skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, so make it illegal for providers to send location data anywhere other than the tower hardware, and make it corporate suicide to collect the data, except at the individual level with a specific warrant.
> I was in Portugal last week and was surprised by how safe it felt.

That may be because you didn't know how many of those around you got their 2nd shot before last spring, and that masks don't significantly help. But it's important how you "feel", I get that.

"Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine antibodies gone by 7 months for many" - https://news.trust.org/item/20211001194329-xkwip

You may sometime want to consider the cost of government policies that has to be borne by other, unwilling participants in those schemes.
Theoretically, you dont need any CAD. The robot doesnt care about actual surface geometry. In fact, you can just move robot axis by axis (or by xyz) "by hand" (looks like this [0]), and teach points as you go.
Usually CAD is provided ahead and you can "teach" the points virtually on PC, simulate it and everything, before testing it with real robot and carbody.

For exterior painting offline preparation is often enough. For interior painting this can be fine, but sometimes you need to move few points by hand in booth coz the CAD usually dont show absolutely everything (think springs holding cardoors closed).

For applying the sealant, where required application precision is in similar range to manufacturing tolerances, it make sense to only prepare program structure, as you need to manually teach every point precisely on the same body that was just measured.
To be fair, that's the only pro-users decision Apple made in the past two decades. It has led us to new problems with web specifications and JS engines becoming too large and centralized, but at the very least we've got source code and the RCEs are less obvious to find than they were with Flash.

Also, technically Adobe killed Flash, not Apple. Adobe could have liberated the technology at any point to address Apple's issue, or continued without iOS support. Adobe decided to pull the plug because they're a greedy evil corporation like any other and don't care that people depend on things or create cool stuff with those tools.
Something like the NHS in the UK seems like a counterexample to this article's theory. A very large, extremely centralised state owned healthcare system, yet "health outcomes" seems perfectly in line with that of the intensely more expensive decentralised and privatised US system.

And even in the recent pandemic, it was the NHS that discovered treatments like dexamethasone and tocilizumab thanks to an innovative and large scale A/B testing system that is much more difficult to set up in decentralised systems.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28734620
The reason I like this is because of one of the principles that Go espouses pretty heavily - never break backwards compatibility. If I install v1 of your package, I want it never to break. You can always improve performance, add more methods, etc, but the normal Go upgrade does not involve any code changes at all. The tools formalise that for modules as well, and encourage building a new module altogether if backwards compatibility is being broken.

If it’s not being broken, it’s not a major version update, and major breaking updates are better off as new separate modules.
> Concorde was profitable

Your own article points out that it really, really wasn't, especially not for the parties investing in its development, not their customers who profited mainly because they got the aircraft at knockdown prices (and operated it without any supersonic competition) in what was later described as one of the worst deals ever negotiated by any government

$3bn was spent developing an aircraft they hoped would be the next generation of flight. Only 14 ever saw commercial service, and most were basically given away because nobody else wanted them. The article suggests BA made $0.75bn profit (Air France less) over three decades, which meant they wouldn't have made a profit on operating it if they'd paid normal purchase prices for mass-market commercial aircraft, never mind if they'd had to underwrite the costs of the R&D programme which is what Boom needs customers to do...
I'll try to setup a meetup group with these premises, see what happens. At this point in life I feel like telling younger (or not) people the things I learned about 'life' in general, maybe it's old news to them, maybe not. For example I feel age is the biggest lie/misconception we face sometimes, we are all 'kids' and at some point we get wrinkles and get ashamed and feel out of place, and younger people think we are different and 'settled' and the we discovered who knows what grown up/adult mysteries, while we are just old kids.
> As to your question about the other factors, here’s a thought experiment: if I printed cash daily but locked it up in a chest and sunk it to the bottom of the sea, will there be inflation? Going one step further: does inflation depend on the distribution of liquidity in the economy?

In your thought experiment No it would not impact inflation, but in the real world over the past year we have begun to see rates of inflation not seen in 40 years. Inflation is running at 3x the Fed’s target at a time when the Fed’s money printer is creating trillions of US dollars out of thin air.

