skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny to me is that Rails 7 is the release I've most looked forward to in years.

Being able to do page interactions over Hotwire without Webpacker with be a real productivity boost for me.

Having stuff like YJIT and Sorbet Compiler available if needed only makes it more attractive.
That's kind of a misconception. You can use a whole bunch of smaller rotors to have nearly the same efficiency as a single rotor of the same diameter (okay fine there are also Reynolds Number effects from going smaller, but not as important in this context). The difference is roughly the packing ratio of circles, about 90%. VoloDrone takes this approach.
> Molnupiravir [interferes with] accurate replication of the virus

At first glance this sound like a really bad idea, given that the #1 concern is future covid mutations.
It would be nice if you could filter by salary
> Brains are not for rational thinking, linguistic communication, or perceiving the world.

Isn't this false?

Brains are for whatever brains are for, and if brains are thinking rationally (2+2 = 4), communicating linguistically (I'm typing this using language), and perceiving the world using senses than they are for those things just as much or as little as they are for or not for anything else. I suppose you can say something along the lines of "brains are for continuing survival and propagation of genes" as they author did which is fine, but it would make more sense to state that and try to prove it... Because how do we know that thinking rationally isn't what evolutionary drive is? How do we know that brains are evolved for survival? Survival for what? Gut bacteria? The earth (keep reproducing to keep organic material churning)? How do we know that the emergence of language and propagating that isn't what brains are for?

I think it's hard to really say what brains are for or not for. That's a deceptively difficult question and probably shouldn't casually throw out "brains are not for X".

-edit-

I also wouldn't take it for granted that brains or anything is for anything.

I do think we are "philosophical zombies" as someone else put it, but it's not a distinction that matters because whether we are or are not doesn't change anything. It's like accepting that you don't have free will - it doesn't change anything. You still go to jail if you rob someone (the interesting question comes from the morality of this actually IMO).

Consciousness is probably an evolutionary adaptation for increased cooperation - to that end it's a shared delusion (language allows us to become "more" conscious), but a useful one.

I'd posit that certainly all mammals are conscious (if they're not, then I'm not sure you can argue that anything is conscious besides yourself which is fine if you hold that view) and likely all animals are conscious, just a matter of degree of genetic expression. Panpsychism is tempting but if we wanted to say that rocks are conscious than I think we could set aside still different "levels" of conscious expression and draw meaningful distinctions - it's not a hill one has to die on.

Most of our work on consciousness that I've observed has historical religious baggage (not insulting religion here) with humans being at the center and "special" but if you strip that away I think it's pretty easy to see that we're not. Many scientists that I've seen or observed kind of have the God problem - which is that they're wrestling with a question or dilemma and supposing God is involved or exists and so it must be dealt with. Similarly in the study of consciousness it seems that we're supposing that humans are conscious to some special degree and trying to fit science to explain that - which is a faulty premise from the start.

/rant :)
> So one option is to move to one of the outsourcing companies or even better to a smaller company dealing with western clients.

That's pretty much what most (if not almost all) of ukrainian tech is doing. And coupled with low CoL and widely abused tax loopholes, they are making bank, netting comparable money to 6 figure jobs in the west. So I'm just saying that eastern europe == poorly paid is a misconception.
I don't understand the advantage of this drone configuration over a heavy lift helicopter, or something like the V-22. Hard to believe so many smaller rotors are more efficient than 1 or 2 large ones.
I tested some domains, and there's 30× more JavaScript than HTML on average
I feel like I'm pointing out the obvious, but another, extremely effect and quick "treatment" is vaccination. And it works great without the constant need for testing. I have to imagine that anyone willing to undergo treatment at the very start of getting covid, would have also been willing to be vaccinated.

The vaccine-hesitant aren't going to go for treatment until the outlook is dire.

Additionally, in my experience, physicians aren't terribly concerned about infections in vaccinated individuals. When I was last tested, the physician essentially just assured me that vaccinations have been shown to drastically reduce the likelihood of complications, and not to really worry about it. Granted, I could have had a less rigorous physician, or it could that I'm totally healthy.
I suspect an editor without sufficient medical knowledge might have made the reverse of that edit to tighten up the first sentence.
> at least 80 real dollars.

By "real" you presumably mean "Bohemian":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#History
>The American people love this shit.

Bingo. We're in the Attitude Era of US politics. Twitter and Facebook have allowed combative politics to break even further through the fourth wall and allow your average American to participate in the scrum.
I'll end with this:

The reason why moderation works here as well as it does, is because dang and others actually care, actually spend the human time interacting with people, and spend time cultivating norms and culture that leads to more decisions that are good than not.

