skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-guitarist but one-time musician, why are guitar tuners needed? Other stringed instruments seem to not need them, and I never thought to ask.

(Obviously you might need an absolute reference if you don't have absolute pitch)
I’m actually not terribly worried about food prices being high. Or the general price level being high. What worries me is there is no political way forward.

Politics used to be about compromise. Nowadays it is about wasting as much time as possible, while not making any meaningful policy changes. This will come back to bite our elected officials at all levels.
No, I lived in China, I got two know locals with wildly different opinions and reasons for thinking what they do.

They idea that there is any non-controlled wide-spanning media where this could be discovered is I'm afraid laughable.
"This website would like to scan your local network and communicate with other devices" "Allow Once/Deny/Block"
And let's not forget differences in package sizes. For instance, I could buy shampoo, burger buns, ground coffee, and a chocolate bar for under 7 Euros at Aldi, but that would mean:

- Shampoo: ~8oz
- Pack of burger buns: 6 pieces
- Ground coffee: bag of 2 pounds
- Chocolate bar: probably the same as everywhere
> along with the evil context switch primitives

But you weren't expected to understand them!

;)

Here's your own words now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853698

dmr himself on the subject:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/odd.html
Americans eat far more calories than they need and they throw out so much food. This isn't a bad thing for places dealing with obesity.
Worst Disease (2006)
i wonder if the average professional coder, still has. chance to beat the big teams ?

Reminded me of years ago(It might have been on HN) where some company/group trained a state of the art nlp model to classify if a financial statment or press release was possitive or negative. They had some good results until someone did:

Lets look how far down the press-release-statement the 'numbers' are :)

If it was positive-sentiment it usually was the case that the numbers were high up the page. If it was bad thr bulk of the numbers were much lower in the page.

Almost make sense,if you had goof numbers you want to screM it out. If you had bad numbers you want to preface/explain why first ??
Huh. That kind of makes sense. The thought of a single country being able to nuke anyone it disagrees with basically without consequence is pretty terrifying.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/

Open source android instagram client
When you focus on "people" you get emotionally driven policies without any planning for long term consequences. See: Prop 13. If you want to do what's best for the people, as a population, long term, you need to do what's best for the economy. That means you need to view them as numbers.

It is quite obvious if you take a look at any online crypto/stock trading forum that a lot of those extra stimulus checks are not going towards anything useful. We know from basic economics which you seem to think is invalid that increasing the money supply (through deficit spending on stimulus checks) and money velocity (by giving it to consumers directly instead of through e.g. increasing the supply of credit) increases inflation. We're also seeing record demand for consumer goods like PS5s, electronics, etc. Those happen to be the same products that consumers with excess money buy. Not food, because they can already afford food without the stimulus checks.
Recently (re-)discovered Mathematica, and found spanning a much larger set of domains than I expected (also, very approachable).
Even ignoring all confounding factors it should still be possible to detect an effect via regression. It's like if you try to price S&P off just one of its constituent stocks; you're still going to observe some correlation even when only looking at a single large constituent.

The results of the other article I linked, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7, showing that vaccination does not reduce viral load, supports this notion.
It seems to be more of a "Secret Shopper" situation than got caught selling it to real foreign agents.
I am not familiar with the Nordic legal environment, but this could be that because Pfizer has a better safety profile than Moderna, so they'd rather use Pfizer. At the same time, both Pfizer and Moderna are much safer than raw covid according to all direct data that I've seen.
This guy's site is not netflix nor facebook, nor is he 10k developers to support those architectures.

If this guy were pragmatic, a Ruby on Rails/django app in heroku would do wonders. If he wants to promote React because that's what he sells, that's a different story.

The problem is the people taking what this guy says as "the modern way to do it" and then you find the messes you find at work.
Who was buried with Nestor’s Cup? Macroscopic and microscopic analyses
None of that is taught in ECON 101. You are extending supply and demand to a domain (money supply & inflation) that is significantly more complex and is taught fully only at high level econ.
The Google Chrome change looks like the most significant of the two factors that caused Portal to shut down, although it's a shame that they didn't continue running the service for users of other browsers. (Android file transfer apps that implement scoped storage have similar functionality as before if users grant them access to the entire "sdcard" directory.)