In September 2021, anyone diminishing or dismissing the impact of money printing on inflation is being willfully ignorant or intentionally disingenuous.
I'm using it on one of the Pro XDR displays, and it's quite impressive for the cheapest notebook to drive this monster of a pixel-wielding behemoth with zero issues or complaints...

(2732*2048 + 2560*1600 + 6016*3384 = 30,000,000 pixels, although I'm not sure if the iPad receives a pixel signal, or renders its own content)

So it doesn't seem to be a lack of graphics power that causes this limitation.

(Incidentally, the XDR and current-gen iPad pro displays are the first where I get the illusion, when watching high-res video, that there's an actual window in the display and I am looking at a real scene behind it)
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Pure+imperative sounds useless. The imperative steps wouldn’t buy you anything. If you already can do let-bindings then you get nothing extra from imperative statements.

Something more useful is an imperative language which only uses immutable values (strings, lists and so on).
Something with arm-like cheapness yet M1 like performance would be a pretty neat trick for the chromebook segment.

I do worry about the google part though. They clearly think in terms of open technically but not really via gigantic catch. See android being open yet huawei being utterly screwed.
Gates Foundation has spent $250M on journalism
Yes this was a regrettable decision which causes lots of unnecessary pain and confusion and I wish they’d reverse it.

You can just use tags, no need to copy files, but IMO it should not be the package management system’s job to enforce draconian rules about semantic versions and import paths. Otherwise go mod seems pretty straightforward and sensible to me though.
Surprise. Heart attack, stroke, hypertension, kidney damage are also risk factors of NOT taking NSAIDs for the reasons people commonly take NSAIDs for.
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> Among the few interesting elements in the HBS "study" is the possible role of high-risk gambles in career advancement. That also ultimately points to survivorship bias (it excludes those who took such gambles and lost), though there's the prospect of multiple-iteration games as well.

This is a fundamental problem with dismissing all accounts of success so broadly. Multiple-iteration is not a possibility, it’s a certainty.

If you take risk in your career, and you fail, the only way that failure can prevent you from trying again is if you fail so hard that you actually die. Failing to death is a tremendously uncommon occurrence when it comes to taking to taking risks in your career.

The survivorship bias argument really only works if you imagine each person has a single opportunity through their entire life to achieve success. The Texas sharpshooter fallacy isn’t exactly relevant here either, because that is about re-defining the conditions of success after you’ve taken your measurements. The idea of success here is clearly pre-defined.
Wikipedia notes that a 1/3 scale Boom demonstrator plane is expected to begin flight testing in 2021. Otherwise, it sounds like they've produced zero planes that actually fly so far. Even the hype-ridden article admits that their founder/CEO has zero experience delivering real-world physical products.

Then there's the huge "SPACEX KILLER" banner at the top of that article...which has zero logic behind it, and is followed up by zero meaningful mentions of SpaceX in the article's text.

I'm sensing a really fawning fan-boy (writing the article), and/or a company that's absolutely desperate for credibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading
I'm not sure I understand: hundred millions of people feeling (even slight) relief from their pain are victims of some placebo effect/marketing hack? It doesn't relieve pain at all and I've been dreaming it my whole life?

I was also talking about lowering fever, I suppose it doesn't work for that either?
I think the issue comes when results are reported and consumers try to use those results to determine which behaviors are risky. We all try to stay on top of "the latest science" but are results like this really actionable by consumers?
Ask HN: How do you do backend for frontend?
Assuming that you are in
in an environment where you have micro-services
and you need to introduce experiments in your frontend applications easily.

What practices have you followed and failed/succeeded?
I'd also like to know which Tesla can get to 250mph (400kmh). The 100PD tops out at a "measly" 155. Only the most extreme hypercars can reach 250mph, and even out of those, a small handful are road legal.
We are not on the verge of greater government control on every aspect of our life. Since cars and helicopters became a thing, all "modern" governments have acquired unprecedented powers.

Previously, governments had an area of influence of roughly a few days travel from their centers of power: their area of influence was as large as their army's capacity to crush dissent. It's a "new" development in the history of humanity that you cannot be safe anywhere on earth: even in a remote forest/mountain, the government can come and massacre your community very quickly.

