skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to identify who is an expert and who is not by yourself: experts (scientists) compete with and cross validate each-other. I.e. experts themselves will self-select who qualifies as experts. And since there are a lot of them and there is also a pretty strong competition it's pretty unreasonable to say that there is somehow a large conspiracy because it should have to involve basically everyone.

And not just in one field! E.g. sometimes climate change denialists say that climate science is not even real science and that these people are just self proclaimed scientists. But the thing is that all fields of sciences (at least all natural sciences, engineering and mathematics) are interrelated. All of these have boundaries touching each other and all fields will have at least some scientists working on these boundaries with people from another field. So no field can simply fake it. In other words, basically everyone who has published in the past few decades will have a finite Erdos number :).

Also, not only you can trust the experts, but you don't really have any other sane/viable choice.

> I've seen this play out in companies; businessmen in positions to promote technical people, often making some very poor decisions.

This is true. What I say to people (small business owners or startup founders) is that you can't pick a co-founder, a tech lead or even a good subcontractor without having the technical knowledge yourself.

But that's pretty a different issue. First of all, here you need to pick a specific person for a specific role where you'll then have (want) to trust all (most) of their decisions and you don't have anyone to compare these to. Also, it's many decisions based on a small amount of data.

While what we are talking about is listening to experts who mostly say the same thing (the scientific consensus) and it's a very few decisions based on a huge amount of data (research, experiments). There are, of course, times when the consensus has not settled, when experts won't agree, but then you know that they don't know enough yet.
the bikes are about $2k, then entire program is about $500k

not that this makes it any less wasteful...
I'm not a parent , so excuse me if this question is somehow callous -- but at what point is this the parent's fault?

This particular line stuck out to me :

"I had to do it again. I had to do it until I got it right. I went cold with fear, shaking. I sobbed in my father’s arms in between takes and pleaded with him to intervene.He held me close, soothing me. But when an assistant director came over to say they needed another take, my father said, with genuine remorse: “I’m afraid they have to do it again, love. I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can do.” And so I ran the gauntlet of explosives again. And again. And again."

The father , one of the people best acquainted with the child , saw the child's distress and rather than trying to translate these perceived worries to the cast of the film, he pushed the child to grin and bear it.

In other words -- why wasn't it expected for the father to intervene rather than expecting Terry Gilliam to perceive the emotional terror of a child that he has little experience with?

As an unrelated outsider looking in after reading this article, it feels as if the father who was deaf and blind to the fright and terror of his daughter is the one responsible for this lady's terror, and that Terry Gilliam was blinded by the complexity of his job and the chaos of the set & crew -- it was the father who had but a single job, supporting the child actress, and he failed to do so adequately.
Hydration is a technique where the content is rendered server side then client side JS attaches the necessary event handlers to make the UI interactive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration_(web_development)
>> Cities don't have much of a reason to exist...

Ideally, people should be able to live where they want to. If that is in a city, great, otherwise they can live elsewhere and work from home. I don't see any great benefit in forcing people to live where they do not want to be.
By refusing to have to prove themselves to "some damn machine" and demanding to see its manager.
Yes, but browsing is what we do most of the time. Why can’t we actually pay for one that doesn’t have all the tracking. Each browser claims privacy features, some have more while others claim it is essential not to block certain sites. But they all free and we pay the price for whatever features they impose. Maybe to your point, if I don’t like it then fork the code of browser and then be another offshoot of one of the browsers. Or build one from the scratch and loose hours / days of one’s life with no goal other than making a browser that is customized to my thinking/philosophy about tech
That's still a bunch more complicated than other hosted solutions. I once worked for a 4 year old company whose entire infrastructure consisted of a managed postgres instance + a moderately sized single VM (and a duplicated setup as a staging environment).
These work well

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Urk—the company was "Z-Code Software," the product was "Z-Mail." How embarrassing....
I worked at a place that was trying to do this for thousands of restaurants, only they wanted to configure the POS system (all the items, variations, modifications, combos, etc.) using just the PDF menu. We never got very far with automating it, but part-time high school employees were usually pretty decent at it.

Menu layouts are all over the place, so using OCR was trivial, but trying to figure out what went together and what modifications were valid on which items was a complete mess. Shrimp cocktail w/ cheese, anyone?
I only ever held assets in USDC and haven’t been actively tracking anything related to Celsius specifically.
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It ain't too late yet for him to do a second term. He doesn't strike me as the sort of person who'd want one - he seems to be doing a fine job as an ex-President - but I'd vote for him in a heartbeat over the average politician.
> What's also odd is that new variants have just stopped. Just haven't heard of a new variant in along time.

> Its like Covid ended when the media quit reporting on it.

