skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forcing the whole globe to choose the same city is pretty much opposite of equity and fairness - people from e.g. Africa, South America will know of different cities than people from North America or Northen Europe so I don't quite understand why you'd all force them into the same crutch. Computers are supposed to make lives easier for people and since we can somehow bring ads to everyone in the world, we can probably also extend timezone databases to include most of the world.
Honest question: Could Daczak be held liable for damages if lab origin was verifyable or is that even then not possible?
On the other hand, humanity appears to have an endless capacity for hierarchy. In the absence of natural scarcity, humans create the artificial.

Also, who are the people running the economy? I think it’s an emergent phenomenon of humans natural behavior, amplified by our current scale and low friction interconnectedness.
Paying people to spend more than they can afford in order to let them keep paying rent is a bad idea that ultimately helps only landlords.

If someone lost their job due to covid, then they need to find a new job, and that often means finding a new job somewhere else and quite possibly for different pay. Similarly landlords in areas where jobs have dissapeared need to know what the true demand is for their units so they can be priced appropriately.

Just paying money to pretend nothing has changed in each location is not good for either the rental market, or the job market, or the people who are pretending.
>> The subscription model was originally conceived by the utility companies that needed to keep providing a service over a prolonged period of time to their customers. The original subscription service was milk which had to be delivered fresh every day

No. "16th century Germany also saw subscription-based, handwritten news. Those who subscribed to these publications were generally low-level government officials and also merchants."

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

That is just newspapers. The concept of a per-month or per-year rate for access a service has been a thing since at least ancient Rome.
That runs in a browser, so they should understand the browser if you follow their logic.
It's awesome, But bit disappointed that the artist's impression shows them bare body without any protection from the elements while clearly showing the elevation. They would have obviously had very thick clothing made up of animal fur.
Yeah, red being closer to purple than red to green is about as strange as red being closer to orange than to green. The absolute difference between (1, 0, 1) and (1, 0, 0) is smaller than between (0, 1, 0) and (1, 0, 0).
It helps to be up to date with what the kooks think. Majority of conspiracy theories start with a factually-correct, compelling premise and only then go overboard with speculation.
I think recursive networks will beat feed forward: figure out a way to feed some outputs of the upper layers back into the lower layers ("fine-tuning/focus")
Columbus made a voyage to Bristol in the UK and certainly came across merchants who had travelled in the northern reaches, Iceland in particular. It is suggested that he did indeed travel to Iceland although the source we have for it is quite a few degrees removed from Columbus claiming it.

The Vikings/Norsemen had already spread awareness of Vinland to monks in Iceland, as the sagas regarding Vinland were written down about 100 years before Columbus visited Bristol. Did Columbus or other merchants in the North hear of these sagas? Did they come into contact with the written versions of these sagas?

Italian merchants had a serious incentive to find alternative trading routes.

There is a deeper question of why a man would go on a theoretically suicidal voyage, and on top of that, be funded by royalty to do so. Believing in your miscalculations is courageous I suppose, but its your life at stake; would a pious man be willing to kill himself chasing possible alternative geographic calculations?
2021 bro
Cool, no problem! Glad it was useful.

Feel free to ping me an email (see profile) if you want any further feedback from a random HN'er on the new onboarding flow :)
I had a similar hiring manager/boss a few years back. During the interview I took what I was getting previous and padded it a bit. He said something like "ok, I think we can work with that" and later came back with a offer that was at least 10% more than I asked. Knew I'd found a good place to be.
The author seems very unimpressed with note taking tools like Evernote and Obsidian, then goes on to describe something similar - I may have missed some subtlety of the article in thinking that.

I'm using Obsidian and find it makes the Zettelkasten-style experience even easier, because you don't need any arbitrary ID on each note, just a name, and you can easily create new links to notes which don't yet exist. You can definitely use it to create an 'antinet'.
A color is the combination of cells that gets activated. Without the left hump purple would still be purple even if that spectrum would no longer be perceived as purple. Red and purple are similar since they have many of the same cells getting activated.
Oh neat, I didn't realize he was no longer a full-time Oculus employee: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1441496855133790210
> > There is a misery that wants to make itself known--to inflict itself on the world

> There's an awesome idea for

Absolutely gross.
Just wow.

This is the first time I'm actually going to favorite a comment on HN.

