skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People die a lot[1]. If we take the link at face value, 116 a minute. Do we save them all? If so, how? Do we start with biggest troublemakers? If so, Covid might not be THE problem to tackle[2].

[1]https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/deaths-per-day

[2]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/how-many-people-die-e...
These would only help the power users, not the remaining 99%.
They already used the name iSight for a webcam.
Can you please elaborate on the data monopolies? What do you mean by that?
Wow - this is a really good description of Bitcoin. Similar to the tweet that said "Whenever I read 'decentralized', I think 'unregulated'."
C++ has no finally blocks.
A concise circuit breaker implementation
I've been working on this simple circuit breaker implementation using NodeJS with TypeScript (hope to be a library). Need some feedback to improve the implementation.
There are a lot of comments saying that "avoiding ideology is an ideology" or "preferring individuals over groups is an ideology." These aren't very interesting observations, they don't match the contextual defenition of "ideology" we can infer from the author's usage, and they don't really move the discussion forward.

This quote (ignoring the appeal to a desire to be part of the "thinking people" group) is a more interesting point, in my reading, and I'd like to see more discussion about this:

> Ideology is inescapable. To some extent, everyone is under its influence. But that does not mean that all are equally ideological; thinking people can adopt flexible stances, mixing traditions. Given the imperfections of ideology, I prefer this approach.

It's the "flexible stances, mixing traditions" part that is interesting here.

10-20 years ago, at least in the US, I recall reading that "independent" was the fastest growing political alignment. How did the polarizing elements of society break that trend, and how can a diversity of ideas be restored?
Why is kube and conventional hardware mutually exclusive?

It’s just a different way to utilize resources. I don't see an issue with the costs - I see an issue with this massive list of inventory that needs to be carefully managed. Managing 30 boxes is not easy when they are all funny shapes and sizes. Are they all running the same OS? Same version? How do you roll out security updates? With kube, you just bring a new node online and then kill the old one. Done.

My argument still remains - what happens when a vital box dies? How quickly can a new one be brought online? Is that automated? What about in the meantime, is service degraded or completely down? What about when the ES boxes shit the bed and you realize you actually needed a cluster of 5 nodes? Do you buy 5 new boxes that are carefully sized, or do you just scale your mega cluster from 4 to 5 and add a few new pods?

Kube is not nearly as big and scary as this community makes it out to be.
I think your gut has it right. The grass is not always greener. You've been doing your PhD and know its pros/cons and you very much enjoy the aspects of continuing and becoming an expert in machine learning. There will be no shortage of demand for this. By asking the question, it seems that you are financially capable of passing the SWE offer and continuing your research. The missing out on income in a position easily filled my many others is FOMO, as mentioned in by others. Note that the F is fear, and you should decide by passion rather than avoidance. Fear is only good for planning and if financially viable to continue should already have been addressed. If you're comparing with others who are taking these well paying positions, look at it from the point of view from the future as you have outlined: what area would you like to be actively working in?
Thanks, though I actually meant to copy the entire thing (my fault).

My point was that a lot of people working in data analysis would (strongly) disagree with the idea that we need to model the data in order to do anything with it. Visualisations and tabulations can tell a lot without any mathematical formalism.
Inequality can be measured by non-state entities, and would seem to provide (for example) useful signals to investors about the health of the ecosystem. I think bitcoins/cryptocurrency are largely bullshit and agree that their value proposition mostly comes from the promise to avoid regulation. But we shouldn't pretend that it is impossible for markets to do any sort of introspection without the force of law behind it. And in the case of bitcoin, they do at least know which wallets own which coins, right? Seems easier to track than cash.
Wrong, real inflation has been rising at an alarming rate for more than a decade, it didnt start in Q4 of 2021.

If you choose to measure BTCs performance poorly (3-6 month windows), you are just feeding yourself a false conclusion since Bitcoin had a 5,000,000x return over the past decade.
US Fed – Employee Religious Exception Request Information System
>I don't understand why they put so much effort in originally and then just give up.

It is the Google way. If it doesn't take off for the moon in a short time and become self sustaining they let it die. Google basically has the parenting instincts of a fish with millions of eggs.
Christianity absolutely has core doctrines that existed before the nicenene council- you're advancing a fiction. This idea of Christianity as a state religion is not historical and has no foundation.

