skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s true, but none of us emerge from the womb fully formed and ready to go. We all learn and grow. I’d 100% understand and agree with you if they tried to pass themselves off as an expert and published this article. But I respect people for having the modesty and respect to admit they’re just learning and like to file their contributions away accordingly. Heck, admitting you don’t know things is the first step to learning and learning is one of the best ways we can all make the world a slightly better place.
Paying for products per se is not a problem. What always becomes a problem are stuff like unfair pricing, surge pricing, extortionate rates and fees backed up by monopoly/DRM/regulations, recurring subscriptions or ever increasing rates for the same product with no meaningful improvement and so on.

Fonts can be sold but pricing calculated per page view and device just strikes me as a bit too much. Why not just sell them at a flat rate? Unlike software fonts seldom change once bought so what is the basis for subscription fees instead of one-time sale?
No disagreement with the main thrust of your comment, it's a very good one and imo goes to the heart of the seemingly intractable divide between the logician's approach to truth and that of damn near everyone else - which tends to leave the logician reasoning into the void, doing not a bit of good for anyone.

However I myself would probably label the statement "Bob is an idiot" (or perhaps less abrasively, "Bob has often been wrong in the past in easily verifiable ways") not as evidence that he's wrong per se, but as a signal, possibly a rather strong signal, that he is likely also incorrect in the current matter.

A minor semantic quibble, but in my own experience I've found that conceiving of it as such helps frame the situation as a "sensor fusion of individually unreliable data sources" type of problem, as opposed to one of "collecting experimental results in a logbook and deriving conclusions from them."

The latter of which can lead pretty seamlessly to a towering edifice of belief built upon some ultimately pretty shaky foundations. Ask me how I know ;)
Can this be launched internally, such that I am not leaking internal details out to a 3rd party?

I can't imagine adopting this in the companies I've worked for, without that avenue.
Neuroscientists produce sharper image of the brain's pyramidal tract
Isn't that what WebAssembly is for? It's kind of the web version of C pretending that everything is a PDP-11.
> The military will just use arial drone slaughterbots. The Azerbaijanis did this in the recent Armenia/Azerbaijan war and it was a total blowout against 20th century tech.

It hadn't occurred to me that drones let despots wage high-tempo modern wars (at least, partially) without the associated risks (of devolved control) and costs (of very expensive training and equipment for your soldiers)—but they totally do. That's a pretty big deal. Wonder if we'll see 2nd-tier, regional powers gain influence through this effect, as they can afford quite good drone programs while weaker neighbors might not be able to.
Right click on top left corner

Select format cells

Select "Text"

This will disable excel's autoformatting. Given the rarity that someone types "SEPT4" into excel and isn't typing a date, putting the option one level deep in a menu seems more appropriate than a top level button.
The challenging problem is not storing the electricity produced during the day to consume it at night, but to store electricity produced during summer to consume it during winter. At latitudes such as Paris, or London, or Seattle, or higher, the summer day is much longer than the winter day, and the rays come from an angle much closer to the vertical, they go through a thinner layer of atmosphere so the end result is that solar panels produce about 6 times more electricity. But people consume on average more electricity during the winter days. You can address this problem by building massive overcapacity, but this is expensive (solar power may be cheaper than natural gas power, but not 6 times cheaper). Or you can try to find a way to store the summer electricity for 6 months. That is not easy either.
Ok,let's stop and think. The article is saying that the rate of deforestation stopped increasing in the 1980s, and since then we've made gains on reforestation as well as stopping the increase in deforestation rate. What exactly would you like the alternative to be? A re-increase in deforestation rates? A halt to reforestation?

Yes, wishful thinking would be that it would be nice if we didn't have all that deforestation to begin with, but here we are, reversing that trend, and somehow there's an alternative that would be better than that? What alternative to reducing the rate of deforestation and increasing reforestation is there?
Walmart is getting better, but still way behind on the web front. They'll show you things in stock, then tell you it's out of stock upon checkout. Go back to product page, shows in stock again. They also use way, way too many captchas. Lastly, they divide walmart.com from walmart pickup and delivery for no reason. Some things you order on the .com side are only 'shippable' if your local store has it. So, it's pickup and delivery yet doesn't show up on that side. I laughed because when I ordered a fishing rod for my child, it was literally a fishing rod leaned against my house. No box, label, etc.

I still try to use them as I trust their products more than Amazon. I love their new tool lineup, quality stuff at a decent price, with next day or 2 day delivery. I really like that for returns, they'll come pick it up. AMZ charges extra for that.

Amazon has much better CS though, hands down.
mrna therapy is not a vaccine. it's a viral preload. all of the shots will be ineffective in six months time and require booster shots for life.
No one is trying to create stability.
Does Imba have good tools for testing? I didn't find 'test' in the Imba docs.
Thanks!

