skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t care about thinness but I do care about weight. Carrying a heavy laptop on my back every day gets old.
That would make a great HN submission sometime! - just not right away (it's always best to give time for the hivemind caches to clear). If you wait a while and submit it, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
weakened how?
Read more of the article, and challenge that over-eager assessment.
That is not at all a trade. That is picking up more debt to make up for the tax losses when trying to swap homes.

Suppose you haven't worked for the past 20 years.
> But I'm not sure that targeted actions against the officials of a foreign government is the appropriate way to oppose the deliberate decisions of that government.

Most of the officials take holidays in Europe and US spending their dirty money. They will definitely suffer from personal sanctions disallowing them the entrance or money storage there.
This is called a market failure, when lack of communication and coordination makes optimal behavior not happen.
As an aside, as an owner of a x1950 pro at the time it's fun to read old reviews of how sick the 8800 GTX was at launch and think reminisce about thinking of maybe buying a $400 almost as good 8800 GTS someday, while now they're $20 on eBay.
The near miss turned out to be a total fake I think.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Space...
The shameful thing is that there is no earthly reason why we need separate devices. There should be appropriate isolation mechanisms so that corp-ware stays in corp-land and personal crap stays over on its side of the fence. We have dual sim devices now, so we can even assign entirely separate plans to different device partitions. Separate devices just create more senseless e-waste.
Hi! Christina from Vanta here – glad to have you and def send any/all feedback my way: christina@vanta.com
SVG works much more naturally with React, since it’s able to be managed via the DOM. Doesn’t have to be an <img />.
I used to like Johnny Harris quite a bit, but when your research is Wikipedia deep, and your method of convincing people is to make incredulous faces I start to lose interest.

All of SpaceX's satellites are in low Earth orbit, and will deorbit themselves over time even if they die. Kessler syndrome is bad but overblown, and far more likely to occur due to antisat missiles from nation states.

There is an increased risk of collision, but the increase is marginal at best.
A majority of owners need to agree before moving forward (so 3-1 or 5-3 in the examples you gave). The threshold increases for more costly expenses
This is correct.

I have the same, real-name relationship with my bank and card issuers that you or anyone else has.

Rando-web-merchant, on the other hand, never gets my real name.

"I don't know how true this is across all vendors."

Almost 100%.

There is a rarely used program called "verified by visa" that takes you through an additional verification step and encourages you to create some sort of account linked to your issuing bank (or something) but I have only run into that once in the years I have adopted this practice.
Would it be accurate to say that Ancana is to timeshares as Airbnb is to hotels (a technical distinction without major practical differences to the end user), or would it be more accurate to say that Ancana is literally just a specific type of timeshare?

If the latter, does the elevator pitch of Ancana make it at least seem like a uniquely good/interesting timeshare implementation, or could the same description be applied verbatim to other major timeshare services already on the market?
Well lol go and tell them all this! I’m not responsible for their beliefs or why they believed it. Telling me that these people were unobservant for thinking the Earth was flat doesn’t change the fact that they did.
Sorry for the off-topic question, but I've been wondering for a while and have been too afraid to ask: what does the green name signify here?
what you just described is a previous bias being encoded in the data. It's not algorithmic bias, because it's not encoded in the structure of the algorithm. Sara addresses that (data re-weighting) but says that's not all.

I honestly don't think it can be what you're describing, or the debate is a very different one from what Sara and others in the "algorithmic bias exists and it is distinct from data bias" sense.
You sure are projecting a lot about me.

Might want to introspect on that a bit.

I haven't called anyone lazy.
I empathize with your situation, in the sense that it is quite frustrating paying for a service that didn't fulfill its end of the bargain. Perhaps there should be more legislation focusing on the terms of ISAs. Until a few years ago, they were a financial instrument that had been discarded by higher ed because they simply didn't work quite well, and mostly relied on a few high earners "bearing the load" of the debt accrued by all ISA holders.

On the topic of bootcamps--I have one question for the tech vets in this thread: have you ever considered spending your time at a bootcamp? How did it go?

I think there's a "reverse pipeline problem" in tech where the demand for technically-minded mentors/teachers is really high, but the amount of people WILLING to fill that role is small. Money could be the answer, but I don't know if it's the entire answer or even the largest part of the answer. Also worth noting that sometimes the most competent technicians are also quite incompetent when it comes to teaching, which is a common stereotype in academia.

