skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the ideas in this post might pan out, some might not. Regardless, I do think token event graphs will turn out to be important. Of course, I'm biased: I coined the name TEG -- although the underlying idea originated with Max Piskunov and his "local multiway systems" [0]

What's promising about TEGs (and their incidence hypergraph, the rewrite hypergraph) is that they offer a clean methodology to decompose the behavior of a non-deterministic automaton into its causally independent parts. We're still trying to understand how to think about them, but the most promising approach seems to use the lens of (modular) representation theory, which gives us a rich mathematical toolkit to work with.

If this methodology works, there will be possibility to represent many kinds of systems in disparate fields, ranging from distributed computation to physics to biology to machine learning, in the common language of TEGs and their representations. Of course it may turn out to be merely a recasting of older ideas. In particular the Krohn-Rhodes theorem [1], categorical Petri nets [2], and the GNS construction [3] seem like they might be describing the same or an analogous procedure.

I hope to soon be describing this approach in full detail using quiver geometry [4].

[0]: https://github.com/maxitg/SetReplace/blob/master/Research/Lo...

[1]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Krohn–Rhodes_theory

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04238

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmaSAG4J6nw

[4]: https://quivergeometry.net
So I Brave searched “cdc weekly provisional counts of deaths by state and select cause 2020-2021”, and I got a useful table from the CDC that you may want to look at yourself. I summed deaths for all causes for FL and CA and divided by their population 39.5M and 21.5M respectively. Yep, FL has about 1.4x more deaths per capita than CA.

Then I downloaded the table for 2014-2019 and performed the same calculations. For that same period FL has … 1.4x more deaths per capita than CA. Maybe that has more to do with the age distribution of their respective populations rather than the wise rule of Gavin Newsome.

I don’t recommend letting journalists do your stats for you.
Not wanting to tie it to OpenBSD only was the reason he chose feature sniffing. From the article:

> "Systems other than OpenBSD may support these functions, now or in the future, and it would be nice to automatically make use of them when available. This means no checking for OpenBSD specifically but instead feature sniffing for their presence."
Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets
Is the official Git default master or main?
I'm not asking what GitHub or GitLab do but what the git tool itself has as a default...
I'm tired of the nobody is rich argument.
I believe that he is very bright. Do you think it is possible that he has also gotten so wrapped up in his own thoughts that he can no longer distinguish "good" theory from "bad" theory? It happens to a lot of mathematicians. Michael Atiyah a while back claimed to prove the Riemann hypothesis. Even Hamilton got so wrapped up in quaternions that he spent the rest of his days obsessing over them (they are useful, especially in graphics, but did not revolutionize physics the way he thought they would).

I glance at his writings over the past few years and most often think that unless he uses his theory to solve a problem others care about, his line of research will be abandoned after he passes.
Hear, hear. An under appreciated long-form essay that I refer colleagues to frequently.
Correct, but that just shows why the American style is so confusing. That we have to have an exception for more meaningful punctuation marks just serves to confuse, and emphasizes just how bad the default is.
I wish the plaintiffs luck in court. I remember apples courtroom privateering where they persuaded the justice system they invented rounded corners and got their competitors phones pulled from the market. If only the same standards and rigor of enforcement could actually apply to them.

Once all is said and done I suspect whatever apple has to pay will not meaningfully impact their profitability, and will be seen as a cost of doing business. This is a core reason these companies are so caustic. Penalties need to be harsh enough to make this behavior unprofitable. The board needs to be pissed at their executives.
Many of those crimes were committed against the people who now feel threatened. That's worth acknowledging.
Winklevoss twins won because MZ was actively telling them he was working on the app in order to prevent direct competition from them while he worked on his own version (in the movie at least, who knows what's really real). If he had just told them to f-k off and ripped them off from the start, everything would have been fine legally. There's tons of prior art for social networks and domain restricted logins before FB came around.
But the flow of the program isn't only or primarily about the happy path. I find it annoying when languages that don't force explicit error handling choices, force me to go searching for the non-happy path. Where do they handle the errors at? It's nowhere in this pull request. Are there errors to handle? You have to assume there must be because exceptions. Then I have to write a bunch of comments asking if they know whether this line can throw or not. Usually the answer is "I don't know" and then I'm the annoying one in the PR review because I tell them to please find out and either add a comment or handle/wrap the exception appropriately.

If the only thing you care about is the happy path in your review then Go code will annoy you. But you are also only doing half of your job in that review.
Because no one other than the people can hold politicians accountable on that (or "watchdog" agencies like the CBO, but they can't enforce anything), and the people are largely stupid.
This really caught my eye.

I wrote a website almost exactly like this for myself. I've been using it for over a year. https://thoughts.learnerpages.com

Something about posting publicly, but not having any public interaction mechanism is super cathartic for me.

