skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to dissuade you, but you probably should not try to do it the same way he does: completely from scratch using pure JS + WebGL and without any frameworks. He's able to pull it off because he clearly has an incredible depth of knowledge of how it works, but mere mortals like you and me will likely get stuck in the bog of minutiae.

I recommend starting off by playing around with Three.js, which will get you up and running really quickly while still staying pretty grounded in WebGL. [1] You can make blog posts very similar to Ciechanowski using ObservableHQ. [2]

[1] https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#manual/en/introduction/C...

[2] https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/hello-three-js
So you expect Apple to support the 2010 era iPad 1st generation that had 256MB RAM and 400Mhz A4 in 2022?

Or do you expect Apple to support a 20 year old Mac?

Or do you expect Apple to support a 1992 era Mac LCII with a 68030-16Mhz processor that came with at most a 10MB RAM and a 80MB hard drive?
It’s worth noting that SpaceX has about 20 times the number of employees as Relativity and Relativity has not yet launched anything to orbit whereas Falcon has over 180 flights. I don’t think we can objectively say the culture at Relativity is objectively safer yet. Relativity is also an extremely new company in comparison to SpaceX.
I think you might be forgetting what being a teenage boy is like! I think a noisy car is straightforward 'look at me' peacock tail behaviour.
Haven't we had more spaceflight related deaths than the Soviet Union + Russia?
> How is that dystopian?

The practicalities of the original design and trying to adapt it means these conversions often have limited natural light, limited fresh air, are made from hard, unbreathable, manufactured materials, are very 'liminal', have bad acoustics. Have you read the theory of 'sick buildings'? Homes made from office space seem to end up very 'sick', with an impact on people's mental and physical health, and increasing isolation.

That's how it's dystopian.
I wonder if other parents these days would call CPS on you if they saw your kid strolling past the car pickup line?
First line of article:

> Apple today announced an updated Apple TV and, along with it, a new Siri remote that has a USB-C port for charging rather than Lightning.
Hearing aids available over the counter for as low as $199, without prescription
Where are the production grade and pure rust tls library ? Key-value store ? Ldap client ? SSH client ?
There is safety in numbers and there's little chance that you'll see any significant portion of the population mixing with traffic on main streets. If you can't expect children and families to ride there, it's not safe enough.

On side streets with little car traffic it often does make sense not to separate infrastructure, but traffic calming is then particularly important.

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/11/reality-vs-myth...

That said:

> Every accident I had was one where I was in a designated bike lane, and the car crossed it to turn or enter a parking lot in an opening.

A "designated bike lane" that's just a strip of paint is also not enough for exactly that reason, and if the bike lane (even a protected one) is frequently interrupted by curb cuts into parking lots that's likewise not bike-friendly design.
You wrote it, so I'm not ignoring it; I'm taking what you said seriously. Can you articulate the way in which Derek Lowe is "not behaving scientifically"?
I appreciate your pesonal perspective as an employee of the company I used to admire a lot. It looks like we disagree on the fundamental premise

To me, the golden age of tracking is over and the privacy of the user is the new gold standard. It doesn't matter that Firefox needs telemetry to survive (and the empirical evidence of Firefox still losing users left and right does not help that case), if it is going to violate someone's privacy over it.

It also does not matter what its privacy policy is (and they can change), the moment Firefox transferred user's personal information, which is the IP address, without their consent, it took away something private from them, that can potentially be used in the future against them.

Here is an analogy. Would you accept telemetry in your apartment or a house, that is built-in and enabled by default, without your consent? Would you freak out that it exists once you find out?

The builder will then try to explain they use it only to improve homes they make, for example to understand what rooms you use and how, and that without it, they would not survive on the market because their main competitors are using it too. Would you care about that or you would seek to find an apartment elsewhere?

The browser is no different. It is the most intimate tool we use in our daily lives. People are fed of our data being used without our consent.

A privacy respecting browser simply can not allow itself to have telemetry by default. Meaning Firefox simply can not call itself privacy respecting if it is transferring user's private information without their consent, by default - no matter what the economic or business justification are. If a browser is choosing to have telemetry for economic interest, it loses the privilege to call itself privacy-respecting or 'a force for the privacy on the web'. Respecting privacy is digital, it is either 0 or 1, you can't be 0.7 privacy-respecting.

Finally, I don't buy the argument that telemetry is helping FIrefox at all. All that telemetry for the last 10 years or so and Firefox is down to less than 5% market share. It lost 50 million users in the last two years alone.