Most of the major Pauline Epistles are mid first century, there were theological controversies as Christianity expanded but it's for sure not a state religion. It took centuries for the faith to dominate the pagan empire and the two got along pretty well well into late antiquity. Ultimately, many of the debates within Christianity in the fourth and fifth centuries are so obscure we can hardly understand them from a modern perspective- like the miaphysite controversy and countless others.
Let's take Civitas as an example. In Civitas, a voter has both "real credentials" and "fake credentials" that they can use to vote. Let's say that the spouse of the voter forces them to vote on a malware-infested machine, at a specific time and and place, while physically watching them vote, and also capturing any forensic evidence available on the machine. In this hypothetical the voter can simply use their fake credentials to cast a fake vote, and later use their real credentials to cast a real vote in secrecy. Will an abusive spouse be convinced that the coercion worked? No, but there is nothing the voter can do to convince the spouse in this case anyway. Even if the voter uses their real credentials to vote, they still have the same problem: they have no ability to convince their spouse that they voted as requested.
I suppose so, but perhaps trying to prevent the spaghettification has some positive benefits in terms of DRY + code structure.
I'd probably ask the same thing I do of everyone who asks for career advice: "What kind of problems do you want to work on?" Similarly, I'd ask: "Imagine you are getting ready to retire... What do you hope to have achieved? What does your CV look like at that point?" IE: begin with the endgame in mind.

This might get them to reflect on whether software is where they want to spend their energy and time. If so, then great, figure out how to get them pointed in the right direction. But, if they realize they are mostly interested in software because they've heard stories about sweet money and fame, maybe it isn't the best choice for them.
Can you share how it's doing cpu/memory wise and his it's holding up in general under what I assume I heavy load from HN?
Very well said and sad to see it being downvoted.
Assuming the Apple headset has similar features and quality as Varjo XR-3 ($5,995.00) + better ergonomics, I will definitely consider buying it for that price.

https://varjo.com/
Yes there are satellite phones and radio
Coming back to this comment after a few days, I find that what I was trying to say with the last bit is that yak-shaving can be either intrinsic (ADHD) or extrinsic (badly architected, deeply intertwingled code with leaky abstractions).
Small world, it's my hometown too! I had to do a double take when I saw the headline. My parents are still there but they're looking to leave. It's so different there than it was 20-30 years ago.
Why would the majority of people want that?
Doesn't this violate net neutrality ... ?
The pareto distribution has an alpha parameter. If alpha is large enough, then one person/wallet contains the totality of the wealth, and the rest all have exactly zero of it. This is illustrated plainly by the limit of alpha -> infinite in the graph.

I think it's obvious that this extreme case is very bad. So there must be a point where alpha goes from being in "good" territory to being in "bad" territory, or there must be some gradient of "least concerning" to "most concerning".

The question asked by OP is basically equivalent to "what is the value of alpha?" Considering the potential for concern, this seems like a useful thing to measure.

I don't want to speak for anyone else, but when most people talk about wealth/income distribution or inequality, they generally aren't advocating for a flat line (everyone has an equal amount of dollars), they are generally advocating for keeping Pareto's alpha at some reasonable level.
I have to say this discussion is getting a little frustrating.

First of all, information regarding the US is obviously irrelevant in the context of UK surveillance. Why even bring it up?

Second, every time you reply, you keep broadening out the terms of the discussion further and further, rather than addressing any of the specific factual claims in my posts. I have not taken any strong stance for or against surveillance in general. I'm only concerned to address inaccurate claims about the extent of CCTV surveillance in the UK.

The police can easily get warrants to look at lots of things that might be relevant to solving a crime. Maybe that is a problem. If so, that's an issue that's only tangentially related to CCTV surveillance in the UK.

All I am doing is correcting the claim that the police in the UK can force private individuals to hand over CCTV footage without a warrant. If you have a problem with warrants per se, then that's probably a discussion to be had elsewhere.
If you use US dollars you are personally culpable for the war in Iraq.
Cleanup labels are just a conditional jump, it's explicitly in the code. The defer feature would introduce implicit guarantees by the compiler.
You’ll need evidence for that, and a way to disambiguate Bitcoin’s performance as an inflation hedge from the speculative bubble.

> it did a 5,000,000x plus return in that time

Then it is self evidently not an inflation hedge.
ditto, super interested in what can be done with this one :)
Yeah but they've reused names before.
The reason disposable email addresses exist and are popular is because services have abused users' trust to not use these emails for shady ad revenue and marketing schemes.

It's further compounded by shoddy security that leads to leaks and exposure of people's personal email addresses to pwned compromised lists.

People don't want to give up their personal email addresses so that they can be spammed or hacked. Until services do better (ie don't sell me out for cheap) I'll keep using the latest disposable email address to sign up for your user-hostile websites.
Not holding up great it seems :)
The prime example of overbuilt highly inefficient (and unsafe) infrastructure that comes to mind for me is the "Stroad"[0]; it's somewhat like a comment that Elon Musk made about optimising something that shouldn't be there.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
The security processor is a black box. If the nsa wants a back door, could this functionality not be the justification for the security weakness created by installing the security processor?

It’s what I’d do..,
Because the compiler has to introduce code implicitly. The control flow is usually very explicit in C, with this feature it is less explicit.
This article is full of statement unsupported by evidence.

