skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boasting of what? Serving static sites doesn't even need a server.

Use apache to serve Django + wsgi? Just use Django asgi and nginx and you will get a higher number.
Love your books! https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/3887 and Bellish looks pretty cool too (https://www.bellish.co/).
> They’re also what makes it possible for us to legislate gun control after an isolated massacre,

This statement alone should call the writer's knowledge into question. Whilst it was after a particular mass shooting, it was because of the increasing regularity of mass shootings that the laws were drafted.
The first thing you do with a laptop (or any pre-built PC for that matter) is wipe it clean and install a fresh OS.

The most likely culprit for the slow-downs is OEM crap pushed on the device, not Windows itself.

In my personal experience (I'm running 6 Windows PCs in the house for the family and myself) I never had any issue with Windows 10 becoming slower or updates getting in the way or any ads for that matter (except when they switched to the new Edge where a notification of sorts showed up once after boot and was easily dismissed).

For full disclosure, I am running PiHole on my network so it's possible that's somehow blocking some ad-related activity (though I'm yet to see any evidence of actual advertisement being shown in the OS except for stuff about integrated software like Edge and now Teams - hoping this doesn't change with Windows 11). I'm also running fairly powerful machines (nothing older than 4 years, even the kids have beefier laptops), so don't have experience with old / slow machines.
For what it’s worth, you could substitute Canada or countless other nations and say all the same things.
The BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) could use help if you happen to be interested: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc.
Isn't it true for a lot of things we rely on every day ?

Remembering the days of commuting by train, wether the train will come on time or not was a lottery. Traveling by car, accidents, jams, not being able to park etc. are mundane.

Elevator/escalators being in maintenance was also a common sight.

Things being broken feels part of life, and we learn to plan ahead, have alternatives or deal with it when there is nothing to help.

I think computers and remote services entering our everyday lives is part of that.
> you can withdraw cash dollars if there’s any cash in the machine. Some have been running out already.

So this revolutionary service is not much more than a way to get US dollars :-)

Awesome!
Mandating voting certainly seems better than the US system of trying to make it illegal for anyone you don't like to vote.

Australia feels culturally like the closest country to the US, though, so this particular political difference is being canceled out by other things.
>hard r word
So what’s the soft r word, uhtahd?
Yes it is too much to ask. We cannot turn people into robots that do our bidding.
Scylla is built arround direct io.
A pandemic where healthy, vaccinated people have a far, far lower chance to die or be seriously injured than driving to wherever they are going. You can hide in your home for the rest of your life in order to minimize any potential change of future risks, but good luck forcing everyone else to do so at the point of a gun. This virus is never going away, and people are getting sick of the authoritarianism being carried out in the name of "safety". Life is inherently risky, and this is just another one of life's risks. Myself and my friends have been vaccinated since spring, and we have been living life exactly the same as we did before the pandemic started here in New York - and we will continue to do so.
Say what you will about the walled garden, at least there is one working way to do the thing.
>Whatever their theory is here, it feels like a reach/land grab vs other regulators.

That seems to be Matt Levine's read of the situation as well, a few weeks prior.

>The SEC is not about “investor protection” broadly; it is about investor protection from scammy securities. If bad-faith actors speculate on the value of gold, the SEC can’t really stop them, because gold is not a security. The fact that crypto is rife with scams does not mean that the SEC has to address it; the SEC has to address it only if it is rife with securities scams.

>Gensler argues — or at least asserts — that it is. But he is biased: He runs a regulatory organization, he is interested in crypto, he doesn’t like scams, so he wants to use his regulatory power to crack down on crypto scams. He might be tempted to expand that power, to treat borderline gray-area things as securities and crack down on them, even if they aren’t really securities.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-04/the-se...
I am so nervous about this. We get one shot for everything to go right, with no chance of fixing it.
This was exactly my point -- at what inflection point is the AI's decision sound, vs when it may be based on bias from its base creation code (whatever the substrate code that 'births' an AI? WTF do we call that (as obviously an AI is meant to iteratively evolve - at what point is an AI required to 'check in changes' such that if a rollback is required across that AI's reach may be accomplished...

We need a "product recall" method that doesnt involve Blade Runners and campy one-liners...

SERIOUSLY
Thanks for the writeup. I think this is spot on.

I've argued for DSLs many times here on HN due to a slightly different, although intimately related, reason.

I think it's the only way to avoid the Turing tarpit [1]. In other words, getting some clean semantics where it is easy to prove things. IMHO, the only way to get formal methods to scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
This is an option, it’s called an informal vote, and it’s counted towards the tally
Not true at all. Most plants can use additional carbon all the way to 1000+ PPM. Some all the way to 2000PPM.

