skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually challenge you to find a law in society that doesn't have some origin in vague decency - the legal framework built above decency is something we expect to be rather stable over the long term but, at a really basic level, we have a law to not murder people because we really don't appreciate it when people do it - not because there is some natural law inscribed in our DNA stating that murder must be a crime.

Laws conform with societal ethics and those ethics absolutely change over time and are never uniformly agreed to by all individuals.

Lastly - scale absolutely does matter when it comes to laws we want to enforce. We don't want to enforce a no-gossip law because the invasiveness of enforcement would be unbelievably deep, so decency is there to tell you that while you won't get arrested for doing a thing you should feel guilty about it - most members of society get equipped with this guilt during their upbringing and so criminally malicious gossip is a problem we mostly ignore at a societal level.

Laws are absolutely BS in their inherent nature and a construct of society that could easily shift radically with large political shifts - but that doesn't mean they're invalid.
Large groups of people are really only useful when a problem can easily be broken into smaller, self-contained parts. Or when the work requires little "moving in lock-step." This may be one of those fields where "more people" just means "more politics."
I tried them all, didn't like any of them.

As I recall, Suave is on its way out, and was replaced by Saturn. Saturn is built on Giraffe.

I found Saturn to be incredibly confusing because you need to understand both it and Giraffe to be able to use it.

I used Giraffe for a while, but I still needed to understand the ASP.NET middleware approach, which didn't match Giraffe's.

Also, ASP.NET has a new endpoint based routing framework which is supposed to be very fast. Giraffe has started to adopt that, but I found most of the docs refer to the old way of doing things. So although I'm using it a little bit in the code above, I found it easier to just use ASP.NET directly in most cases.
This has interesting implications when we consider how much money drug companies “should” be paid for inventing important new life-saving medicines.

I frequently hear/read complaints of "that's outrageous [that this medicine costs $X]!"

Well, maybe it is; maybe it isn't, but if you make sure it costs $X/100, I can be pretty sure you'll get less drug R&D.
obligatory ref to "Century of the Self" four-part documentary
I think the Fairphone is the most open Android device out there, which is kind of sad really. And yes you definitely overpay for the privilege of buying a phone with replaceable parts from a small manufacturer.

If you're going for open hardware, Samsung is a rather odd choice. Then again, any Android phone is more open than iPhones are.
Go ahead, show me how team interaction and declared responsibility can be measured unambiguously.
I always set Caps Lock to act the same as Control. One of the benefits is that I don't have to care about the Fn/Ctrl placement.
How does one "work" at increasing capital gains? You increase capital gains by increasing how much you have invested. Which requires working a job in order to receive income that can then be invested.
I agree that it is an unending arms race, but if NPM doesn't even plug obvious holes (like running install scripts by default), then they've lost my trust.

Edit: if anyone knows of a way to disable NPM from running install scripts automatically (without having to remember to specify --ignore-scripts on each invocation), while still allowing me to use "npm run" to manually run scripts (e.g. test scripts for my own packages), I'd love to hear about it.
Very nice! The baby name app we used worked on a Tinder-like swipe-right basis. At the end, you ended up with your “matches”.

But the best part about the app was the name - Kinder. (German for “children” and rhymes with Tinder)
>The university initially said that, because it was a public university and faculty are government employees, it would have been a conflict of its interests to allow three prominent professors to testify for plaintiffs in a lawsuit over new voting restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law earlier this year. It backtracked slightly days later when it said the three would be allowed to testify if they forfeited any compensation.

What was the conflict?

Don't question the government?
This mirrors my current thinking.

Each individual naturally filters out information that they consider weird, the less they know the person that they are reading, the farther it is from their viewpoint, the more that idea will be passed over.

Each community is made up of the average of the opinions of its members, and we can collectively track this through the Overton window. The more people that don't know each-other in a community, the less their weirdness budgets are, therefore the slower the community is able to change its mind. This is where Dunbar's Number comes in, eventually you reach a point where the Overton window metastasizes and two factions in that community break apart.

So what we really need to be asking is...

1. Dunbar's number suggests that as a community gets larger, it should naturally split, why don't digital communities do this?

One obvious conclusion is that the internet sites that we are building them on top of do not allow the split. The website is owned by the web owner, and they want all communication on it, and they don't have any sharding built in, so we can't split.

But even when we build sites like Reddit that are inherently built of many communities and make it extremely easy to create new communities, we still see concentration of communities. So it is dismissive just to say it is the owners fault. It must somehow be that, because digital is so effective, the economies of scale within the digital space grows and even with the worsening of communication the community gets stronger with each member. That is, opinions within the websites Overton window have such good quality, that it doesn't matter that all discussion outside the window is ignored. And there are mostly more people entering than there are leaving, so it works out until it doesn't.

