skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alas, that's not the way the publishing world works. If a study on vaccination ends up in a food & toxicology journal, there's typically a reason for that! And if it ends up in the 29th most impactful food & toxicology journal[1], there's typically a reason for that too.

[1] - https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3005
It's a screensharing thing, not the GitHub thing
If two people disagree on the maximum amount of work that could be extracted from a given system (with both of them basing their figure on their own evaluation of S), are there any cases where it would it be impossible to empirically demonstrate that at least the proponent of the lower figure was wrong?

If only changes in S (and F) have measurable consequences, would that not merely mean that assigning an absolute value is an arbitrary choice, which would not mean the same as it being subjective (there could still be an objective conversion between one basis and another, as there is for kinetic energy in different inertial reference frames.)

In the Gibbs Paradox, there is no subjectivity in whether the gases being mixed are the same or different, and no subjectivity in what the change of entropy is in either case. The paradox is that it does not feel right that identity makes an objective difference between the two cases, but the empirically-demonstrable distinction between fermions and bosons shows that this intuition does not hold in general. I believe Von Neumann came up with a QM resolution of the paradox.
May be Github should buy the domain name off them?
Yeah i was looking forward to the schadenfreude of watching GitHub copilot shut down after less than a year.
> at the low rates they are

Low rates?! BOA is offering me 4.9% on 400k/800k, fixed for 30yr. But they still want 4% for a 5year ARM. Even after income tax deductions, how the hell do Americans afford houses with this sort of nonsense.

I guess that's what TFA is really driving at. It's getting hard to lend money on housing in the US.
It wasn't the right time to buy for me, for a handful of reasons, got no resentfulness over it. I don't know what my local market is like, or is going to be like.
First paragraph, third sentence.
> I'm not sure what point you are making.

As a simbling comment desctibed it, "the scope of the problem you're solving is way smaller than that of a generic transaction, to the point that it has very little relevance for pretty much anything real."
It's a fascinating economic "recovery" that's actually an economy shrinking.

The definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth, so it's funny to call the beginning of a recession a strong "recovery"
Exactly - machine-formulated ATP often ends up like machine-code, very similar to the proofs of Russell's Principia Mathematica. Extremely low-level formalisms great for procedural reasoning, but poor for human understanding.

I would speculate Gowers is looking at higher-level abstractions that capture the essential semantics mathematicians are interested in - very much like a higher level programming language that humans understand.
I just looked this up and you're right. If you're subject to the expatriate tax then you're automatically disqualified from the exemption. From my reading, it seems like there is a small loophole. You can sell a foreign property if you move back to the U.S. and meet all the other primary residence conditions.
They announced it on Jan 3: https://twitter.com/CopilotCom/status/1478109914585255940
This is how the system already works...
Why disappointed? Is copilot being an option detrimental to your own development?
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Covid patients pushed medical extremes in life support breakthrough
They really don't though, they could do it just fine in 1995.

Browsers have bloated into crazy complex machines though that do way more than rendering some text and graphics. The simple rendering is not why browsers are slow on RPis.
The future of authentication is both stateful and stateless
Not OP, but I am in charge of engineering and operating a high-performance quantitative algorithm engine at my company and I can wholeheartedly recommend https://polygon.io.

We continously pull their whole dataset in one minute intervals as well as receive real-time feeds for the whole universe over websockets and they haven't complained once.
The Return Of Digital Authoritarianism - Internet shutdowns in 2021 [pdf]
Which part?

Here's a source on the 75 years: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/why-a-...
The good news is that investors and partners generally don't value ideas (which is why you get the "diminutive" response about ideas), so they probably won't steal yours. They do value businesses, so if you haven't yet proven that your idea is a viable business, it's probably too early for you to be pitching anyway. That doesn't mean you have to have a lot of customers, but it does mean you've engaged your market in some meaningful way that validates your idea. If that's truly the case, then some people out there must have been exposed to your idea. If that's not the case, then your "plan" really is just an idea.
Ah, I see.

Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for... or even better what the specific web forums dedicated to that topic are for.

But I also rarely encounter a problem that doesn't have an answer ready to hand.

My experience with searching Reddit mostly comes for looking for basic shopping suggestions, specific item reviews, general knowledge type info.

If you're looking for detailed and complex analysis of what's going on an open forum that rewards broadly appealing advice and answers is very obviously not the solution.
I’m skeptical. For one example - more than 3.5 percent of the Hong Kong population showed up for a single protest, but the leviathan power still prevailed.
I tried to replace an old laptop (T430) with a raspberry pi 4 as a tv media player, after reading all about how it could do 4k and so on.

