skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Point Against the Axiom of Choice
Some five-year-old stunt doesn’t proof anything, least of all that there is any alternative. What would you replace peer review with? Some guy publishing straight-into-camera rants on YouTube?
Physically Based Rendering Book
In this case they're actually being consistent. Your privacy is so important to us that we won't allow you to access our website and get tracked.
If the choice is between people dying due to lack of insulin or not people will take an untested insulin.
In America we particularly have a lot of "bullshit we think protects us from lawsuits even if it really doesn't".
I like the knowledge stack, and the metaphor. this one is true "a small team one person might be doing most of this solo"
>>before multiple times over the last 20 years. They always fail and give up after a couple of years.

That would be the concern. What happens to the chip market when intel rediscovers its inherent anti-competitive nature and shuts down any non-intel product?
IANAL, but can't they just word a disclaimer and checkbox? Something like:

"Our European visitors are important to us... but the cost of GDPR-compliance for a US-focused site is high. For your own GDPR protection, we advise you not to access our site. However, if you choose to do so, you agree to waive any and all rights granted to you under the GDPR. [ ] Agree"
Is it ethical or legal for companies to scrape GitHub stars for spam purposes?
Just got an email from jack.flynn@gatsbyjs.com with some spam and he mentioned that he got my information from the stargazers list of the Gatsby repo.

Is this something I should bother reporting to GitHub? I will likely never star another repo again because it's been proven to be a good source of spam.
Agile Navigation Approach to Online Violence Against Children Through AI
The usual: getting thrown in the debt tower.
I remember when I first was considering going full time on my side project. I was convinced that with $200k I’d have enough runway to make it work. I met a VC at a party and even mentioned that plan to him. He laughed (rightfully) in my face.

Our brains are not equipped to predict the money it takes or time it takes for a business to become successful, because the variables are too great. Selling your house would be like me raising $200k. It’d buy you a year. But at the end of that year, it’s still very unlikely that your business will be paying for itself, let alone paying you a salary.
Blue Origin gets little media attention because their list of accomplishments is rather short. The seem to make good engines, but in the time SpaceX has developed the Falcon 1, the Falcon 9 (and launched it 120 times), the Falcon 9 heavy, and a human rated capsule that has made multiple crew launches to the ISS, Blue Origin has managed to develop one demonstrator that reached about 90 meters, and the suborbital New Shepard that is now finally about to have its first commercial launch.

They certainly weren't involved in any game changing activities yet. They might play a significant role in bringing about space tourism, but that's yet to be seen.
And now 1) I am googling NixOS and 2) cursing why the #@! I didn't knew about after looking at the page.
Thanks!
I also have RSI and it stops me from being a productive programmer, playing any sort of video game, and completely ruined my life for a couple years. If I get really good sleep I can use the computer for a couple hours without any pain at all but normally I'm relegated to only using my hands for a little bit each day otherwise I'll injure them. I tried using voice to text but then I injured my vocal chords using it. Physical therapy and Rehabilitation is slow and I doubt I'll ever be able to have the full use of my voice and hands again. Having a BCI would improve my quality of life immensely.
Not surprised to learn. Approx. 5 years ago we talked to the team at IBM to see if they are able to replicate and improve historical results we had achieved in trading our quantitative algorithm using our proprietary data set. Not only could they not improve it, they couldn't even come close replicating the real results. They became so desperate that they were willing to send an entire team from the West Coast to the East Coast in order to identify the reason.
I hear similar things about psychosis, it changes the brain in a way to increase the risk of future psychosis.
Problem is that the vaccine probably only creates a resistance, not a complete immunity against some variants at least. So in any case you probably don't want to catch covid even when vaccinated.

I think Israel with a high vaccination quota released numbers that showed an effectiveness of 70% without differentiating the variant, but don't quote me on this.
Looks like sites "care about you" just as much as they do about Europeans.
Only partially true. A very young industry changes rapidly, but as it matures it slows down. IT has already started slowing down.

See Moore's Law & related: desktop PCs/laptops are not hugely more powerful than they were 10 years ago. A top of the line PC from 2010 is quite usable even today. This will become true soon for smartphones, who were badly under-powered in 2007 and now they're quite usable.

Servers are getting there, and actually most devices, the same.

