skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best responses to the coronavirus have all been in Asia and Oceania - places that were scared by SARS and prepared themselves. South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Singapore etc. Those are what a gold standard, world leading responses (with favourable conditions) look like.

They are reporting believable numbers for an excellent response. China is not. Singapore alone had double the number of cases that China is reporting. Singapore! It is totally incredible, impossible, not remotely plausible and a poorly conceived joke that China's confirmed COVID number represents the number of people in China who had COVID. China is not outperforming those countries on a per-capita basis in the happy reality we all live in. There is - I repeat myself - literally no way they could have achieved that. Maybe it is equalling them, though I doubt that too as a practical matter.

The Chinese work hard, are organised and have intelligent people working in their government. But what they don't have is a magic spell to make COVID disappear the way the stats suggest it has. The stats are not real.
- Existential Rationalism: Handling Hume's Fork (second edition)
- Living with the Himalayan Masters
- The Outsider
- Hirohito: Behind the Myth
Here's a video with actual counting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMIomW9wwg
I am running https://excel-converter.com that converts Excel files into HTML tables.
i recently read that display:none elements are hidden from screen readers
This is true, in some cases.

My point is that more broadly false alarms a failures to alarm must be individually reviewed and cause for failure identified. Assuming that all more most failures are last-mile will work ... until it doesn't. Reviewing and demonstrating that the failure was or was not "last-mile" is what's required.

False signal, improper sensor detection, bad comms (generating or inhibiting signal), bad processing, confusing training or testing events for actual, having an actual alert during a test or drill, and errors in broadcasting alerts to the general public and/or the response to those alerts, might all be components to assess. "Last mile" concerns that last stage.

Since it's one that's often outside the core of an alerting system, and may involve many independent entities (people and/or organisations), it is likely to malfunction. Streamlining procedures and drilling frequently will help identify any such issues and iron them out.

Note that though tsunamis move quickly (> 800 kph / 500 mph in open ocean), the fact that they are often travelling immense distances (100s or 1,000s of miles or km) means that there are almost always many minutes, and quite often many hours for alerts to be sent and responded to. Earthquakes afford seconds to minutes, the timeframes are nearly two orders of magnitude less.
It seems significant (major? I dunno) that Go doesn’t have inheritance or subclassing or co-/contra-variance.
I would love to see that documentary. Can you remember the title or director or narrator?
And by the way, I just realized that Windows 11 is going to support running Android apps https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/10/20/introdu.... Of course it's not gonna suit every app (seems that OP requires a lot of performance in the app), but I'd imagine it would help ease development efforts a lot for a lot of apps that are not so demanding. Even if the phone layout will not be suitable, the tablet layout should be good enough in most use cases.
That is in fact baking in all the dependencies. Just, in a docker image!

_cue Seinfeld_ Not that there's anything wrong with that
> Idiot. He easily could have found one of many groups nationwide who know exactly how to fix these batteries for a fraction of the price.

Or, alternatively, he could get many eyeballs looking at his monetized YouTube video and buy a better car with the profits.
Thanks. That is what I was trying to convey, if more gently.
Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology.

It's like a master class in historical political relations all in a single (large) book.
I think I’m the only one who doesn’t like his Culture books. I think The Algebraist is amazing though.

Set in a different universe where physics works as we currently understand it to, but with beings that have had billions of years to perfect all the technology you can have in it. Much cooler than he lazy rich people in space of the culture series.
I’m no expert but am pretty sure Toyota and Toshiba are different companies.
Go read why Greenwald left. Seems that you’re out of the loop.
Open Source Hardware!

Specifically a USB Oscilloscope:

https://espotek.com/labrador

Sell maybe $1k/mo of these through the website and another $3k through Amazon at a margin of around 50%.

The biggest things that I see a lot of people get wrong in the hardware business is the importance of manufacturing and logistics. It doesn't matter that you're constantly producing new and improved revisions of your board if you're out of stock all the time and overseas customers have to pay extra for shipping.
Sure, in theory.

I've had appimages that would only run on a specific Linux distro and version. It doesn't seem like an automatic fix.
But another intuition or worry people might have is that they will completely lose the safe harbor for all of their activities if they refuse to honor any takedown. I can see why people would have that fear, but I don't think it's right.
> Why not get UBI done, replace the humans with robots, and then actually enjoy our lives?

You still need an army. If everyone stops working then our neighbors can just organize their guns together and steal our robots. Unless of course we had a fully autonomous military (techno dystopia "stop right there criminal scum"). But who oversees the military robots? Who oversees the UBI? Somebody has to do the dirty work, and those people will have power, and as we know, people who have power will ultimately abuse it.
That's a false strawman. There are infinitely many ways to achieve the same or better density without the drawback. Allowing instruction to span cache line, or even pages, is a mistake that we'll pay for forever.

The simplest possible mitigation would have been to disallow an instruction from spanning a 64-byte boundary. It would have almost no impact on instruction density, but it would have saved a lot of headaches for implementations.
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg.

Its an older book i read kind of randomly but really liked. It is a novel about a telepath who is slowly losing his ability, delving deeply into the character.
That would be either 'Red Rising' by Pierce Brown, or 'All Systems Red' by Martha Wells. Though I have to add a cautionary remark: I found the books in Wells' "Murderbot Diaries" to be short enough and gripping enough that it is very hard not to trade a night of sleep for finishing them in one setting.
This ends when ETH2 arrives.
My 3080 paid for itself, but I stopped once I hit that threshold due to the ethical concerns I have about the negative environmental impact of proof-of-work mining.

The community is not very trustworthy, but the software is actually really straightforward once you figure it out yourself.
Agreed, it looks like a really nice product and I wish people would pay for quality software like this, but the market is super saturated, and even free, cross-platform chat platforms struggle to gain users since they require their friends to use it too.
On and Off
The sci-fi novel "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. Captivating, and a lot of fun.
Please feel free to quote any times Biden told us he had "all the answers" or any of those other statements. I strongly suspect that what he says and what you hear are not the same thing.
Looks like 2021 and earlier, there's a cap of $20,000 before you need to report to IRS using Form 1099-K. Assuming the author is from the US, they may have stayed below this limit and not needed to report. However, beginning in January 2022 the limit is dropping down to $600 before needing to be reported using Form 1099-K.
Generational affects the number of free objects that can be found, not the cost of freeing or looking at an object, or even the number of objects looked at.

I thought that the comparison was between "heap-allocate every object" vs "zero allocation." (C/C++ and similar languages which make it easy to stack-allocate objects, which is not far from zero-allocation.)

If the application is such that zero-allocation isn't easy, then that comparison doesn't make sense.

However, we're discussing situations when zero (or stack) allocation is possible.
I had a much more recent update in this now decade-long adventure: http://www.chrisfenton.com/digital-archaeology-part-2/

Although this one was a lot less work than the first attempt. My original 1/10-scale Cray-1 is actually now sitting in the Computer History Museum!
How do you get around conflict of interest disclosures in your main job?
Its very clear he went there to shoot people. The clusterfuck of the few minutes that matter, should not have happened.
Agreed. And digging down to the social layer beneath it all, the network effects created by the community that coalesces around these projects is what drives everything.
I'd replace "NFT legitimacy" with "NFT correctness". Unless you met the author and seen them create the NFT, you don't really know if it's legitimate (as in created by the original author) or not. The market being flooded by random fakes and actual authors having to put their higher quality art behind a paywall is a serious problem these days.

For real legitimacy of the source, you need either the author or a trusted third party.
Reminder this is from the days where most websites where built with tables. I’m finally that guy now! Time flies.
Companies like Facebook & Google are able to scale up in part because they're avoiding spending money and time on moderation & customer support. If they were legally required to maintain a certain level of support, then that would help curtail their speed of scaling up, and probably be a good thing in general.
Mining ERGO and RVN are profitable also!
Kanye Story
Yes: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mining-pool.asp
I looked at a fair amount of sync and backup tools for macOS a little while ago including this one and couldn’t find any that copied to an external drive on connection. Only on a schedule.

