skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So which people are allowed to peaceably assemble? How about my wife and I? What if we also want to bear arms?

Having the ability to defend against tyranny with a weapon doesn't mean you drop your right to self defense. The 2nd amendment absolutely protects the right to bear arms as a check against tyranny. I don't understand your bone to pick as to why someone bearing arms couldn't defend themselves with them.

Edit: The bill of rights doesn't outright state a right to self defense. I'd like to see you argue why someone who bears arms (which is their right per 2A) shouldn't be able to defend their life with the arms that they have. If someone starts violently attacking my kid with a knife, do you seriously think I shouldn't be able to use arms to protect them because that's not the tyranny of the government? 2A doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms except in self defense. Fortunately for me, I'll be killed or imprisoned for life before someone like you takes my right to armed self defense away -- because that is the only way I'll ever stop keeping my means of self defense.
Cortical layers seem to play a significant factor - wrinkles affect the surface area of the cortex, but layers seem to dictate the level of abstraction a species can comprehend - it's one of the biggest differences between reptiles, mammals, birds, and amphibians. While only mammals have a cortex, in other species, like birds, there are layered structures that can approximate cortical function. Animals that lack a layered cortex or analogous feature, or that have fewer layers in the structure, are demonstrably less intelligent. Birds have an advanced pallum, which is what gives them the edge over reptiles.

The last 4-5 years have been wonderful for neural biology.
The bells sold at the Arcosanti gift shop [0] are very distinctive and once you start spotting them, you will know people who have been influenced or inspired by Paolo Soleri's architecture.

[0] https://cosanti.com/collections/bronze-bells
Just because funding comes from large donors doesn't mean something isn't a grassroots movement. Do you think any other grassroots movement doesn't have large donors?

The largest donor in this case was $1M...do you think there weren't any million dollar donors for BLM or Bernie Sanders?
I have read enough biased statements in the above publications and am aware of enough of their internal politics to see possible motives in their reporting -- such as who they hire:

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/authors/dawn-scal...

> Dawn Scalici joined Thomson Reuters in July 2015 to serve as the company’s first Government Global Business Director. She is charged with the responsibility of advancing Thomson Reuters’ ability to meet the disparate needs of the U.S. Government—working across the company’s major business lines and optimally leveraging its vast and unique data, products, and services. In this capacity she develops strategic relationships with government sector constituents and key decision-makers, develops campaigns to promote Thomson Reuters’ business growth, and works with the company’s senior executives to determine relevant strategic goals and plans.

> Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Ms. Scalici served 33 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In her last federal assignment, she served as the National Intelligence Manager for the Western Hemisphere within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In this role, she was responsible for overseeing national intelligence for an area of responsibility spanning from the Arctic to the tip of South America, including the US Homeland.

> Ms. Scalici serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for International Risk Intelligence Professionals and on the Board of Advisors of the Momentum Aviation Group (MAG). She also serves on the Intelligence Committee of the Arms Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Homeland Security Intelligence Council of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).
Show HN: Built a site that lists Unicorn startups in India
Different strategies. ETH PoS is about distributing a consensus state. Bitcoin PoW is about hardening a deterministic state.
Yeah, I noticed that when I started playing upright bass, compared to the bass guitar the sound starts with a noticeable delay.
>To support my statement, see the reasoning in this paper
>from very well respected researchers at top institutions
>across the country [1]. Or take a look at the historical
>examples of vaccine induced immune escape, for example in >chickens [2], or other human viruses [3].

Selective pressure _can_ certainly apply, and as it has in the past, and you pointed it out correctly.

However, my point is here it _can't_ have. The timeline simply doesn't work (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078077 for all variants).

It's literally entropy, or karma, or god, whatever you may believe : everybody was unvaxxed in India at the time. This particular Delta variant, it can't anybody's action or lack thereof in regards to vaccines.

As for the other variants, well, you might be very correct. I don't know, haven't looked into it at all.

And to be pedantic, please let me point out citing models of a natural mechanisms and suspicions by respected researchers who are probably right is not a "critical fact", it's a "well reasoned argument".

Similarly, I won't use models and past experiences projected on current unknowns when temporal logic and direct inductive reasoning gives you an unambiguous answer.
I think the argument is a fallacy in general. For people that keep making this argument: Stop beating around the bush and just come out and say you want zero covid at all costs.
"english is only spoken with an american accent"

Which american accent?
[quote]if the dollar wasn't the world reserve currency there would be less need and funds for maintaining such a bloated amount of power[/quote]

Citation needed.

You really think that other countries, and businesses and individuals in these countries store their savings and denominate their contracts in US dollars at gunpoint?