(I haven't signed up for thoughts.page, I'll probably write a comparison at some point, since I'm opinionated about this type of site.)
Doesn't the market fix it? I don't have such issues on Android, that's why I don't buy Apple.

Most customers just don't care about any of that, so they continue to buy Apple.
A lawsuit about equity while a company is on the road to the biggest IPO in history in 2009 is different circumstances than a guy arguing against an established company in 2021.

Apple could pay this guy off, but apparently their executives have decided he is not a sufficient PR problem or time expense to merit a payoff yet.
I was taught the American way (as I live in the US), but immediately rejected it (even at a young age) and did it the British way, though I had no idea that's what it was called. Besides the week or so when teachers were covering that in their syllabus, nobody ever complained or noted it at all :)
The question mark is supposed to go outside the quote if it is not part of the quote, FYI. Same with exclamation points. Internalizing only happens with periods and commas.
I believe that even despite the low gravity of the moon, dust settles out quite quickly. There's just nothing to stop it from free-fall, nothing to push against or mix with.
> Scientists aren't stupid. No one saw a paper where a predictor explained 1% of the variance in an outcome and based solely on a significant p value decided that was a great road to base an entire career on. The problem, as described by the parent comment, doesn't really exist in funding structures and the scientific literature.

Of course they're stupid. Everyone is stupid. That's why we have a "scientific method" and a formal discipline of logic to overcome fallacious reasoning and cognitive biases. If people weren't stupid we wouldn't need any of these disciplines to check our mistakes.

And yes, what you describe does happen all of the time. We literally just had a thread on HN about the failure of the amyloid hypothesis in Alzheimer's and the decades of work put wasted on it. Many researchers are still trying to push it as a legitimate therapeutic target despite every clinical trial to date failing spectacularly. As Planck said, science advances on funeral at a time.

Which isn't to say that small effect sizes aren't legitimate research targets either, but if you're after a a small effect size, the rigour should be scaled proportionally.
>You still can't replace all air pollution with nuclear power.

No one ever said that, however it's still tumbling around in you head for whatever reason.

>And nuclear contamination is still worse than any coal contamination if it ever occurs.

Future generation would probably say that a CO2 saturated atmosphere is worse...Earth is the new Venus.

>If a majority of voters think this small risk of gigantic damage is not worth taking, you eventually have to accept that.

And if china builds Nuclear and Coal power plants you have to accept that too, and if N.Korea trows a ICBM into your country you have to accept that too, but i think thats not the discussion, the fact that Germany believes it's green when in fact they are brow (from the coal) is just laughable, and even sell that power to other country's, coal plants are there to make money and not as a "stop gap" and you get the "fresh" air.

>Coal is not the future, it is a stop gap measure.

Exactly wrong, "old" Nuclear power was the intelligent stop gap.
This is what baffled me about the article. The amount of money spent on vaccine development and production likely dwarves the cost of the unvaccinated. They have accidentally argued against vaccines if all we care about is cost.
Yes and? That doesn't affect the answer to his question. Regardless of who's letterhead the guy who built the web form's pay stub is on the process is still the same. Having to click "no" on a few more screens doesn't make it much more challenging.
I’m removing myself from the concept of an ecosystem and choosing software based on individual merit at the moment.
Orbital tolls :)
Its not easy at all. Try it out with your family on your LAN.

People are used to so much convenience, its easy to brush under the carpet, just how much work is happening behind the scenes. Just coming up with a basic list of 3 mordern conveniences you want to support for your family will be non trivial.

In fact, just try supporting one.

(Worked as an RA in a distributed systems lab back in the day, and just getting everyone who proposed the algos and systems to use them was a nightmare)
promote ethereum?

you mean promote speculators with tax payer money? so they can sell their ETH and make ton of profit?

remove ethereum from your post, and i 100% agree with you

the fact that you included ethereum alongside IPFS and WebRTC is very suspicious

i don't believe in "decentralized web" if people wants it solely to make profit from 'trading' aka speculating "decentralized coins" with fiat currency

before any decentralization, there should be a global transparency act

so before doing anything, one should be able to know what your portfolio consist of, to prevent any form of conflict of interest

and even that i'm not sure that'll be enough to move forward

if it's to repeat what we lived, there is no reason to lie to ourself into pretending things will change for the better

why do you want a "decentralized web"? to maximize your profits? yeah no thanks
This would be a failed assignment in an entry level uni programming course. How on earth does a Microsoft developer accomplish such a thing as bringing an incomplete and unsafe program to production deployment?
Sure, this dude sound like nuts from comments describing him here (I can’t even be bothered to look this shit up myself) and I’m glad I dodged a bullet. However, the private info of all their customers from their inception are allegedly exposed; and lots of people here seem to be cheering the hackers on.

