skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the current round of vaccines show limited effectiveness at both preventing an infected person from passing Omicron on and from becoming infected by it after a brief period of time. Even the benefits of a booster are negligible a few weeks after application. Your reasons to get vaccinated while noble, unfortunately don't stand up to Omicron. One would have to get vaccinated every 2 - 3 months or so to retain a high percentage of protection. Something I am not willing to require of my family. It's similar to masks, perhaps they have limited effectiveness but the tradeoff of limiting my kids development and just the sheer inconvenience of wearing them is not worth it to me. If a store requires it I have no issues complying with out complaining as it's a quick in and out. Overall though I'm done with them and have not had to wear a mask except in a surgeons office for over a year.
I find Piped seems to work more reliably than Invidious (or at least my usual Invidious instance). Particularly on newer or music videos.

I consider the two largely exchangeable, though Invidious is my first choice. Piped seems to offer finer-grained control.

Most often I simply listen (usually to lectures / podcasts) via mpv (accessing through yt-dlp).
> google how to format a USB drive and all the page are 100,000,00 words and subdivided into 60 chapters, including the entire wikipedia entry for what is USB

This has leaked to virtually all content: "medium rare lamb temperature" will return an infinite number of 10k word essays, titled same as the search query, containing the history of cooking, lamb as food, physics of temperature, lamb recipes and may or may not have the actual information from the title.
He just needs to rebase to a country that doesn't really listen to US laws.
On Y Combinator batch quality at scale
He wasn't testing wings, but you make me think of this poor, brave man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt#Eiffel_Tower_ju...
What amazes me about heavier than air flight is that it was invented all over the planet at virtually the same time by all kinds of unrelated people who had no connection or communication with or little knowledge of one another. Sure here in the US we ethnocentrically recite the Kitty Hawk event of the Wright Brothers as if it appeared in a vacuum out of nowhere. But in reality, heavier than air flight was invented simultaneously (by the standards of the time) at multiple places all over the world from New Zealand (March 1903) [1] to the USA (December 1903) [2]. It's as if human consciousness just exploded with a new-found ability to fly all over the earth all at once.

Closer examination shows that like most human inventions, these breakthrough moments are the final incremental accumulation of ideas that were a long-time coming. In the case of flight, there were centuries of lighter than air flying methods based on buoyancy and displacement [3]. Then gradually an understanding of fixed wing aerodynamics evolved (e.g. the impressive work of people like George Cayley [4] and Otto Lilienthal [5]). It was the parallel development of combustion engines that made the Kitty Hawk and Waitohi moments eventually possible (which I think might really the answer to your question "why heavier-than-air flight was not invented earlier?"). While the invention of the steam engine gave rise to the entire industrial revolution, piston steam engines of the time were too heavy to power flight. The internal combustion engine was finally applied to the automobile by Karl Benz in 1885 [6] and within the relatively short span of 18 years had evolved to the point where powering an aerodynamic surface was feasible. Just 66 years later man walked on the moon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_flying_machines

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz
I'm a fullstack web developer. I know "some" devOps. I also develop for mobile but mostly via port frameworks like Capacitor.

I usually build something that'll be easy and can be built in a weekend. Like with Phoenix, I'm thinking of building a multiplayer app since that's the best usage for this specific framework.
The signal processing of spectroscopic data is a well-researched topic area. You will find thousands of papers written on the topic in a Google Scholar search.

Signal processing, which is a domain within the electrical engineering discipline, is a good place to start your reading and learning.

ML is a poor fit in my opinion for spectroscopic analysis because the underlying physics is absolute: every element or molecule has one and only one signature within a given band, and it is typically at a very high SNR.

Now, it is possible that your sensor(s) can have variability so that is the only case where I see a ML vs. model-based approach (e.g. matched filter) being applicable.

Good luck on your journey.
I was well prepared mentally for the HN cynicism, and I did spend quite a bit of mental energy to justify the existence of tere to myself. Luckily I have a good rebuttal: I already use vim! :)
Here's something some software engineers need to understand: Most things in society and the world are not technical problems. Just because you can invert a binary tree doesn't mean you understand how society works.

It seems like some people, just because they are smart in one area, think they know everything. We see this with many VCs, Elon Musk, Vitalik etc.

Reading this post, I don't even know where to begin. This sounds like the ramblings of a kid that never had any real friends and community, and never lived in the real world. But maybe we have peaked as a society (at least in the US), and it's all going downhill from here?
> Did that letter suggest the British were seen as equals?

No. Chinese emperors saw every other state outside the Celestial Empire as a tributary state and expected a full submission to the Chinese emperor, hence the language.

