skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metaverse stuff is really, really embarrassing. Second Life has existed for 20 years and it's a fun novelty.

As a Second Life user and creator, and client developer, I agree. I think Second Life could be bigger if the technology was improved, and can see ways to do that. But the concept will not scale to Facebook levels. Besides, we have no way to do full dive technology in a home environment. (Location-based, maybe. The Star Wars Experience and omnidirectional treadmills indicate it's not impossible with enough space and machinery.)

What will scale, and I suspect this is Facebook's vision, is AR goggles. Facebook, in your face, all the time. The dystopian vision of this is the "Hyperreality" video.[1] That's all too achievable, and very much in line with Facebook's business model.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
We've know much longer than that. From around 20 BC

"Water conducted through earthen pipes is more wholesome than that through lead; indeed that conveyed in lead must be injurious, because from it white lead [PbCO3, lead carbonate] is obtained, and this is said to be injurious to the human system. Hence, if what is generated from it is pernicious, there can be no doubt that itself cannot be a wholesome body. This may be verified by observing the workers in lead, who are of a pallid colour; for in casting lead, the fumes from it fixing on the different members, and daily burning them, destroy the vigour of the blood; water should therefore on no account be conducted in leaden pipes if we are desirous that it should be wholesome. That the flavour of that conveyed in earthen pipes is better, is shewn at our daily meals, for all those whose tables are furnished with silver vessels, nevertheless use those made of earth, from the purity of the flavour being preserved in them" - Virtuvius VIII.6.10-11
You’ve grossly mischaracterized every single one of these.
Geekbench 4 and Geekbench 5 are different scales.

Edit: about 5 people beat me.
I am just speculating wildly here, but I would think Moderna is worried about losing a competitive advantage to the "bootleggers" down the road, when producing boosters, and other mRNA vaccines.

Once the genie is out of the bottle those companies will be international competitors with your trade secrets probably forever- they might be able to lock it back down in the US market but good luck convincing other states to shackle their pharmaceutical industry that way.
1883 - 1900 Lost Generation

1901 - 1927 Greatest Generation

1928 - 1945 Silent Generation

1945 - 1963 Me Generation aka. Baby Boomers

1964 - 1980 Generation X aka. Thirteeners

1980 - 1997 Generation Y aka. Millennials

1997 - 2010 Generation Z aka. Centennials
Seems right out of the Google -> Alphabet playbook
CGI was the way back then (still is in a way).
My way to work around this is to make a zipapp that contains several files, hence the entry point can do the checking and import another file that contains the code. But since its a zipapp, it behaves like a single file script: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html

Nowaday, I use shiv to produce the zipapp:

https://shiv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It's handy because you can also now embed 3rd party dependencies, even for small quick scripts if you wish.
There is a book, "Minimal Perl", that is entirely about that usecase. I found it convincing, 15 years ago, and the only Perl I use are those terse command line snippets it teached, when others might use some combination of grep, sed and awk. I don't know if it is the best tool for the job, but it has worked for me.
Looks not the same to me: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508124?baseli...

Did I pick the wrong regular M1 Macbook?

Edit: Hmm. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508059?baseli...

I guess Geekbench is a little unpredictable?

And it looks like HN is pushing their capacity...
What you are saying demonstrates exactly why I posed the questions.

1. It's usually stated as a matter of fact that primary sex organs possess inherent qualities that make them reasonably objectionable in a way that is not attributable to secondary sex characteristics, but few are actually articulating why that is, which is important for an argument differentiating the two.

2. Genitalia are considered acceptable in an artistic form, as is likely seen in the art this museum posts on social media. This appears rather contrary to the idea that genitalia should be hidden, thus art may not be a good argument for allowing exposed female secondary sex characteristics (as art is treated as a special case).

Now people seem to be getting me wrong... I'm NOT in favor of criminalizing the female nipple in any way.

> The issue of the nipple is completely separate and indefensible. The nipple has very similar appearance for both sexes; it performs no sexual function, and the one function it does have for women is something that has no obvious moral basis to prohibit. To wit: adults eating in public is fine, children eating in public is fine, but, for some reason, a baby eating in its natural form in public is not fine.

No, they are not completely separate. They are all based on a root assumption that is not being adequately challenged.

The assumption is that, to take your argument, there is something inherently acceptable about eating, because everyone eats and has mouths, and that there is something inherently objectionable about characteristics primarily related to sex even when the act of intercourse is not taking place.

Unless that question is broached, then your point about eating could also be applied to sexual organs. The only difference being that sexual organs have different appearances between males and females, but placing value on whether they differentiate in appearance is also arbitrary.
It can be done, you'd just need a big playground for the machine - about the size of an F1 track!
> Put on a pair of sunglasses and you can be in the room with anyone in the world. It will be radically personal and intimate after decades of impersonal, disconnected, inhumane and isolating tech.

