skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Pinecone have any position on the status of document embeddings and whether they would be considered PII? One of the challenges of using a fully managed service is the headache of adding yet another data subprocessor and all of the legal and compliance questions that raises.
> I'm sure you'll roll your eyes at this response, but a large chunk of economists don't believe there is value in anything.

Food and shelter have value which is pretty near to objective. In fact it is routinely used to compare economic levels throughout history or societies. In fact it's quite useful to distinguish market price from usage (intrinsic) value. Usage value is variable from individual to individual, but there is a hierarchy of things we usually agree on, at the bottom being water, then food, then light, ... (biological stuff) then social interactions, intellectual stimulation, ... (more complex social stuff), then things like healthcare or gun access which will obviously depend on your political ethic (but which still are largely clustered, just not universal). So sure market price doesn't denote value, and intrinsic value is a fuzzy hierachy that is more and more precise given more and more assumptions on social norms, but the bottom of this hierachy is non-trivial (not everything at 0) and the top isn't that diverse.

Marx & Engels had a (critical) theory of capitalistic value where value is actually pretty well defined, as the amount of human work which has gone into something. That may be seen as an extension of what i first said (the value of human time being at least cost of life for that time).
>marginally lower case fatality rate

The op didn't state marginally could you please share where you are getting this from?

The first publicly confirmed death globally from Omicron was reported just yesterday (source: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-says-omicron-spread...

Given that the South African study discussed in this Washington Post article included 78k people, none of whom died if the above Reuters article is correct, doesn't this suggest that the case fatality rate is a lot lower (not marginally lower)?
Yes, the Aqua treatment made it leap forward. I love that aged Gnome style :)
Met too, I use MacOS and it's the best UI since 20 years ago.
What would distinguish an ethernet switch "for audiophiles" vs a regular ethernet switch?

This has the same feel to it that those green magic markers they sold to audiophiles. You were supposed to use the markers on the edges of CDs to make the data reads richer and more vibrant and warm or some such hogwash.

I'm also reminded of "directional" audio cables, and the "DiscWasher" scam from the 70s, although heaven knows, LPs really needed help.
What is this, code golf? Why does it matter in the end? People are allowed to choose, and pooh poohing something just because it doesn't fit your idea of productivity apps isn't very helpful.
I'm as well going from TF2 to JAX, it's like TF3 and I hope that google will just put the keras team to work on a JAX version
Firefox also had native support for RSS: detecting feeds, rendering them reasonably, even subscription via "live bookmarks." Removed in 2018: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks
You know the difference between harassment and flirt is the attractiveness of the initiator?
I believe that the new Surface Laptop Studio has a haptic touchpad.
This was my thought exactly. I absolutely loathe semantic search and have never found it more useful than literal search.
whatever became of it? I thought at the time security experts would swarm and dissect it to death to give us articles after articles of concrete tampering examples... but it just vanished?
Getting Started with Ffmpeg for Audio
Hmm also the TLS 1.3 bug was in April 2020... Uh oh I am on covid time.
Also, BERT on cheap hardware? I thought that without a GPU, vectorizing millions of snippets or doing sub-second queries was basically out of the question.
What stops the victims from secretly recording such incidents? Modern mic recorders are microscopic.
Stop with the chemtrails already! That isn't engineering, that's pollution.
A sucker is born every minute I guess.
My brutally candid answer is that I'm putting off panicking until it directly affects me. I'm at the stage where I assume that unless somebody invents a machine that cheaply removes carbon from the atmosphere at a global scale, there's nothing anybody can do to stop significant global warming and its knock-on effects. Certainly, nothing I can do at my scale is going to make any difference whatsoever. Even if the entire world did everything it has been promising to do, and everybody complied 100%, it still wouldn't make a meaningful difference over the course of my lifetime. No, it's an R&D problem at this point, so why would I think about it more than necessary? I'll focus on preparing to deal with the consequences when they arrive, since that's at least within my purview.
I’ve resorted to playing modern with high quality fakes. Otherwise wouldn’t have the budget. Checkout bootlegmtg on reddit
> you mean the Transport Layer Security, the cryptographic key exchange protocol? what’s the advantage to integrating with a blockchain compared to the way the current protocol works?

Sort of lends to be like PGP Web of Trust doesn't it?
Web 2.0 predates SPAs and has basically nothing to do with that.

