skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Are there any standards for signed but cacheable http content? Seems like that's a tool that's missing from our toolbox (unless anyone can enlighten me.)

Seems like something as simple as that could do most of the job IPFS is setting out to do, for example.
A deeply-immersive space (VR) could be great for deeply-immersive thought and feeling. I'm excited about the up and coming open-source options.
All noncash methods of payment have strings attached where consumers and merchants alike are subject to various controls and costs. Cash is simple, exchange something in your posession for goods and services. It cannot be used as a means of identity based regulation or to audit who is buying what from whom. I mean, bitcoin exists because of how unacceptable this is to everyone but the middlemen, bureaucrats and purse clutchers. It seems a bit obvious but I wanted to stress on this point that a cash resurgence could just mean market participants wanting more liberty.
There are certainly at least a thousand, and that’s probably a laughably low estimate. I can think of 10 right off the top of my head but you’ve never heard of them. I currently live in McDaniels, KY and it’s one. My bank is a 1 hour drive one way. I would bet money that there are over 200 in Kentucky alone.
I remember this movie was a gold mine but, man, seeing Buck Henry play himself pitching a sequel to "The Graduate" is hilarious.
Actually I have explained multiple times why it's not coercion and why your description is incorrect. Some companies simply are unable to safely employ people who are unvaccinated. If you feel you are opposed to me then I would ask that you stop that, it's going to prevent us from having a reasonable discussion. I will tell you right now, I am not in opposition to you, I just see you may have some misconceptions and I'd like to help clear that up, if you are willing to let me do so. If not then please mention that and we can end the conversation.

Otherwise I'll try to use an analogy. Would you call it coercion if a construction company had all its welding equipment malfunction, break, and become unsafe, and as a result had to let all its welders go? Or would you call it coercion if a trucking company refused to hire people that didn't have trucking licenses, on the basis that it wouldn't be safe for them to drive a truck that they weren't trained for? Or if you're a nurse and you get let go for not being vaccinated, in a hospital where the entire job description is that you can't infect the patients with more diseases?

On your comment about gene therapy, AFAIK mRNA vaccines are not a new label on the underlying technology there. They are a different technology from the purpose described in that paper. Please see my other comment for what is generally referred to as gene therapy. Again we can contact a biologist or doctor for more information about this if you'd like to do that.

Edit: The paper you posted has a good citation that explains it better. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd4278

"The FDA definition of gene therapy is as follows: '... modification of the genetic material of living cells. Cells may be modified ex vivo for subsequent administration to humans, or may be altered in vivo by gene therapy given directly to the subject. When the genetic manipulation is performed ex vivo on cells which are then administered to the patient, this is also a form of somatic cell therapy ... Recombinant DNA materials used to transfer genetic material for such therapy are considered components of gene therapy.' As RNA does not result in 'modification of the genetic material of living cells', one would anticipate that its administration will not be classified as a gene therapy in the United States."
I don't invest in US markets, but of the equivalent index here, the contrarian fund this past financial year has certainly outperformed the index.

Though it almost seems like luck. If you had asked me 2 years ago, my contrarian funds were in the red.

I think the pandemic has really created both good contrarian opportunities as well as good value investment opportunities; both strategies seem to be working well at the moment.
> Before the intertoobs and CDs, I searched everywhere for that album (Herb Alpert's Ninth) for years, and finally found a brand new mint one in the cutout bin with the slot sliced in it. For $1. I couldn't believe my prize!

This cut-out practice is new to me, but a related one in the publishing/bookselling industry rang true. I learn a lot just by reading and reflecting on your comments. Thanks for posting this personal story.

I think we've lost a lot with the transition to digital, these kinds of bargain bins included, which is part of the reason I too love all kinds of secondhand stores and swap meets, etc.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out_(recording_industry)
> communicate my ideas clearly and persuasively to others

How do you get the ability to do this? I've been attending a book club with a small number of friends and even in these casual settings I wish I could communicate my ideas better.
If they worked a little on making those things quieter, they'd be like 10X more creepy by virtue of being 10X closer to crossing the uncanny valley. When you make a robotic arm that is so closely modeled after a human arm, isn't that one of the goals?
It’s their own code. You’re accusing Microsoft of EEEing their own code?
I'm pretty sure you're overestimating just how many people are going to be eager to step into the line of fire in violent crime-ridden Chicago.
Their decisions are non binding though. This is probably just a dog and pony show.
Yes that is exactly how you would get the best performance out of ClickHouse.
And it was made by Mikhail Kalatozov, the famous Soviet director. Obviously the point of the movie was to support Castro's regime (the USSR's ally) by showing the oppression of the pre-revolutionary times.
If you just want to replace cable, why would you need so many services? Surely one or two of them has enough to watch. Probably more than you used to find in 30-100 channels, and on demand, too.
It's a bit controversial but there's a lot of evidence that actively managed funds underperform passive ones. "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"[0] is a good read on the topic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Real Cases of AIoT Devices
intelligence being a highly genetic trait was known for a long while. Recently they even discovered the genes responsible for a large part of it https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104
Title should probably be tweaked to avoid confusion with the Rust programming language. Maybe "Crew member of 'Rust' film". Unless this is secretly a test to check if any title containing "Rust" gets upvoted?
Algorithms vs. Regulators Battle Royale Kicks Off in China
If you’re not willing to put the safety of the civilians you serve above your own comfort, maybe you shouldn’t be a cop?
>I'm not understanding your point here, its the Youtube app. Why is it more on Roku ?

