skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccination won't give immunity to virus. It's not like in video games.

How much are people actually terrified by propaganda in media that are able to justify this decisions? Why we need to repeat history over and over?
Yeah, it seems like what's holding it back is a wireless charging standard similar to USB, once we have that and it's ubiquitous - I think we'll just expect wireless and be annoyed by cords. It needs to reach an adoption tipping point though which will likely happen slowly then all at once.
I’m not sure which country you’re from, but Japan lost their dominant position in US tech consumer goods around late 1990’s
> Seems like right-wing speech will be the most free there.

It's insane to me that "we won't mandate ideological orthodoxy" is some how a right-wing idea.
SAP typically targets big corps with large IT spend, not so much startups.
For real. Whenever I hear "diversity of ideas" I know for a fact there won't be any Polanyi, Marx or Bakunin etc...
Maybe this if how dubious characters have received presidential pardons over the years?
Why? You can use your ID card which every state has as far as I know (apart from the UK!)
Making use of "machine-readable data" and blocking machines from accessing said data are somewhat at odds. (That said, I don't think that's the main reason for decline of those ideas)
This is definitely dog-whistle university, but it will be amusing to observe its trajectory. If I had to place a bet I would guess a brief bit of press and notoriety over the next few years, then a long and quiet slide into obscurity; the primary purpose of this endeavor seems to be fleecing old, rich right-wingers into making large donations that can be used to feather nests and be extracted by the principals through other means. No serious scholarship will come out of it and eventually it will simply be viewed as the white nationalist version of Liberty University.
Ah true, that's a good point. I can't use it to back up my Android phone, for instance.
Maybe no legal reason but there is a technical reason: a chip designed for a specific manufacturing process (e.g. IBM Cu-32) can only be made on that process and there may only be one fab that can run the process. The chip would have to be somewhat redesigned to be manufactured elsewhere.
For frequent travelers, every gram of weight and size counts. A little charging wire with USBC or Lightning is far lighter and smaller than a (relatively) giant MagSafe disc.
> Even with Schengen, you'd want to have a passport when traveling within the EU.

No. Your ID card is enough. You don't need a passport to do something like board a flight within the Schengen zone.
Ooh I just checked this and you're right! Thanks for the heads up, I'll have to incorporate this into the script.

Relevant manual page in case anyone's interested: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/045_working_with_rep...
It sounds like you're saying that new scientific ideas replacing old ones can be good, but new cultural ideas replacing olds ones is always bad? That's a position, but I don't quite see why I should agree with it. There are aspects of any society that can be improved!
I'm not European and I don't know but I assume CNN wouldn't get this sort of basic fact wrong. Here's what the article says:

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Since October 1, EU citizens can no longer travel to the UK on their ID cards; instead, they must use passports.

"That's enormously important," says Tom Jenkins, who says that around three quarters of Europeans don't have passports, since they can travel around Europe with their ID cards.

"For a family of four, the logistical and cost implications of traveling to the UK become really prohibitive. It affects school trips too -- if some kids don't have European passports, before they'd have used ID cards, but now they'd need a visa. It means schools will either have to exclude kids on grounds of ethnicity -- or they won't bother coming to the UK and we'll see a genuine drop in visitors."
I worked as a CPU architect at Intel for a decade. Never once did anyone solve an architecture problem the way Feynman did on CM-1. From wikipedia:

"The engineers had originally calculated that seven buffers per chip would be needed, but this made the chip slightly too large to build. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman had previously calculated that five buffers would be enough, using a differential equation involving the average number of 1 bits in an address."

He determined the buffer size using a differential equation? Modern engineers would run trillions of simulation cycles of an RTL model and sweep the buffer size for thousands of workloads to find the inflection point, and present an Excel chart in a meeting. Then the design engineers would determine if there was enough die area to implement the buffer size, and even if there wasn't area but the performance was significant, they would have to implement it.

Engineering now vs engineering then.
For sure aluminum recycling is more cost effective than glass recycling, but I've definitely never in my life heard the suggestion that it's better to literally put glass in landfills instead... that really sounds like the kind of topsy-turvy logic you get out of a company pushing plastic.

Granted this is a biased source, but they claim that "Energy costs drop about 2-3% for every 10% cullet used in the manufacturing process," [1] so it really seems like in principle it should be less expensive to recycle it (by a little bit) and that if it's more costly than making it fresh it's due to logistics rather than any fundamental manufacturing cost.

[1] https://www.gpi.org/glass-recycling-facts
What are the arguments against all beverages using those standardized reusable beer bottles? Why melt down perfectly good glass when it can be safely reused a solid dozen times before finally being recycled?

