skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main use for 80-bit floats is probably to confirm that when you switch from 64-bit to 80-bit, nothing changes.

This is a very important use, though!
Does it ever occur to you that someone can not want to jump on the "China bad!" train and not be a bot?
Maybe you have too much on your plate and you need to step back?
How does that justify taking over their land/people? If this is really their excuse, it sounds to me like the same kind of justification Spain had when conquering the Native empires of Aztecs and Incas. Maybe they should have helped them without wiping out the culture? I'm still learning details of this, but I think ultimately it is very hard to justify persecution of peaceful monks.
If you drop it, your floor won't like it. My 2lb one is great though!
Lots of places in Pakistan and India you can do that on $1000 USD a month. If you don't do really well with hot weather you could pick a traditional hill station location (Murree, Darjeeling, Shimla, etc). They have lots of domestic tourism accommodation, I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to negotiate month-to-month terms with some of the property owners there.
Hungary does have the Orban and anti-LGBT situations, so your personal comfort at living in such an environment is something to consider.
12% is pretty high yield for the modern/western world. South Korea central rate is %0.75 according to Google. Where does the 11.25% come from?
i'm happy for you! yes serious athletes have different goals there are for sure athlete specific surgeons in the US. Check out the Steadman Clinic if you haven't already.

Not sure if sourcing is illegal on HN. If you have any suggestions I can't tell what is legitimate online or not. or if this is not good I have an email in my profile if you are willing to share
> Wait, the USA can revoke citizenship?

The USA¹ revokes lives in any place they wish — citizenship? Puh.

¹As do other nationstates, so we can just skip over all of that.
The planet is going to be fine. The question is whether we can save ourselves.
To fight Zoom fatigue, give people the freedom to turn their cameras off
This is nonresponsive nonsense. First, you can't just link half of wikipedia and assume the correct supporting argument must be in there somewhere. There's a huge difference between different types of population control measures.

But more to your direct point: the CCP is engaging in forced sterilizations right now in 2021. See sibling comments with links.
It could, but governments have a hard enough time sharply reducing drug use, and that has something tangible to search for and find. Trying to find some bits in the ether or even worse guess whether someone is memorizing a seed phrase is nigh impossible to prove or extinguish.

Mining will be carried out wherever someone could get away with it, which is basically any western country where it is legal and any 3rd world country with internet access and power. It would be like trying to stomp out coronavirus in the entire world -- when you apply the "vaccine" somewhere, the reservoir just lives somewhere else.

The issue is while the legal demand will drop, the illegal demand will remain, which is the only one you're trying to stomp out. As a deflationary currency much value will be lost, but it will retain pricely enough market cap to sustain the black market.
WD is on my personal blacklist for now. Don't forget last year when they lied and marketed SMR drives as NAS-compatible: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-fesses-up-some-red-hdds...

I can forgive hardware failures. Packing a few trillion bits into a box and making them perfectly reliable is a hard job. What I absolutely cannot and will not forgive is Western Digital lying about their specifications. If I can't trust their words, damned if I'm gonna trust their products.
always find this argument so weird - The amount of people who can create music and find an audience now vs a decade ago is exponentially higher; subsequently, the market price of a song has fallen and Spotify pays accordingly.

Except now, as an independent artist I can get easier exposure on Spotify and build up more income from live shows, merch and whatever else as a result. My closest fans will still often buy from band camp, or buy a vinyl or whatever. Except now I have a ton more fans than I could have reasonably achieved in the iTunes era

And the distribution of wealth has stayed relatively similar - huge artists (The Taylor swift’s of the world) continue to be minted, small unknown artists continue to make a comparatively tiny living - except now many, many more people can make that living and stream music
You're angry because you connected your game account to it?
You can ban a lot of things in life.
Theft. Drugs. Crime in general.

You may not understand how the OTC market works in jurisdictions like China that do indeed ban cryptocurrency exchanges and prevent fiat<->cryptocurrency exchanges. A fist full of RMB can be swapped for USDT, which can be swapped for BTC from OTC brokers.

What you are proposing can only be stopped by breaking computers, breaking arms/legs and breaking economies. Violence is never the solution to problems.
The world sucks at supply chain right now.

Even with the best intentions and planning, lead times have been expanding faster than orders come in. Orders are being pushed back and cancelled by vendors, and parts are disappearing from distributors very quickly.

Even the huge players shipping millions of units (Apple [0], Toyota [1], Sony [2], Samsung [3]), who are usually able to order the manufacturers around (in what's really a "bank owns you" vs "you own the bank" situation), are having trouble building products. Why would you expect a low-volume manufacturer to be in any way capable of doing better?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/apples-iphone-hot-streak-wil...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/sony-is-s...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/samsung-w...
I bought a set of 1cm element cubes awhile ago. There is definitely a change of perspective of density when you see several things of one generic size, and yet they are dramatically different weights.

