skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crappy clearly, but I guess I am skeptical that it'd be easy to fix with regulation, at least it'd certainly take some very careful legislating to reign in. I suspect it would founder on pretty much the same problem we started with, FB's lawyers would say "we need to make money off this circus Your Honor, so of course we stacked the deck; if these rubes don't like it, they can always switch to Ello, it's a free country."
Band sells tickets via platform A. I buy ticket, I no longer want ticket, I sell it back to platform A which makes it available to you to purchase. They can also have a feature which allows specific person to person transfers if I want to give it to a friend.

This is all technologically possible. The reason platforms usually do not let you do this is due to business requirements. Why would the business switch to a platform that strips their ability to control resale if it isn't something they want to begin with? If they do want resale, its trivially possible with existing boring tech.
Yeah, thanks, was gonna say: what about "nocode" route (= bubble.io)
One doctor’s campaign to stop a Covid-19 vaccine being rushed before Election
com2kid gave 1.5k for the number of US nursing home worker deaths [1], which is the same 0.25% as the general population. [2] I could definitely believe that more american healthcare workers are dying than the general population, but what stats is this coming from?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29656232

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29656471
Those give undefined results if the operand is zero, so maybe having to do that check defeats the point?
I think the "motivation" that people consider fleeting is actually inspiration (like when you have a new project idea and stay up overnight excitedly working on it).

Discipline is important, but without motivation you will end up doubting why you are working so hard on something you don't care about. In my mind, motivation is continually reminding yourself of what outcomes you're working towards, so you don't lose sight of why you're working so hard.

For example, motivating yourself to work out by thinking of that sporting hobby you'll be able to take up or thinking about how great you'll feel when you've reached your goal weight.
Discussion from 2020, when EFF launched this service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25166703
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The most frequent reason I turn to stack overflow, is for solutions to things I just don’t care about right now. Like, for example, how do I get bootstrap to work in webpacker for rail, etc. I don’t really care about this, I’d rather just be writing ruby code. And even in these cases, SO isn’t that helpful half the time because either the answer is 3 years old and outdated or there used to be a relevant answer but it has been deleted for some violation.
And gleefully introduce contradictory trust issues that no one asked for.
What's the cost-effectiveness of the whole process for the company?

What's the level of pre-processing of the butts on the company's part?

Who handles and/or pays for transport of the used butts?

While I could applaud the thinking of recycling butts, is it a worthwhile economic endeavour? Do the costs outweigh the benefits at the end of the day?
I guess customs aren't too happy to allow cow dung across the borders, but otherwise this is brilliant: at the moment I want to buy Lithuanian cow dung more than buying anything from China :-)
I’ve found that Clarks in their dress casual line are both comfy and business casual.
She mentions relapse and years of sobriety, plus fentanyl is a pretty extreme opioid, I think they only give it to people with things like very advanced cancer, so it seems pretty unlikely her prescription was accidentally filled with that.
It’s only a AAA (i.e. least critical) requirement, but justified text is an accessibility issue according to WCAG. https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/failures/F88.html
That's a fair criticism, but those are the cases that people are worried about, not the ones where the immune system generates the appropriate response. Just like we don't really care about regular moderate rain but we do care about rain that overwhelms our ability to deal with it. I'm not even sure what the stats are on the cases where a cancer got nipped in the bud at the single or just a few cells stage, but now I'm interested and I'm going to try to find out if this has been researched or not, that has to be a tricky problem to determine the answer to.
i aggressively unfollow people who turn to political activists. It is a good source of information but that probably has to do with the decline of RSS as well. I think as a protocol it is promising, even if it was text-only.
Yea, but has little to do with OP’s point, which was VC attention -> (requires, and therefore proves) centralized entities. The reverse isn’t true, and nobody claimed it to be.
Americans are always going to proverbial war on stuff. It seems bad enough that something inanimate is trying to kill you. To imagine an enemy with malign intent on top of that doesn’t seem very helpful to me.
This is one instance of someone with a clear political affiliation; the question is whether it would happen to someone on the other side, or with little discernable political affiliation.
Sounds like Facebook is more trouble than it’s worth.
“ There is no other significance to these [uploaded] files.”

So sayth my canary.
"Capital innovations" is a great spin on business as usual VC control of capital.
There is no reason to expect human-like behaviour and traits from organisations.
The thing to look at is when those deaths happened. And when they did they were disproportionate. Once personal protection for health care workers became widespread those severe cases and deaths dropped to much lower levels.
That's surprising to me.

A private jet is super expensive for an engineer, even a senior level on in the valley?

Maybe if you do it for a once a year fancy vacation - within four or five hours (or less).

