skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m working on a Wikipedia meets HN meets social bookmarking site (plus accompanying mozilla hubs space) called xrpedia (https://xrpedia.xyz)

Idea is just learning me some Web VR by building a site about VR that can be visited in VR, like a meta-meta-museum :-)

This is nowhere near complete or functional, and I don’t expect it to move super fast, so not much to see yet, but exploring web VR has been fun!
This is really cool! Love the minimal design. Also I'm a fan of this as a form of article / content generation. Where an article is created by a team, as a collaborative effort, organized and started by an editor of some sort.

Think of how many interesting conversations happen in walled gardens like slack, telegram, discord. Very thoughtful and in-depth sharing from users that would most likely be valuable for others to read. And valuable for these people themselves to re-read in the future at a specific easily accessible / shareable url.

The reason these people share in the walled gardens is because it's a conversational / social atmosphere, not necessarily because it's a private discord server (IMO). And it's just that the walled gardens have become the popular place for discussing things. So it's more natural. This is to say I don't think people would be against having their conversations being in public, searchable, like taaalk is trying to do. I think a lot of people would prefer it, professional types. People who use these communities to learn and develop. Rather than the anonymous s*#@ posters who don't really leave a trail or anything valuable either.
Why covering anti-evolution laws has me worried about the future of vaccines
All of them until they prove to me otherwise
I’ve been trying to teach my 5 yo kid to play chess. He’s very enthusiastic but there seems to be so many things to learn so he sometimes feels overwhelmed. Today I’m going to test some of the minigames in the book! Very nice, thanks for the author :)
Read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual
I'd rather have an existing suite of tests that I can use to verify that when working with other people's code.

And more importantly, if JIRAISSUE-15295 is reproducible, then a unit test that a) reproduces it and b) verifies that the bug no longer occurs, is invaluable to prevent someone bringing JIRAISSUE-15295 back from the dead.

Of course, if the unit test is too tightly coupled, and has too many insights into code it shouldn't, then it's worthless as JIRAISSUE-15295 will most likely reoccur via a different code path.

But, poorly written unit tests aside, I have found significant value in unit tests when maintaining a rapidly changing code base.
Apparently some politicians in EU who has a grudge against US-based tech companies.

"Hey Google and Facebook is doing so well let's make harder for everyone using their services."

I neither have sympathy for those companies and never been to US, but adter all these GDPR regulations I actually started to sympathize.
Should be simple to determine if we just check if the increased cases started in 2020 before vaccine rollout or in 2021 after the rollout.
You're kind of arguing a straw man, sure it technically runs it on the phone (I don't dispute that), but only when upload to iCloud is enabled and the photo is being uploaded to iCloud. The latter bit matters (and what I meant by 'essentially'). Running the check on the phone on upload with these constraints is what would enable iCloud to be encrypted.

I don't think there's much point in discussing further, the main disagreement is already visible in the thread.
I bought some land over 10 years ago, it's about 2 hectares, water runs through it and I wanted to make a garden, so I started digging, would sleep on site for a couple of weeks then return to civilization... eventually I planted it with fruit trees and comfrey and stuff and just left it to it's own devices... there's an inverted swastika like you see on some churches in india, an @, and a bunch of other motifs.. at one point I thought of selling it as land art, but no idea how to go about it... I'll give a cut to anyone who helps me though :-) :-)
https://imgz.org/iRe6wg3Z/
https://imgz.org/i9UEvZca/
https://imgz.org/i8zESSAw/
He doesn't practice any of his speeches ahead of time. Too busy. When you hear it that's the first time he's said it, generated right there in realtime. Often he'll repeat something he said in another talk, but when it's the same idea that's hard/pointless to avoid.
I'm curious how this squares up with what someone linked elsewhere: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/discussions/3403

> EdgeDB does not treat Postgres as a simple standard SQL store. The opposite is true. To realize the full potential of the graph-relational model and EdgeQL efficiently, we must squeeze every last bit of functionality out of PostgreSQL's implementation of SQL and its schema.