Web 2.0 is basically websites with user generated content.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 and most other sources you find when googling "what is web 2.0"

And by the way, a significant number of java backends don't use log4j2 as a logging backend (the vulnerable part).
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
Does it support three finger drag? It's the MacOS feature I miss the most.
Precisely. Very good comparison.

PS: and for some reason I still don't see need to believe, even for an off chance of going to heaven. Same with crypto.
The underlying issue, and one that bugs the hell out of me, is Policy vs Truth.

You can say true things all day, and convince nobody. You can enact policy based completely on Truth (e.g., Trust the Science), and completely fail. People don't care about Truth, they care about what changes they need to make, and who is asking them to make them.

Good policy is only partially based on truth, it's more based on easy implementation and high acceptability. In the article, you don't talk about the real reasons (truth), you do what you need to do to steer the ship. That probably includes bullshitting, compromise, apparent-hypocrisy, etc.

I'm afraid we've completely forgotten to separate the means from the end goal.

I've tried to explain this to people, and I've been met with blank stares from even the most intelligent folks.

As suggested though, it works wonders if you're at least a little good at magical thinking or self deception. (If I run these 3 miles, I'm much more likely to get that raise)
And that really the point: look at most of the media solutions of the last 50 years and the most successful were "subsidized" by a larger consumer or business market. otherwise the cost is "pure" (1:1 R&D to Revenue) and very expensive.
I mean the use of those to power arbitrary computation on the network. It’s not dissimilar to AWS tokens.
Well there’s a joke somewhere.

Less has my favorite version numbering system. Sequential.

Latest stable release: Version 598

https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
Without minimizing the seriousness of what it is... "Doomsday"? For two feet of sealevel rise? (And over 80 years, if rsj_hn is correct?) No. Just no. You have way too wimpy an idea of Doomsday.
Or worse: if they mistakenly thought you had a non-genuine FTDI component when you really didn’t.
it's not weird at all for feelings of attraction between people who see each other every day to form, and for one or both of them to pursue a romantic relationship as a result. this happened many many times in both of our lineages such that we were born and exist today, because humans are social creatures and at some point we evolved beyond just raping each other to procreate.

now obviously, offices aren't purely social spaces, you are there to get work done. but what kind of office do you work at where nobody interacts in any way that isn't 100% related to accomplishing work tasks? what makes seeking out a romantic partner at work "weird" compared to seeking out a friendship? (assuming rejection, etc. is handled gracefully—obviously, there's always risk in asking someone out.)

(disclaimer: met my wife-to-be at work. (disclaimer: said work was at Walmart, between programming jobs.))
Have you considered that it might be at insistence of the major sponsors that should language is used in the report?
> New York has the highest and craziest number of cases and deaths at the beginning and didn’t put one person onto the ship that was provided for temporary beds

The ships weren't for COVID patients, they were for non-COVID cases so that hospitals could focus on the overflow of COVID patients that they were better equipped to handle. Turns out that at the beginning of a global pandemic, not a lot people opted to go to the hospital even if they needed to because of fear of infection.
This is cool, but what's GPT-3's pricing model and roadmap?
Not exactly Linux, but would helloSystem[1] be suitable?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040
According to Wikipedia, it's currently on display at the Queen's Gallery, which is open to the public.
I'm going to make a point to check back in 3 years and if the glacier is still there, put this article in the failed alarmist prediction file (which is quite fat already).
> Intermediaries are a huge reason the web is the way it is. If we can eliminate them, the internet looks very different.

That's what makes me the most skeptical. I don't see a lack of intermediaries in crypto and the crypto intermediaries are far sketchier than their non-crypto counterparts. Just compare Tether to your local bank. Tether could pull the rug on USDT tomorrow and your recourse would be... what? Same with NFTs and the entities hosting the actual art you're paying for. I can have some confidence that Steam will be around 10 years from now; not so sure about boredapeyachtclub.com. The most notable party that's removed from the equation by crypto is the only one I have some small measure of influence on - the government.

From the outside it looks like: "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
> call something you disagree with pseudoscience

You are right, this is just bullshit. It does not pretend to be a scientific study, I over interpreted what it was saying.