Software is more volatile but even there we're slowing down a bit. Gmail has been out for... 15 years? And it's reasonably likely it will still be usable in 15 more years.
... only when paired with cookie browser settings switched to strict blocking.
Less comprehensive, more specific:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/APointAgainstTheAxiomOfChoice...

Also submitted as a separate item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855143

Broadly (and as this article explains), AC says that given any collection of non-empty sets, you're allowed to "choose" a set that contains one thing from each of them. In set theory terms, the "product" of non-empty sets is non-empty.

This has some uncomfortable consequences.
Posted as a complement/augment to the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27836406
Implying that Blue origin is even slower-moving than those two incumbents?
...to be told we're important?
For those interested 'TheLimitingFactor', the best channel on youtube about batteries has just released a long video on this.

https://www.patreon.com/thelimitingfactor/posts

It will be like a week or so until it will come out.

There is an older video on the topic as well. About Clay mining and potential processes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvE-UA-xw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCK1SJG5gc

And an interview with somebody in the industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfffip_4C80

There are certainty people in the industry skeptical of this. No commercial lithium is currently produce from Clay and not with DLE processes. Tesla process will likely require both. While the process Tesla outline is likely possible, if they can do it as cheaply as existing process is questionable.

Other companies work on process along the same line, but generally use ACID instead.

Joe Lowry from Global Lithium Podcast is very skeptical. He is a industry veteran having worked with Tesla in the past as well. If you want to learn about the lithium industry, I would suggest:

https://www.globallithium.net/podcast
Show HN: Quit drinking with the support of a small group (cohort-based quitting)
Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365
totally agree - I fell into this trap before of mistaking “customers think it’s a good idea” for “customers will pay”

This video from yc explains how most of our conversations with (potential) users are at best useless and at worse misleading, and how to do it better. Based on the book, “The mom test”

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6g-how-to-talk-to-users
With the Giant, why put the keyboard at the top? If you put the keyboard at the bottom, it can be like a normal upright piano that is just incredibly tall, and doesn't require a ladder. Is this about where along the string the hammers are hitting?
The proposal in the OP is again:

> App stores should review apps at set frequencies. Developers should know the expected date for their next review so that they can prepare for unexpected consequences that require direct action.

So that would introduce the concept of "remove just before", if stores limited review to expected dates, and developers knew the expected date of review.
The draft outlines the differences from SRV for anyone curious:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-...
Beyond Silicon Valley: The six cities building the future
An economics teacher, when aggressively asked to prove why capitalism is the better system by his left-leaning students tells them:

"At the end of this year I will grade each student individual performance in private but officially you will all receive the same grade, the average of the entire class grades instead, so it is fair for everybody."

They loved it. At the end of the year some work got A grades, some B and some F. But on the average they all received a very honorable B+.

However, next year, with the exact same algorithm, all students received the same grade: Fail.

A society where people are not rewarded each according to his merit is a society where people are not trying their hardest to improve. If you prevent billionaires you also prevent your best performers, your middle class, your millionaires, your small businesses and such. The end result is a uniformly poor society where the most vulnerable hurt the most. Just like communism.
UK govt draws a blank over vaccine certification app
Yes, I think OP meant “cdnjs” when he was talking about CDNs, not reverse proxies like Cloudflare, Cloudfront or Akamai.
Three years was long enough to figure out that they do not actually find Europeans (or Americans residing in Europe) important.

Change the text.
Use VPN. And use browser extension like uBlock Origin. You can access blocked content and you get privacy.
Halting problem: Dev vs. Ops – the Linux app distribution problem
I used to see only that, but lately I've been seeing cases where once you choose the "manage cookies" option, all the nonessential cookies are opted out by default.
Did these UN polls consider that people holding these views might not answer to UN polls? I encourage you to try looking for how these questions were answered in polls done by local researchers. At least in Europe, the ratios are the other way around all around the eastern half. In my own country, less than 30% believe climate change is a risk, and even less believe it's caused and/or resolvable by humans - I'm surprised the UN polls say otherwise as not even the EU dares to claim these amounts of approval. Perhaps the UN asked for "any climate change whatsoever" as opposed to "human-driven climate change" - a significant difference...
More accurate to say "businesses don't do as told".
>So we could end up with many battery cars and a charging infrastructure which doesn't scale fast enough, and no hydrogen cars, where we could retool the gas infrastructure for filling up and scale quickly.