Quotes below, sources below that:
- CO2 increased leaf area, water use efficiency, and harvest index (in tomatoes) [1]
- Optimal levels for tomatoes may be 2 to 5 times the normal atmospheric levels (1000 to 1500 ppm CO2 versus ambient levels of 350 ppm) [2]
- Combining increases in CO2 with fertilization and irrigation could greatly enhance leaf area which when coupled to observed increases in net photosynthesis as a result of elevated CO2 could greatly increase productivity of loblolly pine trees. [3]
- demonstrating an optimal CO2 concentration of 889.6, 909.4, and 894.2 ppm for aboveground, belowground, and total biomass, respectively, and 967.8 ppm for leaf photosynthesis (in winter wheat) [4]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03783...
[2] https://cals.arizona.edu/hydroponictomatoes/nutritio.htm
[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004680050111
[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26253981/
You're putting words into my mouth. There's a goddamn reason those places are in lockdown. 1000+ covid cases, while small in comparison to other countries, is the highest a state has ever had here. Lockdown has kept numbers down in the past. If state governments didn't constantly lockdown and then come of out lockdown and instead stayed locked down for longer cases would have remained in the 100s. But people are morons and they want to do whatever it is they do and pretend that people aren't dying from this goddamn disease.
i've got a desktop computer at my office. it's still "having a computer", but i find there's a good difference between having a computer that you think of as "yours" versus a computer that's just a work tool.

i've also got a laptop right now, but i've gone years at a time without having a personal computer at home. it's perfectly doable.
My hot take: (lived in NZ, Aus, NL and USA)

Both places are are similar in that:

- They have good access to nature/beaches
- Property prices are nuts, most people see property as their primary investment vehicle. This is a big cause of wealth inequality
- general populace has a relatively easygoing disposition

Aus has better weather (assuming you like warm and sunny), higher salaries and is somewhat less far from the world if you want to travel

NZ has a better human rights record, much cleaner grid, and doesn't seem to have the authoritarian bent that Aus does. It's like the slightly hippie/socialist/woke little sibling.
I recently set up a short campaign for a few people at work who had never played D&D but wanted a taste. I was surprised that several people were immediately worried for us because of the "darkness" it would bring into our lives. I always thought that was a concern from decades ago, but apparently I was wrong.
It's common in consulting engineering companies (and likely legal and accounting firms) for a senior IC/partner/manager to rotate in as president for a perioud of time, then rotate out.

I got to see the process up close at a previous company, and it was no big deal - "Oh, it's my turn to be president for a year. Gimme the extra laptop so I can leave one at home."
that would be an administration, not government
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
Curious how you define “top 4 biggest media networks.” If you mean the traditional big 4 US networks (NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox) they’re mostly part of pretty large media conglomerates (i.e Disney, Comcast, Viacom) that are each smaller than FB by market cap, but by less than 1 order of magnitude.
Indoor rock climbing! Many cities have rock climbing gyms that offer top-rope or autobelay climbing that prevents you from falling if you slip off a hold. I climb actively and while I've never had a fear of heights, several of the people I climb with had a terrible fear of heights when they started climbing. In fact, after a few climbs the (now slightly diminished) fear of heights can often be what keeps climbers coming back.

Indoor bouldering is also a great way to get started. I'd avoid anything outdoors as a beginner, also lead climbing is probably not your best bet.
as an employer i value a healthy and balanced work ethic and a frienly and cooperative work environment.

personally i don't mind if you prefer to work more hours, but i'll be watching your performance. if it doesn't scale with the number of hours you put in then you'll have to cut down. also if i get any complaints from anyone else in the team. i can't have your performance demoralizing everyone else, because in the end it is the performance of the whole team that matters. i also won't be giving you extra opportunities for promotion or raises, because that would be unfair to others who can't work as much as you. again, doing so would be demoralizing for everyone else.

case in point, there is a company where anyone working more than 20 hours a week got reduced pay for those extra hours.
I was about to post that. Anyone who reads the little PDF Google gives you when you apply there knows pretty much exactly how the interview will go, and the questions they frequently ask are all over the internet. At that point its just about cramming your brain for a couple of days.

Like, I don't know how to write an A* on top of my head, but back when I was looking at Google a while ago, they always asked that question, and the prep PDF said so. Kind of hard to fail there...

Not everyone will be able to work there, but it's certainly not the status symbol it was a long time ago. Plenty of "Ex Googlers" are code monkeys like anyone else from any other company.
The original sin is the lack of will to make the Webb nuclear powered. Since it is solar powered, it has to be in the sun. Since it has to be in the sun, it needs a huge shield. Since it is solar powered, it must be passively cooled to save power. Since it is passively cooled, it needs the science experiment - 5 layer shield deployed with 50 different pulleys, cables, telescoping poles and who knows what else.