(In most countries, they'll most likely just tear down your houses [0] and imprison you, because that's less likely to cause popular uproar)

[0] Even a pretend democracy like France has strong regulations mandating to break people's homes. And french police/préfets are very involved in persecuting ethnic minorities (eg. Rroma people) and other "light housing" folks.
> What kind of language recommends[0] with a straight face that you just duplicate your entire codebase into a v2/ subdirectory?

Not Go at least. You misunderstood the post completely.

Here is an example of how you are supposed to change the import path for subsequent major versions (that is, backwards incompatible versions): https://github.com/jackc/pgx/blob/3599f646293c1b0d381214ab26...

A one-line change to your modfile and the import path is changed.
- Go Code Review Comments: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
Nix doesn't allow for recovering from errors
Context. Sometimes requires reading more than title (which on HN is supposed to be verbatim). I do get the agitation. I have it as well with 'crypto'. But we need to acknowledge trends/hypes influence our language.
Yeah, let's just abolish government/politicians. That will make the system more resilient against power abuse.
Almost keep in mind that the click counter works perfectly in this case. We need a perfect online tool to keep tracing of it https://clickspeeder.com/click-counter/
When you hit a national security target, you get NSA and CIA after you. They have vast resources to make your life difficult wherever you are.
> Perhaps some special account at the fed that pays a specific interest rate and is fully insured? But then why do Fed presidents get special access to such an account that normal folks don't?

That seems like a solution. And yes, some leadership positions require you to restrict your private activities outside the job.

Before Trump, it also used to be common courtesy that the president-elect published his tax returns and removed himself from all projects that could lead to a conflict of interest.
"script kiddie" is just a slur for "outsourcing".
>it’s just not an immediate existential issue for America

That both depends on how immediate "immediate" is and how the US will react. When CPU/GPUs have nothing made or designed in the US in them any more and the Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Amazons of the world are all non-US and the US is no longer in the top of military and GDP then the US will no longer be in a position to lead anyone anywhere. It might not become a existential problem for the US economy -who knows- but it will most definitely crush any belief in The American Dream or that the US is some kind of world leader. Without a way to steer technology or force other nations to do what it wants by power, in my opinion, the US will go the route of ancient Rome by trying to hold on to what is lost. So maybe not an immediate existential issue but likely an existential threat to the Union nonetheless.
> Concorde is billions in the hole.

This is the role of governments. From this R&D hole, aerospace jobs were maintained, people were trained, technologies were developed and a whole lot of other side benefits to both countries involved.

It’s not unlike NASA’s space program - if you look at the market value of the equipment built, it’s just an enormous money sink. We all know it’s not.
in pure FP languages there are functions and IO actions, functions are pure, IO actions are side-effectful.
Is it now? It used to be more like 1-2 weeks. Has there been major changes in infrastructure or policy to explain the change?
It looks like a subdirectory is obit recommended if you want to support get old versions of the toolchain. Using branches or tags is probably the way to go these days
Aside from being a funny way of putting it, it also seems wrong. The top speed on the Plaid is about 200mph.
You may be on to something: I seem to have experienced the opposite, as having grown up reading Ligne Claire-comics initially made it really difficult for me to follow what was happening in comics drawn in other styles.
Except in practice in all real software (including the go language!) minor and patch versions break importers all the time in small ways, AND major versions are usually used to indicate significant new features, not just breaking changes.

So your claim is reduced to ‘I don’t want v1 to break my software in ways that the dependency finds important enough for a major version’.

Not quite as reassuring is it?

Plenty of security fixes and undefined behaviour fixes break importers all the time, and often importers and exporters disagree about the severity of that. Sticking with v1 will not save you that pain.

I preferred the situation before where there was strong social pressure never to break the main branch.
Was guix considered at all? If so, what were the negatives?

I'm personally getting more enjoyment learning this style of environment and OS management with a more established language for the configuration.
For those who wonder why monads would be like burritos, read https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html.

