skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't care and there was nothing in my comment that led to this segue about Obama.

Hold on a second. You’re saying that Republicans have been gridlocking since the Obama years. So clearly, you’re saying one side is at fault. But you don’t want to discuss the merits of Obama’s actual policy. Barack Obama did hypocritical things, but clearly your expectation is that Republicans just go along.

That’s not how a democracy works.

You brought up Obama and Republicans gridlocking, but the minute we dive deep into a more nuanced look, away from your binary/black and white narrative, you say this:

> This is purely soapboxing around an issue that wasn't in discussion, thanks anyway.

Now you’re on a borderline personal attack. I’m not sure you’re here to discuss in good faith.

> That's exactly the point, you are repeating this which is Russian propaganda.

> Why should Russia dictate what Ukraine can or cannot do? NATO didn't expand eastwards, countries to the East asked to join NATO. Should NATO say "no, thanks, Russia doesn't allow us"?

I’m not sure if you understand what “propaganda” means.

Russia doesn’t want NATO at its doorstep, and it sees NATO as an existential threat. You don’t have to agree that this belief is justified. You can say those countries have a right to join NATO. That as sovereign nations, it’s entirely up to them to do as they please.

But that’s not the point here. The Soviets brokered a deal with us. We agreed NATO would not expand eastwards.

Again, Russia is doing what they said they would do, given the present circumstances. Whether you agree with what they’re doing or not, does not make it propaganda.

You could try to argue that the world has changed. That the US and Russia cannot single handedly make decisions in the 1990s and have them enforced on a modern day Europe, that those countries can decide for themselves.

But it’s besides the point. Russia sees NATO at their door step. The real terrifying thing is that our media paints Putin as a dictator, terrorist, a mad man. He probably is all three of those things, but why we’re playing fire with someone sitting on the worlds largest nuclear arsenal is beyond me.

Regarding Russia’s views: It’s the same way we (the US) instilled the Monroe doctrine, and you can bet money that if China gets real cozy with South American countries, we’ll be sending navy carriers down the Pacific.

Two other thoughts:

Your linked “sources” are well known liberal and left of liberal - progressive - organizations. To say this is a GOP specific problem is your ideology yelling out loud. The reality is that both parties are hyper polarized. Neither party has American interests at heart. The biggest ideas any Democrat or Republican has is on how to fan the fear mongering flame and divide people.

Again - the party of forward thinking and liberal ideas literally elected a dinosaur who probably doesn’t even know how to use e-mail.
Closing the Gap Between Your Users and Their Data
As a city (Amsterdam) bike rider I still shy away from needlessly expensive or complicated technology like hydraulic disc brakes. But internal routing is very much worth the complexity here where cables get caught up in other people's steers in crowded bicycle racks.

I hadn't even heard of electronic shifters, though I guess once you go for an electric bike that wouldn't be a big step anymore.

So, yeah, over here I think most bikes are still pretty simple; except for the slowly increasing amount of electronic bikes. But they are still by far a minority. Although as a mechanic perhaps you'll run into them more often?
Is there actual proof or evidence?

This is one of those urban legends that's been around for a while. And maybe some airline tried this once 12 years ago but that's all.

I mean, do you have a link to a site right now that demonstrates this?
You have ~80,000 hours in your career. Make them count. :-)

https://80000hours.org/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/ebola-may-have-lurke...

About a 2021 outbreak:
"The Ebola virus is known to persist in some survivors, particularly in places where it can lay low from the immune system, such as the testicles or eyeballs. A 2016 study reported resurgence of the virus in a survivor’s seminal fluid more than 500 days after the initial infection.

Still, the more than five-year span was “shocking” to many virologists and public health experts. And it raises a variety of concerns for the many survivors of past outbreaks, some of whom may have had mild cases of Ebola without realizing it. In particular, many people known to have survived Ebola face stigmatization, and the possibility of years-long persistence is likely to amplify that problem."
If you aren't already getting regular two or one-day shipping it's not cost effective to pay for prime.
Well I assure you that's not the case. But you did say something that is factually incorrect (and used left/right politics on top of that) and it had to be called out. If you think I am a troll, I urge you to go through my comment history.

Back to the subject: Yoel being the lead here doesn't necessarily mean he could have done anything about it — in fact, based on what I hear through the grapevine (and trust me on this one, I have very good sources), many of these things are being done one-off by Musk himself — which is disheartening on its own.
> Being able to "feel" the original auditorium in your listening room is a very cool effect to me.

What do I need to buy to have this in my car?
As brudgers pointed out it's just how a chord progression is defined. A G major chord for example is G/B/D, if you don't have the B it's no longer considered a chord in music theory and if you don't have a chord you can't have a chord progression really.