And how will that makes them money? The only thing that's going to be more "personal and intimate" is the way in which they deliver ads and the same divisive and polarizing content. It'll be be way worse that it is now. Imagine how bad things got simply by inserting text and pictures into your social media feed. What happens when you're fully immersed in the "metaverse" with ads and divisive content literally be all around you. And no two people get the same content either. It's horrifying.
> Brendan Eich was CEO of Mozilla and they were flying high

flying high for all eleven of those days or just some of them? :P

> And Eich single-handedly created the only other viable browser in the market starting from scratch [market wise, not technology wise].

This is a bizarre re-writing of the history of Mozilla. Brendan Eich was obviously very important but he definitely wasn't alone, their corporate owner at the start was AOL, then a gigantic company, and he wasn't originally involved in Firefox when it started, it was a rebellious offshoot from the rest of Mozilla's large number of existing products, some dating back to the Netscape days.
> What if we find out several years down the road that the vaccine is causing a drop in IQ, affecting birth rates, etc.?

What if we find out several years down the road that COVID-19 does these things? We have a better grasp on the potential side effects of the vaccine—which, after all, is much simpler than a virus—than we have on the potential side effects of the disease.
I wrote a console based tool based on a similar idea, it shows city-based timezones: https://zeitzono.org/

Unlike hTime, Zeitzono (currently) doesn't offer any meeting suggestion times, it's up to you to figure out when to schedule. That problem turned out to be kinda hard when more than a few cities are taken into consideration, so I never really added it in. (You do get to shift the clock to find the best time though.)

All in all a nice tool. My only suggestion would be maybe to add some more cities to search. I couldn't find some that I tried. Otherwise people have to mentally shift to the closet big city/state (e.g. Gainesville, FL, US -> Orlando/Tampa/Jacksonville), which may be a problem if you are not familiar with the area.

Also, it may be nice to add some aliases (eg. Bombay for Mumbai), because some places still go by their older names and not everyone has switched to the newer official name.
Good old PayPal book; first they pushed PayPal through Ebay, now they are going to do it through Pinterest.
I noticed that issue too, and attributed it to Liu blending some historical Asian and possibly Chinese culture into the mix, where large failures result in great shame, loss of face, and sometimes suicide as a means of redeeming oneself.

Though that still happens occasionally in some contexts like business, it’s not realistic for scientists, as you explain. But maybe Liu was taking some artistic and cultural license here, using something that at least has some precedent.
I wouldn't be surprised if we find out something similar a decade or two from now about phthalates in plastics and personal care products, except for their effects on hormone levels rather than IQ.
Lead is heavy, even in trace quantities and after being initially airborne. It will deposit in soil, stream beds and sewers, particularly near roadways or transit systems. You will also find platinum-group metals accumulated in the same areas due to persistent catalytic converter atomization of running vehicles. Disturbing the soils (wind, rain, driving, construction, etc) will redistribute the tiny lead particles into the atmosphere, despite their relative weight.

> The lead content in that study was measured in particles collected either at the roadside or at rooftop height. The chemical fingerprint closely matched that of road dust and top soils, suggesting that contaminated soil is acting as a reservoir for 20-year old lead pollution, which is continually returned to the atmosphere when disturbed. The fact that lead found at street and building height shared the same chemical signature suggests airborne lead pollution is fairly well mixed across London.
DDoS attacks against Russian firms have almost tripled in 2021
I was hoping this would be the thing that makes coding on an iPad not awful. But any keyboard shortcuts are consumed by Safari, so it's a pain to use. However, I hope that this enables the VS Code team to make a native iOS/Android VS Code app that would essentially just be a web browser that uses this functionality.
Shades of Yahoo + Tumblr incoming
Garish is good! haha
Probably need Milford Act for at US Capitol.

Even if only guns were seen then (at the Sacramento Capitol).
The only obvious way to test if some operation is going to produce some value(s) is to perform that operation. Yes, for, say, a single multiplication I can anticipate the necessary bounds for each input value. But even short sequences of operations would quickly devolve into labyrinthine nested switch statements.
In my previous home of Vermont it's long been the case that nudity is not at all illegal - it's illegal to act lewdy in public and removing your clothing is considered a lewd action. As such walking into public naked is generally naked, but only generally, in a lot of cases folks can still make a case for your arrest if you're not really careful about the company you keep.
Impressive story! We should have a game about being a Jesuit in those times
The micelles are easily worth a biotech unicorn. Of course they aren't going to be public.
Is that a legitimate GB score for that machine? Searching for scores from that machine gives me: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=XPS+15+9510

Which shows score much lower than the linked test (maybe I'm missing something). Likewise unless it's coming from someone like AnandTech I'm skeptical of any benchmarks for the M1 Pro/Max until these machines are actually released next week.
Moderna is currently worth over 100B, purely based on their IP. It would be a lot of money to buy them out.
Of course. My point is even if the play field was leveled, the rules are still against an non-engaging social network. I want to know the value as much as you do.
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Despite literally all evidence to the contrary. Rate of gun ownership is directly correlated with violent crime rates.
I wanted to like it, but I couldn't get through it. 50% of the way in, and almost no Sci, and no Fi, and god if I heard "dehydratory" one more time I was going to lose it. The "game" as described in the book was utterly absurd.

