skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photons are not generally thought to have a rest mass, unless something has changed in the last 25 years or so. The conversion of energy into 2x electron masses (positron + electron). So the photon pair needs at least 2 x 911 MeV of energy. This would be around 1.82 GeV of photon energy. To give a sense of the frequency of this, a 911 MeV photon (colliding with another of the same energy) would have a frequency of 911 x 10^6 ev/(4.14 x 10^-15 ev/Hz) or 2.2 x 10^23 Hz, with a wavelength of 1.4 x 10^-15 m. That is, very hard gamma.

But the photons really shouldn't have rest mass.
My comment was about overall health, not specifically about COVID-19. There is more to health than fighting one specific virus.
You are talking about two different topics.

The first case: this story is not an article. It's a press release, and I wish we would stop treating these like "scientific publications".

The second case: there is a real debate going on, on a global level: should we use vaccines for booster vaccinations, or shouldn't we first vaccinate the whole world to get control of the pandemic. This is not only a question of medicine, this is also global politics, the rich North versus the not so rich rest of the world, patents and corporations versus saving lifes – debate is inevitable.
More preferable notation (slight correction <in the infinite limit = 1 not e>) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278021
Amazon needs regulation, severely, before it becomes a genuine monopoly. It's already at the stage of effective monopoly, but competition still exists, technically. It won't be long before they're driven under or bought out too though.

But I wouldn't bet on it, since Amazon already has all the people capable of doing anything in their pockets anyways.
I'm more a dplyr man myself, but data.table is much faster than pandas, most noticeably IMO when reading large files. It's also extremely succinct if you're into that sort of thing (though I find it a bit obfuscated). pandas is a lot of things, but "fast" and "concise" are not two of them.
Facebook documents show how toxic Instagram is for teens, WSJ reports
What would government censorship of speech look like?
Same, FreshTomato is great
They should lobby for a law requiring companies to deorbit satellites after EOL.
Credibility of Scientific Information on Social Media
May I ask what makes you think that CCP will go for the rest of the world?
It’s a social construct because the lines aren’t drawn along genetic lines. For example Americans call someone that’s 3/4th white and 1/4th black a black person.

Further features that seem very important to us like the shape of our eyes or skin tone may seem irrelevant to a creature which doesn’t have a face and sees the world in a different color spectrum than we do. They might group based on smell or habitat marking groups of urban, suburban, and country dwellers.
I've thought about this too: different people have different values and I think I've found myself in a situation where Go simply doesn't align with my values. I'm not claiming that Go's values are therefore wrong, just that they're at odds with mine.
Finally. It's absurd that it took the Supreme Court to settle this.
I think you’re dismissing the fact that a lot of young boys also feel terrible about themselves when they go on Instagram. Besides the whole chiseled body thing, there’s a lot of influencers who flaunt money and wealth also.
You're assuming people have morals to appeal to - most don't. When everyone is connected to everyone else the asshole always prevail. The solution is to sever the connections.
If everyone's needs and even all non-extravagant desires can be met for free (or "too cheap to meter" free; this is the "post-scarcity" part), then the need for accurate tracking of value flow vanishes. Everything else can be mostly handled on a pay-it-forward basis, perhaps with a bit of "reputation economy" sprinkled in, and the remaining exceptions don't warrant a society-wide currency.
I don't think it does anything to help in the fight against COVID, but it does highlight potential unanticipated adverse effects of COVID mitigation measures -- e.g., what's going to be the impact on the immune systems of kids that end up being "socially-distanced" for N years?
That's fair enough, thanks. I'll bear that in mind for the future.
> were carefully, deliberately designed?

Look, this constant insistence by Rust evangelists that Rust is the only language that was "carefully, deliberately designed" is part of the problem. It makes Rust proponents look foolish and arrogant. There are ways of doing language advocacy or discussing language design while still being kind, empathetic and considerate of other perspectives and points of view. I should note that I have never seen this issue happening from within the Rust community, it's always come from outsiders' careless "advocacy".
https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/143764723411229491...

Thread.
I suppose that begins to ask the question of what it means to be a wooly mammoth.

If it fills the ecological niche of an <X>, and it looks like and has many of the same genes as an <X>, is it not an <X>?

There's a bit of sci-fi fun in Neal Stephenson's wonderful "Seveneves"[0] where people are trying to re-populate the earth with animals after a planet-wide extinction event. They originally tried to make exactly the same wolves and lynx and rabbits and so on, but eventually realized they could just make "big pack dog animal" and "stalking cat animal" to fill the niches and let evolution do the fine tuning for them.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
You're good, you can use either. A DE LLC formed in DE will be deemed operating in DE, regardless of where you are or where you receive mail. No tax implication for that decision, but obviously there is a tax implication for you personally regarding what state you're living in and where you'll need to pay state income tax, wage tax, whatever else.
>Agreed. 20 years of lower and lower interest rates, meaning higher and higher mortgage amounts have driven up prices into oblivion.

