skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the claim that he supported Pinochet means he had a direct hand in the coup, it's that he attempted to re-engineer the Chilean economy after the CIA linked plot assassinated the democratically elected socialist president who was attempting to socialize parts of the economy. The free market reforms were a disaster for the people that were only able to be applied under the terms of dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende
Just so it's clear to you, there are facts in opinion piece. Opinion pieces are often someone's opinion on existing facts.
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> Free speech, being critical of government, and even having the ability to run for president are rights that every person should have.

Every person? Including convicted criminals?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...
I just got access to it. I'm not sure if someone here helped but if yes, then thank you very much.
they had a browser toolbar to collect user agent signals
Kickstarter Blockchain Will Combine Crowdfunding with Crypto
Farewell, EC2-Other
> What happens if my house burns down during the week/month/quarter I've registered a new account? Is that account just gone?

Well no, the account is still there but you can't access it.

I'd be pretty happy with the outcome where a major disaster's most annoying effect is "I lost my HN karma" or "I have to make a new GitHub account, although all my existing code is still available to download". Maybe your house burns down a lot, but most people go decades without that happening, so, it's OK if it sucks pretty badly when it happens.

I'm not comfortable losing everything. But most of the entities who have a relationship I need to stay alive after a major disaster are already used to this in other cases. I am not going to be the first account holder at my good bank whose worldly possessions were all destroyed in a house fire. It may take a few days, and a lot of inconvenience, but hey, my house burned down so I think the inconvenience isn't the worst part of the scenario. Even Google promises (vaguely) to make it possible for you to recover access to your account with them, despite using WebAuthn, in the event of such disasters.

The government is another example. Ordinarily they'd prefer I used WebAuthn (actually they seem unduly keen on SMS, but I use WebAuthn) but if my house burned down they can see their way to consulting their database of e.g. photographs of me, records of where I live (oh, the place that burned down well that makes sense) and so on instead to confirm my identity manually.

Edited to add:

You know what, people vary. Maybe you can never be comfortable without setting up TOTP "just in case". Fine. But what I suggest to you is: Don't actually use it. The phishing protection of WebAuthn is effective even if you have TOTP setup so long as you don't let the phishers persuade you to use TOTP. Keep TOTP for when your house has burned down, and all the rest of the time you have that protection.

You do lose some other WebAuthn benefits (e.g. bad guys can steal all the other credentials, passwords, TOTP secrets, SMS codes, from e.g. a server break-in, but it doesn't mean anything to steal your WebAuthn credentials because the relying party doesn't have any secret credentials, that's the whole point of the design) but phishing is the #1 win
Having the financial means to develop and maintain his voice seems like a reasonable part of that aspiration. The author is fully supported by his work with Stratechery. [1]

[1]: https://stratechery.com/about/
Ah so its __you__ that took that one
Wow, HUGE feature, congrats to the team working on it! GH code search is a feature with such massive potential utility, but the old implementation was so weak it was basically useless. Looking forward to this, will use it constantly if it’s good.
To prevent someone taking credit you add a splash screen when the tool starts with your name on it. Same with the help -> about section.
> You now see American business people like Elon Musk promote divestment from the USA in his attack on government deficits.

Source?

If that's true, that's disgusting.
At least you can change the wake word on Amazon devices

All Apple devices interpret "Hey Sarah" as "Hey Siri" and then start shooting their stupid mouths off, bugs the hell out of Sarah
On the other hand... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ab.21978
He's a bit strange, from my eyes anyway. He's done some great things for UK innovation and product design. Politics aside, we shouldn't detract from that.

But my wife can dry her hair in less than 20 minutes, and it's quiet. Well worth the money!
Well under way? Some variation of a vector space model is what pretty much every IR model since the .com bubble has been based upon. Even before Google, Excite's technology was based upon this. PageRank was based on spectral graphs essentially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model
Why aren't contracts to build the projects tightly written to avoid cost ballooning?

When a service is to be provided at a certain cost, it should be provided at certain cost. Some contingencies should be built in (if something gets discovered that was unexpected) but how on earth does every municipal project seem to have so much invested in budget oversight and contractors overbilling or needing overtime to make things happen.

If someone is painting my house, I get a quote for the job and the date it will be completed. I don't find myself paying them more unless its for something outside of what we specified together and they quoted.