Best-written crypto critic I've ever read
You have to be reaaaaaally slow to be beaten by a network. Also, touched by the OP, if it takes 3 hours to write some code that in Python takes only 1, or if the compile times are huge, Python can beat other languages in speed (that edge fades when the same program is used over and over again).

But as demonstrated, Nim is fast to write and fast to compile, so Python has little edge. Just it's huge ecosystem.
this is misguided since all networks represent symbolic sense in an abstract way
I agree with your entire post but, and I‘m saying this as a fulltime python dev, there‘s often a point where it starts being bothersome, and that usually comes only later in the lifecycle of an application after it had some organic growth. Some day e.g. a sales manager comes down to your lair and asks you if you couldn‘t just also parse this little 200MB Excel spreadsheet after it came over the network such that your ETL process could save it into a new table. And boom you‘re into CPU bound lands now. Often it‘s fine, you can wait those 1-2min for a daily occuring process. But what if for example you put this whole component behind a REST API that is behind a load balancer that is set with a certain timeout? There are even strict upper limits if for example you chose AWS Lambda for your stuff.

And suddenly you need to introduce quite a bit more technical complexity into this story that‘s gonna be hard to explain to management - all they see is that you now can insert a couple of millions of DB rows and their Big Data consultants[TM] told them that this is nowadays not even worth thinking about.

Point being: If your performance ceiling is low, you‘re gonna hit it sooner.
This is another reason why I don’t trust my ISP and I would use a VPN to a site outside of the country. Good luck getting that browsing history then.
I watched it in 4K on a large 43" 4K Samsung from 2 feet away and I can see a lot of problems. Some of it is compression artifacts but some is the iPhone. Honestly it doesn't look that much better than my 2014 OnePlus One phone with 4K camera.

I really hate the pitch and all these photog pros showing you how you can shoot movies or professional photos with a phone. They either use daylight which is 1000 times brighter than indoor or they use $10,000 of pro lighting. In that situation, any camera will work great. But wait till sunset or try and do some indoor shots and the tiny phone sensor and/or try and shoot some fast moving subjects that require decent shutter speeds and the phone will fail miserably.

The whole point in using a higher end $1000+ camera is that you can use it in 50% to 80% of lighting and motion conditions that a phone sucks in.
I think that at some point the horses would need changing or resting, so you'd be obliged to stop.
Composing such texts is an art form indeed, and really hard. Amazing achievement.

Once in a while when composing an email, the first three lines or so just happen to have exactly the same length. I always take this as a challenge to continue this style for the remaining lines (no cheating with white spaces) and I have wasted (?) hours on this in the past.
Yes! Live photo's are amazing. My kids get a good laugh out of the loops you can create with them too. But I also love looking back at the live videos of a few years ago. They make a still really come alive. Great feature!
Scientists Accidentally Discovered Hidden Galaxies at the Edge of Time
>our abject failure to deal with this novel pathogen

the response during the initial critical phase could have been been different if it wasn't led by the people with obvious conflict of interests like Fauci and was looking more like coverup than an actual response.

The EcoHealth NIH grants for coronavirus/Wuhan included "Human Subjects", so who knows how much of the initial spread was the part of it.
It's a price data scientists have to pay in order to work in rapidly evolving business and solution spaces. Someone within the local organization has to experience all these tools before being able to reach similar conclusions. Many organizations are still struggling to get the data science infrastructure in place so they look for full-stack people to help get the ball rolling and start making progress on some initial set of prioritized business problems.

A few organizations are further along on that journey enabling their data scientists to focus on things other than process and tooling. Full-stack will be in demand until the solution space stabilizes and the bulk of organizations catch up.
I'm way too distractable to be able to read with a TV going in the background. It pulls my attention from the text and my own thoughts.

Did Exceed and Dr Pepper pay for the promotion? Seems like almost all of this person's newsletters mention some product or service.
The viral phylogeny and history of it's evolution are a mountain of evidence. Why don't you trust them?

We don't see adaptation to the new host. This means that either the spillover happened a long time before it was detected (months, years), or the proximal host was a primate. Or, the virus could have been adapted to human cells and their surface proteins in relatively straightforward laboratory experiments. Then, if accidentally released, the phylogeny and virus adaptation process would look exactly like the one we are seeing with hundreds of thousands of viral genomes.

