skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not a governor, a Republican candidate for governor. From the article:

"Not only that, the website was designed and built by David Bramante, a realtor and a Republican candidate running for governor in California’s recall election, who says the website was simply a piece of “political satire” designed to highlight what he views as unconstitutional vaccine mandates."

Yes, the purpose is to raise fear that people will be forced to get vaccinated, etc. It's just another attempt to politicize vaccination.
Overview and Comparison of VR Controllers
I've tried it. GTCE's dev is on a power trip and completely misses the enjoyable aspects of gregtech. It's like if someone pissed in a wine you like then insisted that it's better and anyone who thinks otherwise is out of their depth. GTCE isn't even in need of a fork because all of the work has been shoddy from the beginning. It's a failed project.
Thanks. I didn't intend a bad tone, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Maybe. I think it's actually pretty hard to predict. He's so populist... although that could of course punt him in either direction.
Do you disable Background App Refresh? First thing that I do on every iDevice. That feature being on is hugely overrated, you absolutely don't need it because you enter an app and manually refresh it; what's the big deal with that, are people that lazy?... Gods!

(The only useful application of that feature is email apps, I suppose; you do want to have your messages downloaded when you unlock your phone because Apple Mail takes ages to sync with Gmail... and it only gets worse with time.)

With that option set to "on" the idle battery life might quickly take a nose dive if you have stuff like Facebook / TikTok / Snapchat et. al. installed.
> You do have a point, all these middle class western fuckers unironically calling for more taxes on basics like food and electricity are completely out of touch. Not to mention the upper class, who don't give a flying fuck.

So, to be clear, what are said western fuckers supposed to do? Go "oh well, guess we're too detached from reality, may as well give up" and 100 years from now humanity has been driven to near-extinction by climate change?
I think DRY is the fundamental axiom of reasonable coding.
Everything else naturally derives if you religiously follow it.

My only issue is it does not play so well with microservices.
Yeah I think that if you put a fan in front of the treadmill, the vehicle would stop. Or is it behind the treadmill? In front, I think.
Oh man, lots of things. I have sensory processing disorder so I have a good kit for going out. That includes noise reducing headphones, both bluetooth and physical ones just to dampen the noise.

This neurofeedback device for sleep and other issues, super interesting science behind it: https://mindalive.com/products/david-delight-pro

And a PEMF device for chronic pain.
That's not a particularly impressive publication record.
Final result is better than before, because scanning applies only into targets which are ending into the cloud. Content was plaintext in the cloud before (not counting server-side encryption).

With current change, they have "partial" E2E encryption and Apple can decrypt them only if CSAM treshold is reached. If we leave all speculation, this is a great improvement for privacy in CSAM context.

You can opt-out from scanning by not using iCloud.
You could make the same argument about sharecropping in the Jim Crow South.

For the gig economy to actually "fight inequality," it would have to ultimately lead to reduced inequality. I've heard plenty of arguments that gig work is low-paying and enables employers to subvert traditional worker protections, but nothing suggesting that it's closing the gap between the rich and poor.
You know why they get cited? Because people can actually read them. It's not uncommon to skip an article in a review because Sciencedirect is down / you re working from home / the article is in an obscure old journal etc. Time is always limited, and scihub speeds up that process by an infinite amount
Thanks for the reply. My boss started a few weeks after me and I was upfront with him -- though, I didn't specify I had chronic fatigue syndrome, as I'm always afraid that people will think lesser about my quality of work for some unjustified reason. He's been really accommodating of my needs, but I'm also one of the few to get everything done on time, which I'm sure helps.

Edit: to be more specific, I told him about my sleep issues and made it clear that I could not work outside of 9-5.
I don't get why this is being downvoted. For me math is pretty much a mystery, in a sense that it seems so arbitrary once you move from simple concepts that were initially grounded in a real world (like counting pebbles or splitting a circle). And it's not because I'm particularly badly educated, after all I believe we all can agree that Eugene Wigner [1] knew a bit of math and he still was wondering the same thing [2].

