skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree for the most part, but keep in mind that "old" nations like Switzerland and Germany have a distinct advantage here. Family relationships trace back literally centuries and there is a strong sense of national tradition, which implies some level of ontological agreement and makes democracy possible to some extent. This shortcut does not apply to implementing a functioning democracy in, say, some "nation" of diverse ethnic groups arbitrarily carved out by British imperialists in the 19th or 20th century (see Africa and West Asia).

> "common sense will sort it out over decades"

More like centuries. USA has been a nation for 250 years yet we are teasing a second crisis of separatism. Immigration definitely plays a big role here. Political consensus takes generations to settle.
VS Code and JetBrains (various products) are my top recommendations for Linux. MonoDevelop is ok. It is hard to give a general recommendation because your needs will vary.
Swap space is the Federal Reserve of memory allocation.
Whom would it stop?

If your argument is any good, then all this whitepaper would do is make a better case. Asking for a whitepaper is not a bad thing for ideas that require some careful consideration. They're overkill for trivialities that can be fully decided here-and-now and or for things that don't really matter.

Too often have I seen developers running in circles chasing ideas that could have been ruled out with a little forethought and analysis. They'll respond superficially to some idea that tickles their fancy, waste a bunch of time implementing it only to either realize that it's a bad idea, that it has serious drawbacks, or better yet, leave everyone with a dreadful piece of garbage to maintain.
A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] The bar in question was truly like the guys in the video were describing it: A living room for people who didn't have one at home. And it isn't the only one, so many of the essential spaces for working class people in my neighborhood died in the last few years. Rents exploded and people get pushed out of the districts they've lived in for decades. It really sucks, and it is an ongoing process slowly changing the whole city.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7sb-AziEn4
I'll comment on two of your points. I'd strongly argue you lose most of the salient information when you try to represent a highly dimensional system with a single numbers. That's the curse of dimensionality. I agree, modern statistics does not understand this, causing no shortage of issues when applied to complex systems - eugenics, high carb diets, 08 recession, etc.

Secondly I'd recommend making an effort to travel to these "low IQ countries". I can assure you the average person is not much dumber than the average American.
Experimental relativistic zero-knowledge proofs
Why Canadians can't bike in the winter (but Finnish people can)
That looks amazing. Thanks for the resource.
See my sibling comment. Suppose you have data with 0.95 positive class and 0.05 negative class. You can achieve high ROC AUC with the classifier that blindly predicts the positive class. It may be "predictive" (after all 0.95 of the data is positive), but I would hesitate to praise such a classifier.
> Even if we completely ignore that some children do in fact die ... the side effect risk of the vaccine is obviously lower than the side effect risk of COVID itself.

Why COVID-19 Vaccines Should Not Be Required for All Americans https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vacci...

> Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and editor in chief of MedPage Today, argues that mandating vaccines for "every living, walking American" is, as of now, not well-supported by science. ... The risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 in kids ages 5 to 17 is 0.3 per million for the week ending July 24, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We also know that the risk of hospitalization after the second vaccine dose due to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, is about 50 per million in that same age group.
Indeed. It cuts down on impulsive and thoughtless decisions.
You can send money via Zelle instantly, but I would stick to check or ACH purposes for legal dispute reasons in the case of conducting business, especially paying rent.
The difficulty is that the lack of memory might be discovered days after it was allocated (an over-committing allocator simply doesn’t know at the time whether there will be memory or not) - how do you asynchronously tell the program that this allocation has now failed in a high-level way?

Generally, UNIX will let you know about the missing memory by sending the process a signal. But by that point, there’s not much that can be done to fix things up - and remember, all the fix up code would have to run without allocating any more memory itself. That’s extremely tricky in C, and nigh-on impossible in other languages.
How does Solaris handle this? Or Darwin?
Relativity could ensure security for cash machines
> You main take-away was that I am "arguing that it doesn't take years of time and billions of dollars to bring a drug to market".

That actually does seem to be your main point.
Had to search a couple of them (extropian and widow's son). Also, I had the whitepaper one thrown at me several times. Maybe I will use it myself next time.

My own contribution would be:
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ref: Judge Mark Walker Ballotpedia https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_E._Walker

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Walker
Our son proposed “Caterpillar Pop” for his looming sister which I always liked. “Mustard” was the codename for another unborn child (my sister’s, I think).
> In your original post, you referred to the claim that it costs billions of dollars as a "scam"

Yes and I still mean it, it is a scam because now people cite this study and think 'cost' where in reality they should think 'opportunity cost'.

I'm not walking back anything, this is literally a talking point coming from some lobbyists to justify the widespread practice of fake pricing of drugs in the US.

Let me just copy paste the relevant section in the document that we are referring to.

