skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a reasonably large Charlie Munger fan (read all the bios of him and Buffett, read the Bevelin books, read Poor Charlie's) but the guy has the most phenomenal blind spots of any person alive because, bluntly, he isn't that well-read. He has read very deeply in one area (if you look at his book recommendations, it is like the Amazon best sellers for rich elderly people who went to college in the US, studied sciences but never really thought about anything else) but he appears unaware of the limits of knowledge, and is exceptionally superficial about stuff like politics (the stuff with the UCLA dorm also highlights this, he has written a lot of sensible stuff, and a lot of stuff that would do well in standup).

Plato wrote about all of this stuff, he was of the same opinion (philosopher kings), and then spent most of life finding out why that didn't work (and was, as a result, sold into slavery towards the end of his life). This came up again in the Enlightenment. The perceived fault of democracy is the strength: it is strong because "everyone takes turns". You significantly reduce your upside, but you significantly reduce your downside too. The US has benefitted hugely from founders who not only understood democracy well, but understood the problems with dictatorship.

Also, it is worth saying that LKY's son now runs the country. It isn't a democracy, are we seriously saying that the country was scoured for the best people and it just turned out the best guy was the son of the last guy? Seriously? LKY's achievements were great, he was a great leader but there is a lot wrong with the country (it runs on slave labour) and has the highest level of political weakness possible (China is a perfect parallel: Deng was a great leader, but he didn't solve any of political issues and assumed the CCP would always lead by consensus, Xi has made himself permanent leader...this is why you have a balance of powers/strong constitution, this is exactly why).
Yes, which is insufficient for a conviction but reasonable suspicion to get a warrant.
Edge must be rebranded to MalwarEdge.
There is plenty of demand for millions of tons of hydrogen for uses that batteries are not useful for, notably, nitrogen fertilizer. Thus, advances in hydrogen production are interesting irrespective of ones views of hydrogen vs batteries.
Total Return Swaps, Illustrated
Another contender I noticed the other day: build transport cables eight time zones long...
AMA hosted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qws3p9/i_am_william_k...
> I’m Ross, and alongside my brother / co-founder Ryan, we’re building Accord

Maybe the messaging around the founding team could be made a bit clearer. This sentence strongly suggests that there are two founders, while it seems that there is a third one, commenting on this very forum.
Seems like there'd be less need for SELinux on a network like theirs:

"Our entire system is air-gapped, which means it is physically isolated from the outside world and has no way to connect to the internet."
Lots of people go variable interest rate.

It's cheaper and has been for many years..

The argument is that when interest rates go up, you refinance at a fixed rate while you can afford it, or sell stocks to payoff a larger portion of you morgage.

That strategy certainly has issue, because stocks will probably crash a bit when interest rates go up.

On the flip side, interest rates will go up slowly, so you might be able to refinance to fixed rate -- the hard part is doing this before it's too expensive. As it'll always be more expensive than sticking with your variable rate.
Sure, yeah. My point is mainly that expenses for early retirement in the US have the potential to vary a lot compared to... well, basically any other OECD state, really, mostly due to healthcare. This makes the lower bound for a reasonably-safe early retirement quite a bit higher, such that merely generating enough safe-withdrawal income to live on in a good year isn't enough, even if the markets do exactly as well as you're counting on and that income's steady.
There are also those of us that feel a bit screwed by buying a "starter" home. While that starter home has appreciated, we can't afford a bigger home for our bigger family in the same area, which means we have to think of alternative areas, which means we push prices up in those areas.

I think many are trying to jump into their forever home so they can enjoy it without being worried for the future when they need to upgrade and are priced out. This is at least the dynamic in the bay area.
Yes. That's what the word "operator" means. You need to operate the software that the network depends on, or trust someone who does. You see this a lot of time in the Bitcoin/cryptocurrency community as well, where node operators complain about the changes "forced onto them" by developers. Ultimately, it's a labor problem—if someone else is writing your code for you, and you don't know how to modify it, you're at the mercy of their decisions.
> I remember loving it and using it constantly, but having to stop using it when my friends started moving to closed networks so I had to run a bunch of other clients.

This seems backwards, didn't you use Trillian _because_ your friends were using closed networks and you didn't want to run a bunch of clients? I don't really remember anyone rushing to Trillian because it was the best XMPP client it was because it could speak to multiple closed networks. It died because trying to keep up with reliably doing so was a pain, particularly when the normal user moved past only needing plain text IM to work reliably.
There was an interesting discussion in r/labrats about hoarding old stuff in labs. Can definitely see it happen.
https://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-warns-smallpox-terror-0001...

