skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any evidence that the technology for the meta verse is anywhere near ready? The underlying tech of VR has been 5 years away for the last decade, consumer adoption of the early devices is mixed at best.

This reminds me of the old MS office videos that looked so cool but were ultimately just vapor ware.
No, Haskell is weird since a string is [Char]. If it was it’s own value, yes.

The languages i’ve written are pretty basic. e.g. the data types might be

- Number
- String
- True, false, null
- Array of values
- Record of fields (key + value)
- Variant of options (key + value)

So the distinction is clearer.
> I still don’t understand the reaction. People get tied up in a knot over this but it is an effective deterrent to child pornography full stop. Even if it rubs you the wrong way to have software fingerprinting your files, I really don’t care if it means placing a deterrent in place against child trafficking.

Most reductions of privacy toward the police would act as an effective deterrent to that crime and other crimes.

Deterring crime is not enough to justify a reduction in privacy.
So for how long is the COVID-19 vaccine going to be compulsory? Forever? 3 Months?

I'd wager plenty of people can wait another 6 months before going to a bar or restaurant - they've done it for 1.5 years already... meaning compulsory vaccination isn't going to work.

This debate has been had over the past few days over and over - but I'll reiterate.

No child has received a vaccine to date, and statistically experience a near zero infection and mortality rate. Nobody seems to be suggesting we start mandatory vaccines for children (yet).

The adults that aren't vaccinated are on their own. Leave them alone - stop trying to exert your will over them and go about your own business. If they get sick and die, it's entirely their own fault at this point - the vaccine has been freely available, free of cost for months. If they haven't got the vaccine yet, nothing you say or do will change that.

We should not start weird "show vaccine to enter" cards or develop secret citizen police to rat on people... nor should we burden the rest of society with protecting people that refuse protection.

It's time to get back to normal life folks.
The SPARCstation 1 was the first of the family to have more than a buzzer. Sun 3’s could only beep.
This is not surprising, because virtually every AI expert (except Kurzweil) don't think AGI is even a remote possibility in this century.

The only "AI experts" who believe that AGI is something to worry about are self appointed AI experts - Elon Musk, Sam Harris, Sam Altman etc. Zuckerberg had actually set up a dinner with Musk and LeCun to explain to him that AGI is not a realistic possibility. This led to Musk stating that Zuckerberg had a very poor understanding of AI. Looks like Musk is the self appointed AI expert in that table of 3!

Oh BTW, Musk, if you are reading this - how is the FSD project coming along?

Note: Scientists working for Open AI will pretend that AGI is a real possibility because the folks funding Open AI have a predilection for AGI.
Deliberately more obviously 'weird' version, from memory:

uint64_t x = ...;
for(size_t i = 1; i<UINT_BIT ;i*=2) // loop unroll
{
unsigned m = UINT_MAX / ((1<<i)+1); // constant-fold
// divide 2^(2k)-1 by 2^k+1 to get 2^k-1 in each group
// 2k-bit group means 2^k-1 sets bottom half

x = (x & m) + (x>>i & m);
// we can save a AND w/o carry but 1-bit and 2-bit
// need 2 ANDs to prevent carry between groups
// x = (x + (x>>i)) & m;
}
That's a good point, but I'd actually go a step further and argue that we need to think more generally about actually defining when things should fail. This is exacerbated by a tendency of many people to actually require systems to not fail on bad input but instead try to make as much sense of it as possible so that now compatibility requires you to make the same guesses as to what the user actually meant. See, for example, the tag soup parsing of HTML (which was eventually standardized in HTML5), or the insanity that is trying to parse email messages.
Long distance buses have seat belts in Europe.
Seat belts can cause injuries, too, especially if worn improperly. But their overall public health benefits are considered to outweigh the risks:

"The protective role of seatbelts against spinal injuries, and abdominal injuries also seems equivocal given that seatbelt injuries have been reported. Although findings of the current study suggest that the risk of abdominal injuries is lowest for belted occupants, the seatbelt syndrome which encompasses abdominal injury, has been extensively described in the literature as caused by improper seatbelt use [17, 23, 25]. This syndrome mostly affects the pediatric population [26], but it has also been documented in adults [22]. Improper seatbelt use has also been associated with intra-abdominal and spinal injuries [16, 22]. Seatbelt use has been shown to be associated with increased spinal injury severity, neurological deficit and fatality [48]. Compared to unbelted individuals, the frequency of thoracic and lumbar spinal injuries was shown to be higher in belted occupants [48]."

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
Why just your basement? While they're there they might kindly ask you to unlock that computer or hand over that phone. Just to make sure, of course.
Cairo on an Amiga? That’s seriously cool.
As opposed to you who has the insight of a child ?
You can do this securely without exposing your public IP.

