skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mixed picture, as always. Inflation is up across the world, even in countries and regions that didn't see the kinds of stimulus the US used. However inflation in the US is higher than in developed countries that didn't use as much stimulus. So not all the blame can be laid on US policy, but some of it can.

Whether the difference is actually going to cause significant extra pain, or whether the extra stimulus will help the US ride out the pandemic better, is up in the air at the moment IMHO.
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Presumably they've actually quantified these probabilities and think that the chance of that is relatively very low compared to the chance of something going wrong in the design. These things are not cheap, so it makes sense not to have to make three if the launch succeeds and design fails.
Ordinary citizens could always opt out of supporting this situation by killing themselves, but on an individual basis I don't think that would make much of a difference, and killing yourself before someone can kill you is a pyrrhic victory.

The reason people blame corporations is because it's very difficult to find the people who own them, and because they have a realistic view of power.
> a violent uprising by a group or movement

> a single person being violent

I mean your definition of insurrection does not jive with what you're saying.

I think you're trying to inflate the statistically insignificant words of one individual to sensationalize a narrative.
It seems like AR is the key to making the Metaverse a thing. VR is neat, but the current experience reminds me of 3D TVs from a few years back - gimmicky and awkward. Even if parts of the physical and digital worlds bifurcate, I still think there's a lot more AR could do by linking them and making it possible to build a digital world on top of the physical.

The Daemon series by Daniel Suarez showed an impressive vision of what AR could do in a not-so-distant future where online information is linked to physical entities. The things to make it work like haptic suits or lightweight AR classes with overlays and a HUD are getting fairly close technology-wise.
Almost no vaccines prevent infection (e.g., rotavirus vaccine). But most reduce/prevent symptoms. In fact, it's still not proven that existing COVID vaccines 'prevent infection'--that is, provide sterilizing immunity.

Unless I'm missing something, this 'study' seems to do little more than support that understanding.
This may be a simple answer to a simple question - but it doesn't.
In the US, anyone can sell good or services and do business without formally registering as a business. You're automatically classified as a sole proprietorship, with your legal name as the business name. But there's no liability protection, since you and the business are the same legal entity. That's where LLC or incorporating comes in, along with lots of other reasons to want to formalize the business as a legal entity.
What? It uses GPT-3 to improve spelling.
I have vibrant dreams with very detailed renderings of landscapes, particularly non-existent cities that sprawl out block after block and mile after detailed mile as I move through them. In these places, I also experience intense interpersonal drama, highly detailed other characters, emotions, physical sensations, thoughts in my head about everything that's happening, empathy for others, anxieties, desires etc. And the rules of the reality change, inception-style, every few seconds, with themes and obsessions that recur.

but this ability is completely lacking for me in reality. If I try to picture some of the obvious things mentioned in this thread - my wife's face, an apple, an elephant - I can, but it's a fairly muddy 2d image and I couldn't tell you what direction the elephant's trunk is pointing for example ...
How do we handle when less technical folk get their common passwords tabled but can't "figure out" modern password managers? The major thing being 2auth. But phones are not trustworthy, they break. Yubikeys are easily lost and expensive. I can't go to my grandma, hand them that setup, and have them use it. Plus the cost of LastPass and 1password are far too high. I prefer bitwarden for it's yearly cost.
oh i thought of 5.0. circle jerk to the bored ape at the next club meeting :)
You mean post-viral syndrome? I mean yea it's a thing with viruses but it will go away eventually. I had a cold a few years ago and was sick for like 3 months. Some of long covid is mental, so there's that aspect. Some say vaccination can help but that might just play into the mental aspect.

The human mind can create symptoms very easily, especially if every day you get bombarded by social media and news about Covid.

> Also by some definitions America is “mostly fat people” so your point is not that meaningful to begin with

True, but I'm just saying this wouldn't have been an issue 30 - 50 years ago.
> it's starting a business unit that burns an average lifetime's worth of carbon for a couple day recreational trip that's the problem

Can’t think of many better ways to kill political support for real climate change legislation than advocating ceding our technological leadership in space technology like this.
Barred Owls can make a terrifying squawk/yell/howl noise! Juveniles will make the noises as well to call to their parents. I heard a family of 5 BAOW this past summer (also upper Midwest here) and got to observe them all communicating and the parents hunting around dusk. It was magical and I got to hear these owl calls in the wild.
> why wouldn’t you want the most immersive experience possible?

That folks potentially don't want the most immersive experience possible would be the thing that will end up burning piles of money and sinking the virtual reality vision of the metaverse that some have.

