skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to take statistics like this with a grain of salt. Sometimes less than perfect reliability is by design, sometimes development details (like how different the "new" rocket that earned that name is from previous designs) hide failures in earlier rockets with different names.
Amazing. I wonder if given the large advances in computing power, that we might develop something like Ada+Rust for such systems where we can eliminate all sorts of error classes.
>Way too many comments and articles that try and keep the fear training running full steam.

Enragement is engagement, and how better to enrage people than scaring everyone out of their wits and politicising everything as far as humanly possible? I'm certainly no COVID denier nor vaccine sceptic, though to me it's astonishing how little discussion has happened around the fact that everyone from some randomer's blog to major media outlets have every incentive towards alarmism and sensationalism and no incentive at all for moderation and sober analysis.

If you're a media outlet of any description and you write articles / film videos using hard-hitting emotional language to make people as terrified as possible, they'll be doomscrolling through your content all day and seeing lots of ads in the process. Even if it turns out your content was complete bollocks, you still got the engagement and ad revenue and by the time you post a correction (if you even bother) the news cycle has moved on to the next Horrible Truth you Must Read All About Right Now Or Else Bad Things will Happen to You. If you instead write a calm, measured article that right off the bat admits the caveats with any scary claims then nobody will read it and your potential readers/cash cows will be off on your competitor's sites that are using sensationalist and alarmist language.

The depressing thing is that even the average 'masks and distancing every winter forever' people and average 'restrictions are just a cover for politicians to consolidate their authoritarian power' people have far more in common with each-other than they do with say, Rupert Murdoch. So much completely artificial hatred has been generated and it has driven completely needless shards of anger and resentment between colleagues, between friends, and between families.
• 2em base font size is waaaaaay too large. I zoomed out to 50% and breathed a sigh of relief (and later dialed it back up to 67% which was tolerable too and probably more where it should be for such a thing).

• radio/checkbox need to be more distinct. I recommend a cross in the checkbox.

• Focus styles: you’ve killed the outlines on radio/checkbox and not replaced them with anything better, which is doubleplusungood, and where you haven’t touched the outline, the browser’s default clashes with your style.

• It could be fun to try replacing the border technique with feTurbulence + feDisplacementMap, not specifying the SVG’s viewBox/width/height, and using percentages for the sizes of things, allowing it to render at whatever size it needs to be, allowing you to avoid stretching in one direction or the other, though given the same seed the curves of the top and left edges will be consistent. A demo of much the underlying concept can be found within this WIP of my own that’s simultaneously overdone and underdone: https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2021-12-15-svg-drawn-filters-d..., look at the page edge, and fiddle with #paper-fuzzy-edge’s feTurbulence baseFrequency (e.g. 0.05) and feDisplacementMap’s scale (e.g. 20), also twiddling the #paper rect’s x/y/width/height.
Gorakhpurwalla said: “I think even if you go beyond those tiers, all the way down into very little access, maybe write once read never, you start to get into a medium that still exist as we go forward in paper or other forms, perhaps even optical.”

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/ there you go, robust support for the write once read never use case.
Change the label to unreliable source then.
> We really need to stop placing the burden on the individual.

That's the person who incentivized the polluters to pollute in the first place. The individual had no standards except an expanding "quality of life" and they were given just what they demanded: consumption without regard for consequence. This attitude perpetuates it.

You vote with your dollars. Our current corporate players are who we paid them to be.
I am not denying that there are more extreme weather event, I hope my comment didn't come off as denying climate change, because that's not what I was trying to convey.

> nothing really went wrong yet

Nothing went wrong in the sense that nothing went wrong for me, for my loved ones, for people I actually know.
You hit the nail on the head. It was very different coming from Microsoft, where people's title and level (about one-two levels corresponded to a particular title) were visible in every chat dialog, to Google where you can edit your title to anything you want and levels can be seen only by going to a tool and looking it up specifically.
https://ghidra-sre.org/
It certainly is on hn.
I see, I was using this [1] although you are of course right that it's a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen rocket. While it's not carbon free to obtain those, but the numbers are probably quite a bit lower for New Shepard.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires...
The planet will be fine. Humanity in general tends to act so self-important. We're just specs of dust on a bigger spec of dust. There have been at least 5 mass extinction events, and there's going to be more.

A large-enough CME would cripple the entire planet for decades (if not centuries). From an existential standpoint, global warming is the least of our worries as a species.
In a way, maybe? Although weird small electric cycle/cars have been a thing for quite a while.
That can also be done. I can shut down any specific or cluster of EC2 instances if any one exceeds a $ limit, or all of them. The resolution is up to me and I immediately stop getting charged.