This is a human problem, not something we fix with a rule or algorithm or clever metric.

Someday, maybe when machines can derive real meaning from text, we can revisit this discussion and be productive.

And I even have an indicator for you.

A while back the decision was made to include one space between the period at the end of a sentence, and the capital letter at the beginning of another one. The result of that is also a capital letter after the period required for an abbreviated word.

This ambiguity is why those of us who prefer two spaces at the end of a sentence do so. It is so software can understand when a sentence actually begins. As things stand now, there's no real distinction between the abbreviated word, and the legitimate end of a sentence, meaning we get autocapitalization wrong.

When machines can understand meaning well enough to sort this out, is also the time that we might revisit moderation. Cheers

( going back to two spaces would be really nice, but this discussion just gave me a reason to prefer one space now for the indicator purpose mentioned above.)
> Only when a match is detected in the local database, FF sends the full hash of the URL to Google to double check

Even that's not quite what it says, as I understand things. When a partial-hash match is detected, FF asks Google for the list of full hashes that start with this partial hash, and then checks (still locally) against those. So as far as I can see, Google still wouldn't know which of those full hashes corresponds to the URL you're requesting.

(I have not examined the implementation personally, I'm just basing this off the post mentioned. But FF is open source, so if someone would like to check whether this is accurate, that'd be great.)
That's how I'm seeing this - as a mini linux computer with the ability to make calls and send text messages at some point in the future.

Just a linux computer with a cellular modem sounds amazing to me, tbh.
Voter ID laws would block you from voting at home, so I don't see how its immaterial at all.
> If we had a functioning justice system it would find these people and charge them with fraud.

The people who are making these threats feel as though they are being persecuted by a media-corporate-legal complex that is out to get them. The more you attempt to penalize these individuals for their beliefs, the more radicalized they will become.
Freeform editors like Natto are the future of programming
Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health
I know this is the inevitable and cliche pushback, but it never seems to be grappled with so it remains worth pointing out: none of the three things you mentioned are anywhere close to monopolies. There are lots of social networks (Twitter and TikTok are extremely successful, among others), lots of ways to search the internet, and lots of ways to shop online. The analogy with the railroads simply is not apt, their monopoly was so powerful because there was often no other way to get from point A to point B, so they had complete leverage. This is not the case for any of these companies you listed, there is a lot of competition in all these markets.

But I also think there are major issues with the current configuration of the tech industry! They just aren't because of monopolies. It is not helpful to misdiagnose a real problem. It is not helpful to have only a hammer and call every problem a nail.
I think the case for server-side HTML rendering has never been stronger, and of all Django projects I work on, the ones I enjoy most are those that never got on the SPA bandwagon. From both a developer and user point of view I find them much faster and less painful. There are many cases where you really, really don't need the massive amount of extra complexity involved in designing APIs, adding JS frameworks etc.

When you need a bit of extra UI goodness, htmx https://htmx.org/ is a fantastic solution, and you can still use SPA-type approaches for things that need them.

You can also benefit from massively faster (and more reliable) functional testing when you are mostly standard HTML - see django-functest https://github.com/django-functest/django-functest/ for an example of this.
What's the difference between hyperfocus and flow state?
I think the minimum number of nodes is high because they are recommending the minimum requirements for a fault tolerant setup. It is entirely possible to install either k8s or nomad on a single node, but clearly that is not a fault tolerant situation.

IIRC both k8s and nomad rely on the Raft algorithm for consensus, and so both of them inherit the requirement of a minimum of 3 nodes from that algorithm.

If you want something to run some containers in the cloud, and you aren't concerned by the occasional failure, then there is no issue running a single Nomad (or k8s) on a single machine and later adding more if and when you require it.
Yes but:

1 Bitcoin ~ validated by millions of nodes

100,000 visa transaction ~ validated by one entity
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/world/israel-covid-booste...
Please stop posting links to paywalls. There is not a single sentence from the story available on this site. You're essentially posting a link to a subscription marketing page.
It’s launching from French Guiana because it’s launching on Ariane 5 and that’s where it launches from.

It’s launching on Ariane 5 because it is a very powerful and incredibly reliable rocket that can carry a very large and customized fairing for this very large satellite that needs to go very far.
I'm surprised you don't mention FAANG's egregious censorship.

It's like we're living in some global Orwellian dystopia or some Communist dictatorship.
The first giant exoplanet that survived the death of its star was discovered
Why not offer the service with a paywall? And I don't mean the awful website kind.

I mean: someone signs up - regardless of whether you want to call it a subscription - and every month on renewal, they get a notice to confirm renewal (or have to re-enter payment, though I suspect that's probably _too_ much friction).

