skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they don't. Lockdowns longer than the vaccination interval make absolutely zero sense if there exists a vaccine and the virus is endemic. Get used to the idea that you'll be getting COVID several times a year from here on out, and because you'll have antibodies, it'll be no big deal, much like with other coronaviruses today.

Importantly, there is NO PLAUSIBLE WAY to "stop COVID" by lockdowns or any other measures. Eventually you'll have to end the lockdowns, and it'll be waiting for you. COVID is the Taliban of diseases - it can't be defeated, but we can kinda sorta peacefully coexist.
This work essentially allows one to go beyond the IEEE754 standard which mandates correctly-rounded elementary operations +, -, x and / : they provide implementations of libm functions (cos, sin, log, exp, etc.) that are also correctly rounded.

This is really nice, not necessarily because anyone cares about the correctness of the last bit in a float. But more importantly, because since there is only one "correct" answer, requiring correct rounding means that those functions are then fully specified and deterministic. No more getting slightly different result when changing platform, OS, or even just updating libm (some transcendental functions are still actively being improved, thus changed, in glibc!). This is amazing for reproducibility.

Since the performance is good (even better than existing libm implementations, they claim), this is a true win-win.

This is obviously made possible by the fact that one can easily enumerate all 32-bit floats. It would be amazing to have something similar, even at a big performance cost, for 64-bit doubles (MPFR can do it of course but the perf cost there is truly massive). Things are much harder with 64 bits, unfortunately.
You are expected to tip generously as without your tip money your waitress wont be able to eat as she is only paid 3.93 an hour plus tips.

In addition she is even more likely to make use of state services like food stamps and medicaid which in effect you and I help pay for even if we don't even live in that state let alone eat at that diner.

I don't think its cheaper its just subsidized by everyone.
Look at the username, probably a troll.
I live in South Africa now, with my wife and daughter, and while I could live in less than 1000 usd, it would be in dodgier areas of town. That said for a nice 3 bedroom pay ~700 usd, and food is like 250 per person. So from the sound of things, there are much better options out there.
full title == [Some Alaska feed stores are out of a livestock dewormer because people bought it to treat COVID-19. Health officials say that’s a really bad idea.]
"Purism could have avoided these delays by following the same model used by the PINE64 in designing the Pinephone by only using older components that already have good Linux support and launching with an existing mobile interface. If Purism had used the i.MX 6, the hardware would have been antiquated, but it could have avoided most of the problems it has encountered implementing the LCD screen, video out, cameras and power management. If Purism had used the i.MX 6 and Ubuntu Touch, it probably could have shipped in 2019, and avoided most of the delays, which have generated so much public criticism, but those would not have been good choices for the long-term future of the phone."
Probably, prestige/celebrity. (And perhaps different levels of active moderation/pruning?)

Tao is as certified as genius as they come. Fields Medalist.
These attracts crackpots in a more significant amount or more mainstream/less sophisticated people wanting to engage with a celebrity.

The others you have mentioned have less or much less prestige. The reward for engaging is much more intrinsic (curiosity/interest in the topic).

They might also have more agressive moderation which perhaps is absent on Tao’s blog (no idea if this is the case).
Ah, okay, sorry. I didn't see that piece of javascript on any other user-created pixeldrain pages, and it isn't involved in the ad at the bottom/center of the page. So, it did seem out of place to me. I can't even tell where it would place an ad.
Global stocks set for a correction as rally fizzles
[REQUEST] a userscript that replaces the thumbnails with the description of the video/film/TVShow for YouTube and other streaming services.

I feel like replacing all thumbnails with useful text that describes what the video's going to be about would help reduce analysis paralysis for at least some people.

I still use my RSS Reader(QuiteRSS) to "subscribe" to YouTube channels, and I'm never unsure about which video to watch. I think that's due to the fact that RSS is mostly text, and I'm not overwhelmed with images from everywhere all at once.

A good description sells me on a video more than thumbnails ever could.

So my Solution: Replace images with descriptive text on every video streaming platform.
Using stored procedures is old fashioned and won't earn you any points on your resume if you're being interviewed by 20 year olds. It's a solid solution though unless you are at FAANG volumes.
(Created a throwaway because I don't want my employer to somehow notice that I'm retiring in ~a year)

This thread is highly reassuring to me. I spent six months traveling around SEA in 2014 on ~$1k/month. It was pretty easy to stick to that budget even with the cost of moving around. Seven years later, I had mostly assumed that a $1k/month existence was hard to come by unless you are willing to live in relative poverty - apparently that is not the case.