If I have lost ROOT access, as the OP did, nothing can save me: all alerts and thresholds can be shut off by the hacker. Just like any other system.
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Top Lessons and Thoughts from Fluent Forever
Below are the highlights from the post I just published. To read the full post with highlights from the book [go here](https://rasulkireev.com/fluent-forever-book-review/)

## Summary

Below are the most important points from the book, IMHO. For more, check out the highlights below, especially the Key Points paragraphs.

1. THE THREE KEYS TO LANGUAGE LEARNING:
* Learn pronunciation first.
* Don't translate.
* Use spaced repetition systems.
2. We recall images much better than words because we automatically think conceptually when we see an image. Image-recall studies have repeatedly demonstrated that our visual memory is phenomenal. So *when learning new words you need to bind them to images*.
3. Rote repetition is boring, and it doesn't work for long-term memorization. Take the lazy route instead: *study a concept until you can repeat it once without looking and then stop*. After all, lazy is just another word for "efficient."
4. To maximize efficiency, spend most of your time recalling rather than reviewing. Use [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/) for that.
5. Memory tests are most effective when they're challenging. The closer you get to forget a word, the more ingrained it will become when you finally remember it. If you can consistently test yourself right before you forget, you'll double the effectiveness of every test. Again, [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/) will help with that.
6. This is painful, but a necessary one. Do flashcards yourself. Only you will have an emotional connection with images and words.
7. Use writing to test out your knowledge and find your weak points. Use the example sentences in your grammar book as models, and write about your interests. Submit your writing to an online exchange community. Turn every correction you receive into a flashcard. In this way, you'll find and fill in whatever grammar and vocabulary you're missing.

## My Thoughts

I think this is a great book. It re-introduced me to the concept of the SRS and Anki. I have encountered those before, but haven't used them much. Admittedly, I'm not very active about using those now either, but this is more of a discipline problem. The ideas laid out in this book are simple and effective. You just got to want to learn a language enough to actually follow through.

Learning a language is hard, don't let anyone tell you otherwise, but once you are equipped with tools from this book you are much more likely to succeed in your endeavors.
I read that. It seemed very non-neutral and politically charged.

The first citation I looked at...Citation number 7...is to a politico blog post.

I don't know if that can be taken seriously.

We are truly in a post-truth era.
Not yet, but the hardware capability is there.
> Are these people actually "progressive" or merely wrapping themselves with the image?

Is a Catholic priest who abuses children actually "Catholic" or merely wrapping themselves with the image?

In the end that's a semantics argument which doesn't seem to do much to solve the underlying problem.
No it doesn't, it also has a level of protection built in to stop decompiling itself
They'll take my opafiets when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
For those on Windows who would rather avoid yet another electron bloatfest, Microsoft’s new “Windows Terminal” app, available through GH and their App Store, is native and extremely good. Not quite on par with iterm2 for Mac, but damn close. (Look it up on GH or search via DDG, on mobile right now so I can’t dig up the link).

IMO it’s a far better alternative for you Windows folks out there.
Probably patent law, unless it’s a black-box reverse engineering, in which case you can’t use a disassembler to peek at how it works
They are using 0 to indicate verification failure, according to the comment above the function.
Failed as in the vaccines, that were being advertised as being 95% effective with no talk of any boosters only 6 months ago, no longer provide any protection at all.

As for the vaccines forcing mutation, SA is only 25% vaccinated so that doesn't work.

Have the vaccines succeeded in preventing many people from dying? That is something for history to judge. There just isn't good enough data on vaccine deaths to judge that at the moment. The problem for COVID vaccines is that whilst they may some people from dying of COVID, not many life years are saved because almost all the COVID deaths are concentrated in the very elderly. Meanwhile vaccine injuries are a looming iceberg because they aren't being properly tracked or recorded. The number of random cardiac failures in athletes is well up this year and eventually people will stop being in denial about the reasons. The long term damage from this programme can be judged in five or ten years.

However, if Omicron does display Delta as it appears to be doing very rapidly, we can say that at most the vaccines were useful for maybe 6-8 months. Bearing in mind you aren't "vaccinated" until your second dose and there's a gap.
Most Zoomers have already accepted that they are not going to have children or live very long.

I think following their example is the best one can do on an individual level. It’s baby’s first civilization and it’s over. Acceptance at least allows one some dignity.
Plus you don't get to send a Space Shuttle to L2 in case the mirrors are malfunctioning.
Can you respond to this?

> Whether you feel it was an insurrection or not, can we at least agree that it was an attack on democracy? These protestors may not have been armed, but they were threatening and intimidating as they chanted things like "hang mike Pence" and "where are you Nancy?".

> The overall context of course was that many of these people believed themselves that they were there to prevent the electoral college votes from being counted by the joint assembly.
I think renewables technology has gotten pretty damn amazing though. But that is expected given the massive amount of money funneled to its research.

