skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
howdy. as someone who has followed his career trajectory for the last 15 yars, I can assure You that "Luck" or serendipity or however You want to normalize his abilities has nothing to do with his abilities. Its Sheer Hard-work and Will to win. Being lucky is scoring 50 goals one season and 10 the second. This guys averages 50+ every season. So You might want to read up on it before You hypothesize. Like Spock famously said, "there is no such thing called miracles".
Second law of thermodynamics? That's a good one. I really can't be bothered to be drawn into a conversation on the pros and cons of capitalism and human progress (especially if a heatwave is the argument you're running with), sorry
> We simply need to implement the necessary legislation to enable a playing field which is able to serve a greater range of players

“We simply need to implement the necessary legislation” could be said about literally any problem. The EU has this figured out about as much as the U.S. does.

> the EU doesn't rely on litigation to define the economic landscape in the same way that the USA does

The courts have been snubbing the European Commission’s expansive views of antitrust. In part due to a lack of any consistent definition of a market.
I've seen this strategy in movie and music business and the only reason I can think of is that they don't actually want to sell the product. Their real income is from something else, like sub-licensing to third-parties, so that they don't have to handle end users which is labor intensive. Or maybe they just want to get bought.
A target audience is a good broader point about MOOCs and online education. (I took edX courses during the "glory days" of 2012 and 2013 -- and also tested out Udemy, Coursera, and Udacity at the time.)

The one-size-fits-most nature of online education goes against the "customize your education at scale to learn" which was an earlier anticipated advantage about MOOCs. Specifically, adaptive learning and being able to accommodate a variety of learning behaviors and styles. "Learn at your own pace, in your own way, on your own time but still within bounds to the rest of the class" kind of thing.

I remember when Stanford launched online CS courses in the mid 2010s, that it was thought they'd have the best of both worlds and their in-person, offline course offerings wouldn't be affected. (Diluted down to the lowest common denominator of student, which now included online learners who weren't Stanford students per se.) Well, over time, turns out double duty-ing course material for online and the "regular" classes crept into all education for instructors. Which meant the courses with online equivalents became easier across the board. Thus, the target audience for everything shifted.

Again, with acknowledged intentionality, I don't really have an issue with this (which you could crassly summarize as "dumbing down" the course offerings for convenience's sake) -- except that from my vantage point it was an unforeseen consequence of part of the online and MOOC push.

Obviously, I benefited from online courses in my mid 20s and so I look at their rise with nostalgia and through a rosier lens than many. However, I also can't help but think that they ended up being not quite what was promised at the outset, which was better targeting in addition to expanded educational access around the world. Especially for students who thought they'd signed up for the more challenging materials and didn't want to be part of a grand new experiment.

Interesting that MIT OpenCourseWare will outlast edX, which for a few years truly did look like it was the future of university level education and beyond.
Since Harmonizely is the only calendar solution I've found that supports CalDav (read Fastmail), I hope this acquisition doesn't have a negative impact.
The most unlikely thing you mentioned is that we will be able to tax huge corporations.
I would like to play both Valorant and Genshin Impact but they both install kernel-level anti-cheat. :(
> The idea that someone without means should have to pay Walmart $86 for a worse low-budget insulin is disgusting.

Its not worse, its significantly better. The version of insulin sold for $1 is human insulin, which has been available at Walmart for $25 for many years. The version being discussed here is human analogue insulin, which was invented by the pharma companies in the past few decades. Its significantly better tolerated, and the rates at which the body can uptake the insulin can be tweaked to be much faster or long-lasting. Its like comparing a Tesla to a Ford Model T.
15y ago I met a guy who was specialized in repairing escalators. So what he did was repair some escalators in the city, and then he spent some weeks or even months motorbiking with his buddies. When money ran out, there was always a broken escalator to return to. Obviously he was so certain he would find work that he didn’t feel the need to save up any money.
> (communal ownership being different from private ownership)

This seems like subjective definitions; cooperatives certainly work by issuing a segment of their ownership to each private individual who works for them.

This is up to them because they're operating in a capitalist model where organisations decide for themselves their ownership model and the allocation of their resources; contrasted with a central planning model.
In the (now not very) long run, programming was a job meant for computers, anyway. The future will look back at "programming" the way we now look at Charles Dickens characters toiling in soot-filled factories. It's not what people are best at, and it looks like soon there will be better ways to accomplish this job.
I'm super impressed that I was able to jump into my xbox games on my iphone immediately after logging in.

Although the tech is impressive, the slightest lag makes any game unplayable, maybe it was just my internet connection though.

