skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a spam iMessage, but I get at least one green message from a spammer daily. And I doubt they’re using Android, it’s probably Twilio or other sketchier telecom providers.

This is ultimately a problem because regular SMS has zero authentication, whereas I iMessage is essentially walled off to legit users by the telephone carriers and Apple.
I went to a true estate sale twice in my life, both times a real estate sale. The first for a large piece of undeveloped land, the second for a large home.

I'll never go again.

The land, I purchased at 10 cents on the dollar from a pair of children who were more interested in what they could get quickly.

I'm ashamed to say I live in the house I purchased from a grieving widow who wanted only to be rid of the painful memories.

I made out like a bandit and I feel guilty about it and likely will to the end of my days.
I'd say those who made it happen like it is right now are what we call the "victors" in the sentence of "history is written by the victors". So it could be the case that those who had a more moderate and less extremist take will be scolded in the history books.
I don't have the experience with smart contract development to have an informed opinion on this.

My guess would be that others could extend the protocol, but the challenge would be to get the extension widely adopted.

For example, ERC20 is the primary token transfer protocol on Ethereum, and there are various new token transfer protocols that are supersets of ERC20, and add useful new functionality, but they have not yet gained the widespread adoption to become useful the way vanilla ERC20 is.
Obviously no, because the factors that would cause extreme weather events are not yet there.

In general, any abstract model has the same relationships to actual reality as cartoons - they look sort of plausible and even convincing, even when a cat or a mouse speaks perfect English.

There should be a clear warning statement, like with GMO labeling, that models are astrology with numbers instead of planets and stars.

And no, no matter how sophisticated, a model will never be more than a cartoon, in the same way that a map would never be a territory.
I lost my best friend and a mentee to suicide in 2021, both in their early 20s.

My most important observation is that both of them killed themselves for a myriad of overlapping reasons: childhood trauma from physical abuse, lack of access to therapy, body shame/eating disorders, and stress from experiencing discrimination/hate in their schools and religious communities, as well as more issues which I’m sure were hidden from those around them. They both had problems before the pandemic, COVID just added another to the list.

In a way, theres a reason to be optimistic - any problem you solve that’s causing people real suffering will reduce suicides. There are so many opportunities to tackle this problem.
Well, early in their carriers they are rewarded for grants and supporting many grad students. It's problematic to not award tenure to a professor who is supporting 30 students. If they leave with their grants and only take a few (of the best) students, leaving the rest of the students in the lurch and very (rightfully?!) angry at the department dean/provost. Usually, some other means of supporting them is found since it's a little embarrassing otherwise.

After tenure, it seems like profs drop down to a manageable 4-7 students in the disciplines I studied in. You can do that on 1-2 grants a year.

As others have previously mentioned it's a bit weird, because actually teaching is neither taught nor really supported by most research universities. It's often required, but not all that advantageous to do well.
It's not just about death though, it's about hospitalization and long term effects too. We've had multiple major variants.

Also what number of orphans is acceptable? 30% of the US won't vaccinate. Delta has a mortality rate of 3+%(1) by the most charitable takes. Rough math would show that could add somewhere under 1 million orphans to the system.

Do we also ignore medical costs for those who get sick? What about the hospital resources those people take up?

Again, there's just so much more than "just the children"

1. I'm estimating 3% for Delta by taking the NHS estimate of 1.9% CFR for Alpha and the subsequent estimates that Delta had around double the risk of fatality.
I’m just a software dev now. It’s mostly just people I meet, though I’ve done some lobbying too. Lobbying is a fascinating thing, because all the staff really wants to know is if this issue could help/hurt them in a campaign. I remember once when Zoe Lofgren told me that while she agreed with my issue, there was zero chance Congress would take it up without handling a bunch of barely related issues.

The lie mainly has to do with people wanting to see the direct cause. But there is never a direct cause to weather. There’s a probability of enhanced storm intensity, because we observe storms getting more intense. Was it that last storm? Maybe. But the answer I give is yes. Because in all likelihood, there is some influence.

But climate change is in fact real, has in fact caused damages. If you are concerned about immigration in Europe, consider that a drought led to a famine led to a civil war led to mass migration. Are there a lot more causes here? Sure. What was the cause? Probably a lot of things. But the weather was surely one of them, and models tell us extreme events become more common under a warming Earth.

Climate change has already affected your life. Statistically, it must be so! Just because I cannot say how exactly it has done so, leads people to discount me. So let’s just pretend I know how, so I have a bare chance of being taken seriously. Else my hedging be mistaken for lack of certainty, by confirmation bias of people who yearn for my uncertainty.

I see it as akin to novels. The whole point of fiction is to create empathy for another point of view, though the method is a thicket of lies. The truth can very often not be looked at directly. Tell a teenager not to worry about what other people think — see if they get it. Tell a person that being racist is dumb, and see no behavior change. But a story might work, as a magick spell to get one to feel empathy, a lie that reveals truth.
I honestly have a pretty negative attitude towards minimalism for two reasons that the article points to as well. One is that it's like a sort of lifestyle veganism, a social signifier for whatever the local upper caste is, the mentioned 'digital minimalism' I see a lot in that context, pretending to be Steve Jobs, adopting some watered down version of meditation often comes with the package etc..

Second function I think is also pretty bad is as a sort of neurotic attempt to impose order or self-optimize, Marie Kondo tells you where every towel goes and then all your stress goes away. In some cultures you'd have a feng shui consultant come and rearrange your furniture and the western secular version is hiring the minimalism assistant.

In that sense I think people are mostly consumers of minimalism as a replacement for whatever else they were consuming, it's not actually about cutting useless stuff out which doesn't need an *-ism because it's a banal wisdom you find in every religious book on page 2.

Other example of this phenomenon btw is note-taking apps. There appears to be a non-trivial amount of people who are so obsessed with the process of note-taking they spend more time optimizing note-taking than they take actual notes, or do something to write about.
P.S. and it is optimistic to assume the person’s contributions are highlighted in authorship and not buried in the acknowledgment section.
For that, I don't blame the generation market as much as I fault legislators for horrible delays in decisions. The market cleared at the $9k/MWh cap for an excessive amount of time.

E: and it was avoidable!
Match is a common English word, in dating world describing a matchmaking activity that has existed for millenia.

How can a company legitimately claim a name that has had a clear prior art on it?

Can I claim the word 'The' for eternity and sue anyone who dares to even use it in the name of their enterprise?
I think LoL is too CL-specific. If you know both languages first, you can pretty much translate, but since they'd be trying to learn Lisp in the first place, this is a bad idea.

On the other hand, [Hissp][1] has a pretty good tutorial for anyone coming from a Python background.

[1]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
You beat me to the "self documenting code" thing by 10 minutes! I never bought in to the whole "clear code doesn't require comments" belief, mainly because the clearest function in the world can't provide details about its role as part of a larger system. Also, you sometimes just have to do weird stuff to get things to work (usually because they're out of your control). Rather than trying to retrace your steps every 6 months when you look at that code, a sentence or 2 describing its purpose gets you up to speed. I've been burned by zero comments way more times than I've been burned by incorrect comments.
Here is my guess: as you probably know, how much engagement to have with China is a hot-button topic in Taiwanese politics. If you were the type who thought less, why not call up a friendly reporter on background and get him to write up an ominous report on what China could, thereotically, do, based on absolutely nothing.

The alternative of "let's just assume spies have something they don't wish to disclose, except they kind of do and want to put it in the papers" strikes me as a bit too trusting but I can't tell you what to think.
This is amazing insight - thank you so much for taking the time, I really mean it.

Let's see if I can stretch the friendship ;)

Would you say that it's fair to say that there's a common theme running under a few of this items which is that Github see's the Repo as the "core entity", and has everything else hanging off that (Project management, conversations, pipelines, etc).

Whereas something - lets say the Atlassian suite for example, more see's "projects" as that "core entity", and then has things like your code, pipelines, conversations, etc hanging off it?

Also a question on Github projects (and this may just be my ignorance), but are the projects in Github tightly coupled to certain repo's? I never liked Gitlabs project tooling because the "Project" was too tightly coupled to a repo, making it kinda jank when you were working on a project that touched multiple repo's.
Αlpha: Hydrogen fuel-cell electric bike from Pragma Industries
My father bought me a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the 15K expansion that kept breaking. So then he bought me a Commodore 64 and I learned BASIC and 6502 assembly. I was 13 then. High School taught me UCSD Pascal on Apple //e units and Turbo Pascal 3.0 on IBM PC/XT units. I started out self taught and then took classes in programming.
This isn’t new. It’s generally applied to specific uses, and match in the dating world has legitimate brand recognition to be protected. I think the whole thing is BS, but it’s not a secret, and musmatch/YC should be no more surprised by it than someone starting a fast food joint called McChipotle.
> They are taking a huge financial opportunity cost to work on uniquely high leverage problems. Maintaining your research group's build system is not what they signed up for.

Not necessarily an opportunity cost. Often they are paid in a more valuable commodity, i.e. visas.
You can disable iMessage in the settings. Heck, since you seem to yearn for the days of text only, you can also turn off MMS and disable messages over 120 characters.
Common words just shouldn’t be allowed as a trademark in the first place. Imagine if we allowed an automaker to trademark the word “truck”. It would be lunacy, just as much as allowing one company to “own” the word match. It’s not even a little bit unique or original.
Was the email they offered to send the code to f**k@corpdomain.com? I tried this with my current and former employer and got seemingly the same email username "f**k", and seemingly random phone numbers. Another long-time employer had no email at all. Definitely seems they're just making things up.
Because early results show that there are long term effects in children, we just don't know how bad, and we already know about long covid in adults. Long covid also doesn't require having very severe symptoms either.

