skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this underestimates just how important having "My Shop" laid out in "My Way" is for developers and thinkers.

Imagine if all of your production code was developed on a Library desktop with a single user login, or a 100kb folder that could be yours and everything else had to be public.
After two years and seeing just how crazy society can be, you really think drafting random people and telling them to put IVs in someone's arm with minimal training is a good idea?

Drafting people for war works fine because, for the most part in those situations, you're handing someone a gun and telling them to be a meat shield. A similar approach to treating the sick at home is a bit more difficult.
the traditional solution is a studio. rent for a modest living space plus a separate modest studio space nearby is generally cheaper than an equivalent combined space, and when you split rent with co-tenants it becomes even more reasonable. even my broke friends working service jobs are able to afford this.

more privately, townhouses in my area often include this kind of space with garages and what realtors like to call "bonus" rooms.

and there's nothing that prevents apartment buildings from having shared space like this among the other amenities, except culture.

if there's no collective space near you, perhaps that's an opportunity to establish one.
That's because you're using Bitcoin, for which custom ASICs are a thousand times more power efficient than commodity hardware and so commodity hardware is useless, but custom ASICs are stupid expensive.

What you want is a cryptocurrency that ASICs are no better at than CPUs or GPUs, so can use an ordinary CPU or GPU that will pay for itself more quickly because most of the mining cost is electricity instead of hardware. (Hint: the hardware you want in this case has the best performance/$, not necessarily the best performance/watt.)
There is much more to it than that in this case.
Those two have been linked together ever since the discovery of the chain reactions. The US nuclear weapons are managed by the Department of Energy..
I'm not that optimistic.
France is putting its nuclear activities in a separate company, it's in quite a bit of debt.
> Can this position go to a person of East Asian descent?

Sure, women can apply and get the role, I'm almost certain an east (or maybe south?) asian female will get this position given the demographics of talent available in that field.
The best way to enforce truth is via mathematics. A court can declare 1+1!=2, which does not make it so.
Courts are fundamentally human constructs. I find the ancient universal truths of numbers to be better.
I wish Sony had made a serious effort to make MiniDisc a data format. They did make data drives, but they were slow, expensive, and barely available.

140 MB data (in 1993!). Nearly infinite rewrites. Nature of the medium is that bit rot is almost impossible without direct physical damage. I enjoyed them in the twilight of their existence, just before MP3 players started to have reasonable storage capacities and prices (mine were/are all used). And the ones I recorded in 2002 still sound just fine if I play them today. It was a great replacement for cassettes; too bad it never caught on in the US.
Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
OMG, who coined "the term"?

"web3" is a name of a project, not a general technical term that people agreed upon. This is a marketing scheme, and mere delusion from a cult of people that never clearly and strongly defined.

Maybe this was the very beginning of the misery of blockchain - the cult only looked into their own dream, and never looked outside.
Street Fighter II, Paper Trails
Your Seat on Public Transport Determines Level of Exposure to Exhaled Droplets
This is what I'm thinking too. By default, you'll always want to store more copies of the file since you can't trust the uptime of the nodes in the same way you can trust the uptime of an EC2 instance or node backing S3. I think SLAs on trust of an individual node in the network are needed for storage to work.

Compute, on the other hand, seems to have a really bright future with web3 as long as the workload/task is parallelizable (for instance transcoding a video which has been broken up into many HLS segments). This is at least based on how I work it out in my head, but I'd love to have someone school me who might know more!
MySQL? I mean, it doesn't have some of the cool features of postgres, but those cool features are perhaps what people indirectly complain about when they gripe about its complexity and footprint. MySQL performs well, is popular (in the sense of broad community support), and relatively painless to stand up. I would consider it somewhere between SQLite and Postgres, though further towards the latter.
As a suburbanite I always look on in horrid fascination when this topic comes up on HN.

If I wanted to live in the city I would. I don’t want to bring these “urban values” to my neighborhood. I want to put all my groceries in the trunk of my minivan, not make 10 bike rides back and forth. I’m in my mid 40s and my knees can’t handle that.

I don’t want to step over puddles of vomit and hypodermic needles. I like my functioning police department. I have no interest in the way you live.
920Four is a product focused agency. We want to build awesome and useful apps whether it is for a smaller market or a larger (scalable) market. Some of our current projects range from eCommerce apps, to mobile apps, to one-off tools that may never make it to the public. We look to bring on team members that are excited about working on different projects and tools. We strive to keep things exciting and interesting.
Yep. I see it locally with shill groups acting at the behest of real estate developers.
It would be really fascinating to see hourly/monthly percentages as a stacked bar chart.
> Logical consistency wasn't the way I meant that it coheres! The themes, arcs, symbolism, prophecies, moral structures, deeper messages, all of that stuff.

