skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's missing the most important thing:speed.
We moved to Algolia mainly because of this. Elastic Search and Solr could not compete.
Same source you quoted also says:

>Our findings show that most COVID-19 patients induce a wide-ranging immune defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection, encompassing antibodies and memory B cells recognizing both the RBD and other regions of the spike, broadly-specific and polyfunctional CD4+ T cells, and polyfunctional CD8+ T cells.

Meaning that natural immunity may be better, because it targets not just the spike protein like the vaccine, but also other parts of the virus.
> They don't filter work in need of revision. This is literally described on the arXiv website: https://arxiv.org/help/moderation "What policies guide moderation before public announcement? "

The page you're linking backs up what I've listed. The third subheader in that section for example:

> A submission may be declined if the moderators determine it lacks originality, novelty, or significance.

> Submissions that do not contain original or substantive research, including undergraduate research, course projects, and research proposals, news, or information about political causes (even those with potential special interest to the academic community) may be declined.

> Papers that contain inflammatory or fictitious content, papers that use highly dramatic and misrepresentative titles/abstracts/introductions, or papers in need of significant review and revision may be declined.

---

> it leads to people trusting arXiv when they should not

I'm only claiming that their moderation is a quick once-over to filter out papers blatantly in violation of those policies (like the "total obvious nutjobs" you describe), while being clear that it's not a peer review.
I remember one of the first things I wanted to actually see on the web was the Orbitz (drink) website (96/97?), although I remember seeing yahoo ~two years before in elementary school.

I vaguely remember it actually being orbitz.com.
That's the claim by Xsolla. But Netflix specifically say they don't do that:

"We have no bell curves or rankings or quotas such as “cut the bottom 10% every year.” That would be detrimental to fostering collaboration, and is a simplistic, rules-based approach we would never support" from https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
In Quebec we have "Couche-Tard" and it's just overpriced 'depanneur' oftentimes even with worse selection. In general ready to eat dishes is not a thing for some reason. Canada is way behind even compared with UK where ready to eat dishes from "Tesco Express". I still don't know why is the situation like that. Regulations?
Except now you can't have advanced methods on your container types without intermingling the keys of methods and data.

This is why javascript moved away from their "super user-friendly" concept of objects-as-maps towards having a real `Map` type - because mixing data and program can get weird (and if it's user-controllable data, dangerous).

I suppose the question is - is it possible for a table in lua to contain separate entries for the string "foo" and the symbol "foo", or will one happily overwrite the other?
> men were frightened of celestial phenomena such as thunder and lightning … and imagined that the gods were responsible for these things

That's understandable, although today conspiracy theorists are more likely to blame bad weather on Geo-engineering and fake man-made weather.

Look at Dubai for example: https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/dubai-making-its-own-rain-to-b...

> Officials in Dubai are using drones to artificially increase rainfall as the city grapples with oppressive heat, video this week shows.

Geo-engineers are the new 'gods'
I remember when this whole thing originally broke out, ADE was my biggest fear. Even when China was talking about a 2-3% infection fatality rate, it's like ok.. well that's not going to shatter society. But ADE... the prospect that getting it a 2nd time would raise the IFR to who knows... 20+%? That was scary.
Modern day archeologists.
Berkshire Hathaway INC
> For members of a relatively well-paid profession earning good wages from creating software, I wonder if the reluctance to support others earning money for quality work isn’t some form of cognitive dissonance.

Yep! People see open source as a goal, rather than a sustainable product being a goal.
I’m that type of person that enjoys working way too much. But as a founder I had unlimited vacation time, which I quickly realized lead to no one taking vacation. So now I say “ten days minimum vacation”, and if you are dragging your feet on taking time off, you’re getting your Gmail, GitHub, etc access cut off on Friday’s, weekends, and or Monday’s when you’ve been working hard.

Currently not a founder, but a senior employee - never mentioned to my CEO that was my policy, and it’s quite nice to have a boss that does the same and forces me into long weekends.
Can you explain why? I've found that it is a lot simpler to use git bisect if every commit builds.
I’m happy to say not all HN readers think “classic hardware” means a Nintendo GameCube. :) There’s quite a lot of interest in computing history around here (as it should be).
I worked at a company where the CEO shared a chart of the top 10 most active people in company Slack, implying praise for the most active Slack participants. Everyone got the message that more lines in Slack == more visibility with CEO.

From then on, Slack became unusable because people were basically spamming Slack to keep their stats high.

