skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking a look.

We don't promote NUM as decentralised, but it has that potential with enough independent adoption.

We talk about NUM as an alternative to centralised APIs for two reasons: (a) it can be adopted independently; (b) there are no rate limits or restrictions, which we see as the big problems with APIs.

I agree, some big endorsements would be good but I don't think that'll drive adoption on the domain side.
The point of num.net is that we don't need wholesale adoption on the domain side, we need adoption on the developer side (and by extension users) to drive adoption on the domain side – either by people claiming their records on num.net or publishing independent records.
> Now say John travels to another town, and the proprietor of a similar establishment in that town, wanting to provide John with the best level of service, calls you to ask "Hey, what does John like?", and you tell them.

You casually say this like it's obviously OK, and like it ever happens in the real world. If I'm doing business with you, and you investigate me to discover other people that I've done similar business with in order to ask them what I like, you're officially a creepy business.

The reason this is a matter of creepiness and not law IRL is because no business with more than a couple of customers could manage to regularly do this. The internet is what provides the dragnets, and the ability to be creepy at scale.
This is from 12 days ago.
>Is it as bad as China? No. Is it better than average? Also no.

What are you looking at for your average? I would say that the global average is pretty low when you consider each country, and Japan and SK is in the upper half. You have to take into account dysfunctional and repressive kleptocracies in the Middle East, Africa, and South America
For sure, but in this case, not taking the chance guarantees you the "placebo", or standard care, meaning you'd be in the same boat as if you'd entered the study and received the placebo dose.
IoT Bolts
pedestrians would probably like to opt out of this private beta
I hope you spell it Æþelbriht like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Entry_for_827_in_the_Angl...
Wow, its GraphViz reborn!

Long live `dot`!

http://graphviz.org/pdf/dottyguide.pdf
They might be describing something equivalent to it. That doesn't mean they're describing it. Funny thing about mathematics: every single way of describing or talking about any mathematical phenomenon is mathematically equivalent, or wrong.
> Seriously, I hate scrapers. I hate the people who make scrapers. I hate their lack of ethics. Fuck those guys.

Wait till you find out what half of Google's business is based on (spoiler - scraping).

I really don't think scraping itself is an issue 90% of the time. It's the behavior of the out of control scrapers that are the problem. A well behaved scraper should barely be noticeable, if at all.
Wow... almost like they forgot that it's a car, nearly 2 tons of metal and glass traveling 60+mph, which can easily kill people.

They have their head in the clouds so much they forgot what this software really means when deployed.

This isn't "oh, ha, looks like the company lost a few hours of productivity today when the email went down!"

In fact, to be honest, having 2+ tons of metal and glass going so fast under human control wasn't a great idea to begin with.
The census data has the numbers, 91-92% of kids live with both parents or a mother. 4% live with only their father, 4% live with neither. With those numbers I think it'd be hard to get a significant sample.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/number-of-chi...
Sure, but let me first say there are tons of great podcasts about board game design if you are just getting started. Ludology, Building the Game, Fun Problems, etc.

I have played lots of board games so I have a good mental model of different types and the components needed. When I get an idea for a theme or mechanism, I build it up mentally first. When it feels like it might be fun or interesting, Then I'll start making some crappy cards or tokens. Some people will just write on note cards but I like something that feels more real. So I'll make some mostly text based images from a template. If they are cards, I'll print on paper and cut them out, then use CCG (MtG) sleeves and cheap playing cards to sleeve my paper. This lets them be shuffle-able. For other components or boards, I'll print on card stock. If I need something heavier, I'll print on adhesive label paper and then stick that to foam board or cardboard. The next and most important step is play test it with anyone and everyone you can.

Glad to provide more information if you're interested.
Well, and not just low religious diversity in Utah. Low diversity on most measures.
By now you should have noticed that you're not "getting back on with your lives" no matter how good a boy you are and how many freedoms you give up. You should have resisted this from the start, this is your choice.
Yes, the retailer gets a portion of the interest payment.

Example story mentioning it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/business/dealbook/retaile...

https://archive.md/kuW2K
I’ve got a T460 with 16GB. Didn’t even know about potential ram incompatibility. Just ordered some from crucial and put it in.
Just to clarify: We are not vegetarians. We just try to cut down our daily meat consumption. But only if the alternative products actually taste good.

We're in the lucky position to have a hunter grand dad who is occasionally inviting us to highest quality meat meals. Unbeatable, and really appreciated and consumed very consciously.
> 1) The city was 100% Steampunk !

District heating was quite common across the former Eastern Bloc and Russia. In the winter, you could see bands of melted snow on the sidewalk where the pipes ran. I hear the ones still in use have been better insulated since then.