Do you really believe it's easier/cheaper to retool the gas infrastructure for hydrogen than adding more chargers? All house have electric plugs (enough to charge overnight) and parking lots and most sidewalks too (cf https://thedriven.io/2020/03/24/siemens-converts-all-lamp-po...). Most EV don't need to be charged more than once a week, too.
Sure, I have more respect for the ones that 451 it than for the ones that pretend (very obnoxiously) to be compliant.
In Russia all patients get their insulin for free thanks to mandatory health insurance (5.1% of your net salary additionally paid by employer).

If for some reason you would want to buy insulin, it would cost you 2-12 usd per vial/cartridge (3ml x 100units)

A cartridge of most modern European or American rapid insulin costs 5 usd [0][1] and the most modern long or ultralong insulins cost 9-12 usd [2][3]. Russian own insulins cost 2-4 usd per vial/cartridge.

Do you know why the same companies charge you at least 10 times more than a Russian citizen?

I wander what are the 'huge problems with healthcare in America' if overpaying 10 times for insulin isn't one of them?

[0] https://apteka.ru/product/apidra-solostar-5e32673ae911440001...

[1] https://apteka.ru/product/xumalog-5e327a1eae8baf00014d54fa/

[2] https://apteka.ru/product/lantus-solostar-5e32673a3d4c470001...

[3] https://apteka.ru/product/tresiba-flekstach-609a3db8c93e31dd...
5. I start day-dreaming about the root cause of a problem and how there are better ways to solve it. Often leading to some frustration about why there does not exist a better solution for. A good reason to start googling around or have a look at some HN for possible interesting solutions or approaches.

I guess, this is also a kind of boredom.
Am I missing something, or is this article very narrowly missing the most damning criticism of the Dark Forest hypothesis according to the article's own logic? The first paragraph of the “Criticism” section says:

> Overall, the Dark Forest Hypothesis has an internal logic and consistency that makes it an appealing (if somewhat somber) potential resolution to Fermi’s age-old question. Unfortunately, it also suffers from an inherent flaw that is capable of unraveling the whole thing. Like many other Fermi-related hypotheses, it only takes one exception to this rule to prove it wrong.

Given this, I thought it was going to follow on to point out that we are the exception to the rule, but instead it goes on to talk about malevolent exceptions. But, as the article mentioned earlier, we have made many active attempts to communicate our existence to other hypothetical civilisations, and we make no effort in obscuring our radio signals.

Is it possible that other civilisations follow the “Dark Forest” principle? Of course it is! But why would we happen to be the only civilisation that doesn't really worry about getting seen? The possibility that we are not alone and we are the only ones trying to communicate sounds even more fanciful and anthropocentric than any of the alternatives.
Rust's learning curve is a wall, there is little doubt about it [1]. I am well aware people love to hate on C++ but compare to another (even younger) operating system project written in a more mainstream language: https://github.com/serenityos/serenity/graphs/contributors

[1] An example I like, try to make sense of this https://cosmic.mearie.org/2014/01/periodic-table-of-rust-typ...
As a layman creating a reliable pump that runs on a battery seems like it would be a fairly easy job for with modern technology. Of course anything mechanical is going to require regular maintenance, but again I wouldn't expect this to be a difficult problem.

What are the complications here? Size? Preventing infection? Does it need to adjust flow rate based on oxygen requirements?
250 USD per month at the minimum. You also need to purchase blood sugar test strips which also cost a considerable amount. You need to check BG levels at least 4-5 times a day (usually you check much frequenter than that).

People are willing to forego doses, reduce their nutrition to pay less. There are diabetics who die because they were trying limit their doses.

People also use Walmart insulin (insulin R), which us much much shittier than the modern insulins (fast acting insulins). It is much harder to control blood sugars with insulin R, because it's onset and clearing out levels are very long and inconsistent. You need to inject before you eat a meal, wait an hour, hope you don't get low and eat. You can survive on them but it's much harder.

People also use expired insulin (me included), because it doesn't expire 100%, its effects get less over time. People use second hand medical devices (insulin pumps), fix them themselves (because its out of warranty and they can't afford a new one), mod the devices by flashing open firmware so that they can do looping. Diabetics are used to gamble with their lives, because the pharma companies don't have our backs.

The real issue with diabetes is that you somehow survive, but if you don't have access to modern technology, you feel sick all the time because of ups and downs and you are much more susceptible to complications.

As a diabetic, you feel like a ticking time bomb.

People would definitely be willing to inject some backstreet cooked stuff. It's a life or death kindof thing. As a diabetic you leave so much things to chance that you probably simply won't care. Me at least, I am trying to survive, if I can't afford insulin and the only option I have is to use shitty insulin I'll take the chance. If I die, I die. Because I'll definitely die horribly if I don't take insulin.
> But looking at the current inflation rate it is much more likely to be held true compared to any other economic plans or lack there-of.

No, its not; even if you naively project the current inflation rate into the future instead of expecting a reversion to the mean, since the current inflation rate is largely driven by housing prices (that is, housing prices are inflating much faster than overall price levels and, more importantly, wages), it would never make housing affordable; in fact it is doing the opposite.
> No idea how to get links to display properly even following "Formatting Options" instructions.

You can't have links in text posts like this. HN stories are a link or text. From https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc: "Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission."

To make proper links in comments, just put "https://" in front of them so they're URLs. "<" and ">" are for unusual URLs that get mis-detected with their surrounding text, and they are hardly ever needed.
> US-only companies feel obligated to follow it and genuinely asking why?

It doesn't matter where a company is located, only where its products are accessible. If you offer a product/service to EU citizens - for example a globally accessible news website - you have to comply with GDPR. Or you deny access to EU citizens, which is fine too.
pregnant man WTF
I second this: Command-line and text files are more user friendly than it seems.

1/ You can search for stuff on the internet and get quick results (not a video)
2/ You can _paste_ a command and send it to someone to run it instead of a word document with instructions and screenshots.
3/ Once you learn to find and search for stuff in files, it is easy to discover where stuff is configured.
4/ Manual pages are great once you know how to read (I mean skim) them.
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It would be a terrible system. A country the size of China with 1 point something billion people, would have the same clout as a country like Belgium, with 11.5 million. Unless you will give proportionate representation, but why would smaller countries agree to get swallowed up?
I wonder why, when I click to choose which measures I opt in/out, by default everything is just disabled and I just press confirm. Is it just me? Anyway, always saves me some effort.

Tho I optin analytics usually :)
You could make a bet with a friend or use something like stickk.com to increase the stakes.
I don't believe they need to comply, either. Just stop saying people living in Europe are important. They obviously are not.
Have you looked thru the TOS?

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
> Define a function z(n) = 1 - f(n)(n).

I don't understand the notation f(n)(n). Is it related to f_{nn} in LaTeX notation? Your later text suggests maybe it was aiming at f(n,n) so I will assume that.

I recognise a form of this argument and I might have tackled it in the supplementary materials I created that are referenced in the article. Let me know.

> However, z(k) = 1 - f(k)(k). Yet f(k) = z, so z(k) = 1 - z(k).

I'm assuming this was intended to be:
z(k) = 1 - f(k). Yet f(k) = z, so z(k) = 1 - z(k).

For some k, z(k) = 0.5. f(k) = 0.5. Seems Ok.
Same here.

Two things helped here:

1. Doing something else instead. But something that's also valuable. Not just scrolling on your phone, but learning something, building something, training, etc.

2. Put yourself out there. If you do good work and get positive feedback regularly, it is easier to keep going.
Absolutely wrong
Omg. Darkest dungeon on this thing will feel amazing
It’s mostly local papers in rural areas. They are trying to proof some point, and happen to be mostly just not very interesting for European readers. So cutting them off is cheap.
I thought the cause of inharmonicity was that higher frequencies cause steeper bending of the string at the attachment points, which makes the effective length of the string shorter. Sound on Sound's article on synthesizing guitar sounds (which have the same problem) has a good diagram explaining it (see figure 12):

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/final-attempt-synthe...

And this model explains why the inharmonicity is higher on the attacks (higher vibration amplitude increases bending of the string).
After minimum wage was increased in 2009 there has been a decrease in the amount of people that make minimum wage every year. I'm assuming this is due to COL increases. A lot of the people making it at this point are probably being supported by their family.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm#....
Listening on headphones is weird: usually, for an instrument, the sound comes from one direction. Here some notes were more in the centre, while others (lower ones) were coming from the left channel.
and might use a lot less CO2.