skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well personally I'm an ancap so I consider all laws/executive orders to be implicitly (and often explicitly) backed by the police power of the state. You can say that the government requiring employees to be vaccinated isn't violent police power because they're not holding them down and injecting them, but what exactly will the state do if the employer doesn't comply? They'll send in the guys with guns to enforce.

Really it's such a small thing to be splitting hairs over though. If you prefer, just read what I wrote and mentally s/violent police power/coercion
There is nothing more pathetic than someone being afraid of a country based on what they hear in media and from their own State Department.

I only get this "China scary" vibe from people who've never been or know nothing about the country.
The problem with open source is that is over represented by privileged people, who have resources to work on it instead of having to have paying job.
If you are poor, you have limited chances to contribute anything and thus also potentially getting worse jobs due to no OSS contributions in CV.
Pitch: Control Flow Negation Statements (2019)
This is fantastic! I've been browsing HN for several months now but never saw anything that really prompted me to want to participate, but you made this so easily accessible and I started using Tailwind about a year ago in my projects. I'll definitely be leveraging FlowRift going forward. Great stuff.
What I find ironic about the people that criticize Fauci for lying about the need for masks are often somehow still anti-mask.

Like, they acknowledge Fauci lying about not needing masks, which would imply that they should be wearing masks, but will now refuse to wear a mask because they think Fauci is lying about needing masks.
No, it's not. The "purity" part was mostly pushed by Haskell enthusiasts, because Haskell cares a lot about purity. On the other hand, ML and its descendants don't care that much. Here's an example in OCaml:

let add (x: int) (y: int) : int =
print_string (Format.sprintf "x: %d, y: %d" x y);
x + y

This is a function. It's not pure. There is nothing that's stopping me from using it exactly the same way as a pure add implementation. OCaml is still a functional programming language. As said on Wikipedia: "Functional programming is sometimes treated as synonymous with purely functional programming, a subset of functional programming which treats all functions as deterministic mathematical functions, or pure functions.". Functional programming is not only purely functional programming.
Let's trust the billionaire execs at Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter to listen to the correct academics rather than responding to the incentives of capital. When faced with calls to ban pro-Palestinian rights activism on their platforms, they've never caved before
> Sure it does. You will get COVID. You'll either be vaccinated at the time or you won't be.

That may be true, but it's another non-sequitur. You need to show that the acute and long-term risks of me receiving the moderna or the pfizer or the j&j, is lower than the risks to my health from getting COVID-19 while unvaccinated. And first you need to know whether I've already had COVID, because that's highly relevant to that calculation.

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I think you're missing the general principle here, so let me see if this hypothetical helps you. Imagine a hypothetical virus that spreads just like SARS-2 but has a 0% IFR, no symptoms, and no complications whatsoever, whether short or medium or long term.

Imagine a vaccine that is 100% effective at preventing this hypothetical 0% IFR virus from infecting me. Imagine that in 99.9999% of people, the vaccine causes no harm, but in that .0001% of people, it causes harm.

Which is more dangerous to me, getting infected with the hypothetical virus, or getting vaccinated?
I think a similar situation happened with UBeam. Electrical engineers insisted it would be impossible to charge a phone the way they were claiming. But the “what if” dream made it so nobody wanted to listen to them.
> And this is probably the biggest one: So many of the politicians pushing covid restrictions fail to practice what they preach outside of photo ops.

Thanks for bringing this up, it's something that everyone should be able to agree is unacceptable. I feel naive for asking, but WHY does the public allow politicians to get away with this hypocrisy? (eg. https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/London-Bree...)
I beg you, if you have gotten this far, watch this 10 minute video about the above link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xhdL8BPvU

It's one of the most entertaining things I've seen this year.
When it goes from a 'racist conspiracy theory' to something that mainstream politicians and the media are talking about while the west is isolating China for not-so-obvious reasons, it becomes a leading theory. The amount of anti-China propaganda has been steadily increasing while the wet-market theory has been all but buried.
Prediction: Coming soon to every language and IDE.
That’s why there was so much emphasis on sanitising surfaces. Now we have a better understanding of its modes of transmission, and advice has changed over time. Some people just don’t seem to understand that our knowledge evolves, and so do recommendations and best practices.
It literally says on the `Getting started` that it is similar to Pysa.
Youtube should be held civil and criminal liable for ALL content on its highly edited and curated platform.
> First, please sign up at ampie.app

I installed your extension, which is a pretty big investment in your product as a user. Uninstalled it at this point.
Nest Temperature Incorrect (2019)
(Google Translated)

Liljevalch's benches were designed by the art gallery's architect Carl Bergsten, but it is the artist Dan Wolgers who has made them famous.

