skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We recently had a conversation discussing the fact that we could eradicate hunger and the need for clean water globally, but for a whole host of reasons we have not yet done it.

It depends at what level you mean ‘could.’ Yes, agro-technically we can produce enough food to feed everyone. The issue with world hunger is mostly due to non democratic governments preferring power over feeding their people. At that level, the ‘could’ becomes difficult and maybe impossible.

I think the real answer is that human nature has a dark side that, unless kept in balance by a culture of accountability, will cause harm to others.

A related realization is that, I think, cultures of accountability can be traced back to just luck and a small number of enlightened people that set things up in the past at the right time in the right place. So let’s not pretend things will always get better automatically, and, for those who enjoy freedom under a democratic government, let’s make an effort to cherish and invest in our culture, starting with educating our kids how special this really is.
I’d be interested to see if the manual loop unrolling is necessary, or if the WASM toolchain would perform that optimization automatically if `len` were a known constant.
Each of us undoubtedly has a very personal, opinionated list of characteristics that a true microservice should not exhibit - this is mine
Right. And .lol is open for business. I was registering one yesterday.
How Basic Are Behavioral Biases? Evidence from Capuchin Monkey Trading Behavior
If they make the api available on ios it will be a game changer, i’m hoping they’ll make it available for the m1 chipped devices
Once anything becomes a significant amount of our energy being used, sure. It should be examined and we should see if we can reduce energy consumption.
> a significant portion end up losing 7-10 IQ points just from dementia

There probably is an IQ drop, but I question this figure. I recall a study doing the rounds here which showed this figure as a ballpark and it was very low quality.
Minor item on your alpha notification: It's spelled "hiccup", not "hickup".
transactions on bitcoin cost basically 0 energy too. the bitcoin energy expenditure is from block creation, which is independent from transactions.

Of course, bitcoin transactions incentivize block creation, but gold transactions also incentivize gold mining to some degree.
I've had a P3D. If I get another Tesla it will be because of the charging network. No other reason. The competition is producing cars that have normal car features that work. I want normal wipers, or at least traditional rain-sensing that works. I want CarPlay. Comfortable seats, dash screen (in front of the driver), normal door handles, HUD, analog controls for certain things, etc. The regular manufacturers have built up a huge amount of experience in those areas and until Tesla steps it up the rest of their tech isn't going to make me into a repeat customer. Especially when they do dumb things like remove the radar and double down on trying to make the cheap cameras do even more tasks inadequately. Traditional manufacturers have lane keeping and adaptive cruise too. "FSD" doesn't tempt me in the slightest.
> At some point growth stocks have to stop being growth stocks.

Debatable. AMZN would like to have a word
They like to advertise spicyness but most of the time it's not really as spicy as it's marketed. Once however, I tried that Tabasco Scorpion sauce I found at a 100-yen Lawson, thinking it would be the usual bullshit and I've been taken for a ride.
I'm guessing your comment is about people who died since WW2 but an estimated 750k died in the civil war.
If you give food to poor areas for free then their farmers go out of business, the area becomes more poor, and they become dependent on aid. Breaking systems always has consequences. It’s not easy.
Not just a black hole, but a black hole that rewards people for using spare renewable capacity in a profoundly wasteful way.

The bitcoin network (and all PoS) schemes incentivize waste beyond merely throwing away power: they incentivize e-waste, frivolous cooling and refrigerant use, &c. It's strictly better to just dump excess capacity than it is to use it on PoS schemes.
The Ponzi comment above was a poor attempt at humour. He was a con artist who knew he was a con artist.

I do not believe the majority of people in the cryptocurrency space are attempting to harm anyone.
One thing with array indices is that using signed means that you need to always check for negative in addition to checking for too large. Unsigned indices means you can just check against too large.

I think a lot of the scenarios where signed is safer are also situations where the application logic would be wrong, so I am a bit skeptical of that argument.

But Ultimately the biggest factor to consider is what your team or prospective team members in your industry are used to, different industries tend to have people who never expect unsigned values vs those who always assume unsigned will be used.
Madoff's "investment" firm, I think, is a good comparison for Holmes's Theranos. They're both conartists that peddled their image and influence to run fake businesses and steal money from investors.

My pre-edit post had a sentence that was poorly written, and it still might be unclear. My point was meant to be that the coverage of Holmes has very much not described the situation as what happens when a woman is in charge. I also think you're not accurately portraying what she has done. She is not some misguided founder who came up with an idea that failed but then just continued to fail up because men were too enamored with her to tell her the truth. She deliberately and repeatedly committed fraud - a crime. She knew her product didn't work, and she went through great efforts to lie about it. The greater context is even more damning when you consider the influence peddling, Jobs costume, fake deep voice, etc.