I think the really cool thing that they allow is, imagine solar panels becoming so cheap but still efficient, and huge batteries like Tesla’s power wall, becoming better, you can have like whole small towns pretty easily behave as their own entire power grid pumping energy where it is needed.

It makes the idea of lots of small rural villages seem possible which I think is pretty cool.

We could probably see the world population double and yet keep similar urban densities.
Via my kid, I learned what a hummingbird call sounds like. It's a great experience to hear a call and be able to look around and find one. (I hear them quite frequently and they're pretty easy to spot).
Wouldn't it make more sense to focus on cars with diesel engines?

Air travel is, in many cases, essential. There are no viable alternatives for certain routes, e.g. transcontinental in the US, international in many countries, but there are perfectly reasonable alternatives to car travel.
Both ideological and effective polarization are exacerbated by electoral and political structures like those in the US that promote factional duopoly; comparative study of modern democracies has shown this. Reducing it is simple, adopt an electoral system which has greater legislative proportionality and a political system less heavily tilted to a unitary executive.
Thanks for the input! I love and use Xubuntu, so XFCE would not be a con for me ;)
This wasn't intended as a gotcha, or anything, I was just honestly curious what informed your experience. I lived in Tampa for ~10 years, and found it to be a pretty decent city in general, though with the usual southern caveats of public transit being non-existent and the sprawl being excessive.
> cargo bikes are extremely common for transporting kids

Seems like a contradiction in terms?
I am using mediapipe extensively in my day-to-day job. I've been impressed with it so far, and the ability to patch together multiple models in to, well... a media pipe, has been impressively useful. But I am also waiting for the penny to drop and google to announce they've abandoned it, or that their API has completely changed.
A k-d tree gives you exact answers to nearest neighbour queries.
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Many thanks for this detailed feedback!
I didn't think that, I was just curious about your perspective. I think I'm observing the same stuff everyone else is observing and, even the other side of the world, it feels far too close for home, geographically. And, having a child, it seems far too close to home temporally too.
> Pathogenicity: Virtually no hospitalizations or deaths

This is not correct. We've seen quite a few hospitalisations. See the dramatic uptick in South African hospital numbers.

Deaths have generally occurred about 4 weeks after infection. Omicron was only reported to the WHO about 3 weeks ago.

The rest of your post is of a similar level of confusion.
I added UTM parameters so I can see how people interact with my content. I also did it as way to learn how to use Plausible and analytics for future projects.
Ah the good old death of good tools.
Yes. Rent -> Homelessness -> Mental illness. Whats so hard to believe?
It’s not, it turns out, I misremembered :( Clang 13 does compile this down to a CMOV in my tests, but GCC 11.1 just translates it as is even with -mtune=native (on Haswell).
Depends on your perspective I suppose. There's definitely an advantage to being able to play that game, but if you overdo it it tends to be to the detriment of the team or the company culture.
Well, every dev is listed as "Software Engineer" unless they change it specifically. Maybe you're forced to change it if you're a manager, but I'm unsure of that. So you never exactly know the level of the person you're talking to unless you work with them a lot or go out of your way to look it up.
Still does not inspire confidence. This is the second CVE this year, after they pushed out a vulnerable TLS 1.3 version.
Is this really your only takeaway? I agree, defining the acronym would be nice, but certainly it’s not infuriating.
Nature grows mushrooms free for the picking. That's $1000 less than a silly VR helmet.
I wouldn't call this McCarthyism. How is being a tax cheat being put on trial equate to McCarthyism unless all you are trying to do with that post is gaslight the conversation with pro-communism sympathies (i.e. china funding this guy).

I am far more suspect of your using the term mccarthyism when not related whatsoever.
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Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation
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I've been toying with making a deckbuilder for Magic: The Gathering and could see this being potentially useful for finding fun card combinations. Thanks!
Weight is much less of a concern for flatlanders like the Dutch.
Go http.RoundTripper that emits opentelemetry metrics
Not really. On other side news like 'my AWS account racked 40000$ while I was asleep (because of the crypto-miners)' make to the front page way to often.
The appearance, existence, and position of spy satellites are not secret. The capabilities and the data coming back from them are secret.
I'm talking about doing videos like in the articles. And no normal cryptos are far from a pyramid scheme almost everything else in fiat and normal economies would fit better.
Sure, but if anything, Ariane 5 is a good example of that; it blew up because of reused software from the Ariane 4.
ZIP?

