skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fun fact: code written in JavaScript in 1995 will work in 2021, after 26 years.

Sure, as long as you run it in Netscape Navigator 2.0.

In 2021 you're lucky if a JavaScript web app that worked fine on Tuesday still works on Wednesday. And shocked if it works in any browser other than Chrome.
Interesting, I had the exact opposite experience. SDL + Lazy Foo's tutorials [1] gave me my start into programming.

[1] https://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/
The way I learned was with Apache cgi-bin and scripts I wrote myself. Bash I think. Maybe python. I wouldn't reccomend this for use in production or anything but the simplicity of it might help in groking the concepts.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html
> the bigger problem is all those pretty fields with the livestock walking about in them. They should all be covered in forest.

If the UK replaces all its farmland with forest then they have to import all their food, right? That's not great for the environment, or the UK. A balanced approach seems reasonable.
Except those companies can decide to change the rules at any time and can kick you off. And that's increasingly on the basis of mob rule and authoritarian governments.
One of the most practical things seems to be to skirt around existing financial law.

Seems one could (more easily) run unregulated lotteries, raffles, gambling, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, public securities, etc.

I don't mean to imply this is all because people want to do heavy criminal activity, some may just be trying to avoid the bureaucracy.

Regardless, I see it skirting laws just as Uber and AirBnB kinda did the same thing for taxi medallions and hotel regulation, respectively.
>We have all the evidence to show this won't fix anything unless these people are locked down permanently

At vaccination rates of 60-70% the vaccinated make 1/3rd of new infections (and giving that the vaccinated have less symptoms, one may suppose that the vaccinated rate of infection is even higher than the official 1/3rd), and thus raising the vaccination rate from 70% to 100% would decrease infection rate just 2 times at best, so even locking down unvaccinated permanently would solve nothing. And that too:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

" A person who was fully vaccinated and then had a ‘breakthrough’ Delta infection was almost twice as likely to pass on the virus as someone who was infected with Alpha."

"Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus."
I'm not being obtuse. What is the point of a right that applies to 1/3 of the population. That is by definition not a right. It's a privilege for a class of people, in this case the people who are already the most privileged people in society.

And a big proportion of those people are already going to have that ability forever at this point.

So this is a legal guarantee of a privilege for some people but mostly just those who don't need it.

The people being obtuse are the people arguing for this like it's some kind of grass roots labor issue and they are freedom fighters.
Isn't that rather the point? When you are a child, adults make decisions for you in your best interest; but when you become an adult, you make your own decisions. This joyful welcome for the infantilisation of an entire population, I find it very disturbing.
What you're describing isn't really that simple. Let's say you only take the top 200 to 500 sites, for example.

For one, these top 200 to 500 are always changing. Suppose you keep them static. The sort of things like "spam", "fake news" and so forth are highly opinionated categories. Even if you know objectively that a site is spam, it's possible that it contains the information the user is looking for.

Ultimately it would devolve to full curation, which has been tried and doesn't really work to the extent necessary to justify its own existence.
> only a small handful of people needs that amount of security

Everyone is vulnerable to fraud, identity theft, blackmail etc. Everyone needs a secure device.

If your argument is that insecure devices are ok for most people, you’ve already lost.
Those peripherals already exist, for pretty cheap too. They are just synced to videos instead of vr games. Headset will be multiple times more expensive.
Who cares?

The shitcoin economy can only be viewed as a whole.

Your new "green" shitcoin will be exchanged with Bitcoin and other dominant coins that use PoW mining. Your shitcoin's value will be based on that.
Many people have never had a single vaccine in their entire lives till old age... Even went to schools that supposedly were required over the past 60+ years.
No vaccine has an "impeccable" safety record, as the original clump of anti-vaxxers will helpfully remind us all. That's a red herring: what matters is that the COVID vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Hundreds of millions of people have been vaccinated worldwide without issues.

You can now get a vaccine that has gone through exactly the same review process as every other vaccine in US history (i.e., one that is not under EUA).
Etherium is still mostly proof of work. Proof of stake is still Real Soon Now.

Cryptocurrencies by market cap.[1]

There's Bitcoin, Etherium, and then there's everybody else. Binance and Tether are centrally issued. Solana, #5, is the largest proof of stake coin.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
Facebook was also running into issues where the API was diverging between iOS and Android based on their specific payload needs. Could either maintain two REST API's, or a single API that allowed each app to meet their needs without impacting release velocities.
One wonders whether there is a place for "Active Crumple Zones"? Instead of a car having to weigh more that the opposition, it carries an explosive charge in it's nose, which is used to provide a burst of forward momentum to the leading edge of the car during a crash, preventing it from being forced back into the passenger compartment. One can imagine refinements, such as inertial sensing and a feedback loop to control the size of the discharge, so the "virtual" weight of the light vehicle matches the vehicle that it is colliding with.

