skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a business point of view, this seems like a fine, philosophical, argumentative distinction: If we say part of the process of research is preparing the paper, then the researcher is paid for preparing it. (And that seems like a strong argument - unpublished research has little value, like unpublished software.)

If we say the process of research doesn't include preparing the paper, going to the bathroom, going to a conference, watering the plants in the break room, etc. - the researcher is unpaid.

The real question is, should researchers have the resources to delegate such non-specialized work, and the answer is yes. Serious question: Isn't this a good job for noob research assistants? They'll learn about the topic, learn the tools and ways of the industry and lab, and you weed out those who lack commitment, motivation, attention to detail.
I went to a talk that specifically said LEED is a terrible standard and contrasted it with other standards that actually work.

The LEEDv4 marketing materials don't have the tone I would expect if LEED has actually evolved into something more useful than a greenwashing marketing program. Maybe they've improved it but I would need to have some third party say "earlier versions of LEED didn't actually mean any of the things you would expect, and LEEDv4 has corrected that in a meaningful way."
So how do you explain why it's been so long since we've seen an alpha female macaque?

Are you implying that male and female macaque's are the same and that male macaque's are sexist?
https://archive.is/DUZat
Can any of the findings from the properties of how natural immunity works be guided in to future COVID 19 vaccines?

Given how the pharma companies are examining anti-body half life, exploring booster shots, and considering vaccinations against variants (like lambda), can any of the learnings go into a more durable, more broad vaccine?
Big Tech Silencing Physicians: A Dangerous Road for American Medicine (2020)
I am always fascinated in people that are so distracted that they can't comment on the subject matter but only nitpick. I guess that makes the design not great but we also live in 2021 where you click a button and get a easily readable mode.

Or we just insult someone's design choices...the internet will be just black text on a white background with people like you pushing the forefront of mediocrity.
If they can get your data out then do they have access to your keys?
I'm late to this, but could you please stop being an asshole on HN? Your comments in this thread have at best straddled the line, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28076349 crossed it completely, and unfortunately your comment history is often that of a jerk: your posts frequently contain something abrasive, even as you also make interesting points.

Your interesting points are worth reading, but the meanness is destructive and not cool here. We're trying for conversation in which people treat each other well, in addition to making interesting points, because without that, the forum crumbles into internet default nastiness.

I'm sure you can make your substantive comments thoughtfully, so please do that instead. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Yes!! Why do these things even cost money to begin with? It's like they want people to not follow the standards.
> Mandatory breathalyzers

I assume you mean mandatory breathalyzers as car equipment, alongside high-visibility vest, documents etc. It is law in some countries - I know of France. I judge it one of the most absurd conceivable piece of legislation.

You cannot go to people who are possibly abstinents and suggest that they may drink: it is offensive. Even if well below the median, even if only the third, tenth standard deviation refrained from intoxication, you still cannot go to some random individual and assume they drink - in their culture, that could be a disrespectful to defamatory act.

Plus, it is a matter of prudence: also on a matter of proper relation, you do not want to put those people in the condition of discussing why they find it offensive - forcing them to possibly offend the inquirer.
Those are the Google “warning” banners trying to switch you to Chrome. I get them even in 2021!
Yes, you are correct. Totally meant Web2.0 when things became interactive and sites started allowing users to post comments and what not.
The direct heat contribution from combustion is minuscule.
> You already have all the equipment anyway, why not just add a fuel cell?

According to the blog post, the dry mass of the fuel cells would mass similar to LiIon of the same energy storage capacity, not counting the mining equipment to get the lunar water.
Do you have a source for that? I've been researching this but I got conflicting information.
And if you consider other countries that could be far more than 5%.
You can buy and download MP3s from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=163856011&ref_=na...

May not be available everywhere, depending on where you live
My paperwhite 3 was the best choice at the time for a pocket-sized waterproof reader.
"ppl" --fuck's sake. Just spell "people" properly. This isn't Reddit
Oh cool! I guess I missed that cruising around the website!
it's true, it's easy to criticize from a chair, but I've noticed way too much failures (wind turbines failures if not scam at times, who also set back a lot of other projects due to the bad press; extremely bad public sector policies causing bad work environment + bad work quality + multi-year long delay)

I think it's fair to at least voice it out, I'm just trying to dig out what are the real reasons and potential new ideas.
Thanks! I will look that up (but if you happen to have any links ...).
> Of course, if you were the ceo of Google and have something like that happen. You would ask your teams, what are the different scenarios we can explore? And one of them would be killing the CEO of Epic. What people expect?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30WTWkFe910&t=415s
> I generally agree that giant corporate conglomerates like Google are a bad thing for basically everyone, but I don't think that diluting the meaning of "monopoly" helps anyone, and neither do silly entitled arguments against paying a commission for distribution.