Because one nice feature of Roku is it will search for a program across all of the services. I can search for a movie and see it's $3.99 to rent on Amazon and $4.99 somewhere and free somewhere else. Maybe Google don't like being at the end of the list alphabetically, which might make sense for company that knows the drop off clickthrough rate.
You need to have a vision, and the vision needs to be the right vision. How do you know it’s the right vision? I think most just get lucky on this. Maybe the successful serial entrepreneurs have figured it out (Musk, Jobs)

Getting the vision right isn’t enough, you have to know how to get to the vision. This usually requires a combination of smarts, grit, passion, and luck.
Do you have any personal favorite interviews? I frequently find that folks discussing their craft at a high level often illuminates opportunities for cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer.
X-Ray or infra-red?
The Bosch BMS is a pretty clever little device, it governs not only the charge discharge cycle but also keeps track of the state-of-charge, and reports the remaining capacity in % to the controller via a CANBUS link, which - annoyingly - also features as auhtorization to release the motor, using some challenge-response system that to date nobody has managed to crack (though some people spent a lot of time trying to do so). So you can output voltage from the pack all you want, without the proper authentication your motor will not turn.

So that's why you really need that Bosch BMS. Then the bad news: the Bosch BMS is on the edge of what's safe, the FETs are underpowered (just a hair under rated maximum current and voltage), not cooled, there is a 40V Schottky diode there which regularly operates at or even slightly above it's ratings, there is a single chip DC-DC convertor which also isn't cooled properly and which tends to blow. So I don't particularly trust the Bosch BMS from a safety perspective, I've seen a whole bunch of these now (about 15) and a good number of them had blown up. And that's with the standard battery. The one that I'll be hooking up to it is four times more powerful. Any short circuit protection in the old BMS is going to be terribly undersized so I need something in series with the Bosch BMS to ensure that if there ever is a short (say in the motor) that it's the battery that gets disconnected well before the wiring goes and I simply do not trust the Bosch BMS not to fail 'closed' in which case the whole thing will turn into a giant fuse. That's the kind of scenario that I can really do without.

On more than one pack that I've opened I've found evidence of small fires, typically BMS balancing wires that shorted out (there are no fuses there, obviously) and that could have ended quite badly. The wires from the pack to the motor are substantially thicker so then the question is what cuts out first: the BMS or the wires. I simply want to play that as safe as possible and aim for the disconnect to happen fast enough that the wiring doesn't light up.

Another option is a very fast fuse in line with the battery terminals, that's definitely a possibility as well (and easier to mount and less chance of it in turn breaking than yet another BMS in series). Anyway, work in progress and to be continued, nice to find someone on HN who has a lot of knowledge about this!

Waiting for a while to see if there is a self discharge is a very good method to spot flawed cells before you assemble a pack but such defects can also develop at a later date, so please do keep a good eye on your pack, especially if - as I suspect - you are using reclaimed batteries, you can't be 100% sure that they have never been deep discharged.

Safety is one of the main reasons why I decided to go with brand new high capacity brand name cells, yes, it's a lot of money, but even so, the whole thing will cost about as much as a 600 Wh commercially available pack for this bike and have more than 3 times the capacity (and a better form factor to boot, and will last a lot longer).
Yes, articles like this one can become inadvertent advertisements for the benefits of cash.
The lens must be super wide angle? The distortion looks similar to a GoPro.
Yea I agree. Implicit in my statement is `for the people in the market Apple is targeting`. You aren't going to buy a $4000 computer and you'll be happy with a clunker. I, and many people in my situation, don't feel there are options for $4000 laptops right now.
Yeah, I haven't noticed any outages. Of course that doesn't mean they don't exist, but it has had zero impact on me.
An interesting read is also the well known SPIVA report. It's not flawless, but it's quite obvious many hedge funds are not working for you as much as they work for themselves. Which is also what the guy in the article says, incidentally.

