skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn’t an effective (and seemingly easier) digital preservation approach be to virtualize an older Mac OS (System 7 even) and just run HyperCard on it?
It's hard for me to imagine and describe the actual details, but it's not hard for me to say no, that's not correct.

I think with the right vocabulary, and some prompting for details, we could get a lot more out of you.

For instance, you would know the answers to at least some of these questions, I think, and not just matter-of-factly, but from your visualization:

1) Are her features highly unusual? Scar, missing eye, really far-apart eyes?

2) What color is her skin? (Relative answers are fine, like "the same color as mine")

3) What size was her nose? Tiny, average, huge?

4) What shape was her face? Long and tall? Round and cherubic?

5) Was she wrinkly?

6) Was her jawline prominent?

I think with the right vocabulary, I could describe my mom's face. I could certainly sit with a patient enough sketch artist and get a great sketch. I can definitely pick her out of a lineup. But I couldn't describe to you how far her eyes sit from her nose or something. I'd have to see the sketch and give feedback on why it was wrong, I guess.
"Money is created when money is loaned out against collateral. Money is destroyed when the loan is repaid and the collateral returned. It's a natural process."

But there is nothing natural about it - the limit on money supply is how easy it is to get a loan. Bank could give out mortgages with 0% deposit, they could give out loans equal to 120% of the house value, and they indeed have done so.

What regulates the money supply is not 'natural process' but the rules set by the regylator on minimum reguirements. Is having no rules free market? But then it will be creating 2008 style event every tuesday.

Furthermore, this whole thing only creates money in our current floating-money system, right?

If you have medieval-style economy where you count literal gold coins, you can not create money, you would just be loaning out other people's deposits. The amount of money in the system would stay fixed, right?

So then the only 'natural' money supply is your ability to mine gold?
I’m less nervous about a launch crash than about the hundreds of moving parts that have to perfectly unfurl the thing between the launch and L2
I never said most of the things you're claiming I posited.

For what it's worth, you should try assuming good faith when you debate people here. It's in the rules first off, but it leads to better and more interesting discussion.

> the electoral college votes from being counted by the joint assembly.
> By protesting or by....insurrection?

Fucking what? Just answer the question. By any method available including but not limited to straight up grabbing the ballot box and destroying them. If that is by "protest" or by "insurrection" is so irrelevant to my question. Are you even talking to me? Or some fictitious embodiment of all the internet people who disagree with you?

> It's most likely average people doing emotional things while angry and things got out of hand, not some organized conspiracy.

I did not ask if it was an organized conspiracy and I don't think it was. I asked if it was an attack on democracy. I mean that in the most literal sense and when I ask that I'm referring explicitly to the efforts to find and destroy the electoral ballots.

> If we looked at everyone more charitably , even people we disagree with, I think we would advance much farther as a species.

My interpretation of the events was that those people have basically been screwed over by decades of bad federal policy in the US, including by Trump. But Trump gave them an outlet for that rage. Anyone who broke the law should have their day in court but no, I don't think those people are somehow innately evil/horrible. Please stop assuming.

> As much as the BLM damaging the federal building in Vegas was an 'attack on democracy'?

Are you familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism? Because this is about as low-hanging as the fruit gets for whataboutism and it's an argument I've seen re-iterated ad infinitum. It's different because of the things I said (which you didn't care to respond to) - namely, that the joint assembly was confirming the electoral ballots in the case of the Capitol in DC.
Yes, strictly speaking, we didn't "have" to because we have many other clients and projects, the company will surely stay afloat.

However, we have to because this deal is less and less attractive over time compared to other projects and the management would eventually fire the client (we won't get fired since there are other projects) - before that, the head of the project should at least attempt to talk with the client and try to raise the price (plus there are obvious lock-ins for a giant software project and they can afford the price).
The FPGAs are neat, and certainly help with power efficiency here, but they're not the primary draw of this system. It's the fact that 100 pixels make each gameboy pixel and serious work was done to use those 100 pixels to look like a convincing recreation of the original screen. That's easily $100 unique.
They were using FTDI's USB VID. Probably most of them also were marked as "FTDI" on the chip package, but of course that's not what FTDI's drivers looked at.
> Sort of like Myst...

Guess what Myst was developed in.

(HyperCard! With some custom extensions to display color images and video.)
I find the glass on the Titanium scratches less than the others. Believe it’s different glass but the Stainless may also have it?

AppleCare+ Warranty for Watch Edition is also 3 years (albeit more expensive to buy) and for when it does get damaged, being able to get a new one for reasonable “in warranty” costs is something I value. I believe AppleCare+ for the others is 2 years, but their new monthly plans might support going >24 months before you’re entirely out of warranty?