A spillover from nature would look like SARS1. There are rapid phenotypic adaptations in the beginning of the epidemic. The initial virus is infectious, but not anything like SARS2. In SARS2, it takes many months for real phenotypic change to appear. The rate of variation is clock-like because there are few easy phenotypic wins to be made.

This is hard evidence. What do you make of it? Maybe you have to understand genetics and evolution to "read" this material, but that doesn't negate it.
Facebook is free to continue showing ads. Apparently, it is just their tracking that is not particularly popular with the users. Maybe it is time for them to introduce paid no-tracking subscription?
“Virtually no one heeded calls to blockade major railway stations on 1 September when the ban was extended to long distance travel. Large numbers of police waited in vain.”

That's because news outlets are ignoring the real protests, so when they try to promote “a blockade” everybody knows it's a trap. Hence, large numbers of police waited in vain.
Delays at UK airports as IT failure hits biometric passport gates
Probably a long list of things that's more-or-less similar to what can go wrong in an oil refinery, or at an oil well.

Modern civilization requires industrial-scale processing of toxic, explosive, corrosive, combustive, and in short, dangerous gases and liquids - often under high pressure.
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Do I read this right? 1,000,000 requests/sec across 7,500 instances is only 133 requests/second, and graphql wouldn’t typically represent the business logic or data layer.

I love me some graphql, but that seems to be a very low figure. I’m curious how complex the queries are and what else these servers are doing.
These seven-segment displays are truly a thing of beauty.

According to the data sheet, the top and bottom segments of the LEDs are just 7mm (~1/4inch) apart. With an image viewer and some measuring, you can estimate the size of the light emitting zones. Zooming in, you can see that a segment consist of two LEDs with each having two rows of light emitting zones with a narrow gap. Each of these six zones per half-segment is just 280µm x 35µm large. These fine lines lighting up in vivid red must just look awesome in reality.

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6360291585457700169.jpg
> "I'll also add that Python is decent at tasks that aren't CPU-bound"

IO-bound tasks are almost by definition outside of your Python application's control. You yield control to the system to execute the actual task, and from that point on - you're no longer in control of how long the task will take to complete.

In other words, Python "being fast" by waiting on a Socket to complete receiving data isn't a particularily impressive feat.
> the mere existence of certain keywords

Don’t make the mistake of assuming every account on the Internet is an actual human. I obviously have no way to prove such a thing, but it would be strange if there weren’t a massive amount of bots-posing-as-human online trying to influence opinions and behavior.
The person you're replying to seems to argue that the founders of our civilization were more vital than us, who are merely building upon their legacy.
Apple and Bug Bounties
Subscriptions make sense for things that you get a regular recurring supply of, like milk and newspapers. They might make sense for things that you can get regular upgrades for, like software (although often the "upgrades" aren't really worth much). But they make no sense at all for durable goods that can last for years without significant upgrades, like cars. The whole point with such goods is that you pay once and you own them for their entire useful life.

(Actually, there is a subscription-type business model for cars; it's called "leasing". And the only people who do it are people who can afford to be fleeced. It makes no sense at all for an ordinary car owner. I once had a car dealer try to sell me a lease deal when I was there to pick up a new car. His deal had a larger monthly payment than the loan I already had pre-approved from my credit union, and the residual after 3 years--what I would have to pay then to own the car outright--was more than the balance on the loan would be at that point. I asked the dealer how it could possibly make financial sense for me to take such a deal. He had no answer.)
Ask HN: Why do abbrevations like MERN, LAMP, MEAN etc. exist?
Is there something special about the combination of mysql, express, react, node that causes these technologies to work really well together? As far as I know the official documentation of these projects don't even mention the other ones. Why do people use these abbrevations in job postings?
Not only languages & energy requirements but accelerated hardware obsolescence.

Right now Microsoft has already written Windows 11.

All that's left is for them to decide how much of an anti-reuse & anti-recycling effort they want to mandate this time across the virtually captive worldwide PC hardware resources.

One simple bonehead decision will determine how much perfectly good already-manufactured hardware will or will not be allowed to support Windows 11, or will need to be replaced un-necessarily.

