skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
great plot and lots of interesting bits, but it feels like they left in absolutely every shot they made? a lot could have been left on the cutting room floor, and the tighter pacing would have improved the movie

e.g. how many shots of agents falling from the sky did we need to see in order to understand how determined they were and how dire things were becoming for our heroes in that chase scene? I think there were 5?

pass me the jog dial and I could cut it down into a 90 min must-see while hitting all the plot points; release the jareklupinski cut ;P (just trimming the shots from the first three movies would have saved 15 min already)
A great Twitter thread that I'm not surprised at all got blackholed on HN.
Ridiculous? Would hand your car keys to a stranger who couldn't produce insurance documents?
That's Prometheus, no? They got acquired however, but prior to that you could upload data anonymously and then browse the analysis. It was very rough though, just linking sequences to risk, but a lot of it was inconclusive.
I hear what you are saying, but I don't agree. Assuming I've never heard of MLK is a stretch.

Was there no economic disadvantage to not serving customers?

Did the state end racism by passing a law?

If those repugnant practices were openly resumed today, would customers patronize those businesses? If not, could it be that society has evolved for the better, independent of legislation?

Would you feel comfortable dining in a place where you were unwelcome, or would you prefer that these undercover racists openly advertised as such?
> if you're a teenage girl, depending on your culture, your family seems to be peer pressuring you to be a mother

Ironically, societies that do not steer girls to parenthood are subject to extinction. I'm not saying it's good or bad. It's just the law of nature.
What about in the case where you pay online in full with a credit card? I did that for my last trip, and I got the exact car that I reserved.
Hedge funds and market makers are the only shorts nowadays, for retail punters the options market is always a better play. Anyone can buy put options with a fixed upfront cash price, a “safe” way to bet against a ticker.
Don't be fooled by the government vs private sector dichotomy. State may have a "monopoly on physical violence" but dutifully lends said forces to protect private assets. In return, corporations let intelligence agencies tap into their data streams to scan for "interesting patterns". It's one system.

Also, advertisers _do_ maintain a prison of the mind by entertaining futile, elusive, ever-shifting goals to divert energy that could be spent in trying to change things.
Nothing appears to be amiss with the Khan preprint, it just doesn't support claims being made.
From the article:

>And Heroes by no means resolves what has long been the biggest conundrum in wide-angle strategy-game design: that of the anticlimactic mopping up that follows that tipping point when you know you’re going to win.

Chess has a solution to this problem: Resignation. A turned based strategy game like Heroes of Might and Magic III should have the AI evaluate the game, and if things look hopeless, it should offer to resign. This will be a game-wide resignation; the AI will, when offering to resign, have all AI opponents resign at once and end the game then and there.

A resignation from the AI would be one which can be refused by the human; indeed, I wish the HOMM games had Civilization’s “Just one more turn” option to continue playing a game after it has been won: Useful in Civ for, say, after getting a domination victory, finishing up that one enemy you’re still at war with.

In terms of Heroes of Might and Magic, the general consensus is that it hit its peak with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (HOMM3). HOMM5 deliberately copied a lot of HOMM3’s gameplay (albeit with 3d graphics), and HOMM3 to this day is being updated with fan-made mods. Horn of the Abyss is as good as anything New World Computing ever made for HOMM3, is a free download at https://h3hota.com and adds a new town type, more terrain types, user-selectable random map templates, a GUI random map template editor (much easier than editing the old tab-delimited text file which we were doing back in 2011), and support for giant 254x254 maps.
Would there be a reason that Twitch doesn't use such software?
> Anyway, are you claiming installing a split system is cheaper than installing a Burnham boiler?

A boiler alone does not a hydronic system make. Hydronic systems are expensive, all in (piping, emitters/radiators, circulator pumps).

> The point of the post is to say that boilers/furnaces are much cheaper to install in order to heat your entire house.

No new house in New Jersey is getting built without air conditioning. If you're already installing ducting and an air handler, you might as well pay the marginal increase to get a heat pump instead of a cooling only outdoor unit.
I've hacked together something nearly equivalent to roaring bitmaps with varbits and a bit of extra metadata. Caveat emptor, but it was good enough for the problem at hand.
The Nintendo Switch Lite is my new 2DS
You think the people gaining the wealth that some rich families are losing are people that need high economic mobility and not just other rich people?
This is all good. But the fact that we have reached a level where there needs to be a law for humans to treat other humans nicely - that is the sad part. Not emailing after work hours should be common sense and politeness, instead of needing a law, no?
Can confirm that this works for Canadian credit cards at the gas stations I've used in Washington and Nevada. (In case the parent was unclear: If your postal code is A1B 2C3, your "zip code" is 12300.)
There are many food programs as well as meals at schools in the US.

