skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's given the power of the press back to the people

You are mistaken. Social media and things like youtube, just like elections, provide the appearance of power and choice, but just safely let people to let out pent up emotions. Then they safely contain it without it being spilled to the real world to a certain extent, at the same time give the people who participate in them a certain feeling of "doing something", a fallacy that even I am committing right now while I write this comment down..

As Noam Chomsky said "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum".

We already know that youtube and other media like reddit even HN "strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion", and as you said, they also allow very lively debate withing the rest of the spectrum..
My FAANG employer and my CPA both agree I owe tax on RSUs that “partially vested” while a resident. An example of 48 shares of RSUs that vest 1/48 every month for 4 years (48 months), and I lived in CA for 6 months after they were granted (not vested, granted). In months 1-6, all were 100% California taxable. In month 7, I owed 6/7ths of the normal California tax. In month 8, it was 6/8ths. In month 48, the final vest, will be taxed by California at 6/48ths of a full resident. My new state also taxes them, but I can deduct taxes I pay to California so I don’t get double-taxes.
That isn't fair assessment. Europeans have plenty of experience how they failed to manage fixing problems by wars. Also at that time, NATO expansion was the only option on the table, Washington was uneasy about the prospects of some independent european alliance influenced much by the newly unified Germany. So it was only natural they decided to come and showcase fixing problems in ex-yugoslavia.

By the way Europe is in fact fixing American problems, by dealing with of refugees from american (and russian) wars, at the price of political and cultural turmoil.
> The difference here is that it becomes an grant

Yes, that’s what makes it basic income. What’s to prevent people from copy-pasting the same “local restaurant” business plan every year and just going “whoops, it failed”?
The cultural aspect is critical and people have overlooked in many places. The Optimism for Russia after the fall of the USSR, Ukraine and Afghanistan, Libya, etc. Places with no democratic foundation or tradition but plagued by corruption.

It needs to grow over decades organically for the people to get used to the idea and the institutions, for example, like in Hong-Kong. Singapore is another example and they yet don't have completely open democracy.

The ground must be fertile, as they say in allegorical terms, for democracy to take root. You can't impose it and then wish it to work and have it work. You can't throw money at it (as AF has shown us). It's a messy process. Sometimes, like Panama, you have the right accidents happen and it works --but at least then they could rely on the legacy of Marti (as they were part of Columbia during independence from Spain) and they had the US administer the Canal Zone till '00, I believe.
In that case I'd assume the meaning is related to the exponential growth in towable tonnage compared to the size or weight of the car.
Ask HN: Hacker News on Mobile – collapsing/expanding threads freezes browser tab
On Android, Chrome my browser tab freezes for ages when I try to expand a huge thread of collapsed comments.

Try collapsing, then expanding a comment on this submission -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203948

It freezes the tab, and blocks and UI action, also seems to be related to the number of comments too.

Does anyone else experience this on mobile? I swear it didn't do this a few years ago...
Google is quietly meeting with a publishers' group to talk Privacy Sandbox tech
I read up on this [0]. It looks like it helps to have a newer phone, and even then this feature is inconsistent across models, with some phones spewing non-random frames even when wifi is off and/or depending on how location services is configured. Although I would assume the feature will continue to be better implemented as time goes on, it doesn't look like something that is protecting most people yet.

I read a bit about bluetooth tracking [1]. Apple and Google both apparently support this kind of tracking via apps, and a lot of apps use toolkits made by advertisers that do this. Apple has been selling their iBeacon devices that can be located in stores to track people. Here's [2] something about google tracking via bluetooth even when bluetooth is turned off.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/18/wifi_tracking_failure...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...

[2] https://qz.com/1169760/phone-data/
Here's a list I made a while ago:

https://airtable.com/shrkMwyhCdgVPzzbY/tbl8VLDXcnqD3Q3Ti

I think it's better to follow a news aggregator. Most corporate engineering blogs include a lot of marketing and fluff pieces which aren't interesting. Anything interesting will generally get posted here or on reddit.
Just flash something like LineageOS, which has a built in updater that works seamlessly.

It's not surprising that making changes to an OS designed for delta updates and an immutable OS partition breaks updates. That's just how the technology works; the solution is to use an OS that is designed for that kind of use case. Root patches for original vendor OSes are never a particularly clean or secure experience.
That’s not testing, that’s triage. If you don’t bother writing unit tests yourself as a developer when you fix the tickets, then that’s the problem I’m referring to.
I guess, your mind is set already.

My thought process though that Pico-8 is roughly the same price as three cups of coffee. However, it is a way to say Thank you, Zep and support the future development of the platform. Some interesting things came out of Pico-8 BBS and also helped me to sharpen my skills.

