skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Look at this child. She will die, unless you donate now" - an identified life. Humans are very sensitive to these.

"If we fund this drug, outlook for patients who get this type of cancer (Z cases per year) will improve from 50% to 80% survival over 5 years" - These are "more predictable" statistical lives. We don't know exactly who will be saved but we think we have a good handle on how many people it will be.

"If we don't put this control in the plant, we believe there's a 0.1% chance of an accident per year, which could cause up to 100,000 deaths in the surrounding area" - these are "less predictable" statistical lives. We know the impact is large, but we don't _really_ know how large. We know the probability is quite low, but we don't have an exact figure for that, either.

Numerically, if 100 people were dropping dead next to the plant per year that would be a pretty big deal, but instead this (in spherical cow terms) identical issue remains on the risk register, for now. Most likely, no one will come to any harm.

My intuition is that decision makers feel the risk (to them) of being blamed for unlikely events is quite low. The odds of a given tail risk manifesting during any given leader's tenure are also correspondingly low. The main exception seems to be terrorism; political leaders seem to be very sensitive to that.

Sometimes I think human risk estimates are primarily driven by how easily we can imagine the risk occurring to us, and the vividness of that imagining.

Most people seem to prefer the very diffuse but predictable risk of particulate emissions from coal plants over the minute but less predictable tail risk of a nuclear plant next door (i.e, the exact opposite preference to that described in the paper).

IMHO this can largely be explained at a population level by the fact that there are lots of movies about reactor meltdowns, but (as far as I know) no movies which show a particle emitted from a coal plant entering a person's lungs and their ensuing battle with cancer.
A (local) cache is mostly useful for repeat visitors, not for thousands of unique visitors unless you use a CDN.
Yep. Accelerate the global warming for inefficient waste on local fab and pollute the environment globally. For the national security, we could sacrifice all countries including ourself. Hillarius.
Sounds like all my middle management meetings at Google. At least 10 people to make a decision, they all have the ability to veto, but none have approval authority.
-How much are people in the trades "paying" for student loans? Taxes don't work like this.

-Our society relentlessly holds people "accountable" for all kinds of things in all manner of unfair ways. Legally, economically, medically -- people are constantly held accountable. "Morals" will not change because student loans are forgiven. Also comparing rich people bailouts to student loan forgiveness is laughable.

-I'm not sure what the point is here? Also unemployment rate is very very low in the latest jobs report.

-Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good. We'll never solve any problems if every solution needs to fix the underlying system.

-How much taxes do you pay for others' student loans? This is not how taxes work. I'd be interested in your sources here.

-Is "victim" mentality becoming more common or are the injustices of our society becoming more obvious with better communication technologies? Again, our society relentlessly moralizes everything. Forgiving student loans isn't going to change anything but the borrowers economic participation and quality of life.
>(one monolithic CSV, actually)

might i introduce you to sed and awk?
JURN: Open access arts and humanities journal aggregator
a curated search engine for open access research papers, with focus on arts & humanities. filters out predatory journals, scams, and junk links. Many interesting & odd research pieces to be found here. I found an article discussing an obscure 1990 film, 'Alberto Express'. Extensions that block a Google search box may break the site.
Heads Up: Don't upgrade kernel on Ubuntu 20.04 if using Docker
I am still in love with my xps 13 9360 laptop. 4k oled touchscreen 14 inch ultra book, the form factor just works.
It's finally happened.

A shipper I trust less than fedex.

Amazing.
The vast majority of patients using that get some kind of kidney injury... some even kidney damage.

Ow... doesn't sound that great.
If there isn't a top down effort, it will be a sluggish, "I'll get to when I feel like it" approach to dealing with existential threats to the human race. We have to come to terms with the fact that utopian dreams must be, to a large extent, deferred in order to do what is right for the planet with an every shrinking window of time. That means utilizing existing power structures. As I said, authoritarianism is a present reality that gets things done, though freedom-loving Americans fail to notice this. I don't want authoritarianism, I'm hoping for a signaling and messaging from influencers and power-brokers to coalesce a national response to urgent issues.
Local elections were especially contentious here in my city -- a former police officer switched to the GOP and lost, then in parallel a member of congress decided not to seek another term after it was pointed out he was in a cult.

Then on top of all that you had the presidential election.

I ended up reading a lot of Sun Tzu and python books because of it.
This comment would be much better without the first sentence.
A fascination with patrilineal descent continues to this day, despite the best intentions of TV shows like "who do you think you are". In striving to follow matrilineal stories, so much is hidden once you go back 150 years. Not (of course) in all cultures, but in many.