I didn’t do Edition in the Series 0 timeframe because $10k is ludicrous but the Aluminum vs. Titanium costs are much closer with Series 7.
Twister wasn't written in a vacuum, just with a Hollywood twist. Storm chasers have definitely been helping improve science. Some are definitely reckless, but someone's got to shove that enema of science gear up that twister's backside!
When your users start complaining that your search sucks. :)

Either because your catalog has grown to the point where a traditional keyword search makes it harder to find relevant items, or because users are increasingly expecting their apps to just "know what they mean" (like Google, Spotify, Amazon, and Netflix do).
Out of this world Uber Eats makes our first food delivery to space
Thank you for elaborating on the story! I didn't know the details.
Modern postal OCR is generally good enough to detect bad addresses, but my point was people still beat it when the domain is so constrained.
> The biggest atrocity would be the poor folks who spent $10k+ on the original 24k gold Apple Watch Edition Series 0.

If you are spending $10k on a 24k gold watch, I would contend two things are true:

1: You are not poor and can afford to upgrade

2: You are more interested in the display of wealth than the functionality that it has
I live by reason and rationality and am also religious. I see "God" as Truth, or a consciousness that knows all truth, and that seeking truth, including natural laws/science, is equivalent to seeking god.

The two do (religion and rationality) are not mutually exclusive concepts.
> may be rational for one person to not pay taxes

it's rational to pay the lowest tax you can legally get away with, but not to evade taxes illegally especially if the chance of getting caught is high (as would be in a digital world where records of transactions are stored and analyzed). Much easier in a cash based society - case in point the Greek economy has a lot of tax evasion, and thus their gov't revenue shortfalls consistently.
This.

My wife and I are not religious. I could be convinced to be agnostic but not really. She's all atheist. We've priced out private schools all over the country. The jesus ones are the only ones that are affordable and still haven't had any mass shootings. We won't put our kids in the hand of some weirdo cult but it's tempting.
Why would I want a delivery person to wear a mask all day? And I prefer to check out my own groceries.

A mask for cooking is probably a good idea in general.
Some of us were messing with QuickCams and CU-SeeMe in the mid-90s.

Maybe the lesson is "what cool thing is interesting but isn't quite working today because the technology hasn't caught up yet?"
There's actually legal government documents that quite literally state where your property is. Any property that is not defined as your property is not your property. It's really not a hard topic.
Reminds me of rocket league. It's 1v1s do not tell you the rank of your opponent until the end of the game. But you can clearly tell when you come across a player that is one rank above you. They play very differently.

Beating that higher ranked player promotes you to their rank (and demoted them). It's like a mini boss that the game doesn't tell you about.
How is it compared with Julia + Flux.ml[1]?

[1] https://fluxml.ai/
IMO, we should try for it. If we succeed, we get a world in which woman feel safe in their own cities, which to me is an absolutely massive advantage. My friend goes to Peking (Beijing) and feels perfectly safe walking around at 3am. I love that.
Right. Previously the return code from x509_verify_cert was returned directly to the caller, which was incorrect - ssl_verify_chain_cert was supposed to return -1 if the caller should retry, but would end up doing so on any error that was returned from x509_verify_cert. So the patch is correct.

If your argument is that the return codes should be consistent across different layers of OpenSSL then I'm not going to disagree, but this is a large old codebase and this isn't some unique case.
Supporting sum types is not in any way incompatible with being a query or logic language.
I'm not the original commenter, nor am I experienced with upgrading in general, but what I understand from the comment is that you always make sure that your current schema is compatible with the previous backend.

For example, this could mean that you don't delete any column that were still in use in the previous backend version.

This would have the advantage of letting you rollback your backend alone if anything wrong happens.
An unfortunately common practice that isn't new. There are voluminous examples and an easily found one below.

https://www.cnet.com/news/court-oks-warrantless-use-of-hidde...
I also think it's often subconscious. The default was to associate with one even if you had no real involvement or beliefs.
I use rust and my code does not have .unwrap() (and definitely not .unwrap().unwrap()) in it either. That's what the ? operator is for.
The query algebra is completely compatible with sum types. I don't think "atomic" is describing anything central to the QA model.
> I wonder why there is so much hype with wayland, in use its mostly terrible unless you choose GNOME

Ah, but then you have two problems.
The homeless are highly vulnerable to violent crime, and often deal with illness and disability, so less violent crime and better emergency services & accessibility should benefit many of them.
Yes, that's one of the things they're doing, but in the screenshots they're using MacOS 9. It's less effective if you want to do things like full-text search, copy and paste, or render the vector graphics (though maybe those were MacDraw and not HyperCard?) at a different pixel resolution than the emulated Macintosh supported, or with antialiasing. There may also be metadata or "forensic" data that isn't visible directly in HyperCard itself, which may be of interest to future historians.

