skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the price is very affordable for even small independent studios knowing that engine licensing costs are one of your biggest non-labor expenses, but the price is also set high enough that an individual will easily have it out of budget.

Only hardware is marginally more expensive, and only sometimes.

I find their pricing very well calibrated.
Knuth: "When I got to step 4, I paused and pretended to be at a loss; I said, “Hmmm. Is it legal to use the words ‘go to’ in this place?” Edsger said, “I saw it coming.”"

What an excellent troll! One of Dijkstra's more well-known papers is "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" [1].

1. https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...
If you have young children, better not take pics of them, lest apple inc accuses you of being a predator.
Also use all Affinity products, and what is missing for me is a timeline tool in Photo or Designer, so we can make animations.

This is off topic, but a lot of Affinity users are here, so may be anybody can give recommendations for this?
LOL @ Apple fanboiz' privacy arguments: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/apple-icloud-photos-scanni...
I hope you're joking?

Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust, after oxygen: and only because there are two oxygens in silicon dioxide.

If someone corners the market on silicon, Bitcoin dominance is the least of our problems.
It's going to be tricky. I personally can't wait to go back to the office, and reclaim some space in my apartment by tearing down my WFH setup. Plus all the free Diet Coke I can drink, overhearing coworker's conversations and never being "out of the loop", etc. I think that people who feel as I do will simply go back to the office, and we'll incidentally enjoy the benefits of faster communication, which will make WFH employees feel left out, so they'll come in or go hybrid. Sorry about this in advance.
congrats! and best of luck!
> why aren't we pursuing early outpatient treatment with combinations of existing over the counter medicines

Doesn't this come back (yet again) to the financial incentives?

Go to FDA.gov and read up on "Emergency Use Authorization"[0]:

> FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.

If it were to turn out that an existing (possibly cheap? maybe even a generic?
) over-the-counter medicine is a good treatment for C19 then that would undercut the business plans of Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and co.

Asking "cui bono" has never been more appropriate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-...
They got Mihir Bellare to review (and write a proof for) the private set intersection cryptography pieces of this.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Technical_Assessment_...

Apple's official proof was done in part by Dan Boneh:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Secu...
What if your employer agreed to rent you an office space? Or converted your office to more of a WeWork style space where you can reserve a desk?

I'm thinking this is where companies will be headed. For employees who want to work remotely, let them. For everyone else, either rent them small offices or allow them to come to the office as they choose.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075021
Because several other people already gave perfectly adequate direct responses.

Mostly what I'm doing currently is defending my level of surprise.
Florida is threatening defunding schools that seek to require masks. Just masks. COVID vaccination has become a political expression of personal freedom.
I guess my point was to do it effectively and consistently in terms of scoring. I mean, serious bowlers and professionals use them specifically because they don't like to move.
(not able to edit my previous post at this point, but wanted to follow-up for you and anyone else reading this in the furture)

I just watched a video for an Obsidian plugin called "Outliner" and I think it does what you're trying to do with collapsible sections. Here's the video, it's the first plugin that he reviews:
https://youtu.be/2234DXKbNgM
We plan to release support for continuous aggregates on distributed hypertables in the next month or two.

Initially version will support case where the raw data is a distributed hypertable, while the cagg table is a hypertable on the access node. Then follow-up with support where the cagg table can be distributed as well.

We are simultaneously working on support for compressed continuous aggregates as well, which we are targeting the same timeframe.
From the link, qualified nurses start on band 5 that is £24,907 guaranteed nationwide out of university.

Then it increases automatically to £30,615 after 7 years of experience (and more by then because it's also adjusted up automatically for inflation).

Honestly it's decent out of university... if the hours and the patients aren't too bad. Bear in mind it's a guaranteed MINIMUM (outside of London).

edit: was wondering how difficult it is to promote to the next band that starts above that. other articles say it's doable in two years. nurses read just like the typical HN discussion where companies have to progress developers quickly or they all jump ship a year after graduation. ahah
One metric that's interesting: what the market is offering for temporary contracts for traveling nurses. Past flu seasons haven't seen contracts of $10k+ per WEEK for ICU nurses.
A summary of the photo scanning system:

- Only applies to photos uploaded to iCloud

- Matching against a known set of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) hashes occurs on-device (as opposed to the on-server matching done by many other providers)

- Multiple matches (unspecified threshold) are required to trigger a manual review of matched photos and potential account suspension
And a lot further than we should want them to attempt to go.
> What if the files are intentionally created to match the desired hash?

That's called a second-preimage attack and is similarly infeasible to achieve against a cryptographically secure hash function.

