skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ban gain of function research because it killed 20 million people?

And how do you plan on enforcing this on China? Or on Russia?

I'm still waiting for all the armchair geniuses to explain this one to me.

You can be ready for when some idiot does this research or not. Those are your options unless you've got some magic way to go to war with nuclear powers that I am unaware of.

All banning gain of function research does is leave you unprepared when it happens.

Unless you've got a way to enforce this on China, this is unactionable. It's simply propaganda to rile people up.

1) If it was an accident, what are you going to do? If there is anyone sane in the leadership of the lab with knowledge of how this occurred, procedures have already changed. What more do you want them to do? You're NOT going to get a gain-of-function ban without some form of strong coercion. What will it be?

2) If it was intentional (and I see no gain for China if it were), what do you plan to do? You will have to somehow do something to cause actual harm to Chinese leadership. What? China is already guilty of genocide, and all the West does is shrug.

Hell, it would almost be better if this were an intentional release if not for all the dead. The emergence of Omicron would demonstrate to the idiots worldwide who thought they could control a virus that the idea is laughable and that the virus will quickly evade whatever you think are your protection measures.

And all this ASSUMES that it actually was a lab leak, which the current hypothesis about jumping from mice back to humans decreases the Bayesian prior on dramatically. If Covid can jump that quickly from humans to mice and back, gain of function is suddenly frighteningly common. And the research into gain of function, rather than being banned, needs to be ramped up hard.
Can you inherit zero? Where I live, there is a mandatory minimum inheritance for children - I think it’s 1/6 of the total?

Cutting off financial help might result in them feeling stuck with their past choices, resulting in depression etc - I wouldn’t do that. Many successful entrepreneurs come from supportive households.
What else would they reasonably default to? Are you proposing requiring collations to always be specified (a breaking change from the SQL spec)?
I'd seen those in the past. Prices have come down.
Am curious what are the benefits over NiMN.
But emulating the CPU is probably the least interesting part about writing an emulator for a video game system. Writing the other hardware components and getting them to work together is the interesting part imo. I'd say skip writing your own CPU emulator and just start with someone else's.
> It was so Orwellian to see this kind of UX on a device that wasn't new (and of course, how is someone on unemployment expected to purchase a new phone?) I truly wonder how many people have starved because they didn't have access to devices that allowed them to collect their unemployment through this platform. It really kept me up that night.

It may be disheartening to hear, but this is by design. A (Western) government cannot get away with entirely not providing or dismantling basic elements of a social safety net (unemployment insurance, healthcare insurance, disability assistance) for publicity reasons... but what perfectly works is to make the system as complex and hoop-jumping-dependent as possible to reduce the number of claims:

- requiring modern devices (or not making sure that older devices work too, like you witnessed) is a major hurdle many people who are too poor and under-served by libraries or other public Internet access

- requiring in-person presence with short opening hours during weekdays discriminate against people who have to take care of sick relatives/children, have to work two or more jobs or have certain mental health issues that make following up with appointments very difficult (e.g. some of the strains of autism)

- requiring specific forms of ID or other paper documents (e.g. birth certificates) can be almost impossible (or, very expensive) to solve for people who have lost their belongings/are homeless

- requiring proof of residence is an automatic exclusion of the homeless

- complex forms with bureaucratic language discriminate against illiterate people, non-English speakers and frankly, most people who don't know or can't afford a lawyer to help them out

- automatically rejecting the first claim and only allowing after an appeal / a lawsuit is commonplace for disability claims, it is very effective in "weeding out" poor and already troubled people

The ones that do not require a lot of bureaucracy are not governments... the void that helps those left behind by governmental bureaucracy is more often than not religiously affiliated: churches, Salvation Army, other charities - but unlike government (which is theoretically bound by constitutions and anti-discrimination laws), they are free to choose whom they help and how much.

And now: good luck if you're a publicly outed LGBT member, a person of color or otherwise marginalized person right in a religious-conservative stronghold. The government won't help you as you can't jump the hoops that were designed to be that way, and the "private sector" won't help you as you are not mainstream conformant. This threat is what makes dysfunctional government bureaucracy so insidious.
Of all the games I've played (which admittedly isn't many), the Witness felt the most like an IQ test.
In Praise of Search Tools
The world has 8 billion people on it. Shouldn't we care about what helps everyone instead of what only helps you specifically?

If masking helps everyone, then you should do it, even if it somehow magically didn't help you.
I just started playing “7 billion humans” on Switch. It’s like a simple programming language. You are given tasks that you have to complete by drag-and-dropping statements and commands into the code area to form a simple program, and then you run your program and observe if it’s successful. There’s even a debugger button for stepping through the code. It’s quite entertaining.
Iniskim Umaapi: Is This Canada's 'Stonehenge'?
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Trivial_brainfuck_substitution
I haven't experienced these UI problems despite regular use of Azure.

The VM speed I can't comment on.
Same issue here, paying $1200 for for a 600sq ft rental and new owners, made zero improvements and raising to $1500 because some complex down the road is charging that.

a 25 percent increase for me, I would buy but I don't want to hassle with a home bidding and don't plan on living in this state much longer.
Mahjong. Only playing for a few years but quickly became my favorite board game ever (I play japanese riichi). Randomness and luck involved but also pattern recognition, reading the opponents hand, and of course the multiple strategies involved. There are a lot of rules that seems very complicated in the beginning but it's not hard to pick up as long as you understand the core concept of the game. And there are great video game versions too which makes it easier to learn and play if you don't have anyone to play with irl.
How do key Covid-19 metrics compare to previous waves?
For that you have to be living in proximity to one and be able to afford the time and money to get there.

Access to government services should be a right accessible to everyone, not just the select few that can jump through intentional hoops!
Might not be legal but also not enforced.
To my knowledge, there have been no enforced lockdowns in the United States ever since the vaccine became widely available in the spring of 2021. Is this not the case in Israel? Have there been repeated lockdowns despite the (very successful) vaccination and booster programs in Israel?
Many don't know this, but monopoly is not illegal in the US.

Misusing monopoly power is.
I swear a similar tool was discussed here a just a few days ago, but I can't find it.
Your data probably excludes student housing. You made a mistake
upvoting to draw attention away from South Dakota
The median household income in the US in 2020 was $67,521 [1].

$4500 * 12 = $54000. I don't have kids so I can't call on personal experience, but Spending the median household income after tax on childcare seems high.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...
I feel like these marketplaces could maybe justify 30% on the purchase of an app up front, where there are clear benefits to the exposure and platform offered by them. But ongoing revenue is really attributable to the app itself and feels to me much harder to justify.

At this point I’d be happy if Apple just let me install apps outside their ecosystem, then they could at least defend themselves by saying if the developers aren’t happy with the terms of the App Store they can offer alternative methods.
So in mysql utf8 does not mean utf8. Reminds me of iso8601 in php, which does not mean iso8601.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php
Sigh. Often MS software is not understood by those that criticize it.
> Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged that myocarditis and vaccination were “possibly related” in this case.

In other words, no real evidence of causality or correlation.
It can get above 30C here[1][2], which is pretty hot for us. As you say, buildings are well insulated for the winter which means that the walls retains a lot of heat into the night once they've been baking for several days.

Keep in mind the sun goes down at around 11pm, so it doesn't really get cold outside until well past midnight. In my home, that means it can be 25C inside for hours after bedtime unless I use AC and keep the interior cold during the day.

One could get used to 25C I suppose, problem is it's just for a few weeks at a time, then it goes back down. So you never really get used to it.

[1]: https://www.yr.no/en/statistics/table/1-72837/Norway/Oslo/Os...

[2]: https://www.yr.no/en/statistics/table/1-72837/Norway/Oslo/Os...
You are saying this as SF is in pole position to form a government (not calling them extremists but comparing them to the main two)
Bitcoin survival isn't predicated on mass mining farms of the sort that are easily shutdown in china and elsewhere. Running nodes yields more revenue the higher proportion of the hash rate you have. Making it illegal just makes it that much more profitable to run nodes in difficult to shut down ways, such as a cell phone powered by a solar array running tor and a miner.

The market will provide.
I still don't think they deserve the 30%, but it's interesting that there doesn't seem to be any concern in that direction mentioned here. They mention in passing that the 30% may be a concern for partners but they seem basically unfased by it and don't mentioned that it might not be reasonable.
> optimised headless browser with good proxies instead

are you saying you only had problem because you didn't use headless browser before and now with both headless and proxy it generally suffices to not be seen as scrapper?
Your heart skipped a beat?
This is good because the more large companies that Apple pisses off, the sooner the App Store garden walls will come down.
I was going to comment that Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave if he would hear about this, but unfortunately Apple was already the money grabbing company today that it was back then as well.
Is Mazatlán considered a "bad" place?
> My favorite compromise is a search that takes a user right to the button, and or can initiate whatever it is.

This is how MacOS X's help menu search box has worked for over a decade, and it's brilliant. Type in a search and it shows you every menu item that matches, and rolling down the list shows you live where each menu item is.

I wish Spotlight search was similar - showing paths more readily, and making it easier to open the folder that contains the item that you want to look at.
A company I used to work for used Piwik and that's what I was going to suggest - I didn't realise it was now called Matomo.
Almost all the mass of a molecule is in atom nuclei, and these masses do not change under any battery chemistry I've ever seen.

The only way to change mass appreciably is to add or remove atoms from the interior of the battery.
I've never heard of a law like that.

Where I live, a person has full discretion on who inherits their estate if they explicitly write their will. Your offspring and next of kin are the default inheritors, but can be excluded if you explicitly say so in your will.
This is really amazing work, I found part 3 to be the most interesting
https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-te...
particularly the mwh/$ and other charts like capacity vs. weight etc.
The interesting thing is that this is literally how all governments originally emerged.

No - there are also revolutions and secessionist movements. Which already in their formation can be better thought of as mini-governments than "gangs" per se.

The basic problem with the idea of saying "it all started from gang rule" is that it brings to mind an image of criminal networks that just happened to fall into government-like activities (e.g. muscling out other gangs, running basic services) as a way of staying in business. Certainly true in some cases, but in most cases ... not a particularly meaningful description.
Please explain to me how Apple is a monopoly.
I'm not really surprised.

Azure isn't that different from AWS (once you used one cloud, you can pretty much port the fundamentals to another cloud). Sure some components have different names and you might have to use a different language, but it should not be a challenge for any engineer.

The Microsoft Stack is also... not that exotic. C# and Java are both pretty similar, and Microsoft is where TypeScript appeared. And they adopted Git as well in the last decade.

I remember a few years ago a lot of devs preferring C# but who didn't want to commit to Windows Server. With .NET now being cross platform and having good Linux support, I wouldn't be surprised to see more tech company using it.
Vatican admits Galileo was right (1992)
That says more about the way the company does corporate accounting than its business model. Microsoft also has roughly the same reported margin -- does that mean that there's a lot of margin for the taking with Microsoft? No. You're taking a noisy signal and putting meaning into it which isn't there.

Again, the networks take a small fraction of the overall fee, and the vast majority go to entities outside of the card network itself. Take a look at how the merchant discount rate breaks down, and you'll see who the true takers of those processing fees are.
Digging in it looks like this is mostly driven by energy (oil). Of course there is oil in everything so that will spill everywhere sooner or later.
Previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693423
I think I want to agree with this article, but I found it a little confusing.

In particular, I think it's strange to compare the F-16 with the F-35 when the former is regarded to be one of the best fighter jets ever made and the F-35 is infamous for being problematic. My understanding is that they are also different kinds of planes for different purposes, but at any rate, I struggle to focus on UX when there's that contextual elephant in the room.
Does it account for gravitational time dilation in sufficiently deep gravity wells?
As a backend dev, being able to emulate my own program compiled with GCC was pretty rewarding personally.

But I'm not arguing everyone must do it. Just trying to share why one unintuitive approach (the "complex" x86 architecture) might actually be easier and cooler than you think.
Part of the reason opportunities are dwindling is because generational wealth is accumulating more and more resources and rent seeking from the plebs who toil to survive. If you're not born into that club, it's very unlikely you'll enter it.
Many of these effects are highly temperature- and voltage-dependent, so they're way more likely to show up in chips that are overvolted, overclocked and inadequately cooled. But we're yet to see overclocking enthusiasts run into these reliability concerns, so my best guess is that the safety factors embedded in current designs are enough to make them less of an issue.
Into the Breach - turn based strategy where you know what the AI plans to do on their next turn. The same studio made FTL, which I also highly recommend.
I thought the idea that games can improve thinking and reasoning was debunked? Dedicating your life to chess doesn't mean they can put you in the general's chair and you'll be a military genius, just means you'll be good at chess.
I've heard it argued that the vaccine is evil because vaccine passes are the mark of the beast. It's actually not hard to make that connection if you look at what the Bible says about the mark of the beast. But I didn't even know that they literally used the tissue of aborted fetuses to develop them. Sounds pretty satanic.
For me, commits are too low granularity. I usually give 1-2 sentence summary. I put detailed descriptions (sometimes multi-page with graphs and tables) into pull-requests.

I understand that for projects with hundreds of collaborators the needs are different. But in our project with a team of 8 people I feel the overhead of structured commit messages is not worth it.
> In 30 years, do we really expect to be programming in some machine-human intermediate language?

Just as when people asked this 30 years ago, yes, though from our perspective today the tooling may seem near magical.
AdWords campaign rejected because site used Matomo Analytics
How come some people still don't consider Apple a monopoly is beyond me.
Seconded. Poker is a generally applicable set of life skills, imo.
I agree wholeheartedly. "Best practices" suggested by AWS, GCP are to architect these services with one function per endpoint, with API gateway handling the routing. Sounds good but if you need reasonable tail-end response latencies in the event of a cold start, you need to forget all about the serverless abstraction and go back to a single container with all of your functionality.

On the other hand I can see the appeal of one instance, one request. I don't know if the answer is to enable (optional) request parallelism or to optimize cold start times down further, but OP's requirements feel like they are way too modest to basically force them out of the serverless paradigm.
I was so exited when I tried out Astro yesterday! Their announcement about taking VC money dampens my exitment considerably. VC money almost always means that there will be a less-then-ideal monetization of the project down the road, somehow.

How do they plan to monetize a framework for developers? I know that frameworks like Laravel has built convenient services around their project to earn money, and that I have no problem with. But will such a model be enough to satisfy Astros investors? These are questions I woud like to see answered.
AppStore is the only way to sell/put apps on an iPhones.
Apple execs might have convinced themselves that they are entitled to a huge cut of pretty much everything that goes on an iPhone/iPad/etc.

To everyone else, this just looks like mustachio-twirling, cackling evil and unfathomable greed from a company that’s already the world’s richest and sitting on a mountainous pile of cash.
Depending on where you are, your lease might automatically convert to month to month. This exact situation happened to a friend of mine in NYC, they didn't sign the lease and didn't move out, and are just paying the old rent. They are legally month to month and are entitled to 60 days notice if the landlord wants them out or raise the rent (landlord hasn't said anything yet). A lease renewal != notice of a rent increase on a month to month tenant.
It would be fantastic, market changing, to know what cars or other consumer goods were actually designed for, but I don't have hope for that.

Honestly, I wouldn't buy a car if I knew its electronics were only designed to last 20 years. I wouldn't expect it to be reliable as it approaches that age. Mind you, I drive a 1994 Toyota Corolla, which has needed about $50 of repairs in the last decade, so I have high standards.
Changes to the lock file (`OPENFARE.lock`) need to be reviewed. The lock file needs to survive a project fork. Changes to the lock file need to be tracked on a contributor level. The lock file needs to be signed by those who care about the project.

> If you, a contributor, want to change your funding preferences, you have to file a PR with the project?

Yes, or, a bot could track your funding preferences from some repo and submit a PR for you. (Cryptographic verification permitting.)

> If you update your preferences, other branches of the same project can still have different preferences?

Yes but those other branches will be outdated and git will make that clear. Only the commit from which the software package is derived matters. Donation schemes are derived from software packages.

## Forking a project

Contributors could get a share of donations by proposing a change to a project's lock file via a pull request. Or they could fork and make a change. But their fork would have to stand on it's own as a software package.
5.5 Mm in 1.25 Nanoseconds
I'm willing to bet it was this, because I was so struck by it I saved it:

>I try to optimize my code around reducing state, coupling, complexity and code, in that order. I'm willing to add increased coupling if it makes my code more stateless. I'm willing to make it more complex if it reduces coupling. And I'm willing to duplicate code if it makes the code less complex. Only if it doesn't increase state, coupling or complexity do I dedup code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042400

edit: and of course it's from a long and worthwhile HN thread on Sandi Metz's original article which was the start of the back-and-forth resulting in the article for this thread
Any DOS adventure game from the 90s that maliciously threw impossible puzzles at you on a whim with no hints. The Dig is a fun one.

In terms of board games, the game of Hex is mathematically interesting in that the impossibility of a draw can be utilized to prove Brouwer's fixed-point theorem.
I date myself but I actually used the Arena browser way back when before moving on to Netscrape. It was kinda cool the paper look though so many things were novel in the early 90s internet.
Third-Party Software for Teslas Can Be Hacked, German Teen Says
Huh?! No one controls the blockchain.
It definitely seems like a vertical monopoly, which people seem to forget exists.
Close, but that's not quite right - 30% is the threshold within a "unit" (which can be one department) for a "showing of interest" which can be used to trigger a National Labor Relations Board election. An election is one of the most common ways to get an employer to live up to its obligation to bargain with its employees, but there are several. For an overview, check out "Labor Law for the Rank and Filer" by Daniel Gross.

Legalities aside, if you want to organize a union with your coworkers the first step is to form an organizing committee that is broadly representative of the unit you are trying to organize. You can then either form an independent union, or join an existing one. I'm happy to answer further questions by email (which you can find in my profile).
Depends on what type of thinking and reasoning you're after. Different games will train different aspects.

Engineering and systems thinking games - Factorio, Dyson Sphere Project

Multitasking and heuristic decision making games - Starcraft, Dota

Physics and mathematics games - Kerbal Space Program

Out of all of these, my favorites to play are probably Dyson Sphere Project and Dota, but for pure mental training I always felt Starcraft was the hardest. Quick decision making and adaptation to the environment always made it feel like it kept me on the edge of my seat mentally. Dota has a team aspect, which can go a long way to helping (or harming) your ability to work as a team.
I missed a word, sorry. I was idly musing about the longest legal code point sequences.