The power limit also requires that science data be downloaded with an experimental 26Ghz radio that only the three 100' diameter Deep Space Network dishes can receive. The projected science data download will require using the DSN for 8 hours a day, everyday for 5-10 years.

They should have started over using nuclear power and then they would have had a chance.
OPRA Binary Data Recipient Interface Specification [pdf]
I think those are all significant.

I would say the current party dynamics are a big problem, both the symptom and cause of other problems.

One party fights for total control, with near total resistance to the other party, playing a negative sum game in order to maintain power despite demographic disadvantages.

The other party has a wider spectrum of views, and is more open to bipartisanship. But it has difficulty strategically unifying when it would make the most difference. So it often negotiates from weakness despite having demographic advantages.

As far as I can tell, this dynamic is getting even worse and infecting most people and many institutions that would be much better not being politicized.
Years ago I was offered a job at Portsmouth Navy Yard, and due to the great difficulty they were having hiring they invited me out for a bit of a reverse interview - meetings with their leadership and the grand tour of the facility to try to sell me on taking the position. This was basically an entry level position so the experience was rather unusual.

There are a lot of very interesting things to see there, but one thing that stood out is how they took me and a couple of other prospective employees to see the memorial wall to the Thresher in one of their conference rooms. Even fifty years later it felt that the incident was still well known at Portsmouth and influential on their culture.

Later I would work at facilities handling much more dangerous weapons that seemed to lack anywhere near that level of personal connection to safety culture, despite a legacy that had claimed numerous lives and not only among the enemy.
>at what point is the cure not worth it anymore?

At the point where a critical mass of people realize this has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with seizing and consolidating power.
That's some actual engineering there, understanding the problem you're trying to solve, instead of solving problems you don't even have. Nice.
https://www.routine.co/ is another one I've seen in the space
I was surprised to find that it's not on any of the obvious prediction markets.

Anyway, I'm a bit of a JWST pessimist too, but I don't find any of your arguments very convincing. It feels like you're cherrypicking bad things about the program without doing a very good job quantifying why they're supposed to matter in the big picture of absolute risk.
Discounts on Pet Products
I think there ought to be a data/interface divide. Social media companies that service more than 50 million Americans should be subject to this divide. Therefore, split Facebook in twain: one of its halves shall be Face, which is the web UI we currently interact with; the other half shall be Book, more akin to a data utility provider.

The monopoly that Facebook, Google, etc. have is a monopoly over how their data is presented. Google is the only entity with access to the data that Google collates, etc.; except that this isn't data they generate. It's data they capture, pieces of the commons that they sequester from the commons.
> My company has offered to relocate me to NYC, which is interesting. Looking on YouTube at what the city looks like and it's pretty ugly if I am honest.

This is a great opportunity that you'd be silly to pass up because of some YouTube videos. You have to at least visit in person to give it a fair shot. NYC is the largest city in any western country. I guarantee you can find parts of it you'd like.

> Hey Canada, how you doing?

Pay in tech is way, way higher in NYC than in Canada.
> I always thought that was a concern from decades ago, but apparently I was wrong.

In the realm of moral panics I thought were settled in the 20th century see: https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-grand-thef...
> Empirically, that's not true anymore

There's nothing empirical about it. A person has the right to reject coercion. What's empirical about that? That if they get SWAT'ed they won't be able to reject it, which now justifies coercion?

> And it may even be true that they'll be fine, but they'll go on to spread it to a lot of other people in the process.

The vaccinated can spread the virus just like unvaccinated do.

> cannot really exercise their civil liberties.

Nonsense. Everyone can always exercise their civil liberties. That's why they're called liberties, genius.
I think the poll worker would be entitled to perform a citizens arrest at that point, unless "the first person in line to mumble" that was also wearing a very good disguise.
And were watching others' properties rise aggressively in price, and further out of your reach.

I can imagine that many people feel quite helpless.
People don't appreciate how left the Democrats are because almost everyone's political opinions are 5-10 years behind reality. The Democrats are one of the most successful left parties in the world currently; as soon as you count "respecting immigrants" then e.g. Europe loses cred no matter how good the healthcare systems are. And those systems weren't designed by the current generation.
The opinion on the level of health risk one is supposed to take on in an effort to keep the economy running is very much split along the political lines. For every solid argument you brought up, there's a solid counterargument from the other side of the fence. Both sides of the fence include intellectuals who can be extremely thoughtful and reasonable. I don't think that HN would be the right time and place to regurgitate all the reasonable arguments from both sides (and certainly not all the unreasonable ones).
Opinions are my own.