There are good arguments to be made for why this is a bad idea, but hash collisions aren't one of them.
Metaverse evangelists typically dismiss the idea's dystopian origins
Nope, you bought a license to use iOS.
"hospitalization and severe disease and death are completely different things."

So you're claiming hospitalization, severe illness, and death are not correlated at all w/r to prior of COVID-19 diagnosis? How does that work? Do you have the numbers to back this up? I'd love to see them.
Horrible story :-( And once again the grievance strategy was successful.
The AI ITS machines I think weren't used by non-technical users much, the TOPS-20 machines might be, but the anecdote I heard was always in context of Multics, which had much more explicit time sharing story behind it (with computing as utility).
If you have ETH but not use any wallet, should you do something?
They're not wailing, they're leaving for better service elsewhere.
> Apple spends a hell of a lot more time and money verifying that my iPhone is secure than say… the developers of any number of the mobile Linux ports.

Secure against entities they don't like. But intentionally insecure against entities they do like.
Honestly, Gamma seemed like the most dangerous one to me on paper. I apparently am very wrong on that assumption though. (Gamma was the "P1" variant that was reinfecting cities that were previously infected with COVID19)

Alpha of course was the problem (being the first COVID19 variant that was "better" than the original). But only Delta was actually "better" than Alpha. Everyone has completely forgotten about Beta (aka: South Africa variant), despite it being hugely in the news a few months ago.

Lambda isn't spreading very much. There's a "Delta-Plus" variant going around, but it seems like "Delta-Plus" is no "better" than the original Delta.

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We drew the short straw on this one. Back in the 1918 pandemic, the flu evolved into a less-dangerous form. In this COVID19 situation, we got unlucky twice, and the virus evolved twice (first to Alpha, then again to Delta).

There's no reason to assume that the virus will continue to "get better", so to speak. Aside from the fact that it did so twice in the past year... the next step it takes forward could be backwards. Evolution cuts both ways, its not always a straight path towards improvement.

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EDIT: Looking at the list: Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, and Kappa are all "variants of concern" but no one gives a care. Only Delta is giving us issues right now, and only Alpha gave us a major issue before Delta.
Well, you can get mad, but your only real recourse is to unhitch your wagon. Most unity users won't do that, they don't have the resources or ability to make their own engines, and many are not even able to effectively use the reasonable competing engines like Unreal.

Unity users are pretty much a captive market at this point. Really good business for Unity, probably not so good a situation for Unity users long term.
I'll take that one step further and say that they post total nonsense and speculation on a regular basis.
“They didn’t arrest anyone.” Please. What is arrest other than losing freedom movement and then being moved to a location. It doesn’t make sense to me that you’re choosing to die on this hill. There is no excuse for using unmarked vehicles and police with no insignia. This is the US government, they’re doing it because they’re afraid of protestors? Sounds like BS. I’m tired of the government playing the victim during protests.
I understand your distinction. Nevertheless, you've brought up two habits that a traditionally good writer might erroneously bring with them when writing an academic paper. Namely, their reluctance to repeat themselves and their inclination to build up to a big reveal. Have you had to make any other modifications? Do you have any other tips for a starting academic with a passion for writing?
When Firefox/phoenix was created, it was essentially by two people, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross, isn't?
The average salary of a US hospital director is $125k. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/healthcare-director-salar...
First they came for kiddie porn, and I did not speak out -because I had no kiddie porn. Then they came for Pepe the frog memes. I did not speak out -because I was held in solitary confinement pending trial and successful completion of the re-education camp.
> This guy and his writing have been debunked pretty solidly,

Can you show me conclusive evidence that phase 2 trials for these vaccines have NOT been skipped?

I have looked and couldn't find it.
Not to mention that some roles requiring tight focused interaction (such as mine) benefit greatly from in person meeting.

Ideally, for me, I'd be in office two days a week (and no more). I'm much more productive on my technical tasks at home.
The network self-adjusts difficulty so a block is mined roughly every ten minutes. A block has a maximum size of data in it, pretty much the maximum amount of transactions per block. As long as there aren't massive fluctuations to the mining rate, the rate of transactions will remain relatively constant.

As long as there is free space in the blocks, average transaction fees will remain low. If there are a lot of transactions in the mempool waiting to be included in a block, users will need to submit transactions with higher related fees to ensure they get picked to be included in a block soon.

Remember, miners don't necessarily set transaction fees. Users choose what they're willing to pay for their transactions, essentially placing a bid. Miners choose the transactions that maximize the fees per block. Miners always want as full of blocks as possible because there will only be a block roughly every 10 minutes.
Most coiners conveniently ignore block reward when calculating the cost of a transaction - that's your missing factor. Consider that the only reason you need to secure the blockchain is because it is mutable, if it were immutable it would be sufficient to simply publish it with a known hash. Ergo, 100% of the energy consumption of the Bitcoin network is attributable to transaction processing and therefore can be quantized into and proportionally assigned to transactions.

