skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few of my friends are doctors. When it hits, it's hell. Here in Poland 300h of work during the month the infections are at their peak is not unheard of.
Dude go to a hospital in a populated area during this surge. My wife sat in the waiting room for 3 hours with SEVERE abdominal pain, DURING A PREGNANCY and was unable to be seen. We went home. If she’d had an ectopic pregnancy, she would probably not be here anymore.
I have lost hope on lawmakers doing anything meaningful here which can actually prevent the market domination misuse happening right now. I don't know if it is incompetence or lobbying.
Shannon-Nyquist alone is quite the achievement for anybody.
It's one single quote away from being unambiguous.

Windows' Subsystem for <whatever>
Yes, first line says this:

We are right now in the process of…

"Legally" part looks like a stretch goal to me, however.
Israel doesn't need Anduril. They have a large domestic drone industry with decades of experience and a strong export sector. Israeli drones gave Azerbaijan a decisive edge in that country's recent armed conflict with Armenia. By some estimates, Israel is the world's largest exporter of military drones:

https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israel-is-greatest-exporter...

They have a strong anti-drone industry, one area in which Anduril seeks to differentiate itself:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-08-...

And Israeli designed-and-built sniper drones have already killed people in Gaza:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/israeli-military...
Depends on your definition of caution.
It would be hard to imagine you couldn't make money buying a radio station for $150,000.

You would think so, but a couple of weeks ago I was looking at one of the trade web sites that published a weekly list of radio and television stations shutting down. Not put up for sale, or even going dark. Going away forever, as in turned in their license.

I expected to see lots of AM stations there, but there was also FM and TV stations. Probably two dozen in total, just for that week. Surprising, to me.

I think people on the West Coast have a distorted idea about the quality of radio and TV service in the rest of the US.

In my experience, it's market to market. I move a lot (~15 cities in 14 states in the last 20 years). In spite of all the complaining I read on the internet, almost all of those markets have one or two, or even three really outstanding local radio stations.

Then recently, I moved to a large city with absolutely terrible radio, and I understand all of the complaints. Before I thought it was just that people couldn't find exactly what they wanted. But even when you find the content you want, the presentation is awful.

The common factor seems to be ownership. The more radio stations in a market with local ownership, the better the quality of the content on all stations.

Even New York, which should have the best radio in the country, has gotten really really bad in the last five to ten years. And it seems like it really went downhill right when the big players got bought by out-of-state conglomerates.
My Bluetooth connection has become less and less reliable on my Airpod Pros, which tell me a new one is probably coming soon. Funny how that works :)
Especially since hospital capacity is induced scarcity due to government regulation and the AMA.
Vivino kinda does that but for wine only. You can scan any bottle with it and it shows you its rating based on user reviews.
I second that... There are a lot of times when I want to make notes or find information that I want to add to my Wiki (hosted on my desktop) from my phone or just want to search for something and having an android app that lets me do that would be fantastic.
Well, at that point it's borderline impossible to spend (on consumables, not assets) your yearly earning, so even if he's poor now, he almost certainly won't be by the end of the year (unless he has a massive amount of debt).

In contrast if you make $250k it's quite easy to spend the whole amount or close to it (again on consumables, not assets), hence your net worth stays the same in a year. You have to limit your spending to slowly build up your net worth.
Well, to have a formal proof of its own safety, we first would need a correct formal definition of what it means for it to be safe (or, rather, a formal definition of a condition which is truly a sufficient condition for it to be safe. It needn't be a necessary condition.)

But, I suppose arriving at such a formal definition doesn't really require that the thing being described be particularly amenable to our understanding.

However, I'm not sure that "if we ran it, if it is safe, it could prove itself to be safe" is sufficient to address the concerns.

If it isn't safe, then running at all may spell doom, so, "if it is safe, it could demonstrate that after we turn it on" doesn't really address that, because it doesn't give us any assurance before we turn it on.

Now, if we started with something with substantially sub-human overall intelligence, and which wasn't really agent-y (so that, if it was a little unsafe, it would at least not be catastrophically unsafe), but which was more equipped to formally prove things about itself and potential modifications of itself than humans are equipped to formally prove things about it, then we could task that thing with formally proving safety properties about itself, and of also proving safety properties about its successor, and do that before running its successor, and iterate this process to produce increasingly intelligent programs and perhaps also eventually agentic ones, while always having a safety proof of each before we run it..

But, I'm not really sure how plausible this route is? Like, even assuming we do reach AGI, safe or unsafe, I'm not sure this is a plausible route of getting there safely.
It's not scientists vs politicians, it's corporate sponsored authoritarian control versus fundamental freedom and basic liberties.

The leadership class has been falling over themselves as a cover for decades of fake progress. That is why they are quick to take up any cause, blame the public, and demonize others: it's a defense.

