skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory couldn’t they exclude any transactions made by an ‘exile’ from the chain? I’m not sure how much that differs from doing the same thing on a PoW coin. It is harder to start as a PoS miner but to have the kind of iron control over a coins distribution means you’d have to make it effectively worthless because only the current owners could be ‘trusted’ to be the receivers of transactions. So while it’s theoretically possible for a miners cabal to lock out a new entrant it seems pretty opposed to the value of their own holdings so it’s left to something like a country that wants to shut it down through throwing money at the problem then I guess?
The dataset on Covid is so wildly incomplete to invalidate the objectivity of your entire argument.

> competing against such beacons of healthcare and wealth as the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has had 1.23 deaths per 100k population from Covid [1]. Why do you think the US has 200x deaths per population than the DRC ?

> Unless you're suggesting that U.S. Americans are somehow inherently inferior to people in other countries

Yes people are not all the same, and those different factors effect outcomes. The US has a large populations that are elderly, chronically sick, urban, highly mobile etc, were tested for covid, etc.

Saying hundreds of thousands of people could have been saved in the US is highly speculative.

1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
I just want to echo here that Edwin is superhelpful in the past. He proactively reach out and get the problem fix on my first post, and on the second time I reached out to him and again, he's superhelpful to help me resolve and regain access to Stripe.

Thanks a lo for what you did Edwin.

Vinh.
Are you the fifth Yorkshireman ? Too bad you left the band before it became famous.
>That's not MAD. Also I'm not sure if it's even plausible that Taiwan could successfully target Beijing even if it had nukes

do they need to target beijing? Targetting guanzhou would already wipe out any gains from capturing taiwan.
I've noticed a big uptick in availability of senior roles (e.g. Architect) recently, but also a big uptick in salary - I've had several recruiters contacting me over the past month for senior roles in the range of £80-95k, and every one was OK with remote work too. Never seen anything like it.
I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.
Power and status. People want something to bargain with, to show off, and to control other people. If money is not an option, information will do (and possibly cryptocurrency, which in some way is both).
My thoughts exactly. Looking at even just a handful of his recent posts should make it very clear to anyone he's experiencing some type of severe mental health crisis. Really disappointing to see the lack of compassion and recognition, especially from people who probably consider themselves generally empathetic and aware.
Will have a look -- thanks!
Private sales aren’t illegal, but - yes - guns are easily available (legal or not) in the United States.
iPad mini features an all-screen design

half inch bezel on all sides

Removing the home button is not the same as making an all-screen design.
I have just noticed that they say “iPhone” not “the iPhone”, “the iPad”, “my iPad”. It’s as if they were talking about a person, such as “I’m using Hal”.
Knowing how basic American people want their words to be, just call it double-quarter pounder to compete. See, you doubled the word, I know it is not exactly double but who cares.
Quite an awkward endorsement for Android!
NB: Post author here.

Love this example. Might have to use that in a future post. Feel like a lot of us are running into a similar thing with remote work and video calls these days...
Try armbian
Also, justifying it by security is not convincing. Encapsulation / decoupling and security are different things. The internals can anyways be accessed through core-dumps, /dev/mem, side-channels, etc.

Yes, the strong encapsulation of JDK impl classes can create some inconveniences to an attacker. But I don't feel it's valuable enough to justify luck of access to the internals.
iPhone 13 announced with redesigned camera array and smaller notch
I was a gold bug from way back. Thinking more deeply about inflation, any asset can be an inflation hedge. The answer is simply not to hold the inflating currency. Bitcoin doesn't do this any better than gold, real estate, company ownership through stocks, or even toilet paper.

The actual use cases for crypto-currencies seem like really extreme edge cases to me. I don't think they will ever see widespread usage.
Wonder why he visited AMOS, and in what capacity? It's a cool place to visit, but unless Woz has the appropriate clearances, he's not likely to get much out of his visit.
Maybe 'amoral' is a bit strong, but I think there is something wrong with an economic system where producers destroy wealth, rather than distribute all that is produced.

If it's wrong for the government to pay farmers to burn crops during a depression, then it's wrong for a monopoly to disable chip capabilities during a chip shortage.
Presumably china's not randomly declaring war? They could start building it once tensions rise.
Nothing yet ;)
I'd love to see some examples, too. Would it be useful for a two-stage email setup for example, where something like postfix or opensmtpd was exposed to the internet, and a richer mail service (with more attack surface) was confined to a vfr, and only the "outer" service listen on smtp to the internet, and forward via LMTP to the "inner" service for example?
The Citadel demo already works with Emscripten, so...still Citadel.
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."

