skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You end up having lego pieces that come together to build something bigger which becomes economically wasteful.

Isn't this offset somewhat by increased competition forcing those operations to be as efficient as practical?

Large, vertically integrated companies can afford to comply with more stringent regulation.
I'm right there with you. Had an old friend of over 25 years say to me that it was a "blunt cudgel to enforce a social instinct that is shockingly atrophied in people."

Hang in there, you are not alone and we are still in the very early days of this whole operation. Also, you might be able to find a local anti-mask or anti-mandate group on Facebook, I've found having that social support network is really helpful.
Ah, but China holds all the financial levers to keep everyone in their place. If there were a war there'd be no "Made in China" goods being exported. Take a look around you and think about that for a few minutes. They can get away with almost anything. The only thing they fear is an internal uprising.
You are too optimistic.

The US got too involved in too many wars for the wrong reasons and we got weary of them. China sees this as a weakness (admittedly).

If the US does not flinch, no one else will and we won’t and no one else will.

We know terrible things are happening en masse in Xinjiang, Iran does terrible things to dissidents, north Korea does terrible things.

China and N Korea have nukes. Iran is close. In the and no one will do anything if they decide to fully bare their teeth.

Economically it’s a “commons” no one is willingly going to leave because it’s leaving too much money on the table. In a globalized world, companies really heavily influence foreign policy. These companies want the printer to stay on.

They may do themselves in, but that’s on them.
Is the "correct model" even well-defined or remotely falsifiable?

In my view, we're sailing awfully close to metaphysical waters with phrases like that.
Ontario schools hold book-burning ceremony for 'reconciliation'
Most likely the vaccine does prevent/reduce spread. Given the amount of skepticism, it's better to just say the truth that the vaccine 'may or may not' prevent the spread rather than pick a side and be proven wrong. It also advantages that people don't think they can avoid COVID as long as everyone else gets the vaccine.

You have the option of getting tested weekly as long as your employer allows for that option. Getting a vaccine is probably less invasive and less of an annoyance then many things employers already require.
"in a fashion requiring copyright permission" is basically the definition of "derivative" here, so the GPL is rightfully farming that question out to external law and not even trying to tell you the answer.
Yes, the US and its allies will send very strongly worded letters to China if that happens, along with its order for ten million more iPhones.
At least in that case people can (and it seems they have) vote with their wallet, and avoid the more limited "nannying" product. Given the lack of competition in things like mobile phone OSes, that's not always an option.
Those opposed to mandates probably aren't volunteering to return to the office. A delay could provide more time for the legality of mandates to be challenged.

> Most recently, the aim was to fully reopen the headquarters in Redmond, Washington and several other US offices no earlier than October 4th. "Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our US work sites in favor of opening US work sites as soon as we’re able to do so safely based on public health guidance."
You are free to make your own choices within the bounds government policy. If that means those who choose not to vaccinate lose their jobs and are ineligible for unemployment insurance, I think that’s reasonable during a public health crisis. Even if vaccination did not reduce transmission rate, it increases survival rate in the event of infection, reducing healthcare system load. If you make a choice to unnecessarily burden a strained system, do not be surprised when that system sheds load in ways you did not expect (crisis standards of care, ie rationing [1] [2] [3]).

I am exhausted that people who share your opinion are dragging the pandemic out for whatever illogical reasoning justifies the beliefs and behavior. Your rights end where someone else’s begin, but apparently these people don’t believe their rights end anywhere, regardless of the harm they cause.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/9443799...

[2] https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2021-09-07/idaho-...

[3] https://www.doh.wa.gov/Newsroom/Articles/ID/2916/Statement-o...
Live patching.
Do you have a source for the claim that a vaccinated person is more likely than an unvaccinated person to transmit the virus asymptomatically?
2021 Ig Nobels
To me that term also implies that images are the primary means of distribution, as in (most) Smalltalks. That said, it's still probably a better term than REPL for the Clojure experience.
Try it out here: https://creator.codedamn.com/
No chance of that.

GPLv3 wasn't just an update, it was a major change from GPLv2. Importantly, it limited developers own rights to use code of projects they contribute to how they want (including in devices that are locked or secured in various ways).

Plenty of people even outside of Linux are not going to be going to GPLv3.

The GPLv3 split also damaged the more copyleft side of things as I think some kernel devs predicted.

I think the momentum is currently more MIT / Apache - not sure if that could be where folks could be encouraged to release under to keep at least the open source part alive even if the copyleft part kind of goes away.