Before you write "food deserts", the data isn't as clear as you think it is. (The "researchers" ignored food stores.) More to the point, stores go to where folks will buy what they're selling (unless they're burned out or lose too much to shoplifting).
India's unwinnable battle against spitting
I have long thought that we need a generic way of expressing foundational library code (datetimes, regex, math, json, http, etc) that could easily be lifted to other nascent languages. At minimum, the unit tests behind battle-tested packages that have encountered all of the edge cases that a green-field design is going to miss.
Someone linked the thread from 2012 and even then a few of the concerns had been alleviated.

However, hardware has also changed at lot since 2009, so it would be neat if someone did a new analysis.
There are many niches where Java & the JVM are absent or fighting an uphill battle to occupy at all. Of those I’m aware of, the only ones where value types wouldn’t help fitness tremendously are on the client side, already a lost cause.
If you’re outside of SV there are plenty of jobs and less competition. I’d suggest give it a go for a few years and if you don’t like it then leave but it would be a shame to give up before you’ve even started.
Expectations of employees is the market
What are the odds of being hit by a car in the next year? I'm honestly curious, so I googled what I could find. From what I find the odds of an injury from an accident are 1:8393 which does support your statement (assuming every accident is getting hit by a car).

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...

Do you have better stats?
I appreciate you providing a method for finding stuff, thanks.
These aren't mutually exclusive. I see the internet as mostly segmenting us into separate echo chambers that do not want to compromise. In the past, most people learned some degree of empathy because while they support policy X they also talk to their neighbor who hates policy X because of reasons A, B, and C. Now people will just ignore their neighbor who hates X and instead go online and find a community that builds their identity atop hating a bevy of policies that include X.

There's definitely pros to this as instead of having to hide things like your sexual orientation in your community due to bigotry you can go online and find others like you. There are also cons abound, where instead of (for example, not trying to push policy here) ranting about how nobody rides the bus and encountering your neighbor whose car broke down and is riding the bus you instead go online and talk to other people who think buses are stupid.
There is a single memory error CVE there, the last one.

Assuming a higher level language would not allow that without introducing any other security problems, and assuming the CVEs roughly represent the secureness of the software, then using a higher level language would be a pretty small marginal improvement in security.
> you must not mix 15.ai voices with other services in the same project

Good luck enforcing that. If someone makes a fandom crossover video and the voices are only available from separate services, that’s only good retroactively if it gets popular on YouTube and someone then tattles to the 15.ai C&D team. Even then, that doesn’t take down the mirrors.
responding to myself

Kind of like the difference between a cult and a religion.

In a cult, there's one person who knows it's all bullshit. In a religion, that person is dead.

The difference is time and self sustainability.
The terminal on the pump will ask for a zipcode. If you can't pay at the pump (which sometimes happens even for locals for no apparent reason), you can step out of the car, go inside, and tell the cashier which pump you are at, and pay as if you were buying any other product.
It will never end because new users come online to use it in completely different ways than prior generations of users. Even when everyone on earth is touching the internet, there is biological churn.

As a personal example, I've never used a Discord but see references to it everywhere online and am vaguely aware of what it is (IRC to me). Generally, I don't get why chatting is so interesting and I'm only interested in async communication methods.
She sounds suspiciously like Gordon Freeman.
100% chance of what exactly?
Current terrestrial radio astronomy is severely handicapped below ~30MHz because of the effects of the ionosphere. It reflects/absorbs long wavelength RF.

This would be an amazing new capability. I am curious where all of the network bandwidth will be coming from.
The Pfizer part is also kind of trollish at this point.
It's 17.4 cubic feet with rear seats up, 53.7 with rear seats down. The Golf is surprisingly roomy! I moved across the country in one (granted, before I owned any furniture, but with several suitcases and large plastic tubs full of stuff...)

https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/golf/specs
Until dynasties with extremely large Southh Dakota in-perputuity Trusts make it almost impossible for wealth to erode in 2-3 generations or even longer. There's a good reason why trusts were restricted to ~100 years but now the world has lost that legal fight. In 100, 150 years, just how much power will the trust holders of these perpetual trusts have over the rest of society?
How does the fact that 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth within 3 generations gel with wealth being lost to other rich people? That doesn't logically make sense. If that was the case then there would slowly be ever fewer rich people who become ever richer. But if you look at the richest people in the world that isn't the case.
You left out a giant source of the unknown - return times.
In what world is "eat less" as easy or effective as getting a shot?

Losing weight is quite hard and keeping it off is next to impossible, given that very few succeed.