"First, we summed direct and indirect research and development spending on a therapeutic agent in each year. All sums were inflation adjusted to 2018 dollars using the US consumer price index.

Second, we accounted for failed projects by dividing total research and development expenditures on a drug in a particular year by the corresponding aggregate phase-specific probability of success, similar to what was done in previous studies of costs of drug development.3-7 For example, for each drug, we divided phase 1 costs in each year by 0.138, which accounted for spending on the other 6.2 phase 1 trials that would fail, on average, for each successful development program. We used phase 1 rates to adjust preclinical expenditures, and we used the proportion of biologics license applications and new drug applications that are approved by the FDA to adjust costs once these applications were submitted to the agency for regulatory approval. Licensing fees and milestone payments, where captured, were adjusted using the success rate for the trial phase that was ongoing when the payments were made. When a phase shift took place within the financial year, we allocated the cost proportionally to the time spent in each phase. For example, if development moved from phase 1 to phase 2 on July 1 of a given year, we divided the costs equally between each phase. Similarly, in the year of approval, we multiplied the total cost by the fraction of the year elapsed by the time of approval. Hence, if a drug was approved on July 1, we only counted 50% of the costs in the year of approval since firms often incurred postapproval costs related to pharmacovigilance or testing in other indications.

Third, we applied a real cost of capital rate of 10.5% per year (ie, weighted average cost of capital in the pharmaceutical industry), as in the DiMasi et al study.4 Cost of capital is the required rate of return for an investor and encapsulates a risk-free rate (ie, opportunity cost) and premium based on the likelihood of business failure.24"
You can fire customers.. I've done it a few times.
Why are you linking to such a page? This isn't a trustworthy source.
No, I wasn't talking about a specific X, I was talking about any X. Sorry if I screwed up my wording.

The collision attack step isn't targeted, but once you've generated more than the birthday bound of keypairs, the probability of a collision increases.

Given that there are approximately 2^252 valid Curve25519 public keys, there will most likely be 1 other valid Curve25519 keypair that produces the same exact 128-bit hash output (given the algorithm of SHA-256).

But once you find one of these, you can attack the fingerprints for those users.
You've essentially admitted it's an unreliable source that can be complete fiction for all we know. It's not validated by any medical institution, no one has jumped to defend it, none of the claims can be independently validated. I might as well just take my pandemic advice from a radio talk show host.
No. They don't pay me for being a doctor either.
"I also found the in-town train terminal UIs to be incomprehensible as a foreigner: long lists of abbreviated names of places, with sub-menus holding more abbreviated names!"

They are allmost incomprehensible for natives, too. They could be a textbook example of bad UX design.
getopt is a higher-level API. process.argv is equivalent to, uh, argv.
> Lots of young healthy people have been killed by the Covid vaccine

Cite your sources, you have a wildly outlandish claim that is beyond the expert consensus on the topic.
That is definitely still a thing. I get AMEX offers regularly equivalent to $1200 in rewards.
There's enormous amounts of evidence that ivermectin doesn't work.

If did work, we wouldn't have over 600,000 dead here in Brazil. A sizeable portion of the population, encouraged by our goverment, made use of ivermectin as a so-called preventive treatment. It didn't work, and hundreds of thousands died despite it.

The only thing that is actually working is the advance of the vaccination campaign. While it started late, we thankfully are have a very large support for vaccination, and very few antivaxxers.
I've been nomadic living in both rural and urban areas. Because cities have events, people to meet, food to eat. There's a lot of conveniences.

For rural, I've lived in a town where there was only one restaurant, and it was a Mexican place that closed at 4PM. One small grocery store during height of the pandemic, no masks. I've driven 3 hours to make a grocery run to an Asian grocery store and get boba tea. In the US at least, I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb in rural areas in a time people were getting randomly attacked due to skin color. The nature is great though.

For urban, I've been able to go out at 1AM+ and get delicious cheap food at a restaurant and feel the energy of the city as everyone was still out drinking and wandering. Or I can get into pickup basketball games. Or listen to porch concerts walking down the neighborhood

It's nice to go back and forth.
I didn’t know how to browse the web in 1994, either.

Or, more to the point, once I poked around randomly for a while, finding things like the last page (you have reached the end of the Internet), etc., I stopped browsing, and started either searching like I do now or visiting bookmarked sites like I do now or following trustworthy recommendations like I do now.

The big differences between now and then are no more USENET (really good sources of trustworthy links, at least in some groups) and commercially focused search results.

It did and still does take time to search through search results to find the good ones.

Back then, just browsing, following random links, was entertainment, not really useful.