So soheil's question doesn't seem ignorant of meaningless to me. One could probably reframe it to become something similar to philosophy of Gödel's theorems, in lines of "there may (or may not) exist an infinite number of problems in number theories that are very simply formulated but are impossible/hard to prove or disprove". Consequence of that being that our abilities to have a definitive proof of statements are negligible and we're thus fundamentally trapped in an infinitely small space of outer mathematical universe.

I'm sorry if I'm saying something stupid here (or on the contrary, some well-known fact), like I said, I know nothing about mathematics so the two are equally possible to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
The internet I think is critical nowadays, and therefore I'd like to see a part of it open, or having open alternatives. Email, for one, is still in a fine place, considering the myriad of proprietary and closed services.

It's technically true what you write, that we can live life without the Internet. But we can live life in a million other sucky ways too, and that doesn't mean that we should. I find it arbitrary how people draw the line, and they are fun to argue, but no amount of good reasons make the line not arbitrary. Abuse has a long history and the older ways of living had their share too.
In my experience IDE sucks for paranthensis/quote their autocompletion is awful because it only works well when you write new code not when you edit existing code..

And in VScode it isn't even possible to truly disable it!
Almost all the others have higher margin rates. M1 is like 2% or so. Fidelity, Schwab, etc are like 8% or so, and BOA/ML is like 5% or so. (rough numbers, I haven't checked in a while).

But yes, they basically all do this, though on their debit card products, not their Credit Card products, I assume the original commentor meant Debit Card and not credit card.
"Names imply age" is an obvious red herring - if you had listed names for that reason, you would have said so and explained the connection.

Yes, we're familiar with your history of creating accounts on HN and also your pattern of race-war trolling and other unsavory stuff.
A Man Who Lost $20B in Two Days Is Lying Low in New Jersey
So far as I was aware, TomTom provides a commercial alternative to OSM data. Them helping OSM in that context takes some rocket calculus / is a valid question.
My resume scares and likely confuses most people. Most EE's with 30 years of experience have been EE's their entire career. I hired a guy once out of Intel who had, at the time, devoted ten years to designing nothing but power supplies. I couldn't even ask him to design an embedded MCU board, much less write the code. That's fine, nothing wrong with that.

My case is diametrically opposite. I can design anything and tackle just about any discipline. And my resume shows it.

Back when I was just trying to take a break from entrepreneurship and take a job for a few years I got no callbacks at all. Finally a recruiter took pity on me and opened up.

He said I had two problems. If I was dealing with a small company, one look at my resume and their would fear that I wanted a job to learn their business and become a competitor. And, at a mid to large company, when dealing with a VP or manager making the hiring decision, my resume would make them fear I would be after their job after gaining a foothold. So, he said "Nobody is going to hire you. You have no choice but to stay an entrepreneur or lie.".

Not long after that I landed a nice contract to help get astronauts to the International Space Station. That was fun and interesting...yet I eventually ran into the realty that they were paying 20-somethings about 1/3 (or less) of what I was getting. When my work was done my contract had nowhere to go.

Fuck me.
Yeah, sure, I can brute force encrypted traffic by eyeballing it in my router's dashboard UI. Come on, dude.

You seem to have an axe to grind here and I refuse to participate. I even objectively admitted that I can't know and that I only suspect yet you (a) offer a non-solution and (b) likely downvote a comment because you don't like it.

Sheesh. Fine. You do you.
> I will assume "code red" is hyperbole, something that the IPCC is not entirely known to shun.

I'm not sure that’s the case and I would encourage you to dig into what the worst or medium range scenario would mean. As I understand it, the _middle_ scenario predicts that a billion people would either die in a climate-related catastrophe or be displaced before 2050. That means that several ethnic or cultural groups would go through essentially genocide.