In case you're serious, you can read this. https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Didn't a bunch of cities literally pay for bus tickets for their homeless to go off to California rather than help their own homeless population, and the homeless happily took them up on that because it won't kill them with cold weather? Anyway, this may be an absolute shocker, but the homeless problem might be a bit more complicated than "throw $18B at it and if that doesn't work, it's because progressives don't actually care about the homeless." It's like claiming that because the US throws away enough food to feed the whole world means that world hunger is a solved problem if not for greedy supermarkets throwing away spoilage.

PS. Holy cow does Twitter have some dark patterns for unauthenticated users.
>Ironically, societies that do not steer girls to parenthood are subject to extinction.

Which societies have gone extinct due to this?
Pimp/drug dealer car was my thought.

"A pimp's love is very different from that of a square"
i do not trust cities at all. give them the power to 'block ads' and then what? they have to also block 'hate' and 'disinformation' too right? NO THANKS
Isn't this every language now? Apart from the anonymous type even Java can do it elegantly:

var lst = IntStream.range(0, 20)
.map(i -> Pair.of(i, "hey"))
.toList();
Educations are relative. Sure the inner city US education is good compared to Nigeria, but they arent going to be competing with Nigerians for college admissions and jobs. They will be competing with other Americans who got vastly superior free educations.
I don't know. I feel that many people got unfairly labelled as "anti-vaxxer" because they simply opposed to forced vaccination --not the efficacy of the vaccine itself, based on the argument that risk of death from covid was relatively very low for healthy adults and children. And given the time constrains for the vaccine production and trials, it would have been prudent to assume that the side effects associated with the vaccines would not be fully revealed in time.

I believe the right move would've been to let people decide, especially after became clear that vaccination did not protect against infection in the medium run with Israel data being abundantly clear already in late spring of this year. I still believe vaccination rates amongst the old would have been extremely high, protecting those who are at-risk the most. I saw this happening in countries like Brazil, old people rushed to take the jab despite no clear mandates in the beginning of the mass vaccination campaign --although a lot of people got the Sinovac which are not as effective as Pfizer or Moderna.

> This preprint agrees that the risk of myocarditis is significantly higher, except if you are
a. A male b. Under 40 years old c. Took the Moderna vaccine

A few things to consider, the paper's calculated myocarditis risk post covid is overestimated as it is impossible to know how many people actually caught the virus. It is reasonable to assume that the actual delta (risk myocarditis post vax vs risk myocarditis post covid) is actually larger, I believe this is just the tip of the icerberg.

Also, the bit about Males only. Pretty sure if you stratified the population even further, you'd find that young females are also at a significantly higher risk of myocarditis for vax vs post covid. As some mentioned here, it would be nice if the age intervals were a bit more stratified.
The vast majority of Tumblr traffic is via logged-in users hitting the dashboard (activity stream of posts from followed users), global tag pages, etc. It's a social network, and most pages with ads are displaying content from a bunch of different blogs at once. It's just like the Twitter timeline.

Tumblr has already long had a notion of NSFW blogs and content, which are already treated differently than "safe" content. But since the blog network (individual "sites" as you're saying) is a minority of traffic, and not a major source of revenue in the first place, it's not really comparable to isolating mature content on WordPress or Reddit.
100% Agree. Gattaca actually showed A SPACE PROGRAM running similar to the real space programs. I don't know about now but the first astronauts needed certain genes or they weren't allowed in. AFAIK that used to be true for fighter pilots. Want to be one you needed perfect eye sight. Bad genes = selected out.
The creator gives some of their reasons on why they made this choice in this reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/qwmnmt/wordle_a_d...
> C# always had value types with configurable in memory layout. It also has a very good mmap solution. It also allows for hand optimize things using unsafe blocks.

And C has inline assembly. Doesn't mean that most C code will use inline assembly.

Back in 2009, a lot of git utilities were still written in scripting languages. Not sure when it started, but the porting activity of those utilities to C is still ongoing. So the maintainers still want to use a lower level language today.

In other projects in the VCS space, we are seeing a similar trend. Hg, originally a project written in Python, is being rewritten in Rust by Facebook, one of the big users of it.

Sure, maybe you could have used C# together with some niche features. But it's not going to be fun compared to a language that has zero cost abstractions and that runs on the bare metal.

Even if your problem domain demands a managed environment, like extensibility with plugins, I still suggest you to use Rust together with wasm. It's the first choice thanks to its great type system, powerful static analyzer and first class support for resource management that garbage collected languages lack.
It's a drug dealer's car?
Because the rich that arent losing their wealth are getting richer at ridiculous rates? And where is that money coming from?
It may be my bubble but this doesn't seem that controversial and instead fairly sensible. While I'd also love to see #1 and see it expanded toward infrastructural development (e.g. have a grant funded body research advancements with internet standards), I don't think it's as necessary as #2 and #3. The fact that social media can apply their own moderation standards but still be treated like common carriers is pretty ridiculous.
Many Irish roads, even near very popular cities and attractions, are extremely difficult to navigate in an automobile. Very very narrow with virtually no shoulder. Accident rates, especially among renters, must be very frequent.

https://images.app.goo.gl/arKbAkKnWK1Qqi3o9

This example is far from the most difficult, it actually has a center stripe and shoulder markings. Many similar roads are tighter with no markings, and also with blind hills and curves.

