skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "political" here referred to the fact that the way they set up the organisation allowed them to make political contributions, at a cost of having to pay $17m in tax more than they would've had to pay with a different setup.
> If you would state that it might be better to offer vaccinations to the 50+ a few months back, you were an anti-vaxxer.

And rightfully so. Policies adapt to the currently prevailing COVID variant. A change of policy today is not a vindication for statements made months ago under different circumstances.

Also, if the one making the statement is not an expert themselves, they're typically cherry-picking statements of real experts to match their preoccupations, while the topic is in fact still under debate and the verdict can swing either way.
Guns don't cause that many deaths in military conflicts in general, not even in a fair fight. The kill count is dominated by artillery, air strikes, and other such things that cover a lot of ground at once and can get thru cover much better than those tiny bullets.

But your example of Taliban is a curious one, because, for all their expensive toys, US forces in Afghanistan never really controlled much ground outside of their bases. That's why the Taliban could wait them out - because most of the country out there was already theirs to wait in. To control all that territory would have required a lot more US troops, precisely because of all those lurking Taliban fighters with their measly AKs.
That's my favourite scene in Office Space!
How to Count in Japanese
Not at all. They're not as hyped as they used to be, but 11" notebooks with low specs are definitely both cheap and available.
Did the Big Bang Happen?
Agreed, but staffers can be abroad (there are a few even now).
Thai is so inconsistently romanized you still might not understand anything! for example bangkok could be Baanggaawk.
If you sum the occurrences of numbers 1-6, you get 1051 + 1012 + 1042 + 983 + 1015 + 1042 = 6145. The expected count (if the numbers were uniformly random) is only 6000, on average. If you repeat your experiment, you will find that this sum is greater than 6000 more often than not.
What has been generally disproved is the concept of herd immunity. Initially this was what scientists and researchers had hoped would occur with vaccinations, and sadly for multiple reasons this did not happen.

Vaccines does significant help in reducing the severity when a person get sick, which reduces the work load on the health care system and allowing the personal to focus their time and skill on people in worse conditions. That is great, but it changes the initial strategy in terms of application and goal.
It's also completely untrue. Staking is unprofitable if you cannot guarantee uptime of your node. In fact Ethereum includes slashing for inactivity, so not only do you lose out on rewards if you shut of your MacBook, you run the risk of losing Ethereum. Unless of course you stake with a centralized pool, which defeats the whole purpose.
‘Wobbly’ moon probable cause of mass tree deaths in Australia, scientists say
Do you think Pixelbooks and Fuschia haven't been announced? How, pray tell, do you know about it then?
I just did an exposision of a bunch of them.

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/ai-terminals/

Also, there is ii, the fully imaginary interpreter
FWIW, while I'm not aware of any court decision that would specifically claim 2A protection, things like grenade launchers, mortars, artillery, and even tanks with active main gun is all legal in US. It's just more paperwork than your usual stuff, and it has to go through the feds - but they can't just say "no".
> When the type system accurately represents relationships, there is no need for users of a data structure to be careful to obey rules.

Of course. Unfortunately sticking everything into an array and pointing to things via integers instead of raw pointers doesn't provide you any help from typesystem. My whole point is that there is a huge class of datastructures and algorithms which can not be reperented in a type-safe way without automatic manual memory management. You either have to be accurate when writing your algorithms, or introduce runtime costs for validity checks.

You get pretty much 0 support from your compiler (for imperative language without GC) if you are not dealing with hierarchical datastructure without backreferences. It does not really matter how you reperesent it. No language can model that at type level.

You can either encapsulate it into some abstraction and prove (and/or hope) that it is implemented correctly. This is a common way to approach the problem of type-system no helping you (for example, pretty much all foundational Rust libraries are unsafe underneath to get around borrow checker; STL in C++ lives and breathes with raw pointers in the implementation of succint datastructures like maps, etc). If you can't encapsulate it fully, you try to be accurate OR use some helpers to deal with the complexity (shared and weak ptr, this raw_ptr that article is talking etc).

> Any "fragmentation issue" is off-topic: if something is an "issue", you do something differently so it isn't anymore.

You were selling pushing everything into an array as a solution to not using pointers. I tried to give an example why this might be not the solution that you want. Specifically in browsers.

> (Anything-oriented design is code smell.)

