skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say, the answer is obviously a mix of different things, but the discussion sounds similar to when some this is hard to implement at work.

I’m not an energy grid expert but I guess it’s hard to have nuclear, gas wind and solar playing together because if it weren’t, people would just get on with it?
> That is, things can be more bad or less bad, and since nobody has the time or energy to care -- or at least, to do something about -- all of them, people pick and choose which ones they care the most about, and do something only about those. This is perfectly normal, valid, logical and correct.

Sure. Boycotting company A because it does more or worse bad things than company B is perfectly reasonable and principled. But no-one's claimed that's what they were doing in this case.

> The only one who does seems to be you.

Then why are you still here, nitpicking a thread from over a week ago that didn't even involve you?

> On the contrary, it is clearly (Hah!) a request to answer a binary, black-or-white, yes-or-no question: Do boycotts, irrespective of your imputed "arbitrariness" of their motivation, still concern the boycottee?

The difference between 0% and 0.1% is exactly that kind of "binary, black-or-white, yes-or-no question", and I replied accordingly. How exactly does this support what you said a couple of posts back: "Absolutely nobody has been asking you for "intense precision" in numerical terms. We're asking for a qualitative motivation for the particular numbers you're making up"?
I use mine 30 hours a week, coding in ImmersedVR. You can make them comfortable. I feel like most commenters here haven't actually tried VR, or maybe had a bad experience.
Let's wait for the CCP to answer that...

They may be too busy with genocide though.
Verifying the Whiley Standard Library
How do you pronounce SCSI? :)

I think the craft-marketplace Etsy is actually named after that pronunciation of "etc"

("scuzzy")
Apple is fine if you do things there way. Unfortunately for those of us that know of better ways, it becomes a walled garden when we know there are better ones.
Yes exactly right, which is what the Israeli data has indicated. It's not a huge decrease, but there's a definitive slow decrease in efficacy - worth noting it's nearly entirely against the Delta variant again though. So even though 2 shots will continue to keep you moderately safe, the argument is that there's no good reason to not get a booster (just like a flu shot every year).

edit: to quote specifics from the study

> Our findings are in line with findings from the randomized trial of the BNT162b2 vaccine, which showed a reduction in vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection from 96% in the first 2 months after vaccination to 84% at 4 to 7 months after vaccination, when averaged over all age groups combined
Hm, I guess keeping my code line length capped at 80 for all these years may have beneficial. Makes me wonder if there is any correlation to preferred line length and choice of programming language, job considerations aside.
> All of the PAM modules are named pam_xxxxx.so so the configuration file only needs to specify the name, ie the xxxxx.

I would rather type a few extra characters so that it is blindingly obvious that "pam_foo.so" in the config file will load code from pam_foo.so in the filesystem.

Typing only "foo" would remove a little clutter, but it would also increase my cognitive load a little.
I typed in George Washington at You.com

A few quick points of feedback on a desktop browser.

- The first big data blob at the top being Wikipedia is blatant cheating. It isn't complimentary of your product that you rely on that approach. Devs already know they can find a lot of information about George Washington on Wikipedia, which means you have to figure out a substantial way to add value beyond that.

- The Web Results section is a two row blob mash by default. It's disorienting in terms of deciding which results are most relevant and or have greater authority. I'd suggest defaulting it to one row.

- The Quick Facts section is very underwhelming. Essentially useless. This should be an easy topic to provide quick facts for, relatively speaking, if You.com is going to be useful.

- There is a "Shortcuts" section below Web results. It's not clear initially what that does. For example, are those shortcuts that jump you to external sites (Reddit, Wikipedia icons are shown). Mousing over the shortcuts doesn't reveal anything. Some of the shortcuts jump you around on-page, but the Google shortcut jumps you to Google.com as an external link, without making that clear. This is bad UX. It appears there is some attempt to clarify by the labeling of "You Apps" - nobody knows what that is. I clicked on the Walmart and Weather shortcuts, both said N app is loading; what? No app loaded, but beyond that, why is there a Walmart or Weather shortcut 'app' on the George Washington topic page. I suppose first you might need to figure out what George Washington entity I'm interested in to narrow the relevant shortcuts.

- The Reddit section is ok. Another cheat section, leaning heavy on Reddit as with Wikipedia. Devs don't need a source like this to give them content from Reddit. There isn't much that's special about doing that. There isn't anything impressive about an aggregator that mashes a couple of prominent sources together for topics. You need to add a lot of value on top with what you're doing in utilizing Reddit, something nobody else has that is super useful.