Does anyone know if this is a technical limitation? It seemed like such a core thing to me but it just kept coming up missing.
I guess the question is really the upside/downside ratio. I think for many the upside is marginal compared to the potential downside.
re: section 230, it appears you've been corrected by others here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667397

As far as whether or not these companies engage in censorship, I agree that they certainly do. It's just that it's not illegal/unconstitutional, as per the 'censorship narrative' alluded to.
Getting a 404, the URL is case-sensitive: https://espotek.com/labrador works.
I wonder whether, upon clicking the links, there is any indication about the change in visible content.
Until at least one person tests this in court, it's safer to assume that NFTs don't give you absolutely any legal rights. And if the only thing you have is NFT, the author can sue you for copyright violation.
Why would miners just move somewhere else?
pikaso is a fantastic product, well done.
> It appears cash settled futures were put in place in 2017 specifically to break the bull market in btc at that time. It worked.

The price was totally unsustainable given the amount of supply entering the market daily due to mining. An insane amount of money would have had to flow into bitcoin every day to sustain those prices. At least, insane given the size of the bitcoin market at the time. There is no need for any other explanation for why the bull market ended in early 2018.
But you can fund artists already without a blockchain behind... the copyright part, well, the product is valid inside that blockchain. Do we have a way to protect copies of that item in other blockchains?
"PS: most 20 years old cars are death traps compared to current cars, I’m not sure it’s a good advice to push people to keep using them for that long. "

False, just because a car is "new" does not make it better. There is a global marketplace, and cars manufactured in China, Japan, India do not meet the same safety standards as if they were made in Japan for the USA market, or EU/USA manufactured cars.

Cars made by Japanese Manufacturers for Japan Domestic market do not have to meet much modern standards by EU/US (rightly so, becuase it isn't sold in those markets) but your statement itself is egregious.

I present to you:

Toyota Wigi/Agya/Ayla (Also badge engineering it's actually made by Daihatsu!)

https://toyota.com.ph/wigo

I wrote so much about this car in another blog, because it's quite fascinating actually, you can buy the base, base, no ac vent model for new at $7,000 or 100,000,000 IDR - Indonesian Rupiah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kzxn_Vob94

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGIZgVPvE1g

No Airbags, NO Radio, no ac vents, no real b or c pillars. Just a cheap mass manufactured car that has no need to pass true safety tests.

--

When I'm abroad, and I want to buy a car, I look for one that was manufactured and sold also in the USA market so that it meets NTHSA standards - Even if the car was assembled in the country, e.g. indonesia or Philippines, the chassis is 99% half assembled before entering due to tariff engineering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_engineering (also why the Subaru Brat had seats in the truck bed that were, basically useless)

So that means a 10-20yr old Honda CR-V, Fit, etc is much more safer than a new car from a major manufacturer.

Then we get into the fun cars manufactured by Chinese companies. But that's another post. :)
20 year old cars are not anywhere as bad as you say. My 2001 Honda Accord had electronic injection, ABS, air bags, heck it even had power steering!

The only major safety feature it doesn’t have compared to current cars is side air bags and rear view camera. Calling them death traps is a little much.
Curious if you were aware of the Baby University books from Chris Ferrie, and if so, worried about potential lawsuits?
>Most jobs are just code that hasn't been written yet or simple machines that haven't been built yet.

This is peak techbro arrogance. No, most jobs are not replaceable by code and "simple machines".
Ties pressure sensors, why is this silliness needed? Automatic climate control? Just another overly complicated system that is more expensive to repair. ABS? Learn to brake. Suspension control? More marketing than a useful feature, something else to go fail.

Death traps? No.
I built an API/IAAS (sort of), https://approximated.app, to make it really easy to connect end user's custom domains to any web app.

