skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think you'd believe anything they would have to say, would you?

Hundreds of millions of people, many of them with the power to set policy do believe them. Strangely enough, that belief seems to fall along a political divide.

Most of those people have long made up their mind to 'never listen to anything you (the health authorities) say ever again'. The lines in the sand were drawn ~March 2020, when the politicians picked their sides, and ever since then, it's not clear to me that any amount of data has changed anyone's mind since then.
If omicron is really so mild that it isn't putting anyone into hospitals and the spread of omicron also eliminates Delta, then yeah governments will probably stop bothering with measures to contain covid.

These are really, really big assumptions though.
As someone from outside the industry, I started reading the article with the mindset that this was about counterfeit parts and was interested in the outcome. Yet the more I read the more I was asking myself what the article was actually about. Eventually I just stopped reading, looked at the comments, and learned that it was about a typo.

Quite frankly, it doesn't matter how much process there is to avoid this sort of thing. It is a big industry and we should expect an error as trivial as a typo to slip through eventually. The reader would have been much better served if the author was upfront about that, discussed why the error was significant, and offered some insight into how the industry normally avoids this type of error. Maybe they did get to that point eventually, but this reader will never know since this reader gave up when the article felt self-serving rather than informative.
'Have you tried rubbing a database on it?' call for speakers
Aphantasia is so fascinating to me. Being able to mentally visualize things is so integral to how I experience consciousness that I find it hard to imagine existing without it. At the same time, the fact that a non-negligible percent of people (about as man people globally as redheads) are aphantasiac and society basically didn't realize makes me think that maybe it's easier to overcome fundamental differences in how we experience reality than we tend to assume.
IBM and Samsung new chip design could lead to week-long battery life on phones
Anyone who openly advocates for wide price controls like the ought to be ridiculed away from public office. Just as anti-science as being antivax in my view.
> Java (and Javascript in its attempt to copy it) are about the only languages that actually promote using exceptions for errors

Python does. Ruby does. It's not just Java and JS. Go is very open about its approach being a departure.

> And actually, many APIs in the wild do represent errors as integers.

Many, many APIs in the wild are implemented in (or meant to be consumed from) C, which doesn't even have exceptions, so not using exceptions makes sense for them.

Very often idiomatic non-C host language wrappers for those APIs will fire exceptions when they get an error return.
This tool demonstrates that POSIX shells are at the wrong layer of the stack.

The shell should be part of the user interface (e.g. the terminal emulator or console), not a program running on the remote system.
hooking thumbs fully around the wheel increases chance of wrist breaks does it not?
To be fair, In my country hospitals were also overwhelmed pre-COVID, only by regular flu
Ok, how about the 100 million people killed by communism in the past century?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

Is that enough for you? Get off the internet and go read a book.
In some fantasy world where enough people act selflessly for this to be a theoretically significant issue, such concerned folks can just donate sperm/eggs. We already have a mature industry for handling that.

Fact is the vast majority of humans reproduce and will continue to do so, no matter how many comments on HN try advocate otherwise.

But I'm an optimist; go childless, we've got headcount more than covered here on Earth! Don't let society make you feel guilty or selfish for not throwing more fuel on this raging inferno of a dumpster fire.
Much worse: FTDI's customers are the distributors, whose customers are (usually) board assembly houses, whose customers are electronics vendors, whose customers are electronics users. FTDI decided to unilaterally destroy the property of their customers' customers' customers' customers. Or, rather, the customers of people who thought they were FTDI's customers' customers' customers, but whose suppliers' suppliers were actually cheating them.

The miraculous thing is that FTDI escaped criminal prosecution for this.
> ...it's already a dated product permanently stuck with a clunky UI...

I don't disagree with you. However we're discussing this in the context of IDA: A program whose user-interface is permanently stuck in the 90s. Its extremely idiosyncratic default key-bindings also betray exactly how dated its interface is.
FWIW I grew up under a Baptist umbrella, but was never religious. Tried out a bunch of religion's as an adult but couldn't quite get it. Still, I found that churches for the most part are good-intentioned places, with many flavors, but overall a net benefit to the community.
> Now it seems that even trying to flirt could be interpreted as harassing.

It always HAS been harassing.

It is only after 40 years of victims' complaints being minimized, mocked, and dismissed is it finally starting to barely take hold that this is not OK.

Flirting is literally sexualizing the work environment. Joking with someone is not sexualizing, but joking with them as an attempt to gain favor to date and subsequently fuck them is.
And political wrangling. And moral panics. And "national emergencies". And just about every other political abuse you can imagine.

That's without getting into the weeds of how well they would do at it implementation or how much it would cost.

Government could just do all the farming and manufacturing and food distribution also. Probably not very well and people would be much worse off and the system would be abused by those in power. Same concepts apply to this.