Anyone doing any stats on this? The more true open source players are going MIT / Apache style, the proprietary relicense folks are doing the (A)GPLv3 thing to drive licensing revenue given the risk aversion to GPLv3 that is out there. A lot of the GPLv3 codebases require contributor agreements so they can license outside of GPLv3 so they tend not to be true multi-contributor / multi-copyright holder codebases.
Destigmatizing creeps by turning everyone into one seems to be Zuckerberg's overall goal.
Still waiting for that new line of statistic showing how many of those vaccinated got “COVID-19” and still got hospitalized.
That's really easy to say when it's not you or your kids on the front line.

Beyond just Taiwan, the last cold war kept the third world in a constant state of proxy war between the major powers, costing millions of lives in the short-term and delaying development in the long term.

Worth considering if you're in favor of more of that in the name of human rights.
In 1984 China was part of the warsaw pact and well allied. Who will stand up to chinas defence in the face of an american coalition today? Russia would honestly probably join the american coaliton.
On the same terms as Hong Kong.
Maybe she will say that when the bank has some revenue that money is destroyed as it becomes reserves. The piece on it’s own doesn’t make much sense but maybe it does in the context of a non-sensical framework…
How do you generate the sequence H_0, H_1, ...?

Specifically, is there a Turing machine G that can generate H_0, H_1, ..., onwards, perhaps taking in some input along the way?

If so, then you can construct a self-contained Turing machine Z that takes a machine M as input, which works as follows: it calls G to generate H_0, runs H_0 for a bit on M, then calls G to generate H_1, runs H_1 for a bit on M, and so forth. This is a single Turing machine which does not need external modification. Internally, it works by having an inner Turing machine that it modifies. But Z itself doesn't change.

Then you can define M = "if Z(M): loop", call Z(M), and get your contradiction back.

If no, then you've built a more-powerful-than-a-Turing-machine machine of some sort.
But isn't "all their opponents were weaker" just another way of saying "Sparta was unusually strong"?
https://www.improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners/#ig2021
Great response and awesome side project, thanks a lot!

Do you have any thoughts on the “native vs. React native” question?
A constraint on the domain and range of values is a detail. Restricting the possible range of action for a force is certainly something physicists look for.
LEDs work both ways. I wrote a tutorial on doing this with an Arduino sometime in the early 2000s. I've forgotten most of it, so this is going to be vague…

• Instead of driving your LED from one live pin to ground or power, put it between two pins (with its current limiting resistor unless your microcontroller can safely limit the current and you can tolerate the heat in package (RP2040!))

• Forward bias (say pin 1 high, pin 2 low) to illuminate.

• Reverse bias briefly (pin 1 low, pin 2 high) to charge the stray capacitance of your pin 2 driver. Then turn pin 2 into an input and time how long it takes to change from a "1" to a "0".

Your LED is going to be matching up photons and electrons and passing electrons across. It isn't great at this compared to a photodiode, but it does do it. If the current flow through the LED is at least in the ball park of the input current on pin 2 you will be able to tell the difference in light levels.

It's crude, and may not be workable at all in low light levels because the input pin current will dwarf the LED current.

But for compliance checking in FB Glass, the camera knows when it is in bright light, and if the LED disagrees, then you have covered your LED. The cost to implement is one package pin and a little software.

Note: I am not necessarily known as nefarious. I used it to automatically modulate the brightness of indicator LEDs. Bright in the day, dimmer in the dark. The time to sense is short enough that you can do it with your indicator and no one notices the tiny dark interval.
Common lisp wins again... ;)
At the beginning, some choice comments:

"The BOD (or "Board" as the company calls it) seems a little strange to me as if she runs in rarified circles"

"That BOD is stunning with heavy national security/ military operations. I almost thought it was a CIA cover company."

"Fascinating that they're all national security related, except for the ex-CEO of Wells Fargo. I'm honestly curious how that came about..."

"Wow. That board of directors is a sight to behold. Looks more like a panel at the World Economic Forum. How on earth did the founder manage to get such high-profile backers?"

"Former heavyweights in the diplomatic, intelligence and military government sectors (George Shultz, Senator Samuel Nunn, Henry Kissinger etc). No big names from the technology or VC space are mentioned however."

"Am I the only one here who thinks all those people imaged on the web site have really weird eyes?
Creepy.
...
no, you're not. That site looks like an advert for Elysium"

"Wow. She must be a pretty amazing woman to have collected such strong allies.
I'd have lunch with her."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349
> US would never do that, it would violate Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The US unlikely to be enormously bothered about violating treaties if it finds doing so in its interest.

> Given the extreme risk of such a move

What exactly is China going to do? Try to break the US-led world order? They're doing that already!
That wasn't the claim. The claim was that an unvaccinated person can self-isolate when they observe symptoms.

As the CDC said above, absence of symptoms is not a sufficient indicator for a vaccinated person. If a vaccinated person is tested regularly, they can self-isolate upon a positive test result, since they can't rely on symptoms as a signal.
It would’ve been much more free under British rule towards the end but the mainland government pressured the UK not to allow that to happen in preparation for the handover.
I'm very curious if there were any reasons or design decisions on why Clubhouse didn't go for React Native from the start?