I don't really listen to this type of music but based on the quick snippets that were played only blitzkrieg bop had a chord progression. The other songs were power chords or what sounded like just single notes being played. If other songs in this genre you've heard are playing full bar chords than those would likely be considered to have a chord progression.

Also, since most of this discussion, including the video, was around guitar, you can have a chord progressions with one person playing only power chords but someone else has to fill in the gap, like the bass or singer. It's over the whole arrangement not an individual part.
They use PhysX with rust bindings for this. https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/physx-rs
They did not.

Florida vs California.

read up.
Digital currency is the future even if 99% of the current ones out there are scams or scam-adjacent. To ban all talk about digital currency from a website all about the tech industry is just silly.
All of these folks need to be in prison along with Andreeson Horowitz. All bloody crooks the lot of them. The largest ponzi scheme in the history of humanity and they wonder why the world is not getting better.
> What looks like fearmongering now

We had over 1 million deaths in the US.

You travel back to 2016 and tell people we'll have a pandemic in the US, 1 million people will die, and then large groups of people will attempt to shrug that off as "nothing to get concerned about", people would find that incomprehensible.

If I were to post a comment on HN in 2016 suggesting that people would shrug off 1 million deaths due to a pandemic because it doesn't align with their worldview I would have been downvoted into oblivious for holding such a laughably ridiculous and cynical opinion.

Same could be said of the countless other climate related impacts that people in the very near distant past would consider horrific and impossible.

The power of the "this is fine" culture to not see reality is terrifying.
You know what sucks about using things like "maybe", "let's try x", etc? Is that I do this regularly in my job, but the managers want more assertive answers.
Half the US population. The version in China is a bitters and soda, for good reason.
Organ transplantation. Cutting it out of the donor (without killing him/her) seems like advanced science and skill, but plugging it into the receiver so that it works is pure magic.
Ask HN: How to Find a Side Project?
I've found myself in an interesting situation. 18yo.
I'm interested in astronomy, sports, (Hardcore)History, language learning, and piano. Generally a curious human.

I've formed cool projects in the past year. But lately, I've expanded my areas of interest rather than started a new side project, and I'm bouncing from one to another(from running to playing the piano, etc.).
It's like walking in the park versus embarking on an adventure.

I like my day-to-day. I only think an adventure would be great for the mix.
How do you find one?
There are so many sites that use Hotjar.
Are you saying that Lisp has a readability issue just because you have trouble reading it?

1. I spend more time programming C than Lisp, but am more prone to syntax errors in C than lisp, so my experience is quite different than yours

2. Syntax bugs have little to do with readability; that has more to do with writeability.

3. Most languages make it possible to write code that is inscrutable, but that is not necessarily an indictment of their readability.
From what I remember Martha was only convicted of lying to prosecutors
Having done both Java and .NET Projects I’d personally pick .NET over Java every day of the week.
I’m not sure what the talent pool is like for them but that might also be regional. But that comparison is only made because they are very similar platforms. For a lot of protect types I might pick Rust these days too.
Small Claims Court is definitely worth it if Adobe didn't make you sign something forcing you to use arbitration. If they did it is still worth going through arbitration because it is often cheaper for them to give you redress than go through the process.
> If I had to come up with “fair” sentencing criteria, it would be “what’s the least restrictive way we can make sure this person doesn’t pose a danger to society and people are discouraged from similar acts.”

This is a bad take imo. There's also a need for punishments to deter future misconduct by others.

If I, as a hypothetical startup founder, know that I can defraud my investors (among other things!) at the risk of just an embarrassing trial, I am much more likely to engage in fraud than if I risk GOING TO FEDERAL PRISON.

I'm generally not a huge fan of incarceration. But in the case of those whose crimes are premeditated and serious -- and who had every advantage growing up -- I think some prison time is appropriate.
It’s not common for virologists to work on GOF research or to do anything close to as dangerous.

It’s pure tin hat thinking to say that “my idea is correct and everyone who has any expertise is compromised”. I don’t know what is right or not, but I know a lot of virologists (through work) without any personal interest in the case who don’t put much stock in the lab leak hypothesis.
That's not quite the right way of phrasing that question. Models are made with and without interventions taken into account, and the lockdowns were a reaction to models showing reduced deaths and hospital strain if lockdown measures were in place. I'm not sure what that guy is talking about.

But if you're actually interested, you should go and read the papers used for modeling yourself, since the odds of finding a rando on hacker news who is an actual epidemiologists is zilch. The ones who were public communicators that I followed over COVID were the podcast "This Week in Virology" which is just about the best resource you're going to find, and the blog "your local epidemiologist", who is also fantastic
Why Figma is selling to Adobe for $20B
To be fair so does any website made after 2000.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/ycj5zl/...
Incompetent leadership that maybe should’ve been fired for cause?
Yes. Because dynamic linking happens at runtime, the DLL/so file can be replaced by a downstream user. Static linking does not allow the user access to that "freedom", so the whole binary becomes "infected" and must be open sourced. By enforcing a "user replaceable" boundary, the users' freedoms/rights to modify the open-source library are unaffected.

