skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your experience would seem to support the first part of my comment. What is making "benefits transparent and clear" if not presenting "from the perspective of modern culture war and media" ? Pointing out that their communities are net subsidized directly undermines the feeling of self sufficiency. FWIW based on my personal experience, I would say that people accepting the handouts justify it as at least getting something "back" for themselves, while others get so much more - it's not like the cognitive dissonance just goes away.

But sure one doesn't need to be so indirect as I went on to say in the second half of my comment. I feel like that's playing awfully close to the cognitive dissonance though, in that any given program can very easily end up on the talking point shitlist and become permanently unwelcome. Ideologically I'm a fan of decentralization so I'm inclined to focus on fixing the distributed economy, even though it requires a similar amount of forcing.
Looking at an example https://scribehow.com/shared/Setting-a-great-LinkedIn-cover_... I was expecting to see animations of the workflow (like Live Photos?).
I would agree that many specific regulations in the USA have been reduced/eliminated, but overall regulations have steadily increased throughout the last 90+ years. You may be able to pick out one year that they decreased overall (though I can't), but I doubt you can find a 5-year period over which they've decreased (by any measure).
The previous related thread:

We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21411893 - Oct 2019 (47 comments)
This is a great encapsulation of “freedom to” at all costs without paying heed to “freedom from”.
No it’s still oxidized carbon (graphene oxide) just less oxidized than CO2.

Otherwise, if it was unoxidized you could just burn that carbon again and regain 10x the energy you spent!
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> I believe German reparations were shielded/unaffected from inflation

It was all much more complicated than that. Hyperinflation wasn't intended as a simplistic way to repay reparations. It had a number of motivations. For one thing, Germany also had alot of private debt outstanding. And from the perspective of the exacerbated Allies, the most important motivation behind hyperinflation was to drive the Allies back to the negotiating table; which it did. Except the renegotiations proved a mixed bag for Germany, giving them enough breathing space to standup their economy (not long after hyperinflation, Germany had a surfeit of foreign investments), but nonetheless leaving the political albatross of reparations in place.

The basic point is that Germany didn't naively step into hyperinflation. For the most part it was strategic and temporary--it only lasted a few years, after all.
>Worth mentioning that they have given lifetime access to existing customers, but I had been planning on giving devices to staff at the end of the year, this announcement has significantly cooled my enthusiasm.

Notice that they avoid saying ‘lifetime’ anywhere, or saying anything about how long that access will last in their announcements and communications. They do discuss the length of the access in their FAQ, where they say that they plan to offer the free access for ´as long as we're able to’, but that ‘there are things we can't control that might affect this’, along with a number of other vague statements. The terms of service, even for the free subscription, has you agree that they can start charging you at any time after 30 days notice, with no other consent or acknowledgment from you. Everything seems to be written with the expectation of removing the free access after disappointment with the new subscription service subsides.
I think that's the case. On the other hand, at a very large scale you may want to move out from Postgres while React can still be fine. I'm not sure if people change more often frontend frameworks or databases.
Well, there is an incredibly skewed gender ratio in programming.

So, female programmers pretty much get the pick of the pack among their peer groups. (Not judging, just stating statistics)

The other 80-ish% men in programming still need to find love somewhere, so they cast a wider net.
Building a smart IoT flowerpot from scratch
Weird, everything I've read said the contrary, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/business/edgar-f-codd-79-...
I have that book on my shelf. I forget why I got it, but I like word games so I'm sure it's connected.
Famously, once the novel coronavirus was sequenced, Moderna had their mRNA sequence ready just a few days later. This was well-covered in the press.

All the time from then to general availability of their vaccine was spent on testing and scaling.

This is not exactly what you asked. But if the question is whether we have a speed advantage on vaccines because of greater understanding of viruses now, the answer is yes. It’s one reason the COVID-19 vaccine was the fastest in history.

Should it become necessary to separately vaccinate against coronavirus variants, the same advantage would confer. And vaccine makers have said they are monitoring variants and ready to go, if necessary.

The question is, will it be necessary? And how much testing will variant vaccines need to undergo?
Yeah there's a pretty big difference between limiting yourself to 280 characters, and limiting yourself to 40 pages. Limiting yourself is great. Handicapping yourself is bad. I find the character limit in Twitter also contributes to society's increasingly poor grammar, as well.
But, unless you're a central bank or something, why do you care about monetary inflation instead of consumer price inflation? How is it going to affect you? Consumer price inflation is the one that affects you.
Thanks! It was definitely a long time in the works!
Long time user and big fan of mobaxterm. Nice clean interface for ssh on windows.
You can’t just arbitrarily change numbers though. Lots of documentation needs to be updated with a number change.
https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/3EUd

micropharmacy
mi·crophar·macy
a large organization of people sharing a website
"the blogosphere and micropharmacy collide"

That's a pretty unintuitive definition.
Great, thanks for the info!

