skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a service at work that only needs to be up during a couple of 4 hour intervals every week. It's one of the least stressful elements of my job.

There's a cost to always-on systems, and I don't think we're accounting those costs properly (externalities). It's likely that in many cases the benefits do not outweigh the costs.

I think it comes down to your ability to route around a problem. If the budgeting or ordering system is down, there are any number of other tasks most of your people can be doing. They can make a note, and stay productive for hours or days.

If you put all of your software on one server or one provider, and that goes down, then your people are pretty much locked out of everything. Partial availability needs to be prioritized over total availability, because of the Precautionary Principle. The cost of everything being down is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of having some things down.
Why didnt Apple just strip the camera out entirely and just let users connect one with a thunderbolt cable or a dongle. After all Apple users seemed happy enough with dongles when they had fewer ports on laptops.
Are you suggesting there are no biological differences between Lebanese and Lithuanians?

/s (although I've seen that argument here before)
Just got my contacts without an RX from contactsexpress.ca. Thank you!
To be fair, 20 years later, I'm telling people "I'm aware of your issue and addressing it is on our backlog" [which currently extends beyond the collapse of the stars]
There's a very very very obvious dollar value attached to these policies. By discouraging the workforce from having families and kids (let alone single-income households) you effectively eliminate their main long-term expenses and reduce the pressure on the wages. You then start substituting the declining population with immigrants from countries with lower standard of living, and you've hit the jackpot. Your profits go up, your stock goes up, your salary expenses stay the same.

This wouldn't fly 60 years ago when the economy was much more decentralized. There was no single large entity (or related group of entities) that would benefit from such policies. If you run a small business and personally know every employee, you wouldn't think of such a thing. This bodes well in the current model where every child-free worker is an extra $50K lifetime value for their employer, translating into 5 extra cents per share.
From the FLCCCA website: [1]

> All clinical trials suffer from risks of bias in their design and conduct, as assessed by the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2.0 tool that assesses trial biases with the grades of “some concern, low, moderate, high, or serious”. Although one group of authors has assessed many of the trials as having moderate to severe risks of bias, performing meta-analyses of these trials can more accurately detect the true effects despite individual trial biases. Multiple groups, including ours, have performed meta-analyses of these trials, with all groups finding consistent benefits amongst the trials. In fact, the consistency of trial results from both sets of randomized and observational controlled trials from varied centers and countries and trial sizes and disease phases lend even more validity to the estimates of benefit.

[1) https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/faq-o...
You can consider the gradient-following of water when acted upon by gravity a "gradient calculation" but I think it would be deeply misleading.
Making an appeal to math doesn't mean something a well designed or even a competitive solution.
Half of the people in Congress don't really understand what this is all about; the other half who understands, uses Signal.
WebGPU translates 1:1 to SPIR-V.
> why does grammatical gender exist

See <https://www.belleslettres.eu/content/deklination/genus-gende...> around the 40 to 60% content region.

tl;dr Originally Proto-Indo-European had no genders. The concept was added piecemeal. Subjects were marked with ·s. Results of an action or grammatical objects were marked with ·m, this was generalised and transferred onto actual objects/things. This was the birth of the first gender distinction, neutrum, and the ·s words assumed the role of the default gender. Collective words (before the invention of plural) and abstract words ended in ·a. The animate/inanimate distinction mentioned by thread neighbours is a red herring, disregard that theory.

The conflation of genus and sexus and hence the unfortunate misnaming of default gender as masculine and abstract gender as feminine which is still in use today is due to bad Roman grammarians; the HN submission article mentions that in contrast Varro understood it better.
Normally its more cost effective to just simply spend the money on coins now, but it sounds like you have electric power lying around.

If you don't have money for purchasing mining machines, perhaps you should arrange for renting out your power to someone who does.

Or you could grow weed!
Interesting, just to give some perspective from the other side of the pond, I think in most EU countries it would be totally illegal to build this because you need to have windows.
Here's his actual keynote speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo

As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.
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In a well insulated building the heat from the bulb is going to be almost exacly as effective as any other source of electric heat. The heat doesn't have any place to go before it is well mixed into the inside environment. Presumably a building in the far north near the arctic circle would be well insulated.
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If I were going for true snark here I wouldn't have specified (Unix millis), let them figure it out or come back and ask.
Helix 0.5 released (Kakoune like terminal text editor)
Yep, and most of them will end up stocking shelves at Walmart to make living.
Before the Web, the Internet was lame like 50 years ago, therefore. Who would ever need a 10MB storage device?

Hopefully there will be more VR standardization someday.