It could be because of a cultural mismatch between me (American) and the author, but there was a certain something that I just couldn't get past.
Sure. My email address: radek@gruchalski.com.
Mr. Liu is like any accomplished writer, they are more often misread than correctly appreciated.

Even himself cannot see how vastly different between his own ideal and the reality in his writing.

For example, LIU proclaimed Arthur Clark as his role model. But his writing just has little resemblance of Clark's detailed subtle and mind grabbing magic. Liu's works always are presenting a grand idea, but presenting details from normal guys perspective. That makes it more of a Asimov writter. But his ideas are often more abstract than Asimov's, and make them closer to what Frank Herbert did in dune, but again, Herbert's work had much better dialogue and subtlety than LIU's.

And of course, because of the vastly different cultural background, most of the details are lost to western readers, making them, although still fluent thanks to the nice translation, througly bland in all aspects other than the high ideas.
They were funded by US taxpayer money. How does that create obligations to the people of South Africa?
Is this true about vscode.dev?

This was the first question I had while reading the blogpost: Do all my local files stay on my machine or do they get uploaded to a remote server?
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Oh boy, soon I might be able play my favorite Android trash games [1] natively on the PC!

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=JT79TVpF1ds&list=PLlc94szfcNDHtz...
Wow does much better than Geekbench's prior top processor (https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks) the Intel Core i9-11900K (https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-11900...).

10,997 for Intel i9

vs

12,693 for M1 Max
Depends on how you're positioned.
Is it though? If it is your team lead who apparently has the managerial power to deny you a medic, they certainly should also be required to be competent enough to make that decision.

Anything else is just an accident waiting to happen (and in this case, did happen).
I mean even if you 'crack the recipe': The required facilities to actually produce the vaccine (incl. all the upstream suppliers and sub-contractors and logistics etc.) will not pop up overnight.
That's a pretty fair reading. I missed out the "wasn't much left to get" part, although mostly because they didn't actually get much more even with the outburst.
Yes. Development of its vaccine started in 2018 when we lifted the gain of function moratorium during the Trump administration.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER FOLKS!
> Thus, Christianity is, by definition, a majority.

No, its a plurality, which is a minority that is bigger than any other minority when there is bo majority.

OTOH, the popular use of “minority” that is being referenced doesn't mean mathematical minority, it means “historically systematically oppressed group”; it evolved from the language around race in the US, where whites were the majority and minorities (especially blacks) were oppressed on the basis of race, but the key reference is the oppression not the numerical relationship.
What's the point of the company extending that goodwill if it's improper to hold them to it?

If I say I'll give anyone that asks $10,000, is it wrong for people to ask for it?
..and the artists all cried out in woad
H-1B visas are tied to a specific employer. The fact that you can move between different employers who will individually agree to sponsor a H-1B position doesn't change that fact.

This is fine when you're talking about moving between large companies with the apparatus to do that, but it does mean that H-1B holders have fewer opportunities with smaller employers or those who simply aren't willing to go through the paperwork.
I agree that apps will need a fallback for a couple years. So far only Chrome and Firefox are implementing it, and given that Safari took 2.5 years for IntersectionObserver I wouldn't hold my breath until we can even claim that all major browsers implement this.

But this API doesn't implement anything we couldn't do before, it's a more correct and much faster implementation of something we already have libraries for. The vast majority of users will have an almost immediate benefit from sites using this API, both in speed and security.

That's what I take this comment chain to be about, since talking about "a majority" doesn't make sense otherwise. Supporting browser versions used by at most 2% of all users is the name of the game in webdev, that's what made IE so annoying.
Is it disclosed anywhere what the bandwidth the CPU complex has to memory? There's the overall bandwidth to memory, which was probably made so high to feed the GPU, but can the CPUs together actually drive 200 or 400 GB/s to memory?

If they can, that's an absolutely insane amount of bandwidth. You can only get ~200 GB/s on an AMD EPYC or Threadripper Pro CPU with 8 channels of DDR4-3200, so here we have a freakin' LAPTOP with as much or even double the bandwidth of the fastest and hungriest workstation CPUs on the market.