I think it's fairly common to see volume and assume weight. And less volume is often assumed to be a structure issue, like expanded metal vs solid blocks of metal.
Yes the supply is my #1 concern / question. It doesn't seem like there is any downside risk so long as it's really the actual not contaminated peptides.
Errors grow exponentially in most floating-point operations.

The exception is cancellation error, which can suddenly cause the error rate to spike dramatically. But if you sort your numbers before adding/subtracting, you can often negate this overwhelming cancellation error.

The exponential growth of other floating point errors is almost unstoppable however. The only real way to stop it is to design an algorithm that operates with fewer steps.

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64-bit has a much smaller initial error (1/2^53), while 32-bit has (1/2^23) initial errors... starting with 30-magnitudes more error than double-precision.
Reddit Responds to Calls from Moderators to Fight Disinformation
> The ethnic minority usually got more slack when the government enforced this policy.

More importantly, the policy officially allowed minorities to have two children, which is very much the opposite of driving down minority numbers relative to Han numbers.

There is a popular poem reflecting the Han's view of what their government thinks of them:

一等外人，二等官

三等少民，四等汉
This kind of reporting is of course standard practice in the banking industry and has been going on for 20+ years.
You realise on HN that this will be rated as a greyed comment?
Only if you're a Gary Glitter fan.
> Its amazing what a few incentives can do to unleash capital innovation.

Capitalist solutions seem to always fall to Goodhart's Law in my experience.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Is car ownership pretty affordable overall? (Insurance, fees, etc)
I was sure you were wrong. You are absolutely correct.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Malaysia/U...
I remember when a friend of mine in middle school fired up the first version of Mosaic on his mac. I could hardly even tell what the point of the application (as they used to be called) was. He was also really into hypercard. We actually did a school project together in hypercard. I had really no idea at the time that such technologies would become so widespread and important. They initially seemed really arbitrary.
Judging the past by the standards of the present is problematic at best and regressive in the worst case.

The best examples of the human condition represent a desire to improve on our mistakes. Because we are imperfect, those with the will to do so must always be striving for improvement.

If we appeal to this erroneous view of history, what will future generations be able say of us under the same logic?

If we subscribe to this flawed logic, which past atrocities are not justified to be repeated today?
The WHO refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan exists...because of China. A supposedly independent organization that is supposed to be above politics...won't recognize an island of more than 30 million people. Taiwan proved that they knew something was up and did the right thing early on...all while trying to get the word out. The WHO never passed that information on and instead only repeated what China told it...then the US followed the advice of the WHO and utterly failed in it's response.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52088167
The PRC didn't invade Tibet for these reasons. This is historical revisionism.
To me it stems from a basic central problem: verifiable fact has value, but it is not defended by our institutions meaningfully.

You can spread all the harmful lies you like as long as your victims are diffuse and lack the standing for a lawsuit.

We have plenty of forms of censorship available through the courts - people can be punished for perjury, filing a false report, defamation, false advertising, fraud, uttering threats, etc. But in all those cases, you only face punishment if you target somebody with the standing and means to retain a lawyer, or you target the machinery of justice itself.

What happens when you target something like "climate change"? Or vaccines? Or the history of the 2020 election? Nothing. Nobody has standing to sue so the act is not punished.

So why is Hulk Hogan more worthy of protection from harmful speech than Climate Change?

And letting falsehoods go uncorrected plainly hasn't worked. The "Marketplace of Ideas" has done jack squat about Q or climate change denial or antivaxxers or whatever, and now we're facing real catastrophic impact of those problems. Significant thought-leaders in these communities can be caught over and over again in easily-verifiable lies and supporting extremist and hateful content... and face no consequences in terms of losing support through the normal mechanisms of the platform.

You can see what happens to platforms without substantive moderation or censorship - they're gradually consumed by obsessed extremists who simply exhaust all the normal people until they leave.

So, with the total failure of a government policy to tackle the problem, is it any wonder that people are looking to the owners of the platforms to tackle the issue? They have the means, and can be influenced through threats of boycotts.

Until reality itself can sue for defamation, we have to come up with a decent alternative. The stakes are high and the impact is real.
But is RCS even technically that ("not owned by a single company") with Google's weird run around to also own most of the backend services?

Standards are great, but fiefdom attempts pretending to be standards not so much. Nothing about RCS' architecture really sells that it is a better standard (or really much of a standard at all) compared to XMPP or Matrix (or IRC for that matter) especially when the vast part of the data plane is so complex there's only ever really been one vendor (Vibe/Google).
The biggest intrinsic barrier is that increasing the number of employees increases the communications overhead. Would you rather have one computer with 8 cores and 64G of memory, or two computers each with 4 cores and 32G of memory?