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/research-insights/spiva/
That's cool, but you don't really need 25 turbine generators for this, right? You could chain multiple axes together and have them connected to ton generator. That should help with the weight.
It's a matter of tradeoffs. I may be bad for the environment, but I'm a human being and have the right to exist. A printer is an inanimate object and doesn't have the inherent right to exist. You don't compare humans and inanimate objects.
Im mostly comparing it to the politics of the "left" in most other first world countries. In my opinion, candidates who arent willing to support guaranteed family leave, single payer healthcare, and more progressive taxes, arent very far left.

Of course you could definitely make an argument for that being no true scottsman, so I guess it just depends on opinion.
https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism

"Last month, The Economist and The Atlantic published long features purporting to explore the phenomena of “Left-Wing Illiberalism” and “New Puritanism,” respectively. While both stories display the superficial features of investigative journalism, a deep dive reveals the same motivated reasoning, nonexistent evidence and indefensible editorial standards that misinformed the public about frivolous lawsuits."
yeah very interesting, i was wondering how timescale pushed postgres more towards columnar without rewriting a bunch of postgres itself.

My understanding of TOAST is that it itself is just a bunch of rows in a toast table that split the compressed "row" or in this case "1000 rows of 1 column" across as many rows as required to store the data whilst remaining within the postgres page size limits (normally 8kb).

With the often quoted postgres per row overhead of 23 bytes~ which you would have to pay for each TOAST row as well, does this not add up and eat into your storage efficiencies? or does compression work so well that the 23 bytes x N rows (1 row pointing to toast + N toast rows) required to store the "row" isn't important?
Still down on this end.
Hotwire is lang/framework agnostic.
The title is the exact headline, and the rust programming language does not have a 'crew', nor any involvement with Alec Baldwin, and is unlikely to be the cause of gunfights with celebrities.
I am responding to a poster claiming 37% of Apple's profits are from the App Store. I'm not sure what their source is; it seems at least somewhat believable to me, since the profit margins for Apple on App Store revenue are extremely high (analysts estimate 78% [1]), so even if App Store revenue is a smaller percentage of total revenue, the other revenue costs more, and those costs cut down their percentage contribution to total profits. Regardless, it's fairly widely reported that the App Store is much more lucrative for Apple than the Play Store is for Google.

1: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-profitable-is-apples-a...
Not hyperbole.

If .NET is going to stay relevant in the long run, it needs a better reputation for cross-platform development and much better tooling outside of Visual Studio. Newcomers to the language expect it to work well in VS Code, and they are frequently disappointed.

This decision moves .NET backward in areas it already needs to do better in, and to add insult to injury it does so by deleting already-working code.
This is true when you think about it from a security perspective, but it's definitely not always the case. Many people _do_ rely on a WAF to outsource their security. It's often political, from my experience, that security is either punted or not prioritized in the promo process for most SWEs.

It's the unfortunate reality for many companies to just not actually care about security. If you only promote people based on them shipping features but not fixing security issues, then you slowly remove all incentives to care at an individual level. It's just game theory because there are few penalties for not caring about security.

Fortunately, the winds of change are blowing now with new regulations. Society is beginning to force companies to care. We're still far from living in a reality where most companies have a strong security posture with their tech though. It's going to take time and energy for frameworks and development methodologies to catch up (and legacy software to die off or be updated).
This is especially worse for the Fastmail team in Melbourne that were likely going to the pub for the first time in a LONG time.
Looking back on my replies a few days later I think I missed every mark I tried to hit. The arc of the "narrative" was about the nascent devops bleed into the frontend space which our team appreciates from now - but failed to make any real sense of it. I'm not a good writer.
sigh

Look, you read about it in wikipedia, but I actually lived with this computer for my whole childhood. I know for sure how the turbo button worked, because I actually used it to cheat in F1 and Lotus racing games.

Best I can find in 10m I dedicated to this is this video showing switch between 22 and 40 MHz modes with a turbo button (around 8:50): https://youtu.be/TdenDH7S8LM
But that's my point - the oppression under communism is just as awful, except now you can't even own anything. Propaganda
Went back to the real world. Senior front end engineer to engineering manager at last job. Managing a team at DocuSign now.
"Plausible, but ludicrous"
Oh no! Anyway…
Police usually resist following orders unless they are orders to increase the activity rate and level of violence. Worth keeping tabs on.
ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier
How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method
Kings of the Pacific in an Age of Revolution
God I love the conversations on HN.
Different species. Bamboo is actually a family of 1,400 individual species, not one individual plant. The grassy and woody varieties are just different plants with different material properties.

As a general rule, the structural properties of wood can’t really be changed without just injecting a shit load of petroleum products[0], which isn’t really what we’re after here. If a type of wood, bamboo or otherwise is too soft for an application, then there really isn’t a way to “harden” it. This is the reason we tend to use hard species for flooring, such as oak, as you need to rely on the natural characteristics of the wood for strength and hardness.