> There is very little that one can learn from psychology (with respect to this topic) as psychology lacks a great deal of consensus on this and most other subjects

That is a reason to beware of some random opinion, assertiveness does not need to correlate with reason. That this text is assertive does not make it valuable. I see no more learning that people will categorize others in search of a simplicity that is not there. As I said, it's not insightful in any way, it just simplifies to make people feel smart and think that they understand some truth that is no there.
You seem to think that you profited by sheer force of will and that no luck was involved. Evidence suggests there is an enormous amount of luck involved, in that the best startup investors still fail to profit most of the time. Without knowing more about your methodology, your claims here are akin to suggesting that one should only hire people who win the lottery, because clearly they're good at picking numbers.
Can you expand on that? There were definitely some parts I didn't understand or agree with, but the main idea seemed interesting.
> Folks should be outraged at this misuse of their donations.

This is tantamount to telling other people how to spend their own money.
It’s illegal in some places.
It uses WKNavigationDelegate[0] it allows responding to authentication challenges by accepting/rejecting certificates or continuing with default handling. This is used to do certificate pinning. DS records are stored on chain and requested via the P2P client. The DS record is used to verify DNSSEC and to obtain a certificate hash/TLSA record.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wknavigatio...
Site is down. Wayback link =
https://web.archive.org/web/20211214210514/https://web3isgoi...
The reviews of the music they tested are great and could both be parody as well as what they probably are, namely the dellusional ramblings of someone who got swindled:

"Via the Ethernet Switch UEF, we have a much more defined and explosive brass section. You get the proper metallic blast and blatt without strain. The piano is now wonderfully fleshed out with plenty of timbral purity and proper weight. High hat cymbals have never sounded better. Exciting stuff!"

"When engaging the Ethernet Switch UEF, your room boundaries will evaporate in all directions. The band is now in the venue with you. The bongos are unleashed with additional color and tone and with a bottom end wallop that might just startle you. Goose bump city!"
>supposed to be

According to whom? The terminal gods?

According to wikipedia:

"A terminal emulator, terminal application, or term, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term terminal covers all remote terminals, including graphical interfaces."

I don't see anything in there about "invisible in terms of resources required"
I'd really like it if Github handled massive commits like this one better. The way they present it is not very pleasant to navigate.
Happened to my x220
I can't imagine what you'd be doing with your logging where swapping logging library wouldn't be almost entirely done with a single digit number of sed commands.
Another Network is Possible (2019)
Oh man remember this?

If they’re used correctly, P95 and P100 face masks can reduce the likelihood of being exposed to coronavirus by blocking contaminated air particles. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises against people in the US using face masks because most people who aren’t trained medical professionals may not know how to fit them properly, and the risk of exposure in the US is so low to begin with.
Real eyeopener. this will change the search industry completely
Lots of projects that drive adoption of linux in new environments (even if I have issues with Automotive Linux), also projects that even if they are supported on other platforms, are considerable drivers of Linux usage (the cloud projects - including k8s - AgStack, etc.)
This is utterly hilarious. Is it satire? The idea that an Ethernet switch could have any impact on listening other than maybe some weirdness with a ground loop or whatnot is absurd. If an audiophile were really truly worried about Ethernet they should use fibre, and then they’ll never have to worry about anything.
If you actually want this to be how discussion works on this site, you need to make the point much more consistently than you do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
If you're understanding is based on what's been observed before, you will never progress beyond it.

During the Enlightenment, all this science stuff looked extremely stupid. If people didn't persevere through the cynicism, we wouldn't have advanced the way we did.
Good chance it means more deaths sooner, but fewer total deaths.
this is why i was, and continue to be, against the various vaccine mandates. My employer said to me "upload your vax card or get an exemption else be fired". It was a bridge too far for me and I submitted for an exemption request on grounds of personal conscious. However, a couple weeks later we get another email that says if your exemption request is denied you are fired. I could have taken a moral stand but i have a wife + 2 kids and a MIL dependent on my income and I decided it wasn't worth it. I ended up canceling my request and uploading my vax card.

In the US the politicians know a law mandating the vaccine is a non-starter. So, instead, they encouraged and supported employers threatening their employees. I guess it's ironic that everyone is quitting everywhere anyway.
We do exactly that at work - Liquibase with SQL for about 7 years now. It's wonderful and you don't have to learn anything on top of your SQL dialect. Also, it makes database-first a breeze since you can export your changes to SQL from any IDE these days and drop it right into a migration.

https://docs.liquibase.com/workflows/liquibase-community/mig...
> What this means is that only a few men are getting all the matches on tinder. The actual statistics, in fact, pan out this way.

