skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's calling out the fact that you compare all countries to each other except in the case of Sweden.

People compare other countries to Australia and New Zealand and Singapore all the time to justify covid lockdowns and restrictions.

But in the case of Sweden a country that outright disproves effectiveness of covid restrictions you require the frame of reference to only be the specific neighboring countries to cherry pick to fit your narrative.

It's either monstrously nightmarishly disingenuous or completely boneheaded and clueless.
Couldn't the government lay and maintain the network of tracks and lease them out to the freight companies ?
Is it? Sometimes all you can do is inform. People will still ignore it and do it anyway and die earlier (tobacco, alcohol).
You don't self-host, you pay Protonmail to host it for you. A step above Gmail but not what the commenter was referring to.
Not only is this a small sum of money for Visa to throw away, this is a small sum of money for an NFT collector to throw away.

To me most criticism of NFTs is reminiscent of criticisms of modern art. Very few understand the scope of what "non fungible token" means. There are PLENTY of use-cases for a publicly verifiable token issued by a 3rd party and owned by you, other than art, if you just use a little imagination.
> Assuming for a minute that students from lesser tier colleges are less smart (possibly untrue but again a discussion for another day)

Let’s discuss it now: they are NOT ‘less smart.’
Wow carbon fibre, and the tyres don't seem too thick.. How does it ride?

Ahhhh I think I understand - it's a "speedbike" right? So only for driving on roads like a car, so there's no question of forest tracks or gravel walkways.
Also the refrigerants matter - unfortunately, the MOST efficient ones also happen to be really bad for the ozone layer so they've been "banned" (there are still plenty of units out there using them - just can't use on new systems).

So there's always a trade-off. You pay for this or you pay for that. And if its energy, you have to consider the material and energy supply chains or you are probably bullshitting people and yourself.

Ultimately an air con is a heat engine so Carnot's law applies. No possible magic beyond what thermodynamics allows.

ALL TOO MANY "inventions" summarily . You even have UC Berkeley getting into the con-game with the Water Seer (which claims violates thermodynamics). You'd THINK UCB wouldn't ever push physics-violating ideas but NOPE. A stain on the engineering school reputation!
Your statement, whilst true in direct translation is false in spirit. It's a fine in a tax's clothing. It is a tax wielded as weapon intended to inhibit uptake of EV's.

Australia should be subsidising EV purchases, not hastily implementing a new tax that further suppresses progress in a country falling ever further behind the rest of the world.
I want to renew my subscription, but I can't click renew.
Those days every software rewrite is Electron. It's a plague.
Wow, thank you.

In a brief search, I found this strange and interesting article from 1983, regarding experiments conducted at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California:

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/22/science/do-enormous-magne...

TL;DR - there were detectable effects on heart function, eye function and possibly sense of direction. The effects were deemed safe at the levels studied.

Here is the study the article appears to be about (on page 86, as numbered in the scan):

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

Going by its closing remarks, it appears this was an active field of research at the time.
Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth
In android they have to ask for it first ?
The reason I ask is that when people reference a study, I look at who is funding it and who those people are affiliated with. Looking at what other studies they have peer reviewed can be useful to see if the study results have external pressures that may influence outcome. HN folks often provide references but references alone are not sufficient in my opinion. Being able to see the reverse heat map of what projects someone has reviewed can paint a better picture of their area of expertise and who may be influencing them.
I can't connect to your link
>So yeah, an ExaFLOP != an ExaFLOP anymore, because these types of announcements never say "An ExaFLOP of what".