In my mind, this is the biggest problem with tech education right now. If I build a successful career in tech, or become a competent technical person who works with computers, what drives me to care about teaching or mentoring?

Perhaps all of tech suffers from a bit of a Lisp Curse, to a certain extent[1]

1: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/the-lisp-curse/
> my actual cash receipts will be ~$350 USD?

Yes, ignoring any tax requirements because I'm not a tax attorney. You have to have 100k Robux (Rb) to initiate a withdrawl, that 100k Rb costs 1000 USD (ignoring any bulk deals they may run) to buy if you just purchased it from Roblox, but when you sell it to Roblox for USD you get 350 USD. So depending on how you look at it it is worth either 1k or 350 USD. The article was using 1k as the frame and it's what it would cost you to get that much buying directly so to me that's the most accurate.
> ou could alleviate this by deferring to whatever build system is called in mkDerivation by providing a short-circuiting shell.nix for every subcomponent (eg. a shell.nix to drop you into somewhere where you can `cargo build`). But IMO that's not nearly as nice of an experience as a `nix-build -A some-component`

And you describe exactly what we do :)

That's not that bad. The multi-components scenario can also be scripted through some specific nix-shell targets that you configure for a local source usage. It is not perfect but it does the job.

I do consider that if multi-components modifications happen on regular base, it is anyway a sign of a problem: they should probably not be separated components in the first place.

> But then your evaluation time will skyrocket, with nix spending dozen of seconds re-evaluating these tiny derivations before even getting to the build - this already happens when evaluating complex derivations like NixOS configuration builds

We do that by using overlays for our package set ( > 250 packages) over the bigger package set (the entire nixpkgs) which is provided through Nix channels. That allows to leverage the Nix internal cache and keep evaluation under few seconds. Also we do use the nix-daemon.

> Plus, you end up polluting your /nix/store with thousands of tiny out-of-date artifacts that then need to be garbage collected (which also becomes slow when the graph grows).

That is true, but space is cheap :)

> [...] I'm not saying Bazel is perfect, and it's quite difficult to get running in an organization if you don't know it well, but once it's set up correctly it's pretty much the best development workflow I've ever used.

I understand the point of view but I have the opposite experience. Bazel is one of the worst build system I had to experience. The fact he tries to act both as a package manager and as a build system (CMake, make, configure) makes it conflict with almost everything else in the Open Source world which is not made from day 1 for Bazel: This, for me is unacceptable.

I will also pass under silence the long list of quirks it has and the instability of the previous versions.

> Even nixpkgs is its own monorepo, and thanks to that is probably the best contributing-to-a-Linux-distribution experience that exists, by a long shot.

Nix requires only its configuration (Nix's expression) to be in monorepo. At the opposite, Bazel design is centered around the source code being in monorepo. That is a major difference.

One centralize versioning, the other one centralize everything.
But with a video you have the portability to take your content somewhere other than Youtube for the supporting infrastructure. Your Roblox game is much less portable.
When I'm not, I likely have mobile data service, and even if I don't, my calendar and contacts are available offline and sync once I'm online. Email won't be accessible, but I can draft one and set a calendar reminder to send it later.

Not familiar with any issues with using data while on a call as some comments have alluded to. I have Google Fi as a provider and haven't experienced any issues with them, or Verizon before.
skepticism is now wrongthink. either you believe what you're told (even if it contradicts what you were told yesterday), or you're a "conspiracy theorist." healthy skepticism is no longer considered a virtue in popular culture, it's either join the consensus or shut the fuck up. pretty sad state of affairs.
> It kind of depends on exactly what they mean. The physical index itself is essentially always going to be stored in a "sorted" order, clustered or non-clustered.

They're not "meaning" anything, they're literally saying that adding an index sorts the table by the indexed column, with a little picture showing this change to the table itself.

> Oh, I've just noticed you know this already. What's your confusion then?

I'm not confused, I'm pointing out that the article is factually incorrect. Not just "this only applies to one database" but literally saying something which is not true, or at best hopelessly confused.
In his book, "The Life You Can Save" (free to download as an audiobook or ebook from thelifeyoucansave.org) he does talk at length about the question of "how much is enough? how much is too much? what obligation do you have to your family and community vs helping distant strangers?"

In Chapter 10 of that book, "A Realistic Standard" he brings it all home. He has no problem recognizing that the philosophically perfect solution is unattainable for but a rare few, and that pragmatic solutions that fall short of it would still leave the worst off far better off than they are now.

