skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'd rather be building complex medical instruments than toasters.

Why? In what way is it better to have a handful of elite workers creating a handful of units sold to a handful of consumers instead of having many ordinary workers producing many units for many consumers?
Ah, I know the one you’re referring to—-that purple window actually isn’t using this library.

We can get the position of our _own_ windows easily, but when it comes to getting Spotify’s position, we need to do some more complex polling, which is slower (and only works when the 3rd-party window is in focus).
>At the end of the day, free speech doesn't mean that a platform like twitter has to let you on to their platform

Perhaps in law, but certainly not spirit. I understand the dilemma. Twitter doesn't want the KKK on their site, but they've gone way too far. It's nothing more than a thinly veiled self-serving propaganda machine anymore, as is all the other large social media sites. The original dream of internet freedom is dead.
Bribes often get more bang for your buck from the bottom up. A big bribe from T-mobile to the Turkish government can be less effective than a small bribe to the two field agents who are sent out to scoop him up.
Which parts of the concepts are you looking for?

Douglas Montgomery has a textbook called Statistical Process Control that covers control charts and many other statistical techniques.
> Estimates on Bitcoin energy usage put it at over 1TW now. I believe it was comparable to the energy consumption of Argentina.

I'm not sure this factoid is germane to GPU shortages, since no one is using GPU's to mine bitcoin these days.

It would be more relevant to cite the energy usage of Ethereum or Dogecoin.
> You’re making your adversaries’ arguments into straw-man arguments that you can easily knock down.

Maybe that post earned him ¥0.5!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
That seems like the best case scenario — the over-engineering is costly upfront and worth it later on. But if there’s a problem in the over-engineering, e.g. mistaken assumptions, fixing it is another round of expense.

So over-engineering is “expensive now and hopefully cheap later”, while under-engineering is “cheap now and maybe expensive later”. In one scenario you get 1-2 rounds of expensive. In the other you only get 0-1 rounds of expensive.

With that in mind, under-engineering the first implementation might be the sensible default choice.
Well they certainly weren't going to be able to fabricate their own Intel chips, that's for sure! Baby steps, my friends.

(Not that it's in any way fair to call "design your own chip" a baby step haha.)
What's broken?
Yeah good points all around. Just wanted to mention that even in the high quality phase 3 vaccine trials they found evidence that immunity acquired from previous infection was effective at preventing subsequent symptomatic illness. Obviously that wasn't the primary goal so it was hardly even mentioned in the published papers, but you can see it in the raw data. For example, from the Moderna phase 3 RCT [1] see table S17 on page 42 [2].

Out of the people with natural immunity from previous infection: only 1 out of 337 unvaccinated people were reinfected, and 0 out of 343 vaccinated people were reinfected.

Admittedly they didn't have a large number of participants in this cohort, so their statistical power was limited in this respect, perhaps contributing to their rational for not mentioning it as a primary finding.

[1] Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Moderna)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389

[2] Table S17. Vaccine Efficacy by SARS-COV-2 Status, Modified Intent-to-Treat
https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389/suppl_f...
I think the biggest issue with Apple building a search engine is that it doesn't fit their brand and product suite.

Building a search engine comparable to Google requires utilizing tons of data and personalization in a way that Apple has never been comfortable with.

Apple is the company I pay more for and trust with privacy and not needing to spy on me for the sake of giving me personalized ads, while Google is the exact opposite.
Then we must destroy the very idea of a corporation. If it is truly impossible for a corporation to avoid fundamentally damaging human civilization in search of the almighty dollar, then we need to prevent those incentives from existing in the first place.
Once people realize that humans are going to go extinct within hundreds of years, they can focus on the right things. Humans aren't going to migrate to space or other planets, and the planet's systems are too complex and interconnected for humans to manage like a farm. It probably isn't possible to put band-aids on these kinds of problems.
you can definitely see "Flooding" on all the major social media platforms these days
None of the tech documents point to this being the case. In fact in many of the articles I have read, it’s quite the opposite. Including the peer reviewed paper that had the dangers of such a program outlined in the conclusions. [1][2]

Do you have any sources here here to the contrary?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/19/apple-csa...

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/08/more-on-apple...
> The timing of this ban was so blatantly obvious - as soon as Biden took oath, Trump was booted off.

There may have been another event that occurred right about the same time which had more impact on Twitter's decision to boot him from the platform.
nasal mucosal immunity[IgA] is short term relative to humoral immunity[IgG; IgM]; this however would be a good prophylactic approach, as the nasal vault is a major contributor to transmission mechanisms
I'm happy with my Librem 15 running Qubes OS. 32 GB RAM really help. WiFi, suspend work flawlessly.
MITM can only re-send the correct key if he knows the correct basis to measure in for every qubbit. The probability that he measures in the correct basis for every qubit is exponentially unlikely as the length of the bitstring grows. He can't just forward along the proper qubit to the receiver in this case.
> iii) IDEs offer to put try-catch { // todo } to avoid compiler errors.

