skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a reason F and J have bumps on them

Actually that’s a regression. At one point some keyboards (Apple IIRC) put the bumps on D and K, which made it much easier to notice when your hands were misplaced.

It’s easier to notice that the wrong finger has the bump than noticing that no finger has the bump beneath it.
I’ve been using typescript for years, and I’ve rarely met these un soundness issues.

I agree that it has its limits, and that there are better type systems, but compared to JavaScript it’s a night and day experience.

The amount of help and clarity it brings on large codebases has no equivalent in JS world, and even tho I love Scala or Elm they are simply not realistic alternatives to JS for most of the industry.
Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
they are most certainly capable to license arm standart cores and make an soc themselves, they made a decision that they will not do that. why would they buy someone who does not so well?
> promises to have commercial reactors ready in the next decade

I’ve heard that before. Are we also going to have room temperature superconductors and usable quantum computers?
Yeah, also a good point. Overall, it just requires a lot more conscious effort than it would take to just drive, which seems like exactly the opposite of the incentives we actually want
So when Fauci had this https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387 published in March 2020 that included the words "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%)", what weighting should we give to his current credibility, would you say?
Variants of SARS-CoV-2 - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2

New Botswana variant with 32 'horrific' mutations is the most evolved Covid strain EVER,

and could be 'worse than Delta' — as expert says it may have emerged in an HIV patient

Only 10 cases of the strain — dubbed B.1.1.529 — have been spotted to date
Variant has 32 mutations, many of which suggest it is more vaccine resistant
Scientists warn the variant could be worse 'than nearly anything else about'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10238113/New-Botswa...
You know, you are probably right statistically, although the true coefficient is biased (maybe in either direction) due to selection effects and societal endogeneity.

However, I always wonder, when people say things like "if you are a guy, if you are a gal" with such force and authority... what about the outliers, and what about the overlaps of these distributions?

I know a gal who loves nothing more than analyzing ongoing construction sites. I certainly know several who love to watch programming videos.

Wonder how that feels, when someone brings all the biotruths at ya, and you happen to sit at that point in the preference distribution where looking at technical going-ons is actually what you enjoy.

Like, how large is the percentage of people who literally have never met any woman who is genuinely interested in technical things, and feel totally comfortable making such absolute statements? Must be some good percentage, at least.
https://www.youtube.com/user/torbjornahman
I’m 50, and I took a typewriter course in high school because it seemed obvious that keyboarding skills would be useful, although computers themselves were still somewhat niche.
> pay proportionally more to maintain it. Furthermore, the bargain "to pay less tax, be less successful" is not one that any rational actor would make. It's inherently fair.

if it were really true that paying more taxes leads to more success, then they would pay more. But it isn't true - patently not true. The less tax you pay, the more you get to keep for yourself, and reinvest, and the more likely you reach higher "success".
This kind of goes along with my theme. By the time the expensive experimental reactor is at the end of the planning stage an new magnetic force regime is introduced changing the whole perspective of the experiment. It would be best to scrap those experiments and focus attention on the new technologies because 17 tesla magnets are not the most powerful magnets in the universe and we have a long way to go to find what is possible on our home world.

The magnetic field is the foundation of fusion energy at this time sans xray compression.
Really simple: If this new variant does nothing more than previous versions to increase mortality, particularly among the increasingly vaccinated population, obsessing over its spread should be considered pointless and absurd. For one thing, it wouldn't work without endless other streams or authoritarian security theater measures (that in any case themselves don't really work most of the time) And for another thing, "stop the spread" is an idiotic notion without heavy qualification. Stop death? Sure, Stop large quantities of hospitalizations? That too, albeit with cost/benefit calculations applied to all measures, but stopping spread itself for its own sake? Absurd paranoia that has no merit the moment the thing spreading stops being a truly widespread threat. We have lived with colds and flus for all our history without obsessing over their spread. COVID among those who are already immunized or vaccinated is comparably dangerous to common flu strains.
They solve all the same operational problems — how do I access these files on multiple machines but NFS is strictly worse in pretty much every way to GlusterFS and Ceph.

NFSs HA story is almost nonexistent and comes with list of buts that’s longer than the positives. As a technology it’s dead for anything other than the tiniest of internal IT use cases.
I know that some people are predisposed to addiction. It's harder for them, sure, but becoming an addict is still a choice for them. I know some who chose to get and stay clean, too, despite being predisposed.

I wager that poor people are far better at recognizing addiction than non-poor. I hired a stoner once, not recognizing it. He robbed the company blind to pay his dealer.

