skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fiction:

"The Lies of Locke Lamora"

I found this book because I just finished playing Dishonored 2 and I wanted to read a book with a dystopian steampunk alternative-Victorian vibe.

The events take place in a gritty, corrupt city of waterways and canals controlled by different factions. The factions represent either the legitimate nobility or the extensive underground criminal empire. A charismatic leader of a small young group of thieves and pickpockets comes up with an epic, layered con that will break sacred agreements and make him enemies with everyone - and pulls it off.
GPS-free navigation with cosmic ray muons
Actually, smartphones are a pretty significant cause of death, but when people are using them while driving.

For Apple iPhone, for example, you just have to assert that you aren't driving to use it while driving (assuming the iPhone could be used by a passenger instead, so they can't really tell).
This book is lovely.

It made me reflect on our current state of affairs.

Covid was and still is a test of the value systems of the so called "Western" or "first world" societies.

We have failed this test through and through.

On a local level, many people didn't care about their communities enough to mask and vaxx and in turn the communities had no way to pressure them. Many, many people have mental health problems -- and I only mean the pandemic induced ones -- and are suffering alone because we do not help each other. Parents were forced to navigate this modern life with kids suddenly at home trying to distance learn. And, again, there was no help.

On a global level, these richer countries didn't supply the poorer countries with vaccines and help to distribute them. More than 80% of the population of Africa is not vaccinated. As humanity, we didn't help each other.

Complete failure.
Css grid is pretty flexible for zen garden like layouts
Glad to hear of your interest in bio! I haven't delve much into the business side, but that is something I'm planning to get into on my YouTube channel and Instagram (both are under EverymanBio).
Yes, absolutely - in case this isn’t clear to anyone reading, you need to evaluate total compensation when comparing roles. Salary, equity, and on-target bonus (which are often agreed ahead of time). For public companies you can sell your RSUs as soon as they vest.

For context: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...
... whoever is leasing them the car?
If I understand correctly, what this reply is suggesting is that the tinyssh author took reference implementions for certain primitives from djb and changed them into something "home-grown" that is consequently now vulnerable because [unspecified]. That's quite a bold claim. To be fair, when compiling tinyssh the build script checks for external versions of these primitives before using the supplied "home-grown" ones.

There is an obvious error in this reply as well. NaCl was not "started by crypto experts in response to Heartbleed." NaCl was published in 2011 and the Heartbleed did not occur until 2014.
There will be a lot of survivorship bias in this thread.
The inline example didn't even work for me. Highlights multiple sections. And the href for section-2 is wrong.
Two thumbs up for every book by Nassim Taleb!
I run a Discourse hosting company that makes about $2k/month. https://unisonhosting.com
As long as city lights and satellites don't interfere too much, you should be able to see it yourself by going to a telescope. I suppose the exception would be if it was coming in from behind the sun, or other similar situations where the light hits the opposite side then the one you can see from Earth.
When I first heard about video games in Teslas, my first thought was about Ender’s Game. Will there be a time where self-driving cars are piloted/assisted by players of massive online gaming platforms? It’s been shown that monitoring a vehicle that is mostly driving itself is not an easy task for humans. But if you gamify it and add several layers of redundancy (multiple people effectively monitoring the same vehicle), it could be made fun and also sufficiently safe for passengers. Latency is a risk, of course, as are evildoers.
Even so, a passenger playing a game on the center screen would be reasonably distracting regardless I'd think.
> Wait, how does it deny it?

To be able to talk about cause and effect you have to have a concept of independence. Superdeterminism's basic premise is essentially that everything in the past can affect everything in the future - you chose which direction to measure because the particle was polarised a particular way (or because of some common underlying cause). So how can you possibly talk about what caused you to measure a particular direction when apparently it was magically due to this thing that has no visible connection to it?

> We have words like "interesting, learn, understand" which don't really mean anything when we think about determinism. Science requires an observer but who is looking?

And yet science does work. We're able to make predictions and see them borne out.
I'm doing a small enough volume that automation isn't quite needed yet. The process is basically creating a soil dilution, culturing some special media broth and then plating samples the next day. If this small experiment shows promise, there's talk of implementing something like Opentrons.
God I wish I could make anywhere close to that. I'm 3 years in and my highest TC offer was about $300k at Square. I ended up taking slightly less for a more interesting startup but even that's still just $275k.

Life at the bottom rung is not pretty in the slightest!
for a moment I thought this lumen and URL was in some way related to the giant amalgamated telecom/ISP entity Lumen, the combined centurylink/Level3.

not a bad name for a project to shine light on things but could be confusing.
I like convenience and simplicity too, but I’m also a fan of backups. Having all of my daily routine in one device like that...no thanks.
How much time do you spend a month on marketing for placecard?
"The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War" by Ben Macintyre is an amazing story, very well written.
Had it shortly before vaccines were available in my country. I had body aches and fatigue, runny nose and mild sore throat. No loss of taste or smell, no fever even.

The worst part was the waiting. Was this the day that the numbers on the pulse ox would start dropping? Would I get some kind of blood clot? But it ended up being fine, as far as I know anyway.

I do worry that there could have been long term damage that has yet to manifest itself. A few others that we believe were
all in the same transmission chain had similar experiences, though one of us had quite a bit heavier fatigue and shortness of breath that has since resolved.

After I recovered, I started looking into reinfection rates and ever since I've been surprised to see the intense push for people like me to get vaccinated. Even from early 2021, there was published evidence that reinfections were rare. Of course, with omicron who knows now.
how did you get your first customers?
Blind spot assist
I don't see how that supports your assertion? Dr Morning[1] was arguing that the dichotomy of constructionist vs essentialist (and what you appear to be arguing) - is a "blunt tool". And that the at least in the northeast US in 2014, "constructionist" was a minority viewpoint. In fact this seems to contradict your first assertion that science has been "politicized by the state, and its official ideology". I still have no idea how you see the state fitting in here.

Unrelated, I have no idea wtf a tector is.

That satire account is hilarious but I'd hardly base my world view on it.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00380237.2007.10... -- I think you may have linked the wrong thing? I can only find the abstract
You also might want to read this:

https://harpers.org/archive/2013/02/team-america/
> NFTs are (or at least can be) a certificate of authenticity within a cryptographic framework.

NFTs are a cryptographic certificate of authenticity for... themselves. There is nothing about NFTs that authenticates anything tangible, digital or otherwise. That is what makes them useless. It's a self referencing, pointless exercise. Anyone can mint an NFT and buy and sell it... but all you've done is create an abstract digital object. The actual copyrightable asset the NFT points to is not authenticated, protected, or otherwise related in any way other than by trust - it's literally a URL, it could be anything. And if you're trusting people again, that's neither decentralized nor any different from traditional auction/trade platforms.
Congrats! This was a problem i had no idea existed until i wanted to rent an rv for a trip last year. The whole space is a mess. Definitely bookmarking for future reference.
I also like Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith for people-centered science fiction.
> You should have control over the stuff you buy, but to use that stuff on public roads you'll have to get it certified for safety. If you want to build your own race track to play video games on, be my guest, but keep your mods off the streets.

When you try to use an iPhone while driving, it will ask you if you aren't driving (i.e. a passenger) but otherwise the choice is yours to obey the rule or not. Tesla is getting in trouble for offering the same thing, but it is different, because the panel is attached to the car, so is considered part of. If it was an iPad tapped to the dashboard, no one would say that you should be automatically locked out while driving (since...it isn't a part of the car, it is just something stupid).

There are actually proposals to change that: if the iDevice can detect that it is in a moving car, that it should be disabled just in case it is the driver using it, with exemptions for people on buses and such.
Please consider writing a bit more about this experience!
Expected to see, essentially, Camo, and wasn’t surprised. But I was surprised by the emphasis of green versus the yellow or brown element.