This is the thing that always pissed me off. The default catch block should be to wrap it in a RuntimeException and rethrow it.
or was made with a handmade chip
Central planning is orthogonal to minimizing carbon. There are plenty of market-based solutions to pollution (carbon included). It's just that a about half of the party that at least ostensibly favors free markets denies the existence of human-caused global warming.
Yes, that brief XMPP interop era was a Golden Age that wasn't appreciated enough when it happened and is mostly something to mourn today that we collectively let it slip through our grasps.

Issues with XMPP support were big reasons I stopped using Google's messaging apps altogether. (It didn't help that at the time I was using GSuite as primary XMPP, because I wanted my primary Jabber ID on a domain I controlled, and communicating with Gmail primary users I recall seemed through a weird internal federation boundary that had its own strange federation issues even before Google started shutting down outside federation.)
And that's crazy to me.

I would have figured that with the CCP having ~1.5 billion people to choose from, that they could move a few million Han into Tibet (current pop. according to google: 3,648,100).

Even just 1-2 mil could potentially accomplish the CCP's goals?
Linking to forum discussions is a bad substitute for a blog post presenting a view, and I can't determine why OP is linking this discussion from last year today. I wasn't able to take away any value from this link because I couldn't read all 153 comments in it.
Anyone else get excited when they start timeboxed quests? Some of the quests on Beam.gg are like that!
Unless someone manages to turn out a hash collision or an all-zeros hash (spoiler: they won’t), there is absolutely no scientific value in the PoW process itself. (Whether the resulting cryptocurrency has scientific value is left as an exercise to the reader).
I spent my entire working life, living frugally, and carefully investing. I avoided personal debt, as well as frivolous expenses, drove old cars, lived in small apartments and houses, and practiced good fiscal hygiene. I saved and invested 25% - 40% of my income. Basically, the old-fashioned stuff that everyone laughs at, these days.

I'm not rich, but I'm OK.

I didn’t actually want to retire; I was forced into it, by the ageism in SV. I would not have taken the leap, left to my own devices, so I guess I should be grateful to the bigots.

It was totally worth it. I am done with having my work destroyed by others. I write the code I want to write, in the way that I want, and -quelle surprise- it works!

Huh. Turns out I knew what I was doing, all along. I just had to remove myself from situations where someone else was the gatekeeper on my methodology. My dream has been to be in the position where I can chart my own course[0], and experiment with the methodologies that I have been developing (but never allowed to implement), for years.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
It's okay to talk about the past even if things still exist in the present.
I appreciate that you took the time to elaborate in length, but that's a lot of hand-waving in here.

I think it would be much more in the spirit of HN to make shorter but source-backed statements.
Yeah, if I were to 'pick' a reason it would be that it worked in the EGA colorspace. You did not exactly get a huge range of colors there. While in 1993 256 (small screen res) or 'truecolor' (very expensive vid card) was not unheard of but it was decently uncommon on low end hardware.
We stopped calling them "standup" meetings when we hired a guy who was in a wheelchair and realized how badly named those meetings were.

We renamed them to "daily status" meetings, and we started holding them in a slack channel. Each person simply posts what they are working on that day, in bullet list format.

It's so much more efficient than "stand-up meetings", it's ridiculous. The agile cargo culting is real.
I second this, I would add Croatia to the list if you stay out of Zagreb and Split and even seaside tourist towns are doable for $300 out of season (October to June). Also Croatia offers a digital nomad visa which means you don't pay most of the taxes there.
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Which again touches on a social issue, ageism is the entire point of this thread.

The idea that any health company gets to "choose" who costs more or less is dumb. Everyone is young at some point and everyone is old at some point: Fact. So everyone should pay the same at every point throughout their career and everyone should be covered. They did surveys of people in UK about US health care on one of the late shows last year and they were dumbfounded at the basic things their system covered that ours didn't.

One example, if you have a baby - which is required for the human race to continue, the health system covers it. It cost my wife and I a total of $10k to have our 2 kids in the last 6 years. That's day 1 of parenting, negative $5k in the hole: WITH HEALTHCARE FROM AN AM LAW 200 COMPANY. And I was a tech supervisor for cripes sake.
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The whole thing felt like "intern from high school searches for 'old computer screenshots' with Google Image Search and comment on what they found".
"We are paying $500 for premiums for all vaccinated employees, and $300 for all non-vaccinated employees, regardless of compensation level."
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The US has been trending down per capita for the last 50 years...but the problem is we have more people so the total output is higher. China's trend, as another poster said, is always going higher.

https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?topic=Environment
https://datacommons.org/place/country/CHN?topic=Environment
You shouldn't let the politics of the situation cloud the obvious. If they didn't have guns, it would not have played out the way it did. That doesn't mean that what they did was good, or that how the government handled it was right. It just means that the availability of guns was a critical determinative factor. That also doesn't mean they were the sole factor, either. It can also be true that the government treated them with kid gloves. But it's pretty clear that they would not have done that if they weren't armed.
Other Norwegian CS super-heroes, and what they invented.