> Hence in this chapter I propose a much easier target: roughly 5% of annual income for those who are financially comfortable, with less for those below that level, and significantly more for the very rich. My hope is that people will be convinced that they can and should give at these levels. I believe that doing so would be a first step toward restoring the ethical importance of giving as an essential component of a well-lived life. And if it is widely adopted, we’ll have more than enough money to end extreme poverty.

The corresponding website also has a calculator that has a progressive suggestion about what is a good target for someone of a certain income.

https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/take-the-pledge/

He gives 30%. I don't think he is extremely rich, yet he gives at a rate 6 times what he suggests people who are comfortably well off should give. Do you still feel he is a hypocrite?
I prefer imagine future where the local loop was unbundled. Rendering starlink unnecessary and giving great speed and great ISP choice.

Yes, starlink gives an additional choice, and that's great, but this approach is even harder to enter than laying down new fiber.

Actual solution is to require last mile to be leased to any competitor. This was the reason why there was so much choice with DSL in early 2000 (Title II which applied to land lines had this requirement).
i was a stylist (left few months ago). even though management would always tell us they don't plan to replace us with AI, it was pretty clear they were lying.
This is largely about water as a home to food sources. Rising sea levels are believed to have covered the majority of Mesolithic cites. For populations constantly on the move it’s likely a majority of adults saw the ocean or a sufficiently large lake to show this effect.

Realizing it was evidence of a round earth is of course a different story. My guess is most people simply never considered it.
It comes from the same family as SARS and MERS. Worst case, IMHO, would be that level of mortality combined with its current R0 of 6 to 9.
Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed
Many people believe many quite misguided things.

Rationality is one approach to trying to believe fewer misguided things.

That doesn't make it easy and it doesn't mean that success rates at doing so aren't still wildly variable.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/fcc-fines-cox-595k-over-...

Cox had to pay up over a few social engineering calls.
Thanks. Couldn't agree more.

One takeaway I'm getting - many of these other providers are perhaps not technically that competent. I mean, if you don't understand where the risks are, what are you doing with space traffic mgmt?

Reality is SpaceX I think has one of the largest operating autonomous traffic mgmt systems already. It's very fast acting.

In the fake oneweb "near miss" it just turned out that oneweb had to do manual maneuvers, SpaceX had more time because things were automated, so one web asked spaceX to turn off their systems.

Compared to other providers, the starlink constellation is actually generating some the LEAST long lasting space junk up there (which is a lot already).
Right, and that's where vaccine efficacy comes into play. If r0 is 6 and HIT is 83.3%, but efficacy is only 90%, then you actually need about 93% vaccinated.

And for herd immunity, what matters is transmission, and the vaccine efficacies for asymptomatic infection are pretty low; 50-60%. So mathematically impossible without severe lockdowns and/or improved vaccines that are better at preventing transmission.
> Could be, I interpret "interglacial" literally, as being "between two ice ages"

Pretty sure the literal interpretation of 'interglacial' is 'between glaciation.'

Literal 'between two ice ages' would be 'inter-ice age.'
A Sneak Peek at the Xe-HPG GPU Architecture
Take Vitamin D/C/Zinc/Niacin and build up natural immunity?
Well, I can't know if you're invoking it properly, but it's true of modern browsers. That's the whole purpose of private/incognito mode, to not share your previous cookies with the visited site, so if it doesn't work for you and you're entering private/incognito before visiting the article url, then there's something amiss with your configuration and you're not browsing privately at all. Or, perhaps you never leave private browsing mode, and so you keep your private mode cookies alive indefinitely, defeating the whole purpose of private mode -- ironically, it works best if you don't leave it on continuously. There's a lot of subtlety in technology. :)

The full article is indeed returned upon your request and hidden by your browser after the fact. You can prove this to yourself by dropping to a unix-like command line and typing:

curl -L 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csam-abuse-encryption-security-privacy-dangerous'

and you'll see, if you look carefully, the full text of the article embedded within that extremely verbose result, just as the browser sees it before it's hidden by javascript after inspecting your cookies. I'm not sure you wanted to know all of this, but it feels like wanting to understand how things work is why hacker news exists.
I have also carefully red entire article and only found single reason that could, well, maybe, explain the alarmistic title.

There are three possible explanations I see:

1. Either Starlink is overeoptimistic at its reliability at locating satellites and maintaining separation down to couple of meters of resoultion.