Ridiculous.
Or in the case of California, up to 4 years after you leave the state.
Perhaps you missed the part where it's infeasible to do controlled burns on the scale that people around here are armchairing around because there are many of human structures within these wildlands. That is the reason why these fires are suppressed, because if they aren't they will kill humans or destroy structures.

Put another way, if you want to pull your car out of your drive way, but you can't because there is a child standing behind you. The problem is not that you didn't pull you car out, it's the child standing behind you.

Moving onto the "Ok then, just change policy and fix that then". Ok, yeah, kick millions of people off their properties, abandon who knows how many structures, easy, simple.

Or maybe, you know, it's complicated.
that's what they teach, in reality it's a bit different
> Denying expensive claims increases profitability right up to the point they lose enough customers to offset those gains. Am I missing something fundamental about capitalism here?

Yes... the ultimate responsible party is the patient, not the insurance company. It makes no sense to deny Americans the right to use the hospital because the hospitals are private entities contracting with their patients, not a government service.

Insurance is an ancillary concern and of concern only to two private parties, not the government.
How realistic is a plane with a detachable cabin?
They aren't just matching exact hash hits, but are using a metric like the hamming distance between hashes to determine if one image is the same as , or a derivative of, another. The data structures that allow for efficient lookups rely on that metric, or another metric, for matching.
Ha! It’s been so long, I can’t remember if I ever hit that milestone. I had honesty completely forgotten about that aspect of it!
I'm definitely misunderstood but most humans don't want to understand that. I'm going to try shaking my head and licking my ears less.
Yes, that's what I was alluding to. It's a perceptual hash, so you could probably take a flagged image and superficially alter it (contrast/color/crop/whatever) until it wasn't anything visually objectionable on it's own. But it would still match the perceptual hash.
Survey Findings of the Impact of Covid-19 on Researchers
Performance is extremely important. I say that because we use Jestor every day here, and if it's a bit slow we immediately try to understand why and how to make it faster. About templates, did you use it straight from the website or by installing into an account? I'm asking so I can check with the team and solve it asap!
I couldn't see this episode in pocketcasts. Is it a technical delay or it usually becomes available on other platforms later.
I disagree, and I'm surprised the White House isn't trying to work with big employers to try to get them to mandate the vaccine. That would get a huge chunk of the population. Not many are going to quit their job over a shot. Walmart, Kroger, Amazon, etc are some of the biggest employers in the US.

You have to feel bad for Amazon Warehouse workers reading this headline though.
I would also try to completely redesign how mobile builds work in Unity. Instead of Unity creating a brand new xcode / android studio project every build - it should be able to take an existing xcode / android studio project and just add the Unity build to it. That way, theres no more stupid post-process steps that inject all your native code plugins into your xcode project. This step is super fragile and constantly breaks. You can keep your xcode project updated manually and the mobile plugins would no longer need to develop their unity build pipeline.
The immune response from vaccines is generally far less variable than the immune response from fighting off an infection naturally.
[edit] - Give it a try now; press ctrl during the animation to stop it.
Doesn't the Netherlands do this as well? As a Canadian I think not allowing dual citizenship might solve a lot of issues with both the very rich and the very poor.
Write Yourself a Git
Yea don’t bother just start looking.
Rust has methods for these.

Most C/C++ compilers have some variation on __builtin_cttz or the like. C++20 adds templated methods rather than builtins in the <bit> header.

Java has Integer.bitCount, Integer.numberOfLeadingZeros, etc. since Java 5.

I haven't looked at Go, Swift, D, Zig, Nim, etc., but I suspect that all of them will have some variation on this theme.
At some point paying for office space rent is just throwing good money after bad.

How many tech companies will just let their offices go when the lease is up? Or begin the process of subletting?

Many tech companies have started a full remote hiring swing, and they won't let these employees go when things return to "normal". It wouldn't make sense to lay them off if they're productive talent.

I could see small WeWork-style hubs working for companies that want to support small clusters of remote workers, but not full offices.

This will probably put a lot of downwards pressure on our $300-500k compensation packages as we begin to hire from middle and southern US states, where wages never reached west coast levels.
There's not a lot of evidence to support that, though there is some. They could have been wiped out by disease, as opposed to any superior intelligence on the part of us sapiens.
One disturbing thought in all of this is the image dataset used to train the neural net.

> The system has been trained on 200,000 sex abuse images collected by the US non-profit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

I would never want to be a developer working with that dataset of images. I can't imaging testing that software for effectiveness!
Wrongthink different.
What about those who want to return? They have no choice even if vaccinated.