If I was an insurance provider, I'd certainly try to exclude Ireland.
Which company lets you pick a car model?
Even as part of the normal seasonal cycle, I don’t notice how much less birdsong there is until it’s spring once again and the air is filled with bird calls. I don’t notice it getting quieter overs the weeks leading into summer.
Average hospital duration is a weird metric. It's easy to imagine 2 days being very good or very bad, depending on which door people left through.
Government of Ontario (Province in Canada) published data months ago showing that young men were at higher risk from heart issues. Nobody cared and the all the local and federal news outlets refused to report on the numbers.
I am the guy that throws a wrench into my friends' plans for where to have a drink, or where to go for dinner. This guy should take a break and write some self-help garbage for nonconformists who want to be a little more socially chill. But I guess that's not where the money is.

This kind of pedantic talking-like-a-successful-guy to weak-minded-people shit nauseates me. Mark Manson made a great career out of it. It's Joe Rogan's bread and butter. Dress it up in all the pseudo-historical philosophy you want, it reads exactly the same way.

The best take-down ever of this is the rather forced performance given by Tom Cruise's character in "Magnolia". The writing and direction of that piece of social commentary was one of the things that made me think PT Anderson was almost as good as JD Salinger at deconstructing the mind of conformist-wannabe-rebels.
> There is even an “anti-ARK” ETF––the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF (SARK) launched two weeks ago––that tracks the inverse performance of the ARK Innovation ETF through swaps contracts.

From
https://www.barrons.com/articles/cathie-wood-ark-invest-shor...
Interesting. I did not know it was (mail) server side! I assumed that, like many PHP applications, those filters were just ran using a cron job that calls a PHP script periodically.
I think they're losing to the middle class, yes. Folks like Bezos and Zuckerberg didn't start rich.
This reminds me of security guards at various places, such as malls or parks. They take great pleasure in “enforcement” and in inconveniencing people beyond the limits of common sense. Their work happens to be the place where they can exert control while other areas of their lives may not be so great. I wonder if the App Store review recruitment process somehow (inadvertently?) selects for such people who “take it out” on the app developers because the other areas of their lives are terrible.

These stories are all about exerting control, and bring no value whatsoever for Apple.

For these and other reasons, I hope Apple is forced to allow side loading of apps. Apple hasn’t spent a lot of effort on the App Store (despite PR claims to the contrary). Seriously, the person at the top in charge of the App Store has been sleeping on the wheel for a long time.
Excellent. Just what the Dr ordered.
FYI, places like Usenet are still around. Usenet is full of spam, trolls, and obnoxious contrarians, but you can post about whatever you'd like, receive replies for whomever, and never have to deal with upvote politics or comment pile-ons. Ask your friends to join you in these sorts of spaces.

One newsgroup I recommend is `comp.sys.raspberry-pi`. It has a pretty high SNR and is quite active, especially in comparison to some other groups on Usenet.
What you're saying here isn't untrue, but it's nuanced and I think it misses some of the clear distinction.

> they select for the spike protein of the original variant and ignore others

Repeated exposure causes you to get many different kinds of antibodies that react against many things like the original spike protein. There's ample research showing that a 2 shot (and 3 shot) series of mRNA vaccination creates a very broad response that cross-reacts to many spike protein variants.

Reaction against the spike protein is best, because this binding doesn't just activate the rest of the immune system, but it's neutralizing against the virus: it prevents its entry into cells.

Compare this figure:

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/...

Many convalescent (prior infected) individuals had very low neutralization activity against variants. All vaccinated individuals had good neutralization titers against all variants measured in this study, though they were still definitely better against A.1 than other types.

> whereas natural infection generates a broader response that will target a variety of proteins.

Natural infection will generate a variety of nucleocapsid antibodies, too (against non-spike portions of the virus).

This is a mixed bag: it means the immune system can be activated and it also means that the immune system will try and break down things that have antibodies bound elsewhere on the virus... but the spike antibodies around that could directly prevent infection of new cells are less effective against variants.
I was first online 25 years ago and it cost me about 5-10% of my income from a minimum wage & part time job as a 16 year old. I paid for the dedicated phone line and the ISP bill. Maybe other first world countries were more costly but I would be surprised if anywhere in the US was that expensive in the post-Y2K era.
You also want to be sure they cover loss of use, which for a rental car would be the max daily rate for every day the damaged car is out of service for repair work.