It got to the point where people weren’t even typing full sentences, but instead sending a few words in every line or just posting multiple lines of emojis in response to everything.
Title should be updated to "Glenfiddich plans to use..." - the article is dated July 2021 and they're talking about making this transition. The current title makes it sound like it's an established practice at the company already.
US Lawmakers Propose a $2.5B Pilot Guaranteed Income Program
Is This the WTO Waiver End Game?
I have implemented payments using their platform. Even before hearing about this, I would not use them again.
It would also be useful on the ride to the new planet while in the metal tube for months on end.
That's interesting and now that you mention it, yeah, that totally makes sense.
Sorry. My bad. I didn't start again. So far I managed to hold my ground and not touch ciggies.

I meant - I wouldn't start smoking again to go through stopping.
Pertinent passage from the preprint:

> Out of 404 papers accepted in less then 30 days after submission, 394 papers (97.5%) have authors with affiliations in (mainland) China. Out of 615 papers of which editorial processing time exceeded 40 days, 58 papers (9.5%) only have authors with affiliations in (main- land) China. This tenfold imbalance suggests a differentiated processing of papers affiliated to China characterised by shorter peer-review duration.
They're falling behind compared to what exactly?

Elastic is great on-disk, especially on SSDs and avoiding issues like write amplification.

Loading large indexes in memory isn't simple/cheap and when it comes to vectors we're talking apples/oranges I feel. Modern search architectures need to embrace ensemble approaches but boolean-based content searches is often the primary util in enterprise (and search is supplemented by a customizable td-idf). Using vector-based retrieval & similarity is still useful but not something you necessarily need elastic to do for you or couldn't co-exist together.
I purchased some "Rose Oil" from an Amazon seller. What I got was not rose oil at all. When I told them it wasn't he offered to send me something else, but not rose oil. I declined and asked for a refund instead. I have a strict, "you only get to screw me once" policy and this guy was flat our scamming people.

He refunded the money, but Amazon wouldn't let me post a "review" of the bogus product he was selling after that and they did nothing to stop him. I would have had to keep the crap he sent me to submit a review.

I let my "Prime" account expire and rarely purchase anything from Amazon now. That's been about 3 years now. I don't think I've spent even $100 there since.
One reason I would imagine prices were so low (and soon might get so high) was that information on these companies was scattershot and very incomplete. There was no SEC. There were no legal reporting requirements and what few reporting requirements there were were mandated by the exchange.
Nobody has mentioned the building science corporation. https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/guides-and-manuals...

That is a link to only one of their articles. Generally pretty buildings with lots of glass are inefficient (glass has a r value of about 2). Buildings that look like windowless Boxes with no windows can have an r value up to infinity. The easiest way to make a "green building" that has glass walls is to compare it to extremely inefficient buildings in the prebuild analyses.

The perfect wall (perfect order of exterior wall control layers) makes for highly energy efficient buildings.
https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...

Fun stuff
Well this is weird. I have this distinct memory of seeing a blended bottle in NYC from them, and concluding that it’s some export version that they don’t sell to the domestic market because it’s not very good.

This was quite a few years ago though, so it must be a false memory or another brand entirely. And I can’t find anything on Google…
> It seems very hard to predict what technology will be dominant in another 30 years

The web seems to have bootstrapped entire industries who rely on its infra to operate. This will be the same story in the next 20 years. The web is the foundation, the innovation you will see, will piggyback on top of it, unless something else serves as the underlying basis (cough blockchain).
The view expressed in this blog and many of the comments on HN is a prime example of survivorship bias[1].

In 1921, you did not know DJI would have done so well over the next 100 yrs.

A very real counter example is the Japanese stock market. The Nikkei peaked at 39,000 in 1989. Thirty yrs later, it's only 28,000. Many blue chip stocks on Tokyo Stock Exch have never recovered their previous high.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
As I understand it the NN "perceptual hash" is supposed to hash the image, not the file. eg, if I take a photo of my cat, and hash the file. Then remove my geo data from the exif - the hash no longer matches. It is still very clearly my cat, but cryptographic hashes don't match. This could be resizing the image, saving as png, mirroring/flipping it, etc.

The "perceptual hash" should be able to say "no, that's still the same image" while the file data has been entirely transformed.
> Irony” is a term that everyone uses and seems to understand. It is also a concept that is notoriously difficult to define.

I've always thought this. It's easier to explain irony using examples than to define it.
Yep I was surprised -- google and others have long moved to neural search, afaict, where we are seeing things like faiss for indexes based on embeddings, and all sorts of deploy pain around training+inference. I knew that was still true for elastic, but hadn't realized also for their replacements. So this article is clustering for pre-neural search, and guess enterprise search is still getting there..
In the case of PACER, they are public records, and have no copy right attached to them as they are government documents, the government can not hold copyrights by definition everything the US government produces public domain.
> there is a lot of evidence that those spike proteins do damage

Citation needed.
“Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don't complain about illogical behavior.” – Eli Goldratt
(I don't know how I managed to drop the close quote while editing the C&P, but let's call it a sly illustration of the difficulty of proper quoting.)
That's very obviously not a URL for the book. That's a URL for a promo site, i.e., one of the things explicitly listed as something not to reply with, since it's not an answer to the question being asked.