If you're doing that you're probably also spending at least $600 a night elsewhere maybe a lot more. That could easily be a 30k+ vacation which is what, like 10% of a higher end non owner tech salary? I guess if you don't have a lot of other monthly expenses that's not super unreasonable.
Aurora isn't really designed to handle the total failure of two availability zones (not short term, anyway). It's designed to handle one AZ + one additional node failure (which is reasonably likely to happen on large instances due to data from a single database being striped across up to 12,800 machines per AZ). Due to how quorum systems work the "simplest" way they decided to handle that was six replicas per 10 GiB segment across 3 AZs, with three of the replicas being log-only and three designated as full replicas (which is the lowest number of full replicas you can have given their failure model, and hitting that lower bound does require you to deploy across 3 AZs). If any three of the nodes are dead (log-only or otherwise), write traffic is stopped until they can bring up a fourth node, though there is some support for backup 3-of-4 quorums for very long-term AZ outages.
China is famously very accepting of all ideas and would never ban or ostracize members of its own society for perspectives that disagree with the majority's belief.

Yep. Definitely a western thing.
If you mean bc as the 'calculator that comes with linux', thats somewhat to be expected. Speedcrunch deals with a maximum integer size of 256 bits (~1.15e77), while bc is an arbitrary precision calculator.
I've used it in the past, until one day they removed the buttons/skeuomorphic UI. A couple of years ago, I found it again and is now my daiky driver. It has a newer skeuomorphic interface, which I only use if I can't remember the name of a function.

What I like the most is the seamless integration of different notation styles, mainly using commas and points as decimal separators.
> And unlike Go or C, I don't have to remember to check the error every single time.

How do you mean? I’ve been writing Rust frequently lately and you still have to check the case. Do you mean that the compiler will nag you if you stunt so you don’t have to remember to do it because you’ll be reminded?

That’s one of the things common Go linters do that I wish was built into the compiler. It’s silly that an unused dependency is a compiler error but an unchecked error/return value is not.
Why not block out a couple hours during the day where people can't interrupt? This was brought up many times in my last workplace and we found that we could cancel lots of meetings and magically the days became much more free.

I also never put slack on my phone, and use the snooze functionality.

Usually you can make the time if you really want to.
Why? They'll still be put to use. Just not via a for profit industry creating an arms race between middling powers.

If anything it will make recruitment by significant governments easier.
Jonathan Blow and George Hotz get pretty technical at times.

But if you want something that's a bit funnier and goes into the process of tinkering and working on interesting problems, I like Code Bullet on YouTube.
Good advice:

1. Try, try until you succeed.

2. Stop beating a dead horse.
> "web3" is just a way to build third party owned services on top of a distributed infrastructure

Isn't in the opposite? Web3 is a decentralized app that runs on top of distributed web2 and centralized infrastructure.
Wtf, so the Uyghur movement in the US is basically right wing, pro gun, pro trump organization? Also seems to be aligning with some qanon islamophobes as well. The irony.
I wonder if there's an alternative protocol that is fully peer-to-peer.
I mean, this is not a good look from Facebook for the "oppressed conservative Christian minority" to be a false narrative.
But revisiting content is good and helps learning. So what I meant was that as long as you're not purely re-watching to catch what you missed the first time due to speed, any overlap is beneficial.
Whilst this might be true in general melanoma does respond particularly well to immunotherapy with 5 year survival rates in excess of 50% for advanced (metastatic) disease and a subset of patients effectively cured.
Sounds more like an idea you have for a movie than reality
You claim,

"...there is no _they_."

but another poster claims,

"Mastodon can lock those servers out of their directories, or out of the main federation-network, though." Which another poster referred to as "de-federation".

Which of you is correct? Is there a "_they_"?
That’s probably true comparing nearly any languages.
From the documentation:
* However, only about 78 significant digits are stored at any point.
* SpeedCrunch stores integers with a precision of up to 256 bits.
"the majority of the time the immune system is a-ok with what cancer cells are doing"

This is survivorship bias. Of course we do not detect cancers that were killed early on, much like we aren't aware of all the pathogens that were neutralized before they could cause visible symptoms. We only know about those that escaped the immune system patrol.

The good news is that the immune system can be augmented/instructed from the outside, and new cancer therapies do precisely that.
The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm (2014)
> I'm always a bit skeptical about physics because whatever models we find and celebrate now will have to be adjusted at some point in the future.

Do you have an alternative?
My son (1, NL) got certain vaccines a few days too early
(they should've noticed that when appt was made, and now he has to get the vaccines again, or he is not offficially vaccinated against them. Infuriating but otherwise where do you draw the line with exceptions.
>I have an Echo in my kitchen that I mainly use as a voice-activated timer and to play music or podcasts as I cook.

Same here. I use it to play the radio while I'm washing the pots. As I can change channel without having to dry my hands.

>When I want to set a timer I have to walk over to the device and unmute it because I refuse to leave it unmuted

Again, ditto.

The longer I have the Echo Dot, the more I realise just how monumentally far from any kind of "intelligence" AI currently has --especially in Alexa form.

Classic example. Tonight the missus was cooking and asked Alexa to play some Christmassy tunes [I know! I know!]. Alexa played a couple we recognised and then something quite bluesy that sounded a bit like Chuck Berry. So, we wanted to find out what it was.

"Alexa, what was that tune you just played?"

"I'm sorry. I don't know that one"

"Alexa, list the tunes you've played tonight"

"If you give me a list of tunes, I can play them"

"Alexa. What was the song you have just finished playing?"

"Did you know you can..."*

etc... etc.. til she gave up.

There is absolutely no "intelligence" behind this at all. It really irks me that people keep banging on about Alexa [and similar voice assistants] and things like online chatbots as if they were displaying some kind of intuition. All's they are is pretty good speech recognition [credit where it's due for that, at least] welded to a menu of prepared answers based on what keywords the thing picks out in what you say.

Wake me up when an AI can tell me it's depressed and has a pain in the diodes all down its left-hand side.
No. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609617
You're right that somebody who made billions from a problematic system comes across as hypocritical when he turns around to burn it.

That said, there's something pure and genuine in him. Real regret, it doesn't come across as an act. And let's face it, Twitter has never really grown up. It's not really a functioning business.
Well, i think _they_ is "everyone". I dont follow the space but it seemed most (all?) servers federate with a limited subset of other servers. Kinda balkanized
That immunity will protect you from using all sorts of investment losses from electric cars to typewriters. Until they become mainstream or fail.
I can't tell whether the parent comment was written as parody or while the author was high.
Have you seen the engineered "glasses" [1] designed to help combat motion sickness during long trips by car, boat, or train? The idea is that there are liquids injected into the "frame" which help create an artificial horizon of sorts, which is designed to trick your brain into smoothing out the mixed messages your movement sensors otherwise get from vibrations and motions.

Of course, they do look a little silly and they don't directly help with the "shaken up" feeling you're trying to avoid, but it would be an interesting test to go against what the article claims is a 95% effectiveness against motion sickness.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/glasses-for-motion-sicknes...
MWh flow battery based energy storage system in California
What are you using for learning?
Well, if it’s had anywhere near the success as the “War on Drugs” …
Except maybe that long histories create noticeable lag, that is.
> is bitterwinter.org a reliable source?

The bitterwinter.org article, which is clearly labeled as Op-Ed:

1. reports that BCI Shanghai contradicts BCI headquarter (which you can independently verify, as there are other news sources supporting this, such as the SCMP article I just added).

2. argues that the local branch (BCI Shanghai) could be under pressure for operating in China (the quoted text above).

If you don’t buy their reasoning (2 above), you can at least agree with the HKFP reporting that the local Hugo Boss Chinese branch contradicted the Hugo Boss global headquarter without authorization, and make your judgement call for why.

> or perhaps we should dig deeper...

You may want to read these sources [1][2], which I just added to my original comment and do not rely on Adrian Zenz.

> is adrian zenz, whom most of the xinjiang genocide claims originated from, a reliable source?

With those other verifiable sources [1][2], we can ignore the straw man question of whether Adrian Zenz is a reliable source.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/solar-chin... "Solar industry’s ties to China’s Xinjiang region raise specter of forced labor"

[2]: https://www.shu.ac.uk/helena-kennedy-centre-international-ju... "In Broad Daylight: Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Solar Supply Chains"
People are giving NFTs as gifts
We should just euthanize everyone and blow up the planet if the only worthwhile reason for doing anything is for VCs to extract profit from it. People who think accumulating more wealth than they need at the expense of people who are starving is ok should be thrown into a volcano.
It's a little hard to square the position of this man. On the one hand, he claims the vaccine shouldn't be rushed, on the other hand he still wants it rushed.

He really just pissed everyone off and helped kill roughly 100,000 elderly Americans. He also played politics and forever tainted his beloved science.

The vaccine is no less rushed because of his efforts, but he got his politician in office.
https://archive.ph/JAALt
It's just the numbers. Eventually all the hardware will fail. Some of that hardware will require a specific set of conditions to fail. Such a condition may be current inrush from being powercycled. Given the scale of a data centre and powercycling it all at once, then some will fail due to that condition.

Further to that thought, there must be hardware in that centre which is failing and being replaced all the time due to other conditions, we just won't hear about it because it's part of normal maintenance.
> This paper is an experiment to see if a particular API could make using Rust easier.

