skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my "slippery slope" concerns are less technical and more overton window shifting. If you have this practice of scanning images in place, it's not as huge as a leap to suggest we should register hate propaganda images (for instance, infographics) and not allow Apple to lawfully host it on its servers and so on. You just get less and less steps away from justifying banning things like propaganda against the government or individuals in the government and such.

I would agree on a purely technical level your phone is already pwned by Apple so worrying about this on a technical level is closing the barn door after the horse got out. However from a social perspective one of the holdouts against photo scanning has stopped being a holdout, and doing things from client-side makes it seem less wrong to do other things client-side.

Besides the privacy stuff, this also is a bit more of a slide towards software that you purchase being ultimately controlled by and for the benefit of parties other than yourself.
> But almost nobody does that in a first world country

Bags cost a few cents each. I spend $100 per month on natural gas to heat a poorly insulated apartment during the winter.
It’s also not a bad idea for your first meal in Japan, as unless something has changed, recently, they have the only ATMs that work with foreign cards - you’re outta luck getting cash anywhere else.
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I'm surprised by these sweeping assumptions of what the HN audience is.

> relatively well-paid profession earning good wages from creating software

AFAIK 1password doesn't practice location-based pricing, so how can you assume that "relatively well paid" people from different geographies of the world can all find it affordable?
How to keep your smartphone safe from spying
What sucks is the reviews, back when they were more legitimate, was one of the best features of Amazon. It was a huge value add before sellers started rigging the system.
WSJ has a link to its digital archive, which only goes back to May 1996. And unfortunately it doesn't have API so getting articles out of site for NLP is a pain. Let me know if you have code for that. I'm working on something similar
Why are you arguing that awful behaviour should have consequences for those it is direct at, rather than for the person who commits it?
Also, rigor was romantacized. With the exception of The Elements, very little math till the last maybe 200 years had that level of rigor. Newton and Leibniz sure didn't.
It's not the cognitive dissonance that one would assume it to be. They've studied their methods well. Marx and Mao would be proud.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herse...
ProQuest is the digital provider for Wall Street Journal historical archives. Many public libraries provide free access; often all you need is a local library card and login.
> vs reading the entire file upfront and then operating on the text in memory.

What if you just mmap it?
But your estimate is demonstrably off by at least a factor of ten thousand.

The thrust of this paper is that it takes 90 tons of ancient biomass to result in 1 gallon of gasoline. This is a reduction of 30,000 to 1. This is the opposite of an efficient system. The vast majority of solar input and related carbon captured from the atmosphere by ancient plant matter is not being utilized by modern fossil fuel systems.

The point of this paper is that the ancient photosynthesis to fossil fuels process is incredibly inefficient. The "400 years" isn't indicative of the energy we're consuming today -- it's indicative of the extremely low percentage of solar energy that ends up captured inside fossil fuels.

We absolutely can carbon capture our way out of this. Again, you can do some pretty basic math on known sequestration techniques to disprove your conclusion.
HN really needs a sub-title in posts for explanatory reasons. Often just a title is not enough to understand what it is.
Happened with me once. I left a very genuine but negative feedback of the product with not so many stars.

The seller somehow got my phone number (I think Amazon shares customer's number with sellers) and he literally begged me to write a good review or delete this one.

Obviously I didn't do that but I decided not to review products on Amazon after this incident.

Amazon has a lot of review problem and they need to address such issues.
The familiar refrain of hubris the has preceded pretty much every crisis: “This time is different.”
What is the new attitude towards depression? I think that going out and doing things along with driving out the negative thoughts with positive ones tends to work. Yes it is hard, but that is besides the point. It's not insurmountable.
Highly suggest reading "reminiscences of a stock operator". Which I'm guessing was written about 100 years ago about punting and gambling in the stock market...

What you'll notice is "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"... It's all self similar. The same concepts and patterns back then are the same concepts that people chase today.
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I’m not measuring from anywhere, I’m describing what happens if you invested over the same time period as the original comment with the same strategy but a different index.

Nor did I say the US is arbitrary, I said the Dow was, which it is given it’s fairly illogical weighting rules and arbitrary size limits. But the US is also somewhat arbitrary, it happens to have been the best performing economy over a period in which it won a World War and Cold War, and became the largest power in the world. To say it is the obvious choice now is to make a massively uncertain bet. I’m sure in 1929 the obvious choice was Britain who at the time controlled the largest empire ever, rather than the US, yet a British index would not have performed nearly as well.
Check out Battle for Wesnoth

wesnoth.org
FWIW, it actually is part of an old sci-fi novel, featuring in Arthur C. Clarke's 2010¹. China suddenly joins a race to Jupiter by firing up its "space station".

