skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heavier than air flying machines? Epic failures across centuries led many to believe it was fundamentally impossible, despite Leonardo Da Vinci's math in the 16th century showing it was theoretically possible.

The incandescent light bulb? At one time considered to be a securities fraud! The British parliament assembled a team of investigators to probe Edison's claims.

History is full of inventions that seemed impossible until the dogged inventors made it work. Obviously not all fantastical inventions are possible, but fusion has plenty of evidence that points to its eventual possibility.
Is that without social contribution?

Minimum wage in greece is 730 usd. Many if not most phds earn less than $1000, if they are lucky to have stable funding. Hence brain drain
Can't you already do this for almost all Android apps, not just games, on many Chromebooks? https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chro...
Sorry for that (and thanks to all the folks that pointed out the word matching code was wrong). I've pushed an updated version, it's 63 lines now.

Turns out, HN finds and reports bugs much faster than family and friends :)
Trump voters (Republicans) are older and less healthy. It could just as well be that demographic has more adverse reactions.
How would be able to get past stochastic transformations? "frame is slightly wider than average of other pages == push 1 into FEC" could be stymied by making pages randomly wider or narrower, so now the average is different and the frame you are expecting to be slightly wider may even be slightly narrower than the average now, garbling your encoding.
> they could all be lying or this could be the nocebo effect or it's an army of bots spreading antivaxx propaganda

or a more prevalent pop-social affliction: "nonsense amplification syndrome"
> Rich Russians get their passports by investing in countries

You have no idea what you are talking about. I am not talking about Cyprus here.

Here's an article describing a small slice of it https://www.vice.com/en/article/akwe34/romania-has-allegedly...

> you might dislike the way its possible to acquire passport

I don't, I firmly believe that this is a good thing.

>Your claim like its s massive problem on the grand scale of things in Europe is propaganda.

I don't claim that it is a problem at all. I'm just saying that you were being ridiculous when you said

> Its time for Americans do the European and developed world thing and use IDs with proper identification methods

Europe is far from having this figured out.
This is a great way to test the toxicity of your workplace. I did this twice and got fired!

Yes, it was ultimately a good thing, but the unemployment stretch after was stressful to say the least.

It wasn't some bullshit either like "I made everything more OO!" or something like that, it was "let me show you the math demonstrating why the dollar amounts coming out of this function are wrong".
I know someone who's been doing wealth management for like 20 or 30 years now. Based on what they've told me, I'd separate clients roughly into 3 categories:

1. people who don't want to think about it - they pay for everything to be taken care of properly

2. people who want to be wined and dined - they end up paying to be taken out to dinner a few times a year and hear about what the firm is doing to survive bear markets and how they're taking advantage of bull markets

3. people who think they're smarter than everyone and want to direct everything - these people are probably moving to more self serve options, but plenty still want to tell a human what trades to make

Also at a certain net worth, tax and estate planning is a huge part of the work.
They have always been charging for vaccines and boosters, but the bill has been picked up by the taxpayers.
To be fair that's not too much in the novelty domain space. It's about what you'd pay for say .ai
> Just to be clear, we are talking about clicking on a bookmark, letting the password manager fill in the login info, and the clicking login or pressing enter?

Close, you forgot the part where you need to locate your 2FA device, possibly connect it to a charger and wait for it to boot if needed, and then of course actually get the 2FA code and type it into the website.

edit: Oh, and I forgot the part where if you need to boot the device, you probably have to type in the password.
IIRC vaccinated people spread smaller quantities of the virus, and the viral droplets they do spread tend to include antigens since their body is actively fighting the infection while they spread it... you know, because their system was primed for the fight thanks to the vaccine.

I think this Fridman podcast interview explored such things, either way it was quite informative on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G433fa01oMU
No I don't mean just our grandparents. I benefit way more from any reduction in exposure to covid than my kid does. The difference between a 2 year old and a mid 30s person is significant.
Won't even examine 400 counter-claims? That's "denialism".

Lockdowns working/not-working and/or causing collateral damage potentially eliminating other gains is not even remotely on par with astrology.

Lockdowns used in this manner are entirely unprecedented, and the long-term results cannot be known by anyone, only guessed at.

Your rigid adherence to them as beacons of purity only demonstrates your religious-like faith in them, which strikes me as having far more in common with astrology than well-evidenced arguments by well-credentialed individuals that they might not work or be counterproductive.
The vaccination certificate in the EU has a QR code that can be cryptographically verified to have been issued by a legit authority, tells why the certificate has been issued (e.g. vaccination, negative test, etc), and embeds the name of the person such that their identity can be cross-checked against some form of official ID.

So there's no need for anything more complex than a piece of paper you can download + print. What you can't do is make a QR code of your own, change the validity reason of an existing code, or use somebody else's certificate with your own identity.
> … why we don’t tax it.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders
Looks good. I've been using VimWiki and really make the most of it's ability to link to local files and directories with file:// . This makes for a superb way of keeping on top of various admin tasks, as I just write a checklist, and link directly to the local file or remote dir and I'm away. I would like it even more if I could link to specific emails with email:// . There was a thunderbird plugin, called thunderlink, where I did get this working, but then thunderbird stopped finding the emails, so I lost faith in it.
You can get shot anywhere in the world. (And not, it's not a wash.)
I'm really rooting for this project. Sure it's probably over-idealistic and not entirely practical, but I think that's part of the appeal - a group of folks trying to build a better web and having fun doing it.
I would love this even more if I could install it and run it locally, so I can use sql or similar on it too
Did anyone claim noble motives are sufficient to achieve success?

GP said that some claim it's all a scam, but GP disagrees and has seen noble motives. That's all. Your aggressively arguing against a claim that was never made.
It sounds a bit silly to implement a parser for a DB internals course, though. You'll end up teaching lexing and parsing (something which the professor wasn't too familiar with himself it seems?), rather than db internals.

Implementing your own WAL + storage API for example, is more something along the lines I would expect.
vaccinated people are much less likely to get infected on exposure?

With Omicron, vaccinated people are MORE likely to get infected, 90 days post-vaccine.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v...
Interesting hybrid.

Today I came across yet another Twitter thread inquiring if you are SQL-ista or Pythonista https://twitter.com/bennstancil/status/1486031369327292421

One response probability summed it best:
“SQL is written for you to think in shapes while python is written for you to think in steps. SQL lets you focus on defining a shape, and the warehouse figures out how to compute it. That's a better flow & focus for data transformation work.”
> But by the same token, COVID is much less severe than HIV, even with modern treatment plans.

Do you have a source for this? This wouldn't surprise me for the Omicron variant, but I'm surprised that (for example) someone getting the Delta variant in 2021 was "much less severe" than someone getting HIV in 2021.
He what's that communication to reach people. You do public communicate where the public is.
But why go with wealthfront when you can buy a target date fund from vanguard? It gets you most of what you really need?
Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco
Huh. Looks like the company behind my "Taotronics" headphones are the same people who made the "Vava" USB hub that I use with my Mac (and which has been more reliable than Anker's that I've paid twice as much for).

Stupid. They would have done just fine relying on organic reviews, but now they have the death penalty. It's like watching Richard Nixon get Watergated out of office, because he thought he needed an edge to beat George freaking McGovern.
I'm in Canada where the mandates are quite extensive but also change frequently.

I'd like to think the govt is hoping that each time restrictions are loosed, some type of immunity has developed and restrictionz can be loosed more. When things seem to get worse and worse again, the restrictions are added to ensure hospitals can work.

At the end of the day, a large decrease in severity will be the deciding factor. We can try to model when that will happen, but it will have to actually happen regardless of what the models say.
Big Time Public License 2.0.0
Overturned by the appeals court. The reason Microsoft appealed is because they lost the lawsuit, and then settled on appeal. The claim in question:

> "Microsoft didn't lose any lawsuit in the US for for tying its web browser to Windows"

is false.
We have quite a bit in line with this:

https://www.canadianportfoliomanagerblog.com/blog/

https://community.rationalreminder.ca/

https://www.finiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://www.financialwisdomforum.org/forum/index.php

https://canadiancouchpotato.com/

Also, we have Ben Felix's podcasts - Rational Reminder
Not arguing here at all because I agree with you in principle, but I wanted to point out for the sake of consideration trust it appears the plug-in author was in Russia if I’m not mistaken. I have no idea how Russian law works with regard to this, but I think it’s somewhat unfair for us to jump to the conclusion that their courts are acting like ours; for all we (I?) know, IP law for software may not be enforceable in Russia. Or it could be dark pattern gated behind high court fees, unattainable representation, etc.
No matter what one's stance is on Israel, or the Palestine question, it's hard to blame the actions of one company on the Israeli government.
It sounds like you didn't understand the argument.
So many stories do this. I think it a feature not a bug, they don't want readers leaving or making it too easy to fact check.
Yeah, and a car crash does the same damage regardless of Blood Alcohol Concentration. We should still punish a drunk driver for irresponsible behavior.
What is "radical" about Gemini?
Not long ago, I ran through a bunch of wiki programs and eventually landed on Zim as my comfort zone. It's very light, looks pretty good, and just works! The syntax is a bit weird, and as someone mentioned, it doesn't handle code very well. Still really great and an easy recommend, though.

https://ronitray.xyz/personal-wiki/
I've been using Zim for daily journalling.
The only thing that is bizarre is the mental gymnastics people use to deny these things are real. The truth is staring you right in the face. How many more videos do you need. People have this naive view that we have everything figured out. If you can't accept that ET is doing laps in his silver car then assume it's a US military black project.
ARM926EJ is pretty capable, I had one in my Intel XScale based PDA.

I'd say a day at max if it had enough memory.
> We don't all have to like the same things, we don't have to all use the same tools, we don't have to belong to the same communities.

This is one the main reasons I have a hobby computer just for playing around with openBSD. There's something really refreshing (and fun!) about a project that's just trying to do it's own thing without pleasing everyone and their mother.
>But we do strongly encourage condom usage and tests. There are education resources and awareness campaigns.

Nobody is saying we shouldn't strongly encourage vaccines. But there is a difference between education/awareness campaigns and a mandates.

The same people trying to prevent unvaccinated people from being a part of society would have flipped out if you had to show PrEP status at gay bars in 2019.

>Knowingly infecting someone or non disclosure of positive infection status during possible transmission activities is a jailable offense.

But you aren't charged just because you don't wear a condom or take PrEP while you don't know you have HIV.
>An ad-supported search engine wants me to view more ads and click on them

Is this really the case? Assuming pay per click model and rational and competent advertisers. More clicks would increase their costs and reduce the generated value per click. The advertisers would limit their maximum cost per click. This would limit the revenue of the ad-supported search engine to the previous level (from before introducing bad search results).

It is possible that more clicks (generated by tricks and bad search results) produce more revenue for the advertisers. This would (slightly) benefit both the advertisers and the search engine.

In the end and in the long run the incentives of the ad supported search engines are alligned with their customers ( advertisers ) if the above assumptions are met.
If you think the process I'm describing here is, "Ask customer what they want, do exactly what they say." then I'm not being very clear.

"Don't assume that your team should build what it's told to build. Instead assume the opposite: nobody really knows what you should build, not even the people asking for it. Your team's job is to take those ideas, test them, and learn what you should really build." [0]

That's your team's job. Not to make guesses by assuming you know what's best, not to do what they're told by customers, but to run tests and use results to inform next steps. That's the entire purpose of a development team, and you simply cannot do this without a quick iterative cycle.

[0] The Art of Agile Development, pp. 453
Sweden is 62nd on a list of 180 countries on deaths per capita. We can argue back and forth like this but why bother? If you don't care what the studies say, your mind is made up, making discussion with you valueless - for you.
My videos are definitely lacking personality, thanks for the tip this resonates.

I guess its time for a hair cut and a shave(About a month into trying to grow my hair out)
> This is perilously close to "people who get COVID are innocent victims so forcible interventions are justified, while people who got HIV chose to do it so those same nterventions are less justified."

Nope. The existence of simple, effective countermeasures and ease of accessing them set the level of moral culpability for refusing and then infecting someone else as a result.

I'd agree that the cost-benefit is nearing the point of "fuck it, let the selfish jerks have what they want."
> You “own” your domain, but you do not own your ownership of that domain.

I was having trouble forming examples of why I felt it important to be able to have full participation (e.g. running a full node for a given thing, or whatever else) before I involved myself in a "decentralized" thing

This is a well noted example of investigating how far someone can partake, and finding it woefully short, so thanks for this
Additionally to the points raised by other replies, Ownership/power currently is in Binance and Coinbase, because very few people transact directly in Bitcoin, and those that do realize gas fees are so high so Binance and Coinbase provide convenience ledgers that they control. This is exactly the same process as if you were trading stocks on the stock exchanges. Everything eventually becomes centralized, to solve the problems like transacting and punishing bad actors that develop in the bazaar.
what about laws mandating cloth triangles on your face^H^H^H^H chest at the beach?

what about laws banning second-hand smoke indoors?
That was my attempt at a joke, apparently unsuccessful.
A safer, smaller, and faster Ethereum cryptography stack
> they

Who does any of the things you listed?

AFAIK we're actually in exactly the opposite situation. I can be imprisoned for not having a physical copy of my driver's license while operating my vehicle!

> First, it's a convenience, then it becomes a requirement.

What requires a smartphone app?

> At that point, we'll need two devices.

So, just to be clear, you're going to carry two smartphones. One that has a PNG of your driver's license on it and another that doesn't.

...why? What's the "win" here? And if you're so concerned with privacy why on earth are you carrying around that second smartphone? Just carry around the first one with the appropriate PNGs/QR codes and leave it at that.

I mean, all of this is kind of beside the point, but I'm asking for clarification because I'm genuinely bewildered about your threat model.

> For those wealthy enough and who GAF about various issues, that would be a very cheap device and the second device would be your "real" one.