But matches don't matter, even unicorns only have 24 hours in a day and 16 waking hours.

time spent having sex/cuddling/making out and sharing intimacy. That is what matters.

Of course in a perfect world you'd be the one on the receiving end of all those matches, but as I said not even unicorns can possibly take women out of circulation, it's a matter of physics and time, can't get around that.

The fact that from time to time a woman you are involved with will also be seeing or texting a unicorn can't be a reason to throw away the baby out with the bathwater.

At the end of the day it's the reason why we are anatomically shaped in the way we are, nature knew that an attractive woman would be seeing multiple men so it equipped us not to compete just physically or psychologically to secure exclusive access but also anatomically should that not be possible. Gotta trust your apparatus and your soldiers to do the job they were built to do, better than the opposition.
The quoted thought could equally well fit unto a environmentally conscious person's thought bubble. But better to do it for status reasons than not at all as long as it displaces car use.

(Also you can spend much less than that on a e-cargo bike, especially if you go used and/or fit your own ebike kit, eg put a simple bafang front drive on a used christiania or bakfiets bike)
Sorry but log4j is not ubiquitous. Slf4j with logback has a significant presence. Spring boot doesn't come with log4j backend by default.
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Brian Kernighan, “Unix for Beginners”

Finally someone has the courage to tell the truth.

s/debugging/testing/g and watch much of the current hype over TDD/CICD evaporate before your very eyes.
The site is called positive-feedback for a reason. Did you expect it to be a critical review?
The vast majority of the stuff on this timeline are hacks and user mistakes, not sure that constitutes a "grift". The only difference between this and all of other tech sectors is they can't cover up the fact they got hacked.

I think the biggest hurdle to web3 is user responsibility and tech savviness. There was an assumption that younger generations would become better at advanced tech as time went on but that doesn't seem to be playing out. Using an iPhone effectively and avoiding online scams are two different skillsets. The problem is rampant in all tech, not just crypto.

Centralized organizations protect users from the absurdly dumb stuff they do. You can't have decentralized institutions and an adult nanny service at the same time.

All that being said, most of HN seems hypocritically upset at crypto. Its a distributed encrypted database, with some having distributed remote procedures. Nothing more than fancy tech. Are people scamming with it? Sure, but people have scammed with everything under the sun since the beginning of time, nothing has changed about human nature.
It's about surprise... content that is surprising has more information content (from the perspective of the surprised person), which drives engagement. The problem is that when you don't make a distinction between true surprising content, and false surprising content, it's a heck of a lot easier to generate false surprising content.
They built morning brew to a $75M newsletter
Anyone know of other success stories where companies have used hand-to-hand combat to get their first 1,000 customers?
I felt nothing, except intrigued.
Found the incel
By not having children.

If the world is doomed I don’t see a point in bringing life into it just suffer.

Having children is the literal worst thing you can do for the environment at this point.

Just adopt if that is what you want, plenty of needy kids out there.
The value of whatever coin you have may go down. Planning a retirement around a lottery ticket is fun but you still stuff your retirement fund.

Bitcoin slows down ensuring it's value continues to increase with fewer buyers.

Proper retirement planning means moving from 100% risky in your 20s to 50/50 in your 40s to 10/90 in your 60s.
What can be done at this point to prevent this iceberg drifting away to even warmer waters and splitting up then melting faster. Seems like we've gone past the point of no return.
Arguably a lot of the "flagship" projects in the report impact the sponsors of Linux Foundation a lot.
> Distributed systems where you own the data and there's no single point of failure.

If I encrypt my 1TB of the data I have at home and put the copies on AWS, GCP, and Azure, there's also no single point of failure and I own the data. Still, blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. I can own data without relying on a worldwide self-settling ledger.

There's the "shutdown test" for the actual immediate utility value of anything worldwide. If we hypothetically manage to shutdown Bitcoin and all the other blockchains, what would be the overall effect to the world? Some big and small speculators losing assets and no actual loss of value (but less carbon emissions, so maybe increase of value?). On the other hand, shutdown stock exchanges, SWIFT systems, electricity, internet in general - big turmoil.
`interface{}` is just an empty interface, and every type implements `interface{}` because every type has at least zero methods.
I have a hot take on this: Sound only exists inside your head, so if you convince yourself something sounds better because you paid a $shitton for it, then for all practical purposes it DOES sound better.

You're paying top dollar for a placebo effect, but it's every bit as real as "sound" is.