Employees could push back regardless, but lack the power because the BATNA is being left with zero income in the face of huge economic rent. If housing rent were much less of your income, then your necessary burn rate would be much lower and you'd have more bargaining power.

And yeah for highly paid tech roles, a pragmatic solution is to alternate between pouring yourself into a job full time, and taking off periods of funemployment (or possibly a grassroots startup, etc). But we should recognize that's only possible due to our outsized compensation, and can't really define the economy writ large.
How would you find a local client? Cold email? Networking events?
could you give some examples of these opinions? My experience is that posts like this are usually hiding some pretty ugly opinions that get dressed up as "right wing opinions", and I'd love to see a counter example where a very reasonable and respectful position is being banned/excluded. Links instead of descriptions if you don't mind.
11.25% is the imputed value of $0 rent after down payment.
Ha, I meant it in the opposite way, that it avoids making either mistake. Yes, it consumes a lot of resources, but it's success has proven that users don't mind this as much as commenters on hacker news seem to.

And it's a program that is slick, intuitive, and supports so, so many use cases without ever feeling overloading.
Americans are gone. Anti-China sentiment is at a boiling point and I really no longer see objective reporting or discussions. It's infuriating that the US is able to manufacture consent so efficiently.
What if it's too late to be late?
It amazes me that the law would allow someone to simply claim someone else's dwelling as their own. I understand on one side we must have tenant protections, but the definition of a tenant should be updated to one that is legally entitled to be within the dwelling by the say of the owner. Because in many American states, it is a perfect formula for extortion.
>You compare the vaccine to birth control to dismiss the risks of the vaccine

Or I compare it as a reference to a commonly taken medication to contextualize the risk. I also included a comparison to the disease it is vaccinating against, again, to contextualize. It is also worth noting that the absolute risk amounts to about 4 additional cases of VTE per 100,000 people that are vaccinated.

>In the OP’s case his sister was in the low risk category (quite young). So its not obvious that a priori the vaccine outweighed the risks.

Between 12 and 115 children end up hospitalized with covid per 100,000 total child population, not per 100,000 that catch covid (which is 1,900 per 100,000 infected children) [1]. So the risk of catching covid, and having a case severe enough to end up hospitalized, is far higher than your chance of VTE from the vaccination. So I find it odd that you would describe those odds as “low risk” for covid. And yes, its pretty obvious the vaccine outweighs the risk.

[1] https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...
I often marvel at the densities of the various heavy metals especially compared to steel. The densest of them like osmium are almost 3x as dense!

I wish I could afford an osmium cube. I guess tungsten is the best cheapest-yet-still-heavy option.
That's starting to change. Sam Zeloof is inspiring. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7E8-0Ou69hwScPW1_fQApA
It really depends what you're using the floats for. For ML applications? 16 bit floats do the job with some trickery (quantization).

For scientific computing? Generally 64 bit floats give you the needed precision. But if you're chaining a lot of operations that exacerbate floating point error you may need more.

For usage in trading? Again, depends on what computations you're doing. There's no "hard and fast" rule.
Yes, but the point is that price increase doesn’t affect affordability if the lower interest rates compensate for it. Why does it matter for affordability that house prices went up 20%, when mortgage rates fell so that the monthly payments did not budge much?
Work Hard (2007)
Ask HN: Launching SaaS products on Mobile vs. Web vs. Desktop?
Can anybody share their experience launching products on these platforms?

I've seen success stories in mobile, web & desktop but people don't tend to talk about the specific reasons why they decided to launch in these platforms.

From what I've seen the most popular thing is developing your product as a web application. This makes sense because HTML/CSS/JS is the first tech stack most developers start learning. It's also very easy to share your product, it's an open platform (no need for Google & Apple to accept you) & you don't have the the Google & Apple cut on your revenue.

However, there are people that simply don't enjoy web development.

In Desktop, people tend to pay more for software, especially if you compare it to mobile apps. Do Desktop apps on Mac receive the Apple cut? What about Windows desktop apps, do people actually buy things there? Would love to hear experienced people talking about the current state of desktop applications.

Finally, you have mobile apps, way more popular in the past (I still see people with amazing products & crazy MRR tho). There are some cool advantages like access to native mobile APIs and if Apple & Google accepts you, you have a huge amount of potential customers. The downside is that you have the Google & Apple cut and it seems like a saturated market.

How does someone decide the platform where their product should be launched? What's the current state of these platforms from your perspective?
Yeah. The math is wonky. Vaccinations reduce transmission by about 50%. They don't reach herd immunity even at 100% vaccination, but they do help. Vaccinations + N95 masks + modest social distancing likely would do it.