Google and Apple very much represent a duopoly, that's just calling a spade a spade.

Nor did I see anybody here argue they should just distribute other people's apps for free.

The issue is over the size of the fee they demand and how they also demand to exclusively use their payment services, so they can extort their 30% fee on every single transaction even past the original distribution.

To apply that example to a brick and mortar store would be the equivalent of the store getting a cut off attachments/replacements the customer directly orders from the manufacturer because the customer bought the original device in the brick and mortar store.
I am about to roll out search on Shepherd.com and looking at using Algolia. I've been impressed with Algolia on Hacker News...

Is anyone else using them? What are your impressions so far?

Much appreciated
ublock on mobile? good luck installing extensions, since your only options are buggy slow Firefox or just days ago released updated Kiwi Browser
Yes they can do it right now, but that would be illegal and couldn’t be used for any good. Now they make it legal- that’s the difference.
Where do you get that? Do you mean software developers specifically?
Just a note to non-immunologists - Immunity means different things to health and science professionals vs the general public.

Edit: I'm not going into detail in this comment because I am not an immunologist and I cannot express clearly and correctly what the difference is, but just be aware that "Immunity" may not mean 100% protection in the way that the general public thinks that word means.
Politicians of both parties often use the same middlemen. The 'campaigning industry' isn't so much red or blue but green.
Sounds like a fantastic way for law enforcement to get into your phone with probably cause. Random message you a benign picture from some rando account with a matching hash. Immediate capture for CP, data mine the phone, insert rootkit, 'so sorry about the time and money you lost - toodles'.
those are all terrible implementations though, nobody would ask a discord like dev team to work on safety critical systems, and musk has a serious problems overselling his driving aid..

doesn't mean a good team of serious guys could make a useful device (I'm no proponent of it btw)
Is that a mistake, or is it just the reason why the lambda style is slower? If you're assigning the lambda, then as @sharikous mentions below, you might as well just be using a def, which is exactly what is done in the operator module: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/operator.py#L...

For someone familiar with the operator module, there is a final small argument for using it instead of defining your own, if the result will be the same: that's a definition that doesn't have to be understood by the reader.
> It's never represented the people, it's always represented the states.

...which is a lot less of a problem if the House and the Presidency represent the majority. Then the Senate functions as intended: a check on the "mob" of democracy.

But now we're in a position where most states are gerrymandered, the Electoral College also heavily favors the rural minority, and the judiciary has been intentionally hijacked by abusing the rural bias.

It makes sense if you think about it. Given hundreds of years to figure it out, eventually a minority interest is going to find a way to engineer the federal system to seize (and retain) power against the will of the majority.
From the article:

(lambda x, y: x ^ y)(7, 10)

from operator import xor
xor(7, 10)

> Clearly the second option is more readable.

Clearly, the readable option here is ”7 ^ 10”. The examples are a bit contrived, so readability can’t really be gauged from them.
Covid lab leak: Did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign?
I have opinions and...more importantly...skin in the game, here. It's been my experience that most of this stuff is written by folks, to whom addiction is an intellectual exercise. Maybe they know someone that may or may not be an addict, and the chances are good, that what happens to that person won't really be life-changing to the person writing about their pet theory.

Things are quite different, when it's your ass, or someone that you really care about, experiencing it.

There's also a great deal of money to be made. Desperate people are easy marks.

That's all I'll say.
I think you're misunderstanding how bad the general state of political fundraising in the US is. Just over the past week, I've gotten:

* An email titled "watch our video [not asking for money]" which links to a request for money

* _two_ people - one from each side of the aisle - trying to gaslight me into donating "again" since I've purportedly already joined their campaign

* a fake survey where every prompt is some variation on "Did you know how vile those guys are?" and the only response options are "Yes, they suck" or "No, but I know now".

* an email written to sound like a personal letter, assuring me that some state legislators will be unjustly imprisoned if I don't sign a petition, but reveals upon clicking into the petition that they also need to collect $2,084 by midnight. (I only personally need to send $16 - it's "today's most popular amount!")

And I've only ever made a single political donation from my current email! I don't think it's partisan at all to say the status quo isn't okay here.
Don’t leave us hanging - what does it mean?
I would have you read ‘The Pump House Gang’ by Tom Wolfe and realize that there is limited room at the top of the wealth status hierarchy.