There are details like loss of water reserves in California and the impact on food access in the US, fish population collapse, climate-related migration from the densest populated areas in the world that are very concerning.

I’ve seen scientist give very clear alarms on several global issues (usually my father was making the point); I’ve personally made several myself, and every single time, the reaction was… dumbfounding: trying to minimise, negotiate, taking the most optimistic scenario as a worst case, delaying…

I have, unironically, witnessed several conversations that literally went:

“If you do that, you, your family and your way of life will die forever.

— You are exaggerating, that’s too scary.”

They did nothing, and soon later: exactly what the prediction said.

This is not only the most common scenario, it is the only scenario I’ve seen, with one exception: CFC and the Ozone layer. And that was because there’s a handful of industrials, who had clear alternatives that proved cheaper.

“Other people do nothing; I’d rather believe the reassuring story than evidence” is exactly how we end up with the bystander effect.
> Humanity is going to go extinct

Yeah, this is about as fact-based as "there is no global warming"

> ...this solves nothing. The energy still needs to come from somewhere

It can come from renewables, unlike with combustion engine

> There's no reason we can't have a distributed network of wind and solar farms around the world that can fulfill demand at all times.

cost, energy losses, political issues (nothing making it impossible but I would not describe it as "no reason")

And power loses from Africa to say Poland would be quite unfun.

> because nothing is 100% safe

Duh.

> Nuclear is extremely expensive

Waive nearly all regulation and it would be cheaper.

(yes, we would get some meltdowns - but if people actually believed "extinction threat to humanity", "red alert" etc then it would be preferable. And likely still less radioactive than carbon power.)
That's great news, looks like my info was out of date.
My recollection is that $125k came about because when there was more money (and there was at one time) it was enough to tempt a non-trivial number of founders to fight over rather than build a company.

The problem, in so far as what I read on HN, was not three cofounders deciding to take the money and travel the world instead of building the company. The problem was that the founders who were interested in fighting over the money were distributed across many teams.

As for the realism of six months of expenses from $125k, thinking about it those terms is a signal that someone might not be a good fit. If it's a problem, it's a surmountable problem either through work (and luck) or through a willingness to fail.

It's a non-starter for non-startups.
I'm not sure I agree with the premises that I own my device, which most people seem to take for granted.

After all, in the iPhone case, I'm not allowed to root it, install anything I want on it, etc. Apple already controls it, and already decides what I can do with it.

So, if Apple decides that it can't be used to send child pornography, how is it different from 'standard' usage restrictions ? Or is it only the fact that it might trigger a call to law enforcement which is a problem, and without this call, everything would be ok ? In other words, would an iPhone which detects child porn and refuses to do anything ('error : illegal content') with it be ok? Or would this be a violation of privacy?
not sure really. crypto markets dont seem to have been less rational than other markets in recent years.
The reason people confuse "==" and ".equals" in Java is because they are confusing. In general, Java doesn't use the concept of pointers, and yet, one of its main operators does.

That language feature is simply broken, and this is really not the same situation of confusing "a == b" with "a in b" or "type(a) == type(b)". One can say that comparison with None is Python is broken too, but the situation is much better because you get an error if you make a mistake, instead of your program misbehaving.

Javascript, by the way, is way worse than Java here. In general the language does not differentiate a number from a string with a numeric value (something I imagine it copied from Perl), yet a lot of features do.
Ambition and insecurity are two sides of the same coin, imo.
These books helped me alot personally:

"Freedom from the known" - Jiddu Krishnamurti and "Power of Now" - Eckhart Tolle

I think it's healthy to pursue goals and improve your life situation. But don't let it become your identity or expect lasting peace from it.
In the US, more people died than US soldiers in WWII, which in any common parlance was "dangerous." Rationalize harder. Ready, Go!
If what you want to read is a reddit kill it with fire joke thread you can just go to reddit. There's nothing wrong with wanting that, but there's no need to wish for it or encourage it here.
It's like any stats question. Depends entirely on your sample. With a reasonably sized sample, no, it really couldn't. Also this is more sealioning.
Where do you see it being MATLAB? It just says that has a MATLAB compatible syntax. This is the SF page, with some screenshot: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmat/
> (I wish java had `[[nodiscard]]` but alas).

