skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations are spineless. But that's not really relevant to the issue of military action.

Again, I live in Taiwan and I'm realistic about Taiwan's odds of defending itself successfully without help from the West and Japan, which I put at close to 0.

But I'm cautiously optimistic. Now that the US has removed itself from Afghanistan, there is a clear reorientation of its diplomatic and military focus to the Indo-Pacific. The US is getting closer to Taiwan, which is taking its defensive capabilities more seriously (albeit too late for comfort). Japan is basically remilitarizing and being more vocal about its willingness to counter Chinese threats. Australia is aligning itself with the US and UK to counter China. The US is even getting closer to India.

China is only going to get more dangerous as its demographic and economic situations become more precarious, but its growing isolation is the best thing under the circumstances and might be one of the only things that keeps it in check.

If it lashes out and is able to annex Taiwan, there will be significant consequences for the US and West, and the Indo-Pacific region won't be the same.

But here's my final thought: if China takes Taiwan, it will take the US down a big notch and create a lot of uncertainty for the US role globally going forward. But this event does not really pose an existential threat to the US. The US would remain a very powerful nation even after a successful Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Certainly nobody is going to invade the US.

On the other hand, an attack on or invasion of Taiwan is an existential event for the CCP. If the CCP miscalculates in any way, it's the end of the CCP. Interestingly, even if CCP wins a battle for Taiwan, the CCP might ultimately lose the war because it's unlikely that the CCP can take Taiwan and get away with it economically and diplomatically. For a country that's already on shaky footing in these areas, it could be a case of "be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it".
Alibaba’s silicon chip in the age of hypersonic missiles
> In short, I don't believe there will be a "next killer product" for Apple, or any company.

In the absence of another device for people to buy, Apple will likely continue to fill in their ecosystem with things like services. Hosting people's photos makes the services revenue very sticky.

I think Apple is being flexible about what does or does not come from Car research. Considering the longest time they go without sunsetting support on products is 7 years, I don't see car sales being viable.

Connected home is likely to get really big soon with Matter consolidating the ecosystems, but part of Apple buying into Matter is them giving up on licensing revenue. I don't see them being able to provide strong enough differentiation on a thermostat or smoke detector to be worth going into that business.

AR is likely limited to a wearable accessory for the iPhone like the Watch; an upgraded experience for those who want it. Glasses just aren't as easy an accessory to pull off, and people tend to like a broad variety of frames and the like. If they figure out how to do VR and AR in a compact frame via a connection to a phone, I think it would create a much larger market.
Related post: https://www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolved-before-brains-h...

And an interesting comment of someone on FB:

Hydra

Hydra have a diffuse neural system

But no brain to speak of

A simple creature echoing older, more primitive forms

They doze off, so we've found

Using familiar chemistry

To slumber every four hours

When I sleep I descend like a bathysphere Down through layers of earlier incarnations

Dipping below the surface

Leaving the airy light of consciousness behind

To enter the involuntary dream world of Freud and Jung

Deeper still then dreams themselves disperse

Slipping away like darting fish

Leaving me reptilian, autonomic, just breath and pulse

But there's further to go - into the abyssal dark

To reach my fundamental hardware

Where I am the hydra

https://www.facebook.com/QuantaNews/posts/1789738887890362
I generally disable the track pad on my laptops, whether windows or Linux.

Whatever the merits as a pointing and gesture device, I just can't live with random palm touches or whatever accidentally triggering while typing. I've never found one that worked well enough to just use it. So I stick to ergonomic mice, or the track point if I don't have the mouse handy.
I'm mildly curious if it is in fact gibberish.

The truth is out there Scully.
Autodiff from scratch
The ui would have to change, but the experience doesn't need to - news sites should just be tables, not art gallerys
A masters is typically one year full time, two years part time.
This doesn't necessarily have to be the case. A couple of years ago when the large scale protests were going on in Hong Kong, authorities found people who were using Telegram, Signal, etc., by adding all phone numbers to their devices' address book/contacts list. Telegram quickly adapted and brought a new setting wherein others would only get to know you were on Telegram only if you had them in your contacts list. Telegram has been, and is, far superior in hiding your presence to others than Signal is.
The Bitcoin Maximalist counter argument to this is usually "eventually the price will stabilize and just be a store of value."
I am, uh, paying two contractors in Venezuela in cryptocurrency (not BTC) by their request. Not sure how I'm exaggerating it. Unless you think I'm only paying one contractor, I guess.
Put aside for a moment the name for the 'scheme' and consider the mechanism design differences between USD and Bitcoin:

- USD is needed in order to pay taxes on the US, but can be printed arbitrarily by a centralized mint.

- Bitcoin has no fundamental demand driver, but does have a truly capped supply.