1. Get a cheap VM close to you. AWS micro works, I use Google's Compute engine. Use the public IP on your DNS.
2. Set up FRPS ( https://github.com/fatedier/frp ) on the VM, create an Nginx proxy to FRPS
3. Set up FRP clients on your home devices.

This will reverse tunnel traffic securely without setting up SSH tunnels / VPNs. Only specific local ports will be exposed.
What Are Stores Even Thinking with All These Emails?
My argument against normal seat belts: worthless piles of shit.

I don’t feel safe unless I’m in a 5pt or better
On further thought, what I meant to say was that in this specific example, I don't think it makes sense to use these particular libraries from Common Lisp because there are native CL libraries for doing basically the same thing.

On the other hand, I completely agree that it's useful to run a CL application on ABCL to access Java libraries that don't exist for CL.

EDIT: On a side note, I just noticed the abcl.org link immediately under "Picking a language, libraries" is pointing to "https://notes.eatonphil.com/abcl.org"
I got half way down the page to a full screen graph and it was impossible to scroll further.

Can we just not do these cute UI gimmicks?
What tool did you use to make those diagrams?
If we've established that the vaccine is 1/10th the risk of covid itself to younger people (which I think I did in my comment), as far as I can tell any extra weight that might be assigned to preserving young life just falls out of the problem.

People do work with numbers like "Years of Life Lost," and FWIW I think that can inform some conversations even though I don't think it helps much with this one. It is not the end-all-be-all, though. You could, for example, look at the social costs of losing the accumulated experience/wisdom/social capital of people over a certain age, which may be why some societies emphasize respect for the elderly.
I am not sure about Windows95, but the MSDOS legacy is single threaded, so you did not have the luxury of having the abstraction represented for you by the operating system.

Some people wrote very inventive software to get around it.

In Windows there is a fundamental concept of the message loop.

The message loop is an obligatory section of code in every program that uses a graphical user interface under Microsoft Windows.

Windows programs that have a GUI are event-driven.

Note that WindowsNT is fully multithreaded, but there is a
thread sitting there listening to the event loop still.
(of course other threads can do other things).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_loop_in_Microsoft_Wind...
Of course most of the platform weirdness is down to "we're vertically integrated and our business goal is the end product and getting that product done fast" but some of the design decisions are kinda baffling even when taking that into account. Like what exactly did they gain by making a weird non-PCIe NVMe situation? Is it really any easier/faster to make the kernel handle that crap than to put the drive on a virtual PCIe bus in hardware+firmware? Are they.. (oh no) trying to improve boot speed by not having to discover the drive on PCIe?!
>The reason there's no concerted effort for Bloomberg, S&P, etc to create an alternative inflation index is because there's no point. It won't be able to be integrated into financial products. Finance is extremely regulated and apart from some bespoke CDS, getting acceptance of a main stream financial product with this weird index would be very difficult.

1. you're thinking that the index would have to be integrated into the product itself (eg. this bond pays s&p inflation index + 2%) for it to be useful. This isn't the case. Even for forecasting or internal rate-setting purposes it would be massively useful.

2. If you check the website for s&p or msci, they got an endless list of indexes. Some of them are even integrated into financial products (eg. tracked by ETF or derivatives). Exotic indexes is definitely not a problem for them.

>I don't think there is a single economist that would argue that health care spending has not grown considerably faster than the rate of inflation.

I think the problem here is that you're conflating per-capita spending with price increase. As mentioned earlier an aging population would increase per-capita spending without necessarily increasing price. People opting to buy better, but more expensive care would also increase per-capita spending without necessarily increasing price.

>You can do the same for housing [1]

What's your contradictory source for the actual price of housing?
There aren't enough launches globally for even one SpaceX, let alone BO.

> So I hope for the sake of future space startups

Maybe a generation from now, but not today.
This is exactly the event that I’ve been preparing for. I figured out long ago that it’s not a matter of if, but when, Apple fully embraces the surveillance economy. This seems to be a strong step in that direction. As dependant as I’ve been on the Apple ecosystem, I’ve been actively adopting open source solutions in place of the Apple incumbents so that when I have to fully pull the plug, I can at least soften the blow.

In place of Mail: Tutanota
In place of iMessage: Signal
And so on…
> there are a lot of personal things that would be great to know in order to make "informed decision"

I'm most interested in the infectious disease risk. I have unvaccinated children (too young). I'd prefer not to expose them to likely sources of the virus if it can be avoided.

If your choice isn't likely to affect me, I don't have any interest in it.
reminds me of one of the characters in "the good place"
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Ah wonderful another rationalist with no ability to reason
I’ve helped viruses spread my entire life! I have literally never stopped breathing. I also touch doorknobs! This was considered normal two years ago, now it’s a sin.
ADFS on-premise support both since version 2016, some people are not aware of that. Azure support both.