It's not a given that people will want the immersion. After all, Facetime is a relatively extremely niche and rare way to communicate every day when compared to low tech texting.
Looks like you're correct in this instance, thanks! But my general point is still true: Apple routinely skips patches on older versions. I'm aware of a fair bit of proprietary evidence for this.
I think the poster above didn't try to say that commercial space travel is good. Just that the attitude of "I won't change if someone else doesn't" is not productive. Sure a single space flight can't compare to a single normal flight but if enough people restrict them self a bit it would make a big dent.
Ha! This is a novel idea for KV storage. Even reasonably secure if it's the private hosted zone used in the post.

I wonder if you used the public zone option and did the nslookup as specified if you'd run into wrong or empty state while it propagates (assuming you need the value shortly after it's stored). Either way, using the awscli would pull it write away so it wouldn't matter.

Anyway, cool idea!
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This is too simplified such that it is incorrect.

If we look at any personality type system, the revolutionary/reformers are going to be a quadrant of discrete personalities (and even those can be broken down or treated as a gradient).

As an easy example, I'm one of the types in that quadrant. While I tend to be independent and self confident, I'm not "an inspiring leader". I also have a strong preference for consensus (or at least peaceful agreement), and prefer not being the center of attention.

Please give this piece about as much attention as you would todays horoscope and instead read a few good papers on pubmed.
> C++ references cannot be optional by design; that is one of the aspects of pointers that C++ references "fix", and you cannot code around it.

You keep repeating this as if it's at all relevant. The single purpose of std::optional is to make things optional that cannot themselves be optional by design. That C++ references cannot be optional are exactly why it's a perfect fit for std::optional.

You seem to be talking about the difficulty in storing T& if the value isn't present. That's not actually hard to do, that's what std::reference_wrapper does already. The C++ standard library already solved that, and trivially so.

Rather the issue is a difference in assignment behavior, as the Boost.Optional discusses: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_69_0/libs/optional/doc/html... (and Boost.Optional does allow T&, because optional<T&> is well-formed & well-defined)

> reference_wrapper doesn't actually have anything to do with references

What? Literally from the documentation:

"std::reference_wrapper is a class template that wraps a reference in a copyable, assignable object. It is frequently used as a mechanism to store references inside standard containers (like std::vector) which cannot normally hold references."

The only thing it does is take a T& and return a T&. That it stores it internally as a T* is an implementation detail.

As for your example snippet, you just have a bug in usage since you didn't read reference_wrappers docs. It needs to be `swap(rx.get(), ry.get());` since the _wrapper part of its name is actually significant, you have to get the wrapped value out of it. Alternatively `swap((int&) rx, (int&) ry);` would also have worked.
The way to solve the problem without taking away convenience is to take yesterday’s atmospheric carbon, turn it into today’s jet fuel, and burn it tomorrow.

Yea, that takes energy today, but is close to carbon neutral and I strongly suspect will happen in the next 50 years on a commercially viable scale.
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Which competitors? Where are they running the tests on? Do they adapt to changes and save your valuable time? Or charge small and run tests with selectors like: .wudfj289hf .a9dfh82hf .sadf98h which breaks each time you deploy?
The government made the companies start accounting for externalities like not poisoning the rivers and not having the workers fall entirely on the government dole the instant they retire. So companies did what they do and went to countries that didn't care about protecting the environment or populace. Blaming the government for this state of affairs is misguided.
The blind tests aren't even the end-all here. The science of human perception limits and characterizing the error are the two fronts to look at. We've long passed recreating what a human ear can hear. We have targets for frequency range, dynamic range, and group delay. Hit those targets and you've won. There is more on the art side of things to advance, namely in simulating directionality, but that isn't what the Tweeter salesman is usually selling you.

The imperfections of the audio chips in old consoles are easily audible to humans. If the goal is accurate recreation then assuming the audio chips and driving circuitry is perfect is insufficient.

Video recreation is still far below what the Human Visual System can detect. We are not masters of the universe yet.
Propaganda is any communication calculated to further an agenda. Propaganda may contain lies, truth, or anything in between.
“The fact is the unemployment rate is about half what it was a year ago. So a year ago, people were in their homes. Ten percent of people were unemployed. Gas prices were low because nobody was driving. People weren’t buying goods because they didn’t have jobs. Now more people have jobs. More people are buying goods. That’s increasing the demand. That’s a good thing.” -Jen Psaki

So, don't worry about it guys Build Back Better will fix it....
Yes, Agile does produce more buggy, less stable software. There is heavy bias towards doing only simplistic, user-visible things that fit in the span of two weeks. So all the foundational stuff you need to put in at the start of the project to let you support features while reliably turning direction on a dime? Can’t put it in there.