Try Google's Error Prone:

https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/CheckReturnValue

Or @CheckResult in Android-flavor Java
The Top Shelf Principle (2019)
Yep, preliminary data. Do you think they made it up? Apparently health officials in Israel and elsewhere are not dismissing this as misinformation.

Those preliminary are consistent with this study which found the same low risk of reinfection [0]:

> the estimated risk was low (0.1% [95% CI: 0.08-0.11%]) with no evidence of waning immunity for up to 7 months following primary infection.

Also there's this, indicating the vaccine may not be as effective as time goes on [1]:

> Researchers at the Ministry of Health took another look at the effectiveness of the vaccine, limiting their analysis to the surge from June 6 to July 3. In that period, they estimated, the effectiveness of the vaccine at preventing infections was down to 64 percent.

> More recently, they ran another analysis. This time, they looked at cases between June 20 and July 17. In that period, they estimated, the vaccine’s effectiveness was even lower: just 39 percent against infection.

Not a published study, but I assume that the Israeli Ministry of Health is not making up numbers.

Are there any published studies to the contrary? These are the numbers we have at the moment. I assume more will come, from the U.K. where they are also tracking stuff like this better than in the U.S.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209951/pdf/RMV...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/science/covid-vaccine-isr...
Yes. Twenty year olds have unrealized potential. At fifty-five, it is not unfair to call it wasted potential.
I take it you haven't talked to any medical professional recently.
How have we observed enough naked mole rats to be confident of this? How did cancer rates in them become an object of study in the first place? Is there a reason to think they don't get cancer?
> What you're asking people to do is give up personal transportation, which is to some their sense of freedom

This is an unusual POV unique to the US when compared with the rest of the world. When I lived in San Francisco, I didn't drive a car for ten years, and didn't miss it for one minute. There's also an incredible amount of recaptured freedom available when you stop driving, as most commuters are aware. This equates to having more time to walk and enjoy the world, more time to listen to podcasts and music and read, and less stress rushing and worrying about getting into an accident.
Also, the group of people who actually are the corporation ate free to go do the same things again.
Oh, I didn't mean to rain on your parade. I love my diver's watches. In a similar vein I love having 200M of water resistance even though I'll never take them any deeper than the bottom of a small swimming pool, lol.
I took a look at the translations and this is strange: https://github.com/BanDev/Buddha-Quotes/blob/bf07288f3747f1d...

> <string name="tick" id="31">Garrapata</string>

How are you using "tick"? Garrapata is an small (nasty) bug in Spanish, and I don't remember it used in an UI before. Looking at the German translation, I guess that the correct translation is "Favorito" or "Marcador" or something like that, but my German is not very good and I don't understand how you are using "tick" in your app.
That’s a shame. I know several founders who email specific partners who have in experience in their industry and they seem to get more personalized rejections
> 3x+1 is, too, a programming language

What does this mean? Isn't having a catalog essentially precomputing a function for every possible input?
About a week ago, I spent several hours after midnight in this ultimate nerd trap.

I started with powers of 2 that obviously reduce to the cycle and tried to apply these transitions inferring larger and larger sets of numbers whose binary representation satisfies specific regular expressions on 0 and 1s, but got lost pretty quickly.

My intuition is that, given that several generalizations of Collatz Conjecture are undecidable (equivalent to a halting problem), this process is in the territory of being not yet Turing-complete but already undecidable. But I am pretty sure many people way smarter than me tried this approach as well.
I like the technique of testing if it was carnivorous. For the lazy people, they put a nitrogen isotope inside fruitflies and then tested the plant later to see if it was absorbing the nitrogen, and it was.
> What’s the point of downloading songs for offline use if you can’t even navigate to them?