I don't see how this and what you're saying can both be true at the same time. Is EdgeDB tightly coupled to the implementation of PostgreSQL, or isn't it? Is there really a chance that EdgeDB could support other databases, or not really? I don't think there's anything wrong with the answers being "yes" and "no", respectively; that's actually what I'd expect. It would be more unusual to try to do this in an implementation-agnostic way.
This blog post argues that the risk is even higher for COVID after vaccine.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/02/09/heart-problems-after-cov...

Heart Problems After Covid Are Much Worse for the Vaccinated, Nature Study Shows – But It’s Hidden in the Appendix*
> Young children are also famously voracious learners

That really depends on the environment a child grew up in. When I see parents who delegate their child rearing to an iPad with Cocomelon on 24/7 I'm quite sure that kid won't benefit from unstructured self-paced anything.
Yeah, but because of obscure technicalities around the filibuster, the Dems need 60 votes to pass their agenda, but the Republicans pass theirs with 50.
> You can't have -5 rocks. Negative numbers are just the solution to equations of the form x + n = 0.

The best mental model of negative numbers that works for me is to treat it as direction.

In your example, if I have "-5" rocks it means I owe +5 rocks to someone else, let's say John. If, after a few days Rachel were to give me +5 rocks and then you square it off with John you are left with no rocks. Directionally Rachel → (5 rocks) You → (5 rocks) John;

So +/- stand for things flowing into and away from you respectively.
Gonna be interesting to see how many people actually pony up to really take part in that kind of vision.

Are there any economic incentives for colonizing Mars? Asteroid mining makes sense and bases on and around the Moon make some kind of economic sense at least. I don't know how Mars fits into that picture in the 50-100 year "medium" term picture.
I am by no means an expert or even enthusiast. Space Manufacturing, New innovation possibility with near zero gravity. New way to harness energy from the sun. Or the real possibility of space tourism.
But he said "sorry" (somewhat) politely and pulled the "we are fast growing startup"-card .. so you are obligated to forgive him?

It seems quite clear to me (as a third party to this) that the lack of communication w.r.t. this behavior was intentional. Trying to fix a mistake without having to admit having made it in the first place...

Civil discussion is going to collapse even further if bad actors don't stop with the dark patterns.
Certainly an unusual number of incredibly fit Football players (>1), and an incredibly number (0) of American Football players.
This looks good. I expect their main page https://duckduckgo.com/bang will feel overwhelming for most users if displayed this way, but this is much better for serendipitous findings - both have their place.

Is there a mobile equivalent to the hovering, to get the short description you mention?
Would have been interesting to have control groups in every country that did a vaccine rollout. But I guess we will never know now.
Dremel leaving the 3D printing business
1) I might be missing something, but as far as I can tell "scientific support" in this context seems ill defined. To the extent that it seems rather meaningless term (in this context)

2) While the vast majority of the discourse on the interpretation of mathematics oscillates (fruitlessly) between Platonism and Nominalism, I tend towards a more Aristotelian view. See for example

- Franklin: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics

- Keith Hossack: Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number.

Note that these two authors do not converge on exactly the same interpretation.

Apropos: North (2021): Physics, Structure, and Reality explores the relationship between "mathematical structure" reality and theoretical physics.
> edit: s/knowing fraud/knowing fraud's/g; sorry for the typo

Wait, that was the typo in this post?
Who is this person/organisation that made every authority agree with each other for the first time in history?
True, the example could be better:

const addOne = (n) => { return n + 1}

map(addOne)([1, 2, 3])
> [2, 3, 4]

Would decompose the addOne into its own standalone function.

My only excuse was that I was in a hurry due to Minecraft time with my son.
>Meanwhile, we are deploying GW of solar, wind, and storage on time, on budget, ar ever decreasing costs.