Perhaps Mozilla should consider becoming more user-centric instead and start listening to the users, instead of using telemetry. Go back to its roots of innovation and experiments, to the golden age of Firefox between 2005-2010 when we got Firebug, Ubiquity, Panorama and go back to product annoncements that excite user about the browser.
I would imagine that most aren't aware of how they're perceived. The ones who are aware write it off as the people being stupid, not educated enough, ignorant, etc. That is, the elites in the profession have the awareness but not the humility.

Furthermore, those same elites - for all their education - don't understand how truth works. That is, trust is *earned*. Full stop. As it is, they believe they can bully their way into being trusted simply by relentlessly pounding their fist-to-desk and demanding they be trusted. They whine that we have it wrong, and they're always right.

Would it be wrong to say I hope they choke on that silver spoon in their mouth?
Analytical tool for finding and evaluating the performance of investment
Many VCs and Analyst scout for critical investment finds and also would like to have an analytical tool at their disposal to not only identify the investment finds but also evaluate/forecast investments. I was looking at building an AI to scout and analyze potential scenarios for investment and analyze/forecast the investment using an AI automated tool. Would YC Investors be happy to be interviewed to share their metrics that could be scaled across wider markets?
I live in a bike-friendly city (League of American Bicyclists "Gold" level) but all of my cycling routes include roads without bike lanes. I wouldn't ask a kid to do it, at least not until people learn to drive much safer.
Same plastic cover on Zaks' book (it's still there) and excellent paper quality.
Why would you even want to for gifs? The value seems super low compared to the effort. What value did gify even provide facebook? The data is probably next to worthless. Gifs in text chat seem like a fading fad, and are probably a bad user experience. The whole thing seems like a huge boondoggle, and the idea that it gives facebook any leverage anywhere is laughable.
I’ve had luck hiring people with “dev bootcamp” level experience who didn’t excel as an engineer post-bootcamp, but know enough technical jargon to communicate, collaborate, and understand engineers.

Often these are people who became bored with day to day coding having more interest in the business side of the company
Do these new tokens still require the organization and user consent? I’m not able to use GitPod as a freelancer because my clients don’t want to approve the application so GitPod can’t access the repo. I work around the issue by creating a private repo with my SSH private key that has the client’s code as a submodule and configures GitPod to fetch the submodule using that ssh key. It’s silly that I have to do that.
note: Transposing "it" and "is" has made my question look sort of passive-aggressive or sarcastic, this was accidental.
"At 12:44 p.m. on January 18, 2022, an employee, an integration technician, was p erforming pneumatic pressure checks on a Raptor V2 Engine while at the Integrati on Stand. The final step in the pressure check operation, venting, was done for the first time using an automated program as opposed to the normal manual method that had been used in previous operations. Immediately after initiating the aut omated venting, the employee was struck by the fuel controller cover which broke free from the controller module. The controller cover had sheared at the vertic al to horizontal beveled seam, liberating the cover face from the assembly. The employee suffered a skull fracture and head trauma and was hospitalized in a com a for months."

https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detai...

It sounds like a number of things went wrong:

1) The automated program malfunctioned.

2) The controller cover welds failed.

3) The employee was too close.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-cabadas-during-this-diff...

The family started a public GoFundme page. I think its clear that it is in the interest of both the family and labor at large to get stories about workplace injuries to the public.
I wonder if I will be able to buy just the remote and if it will work on the prior gen Apple TV 4k.
> Is there an argument for why non-expiring tokens are a bad idea that I'm missing here?

it's a band-aid on other people not being able to secure their system. Band-aid that solves nothing as if token valid for a week or a month leaks you're still fucked.

Now no expiry at all is a problem (you don't want someone digging out token from 2 years ago from somewhere to still work), but the node actively using service should be able to re-generate its own one.

Then you could also get away by super-short tokens (say week) that app just re-generates every few days.

For example app can use tokenN to generate tokenN+1 and have both of them be valid at the same time for a period (so app cluster have time to propagate the new access token before old one expires)

And so any leak of old data would be no threat, you wouldn't need to have months-long human-regenerated tokens, and it would be more leak-proof as just having week old token would be inconsequential.

Vs "bother someone every 6 months to click thru the stupid panel and put the key in right places just so your infrastructure keeps working". MS already does that in other places, it's aisine
I'm glad we (in the USA) are applying the same absolute standards to free speech that we've come to apply to firearms ownership and display.
> I just don't think non-poor people need subsidised Uber-rides

I agree, if you're going to provide financial assistance it should go to those in need, but I don't think non-poor people need or want to be saddled with an added expense to replace the public transpiration services they already have and use.

I think there does come a point where a community can decide their public transportation costs more to operate than it's worth, but unless it's consistently losing massive amounts of money it's probably not worth it to take a valuable resource from the public just to save a bit of money. Especially if that community has any desire to grow.
Lots of iPad hate in the comments. But remember, if nobody wanted them, they wouldn't keep selling as well as they are.