- The news section doesn't understand the topic. That means you get news about an electrical pole being down on George Washington Highway, or news about George Washington University men's college basketball. Users won't come back for this imo, it's too alpha of a product.
I get how useful it is for growth but a defensive answer like this does more PR harm than good. also misses the question.

i have tried your search engine and it is great. i can tell a lot of work has gone into it, but i had to think twice about giving it a second go after being put off by your first impression.
I disagree with your assessment of my comment. There was nothing more to add about it. It's a very poor name, and for a product such as this where you want massive adoption across the entire world, the name is everything.

A name can make or break, and their name has broken them before they even got off the ground.

My guess is that they had a domain name sitting around, and this was the best idea they had to monetise the domain. Because there's no way you'd start with a great product and then add on a shitty name at the end.
I'd wager most people wouldn't want to install your extension before 2 searches, to see if it's even worth using.

A handful of searches seems entirely reasonable to test out a service before downloading an extension that only exists to change your default settings to use it.

I'd definitely be more likely to download an extension for something I'm already using than I am to download an extension for something I've never even seen in use.
Recycling costs should already be well understood and can be built with reasonable accuracy into a ownership model.

Between dying in next 100-200 years because of climate change or risking nuclear contamination problems 100's of years in the future in concentrated locations the later is always preferable yes.

I am not saying there is no good reason to move to nuclear, but cost is not one of them, as literally we don't know what it will cost yet.
Air quality is a problem that basically all of the first world has solved to varying extents that depend mostly on whether the local areas are affected are rich enough that it tops their lists of problems.

When the developing world gets rich they'll care too.
Get a smaller project to production. It's easier to increment on something that runs than to forever delay a perfect release.
FWIW I’ve heard it pronounced that way since the early 90’s. Not sure how/when it started though.
Yeah, but the point is: It's not bikes that are dangerous, it's the biking situation with bikes mixed with cars.

Of that fatality number for cyclists, how much of that is because of cars? I suspect near 100%. Almost every cycling fatality I've ever heard of is because of a cyclist hit by a car. So, it doesn't make sense to say that bikes are dangerous. It's the cars that are dangerous to cyclists.

And the reason it's worse than pedestrians is because proportionally less of the time that pedestrians are out walking are they in conflict-zone with cars. It remains the case that cars are dangerous. It's not walking that's dangerous. Walking in car traffic is dangerous.

On a side note, I think collisions between bikes and collisions with a bike and a pedestrian are less often fatal than collisions with cars. If I were to get hit by someone running a red light while I'm walking across the street, I'd prefer to get hit by a cyclist than by an SUV.
> restricting access to your territory to actual international people makes you less of an internationalist country

Now we've backed away from the US being hardline nationalist to 'less internationalist'.

Still, the requirement is completely open borders? It gets silly.
The logic is wrong because you've assumed a negative or zero correlation between societal usefulness and earnings when the correlation is actually a positive one.

Maybe a social work degree has positive externalities that far exceed the earnings. But there's also a lot of crap that doesn't, and incentivizing the landslide of crap and disincentivizing the skills that are in shortage will do a lot of damage.

Stuff that pays well tends to be stuff that's actually valued by society. Structural engineers and surgeons get paid lots of money because they actually value add and their skills are in short supply.
Unity made a video about the acquisition titled "Bringing Weta Digital’s tools to all creators"

https://youtu.be/hRCFTWA6j-c
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Writing thin allows me to have three 72-column panes open in a single GVim Window all of which can help me peek at related content much more effectively than switching tabs etc.
Hi, how are you building your index? Do you have your own spiders?

Particularly on hard sites that seem to hate anything but Google/Bing, such as LinkedIn which I note that you have a great index of.
True, but it is also a word used in the Android ecosystem which refers more or less to installing applications not from the Google Play store.

I couldn't have Japanese TV service on my livingroom screen, without loading an .apk file directly from the provider onto the Android box.

Tim Cook's analogies with cars, air bags and seatbelts are what is disingenuous, not so much the sideloading word, which is a foregone given.

A better analogy is that the Apple car is one that refuses to take certain exits off the freeway, or shortcuts that are not charted in the guidance system.
> I'm sure it's possible to get good code out of an offshore team, but we couldn't.

That depends on the salary, how much were you offering?
Good observation on Socrates. The oracle told Socrates that he was the wisest of the Greeks. Socrates responds that the only thing he knew is that he knows nothing. In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein gets to the sample place in a different way.
I think that the true value of NFTs will come from interoperability, where there is no central authority, and you can treat it as a sort of cross-platform standard for verifying ownership of digital assets. This doesn't really apply to concert tickets (except if someone grants some special privileges to people who went to a certain concert in some unrelated virtual space), but there are advantages to not centralising authority for certain things (say, domain name ownership, why should ICAAN control that).
I don't think it's ever too late to start. And really, even just a few years back, barriers to entry for anyone who wanted to be an indie dev were a bit high.