TotalCost = DirectCost + ProportionalAllocationOfBlockReward

The value of the block reward is proportional to the price of bitcoin, and this block reward determines the ceiling of the consumption of resources in mining. The floor is determined by prisoners dilemma and so likely approaches the ceiling at the limit.

So yes, the transaction cost does scale with consumption of resources, albeit in a tail-wagging-the-dog kind of way, because the price of the block reward changes with price allowing more resources to be consumed.

Currently the actual cost of a Bitcoin transaction is $2.44 in direct costs + (6.25 * 41000)/2750 = $93 in indirect costs, so right around $95.44 - and that's using I believe the maximum possible transactions per block, the reality is it's more expensive still.

Move over Bank of America, there's a new king in town.
MC got Grealish. Aston Villa has money now. Dean Smith, become the GOAT and sign Messi!
In interesting giraffe facts, eye size seems related to eyesight (little animals with little eyes actually can't see well), and giraffes have gigantic eyes, 10x the volume of human eyes. They are known to be able to see a human move a mile away. Other animals watch giraffe to get signals about nearby predators.

Good references are hard to find, but here's a weird article that seems auto generated but also kind of useful...? https://sciencing.com/information-giraffe-eyes-8665464.html
OP isn't demanding the company become all remote. They aren't dictating how you work. They want everyone to have an option to work in the manner that is best for them.
Alternative title: Security researchers voice privacy concerns over Apple's new plan to scan users' data for child abuse images, saying governments will likely increase its scope https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f54...
Ellie Kelly Crypto Comment Effect

Has a nice sound. Good job team.
Sorry, that's not how it works. The network adapts the difficulty to target 1 new block every 10 minutes.

More mining → higher difficulty → higher electricity usage per block.

The transaction costs paid are independent of difficulty or number of miners. Transaction cost depends on the demand. A block has a limited size in bytes. If more people want to send transactions than there is room in the current block, the miner that mines that block will include the transactions that include the highest fee.

When sending a transaction, you can choose that fee. Higher fee → higher chance of being included. Bitcoin clients will usually calculate a reasonable fee for you, based on the demand.
> Postgres simply has more features

And yet lacks the most important one. A natively supported clustering and HA solution.

Especially important with CitusData being acquired by Microsoft and its future now at risk.
It sounds more like they are appreciative that Amazon is setting a precedent to have employees back by '22 which other companies will theoretically have to match.
I love that the conversation is always around personal "bodily autonomy" despite the fact that your decision to not get vaccinated affects every single other person with whom you come into contact.

Freedom of speech doesn't cover shouting "fire" in a crowded movie theatre.

Personal liberty at the expense of the liberty of others is a sick joke, and to pretend that the vaccine conversation is anything else is hysterically naive.

People do have an autonomous choice: get your shot, or find another way to stop endangering those around you.
What’s Up with the Poor Strategies of the NFL, NBA, and MLB?
Ask HN: How do you take care of your eye-sight as developers?
>> It has to balance out

It doesn't. In a species with 50/50 split between male and female, the number of males is almost irrelevant to population growth. Take rabbits. If you kill at birth 90% of the males, the population growth won't slow as the limit is the number of babies per-female. The 10% of males that survive simply father more kids via more females. Males can do that. Females cannot. Going one step further, killing all those males increases the resources available to the females. Ironically, culling those males can cause a population to grow faster than if they lived.
Most people thought the internet was a threat to the establishment. In all likelihood bitcoin was developed by the NSA.
iCloud photos aren't E2E encrypted now. This could be a way to add E2E encryption while preserving the current level of surveillance. Except the article said Apple can decrypt suspect photos. And it isn't a legal requirement apparently.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077619
Which ones exactly? It's simply true that all VOCs have originated from low vaccination environments.

If you're debating the existence of vaccine-driven VOCs, then there is data. If you are going to debate whether vaccines will cause variants, that's a fundamentally speculative assertion for which there is no hard evidence, only speculation.

Just because someone cites evidence doesn't mean it's actually evidence for what they are pushing. So far we had evidence that : Very ineffective vaccines see eventual immune escape, academic articles that link targeted therapies to immune escape but without any evidence that the current vaccines are as targeted as the examples they took, and evidence that a variant that is less neutralized by antibodies can evolve, without taking into account general reduction of infections that mass vaccine rollout necessary for it to be evolutionarily fit or other aspects to immune response, etc...

