skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany, the state will punish you if you work more than 32 hours per week by very high taxes. Germany has the highest average tax level for single persons (don't confuse with highest possible tax):

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLE_I6
Not that I like this, but I’m curious about their justification. If I had to guess, I’d bet they’d say that this cuts down significantly on fake profiles and user safety problems.

Would people choose to use a dating site that didn’t have ID requirements, but couldn’t flush away spam and fake users? Is there a better way to get rid of fake profiles?
They also ask for the social security number, and they required it using a false law according to the TFA.

Article like this make me glad to live in Canada, outside of the major metropolitan areas.
A handful of Vanguard funds (VIGAX, VITAX, VFIAX, VWNDX) and the like.

The GP was talking solely about dividends, but most funds will re-balance and distribute long-term capital gains to you if you wish. If, in 2020, you held $1.5MM in a mix of those funds and instead of reinvesting dividends, long-term, & short-term capital gains, and instead redirected them to your bank account. You'd have something like $80k distributed and your market value would have increased to like 1.7-1.8MM.

Not that 2020 was a typical year or anything. But the past 8 or so years have told a similar story.
Australia's new hacking laws have been in the news lately, but if you look closely, it seems that we've learned nothing...

Here's an article from 2014. As we can see, the only thing that has changed since then, is that these same techniques have crossed into other Five Eyes countries.
A History of Koss Headphones
> Were gay men, at any point, ever exhorted to abstain from anal sex in the interests of defeating HIV?

Yes. The fact that gay sex was already illegal in many places just made it less controversial.

> Was the gay community ever blamed for the AIDS epidemic and scolded by public health bureaucrats for worsening statistics?

Yes. What was different then was that people dying due to "the gay flu" was not seen as a bad thing. And note that those who had HIV were not a threat to the public around them (barring those who came into contact with their bodily fluids), unlike for Covid.

> Were gay bars and bath houses ever targeted for closure or curfews or—imagine!—contact tracing, to flatten the curve?

Yes. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/08/nyregion/city-closes-bar-...

With particular regard to contact tracing, nowadays failure to tell your partner if you know you are HIV positive is a crime, and healthcare providers are required to report the sex partners of positive individuals.
> Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.

What a brave and stunning public comment!
The article GROSSLY misstates the findings of the University of Bonn study.

Yes, many people around the world wash dishes under an open tap in a manner that can use 100+ litres of water.

But if you're filling a sink tub with hot sudsy water, soaking and scrubbing plates, and then rinsing them in a second tub of cold clear water (and even a squirts from the spigot), you're using about the same amount of water as a dishwasher.

The dishes come out as clean or cleaner (the detergent's less effective, but you can scrub where the dishwasher cannot, and for tough stains you can use appropriate treatments), and there's far less wear on plates, glasses, and flatware as you're not using harsh chemicals and abrasives.

If you have a large household or really don't like hand-cleaning dishes, go ahead and use the dishwasher, especially a modern one, and follow the tips. If you don't mind doing dishes by hand, or only have a few items (and need to wash them for next use), handwashing in the sink is plenty efficient. There are far worse consumers of water and energy.
Yes, and there have been (unofficial) proposals.
With SLS or Starship as launch vehicle a fast intercept mission is feasible within 10 years and no corners cut on mission design.
Thanks for letting me know - I have no idea what that entitlement does, I myself copied it from another tutorial.

It's included in the official Electron docs here: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/code-signing... - so maybe it's a requirement for Electron packages?

I did at least include the sentence "I don't fully understand these ones, but they are what I got to after multiple rounds of experimentation" - these are my own notes on what I learned, it's not intended as a guide to what everyone else should do.
Indeed. All breakthrough techs initially suck. They're a shitty, borderline-useless, but FUNCTIONAL breakthrough. And that's really the thing - they might be a joke, but if they do work, and if they're just barely usable for some niche product (specifically in some new space that other solutions were not really viable for), then the giant deathball of applied corporate R&D starts rolling on them.

SSDs are probably the absolute bellweather of this, since their early forms held mere kilobytes. They were uniquely useful because they were non-volatile, and immune(-ish) to the kinds of shaking disruptions that befoul magnetic media (usually via head crashes).

The thing about these things is the corporate R&D deathball. Once it gets rolling, they can breed a mouse to be the size of an elephant. The more profound/insight-driven challenge lies in getting that initial mouse, and getting that initial foothold of a market opportunity.