I feel that returning should be optional but only available for the vaccinated. That enables choice whereas no one allowed to return at all does not enable choice.
The vaccine results in more robust immunity.[1] That is an outcome.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2103825?query=TOC
Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
They don't even have to be Feynman diagrams - theoretical (rather than mathematical) physicists are usually pretty lazy. We make up notation for us rather than the reader. Mathematicians, I find, are a lot worse but still bearable. Engineers though, oh boy, seem to actively enjoy using notation to obscure the material in the books I have read.
Slippery slope
The Intellivision Amico video game system
For me, the article is unnecessary aggressive. There are many methods to order the countries. It's weird that everyone is using one method, and only one country uses a different method.

Anyway, for some weird reason here in Argentina we have better results in team spots, like soccer. So my proposal is to count the number of medals according to the size of the team. Soccer is 11, volleyball is 6, basketball is 5, 100 meters dash is 1. Moreover, if the same person wins two medals, (like 100m and 200m) than only 1 point is counted for the country. (If one person wins a gold and a silver, then only the gold one is counted.)

You can use the version that count the total number of medals, or the version where gold is more important, or the version with 3-2-1 discussed in the article.
I really recommend listening to Vlad Zamfir, who has interesting things to say about crypto in general: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/vlad-zamf...

This is not a rant for or against Bitcoin or Etherium. It's more to point out the persuasive and idealistic rhetoric of crypto gets confused with what may happen in the real world as people work on use cases.
I created edgedict [0] a year ago part of my side projects. At that time this is the only open source STT with streaming capabilities. If anyone is interested the pretrained weights for english and chinese is available.

[0] https://github.com/theblackcat102/edgedict
And support isn't free. Unity must be paying Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft to give support on console. So maybe Unity just decided to pass on the cost to the developer a bit and also filter out a bunch of newbs that drive the cost higher.
This one's great:

https://theartofpostgresql.com/
The US government doesn't work like that. There isn't some logical person making logical decisions.

For this change to occur, many senators and representatives would have to be directly and personally incentivized to make the change.

They aren't.
> ... make it possible to select a pg database based on async or sync replication

Can you explain why you doing this? Is this application data vs. time-series?
It's a communist hellhole, but it's not authoritarian.
> agressive blind defense

You're confusing nuanced, informed, counter-argument compared to your agressive blind accusation. This is what PRC diaspora in the west has to deal with, brainwashed people who are signficantly less informed than them who accuse everyone of being shill / propaganda accounts. It's every bit as dogmatic as rabid religious folk, with even less self awareness.
I’ve always wondered if the corvids notice how bird-brained all the other birds are.
Not endorsing your rudeness, but there’s actually a technique called variolation that does something similar by purposely exposing people to low loads of a wild virus so their immune system has an advantage. Variolation could be a good argument for masking in public.
Faulty assumption; Americans who live abroad do not benefit from the US system: social security/disability/retirement, health programs, military, public infrastructure etc. pp. is provided by the country where they live.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/05/icloud-w...

"The mud puddle test: You don’t have to dig through Apple’s ToS to determine how they store their encryption keys. There’s a much simpler approach that I call the ‘mud puddle test’"
though nations like Australia that did flu checks last year estimated it was almost absent, and of those that tested positive very small percentages were vaccinated, so if its the flu, the covid vaccine is the best flu vaccine ever.
Their WebGL export template update broke the loading bar (unityProgress callback returning 0% then 100%).

I got into an argument on the Unity forums with a maintainer about whether this was a necessary feature. That was surreal, and I think spoke volumes as to how it came to be broken in the first place.
Transactional DDL changes cannot be understated - it’s the most outrageously useful database feature out there.

I have to work with oracle for a client right now and I’m gobsmacked that they don’t offer it at the pricepoint.
…turns out that dress is white and gold
We struggled a lot to realize that complex offline operations are a much better fit for us. In the beginning we're trying to help "Any company with any problem", and we ended up building nothing for no one. That’s when we saw that our clients with really tough operational problems were extracting great value from all the features we offer. We saw this fit had two parts: the operations being complex and them being offline. The reason we focus on complex operations is because easy problems don't actually need a tool. For a small company without ops problems, spreadsheets or paper sheets will usually do the job. The offline part is because we built Jestor to run on any mobile device from day 1 (as any modern application should). And "real world problems' need to have the data on the field, not only on computers.
I also see it as a chicken and egg problem. Do we fault a 'grassroots' movement for becoming big enough to get donor money? Or do we fault a 'grassroots' movement because it was launched by donor money?