I’ve seen many agile shops fail to ever get CI/CD working because the effort just couldn’t find a place and a schedule on the backlog.
Oh yes, I totally agree— this is a very proven rocket, and the deployment sequence is very, very much not proven. So it absolutely makes sense to have gone this way.
They are crying all the way to the bank.
Not an expert, but from hearing about it from various sources:

As viruses evolve they generally have 2 paths of evolution – they either become more deadly, or more contagious.

The ones that become more deadly will kill the host quicker, and so won't have enough time to spread to others.

The ones that become more contagious are by definition weaker, they will spread to more people, but the effects will be milder.

There are some theories to suggest that pandemics (like the Spanish flu) ended because the virus eventually mutated to a milder, more contagious form.
how does `file` stack up?
This looks great. Is it possible to get this as an RSS feed instead of an e-mail newsletter?
Indeed. That rapidly accelerated the shift from the Web, for most people, being a physical place you went (a desk with a computer on it, in a specific spot) to being everywhere at all times. You had to choose to go use it before, and make an effort—now it follows you around, wherever you go, never more than a few seconds away.
This is a great point.

Agreed with your comparison to your wife as being better at visualization: I think in general "aphantasia" is on a spectrum, with some people being completely unable to visualize things, and others hearing about people who can visualize incredibly well and thinking "If I don't have that, then I must have aphantasia!"

It's also a skill: I used to think I had aphantasia. Over the last ~3 years I've been practicing visualization -- nothing fancy, just trying to close my eyes and visualize things every so often for a few minutes. With that low-level practice, my ability to visualize things has improved a lot: before I had nothing, now I can get black-and-white shaky images, and manipulate them, rotate them, etc.

Still can't do faces though, I can imagine the rest of a person but their face is just missing. Still working on that :)
Rocket scientists and brain surgeons aren't necessarily more clever
Why does the stock market look like this while the world is falling apart?
Forget the money, but I have gone through a divorce and remarriage (very happy and grateful! approaching 9 years), and thought at great length about the process (to put it mildly), ...
...and wrote what I learned at my site (in my profile, then click "other", "life lessons", "dating and marriage", then the "DOCUMENT" (but really everything from the dating and marriage page). (I used eHarmony conscientiously and it worked out well for me, but I also have specific opinions about them; available if you ask.) It has advice for finding and staying married. But I say forget the $ because it is more up to you than me, whether you succeed.

The docs at my site reflect my beliefs, which are a big part of our relationship -- but I truly hope there are useful things in it for anyone. Happy to answer questions or discuss (my email is in the site footer). Feedback appreciated, and I wish you the best.

Also: I suggest considering that sexual license and self-centeredness in general, are not associated with multigenerationally happy/loyal families. Traditional values are such because .. they have worked for a long time. In observing families that I know of that are happy across generations (dealing successfully with life's real challenges because of commitment and shared beliefs), I see that, among other things, the successful parents and family members are those who are more interested in the comfort and well-being of their spouse and kind/responsibly/loving training of children than in their own pleasure, power, or attention. We today really aren't so much smarter than what the 10 commandments can give us. Really. I have written about the various ways I have come to that conclusion -- like algebra or arithmetic -- get the same answer several different ways, and one can feel confident about it.... questions welcome.)
You can afford far more humans than you need to maintain 17 servers for $95.5k/month in savings…
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Are you talking about falling in love with someone because you transform envy into admiration for them?
Or is this about a strategy how to make them falling in love with you by making them feel strong emotions of admiration from them for you?
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It shouldn’t be surprising that the people that complain most vociferously about “The media panic” are selectively hearing only what reinforces their view of the media.

That being said there are a lot of people hand wringing about “we don’t know yet, we don’t know yet” in this very thread. Three weeks into it, and the evidence is almost overwhelming: it is not likely to be nearly as bad.

I followed the original covid news in early January and I fought against the narrative that it was “just the flu”. We would know by now if the news was bad.

That being said, folks should continue to remain vigilant in those areas where spread is prevalent.
Or an altogether different design: thousands of cheap, totally fungible sensors in an array at the L2 point.

Not only would they be replaceable, but we could increase capacity in the future.
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Awesome!
(Rough.js comes to mind in this space.)
Personally, I couldn't care less what random people on the internet are doing to earn money.