> Ideologies are associated with cognitive dissonance. This occurs when individuals hold conflicting beliefs, causing discomfort and motivating changes which reduce the dissonance.

This statement confuses ideas/ideals with cognitive bias.

> psychologists warn against narratives which emphasize threats and remove control from individuals.

What about all the ideas around removing existential threats to individuals or societies?
This is like saying, if someone asks how do I say fit:

1. Wake-up in the morning

2. Do exercise

3. Stay fit

:)
From a service provider's point of view [1], a big portion of "users" with disposable email domains have intention to do bad things, e.g., spamming, aggressively scraping contents... It's not easy to distinguish users-who-want-to-try-out-then-never come-back from users-who-want-to-do-bad-things-to-your-service.

Typically, online service provider may have empathy towards users with whatever emails, including disposable emails for privacy reasons. Then the online service becomes popular, and spams / scraping activities become out of control - Internet is big and there are a lot of bad people / bots. Try different tactics to fight bad users / bots. Eventually, the service provider joins the dark side and bans the use of all disposable emails. It's not ideal. If you are Google or Amazon, maybe you can trivially allocate 20 full time engineers to develop an elegant solution. For small businesses, you just use very limited resources and do whatever to survive.

[1] I run listennotes.com
Excellent points. I'll add that for error messages that sometimes the text isn't copy/pasteable and a screenshot may show extra context that might be useful. In all cases, it's important that the information be verbatim, don't paraphrase or unduly shorten messages.
I used to do that, but then considered I might be leaking out more inferred info by doing that.

Such as WHOIS info (if not cloaked), or an algorithm may assume I'm a business and charge me higher prices, etc. I used to get marketing spam from Dropbox saying that many of my coworkers enjoy using it and to upgrade -- but I was the only user on that domain name.
How about blacklisting Gmail? They're a major source of spam.
CSS Houndini – Extend CSS without having to wait for standards to catch up
Google has abandoned a project? I’m Jack’s complete lack of surprise
Can't connect but the OP put a video[1] up of the system ~4 months back. Looks like it might be serving content direct from 3.5 and 5 1/4 floppies which might explain the lag :D

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be01GLFP-bQ
Don Hopkins has written up a wealth of information about SimRefinery on HN before, and it's all terribly interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425368

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23425542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24163430
I don't like the homepage much, especially since I did absolutely not understand what this is supposed to be about.

The application part itself I quite like. Some of the color contrasts are way to low and style over substance (my first impression was, that it must have been designed by a Swiss Architect), but what I do like a lot is, just how little noise there is.
eBay. Unlike Amazon, sellers are rated and have hard incentives to maintain their reputation as sellers.

Also, sometimes Monoprice.
I'm doing something[0] similar with Deno, currently it configures workflows based on yaml files, but my goal is to make a gui tool to help generate yaml config files. My work is still very early stage, currently it can use any remote Deno module or typescript/javascript to execute steps and fetch and filter source data.

The Deno runtime is great for workflows because Deno is lightweight and can import modules using arbitrary URLs.

[0]: https://github.com/denoflow/denoflow
And freechess.org ?
I might be the only one but I strongly prefer grid-layout cities to these winding suburb road layouts anyhow. When your city is a grid you can make street names mean something and a person can navigate from place to place easily and have an intuitive idea of how far away something is, both without a cellphone.
The Messy History of Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI
Perhaps they were thinking of Rochester, New York: https://rocwiki.org/abandoned_subway
Actually I upgraded the storage and the website is now served from a hard disk. I'm uploading a video to Youtube atm.
I read a story in the last couple of years about small towns that shot themselves in the foot by keeping out the big box stores - I wish I could find it again. The theory was that the traditional small downtown couldn't meet 100% of everybody's needs, so they started shopping at places like Amazon. And once you start shopping at Amazon, it just becomes convenient to do more and more of your shopping there. Suddenly instead of your downtown being killed by the big boxes a mile out of town, they're being killed by someone much bigger and farther away and harder to fight back against.
repo seems to be owned by a google employee
Ultrarapid Nanopore Genome Sequencing in a Critical Care Setting – NEJM
Test to se if https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43847/bomblet-dropping... is viable
I did the same using proton mail and catch-all addresses. Every website I give a unique email address and it all goes into a special folder. If I start receiving spam from any address it gets blocked. This also gives me a pretty solid idea if a company is selling my info.
Please spare the strawman. Some societies are well known to be hypercompetitive, other are less, and same are profoundly egalitarian. This has been widely researched by anthropologists and there's plenty of literature on the topic.

