skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry I didn't clarify, but obviously some level of lower severity would be a social win. If cornona was only as severe as a flu or a cold, we wouldn't have lockdowns.
Ethereum is switching off its mining in favor of another consensus system called "proof-of-stake." Basically the mining hardware and electricity are replaced by the currency itself. There's a consensus protocol that works if people don't cheat in certain ways, it's provable if someone cheats, and the "miners" lock some ETH into the system as a security bond. If someone submits a proof that you cheated then you lose your bond. Energy consumption will drop by an estimated 99.95%.

Most web3 stuff runs on Ethereum, which is the second-biggest energy consumer in crypto. Bitcoin is the biggest and has no plans to move to proof-of-stake, but isn't really involved in web3.

Ethereum's proof-of-stake protocol has been running in parallel for a year with billions of dollars in real ETH deposited, and for the merged system there's a multi-client testnet running.
Because you can't know how much the person really has (edit: and receives) with crypto. Historically, you could simply walk to their properties and look at their wealth and tax accordingly (like serfs getting taxed on their agricultural output based on the land size they worked with). Or you could look at their bank accounts or (like the Panama papers) find their off-shore accounts.

But now, they can hide enormous wealth in an untraceable way on many wallets. It's not entirely new - tax evasion is as old as taxes - but it's easier and accessible now for large wealth that was more difficult to hide in the past. If crypto stays legal, you can't control this aspect.
Unfortunately it is a reused old word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
No they don't. You could and should provide a baseline experience with no account.
The account could be used for extra, like say sharing favorites across devices.

Even storing payment details or favorites on the device is trivial. It's not done because it's not trackable and the user data sellable.
I'm not going to litigate every example, suffice to say I don't think that's a fair characterization of any of those, except for 4. And in that case, you don't find it outrageous that a family's livelihood was destroyed, along with that of all of their employees for what is essentially some teenage edgelord posturing? You find that to be a perfectly fine and fair thing to happen? Nothing to be outraged about?
I have never been able to use Twitter. Once I follow more than 30 people the feed is quickly overran with total nonsense and I delete the account.

I honestly can't imagine what the feed looks like if you follow 1k people plus. It has to be nonsense at the millisecond level. The signal to noise just scales so badly. There just isn't that much interesting things going on in real time.

This is a cool idea but I am going for a walk right now and listening to an audio book. I am really looking forward to the walk and the book. A tail to keep the flies away I am sure is nice but to me it is just better to delete the flies completely. My walks are the most peaceful part of the day for me. There is no motivation needed if you get rid of the overexcited storm of nonsense from Twitter.
Probably using Tasker or similar apps.
The whole "I need to do better because I have ADHD" thing sounds like a narrative she uses to gaslight you into being her slave.

All the focus in your post is on your duties, not on hers.

I obviously don't know your relationship from the inside, but I experienced similar and it was relief to get away from it.
someone can say that people are allowing themselves to be victimized, without saying that the people doing the victimizing are in the right.

The comment however is wrong in that it is perhaps not possible for the users to keep themselves from being victimized, without some recourse to the law.
This is the content I love on HN. Thanks a lot !
This is a common misconception. Passion comes from experience and mastery, not vice versa. If someone doesn't already have the money they need to gain that, then clearly they need to be paid to do so.
I hate seeing Terraform script or scripting. Am I the only one?
How refreshing to see a mention of generative art that isn't followed by the mention of "NFTs". It's really spoiled one of my passions and I've had to mute a bunch of people i used to follow on Twitter.

I'm not especially zealous against NFTs (more bored than I am repulsed) but it's just unspeakable boring for an entire field to turn into a sales pitch.
Ignore any advice you read here or elsewhere.

Find a dedicated small business accountant and explain your situation and your desires.
it is not really moral preaching, nor it is a statement on the buyers. I it is a condemnation of the system we have created (largely due to government regulations)

I dont blame a seller for trying to sell at maximum price they can get, I am blaming the system we have created to puts monthly payments, and long term debt as the focus of purchase instead of the cost of the thing being sold.

Cars are the same way, we know how Pickup Trucks that cost $100,000 why because financing as allowed them to cost that because the banks will loan now almost 10 years to finance a new truck

College is the same way. Debt financing allows the prices to raise at rate far removed from inflation, with out that sellers would need to find way to cut costs and offer their goods are more affordable prices.