Already added a story to investigate the upgrade from Next 11 to 12.
Bitcoin doesnt have good monetary properties? Go back to your textbook:

- Medium of exchange: bad. Caps out at a few transactions per second, transaction cost go up massively when actually used.

- Unit of account: Terrible. Because of price volatility you denominate BTC in terms of USD - something priced in BTC has a different price depending on the minute you look at it

- Store of value: Hilariously terrible. Storing value has to do with *low price volatility* something which Bitcoin does not have. The average price might be up over time, but this is *speculation*, not storing value! If you store value you want as close to what you put in as possible, not more (or less).

People claiming Bitcoin is a "store of value" don't understand what the word "storing" means, nor the textbook definition.
Right. the VC arbitrage is disappearing. However the gate keepers are still there. This just impose search and transaction cost on founders with no benefits to the company .
I envision the next steps to be:

1. Startup ETF for pre exit companies.
2. Stock exchange for startups.
A lot of those drives of mine were on highways between planted fields.
Farming in the US did not shift overseas. American farming output in 2021 is higher than ever, approaching 3x WWII levels[1].

Farming in the US rather consolidated around massive economies of scale, where a few large industrial-scale players with large capital available can produce vast amounts of food at a very low unit cost.

This was partially the result of government subsidies and policy ("go big or get out" in the 70s) and partially the result of large technological advances yielding huge productivity gains. Far less labor is now required to produce a unit of food. Petroleum-based fertilizers developed in the 1940s improved crop yields in many cases by thousands of percent. At the same time, mass produced mechanized farm equipment (tractors, harvesters, etc.) became far cheaper and widely available.

The traditional family farms that dominated agriculture until the mid-20th century have become largely uncompetitive in the commodity market, leading to many social problems in rural areas and a widespread perception that American farming is no longer a thing. A few find a niche in organic farming or specialty crops. Many just sold their land to a large operation, lived off of the proceeds for a while, then became poor.

It's important to note too that this consolidation has had beneficial social effects: in inflation-adjusted terms, food is extremely cheap now as compared to any prior point in history. Put another way, the amount of minimum wage hours of labor required to procure 2,000 calories a day is lower than ever before in human history. _Obesity_ is now a significant health problem among lower income Americans, whereas historically starvation and malnutrition due to high food costs were the main food issues for the poor.

American farming is bigger than ever; it's just done on a vast industrial scale now.

[1] https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/03/05/look-agricultural...
Pidgin is an IM client, not a service. A service would be something like XMPP servers (Google Talk used to be one and even federated until it went sideways).
I posted this yesterday.

Food for thought. In 1964 you could take two silver dimes and purchase ~1 gallon of gas. Gas was ~20 cents per gallon. Dimes were 90% silver.
Fast forward to 2021. You could take two silver dimes to a coin dealer, sell them for fiat currency, and purchase 1 gallon of gas. Gas is ~$3.50 per gallon, silver is ~$23 per oz, and 2 silver dimes from 1964 contain ~5grams of silver.

But using 2021 dimes, you need 35 dimes to purchase a gallon. Precious metals have kept their value. Fiat currency has lost nearly 90% of its value since moving off the gold standard. The government needs more money, they print it. Based on their promise to pay it back later, with cheaper inflated currency.

Paper currency representing a given quantity of gold/silver/etc is a good idea. When you divorce it from that backing value is when governments print money to inflate. We all lose when that happens.
It guessed a few of my passwords!
Heterologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/BNT162b2 vaccination, which was previously shown to augment neutralizing antibody responses against VOCs compared to corresponding homologous vaccinations [7, 10], might offer robust protection against the A.30 variant.