Was worried that US was going to be “baby poop” yellow/brown.
Instagram and Twitter's apps are a lot better than Reddit's.
> The fact that GOOG doesn't pay dividends is not important or meaningful.

I actually agree with you here. The thing is, the fact that Bitcoin or Ethereum doesn't have "intrinsic value" is not important or meaningful either. Obviously GOOG is valuable and obviously BTC is valuable, and obviously ETH is valuable, but in both cases you can play semantic games to toss around economic terms like "greater fool theory", without understanding where the fundamental value actually emerges from, to pretend like they're worthless.

If you actually follow the activity around Bitcoin and Ethereum, the idea that these coins are suddenly going to drop to $0 and nobody will want one is about as absurd as that happening to GOOG.
Listened to this as an audiobook, and recommend the format for this specific book. The language is amazing but the subject is so brutal. The audiobook relentlessly drives forward, delivering the language and imagery without pause. I think I might not have finished the text.
The corporate mindset is geared to maximize profit. When you remove yourself from the system for long enough you definitely have a different perspective on things. Maybe they were afraid that it would grow out of control and the system couldn't handle it if programs were automating tweets. I'd say that is a valid concern. So they have to have systems in place to avoid malicious players. Maybe it just wasn't prioritized. Or maybe Jack's philosophy has changed. I don't think it's unreasonable for someone to admit they see things differently now. It's human nature and if anything we should welcome their honesty.
No one cares what you do in your car when it's in your driveway. The issue is doing unsafe things while on a public owned and regulated road. Same reason you can't just drive any vehicle on the road, or use just any parts. They have to be road legal.
On what site/service do you do this? I always am nervous it'll get hacked or something and the loan disappears?
There's a disconnect between critiques of Telegram and its practical use
how did you get your users?
Time of year for image capture would be worth checking - some places vary a lot. Interesting idea anyway.

Reminds me how Google maps changed to a more blue-green (pine?) for forests which seems jarring for Australian forests or woodlands.
Good point: it would be much cheaper to disbelieve scientists so you could ignore it. Until, of course, it's too late. But after that, budgets don't matter anyway.

This is a really good article, calling attention to the Tanis work which most people probably missed.

The show should have had it hitting in 50 years instead of 6 months. If it were due in 6 months, there would be provably not a damn thing anybody could do except dig a hole to hide for 10 or 1000 years until things settle down a little. With 50 years it is just barely conceiveable that something useful could be done if they started immediately.
Yeah, that's why doing so is illegal.
Average colours of Australian states would be interesting. ..and seems about the only part of the world left out so far, besides Antarctica.
My side business that I work on outside of business hours is my lifelong passion in filmmaking & photography, although I have done more livestream production as well.

My video/photo/livestream production company produces roughly $6 to $12k per month in revenue at a profit of 40 to 60% depending on the type of work and whether I shoot it myself.

Estimate that 60% of work that I quote are projects that I shoot myself. The other 40% I produce the jobs and have contractors work on them.

I've recently shot for a Fox Studios documentary that has spanned pre-COVID to next year, which is a real highlight for me. I also happened to shoot for the broadcast team at the first music festival in Australia since COVID hit.

Now for NYE, I'll be shooting the promo videos for a large music festival which is an awesome way to spend the holiday season, getting paid to party.

I really love my job and I'm grateful for all the opportunities that it brings me, whilst being able to sustain myself with a full time career in tech.
I'm guessing he means Glenn Greenwald is no longer in exact alignment with the narrow railroad tracks of a particular ideology.

Personally I find him very impressive. A genuinely independent and courageous thinker, this is incredibly rare in the media.
This isn't an accurate view of Amazon's current position in physical ecommerce. They always planned for each unprofitable line to become profitable as it matured.