It is not realistic that you will get there. But the people in that book all found a community that they could excel in and goals that were realistic.

Lately I met somebody who had ‘failed’ in business (no longer a going concern) but I had admiration for what they did because what they did upheld high quality. I hope that person can be proud of that even if they didn’t make it big.
The Voice of Adam Smith
Anticompetitive behaviour in the global marketplace is so pervasive that it's pointless to even mention specific cases - It only serves to perpetuate the ridiculous illusion that some people in government give a crap about it. Antitrust is a joke.

Everything is essentially a trust nowadays.
> I'm not sure I've obtained any information about the expected earnings of someone trying to post content to OnlyFans.

> Fermi estimate

It's more like a Fermi estimate, but the inputs still probably aren't good enough to be meaningful. E.g., on other set-your-own-hours platforms like doordash, MLM pyramid schemes, and uber it's expected that 99% of the workers won't work more than a few hours per month (this is also a bad Fermi estimate -- could be off by 10x either direction). As a corollary, just taking the $145 and multiplying by 100ish (based also on your definition of full-time) could be a much better estimate for the earnings potential for somebody looking to seriously pursue OnlyFans.

Pendantic note: the point here isn't that $14,500 is a better estimate; it's that the magnitude of all the unknowns in trying to compute such a thing is so great that we can't even reach the level of certainty a Fermi approximation provides without more data.
This one gave me a chuckle:

> Smuggle octal literals into a list of decimal numbers like this:

array = new int []
{
111,
120,
013,
121,
};
0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
"Software Configuration Management" or "Version control"?
We need a way to manufacture our own computer hardware at home. We need hardware manufacturing to be as easy and democratized as free software development. Until then, we'll forever be at the mercy of these corporations.
That makes no sense whatsoever; fuel cell mass scales with power output, not with system capacity. Extra capacity incurs just slightly bigger tanks. No serious study I've seen assumes that long-duration storage (~100h or more) has fuel cells heavier than batteries. The last paper I've seen had batteries twice as heavy as the whole fuel cell system. I may try to find it again.
Large scale carbon capture is actually the only way forward. It's already way too late for just reducing emissions.
The required negative emissions are just getting more expensive with each day, but it's still possible.
Given your interests, consider building public good dApps or defi projects that leverage the latest in crypto tech like so-SNARKs and quadratic funding. Powerful emerging tech that doesn’t yet have much economic incentive for companies to adopt seems like it could be fun and potentially broadly useful.

Relevant podcast episode with Vitalik: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/i...
Another consideration: we shouldn't be relying on copyright law to protect against doxing. Online privacy rights should be their own thing, and treated much more harshly than copyright infringement.
How Long Should You Take to Decide on a Career?
I am just a data point and I've spent time studying 'Graphtreon'. You're welcome to repost my answer with the understanding that I'm just a data point trying to observe this along with everybody else. I've got no communication with anyone else in the system.

With the following exception: I made a special effort to talk to Jack Conte at the second-to-last Patrecon, the one in California. I spoke to Jack and to Sam Yam, and tried to impress upon them the importance of consistently and reliably maintaining that 'tail' of $50, $100 a month.

I don't know if they heard me (they may have) but my argument was as follows: consider some single mother who is absolutely broke, but has a cell phone and is able to upload to YouTube or whatever. Let's say she is able to find a double-digit number of people, no better, who'll tune in as she reads bedtime stories to her kid. She is not going to become PewDiePie, but she can pull maybe $50 or $100 on Patreon, and it's relatively consistent, especially if she doesn't tie it hard to her performance and products, but keeps it low-pressure: it's very possible to create a steady and predictable income stream that way.

The Patreon guys have a stated but undefined goal to bring people to a 'life-changing' amount of income, but we are all finding that's not going to happen for 99.9% of the people attempting it. BUT, I've found from my experience that the 'life-changing' amount is around what I make: enough to build an actual business in the real world, support it, and grow. (if you're not growing in capitalism, you're gonna die). In other words, the single mom telling her kid bedtime stories on YouTube is going to fail by the terms they're predisposed to care about, 'seeding a business in LA or wherever, and getting traction to grow big'.

My argument to Jack and Sam, which I don't know if it was heard, was this: I have been homeless and seen very tough times. Being able to count upon fifty, a hundred dollars a month that is not dependent on your precarious job, keeping a roof over your head (as long as you have the phone and can upload), that is YOURS and sort of steady consistent bonus income no matter what other hell goes on in your life, is HUGE. The monetary amount is much less significant than the manner in which it is earned. It doesn't wildly vary from month to month, it's not tied to other obligations: anyone who has lived precariously knows the value of an extra fifty a month. This is at least an order of magnitude below what the Patreon guys assumed was 'life-changing', because I don't think they had the context to understand it.

