skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you in principle but may disagree in the mechanism.

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). They would need 100x the staff to review the records in time to meet the court order.

Keep in mind the number of documents may be unique because of the scale of the pandemic (maybe somebody can fact check that). Knowing how difficult it is get rid of government employees, does it make sense to hire that many people for a once-in-a-century one-off event and then...what? Have them sit around and do nothing afterwards? I think trying to fit someone into a later role they weren't hired for is a terrible choice in my experience.

But you say, "so what, it's the law"...so they're hired anyways. Maybe you get lucky and they're only hired as temp positions. Do you know how long the federal hiring practice takes? Because it's the government, most jobs have legalities around how they are posted, how long they need to be advertised, sometimes they require extending the ads internally first etc. due to union issues. If the job requires some sort of board approval, it may take months even after the selection is made, and they haven't even been trained yet.

If you say, "well, all that can be fixed by just hiring contractors." The bid process runs into the same time-lag due to it being a government contract and needing to be open-and-above board.

"Well, just use an emergency no-bid contract." Now you're running into all kinds of legalities to avoid political cronyism.

The point being, it isn't nearly as simple as many seem to think. IMO the solution isn't "just hire more people to be compliant with the law" it's figuring out why your review process is so inefficient to only produce 50 reviewed/approved pages per month per employee. Really!? You can only average a little over a page-and-a-half of review per day? I think they need to hire an industrial engineer to revise the process, not simply hire more people. 100x'ing the number of people into what appears to be a broken process will likely make things worse.
Just say Harvard
Over 40% of NYC’s Covid-infected hospital patients admitted for other reasons
I got my grand-father (who is an early-adopter type of person but not tech savy) on Linux (latest LTS Ubuntu) about three years ago.

Telling him he won't have to bother about antivirus and making sure it had applications and drivers for all his uses (chess, emails, internet navigation, picture and video) was the only things needed.

So far he is really happy it and loves that you can get a high contrast user interface with large font size out of the box.
> All dependency changes are changes. And changes should be tested before being deployed.

OP did not say changes should not be tested.

> If you update your dependencies and ship it based on version numbers alone, you can’t blame the maintainers

OP did not if you update your dependencies and ship it based on version numbers alone you can blame the maintainers.
What is this for? Who uses it and how?
Once upon a time, when I was very young, I travelled to a faraway island with an antenna in my bag that I had put together myself. Everything I knew about antennas I had learned in a single evening from an elderly retired naval engineer, a no nonsense expert in his field, shaped by lifetime in the military, we sat in his den - a clean office with medals and oil paintings of grey steel warships hung square and level. His serious visage beamed with love and delight when his partner - whose projected persona was the polar opposite of his own reserve - a flamboyantly camp man in trailing colorful silks who brought us cups of tea and exquisite little cakes, and would look at the the notes I was taking an theatrically shudder, swooning with the the back of hand to his forehead that ‘he never would never understand all that stuff’

I wasn’t entirely sure I did either - the retired engineer was able to explain things in the lingo of his trade, but couldnt confirm my attempts to connect the terms he was using to my first year university physics concepts.

But a month later I was sending an email from the jungle via length of unspooled cable
OpenGL existed before DirectX. Now we also have Vulkan. I'm not a fan but there are also some DXn available on Linux.

The problem is nothing more than a lack of will on game developers part to move the needle.
It’s an additional form that has to be filed away, and then typed in once all the other tax forms arrive. I have no problem reporting business income. In fact, if the IRS just sent me a (contestable) bill I wouldn’t even complain about the extra paperwork.
You don't even own the hash. You just own a database entry pointing at the hash.

There is no mechanism on the Blockchain preventing someone else creating a new NFT with the exact same hash.
What's the benefit to the company of not letting people know in advance if they know? What you are describing sound like a badly run company.

My company has not laid off a single person in two decades AFAIK. (not to say we won't fire a person if that's just not working out, but broad layoffs). two decades is more than some people stay married ;). so it's definitely a relationship. Could it happen? who knows. Sometimes the business doesn't work out.

Next time you interview somewhere ask them when is the last time they laid off a significant number of people... (or just Google it, it typically makes the news).
Apple has something similar, Object Capture.

https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/object-capture...
Probably based off the real-life phreak Joybubbles, who was also blind, had perfect pitch, was nicknamed "Whistler", and got into trouble for helping people make cheap phone calls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles
On mobile i see them all and I normally i don't mind but on this site they show ads as navigation links making it pretty hard to navigate the site. Especially when the images the ads use are designed to make them not look like ads.
Zog I of Albania
Apple has an unofficial monopoly on the mobile market, one they are so keen to protect that they kick out developers who don't agree with their draconian policies - only to then grant some of their wishes to others because the restrictions are clearly monopolistic in nature (the Epic Games saga).

