skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't honestly believe how anyone who's lived through the past 18 months thinks anything but the worst case scenario is possible. Right now in parts of the US we have hospitals and ICUs that are at higher occupancy than they have been at any time during the pandemic, despite the fact that simple, safe, cheap and relatively unobtrusive measures that can prevent this have been widely available for months.

Compare that with what is needed to fight climate change, which is complex, expensive and at direct odds with the most straightforward pathway for billions of people to raise their standard of living (at least in the current moment). It is simply not possible with human nature to fight this calamity, at least how it has been presented.

I could see an outcome where advances in renewable energy and storage tech occur fast enough to make fossil fuels uncompetitive, but it's very difficult to see that happening fast enough to stave off disaster.

I feel like we've jumped off a tall cliff with no parachute, but because the valley floor is still a ways below we are trying to convince ourselves that we can knit a new parachute fast enough before we hit the ground.

Humans don't like to acknowledge that some situations are just not avoidable. I think the best we can do (at least at an individual level of you have the means) is to prepare for a much more unstable future world.
It seems like crypto has created a whole lot of people who are now rich but don't know how to be rich. People with normal assets can't transfer ownership of those assets by clicking on a popup link downloaded from the Internet. They have teams of accountants, bankers, brokers, lawyers, who sure, slow things down, take a cut, require that they know who you are and what you're buying, but they also keep you from accidentally giving $68 million to criminals.
You have never experienced Soviet bureaucracy and its petty spitefullness in the name of fighting on behalf of the oppressed. Though the DEI commissars are quickly filling that void.

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Google artificially inflates the prices when it proxies for postmates so ive taken to phoning the business directly and tipping employees directly rather than let thiry party skimmers abuse my community
Jai seems pretty interesting, I’m looking forward to trying it out once a public beta is available! Not the least because there’ll hopefully be a fair amount of batteries already included for 3D graphics / math stuff.

In general I really like the approach of designing a language in conjunction with implementing a large project (other than the language itself).
You have touched on what is both the best and the worst thing about programming languages in 2021.

On the one hand, most modern languages are powerful enough that you can build whatever you want on them. DSLs, constraint solving, pure FP, CPS, logic programming, whatever you like.

On the other hand, languages are subject to network effects. If you build an FP system on top of Python and I build one on top of Ruby, the resulting “FP frameworks” will be almost entirely incompatible. That makes it hard for people coming to either of our projects to “pick it up."

It’s great fun to implement your own library or framework that in turn implements something interesting, but everyone doing that leads to applications that are built on top of in-house home-grown greenspunned code bases.

In most production situations, it’s better to find the language and framework that already cater to the idiom you like, and come with a community of like-minded programmers who are familiar with how things work.

Network effects matter at scale, even if they’re irrelevant for a passion project.

The notion that any language can be coerced into supporting any programming idiom is true in theory, “But the difference between theory and practice is narrower in theory, than it is in practice.”

So I suggest there is still a lot of value in selecting the language/framework/library that was built to do the thing we want, right off the bat, and comes trailing a community and ecosystem around it.
I don't understand how people can tolerate a 50% markup to save 15-25 minutes of driving. Not only is the food marked up higher, but then they add the fees, the tips, etc. I'd rather just use that money saved to buy even more takeout later or at least make my order larger for leftovers.
Claiming or being Jewish would be the most advantageous to get into a top school. Way overrepresented ethnic group even accounting for higher IQ distribution.
That is a big assumption. Many teachers teach because someone has to, but there are also always those who do it for the money.
> [Lisp macros] by their nature would be hard to implement properly in a language without turning it into a dialect of Lisp.

Camlp4, Template Haskell, and Rust procedural macros all serve as counterexamples to this claim.
You know, if your browser is allowing for its back button to be hijacked, its right to blame browser rather than, people who use its API.
What next block websites that track locations, send notifications?
If your phone needs a restart, to close a website. I think you have bigger problems with that phone.
This is the reason. Sex work is a crime so banks can’t offer banking services and sex work-adjacent businesses (like strip clubs) tend to be high-cash businesses so they’re considered high risk for money laundering. This means the entirety of adult entertainment gets bucketed as “high risk” even though technology has, in theory, significantly changed the actual money laundering risk presented by these businesses.

Also, the type of people who are typically sitting in the meetings who would have to sign off on changes to these long-held banking “truisisms” haven’t given it a second’s thought and they really don’t care to re-examine their beliefs anyway.
Those "we have detected unusual traffic" messages after unusually heavy (hey, we're not all average in our usage patterns) but very human usage are kinda evil. I wasted so much time wiping the machine and reinstalling the OS etc after getting paranoid that I had some undetectable kind of malware before I caught on.
The Valkyrie was wound down because missile technology made it obsolete before it was even done. The USA instead focused on the supersonic B1. And even that project was almost cancelled as obsolete if Reagan hadn’t had intervened, and gone for a low flying B1B instead that had much less chance of being shot out of the sky before dropping its bombs. To be honest, even the B1B isn’t that useful, ballistic and cruise missiles do the job much better. Even Russia doesn’t fly its supersonic bomber very often, flying the less expensive to operate TU-95 a lot more.

War isn’t a pissing contest to see who can have the fastest X, it is rather one where you find a bunch of most effective tools for the job.
Then why isn't there a lot of serious competition to Amazon? Where are these hypothentical CEO's who would have replaced a dead Bezos, why aren't they running walmarts/targets/new startups of this world?
I am not actually a fan of the guy, but I like to credit where it is due.
I’m far, far from an expert, but it seems to me that the unforgiving “software is the law, nothing can be reversed” nature of crypto means that all sorts of vulnerabilities and/or mistakes can instantly lead to you losing all your money. It feels inherent to the system - the core reasons behind these weaknesses are also the core strengths of crypto. You can patch individual vulnerabilities, and try not to make mistakes, but it seems it’ll always be the case that if all your money gets stolen, nothing can really be done.
Agreed. This is not like elm at all. This is much more like react pre v14
It's super high risk when there is any litigation. Most banks will stop mortgage loans when that's discovered.
Wasn't that partly because of intense lobbying in the US to disallow it to fly overland routes (even subsonically) because of "sonic boom noise"?
> A Tupolev Tu-144 in flight over Moscow as part of a NASA-sponsored research project in 1998.

Photo five, featuring a Tu-144 with a US and Russia flag on it. Ah the brief optimistic days before the Cold War resumed. There are even a smattering of Hollywood movies over that span of time where the Russians and Americans work together in friendly fashion. When you view those movies now (eg Air Force One 1997), it seems entirely bizarre, from some fantasy world. Movies before: Soviets, Cold War, enemies; during the thaw: yay, Russia, democracy, friends, hugs all around; after: Putin, Cold War, quasi-enemies.
What large city can you live in where nothing “actually happens” somewhere within 15 blocks?
Fair. I was just thinking in terms of local impact.
Myst remake impressions: Turning a new page on a classic–with issues at launch
The article starts with this statement:

Artificial intelligence (AI) has
seen a broad adoption over the past
couple of years.

And continues:

At Tesla, who as many know is a
company that works on electric
and autonomous vehicles, AI has
a massive value to every aspect
of the company's work.

Who is writing like this? And why?

What would Tom's Hardware lose if they left out this type of cheap fillwords?

Should I also start writing like this?

Is this type of "reader hostile writing" a new thing or have newspapers always written like this?

These are not rhetorical questions. I am honestly confused.
I was hoping to hear of a new Prisoner's Digest condensed-story magazine launch.
No, I mean emacs was designed for terminals. The whole GUI is build ontop of this and is suffering from it. Is pure-gtk changing this and decouple from the terminal-design or still working with it, replicating the same hacks just in a different GUI?
I feel more sad about those awkward moments than embarrassment.

White Americans don’t really have a cultural heritage, or at least no common conception of it. They’re just left adrift, the “neutral option”, born as a blank slate with no suggestions as to the kind of person they can or should be. On paper that sounds freeing, but the fact that they awkwardly try to make that cultural connection - likely well aware of the awkwardness - suggests that they’re aware of some deeper experience they’re missing out on.

Humans weren’t meant to be burdened with (re)inventing their entire cultural identity in their lifetime. Most people just get born into it. I can’t think of any other group than White Americans (perhaps White Canadians + White Australians to a lesser extent) who are left to do that.
Bin run wheat can arguably compete with what seed producers are putting out, but there is no GMO wheat on the market, so that's moot. When it comes to the other crops I grow, I have little interest in owning the seeds. The commercial seed producers produce seed that will far outperform anything I can produce. I'm going to be buying my seed from them each year regardless of ownership structure because, frankly, they sell a better product. It has been that way for much longer than GMO has been a thing. DIY isn't always better.

In the modern world the wealth is in the land. Seeds are worthless if you have nowhere to grow them.
It's just survivorship bias but often sadly believed by the survivor. Like old folks who explain how they achieved great age though their own endevours while the dead cry out from their graves "I did that too!"
It's not wafer size, but reticle size which is the limit. 300 mm (diameter) is standard now, yet reticle size is only a fraction of that.
> where contracts rule supreme

What, other than a contract that complies with the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, should be more supreme between two parties freely trading with each other?

The weather report? A poem?
I'm not sure it's appropriate to deploy an aggressive ad blocker blocker just for an minimal extrapolation of someone else's tweet. http://archive.today/7cAxU
That is the point they are making, but comparing it with "three refrigerators" is seemingly invoking the power of a fridge.

To understand what they're saying, you need to understand current as distinct from power regardless of the scale. If you do understand this distinction, but you don't have a feel for what 100 amps is, perhaps a good comparison is starting a car.
Very likely, he took the switch out of a central function that's only written once and placed it into a few of them scattered through the code.

With time, somebody will probably encapsulate his code in a flexible "createUser" function on an upper level, so the switches can all come back into a single place.
Why do you read what they write? Life is too short to worry about what strangers online are telling you to do, whether they are rich or not (unless you are wanting the advice).
If that is what it was optimized for, then building anything above 3 maybe 4 stories would be stopped. I disagree.
Genetic ancestry is not race.
I did Google “how to invest $2 million” a few times from different devices to see how it would change my search history.

It’s hard to tell systematically but my YouTube ads became super douschey. And my iheartradio ads and Spotify ads were also related.

Is there a site of funny search poisoning? Or a practical joke set of how many times you have to search “domestic abuse defense attorney” a friend’s phone to surprise them?
If the piers are sold in inches, then using metric to describe them is another level of indirection, so might make the chance of error worse. Would you feel safer if he said "The piers are 91.4cm"?

It's amusing to see newspaper stories where they report high precision numbers that are obviously metric conversions like "He drove 62.14 miles to work every day" when the original source said "100km".
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I think theyre referencing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ4GmZflpPI
The arithmetic works, but the units were wrong, that can happen in the metric system too.
Anything that lists Winkler Manitoba as an attraction is an obvious scam.
Unfortunately for you, you're wrong. And worse yet, everyone who interacts with you is worse off for it. You didn't vet your source. As the title of this thread is, "Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change". Samsung has done no NAND swap, nor have they crippled performance. You're wrong on both counts.

I'm responding for the benefit of others, not yours, as you're basically presenting false information. Crucial and Western Digital were caught swapping NAND with zero other indication. Samsung has updated that SKU's serial number, product datasheet, and the actual change in question was a different Samsung controller and increased SLC cache. Not the NAND.[0]

And, they swapped the controller for a newer one, out of the 980 Pro. Almost 3-times the the SLC cache of the original model, and overall netting a small performance increase. Most people would prefer these changes over the original configuration. I would.

And while I'd be more than happy to only buy Intel products, Samsung is still in the clear on this front.

You're not on Ars Technica anymore. Don't ever come half-stepping with spreading misinformation on HN. It's a disservice to not read your own sources, and then apply your incorrect conclusion for others. You're welcome for the correction.

[0]https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-is-swapping-ssd-pa...
Custodial services is one area where the BTC community is sorely lacking.

Typically you can safely work with an independent financial advisor as your money is stored with a custodian like fidelity. Fidelity is on the hook to make basic tax reports, account statements, and provide security for your funds. Obviously a part of that security is controlling transfers and not dealing with dubious business partners.

I can’t point to any vault where my money is stored, but I can reasonably bet that fidelity has enough safeguards that it won’t vanish. I wish there were more such custodians for btc assets providing “cold wallets”. BTC makes audits and other activities to verify nothings gone odd with the custodian for your and everyone else’s accounts without requiring privileged access to the ledger.

Paying .05% for the price large of not having your btc vanish is a bargain.
Considering most of the population doesn’t eat very healthy and rates of B12 deficiency are only ~6% I can’t imagine it would make much difference what your genetics are. Especially since many cases of deficiency will be the result of medical problems.
Governments around the world are currently working on setting the precedent. Surely if you're a good person you'll take the test so we can strive towards true equity. Those anti-equityers are an existential threat to our society, and more importantly, to marginalized peoples.

Sounds absurd but everything that sounds absurd today is only 5 years down the line. Think of what the unthinkable was 5 years ago or 10 years ago. Don't be surprised when you start to hear about equity ID.
Only good characters use iPhones in movies
Maybe nitpicky but why is the ESP32 (dual core @ 240MHz, 300kb+ memory, options with megabytes of flash and memory integrated in package) relegated to coprocessor for a 48MHz microcontroller with 256kb flash and 32kb memory?
The cool kids all bought New Zealand citizenship so this is your once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in their hand-me-downs oops I mean tax write offs...
Shameless plug: I wrote a pair of articles for The Gradient that explores much of this area as well, called "Machine Learning, Ethics, and Open Source Licensing"[1][2]. I'd like to think those have a bit more depth and nuance.

Long story short, while I don't personally find this to be a particularly well-written article, the author's not entirely wrong. Open source machine learning software and models, in particular, are presenting a number of new challenges in a variety of areas, including regulation, that many of our existing systems are poorly equipped to grapple with.

[1] https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-ethics-and-open-sou...

[2] https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-ethics-and-open-sou...
Seven people talk about how the pandemic changed their views on the work commute
I tried again with brand new, blank profiles in Chrome and Firefox (default settings, no extensions) and still can't make it hijack the back button.
> had been declining for years in America yet increasing only on the west coast

> That alone contradicts the premise

Other states throw their homeless on busses bound for CA so they can have declining numbers while only the west is growing.

That’s literally the exact premise.
It reads like Bart Simpson’s report on Libya.
And those same financial services companies will end up managing these in the end game for crypto. This is just early adopter syndrome. Risk and reward, freedom and responsibility.
Those seem like valid use cases. From the numbers I saw this is only about 0.01% of the population per day.
So just disconnect utilities then. I don't want them to drown in my bathroom or be electrocuted. I also want to replace locks so burglars don't rob them
>since these stats just seem to be used to advantage

This is the problem though. If you can get into a better college, get a scholarship or get a better job because of it, then wouldn't you take advantage of this? I think a lot of people would.
But once everyone's DNA is on file, imagine the easy time a new government will have after the next great political/cultural change (or the one after that) getting their country in order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Almost impossible I'd say to confuse 1 m with 1 km or 1 mm, but easy to confuse feet with inches as they're much closer in value - the same order of magnitude even. As you can see - since it happened in this article.
Unless you want everyone to understand PKI, the solution is to use a payment system where transactions are reversible in cases of fraud.
Most shelters have serious problems, like mold. They aren't actually safe because you can be harassed, assaulted or have your stuff stolen by other homeless people.

A high percentage of homeless people have health issues. This means putting a bunch of them together exposes already sick people to cross contamination with other diseases, making their health worse.

They have curfews and other rules making it one step removed from a prison. If you have any funds of any kind, some will charge you for being there, making you essentially their prisoner with no means to escape.
My personal favorite missile. Add some Sprint replicas and this would make a cool, if entirely impractical, manspace.
I read the article last night. I lived there from '98-'01, during a somewhat different cultural moment, in the Willie Brown era. It was if anything more corrupt and dysfunctional. The music writer Bill Wyman wrote a good article on this back in 1999, which probably still holds up:

https://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/

I don't think there's that much ideology to it. The place is corrupt and dysfunctional because it's conditioned itself to be corrupt and dysfunctional. Brownback's Kansas government had similar problems; same in Ohio.
> Not everyone can cryptographically verify software updates

In this case don't use cryptocurrencies, or at least don't hold your own coins and delegate that to a third-party (keep them in an exchange, etc).

Keeping your coins in a self-hosted wallet is like handling millions in physical cash or precious metals. You can do it, but it requires responsibility and precautions, which is why in the real world it's typically delegated to financial institutions (as in you keep that cash in the bank) and they themselves use precautions such as moving physical cash in armored trucks.

With this kind of amount, you need to take the appropriate precautions and have (or build) a digital "armored truck" and definitely not keep them on an online machine. Use a hardware wallet at the very least, or "build your own" hardware wallet by using an air-gapped machine with no direct access to the internet.
That stops liberal democracies. It wouldn't stop Nazis.
These feel like some of the most likely places to get nuked if an old system accidentally goes off.
Wise supports KES
For the 2030 census race shouldn’t even be a question. You won’t get any actionable data.
But two days is insanely short amount of time.
At least they got exposure to culture out of it, so it's not all bad.
Duress is not insanity.
Also cars equipped with boat racks, bike racks—often fairly specialized for specific equipment. Loading up cars the night before for a trip. Could definitely make a difference at the margins in cities but you already have Uber.

This might cut price in half? A lot of people seem to assume that this makes taxi rides almost too cheap to meter relative to owning a car or taking an Uber. And I'm pretty sure that's not true. You don't pay yourself to drive and the US IRS deduction for mileage is something like 50 cents per mile. That's probably a pretty good floor for a robo-taxi including the mileage it takes to get to you.
If you want to know what the state of computing was when you were born, visit the computer history museum timeline. For 1968, it was the year of the Apollo guidance computer, Kubrick’s 2001, Dijkstra’s “goto considered harmful” and “the mother of all demo’s”. Not bad.

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1968/
I don't understand the point - are you suggesting that he earlier on leaked the fact that he had lots of crypto and faked losing it to no longer be a target? If so he seems to be posting from a throwaway account which defeats the purpose.
The Nazis don't exist anymore. It's so called liberal democracies you've got to be worried about.
I wonder if there are equivalents of missilebaseforsale.com for the former Soviet Union
BellAliant in eastern Canada, the only provider of residential layer 1 fiber in my area, still isn't even assigning a /128 or /64, let alone proper delegation.