In any case, kudos to microsoft for innovating this much since recent years, I'm sure cloud gaming will become real shortly.
I had a similar jarring experience moving from C# dev to web apps.
I knew I wanted to use building blocks available via npm.
I went to download npm, and found the way you get npm is via installing node.js

Node js and the the package manager are inextricably tied together. Node js provides a local js runtime environment for the e.g. dev time packages to execute. It's also the api for interacting with the filesystem. Somewhere down there, yes, Node js is a web server, but it's kind of 'the' javascript execution environment for building local packages ("plugins"?) against.

The whole ecosystem is built up on javascript. If you're running grunt or gulp or webpack, it's all javascript.
When you install packages globally they're put in a global folder.
There are exceptions (I'm looking at you Cypress) that have native assemblies instead of js, but by and large there it's js, and it's stored locally. There are some pretty simple conventions (e.g. the 'node_modules' folder and the hidden '.bin' folder inside that)
When running npm it feels like passing a one-liner javascript command into node's javascript repl/environment.
The .bin commands are ambiently available.

It makes a lot of sense how it's grown organically... why there haven't been efforts to separate the constituent parts... I don't know. At some point maintaining the 'working thing' with <large degree of> complexity is easier than following a more rigorous, provable set of tools.
I think it's a culture thing. Probably the same reason most of the problems are fixed by deleting node_modules and re running `npm i`
Unlike the books, traveling has a clear curve of diminishing returns. Sure, you don't understand the culture by spending a week in Japan, but get a glimpse of it. It's a good ROI.
Augmented data!
How do I reconcile this with the existence of, say, Moderna booster? https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

(Genuine question.)
This just means that if these laptops are going to have Windows 11, they need to have a camera. It's not that the OS will not work without it. It's just MS saying, "You need a camera on your laptop." It's no different than all Macbooks having a camera, except Microsoft is dictating the OEM market needs to adhere to that standard.
And how do you handle letting someone else use your machine?
... and after a while, when you realize the hole goes deeper, you stop trusting these as well
Consider the following chain of events:

- I write GPL'ed code.

- Someone uses this tool to develop a proprietary solution.

- I later prove that the tool generated code that is equal to mine.

Now the code of the proprietary solution must be GPL licensed! Cool!

How I'd defend myself? I'd only use such a tool if there are guarantees of the licenses of the code it was trained on. Without such guarantees, it is just too risky.
Very interesting, this changes my understanding quite a bit. Do you know if these patients had any short term memory effects? If not, this would imply that the brain is JITing structure almost immediately from events... that's mindblowing.
I wonder why there is no example in java. It is one of the most popular languages (drfinatelly more popular than ruby or Go, and on par with Javascript and python).
About 100 years is the max life span of reinforced concrete. If not done to a high standard half that.
This. The best way to erase social media is to replace the account with a bunch of BS. Most of these companies are too cheap and Zucker's "move fast" culture probably doesn't involve database record versioning. Also because it's expensive. The old
SET _deleted_=1 is pretty much their main ace in the hole to f*k you. Hell, even if they do versioning, just keep filling the profiles with enough noise and they won't be able to filter it all out unless they somehow index and data warehouse your profile from the decrepit old backup. At that point, you are just hoping their schema changes, the logistics, and their bad practices are enough to prevent that from being cost efficient.
RN with some diabetes education experience here. Some of the ultra lente insulins (degludec, glargine) are q 24h to q 36h dosing, which approaches the convenience of an insulin pump (which are wildly expensive). Insulin pumps requires some maintenance but not as inconvenient as regular injections. This is not the kind of insulin that Walmart is announcing.

What is going on is that big pharma is now charging a premium for the user experience, and not the actual cost of the product or amortizing R&D.

(Of course the caveat here is that a therapy regimen that uses ultra lente insulins exclusively may be suitable for some type II diabetics who hadn’t achieved appropriate glucose control on oral antihyperglycemics, and that insulin dosing with meals using rapid acting insulin on top of a ultra slow acting insulin may follow after a while).
+2 and thank you for reminding me that I have a copy of this book. About to start a new job and it would be worthwhile to refresh my mind on the concepts.
> Svelte has been around for a few years now - and I've yet to see/hear about an application built with Svelte at scale.

One of the lead developers of Svelte uses it at the New York Times on some of their high traffic interactive data visualization pages, including their COVID charts.
The biggest issue: you cannot not give them your personal data that they then loose.