Though your argument is unconvincing, I still disagree, because now you are employing syllogism. The Bible is an anthological compilation of sacred literature of radically different genres, connected only by belief that they are revelations of God.

> God, by definition, defies human understanding.

Stop me when I get to anything that defies your understanding: by God, you mean the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority, the supreme being who is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Or perhaps you are referring to Jesus of Nazareth, the notorious Cynic philosopher, poet and rebel Jew that dared to suggest loving one's enemy, who knocked over tables and caused a commotion at the Temple in Jerusalem, passed bread while saying, "do this in memory of me," and was crucified. I think I know what you're getting at, but, in fact, most ordinary people defy human understanding.

> In the same way that the Zen people use apparently self-contradictory statements or questions to try to get across ideas,

I think you must mean Buddhists.

> the Bible works with more than just literal historical statements.

Is there any other written work that does not work with more than just literal interpretation? Isn't that true of everything that has ever been written?
big oof for all the albanians that scammed people before, about to be some resolutions to unresolved quarrels, just like in the breakup.
I like the spirit implied here, but I think endless suburbs are fundamentally broken and I don't think they can be made "more efficient / convenient" in a meaningful way - and, when they do become "more efficient / convenient", they just become mixed commercial / residential, which I find to be the best format, personally.
I’ve experimented with this a few times. I find at least some degree of color and style differentiation helps (e.g., comments, string constants). For this I liked the Tao themes for emacs. It was completely fine. I moved back to various color themes just as a change of pace, like changing the wallpaper.
Good to see you iterating :)

Brief feedback: pinch-zoom on mobile seems to be disabled. This makes the images difficult to see on my crappy-res phone, so I can't really understand much about the product.
Since we have shown that a "work from home" model is an available model for a majority of white collar jobs, is there a reason why city planners and civil engineers can't do a better job of placing markets/small business centers within biking and walking distance of a radial area of a suburban center?

As far as driving is concerned, why not push for electric and end gas subsidies over a time period to allow for adjustment. Yes, I understand that we're in a desperate situation, but I also understand that too much change too quickly tends to have the opposite effect of what the original intention was in the first place.

By setting up small, suburban "communities" that have many of their shopping needs met (a grocery, an open air market, a couple of whatever strip malls are called now, a school, an urgent care), proper bike paths and incentives on even plug in hybrids and work from home programs for jobs that didn't need to go into the office, we could focus on clean energy solutions for the grid - all of which are current technology and current lifestyles without much forced change, just rezoning and a continuation of what we learned during Cov19.
“Old people” where much better about vaccination and isolation so the 80:20 age dropped over time. Currently well over 1/4 of total death are under 65 which is significantly different than when COVID first showed up. When you look at current data it’s even more shocking the under 55 population is making up a rapidly increasing share of total deaths presumably due to relative vaccination rates.

For example the first omnicron death in the US was in their 50’s that had already had COVID but never got vaccinated. By many metrics that’s old but their still well below average life expectancy.
Sorry, the author. Offit does not claim that vaccine is causing more hearth issues than COVID-19 but the author is.
Did they become farmers after quitting, or remained doctors and nurses in locales they find agreeable?
OK so the claim that Objective-S is more general purpose than other languages is wrong then. Thanks for clarifying that.
Not that I know of. But I wouldn't bet on any EV from betting against black swans long term. Perhaps you should investigate a bit more.

“What is happening now, the tension that is developing in Europe, is their fault,” Mr. Putin told a Russian Defense Ministry board meeting. “At every step, Russia was forced to somehow respond, at every step the situation was constantly getting worse, worse, worse. And today we are in a situation where we are forced to decide something.”

Also see: https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1473362460673515527?...
Patent: Method and system to display a video in an email
Have there been large, complex states that didn't have large bureaucracies?
> and not so applicable to RNA viruses

Are you sure about that? RdRps have quite the error rate, which means faster evolution. (And yes, I'm aware that the error rate in these vary based on the RdRp's sequence, but in either case, these are both higher than DNA transcription.)

I do agree with the rest of your comment. Go get vaxxed, people!
I can totally relate to that. When designing the RxDB GraphQL replication [1] protocol, it made things so much easier when the main data runs via normal request-response http. Only the long-polling is switched out for WebSockets so that the client can know when data on the server has changed. This makes it realy easy to implement the server side components when having a non-streaming database.

[1] https://rxdb.info/replication-graphql.html
I eagerly await our world where my personal choice allows me to drive drunk down your street, because people don’t give a shit about me or you, and I get one chance at life and I’m making choices for me, not for strangers.

Likewise, I’m going to stop allowing minorities to live in my apartment building - I’m making choices for me, after all, not for strangers.