Aside from the emulation/undocumented-format problem that the librarians here are suffering from, a really big problem with born-digital archival work for more recent formats is copyright. Although libraries are permitted to make copies for archival work, in many cases the software tools they would need to make those copies don't exist, because those tools would circumvent an effective technological protection measure within the meaning of the DMCA, so writing and distributing them is potentially a crime. So in effect copyright law is privileging the business interests of Harvey Weinstein, Dan Brown, Bob Guccione, and Adam Sandler over the academic interests of scholars, historians, and the Library of Congress.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Pee-wee Herman or Amy Poehler making movies, but I don't think it's worth sacrificing the intellectual heritage of humanity to buy them second vacation homes.
Hasura GraphQL Engine v2.1.0 – Transform Any HTTP REST API to GraphQL
It would be ergonomic - you'd just use a variant of the equals operator specialized to Option<A> that behaved in the way you wanted.
My point above is, that’s a lot more than will happen for pirating a DVD in China.
Why pays the advertiser? More often than not it's me and you when we buy something online, even if we never click on ads. Advertisement is just another cost of doing business and it's built into the price. I can't imagine paying for content via all these middlemen would be more efficient than paying for it directly. That said, what's different is who's doing the paying and I suspect that a small minority of users are paying for everyone.
Even in the US that's a very uncharitable interpretation of conservatism that sounds like something I'd say in the heat of a Thanksgiving dinner argument.

The more charitable one is called "progressive conservatism". Progressive conservatives believe, among other things, that "instant change is not always the best and can sometimes be damaging to society, therefore cautious change that fits in with the nation's social and political traditions is necessary." [1] Progressive conservatives were the driving force behind abolition in Britain as well as natural conservation and the national park system in the United States, for example, so it's hardly a philosophy that resists all change.

A few presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower have called themselves progressive conservatives but in reality, the philosophy underpins the entire US Constitution and system of government going back to the founding fathers. It's the checks and balances that keep our (ostensible) democracy functioning. It's the court systems that can delay or outright kill hasty legislation. The conservatives want to let the progressives leap into the future while they focus on conserving the good things about the present so that they don't become casualties to progress.

To be clear the GOP is neither conservative, nor progressive, nor progressive conservative. They're just the elephant in the room.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_conservatism
This could be of interest for those in Silicon Valley:

http://www.humanists.org/blog/
Well, they've had to support about 100x more devices than Apple does. Conversely, it's incredible that Apple still hasn't figured out how to get Vulkan running on their handful of supported hardware.
> Second, officials did not tell people that we lacked evidence that masks work - they told people that masks don't work period.

Some said we lacked evidence, others said they didn’t work. There was no single voice on this.
Ruby is all about conventions, most Ruby, and by extension Ruby on Rails apps look pretty similar despite the fact that the language is extremely expressive.

I don't buy that a staff SWE and a new grad will write very similar code in Go.

As far as simple language. It is possible to design simple languages that are very expressive, Lisp and Erlang come to mind.
Kevin Kelly or Stuart Brand, can't remember which, says "look for places where people are having to invent new words to describe what they are doing."

A good guide
I don't question the existence of thoughts, I merely pointed out that "existence" is different for different types of things. I think there are "layers" of existence, similar to how the OSI networking model works. One layer is the physical. Something like a single human being is another layer. Collective phenomena such as the patriarchy are another layer. We have limited understanding, so we may not perceive these things accurately, but that does not stop them from being real, in other words "existing". I personally believe that the layers scale right up to levels not visible to the tools of science, which work at a lower layer.
It seems a pity to write people off with a different understanding of the world as not being worth talking to. I recommend being open minded to this perspective even if it doesn't convince you. For a much better presentation of what I'm saying, I recommend looking into Jonathan Pageau; he has a good book or you can catch some interviews here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX78CipFi-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGglfl5j_I
Nulls aren't a hack they're the not yet set state.

The problem is that languages don't create both nullable and non nullable types.

Forcing everything to use options which infect everything with guarding at every layer of the stack is just as bad as nullable types.

That is, nullable types aren't the problem, never was, the problem is developers not dereferencing them at the edges of code boundaries and using non nullable types internally.

E.g. in rust, the first point you encounter an option type should be the point you handle the optionality of it and deref into a standard type with the value. From then on, your code is so much freeer.
Collapse of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf by Intersecting Fractures
Just 29% lower is nothing. NOTHING.

Of all people, the YC News crowd really ought to understand that O(exp(n)) overwhelms O(1) literally exponentially. Not figuratively. Literally.