The truth is it's just not powerful enough for that (or even 1080p), and stutters and tears on almost any media, and is just sluggish in general (It's not just the sd card, I paid out for a top end SDXC class 10, U3, V30, A2 etc, etc card, nor thermal, I have heatsink, fan). I really can't imagine using it as a main machine, with tens of active browser tabs, programming compilations, open documents, etc, etc.
Don't know why you're being downvoted on this. It's simply a fact. Is it because you didn't provide a citation?

Here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/us/mass-incarceration-five-ke...
Copilot was a very good implementation in it’s time. It was a pleasure to use.
Huh, I didn't see any ads (Firefox on Android), and it was mobile friendly (instructions were to "tap here" and the screen fit fine).
Yeah, the premise that "shadowbanning is the problem" betrays an unwillingness to perform root cause analysis. Nobody thinks shadowbanning in and of itself is desirable. Turn off shadowbanning, and all the problems that shadowbanning was helping to tamp down roar back.

> In essence its a denial of service attack.

Exactly. Free-reach absolutism prevents exercise of free speech by those set upon by the unmoderated mob.
Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football
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Let's not forget COVID is not done yet. We've had two years of restrictions and now it seems like folks are behaving as if it's over. Mutations are propagating and yet most people are out and about without masks and the dialog around vaccines has all but dried up.

The ongoing confusion about what this disease's risk factor is worrisome. First I think people have much more distrust in science and government. There is still a deep divide amongst the population and I am concerned about how we will handle another wave of restrictions whilst the economy buckles and a global war is on the horizon.
Know of a good 10" or larger e reader that works natively with Kindle store?
I can get my knives sharp but even my really nice ones need to get resharpened after a few days of food prep. How long do these tuna-knives stay sharp, I wonder? Also, that's a big damn fish!

Another question I have: I like my edges to be nice and smooth but I notice that new knives that seem really sharp have a sort of file-like micro texture that helps cut but snags little fibers from my towel. No idea how to get those tiny ridges into the cutting edge.
Reuters is not a credible source, even if they’re right in this case. Leave peer review to peers, in journals where it belongs. Reuters is just another USA Today at this point. They should not be the arbiters of what constitutes valid science. We have scientists and a thing called The Scientific Process. It’s not something to discard out of fear or political anxiety. Another lesson, like inflation, we’re all going to have to suffer through because our elite ruling class didn’t do their homework.
> I don't know if I'd count macs as "alternative" because, despite their good qualities, they are more locked down than PCs.

What do you mean here? Couldn't Power Macs run Linux?
It came from Earth, no?
Click your name on the top right for your profile age, then click comments.

It will even include replies to your comments on that page.
Damn, that reminds me. Wow, I adored Orisinal Games back in the day. Did the creator make anything else?
> But it's not the case that you need to trust the creator, since you can verify it yourself.

Literally my very first message, and also the one you're replying to: "Ah yes, it's up to the user to review and debug code written in an esoteric programming language to make sure that it works... When even creators of said contracts can't find bugs in their code and fall prey to mistakes "

> Or just trust that _someone_ hopefully finds any flaws. It's a much better situation than having to blindly trust its correctness.

So, at best it's not better than what exists today (trust thrid parties), and at normal (that is not even at worst) is worse than whatever we have today.

I fail to see how this is "not the flaw of technology it's just one way in which it differs from what we are used to"
Outing your identity to whom? You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right? I wouldn't panic just yet, they will probably just derank unverified users in the replies of tweets so spam bots can finally die.
Effective System Call Aggregation (ESCA)
I recently did, thanks to a sale it came down to only 800€, the last one lasted almost 7 years, that translates to 10€/month.
Ask HN: What is your digital-nomad equipment?
I'm thinking about digitally nomading, and I was curious to hear what people here in HN that are nomading are using. Bags, Digital equipment and clothing / other gadgets.
My optimistic take is that Jan 6th is actually the counterbalancing act that will lead to a less violent future.

Throughout much of 2020, both the dominant media narratives and political leaders of the Democrats were very supportive of violence during the BLM movement. Riots and looting were legitimized as "the voice of the unheard", threats of more violence if key court decisions didn't go the desired way were made by prominent leaders and were tolerated or encouraged by the mainstream media, corporate America essentially "gave in to the terrorists" and did anything necessary to avoid being targeted.

And then Jan 6th happened, and all of us on the left suddenly realized that the other side might start using violence to achieve their goals too. It was a scary wake-up call that maybe we should focus on peaceful progress within the existing democratic framework instead of the "boots on the street making demands" approach we had found so successful.

Without the encouragement and approval of violent means from senators and CNN anchors for months during the racial justice protests, there's no Jan 6th event. As long as the leaders go to a "no violence" messaging instead of a "violence is necessary and acceptable when these groups do it" I think we'll have a peaceful 2024.
WTF is going on in this thread? How did we become so sensitive, Haskell has had a lot of criticisms here at HN, never saw any flags/downvotes. People argued vehemently but without any animosity.