If by "wealthy enough" you mean "has 40 bucks, or any friend who bought a smartphone in the last 3 years and doesn't want their old one."
Tech salaries just hit record highs. So why do IT staff still feel underpaid?
>But you can run software you bought with capex as long as you want and it doesn’t cost more forever.

...only if you still have hardware and operating systems that support it (or that it supports, depending on your point of view)
Working out is something that has helped me tremendously whenever I have fallen into periods where I have had little motivation.

Also, building a strong consistent routine with periodic habits (working out, cooking, gardening, others mentioned elsewhere or whatever suits your fancy) will go a long way.
I use one ear at a time, both for battery purposes, and so I don’t have the two AirPods communicating with each other through my brain.

I realize that we think nothing bad happens from the emissions from AirPods, but this may change in the future. Some have pointed out that prior studies involved devices that were not stuck quite so far into our ears.

Since I listen to podcasts and books, I have no need to use two simultaneously.
I had an extremely traumatic accident a week ago and came into a major city hospital as a level one trauma patient.

I came in with absolutely no wait..ambulance directly to a trauma bay, no waiting, no clothing, no nothing.

After about six hours they figure out I was not going to die and was relatively okay. Okay here means two broken legs not “walking around”. Half of the patients at this hospital had covid and I have a five month old at home who isn’t vaccinated (obviously).

Once I got admitted to the trauma floor for a couples days it was like I didn’t exist. The staff seemed totally overwhelmed and it took hours to get some simple things like water. Without visitors, a bag of belongings got delivered by being isolated in a chair well out of my limited reach. Took me eight hours to get my laptop from that bag. I was okay with that because I wanted to interact with as few potential covid vectors as possible but wow.

I think, from my experience there are a couple of things happening:

1) staff are overwhelmed to day with the ratio of patients to staff. I can’t comment why but the nurses I saw weren’t sitting they were constantly moving.

2) staff are demoralized and frustrated. You could hear it in their voices and tone and body language. They were trying but grumpy.

3) shit rolls down hill. Drs. (Save one angel who talked with me for 30 minutes about life) where in and out for brief profunctory conversations that had no communicative value about what was

They need more nurses. And like everywhere else it seems no one is willing to pay them more or treat them better. We can pay execs millions with no qualms and no evidence it works. But as a patient having the worst day of my fucking life, I interact with front line staff and they are out there getting run into the ground and being treated like shit for it.

I’m so sorry for your wife, I was so lucky I had a different experience. But the shared thing, I think, is that the American medical system is going through a full and complete collapse and no one with the power to change things is willing to do anything.

I’m terrified.
Justice algorithm is flawed by racial disparities
I bought a Samsung Chromebook 4 for $92 including tax on Black Friday. You can buy one today for $120+tax at Walmart.

It’s plenty capable, especially as compared to other sub-$250 options and has power supply, battery, screen, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, camera, and microphone included.
None of the banks in the country where a friend of mine lives offer the services he demands: he is planning to live the country.

Many in this branch of discussion seem to be measuring their possibilities against a current situation in their area - while in some other regions the situation is worse to desperate - and they are not seeing a trend.
This would be an excellent idea... if you were talking about doing in on Twitter, or FB, and if it would pertain only for businesses. Would greatly reduce noise and lead to more revenue for Twitter/FB. But not for a new social network you want to bootstrap. That's an awful idea.
> the author is building as most people do when they first pick up the tool

> But just like any repetitive process with computers, learning how to properly use your tool, patterns, finishing touches make a world of a difference.

I agree that's what the author is doing, but as a reader, the reason I want to read about their process is so that I can learn how to properly learn the tool at hand. I want to learn from their mistakes, and take advantage of what they have learned.

So when the author learned something useful—texture your windows, before copying them, so you don't need to texture each individual one—that's great! But the workflow the describe didn't do that. Why learn something, and then teach people the wrong way?

I'll admit, I have an issue on the whole with "I did this thing once, and now I'll use that to teach other people", but even ignoring that: if you're going to teach people, teach them the right way, don't teach them the wrong way, and then at the end slip in an "oh yeah this isn't a good way to go about this, you should have done something differently a few steps ago instead."
There was a time when the first question asked of such a device would be "Can it run Doom?"

If you don't remember that time, then I guess I'm getting old.

In any case, it's nearly a useless question these days: very few things with a chip are so dumb they can't run Doom.

We need a new metric.
Ironically there it was the other way around. While things were deteriorating very rapidly, the administration insisted it was very orderly and orchestrated pullout, among other misstatements such as ‘no Americans who want to leave we’re left behind.”
Good memories from Zim.

I used OneNote 2016 after Zim in a period where I was stuck on Windows anyway but modern OneNote broke so much that I don't use OneNote anyway even if it is now cross platform.

The last year I have used Joplin which is awesome.

Lately though I have used Logseq for no other reason than that it feels even more awesome.