Side note: how does that fit in with cryptographic signatures? GPL v3 was written to combat "Tivoization" (open source, but can't replace the binary). Does the LGPL v3 disallow such things with DLL/so files (use hashes to prevent replacing the FOSS lib)?
Qatar World Cup ambassador says homosexuality is 'damage in the mind'
>I'll always be shocked that she was guilty of deceiving investors and not patients

Deceiving patients implies the Theranos tech was being used in "production" and I don't think that was the case.
I guess as it transformed from epidemic to pandemic to endemic, it became increasingly predictable. The duration and peaks of the last waves could even be predicted by months indeed, as measures and behaviors remained practically unchanged. Not one of these predictions encompassed six months, though.
Gov labs aren't too bad, but funding often comes with a lot of conditions. Generally you have unconditional funding for weapons but if you can find your own funding you can research whatever you want. I'd rather not do weapons and it is a reason I've moved away from that route. Also these are mostly hard science type research (physics, chem, climate, etc) and less interested in doing things like building general intelligence. SBIRS are typically too high of a TRL but STTRs are a good route and tend to be more basic research. I am looking into that. But I've also been in the SBIR/STTR life and boy is it a lot of writing.
All shipping for me is 2 day. They probably just don't explicitly promise it for all regions.
IMO this would contradict what the GP comment asserts: that SBF said "We don't invest client assets (even in treasuries)".
This is a terrible article. The author contributes nothing to the discussion other than to fawn over Musk and attack straw men through pseudo-intellectual prose. It also appears to have factual information wrong. The article is not worth being on HN if this is the discourse it provides.
I don't recall any patients being hurt by their technology, since they took "real" blood draws and ran analyses on those. I presume those analyses were what made it into whatever lab report.

So suppose they screwed up 2% of their cases because they weren't licensed to do this (or did they forward to qwest?) You would still have to find victims to make a damaged claim.

The investor damages story seems more straightforward from a legal perspective, but IANAL.
No, you’re taking the culture war from “harmless arguments on Twitter” into a litigation zone, or potential jail time.
I think it’s a fair point when it comes to accessibility as discussed in another comment.
It was publicly traded company, with publicly available and known finances. How this can be an excuse?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley

> I mean you can die on that hill, but I'd hazard a guess that nearly everyone considers SF a part of Silicon Valley

Well, unless you're from the SF Bay Area (or just Bay Area). SF is a city. SF Bay Area (or just Bay Area) is a broad region. Silicon Valley is San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino.

Also: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=SF+vs+silicon+valley&ia=web
Legacy Tools, New Tricks: Optical 3D Inspection
Or anything from DragonFly BSD for that matter.
They really need to extend the support time for their LTS releases. Sure, if you're developing a SaaS you can stay on top of .NET versions but it's definitely causing friction for enterprise and slow moving regulated software. .NET Framework 4.5.2 was supported for 8 years in comparison.

We're about to start a project with those limitations and there really is no good choice now that .NET 6 is already a year through it's lifecycle.
I think it was at Walgreen’s, no?
Predictability. Thank you so much for mentioning this.

The most-egregious breakdown of this that I have seen is when a cyclist who decides to STOP (and even signals this intent) is then overtaken by another cyclist at near full speed who then suddenly bursts into the intersection without warning.

I don't see it too frequently but I have it seen multiple times. This is simply bad and dangerous behavior but still considered justified by some.

Where I live we have a huge number of sport bicyclers that come in from other areas, especially on weekends.

So the percentage of clueless hotheads on bicycles is higher than average I would expect.
Yeah he obviously knew all this by the time he took over it was why he was trying to get out of the stupid deal he'd done without full due diligence - and besides that - 3/4 of the $4M a day Twitter is losing is the $1B a year interest from Musk's bad deal
all the abundance of stimulants ranging from nicotine to coke :)
I would argue that consuming equivalent amounts of vegetable oils or lard are equally unhealthy. Saturated fatty acids have their own risks associated with high dose consumption. Diet is not all that simplistic and we shouldn't jump to conclusions and paint things with broad brush strokes
We pivoted in March, put our initial product in the trash, and re-shipped a new product in 3 months, and now have users in production. We also convinced CTOs from series C companies with millions of users to choose us over incumbents.