Now, it just isn’t really useful.
I use Wells Fargo. Their ATM's take and scan in checks, etc and they will actually take in cash and count it inside the ATM. You get to confirm the amounts and it deposits into your account (subject to normal holds/availability timing). They have a slot that is like a conveyor belt that opens and I just insert the stack of paper you can hear what sounds like a bill counter sorting the stack and counting it. You get to see scans of the checks. It typically shows each one and asks you to confirm the amount the OCR thinks is correct. No envelopes, etc just feed it the stack of paper in any order so long as it's short side first. Occasionally it will reject a bill that is too wrinkled. I use it regularly instead of waiting to see a teller.
Atomic ‘avocado’ could change the way we navigate
I'm another Mercury employee. When I joined there wasn't much of a specific onboarding process at all, beyond being given a few simple tickets to work on and pointed to some documentation.

I had written a very small amount of Haskell before, but IIRC correctly I think I made my first commit only a few weeks after joining. In general even people without an existing strong FP background seemed to become productive pretty quickly.
+1 as a checklist. There's a good number of points on this list that if true when said are good actual considerations. Maybe not enough to change the outcome but worthwhile nonetheless.
> They were ordered to connect their private laptop and desktop computers to more powerful office machines so they could continue their high-tech operations.

> "We didn't mind," says Chris, "but I found loads of screens switched on one day when I came in to the office, and everybody's desktops were there, on display.

> "One of the managers wasn't just looking at our work. He could see exactly what we were doing all the time - what we were watching on YouTube, that kind of thing."

Let me get this straight, these guys are remotely connecting to their office desktops to watch recreational streaming videos? Why?

It's a far worse viewing experience with zero upside vs streaming locally, not to mention the waste of resources on both ends.
Ah, sorry, I meant a way to automatically do that (both so I don't have to type as much and so that I can't accidentally forget to add that argument). Edited my comment to reflect this.
Good Bye Mrs. Afrin:-)
“We didn't mind," says Chris, "but I found loads of screens switched on one day when I came in to the office, and everybody's desktops were there, on display.”

The security implications for this are very bad. I can’t imagine approving this.
You need to read your last sentence out loud, to yourself, while looking in the mirror. You gave... an anecdote of a barber as proof? 2001 was caused by investment banks, venture capitalists, and changes in overnight repo lending. Not some folks each with an extra twenty grand chatting with his barber.

You're embarrassing yourself at this point between the barber and stating housing was "clear cut retail debt" in 2007 when it was actually a trillion dollar derivatives market that caused the bubble/crash, significantly driven by predatory/abusive from the mortgage lending side? Where do you think retail got all the money for the houses? "the entire crypto _thing_ is retail" uh, no, it's not. Tesla bought over a billion in bitcoin earlier this year, and large investment banks opened crypto desks early this year. And bringing up companies like Blackrock(?) which I didn't mention, oh my you are all over the place. Grayscale is not Blackrock... Can you present any evidence at all that retail has caused historical asset bubbles?

Sorry, you're just straight making things up and have a very poor or nonexistent understanding of markets. I won't waste my time here any longer.
I strongly support this. There are of course other ways of compromising peoples computers when running untrusted code, but let’s get the low hanging fruit.

I have a very simple vue frontend app that I wrote a few years ago, and it somehow has >4000 dependencies (including dev dependencies). The fact that npm install could run code from all of those (which might not be obvious to a newer dev) is flat out dangerous.
I think you're missing the point. It's not how many lines of code it takes. You have to think a bit harder what the desirable properties are. Minimizing complexity is nice, great start. What does that mean? It's certainly not one of the "guiding principles" of this library. It's focusing on, among other things,

- "least amount of code"
- and "a beautiful code"

shrug

You minimize complexity by defining primitive expressions, means of combination, and means of abstraction [1]. Sound familiar?

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
Astrology seems like such a strange thing for a Haskell developer to be spending her time on. I wouldn't think twice about it if the back-end was written in Python, but I just find it strange that she's sharp enough to be a Haskell pioneer, but still thinks the positions of stars influences what approach you should take in a relationship.
You can put some wasm crypto mining code and at least profit from bots. :D
As an EU citizen, what is the point of the consent forms? Are there really that many people who click accept?
These are scraping artificially limited releases clothes/shoes. You buy a shoe at $100 and immediately sell it at $1000.

Artificial scarcity - every week you release a "limited edition item", but if you do the math, it's not limited edition at all if you integrate over a year.
Those that can't do, teach. Those that can't teach, testify? Those that can't testify, teach PE?
> Why does augmenting my capabilities with technology arbitrarily subject me to additional regulation?

Augmented capability lets you cause more, newer and larger problems.

