skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A former boss of mine used to use the word "intermercunian" as in : "I went to a meeting and this fellow said X, Y and Z" which, in fairness, was pretty intermercuinan of him." Naturally, I nodded in knowing agreement...
Interesting Links 6: Information about DAOs, wallets, and OlympusDAO
That would be the sad case. I have also seen the case where the code was impenetrable and did not at all lend itself to extension.
Seems fitting a post on the worst gadgets they’ve ever touched would include equally terrible presentation.
I don't understand the question. But regarding the street in Brooklyn (this interview as in Europe), obviously they did not believe I really got a PhD there and lived there. Totally insane. Today I would walk out in such a situation. At that time I answered like a diligent student.
Our local small town cafe did this up until COVID... via a big three ring binder. You could run either a credit or debt as long as it was close and a couple of families i know would do this so their kids could stop and get snacks without cash.
This is true. If embedded device makers do make an app they seemingly can't resist doing it without vacuuming up your personal data / device telemetry or proxying device connections via their servers.
The coffee machine at the office has the laggiest animated interface and as a software developer it's just painful. They have complete control over the hardware and software so there is just no excuse.
> The consent and the data collected via the consent need to be linkable. That's why it makes sense to store consent records for identified users on the server-side, because you "know" the user in that case.

Yup, this is why a lot of websites try to lure you into logging in to the website to enjoy the full content (they won't tell you this is the reason, of course).
IBM sheds 25% of its business in battle against decade of decline
It also explicitly shows up in credit reports as "GS BANK". Had to explain that to a few friends that didn't look too closely into how Apple Card worked or the fine print of their credit line.
https://archive.md/JdSa0
> "the ability to correct a reputation history by actually redacting false reports rather than just appending a correction..."

George Orwell's 1984 features a main character whose job is just this: rewriting history by 'redacting false reports'.

Of course well-meaning people will set up these systems without considering the potential for abuse. In many cases, persistence is desired - it does matter who said what when, historical written letters are important documents, and records of actions also form institutional histories. Normalizing the 'redacting of false reports' can easily turn into rewriting history for propaganda reasons.

I suppose you could have a two-lane social media system, one channel where comments and posts were not anonymous and were recorderd for posterity, and one channel for anonymous ephemeral chatter. However, trying to run both channels on one platform might not work, legally or technologically.
I am sorry, but I am responding with the same wording as the commenter - to show how this is over the top in this context.

I understand the importance not to go into flamewars, and I am glad this is not something we have on HN, I feel however they mirroring the expressions of a commenter in as another perspective helps.

This said, point taken.
We are already at a point where a cpu (!) based raytracer can outrender some user interfaces. The amount of cycles lost on the equivalent of paper pushing is incredible these days.

Source: my own raytracer vs microsoft teams and 90% of all other electron apps or otherwise very javascript heavy frontends.
While it's not strictly centralized, as in, there's no single root, the sets of root certs in usage are extremely similar. There are only a handful that matter, and they overlap significantly because they share choices: Windows, Android, Apple, Firefox, various Linux distros.

A contributing factor is that the culture that grew around them makes it uncommon to be able to manipulate your own certificates. If you set up a Web page with your own root cert, you can be sure it will never grow.
Trojan Source: tricks (no treats) with Unicode
A computer is just an augmentation of a mind. It does the same things, just more perfectly. Shouldn't we all be able to augment our minds as we see fit? Should our freedoms change in the process?

People who attract new customers with ads must like them. People who were informed of a product that meets their previously-unserved needs must also, right?

3. is just plain old gossip, which is also what I'm describing. It has always been in poor taste, and should never be illegal or regulated at all. Only religions do that.
Just personally, I’m not super opposed to ads sold on television networks that come over my antenna that basically just market to specific demographics.

Billboards a bit problematic if they distract drivers but otherwise don’t bother me much either.
Does the waitstaff at the restaurant have to be in VR too?
Found the big pharma PR guy. The people in pharma are 100% not in this for the right reasons. Not one. Look into Every Single one of these companies just a tiny bit and you'll see how absolutely evil they are and by working for them you are complicit. You don't have to agree with reality, but that's reality.
> This is just yet another iteration of Microsoft's embrace/extend/extinguish pipeline.

Not this tired trope again.

Azure makes a lot of money off Linux, and Microsoft has been a pretty good open source participant the last several years. But it's still a business.
> Java doesn't force you to do either of those, but it allows it, and doing so has been standard programming advice in Java for at least a decade.

"You can do that" and "enforced by the compiler by default" are pretty different.
TL;DR: Most activities we used to do as kids have now moved on-line. Socializing, playing, fighting, loitering, dating, shopping, going to the cinema, etc. is now on Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, Discord, Twitter, Amazon, PSN, Xbox-Live, Netflix, etc.

Why are people surprised about this? This is all old news.
OP mentioned that along with Azure RTOS GUIX deeper in the article.
Hmm. I wonder if this part is sensible:

> Must be programmable by the end user (No LCD Games, Or Clone Consoles and Emulation Boxes that aren't for Homebrew)

I got the RG280V (https://maya.land/rg280v/) expressly for homebrew Game Boy games and PICO-8 games. And it's great! I'd recommend it to anyone for the same use.
Not sure it applies to this one but I regularly notice is dark patterns and default options which are opt-out (it has to be fully opt-in, even with defaults). Of course that is in breach of GDPR.
> So, it does not follow that avoiding Covid vaccine for children because the immediate likelihood of death from acute covid is the only issue.

I never said it was the only issue. But neither is the only choice to give your kids the current approved vaccines ASAP or never give the vaccine to them ever.

Avoiding infection is much better if the alternative is the possibility of cancer. But of course, we don't know or plausibly think something like cancer is a long term risk of a COVID infection in children. Maybe one day we will realize such outcomes happen and then it would become much more sane to rush your kids to get the vaccine that day.

I think it's important to stick to what we know, about this virus, and these vaccines: we know that it is extremely rare for children to be hospitalized from COVID, and we know that it is extremely rare for diagnosed myocarditis. But what we also know is that as time goes on, we learn more. And especially for things where are very new, like using these vaccines have on children, we stand to learn a lot, quickly. So I think it's a bad frame to presume parents are pro- or anti- vax. Hesitancy is sane on this specific issue, and that's not to mean that other positions are insane, but what is insane is to impose this on parents who are hesitant at this present time, until we understand what, exactly, is going on with heart tissue.
Well, it worked.

Key is to find minimum required effort.
Since always? If someone asks you a question you have a right to answer as you see fit, don't you? Shouldn't you? Even if you've entered into an agreement to keep a secret, it's only a legal contract that you'd be violating (which you have a perfect right to do) not a law.
Aren't we? I thought that until SARS the scientific consensus was that coronaviruses are not interesting. And SARS died out too quickly to achieve much. But I might have not paid enough attention.
I've read all kinds of absolutely insane rhetoric on I/P (way beyond this), I don't think much would surprise me anymore. That conflict used to generate way more of this type of rhetoric than anything else, but recently other issues seems to have caught up in this department...
I strongly feel that if a human can get to it manually, we have to accept that either it will be botted or humans will be paid to do it by hand (They call these people "analysts" or "market researchers").

I might argue that what google actually uses their scraped data for is their search engine - which is private. They simply allow us access to specially crafted queries, which they can and do manipulate (for many reasons, some good some bad).

The only thing I'd say meets that definition would be like Common Crawl.
They are being "Brought in" or were they paid to come in?

Many employers regulate the ability to work side jobs.
This is known as an employment contract.

This is especially true when it is related to your regular work.
What I find most interesting is the license plate. From a personal perspective I also have a pretty cool license plate (2 in fact). But I'm hesitant to post any photos or videos with my license plate for privacy reasons. I've heard in the US there are all sorts of pros and cons to keeping your plate off the web.
In the timeline of Fusion I imagine 20 year patents will all be public domain by the time they're useful.

In a sense, them patenting it so early is sort of a public good =)
If IQ tends to correlate with abstract thinking, a person who is smart in daily life may still be < 100 points of IQ.

I had classmates who were quite smart in interpersonal communication, but really struggled with abstract tasks in mathematics or physics. One of them is a fairly successful businessman now, but still shudders when someone says "Pythagorean theorem" aloud.

Given how heavily do IQ tests lean on geometry and abstract pattern matching, he might score rather low.
Good point! Sometimes I don't know where to draw the line.
My theory is that GNOME (basically RedHat) were concerned about software patents. I cannot think of any other reason why they would make it so different to the mainstream and thus less intuitive for most. IMHO it is not an improvement. Luckily Ubuntu have made it slightly more normal.
If everybody waits two weeks, then nobody will notice it on the first two weeks.
That could be it. But there's of course no way to know what the source of her neurosis is with no further information.
Isn't email an example of a decentralized system where this problem has been basically solved?
This is not a dick measuring contest. The comment was challenging the notion that pharmaceuticals companies spending the majority of their cash on advertising and stock buybacks is a desired outcome. The specific numbers, especially across industries, are meaningless.
What do you mean by class imbalance bias?
> Failing that idea, do you have any tips for frequent American travellers on how to get foreign cash without paying excessive conversion fees?

Many credit union deposit accounts with ATM access can use some foreign ATMs with no fees and reasonable forex rates. Some online deposit accounts with ATM fee reimbursements will also reimburse foreign ATM fees and have reasonable forex rates. Things like Schwab and Fidelity, IIRC. My personal experience is a bit dated, but I'd try to have two separate cards on different networks if possible, because my ATM card only worked in half of the UK ATMs I tried, and that wasn't very convenient, as the ATMs I couldn't used were at the chunnel station and I needed cash for an unlicensed taxi.
Whenever life has gotten difficult, I typically try to take it one day at a time.

I hope you and your loved ones find some comfort in this difficult time.
In the technical sense of 'place still existing', yes. In the sense of 'non-capitalist economic arrangements' most have abandoned their former arrangements.
Nothing will drive china to a direct conflict with the united states.

Think about it: China is a country whose military has never actually been tested in a large-scale conflict with a savvy, well-resourced enemy. They have literally no idea what their generals and soldiers are going to do if Beijing declared war.

They spent the last 20 years talking big and then the economic boom started turning into a bust. They have massive aging population with coming health problems coupled with a young population that is completely decoupled from the leadership. They massively pollute their land and air to sell us cheap chips.

The reality is Biden could park 3 aircraft carriers right outside of China's maritime borders with guns and planes flying around constantly and the most we'd see is some vigorous chest-beating from Xi's lieutenants and then a retreat.
well online-mob-cancellations fuelled by social media are exactly what scaled up gossip leads to. so we are already there and it's about time that something is being done about that.
mRNA has potential to be dangerous. There is nothing inherently dangerous in what our bodies already use as building instructions, nor is there evidence to suggest current mRNA vaccines cause any of these theoretical issues.
The point of my comment really wasn't to denigrate anyone's belief system or to prop up empirical basis as an absolute standard for establishing the veracity or value of a claim.

The parent commenter expressed concern that people holding these unsubstantiated belief systems as truth was inflicting real harm to society. My point was to say that if this is a real concern, why are we singling out astrology as a punching bag? Basically all major religions entail beliefs which are unsubstantiated by empirical evidence. Do we as individuals really have the capacity harbor ill will towards anyone who chooses to believe things outside what can be verified empirically? I don't!

