skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not uncomfortable. It's just that the questions are boring and littered with fallacies and incorrect assumptions. People isn't having a rich discussion, as we have to correct a lot of misconceptions. The downvotes are perfectly understandable.

This is the opposite of Socrates. He started from the premise that he knew nothing. In this discussion here, you're asking questions from the premise that already know most things about the subject. Also, this is not why Socrates was killed, please do some reading instead of jumping on another meme.

Also: comparing yourself to Socrates for asking fallacious questions is peak Hacker News. Don't think I ever saw such arrogance.
It doesn't know which smoke point to monitor for. However, the aim (at least for the MVP) is for it to work the majority of the time for the majority of users - and critically to alert several minutes before there is any flame. So while sunflower oil may start smoking a small amount, it would be several minutes more getting to flame, by which time the alarm should have sounded.

If you put a frying pan on with oil in and leave it, the device will alert you at around 450F. This is a fixed threshold (along with some other checks, e.g. we also consider the rate of change of temperature). This gives reasonable behaviour in most cases, and ensures you don't get nuisance alarms when frying on high heat. In cases where individuals have an unusual cooking pattern which causes unreasonable false alarms we can adjust the model parameters to increase/decrease sensitivity in particular situations. In the future we may be able to adjust these automatically but for now there is not a great deal of automated "learning" involved.

If you're a pyromaniac chef, I think you would get some alarms from that! Again this is a bit of an edge case so we haven't but much effort into that for the first iteration of the product, definitely something for the future though - I can imagine it being a challenge to distinguish flambee and a real fire though, since flambee is real fire!
> Can you link to studies mentioned in your quote ? - "If you look closely at the data in the studies, [..]"

See e.g. papers mentioned here: https://g-f-v.org/2021/09/30/4411/

> myth to me is something that is complete BS

I chose myth to describe the pattern of something that seems correct for seemingly obvious reasons but is actually incorrect for more complicated reasons.

In particular the black and white belief that natural immunity is superior because

a) it is 'natural' (this is a such a great example of extrapolating from a kernel of truth and can have interesting notions packed into it, like the superiority of divine creation and/or nature),

b) the vaccine only encodes the spike protein (one of the reasons the spike protein was chosen is because it is more robust w.r.t. to variation relative to other components of the virus).

I see these "arguments" often politicised with terms such as 'gold standard immunity'.
> top 10,000 individual Bitcoin investors control roughly one third of the cryptocurrency in circulation

> top 1,000 individual investors accounted for about three million of the 8.5 million Bitcoins controlled by the top 10,000 investors

I beleive same stats are available for stock markets. I wonder what numbers are there.
Yeah, we are, but pretty inefficiently. All the complexity in real-time multiplayer comes from trying to pretend everyone is in lockstep, while not actually synchronizing them 60+ times per second.

This makes it an open-ended problem - many of the tricks work under very specific assumptions (e.g. low latency, trustworthy clients), and fail when those assumptions no longer hold (e.g. people notice stutter, cheaters cheat). The job is to find the right set of tricks for your use case. And it starts with knowing the tricks in the first place (or inventing new ones), as it's pretty much a specialization of its own.
The majority of crypto is controlled by a small group of extremely rich people?

Wait until you hear about the proportions in other industries that have a far more direct impact on the real world than Internet funny money does.
Also a lot of people working for NASA check their facts from those:

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/dynamicso...
But not everyone I talk to is on Signal. And I don't want to remember which app to open to message a certain person.

What's the difference between Element offering these bridges, people deploying their own bridges or others having 3rd party clients that you can't trust with your E2E encryption?
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Illegal or not I wanna run them over.
>For me the only way a variant can be outperformed is that all people who get infected get also infected with the other variant OR the first variant for whatever reason stop being transmissible

What you are saying isn't logically sound.
Nim rated the best programming language among 82 options
iirc correctly their bootstrap always has been to bootstrap a Go 1.n version, that can build Go 1.n+1 etc.
The amount of built-in 64MB RAM is equivalent to the typical RAM for 1995 - 97 PC era [1]. Someone actually offered me to buy his used PC for £400 back in 1997 and how dirt cheap this SoC would sell (£2) is really mind-boggling.

[1]https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-capacity-of-RAM-in-1995-20...
I prefer Right navigation :P
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_declination
How can you verify what the latest update of Google Play Services is doing on your Android that's running a proprietary WhatsApp client just so you feel happy you have "E2E" encryption?
Ideally we need a new search engine that just automatically disregards the 'top' 10,000 Alexa sites, all the spam, paywalls, content farms etc, indexes the Show HNs and the subreddits where people post their own stuff.
Waking up to the new sleep rules
Inflation is a "tax" on owning money, an equalizing force if you will. Deflation is a "tax" imposed that benefits large holders of the currency on people who hold less or none of that currency.