We made a lot of mistakes when shipping our initial product, typical symptoms were:

- Too many things under a single feature

- A feature from a competitor is discovered while our own feature is developed. The specification is changed to adjust the product positioning, while the engineers sit still

- Engineers uncover unexpected challenges during the delivery and the spec needs to be rewritten

- The initial goal is re-adapted and reduced

Since then, we’ve spent time perfecting our product delivery framework and went much faster this time.

We open sourced it here: https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-ship-fast-our-framework

With the templates for each step: roadmap, scoping, specification, tech dive-in, delivery cockpit
This article's closing insinuation that diversity only matters (or is pushed by) 'the email caste' perpetuates a sterotype.

There are lots of us "diverse" engineers who wouldn't have been given a first shot without such sensitivities.
> That's not how it works.

That's exactly how it works.

> There is a clear casual relationship between certain COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis.

No, there is not. Yet again: correlation does not equal causation. If you know of a study that actually asserts causation (and not just correlation), link it.

> For example, there has never been a study which proves that smoking causes lung cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3749017/

Unlike either of the studies you linked, this one goes at great lengths to describe the myriad identified confounding variables (for which they can then be controlled) in the correlation between smoking and lung cancer, the exact mechanisms by which tobacco smoke causes lung cancer (and the exact carcinogens present in tobacco smoke), even the exact mutations in tumor-suppressing genes like p53. The studies linking mRNA vaccines to myocarditis don't come anywhere close to that level of examination.

Similar deal with this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603183/

Consequently:

> But the correlation established through observational studies is so strong that causality is clear.

And that is very unlike the situation with vaccines and myocarditis, wherein the correlation is nowhere near as strong and for which the causality is nowhere near as clear. That vast difference is why - unlike either of the articles you cited - the myriad articles on the relationship between smoking and lung cancer are able to assert causation, and indeed do so.

Until that changes, it is deeply irresponsible to prematurely declare the relationship between vaccines and myocarditis to be in any way "causal". It's a "maybe" at best.

----

Speaking of smoking and its deleterious effects: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20555426/

And gender variance in high school student tobacco use - including of smoking tobacco - does exist: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/yout...

How many uncontrolled-for confounding variables do I need to pull up before you're willing to admit how utterly irresponsible it is to declare from on high that the link between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis in young males is "causal"?
Correct, weapon’s fire.
What if Binance looks under the hood (this is not a binding acquisition yet) and just says it's not worth it? What happens to everyone's deposit?

I find it ironic that the "decentralized" nature of crypto is becoming more and more centralized. If FTX dies, beit via acquisition or just utter collapse, Binance would be a near monopoly.
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Weren't they using blood draws too small to give accurate results w/ the traditional equipment they were using?
Or it's pure RDD (resume driven development.)

That said, you can figure out (just ask!) if this person was brought in as the result of an already-made decision to move to this type of development, or if this person is pushing it. As an EM, I'd have no problem with a report directly asking that question.

If the answer is the decision was made, and this hiring was a downstream result, then your choice is likely to deal with it or move on. If the decision hasn't been made / this architect is advocating for it, then a cost benefit analysis (which you'd think would be a standard part of any work) will be illuminating. My understanding of the tooling / debugging / monitoring tooling for serverless is that it's still quite raw. Although my bias is towards not wasting innovation tokens on things like serverless / I align strongly with the choose boring technology view advocated by Dan McKinley [1], amongst others.

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Does the Walgreens partnership not count because it was more of a public trial but not production?
Isn’t the ButtKicker effectively a speaker voice coil with a weight attached to it instead of a cone?
> can survive easily with about half of its employees gone in a heartbeat

A bit premature to make this claim imo
Twitter was not profitable and had no clear path to profitability. Regardless of your opinion of Musk.
Depends on the person as to whether I'd say that. With an employee who's constantly moaning about everything - I'd absolutely say that.

With my wife? Noooo, it would sound like I'm saying "I'm not interested in your problems unless you have solutions". As her partner, she wants me to share the burden of her problems, even those for which she has no solution.
The answer is because promotions depend on growing your org. This is extremely common in big tech and known as empire building. You’d be hard pressed to find a company where this isn’t the case.
The $4M / day that Musk says Twitter is losing is comprised of $3.2M in cash to service the debt and $.8M other losses.
No, I think they had a contract but weren't performing tests yet.
This makes me wonder if Muse's (the band) often bass-centric focus ends up eliciting the same response that is being discussed here.
> She’s suffered huge and profound consequences for her actions.

Such as? Any financial and reputational damage she's suffered just put her back on the same level as us mere mortals. Indeed, she's still able to afford the expensive legal team that's litigating these appeals. Something most of us couldn't do.
This explains why the stock price went up by almost 5% today.

Of course, judging by their PE ratio of around 150 - it's still being treated like a growth stock.