I thought Tesla was pretty clear about which floating point formats they were talking about. When they first introduced the D1 they put up a slide with FLOPS measurements for FP16 and FP32. The impressive numbers (exaFLOP in ten cabinets for example) are based on FP16, of course.
Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good
On the other hand, I have a personal domain name that I’ve been using through (ironically) gmail for over a decade. It was set up before dkim and dmarc and I (stupidly) never implemented them. A few days ago I realized that some of my emails were being filtered to spam on Gmail (who knows for how long). While it was totally my fault for not acting sooner, your average user can’t be expected to deal with the hassle of using your own domain name, let alone self hosting.
Yeah, we learned to limit its spread, but with "masks" (condoms).
AIDS never spread broadly among heterosexuals who did not share needles or have partners who are bisexual or shared needles. Everyone is at risk for covid, like the flu.
Are you suggesting that people who don’t take horse or cow medications are sheep? Does this mean you have taken horse/cow medications? Someone who has taken horse medications over the Covid vaccine is much more akin to a proverbial sheep.
maybe because you didn't read the article? This is not about COVID-19 specifically.
Using static protocol APIs to create conforming instances
Especially since magnets are used so widely in so many products you'd think that even some sort of test/certification/measurement that would happen anyway (RFI?) would also note that there is a strong field present. This stuff gets measured all the time, also for equipment that is to be used in aerospace and hospitals... the whole concept of devices interfering with each other isn't new. But apparently it's still overlooked when it's about consumer electronics as if those couldn't possible interfere/cause interference.
Played with with it when i got my first Raspberry, it was fun. There is a Vim plugin with which you get a kind of sonic-pi REPL [0], there is a newer one for Neovim too [1].

[0] https://github.com/dermusikman/sonicpi.vim

[1] https://github.com/lilyinstarlight/vim-sonic-pi
This comment applies if you think that art itself is a scam, or that art needs to have "use" outside of perceived financial, social & aesthetic value.

HN does tend to be especially bitter towards Crypto, something that I think will fade with time as it blends into culture without seeming like some "charlatan intruder from elsewhere".

I tend to think the rise of NFT markets represents an inflection point that will only be obvious when we connect the dots looking backwards. Plenty of people reviled Duchamp.

P.s. Please let me know where I can purchase an Alpha-Centauri real-estate NFT
It doesn't have to be server software. I created a cli tool with Deno so that it could run as a standalone binary. It runs a lot faster than if it were built with node and any user without node installed could still run it.
Using your own domain is not self hosting, you are still using Protonmail's servers to receive and store your emails.
Looks like this software does not comply with EU regulations about refunds.

> The registration information is not refundable because it is a short string and easy to copy. We cannot accept any refund requests for it. Please try this software before purchasing a license. You do not have to pay unless you are completely satisfied with this software.
I wish most USB devices wouldn't need drivers at all, and just use standard interfaces. It's a mouse, we've been making them for half a century, why could it possibly need a custom protocol?
So if I were Thiel, I'd totally have the company buy gold, then offer my NZ dungeon for safe storage (for a hefty fee, of course) and then whatever the event the dungeon was built for happens .. I guess there's noone there to collect the gold ...
Developers are most valuable resources but their time is undervalued and misused
Would you go to Louvre to see Mona Lisa if you have an atom-by-atom identical copy at home? How much would you pay for the original? What is "original" in this case? Which ship of Theseus is the original one?

I don't say, as art, some NFTs are not pretty. I just say they don't represent the same value (for me) as some people think. A CryptoPunk does not have a physical representation, so the one you and I see on our screens are both the same, the original one. I can already see the original whenever I want by just visiting Visa's tweet.

A CryptoPunk, especially the one Visa bought, clearly is history. But that does not apply to other NFTs, others are ordinary JPEGs.
In the US midwest at least, almost everyone who buys a cheapo bike from Walmart, Target, etc buys what is basically a terrible hardtail mountain bike. Front fork suspension, wide knobby tires, etc.

My assumption is that people buy them since they are a touch more comfortable than a full rigid bike frame.
I get the feeling it’s just meant to be a nicer development experience by including more out of the box. I tried it briefly and was impressed by how easy it was, it felt like I was in another language’s ecosystem rather than the complex duct tape approach JS has become infamous for. I think as it matures, it will help increase productivity and decrease complexity for new projects.