Excited to see what a future Apple Silicon Mac Pro looks like and makes me quite envious as someone who is stuck in the x86 world.
I think Moderna is concerned about having its entire synthesis, mass manufacture, and delivery mechanism given away for free. This isn't just about the Covid vaccine, this is their entire business that the WHO wants access to.

It'd be one thing if the vaccine was an isolated innovation like a single piece of software that could be given away, but this is the company itself and everything they've been building. It's like the WHO is asking for the entire monorepo and instructions to set up the entire platform.

Also, once the WHO has the tech, it'll go into the hands of competing firms in Russia and China.

Maybe the WHO should be paying Moderna for more vaccines and asking for them to be provided at-cost?
Back in the day they kickstarted and promoted PayPal to Ebay vendors, now they are going to introduce "Buy with PayPal" to 400+ million Pinterest users. Protentional of ecommerce on Pinterest is huge. Pinterest is going head to head with Instagram on ecommerce. But the question is how worth is actually Pinterest. I don't think Pinterest is worth $45 billion[0] but if PayPal can afford it they must do it because it could be one of the most important acquisitions in the PayPal's history.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/paypal-looking-buy-digita...
Per core performance is the most interesting metric.

Edit: for relative comparison between CPUs, per core metric is the most interesting unless you also account for heat, price and many other factors. Comparing a 56-core CPU with 10-core M1 is a meaningless comparison.
Comparison for that https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10501477?baseli...
I was a child in a major city when leaded gasoline was prevalent and I live by an airport now. I probably see as many propeller airplanes in a year as I did automobiles in 5 minutes as a child playing in the street. This is also comparing an airplane off in the distance to a car running a few dozen feet away. So perhaps your recommended ban wouldn't move the needle at all when it comes to blood lead concentrations.

Or perhaps this is the benefit of having younger people in government. Because 50 year old like me thinks "massive progress made, don't waste time on diminishing returns" by comparing the current situation to the distant past. Whereas someone younger sees the threat differently.

Frankly, the propellor airplanes I do see are mostly military which will likely not be impacted by any regulations. I am also making the assumption only propellor airplanes could be using unleaded gas.
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At some point making money shouldnt be the focus. Thus was a global pandemic.
That isn't an option for me.
When do the nipples of a man transitioning to a woman become unacceptable?
Anyone know how this compares to the M1 Pro? Curious if it's worth the additional $400. The search doesn't seem to allow exact matches.
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> Are we ready as a society for it to be legal for someone to possess an image of a topless 14-year-old girl on their computer?

Was the girl harmed? Was her privacy violated? Otherwise, it is the same as for anyone else.
And they're the majority of H1B too.
True, but Comcast Cable was still rebranded to it to avoid negative associations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfinity#Branding
My eldest brother always joked that he lost IQ points when the doctors used forceps on him during birth. Jokes on him, the lead and the maternal smoking would've done him in anyway.
That rather depends where you live, though given how long the Roman Empire[0] was around for I must assume Roman sexual laws and social prohibitions varied a lot too.

[0] never mind the Republic, and even just counting the Western empire
Yeah I think you're absolutely right that is a factor
> You do not have to use iCloud Photos either.

If you want your photos to upload in the background, iCloud Photos is your only choice on iOS. Not so on Android. This makes backing up photos to a server privately on iOS essentially unusable.

This kind of crippling anti-privacy pro-Apple-profits design permeates iOS. You cannot even install an app on your device without giving Apple your billing details and letting them know you installed it, which is used for ads. You cannot get your location without also telling it to Apple. You cannot tell Apple not to track your WiFi SSID's location. You cannot uninstall Apple News, which is filled with user tracking for ads. On and on.

> We recently had a thread from a historian whose entire account was suspended after Google scanned all the files in his Google Drive,

You're comparing iOS to the wrong entity when you compare it to Google instead of Android, but even your comparison to Google is faulty. Your link is about Google suspending an account for files shared publicly, not about Google scanning all the files in that account. Section V.B. of https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/ says that sharing those types of images publicly is also a violation of the iCloud TOS, and Apple has the right to do the same thing. The difference is that Apple will probably handle the customer complaint better, but that is an issue of customer service, not privacy.
I think this is a "one step at a time" situation. Nipples are obvious. No cogent argument can be made in favor of banning only female chests. Genitalia are different because they can be sexualized. I'd argue that a flaccid penis is not a sexualized thing and should not be censored. But what about an erect penis? And what precisely constitutes an erection? Point being, there's a lot of gray area and genuinely tough questions that will need to be answered when it comes to genitalia. But the nipple issue is about as black and white as any issue can get.
Anyone know the score for Intel 12th gen Alder Lake?
>US governance is one hell of a stick

You misspelled military