"Specifically asking here whether the book has a URL."

(Being a promo site, it is a place where we should expect the URL to be linked to, if it existed, but there is no such URL to be found on that page, hence the question...)
I'm not experienced enough to form a strong opinion on this. Could you provide some reasons why you strongly disagree?

At first glance, it seems like a beneficial goal. If I ever need to checkout different points of history to find a breaking change, it'd be nice if I can run the code after every `git checkout`.
The article is suggesting that while you are working you can commit as you go, quick and dirty, irrelevant of the changes. Once you get something working and it's ready to be merged, then you can go back rewrite the branch, removing back and forth changes and writing a good commit message with the reason for it for every one change.

This way, the history would be meaningful instead of it be littered by fix up commits and it makes reverts easy.
Which politicians are euphemisms?
This may sound like I'm nitpicking, but if anyone reading this wants to save some money and pay devs more: Google/Apple absolutely do NOT prohibit taking payments through any other channel.

I know plenty of apps where one can buy the subscription at a significant discount directly on the service's website instead of through the stores and it works perfectly fine.

I think the restriction is on obviously advertising that fact in your app. So I'd recommend checking if the subscription you're about to buy through the app can be bought on the website instead.
"Blended" means a whisky combines both malt and grain spirit. Glenfiddich make malt spirit, but not grain spirit [1], so there's no way a "blended Glenfiddich" could exist. There could be blended whiskies containing Glenfiddich and grain spirit from another distillery, but those are just blended whiskies like any other; you couldn't consider them to be Glenfiddich.

"Blended malt" means a whisky combines malt spirit from multiple distilleries, so "blended malt Glenfiddich" would be an oxymoron.

A Solera system doesn't count as any kind of blending, as long as all the inputs are malt whisky from a single distillery.

[1] these are the grain distilleries: https://www.whiskyinvestdirect.com/about-whisky/grain-whisky...
IPv6 Domain Readiness Tester
Ministry of Work: Being productive is unproductive.
Not only that but animals can’t fall off the wagon because they don’t control the intake and even if they had the temptations you wouldn’t know
Adverse reactions are real, but they are orders of magnitude less likely than those caused by Covid itself and Covid is capable of causing basically all the same long tail harms the vaccines can.

Which makes sense--many of them are made of some part of the virus, so how can they be more deadly than Covid itself if they're just a piece of it?

It's weird to me that people aren't willing to trade a 2% risk for a 0.0002% risk when both have similar types of horrible outcomes.
Thank you for the kind words. Do you want to build a desktop or a web app? If desktop, despite all the electron hate here in the threads, I still say it’s a quickest way to build something to test out. Good thing, you can use your C++ code in Node. If you do go with Electron, you will need to learn some JavaScript. I think 1 or 2 weeks of learning Javascript should be enough to build a PoC.
Most of the developed economies of the world have seen lower productivity growth since the booms after WW2 and have never recovered to previous levels. There are some arguments to be made that much of our current economic growth is artificial as well. The IT revolution has also not made much of a dent in overall productivity growth, at least as of yet - I don't know whether this is an artifact of how its measured, or the growth is yet to come, or perhaps there really isn't any growth. The bigger point is that our economies are simply not designed to work in a world where there is low growth [1]. In a zero growth world, the only way to make money is to take it from someone else, so you get more zero-sum behavior. The slow growth is also in line with what folks from the WEF are saying [2]

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

[2] https://investmentmonitor.ai/global/the-urgent-case-for-stak...
As usual, the problem with these pilots is that there is an end. As a recipient, if I know the program will end at a certain date then my behavior will be different then if its a permanent program. We had one in Canada and the data said very few people quit their jobs, but yeah that's cause they know its going to end.
They sell an awful lot of it, so someone must like it!
Herd immunity must be achieved by transmitting the virus
That's interesting!

> More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

> Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

Optimistically both vaccine and natural immunity are good, but the numbers above seem to indicate that natural immunity is significantly better.
Imagine this same kind of person the master of a plantation or 1800s factory or as a Dickensian villain. It fits.
I've scaled large transformer based models that supplement a lucene-based search engine. The architecture supports an ensemble approach where Lucene results are first-class and then we tailor similarity rankings with the models.