Honestly, I'm all for throwing stones at Microsoft, but when it comes to appstores in particular Apple clearly are the most masterfully evil of them all.
To be fair, the claim was never that tax cuts reduced wealth inequality, it was that they lead to more prosperity for all.
> "decentralized architecture is slower to iterate on, therefore centralized tools will outpace decentralized ones, therefore the market will trend towards use of centralized services"

This is a good point and something I find very concerning. But remember, the Internet itself is a decentralized tool and it eventually triumphed over the centralized ones. Even with Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. we're still more decentralized than if everyone were still on CompuServe or AOL.

> He is only using the NFT market as an example to demonstrate this point

I don't think so, he pretty clearly issues a disclaimer about the limits of his knowledge. He's extrapolating (with an admittedly insightful proposition) from a limited amount of knowledge and is being honest about that.

> How do you align incentives to ensure a decentralized future in this way?

That's a very good question. Many smart people are working on answers to it. I like to think I'm one of them.

> Seems like a glaring hole in the entire plan

There is no plan -- and ultimately that's a good thing.

> results in centralized services being in wider use

Actually, I fear the result will more likely be failure for these centralized services that results in a backlash that delays the decentralized ones from emerging.

> I'm a big fan of cryptocurrency and these decentralized incentive networks.

Me, too. Obviously.

> UX is low friction

That is an incredibly important point.

> web3 concept as it's sold by the cryptocurrency enthusiasts doesn't appear to be going that direction, and at this point I think moxie is probably right.

*Some* cryptocurrency enthusiasts, but yeah it's a problem and unfortunately Moxie is mostly right.
The problem is that they control distribution – the only thing that matters. You don't need to own the data if you own the eyeballs/mindshare.

For example: Spotify doesn't own any music copyrights, yet they own 32% of the music streaming market. The second best is Apple at 16% ... which also doesn't own any of the music.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/653926/music-streaming-s...
Reminds me of Toofer from 30 rock: “no not tufts …”
> Current incidence 8 cases per 100000 people (US: 200 cases per 100000)

This page says 100k active cases, they have 51m population, that’s the same 200 cases per 100k people: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...

> tendency falling

The graph below on that page only shows it’s only falling for the last few days.

BTW, South Korea population is ~6 times less than the US, yet they are making 33 times fewer COVID tests: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-covid-19-tests-...
It's available, but not nearly as widely, and even less so at reasonable prices. Last time I had to buy ECC RAM over here in Japan, I had to go to a niche webshop to get a decent price on the capacity I was interested in. For every other PC part I'd just use Amazon and get it delivered next day, usually at the market lowest price or almost.
These sort of crusaders will never quit. Reality is that you can't beat a Macbook Air for most people on battery life, performance etc. And I say that as someone that loves his Windows and Samsung Notebook 9 Pen with that lovely Wacom EMR S-Pen. Have no intention of buying a Mac, but it's laughable to compare an M1 Macbook to what you're going to get out of a Linux laptop. Same goes for this 2-in-1's smooth operating Wacom EMR touchscreen on the Windows side.

I like Linux on the server, it is a server OS primarily after all, then adapted for other uses. And my personal use of it is usually in Android form. To each their own, but in no world do I see eye to eye with people who think Linux-all-the-things makes sense. As someone whose choices include a Linux VPS, iPhone, Windows desktop, Windows laptop, Android set-top boxes, I'll always be switching up my gear to whatever I consider to be best-of-breed for the task at hand. As always, my opinion subject to change upon receiving new information. I don't recommend going on crusades.
So why hasn't this been deployed yet then?

And why are NFT links so common, because they just seem short sighted to me and borderline dumb considering how volatile everything in the crypto space is?

Nothing about NFT's seems long term viable as they are now.
I will recount one mystery that I personally wondered about for decades, and that coincidentally the author of this article might have shed most light on:

The 386 was the first x86 processor to introduce four "Control Registers", CR0-CR3. The first one, CR0, was technically already introduced with the 286, but then still named "Machine Status Word" and manipulated with its own set of different , explicit instructions (that still survive to this day).

Now, if you look at Intel's documentation of the 386, or any later CPU in the line--including today's Intel CPUs in Laptops, Desktops, and Servers--you will see that the second of those registers, CR1, is entirely "reserved". No single bit in it can be accessed, neither reading or writing.

This is bizarre not only because CR1 was introduced by the 386 along with CR2 and CR3 (which are defined and common), but also because the successor, the 486, introduced a new Control Register, CR4, instead of starting to use reserved bits in CR1. This is despite CR4 sharing its characteristics with CR0 (and unlike e.g. CR2): It's mostly a bit field for global processor state. So while you could have assumed that CR1 existed as planned "overflow" to add new control bits to once CR0 became full, the seemingly simple addition of CR4 in the immediate successor goes against that theory.