Here are some FOSS alternatives to Portal that don't depend on Chrome:

- ShareDrop (https://www.sharedrop.io): WebRTC-based P2P file transfers through the browser

- Sharik (https://github.com/marchellodev/sharik): File transfers via Wi-Fi or mobile hotspot for Android, iOS, Linux, and Windows

- KDE Connect (https://kdeconnect.kde.org): File transfers, notification sync, and other integrations between Android, Linux, Windows, and SailfishOS. Other compatible clients: Soduto for macOS (https://soduto.com), GSConnect for GNOME (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/)

- Syncthing (https://syncthing.net): Continuous P2P file syncing for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD

- Wormhole (https://wormhole.app): File sharing from the browser through encrypted uploads that expire after a set amount of time or number of downloads
My /. sig for years:

> It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

That said, I don't think that the government is wrong here.
Was expecting this to be about the Pushbullet app since its become mostly broken for me in the past months.
Beethoven X – The AI Project
> This will come back to bite our elected officials

No it will mostly bite the lower classes among their constituents.
This seems to miss a couple of fairly likely scenarios.

1) us-east-1 goes down, and a whole bunch of important AWS backplane goes down with it, so it's impossible to bring everything back up again in other regions.

2) us-east-1 goes down, and the thundering herd stomps all over the other regions making it impossible to use them.

3) either scenario 1 or 2 happen, and another thundering herd of people who've made plans to stand everything up in Azure/GCP take those down as well.
Who would anyone be using Chinese SDK? Recent Mi phone revelation are not enough?
Does anyone know an app like Portal/Pushbullet which also works on iOS? I'm hanging between the ecosystems and file sending like this would be great.
Thanks! For those who were wondering like me check:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210320124929/https://github.co...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171757/https://barinsta....

> The beautiful, open source, and privacy-friendly alternative Instagram client for Android.

> If you don't upload posts or stories on Instagram, but you still have to use it to keep in touch with people and contents, you now have an alternative: Barinsta is a beautiful client that allows you to browse Instagram, while removing most of the annoyances (ads, suggestions, useless tabs) and giving you more control of your data.
Why Don’t We Have Vaccines Against Everything? (2018)
It's not too many years ago I was used to filling a shopping cart (not overflowing, but pretty full) for more than a week worth of food and it was hardly ever over $100.

These days a hand basket with just a handful of things and I always end up paying $90-$100. Inflation is scary out of control last few years.
That's one vaccine and one country, and you're not arguing against my point, but shifting the discussion back to donations. The number of vaccines being donated are not even close to sufficient to protect the countries without the means to produce the vaccines.

Many countries could produce these vaccines, but are not legally allowed to because we're protecting the patents, so that companies can make profit on them. Without patent protection, they wouldn't be the only companies manufacturing them.

It's also strange to say it's entirely false, while giving one example in which the vaccines are being given at cost. Many of the vaccines are not. In some cases the companies are not profiting, in other cases they are.
Well maybe I want to grant the site access to a particular internal IP without the ability to send requests everywhere... at what point would Chrome just have its own separate firewall?
California moves toward ban on gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers
Taxing income, instead of land, is already rent seeking
Israel was paying something like $65/dose, which is way, way ahead of what other nations were going to pay.

Bibi's career at this point was up against a wall, and he was willing to do anything to 'be first'. Israel has a cagey foreign policy apparatus, I have no doubt they went 'all in' on this, calling in favours, applying pressure in addition to the regular negotiations.
This was really interesting, thanks for the links!
This database looks really promising, thanks for sharing! I'll definitely try to get ahold of it

Our stories are not actually all that different haha. I started the same way, mostly from getting into iNaturalist. I'm in SoCal right now and the landscapers seem obsessed with planting Natal Plums everywhere. I get some weird looks by people seeing me pick these big bright red juicy fruit next to their parking lots but they've become one of my favorite fruits, haha

If you're interested in this type of data, I've also been collecting resources like this. One of my favorites is the FAO's EcoPort[0] which has some of the most bizarre web design I've come across, but has really rich data. There's also the NAEB DB[1] which is the most complete collection of documented edible, medicinal, and other plant uses by Native American groups that I've come across. And since you linked PracticalPlants I'm guessing you're already aware of PFAF and related projects haha

[0] http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=displayMenu&menu=Basic_Sear...
[1] http://naeb.brit.org/
Sure, but a veteran coder at least understands that tampering with something may affect some other subsystem you don't even know exists until it breaks... which you wouldn't even think to test. The idea of throwing the phone staff into COBOL instead of them learning Python just obfuscates the real problem which isn't that the language is uncool and dying but that the systems are like the rules of the NFL. They stopped making sense a long time ago to anyone who wasn't immersed and paying attention.
yes, but also environmental regs are used this way
The state always has standing to prosecute crimes, regardless of whether the victim wants them to or not.
Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform
1) Because it's a really expensive treadmill.