Building on government contracts should be solid money but it seems like every time the taxpayer gets fleeced and the end result is barely functional/impactful.
From what I've read, it's not even human misuse in India driving the change, rather pharmaceutical factories dispose of their antibiotic-laden wastewater into local rivers, driving an ecosystem level race for resistance.
> that makes for a really poor reason to argue to remove yourself from the equation when it comes to influence over those regulations.

here's a few Dyson subsidiaries:

- Dyson BV (Dutch)
- Dyson Austria GmbH
- Dyson GmbH (German)
- Dyson Finland Oy
- Dyson Ireland Ltd
- Dyson SAS (France)
- Dyson Spain SLU
- Dyson Sweden AB
- Dyson sp zoo Poland

it's a large multinational, not some micro-enterprise, brexit has little to no impact on his ability to "influence" regulations
I did run into this. The page linked to is a high level documentation with very few details which are specific to the codebase.

Take the example of adding a new token. You have to run go generate to generate token strings. But nowhere in the docs or in the code it is mentioned what exactly is the ‘stringer’ and how to install it.
In theory, C++ programs use std::optional, just as Rust programs use std::option. In practice, such C++ programs are extremely rare, whereas such Rust programs are majority.
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Would not be surprised if this cues some

Expansion of the universe due to gravity lost in waves.

headlines.

But the distance scales and force magnitudes are so far out
of my experience that even with the help of math I would be
hard pressed to be convinced one way or another.
Even if the numbers scale up, they'd mean that you'd avoid roughly 1 hospitalization for every 2285 people who got immunity from being infected instead of from being vaccinated. Unfortunately, to obtain that immunity, about 1 in 30 had to be hospitalized, 1 in 250 died, and a significant number suffered serious complications.

Nobody in their right mind would choose such a tradeoff.
At least the GLX is a little further along now. The location in the photo at the top of the article is near my house, and the new trackbed there is complete.
The other relevant factor is that if you lead with "Ok, I'm going to get flamed, downvoted or whatever for this", people will downvote/flag the post almost regardless of what it says, because (a) it's against the site guidelines, (b) it's a tedious internet trope, and (c) it's reliably a marker of bad comments. Best to edit that kind of thing out in the future.
They used to make the only bagless vacuum cleaners that worked well, it is not really the case anymore, probably due to patents expiring, but they still the big name brand.

And their bladeless fans, while not really better at moving air than regular fans, they are certainly stylish.

I personally think that they make overpriced items and are not worth it anymore, but I understand the appeal.
It seems to be Apple's standard MO to comply with local regulations regardless of market size. They've complied with Russian demands[0,1] and it looks like Apple Rus accounts for something like 2.6% of Apple's revenue, a fraction that Apple could probably do without.

From a recent interview[2] with Tim Cook:

>"World peace through world trade," Cook said, adding that operating in foreign countries means Apple has to "acknowledge that there are different laws in other markets."

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/apple-and-google...

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069

2: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-china-tim-cook-respons...
> It's only straightforward if you're using tools that understand what those dumb bytes are. Often you'll get away with a mixture of grep, sed and awk but the moment you turn to something like jq you've done away with the assumption that the pipeline is just dumb bytes

I guess my claim is that the minute you need to parse the dumb bytes as anything other than strings, your problem is complex enough that you shouldn't be using shell to solve it, and you should write a proper program instead. That's not hard and fast, for example I use fish and `math` is very powerful.

`jq` is also a bad example, I think, in many ways... it explicitly doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, and instead does it's work by parsing an opaque string according to it's own DSL. Much better is a tool like gron, which allows you to process JSON using familiar tools like grep.
I think you misunderstood his point.

He's making an observation about religious tendencies and belief systems within groups.

Debates within the Linux ecosystem aren't fundamental challenges to it's ethos
It confuses the hell out of me to have a super-powerful knowledge-extraction system that is right most of the time with super-complicated stuff, but also expresses horribly wrong statements with equal assertiveness. Just like those guys who march through middle management up to the exec floor within a few years.

Very impressive, but not very useful to extract knowledge!
I don't buy that the primary issue is with human antibiotic use.

Doctors have become increasingly stingy with antibiotics, sometimes at the expense of human well-being -- meanwhile 80% of antibiotics are used in livestock production.

We could reduce the need for antibiotics in livestock if we treated animals better. Giving animals a bit of breathing room and fresh air would reduce the need to jack them up on antibiotics from day one.

Reducing use in humans seems like banning straws to take on plastic waste -- a feel good policy that won't actually fix much.
Which agricultural revolution? If the earliest, sure more food is good, but having to fear being wiped off the earth from random raiders or armies kind of sucks.
> China simply invested more in their people than USA it seems

So long as you're not Muslim.
Which never happens in Europe.
Apple was growing massively in PRC in mid 2010s, should not be surprising they got roped into more prosocial and pro-establishment (read CCP) obligations. If memory serve this was right after Apple started clean energy programs in 2015 and PRC regulators shutting down itunes books & movies.