Maybe this Metaverse of decades past could integrate some live weather?
I lived both in my car and in Carpinteria when I was a grad student there, so I'm 1.5 for 3 on your list and I wouldn't touch this place. What happened to the San Clemente apartments on El Camino?
Less than you'd think. At the scale of object which poses a serious collision risk to Earth, nuclear weapons could (at best) break up the object, but would have no realistic chance of significantly reducing the mass/momentum of the object. Unless you can break it up into dust (which at that scale you can't), most of it is still going to land on Earth and do just as much damage.
Are many rec divers using trimix?
>"code is law" is binding and should be able to keep the proceeds of his "loophole exploitation." Personally I'm with him haha. Sow -> Reap.

i feel that there is a case of false advertising somewhere here. The classic finance system doesn't advertise "code is law" as a feature, and thus easily claws back accidentally transferred into your account $1B. The Ethereum based crypto and the likes are heavily promoting the "code is law" feature, and thus their readiness and attempts to back off from it anytime the things not going their way suggests false advertising and intentional, at this point giving the history, misleading of the users/customers.

Wrt. the original post - it is pretty surreal, users just borrow and mint $500M-2B in a transaction. The crypto proponents tear at Fed for printing money. Yet even the Fed and WallStreet rarely do $2B flash transaction, and not on a whim by some passer-by Shmoe user. The crypto is really democratizing/distributing and multiplying the financial madness that previously was limited to the exclusive club of big money. I have hard time to see how that is any good, and the wolves of crypto look to me much worse than the wolves of the WallStreet.
>similar building

The Michigan building has separate, private baths. Looking at the UCSB rendering, single toilet, single shower for eight.

The plan view OTOH, shows two baths.

One or the other is wrong.
I’m not sure he assuming some “fixed cost” so much as pointing out (or at least arguing) that such a model explains the data as well the “just so” conclusion. Additionally, he is suggesting that such a model, in which agents respond to incentives rather than just have “true” preferences is stronger.
Yeah, I edited my answer because that's fair. Even AS 430 main frames with crazy uptimes are not unheard of after all.
I assume Google's reports back already. They need that for ML training.
Congratulations on your cool project. You mentioned it 8 times in this thread alone. While I wouldn't call your comments spam (they do refer to their individual parents, though), stumbling over the same link so many times while reading one thread does leave a certain weird taste.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024792

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024825

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024709

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024768

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024934
I thought google collects everything put into Gboard anyway? (Maybe just if swipe is enabled)
Allies lobby Biden to prevent shift to ‘no first use’ of nuclear arms
This is a strong claim, without any evidence to back it up. There may be some truth here, but against most metrics, UCs are among the top research institutions in the world with amazing contributions to science, medicine, etc. etc.

Could you explain where you're coming from?
> If Biden cared, he could shame these "Democrat" senators and prevent them from getting re-elected

It's hard to do that when you are unpopular nationwide[1] and downright loathed in Arizona[2]. Independents approval/disapproval is 30-60.

Sinema is much more popular than Biden, but not so popular among her base. A democrat can't win in Arizona just on the basis of the Democratic vote. They have to win the independent vote and hope for low turnout in the GOP. So Biden is already a drag on Sinema's re-election. If he publicly attacked her, her popularity would go up. Why do you think she is opposing these policies? Because it increases her political capital and support at home. The more the media focuses on her as the one blocking these unpopular policies, the more Arizona voters rally to her side.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

[2] https://nypost.com/2021/09/08/bidens-approval-rating-down-in...
I'm struggling to think of a situation when running virtualized vs. bare metal where compiler optimizations would matter.

Certain hypervisors have the ability to disable features on the virtual CPU to enable live migration between different generation physical CPUs, in which case a binary that depends on a disabled virtual CPU feature (a.g., AVX-512) will simply crash (or otherwise fail) when it executes an unsupported instruction.

Other than that, I'm drawing a blank.

Hypervisor performance will vary, but I can't envision any scenario where a binary optimized for the processor's architecture would perform worse than one without any optimizations when running on a VM vs bare metal.
The US maintained a strategic helium reserve for decades (originally for airships). Then people started producing helium as a by-product of natural gas drilling, and the government bought helium from private natural gas producers. The helium reserve became less important, and larger, and deeper in debt.

In the 90s, Congress ordered that the strategic helium reserve sell off most of its helium. That tanked the price, which meant it was affordable for party balloons. It also hurt the business of natural gas producers also producing helium.

But helium can also leak irrecoverably out the atmosphere. We should try to hold on to some of it.
Either ZFS or some form of RAID with redundancy cranked up to the max, so that it can tolerate a high number of drives failing and still continue operating. ZFS configured in RAIDZ3 mode for example can tolerate 3 drives failing and still be able to operate (and rebuild itself once the failed drives are replaced).

