skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At this point, mandates have convinced everyone who will ever be convinced. There is no more convincing in our future. A subset of people will always reject masks and vaccines.

This is defeatist and I don't think it's true. Most of those people have never had a mandate — as we've seen everywhere those have actually been implemented, there are a very few dedicated antivaxers and a whole ton of people who are comfortable repeating their shiboleths as long as there's no personal cost. Once they're forced to accept the consequences of their decision, a significant fraction cave. They'll never admit that they spent the last couple of years parroting lies but at least they're vaccinated and far less likely to be tying up a hospital bed.
It's unlikely to matter from a performance perspective. If you're only going to load, it doesn't really matter. If you want to work with the file, all the other stuff will be in your way, for little gain.
Up front here, I'm in no way attempting to demean your loss.

As a counter-counterpoint; Buddy of mine by way of a local community group lost his elderly mother in a care home because someone decided to come in to visit last year while unknowingly covid-positive. It swept through the wing and at least three other residents died from Covid complications. My friend himself ended up catching it from his mother and was in ICU when she passed herself.

Lack of social connections can be overcome with virtual communications. It's not the same as true face to face interaction, but it beats killing someone with your mere presence.
It doesn't really seem like a joke, but mentions the possibility that it is one that they don't understand.

Basically it's a bone with an inscription on it that can either mean "goat's bone" or "weather bone" and the writer is suggesting in context they don't really know what it means, because it might not actually be a goat's bone, and why is it labeled as such in the first place?
Unusually, we have pretty good documentation about Prof Tao's background, childhood, and mathematical education. I found this a good read.

http://math.fau.edu/yiu/Oldwebsites/MPS2010/TerenceTao1984.p...

My favorite part is when he was asked, at age 8 minus epsilon, whether addition distributes over multiplication (after having established that multiplication distributing over addition is an example of a distributive law), and he said, "only for Boolean algebras."

(Disclosure: I was also a child prodigy, so much of this story resonated with me. I'm now a research software engineer at Google, working on lots of mathematically intensive topics in 2D graphics, but obviously nowhere nearly as accomplished as Prof Tao)
Peron was a big fan of Mussolini and Hitler, and a lot of his party actions (Peronism) are based on what they did, so yeah, fascist is pretty accurate here.
"Totalitarianism" is as real as Goblins [1] and Orcs [2]; it is a Cold War propaganda term to smear enemy political systems. No person or government identifies as "totalitarian".

1984 and Brave New World are fiction books designed to be popular and have good sales, earning the authors a living. They are not accurate representations of reality and anyone who bases their understanding of modern domestic and international politics & power on them is just as deeply unserious as someone who compares China to Mordor or Putin to Voldemort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
> originated as one of these hoaxes

The origin story of a thing tells us very little about the thing as it actually exists today.

"It's dumb that people pay real money for Dogecoin because it started as a joke."

It may or may not be worth anything, but its origin story doesn't help figure out if it is or not.

"Look at the woke mob freaking out about the OK hand sign, its origin was a chan/kun hoax."

Meanwhile, racists and actual Nazis routinely use the symbol with each other.
Ah well, in our modern democracies I would say, it is very much possible, that the majority of people hates the elected politicians.

How is that possible?

Well, first of, not everyone has voting rights.

Second, many do not vote because they hate all politicians.

Third, even people who do vote, can hate the person they vote, but they see them as the smaller evil to the OTHER guy they even hate more.

Forth, during the vote the voter believed the promises and was disappointed to have them broken again, after election, which is when the hate returns.

So all in all, plenty of possibilities to have hated leaders voted in.

Having said that - hating is easy.

But transforming a corrupt, but nationalist society is hard.
A bitterent that can cause allergic reactions (and most substances can!) is on a completely different scale to something that is an actual poison and consuming a small amount can cause permanent damage/kill you, regardless of your immune system's sensitivity.
This was around a decade ago but my professor was not a young man (early 60s I'd guess).
On that note, I wonder if anyone has suggestions for paid video content that is good? That is, "non fiction" or educational stuff like this series is supposed to be. I feel like I spend too much time watching YouTube (mostly free) and Netflix (very cheap, quality varies).

This is a vague question but I'm interested in all kinds of suggestions... including meta suggestions to recommendation sites. I sometimes look at various subreddits like /r/netflix but I don't find much there.
What if I told you the original buzzwords were more like newspeak than the detailed, albeit biased, explanation.
Vite [0] configures React, Vue and more perfectly out of the box

[0] https://github.com/vitejs/vite
Satellites Can Spot Beached Whales from Space
Very impressive no doubt, and again, they are brothers, so genetics plays a part. But their achievements aren't even close.

His (younger) brother, Nigel achieved two bronze medals (placing 132nd and 114th overall) at the age of 15 and 16 [0]. Quite good, specially at a younger age than most participants.

Terence [1] got a gold medal (13th place) right before completing 13 years of age. He achieved a similar feat (28th place) around his 12th birthday and a more humble performance (87th place, but still better than his brother's best) around his 11th birthday. At 11, better than 58% of his competition, some of the best 17 and 18 year olds at competitive math in the world.

He is cited as "the youngest bronze, silver, and gold medalist, respectively, in IMO history." [2]

These are entirely different levels.

[0] https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=783

[1] https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1581

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...
I see a lot of comments about more punishment and regulation - but that could actually backfire and cause the problem to become worse.

More penalties would raise the stakes for the data, making it far more valuable to hackers. What's the value of data which, if exposed, can cause people to go to jail or lose lots of personal wealth? A lot, especially for ransom or blackmail.

Take HIPAA data as a prime example. What is the inherent value of health data to hackers - not much, for the most part. Maybe a little value if you get some public-figure data, but who cares what prescriptions I (a nobody) am on? The primary value to hackers of health data is exactly that it is very regulated and penalties for exposure are very high. This makes it great for blackmail and ransom. So now we have tons and tons of various nonsense "security" and "privacy" hoops we have to jump through and many $B's of cost related to protecting it. How many BS privacy policies have you gotten in paper form? How many privacy liability-waivers and other such docs have you been forced to sign before every medical treatment?

The better approach is to reduce the value and quantity of this data in the first place, so that hackers won't spend as much effort trying to steal it, and when they are successful it doesn't matter as much.

What if SSN's weren't used as ID numbers everywhere? What if it were much harder to abuse credit card numbers? What if we didn't keep allowing/REQUIRING companies to store so much personal information about us in the first place?
It's still "rôle" to me, damnit.
No, cash in pesos, you exchange usd from time to time.
> but someone from Meta reached out

I hate that justice is a PR battle.
Identical source code when recompiled should produce identical binaries:

https://reproducible-builds.org/

Agreed that people should have the freedom to modify their software though.
The failure mode for BNW is when the gravy train runs out and the authorities can no longer afford to keep the public pacified. The much older concept than Huxley's story that Huxley's story is drawing from is "bread and circuses."

That's one of the reason that mullification through the carrot works so well in the United States... It's a very wealthy nation with vast reserves of resources to draw upon to keep people happy.
> With widescreens my mouse point never touches an edge. I mean that's a corner case your axiom fails to address. Because human behavior is part of the system you have to use science and data driven methods to determine the best course of action as human behavior can be unpredictable.

Except this was measured in studies of human behaviour. Only they apparently studied humans who had both mice with acceleration and the intelligence to give the mouse a quick flick to get across even rather large screens.

> Almost every website or UI is a corner case.

A) No.

B) Buy a joke detector.

Now please stop spouting meta bullshit that only shows that you still prefer blathering to actually getting a grasp on what it is you're blathering about. Thank you.
Try sending an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com so they can take a look.
Upgrading a Soviet Calculator with a Modern CPU
I dunno about that. I've been in a bicycle accident where I believe the helmet saved me - in more ways than just impact protection. I also scraped my left knee badly against the pavement. If I hadn't been wearing a helmet, I would have scraped up the left side of my face as well.
Part of the reason they fail so regularly is because so many are wedded to the declarative model, in order that they don't have to understand what they are managing and how it operates.
What the article states is not necessarily true though. They definitely do have existing authorities on misbranding and adulteration that work for nonstandardized foods.

The quote from the researcher is that "But because there are no standards to determine if an avocado oil is of the quality and purity advertised, no one is regulating false or misleading labels." I'm sure there's truth here when it comes to oxidation and rancidity, more detailed characteristics like that, or claims of "extra virgin" which I'm not sure are defined to mean anything at all for avocado oil.

But the article's un-cited statement "Without standards, the FDA has no means to regulate avocado oil quality and authenticity," I'd want something more backing that up, particularly as to authenticity. I'm not convinced at all that the FDA really lacks the tools to police that what claims to be avocado oil merely is (or at least contains) avocado oil, if they wanted to. The statues and regulations on the names of foods and the accuracy of the ingredient list, they have those tools already.

It's possible a standard or something similar might be needed for some other quality issues, or to enforce some meaning behind common marketing terms like "extra virgin," though.
I wish I lived in a world where that was true.
I've been hang-gliding and paragliding only once. But the platform was obviously adopted by the paragliding community.

One of those interesting stories where we were working on the tech, not realizing that paragliders would be a user (and knowing nothing about paragliding at the time).
He hasn't blogged in a while, so it's fine. MLers and Haskellers both think Agda is very beautiful, and so I think this diffuses things a bit.

Also his former advisee Jon Sterling is doing domain theory stuff now, so hah!
Markedly fewer than people with similar genes I imagine.
Because everyone in the world likes and uses USD.
In Argentina no one wants Argentinian pesos, people outside argentina like them even less, however you can use USD all over the world, so yeah, it's not comparable.
You will get the jab but for being symptomatic with covid, that's already a small chance. 5% * 0.146% ~~ 0.007
wow good catch, thanks, just fixed it! Is your concern more ideologically or are you worried about actually getting in trouble for using it? happy to assuage your fears if it is the latter.
> Crimea would likely still belong to Ukraine if NATO hadnt done that - [...]

Shifting the blame to a third party is a very biased way of see this.
Set up filters on the sender or subject line.

Since it’s happening on work time you’re getting paid for your wasted time dealing with spam. Seems like a very minor problem.
This is very specifically not the definition of a ponzi scheme. actually it meets literally none of the criteria of a ponzi scheme except maybe the fact that money is involved and somebody loses money. if there is a real asset involved in the scheme its just called speculation. not all speculation has anything to do with a ponzi scheme.

it would be a ponzi scheme if you advertised this investment as a service and then never bought the actual underlying asset but just shuffled funds through to payout investors.

so yeah, literally zero overlap with a ponzi scheme.

another angle: by your definition, all investments in commodities where you don't plan to take physical delivery are ponzi schemes and all zero dividend stocks are ponzi schemes (which is wrong)
not for most people I'd guesss. The use-case he's excluding is so narrow, and if you're doing something like that, there are probably better ways of handling this.

The license is fine for all projects (commercial or private) that I'd be interested in using it for.
Thanks for pointing out the improvement over NIST, it wasn’t clear to me. But did you mean to reply to my parent? Both the draft and the current language say SHOULD NOT. I’d rather “must”, but will settle for “should”; the NIST docs have certainly made my work easier. Hopefully NIST improves, and perhaps this memo will help!

The essential purpose of my comment was only to correct my parent on the date.
The open source nouveau driver has existed for years, the problems with it are mainly caused by nvidia; not releasing signed firmware for use by nouveau, not releasing specifications etc.
However, Dr. Henry Marsh, a neurosurgeon at St. George's Hospital in London, believes many cycling helmets are simply "too flimsy."

As the Telegraph reports, Marsh was speaking at the Hay Literary Festival. There, he threw caution to an erudite wind by saying: "I ride a bike and I never wear a helmet. In the countries where bike helmets are compulsory there has been no reduction in bike injuries whatsoever."

So when you break his actual argument down, it comes down to:

- "many are too flimsy" (what about non-flimsy helmets)?

- "I never ride with a helmet" (so that settles it?)

- "In countries where ...", citing no studies, and ignoring studies with different results.

Not impressed. Meanwhile I'll go with Høye's meta-analysis, unless someone can point me to (substantial) counter-arguments or critiques:

doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.03.026. Epub 2018 Apr 17.
Bicycle helmets - To wear or not to wear? A meta-analyses of the effects of bicycle helmets on injuries
Alena Høye

Abstract

A meta-analysis has been conducted of the effects of bicycle helmets on serious head injury and other injuries among crash involved cyclists. 179 effect estimates from 55 studies from 1989-2017 are included in the meta-analysis. The use of bicycle helmets was found to reduce head injury by 48%, serious head injury by 60%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, face injury by 23%, and the total number of killed or seriously injured cyclists by 34%. Bicycle helmets were not found to have any statistically significant effect on cervical spine injury. There is no indication that the results from bicycle helmet studies are affected by a lack of control for confounding variables, time trend bias or publication bias. The results do not indicate that bicycle helmet effects are different between adult cyclists and children. Bicycle helmet effects may be somewhat larger when bicycle helmet wearing is mandatory than otherwise; however, helmet wearing rates were not found to be related to bicycle helmet effectiveness. It is also likely that bicycle helmets have larger effects among drunk cyclists than among sober cyclists, and larger effects in single bicycle crashes than in collisions with motor vehicles. In summary, the results suggest that wearing a helmet while cycling is highly recommendable, especially in situations with an increased risk of single bicycle crashes, such as on slippery or icy roads.*
As a wise person once said, "Mind your own business". Take care of yourself and those around you and the rest will fall into place.
How this Startup used partnerships to raise $1M and gain thousands of followers
> you are just clueless.

> I often hear so many stupid arguments like yours

Not a way to win an argument, even if you have reputable facts. I could have used the rest of your comment without the snark.

I enjoy being wrong on HN. It's a quick way to evaluate and possibly update my mental model. It's just not very fun running into your type of attitude.
You can also just run a command in the console to get the answer. But where is the fun in that?
now the link you provide says "May 1, 2022"
Indeed. It'd be best to have another copy of the backup somewhere other than S3, or in S3 under a different AWS account.

I worked for a company that had all their databases in AWS RDS and all their database backups as RDS backups stored in the same AWS account. A compromise of a single high-privilege account could cause that company to no longer have ANY data. I warned the higher-ups repeatedly that they needed more than one backup location. They didn't seem to care too much.
Domains Project
Nitpicking a bit. Humans (as in homo sapiens) have only existed for roughly 300k years. The use of fire was invented by earlier species but the timeframe you mention is probably correct.
> Just in case you were thinking about upgrading the software during re-encryption - don't.

You'd expect such a critical software had necessary failsafe mechanisms around that.
Existing aluminum-air batteries have 1300 Wh/kg, or 4.7 MJ/kg in modern units, and it's plausible they could improve to over 20 MJ/kg. The more expensive lithium-air battery already exceeds 6 MJ/kg. Jet fuel is 43 MJ/kg. Pure aluminum is 31 MJ/kg, so to the extent that you can build "new Al-air batteries" during flight with the cathode and electrolyte from "old batteries", you can approach that limit. That sounds ridiculous but we've been doing it with hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells since 01838. Hydrogen has 118 MJ/kg, and there's no fundamental physical reason hydrogen-air fuel cells can't be epsilon above that, though current models are large and heavy.

It's true that all rechargeable batteries like Li-ion batteries are so far under 1 MJ/kg, which more than 40 times worse than jet fuel just as you say, but it's extremely plausible that Al-air could beat Li-ion by an order of magnitude, and Li-air already does, except for the best Li-ion cells. It's already most of the way there. And fuel cells can beat jet fuel by almost a factor of 3, and for low-power applications they do.

Betavoltaic cells and TEGs have even higher energy density but you can't turn them off, so you need to dissipate the power they produce when you're not using it to fly or whatever. You could build a hybrid system with a large glide ratio that uses chemical batteries for takeoff and a betavoltaic battery or TEG for long-distance cruising, but you might have to only land it on water to keep it from overheating while it was on the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_rea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Refere...
Wow. Just sounds like another reason to switch to Linux and not be subjected to changes outside of your control.
those carry their own risks.

I once created a pretty basic phpBB forum for my college.

Spammed by russian hackers within minutes.
Alyssa has also been working on Apple M1 GPU drivers too:

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-2.html
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-4.html
This analysis is simplistic in a few ways:

1) It looks at Ukraine's importance economically and concludes it's not worth it. The reality though is that it's really more about stability with our EU trading partners. If Ukraine falls to Russia suddenly we have to start worrying about supply chains and the economy of Poland, etc. Ripping away the buffer between western and eastern europe will have economic implications.
2) The US' involvement in both cases won't necessarily be similar. It's highly unlikely IMO that we will end up fighting russia directly with US troops. It's pretty clear now that the US approach to Ukraine will be at best arming ukranians and providing indirect support. It's far more effective in Ukraine to make invasion expensive and not worth it than trying to outright push back the Russians out of Crimea too. Between a combination of costly conflict, sanctions taking a toll on the Russian economy and enough resistance, it soon becomes untenable for the Russians to continue. Or at least that's the hope.
3) With Taiwan, the problem is that the PROC is basically increasing risk in the region to the point that with enough time people will start diversifying away from taiwan. We already see this with TSMC starting to build US fabs and Intel now investing heavily again in the domestic US. This doesn't change things in the next 3-5 years but on a longer horizon it does mean Taiwan's economic relevance does become more questionable. The PROC can wait as long as it needs for this to happen.
Or take all the fun away and just get it through browser console ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

JSON.parse(localStorage.gameState).solution
Until they faces consequences other than "1 year of credit monitoring" it will continue. Especially given at this point various lawsuits mean most people have credit monitoring already.

The fact that credit agencies, etc are allowed to report incorrect information without consequence is a similar problem. There's no incentive for them to ensure accurate info. In fact they're incentivized to accept false information as it lets them offer "credit monitoring" as a service people have to pay for.
It's amazing! Another JavaScript framework which tries to self sell as something new.
There are some regex AI tools already - e.g. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/convertfrom-string...

It's what excel uses for power query's "column from examples" too.
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
That just sounds like completely ungrounded fear. More kids get fucked by pool accidents than Covid. Kids have no business wearing masks.

The damage caused by masks and treating kids like nothing more than disease vectors vastly outweighs the absolutely minimal risks Covid poses to them.