Data-oriented design is a name for what you were proposing, I just brought it up for easier reference of your point. I.e. Modelling your data as a set of tables with relations between them.
"Nevertheless, the within-subject analysis suggested that, after controlling for differences between men, image content may not influence sperm concentration"

So apparently neither this, nor later studies were able to conclusively prove sperm competition in humans, but they weren't able to disprove it either due to methodological limitations, namely ethical constraints. The effect is potentially destroyed by the use of condoms as recommended by the WHO when collecting samples. If the subjects weren't humans the researchers could select different number of males with whom a female copulates and measure which sperm fertilizes the ova, but that's not something anyone can volunteer for.
> Buran

> 27. Alternative projects considered at the stages of the preliminary design and preliminary design: attempts to create OK "Buran" on the basis of OK "Spiral" - what was proposed (options and technical solutions) and what was accepted, what was not accepted, how and why.

> Orbital vehicle "Buran" in landing configuration

> Answer: We (NPO Molniya) worked on an alternative variant in a guise that mimics that of the Spiral orbital plane, but General Designer Glushko considered that by that time there were few materials that would confirm and guarantee success at a time when Shuttle flights proved that the Shuttle-like configuration works successfully and there is less risk when choosing a configuration, therefore, despite the larger useful volume of the Spiral configuration, it was decided to carry out the Buran in a configuration similar to the Shuttle configuration. Although the absence of sustainer engines on the Buran noticeably changed the centering, the position of the wings, the configuration of the influx, and a number of other differences.

> 28. Was the copying of "Space Shuttle" in a larger or smaller volume during the creation of Buran deliberate or were there "directive instructions"?

> Answer: Copying, as indicated in the previous answer, was, of course, completely conscious and justified in the process of those design developments that were carried out and during which, as already indicated above, many changes were made to both the configuration and the design. The main political requirement was to ensure that the dimensions of the payload compartment were the same as the payload compartment of the Shuttle.

https://www-buran-ru.translate.goog/htm/archivl.htm?_x_tr_sc...
Most of them are recent hires. They have built nothing. Wikipedia was built by volunteers.
Perhaps something can be memory bound instead of CPU or IO bound?
mostly because Forums look to be 95% just messages in a channel with a thread for the conversation, just with a forum UI frontpage. on your small servers just make a channel, topic messages are sent to it, and then people talk in a thread.
> So, why do people like these code generators?

To cover the lack of good libraries and/or language abstractions.
What's Duolingo Desktop? I'm on Linux.
I just had diaresis. Painful at my age.
They're arguments why PoS is centralizing.
Sshuttle: Where transparent proxy meets VPN meets SSH
I was not able to Spot the Howler in this one.

Either this one was unusually good, or The Howler in this one was too subtle for my weak brain.
Pure whataboutism.
Croatia recently opened Omicron vaccine availability to all adults.
I don't really agree with the original post and I don't buy into the "purely digital world" argument. I'm excited about crypto for different reasons. But a few thoughts:

> So then the question becomes, what is the value of <insert coin here>. Some will talk about energy, or efficiency. Some will talk about scarcity. Some will talk tech merits. But nobody to date has been able to convince me that it has any real value. There are no armies or economies validating it.

Why are stocks without dividends worth anything? Companies have earnings. Many protocols have earnings as well, and they are built on top of Ethereum, which provides the security layer. What do you mean by "real value"?

> Said another way, if someone gives me 10k in cash, I have faith it will still be worth 10k in a year(ignoring our awful inflation)

10k denominated in what? I think ignoring inflation is an example of why people care. You only trust your cash because you trust the US government, which may be reasonable, but people in other parts of the world don't trust their government with monetary policies, e.g. [0]. Imagine inflation gets worse, the EU needs bailout, or we have WW3, and the the US government says "Sorry, you're no longer allow to buy gold or move your assets abroad, you need to buy our bad government bonds" - stuff like this has happened before, in many countries. And you can't do anything about it other than watching your savings crumble. Crypto gives you optionality. A government-independent monetary ecosystem. Nobody can lock you out. I trust the "Ethereum government" more than most centralized governments due to the transparency, global footprint, and aligned incentives. I can hold my savings in a USD-backed stablecoin as long as I believe in the US government's monetary policy. If that changes, I can swap into something else in a matter of seconds, and I don't need permission from any government to do so.

My experience has been that the value people see in crypto is directly inversely proportional to how much they believe in their government and whether they have experienced governments being malicious due to misaligned incentives. Most middle-aged people in the US don't fall into this category - they have never experienced war or malicious governments because they were lucky being born at just the right time and place and enjoyed nothing but prosperity. Convincing them about crypto is hard.

[0] https://devonzuegel.com/post/inside-argentina-s-currency-exc...
And then came LinkedIn that asked for full access to your inbox (yes, username and password! and people gave it away), Facebook with their "real name policy" (and people complied!), Android with automatic access to your contacts without your consent (I believe they fixed it at some point though) and so on. Everything seems upside down.
"How does that differ from written agreements or stocks today" I think of it more like a PTA organization than a stock and a corporation. The goal of a stock is to create a profit stream for the owners. The goal of a crypto service is to build a useful utility for the owners.
I actually thought Line Goes Up was pretty well informed and well-presented. It's definitely one-sided, but I think there were only a couple of statements that I found questionable.

