skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this is the right way to think about it. If donating blood is no longer a useful societal good, then there are no ethical benefits. If there are health benefits to bloodletting, then we can do that independently of donating the blood.
> I share this sentiment and can't figure out why politicians aren't better stewards of the peoples' interest.

THE major component for public involvement in politics are parties. In theory being a unit transcending election cycle they can better ensure continuity of policy. In practice, like any enterprise, the fundamental goal of parties is to remain in power, everything else being secondary.

The goal is always to get votes. Sometimes in the short term, sometimes in the long term, but it is never about policy and always about votes and subsequent power. Parties do not promote and give platform to "good politicians", but rather those who will help the party sustain power and gain more, not overthrow current lords.

If you feel represented by someone on the ballot it is simple coincidence at best and result of politics at worst. This is how politics have worked, do work and will work, by design.
It sounds like the taxpayer is forced to pay for someone else's basic income instead of people completing the project at its most efficient price.
He was but is an early crossover character. You almost have to wonder if he was designed for it from the get go.
Pandemic relief fraud has Congress eyeing digital IDs
The thing is that I have a ton of friends all over EU, UK, and Switzerland, and have an idea of the salaries, mostly in the IT. I'm not speaking from some theoretical assumptions.

I don't need to know the financial situation of the iPhone owners. I need to know the financial situation of the 50% of population, to compare to the 50% penetration rate in the US.

As much as I understand, phone carriers / operators subsidize phones in Europe to a much smaller extent than in the US, too.
I think a big part of the point he's making is tracking error. Your index fund is not the index. It's a fund that attempts to track the index. Many S&P500 funds have a very good benchmark so far, but that needn't be the case in periods of extreme volatility when things like counter-party risk come to bear on moving in and out of large positions.

You look at that tracking index of VOO: 0.02

https://screener.fidelity.com/ftgw/etf/goto/snapshot/keyStat...

That's very good, but it's not nothing. If liquidity really crunches, that could theoretically skyrocket. Wouldn't be the end of the world likely, but you could see some non-negligible losses as MASSIVE funds have to move 60% of their portfolios, and all the other traders know it. It could basically put passive investors on the wrong side of the GME nonsense.

Not saying it's really plausible, but it could theoretically happen if the markets moved so fast that spreads effectively stopped trading for long periods.
As I understand it the Facebook analytics sdk that many other apps used allowed them to track user actions across applications and Apple made it significantly harder or impossible to do so.
Highly recommend bofuri. It’s a fun poke at accidental exploit of game mechanics from unusual and unexpected way of playing a MMORPG.
Pretty neat. They take a pint of blood, separate out the stem cells, “guide” aka convert them (not explained, but I think it can be done with gene therapy and complicated physical/chemical treatment) to become red blood cells, and culture those red cells in vats.

World-changing if it works.
To each their own, but this reads to me like an April Fool’s post.
Don't speculate. And what does "stay safe" even mean? Unless you mean stay safe from folks making baseless insinuations.
Some of us are polite enough to only silently judge Apple users IRL.
I have been really interested in solar and battery energy storage lately since both have become so cheap. I had wanted to build my own battery for a while now but lithium ion battery tech seemed a little dangerous to put in my garage. But I learned about the newer lifepo4 battery tech and I built a diy 14kwh battery. It's been a lot of fun sourcing din rail mount equipment like breakers and terminal blocks and figuring out cheaper ways to build things like a 100amp automatic transfer switch that is still safe and (somewhat) code compliant (since what is on the market starts around $750 for a general ats). Then I've also followed several YouTubers like Will Prouse and Off-grid garage to find the best Battery Management systems and gotten it all integrated with Home Assistant.

I paired it with a 6kw hybrid inverter/charger that I can later add solar panels to and now have a system that should outperform a Tesla Powerwall in both longevity and capacity. My final cost is around $4k including the hybrid inverter and from what I can tell, the comparable Tesla offering costs around $13k.

I have it setup now to do peak power arbitrage so the batteries charge at night during off-peak ($0.20/kwh) and then the batteries run the whole house from 4pm - 9pm when the rate is $0.54/kwh. This saves around $100 a month on our electric bill so it should pay for itself in 3-4 years while also providing backup power in case of outages.
If you don't spend it, it's not a currency
As poorly supported as H. pylori, I wonder?
Now a days the first place I look for software is f-droid. Sometimes it doesn't have exactly what I need, but really, more often than not it has applications that are more than good enough for what I'm looking for.

And the biggest advantage of it is actually feeling respected and why not say it, free. It feels good to have an app that's designed to do what you need and nothing more, no ads, no internet connection, no one stealing my data.