0 - For example OSB, which is basically 5% oil by weight. Even still, our ability to adjust some properties is limited. OSB is strong and cheap, but it’s not that much harder than the wood species it was made from, and hardness is a desirable property for flooring to resist dents. Also, OSB is ugly.
I thought the problem with unstructured goto is that it is extremely hard to reason formally about code that uses it.
Yes, I've read similar stories and of course Buffet is famous for saying things along similar lines.

For me, I decided to follow Steve Clark's advice of "Do More of What Works and Less of What Doesn't". I invested in a bunch of different things including ETFs, managed funds, futures, individual stock picks, IPOs, etc. and I found managed funds that seemed to work better than ETFs (though 5 years is not really enough time to know for sure), so I pumped more into the managed funds that were working.

Investing only in IPOs seems to work well as well but the hardest part for me was knowing when to sell (which in my case I almost never sell and I often miss the best opportunity to cash out my IPO investments).

I am sure there are some bad managed funds, probably more bad ones than good ones. I'm certainly not saying managed funds are a better choice overall than just going "all-in" on Vanguard, but picking out a few managed funds to try out after doing a couple of hours research is also not a strategy that should be completely written off either, at least in my experience.
What an interesting reaction.
“Russian Ark” from 2002 was composed of a single 96-minute shot.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/russian-ark-long-take/
Wonder if a neural network based bot submitted this automatically from the recent headlines.
Origins of the D Programming Language
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386323
Roku claims that Google are imposing requirements that they don't impose on other TV box producers. And someone elsewhere in the thread said Google were pushing Chromecast at him at the same time. If Google is offering a better YouTube experience on Chromecast than on third-party devices, that seems anticompetitive.
If I did nothing and twiddled my thumbs I'd have a more positive net impact on the world than the son of an Emerald miner in Apartheid South America exploiting workers, busting unions and polluting the world with make believe computer money and phallic objects shot into the sky for no particular reason
IMO, this is fine. You meet up, and even if interests don't collide, at least you discovered someone different than you. I might be lucky and have an easy time making friends, but usually I can easily get along even with people I have little in common.
It is not a concern for you, but only because you lack imagination and foresight.
Sometimes the card systems don't work on a normal day.

I was checking out food at a supermarket with debit when the card reader crashed. Cashier rebooted it but it complained that I didn't have enough money in the account, which I definitely did. I checked my banking app and it showed as if the transaction had succeeded, but the supermarket couldn't produce a receipt and refused to give me the groceries. When I called the bank they said there's nothing they can do and it would sort itself out in two weeks. The supermarket info desk radio'd that apparently someone else was also having trouble checking out with debit.

That was the day I vowed to always withdraw a month's expenses in advance and fight against full computerization of cash. I can imagine someone getting screwed real good having their food budget stuck in a banking error for half a month unable to buy food!
All of the leo deaths in Chicago for 2020 were covid

Any cop quiting because they don't want to protect others is a cop that should find a new line of work
Yes! I love his discussion about Bach and appropriate use of instruments here [1]. He also gets into why he chooses some tempos, what’s arbitrary and what’s not, where to seek consistency in interpretative choices, and so on. I adore this interview!

I also love his slightly hyperbolic hot take on why Mozart isn’t that good [2]. It’s hilarious, to me at least, hearing him roast Mozart then proceed to play his music beautifully.

[1] https://youtu.be/38VMAfSmL8Q

[2] https://youtu.be/1pR74rorRxs
Indeed, that is the exact specific complaint.
I sometimes reach out and people sometimes reach out to me.

There seems to be something missing. In one case, it’s lack of time. In another, it’s that I don’t always check my ProtonMail account.

There’s a bit of a lack of commitment thingy going on from both sides.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, just my observations.

The conversations are usually fun!
I think scarifice in the chimp troupe is just more effecient thanks to the chimp brain. We dont have to act as dumb as an ant colony.
And exactly like the falsehoods told about the bystanders in the Kitty Genovese murder - "No Proof Anyone ‘Callously' Took Video of Rape on SEPTA Train, DA Says"

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/no-proof-anyone-c...
It's a play on their flag design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Maryland
They should stop wearing bullet proof vests and stop pretending they are in a warzone. Because copping isnt that dangerous
You missed the real reason USD is so stable; it’s the global reserve currency because everyone is obligated to buy oil with it.

I doubt China will be the financial leader. I think they’re basically running their economy as a giant bubble, it’ll be a bad time when it bursts.
Netherlands on track to phase out coal power by 2030
They're all system calls that are better served by using operating functions directly. I'm not sure how the compiler could possibly optimize those away though. Maybe the random function could become a very untrustworthy instruction?
Volcanically driven lacustrine ecosystem changes during Carnian Pluvial Episode