Let me contribute with an anecdote from yesterday (slightly off-topic but I promise to get around to it at the end). So just yesterday I needed to create a Microsoft account to try out Teams which is supposedly free. (I have avoided it so far, but my GF has been asked to use it for an interview and we wanted to do a tech test run before). Of course, the UI on the website assumes (!) that you already have a Microsoft account. It will let you create a Teams account that will fail the login if you do not have a Microsoft account and then sends you around in a Byzantine loop without telling you: Look you need a Microsoft account to use Teams. It looks to me as it just creates a shallow alias or something without root reference. This is dark patterns all over the place.

Anyway, a bit more on topic, I am course using my spam email for this account, but then they ask for my phone number. This is really an issue, because except if I get a burner phone, my personal data is linked with an account of a company I do not trust. After witnessing then how bad teams is almost 1.5 years after everyone is working remotely, (wow their web client does not allow you to share webcam and a window/screen at the same time, while their native client makes it super hard to share content while still seeing the people who you present to), I realised

1. How privileged I am not having to use Microsoft products (need to remember to charge extra, whenever asks me do a job that involves Microsoft products)

2. How anti-competitive Microsoft still is (you cannot login to Teams, MS web auth, in Chromium incognito mode, and it needs a ton of cookie domains whitelisted, even then it does not work)

3. How (and this is not Microsoft specific) difficult it is to not hand over personal data to companies that provide a utility-like service that they pretend is free (so everybody can pretend they are inclusive when they use these services)

4. An then literally a day later it turns out I am not paranoid not trusting Microsoft (and I guess other companies, big or small) with my data, because they are going to loose it sooner or later.

Edit: I just logged back into this MS account. They dont even use the phone number as "2FA". They only send you a text when you register, not for subsequent logins. It looks to me as they just collect it to make sure they really have some personal data to loose..
https://zerotier.com / https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
There is a universal, open format for text mixed with images. It's HTML. Support already exists everywhere.
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I use ACF but I can't tell what makes it significantly different from any other headless CMS schema modeling systems in Strapi and etc. Can you say more?
I made a mistake in the calculation (10^34 x 10^14 is 10^48, not 10^38), so it's 10^12 brighter. Nobody will survive on the lit surface of a planet.
It sounds like we're in agreement. Focusing on requirements for confirmed positive covid patients is of negligible benefit. Once the "people without antibodies" actual risk factor is curbed, then we hopefully have had the scientific research to determine what the next best lowest hanging fruit to address is.

> I’m not sure it matters if the antibodies are from the vaccine or infection.

I'm not entirely sure either. There is some research that since the vaccine is just the spike protein, while natural immune response was to the entire virus, that the natural immune response is more comprehensive.
The integrity of the argument may be harmed somewhat by the use of an inferior gradient blending technique. Eyeballing Figure 3, the gradient interpolation is linear, which is a common but bad technique. https://larsenwork.com/easing-gradients/ shows some nice examples of the problems and the proper easing technique. Moreover, looking at the green–red gradient especially, I think the interpolation may have been done in sRGB space, which is awful for these sorts of things (on the other hand, they do call it isoluminant green–red, so I may be missing the mark in my sRGB guess—it’s hard to be sure by just eyeballing). On the matter of such colour spaces, https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique.... has the best tool for demonstration and comparison that I know of.

The techniques employed harm the rainbow gradients significantly, making them far less smooth than they would be with better interpolation, even with the same colour stops. On that point, the first row of that diagram feels more like a straw man than an honest comparison—it shows massive and uneven colour bands which I don’t think is entirely artefacts of the gradient interpolation.

I will admit that users of rainbow colour maps are more likely to interpolate poorly and not space colours evenly, but still, I wish the article had done as good a job as possible on the rainbow colour map, to show that even then it’s still problematic.
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Whether or not we are happy, the fact remains that the median American lifestyle is positively luxurious by world standards and “America is a third world country” rhetoric is hyperbole. Most everyone today or throughout history has had to work far harder than our median American to secure much less. That we are unhappy only indicates that wealth isn’t the major factor in happiness.

Personally, for causes of declining happiness, I would look at rampant social media and technology addiction, falling-sky media narratives, rapidly increasing political division (itself a product of the traditional and social media), decreasing religious participation, weaker family/community ties, and good ole fashioned keeping up with the Jones’s.
I mean, what did anyone think the cloud was? This isn't news.
I don't think we're on the same page. I'm just saying, personally, I would definitely choose myself and my family over the government and pay zero taxes legally if I could. Now, if the law was ridiculously immoral, like I could only avoid taxes legally by siphoning money to North Korea or something, maybe I would think twice about the moral component, but some tax loophole in a Roth? I don't give a shit. I'll choose my family, thanks. And I don't see how you have the moral high ground here either. Does the US government have better morals than me? Who'll spend the money better for humanity? I bet I would honestly. And I would go as far to say that the majority of people think the same way as me. Who the hell wants to pay more taxes? Now, I'm not saying we should all pay no tax. I'm saying it's a prisoner's dilemma: we're all better off individually if we don't pay taxes, but as a group we're all better off if everyone pays taxes. I don't see how this is controversial or triggering for you, and your response style sucks.
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There is a clear cultural schism on this.

When in Arizona, I went to a rodeo that wouldn’t dare check vaccination after a museum fundraiser that required it but didn’t verify. As someone who would like to go to both types of events, a single document would be helpful. If others prefer to constrain themselves, that’s fine. We are discussing privileges, not rights.
How long after infection will an antibody test work? I have had 2 instances of suspected Covid infection, one where my friend who I had met outside for a walk actually tested positive. The latest was probably November 2020. Would I still be able to identify infection with the antibody test?
>Its like comparing a Tesla to a Ford Model T.

Honestly, yeah. The quality of life improvement between the two is humongous. I've heard treatment on the older insulin therapies described as "a life ruled by the clock where a mistake means death."
wow I'm going to have lots of opinions about this.

1. A lot of people on this thread are concerned about licensing issues with GPL etc. I am sure Github will restrict the beta until it figures out that stuff.

2. I wonder if eventually our corrections to the code suggested by the model would be used to feedback to the model, and if that'll lead to a differential pricing - If I let it see my code, I get charged lesser.

3. I believe a mini-GPT-3 model is where it's at. GPT-3 (and similar) models look to be to too big to run locally. I've been using TabNine for past year or so & it gives me anywhere between 5-10% productivity boost. But one of the main reasons why it works so well is because it trains on my repo as well. TabNine is based off GPT-2 from what i've heard.

4. prediction: Microsoft is probably going to milk GPT-3. Expect a bumpy ride.

5. In all likeliness, this would be a great tool to make developers productive, rather than take their jobs - at least at levels that are more than just code-coolie.

6. Eventually all tasks with enough data around it will see automation using AI.
I thought this attack allows one VM to takeover another VM, and the victim VM (the software on that VM...) talks with those services?
> Maybe copilot just increases the abstraction level of coding, so we can treat generated code as a building block

At this point it doesn't, and we can't, because Copilot is just a fancy autocomplete. The code is there, first class, in your file. It doesn't introduce new concepts for you, it just tries to guess what you mean by function signature + descriptive comments, and generates that code for you.
AMAF, this is wildly a stupid idea. Tired devs write tired codes
Presumably it's saying OEMs will not be allowed to sell laptops with copies of windows preinstalled unless the laptop has a camera.
I certainly understand some arguments against rainbow, but in the same time the new default colour map in matplotlib (viridis) is (IMO) worse for many applications. It doesn't give enough contrast/doesn't define contour-lines so well as rainbow. It' true that I could probably find some other colour map, but I still often switch to jet.
The best time was not to do it in the first place. The second best time is now.

Your past self, current self, and your future self are different people. Don't give in to sunk cost fallacy here.
Because Magnesium and Calcium are both divalent the primary mechanisms of absorption tend to compete if you take them both together. You'll get higher bio-availability if you separate them in time (e.g. one with breakfast, the other with dinner).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652077/
Oh, not very sure at all. However, I may have already have it, so that cat's out of the bag (and invalidates any reason to get the vaccine anyways). Or I may never get it. Taking the vaccine, which includes three brand new medical technologies and has not completed phase3 trial, guarantees me taking that risk.

I am extremely healthy, have a great diet, and as a farmer, I get plenty of time soaking up vitamin D, a potent inhibitor of covid. The vaccine doesn't make any sense for me to take.

Normal disclaimer, I am a huge, huge believer in vaccines, and am probably more vaccinated (due to travel and other circumstances) than nearly everyone reading this comment. I believe bar none vaccines are the medical technology that has saved the most lives in our history as a species. Big fan of vaccines.

But, vaccines are made safe via clinical trials and long-term studies. These vaccines are wholly new in type, were rushed to market, have liability waivers for those pushing them, and to make things even worse, the manufacturers aren't collecting followup data about adverse events in any kind of systematic way (as they would during a normal phase4). So it seems to me the playbook that gave us generations of safe vaccines that saved billions of lives has been thrown out the window.

No thanks!
The clear implication is by not fixing the bug in the same time frame.
The fundamentals of this are described by Ricardo and George through Law of Rent, which defines 'wage' in the context of rent and limited supply of land. With infinite supply of quality land, 'workers' and 'wages' would not need to exist as everybody could just be an entrepreneur/capitalist.

Similar to Coases's theory of transaction costs, without which companies would not need to exist as everybody could transact freely amongst each other.