It took a stupid amount of money to get on the treadmill (TSMC--$200 million in 1987), takes a stupidly larger amount of money to go to the next layer of the treadmill ($100 billion+ over the next 3 years), and, if you fall off, you aren't getting back on the treadmill.

2) The lead times on the equipment are measured in years

As the podcast points out, TSMC has bought AMSL's production of machines for the next 5 years. Those are lithography machines that nobody can buy for any amount of money for the next 5 years.

To compete, you need to set up not just the fab but the infrastructure supplying the fab.

So, in the short term, nobody is dethroning TSMC.
Are you saying that it's the fault of the groups not directly present, we can blame the moderates who aren't there?

You'll either eject the cranks or become them. The (possibly apocryphal) tale is "As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."

This dynamic has happened many many times on the left, with the far left cranks.
I read a line in the NYT article that makes me judge all software engineers at FB
~~~~“She didn’t know how basic stacks worked,” wrote one Facebook engineer, referring to a term used by the engineering team to describe how data is structured in computer programming. He said all of her testimony should be disqualified.~~~~

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/technology/facebook-whist...
I feel like the 64KB of memory available to processes made it a total non-thought on system designers. Not quite like later architectures where it'd be 2GB, 4GB, or 16EB.
Plenty of forks out there already: https://github.com/search?q=barinsta
The flip side is that his standards could be too high for a practically useful test, the standards for searching for something like ground truth and the standards for searching for some more money are different. In the former being right for the wrong reasons is still being wrong, in the latter no one cares why you were right.
Not an expert but Smarter Everyday has a playlist on a Nuclear Submarine. He explains the complicated math involved in various operations of the Submarine. As few others have pointed out, it also involves keeping the sub silent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJnWp1tAdU
> With the safety net of fast engines, we can sacrifice the 'fastest' implementation of our functions for more readable & maintainable versions.

Followed by a search smallest function which is linear in time optimized to a function using filter/sort which is n*log(n) in time. Impressive indeed.
Southwest is literally the poster child of low cost carriers. They started the whole business model, which consists of a few things:

* they operate literally one type of aircraft, and therefore only have to train their crew once, keep the specific set of parts, etc.

* they optimize the hell out of making sure their planes are in use carrying paying passengers for the maximum amount of time

* they fly a vast network of point to point using secondary airports, as opposed to coordinating at massive hubs

These are all things that would make recovering from a massive widespread disruption very hard, and Southwest has been doing it better and longer than anybody else.
Sigh. The CBC is well known to support this government, and that reporting is biased, that's not 'political' it's just reality.

While that part of the strategy 'panned out', the government was ineffective in securing vaccines despite early 'deals', all the while the CBC was not particularly hostile to this fact.

That fewer that 1 in 5 Canadians want CBC funding decreased is a populist issue.
I wasn't implying you were stupid, it just came across as a very shallow opinion based only on your personal desires rather than having considered the effects on the developer ecosystem. Granted I don't exactly know you or your background, so it was an unfair judgement. I could make my point without that line.

I don't disagree with you either, I know exactly what the app store is, perhaps where we differ in opinion is how harmful such a ecosystem will be.
If I had to buy equipment with my own money to do my job, I'd quit too.

The American way of handling schools is just completely bonkers from over here, across the pond.
Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect
I strongly believe and anectodally observed that managers' expectations influence their team members' performance.
https://www.gavi.org/covax-facility

https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/
It should be assumed that any app that won't allow public review and independent builds of their source code can and will take actions for profit you may not approve of at any time, be it intentionally or out of negligence.

Letting a third party run code on your system they don't permit you two or someone you trust to see is a bit like being asked to adopt a legal contract that has some amount of power over you you are not permitted to read.

If you want apps willing to prove you can trust them to respect your privacy and freedom, the reasonably strict process of apps in the F-Droid store are what you are likely looking for.

There is an accountable and privacy preserving alternative for almost everything.
Yes, that's true.

But Servo, to the best of my knowledge, was* an R&D project to develop an new experimental engine. The parts lifted into Firefox are now presumably maintained and developed as a part of Firefox proper.

Don't get me wrong, I was disappointed when i heard that the Servo team was laid off. We are probably missing out on new exciting things that could have come out of it. I just wanted to clarify that cutting Servo did not, as far as I know, mean that any current part of Firefox is now unmaintained or undeveloped.

* Servo is still alive and developed outside of Mozilla, I don't know if's doing well or not.
What about the most regressive tax scheme there, VAT, and sales tax in the US?