> i did see plenty of missing houses in the main streets.

Yeah, this I've also been told. Compare that with the impressive rate at which Polish cities were rebuilt (aside from the beautiful historic centers, we can debate about the desirability of the modernist architecture that was built in places where it was decided that the historical building was not to be rebuilt; some of them are actually quite interesting, to be sure, but certainly not all of them). Not sure why the GDR took so long, or how they fared next to West Germany.
That quote never sit well with me. How about "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize there is a 50/50 chance you are stupider than that."
I don't think anyone is claiming making install script opt-in will fix all the problems. But adding any friction discourages the behavior. And if the norm changes, it's reasonable to believe package maintainers will start opting for dependencies that don't require install scripts. Thus further encouraging people to not include them with their packages.
The solution is to look at federation more than to decentralization.

Together with decentralization comes the idea that centralization is bad, which is wrong; centers are good, you just have to protect the sistem from abusive centers, and/or let people choose which center or center of centers they prefer.

In an alternare universe facebook has a moderation system users "subscribe to" that warns your client of what content you are likely to want to avoid but allowed you to "fork" it so that if you were displeased with their moderation you could run your own and have others subscribe to your moderation instead/too
The more you move from "your brain" to "database", the bigger the risk of abuse.

If you keep it in your head, it's not going to be stolen or abused. If you put it in a notebook, the risk increases, but you at least aren't going to be doing this at a large scale, simply due to physical limitations.

Various laws have different thresholds, but usually it's something like a "systematic collection of data" or "automated processing" (I think it's the latter for GDPR), which seems like a reasonable compromise to avoid hampering the low-risk small scale use cases.

Edit, looked it up, this is the definition GDPR uses:

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system.

So if you keep your database in a notebook, you're probably still fine, because the structure makes it impossible to do nasty things at scale. Once you switch to alphabetically sorted index cards, you've crossed the threshold.
Well thanks for that info about the keyboard, since you saying that, I've found this insane t25/t480 story: https://kitsunyan.github.io/blog/frankenpad-story.html
> TL;DR: Yes! But Zig is a Stand-in for simpler languages, and while in its infancy, I can foresee it to be "done" and "fit into my head".

I don't understand how something that isn't type-safe (memory safety is a subset of type safety) can be more "correct" than a language that is type-safe. It is certainly hard to prove Rust type-safe. But that's infinitely easier than proving something type-safe that trivially isn't type-safe!

> way to much fondness of abstractions and their removal by compiler magic

Heavy reliance on abstractions is what makes lifetimes and the borrow check practical. For example, Arc, Mutex, Cell, and RefCell are all abstractions that serve as library-defined extensions of the core lifetime rules and are generally optimized away by the compiler. I'm extremely skeptical that lifetimes/borrow checking can be made usable without this sort of thing. If a goal of Zig is to minimize abstractions, then that's yet another reason why adding a borrow check to it after the fact will not work.

When Zig is "done", it will have to either (a) become memory safe by addition of Rust's lifetimes/borrow check (which is probably impossible, but if it were done it would bring about a lot of the things you say you don't like about Rust); (b) become memory safe by addition of a GC (which is the best option, but I doubt it will do so); (c) not be memory safe (which is probably what will happen). There is no free lunch. And then, assuming it chooses option (c), you run into this problem: Try as hard as you want, you will never be able to prove a language type-safe that isn't type-safe, no matter how simple that language is.
I think skepticism of vaccines largely doesn't transfer to the broader medical field. The ineffective fad treatments (ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine) are still medicine, but are still "popular" with vaccine skeptics. It's not rational, but I think vaccine skepticism is largely not rational to begin with.
Off topic, but: Reading the post title made me wonder: Does having neighbors with Amazon Prime Memberships result in getting your purchases faster even if you don't have a membership?
"decency" is not definable, that's why it's tyrannical to legislate about it. Laws serve to establish a framework merely for peaceful coexistence. To use them to try to make everyone decent is surgery with a sledgehammer.
FYI: Lisk is some sort of blockchain thing, and Lisk Desktop is a Electron UI for it.

(It is not a Linux Desktop Environment written in Common Lisp :) )
Motif CD Player
There's some truth to that, though I'd push the date back a bit, perhaps to Newton or Kepler, when the logjam of appealing to the authority of the ancients (generally Aristotle) was finally and decisively broken.

Vaclav Smil (already mentioned several times in this thread) points to the half-century from 1875--1925 as the peak of invention, and more specifically, the decade of the 1880s. This was the time when discoveries based on electricity, coal-tar chemistry, petroleum, some bits of genetics, and others were coming into the fore. There are very few modern inventions which cannot be traced to this period. (Radio, TV, lasers, microwaves, and genetic engineering are the main exceptions). I see this as a landmark breakthrough in both knowledge and means, the latter largely supplied through the vast untapped energy of fossil fuels.