Decades ago, I even wrote to the 386's chief architect to try to settle that question... he must have not understood my question, because he just replied that according to Intel documentation, that register is "reserved".

But incidentally, a while ago I talked about that mystery with the author of this article, and received the most plausible theory so far: It turns out that an early pre-release document shows that the 386 was originally planned to contain an on-chip cache. Evidently, that part of the plan must have been scrapped, because the 386 shipped without an on-chip cache, which was only added with the 486 (maybe they ran into problems with implementing a cache controller, or maybe at the time so much on-chip SRAM would have made for a prohibitive price point).

It is therefore not unlikely that CR1 was once meant, and in prototypes maybe even did, control the cache. Once that cache was removed, CR1 was just made "reserved", and not repurposed in the 486 and later CPUs out of an abundance of caution for compatibility: Accessing CR1 reliably causes an Undefined Opcode trap, and maybe some important software at the time relied on that in a bad way.
MMP elections, or STV with multi-member districts, result in a broader diversity of parties being elected -- not just two opposing parties.

This allows coalitions to form around shared interests, and results in 1) politics being more representative of what voters want, 2) more moderate politics avoiding wild policy swings, and 3) politics being more constructive.

It really gives a huge quality improvement of politics moving from a binary to a plural system.
I used Linux to play my music collection for a while, but it just had too many problems with crashing and randomly needing to regenerate its index. Windows Media Player just works.
> Everything that uses it [...] only does so because a simpler, cheaper, central alternative is somehow seen as bad.

Walled garden ecosystems have a fairly obvious downside — ultimately someone has to get disproportionately enriched and empowered. By using the word “somehow”, you insinuate it’s actually hard to see this.
Nicely said. I've been thinking about this a lot too--how contextual advice is. Even if you and your father had a wonderful, sterling relationship, it would be odd if you spent the majority of your time with him when you were 22. I hope I'm not making too many assumptions here, but many (most?) 22-year-olds are probably {working, in college, in the military, doing something where family is not the main priority}.

That's fine and expected, and I would even go so far as to say that's optimal. 22 is when you should be making friends, studying, working, doing [harmless] stupid things that get you in trouble, etc. Spending time with your family on weekends or holiday--and certainly catching up with them over the phone if you live far away--is excellent, but different parts of your life, different seasons of your life, call for different things.

As you get older, you should "come home", so to speak. I don't mean literally, although that would be perfectly all right, but metaphorically--probably more check-ins with your family, more holidays with them, etc. But if you're 22 and spending New Years Eve with your best friends, I think that is more than acceptable.
most of them in the real world.

And I mean like 98% or more. I have worked in IT for over 20 years, and you actually have to fight clients managers to get time to do it.

I work in healthcare. I wish I had problem like that, instead, I just today had to fix something that was running on unpatched ubuntu 14. I know that there are servers running unpatched log4j where people are in "talks" who will pay for "upgrade" etc.
This needs to stay the top comment here as there are many truths in this comment.
There's a difference between "poor design" and "difficult to adopt", and I think confounding the two doesn't make sense.

For another example, Python 3 has much better design than Python 2, and the difficult adoption a result of having people fix what they had written using the poor Python 2 design, and making it easier to adopt would have meant preserving the poor choices.

I don't know enough about IPv4 vs IPv6 to make a judgment in this particular case, but I don't think your argument broadly in itself here follows.
I’m ok with this. More transparency
How can there be infringement pre fact?
I think this event qualifies as “well documented” by any reasonable standard, there was official public disclosure and an open investigation.

As one quick example, here’s a news clip including an interview with the Taiwanese health minister discussing details of the (then) ongoing investigation:

https://youtu.be/ecpNq0jz7cs

You can trivially find many more official statements about the event and subsequent investigation, if you like.
Indeed. What's more, even if publishers wanted this, it's all possible without a blockchain. If game publishers decided to coordinate on respecting shared digital assets they could just agree on a common "digital item" spec where a connected client could prove item ownership using public key cryptography and digital signatures, similar to how JWTs let a client prove claims about another system. The same spec could allow users to trade digital assets in a peer to peer manner by signing a record of transfer to another user's public key - it'd then be up to the buyer (i.e. the software they use to verify the signing) to register the updated signature chain with the relevant game vendors.
Always under some Orwellian title like "American Rescue Plan".
I don't know how they're using that term. I've never been fired... yet.
Next Insurrection

Someone please correct me if I am wrong but nobody has been charged with treason, sedition or terrorism. AFAIK some disturbed attention seeking individuals trespassed, vandalized and destroyed some government property. I believe one person had ill intent that guy with the zip-ties. Did I miss a big part of the story? Not at all excusing those clowns, but has anyone been charged with a more serious crime? Is there an archived manifesto?
If the value increases the owner should be able to tap into that equity by doing a cash-out refinance.
I'm sorry, it's difficult for me to find a truly charitable interpretation of this response. But I'll do my best.

Blockchains started very simply. Famously, Bitcoin's whitepaper is just a couple of pages long. Simple systems are nice, but they can't solve every problem. As problems were discovered, solutions were proposed. Most solutions were themselves the simplest solutions to a given problem, so naturally, as new problems are found, new solutions almost always introduce complexity. This is not unique to crypto - see, for example, HTTP, or HDMI…

I can't see a world where this wouldn't happen. Ideas usually start small and simple. Additional capabilities introduce complexity. That is not a bad thing.

Also not a bad thing: people taking different approaches to identified problems. Ethereum saw congested L1 and didn't want to sacrifice decentralization, so they focused their effort on L2. Other developers thought differently, and adopted faster, less decentralized L1s. Great!

> you literally can't make a practical, truly distributed app at the moment

Another issue is that the goalpost is ever-shifting. We have truly distributed apps. Because they were successful, they got used, and on one particular L1 that meant expensive competition for block space. Does that make the achievement invalid? Or does the fact that most popular browsers currently don't have built-in integration with ENS and IPFS, allowing for decentralized frontends, also make the effort invalid?

Again, I struggle with truly charitable interpretation of your argument.
I got into web3/crypto (hate both those terms) Twitter a few months ago and it took a very significant amount of time to find the signal among the noise if you will. Twitter’s algorithms heavily favor engagement which in turn favors “influencers” who lack a lot of technical knowledge and peddle hype. I can see why curious skeptics are so quickly turned off, but there really is a gold mine of good discussion out there.

@das_connor is an awesome follow. He works for Avalanche (which I believe will be a massive player in enterprise blockchain adoption).
this is really cool.
ps: funny thing, seems like the tire all the same
It's possible a lisp of some sort predated the Haskell version
This is the kind of thing that stops working once people know about it. I expect the waitlist to grow out of control if it hasn't already.

Also, I hope IPv4 addresses are worth almost nothing five years from now.
How Bad Are Plastics, Really?
We used to play pranks like this on eachother in the computer labs in college. Someone would leave themselves logged in and you'd mess with them by adding things to their bashrc.

Some of my favorites:

alias vim=emacs

alias emacs=vim

alias ls=sl

alias ls='touch $(fortune) && ls'

echo "sleep 1" >> ~/.bashrc
Artificial intelligence is no match for Real stupidity. This sort of nonsense actually makes me feel better that we're not moving to a world where humans will be replaced because no technology can replace the human drive to control and covet, even if it makes them look petty and greedy.
I had my own misadventure with uninitialized memory in the late 1970s when I was working at Tymshare. I was maintaining the assembler and linker for one of our machines (I think it was the PDP-10 but could have been the Sigma 7).

The linker had a bad habit of leaving unused memory uninitialized. Every time you linked a program, the binary would be different. Functionally the same, but they wouldn't compare byte for byte. So my manager asked me to make sure the linker zeroed out all unused memory.

After linking a program, the linker printed a message something like this:

8412 bytes used
439 bytes free

The linker was a mess of spaghetti assembly code, and it was a real pain to find and fix all of the places where it failed to clear memory.

My manager knew what a hassle this task was, and he was fairly chill, so just for fun I added a temporary message meant for his eyes only:

8412 bytes used
439 bytes free and it's pretty fucking clean

I figured he would get a laugh out of this and then I'd remove it.

Unfortunately he wasn't the first to see the message. His manager was giving a demo to a customer and they saw the message. Oops.

Later we wanted to add a "weak external" feature to the assembler and linker, something like the "weak reference" that a few modern languages have. If the external was missing, then instead of failing the link step, it would leave a zero that you would check at runtime.

The regular external directive was called EXTERN, and the tradition was for these names to be very short. I thought of calling it WEXTERN but then decided to call the feature a "secondary external", so the directive was SEXTERN!
People also don't realize how difficult CPR is.

I did CPR on an elderly man for almost 10 minutes when I was 22; I was completely exhausted afterward.
Perhaps because contracting HIV meant near-certain death after a long drawn out decline, and Omicron looks to be less deadly than the flu for a vaccinated elderly person?
Primary source: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/AOG.0000000000004695

Couple interesting points:

- the effect size is less than one day

- they don’t have any data on actual SARS-CoV-2 infection

- time between doses seems to be a major factor:

> The increase in cycle length for both the first and second vaccine cycles appears to be driven largely by the 358 individuals who received both vaccine doses within a single cycle (cycle four)

Finally, from the discussion section, they hypothesize that the effect is likely due to the stress of the immune response. Seems reasonable; would be interesting to see if there are similar studies for conventional vaccine tech
It was fully documented and ActiveRecord has done similar things in the past. See also: https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/3zyftipjiu-rails-will-chang...