Hopefully inflation and the post-pandemic travel boom do not change this much.
Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes is about to go on trial
> What happened in 1993 to suddenly make hyperlinks blue? No one knows, but I have some theories.

I doubt that no one knows. They found the smoking gun in the Mosaic release notes - the people who worked there are probably still alive and might remember why!
> As a New Yorker, I have been surprised when I travel that food isn't cheaper many places...

Some of that may be on you, choosing to eat the expensive food.

My experience in Shanghai was that I could eat basically the same things I'd eat in America, and it would cost basically the same amount of money. Or I could eat local food for 5-10 times less than that.

But you know, if I go to 老外街 ("foreigner street") in Shanghai to eat at the Mexican restaurant there, it's not exactly a secret that I may be willing to pay more for food than a normal Chinese person. And they price accordingly.
Could this be because so many companies don't focus enough on security? So there isn't enough collective experience out there, making it hard to find those that do have the knowledge and experience.
Oh, but my point is, they knew and cared after they got them installed and had to ask someone to have them removed.
It depends a lot on the type of "experience" OP is looking for, but Mexico would be very good if he is looking to still be close to US culture.

My suggestion will be somewhere like Ensenada, La Paz (Baja) for the West side. Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Guanajuato for the center or Merida or Campeche for the east.
I think it'd be easy to take goodpoint's brief post to the point of absurdity, but I'm trying to give it a more productive reading.

The Culinary Cultural Appropriation Police are not going to come after anyone for not explaining spaghetti or tacos to an American audience. Everyone knows what those are even if they don't know every bit of the history of those items.

But if you're going to introduce a lesser-known dish, it'd be better to provide some context. When a white chef puts his twist on Ghanaian groundnut soup on the menu, that's ok - but don't just call it "Tim's Tasty Nut Soup" without referring to what it was inspired by. Give credit to the culture that invented the thing (and no, I don't think your menu needs to dive into the fact that it contains tomatoes which aren't native to Ghana, etc).
> I live in London too and I'm baffled by the lack of tall buildings in pretty central parts of the city. The real solution is more supply.

I just spent 5 days in London and was shocked at how many tall buildings there were that weren't there 20 years ago, and indeed how many are being constructed - not just in the centre and docklands, but in battersea and vauxhall too
My point was not about who was really responsible for the rebellion. My point was that the everyday people were blamed for what transpired, then they were massacred, and this was the end of democracy in Athens for a long time.
> People are getting confused and that's a problem.

Let's see the data.
What sort of conclusion is one supposed to draw from this kind of unilateral declaration that X doesn’t Really Care about Y issue, and X’s true motivation is actually an unfalsifiably subconscious Selfish Desire?

Seems like pure rhetoric with no substance. A way to dismiss all arguments made by one side without actually addressing them, by declaring it all camouflage for something that sounds sufficiently shameful/illicit.
The article literally discusses that in the second part.
I get better/more reliable internet on my phone in India than I do in my condo in Canada some days
New development is occurring in Berlin because the rent control does not apply to new units and it's on purpose. (Although didn't the rent control policy get voided by some court?).
C# uses “implicit context switch” on its async/await as it captures the current SynchronizationContext by default. On WPF/winforms/UWP and classic ASP there is one, so unless you other wise tell it, the await always comes back on the UI thread.

Console and ASP net core have null as their SynchronizationContext.
180 day lead time with a warning about procurement delays doesn't instill a lot of confidence. Along with a $900 price tag seems a little too risky.
> but part of the fun of being a Linux user is freedom to explore and try things [from poster freedomben]

Make yourself a few virtual machines for that, initially...

Then try loading systems on the laptop from a USB Mass Storage Device (meaning, the non destructive way, without writing to the disk).
But is TSMC producing these ASIC chips?
‘ "I got it but didn't seek treatment" is impossible to verify’

‘Later antibody testing demonstrated that it wasn’t.’

I’m confused, can’t we antibody test people who think they had it?
I consider that an organization use case, but yeah same difference.
Serbia offers a 180 degrees different culture than most of what you experienced in US plus is very dynamic, cheap and great for young people.

Couple of a links to get you started:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/serbia-best-places-to...

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170822-belgrades-floati...

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/serbia/articles/an-expats-...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-life-like-for-American-expats-...

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-foreigners-moving-to-B...

https://yankee-in-belgrade.blogspot.com
The government should limit the scope of a software bill of materials
https://social.librem.one/@joao/106815850485862296
The side effects were real and occurred frequently enough to make vaccinating the entire population a net-negative. Lyme disease is still extremely rare in most areas.