The falling of interest is purely market driven. There is no government intervention there. Interest rates have been falling for a long time, far longer than 20 years and the reason is pretty simple. There are people out there who do not spend their money. The interest rate simply moderates between saving and investment. If saving is going up relative to investment then the interest rate must drop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28373304

You say higher and higher mortgage amounts have driven up prices but if you spend $360k what is wrong with getting a $360k house out of it in the end? What's so good about paying interest?
I don't believe that is a toxic belief. Or even a belief at all. It's just human psychology.

Simply put, any man or woman with a lot of choices would be less invested in any of the options presented.
I really tried but ultimately found it frustrating - I think I honestly do learn best with a good amount of structured tables, going through grammar etc. Certainly that's how I've been learning Hindi (via Wiktionary & Snell, supplementing Duolingo) in which I've progressed far beyond where I ever got to with Latin via LLI.

Just hit too many blocks where I sort of have the understanding of what it must mean, but I want to ask someone 'why is it inflected in this way here but different there?', and of course there's no explanation of that. (By design, I just don't like it.)

Perhaps my ideal would be something like LLI but interspersed with grammar-oriented explanation between chapters.
Which were in part a result of the War on Terror.
Let's hope this is the end. This law suit was a nuclear weapon that could have destroyed the entire API economy. Oracle was irresponsible bringing this suit.
Git-Annex across my devices, with archives on rsync.net and my cloud VPS
It looks like one of the authors is on HN with us. Can you offer any insight into the cause of the confusing language in the "Science News" piece? It reads like it was written by a bot not a human.

In the sentence "With the theory physicists Gregory Breit and John Wheeler were able to prove that when two high-energy photons collide, a positron and an electron arise, i.e. matter is formed" shouldn't the word be "predict" not "prove"?

A more flagrant example of a strange word choice for a human science writer to make is "A direct conversion would require a laser that emits gamma-ray photons in a highly concentrated steel." Shouldn't the word "steel" instead be "beam"? This seems like the sort of thing an uncomprehending bot might do, conflate those two words.

Are my the nits I've picked, above, unfounded? Does the author of the original paper have any information which might suggest that an actual human wrote the "Science News" piece?

If not I would suggest that we've got a bot on the loose! Eeek!

Further, I think I'm seeing rather a lot of "content" floating around recently which smacks of machine origins.

Also, to Daniel... Great paper. Amazing stuff!
there was this absolutely devastating graphic about rising suicide rates of teen girls which coincided with mobiles and especially instagram. Sorry can't find it right now.
Accept this means anyone can copy anyone else's API. This will lead to the dystopian craphole companies of today becoming more dystopian and even crappier tomorrow as they trample over any small and successful entity.
Funny, how everyone complained about sow start of vaccination campaigns. Only to forget that reaching roughly 70% fast was the goal, not being the first at 10%.
You're already seeing government censorship of speech in the US. Like many other functions properly delegated to government, it's been privatized for ideological reasons.
You say "early on" but... Are there any actual cases of this strategy being executed by a manufacturer at any time in history?

If so, I guess I'll have to eat my words, but it just really sounds like a hypothetical scenario the dealerships would have cooked up to try and push these laws that massively benefit them.
Linux kernel VP9 codec V4L2 control interface
This article is from a month ago and the decision was extensively discussed on HN back then.
>a 6ft wave is under 2 m and we would not call a wave 182.88 cm

This is subjective but we call it 1.8m and I don't really see a problem "seeing" it visually. 1.8 is just a bit above my eye level.

>Fahrenheit is also more precise

You could use a C2 scale where C2 = Celsius*2.

>it’s best to use a temperature gauge that’s suited to the air

I believe neither Celsius nor Fahrenheit alone can tell you how "hot" the weather is. So the advantage argued is not very valid:
Air temperature does not give a full picture of "hotness", we have to also include humidity ( that's why weather reports usually have a "feels-like temperature" next to air temp ). This is where we use the Wet Bulb temperature [1] to describe the sense of hotness in our surrounding. Wet Bulb Temperature can tell you the rate at which your body can cool itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
It would certainly exclude people initially but there are self-hosting "operating systems" emerging that enable users running a raspi to download and run pre-configured Docker containers as easily as an App Store app (e.g. https://getumbrel.com).

A federated Mastodon-like instance might be the move, but I have a way of providing Sybil resistance so could probably have an open p2p relay network. This is why I was asking for reading. I want to make sure I understand all the options.

For more context, I want to decentralize https://stacker.news which is basically an HN clone with Sybil resistance (costs bitcoin to post/broadcast) and karma is withdraw-able as bitcoin. The community is very fond of decentralization for obvious reasons plus I think it'd be a fun challenge.
I think one more issue is support. If I want a chip from TI, Analog Devices, etc., I fill out a web form and get a sample. If I want to talk to an engineer, I place a phone call. If I want to order a dozen of a part, I go to Digikey. If I want a datasheet, it's online.

Intel won't give you the time of day unless you're HP or Dell. That's optimal for capitalizing on old markets, but it means it's never in new markets. It always starts at a disadvantage. It's not that Intel never has chips startups want to use; it's that it's impossible to engineer with most of them.

By the time a product has enough marketshare for Intel to care, they need to displace an existing supplier.

This means they could never really diversify outside of PCs.
When did they do this?
That's like saying back in the 70s and 80s that we cannot eliminate deaths and injuries from car accidents so it's useless to have seatbelt and air bag campaigns and laws.

>outside of risk populations

Depends on how you define risk, 59 children have died just in Texas from Covid so far. Risk goes up with age.

Every single additional vaccination helps the situation.
Thanks, I didn't know proton/antiproton annihilation is so complex. But it makes sense.
I was looking at rental prices in County Durham and Northumberland, largely because that's where I lived when I was a young kid. My partner was initially convinced they were some sort of scam because houses are so much cheaper than we are paying down south. We could rent a three-bedroom detached with a decent chunk of land for less than we pay now for a two-bedroom end terrace with no garden.
I'm not sure how your link applies to this situation. That refers to an interesting way an AI encoded data in an image. The issue here is that this data _exists in the first place_. Whether the AI learned to compress the racial data into an 8x8 picture is besides the point.
I just picked a random-ish file from the standard library to see what the error handling really looks like in practice (I went for "io" because I figured that's where errors will always crop up): https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/master:src/io/fs/glob.g...

Does that seem reasonably representative? To a non-Go programmer, it doesn't seem that bad, but it sure does have a lot of error-handling boilerplate -- squinting at it, something around 50% of the non-comment lines? It just seems kind of weird, if you have to write "err != nil" and "return nil, err" over and over, not to have any syntactic sugar for it!

There's what looks like missing return values on lines 64 and 69, then down on line 93 there's an explicit "return // ignore I/O error".

Is this file outdated, or otherwise not a good example? I used Google to find it, and it says "Copyright 2020" in the header.
This is my general take.

The goalposts sure seem to be shifting around Covid. At first it was merely "Flatten the curve" and now we're talking about much larger societal policy decisions, with no clear objective or aim.

Frankly - If the US was a person, I'd say we're having a severe allergic reaction. The response is worse than the disease. On both sides of the political spectrum we're seeing a tendency towards authoritarian controls and in-group/out-group dynamics, and I have a sinking feeling it's not going to end well.

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None of that means you personally shouldn't get vaccinated. I'd strongly suggest it, and wish we'd had a vaccine earlier - I lost both of my grandmothers to covid.

But we've clearly lost touch with how to actually talk with a person you don't agree with - and since neither side has any real discourse with the other, we're reverting to control measures that I don't think are good for democracy.
Is there a website or pictures/examples of the "three sided card"?
Agreed, but I think a lot of us sighed a sigh of relief.
Probably because it effectively means that Google’s own devices are the simplest to “deGoogle.”
Personally I think Go code is incredibly clean, even with the error handling. It's just little if err != Nil statements that you essentially speed-read. And is knowing what errors are possible in your code not an important part of reading it? Why should that be obscured?
Dear creeping gods, not another JS framework.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/technology/hack-mexico-so...
I think a more charitable interpretation is that no specific gun company is responsible for gun deaths, as long as it remains legal to manufacture and sell guns, there's going to be somebody out there selling them because the technology/profitability is there.
Yes, Nassim Taleb comments on those extensively in his books. He calls the world we live in today "Extremistan" and the world from before the age of connectivity "Mediocristan". In essence, things are more and more inclined to be distributed with a power law in today's world as people and things are more and more connected and distributed.
this is great!

but ff shows that underrun.wasm is 35KB, what's going on?
It's funny that you ask, but I have this flashlight that I found in my weird neighbor's garage/machine shop...
This space stuff is such a waste. There is enough garbage on the surface of the earth to worry about. Just nerd grifting IMO.
FWIW I've been fucked over by Standard Bank in South Africa for just this. It's not just "shady" operators.
> unless you're critical to national security, the bottom line is: you're on your own here

Ransomware attacks are now pervasive. I'd argue that even though most individual victims are not critical to national security, society as a whole is under attack. This makes it a national security emergency in my view.
What do you win by downloading MBs of JS over a multiplexed connection? You still need to parse it all on one core.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523688
Not necessarily better than gzip, as you have to add the size of the unpacker to the payload.
I get what your saying but maybe in a weird way we should Oracle be thankful that this is now cleared up in a definitive way.