The way it works in enterprise is that somebody wrote guidelines years ago that external software must support SSO with SAML. Then the guidelines were never updated and in some cases the company never realized they can support OIDC out of the box.

The exception is education, where Shibboleth is very entrenched with federations spanning all universities in some countries. Another exception for healthcare/defense that may not have updated any of their systems for 20 years, though they may not be customer if they have no internet connectivity and no SSO :D
Many things have also gained in quality substantially, such as vehicles, electronics, and durable goods. A new car not only lasts longer and requires less maintenance, is more fuel efficient, safer, but is often loaded with amenities like navigation, entertainment, self-driving. How do you make an equivalency to something from the 90s?

Meanwhile digital content and communication services have become free and ubiquitous. Free goods don't get priced at all. This means some categories may have lower than headline inflation. Can you imagine what a pre-internet era company would have been able to charge for an Amazon Echo style device that played any song you asked it to, controlled your home and estimated your drive time? Amazon practically gives them away for free. You don't even have to pay for Prime.

Moreover, the healthcare plan that many people's employers buy on their behalf has accounted for a growing portion of overall compensation. Healthcare in US is so distorted that it barely has a measurable signal for price/service, and yet in the US it consumes 1/6 of GDP. Since many people's employers pay for this, it doesn't factor into the consumer price index.

College tuition? It's up 2-5X in the past 20 years. Fine, we can measure the cost of tuition increases, but does it take into account the interest payments on the student loan debt that, for some, exceed the original loan by a factor of 5-10X? (I don't actually know).

This is just to agree that measuring inflation is really tricky, especially in an age of accelerating technological advancement and institutional failure.
You chose an apple device because apple knows what's best for you.

This is part of the integrated experience
I really don't understand the fascination with Chrome. There must be some killer use case I am really missing out on.
My sisters husband actively tells his 7 year old daughter not to wear a belt. He’s so stupidly anti-rules he’s willing to sacrifice his young daughter to it.
I remember reading posts on the emacs-orgmode mailing list back in 2014 about what citations should look like, and what backend should be used. At the time I was picking software to organize notes for my PhD thesis. There was some discussion of adding link handlers and packing citation metadata into regular links, like [[cite:key][citation metadata which would normally be display text]]. That sort of worked, although citations with multiple citation keys didn't fit easily into that approach. The final outcome looks great: (1) terse syntax that's easy to type and read but very flexible, (2) clear delimiters, and (3) option to use CSL styles, which are numerous and very easy to modify.
Creating weird relationships between government programs never seems like a good idea to me. It creates weird incentives, e.g. punishing arbitrary classes of people more if they don't get the vaccine (e.g. blind people are probably more likely to get handouts). It creates weird incentives in law-making, e.g. to increase the number of handouts in order to increase the punishment for not getting the vaccine, or the reverse, and so on.

Just make the law say what you want to have happen, "get the vaccine or be fined $$$" (or fined %%% of {income | wealth}, or jail for N days, or so on).
Yes, but we can actually make it happen (relatively quickly).

Last year, Navy SEALs from the Navy's Special Mission Unit parachuted in the dead of night to save a missionary. When's the last time the armed forces of Brunei did that? Or DRC? Or Azerbaijan? The answer is never. Intent != capability. I'm sure Paraguay wishes they could put commandos on the ground anywhere in the world in hours, but the fact is that they can't.

Being American is like having an American Express Card: membership has its privileges.
If anyone is reading this and can answer a little further: What are some emerging technologies that can be broken into without a university degree? I've been very successful in my 7 year career as a field service engineer on chip equipment, and while it is a great job, I am actively looking to branch out into coding, or another field in tech. The enormity of different fields contained therein is overwhelming. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
I don't know why you would equate seatbelts and vaccines, when with one you are requiring people to add a foreign material into their bodies. Seems like a terrible comparison. I'm sure there are many people who oppose compulsory vaccination but would be ok with mandatory seatbelts.
> Tim Cook never says no to money

Money citizens of those countries want to give him.
Apple GPUs use the Metal API while AMD GPUs for Macs use... the Metal API. Obviously there are driver-level differences, but pro apps are working on the Apple GPU so it can't be that bad.
Er, in this scenario, are the exchanges acting as block proposers, or as validators, or both?
Today, sure. That's technically very easy to change
> Where is Venmo ubiquitous?