There is ofcourse also the moral argument for inflation: society pays you because you it values what you sold or did. That valuable service is not going to be worth as much 50 years into the future, so inflation is the cost imposed on withholding that money from public circulation for your private benefit of being able to decide 50 years later what you do with that money for a thing you did back then.
Yes it's just a coincidence that we can hear them talk. Almost nobody outside of China is going to read articles written in Chinese because we don't speak that language.
> Disappearance of RSS

Some daily download feeds from hundreds of sites: it's not really a «disappearance». Where there are lacks (some sad cases are surely there), one should probably push and be vocal to request the service.
>Is it possible that the heavy mutations detected on the A.30 variant also make it less contagious?

100%. This strain hasn't been seen since May. It has already died out because of Delta.

All of these discussions are academic -- we really are only talking about if a Delta variant can gain these mutations and really wreck havoc. And the answer is "probably not" (for a while, anyways)
I was kind of referring to valence electrons - so think “edge phonemes” - but I don’t think that came across.

This is a really interesting explanation of something that I kind of understand, but want to have a deeper understanding of. Any good references you can think of offhand?
I think a physical book is something like O(log n), unless you can crack it precisely to the page you want every time.
I am glad I discovered this today, thanks for sharing.
Planet 9 is Pluto.

What they're talking about is 'Planet X', which the Sumerians among others knew about over 3,600 years ago.

So instead of losing face, they claim Pluto isn't a planet, so now they can waffle on about 'Planet 9' when really they mean Nibiru.

It's embarrassing.
> HTML5 does have a fully-supported XML representation, there's no regression from XHTML.

Perhaps I am not quite understanding what you mean but, HTML5 allows things that are not legal in XML.

For example:

<!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>Home – ACME, Inc.</title>
<div id=outer-wrap>
<header id=header-main>
<h1><a href="/">ACME, Inc.</a></h1>
<h2>Happy times</h2>
</header>
<nav id=navig-main>
<ul>
<li><a href="/">Home</a>
<li><a href="/products/">Products</a>
<li><a href="/blog/">Blog</a>
<li><a href="/kb/">Knowledge Base</a>
<li><a href="/support/">Support</a>
<li><a href=/about.htm>About Us</a>
</ul>
</nav>
<div id=content-main>
<div class=quux>
<h3>Etaoin shrdlu</h3>
<p>Today is a nice day :)
<p>Here are some <a href="http://www.example.com/">things we find important</a>:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=foo">foo</a>
<li>bar
<li>baz
</ul>
</div>
<article class=snippet>
<header>
<figure class=article-illustration-image-hero>
<img src=/static/images/bees.jpg alt="Buzzing bees.">
<figcaption>Buzzing bees.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h3>The Baz and the Bees</h3>
</header>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex
ea commodo consequat.
<p>Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore
eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,
sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
<p class=snippet-more><a href=/blog/2021/the-baz-and-the-bees.htm>Read more</a>
</article>
</div>
<footer id=footer-main>
<p>Copyright © 2021 ACME, Inc.
</footer>
</div>

This above example is a complete, valid HTML5 document, and representative of how I like to write HTML using HTML5.

I leave attributes unquoted where allowed. Mainly, as long as the attribute value does not contain space, equal sign, quote marks, or trailing slash, the value can be left unquoted and so I do. In XHTML this is not allowed. In XML I’m not sure.

I omit closing tags where allowed. For example you see in the example above that I’ve left both the p tags and the li tags unclosed. In XML, this is not allowed.

No XML schema and no DTD inside of the file itself. In HTML5 neither an XML schema nor a DTD is specified as part of the markup.

In short, HTML5 as a whole is not valid XML. A subset of HTML5 may be valid XML. But a document can be valid HTML5 without being valid XML.

Personally I like HTML5 a lot better than XHTML etc, exactly because the rules for HTML5 are so much more permissive than XHTML, so typing HTML5 by hand lets me type less to achieve the same and more than I did back before HTML5 existed.
> There can be additional incentive structures (CO2 tax) to further discourage dirty mining.

Bitcoin interprets carbon tax as damage and routes around it
I like reading generally including classics and there's some nice ebooks of some of then at standard ebooks.

But the real shortcut to a classical education is to learn absolutely anything that is so esoteric that normal people don't learn or get taught it, and then act as if it's mystically powerful and makes you special for no clearly defined reason. A dead language is a good one.

You've fallen for this trap and will find that there's no there, there, other than some cool books.
THIS "in the same way that you need to trust Whatsapp not to MITM"

And on top of that Google or Apple or whoever you "trust" with your mobile operating system of choice.