Single responsibility principal, as much as possible, is an efficient idea.

Government's job is to regulate. If there are problems with the current system that is largely a failure of regulation.
What system is that? Keep in mind that such a system has to be able to handle the TPS necessary.
To Touch the Sun
> In humans, viruses typically evolve to be less severe and more infectious over time.

There isn't consensus in the scientific community about that.

Counterexamples: polio, rabies, avian flu in human hosts, Black Death.

It isn't clear what category COVID19 will end up in.
Denmark has privatised most of their fire departments interestingly enough
Medieval people used nanotechnology, researchers find
I don't think you should be able to run for public office at all if you are a first generation immigrant. We don't allow it for president and we shouldn't allow it for any other office either.

These people need to understand why America is the way it is first.
> list of more qualified candidates

There is a vocal section of the Senate that views experience as a disqualifier. Particularly for finance. This might have been a trial balloon. It might have been part of a broader deal that fell through. It might be a red herring.
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Try VFIO for full Windows game support. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
> full screen playback without screen tearing are pretty huge upgrades.

Tearing in full screen (video) playback was not an issue for decades, since X video extension and later OpenGL-based playback. Fullscreen video and 3D is easy, because it is one program that controls buffer flipping. It is windowed video/3D that always has tearing.
I had a job as a VP a few years back… at a six-person startup. I cringe when I list that job on my resume - do I lie and list the title accurately (I was a programmer with a massively inflated title) or report what my actual given title was and risk being seen as misleading?
Chick culling
Millennials Are Supercharging the Housing Market
That's not a very compelling refutation to the claims you're responding to.
Part of the approval process is ensuring there’s enough supply to support the intended use and, if there’s not enough, do a limited approval.

That’s likely what’s going on here.
Maybe because YouTube uses Polymer. Firefox didn't used to support web components so Polymer had to use polyfills. I'm not sure they ever updated it and now it seems like Polymer has been abandoned? My best guess anyway. Should be fairly easy to verify.
I am in the process of reading all of these comments, so I know I have a ways to go.

If we are in fact talking about strange beluefs becoming a matter of identity, then any attempt to talk someone out of that identity will not help anyone.

It's certainly important to acknowledge our own beliefs, and to check those beliefs against the facts on the ground. You can sure start to feel like you are surrounded by crazy people, and get pulled into arguing "the facts" anyway. That's how I usually screw it up.

So what happens if, instead of pushing back on facts, when someone in personal conversation insists that (for example) the current president was illegitimately elected... what happens with a responsing by questions that signal my interest in their point of view?

"Ok, what is the most important thing for Americans to do right now?"

Usually people will think I am agreeing with them. I might have to assert my point of view, I don't want to lie to people.

I don't know if anything will work, at this point.
This article turns into a rant after the first few paragraphs, leaving me confused about the actual facts behind the story. Is it legal for the government to setup surveillance cameras on someone's land, to monitor their land? From the article, it sounds like this is exactly what was done.
Tongue-in-cheek but check out The Icelandverse on YouTube :)
Why would you downvote the fact that communism is directly responsible for the most mass murders in the past century?

Why would you downvote? You approve of mass murder?
>X11 is the antithesis of Unix philosophy. It tries to do a hundred unrelated things (compositing, clipboard, drawing, input, etc...)

And it works. Do you avoid desktop environments since they do everything, emacs which might as well be an OS, or music players that can also rename music too? Is a messenger app something you will never use if you can call or send music or pictures on it? My file manager can rename files, show pictures, rename them, and even open compressed files. Why is the Unix philosophy relevant when most linux systems use systemd?

Do you even follow "Unix philosophy"? Installing a bunch of plugins to make wayland do 100 unrelated things is the same result.
more context

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/toomey-on-p...
Not the author but I can answer that!

Haystack does not really compare to huggingface as they are directly using it as a library, it's more of a layer on top.

Serving a search system for 100K lines (short document?) is trivial on a single CPU machine, so the costs will be low.

For training if you stick to fine tuning and your dataset is relatively small (<10M) you could use collab with a free gpu. Training time really depends on your use case, the simplest classification may be handled in a couple of hours.
Ok I was wrongly assuming that panic was expecting an error type, in fact it's an interface{}.

> Your use of exceptions for flow control (i.e. goto) is considered harmful

Exceptions are a way to delegate error handling to the caller by giving them informations about the unexpected behavior. It implies that the expected behavior is the "happy path" (everything went well) and any deviations (errors) is unexpected.

This is far from a goto because you can have `try/finally` blocks without catch (or defer in golang).