You are very unlikely to have 3 drives fail at the same time, so you're pretty much immune to storage hardware failures. Again, this is not an argument against backups (they're useful for other reasons), but with this amount of redundancy on the storage level, I'd expect something else in the system to die before the storage layer fails catastrophically.
Wise lets you access your account and money with API-s. You can create a personal token (and webhooks if you want) at https://wise.com/settings and you're off to the races. Api docs are at https://api-docs.wise.com

Disclaimer: I work on Wise.
(We're hiring: https://wise.jobs)
> ...and it's cheaper too...

> You do have to do a lot of things manually...

Doing those manual things has a cost, though.

In most cases, it's only cheaper if you value engineering time at $0. Fine for a personal project, but the math changes when you're paying a fully-loaded cost of $100-200/hr for engineers and you have a long backlog of more valuable things for them to work on.

That's the real reason companies use cloud services: Not because it's cheaper or faster, but because it lets the engineers focus their efforts on the things that differentiate the company.

From another perspective: I can change the oil in my car cheaper and faster than driving to a shop and having someone else do it. However, if my time is better spent doing an hour of freelancing work then I'll gladly pay the shop to change my oil while I work.
Well, I guess we're "lucky" that you have to have well more than half of Congress on board to get anything done...
I've been keenly observing this company as an investment oppurtunity:

https://royalheliumltd.com/projects/saskatchewan-helium-play...
"At this point, I decided the only thing that made sense was to build my own from scratch."

This is such a beautiful sentence and sentiment. If HN were to have a motto it could do a lot worse than that
This seems easy to solve given Apple's rejection of PWA support in Safari, just add a feature that doesn't matter much, like an (opt-in!) notification on updates. Safari (and therefore all browsers) on iOS don't support notifications, so you're doing something you couldn't do from the website.

https://caniuse.com/?search=notifications
No they're right. How would you have legal recourse against someone you don't even know?

Bitcoin addresses are anonymous. Sending to the wrong address is not sending to a wrong KYC bank account. There are no mechanisms in place to rectify that with Bitcoin, which is a bug, not a feature.
OP is referring to the first gen RAV4 that was released in the 90s.
It's used in welding too sometimes, though argon and CO2 are used more. I think helium is recommended for TIG welding copper if you don't have a really high-powered rig since it allows for better heat transfer, but I've managed it with argon.
I was under the impression helium mixtures are only used for deeper dives, and thus seen more often in occupational diving rather then recreational.
Isn't your body the best path to ground when the outlet isn't grounded?

I kind of see what he's up to, though. Basically, if you touch the hot wire, or one of the screws that it's attached to, you probably get shocked. That is unavoidable; turn off the power before starting work to minimize your risk. (The risk is, of course, never zero, so do be careful even if you're sure the power is off.)

If you connect neutral first and then hot, you still get shocked if you touch the hot wire... but you also short out if the hot wire that you're screwing to the terminal touches the neutral (or ground) wire. That will cause the circuit breaker to open (or failing that, a fire), defeating the purpose of working on an energized system. So I guess this procedure is optimized for uptime, at an increased risk of death.
This.

The Internet may interpret censorship as damage and route around it, but spy agencies interpret laws as inconveniences and ignore them.

As access closes in one place (i.e application layer), they will just get closer to the source (i.e operating system or supply chain)
It's so strange how much dislike HN has for crypto and "web3" more broadly, despite being so evidently ignorant of it here. They're literally circling around what has been going on for years in DeFi(and really exploding in activity right now as we speak). Their loss I guess.
Hmmmm. The obvious question here is, did the previously-infected group catch Covid-19 more because we're selecting for people who're at higher risk of catching Covid-19, for example because of their job or some other similar external factor? Those differences are not reassuring on this area, and they suggest another question: is the actual reason a higher proportion of hospitalized people test negative for Covid-19 amongst those who're vaccinated because those who are at higher risk of being hospitalized for other reasons are more likely to get vaccinated?
I think a big factor here is the sentiment of people who live near small airports. The noise is already an issue. At least now there won’t be lead raining down on the neighborhood, so maybe less petitions to close the airport.

As well, every time I test the fuel on a Cessna it inevitably sprays everywhere so there’s that worry too.
Just letting you know that Czechoslovakia does not exist any more. A few decades ago it became Czech republic and Slovak republic.

It’s fascinating to me how people don’t know this.
I'm gonna give a not so popular opinion:

Facebook may have a future beyond social media, or at least beyond what we know as social media. Back when Google was absolutely not this huge, they were a company whose main products were a search engine, a web mail client (which wasn't even the most popular), and a video content provider. They had to fight against powerful and big Microsoft, who controlled all the spectrum of computing (back in 2007, even IIS was popular) in a closed and proprietary manner, who applied the rules of EEE as a means of survival and who made sure nobody ate its cake.