Does this mean we need — actually, needed — to do research on the political standings of every founder, CEO, CXO of every service we use? And somehow predict they won’t do abhorrent things in the future even if they appeared harmless at the time? Otherwise we deserve it when we get doxxed for being a customer of a disgraced person?

I believe the answer is no, that’s unreasonable. These hackers are just criminals illegally doxxing a huge number of people. They don’t deserve cheers. I hope everyone of them gets arrested, which is highly unlikely.

(This is really not a direct response to your comment; not saying you were cheering them on.)
here's something

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/36/39/2653/239823...

or this

https://forcetechnology.com/en/articles/traffic-noise-danger...

200-500 annual Danish deaths related to road noise pollution. Thats more than the number of people killed in traffic yearly.
No, I think not, because the quotation marks imbue semantic meaning to what’s inside.
Don't forget fridges:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478438

Will single tyres e-mail you singularly or as a group?

I mean:

Hi, I am your left front tyre and wished to tell you how ...

or:

We, the tyres of your car, have determined that ...
Buckle Up Issa CoinIn-ACircle
Slime-Simulation
Even trying to get VS Code working with a couple of plugins (and the help of the good, experienced people on the Nix discord) was impossible (I was just using the package manager, not NixOS--apparently VS Code requires a different incantation depending on which platform you use, which is another problem.

> Sadly it would take a lot of effort to simplify everything and make it more polished.

Yes, and while it would take a lot of effort to make most things nicer (improving the language, etc), other things require effort that scales linearly with the number of packages in the universe. For example, making the package definitions in the first place, adding documentation for the packages, testing packages, etc. Other things are even worse: testing various combinations of dependencies at different versions.

> I'm afraid Nix will continue to remain very niche.

Unless it gets some serious corporate support, I'm afraid I'll agree. The Nix folks have done some impressive work, but I get the impression that they're more interested in making something cool for themselves and other like-minded people at the expense of others (and there's nothing wrong with that! it's just incompatible with growing out of a niche).
Sorry if i gave you the impression i accuse you of that. That was not my intention.

Well, even if regulation has loopholes for bad actors, is it better to live in a world without it?
Big-O: How Code Slows as Data Grows
Shot:

https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/06/tech/mobile/ryan-seacrest-iph...

Chaser:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/1/8696991/blackberry-typo-ke...
> of wanting to be the center of attention

It seemed more like he felt he was unfairly being uncredited. Which is probably why he wrote this - he now cares deeply about giving credit to the right people.
Quick question: does anyone know what involvement there is between Sourcehut and OpenStreetMap Foundation? Just curious as they do not seem related at a first glance.
Painting with a very broad brush here, but as somebody from neither location who lived in both for awhile, New England culture is..risk adverse is not the right word, I'd call them deeply traditionalist. New England feels like something out of the British aristocracy where you're expected to go off to school and become a respected professional like a doctor, lawyer or professor. This is perfectly exemplified by the example in the article where somebody turns down being an early employee at Netscape to go back to grad school. This is a great culture to build something like an IBM but terrible for starting an AirBnb.

Meanwhile Northern Californian culture just doesn't give a shit about all those titles, the surfers and the hippies all are in the same social circles as the professors and engineers, and value is placed on just doing interesting things for the sake of interesting things.
They answered that part: using recycled plastic and making the tyre recyclable and organic(!) are “in the future”

Reducing the amount of particulate pollution, however, is apparently not part of the remit.
Administration moves to stave off shortages of monoclonal antibodies
It's annoying that the original Latin is not provided. I'd love to know the original words used for some of these terms (such as buggering).

EDIT: It looks like this link is just a marketing site for a jewellery store. The original that this site stole from is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170221135226/http://www.pompei...
A warehouse is huge. A 5min walk to the restroom isn’t unreasonable. Id assume it takes a similar amount of time at usps, ups, fedex, and most large-scale domestic manufacturing facilities
I like this idea. However to me it is similar to using à la carte tools/programs along with bash script or DSL such as Nextflow. More often these stand-alone programs are already written in compiled languages. I am sure Seq will allow to build customized programs as compared to scripting or gluing programs.
so at what level does this happen? The forked python interpreter and its children (but not any parent process)?
Absolutely still have to lie about hours. Still feels pretty toxic today. Hard to believe it was even worse 15 years ago.
And about 90% of the way down, I would suggest “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
I guess they just did not update the manuel?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137870
What? Who are you talking about? I think we must be addressing two separate things.
It's not common for any bank to charge for this.

When you take money out of ATM machines abroad, the bank's fee is worked into the exchange rate they apply to you.
Does anyone have any thoughts on date formats? E.g. d/m/y vs. m/d/y?
And you'll be reading it for the rest of your life.
>But at the root of all of this there is something many do not notice: spending efficiently is done way better by way more pure market dynamics. This means politicians do not have a place there.