That is the easier part, show me the battery deployments please , the ones that can backup the country/state for a week.
Securing open-source code isn't going to be cheap
Yup. Governments already can access any data they want anyway. Sure, with access to big data collected from corporations that would be easier, but even without that, government can do whatever they want (unfortunately).

This harms companies, website owners trying to use services, and users (someone using my free site, I need to monetize it, targeted ads was a nice way, now I can't).

I see no upsides of actually protecting privacy.
So basically only Miranda and Haskell are functional.
I know what you mean, although my drug of choice is 3 minutes blitz. Lately I’ve gotten into letter chess on Lichess. It’s nice to be able to really analyze position and possible variations. Games last for days and weeks and you get emotionally committed to win those, or get even draw after horrible blunder.
I have no evidence for this, but I think it's highly likely they're using "ignorance" as a form of brinkmanship or plausible deniability. If these senators speak with any of their colleagues, they'll know the risk and reward tradeoffs of these decisions, but they'll choose to side with interests that benefit their own person.

I know Hanlon's razor stands against me, but I just find the dynamics of a highly connected set of professionals in DC too conducive to passive knowledge of these issues to justify a bunch of "key senators" to be fully ignorant on these subjects. I find it way more likely that ignorance is a convenient narrative to push their agenda without accountability from the opposition.
You have to start building the basket at some point. If you never start working on the colony you'll always have an excuse ("it'll take a long time!", "it'll be too expensive!", "the technology doesn't exist" and so on).

The technology to be self-sustaining won't exist without demand for it, and starting to setup a colony creates a lot of demand.
Feinstein voted according to Trump’s wishes more often than many republicans. She routinely pushes legislation that’s designed to destroy the environment, and is unabashedly anti-silicon valley.

The last thing she did that she likes to take credit for was back in the 70’s.

California changed the way its elections are run to allow to democrats to run against each other in the general election, essentially just to eliminate her.

Somehow, she keeps getting reelected.
Oh, I just love seeing this rhetorical tag-team action on HN!

PERSON 1: Grotesque unsubstantiated claim!

PERSON 2: Uh... could you try to substantiate that?

PERSON 3: Like they'd ever leave any evidence behind!
I have a somewhat related experience with DCB/premium SMS-es. I run a relatively small-but-not-trivial amount of IoT devices that communicate over GSM/2G. For that end I'm using a local GSM carriers "IoT SIM" cards/packages. A year or so ago we started noticing DCB/premium SMS charges on our account and that was super weird, as we know what our devices are capable and what not. First month it was a device or two, so there was a possibility someone stole our SIMs and is using them in regular phones or what. But next month, a lot more SIMs had these charges. We compiled our case, sent it to our contact at the carrier and the fees/charges were quickly dropped/refunded. All is well, it happens - weird but ok.

But a month or so ago we were tracking down some other issues and requested detailed connection logs for 2 of our SIM cards. And what do we find there? DCB/premium SMS charges. It looks like they are just filtering them out from our invoice and not charging them to us, but some backend system somewhere is still processing those fees.

So it seems like this whole DCB thingy is way more unregulated as one would think. Now I'm really interested how the charges even started appearing on our SIMs, why they did not resolve them at the source and how many people get their money stolen that way and they don't notice a few EUR here and there (fees were around 1eur in our case).

