skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a business can survive me not being there for 6 months, then it's not a place I'd want to be at. Imagine having so little impact that you're just an interchangeable cog in a wheel. Although there would be an obvious upside[0]

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/man-skipped-work-for-...
Have you tried using a plastic mask insert/bracket? I find them very helpful. It lifts the mask off my mouth and nose, so the mask doesn't feel as constricting and I no longer suck in cloth when I'm breathing harder.
I mean, you should provide all sources of income to the IRS.
Selling stuff is part of the equation, apart from specified exceptions.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised. Or if someone involved wanted to pretend that 4chan is doing such a thing to make people doubt it, its difficult to know the truth with that website
Except it turns out that blocks and even block protocols were never actually blocked by the lack of a blockchain
The high school in my conservative county has reinstated mask mandates, and it hasn't really been very dramatic at all. Most parents generally get it, but I live in a flyover state so nobody cares that it's working fine here.
Around here, dumpsters are often locked to prevent dumping. The apartments across the street are plagued by dumpers who come at all hours and fill the dumpsters, mostly with construction debris it seems. Residents end up just piling shit on the ground around them.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It's unbelievably repetitive, tedious and nasty. Exactly the opposite of what this site is meant for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Am I missing something or is this Day 1 of a programming course in C?
100k years! wow, can we reuse this stuff if we are able to stabilize it enough to send into space?
Perhaps they simply don't have the manpower to define standards for everything.
Exactly. The reason inflation happens is that the government overspends, then prints money because it can. There are no magic tricks to stop inflation if you're constantly devaluing your currency.
Ah, I didn't realize they reused codes from ISO 3166-3. I figured, because they keep these regions around in their own set, that was some implication that the codes would not be reused.
That's pretty astounding. Would you be willing to breakdown how 70% gets lost on a transfer?
It's how insular groups / cults work. The group looks for converts, so people who are normally isolated and rejected feel welcomed, and group members try to be welcoming. Members adopt a progressively more weird lexicon and lifestyle, so they find it harder and harder to make connections outside of the group. These two dynamics lead to a very hardcore membership.

It's like why hare krishna have to have funny haircuts.

Plus people don't tend to get into radical politics if their life is going great, so a lot of the people predisposed to neo-nazi stuff are also predisposed to be love-bombed by a proselytizing group.
I'd love to know what cost they have put for 100k of storage of nuclear waste. Talk about intergenerational debt.
Surely once storage costs are factored into nuclear energy, renewables are much much more cost effective, without all the risks of nuclear waste spilling out at some point in the next 100k years?!?!
N95s work via an electric polarity of the filter. This charge is what captures the viruses. Filtration fades when the charge is lost.

I don't need to see your studies because I have helped build and certify N95 factories and know a lot about it. The masks arent usable for long and arent reusable, either.

Cloth masks do nothing and are not a consideration to any serious adult.
Body airbags or similar would likely work for lower altitude.
> The company manufacturing the car needs to make this decision when writing the software. At that time, it's a decision being made by moral agents.

I think even that is a step beyond: acquiescing to the task of writing software that will kill people as part of an agent-less decision is, itself, an immoral task.

The puppy-kicking machine analogy was supposed to be a little tongue-in-cheek, but it is appropriate: if it's bad to kick puppies, then we probably should consider not building the machine in the first place instead of trying to teach it morality.
This explains why a lot of them feel like poorly generated AI. Thank you for the insight :)
So all that said - what would be required of the flying car for it to work well enough to supplant the car? (not the jetpack, that will at best be the skateboard of the sky)

1. It would have to be significantly faster, able to go longer (makes sense this would be the case because obviously you can fly quicker than you can drive so I assume this benefit will be a gimme, but it has to be significant for people to care. If you can make the flight to grandma's house in 3 hours instead of 8 there would be interest)

2. It would have to not cost very much more to own or to run.

3. It would have to not be any less safe for drivers than it currently is to drive - at the beginning this might be the case because less drivers means more safe maybe.

4. there would probably have to be significant safety features built in to keep flying cars from causing catastrophic damage if they failed - this seems to right there make it impossible because it has to not cost much more than a normal car.

5. There would probably have to increase in automation of cars to be able to detect when something wrong, when someone breaking flight rules etc.

6. no internal combustion engine flying cars, because a falling car with internal combustion engine is also a potential bomb.

so what are the benefits - we've already mentioned 1 but are there others?

Conceivably with a mass movement to flying cars instead of cars the infrastructure of cars would no longer be needed or need to be maintained. A utopian vision would then be that all that land that is currently big packed freeways get converted to parks etc. although a cynical vision would say oh nobody would want to pay for that and they turn into dystopian hellholes and kids go there to get eaten by coyotes.