(Aknowledging their impact and declaring them an unqualified good are two entirely different matters. Yes, they changed our world and made modernity possible. Yes, they will destory that as well if we keep using them, and even if we want to, they will ultimately be exhausted.)

There are a few laws of progress. Moore's refers specifically to network and size effects, and has some foundation in business practices and goals (that is, what we see as "Moore's law" phenomenon is in part driven by the performance and product targets and timelines of firms in the sector). There's also Wright's Law, which refers to the level of improvement seen with additional experience. If memory serves, about a 20% efficiency gain with each doubling of output. (This was noted especially in the US with military output during WWII, especially in the rate of aircraft and ship manufacture.)

There are also scaling laws which refer to the reduction of defects, increases in precision or accuracy, and reduction of downtime. Here, each additional "nine" of performance tends to cost 10x the previous --- a case of rapidly diminishing returns.

On the progress of science, I've only looked into this casually and haven't found a good or suitable measure (itself a fairly deep question --- typical metrics such as patents filed have ... ginormous fucking issues, as a term of art...). But looking at Nobel Prize awards in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine, what we tend to see is highly foundational discoveries prior to about 1960, and remarkably less so afterwards. In all three cases, I also note a strong presence of detection and measurement discoveries in the post-1960 era, which is to say, discoveries that increase our ability to detect various phenomena, as in remote astronomical measurements, chemical detection, or looking at body or cellular processes. Physics seems especially notable, with the pre-1960 period seeing numerous particles, forces, and principles (quantum mechanics, relativistic effects (but not the Theory of Relativity itself), and basic phenomena such as radiation).

I've got thoughts on that, you might try looking up my past threads on "ontology of technology" --- these are informational mechanisms.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yes! SymPy is a beautiful thing. Between using it on the command line, or in jupyter notebooks, or the live shell online at https://live.sympy.org, students have the best-in-class computer algebra system easily accessible.

For anyone not familiar with SymPy, check out this short tutorial I wrote: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd... ; also available as notebooks
https://github.com/minireference/sympytut_notebooks#play .
Wrapping ASP.NET Core to be easier and more idiomatic with F# seems to be a common domain. Out of curiosity, did you look at any existing projects? If so, what was lacking from them that made you decide to write WebFrame?

Giraffe: https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe
Saturn: https://github.com/SaturnFramework/Saturn
Falco: https://github.com/pimbrouwers/Falco
Wiz: https://github.com/samueleaton/wiz
"Rule #1. There is only one Metaverse."
"Rule #3: Nobody controls the Metaverse."
"Rule #4: The Metaverse is open."

the metaverse hasn't even been invented yet and they are already trending false.
It's a simulation suite as far as I can tell.
I've recently encountered similar assessments. I asked for feedback or the test cases but got none. What do you think the best option is to learn from the projects?
PcWRT privacy router – VLAN, VPN, adblock, DoH, control and monitoring
is it fair to say "finally are forced to eat crow"?

weren't the doubters right all along?

And yes I understand that it is more exciting to support the new technology, but it would be foolish to dress that up as a proof that the other people were wrong - if it indeed in the past 30 years the clean fusion was right around the corner.
If someone can stand on public property and press their face against your window, they should have the perfect right to do so, for as long as they see fit.
Didn't this same company make the same "three years" claim in 2014? "Helion CEO David Kirtley says that his company can do it in three years."[1]

Happy to see investment in this space, but also tempering my expectations that having a commercial fusion reactor in three years is anything approaching realistic.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/y-combinator-and-mithril-i...
By "impossible," I guess that they mean that they don't keep one of each hardware configuration that they've manufactured, because that would cut into their profit margin.

If self-driving actually worked, they'd have amazingly cool footage of the entire sample fleet of self-driving cars queueing up for a test course, administering a self-test, and re-parking themselves.
Plausible is also great if you’re an agency or a SaaS hosting pages for customers and want to add analytics to your offering

you can add their script tag to the head and then use the API to get the stats for every site you track

they also give you the possibility to embed their dashboard for each site via iframe, which made integrating their product into ours frictionless and easy experience
This looks great. I love notebooks but struggle with the version control + editing experience. This looks like it will alleviate some of those issues for sure.
Very sloppy statistics. A lot of explanatory analysis on the model is done but the model is hardly justified in being predictive in the first place.