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
Without the easy energy source to bootstrap their tech, they may not get anywhere near having to consider that problem. They might not even make it to figuring out steel.
Much of the death toll centers on those who are already sick, obese, and otherwise compromised. Age groups of children and young adults show remarkable resilience to infection. There is not one outcome.
> We've destroyed much of the quirkiness and novelty.

Yawn. People say this over and over again. It hasn't been destroyed. It's just not at the top of your search results.

Within the last week, HN's front page had a link to this little gem:

http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/locations.htm

... a catalog of every (?) redwood tree in the British Isles, lovingly maintained and deliciously retro. How can you believe that the quirky and novel have been destroyed when sites like this (and there are millions more) are still out there?
You might be interested in the book “ethnobotany: people, plants, and culture” to learn why leaving nature alone is not the best option, that biodiversity and rich ecosystems can come from human interference - weeding plants that are taking over, spreading seeds of food and medicine, intentionally building the soil - after a few thousand years you end up with the Amazon rain forest. It doesn’t happen on its own, humans are a part of it. To have this mind of leaving earth alone and even leaving it behind is leaving a lot of good food on the table, I wouldn’t want to live among the factory farms in space.
Agreed, that's why I never use or recommend any else use any of the domains run by private operators, just asking for troubles like the above. The attempted sale of org was scary.

Which is all very unfortunate because some of those TLDs are quite nice, like .forum. What a mess we've gotten ourselves into.

Should have been kept as a public service, but no putting the genie back in the bottle now. Only way out of this mess is a distributed system, but I can't imagine what that would like without a massive proliferation of competing services.
Perfectly reasonable comments like the grandparent being flagged and killed so quickly... looks like the ministry of truth is staying busy.

EDIT: I guarantee you everyone working at the ministry of truth thought they were the good guys, too.
What I am hoping to see is the Petra AI code stubbed out for ML/RL tasks, https://github.com/0ad/0ad/tree/master/binaries/data/mods/pu... ... nearly every manager/function there could have it's actions modified based on what it views or calculates in previous gameplay. One was introduced a few alphas back before the interface, https://github.com/agentx-cgn/Hannibal
The King, the Queen, his mistress, and the dead Emperor
Hi Pot, meet Kettle?

My statement literally starts with "I'm not sure...". You begin yours with "That's actually incorrect." Which expresses more confidence?

My opinion is based on a conversation with a Ph.D immunologist that happens to be a friend as well. And if that's not enough here is a paper from a totally separate lab that has similar conclusions, with actual data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.29.454333v1

mRNA vaccines are obviously much better at generating antibodies for the RBD. That's an empirical fact, no one is disputing that. But natural immunity presents antibody targets beyond the RBD.
I also take it as a negative signal because it means the product is basically a half-baked MVP with tons of technical debt.
Sure. But what happened in non-embedded was that a lot of the chip vendors were eventually persuaded to lend their support to the Linux ecosystem. If that doesn't happen in mobile, the community faces an uphill struggle.
Dunno why you’re being downvoted, I found the Japanese system of e-commerce payments interesting. It’s the norm there to go pay for your stuff in a konbini, with cash or whatever - and of course they can accept deliveries too.
Clock Synchronization (2020)
Or, you know, in an unbreakable box of a business whose reputation depends on keeping it safe. Like a security deposit box in a bank? That doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

In contrast, comparing 1password to "a stranger three towns over" or "the sidewalk" seems a bit unfair to me.
I’m wondering what happened to good old reading with comprehension. Ain’t nobody got no time for that? If so, doesn’t it make those papers worthless?
If you read the article the authors directly address this and use datasets of machine translated articles as controls.
Antibodies wane, but B-cell and T-cell response is important for longer term protection. Fortunately, we have results (including [B] and [T]) that vaccines also induce these memory cell responses.

Also, the durability of immunity from coronavirus probably depends on the exact coronavirus. It does seem to be true for SARS, but possibly less so for the seasonal coronaviruses that cause a respectable fraction of common colds[3]. We don't really know yet where SARS-CoV-2 falls on that spectrum.

[B]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.12.21259864v...

[T]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.30.21259787v...

[3]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1083-1
Fountain pens and notebooks, fountain pens and notebooks.
Actually, most cars have one type of brake, with two modes of activation.
This. I am interested to see exactly what SpaceX does here with IP they acquire. It should be a shame if it was all mothballed.
UMW in Fredricksburg, Virginia has a program called "Domain of One's Own" where you get set up with a personal site at a domain of your choosing, available to every student and everyone on staff.

https://umw.domains
It's the classical problem of people trying to find technological solutions to social problems. If plagiarism and fake research is still a problem after we've applied technology to fight it, clearly we haven't applied enough of it.
Haha the fight between George’s ego and financial success is certainly a real thing.