And thus as you say, the only option we have to reach beyond our local maximums is to split the communities soon after we reach something close to Dunbar's Number. Does that mean each community would just be 150 people? Does that mean each person could only be a community of 150 people local to them? No. You can have a community of the top community members, and that 150 community would have it's own Dunbar's Number. In fact, this is mostly what the House of Representatives and the Senate are, or was before 1920.
I doubt we’ll see molnupiravir getting approved in this context now. I think the mechanism just has too much risk.
Capitalism / Billionaires : 1 -- Bureaucratic Government : 0

Note: The government possibly couldn't invest $1B in this because the founders may be white
Besides "duh", there will likely be few.
Indeed. We advise our customers to place our consent management script before any scripts that they wish to regulate due to this inherent limitation.
Not sure. Doesn’t look like he know programming very well.
Do you mean they resigned because they made bank off of crypto?
I did not find a fan for my X230.
Do you know a source?
I think that volunteers (some of them maybe paid) should check the validity of code, at least for projects over 10-100k downloads.
In case of crates.io (Rust), there is cargo-crev[1].
Also, npm should popularize 2FA.

[1]https://web.crev.dev/rust-reviews/
Thank you, I couldn't remember the name.
Trading cards are cool again
I stopped reading here:

> (jacobinmag.com)
If you build your site in a way that multiplies each request 10x, well then that's what you get. Don't do that and you won't have issue with requests. Or handle those requests properly. There are solutions to that. You know how many requests your local google CDN gets? They know how to manage load.
Legitimate interest being opt-out makes sense, for example for fraud prevention. I absolutely agree though that adtech often blatantly claims they would have a legitimate interest, whereas they should ask for (opt-in) consent.
Very nice! We spent quite some time on this and aren't even having a kid.

How did you implement the tournament? It feels very long when you have many names - almost like it's doing all N^2 pairs, or is there something smarter?

EDIT: spelling
> If they put it in their CRM / sales system?

Yes, this would be covered by the GDPR and for good reason. If I join tonight's waiting list and provide a phone number in case they suddenly have a table become available I do not want that phone number to be reused for marketing spam down the line.

> The issue folks have is many users if given a choice, will take the free service [...] in return for being tracked if they are given a choice.

Apple's recent App Tracking Transparency stats suggest that when given a free choice, only 4% of users actually opt-in: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/07/only-4-of-ios-use...

So clearly, when given the choice, most people would rather not be tracked. The problem the GDPR is trying to address is that people are not given the choice.

> But MAJOR services are built the other direction

There were plenty of businesses in the past that were built on basics that we now deem harmful. Back in the early 20th century, it was legal to sell radioactive water and market it as a miracle cure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor

Society has since determined this is harmful and outlawed that. The same thing is currently happening with environmental pollution, and the GDPR is trying to do the same for noxious business models on the web.
> This is the correct price of the RSUs, but again, neglects the cash bonus. If you look at it (more correctly) through the lens of "the amount of compensation given", the price of A's RSU+bonus is $507k, and the price of B's RSU+bonus is $221k (your $101k + the $120k cash).

The difference is still almost ~$300k. Almost 1 extra year's income.

> But! There's no reason that the $120k cash just has to stay cash forever.

This is obviously a very simple scenario. There is obviously an assumption here that neither A nor B does any extra investing on the side and just hold onto whatever Amazon has paid them.

Individual investment into the stock market is a whole different can of worms. B could just invest that $120k cash in one of the r/wallstreetbets and lose it all. On the other hand, A could cash out all AMZN vests and invest that in TSLA.

The scenarios become endlessly complicated if we consider side investments in individual stocks.

I think, despite being grossly simplistic, this calculation may provide an interesting insight into why AMZN prefers to delay significant stock vesting for its employees, especially when other similar companies don't. Especially given the fact that avg. tenure at AWS (as per linkedin) seems to be 1.6 years. So a large number of AWS employees may not be receiving 80% of their stocks.
Do you want to expand where it isn't the case?
Common reasons for suicide the model found:

- Being threatened or harassed through digital media

- Being picked on or bullied by a student at school

- Exposure/involvement in serious arguments and yelling at home

Waow guys the computer solved the problem! Or not, everybody knew this already. They were "surprised" that family arguments have an effect? Anybody who knew kids with divorced parents growing up already know this.

Oh and notice it says "suicidal thoughts and behavior", it doesnt differentiate. Girls are more likely to have thoughts but less likely to act, pretty well known, so maybe it doesn't make sense to treat thoughts as seriously for them but this model makes it the same.

Oh and look at the survey they used, the CTC thing: https://web.archive.org/web/20100527132022/http://download.n...