Interesting stuff.
Doctors Strikes and Mortality: A Review
The rate at which new trees grow. The ratio of carbon absorbed by a mature tree over the carbon another new tree (or trees) can absorb occupyig the same space on the ground
Well, in the last days I made a small app to generate a drawing prompt every day. I think it could be useful for people who want to get into drawing and just want a no-nonsense site to give them a prompt: https://daily-drawing-prompt.vercel.app/

On a more serious note, I made a game with a friend that I care a lot about:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1462830/Super_Sketchy_Par...
I'm a bit doubtful, as even gaining real followers rapidly has apparently been a problem. That happened around 2 months ago with new members of the Hololive streaming group, as all their fans followed the new accounts.
I'm one that doesn't use newest, honestly... I think I just like having my feeds a little curated

Scrolling newest submissions feels like digging for gold when I can just walk to the bank

Not that I disagree, just some context to offer. The internet is too big of a hose
Came here to say the same thing. I was not aware of the artist when I read this book, but looking at his works, the name for the book makes perfect sense.
Approximately twice what I was hoping to pay, but damn those are some wild guarantees.
We got rid of the control group, I wonder if that was smart.
Do you know https://linklonk.com from @lonk11? It feels like RSS is slowly regaining traction with all those small projects that add missing functionalities.
> Right now, we are routinely creating neural networks that have a number of parameters more than the number of training samples. This says that the books have to be rewritten.

I also believe that this statement is weird. I have a very shallow knowledge of ML, but I can imagine that in a convolutional neural network a training sample interacts with lots of parameters. This 'one training sample <-> one parameter' correspondence seems wrong to me.
> I would bias towards people who have a concrete position they are advocating for and not just talk about what they are against. Critique is cheap and mostly pointless without a real solution.

I'm a big believer in this. I feel a bunch of social issues would be assisted and better understood if people somehow had to attach a possible/attempted solution to any stated gripe. It would 1) serve to generally shut up complainers for a more positive enviroment, 2) make people aware of reasons things are often the way they are once they consider a problem more deeply and 3) aid healthier conversation.

I like the HN view conversation must be interesting or add value type approach. I hope this gets increasingly enforced here as there seems increased volume of low effort comments the last 6 months or so.
The launch costs of James Webb were an insignificant part of the spending on the telescope.
I really shouldn't ask and then pick favourites, but between you and me I love this.

Now that you've made me think about this, I can only place one bus stop with a half covered "perch" within a few kilometres of my house. All of the others are just a sign in the grass verge, or a wind exposed perspex cover in a couple of cases. Sadly, it hadn't even occurred to me how unhelpful that it is for many of the people that rely on busses.
A nice small book to introduce someone to chess, especially the minigames. I’d like more of them. I know of one, but don’t know the name of it. You start with all black pieces on their positions and then with only one white knight (whoever you want, it’s symmetrical) you try to take all the black pieces in the lowest number of moves. My niece showed me this small exercise but I can’t recall the name if it and I was unable to find it online. On my todo list, to create a simple webpage with this mini game (along with other small/easy ones) where young players do practice and also keep their scores/time on a leaderboard per game ;-)
The government interferes with the liberty of a person when they incarcerate them. The constitution doesn’t give you a right to liberty at the expense of anyone else’s liberties.
They are definitely serving consumers, otherwise they would cease existing. They're not serving politicians and their pet cause of the day though.
When I was bored, I thought about a minimal six-bit computer with a three-byte address bus (18 bit).

I went ahead and tried to design a machine language for that computer. There are three registers: the three-byte accumulator, the two-byte stack pointer and a 6 bit wide flag register and these addressing modes: accumulator, immediate, absolute, relative and stack.

It's possible that I will try to implement this system with the help of a FGPA.

Just out of curiosity. As a hobby.
I expect the programmer who liked working with an ECS system would have a hard time making a business case for taking on the additional risk of a third party ECS foundation.

A traditional OO architecture will provide all the performance you need to create a modern Simcity style game without having to take on the additional problems of potential bugs in the underlying code, training everybody to understand and use it, and not even really knowing if the end result will be significantly faster or not.

Where I work we think long and hard about adding any third-party packages to the project. The benefits have to be very real, for the budget or for the player.
That's the problem: web should be global and open: a website shouldn't be bound to laws of somewhere. It's 2022 and forcing following local rules for a web based global service only does harm to users (and the service).

A basic example: government of my country requested all data and payments to/from PayPal to be controlled by them, PayPal naturally rejected it, and they got banned from my country.