But ultimately George is a hyper rational person and while it might seam like he is a no filter guy. He has a public persona and he uses it to sell the idea that they will never lower prices. If they need to lower the prices they will. That said I am not sure they need to lower the prices.
Why would normal people?

Most folks are in mortgage and consumer debt and have little wealth. Higher inflation mostly impacts people with wealth.

Look at what’s happening now. Lower income folks are getting life changing payments of just a few thousand dollars in the US that is causing increase in services costs.
NFTs have nothing to do with ownership. They're like trading cards. You don't own a baseball player because you bought his trading card.

NFTs sellers can certainly choose to sell ownership along with the NFT, but again, that's a separate legal transaction and not a feature of the NFT.
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I feel like only the highest profile journals can be trusted at this point. How long will it take academia to adapt?
If you finished the post, I mentioned I wasn’t referring to you.

With respect to the incorrect part, I was replying to:

“…it has been shown that natural immunity produces a much broader set of antibodies that may allow the immune system to cope with variants better.”

Which is indeed wrong.

Hope that helps
I think the concern here isn’t legal trouble but getting banned by some automated system.

I’ve heard from googlers that once an account is nuked for suspected child abuse no one will ever want to touch it to find out whether the ban was legitimate.
What did you switch too?
Could someone point to the relevant statute/regulation?
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Django app only works on my local PC, not heroku?
It's perfectly fine when I run it on my local host, but when I try heroku it gives:
OperationalError at /login/
no such table: auth_user
there are at least three books on this period,

Lefevre, E. (2004). Reminiscences of a stock operator (Vol. 175). John Wiley & Sons.

Kramer, C. (2000). " Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation" by Edward Chancellor (Book Review). Finance and Development, 37(1), 53.

Mackay, C. (2012). Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. Simon and Schuster.
This is one of my favorite games. It's what AOE III should have been.

I still think there should be some kind of Kaggle competition for training AI on this game.
> Whether it's a bottom or a top or a head and shoulders pattern. This is the whole point of technical analysis

I'll let you in on a little secret. Technical analysis is a lot of smoke and mirrors. I was in this industry.

You can draw all the head and shoulder patterns you want, if Elon posts a Tweet about price targets of 420.69, Apple doesn't sell enough iPhones, the company you are charting causes a major oil spill, or the weather gets warmer, those patterns vanish in an instant.

Millions of global traders do not obey lines drawn on charts. The market is too complex for that.
It's a controversial claim and probably false, definitely don't repeat it unless you've personally verified with an expert.
The S&P 500 and Dow are just simple algorithmic trading based on an underlying thesis (US does well) with good historic performance.
no BERT?
I've been thinking about this topic more and more, and the more I study it, the more I realize how incredibly rich of a subject it is.

For example, I used to assume that monetary inflation was instant and automatic. Double the money supply overnight, and everyone will double their prices and incomes overnight too, as though all that happened was a substitution of variables.

Later I understood that it's not that simple. First, the new money doesn't get distribution in proportion to how much people own, so savings get halved. Second, contracts denoted in dollars don't get adjusted, so debts and purchase orders get cheaper, accounts receivable become worth less, and so on.

And lastly, prices aren't updated automatically by some perfectly objective value calculation. They're held in place by a combination of supply and demand, competitive forces, price elasticity, psychology, and collective expectations.

So the inflation can apply instantly in some markets but it can also take years for those changes to propagate into various other markets.

And even once the money supply stops increasing, inflation can keep going all on its own accord, once expectations become fixed. This happened in Japan in the '60s and '70s where unions demanded 5% annual wage increases to keep up with the inflation caused by every industry getting 5% annual price increases caused by union wage increases...

Right now it seems like the new money is going straight into asset prices, and that will probably remain the case until either asset holders start selling their assets to consume an absurd amount of food and gasoline, or the high price of assets starts to weigh heavily on the cost of production.
What’s the “snapshot”/“snapshat” use case mentioned?
Let's not forget "official poll" emails that aren't. I have no way of knowing if I am being polled or solicited. Hence, my voice is now excluded from political polls.
kawa is used in France often and you now make me believe that it's a loan word :)
Constexpr is a Platform (2020)
It's always like this until the next new thing. The big guys will control everything until something new comes around that they don't want to implement. It will be a bit harder because you have the Web Browser which is a lot flexible than the old AOL Clients. Also WebKit is available publicly for any one to fork and create a new service.