Speaking of mobile OS, Element will likely run fine on mobile Linux whereas you can be sure Whatsapp will never release a Linux client
> This chip looks similar to the F1C100s that was used in the $3 Linux business card

Yet, performance-wise it probably should be capable of running Windows 98. If only people still were writing bloat-free software today...
Download Mp3: I don't wanna loose u – SDS – Mybamoza
>People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection).

You should really check what people are saying on random posts on Facebook.
Sounds to me like you're listing the benefits of the FIOH (as used in the article) style, i.e. using HTTP verbs to manipulate (reasonably named, nested) resources (which often, but not always, maps to CRUD actions on your database models), as opposed to the RPC style.

The main issue that we're doing FIOH and calling it REST, which makes internet arguments about RPC vs FIOH harder and confuses the hell out of newbies who are told to go and build a "REST API".
Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit
Webpack is no longer a dependency of Next.js - this was the big announcement about the compiler. You will have to opt out of the new SWC compiler (if this is an option atm)
mmh Elixir definitely has its gems and I need to try it for real. Where I can see it's lacking: no compile-time type warnings (unless you're using a new language on top or using a third-party library, but then we should compare more thoroughly), no compilation with a keystroke function per function. No static executable (even though deployment options are getting better in Elixir (we had to wait though)). Some compilation times, when you change one file and Elixir needs to compile a dozen. We are not inside a live image. I tried Alchemist mode for Emacs: no function signature? No "eval this expression"? Can you switch projects from inside a REPL, or you have to start a new one? No cross-reference capacities built-in? (who calls this function, this macro, who sets, etc) No inspect? No trace? No interactive debugger and no stepper? If only available with LSP and VSCode, then it's strictly inferior. Elixir is less performant in crunching numbers. Less to no GUI framework choice (WxWidgets). No industry-grade theorem prover? (ACL2) Unfit for quantum computing? Unable to program Intel chips? (Barefoot Networks) No computer algebra system? No music composition suite (Opus Modus)?

CL's ecosystem might be better than one thinks: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl & https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/state-of-the-common-lisp...
What I realized some times ago, but can't explain (I didn't investigate though), it's that different versions of DDG have different indexes or at least return different results.

This is once again confirmed with the example in the article:

- DDG regular, no expected result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wikivoyage+malta

- DDG Lite, the expected result is returned: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=wikivoyage+malta
Level of education is correlated with myopia. Spending time outside in sunlight tends to prevent myopia.
Yes, we know who those 50 are, and the wealth they own is in highly regulated markets. We know what they own, how much they own, when they buy/sell. We also dictate that they cannot trade on insider info and must generally play fair.

Say all you want about the efficacy of the above measures, they are absolutely not perfect. But it's completely different to bitcoin where none of the above applies, and often the opposite occurs.
Minutes to “Nuke” Your AWS Cloud Resources
and here I am writing a CRUD app with flask :(

Impressive work (2 years working full time knowing that it might never be merged is incredible)
Building a proper rest API is pretty hard. I think I speak for many developers when I say that I limit myself to the most important core statements. For most applications, a simple API + HTTP + sensible url scheme is completely sufficient. Especially when the API doesn't need to be publicly consumable. The author himself says that as a good designer you should select a style that matches the needs of a particular problem being solved. Things like URL Autodiscovery are definitely desirable from an idealistic or academic point of view. However, I have never seriously needed such features.
> By definition there is no event closer to infection than infection [...] Hence things like chickenpox parties.

Glad you mention chickenpox. Could you help me understand why the protein vaccine is much more effective than the attenuated virus vaccine? Following your argument there should be nothing better than the virus vaccine, because it is closest to infection?
You need privilege to have a song listened to.
This is so sad. Does she not enjoy cs enough to be glad to work? This is one of the rare jobs with a good hourly ratio, endless flexibility with remote work or contracting. Literally the best position to be in to make life balanced between work and family. I am a female developer and will never be only a mom.
It’s down, archive link: https://archive.md/Zb8p2
There are many instances where a small artist sampling commercial music has been slapped with a life-ending lawsuit, while commercial artists straight up ripping off small artists make chart hits and millions of dollars.
The problem is people having the audacity to want to choose where they live and buy a house there? It was reasonable to do that if you were born more than 35 years ago, but if not, you're just out of luck?
Why would service-to-service communication use protocols and formats that are made for browsers?
>I've seen it repeated pretty extensively on r/covid19, which I have to say comes across as a much more scientifically robust site for covid information than Hacker News. The quality of information here isn't much above Facebook.

I 100% agree with you on the quality of information here vs. there. It is much, much more strictly moderated. But with that moderation, that subreddit does not recommend going out and getting COVID in lieu of a vaccine. Even if initial response is better for COVID.

COVID + Vaccine is by far the best, but that doesn't mean you should skip the vaccine to make sure you go the 'rona frst.

