skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This title reminded me of a bug I experienced many years ago upgrading the Money gem where they introduced the subunit_to_unit ratio (instead of assuming it's 100). This caused our Japanese customers to be charged 100x what they were supposed to.
More importantly, they don't own the original item. An unofficial version of a deed registry says they own the link to the item. That's not the same as actually transferring the copyright or anything.
I have raised a ticket for the Mongoid team to read the article and HN comments here: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOID-5218
> doesn't dictate how people interact peacefully

It very much does if it involves limiting what terms employers and employees can agree to. And it certainly requires oppression if you're going to seize and redistribute wealth to finance the required bureaucracy.
I have a similar story.

It was like doing weird cardio, to a rhythm, while panicking that if your form is bad you will kill someone. Oh, and I stopped every couple of seconds to expell my entire breath into his mouth
I don't consider myself conservative by any stretch of the imagination but part of the reason I don't even bother with mainstream social media (besides it just being a toxic idea on an individual level) is that I know I'd repeatedly get in trouble in spite of following the rules for being myself.

Twitter is already an echo chamber, so it's really puzzling how all of a sudden the echo chamber problem needs to be pulled out for other platforms.
Foobar2000 is good example of what a productive snappy user experience should be. It plays music, what else do you want it to do?
You can't quantify decentralization. What does it even mean to be 99% decentralized? Anything less than 100% is just...not.
I guess the next step is a ransom gang, and then maybe Oracle.
There was an "interesting" thread yesterday by some people who were surprised that static analyzing a contract and a once-over code review weren't enough to prevent the author from instantly stealing all their money.

https://twitter.com/cat5749/status/1476813266462539779
> (i) an append-only database (no mutable data) to store everything business critical

How does that change anything? If your append-only database is encrypted by ransomware, you still have to recover from backups, no?

In which case you're in the same spot with regards to external services you integrate with. That is, out of sync.
> But I guess as long as the buyers don't realize yet that their immutable ledger entry can become a dangling pointer in a puff of smoke, it doesn't matter.

I was surprised too, but only for a moment. In the end it's basically just a record that you "own" a small amount of data (url, ipfs hash, 'coin'). Unless my ownership gets me some utility (like exclusive access to the jpeg, maybe? Ability to transfer the ownership to El Salvadorian govt to pay my taxes?), I don't see how it has value
I work as a contractor to the government because Fed hiring is nearly impossible in my little corner. It took me months to get a $1000 piece of equipment I need to start my job. So, I know how long it takes and you’re right.

That being said, Ive taken all the FOIA trainings, and all the “blah blah” about the public’s right to know. 500 pages a month is not a serious answer, its dodging.

EDIT:

“ Let's assume for a moment that the FDA's rate of review is accurate (for the record, I think they are severely low-balling it)”

significantly low balling it indeed
The redone Penn Station is an abomination. There's no seating! You're expected to sit on the floor if you have to wait for your train. What a joke.
Always thought the best way to learn a programming language is not to consume a tutorial. It's slow and tedious, it has no affordances w.r.t. slowing down/speeding up based on what you're already familiar with. Plus it needs to have personality to be good writing, but not enough personality so as to be annoying - I don't envy the task of writing tutorials (which I think is still necessary).

Rather, open 2 windows. On the left is code you know to be "good" in that language. On the right, vim. Just type what you see on the left into the right. That's right, "mindless" copying is what I consider to be the best thing at first.

The end goal is to code mindlessly, start there. Go elsewhere in the in-between times.

The real aha flashes of understanding should come uncertainly, and should be dependent on your actual world experience - not statically determined by the tutorial writer switching to bold or italics or whatever at the end of a section.

The real understanding comes while you're asleep anyway. At the beginning, instilling familiarity as soon as possible is all that determines success, I've found. Besides, to look up what you don't know will be a skill you'll need to build up all the time, along the way.
Yeah, that is indeed a complicated situation. I'm glad you and your brother navigated through it, and that it seems you have reconciled some of your feelings towards him. Life really does zoom past--"Time just gets away from us."
In regards to keeping the art on-chain, the immutability is a real problem. What happens when someone stuffs illegal data/images on the blockchain? Once a bad actor sneaks trade secrets, doxxing material, or CP onto the chain, it's there forever. By design, deleting data from the blockchain isn't possible.
Richard Epstein is a recognized expert in Communication Law,
Constitutional Law,
Employment Law,
Health Law and Policy,
Intellectual Property,
Law and Economics,
Property Rights, and
Tort Law

Sadly it appears that he has no expertise in Virology. He gets the medical facts wrong. Perhaps he should spend time listening to TWIV (This Week in Virology). Or perhaps he could listen to Virologists in THEIR area of expertise. I fear the Supreme Court suffers from the same defect.

People seem to be confused about the vaccine. It works like a smoke alarm. It helps your body DETECT and RESPOND to the virus. It does NOT PREVENT a virus attack, just like a smoke alarm does NOT prevent fires. The result of early detection is that your body can reduce the damage caused by the virus.

This is a scientific question. Visit TWIV (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/). Today (Jan 8, 2022) there is a blog post by Dr. Daniel Griffin (TWiV 850: COVID-19 clinical update #96 with Dr. Daniel Griffin). He comes on once a week and gives details of the science and updates for clinical treatment. This is his 96th weekly update.

Vincent Racaniello (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyFgCoP4ovsHbt92vM4zN2A) has a free online course on Virology, which I can highly recommend. His 2 volume textbook is also available.

If nothing else, a proper education will enable you to recognize when lawyers are confused about the medical facts.

Whether a mandate is legal is a political question. I have no opinion on that.

Whether a mandate is good virology is a scientific question. From what I've learned over the last few years, I believe it is. Don't take my word for it. Get educated.
This gives me an idea: Internet Archive could sell Internet Tokens™ that function exactly like NFTs (but stored on the Archive instead of blockchain). Holders would be incentivised to make sure that the Archive continues to exist via donations. It's a win win for everyone
There's a Thunderbird add-on called "Expression Search - NG" that provides advanced search options:

- Add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/expre...

- Source: https://github.com/opto/expression-search-NG

It's a nice substitute for Outlook's Advanced Find feature, but without the GUI. (Despite the description, it is working on Thunderbird 91.)
Huh. My experience with US racists are they tend to hold stereotypes of minorities that are no longer politically correct, but otherwise treat people decently.

I see plenty of video of riots in Europe of aryans and skinheads that you don’t see in the US.
The vast possibilities of nature never cease to amaze me.
"You should check out my new car company, ThreeWheel. We're completely revolutionizing the business of getting around. The key innovation is that our cars have three wheels. This reduces tire cost, improves aerodynamics, and reduces rolling friction. Our three wheeled cars are the future of all wheeled transport!"

"Okay."

"But our prototype has four wheels, as a temporary prototype to test out the technology."

"That doesn't seem like it tests the technology very well."

"I don't see why you're quibbling about the details. We've sold thousands of ThreeWheels to people who are very enthusiastic about living in a three wheeled future!"

"You've sold four wheeled cars to people who want three wheeled cars?"

"They then resell them for tens of thousands of dollars more than they paid! They're ecstatically happy! Nobody is bigger fans of the three wheel car future than our customers."

"Even though these cars, the cars they purchased, have four wheels."

"Well, they could remove one wheel later, if they wanted."

"Would that work?"

"Oh no, absolutely not. You couldn't drive it at all, then. It would be much worse than a regular car. A lot of work remains to be done to gradually transition current ThreeWheels to a three wheeled form. We plan to send robots to each customer's garage to cut sections from the frame and re-weld them together. Then we need to swap out the steering rack, re-route the driveshaft, change suspension components, brakes..."

"That sounds hard."

"Yes, we think it will take hundreds of changes over years to move current generation ThreeWheels to a three wheeled mode."

"Instead of just building three wheeled cars today?"

"Wow John Cena bought a ThreeWheel and posted it on his instragram! My collection of ThreeWheels is going to explode in value! I love my job!"
You did say that the definitions did not exist (e.g., above when you denied wikipedia had such a definition). But in any case I don't know what your initial post had to do with what was being discussed. I don't jump into any thread to post about how one or other extremist group uses some word. If you are going to accuse the original poster as being a racist or extremist or something then just come out with it. And if not, then you didn't add anything. Extremists misuse words, more news at 11.
What does it mean to keep a URL in the Internet Archive?
This somewhat reminds me of reading IPFS documentation (which is fucking excellent BTW) and realizing the same thing: nobody is going to run their own pinning service and Piñata is the only one they mention by name which means it’ll be the platform everyone (to a first approximation) will use.
Title should be 'WTF Is Web 3' (actual article title) or 'Web 3 Doesn't Exist, Yet' (mentioned toward the end).
>Yea so you then end up on the street when you can't pay those bills and go bankrupt.

There is some homestead exemption act that prevents lawsuits from making you sell your only house... another one protects your retirement money

I'm tired of people exaggerating the financial impact of lawsuits in Maerica
Which just proves the point that HIV and AIDS are in no way comparable to COVID.

I'm still lost.
> This take is hardly surprising

*to crypto enthusiasts.
Not sure why the Fortran code is that much simpler, I mean if you don't want to futz around with the IO stuff, C++ can be lot more straightforward.

#include <iostream>

int main(void)
{
float height, dist;
std::cout << "Height above sea level(m): ";
std::cin >> height;
dist = sqrt(2*6367.45*(height/1000.0));
std::cout << "Distance to Horizon " << dist << " km\n";

return 0;
}
Go get a resting metabolic rate test.

The one I had was cheap and consists of fasting the night before then breathing in to a machine for 15 minutes. It measures the amount of oxygen your body burns in your breast to calculate your resting metabolic rate which then gives you the base number of calories your body burns a day if you did absolutely nothing.

They should then give you a recommended reasonably accurate number of calories to eat depending on your goal and lifestyle. This means you can calculate a reasonable surplus without going overboard and just getting fat.

Also if progress is slow gaining muscle, remember for the majority of people it’s is a long slow process. A lot of the rapid transformations/strength gains we see have help from synthetic testosterone which is a completely different ball game.
Thank god they at least didn't get those other policies passed.
AWS Workspaces? Not sure of cost
They're called floppy because the disc inside is still floppy :) Only the plastic case is hard.
This is what I meant by "dangerous".

Static sites can do more than render text. Even collapsing comments on HN doesn't work with JavaScript disabled.
Two ideas: (a) if you click during the timer, it resets the timer and re-plots wherever you clicked. (b) escape key cancels the timer.

(b) should take a few minutes to implement, and would be a big quality of life boost.
Dyn async traits, part 7
Lifting everyone up is mostly pointless. Absolute consumption levels are not important. Most of the things that matter are "positional."

Making the rich poorer reduces the competitive stress that everyone is under. Even if everyone else gets poorer, it's worth it.
Though I mention some of these in the post, I think it might be worth calling attention to some of my favorite works in this general space of interactive documents/dynamic notation/interfaces for thinking in the software medium.

- Ken Iverson's "Notation as a tool of thought"

- Bret Victor's works around the general topic of "Dynamic medium"

- D. Englebart's "Augmenting Human Intellect" — in particular, his thoughts on symbolic manipulation technologies and the cascading effects of improving notation (though he doesn't use the word "notation" very much, the ideas are there)

- Ted Chiang's many fiction works exploring topics around language and notation: "Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling", "Story of Your Life"

- "Instrumental interaction" by Michael Beaudouin-Lafon, which is about software interfaces, but also provides a good conceptual framework for thinking about notation as interfaces as well.
> - Crypto has been used to send remittances to economically unstable places (Lebanon, Turkey, Venezuela)

This would be cheaper if you didn't use the crypto part. The reason people use crypto is just that the governments have not yet noticed they're running an illegal money transmitter.
I can see why everything is centralized: moderation. How would you ban NFTs that would be considered illegal?