I work in the crypto industry, and definitely agree there's a ton of innovation in the space, but the innovations lie at an incredibly technical intersection of cryptography, game theory, and distributed networks. Get marketing, sales, and investment capital involved in the mix (which almost every project has), and you have a bundle of products being thrust in front of the public which they can't rigorously evaluate, and because everything is directly incentivized, tons of scammers, grifters, liars, and fraudsters.

When my non-technical friends ask me about crypto, I'm happy to tell them some of the things I think are really cool about it. But I don't recommend buying anything based on my perspective; it's basically gambling (even if you're well-informed)
In all my years using this website I have never so vehemently disagreed with a comment! :)

It is beautiful! It doesn't pretend, it doesn't hide away its screws, and it isn't cheap plastic.

It clearly was put together with thought and care[0], it is not a bunch of junk stuffed into a box (as in a standard hobby project); angles were planned, metal bent, accessibility considered (that screen angle!).

This is an island of effort in a sea of lazy, fast & cheap.

[0] https://unimplementedtrap.com/media/sb116/SB116-Side-thumb.j...
Yes, I understand, I will be more respectful, and I apologize.

I'm an incorrigible angry mess right now because I'm dealing with close impending death (edit: not my own, but very close) in RL and it's bleeding over into every sphere and making me behave terribly, but it's not a valid reason to be a dick. I'll dial it back heavily and do my best to either act like a normal person or be quiet.
That's why I said "in most countries". In most non-US countries credit cards enforce PIN usage the same way as your debit cards appear to.
The vast majority of stakers won't use their own hardware, but will stake with exchanges like Kraken and Coinbase.
And how is that number derived?

Do you have any idea how the calculations are performed to arrive at that number?

I suggest you take some time to investigate. When we are talking about the US, in particular, the whole pandemic has been politicized
some peripherals like the dram controller are rigged up so the arm can never control them

others like the 2d core default to the same mode, but can be re-configured to allow the arm to control it

there may be more peripherals that behave the same way, and require code on the VPU to help out

and like others said, changing the arm freq, from the arm core, could be dangerous, it may just lock up, because it turned its own clock off
Sorry I just mean the browser version, used on a desktop as opposed to mobile.
> he can now use the satellite feature on his iPhone when he's out hiking in the Scottish mountains

He does not say this. He explicitly says he did carry his garmin when in Scotland. From the article:

> (for the last week in Scotland, we’ve not had cell service), so I have a Garmin inReach MINI I carry with me

The author's point was that he travels a lot in the US and abroad, and that he will keep his Garmin but use it less and pause his subscription more often.

This is a blog post about the iPhone being reflected upon whilst in Scotland, which makes it a good read. If it were an advertorial, I see how you could jump this critique on it. But it's not.
Quiet Quitting is Hustle Culture's reckoning
Not to mention trying to "force" the issue often isn't effective. There was a study on HN a while back showing higher rates of vaccination of newborns when the expectant mothers were given information on vaccines and their effectiveness months before and asked to consider them.

It's almost like most people can be reasonable if given the opportunity and proper information. People are also surprisingly good at picking up on BS, even if they then misattribute the source or reasoning.
We Need Simpler Types
I've realised that most people never came across sshuttle: a tool that allows you to trivially participate in a remote private network using just SSH.

It sets up all the routing and forwarding rules for you, and it's such a time saver.

It works with Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS, though I've only ever used it under Linux.
I get them for places like schools or environments where there is high risk of your laptop being stolen or damaged. If you lose or breaks one you can easily replace it with any random other Chromebook and be back up and running in minutes and it is basically impossible to 'break' the software on it (and if you do, resetting it is trivial).
Irrespective of cross-origin caching, `Referer` should have been neutered long ago to always specify the base URL of the site hosting the resource (or killed entirely).

Also Browsers should send exactly the same headers when in image and page contexts - if I want to view an image it means I want to view an image on its own and there should be nothing the site can do about it.
From what I heard in the past, at IBM employees get a $1k bonus per patent - and I bet the patent pool is worth more than that for IBM in cross-licencing savings and licensing revenue...
I suspect that most of the extra cash reported by people is stock, which was dependent on massive QE injected by the world's central banks and really low interest rates making future revenues more attractive.
Depending on the country, people lost their jobs, weren't allowed to travel and were locked inside for not getting the vaccine(s), Austria even went as far as to introduce a law mandating everyone to get those vaccines (which they never executed and then promptly overturned).