(oh and if you still insist on anecdata, I know plenty of people who consider distasteful to compare your wealth to your neighbors, both from Europe and from Asia)
It takes a bit more effort than that - Discord servers can use IP address, email address, and phone number to blacklist against.
That doesn't belong in C. C doesn't have much in the way of implicit execution. C++ does, and C++ already has destructors.
> The motivation from Lenovo's customer perspective is theoretically the customer knows this was the processor intended for the machine by Lenovo and nobody swapped it out in between the Lenovo factory and the customer's hands.

Except that it works the other way. You can put a generic retail processor in the machine -- which will then ruin it by locking it to that vendor.

No customer benefit exists.
source code: https://github.com/paulinko/nutri-calc
VR makes my physically ill.

Even thinking about it now makes me feel unwell.
Leet/OS
> or potentially another model from the same manufacturer

This would allow an OEM/ODM to segment their offerings by having two or more sets of signing keys. "Oh sorry, that CPU only works in our entry-level offerings. You will need our enterprise-certified AMD CPU for your large server." "But it's the same socket!"
I list a few defer-style approaches for C that I know of, including the previous version of this one, in the “Related work” section of my block-based defer for C (presented in HN last August https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166125):

https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/cedro/202106171400/#defe...
What never makes sense to me in the rumor mill is that given Apple's historical track records, do we really expect them to release a headset that is so bulky and similar to every other attempt at a headset? Apple's whole schtick is the way they take what other people have tried and then refine it into some completely unexpected form factor. If they ever do a "headset" I'd expect it to be something wire thin or even some kind of micro add-on to glasses that they sell as a fashion statement.
Right clicking on a process in the list does not bring up a context menu in Activity Monitor on my Mac.
I feel as though they should change the name of the paper, because this must be one of the most complex takes on 'defer' that I have seen.

They make a classic mistake of trying to solve a problem by adding more complexity. They cannot decide on by-value or by-reference, so they take the convoluted C++ syntax to allow specifying one (as well as other semantics?).

It does not fit with C in my opinion. It will also hurt third party tools that wish to understand C source code, because they must inherit this complexity.

I would prefer a solution where they simply pick one (by ref / by value) and issue a compiler warning if the programmer has misunderstood. For example, pick by-value and issue a warning if a variable used inside the defer is reassigned later in the scope.
I have operated a web business for 6 years now, and a few clients of my company could be considered "small local clients". If you enter into an agreement to do work for these types of clients, you have to understand that they're likely to see it through the lens of a long-term relationship regardless of if you see it that way. They WILL call you post-launch for help, they will be reaching out to you for months and years to come to help them out with various tasks related to their site.

Knowing this, it's important to establish to the client from the beginning what your role will be post-launch. I have turned this into a lucrative source of (largely) passive income as I require clients to agree to at least a year of contracted monthly support. My contract is structured so that they owe the fee every month, regardless of whether they reach out for support or not. If you're thinking that most clients would never agree to this, I've yet to have a client that didn't. And the reality is most of the time they don't call for support, but the appreciate knowing that they can if something comes up.

This is a win-win, they get the peace of mind knowing that they have someone who will help then when they need it, and you turn that into a stream of (largely) passive income. (This works for large clients too of course).
Honestly, I prefer the floppy drives!
Russia also shares a water border with the US (Alaska). The Bering Strait is "only" 83km (51mi) across; e.g. there are currently 5 bridges longer than that (all in China).
Dempster–Schafer theory is the obvious counterexample to "degrees of belief have to be represented by probability measures."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempster%E2%80%93Shafer_theory
Can't decide if this sounds like the backing story for an episode of X Files, E.R. or Good Doctor. Really weird stuff, and slightly scary in its alien-ness.

I'm glad the Wikipedia page includes details of his appearance and how his stomach's skin and so on behaved, since it sounds kind of impossible for all that food to simply fit within a body.

It sounds like he must have had his metabolism turned up to 11, perhaps due to some genetic mutation that also caused the other abnormalities found in the autopsy? I know absolutely nothing about medicine, and was a bit sad that the page doesn't include some kind of modern-day analysis/diagnosis, but I guess nobody source-worthy has attempted that, then.
>The shortest time from arrival of the blood sample in the laboratory to the initial diagnosis was 7 hours 18 minutes.

>After establishing a diagnosis in Patient 1, we updated our bioinformatics framework to permit the transfer of terabytes of raw signal data to Cloud storage in real time and distributed the data across multiple Cloud computing machines to achieve near real-time base calling and align- ment, a step that reduced the postsequencing run time (base calling through alignment) by 93%, from 7 hours 21 minutes to 34 minutes.

Amazing basecalling and alignment of a human genome can be done in 34 minutes. How far we have come since the first reading of human genome.
I use 33mail.com which forwards (and can block) wildcard email addresses. There’s a free tier, but with paid you can option use your own domain.
Cloudflare should offer disposable addresses on your own domain. One click enablement. Why not.
What I said is a long way from "ultra cynical"

And I didn't say it for any feelings of my own, or for anyone's feelings for that matter.