Let’s get rid of ALL vaccine mandates for the same reason, I’m sure you’d agree that we would be better off if everyone got to decide whether they got a measles shot or not (btw, measles deaths are on the rise for this exact reason). Maybe we shouldn’t have mandated polio vaccines?

I eagerly await the removal of consumer protection laws, because I can make the decision for myself about what is safe for me.

No more hand washing for restaurant staff - that’s an infringement on their personal choices. Ditto with food storage guidelines - refrigeration is expensive. Gotta do what I think is best

“Better to die free than live in collective chains.”

Ridiculous argument, and one that AGAIN if we made about basically any other societal rule that is for the collective good, we would be laughed out of the room. After 800k deaths in America alone, for sure, personal “freedom” stands above everyone else’s welfare.
Tracking movement vs intercepting communication is a very different thing. In general, any attempt to spy on an ally is going to get a lot of egg on your face if it comes out, and if it's using tools your ally helped finance and/etc, you can bet it's going to get complicated.

In this instance, Israel needs the US, Pegasus was Israel's technical gorilla in the spy world, and it got used on the US by someone they sold it to. This level of fallout given that is not unexpected; Israel cares more about maintaining ties with the US than they do about a given tool, company, or to enable Ugandan spying operations.
I am of the opinion that NFTs on OpenSea are equally uncool and worthless as any other NFT marketplace including ones created on your local machine in secret.
Not sure how correlated they are. Japan is a nation living in matchboxes yet has consistently produced great engineering and creative work for decades.
While I agree with most of your comment, one sentence triggered me.

> I doubt he'd put their name in jeopardy with misinformation.

His company's top officers lied to the public during the campaign in 2016 (and ever since) that the DNC servers was hacked by the Russian Government [1], but then, when asked about it in a court of law in 2017, retractied themselves that any data trace even existed [2]. However the testimony was kept classified. Nevertheless, they continued to tell the same false story in public when asked until the testimony was unclassified in 2020 [3].

This was outright disinformation, and lies, not misinformation. As the saying goes, the first victim in war is truth. And this war is being prepared since 2014.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-e...

[2] https://mate.substack.com/p/indicted-clinton-lawyer-hired-cr..., see trial transcripts in the middle of the article

[3] https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/...
Oh is Google so much better? I consider them the worst in privacy so I only tried them once years ago. At that time their assistant was pretty immature. The others I found better but they have not advanced since then. I didn't know that Google has. I'll give it a try then.

Since then I've had echo dots and now a HomePod mini because I don't trust Amazon so much either.

But I agree we need that. The big reason for cloud processing is that it has to recognize millions of people with differing accents. For home hosted use that's not needed. I wouldn't mind training it for a while with my voice. Even in the 90s dragon dictate worked pretty great after reading it a short story.
COVID isn't particularly deadly. The selection pressure that can cause a virus to become weaker is mediated by the virus dying off in the corpses it creates. People aren't dropping like flies from COVID, so that selection pressure isn't there, and the virus is free to mutate into more virulent forms. There's no reason to expect a relatively mild, yet still deadly, virus to become weaker, especially if our medical infrastructure keeps people alive that would've otherwise died from infection.

Virus evolution tends to optimize for replication and transmission, and not reduced severity. If a particular mutation causes a virus to replicate better than other variants, but it ends up killing hosts more often, it doesn't really matter what happens to the host afterwards, evoluntionarily, as the virus has already spread it genes more than it did before it mutated.
Well, this is what CDC claims https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-dur...

Yes, I know about this mutated live vaccine. It for sure looked like a great idea on paper.
Bullshit you can’t staff them. You have entire nations worth of resources at your disposal. You absolutely could staff a Covid ICU in a month if it was truly an emergency. It would be janky and imperfect but you could do it. It’s an emergency after all. You don’t have time for perfection.

It’s 100% excuses. If healthcare capacity was an actual issue we’d have fixed it already and gone back to pre-pandemic normal.
I think the OP means less about perf and more about dollar cost since you have to either be able to trust the uptime of a storage node (and likely pay more) or make more copies (and therefore pay more) in order to be guaranteed your data isn't lost when a node goes down.