Is that a great way to retain revenue? Probably not. But it's way better for press than what I saw when I opened this thread and was immediately turned off. It's definitely the kind of consumer-first model that I'd love to see more of, certainly from a company/app whose target is helping people...
We got here because of cowardice
Is 3% really "small"?
I have a hard time understanding how anyone can claim they know the true percentage of crypto transactions that are used for illegal activity. At best they can report the subset that they were able to track down, and it seems reasonable to believe that most large value illegal transactions are carried out by people who know how to hide it.
Then use two L-shaped bars in between the landing skids, fixed to the top structure and/or landing skids. Have two other bars swing down from the top on the other side of the pallet/box, have them lock in. Should be still lighter.

Also I know about the winds because I live in HH and bicycle there all the time ;)

Shouldn't really matter when you think about what even things like Ardupilot or similar firmware for drones can do to stabilize flight in all sorts of situations.

It's just a matter of scale. And that thing has way more propellers to dynamically counteract any imbalances than the small hobbyist things.

I don't know. It looks overdesigned to me. Form should follow function. In vague comparison this looks like the first railroad wagons for passengers still somehow looking like horse-drawn chariots. Makes no sense to me.
No dog in this fight

But just for clarity since you're top comment, I assume he means the gross support costs of the dollar via the military / empire industrial complex ->

(1) https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-hidden-costs-of-the-...
Cute graph. What's the source?
Why do you think you can’t do anything else? There’s different trial methods. Shorter subscription periods. OPT-in models.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28863210
With all the creepy surveillance of America's phone system, internet, etc. that seems to be happening - is "we'll try to trace those death threat calls" even on the table?
I don't know enough about vaccines to dispute what you're saying (though I feel like I have heard contrary data on this), but even if it's only fully effective for 8-9 months, isn't the fact that we had a vaccine that accomplished at least some of its goals safely designed and tested in record time a really cool thing?

Even if it's only effective for 6 months, that's still 6 months of slowing the spread, and conceivably we can extend the efficacy by administering booster shots.
Apple pushing back against South Korea's App Store payment law
The default professional advice for people who are worried about being assaulted more or less starts at "glawk fawty" and goes up/down from there depending on what details you add and how they change the situation. The police officer basically gave her the canned default advice.
I wonder if this deterministic memory management instead of a garbage collection would have helped discord with their spiking latencies

https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
Linux is free and somehow that has gotten decades of support.

You can do good work for "your community" without putting profits first
Michael Lewis wrote about something related in Iceland, when he covered the 2009 financial crisis and it's impact on Iceland:

> Alcoa, the biggest aluminum company in the country, encountered two problems peculiar to Iceland when, in 2004, it set about erecting its giant smelting plant. The first was the so-called hidden people—or, to put it more plainly, elves—in whom some large number of Icelanders, steeped long and thoroughly in their rich folkloric culture, sincerely believe. Before Alcoa could build its smelter it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it. It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free, but, as he put it, “we couldn’t as a company be in a position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people.”
That’s your clue right there. “Break up google” is an aesthetic argument with no sound legal or ethical basis, promoted by people who aesthetically prefer Apple and therefore give that company a free pass.
The rumors say that it will launch with Half-Life 3 pre-installed
They have always been honest about what it is for. It is your fault for not knowing that when ordering. A little research reveals plenty of people are using it as their daily phone, but all agree that there are rough edges to fix.
From parent's comment:

k8s = 10x the components & difficult to install.

Nomad = single binary, works with but doesn't require containers.
I can't relate to this at all. I've been happily working on SPAs with React and Redux for nearly 6 years.

Hotwire makes no sense: switching to managing client-side state on the server and sending HTML over the wire introduces a ton of problems: you are going to have to write and debug JavaScript eventually. Now your server is running client-side code to update every local browser state? How is that scalable at all?

React has a ton of great libraries for UI that these articles always ignore: Something like react-select to manage a dynamic dropdown- you can't implement that on the server.

You need SPAs for complex dashboards, and React is a great library to store and update local state. I don't understand what the controversy is.
I am a software developer. I would honestly not have the nerve to release a product with software in the state the Pinephone is in today. But of course, pine64.org takes no responsibility for the software on their phone, it's a "community project".

Until there's somebody who is willing to be embarrassed by the state of this software, and able to do something about it, there is no hope here. It does not get better.
I was paid much less than my salary when I was unemployed. I made more per week from the salary than I did per month on unemployment. I assume you mean more than someone else you know who had UI. The benefit amount depends on your salary. UI is insurance paid by the company that fired you - in essence the company that fired you pays your unemployment (by paying for the insurance for their employees). The more people the lay off or fire w/o cause, the more their insurance premium. In addition, there was an extra benefit paid by the federal government due to the pandemic (unemployment is usually a state benefit).