Social workers are always trying to get the homeless addicts into rehab. They generally refuse to. It is their choice, not lack of money. In fact, I suspect that the lack of money is caused by their choice to be addicted. After all, addicts lose interest in their jobs and employers don't want stoners and drunks coming to work.
"Free-market extremists" are just neoliberals and they're everywhere.

They've infected both sides of politics, reducing most elections to 'red neoliberal' or 'blue neoliberal' that decide nothing except whose gross neoliberal friends get to gouge the taxpayers this term.

This is backed by major media companies who are also all run by neoliberals. They put on a bit of theatre to pretend there is actually more than trivial differences and they'll rake in billions.

They teach their kids neoliberalism in their exclusive schools, training them up to be the next generation of greedy sociopaths. They pay sleazy neoliberal P.R companies to undermine their critics online. They take over unions and turn them into yet another avenue for personal profit.

All to the thunderous applause of the neoliberals running incredibly exploitative, near-sighted businesses that are rapidly ruining the world in search of ever greater profits.

People need to start identifying this ideology and stripping the people who spout it from power.

Money doesn't trickle down, no matter how much of it you stuff into a billionaires pocket. The 'free market' doesn't give people the power to end things like foreign-slavery.

The powerful people that push these ideas know it. The rest of us need to know it too.
> AFAIK nothing stops HBO from supporting older webOS releases

Assuming that to be the case, nothing is stopping LG to provide an upgraded webOS either.

> They could maintain builds produced with the older SDK forever

Maintaining backwards compatibility in this way is not a small undertaking. How many webOS versions do you maintain compatibility with? How do you decide which features you spend time trying to backport to which versions? How do you make it clear to your users that their 2-year-old >US$1k TV won't get the shiny new thing because it's too old?

> they just can't be arsed to

And they shouldn't have to. If the hardware is good enough to support the latest OS and SDK, refusing to do so is nothing more than planned obsolescence on part of the manufacturer. They all share the same underlying architecture, main difference will probably be around drivers.

Multiply the number of apps by the number of different smart TV OSs by the number of versions of each and supporting all of them gets old really quickly.
It doesn’t help that this has been codified into the names of various organizations, like the Council of Europe (ECHR, etc.), EEA, EU, and others that all refer to different subsets of countries on the continent. I suppose this renders any straightforward alternative relatively limited in scope even if a term to refer to one of these memberships was agreed upon.
It has been interesting watching the concept of Black Friday (and cyber monday) evolve over the past 20 or so years from being mostly an "American big box retailer dumping excess stock" thing to "oh boy its black Friday, time to go buy stuff!" thing. The entire event has basically been undeservingly co-opted by everyone looking to cash in on hype over an event that basically doesn't even resemble what made it a thing in the first place.

Just like how for singles day in Asia, retailers shamelessly just jack prices up beforehand to make their sale prices look like discounts. These events seem more about whipping the naive mainstream consumer into a consumption frenzy than having real deals to be excited about. While those deals still exist, they are like nuggets of gold that you have to sift through the noise to find.
Just performed this trick for my partner and she was very underwhelmed. There’s probably a good delivery to figure out.
Even less ergonomic shells like bash can work very well out of the box if you just train yourself to use them. If you train yourself to use bash without any plugins, you'll be strong on any machine without any config.

I went through a "distro hopping" phase at some point with Linux and ended up settling on a system with very little custom config. It's close to the defaults so I can work very comfortably even in a random server.

Of course this is not ideal. If you have a tool or set of config that you like, then you should use it. I've just found that the human brain can overcome bad UX quite well with a little effort ;)
Could Intel acquire, and then leave them alone (not mess with success)?
Somehow firmware updates should be enforced by consumers.

It doesn’t help, that there are so many different smartphone vendors, and the most of them are pursuiting only for sales. New chips are coming constantly, and old ones get forgotten, left unpatched.

Is the future of the smartphone market of secure phones only in the hands of big ones (Apple et al)?
Nordea weekly: Papers please, and how to trade them
A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated notion that some currently-popular new toy has "won" and forever displaced everything before it. Nothing really works that way.
Maybe we'll have room temperature superconductors but no promises on how strong the magnets will be developed from it.
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Ahahaha you fucking morons. Another mutation. When do you stop believing that bullshit. Fucking lunatics. Meanwhile people in Montana, Florida, etc. do literally nothing and literally nothing happens.
> Thiel bought a lot of PayPal equity for basically zero dollars in a tax-free account.

so he did pay his taxes - he paid the amount required by the financial instrument setup by the gov't (which happens to be zero here).

And his situation is fairly unique and rare - very few people invested in a startup via their retirement account, and have massive success.

For most people, their wealth would already have been taxed; e.g., people with excess savings that they put into investments such as property or shares.
Its actually going back to at least Jobs return to Apple in 1997. Apple financed Wifi card production line for their modem supplier in Taiwan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5NNxVwNwQ Arthur W. Astrin, sort of father of WiFi, hired by Apple to develop and incorporate 802.11b into their products. Spend most of 1998/99 flying West Coast-Taiwan twice a week (coordinating iBooks/iMacs manufacturing).

Made HP very happy:

>so I called up HP and I said "I need a spectrum analyzer. It needs to be at least three gigahertz,", and it would be nice if it was programmable. So, they whipped up something and next day the salesman shows up with this.. they call it HP Basic Language Computer. So we built 1, 2, then we ordered 10 then 50. All of a sudden HP started coming. The salesman
became my best friend. <Laughs> In fact, I think I was the largest order that year for the spectrum analyzer at HP

We are talking small car unit prices here.

Afaik they did the same for iPhone camera modules with Primax, who went from small time accessories and gadgets manufacturer to one of Taiwan titans.
Please point to the source of your 10% stat.

Obviously it's terrible that millions of people died. But then, millions of people died from the black plague, many die from car accidents, and preventable (via lifestyle changes) diseases. As an ex-scientist I work hard to take the long view on disease- that is, billions of years. Once you adopt this perspective and look at COVID, you realize that many aspects of it have been overreported in the press and that led many people to overestimate its relative danger compared to many other things we face on a regular basis.

The current reporting about the newest virus is a great example- the language is scary, but we have absolutely no data to tell us that this will have any global impact, nor that this represents any sort of phase change into a new situation.
The "Seattle is Dying" video produced by KOMO, the local TV station.

"60 Minutes" also ran a segment on the Seattle homeless a couple years ago. They went in looking for people who were down on their luck. They found drug addicts and alcoholics.
Plasma physicists are not, generally, making the decisions on where money goes. I begrudge them nothing, wherever employed: plasma fluid dynamics is the hardest kind of physics, and everyone who proves they can do it deserves mad props. They are not, anyway, particularly who the weapons people want.

Any impossibility found for aneutronic fusion does nothing to improve the commercial viability of hot-neutron fusion. If aneutronic fusion can't be made to work, the outer solar system will remain a lonely place.
Why not just have a switch that cuts both wires?
What numbers are you looking at to say the US has been in socioeconomic decline?
You didn't make anybody unhappy. You can say whatever you want in the Internet, nobody will bother to verify even if you post your home address here. We all know that you'd be freaked out, as regular person, if someone started intentionally making pictures of you or your daughter (if you have one).
People overworry about smart features. Just don't tell it your wifi password and now you have a dumb TV.
This was a huge hit to the budget and they had to save up their taxes for a few years to do it....
Could you please not perpetuate flamewars on HN so we don't have to rate-limit you again? This one was particularly tedious and regrettable, and the swipe in the comment I'm replying to here was particularly provocative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Researchers create a hydrogel as strong as shatterproof glass
Which ones don't support HDR and Atomos? All the major streaming apps I've tried do. And if they don't, and the android TV support is better, then you can just get an Nvidia Shield or FireTV

Bear in mind that AndroidTV recently got a "firetv like" treatment where they push ads to your home screen. A lot of Nvidia Shield owners are seriously upset, I assume the same hold true to Sony TVs.
No. It was also really bad that people outside China couldn’t have any contact with her for a while. That’s pretty bad too.
Correction: it's been continually updated since 2019. I'm not sure how to judge that one.

But given the uselessness of his git commit messages, I'm not inclined to judge leniently.
Yep. This is the same lesson that I learned in 2013 and again in 2015 with OpenCL, both for professional apps and for programming. On the professional app side, there was a lot of "support" for OpenCL that had caveats severe enough to make it unusable. Sure, blender supports OpenCL! You just have to make a custom build and then the GPU target is slower than the CPU target. Sure, Adobe apps support OpenCL -- but any GPU render contexts are solid black boxes and forum posts indicate it has been that way for a year and nobody cared to fix it. Same thing with programming and debugging: there were slides suggesting feature parity with CUDA on a bunch of fronts that just weren't implemented or locked up the computer if you tried to actually use them. It got so bad that I walked away from my sunk costs, sold my AMD cards, ate the ebay tax, ate the nvidia tax, and bought cards that actually worked.

Now I'm in "twice bitten, once shy" mode with AMD. I hate paying the green tax as much as the next guy and I desperately want to have a second source of professional GPUs, but I'm not going to be the guinea pig. Not again. Not for the 3rd time. I want to see someone else successfully using AMD cards for common ML workflows and for blender before I even consider risking it again.
This article comes from April 21, 2020, not Feb 2020 as GP mentioned. Apparently it was a Democrat response to a tweet announcing a border closure after the US had already seen 42000 deaths (fta). This looks like Democrats criticizing a policy of shutting the barn door after the animals had already left the barn.
Isaac Asimov Interview (1975)
Completely off topic, but there ARE fanatical collectors of scout badges, at least here in NZ. They attend scout jamborees, and we had to warn kids that they are brutal negotiators.
Breaking the site guidelines like this is not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Creating accounts to do it will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sarcasm much huh?

I reached this post from an rss reader
This happens, but is pretty rare. Using containers generally leads to much more reliable portability than trying to manage all the dependencies by hand.
Your own comment. 100% - 90% = 10% and that was marked as just a possibility.

> As an ex-scientist I work hard to take the long view on disease- that is, billions of years.

That's fine, but that timescale is not the timescale at which our lives are unfolding.

> Once you adopt this perspective and look at COVID, you realize that many aspects of it have been overreported in the press and that led many people to overestimate its relative danger compared to many other things we face on a regular basis.

Well, even if I take the most conservative figures I end up with millions of 'front-loaded' deaths, and 100's of thousands of deaths where 'premature' is probably an accurate figure. And that's before we get to take into account that this is long from being over.

> The current reporting about the newest virus is a great example- the language is scary, but we have absolutely no data to tell us that this will have any global impact, nor that this represents any sort of phase change into a new situation.

That is absolutely true. But at the same time we also don't have any data for the opposite: that this will not affect things at all. Policy makers are in a bind, anything they do that helps will come with a price tag, the cost of doing nothing is likely political suicide, the cost of doing too much is going to come at the price of a massive global recession (and possibly set the stage for future wars).

So now we get this stretched out slow motion train wreck, which is far from ideal as well. What would you suggest we do instead?
Yikes - posting like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: since all of your comments in the last 6 years have broken the site guidelines, I've banned the account. Admittedly there were only 3 of them, but that's still definitely not ok. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
And honestly, I d be the party, I d embrace it and move with it. If the Church can take it, so can the party, fix it and get on with it.

The fact one dude has a mistress he raped then followed on, doesnt need to reflect on the political model, the party legitimity, or China's success.

Just look at Trump and the republicans in the US, they rolled with it, Toad dick or not.
If operated at liquid helium temperature: pretty damn strong. You'd be running into issues with materials ripping themselves apart before hitting critical current or critical field.
That would require the folks in favor of Bitcoin to do more than just shill memes on Twitter and Reddit which seems currently beyond what they're capable of.
AI image synthesis is getting very close to being better at humans than art.
I worked with PHP solely for years and always thought the language was good for me but that it made it easy for codebases to go to shit. I’ve worked with half a dozen other languages now and have realized all codebases just suck for the individual because like all things people are heavily opinionated about how the code should be organized.

As for react, I work with a medium sized code base in the hundreds of thousands of lines and all I have to do is alt tab since it hot reloads for me. Don’t see how PHP is any better since it isn’t even hot reloading. Also with react I can update css and it doesn’t lose the state which is nice for debugging style changes.
One of my earliest memories was on a road trip to the Devon with my parents. The family got out of the car and went up to a hedge to try and pet a cow, and there were porno magazines propped up along the hedge as far as the eye could see.
Seems like a rich man's dream since the 90's with Paul Allen's funding of trialpha. Penicillin wasn't discovered from people throwing billions of dollars of research money around: a discovery that saved hundreds of millions of lives was simply a happy accident found by a pair of eyes that could put 2 and 2 together.
Move a Tropical Cyclone with 4D-Var and Vortex Dynamical Initialization in WRF
If you're gonna be calling a lot of external programs and interacting with files a lot, non-shell scripting languages tend to feel pretty clunky.

I know what you mean, though. Most shell languages don't feel like flexible, expressive programming languages in the way that they ought to and could.

As you may know, there are some new shells/languages that are trying to bridge the gap in a way that still leaves the shell well-suited to interactive use. The Oil shell wiki has a great list of them (and Oil is one such shell itself, of course): https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells
Yes. This exact issue with bedding companies has lead to several prosecutions.
For example, permanently making up fake prices just to advertise a discount:
- https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/snooze-admits-two-pric...
- https://www.accc.gov.au/public-registers/undertakings-regist...

What is it with bedding companies and criminal miss representation of prices?