skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main concern with it is that a lot of these temporary ecosystem workarounds become de facto standard and it lessens the original purpose of doing all this. An example in the article is Infura. It is a system designed to allow easy use of the network in the interim before a truly decentralized peer to peer network is mature, but habits form and interests entrench and tools get built on infrastructure and you get legacy systems and technical debt and nobody wants to change how things work after a while. I think this is basically the gripe of the article, we have not delivered on the sales pitch yet, are still relying on stopgaps, and as time goes on it becomes increasingly difficult to move past them and they become the norm.
I admire your use of special quotes to not break my mental parsing of your quote.
I would like to see that painless cross compilation for UWP applications.

Truth is that cross compilation always breaks down in complex deployment use cases.
That's a lot of words to, essentially, say "OK, Boomer".
We are making prototypes in 3 different 4:3 sizes--10.3, 12.1, and 13.3. 13.3 is furthest along. The end of your comment talks about the real size restriction for us--keyboard. We do not want to compromise the typing experience.

Around 12" (in a 4:3 body) is about as low as you can go without messing with the typing experience much. The problem at that size is the available e-ink panels are S-L-O-W; no fast refresh models are out there.

(You might ask why we would even do the 10.3" prototype if we know that's too small for keyboard reasons? It's mostly for marketing reasons when we actually try to try to get attention for this project. The 10.3 is going to use a Thinkpad 701c butterfly keyboard in a custom body just for the "wow!" factor in showing the sorts of things that are possible. The 10.3 would actually be a killer end-product, but no similar keyboard is in current production so we couldn't actually make it).
In this case, I don't think it's necessary to go into too much detail about how the immune system works. The issue is that if you are going to _some_ level of detail, then you need to include all the relevant context. In this case, the number of antibodies that the immune system can produce goes along way to explain the points made in the rest of the article.

PS I am aware how damn complex the immune system is and how complicated it can be to explain to people at the right level of detail. I once attempted to watch a lecture on how the spike protein and antibodies work which went into detail on all the chemical reactions that occur at each step and it is just insane how much complexity there is to it. And that was presumably a simplification of what actually happens.
1.5T JPY ⩯ 11.5G EUR ⩯ 13.6G USD ⩯ 9.9G GBP ⩯ 18.4G AUD
Interesting.

A lot of the "so successful" have a TON of help. At the home front things are covered - stay at home wife, cleaners etc. You come home, home cooked meal, wife happy to hang out go on a walk do whatever, kids taken care of.

You go to work, you have the parking spot, the assistant with a schedule. Strong managers.

Again, these are the "so successful" folks.

The 70 hours of work is mostly meetings, strategy, bouncing ideas off people you got to hire to work with. It's not terrible
It would be wonderful if HN had an ear for SCI-FI ideas as opposed to taking every gosh darn thing literally...

I understand the need to keep some "thought-bumpers" to prevent reddit-ization of HN (ironic given that HN is the seed of Reddit) -- but FFS lighten the heck up.
While subscription fatigue is very real, I’m not sure micro transactions solves anything either. In fact, a great example is IAPs - most revenue is dominated by whales, with the rest barely transacting significantly at all.
Potentially! But it would likely be years of effort and research to get something usable, which may end up being a dead end. It's simultaneously a tantalizing and torturous proposition.
Wikipedia more-or-less disagrees with you.
how long until we just paint guis onto canvas in the way we used to on the desktop?
Huh, _polio_ denial is a new one on me.
Fair enough. Early voting does solve most (if not all) of the issues that pure postal voting solves though.
Yes. Anyone who wants to relive an early ignition of one bridge should read the HN thread on the Rocket announcement.[0] No one is sympathetic with respect to the Rocket/Docker spat; both companies behaved poorly -- and it was increasingly clear that the energy at Docker, Inc. was going to spent fighting others rather than building a business.