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Batteries of course were another great example. The reason we have viable electric cars, instead of trashy ones with a 20-mile range, is entirely thanks to the consumer electronics industry (broadly including power tools, etc). They needed batteries and paid for the R&D. Fast forward 25 years, and "the best we can do" jumped from a 20-mile range, to a 250-mile range.
The blurbs are a little bit incoherent

> DSLR technology on a webcam

> A Mirrorless Miracle

> 7.8mm [diagonal] sensor

7.8 mm diagonal is basically the ballpark of a phone camera sensor (which it almost certainly is). It's not all that obvious why you'd spent 300 $ on this instead of using a smartphone as a webcam. 300 $ also gets somewhat close to being able to buy a used low-end mirrorless camera plus lens and adapter (if necessary), which is more flexible and you get a camera for free.

Might be for the "can't be bothered, but have money" market, as an all-in-one-solution to get something OK without meddling?
I wouldn't consider HN social media, but instead a news aggregator with a robust comment section. These things existed long before the emergence of social-media networks.

Who am I? Who are you? We don't know. There are no friends, connections, or personal details shared. Interactions are fleeting and temporary.
Is Vagrant still actively used? I was all over it some 4-5 years ago.

I remember HashiCorp even favoring a newer product they were trying to promote.
Spectacularly bad SEO and marketing, try searching for it. Vapor?
I suppose you also think condoms are for the amish?

Enjoy your 30MB js files and 4k autoplaying video ads that follow your scroll and jump around the screen.
Cognitive architectures (like Soar, ACT-R, Sigma) are half psychology and cognitive science (building general, computational models of the human mind to understand it) and half AI (a continuation of GOFAI, using similar symbolist/structured approaches to intelligence).

Probably the most famous application of Soar is TacAir-Soar: https://soartech.com/portfolio-posts/automated-intelligent-p...

>TACAIR-SOAR is an intelligent, rule-based system that generates believable humanlike behavior for largescale, distributed military simulations. The innovation of the application is primarily a matter of scale and integration. The system is capable of executing most of the airborne missions that the U.S. military flies in fixed-wing aircraft. It accomplishes its missions by integrating a wide variety of intelligent capabilities, including real-time hierarchical execution of complex goals and plans, communication and coordination with humans and simulated entities, maintenance of situational awareness, and the ability to accept and respond to new orders while in flight.

For a successor project, there's the Sigma cognitive architecture, built by Paul Rosenbloom, who used to work on Soar: https://cogarch.ict.usc.edu/
Yes, the stink of a burned out selenium rectifier, such nostalgia. Selenium high V power rectifiers, toxic, but so stinky you know what went wrong with the TV. Often blew the electrolytic capacitors as well, or vice versa as it was often repair both. Silicon Rectifiers killed them off the the late 50's and early 60's
No matter your politics, this is a very bad thing. Imbalance in the political arena (i.e. the academic political arena) leads to over-reach and eventual decay.

Behold the current woes of California. Too much of one side, not enough of the other will lead to over-reach and decay. Academia is on the same path.
They closed-sourced their repo, changed the interface, pushed coins, denied hotlinking and instead forces to visit the site to view videos, added obfuscated analytics, etc.

In short, they want money, and they don't care if you have to suffer for it.
> But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources?

DT fusion solves the two biggest arguments that are always raised by nuclear energy opponents: storage of nuclear waste (it doesn't produce high-level waste) and safety (it's not perfect but it can't explode). I wouldn't call it a "meh", even if it comes off as much more expensive than fission.
I have my doubts. People can learn “critical thinking skills” all they want, it’s the failure to apply them fairly that breaks political discourse at all levels of education.

People don’t investigate statements that conform to their biases. And if the statement is something they don’t want to believe, people will deploy the full force of their “critical thinking” toolkit to fight it, while allowing themselves to become vulnerable to all sorts of fallacies and cognitive blinders as long as it only obscures the inconvenient facts.
Podman does have a socket that can be started. I use it on Linux so I'm not sure how that works on MacOS but it's API is Docker compatible, thus works with the docker cli and docker-compose as well.
Try insulating your hot-water pipes if you've not done so already. Wrap with foam or apply a spray-foam sealant.

(This requires access to the plumbing, of course.)

Foot-pedal taps are available, though they're more commonly a hospital item.
And it is built into the podman binary, as opposed to being a separate project.
> It looks like the watchdog is simply checking for connections on a port, which is probably too low-level to handle with lambda

Not at all. You could easily check that with any of Lambda's supported languages.
It's just an absolutely giant construction project. The mass and volume of the construction goes as the cube of the major radius of the reactor. Back of the envelope, SPARC is (6/1.5)^3 = 64 times smaller than ITER. The construction budget for SPARC is ~$500M, so ITER being tens of billions is in line.
In some markets, sure. However if you look at median home prices from 1980 to today and factor in interest rates (which are much lower today) and median income then you see that homes are about the same as they were in terms of monthly payment. With the upside today that early in your mortgage more of your payment goes to principal.