> The phrase "barbarian" is used 16 times in the text

«Barbarian» (蠻夷) was a term to refer to anyone else other than a direct subject of the Chinese Empire. Only the Chinese people were considered to be civilised, everyone else outside the Celestial Empire was not. As the opium wars progressed, one of the clauses in the follow-up treaty of Tianjin was forbidding the Chinese from the use of the 夷 character (meaning «a barbarian») to refer to the Westerners.

The word for «barbarian», 野蠻人 / 蠻夷 are still occasionally used as an insult between some Northern and Southern Chinese to refer to each other (as some Southern Chinese consider themselves to have descended from the true Tang Han Chinese and consider the Northerners to be bastard children of Mongolians, Manchu and the Han Chinese whereas some Northern Chinese consider the Southern Chinese to have descended from barbarian tribes, or Baiyue (百越) – the human history gets unpleasantly messy at times). Or as a pejorative to refer to Westerners, although mostly in the domestic nationalistic narrative.

> The constant, repeated subtext is that Britain is merely a far flung tributary nation of China […] The Imperial Qinq court was completely delusional.

Very much. In the historical context, the First Opium War was a disaster that had been waiting to happen and the British happened to be the trigger. The Daoguang Emperor was an exceptionally backward individual who flatly refused to grasp the understanding that the world had changed and self-imposed Chinese isolationist policies could not longer work, and that the Celestial Empire had fallen behind the progress. Most of his successors were just as myopic and delusional.
> He identified the four forces which act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle: weight, lift, drag and thrust. [...] He also designed the first glider reliably reported to carry a human aloft. He correctly predicted that sustained flight would not occur until a lightweight engine was developed to provide adequate thrust and lift. The Wright brothers acknowledged his importance to the development of aviation.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley

I think by the time the Wright brothers came around, the general theory for powered flight was in place. The Wright Flyer was precision engineered, compared to most 'kites' that came before it. It's not every day you see an internal combustion engine on a kite.
There's no line. Most "geniuses" are fucking insane, they just happen to be right about one thing.
Tuxedo Computers Announces Water-Cooled Linux Laptop Support
https://searchhut.org/search?q=toilet+cleaner

> Secaucus, New Jersey

Lol
>Oh yeah, allowing values to be nullable by default is bad, that's totally different than just 'including null'.

In Rust (and Haskell and OCaml for that matter), there is no built-in null keyword. Option is just an enum in the library that happens to have a variant called None. So it's technically Option::None and Option::Some(x). But, really, it could be Quux and Quux::Bla and Quux::Boo(x) instead--without any language changes.

That is vastly better that what IntelliJ does for Java with their weird @NonNull annotations on references--which technically still can be the null. null is still a keyword there, and null is somehow a member of every reference type (but not of the other types--how arbitrary).

And C# has a null keyword, and the rules for type autoconverting it are complicated, and some things you just aren't allowed to do with null (even though they should be possible according to the rules) because then you'd see what mess they made there (you'd otherwise be able to figure out what the type of null is--and there's no "the" type there. null is basically still a member of every type. And that is bad).

So even the language used in "allowing values to be nullable by default" is insinuating a bad idea. Nullability is not necessarily a property that needs to exist on values in the first place (as far as the programming language is concerned).
I don't think this should be handled by the registrars, but by actual courts.

But even then it sometimes fails: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4348585.stm

Brand name in one market can be a common first/last name in other country.
No, they can't. If the defendant is acquitted, that's the end of the line (barring a few dual sovereignty loopholes, as you mentioned, but those also aren't limitless).
The Greek philosoper Hero of Alexandria actually invented something close to a steam engine in the 1st century BE [1]. Whenever I think about "obvious" inventions which happened quite late in our civilization, I remember "The road not taken", a fantastic short story that plays with this idea. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...
I tried it recently as well as P2P based apps like https://www.sharedrop.io/ but it doesn't work great for large files (> 500MB). The speed decreases the longer the transfer takes.

I have to try if it is the same case with Payload.
Interesting, how did the Roman Empire suppress advanced civilizations developing in China and America? Assuming that Asian cultures outside of the influence of the Roman Empire already had nuclear weapons, how did the Empire survive their incursions? When do you presume will the descendants of advanced south American cultures return from Mars to punish us for what we did to the environment?
That information is readily available from reliable sources:

Children younger than 5 years old–especially those younger than 2– are at higher risk of developing serious flu-related complications. A flu vaccine offers the best defense against flu and its potentially serious consequences and also can reduce the spread of flu to others. Getting vaccinated against flu has been shown to reduce flu illnesses, doctor’s visits, missed work and school days, and reduce the risk of flu-related hospitalization and death in children.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/children.htm
I tend to actually test stuff before we patch it. RH have broken stuff in the past.
The only reason we have as much record of the Western Roman Empire as we do is endless copying and recopying by monks. The Eastern Roman Empire and later the Arabs preserved a lot but without the ecclesiastical establishment much more of the Wheat would have lost all literate culture.

On economic and technological growth Brad Delong has a new book out, Slouching Towards Utopia, and he kind of hits the idea of very, very slow technological progress before 1870 over and over again. I want to say 1% growth every 50 years on average? Doubling slow enough to be easily outpaced by population growth anyway.

The Church preserved learning. It didn’t stifle it. For most of the history of the Church it was the only set of institutions one could do intellectual work in at all.
I'm currently on with this.

Got my own domain, starting to change over accounts to new email. My webservers are at home, my NAS is being built.

I'm getting GrapheneOS because I love my PinePhones but can't quite use one exclusively yet.
"Sprinkle some crack on him Johnson" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ESzLDC4B14
This big time. Rust has comparable ergonomics to high level languages once you stop trying to optimize everything and start throwing around clones liberally. And the nice thing is that if you do need to optimize something later you can trust the compiler that if it compiles, then it’s correct (barring interior mutability/unsafe).
This reminds me of the 7 basic plots, which has always seemed interesting to me, but it also seems like it trivializes the complexity of storytelling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
I personally feel rust is advertised more as safer and faster rather than as a practical yet harder alternative to C or C++.
Although Go as a systems programming language is misleading, it's not something that is as heavily discussed about.

In the long run Rust's complexity will hurt newcomers(new to programming) while it will be a blessing for seasoned c and c++ devs. If all programming languages were tools, rust would be a very very specific tool which makes a lot of sense for a specific case. If nodejs and golang are tools, choosing one over another is easier as you can do same things in both easily with small effort. But you cannot rewrite all rust programs in nodejs or golang.

Finally you need to ask if rust is really worth picking over golang/nodejs for things that can be easily done in nodejs/golang. Rust is not for people who think is rust for them.

Arguments like some implementations are more elegant in some other language can always be brought up as arguments. They should only be taken into account when you run out of options to compare because they are exaggerated and subjective most of the times. For example(exaggerated) screaming why go doesn't have a borrower checker like rust makes no sense because go is garbage collected. For many people seeing such absence of features equate to lack of features in a programming language leading to more boilerplate or other downsides which is not necessarily true.
It wouldn't survive a day in Baltimore.
> I've had BTC transactions in the mempool for 16 hours or more

...and then what?

This is the first story I've heard like this.
Converting a commercial space into residential (assuming it’s zoned that way to begin with) isn’t trivial. We’re talking massive plumbing and HVAC system changes, for example. I do agree if empty commercial buildings can be gutted and renovated as residential it is one way to introduce more housing into the market; I don’t think it’ll be much faster or cheaper than building from scratch though.
I view this as the root hypocrisy in the Bible, not as Yet Another Question. Assume I’ve thought and read about this.

> Design a universe that has meaningful goodness without suffering

Without meaning offense, “you try it” is one of the weaker defenses of religion I’ve heard…
Just emailed you, thanks.
Classic social media reality skew . Most kids have a crappy laptop or maybe a base console. Maybe a few rich kids have a gaming room. In general those are for the 30-40 year olds who now have the disposable income to splurge on their hobby
I went like this:

idea -> 6 months sending emails -> 1st sale -> 2 weeks building what I just sold

This was after doing build -> sell for far too long.
If working in an open office is so great, why doesn’t management keep that to themselves and force the lower level workers to make due in nice offices? Looking at all of the good/serious developers I’ve known over the decades, they profit from being left to do their work in peace. They ask for help if/when they need it and show off their progress as that’s a hacker trait that applies to RL development as well.

Being able to do this, without the cost and hassle of a commute, is a wonderful thing. If you look at work as a continuation of college life, great, go to the bullpen. If, however, you’re trying to create something that’s more than a bug fix, seek quiet.

Happy workers tend to remain. And as everybody goes on and on about needing talent, why push it away once you get it?
I usually try Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com) every year with a new language I'm interested in. So far it's allowed me to get respectable knowledge of:
- Go
- Rust
- Clojure

Hoping to try out Elixir for this year.

I also sometimes build Conways Game of Life in a new language for fun.
Including for companies?
The Guardian view on ambulance waiting times: signs of a collapsing NHS
Also the most basic question:

"You and what army?" Either they pay/bribe whatever governments have an interest in them or they find a way to (threaten to) defend themselves against people who are much more organized and economically supported than their paradise for rich people.

In the later cases you need to find 'volunteers' who (might) "die in the trenches" and I've got a feeling that you those are not to abundant in a society characterized by the desire to get away.

Others have tried and failed. E.g. The Khmer Rouge did enforce massive changes on society, according with their ideology, but in the end they were removed from power with the help of tanks planes and guns.
Rhubarb started being cultivated in England either a few decades earlier or at most a century, and the kind grown in Europe was a different species many considered inferior. Rhubarb was also frequently used in medicine, though it had little effect. It was a major export for centuries, primarily to Russia.
Taiwan would like a word.

Other countries with excellent control: New Zealand, Iceland, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
When you give the butcher a hundred bill instead of a ten bill, and he says "no, it was a ten", what's your recourse?

Same onus.
I worked for a while on a Mendix app and it felt interesting in the beginning but quickly I started to hate it..

Low code can deliver some features 4x faster but sometimes a stupid feature can take 20x the time just because the low code platform wont support that. Or sometimes the solution is so ugly that the whole project becomes a mess.

If you want to deliver top quality stuff you are constantly fighting the low code limitations.

However, if you are OK with low code limitations it can be benefical.
Ah yes and during the enlightenment who led the charge?

This is such a naive comment… look at what religious cultures used to do prior to the Rome converting or the Aztecs in the Americas — they’d literally sacrifice humans. That was the norm prior to the dark ages.

During the dark ages, they developed a wealth of technology. The challenge more had to do with the plague, famines, raids from the nords / Muslims, etc

Anyway, I recommend reading some books on the topic of you’re interested. Particularly because it’s around 1/4 - 1/3 of western history (at least the history we have decently documented).
To build on this, his Crust of Rust series videos are excellent deep dives targeted at the same stage of learning as the book.
Michael faraday invented the motor in the 1820s. Successive refinements to the motor and the gas engine and electricity distribution projects led to electrification, the motor car and the powered airplane as an immediate consequence.
Both end well for the chosen and poorly for the wicked.
pledge(2)'s predecessor used bits, it was inflexible: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/string-interfaces
There's a Firefox addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky
I use it often. It also worked great on the presented site.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32047380
>Apps

No. Stop using smartphones. GNU/Linux and FOSS only.
Ouch. That was indeed a crappy submission on my part. Apologies.
wait, "Backed by ycombinator", while in the blog post I tried cmd+f "YC" and "ycombinator" without luck

How is something backed by YC if it took a month to build?
The contract here can become somewhat casual. If "crop" is optional and I include "crup: true" would that be considered an error? Also, outside of say JavaScript, what happens to parameter types?
Doesn't work for me either. I just have an adblocker.

The whole site does absolutely nothing and doesn't have any text either.
I wish that was the web i experience
There is a serious proposal (IETF) out there to replace the current OpenPGP encryption mode in the standard with no less than three new encryption modes. Even if there was actually something wrong with the current mode (there isn't) this would not be a rational thing to do.
That's just not true at all. There are a bunch of high quality European brands that use European parts
I'd wire or send them cryptocurrency of a small deposit — the same one they're putting on your credit card via a hold, if there's any issue.
Generally, no effective SDLC except for when the vendor builds a half-assed version of SCM into their product. Generally no such thing as Low-code + Git.

Most of the systems either don't have the big benefits they claim to have (time spent just flows elsewhere), or they are of limited use (think basic form workflows into a database or spreadsheet).

It's somewhat similar to a 'website builder' where yes, you can build a website, but instead of learning general tools, you're learning builder-specific tools. And instead of solving logic in logic solving tools, you're solving logic in (mostly) sub-optimal tools.

This is essentially the same problem with say Excel and Access; to use those at scale you'll still need to learn a 'variant' of programming and data modelling and it doesn't help much that it's inside of an application instead of inside of an IDE.

In this specific case, I would ask the software engineering team to find out ways to do rapid prototyping with a trade-off in UI quality; you can generally get away with the same principles as OpenAPIV3 spec based data structure and interface generators. You focus on specifying how the application should process and model data, and auto-generate all the required persistence and interface stuff from that.
From talking with people who used both BCL, JSonnet and CUE, CUE is an attempt to learn and fix the things that made BCL hated.
Such mechanisms already exist.
Nioce!
in both cases, I transferred a single ISO. one was 1.7GB (Mac -> PC) and back it was 6.5Gb (Win -> Mac). CPU seems to be quite low... PC is hovering around 11-14%, it's usually at 10% (got some VMs running in the background). Agent on the mac is around 4-5. Just ran a second test today, and got less than 5MB/s from Windows -> Mac. The numbers for CPU and RAM above are from that run. 6.5GB ISO is being sent again... [Edit] There is a pending reboot on that Windows box I need to do, at some stage, and I will retest it then. I double-checked that it wasn't sent data over Zerotier or Tailscale (both installed on both machines) and nope. It's just over the standard LAN. Both boxes are on the same subnet, so nothing between them. I will do a bit more digging and open a ticket with my findings. Thanks.
https://archive.ph/sxN4r
I read the latest DynamoDB paper so you don't have to