But then, Google built a platform based on open source software that was beyond what anybody had to offer back then (except for the iPhone, which was better but restricted to Apple), and now we know how the story goes (Alphabet has significantly higher revenue than Microsoft, and controls the web, the majority of phone devices and is gaining substantial market share in Microsoft's territory, the PC).

However, there's a platform nobody has conquered yet, because it's inmature: AR. This is an opportunity for Facebook (Meta). They know about social (Google doesn't that much, and for sure the rage nowadays is social interaction with the people, there you see Twitch's success), and they know about AR and VR. I can't say they've any significant advantage over Google, but I believe they can be competitive.

Recent news is they're working on a Microkernel-based OS (I think it's been managed by a top Windows NT co-developer, so serious people that know their stuff), with a small footprint to conquer AR, as the current software simply doesn't cut it. We don't know its status vs. Google's Fuchsia, which is the other contender, but if they can pull it off, it's a substantial improvement and a solid foundation for the future. The idea is to repeat Android's road to success: open but controlled ecosystem that many OEMs can take advantage of. I'm all in for that, and I hope it's either them or Fuchsia the ones that get us to the future (because I honestly don't believe Linux will be). Of course, I'd say Fuchsia seems much more ready, and they're not ready at all.

Plus, they're working on a smartwatch. Let's see how it is, because Google has tried for long, but they simply are not competitive vs. Apple. Facebook could do something different.

Again, it's not my intention to bash Linux, or to say I like Facebook. I absolutely hate FB's social practices, but they know how to engage people, how to do social, and their work on Open Source, crypto, the internet as a whole and VR/AR is absolutely splendid, and for that, they deserve credit.
I remember seeing a study using PISA data (I think...) that found an interesting difference between boys and girls, which could explain much about career choices.

Boys who scored very high in STEM tended to have that as the only area where they were at the top. In other areas they might be good but usually not outstanding like they were in STEM.

Girls who scored very high in STEM tended were much more likely to have at least one other area in which they also scored very high.

People have a tendency to choose an occupation that fits with something they are good at. If the aforementioned study is correct, we'd expect to see boys who are good at STEM subjects to be more likely to go into a STEM career than girls who are good at STEM subjects, because for the girls it is more likely that they also have a non-STEM subject that they are as good or better in than their STEM subjects.
Yes, but the small area is also windowless.
This is useful as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29018417
Persistence: I'm not sure that line of reasoning is actually valid. I think you need to be able to rule out other reasons for persistence before you can make that conclusion. The article mentions that the genders are learned at an early age and seem to be very resistent to change.

I just looked up Danish - it used to have masculine, feminine and neuter, but masculine disappeared into feminine. The theory given here is that it was a consequence of bilinguals simplifying things:

https://dialekt.ku.dk/dialekter/dialekttraek/navneordenes_ko...

It wouldn't surprise me if modern English is a result of the same kind of multilingual simplification.
Roblox encourages materialism, hoarding, jealousy, and selfishness. Being able to buy in-game currency at a brick and mortar store is especially offensive and toxic.

Animal Crossing does encourage some bad tendencies, as well, but it also balances it with positive aspects like nature (don’t try to get too much wood out of a tree at once, or it will become a stump), design, and crafting. And as far as I know, there is no official way to buy in-game currency.

Animal Crossing may not be “free”, but it is less likely to bring out the worst aspects in kids.
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Yeah what. How did that happen. There's no redemption here or some tangential way I can relate this....
Munger is exclusively a graduate student dorm at Michigan, so these folks are in a slightly different situation than college freshmen.
That sentence doesn't really make sense to me, did you mean WGSL translates 1:1 to SPIR-V? "WebGPU" refers to the API, not the shading language.
"Waste" is in the eye of the beholder. We also use a lot of nonrenewable fossil fuels and plastics for all types of recreation. Should that all be prohibited?

Most refined helium is a byproduct of natural gas production. If we don't use the helium then natural gas drillers will just vent it into the atmosphere.
https://archive.md/H0ZVx
> If Biden cared, he could shame these "Democrat" senators and prevent them from getting re-elected. If he uses his platform to inhibit their campaign fundraising, they will surely change positions out of fear of loosing their seat.

Manchin is more popular than Biden in WV, and his positions do more to support his fundraising than Biden’s opposition would do to hurt it. Biden can't meaningfully hurt Manchin.

Sinema presents the opposite problem: she's already completely alienated the Democratic primary electorate. She clearly isn't interested in being reelected (or, if she does care, its not as a Democrat), so there's no leverage there.