There’s not a reason you’d migrate an existing node project to deno, but if you’re starting something new, why not use the nicer environment?

FWIW, deno is also built by Ryan Dahl, the original creator of node, so I think of deno as more like a rewrite of node rather than a competitor.
Mother of bad takes... let's consider the two alternatives.

Every single example you name happens just the same under regulation / government bureaucracy. Replacing private services with government services or tight regulation of industry doesn't improve error rate nor incentives. Consider the three key differences:

1) When the regulators / the bureaucracy causes you trouble, it is legally and culturally considered your own fault - "you filled the form badly" or any other such. The error rate gets worse, if anything.

2) When the regulators / the bureaucracy causes you trouble, the media has little incentive to hound them persistently. Private companies buy advertising, and the media can push them until they do; conversely the government doesn't buy advertising, but instead can launch endless "lawfare" against journalists, thus making it rather unprofitable to hound them over - what legally and culturally is "your own fault" anyway. That's mis-aligned incentives.

3) There's no competing government to come to, unless you're willing to uproot your whole family and move abroad. And in particularly egregious cases even that is either illegal or made difficult and lengthy - hey, we're having a pandemic right now.

That we know and obsess over the mistakes and problems caused by private service providers is prim and proper - as it is thanks to the interest of journalists and aligned incentives. The same would largely pass unnoticed and at larger scale, under regulation / bureaucracy. So let's not go backwards, shall we?

The third option, un-coordinated / de-centralized services are technically feasible, but quite hard to successfully build for organizational & financial reasons. Presumably we will get there eventually.
We already have (digital) ownership that can be publically verified.
I imagine the parent is confused as to why people care about Deno since it gets a decent bit if coverage on HN.
I have this same mouse. It works perfectly fine as an HID-compliant mouse on Linux, including the forward/back buttons. You only need all that crap if you want to control the rainbow RGB lighting. And if you really that, there's a reverse-engineered driver here: http://roccat.sourceforge.net/
To be fair, it's garbage on windows too. The best solution I've come up with is a VM to configure the on-board settings and then run without the software normally
I mean especially .ninja, .work etc
Is Deno ready for production?

What limitations have you run into?
"like most HackerNews developers"

What are you babbling on about?
Xtrfy ftw
The driver is from Roccat, not Logitech.
Boston Dynamics’ project to create humanoid robots
Then please define me what a "general purpose computer" means.
Yup, let's abandon 10-20% of the globe, and maybe 30% soon, as global warming ramps up.

That's going to be quick, easy and politically viable.
I made a tool that converts pixel art to Lego mosaics that people in this thread might find interesting: https://city41.github.io/pxtobrx/
Not everything has malicious content , stop pushing this narrative
Mind sharing just one?
The Opportunity Cost of War (2015)
Is a Giant Purple Nipple the Digital Nose of the Future?
From what I've seen though, notable works have only gained notoriety _because_ they're NFTs. Beyond that, CryptoPunks/CrytpoKitties aren't really artistically interesting at all.
people spent their bachelors degree solving problems of some kind. turns out problems of different kind requires different bachelor degrees. for porkin sake, people need to grow up and accept that the state of the art measurement models of human raw intelligence have flaws so much that they can be rendered useless.
Either you're developing your own embedded platform or you are attempting to gain dull supply chain control of your software.
I advise you look into the manufacturing process of these panels. Then how they end up after they stop working. This is not a sustainable loop for multiple reasons. Some of them even have a clear negative energy output today as it takes more energy to make them than they'll produce in their lifetime.

It's not enough to look at the things from when you receive them. You have to account for how it's produced, and sustainable are the parts
Are these LED's emitting the same energy as the xenon lamps and can you get them in 222nm? I have found gimmicky sterilizing LED's being sold in hardware stores that run on a AAA battery.
FTA

> She retired from the Post in 2003.