>Cook's negotiations led to the successful signing of the multibillion-dollar agreement, quashing a number of regulatory actions against the company with exemptions and enabling access to the Chinese market, in return for significant investments, business deals, and worker training in the country.

Keyword is exemptions and access, aka what you expect from trillion dollar company lobbying governments.
It shines when you take advantage of it's object model. You are passing around and operating on objects with types, properties, etc. vs. what's effectively glorified string manipulation with bash. That comes with tradeoffs though like the one you mentioned. Memory usage when operating on large datasets is another.

Another big benefit mentioned elsewhere is that you can bring in C# directly into the shell.
Other than creating a struct with shitty abbreviations and int values from god damn where.

Don’t get me wrong, I really like linux. But I don’t think that posix syscalls are that simple.
It’s the shareholders’ company and the shareholders got what they wanted, access to more revenue and profits.
The principle claim of this essay is that groups never change their viewpoints. What's ironic is that it appears in a public environment in which groups are changing their viewpoints, often quite publicly. Many are taking extreme heat for this.

Technical projects and groups are adopting codes of conduct and behaviour, changing stances on what had long been accepted.

Companies are similarly changing their views on what types of behaviour are considered acceptable amongst both staff and leadership.

The high court of the United States just heard a case in which it seems highly likely that it will substantially change its collective mind over a decision it had made some 50 years ago.

The two major political parties of the United States have, over the course of some 60 or so years, virtually completely changed their respective stances on racial equality and civil rights. Not a fast change, but a profound one.

The Catholic Church has reversed itself on earlier condemnations and beliefs, notably of heliocentrism and the conviction of Galileo.

Scientific bodies and disciplines change their mind, preferably based on evidence, all the time. It's what science is. A remarkable case was the development of the theory of plate tectonics from a radical fringe concept to the central organising principle of geology, from 1915 to 1965.

We're in the midst of an onging attempt to change collective understanding, and response to the overwhelmingly evident fact of anthropogenic global warming as a consequence of fossil fuel use.

Reputable news and media organisations report on their own errors and omissions on an ongoing basis.

The most durable institutions in the world are not commercial entities (the five-year failure rate of new enterprises is about 50%). Rather, they are not-for-profit service organisations and institutions, typically schools. The oldest universities date back over 1,000 years, and there are primary schools dating to before the year 1.

And the field of economics has been in the process of admitting the failure of free-market absolutism, or even of free markets as anything other than a special case, for over 150 years.

Groups are resistant to change, yes, but they are not absolutely incapable of it.

Arguing against facts is quite easy where one doesn't bother to consult them.
I love the new high score streak they posted!

This article is a bit more fairly balanced about the legality and purpose but it really seems like they should hire some CPAs and tax lawyers themselves because this one misses the mark in a variety of ways:

1) the tax deductions taken are not specific to real estate and oil sectors, even if the particular tax payers analyzed used a deduction specific to those sectors to accomplish the same thing

2) the depreciation over 10 years is a red herring, they could have deducted the entire value the first year and carried forward the loss against their subsequent years income for practically forever, even longer than the depreciation option

3) there are plenty of other ways to do it, but why give these guys ideas? its 1,000% more beneficial to let everyone assume you have no idea what you are talking about, and then let ProPublica leak the techniques two decades later, because you're already on to some other technique by then. Given the clear sentiment that ProPublica's clickbait articles cater to, revealing your hand could result in the tax law changing by a very reactionary Congress who also doesn't have the CPAs and tax lawyers that the taxpayers do, so there is no point in talking about what compliant things you've found.
That particular swam of quakes isn't anything to worry about
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062365995/50-earthquakes-hit...
Nobody wants too keep stock.
Everybody just builds the smallest warehouse that can get away with, and some places don't even have that.

That's part of the reason for all the supply issues right now.
670nm accordink to the linked study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02311-1

I don't find good references but "orange glow" gas and electric ceramic IR heater panels seem to be tuned for 600nm to 650nm and cover that range? I know the IR from mine helps my skin condition and has made my eyes feel better, but not in any way i could easily quantify.
They are a slow burn, but the ends always justify the means with those novels. If you really did make it 1/2 way, I’d encourage you to go back and finish reserve judgment.
I dont really understand your point. Yes agreed for complicated, rare problems you should do your own research if you can. You're clearly smart enough for primary sources so the media pipeline doesnt matter for you anyways.

I would argue most Dr in America will give good advice for covid. Certainly better than most media sources!