Smaller companies who do not have the resources to fight such a thing can now refer to this case without having to fight this long battle.
Sprockets and Webpacker Duality
How about splitting the difference like locking the bootloader at point of sale with guaranteed period for updates? After the period has lapsed, allow users to unlock the bootloader to extend with custom software upgrades or, a subscription base to continue with original POS policy.

This weirdly intersects for the Right to Repair movement, or for consumers whom would rather be conservative on new device purchases and software licenses.
It would be challenging to define "articles that a news organization should cover but isn't" though. Like there's trillions of things that happen every day, where's the lower bound on "news worthy" and how do you not bias that lower bound to ignore things that some other party would consider significant?
> A direct conversion would require a laser that emits gamma-ray photons in a highly concentrated steel. However, research has not yet been able to develop such a laser.

What does "highly concentrated steel" mean here?

All my Googling is getting hits for the metal, but I feel like something else is meant here.
Maybe they will also become an insurance company to insure satellites from spatial debris.
I was there too. I was also in Boise, and Twin Falls, ID.

I went to no less than 20 doctors or nurses in the space of 2 weeks

Not one doctor mentioned anything about quitting or being short-staffed.
Yes, and if we were to most crudely distinguish between sub-groups of 'bugs whales and cows' we would do it first and foremost based on immediate appearance.

We would even name the sub-groups firstly the artifacts that differentiate them physically.

Blue Whale, Grey Whale

Black Bear, Brown Bear.

As we develop a better understanding, we'd also probably later determine that the genetic differences may not map very well to the physical attributes ... but due to historical groupings based on visual cues, we'd continue to overstate/understate the differences in the textbooks and in pop culture.
It may not be what you meant, but it is what you inadvertently said.

I think you might be thinking of a similar construct which doesn't imply it's false: "If you're Korean, you realise ...". The "you" here is non-specific, and the phrase doesn't say you're Korean or not Korean. The present tense and lack of speculative "would" are what make the difference.

"If you were at the beach, you would have seen the shark." is saying you were not at the beach, and implying you didn't see the shark.

"If you were tall, you would have been able to see it" is saying you are not tall, and implying you couldn't see it.

The "if", "were", and "would" make the phrase a hypothetical counterfactual, imagining that the statement is true and supplying a consequence, and this means that the statement is actually false (i.e. you were not at the beach). This meaning holds when speaking about a specific "you", like the person you're replying to. I'm sure there's a name for this grammatical construct, but I don't know it.

The sentence may be incorrect, in which case the person you're speaking to could correct it with "I was at the beach, but I didn't see it", "I saw it by climbing on a rock", or "WTF I am Korean". It's possible the speaker may suspect their sentence is incorrect and be using it to ask a question indirectly, inviting correction.

A more general meaning is possible when you're not talking about a specific person, but using the conditional to imagine a group of people or something, e.g. "If you were employed, you could afford it, and if you were on a benefit you could afford it, so most people can afford it." I think this usage is uncommon though, as there are much clearer ways to phrase that sort of thing. It's definitely not the usage you wrote.

Source: Native English speaker, but not trained grammarian. Also wrote way too much because it's late at night and I can't be succinct.
I've never really believed it was Hollywood or the fashion industry that created it. People know who's attractive in their circle. You compete with them. The magazines and ads have upped the ante, and facebook turned it into an addiction, but the mechanism was there all along, I think.
It’s because every generation is very good at teaching the platform of comparison. Take just software developers for a second, we are drowning in the Leetcode unrealistic beauty standard. Young men/woman/teens are comparing and narcissistically validating on these social networks. The extra sad thing is some don’t grow out of it and keep doing it into middle age, on the same childish platforms.
> - "authoring this report" they never authorized a report, that's what they were protesting.

You are commenting on a HN story which is literally linking directly to the document they authored.

I hope you will delete your misguided and grossly uncivil comment in the time that the site lets you do so, and consider offering another response when you've actually read the article that you're commenting on!

> the FDA and CDC got into a procedural slap-fight, and because the CDC gave advice first

The CDC statement is here: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0818-covid-19-boost... you can see that it is unambiguously conditional on FDA approval: "We have developed a plan to begin offering these booster shots this fall subject to FDA conducting an independent evaluation and determination of the safety and effectiveness of a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines".

> "Biden had vaccine experts resign to push through the booster" comment above is problematic.

This is a false and fabricated quotation, which I did not say at any point. Your inclusion of it makes it extremely hard to see your comment as a good faith attempt to communicate.
It appears to work for Netflix, but not YouTube videos. Are there restrictions in the implementation?

Edit: following this¹ (without installing any driver though) was enough to make it work for YouTube, apparently. Thanks for the info!

[1] https://askubuntu.com/a/1291873