skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was confirmed by at least two reputable accountants, so yeah, I'm 100% sure I didn't have to pay 8% health insurance while being a long term resident (and not an EU citizen).

Actually, I _did_ pay some health insurance, but it had nothing to do with the business and it wasn't 8% or anything like that. It's like the same kind of health insurance that even tourists have to get.
This is true even in a decentralised world - even if the protocol can be guaranteed to be secure, you could still push a modified binary to an individual.
There is a very good book about this: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. It started as an essay but the book is even better
>> Apple doesn't make a thermostat but they, along with many others, are moving to Matter. An interoperable, secure, private, open standard i.e. the very opposite of being cloud orientated.

Matter (formerly CHIP)? The protocol whose identity layer is allegedly based on a blockchain [0]? I think it needs the cloud, in the same way Moxie describes it.

[0] https://staceyoniot.com/blockchain-101-how-distributed-trust...
Sorry – while I do remember the existence of logistic growth from school, my knowledge doesn't go much beyond that, either, so I can't be of any help there.

As for your original question – I've been wondering about the same thing.

My personal back-of-the-envelope calculation was more along the lines of "If the vaccine is 90 % effective (the numbers given for Germany during the Delta wave and before the start of the third round of vaccinations were closer to 90 than to 95 %) in preventing hospitalisation and 75 % (for example) of the population are vaccinated, it means that case numbers in hospitals are 75 % x 1 + 25 % x 10 = 3.25 times higher than they would be with full vaccinations.", though I suppose there are enough holes that could be poked into that calculation, too.

A three-fold reduction in case numbers is nothing to be sneezed at, but on the other hand as long as the spread is still behaving mostly exponentially instead of turning into logistic growth and slowing down again that's only one-and-a-half doubling periods, so not that much of a buffer, either. Of course the vaccines are also somewhat (if not as well as was originally hoped) preventing some spread, so with full vaccination growth rates themselves would also be lower and hospital cases be reduced by more than threefold, but whether that's then enough, who knows?

In the end I decided there's no point in worrying myself further here, because there are too many unknown factors in getting a reasonable result that I can't easily answer and ultimately I have no desire in becoming a full-time epidemiologist.
Lithium: A Year of Progress and Protests
Thank you very much - looking at the demos, a lot of the ideas in the Dion Systems demos resonate (code as graph, graph transformations, ...).

And that's a good example re: JSON and railroad diagrams too. If I remember correctly the JSON spec website itself uses a railroad diagram? It does make the grammar visually straightforward to comprehend in a space-efficient way (picture, thousand words I suppose).
I have a similar printer, the HL2240. Bought it for uni probably 7 years ago now and it just keeps soldiering on. Nothing but USB for input, which admittedly has caused some headache since my spouse and I use it regularly and needed a good central place for it. However, that problem is very quickly remedied with CUPS on a Raspberry Pi.
I've also encountered a couple bugs in the webview package. But I feel like the support has been getting better.
> I'm so unbelievably sick of this 'security by corporation, it's what's best for you so accept it bullshit.' I really am.

Then, consider supporting the alternative approaches to security:
https://puri.sm/posts/the-future-of-computers-the-neighborho...
An electric car resembling the build quality of classic HP calculators would be awesome! (oh and the switches!)
Ask HN: What is your opinion on whether Covid will disappear or not?
Is our life going to be like this. Variant after variant will come and keep hammering us. Our economy, our Child's education and eventually human race will go back to Farming ? Or do you think this is just a trying phase that will pass like many others?
How long before we can see images?
There is an incredibly similar game called “Virus” as well where the maps are based kn your filesystem
> And every Australian I know was happy about it too

Hmm... that's certainly not universal. I have a couple of Australian's I met travelling on instagram, and they are posting the most extreme anti-lockdown media I've seen (comparing it to nazi germany, etc). Not sure how common that sentiment is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's quite widespread. 18 months is a long time to be locked down for.
>If in five years, it turns out I was wrong, I'll eat my hat. Although defining "my hat" by then might be difficult, as it'll probably be subscription based.