Also, it seems as that quote is from her time there in the 60s judging by the surrounding paragraphs (clearer and more explicit) timelines.
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Haven't read study yet but wondering if they studied control group too, similar athletes who didn't get COVID? E.g. was rate higher in COVID or about equal?
It's a form of marketing/advertising.
I've used SonicPi on my old laptop for quite a while. It is quite enjoyable to just sit down and jam with it.
Two tweets down, they posted:

> Curious about NFTs and how to integrate them in your brand strategy?

And then there's a link taking you to a page called:

> NTFs: Engaging Today’s Fans in
Crypto and Commerce
Can't reach their website here.
How do you know? HIV hasn't evolved to be any less deadly in the 40 years it has been around. Instead, there's most excellent treatment available and people have changed their behaviour.
Deno has replaced shell scripts and Java in a lot of places for me.

My reasons:

- Types: I simply cannot program without them. Typescript is great.

- Single executable: Write programs that run the same on Linux/Windows without forcing the user to download the entire universe like other runtime environments.

- Built-in bundler: Write front-end code in Typescript and use a single command to bundle all dependencies.

Native JSON support in cli applications is not something you can appreciate if you haven't dealt with the pain surrounding it on the Java side.
Hand gestures are an area of visual semiotics which are fascinating. I want to say three things--

This is wild.

Once I worked as a short order cook at a small cafe, and my co-worker was an immigrant from Central America. He was a real pain to work with, not least because he couldn't speak English. Every day I worked with him we butted heads. One day he tells me to do something, and I give him the finger-gun gesture with a smirk and a wink. I would describe the idea going through my mind as, you don't recognize at all that you have no authority to direct my work and I'm not going to do that thing. So my finger-gun gesture is a rejection and somewhat ironic. BUT that's not how he took it. WOAH. He freaked. It took a while for him to calm down before he was able to communicate to me this gesture in his country (and his young life experience) was a threat of death. I didn't much like the guy, but I didn't want to kill him. Sheesh.

Alfred Korzybski

Korzybski (the map is not the territory--guy) writes about circumstances when pointing with your finger is the only way to communicate.

"The crucial difficulty is found in the fact that whatever can be said is not and cannot be on the objective level, but belongs only to the verbal levels. This difference, being inexpressible by words, cannot be expressed by words. We must have other means to indicate this difference. We must show with our hand, by pointing our finger to the object, and by being silent outwardly as well as inwardly, which silence we may indicate by closing our lips with the other hand. The verbal denial of the ‘is’ of identity covers this point also when shown on the Differential."

(p500. Korzybski, Alfred. Science and sanity : an introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics. Lakeville, Conn. : International Non-Aristotelian Library Pub. Co. ; Institute of General Semantics. 1950) [1]

Gang signs

There's a movie (I can't think the name right now, but my note from 2012 dates it before then) about youth and gang culture in Los Angles. Hand gestures feature strongly in that film. Because the main story in the film is about making choices, in a creative moment, I imagined the leadership in these gangs used hand gestures as perscriptive decision tools. How does an uneducated youth process the decision about when to use violence? Right? I imagined the hand gestures as verbal decision tree for the gang's rules when leadership is not present (to act first). Of course this was completely from my own imagination. Maybe gang signs are only ever reaction-based threat displays. Even if there was only a hierarchy, that would be interesting.

I would very much like to read research on gang signs and their place in gang culture.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/sciencesanityint0000korz
Years ago I did a hackintosh just for fun but it was completely unusable. NIC issues and no way to use Ethernet. There were keyboard and mouse issues but they were easy to work around.
Apple hasn’t shipped a corded mouse for four years.
A vasectomy PSA in sonnet form
I must have starred 1000 projects on github without ever looking at them again.
> In the security world, the default should be off and only upon request should an app allowed to talk over the network.