That is to say, evidence is not necessarily evidence for one's argument. There is no evidence variants will evolve because of vaccination, and I can't prove a speculative negative as a matter of logic.
All sorts of things! I was working at a semiconductor company, and one of the research I came to know about was brain telemetry i.e. collecting data from the brain for analysis.

There are lot of exotic projects going on in these companies, ones that outsiders may not think that the company would do. This is to build a patent moat as well as generate license revenue.
Your answer is great, however the questions comes with a disclaimer:

> Please understand: what I'm looking for here is a total vacuum in one of these areas. It's OK if they struggle a little and then figure it out. It's OK if they need some minor hints or prompting. I don't mind if they're rusty or slow. What you're looking for is candidates who are utterly clueless, or horribly confused, about the area in question.

If you follow this, the way you reply is perfect. Someone using divisions would work too. Someone simply mapping all the values of a byte to the number of bits that are 1 would work too.
I did my algo1 class with Haskell (Hugs 98) and honestly it was great. It also "evens the playing field" a lot among people with previous coding experience vs. people getting their toes wet for the first time. A lot of that was having a very powerful REPL.

The problem is when you want to get into basic data structures. The learning curve for Haskell, if you want students to come up with their own implementations, steepens up a lot.
Pieces of bad advice for women in engineering leadership
It looks like a reply to me.

Here is the thing, what you think about me, doesn't matter at all.
He was a bully who expected you to fight back, because if you didn't, it meant that you either didn't know what you were talking about, didn't have the courage of your convictions, or both.

To be clear, I don't idolize Jobs and am not defending toxic behavior by a broken person who either thought the ends justified the means, or (more likely) who didn't think about it at all.
I take it you do not work in an open office.
What if under a secret order Apple is instructed to insert non-CSAM photos, to match whatever a relevant juridiction wants to match? Effectively, you now have a black box operating on your own computer, this is deeply disturbing. This is not going to end well. And by the way this is like all the DNA stuff, you're not only at risk from your own computer but also the all the libraries your picture happened to be in.
I've heard great things about Descript. It's not free (aside from a limited trial), but apparently it makes it really easy to get good transcripts, and also allows you to clean up the audio as well.
> I'd like to get back into the office where I don't hear my dogs bark at every bird that lands in the back yard

I'm enjoying working from home along with the sights and sounds, except for leaf blowers. I can look out my window and watch squirrels play. Luckily I only have one neighbor with a dog and it doesn't bark much. But this comment makes me wonder why you bother having a dog if you don't even like the sounds they make.
At some point it becomes amoral to do nothing.
A New Class of DNS Vulnerabilities Affecting Many DNS-as-Service Platforms
Chinas invasion brought with it all those horrors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
You would need lots of modernization and economic growth to offset this.
Plus its hard to say where Tibet would be without chinese occupation.
I really don't understand why Microsoft hasn't bought Unity
This feels attempted shakedown of the console manufacturers to get them to pay for Unity for their licensees. Looks like Sony and Nintendo have coughed up while Microsoft have not. Not sure I can blame Microsoft for not wanting to pay.
> It doesn’t make sense to me that you’re choosing to die on this hill

Friend, I’m not the one comparing US Marshals to SS Troopers, but please go on.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is has 29 comparable thrust and propellant full flow engines attached to their Starship Super Heavy. Engines that have been tested hundreds of times and take less than 48 hours to produce. I think ULA bought from the wrong company.
Are you equating "advanced" with "fairer?" Reminds me of what someone called "chronological chauvinism."
https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-A-New-...
I'd rather be in a space with other coworkers at that point.

Let's be honest, most of us didn't have a problem with the office, most of us had a problem with the open office and the commute, both of which are solvable. This remote work trend will peak (I don't know when, but it will), and we will come full circle back to offices again, and the ones that offer an office with a door will reap the rewards. Hopefully by then America has also figured out the infrastructure issue.
> Of course you already lined up a new job, have no loyalty to your current employer, and will tell anyone who is willing to listen.

God. Damn. Right.
Improve your home, you can control that. You have almost zero control at the office.
+1 for "Ellie Kelly effect" -- a wonderfully rhyming and memorable name for the phenomenon. :)
So THAT'S why Brazil is quickly destroying the Amazon. No forest, no need to classify species.
There are a few that is very hostile it seems.

Most of us just want a choice between good desktops, 30% faster compiles, cli commands (e.g. git) that completes in milliseconds instead of seconds etc.

Most reasonable persons, even the more free software loving ones are happy to run 50 - 75% free rather than 100% proprietary :-)
> What is arrest other than losing freedom movement and then being moved to a location.

Maybe the right phrasing would be "detained without the legal protections given to arrested people" -- not a step up...