It offers automatic SSL for unlimited custom domains and subdomains through dedicated reverse proxy clusters. Each comes with a dedicated anycast IP address so that your users can point an apex A record at it and be geo routed to the nearest region of your cluster.

You can add virtual hosts for domains, subdomains, or specific paths through a really simple API and it'll handle SSL and verification automatically in a few seconds during the first request.

It's been really fun to work on, plenty of hard problems to solve and it's been really useful to people, including myself. I had a baby boy this summer so I've had roughly zero time to market it in any way but there's still tens of thousands of domains running through approximated clusters now so it's been growing a little bit at a time on its own.

Current future plans are for edge caching (nearly done), ddos mitigation, and then hopefully something more interesting like colocating serverless workers or distributed apps maybe.
My car's old enough & non-electrical enough that it would probably run even if we EMP'ed the area or dropped a neutron bomb nearby. It mostly sits and looks pretty. So I'm not super in tune with what all this connected car or in-car infotainment & control stuff is about. But it seems sensible enough to me. I'm un-tech/somewhat-un-car, but I think it's really weird what a cantankerous anti-tech 'bah car's were better before internet' / you-dont-need-that view there is that so quickly arises.

It makes sense to me to want to be able to pre-heat a car, even if it's slightly out of wifi range, maybe parked down the street a bit or around the block. I don't have the experience, but I'd like to see some more willingness to accept or consider without jumping to reject. I feel like we're being rash to judge. I don't know what else this is good for, why I'd want it, what it's for. But I believe very strongly in making means possible, in using connectivity to open doors of possibility, extending people's range of agency, giving them force multipliers.

Given the very very very tiny amounts of data it needs, this stuff should be easy, should be free; it's just embarrassing to me that 99.99% of cellular providers make this stuff incredibly difficult/complicated for consumers: it's something Google-Fi for example shamed these fools with, by giving away free data-only sims that use your existing plan. Anyone else doing anything else feels like an old world exploiter. There's nearly no real marginal cost to the network, it's all just profit-motive, and it's a stupid brake on possibility.

Let's take the brakes off. Let's try to leave the doors of perception & possibility open.
I’m writing a five book series over iOS development. It’s done just over $100,000k since May:

bestinclassiosapp.com

Aside from that, I hope to ship another app next year.
PDF has a limitation: it defines page size and the layout of everything fixed to this page, and thus can't do responsive layout like HTML can (reorganizing stuff in the page to match the screen size)
It's fully possible to build fast SPAs.

Though almost no one is able to do it.

Which is weird, as it's objectively easier than writing enterprise react crap.
That's not a very helpful thing to say. Most of the obvious explanations for why BTC supposedly isn't good are easily debunked (and have been a thousand times already). It would be more helpful to give a specific criticism of BTC that is actually interesting (i.e., cannot be correctly dismissed in two sentences).
Nah you were speaking higher than your hat
> It doesn't make sense to take massive risks on an unproven business when you are actively making billions in a relatively non-competitive market.

which is interesting - because in almost all cases, it's this unproven market that end up upending the business. IBM is an early case, and now electric cars.

So if an existing, well capitalized business would learn from this, they should buck the trend and invest heavily in risky ventures. However, shareholders, esp. conservative shareholders, would not want their existing, certain profit lines be endangered.
While you may do a good job of monitoring your tire pressures most people do not and this has saved many lives. If you are an enthusiast and your car shows you the psi of each tire it is also a handy time saving convenience
But what is the benefit?
I remember when I made a website with frames and felt like a genius.
Drunkards Walk by Leonard Mlodinow

History of probability theory
Droplet Dogma's Role in Misidentification of Airborne Infection Transmission
>Searching for "image" or "picture" yields no hits on the page.

You've misrepresented what is on that website a few times in this thread now. Ctrl+F for "image" returns 4 results, and 1 result for "picture".
MHT did this 20 years ago and got all but abandoned (probably for good reasons).
I built http://inspect.dev, a new developer tool for macOS, Linux, and Windows to inspect and debug your mobile web apps and websites on iOS devices.

