skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a couple of years working on a Haskell backend and honestly the safety and performance wasn't worth it, compared to the agility of python.

Judicious use of mypy, unit testing and leaning heavily on the framework can keep things well organised

If you're hitting performance limits you likely have enough revenue to get some extra computing power and this might even be a viable long-term solution. Otherwise you can:
- Build a service in the performant language
- Embed C, Rust or Fortran into python

A full rewrite in a performant language is an option but almost never the right one in my experience. In any case optimise for development agility right now, which includes writing good organised code. You can cross the performance bridge when you come to it.
found your company, hire yourself on h1/o1.
This is more interesting (Instagram response to WSJ, linked to in the article): https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/using-researc...

"We're increasingly focused on addressing negative social comparison and negative body image. One idea we think has promise is finding opportunities to jump in if we see people dwelling on certain types of content."

"From our research, we're starting to understand the types of content some people feel may contribute to negative social comparison, and we're exploring ways to prompt them to look at different topics if they're repeatedly looking at this type of content."

Wow, talk about "Big Brother".

Facebook/Instagram monitors everything the user looks at, how many times and for how long, and now they will "jump in" and alert the user.

"We're watching you and we think you should look at something else."

Meanwhile the whole "business model" of Instgram/Facebook is online advertising.

Advertising, e.g., in print, is what created these "negative body image" problems in the first place!

As they say, in the world of computers, what is old is new again. Originality is rare.

Big Tech relies on the same tired, old consumerism ideas, except it operates over the internet.

The only thing "futuristic" is the surveillance. Its nothing less than incredible what young people today are tolerating. Are they studying the psychological affects of surveillance on young people.
In this hypothetical scenario, the assumption is being made that the collection good is more important than individual liberty.

Another issue at play here in the US is that Americans are divided on where the line should be drawn between what can be allowed in the name of the collective good. I think it's quite obviously that the nation is very split on this. There isn't a constructive debate going on about the interplay between these two positions or a compromise.

One side (people mandating restrictions) are trying to brute force mandates without interacting, constructively discussing and persuading the other side.
He could move to a country with no extradition agreement with the US.
> I got something infected with a virus named Romania.856 (I will always remember this name)

For me it was Tai-Pan.438.A. I printed out(!) the disassembly code and studied it for weeks. I remember the stack modifications (not matching push/pop instructions) were super troubling for me to understand because such tricks were not really explained it the normal books.
I fully agree but the implication is that the government is still in control. However, it’s these companies that are in control. They have people (i.e., politicians, lobbyists, judges, and other appointments) embedded into the government to do their bidding. America has been obsessed with communism and socialism infiltrating America all the while corporations have been infiltrating to get us to the current state of affairs, that of a corporatocracy.

I honestly feel that capitalism and the love of the corporation is leading the slow death of the U.S. The only way to fix things is to completely remove conflicts of interests and self-benefits and actually enforce such rules, in addition to setting term limits and other such things. However, the people that need to pass such laws are the ones who currently benefit, so it’s not gonna happen.

It’s rather unbelievable that I, as a minion, have been previously strictly held to gifts less than a certain amount (literally a couple of tens of dollars) and reports of stock holdings, but yet, former head lawyers of corporations can be appointed to now oversee those corporations. It’s mind boggling how anyone thinks that could possibly work for anyone except the corporations.
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This article sort of makes the case for Matrix but I find Matrix incredibly clunky and slow. Plus every time it "verifies" me it always goes back to the app on my phone like it's some sort of permanent and authoritative identifier. So in that sense it's similar to Signal and Telegram being attached to your phone in some way.

Hard to know what to trust these days. "Nobody" I guess.
I'm not sure that inventors always understand the consequences of their inventions. Often, they are either focused on first-order capabilities and neglect the larger significance; or focused on visions of the future but unable to turn them into useful products in the short term.
The key in every speculative bubble is to remember that you must exit, or you'll be the one holding the bag.

(I hate scammers like this guy, but the comparison is valid, I think)
> There is nothing fundamentally useful about a single NFT so far.

If NFTs were useful, they'd be securities, and would be regulated by the SEC.

The entire point of NFTs is that they are naked, useless, purely speculative instruments. It's a big blackjack table, except unlike in Vegas, the house has an edge.
Let me put this short and sweet, they're over privileged and overpaid asshats.
With the widespread availability and use of code formatters like black, pre-commit hooks and ci/cd pipelines, complaining about indentation seems like a deeper problem in the engineering org. Files that are inconsistently formatted should never make it to code review, much less be merged.
> YouTube Channel Polymater had a video about how NK would basically follow a' eternal cycle ...