Always remember that consumer banking in the US is at least a decade behind everywhere else in the first world. Apps that allow cheap/free and fast money transfers were and still are a big deal there.
This is just an ad for Chainlink's oracle tech.
What kills me about SAML is that instead of this straightforward XML style:

<claims>
<nameid>foo.bar@test.com</nameid>
<givenname>Foo</givenname>
<surname>Bar</surname>
</claims>

It instead encodes elements and attributes using elements and attributes, in the manner of the classic "inner platform effect" anti-pattern:

<saml:AttributeStatement>
<saml:Attribute Name="uid" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
<saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">test</saml:AttributeValue>
</saml:Attribute>
<saml:Attribute Name="mail" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
<saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">foo.bar@test.com</saml:AttributeValue>
</saml:Attribute>
</saml:AttributeStatement>

This is roughly the equivalent of the SQL table schema where there's one table with the columns "rowid, columnname, value" along with a "schema table" that some hand-rolled code uses to validate that the data table contains only data that is valid according to the schema.

It's not XML, it's XML squared: using XML to encode XML concepts instead of just using XML directly.
Well, unless you were interviewing for a CTO type job, they were probably looking for an indication of what technologies you’re most proficient in. If you’re equally proficient in 20 programming languages, that proficiency level is, with high probability, pretty low.
They never should have picked that RFC.

Code revocation checking should be local.
If we follow this line of thinking, we don't have to go far before we decide to force everyone to do exactly what we _think_ is right, justified by some hand wavy science or moral belief.

There is disagreement in society; we aren't all drones with a hive mind. One person's justification for what he thinks is best is just that, one person's justification. Someone else might think they can poke holes in his arguments, and who is to say which is right? No one. They can go about doing according to their personal beliefs.

There are some conventions in society, but once we start encroaching on the gray area, then society becomes oppressive to the minorities who dissent. Our society can clearly see older societies that did it, but fail to see when they are doing it. Just because you think you are absolutely right doesn't mean you have the right to compel others to do it. And, just consider, you might just be wrong... but of course not, our society is so enlightened, it couldn't be wrong...
It's like dating. They are what they are and you want what you want, and telling them, "well maybe I would be happy if you changed in these specific ways" is just not going to work for you or them. Not if you drop hints, not if you drop ultimatums. They are what they are.

Just go find what you think will make you happy.
It really isn't just marketing...each compute unit is a real functional separation of the GPU. The technical details of this are obviously unimportant to most consumers, but it's highly important to anyone programming against them.
Relevant TMBG: https://youtu.be/r9qLD3NtR94
I mentioned Gnome because it’s an application platform as much as it’s a graphical environment. You write apps for it using its services to integrate with the desktop. Datatypes don’t make as much sense at the lower OS level because the OS is not supposed to be aware of the data types applications work with.
I think it's on life support from the billionaire founder.
do you have sources for this, it's really not obvious for me, sounds a bit like a very confidently said hot take a little bit (without a source)
You'd be surprised. FDA rules require medical products to be safe, among other things. An implanted pump that's dangerous is the exception, not the rule (as it should be).
What kind of hardware are you running that it takes 10 seconds to do a video full screen?

Genuinely curious. My low powered raspberrypi running at 1080p does better than that.
Absolutely! We're actually developing a lot of that: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-toolkit/tree/main/d...

A number of the things you're looking for we've done experimentally and we'll be stabilizing over the next few releases. So we'd love some feedback while we're still able to futz with the API without making breaking changes.

But the two you're asking about are, I think, going to be covered by hyperloglog (we just reimplemented the internals with HLL++) and stats_agg family of functions, which have both 1D (which will give you avg, stddev, variance, etc) and 2D (co-variance, slope, intercept, x-intercept etc as well as all the 1D functions).

Would also love issues if you think we're missing other stuff, going to be generalizing this and want to make it useful for folks.

(NB: Post author here.)
This has been a risk by using closed source OS.
This is waaaay too turnkey for searching images on our devices that someone/something doesn’t like. Absolutely terrifying.
More surprising is that CNN still had heretics filling their ranks.
Like the defective recalled ones that would ~~inflate~~ explode too fast and send metal shrapnel into the persons face. You mean those ones?
Yes. Freedom isn't free. What you're seeing is a principled stance. We're running out of patience for nagging manipulative arguments.
> The code is hosted on GitHub, and is against Microsoft's Terms and Conditions, for obvious reasons. Still, nothing is done about it.

What are the obvious reasons?
> Without riders and earmarks there's no way to get someone to support your bill if they don't like the concept to start with.

Why is this a problem? I see it as easier to call out politicians in public. Prevent the problems that are essentially: "Despite the 'Puppy and Sunshine' bill actually providing everyone with puppies and sunshine, we can't support it because it also summons the literal anti-christ to destroy the Earth. The puppies and sunshine is simply a trick to summon the anti-christ."

IMO doing so makes the bill far more transparent _to the public_.

> Riders and earmarks allow politicians to secure minor wins that they can sell to their electorate as the reason for supporting a bill.

I do not understand why such a thing could not happen without these nor with packages (as defined above).

> And most of these things would simply never pass as standalone bills

Do you not see that as a problem?