2. or the other operators don't have similar capability and are alarming they can't keep up with moving their satellites that were not designed for so many maneuvers to keep separation.

3. They just want to bad PR for Starlink because they are not happy with aggressive competition.

It seems to me that Starlink is quite precise (or optimistic, I can't tell) at locating their satellites which makes sense. When you have so many you can't be constantly moving them about to keep at least 1km separation. It would probably be cheaper if you could predict the minimum separation to much lower distances, like 50m.

But the other operators either did not anticipate this or don't want to keep investing just to keep being able maintaining their fleet.
Interest rates must go down when inflation is low. If you insist on high interest rates you will also need higher inflation to justify them. Think about it this way. Interest raises the cost of borrowing, it makes reproducible assets more expensive. Over the long term you see cost push inflation. If interest rates can't be passed onto consumers then the borrower will default. That's not a good thing.
Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241753 "Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts"
> , this article alleges that MindGeek only hires 80 moderators to monitor million of videos being uploaded each year despite taking in 460 million dollars in revenue?

>there are about 80 worldwide who work on Mindgeek sites (by comparison, Facebook told me it has 15,000 moderators).

'In the last three years, Facebook self-reported 84m instances of child sexual abuse material. During that same period, the independent, third-party Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub.'[0]

Facebook's revenue is about 94 billion.

It makes me feel like Facebook should have around 200x the number of mods that pornohub do based on revenue (pretty close, well done ph), or 700k more based on reported instances of CSAM (nowhere near)

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/14/pornhub-p...
So here in Ontario where we're @ about 65% of the population totally vaccinated, today's new cases.

Source: https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/covid-19-vaccine-data-in-ont...

10.25/100k among people who are unvaccinated.
6.5/100k among people who are partially vaccinated.
1.0/100k among people who are fully vaccinated.

For hospitalization:

2.04/100k for unvaccinated,
1.11/100k for partially,
0.21/100k for vaccinated.

For current ICU status:

1.6/100k for unvaccinated,
0.7/100k for partially,
0.05/100k for vaccinated.

So basically the vaccines are really good, even against Delta. The disease is spreading primarily among the unvaccinated. And even those who get it who are vaccinated are on the whole not getting very sick.

EDIT: For those wondering about natural immunity: only 3.67% of the Ontario population is counted as having had COVID, so I doubt it's a significant influence on those statistics. Granted, the first wave had poor testing, so I'm sure the number is a little higher, but I doubt it's more than 5%.

EDIT: disregard the below comment about 10% ending up ICU; is incorrect because I was comparing the incremental new case count against current ICU status. I'll try to fix the # in a bit.

But what's kind of crazy is seeing that those numbers seem to be saying that among the unvaccinated who get it that almost 10% of them are ending up in ICU. And when you consider that those are probably overwhelmingly young people (here 92% of seniors are fully vaccinated and 95% at least one dose) that's scary.
Again with the "Ethics in AI".

You can't say it publicly but ethics is a trend. It's trendy right now to apply it to AI because there's a lot of academic funding going into AI so fields where there's no value production (like ethics) will slap "AI" on their grant proposal.

The point of ethics is to shame people or practices you don't like via some kind of cancel culture of peer pressure [0]. Of course, it's impossible to do it in court as you must actually prove things. So you get a large enough mob instead.

There's mostly no point in debating with the ethics crowd (you really can't do that since their papers typically won't be reproducible). Or acknowledging their existence really.

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
You might want to check that anger a bit.

As I said, I do have a healthy work life balance. I also have responsibilities to my family and to my colleagues, and balancing those is difficult. Especially during a pandemic with no child care - I'm full time working and full time parenting.

Can you empathize with that?
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Yes, people often don't follow standards, but they are sometimes useful in the real world for deciding who should fix their software, and for making breakage less likely due to whatever changes happen in the future.

Google isn't the only vendor you need to worry about. Other mail agents, browsers, or proxies will sometimes prefetch URLs. On the web you often don't know what software your users are running or what it will do, and there's no way of knowing what they'll do in a year. Users have the right to run whatever mail software they want. But if you follow standards then you have a better chance.

If you don't, it's a risk. Sometimes vendors do go the extra mile to tolerate other people's buggy code, but not always.

You can decide to blame everyone else if you want, but if you use GET requests for user actions, something will likely break eventually.