I think SuperCollider is the best out there. It's syntax is weird yeah but you can use OSC to talk to anything else (this could easily be added to miti as well). Really I don't think a really good all-in-one exists there are lots of things that do all, but none do all as well as something that just does one thing.
It's easy to forget how rare it is for some people to get any romantic validation in their lives. You finally meet someone who appreciates you, and then it turns out to be some asshole messing with you and mocking you publicly -- that's deeply horrible.
There is truth to the GP post.

Large producers have a tendency to prefer stronger regulations, especially new regulations because they have a competitive advantage in being able to implement them fully while their smaller competitors will be more likely to struggle and ultimately fail and sell cheap to the bigger fish.

In other words for a lot of regulations a considerable portion of the cost to implement is fixed and does not scale with org size which tends to put smaller operators at a further competitive disadvantage.
Police are prosecuted though… go watch the George Floyd related trials. I haven’t seen much evidence that most of the 1000s of rioters have been caught and made to pay for their crimes.
That is really interesting! I never had an ant farm, and I'm glad I didn't given what you've said.

Are ants similar to bees in that there's one egg-laying "queen" that you have to gather, or can you just gather a collection of individuals from a colony?

Your kid probably already knows about this, but have him check out the YouTuber AntsCanada. I'm not particularly into ants but I find his videos fascinating.
Fonts are a herculean effort and a dazzling display of creativity and taste. The fee for a good font is, generally speaking, nominal. Use free fonts if you want, but a good font is worth paying for.

You are "crazy"[0] for expecting them to be free. But if you don't want to use a paid font, that's totally within your prerogative.

[0] though I prefer not to use that word, perhaps a better word would be 'entitled'
Ethics is by definition subjective. You should define why your subjective ethical good should override the real good of much less cancer.
Yeah. They use poor/ unsuitable tooling known for unusual data quirks with absolutely no effort to look at alternatives or pay for an expert.

No sympathy from me. Embarrassing. I certainly wouldn't get away with such negligence at my workplace.
> I don't know much about the accessibility business, but my impression is that the screenreaders are all very expensive. Maybe providing a universal interface as described would level the playing field, maybe that's not desired (by the big brands).

False. I have a print-related disability and I rely on screenreaders.

I use Orca on Ubuntu. However, the default voices for Orca are deplorable (by default eSpeak text to speech engine).

Most people do not know this, but https://oralux.org sells machine learning high quality voices (NeoSpeech engine) for $35 per voice at most which work directly with Orca. Here are the English text to speech voices: https://www.oralux.org/voice.php#english_american_english
> Herrmann noted that in previous experiments, neutrons exiting the capsule on one side of the implosion arrived a few picoseconds earlier than did those flying off the opposite way

Let’s all just take a step back here and marvel at this statement. We (science-humans) are capable of building a machine that can detect and quantify picosecond level variances in neutrons traveling in an enclosure. We can do amazing things.

Side note - the lab is just down the road from me, I’m proud of my fellow Livermorons, and continue to hope they keep all those megajoules contained.
$610 billion is more than the GDP of 190 out of 213 countries in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Well, it's not greater than ever. It's among the largest (not the largest) numbers on the current time series, that started at the late 90's. It's known that the entire series is much lower than the historic amounts, but the previous data is not precise enough to tell by how much.

The rest of your comment is spot on, but those fears have been there since the 70's. Of course, as deforestation continues, we move closer and closer to that scenario, but nobody can tell if it's actually any close. Anyway, systematic forest loss due to increased temperatures (and the weather changes they bring) is much more worrisome, since this one is already happening all around the world.
Probiotics help lab corals survive deadly heat stress
Significant events in US history, such as the Abolitionist movement, women's rights, the Civil Rights era, et cetera, would not have been as easily accomplished without freedom of speech being defined the way it has been in the US.

The fact is, you can't have freedom of speech if your also not allowing people to engage in hateful speech, no matter what most "progressives" would tell you.
One of my favorite fun facts about Anglo-Saxon education is that they had an alphabet that ended with "&" which they called "per se and" meaning "(the character) & by itself (is the word) and". Since it was that the end, they would say "and per se and" which became "ampersand" over time. Moreover, the "&" glyph evolved from the Latin "et" (meaning "and").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
In the US, "typefaces", ie. the shapes of the letters, generally are not. "Fonts", ie. the programs that draw the letters, are copyrighted as software, as something of a workaround. For more reading on the history here Typographica has a succinct overview[0].

[0] https://typographica.org/on-typography/copyright-protection-...
How useful are the compiler error messages? I would like to see an example compiler error on the intro page.
Tough shit, though. Thats what they're being paid for.