We didn't have speed limits on the roads until humans acquired the technological capability to go faster, causing more fatalities.
Apple doesn’t hide they partnered with Goldman Sachs.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-card-and-goldma...
Uni students get a student license (free), and then can go on to pirate it until they are making good money. At that point they can either pirate it forever or pay a small fee to use it (relative to their income). They could also take the programming skills they picked up and switch to another platform (Python or Julia). Having said that though, I haven’t used anything like Mathematica, which makes symbolic maths very simple. I’ve tried some libraries in python that didn’t cut the mustard (Sympy) and haven’t experimented in Julia yet.
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores
Well, at least the article is only mostly likely to send me into an epileptic seizure.
That's not entirely correct. Elastic and Mongo weren't using AGPL in the first place, they had MIT/Apache type licenses. Generally we're seeing open core/source startups moving to AGPL or proprietary source available licenses (Grafana, Sentry to name a few more).
I don't get it - you fully cancel the card? Or do you mean you just get the credit card to issue a new one? If that's the case, then I don't the "burner" aspect. That's just normal usage. If the former, what advantage does that provide? Is it not in your name? If there's some fraudulent charge but you just bail on the card rather than go through the normal process, it looks like non-payment and affects your credit.
It's not just a slight concern.

- Fusion reactors are an order of magnitude physically larger than fission reactors,

- The particle energies are an order of magnitude higher than fission, resulting in much nastier activation

and that results in orders of magnitude more highly radioactive waste.
Thanks for the suggestion, will take a look.
Unless the use cases are very simple or there's a special reason not to for most embedded devices I think I'd rather communicate largely with an app (e.g. by bluetooth).

I'm thinking for washing machines, dishwashers, aircon, things like that.

Unless simple, embedded UIs are usually bad and usually make complex interactions (e.g. setting timers) especially horrible. Whereas android/apple/the web have been optimized for UX.

It's oddly not as common as I'd have expected, though.
Processes come and go!

The OS doesn't have to gamble that you won't actually need all the memory you allocate, it could just be a gamble that another memory hogging process exits before you need to use all of your memory, or that you don't need to use all of your memory at the same time.
Fireside IO is an app where organizations can quickly create their own anonymous forums and invite their members. Members of the forum can then create topics and responses, and vote on each other's responses anonymously.

I created it because I see a lot of barriers to communication in organizations, and have run into situations myself where I don't feel like I can speak my mind without repercussions, even if the idea is a good one.

I wanted to create a space where there's parity through anonymity. There aren't a lot of forums in the "anonymity space", and there aren't a lot of forums in the B2B space. The hypothesis is that hopefully these key features will allow organizations to communicate better within and between teams and at different levels.
It raises the cost of attack, sure. That said, just about every developer I know is not going to think about it and is just going to hit "OK" at the first opportunity. The VSCode "this directory isn't trusted" warning comes to mind. I know of no one who actually takes that to heart. Perhaps we should, but few will actually take the time, sadly.
Software engineers like openness and quiet even more so than average. To get away. Hence why everyone is a hiker that wears Patagonia :) I'm sure lots of people's long-term dreams here are not software, but to live some Stardew Valley life or bake bread and make beer or something
Oh? It only links to dozens of peer-reviewed journals and studies. Totally suspect.

Can't win all the jab religion followers, it seems ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Maybe I will use it myself next time.

It's easier to just not be wrong /s
Software doesn't solve anything by itself -- You have to apply it to something. I guess some developers are just pure code monkeys that implement routines as specified, but there are plenty of software engineers who use their knowledge of the field their working in to create software to help solve the problems in a good way. I suppose the main difference between the two groups is the level of experience and interest in the field.
Most recently, he's actually rewriting all his tools in a forth-inspired language he's designed himself: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html
my takeaway from the article is I hope OP isn't responsible for that lag fest of an animation[0]. I hate embedded stuff that takes ages to animate while the hardware obviously just can't handle it. Skip the animation, and just make it snappy, damn it! There's nothing more infuriating than a slow interface that makes you wait needlessly.

[0] https://blog.benjamin-cabe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/re...
Am I correct in thinking that, from looking at Helion's website, their design resembles the Lockheed Martin "bottle" design that popped up a few years ago?
> In fact, this is mostly what the House of Representatives and the Senate are, or was before 1920.

An interesting observation: the population of the USA since its founding until today has increased approximately by a factor of Dunbar's Number. In theory, this would call for the introduction of another layer of national bureacracy (say, a Regional level above the individual States). Yet our political structure has not meaningfully changed, at least de jure (de facto I believe it has changed substantially with the rise of capitalism in the early 20th century).
Isn't this the joke? Almost nobody knows what extropian means, but when you're arguing with a blowhard they won't want to admit it and look stupid in front of other people.