I was born and raised in a 3rd world country. And while we had consoles and devices thanks to being in Asia, hardly anyone had a computer. I first touched a PC when I was in university. Before that, personal computers might as well have been alien technology.

Nowadays, there are lots of free/affordable game engines to choose from. Soooo many game devs who are also great teachers (I'm not one of them) and they put out a lot of content.

If you're an artist who knows how to code, you are already way ahead of the game. So many indie developers are hampered by being a specialist in one domain or another. Give it a go!
The ruling shouldn't be on the Fourth Amendment but on unenforceable blanket ToS's. It would require a law or another amendment though. Any information collection that is not affirmatively allowed by your actively posting it yourself, or that you allow on each individual instance should be illegal.
Can someone explain why 1.5°C is considered a realistic goal? It seems rather obvious to me that the world is going to warm a bit beyond that. Staying under 2°C is going to be quite the challenge. 1.5°C doesn't seem remotely likely. I realize the climate science says it's the ideal temperature to aim for giving the 1.2°C warming we've already done, but it doesn't seem politically or economically feasible at this point.
And I consider the leaders of companies who accept (require?) financial liability waivers on potentially dangerous products from which they receive direct financial compensation and large financial profits “cowards”. Other public health and safety industries don’t require such “air cover” when making major contributions to society. Why is big Pharma so…fragile?

So, umm, where does that get us?
Yes, that's true.

I wouldn't try to convert everything to one tweet. Often, I need to split it into a thread.
Ask HN: Is passwordless login a good idea?
The other day, out of frustration, I had an idea for a product that uses Stripe as a backend for user authentication and authorization.

I feel like user management is unnecessarily complex, and I dread every time I need to implement it in my products, mainly because it's outside the scope of what they should do, and I think I'm not alone.

I hacked a quick prototype to validate my idea, and it works pretty well, so what am I missing here?
You usually oversize your production in renewable and get extra energy in your peak production.
Here in Quebec we have a new tarification and smart water heater, house heating that do peak shaving.
Some industries will have access to almost free energy in peak production period and will have incentives to do something valuable with it
Charging of EV will certainly play a role too.

Still nuclear can be useful if some country are able to build them fast enough and cheap enough.
> Can you recommend any good summaries of developments in this area and its associated risks (privacy or otherwise)?

GP is probably thinking of privacy risks like:

"Using WiFi to see through walls"
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133936-using-wifi-to-see...

The frequencies GP is talking about are higher than current WiFi, but a bit lower than the frequencies used for the terahertz radar that can show exactly what you look like naked.

So, mm wavelengths ought to be adequate to show size, position, movement, posture, gestures (probably including finger and jaw movement), sightlines, and so on, more than enough to create deepfake video reconstructions of the interior of almost any dwelling and their inhabitants, though probably not quite enough detail to be able to tell that you gained a couple of pounds this week, and definitely not enough to reconstruct facial expressions.

Letting your own devices detect all that with active sensing would be bad enough, but being able to get the same info with passive sensing from outside is seriously creepy.
Hey. Sorry for the slow reply.
We will open up the platform so people can contribute their own apps to the platform.
You can also prefer certain sources and hence have real agency over your results.

We'll look into the ?.C# query and what can be done better for queries like it.
Thanks for your feedback :)
From the first part:

> In this blog series I’d like to go through the DXIL format, explain the problems I’ve had to solve and hopefully serve as an introduction to basic compiler theory, explained by yours truly who has no idea what they’re talking about.

However, simply putting this out in public, especially if it hits HN, is useful since the number of people who can really understand and help is very tiny, they're clustered, and more likely to read HN over lots of other things.
Speaking of making films in unity: The first feature length animated movie made in a game engine (unity) just came out last week. What’s more, it was made by a solo filmmaker. It has a fully interactive version released on itch.io as well (link is in the description)

https://youtu.be/d0vsn2PGwwI
You bet!

There's three major phases to the document matching: Corpus Management, Frequency Modeling, and Matching & Clustering.

1. Corpus Management

- First we pull the raw articles

- Then we build a bag-of-words document, based on our overall dictionary, so we end up with a bunch of numbers to represent all the words and their frequencies for each document.

- We store all the stories for that day as bag-of-word, in a Matrix Market format.