Sure a solution would be to put the NFTs on a decentralized file system (IPFS?) or a P2P sharing network. And have kind of P2P/decentralized API that can easily be validated. But then, how would you ban illegal content?

I'm sure Opensea would prefer to keep everything centralized and under control. But clearly, there is room for improvement.
What do you think makes it expensive in the US then?

Certainly not the salaries to actual health professionals (doctors, nurses, techs, etc).

When you see a doctor for 10 minutes and get billed $400, the vast majority of that money goes all the layers who are extracting their slice of profit from it, only a small bit goes to the doctor.
I found the local discount grocery store selling Soylent for 70 cents a bottle, normally $4, so I bought the store out, all 6 cases. I'm not living exclusively on it, but it's nice to have a meal in the bottle for someone who doesn't always like to cook. I especially like it for breakfast because I feel good afterwards, like it gives me everything my body needs.

Soylent was introduced in 2014 after a crowdfunding campaign...In January 2013, American software engineer Rob Rhinehart purchased 35 chemical ingredients—including potassium gluconate, calcium carbonate, monosodium phosphate, maltodextrin, olive oil—all of which he deemed to be necessary for survival, based on his readings of biochemistry textbooks and U.S. government websites. Rhinehart used to view food as a time-consuming hassle and had resolved to treat it as an engineering problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement)
Have you considered https://shadow.tech?
What is the bizzare claim?
Adding more to the musical notation, the appearance of the first prototype of modern linear notation by Guido d’Arezzo was an important step ahead if comparing to the more obsolete, so-called neumes notation, which was used in Europe at the beginning of the 9th century. A new system of notation included a special mnemotechnical system, called Guido’s hand, where the order of sound sequence was defined by knuckles and fingertips. Ir was also the primary step to liquidation gap between theory and practice of that time. http://literati.newhampton.org/blog/2017/11/29/three-importa...
> For end users, they want a table. TypeScript provides the logistics to make this sprawl predictable, albeit with a 500ms delay on user input.

This is a problem with your engineering, not with TypeScript or front-end frameworks. TypeScript isn't even a thing for end-users, that gets transpiled to plain old JavaScript.

We deal with real-time grids that are updated via RxJs 7 subscribed to multiple data feeds. Thousands of rows all being updated in real time without a page refresh.

The performance impact is negligible. Especially compared to the desktop apps I used to write that did the same thing. 500 ms is insane, you are doing something wrong. Our grids update on the order of less than 5 ms, and with virtual infante scrolling on top of that.

Lots of rows, all scrollable smoothly and all flashing updated numbers in real-time.

It works perfectly and is extremely performant. If you are having issues with "sprawl" and data grids, you have a problem with a poor component library and/or poor engineering.

We use PrimeNG. It's table component is blazing fast. You stick a <p-table> component in your template and bind it to a data source, the rest is handled from there for the most part.

I'm not sure what there is to complain about any of this. It works as advertised.

At least in Angular it does. I have no idea with React. I know both but I avoid React like the plague for various reasons.

https://www.primefaces.org/primeng/showcase/#/table
There is no central web repo following semantic versioning. It's not a coding term. It's a useful abstraction for distinguishing the web as it exists today vs. the web we're trying to build.
Health Insurance Benefits as a Labor Market Friction
The insurance company profit motive only achieves them maximizing their profit margin at all times. Which is done by charging as much as possible and blocking services as much as possible so they don't have to pay.
Seems that it's probably a fossil coral, the outer layer etched off by bog acids.
Yeah it was a lot of fun to get to work on these problems!
There is nothing amazing about being able to run a computer program. That's what computers do. EVM is also not a distributed computing service since every node has to run the same thing. It is slightly interesting watching people try to reinvent high-assurance computing from scratch without doing any research first, but it's not technically interesting.

Actually, the more "interesting" crypto projects are the more likely they are to be a scam using a "courtier's reply" defense.
I don't know, what is it?
I remember when bitcoin first became super mainstream popular in 2016ish. I had read the shatoshi white paper in 2011 so I already understood exactly what bitcoin was and the implications of it. And I will never forget in 2016 seeing the sky go black with a plague of misinformation. It’s really striking because after the plague had descended, I saw that it would have been very very difficult for a younger person to find a straightforward answer to what exactly bitcoin was. And the average joe? Literally every person seemed to have their own explanation of what bitcoin was, all equally wrong. With web3 there doesn’t even seem to be a white paper.
The lack of a a few "chains" though means an ephemeral node might actually not suck though.

Put another way, even IPFS nodes that for all intents and purposes are "clients" can still speak the same protocal to talk to the pinning service.

The single-ish central chain idea was always terrible. "Trustless" or not, that much synchronization is a misfeature! The real world really is partial-order time/causality, that is a feature not a bug.
I didn't want to chime in because Dutch colonialism etc. but still....

There has to be a place in the global stage for whites/caucasians/etc. just as much as any other grouping. And it's OK for them to have their own culture and place. They are not the global majority in any way, either by culture or otherwise. Demanding that they assimilate to a foreign ideal is not going to work.
Macron stands by his harsh words to the unvaccinated as cases continue to soar
Its all the dependencies, security updates and keeping all of them up to date and in check. One word, Log4j.
The change is worth it. I made the migration 15-20 years ago and haven't looked back. It's definitely "messier" since there are many tiers you have to learn to get a full stack web application working -- frontend (HTML, CSS, Javascript and frameworks), backend (Java, PHP, Python etc) and finally the database. And build and deployment for all 3 stacks. But I think you might have to migrate sooner or later to this paradigm of programming since the industry has mostly moved already.
>moving them to a remote island

You might want to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marichjhapi_massacre, although there are thoughts that it was because a lot of them voted for the [non-CPI(M)] RSP that was part of the Left Front in WB at the time but not the ruling party
> I'm paid essentially by throughput

I’ll take it down a notch and start with I agree with both of you.

One thing that maybe is more clear as I have aged, it’s obvious that my lifetime isn’t going to be long enough to see the changes that are most necessary and desired.
For a non-tech regular user who just want to get some work done Internet Explorer was indeed the internet.

In India even to this day for a vast majority YouTube/FB/WA is all the internet is. It's not at all unusual for people to walk up to a mom-and-pop store to top-up their data plan asking them to "recharge my WhatsApp balance". Even carriers have specialised data packs that are tied to a specific product/service.

And to be fair this is just how it'll be with any product/tech. As an example, in India Xerox literally stands for photocopy https://imgur.com/a/66TnCog
Mr. Robot is dour and depressive and deals a lot with mental illness, Sneakers is light-hearted and energetic and deals a lot with mental quirks.
The difference is Cobie is a 9 year veteran in the space versus Moxie by his own admission being new to the space.

It's not hyperbole, it's pretty grounded, with the conclusion "Web3 doesn’t really exist yet." Which is absolutely true.

"I think open, transparent and permissionless systems replacing trusted central authorities is good for the world and can rebalance and decentralize power.

I’m hopeful that the financial exuberance in crypto markets can attract brilliant minds away from selling people ads to instead build a more equitable and cooperative future.

But I ain’t gonna be surprised if crypto founders are too rich to care anymore and the new web gets built by late-stage capitalism greedcorps that make you buy a fractionalised micropayment NFT on Cardano to operate your electric toothbrush."