I find it remarkable at times, just how much IS preserved. The whole "shakspears second-best bed" story, is an example of the limits of what we know sometimes, yet we know Anne Hathaway had a cottage because land ownership in the UK is based on a linear sequence of title documents (back in some cases to 1066) -Had the more modern "Torrens title" model in Australia been extant, we might not know these things because its book of truth concerns itself with the proven current land ownership much more than with "how it got there"
I would expect they keep it open for an improved user experience. Much like the prefetching that browsers seem to do by default.
How much money will be taken from an individual tax payer for student loan forgiveness?
> a variety of goods and services

Which are?
I pair it up with Alacritty on Mac and Linux for a nice performance boost. It will work in iTerm or one of the default Linux terminals, but much slower.
I know. I was avoiding specifics.
Step 1 is divide rich and poor.

Step 2 is divide the poor against each other.

Step 2 is important so people who are poor won't ever band together and demand change.

It is sad that the "left" has forgotten this, while those in power continue to use the same tactics decade after decade, century after century.
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It doesn't matter. How can you think so little of yourself?

Corruption, and that's what this is, a money transfer to Democrats' constituency, should be opposed even if it's a small amount.
The problem with sonar is that anyone can listen in. You'd have to do this in a manner that scheduling when nobody else is listening is front of mind. The probelm is that passive systems are damn near impossible to detect so you just have to assume someone is listening at any moment.

One ping only Vasili!
A lot of the time it's not just text, but rich text. For instance I'm pretty sure the font is preserved if you paste into a font-aware app.
Please educate me. Who were this mysterious others?
There is a large population of brown asses in the world.
By giving them peers that can afford homes and families?
Now you can write another article about how you optimized the site to handle HN traffic. :)
I take great heart from the continual discovery of new things, even amongst the detritus of what is held and known, we have much to discover.

That the Ashmolean assumed the Scots relic was a cast of theirs, speaks volumes both for indexing (or lack of it) and assumed supremacy of the Ashmolean over other historical collections.
It's not beautiful, but it is very productive. I'm quite happy with the tool and am not really seeking an alternative.
To bruce511 -

The type of populace that willingly disarms themselves is the same populace that willingly accepts totalitarian lockdowns.

In America, if the government had tried anything near that, there'd have been riots immediately. And yes, rioters with guns are a lot less likely to be stopped.
It's OSX-only, which makes it a non-starter for most orgs. We actually are 100% macbook, but we still use Google Docs since some people want to edit documents from their phone.
I think it’s fair to say that a viable commercial market for these technologies was inconceivable. In 1968 the photocopier was only 10 years old, the Boeing 747 was brand new, the moon landings had not yet happened and the microprocessor did not yet exist, nor did Moore’s law.

As for caveats, Sutherland was using a $1.3m computer (2022 money) of which only 50 existed, and two TV microwave links ($$$) which are impossible to scale.

Still, we can dream.
How to Escape the ‘Smartphone Duopoly’ of Apple and Google with Sailfish OS
TikTok investigating claims exec said he ‘didn’t believe’ in maternity leave
I'm using this for my 10th? shot at diving into Haskell. I'd certainly appreciate bonus material on emerging best standards that is just starred and put into an appendix.
Apache will spawn a process (at least with pfork) and the process will wait for a keep alive connection to send a new req.

Everything old is new again. Gotta tune it out.
You seem to underestimate the intelligence of government officials. They would not put themselves in harm's way to stop thousands of armed people from doing what they wish to do. No shots need be fired by anyone.

No Australian government agent is going to shoot fellow Australians, or be shot by fellow Australians, to enforce such an absurd prohibition on free and peaceful movement.

Such unilateral authoritarian nonsense can only occur when the majority of the population is disarmed first.

You'll note that the same thing happened in New York City during the 2004 RNC, during Bush's term and Bush's invasion of Iraq. There were unlawful mass arrests by NYPD of thousands of peaceful protesters, who were kettled and housed with limited food and water for 24-48h in large high-density camps along the river. Most were released without charges several days later (when the RNC was over) which, years later, resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money being paid out as settlement for the illegal actions of the police. This never would have happened if the protest were not approximately 0% armed; the police would not have attempted to kettle a crowd where even a few dozen were able to defend themselves from police violence.

This is why Hong Kong no longer has a free press, fair elections, or due process. They were forced to "fight" well-armed authoritarians with nothing more than umbrellas and laser pointers. Such a battle simply would not have happened in the first place were the population sufficiently armed. Police are not stupid; they will only engage with violence where they are nearly certain not to lose or be harmed (as we observed recently in Texas).