I think the pushback you saw is because your point is ignoring the reality of Holmes's actions to make a separate point. In no way is Holmes a victim of a lack of constructive feedback. I can also understand how it could be concerning that all women leaders will get painted with the same brush as her, but I think virtually all serious coverage of Theranos has described her as an exceptional criminal, not a portrait of women in leadership.
Anecdotal evidence etc.
I have been having a feeling that my attention span is generally lower than before.
I don't have a smartphone, no TV since more than 10 years ago, but there's the internet.
Unfortunately working as a programmer requires constant connection (at least to be available to colleagues on chat, even non-remote).
We've been experimenting with cutting off internet entirely for some days (e.g. yesterday), and I feel much better already.
It's really magical how the nagging compulsion to check notifications disappears. No need to do any complex software setup, you go to the router and turn it off.
So I think that quite clearly even with some mental fortitude and knowledge of the issue, you cannot really be immune to the attention-lowering effect.
Your last example is not applicable.

The question is comparable to a gun with infinitely many chambers, each with a 1/80 chance of containing a bullet: How many times on average can you point it at your head and pull the trigger? The differences are that you have no guarantee that the first 80 chambers will contain exactly 1 bullet, that more than one chamber can contain a bullet, and that you can pull the trigger more than 80 times.
We might. Could be a Black Swan event. Just the same, all along we should have been asking about "collateral damage." We ignored it. That's sadly suspicious.

Obviously, we don't have other pandemics' data to lean on. But we did have the economic crisis circa 2007 - 2008. There was plenty of analysis about the socio-economic impact of that event. That is, for example, poverty rate goes up, so does X, Y and Z.

If we can model a pandemic, can we not also - at least try - to mobel the impact of "the cure" and possible collateral damage?
> Something doesn't make sense

How so? 96% of deliveries are 3/Y, Tesla probably delivered less than 1K X's this quarter since they're still ramping production of the refresh S/X.

A month or two of delays for the X production is negligible.
Please don't start this distasteful, absurd flamewar up again.
Mastering shell scripts can help you to improve productivity: in this post we'll see a techique to automatically adjust shell background whenever we open a new one
> surprisingly frequent in healthy athletes

More common than in general population?
AWS has M1 instances too.

How does Docker(and compatibles) handle M1? I’d recommend getting your app containerized as early as possible, that should improve the portability, operability and reliability stories.
And we have stories of people being told that a vehicle was "found" that matched their reservation, so they could get their vehicle.

What that really meant was someone else had rejected delivery of that specific vehicle.

But Tesla wanted "delivery acceptance" if you wanted a chance to look over that vehicle.

They're like everyone else, push hard to make the numbers, screw the QA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/rtr21m/buying_a_...
Don't know if this is a joke. "Web3" makes problems like this even more complicated because domain name resolution needs a single central point of trust.
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I was just being glib - but in an ideal world that number should be 0. Any political dissidents that are willing to write their entire transaction history in plaintext on a slow, small public ledger are going to end up in political prison in a hot minute. They're just waiting for automated tooling to file a report with the secret police.

Bitcoin is not the tool you should be using for that. It's just poor opsec.
Try rock climbing, snowboarding, kite surfing, mountain biking, etc…all quite popular among my friends and colleagues in the tech industry and all quite thrilling.

Luckily, there are still tons of accessible activities with choose-your-own levels of risk and excitement that involve physical effort instead of focusing on a screen.
You can also go to your local reused building materials store and see what they've got, and change your plans around a bit to fit those materials. You might find a bundle of boards not quite 8'/16' but could save you a pretty penny (and it just helps the environment)
Humans are a social species, and a lot of what you refer to as "cancel culture" is a reaction to antisocial behavior like racism and sexism and homophobia that actively harms our societies. Some of this behavior has been going on for centuries or longer. People who support so called "cancel culture" simply think that a few millennia of racism and sexism are enough.

Reasonable people should not condemn cancel culture; reasonable people should support efforts to cancel racism, sexism, ageism, and the other -isms that cause profound harm to members of our societies. It's not really that difficult to not make racist, sexist, or homophobic remarks.
Wait, what?

Pretty much everything for indices (at least in the stdlib) seems to be 'usize' in my experience (i.e. Vec), which is unsigned.

Am I missing something?
I wonder if vaccination status is going to be an policy pricing input
This post analizes why some naming convention can be viewed as design smells
A lot more people try to win the lottery than jump in front of meteorites.
There's a false equivalence here between proof of work consensus and actually doing work. 3D renders aren't done by a bunch of independent render farms in competition with each other where their work is discarded if they aren't the first to produce the render.
The patch is completely bogus:

https://github.com/teeworlds/teeworlds/commit/4d529dcd2d0102...

Here it tries to avoid overflow by assigning the result of 32 bit arithmetic to a 64 bit type. That's a common mistake.
What is your best guess based on what you've read, and for what age group is that figure for specifically? I have also been googling and have found no good source.
Book by the same author here

https://www.amazon.com/Least-Us-Tales-America-Fentanyl/dp/16...

It's a devastating read.
There are a lot of variations, but in Zerocash-style schemes (which can be viewed as massive ring signatures), each note has an associated 'nullifier'. Spending a note involves revealing its nullifier, and for the transaction to be valid, the nullifier must not have been used before.

A nullifier is derived deterministically from private account data, and zero-knowledge proofs are used to show that a nullifier was dervied correctly without revealing the private account data.

For more detail I think this is a good explanation: https://electriccoin.co/blog/zcash-private-transactions/
Technology does not respect biology. There is a mechanical view of man, that is similar to what hydroponics is to gardening.
You look what are the required nutrients etc, and provide just that in a very sterile environment.
Of course, the results are quite garbage. The fruits are tasteless, and the problems it brings (e.g. insect infestations) require a lot of pesticides.
The technological vision is to solve these problems with new technological solutions.
If modern life has become unbearable, it's not a worry because there are pills, wondrous cannabinoids, etc, to fix defective individuals. Quite a society!
> and it frustrates me to see them framed against another useless tragedy.

You know, people need an anchor point for comparison very often.

"Holy shit COVID and car crashes are bad, and among younger adults -- believe it or not-- fentanyl is even worse".
Note that this only applies to the older BlackBerry OS (7 and earlier) phones, which used the BES. BB10 and later Android phones worked and will continue to work like any other phone.

The Z10 and Q10 were the first BB10 phones in 2013, and I believe BlackBerry only produced one more BBOS phone after that. After the Classic and Passport in late 2014, BlackBerry switched to Android with the Priv, KeyOne, and Key2 and essentially abandoned the BB10 OS and phones.
People pay taxes to avoid going to jail. Your tax return has an option to pay more for no reason. Guess how many people choose that option.
> make doing the right thing easier and the wrong thing harder.

I’ve never heard it put so succinctly! In the realm of breaking social media addiction I’ve tried to block all feeds on my laptop using chrome extensions, logout on mobile. To be honest: it’s the “make the right thing easier” that has been tricky for me. I’m trying to read more, but frankly post work tiredness does make diving into good books kind of tricky. Not 100% sure what the right “right thing” to replace social media in my life is yet.
C# enums and enumerated types modelling: why you shouldn't use the `enum` keyword in C#
Sorry, but that is more nationalistic and political flamebait—just the sort of thing we don't want on HN because of the low-quality, repetitive, and nasty threads it leads to. No more of this, please.
Private ledgers are also sharded, which means they scale much higher.

When cryptocurrencies can handle 10% of Visa’s transaction rate, somebody wake me up and I’ll start paying attention to it. Until then a lot of this stuff is pearl clutching.

Visa is only a fraction of total money transactions worldwide. To be a replacement it has to be able to go an order of magnitude higher than Visa, and last I checked it’s still three orders of magnitude below Visa. That’s a lot of orders of magnitude to overcome. Too many by most accounts. People who make those sorts of improvements started out with a prototype that was already 20-50 times faster than the status quo.
I think Taleb’s point was more that humans don’t have a good intuition for extreme events, layperson or expert. See the housing crisis during which experts and laypeople were equally fooled. We’re good at understanding eg height of people (small variation) but have no sense of wild scale, eg stock market movements or a huge bank imploding within days.
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/05/death-from-above-7-unluck...

Just last year a woman had just gotten out of bed when a meteorite came through her ceiling and hit her pillow where her head had been.
Isn’t this the same video in the article?
This examination of pfizer's own vaccine safety study, claims that it shows an increase in all risk mortality.

https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/media-resources/th...
Cool to see this stuff getting out into the wild, long time coming!

What is the current state of these -- do simd wasm ops run in ffox/chrome/edge/safari, and does the data have to be slowly bulk copied back-and-forth from a worker (heartbleed removal of zero-copy ownership transfers)?