Just like he said about covid.
Tangential but it’s always amusing to me to see Kasparov mentioned as a “chess grandmaster” when there are over 1000 grandmasters while Kasparov was the longest reigning world champion & widely considered the best ever. It’s like having Zuckerberg on your panel and making his title “Entrepreneur”.
Even if we're at the same home price / income ratio as 2008, a big difference is mortgage rates. In 2008 a 30 year was 5.5%-6.5%. Now it's 3%. So we aren't yet near 2008 levels of mortgage payment / income ratio
Blood clots are a common problem in COVID-19 patients.

https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/lab-report/new-cause-of-covid...
Despite the claim that this isn't political, it's very difficult not to see this in light of the fact that Seattle's city council has the only elected Marxist in the U.S.

Kshama Sawant fought for the $15 minimum wage, the Amazon tax, numerous renters' rights protections, a ban on police use of chemical weapons against protestors, and is now continuing the fight for rent control. She's currently facing a right-wing recall campaign because big business was unable to defeat her in the 2019 election, despite Amazon dumping $1.5 million into various races for citywide office.

A few here have remarked that approval voting tends to select more "moderate" candidates over "extremes." This isn't a neutral preference, it's obviously ideological, and targeted at one specific legislator in Seattle. Voters should reject this measure as a transparent attack on the most effective and sincere fighter for working people in the country.

Full disclosure, Kshama and I are both members of Socialist Alternative. I may be limited in my ability to respond today, as I'm rushing right after work to a volunteer shift to make sure she stays in office. I'll try my best to check in occasionally!
I'd recommend Kinokuniya if you are lucky enough to have one in your city. Then you can waste some money on all that sexy Japanese stationary you are never going to use. Their stores are huge and anything you can't find you can probably find on their online store. I've never asked them to order anything obscure for me, so I'm not sure how well they do there.
The long term really-bear case is: asset owners becoming a minority of the electorate, revolution, war, and then everybody dying and most of the housing stock being destroyed.

I'd rather be an asset owner than a revolutionary in that case, though, because it's always easier to play defense than offense. The vast majority of non-billionaires can sit tight and not be explicitly targeted, but starving revolutionaries have to fight for survival. Assets can be rebuilt, but death is permanent.
There’s a big difference between “often” and “not at all”.
I read something that says Hindenburg was more about the mix of the gas and the material of the blimp. Properly mixed H2 doesn’t burn (it explodes quickly, which is what powers an ICE).

I agree though, planes and H2 probably don’t mix. Jet fuel should not be a priority to replace with H2. Priority should be given to static applications before trying to apply it to moving vehicles.
> there’s little survival advantage for people who can effectively fight cancer after their reproductive age

While there's less evolutionary advantage, it's far from trivial. See, for instance, https://www.pnas.org/content/100/16/9637 :

> In some species, postreproductive females make substantial contributions to their descendants, either through direct parental care or through grandparental care. Such contributions continue after birth in all mammals (most notably primates), all birds, many insects, and some fish (15). Postreproductive bottle-nose dolphins and pilot whales baby-sit, guard, and even breastfeed their grand-children (15). Selection against the mortality of postreproductive individuals in such species would be expected to continue.
> People are entitled to form their own opinions about deBoer's credibility, and he is not entitled to set conditions on how they do that.

I don't know what conditions he's set, he's just asking people to include context. Context which completely changes how most people would view that incident.

Maybe "unambiguously a lie" is a too strong and you can't tell a lie by taking an action out of context, but if you can this is it.
Nobody is mentioning C#, but my experience there is that I rely on a lot less dependencies and a rather big standard library from Microsoft.

Microsoft has been splitting the standard library into separate dependencies now, but they're still maintained by them and I feel safe depending on them.
Yes, why be suspicious of someone willing to put his name and picture on every blockchain scam out there like some Instagram influencer?

He is also of course the "Avast security ambassador" and tours the world visiting the kinds of conferences where not very important people meet other not very important people telling each other they are very important, like the "WebSummit" or "TechCrunch Disrupt".
I recently met the founder of Eightfold.ai at an HR Tech conference, and was surprised to learn how big they are. They solve almost exactly this problem as a “layer” over existing ATS systems.
He did disclose it, what you quoted is what he did wrong. Making baseless accusations of sexual misconduct is a pretty widely understood "wrong" behavior. He then went into treatment for his condition and has stayed medicated since (per the article).
Strange that so much of it moved to the web then, isn’t it?
Why should it matter? I mean, if somebody tells me that they are intimate with the president, if they want to con me, or are troubled with mental illness, shouldn’t make a difference on the judgment of how trustable are their statements.
I've been really productive in Python in Javascript but Golang as slowly eroded away at those, now it's my primary language for most work. I do lots of backend web dev and I've recently started writing Lambdas in Go and find it superior to Python - better performance overall.

I've found that it takes me longer to write code in Go than Python and the code is more verbose, but I have a very high rate of first-compile success. Compiler catches most errors I'm likely to make. I've written about 6 small services in Go now and 1 med / large sized one.
I think he argues quite harshly against himself and says that his actions cannot be excused. He seems to harbour quite a bit of guilt and shame around this topic.

For context, bipolar is one of the highest suicide risk diseases due to this. When you come out of a manic episode you tend to feel intense shame and guilt for your actions. For reference, 1 in 2 bipolar will attempt suicide in their life. 1 in 5 will successfully end their life in the long run. So it is important to take his real admission of guilt and request for forgiveness into account.
A lie is intentional. Regardless of the falsehood, it is not a lie if you believe it when you say it.

But it is certainly misleading to make these claims about deBoer's actions without context. If this is intentional, then it is intentionally misleading. I wonder if there's a word for that.
I guess I don't understand your point. Are you trying to say that QR codes are a replacement for NFTs? Because I can list dozens of things that NFTs can do that QR either can't do, or would be much clunkier to do.
I was thinking the same. I do hope the "bubble" bursts, it might be the occasion I get to actually own a house for once.
That makes no sense. As long as the Soviet Union existed, the "ex-soviet states" you're talking about existed as republics of the Soviet Union (which is just a colloquial abbreviation for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). They weren't states at that point. They became ("ex-Soviet") states when the Soviet Union broke up, and that coincided with the end of the Cold War. Since their existence as states and the Cold War don't overlap in time, those states couldn't have been subject to "Cold War meddling".
No, but the entire ~190K BP sequence is available on the NIH website.
"unambiguously" a lie?
> By partnering with customers to actually solve their problems

I'm so tired of hearing this word from a vendor.

We are not partners. If I'm paying you money, then I'm a customer. You are a vendor. Partners is "this is going to cost us $X. I pay half. You pay half"
> Each HAL implements different things, or the same thing in different ways.

They are generated programmatically from core description files that are only available to STM. They are designed sloppily because a lot of the implementation work is automated. To really progress in this area FOSS developers are going to need to get ahold of these interface specifications.

> Lack of emulation. You can emulate an arm cpu in qemu, but there’s no tools for mocking out hardware - which means testing has to happen on device (or you need to fragment your application into qemu-testable pieces).

This should be OK and I almost prefer it. Get a JTAG or SWD adapter, learn how to use GDB and the self test hardware, and you'll be fine. Modern MCUs are designed for test and can be used in circuit just fine. You can control any part of the chip via the trace macrocell.

> Shared memory / global initialization is overly complex.

Related to my first point.
The light returns pretty directly to the source which is why most devices designed to use that detection method have the illuminators around an eyepiece so there's less distance between the illuminators and your eye.
It would however affect people with HELOCs, which I believe is tied to prime + 2%. I have no idea how many people took out a HELOC during the pandemic though.
A few other feature requests/bugs after using it with my iPad and a pen:

- can't select menu items with pen

- an undo button on the hotbar would be nice

- a way to control the return to select mode after drawing a shape - I often want to draw a few boxes and then connect them with arrows, but having to keep hitting the shape select is a bit painful
And I suspect that Facebook's moderation problems extend to most, if not all, languages written in Arabic script. If they can't even handle languages like Spanish or French correctly (cf. other top-level comments), the chances that they'll handle languages which are more "obscure" (from a Western perspective) are basically zero.
> This is why your average local newspaper or TV station site downloads 100MB of crap, fires 10000 timers per second, and needs 10-60s to render on your phone

No, the reason for that, almost all of the time, is ads. It's true that local news rarely hires talented developers (they don't have the money) but even if they did they'd still be at the mercy of shitty ad code written by shitty ad providers. One of which is Google! So they generously solved the problem they created by setting up a new walled garden.
> Provide a front end framework that focused on performance and UX

And this is huge.

Non-technical users that don't care about the shady things Google did involving AMP probably think AMP is a godsend, if they even know AMP is even a thing.

AMP pages load incredibly fast, are incredibly responsive, and are far less annoying. Your typical end user will likely prefer AMP.

Thing is...we don't need AMP to get those features. But somewhere along the last 10 years, web developers lost the plot and now seem to think a static blog needs to serve several megabytes of JavaScript. They think they need to implement smooth scrolling in code, when every browser already does it natively.
I don't blame you, but you're looking at the wrong place: https://join-lemmy.org/

In short, it's a decentralized reddit in the same way Mastodon is a decentralized Twitter.

Lemmy.ml is a main server running it.
>offered the next PM $50 million

Do you mean him personally or the Tuvalu government
sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270337
that how much I would expect to pay for one unit of a custom assembled circuit board, with parts and shipping

my manufacturer makes me buy two though :)

seems to be some more info on the theory behind the operation and limitations here https://github.com/arminstr/reremeter
> I would rather not fly in a bomb. I just don't see it being viable for planes.

As opposed to the kerosene fueled bombs we're flying in right now?

I'm not sure comparing things to close-to-wartime tech from 90 years ago is a valid approach.
Show HN: Subspace.com launches GA for 3 products
it's exceedingly difficult to fairly aggregate voter preferences, but all current voting systems seem to reduce all that complexity down to a singular choice in the overwhelming majority of cases. that's a shitload of information discarded, to put it crassly.

the neat thing about conjoint is that it multiplexes the choice-making (when designed well), so that the choice burden scales reasonably while also better representing collective choice. nothing is going to be perfect, but conjoint could potentially be better than all current systems, probably by an order of magnitude or more.

it's relatively complicated, so yes, 'experts' (i disdain this term, frankly) could in theory manipulate the system, but transparency of voting data (just like now) and survey design (the more likely bias vector) would make that difficult. transparency would allow competing independent journalists, academics/researchers, political analysts, etc. to weigh in and balance out biases (not perfectly of course), as well as verify results.
Pursue what you want, don’t just run away from what you don’t want. Neoxam (which you mentioned) is hardly a mainstream programming platform (“over 150 customers worldwide”). Learn a more general system/language to escape
> Heard it too causes cancer if you fry it though...

Frying at low temperatures with olive oil is one of the "healthier" ways to fry, though. Less volatile aromatic hydrocarbons are produced when frying with olive oil compared to other fats, and some of the compounds in non-extra virgin olive oil reduce the production of free radicals.
Reminder that accidental releases of deadly viruses have happened before. For example consider this event, sometimes known as the "biological Chernobyl":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
They made a bet on hydrogen, hydrogen cars failed, and they are now sinking in more costs. They are a financial and executive failure, not a scientific one.

There is still use for hydrogen outside of vehicles (and possibly some highly specific scenarios involving vehicles).
Even if H2 isn't used directly, there are likely chemical processes that can convert it into some form that is more useful.

EDIT: That's what its called. H2 is a component of Syngas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas). Syngas can then be further processed into kerosene, gasoline, or other fuels we use.
That's common throughout Asia, also bookings getting canceled when they realize you're not "that" kind of American. As a non-white American who's traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe I'm very confident when I say that the US is one of the least racist places in the world. Not saying it's perfect, dont want to hear your thoughts on the "the system." The kind of candid in your face "I dont like your skin color" that you read about in school actually is more prolific outside of the US than in it. We've overcome a lot and America is great for that. Thank you civil rights movement.
it's little more than presupposing that your money _belongs_ to them, and any violation of these expectations is tantamount to crime.

From the article: "...$312bn of the total sum was the result of cross-border corporate tax abuse by multinational corporations and $171bn offshore tax evasion by wealthy individuals."

Depending on how "tax abuse" and "tax evasion" are defined, the article may be referring to something that's literally a crime.
That's an absolutely fascinating question. I'm curious about the human equivalent, as well. Say you're talking to a customer service rep for Comcast and they get confused and offer you $10/month cable for life, or maybe they accidentally tell you that you may keep your rental hardware when canceling. Is Comcast in any way bound by what their representatives tell you?
Now you're cooking with gas!

People in computer science write papers. Writing software is incidental to that.

In principle they are interested in reading the latest papers, but in no way are they going to spend time reading papers if it gets in the way of writing papers.
New AI Test Diagnoses Glaucoma in 10 Seconds
Having read three of the links you posted, it looks like they’re approaching this purely from a US Republican vs. Democrat perspective. But this same phenomenon is definitely happening in the UK, France or Germany and likely other countries. It’s happening in Canada.

In fact that’s what makes it so concerning, this illiberal way of thinking is spreading in most if not all liberal democracies.
How different is it to other pox viruses? You might need a few snips…
Yes, in addition to other free fatty acids, glucose and ketones.
Having old grandparents who can’t hunt or forage and need to be fed is a big handicap. I’d like to see a cost/benefit analysis if there’s any.