Your belief system may be incompatible with Astrology, and it may possess a richer intellectual tradition than Astrology, but this alone is insufficient to convince me that the faith-based beliefs of one system are inherently superior or more true than the other.
Edit: when I said "did things besides work" I meant "did things outside of work" not "goof off at work"
I may be thinking silly but wouldn't it be better if these dependency reliability issues were fixed by the platform that released the package? Are there any barriers to publishing a malicious package via npm right now?
They can copyright it and make tons of money off of it is what it means. All of the other things that already work can't make them insane profits so, bought and paid for the news that you are fed tells you this is one of few valid ways to fight a virus you can dodge by staying in the sun for an hour each day and exercising your body.
Monoclonal antibodies get less pushback https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/health/covid-antibody-reg...

I think there's also some "it won't happen to me" mentality that quickly disappears once it does (which is far too late for a vaccine)
Production rules engines.
I was 14 when she was diagnosed, 21 during her last months. I talked about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133665#23134613
On their front page:

> Most horoscopes ask what month you were born. Co–Star asks what minute.

> Access to astrology this accurate has historically been restricted to those with access to personal astrologers—now these predictions can be anyone's.

I mean, anyone can _ask_ what minute you were born. But what on earth can "accurate" mean in this context? I'm sure there's some modern tech we can use to measure your skull with great precision and detail, but I'm guessing that doesn't improve the predictions of phrenology.
Aren't Ashkenazi Jews famous for valuing scholars more than the rich?
Don't get me wrong Doc. Neither you nor I nor a random dude with a web-site has the capacity to make statements that might lead people to make medical decisions. Leave that to doctors and governments please.

It is good to be skeptical, but also important to trust the right people.
First, congratulations, hamaluik. This especially made me smile because I went through a similar experience - in the early 2000s, inspired by kids’ births I had the itch to evolve the manual process of a 'game' with our extended family—gathering/compiling their guesses at a name and other birth stats.

So I designed a free (and no ads) web app[0] for me and so others could automat their own pools.

It also has “bebe” in the app name :)

Just as an historical point: There were just two other 'baby pool' type web apps on The Internet at the time (2003~2005). One of those two disappeared a few years ago. This was before conventional wisdom would be that facebook integration was a prerequisite for mass audience success for this kind of app. I was never interested in hitching my wagon to FB or any other third party. I’m happy it’s an independent piece of old school web 1.5 / 2.0 that still kicking a decade and a half later. I hope your app has a long life as well.

Anyway, cheers!

[0] https://bebepool.com
That’s an interesting term for “profitable customer who pays their debts”
https://www.helionenergy.com/who-we-are/

Where are your scientists? researchers? engineers?

Oh i see ycombinator..
When my wife and I were picking names for our son earlier this year, I pulled down a list of the top 1,000 names from the social security office. I removed the top 20, and then we kept making passes removing more names until we were down to the winner.

I called it name whittling. It was surprisingly easy to whittle the list down to 50 names or so.
My Citi Dividend 1% Cash Back card allows me to create Virtual Cards for such things.

Any other cards anybody can recommend?
One in four vaccinated people in households with a Covid-19 case become infected
Facebook What to Do?
You have to quit and start the job at some point. You might also hate it after a week. The trial at least gives both sides a lower risk way to test each other out. You could take a weeks vacation, or surely would be able to negotiate a week to do real trial work before you are forced to quit your job.

This is actually common in some trades, for example cooking / baking, and makes way more sense than interviews for both sides to decide if they want to continue working together.
This is basically what killfiles were in the days of Usenet. It worked well for the demographic that was on Usenet at the time (tech savvy and dedicated).

I think the problem is that by and large, users are not willing to do this work themselves. When faced with a social platform that has a lot of jackasses on it, rather than individually curate their experience to remove the jackasses, most of them just leave the platform and find another one where this work is done for them already.