If you have no interest in an iPad, don't buy one. For me, it's not going to replace my general purpose computers any time soon, but its great for reading or carrying around while on the go for short bursts of work (SSH/Mosh with Blink app, RDP with Microsoft Remote Desktop, VNC with Screens, etc).
> You can't generally replace pointers with references either.

If this were generally true, I would expect to see a lot more use of pointers than references in c++ code, but in practice it's the exact opposite--it's rare that one needs to use a pointer rather than reference. Basically only if it needs to be able to be null or if it needs to be able to be modified.
> We only need to evaluate what is practically useful.

As simple as this may seem, a few problematic points:

- who decides who gets included in "we"?

- who decides what "evaluate" is composed of?

- who decides what is practical, and useful?

- there is an implicit dimension of Time: for example, many things were initially categorized as useful, but then it can turn out to be a lot more complicated (Thalidomide, fossil fuels, arguably democracy & journalism (at least as they are practised, which seems to be fairly immutable))

Of course, these issues can be easily dismissed ("pedantic!"), but that doesn't make them go away.

> At the end of the day that's all science does - it's a methodology for generating guidelines for what actually works in the real world and for which accuracy, or truth, can be verified. We call those guidelines scientific 'laws', but truth in the absolute sense is less critical than is often made out by both proponents and critics of science.

Another problem we have is language (and various other things, semantics, semiotics, etc) - in this example, a reader could easily take away a few not necessarily correct beliefs from the way you've worded it:

- it could be (very poorly) interpreted to mean science does only this (and nothing else)

- it could be interpreted to mean science alone does this

- it could be interpreted to mean that the output of science (what actually works in the real world) is comprehensive, as in "all that works has been discovered by science - and if it isn't, science would (or will) find it"

- it could be interpreted to mean that science alone is able to produce accuracy, truth, and verification

- it could be interpreted to mean (or, a person may just not consider) that "what works" is not necessarily a constant over time (see: Thalidomide, fossil fuels)

To be clear, I'm not saying you're asserting these things, I'm just pointing out that language is extremely ambiguous and can be misleading.
This makes no sense at all because this action does nothing to prevent Musk from buying shares, and if the deal is known to be closing, then employees have no incentive to sell early.
if one of these chimera viruses leaks - you can easily sell vaccine for $1000 per shot.

Easy money printing machine: keep making new viruses, keep making new vaccines, make $$$
Thinking about tag-based filesystems
A lot of UI interactions and classification flows are becoming tag-based. Our filesystems and URI's are the last hierarchical standouts we have that haven't adopted some form of tagging. Hierarchies make sense, and allow for different groups and subgroups to exist with their respective elements inside, however we sometimes have needs to share these files among other hierarchies so we delegate authority to the libraries on the system, or create symlinks across various paths.

Have there been attempts at tag-based filesystems? We already do symlinks, and have constructs in the UI's of some desktop environments for tagging documents as work/personal/financial, but what if the tag system also delegated role-based and scoped resource access per-process? What if the tag system could favor one library version over another, and the system could provide a default? It wouldn't be hard to imagine this going hand in hand with deterministic systems.

Initially, this thought experiment resulted in the idea of an imaginary Qubes or OpenBSD like system where each process or process group would have a role-based quota of resources based on different tagged attributes.

I don't have a product to pitch by this post, I'm genuinely asking for the thinkers and dreamers out there to think for a moment, if a tag is used over a hierarchy, what would a tag-based filesystem look like? how would it perform differently?
I have friends/former colleagues who work on these pipelines, and I can tell you that it's not a stretch to say that there are dozens if not hundreds of people whose entire working lives are about characterizing the sensors, noise, electronics, so that after images are taken, they can be processed well / automatically / with high precision.

(and after all, if these instruments/telescope were 30 years and $10B in the works, you would hope there's a fairly well developed function to make the data as useful as it can be)

The goal is to get the "true" physical measurement of the light that arrives at the telescope. After those photons arrive, the measurements get contaminated by everything to do with the hardware, sensors, electronics, processing artifacts, and there's a whole organization that exists to study and remove these effects to get that true signal out.

Every filter, sensor, system has been studied for thousands of person-hours and there are libraries on libraries of files to calibrate/correct the image that gets taken. How do you add up exposures that are shifted by sub-pixel movements to effectively increase the resolution of the image? How to identify when certain periodic things happen to the telescope and add patterns of noise that you want to remove? What is the pattern that a single point of light should expect to be spread out into after traveling through the mirror/telescope/instrument/sensor system, and how do you use that to improve the image quality? (the 6 pointed star you see)

Most fascinating to me is when someone discovers or imagines that some natural phenomenon that you thought was a discovery, turns out to be a really subtle effect of the noise in the instrument? (ADC readout noise / spike that subtly correlates with a high value having passed by during readout of a previous pixel? which makes your supernova discovery actually a fluke?
I'm trying to recall the paper discovering that the pixel value on one chip of an instrument was related to the bitwise encoding of the readout on a neighboring chip's pixel...)