-- MVC and DCI, invented by:

Trygve Reenskaug - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve_Reenskaug

-- Simula language, invented by:

Ole-Johan Dahl

Kristen Nygaard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula

Simula: first OO-language, introduced objects, classes, inheritance and subclasses, virtual procedures, coroutines, and discrete event simulation, and inspired languages such as Smalltalk, Java and C++.
For spike proteins. Not for the other targets you get with natural immunity.
I disagree with the author there concerning a planned economy being necessary. Its amazing what a few incentives can do to unleash capital innovation. And in terms of geo-engineeing, all that would take is a dedicated spending program and the right innovations. I'm still optimistic, but know the next decades will be rough, weather-wise.
Apple's P/E ratio is roughly 29. So, if you assume that the $15bn is pretty much all profit (for simplicity here remember), then the value of that for AAPL is roughly $35bn in market cap.

So it takes a really good reason to kick out Google from this situation.
Professional Engineers have to take ethics courses and have values which include protecting the public welfare.

I would like to see something similar for people writing software.

What keeps Professional Engineers honest is that they are accountable to the discipline committee and liable for negligence. This is in stark contrast to consumer software which comes with no guarantees other than a click through EULA.
Seriously, not sure what they're talking about. Many tobacco companies have exceptional dividends. If they're going to continue to supply their wares, I want a little piece of the pie in my portfolio.
> inadvertently introducing

Not always inadvertently, perhaps:

https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal...

Although that article says that "there’s only one clearly documented instance of a colonial attempt to spread smallpox", the fact that there is any "clearly documented instance" of such an attempt is pretty horrific.
What I meant was: Why would System76 failing affect Purism (negatively)? I understand that there's some correlation as they're both targeting a similar audience, but it doesn't seem to me like they depend too much on one another.
I also have this cube as part of a set. As a far as desk accessories and toys go it's unique and a fun thing to show off.

If you get the set that has the copper cube beware that the copper one will oxidize and discolor if you touch it a lot.
You can live in some areas in Spain for under $1k/month (outside the main cities of Madrid and Barcelona). I lived some years in Andalusia and my budget was usually around 600eur/month. Not a luxurious life, but Spain has really good services/transportation/infra (including internet) and the weather is difficult to beat.
>Is it happening right now as we speak?

The Black Lives Matter protests of the past year say yes.
You can buy a Dell with Ubuntu already installed...
I hate to break it to you but this is EXACTLY what happens with a C7 generation Corvette. The C7 generation base Stingray, GrandSport and Z06 models do well enough to wow in magazine and vlog reviews but when owners got their cars and started taking them to track days they realized they started over heating after not many laps in under 30 mins.

They are obviously performance oriented machines but mostly designed for every day use on the street. They may have big brakes, great suspension and a pretty great engine but the cooling system included is not equipped to handle a track for more than 30 minutes. Within the first month of deliveries people were freaking out. After 30 mins the car would go into limp mode and you were lucky if you got on the track at all again that day.

But guess what? The reviewers never experienced this.
I don't get why this is downvoted, because it succinctly summarizes what the Nazis did (having studied part of the phenomenon - Gleichschaltung - in depth).
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

FWIW I would encourage you to use the above email as a lot of comments do seem greyed out for no reason.
Don't store them. Hash the password and store that, using a suitably strong algorithm that's relatively chunky and expensive to compute en masse (most, if not all, modern options, such as scrypt, Argon2, and bcrypt, support a scaling work factor so that in the future you can increase the work needed as computing resources increase). Then you can compute a hash based on the password that's passed in and make sure that they match.

Some folks will then further encrypt the stored hashes such that a database compromise, but not an application-server compromise, leaves the attacker without the keys necessary to decrypt even the hashes, but I am ambivalent about the usefulness of that (can't hurt, but the threat model for that seems more geared towards internal threats than external).
Good point, edited to clarify.

Beyond just this study, which doesn't give the whole picture of immunity, I think there is conflicting evidence. Given that vaccine effectiveness seems to be going down in Israel, I think there are legitimate concerns about the robustness of vaccine-based immunity - but the question is always "relative to what?". If it ultimately sets you up similar to or better than natural immunity from an infection (which also wanes, as we get, e.g., colds over and over throughout our lives), that's the best you can hope for.
The grandparent was quoting the article, but it wasn't obvious.
See my comment about Neil Fiore's book above, I strongly suggest you read the book.