The genesis of the virus is still at issue, even while the dog-and-pony act goes on. It's too serious to be lazy about the origin of the virus, and to accept the narrative. If it was created by process in a lab, tested on humans, then the Covid-19 is mass murder.
Is CFS similar to narcolepsy in that you could fall asleep anytime?
Having anyone's freedoms dependent on available hospital capacity is a terrible way to run a society.

So is letting people die from otherwise treatable injuries and infections so someone else can enjoy their "freedom" to ... you know what I'm driving at.
It's not always processing power. Some of the older phones had known issues, for example the iPhone 7 often had a faulty audio IC, and the iPhone 6/6+ had low RAM relative to its larger screen size and bigger graphic sizes.

Prior to the 8 and XR, iPhones had Bluetooth versions 4.0 or 4.2, which meant things were slower to connect, and also meant lower microphone data quality. Apple hasn't done any customer education around this. A lot of people with older MacBooks have poor microphone quality when using AirPods - but it's primarily their computer that is the bottleneck.
This is only my opinion but I believe this is only happening because Uncle Bob refuses to submit to political correctness.

It's still a solid resource, you should not treat it as your Bible of course. There is not a single resource that will teach you how to write clean code or clean architecture.

You need to read about design patterns, and then you will abuse them, so you need to step down, reflect and see them for what they are.

You need to learn to name things well. Most functions can be short and expressive. The code can speak for itself (most of the time)

You need to spot reusability, to know when you are being too clever, you need to go down the rabbit hole until you see for yourself, that this is obviously not the right way to do it.

This takes times, and there is no exact recipe. It's similar to chess, sure you can learn many openings and closing, but 90% of the game is sensing the board, seeing patterns as a whole.

In this journey, Uncle Bob is a pretty good teacher, he will show you code you could have produced by yourself, code that I could have produced myself. And show you why it's flawed, why it would be hard to extend, modify. Why it will be hard to read several months from now.

And he will teach some good principles you can use to write better code.
FoCS is more focused on discrete mathematics. SICP focuses mostly on, well, programming language interpreters. SICP is also chattier, in my view.
... Wait, can you not? That's basically how tamiflu works. And one relic of the pandemic will be that at-home covid testing will be cheap, easy and available in a way that at-home flu testing is not (antigen tests are already cheap and easily available in Europe, and soon will be worldwide).

Now, I can imagine that not _all_ cases will be given the antiviral automatically. If you're a vaccinated 18 year old with no comorbidities, say, that is probably not going to be cost-effective (though, well, we'll see what happens with long covid); the chances of you landing in hospital are just very low. But if you're an overweight unvaccinated 60 year old, there's quite a good chance of you turning into a hideously expensive ICU case, and it probably makes sense to provide the treatment.
The impact that AlphaFold is having on speeding up drug discovery
Since HN is on a https website, I think this makes sense. As the article says, Gemini is not going to (and shouldn't) replace the web:

> Gemini is its own thing that will co-exist with the Web.

So I think being published on the web for other people on the web makes sence and is not antithetical.
Personally, it makes me feel like we don't really have a handle on the situation. The vaccine was supposed to be a "virtually 100% effective" silver bullet; now we need constant doses just to maintain some level of protection. It does not inspire confidence.

Is there any other vaccine that needs boosters every 5 months?
IMF loans money to dictatorships whom they probably know enough to not trust.

Money gets absconded/pocketed away due to corruption.

Government gets overthrown.

IMF says too bad, you still owe us money.

https://www.cadtm.org/World-Bank-and-IMF-support-to-dictator...

TLDR: there are geopolitics at play, the IMF does not just simply give out loans.
Ask HN: Does anyone here work in silicon design/verification?
I want to switch away from regular business software development to a chip or hardware company (HP, Intel, AMD are all nearby). I'm self-taught as a dev, but I'm considering a degree that would open doors to these types of positions. The degree I'm considering is Computer Engineering, which is advertised as being a middle layer between EE and CS degrees. I wanted to know if self-teaching is an option before I take on the student loan debt.

Are academic credentials/internships required for these kinds of jobs?
I hate this casting of the issue as "freedom". It's absurd.

My "freedom" to live because I have a medical issue but cannot get treatment will be severely impacted if hospitals are overrun with patients and worn out workers.

See, we can both play the "freedom" game.
There were a decent handful of x86_64 Android phones released, so it's not that uncommon. Decent apps ship a couple flavors of arm, mips, and x86. Of course, not all app developers care that much.
> Read the license of what you're using

Here's the license:

https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...

It's MIT.

Here's what they say "If you have used this plugin for FREE but monetized more than $1000, you are also required to get a license, or share us some Ad traffic as stated in win-win partnership model below"

If the MIT license is correct, they are lying: people don't need to get a license. The users already have a license that covers absolutely everything and they even have the right to edit the plugin to remove the % cut altogether.