Tips of the day, don't put too much trust into Youtube videos. There are just random dudes/girls who are good with a video editor. And most of the content they produce is either from Wikipedia or their own random opinion.

And for something as serious are NK I wouldn't trust anything that is said by a youtube video
If you misled your users into thinking that this isn't something you would do, but as soon as shit hits the fan and the PR makes it impossible to keep the ruse going. It's a total fiasco to that business' marketing department.
Another sample paper that caused some trouble with figure extraction: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hovav/dist/vera.pdf

Very cool project, looking forward to seeing how it develops!
Yes. In physics good ideas are eventually recognized. There is just too many people in the academia who want to know the truth.

It's easy to forget that Einstein's ideas were not accepted instantly.

Special Theory of Relativity (1905) was very controversial. It was gradually accepted only because nobody could came out with better solution.

Main point of "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" was not fully accepted until 20 years later after the evidence came in. Plank wrote a recommendation letter saying that Einstein should get a position despite his crazy idea about light being quantized. Plank did not believe that himself. It took 20 years before others came around.
Scientists can now assemble entire genomes on their personal computers
He could launder the money, and start over again. Not that hard. People also tend to forget and in 7 years no one will remember him. He could also go to another country after his release or just disappear.

Many cases where people have run away with millions or even billions and are nowhere to be found:

- Ruja Ignatova (OneCoin)

- Jan Marsalek (Wirecard)

- Gerald Cotten and Omar Dhanani (QuadrigaCX) I like this one. It is obvious that Gerald faked his death and that Omar is putting everything on his "dead" friend.

So getting away with something like that is not impossible at all.
In fact if you have millions it is quite easy it seems.
> What has happened is we gave everyone internet access so now they can look at pictures of unrealistic bodies all day everywhere they go.

Not just that. The entire model is to chase you down, pester you with it, and shove products into your face. Which products? Whoever bids the most!
> his response is that it's not fun to watch

I read that in reference to it being easy to switch from an iPhone to an Android device.
You are right on the value of building things fast.

However one thing I have learnt is more coupled the code is with no or poor incomplete abstractions less likely anyone is going to change it.

In the interest of shipping fast I would rather have some abstraction today rather than none, simply because nobody fixes spaghetti code which is already working.

Building new things start slowing down more and mode and you end up taking weeks for what should have been an afternoon's effort .

There are no right answers, however sometimes wrong abstractions can be marginally better than none.
In both of those stories the reason that happens is bec the eponymous character loses all credibility by telling many lies, when they finally tell the truth no one believes them.
Some digital multimeters provide temperature logging via software. Have unbranded unit, model Q 1079 dated 2011? Not for sale.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522967.
> There are all kinds of things that have "anti-viral properties". Like UV light and bleach.

From "TFA":

In principle, a molecule can act as an anti-viral drug if it “inhibits some stage of the virus replication cycle, without being too toxic to the body’s cells [21].”

Bleach doesn't quite meet that standard. Ivermectin helps according to the clinical trials, and that lines up according this study. It's not their opinion, it's backed by evidence.

Yes we have the "fricking vaccine", but the spike protein is the problem as its toxic. Whether the vaccine's spike protein is toxic is up in the air, like Covid, the long term effects of mRNA "vaccines" are unknown entirely.

If something works better that we've been putting in humans for a lot longer, why not look into it? Why dismiss it as dewormer?

Calm down and stop running to the opposite side of the ring.
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Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans'
Can eBay pump up the price of it's own items with fake trading bots? No that's fraud. There are laws around auctions and trading. I'm guessing it's illegal
Maybe this body negativity came from inaccessible people, who were famous/connected enough to be on these pages.

Now, everyone can do it, and many are around you, accessible. They are your friend's friends or your friends.

Moreover, mobile applications and web applications allows you to touch up your appearance. You look and say "I'd be so much beautiful/handsome this way, but I'm not, and never will be".

Self criticism inflicts the greatest damage since there's no restraint, no barrier to dampen down to its effects. It's very destructive.
Good point. I think I mean one that was actually in the US, maybe in Berkeley or the MIT, but I'm not sure.

The one I've looked at did not require xcoffee, but was on an actual HTML page, so was a few years later (1994 or 1995 is my guess, I don't think I had Internet access before that).

So I probably did not look at that coffee webcam, but it was still "magic" at that time.
2021 Model Y Owner. Hard to tell, but it looks like that street is a one-way heading right which is legal. However, not yielding for pedestrians is no bueno though they were just barely off the sidewalk into the street when it turned.
Yeah. As if it's not obvious "engagement" and "influencers" aren't the real problem, no instead, it's "huh, some people actually fall for the ads (body image)".