According to the author: "The Bronze project is exploring the usability costs of the restrictions that Rust imposes."

That does not require a sound gc to explore. Maybe it would have been different had the goal been to see whether a gc can be bolted onto Rust. Yes, that might be difficult given Rust's semantics and how to deals with pointers. But that doesn't seem to be the goal of the author's research.
The whole ecosystem is locked in this tiny box that is amendable to complete computation. It is impossible to connect that paradigm to the real world without, in some way, falling back to concepts they reject, like trusting someone’s testimony that a product was physically delivered.

That’s why they copied the concept a second time with NFTs: it’s a bit awkward to just keep trading fictional currencies for other fictional currencies. Now, you can trade something real: fictional ownership of fictional “art”.
If cancer cells didn't occasionally manage to evade detection by the immune system then we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place so those are the cancers that are in focus because they are the ones that people end up dying from (or needing treatment or surgery with all of the associated risks).
Snake oil by itself is just a phoney medicine, but when it is sold onlookers may be angry.
I wonder how much of this rate is affected by patients who try immunotherapies have failed frontline treatments and then try an immunotherapy later.
It can be a number of things, but often times it's the thermal cycle and wear on the components.

After letting devices (especially that rarely do this) cool, and then bringing them back up to temperature some percentage of components may fail or operate out of spec.

And mechanical parts have similar issue. A motor that's been happily running for months/years may not restart after being stopped.

It's also possible that a power fault itself could damage hardware, although in my experience this type of issue is far less common.
> pragmatic criticism of the current state of NFTs that have nothing to do with the concept of NFTs.

Which NFTs include a central authority able to re-issue my ticket if I lose it, address mis-representation by sellers, give refunds if the performance doesn't happen, etc? Isn't that lack of a central authority - and its attendant downsides - core to the medium?

> Non NFT tickets fluctuate wildly in price.

Which non NFT tickets have fluctuated like Bored Ape NFTs this year, and which are highly susceptible to market sentiment for the entire ticketing medium?

> What are you still having trouble with at this point:

Trying to understand how many people I respect have such enthusiasm for a medium which appears to have many downsides vs the status quo - and not yet a killer app like e.g. Gmail, Maps, Facebook to justify the Web2->Web3 transition. No doubt I'm missing something, just trying to understand what.

There's been enthusiasm for smart contracts for 5+ years, but which mainstream consumer or B2B apps have yet implemented them for non-speculation use cases?

How would it be progress for the New York Times to restrict access to quality journalism - or for Soho House to expose its future cash flows to extreme market volatility?
Supply is also an issue, see this article by Dr. Eric Topol:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/21/paxlov...

It seems strange that large scale manufacturing appears to have not even been started yet, the projections for 2022 are only for 200M treatment courses (the latest announcement, at the time of the above article the projection was 80M).
Biden is in the process of implementing some measures to make testing more available, but it is going to take some time and looks rather inadequate (500M free tests would last maybe a few weeks with everyone in the USA doing regular testing? Maybe they'd last a lot longer if everyone only did symptomatic testing, although regular testing is required in some places which will use up a lot of tests). But unless manufacturing is ramped up quickly the supply of this drug is going to be very low. The USA has prepurchased only 10M treatment courses. So we won't be able to just give it to anyone (at 168,409 cases per day 10M treatment courses would only last 59 days). But you can't tell yet who will get seriously ill and Paxlovid treatment has to start when symptoms start (and the number of people with symptoms may be much higher than the current case/day count). So someone is going to have to decide who lives and who dies. For older or immunocompromised people this is likely an easy choice and will be a boon. For younger, healthier people this may not be an option at all until supply becomes much larger.

Pfizer said they were going to help manufacturers make Paxlovid locally so that all countries would have access to it, license free. What is the status of those efforts? It seems to take 9 months to manufacture:

https://www.india.com/news/world/pfizer-pill-paxlovid-become...

"Federal health officials are expected to ration early shipments to the hardest hit parts of the country. Pfizer said the small supply is due to the manufacturing time — currently about nine months. The company says it can halve production time next year."

So Paxlovid may be the beginning of the end of COVID-19, but it seems it is not going to happen quickly. Certainly not in time for much use with Omicron.
> If you're in your mid-20s in most US metro areas (except in the South, perhaps) - this is what it's like

Says who? Have you stepped out during a weekend in a US metro city? To popular nightspots? No app needed to meet and socialise with attractive people - strangers or an extended social circle. In fact some might even say it is like shooting fish in a barrel
This is the biggest reason for me. I have no problem with .Net and have more experience with C# than Rust, but MSSQL was kind of a deal breaker for me to self host.