A well-armed population keeps the state from overstepping its bounds without a single shot being fired.
"I want to write my orchestration in Python and I'm comfortable hosting my own compute" -> Prefect (lightweight) or Dagster (heavier but featureful)

"My team already knows Airflow and/or I want to pay Astronomer a lot of money" -> Airflow

"I love YAML and everything is on k8s anyway" -> Argo

"I just want something that works out of the box and don't want to host my own compute" -> Shipyard, maybe Orchest

"I want a more flexible, generic workflow engine and don't care about writing orchestration in Python" -> Temporal/Cadence

"I am very nostalgic" -> Azkaban, Oozie, Luigi

"I love clunky Java solutions to data problems" -> Nifi et al

"I like to pay for half-managed solutions and late upgrades to a first-generation technology" -> AWS/GCP hosted Airflow options

"I am on AWS and it doesn't need to be complicated" -> AWS Step Functions
That institution that lent the money was the US government.
Pretty excited for this. Looks like a good alternative to Erlang or Akka with the native performance / low resource utilization of Swift. Erlang lacks strong typing and Akka is DSL-hell. Both Erlang and Akka/JVM are GC languages whereas Swift uses atomic reference counting.

Looks like they've open-sourced a transport [0] and are adding support for distributed tracing as well [1, 2], which is a huge aid for system operators and debugging.

[0] https://github.com/apple/swift-distributed-actors/
[1] https://apple.github.io/swift-distributed-actors/1.0.0-beta....
[2] https://github.com/apple/swift-distributed-tracing
People _hate_ this but it's as fair as anything and probably okay whenever the vote tally is very tight. There are solutions to this, in rcv (or runoffs period) or proportional representation
I wasn't trying to be uncharitable. You said that we should have retroactively discarded 100% of votes from specific precincts, so I pointed out why allowing selective invalidation like that is a really bad idea.
People say stuff like this, but the corporate handouts dwarf the shit we do for regular people.

Obviously the money is there, let's just stop moralizing every individual while letting this corrupt corporatist system run off with trillions.
There are different kinds of education. For example, vocational schools and liberal arts schools. In one we learn to specialize. In the other, we learn how to generalize. While there are advantages and disadvantages to each, I don't buy the argument that only specialists are worthwhile people. (Orson Welles didn't specialize, but had a lot to share.)

For example, many schools have programs which cater to technical people. Most of them also require such students to study unrelated electives. I chafed at that at first ("but I know what I want to know"); later on in life I greatly appreciated it. I didn't know enough to know what I wanted to know.

Life can be more than doing what's expected or trendy ... as most of history shows us. A lot more. I enjoyed reading about someone making that leap. It has its perils, yes. But. A couple of quotes from Joe Campbell (learned about him in one of those non-tech courses):

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."

" People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality."
If you're going to mock someone for not googling, you better come up with the goods: real evidence of substantial fraud in a quantity that would make a difference.

Otherwise, keep the sarcastic BS to yourself. Please.
Wasn’t 2020 election was decided by 5 states and within them no more than a dozen counties?
https://physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
> when it does happen, 9 times out of 10 the perp turns out to be a Republican.

Citation, please.
I can imagine a new History Channel show where Robert Clotworthy no longer utters the phrase 'There is an island...', but now says 'There is a shipwreck...'

Commercials will be more than content. Seasons will be made out of 15 minutes of footage. It'll be huge!
Leaving a Legend: Saying Goodbye to Windows 7
I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)
My detailed write up on fasting and reversal of diabetes and also discuss about various eating regimens for better health.
Voicemail not enabled and no SIP client logger in.

Should have connected for a few giggles this arvo.
How much more will my taxes be if loans are forgiven?
As much as I admire the golden age of science, I'm always skeptical of the idea that the past is something to revere. Society as a whole is much better than it ever has been by almost any metric: literacy, life expectancy, human rights, equality, technological advancement, and so on.

I agree we should not forget the accomplishments of our predecessors. Yet I also think it's a fallacy to think that means we should try to model our society on the past. Even if those "top men" were alive and guiding society, I doubt they would be able to solve our problems.
There is an interesting 6-part LTSpice overview/training on YouTube by none other than the creator of LTSpice itself (Mike Engelhardt) and at the very start he mentions why he thinks that the best simulators are written by the concerns that need them (e.g. Linear Technology at the time, Analog Devices now) as opposed to software companies. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6gKThjZIj-s.
>>Spain insists that the bounty is theirs since it was aboard a Spanish ship

>This quote is making my head spin

It's one step up from "Finders...Keepers". It was in our possession last, so therefore it is still ours (shh, don't worry about how we got it or who we took it from).
I would just like to point out that my comment is about expecting legitimate votes cast by voters who are dead before election day.
Ask HN: Why Did VSCode Win?
Do only democrats go to college and have debt?
If I have a milkshake and you have a milkshake, but I have a straw that reaches all the way to your milkshake, then I have all the milkshake.

s/milkshake/sunken treasure/g
But isn’t there something poeticly sound about this? It’s kind like “the family that eats together stays together” and other platitudes like that. A nation that requires a heavy involvement in the whole process is going to value it more. In the states, we worship money and automation, so we automate it true point where very few are involved. And then we’re surprised when “win at all cost” incidents start to rise over “determine the public will.”
Many of last year's NFT collections are for social clubs, where proving current possession grants you access.