Other things they are lying about, in their wiki https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic...

"Reminder: copy the code, change a plugin name, without feature enhancement, then publish to npm, is not allowed."

This is just false. The existing MIT license absolutely allows changing the name and republishing to npm.

Perhaps they just don't understand what is open source about. Absolutely all open source licenses allow forks.
The screen is just too low rez for an 80x24 terminal. You would need a 3x9 font, which I know from experience are close to unreadable. 320x240 displays more often ran at 40x24 which is too small for the modern world.

At the end of the article he talked about upgrading to a 640x480 display which would make the 80x24 terminal a real possibility. The surprisingly expensive 800x480 display would be even better, you would have the possibility of running a square 9x9 font, or more likely increasing the console resolution to 100x24.
Average salary around that time was £70 for men and £30 for women [1]. So they [Cristie's husband] were making 10x-15x average per year.

I'd say someone that makes 10x current average (~$500K) doesn't have a problem buying a car with 1 months salary. Even with the currently inflated prices.

[1] https://www.abroadintheyard.com/todays-luxuries-beyond-avera...
If you're walking around, yeah, sure - wireless all the way.

But for desk use, I don't see the appeal of wireless, given all of the tradeoffs.
The entire point of Unix exit codes is to communicate enumerated errors to programmers without having them have to intercept stderr and parse unstructured output. But to spot this error, of "I literally don't know how to use execve", all you need to do is look for the nonzero exit code.

I suspect that the person who kicked this subthread off didn't realize that the error can't be triggered from the shell (like, they thought it was "insufficient arguments" and not "malformed input to execve"), and now we're just bikeshedding a justification for being angry at Unix error codes. Seems like not a super valuable discussion to have.

One good reason not to have a user-friendly error message here is that literally no user will ever see it. In fact: it's likely that in the entire history of this program, it has never once been executed in the fashion that would generate this error, except to exploit it.
It definitely is, but they’re addressing it from the wrong end.

If the pandemic could be fixed by the government managing individual behavior we’d be done with it by now.

Instead the government should be focused on expanding highly covid specific care capacity. That is by far a better way to spend the covid relief money than distributing it to sustain a nebulous lockdown.

As far as I understand from talking with doctors, at no time within the last year have hospitals been at maximum emergency covid capacity, as in hospital beds in the hall ways, cafeteria, etc. This tells me that we are close to the amount of beds we need, and it would be feasible to build out additional capacity quickly, relieve the strain, and get back to normal.
Had IBM won, most of the fair use we take for granted would have gone out the window. The modern day version of that lawsuit was Oracle vs Google. Compaq started the clone market and I see no reason that their strategy would have been altered in a Motorola vs Intel world.
You assume that most people who want to invest even understand what SPY is, what a proper allocation looks like between stocks and bonds, what tax-loss harvesting or rebalancing is, etc. For those folks, robo-advisors provide a huge value-add in making it really simple to invest responsibly. If they were to do it on their own, they probably wouldn't know where to begin.
> It has the hackability of emacs but can run anywhere a browser can

Needing a browser is definitely not a positive. The website taking two seconds to load even when in cache while zim is absolutely instant even on potato PC neither.
Interesting, I started in 2017 and am up 40.58% all time today.
Absurd. "Stop going to the hospital and this thing ends" is on the same level. Cash flow has nothing to do with virus spread. It's interesting to consider misaligned incentives but you are alleging something much more serious without giving any credence to the actual purpose of testing.
Atlassian drops native Jira app for macOS, upsetting users
it's buggy and accepts bogus words
it was setup to reward them not so long ago in those media outlets. journalism has moved elsewhere, it still exists, made by people who do it for the reward and others for alternative reasons, simply not in those kind of outlets which have mostly become ads pipes.
Deceptive Design Untangled
> disastrous scenario

I don’t know how far up the disaster scale this goes, but I would consider the Moon tantamount to a natural preserve on Earth and a crash landing there to be a serious accident.
I mean.. Using Twitter doesn't help.

Perhaps start there Mr Snowdon?
Did you know that iPhones also say "Made in China," and include Chinese-manufactured components?
> Where'd you hear that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

"60 Minutes" did a segment on that, too, and went interviewing Seattle homeless. Everyone they interviewed turned out to be a drug addict or an alcoholic, even though they initially fooled the 60 Minutes crew.

Lots of them will say they were homeless because they lost their job, which is technically correct, but digging deeper reveals they lost their job because they were drug addicts and alcoholics.
Pretty annoying twice a year during pledge drives, but that's a small price to pay ;)
> I for one am generally speaking against both that and coercive forms of vaccination against any current diseases, even though I mostly consider it an irrational bet to skip vaccination.

Hopefully you're also speaking out against seatbelt laws, helmet laws, laws requiring women to wear tops places men aren't required, and second hand smoke laws?