Amazon's doesn't have many loss leaders in physical ecommerce any more. They used them to build those businesses 10-15 years ago, but they don't need them anymore. The only loss leaders as a category they maintain are digital. And even that is pretty limited to Amazon Video/Studios at this point.
One of the greatest works in the language: https://archive.org/details/englishassheissp00applrich
I read (more accurately listened to) this book a couple of years back. The story itself was engaging and I remember I liked the way everything was described. Once I finished the book though I didn't feel like I took away anything from it. I kind of enjoyed the story, but I have always wondered whether I missed something. Was I supposed to get some understanding of something that was "between the lines"? Did I miss some underlying concept or thread? It's a mystery to me, I just saw it as a well said story. Anyone have any tips on how to "understand the meaning" of the book?
Reminder for anyone reading these threads that the people most likely to comment are those with a remarkable experience with Covid, and that for every person in this thread with a bad, or remarkable experience, there are tens of thousands with very mild or no symptoms who had unremarkable experiences, most of who would not comment on threads like this.
The fix for this is detailed in this thread:
https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/716/v...

And the .dmg file that has the retina fix is here:
https://github.com/gagarcr/speedcrunch-nightlies/releases

Hopefully this helps!
About a year ago. Had diarrhea for 5 days and sever fatigue. No respiratory symptoms, which is weird since I have asthma.
Google "Glenn Greenwald is unreliable" or simply type his name into Quora's search and you'll soon see the substance of the complaints. Here's one article on the topic.

https://quillette.com/2015/12/19/glenn-greenwald-fascisms-fe...

Or you could look to his support for Putin, Fox News against traditional media (CNN, NYT, WaPo,...), and his denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Codeq – Semantic Git
The dmd code generator was/is a C++ compiler backend too, and can trace it's lineage back to the first compilers to make Cfront obsolete.

We could emit C code, but it's just worse when you need to get to the cutting edge. Even if you end up going through the same backend via C, you've now (say) lost devirtualization.
I don't even mind logging in, but it does seem weird to force it before letting potential customers interact with the product. Why not just prompt for registration when personalization features are used?

What I do mind is the price...if you read the FAQ, they want to charge as low as $10/month, $30/month for families once it exits beta. ("As low as" means "possibly higher")

That's very high. The family price equates to 16 Office 365 Family seats, which includes 16TB of cloud storage.

In my opinion, the price for this kind of product should be more in the realm of $50/year. I'm thinking a price closer to what password managers charge.

This price also will need to be adjusted for global customers if that is the eventual intention. Spotify in India costs less than $1.50 a month.
No, I am not.
And a not-inconsiderable number of people who will not be commenting here because they're dead.
Father and mother-in-law infected in Jan 2021 after exposure on Jan 1st. Both 70 y/o and both had some co-morbidities (immunosuppressed for FiL, diabetes and high BMI for MiL). Father-in-law died on Jan 18th after refusing to go on a vent. Mother-in-law on supplemental O2 until early Feb, hospitalized with low SpO2 three times in the time since. Has cognitive issues, too, but that may be unrelated.
You might enjoy Jacqueline Carey's duology The Sundering. It's sort of LoTR told from the side of the "bad" guys, though it's set in its own original world, and the story isn't an actual retelling of LoTR.
Hah. Kindof same. Ran Lighthouse tests on my project and on the evaluation it complains about gtag and Google Sign In being slow to load.
agreed, this is scummy. thrift and secondhand stores exist to serve a certain underprivileged segment of the population. not to facilitate arbitrage. but to each their own.
I don't know any that are for sale on the internet but the deep learning, mesh network and microcontroller tech to join together such a capability are readily available and open source.
The problem with covid is that it's very much a crapshoot. You could be fine, you could have debilitating symptoms that last for months. Since that tail risk is very much a risk of ruin, I would be careful with it. I'm personally waiting until more therapeutics are approved and we know more about how long covid works. That is my risk calculus though.
Had covid late 2020. Fever, difficulty breathing, general cold symptoms for like 3-4 days. Wasn’t too bad, the vaccine symptoms were worse

The terrible part was losing my sense of smell and taste. I had my wedding a few weeks after. Couldn’t taste the wedding food. Went on my honeymoon to a 5 star resort in the Maldives with supposedly amazing food. Was barely able to taste anything.

Life was just grey without taste and smell.

It partially came back 6 months later. A little over a year later I 99% recovered.

This may sound silly but my wife’s farts are terrible smelling, but I couldn’t smell them until yesterday, even then they’re more acidic vs the standard putrid rotten egg smell.

I had a hard time with smoked whiskey until recently.

Training my nose by smelling vanilla extract seemed to help a little. Food is a huge part of my happiness and to lose that for a year was very depressing, the farts less so :)

Im in my late twenties
It is if you are trading.

Ofcourse, if you are not trading, or buy a company stock and hope to get dividends than there is no transaction and hence it is not zero sum. But if you are trading it is zero sum.
That was sort of my point :P
The Anubis Gates, extremely entertaining time travel story by Tim Powers. It's not very "sci" sci-fi, actually there's magic in the mix, but totally recommended anyway.
> spot markets are highly manipulated but futures markets aren't

If the spot market is manipulated, the futures will reflect the manipulated price. Though the SEC doesn't come out and say it, it looks like this is a concern around custodianship.

Bitcoin futures are hedged at the periphery. If a trader loses their Bitcoin, they are unhedged and go broke through usual channels. Bitcoin ETFs hold that risk at the centre. If they lose their Bitcoins, we have to deal with trading halts and moms-and-pops losing their shirts and the family office that quintuple-leveraged their ETF bet and is threatening to take out a bank.
Parent was talking about grid. You seem to be talking about flexbox but calling it “flex grid” instead – you know grid and flexbox are two separate things, right? Grid definitely has the equivalent of rowspan/colspan.
I am in complete agreement, but it seems Tesla is strongly pushing for a model where you don't actually own it.
Yeah, I can't get aboard the Stephenson train either. I tried and failed to finish Seveneves for the same reason. I can't believe someone managed to make an end of the world novel this boring.
unvaccinated, 20s. high fever, loss of taste for a couple days.
took a bunch of vitamin c, vitamin d and zinc. went away in a week.

purely anecdotal but this was a far cry from the winter of death I was promised.
I buy 6 figure online businesses through brokers and don't even bother talking to the seller before committing and wiring the money. Who wants to get on a plane for a 5 figure business? Waste of time
No, it isn't. What I post on HN or Reddit is almost never none of my employer's business, either.
"The light of his world filled his empty hands" is one of my favorite lines ever
Fiction: This is how you lose the time war

Nonfiction: Don't think of an elephant
I agree with the original markdown git repo being what's important. I treat the whole web stack as an implementation detail for rendering the markdown I wrote, so I've set my blog up as just serving a minimal header and footer to render that markdown as a web page (using strapdown.js), so that it's still fairly readable in raw HTML form and you can read it with telnet in a pinch. IMO that's a lot more valuable than worrying about progressive enhancement or no-script functionality when your page still requires a hugely complex CSS/HTML engine to render it.
The car will be sold as pre-owned after the initial lease. The resale value only matters in that first re-sale when it is 3-5 years old and still desirable. Why would the bank or the manufacturer (sometimes the same entity) care about the resale value 15 years out from manufacture?

e: also, whoever finances the car doesn't really care either, the financing will just be more expensive.
Show HN: I built a bookmark to fix Amazon search
As a heavy Amazon buyer, very often I am frustrated by Amazon search results.

For instance, with so many fake reviews on Amazon, I seldom care about items with no or only a few reviews. Hide them plz.

Also, pretty often Amazon shows me stuff whose names don't even match my search, come on!

Why Amazon doesn't allow me to set how many items per page? I don't wanna go through pages of stuff :(

Price Low to High is a joke! So many $0.01 items with $10 shipping fee!

I am writing a bookmark to fix all of these. Give it a try at heartthese.com and let me know what you think.