skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been unfortunately necessary to downplay cases of debilitation and, even, death apparently traceable to vaccination. If vaccination saves the lives of a hundred times as many people as it harms, in the "trolley" sense, that should be good enough, but in popular imagination it is not.

Rational treatment might enable identifying individuals particularly at risk and not vaccinating those, but that option is closed to us. Instead, a random, suspicious fraction of the population pays particular attention to negative outcomes and avoids vaccination, to its detriment, and most of those at risk for problems get vaccinated anyway.
I'm not following. What threat did I pose to the agency after they had all my money?
You laid out a really good point here, advertisers with big wallets are not going to bet their brand on a decentralized video platform without any centralized moderation.

And without those large advertisers your CPM will be extremely low which will just invite even more content aimed at capturing that market (spam, low quality videos).

People forget that decentralization doesn't work well for some industries, especially ones that rely on ad revenues (centralized entities) that rely on centralized control over audiences and content allowed on the platform.

There's a reason Youtube works so well and its because of its censorship and AI led moderation to appease the big advertisers. You can't rely on some regular joe advertising his Token on PeerTube to continue paying in crypto and neither can creators rely on PeerTube to be able to convert tokens on a third party exchange that is facing insolvency.

It's amazing to me how quickly people forget the on-ramp and off-ramp of money is still fiat, nobody is going to hold on to PeerTube's tokens for decades.
No, you're splitting hairs on definitions that are irrelevant to any argument being made by anyone.
Perhaps, but that's not what the comment was addressing. If it were, your point would not address living after having become a missile.
One niche that ML seems to be growing into is /assisting/ humans, but not doing the whole task. ML might give you an image that is 90 percent what you want but needs a few tweaks.

If the task is clear enough, ML can take it on by itself, but this requires clear rules and an absolutely unambiguous definition of what winning means. For example, the best chess players in the world are machines, and are FAR better than the best human players. Same for Go (the game, not the programming language).
This is addressed at length by StrongTowns in this book: https://www.confessions.engineer/
Under "Reserved words in C" is "(and C++)" making the HN title a bit misleading.

"friend" is a C++ keyword but not one in C.
You really think they're gonna risk their lives to defend a mansion when they won't risk their lives to save school children?
Two interesting ones that caught my eye:

"entry". It was a keyword only in Pre-K&R C. I wonder what it did (and I don't have the time to dig just right now).

"I". It's a "secondary" keyword (basically an alternative spelling of some other keyword according to the legend), but only since C11, but not in any C++ dialects. I wonder what it's an alternative spelling for. This one is hard to google, or even just search for in the spec...
> Sure, yes, this is fine.

Most minorities themselves don't think it's fine: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe.... Hispanics oppose the practice 69-27, and Black people oppose it 54-37.

To put that into context, Hispanics are more unified in opposing taking race into account in hiring than they are in supporting Joe Biden. White liberals are imposing this practice upon them.
definitely didn't expect to see anyone arguing against DUI penalties in this thread...
Where do you live? West coast or South?
Do they? I've been rear-ended, wearing a belt. There was no possible way I could control the car under the g forces.

If you've got enough side forces to pull you out of your seat, you've lost control anyway.

BTW, race car drivers know to take their hands off the wheel just before impact, as the front wheels hit they can jerk the steering wheel hard enough to break your arms.

It's true that if you're going to do performance driving, tightly belting yourself in will enable you to feel the car better, and enable you to concentrate on driving rather than trying to stay seated. But hitting something is a whole 'nuther story. If you haven't been hit hard in a car (I have), you're not in control. Belt or not. You're just along for the ride.
A lot of them were either single or with girlfriends, i.e without family, so relocation would not have been an issue.

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they don't have family and friends in the area. The further the move, the less contact they have with their existing social network. Not everyone is up for that, especially if you are moving a decent distance (like between states).
I gave this a try but still ran into issues. First it was a missing file, description.text, so I created a temporary one, but have not been able to figure it out after going through all of the different possibilities on the web site and github.

I am going to keep an eye on this project because I would really like to be able to work on this. Hopefully updates in a month or so will get things in sync.
I've been experimenting with a search engine/personal assistant to index the long list of material for me, and feed back snippets/articles as I want. I guess the analogy is having a person "read" the material for me and use it to answer general questions I have/point me to the article.

If you want to try it for yourself id be happy to give you beta access. I'm still experimenting for the best UX.
jumping off mountains is legal
You Are Wrong to Expect This After the Ethereum Merger
Building a consumer to consumer resale market is on our Marketplace roadmap. In the meantime though, we expect there will be people in the Framework Community posting about extra Mainboards: https://community.frame.work/
Might be a stupid question. What was the reason for ditching?
Founder of Axolo here .