Before a group exhibition at Liljevalch's in the autumn of 1992, in which Dan Wolgers would participate, he - as his only contribution - removed two of the art gallery's benches and sold them at Stockholm's Auktionsverk. The whole thing was a protest against the low exhibition fees that artists were offered by the country's art institutions. According to Dan Wolger's calculations, the rather modest sum from the sale of the benches would correspond to a reasonable compensation for his participation in Liljevalchs. He was reported to the police by private individuals, received a suspended sentence and a 60-day fine. When the letter with the court decision and payment card arrived, he sold it unopened to a collector and thus earned the fine together. Liljevalchs bought back the benches and showed them at the exhibition to a very interested audience.

https://liljevalchs.se/butiken/tandstickor-banken/

Edit: Apparently, a matchbox with an illustration of the benches can now be purchased in the museum's gift shop.
My organization, Free Law Project, provided the data for this and several other related stories. It was a multi-year process pulling data out of tables embedded in tiff files. More here: https://free.law/2021/09/28/announcing-federal-financial-dis...
Logitech Wingman Force
Around 1998 by copyright on images in google image search "logitech wingman advertisement".
Yeah there is some lag in the indexing, I do scrape all the HN submissions but like once a week (it's in plans to make this immediate but haven't gotten around to it yet). Just to make sure, if you go to one of those other pages on the same domain, do you see the the HN threads/comments in the sidebar on that page?
To clarify, I don't think of it as lines vs paragraphs. The text I'm typing right now doesn't contain any newline characters, but it's still a paragraph. I think of it more as a distinction between paragraphs with line-wrapping points predefined by the writer vs. paragraphs without them. Either way I'm very underwhelmed by Gemini myself so I don't blame you in the least for not wanting to change your workflow to accommodate it.
Except "modern" C does not prevent one to misuse restrict and doing so is UB.
In the US? Yes it is. You realize you are quoting a 1919 supreme court case (that used the "fire in a theater" argument to make protesting against the draft illegal)... which has been overturned 50 years ago, right?
Tried it, works flawlessly.

Another recommended Youtube extension is : De-Mainstream YouTube [0]

[0] : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/de-mainstream-yout...
> The lie that masks didn't work was the first and one of the biggest.

I keep hearing people say this as if saying it enough makes it true (thanks, Stalin), but I don't remember ever hearing it, honestly.

Do you have any footage of this? If it was as widespread as claimed, it should be easy to find.
It’s only manageable with heavy handed medical care and heavy handed containment to preserve care capacity. Have you been living under a rock or are you just trotting out talking points? Let me ask: how many deaths in the USA alone? How does it compare to KIAs in one of the many US wars? Please stop pretending you know what you’re talking about
Well yeah, appreciating art and owning art are different things. Owning art is an investment, you want the possibility of selling it to someone else with interest later. Can't do that if it's not famous

How do you measure the success of art? I'd go with eyeballs per year, you've picked sales figures, someone else would probably say a third thing
They had some seriously cool ads back then. This one is for SNES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0ul2M6C9o
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>What free speech advocates ignore here is that even they generally draw a line somewhere.

The issue isn't where the line is drawn. The issue is that no singular entity can be trusted to draw that line.
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Solve the Knowledge Problem
> In chess, it's possible to end the game in a draw, so Zermelo's theorem does not apply to it and OPs claim is wrong about chess.

Isn't it even assumed that a perfect game of chess is a draw. Once chess is solved, it'll be all draws.
This seems like a place to plug for the study of social ecology: https://social-ecology.org/

Liberatory technologies, like the ones you mention, are just a piece of the puzzle. A tenant of social ecology is that "humans problems with nature come from humans social ills".
> You have to respect the hustle and ingenuity.

I don't think you do. They're parasites, scarcely better than email spammers or petty criminals.
Amazon Unveils ‘Astro,' a Surveillance State Nightmare Robot Stalking You Around
you can use cssbot for stuff like this too. ive always done that instead
You can do it easier than that -- just make a stick of length .65168 meters. (Same idea, just the "full 1 meter stick" is defined elsewhere, not by the length of the stick).
Is it wrong to be deceptive? The anti-racists believe that the the telos of the academy is social justice not truth. Truth is a western and racist value.

On the other hand, your critique is good because it attacks the right group, despite being based on the racist notion of truth.
Hiding distractions? Sure. But I personally find YouTube recommendations quite good - if you don't ruin it by accidentally watching a single meme.

It's not perfect, but what would be a good alternative for finding new channels that you would like? Do y'all have any suggestions?
And of course in a footnote of the documentation for this encoding "Sufficiently precise measurement of this mark left as an exercise to the reader."
Yes, the slippery slope argument. Anything can be “unchecked propaganda”, you need to prove it is 1. Propaganda and 2. that it is unchecked
>the rectenna is typically an elliptical shape at UK latitudes, measuring about 6.7km x 13km. To put this in context, this represents a power density of about 29W/m2, requiring one third of the area compared to the equivalent terrestrial solar power. Terrestrial solar in the UK has an average power density of just 10W/m2, including diurnal and weather factors.