Speaking personally, the fate of Docker, Inc. was clear to me when they took their $40M Series C round in 2014. I had met with Solomon in April 2014 (after their $15M Series B) and tried to tell him what I had learned at Joyent: that raising a ton of money without having a concrete and repeatable business would almost inevitably lead to poor decision making. I could see that I was being too abstract, so I distilled it -- and I more or less begged him to not take any more money. (Sadly, Silicon Valley's superlative, must-watch "Sand Hill Shuffle" episode[1] would not air until 2015, or I would have pointed him to it.) When they took the $40M round -- which was an absolutely outrageous amount of capital to take into a company that didn't even have a conception of what they would possibly sell -- the future was clear to me. I wasn't at all surprised when the SVP washouts from the likes of VMware and IBM landed at Docker -- though still somehow disappointed when they behaved predictably, accelerating the demise of the company. May Docker, Inc. at least become a business school case study to warn future generations of an avoidable fate!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682525

[1] https://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley/season-02/1-sand-hill-shu...
I empathize with your sentiment.. I checked out of IT-related work in my 20's, and the moment I checked back in was sitting on the floor of a production welding shop, impact drilling holes through plate steel. I had this moment of clarity when I realized that however "unhappy" IT made me, it wasn't nearly as miserable as the alternative I had stumbled into.

Or as my dad put it: better to work with your head than your hands, isn't it son?
I see some criticism, however keep in mind that the news is that the library has just been open sourced, so it's a good thing even just for learning.
Well I don't know that it creates ozone at all, the product claims that it creates purifying "ions", but no ozone. And I don't want ozone.

The unit is installed after the filter, but before the air is sucked into the blower.
For me GeForce NOW is the best service, but it really sucks that I’m not allowed to play my whole Steam library. That’s a disqualified for me
> I worry that HTTP/1.1 will eventually be abandoned.

HTTP/2? Sure HTTP/1.1? Not a chance. It's too widespread and too valuable, and the floor is too low. Unless Google starts a singular effort against it and manages to pull in the other big cos while avoiding the ire of the liberal states, which seems unlikely.
My assumption is that Twitter is in a situation similar to Facebook's fraudulent pivot-to-video: they know there's a big problem but as soon as they do anything about it they're going to have to explain why the numbers they reported to investors, advertisers, etc. dropped noticeably.

Unless there's imminent legal action or people stop using the service, it's easier just to delay and hope that the horse learns how to sing…
It's debatable then whether you're really successful, no?
What gnarly chemicals?
One small new battery, one giant leap for our energy future
there are plenty of human reasons as well, as indicated by your usage of the word "should"
FYI to the author: you can get tiny screws off ebay/aliexpress. They're under $2 for 50-100, including shipping.
> Ontario had 554 new reported cases of COVID yesterday.

> - 319 were not vaccinated (213 of these were 12+ and therefore eligible to be vaccinated)

> 16% of the population (eligible but not vaccinated) is driving close to 50% of reported cases.

Your overall point would remain valid even without exaggerating by 28%.
should they leave the covid patients in the hallways? whats the alternative? people dying from overloaded hospitals has always been the concern, ever since “flatten the curve”
> We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths

It would be a highly controversial dashboard, I guarantee it, likely unpopular with both political parties.

The problem is that assuaging fear is often more important (to irrational people) than saving lives.

For example, guns. Very few people die because of mass shootings. Your chances of dying in a mass shooting are virtually nil. Yet, every time one happens there's a big frenzy to enact anti-gun policies. So you have all this talk of "bump stocks" and "ghost guns" and "assault weapons" and whatnot, but it's all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn't to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don't take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn't focused on handguns and suicides.
I think you missed the point of the post you're replying to.

>People don't wanna die in a car crash or from covid but they want to die at the hands of others even less.
Fantom: "Each network built in Fantom is independent from one another."

Solana: "Many [Solana] clusters may coexist. When two clusters share a common genesis block, they attempt to converge. Otherwise, they simply ignore the existence of the other."