If it is too much or inconvenient there is also TIC-80 which is open-source and more-or-less follows the same spirit albeit less constrictive.
Azure Govt. Top Secret now generally available for US national security missions
Yep. I had that exact feeling with Endless Sky myself some time ago. I couldn't quite pin down what the problem was. There were obviously various things that could be improved, but none that I could really say for sure would help get the feeling right.

Maybe it's time I check it out again and see if it's gotten closer.
I think emulation is fine, but it always leaves you guessing a little. Was it really accurate or were you missing something?

I'm intruiged by the fpga emulation stations though. They seem to have the posibility of more accuracy with less latency, but it depends on how good the people making the cores are.
That's interesting. it's a good argument. Maybe vaccines are the answer. But I don't think we can rule it out and say it's 'just wrong' tho right?

The delta and lambda variants emerged, and they were both more transmissible, and more vaccine resistant, is that right? I mean, why do you need to evolve vaccine resistance and transmissibility at the same time? Seems weird, and given the 'shotgun' quality of antibodies across individual and population, particularly so.

Which lets me feel that we are applying some selective pressure with vaccines. Compared to the other virus mentioned, what's different is the scale and rate of vaccine roll out here is unprecedentedly greater. Maybe in the previous cases our immune system had already evolved stronger defenses by the time the vaccines were given, 'patching more holes in the dam' so to speak.
This is not the last time we’ll see this of course, even if this bill doesn’t have a path forward. It seems there are few in congress that appreciate just how bad of an idea this is.
What about someone who is unskilled at art but skilled at navigating the federal job application process?
Yeah there's a considerable difference between "my kid is a genius among other kids" (probably what a lot of parents feel about their children) and "my kid is a genius even when compared to adults."
That's right. I don't have existential dread about Putin or Xi. They want total power, wealth and stability. They're corrupt pragmatists, not zealots who are going to die in a nuclear Armageddon. I fear the ideologically committed madman much more.
> I don't like the odds that I'd find myself incarcerated for shoplifting groceries, or living in a tent city, or crapping in a donut box in the back of an Amazon delivery van, or prostituting my ass to pay for insulin.

What percentage of people do you think you just described?
China will not operate to Western standards of ethics. Look at how they maintain peace in Xinjiang.

Their method of operation, if they eventually feel confident enough to annex new territories, will be like a modern version of Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Mohammed. ie, 'neutralize' all males who oppose, and all women will be expected to find a Han husband.
This is the kind of America strong arming that I could get behind.
How could NFC payment fail? Is payment terminal rotten?
35 years of OO experience here. Maintaining very large C++ code bases. I never have OO entanglement problems due to inheritance based solutions. Why? Because I only use inheritance for interfaces. Nothing else.
I'm only addressing teaching himself to read at two:

Check out "How Teach your baby to read" by Glen Doman.

He makes the case that it is pretty much an inmate ability if encouraged correctly.

The method has been around long enough to have some backing and witness, but it doesn't actually seem to confer much long term advantage.

I ended up not using it with my kids after feedback from a friend and some further reading.

My understanding is that for most people intelligence isn't a result of starting early, but rather having the brain finish late - i.e. remaining plastic longer.
I've got screening enabled and still get at least 3 spam calls per day, usually more.
The cause isn't known. It's probably us, but saying "it's us" isn't helpful. Finding out the reason is helpful.

It's hard enough to make changes to global human behavior when we have a well-defined problem with a known solution. Guessing at a cause and getting it wrong--or making hand-wavy statements about how the entirely of human behavior is a problem--not only doesn't help anything, it actively hurts efforts to solve problems.

If you present people with evidence and with a pragmatic plan to solve a problem, they're more likely to act. Obviously we get it wrong far more often than we get it right, but there are success stories, like saving many birds from extinction by banning DDT.

If you can't come up with a cause and a solution, you just come off as a crank. If you get the cause wrong or your solution doesn't work, that makes it all the harder to win support for the million other things that need fixing.
This is great, but the sad truth is that unofficial clients like this can never grow big and support more than a few thousand users, given how ridiculously low Spotify API's rate limits are.

My project https://volt.fm has 100k+ users now and I'm really struggling with the Spotify API.
If your employer (W2) is in CA you pay CA income taxes.
In the age of Amazon print-on-demand, social media, and Patreon, if you cannot make money writing I sincerely question your promise as a writer.
As recently as JFK we had Bobby Kennedy as AG (as competent as he was). Imagine the heart attacks people would have today if Biden tried putting a relative in as AG, or if Trump had tried the same.
I don’t know why they’re writing the parser using globals though instead of passing a pointer to a parser state struct.