So, we either build a massive orbiting power station with the maintenance, cost, and reliability impacts thereof or we...build 3x bigger solar fields? Not having enough room for solar has never really been the problem, the transmission system upgrades to get the power from solar producing regions to net consuming regions and the battery storage required for frequency support are the issues, neither of which this seems to solve.
I am so sorry on your behalf, this is terrible that you lose a job for it. Yes, and you are correct, if somebody tell you to use a plural pronoun it if forcing everybody to take a side. It is putting everybody in some position to either endorse or reject woke post-gender ideas.
>That vaccine granted immunity was a big one, it rapidly became less symptoms, and from that surreptitiously changed again to well you'll still have a week of feeling like shit, but you'll be less likely to die from it.

Please look up the medical definition of immunity.
Very misleading title. It should be 'the high cost of surviving potential Rabies exposure.' Once you get Rabies the chance of survival is approximately zero.
I don't see this as a joke, but a radical and important point.

Reality, in being geometrical, is
infinitely informationally dense (with a discrete conception of information).

This distinction between geometrical space and time, and discrete algorithmic computability is unbridgeable.

And hence there is an extemely firm footing on which to reject: AI, brain scanning readers, teleporters, etc and most sci-fi computationalim.

Almost nothing can be simulated, as in, realised by a merely computational system.
Apparently every single one of them had to have an edgy snappy tagline, preferably in quotes.

Gotta say though, seeing quasi-cubist art, for ‘Hyperblade’, is a bit of a pleasant surprise. Even if it's quite in vein of business magazine illustrations from the 90s to this day.
For a while now it's been understood that the "'fire' in a crowded theater" thing is a misinformed meme

https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
Yes, definitely. The big issue there is that intraday intervals vs daily closes vs monthly prices all require very different kinds of analyses and features as they target different scales of behavior. For example, you could exploit order book models for intraday which make little sense for longer time frames. In the same way, portfolio theory on intraday intervals tends to not hold as well as it does on longer timeframes.
The lowest spec device I've come across Mosquitto being used is a 180MHz MIPS processor on 32MB RAM, running Linux.

Someone has recently taken the RSMB broker (from IBM originally) and ported it to the ESP32: https://github.com/DynamicDevices/picobroker I can't comment on what the limitations of that are though.
Actually no, they don't buy code. They buy the people to implement a system at scale, and keep that system running and users trained. The code is negligible.

Take Windows desktop. It's designed to run at scale, out the box, when you have 10 000 employees, and any hardware, printers, whatever. A govt isn't buying Windows its buying active directory, and the fact that every new hire knows how to use it already. And a million other things windows does at scale (technically and humanally).
> But for healthy kids and teenagers? It's a wash for them personally, but if they're hanging around people in risk groups, there's a clear benefit of them getting vaccinated.

How many kids and teenagers aren't usually around groups of 40 year olds? Are there cities which are only populated with 12 year olds? Apartment complexes exclusively for those under 18?
Fun read. But if we allow ourselves as much precision as we need, we don't even need a parameter. Any constant that is a normal number should suffice. Such constants already contain every possible sequence of digits you could muster -- i.e., they already contain every possible dataset.

EDIT: I replaced "transcendental" with "normal" after reading Scarblac's comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699622 -- many important transcendental numbers, including π (Pi), are thought to be (but have not been proven to be!) normal.
Did anyone else find the layout of the landing page visually overwhelming, and hard to follow?
Accepting payments and starting a business has never been easier ... and Stripe is a major contributing factor to that welcomed change.

I do wonder what Stripe's financials look like given they have raised more funding than most startups ($2.2B raised [0]).

Given these extremely favorable market conditions, I have to imagine they are accelerating an IPO very soon (no inside knowledge).

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe
There's a bunch of ways to rationally explain the losses in any operation. None of them make it profitable.
Exploitation of labor is taking all the wealth generated by someone's work, and giving only a portion of it back, while pocketing the rest.
> death rate in the US is the highest it's been since the middle of WWII

Age standardized mortality rate (that is, accounts for an increasingly old population) is at 2008 levels in the UK. This doesn't account the total lack of treatment early on, patients were denied anti-inflammatory medicine and put on ventilators instead of normal oxygen.

> saying it's not a deadly disease, not many people are actually dying

Not many people are dying of COVID-19, they're dying with COVID-19. Most have serious underlying conditions.

> The vaccines don't work, yet you're 11 times more likely to die if you have not been vaccinated.