So the way to both stick it to the asshole ex-employer and make extra cash, is to double-dip. Get paid unemployment, while getting other income. If you own a company, you don't have to be employed by your company - you can just be an owner - like when you buy Apple stock. You can then pay yourself dividends instead of salary, and bam - you're still unemployed, while getting the same amount as your salary, and unemployment. You do have to keep looking for work, daily though. Which I did do. So, think of it as a legal loophole to screw the guy who fired you and make money off him.
I've heard winter protests breakdown in Saint Petersburg was much harsher because it's surveillance system is not as advanced as in Moscow.
It's not as though the concept of a vaccine booster is new, after all we get annual flu shots. It's also a question of efficacy of the vaccine versus the new predominate variant. Delta didn't exist when the vaccines were finalized.
Correct. Let alone in addition to:

- The credit card terminals

- The power for Visa's servers

- The power for Visa's customer support offices

- The power for the phones at Visa's offices

- The power at the credit agencies

- The fuel for the money trucks

- The power for the money printers

- The power for the servers at all of the banks

- The power for the atm's

I could continue.
I haven't even heard about the curing cancer part, that's awesome if it's true.

I think I'm going to temper my expectations to "faster and more vaccines increasingly exotic diseases" for now. I would absolutely love to be proven wrong though.
Yes. This topic is long and complicated; maybe I'll write it up or give a talk or something someday.

There is a lot of nuance.
Not a popular opinion, but I’m glad in a way. I cannot comment on the efficacy of ivermectin, but the people on the left rabidly against ivermectin usually come across as brainless, anti-intellectual frauds. Many exist on this site and will downvote me surely. In all fairness, I have nothing positive to say about the Bill Gates theorists on the right; they’re the lowest form of idiot as well. Regarding the article, it is fairly clear to me that scientists who seek out projects to debase ivermectin are probably very politically minded. Little Fauci’s. Get that grant money at all costs. While I’m really sorry he will have to wait longer for Twitter fame, I think people seeking attention and fame like this are the largest problem with science today. Granted, he’s in the guardian and on HN’s front page, so maybe mission success? I guess the ship has long sailed, but academia and science should not be a place which attracts people seeking fame and attention.
I don't think I want "distributed," I think I just want "federated." I keep hoping something like Standstorm.io will come along, that makes it easy for someone like me to host different apps for my friends and family.
I'd recommend giving a bit more weight to the experiences of other developers. Static typing in Python has become fairly widespread and even idiomatic in some circles, even if you haven't experienced that yet.
Covid, lockdown and the retreat of scientific debate – The Spectator
There is almost certainly one package maintainer out there who would love to do that ;)
Maybe unrelated but YouTube has been throwing a lot of faux science and astronomy at me lately. Youtubers reading controversial papers presented as indisputable even when there's no scientific consensus at all on the results.
audio-based apps, AirPods, voice assistance - especially promising progress on the horizon with using OpenAI's Codex
MPAs are naturally limiting compared to an SPA. And dev teams know this. So does management.

SPAs are magical pixie dust that lets you easily code a native experience in the web. Some management thinks this. So do under-experienced dev teams.

MPAs provide natural pushback against unrealistic demands and feature requests that your experience might not let you recognize, or that company politics won't let you do.
>Doesn't that mean the core development is divided 14 times?

Honestly I don't think personally that it hurts things as much as one might expect. There is a lot of work from each distro that benefits all of the others. For example the Mobian dev was one of the first to really tackle the issue of battery life and their work benefited all the other teams.

That being said it might be better to have a few larger dev teams, but as long as their works contribute back to the community there is always benefit to the whole.
There are no free trial subscriptions with opt-in "continue paying" as far as I know. I mean, why would Apple and Google build that? They make more money with trial + automatic billing.
The underground economy in developed countries is estimated at around 10% of the GDP, so comparatively yes. [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/062216...
How to identify bad science in news articles
At the risk of being trite, the response to FAANG employees being underpaid is also more or less 'you're underpaid, brah, go get another job!'. The bar for hiring and compensation is much higher, but management still wants to minimizing costs. This means systematically limiting internal salary growth, and hiring external rockstars at higher salaries to replace the internal rockstars that leave. Overall, it seems to be more effective to spend a couple months preparing/interviewing for the role you want than navigating the internal bureaucracy for an indefinite amount of time on the order of years.