I think the app could still use some more work but, hey, it's okay as it is.
So in Europe the phenomenon of a stove heating faster than a kettle would not be observed. Isn't that what I said?
Well, this message is not elaborate enough for a HN discussion, but isn't it true though? Even if the game makes you feel a little bad for what you did, you're still having fun playing at war, so I can't help but think it softens the message.

It makes me think of Spec Ops: The Line, a game I love. It even goes further by putting the most exhilarating fight just before shoving in your face the horrors of war. It works because you end up remembering the message of the game more than the fun you had. I'm not sure it applies to Cannon Fodder though. You play it to have fun, not for the anti-war message.

It's still interesting it was trying to do that, but you can still criticize how it was done.
This looks promising. Thanks!
I used to recommend Linux Mint (and have converted some friends with it!) But no longer do so, as their attitude to security is a bit lax.

One issue I often lament is that their main desktop environment, Cinnamon, is still on X.org only. This would be fine if they sorted the processes being able to see each others windows problem, but they haven't AFAIK.
Horrible reasons for throwing something away. Good reasons to give it away.
There is a lot of romanticism in guitar gear nerd circles, who are big believers in 'mojo'. Things like tone wood, degaussed pickup magnets, nitro paint and so on and so on.

There is zero reliable evidence that these things impact how the instrument sounds or plays, or that guitars age in any appreciable way (maybe acoustics, but certainly not electrics). Manufacturers are cranking out amazing instruments with remarkable consistency, we're truly in a golden age where even low tier instruments are likely to be every bit as good as what the 'greats' played on, which were after all just off the shelf guitars in their time.
How close are emulators to the real thing? I mean for someone who spent years in their youth developing muscle memory and would be irritated by slight differences
Till you start modifying the body to produce these supercells.
“Synthetic” in this case doesn’t mean that it’s made using an alternative chemical process - it just means they’re not made in bone marrow.

This process filters out stem cells from a blood donation and prevents them from becoming red blood cells long enough to multiply them significantly.
Most tap water is far from being demineralised. It's a problem if you have a reverse osmosis filtration system though.
Twitter Suspends Kathy Griffin After She Changed Her Handle to ‘Elon Musk’
The value of alignment (at least for me) is not in making the text of the code more readable. Instead, the value is communicating the structure of the code.

Seeing the same shape repeatedly tells me a lot about what is happening. It also helps highlight changes between two lines that are very similar.
Gracias for the well accomplished
degree of detail.
The car, the computer, the spreadsheet, the internet - correct me but I believe most of these examples solved clear problems or dramatically accelerated some type of work. Each time, they succeeded because people loved this new tool enough to throw money at it - far more money than expected. That got the ball rolling to refine the offering.

I'm not sure what new problem the metaverse solves, aside from boredom (video games) or loneliness (social networking).
> My wife wrote five articles on the myths behind rising education costs, including administrative bloat

She casually mentions Title IX and “high touch services”, and then calls those expenses a “necessary cost of doing business”.

I think most of the folks who end up paying the bills would rather them not be.
"Aside from the hard part, this seems easy".
Consider the percentage of alumni kid and kids of ‚friends‘ admitted to ivy league schools who very likely would fail admission in a purely merit based system. Then factor in the very high graduation rates of ivy schools. And now consider how hard they must be to get through. Still think harder than others?
Well I do hope that this succeeds beyond the wildest expectations, and blood-donations go the way of the horse[^1]. We can cultivate ethics in everything else.

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[^1]: We still have horses. So there is a chance some people will become recreational vampire-feeders and some people will adopt vampirism as a hobby. Fine, I won't judge.
>>then the life-saving implications are tremendous

Are people in medical settings dying because of a lack of blood? It seems that unless you're in some exotic blood group you will likely find a compatible donor, and it is not clear as to severity of an imperfect match to rarer groups like the mentioned "Bombay" group.
The price tag is important. So far, these therapies are expensive. If, in the future, the stem cells can be nudged into their work more cheaply, the effect will be world-changing indeed.
Apricot seeds are such a common snack around here that I feel there's something missing in your first paragraph. Maybe a qualifier or a special situation where they become dangerous.(Few others taste as good. Peaches don't for example)
>None of that has anything to do with hiring engineering ICs with whiteboard coding interviews and it's crazy to suggest it is.

you don't think dangling a massive salary behind an easily gamed interview format can lead to problems and attract the wrong type of people to a company? FAANG is now attracting people who would have been on Wall Street 20 years ago. They are money chasers, not the type of people who actually build things

>Meta is in the position they are because post-WhatsApp there has been no company strategy

>How engineers are hired doesn't really matter because it's generally not engineers at the helm

you don't see the dissonance between these 2 statements? Maybe if you had builders with opinions instead of coding robots who follow instructions they wouldn't be such a mess
Thankyou for the respectful response, this is the stuff I need to see. Unfortunately I seem to be caught up in a spiral of sorts and the only information I am receiving is from either extremely partisan media outlets and or algorithms that are pushing "Red Pill" narratives my way. I try to watch the other media sources but find them so disingenuous I can't make it more than a few minutes before retreating back into my right wing echo chambers!