Its asking obvious quesitons like "are you taking lots of drugs", "how is your relationship with family", "how engaged are you with peers and community socially", that kind of stuff. Like legit half of it is drug use questions. Nobody needs some fancy ass model to figure out how answering on those questions might indicate suicidal tendencies. Ive had two friends commit suicide out of nowhere in the past year, family didn't expect it, and nobody who was close to them expected it. Its them that are hard to spot and stop not the obvious "I'm on drugs, my father's abusive, I'm socially withdrawn" people.
This is for doing interval training. When I go out for a ride for instance I have a file from my training platform (Today's Plan) loaded on my bike computer. It queues me to the intervals I'll be doing. Each interval has a target power range (in Watts), heart rate range, and cadence. I can see all those targets and my actual values for those stats on screen at the same time on my bike computer (aka head unit). Glancing down at it is not perfect; I'd love having all this info as a heads up display. I was thinking about switching from glasses to contacts just so I could get sunglasses too, so this is coming out at the right time for me.
>The opt-in of adtech is visiting the website and the reward is the content on the website.

No, quite clearly I've opted-in to the site's content. No body has ever knowingly navigated to a website to enjoy its advertising and tracking. (except for maybe 3-5 individuals)

>You're the one that starts the chain of events in both cases.

This is victim blaming. I started the chain of events leading to the rendering of the website content, not the ads or tracking behavior to which I would otherwise be oblivious. This is akin to saying I asked for a computer virus by purchasing this computer.
Hey, we're all in it together. I'm not the one "staying at home" or wearing masks though, so ironically this affects me less than it does you. We don't have any vaccine-related restrictions where I live either.
Yeah, I would consider that 10 people likely did not die because they enrolled and got lucky.
Do you recall which graphic novels?
You missed the biggest advantage of credit cards - the limited liability of the card holder to fraudulent charges!

From a financial website…

“ CREDIT CARDS
Credit cards offer consumers the widest fraud protection. By Federal law, a cardholder is only liable for the first $50 of an unauthorized transaction at most, with many issuers offering cards with zero liability.
DEBIT CARDS
Debit card holders are protected under a different law, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. With debit cards, users' liability is capped at $50 only if they notify the bank within two days of realizing the debit card is missing. Beyond that, they could be responsible for up to $500 of a crook’s spending spree. And waiting more than 60 days to contact the bank could leave a user stuck paying every cent of the unauthorized charges.”
You say that now, but one day your daughter will ask you to take her to the Great Wall of China and you'll have to have this weird conversation about how your internet comments 45 years ago kind of make that impossible.
The city where it's forbidden to serve meat
What’s new in C# 10: overview
That would make sense if your intent to was to remain a checklist forever.
> We're discussing a case where all things are equal.

No, we're not.
not sure why you need a professor to testify that one needs to present an ID to vote, seems common sense
I once opened an issue on the vscode repo and this legend replied to it.

Still makes me giddy just thinking about it.
> The Internet was supposed to be a totally open set of protocols that anyone could interact with, and for a long time it was,

That is still true today.
Anyone can still open a connection to a socket or make a server-socket available on that particular layer and can expect routing to work.
Yet.

While it is tempting to equate "the Internet" with the world-wide-web - a term used less and less,
they are two very different things.

The biggest danger to the internet is about control of the underlying networks. That countries can cut themselves off from the internet or monitor all packets being routed in large regions is problematic. Efforts into "decentralization" should start there.
With Thinkpads I rather have Bluetooth working than onboard audio. The speakers are so bad I don’t even want to hear them beep.
> Credit cards also provide a nice hack to allow cash deposit for those with only online banks...

Thank you, I had no idea about this! Going to seriously help me "deposit" cash since my bank's closest physical presence is two states away...
Also, almost all websites use Javascript but not that many use PHP. So Javascript dependencies ought to be a more lucrative target?
Anyone interested in these kind of things, Steve Bull on his twitch stream (highly recommended) actually showcased a similar book with a large amount of these kind of prints around 1:18:23 into the video:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1190638210
> Not what I was expecting. I somehow associated "find console" and "board bringup" with notions of signal analysis and 23 SMA connectors and "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request" and "ARGH it was a hairline solder bridge this entire time". Need to despecialize my definitions a bit.

Oh it can be a bit like that sometimes. Kernel crashes, general instability, overheating, broken (or shorted) PMICs, miswired signals (turns out it's very easy to get TX and RX pairs between CPU & peripheral mixed up), wrong voltage levels, wrong clocks, peripherals missing firmware.. I've seen it all, and I've had plenty of use for the oscilloscope recently. Hopefully we'll get the next prototype soon-ish but there's still stuff that needs to be debugged :) I'm kinda spread thin between board bringup & debugging and writing new features for the customer.