And this is why social networks have abuse teams. If it were totally up to them, they'd rather save themselves the expense, but users have shown that they will leave a platform that doesn't moderate, and so all social platforms are eventually forced to.
Ask HN: What do you do with old/damaged/imperfect MacBooks?
I've accumulated multiple macbooks of different vintages that I'd like to figure out what to do with. The issue is that they are usually not in great shape. I do have one from my wife that is in great shape, but I'm not sure how to "blank" that one before getting rid of it?

I also have a macbook pro from the prior model which has a bad screen. The keyboard is so-so, but the other parts are fine. Is this just something to give to an electronics recycling event?

Before I do anything, I'd like to make sure I'm not giving my data away.

So--what's your process?
A one-ton tungsten cube was just bought by a crypto cabal for $250k
I mean, you're not from the US, and maybe English is not your first language. However, specifically clarifying the company you purchased from is in the 95% implies there is a difference between you and the company and is read by many as "the company is in the 95%, and I am specifying that because I am not".

I never assumed you were in the 5% until you said that phrase (in fact, since you pointed out most people don't live in the US, I assumed you also did not). However, that phrasing implies you're in the US. It's just the way that language works.

I'm happy to summarize the thread using Kenya:

X: There is a law in Kenya concerning contract law.

Y: That law is irrelevant because most of the world is not in Kenya. In fact, in a recent contract my counterparty is not in Kenya.

X: Well, if your counterparty does business in Kenya with a Kenyan they are bound by Kenyan law.

Y: How dare you presume I am bound by Kenyan law! I'm not in Kenya.

X: The way your post was written made it sound like you were in Kenya because you were calling out your counterparty not being bound by Kenyan law.

Y: Why does everyone assume I'm in Kenya? I don't want to tell people where I live.
I think this is mostly a problem of finding good tools for your workflow. Admittedly, there are fewer of them in the space of embedded development than for the usual "apps", but there are some. Besides the already mentioned LVGL [1] for the actual GUI you'll need a proper build tool that can handle all that conversion stuff OP's talking about reliably. I can only recommend Bob [2] here. Unfortunately, it's very unknown but brings everything you need for embedded development (w/ or w/o GUI, higher-level stuff like custom Linux images, too). Using it for years professionally and for personal projects and will never look back.

[1] https://lvgl.io
[2] https://bobbuildtool.dev
ahh thanks
Did I miss it or did they not really address the claims in the section that quotes: "For example, Gladwell (2008) wrote that “once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate to any measurable, real-world advantage” (pp. 78–79)."

They quote a bunch of people who say, basically that IQ above 120 hits diminishing returns hard, but they very quickly shift to a different argument, instead proving that rising IQ doesn't actually make things worse. Which is a different thing. So, are they trying to pull a fast one?

I've no great love for Gladwell, I just think that seems a reasonable claim that they could have blown out the water if they had data to disprove it, but they appear to have shied away from it.
If someone does a good thing, I don't much care why they did it.

And if this works out, between (a) Sam funded the project that cracked cheap fusion and saved the planet, and (b) HN's OnlineGladiator met him and disliked him, I think the balance will tilt toward feeling some gratitude towards Sam.
> It might be possible to implement function purity with a decorator. (Kind of like declaring something “safe” in Rust).

Two parts to this.
1: Does it mutate variables.
2. Does the code have side effects.

1:
def no_mut(func):
@functools.wraps
def new_func(args, *kwargs):
new_args = tuple(copy.deepcopy(arg) for arg in args)
new_kwargs = {k, copy.deepcopy(v) for k, v in *kwargs
return func(new_args, *new_kwargs)
return new_func

For the second point, gevent seemed to have a trick to identify side effecting code.
By whether these laws enforce negative rights or positive ones. You should have a right to do whatever you want as long as you're not directly interfering with the rights of others to do the same. That's what it means to be free.
I'm pretty sure Nubank has for years and continues to rely heavily on Clojure. (to the point where they acquired Cognitect)
ah, good to hear! In that case act as if I said nothing :)