What should have happened is the vaccine should've been made prescribable by doctors to patients who live in areas where Lyme disease is common. Despite its side effects, the vaccine would have been hugely beneficial to specific areas of the U.S., but IIRC there wasn't a regulatory pathway at the time for this sort of limited approval based on geography.
> How confident are you humans will never build settlements outside of earth?

I'm just a random person who could be wrong, but to literally answer your question: I'm convinced that it will never happen on a long-term basis. It might be possible to put a base on the Moon or Mars and even have thousands of people live there temporarily, but it won't be a viable long-term solution. It will probably only push us to disaster more quickly, because our resources could have been put to better use.

I think the planet would probably have a better chance of extending the time frame if the resources were spent on things like behavioral change.
Anywhere in Vietnam, especially outside of Saigon. Good internet connection (I worked for companies in the US and EU with daily meetings for 4 years).

I'd recommend Da Nang. A modern, clean city, with both beautiful beaches and mountains, and an international airport.
How about the 4" 40 pound $2,999 one?

> WHY? We thought nobody would buy our 17.6lb, 3" tungsten cube. We were so, so wrong
Sort of misleading if you mean per line per month
Interest income on the deposit.
1000USD is quite a big amount in India. You can live like a king with 150-200mbps, eat out frequently, go to pubs on weekends. Location Bangalore. The weather is mostly pleasant throughout the year.
> All of the examples above have one thing in common - they focus on the needs of developers instead of needs of the customers.

Exactly. https://web.dev is prime example of that. Shiny new features for _developers_ all the time, as if any of that will make incompetent web developers write slick and fast applications.
> Is Big Oil why it's much cheaper to heat with natural gas?

Heating with natural gas is incredibly expensive. It only looks cheap because most of the costs are externalised - thanks to lobbying by Big Oil.
Thank you for sharing, great read
Maybe! I think the one thing I've learned from my biggest clients is that slight % increases in sales for companies of that size equal billions of dollars, so there's so much room for waste. It doesn't have to be villainous - they can spend $50m on renewable tech and it just doesn't matter - it's a drop in the bucket compared to other things, and can fail without consequences. I bet it attracted a lot of great talent, and I bet a lot of that was lured towards more profitable things with big bags of money.
And if I need glibc for alpine how do I search for it?
I think you're reading a headline written by an editor who is conflating widely-accepted theory that beat out other competing theories which had heavyweight adherents with not-a-theory anymore.
Some absolutely do. Of course they are sad, and afraid, but they’re lucid about what’s happening. They make their affairs in order and they say their goodbyes. And they die with dignity. I’ve seen it up close, and it’s impressive.

For the longest time I thought it wasn’t possible. I’d read Simone de Beauvoir’s Une mort très douce, where she chronicles her mother’s death, and the conclusion is more or less that even with a live well fulfilled we all end up raging against the dying of the light (a reference to Dylan Thomas). It sounded very reasonable to me. But now I know it does not have to be like that.
The default background was gray for Netscape, even on Windows, presumably because that was the default background for common Unix toolkits like Motif/X. Even Internet Explorer defaulted to gray. See these Wikipedia articles containing screenshots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

In particular, notice the IE2 screenshot, which shows it displaying the more modern Wikipedia website using a gray background. IE2 doesn't understand CSS, so just displays the source. The CSS declares a white background, so we can infer that the HTML probably does not declare a gray background using the long forgotten BODY tag BGCOLOR attribute. (Rather, almost certainly the HTML doesn't use the BGCOLOR attribute at all.)

It's possible that Mosaic defaulted to white on Mac OS, but I doubt it. Netscape didn't back then, IIRC.

For a long time gray and gray-toned backgrounds were ubiquitous on the web. It was nice because white backgrounds are difficult on the eyes, especially for prolonged periods. Unfortunately, white eventually began to dominate, as it already did for most Windows and Mac applications. Now we're coming full circle with dark theming, though dark theming is typically much darker than the old web and old X applications.
The total payment to Apple is roughly inlined with Apple's growth on total active devices using Google. i.e Devices excluding China. [0] So every two to three years you will read how Google is paying more to Apple. Except Active Devices hasn't grown much at all. Google is effectively paying 50% premium to Apple to outbid a hypothetical Microsoft bid.

CPA Cost per acquisition are already lower for Bing, and Microsoft is running with lower margin. Traffic acquisition costs for Google has been steady. And if it is a dramatic 50% increase, I am pretty sure there will be some words on it in their Quarterly Report.