- The day's .mm file is updated every few minutes into an S3 bucket, along with the dictionary. This way I can easily compose a corpus of documents for a single day, multiple days, or all time

- I use the Gensim library for Python to do most of the above.

2. Frequency Modeling

- As stories come in throughout the day, I periodically refresh a TF-IDF model for the entire corpus of stories.

- TF-IDF just allows us to see which terms happens frequently in a story, but relatively infrequently across all stories. So a word like "Hacker" would be relevant if it appears frequently, but "the" would not since it occurs across all documents.

- TF-IDF modeling also uses the Gensim library.

- TF-IDF model is stored in another S3 bucket, to be pulled on update by the Matching & Clustering job.

3. Matching & Clustering

- First we fit a limited corpus (usually the last 10k or so stories) to the TF-IDF model, and keep that as a sparse matrix.

- This gives us the ability to quickly determine the per-word importance of a document, and to represent that as a vector.

- Next we do a simple cosine similarity of the 10k documents against themselves. This tells us how much of an angle there is between each document vector against each other document vector. In other words, it's a measure of similarity.

- We limit all of this to 10k documents, because it would be computationally prohibitive to compare ALL stories to ALL OTHER stories. Since most news stories are published relatively close to one another, we only have to compare recent stories. 10k seems to produce good results. We can further shard this data set by news category if we need to (i.e., compare only sports stories or political stories).

- Next we use SciPy, and create a Ward linkage matrix.

- Next, also using SciPy, we use fcluster to do agglomerative clustering. These last two steps produce a cluster tree that puts similar stories together.

- Finally, we slice apart the clustered data set at a certain similarity height. Kind of like cutting through a head of broccoli above the stalk. The clusters we're left with are the most similar articles of that batch of 10k.

After all that is done, we just store associations between articles that were determined to be similar to one another. Since we're constantly running this process, the 10k story window keeps sliding forward, so you're able to store similarities of stories that are similar to far older stories, provided there is another story in-between that both are similar to. For example, if story 12,000 is similar to story 9,000, and story 9,000 is similar to story 10, you'll end up storing that story 10 is similar to story 12,000, even though you didn't directly compare them.
That's backwards - the reason music works well is that you can get all the music from Spotify or iTunes or Amazon or any other place you like. Having multiple app stores that all had all the apps and could actually compete with each other would improve the app experience.
Pet peeve: the word “deprecate” is misused in this article. (It’s used mostly correctly in the “v2 deprecation timeline” post.)

> Final deprecation of v2 onion services

Final removal, not deprecation.

> v2 onion services would be deprecated in late 2021

No, removed in late 2021, after being deprecated for over a year (from July or September, depending on how you count it).
I think you are kind of missing the point. Regardless of the reasons, people do not want to install an extension from an unknown provider to test out a search engine (at least on HN), you’ll even get a very hostile response.

If you aim to make your search engine a success, regardless of your reasons for that. You’ll have to deal with that problem. Trying to convince people with some idealistic talk does not seem to be working from what I can see in this thread (and anyway, is not scalable).

Alternatively, you can try launching somewhere else, but I imagine the reception on Reddit will be just as hostile.
But it's good for exactly who they are - the management. As long as Americans are replaced time and again, it changes the US. We used to care for each other. I think the fact that the greed machine is so precise and backstabbing and self-documented and codified there's nothing to tell it to stop hiring people outside the US simply for cheaper labor.

I keep seeing people say that the economy is not a zero sum game - but all I see is people getting poorer and offered worse jobs with fewer benefits.

I think however there is ONE potential out: Building HOMES. It seems that the people that DO have a really high paying job is willing to pay 1M for a 2 bedroom house. I think the next major thing is for people to pick up the hammer and build houses for rich people wanting their second and third home. Next change for the laws? Make it easier to get a Gen-Con license...?
Yeah - I'd be surprised. I hear European salaries are at best ~100k maybe ~120k and that's pretty much maxed out a decade in. Day 1 silicon valley devs do better than that.

150k is also out of date for mid-level FAANG total comp today. I hear it's more like 600k and goes up from there.
The risks of nuclear energy is far more favourable than global warming.

Global warming effects are global, non-linear and there are still many unknowns, which makes it more risky. Nuclear risks are local and the harm is well known. Also nuclear energy is anti-fragile (more disasters means saver plants).

I believe we are far too cautious with building new nuclear plants. Not because I think that nuclear energy is not dangerous, but I believe global warming is a far greater risk.
Having the capability of generate large independent AI entities with Massive inside a videogame, will leverage the usability of Unity by non coder.
Time of install is not the issue. Provide a simple, fast web interface, then people will use it.