Calm Technology is "that which informs but doesn't demand our focus or attention."

for those unfamiliar with Weiser/"Calm Technology":

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

http://web.archive.org/web/20180604010109/http://www.ubiq.co...

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20141022035044/http://www.ubiq.c...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jwLWosmmjE

https://web.archive.org/web/20080905233018/http://www-sul.st...

https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=51
DoD Wants Companies to Build Nuclear Propulsion Systems for Deep Space Missions
This is normal. E.g. cars are the same way. It's not "The Mustang" it is "Mustang".
Any clustering similarity scheme for biometric data would yield similarity categories that we may or may not name "races" though.

We could probably do the same with text analysis, where the emergent distinct flavours would create categories. A previous HN story that did specifically this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709) could have just as easily been called "tribes."

The bigger question is whether the categories provide heuristics with valuable predictive illumination. "Valuable," being the key term to solve for.

Ethnicity information in medicine may be a fast heuristic for testing for things like melanoma and diabetes, but even that this fast sorting rule might provide a time/steps shortcut or intuitive leap to test for a diagnosis is likely really more an artifact of the cost of testing and examination than the result of a physical/biological determinant.

I'd conjecture that a world with tricorders where the cost of scanning for disease is equal and controlled, would likely yield results that were less-ethnically correlated - and then edge cases that were exclusively ethnically correlated, e.g. over a very polarized distribution. There's also the question of whether the tricorder measures complete things, and who decides.

This is to say, there are differences and combinations that may aggregate into categories, but the meaning of the differences is dynamic, subjective, and a function of what level of abstraction you are looking at them from. E.g. at the level of a statement like "most foo people are bar," you've already cancelled out most of the information about your sample, so the coherence of something that low-information is going to be limted as well.

In this sense, the "social construct," description is a response to these noisy dynamics, and it's consistent to a point. In this view, race is only ever a determinant when we let it be, as the result of chosen and learned interpretations of these cognitive grouping dynamics. When the cost of errors is low, we can afford to unlearn these abstractions. Modernity and civilization implies the cost is low.

Taking that further, when the real cost of errors is high enough, you get a reinfocement effect on the bias where the surviving population is made up mainly of people who exercised that fast heuristic (hence long-lived homogenous populations), because the tolerant ones evoltionarily select out as a result of that high error cost.

I could even extend this further to define racists today as people who percieve a high cost to being wrong in their generalizations, which correlates well with being poor, but also, very rich, just less so in the middle between. Anti-racism becomes a kind of signal that shows you can afford to be wrong, and oddly, racism in this model is intended to signal you have a lot to lose. If you want to reduce racism, solve for the security issues for people who percieve a high cost to being wrong about openness. If you want more racism, just antagonize people who percieve that they have a lot to lose. I'd wonder how well that generalizes.
Treehouse isn’t a school or bootcamp. It is just video lessons and such.
So which "race" is the child mentioned above, German or Irish? Sure, they have aspects of both, but they can be in only one cluster.

The utility of clusters is nebulous, too.
Do people say "On the Windows 11 we ..." or do they say "On Windows 11 ..."? It's a name, you don't have to put "the" in front of a name, the laurent92 (of course, the Ohio State University would disagree with that idea).
Don't forget the Scottish Highlands and Islands!

We did the North Coast 500 this year (we live in NE Scotland, but obviously aren't going to get anywhere further afield for now!), and it was really difficult to find accommodation because so much was fully booked.
or "Quarter+ Pounder"
Teenage boys' bullying tends to be physical and a lot less socially adept, stereotypically speaking. Social media is less of an accelerant for that sort of thing.
Don’t Spend Your Litecoins at Walmart
BB built for the carriers. Apple builds for the consumer. Apple's logic was that AT&T was going to upgrade it's network, or else they'd switch to Verizon.

I think it also highlight a talent gap. Apple managed to squeeze a desktop OS on a phone, and get the best touchscreen on the market, on their first try. Blackberry couldn't even match the original iPhone two years after it's release.
Scammers Are Using Deepfake Videos Now
They also have marketing rules they stick to regarding pluralization: https://twitter.com/pschiller/status/725791354769399808
they'll need that performance to scan their devices since most of their users could be vectors for distributing CP...

/s
People would have a better chance of finding me via one of my various pseudonym's online than they would by my IRL name.

I do not have any accounts in my real name, and I had no problems finding others via our pseudonym's when I wanted to share them with people in the physical world.
This makes sense since "rendered unplayable while connected to the internet" sort of implies if you disabled your internet, everything started working again.
While the wording is hyperbole, going from a A12 to an A15 is quite the performance bump.
LSD, Psilocybin, and DMT in Depression Treatment: A Systematic Review
> The usefulness of hardware acceleration for video decoding is highly debatable.

Disagree. On low-end hardware the advantages are clear. On my older Intel NUC i can play 1080p H.264 (using mpv) hw-accelerated with 15% cpu load, or software decoded with 75% cpu load. In the first case the NUC is silent, in the second case core temperature is rising and eventually its fan starts spinning.
That's going to be tricky. People want to be able to drive around and they don't mind paying for it.

Getting rid of those subsidies would presumably lower everyone's taxes by a similar amount. If people really don't like driving they'll just spend the money saved on something else if not then they'll just spend the money required for infrastructure directly.

I live in a city. I walk. I take public transport. I still own a car though because sometimes it's super handy. I'm sure there's a price where I'd decide the handiness is outweighed by the price but it's a pretty high price and I'm going to be reluctant to vote for people who make my life harder not easier.
One more thing to note is that China doesn't have much oil, natural gas and other resources on its own, and it is very hard to get any to it by any other way than by sea - otherwise it's combination of Siberia, Himalayas, deserts and neighbors that hate China.

China has enormous manufacturing capacity, but rather fragile supply to make use of it should the seas around it become warzones.
A15 chip => Same one as today's new iPhones.
Time for a management consultants union, it seems.
Yes, again, I'm talking about PCs here, where it's usually implemented in shaders.
Much Ado About the OODA Loop
In Southern Oregon, people with cancer or who are at risk of heart attack or stroke are being made to wait for care, because the hospitals are filled with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients:

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2021/09/absolutely-he...

In another rural region (Idaho, maybe?) there was just that, someone who had some treatable condition who was unable to be seen for all the unvaccinated COVID patients, and who died from the condition. I couldn't find the article, but it was just published on some authoritative news service a few days ago, in case you'd like to look for it.
Aha, that explains it, thanks!
Right, you're just taking private words from someone who "refrain[ed] from making any public statement", publicizing them, and trying to capitalize on it four entire days after his obituary was published now that he's not around to speak for himself. Toootally different.
> Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to have net zero climate impact across the entire business, which includes manufacturing supply chains and all product life cycles. This means that every Apple device sold, from component manufacturing, assembly, transport, customer use, charging, all the way through recycling and material recovery, will be 100 percent carbon neutral.

I see Apple is still keeping up with the lie that they are carbon neutral.

Buying CO2 allowances is not being carbon neutral. Your entire supply chain will never be carbon neutral. The world simply does not work that way.
Principles for Architecture at Salesforce
At least the games didn't blame the customer. I've hit several websites that instructed me to disable my ad blocker, because the ads they tried to serve failed to load.
I never said anything about that, and neither did derbOac. But, it is meaningless to say that the FDA approves for a purpose, since drugs are used for many off-label purposes.
China's high temperature pebble bed modular reactor achieves first criticality
whoa a performance bump!
That's relative lightness/darkness of skin pigmentation of the butt of Mongol people. Of course there is variation even among races, even among family members of the same race in skin tone.

Which do you think is more common, based on your quoted stats?

a) To see white parents who have a genetic child who has black skin, or black parents who have a genetic child who has white skin (disregarding albinism)

or

b) two tall parents have a genetic child who is short as an adult, or two short parents to have a genetic child who is tall as an adult
What about sktime?
https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime
Yeah there’s a lot of people who don’t know the history of labor at all and have been convinced that companies without outside regulation would totally treat their employees well and not abuse, over work, injure, or flatly refuse to pay owed wages. It’s a real success story for the pro-business groups in the US and around the world.
But the email is about ARM SoCs with dedicated VPU IP blocks.
> For an internal app, when we know EXACTLY what data is needed for each page

I think that's only true for relatively small internal apps. I work on an internal app with a few hundred thousand lines of JS, and there are way too many different permutations of different types of pages to write an API catered to each use case. GraphQL has been fantastic.
Down votes! I seriously never heard of lazurus before. Where is the community active?
Some people enjoy it. A lot of people think they are smarter and will beat the average. Some might, most probably won’t.

Investing in an index fund is easy. Angel investing on the other hand takes a lot of effort. I hope that on average there is some return for it.

A lot of people do things that make little economic sense. (start a vineyard, airline, space company :)
It's not an either/or situation. If publishers can raise the price of video games, they will NOT stop with ads and battlepasses and microtransactions etc. Why would they ever do that when those things make them more money than people actually purchasing the games in the first place?
I think it is like any translation: you get much of the understanding. Still, it is important to understand the social and cultural background of the author, and reading it as the author wrote it is part of that.
100% agree, people do not factor in consistency when it comes to fast food, McDonald's is the king of consistency its why they have expanded so fast around the world, also they are a clean restaurant. My expectation in 20 years is mcdonald's to own the burger chain experience globally, I expect Carls Jr.(hardees) Wendys, and A&W to not be around by then.
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I'll be vegan when hell freezes over but I think what you say means you just don't have experience with a food culture where most dishes are plant based, like the Mediterrannean or the Indian cuisine.

