skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun stuff, I really like the intersection of modern CAM and mathematics with making.
Now we know the origins of the Voynich Manuscript.
Take a look at Web 3 technologies and get involved! So many projects out there, so many ideas for what to build.

You can look at the ETHGlobal site and Youtube channel to get started. They have interesting talks and demos from past events on their channel.

https://ethglobal.co/
It's absolutely guaranteed to be cheaper.

(Provided you know what you're doing.)

Probaly a case of vendor lock-in.
The way I understand this system is that you have to buy your credit score. Borrow a little, pay interest, so that you can borrow a larger sum later.
Take a closer look at the mortality rate from COVID, and then take a closer look at which pre-existing conditions people who are being hospitalized largely have (all easily found on CDC's network of reporting hospitals, at least for the US). It would appear based on these data points, that the vast majority of people have nothing to fear, neither death or hospitalization. However, if you're in the growing minority of folks with chronic obesity, hypertension, and diabetes (the "holy trinity" as my ER-doc friend says), you might want to get a vaccine, but understand the effectiveness will be severely lowered by your conditions.
Problem: over-engineering and monetization
Companies don’t usually publish their definitions, but they also have to make an effort to exclude fake users or risk being held accountable by their investors.
> So just use AC. You can even look it up in the index.

No, you “can” not, you “must” look it up.

I know what a sun is, I don’t know what HO means, I will have to look it up.

You’re looking at the problem as if there was no language other than english.

Growing up in a non anglophone country I had to deal with plenty of english-only interfaces that didn’t need to be, like ON/OFF.

I agree that bird icons are hard to decipher, but usually that’s not the case for common situations, like for the play, on, off buttons.
Nice places to live stop building housing, as they get wealthy property owners who are sma c conservative/aristocratic (which is a mix of Democrat and Republicans). It's a local effect not a state effect.
Oh sorry, are you? I did not know.
I think macs can add static arp entries if you did want to disable arp for some reason.

If I remember rightly, apple devices when connecting to wifi

1) Get IP, router, DNS details (either static or via dhcp)

2) Attempt to load a http page to detect any portals

3a) If page loads, is connected.

3b) If page doesn't load but redirects, pops up the portal page (in a cut down browser), then eventually connects

3c) If it doesn't load at all it asks if you want to use the wifi even with no internet access

I suspect if it cant configure an IP at all (because you're blocking arp and dhcp), it doesn't fully bring the interface up. Are you saying that with a static IP entered in wifi you can't connect to a wireless network?
To expand upon your quote:

> "We ask people to stay two metres away from anyone you pass," she said. "Stay local. Do not congregate. Don't talk to your neighbours. Please, keep to your bubble."

To interpret that as anything other than physical distancing measures can only be deliberate obtuseness. You can talk to anyone you want, just pick up the phone.
Ah, so the national security assistant to John McCain says Hamas is fundamentalist. Well, I guess it must be true then. How could I ever disagree with Wikipedia, silly me. They are _never_ biased in favor of US foreign policy positions, right?
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What's your life experience that led you to this philosophy? I agree with some of what you're saying but other stuff sounds extreme or just right for you and not in general.
We actually do randomized tests for intoxication of employees
My kid, in his first year in a US school, apparently asked the history teacher in class, "Wait, didn't XXX happen in the fashion YYY?"* and was told it wasn't taught that way. I asked her about this in the parent meeting and she said indeed, what he had learned was correct but she needed to teach things in the approved way so that the students would pass the standardized tests.

This isn't meant to imply the US is in some way particularly evil about this -- all countries have some sort of origin myths. This is more a comment on the effect of state level standardized testing.

* actual issue wasn't race-related so I elided it.
Basically, no one knows what is going to catch in until it has. As one poster mentioned, false positives could be plentiful. Also, for companies or brands such as Tesla, their PR machine will be working harder than HN to spread the word, so not a good data point.
Fintechs take on Equifax to help immigrants get credit access in the US
Opposing governmental mandates is one thing, but eschewing personal responsibility is supposed to be the antithesis of these folks worldview. It's a bit baffling, though sadly not surprising.

And to be clear, the majority of the conservatives I know personally are vaccinated and wear masks, by virtue of their belief in personal responsibility.
No, the article is referring to Biden’s first wife and 1-year old daughter dying in a car crash in 1972.
People write and read biographies all the time. There can be multiple biographies on the same person, each written with a different take on the subject.

And every author of those biographies also has failings.

But your questions seem to suggest that these biographies aren't worthy for some reason?

I'm a big Heinlein fan. I find it useful to turn to some of the body of writings about Heinlein to understand why he wrote as he did. As just one example, I did not understand that the main character of "Tunnel in the Sky" was Black. This wasn't mentioned directly on the book, though it can be understood from cultural context that I, reading it 30 years after it was written, did not pick up.

