skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are free not to buy

There do already exist pieces of legislation that cripple the acceptability not of one vehicle, but whole categories of vehicles (and practically potentially all of them). One such is the "E-call" in Europe.
Would militarization of the oceans fund the practical colonization of the oceans? What about the militarization of Antarctica?

> then it could effectively attack most satellites in earth orbit and rockets attempting to reach orbit

This is the High Ground thesis, dating back to the 1950s (see https://thespacereview.com/article/396/1 and http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/he-who-contro... ).

It takes a couple of days to get from the Moon to the Earth. A Moon base could not prevent rockets from reaching orbit.

I'm pretty sure the US, and likely also Russia, can already effectively attack most satellites in earth orbit, so if that's the goal, a Moon base seems needless.
Your comments about Australia are incorrect. We have one "quarantine camp", Howard Springs in Darwin, and it is only for incoming travellers. Two are being constructed and will be used longer term, and not just for COVID, remembering that Asia has been through a number of equivalent pandemics (SARS, MERS) over the last 20 years.

Those that arrive through other locations (eg Melbourne, Sydney) etc were quarantined through hotel quarantine, which had/has leaks.

Our infection rate from COVID is substantially lower than other countries of similar size and economy, our hospitalization and death rates are substantially lower as well.

We have achieved 80-90+% vaccination rates for the majority of the population (ie 12+) and have started rolling out the 3rd shot/booster as well as planning for vaccination of 5+ starting early next year, hopefully getting 5+ kids vaccinated early in the school term.

The people protesting and complaining are a very small but noisy minority, and their arguments are becoming less and less relevant. In the two largest states, Victoria and NSW, we are "living with" COVID, with minimal restrictions (masks in internal retail spaces, hospitals and other vulnerable population locations, requirement for double vaccination in most businesses etc).

We're not trying (anymore) to "eradicate" covid, we're adapting to it, but in a way that maximizes safety and minimizes risk.
The expanse of road environments where it's totally reasonable and safe to drive with which there are no lines is pretty large. Driving an unsealed country road could look to the cars metrics like I am driving drunk for example.

The "you are free to not buy" argument is not valid if it's a regulation for all new cars. Eventually all viable road legal car stock will contain the regulated device.
I find it hilarious that users are complaining about the UX. It's an advent calendar! It says so in the subtitle "A Festive Countdown". Did these same users complain to their parents if/when they got an advent calendar for Christmas? "Mother, this advent calendar has awful usability. Why can't I access all of the chocolate immediately?"
Haha most Googlers I know work closer to 30 hours a week.
> Plenty of pandemics have come and gone, this one will pass too

A lot of them lasted for centuries. People would get it and play the lottery, maybe 3 in 10 would die, the rest develop immunity for example.

Most pandemics either end because too many people die, and you're only left with the immune survivors, like the plague. Or they end because of improvement to public health and sanitary practices. Vaccines ended smallpox, condoms and awareness reduced AIDS impact, better water sanitization ended cholera, even the plague ended with help by quarantine and lockdowns.

I'm not sure how this one will end, but they almost never "just end" magically. Either some level of herd immunity is achieved, for example by having everyone have it very quickly, and being left with only immune survivors, or the spread is contained through public measures, or immunity is achieved through vaccination, or a drug to cure it is found.
Pattern based spatial analysis in r
> Using all of Windows, macOS, and Linux in a typical day makes you an extreme outlier.

Another extreme outlier here, so according to the 100/10/1 rule of 100 readers/10 voters/1 commenters we have 200 extreme outliers just in this thread ;-)

(Although I should note that I don't use all of them every day. Mac is a Mac mini in our office at home, Linux is both on a work laptop and also on an old personal laptop that gets used for personal learning and personal projects, Windows is a work laptop. Telegram an Joplin gets used across all of them.)
More likely it is a response to Andy Ngo, Project Veritas, and accounts like Libs of TikTok.
Fortunately there is now COVID, so the ruined health care system can be framed afterwards as having been caused by the unvaccinated.
Gap year, 100% the best thing I had done at university.
This happens in Canada also. Bills are bundled with all sorts of new legislation, but the title of the bill usually refers to just one. The title is also very often given a politically favorable 'save the children ' jingo, disguising the true meaning of the functionality of the legislation.
Perhaps they missed whatever point you were making, but your comment is largely offtopic.
“I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.” -- FDR
Not just that; how long does it last while idle/sleeping? Pretty much forever; the MacBook Air I have for random OSX tasks and testing Linux on sporadically goes over a week between charges.

These things are very power efficient while actually computing, but they are extremely power efficient while idle. The whole SoC uses a couple dozen milliwatts while in active idle state (e.g. screen off, machine up and responding to pings via WiFi).
As are pretty much all papers ever written
There are places where it delivers where there is no internet.
A large chunk of those deaths is due to the lack of urgency to get people vaccinated, as well as, somehow, your political allegiance deciding whether you get vaccinated, stop spreading disease by mask usage etc.

The US is one of the worst examples of COVID response, both during Trump's era and the post-Trump/QAnon/Fox/OAN/etc spread of bullshit propaganda.

It's not Xmas/Thanksgiving that's the issue, it's the lack of following logical safety and vaccination measures, somehow tied to "freedom" without considering the "general welfare".
Off-topic

> but the very concept that any amount of slouching is tolerable to someone in this profession should be outrageous. We spend decades deforming our backs to sit in chairs.

Would you be interested in a tool which reminds you to take a walk at regular intervals without any action from you when you're seated and immersed with work?

I'm trying to validate the need to refine and make my 'Butt Pomodoro'[1] more accessible.

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/butt-pomodoro-a-butt-triggered-po...
I don't disagree visuals may be better (where better is likely "more configurable" or "more performant" in specific cases), but in many ways your art team and shader team matters FAR more than the underlying engine these days.

If you are a small indie team, you'd do well to pick and engine that has a strong community, momentum, and perhaps most importantly - one that you're willing and able to dive into the internals of to fix/debug things when they go wrong.
I would argue that this person is not a great hire for you then.
If they cannot contribute to something you actually need, how could them bring awesome at something else help?

Imagine a different situation - there's a fellow engineer who's also an olympic gold medalist in some sport. They may be awesome to have around. They may have cool stories. They may have connections. But unless they can harness that towards sometging that helps your mission - it really won't make them any better as an engineer.
Spying in itself is a military act. Sure everyone does it but that doesn't make it nicer.
'Magic dirt': How the internet fueled, and defeated, the pandemic's weirdest MLM
Ironically, Nvidia restated earnings slightly upward as opposed to Enron overreporting by $600M. Not so sure whether that was "cooking the books" or just playing fast and loose with ambiguous accounting laws which is in my experience what accountants do, but they did get caught, no argument there and the CFO was fined. But I wonder who else would get caught doing similar things of similar magnitude if their annual statements were scrutinized in as much detail here specifically looking for trouble.

As for the inside trading employees, they were fools. Good luck keeping out fools like that once you have a hundred or more employees or why do some googlers stalk their ex partner's search histories? Why do some Amazon employees snoop on Alexa recordings? Why do some Facebook employees look at the private friends list of their ex partners? Etc. There was a second insider trading investigation in 2014 that was handled quietly and efficiently unlike this fiasco. That one seemed a bit more nefarious and systematic IMO and yet no one compared it to Enron. Funny that.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-sec-accounting-prob...

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2014-82
Exactly. And I'm just not willing to accept that these recommendations change overnight and now politicians are making these recommendations in place of doctors.
Two questions: How long have they been in that position? Have they advanced recently?

Genuinely curious.
I love flow fields. They are simple, yet elegant and efficient. They are flexible, which Tyler Hobbs shows very nicely in the linked article.

A few months ago I stumbled over that article, and it made me instantly want to try them out. Here's an experiment I made for my website (WIP):

https://preview.fdumont.net/generative/flow-field
> The artist typically gets the payment only long after completing the work.

Not that long; IIRC, the vast majority of the money made for most artistic works is received within the first decade after creation; the share of artistic works returning much after that compared to before is small.

Sure, the works you’ve heard of are often exceptions to this, but that's because you are vastly more likely to be aware of things way out in the successful tail end of the distribution.
Does this handle ambiguity in definitions/standardization of expressions? Like, if I define entropy H(q,p) with mesures q (X), p(X) and with mesures a (y),b(y) , can I use the mathlingua parser to abstract this to the same representation? Or is it strictly a presentation layer?
Regarding "which government" don't we already solve that issue today? The holder of a copyright (or patent) today will often economically benefit the country they reside in. Recognition is mutual because otherwise the system wouldn't work. Sometimes there are disagreements, for example India and certain pharmaceuticals.

I guess the real issue is how such a system would cope with different countries setting different fees. Would this need to be agreed on globally in order to work? Otherwise you could register your copyright in a country with a more favorable fee structure yet enjoy the same global protections.
MirageOS (unikernel) plug:

https://mirage.io/

and repo:

https://github.com/mirage/mirage
Good question. The answer is that HN is community driven and that what ends up on it reflects on the qualities of its diverse readership.

But I agree that this bit of writing comes across as a bit overly assertive and arrogant; and probably trivially proved wrong by actually running some benchmarks.

By the same reasoning, the Apple M1 would obviously be slower than anything Intel and AMD produce given similar energy and transistor density constraints (i.e. same class of hardware). Except that obviously isn't the case and we have the Macbook air with the M1 more than holding up against much more expensive Intel/AMD chips. Reason: chips don't actually work like this person seems to assume. The whole article is a sandcastle of bad assumptions leading up to an arrogantly worded & wrong conclusion.
>Knowing that the vaccine doesn't prevent the person from getting and spreading covid.

Vaccines reduce the risk of spreading the virus. People who are vaccinated are less likely to get seriously ill. This absolutely doesn't mean you won't die if you are vaccinated. Think seat belts in car accidents. It is all about reducing risk. On mass, at population levels, this means ICU have capacity to take in other seriously ill people. If ICUs are full and there is a plane crash or whatever where many people are seriously injured we are screwed.
Yeah my heart hurt as well, and it's associated with heart inflammation especially in men and athletic people. I really really don't want to take the booster shot since it's only 100% negative for me with no benefit whatsoever, and an extremely far fetched and vague benefit for society/someone else.
Wow.

What does that do to the existing used car stock? Good luck getting usable metrics out of my '96 Nissan.

Also, Florida, where you can drive the inside of a car without the outside of the car and that's totally fine. How could a monster truck high lifted F150 be considered safe, or a 1500hp rollcage on wheels be considered safe, in the same breath as this legislature.
I was thinking of it being sold to management as a typesetting system because Bell didn't do OS development. Unfortunately I don't have a reference immediately at hand.
I think you have a typo in the front page example. It says "F(x) is indefinite integral of f(x) on A", but the interval is "I".
The answer, still, is yes. But that was clear, based on the revenue numbers that prompted your question.

It might be more productive to ask "how" you (and I) became so "out of touch" (relatively), and if it's such a bad thing.
It's not the normal way of doing things, but omnibus bills show up in Canada from time to time. Other countries aren't immune either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_bill

The bills are designed to make the politics easier, at least for the Canadian bills I've read about.

The complexity makes the bills difficult to understand and scrutinize. This makes them nearly impossible to cover in a parliamentary debate and makes it impossible to inform the public about their implications, even in broad strokes. The lack of context makes the interpretation of the ensuing laws more difficult.

At least, that's what I've absorbed from reading up on the issue when it's come up in Canada.
Did they try paying them more? Or did they run out of money paying off pharma?
The key is the "any arbitrary program".

With zk-snarks, I can, theoretically, run some complex analysis of some data -- imagine something that requires millions of compute hours -- and provide a receiver (a) the answer, and (b) a compact hash-like proof that (a) is correct *without* receiver having to re-run the calculation to trust the answer.
The 20% time rule might be useful in attracting good developers and keeping them from leaving too soon. So in the end it might be more profitable for the company to pay people to play around.
Financial Institutions Usher in New Opportunities
> How's our track record at preventing influenza or the common cold, both of which are transmitted as airborne viruses

Anecdotally, me and my family have not been sick with the cold or flu ounce since all the Covid measures started. Normally we all get sick with the cold or flu at least ounce a year if not more, but now for over 2 years not sick ounce.

So it does seem like the measures do work to contain the spread of airborne disease to some extent. Will it be enough to eradicate Covid, probably not, that I can concess.
In science these types of questions are part of the interview (either implicit or explicit), with maybe more added emphasis on future work and vision depending on the rank of the scientist.
Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications
These are not additive however. If you are a daytrader for instance you will buy and sell, say amazon, multiple times in a week, and will clear your portfolio over the weekend or holidays etc. If you do statistical arbitrage/mispricing you keep for weeks usually and you have to account for slippage. (You always have to account for slippage.)

So a 0.5% trading back and forth trying to converge on a price and meet some new demand either way is stable state and it can involve the same players (buyers/sellers incl. market makers). Now imagine if the market suddenly demands an extra 5-10 billion of dollars per week on top of the existing stable demand. The money has to be introduced in the market somehow. It means that for me it must be worth it more to buy amazon over something else in my investing horizon. And even with margin I expect this is going to raise the collateral the clearing houses would require. Now also imagine a SEC entry (form 4) stating that 4% is dropping on the market. A recent example is Elon Musk with Tesla and he tricked people into thinking it was their choice and to my knowledge he still has not sold that whole 10% of his position.(Not 10% of the company...)
The Debian and RPM packages are signed, as the installation instructions clearly show: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-11-ug/g...
I thought brilliant pebbles was long cancelled?
As someone who worked in Israel and is familiar with the tech scene there firsthand I can testify to the fact that the entire cybersecurity industry is intertwined with the IDF and the Israeli government to such a degree that any differentiation that could be made would be purely superficial.

The intelligence units of the IDF are petri dishes in which the talent that later creates the very cybersecurity firms whose products are sold under the direct supervision of the Israeli government is cultivated. There is an entire framework focused around funding and training these graduates of intelligence units to create commercial companies that are essentially subsidiaries of the IDF. And these companies don't discriminate when it comes to sales - clients include tyrants, criminal organizations and even Muslim states. Big corporations e.g. Microsoft are also involved, as they usually end up buying these infosec enterprises, essentially funding the Israeli government / military.

It's truly disturbing to see the opportunistic nature of all of this.
This is accurate. The socialized health care system in Germany worked fine for multiple decades, until a few years ago our government decided to reimburse hospitals not based on days a patient spends there (which created perverse incentives, agreed) but rather based on diagnosis. So, a hospital earns X euros for every patient with condition X, creating other perverse incentives, and resulting in less money for the hospitals, which of course trickled down to nurses.
For some settings we have unconditional zero-knowledge; we don’t need to make any assumptions. This is called perfect ZK or statistical ZK
I work at one such company. The amount of resources thrown into X is disturbing, and any attempts to discuss benchmarking changes so that the useleness of X can be revealed are shut down aggresively.
The egregious part is that they reduced ICU beds last summer, they even had monetary incentives to reduce them.

Meanwhile vaccinating anyone < 60 has a very small benefit and it should be up to choice. Myokarditis side effects from the vaccine are probably bullshit, you can get it from almost all infections, so I expect it to see for every vaccine. We probably have no data since we lack operation of this scale.

But people here are afraid (typical) and even demand harsher policies. They also seem incapable to hold political leaders to account. Politics basically failed to prepare for the next wave, which was known to be happening quite a long while ago. Instead we had an embarrassing slap-fight between different states. One more stupid than the other.

Also you cannot just get a vaccine, you have to actively search for places that administer them. Pretty sure that I won't renew mine again, since this is just not acceptable.

I would advise you to ask a doctor, even if those aren't too keen to get another patient with vaccine trouble, but getting a vaccine in an active wave might not be the best health recommendation.
The idea being discussed here is being branded a 'decentralised' startup to make it sound sexy and crypto, but honestly, to me it feel like 'open source' covers the idea better.
More than 10 years ago
In many applications of zero knowledge proofs, you prove knowledge of solution to a puzzle that need not have a solution. E.g. graph isomorphism, a 3-coloring, a Sudoko puzzle. So the probability of guessing the solution can be 0, while there's a nonzero probability of convincing a verifier.
Here are a couple for sure:

- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/08/miss/
- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/13/firewall/

maybe these too:

- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/08/17/potato/
- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/11/10/scale/
It didn't work when I tried to pass through a virtualized GVT instance in Catalina a couple years ago.

Although this all will not matter once macOS becomes exclusive to Apple Silicon.
Yeah, and in germany using the heating in your home is basically considered an unnecessary luxury, while in Sweden it's always included in the rent, and always on.
The paper refers to "volume" frequently (I quoted some examples), but I'm unclear on what "volume" means. Is it the thing that's being frozen? The space that it's being frozen in? Something else?

> In recent years, taking its roots from the biomedical industry, isochoric (constant volume) freezing is gaining both research and commercial interest as an effective method of food preservation.

> During isochoric freezing, the volume of the system remains constant while variables like pressure and temperature vary in tandem.

Edit: Having read a bit further, I think "volume" is the space that the thing is being frozen in. I'm don't really understand how that's different to normal freezing though: my freezer doesn't change size when I freeze something in it.

> "In a typical isochoric process, the food material is immersed in an isotonic solution inside a rigid container that is capable of withstanding elevated pressures."