Vaccine + Vaccine (and maybe + vaccine) is, by far, the safest combination for pretty much everyone people.
Respectfully I believe you have constructed a straw man.

In this contrived example, assume there is no need for the customers microservice to even know about the existence of orders to do it's job.

So forcing it to understand all the various url formats, query params, that the orders microservice supports - just so it can populate hypermedia elements in it's own APIs - which in turn is being done only to support discoverable clients or perhaps to appease the REST gods - seems an ugly architectural choice to me.

Perhaps I would feel differently if I had ever seen a project where HATEOAS had really moved the needle instead of being more a catalyst for ideological battles.
Arrow eliminates ser/der, and if all actors in the workflow use the format you could see drastic performance improvements for a wide variety of workloads. I've seen ser/der for multi-GB+ processes take up half of the total clock time of the task.

Adoption is slow, but it'll get there.
Of the remaining five percent, at least in software you can be sure at least 80% (4% of the total) doesn't actually work when tested. It is beyond frustrating to deal with research, to the point that these days unless the algorithm is very well described or there is source code available I have to assume the researchers are just lying.
Exactly
The system itself enables this phenomenon
Except crypto isn't currency, it's an artificial resource with no inherent usefulness beyond exchange.

States won't give up their currencies because that would put all of them in the position of, say, Liberia, rather than the position of the US, EU or China who can literally print money to pay.

And even if all state currencies vanished over night, this would change nothing for individuals because the vast majority of wealth is claimed by a minority of individuals and the only thing guaranteeing their claim is the exact monopoly of violence of the state that also backs its currency.

You don't have a private yacht because the state guarantees the value of your money with violence against foreign nation state actors. You have a private yacht because the state will ruthlessly punish anyone other than itself trying to take it away from you.

The state may be holding a gun to your head to be able to take away what's yours at any time, but it also holds a gun to everyone else's head to prevent them from taking it first. This is why the extremely rich spend so much time, money and energy influencing politics. Not because they want to dismantle the state, but because they want to keep it from using the gun against them while still keeping it pointed at everyone else.

Without a state threatening violence to protect your claims on "private property" you'd literally have to raise your own private army to defend it. This is why leftists call anarcho-capitalism "feudalism with extra steps".
NVN is more low level than Vulkan, like LibGNM on PS.
> C is timeless, it doesn't count.

Of course C counts. IMO it is a language that should have stayed in the last century.

> feel and ergonomics are very important when writing code

This is the reason why I can't stomach languages like Java, C++, etc.I feel like I'm fighting a very constrained interface.
Not suitable for children.

I sent my daughter the link as I thought she might find it interesting. The word she got was "wankerout" which was read out loud, unexpected and not appropriate.
Speaking of coordinated reporting, what ever happened to the Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election story? It's been bugging me for a long time.

It just dropped out of existence all of a sudden. For a couple of straight that made up what felt like 50% of everything I heard of coming out of most news corporations and politicians, talkshows, twiter, everywhere. Then suddenly they all pretty much in unison stopped talking about it.

This is going off topic I realize, but it's bugged me. Does nobody care to follow up on this or find out who knew what and when and what went wrong? We were assured many times there was ample evidence of this by many politicians and journalists. So either it's been kept secret and even seemingly hidden from special council Mueller, or else it doesn't exist and it was all a huge coordinated lie. I don't really see a 3rd option, so anything would be a huge story I would have thought. Nobody seems to care though.

EDIT: I have to ask who is down voting this. Am I not supposed to be wondering about this massively weird thing that happened and has apparently been memory holed? Is it verboten to ask the wrong questions?
This font makes me feel drunk. It LoOkS lIkE tHiS. Is it just me?
Keys used to sign EU Digital Covid Certificates may have been leaked
If you're aware that someone is doing penetration tests on your system, but their probing isn't significantly costing you resources, wouldn't you instead just give some generic response to not clue them into you knowing their intention? There's a lot of people who basically do that with scam callers by just leading them on and wasting the scammers time.
I really like all of his novels from Cryptonomicon onwards - apart from Reamde - I did like Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, probably because it wrapped up the Baroque Cycle in such a neat way.
The only benefit of REST is caching.
In Julia, the convention is that a function like "swap!" modifies its input. It's extremely handy. Also, "odd?" is just an elegant way to name a predicate.
“it’s the weakest link that breaks the chain.”
>I guess what people are suggesting is that the epitopes are distinct enough that a targeted vaccine might not cover both, but not so distinct that they behave like separate infections in vivo. But I would hope that an expert can chime in and shed some light here.

There are sooooo many papers that prove this -- stop pretending you are too important/lazy/etc to search for them yourself because you want to write some anti-vax BS.
Yes - I remember finding that while randomly walking around inside Rockerfeller Center the summer of 1993. The computer science section with its wall of textbooks was indeed amazing.