"A bad workman always blames his tools" has never been truer than this situation.
85% of patients currently hospitalized for COVID-19 in Oregon have not received any dose of the available vaccines [1]. Oregon hospitals are almost at capacity for ICU beds and are expected to exceed capacity soon. The consequences are drastic for anyone requiring hospitalization; essentially you have to wait for an available bed (e.g. wait for its occupant to die or be discharged) or be flown to a hospital with capacity.

TL;DR: The unvaccinated are using 6 times the available medical care capacity of the vaccinated and are impacting the health outcomes for anyone who needs access to those medical resources, not just those who are suffering from a COVID-19 infection.

[1]: https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-08/Oregon-Tren...
Fiduciary duty being the highest moral imperative is quite problematic.
This looks amazing! Curious to know what stack you are using to build the frontend. I am starting to build a video editor, so just curious if any framework (React, Vue) or library were especially useful?
There hasn't been a free market in health care in the US for decades-- thankfully though, the pig has kept it's lipstick and we give you the illusion of choice. Hopefully, in the next few years, we can just do away with this facade.

It may not be worth trumpeting this as an achievement, though. Just go ask any doc what they think of CMS.
killifish are the fish you are talking about
Look up Darrel Huff [1][2]. When there’s enough money on the table, there’s lots of funding (sincere or otherwise) that’s used to try to establish a scientific counter narrative. Stuff like this is more run of the mill corruption than what you see with things like climate change where the underpinnings of the entire industrial economy is at stake (or milder things like Jule).

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/how-to-mis...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Huff
https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/wh...

> HPV-related throat cancer is on the rise, and the typical patient is a male in his 50s or 60s.
Is bostondynamics making more money from youtube ad revenue than from their robots?
You can turn off your spam filter if you want to, you can't turn off the defederation disconnect. One is opt-in curation, the other is not. I hope we get smart opt-in curation on a user by user basis soon, and you could subscribe to certain curators as you want.
It doesn't really change the fact that you haven't put much thought into your opinions. Even when people have given answers to your easily googleable questions "why fear unvaxxed people if the disease is mild?", instead of taking in the information, maybe even thanking them, you move on to your next grievance instead.

That's typical anti-vaxxer behaviour, so the reaction you're getting is understandable. Your outrage is preventing you from even admitting one mistake in your reasoning before you move onto the next point.

I'd go into further detail about unvaxxed populations being breeding grounds for mutations which might even escape the serious disease efficacy that the current vaccines give us (didn't see you arguing against that), but I think it would be wasted on you.

>I can't vote, go to an hospital, shopping mall or restaurant without a QRCODE.

As others have informed you, you can with a negative test result.
For what it's worth, I agree code based systems should be time limited to prevent long term abuse of such systems.
> I’m proud of my fellow...

The part after that, was it a typo? :)
Worth noting that because all transactions are public, mixers aren't only for hiding from the government. They're also for hiding from the general public. Generally when you make a small purchase you don't tell the store what your bank balance is, but with crypto you do...unless you use a mixer (or a privacy coin that effectively has mixing built in).

The other way is to use a centralized exchange as your "mixer," which is transparent to the government but imposes extra fees and adds counterparty risk.

Corporate use of public blockchains will almost certainly require privacy technologies, to avoid giving information to competitors.
I wonder which is the most fully featured free Helvetica clone?
In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Long COVID was never really brushed off by most clinicians or researchers. Post viral syndrome has been recognized and actively researched for decades. It appears that many different viral infections can cause persistent symptoms.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3063394/

The real questions were about incidence, severity, and mechanism. At this point around 36% of Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and so some of those people label any minor symptom they feel as "long COVID" without any evidence of causality.
Livermorons? Really?
I’m still convinced GC is not a good idea as the single memory model for a language. It is possible to know about memory behavior at compile time and not pay at runtime for it in latency.
That was published 16 years ago. Fortunately, Andreas isn't so confused.

C++20 is a wholly more pleasant programming environment than any previous C++. When there is a choice between the old way and the new—which there always is, for backward compatibility—the new way is almost always better.

For some cases, the newer way is better sometimes but not always, e.g. east function return type, with "auto", vs. old-style west. For short functions, deduced return type, i.e. neither one, is often best.

All that said, C++20 coroutines will be much more pleasant to use when thd C++23 library support for them lands.
Considering the the transactions happened overseas and we have no evidence they were prosecuted by overseas authorities, there's quite a bit of doubt whether the transaction were illicit in anything except the imaginary scenario that these transacions happened in the US (they did not). There doesn't appear to be prosecution in this case of exchanging for fiat back in the US so there's no prosecution for the on-soil "closing of the loop" you so mention. We all know many foreigners are buying real estate here in the US with dollars to evade capital controls in places like China, and this is actually happening on US soil, why isn't the DOJ focused on this?