Why is it so obvious that USD is a preferable scheme?
I've been running a really small time service on Pi and requiring an email verification to fend off potential bot attacks. How does one skip the email requirement without ending up being overrun by the spammers or dealing with 3rd party services
> now that sounds like a boomer opinion ;)

I'm a median millennial.

> The size of that generation and the great increase in lifespan ensures that "boomers" will stay dominant longer than any other.

I didn't realize wealth made you live longer. It actually doesn't by the way, it's not particularly correlated after a certain point. Charts available on request.

> Millenials don't want to wait until they 're 50 to start making wealth.

Good news is they're not. Adjusted for inflation they're exactly on track with previous cohorts. [1] But Ponzi schemes do not create wealth. Crypto redistributes wealth from new participants to old ones, and miners/validators, while not creating any value.

[1] https://economistwritingeveryday.files.wordpress.com/2021/08...
Think about how you can make it happen directly around you, don't wait for "the company" to get it - be the agent that propagates it. If you spend the time and the energy to make it happen at least with your direct network, you'll create a competitive advantage for yourself, your team, and get a valuable set of skills.
> I could go on and write you novels about it, and if someone really wants to know I can provide a massively detailed, exhaustive list with logs, screenshots, Github issues, etc.

Hello, yes, I really want to know! I am on the board of the Haskell Foundation and improving developer tooling is likely to be one of our focus points in the near future. User experience reports will help us make progress. My email address is in my profile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tome).
Hiding Vulnerabilities in Source Code
A container started this way would be invisible to Kubernetes.
Is there actually meat in the average ballpark hotdog now?
I have not heard of that to be honest. What does happen is you might settle change with random stuff. Say you buy groceries for $8.50. You might pay half with a transfer in bolivares (local currency) and the rest with a $5 bill. Then they'll give you back a chocolate and a bar of soap as change as they might not have enough. It's bizarre
Bitcoin has utility; it separates money from the State.

If that's not useful, I don't know what is. When the State deliberately debases its own currency year on year, and suddenly there is a useful option for saving, which nobody can debase, then it has provided something quite profound.

And this is also why it is unlike any other 'bubble'. Whenever the perceived value of an asset increases quickly, many people scramble to produce more of that asset in order to take advantage of the higher prices. This overproduction then leads to prices dropping, or the bubble popping. What makes bitcoin different, is no matter how much work they put in to create more bitcoin, they cannot release more than the amount that was pre-determined for that ~10 minute period. The supply of bitcoin is completely decoupled from its demand. There has never been a 'bubble' in history with this property.
An intelligent light-managing ionic skin for UV-protection
Why do cryptocurrencies invoke strong emotional response? Why would one care if someone calls bitcoin ponzi? Or why would someone put so much effort into proving that it is one? Does not seem too rational. Maybe someone can explain? My observations may be biased, but the comment section here and on the earlier time the same post was here support my observation?

Edit: probably just a biased opinion because because the minority who care are most vocal. It would seem that general public does not really care.
> It makes one wonder if Apple applied some sort of violence limiting clause to the production with absurd results.
Sounds like The A-Team. My favorite sequence was when a helicopter flew into a rock cliff, exploding in flames. Cut away to the A-Team van. Cut back to the helicopter: the bad guys are emerging from the wreckage. Hear the standard A-Team dialog: "Are you okay?" "Yeah I'm okay." The most violent nonviolent scene I've ever seen.
I presume you've checked out the likes of Lightroom for photo organizing? Though don't let that put you off something better!
>> could provide much protection from the harsh lunar environment

Or introduce a host of new threats. Without the minimal "erosion" of micrometeoroids and dust, I would expect every edge on every rock in such tubes to be sharp. And the lack of tectonic activity/wind/water means that any 3d rock structure might well be on the edge of collapse. I wouldn't attempt to walk down one of these tunnels.
Most of the comments under your comment debunk that again. Maybe it is not so clear cut as you make it to be.
When to hire a product manager for your SaaS startup
> The vaccines have only ever been effective at reduction of symptoms. They have never prevented transmission and never promised to.

This is outright false. Vaccines lower the risk of transmission. They are however not full proof, and it's effect drops over time.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

> Even with 100% vaccination coverage, there will still be outbreaks. It’s only a matter of time before the goalposts shift on “fully vaccinated” and one’s passport isn’t valid anymore. Not until you get the booster. And you may think it ends at shot #3, nope. This goes on for as long as we let it.

This antivax/denialist/contrarian blend of bullshit is tiring and disheartening.

It seems people like you don't realize how the scientific community is scrambling to not only find a cure or fix to mitigate the impact of a disease that's also developing but also better understand the real world impact of the currently available treatments.

Public health officials are then taking this info and all updates and developments to determine public health and safety guidelines.

Yet, somehow clueless people try to spin these facts as if the world is full of certainties and any update in light of new info is somehow the result of an evil inconsistent conspiracy?

Listen, practically all the recent updates regarding public health and safety guidelines are a reaction to a variant that didn't existed until a few months ago well after the current batch of vaccines was developed and has proven deadlier and easier to spread. All the updates you're somehow attacking and criticizing can be tracked to the inception and spread of that variant, as a direct consequence of learning more about it and how the current set of vaccines work to counter it. But somehow you fail to take into account and instead pretend that nothing changed besides whims of evil officials conspiring against you? Where does that make any sense?
Friendly suggestion: Please add more context and details to your question.

What’s your goal? What’s your threat model?

Example: If jane@gmail.com sends an email to john@gmail.com, there’s not much risk that John’s creepy neighbor would MITM. But the payload (email) is not end-to-end-encrypted, i.e. Google can access the plaintext.

For sensitive conversations: Please use Signal instead.
Virtual reality is different than gaming hardware. If the quality is too bad you may get motion sickness or not experience immmersion. There is a certain quality threshold you need to cross, similar to the uncanney valley you experience when looking at virtual human avatars.

Yes, cables are also something that lowers immersion.
On the topic of mixer-taps in bathrooms, the UK typically has separate taps due to the way the water is stored, or used to be stored:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA

I was pleased when I remodelled my bathroom there and installed a mixer. So much more convenient.
That argument only makes sense when you don't mention any numbers. We try to see this as a black and white, Ponzi or not Ponzi. 1 or 0. You look at the original Ponzi scheme, earnings over market value is clearly zero. For a regular stock earnings over market value might be some small but reasonable number like 1/10 of even 1/20. Then you look at TSLA and it's under 1/300, and that's not even an accounting trick where they're underreporting their earnings, they're literally are posting their best earnings ever. So yeah, it's not 0 like the original Ponzi, but it's approaching a limit of 0 and no one knows how close it's supposed to get.
please can you elaborate on why my comment was flagged and thus censored for non-HN members?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29039983

if it's:

> those leaders essentially committed mass-murder from a distance

are you condoning drone strikes? (serious question). i believe people (including elected bourgeois leaders) should be held accountable. the US govt. are accusing Snowden and Assange of being "high-tech terrorists" (Biden [1]), so why cannot i refer to these people as murderers?

> US propertied class

this is merely a fact. the people in power are predominantly those who own property or intellectual property. a lot of people do not own their homes and have to rent, neither do they own IP so they have to work for their money (receive a wage). i am referring to these power structures based on my own beliefs ("be ruthless to systems, be kind to people").

> US propertied class' illegitimate 'war on terror'

at this point i'm pretty sure not many are claiming it is was a legitimate war... are you?

was the flagging because of something else? if yes, please share.

it just feels dishonest to censor stuff you don't personally agree with, especially since it received a bunch of upvotes. a 'don't make it political' stance seems naive to me because of course no system is (or ever can be) neutral, since there always many voices at the table.

i don't think it's fun to write this, i just want to call you out on what i perceive are a few double standards you have. i appreciate the moderation and the space to discuss the role of tech in society, and it just surprises me when things get censored or the host party decides to interfere (especially a comment that isn't downvoted to hell or actively harmful to someone (or misogynistic, racist, homophobic or transphobic)). until we have a more distributed web a la ActivityPub, SSB, DAT, IPFS, holochain etc., we all have to make the most of this centralized tech.

anyways, please could you restore my comment?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-t...
Tim is a web designer. He made a website for Josy.

Now Josy needs to pay him ₿0.01

That is what gives Bitcoin value. That Josy needs it to pay Tim.
I work with surgical MD PhD's in my work and I'm pretty sure it's different in medicine. You must constantly stay in practice to stay relevant and your research area overlaps with your practice.
The iPhone display takes up just a fraction of your field of view whereas a VR display covers most of it.

The difference is pixels per degree.
I didn't link to a specific comment, just the thread in general.
Proof of stake is just a fork that'll happen whenever there's enough force applied by the power providers.

This excess low cost energy that can't be moved easily to other areas is often the only kind of energy bitcoin can use to win the economics of btc mining. It in fact subsidizes a lot of green energy and makes it more viable in the longer term.
My Ph.D. was far more than 'just acquiring knowledge', though I did plenty of that.

It is also about advancing the state of all human knowledge. Like what the big tech companies promise that you'll be doing, but without the corrupting element of needed it to be immediately profitable. Much less evil.

A good Ph.D. program should be built on solving a high impact problem. I nailed a few of them, including a couple of medical breakthroughs around some pretty serious diseases. Didn't make any money off of it, but did make a big difference to the world.