(if you made it this far in this thread, I should reiterate that NFTs and NFT collections have many differences. A lot of people that spend more energy not using NFT's have not noticed)

These social clubs can have a physical real world component such as conferences and events. Some fast executing NFT project creators have been able to pull the logistics off quickly, thinking of Bored Ape Yacht Club (now with a large $450m investment led by Andreesen Horowitz' a16z), and Veefriends

Many more of these social clubs are online only, including access to online worlds that are currently being called Metaverses (or usually "the metaverse", pretending others do not exist), many are for benefits conveyed in games.

But even more commonly, the interoperability is leveraged and third parties offer access to their own assets and NFT collections by granting access to people that currently possess another NFT collection. Some of these things can be very valuable. Other times, these are "airdropped" directly to the holder of a valuable NFT.

As this is programmatic, It is impossible for any of these things to ever factor in a duplicate, or for the duplicate to accrue the same value and demand (unless someone successfully built a community around the duplicate themselves)
If you are going to make claims like this, you really should back them up with sources. I was only able to find info about one of the issues you mentioned.

>The ability does exist, for example in Fulton County there is video of workers pulling suitcases full of ballots out from under tables and running them possibly multiple times through machines after poll watchers had been sent home. An investigation revealed there was no widespread voter fraud, but in an alternate universe those ballots could have been shenanigan votes.

"The 90 second video of election workers at State Farm arena, purporting to show fraud was watched in its entirety (hours) by
@GaSecofState investigators. Shows normal ballot processing. Here is the fact check on it." [1]

>The votes that were added overnight actually weren’t broadly distributed at all. Suspicion was raised (and dismissed, since investigations suggested no evidence of widespread voter fraud).

Source?

>If I recall, many if not most of the votes added overnight did not have downballot selections at all. Of course, this fact is not evidence of widespread voter fraud.

Source?

[1] - https://twitter.com/GabrielSterling/status/13348252336106332...
This has a similar flavor to Arthur C. Clarke's 9 Billion Names of God

https://archive.org/details/ninebillionnames00clar
>when the hell freezes over

as if there is only one. i live at least 3 different hells per day
So after expressing your concerns and asking a bunch of questions with easy to find answers that address most of your concerns, you still have those concerns?

Where does it say that ballots were stripped before delivery? Do you have evidence of that? The politifact piece says the signatures were validated then they were taken for processing. Signatures are on the outside of the envelope. That isn’t delivering naked ballots. Stripping the envelope happened at the processing center based on the videos of them describing the process [0], videos of them carrying out the process which were live-streamed and still available, and the State’s published documents describing the process.

Everyone is concerned that voting is done well. Your concern seems to move between ‘specific things which didn’t happen’ and ‘hypothetical perfectionism’ which is an unmeetable standard.

Edit, added video link: [0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/...
I'm not sure how great it is. I've learned most of them by heart and it really allows you to do things smoothly, but there are some serious issues in the choice of shortcuts. It is inconsistent and oftentimes the grouping of actions makes little sense.
That does sound bad...
Depends on product area, team
Twitter to provide Elon Musk with raw daily tweet data
Super interesting.
Can someone create a page with all these mappings for all Indian languages (or at least Dravidian languages)?
I don't really agree. In and of itself the existence of keystrokes doesn't make the UI efficient. There is still a ton of cognative dissonance and unnecessary friction in DF.

Keystrokes that work in one place don't work (or worse, don't work the same way) in another, menu options that are very similar are ordered differently in different places etc. If you learn how to work one aspect of UI (say the millitary menus) you can't transfer that knowledge to working another (say the minecart UX) most of the time. Except sometimes you can, which makes it even more confusing.
Haha, not just Gen Z! Scratch was one of my first ever programming languages, 14 years ago.
I don't care about the appearance of the GUI. It just doesn't follow conventions. I understand that those were probably established after it was created, but it's very painful to use after any kind of time off it. The keyboard shortcuts suck.
There's ~50 million Colombians, if the wreckage is worth 14 billion, then 14 billion / 50 million = $280 USD per person. I think it'd be better to put it in a museum and donate proceeds to some social program. The museum could have a positive impact on the economy.
okay, but I have way more RAM than even the largest of font's I have encountered (and I've seen a few). also, what an absolute bozo way of doing things to include the font rather than the path to the font
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#BADA55 is brown.

Giggle.