I’m wondering how much glass bottles contribute to transportation-related emissions versus aluminum and plastic.
That's true in biology or physics where actual facts - or things very close to facts - are being discovered, but not so in culture.

Culture doesn't "advance" like science, although it does change, and inevitably so, and in unexpected directions. Having flexibility and tolerance for heterogeneity is important, IMO. For example, look at how much China has changed from the cultural revolution of the 60s to the present. Instead of masses of kids waving a little red book arguing for "perpetual revolution" and going to work in a collective, the best ambition for many today is to be a small business owner or real estate investor, and virtually no one wants to work in a collective.
The DX7 patent is actually pretty good: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4554857A

It accurately describes the architecture of the DX7 and how it's implemented. There's a whole lot that it doesn't explain, but it was very helpful for understanding the chip. (I used a couple of diagrams from the patent in my article.)
they got whole of resources from government, this is a very special condition. do it happen on most of big companies?
See one of my previous responses. Link was changed to highlight a different stat.
Mexico City sets world record for free Wi-Fi hotspots
Seems like you're arguing that if they didn't go out of business last year from lack of $feature, then they never will.

Imagine you run a company selling things and can't offer next-day shipping and none of your competitors does either. The company you use for deliveries announces they support next day shipping now but you have to add a priority flag to requests so they can schedule it differently, and they released a new API client to support that. Your competitors all start offering next-day shipping and you don't. You ask your employees why. The development team says the new API client is unproven and the one you have is stable and you didn't go out of business last year so you probably just have no self control and are demanding the latest shiny and are weak and impulsive.

Would you be OK with that reasoning? Or with literally any reason that ended "so we're not offering next day shipping and will definitely lose customers to our competitors because of it."? Or would you start looking for a way you can take the change and isolate it? "We'll run next-day shipping requests through a different queue and watch it more closely", etc.
> flawed mechanical system

I don't like what "mechanical" is implying here, it gives the impression that humans have weird magic in their head that makes them understand language or search for truth (whatever approximate version they like anyway).

It's just a flawed system, period. Your brain circuits are a flawed system, and the artifacts produced by the data science craze are flawed. They are not flawed equally, but they are all physical infromation processing systems trying to make sense of the weird jumble of signals coming to it from Outside.
Also, CodeChef. https://www.codechef.com/
You may be interested in this paper:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1379

It provides a Proof-of-Useful-Work algorithm that is resistant to pre-computation and most other weaknesses that would otherwise prevent useful work from being done while achieving Nakamoto Consensus while at the same time managing to convert ~50% of the computation spent into useful work. Additionally the work being done is pretty generally useful and is applicable to a lot of different problems.

I think the space is starting to reach a point of academic maturity and formalisation of the tech stack such that we can start meaningfully trying to solve these types of problems.
Slightly off-topic, but I think you mistranslated the word for corporation. I suspect you translated “Konzern” from german to english’s “concern”. But I’m honestly unsure. In context the word concern could almost work.
On your point about US treasury bonds… I don’t have the book in front of me but this is a common, colloquial saying among many of my peers in finance. No one wants the U.S. to pay all of its debt, the structure of the global economy today requires these debts to function. They’re basically cash equivalents.

Grabers comments on the dollar as an oil currency… I disagree with that. Still, many investors I know around his age would have said something similar 10-15 years ago. The U.S dollar as a reserve currency is America's greatest strength (maybe not greatest but it’s up there) and weakness. Anything that impedes the dollar as a global reserve currency is a significant risk to the U.S.

Grabers comments on Europe, Korea, China, etc. you mention- again not an unusual thing to say in my view. Debatable certainly, but not obviously wrong.
> But, apparently, no one cared that software presented a version with "subtracted" pixels in the first place, and only cared about pixels added by zooming in (which could have technically been "de-zooming-out", up to a point).

Courts only rule on stuff like that if there's an objection to it. If you don't object, you can't come back later and complain about it, you have to object at the time. So all of Binger's pickle objections were legally irrelevant. He knows this and is playing to the cameras, that's why he's getting yelled at by the judge, because none of what he said mattered legally. He was also pretty clearly angling for a mistrial after his earlier screw-ups, like managing to obtain information harmful to his case from his own prosecution witness on direct. This is a screwup of epic proportions.

In this case, there was doubt about the nature of a handful of pixels in an enlarged image and whether or not this depicted a gun. It's hardly "pedantic" to want to get experts to talk about the reliability of the image, rather than lawyers (none of whom knew anything), when the prosecution's entire theory at this point hinges on a legal standard of "provocation with intent" where one cannot regain innocence by fleeing or communication.
Diving Head First into NFT Creation
The hivemind is most displeased.
It is not a right-wing idea, what is a right-wing idea is the notion that other universities do mandate ideological orthodoxy.
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I am in no way an expert, but I would guess it can. Wikipedia says:

> Symptoms can include shortness of breath, chest pain, decreased ability to exercise, and an irregular heartbeat.[1] The duration of problems can vary from hours to months.

That's the kind of thing people often ignore. Especially if it only happens once. _Especially_ when getting healthcare is expensive.
I assume it’s from fasting.
> Maybe the HN crowd has never been in a situation where they were auto-billed into a negative balance

I wonder about this some times. It's truly not something I wish upon anyone, but at the same time it's almost a privilege to have live it first hand, as it's an...I was gonna say "unfortunately rare" but I think I'll go with "severely under-represented" point of view in this industry, especially silicone valley.

Also yes, overdraft fees are truly disgusting. What's worse is that there are transactions that can bypass "overdraft protection"
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and Babel for React/JSX projects
Project Euler is how I learn new languages (caveat, I don't deal in databases, web frameworks, etc). But... they're exercises in mathematics. It's easy to brute-force many solutions, but achieving actual high performance requires doing the math, and figuring out how to reduce the parameter space. Very big on "pick the right algorithm," even the best-performing brute-force just won't do it.
I'm too grumpy to want any Slack bots.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Bombarded with Dust and Debris on Its Way to the Sun
I have several thoughts.

Was gilligan a genius? So many attempts to get off the island were completely hare brained, maybe only he could see it. Lovable sabotage can be an effective tool to help save an org from itself.

But the more important thought, I’m reminded of all the works of Luis von Ahn who was trying to capture this surplus. He had a talk talking about the number of hours spent playing soltaire, and used the unit of empire state buildings built and it was some staggering number of units. It was a very compelling idea about the same time as this article. It’s a shame so much of that surplus has gone towards solidifying several tech giants rather than more things like Gary’s Mod.
> most modern countries are carefully balancing policy to keep ICUs at a manageable rate.

Why not allow nurses and doctors to be unvaccinated and "keep ICU's at a manageable rate"?

Also, Israel was first to acknowledge the waning effect of vaccines.

And for Portugal, when was their vaccination campaign? Was it less than 6 months ago? If so, the vaccines have not worn off yet.
It appeared a few weeks ago in HN.
Even more, timing the market would be like going to school or taking a "gap year" because you don't think it's the right time to put your effort into the job market. Timing is when to put your money/effort into the market, not which fund/job to pour your attention into.
I am actually very glad that those investment wizards almost completely nuked whole sectors of the semiconductor market.

It cleared a lot of long standing nasty monopolies, which self destructed since their LBO schemes collapsed, or... successfully went through, and they were sold to unwitting asset manager/banker types for $$$$$, just to be chopped up after they found what a load of lemons they bought.
This came up in discussion about a month ago, among a list of other counterintuitive items: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28764416
How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria
"over time software should converge on being bug free"

Yeah, and the way that's done is by refactoring things, removing buggy/deprecated things, and not adding any more new features/requirements... So, pick your poison, I guess? I'd love to go move on to the next job as much as the next person, but somebody still has to be paid to do those things. I don't see what the significant difference is there with free-with-paid-support, if you pay for it up front you're still paying the same cost.
We have 2 stocks: A and B
Even being born in a developed country/society is an unfair advantage, especially to well equipped parents or families.
It is less common nowadays, but that is one of the definitions of “concern” in English: a company or a corporation. So it’s entirely correct as is.
I actually set my bedroom lights to 100% red with a 5-minute auto-dimmer when I'm going to bed.

Or when I want my apartment to look like the red light district.
> Yeah it does seem really wild that Japonic languages and Turkic languages could be from a common origin

From Wikipedia:

+> The original hypothesis unified only the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic groups

As a Turk who has occasionally looked at stuff and occasionally tried to learn Japanese, this limited version made more sense to me.

OTOH, back in the 20th century in Turkey, we had a Japanese Economics faculty member who learned Turkish very quickly and I have a Turkish friend who teaches Japanese to Turks and they both talked up the similarities, but the common origin stuff seemed to me a little too far.

Searching just now, I ran into this post[1]. Leaving aside all the arguments, I am going to note that:

(A) Ben dün mektubu yazdım.

(B) Ben mektubu dün yazdım.

(C) Mektubu ben dün yazdım.

Leaving aside the permutations of emphasis introduced by dropping "I" ("ben"), those three sentences convey different meanings in Turkish and each is appropriate depending on the intended meaning the speaker wants to convey.

(A) to emphasize what one did the day before, (B) to emphasize that one wrote "the letter" the day before, and (C) to emphasize that the speaker is the person who wrote the letter and did the the day before.

[1]: https://community.wanikani.com/t/similarities-between-japane...
It's both, deal with it.
> You have to "invest" in a low risk one that pays the bills. Then go for things that are medium risk, high returns.

This is why I started as a javascript programmer. These days I code almost exclusively in elixir but that wastn't before spending. lot of time learning elixir on the side while nodejs and react paid my bills.

My current big bet is rust and more math heavy stuff like ML and graphics which don't go obsolete so fast
What's the advantage here over SendGrid? SendGrid has an unlimited free tier of 100 emails per day, and for $15/mo you can send up to 40k emails/mo.

Postmark does have a lower $10/mo starting price for 10k emails per month. But the next jump is $50/mo for 50k emails.

I'm currently working on a project and intended to use SendGrid, so I'm wondering if there's any benefits of Postmark.
> "Scientific" publishing is broken and you simply can't rely on it for useful information. Many studies don't even replicate, but they still get published and cited.

I may take issue with some of your other statements but fully agree with this observation.

A critical thinker needs to be highly skeptical of the appeal to authority used by invoking the phrases “the science says”, or “studies have shown”.
Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming
Bet it won't be better off after WW3. Nobody will except maybe some primitive tribes in forgotten places.
Isn’t SALT preventing double taxation? And isn’t this just returning it to the state prior to the trump tax bill?
I can think of one - you do not know the heat/impact stress it has received when out of your custody, and don't want to be responsible for its unexpected shattering while your client is using it. Reforging adds some guarantees.
I regularly do IF and I drink black coffee in the morning while I'm fasting. I try to time it so even that is at the tail-end of an 18 hours fast.
The argument, which I do not buy as sufficient but add here for completeness, is that it’s better for your large purchases (ie rent) to clear before your $10 lunch, etc.
> I don't think anything else can solve decentralized rate limiting more effectively than proof of work.

Have you heard of Rate Limiting Nullifiers?

https://github.com/vacp2p/research/blob/master/rln-research/...
I have had great luck using rayon for distributing CPU intensive work across available cores. If you are doing I/O I can see why async is preferable but rayon is an excellent library for parallel work.

I have found that async or even in Go with goroutines, a large amount of small threads are not faster even if they should be in theory when it comes to CPU intensive work.

I use it to generate a 3D universe (at the atomic level) but store the data as enums.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/selfup/oxidizy

Big help from rayon:

1) https://github.com/selfup/oxidizy/blob/master/crates/unigen/...

2) https://github.com/selfup/oxidizy/blob/master/crates/unigen/...

3) https://github.com/selfup/oxidizy/blob/master/crates/unigen/...

Example perf generating an obscene amount of data on a 32GB machine with 16 threads (3800x):

Atoms: 110592000
Baryons: 26099712000
Quarks: 78299136000

real 0m12.779s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
Curious indeed! Merriam-Webster tells me that one definition of "concern," as a noun, is
`an organization or establishment for business or manufacture.`

But perhaps this is not in common use amongst native English speakers!
I guess. Seems like a pretty big hole in one’s industry knowledge. SAP is the largest non-US software company and one of the largest in ERP software and services.
"Naked Space"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/naked_space
I said nothing of the kind. I said comparing a cultural revolution to a scientific one is nonsense.
PE is fun. I feel like for the vast majority of programmer types though, something like: cses.fi/problemset , codeforces.com , codechef.com are better places to do problems. PE gets _very_ math heavy past the beginning ones. Competitive programming problems get difficult as well, but they focus more on algorithms and data structures that programmers are more likely to have a solid background for.
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I posted about this elsewhere in this thread but you might be interested in this paper:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1379

It gets about 50% efficiency compared to the current state of the art for the problem space without compromising any of the security properties that make for a good PoW algorithm. Generally I'm not a fan of PoW and prefer internal resource based consensus algorithms but PoUW algorithms seem rather interesting. I think we are reaching a point of maturity in the space that'll allow these types of self-securing service marketplaces (which really is what PoUW is) to reach their logical conclusion.
Is this something an Apple Watch could detect? Seems like a wearable with diagnostic capabilities is uniquely positioned to detect this at scale at no cost. If you use Apple Health, I believe it may also have access to your digital vaccination record depending on jurisdiction and if you’ve granted Apple access to it (which would allow segmenting by vaccine manufacturer and correlation with heart anomaly detection).