Count this as idle speculation rather then a serious proposal! Mind you, if a bike was equipped with such a system a 4WD owner would get a big surprise when they ran into a cyclist and got like-for-like.

Edit: I guess I'm really describing Reactive Armour for everyday vehicles.
> This is a pedal assist e-bike. There are people that cheat and that install throttles so they can move without pedaling but that's a great way to get your vehicle confiscated.

I really need to understand what's the difference with a throttle and a pedal assist whose curve is basically so that it gives all power at a ridiculously low pedaling rate...
I guess they can only schedule hyperthreads if the same tenant requests at least two virtual cores?
What are the problems with ASN.1? It seems to work in 5G and LTE just fine? ASN.1 is simply a way to have portable data structures — are your problems with ASN.1 that it cannot effectively implement portable data structures or is your problem with the systems that have been built upon ASN.1?
> You're not really a regular bicycle anymore due to your speed, but you're also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane.

Even human powered bicycles are entitled to their own lane. They are vehicles like anyone else.
> The ones with a nearly impeccable safety record

The current vaccines have an impeccable safety record.

> that we had many years of long term experience with

We had many years surviving just fine with long term exposure to lead, cigarettes and asbestos. Time duration is not relevant, also because we have not had many years of long term experience with Covid itself - which is why the relative risk is what is important. You have an incredibly lower long-term risk when compared with catching Covid, and society has a multiplicatively lower risk when compared with unvaccinated people being allowed to so easily spread the disease.

> the ones that actually provided sterilizing immunity

The current vaccines provide significantly better immunity than the flu shot. This isn't a black and white exercise.
> Decentralization, in my opinion, is an inevitability. If the human race becomes multi-planetary and space-faring, we will need to be able to run independent nodes of services while keeping individual nodes honest and accurate.

I think this is the most overlooked aspect of decentralization efforts. The conversation we've been having since the dawn of BTC quickly devolved into applying the legitimate criticisms of BTC specifically, to the concept of decentralization as a whole, instead of accepting that it was an experiment which proved "good enough" to scale without too much friction or technical failure.

The concept has already evolved substantially in the past decade, and these experiments will continue to inform how we handle decentralization when it finally becomes critical to societal function, which is inevitable for the reasons you mentioned and more.
They'd have to be approved to be used though. It's a closed platform.
There's nothing "infantilizing" about doing your civic duty.
This is not true but it seems to repeated very often.

Why do authorities not want the populace to know about conscientious objections?
I actually just added a comparison page to our website comparing our software to other SEO tools
My answer to Fermi's paradox is that everyone is in a slightly parallel univers with a much cooler physics. As soon as they get the possibly, they leave this place, to join the party elsewhere!
Interview with Stewart Brand about the art of maintenance
When I last used 4gb on my x61s I couldn't even login to Slack using FF without swapping or thrashing-til-OOM when running without swap...
Also, if you only protected your most important secrets, it would be pretty easy for an adversary to spot where those are and who might have access to them. By having a very wide scope of what’s classified, the really juicy stuff is a needle in a mundane haystack.
>I am however pro bodily autonomy at any cost

Me too! Have you figured out how to keep your COVID to yourself?
If you want to learn about Category Creation, pick up Al Ramadan (and his team) book Play Bigger.

I don't think this article gives much usable to describe your category, and category creation is much more than a description.

The end conclusion isn't just related to Category Creation, and it may not be related to it at all, the article describes good marketing.

At my (older) startup Ayvri (https://ayvri.com) we were creating anew type of "spatial media" where you could upload your gps tracks of your outdoor adventures and replay and share them in a 3D virtual world. You could feel what it was like being there, something maps and even photos can't really accomplish. We failed at any creating a category, but we just might go down the metaverse route.

My new startup SoundMind (https://soundmind.co) we're focused on improving your Sleep Performance, that's the neurological function of your brain while you sleep. This is a concept many people are getting quite easily, and are excited about.
Not you specifically but lots of people have tried to conflate restrictions for unvaccinated people to various historical blights including, but not limited to, Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, South African Apartheid (google the phrase "medical apartheid"), the institution of slavery in the United States and so on.

None of these apply of course for one simple reason: a black person in South Africa can't simply choose not to be black to escape Apartheid. American slaves couldn't simply choose not to be slaves.