Now whole governments are admitting that people under 50 don't really need those vaccines after all. We now have studies claiming that serious vaccination side effects are more likely than serious covid sickness in young men.

The anti vaxxers were proven RIGHT by this in many of their claims. How should they EVER trust governments again? How should they ever leave their anti-vax echochambers again? It was shown time and time again that governments and their high profile rockstar twitter "experts" get the facts right as many times as a broken clock the time, sometimes even spreading deliberate misinformation/lies ("Faucis noble lies") and absolutely can not be trusted.

My government as well scammed me into getting a second vaccine, after the retracted their claim that the single shot J&J vaccination would suffice.

I am not even an anti vaxxer -I am happy my parents are vaccinated. They always were at an at-risk age, but I am not and I am not interested in getting another covid vaccine. I remain terrified at the prospect of a reinstatement of the green pass system.
The energy expenditure anchors the money into the real world, making it a hard money like Gold, and it also facilitates decentralization.

Energy is naturally decentralized all over the world.

A "tax to energy companies" is a subsidy from the energy company's point of view. If you want more of something, subsidize it. A world with more energy is better than a world with less, as we're all in the process of relearning.
The shots don’t work.
Even if they did, people’s choice over what is injected into their bodies comes first.

Even if they did work, the profile of who was at risk was clear, it wasn’t healthy young people. So why was it pushed on healthy young people?

From the outset the risk reward ratio was not clear for those without high comorbidites, the minute the myocarditis signal showed up it should have been pulled for most people.

Bearing in mind we now know myocarditis is just one of a multitude of negative side effects.

So why did it go on being pushed and coerced to healthy people, actively harming them?
With PoW energy usage is roughly proportional to the $ price of the asset regardless of the number of transactions it can process. A successful Bitcoin means higher and higher energy usage. Whereas anything else success means making it more efficient not less.
> it doesn't prevent severe covid or death

Yes, it does…?
It's not. YouTube is an online video platform.

YouTube however is a subsidiary of Alphabet, which is a tech company.
IRC didn't have integrated audio chats and media sharing. People want that in one place today. I don't like using discord to be honest. IRC had the same problem that content couldn't be crawled without logs, but the info here just as fleeting. I believe some content creators do not really make their lives easier when they decide to publish in discord channels. It might look like a lot of engagement compared to a forum or other online presence, but the discoverability is very bad and almost no content will leave the platform again.
Sure, buit the energy crisis is a global issue. And you can't solve global issues using local solutions.
“While the internet is for information, the blockchain is for value”
It's an evolutionary arms race. We still have the staggering spread of the virus in the wild, let alone a well controlled one like might be had with more ideal circumstances. (Circumstances of reasonable precautions, regular testing, and thoughtful actions that benefit the greater good.)

The 'bivalent' boosters, as far as I understand (non-expert), combine a widely proven safe (likely billions of individuals who've had the treatment at this point) technology and version of the vaccine, which might no longer match the dominant wild strain of the virus, with a derivative of that same vaccine tuned to that current dominant strain of the virus.

In order to be most effective that updated booster should be used while the variation it was designed to protect against is still in the wild.
Switch games can actually target handheld mode vs. tv mode and give you a better experience to solve that problem. Few of them do, unfortunately, IME.
Unfortunately the BBC has gone dramatically down hill, mostly blogspam now.
Saw a video of a main thoroughfare in Lansing, MI filmed in the early sixties. It was a test for a camera shop I think. It was neat watching pristine versions of cars I remember from my youth.

Then they captured a crash between two vehicles at about 35 mph. Today both parties would get out and exchange insurance companies. However this was not the case. Two ambulances hauled away the drivers and the narrator of the film said one did not make it. Indeed we have come a long way in car safety in the past sixty years.
Hints to optimise SQL queries with LIKE
I wrote some hints on how to optimise #SQL queries containing LIKE. More ideas, including unconventional ones, are very welcome - just comment here or on the website.
I’m curious to know if there are any oss alternatives for similar services.
Yeah, no. This might work for 80% of software (via the 80/20 rule), but the other 20%? You really think that an AI will be able to generate a stock trading system, or a high-performance web browser? I don't think this is possible in 10 years (barring AGI), let alone 5.

Some smartphone apps barely count as software. Equating them to all software that exists, is almost insulting to me.
100% agree with this. As a way to learn about OOP concepts from first principles, it was fantastic.

Obviously not something to use as a professional, but as a learning tool it was unmatched.
The card issuers offer (due to being forced to by law) much better protection: they cancel transactions made this way.