Stop promoting trash and see the problem go away --but so will their main cash cow. That might color their decision-making a bit.
Australia's adventure to acquire new submarines has been a clown show, even without France' bait and switch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vnciriE_Q&t=348s
It's weird how everything in this article seems true and logical, but at the same time it rings hollow and I feel like the author is missing an important point. From experience, for some people it will be hard to connect to most people, and thus you'll end up more lonely than usual most of the time. If at the same time you're a good listener and generous with your time, it can get exhausting to have lots of one-sided relationships.
Oh that's cool, using fork() to create checkpoints. Thank you again for taking the time to explain!
Read my original comment. For all of the Occupy Wall Street rhetoric, overwhelming majority of people in finance are law abiding participants. That’s not to say that they’re particularly moral or honest people. But in regulated markets, regulators seek to make rule breaking a negative EV outcome, so rule following becomes the logical behavior for a self interested actor. Regulators might not always succeed, but it still shifts the outcome distribution massively.

In crypto, the opposite is true. Because there are no penalties, otherwise malicious behavior is encouraged. First and foremost: exchanges trading against customers. This would never be allowed in a regulated market, just like we would never allow judges to wager on the cases over which they preside. It creates a horrible conflict of interest. But in crypto, conflicts of interest are the most successful business models (across a load of projects).

Crypto is mostly regulatory arbitrage. I’ll be the first to change my mind when the facts change, and maybe I’m just not as visionary as every other lambo hopeful. But as it stands today, this is the reality.
Objectivity or its lack has very little to do with downvotes on bitcoin threads. These bring out all the would-be authoritarians to impose their will on HN posts in a way they can't impose it on crypto in the real world.
The probability being very different argument above is based in massaged data; data fit to a narrative.

The narrative wants you to trust it and set aside such petty questioning! "The science" will prevail! The elites no better! How dare you ask for specifics, a practical dataset and explanations. You might be labeled a anti-vaxxer over such things! /sarcasm
I had a look at it, looks like another inconsistent pile of unsafe C crap stirred with tons of legacy frameworks and complete incoherence.

Doesn't look like an OS at all.
I thought this was an interesting quote

A: Two thoughts. First, you can leave a foreign country behind in an orderly way. Ask the British Empire, which mostly ended its colonial occupations in an orderly way.

The interviewee says this as though it's common sense, but is it true? The examples that stick out to me are India, Israel/Palestine, and the South African colonies. Can these really be described as safe and orderly withdrawals? What are the examples of successful withdrawals? Are they really that much better than US withdrawal from Vietnam or Afghanistan?
See also KOReader [0], if jailbreaking is an option for you. The built-in column splitter works pretty well for the papers I've used it to read.

[0] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
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I am so amazed at the work you guys are doing at AI2 & the Semantic Scholar project. You guys are really fixing a broken system of research and discovery which suffers from organization design principles based on university library index card filing cabinets as magnified by the exponential content growth.

Cant wait to see what people do with this . . . .
Hope you enjoy.
For being put out to pasture?

Right, I'll show myself out...
Misleading/Exaggerated HN title. Not an illegal turn. No turn sign applies to the left lane, and it's a one way street
I don’t know how the UX works, but it seems like it de-activated itself when it got closer to the pedestrians? Or was that a manual override?
I was agreeing with you until you said fantastic technology. Crypto has always involved outrageous fraudulent claims about the technology in its sales pitches. The technology they sell does not exist. Decentralised trading is still incomplete research. It's vaporware
It's a one-way to the right but there's a no right turn sign on the pillar to the left of the street as you approach it. Not signed great, but still not a legal turn.
Setting unrealistic expectations and then failing to meet them is bad-feels for all brains.
Italy to make Covid 'Green Pass' mandatory for workers – minister
> Doesn't stealing someone's idea for an app

"Stealing" someone's idea to make a keyboard.
Here's a movie that grossed $482.3 million, and was the highest grossing film in the US that year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan

Yet I don't think anyone here is interested in war with Germany.
There is sign on the wire near the traffic light that says no turns, not sure if it only applies to the other lane though.
What's your definition of "better"?
There is a no right turn sign on the post to the left of the vehicle just before it begins the turn.
That's what keeps me from investigating it further.
In physics it has rarely been about ideology (except for what happened to Oppenheimer) but more a brutal job market. When I was a grad student i remember one of the most famous physics professors today (then a postdoc) crying frequently from the stress of not knowing where his next job was coming from despite having written half of a very good book and being highly productive.