Though a large burrito as a joke to represent both monads and macros is kind of catering to a niche audience.
Politicians are notoriously impatient people with short attention spans that seldom go beyond a term. Concorde 2, which was more efficient, was cancelled while the planes we can think of prototypes were put in commercial service.
> POSIX is not properly implemented, but that doesn't matter to the majority of developers

The non-GNU versions of popular command line tools and running Bash 3.x ends up being a nuisance. Scripts that work fine on WSL 2, native Linux and CI (also Linux) end up not working on macOS. It usually comes down to some flag not existing or working the same on macOS' version of [INSERT_POPULAR_CLI_TOOL] or a Bash 4.x feature not existing so you need to do things a different way. As someone who often writes shell scripts getting macOS compatibility feels like having to support IE 6 back in the good old days of web development.
Monotonic Reads – Preventing wormholes in a distributed datastore
SV edginess
Europe’s renewable energy policy is built on burning American trees (2019)
> Why is there no pointer arithmetic?

Safety. Without pointer arithmetic it's possible to create a language that can never derive an illegal address that succeeds incorrectly. Compiler and hardware technology have advanced to the point where a loop using array indices can be as efficient as a loop using pointer arithmetic. Also, the lack of pointer arithmetic can simplify the implementation of the garbage collector.

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Just anecdotal data, but in both my roles as an academic hospitalist and community hospitalist in the US (inpatient internal medicine doc, ie the person that cares for people admitted with acetaminophen overdose if not sent directly to the ICU), I have only seen two cases of intentional acetaminophen overdose (both survived, amazingly) and have heard of an accidental overdose only once (my colleague admitted them; older man taking 8-9 grams/day for about a month because he thought he was doing the right thing by avoiding opiates for hip pain).

Compare that to the three alcoholic cirrhotics I am currently caring for (which is a fairly common number where I work), and I personally don’t think acetaminophen is a very big deal for most people.

Also, we (hospitalists in the US) certainly see far more bad outcomes from OTC NSAID use contributing to GI bleeds and heart trouble (I’d say I care for a couple/month on average).
OpenBLAS

OpenBLAS is incompatible with application threads. Most Linux distributions provide a multi-threaded OpenBLAS that burns in a fire if you use it in multi-threaded applications. Even though OpenBLAS' performance is great, I'd be careful to give a general recommendation for people to rely on OpenBLAS. Like this MKL example, you have to be aware of its threading issues, read the documentation and compile it with the right flags (in a multi-threaded application: single-threaded, but with locking).

it's worth noting that OpenBLAS is as fast as MKL

This depends highly on the application. E.g. MKL provides batch GEMM, which is used by libraries like PyTorch. So if you use PyTorch for machine learning, performance is still much better with MKL. Of course, that is if you do not have an AMD CPU. If you have an AMD CPU, you have to override Intel CPU detection if you do not want abysmal performance:

https://danieldk.eu/Posts/2020-08-31-MKL-Zen.html

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49

The BLAS/LAPACK ecosystem is a mess. I wish that Intel would just open source MKL and properly support AMD CPUs.
Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware
Of course the Roadster in space is doing something like 20,000 mph relative to the earth but that also isn't 250 mph.
Circadian autophagy drives iTRF-mediated longevity
Maybe if you push it off a cliff?
All the kids there are so smart, they all speak Japanese!
Therapeutic index for Tylenol is 2. That's already much better than NSAIDs, which are often already very toxic at usual dosage (400mg ibuprofen) in diabetics, senior citizens, children, etc. The big difference is that with acute liver damage you are feeling very sick and die quickly, while with kidney failure you feel normal and die very slowly. So, what's worse?

Additionally, it's no wonder that it's a paediatrician speaking, because many Tylenol intoxications are actually intentional in children (suicide). It's one of the most common suicide plan in teenagers.
To me it's the async function coloring mess of js which made node unattractive. ( together with the import require mjs split )
Can we solve the browser problem with webassembly ? What do you think about it ?
> I will never understand why Boom chose such a terrible name.

It’ll be the core of countless jokes. I remember a TV series called “Fireball XL5” about a spaceship with that name and I always found it amusing someone would want to board something named like that.
True, you can even choose pipewire with the archinstall installer and it runs great on my machine.
Thanks for this informed comment. A timely reminder to me to read TFA, because I took parent comment at face value on first reading.
Pain, especially chronic pain, can lead to stress which has a litany of effects on your body.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546756/
> 20,000 mph

And that on a single battery charge!