But we'll probably do vaccinations, wait for more aggressive mutations, add facemasks, wait for more aggressive mutations, and so on, until we have a super-virus.
I agree. Also, sometimes if there exists no demand, corporations will spend a lot to create it such as fashion as mentioned\shown in https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-...

This is probably not be true for all markets or industries, of course, but I think that (and availability regarding prices) is relevant to not shifting it back onto individual consumer responsibility.
The more accurate title would be "My 95% Tungsten 5% Nickel/Iron Cube"
Understood but you could expect a customer support to be candid about it.

They brushed me off with unpleasant tone + fake promises.
It's hard to expect economists (or anyone really) to be able to fix what is essentially political gridlock and innefective governance.

The answer is to build more to outpace demand but that's very difficult for so many reasons including zoning, factions opposed to growth, difficulty scaling supporting infrastructure and services, etc and we're left discussing bandaids to be applied on top of the crusty remains of hundreds of old bandaids covering up the festering wound, so to speak
I mean the fundamental issue is we've created a society that's automated an INCREDIBLE amount of work, and yet the daily work week is no shorter.

We've got automated switchboards, giant robots that make cars, giant robots that do our farming, massive plants for producing power. We even have enough housing already built in this country to house 6x the total number of homeless people. It's a false economy, and we know it because we're primarily a "service" economy.

So if most of our food is produced by robots, we have enough housing, and most of our jobs just exist to push health care paperwork around. Why are we not all on 20-30 hour work weeks?! I'm pretty sure most people would be fine doing 5-10 hours a week of essential nursing or working a field or whatever outside their "primary" job if you got 10-20 hours off the rest of the week.

Our system is freaking stupid.
Indeed another fine example, forcing developers into massive packages like axios.

Since we're in a salty mood, let's keep it going. jQuery, the much despised jQuery. Inspired by jQuery, browsers now have native DOM APIs that are somewhat equivalent, reducing the need for jQuery.

Except that their syntax is terrible, and chaining isn't possible on most methods. So an elegant chained one-liner in jQuery becomes a blob of ugly syntax spanning many lines using native methods.

A massive regression.
They went through the full multi-round set of testing that all vaccines go through in the US (even ignoring the overlap elsewhere), and have since been administered to hundreds of millions of people. I'd call that well tested, yes.

What would be the point of me pretending it's up for debate? I'm not stopping you from sharing whatever concerns you have, not sure how you think I even would. I'm not likely to be interested in them if I'm being honest, I've seen far too many sites and stories already. But you do you.
Foreground and background color should be moved out to avoid repetition, e.g. BUTTONG_FG, BUTTON_BG. All other parameters are different, so no repetition.
Have you published much?

I haven't seen many careful reviewers. It's an anonymous process, and no reason to put in any effort at all. On the procrastination list, peer reviews are the very last thing scientists do.
By this logic I can’t invite my friends over to listen to it either though right? That seems like it should be legal. I thought there was some legal threshold where it is no longer personal use but I could be wrong
Machining
With my girlfriend and daughter I live in Thailand (Thai countryside) and we have a budget of about 50.000 THB per month, or about 1.300 USD. We own our house, so we don't pay rent and we don't have any loans. This budget doesn't include costs for health insurance, which I pay separately.

I think a single guy could live on quite a bit less, but has to pay some rent. For about 250-300 USD per month you can get a decent enough place to live I'd wager (think: condo studio, 35 m2, gym, swimming pool). If you eat Thai food some of the time, food can be quite cheap (a meal without drinks could be had for about 1-2 USD in a typical Thai food stall or at a food court). If you buy foreign food things can get more expensive. Depending on where you live, coffee can also be had for 1-2 USD. Renting a scooter would be advisable for getting around a city, but would cost an additional 100 USD per month.
One excellent application of a block of tungsten is as a bucking bar for metal riveting. Due to its density, tungsten bars can be much smaller than steel ones, easily fitting into your hand, and fitting into tight spaces. I’ve got a number of tungsten bars and use them almost 100% over my steel bars.
> and it would all but eliminate any concern about an employee suffering psychological trauma.

I doubt this. If they were all images that this person happened to be into, maybe... But even then, I think it would likely make their addiction to child porn worse, which is it's own psychological problem that is probably worse for society than the trauma suffered by current employees. What happens when they leave that job, and are used to seeing hundreds of cp images a day?

Not to mention, that some of the stuff the scanner would be looking at would probably be horrific, and violent. Looking at that kind of thing all day would probably have similar psychiatric affects on pedophiles and non pedophiles. In the worst case, it might cause some pedophiles to start to like the worse images out of boredom from seeing so much cp.

Overall, I'd say this is would just be a bad avenue to go down.