So it’s probably just my fault for reading my dumb local California papers where three rising omicron subvariants are feature stories and there’s concern about a clear rise in cases and hospitalization, but I’d totally love for Covid to end if it just takes some silent media to do so.

Can I read your papers instead? Which ones are you reading?
Apple isn't different. MS tried and sorta-lost-sorta-won, in a different market and a different era, while Apple was actually pretty miserable in the market.
Drug legalization highlights one of my frustrations at the practical American dialog about controversial topics:

1. Liberals get acknowledgement that weed isn't so bad and should maybe be legal.
2. Liberals: "Legalize all drugs!"
3. Conservatives: "No."
4. --- 20 years pass and another generation is born ---

I wish nuance made it to the front page more than diatribes expounding upon, essentially, hard yes and hard no.
What’s remarkable to me is that most people who believe drug control can work believe that gun control can’t work, and also vice versa.
As someone who worked for his son, that's exactly it. Bridgewater is failing and he wants to build his legacy as a "smart thinker" and a philanthropist before it's all wiped out.
Sometimes I wish HN comes with a poll to see how popular these feature requests are. You don't exactly want to downvote a suggestion, but I think things like this and the lack of notifications are fine.
“there’s no bus”

Aren’t school districts required to offer busing to rural communities? That’s the way it was done in PA.

Granted, that doesn’t fix the sleeping in issue since we had to catch the bus pretty early.
On hacker news the custom is to keep the identical headline of the article, unless it is confusing
Five days ago: “Celsius continues to process withdrawals without delay.” https://blog.celsius.network/damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-a...
Thanks I updated it
It’s less impressive when the person testing wants to believe.
I think it's a mix of things in this case. They likely lost money in Luna, and there is a rumor they have some ETH deposits stored in stETH (staked ETH that won't be fully withdrawable until at least 1 hard fork after the merge, and hence trades at a slight loss right now).
> if you ever need to combine multiple data sources together in migration and recovery type scenarios

This insane idea that combining data sources is a rare event in some unusual "migration and recovery" scenarios is one of the most poisonous and yet pervasive ideas in all of database design. You are always combining multiple data sources, all the time. Users submitting data from a form is a data source. Test, staging, and production deployments, with multiple of each. External APIs. Multiple clients. Eventual consistency. Replication. Microservices with distributed systems. Or even sharing any common data at all between different systems, like unit conversions, chemical data, country names, engineering constants, etc.

Anyone who even considers using a single authoritative source for all entity identity either better be making a system in an underground bunker that will never talk to any other system. Otherwise they are making a serious and extremely avoidable mistake. Never use auto-incrementing IDs.

It's even wrong in a monolith! Why does everyone abandon this idea of "separation of concerns" and "single responsibility principle" and "bounded contexts" and proper abstraction and limited communication between system parts and literally every design principle they've ever been taught when they go to design a database? It all just goes out the window! Why do you guys bother reading books about system design if you ignore them when you build a database? "Multiple systems communicating with each other" should apply recursively all the way from deployment and external integration down to individual functions. That means database, too. Auto-incrementing IDs are anathema to that.
The silly thing is it would be easy to fix this from Apple's side. They know if a phone has connected to the messaging backend in X days, they could easily fall back to SMS if the recipient hasn't connected in say a week, and then keep using SMS until a phone for that user reconnects.

They choose not to deliberately to tie people into iPhones.
No, the problem isn't suburbs. Those are densely packed enough that a bus picks kids up. It's rural areas that don't have mass transport, which makes sense.
Survivorship bias. Massive chunks of the Midwest and west in the US are littered with dying populations. All of this “exponential” growth you’re referring to is in a small subset of cities.
> In such a setup, simplicity and options with known and explored failure modes are good.

The comments on the submitted article itself also point that out. They are worth reading.
To me the F-14 wasn’t a matter of fact but just a chance to do a cameo flashback and put Maverick back in his trusty F-14 again.

In a movie like this so much is bringing back old cast members. The F-14 being one of them. I also felt the same seeing Penny drive a Porsche, Maverick’s motorcycles etc.
At my school, band was 1st period, orchestra was 2nd period, and the band teacher was away for the rest of the day teaching band and orchestra at elementary schools. Jazz band was either in 0 period or didn't exist.

A lot of the organized sports would do practice as a 0 period (for us, we needed 4 semesters of PE, and marching band or organized sport could count for 2 of those; so I took up cymbals for the marching band, cause ugh PE)
> The new data do not mean booster shots are somehow increasing the risk. Ongoing studies continue to provide strong evidence of additional protection offered by booster shots against infection, severe disease, and death.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-i...

So, more shots is more protective against severe disease.