When modems were available for residential use, BBSes were the gateway and slowly were killed by the big guys (AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy) but what these big guys refused to do is work together to allow further communications with people outside of their networks.

It took kids coming out of college and wanting to keep their internet access for email, ftp, talk, usenet, gopher and http. They started to partner with universities and offer TCP/IP (over PPP) access for $20. Local BBS started to open gateways to allow it's users to send/receive SMTP emails. By the time the big guys realized they were at a disadvantage, they started to offer communications between AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy, At first charging their users extra fees, some plans made it like SMS and were charging per message. Eventually users where just using their clients to get to the internet and that service dies. Most of those small internet providers were purchased by bigger companies.

What will need to change now to kick the big guys (Verizon, Google, Apple, etc...) in the balls again? The tech is so regulated that I doubt we will see anything new as far and networking. In NYC WiMax was hobbled by the communication companies like Verizon TimeWarner and RCN.
If I remember correctly wasn’t it an employee covering up a mistake, that to fully replace the damaged panel would’ve required disassembling/ rebuilding a large part of it from scratch?

Edit: Ah, my mistake. Apparently some years prior that happened, but was caught before the Soyuz capsule launched. If the person responsible for that incident got disappeared, I could imagine whoever made that hole wanted to cover up any mistake
I actually love AoE III but never did much with 0AD.

Does it have much of a multiplayer scene? Are there any sites to look at good build orders. I might have to try it again.
Thanks. Maybe its time to try reddit again
Another issue is, other targets may not provide neutralizing immunity and may facilitate ADE. I don't think we've seen ADE in natural infection yet, so it may just be a theoretical issue, but I also don't know if we've really looked for ADE in natural infection either.

We do know that other similar coronavirus vaccine candidates (a candidate for SARS-COV-1) exhibited ADE in primate studies. So since the spike protein appears effective currently, maybe it's best to stick with that.
Conbini are great.

I'm addicted to the relatively new coffee machines. You get a made-to-order coffee for the price of a vending machine coffee. And now that Suntory owns Jim Beam, you can buy bourbon in every conbini to fortify your coffee.

Family Mart has the best fried chicken ("famichiki").

We once used google translate to tell us the different flavors of rice balls and were shocked when one came up as "spicy child". Japanese friends explained that this was actually mentaiko or spicy fish eggs.

Finally, I resisted the oden by the cash register for years but finally ate it when we were stuck at a bus stop with a long line. Delicious.
Unfortunately though they are less expensive, they are typically of lesser quality and need to be replaced more often. I don't know if that has reached the threshold to wipe out that gain or not.
Maybe they did.
While it may not be destroyed, the reward gradients changed.

I'm not imagining a world where technology froze in place, rather a different evolutionary path.

The incentive structures today produce a massive amount of negative externalities that we're nowhere close to addressing.
> Broadly speaking my job as a programmer is to turn repetitive activities into processes and code. If I’m still “working hard” a year in you should really wonder about my capabilities.

As much as I want to agree with this, what I've found happens if I do a particularly good job is... more work. More projects. I have "bandwidth" available to help out in new areas. When I left my last job my manager and I put together a spreadsheet listing all the projects I headed, and it was something like two pages long in excel. Everyone who saw it had their eyes bulge at the size, and I left because I was being really overworked.

But god damn it, the only reason I want to work hard is so that I don't have to in the future!

I'm seriously considering leaving tech because of this.
Can someone recommend a game that has challenging AI? An example would be Starcraft 2.
Generally speaking, I think your comment and its parent have a poor attitude and not one that anyone should emulate. For me, it's about finding new problems and new challenges. I can't stand facing the same problems over and over again so when I do, I automate/fix those problems and then I find new ones to solve.

You should always be "trying". The idea that you corner some obscure but vital part of your company's infra and then just coast is pretty abhorrent to me. Instead, if you find something difficult, complicated and manual, you should make it easy, simple and automated.

I do believe that firing people based on big data analysis is pretty dumb as some tasks require lots of deliberation and thought without much output initially. But the idea of working hard = being dumb, seems like a pretty creative way of justifying being lazy.
How would one discover the Pythagorean theorem without having a proof?
Amen. Literally the only time I can think it might be a reasonable thing is to scream ‘watch out’ or the equivalent in a noisy environment at someone about to get run over or hit by something. And then it should kick off an investigation as to why that was necessary, because it shouldn’t be.

That said, I’ve definitely seen people say someone was screaming at them when nothing of the sort even remotely happened. So your mileage may vary.
Nope. Time is the only non-fungible asset being burned here and everyone is desperately defending their own allotment.