Similarly, how do I interpret Heinlein's "Farnham's Freehold"? Stross's commentary (see his blog, but also summarized at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham%27s_Freehold#Reception ) gave me some insight, or at least something to reflect upon.

While I read plenty of Asimov's work, I haven't since about 1993, and don't have the same curiosity about him. But surely there are others interested in Asimov the way I am about Heinlein.

Surely there are also people interested in the culture of SF fandom in the 20th century, including in some of the systemic biases against female fans.

I think it's also a useful case example of how someone can be a 'feminist, decrying “male chauvinism” and arguing that women should be given wider professional opportunities' while also being a "Dirty Old Man." It's also an example of how fame can empower a harasser.

This still happens, but someone 30 years dead can't harass you back on Twitter or threaten expensive defamation lawsuits.

Or, for something relevant in 2021, consider the forthcoming Foundation show, where "at least three women have been cast as characters who are male in the books". How do you have a serious discussion about that change without mentioning Asimov's decisions to choose primarily men in the first place?
Well, Honda does actually offer an SDK for its cars, but it looks like their cert expired.... https://developer.hondainnovations.com/
Doctors who recommend these medications aren't recommending them in isolation, but in combination. Check out the AAPS Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment for more info. You have to ask yourself why doctors aren't treating people with covid until they can't breathe.
Freehold for £250k made me laugh! But mostly cry. Salty, salty millenial tears.
Wolf3D wasn't even Carmack's first FPS. Before that there was Catacomb 3-D.
Not really, the flipping maneuver remains the same, the stance is more of a modifier. A 360 flip and a switch 360 flip are both still just 36 flips, you’re just facing a different way in each.
HN is certainly a source to know what is trendy. I'd be interested to see a list of trends based on HN top posts and comment.
In a similar vein the effective population of humans is probably much much smaller than it is now. Our current state of existence is an artificial blip on the ecological timescale of the earth.
You seem happy to be countering his personal experience with your own personal experience, and jump to the conclusion that there's no difference (wrong) and the vaccine does nothing (wrong) so why bother risking long term consequences (there's zero reason to think there's any from vaccines, while there are reasons to think there are many from Covid)

If only there was a way to objectively assess these things... Oh wait there is, it's called "doing a randomized controlled trial on more than 3 people" and "numerous observational studies from real world data"

And guess what ? From this data, you're 90% less likely to get severely ill and 95% less likely to die if you've been vaccinated, even with Delta.

> If you are saying it prevents covid death - you are wrong. Check England's data.

No he's right. Still about 95% protection against death from Delta.

> More unvaccinated people are getting covid but they are dying less.

Wrong.

> Vaccinated people are getting covid less but the ones who died after getting covid are more.

Still wrong.
Unless you've been comparing vaccinated 80 year olds with unvaccinated 20 year olds maybe ?

Being vaccinated makes you 20-30 years younger in terms of your risk to die from Covid (source : https://www.ft.com/content/0f11b219-0f1b-420e-8188-6651d1e74...)

> The math isn't adding up for the vaccines.

Thanks for the brilliant demonstration.
One thing worth considering here is The Peter Principle:

> The Peter Principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. ... If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)

This is exacerbated by the "up or out" culture in many organizations.

Just because someone is great at their job doesn't mean their job should change, as is traditionally expected by promotions. You can recognise and reward their contributions and find ways for them to grow further _within_ that role, or in ways that extend that role without fundamentally altering it.
Neat! Forgive my ignorance, but what does a perfect hash table (which I came across by skimming your project) buy the user?
Even with distinct hashes, is there a way to enable random access to the element without an arbitrarily large array?
> I can almost guarantee this is due to licensing issues with the camera firmware.

I think that a good pro-market regulation would be to require that all hardware be sold with the firmware required to operate it under some sort of open source license.

Once one has bought a device, one should be able to continue operating it.
I believe they were suggesting using a food safe epoxy resin coating, not using a resin printer to make the part. Honestly, since it's dry food the usual food safety risks are fairly limited.
Indeed. If a small person should be required to give up flight seat space to the larger persons, then every tall person should be on their knees at concerts.
If you're looking for feeds, have a look at https://nightfall.city
The question for me would be: is hydrogen really the best chemical for energy storage? (I genuinely do not know actually.) Although you are not explicitely saying that, it seems to me that the underlying assumption behind the hydrogen-as-storage argument is that hydrogen is produced from surplus electricity and then used e.g. in transportation. The choice of hydrogen is then justified because only water is released into the environment in that scenario.