The paper (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...) [does not mention the sensitivity or specificity of the model at all, only mentions a '91% accuracy' number]* on a biased dataset (where the number of suicidal cases is oversampled and non-suicidal cases are undersampled), without even mentioning exactly how much they over/undersampled.

* I missed the ROC curve on page 7. However it's not clear if this ROC curve was computed on the under/oversampled dataset or the original.
In the last 3 months some "innovative" CMPs have also added the feature to have to click into a more info box per purpose to find the legitimate interest checkbox to untick.
> "Regression in some left turns at traffic lights found by internal QA in 10.3. Fix in work, probably releasing tomorrow," he tweeted on Saturday.

I don't think I'd want to take a patch for my car that was released on a Sunday. Seems to me that those engineers should be extremely well-rested while developing software for a 1-ton+ vehicle.
Many Lisp systems like SBCL basically restore the main memory (heap) with all data, caches and native code. Then they call a start function. No need to load/link/compile/initialize code at start.
TCP Is Harmful to In-Network Computing: Designing MTP (A Video Featuring Cats)
There are no "anti-hydrogen attacks", aside from Hindenberg scaremongering.

Instead, there are legitimate comparisons of hydrogen and other possible storage media. Harassing people for discussing such comparisons, and posting dubious assertions about hydrogen's maturity as a storage medium, does hydrogen and you no favors.
Agreed, luckily RTP rollout is well under way, and it won't be long before ACH is a thing of the past. [1]

[1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
Hi have_faith, Great question! That's one of the reasons we built GoodIP IQ: It can give everyone insights into the secret patent universe. And you are correct: Does it really make sense to have so many patents? How can startups deal with 100,000 patents just at Microsoft?
at the end of the day it's all "money... for people!"
This was a big survey, I think it would have been significant. They had 41,434 responses without a "father living in the home", so by the census numbers you'd expect ~8200 responses without a mother in the home. They also didn't consider kids without either parent, which should have been equally significant. It does seem like a weird omission - I found what I think is the survey they used (https://web.archive.org/web/20200707085026/https://www.commu...) and the study authors did have this information, they just didn't use it for some reason.

The wording they use, "father in the home", seems like it covers kids without any parents or only grandparents as well as kids with single mothers, so the phrasing seems pretty misleading.
They are not doing that. Matomo anonymous Ip is separate (and google and others use similar features).

They claim no cookie consent is needed because:

* tracking cookies are not used

* the data is not used for any other purpose than analytics

* a user cannot be tracked across days within the same website

https://matomo.org/faq/new-to-piwik/how-do-i-use-matomo-anal...

Reality is EU website sets a 13 month cookie, they clearly explain they will track a lot of data about you.

Anyways, some folks here claim that just using things for analytics is NOT an allowed exception to GDPR notice rules. I mention this to just again show that GDRP is not simple (despite claims here that it is "so easy").
Are Tesla employees allowed to be well-rested?
Solutions are not the issue. There is no dearth of creativity and problem solving capacity in the US.
But the country hasnt produced a leader that everyone rallies around who can push the solutions through.

Without Leadership complex problems of this nature never get solved.
FWIW, this is just one paper, but it argues that the important factor for HIV transmission in their rural Africa sample is having many lifetime sexual partners, and less so whether they're simultaneous (although that certainly makes it much easier to rack up the count): https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60779-4
They make money by taking advantage of fools. They are a shameful product
I've answered this on GitHub, but will provide an answer here too. Packages aren't like end-user software, for two important reasons:

1. The people involved are developers using development components, who are much better equipped to understand an installation failure and take proper action than an end user who is just trying to click through to play a video game or something. But more importantly:

2. The vast majority of the installs happen on automated machines (like CI), where you definitely want to fail when something drastically different happens like a new package is all of a sudden running a script. The tests would fail, you would look at the reason, it would be because some weird script is about to run on the machine, and you'd adjust your PR accordingly. This allows multiple levels of consideration: 1) the original author deciding to do something about the failed install (even if it's just appending the flag and not thinking about it), and 2) the PR reviewer having code-as-data evidence that this code change would mean new foreign code not represented in the commits will be running on their machines. This is huge.

The other important point about this is that packages precisely have different risk models depending on whether you are installing things locally or on production machines, where a malicious package could be catastrophic. That's why the RFC allows you to have individual user configuration where you explicitly allow certain packages "from now on" (which is I think the way most people want to think about this: the first time you install something and it warns you and you look into it, but from then on you say "this one is good"). On the other hand, the actual scripts and repository have no such configuration and thus require the installation to include the specific flags, again, clearly documenting the expected results of a seemingly innocent process that can actually currently have bad consequences.
still looks like a speedup of 10x - the 30 years into 3 years.