skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very modest proposal sort of paper. You can tell it's a utilitarian paradox paper in disguise because the author never distinguishes between death and suffering. If you could reasonably minimise or eliminate the insect suffering I don't see any ethical dilemma here. A black fly's natural lifespan is only a few weeks!

The author is subtly invoking a utilitarian trick where you multiply a tiny number by a very large number and arrive at a nonsensical result.

So for example, the tiny harm of killing 1 insect times trillions of insects = unspeakable abomination.

If we follow this a bit further we can reasonably conclude that one of the most important moral problems for the human race to address is insect welfare and life extension.

> when there is even a low percent chance of something very bad happening, and you're not doing anything that is essential or necessary, you ought not do it.

This position is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_utilitarianism and it's not one that makes sense for me, personally.
If you start a business, even a billion dollars is an unimaginable amount of money and a reward far greater than any other job in existence. People forget how insanely large a billion dollars is. If that isn't reward enough, then no amount is.
Not someone who played the game much, but a quick glance at the stats suggest that the size of a SACU death ball would be limited by a nuke? I also concede it'd be hard to build a nuke without other players noticing.
This is actually a fairly standard contract. The poster on twitter is trying to show Pfizer as some sort of evil monster... they're not, although they are a modern multinational corporation, not a public service organization.

Implying that Pfizer should be charging the same amount per dose to everyone in every quantity is silly. Pfizer is a corporation, they exist to make money. The fact of the pandemic doesn't change that. They're free to make any contract they can for any amount and any terms allowed in that country where the contract is written.

They charge more to countries they can get to pay more, as expected. All the contract language that seems controlling, predatory, and "evil" is mostly just standard clauses to avoid issues that have happened with contracts in the past - you can more or less identify what some other company/companies did to cause each clause just by reading them.

Also note that the actual effect of the contract is a combination of the contract and the laws of the nation or organization under which the contract is written, so a nation having badly written laws might be a real problem.

Some nations might have (for example) a pharma law that says "If product is returned in quantity that is a significant fraction of the order, then the purchaser is entitled to a prorated refund for the quantity returned".

Without a more detailed law limiting how this can be applied, Pfizer has to put a no-returns clause in the contract in order to make it worthwhile to even make the sale.

Otherwise, it might be possible for the purchaser to e.g. order extra doses to be sure they get enough or for PR reasons, then return the (expired) doses to Pfizer later on and force Pfizer to return some money even months later, also sticking Pfizer with useless vaccine at the same time and the need (extra cost) to safely dispose of it.

I get the feeling that the poster trying to imply that Pfizer is attempting to hide the contract because it's evil has very little experience with international sales contracts.
Do you have any suggestions for JIS layout (or even thumb-shift) keyboards easily purchasable internationally (Canada specifically)? I’ve always wanted one, but it seems extremely difficult to get one here (at least without resorting to pre-owned keyboards from eBay).
Someone has to propose new APIs. Google is the only one at the moment seriously pushing the web as a complete application platform via Chromebooks, and even they are doing a half assed job.

Firefox abandoned FirefoxOS, Apple is focused on the App Store.

What's the last interesting API proposed by someone other than Google?
in South Africa they were known as stiffies, which has a different meaning in some cultures
Generally a unit would only be considered a hard counter if it could destroy the other unit in a reasonable amount of time. If a swarm of zerglings can take continuous fire from some air units and still manage to destroy an entire base before being destroyed themselves, then the air units aren't much of a counter...
There used to be a lot of these sort of things in the early days of aviation and automobiles…1890s-1930s. The magazine “Modern Mechanix and Invention Magazine” had some great covers with similar retro future schemes. Nineteen silly one-off ideas for every brilliant one is still great odds for a society, even if the death rate among experimental aviators was distressingly high.

Let me also make a nod to “Everyday Mechanics” magazine in the 1910s for similar ideas…for kids. Build your own small gas engine by casting your own parts. Build a wireless torpedo. Build a radiotelephone. Build a fan-driven snowmobile…
Canada is a big place. Wildfires on the coast is kind of rare, but in the boreal forest its so common that there are literally species of trees whose seeds need the heat of a forest fire to germinate.
Yeah the demoed roof tiles pushing through the SolarCity acquisition were fake mockups. Later they never got them to work near the price point that pushed the deal through and now have a redesign making them close to the size of small panels.
I find it greatly insightful that when the Swedish government studied gender segregation in the education system, the most common reason men left the profession was "culture fit". It highlight how culture fit is not specific to one industry or one gender, but rather as an universal aspect and likely major root cause in gender segregating behavior.

The issue goes much further than simply "we like you". How safe one feel in ones choices and decision is heavily influenced by choices of peers. If other Stanford grads work at the same place I do, then how bad can the decision to stay be? Similar, if every Stanford grads left, then is the decision to stay still safe or am I missing something.