PS: Sorry for baiting my questions with anti Justin rhetoric but I think it will trigger the right...or wrong individuals for answering my question honestly!
Ask HN: What are the reasons behind your success as a self-taught programmer?
Considering that you started programming on your own as a self learner and have found success (whatever that means to you) as a programmer in life, what do you think were the reasons behind that?

Was it:

1. Formal CS or Math education alongside or later on?

2. Pure grit and consistency in completing stuff you started

3. Working in real projects at industry

4. Something else entirely
> hoping to gaslight users into thinking their current system is insecure.

I mean, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43995 is lest than a week old, so probably yes. (That is, a lot of systems haven't been updated and have a nice open CVE that wouldn't be there if they weren't using sudo.)
And are those substances filtered out before being used? Could a recipient end up with higher concentrations in their blood?
I don't think it's the same. Joining the iMessage network requires purchasing an Apple phone, which is a barrier that may be insurmountable to teens that aren't making their own purchasing decisions, regardless of how badly they want to join.

Joining any of those other networks just requires installing a free app.
The equations of both GR, QM and classical mechanics have no "scale" parameter, so they are in fact claiming they apply at every scale in the most important way - in the math.

Not only does the math apply at any scale, but no one has any idea how to add a scale parameter to prevent it from doing so, or what value that parameter should have. QM at least has the Measurement Postulate that could allow this to fit, but no scale is added.

Note that when I say "a scale parameter", I'm referring to something like the sqrt(1-v²/c²) of special relativity, but for "size", added to the Schrodinger equation and to Einstein's equations, that would mean they take the "scale" of the phenomenon into account. Without such a parameter, the equation says that it applies to a star as well as to a neutron. The only reason we don't apply them that way is that we have already tried and we know they give the wrong results.

Also, both GR and QM give the right results if applied at the scales of day to day life. You can use the Schrodinger equation and the Born postulate to compute where two trains traveling in opposite direction with some speed will meet, or you can use Einstein's field equations, and you'll get the same response within some small margin or error (with some reasonable assumptions, such as an almost flat spacetime in the area).

Furthermore, there are at least significant numbers of QM practitioners who do believe that QM applies at any scale - those who believe in the Many Worlds Interpretation, which states this very explicitly. On the GR side, the limitations of GR if applied at subatomic scales are well accepted and considered a flaw in the theory - which is why people hope to replace it with a theory of quantum gravity.
Blocking DHT bootstrap nodes only takes care of DHT. This is only one way of obtaining peers, so even if it's not available, you can still fetch peer information from torrent trackers and receive potential peer addresses from other nodes through Peer Exchange.

DHT is required when your torrent file does not contain any tracker URLs (and you didn't add any yourself). In this case if it's blocked, then you have a problem.

Private trackers typically disable DHT for all torrents (so their torrents don't leak to outside users), along with PEX. It's just a flag in the torrent file, so you can force-enable it if you want (but it won't help much since the vast majority of other peers will probably abide by the rules).
The fact that you are getting so many response arguing that "its just your social circle/just one anecdotal data", when the parent pro-iPhone comment is exactly the same anecdotal evidence speaks volume about pro-iPhone bias that plenty of North American users may have.

Some of the arguments are straight up bonkers for me - for instance, "iMessage is more secure." Is it? Apple is a US-based firm and subject to the whims of US laws and governmental intrusion.

In my circle - and I have lived in both Europe and Asia - we heavily use Telegram. I find it to be far more favorable experience than iMessage. UX and interoperatibility between platforms is far more superior and it runs flawlessly - doesn't matter whether it is a flagship Apple/Samsung device or a cheap Xiaomi phone. Or PC/Mac/Linux for that matter.
Empire building?
I don't get it. CD is digital isn't zero always zero and one is always one? Are there no checksum or some other methods that ensure that the data is read in correct manner?
You clearly don’t follow him on Twitter.
My assumption (as an iPhone user) is that if you're on Android, you absolutely have a phone that can do the same thing, but it also tells me you're not someone who obsesses about the details. Good enough. If you truly obsess about details, you would recognize that the Apple hardware/software ecosystem is worth every incremental penny.
> nobody is forcing anybody to use sudo

Some folks kind of are; for instance, last time I looked Arch Linux has sudo as part of base so it's hard to remove.

