skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like this would be a great place for a prediction market. Anonymously aggregate the information of people who know enough that they are prepared to lay money on the line. Replace the conflicts of interest with a direct interest in profiting from being right.
2% is pretty damn high. Only 2.4% of allied troop that landed in France on D-Day died also.
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio. If you want to refer to what you said elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101591), that's fine, but please use a link and explain why it's relevant.
This is also the same line of thinking that pushes for more knee replacements than dietician and gym trainer appointments. For some reason preventative thinking is alien.
Yeah, the have someone else run it and get some of the profit. At the end, Sears and JCPenney didn't make any money selling goods. They only made money on the store credit card.
Yes, years of computer use have conditioned users to just click the box to make the dialog go away. Add to that the minimising language and "make our products better" language the form's presentation is couched in and the dark patterns to make opting out hard, I think most users accept.
1. Be job site.
2. Have employees that cost money call facilities and get job listings.
3. Establishing relationships with facilities to list jobs.
4. Buy job listings from 3rd parties.
5. List them for free hoping to make margin.
6. Scraper steals all jobs, lags site, and gets value of hard work for free.
We actually don’t need to lower the cost of permanent CO2 sequestration by very dramatic anounts before it’s feasible to finance a CO2 neutral Western lifestyle via taxes. The big challenge is scaling it up, and also having a society that’s productive enough to finance this.
Do you have a source for that?

"fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts." [1]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
> one has to necessarily take on vaccine risk without catching covid

Thankfully that risk is tiny.

> Also, if the new pill ends up as effective as they say it is, there is no reason to push for 100% vax uptake anymore -- it would turn covid into a slightly more dangerous cold.

No, vaccination remains far cheaper. Mass vaccination also reduces the risk of mutation, and of infection others.

If everybody gets vaccinated AND this anti viral is widely available for those infected, COVID will be well and truly deranged.
Me too, a few years back.

1. Tell your work! You may be surprised how compassionate and accommodating they'll be. I saw another side of my boss. He made anything I needed possible.

2. See her every day. If you have to move closer, do it. I moved a thousand miles and went remote for years just to be with her. Best decision of my life.

3. If she needs more resources than she's getting, get them. Don't try to do everything yourself.

4. Find a caregiver for yourself. You'll need one. If you don't manage that, then auto-care-give. This is a must. You can't help her until AFTER you help yourself.

5. Hold her hand, eat with her, watch TV, hang out, whatever. It doesn't matter what. It all makes a difference.

6. When things get tough (and they occasionally will), remember, this is actually the normal course of things. It would be worse for her if your roles were reversed.

Respect and love. You must have a wonderful mother to raise such a good child (proof: your post).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Advertising_Bureau
Japan seems to be doing ok.
One of the problems of woke ideology is the ostensible moral superiority they display over others to push their agenda. Arrogant, intolerable and incorrigible. In their mind, they are righteous and everyone that is not onboard is evil. Sounds familiar?
Don't worry, it won't become popular unless it has a craft beer scene
Agree on 9. We have a Fox and a Scout. If they get called Foxy or Scouty, they get politely asked not to early on before it becomes habit. That’s worked without being overbearing.
A Former Uber Executive Takes a Fresh Approach to Self-Driving Vehicles
The EU wisely choose not to dictate the technical means for which consent is to be given.

Unfortunately they didn't specify that it should be up to the consumer how they wanted to signal their intent and not the website.
I'd have to agree with that. I can't put my finger on why, but LXDE felt ok in a way that LXQt just doesn't.
Many packages on npm are not run in a local node environment, they run in a browser which is sandboxed.

Regardless, just because there are additional vectors to exploit the user doesn't mean closing off one vector isn't worth doing.
"First-party" is distinct from "first class". The difference between a first-party library and the standard library ranges from "slightly weaker compatibility guarantees" to "it's supported in all environments where it makes sense, but the language can run unhosted so that's not everywhere" to "no difference at all, we just didn't want to package it with the compiler".

You're also missing the forest for the "well actually" trees: Lots of languages have argument parsing in their stdlib.
The knowledge which the author has been sharing has been my interest for a long time. I gave up because lack of material on it. Any idea how did OP gain all these knowledge?

For example, I want to implement a QR payment application, think like transferring money through Venmo using QR code, now Paypal does it, very popular in China -- basically a payment processing application but my local country - think Mexico or Peru. How does one understand all the requirements to make it work?