The relation between culture fit and the probability that someone will commit a crime (like sexual harassment) seems less direct but I suspect there are an connection there. At a society level we know that mixing demographics will reduce trust, and with reduced trust we see an increase in crime.
For US it will. People in the US seldom think about just how powerful their media environment and general influence is. Like women have been sexually harassed since forever in China, and it's the #MeToo movement that led to a lot of the victim to stand up and people to support them.
He's advocating for what amounts for tutoring, or 1-and-1 work.
Blizzard recently ended development on Starcraft 2. This prompted a lot of hand-wringing.

There’s also a few new studios cropped up that have announced intention to produce new, competitive RTS games in the Blizzard tradition (in contrast to models like Company of Heroes/Dawn of War, SupCom, or C&C).

These include:
- Sunspear Games, which is making a game called Immortal: Gates or Pyre based in an SC2 mod called Vanguard that was well received by the pro scene.

- FrostGiant games, a new studio just set up by a bunch of SC2 team alumni

- A new studio by David Kim, head honcho of design and balance on SC2, being bankrolled by TenCent.

Over the next 2 to 3 years there’s going to be the biggest wave of new, competitive RTS releases since SC2 first launched.
Nice, but I'd rather have Windows 95 Mobile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg
"It's happening" and the effects attributable to humans burning fossil fuels is a scale though.

There's very little doubt C02 does increase the holding of heat. There's also very little doubt the earth has gotten slightly warmer over the past century.

Where I become skeptical is in the modeling and predictions. More heat means more evaporation means more cloud cover means less heat but clouds hold heat held in. The earth tilts slightly on it's axis. Energy output from the sun varies. There are so many interacting factors. "Butterfly effect" and all.

Then you throw politics and redistribution-ism and media sensationalism on top of it all and wow what a stinky mess.

Suffice it to say I personally don't think global catastrophe is imminent from C02. Not convinced at all. I lived through the ice age scare (here's Leonard Nimoy talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAYXQPWdC0) and the start of the global warming alarm in the late 80's (which just didn't pan out as many expected 30+ years later). So I don't trust the ability to model long term climate changes and present it in an objective and non political fashion.

But I do believe humans are affecting the climate and from caution we should reduce C02 as we reasonably can without starving millions to death. It's cleaner anyway and fossil fuels are just nasty in other respects and they are limited.

Am I an illiterate unscientific "denier"? An oil company shill? Nope. Just a guy who has seen nonsense hype cycles which this certainly resembles come and go.
Even so, the topic is docker. Your storage is else where in docker -- not in docker. If it is in docker, then you are already in trouble.

Simple solution is storage is a secondary drive/partition -- still automate OS install.
the chat was the absolute best part. Shoutout to "Elon Musk" and a bunch of other anons who made it feel like the 90s again
Most people would still pick wartime Italy to wartime Syria.
Back in those days re-formatting and re-installing Windows was a very common thing because usually the system would get into some kind of bad state after several months of usage (or at least mine did).

I believe I only had a Windows 98 'Upgrade' CD, which could not be used to install on a bare system. This meant I had to first install a previous copy Windows, which in my case was Windows 95 on floppy disks (and I feel like it was 20 disks, at least for my installation).

This worked fine until one re-install disk 15 decided to fail on me. I managed to hack it back together by copying the files that were still accessible to a different computer and then copying them to a blank floppy together with the missing files from the running system's Windows folder (I think it was a couple of dlls that were unreadable). I was surprised that it worked.
Generate Open Graph Images with Next.js and TypeScript on Vercel
On the currently in OCaml and ahead of the time front:

* GADTs

* Row polymorphism with inference

* First-class modules

* Let binding operators, e.g., let* for monadic binding

On the coming soon to OCaml (hopefully) and way ahead front:

* Algebraic effects

* Modular implicits
> Such small software shops like Microsoft unfortunately cannot afford to hire designers to do multiple sets of icons.

I had to chuckle. I remember back in the Windows 3.11 days, there used be a separate monochrome set of icons for all Windows (and Microsoft) programs.
pressure is measured in force per surface area. It is disheartening to see HN so quantitatively illiterate.
If you want to learn OCaml, you should probably check
https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ (free to read online)

It is co authored by Yaron Minsky, I think Yaron plays a big role in making OCaml relevant

