skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They won't get it until they're using them to buy and sell tickets to events

I'm not really pro or anti-NFT. But, I will say that people frequently champion them by stating potential future use cases. I think it's unfair to do that as a basis for claiming current detractors have it wrong.

Right now most enthusiasts are heavily promoting the primary use case as essentially digitized files (be it JPEG or whatever--but mainly art).

So, that's the current argument, as opposed to some future wherein they supplant x or do y.
Most of it starts out with lower-skilled labor arbitrage.

However, in China, they are specifically working to steal technology from the west, by both requiring local "partnerships" for any business, and requiring exposure of IP, and training of workers. So, they are trying to leverage the low-cost labor abritrage into their own capabilities.

They are big enough that if they can keep the arbitrage going long enough, a generation or two, the original local industries in other countries are hollowed out and no one knows how to build it anymore. This has already happened.

This is also supported by keeping their own labor & environmental laws skirting abusive levels, so even if the wages increase, the overall costs are still lower than the other country.

If we are very lucky and diligent, we may be able to overcome that by leapfrogging them with automation, but we still need to become a bit protectionist to overcome the differences in labor and environmental protections to bootstrap a higher-skilled and much more automation-leveraged labor force.

also, we need to financially encourage non-Just-In-Time inventory management to reduce risk. The problem is again the short-term profits are increased by JIT management, but the tail risk of being screwed by supply chain issues is also largely increased. E.g., I just saw a headline on HN that BMW is eliminating touchscreens on several lines of cars because of chip supply issues. Higher costs, lower profits, and less-satisfied customers, but hey, they delayed the expense for those chips and didn't pay for warehouses to store them!

And that is an example of "brittleness" — too many single points of failure, that do not have a redundant backup system. Avoiding this is why it is smarter to have multiple sources for every item, maintain inventory, power your factory (or especially data center) with feeds from two grids, etc..
Troll has come to mean "anyone who acts bad" to like 90% of the people who use it these days. It has no meaning anymore. "Trolling" just means "doing something I don't agree with".
Ok, my 2 cents.

This happened because there isn’t enough vaccines in third world countries. They can’t afford them. The moral of the story?

It doesn’t matter if you 100% vaccinate your western country. We’re all in this together. When COVID spreads in Africa and makes a new strain, it may as well be on your own doorstep. The world needs to step up and distribute vaccines to every corner of the globe, for FREE, or we’ll never get out of this.

The only way you’ll stop this thing from mutating into a variant not covered by the vaccine is by eradicating it everywhere, simultaneously.
I mean technically, Omicron Persei 8 is a place name, so you're not wrong...
MERV-13 is pretty good. Better than 90% filtration at 1 micrometer and up. It then comes down to how many air changes you can expect.
> Congratulations, you are now a $40/hr employee!

Another way of thinking about this is that you've invested 10 dollars of your paycheck into your career. I worked way more than 50 hours a week when I started my career. Subsequently, I was able to drop out of school early (by 2 years, saving 10s of thousands of dollars), get a full time job, increase my compensation by 50% within 2 years, and then by 200% the following year when I changed companies.

By your math I'm sure I was getting paid 1/3rd of my actual compensation. But that has more than paid off in terms of the investment.
How to meet and work with hackers and design software if you have no experience?
>Copyright exists to force publishers to negotiate with creators that would otherwise have no leverage[0].

In my experience when I was thinking to publish something on phtostock I was presented with automatic contract stripping me from all of my "leverage" and if I disagree? it's their way or highway. Of course I could not agree to that. So experience was rather short as you might guess and no live person was even involved on their behalf.

So in my experience it seems that you need some other "leverage" to force publishers to negotiate with creators.
They appear functionally similar, but the coffee made is very different. A standard french press requires a coarse grind and you can only adjust extraction by changing the steep time. The Aeropress pushes coffee through a paper filter with an airtight seal. You can vary both grind size and steep time. Not only that, but you can vary extraction across the brew by very slowly pushing the coffee through the filter. (This is a very important feature of pressurized brewing methods such as espresso.)

These controls allow you not only to better tune for different beans, but to successfully make different styles of brew for a single type of coffee. (For instance, you can adjust those variables to successfully make a shorter, more espresso-like brew or a taller, more pour-over like one from the same coffee beans.)
Mac has really good memory management though (and you can improve linux’s by a great margin if you don’t have too much RAM by enabling zram).
I love the command palette in Sublime, but it doesn't cover every menu item, which seems weird. There are also, kinda 3 palettes:

Goto symbol

Goto Anything

Command Palette
I’ve seen this exact thing, Chrome iOS, for a couple of months now. Not just HN but also reddit and others
I'm pretty sure that Safari (and probably most browsers) on MacOS renders JPEGs via CoreImage, and I have seen hints that CoreImage has various GPU-accelerated pathways, though I don't know whether those include DCT or JFIF on the GPU.
Proof of work is good for jobs that require skill (science, technology, productivity, markets). It’s ok to have proof of stake (corporation shareholders) or proof of vote (communities, unions, families) for things that don’t require skill so much.
For anybody else looking, that particular command is called Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH.
I love that this is a simple good old school forum type of a community.
Haha, that's exactly mine. The car I'm talking about is a late-model Volvo.
> I don’t play games, ...

Stardew Valley is a load of fun and very much built with non-gamers in mind. It's pretty accessible (though you may want to keep the wiki handy). It's also really relaxing. You should try it out, you might really enjoy it.
How much of that money goes to the author instead of amazon?
Albert Einstein:

> Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.

Scientists get things wrong. I'm more concerned about someone who won't change their position when better information becomes available.
I’m the US if you’re unfortunate enough to be so ill that you cannot work you’re much worse off.
Oh, I'm not following the news on Delta or any other variants much, however, I just know people who are measuring the prevalence of variants in the general population in reasonable ways which would definitely cover also asymptomatic people (one is mass testing - e.g. right now 100% of local kids are getting weekly tests in schools, and all hospital admissions get tested even if it's e.g. a car crash, but there's also the viral analysis in sewer system, which is a cool way to get a total perspective on large populations), so studies about the severity of Delta (whatever they are saying) should not be distorted by the particular problem of asymptomatic cases not getting reported, the researchers now have good tools to get the "denominator" part correct.
Yes, Bitcoin effectively integrates the difficulty over the entire chain.
I find these stories hard to believe. An expensive top secret spy plane that is hard to fly, requires boatloads of fuel and maintenance allowed to make a detour for a joy ride flyby?
Come on, there are tons of people who believe that masks are the final answer. They should volunteer.
This was available on ubuntu unity in 2012.
>In most places project conventions are either not actually defined anywhere or if they are defined in writing, they're usually either very very old and outdated vs. the actual conventions that everyone is currently using or it's just one guy updating the text and hitting everyone else over the head with the document to push his opinion through.

So either admit your project doesn't have conventions, in which case, don't nit people who don't follow whatever convention exists in your head but isn't documented, or document the project conventions. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

That "one guy updating the text" is at least explicitly documenting expectations.

Per your "local consistency" comment, if "giraffe" is called "gorilla" in every other file (aka "global consistency"), it sounds like you're just setting up more work for some developer to take care of. Consider leaving a comment and start using the globally consistent name, rather than propagating more inconsistency (technical debt). Perhaps more aptly put, what you call "local consistency" sounds like "global inconsistency" to me.
Why would you prefer an e-ink over a regular tablet with colored screen as a replacement for paper notebooks? Isn't having colors available an advantage?

My primary incentive for buying an Air 2 (I'm still on the fence) would be to use it as an e-book reader that I can use in the evening without having to worry about blue light interfering with my bio rythm. And from what I read - most e book readers are crap. (Kindle is out of the question for me as I hate Amazon and avoid it where I can - except for AWS which is 50% of my job).
Yeah, and humanity used to believe in miasma theory too. Fauci being wrong and then correcting himself later is a good thing, actually.
There is nothing wrong with a union standing by its members. But do nurses investigate themselves? The police does. Can you get banned from the police? They get rehired all the time in a different department. How many nurses get fired when testifying or speaking out against other nurses? Happens to cops all the time. Christopher Dorner himself as well as the manhunt should be enough evidence that something is seriously wrong.

> but wouldn't an honest mistake be considered less serious than neglect or abuse usually?

I'm sorry if I wasn't more clear but I'm not talking about honest mistakes but neglect and/or abuse. Of course mistakes can happen.
> That practice, where the person hiring always defaults to the white person, even in a mixed group of people with equal skill, is what's problematic, and what needs to be tackled.

Yes, I agree this needs to be tackled (an understatement I know). We need to stamp out the racism that non-white people routinely face. As far as hiring goes, I feel a lot of progress has been made on this front, but I don't have any idea if that feeling is correct.

> Yet people have already begun imagining the most extreme fantasy scenario possible... bad thing is that when you start imagining that, some people actually start doing it because they think they have to. Repeat a lie enough, and people will start thinking it's the truth.

I'm not certain exactly what you are referring to here. I was going to comment on it but then realised maybe I have completely misunderstood. What fantasy scenario and lie are you referring to here? And what is it that people start actually doing?
Three words: Industrial Dance Battle

You're welcome.
Pretty useless statement. No interesting information.
"There were a lot of things we couldn't do in a Cessna 172, but we were some of the slowest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact."

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/e6r7gv/
That’s still not really true. Your healthcare is approximately free when employed and you pay ~1k/mo when unemployed. But your saving rate is much much larger so that expense isn’t actually high. I think the bigger issue is housing prices (if you live in US hcol) as even modest apartments can be 3k+.
I bought a OnePlus 6 for this exact reason. I think a OnePlus 5(t) would work better since the notch gets in the way on the 6(t)!
Not had any issues with Safari on iOS.
Who the hell knows why. Communism understands nihilism a lot better than building societies. So, the effects are a more random.
Again a tooling limitation. Use github or horizontal diffs.
> and a few well known electron/react native apps that play music and let you chat with your colleagues.

This is the whole point: devs with 32gb/64gb machines looking at their own app taking 1gb aren't going to realize that for many people this is 25% of the available non-os ram (8g system with 4g free non kernel / other.
Keep an eye out for the Pinephone Pro.

https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

It's still not crazy-fast, but it's definitely more competitive than the original PinePhone.

> Rockchip RK3399S 64bit SoC – 2x A72 and 4x A53 CPU cores @ 1.5GHz

> ARM Mali T860 4x core GPU @ 500MHz

> 4GB LPDDR4 @ 800MHz

> 128GB eMMC flash storage

> Optional micro SD card (SDXC up-to 2TB)

> 6″ 1440 x 720 in-cell IPS with Gorilla Glass 4™

> 3MP Sony IMX258 main camera

> 5MP OmniVision OV5640 front-facing camera

> Samsung J7 form-factor 3000mAh

> $399
IMO it's about UX than touchscreen vs physical controls.

I bought a new Toyota tacoma and it has the worst UX I've seen in a vehicle. The touchscreen UI is bad, the physical button layout is terrible also. It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out how to turn off the truck bed light. The steering wheel button placement is also horrible.

Even the push to start button has like 3 different modes (which I don't fully understand). A number of pushes for accessories only, accessories + power windows, ignition.
They do pay people for that - the salaries at MAANG are inflated as is.
I think the person meant that it only took seconds of total contact time to cause an infection. Even if the infection took days to develop.
Great video! For those wondering, it goes into queuing theory and complex systems theory and how they apply to wait times at theme parks, but honestly a lot of it could be applicable to an engineering tuning their load balancer or their app, or how to process a waitlist for your startup, or many other applications of queuing theory to an engineer.
Not to mention MyAnonymouse...
Small creators don't lobby the government in order to extend copyright duration for the nth time.
Are you describing the current state of on-call? Because that is what it is.

There should be no rotation; there should be no on-call in the first place. If hiring staff to work normal hours is too expensive for the company, then the company has bigger problems than a service going down.
Serious question: can you make phone calls or send/receive texts with pmOS?
The fact that this has been discovered in Africa doesn’t mean that it originated there in the first place.

> Several scientists said they suspected that the variant had been spreading undetected in countries with lackluster sequencing efforts before it surfaced in Botswana and South Africa, giving it more time to scatter globally. Nevertheless, European nations did not find the variant until after South Africa alerted them to it, demonstrating the gaps in their own surveillance efforts. [0]

More on this can also be found here [1].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/27/world/africa/coronavirus-...

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/graemecodrington_interesting-...
Ground Zero was Botswana[0]. South Africa is the country leading the research and monitoring because they have an exceptionally strong epidemiological community and facilities.

(And, yes, a very low vaccination rate.)

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/covid-what-we-know-about-the-omicron-v...
even if you produce and freely distribute enough vaccines, you will never achieve adequate vaccination rates

there is no "eradicating" covid, that is a non-goal
The truth is that other services break , the network breaks , and someone will believe it’s your software and it will be your burden to prove it at 2am in the morning .
>In a statement provided to the AP, the WHO said it skipped nu for clarity and xi to avoid causing offense generally.

>“‘Nu’ is too easily confounded with ‘new,’ and ‘Xi’ was not used because it is a common last name,” the WHO said, adding that the agency’s “best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding ‘causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.’”

>Those best practices were outlined in a May 2015 document issued by the agency. The organization said at the time that it wanted to “minimize unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people” when naming infectious diseases.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...
Ah good catch, yes you are correct.
My panel brightness knob is also the button that resets the trip meter.
Very true; and even if Omicron turns out to be less dangerous than previous variants, it's a case of when, not if, a deadlier variant will emerge from a poorly-vaccinated population.
This happens elsewhere, too. I notice it particularly on Reddit, where viewing comments on a post then going back to the list of posts reloads the page, but doesn’t display it until I “jiggle” the scroll bar. iOS 14 here.
Assume what you like
Isn’t this statistic in itself a little misleading though? Given that so many people are vaccinated now, the proportion of hospitalizations would be expected to trend higher in that group as the pool of unvaccinated people is shrinking at the same time.

Also, the eldest people (largely those most at risk of hospitalisation) are substantially more likely to have been vaccinated already, no?
Every oncall rotation I've been in for the past five years has had C-suite executives in it. Earlier the CTO, currently the CEO.
Even the small startups I have worked for A/B test everything they can within inches of its life to eke out an extra penny and a half. This is standard operating procedure.
I have hated every touchscreen I've seen in every car, including and especially the Tesla, with the sole exception of touch-enabled implementations of CarPlay.

It just seems like a bad idea. I have, for my whole driving life (so 35 years) often adjusted car settings by feel, without looking away from the road. Touch screens ruin that.
The author's objection to proof-of-stake seems to be based entirely on some ostensibly-inherent vulnerability to the nothing-at-stake problem, but at least one consensus protocol¹ has had explicit mitigations against that vulnerability (and numerous others) for almost half a decade now, and I'd be very surprised if other protocols haven't adopted any mitigations at all.

¹: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf
Digital signature tells you that the owner of the key signed it. Not who currently owns the key.
I loved that game! I also remember it being one of the very first commercial games actually being released for Linux. Actually being able to buy and play a game on Linux was a pretty big deal.
Imagine all those anti vaxxers' complaints about "It's being rushed out too quickly" and "It hasn't been studied yet" magnified with your proposed express schedule. Do you think there wouldn't have been vaccine hesitancy in those 100k?
Apple: "16GB is enough for reasonable people"

Every professor at uni: "Ten days is plenty of time to complete this project."
RIP Virgil.
> it also may decrease the attack vector in our societies for airborne bio-terrorism/warfare

Sounds extremely far-fetched. Any terrorist attack will be designed with the countermeasures in mind. Deploying enough biological agent to swamp the ventilation system would likely not be an issue.
later his wife asked "did you go fast?2

and the guy said "oh yes, very fast!"

the wife asked "like really really fast?"

he answered "really really really fast!"

and the children entered the kitchen asking "how fast did you go?"

and daddy said "pretty fast"

and ...
Making the same switch now. Any advice on a guide for starting in the right direction?
Nearly everything toxic can be made non-toxic. Sometimes it's just expensive or hard to do.

Sounds like the issues here are heavy metals and sulfuric acid. Both of those are treatable.

Presumably just paying this guy is cheaper tho.
> R’s package ecosystem is creaky and brittle even for statistics and visualization

Explain what you mean by this. It’s a big claim without any supporting evidence.
Ubuntu had that with their Unity UI since at least 2012:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yzdfLbKQy08/XMqOc0TkS0I/AAAAAAAAV80/oe6jGTCdAiwLQrk5cfI6e82TAyo2y6fFACLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2019-05-02%2B13-29-46.png

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1SSxfxI-2WQ/XMqNh1byhBI/AAAAAAAAV8s/uf3v9x3_mP806tPp-chXntSUNIuyD5f1gCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2019-05-02%2B13-25-33.png

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oNj-HJIiWIc/XMqRaQZUjaI/AAAAAAAAV88/d0VgS8q3Yb8AFaJ-EOVtM2PAXf2jJlijgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot%2Bfrom%2B2019-05-02%2B13-42-23.png
Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain
Shutting down what.cd should be considered a crime against humanity. I will never forgive copyright holders for that.
I had a septoplasty (to fix a deviated septum) and a turbinate reduction via submucosal debrider. For the first two weeks after the operation, I experienced severe Empty Nose Syndrome. I felt like I was suffocating and short of breath all of the time. I slept two hours every night. It was excruciating in a way that I simply cannot put into words. After two days, I had thoughts of ending my life. It was that bad.

Luckily I've healed since the operation but still have mild symptoms a few months after. For a while, I had too much "openness" in my nose which felt like there was little to no air resistance. I still get that sometimes. I'm lucky though because I'm back to 70% normal. However, I'm in a private Facebook group for ENS sufferers with over 3,000 people and reading about their daily struggles is absolutely brutal, especially since I was going crazy after experiencing them for only a week or two.

For anyone considering a turbinate reduction, DO NOT DO IT. The risks are too great, and unfortunately the ENT community has a perverse incentive to hide the facts. To give you a sense of this, the week after my operation when I was struggling with the suffocating feeling, I told my ENT surgeon and he coldly offered to give me antidepressants. I was shocked and livid, because I knew that he knew exactly what was going on, but instead of acknowledging the problem, he tried to sweep it under the rug and treat it as a psychological illness. I guarantee you as someone who's experienced it, it is everything except for psychological.

You won't find good data on ENS risk because almost no ENTs will actually diagnose it. My primary ENT (not the ENT surgeon who performed the operation) basically told me that I didn't have it because I still had my turbinates. This is also blatantly false [0]. My ENT suggested that I should see a pulmonologist but my lungs are totally fine. They will do everything they can to deny and deflect responsibility. Don't let yourself been their next victim.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have more questions or are considering getting a turbinate reduction. My contact info is in my profile. I cannot urge you strongly enough to avoid this operation at all costs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVWHOQ7P3wk&t=6m13s
Did better information become available, or was he misleading the public to prevent people buying too many masks making it harder for medical staff to acquire them?

Either way the quote is important to inform people who may not be aware, that a Fauci quote is not necessarily the end all be all factual information the media would have you believe it is.