The higher rate of infection right now is likely to due this cohort being the last to get exposed to the virus, because they were taking precautions all along. Vaccines in your arm don't give you sterilizing mucosal immunity in your nose (even assuming that exists for this virus at all).
i think VC involvement has made this space far more dangerous now. don’t think Celsius could’ve gotten where they are now without willing VCs pouring hundreds of millions into building the company up despite how risky the entire business model is/was. now this is going to become an existential threat to the whole ecosystem.
The inflation data was unexpectedly bad, despite the recent rate hike there’s no sign of the economy cooling down. So folks are expecting fed rates to get to as high as 5%. Naturally all other financial markets are adjusting sharply to this. In crypto, get-rich-quick schemes will be the first ones to fall.

Fed folks changed their stance from “soft” landing to “softish”, meaning they are falling short of calling for recession.

Next 18 months are going to get very bumpy.
> For reasons I don't understand, almost no one except Google can reliably stream video.

Scale. YouTube (Google) can encode an uploaded video into a number of codecs and store those encoded bitstreams all over the world in data centers. All the backhaul goes over their private backbones. Hot videos will stream from edge caches topologically close to clients.

Because YouTube infrastructure is Google infrastructure it gets the same scale as the rest of Google. Other video hosts have similar technical architecture/topology but at vastly smaller scale than Google.
Digging through your stuff would be a bridge too far :) My interest was bc this is a field that I know absolutely nothing about, and so the examples you give were suggestive of an exotic world. If there was something that could sketch out that world in the manner you did, it would be mind-expanding.

I like things that give me a look into a proximate universe that I'd never otherwise pursue, e.g., if I could read a really interesting piece about botany, or modern dance, or challenges in agriculture, or the Michael Jordan of show horses, or the world's most controversial geologist ...
None of the current messaging apps require or even support in app purchases.

Apple's does.

My wife paid 99¢ to send people Svengoolie stickers.
Toyota unveils 8.7 kWh battery for residential applications
Hmm. I don't see enough of an advantage over Next.js to make the leap, but good to see some innovation in this area.
Source for #2 being the opinion of a size-able population? I do not know of any jurisdiction that has legalized (being able to buy) all drugs.

However, there are many jurisdictions that have legalized just cannabis. Seems pretty evident that one major group are proponents of cannabis legalization, and the other is not. No major group is a proponent of legalizing all drugs.
The best part of these automations is you can end up with hilarious orders - like the McDonald’s app will let you order a cheeseburger with no cheese, no bun, no meat, no onion, no pickle, and no sauces. I suppose they should give you an empty wrapper.
Autorotation generally works just fine. Most helicopter crashes involve things unrelated to possibility of autorotation or not, and sometimes autorotation won't help when you hit something too hard at the end, with all of it happening because client pushed too hard and overworked the crew (I might be quoting a specific crash here...)
You are listing reasons to explain why it is easier, but not why they depend on WhatsApp.

If sending money is actually important, it doesn't matter if you can do it in the most convenient way possible. It just matters that it is possible.
It absolutely was not popular.
Lidar also has the ability to catch things both cameras and human eyes miss, like a black truck tire lying in the middle of the interstate at night.
That's just what a squirrel would say
Deno vs Node appears to be one of them.
Early PHP and Ruby frameworks don't provide anything to help you write client side interactive code, so you are on your own there, and you have to bring your own tools to do this.
Not a single mention of jail/prison vs addiction. -1 unnuanced argument.

I think this article is so one-sided as to be completely invalid.
Tether didn't depeg. Since there is a 0.1% fee when redeeming Tether redeeming Tether can only bring up the price to $0.999. You need demand for Tether to increase to bring it up to $1.
2.5 miles is a < 10 minute bike.
Apple still considers Macbooks as trucks: they are for developers and professionals, not gamers or everyday users. They want non-developers to buy iPad and that is why there is no sub-$1000 MacBook.

Well, it's a little more complicated. The M1 MacBook Air now sells at $999; $899 for education. And you can drop more than $1000 on an iPad Pro with an M1 processor.

And you can run Swift Playgrounds on an iPad and submit an app to the App Store: https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/05/this-to-do-list-app-is-the-fi....
> That's a smart thought. Ive always wondered why they called it that.

That's a smart-ass thought, and for that very reason would make it a horrible code name for such a project.

You want your code names to be totally arbitrary and have nothing to do with the project.

In WW2, the Brits managed to correctly guess quite a bit about the German anti-aircraft and anti-anti-aircraft systems from the 'clever' code names the Germans picked. See eg https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/bnkzdq/til_d...
I don't know if this can help you or not, but Mark Cuban's Cost plus Drug Company has 3 different glaucoma drop generics available that may be cheaper than how you're getting it today?