I think OCaml would have been a far less popular language, had Yaron chosen another language for jane street
You're right, I re-read and that's clear now.
Indeed, "alone". What else do they have? Skype? Teams? Both part of Office 365. XBox GamePass? 23 Million.
Even worse for Apple, if there was a more capable browser on iOS, the need for their app store would be reduced.
The Windows 10 ISO is ~3.5 GB in size, and a standard 3.5 in. floppy could hold 1.44 MB. So you'd actually need almost 2500 floppies.
I learned computers because in 1996 I was completely ignorant and a little kid who decided to drag everything into the recycle bin because I thought it would be 'recycled' back into place but really it just destroyed windows enough that I had to learn how to reinstall from floppies created in DOS
OS/2 warp
Re: Drag window: One of the only things I miss about the Sun Solaris workstation I used back in my embedded days was the "Front" key. Hover the mouse over a window, hit "Front", and that window would be moved to the top of the window stack, unless it was already on top in which case it would be moved to the back. It was extremely useful both for raising a window when you could only see a little corner, and for cycling through all the windows at a particular point on the screen. You also didn't have to make it so clicks would raise a window, and then you could have a terminal in front of a browser window and you could click around in the browser without losing the terminal.

There are many things I do not miss about my SparcStation. Like, opening a web page with too many GIFs in Firefox, which would lock up the window manager, and I'd have to use a colleague's machine to telnet to my machine so I could `pkill -9 x11`.
How long can the science mission of Ingenuity continue? When do the batteries/fuel die? Or will it accumulate too much damage to fly before that point?

How far can it stray from the rover?

Will it be able to aid in the search for life? Resources?
Wow, the CDC says:

"CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said recent studies had shown that those vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others." [1]

Just as much viral load. Really? Effective?

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administr...
1. We were able to figure out a strategy to Google them, then we outsourced it to another country.

2. Cold calling worked better when we had a really high conversion rate, but was more time consuming. Which worked best would depend on the price of the sale, and your conversion %.
The majority of people who consume alcohol are not alcoholics however the majority of people who consume soda ARE unhealthy. Quite the disparity yet the above posters are trying to use the parallel as a strawman.
So we should be comfortable with billions.
This is certainly insightful. But I think a complete explanation would have to include the power of narrative as well. Somehow.

It seems obvious and intuitive that the human brain is in some way wired to recognize patterns in data and weave narratives around those patterns, and also that it’s possible to skip the data part and convey intelligence through narrative and metaphor.
I remember some japanese person did this for windows 8 for a laugh

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2c5cd026959b010ad57e34...
H3D-Net: Few-Shot High-Fidelity 3D Head Reconstruction
Like a Dyson Sphere, but backwards.
I don’t mean to be too critical, but this article is part of a larger trend. I can nod along with all of its central claims and walk away with exactly zero actionable advice or practical path toward integrating this into my teams workflow.
I just looked it up -- Windows 98 was THIRTY EIGHT floppy disks hahahahaha
> The fact that someone like Trump could come to power here - a fact that we, amazingly, seem to be trying to sweep under the rug - says this system is a complete failure....

That's unhelpful hyperbole. Trump was an idiot with charisma, but by way of comparison, he caused nowhere near the damage to the US that Mao did to China.
Windows 95/98 definitely decayed over time. Especially after installing stuff like AOL and RealPlayer, your system was like a disgusting cesspool of random trash. I distinctly remember nuking the entire thing would noticeably increase my frame rate in stuff like Homeworld lol
Can't speak for every RTS and MOBA, but losing in Dota takes 45-60 minutes (30 at best depending on the current game balance) and feels pretty horrible. And it typically takes hundreds of hours of gameplay to be good enough to even understand why you lost and what you could have done to fix it. Relying heavily on 4 teammates makes it that much more demoralizing, especially when you know that a "good" player probably could have won even with the 4 bad teammates.

Losing as a newbie in Starcraft and AoE feels way less bad.
They were far better because they conveyed the state (and existence) of controls without much-hated skeuomorphism.

"Flat" design is dereliction of design.
To be fair the start button at the time was _huge_ and had never been seen before by most PC users. I remember a ton of the Windows 95 advertising, and every single getting started guide spent a ton of time explaining that you just had to click the start button to start doing anything. If you plopped win 95 in front of someone with very little computer experience at the time they'd be pretty confused and try to open all the stuff on the desktop (like how macs worked at the time).
This is obviously bad and I agree that they should have put a better default in place, but this bit isn't true: ""public threads" show up in the main channel list to everybody as a sub channel". In fact, you have to join a thread for it to show up in your channel list, so there's an opt-in interaction required. (or somebody could @mention you or manually add you to the thread, leaving a system message indicating they did so)
Transcript to Video: Efficient Clip Sequencing from Texts
Because:

"CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said recent studies had shown that those vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others." [1]

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administr...
Yes! That's what I mean. It's like Win95 put a lot of effort into that GUI.

There was a PDF on HN long ago about the Win95 research project. I found this, but it's not what I recall (I remember a loooong PDF): https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...
Death of a B2B Product: Lessons Learned
And yet Windows 95 (and all Windows from 3.1 to Vista) let the user set up global color schemes that were inherited by all applications. I set up a "dark" mode in the early '90s and used it until Microsoft inexplicably REMOVED the entire color-scheme editor... just as everyone started to realize how dumb inverse (black text on white) color schemes are.
No it's not; it's a moment of shared levity - a respite against the uniform tedium of repeated daily drudge.