Generally any laws where one person's freedom of choices for safety, apparel, and air polluting activities bump into other people's rights to not be annoyed by you and not cover your health expenses. In principle, they're all the same principles...

For instance, it's unclear how to rationalize against mandates for triangles of cloth on one's face in a public venue when folks are fine with mandates for triangles of cloth on one's chest at the beach. In only one of those is the lack of fabric known to kill people, but that's not the mandate we're fine with.

This whole "my freedoms!" thing needs to go back to first principles, build it back up across all domains to what we think it should be, with consistency.
Marx argued the state inherently would cease to serve a purpose and would "wither away" (the term itself is from Engels who argued it was based on Marx writings) once class antagonisms no longer exist, so I don't think there's much basis for the idea he believed in "command and control" other than at most in a transition. Ironically given his authoritarianism, Lenins The State and Revolution is one of the best summaries of Marx' criticism of the state, and even Lenin plaid lip-service to the notion of the withering away of the state to the point of arguing for an eventual society without a state.

The core distinction between Marxists and many forms of Anarchists, as early as during the dispute in the First International between Bukharin and Marx, was their view not on the long term dismantling of the state - where they agreed - but the role of the state in the transition from capitalism to socialism, where the anarchists wanted the state dismantled immediately, while Marx argued the state could serve a role in a transition, itself becoming a tool to execute the changes necessary to change society.

In his works on the Paris Commune he explicitly criticised the Communards for failing to take the next step and destroy the bourgeois state. While that could certainly have been replaced with a proposed federation, a key distinction was that he celebrated the bottom up delegation of authority, which is hardly compatible with "command and control" if any part can withdraw.

As such, libertarian Marxism directly opposed to the very existence of a state became a thing, based in large part on his writings on the Paris Commune.
Going back to the top level, JPM's investment site, as far as I can see, cannot even repeat-purchase an ETF.

Oh, and if they wanted to invest $300/pay period into the S&P 500, note that SPY is currently at 440. https://www.ssga.com/us/en/intermediary/etfs/funds/spdr-sp-5... so absent fractional shares, you cant...

And if you invest monthly, what do you do, buy 1 share (different amount per month)? Or do you just give up and go to Vanguard/Fidelity/etc? This is sort of my point, how is something as basic as repeat-invest not available on the world's biggest bank?
Library of Congress is the standard for academic and professional institutions, at least in the US.
Why in the world would I trust people who were in intelligence agencies?
> Sharing limited resources is a major role of the government, and managing hospital capacity seems to fall under “promote general welfare” to me.

Sure. It's a pretty delicate balance between individual liberties and preventing bad collective outcomes, though.

If you lock down 340 million people for a week-- maybe the net effect is stealing 3.5 days of life's "enjoyment" or "quality" from each. That's 3.3 million years of quality life taken.

You need to save 20 years of quality life for 165,000 people to break even. In the first wave we probably exceeded that benefit, but it's highly doubtful any subsequent time passes that bar.

And, IMO, if there's ever anything close to a "tie", you need to favor individual liberty.

Maybe making people mask "costs" 0.2 days per week-- much smaller cost, but also a smaller effect. I think it's still justified, but only barely... It won't be soon.
https://canadiancouchpotato.com/ is my go to!
They put out amazing content over the years and have a great set of model portfolios for those just getting into investing.
You don't think that happens the other way around as well? There's obnoxious morons on both sides of this debate.
I have a brokerage account at Fidelity, which I can write checks on, but I only use the account for investing. I guess theoretically you could use it as a primary bank account? I have some auto-transfers into the account each month, that automatically get invested, and some auto-transfers out to non-Fidelity accounts so I can invest proceeds in things Fidelity doesn't offer.
I “solve” this problem by storing my phone’s notes in IMAP, and dumping them periodically into my main notes.

That solves writing. I find it actually works because phone notes tend to be write only — little snippets of information that record something important and never get edited again once they are written, to be turned into a “real” note at a later date, once in a system that supports “real editing”.

For reading notes I dump everything onto a personal website.
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

https://www.linuxpromagazine.com/index.php/Issues/2021/245/T...
It only fits about half your criteria, but I'm liking the vscode extension FOAM. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

it's basically a clone of Roam Resarch as a vscode extension that uses Markdown.

It's markdown, has a desktop app (vscode), since it's just markdown you can put it all in git with easy diffs, vscode allows you to search the entire project for words, it has tags. It even has a window to see your notes as a star map where you see the links between the different markdown files, but they also recently added tags to that starmap.

You also get to use other extensions compatible with markdown like render inline plantuml and stuff like that, which is what is the nicest about it being markdown.

If you're serious about making your own, I would consider contributing to FOAM's project instead.
And WealthSimple has a Venmo like Cash app (called Cash). They do way more than stocks.