- Has readers/writers/APIs in almost every language under the sun

- It's data tree is a file tree, leaving it very simple from an abstraction standpoint

- No inherent arbitrary metadata mechanism but plenty of ideas (in the wild, even) for storing arbitrary metadata in JSON or XML or YML "files" side-by-side data files

- Used in many examples in the wild (DOCX, XSLX, ODT, JAR, etc)
With the numbers in the article, Germany is ahead of the Netherlands even percentage-wise; although it is cargo bikes sold; the market in the Netherlands may already be closer to saturation.
Honest answer - I don't care at all. Not because I don't believe something is happening, but because I don't buy into the presumption that we need to preserve Life as it is right now.

I believe Life will persevere, sometimes getting better, sometimes getting worse, for millennia in the future.

A comment in a different thread on hacker news today quoted this from a book:
> "Life is composed of reality configurations so constituted. To abandon [my wife] would be to say, I can't endure reality as such. I have to have uniquely special easier conditions."

I don't believe I have to fight or feel guilty that some people in the near future will not get a uniquely special easier life.

---

As another example, there is this community on the internet called LessWrong, whose members believe that the single biggest problem facing humanity right now is the impending arrival of AGI (artificial general intelligence). Many of them truly believe this problem is so urgent and important that you shouldn't be able to think about anything else. But I would guess (if you don't happen to be one of them) you don't really think or care about that. Maybe thinking about this analogy will help you find an answer to your question.
If we can get to a point of civilization where we have mini nuclear power plants that power like 20 houses, and mini sewage/water treatment plants for the same, now that would be cool.

I wish all the money that went towards renewables research instead went towards nuclear...
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Because reverse engineered code is usually a mess, unmaintainable and takes a lot of effort to make even small improvements. Also, you run the risk of being accused of copyright infringement.
At the rate things are going, I'd posit that it will be:

Flint & Steel

Trapping

Boiling water

Foraging

Fishing

Smoke signals

Drums

etc.

Maybe I'm just in a pessimistic mood right now, but the future isn't looking terribly bright to me right this minute.
This seems to be a popular topic on HN but I wonder how much of this is due to semantics. Before I read a story about this I didn't stop to think that people couldn't picture things in their mind. But now that I've read a few and seen numerous comments on it, I've started to second guess myself. I can imagine a couple gears turning and I would normally have said, "yes I can see it in my mind" but it isn't really like seeing but it seems visual in some way.

So maybe what I consider "seeing" in my mind doesn't really count as "seeing" for some because that isn't 100% what it is like?

Maybe I'm just so locked into "seeing" things in my mind that I can't imagine how it would work if I didn't.
The author of the study that the bad cat is trying to discredit wrote a long, persuasive rebuttal to the simplistic critiques he's been reading on Tyler Cowen's blog;

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/ja...

They saw a significant reduction in covid presence in communities with more masking -- even though total masking was still only 40% in those communities -- which is very much in line with all the other literature.

I literally can't believe people still pretend like masks (especially surgical/KN95s) don't protect people when it's completely self-evident since we've used them forever to protect people in medical settings.
Stopping inflation != lowering prices, because it's a measure of change, not absolute levels. That's why it's represented as a y/y %.

We were in a very weird time from 1990-2020 where the price of goods actually declines in many categories due to a lot of crazy and undefined factors (like China's currency peg, but also 1000000 other things).

We may return to that period, we may not, but even just slower inflation is fine for the economy, AND (this is the real saving grace) our Y/Y comps go from being 'low inflation COIVD era' comps to being 'high inflation 2021' comps in March 2021.
McCarthy was mostly right in his accusations, though. He is mocked because the commies did actually take over the us government.
> Have the vaccines succeeded in preventing many people from dying? That is something for history to judge

Please don't post this nonsense on HN. There's ample evidence for vaccines saving the lives of millions.
It's documented as returning 1 when verification succeeds and 0 when it fails, so this appears to turn an error into a failure to verify, which seems to be the intent?
Well yeah, but why focus on Germany and not Denmark or the Netherlands. Both have more cargo bikes than Germany per person? It’s more interesting how this happened with the goverment throwing money at it. Perhaps there’s something Germany could have done to get even better result, without a subsidy.
> China has clear ambitions to be the worlds superpower

That is not clear to me.

AFAICT they want the respect due to a super power.
My 2022 wish list is a Postgres plugin that adds vector + AKNN support that plays well with relational queries. There are so many use cases of that.

I believe Ant Financial has published an open source one but iirc the English language documentation is sparse.
By squeezing out hobbyists and individuals, they're shooting themselves in the foot over the long term.

The only reason any corporation I worked for purchased IDA Pro licenses was because I recommended it. The only reason I recommended it is because I could (barely) afford a personal license, and play with it in my own time.

Going forward they're going to miss out on this word-of-mouth marketing, which I expect will negatively affect sales expansion going forward.
> Solar Radiation Management (SRM) from Harvard College

I rest my case !