Continuing my analogy, now they've gone and reinvented NAT/"IP federation", and destroyed the global P2P nature of Bitcoin. They've readded middlemen to online payments. Remind me what problem they are solving?
What about bittorrent?
> indirectly endorsing environmental destruction.

Didn't creating the web also indirectly cause a lot of environmental destruction? Oh, you mean that your energy use is strictly necessary, whereas other people using energy for something that doesn't interest you is morally wrong. Got it.
So it's OK to violate the rules of a service because of sentimental reasons?
Those risks apply to the traditional banking system as well. Someone could phish your login and password. Someone could steal your checks. Someone could open a policy with Progressive Insurance, provide a stolen account number, and pay their premiums out of your bank account while conducting progressively larger insurance fraud. Your bank could get hacked. Your bank could go bankrupt.

We dealt with an identity theft issue around the same time that I was conducting some crypto transactions with Coinbase, and the difference in security was stark. My bank hides 2-factor auth behind an obscure account setting. If someone steals your account number, they can start making direct withdrawals immediately just by entering it into an ACH form that doesn't do trial deposits. The bank relies on you keeping an eye on your statements to notice this, and they won't reimburse any fraudulent charges over $1000.

Meanwhile, Coinbase defaults to 2-factor auth. They send you an e-mail if you login from a machine whose IP & browser fingerprint doesn't match one you've logged in before. They do trial deposits for ACH linking. They send you an e-mail whenever someone initiates an ACH deposit or withdrawal from your account. There's a mandatory waiting period (1 week I think) before the funds are available. I suspect they would suck just as much as my bank if you did get hacked (I've heard horror stories), but the proactive security measures give me a lot more confidence than the mainstream financial industry.
Big, meaning that even eliminating all of the excess CO2, would not get us back to the pre-industrial heat-forcing condition. We have reasons not to want to take CO2 concentration below that point, but to want forcing to reach that point.

Just getting the excess CO2 out is a big enough job, and one responsive enough to known practical measures, that it leaves some time for research on the tails, if we start now.

Nothing about this unfolding disaster is small, or about any measure to counter it.
I mean, C11 also has generics, but I would really suggest not using it X). See https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic

Of couse, it's a much less powerful feature, there's nothing like interfaces or stuff, just a way to "overload" based on the type.
Ask HN: Have you ever benefitted from affirmations?
I will take a look at that artist too. Anki is a great tool. I have tried to do something like that with languages, like Japanese: https://www.locserendipity.com/jp/Japanese.html and am working on voice simulators based on phonemes not dependent on APIs. It is not that easy to do. This English one based on my voice doesn't sound that great: https://www.locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html
Can you give a few examples of "large emergent systemic effects"? Just curious.
That's because "Web 3" is more of a marketing term, whereas "Web 2.0" was a descriptive term coined for something that had already emerged in the preceding years from countless independent implementations, evolving together.

When "Web 2.0" was named, most of the techniques had been used for over a decade, and social networking side of it was well established too. Even "AJAX" was coined years after some sites were already using that technique, without that name.

Web 3 is an attempt to portray p2p, cryptocurrency, IPFS and similar types of networks as on an equal footing to the evolutionary changes that vaguely made up Web 2.0.

In particular, the name implies it's "the" (singular) next version of the Web after 2.0.

But it's too early to be sure of that. Most people aren't using it, most sites aren't using it either and don't plan to. The real successor to Web 2.0 that things evolve to en masse might be quite different than Web 3 proponents are describing at the moment.
Yeah, and I don't have anything against it as custody of votes is clears as is who was the voter. On other hand systems where you just put ballot in regular mail or some box without oversight and verification is done by signature... No words...
> all should follow the orders and those that do not need to be responsible for it

Furthermore the tide will be ordered back, the contents returned to Pandora's box, and universal entropy decreased. Failure to comply will result in a fine.
I wrote this in another comment, but this is the same method Kingdom Hearts 3 used on the PC version for their save files.