And again, children don't exist in a vacuum and can therefore cause long term issues in adults.

This is about being cautious based on what we do know. And we do know it's a crippling societal risk that children are such a huge vector.
How much post-production dynamic range do you really need/want for live jazz recordings? Surely 50 dB would be plenty, and even that would be pretty impractical to listen to except in very quiet environments. Wouldn’t 16 bit digital audio easily give you 50 dB of usable dynamic range and still have like another 50 dB of headroom?
Kepler had 4 wheels, with 2 failing
Weather-related sats see the clouds because IR is blocked by moisture, the stuff that clouds are made of. Spy sats generally want to see things that are not made of water.
OK, well, we know the US actually does this. And any other country besides China could just as plausibly do it, since I'm not aware of any that gives companies an exemption from complying with the authorities, especially in matters of supposed "national security." So what's actually here besides "I think we should not do business with Chinese people at all because they cannot be trusted in any instance"? Nothing, but it sounds more compelling when it's dressed up as though there's some find to justify the claim.
I think this demand for focus is more pervasive at top tier institutions. I intentionally chose a second tier research institution with great colleagues in my area, then neuroscience, so that I could indulge my whims and T-type style of science. I “wasted” two years playing with databases for genetics and then published the first paper in biomedical science with a URL in 1994 (Portable Dictionary of the Mouse Genome). That service is still running as wwww.genenetwork.org and has been a terrific catalyst for much high impact work.

The advantage now of T type approaches is that, as the source points out so clearly, it gives you flexibility to grow, shift fields, and collaborate efficiently.
Almost none of the stuff people have sparks joy but it is often useful and effective for solving their problems, its just weird advice to me - my comb doesn't spark joy - should I throw it away or spend a long time finding a new "joy sparking comb"?

Objects don't have to be imbued with special meaning all the time.
No entry for Donald Trump, sad.
I'm glad to hear it. I find s6 extremely stable. I've learned to come around on execline and have been converting bash scripts to it when I have the thought. The idea of it makes sense (to not load a heavy shell when kicking off a service and chain loading programs for small footprint).

I _think_ I did something similar to what you mention, though I'm not familiar with guix. Analogous to systems, what I _did_ like about systemd was the user level service management. So I essentially kick off a user privileged supervision tree for my session with s6 with its own scandir and service db when launching X. It is not under the root supervision tree but lives side by side at this moment since 1) I wasn't aware of s6-usertree-maker at the time and 2) i wanted any user to be able to kick off user privileged services without root intervention (e.g. setting up usertree-maker)
> What do we do if their parents end up unable to work due to long term COVID or worse their parents die?

What will my mother's friend's family do after their father, husband and sole provider died within 10 minutes of taking the vaccine, right there on the spot, on the vaccine queue? (Answer: the family almost got evicted by the way. And lived in poverty for 7-8 months before recovering.)

Where do we draw the line, I ask?
You need to establish that the use case of ‘the’ has a legitimate brand reconcognition that entitles it to protections. But yeah, if you make a million user social network company called The, you would get to have ‘The’ protected from competitors using it as their own brand. It’s dumb, but it’s the way it works, and YC is not ignorant of it.
Probably true.

But I'm writing from the perspective a grant reviewer. Systematically abusing immigrant labor.... well, it isn't exactly a more charitable interpretation. So, from my perspective, a bit of a moot point :)
Because of American planners. The age of the oldest hedge in the US is measured in decades. Hedges in France are aged in centuries. American tanks thought they were driving though some bushes. They ran into oak trees.
It's interesting to consider that people are still using SMS at all as most people in my conversation bubbles utilize Facebook Messenger, Slack, Whatsapp or Discord
One of the fascinating bits is how much engineering has gone into keeping the detectors cold. Because JWST is (primarily?) taking images in the mid-IR region, it is crucially important to keep the detectors cool otherwise you'd just be swamped in background noise. Keeping things cold in space is despite it being a cold place actually extremely difficult, because you can't use convective cooling. If something sits in the sun "all-day" it gets warm, so the whole reason for the sunshield is to keep the instruments cool. On top of that they are using active cooling for the (IIRC) first time on a satellite. I saw a presentation from one of the engineers two years ago and it's absolutely fascinating stuff.
How close to you did those friends live? Did you need to drive in order to spend time with them?
https://archive.is/RJQQX

tl;dr: people are "performing the doing of work" by making sure they look like they're active on slack and paying attention in zoominars. The "theater" of work is a thing that's become celebrated.

My take: I think I've met plenty of people who've pretended to work, especially back when I did some work with government contractors. Even minor requests would take days to weeks to even get a reply. So I don't think this is anything new; we've just adapted to new ways to pretend to work.

But: as someone running a bootstrapped startup, there's more actual "doing" now than there ever was. Gone are the "networking opportunities" where you go out for real meetings. It's all zoominars now, which means there's more time to get stuff done (or more likely, get burnt out, then tricking myself I'm being productive)
Owner Override: a proposal to fix Trusted Computing (2003)
I feel the Economist is very behind the times on this and is actually one of the key magazines read by empty suits, who have been at the forefront of 'office theatrics' (as the print edition of this article was titled), for decades.

Internet connectivity has undoubtedly added a valuable dressing up box of tools for this type of person/cliques but the fundamentals have been taught by HBS's various publications for decades also IMO
Your comments give me the impression this isn't totally clicking just yet.

All that is necessary is to add an entry in your hosts file for hidusi[.]com that points to the IP of your existing server.

That's it. Step completed.

No localhost, no new site, just using what you have already.

In the event you are filtering hostnames on your web server, you would just add hidusi[.]com as another alias.

Please let me know if this is not clear because I believe understanding this concept will help you in the future.
Record so far of five. I suspect four is possible. I'm unconvinced three is possible.
On Web3 Infrastructure
Hahaha... I'm just gonna smile and wave...

You raise a really interesting point re: Tags. I know Bitbucket does have some commit tag grouping functionality. Have you seen a system for that process in Github or Gitlab that you prefer?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's an interesting approach: it's a poor man's worked example, if I understand your approach correctly. Is that right?
I'm not sure of any distros that have default s6, but Artix[1] allows you to pick your init/service manager. It is what I used and I am very happy with it.

[1] https://artixlinux.org/
Absolutely. Airline pilots are forced to retire at 65 and their decisions only affect a few hundred people. Politicians' decisions affect millions.
I think these two are talking past each other a bit because they're ignoring the fact that running your own server is still a complete pain. Any technical or social concept that could possibly require mass adoption of self-hosting is just moot until it as easy as: 1) plug in device to wall 2) connect to wi-fi 3) login once 4) start installing services 5) never worry about security or backups again. You could even mail out the devices to bootstrap your network, BankAmericard-in-Fresno style.

There are people that would run their own server on principle, and there are many, many more that would do it if you had to do in order to get on a cool social network with all your friends and top celebrities or whatever. I want to run my own server, but I don't because:
-I don't want my data unencrypted on a cloud VPS

-I don't know a good dynamic DNS provider off the top of my head

-I don't want to host services on my primary desktop unsandboxed and it takes up too much power

-If I use another device I would need to: 1) segment my LAN, which my ISP router doesn't seem to support 2) manually configure updates, backups, port knocking, etc. 3) string cables around or otherwise find some hidden or unaesthetic place to put it
That is a good way to curse your self!
Why would we require either a nursing or a doctor degree? I do not understand why we didn't just train a crop of "covid specialists" who could handle caring for covid positive people and recognizing when they needed help from the real medical staff. Doing something like this I feel we could have easily and quickly increased medical capacity as much as needed for covid.
> I struggle to name even 5 of their originals over the years that you could call good "TV" or Cinema.

Netflix puts out plenty of good stuff, some people just can't distinguish "I don't like it" from "it's bad."

Comments like this are usually just an invitation for someone to put forth what shows they think are decent so you have a chance to dunk on their taste.
jswt was the version 2 satellite for hubble. turns out we were able to do 4 massive upgrades to keep hubble relevant before hubble v2 got anywhere
Given that SpaceX is hoping to start initial Mars missions by the 2030s and JWST is expected to last much longer than 10 years due to fuel savings on the L2 injection burn, it wouldn't be too outlandish for a servicing mission to be attempted by then, a vehicle capable of the 3-6 month trip to Mars is obviously capable of a 2 week trip to L2 and back.

On the other hand, with how delicate the optics and sunshield are, a servicing mission might not be worth it. At that point NASA might find it more productive to build a larger telescope, except this time it could again be designed to be manually deployed and serviced, thus not needing the complex automated deployment that delayed the JWST so much.
Thank you for reading it!
That Physics World article is excellent.

Nothing much else to say, but I’ll say that I rarely feel this way about most of the stuff I read on the web.
Simple statistics show that the risk of dying by taking the vaccine is significantly lower than the risk of dying from covid.

Someone having the vaccine also doesn't increase the risk of someone else dying.
It's pretty simple.
They are already ahead on their fuel budget due to the accuracy of the Ariane launch process. NASA said it would "significantly" extend the mission lifetime.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-exces...