It makes me wonder how did Stripe founder obtains this crucial knowledge to build what they have. Payment processor or integrating with banks. Same thing what Plaid is doing. If I wanted to create an API to interact with a bank for my local city here in the U.S., do I call up a bank teller and ask me to connect me to someone who is interested in integrating their bank with the world?

I am certain doing a CFA or master degree in finance will get you no where if your goal is build what Plaid and Stripe have done. Instead, you need to know big shot and have ties with them to achieve success. It kind of make sense this to be true otherwise an developer in India or Ukraine can build APIs ...
12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole cover
On an instrustial machine I worked on we got around this by hosting a node.js website on a Linux touch screen panel. There was a redis cache which was updated by a small python script that communicated with the embedded stuff via a serial interface.

If you have the budget for it, this is a great architecture since creating a website GUI is much easier than an embedded GUI. Also, you could very easily pull up the machine control panel remotely from any web browser (with proper remote vs local security enabled of course).
Is the similiarity of COVID-19 to other coronaviruses also a speed up? We are not starting from complete scratch in that case.
You make a good point that hiphop has a misogyny problem, (it also suffers from misogyny's sibling disease, homophobia,) but why keep that issue focused on black music when all music has a misogyny problem[1]. Is Kanye worse than Robin Thicke or The Nails?

[1]https://www.flavorwire.com/489278/25-of-musics-most-obnoxiou...

Edit: Thanks for your Soundcloud link. I like your flow. You make fair points, but I see no evidence that any of the issues you raise are worse in hiphop than any other genre. (Or that hiphop's issues are internally generated, and not amplified by an exploitative industry that makes bank off stereotypes.)
It’s pretty prominently branded on the physical card.
I recently moved a Dell XPS to Manjaro and it’s the first time power management has ever just worked out of the box for me on Linux, including proper hibernate (which tbh is my default choice for most sleep states).
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and using HN for ideological battle? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ultimately, JavaScript needs to change the culture around its dependency packaging.
Boston fits that description well, it’s why I love living here.
I never used LXDE much, but LXQt felt too oddly coupled. I don’t recall the exact details, but I found that I could no longer use the file manager after a minor desktop misconfiguration
How long do you keep them in the instant pot?
Not pointless. We know that most people are not okay with tracking (the opt out on iPhones are 90+%), so the right setting is to be one by default.

However while the ad industry might be okay with a few nerds opting out they weren't okay with most of the general public opting out and so they spread stories like the one you repeated.
Presumably they're kicking the placebo participants out? As others say, it is not ethical to give them ineffective treatment (placebo), given the effectiveness of the drug has been clearly demonstrated.
MongoDB was using AGPL before they created and switched to SSPL [1]. You're right about ElasticSearch, they were Apache-2.0 before creating and switching to the SSPL + Elastic License dual license [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch
> Management hated that

There's a subtle but important thing to note here. My bet is management didn't hate that you did a POC. They hated that you DIDN'T also do a writeup.

It's not about this vs that. Meet the minimum requirements before you go doing extra.
Yep, for most people (like my Dad) cancer takes one inch at a time. So when it takes an inch you have to give it that inch, but you don't have to give it two.
I'm offended by those people being offended by the word nipple.
"horse paste" has been approved for human use for over 30 years. not sure how expecting proper testing for new medicines became some conspiracy theory thing.
Well the authors could start by giving their names instead of running an anonymous page online.

Then they could actually use a methodology that makes sense.
You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against, because it's destructive of everything this site is supposed to be for. Surely you know that?

I'm not going to ban you right now, but please review the site guidelines and stop breaking them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>using it in the past is some disreputable act?

we all had to take a basic programming class at the beginning too, but that was like when moses was a baby cruising down the river.

do beginning programming classes still start with BASIC/Pascal? i'm assuming boot camps don't, but do typical programming classes skip over them entirely too now?
#71: This appears to be brittle
In theory, a system without overcommit can run just as efficiently, IF you have reserved huge amounts of swap space. As long as swap is available, the OS can do all the same COW and efficiency tricks. It’s not the physically backed memory is the limiting factor, it’s RAM+swap
Same here.

The constraints he talks about (hardware and memory) I find to be a lot easier to program for because they really put a hard stop to useless abstractions - I find myself just wiring straightforward code and getting things up and running immediately instead of wasting lots of time on design and architecture.
Realistic simulation of neurons is expensive. Back in my grad school days we ran Genesis and could afford at most 10k neurons - each neuron needs a lot of work to model the corresponding differential equations. However, it's unclear how to translate this into requirements for artificial neural networks -- the type of computation is too different.

A different metric is a more relevant goalpost -- number of synapses. If each of 125 trillion synapses in the brain can adjust its strength independently of others, it loosely corresponds to a parameter in a neural network. So if we get 100 trillion parameter networks training but still no human intelligence, we'll know conclusively that the bottleneck is something else. Currently training 1T parameter networks seem feasible
That's pretty much how i felt about this post. A design system is independent of it's implementation, the swatchlike presetting Tailwind provides (and is often confusingly referred to as the "design system") is achievable with css variables or preprocessors just the same.

don't get me wrong utility classes have a place in CSS - but they should be introduced as needed.

Writing all your styles with utility classes makes it easy to just sprinkle in changes and flavours directly in your components, but come at the cost of having a mess of class strings everywhere that make it very hard to further maintain the project when it gets more complex.

css-in-js bring about the same pitfalls, all your styles are sprinkled in your templates and get modified and overwritten in places where components are called instead of providing a top down view of how things should look. Responsiveness makes it an even bigger mess and hard to control global aspects of the design.

I strongly believe that decoupled, BEM-type styling systems with a solid variable based configuration, and a well thought out and DRY cascade together with utility classes for specific recurring needs are still superior to just dumping the styles inside each and every component as you go along.
He carries donuts. Frosted with layers or sugar.
My great grandfather owned a grocery store in our town somewhere around 1940s-1970s (the only one at the time). Town was much smaller then but about 200,000 people now (edit: I looked it up, it went from about 10K people to 200K since 1940). My last name is somewhat unique in spelling and it was called "$LASTNAME Grocery" so I still occasionally* get a random old timer that asks me if I'm related to him. When I say yes, they always respond similar "Great man. A lot of people would have starved if he didn't offer credit."

There's a particularly interesting twist to the story that I really always enjoyed. When the person I'm talking to is a POC, typically black, they always also mention that he was the only person in town that gave their family credit for anything. This is small town Texas, still very conservative and still above 75% white as is/was my family.

Sorry for the tangent but the discussion made me think of this mildly interesting story.

* Has dwindled quite a lot in last decade or so. Because of the time, those folks that remember the store are losing numbers (but also I haven't lived there in a while either)
You are setting the bar extremely low.
Besides nevado de toluca (ridiculously beautiful mountain) there's little to no incentives for this place
Drugs work in economies of scale like everything else.

I like to write and publish books, but only because I know that several thousand people are going to buy them (yeah, humblebrag...). I wouldn't bother with them if my audience was two orders of magnitude smaller. It is just not worth the hassle.

Similarly, most programmers here probably work on projects used by thousands at least as well. Few people will put hours and energy into something that will only be used by, say, three users.

Rare diseases suffer from the same problem. The cost of development of drugs under current regulatory regime is high and in case of rare disease, cannot be amortized later over a huge set of patients. Moreover, most promising drugs actually fail in human trials, but the costs are already incurred.
On an intuitive level, if I just said I prefer "Alice" to "Anna", and "Anna" to "Mary", it should not ask whether I prefer "Alice" to "Mary".

In practice that seems a little bit difficult and I was hoping someone would jump with the optimal solution.
> Forcing people to “actively read, think, and respond” is a great way to increase the likelihood that the best ideas bubble up to the top.

I think that it requires acknowledgment that there are two sides to such issues; as someone who is on the side that typically ends up having to handle the majority of the busy work to get many proposal through in my company I absolutely want the proposer to make the effort to figure out the stakeholders/costs/challenges for their project as well as answers. I'm willing to __fill in gaps__, but I don't really want to be having to do the basic legwork for someone else's project.

I don't mean to sound like I want to stifle inconvenient creativity; it's certainly not the case, and when someone has really taken the time to make some new tooling/project with benefits and acknowledges the costs involved, I'm more than happy to champion such projects.

But when someone just has a desire (or disparagingly, a whim) to change stuff up because it simplifies their workflow and they expect someone else to handle all of the communication of their project without even giving me the courtesy of doing such research, I cannot deny I approach such proposals negatively as I feel a bit used and I think that the expectation is "I want this, make it happen", which is not my job.

Similarly, I find myself encountering persons who expect that I and the rest of the company will magically intuit the importance of very niche projects without being willing to take the time to simply explain the pain point they wish to address. I'm not even talking about deep technical details here, but simple things like:

"We spend N amount of time on task X"

"I have an automation workflow that will require Y hours to implement, but N is reduced by Z [time value]"

Instead, the presentation is "I want to implement this automation workflow; what do you mean explain the value? Can't you see it? Why are we so caught up in corporate bureaucracy?"

I'm all for reducing N as much as possible, but if I myself can't explain why spending Y is vastly cheaper than N, I have no confidence in my ability to convince others that the cost of Y is worth it.

I've truly been on both sides, and it is some work to justify a change, sure. Formal proposal documents are a bit much for my taste, but whether we like it or not, C-Levels aren't going to read your code and they definitely aren't going to read a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness email describing the project in an unstructured way (much less any git readme.md files). The impetus is on the person proposing the change to at least make an effort to convey the reason for the change to the relevant stakeholders.
I too can google: https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-vaccine-effectiveness-...
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” [T. Sowell]

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
[T. Sowell]
It's unbelievable to me that people can't find the positivity in studies and results like these as long as they pose a threat to their beloved "miracle" vaccines that are objectively wrecking too many people's lives with severe adverse reactions and even death, over, and over, and over again.

At some point, the horse blinders will need to be forcibly ripped off in order to help people see and understand the people right in front of them who are suffering unnecessarily as they, and their families now fight life-long conditions and grieve their losses.

It feels impossible while people clutch their pearls at the mere mention of the possibility that something _else_ exists that's sufficiently and observably effective.
Two concrete examples of this I can think of are

1) use of Psylocibin (mushrooms) assisted Congitive Behavioural Therapy for curing PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc. we have seen extremely good results from this and pharma companies could have likely pushed it much much sooner

2) Biofeedback/Neurofeedback has been around for more than a decade and is under-researched, under-insured, and under-prescribed for treatment of a lot of mental issues from anxiety to post-concussive syndrome to ADHD.

both of these can negate the need for a years or decades long reliance on SSRIs or stimulants.
Right, they are deployed as a group to share resources, otherwise they could just be deployed standalone. They are just containers though.
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Did they also check and exclude if they had natural immunity - COVID recovered, having antibodies?
Solaris does have this problem! If you have a huge program running, fork()img it can fail on Solaris, even if you only want to just exec a tiny program. The key way of avoiding this is to ensure you have lots and lots of swap space.
What's wrong with being fashionable? Most excellent devs I know have great fashion sense. Neckbeards and promo t-shirts are over.
Matador became Spotlight, but lives on in processes that take over your CPU when you least want them to; mdworker, mds, etc.
If we're going to develop our software like this (there are no signs of changing), then we need development environments that are fully hermetic.

Production deploys tend to be if you use the right tools. Docker images, cert signing, ACLs, network policies, etc. But we have no equivalent for developer machines. And engineers have access to lots of dangerous things. Docker alone isn't good enough.
As an aside, if you are using no forex fee US credit card, and a foreign merchant asks if you want to pay with USD or the local currency, always choose local currency.

If you choose USD, then the merchant gets to choose whatever exchange rate they want to convert at, and will be far from the spot price (hence some merchants go out of their way to ask you if you want to pay with USD). If you choose the local currency, then your American bank will give you an exchange rate extremely close to the spot rate and the transaction ends up being much cheaper for you.
Paraphrasing a lot, I think the advice is to have one credit card for scheduled payments and things, and not take that out of the house. That way if your out and about card gets replaced, you won't need to go through and update all your scheduled payments.
Kinda screams fraud. Can't have the new person in on the conversations where the truth is discussed.
> The sheer volume of spam or even just angry/abusive users on public platforms these days is hard to describe if you haven't been on the spam/abuse prevention side of a popular website.

I haven't been on one of those teams, so I hope you'll forgive the naivety, but:

These seem like solvable problems with decentralized systems. In both cases, someone has to go through the work of manually identifying the bad content, right? In a centralized system, that's someone working for the system - in a decentralized system, that's a random user.

From a technical perspective, then, the centralized "please delete this content" message is pushed out the entire system, while the decentralized message/action can be put into a blocklist/banlist that other users can subscribe to. I believe that this is how the Fediverse works, for instance, and it's definitely how adblocker blacklists work - so this kind of system is already in effect, and seems to be working decently.

If the volume of spam is truly extreme, then what's to prevent you from having distributed blocklists that are fed by automated processes (as opposed to manual additions), and users just subscribe to the ones that they trust?

From a social perspective, users seem to be willing to do this work themselves, given how driven the users of sites like Reddit are, with no more reward for posting high-effort content than a bunch of imaginary internet points, and how effective adblockers are.

To summarize - what prevents a decentralized system from taking the same approaches that a centralized system would employ, packaging them into blocklists, and then allowing users to choose which of those they employ? Same tech, different level of control.
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