Having media in between is what I'm arguing against. Media is biased and not objective and should play no role in health.
Personal attacks, flamebait, snark, and ideological battle—which I think this manages to be all 4 of!—are not allowed on HN. If you'd please review the rules and not post like that, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At "peak times", it isn't that small - even in my ridiculously small social circle, in Italy, there was one death and a couple of very severe cases. And peak times are determined largely by the pressure on health services, which is determined by vaccination rates (since vaccines remove the need for hospitalization). So it's a vicious circle: if you don't vaccinate, you increase the mortality risk to very significant levels.
Both of my parents are in civil engineering and construction in NYC. As an outside observer, what I see is that the management of projects is not set up in a sustainable way and is just bad. The heads of important departments are political appointees. Most of the time, appointments go to political friends, not to competent managers with extensive knowledge of the field. Also, the assignments are constantly changing as elected officials change.
After a large organization is structured, it's objective will shift to the survival of the organization itself when the original (legitimate) objective is made irrelevant by internal or external factors ("winning", or a change in the context that required the objective in the first place).

I would expect an adage about this to already exist – if it doesn't, I'm claiming it. :)
> SaaS recurring revenue model.

With your body and health.
The complaint was that it's the people who own the equipment (or shares in it), and not the people who do the work, who are reaping the profit.

When the working class had this problem a couple centuries ago, it was solved by building guillotines. I hope we can do better this time.
Have you tried the Conan package manager? It seems to be gaining in popularity in recent years:

http://conan.io/

(Personally I haven't used it yet)
Not just luck but deception as well which takes some games to new levels.
Every time any land is going to be developed where I live (Denver/Boulder/etc.), there is always a thread on Nextdoor advocating for people to stop it by raising environmental concerns and putting in a ton of comments. If 1/10 projects get canceled due to individual objections that means a lot of time and money gets wasted. Another 4/10 projects might eventually get built but only after long drawn out discussions and after many iterations to address individual concerns making the project less standardized and more expensive.

The remaining projects that built aren't really infrastructure projects rather they are statement pieces. Instead of building a $200M subway station we build a $1B community gathering area that includes a subway station. The optimistic hope is that these larger projects will encourage public adoption and support for more of these types of projects but in reality their costs spiral out of control and construction takes far too long at which point the public is just tired.
> This happens in crypto land, too, where the coins fork

You only get hurt when you're holding? Crypto for me was always about not using it as a speculative currency, but actually /using/ it when you could. There's a thing called /spending/ which all the wealthy seem to avoid.
The bar should be the Winograd schema challenge. It requires a lot more than spitting out somewhat sensical sentences.
As an aside, one thing that's interesting and sad to me about WebGL is that WebGL + modern browsers are significantly more powerful than the PS1 and Nintendo 64, but we haven't had _anything_ even _remotely_ close to the completeness of an N64 nor PS1 game. Lots of small experiments and impressive demoscenes, but nothing in WebGL that takes advantage of this potential power. Frankly even compared to the completeness of Flash games, there are very few WebGL projects that even come close to that.

This article and output would make a great WebGL project, and they could embed real demos of it running right in the site.

What's missing that prevents us from building these types of complete projects in WebGL?
> From the perspective of people who don't like aspects of Rust, it's a yucky goo.
> This is _not_ like with C

I beg to differ. This is exactly how I feel about C. C is the language that's confusing as hell to read for anything other than really simple use cases AND makes it super easy for me to shoot myself in the foot.
Come in, grab the money, take control and/or leave. Easy when it's a western democratic country. Freedom, tolerance and diplomacy are core tenets, after all.

Some tried that in China only to realize their government aren't a bunch of muppets.

I wonder how long it will take either for corporations to tame/destabilize the CCP or the latter to squash them into submission.
There is an interesting story here that I wish was told in more details somewhere on the internet (currently I just have some partial guesses from listening to JuliaCon talks). It seems some of these (awesome) properties arose very organically after experimentation, not by having a committee of theorists define the properties the language should have. This has led to a couple of minor inconsistencies to be ironed out, however computer scientists (like the authors of this paper) then decided to study and formalize Julia and uncovered gems like this (I guess they are gems particularly if you care about formal treatments).

I am certain I am somewhat wrong in this description, but I would love to see a writeup of the whole story and how both sides (the devs and the scientists) lived through it.
It is easy to say, and tough to do.

Big projects have almost unlimited liability. The entities involved can get taken to court for pollution concerns, environmental concerns, get caught up in local politics. And once something is in the courts, the whole timeframe is completely up in the air.

One of the places I lived had Walmart wanting to build a Walmart Supercenter, and convert their current Walmart into a Sams Club. The non Walmart grocery store (which was garbage in terms of quality and service) and a Sams Club competitor tied up Walmart in court over the status of some endangered garden snake.

It was obvious nonsense, but it would have taken so long to untangle legally that Walmart said screw it and moved on.