That's also quite the assertion that anything that happens with dollars is in the "purview of US officials." from a practical perspective you are correct but its conclusion is rather odious. If this were actually true and US dollars are the reason for jurisdiction then we both know launderers would all just use Euro or something else instead 100% of the time. Yet they don't, because pragmatically it makes little differenc as US would pursue their enemies all the same whether they transact in Euro or Dollar -- the dollar in this case is simply an excuse.
>>this site is amazing sometimes. people have the knowledge of the world available at their fingertips, can read the experiences of people from all around the world and still end up making some strongly worded reply about how the important thing is how much you can buy an HPV vaccine at a discount retail chain in the countryside after a country failed to work towards an obvious public good? what a time to be alive.

Their typical reply to this is that all of that information is fake subterfuge by Big Tech^tm

It's just like... damn dude. What went wrong in these people's lives to make them so stupid and angry at data/information
WalMart does also have 3rd party sellers where you have to watch what you buy. I suppose Walmart has a broader variety of in-house sold than Amazon though.
Condoms take away 50% of the pleasure so I'd understand anyone who, in heat of the moment, would judge poorly and do it unprotected. Also, while rare, condoms, do break.

I'd say, from sexual perspective, the better protection is to have a long term partner (not talking about marriage here).

Also you can get HIV from other sources than sexual intercourse too, so having a vaccine that is proved by medical science is a huge relief.

Here is personal story of mine: Last year, while vacationing, I was walking on the beach and I felt a slight sting and when I looked down a hypodermic needle was piercing my finger. Took it up and barely a single drop of blood formed, so the penetration barely went below the skin but that was enough to make me feel afraid. After 3 weeks took the test, found out I was HIV negative and talked with the doctor. She said that salty water is great at dismantling DNA/RNA and asked me what the needle looked like. It was all clean except for the tip where my blood was. Told me to not worry, just test again in 6 months which I did and for my great relief I was still HIV negative. Nevertheless during this entire time, in the back of my head black thoughts were daily there, worrying about "what if".
As the economy electrifies and the grid decarbonizes this will improves. Electric trucks, electric chainsaws etc. Mills are already electric I assume.
Meanwhile, there are plans for environmental restoration of parts of Siberia through... deforestation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
Just because postal regulations permit them to be mailed does not preclude other reasons why that action might be illegal or expose you to legal liability.

There are lots of actions that are legal in isolation that become illegal when you do them to other people, particularly when done with malice.
They're also excellent for window cleaning. Just wash the window with a wet old clothing rag and dry it with a dry one afterwards. It works so well. Much faster than any cleaning products and it leaves no residue.
Next time, please explain why.
So we blame the software instead of blaming the downright lazy people who can't be fucked learning an appropriate tool even though that's their entire career.

Honestly these kind of things really wind me up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/science/lasers-fusion-pow...
I do want us to pour money into foundational research, but form an outsider's perspective, it does seem like a lot of it does require increasingly large capital costs with things like the LHC, and feels all so theoretical.

I think it's worth every penny, but at first glance it feels incredibly abstract and disconnected from practical application, as well as expensive. (Though, to be honest, I just looked up the LHC cost and $9Bn USD doesn't feel expensive. I was expected it to come up in the hundreds of billions.)
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
"I feel"... You're not being objective. Your feelings are unimportant. If anyone is to blame it's the IT department that lost the data and had no DR in place. You cannot release documents to the public that have been lost forever.

This has nothing to do with police so I'll assume your emotions or politics are getting the best of you.
Regardless of the thief, it does seem a little concerning that the chain of custody for actual human heads involves being left unattended in a random employee's car.
yeah, maybe just maybe it's because you are spreading nonsense on a forum that likes the thoughts to be backed by evidence and not wild speculation and spurious conclusions. reflect.

honestly if you weren't on the internet you'd just be that weird guy at the bar spouting conspiracy theories and blaming the "man" but instead you're here on an international forum doing the same with the same "weight" as some industry titans and other thought leaders.
Did Y Combinator Company Appollo Close Down?
We were very excited about using this service to bring https://Authenticating.com to all the eCommerce platforms without having to go out and integrate with each one of them. But then we got this email this morning. Can someone please advise? We are no longer live but you can check out https://rutterapi.com who offer a similar service.
Mobile browsing of the website does not work, super tiny text and no way to zoom
Great. More abstraction.
They might move to a relational database, but then the gene named '; DROP TABLE genes; will start causing problems.
Anybody else prefer Google meet over zoom lately? I feel like it's a cleaner layout.