Then there's even a whole industry of how to archive data, make it useful to the field, across telescopes, across projects, and over time.

Lots of science and work here over decades.
Clearly the solution to all of this would be the category of all those categories that do not contain themself.
This is an isolated demand for rigor[1]. You didn't demand a citation for the claim that the media is corrupted by ads, and the implication that that's related to partisanship.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
> Could be telling us that the most of the (non-Fox) media leans left, and the independents see it but the Democrats don't.

Well, yeah. That big jump when Trump got elected isn't because the media suddenly became much more trustworthy and only the Democrats figured it out.
I have a large book collection and one of the cornerstones is a first edition of every John le Carre book published. I've read them all, and while he is probably best known for "Tinker Tailor ..." and "Smiley's People", I found "The Perfect Spy" to be just an exceptional work of literature - and at times it is also autobiographical (his father was a con man). I'm not surprised he was at times profoundly unhappy - in my experience, many highly creative people never find contentment.

The TV miniseries of "Tinker Tailor ...", "Smiley's People", "The Perfect Spy", and "The Night Manager" are just amazingly well done and highly recommended.

RIP David Cornwell.
>is funny - how would they gather that evidence without confessions from the pilots involved or from the Chinese?

MI6 is a thing. What do you think they do all day. You really think these people with classified info in their heads are just walking around blabbing secrets in China or Saudi or wherever?
I don't think "trust or not", or even level of trust, is a useful question. Almost everyone trusts the media to accurately report the scores of football games. If the media says a hurricane hit Florida, almost everyone trusts that. If the media says Apple released a new iPad today, almost everyone trust that. We have a tendency to pick the most controversial issues and ignore the things everyone agrees on.

Also, "the media" is not uniform. Politically speaking, the media includes the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, FOX News, Breitbart, The Lever, The American Prospect, etc. Does anyone trust or distrust those equally?
Glad to see the DDG Browser on the Mac!

Some brief considerations regarding the UI, after some testing:

– It would be nice to be able to set the initial zoom level to pages or, at least, to remember the previous zoom level. I have to do it every time I open the same website.

– While any website is working on something (loading, for example), there's no indication of that. I ended up closing a tab by mistake while a process on the website was still active. This is something that Chrome does well, adding a loading icon to the tab.

– The text on the main search bar jumps abruptly from the center to the left when clicked. In Safari, there's a smooth animation there, which feels more natural.

– The contrast between the search field and its surroundings is very low. Again, in Safari, there's a fine line that helps with it.
But why do you prefer this over a laptop?
Are you sure it's not self-hostable? https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/blob/main/docs/nextjs... seems to imply there's a local dev story. While I'm not familiar with next.js in order to know how dependent is is upon them, versus it's just "a handy place to run node apps," in my mental model if there's a local story there's a local docker-compose story

The AGPL part is a separate ball of wax entirely
No it is not. Eastern European countries are very car centric and so are the smaller austrian cities + surrounding towns.

I imagine Germany to be the same (outside of the major cities that is).

It only seems that everyone walks to school because everyone seems to live close to one. But that’s not the case. Far from it.
That is so unAppley that I clicked on the article to find out how much I had misread the headline. Nope, read the headline correctly. Well, then, The Verge has gotten something horribly, horribly wrong. Because does this sound right to you? That a new iPad model only supports an old model of Pencil that you thought they didn't even manufacture anymore, and it needs an adapter to do so? I mean, c'mon, there's no way Apple would do something like that.

Turns out...
It's not a fact, come on. Many countries that didn't choose to lock down their population did better. Actually, since vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor, it may have increased deaths and decreased the overall health of the population.
I use both, randomly.
I would rephrase it as, new code is cool for who writes it, less cool for who needs to maintain it.
Similarly, it wasn't Russian Roulette because the chamber the hammer fell on wasn't even loaded!
> This particular variant that didn't exist until humans combined two variants into a new one?

Nature created a very similar hybrid earlier: "Deltacron" was in the news in March 2022.

The gene that encodes the virus’s surface protein — known as spike — comes almost entirely from Omicron. The rest of the genome is Delta.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/science/deltacron-coronav...

His team described three patients in France infected with a version of SARS-CoV-2 that combines the spike protein from an Omicron variant with the "body" of a Delta variant.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
The last time I checked a couple of years ago. All Apple services still worked on an old first gen iPad from 2010.