Your particular fascination seems like a classic case of grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side. If you're envious, why not just try doing what they do? I mean that literally. Try to make a living out of content creation, cranking hours of footage with a smile on your face day in and day out. If it goes well, you'll make your money and won't care what others think of that lifestyle. Worst case, you might just realize that that life is not necessarily just glamour and easy money.
I'm guessing you are younger than 40? In my school they made a big deal about this, but it was already clear in popular use it wasn't about NATO/Warsaw pact.
I'm not sold on the plant ones. I saw a long thread on instagram of a botanist rubbishing on of the "recognise a plant via a photo" apps. I wish I could remember which one it was...

Bird Net has never let me down though (in Europe at least - not tried further afield).
I doubt we will get another generation of optical storage after the current Ultra HD Blu Ray. The movie industry doesn't really need more and is moving to streaming anyways, and video game consoles are adequately served by them and are rapidly moving to digital-only. By the time storage requirements in either industry move beyond what Ultra HD Blu Ray can support they won't be selling disks anymore. And without a major consumer industry driving demand there's little hope of reaching an attractive price point.
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> I don't understand the lurker mindset whatsoever. It has to be how most people interact with the internet though, otherwise there would be 10's of thousands of comments on every post here.

I, for example, simply did not have any interesting thoughts to share most of the time and didn't bother commenting when I did have some. But you just changed my attitude towards that. Thanks! I even created an account here :)
Kinda ho hum. Very little talk about the technical issues around Svelte but a lot of very generic talk about the problems of making open source sustainable.
Feels a bit like wanting to justify/excuse his air trips...
30% less severe with twice the rate of spread does not seem like a good tradeoff. You have an exponential increase in cases but a linear reduction in hospital admissions.
Hardware emulation is also just as impenetrable as the original systems themselves. Software emulation serves as documentation for the hardware and is therefore much better at preserving that knowledge.
Wonder if this continues how long it'll take Amazon and Walmart to construct their own ports so that they don't have to deal with the higher costs and supply chain delays.
How would a new business or bakery survive if no one knew they existed? Telling people you exist is advertisement.
Here's some footage from Strivr's Bank of America training VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKQFvb7qyc

The drullness of it makes it actually seem like a realistic training video, over some sort of wank wank idea of total immersion... yet to be built.

Could still be a wank using VR vs just showing a video.

But for now it'd attract attention at a booth recruiting people.
I don’t know to what extent that is true but I do know that Jobs contempt of Gassée was not irrational, that is it was reasonably expected given Gassée’s actions toward him.
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I think it depends on the complexity of what you're building. If it's something very novel or something that requires a lot of domain or technical expertise, then you might need a principal engineer to be the point person to figure out how to even build it, or build it right. Some problems are best solved by a single person with the right skills.

Some career ladders allow for this, others are more rigid about the size of team you need to be directly leading .
So far, most space endeavours are related to science in some way. which is problematic because there is little to no return on investment. also, everything we have and consume is on earth. I can't think of many products which are low in mass but extremely high in value and could benefit from the only properties of space we control right now; weightlessness and orbits.

To me, cheaper rockets could only help building a future space elevator which would reduce costs significantly but we would still need something to do in space.

So what do you think the first economic incentive will be to enrich society?
I'm not Italian, but 20th-century history might motivate some of them to distrust "populist" political efforts.
> This reads like a case of 'all about me'-ism. It sounds like this person negotiated their salary, and then decided the company didn't value them _because_ the company agreed to raise it when asked. If your goal is to have people throw money at you which you don't ask for, you are going to have a tough time working.

Would you similarly recommend that if a employee was to find a way to go the extra mile and really make a impact on the business they should hold back? After all, if businesses think people are going to throw labor at them they didn't ask for, they are going to have a tough time.

I'm mostly joking but people are told as children that they should work hard and can expect their boss to notice and reward them. It isn't their fault that lots of people abuse that social construct, they are just naïve.
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And Trump is a perfect demonstration of a political party having "religious zeal" unanchored to a religion. He's close to a God figure to some people. Those people and Christians really need to be in separate political parties.
It depends on what you want to do obviously.

pytorch historically hasn't really focused on forward mode auto differentiation: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/10223

this definitely limits its generality relative to jax, which makes it less than ideal for anything other than 'typical' deep neural networks

this is especially true when the research in question is related to things like physics or combining physical models and machine learning, which imho is very interesting. those are use cases that pytorch just isn't good at.