skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And guess what has ZERO effect on pollinators? CO2. The only ‘pollutant’ ESG scores and activists harp about. Why? To distract from real polluting chemicals that cost a lot more to remove from our environment. Don’t even get me started on microplastics and its impact on the endocrine system of every animal, not just humans.

Its fascinating to observe people believing that mega-corporation and paid-politician promoted value systems are looking out for the interests of you and me.
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At one time I had the thought that, in coding, one should note assumptions in a searchable and documentable way. Then, others later could audit for assumptions which no longer applied, without needing to go deep into the code.
Falcon 9 stage from 2015 predicted to hit the Moon in early March
Cloud Solutions for Blockchain Technology
None of which matters unless you can convince people to run a calorie deficit. Despite years of public health messaging, the obesity rate continues to rise.

However, you can convince people to exercise, which can mitigate many of the negative effects of obesity. Why not push exercise while research is done about how to run effective public health campaigns to reduce obesity?
This might be it:

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

From 2019: "For the last 15 years I have worked for the Army Test Evaluation Command."
First challenge is going to be figuring out the grid alignment in the stabilized frames. But I have a decent idea how to tackle that, which I'll hopefully get to tomorrow!
It's a positive sign for whom? The economy? Or those struggling to purchase those homes in the first place?
Yeah I think the long tail really suffers with a lot of popularity algorithms. Instead of a mixed bag with a bit for everyone you get the absolute lowest common denominator.
Vitalik's response to Moxie is worth a read:

https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ryk3it/my_first_im...
I agree of course. Just being a little facetious.
David Graeber (from Bullshit Jobs fame) talked about this at some length [1]:

"Why did Keynes’ promised utopia – still being eagerly awaited in the ‘60s – never materialise? The standard line today is that he didn’t figure in the massive increase in consumerism. Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter. This presents a nice morality tale, but even a moment’s reflection shows it can’t really be true."

"But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning not even so much of the “service” sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations. And these numbers do not even reflect on all those people whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza deliverymen) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones."

"These are what I propose to call “bullshit jobs.”"

and goes on to come to the following conclusion:
"Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error. But it is the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days."

Having just done Fritjof Capra's Systems View of Life course, channeling the ideas that:

a) "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" [2]

and

b) "All behaviour in complex systems is emergent"

A (vastly simplified) argument is that bullshit jobs is the emergent behaviour from a system compromising between the needs of:

a) People to work so they can earn money, be fulfilled and see a material increase in their wealth.

b) A political class keen to keep the workers busy less they revolt and upset the system.

c) A system of economics/a reductionist western/scientific worldview that increasingly externalised anything that didn't show everyone was better off (e.g. GDP).

d) Elites who were increasingly happy to take an increasing proportion of the wealth from the efficiency gains.

Everyone wins in relation to the amount of power they have relative to everyone else and the system sustains itself based on the fact no-one with enough power has enough incentive/will to overthrow it. Obviously the planet (which once indigenous peoples had been conquered) mostly lost it's voice in the conversation and so that's why we're where we are now.

[1] https://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky
I think criminal defense is a great service to humanity. It's hard to estimate how many are wrongfully accused, but surely there are many. Further, things like the plea bargain system or parole regularly lead innocent people to proclaim their guilt. It's very messed up and must be a terrible trauma for some. Lastly, I think even guilty people deserve humane treatment and perhaps forgiveness.
Open Source Pharma – public domain broad spectrum vaccines [pdf]
> One of the basic principles of toxicology is "the dose makes the poison".

That's a given, but this this is something where it comes in a small jar to sprinkle with and a single spoonful is dangerous.
Show HN: Quine which is also a maze game
Smoking status was associated with a lower risk of developing Covid-19
Also, security. Each component has an identity and it’s own set of permissions so the custom emoji widget doesn’t have access to the payments system or the health data.
Sure, but you don’t need to be intelligent for most jobs.
One of my favorite (ab)uses of operators is the "q" package for debugging: https://pypi.org/project/q/

You `import q`, then you can slap `q/` or `q|` in front of an expression to log the value (q/ for high precedence, q| for low precedence). These days, `f"{x=}"` is probably preferred, but I still wind up using q occasionally because of its simplicity.
Yea it's crazy. My dad has a classic Gameboy that his great grandfather purchased during the first world war. That Gameboy saw a couple more wars after that too, including 5 years up my grandads ass in a POW camp, and 2 more inside another soldier who brought it back for us.

Can confirm it tastes bad.
Right. That's why I said it already happened.
>> Vaccines have failed to end the pandemic. Mask mandates and lockdowns have also failed to end the pandemic.

