skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These concerns seem pretty hypothetical because AI's going to be putting everyone out of a job before such things could be an issue anyway.

That said, even in a hypothetical primarily-human labor-market, market-dynamics would fix the problem anyway.

For example: say food becomes scarce because no one's farming. Then the remaining farmers would become rich (they could raise their prices tons) while everyone else would end losing their money to buy the food. Eventually folks would start going into farming until the imbalance is corrected. And, yes, this would mean that those who'd refuse to go into farming would end up draining their retirement funds away -- a retirement fund wouldn't be a permanent no-work ticket, at least in an economy where labor was in too short of supply.

At least, in an ideal free-market economy. In practice, we tend to simplify things and have regulations for practical reasons. Such deviations from an ideal free-market economy might mess up the correction-process.. at first. However, if such regulations did prove to be problematic and prevented the economy from working, then we could just change the laws/regulations to fix that problem -- the simple approach would be to simply repeal problematic regulations.

In short, the stuff you're worried about can't happen (because AI will take the jobs anyway) and wouldn't be a problem even if it could (because market-dynamics fixes such things).

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Separately, might be worth noting that the big future problem would likely be population-control. Once we have good AI/robotics providing exploding wealth, and then clinical-immortality, it'd be all too easy for people to just keep having endless babies. Doubly so when we have good enough 3-D printing to literally print people, and easy test-tube babies before that. That may be an issue society'll need to address.
It's disturbing that our intelligence apparatus seems unable to accept the obvious conclusion that Havana Syndrome is mass hysteria. I fear they're caught in some sort of loop where investigating it _creates_ cases, which increases their certainty, which causes them to allocate more resources to investigating it, etc.
How do we know the time existed when earth was formed or how are we sure it was linear?
This app is my 1st choice for HN engagement but could really use an update and a search function inside comments view.

It is has an infinite scroll system so there is no page1/2/3 etc and in the comments section this is especially useful. I used to wonder why Dang inserted the extra pages links at the top of high comment count posts and it is obviously a pain point for him. With this android app its just all there in a slick card presentation.

I think there are a lot of interesting ways to enhance our connection to HN's valuable store of knowledge...
when did discourse here get this fuckin shitty?
It's a bit of a Gish gallop to ignore my point and say something orthogonal that only is weakly related to your original assertion.

Gain of function research is simultaneously concerning (aside from bioweapons use, there is also the possibility of deliberate release) and important (to understand how pathogenesis happens and to better combat future pandemics and bioweapons). It, however, has approximately nothing to do with your assertions that A) China is preparing race-targeted pathogens, or B) that publishing a protein folding database does anything significant to assist China with A.

> ... at least be an open and frank discussion of ...

OK, then you need to be open and frank, rather than engaging in these dishonest argument tactics.
I thought it was solved in 2019 as likely caused by a pesticide:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191003111753.h...
> The next update to Swift Playgrounds is supposed to allow full iOS app development…

May or may not be pedantry, but it’s not allowing the UIKit APIs, only SwiftUI. Still possible to make a full app, but on top of the IDE features that it lacks from Xcode, it’s specifically shutting out important parts of current iOS app development in 2021.

That’s not to say there’s not good reasons for it too, but it’s worth pointing out.
Maybe. They are also possibly just ginning up more reasons to block normalizing relations with Cuba.
> subjectively

> falsehood

Subjectivity and truthiness are opposed.

* If the question is "who is the current world chess champion" the answer is Magnus Carlson.

* If the question is "who is the greatest chess player of all time," there are a number of contradictory opinions.

"Bobby Fischer" is a low-quality answer. "Bobby Fischer because XYZ" is a high-quality answer, even if I don't agree.
I really love the totally varied definitions in this thread. THIS pretty much sums up so much of CS.
> actually lets you upload your own PDFs and screenshots in addition to allowing Perma.cc's bots capture webpages

FWIW: the Wayback Machine is just one part of the Internet Archive. The quoted bit accurately describes things you can do with an archive.org account, too. Readers here may be familiar with the archive.org-affiliated effort by a team specifically working to recreate the playability of old PC (and otherwise) video games with JSMESS.

> this does go a long way to solving the problem of dynamic sites

Maybe, but the "dynamic" aspect that I'm sure the other person had in mind doesn't have much to do with the D in DHTML so much as it has to do with the dynamism that arises when you have a smart server responding to requests from a fat, JS-powered frontend. It would be possible to accurately model this in and execute it from a series of static assets, in some cases, but it's rarely done.