https://www.pcgamer.com/kingdom-hearts-pc-save-files-are-tuc...
I think Taleb has a point on this topic - the concern is about a forecasted growth rate, not about the current rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKiLclupUM
I had to give up my fingerprints to maintain a drivers license, but that doesn't get me TSA Pre.
I wasn't able to find one for an important project and we ended up having to go with a commercial library. The open source ones were very unreliable.
When I moved house I made the bedroom electronics-free and put up blackout curtains. Also programmed the house to turn off most lights and din the remaining before bedtime. Night and day sleep quality change.
I think you’re saying it but…

You mean working for your employer 70 hours a week, right?

As for me, I make it a point to give my employers what they’re paying for, but nothing extra. I spend a lot of extra time each week performing “work” for myself. Whether it be home improvement or side projects.
Bill Gates is giving away a lot of money. Warren Buffet, too. And a lot of billionaires aren't.

So, yes, it may.
I remember Memory of a Broken Dimension piquing my interest many years ago, and I believe it's still in development. I see the creator streaming development on Twitch pretty regularly.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/544300/Memory_of_a_Broken...

Back in the day, Team Fortress 2 and Duke Nukem Forever were the butts of many vapourware jokes, but they were both eventually released. The prolonged development seemed to help one of them more than the other, though.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your thoughts. It's fascinating to see how others reason.

Is doing good for the world external validation? I'm not sure.

The article author argues that a lot of people create bullshit which is the opposite of valuable (time consuming and attention grabbing). Maybe your work wouldn't be valuable but it also wouldn't be a net negative.
This is a good thing. However, I can't understand how California is passing this law when they also reduced penalties for knowingly exposing someone to HIV (https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-california-law-r...).
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Tim, thank you for commenting on your article!
I'm curious about your reasoning here: would you mind walking us through how you come to the conclusion that building a product like MetaMask, closes the door for a more standardized approach?
Does anyone see a product to buy on this page? As I click through the models, all I see are "pricing unavailable" for the laptop kits.
> The real answer is to do away with the fractional reserve lending where a bank gets $100 and then proceeds to loan out $900.

To completely eliminate fractional reserve lending would be economic suicide. Without fractional reserves, lending gets incredibly expensive. Interest rates would have to be sky high to quickly recuperate money distributed from a loan to be able to fund further loans.

Should we raise the minimum reserve? Maybe. But the 2008 crash was caused just as much by people taking out mortgages they couldn't possibly afford. We really need to teach financial literacy and planning in our high schools to prevent people from being taken advantage of from banks that just want to sell as many loans as possible under the assumption that if a borrower defaults, they'll still come out ahead after foreclosure since real estate is assumed to nearly always appreciate.
For machine learning on audio data, it is often (always?) useful to modify the original dataset to make the model more general.

A way to do such manipulation that is both convenient to use from Python (a major programming language in the field and well tied in to the major frameworks) and performant is extremely welcome.
Metamask and others are seemingly the Google Gears of 2021.
The world isn't instantly switching to batteries. There's no infrastructure where I live and I can't charge an electric vehicle at either of my condos.

My mom lives in the suburbs and I see very few Teslas there. Mostly pickup trucks. Cybertruck is not going to appeal to those folks.

There is plenty of time for the incumbents to catch up. Especially when Japan will stand behind their car industry.

EVs are still in the Virtual Reality phase of the adoption curve.

I'm not going to bet against Tesla, but I'd be happy to buy your Toyota shares at a discount.
To be fair, the C compiler also requires a C compiler. Bootstrapping is a common milestone in language development (Rust can bootstrap itself too), so while the current state of affairs for Zig might require a C compiler, that's not necessarily written in stone.
I have been to the hospital 3 times already and it's fine. My sister is a nurse and she hasn't had a covid patient in over a month.