Possible benefit #3 - to make safe have to have much routes for everything but given that we have all the sky conceivably there could be more routes, including emergency routes that would be left to emergency services or people registered for a possible quick route (quick routes to hospital for birth etc.) All of this of course implies flying cars with effective computer surveillance of drivers.

So I see these benefits to flying car - 1. quicker longer trips enabled. 2. No longer need driving car infrastructure 3. possible solutions to congestion are still available with flying car.

But does that mean it is doable.

I think the needed functionality points basically cancels out it ever working but maybe I am pessimistic, although I do think that now we are actually getting to the point where the necessary prerequisites for flying cars are starting to be built - specifically good electric cars and driving automation and services (but way early for that, flying cars in 100 years at this rate)
You started a hellish nationalistic flamewar with this, and then broke HN's guidelines extremely badly all the way through this thread. We ban that sort of account, so please don't post like that again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting from now on, we'd appreciate it.
"Easier than QFN" isn't a glowing recommendation but makes me hopeful. QFNs are the bane of my existence.
All good, thanks for clarifying.

My main concern was the assertions made in the comment I initially responded to, several layers up. Whose author seems to have ghosted us, since making them.
The proof of the burden as to why this website should force all communication to be public is on you. HTTPS exists and configuring it is simple in this era, and the choice to not use it for a university's public website is either laziness or incompetence.

You surely must be aware that content like headers and even URL paths (and other parts of the URL) are confidential over HTTPS.

Why should I allow an employer, an abusive spouse, an abusive parent, a parole officer, a detective looking to charge me with a crime, a gang looking to intimidate me, know which content I'm accessing from a website? All it takes is something like a wireshark application somewhere between (inclusive) my network and the server's network, and they will full have access to everything I've requested from the server and everything it has responded with, including all metadata. No warrants needed.

Like I said in another comment: "Why should we make any personal details about our lives public information if it doesn't need to be? Do you go around announcing all the things that you do in your life that are seemingly harmless? Sometimes revealing information to the public that one would think is harmless can end up doing a lot of harm, both to you and others. Privacy matters, a lot."
China destroyed early samples of the novel coronavirus
He is free to voice his displeasure at sharing a platform with an ill-informed blowhard spouting dangerous bullshit out of every orifice. Spotify has no obligation to platform Rogan, but they choose to tie their flag to his mast, and I for one am happy I switched to a different platform.
> But, quite simply, if I'm paying for a car or a ride, the machine serves me.

If you're saying that people who can afford to take a car for a particular journey deserve to be protected over the pedestrians who can't in the edge-cases, then, if we average out enough of the details, this implies that richer people's lives are worth (slightly) more than poorer people's lives.

You can draw a lot of conclusions from this logic, though, so I'm not sure how valid it is to just pick one property and generalise from it. (Wealth is applicable, but also able-bodiedness, age, climate consciousness, whether you feel safe walking streets alone at night…) It might be something to think about [edit: removed].
It's easy to act morally superior and make cheap emotional arguments for when you're not the one who has to make hard decisions. All lives have value, but no life has infinite value. You can't seriously expect the majority to endure perpetual mandates and restrictions just to provide some limited, temporary protection to a small minority who are vulnerable due to risk factors like obesity.

https://reason.com/2022/01/03/cdc-covid-19-children-hospital...

And in the long run it won't make any difference anyway. Everyone will be exposed regardless of whether or not schoolchildren are subjected to mask mandates. So what's the point of continuing the charade?

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
What do you think cloudflare workers are and what is parsing the JS? ;)
Well I hope Neil Young will remember,
a spotify fan don't need him around anyhow
> no longer needed to buy a new charger every time you purchase a new mobile phone

The entire proposal is as misguided as this statement is false.

https://tidbits.com/2021/12/03/usbefuddled-untangling-the-ra...
" And this is the tragedy of jetpack technology. They can’t hold enough fuel for more than eight minutes of flight "
Also presumably donations and counter lobbying by various “Oil Councils” and trade groups.
> fearmongering, spin, and propaganda

You're missing the biggest one, the first commandment of 21st century journalism:

Thou shalt not criticize the culture of another people, howsomever much all evidence of a trouble's causes may point in that direction.
In Sweden it's also not allowed to smoke near bus stations or other forms of public communication (this includes train platforms etc.).
You're taking 14 vs 10 from table 15 on page 50 on the report. Page 51 says:

> The rates in Table 15 should not be used as a measures of vaccine effectiveness due to unaccounted for biases and risk factors.

The age-standardized morality rates you mentioned are for just the week of Jan 8-14 (though the same pattern is visible for earlier weeks). But, you didn't mention 3-dose stats with show the opposite pattern:

- Unvaccinated: 16/1.5m raw; 10/100k age adj

- 2-dose: 33/1m raw; 14/100k age adj

- 3-dose: 71/3m raw; 1.5/100k age adj

You can't infer the protectiveness of vaccination in elders directly from this age-adjusted mortality data because Scotland has 100% 2+ dose coverage in those age 60+. The unvaccinated group only includes people under 60 while the vaccinated group includes both. You have to use other observations to judge the protective effect.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/phs.covid.19/viz/COVI...

(In reality the number is a bit under 100% because the denominator and the numerator are not linked together. They're tracking sum totals, not individual people.)
It’s rough there hasn’t been more progress since we last heard about this 7 months ago[0],
There are some good suggestions in the comments to that post.

It’s understandable that the marketplace owner wants to have an iOS app and not just a site like OnlyFans.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27451689
There’s a difference between nonconformity and questioning authority and packaging those things for sale. Rebellion as a Service now sells you that feeling of fighting the man packaged up in easy to consume pieces.

Joe Rogan is an entertainer, not a rebel.
ICU nurses wear N95 masks that are fitted and tested (a bad tasting/smelling aerosol is used). It is completely sealed around the face. This is how my SIL did COVID ICU for 1.5 years every week without contracting it. Not the same as the one size fits all n95 people loosely place on their faces.
not ironic at all, you're just confusing (theoretical) "Computer Science" with "Software Engineering" industry best practices.
Katherine Wu has been a font of great information on Covid issues, especially vaccines. I noticed she's not party to this particular article. I'm wondering if she's gnashing her teeth right now or about to launch a Twitter tirade. This could just be The Atlantic giving space to a breadth of ideas rather than an actual endorsement of their thesis.

And as a parent with two kids in school they have absolutely zero complaints about their masks and wear them all day even outside. They think they're cool and comfortable. Anecdote but it definitely colors my opinion.
I think it's more due to the big sky theory.

When flying even a modest GA aircraft VFR, there isn't much time to react if you've been looking down at foreflight/instruments for 30 seconds while heading straight towards a paramotor which has no ADS-B out. This says even more for IFR craft that move much faster.
He is not getting canceled; he has cut ties with Spotify because of their perceived endorsement of Joe Rogan's views as expressed in his podcast.
That theory is called “starve the beast” wherein tax hawks seem to believe shrinking the federal budget is simply a matter of cutting taxes and engaging in brinksmanship, despite the fact that their ultimate goal of cutting SS and Medicare has been a political non starter for decades.
I'm sorry to pile on, but flamewar comments like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074086 are completely unacceptable on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are, and regardless of which country or countries you have a problem with. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The New Personal Website Isn’t a Website at All
All of this is really government we-don't-pick-winners speak for yubikeys.
Which is why these APIs should always make normalization available: https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/
Am I missing something, or is this the wrong link? Should it be

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/01/27/masterclass-on-mat...

The current link is to a post titled "Pappus’s theorem and elliptic curves" FWIW.
It’s news that their definition of the gender “women” excludes women whose facial bone structures are unacceptable to the app.

It’s news that their definition of the gender “women” excludes women whose skin color is unacceptable to the app.

It’s news that their definition of the gender “women” excludes women whose biological sex at birth is unacceptable to the app.

None of these criteria have any bearing whatsoever on gender. They’re saying “women” out loud, but what they’re trying to filter for in practice is “people who were sexed female-only at birth and meet a restrictive set of facial characteristics”. Women have a variety of biological sexes at birth (male, female, both, neither). Women have a variety of facial characteristics (feminine, masculine, androgynous, mixed). So it’s news that they’re trying to discriminate by redefining “women” to exclude some women.
Robot performs keyhole surgery without human help for the first time
Clipping a fire hydrant could be part of a legitimate strategy to emergency-stop. Clipping a pedestrian wouldn't be. A self-driving car needs to know the difference.
This has never been true and will never be true for one very important reason: limited attention span. No one has an infinite attention span, and there are many stimuli competing for our attention. Thus, when someone shows up looking like a hobo claiming to have discovered the secrets of the universe, or someone decked out like a bimbo wants to talk about their latest art project, people rightly tune out. That doesn't make them bad people, but it does mark the person trying to get their attention as being painfully unaware that having knowledge of rhetoric is not optional if you want to succeed.

What you wear when you're not trying to convince anyone of anything is your own business, but when you're actually trying to reach someone, maybe it's not asking too much to demonstrate some basic self awareness? If you're not willing to go that far then why should anyone listen to you?
As with any false labeling in the US, this seems ripe for a class action suit.
Of course you can reverse a string with a flag emoji. You just need to treat a "string" as a collected of Extended Grapheme Clusters, and then you reverse the order of the EGCs. So if the string is `a<flag unicode bytes>b`, the output should be `b<flag unicode bytes>a`.
Imagining themselves as born elites fighting undeserved oppression is the foundational feature of Nazism, going back all the way back to the myth of Germany's loss in WWI demonstrating such oppression. Everything else depends on it. So, without it, they have nothing.

They are not alone in that. Ayn Rand tapped the same well, as did every monarchy-restorationist clique.
Tidal is owned by Square these days.
There's a specification problem here. I like to say that a "string" isn't a data structure, it's the absence of one. Discussing "strings" is pointless. It follows that comparing programming languages by their "string" handling is likewise pointless.

Case in point: a "struct" in languages like C and Rust is literally a specification of how to treat segments of a "string" of contiguous bytes.
It is incomprehensible for me to understand why people call this "principled". It is bullying in the words of President Obama - "That's not activism" [1]. If Neil wants to go and debate, he should show up on JRE and put his points forth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaHLd8de6nM
Yeah, that's why I pointed out there could be a broad labeling standard (if the name implies a plant oil, provide the percentage...).

Then they would at least be able to take action against violators.
You are exactly right! There does not seem to be much out there. I usually do hash or otherwise transform real-world (e.g., https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets) data to retain basic properties like skewness utf8 well-formedness, cardinality, and such. Like many others, I often use the Enron eMail dataset, NYC Taxi, or Twitter data (for coherent use of Unicode). And then scale it either by combining attributes randomly or otherwise augmenting it.
Earlier in my career, I wrote a regular expression inversion data generator; it quickly spiraled out of control complexity-wise ;-).
Is it possible that this was just an elaborate Producers-esque thing where the creators weren't exactly "racist", but more "wouldn't it be funny if could get every TV station to post a bunch of racist stuff?"

I realize it's a Poe's Law distinction without a difference, I'm just curious if there was any evidence of that hypothesis.
Characters in Shakespeare comedies regularly have trouble telling who is male or female. A woman puts on pants and everyone thinks she's male.
> I still think a fiscal conservative with an army of accountants could figure out UBI and make it work.

This is totally lost on me. Why? I don't see how any of the issues with UBI are accounting based. We already can spend money we don't have in the short term so nothing prevents transfer payments of any size in a purely logistical sense.

The issues with UBI are regressive redistribution, long term effects on the labor market, and long term effects on the currency. None of those are accounting issues.
Is a RTL character string already "reversed" from a LTR POV?

Is an absolute value signed as positive?
The US plan, if I’m not mistaken, is for 10k years, not 100k.
False advertising might fall more in the FTC's wheelhouse, or the FBI's for fraud.
As a Reinforcement Learning enthusiast, I can't help but see humans learning as they sleep as a "batch". In RL you often delay updating the agent and only update it periodically, just like brains seem to do with sleep.
I hope other artists stand up for the same freedom of speech and expression that allow them to be artists.
They'd switch to Fulfilled by Amazon, where the seller can set their own prices.
How the East Coast’s busiest highway unraveled: 36 hours of misery on I-95
The buyer may have a claim against him for spoiling the value of their purchase.
Tried to sign up but can't get past the user name page.
Hiring manager interview. User manual
No, you couldn't. It wasn't until Wilkinson had perfected his boring machine and Watt had a model of a steam engine that could not be be realized because he couldn't get a precise enough bore, that Wilkinson took it upon himself to bore the first steam engine cylinder that worked.

In order to get this, there are a lot of steps involved, including the ability to sand cast and bore iron of sufficient quality to take a reasonable amount of pressure.

If you got to that point, you might want to build a Stirling engine instead, it's far less likely to explode and kill people.
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2021/08/20/tsa-exten...

The TSA mandate itself. Only those under age 2 are exempt from it. This is just for the US obviously, not sure about other places. But in my experience the less you paid for your ticket the more strict the airline is. I typically don't fly budget airlines but did once during the pandemic and that's when a flight attendant shouted at me and my wife when our toddler had taken his mask off and we didn't notice.
Generally long serving I guess? In the U.S. its mixed and there is worry what impact politics plays when they've got to get out the vote.
Famously communist UK as well. BT (British Telecom) was the state owned telecom provider that also ran the phone books.

And famously communist Germany with Deutsche Telekom (Formerly part of the national post system, privatised in 1995) that also made telephone books. Also worth noting that the German government still has a significant stake in Deutsche Telekom.

Oh and famously communist Netherlands with KPN the state run post and telecoms provider.

And famously communist Spain with Telefonica being previously majority owned by the state (under Franco no less).

I mean most of European telecoms seem to have been state owned until the early 90s.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...

More seriously, there are a wide range of problems associated with long term waste storage, from known knowns to unknown unknowns. Some of the risks can't even be reasonably anticipated.