This is patently untrue. 87% of deaths and hospitalizations since July are vaccinated [1]. Now, this site might seem sketch, but you can download the reports from the Scottish government yourself and verify the math. I did, it's accurate. Tellingly, the latest report is missing the death count table.

If the vaccines have any affect at all, it's marginal, and only in the elderly. Of course, they don't work, that's why they're rolling out 'boosters' because the vaccines keep failing.

1: https://theexpose.uk/2021/07/29/87-percent-covid-deaths-are-...
> I can't speak specifically for your wife's hospital, but by the sounds of it this might have been less of a lie than bad information.

Well that doesn't help much with the trust issue. What else turns out to be bad information? Sometimes the line between lies and (intentional or not) bullshit is quite fine.

One thing I've observed since the start of the pandemic is that information and recommendations are constantly changing, and there's overreaction as well as underreaction. Also late reaction rather than preparedness. Sometimes excessive preparedness (see also overreaction), sometimes too little.

It don't find it surprising in the slightest that people end up not trusting the chaotic system.
Show HN: EWS – Premium private platform for universities
Hello HN,

I’m Stefan and I’m working on EWS, a digital classroom app. This is a project I started working on during my university studies and have recently launched a new MVP based on early feedback from universities.

This MVP is centered around a network of private clubs for universities where academic staff have the power to moderate the discussion.

Edify Web Services connects universities and students allowing them to:

- Communicate within their own private community

- Schedule and track important events

- Share/store files on a digital Backpack

* This Service is supported by a premium on demand lecture streaming plan from a network of universities

Introduction video:
https://youtu.be/EwsbpkIfUJs

We have started launching demos for universities and are looking for more universities to connect, advice and feedback.

Thanks for taking the time.

Best,
Stefan
Binary libraries are fully supported in Rust, via the C ABI. You can provide a higher-level interface via a wrapper crate. Meanwhile C++ is stuck with 'ABI stability' practices that prevent all sorts of otherwise desirable changes in C++ library code, because they would introduce breaks in binary compatibility.
If trading is a zero-sum game, which it is on a small scale, then random strategies are bound to be in the middle of the pack.

It is like rock-paper-scissors. A random player will win 50% of their games regardless of the other player strategy. When two non-random players play, one will successfully predict the other player moves and win more than 50% of the time, the other will fail and win less than 50% of the time.

So the ranking will always be 1. winning strategies 2. random 3. losing strategies, with as many winners as there are losers, and any number of randoms. So, random is more successful than half of the technical strategies.
Narrative Distillation – The shifting sands of tech IPOs
> if you go to one of those other pages on the same domain, do you see the the HN threads/comments in the sidebar on that page?

yes
Yup. But I'd say part of the reason the ecosystem is so big is a testament to Ruby's productivity.

Go seems great in a team environment for enterprise software, Rust seems great for software designed to last forever, but I've never met anything that's as good at simply hacking together a solution like Ruby (maybe R for stats and related things). You can build software that does things extremely quickly.
Sorry about that =( This is done in part to prevent abuse of the api, since all the requests are processed on my server and not offloaded to e.g. algolia.
AFAIK the TP-Link in your article only runs a DHCP client on VLAN 1 to get an IP address. It is not addressable on other VLANs.
The point of these arguments is to show that public health pronouncements can be political in nature and our chief authorities are not afraid to lie in order to achieve what they believe is a greater good.

It is not the specific content of the lie that is the issue, but the lack of integrity on display. It is used as a retort to "official X declared Y", and is meant to undermine the integrity of official pronouncements in general. There are many who bristled at these initial claims by pointing out (correctly) that promoting "noble lies" is terrible for public health officials and doing so would come back to bite them. For some reason, the medical profession seems to accept noble lies as being justified when the rest of society does not. This goes back to the old saw of doctors lying to their patients about their own health. It's a blemish on the profession, and one that needs to be erased and apologized for ASAP, and IMO, Fauci belongs to that old school and doesn't really get it -- and probably never will.

Also, as a protip to your finding of the fact that masks were being lied about but they themselves don't want to wear masks as being "ironic": the literal meaning of "irony" refers to saying something but meaning the opposite. For instance "Sure, I trust you", when the speaker clearly doesn't. There is also situational irony, which would be when the opposite of what is intended happens. E.g. trying to kill someone by giving them a poison that ends up curing them. So in this case, the irony would be saying a "noble lie" with the intention of saving lives but actually causing more lives to be lost -- that would be the true irony here.
This is so misleading that IMO it's harmful.

They count emissions at the departing airport, so if a Swede flies via Paris to Shenzhen for a quick meeting or Thailand for a vacation, most of the emissions are assigned to Paris, which has nothing to to with the actual decisions that led to the emissions. All it's really saying is that most flights leave big airports.
Texas' social media censorship law could mean more spam in your inbox