Privately funded healthcare has no incentive to cure people because cures reduce future income streams. Publicly funded healthcare has no incentive to keep people ill if there is an easy cure.

I also do not want to pay tolls on pedestrian walkways.

If I had to describe your comments in one word I'd choose "cringe".
In the same vein, protecting your SSH server with spiped[1] does 99% of the job. (= No need to setup fail2ban, password auth is not a big deal anymore, protects against out-of-date SSH servers and/or zero-days exploits, ...)

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html
TikTok rolls out features to help teens’ mental health
4-letter-long and above prepositions are capitalized. Can't remember where I got that rule, but they're probably using that; I use it for my music collection.
Can't say to be honest, I don't have that much interest in the topic of race beyond its informal use to define cohorts in studies. More than likely someone could start from ethnicity and expand it from there, but the whole endeavour is likely doomed from the start given the sensitivity of the subject.
I'd be happy if the federal government had some kind of route to referendums and legislative initiatives.
On Recalls, Military Alarm and Gala Dresses
Fully agree, it's a housing supply issue.

But raising taxes while not addressing the supply problem will make it worse for those who have not already "cashed out" their capital gains into tax-advantaged real estate.
One funny anecdote about Zuse during the war was that he managed to save his Z4 because it was named as V4 in the paperwork. The wehrmacht officers thought it was one of these retaliation weapon V1, V2, V3 so V4 was very important and got high priority to be hidden away somewhere.
Emergency software patches are on the rise
Haskell can be unfriendly and still more friendly than some of the least friendly languages. I still posit that Python or JavaScript would be far more familiar (especially syntactically) to far, far more developers than Haskell or Nix.
To piggyback on this, some of the people I've worked with in the past that could be called "smartest" are people with a natural aptitude for explaining things.

I've definitely met people who hadn't been humbled by life yet, and they're not too grating imo to deal with, provided they have good social skills and work ethic.

But there are those who innately understand that a lot of software team communication is about conveying an idea that is potentially unfamiliar to someone, and cooperating with them. I remember the first time someone showed me how to use Makefiles. I had seen them, I comprehended their usage, but when I was shown how easy it is to actually form them and use them for different purposes, it was incredibly eye-opening. That conversation couldn't have been but 7-8mins. That man was actually my boss for a while later on, before he had a bad car accident. Another example might be my old mentor who helped me grok syntax-rules for the first time, over a lunch break, with a pen and paper. It just clicked, and I learned.

My point is, the combination of social skills + intelligent explanations + teaching practice is a powerful one.
I disagree. The difference that I and many other people noticed on city streets during the initial COVID lockdowns was enormous. Cities aren’t loud places, the continuous white noise from passing passenger vehicles is the loud part.

60 km/h traffic is 10 times louder than people having a conversation.
You are treating Amazon as an individual but VPN providers as a class. Cloud services have leaked data due to poor design and configuration, leaked secrets through low level hacks on shared hosting infrastructure, and routinely comply with warrants for the FiveEyes countries in which they are located. I would suggest OP not take my word for it or the word of any particular VPN provider, do some research and see what others have to say about Mullvad and privacy.

Amazon has nothing to lose by providing the RIAA with your instance netflow data and avoiding the legal costs alone would make it worth their while. Amazon has already built an interface to this data in CloudWatch Logs to show you that they are keeping the data, so why would you presume they would lose any reputation by providing this information to a third-party upon the presentation of a valid court order?
Do income spreading if having an unusual year. This spreads your income across the past several years, and allows a lower marginal tax-rate.
This is not true as there was no completed court case, simply a “confidential” settlement.

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/connectus-secret-6...

Connect U obviously did not have proper documents stating Zuckerberg was working for them, or a non compete or anything since they were willing to settle. Hence it seems like a he said she said situation where Connect U got lucky that Facebook was going to be so huge that their agreed upon settlement amount was inconsequential to Facebook.
We are not cursed, we just can't see it. Immanuel Kant called reality "Das Ding an sich", which i can try to translate as "The thing in itself". He showed, that since we perceive reality via our senses, which are easily fooled, we can never be sure that we perceive reality as it really is.
Please leave some feedback so I can improve HealthMe :)
Sherlocking should be illegal. Apple wants to sell hardware, they should stay in their lane.
StrongDM Raises Series B
Show HN: This Olesya Does Not Exist – I trained StyleGAN2 to generate my photos
It's an ICANN requirement, it's universal as far as I know.
Based on the number of nails I find every week in the parking lot around my car, this can't come too soon to the mainstream.

Just hope it becomes affordable for basic cars by the end of the decade, I'm sure China will make a cheaper knockoff.