It looks a lot like this:
https://huggingface.co/blog/bert-cpu-scaling-part-1

We have to store large "index" embeddings on SSDs and use leveldb for value retrievals of the lucene results.
copied/stolen from India/Hindus
In a traditional society, like america in 70s, those types would be outcasts. The woke ideology gives them an attractive alternative: pledge allegiance to the camp and become a "social justice warrior" - an honorable title that makes its holder think they are fighting for the greater good. What are their alternatives, really? A cashier in Walmart? They are easy to understand. Those one level above who steer the mob (ibram kendi and the like) are smart, rational and probably sociopathic. They are designing the newspeak, but IMHO lack competence and influence to make a difference (upsetting a few people doesn't count).
The last sentence sounds sarcastic and really really bad.
I take the past tense as meaning the book was a fait accompli, not as an analysis from a fictional future.
it seems that 'creativity' measure should be based on the judgment of others who presumably, spend a lot of time trying to solve similar problems.

If creativity, is just a measure of 'surprise' -- then it could be easily subjected to unfair measurement. Because 'surprise' on its own can happen easily.
> This can be seen in the matching of the cut they take.

This is crucial: any efficient market would have them compete on price. Google lowers the fee to 25%, developers move over to Google, so Apple has to follow and lower the fee to 20%. untill we reach the price-point that just about matches the costs made.

Unless you can argue that this 30% is exactly that lowest price-point: just about covering the hosting, staff and some risk, there is the proof that a monopoly is distorting this efficient market.

Proving that the current price is exactly that price-point is probably impossible; we might feel it is far from the actual costs, but we cannot prove it, which is probably one of the reasons this cannot be given as hard proof for a duo/monopoly.
That would be great, but unfortunately cops don't seem to care, even under rather egregious circumstances. My friend went to both the FBI and local police, after the person that controls the website said they would take it down in exchange for $100K. Textbook blackmail. Yet they never did anything about it.
Internet-era ways of working (2018)
the average person will take this to mean this use of a sustainable, renewable fuel will reduce the carbon footprint of the distillery... I don't see the problem

it definitely is reducing greenhouse gas emissions because the source of the energy is byproducts of plantstuffs they grow anyway for the purpose of making their whiskey
(OT) I'm unable to play your demo vid on my phone on Firefox and Chrome, including after downloading it. Android 10. Perhaps an issue at my end but don't normally have problems.

Also seems a bit heavy (200MB for 44 secs), tho perhaps that's ok on mobile for your target demographic.

Best of luck with it all tho!
> Go back to the root cause here: boring images cause someone to become depressed. My advice is to refrain from looking at the things

We are talking about reCAPTCHA, a tool that is used to prevent botting the websites that people sometimes have no choice but to use.
Things get named after the person who popularized something, not generally after the first to discover it.

It's called the Pythagorean theorem because that's where western people who called it that learned it from, the other things being unknown to them.
Can’t speak for your friend or a moderator, but when someone pursues goals other than a pure contribution, that contribution is usually shallow and easy to see through. This pollutes the place with a low-effort content and everyone “living” there hates it. At the core it’s a barely covered hypocrisy.

Puns not intended (seriously).
For "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" (https://stratospheric.dev/ ) we used Markua (http://markua.com/ ), Leanpub's Markdown flavour.

We generated the book through Leanpub, so we relied on their typesetting choices entirely.

In terms of the writing process we (three co-authors) used "feature" branches on GitHub and pull requests for each chapter, i.e., once a chapter was considered done, the other two authors reviewed and edited the result.
At least here on the East Coast of the US, my local 7-11 has fresh fruit, normal grocery store priced items like black beans, bread, milk.

Also a freshly prepared frozen pizza for $6.
This is one of the nice things about this game: that it challenges your sense of time value. If you stay in your base and keep expanding without attacking, the AI exponentially grows and takes over easily. But if you sacrifice resources to destroy more resources from the opponent, it will almost feel easy to play.
Busy != productive. This measures busyness and not productivity.

I wonder if the analysis can be trivially tricked by using a bot to post random crap using those services' APIs.
> The article is suggesting that while you are working you can commit as you go, quick and dirty

Why would someone do that?
I’d argue that if there is cleaning to be done, it should be done way before something is ready to be merged, while context is fresh in your head.

Also, cleaning before something is ready to be merged will lead to sloppy history removal as, often, people are eager to merge for a variety of reasons, and rewriting history may not be seen as a priority.
I’d highly recommend trying Laphroaig if you can, it’s really smokey and delicious.

But sorry, I didn’t mean to crap on your taste in whisky. I live in a foreign country and I see all kinds of “genuine Scottish whisky” for sale that is absolute piss (hello Scottish Meadow). Something is wrong with places charging extortionate prices for not-great, young mass produced whisky.