If interest rates were to go to 8% overnight, besides crashing the global economy you’d see home prices cut in half. Homes are priced at what people that want to live there are able to pay per month. As interest rates fall home prices rise. Like I said certain markets have outpaced but their median incomes have outpaced as well. This makes sense as the upper middle class has grown a lot the last 40 years to make up much more of the population by percentage (there’s a lot more high paying professional jobs today) and people like to live among people of similar financial classes for obvious reasons.
Many Americans do.
> Mainly (70%) from a TV licence

Whose existence is voted and that is managed by... the Government?
K8S based on distros like k3s or microk8s is a great and simple solution for manufacturing and managing edge devices, IoT solutions and similar products that are setup once on a single box that runs half a dozen or more things and are shipped to business clients.

It is very simple to spin a minimal distro based cluster. It is relatively simple to have it up and running your solution. Sure getting Kubernetes from the source and tailoring all the required components to run cluster with full HA etc' is a complex stuff, but building a private cloud based on vanilla Kubernetes isn't the only or the most common use case.
Why does the launch date keep slipping? I've been looking forward to this launch for a very long time and I'm getting pretty irked at the teams sending this up, to the point where even if they are completely successful I hope they don't get put on another big project like this again. Hopefully the delays have been because it's a lot harder to send this to L2 successfully than anyone thought or could have known, and now we do.
Reading and writing HN comments can suck as much time as social media. I'd say if it sucks too much time for your taste, quit. If it doesn't, good for you.
As a typical mac user there is no practical benefit.

Being on a Mac is so you can avoid lengthy configurations, scripts and commands and instead have something that just works and is seamlessly integrated.

This is the opposite.

You’d probably only want to go this route to make a statement about free open source software. But at that point you may as well run Linux
It is what happens when an entire society keeps to themselves for ~17 years and makes it acceptable to binge watch television and eat junk food.

The Brood X Cicada comes out of the ground ~1y after human "induced" disaster:

1987 After competitive rush of capitalism fills the mind of Diatlov with aggression causing Chernobyl

2003 after 3 NYC commerce office buildings fell Perfectly into their foundations, Iraq war begins, and first social media surveillance tools deployed

2021 after natural/deployed respiratory illness for stagnant daily routines for bodies that quit moving. "Zombie" media entertainment uses these citizens as reference.

"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt." -Juvenal

We used to be pioneers but the machines made us docile.
The actual paper is here: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/yeats21a/yeats21a.pdf

Summary seems to be that ambiguity attacks can be resisted by regularization such that basin of attraction for each class is larger and it is harder to subtly nudge inference form class A to class B. The complex representation makes the regularization better.

Mechanism for this is essentially that by encoding real to complex as y = { sin(x), cos(x) } and going back again by taking the absolute value, the fallout is that a descent direction constraint manifests such that {the step in the activation descent direction}*2 + {step in regularization space}*2 = 1, so large steps are either modifying the activation or are modifying the regularization, not both, so the result is a more robust training direction.
Some of them are not at all criminal. The war machine is always looking for a few good men.
The ironic thing is, their app is down more often than the website!
> Polygenic scores are measures of the contributions of many genes to hereditability, what else do you think they are?

They are not “measures” in the same sense measuring tape is a measure of length. They are like credit scores: they are useful to predict likelihood of defaulting on a loan, but they do not give you full understanding of the entire reality on the ground. With better constructed credit scores you can get better at predicting defaults, just like Lee et al got better at predicting educational attainment than the 2-3% figure Plomin quoted. No sane person would say that Experian credit scores give you complete understanding of given persons credit ability and their future credit behavior, and no sane person will tell you that polygenic scores of intelligence/educational attainment give you complete picture of a person’s intelligence or education. Do you understand it now?

If you’re still confused, try to think about this: if what Plomin meant, like you suggest, that genes only explain 2-3% of variance in educational attainment, how is it possible that only 4 years later, Lee et al exhibited PGS explaining 11-13% of variance? Have genes got 4 times stronger in 4 years?

> For 2) the answer is categorically "a few percent at most", even according to the sources you provide yourself.

No, it is not. I encourage you to put some effort into understanding what is being talked about here.
I wouldn't use the word "require", and perhaps you didn't mean it that strongly. Don't get me wrong: I could get by without and achieve what I needed to, but to be honest it didn't feel great.

I was doing some pretty gnarly high-level filesystem work (transforming an unstructured tree of files/folders into a more structured tree following certain naming and categorization conventions -- a lot of parsing/building/concatenating paths). I have been working with higher-level languages for the past decade or so, but have had a wanderlust to get away from garbage collected langauges and go back to my roots a bit, so I've been comparing some of the newer options in the "improved C"/"C++ replacement" space.