> How does the redundant connectivity stuff work? Just basic failover, or WAN bonding?

There's more than one mechanism in place. The basic route failover stuff in Linux doesn't work very well (afaict it only detects the gateway going down, which doesn't help if the gateway is another on-prem router which stays alive when the link to ISP goes belly up). So we've got periodic ping probes (to a configurable set of IPs) which promote/demote the corresponding route when a few probes succeed/fail.

We've also got a daemon which maintains multiple connections (also multiple protocols) to multiple servers through all WAN interfaces and all connections do regular keepalives; packets are rerouted to another connection when one fails. It can also duplicate packets to multiple connections simultaneously (it's often necessary to get alarms delivered to more than one place), among other things. It's sort of an overlay network that performs VPN-like functions (and more) on and off the internet, and can tunnel anything from SMS to serial ports to raw ethernet to individual TCP & UDP ports or specific protocols like FTP.

Bonding as such isn't implemented but it's on the radar.
but I imagine that it is standard in any FAANG? The company that I work now, got the IPO and a diversity department, with mandatory course with test, at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_shirt

From the history section:

"According to some sources, the origin of aloha shirts can be traced to the 1920s[11] or the early 1930s,[12] when the Honolulu-based dry goods store "Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker" under the proprietorship of Kōichirō Miyamoto,[12] started making shirts out of colorful Japanese prints.[b][11][12]"

and there is more from there.
Show HN: A Faux3D Game Engine I made in my spare time
Hello HN! Today I bring to you a project that I've been working on for the better part of 2 years. It's a Game Engine that allows you to make games that look 3D with zero 3D modelling experience.

The engine uses a technique called Sprite Stacking to simulate 3D perspective from 2D sprites. This means that you can create 3D objects by drawing 2D images - this greatly reduces the skill, time and patience needed to create assets for your games.

The engine currently uses JavaScript for scripting. Kotlin support is on the way!

Everything is written in Kotlin and Java. The program is built on top of Libgdx, so OpenGL is used for rendering.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thanks!
We have not seen better and more successful studies for ivermectin, we have seen a lot of studies that find it does next to nothing, and a few deeply fraudulent studies that finds that it solves world hunger.

It's a strange day when people argue against evaluating a new medicine, in favour of snake oil that doesn't work.

Given that you think that it's unclear that vaccines reduce the rate and seriousness of COVID, I am not sure that your have a good enough understanding of the ground facts to have an informed opinion on this subject.
A recognition that they're not going to be realistically able to stop the small business owner keeping customer preferences in a notebook and the cost/benefit of chasing after them is low should not preclude taking action when it gets scaled up to monitoring way more people in a way more pervasive fashion.
Don't panic, nothing significant has changed. The previous coronavirus pandemic in 1889 spread quickly around the world even though it wasn't as closely connected.

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.111...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
A typical technocratic response. The fact is--and it will always be a fact--people tailgate and drive too close. No amount of "ackshually, they shouldn't" makes a difference.

Why do cars have rear bumpers?
Didn't mention anything about vaccinations. Don't be disingenuous.

The guy above literally said "Children aren't at risk from Covid AT ALL".
> when the energy is basically free, you don’t have to try too hard to capture the output to make something of it. Is that actually the case with harvesting fusion energy?

We still haven't got more usable energy (electricity and/or heat) out of a fusion reactor than it takes to run the thing, so capturing as much of the energy as possible is still absolutely important.

However, in the long-term (e.g. 100 years from now) you're right that working fusion power plants would make energy "basically free". The main reasons would be (a) the abundance of fuel (assuming the source would be heavy water) and (b) the fact that nuclear reactions are so much more energetic than the chemical reactions we're used to (so even a few percent improvement may be a large amount of extra energy).
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

>It doesn't. That's just a "template" file, which I use search and replace in order to generate the three monomorphized go files.

>If you look closely, those aren't angle brackets, they're characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers. From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier.
If they hadn't invested in SaaS, they wouldn't have had the money to invest in this.
Which modern PC can even compete at all with that offer?

Excepting the price the m1 macbook air is a strong contender. It is roughly the width and depth of an x220 but half the height, 1.3 kg, P3 400 nits high dpi IPS display, insane battery life (to the point of not needing a spare), P series performance, trackpad so good I don’t miss a trackpoint. It is missing the great keyboard and the ports though, although in practice the only thing I really miss going to the mba from a thinkpad is usb-a.
What's up with the title? Assuming they're not sending a cake due to covid and remote working etc - makes it seem very clickbaitish.
The documentation for the Shap tool they used has a nice big warning against doing that (clumsily applying the algorithm predictions):
https://shap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_notebooks/over...

I wonder how many read that section?