The difference between requiring new hardware versus no new hardware at all is probably a lot greater at this scale than the difference between substituting a Volkswagen for every Ford F-250.
I've been watching this youtube channel a bit recently: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wheelsboy/videos

and all I can say is wow.. China's automotive industry is seemingly miles ahead of where I thought.
PHP has a proper JIT compiler on its reference implementation.
This could have been easily done in software and it probably was
Yeah, subject matter experts who learns business seems like the best leaders. That describes most successful founders as well. The hard part is finding those who cares enough about business to get good at it and not just continue being an expert.
Wet dreams
What I found useful is that even if some author uses snake in his library, it doesn't spread to your code, so you can still adhere to the standard.
Snoop Dogg is rebuilding his real-life mansion in The Sandbox NFT metaverse
They seem to be doing fairly well now, as well.
Why do I have to apply the idea to dollars? Nobody is telling me that I will become incredibly rich, without having to put any effort, work or invent anything, if I just buy dollars. Yet the same claim is made about bitcoins, and this is why we must examine whether this claim about bitcoin is true.
I'm aware of support agents at startups that are/were pulling down $300-400k/year in total comp in pre-IPO numbers. Presuming a happy path towards IPO, that total comp could end up being more like $600-800k, none of these people are Google L8 caliber but they will make money in that same ballpark.

No idea what engineers were making, but probably much more than 2x a support agent.
It's pointless for Facebook to have their hardware used if it's not tied to their accounts and ecosystem. More likely, the Oculus Go is obsoleted enough by the Quest 2, that they decided they didn't care.
> Also, who are the people running the economy?

I don’t know. I assume there has to be at least some intended direction for them to be able to write comics about it, but I am just a peon in this system :)
Why do I write tests?
If I'm not mistaken, the source for Columbus visiting Iceland was by his son Ferdinand (who said his dad left notes laying around and his son figured out he was talking about Iceland) in his biography of his father, written in Spanish, the original of which is lost; Italian copies were made, which was then translated into English as well. I don't know if "Columbus claimed" is the right way to phrase this. Ruddock [1] covers this topic well and also asks pretty pointed questions about the source today, why it exaggerates so much, etc.

[1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1796276
Pun not intended indeed.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
Surveillance economy is the new business model. Billions of dollars are invested in surveillance tech.
Military technology as usual creeps towards consumers.
Politicians are serving the corporations.
So we already lost this by accepting that technology advancements and economy benefits are more important than human privacy and overall dignity.
If you own a Quest 1, you did pay to not log in with FB. You bought software and now you will be blocked to access your software when the FB login gets mandatory next year for all quest devices.
They shouldn't have to, true. But enough companies have bought the Coolaid that it's a job requirement and you'll have to learn it anyway, which means developers will try and shoehorn it into their projects whether it makes sense or not so they can have it on their resume and then companies will need to make it a job requirement when those developers leave and they need to maintain it...
that can be a good approach where the computation maps cleanly onto some C or fortran code prepared earlier and wrapped as a numpy or scipy primitive. but sometimes expressing what you want to do as a bunch of numpy operations becomes a lot harder to read and perhaps also slower than if you just directly wrote the raw loops over some arrays in C.

in cases where what you want to do doesn't exactly fit standard operations, cython can be pretty nice. e.g. 200x -- 1000x speedups for translating C-oriented number crunching code from python to cython. but if you do want performance, you have to think about it while writing the code (avoid needlessly allocating memory in tight loops, data-oriented programming with simple arrays, statically type all of your variables, ...).
Right now you're much more likely to _not_ find luck. Look up Evergrande. But hey, it's your money, feel free to give all of it to me, via my short positions.
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I think it depends who you were. Some people went more or less directly to being always connected to an iPhone from a world of monochrome Nokias and portable CD (or cassette, even) players and the internet being on a PC tower in a separate room of the house, if you had it at home at all. The intermediate steps - laptops, Palm pilots, iPods - were far from universal, at least in my world.
Gaming is ahead here, they thought subscriptions was the future 15 years ago and everyone tried to make subscription games. Then free to play with microtransactions came around and completely turned that on its head, microtransactions generates way more revenue than subscriptions!

It might not apply to every field, but it is wrong to say that everything will turn into subscriptions.
While that's technically true, this is a last mile problem and wireless can get into some of the more hard to reach, expensive, low profit places that large institutions won't bother with. Wireless can be an interim solution until a customer base can be proven, which will lend its self to future investment.