Even many sites built with static site generators today are not going to be usable in the future. There's too much tight coupling to the environment/deployment configuration and not enough semantic richness to properly hint to the crawler what resources are necessary to archive. In the heydey of XML, it used to be a big deal to strive for machine readable documents. Today's resume-driven development-obsessed webdevs effectively cast a vote of no confidence even in HTML, doing an end-run around it daily, and figuratively holding up a middle finger to the Principle of Least Power.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html#PLP

To some extent, even a bunch of the projects associated with TBL's Solid initiative are guilty of doing the same.
I'd avoid "Google Alerts". Once they get people used to getting "Alerts", there will be ads in them. Can you imagine Google not doing that?
Zip – How not to design a file format
https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

> market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure.
Wow that hover text was quite prophetic.

Personally I hope this makes more people read the news. If porn is what it takes to get a more knowledgeable public then show me that gigantic pinis.
Congrats on the launch! It looks like a useful product.

Your low end pricing (i.e. startups & starter packages) seems expensive. For sure it might be worth the value but I feel like it may create some friction for new product builders. What do you think about that? Do you have any plans to re-evaluate or are you pretty set on that for now?
except that advanced neuroimaging has shown otherwise:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2738552

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/july/ad...

this is not just a mass hysteria/placebo/negative-placebo effect.

"Among patients compared with controls, there were significantly greater ventral diencephalon and cerebellar gray matter volumes and significantly smaller frontal, occipital, and parietal lobe white matter volumes; significantly lower mean diffusivity in the inferior vermis of the cerebellum (patients: 7.71 × 10−4 mm2/s; controls: 8.98 × 10−4 mm2/s; difference, −1.27 × 10−4 [95% CI, −1.93 × 10−4 to −6.17 × 10−5] mm2/s; P < .001); and significantly lower mean functional connectivity in the auditory subnetwork (patients: 0.45; controls: 0.61; difference, −0.16 [95% CI, −0.26 to −0.05]; P = .003) and visuospatial subnetwork (patients: 0.30; controls: 0.40; difference, −0.10 [95% CI, −0.16 to −0.04]; P = .002) but not in the executive control subnetwork (patients: 0.24; controls: 0.25; difference: −0.016 [95% CI, −0.04 to 0.01]; P = .23).
Oops I definitely got it wrong. Probably a bit more than a thousand columns now that I think about it. Still a beast. The thing is a database with every column a product id.
I've been fasciated by this story since it was first reported on in 2016. What better threat to America than one that's invisible, difficult to detect, and strategically only seems to affect American citizens?
The argument for tabs really goes that time is spent much more on reading code than authoring, so it should be optimized and customizable (tab width) for the reader.
Thanks for putting it together. I've been curious about modern macos development for a while, but haven't found many good resources on what that entails. In the past, I used BigNerdRanch's Cocoa book to put together a small UI that accessed an external service in ObjC, but that book hasn't received updates in a hell of a long time.
> Well, the 'Nation State' is a modern concept, so no.

The nation state is. The state is not. The state is ancient.

> But even without official, stated administrative organization, 'borders' still exist as the demarcation point between groups.

But they’re not borders as such. Without administration, they shift constantly, and frequently are not clear at the edges.

> Start with the point that most 'states' (or administrative regions) in history, have been ethnocentric. From Egypt through Minoan, Greek, Roman etc..

Sure, but the phenomenon of the nation state is the part that you’re missing here. You can argue that historically, humans have grouped themselves ethnically. What you can’t argue is that this somehow makes ethnocentrism in the political environment of a nation state “natural,” as the concept of the nation and the state have been aligned for hundreds of years now.

> Some more so than others. The US, no, Sweden, mostly.

But this distinction basically proves this is not intrinsic to how humans function. The existence of variation is a pretty good argument against historical determinism.
The Pandas library makes manipulating tabular data easy. And it's better than Excel when it comes to cleaning messy data.
might be that sensitivity to stimulation is key for getting shit done … until it isnt.
Framework Laptop – How ALL laptops should be made
Do developers have too many options?
Almost everything is in the ground in the Netherlands.
Late reply, but Gelfand's geometry textbook was published [0] in 2020. I think it was completed by his colleagues after his death in 2009. The calculus [1] and combinatorics [2] books are also in print.

[0] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781071602973

[1] https://store.doverpublications.com/0486414485.html

[2] https://store.doverpublications.com/0486425665.html
Homing torpedoes and homing missiles sound more like boomerangs to me. But while a boomerang returns if you miss your target, it does not explode.
FWIW, Swift Playgrounds currently allows apps to load any library–I would be surprised to see technical restrictions preventing the use of UIKit. App review might not like it, but other than that it doesn't seem like there would be much stopping it.
That is true. But the distribution system is largely UGed. My OP was meant to say Dx not Tx.
False.