There's hope!
when the focus is on individual molecules it is about a statistical measure of bond angle, distance, resonanceforms, charge distribution, and rotational freedom.

this ends up looking like the quantum physics conundrum where there is a central tendency rather than certainty, until you pin it down in some way.

this is why we have a vaccine to begin with, the realization that there are conformational frequencies to the S protien, and a particular locus in the sequence is associated with the conformational change that sequesters the binding domain of S protien. thus the 2proline version of S was used in subsequent vaccines, allowing the ACE2 binding domain to remain exposed to the PAMP recognition machinery.

it takes months or weeks depending on how well the supervising scientist receives a request, it used to take years and decades in many cases.
probably a lot of these in there: words with an edit distance of 1 from a real word where the "fake word" is too close to be interesting. one I found was "subdivison", which I thought just said "subdivision": https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/uYDQ

also "jocky", which sure doesn't literally exist but it's hard to argue that it's meaningfully dissimilar to "jockey": (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/J8RS)
anyway this is pretty fun all the same.

in another episode of "algorithms doing a racism" I landed "cacadian", whose definition is "a black person" (we're ok so far) but the example sentence was "I'm the worst cacadian up here", which... https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/iTVc

"nondestructable" (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/bBD3) is given the definition "of negligible quality or severity" but definitely gets used (spelled nondestructible) to mean "a thing that can't be destroyed" when talking about games with destructible environments

"downcycled" is definitely a word (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/JRd8)

innocuous ones I liked include unclary (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ibNn), saucescent (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/4VTH), nonboreal (https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/eCqw).

I think it's pretty fun.
Just leaving this here: people don't want MVPs or a cuter version of something that exists, people want to solve a problem that they have in a cheaper, faster or easier way.
Kangaroo: A new flash cache optimized for tiny objects
I think the initiative will serve both to reduce inequality and bolster Xi; to what degree each is yet to be seen, I can only speculate.

I do understand (and agree) with the fact that chances are Xi is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart but mostly due to self-interest to strengthen his position.
However, if we separate the person from the action I still believe this measure will potentially benefit more people than it hurts and is in my opinion a positive one. Companies should always come second to people, and not just when it comes to monetary policies, but also environmental, etc.
Or unhulled
> It's only a small portion of those receiving the AZ vaccine whose serum had no significant activity against A.30-- all of those with the mRNA vaccine did and most of those receiving AZ did.

How about those that received no vaccine, but have previously recovered from Covid? Is it an insignificant number because I rarely hear it discussed.
perfectly cromulent indeed!
Pretty much exactly this.

My kids bring things up sometimes. We have a discussion about them, about our role in society, etc. But a good portion of the time the discussion becomes a lesson in critical thinking and not taking over-simplified idealistic pleas from randos on the Internet at face value.
that wouldn't be strange. I remember a friend telling me about scientists who visited a remote place twice and seeing fungus-caused dieoffs the second time and he immediately claimed that it was global warming. My first thought was "those bastard scientists brought the fungus in" (I've hiked through remote endemic-plant forests and they tell you to scrub yourself vigorously on your way in to prevent tracking non-native plant seeds)
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Dig a few meters and your soil will be 13C, a great starting point for your heat pump.
a bit NSFW:

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/HgkP

pussygasm
pussy·gasm
excessive or erotic fondness for one's genitals
"he shared a cocky but disgusting puke and was subjected to even more pussygasm in his younger years"
Adding sub-50ms product search to your e-commerce store
But Gilmore and RMS had very different ideologies. They mostly agreed about the importance of free software for empowering users, but their definitions of freedom had many differences: Gilmore's a strong libertarian, RMS is a social democrat.
We're not talking about Apple, though. You're presenting the context of Onavo's actions as though people weighed the pros and cons and made an informed decision about whether to use the app. I'm adding another bit of context that suggests people did not realize what Onavo was doing behind the scenes, and that Onavo concealed their behavior because otherwise people wouldn't use it.
Computers aren't creative; the excitement about GPT-3 is humans projecting something into its output or filtering the small number of bits that appear to make sense, as you say.

Neural language models are just recycling bits that humans have said before, they address well the "how to say" part of NLG (Natural Language Generation) but fail with respect to the "what to say" part.
They said they built a process. That's a different assertion than that any such vaccine will be effective. To know that would require a time machine. That said these people made a lifetimes work of being as sure as they can that such a thing will be effective. I don't think we have better information or hard evidence from other sources.
>There's an explicit opt-in request presented to the user to allow App Store collect data for targeted ads.

AFAIK, targeted advertising is different than tracking ad to install information, and since it's all Apple there's no third-party sharing required.
I imagine it's a couple things, these old stories pack in a lot of useful information.

Bridges are dangerous if you're a little kid, you may want to get your older siblings to back you up.

Disdaining small victories leaves you unprepared for the big ones.

There's always someone bigger.
People aren't as densely packed in most parts of Texas, so it might be explainable that way. A lot of the state is also hay fields instead of food crops that are more intensively controlled for pests.