And after the Masters, the emphasis is not on 'studying' as much as it is in 'teaching'-- you should be teaching others how to think and approach a problem. Again, potential for massive impact.

I would also feel empty just accumulating for myself. But that's not what Ph.D./post-doc is about. It actually sounds more like getting a job at a FAANG where you are paid megabucks to get 6-yr olds addicted or to destroy the internet or to totally co-op open source.
Hmm, personally i think that there are a few nitpicks that could improve readability, though maybe that's in conflict with the current aesthetic that they're going for.

For starters, it would be nice not to stretch out the images too much, and instead allow them to take up just a portion of the screen, otherwise they feel overwhelming in contrast to the text.

Secondly, maybe the battery charge indicator is a bit distracting (the color difference isn't subtle with the background), though at the same time that's a really cool gimmick!

Here's an example of what i'm thinking of: https://imgur.com/a/zFYhz9p
Usually the lowest paid workers make up a significant percentage, not 10%, so raising pay for only 10% of workers doesn’t make sense. Of course you can run another experiment that distributes CEO salary to the lowest 0.1% and see an even more significant raise; that doesn’t mean anything.
You can in fact use schemas in migrations
Since April I've been taking a break from contracting work and focusing on a project that brings me a lot of joy to work on and keeps on serendipitously connecting me with a lot of interesting people (both users and other founders). It's fully bootstrapped and I've been doing everything myself so far - from code to design.

Link here: https://flat.social

It's a platform where one can create playful virtual spaces for online meetings, workshops and hangouts. I'm currently experimenting with different types of virtual spaces and trying to figure out which direction brings the most fun and utility to the users. It's still not 100% finished and I'm changing a lot of features so if you happen to have any feedback or ideas please let me know! :)
Experience reports are extremely valuable to the Haskell community so it's helpful to the community to encourage rather than discourage them!
"However, if companies have working hours, why couldn't websites?"

There is a UK Gov website that only works during certain times (I think it's something to do with DVLA) - although I assume that is a technical thing, rather than it being powered by solar!
> You fail to understand that this is your personal experience based on the approaches you've chosen to apply.

Indeed it is, and learning more about users' experiences based on the approaches they've chosen to apply will help us make Haskell tooling more reliable in the future. These kinds of experience reports should be encouraged so that we can address the difficulties that they explain!
I would disagree with your analogy: you buy a stock because it gives you a claim to the profits of the underlying company. Even if it became impossible to find a buyer for the stock you own, so long as they pay dividend, you still have something of value. And the company has tangible assets (factories, offices) and intangible (patents, the skills of its employees, brand) that allow it to produce things of general value.

Same applies to houses (they provide shelter) or gold (industrial applications or jewelry). Speculative value is only one part of their value.

Bitcoin by comparison has no value beyond speculative. You can't build anything with a Bitcoin, and it won't ever give you a revenue stream, or shelter, or make pretty jewelry. It's just a bunch of numbers recorded on some computers. If nobody think those numbers have values then they are as good as some old JPEG ad in your browser cache.
I've seen a few people mention OS projects. How far can you go down? Is it up to you? Kernel seems very low already.
> if allowed by the govt.

... and if unchallenged by organized labor
> Less than 100% reliability is essential

This is actually a take most SRE's would / should believe.
Every added 9 to the reliability increases the price exponentially. Finding the correct level of reliability is something most companies should focus more on, because sometimes a single physical machine that could go down once a year for a few hours is perfectly capable of providing all the resources a medium seized business could need. Proper backups, monitoring and recovery runbooks can even decrease the downtime of such a simple system to minutes, while easily saving you maybe thousands per month.
Curiously it still "predicted" the early 2020 COVID recession gray bar, but it of course could not have predicted it before Wuhan's patient zero, so I guess it has a way of being sometimes lucky. (Or, if the chart truly is to be believed by its faithful, then the early 2020 recession would have happened even without COVID.)
Sure thing. I think I should be able to post it here by the beginning of Dec.
Non-vegetarian here. I'd take a fake meat hotdog than a real meat ballpark hot dog any day.

The best of the fake meats has already surpassed the worst of the real meats, and the overlap is growing quickly.
"Why Food and Energy Prices Are Excluded - Food and energy prices are exempt from this calculation because their prices can be too volatile or fluctuate wildly. Food and energy are necessary staples, meaning demand for them doesn't change much even as prices rise"

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coreinflation.asp
Incorrect. In Europe a bachelors is either 3 or 4 years, and a masters is either 1 or 2 years. Full time. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/education/resources-and-tools/european-...
Thanks for the job post. Lever.co needs a CV to apply which I don't possess for now. Please consider my application online here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29077951 Thank you.
I wonder if NIMBYism is as prevalent in countries outside of US/Canada