In the past if this was coming from those usual suspect of Apple's PR site, you can instantly tell it is Apple's propaganda machine in the work. And this isn't the first time [1] they are doing it to put pressure on both companies either. But this time it is coming from "analyst".

To put $15B into perspective Google will be paying 10% of their annual revenue to Apple.

There is a possibility that Apple is trying to recope a potential lost of App Store revenue which is included in the same services category as the search deal.

[0] I actually believe it is closer to active user than active devices. Since a single user could have two or more Apple devices. But active devices is the only figure that Apple publish so we use that to keep things simple.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/report-google-apple-safari-sear...
Interesting concept. The cloud on which it is hosted seems to be a very interesting solution for beginners https://www.deta.sh/
I'm assuming it didn't help that Raja Tridiv Roy supported Pakistan in 1971.
Every material more dense than tungsten costs more than tungsten, and the same goes for anything that even close close. Only thing you need to do to determine if you were screwed or not is measure the density. Since it's a cube the only thing you need is a ruler and a scale.

As for the value to a consumer. That comes almost entirely from its density not its hardness, something you'd know if you read OP.

As for the "vastly inflated prices" if you have the ability to produce and sell 1 kilogram cubes with the side length of an inch and a half for significantly less than OP paid then you should consider selling that information and retiring.
There's a Netflix show about him?

Also there's plenty of shows and news about MU, SSC etc. I'm also surprised that Tao's rather specifically niche blog attracts such comments. Is it possible that the other blogs are just better moderated and Professor Tao doesn't need or care to?
Pacifying... the Buddhists? I thought Buddhism is a pacifist religion?
True, but from $899 to > $2,000, it's also at least 4.5 times as expensive (!!!) as $199 for the PinePhone.

And, it exists today and runs an Arch Linux derivative like the SteamDeck.

As they say in the old country, a device in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I've got a couple similarly-sized hunks of aluminum and vanadium that I got from a steel mill tour when in college. I enjoy the difference in densities in my hand, but I don't know about $130 of enjoyment for one more in the set.
I don't think it is safe. My mother has been getting LOTS of ads on its Facebook from Chinese state propaganda.

Here is one of them: https://i.imgur.com/iSqZTEq.png

It's in French, the top translates to "Sponsored - Media controlled by the state of China". Though, maybe they are not that careful with their budget as they should have had French/Arabic translations.
look at the blogrolls. they all link to each other. that's hwo to find related blogs. (or as Terrance Tao would probably call, a complete graph)
Tools for circumvention of copyright.

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> (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

> (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

> (C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
it is a theory, it cannot be replicated.
If there's anyone I'll listen respectfully to about the value of hard, diligent work, it's Terence Tao.

Reminds me of Richard Hamming talking about his professional envy of John Tukey:

One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!

From "You and Your Research": https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
Part of it is detangling the emotional aspect from the operational aspect.

If you're procrastinating because of your fear of failure or because you think you'll look bad in front of your boss then no amount of planning is going to help you stop procrastinating unless that planning is helping you convince yourself that you won't fail.

In the same way, if you're lost and don't know what to do motivating yourself emotionally isn't going to help unstick you unless it results in your figuring out how to tackle the problem.

Watch your mind, figure out what it's running away from and tackle it at _that_ level, 9/10 times it's not the work as we can plainly see by the fact that once we start we can usually finish and get good results.

The other thing is that as crotchety as this sounds, put down the phone and other things that yank your attention around during the day. Re-learning how to focus on something past the first sign of uncomfortableness is a crucial skill for all of this.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. The boring null hypothesis—that people simply have different backgrounds and views on a large internet forum—is more than enough to explain what goes on in these threads. Cheaply labelling others "bots" because you have a different background and view from them is poison to community and therefore not allowed here.

As the guidelines say, if you're worried about abuse, you should be emailing us so we can look into it.

Here are hundreds of past explanations going back many years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Compared to breaking the speed limit it isn't. Most people don't steal. I am guessing most drivers speed at least occasionally.
yeah, just drink the enriched uranium.... ~_~
This is cool, but I still want to stack some gold coins.
Hi, I'm the author of the repo.
I use electron-builder [0] to build my Electron app. IIRC there are a few CLI flags to build for different operating systems without needing to run it in the target OS. So you don't even need to use GitHub Actions.

[0] https://www.electron.build/
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The title of the article contributes to the unfortunate but common confusion between the scientific and colloquial meanings of the word "theory".