We love js typed arrays and columnar analytics -- graphistry contributed the first years of Apache Arrow JS -- but intentionally didn't do wasm for kernels because of this kind of stuff, despite promising internal multicore etc prototypes. A surprise win for us of GPU python/js offloading to the server has been not just scale but perf reliability. Curious how much it has improved in the typical case, as it always made sense on paper!
This level of reading comprehension is why Twitter needs to ban people spamming false information like MTG
TBF, 500k + 500k for controlling 3 TLDs (333k/TLD) is not a lot of money. For Google it's a rounding error.
So what the Canadian government is they would rather kill you with blood clots than let you take a 1/1000 chance of dying from a terror weapon made by the Chinese.
Anecdotally, I see a lot of pseudo-rigor in Business oriented statistics. Leadership selects the statistics and statisticians which make the most rigourous plausible model that achieves the desired outcome.
This "story" reads as just a conveniently embellished - if not outright faked tale - acting as a sell piece of the authors latest book. Ironically, it is not worth my attention. The article is doing the very thing which it posits.
Incredible that tesla recalling almost the same number of cars that they produced this year is a non-story here but their Q4 planning is front page stuff.
You are painfully wrong on the definition of censorship. Censorship is the act of a third party intermediary controlling the content of speech, no matter who that third party is. For example, Merriam-Webster defines "censor" as "a person who supervises conduct and morals". They go on to use the word "official, which you might think implies bona fide government. But they define "official" as "one who holds or is invested with an office", which most certainly applies to private corporations.

By banning people based on the content of their speech, Twitter is precisely engaging in censorship. Just because they haven't called their department head responsible for handing out bans a "Censor" does not mean their constructive behavior is something new that we don't have a word for!

Furthermore, immediately referencing the Bill of Rights to call Twitter's activities "freedom of expression" is wantonly destructive to any sort of discussion. The US Bill of Rights takes natural rights and narrowly frames them in terms of restrictions on government, because that is likely the best that can be done at its level of abstraction. The scale Twitter operates at is much closer to that of government than that of the People - it is most certainly appropriate to say that Twitter is impinging upon individuals' freedom of speech. If you do not agree that it is a concern, then go ahead and make that argument on its own merits. Narrowly construing definitions so that you can discard concerns does not make for productive understanding.

(Having said that my own feeling here is that Ms. Ignorance-as-a-Service has reaped what she has sown, is of a notoriety that is legible to Twitter, and can easily publish on other platforms - compare with all the unnoteworthy individuals who get the automated banhammers with no appeal. And this will ultimately just be a boon to her, just like any other celebrity feud. But let us not twist our own definitions to assuage our cognitive dissonance!)
And sometimes the inability to start (or to persist) is caused by preexisting conditions and it’s helpful to get medication or other help to overcome it.
This is one of my favourite tools. Especially nice is you can even run it offline with no web server.
> most people can't afford the 100K USD with insurance or 1M USD with under-insurance or no insurance it would cost them out of pocket to receive treatment

Where are you getting these numbers? I know multiple people in the US who have needed a COVID ICU bed, and they certainly weren't paying $100k out of pocket to do so. In most areas of the US, $100k could buy you a small house.
I've been doing 100% full stack while bootstrapping my current project for the past year and a half. So basically doing absolutely everything alone.

It's really exhausting and progress is extremely slow. It's not a matter of skill or knowledge as I've been doing design, front end, and general programming for 20 years. At first I thought it was because I was on my own, so the workload was tripled, but then realized a major factor is really the cognitive cost of having it all in my mind. The db, the platform, the backend logic, the API, the frontend code, the design, the UX, etc.

Now I try to not work on the whole thing at once. I focus on the backend for a couple of days, then on the front end for a couple of days, etc. This works, but there are many times where something doesn't work as expected and I need to switch between multiple projects (front, API, some other service, etc) during the same hour.

I really don't have a solution to this problem, but I wanted to share my experience. Hopefully someone who has been doing this juggling has some wisdom to share.
I feel like the biggest evidence for the "moral panic" side of the debate is that the article never actually gets around to making the argument that attention spans were longer in the past. "We can see the effects all around us. A small study of college students found they now only focus on any one task for 65 seconds." - how can we evaluate this without knowing how long they focused 25 or 50 years ago?
Really enjoyed reading this and have always wanted to try. The aesthetics came out better than I expected from a backyard shed too. It seems like you got most stuff cut to size but I’m wondering what power tools were required other than a nail gun I assume.
Measuring the Economic Value of Data [pdf]
Tokei
Really wish CQB paintball was more popular in the US. I’d love to play the equivalent of SWAT or Rainbow Six with paintball, but most of it these days seems to be “spray thousands of balls at large inflatable barriers on a tennis court hoping to mark a bit of your opponent’s elbow”. The CTF events seem fun, but I want something more like a Battlefield round if it’s going to be like that.
ShotSpotter is notoriously inaccurate… It can pick up fireworks and engine backfires. If you happen to live by say a motorcycle club, ShotSpotter might make your block seem far more dangerous than it actually is.
More than half of the covid deaths were the elderly.
If you are interested in this, could you please answer two questions (warning: My lack of understanding is usually offensive):

- Do you regret having children?

- Do you regret living together with your spouse?