Yeah exactly. Cycads for example are a very poisonous plant. Yet there's an entire island in Japan where people use cycads for everything from flour to alcoholic beverages

Maize is another good example of this. When white people took corn with them and forced parts of Africa to grow it from them, they didn't take along with them the knowledge of the complex process of nixtamalization. That's the way native peoples prepared corn to make it edible. It removes aflotoxins and makes nutrients in the maize more accessible.

In areas in Africa where maize replaced what they'd been growing, famines skyrocketed because they didn't know how to eat/process the corn
I didn't know you need a ticket to attend. Who gets the money? I guess you could call it "commercial anarchism".

I'm not an expert on anarchism but I would think that in anarchism you are free to sell things for money too. It's just that you can also grab those things without paying for them too.

Not very unlike from the GNU license which says you can get it for free but you can also sell it.
> unaware of their shutdowns in spending and travelling

Plenty of journalists have been covering shifting spending patterns since the early days of the pandemic, and its effects on economic sectors and local, regional, and national economies.

> not redistributing vaccines

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-doubles-us-donation-...

Over a billion doses pledged.

> vs vaccinating kids

...we're...not....vaccinating...kids...yet...

> and getting third shots in

What..."third....shots"....? Boosters for the single-shot vaccines that have turned out to greatly diminish in effectiveness.

Looking through your comment history shows this comment isn't the first time you've been remarkably poorly informed, to put it politely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28791742

"more kids die from traffic crashes", you say, and whine about how people think you're anti-vax. Nah, you're objectively, provably wrong, as demonstrated by someone in that thread, and yet here you are a day or two later still whining about how we're wasting resources "vaccinating kids."

Nevermind that you seem to think that we shouldn't vaccinate people until more of them die from COVID than traffic collisions (which for many age groups is the top cause of death)?

You are stunningly poorly informed every time you write a comment here.

You are often wrong, have poor logic/reasoning skills, and maybe you are not qualified to be forming strong opinions about the things you are talking about, at least until you make some effort to educate yourself from objective, fact-based sources, instead of just believing conservative memes you see on Facebook because they fit your worldview.
The concept is called velocity of money/circulation. It's actually taught in econ 101. It's distinct from money supply. For example you can have increasing supply and stable/declining velocity if no one is circulating it, so there being more money doesn't necessarily mean inflation in those conditions.
The problem is by the 3rd-4th project you are brought on to help, you pretty much become jaded. How many times can one deal with it without losing patience?

While this whole thread has been a whiplashing on the OP, it’s only happening because they seem to not get it and continue propagating stacks and layered complexity of this sort. In fact, they are literally selling it to the most impressionable without paying a dime of the consequences (suffering through the n-th over abstracted codebase).

I’ve lost patience.
This makes me wonder….

Would this tool be a candidate for a cease and desist from facebook?

https://exportcomments.com/
Pure land taxes make it difficult to fund infrastructure that scales with population (eg schools). The only way that a land use tax could work is to either fund population based services differently or just assume that all land is used for high density apartments.

Property tax and land use taxes do make speculation more expensive. In countries that lack property tax (eg China), speculation is much more of a problem than countries that do have such a tax.
Rich countries (e.g. US, Israel, Japan) paid extra to get doses first, then once they had enough, the US (and probably other countries) paid for doses for poorer countries.

https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/

E.g. (first alphabetically (Africa > Angola)):

https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/angola/

>The United States continues to make great strides in its efforts to distribute safe and effective vaccines globally. We are happy to announce our donation of 1,182,870 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Angola on August 24 with our partners GAVI and the African Union.
Margrethe Vestager on Right to Repair
What do you want to make? What's your budget? How handy are you?
I think you are talking about arbitrary stride sequential access, and the comment you were responding to meant stride-1 access. But conventional arrays also fare poorly with arbitrary stride access, though probably they have an advantage with small strides close to the Clojure persistent vector chunk size.
Who would think that central banks pumping money to save the stock market means that this empty money will cause inflation once the rich exit and invest elsewhere (and leave central banks to hold the bag).
In this weeks episode of Mythbusters . . . .
There are many CI/CD pipelines that deploy to K8S.

The "simple static site hosting" isn't magic, it's usually nothing more than a wrapper around putting your code into a nodejs docker container and deploying it to some lambda/serverless platform with a CDN in front. Your post is exactly what I mean about many frontend devs not understanding backend or infrastructure resulting in convoluted architectures.
As admins, they probably don't want to put themselves in a position where they're making judgment calls about what matters and what doesn't. It's reasonable to have a bright line policy.