Maybe something to be learned here https://youtu.be/iSmkqocn0oQ
Rust's approach is definitely safer, but my point is that the concerns are overblown. The Go compiler raise an error if a variable (error) goes unused, and just ignoring this error by naming it "_" is obviously dangerous. Yes, Rust makes it easier to never ignore an error, but I don't think I've ever accidentally ignored an error that I shouldn't have in Go.
The recently launched Playdate handheld gaming device uses a monochrome Sharp brand Memory LCD with no backlight.
Attractive to whom? Probably not the person you're replying to. I imagine at this point in their career they have already heard of this whole "money" thing.

People who are really good at things generally thrive on challenge, because without that you don't persist long enough to get good. For many, me included, no reasonable amount of money will get them through doing years of something where they aren't growing.
You can now do machine learning on encrypted data: releasing Concrete ML by Zama
Look into state government IT. Low pay, but you'll never work over 40 hours a week.
I have only just found it while looking into Silk.Net (a .Net library that wraps a lot of other graphics libraries).

I'm sure it isn't as polished as Unity/Unreal, but it might be equivalent to Godot (which is high praise since Godot is amazing).

The fact that it is open-source and supported by the .Net Foundation seems to be the killer feature, so hopefully it will help move people off of Unity who want to stay in a cross platform engine, while still using C#.
I resolved many a tech issue for parents from several thousand km away, all thanks to Copilot.

It was really, really good for its time -- paying, deploying the agent on the remote end, tunneling through a shared publicly reachable host. Every time I paid my $5 I was happy to do it.
This article circles around the most common situation where "wanting to hire a person who has done 'it' before but it's hard to find that person" arises: hiring for startup leadership.

Acme Startup needs to hire its first "HEAD of X" to steer X decisions because Acme Co's current leadership has failed in making those decisions and it has harmed growth.

Why are they hiring?

1. Acme Co's current leadership has failed to develop its existing talent to the point where an ambitious existing employee can leverage their detailed knowledge of the business to make a solid bid to do "It".

2. Acme Co's current leadership has developed its talent pool well, but can't promote to the sr mgmt team because it would be weird to have one person in their 20s in sr mgmt with everyone else > 40.

3. Acme Co's current leadership has deep cultural and functional flaws and the new hire isn't really what is advertised. e.g. investors are trying out a new CEO. Or there is no real product mgmt happening because the founder/ceo/coo/etc are "product people" and don't want to give up that control but have no time to do it, so they hire a "head of data" so that product decisions can be more data-based...

Now let me just draw a picture with some circles and lines to make all of this seem more abstract than it is.
Things are going to get desperate enough that any legislation today will be but a distant and comical memory.
GDP per capita seems like a more useful metric for domestic use.
"But it could just as easily be integrated with a non-blockchain central authority."

Sure, you could. But then you'e in a feudal arrangement instead of a free economy.

"And you are still trusting their code to integrate it, so you haven't solved any trust issue"

The tokens are trustless, the transaction of those tokens are trustless. How the are tokens used has nothing to do with my ability to freely trade the tokens.

"Blockchain solves nothing here. All of this could be accomplished just as well or better without it."

Well, perhaps you're just not trying to have a good faith discussion. Because I pointed out what it solves, and you keep ignoring it. The blockchain creates the ability to have a free market with many participants without having to be under the control of a central authority. Free markets are unquestionably better, and so I'd say "accomplished just as well or better" is just flat out wrong. A centralized service is not better unless you disagree that a free market economy is superior to feudalism.
But keep in mind methane's halflife is 'only' ~8 years.
I pay a ton of property taxes. About 1500 a month but its all deductible against rental income except for my primary dwelling.

And Ill pay a lot in taxes when I sell the rental houses. My primary dwelling is tax exempt for capital gains but the rest are taxed at 50% of the gain.
Eg. If I bought for 300,000 and sold for 400,000 then 50% of the 100,000 is taxable. So if I made 100,000 that year then my new income is 150,000 and that will be taxed at about 36% so Id pay 54,000 in taxes that year instead of 36,000.
Remember, going from 0.25% to 0.5% is a tiny, 0.25% changes. But it's also a DOUBLING of the rate...
Relocating for an employment - so old school :)
There has been no evidence presented whatsoever for the assertion that e-Ink has been abusing their IP other than one post from a throwaway account on HN a couple of years ago. No corroborating news articles about lawsuits, which the post alleged; no filings about acquisitions, which the post alleged; nothing. But somehow HN posters have adopted that as the truth?
> As a bonus, they're offering Copilot users 95% off the first year, meaning that you will get HelpDesk for a full year for just $24.98,