I grew up in a Mediterrannean country. If you think about it, that's the one region in the entire world that has so many different nations famous for their cuisines: Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Morocco, Tunisia ... and all of them are 80% technically vegetarian or vegan. Think of Italian cuisine with all its pasta with tomato sauce and olive oil, for example, or the Greek cuisine with all its sea food, the world-famous French cheeses, Moroccan pilafs, etc.

It's funny in a way but most of those are the cuisines of traditionally piss poor people (in Italy, for example, you eat best in the -still- poor South). They say that "need is the mother of invention" and I guess if you can't rely on having steak and fries for breakfast, lunch and dinner, then you really need to get creative if you want to have some pleasure with your food.

It's a real tragedy that in the West being vegan has more or less become synonymous with fake burgers and milk substitutes. There's so many things you can eat that are vegan, or vegetarian, that aren't "fake" anything and don't "substitute" anything, they're just delicious foods in their own right. But then, there are so many people who don't even know how to cook steak and fries to begin with, let alone know how to make a good meal out of some vegetables...
Reminds me of that scene in Transcendence [1] where the super intelligent AI person announces another breakthrough and the AI / person's wife says "oh great honey". At a certain point, incremental innovation loses its wonder.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)
Is your claim that only in the United States is it that girls are mean to each other when they are in primary and secondary school? This seems like a much more extreme claim than mine. You have to argue that there’s something unique about the not_the_United_States schools such that there’s something nullifying intrafemale competition.

It’s a claim so extreme that … I’d like to see some data to back it up.
iPads are good companions for making music, for making art, for non-casual content consumption like reading textbooks or reference manuals, drilling flash cards, watching lectures, et c. The mini's maybe not as good for the latter as an 11.9" Pro (great size for reading textbook PDFs, even large enough to do two pages at a time if you have good eyesight), but still. With an external wireless keyboard, they can be better than a laptop for writing, because you can position the screen separately from the keyboard (without having to wastefully carry around a whole attached keyboard that you're not using) and you can draw (e.g. diagrams) directly on them if you want to, plus the semi-modal operation is great for focus.
Lets not forget that Facebook was founded as a platform to rate people on looks.

Also, Facebook is a case where a somewhat immoral but acceptable behaviour (judging people by their looks) has been warped and focused by technology to such a degree that 1/3 teen girls (and who knows who else) are suffering real effects from it.
Portal was designed so that nearly the entire game was "the tutorial level". The gradual introduction of novel elements such as beams, turrets, and more advanced movement challenges kept up the interest, but it also had the hidden agenda of preparing the user for the climactic finale which brought all of those elements together.
OTOH these innovations in creating artificial scarcity is what enabled the games to be funded in the first place. At least this way they exist, and can (and will!) be rescued by the hackers of the world.

EDIT: it's impossible to make money off of digital goods without artificial scarcity. This is because data is naturally not scarce. In the beginning, physical media allowed data goods to piggy-back on the retail structures already in place. Personal computing and the internet has mostly eliminated that form of scarcity. New forms of scarcity have been invented, some better than others (from the end-user perspective). Note that this truth applies to FAANG as well. Facebook and Google's fortunes have been built on the scarcity of ad space. Gaming companies have invented ways to create scarcity ranging from account-bound DRM (Steam, Battle.net), dongles, and always-on phone-home requirement for the runtime. And more. All of these technologies exist to extract money from something that is naturally not scarce. And rather than hate that fact, consider that without the ability to extract monetary value, these projects would not have been executed in the first place. So what's worse: a world in which we have excellent games hobbled by money extraction mechanisms, or a world in which we don't have excellent games? I know which one I prefer.
A few of the bleeding edge features ? You obviously don't know what you're talking about - WebGL 2.0 is not supported on Safari and iOS [1] and WebGL 1.0 is based on an API that was released in 2007 ! Even WebGL 2.0 is based on ES 3.0 which is from 2008...

[1] https://caniuse.com/webgl2
You see the same misconception with environmental regulations, it makes for some interesting (though frustrating) discussions though.
> Until VAAPI support is implemented, videos in Firefox will be unaccelerated. I think it is the same deal for Chrome.

That is an issue of Firefox, other software (mplayer, mpv) support VAAPI for many years. And with youtube-dl integration in mpv, why even play videos in Firefox?
The "Center Stage" feature is basically the core of Facebook's Portal platform. Your move FB.
I would interpret it as "connecting via social apps has a greater than absolute 0 probability of giving positive mental health benefits".