The performance of splitting up files and storing them on multiple nodes tends to be very good since you're not as bottlenecked to one node feeding out all of the bytes (think about bitorrent and how fast it is to download a well-seeded file). That said, network egress might become a problem if the node you're seeding content from lives within AWS or another cloud provider. I don't think this egress price penalty exists in any major ISPs that I know of.
But you don’t know it when you are in the process of fixing an old car. You pay $1000 and you think that you will be good for a couple of years. The reality is that after a couple of months you will probably need to fix something else. Flush and repeat.
I still remember, when the semantic web was Web 3.0…

(Arguably, Web 3.0 rather was the mash-up web of early centralisation of services, with widgets and things like Yahoo! Pipes, etc. Time to to think of Web4.)
Probably 1. There indeed is very little need for a CS degree for most web front-end/backend because very smart people (nearly all of who have CS degrees) pre-packaged very complex stuff together well enough that even people with modest skills can create salable code by gluing it all together, much like a plumber or electrician using off-the-shelf parts. So the software industry will bifurcate into a saturated, lower-paid market of these front-line coders and a handful of jobs requiring CS knowledge that build the tools, libraries, and services the front-line coders are putting together. That reduction in demand will lead to less CS majors and very few CS majors will be found doing that type of coding.
yea but the problem is that it likely won't stop there right
What about the opposite, embedding PNG files into source code?
BSD developers can't port things from Linux in a straightforward manner due to license issues. But that doesn't apply the other way around.
Are there closed loop reactor designs that don't need to dump heat into a body of water?
Well, they proved it, time for it to be dropped, and focus on the production-level implementation. But it's still[1] the recommended one.

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction#how-can-i-get-my...
I've helped several people through it, yes.

Renegotiating isn't the same as refinancing. You can see the refinance rates lower down on the page you linked above. The rates are significantly lower.

Refinancing student loan debt is an extremely common scenario. It's not an impossible edge case. It would be difficult to do if the person had worked themselves into a situation where they have unreasonably high debt burdens (e.g. $200K+) but no career to speak of, so it's not a magic bullet.
Adobe Fireworks used to do something similar to this. Their base file format was a PNG of the document composite, and their proprietary data was stored in a nonstandard chunk (which was safely ignored by standard PNG readers). Thus a client could always see the latest of a file simply by sharing it with them- no Fireworks required.
If you post this as a issue on github, I'll see if we can fix it.
I think the ostensible goal was privacy preservation for photos whose perceptual hashes don’t match (i.e. most photos), which would never need to be uploaded without end to end encryption. But I agree it puts them within striking distance of scanning fully offline photos, even if the initial implementation doesn’t.
For those curious about this, pico-8, liko-12 and tic-80 (amongst others) are fantastic little ecosystems to play in. Highly recommended.
It just depends on how much effort you want to put into it. I'm a software engineer, not an IT person. Most of the value I generate is related to writing software. So when we needed a shared NAS for the company I setup a FreeNAS server. Got a used ebay rack server and put it on there. Worked just ok, just had to keep tweaking stuff with it, the UI kind of sucked, used ebay servers are crap hardware and fail, etc.

Got a Synology had it up and running in an hour and I was pretty much done. Every 6 months I take a look at it or add a user if I need to. But it pretty much takes care of itself and I don't worry about it. It emails me every sunday with its status and I call it good. I can keep doing the actual productive parts of my job.
Can I just please "coin" the term web5?

I'd love to do web4 but I'm pretty sure someone's already done it.

web5 = the web is in your brain. Think of it, and <ADVERT> you <ADVERT> have the <NIS ENLARGEMENT ADVERT> answ <MAKE MY LOGO BIGGER CREAM> er!

You can skip this advert in 0:49.

I will see you at the inter <ADVERT> view!

You didn't like this advert? TELL US WHY.
Well, that's not exactly novel[1], though it can be handy.

1: https://png-pixel.com/
One alternative is the guy who needs a $500 emergency loan gets it at a non-usurius interest rate. The system could be revamped to support easier repayment for actual emergency loans.
it was about being submerged. Now you're moving the goalposts.

You'll of course only get the lake experience in a lake. But you won't get the bathtub experience in a lake, either.
> There's also no evolutionary pressure to conserve its lethality.

That depends on whether the mutations that cause it to replicate better also make it more virulent. The symptoms that help spread Ebola, for example, are the same symptoms that kill those who become infected with it.
I can't tell if you're joking, but your name kind of checks out.
Oh, after a couple goes at it you figure it out.
Cool. But something I want to know is: what are the limits of the text chunk in PNG? I just browsed the specification[1] but there was no mention of it.

It's also interesting to me that the spec says that the viewer should give the user a way to look at all the textual parts of a png (there are three), although I've never seen this offered.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#13Text-chunk-processing
Pretty sure NovaBus has a comparable number of employees. So does Lion iirc.
I don’t think the author is making any claims about the algorithm being able to handle more than the 2 box case. Why the negativity?
Are we looking at the same chart, or are you talking about some other data/country?

That chart shows it spiking just days ago (~Dec 15) in SA, not on Thanksgiving. So it’s still too early to know the effect on deaths (though I still agree that it seems they won’t be as bad).