Also, Einstein made a prediction about light being bent by the sun’s gravitational field that Eddington observed in a 1919 solar eclipse.

There has not been a similar event in fundamental theoretical physics in a generation. Neutrino oscillations were definitely observed in 1998 after having been predicted in 1957 by an Italian physicist who defected to the Soviet Union. Just this year there were observations that may confirm a theory of black hole jets going back to the early 1980s. For all the public talk about Stephen Hawking’s work, nothing Hawking did had any contact with experimentation.

So a young Einstein today could not get experimental confirmation of his genius.
The historical reference:

> The Nixon shock was a series of economic measures undertaken by United States President Richard Nixon in 1971, in response to increasing inflation, the most significant of which were wage and price freezes, surcharges on imports, and the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold.

Nixon shock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

Nixon and the End of the Bretton Woods System, 1971–1973 - https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/nixon-shock
Yes; so the period inside the quotes is redundant, and that one should be removed.

The outside sentence can continue after the quote; the terminating period outside of the quote is necessary if the sentence is ending there.

We know that the quote has ended with the closing quote, and so we can agree on the convention that there is an implied period there, if the quoted material is a complete clause with subject and verb. If it needs some other punctuation like a question mark, then that is explicit.

> He asked me "what time is it?".

The ? ends the question, the . ends the sentence that contains the embedded question.

The enclosing sentence can continue:

> He asked me "what time is it?" but hurriedly walked away as I glanced at my watch.

Now you positively, definitely cannot remove the period after "watch". Why would you remove it if the words "but ... watch" are deleted?

This stuff is simply too important to leave in the hands of people who have never written a compiler.
Amazon's Alex is way ahead of Siri and Cortana. It's as if Apple doesn't really care about Siri anymore. I don't know if they see the market for this as dead and they're purposely not putting more resources in it, or if they just can't compete here.
Agree, it didn't hit anything, even though it might've without intervention. "into" is the misleading part.
Thanks! I merged your list and mine to come up with:

Error 418 – I'm a Teapot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282286 - Dec 2020 (14 comments)

I’m A Teapot – HTTP status code 418 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24206899 - Aug 2020 (118 comments)

HTTP 418: I'm a Teapot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22215285 - Feb 2020 (9 comments)

HTTP 418 I'm a Teapot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652557 - July 2018 (39 comments)

Http status 418 at overstock.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17529017 - July 2018 (2 comments)

NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175960 - May 2018 (252 comments)

Reserve the 418 status code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004907 - Aug 2017 (115 comments)

HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14987460 - Aug 2017 (42 comments)

Google teapot error - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14275583 - May 2017 (12 comments)

HTTP status code 418 (I'm a teapot) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354835 - Jan 2017 (3 comments)

Ask HN: What's a good coffee pot for implementing the 418 protocol? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659595 - Dec 2015 (2 comments)

Google's HTTP 418 Response - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8269538 - Sept 2014 (2 comments)

Service for Generating Different HTTP codes. (418 I'm a teapot) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7383566 - March 2014 (3 comments)

HTTP Status Code 418 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046027 - Jan 2014 (4 comments)

I'm a teapot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511781 - Jan 2012 (29 comments)

HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221505 - Feb 2011 (33 comments)

HTTP Error 418: "I'm a teapot" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235856 - July 2008 (2 comments)
Yeah I'm still exploring the noise scene so if you have any recommends please do share.

I never thought I would be able to work through the music, but damn there are some really good entries in the genre.
My manager is a micro.
Criminals and scammers are not normally the sensitive types
Go's success in the cloud native infrastructure is really impressive - the language has enjoyed widespread adoption in many large engineering orgs. Having a hard time seeing where you're coming from when you talk about a "hot garbage practical joke"
I don't understand why that would be relevant, Richard Stallman has nothing to do with Linux and has never worked on Linux at all.
Disposable != immutable
It isn't a problem as long as no one is betting on whether or not "bad" things will happen. However, the things that people care about (or find interesting) – and want to bet on – are often heavily debated as being good or bad. This means that naive prediction markets will probably incentive some people to work towards outcomes that many view as bad.
I'm very puzzled by this argument every time I see it, maybe because I live in a country where everybody uses WhatsApp, both on Android and iOS: do you only communicate with people using Apple devices or by SMS?
And you can use a Yubikey hardware key as a ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 secret store, without messing with PAM or needing custom key types or special files on the client host: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent