skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very particular kind of writing style happening here that I think I attribute to Matt Levine:

> If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits.

> That seems kind of bad for AWS? I don't know, we ignored a bunch of stuff here.

> …

> I'm not so sure? I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. My company, like most, spent far more money on engineer salaries than the cloud itself. Putting precious eng time on a cloud migration isn't worth it unless cloud spend starts to become a significant fraction of your gross margins. Which is true for some companies! But those are in a minority.

I like this style -- conversational, well-cited, like an industry insider giving you an off-the-cuff read on their discipline at a party -- and I'm glad we're seeing more of it. Do I misattribute it to Money Stuff? Was someone doing it before?

(Some of my formative reading experiences were with Art Buchwald and Erma Bombeck and I think I see a hint of that too.)
For large proportions of people a misbehaving operating system is just "how computers work" and it would be like complaining that water is wet.
They might mean things like having all their file type associations wiped out because feature updates insist on doing that, rather than literally having their profile destroyed.

Then again, I've seen Windows do weirder things.
> Most people just don't like being told what to do

Bingo. I live in a "blue part" of red Indiana and this is the conclusion I've come to as well. It's extremely frustrating knowing that masks work when everyone wears them, but you are basically powerless to make a change when 90% of the people around you don't wear a mask at all, and 9 of 10 remaining folks that do wear one aren't wearing it correctly. I imagine that most of my neighbors are good folks that want to do something to help, but you can't control the people around you.

If we could simply grant that "we don't like being told what to do" at the outset of the argument, I think we'd get a lot further in the national conversation. But "you can't tell me what to do" isn't a winning legal argument, so we get religious objections, and bogus "harm of the vaccine" studies with even more outrageous arguments, simply because those people who didn't like the idea of a mandate are smart enough to know they actually stand a chance in court with those arguments.
Multiplayer Psychosis (2020)
I don't think you read the (brief) article.

> In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older [[2]
]. This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9% on 27. October 2021 (Figure 1) providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission.
A Prototype Neo Socratic Space+Time Trajectory Dialog
Dear Hacker News,

What if we, code monkeys, are destined to continue Albert Einstein's great quest?

Last week I was wrangling some nasty nested json. Maybe you have done similar work. I started fiddling with generic traits in python 3.10. It felt suspiciously easy to convert any arbitrary thought directly into code, once I had an easy way to do duck typing.

Anyway, I started having a fake conversation with myself, just asking dumb Socratic questions, and randomly stumbled on what appeared to be, new physics! New to me, anyway…

What if Space+Time is a statement about Duck Typing?

What if Epictetus' "dichotomy of control" is both a statement about about functional purity (1000s of years ago) and also the best way to explain quantum weirdness? (more externals, less freedom)

What if AI is the engineering branch of philosophy?
Is that more or less scary re: Overlords?

Structure = persistence over time
Function = change over time
Trajectory = Structure + Function
Truthy = that which agent believes
Falsy = that which agent does not believe
Information = that which reduces uncertainty about Truthy and Falsy
Computation = Information + Trajectory
Simulation = Computation + Random + Unroll
Simulation = Information + Trajectory + Random + Unroll
Reality = Probabilistic + Trajectory + Random + Unroll
Probabilistic = ?
Probabilistic = that about which agent is uncertain
Probabilistic == Information? Isn't information all about probability?
Reality = Information + Trajectory + Random + Unroll
Reality == Simulation
>>> True

Anyway, how can we formulate new Space+Time Trajectory Theories to explicitly model common abstract patterns about the ways things move over time?

Thank you for your work and thank you for taking the time to read (as much or as little as you wish)

Bion at bitpharma.com
Facebook has only become as popular in Ukraine as it is to fill the void created by the government blocking VKontakte. And some Ukrainians I know do still use VKontakte despite that.
I agree with the general principle of naive vs. specialized solution.

Using AoC day 1 is probably not a good example of it however, because a lot of modern languages offer streaming iterators, so the naive, declarative solution will still not need to load all the values into memory at once.
>why not?

I don't think even the most vocal opponents of masks saying we should ban them, if you want to wear a mask forever that's your business. I'd be monumentally miffed if mandates were in force forever though, especially in the half-arsed way we have them in the UK which is so arbitrary it makes a mockery of the whole concept.
PC/GEOS took the Motif appearance, but I'm pretty certain that it didn't include the actual Motif toolkit. The source was essentially all hand-tuned x86 assembly. It would have been impossible to simply repackage anything from SunOS (Solaris didn't exist yet).
Have you tried making a discord server? My server is my social media entirely now and I love it. The hard part is getting non gamers into it.

I wish we could force advasarial integration on social media like we did with telephones. Imagine only being able to call and talk to only other people on the Sprint network.

Let the tech companies compete on UX and what they do with your data. Don't hide my friends and family away from me
Show HN: Social Knowledge Base with Microtransactions
Yeah, I think actually 11 is just a testing ground for 12.
Even better: practice defense in depth and do both.
They really don't want people like Andy Ngo posting photos of people rioting / committing crimes / etc.

They also REALLY don't like that Project Veritas uses their service to link people to undercover videos of big tech companies admitting to doing shady stuff. Big tech covers for big tech.
I don't understand your theory of when it's appropriate to impose restrictions before you have enough data to know they are useful or necessary.

Is your suggestion, what, to impose the strictest restrictions possible everywhere, forever, just in case, because by the time we know it's really necessary it's too late, so we should always do it without knowing it's necessary?

Like, what do you think should trigger restrictions? Just finding a variant? Should all the variants Alpha through Mu have triggered global worldwide lockdown, because if they had turned out more dangerous than they did, by the time we had found that out it would have been too late? Basically we should lock down until there are no more variants? (Will that ever happen?)
Generally: unbinding the leaves of a book so that they can be more easily handled by a scanner, often including an automated feeder.

The simplest method is to simply cut off the binding (a powered paper cutter can do this in an instant).

The alternative is nondestructive scanning, where the binding and publication as a whole remain intact. This is typically performed using flatbed scanners, angled scanners (the book is either face up or face down on a scanning bed which typically forms a ~90 degree angle), automated feeders which incorporate page turning (via numerous methods), or face-up scanning with digital deconvolution of page distortions. Higher speed presents higher risks of both poor / missed scans, and damaging original materials. Methods should be tuned to the materials, their intrinsic value and/or uniqueness, and end goals.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning#Destructive_scan...

There are numerous book-scanning projects with YouTube videos of their methods.
Typical rates range from ~300 -- 3,000 pages/hour, with 1,000 pp/hr being a good middling rate.

DIY 1,000 pp/h

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ne-h7FTMZBk

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RdLcrNeWjIs

Commercial, manual page turning:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=adQjU9JAWfw

3,000 pp/h vacuum page turning

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cmhIJOqepVU

... capable of managing very thick volumes:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SdipuAuWsEs

Google fully automated linear scanbot:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw

Face-up, no-platten, with deconvolution:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmrch_1f2U
it reminds me of the 'siren song' in Odyssey that would dash sailors across the rocks... except its ADHD Millenial/Zoomer developer/crypto enthusiasts
From what I've seen of Edge, it should be the project managers working vewy hawd to fix things, not the developers.
Good for you, there should be a checkbox so I don't have to suffer for your preferences.
Great and subtle point we must reduce the spread before it gets too big, Not after that.

It is like the story of a boy who saw a hole in the damn and put his finger in it to stop it. There was not much water passing through such a small hole. But the boy was smart and realized if he let the water run through the hole, the hole would fast grow bigger and bigger so the whole damn would soon break. When the levee breaks mama you got to go.
Yes, what they censor and what they deliberately distort.

Do a search for `American inventors`, and see for yourself. Google will show you that the majority of American inventors throughout history have been African-American. You may be skeptical of Google's claim (disguised as search results), but the next generation, working on their school reports, will see the world as Google wants them to see it. Now imagine how much of what we learn about the reality of current events is coming from the same source with the same agenda and policies regarding narrative vs. reality.

But in case you are thinking of contradicting Google's claims, remember: that's what their campaign against "misinformation" is intended to silence. They are indeed serious about misinformation.

A couple of years ago, when they were testifying to Congress that they did not deliberately distort search results. At the same time, someone else in the organization explained why they deliberately bias results. Oops. I can only guess that it was some underling who, in a sea of leftists back in the office (and probably a few non-leftists who know what would happen if they were outed) took for granted that biasing search results for political objectives was something to be proud of. They didn't realize what their execs knew, that if you're going to distort the truth for a higher objective, you don't admit doing so.

On a Google web page that I can no longer find, they publicly explained (it was public, not an internal page) that search results that improved society were sometimes more important than simply reporting the facts. That must have sounded good to an internal audience, but apparently it had to be reworked into externally calling it a fight against misinformation.
Agree there... the writer is making a rod for their own back trying to list all databases in a title! PostgreSQL doesn't even get a mention. Though it's a good enough example of the kinds of things to look at and compare.

Thanks for the shout-out for TimescaleDB (I'm the community manager for Timescale...)
It seems beyond charitable to call him an Indiana Jones type to be honest, it glamorizes and romanticizes a man who spent his life bribing officials and robbing graves for his personal satisfaction.
"but", Zotero is really neat if you use the plugins which make it just one-click-to-save it in your Zotero from browser. Hardly any overhead with that.
Yes, the first unknown identifier becomes the first parameter, next unknown identifier becomes next parameter and so on...
Because it's an incremental step along the path to reducing or eliminating the right to self-ownership.

If you can normalize something like mask wearing, there's a strong psychological effect. There's a sort of built-in obedience that's a clear signal to those around you. Arm bands also come mind.

Is it then such a leap to grant the power of forced vaccination? I mean, it's all for the public good right?

Flu is a deadly killer. We should probably go ahead and mandate that vaccine too, while we're at it.

Traffic accidents are a leading cause of death in the U.S. - why are we allowing private car ownership? We could save tens of thousands of lives per year if we centralized control of transportation.

Guns? They're right out.

While we're at it, there's no good reason to allow fast food restaurants to continue to exist. Obesity is an epidemic and costs the U.S. billions, if not trillions and is a leading cause of heart disease. Let's get rid of all fast food restaurants.

Since we're doing that, we should also probably mandate that every restaurant remove the deep fried. They can make something more healthy.

And on. And on.

This never ends.

You say that the perspective baffles you. I'm trying to illustrate the perspective that those of us who believe in maximizing personal liberty hold.

Incrementalism is a real thing. An affront to liberty must be stopped at the beginning, if it is to be stopped at all.

Many people reading through what I just wrote actually believe doing all of those things would be a good idea, and they may be right.

I think a better idea is to allow people to live their lives the way they chose.
I’ve just re-read it and can’t see that it does. Reading it with that in mind however makes it obviously correct.

The closest I could find to it saying that was the customer questions, one of which was answered with, “This one is intended for adult collectors.”
Of course the most scared conformist is at the top. You have no idea what you're talking about. I'm sus that you've even lived in Japan for any amount of time. Also masks don't work, living in another country isn't proof, it just means that Japanese are super conformist. Duh.
What Does It Mean to Save a Neighborhood?
I remember that the Borland Office suite with Ami Pro and Quattro Pro was available on GEOS and worked like a charm on a low-end 386 :)
My dad lived through the seatbelt mandates. People came up will all sorts of justifications why seatbelts were bad, more dangerous, choked them, gave them aches, etc. simply because they didn't want to wear them.
I wouldn't call 10% difference significantly higher... more like within the margin of error.

With such drastic policy differences you would expect to see a larger effect.
It's unfortunate that these sort of meditations on "capitalism" are without any sort of recognition of interest rate intervention policy. It's the very mechanic by which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Bjorn Lomborg – Climate Change: No Need to Panic [video]
It is clear that inline assembly is mostly needed in situations where the compiler doesn't implicitly know how to generate assembly instructions for your use case.

For example, let's say an operating system's kernel has a procedure to disable cache snooping on the CPU. There is no way the compiler can implicitly generate this for you, except if a special built-in function is provided. But built-in functions do not exist for every case, and not for every supported CPU architecture.

In this example, every architecture-specific code of the kernel shall implement an interface named disable_cache_snooping() wrapping an inline assembly statement, invoking the underlying (x86, arm, mips, sparc, riscv, etc.) CPU's special instructions to disable cache snooping.
It's supposed to be called the Federal Trade Commission.
> ... and eliminate masks. Countries outside of North America have done this. For example, the UK is just now requiring theater goers to wear a mask again.

If the act of eliminating masks needs to be followed by imposing another mask mandate, this is not a solid argument that mask mandates can be successfully rolled back when some threshold has been crossed. (I'm reporting from Indiana, where there is no mask mandate, unless you're unvaccinated, and there is no system in place to tell vaccinated from non folks except for what amounts to basically, say so on your honor! :upside_down_smile:)
I could list the benefits but you're just advocating about the most ignorant thing I've ever read. Just run it on a box under your desk? What about real life? And business? And adult consequences to your actions?
> This is an interesting conclusion, because as I understand it this is only really true in some states. Wisconsin's self defense law is more permissive than many, and so Rittenhouse probably couldn't have used the same defense as easily in many states.

Let's look at the five rules of self defense as they apply pretty much everywhere in the US. The last one is the big difference in Wisconsin.

* Innocence (was he there to commit a crime or hurt someone) -- Rittenhouse was generally there to help people. The altercation was started because he put out a fire.

* Imminence (was the use of force against him about to be used) -- The video shows Rosenbaum cornering him and lunging. The gunpowder stippling pattern shows that Rosenbaum's hand was on the barrel of the gun too. He shot at Maurice Freedman (jump kick man -- his identity was known to the prosecutors, but they hid his identity) who was in the process of trying to kick his face in with heavy boots. He shot at a guy assaulting him with a skateboard. Finally, he shot someone pointing a gun at his face.

* Proportionality (not excessive force -- in this case, only deadly force can be stopped by deadly force). I don't know of any state where grabbing a gun, pointing a gun, hitting someone with a skateboard (they weigh around 11 pounds -- a baseball bat weights around 2 pounds), or trying to crush someone's face aren't considered deadly force.

* Reasonableness (would any other reasonable person in that situation fear for their life) -- If you were a naive teenager (or even an adult) and an adult said they'd kill you and then waited until you were alone to chase you into a corner, would you be afraid? Would you wonder if you were about to die?

* Avoidance -- this is the different one. Some states have clear stand your ground law. You never have to retreat from a fight if you are defending yourself. Some states have castle doctrine which says you have to retreat on the street, but not in your home or it's curtilage (the frequently used area around the house). Some states say you must retreat first in all situation up until you are completely cornered. 38 states are stand your ground. A few more like California, Illinois, or Oregon have castle doctrine. only a handful in the Northeast have duty to retreat everywhere.

Now, even if there were a duty to retreat, Rittenhouse did this too. He ran away until he was cornered and only then (and with Rosenbaum mid-charge) did he shoot the gun. Likewise, he did not shoot his gun at the others until he'd been hit in the head with a rock and collapsed to the ground a few steps later in the middle of retreating to the safety of the police line.

TL;DR -- This shooting would have been justified even in states with the most strict self-defense laws.
I see. To be fair, the context did not make this clear.
For ebooks, you can search in duck duck go, the last letter of the alphabet followed by the first three of the word "library"
The "rightly" in your statement is simply a function of who has political power. For example, I doubt many people who dug up Native Americans' parents got locked up. Also, once your parents' grandchildren or maybe great grandchildren pass away, there is little chance anyone will care about digging them up, especially if the land is in demand.
For the sake of keeping people from doing stupid things.

DO NOT MICROWAVE YOUR PHONE.

The test involves placing your phone in the microwave and closing the door without turning the microwave on. I'd unplug the microwave before trying this.
In an efficient market public investors would demand to know the true/accurate DAU metrics with bots removed.
You still can't compare those trends, because many of those countries have relaxed their lockdown measures after reaching a certain level of vaccination. When looking at hospitalization rates instead of only case rates, it seems that the countries with high levels of vaccination are seeing a much lower percentage of cases ending up in hospital.

Taking for example the NL numbers: we have twice as many cases/day as during last winter's peak, but only half as many deaths/day. Naively, that suggests that the vaccines reduce case mortality by 75%. But that data is also hopelessly incomplete: we recently reinstated some of our lockdown measures, so the number of infections/day is stabilizing, but fatalities/day will probably keep rising for another week.
Security patches != system upgrade = broken of existing installations and reset any custom configurations
not sure about the quality of the course but in theory if it saves you a few hours over the rest of your career or lets you get a better job it was a good investment. I've paid for programming related courses that paid for themselves 100X in terms of higher income and just being more productive

plus I'd imagine the target audience gets an annual education budget they have to spend anyway
Advent of Code: Solving Your Puzzles with Python
TL;DR: This year logo of the EPICENTER DPC EEU event is exactly the same style as a badge of soviet (USSR) pioneers.[0,1]

Full tweet text from EPICENTER DPC EEU:

> SORRY, NO PUDGE

> Recently we've recived a request from Valve to change the tournament's logo, as it may potentially be in violation with Ukraine's law in regards to banning the promotion of communism.

> The main task of Epic Sports Events is to ensure a seamless competition for all parties involved. Therefore, despite the already made gift sets, banners and other products containing the logo of the tournament, as well as the legal opinion confirming that the logo can not be considered a communist symbolism, and, even more so, is not propaganda, we've decided to change the logo of the event.

[0] https://www.unian.ua/games/valve-zazhadala-zminiti-logotip-t...

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5...
>Specifically, will masks limit the total number COVID cases given enough time, or just slow the time it takes for everyone in the population to be infected?

Slowing the spread in order to not overburden hospitals (which causes death & mayhem and affects not just COVID patients) was always _the_ reason why we wear masks and have lockdowns. It's about slowing the pandemic, not ending the pandemic (that's maybe what the vaccines can do).

So yes, masks have an impact, they saved countless lives already. And yes, people will continue to break the law, but that's not a good reason to abolish the law and accept many many deaths.
It's like how Reddit banned /r/chapotraphouse the same day they banned /r/thedonald in order to look "fair and balanced".
The one thing I see a lot on Twitter is people "retweeting" the wrong photo of the wrong person. I saw all sorts of people being pictured as that school shooter last week.

Whatever we think of this policy, anyone who tweets or re-tweets a photo of an uninvolved person in a breaking news case should be, by their policy, permanently banned (or shadowbanned).

(And also misinformation, like what Spike Lee did: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/spike-le... )