I actually have seen the reverse. All the TLs I saw that stepped down to be ICs left their team shortly. It's obviously anecdotal, so I wouldn't generalize from that. On the otherhand, the TLs that switched to be a manager tend to stay in the teams much longer. Many of them openly said they don't enjoy managing, but that didn't seem to affect their decision to stay.
> Not really sure what you are trying to achieve here than to push your own personal viewpoints on things that you don't like? I mean, I could say something like "I'm always kind of surprised by people who want to move to the US because the lack of gun laws", and what does that achieve?

The previous post simply engaged the original with additional comments on why someone might not want to move to Australia. You could always counter with your own thoughts on the matter. This is a place to discuss ideas. The post hardly felt pushy to me, and I don’t understand the skepticism of the poster’s intentions.
It could be that they were anticipating filing this patent and they didn't want to publicly disclose the "new" methods they were working on. My understanding is that public disclosure prevents you from being able to patent something. (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice).
I'm wondering if Coinbase's relationship with Circle is part of the issue? Returning yield on a token that you are sponsoring smells a bit more security-ish then commodity-ish.
This isn't even true. If you look at the wording of the referendum it basically renames the police department.
It's achievable (for most people I suspect frequent HN, anyway) if you put away a couple months of disposable income. If you don't care about playing games on it it's about the same cost as a high end gaming computer, and what games were you gonna play anyway?
there's some research suggesting that bicycle helmets are harmful. In part because they are pretty useless at protecting against the type of accidents that actually cause severe head trauma, and then also because they seem to induce risky behaviour from both cyclists and cars around them. And then finally because they significantly reduce uptake of cycling which means people are doing other unhealthy things instead.

(I'm not actually arguing a position here, just saying that this is not as clear cut as you might think).
> Trial by example is my lesson of choice these days.

That's an easy way to develop lessons, but seems like it would lead to a lot of cargo cult mechanisms. Especially once those people started teaching.

> your ability to consume non-PhD candidates is partially predicated upon how you've decided to run your tech business

I've found a PhD (without work experience) is a bad sign.

>. If you (ab)use enterprise arch like message buses, event sourcing, et. al., you are going to find that it requires additional mountain ranges worth of background knowledge to understand how these things fit together

I know I've hit the point several times where what I consider trivial is complex, but are message buses and events really that difficult? (And isn't event sourcing just one of the standard ways events are used?) Aren't buses covered in programming 101?
All these examples show even more why software engineer(not developer) is a discipline where 10x salary difference can be seen between the best and the worst. For the 10x you are paying, you are getting a (n^2 - logN) times performance gain, especially when you are dealing with problems with large amount of data.

However, relying on people themselves is often not the best stable solution. I am wondering if all these N^2 mistakes people made can be prevented by innovative means like language features, framework improvements, tooling and etc.
And I'm talking about prevention, not the post mortem perf measure and fix kind
> Australia recognized same sex marriage in 2017. That was 3 years after after the USA did. I'm not sure I would call Australia as being progressive by that measure.

The US was only the 17th country in the world to allow same-sex marriage nationwide; Australia was the 23rd. Still only 28 out of 193 UN member states have it fully nationwide – less than 15%. Only a 3 year gap, when any country having legal same-sex marriage is just over 20 years old. If we look at this in a global and historical context, both countries are very progressive on this particular issue. To argue that the US is in some significant way "more progressive" than Australia just because it got there a few years earlier, you have to be looking at things from a rather narrow perspective.

"Fully nationwide" above is only counting the main national territory of the country, not overseas territories. Even for the US, same-sex marriage is not legal in the territory of American Samoa – the territorial government of American Samoa claims that Obergefell v Hodges doesn't apply to them due to some legal technicalities, and it appears nobody has yet challenged that claim in court. Likewise, Netherlands, New Zealand, and UK all have legal same-sex marriage throughout their main national territory, but not in some of their overseas territories.

So if you want to be hyper-pedantic about it, the US still doesn't have legal same-sex marriage (throughout all of its territory), Australia does.
I am now convinced this is what is meant by this:

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

but instead its the warning against letting AI iterate upon itself without external intervention...
Is it good practice compare a very large island that has 2/3rd the population of California, or it’s 1/10th the population density of the whole of the USA?

Seems like a flawed argument for at least a dozen more reasons.
My first D&D campaign was ended when our Cleric and Fighter (brothers) were banned by their mom who thought it was satanic. We went to the same church, so it wasn't anything from church.
Of course. You are probably in that age range yourself so that's your circle, and barely content creator
I would assume. Youngsters innovate, the previous generations tend to follow.
The title is accurate, but it would be better written as:

Coinbase CEO: “Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently”