skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As somebody who was bullied in my childhood and early youth, I can say that there is no way one could go back to their bullies and collaborate with them politely. The only way to "get rid of the baggage" is to cut these people out of one's life, completely. No cooperation possible, unless a genuine profuse apology is given, and convincing demonstration of good intention is presented. The other way is to become a bully, which is not an option for many.

The measures and the rhetoric of covid-enthusiasts is bullying in appearance and in essence (night curfews - for six months - and mandatory muzzling - for the owner - on solitary dog walks, for example), although I agree that for a brief initial period some didn't look like so. It is now, and has been going for quite a while. The less sense all the measures make, the more harsh doubling down goes ahead. The concerns are not only dismissed, but actively invalidated and vilified. There is absolutely no appetite shown to even acknowledge that somebody may be in pain due to what being done, yet alone apologize for it. I don't know what is appropriate word for someone insisting to continue to inflict pain even after being told that their subject is in great pain. Gaslighting? Sadism? Righteousness? Bullying? Genuinely caring people have no problem with acknowledgement and apology, the ones who do are... you name it.

And before accusations of intent to kill grandma, I haven't stepped out of my house for two years now, such repulsive reaction I have to masks and some other "measures". Do not and did not care about covid a tiniest bit. There is no light in sight, so I'm preparing to take my life, if not consumed by ailments, old and new, that flared up. If, by some miracle, "we get over this" and I'm alive, then all the time second-guessing each fellow human on whether they were actual bully or accidental accomplice is not a great perspective either. But bullies do not deserve cooperation or compassion. So the only way forward I see is absolute sabotage of all government initiatives. All within the boundaries of law and regulations, of course.
> Overall, my impression was of a project whose participants treated it as a vehicle for promoting their personal "pet" projects

I'm so glad to see others speaking out about this. I'm 100% in agreement that's what "saviour" projects like MIT Asia, OLPC have all ended up being.

> the Pixel Qi display (monochrome mode was poorly utilized by software)

I've said this before about the Pixel Qi panel in the XO-1. I'm not attempting to be negative, but I actually work in the display industry and found the PixelQi display on the OLPC-XO-1 to be unusable. My perception of the display was one with very low quality color with backlight; and terrible viewing angle and unreadable contrast levels in bright sunlight. It also had low resolution. The XO-1 display I had access to had lots of pixel defects. If I am not mistaken (as I do not know actual pricing that Quanta got for the PixelQi displays) they were more expensive than LCDs and required additional parts that made managing their supply chain overall difficult. Most experts in my industry that I talked to expressed the opinion that it was a reality-distortion field type charismatic executive (ML Jepsen) who managed to convince people at OLPC to try that idea. It was funded by UN and money from developing countries budgets who were excited by the promise of being able to educate their masses. Sadly it looks as if those countries and their budget expenditures were taken for a ride by Nicholas Negroponte and his gang, rather than benefiting from a genuinely merit based idea.
They didn’t just reject selling to individuals, they rejected selling in large quantities to corporations, organizations or governments operating outside their educational mission. I recall thinking they’d never achieve real economies of scale in their production and therefore hit their $100 price point after witnessing a speech in which Negroponte responded to a question and acted as if selling the hardware to somebody like UPS or the USPS was the most ridiculous idea ever.
Creating the next generation of tech workers and founders and just generally tech-savvy generation has value. I wouldn’t want to only import tech from the US.
a lot of the behavioral economic ps experiments were discredited but the policies based on them are still active
OkHTTP or netty.
TXN fees for miners to secure the chain.
I would personally recommend Susskind’s videos on cosmology. Seems like the main ideas are surprisingly simple and I walked away feeling like I had learned something.
Maybe instead of dismissing it as ridiculous, you should do some research into who exactly many of these folks think are perpetuating the lies about the earth being a globe. Far too often, people who are more ignorant of the actual beliefs these conspiracy theorists spout give them the benefit of the doubt and paint them as harmless.
Your lack of understanding does not make it nonsense.
Ask HN: Senior FAANG engineer, going back to school for PhD. Is it a bad idea?
I graduated with a CS bachelors degree a few years ago and joined a FAANG right after. I joined a really cool team and I worked my way up to a senior level.

While I was in school I really liked research and I thought I could do a PhD in computer science some day. I saved up a bunch of money while working and I can easily “afford” to take a few years off to complete the PhD now. Also, with the pandemic and WFH I had some time to actually complete and send out applications to several highly ranked schools.

Now that the acceptances and interviews are slowly trickling in, I’m having some doubts about doing the PhD. I’ve heard horror stories about abusive advisors, mental health struggles, low stipends, burnout, and lack of support systems. I don’t think the PhD will boost my career too much since I’m already in a R&D role at FAANG. Of course I already knew this before sending the applications, but as decision day (April 15) gets closer I’m doubting whether my personal goal of doing a PhD is worth the $1 Million+ opportunity cost and other downsides.
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I don't know, I just see the virus has evolved into a very mild variant that even triple-vaxed don't seem protected from, and that the original vaccine has been designed with a spike protein that has since greatly mutated.
> Agreed that it provides no data on future filters ahead of us

This was my instinct, too, after reading both of your posts, but on reflection I think that it's unlikely to be no information.

If we instead found 199 examples of extinct complex life (say, fossilized rodent-like creatures), instead of extinct simple life, we all probably agree that this would increase the odds of the filter being in front of us.

Now, imagine gradually changing the example from extinct complex life (rodent-type creatures) and going down to extinct simple life. At what point in this thought experiment does it become "no data"?
If society moves ahead by 100 points and the bright, self-motivated capture 75 of those points, I think that society is still better off.
I'm of mixed feelings.

On the one hand, it would be an incredible experience to eat what the natives ate.

On the other hand, what they ate was tied up with the rest of their culture, especially hunting, gathering, and farming it themselves. And Professor You're-Nothing-But-Disease-Vectors-To-Me (also recently featured on Hackernews) had an interesting point about the commodification and commercialization of that which was sacred to Native Americans (talking about tobacco, not food). So maybe Native American restaurants should be not a thing. Maybe they will do nothing but corrupt the meaning food has in their society.
Accelerated approvals are just that - accelerated and don't require the same standard of proof of efficacy. Just like Avastin for Breast Cancer - it got accelerated approval, turned out it didn't work, so approval was recinded.

The goal is to give patients access to potentially effective medications. They do this because people bitch when the FDA says "no".
> People changing careers wouldn't contribute to the total number of unfilled jobs being higher, though

Are there actually any evidence that there are more unfilled jobs though? Unemployment is actually at 3.9%, which is down to pre-pandemic levels. That's better than 2017 and most of 2018, actually.

Heck, now that I'm pulling up real numbers (should've done this earlier), unemployment spiked up to 14.7% in April of 2020, and was on a continuous downward slide after that, including before any state cut its enhanced UI. Nationwide unemployment was at 5.9% when states began cutting UI. This is more consistent with "crisis over, we don't need to keep this" than "oh god we have to cut UI or they won't go back to work. My state had an unemployment rate of 3% when they turned off enhanced UI, no need for a stick there!

For comparison the official unemployment rate was above 5.9% between August 2008 and October of 2014.

I think that the best argument for here "UI lets people be lazy and not work" is not that people stopped working during the pandemic because of it. I think the best argument is that people knew that this system was temporary and that they had to get a new job and start working when they felt it was safe, because it was temporary. One might expect different results if the system was more generous permanently, I don't know.

> And if "general re-evaluation of life choices" leads to quitting your job, aren't the only two possibilities that you either get a new job, or you don't work anymore?

Either possibility is incompatible with the general thesis that UI was why people stopped working, and we had to cancel UI in order to get people back into work. Either they didn't need the job and no amount of UI tweaking will bring them back, or they decided to get a different job and no amount of UI tweaking will fill their old one.

> But what about the rest of the states? And the federal government left their money faucet on until September.

I could be wrong here, but UI is administered through the states. The federal government had the money tap on to the states who then gave it out through their system.
Very Sinatra like: https://sparkjava.com/
TIL Zoroastrianism is still a thing. I knew about it from the Crusader Kings games, but for some reason i thought it was dead.
Uhmm, I don't know where you were getting your information, but yes, it was pretty clear.
Sorry, I totally disagree that is is "completely in the right", I use 3 other video apps, they all give exit prompts instead, here is an example:

Netflix could have done what Prime video does

Prime Video: "Do you want to exit the app? (Yes/No)", then done

Netflix: scroll all the way down the menu options: Home, Play something, New & Popular, TV Shows, Movies, My List, Get Help, Exit Netflix (click), 8 clicks in total before you can exit.

So it takes orders of magnitude more clicks, and more time out of my life, every time I try to exit the Netflix app. Considering that exiting an app is something I do all the time, it is not great
He chose to put a package online. He didn't sign any contract stating the package would meet some kind of quality obligations. He had no obligation to do anything.

If there was a bug in his logic that caused an infinite loop in some scenarios he was under no obligation to fix it. While I think he should in that scenario, I would defend his right to leave it. Another maintainer could fix it, someone could fork the package, whatever.

I am not arguing he owed anything to anyone. I am arguing that he is not entitled to maliciously break things on people. He committed it knowing full way most packages would grab it automatically, most people are okay with that as if it breaks things they can go back a version no big deal. His package is so popular some people might not even realize that one of their dependencies relies on it.

We can argue about how much time you should invest in knowing your dependencies and checking every commit for them, until we are blue in the face. The reality is he knew most people just can't or won't especially in npm world.

There is no defending a malicious act. He is not entitled to commit code maliciously. OS works because we trust maintainers to do their best to have the best interests of the users at heart. The flip side of that is they are under no obligation to work on it. They can walk away at anytime.

If peoples idea of OS software starts to include that someone could do something malicious at any moment, that's the beginning of the end of OS.
Ah, you're right, and 23 continues onto 87. I was going off of rhyme and meter, and hadn't yet looked them up.
Almost until 1944, the torpedoes that US submarines were obliged to use on Japanese warships would not blow up when they hit.

Toward the end of that period, some submariners determined that if they shot the torpedo so it struck at a shallow angle, the shock would not so damage the fuse as to make it completely fail.
I am not thinking of clones, no. I’m thinking of my AEK and AEK IIs with creams and salmons that don’t feel so hot today. I haven’t used many vintage Cherry boards, but I do know that people actively seek out “vintage blacks” because the plastics have been smoothed out after a lot of use.

I’m really surprised to read this comment because it really disagrees with what I’ve read and my own experience.
They'll delay the decline a bit but I think they'd need to see a surprising turnaround baby boom among converts on top of conversion rates in order to cancel it out? We'll have to see.
I think you might be confusing the podcast host with his guests. Rogan isn’t someone claiming medical expertise or authority.

His guests, on the other hand, are often well qualified to make their statements.
the book was Walkaway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaway_(Doctorow_novel)

the only reason i didn't name it before is that i couldn't recall the name off-hand.
The terms "Chinese food" and "Indian food" are similarly reductive/broad. They represent in the US a specific a new cuisine, a kind of curated fusion (eg chicken tikka masala). If your focus is on understanding the food of a place and people and how those things relate, this is a bad thing probably.

As the market grows it kind of gets undone - this is most obvious in America with maybe Japanese restaurants? Sushi, ramen, bbq are often entirely different restaurants. Except that, as the fusion represents a new cuisine, it can stick around on its own
We raised $1.77M for our seed round, now what?
I don't believe that is accurate. Several studies show no significant difference between the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated. Here is one https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...

Also, recent reports from Denmark seem to indicate that vaccinated at best have equal protection against Omicron. Too early to declare this as fact, but the initial data actually favors a slight negative efficacy.
I think the question really is what makes you want to go for PhD in Com Sci?
Why not masters program? Why PhD?
Why Com Sci?
Suppose you get your PhD, what’s next for you?
Does a PhD help you get there?
Very good points. I'd add that PostgreSQL didn't even get built-in streaming replication until late 2010 so if you were evaluating anything for a high-availability setup before 2011, you'd be looking at MySQL. As you note, database choices tend to be sticky.

PostgreSQL's replication is still a bit of a pain and MySQL has things like Vitess that which offer great tools for scaling out a database (including sharding, replication, etc)

PostgreSQL has improved a lot from the 2000-2010 time period, but MySQL still has some good stuff going for it.
I see your point, and I think you are technically correct.

What it implies to me is that "Assange reports to Putin" has not been debunked.

Do you think that it is disinformation, then?
It takes generations to build up the sort of tightly-knit social capital that makes it generally feasible to cohabit as an "extended family" or to leave kids lightly supervised. Our arrangements for such things follow on from a general way of life that discounts long-persisting social ties as quite unimportant.
Idk if Web3 is fully defined yet. What makes it just scoped to crypto projects? I don’t think the current economic structure of crypto allows them to be as useful as the hype
I read this article, but I found no content discussing the title itself (that in Japan, digicams are the new film) - maybe I am missing something?
Geocities was dead by 2005, and web 2.0 was in full swing.
On the other hand, they saved many Japanese lives. For a while, anyway.
HIAKAI in New Zealand has done really well taking indigenous (traditionally foraged) Māori ingredients and turning them into a fine dining experience. I'd love to see what a similar take could look like with Native Indian cuisine. https://www.hiakai.co.nz/food
I think the author would say that it's "not working" rather than "failing", but I would also say that this is a pedantic distinction. One could also arbitrarily say hardware never truly fails, e.g. if you account for MTBF as part of the design.
When Black Mirror's Bandersnatch came out, I had it added on Plex. I watched it before I knew the concept behind it. All of the multiple storylines were played sequentially. I remember thinking, wow, way too avant-garde for me. It was only later that I realized that Netflix had an interface built around it for picking the storylines.
It's really very simple, no you don't need to pass around a factory object.

You just have a class/classes that construct/wire all of your singleton objects and passes the required dependencies into their respective constructors as necessary.

Here is a contrived example of what the wiring code might look like for a web app that uses a database.

public static void main(String[] args) {
MyConfig config = readConfigFile();
DatabaseConnection dbConn = new DatabaseConnection(config.dbHost(), config.dbPort());
UserDao userDao = new UserDao(dbConn);
UserController userController = new UserController(userDao);
List<Controller> controllers = List.of(userController);
WebServer webServer = new WebServer(config.listenPort(), controllers);
webServer.runAndBlock();
}
Thanks for the followup as well. I'll just respond on a couple of the points:

- you don't see these detailed core schematics with analyses because in our design they are designated export controlled (ECI) as I mentioned. It doesn't mean that they aren't in there or that they haven't been extensively performed and documented.

- the endeavor (and cost) of downblending EBR-II fuel over many years has been based on the national and state nonproliferation agreements to downblend this high enriched used fuel from EBR-II. Don't confuse that endeavor with processing used, low-enriched fuel from existing plants. In the one case, the downblending work was being performed for many years in the interest of downblending before storing as waste (except now, instead, it can be used to produce clean power and demonstrate a FOAK fission plant). In the other case, recycling existing waste, we are already working with DOE (and starting NRC interactions) about deploying recycling existing nuclear waste for fuel. I can tell you it's incredibly cost effective for a fast reactor to utilize the TRU in existing low-enriched waste and that is our goal for not just feel-good reasons but also for economic reasons. It is not false nor disingenuous.

It's true that the burnup is far less than would be ultimately most economically efficient. The FOAK was intended to serve as a bit of an MVP as I already mentioned. But it's key that larger doesn't mean less safety. The fundamentals of the safety in this case lie in how the fuel has inherent shutdown characteristics, which were proven true of EBR-II (at 65 MWth) even as it's true of Aurora (<10MWth). Many different plants have different mechanisms of safety at various size ranges!

Thanks for engaging and your thoughtful responses.
> Not a rebuttal

Just like you don't need to rebutt a flat earther theory that ignores basic laws of gravity, no-one needs to rebut an argument that ignores basics of economics.

You are conflating consumer good and assets, you are conflating creation of money and redistribution, you are totally ignoring the three most important factors - velosity of money, productivity and interest rates.

Firstly prices of houses and other assets depend on interest rates, not wages.

Secondly UBI does not do 'rescaling', whatever that means, nor does it create new money, it does redistribution. Redistribution does not cause inflation.

You could have presented an argument that velosity of money would increase so much it could trigger inflation, or that productivity would collapse, but you have provided no such argument, let alone evidence
This was hugged to death, is there a mirror?
Ohanian Says Play-to-Earn Crypto Games Will Be 90% of Gaming Market in 5 Years
It doesn't matter how secretive you are when you create the wallet, that's not where the privacy issue lies. The problem comes from your use of the wallet. If you only use the wallet to pay for digital goods and only access those digital goods through multiple layers of protection, then you're probably fairly safe.

But that's not very realistic. If bitcoin were to become the primary way to pay for things, you're going to be buying physical goods with it. If you order something online then they have your shipping address to associate with your wallet. If you buy something at a physical store then they can see you and know what wallet paid them.

And lets say you maintain one wallet for the secret all-digital stuff and another wallet for everything else (or however many wallets makes sense for you), it's better that way, but all you have to do is slip up once with the secret wallet to be screwed. Everything you did with that secret wallet can now be associated with you even if the transaction happened 20 years ago.
This I feel is the core of the issue:

> Residential density is another factor. Denser neighborhoods have more cars, more traffic and more pedestrians, all factors that cause motorists to intuitively slow down, experts said.

> And in Chicago, which has seen an exodus of Black residents in recent decades, Black neighborhoods are far less dense than their white counterparts.

So the ticketing distribution is indicative of a larger structural problem. And of course, the quick and easy solution focuses on ticket fines, not, you know, actually investing in neighborhoods.
This is closer to my opinion of flat earthers. It pisses people off and that's hilarious so keep saying you believe it. You probably don't believe it but who cares anyway.

I sometimes argue the opposite of what I believe if I'm dealing with someone who's getting way too worked up over it. I kind of like the mental exercise of defending an opinion I don't agree with and the entertainment that goes with it.
I appreciate you clarifying your reasoning. I think it's straight up crazy/magical reasoning. But to be honest I don't have much more confidence in my own conjectures on this matter.
> to detect and hinder intellectual property violations on the Internet

by detecting and hindering domain name intellectual property

double plus based
but how you did this? Recompile and then compile to a customized APK?
I mean Andrew Lee did drive away all of the communities that were on freenode.
>If you take a cube-shaped cross section of a 4D example (through the center), you wouldn't see the corner spheres at all.

Wait wait wait, I thought the "cube" had the same number of dimensions as the "spheres".
All things being equal, religion (broadly speaking) has a logical justification: for the vast majority of human history, we were unable to explain just about anything about our condition. Recent history is, as Tevye says, tradition[1].

The fact that we celebrate Christmas in 202X by buying crap on Amazon instead of torturing the infidels suggests that we do indeed get tired before we get dangerous, at least on the long arc of history.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw