skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The graphs on this page were produced by Kevin Lui (right), a undergraduate student at Caltech who spent a summer growing thousands of ice cubes to investigate the physics behind ice spike formation."

interns get to do some of the coolest things

ba-dum-ta
> It should not be a controversial statement to say that soldiers are expected to follow orders.

Quite the opposite, a soldier duty, at least in the US is to protect not the Government, but the Constitution. If the government betrays the Constitution, it is the duty of the soldiers to disobey. At this point, civil war is upon us and history will be the final judge, not a military tribunal.
This isn't a television, it's a product similar to Google's Nest Hub; i.e. your standard "smart speaker" plus a display.

Don't disagree with your outrage at all. I wouldn't buy a more critical appliance administered by Google. But I do have a Nest Hub in my kitchen, and I like it for what it is -- an entirely unnecessary, cheap gizmo that nevertheless has a couple useful functions.
https://medium.com/lydian-accelerator/saving-lydia-62a1c0bdf...
I am currently on Vue 2, but would like to migrate to Vue 3 at some point.

I am curious if anyone has as used the TypeScript class syntax with the decorators. Last time I tried to migrate it, there were a bunch of things that failed. Presently it looks like one other dependency I need hasn't been migrated to Vue 3, either.
Can anyone explain the findings? A quick google of 'excess burden' term didn't yield a clear definition, there is a similar term in taxation, but that seems unrelated.
I also don't see usernames as really being that anonymous. Like even if I make a username there that's "notgodelski" if I share that username here on HN then I haven't done anything to keep myself anonymous. All it does is trades one PII for another (phone number for username).

I'm also curious about scaling and collisions. Not only do you have a birthday problem with normal usernames, but what about special classes? Why do I not take all "nyt" and similar usernames to honeypot the actual NYT's contact?
Bloomberg has Thiel at $8.2 billion. They list $4.x billion in 'cash.' Seems a lot more accurate than the Forbes number. I'm curious where the supposed PayPal IRA money fits into that $8b, and or if it even exists at this point (who knows).

"Thiel owns about 8% of Palantir Technologies, according to an analysis of its April 2021 proxy filing. He's credited with shares held directly as well as those held by Thiel Capital, PLTR Holdings, PT Ventures, STS Holdings II, FF4 Investment, Rivendell 7 and Rivendell 25 because he's the beneficial owner of these entities."

"The billionaire indirectly owns stakes in various companies through his interest in venture capital firm, Founders Fund. His stake in the firm is calculated to be 42.5% based on information in the company's 2021 Form ADV filing. It's valuation assumes insiders own 22% of the $24.5 billion in assets managed across its funds. "

"The value of his cash investments is valued based on proceeds from share sales, carried interest and reported data from Thiel's federal tax returns. It includes the value of his hedge funds."

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/peter-a-thie...
The US DOD employs something like 1MM soldiers and 1MM civilian staff (actual numbers slanted more towards military personnel.)
There are huge savings there before you start cutting into contracts (which TBF also need cuts.)

Then the important part is to not think of those jobs as disappearing. Think of those bodies - educated, professionally trained bodies - that can now alleviate the hiring shortage faced by industry.

Think of the boost to GDP when that effort is applied to productive enterprise.
It's been a while since I had a friend I was regularly communicating with, so I have no idea how normal this is. But it is totally foreign to me.
Meh. FB and Twitter and YT throwing nutjobs under the bus is bad on a philosophical level, but the real problem is that ~40% of the population holds these beliefs. Which influences their day to day conduct, how they donate to campaigns, how the vote, how they communicate IRL and online. (And that FB, Twitter and YT is the platform.)

And as the submission title says, there's no way that simple prohibition can "solve" this. (It's hard to legislate epistemic hygiene.)

And. "Ironically" the folks whining about woke cancel culture support the folks actually banning and burning books by government decree.

Also, just for a sensible chuckle about this recent Spotify / JRE deplatforming: https://i.imgur.com/Ihf4ENv.mp4 (I don't think money changed his beliefs.)
I'm not sure about that. 2014 is when Webpack was released and React was released the year prior.

Maybe one or two years after that.
You're not going to automate a plumber, but we can design plumbing systems which are less likely to have issues and/or are easier to repair for non-specialists, and thus reduce the demand for plumbers. You'll still need some for the exceptional cases, of course.

Not that I disagree with the core point: There are jobs which are both necessary and very unlikely to be automated any time soon.
The price you paid is for the hardware you purchased to the manufacture. The ability to run Googly assistant is just software running on that device for free from Googs. It would only be natural for Googs to harvest in all of that usage data so they can sell access to that data to their customers.
We’re working on that, absolutely. The idea behind the KubeSail Platform is that businesses (or open source developers) can sell a fully loaded, pre-configured “box” that runs their software directly to their customers.

PhotoStructure is one of our favorite YC friends - and for example - a “buy a photostructure box!” Button on their site will hopefully be a great source of revenue for both KubeSail and PhotoStructure.

We’d love to sign some large enterprises (and we’re working on that too) but we’re extremely keen on making open source / self-hostable software financially viable for its authors (and easier to use for its users!)
Dual-path is analogous to Rickover's Sub-safe correct? No single points of failure, and graceful degradation to the point of failsafe right?
AFAIK they don't encrypt the contact list, they hash each number and send a few bits of the hash to the server. The server replies with a few possible hashes it knows about, so the client can reason that "if the hash I was asking about is in that set, the user I want to talk to has Signal installed".
>If you’re getting a new phone, but keeping your old number, you can use our end-to-end encrypted device-to-device transfer on Android or iOS to carry your contacts and chat history over to your new device

Is there a way to export chat history into HTML or other file? I want to re read my chat sometime later.
PACKERS!!! WOOO!!!
I think the question of how to be anonymous is quite hard though. I wouldn't exactly call our usernames here anonymous.
You’re thinking of something I’m not describing “idyllic villages”. Instead I’m describing modern towns and cities that exist all over the world and in Europe in particular where they were built before cars existed. They have low emissions, everyone walks or rides a bike, and they have regular train service.

> Building 30 small idyllic villages instead of one hong Kong would end up having a larger environmental impact.

Depends. If they’re American-style sure. If they are (again these are your words idyllic villages) then I don’t see much impact. You just walk around the small village. Maybe a farmer comes buy and sells apples or whatever. These scale and the evidence is in the city, where you can see companies will create multiple instances of their stores because there’s an upper limit on the number of people served. Also for a right sized city 50,000+ you don’t need massive infrastructure investments which require massive specialization, massive costs, and so forth. They only exist because there are too many people.

Also for items like roads those are fine. You can walk or ride your bike in them. Maybe they’re even multi-purpose. Most wouldn’t be driving cars on them for any reason though which is a big inefficiency.
Alpine actually uses the Vue reactivity model under the hood.

I like the idea of it but for what I work on the CSP non-compliance is a deal breaker (their CSP compatible build is not ready and you lose most of the alpine benefits).

https://alpinejs.dev/advanced/csp

I think that Stimulus JS offers many of the same benefits and provides a nice abstraction for making one 'element' contain multiple behaviours.

https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/
If you're looking for an all-in-one, end-user like product, the mk360+ ( https://broomx.com/products/mk360 ) might be an option, but it's quite pricey.

If you like more a DIY approach take a projector + pc as hardware and a projection mapping software like MadMapper ( https://madmapper.com/madmapper/features ), which also includes a 3D scanning via structured light, exactly like the Lighform devices are doing it. For even more complex scenarios, you could dig into creative coding envirornments like vvvv ( https://visualprogramming.net/ ) for example.
The economic definition of competition, beyond its simplest variety, allows for natural "moats" and differentiated firms. Looking for a "moat" is just engaging in competition on a larger scale than that of a single product - and the "excess" returns involved are ultimately a reward for good positioning. (Of course artificially-created 'moats' are a form of rent seeking and should be eliminated via antitrust regulation, but this can take some time.)
The more noise in the data, the less precisely you should claim to be able to measure it.

Social science data is notoriously noisy and erratic. Relationships are notoriously weak. If your numbers have a lot of precision, more often than not it's just meaningless noise not "real" precision in measurement.
I can't remember where I read it, though I'm pretty sure that it was someone in your situation *: By far the easiest non-technical solution is to make it as easy as possible (logistically) for medical research companies to find a suitable cohort to test the intervention on.

As you note with a patient pool of the order of hundreds, they are likely to be very scattered and so if you can get together a cohort for a medical trial, it makes it much easier for Pharmaceutical companies to test repurposed drugs against that cohort.

* I think it was linked to here on HN. Apologies for the shoddy search terms but the only things I can remember about their story was: the parents both dropped out of software jobs to get biochem (or biomed?) PhDs to research the disease (don't remember what) and the ease of cohort accessibility was their number one takeaway for their retrospective blog post(?). If you can find that blog post its well worth a read for all the non-technical (i.e. logistical/financial etc.) aspects of rare disease research.
99% of internet posts make claims without sources.
Sure, but at the same time, it should be possible for a citizen to have a positive view of their nation and also a negative view of their government. The media portrays some of these student groups as almost militantly pro-CCP (above and beyond pro-China).

I like the US. But from 2016-2020 I had almost nothing positive to say about the government. And when asked about Trump by foreigners (usually while I was traveling abroad) I didn’t feel compelled to defend him just because he’s the current president.
I agree that the label "personality" unreasonably implies some sort of real (possibly for many, "genetic") truth.

> When a better explanation can come from sociology

Explanation for what? Behavior generally? In that case, the Big 5 is less of the predictor and more the criterion. The Big 5 is not a theory, it's a taxonomy that emerged from trait theory. It describes, it clusters, it predicts, but in and of itself it doesn't explain.

> ... seems like a lame excuse to hire from your ingroup and excluding your outgroup.

When it comes to hiring in the United States this is literally the opposite of the biggest use-case for personality testing for the past 50 years. But that's the only domain I can speak confidently on, and that doesn't include class or SES as a subgroup.

> there is no justification for the operationally defined terms

This is subjective, and I do not agree. If your critique of The Big 5 is actually a critique of trait theory more generally, I'm there for that. But a taxonomy for observable behaviors that shows reliability as well as content, convergent, and predictive validity across many populations and contexts seems justified to me barring a superior option.

The Big 5 is not and never would be a grand theory of human behavior, but it does describe actual behavior in a way that is interpretable and connected to the world we actually inhabit.
That's nice! Do you happen to know any US based company that are working on similar objective?
Completely besides the point, and of course I don't agree with what google's doing.

However: I can't fathom browsing the web on any device without support for adblocking. Back when I first got my Xbox One I tried its web browser, thought it was neat for about 2 minutes, and noped out that ad infested experience. I think my TV also has a web browser, and again it's useless.
Of course Chinese people are like people elsewhere. Generally even those who are critical of China are really critical of the Chinese government, not the Chinese people.
If you depend on a specific behaviour why dont you pin your react version?
I have no idea what it is this is trying to sell me. Some sort of wiki software?
> I'll just use React if I need to write useX nonsense.

You don't need to. The options API still has 1st class support. The docs allow you to switch between composition API and options API.
> stats from Soundiiz

Maybe tunemymusic is better than Soundiiz?

I do have pretty pedestrian music tastes though...
That says wiping out all social programs and raising taxes on those over 1m/yr in income would cover 15k/yr.

It seems like 45tn in asset seizures would cover the additional 15k/yr for around 10 years.

But I would be very worried about the impact on capital markets and company formation.

I would immediately leave the US if this kind of seizure got through the House and looked like it might pass the Senate.
Per month, perhaps. Over 30 years? Everyone’s got their own equations, if I paid for the house all cash, of course. If I have one kid, and only 10% down on a $2mm house, gotta really pamper the kid to catch up
Being a Christian usually doesn’t have much impact on how people behave. You can be super greedy, super generous, never cheat on your spouse, cheat all the time and so on. Somehow people find a justification for their behavior within their faith no matter what it is.
If you could do research that will save 10 lives, vs research that will save 1 life, which would you choose?

I understand that there are no easy choices here, and having to make a choice will always be heartbreaking.

May I suggest contacting MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos' ex) who seems to be looking for worthwhile endeavors to finance.

(I have no connection to Ms Scott, I just read articles about her charitable activities in the newspaper.)
You can download a prerelease binary early from FTP, but until they release it, there’s no guarantee you’ll get the same code that’s released.
Gawker did a bad thing, and Thiel funded a massive lawsuit to bury them. Thiel did it because he wanted to silence press that had wronged him. He didn't do it because he wanted to be a savior.
Where do you get those effect sizes from?

I'm reading the graphs in the results section with the hazard ratios. All hazard ratios are above 1.5, which if I understand hazard ratio correctly means at least a 50% higher risk compared to regular population?

Am I misunderstanding hazard ratios? Or do you get the stats from elsewhere in the paper?
Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology [audio]
Yeah, it is "pegged" to it now - learned from MicroStrategy. It is a brilliant marketing scheme taking advantage of crypto hype, but a very risky one per say.
The source is highly suspect, unless NYT or WSJ publishes something remain highly skeptical'
Wrong. It’s due to capitalism as a political economic system. The US government is nothing but an association of global corporate stakeholders. It’s not in service of its citizens. It’s the neoliberal world order.
World of Tanks Blitz is a game I’ve been playing for over a year now, lots of fun.
Exactly the formula I ended up with :)
Because OANN true believers are the kind of people who watch TV, and their closest equivalents on the left do not. The preferred media can differ.
There are so many interesting questions here and the author seems to have a laser-like focus on the material fact that he feels insubordination has occured and that this is a problem, which doesn't really require more than a sentence or so of explanation.

For example, in training, why is it that the soldiers agree to polish their boots, iron their uniforms etcetera - e.g. generally perform a ton of ancillary tasks to the actual job?

I don't think it's solely because someone said so. There's a level of respect for the ritual that comes from somewhere. Like, they might think that today they can't be arsed with polishing the boots, but that it's a point of pride to do it. Or there's a competitive aspect with the others.

Maybe it actually is just because the commander will bark at them otherwise - but that just cycles around to the motivation to the commander.

Once you figure that out, does that illustrate that there's something unique about mask wearing?

Like, you have this empirical data that soldiers will literally run into a battlefield and dodge landmines and all the rest of it, you've created a framework in which that's an order they'll obey.

I dunno, it feels like the article is really light on the "whys". The thing your mental model told you should happen is not happening - so try to understand it?

Try to figure out why people don't want to do this thing?
It's true that soldiers do not face much personal risk from COVID. But minimizing personal risk is rarely the central notion of any military order. And the fact that an order does not center a soldier's personal risk is no justification for disobeying it. A masking order or vaccine mandate is far from the most unreasonable order that a given soldier will be required to obey during their career, along pretty much any possible axis of reasonableness.

Fwiw I'm pretty much in agreement that now or the very near future would be the good time to end mask mandates for the coronavirus disease. But I don't think that gives service members license to disobey orders.
A time-honored tradition in Navy nuclear submarining is that when a watch officer in the engine room starts getting too full of himself, the enlisted watch standers start following their orders literally (though not to the point of risk to the reactor), rather than providing feedback and recommendations.

Usually the watch officer picks up the lesson quickly. But even there, far from any battlefield, and with hundreds of pages of detailed instructions, you'll find the need for reasonable interpretation on the part of those taking orders, and reasonable accomodation on the part of those giving them.
> You’ll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices.

If I read this, I'd think that I'm going to be doing "modern front-end", which is usually a React SPA connected to a back-end API via REST or GraphQL. The inclusion of GraphQL and Apollo on this list does mean that I'd be surprised if my work was primarily server rendered ERB templates.

I think there's a bit of a bias here because many people on HN don't like modern front-end. Yes, yes, ERB templates are just fine. But they're not the same as a modern JS stack and if you're looking to gain expertise in a JS stack, they're clearly not helpful.
Apple Buys Startup That Makes Music with Artificial Intelligence
Only that Epstein was probably more a tool of the political systems and governments than they were tools of his. Symbiotic, I guess, but only one person got suicided in a prison cell while the cameras happened to be offline the guards inattentive.
Damn! This is seriously great work. I've built a couple shitty react apps for my own use to visualize the fretboard (namely https://github.com/porkloin/progression-roulette-mk2 and https://porkloin.github.io/triad-practice-mk2/ if anyone wants to use an objectively worse version of what OP is sharing :P).

I've considered trying to consolidate them into something a little more general purpose and usable, but I'll honestly consider just using yours and perhaps even paying to unlock some more features after I use it a bit more. I'm an engineer by day job, and as much as I love building my own tools and feel like I learned a lot about music theory in building my tools, I would really like to just spend my guitar time actually playing rather than doing _more_ coding.

Thanks for sharing, and great work!
"although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers"

Not sure I understand the product positioning
You name three organizations who did the exact thing you are looking to do. Have you reached out to the relevant person (it's almost certain that 1 or 2 people at each of these orgs knew how to raise money) at each org to understand in detail how they did it?

There are tricks to this kind of stuff, and some people know the tricks. I guess the first step is knowing that it's a real skill, that people know how to do it well and you need to learn from them. I suspect they'd be willing to share them given the circumstances.
https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue
> A buddy was out on some punishment detail for a uniform violation — wearing a military issue fleece as a jacket, which is apparently controversial in some quarters.

Oh God I hope this isn't a problem, I've been using my fleece myself from time to time (though without the rank tab in this situation, to 'civilianize' it).
I don't think it would be quite as simple as that, but that would be better than nothing, definitely.

Loosely, I think corporations should have a progressive income tax based on net income (defined in such a way as to prevent Hollywood-style games) or maybe market cap, to disincentivize getting huge and to encourage divestment. Dividends, I believe, usually already have a nominally lower tax rate than capital gains, but the fundamental problem is related to compounding. I therefore think the capital gains rate should be much, much higher and the dividends rate probably somewhat lower.
For those already familiar with CSS, Css Tricks also has very useful guides on:

- Flexbox - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

- Grids - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
Thank you Matt! Just so you know, "quickstart molecular biology" is my daily reading thanks to you.
Yeah, of course Apple and everyone else is always reminding us "this is not FDA-approved medical blah blah"

I'm aware that none of this is medical-grade, but every chance I get, I'll compare the data to actual clinical measurements and I've never seen anything more than a fraction of a percent off. Furthermore, the numbers from the Watch show clear trends; if the data was scattered or random, I would think that's "doing funny things." A clear change in data mere days after a COVID diagnosis… that's not a coincidence, c'mon.
Google is so good at shutting things down they offer it as a service for other companies.