There are over 6500 properties with at least two bedrooms listed for rent on Zoopla for less than £1500per month.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/property/london/?beds_min=2...

If you don’t have kids, get one of the several thousand one bedroom places listed for less than 1k per month.
Have you visited? I'd start with that if not.

I did a couple years ago for a conference and the homeless were very aggressive. One tried to start a fight with me because I wouldn't give him bus fare.

The state of public transport is very poor for such a densely populated place as well. There are almost no taxis. If you don't uber/lyft/whatever, you are invisible.

This was before the reports of tent cities and feces/needles in the streets, so I assume the place has only gotten much worse and less safe.

That was my one and only visit. I would not take a family there. It was bad.
Unfortunately I’m not expecting to support anything lower than Big Sur. I tried supporting Catalina, and having to support an OS that I don’t use daily was hard… Sorry about that. :-(
do this types of services pause the video stream once your screen is idle? like if you were reading an article and only scrolling a bit every minute. that seems like it would take up a ton of bandwidth, especially if everyone in your house/street/town/city/country was also streaming video to their devices all the time
Everyone should support blameless postmortems. I'm more ruing the impending "oh we're soooo sorry" PR babble where it reads as a subtle "** off pleb".
Chondroitin 6-sulphates restore neuroplasticity and memory in aged mice
News Sites Including Huffington Post, Vox, Newsweek, Riddled with Pornography
Hold onto your hat then: in the US alone there are at least 20M people without high-speed internet access [1]. Around 45% of the entire world's population [2] still doesn't have internet access - at all, not just broadband.

They've said starship, when operational, will be able to deliver 400 starlink satellites to orbit at a time. The plan doesn't sound far fetched.

[1] https://archive.is/do3Qp

[2] https://en.unesco.org/news/new-report-global-broadband-acces...
This reply is really delayed, but our office rather small and so the contractor is notified and the event logged every time the filter thinks it blocks adult entertainment. I was being stubborn and repeatedly trying to access the site via other directories, link patches, etc. and that’s why the contractor was actually notified in real time.
Remove the beryllium plate and mount one of these in your car boot https://www.hamamatsu.com/eu/en/product/type/L10101/index.ht... and you've got an invisible cone of destruction which would cause the symptoms described.
Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works?

Medicine.
Because people use iOS devices, and they want these apps.
It doesn't help that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is indeed talking about "Surveillance".

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-hea...

They funded the development of a quantum dot to track vaccinations. The distinction between that and a microchip to track people is difficult for many to understand.

It's surprising how clueless or indifferent they are about people's privacy concerns.
I thought they said microwaves ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Happened before, but at least it was for Joe Montana's son.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220218

Not sure who Garrison Bellack and Zachary Kaplan are, but supporting their venture makes YC either stupid or evil. I hope it's stupid.

Dispo at least suggests that it's carelessness.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/27/y-combinator-demo-day-disp...
> Spreadsheets are poor man's MapReduce.

Yes. Emphasis on "poor man's". Excel is mediocre at many things, but it's highly accessible so people use it anyways. That can be good or bad depending on the situation.

Need to quickly crunch numbers for a small dataset? Excel is perfect. You can probably put something together quickly to get what you want.

Need to maintain a contact tracing database? Not so great. Excel scales poorly and the low implementation cost isn't worth the limitations and risks.
I think it might be worth it to be there for a while if you're young and getting established. It still very much is a tech center and there's a great density of talent and jobs.

Live as light as you can and focus on learning and building your career. If you're not making at least $200k by age 30, leave. That's practically the poverty line if you want to start a family. A "fixer upper" starter house will be over a million dollars. I call the Bay Area the world's only six figure slum.

I wouldn't start a startup there unless it were lavishly funded, or unless it's made up exclusively of young people who are okay with sleeping on couches or living in tiny rooms.

The trend is toward place (in general, not just SF/SV) becoming less and less important over time. The old limitation that you have to be in the Bay Area to raise angel or VC money has been dead for years, and COVID massively accelerated the shift toward remote and distributed teams in knowledge-oriented industries. There is still benefit to going to a concentrated hub for a while to level up, but once you hit a certain level in your career you no longer need to stay.
Ceci n’est pas une airpod
If the executives think it's anything remotely resembling a reasonable use of company assets to fight workplace discrimination laws on constitutional grounds, the board should fire them, and if they don't, the shareholders should fire the board. ATVI is a large publicly traded corporation. It's not Hobby Lobby.
More important IMHO in power differentials like this are the other side of that: punishment or worse.

Whether it's a real explicit threat or not, it's built in.

women especially have had these experiences for decades. I'm sure almost any women on HN has a story about some superior being inappropriate and the pressures around that.
I take every CIA press release with a huge grain of salt as it is. But a presser about a mysterious ailment heavily suggested to be an attack perpetrated by Cuba, at a time when American media is hyping "anti-government" protests in Cuba, and U.S. officials are calling for more action to be taken against Cuba as a result?

I'll take the whole salt shaker.
The fact they're a fascist dictatorship is reason enough. No need to "gin" up anything.
Here's video of Fauci describing Gain of Function and how he funded it.

https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1417910948208259075

This is of course to his criminal prosecution referral for lying to Congress multiple times.

The DOJ clearly won't do anything about it now but come next year the power will be available and Fauci will go to jail.
It would be hard, but I think a new kind of spreadsheet that was easier to validate, easily impose a schema and constraints and helps us identify human errors would be helpful.

I bet excel has some excellent features around this, but they are not front and center in the UI.
As far as competing anecdata, I found gsheets absolutely much better for joining together multiple sheets of data. The lookups are so much less touchy simply because "it's all in the cloud" (as long as you have permissions).

With Excel you have to ensure the file is there, and readable, not tampered with, etc.

This allowed us to create better multi-workbook "apps" that have a bit more modularity - you could even embed sheets into a webpage as a view-only client.

In the end, Excel is good for us only for interoperability with external groups.
If you are already planning to charge people that are signing up for free, then it is relevant at this point in time.

How do you plan to handle:

Today: customer signs up for free.

In six months: you start charging fees

In six months plus one day: the customer sells something, incurring a fee even though they signed up for free.
FastCompany’s Harry McCracken and How to Geek worked together to publish an article on how to run windows 3.1 using iDOS 2 (and all your old games) on 12 July [0]. It his Mac news sites the same day. TWiT talked about running Win 3.1 and TRS-80 on iPad on 18 July [1].

The popularity of these articles and podcast may have shined a light on this bit of hackery. It sucks it is getting booted, but it’s largely interesting because it allowed you to do the thing Apple doesn’t want you to do.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/739100/how-to-install-windows-31-o...

[1] https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/832
The vast majority of these people will not be able to afford a 1500$ satellite dish (that's how much it costs to build the thing, even though they sell it for 500$ for now) + 100$/month internet.
kotick lost a sexual harassment lawsuit in 2010

additonally, a phone number of "Kotick (Activision)" was photographed on Epstein's rolodex
Thanks. Did you in the end figure out how to add nodes and dependencies. Alt-arrow will add a new node as dependency of the currently selected one(s). I agree its confusing that you cant edit an empty cell, the reason is that it wouldnt mean much. You cant chose where nodes go - they get laid out automatically based on their dependencies.

I dont use discord. Do you mean you want a flowchart editor thats collaborative within your chat? Does discord have plugin ecosystem like that?
This phenomenon has been observed for quite a while (at least a few years) now, so there goes that theory.
Pesticides in the middle of Vienna? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57875322
I couldn't either. Ultimately it fell in the no-new-tooling-to-navigate feature for me.

It was ok because I wasn’t trying to use it in anger. Just very simple stuff where looking at the source was good enough.
I don't think it's 'mass hysteria' - There is lots of evidence that suggests whatever people were exposed to caused some form of brain damage confirmed by MRI scans.[0]

They just cant figure out exactly what caused it. I think a recent study pointed towards pesticides, but the evidence was pretty lacking.

I really doubt that 'mass hysteria' is causing people to get brain damage that shows up on MRI scans.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6652163/
I disagree with lazy-loading being a good practice. As a frequent commuter using underground transportation (sigh), I strongly dislike when websites do not have the expected behavior of having the whole page loaded.

Also, I wish there was a nice way for browsers to export a part of the (generated) DOM as SVG, when one needs to use a screenshot as illustration.
You're being downvoted as if the U.S. intelligence apparatus hasn't done this before. Using media statements to sway public opinion on specific issues is a standard part of their playbook and has been for decades.
Very true, especially for small business. But large multi national enterprises are also doing this.
This is actually the full version of the presentation Fauci was giving on Gain of Function research they were funding at Wuhan:

https://rumble.com/viskb1-anthony-faucis-presentation-of-gai...