It's a hint of humanity in the belly of the beast that eats our daily lives.
"the experience of a beautiful sinset is just the firing of a million of neurons in a specific pattern, nothing more."

There are emergent properties of programming, the craft, that you need to master if you want to navigate the next levels of complexity. Just reasoning about sequences of state transition is going to be I'll suited for many occasions, even if technically that's all you need to model everything.
I can't imagine anyone with an Apple TV+ subscription that doesn't also have an iCloud subscription of some kind. Perhaps Apple TV owners? But there's only 25 million of them.
You are only locking yourself with a loss here, and the price is 500k.

Just look at default rates of underwater properties to see how the masses react.
Actually if you had the tape it was easier than disks. That was a regression
How about other QMK users share their mappings in this thread? Here's mine[0]

I've been on a minimally mapped POK3R (60%) for years (pretty much CL=l2mod, l2mod+hjkl=arrows). It's been OK but still can't touch-type properly and even after years as daily driver still prefer low-profile laptop style keys.

Just switched this week to a self-built Lily58proc Choc[1] for better ergonomics and forcing myself to touch-type. My layout is still a work in progress, I still type very slowly, and would love to see other coders' mappings for inspiration :)

[0] https://gist.github.com/3nprob/41bfaca6dd712de673a140b2b3be3...

[1] https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58
You can care about other's opinions and feelings or not but you only damage yourself in the end if you don't because they don't go away with "well I'm right!".

Good luck on your "action". Isn't going to be much in the end I'd wager and the experiment will play out.

Fortunately for all of us the end effects on humanity are probably well over stated.
In middle school I was taught that 5.25" diskettes were "floppies", and 3.5" diskettes were "hard disks", because of the hard plastic case. It was awesome.
The father in the picture at first glance gave me Tony Stark with an iron man suit prototype vibes. Anyone else?
Looking forward to Windows 15 looking like DOS Shell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Shell), once we've done a 720 in circles.
I mean, I didn't come here to fight about soda, but metabolic disease is a real problem, and people do seriously consider whether the way our brains respond to sugar constitutes addiction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

Sugar doesn't contribute to violent crimes, but a coca cola bottling company in Colombia may have killed labor organizers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co.
Archive link?

I'd like to see a study conducted of affluent children versus lower income children when talking about this. I'd guarantee affluent children cut off toxic family members because they can. Lower income ones done because they can't.
I like the contrast on this site.
Team games are quite popular in StarCraft Brood War - not only 2 vs 2, but often 3 vs 3 or even 4 vs 4.
In fact the 3v3 and 4v4 games were usually played by lower skilled players, due to the relatively lower skill cap and relatively random results (at low skills win or lose depends more who you get on your team than your own actions).

Brood War also has custom maps with relatively crude, but still use programming (loops and triggers) that allowed players to build thousands of various custom maps. MOBA genere and (probably) tower defense comes from StarCraft Brood War custom maps. There were many other categories (e.g. bound maps, puzzle maps, control maps) that are poorly represented even nowadays.
Yes, Japan for example also receives warm ocean currents though Europe experiences the most extreme impact from this effect. The eastern portion of South American has warm ocean currents but they break off before reaching the southern tip. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3652
>I think the Seraphim ACU/SACUs are more often held up as OP units.

It was less of a statement against how OP they are and more of a statement about how they seem to exist outside of the rock/paper/scissors mechanic that almost all other units are subject to. Seraphim SACUs can of course telesnipe and wreak havok, but would struggle against a swarm of gunships or bombers as they lack AA.

>Do the Cybran SACUs have any anti-navy defenses?

There's not a whole lot they can do against naval units (apart from set up shields and TMLs), but then again there's not a whole lot that naval units can do against them if they just walk away from the shore.

>Also worth noting that the Monkeylord doesn't have any hard counters, since it is equipped with both torps and light AA.

You're looking at 50DPS with the torps and 80DPS with the AA. Not exactly comparable to the 400DPS long-range bolters and 4000 DPS face laser!

In terms of hard counters:

- It would lose to two T3 heavy gunships (3k mass total).

- Naval-wise, a pair of Salems (4.5k mass total) could complete nullify its torps with anti-torps (4 torps/4s for the ML vs 2 anti-torps/3.8s per salem) and fire back at a combined 200DPS.

(For people unfamiliar with SupCom, a Monkeylord is a giant, late game unit that costs 20k mass.)
AMD Q2 2021 Earnings
You're gonna be hard pressed to enforce another shutdown. On top of that, might as well start prepping your short positions while we're at it.