So policies that apply to unvaccinated people aren't analogous for the simple reason that you can choose to get vaccinated in almost all cases (side note: the very few people with a valid medical exemption shouldn't be subjected to these kinds of policies IMHO).

So it's not a lack of body autonomy that's going on here. It's just that those choices come with consequences. You don't want to wear a mask? No one is holding you down and putting one on you. But you can't fly on a commercial plane either.

I too believe strongly in body autonomy, which is one reason why I fully support reproductive rights, including access to abortion. What I find particularly ironic is in the Venn diagram there's a seemingly large intersection between the unvaccinated, those who oppose restrictions on unvaccinated people and those who support restricting access to abortions. Again, not you, specifically.

It's worth adding that this isn't purely a personal choice. If it was, I don't think anyone would be upset about it. There are documented cases of contact tracers who can directly establish links between a given person spreading Covid and the deaths that result from that. What about the people who medically cannot get the vaccine? Or are immunocompromised? If you oppose the vaccine because of the extremely low risks of negative side effects, remember your choice affects other people.

It's riskier to drive in a car than to get the Covid vaccine.

The term "body autonomy" here just doesn't apply. "Consequences to personal choices" is far more accurate.
What's HN favorite fancy-ish ebike from the likes of VanMoof or Cowboy or something else? I saw one of the bikes sell for as high as $5k which, provided how many very nice-looking alternatives at 50% the cost there are seams unreasonable.
ConstitutionDAO – Pooling money to buy an original copy of the US Constitution
> 1. Arbitrary: No precedent, first in the world to do so, with no evidence this will solve the problem in total (controlling covid completely).

This isn't arbitrary at all, its actually extremely common to restrict the participation in society of unvaccinated people - in countries _much_ more free than the United States.
I would give anything to have this kind of faith in the blockchain again.
As someone who is not quite neurotypical (I have adhd) I have to say that being different sucks. I’ve always known I was different from other people from when I was 6 years old. I know it deep down. I zone out and miss things that you say to me about once every 30 seconds. I can’t remember where I’m supposed to be or when. I find it hard to talk to people and I come across as awkward. My social skills over the decades have eventually reached the level of the average 17 year old but they’re never going to get better than that. I stare blankly into space and people have to wave their arms at me to get my attention. My relationships suffer. My career has suffered. I am in constant anxiety over worrying about what I might have forgotten. And adhd is among the milder of the cognitive differences you can have. I’m extremely smart and I learn fast but I’ll still never work at Apple or Facebook. I might as well wish I could fly. I graduated college by the skin of my teeth at the age of 34. Being different sucks. In the popular media people who “think different” are glamorized but how are people who actually think differently treated? I understand that nobody is going out of their way to trick me or treat me unfairly, but the subjective experience from the inside is that it feels like I’m constantly being punished for being me. It’s as if society believes that if they just hit me with a stick hard enough, I’ll learn to be normal. If it doesn’t work their only tactic is to whack me harder the next time. But I can’t just be normal. So I just get used to being whacked all the time. It’s just a fact of life. Some things are easy for me that are hard for most people, but other things are extremely hard for me that are easy for most people, and trust me when I say that those are the things people notice about you and those are the things society cares about.

And people falling all over themselves congratulating themselves for being just so quirky and outside the box just feels like rubbing salt in the wound. You’re not thinking outside the box, you were the class president, you charmed your way into an Ivy League school, you graduated with honors by doing exactly what you were told, and you’re just doing whatever the new trendy thing is.
A stance becomes no less valid by being driven to the fringe by a population that is increasingly desperate to find a scapegoat for all of its problems.
NPR: Corona Virus faqs: https://www.npr.org/tags/926361810/coronavirus-faqs
This even predates the industrial revolution.

Part of the reason why English joinery was so advanced is that they cut down all the trees everywhere. Consequently, they were left with tiny trees which grew quickly and had to make up for that with advanced joinery.

As for the Thames, that was terrible even as far back as Shakespeare (presumably even further back than that).
William Catton is another visonary. I consider his book, Overshoot to be better than limits to growth.

This lecture sums up his work well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8
Is this really a good idea? Also reminds me that neutrons will degrade a material over time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
People high in neuroticism probably. But then, in some years they would feel bad because we don't have dst anymore.
I've had working versions of software stolen from me by Google chrome auto updating extensions and Android autoupdating apps. There needs to be something like package.json or cargo.toml to protect users from rogue application developers, rogue operating system developers, and rogue chrome extension developers.
The "leopard spots" example is particularly interesting in how the super-resolution just hallucinates seemingly similar textures which can be completely different from the actual texture in the reference patch. (Such artifacts have been specifically pointed out in the context of analogous deep learning approaches applied to medical images).
If you're a parent of a young child, check out https://www.starfall.com.