> 1. We have never had a lockdown in the US 2. We have never had a mask mandate in the US 3. We have never had a vaccine mandate in the US

> You can't claim they didn't work when we haven't tried yet.

Exactly. Also China actually did manage to end it's local epidemic with only lockdowns and mask mandates. If they'd been earlier or the rest of the world just got it done instead of bickering stupidly, the pandemic would be over by now.

Instead we continue to bicker stupidly and as a result now have variants that neutralize many of our tactics.
Mega corps marketing themselves as carbon neutral, but in reality they don't give two fck about the environment. If they did, they will try to support
these devices avoiding people to dump them to jump on a new one.
Which would be possible, but not without the server round trips that he also seems to want to get rid of.

Basically, he wants a bunch of complexity and heuristics to be pushed into the query planner, the client, and the protocol, just so he doesn't have to write the column names.
I continue to believe in the idea that automation/AI will destroy entire sectors currently requiring labor. It is something that happens gradually, then suddenly.

I also believe there's "safe" sectors where this is unlikely to ever happen. Good luck making a robot plumber. By the time you solve that, you've solved everything and we're entirely obsolete.

Package delivery, cash registry, retail jobs...there's plenty of high employment sectors at danger. And perhaps many office jobs are at even more danger.

One idea is that "as always" we simply move on to "higher order" work. This is nonsense. We don't need billions of AI programmers, it would be really crappy AI if that was the case. Nor is it realistic that everybody can do such a demanding job. We're talking about billions of relatively lowly educated workers here.

Another idea is UBI, or even better...post scarcity. For the optimists, I guess.

I expect that neither will happen, instead we're already experiencing the solution. You just inject trillions of stimulation money into the economy, which creates (artificial) demand, hence allowing for jobs that otherwise might not exist.

Right now, somebody is inventing potato chips flavor #31,122. Nobody asked for it, the world doesn't need it, and I hope we can agree that it's unimportant. But somebody invents it anyway, somebody designs the packaging, and somebody ships it. You buy it, and might just like it.

All these activities aren't really demand or need driven, they're more like "because we can" jobs. Our world is largely supply and marketing driven, not demand driven from the bottom up. Fluff and endless meaningless luxuries. When I walk through a mall I wonder...do people really buy all this garbage?

Put harshly, you can call all of this bullshit jobs. Keeping each other busy. And that's what we'll continue to do no matter the state of technology. It's just a few dials in the financial system.

Have you never wondered why everybody deeply cares that one has a job (at any and all costs) yet there's never any serious inquiry about the point of the job? Nobody cares if you have a meaningless job, the point is that you have a job. Any job. This reality gives away how the system works.
The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man (2007)
Modern hunter-gatherers in AFRICA.

Do you think the Inuit, or hunter-gatherers in northern Europe or Asia were getting 50% of their calories from non-animal sources? You know the answer is absolutely not.

I don't want to get into an annoying, repetitive ideological flame war here. What I can tell you is that depending on the climate and the length of the winters, as well as the soil, tribes had vastly different diet compositions. There are numerous studies on this.
Ask HN: What languages deploy and are also themselves standalone executables?
Some examples:

* Red (might be wrong about this one)
* Deno
* Godot
> What I'm saying is that the vaccine surely reduces the number of people whose death is attributed to covid

IIRC, you have provided no explanation for a high VE against Covid-death post vaccination plateau. The only remaining explanation is that the vaccines are effective at preventing death from Covid.

The point you are making here is a separate one which is that the vaccine is actively killing people, unrelated to Covid, and that this downside probably offsets the upside of VE against Covid-death for people below 60.

> On the basis of the proof you gave above yourself. 24% more deaths within 6 months of the vaccine, for a group of (essentially) healthy 18-50 year olds. Your calculation showed that if it increases death by 24% in that group, you wouldn't see it.

No, if there were more people that were dying in both groups, a 24% difference would be highly statistically significant. Given that so few people were dying in both groups, a 24% difference is not statistically significant.

Imagine if there were 2 car crashes in a group of 30,000 and 1 car crash in another group of 30,000. That's a 100% difference. Massive, right? It should be statistically significant because it's 100%? No, it is indistinguishable from noise. An attempt to read signal into the 2 vs 1 car crashes here is not good statistics, despite a 100% difference in deaths.

The only valid conclusion from the RCT is that the vaccines seem safe over the 6 month window. (Technically speaking, we have failed to reject the null of vaccine safety).

> [US data]

I guess, for this, I will need to really dig into the data in order to give your case a fair go. Let's focus on the Israel data for now.

> [Israel data]

Why cant [1] for 20-29 year old males just be noise?

That bump is similar in magnitude to the 2017-2018 dip. What caused the 2017-2018 dip?

[1] https://twitter.com/OS51388957/status/1485609530612400136/ph...
Keep in mind that 69% of the population in Washington is vaccinated. This will skew the proportion of hospitalized towards the vaccinated. Vaccination seems to be about 70% effective at preventing serious disease requiring hospitalization. So yeah, not mild in vaccinated people either, just less horrifyingly bad.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270
It's not false, it just means there must also be other factors influencing the price.
Don't worry BA.2 is right around the corner and it's not clear if the BA.1 variant (Omicron) gives you immunity to BA.2. Lots of people infected with Delta, also caught Omicron.

So yeah, you're immune but possibly not for the next variant, and that variant may be more severe.
Well it clearly shows that their business model is fundamentally flawed and they should probably stop selling phones.
Yes, it shifts communication to over the network, but this comes with the benefit of making system boundaries much clearer. It's been my experience that this can allow different parts to evolve separately and make the choices best for their own needs, which can sometimes result in a paradoxical reduction of complexity as one all-in-one system turns into a series of simpler tools. Suddenly the part of the system that does background ETL work and the part of the system that serves up the admin panel can use different tools.

I will agree that networks are inherently complicated, but your system or systems probably use networks anyway. Using them internally often forces you to grapple with the complexity you were already facing. Plus, it's been my experience that networks are easier for most to reason about than shared memory and mutexes.

Let's not forget providing an easy set of dials to turn to scale a given part of the system. That's a point of complexity, but it can be an immensely useful one. Complexity is not always the enemy - a power drill is more complex than a manual screwdriver and this complexity is pretty useful.
And if you denature that, it's almost twice as toxic because methanol is so much nastier. Hopefully I don't need to point out why completely banning alcohols is a rather different conversation.
Redistributive programs need something to redistribute in the first place, so the merit still belongs to the value creator - capitalism.
>How many vitamins are in non-fortified grains?

In whole grains, plenty. Refined grains are fortified/enriched in an attempt to bring their nutritional value closer to the unrefined state.
There's also mixfix where the operators are interleaved between the arguments, of which there are more than two. The well-known one is C's conditional operator:

a ? b : c

This is a single operation `?:` that takes operands a, b, and c.
ARM’s business is just fine, they’re a healthy company with fantastic technology and happy customers. Maybe they were overvalued by SoftBank, but that’s Softbank’s problem. It doesn’t mean ARM is a bad business. They’re just not growing spectacularly, but maybe that’s ok.
This makes sense for semantic reasons though. If you accidentally return a `number` when you returned a `string` in some earlier branch, Typescript will happily unify them and now your function silently returns `string | number`. The linting rule prevents this.
That’s just recursion
Hamming specifically defines important as both high impact and high tractability in this essay, so I generally think he would have agreed with you
This. And now "microservices" is a rallying cry to avoid any kind of architecture organizing.

Because the broke you know isn't called "broke."
Microservice architecture isn't "better".

Monoliths aren't "better".

Because the whole idea of "better" makes absolutely no sense without context. Sometimes microservices are better in a certain context. Sometimes a monolith is better in a different context. And sometimes, one or the other is "better" but not by enough of a margin to care about.

It's the oldest cliche in the book, but one that this industry seems to hate with a passion: "Pick the right tool for the job."

Sadly, in our world, the received wisdom sometimes seems to be "Use the newest, shiniest, most hyped tool that is what everyone is talking about."
It’s a neat trick, but I feel like this can break in surprising ways. After all, you’re thinking of |fun| as a single thing, but in reality there are a couple calls in there and the precedence of something like 3 % 2 |add| 5 - 2 could be unintuitive.
Now that I think about it it may have been that there was info in foobar's media library database that wasn't supported, not necessarily id3 tags. Play count and last played date are some I'm partial to that I couldn't get working.

I also use album artist a lot, though that's probably supported.
I don't think Web 3.0 is going to be the kind of decentralization people are all hyping up now - we are still too close to Web 2.0 and the innovations are nebulous at best.

However I do think there will be a Web 3.0 and it is going to come about when processing power, battery life, efficiency, global internet, and easy power generation all start reaching a critical point. Combine that with a general psychological backlash toward mega surveillance, concentration of power in massive corporate entities, and mass automation and we will be ripe for a world where low tech becomes stylistically cool again but with just the best of the tech world when wanted.

If you plucked someone out of ancient Rome and brought them to this society a lot of the technology might really seem like magic. I am imagining independent adhoc networks that can be easily setup to servicing a small remote village completely disconnected from the outside world and just as easily instantly connect that village to a high speed global network. And it all runs off a few solar panels or some other source of cheap power.

The decentralization of Web 3.0 will come about when we have the hardware to actually do things like that. When the ratio of cheap power generation to power use blows away what we have now. Who knows what crazy stuff people will come up with!

Or we could go the Wall-E route and it all goes to shit

Lets face it though - version point 0 is often a buggy mess. Bring on Web 3.1 !
Sounds like we had quite a different experience, and picturing different things too.

> In that case, open source rarely has even one possible replacement, so there's no comparison.

There's usually just one program shipped by a vendor in these cases, and most of the time it's indeed closed-source -- that's what I started with.

Big and widely used FLOSS projects are far from these programs shipped by small hardware manufacturers, I wasn't talking about those. Just as the established and polished commercial projects are far from those: you're getting some buggy and unsupported programs from unknown hardware vendors, possibly even with malware as in TFA, not Photoshop.

> Have you honestly read over an entire open source program to check it?

I have, pretty sure that many others read those too, but haven't read entire sources of large projects like GIMP; plenty of programs and libraries are just a few KLOC (or even just hundreds of LOC) long, easy to skim.

> As to modification, I've reverse engineered many, many programs to add hooks and interoperability. It's not that terribly difficult once you've done a few and get to know how to do it.

I have rather hard time imagining these being any major modifications and considered easy with arbitrary compiled binaries, while suspecting merely reading sources being something mythical. But once again, you're probably picturing a hairy mess of a huge project's source code, and I picture integration tasks like turning a buggy Windows GUI program into a working multi-threaded Linux daemon -- where having source code makes it easier (and I'm certainly reading at least decompiled code when that's an option), as well as making it practical/easier to see what the program is doing.
Those are different concerns. Maybe you don't like what they do with their innovations, but they are bankrolling and directing quite a lot of sota research.
The barrier of entry was actually lower than that. We didn't need to stand up an Apache server. We could just sign up for a Geocities/Xoom/Tripod account and upload HTML or use the built in site editor to create content.

Somewhere along the way, people stopped building well organized sites and started producing chronologically organized writings and content. These chronologically organized articles and content have dominated web content and social media ever since.
Your hyper focused whataboutism on European cannibalism and refusal to acknowledge the myriad examples and counters regarding human sacrifice, war, technology enabled conquest, cultural norms across the globe, cannibalism, and particularly that Western societies didn't do anything everybody else wasn't already attempting, they just did it better and had more progressive cultures while doing so, doesn't do your argument any favors mate. My points stand on firm foundations in context.

Luckily, debate is for the observer, not bad faith historical revisionists with anti Western indoctrination.
China tried communism for years without much progress. Only when they allowed (controlled) capitalism they started enjoying the current results.
Omicron has been like 90%+ of the cases reported for the last month in almost every jurisdiction. A month ago you might have been able to say that but today it's pretty clear that almost all the cases will have been Omicron.
Well, back in the oughts, I think maybe 2001 . . .

https://2001.fandom.com/wiki/Monolith
I am actually going the other way! Getting tired of my job being tied to a geography(can’t debug bad heater Circuits from
Home), always getting 20% less for similar effort and my fate is not in my control( at the mercy of suppliers,external contractors) and so forth. And after 15 years of being a EE(pcb designer) I am leetcoding in my free time and learning software engineering principles( clean code, design patterns ). If anyone here is in the same boat and want a shoulder to cry on, my email is in my profile.
Lettuce is my least favorite leafy green. It's outdone in every way by spinach, kale, cabbage, brussel sprouts, or collard greens. It's one of the most American foods I can think of: in an attempt to eat healthy we found the most bland, nutrient free food possible.
Yes, that's my point. In economics a scarce resource is a limited resource. Defining post-scarcity as an abundance of goods is a bad definition, unless the goods are truly unlimited. Neither us nor 24th century Star Trek has post-scarcity. Star Trek TNG has a post-capitalist, non-monetary economy, but it's not post-scarcity.
I'm surprised that JWST isn't actually all that much bulkier than Hubble, despite the mirror(s) being so much larger. In retrospect I guess that makes sense, since much of Hubble's bulk is the long tube enclosing the mirror, which JWST lacks. Also, the size of things that can be reasonably launched into space is limited by the launch vehicles themselves. (Maybe NASA would have built it bigger if they knew exactly the launch vehicle specs that would be available at the end of 2021, or they might have waited for Starship, but obviously that couldn't have been predicted when work on JWST began.)
> Eventually the syntax will stabilize if it hasn't already.

Every language in wide use today is still evolving and, if anything, it seems that the pace of language change is generally increasing.
Which is why I wish the webmention had taken off more than it did

https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/