We made Axolo specifically for that, we believe pull requests (or merge requests in your case) should not take too long to be reviewed and you should be able to discuss them easily. Axolo creates a Slack pipeline to automatize conversations with the creator and assignees/reviewers.
Being able to pass a budget with a bare majority is a lot of power! They could raise taxes and increase funding for existing programs with that power. You know, the stuff people vote in Democrats to do.
This kind of response always baffles me. Choose any of the common questions people have about cloud data privacy and ask the same question about Nextcloud. For example: when I delete a file does the cloud really delete it? Now read the Nextcloud source code. All it does is unlink files, and it doesn't even do that properly because it doesn't handle errors and races. Also, it poops your private data all over the filesystem while creating thumbnails and previews. So the answer is no, absolutely not even a single iota of effort has been expended making sure deleted data is really deleted, and inside administrators will have complete and total, unaudited access to it.

Switching from a cloud run by professionals to a self-hosted Nextcloud would be a massive downgrade in information privacy.
Well good news! Our wonderful government has great plans to scrap GDPR and all the silly European bureaucracy slowing down business, and replace it with… checks notes …better British bureaucracy that will cost just as much, while eradicating our rights to privacy…

It’s a Brexit benefit or something.
Not a framework owner, buty money would be on the reset being a cmos reset, which means it's most likely some toggle in firmware being set incorrectly.

This is a guess based on a couple years in a repair shop, I could be completely wrong.
What was that, five percent of the value of the house (land not included)? If so, seems reasonable.
Your inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It seems to me like the "generation" use case of ML is much more promising than the "prediction" or "classification" use case. It's tough to predict things in general because our universe is fundamentally uncertain. How is some computer going to predict that some mugger sees a target at some random spot and decides to mug them? But the progress in text to image and text generation really blows my mind.
its actually remarkable that people still believe this after 2+ years
A lot of NASA's stuff also points this way:
https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/estd-missions/satellite/
It's not worth the bother. This is an exceptionally good example of intentionally obtuse writing, otherwise better known as good old fashioned BS!
Spending 1% of your net annual salary on a laptop still strikes me as a large purchase.
Having actually done this ( taking manure collected at a dairy to a worm farm )... when collected into a pit or large enough pile, the manure re-liquifies under the top layer, so while you do acclimatize to the smell after 15-30 mins, moving it with your hands is not effective.

Whatever that big number is.. double it is what I'm saying!
This also addresses the problem of bandwidth being super expensive and out of budget for small creators that want to self host. Users watching it are also uploading fragments, so if a video goes viral your AWS bill isn't gonna be $10,000 for bandwidth.

It also gives some decentralization because the original source can go completely offline, yet as long as there is a copy of each fragment on somebody's machine, everyone can watch the whole thing.
Einstein’s Doctoral Thesis (1905) [pdf]
I was skeptical, but I have to admit that the otter one is really nice.

I've hired on Upwork, and I don't find that level of quality. The original TinyPilot logo was actually from Upwork, but I paid $600.
> And a lot of employment and funding decisions are made by people who aren't experts.

This should be considered a flaw (bug in tech terms) not a feature. why would you take decisions about funding something or not if you are not an expert. At least you are not expert in the same field but have knowledge and it is easier for you to communicate and discuss the proposals. But getting someone who never did a real scientific research and the last time he wrote a scientific essay was when he was in college to determine which research should be funded is wrong.
You're very useful
Assassination of Japan’s Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
If a company/recruiter hasn’t indicated salary, then I just tell them what my remuneration expectations are.

If it’s out of their range neither of us waste our time interviewing each other.

Or possibly, the company has no idea what they should be paying. In telling them what I expect they too may adjust their expectations.
One expects this kind of behavior from the government, but business setting huge pile of cash on fire still attracts attention.
Pres Eckert independently discovered the stored program concept, which von Neumann included in his EDVAC report. Now we call it a “von Neumann architecture” when it really should be “Eckert architecture,” or one of the British independent discoverers. As you said — von Neumann doesn’t need that recognition — and he likely used his position as a revered wartime physicist to grab it for himself anyway.
"Hertz gets Hertz treatment from Web Agency"
Pretty amazing. Really wonder what their financial sustainability model looks like.
Nope, it's fully decentralized as far as I'm aware. The resolution is "forward the URL to the cops".
Reserved words in Fortran and PL/1:
These sorts of things can be self selected. I know plenty of women who take public transit. The dividing line tends to be whether they grew up in a city or moved from the suburbs (and of course affluence).
Companies hire Accenture and other firms like that usually because their demands are so challenging that only big firms can give a shot at that. On top of that usually the contracts provide so much strong guarantees to the Client that only these firms can afford and this is a tremendous incentive for closing the deal. It's a common strategy also to sell the initial contract at low margins with the outlook that the deal will continue and will bring other money with less risky maintenance streams. In a short summary in the vast majority of the cases these kind of projects already start with a lot of risk and on shaky grounds.
> To me, the complaints that there are no more grand fundamental discoveries is alike to complaining that we are not discovering any new continents on Earth...

anyone of any era could claim this. and many did. yet here we are, still discovering things, and not discovering new continents.

it is folly to assume that we have discovered everything, or even a small fraction of everything.

I think you will find that it is difficult to find someone who has been vetted by a system who would be open to admitting that said system is fundamentally flawed, especially when successful passage through that system grants things that those who have been through it want to have, such as academia does.
My Visit with THE LORD OF THE STARTUPS: Y Combinator's Paul Graham (2013 5 min)
I've been hearing about this lawsuit for years now, but I've never seen what the ruling was.
Absolutely - regulation is hard. I wonder if there are successful instances of government using big-data/ML to determine where, when and in what manner it makes sense to apply it. And would people vote for governments that relied solely on that for what legislation to enact...
Thanks for reading!

I'll take the blame for dropping the chipmunk. I wanted the logo to appeal more to businesses, and I felt like the chipmunk came across as too playful, so I told them not to bother preserving it.

Your mock up looks pretty cool!
I have many books I haven't read. When I am exploring a subject, I'll often hear a subject matter expert say "the go-to text on this is $BOOK." At that point, I buy the book if I have a reasonable expectation that I'll actually read it. Some books I only reference or read partially if the subject is pretty well divisible.

I read a few tens of books per year but my queue is a couple years long. No big deal, I don't feel pressure to get through it.
Just because you happen not to have heard of them doesn't mean that they're likely to sell your data. It may be hard to imagine, but people living in Europe may trust these services more than Google and Microsoft, and may not appreciate those companies giving away their services for free in exchange for mining our data and showing us ads :)
It was published in 2016 (so may have been superceded by newer studies) but from The Gene: An Intimate History I read that all successful fecal implants to treat Clostridioides difficile required updates every six months to a year from healthy gut biomes - we have not yet figured out how to make a new biome thrive independently, and separately, all probiotic foods have a temporary effect on biomes, they have to be eaten regularly.
I feel like SF is one of the most permissive places to do drugs in perhaps the entire world. Even if there are laws on the books, they are not really enforced.

I am not coming from a perspective of pro-law & order, just a commentary on drug law & enforcement here.
If he hadn't gotten out of his seat to dig in the back, he wouldn't have had the accident.

I'm sorry, this is not an argument for seatbelts. It's an argument for keeping your eyes on the road.
At what point will these lauded MBA programs teach people how to hire and manage consultants? This is a predictable failure mode.
Maybe Stripe, but PayPal sucks more than most people know[1][2] and only exists because it's really convenient when you're not being screwed over.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/paypal-su...

[2] https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.paypal.com
There's an old joke about C++ programmers, exposing private members, and friends that I probably can't repeat here.
The Left Is a Labor Movement, the Left Is a Worker's Movement
> On the other hand, a mandatory breathalyzer for ignition would be useful to prevent a lone driver from driving drunk. We already have them for people with DUIs, so we should make them mandatory for all cars.

People who frequently drive under the influence tend to have a strong habit. Those would just keep driving an old car if such a device is introduced in new cars.

For most other people, such a device would be seen as a very annoying.

For it to have the desired impact,it needs to be fitted in all old cars, and then we're adding a significant expense on top of the annoyance.

Now, MAYBE if the device can be used to reduce insurance fees, it might be doable, but only in countries without public healthcare.
Trans woman here, here are my thoughts:

So, research into the impact of biological sex on medication, and similar, doesn't really seem alienating to me. Despite the existence of trans people, there are obviously two main categories that people fall into in a medical sense.

That said, I do think it would be a mistake to assume that the conclusions of any research into biological sex can be directly extrapolated to trans people. If we know that the relevant mechanism is hormones or chromosomes we may be able to predict effects on trans people--but we also might not be able to, if the mechanism isn't known, or for whatever other reason.

One well known example is that trans women's risk of breast cancer is more comparable to cis women than cis men. If I recall correctly, this is because the relevant factors are basically whether a person has breasts or not, and of course, trans women grow breasts when on estrogen.
> covid has emboldened the authoritarians

this is an important point. When the lockdowns and things were being talked about i thought it would never happen. I thought there's no way people will stand for it. I was shocked how many people would just do what they're told. I think it surprised a lot of people in power and now they're seeing how far they can push it before the people push back. I wonder what the response would be if someone in power just went on TV and said they were mandating no more driving between the hours of 9Am and Noon across the nation. I bet 60-70% of the people would comply with no more reason than "that's what they told me to do".

To re-iterate, covid has emboldened the authoritarians
I was thinking something similar. It's easy for me to argue for public transportation as a 6 foot tall man with martial arts training. I still get a little uncomfortable catching a late night bart ride sometimes...
The American people ask for conflicting things. Marijuana is a partisan issue, campaign finance reform, gerrymandering, immigration, healthcare, education, climate change, mass incarceration etc are intensely partisan issues. Polarization rightfully makes change slow in a representative democracy. No matter how you as an individual feels about the urgency or necessity of your favorite causes, there are people who feel just as strongly about doing something different or not doing things at all.
21 pages! Dedicated to his mathematician friend Marcel Grossman (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Grossmann)

The thesis is Einstein’s fifth paper in his Annus Mirabilis. If you want to delve further: https://www.cantorsparadise.com/something-interesting-about-...
You have a point, but also this wouldn't have been unraveled as easily in traditional financial systems. here's the tweet that is cited in the indictment, that a layman could trace (and did)

https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1513874972552355846?s=20&t=...

Another debate why people on Twitter can do this, but the SEC can't do it at scale.
"enable it only on a per subdomain basis" works when the tracking runs off a separate subdomain. Walmart, for example, intentionally proxies the files through their primary domain, the one that you are visiting, to try and bypass this.

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Other sites and services will also use blocking them as a fingerprinting point. For example, it loads native first-party JS to try and bootstrap the rest of it.

A really simplified example:

Stage 1: on-page script tag, not a separate file, sets up a variable - let's call it "counter"

Stage 2: Load cross-site-tracker.js from obvious-analytics.example.com.

If it fails:

Stage 3: Load QyojK8oIwLjske2JkW9mdJY0Np.js from hqMOBRLccCmEnG9.cloudfront.net; increment a "shady user is trying to hide from us" counter

If it fails:

Stage 4: Load RandomWordsRainbowButterfly.js from N4NqCUJAT9UUXFcwnn.cloudfront.net; increment a "shady user is trying to hide from us" counter

Keep trying this through 3-4 domains, use random s3 buckets, cloudfront hostnames, akamaized.net hostnames. Upload all tracking data as soon as one of them succeeds.
>This maximum would barely change your time to destination

Yes it would. The drive from LA to San Francisco is about 300 miles on Interstate 5. Much of this highway is completely straight, with excellent visibility through an unpopulated desert. When sparsely trafficked (as it is much of the time), it is safe to drive 80+ MPH on I5 for hours at a time. At 80 MPH, this is a 3 hour 45 minute drive. At your proposed 60 MPH, this would be a 5 hour drive.

>but it would save thousands of lives per year.

How many lives do you think would be saved by capping speeds to 60 MPH on I5? If alcohol or distracted driving are not factors, I would say probably close to zero. As a fun aside, the fatality rate on the unrestricted German Autobahn is about half the fatality rate across all US highways, and is comparable to other similar European countries’ highway fatality rates.

I completely agree about lower speed limits in cities, however, where pedestrian deaths are the main concern. While I don’t think a governor in the car would be practical or safe (what if I’m rushing because of a medical emergency?), automated enforcement would serve the same purpose.
I don't know why you assume the goal is "help aaronax watch what he wants quickly" vs "make sure when aaronax switches to his next series/movie it's on Hulu"
I'd wager only 5-10% of all money is actually used in an exchange for real value. Everything else is just rotating through the bureaucrats.
Even if it was personal email/social media I've see school computers continually log to disk a low-framerate screen capture of the student's screen. They could also watch it in realtime. My school also had keyloggers installed and while admin insisted that they would not use any captured usernames and passwords they certainly had the capacity to do so.

I think there was some news in the past where some schools took this even further with webcam and mic access, though I didn't experience this.

On a school or work computer that you don't control assume someone is watching behind your shoulder at all times, and reading every word you type. Whether if that's the case or not.
The above code doesn't propagate errors
I don't think that "entry" was ever implemented, but the intent was to support something like the ENTRY statement of Fortran.
There's no doubt that the belt played a role in reducing your injuries.
As someone who holds a certification as an AEM Business Solutions Specialist (possibly lapsed by now) I have to agree. It's hot garbage.
I've followed Paul Graham and yCombinator since the beginning and this is the first time I've heard him say at YC they are looking for 'animals'. But come to think of it that's a pretty good description of the best founders that I've ever known personally here in Michigan.
What if occasionally you need to accelerate to a higher speed to avoid an accident?
this is a tad naive to say the least
Complaining about Electron is probably a faster approach