Now who is affected? Us! The whole world can use PayPal to send/receive money pretty much everywhere, but we can't.

These regulations and "needing to follow local rules" itself is alone a reason for a completely decentralized-countryless web to succeed.
Inflation really is all about transferring money from those who create to those who produce. Those who create are called workers and those who produce entrepreneurs. Once the creators buy something they are consumers. As a side note: Ironically those who consume are the ones who created it before, therefore Marx thought it would be natural that the working class should be in control.

You want to create positive inflation so the creators have a an incentive to consume because prices in next year a higher than today.

You want to create positive inflation which is not to high as otherwise prices for life-essential goods (energy, water, basic food) increase and a higher proportion of the available income has to be spent on this goods instead on consumables.

The right amount of inflation is dependent on many, many, many factors, for one the availability of cheap energy. Many factors in the model to economic growth are feed-back therefore small changes to one factor can create large effects up to point where the system becomes erratic (chaotic)

See the IS-LM model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS%E2%80%93LM_model , assuming that interest rate and inflation are directly dependent.
The rate of myocarditis is much higher if you get Covid than if you get the vaccine . So indirectly getting vaccine will lower your risk since of heart disease as everyone will eventually get covid.
> > Inflation is really always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

> It can be one, and that is certainly a contributing factor here, but if you can see the obvious supply chain/shift in demand due to covid effects, then you’re just blinded by dogma.

I didn't realize Jerome Powell commented on Hacker News! If you can't see how the change in the money supply over the past two years[0] may be the dominant and, dare I say, only explanation for the inflation we are experiencing, then—well—maybe I'm not the dogmatic one.

[0]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=LYjq
Actually, all most programmers need is either `map` or `reduce`. A classic `for` loop is too low-level for most people’s needs.
Are you talking about the Danish guy? He hadn't been vaccinated i thought?
doubt source is suspect.
Sodium Ion is supposed to commercialize this year if you can believe CATL, with high temp range, good safety, good charge cycles, all supposed to be better than LFP at ?half? the cost (we'll see when it hits the market).

I think sodium ion batteries will be the game changer in utility storage, like good-density (200 Wh/kg) LFP will for mass EV/PHEV electrification (sodium ion will help there too in hybrid batteries).

If we get sodium ion grid storage, another 50% drop in wind/solar utility LCOE, and residential solar gets on par with natural gas LCOE, and good-density LFP batteries deliver 100 mile PHEVs and 250-300 mile EVs in 10 years, then we might actually have a cslim hance of handling global warming

It isn't a solved problem, but there is already industrial scale deployments happening, and what that means is there is a massive market to chase and the ball is rolling fast. It's not like fusion where we are waiting on tech hurdles before the economics are even tackled.

Gas plants will have to do for flexing, much better than coal. It's not like politically they'll all get shutdown (I mean, they should or get a two year warning, but that won't happen).

I think residential solar should be vastly more subsidized. That way the solar that does get made doesn't have as much transmission losses through the grid, it gets used directly, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

I would also like a good synthetic fuels strategy that isn't a creep marketing conspiracy to keep fossil fuels business running (hydrogen "green/blue/gray" color BS falls into this category), that could handle aviation, long haul shipping, and home heating at at least carbon neutrality.
I don't get this "promotion = leaving". I'm pretty sure there's a very sizable chunk of people leaving because they're stuck.
We don’t really have journalism in the US anymore. Most of the financially healthy ones are owned by foreigners that are actively trying to sabotage our democracy. The remainder are on life support, and are running with something like 10% the number of reporters they used to have.

Also, Godwin's law was repealed years ago, so you may as well compare to the third reich.
Operation name in GraphQL queries can do more than just improve server side logs
You need to drink water to survive. You browse web voluntarily, picking the website you want to visit voluntarily and with intention to go there. No one dies if they don't visit a website.