So you can listen to them without consuming potentially expensive mobile data.
You've got it exactly right.
Vacuum optimised rockets require a vacuum. Balloons require atmosphere… so there is a gap where the balloon can’t go higher and the engine isn’t in vacuum yet
One Road Fork in Yosemite Seems to Have Caused Multiple Tesla Autopilot Wrecks
> Everything else on board for propulsion and housing the pilot would be on the scale of a small prop aircraft

It's likely that any cargo airship would fly for days/weeks at a time and would require at least 4 crew-members and everything they would need for the length of the voyage. So less a small prop and more something akin to facilities available on a yacht/Large RV.

> You might not even need pilots since these would be perfect targets for automation.

This would perhaps be the best solution
Apple's goal is not to fight all CSAM on iPhones; Their goal is to keep it out of their servers. A criminal could bypass the iCloud-related checks, but they still have to contend with similar measures taken by video- and file-sharing services.
>>Humanity is going to go extinct

People aren't worried about the climate or the environment changing enough to directly cause humans to go extinct. More like climate change (plus our huge population) leading to increased resource contention, leading to increased conflict, leading to a superweapons conflict, ergo it's an existential threat.

> Nuclear is extremely expensive and prone to going wrong.

This has been debunked in this thread and countless others. It's a solvable problem, but we in the US lack the will.

> To grab that carbon you need to spend at least as much energy as you got from the combustion.

Eh. See solutions involving olivine. It's best to not release it in the first place. Which is why...

>>We need to use electric cars

>...this solves nothing.

... is bupkis. The fewer ICEs releasing carbon, the better. EVs can be powered by renewables. ICEs cannot (economically) be powered by renewables. EtOH is trash, biobutanol and Fischer-Tropsch gasoline are too expensive and likely will stay so.

Addendum on nuclear since it keeps coming up. Five tips from HN's favorite lightning rod mogul would dramatically improve the nuclear industry:

1. Make your requirements less dumb. How much design and regulatory cruft and holdover do we have from the beginning of the atomic age? Not suggesting "move fast and break things" but I am suggesting iterate at the small scale and never stop trying to improve safety, cost, and speed, in that order.

2. Try to delete processes and steps. Smaller, more modular reactors. Use fewer parts, and more off the shelf for what you need.

3. Simplify.

4. Accelerate cycle time. This goes hand-in-hand with Simplify.

5. Try to automate it. This is least essential, and doesn't mean just robots, but more jigwork and assembly line, vs nonrecurring engineering, the better.
But it’s not something that the NCMEC can do in secret. Apple gets the CSAM reports and decides whether something is worth sending as a tip to NCMEC.
A slight correction about Sailfish OS - the official/commercial Android emulation layer is only available for officially supported Sony Xperia devices, as can be seen in the table on Jolla Shop:

https://shop.jolla.com/

I do have Xperia X & Xperia 10 II and can confirm Android emulation layern works very well.

You can run Sailfish OS on many other devices thanks to community porting work, but without support for the Jolla provide Android emulation layer. The devices will still run all the many native Sailfish OS apps + ARM compiled flatpaks just fine & the is community work in getting Anbox to run to provide Android emulation on the community ports as well. :)
There's kind of an XKCD What If for this, though with Jupiter: https://what-if.xkcd.com/146/

Summary is no for Jupiter, even the entire planet Earth wouldn't affect it that much. Mercury is much smaller though, so it might be possible to make a significant change, though you're probably still talking about sending a significant fraction of the mass of the whole planet Earth.

You might be able to alter the orbit like that without destroying the Earth if you figure out how to gather a ton of mass already in space, asteroids or something maybe. But now you've got to figure out how to redirect their orbit into the exactly right one without throwing most of their mass around, and do it with a reasonably-sized mission from Earth.
Except they don’t compete with planes, but with water ships.