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I don't have a sense that the same psychology is at play there.

The marathon stands alone as the iconic event; it is not defined as a truncated ultramarathon.

While the half marathon (like any distance) is a serious sport at the competitive level, to the ordinary recreational runner, it just represents an easier version of the marathon.

People of all kinds decide to try the marathon for all sorts of reasons, and for many people, the goal is simply completing. That goal is much easier when the distance is cut in half.

Many a recreational runner can knock off 21 km over an extended lunch break, and then shower and get back to work like nothing happened.
It's natural to blame this stuff on the latest bogeyman but I doubt it has anything to do with smartphones and social media specifically. I was in school before smartphones and social media, and I just stayed up until the small hours talking on the landline.

Kids and teenagers need some time to do their own thing, so given that most of the "waking hours" are filled with school and other things that we effectively force on them, of course they try to steal some hours for themselves where they can.
Nobody wants to admit that the other side is sometimes right. Conservatives don’t want to admit that liberals sometimes identify areas where society should change, often because the economy or technology has changed. And liberals don’t want to acknowledge that conservatives filter out a lot of bad ideas that are unworkable.
>The important thing is that they get exercise of some kind. Maybe just allow them to choose whatever form of exercise they want as long as they do something each day?

As someone who only took part in high school sports for the exercise, I was really frustrated that I went through 10+ years of education without really being taught anything about the realities of what's required to achieve and maintain lifelong fitness.

I would have been happy to join a "cardio and weight training team" because I frankly didn't give a fuck about wrestling or football, especially since those programs focused most of their effort on the well-being of the top-performing players anyway.
"Island based client hydration"

Is this ling that I'm missing? Or a lark?
This is a topic that 1) hacker news commenters can't resist and 2) is totally inappropriate for hacker news. Hence the flags.

Someone getting fired or disciplined at a big tech company always attracts comments here, not always good ones.

The reason certain topics are prohibited here is because even good commenters can get in too deep and end up writing bad comments. I hope people mostly don't hold my bad comments against me for too long, and I try to do the same for them.
Where did you come up with the 100 million number?
Shutdowns have been proven to be ineffective - especially the kind they are implementing - which are counterproductive.
People running out of food rations..
You don't shut down an entire city of 20 million when you see cases in the tens.
Covid is here to stay, you can't be shutting down entire cities over your "zero covid" policy.
Their vaccine is ineffective, and they have too much pride to accept western vaccines.
Many states in the US have very vague laws about “when the child is ready”. Basically if anything bad happens you are in trouble.. so people are slow to talk about it.
Tell me how you frame the problem and I’ll tell you the answer you’re looking to justify:

> addiction epidemic
No, I mean kicked off. I was forced from one app to another whose UI I considered inferior.

Call it "forced migration" if you must, but it's a distinction without a difference.
> Even conservative GDP and growth estimates will put PRC in high income within a few years.

Source? I think big coastal cities are very advanced, but there are loads of rural villages with subsistence economies and widespread poverty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...
Because Apple ships and Google deprecates without warning
it gains the ability to bypass ublock origin and other adblockers, for one. Not for benefit of the end users, but definitely Reddit gains from it.
I have no involvement in either of these companies, but I'll mention that this seems like a beta version of uberduck. Personally, I think uberdurk is awesome, and probably worth a look
I came away from reading that feeling that the author thinks that intoxicating drugs are simply evil substances; he seemed to have forgotten that as well as destroying lives they can also be fun to take and many people do so for pleasure.
It's a famous quote in response to the introduction of Dropbox.
Those kids in Phoenix and Maine should just take a school bus like half the kids in America that cannot take themselves. Phoenix suburbs aren't that sparsely populated.

There are a lot of solutions that don't require school starting before 9 am.

Also, while you may be correct about it affecting a huge area of the US, it doesn't affect many children in the US. Precisely because it's a problem with low density. Maybe the true simple solution is that rural children all telecommute and do teleschool.
Yeah you're just getting into word salad now, later.
> FUD about how BEVs will cause the electric grid to melt down

Are Toyota still doing that? The only article I found was from 2015, which was about their Hydrogen powered vehicles.

To agree with you, the grid can handle electric cars: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/06/engineering-explained-y...
Few people have gotten mad, bought a few grams / tabs / lines / whatever, and proceeded to annihilate a dozen or dozens of lives using those purchases specifically.

That's not to say that drugs don't have collateral damage. Much does.

But the interactions tend to be systemic rather than acute. And there are several legalised drugs which already cause immense harm.

The issue is how drugs are regulated, and the evidence is overwhelming that criminalising use and addiction have worked poorly.