skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was discussing this with some friends recently. The general agreement was social media has exacerbated inequality. It was always there to a varying degree - but there's a big difference between seeing a movie star or musician flexing expensive clothes and shoes on MTV or in a magazine to seeing Johnny Average who went to your school flexing them on Instagram. One is attainable and "why don't I have this", the other you don't worry about.

Furthermore we seem to have such an easy money culture right now - if you get caught in a crypto or NFT or memestock or whatever bubble on FB or Twitter, 'everyone' is rich with no effort (and they can teach you how for 99$ a month!) - why shouldn't you be rich without working?!
> Something that maybe defaults to always being on the latest version, but when the user wants, allows them to use an older version. Just like native applications (mostly) do.

This makes good sense for client-side native applications, especially Free and Open Source applications where supports costs don't work the same way, but it's in tension with what many developers (and their overlords) want from the web.

People that run web-based solutions want to be able to change or retire old server-side functionality as things evolve. Perhaps a feature never got any traction, or perhaps there was ugly server-side code to cope with a deficiency in the client-side code that has since been reworked. If you commit to eternal support for all older versions of the client-side application code, your hands are tied regarding the server-side code. You also have the challenge of supporting O(n) versions of the client-side code, rather than only the most recent one.
Yes, that was the point of the original post. The further point was that this idea is entirely counterproductive.
In other news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927990

Top scientists believed COVID leaked from Wuhan lab but feared going public: Emails
I appreciate the effort that went into the blog post, but for this forum a link to the release notes [0] and/or the updated docs [1] would have been more relevant.

[0]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/01/13/Rust-1.58.0.html#captu...

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/
It would be interesting to see if he ultimately accepts 'Novax' Djokovic as a rigidly defined part of his identity. The more this drags on publicly, the less face-saving opportunities for him to accept vaccination.
Exactly. This kind of thing does not happen in a healthy society.
It's because of the liquid oxidizer.

A jet engine can't have such power density because it uses gaseous air which is about 1000 times less dense than liquid oxygen and only contains 20% oxygen.

Everything follows from that.

The pumps are not challenging temperature wise since they pump cold liquids.

The turbine is challenging, but the temperature can be limited by varying the ratio of propellants in the preburner (very lean or very rich means lower temperature). If you use lean, then it's a very oxidizing environment. If you go very rich, there's soot (if you use fuels with carbon).

And the chamber is not so challenging because there is so much cool liquid available for cooling.

You can boil water with a candle and a paper cup.

A high performance jet engine is a harder problem than a medium performance rocket engine.
> the disk is first of all extremely low in all groups

Not by official WHO definitions.

101 in a million is equivalent to 1.01/10,000.
With 1/10,000 it falls into the bracket for the definition of "rare", not "very rare" or "extremely rare". I wish the media would use these official definitions.

https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/quality_safety/safety_ef...
> Carriers didn’t make battleships obsolete, missiles did.
> Missiles are the only reason big guns aren’t a thing any more.

Battleships were already obsolete on the naval battlefield in WW2. Their main usefulness was shore and carrier support.

Missiles make battleships even more obsolete, and for the Soviets, even made carriers obsolete ( all Soviet aircraft carriers completed were a hybrid missile cruiser / aircraft carrier design, but their latest design didn't include any missile capability, so they realised they were incorrect).

Anti-ship ballistic missiles, and hypersonic cruise missiles have decent chances against a US task force. That was the Soviet plan in case of war, use "aircraft carrier-killer cruise missiles" from submarines.
In order for a part to be entirely interchangible, you should choose the smallest common denominator of all parts to rely on as the highest value that you can get from one. I think that one must find an equilibrium but it requires active management and careful thinking to be executed properly.
Is it though? In science one uses deductive, inductive and abductive inferences right?
"...and it was not unlocked by mistake.". Gah! Combination of negatives!
Containers are metal. Just electrify the whole thing!
Electron is bloated because it's vendoring two major pieces of software (chrome and node). The binary size and memory footprint can be solved with some minor help from platforms (already in progress - see webview). Web itself is more than fast enough for GUI, and is incredibly optimized, both layout and js engines (or wasm, if that's your thing).
128kbps loosers
When I learned about this it was funny to me too. My living room has a huge window looking out on the square of my apartment complex. Everyone has to walk by my house to exit or enter the complex. I've sat and watched the window for hours. Literally hours. The closest thing to groceries I've seen is a box of Hello Fresh being delivered.
Exactly! These points drive me crazy!

I think YouTube is filled with interesting content but they always choose to recommend the same videos for weeks!