Because there's only one. Why obfuscate that fact? Don't be tempted by the cargo-cult to make things more complex than they need to be just to appease some dogmatic "best" practices that actually aren't.
an iq of 230 probably does not exist . it is impossible to devise a test accurate enough measure such a high iq .More likely there are probably a hundred people in the world who can be considered the smartest, including Terrance Tao and other prodigies. And that German guy who recently got a Field's Medal.

He said to do math, not first-rate math. I have witnessed plenty of seemingly merely above-average-IQ people make interesting, novel contributions to math. Complex analysis, infinite series, matrices, stuff like that.They don't get much media coverage but produce interesting results and produce high quality math..that is probably what he was getting at.

-read the req. literature

-find an interesting problem, something u want to learn more about

-defer to literature to try to solve it

-if you succeed, write it up

IQ matters a lot though.no doubt.
Once the water runs out you won’t be feeding anyone.
That doesn’t fucking help as long as their governments are willing to do it. What do you think will happen with the local plastics?

Some of the worst offending rivers are in India and the Philippines and “the west” doesn’t send plastic there.

Cut the whataboutism shit and pressure every country directly that is doing this.
I wonder what the footprint will look like once the author writes in all of the missing features
In Bangladesh, we have had real elections, leaving aside the the assassinations and that one military dictatorship. But we're back to one-party rule as the leader of the opposition party has been jailed. And that's after having 800+ years of civilization under the Sultanates and 200 years under Britain.

It's not economics--our PPP GDP per capita is about what the U.S. was at in the late 19th century (at which point it had been a successful multi-party democracy for 70-80 years).
I agree. However a comment in another thread explained they would need the SSN to make a report with the credit bureau if you missed payments. That's an easy fix in my opinion: The SSN should be used for read-only. Once the credit report is read/accessed, the credit bureau issues a write-only code. The company then deletes the SSN and only retains the write-only code. If the write-only code is leaked later in a hack, it is useless to criminals trying to open new accounts.
How does the nature of the API determine the number of users?
What's missing is a 2021 perspective on why this is or is not useful at scale. Noting, that google does transform edge-IP into some mythic internal protocol which in part explains why google won't do IPv6 direct to some things like GCP: they couldn't, for a given generation of hardware.

Basically: yes, within a DC which is heading to some kind of traefik or HAproxy or other redirection/sharder, this could make sense. So.. how does this 2018 approach stack up in 2021
Yes, there is. People want to believe that orderly evacuation is merely a function of planning. It isn't.

* Diplomats -- needed to show support for the government we put in place until it fell. It was always going to fall, so there was always going to be a scramble to get them out. This dynamic has happened before and it will happen again. It's a function of diplomacy, not planning.

* Afghani Allies -- we have to draw the line somewhere at who we evacuate, the line was always going to leave some people out who thought they should be evacuated, and that was always going to be a tragedy. The tragedy is a function of line drawing, not planning.

* Equipment -- we left equipment for the Afghani government. We could have taken it or destroyed it, but that would have been a vote of no confidence in the government we notionally supported, so diplomacy says we leave it and the taliban gets it. Again a function of diplomacy, not planning.

If you try to throw planning and resources at problems that are actually fundamental, what happens is that you announce a troop surge and then 8 years later your presidency is over and you are no closer to leaving Afghanistan.
Look at the disassembly and observe how your function calls have far fewer push/pop operations going on, and how the function prologues/epilogues are smaller.
The problem is not that you can cause crashes, it’s that you can cause crashes at scale.
The problem (or rather value proposition) is that the only thing that matters is the end-user's perceived value, and that's almost always in the form of features and stability. Most people don't care that it takes an extra 10-100 milliseconds for the UI to react compared to a native app, especially given they just want to listen to music, which the app does just fine. If people specifically don't like the social features, they'll be mad at the decision to implement those social features instead of 'what they used for the tech stack' since ultimately Spotify could have developed the same features in a native app with just a few extra weeks of sprint, if that.
Lisp is not a pure functional language. So it won’t teach you FP in its pure form. I already knew how to program in Lisp/Scheme/Clojure before learning Haskell. But wow what a difference it was.
May as well make it explicit given it is true:

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're Apple."
That's the topic of the article. You are much less likely to end up in a hospital or ICU if you are vaccinated, but it won't be extraordinary, especially if you are old.

> What is clear is that “breakthrough” cases are not the rare events the term implies. As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older.
I like this, but I also like the even simpler explanation. Our bodies/minds require energy and "skipping" to conclusions (irrationally) expends less energy.
And take them where? How many Afghans nationals were on the US payroll? Its not our responsibility to take them all into the USA or elsewhere where they can represent a continued burden to those societies, and the ranks of collaborators in Afghanistan were repeatedly infiltrated by Taliban operatives. How many of them will sneak through to the West and cause terror if we let them?