Wanna bet that by 2030 there will be atleast one major commercial bank that enforces attestation on it's E-Banking features even on desktops?
People do build their own 2D printers. Why? Because you can guarantee there will be no watermarking or identifying information printed into documents, which is very important if you are planning to do illegal things or some kind of counterfeiting. This is also why you never hear about it.
Which companies have good oss support in terms of printers?
Copland 2010 revisited: Apple’s language and API future (2010)
> or you get only one set of outputs per key (iyswim) because they get overlapped in memory

That sounds like a major bug. So it will silently skip data that you wanted?
If you've got to the point where Google is specifically pushing you a modified app, Google could just push a backdoored keyboard update that exfiltrated all your keyboard inputs instead. Why bother targeting a single app when you can get everything?
╰─$ echo '[{"k1": "v1", "k2": "v2"}, {"k1": "v3"}]' | jq -r '.[] | .k1'
v1
v3

https://codefaster.substack.com/p/mastering-jq-part-1-59c

1. parse a json value from stdin and set it as the initial result

2. for each function, apply the function to the result, and set the output as the result for the next function.

3. The final result is pretty printed on stdout.
Unless you support Linux-first hardware vendors.
It doesn't have to be, in principle. There are hash functions that take fixed size input, and output no smaller (or arbitrarily long) hashes.

Look at the hash construction in stream ciphers, for example. The keystream is very long, but the key is short.

Or look at a perfect hash function, as used for hash tables.
> For example how would you take key k1 from a list of dicts [{k1: v1, k2: v2}, {k1: v3}]?

Do you mean something like:

.[].k1

Give it a try.

https://jqplay.org/

jq does have a learning curve, but just like any query language, including SQL, first you need to learn the basics of the query language in order to get things to work.

In this case:

* you know that .[] iterates over objects, so you use it to unpack the root array,

* you know you get a stream of objects, thus from those you use the .k1 filter to get the values of each k1 key.

Here's jq's manual on basic filters: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Basicfilters

After you get jq to filter out what you want, you can work on getting it to output results in whatever format you wish.
http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/software/nextste...

Also it's mentioned in NeXT-FAQ
It is very clearly a reference to this story about a societal schism arising from a meaningless choice. But it doesn’t really make it clear which is which.

You say clearly little endian means you start with the little part. But why couldn’t it be that little endian means the end is the little part?

Endian is not a word that means anything apart from the Gulliver’s Travels story or the order of bytes.
Self-driving race cars zip into history at CES
To get a Brother laser working on FreeBSD CUPS I used a community PPD from openprinting.org. Black and white only though (which is fine for our needs)
Some Buddhists who are vegetarian will justify eating Yaks because one yak can provide food for many people and only requires one life to be lost, as opposed to chickens or fish. The same can be true for computer science.
Graphs of Covid-19 infection development in Denmark (Danish)
> as far as I can tell

I would prefer if we could have more certainty than that. I have a list of questions.

1) Does no one else have access to this codex? Has anyone tried to replicate this? It should be easy.

2) If it was not fine-tuned, there is still the issue of an over-fit question set, as you say. How easy is it to break? How general is it?

3) Are there really so many extensive examples on the use of sympy? Some of my googling (I know the math but not sympy) did not support this but it could be my lack of familiarity of the library ecosystem.

4) And the biggest issue where when it gave answers to certain limit problems without any computation, which should not have been possible unless it computed it internally, complexity of which kinda contradicts the entire exercise.

Depending on how generalizable this result is, it could be anything from merely impressive to mind blowing and revolutionary. Imagine if the language is Coq or Lean instead of sympy!
I've struggled with the jq language when doing complicated things, but generally felt it was just the problem that was tricky. Generally I feel like I'm learning an actual useful language, though I guess Perl, Regex fall into that same category, what seems impenetreble at first later becomes almost second nature as you use $ to mean end of line in vi and so on. Then if you don't do it for a while, you forget the more obscure bits.

My approach to the example would be to use `.[] | .k1` which I think does what you want, and like bash command line pipes, you can build up to it semi-interactively.

The bits I struggle with JQ often involve irregular json, where a value might be missing, or null, or a list, not sure what the idiomatic way to deal with that is if there is one.
That makes sense: perhaps "abstraction" is the word? An n-ary operator with a well-understood conceptual effect, and a reasonably small number of arguments linked to it (enough to fit into a person's point-in-time memory as you mention).

(addendum/edit: and hopefully those abstractions are clearly implemented and fixable in practice.. hello, software libraries)
It is an entertaining article, but I am not too sure if I agree that Knuth was yak shaving. However by luck, inspiration, conviction or observation he understood what makes a program last. You focus on one thing and you do it well. On the way you resolve all the problems. He famously said that at first he had one user: himself but then things were different when he had 1000 users. At that stage you need to remove bugs and hence his famous checks rewarding people that reported bugs. When your user base grows allow them to extend the program through their own code. I also think that the program adapted well, throughout the four decades of its usage due to the well thought level of abstraction. Nearing my three score and ten years, and using TeX/LaTeX for all these decades, I can with confidence state, that the only people yak shaving was us all the early adopters, learning typography rather than focusing on our studies. The same can of course be said for current users.
In a lot of developed countries (Germany, for example) renting is as common or more than buying. It's pretty much America that has this stigma that associates renting with not being successful.
I agree with most of this but have to disagree about these shell scripts being slow. On Debian most of them were written for dash instead of bash and they were executed in parallell based on magic comments which defined the dependencies. It was still a mess but a mess which was fast, not as fast as systemd but fast enough for most users.

Additionally Upstart was not good. It has some good ideas but its approach to dependencies was generally regarded as unintuitive. Writing services in systemd is much more obvious than writing for Upstart.
Springboard: Secret history of first real smartphone is now available on YouTube
I believe it will pass. Already the Omicron variant was less fatal than the previous ones. I think we are getting closer to herd immunity where eventually the virus will mutate to just flu like symptoms and everyone will get one bout of it and then have antibodies.
I thought the point of Obamacare was to separate healthcare from employment, but it turns out it never succeeded in truly accomplishing that.
"Is there a reason consumer printers haven't been disrupted.."

Xerox used to sell colour ink printers using solid ink blocks (not ink cartridges). The printer heats the solid ink blocks turning them into a viscous liquid. In case it's not obvious, the solid ink blocks don't require any cartridge encasing. They are simply slotted into ink compartments inside the printer. Here is a short video demo: https://youtu.be/cnd37wYLo-Q?t=104

The cost of the printers were high but the ink blocks worked out to be cheaper (cost-per-page) than traditional ink cartridges. The printers were aimed at business users and are no longer sold by Xerox. The reviews for these types of printer were mixed.

Do solid-ink blocks count as "disruption" to colour ink printers? Not sure, but it's the only example I know where a company attempted try something different to the colour ink cartridge model. There is simply no incentive for inkjet printer manufacturers to think afresh about cartridges, cost-per-page, refills etc.
See also Jade's Dreambot[0] from Homestuck.

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[0]: https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Robotics#Jade.27s_...
I think the Korean writing system is often overlooked when it comes to notation systems. It may look like logogram similar to Chinees but every "character" is actually a syllable where strokes give an abstract representation of the voice box. My understanding is that modern Korean has shifted away from this strict representation, but it is still the easiest writing system that linguists can teach to primitive cultures laking a writing system.
This was really insightful - thank you!
Theoretically couldn’t there be a hashing algorithm that’s one to one if it always spits out a hash as long or longer than the input message?

I’ve never actually walked through the math behind hashing algorithms, but I’m assuming collisions come from truncation. I’m guessing you’re usually not able to know exactly where two inputs that collide for the first n bits end up diverging, so the only way to ensure most hash functions are one to one is if the outputs have infinite length. But, if you had outputs of infinite length for different inputs, eventually they’d have to diverge. Idk if that’s true of all hashing functions/maybe there’s a way to know after what point outputs for different inputs have to diverge for some.
While it is true, we cannot compare Japan with socialist countries like Cuba or China where social conformity is forced much stronger.

Japan had problems with HPV vaccine uptake which shows that social conformity is not enough and many Japanese can refuse vaccine.

With covid vaccines they even delayed vaccination until their local safety studies were completed. It is clear that the government had learned from HPV vaccination failure and cared a lot about public perception.
Oh, totally.

One of the ways I would personally prefer it done is not needing to send kids to super spreader spaces for no reason, since there is no learning happening as documented by the student in the reddit post, causing them to bring the virus home to their parents / grandparents suffering from co-morbidity or immune system issues.
> To verify you have a HN account (membership) today, a service provider need to build something like keybase. That is complicated and will be different for each service.

What's wrong with plain old digital signatures in this contrived scenario. If for some reason this was desired, hn signs an assertion that so and so is a member. Person presents this assertion as neccesary. No blockchain required.

Memorizing hn's public key is no more hard than memorizing what their nft is.

I suppose you'll say transfering memberships. If hn is onboard with the transfer they could just issue a new signed assertion. So the only use case is if you want to transfer ownership against the service provider's will. But how does blockchain solve that? Unless i missed some great advance in zkp, all transfers are public on the blockchain, and service providers can trace the transfers and not recognize transfers they don't like.

> They can be transferred, expired, and change depending on the action of the user. For example, some provider want their memberships to be reduced to half when transferred.