I don't know the particular of the plans but a quick visit to RemotePC and they're trying to entice me with "SAVE* 90% $1.95 First Year for 1 computer" if I switch.
I assume the Copilot plan is not considered a competitor, or maybe has larger limits, also hopefully "1 computer" means one target, and not a total network of 1 computer :)

Regardless, the RemotePC website gave me intense GoDaddy vibes, which is not good.
Yeah that's true. Ideally I'd limit them to the least exploitative contracts possible. My thinking here is inspired by the free software movement, where the basic idea is that by having a specifically limiting license, they enable the greatest freedom for users. With the implied idea being that by having fewer restrictions, the system ends up being more restrictive, instead of less restrictive.
My friend, I hope I have the pleasure of showing you, for the first time, the nuclear powered autonomous helicopter going to Titan:

https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/

And if it's not the first time, then I hope we can both enjoy remembering this again!

The hardware won't be COTS. Rarely is anything COTS that's not a tech demo / high risk experiment. I'm guessing follow-on Mars copters have a 50% chance of being COTS, but that's trending upward as Ing. lives and does good work on Mars.
Well put and I agree with most points but

> Go is not a fun language to program in

Not having to think about how something should be done in the most elegant way, instead focus on the problem at hand is a lot of "fun"
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Thanks for this! Cthonic looks interesting. What album would you recommend starting with?
The header scared the hell out of me.
Could you say more about the project? I'm curious what motivated making a fake MySQL server.
Im in Canada. Very few 'mom and pop' investors make an LLC for RE investment here. Thats more an American thing.
I've heard this term more often in JS contexts than in C++ contexts, to be honest. I don't think C++ programmers use the term all that often, though the reference to error propagation will probably be understood anyway.
Now that you mention it, I think this is the term I've heard for it when it has been mentioned. The exception propagates upwards.
I'm curious to hear why you switched from Pipenv to Poetry. I've always used Pipenv just because it was the first solution I came across and it fits my needs well. It seems Poetry has been gaining momentum although both still seem quite popular.
Twitter post from Steve Blackburn (one of the authors) announcing the paper and providing a bit of context: https://twitter.com/stevemblackburn/status/15196411576216576...

Haven't quite finished reading the paper yet, but it's interesting so far.

While they present a method that could be applied more widely, this paper is only analyzing current tracing GCs in OpenJDK (plus Epsilon GC). Would love to see future papers taking other GCs into account (e.g., various flavors of refcount GC).

Even better would be a way to compare vs methods of "manual" memory management (manual alloc/free, RAII/scope based alloc/free, arena allocation, etc.). Unfortunately, non-GC memory management is very application specific, so I'm not sure if a generalized analysis would be super useful.
I used to use Copilot and it worked well. While I moved out of a function needing this kind of service, I am surprised it is shutting down. IMO the leading product in this space (TeamViewer) is such a customer-hostile product that I would have expected Copilot, or some other alternative, to evolve into a strong competitor.
What are you talking about? You do know the vaccines were granted full FDA approval? How do you think that occured?

"Full approval is granted when, over time, the FDA has amassed even more scientific evidence to support use of the COVID-19 vaccines, showing that the benefits of the vaccine are greater than its risks, and that the vaccines can be manufactured reliably, safely and with consistent quality."

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

Look at this ultra top secret data I found by typing "covid 19 vaccine clinical trials data" into google:

https://www.pfizer.com/science/clinical-trials/data-and-resu...

wait till you type in "covid-19 vacccine risk benefit analysis" You'll be entered into a secret society with knowledge that has been kept from the sheeple.
> Screen real estate is limited, especially vertical real estate. Compared to languages with saner error handling, I can read approximately 25% as much Go code at once.

In my experience, people can't actually read everything on the screen at one time anyway, and the more dense/terse things are the harder it is to read (otherwise we would minify everything).

> I'd much rather the program crash by default than attempt to continue with corrupt data by default.

It's not likely that it will continue with corrupt data because you can't use the return value without explicitly ignoring the error. It's not perfect, because there are cases where you want to crash when there is an error but no return value, and Go doesn't help you here. I would like to see this improve, but it's relatively low on my list of qualms with Go (I would rather have sum types, for example). It certainly isn't worth changing languages over especially since, in practice, Go seems to have fewer error handling bugs than exception-based languages.
I'm sure many of us saw the GDP numbers this morning and thought - finally some data that makes sense!
I hate this title. It makes it seem to people that our economy shrank when in fact, it just grew bigger less fast. To me its just as egregious as headlines saying that inflation in April is 7% or whatever, leading the less informed to think that inflation grew by 7% in a single month, not on an annual basis.
I don't. It's too much of a hassle. If you're really pedantic about this stuff, you can pipe comment replies into an RSS feed, but interacting with those types of people in the past has been... annoying, to say the least.