Would it be fair to say they could have gotten to market quicker had they went with RN?

Would love someone from the team to elaborate on this as Agora also has RN SDK's as well as Firebase.
I would love to see support for compute near data ("stored procedures") that is compatible with today's practices: real programming languages, version control, testing, etc.

Calvin (http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/calvin-sigmod12.p...) and VoltDB are examples of different architectures that trade off the ability to do SQL-style interactive transactions (`BEGIN`+run code client side+`COMMIT`), forcing everything through predefined procedures. Combining that with better stored procedures is interesting.
Give me some climbing spikes and 10 good men and I'll breach that paywall. ;-)
Yes, I've been saying "live interactive development" instead of REPL more recently, and I think it conveys the idea much better. Since in Lisps, a REPL means:

> a live integrated inside an application REPL that lets you evaluate and hot-swap every single line of code at will and on-demand all at runtime without ever needing to restart the application, while also being able to inspect the runtime state at will
My concern is why OSHA has not issued emergency mandatory ventilation and air circulation orders, since that's actually within their wheelhouse vs this extension into medical demands which until now had been limited strongly to vague recommendations and couched in informed consent language (e.g. Hepatitis awareness)
if enforced, wouldn't surprise me of flashmob style groups of protestors got together often and started doing it
> outrageous distinction between the free people of "Sparta", which he calls "Spartiates" and all "Spartans" which includes the helots

> That is an outrageous distinction that is not found in any ancient or modern source. It appears to be something that the author completely made up in order to support his revisionist interpretation of the history of ancient Sparta.

Terms like "Spartiate" are standard.
> it's unclear what community protection that provides

Maybe against community spread of infection.

The protection vaccines provide against overloaded hospitals, tragic avoidable deaths and paralysing additional lockdowns and mask policies is clear, though.
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The Transmogrification of Engineering
Yes, but then there are examples like this guy:

https://www.businessinsider.com/woodworker-drivable-wooden-b...

...who I hope gets as much free time as is possible.
OK, let's suppose that the Matrix main organization is irredeemably evil in your eyes.

But not everybody is evil. So, you get together with lots of other people at a conference, and you announce a new code-of-conduct based organization to do mutual interconnection for homeservers that agree to a particular set of rules. The requirement for federation is that they agree, and that they will not federate with anyone who doesn't agree to the same set; the only penalty for non-compliance is not being allowed to federate with the members of the organization anymore.

There you go. Remember to thank the Matrix people for all their hard work, which you have subverted from "evil" to "good".
US has sophisticated missile defense systems and enough nukes to send the entire continent of asia back to the stone age. A nuclear war started by any other nation than the U.S. is literally suicide, and these world leaders know it which is why all there has been since WWII in terms of nuclear warfare is saber rattling.
I disagree with people using or referencing to the seat belt law. A seatbelt can be removed and adjusted to a person. A vaccine cannot. Each individual human being is unique and they will react very differently. I agree that the demographic that are hit the hardest exponentially by covid should protect themselves (60+, obese, other underlying conditions) but everyone else should use discretion and if you don't plan on getting it, there should be alternate measures in place.
Jefferson Airplane's magisterial celebration of LSD works so well here, but "a hookah smoking caterpillar" get cut, clearly any mention of smoking is a step too far.
Welcome to OCR. It's often possibly to overlay the raw results with a language model to improve them, but ultimately it's a probabilistic process.
I would be with you if it weren’t for the “or test” part. “You must get vaccinated” would be problematic, but “you must do a COVID test once a week if you’re not vaccinated” is totally reasonable IMO.
Well yes, this article is about the UK. But the paper is quite clear that in practice, it is not any reserve requirement that effectively determines how many loans a bank will create. I am guessing this applies equally to other modern economies even if they have such a limit?

It's one sentence but the context is that the whole paper is arguing against the textbook explanation of fractional reserve banking GP stated - the "two common misconceptions" stated in the introduction.
> “Can I use any language?”

> “Sure.”

> Move quickly, before he realizes his mistake.

This part always gets me.
Undemocratic does not mean unconstitutional. The Electoral College is undemocratic, yet constitutional by definition, for instance. SCOTUS itself is undemocratic yet constitutional.
TrueCrypt was abandoned/discontinued and forked 7 years ago and replaced by Veracrypt ... Just sayin ...
Ozzillate – Transfer Files via Sound
One thing Firestore's JS client library does that is very interesting is that mutations by the in-browser client show up in persistent queries, even before they sync with the server, even offline. You can tell which changes are safe on the server and which not by metadata.