In any event, big money just seems like a necessary evil for any impactful social/political movement, sadly.
Americans can vote overseas though
Lengthy ongoing discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075021
Thousands in a country of hundreds of millions. This is a drop in a drop of a bucket. Wake me up when it breaches %0.01 of the population.
Yes, however, vaccinated people are much less likely to catch the virus.
Here's a great talk from a Forest Service expert on why wildfires have become worse. The TLDR is that forests have become much denser, particularly after old trees were logged, and this creates large areas of fuel. Additionally, forests need active management - prescribed burns, dry fuel cleanup, pest management, etc. Climate change may be aggravating or amplifying the intensity of wildfires but there are other causes that are potentially more important, and they present opportunities for wildfire prevention that are currently ignored by governments/news media/social media.

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_hessburg_why_wildfires_have_g...
There are some core differences:

1. You can connect everything in Jestor. All your tools will be connected, instead of building lots of stand alone applications for each team/problem.

2. Jestor provides database functionalities, so you don’t need 3rd party services to store your data and link it to processes within the platform.

3. Our focus is no-code and non-technical teams, whereas Retool is closer to a low-code tool for engineers.
Once people are mandated to return to the office, they will not tolerate working alongside unvaccinated coworkers.
You could also increase the 21M cap through soft-fork and the existing chain wouldn't have to split.
Yep! Here's a photo from the manual with all the original names of the tools: https://imgur.com/a/Xke5YU2
Their products? I thought I bought one. Isn't it mine, now?
I kind of wonder why they don't make multicore an option to the compiler so that if you were willing to sacrifice single-core performance to get multi-core benefits you'd just say 'ocaml -mc' or something.
I mean, the whole article is framed to indicate that the poor grade is what resulted in this mans pursuit to amend the constitution.

The headline is literally "The Bad Grade That Changed The U.S. Constitution"

The teacher goes on to say of herself "You have, just by making this fellow a grade he didn't like, affected the U.S. Constitution more than any of your fellow professors ever thought about it, and how ironic is that?"

The article also insinuates that Watson only began lobbying to change the grade. "Most people would have just taken the grade and left it at that. Gregory Watson is not most people."
> If you take the benefit of the doubt on the part of the author of the verbose sentence, then it could be that each of the abstractions in it is relevant.

I get Feynmann's point, but you are absolutely right. I took a sociology class in symbolic interactionism years ago and what that original sentence is trying to stress is that:

* We see symbols whose meaning and interpretation is socially determined.

* Those symbols are visual but not always textual.

The original sentence explains why when a person in a blue outfit with badges on the shoulders and a peaked hat yells, "Get down!" you lay on the ground with your hands over your head, but when a person in a spandex jumpsuit and wraparound shades says the same thing you start dancing. Feymann's sentence loses that meaning.
No offence dennis but I gotta be a bit blunt here.

If you're not trolling then you're being a fucking idiot, you could land serious prison time for having a shit ton of child porn on you. If you live in a country where it's illegal delete literally all of it of the hard drive, run DBAN on it, smash it to pieces with a hammer and then set the hard drive on fucking fire.

Literally zero courts are gonna believe "It's just a dataset for if I want to train an AI on it later XD". You will get horsefucked in court
Naming the Nameless (2018)
> i’ve heard from multiple people saying they needed to stay awake for 80+ hours

This vague allusion doesn't do much to convince me of the 72-hour claim. While we're doing anecdotes of extreme sleep deprivation, check out this personal account and AMA of someone who claims to have stayed up for 81 hours straight. What makes me doubt your "multiple people" is that after missing only two full nights of sleep (so ~48 hours), people start hearing and seeing hallucinations, and can't reliably hold conversation, much less deliver healthcare: https://old.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/6sab7t/i_stayed_awake_...
It depends on the bird though, doesn't it?

I seem to remember (from one of Konrad Lorenz's books maybe?) that while corvids are extremely smart, some other birds are pretty dumb by human standards... I think some raptors, like eagles and hawks, are very simple-minded. It struck me reading this as a kid because I thought eagles were majestic, how come they aren't also smart? Disclaimer: this may very well be outdated scientific understanding of raptors.
The only people who will complain are either pedophiles, or people who value their "privacy" over children ' life

You can downvote but you still choose between one or the other
The CDC estimates that 36% of Americans have been infected. Of those, only 15% were completely asymptomatic but most had mild symptoms.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
No, you are right, it’s fundamental. It’s like not knowing what memory is, let alone how it’s managed. This isn’t an attempt at gatekeeping and I do understand that it’s possible to write useful software without understanding the fundamentals of von Neumann machines. But how is it possible to not wonder about how these magical boxes actually represent the software we write in memory? It’s not like you need a comprehensive understanding of solid state physics here.