I'd argue that reasonable defaults are better. Asking permission for everything, including features most to all people would find necessary, just creates decision fatigue and results in people clicking "allow" on every popup.
I agree about the 33% efficiency doesn't make any sense from a thermodynamic perspective. The discussion of the peak current for the compressor motor is quite strange. That is a fraction of a second that the system experience the Locked Rotor Amps (LRA). It is also solvable when a system has variable compressors or inrush current limiting.

One bit of reasonable efficiency gains to be had is by switching refrigerants to an R22 analogue. R22 is banned per the Montreal Protocol as of 2020.

However, R22 has thermodynamic properties that make it more efficient than the standard refrigerant of today's residential and small commercial units, R410A. This is particularly as the heat of the atmosphere being rejected into rises with some Coefficient Of Performance (COP) differences in the 10% range.

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=86088...

There are some analogues to R22 without the ozone damaging properties that share or exceed the the thermodynamic performance of R22. R407C is one that comes to mind, but there's a handful that can be retrofitted or purchased new.

However, a trade off is that generally a newer Energy Star unit will be significantly more efficient than an older R22 unit. My point with the R22 is that the industry will slowly move towards some of these other refrigerants because of their better thermodynamics.
I looked through the docs and have some issues with it.

First of all, it is a service. That opens a can of worms on its own. The main issue being that you are 100% at the mercy of the service provider. Every time they decide to change their API, it adds maintenance work to your project. Sometimes it happens on short notice which can be very annoying.

Second, it is a strange mix of service and code. I don't see an easy way to use it without their Javascript SDK. And installing that SDK looks complicated from what I see.
Wordpress DB is down. Did we kill it?
We'll probably do a bunch of these. Vaccines, treatment for the worst symptoms and potentially treatment against the virus itself.

I think we're working on all these fronts.

I wonder how much we'll change/have to change our behavior long term, for example 10 years from now. I'd imagine not much.
> As I remember, Go was "invented" to allow writing SMALL projects

You remember wrong. Go was designed to allow quickly onboarding grads onto large projects.

> Like all these small command-line utilities and scripts to solve Site-Reliability-Engineer-tasks or DevOps-tasks.

I don't know what you're thinking about but it's certainly not Go: half the language is centered around concurrency, which is not very useful for this, especially going through the pain and costs "green" threads otherwise impose.

Go was designed to build network services and servers.
Vuew.
Should check out the currency by Damien hirst. He made a “real” piece of art and a correspondent nft. One of which has to be destroyed at a certain time. I believe most will destroy the physical version. https://www.heni.com/
HIV is a different family of viruses, so the comparison to the corona family of viruses doesn't apply.
I somewhat doubt this is the way to look at it. Dogs took between 11,000 and 40,000 years to domesticate. That all started with dogs using up more of a carcass than humans would after a hunt and the humans just didn't care. Eventually, humans found that dogs can and would do more.

If my read is right it, any species could be tamed as long as they're evolutionarily ready to. Not all members of that species may be ready to either, as the writing points out a wolf did attempt to grab a baby gelada, was drove out, and was not allowed to return. Interestingly, they did not apply this logic broadly.
> That is true of every culture (...) It is human to think that our in group is superior

I don't think this is true. There's nothing inherently natural about this. One could even argue that cooperation, not competition, is what brought us this far. Of course i'm all ears for counter-arguments but usually this stance is just misinformed "common knowledge" among people coming from imperialist cultures who tend to see the rest of the world in the same way.

> white people (...) get discriminated against by black people living in Martinique, La Réunion

That's not exactly comparable. There's a deep history of colonization, massacres and exploitation which leads to resentment (which is not the same as racism in my view, and is definitely not the same as a superiority complex). If you think that's over, just look at who owns land and industry on those islands you'll see it's all white people most of whom inherited their wealth from pillaging the local population.
Well worth the click, the article (1997) starts with a great explainer, and has photos.

Deserves its own post.