It may very well be that I'm not the target demographic for Zig, and that's totally fair, but to me it felt pretty jarring to go back to working with C-style character (byte) arrays and all the (well-known) issues with which they are fraught. I didn't feel like Zig was an improvement over C in the string handling area (as opposed to all other areas), whereas languages like Go and Rust are.

Other than that, I felt Zig was a joy to use.
I don't know if the issue is that their observations are incorrect. Many of the things they point out are true. The issue is that if you don't accept their solutions and their re-education programs (which strongly lean towards authoritarian and leftist) then you are still considered part of the problem. It's not that different from when politicians use states of emergency to push in policies they couldn't otherwise.
I just say "Sorry, my attorney forbids me from any discussion, here's my license and registration"
Ineffective neutralization of the Mu variant by convalescent and vaccine sera [pdf]
Here's a simple silly way to make some of those electronics LEDs not so piercing at night: https://www.lightdims.com/index.php

Just sticky bits of cellophane that let you still see the lights when you need them but not so intense at night. You can get them on amazon or w/e
Anything built on domain names cannot be described as "built to last." Not HTTP, not SMTP, not Gopher, not DNS, not the Fediverse. This is because domain names are rented out, and have expiration times attached to them, so obviously they can only last as long as the organization behind both the domain and the registrar keeps it there.

IRC and USENET were built to last. Names in either network weren't tied to anyone but the collective "network." Neither network gets used much today, since names aren't tied to anyone in particular. It turns out that globally writable data stores are great vehicles for spam and fraud.

Content-addressed systems like BitTorrent and I2P can theoretically maintain content availability for as long as anybody wants to keep it available, not just whoever originally published it. BitTorrent is also pretty secure, but it's not truly fair since it's an immutable data store, and all the spam and fraud is just outsourced to HTTP instead of being eliminated entirely.
Also the alkalinity of the detergent. Much as with soap, that disrupts lipid membranes in bacteria and viruses.

The "20 second" rule for handwashing is mostly about how long germs need to be in contact with soap before they're mostly dead. (Mostly dead isn't all dead </MiracleMax>) You may still have dirt/soil on your hands after 20s, but it's pretty much sterilised.
Margin?

Akin's law of spacecraft #29 "To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right."
What is “social media” in this context?

I’m barely on any “social” websites other than HN. Getting off Twitter was great. But almost all my friends are on Telegram. They are all over the world and many I’ve known for years. The heat death of the universe is going to happen sooner than me giving up instant messaging.

I feel like some of these articles need context or the author has completely different circumstances than I do.
Yeah true. I’m Canadian and the situation here is different, ie worse.
There are more reconstructions and some photos in the linked paper, e.g.: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/1a42ffff-eeca-4...

Meeting one of these would be quite uncanny, as it's very different from the animals that live today.
I feel like that has to do with the Twitch/streamer culture too, where lots of people have big, visible mikes.
The right is codified law. It is not up to citizens to argue this. It is up to to those who need to control others to make these arguments. Yours are hncompelling, and have been swatted away by courts for decades.
I like the niche that's being targeted here, and I did sign up. 300 is affordable, and who doesn't like trying new things? However, after giving my email, I scroll down to the comparison between iPhone, this, and Sony, and I'm a bit let down.

I'm not trying to be the one with the hot take here, but the depth of field is too shallow, the edges are fuzzy, and the colors are blown out. Perhaps the comparison would have been better between similar devices in a similar cost bracket, like a GoPro or actual higher end webcams.
most of this applies to any other addiction too...
Three quarters through the article the reason is implied to be:

"China faked a Hollywood-style viral pandemic to undermine western political philosophy, and leaders of the world allowed themselves to be fooled because it conveniently grants them more power."
They don't know why they're being sued because everyone else is doing it and not getting sued. Makes sense from that point of view. Coinbase technically should only be sued if the others doing were sued too, but they're not... Compound this with the fact that no explanation was given to them why they're being sued - when it is very much necessary in light of their competitors not getting sued and you can start understanding their confusion.
I choose to take to the overly cautious spectrum, because this is my body and the body of people close to me at stake, and I'd rather avoid unnecessary damage to them.

You seem to take to the other end of the spectrum, the optimistic, hopeful, and apologetic side... Very well, it probably is comforting, and support you in finding your own path through this mess.
Um i noticed this to. The IOS app runs smooth but the website is barely functional on IOS. It is not uncommon for me to give up and close down Reddit cause i can’t open a post.

I have until now just assumed they want the website to suck so that you are more likely to install the APP.
But now as I think about it a bit deeper that seams a bit to crazy.
What makes you say that? My laptop can switch between S3 (for Linux) and S0ix (for Windows). I've measured power usage and it's almost identical.
This website's subscription price has been unchanged at $175/year or $89/six months since (at least) 2008.

http://www.shadowstats.com/subscriptions

https://web.archive.org/web/20080512223437/http://www.shadow...