It'll teach your kids phonics even if their teachers aren't.
> Extinction is, for better and for worse, part of the natural process here on earth

You make it sound like human-caused extinction is "part of the natural process" - it is not.

"The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates.[4][9][10][11][12][13]"

"human population size and/or specific human activities, not climate change, caused rapidly rising global mammal extinction rates during the past 126,000 years. Around 96% of all mammalian extinctions over this time period are attributable to human impacts"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Ask HN: Best universities for CS major and audio engineering/production minor
Hey all, so right now I'm in the process of assisting my brother in finding a university that offers Computer Science related major and also an audio engineering/production or music related minor.

So far I have:
Berklee
NYU
Northwestern
University of Southern California

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
I think this isn't enough and wrong way to do things. Only true way would be maximum of 24h old test result. Anything else is putting others including vaccinated people in danger.
She could give up her citizenship then. Why make that decision now if she doesn’t have to?
The world’s biggest companies are breaking apart. Here’s why
With complex numbers in polar form the tangent is easy. In the unitary circle, if you derive e^(i*t) you get i*e^(i*t), which maps the cos(t) real component to i*cos(t) imaginary, and the i*sin(t) imaginary component to -sin(t) real. This is effectively a 90 degree rotation, so if you integrate the tangent infinitesimally over its path parameterized by t you will recover the circle.

Here is some introductory material to what I referenced above and some generalizations into more dimensions (which, as Hamilton discovered when stumbling into quaternions trying to augment complex numbers, is not as straightforward as you would think):

- Why i? [http://www.stat.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~pikovsky/teaching/stu...]

- An Introduction to Geometric Algebra with an Application in Rigid Body Mechanics [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Terje-Vold/publication/...]

- Functions of Multivector Variables [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...]

- Lie Group Theory - A Completely Naive Introduction [https://jakobschwichtenberg.com/naive-introduction-lie-theor...]

- Previous HN discussion: Intuitive Understanding of Euler’s Formula [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325865]
While brilliant, I can’t stop myself from reminding the instance where another tool put Ray Gosling’s face on an image [0]. It’s fascinating, I especially enjoy when AI screws up because it breaks the illusion and gives us a clue to reason how this have happened.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196650
Thank you, I thought for a moment I was getting a case of the Mandela Effect
Yeah cause I normally won't buy a Snickers it's not a normal thought except when it's in front of my face. I assume that's the case for most everybody.
I first encountered Trie in code storing Unix network group mappings. Since IP addresses in a domain mostly vary at the end, a lot of IP addresses share the same first part. This greatly saved space and lookup time.
This is a little unanswerable in the same way questions about how many languages there are are unanswerable. The way taxonomists decide what makes two different patterns of life separate species varies drastically across for example plants and animals (fungi are especially messy). Different standards are used even within botanical taxonomy across different families. Even measures of phylogenetic differences have big limitations and are applied differently

Also to touch just a tiny bit on just how messy this question can get with fungi:

If you take certain species of fungi, put them in some soil they're really not adapted for, they will literally increase the rates of horizontal gene transfer and start borrowing genes from soil bacteria there in order to quickly evolve themselves and better adapt to that soil

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095653/

Certain parasitic plants may act similarly:

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/45/E7010
The link I provided includes conscientious objections, and makes it abundantly clear that they are extremely limited in scope. In particular, nearly every state requires (1) a statement in writing, (2) confirmation from a healthcare and/or faith practitioner, and (3) evidence that the belief is genuine and not a transient product of merely political beliefs. Additionally, many states will not accept a "genuine" belief if it is not also the belief of the complainant's faith.
> That point has been made many times before.

It has been assert many times without much actual evidence.

> I wonder if this will paradoxically lead to Tesla's becoming less safe overall as the software improves

Again, something that people on HN are often totally sure is true but I have never seen any actual evidence that is true.

The believe in this is based on some specific cases in the airline industry that I am not sure necessarily translate to driving.
No. When google launched it was really good. It solved slow web searches immediately. Did it get better over time? Yes. But it didn't launch and claim that "in the future google will return results for billions of searches within milliseconds", and then keep claiming that for years
Cavium ThunderX2 (RIP) had 4-way SMT
I think that really comes down to how your brain works or the way you think about logic. For me Ruby is a lot easier to wrap my head around and understand than Python is.