However, their "New to You" section is much better and I think it should be on the home page.
TL;DR: we don't pay enough attention to the role of work in our lives.
Since poverty is (at least typically) defined relative to some average those two things are not as disconnected as you may think.

But in general I'd expect crime to be a "least worst option" choice and I seem to remember research to that effect. Although I wouldn't be able to find that now again, so take it with an appropriate amount of salt.
> user-friendly

The entire problem starts and ends with this term. It is ambiguous, personal, localized, fluid and case-dependent.

What is friendly to one user, is insulting to another. What is friendly to me at 10:00 in the morning is frustrating when I have a presentation in two minutes. What is friendly to an American pensioned welder, is insulting to an Iranian accountant.
Quarantine was the option last year, I don’t think it was avaialable for this Australian Open.
It's an amazing film, and I adore the soundtrack.
You could also use SQLite after some little parsing.
> I always interpret new licenses through the lens of Debian's Free Software Guidelines.

Why?
I'm reminded of the book by Lock, Lock, Lock, Lock, and Lock. [0]

Sadly it's on statistics, not concurrent programming.

[0] https://www.lock5stat.com/
Those are standardized containers standardized which are made in the millions as cheap as possible. That stuff needs to work, think of all the means of transport where it is used (vessels, trains, aircraft), be accessible for inspections (customs) and so on. The costs to secure and upgrade the containers for the whole system is probably a lot higher than accepting a small percentage of stolen parcel.
Raising children to respect the rule of law used to be considered important. Now many would consider it brainwashing.
You make it sound like this is all necessity. I don't know if this is intentional or not.

If it is intentional: Go look at the porch pirate glitterbomb videos and come back and tell me that it is because of necessity (I've only seen one go off in a pawn shop, the rest were people who wanted to improve their own home it seemed.)

Trying to be intellectually honest here I'll note that maybe those videos weren't uploaded because they didn't match the viewpoint he Mark wants to create. Or because he felt pity for them, but I don't think that is the full explanation.

Edit:

> I walked around last year, in an opera house, public building, no one in sight, empty building, unlocked doors, there were paintings on the walls, and I identified audio equipment for at least $10k, and it was not unlocked by mistake. Then it struck me, that we've done well in society when we can have this.

Agree. Note however:

Norway were I live used to be like that (as far as I understand), but isn't anymore (this I do know).

Norway has maybe the best social security in the world.

Clearly there are two things that must be in place here:

- there mustn't be a need to steal to survive

- stealing must also not be accepted
There should be a separation of data and the actual website that does the reading. I once thought about something similar (not for torrents), but having to download the whole database (300MB and more) was a bad idea for UX.

So what I propose is this: There is a central source of truth hosted on IPFS via IPNS or mutable torrents. The data format can be whatever is more efficient to update and store, not easiest to read and query. (An event log is fine) Then, there is a reader application, like an RSS reader. The reader application can be a desktop application or it can be a centrally hosted web app that keeps a conventional SQL database behind the scenes. The idea is that there will be multiple reader providers like there are competing email providers.
IANAL, but things like the computer misuse act literally say how someone means their computer/server to be used is the correct way to use it. Trying to do things not originally intended is hacking, and youtube clearly don't want you downloading videos unless you pay for Youtube Plus (and even then it's still just into the app, not a seperate mp4).
So they are using the same strategy as Erlang (partitioned heaps), with a nice twist of adding hierarchy.

That is great, but runs into the next problem with concurrent programming - shared data - where, for performance, you absolutely have to share memory between heaps and pass ownership between heaps.

Erlang has specific escape hatches for that, I wonder how that would in a functional language.
Do crime rates go up when you stop policing actual crimes?
Yes. Just within mathematics prime numbers have a tendency to show up in many fields not obviously related to number theory. As an example: in the study of symmetries (group theory [0]) important to number theory, geometry and even many parts of physics prime numbers help us decompose a complicated symmetry into simpler ones (using Sylow theorems [1].

Prime numbers are also used for cryptography due to their computational properties.

Also I think we have shown using a variant of Galois theory that there can not be a closed from solution for the nth prime.

But there are more headlines about the primes relative to its prevalence in research. I would guess that this is because
- they can easily be explained to people
- have been studied for thousands of years
- open problems still persist

In other parts of research you might need at least an undergraduate degree just to understand the definitions, which makes headlines less sexy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_group

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylow_theorems
It's a nice Quality of Life addition, that I would like to see with C++ as well.

I wish they don't implement f-strings and s-strings, at least for now. Even if they are more ergonomic than the `format!` and `String::from`, they hide a memory allocation which is not really indicated in a language like Rust and would be really weird in a context without an allocator. The only solution to this would be `const` evaluation of this, but that would restrict their use to `const` environments, so mostly unusable.
"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta..." booming in the office corridor.
One of the downsides is your job can be easily outsourced to a country with lower wages, and with remote work here to stay (IMO), that is going to be even easier than before

Only if PII isn't an issue. Which it still is for a large number of remote jobs. You have to do the work inside US borders because of liability or security issues for an incredibly large number of remote roles. If you don't believe me, just roll over to weworkremotely.com or any of the other remote job boards and check out how many current openings specify "USA only."
It's quite common on European high streets to see private security guards outside of clothing and electronic stores, whereas that is fairly rare in the states. At least, I can certainly attest to their presence in the UK, Italy, Spain and France.

And I think everyone individually is trying to minimize societal ills like theft. But good luck getting enough people to agree on what is the right path forward.
> Using non-native controls, for example, has accessibility consequences

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't people with serious accessibility needs typically prefer web because there are way more tools optimized for web than for native?
>Uniquely, in USA, railroad police are employed by the railroad.

No, not uniquely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Police_(Poland) It's an unit managed by the rail track operator.
I’m certainly not a fan of teslas marketing or approach to self-driving but I don’t believe their FSD is anywhere near an end-to-end black box model.

Given that it’s not end-to-end, it’s pretty simple to determine whether an object was incorrectly identified, missed, etc. Why the model made an incorrect prediction on one input vs another, that’s mainly speculation and testing.
To add to this. I am already in the 49% tax bracket. So a 10k raise would not be worth learning a new organization and the risk of getting a worse boss.
Thanks Nico!
> Some people will never steal even to save their own life, because they have principles which guide them in that direction.

Are you sure there are, or do you think there are based on a Disneyesque view of morality?
It locks you down to that ORM. If you are the owner of the ORM such as Google with Looker that is fine, otherwise it doesn't sounds like a good idea to me
The backing track to this post is Delicate Tendrils.
You may be able to find what you are looking for here: https://archive.org/details/@mirtitles
We've been experimenting a bit with tailscale and ssh access - and I'm not 100% convinced there's a great way to guarantee continued access - if you bind sshd to the tailscale vpn ip, an update that restarts ssh and tailscale could result in sshd not being able to bind the expected IP - leading to ssh being down. I think this is mostly due to sshd listen directive being somewhat limited.
You missed half of parent logic.

>it's okay because society is stacked against them.

If you can't find a job in the US, you won't go to another country to find one. After all, you're already in the "best country in the world".

The streets are accepted as the home of failed people (but only if we can't see them).

Medical care is provided only to people who can pay for it. That's only fair.

Also racism was solved with Obama, so just pull yourself by your bootstrap like everyone else.

Just work multiple jobs if you can't afford rent, maybe then you'll save enough to pay for education and get a higher wage job or start your own business.

/s
Failure to understand the system is also not usually grounds for being allowed to enter a country.
I don't know a single non-technical person who doesn't complain about web browsers being slow. Part of the problem is that they don't understand the differences between computers and go for the cheapest PC or tablet, but most of it is bloat.

We tried to introduce office 365 company wide for collaboration, but we had a whole plant of 150 employees "mutiny" because they refused to use any of the office web apps because they were too slow.

This slowness is not a fundamental problem, but incidental. The layout calculations of even the most complex websites could be solved by a 10 years old computer instantly. The rendering can be done by a GPU without sweat. Look at how many polygons and shaders games had 10 years ago.

And note I'm not talking about "lightly formatted text files", but 90% of all web sites. News sites, Youtube, Reddit, .... What I'm excluding is Gmail, Office365, anything that uses Vibration, NFC, WebMidi, and other boutiqe features (you could probably add those back as libraries if you need them later). I'd argue that not supporting "apps" is a feature - you'd have to explicity allow them and they'd run in a sandboxed tab.
I was again, arguing about work on reddit. Someone said that even animals "work" to survive. I found that the comparison was not really good.

Food and shelter are abundant.

Technology improved the human condition, but it made humans be much much less social, which is the main cause of inequalities.

The individual car/kitchen/living room/bathroom generate exclusion. I'm an introvert, I want to have my safe space, but I don't need to cook alone, to eat alone, to work alone, or to be alone 99% of the time.

I guess that's what people criticize about current capitalism. It's not only the inequalities (that always were always present in civilization), but it's rather the individualism, the atomization, the complex logistics and mechanization of how everything is turned into money, without limits.

In earlier times, in hunter gatherer societies, food was scarce and work was important. But today, you cannot tell people that working in fast food or in customer support is mandatory to eat and have a roof on your head.
Similar thing happened to me but they actually picked it up the second time. I think they have a different policy for returning medium-to-large electronics, or maybe it depends on who the seller is - my return was a monitor. Every other return I've been able to drop off at a collection point myself.

I would try to reschedule again. I think it's Hermes that's at fault here, not Amazon (or maybe a bit Amazon for not being more flexible and for using Hermes in the first place). The package being unopened doesn't matter.
That's like finding users for your software before telling them why they would actually like to have it — nobody cares for your music before you release it unless your former albums have been real bangers.

No record label in existence would give you any money before you prooved to them somehow that you are able to do the music you want them to finance you for.

As a member of a band myself I don't care when people download our music, rather the opposite, I like it when people dig the music. And if they dig it enough, they will also buy a shirt, the vinyl, or something among those lines.
If you don't mind potentially getting your account banned, dispute the original transaction via your bank and move on, the bank will make it right eventually and if not you have a paper trail to resolve the issue in small claims court.
I’m not saying it was faked or not, but that was not prooven at all and nobody officially makes that accusation.
That's because the US navy finally accepted they're not that unique and asked for a proven foreign design. It's a subsidiary of an Italian shipbuilder building on the platform of a Franco-Italian design. Of course it should be going smoothly.
Faced with massive demonstrations over the murder of George Floyd, the Los Angeles City Council took a dramatic and symbolic step last year, cutting $150 million from the Police Department’s budget and promising to put that money into other social services.
There are two approaches to compare: Starting with hypothesis and starting with data collection.

In former, hypothesis specifies which variables are likely independent, dependent, must be controlled, so on, then makes observations to confirm. In latter, data is first collected with as many variables as possible, then we attempt to identify which variables are independent, etc, then confirm.

To be cost efficient, many science experiments chose former. AI models use latter (get data, then find patterns, aka dependencies across variables). But even in latter, 1) human scientists can and do use the approach when appropriate, and 2) someone must have chosen the variables to observe which is a hypothesis (but lower precision is permitted in favor of higher recall).

Long story short: It is sensational and in the best interest of the media to make it seem like some drastic change is happening, but the way we the humankind is growing our collective knowledge is still fundamentally consistent, except with some added techniques thanks to low cost of studying large scale data, and it would serve us well to focus on the fundamentals and basics. The scientific approach.
It's often hard for physicians who are already overburdened with bureaucracy, terrible hours and pay, byzantine frameworks, and barely functioning IT and administration systems to be able to do higher level analysis on patient records.

If you spoke to a researcher instead of a purely clinical physician I suspect you would find a lot more reception and enthusiasm about your case by the way.
Twofold van Hove singularity and origin of charge order in CsV3Sb5
It's aside your point, but you may be thinking of fentanyl rather than diamorphine (street name heroin) with regards to the NHS. The former is often used in NHS hospitals for intraoperative and postoperative pain relief, the latter almost never for anything.
Does this mean that after mass COVID vaccinations we’ll see an explosion of MS cases in a few decades?
No problem, but are you sure it was me? My battery measurements are pretty recent.
Don't you hate it when you're an evil big-brother dictator giving a frenzied political rally, with your menacing visage projected onto a gigantic monochromatic screen towering above the audience, in a dystopian, industrial setting in blue and grayish tones, with a line of people of ambiguous gender marching in unison through a long tunnel monitored by a string of television screens, and a full-color nameless running female competitive track and field athlete wearing an athletic "uniform" with red athletic shorts, running shoes, a white tank top with a cubist picture of Apple's Macintosh computer, a white sweat band on her left wrist, and a red one on her right, runs in carrying a large brass-headed sledgehammer, striding past rows of marching minions evoking the opening scenes of Metropolis, while you continue to speak inspiringly to your raptured audience about the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives, as your four police officers, presumably agents of the Thought Police, wearing black uniforms, protected by riot gear, helmets with visors covering their faces, and armed with large night sticks, chase her towards the large screen with the glaring image of your Big Brother-like facade as you give your speech, and then close to the screen, she hurls her hammer towards it, right at the moment you announce, “we shall prevail!”, gob-smacking you right in the nose, and in a flurry of light and smoke, the screen with your face is destroyed, leaving the audience in shock?

Yeaaaaah, I HATE it when that happens to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

Aired January 22, 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

Aired November 10, 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1aXFYoedg

...Djokovic's self-inflicted butt-hurt and heart-break must be unbearable.

Very painful. Yeah, very painful.
And so does the severity of the disease, look at omicron. The benefits of the vaccine over a natural infection get weaker by the day, especially because vaccine efficacy is not great anymore. Particularly too weak for justifying mandates, in my opinion.