So I pitched them on the importance of what they are doing, and of keeping faith with the 'tail' rather than getting too distracted by trying to create millionaires. I don't know if they heard, they may have, but that's the one time I talked seriously with 'the Patreon system'. Other than that I'm just another bozo on the bus, representing the tail end of the top 100 worldwide :)
In practice it’s common to use similar terminology for intermittent services.

For example a subway train might only be running every 30 minutes but it still lists hours of operation. The hotel help desk might not have someone there every second, but theirs a difference between someone putting up a “be back in 15 minutes sign” when their on a bathroom break rather than a closed sign when they are leaving for the day. Informally, the existence of a modest wait doesn’t preclude 24/7 service.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03738-2

did it already.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03738-2

vaccines also produce durable and persistent immune responses. Primary antibody titers wane, but the system itself remembers and can regenerate them when challenged.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107714 for contra "but muh boosters", which i suspect is what's helping me collect downvotes.
Here you go!

[1] https://arxiv.org/moderators/

[2] https://arxiv.org/help/moderation
> Sometimes it's better to get it out in the air so someone can reach out and provide a counter example?

HN is intended for "curious discussion". The person I responded to was not providing that.

> You don't chastise a misanthrope. That makes it worse.

I wasn't intending to make it better. It's not my responsibility to fix someone who thinks all humans deserve to die for offending nature. It's their responsibility, which probably requires help from a therapist, not an anonymous internet commenter.

> I implore both of you to reexamine life as a non-traditional family builder.

Who said I'm either traditional or a family builder?

I'm neither, but I was born with relatives, and those relatives are having children. So are my friends and many of the people around me.
I'm disappointed to see this answer so far down considering how often the almond milk myth is busted. Animal agriculture uses significantly more water than what else was mentioned in this thread.
https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
Several people have asked in existing threads why you'd want this, so, let's give a very real example that we can guess probably at least one HN reader will be grateful for:

At the end of next month (September 2021) the root CA certificate for DST Root CA X3 expires.

When a new CA comes into existence in the Web PKI they face a significant problem, even if all the brand new shiny software trusts their excellent new CA root, almost everybody at least sometimes needs old software that might not have the latest updates. So, they get an existing trusted CA to sign to say that they trust this new CA.

The charity that provides Let's Encrypt, ISRG, has a root CA named ISRG Root X1 (and a newer one named ISRG Root X2 but that's another matter) but they also sought such cross signatures from IdenTrust, who had bought the Digital Signature Trust and with it DST Root CA X3 in order to "bootstrap" trust on older systems.

So up until late September, a device that has no idea who ISRG are or what Let's Encrypt is, still trusts Let's Encrypt certificates, because it trusts DST Root CA X3. And then the self-signed certificate for DST Root CA X3 expires.

Tools like RunAsDate allow you to test your software to see whether it will still work after that expiry date. It wasn't really practical to run such tests a few months ago, because if in say May you tell the computer it's now the 1st of October all your perfectly good Let's Encrypt certificates issued in April have expired by October, so that's why nothing works. However, since early July it has been possible to have certificates that will not be expired when DST Root CA X3 expires and perform such tests.

Lots of maintainers probably look after systems where they can't (or at least, daren't) add a newer root like ISRG Root X1 and would value knowing in advance that the system will blow up completely at the end of September, rather than being blind-sided when it inevitably happens. RunAsDate (and similar tools on other systems) enable them to find that out with a few weeks left to fix or at least mitigate the problem.
I think it's important to differentiate between domain name squatters and domain name investors. Squatters are typically registering trademarked names with the hopes of flipping them to the trademark holder, or registering accidentally expired domains names with the hopes of selling them back to the previous registrant (as in OP's case). This is wrong.

Legitimate domain name investors are typically investing in generic words, brandables, or exact search term match domains.

I used to get mad about domain investors having every name I wanted to use for a project, until someone analogized it to real estate investing. Everybody would open their store on Fifth Ave. in New York City if they could afford it. Unfortunately, storefronts there are very limited. This is basically what generic, one-word .com domains are (frequent sales of $1M+). Domain names are just digital real estate.
89% isn't very similar though.
The world wouldn’t notice if nuts were not grown anymore.

The world would revolt if beef disappeared.