However, that seems terribly inefficient to me, if only because you have to move hydrogen around. An efficient storage system should work in a closed loop: you produce hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis with surplus electricity, store hydrogen locally, and use the locally stored hydrogen to produce electricity when needed. There is no need to release anything into the environment. In particular, other chemicals could be used instead of hydrogen.
> Honda does not give me an SDK and API to run arbitrary software on the computers in my Civic either. But obviously I own it.

You are bound by 17 U.S.C. § 1201 to not attempt to alter the car in ways Honda does not approve.
Mechanised early farming, a.k.a. robot swarms that can negate the overhead involved in tending to microplots with 2m*2m squares of one particular crop, and three field cycles.

But what does that have to do with my statement?
Do you plan on wearing a mask for the next year while socializing with your friends? If yes, do you see this as a big burden or a small burden?
There are offenses on the statutes such as dangerous/reckless driving. But my perception is these aren't enforced in the USA. Heck where I live the cops don't stop vehicles with missing headlights and brake lights.
Where is it from if you don't?
Yes, if JavaScript is a future trend ;)
They were in the article...
Sure, but that's more like a solution for implementing something like in OP for if it didn't exist in git itself, not the 'why not just use per-repo config' that I responded to.
A lot of people fall into the trap of negativity = IQ. Your brain can spit out a reason that DropBox will succeed or fail, but the failure case sounds smarter.
That may work for some, but some of us work in lots of repos and having to configure it for every repo is cumbersome.

I have `~/Code/<me>` for personal, and `~/Code/<company>` for work stuff, I can do this trick and all ~/Code/<company>` repos use my work identity whether I have 1 repo in it or 1000. (Currently have 23).
Usually a large company has people as smart as Corey to avoid mistakes. AWS also tends to assign solution architects to contracts this large to help customers avoid waste. Sure, it loses them some spend, but the customer obsession earns them more trust.
Every landlord I’ve had (except for a sketchy cash-only guy) has verified my income. They also verified for my first car loan (I guess due to lack of any existing loans.)
But you might also make your car illegal to operate on public roads, depending on where you live.
LOL

Hacker News is where you to to learn that self-hosted rack-mount servers in your own basement running a LAMP stack provisioned with self-generated bash scripts is the future.
Feels like a great case study in confirmation bias: you only looked at the topics that ended up being successful. How many tech trends did Hacker News hype up only to have them go nowhere? Without that info we don’t really know what HN’s success rate is.
Right, because food is unafforably expensive in rich countries with low birth rates.
Overall, the impressions expressed in that comment from 2011 were relevant at the time, back when "Compliance Suites" specifications were not a thing and there was a lot more room for interpretation in many specifications. The situation has much improved since then. To reply to individual bits from that comment:

> It has never seen serious adoption because nobody wants to touch it - and for good reasons.

That's outright false. There's many successful commercial products using XMPP right now (eg. WhatsApp/Zoom or games and gaming systems like Fortnite, Origin, League of Legends) including for non-IM usecases (Google Cloud Print, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Nintendo Switch, Apple's push notifications).

In the free-software world, there's actively maintained featureful clients (gajim/dino on desktop and snikket family of clients on mobile) and servers (ejabberd/proosdy/tigase). I can't say there's no bugs but i can say with confidence they're actively being hunted down.

> It leads to ridiculous overengineering through layered complexity.

Layering complexity may sound like engineering, but that's where the "eXtensible" promise of XMPP comes from. The same goes with Matrix/ActivityPub protocol: there's a reason people are doing it this way, and that reason is not "overengineering".

> Take a lesson from IRC, a group-chat protocol that, despite its age, works and scales amazingly well.

The protocol works remarkably well because it's dead simple. However, implementing a decent client/server that plays well with others is not easy (see IRCv4 debates) and each server in practice operates differently, more so even than XMPP servers.

> It wouldn't take much fix the warts on IRC and extend it to cover everything that XMPP tries to do.

Please by all means try. It'll take you far more time to design, and you can be 100% sure you're going to break many existing clients and servers by extending the IRC protocol. XMPP/Matrix clients on the other hand can handle missing features gracefully because the protocol is namespace'd/schema'd properly.

I appreciate that concern for fighting NIH and that's a criticism i've addressed to the Matrix project myself, that it could have been implemented on top of existing XMPP clients and servers with two simple XEPs: one for decentralized chatrooms and state resolution, the other for client-to-server JSON API. But when comparing those newer federated protocols with IRC, i think the comparison has no grounds.

Let me know if you're not convinced by these answers or have more questions.
>Also you're trying to appeal to emotion by framing mask wearing as some sort of punishment

That's because I do view it as a punishment. Maybe you like wearing a mask, I do not. I got vaccinated and stayed away from big events, masked etc. for 2 years. I did my part, I'm done.

Enough with this kindergarten level discipline. It's like punishing the entire class for the one kid that can't keep quiet. Yeah the noisy kid is an ass and should be quiet but the teacher is the one you should really be mad at.
A senior level developer should be helping others more than developing themselves. Helping others less good than yourself is a force multiplier. Helping others is a people problem though, and some people are content to not be good at that.
You never need to pay interest. If you pay your statement balance by the due date you'll never pay interest but your statement will reflect a balance.
Agreed, though the threat of "going back to prison" may not just be "oh you have 3 months left, so the threat is doing those 3 months in prison".

The threat could be doing the entire sentence over. The prison sentence could be longer than the 1 year at the chicken farm. It could include loss of eligibility for deferred adjudication (wiping the record clean). And so on. There's typically strong leverage for diversion programs that's more than just "prison" or "chicken farm".
Guile Scheme would be great for this purpose.
Wouldn't symmetry cover that? In this context, regular and switch are "mirror images" of each other.
> I gather a lot more useful information lurking the comments

I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but I've definitely gotten into the habit of opening the comments of a post before the link itself.
> an alt-right take

No. Please do not try to label me.
The atmospheric carbon must be removed. Back down to 350 ppm or less. It's currently ~ 415 ppm, projected to be ~ 450ppm by year 2040.

Even if all human activity stopped tomorrow, now that natural processes are in a positive feedback loop, GHG will continue to increase.

How do you suggest we proceed?
Oh ok. It doesn't really make sense without disclosing that though.
> No doubt a couple of readers will be thinking “well this is what Apple/proprietary software is like, what did you expect?” I’m extremely familiar with that argument and I don’t like it very much

Your dislike for a fact doesn't negate it
And still, in 2021, people die because some team at Apple can't write a memory-safe serializer for their own proprietary formats and image codecs.

These exploits are in the hands of governments that have proven to not shy away from torturing/killing activists fighting for basic human rights.
Ooooooh this is awesome!

I have a shell script I use to set my defaults for gitconfig on personal projects, and have my user level gitconfig set up for work, but this is so much cooler. I already keep my personal junk in ~/Projects/donatj so that makes this easy!
It is not particularly hard to log stack traces in C++, for example from an abort signal handler or attaching them to exceptions.

There is no standard solution though, so you have to rely on 3rd party libraries or use platform specific solutions.
> For each topic I counted how many times it had been mentioned in a post title, then calculated a 0-100 index, where 100 is the month with the most mentions.

This is not really useful data then. A time series with a big spike will "lose" against an identical one without the spike.

Maybe the amount of days when a certain word was in the front page would be a better comparison metric on the HN side?
Is it still a "no true Scotsman" when you are talking about the central feature of something?

Like, literally, claiming somebody is not a true Scotsman because he is not from Scotland is still a fallacy?
Regarding point 2, an old joke comes to mind: "economists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions".
Hacker News causes success of future tech trends :P
Ok who cares? That's even less relatable to the article since the entire thing is about hitting walkers and cyclists and how big vehicles are at fault for this. Also vehicle safety was far worse in the 70s.

What a stupid reference. Biden had a crash half a century ago, he'll totally change laws that he hasn't cared about for 40+ years in office....

I find it totally bizarre that people think someone who's a lifelong politician like this is just suddenly going to do everything they've always wanted and make their lives way better.
The Suez War, the Six-Day War, and the Yom Kippur War, I guess?
Can confirm, tracking is always the same quality, but the increased friction leads to the ball losing momentum. Right after a cleaning (which takes five seconds), the ball sounds freely for a long time after a hard spin, but a few days later it stops pretty quickly.
And yet php pretty much power most ecommerce sites in existance. Sure maybe it isn't good enough for a banking systems, the NASA rovers, life supporting systems or similar stuff. But it certainly good enough for most web apps.
Egdelord opinion time: I think HN has way too much of a hivemind to really think outside the box enough to catch trends.
MacBooks are weak-ass machines. It seems most developers are forced (or at least strongly-pressured) into using them by employers these days, but they're horrible for serious development. The performance is just bad, and they either sound like a jet taking off with fans in overdrive all day, or they throttle down to avoid overheating. Most developers I know work on apps deployed in a Linux environment, and have to jump through hoops to get a usable Linux-like environment locally. Docker can help a bit, but it causes even more performance problems on machines that are already being pushed to their limit.

I've been working on MacBooks for work for the better part of a decade, in large part to keep my work and personal machines separate, but I was much better off when I just did work on my personal Linux machine. I also didn't have to deal with switching monitor inputs and KVMs and the clutter of a laptop taking up precious desk space.
Israel does extremely well with startups and exits notwithstanding cultural differences (e.g. weekends are not the same with the rest of the western world). What are the big differences between what Europe does vs. what Israel does? Risk-aversion may be one aspect but I doubt its the only one. There are probably a whole lot of factors.