Edit: Sorry, apparently Arch does let you remove sudo (now?). If you substitute in RHEL et al. the general point stands (and I actually checked this time and Rocky 8 makes unhappy noises if you ask it to remove sudo), but my initial example was wrong.
That is indeed awful, you're right. I remember that satellietdataportaal.nl or something like that allowed access to uncompressed files, maybe they're better. I'll see if I can find my old credentials and compare.

But yeah, compared to those 10 cm images, that can't be effective 7.5 cm/px.

Related: Apple Maps uses some data source that is ridiculously high res for my street. They've updated the image now sadly, but for a while I saw a gangly brown haired silhouette chasing two blonde haired kids across the street. I was super sure that was me and my kids; slanted shadows gave the right relative sizes, too. Cool and creepy at the same time.
That doesn't fix or understand the problem, which is needing to physically take something out of my pocket to open my door.

I don't see an advantage to using my phone's NFC to unlock the door over a key. Either way I need to put down whatever is in my hands to open the door.
>The workaround is automation (see Tesla e.g.).

The irony of automation [1]: "the more sophisticated we make that automation, the more we become dependent on a highly skilled human operator"

A single company can move back but if all companies leave China, how do they get the skilled operators?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33476157
imagine falling into one of those vats, https://ibb.co/zhH2QYX this feeling is more like it
If people in the EU don’t care about iMessage interoperability, then why is the government so keen on forcing Apple to make iMessage interoperate with other platforms?

https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/24/eu-legislation-to-make-imessa...

And the only stats I could find say that iMessage is used more than WeChat

https://www.androidauthority.com/imessage-big-deal-guide-308...

Could it be that maybe your anecdote is meaningless outside of your bubble?
Could you expand on "But the moment you step off the happy path then you will find yourself lost in the woods."? Because from my experience FreeBSD is very predictable, and knowing how things are laid out you can figure things out for other things that one is not familiar with. If anything, I see Linux as a bit of a mess that in many places is inconsistent.
Your parent is theorizing that people in edge medical settings are. For example, an EMT might not be able to give you a transfusion while you lay bleeding in the dirt, because they may not have twenty units of blood to spare in the bus.
So your friends in IT are representative?
> Genuine question to people here. Why ? They keep claiming that they're a data driven company.

They're not a data driven company, they are a promotion driven company. New products drive promotions and maintaining existing products do not.
> This is uncontexualized hype clearly written by someone with no real world experience, hoping to gaslight users into thinking their current system is insecure.

So typical for BSD fans, find a single flaw then try overblow it and show how their flavour of *BSD is better. It's frankly tiring at this point.
iMessage is more secure at least if both ends have iCloud backups off.
...yet.

I'm sure things will look very different 20-30 years from now.
> the food sucks

How is this related to tuition? Do you not cook your own food or eat from private restaurants in US universities?
It seems ideological to me because the government was specifically mentioned. If it were a non-profit guaranteeing all college loans, would 'non-profit' have been mentioned instead of government? I doubt it.
No way that something with a 180 kg weight limit only has a 250W motor. I know it’s written on the website, but that simply wouldn’t work. 250 W is weaker than the Xiaomi Mi Scooter, which is a lightweight kick scooter already criticized for being too weak.
Archvied: https://archive.ph/sufu6
But in Europe there’s no apple tax. iPhones are often cheaper than the high end android phones here
Obsessive curiousity and geniune love for programming. Grit, work ethic and growth mindset follows pretty naturally when you love what you do :)
As Tim Cook would say, if they don't want potato quality images they could just buy an iPhone.
There used to be (still is?) a sort of vertical chute/collar available to put around camp pots. Think mountaineering applications. The idea was that they would capture heat energy escaping off the bottom of the pot that would rise/disperse into the environment, and channel it close to the side of the pot where it would heat the vessel as it rose. Think of wrapping a section of corrugated cardboard around the outside wall of a pot. Now a birds-eye view down the cardboard should reveal the energy capturing channels that will allow the sides of your pot to heat the pot contents. Adjust your material and tune the sizing and you’ve got a camping gadget.
Of course, such a drop vaporizes every institutional investor in the world. So …
Very true. I've worked in corporate job for 15 years working up to director after 9. I still find writing email tedious and error prone, and envy those who do it well.
Short answer: No.
I think you’ll find it’s impossible to find a human being who doesn’t use any kind of social signaling
That Craig guy had made a very good point in the last message. Barring the socio-economic thing, which makes lots of iPhone users in the US look down on non-iPhone users for not having access to iMessage, WhatsApp was, and still is, the better messaging app compared to iMessage. So why would have hundreds of millions (at that time) WhatsApp users migrated to a worst messaging app?
That’s not the point though. He was saying that users of iMessage are brainwashed by Apple marketing with the implication that those who don’t use it are not. .

your comments are salient but irrelevant to that point. The choice of messaging platform is due to networking effects regardless of platform, and their smugness is unwarranted