Crossed $1000+ MRR pretty quickly and it's been growing organically since.
The Art of a Katsuhiro Otomo Storyboard
Complete citation:

Jimenez, Jose and Marr, Linsey and Randall, Katherine and Ewing, E. Thomas and Tufekci, Zeynep and Greenhalgh, Trish and Milton, Donald K. and Tellier, Raymond and Tang, Julian and Li, Yuguo and Morawska, Lidia and Mesiano-Crookston, Jonathan and Fisman, David and Hegarty, Orla and Dancer, Stephanie and Bluyssen, Philomena and Buonanno, Giorgio and Loomans, Marcel and Bahnfleth, William and Yao, Maosheng and Sekhar, Chandra and Wargocki, Pawel and Melikov, Arsen Krikor and Prather, Kimberly, Echoes Through Time: The Historical Origins of the Droplet Dogma and its Role in the Misidentification of Airborne Respiratory Infection Transmission (August 11, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3904176 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3904176
Not only that, the battery pack and drivetrain ware removed prior to blowing it up.
Notice how there's no burning batteries in the video.

This is mentioned in the Beyond The Press's video, but not in the one by Pommijätkät.
I'm curious if you've ever worked out a ballpark "hourly pay" for your crypto mining operations. By that, I mean:

(hours spent on research, hardware acquisition, setup, and maintenance) / (net profit, after accounting for hardware depreciation and obsolescence)
The very short story is that unlike with something like gasoline combustion, where the energy output basically happens nearly instantaneously, a nuclear fission event releases energy both directly (from the fissioning) and indirectly (from the subsequent radioactive decay of the fission products).

This indirect energy output is small in comparison to the reactor's output, but a small percentage times a very large power output is still sufficient to meltdown a reactor (and boil away the coolant in the process) if there's no way to remove the heat being generated.

Imagine what you'd have to do with a car engine if every car trip of 4 hours or more produced 4% power output in the form of heat for the next day after your trip was over.
"who sold you that?"

Specifically, David Mamet and Aaron Sorkin, who directly tells everyone to read Poetics. But also anyone who engages in poetry and lyrics; the whole idea of poetry is adding limits and seeing what you can do with it.

Think of it like chords in music, or moves on a game. If you play tennis and anyone can just kick or throw the ball, that's not very fun.
Is this a joke? Counting git commits is using LOCs as a performance metric with extra steps.
https://www.youtube.com/c/KalleHallden

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxv8jMd-ABJboKo1a_LtuNA/fea...

https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveOverflow

https://www.youtube.com/c/PwnFunction

https://www.youtube.com/c/Dronebotworkshop1

https://www.youtube.com/c/NullByteWHT

https://www.youtube.com/c/ippsec

https://www.youtube.com/c/Core-electronicsAu

https://www.youtube.com/c/Codingexplained/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

I hope you find at least some of them usefull.
Cheers
I used a raspberry pi 3 with a mini tv with hdmi and wireless keyboard setup to make money doing freelance software gigs.
I worked in NZ on a youth rate. It was $4.80 in the late 90s. The adult min wage was around $10. There was a team of 5 of us that would come in and clean a factory on Saturday.

It worked well for me. I loved the extra money and had no expenses of my own.

I now work in the upper tier of a similar factory. I discussed with our operations manager getting in some school aged workers to clean. It doesn't work out to be cost effective. We can just get the guys on the floor to clean up. As the guys on the floor cost the same and have already been trained and issued all the required safety equipment.
The Social Construction of Reality[1]. This book helped me in my personal life coming to terms with my identity. But it also helped me understand the art of discourse much more deeply. It gives the tools to easily and quickly identify implicit assumptions in arguments and drill down into why and how they are made. It also makes it very clear that people in general construct very poor arguments. You may already believe this, but just how poor they are is almost unbelievable.

1. Berger, Luckmannn1966
ISBN 978-0-385-05898-8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-38...