Collaborating with America should not come with a promise of a Green Card. It sets up conflicting motivations - if the 'nation building' fails, the collaborators can bug out to a much better country anyway.
> How much do the treatments cost? Is it vastly different?

An average hospitalization costs $73,000 in the US, according to data collected from insurance claims[1].

That means that a single hospitalization costs the same as vaccinating 2,400 people (using your $30/shot estimate).

> How do you know? I thought the only study/data from Pfizer covered 6 months. That's not very long term?

Although I'm not an expert, a friend of mine is getting his PhD studying the immune system and explained it to me this way:

Any additional risk of mRNA vaccines would (with almost 100% certainty) occur shortly after vaccination[2], theorized to be as a result of a strong(er) immune response.

After the immune response has subsided, the vaccinated person's immune system would be hard to distinguish from someone who received a traditional vaccine because the goal of the vaccines is the same: to teach the immune system what the virus looks like[3][4] without actually requiring an active virus.

So to put that together, we can be fairly confident in an mRNA vaccine's long-term safety because its long-term effects are similar to other vaccines that we've studied for more than 100 years and because the mechanism of action subsides within a few months[5].

1. https://www.fairhealth.org/article/costs-for-a-hospital-stay...

2. https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19...

3. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-are-mrna-vaccines-so...

4. https://www.vumc.org/viiii/infographics/how-does-mrna-vaccin...

5. https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k...
> I'm always wondering what cause someone who replies with this is trying to advance.

Rational thought? The search for truth?

The moment we are happy with “humans lol” as an answer to everything, we’ve given up on science and solutions.

In this scenario, finding the actual cause could actually lead to a specific solution (e.g. banning a particular type of sonar).
I’m pretty sure this is standard practice? I’m not a fan of auto-renewing subscriptions period (which is why I don’t use them—I always cancel immediately after signing up—), but tying the end of your subscription to when your credit card happens to expire doesn’t make any sense, and likely is annoying for most people.
> Users may assume that IPv4 and IPv6 address queries for localhost names will always resolve to the respective IP loopback address.

Is the RFC assuming that there is only one loopback address for each protocol? That may be true for IPv6, but in IPv4 the entire 127.0.0.0/8 range is reserved for loopback. You can bind services to addresses anywhere in that range ("ip addr add 127.0.0.100/8 dev lo; nc -l 127.0.0.100 1234") which can only be accessed through that specific loopback address. So is this saying that .localhost domains must always resolve to some loopback address in IPv4 queries, or to 127.0.0.1 in particular?

There was a proposal to do something similar for IPv6 (using a 1::/32 prefix[0]) but it doesn't seem to have advanced much since 2013.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-smith-v6ops-larger-ipv6-loop...
No it’s ferment. It can also be used to describe something that’s intensely active or roiling. Sort of like how juice or malt starts to bubble and foam as yeast works on it.
Google uses Groups internally and externally for all its mailing lists. It will never, ever die for that reason alone.
How about both? I’m not being glib but it’s not like you can’t have a blue collar job and write during your downtime. Especially if it is your passion.

You’re far more likely to hire a bunch of “writers” who don’t want to do work they consider beneath them than to give the next Hemingway who is stuck at McDonald’s their big chance.
This is an interesting idea. Let's say there's a new feature where electric damage and cold damage ignores metal armor. But suddenly there's a bug where if the weapon does both electric and cold damage, the physical damage also ignores armor.

How would someone design tests that work well for roguelikes? It's not simply Human strikes Orc for 10 damage. Damage range may be a bell curve of 5-15. There's misses and hits. There's little bonuses that increase the miss probability, probably to ridiculous levels. There's armor, calculated from things like race, constitution, magic, divine bonuses, class mastery bonus.

And then you have procedurally generated... stuff. Equipment are the easiest to control. Some games have procedurally generated monsters, some have procedurally generated deities. To be able to reduce this stuff to tests kind of defeats the purpose of doing it, which is to be unpredictable.

Sometimes you have a combo of things that add up to 40% damage resistance. Is 40% too much or too little?

After all this, how do you detect that the bugged spear is doing an unreasonable amount of damage?
The thing is we don’t. Many people die from rear ending broke down trucks. I’m fine with that, I’m not so sure if regulators will be fine with a TSLA killing someone and going “welp, a human wouldn’t have seen it either, let’s just add this to our edge case dataset”.
My son was reading at age 2. Was definitely not doing calculus at 7.
My therapist says I shouldn't read stuff like this anymore because it upsets me too much.
>If OP didn’t agree to the principal of his images being compared against a set of hashes he could literally just turn off iCloud photos, and the comparisons will not be done.

Woosh. You've totally missed the point.