks are limited to HN, which is the space I've observed enough to speak about. I'm not saying HN is an exception, and I'm not saying it isn't an exception; I don't know.

Edit: two more points. First, I think there's a perspective bias here. We all assume that we're the smart one capable of making judgments about what the dumber ones might think, but literally everyone sees themselves that way. That shows not only that we can't all be right about that, but—more interestingly—that this entire line of thinking is invalid. It's a hard-wired unreliable narrator.

Second and last, if HN readers aren't smart enough to make up their own minds, then this place is fucked, so we might as well make a Pascal's wager.
Exactly - the problem isn't the consideration of a lab leak as a possible source, it's the presentation of that theory embellished well beyond what's plausible without any evidence - and then suggesting it's not just a far out there possibility, but actually the most likely source. And all that when it was a convenient diversionary tactic - looking for a scapegoat.

Let's not forget that not only is the lab leak theory to this day just one possibility, it's still not backed by much evidence, whereas many other viruses have jumped species before without needing a lab.

Finally, even in the unlikely event it turns out to have leaked from the lab and we manage to get convincing evidence of that now, that doesn't actually make those claims last year any more defensible. It's not OK to spout wild claims without evidence - even though if you do so often enough, you'll get lucky sometimes. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but that does not mean breaking clocks is a valid strategy for telling the time.

And unless I'm missing something, it's just not plausible that fox news or mike pompeo or whoever had some secret evidence - if they had it, they would have shared it, somebody would have leaked it, or at the very least other corroborating sources would have appeared. None of that happened: ergo they were lying at least by exaggeration - and that's assuming they even believed the story to be at least plausible.
>...also shareholders

Right, but Exxon isn't drilling for oil so they can pay dividends to their shareholders in the form of oil.

>I assume the implication is to stop buying their stuff?

Yes, what do you think would happen if a corporation saw that demand was dropping?

>Our markets provide consumers with neither the influence nor the information needed to apply their purchasing power to lower the carbon emissions of corporations. Policy is needed to eliminate emissions.

Refusing to buy such products would lead to it not being produced. What else do you think would happen? That they'll continue producing a surplus and let it pile up?

As for still buying the product but wanting it to be less polluting, I agree that policy is the best solution, as long as you can get everyone on board. This is tricky because support for the environment tends to drop when people realize they have to pay for it.
I had the same opinion until my friend convinced me otherwise. The scientific community is taking a long-term approach here. If they were to recommend a drug based without a scientific trial, they risk losing the trust of the world (either from people who want them to only follow the science, and the risk that it is incorrect).

The anti-science block is growing, and they are loud. If they continue to grow it could be an even greater threat to humanity than COVID-19. Science is attempting to fight against it by retreating to a science-only corner, for better or for worse.
In a remote-work world, why ever launch a startup in the US / Canada? Why not launch in a tax-free zone, like Dubai?
It used to require unsafe. The project has been reworked to add safer alternatives (at the cost of some increased overhead).
Ah, so you're suggesting instead of storing 'what a person calls this date' as the key, you instead convert it to some underlying representation that you can then choose to present in different calendars - like a UNIX epoch-relative offset or something.

Congratulations, you just created another synthetic key for describing dates.
The fallacy of all these books, advice, philosophical quotes, so called knowledge about people is that, it’s too bookish and often advice is impractical to implement.

I have been EM for 5+ years now. There are number of factors on which I have zero control. M1 and M2 are doing often have no power besides sprint, agile processes. For whatever reason people are inherently unhappy. I have seen this happening in 3 different companies.

Compensation is major factor in unhappiness. But, lately it’s also the work that makes people unhappy. No one likes to do Oncall or operational or migration work or deal with mess left by earlier group.

Almost every single engineer think that they know better. I see large disagreements and often grunting agreements. You can apply advice like this all day long , but if compensation and work items are not satisfying, team will be unhappy.

Now, don’t get me even started on the hiring. It’s bizarre practice of leetcode, every tom,dick,Harry copying large organization processes like Amazon and Google.

I am actually quite frustrated in my manager career as someone who is not new the management. I am thinking if director and above level roles are more IC type but have better control over their career. Middle management is powerless in almost every aspect as far as I can tell. Please advice if you know how to get better.
Or it proves that meta-analyses are meaningless when you can pick the target studies at will.
What canada_dry said below. Especially for what seems to be a solo developer, I'd rather this was costed so as even if they decided to stop working on it, the margin per month was such that I could continue to use it for years. I feel like for a solo developer doing a 1 time fee, more likely to disappear after a couple of years
Actually, it does. It starts with data.