My Problem is with our current system of Life Long Debt.
The "edge of chaos" phenomenon has always struck me as likely very important. If you look at Earth's environment and our "habitable zone" it's the zone of liquid water and dynamic chemistry that looks an awful lot like the same phenomenon in the physical realm. It's where Turing-complete computation becomes a dominant phenomenon.
I generally agree but Alex Jones not being able to get internet for his business is a bit silly
I am really happy with zoho the mail hosting is good and exchange compatible, cheap. They have a good online office suite, note taking application and gdrive alternative.
There would be less climate change if it wasn't so profitable.
They had signs, not weapons.
Hello TCP/IP :)
I generally agree. But it seems possible to know a priori that it wouldn't adversely affect the lungs, which is the primary cause of death/damage.
Can imagine extending this to Oura Ring (or similar) data

"Sorry, your heart rate is already too high, no social media for you"
Question: what’s a better more qualitative alternative (search result-wise)?
Why not go through the direction of having a patreon or other monthly donation? No need to necessarily give rewards, just asking for contributions
Well, painters have been using varnish for centuries to add gloss and a protective coating, so clearly they had some considerations about longevity.
this is it for me too, the longer the time off the more free i feel to rework/optimize and start bigger projects. without excess time i usually dont even get started. I think its because everything takes longer then i expect. over the break i got my 3d printer workflow going again, got a website up, reworked my resume, put up some shelves, etc. ALL of which took me longer then i initially anticipated
“script” seems like absolutely the wrong terminology for something as die-hard-declarative as Terraform.

In my circle of engineers we tend to call it “code” but this isn’t ideal either - implies a general purpose language.
we kind of are, because dark patterns get into regulation and become part of law
Talk about how the candidate used technology X in practice, what was their role in the project, what worked in practice and what not, how they would approach the bad decisions in retrospective of the lessons learned while using X.
It uses Windows design and icons for everything else, too. Would require a complete visual overhaul to divorce from MS.
Plain instant coffe. Don't care about much else, I don't like decaf or light roast and I have no problem against coffee prepared on the spot. Make it russian on off days :)
One thing is IMO that internet became victim of its own success and grew too big. You don't have physical constraints in it and you can grow almost infinitely.

Previously you'd have a bunch of users and mostly somehow tech literate. Now ~everyone is on the net. Most successful companies grew too much and with 1B+ users, each company will have tens of millions of users who are tech illiterate / harmful / scammers. Designing for such a massive user base and dealing with all this requires either enormous fleet of support staff, or "works for 90%" attitude powered by shitty AI which is unfortunately what happens.

And then once you have 100k smart and motivated employees, everyone wants to move the needle a bit, hence everything changes ~weekly in every product. It's super easy to add new things and release in prod, much easier than before (better deploy monitoring tooling and practices etc.)
Ok to be honest though my gut feeling is that statistically making these sorts of inferences over 30 mutations seems pretty weak, especially since the level of difference between say human and mouse is not that great to start out with, and because these mutations are not independent; they are dependent on survival of the virus.

I guess part of the problem is that I don't know how to do the statistics on this sort of a problem, unless say I were to actually model the drift events on a computer and "manually" calculate probabilities given a certain set of assumptions. Do i trust biostatisticians to get this right? No. (Yes, I've worked with them)
(Before anything: sorry if that nessage comes accross as insensitive, this is not the purpose. More on this at the end)

Your situation sounds like the textbook description of depression as caused by "mental distortions" from proponents of CBT. Did your wife consult a CBT practitioner, and did this help?

I am in no way trying to say I know the solution to your (past) problems, but CBT is sometimes described in a bit too enthusiastic terms by its proponents, and your story sounds like an opportunity to get anecdotal evidence on how much it might actually work in practice. In particular TEAM-CBT proponents claim to be able to cure depression in a session (and then continue to accompany the person through the innevitable relapses). I love their very data-oriented approach, but find it too good to be 100% true.
I think a more basic problem is people don't even know how to formulate meaningful probability hypothetical/counterfactuals to begin with (let alone update them). For Covid stuff pretty much all an individual should care about is:

P(Bad Stuff | I take action A) > P(Bad Stuff | I take action B)

So you take action B in this scenario (simplifying to ignore costs, many of these decisions are costless). We get a bunch of meaningless drivel in the news though that doesn't help anyone make any meaningful probability estimates to help them make decisions. I think the Rogan/Gupta interview is a good example. We get various non-sense comparisons such as:

P(Bad Stuff | Covid, Person 5, No Vaccine) < P(Bad Stuff | Covid, Person 50, Vaccine)

[Rogan to Gupta why is it OK for 50 year old to feel safe and not a young kid without a vaccine? Irrelevant counter-factual unless someone invents a reverse aging treatment.]

P(Heart Inflammation | Covid Vaccine, Young Male) > P(Death | Covid, Young Male)

[Rogan saying side effects for young people outweigh benefits. This is true but death is quite a bit worse than the side effects, and this does not consider other Bad Stuff from Covid like long haulers.]

Knowing Bayes Theorem doesn't help someone figure out the right probability statement they should be interested in to begin with.
No to mention that the outbreak is the first known one, not the origin

Epidemiologists conducted an extensive investigation to trace the origin. The probability of detection is not higher in the city. So I'm afraid that's incorrect. You're not making any sense here. You're disputing both the lab leak theory and the wet market theory? You're just shifting the goalposts to fit your argument.
Get a financial advisor. I have a friend that was in a similar situation as you. His advisor got him buying rural city tax free municipal bonds, paying in the range of 7%. Such an investment pays 7% interest annually, with a lump sum payment one month a year. His advisor got him with one such bond paying the lump sum for each month of the year. Once he was setup with over $140K per year, tax free, with a termination something like 27 years in the future... he started training his favorite nephew how to be his competition. Last I spoke with him, they'd both graduated mentoring two of the nephew's daughters.
>I've been seeing a lot of posts about Zig recently.

About 4 reached HN front page in the past 30 days. Not really that much. And that is already considered an outliner in the history of Zig.
Modern day internet is all about extracting value ($$$) from user for as long as possible and by all the means necessary.

If the company offering the product/service cannot extract value (again: $$$) from you, you're worthless.
We have collected data in several imaging modalities: RIS-VNIR (reflectance imaging spectroscopy, visible and near infrared (380 nm – 950 nm) in 3 nm bands), RIS-SWIR (same, but from 900 nm – 2500 nm), UV-induced visible fluorescence, MA-XRF (macro x-ray fluorescence, which lets us make elemental maps for elements heavier than Al), structured light scanning to capture 3D to about 15 µm resolution, x-radiograph, and others. I'll release them in due time...
Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
Not really your question I think, but, what country do you live? You are mandated an app? That's crazy?!

What about people that don't have a phone? Or a 'dumb'-phone?

Where I live any valid QR code works, be it paper or even just a picture of the paper. No need to use an app.
>nobody forced me or expected me to be using Office

>I got failed in high school "informatics" class because I could not show that I could use Office. Twice

How curious.
I definitely agree some things have gotten quite bad, but at least for me there have been quite a lot of massive improvements.

Banking is a good example, it has significantly improved for me; Instead of having to use one of those 2nd factor dedicated devices that require my card and pin code, I can now use my phone with the app as second factor, it's way more convenient as I don't have to go search for the device and type in random numbers. Also checking my bank statements and saldo doesn't require a second factor so it's much easier now.

My impression is that for elderly people things have improved as well, although based on a small sample size. I have tried to learn elderly people how to use a laptop and the internet some years back, it was almost impossible. But, if you give them an iPad and some very basic instructions they just figure stuff out, do banking, messaging, gaming and what not. I have honestly been surprised.

When talking search and shopping I fully agree; I think the issue here is that not-very-ethical parties have actually succeeded quite well in gaming and flooding the system with the clickbaity low quality crap. It has become hard or impossible to distinguish real & quality vs fake/low quality/scam, manual and automated.

Multi factors do require some work, and captchas really suck (but those are not new!).

My point is that I think overall things have improved, there are exceptions, but the web and digital products in the past were really very bad.

It might not feel like it has improved because expectations rise with the base level, and our expectations are way higher now, so bad apples stand out.

Check out https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-gains-shrinking/
some strong pointers that at least the user experience situation has improved.
I have the same feelings as you a lot of these books are glorified blog posts - my trick to dealing with them is to treat them as such. I read on kindle so for books like this I read on my ipad and check the 'continuous scrolling' option. Eliminating the 'book' aspect of them makes you feel less guilty for skipping whole paragraphs when they're really just filler!
Consider that macros generally don't expand syntax - because there is very little syntax anyway, and what you have is a tree of data and function calls.

A Macro just lets you write a function that will be executed by compiler to manipulate such tree, meaning that you can have equivalent of adding syntax like "with/using" from some languages by writing a function that takes as arguments the object and a block of code, then re-emits the same block of code but adding object.Dispose() call at the end. Or whatever else you need.

But they are still normal functions - it's the time of execution that changes.
If you dont consider most Linux software user hostile in it's own ways then their really isn't much to discuss here. You've just accepted its series of failures, rather than the failures associated with commercial software.
There's actually worthwhile evidence on how the new internet works to keep you addicted.

I suggest reading through tiny habits by bj fogg (who's work is largely influential in this space) and turning it around to protect yourself from any addictive impulses you may have.

https://www.bjfogg.com/
Yeah, it feels like wishful thinking to me. If you build it, they will come?

Semantic web is a great example of something that had great potential (I still think in subject-object-predicate triples when solving problems) but never really went anywhere big.
What do you mean by dangerous? Violent? Or what?

> than the prevalent young male attitudes that expose them to the same violence than males approach other males with.

Honestly, I don’t know which reality you live in but if anything violence in regular relationships is being shunned and denormalized more and more.

Also, you can’t keep the “good parts” of sexism and hope the bad ones (such as domestic violence) disappear.

And I never said dangerous and sexist are the same thing. They’re different, and your argument is both of them.
Donating excess profit (from self-run business and/or employment) to local non-profits/small organizations is the single most satisfying thing I've ever done. Not only does it feel great to donate the funds to them, but to be able to afterwards tell the change you're able to help them achieve is invaluable.
Three decades of nanopore sequencing (2016)
Really nice and fluid interface, if you liked the animated background you can generate more from https://www.vantajs.com/
VB only got a proper native code compiler on VB 6.0, which was when it got support to produce COM libraries just like C++, until then it could only consume them.

Ironically it was taken away with .NET (NGEN was only designed for quick startup scenarios), then got it again with .NET Native (again dropped), and may finally get it back in .NET 7 (lets see if they actually deliver it).
The primary reason - there is a lot more money in the system than in the 90s. As a consequence, there is a lot more scammers, spammers and hackers. As a consequence, companies built defences, inconvenient for the users. There is a never ending arms race, of which we are the victims.
I'd love to read what you've written. So far, my research into commercial Access points hasn't really been that fruitful. I refuse any cloud based management interface. For the router, I use mikrotik which has been great but I returned the access points from them that I tried. In the end, my access points are Asus home routers because they were the best I found.
Sometimes it is for me, sometimes it isn‘t. It fails up to 25% of times.
100% - even annoying "promotional" email blasts. I've worked for companies where, when we did surveys, customers overwhelmingly said that we sent them too many emails or that the emails were not relevant. Yet time and time again we would do a bulk email send and watch in-store sales climb up proportionally. So naturally then we had to make email address a required field when making an account online. One more step for users, and specifically something that most users don't want to give...but the money says otherwise.
If true, that's a violation of the fair housing act, for which you can and should sue. But taken in conjunction with your other post in this thread, I'm a bit skeptical.
I don’t know how many times I’ve read this article before, all I know is that today is the day I’ll read it again.

Recipes about Satan’s Kimchi are irresistible.
A 100k LoC LGTM in any project whatever is not just a bad outcome, it's proof positive that whatever review process you've got is rubber-stamping and not worth the effort.

The same applies at 100 LoC.

And at 10.
I haven't used it in a while but I believe the app Tasker should be able to do something similar to what's described in this post.
Could this be taken one step further... Use the ML in-the-loop during an MRI scan, to look at the data collected so far, then decide which frequency should be measured next to most improve the quality of the result?

This can also all be simulated offline without an MRI machine to test on with just access to a few full scans... So could be a good weekend project for someone here on HN, and your technique might even be in use by the time you need an MRI scan and will mean your doctor can get results slightly quicker and you get better healthcare, together with hundreds of millions of other people!
Has anyone else noticed that Google’s image search, but the standard one and the visual search, have decreased in quality in the last few months? I’ve switched to Bing for images.
Spam won the web just like it won everywhere else. Any open system will be destroyed by spam.
donotreply@... emails, anyone?
>I have never been able to use Twitter. Once I follow more than 30 people the feed is quickly overran with total nonsense and I delete the account.

It's because you quit before the reward cycle kicked in. The idea behind the scrolling timeline is that you keep scrolling until you find something that interests you (similar to a slot machine). With that reward you continue scrolling and rinse and repeat for the next item of interest.
I don't have a smartphone, am I not participating in society?
The law of the excluded middle is also known as the “sandwich theorem” because it drives directly from a physical observation. I happen to agree with the constructionists that mathematics is better formulated without it, but it is most definitely a rule derived from analogy to the physical world.

As a physicist myself, I’ll tell you that there isn’t a single one which believes that the universe doesn’t operate according to knowable rules. That’s kinda the definition of what it means to be a physicist.
> All this is nice, but obviously, it can be bypassed. Nothing stopping me from simply disabling the automation, then no more nagging.

That’s the problem with this solutions for me. If I don’t have the willpower to stop myself from using the phone, what’s preventing me from disabling the nag?

The only thing that’s ever worked for me, and it’s amazing, I highly recommend it and should do more often, is go somewhere where there’s no internet connection. No celular signal, no Wi-Fi. A single weekend can do wonders.
That'd be really helpful. I hope there is one.
I had the same thoughts, but changed them over time. If not leetcode, it quickly comes to very specific questions about the interviewer's favourite thing and its quirks. A complete hit or miss.
Provenance (chain of custody) is very important for any evidence. Look at the problem of fakes in archaeology and how in some cases they have skewed the entire historical narrative.

If someone is not even willing to put their name on something, there is no way to even attempt to trace it.