Also, exceptions are just a kind of algebraic effects that do not resume. There was a proposal to JS for this: https://github.com/macabeus/js-proposal-algebraic-effects

This is also easier to test. assertRaises(ErrorType, func() { code... })

Almost every Go library I've seen just return an error (which is just a string), you'd need to parse it to assert that the correct error is returned in special conditions.
Yeah but the graph is still ridiculous.
Definitely, combined with the HN API. We built a user lookup app: https://blog.streamlit.io/finding-your-look-alikes-with-sema...
So... what about the unknown unknowns?
If Wayland fixes screen tearing I might be able to stand desktop Linux. Is it time to give it another go?

Has the font rendering improved at all? My eyes can't handle some of the ugliness and my skill with code ends where the browser closes, so I've never tried to fix it.
The finance forums I have found all have pretty strong community viewpoints.

Places like bogleheads.com may be worth a look.
We have allowed power to become heavily centralized across many aspects of law and culture, and representation (e.g. number of house representatives per capita). Reversing that trend is probably a good idea, if only to help keep the peace between geographies with different values and needs currently fighting to win in an all-or-nothing federal system.
Try to prompt it with just "Fandom:" and nothing else.
Typescript is also far slower both in terms of runtime and compilation time, uses much more memory, and is far more complicated which in turn has led to a ton more compiler bugs. It also inherits a ton of questionable features and API decisions from Javascript and has a tiny standard library which means most Typescript developers repeatedly end up turning to the NPM ecosystem which is an unmitigated disaster. Deployment also isn't even remotely as simple and reliable as Go even with Deno compile.

I like Typescript a lot but the reality of Typescript development is not great.
versioning != semantic versioning

Semantic versioning is an approach to versioning. It's an approach which, as GP stated, was designed specifically to help with dependency updating.

GP isn't proposing that languages shouldn't be versioned, they're saying that semantic versioning is the wrong approach to versioning for a language.
Who is the author? I read the About page but it offered few details, just links to some articles. It’s fair enough to say that the work should stand alone, but it’s also fair enough to apply Sturgeon’s Law when encountering a new blog.
A lot of her views seem to be pretty close to advocacy of central planning for the financial system, e.g. her proposal for a National Investment Authority: https://prospect.org/economy/public-investment-reimagined-a-...

Read through the article and you'll see, for example, she wants the NIA to invest in private companies in order to obtain voting rights to control those companies.

The smear of "communism" is a cheap shot that was pretty easy to make because of her background, but frankly her views end up coming pretty close to central planning, and that also makes it easy to accuse someone of being a communist.
Backwoods Tennessee? The person doing the job today probably only has the job because the previous revenuer was shot, killed,and buried as they stood
“The People’s Ledger.”... sounds like blockchain to me
We could have saved so many more lives. I remember midway through the first year (pre-vaccine) people arguing against mandates and masks and lockdowns, while severely underestimating the damage. One exchange I had here was from a person allowing that maybe they'd reconsider if we ever reached US deaths at something like 350,000, as if that were an astronomical figure.

And the vaccines... one thing I haven't found yet is an article that tries to make a well-studied estimate of where we'd be right now if the vaccine hadn't come out, or had been just a year later, or had the kind of (lower) efficacy that people were initially trying to set expectations for. In contrast to that, the kind of numbers I believe we would have seen or experienced... makes all our fighting about masks and mandates and lockdowns seem pretty irrelevant. I doubt we can even fathom the difference.
I don't follow.

> the liquidity of a given token is a function of the number of buy and sell orders on the books

By trading with myself it looks like there's a lot of liquidity, no?
> We don’t do clinical trials for the yearly flu vaccine update, do we?

Yes, we do[1][2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectivenessqa.htm

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947948/
That's part of the problem, another part is lack of scale in the space launch market, which results in relatively small and expensive launchers. Lots of complexity and thus cost in JWST could've been avoided if it could be heavier and larger.
So as a customer, first i get scammed by getting fake prodiuct, then I become a target of wanton vandalism by FTDI? How is this legal?
> Because this is how you herd 99% of the population into concrete tubes while the elite enjoy their sprawling ranches surrounded by federally protected wildlife reserves.

Come on, you don’t need communism for that. Modern capitalism has already brought us there.
Look at all the commies in this thread!

You know the tides are turning right? You people are on the wrong side of history.

Your vax mandates, your concentration camps, your socialists in charge of banking. It is coming all crashing down. America is waking up. You all are going to be in a serious set of dire circumstances rather soon.
There's no guarantee that it will work that way: smallpox didn't get less deadly. Only vaccination wiped it out.

If the patient is contagious before developing symptoms, the virus can spread very effectively even if many patients die.
> transparency is a deflection and most of the implementation is based on lies

transparency(openness)-opacity(secrecy) are not the same as honesty-deceit.

all language-based 'explanations' can be argued to be lies by nitpicking with increasing precision.

For example, consider whether the circle constant PI is equal to 3?

well yes it is but in fact it's 3.1

well yes but it's actually 3.14159... and so on

in any case, this article is playing around the distinction between transparent and honest and opaque or secret and deceitful. the difference can be very blurry
Not high bar ?

Financially there is significant amount of contribution expected to be made, in some countries like Germany the state even now would collect it on behalf of the church ( Catholic) ! I don't even know if it is possible to officially declare Catholic to the State and not pay the taxes.

Ethically joining a religion would also mean you are tacitly approving every horror that religion as an institution is committing now (like child molestation or coverups, corruption, treatment of native residents say in Canada, blatant discrimination ( is a black-gay-trans pope (or equivalent) possible ? ), or has in the past( genocides, conquests in the name of God, racism, witch hunting, anti science stances and so on).

More than half the wars in history have been in the name of religion, how would you without emotion accept all that baggage ? No rational person with a modicum of ethics can accept it, only indoctrinated faith from a early age can sustain this construct.
Almost no one is wearing any mask appropriately. Even the n95 needs to be changed more than daily. I highly doubt any decent percentage of people are doing that. At this point it's just a statement and nothing to do with protecting themselves or anyone else. Alternatively, they're suffering from psychosis.
I would also like discriminated unions, and a more sane approach to code generation than go generate and writing your own binary that parses source and spits out source code.
The comments here are largely unquantified opinions that haven't really changed in 10 years or so, more that there are far more people that have those opinions.

Ten years ago I loved the cloud because it broke the monopoly / organizational dictatorship of IT in large organizations, always a wellspring of "daily wtfs".

But now the cloud is becoming too powerful, and too small in number. We NEED a competitive-ish on-prems approach... but... what is it? Does anyone have a template to do so? They aren't well advertised that's for sure.

AWS is NOT CHEAP. It may be slightly cheaper than the old monolith IT orgs' DCs, and far more flexible, but it's not cheap. There has to be a way to accept less flexibility for substantial savings over reserved instances and negotiated discounts.

For christsakes, a Raspberry Pi would make a perfectly good server for massive ranges of use cases. 20$ and ultra low power.
Can you make an intelectual argument as opposed to a 3rd grade level analogy?

Let me help you: the road system is a public service in all free market economies. There was a period in UK and US history where some important roads were private, but it's no longer true today for the vast majority of roads.

Can you explain it? Why did western capitalist countries chose to build "communist roads"? Do you believe a 100% private road system would be an improvement over the current situation? Can you explain the main economic characteristics of roads as a service, and counterpoise them to payment systems?
TL;DR: shadowban.eu[0,1] discontinued since December 2, 2021:

> The test results are not reliable, anymore. Twitter has changed their frontend to use new GraphQL endpoints. To properly test and reflect the behavior of the site, I would have to make those changes to the tests, too. I have no interest in Twitter anymore and moved on to other projects, well over a year ago. Thus, shadowban.eu is down for good. The last version of the code remains available on GitHub.[2]

[0] https://twitter.com/shadowban_eu

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20211213163033/https://shadowban....

[2] https://github.com/shadowban-eu
Bitcoin, which can handle unlimited TPS.

The vast majority of US dollar transactions happen off of the Fed's official ledger. Similarly, the vast majority of bitcoin transactions need not happen on the blockchain. That's probably already the case today.

The problem with bitcoin today is that the price is too volatile. Bitcoin proponents believe that can change with time and increasing adoption.
Not defending Tesla software or build quality, but at least in the US, every Tesla built is already sold, and lead times are as of now...

Model S - July 2022
Model 3 - February 2022
Model Y - July 2022
Model X - January 2023

Tesla is far from F'ed.

TIL the GM is currently not selling any BEVs.
Religion isn't disappearing, it was simply rebranded. Many replaced it with a new religion called Wokeism.

John McWhorter: “I do not mean that these people’s ideology is ‘like’ a religion. I seek no rhetorical snap in this comparison. I mean that it actually is a religion,” he writes. “An anthropologist would see no difference in type between Pentecostalism and this new form of antiracism.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/books/review/john-mcwhort...

Paul Graham: Organized religion = ideology + god. But the 20th century has shown you can replace the god with a substitute. In communism it was the worker. In wokeness it's various protected classes.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1468526884921171969
This is a cool project!

Been using it for about 6 months now as my default terminal. It’s easy to configure, has all the modern bells and whistles, and you can run even run it as a daemon.
CISA Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) Vulnerability Guidance
Saw the value of usdt on binance as 113xxxxxxx eur lol
I sponsor this project for $5/month. Started a few months ago. I'm happy to support! For Linux desktop to succeed with consumers like me, it has to move beyond being for mechanics only, which means we have to do our part and pay money for it.