If a virus variant has a constant factor reduction in its side-effects, but a higher exponential factor in infectiousness, the latter will overwhelm the former in short order, and then continue to overwhelm it even more. Exponentially.

Let me do some simple maths assuming that it spreads "just" twice as quickly as Delta.[1] Lets assume that at some point, Omicron will be the primary strain, and there are 29% less patients in hospital because of it. Assume the doubling-time of Delta is 1 month. (It's better or worse than this depending on circumstances, but start here.) The doubling time of Omicron is then 2 weeks.

So with Delta you have: 1.0 == .71 * 2^(t/30d) which solves to about 15 days to get back to a full hospital.

With Omicron the equation is 1.0 == .71 * 2^(t/14d) which means it'll be back to a full hospital in just 7 days. Then the hospitals will be at 200% capacity in 21 days, 300% capacity at 29 days, and 1000% of capacity in just 53 days.

Of course, the full mathematical model is more complicated, typically something like SEIHRD, but the point is that a mere 29% reduction in mortality is next to nothing compared to an exponential increase in infectiousness. It would have to be more like 90% less dangerous for that to matter at all in the long run.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2021/12/03/scienti...
so it only happening 6 times over the 2.3 billion years is not a bad record. Human designed systems have barely over 5000-10000 years of history, and most only last a couple hundred.
I can't say I've had much direct experience of the religious-political nexus in the US but as an external observer one thing that stands out to me was the objection to John F. Kennedy becoming president because he was Catholic and would be "beholden" to the papacy.

In one respect though, the US and Australia share the history that our leaders have predominantly been protestant. I think that's far more a social class structure artifact than anything blatantly religious though.

The denomination of the leader doesn't always dictate who gets the ear of the party in our political system though - Gough Whitlam was famously coerced into including the catholic schools into our public funded school system because they were "broke" - a somewhat laughable assertion even at the time, when the Catholic church was, and is, one of the richest institutions on the planet.
I like this a lot. What are you using for the voice?
> I think religion is similar in that; in the past, it would be a career killer or one would be confronted by other challenges if anyone were to discover or if you were to admit to being and atheist, agnostic, unaffiliated or whatever label.

This is very true. I've been an atheist for 40 years and it's really only been the past 10 years or so where being openly atheist doesn't trigger negative responses.

In Canada. I'm not sure I'd be openly atheist in the US South.
"Asteroid and vulcanism are the usual culprits"

That is nature, thats my point - it is brutal and murderous.

If you don't want to die from them you don't rely on Darwinism and if you don't want economic collapse and famine every time a new strain of flue evolves you dont wait for 'muh free market' to save you.
Pardon my ignorance, how do you deploy a GPT-3 model cheaply?
This is part of why - it’s no good for society for too many people to question some of its fundamental precepts
This seems cool but I'm disappointed that it just sends a program to the other side rather than rewrite commands and operations to sh syntax.
Then they should know even better that judges don’t make laws, they rule on existing laws, and their rulings get used as precedent.

In the US, our system of law is based on our Constitution, in this case the Fourth Amendment to the Bill of Rights. Like several other amendments, this one is written vaguely enough to allow outrageous interpretations by biased or incompetent judges. This is one of those situations.

If you can look into Fourth Amendment law without growing steadily sick to your stomach, you're either on the government's side or you have a stronger stomach than mine.
American religions are fairly thin on explicit theology, because they are so individualist and transcendental. Whats the point of making a canon if you have the power of a spiritual witness?

My view is that the unique, "democratized" nature of American religion made it more vulnerable to political opportunism because this theological vaccuum existed.
> None of the 78,000 cases up to 7th Dec in South Africa resulted in a reported death up to 13th Dec.

Covid takes about 3 weeks to kill.
The Omicron epicenter in SA has a much younger demographic than in western countries.
I consider myself good at visualizing form and space, but when people say they "see" something in their mind's eye, I assume they're not like literally having a full-blown DMT hallucination where objects appear solid and indistinguishable from physical reality. The "images" are part information. You can think about the shadows or the highlights and they'll pop out or recede as you think about them.

I actually have a thing where I can't process math without seeing geometry in my head. But I was never naturally good at perfectly visualizing real world objects. Instead of math
and code, which came naturally, I pursued art college because I considered it a weak spot for me. And indeed, I wasn't very good at it... but years of classes and practice made me better, and strengthened my visualization skill. I think it can be learned and exercised, like any other part of the brain. Just like musical recognition can be learned, if not perfect pitch.
> Capitalism can be enacted with markets or it can be enacted with central planners.

how can there be capitalism when central planners tell the owners of the capital what to do with their capital? that sounds like authoritarianism to me (which is basically why all communist countries must be authoritarian, since without it, the natural tendency of humans is to be capitalistic).