What's a real world example of someone wanting something like this? I can't think of any.
The James Webb Space Telescope – making 300 points of failure reliable
The simple answer is that they probably don't - yet. The software need to be hardened... If you have thousands of operational vehicles you will find the "bugs" quickly though, the question is how fast they can iterate and come up with models that identifies and handle these conditions.
Servers are directly attackable over the internet, unlike browsers :) Browsers are a very well hardened target at this point after decades of attacks. The fact that browsers still see exploitation, despite the money spent on their security by large well funded teams like those at google and Microsoft, shows the difficulty of securing applications.

Where servers have a direct correlation to money (e.g. if they are involved in processing crypto payments), there's a direct financial gain to exploitation, increasing the likelihood of attack.

(IMHO) After the first wave of worms compromising home users web3 servers, it would be pretty hard to convince people that it was a good idea to do it again
>In my experience, which is 99% reading news sites online, the testing is absolutely reported

I've never ONCE in years, seen cases reported along with tests given and I look at sites of all political ideologies. You can go look in the front page of the New York times right now and there's just case counts with no indication of how many tests have been given. Same with WaPo.

It kind of boggles my mind how you could even say that.

That's kind of evidence of mass formation psychosis?
There's a difference between interoperability and being cross-platform. Nobody is saying iMessage should be inter-operable with Signal or whatever, but that it should in some way be compatible with non-Apple platforms. All the other messaging services work on both Apple and Android devices, as well as often having web/desktop versions.

It's the definition of a walled garden. Google's messaging services aren't limited to Pixel devices or even Android in general, whereas Apple has made theirs available only on devices they manufacture.
That's the only sane approach to start with. Even the NSA, in a country which undoubtedly leads in its technical ability to collect and store vast amounts of data, didn't try to intercept every Cisco router on the planet to backdoor it. That increases the amount of data you have to process and store by orders of magnitude, and vastly increases the risk of detection.

Targeted strikes are way more effective until you have the capacity to effortlessly cast the widest net. I have no idea if China is there yet.

So it wouldn't be a stretch to believe that some innocent looking bugs are introduced here and there, with the ability to string them into a serious exploit. It creates a cover of plausible deniability making it impossible (with what we know) to say it was incompetence or maliciousness as proven by any number of vulnerabilities which stayed for years in all kinds of software before being disclosed.

Mass media works differently when reporting on the home-team vs. the enemy so you might get the idea that we know it's maliciousness when it's a Chinese drone manufacturer [0]. But it's just an accident when Webex is suddenly hit by a whole host of random bugs that allowed hackers to snoop on any meeting and needed multiple rounds of patches to be fixed, right in the middle of the teleworking setup [1].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/chine...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/cisco...
gron [0] is another interesting JSON processor that follows UNIX philosophy:

[0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

"Make JSON greppable!"

"gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it."
>Pursue not important, not urgent tasks?

Quite a useless advice. There are just too many of them, almost all of them are leading nowhere. So which one I should pick ?
Modern notebooks are closer to Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica notebooks.
It would be a good idea if this was added to one of the existing[1] comparison tools for similar tools, there's already a lot of them out there.

1: https://cburgmer.github.io/json-path-comparison/
>Printers have been good for decades, and only the limitations built in by manufacturers make them bad

This is what I was referring to, maybe using the word disrupt incorrectly. I meant to ask, is there anything stopping someone, like a bored billionaire, from coming in with a consumer friendly line of consumer printers, and capturing the market completely? In my mind, and I could be wrong, printers aren't sophisticated in a way that make it near impossible for new players (like high end semiconductor manufacturing, for example -- like you say, printers have been good for decades) and the software doesn't seem too out there either.

In my mind, I envision something like what Raptor Computing [1] is trying to do for workstations and servers, but unlike Raptor, 1) the problem appears to be far simpler, and 2) the market for printers is larger and to consumers appears more directly beneficial. It's far harder to sell someone on (expensive!) hardware freedom than that the official ink refill isn't a complete rort, the ink is environmentally friendly, no annoying DRM, etc.

Of course, that market is shrinking. I think the anecdotes you and others point out are not uncommon, and your last point about a professional setup makes sense, but then... who's buying these things? The office supply stores near me still dedicate a decent chunk of space to printers and ink cartridges.

[1] https://www.raptorcs.com/
Fascinating, sure, but Hubble has almost six times the frequency range of Webb. In terms of magnification and dust penetration Webb is leagues ahead, but for a given magnification Hubble just sees a wider variety of stuff.
The described functionality of Pluton doesn't allow it to prevent you from booting unsigned code. Your system firmware would need to ask Pluton for permission, and if it doesn't do so then no number of Pluton firmware updates is going to make it able to prevent that.