Sure, we can't conclude from his N=1 experiment that it definitely works.

But Youtube wants to conclude from N=0 that it definitely doesn't work, and they don't want the peasantry asking questions.
NSA Agrees to Release Records on FBI’s Improper Spying on 16,000 Americans
I concur. It's usable if you want to know how T-72B2 differs from T-72B3 but is heavily editorialized for most non-technical topics, not even directly political.
Where exactly is this positive evidence it leaked from the Wuhan lab - and not just emails that considered the possibility it might have?
Or, as the FDA page says,

"If you have a prescription for ivermectin for an FDA-approved use, get it from a legitimate source and take it exactly as prescribed. Never use medications intended for animals on yourself. Ivermectin preparations for animals are very different from those approved for humans."
It's not a cult, its just that the cases where the risks of passing by value would be worth any perceived advantage are so few that it just doesn't make sense to even consider it.

It's not like it's a flimsy tribal based claim, the guidance is solid.
That's the wrong side to look at this from. These are just people on the fringe with little influence and funding.

If ivermectin was authorized as a viable treatment the vaccines receiving emergency use authorisation wouldn't have been possible. There were and still are billions on the line.
From what I’ve read, its cheaper to recycle certain materials from old EV packs than it is to mine new material from the earth. If this is true and continues to be the case, it seems like one of those problems that will luckily solve itself because it is economical.
Nuclear family as unit isolated feom extended familly is not worldwide universal nor was in the past.
Thanks for the list, I think the project would benefit from having a version of it in their website!

Why can't you stand this mentality?
Certainly the naming of the language as "Serbo-Croatian" or "Croato-Serbian" happened in the Socialist period, but the Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, etc. etc. languages are really variants of a polycentric language [1], whatever you want to call it. For those not from the Balkans, imagine the British, Americans, and Canadians insisting that their versions of English are completely different languages, or making up new words to distance themselves from each other.

Snježana Kordić's book made the case that there is a polycentric language shared by those countries and that much of the current politicking over this topic is nationalist in basis. I think it's easy to see that this bickering over language is yet another useful distraction from the catastrophic state of society and the economy in those lands.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Common_Lang...
The problem is that they were sent an SMS. Without it, few would have noticed.

The SMS should be reserved for turning the system off completely, not for minor changes.
I keep 2 browser windows, each with 10+ tabs. One is those with short lifetimes, as you mention. The other is a "reminder list" of things I want to defer for a few hours.
For sure! I've just tested it locally and HTML annotation is possible with only a few minor changes. I've just been overly restrictive by limiting it to text files (primarily to avoid PDFs and MS docs that have some additional challenges). Will deploy the updates later today.

Love the idea of being able to enter a URL to retrieve the HTML for annotation.
I'm aware of all that, but it's not theater, it's just part of a defense in depth strategy. Reduces attack surface area, doesn't eliminate it, while maintaining usability of the web.

If you have a better approach that accomplishes both of those objectives, do tell.
There are things called Law Societies or Bar Associations that are built to accept and investigate these types of complaints. That's the nature of regulated professions - there are places to complain and investigate.
You can also specify custom launch parameters from the GUI.
I agree, and that's why, although you maybe thought somewhat outrageous, if OP is going down the 1-time path, i'd rather pay a lot in hope that they can keep the cloud services running for years even if they decided to stop working on it. I like your formula approach.
There has been a lot of international pressure that has been put on Wikimedia over the years about this issue.
That chart shows that state being the lowest death toll both before and after ivermectin treatment, which would seem to point to some serious confounding factors in this analysis.
YouTube and Facebook are public platforms. Nobody benefits from the general public being sold unsubstantiated theories of miracle medicine X before there is scientific consensus. My beetroot-cures-cancer video has no right to be there either.
Ecological systems tend to die out when confronted with extreme, lasting change. It may take thousands of years for natural systems "to adapt". On planetary scale this is just a blink of the eye, but for humans and current life it could mean devastation.
The proposal does not take away any C features.
I quite like Bono’s U2 album. Also it doesn’t come with any downsides like the Massachusetts app does.
Hey type hacking is hard. Agda is kinda easier for someone who knows haskell, but hard nonetheless.
How about extensions? I would have thought these amount to a comparable security concern as web pages. Do they have adequate isolation?