But I've noticed a big change in Texas in recent years. The last two years I haven't had to use pesticide in my residential vegetable garden. I've had to control for mold/fungal infections, but not for insects. And I live up against a nature preserve and try to keep most of my property as natural as possible.
I have a pet conspiracy theory that spam calls have significantly reduced the effectiveness of political polling.
Perhaps a disproportionate number of software devs are unmarried?

My own experience actually reflects this situation. On my team, the only married people are married to other software people or teachers. The unmarried all date teachers.

Obviously anecdotal but interesting.
"a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm."

I've minimal understanding of AI/ML but from what I think I know, isn't it all based on probability and therefore the quote above that these words don't exist is.. possibly wrong?
The Anker C300 is an excellent choice as well. My video is noticeably better than anyone else with whom I interact and, after appearing on it for a conference, the organizer asked me about my setup and ordered multiple ones for their people.
I would be interested in seeing this data by age so we can see any changes in the past few decades. Perhaps profession on marriage date. I do not expect there to be decent data available for this though.
This is a really solid band name generator
This chip looks similar to the F1C100s that was used in the $3 Linux business card: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...

By switching to RISC-V I guess Allwinner can save a few cents of Arm license fees.
Not sure what exactly they were referring to, but here are some of them: https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-mat...
you can still find curated lists especially on github, eg: https://github.com/jnv/lists
This definition mentions a boner.

jerrybob
a hard game chicken of the American game turkey, related to boner and eaten raw.
"I'll give the jerrybob another shot"
And you latched onto my opening statement and ignored the actual point I was making about accurate legal records.

so I guess we're two peas in a pedantic pod :)
assuming you can reach a working temperature differential why not continue deeper with the well? From that threshold depth onwards you can extract heat along a line segment that extends to the ultimate depth (which is pressumably dictated by engineering limitations)

caveat: thinking like a physicist, not an engineer :-)
It's largely a crisis of meaning and purpose.

As the machines churn out more and more of the essential things we need to live, and as we need fewer and fewer humans to keep the machines running, we're left with an overabundance of humans who don't know how to live without a job driving them.

I think a lot of people miss that the Great Depression wasn't just about economic breakdown. People were literally depressed and society seemed aimless. It wasn't FDR's social programs that broke us out of that. It was kicking ass in WWII and emerging the victorious badasses ruling the world. THAT is what broke the spell of depression and injected vigor in American society.
I really don't understand all the outrage in most of the comments here. Seems to me like they're just trying to launch a new cryptocurrency, they're trying to find a reasonably equitable way to distribute the initial tokens to bootstrap it, and iris-scanning is the best non-centralized, technically and logistically feasible way to identify new unique human entrants that they came up with. The principle of it sounds great to me!

Does the specific mechanism they're attempting to employ raise some concerns? Sure. Instead of the vitriol though, how about some suggestions for a better mechanism?

Trying to tear people down who pretty clearly seem to be making a good faith attempt to make the world a better place is reprehensible in my opinion. What does that say about you?
Parody of Greek Tragedy?
Although the definition is totally different than the way we used to use the word.
I have at least 20 project ideas described in my notebook that I truly believe all of them could be successful businesses and solve a real problem, but the truth is that you can only really build ONE good business at a time. It is very easy to abandon a project and go for the next shiny idea, but it is very hard to stick to a project and make it work.
I bet the results were too embarrassing.
Yes I did C/C++ and Java in college and kinda hated it. It wasn't web based development work like I do now but I've written a bunch of static code in my life. I also took Spring MVC for a spin more recently and absolutely hated it with a passion.
I think that the Ruby/Rails project you describe was probably classified as "legacy" and the company moved on to newer cooler tech like Swift/Kotlin/Node. That's when the Rails project becomes really fun where no one wants to touch it/improve/refactor anything and it quickly becomes a pile of shit after a few years since every change is done by someone hating that project and hating Ruby. Am I close? Otherwise I can't really understand why a skilled group of Ruby devs couldn't have refactored the thing.
Makes sense! Just surprised — obviously love > all, but I'd prefer to date someone in a different field of work myself.
Will the body actually generate antibodies to other covid proteins in that case or will the existing antibodies against the spike protein destroy covid before new ones have a chance to be developed?
Vibram Five-Finger Heels, by Balenciaga
Specially something with X11 support would be nice. Xquartz seems to be the only option but it has nowhere near as many features.
I don’t think that is possible, in so far as there aren’t any actual conservatives in places like that.

By definition, conservatives want to conserve the status quo, someone who is a conservative wouldn’t rock the boat as much as Trump did.

If you want to hear somebody arguing the conservative case, try the early podcasts with Joe Rogan.