This greatly improves latency and simplifies code. Trying to manually merge the mutations into all of your queries would be very awkward.

Also, the whole concept of browser clients interacting directly with the database server is darn interesting. Combine that with better support for stored procedures etc for actually enforcing business logic (somewhat made possible by Firestore security rules, but very awkward).
I've been using it is a current project. The OCR is pretty good but I've been learning that OCR isn't as good as many of us think it is. Specifically with handwritten text and more "in the wild" type text. But website text? No problems.
The people who are for forcing everyone else to take the vaccine don't understand how strongly people's beliefs (including their own) are held. What if the anti-vaxers we're forcing everyone to not get the vaccine or be fired?

Requirements such as the vaccine mandate will not have the intended effect, but perhaps even the opposite. Want more people to quit their jobs? Requiring everyone to put something in their bodies they don't want there is a great way to do it!
I am not an expert or even hobbyist in paper finance, but the author did address your point, a few sentences later: "JP Morgan can't create reserves, it can only borrow or buy them."

I believe the implication is that investment banks can not perform certain actions with their own money due to 2008-2010 reforms: for instance the Volker rule https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/volcker-rule.asp
Doesn't "GPLv2 or any later version" mean that you can use the software under the terms of GPLv2 or GPLv3 (or some hypothetical GPLv4)?

It can't possibly add any restrictions to the use of your project, because people can always just use it under the terms of GPLv2 if they want.

I guess it could remove restrictions, if the hypothetical GPLv4 was a total 180 and looked more like the MIT or Apache licenses, so I guess if that's a concern then you have a point.
Sometimes, yes. But always? No, certainly not. There are perfectly good reasons to want to record someone without their knowledge (e.g. recording law enforcement officers while they are in public).

I'm reminded of how phones sold in Japan have a fake shutter sound on their camera apps that you can't disable. Yes, there's a good reason for it (preventing creeps from quietly taking upskirt photos of women on subways), but it also removes the ability to take silent photos for legitimate reasons.

But in the general sense, I do find this new Facebook product to be gross and creepy, far worse than Google Glass. And frankly I think a recording light, which will easily become washed out and invisible in sunlight, is a pretty poor attempt at helping maintain the privacy of random people.
enslaved to whom?
>Had Intel done that 20-25 years ago the story might be completely different.

Someone at Intel must've thought the same thing and even executed it - they bought StrongARM in 1997!

But then they put it to the torch in 2003 and EOL'd everything so that you could see Windows bluescreens in your ATM and kiosks later that decade.
> they do get the same level of support maybe even better

This is clearly false. White men are not a unitary group. Large numbers of them are deeply underprivileged.

Denying underprivileged people support because of their race is racist. This still happens to black people too and that is also racism.

Adding more racism is not a way to end racism.

> they shouldn't receive specific support reserved for folks with different obstacles.

What about the men who have obstacles? Should they not receive support for the obstacles they do have?

> I dislike excuses around "poor me"s from folks that lack perspective on how they have it better,

Where is anyone here making such excuses? I think that is in your imagination.

> And not all white dudes feel sorry for themselves and blame "society", or college, or women, or other skin colors, or etc...

Where is anyone talking about white dudes feeling sorry for themselves or blaming women or other skin colors except you?
China doesn't want war, it wants status. They see the last 200 years as a reversal of the natural order of things, and want China to be top dog again. They literally see themselves as the center of the world: Zhongguo means "central country".
A man snatching Africa's stolen treasures from the museums of Europe
Since the only person who answered properly was (correctly) flagged and banned, I'll answer your rhetorical question as accurately as I can:

Italian Fascism promoted a corporatist economic system whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy.[0]

[0] Andrew Vincent. Modern Political Ideologies. Third edition. Malden, Massaschussetts, USA; Oxford, England, UK; West Sussex, England, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2010. Pp. 160. URL: https://books.google.com/books/about/Modern_Political_Ideolo...
I would like to see a newly tracking statistics of how many vaccinated got “COVID-19” and still got hospitalized.

That should settle the debate and division.
so caveat this with the fact that i used to work at aws, but one thing aws is really good at is listening to customers and reacting. a few years back aws messaging was very much so single-cloud and no on-prem. but after listening to customers, there’s been quite a shift to prioritizing them through things like outposts and eks/ecs anywhere. even for something that’s effectively free like eks-a, it can drive revenue by keeping customers all-in with aws and helps with brand loyalty and trust.
In the United States, people were denied services and jobs for being not visibly anti-communist enough.

In the early 1970s? I'd like to see some citations of that.
further to this, a car manufactured can be liable if the seat belt does not work. You can sue the car manufacture company. You cannot sure Pzifer for example for vaccine side effects.
Are you implying the pfizer vaccine has killed someone? Ridiculous to see this on HN.
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