Secondly - I think the unschedule would help a lot. Having a 10 minute ping that says "Hey! Feel bad and stop being lazy!" sounds incredibly harsh to me.
Indeed, market it as "making welfare queens pay their fair share" and we'd have it tomorrow
Gotta say I love the ad copy for the 10 pound cube:

ADD to your collection! This cube is the larger version of the world famous tungsten cube
COMPARE the density to our 2.5" Aluminum cube to enhance the experience
It's easy to be motivated by plunder and prestige, back when it was possible.
The difference is, most of System76’s laptops are barebones models from Clevo, whereas Purism designs its own laptops.
India (City - Mohali) is also doable. For Rs. 5k (~$70), you can easily rent a room; that takes out the biggest expense part. For everything else, it's up to you, how much you want to stretch out.

P.S. - I grew up in that city, before moving out at 26. I still visit though - 1-2 times a year.
Vietnam... Ho Chi Minh mainly, as it has great internet (except the couple of "shark attacks on submarine cables" each year).
What about all of the users and clients who don't allow you to place cookies?
Have a look at this:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/03/05/open-dialog.html

To sum it up, <dialog> is a specced standard of which the first implementation appeared 8 years ago. It is a perfect example to illustrate my original rant.

It is a feature in high demand, almost every web application needs it. Hence it makes sense to have a native control and for each browser to implement it, eventually.

No such thing happened. A broken implementation is delivered, and more importantly, never fixed. It doesn't work cross browser and in the browser where it works, it actually doesn't. And now, nothing happens, they just gave up on it.

Which indeed leaves us with custom implementations, but my point is that we shouldn't need those. It was specced for a reason, it's high on the list of developers needs.
and they did vote in a president who at least seems like supports what those protests stood for.
> The planet will be just fine. Life on earth will be just fine.

I have a problem with this statement. It rides a thin line between technically true and just false. Life will continue to exist is multiple forms after this, and the planet as a mass will still be present, so as far as that is true. But many if not all of it's biomes will be heavily altered, many beyond recognition. Multiple notable species will vanish. Things that have grown for litterally millions of years will die. This is like saying that the earth was "just fine" after the Devonian extinction, or the Chicxulub impact, or someone after a lobotomy.

At some magnitude of change, it is disingenuous to apply the term "just fine".

Were this just humans winking off of the earth that'd be just fine, but we are taking _many_ others with us.
Why do you think humans will go extinct in a 'few hundred years'?
How confident are you humans will never build settlements outside of earth?
Tibetans are not unified by language or religion. There are more than a dozen Tibetic languages, and speakers of more distantly related language families like rGyalrongic are also classified as Tibetans by the government. The official policy of one standard language per recognized ethnicity does mean that many of them will have been educated in Lhasa Tibetan at school.

On the religion front, next to the various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, there's also the older Bön and other, less popular religions like Islam.
I've played Hill Climb Racing, and it's a pretty awesome game, even for an adult. The varying gravity, and inaccurate but fun physics, and the variety, are what made it fun for me. I haven't played it in years, and after that moved on to Geometry Dash, which I see myself wanting to play in the future more than Hill Climb Racing. I've scoffed at Candy Crush, but wondered if people who play that might feel the same way I did about Hill Climb Racing.

I think the price is high, but not absurd. I don't know how you'd determine the maximum price in a way that was fair to everyone.
Driving your car does not fundamentally require burning carbon. That's the thing. Oil companies did not create demand for energy. But they did create demand for oil by sabotaging efforts to shift to other energy sources.
Depends on the country. It won't work in the Schengen because the visa waiver is 90 days within a 180 day stretch.
It's once way easier to handle a real Linux box which can be backed up in the same way. Bash/Zsh scripts work and I can compile much more software for it than termux on Android supports.

Additionally, the user interface is swipe-focused, with little bars where yozu can swipe that are that thin that they only trigger you subconcious, while not registering them actively with my view. It's the best unser interface design I've seen so far and recent iOS/Android design changes support the decisions they made years before Apple/Google.
How sad
Any deets on the privacy aspect?

I'm assuming a JS query can check link status and colour? With a targeted or crafted link-of-interest, user activity might then be tracked, yes?
Start your own company
I wonder why it is 5% nickel/iron -- availability? Machining purposes?
Agile is slave driving, and reminds me how a robotic AI manager would be. Did you finish? Why not? What’s your roadblock? Every. Day.
Kotlin is used to write UI code, and potentially-yielding methods are called with ordinary function call syntax. Kotlin does not have the "await" keyword, but it does have an analogue to the "async" keyword, called "suspend".

Here is a post from Kotlin's language designer on their philosophy: https://elizarov.medium.com/how-do-you-color-your-functions-...