I guess Reddit only gets one type of anecdote. I doubt the other side gets voted up and probably even removed.
Why do we have to be so mean about it though? All the ableist language we throw around really saddens me https://campbellmgold.co.uk/archive_esoteric/morons_imbecile...
I agree with your last statement, but that is 20/20 hindsight.

The media played up reinfections tremendously last year and even though there was no data, I think it impacted politicians/public health policy makers to err on the side of caution.

The interesting thing is the vaccine was never tested in previously infected individuals and that could have been a contraindication for vaccination.
Or been both (disclosure: scientist and engineer)
The only affirmation that ever worked for me was Tony Montana's...

THE WORLD IS YOURS
Then stop training workers in valueless things like agile PM or Product mgmt
>If this is just Delta being more dangerous, then we would expect countries with lower vaccination rates to be enduring truly staggering mortality right now

Isn't this exactly what we are seeing? Mexico is among the lowest-vaccinated countries in the western hemisphere and leads the world with a 7.7% case fatality rate. Compare this to <2% for most developed, well-vaccinated countries. The African countries have by far the lowest vaccination rates in the world, but it's debatable whether their record-keeping on mortality is remotely accurate.
4x the cost for 5-10% of the performance? Yes, that is terrible.
>The virus spreads within your body and the mutations will spread within the body as well. A virus can mutate and improve within the host.

Agreed.

There is a bucket of vulnerable ACE-2 receptors in everybody. Once a viral infection occurs in a single person, it undergoes an infection curve within the host bucket, analogous to the infection curve of the general population. The non-linear host cell infection curve can be greatly influenced by early intervention (immunity). It can be expected that some people have a big curve that results in a more complete viral infection than in others, but the number is limited until it can move to a new person, and run a new infection curve. So the mutation can occur in that once person, but it has to replicate in a new host to see the new infection curve of the viral prototype. If one never transmits the prototype, it is moot.

Bacterial resistances like MRSA are most likely when an infection that is able to survive treatment is able to re-establish. With most susceptible bacterial cells having now been eliminated in this case, the new infection is more formidable. There are of course other mutation vectors.
What am I missing out on? I get Confluence has lots of enterprisey features for sysadmins but as an author it has always been a terrible experience, especially for code. There's so much friction to actually creating documentation that nobody actually does it or if they do never bother to update it.
If you’re willing to disclose — how does it work, technically?

If it works with photos (rasterised formats) it means the “invisible” watermarks do need to be visible to a certain degree.

Does it print gray patterns on white areas? Replace some letters with variations? Just guessing here!
Ones with good viewing angles exist, but for sure there isn't paper-like-ness and you loose the no zero-power persistence of e-ink. But you get fast, artifact-free refreshes, perfect sunlight readability, at very low power consumption. (No backlight which can be a pro and a con...if only a more modern Pixel Qi type panel existed.)
There's much cheaper, and easier, sources of white-noise.

Anyone actually interested in the electronics of this should build a white-noise generator out of an Op-Amp + your favorite PN junction in reverse-bias mode (diode, BJT transistor, or whatever).

Shot-noise from reverse-bias'd PN junctions is white noise at a quantum level. You're physically seeing the random electrons move across a junction that wasn't supposed to happen, and then amplifying those electrons up to levels we can detect (well... not our fingers to detect. But a fancy op-amp amplifier + arduino can detect).

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/technical-document...

EDIT: This circuit from Maxim is reverse-breakdown noise from a Zener diode, which is more vigorous than shot-noise, and therefore easier to amplify. Its still white-noise and therefore "Truly random" up to the MHz. The circuit uses a Maxim voltage amplifier (I mean, the article is a big advertisement for how simple the MAX2650 is to use...)
If it was only obscure journals that no one reads, then I agree, but my understanding was that this is not the case.
Millions use 1.1.1.1 ? Any source for that ?
What would your process be if you had a single sink/tub? In those cases, I think many people just keep the tap on (which is 3+ litres per minute).