skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Britain seems trapped in a doom loop of superannuated governments which, after a term or two of charismatic leadership and reformist vim, wind up bereft of talent, sinking in their own mistakes and wracked by backbench rebellions; in office but barely in power"

That's not just Britain, the entire West has this problem. IMO the rise of professional politicians who've never worked outside of politics is a major cause of this problem. Modern politics does not select for the best of the best, it selects for those with a lust for power and control & the ability to camouflage this with a professed desire to serve the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_state_leaders_...
Yes, I love this. I have started to just share openly and since the last few years, I have even removed all comments, analytics, social-shits from most of my websites. I just don't worry about what others think. However, some people went out of their ways to find how to contact and there is always that trickle of emails thanking, or in most cases offering to sell something. :-)

Let's help and propagate more of this idea -- share your personal obsessions -- I might just get inspired.
Union Files US Labor Board Complaint Against Apple, Alleges Anti-Union Actions
You could just print the ones you like most and make albums?
And the fact that your comment was getting downvoted is also stunning. The lack of empathy in these comment threads is astounding. From the general tone, it feels like there are many people who have never dealt with anyone who is severely depressed and just don't know how on the edge that position really is. It doesn't take much to convince someone who is severely depressed to finish it off. A doctor even bringing up the option may be enough to cause ideation, and yes it's much worse if the suggestion comes from an authority figure or someone who is ostensibly there for "your health."
Here you go: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi...

>The majority of persons receiving MAID during 2020 were reported as having cancer as their main underlying medical condition (69.1%). This is followed by cardiovascular conditions (13.8%), chronic respiratory conditions (11.3%) and neurological conditions (10.2%)

Some additional breakdowns:

>Cardiovascular conditions were the second most frequently cited main condition for persons receiving MAID. Congestive heart failure was the most frequently cited heart condition in this category (42.2%). Under respiratory conditions, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was the most frequently listed condition.

>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, was the leading neurological condition reported for persons receiving MAID (35.2%), followed by Parkinson's disease (18.1%) multiple sclerosis (MS) (9.7%), and progressive supranuclear palsy (4.4%).

Edit: Just realized that was the 2020 report (with around 7500 using MAID). The 2021 report is here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi.... Cancer is down a bit in this one (69% to 65%).
It's not supported, unfortunately. But you can call posix_memalign and work with it as an UnsafeBufferPointer with a similar API.
Heh, the story was published at 4:09 PM EST on December 16.

This was 16 minutes after Bill Gates last tweeted, thus destroying the premise of the article.

Talk about bad luck.
It doesn’t solve anything. Currency used to be backed by gold. There was always a fallback value of currency in the form of gold.

Crypto falls back on the US dollar. If the US dollar collapses. As too does Bitcoin. And there is nothing in place to prevent this.
> I spoke to life long remainer lib dems in the Tory/Lab marginal seat of Crewe and Nantwich who were voting Tory to stop Corbyn.

I spoke to many who similarly voted to stop Corbyn - they were stopping Corbyn because of his vow to reintroduce gas chambers and exterminate every Jew in the land. I am not sure that was his actual policy but many were adamant it was.
>"but I do have a problem with medical practitioners pushing it on people who want to live but can't get basic resources"

Same here. This fucking abomination of a doctor should be screaming bloody hell and knocking on government doors to have them address the problem.

Here we are: rich developed democratic country basically telling our poor to go fuck themselves and die.
This is why the West is stagnating and the power center of the world has shifted East once more after half a millennia.
Your claim requires some specific evidence (reports meaning one, two, ten?), and that would need to be both weighed against the immense relief in suffering enjoyed by the people who are demonstrably benefiting now, as well as the freedom for people to control their own destiny.
Safari froze OS version, but they received a lot of pushback so they didn't freeze the browser version
Here's an example :

https://www.mistrasgroup.com/how-we-help/field-inspections/a...
How do you know the tools you use to verify weren’t modified in memory?

Seriously. It is not possible to prove 100% security. Between human, electrical, hardware, firmware, and software vulnerabilities, there is always a gap.
Would you please stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are? You're welcome to be on either side of this issue, but your comments are standing out in this thread as particularly inflammatory and battle-modey. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to warn you about this already more than once, such as here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787944 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25201510 (Nov 2020)

Moreover, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle, or perilously close thereto. That's one line at which we ban accounts (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). If you'd please stop doing that, we'd appreciate it. We want curious conversation here.
The article says that they're biconcave, which means that the thinnest part of the lens is in the centre (similar to a red blood cell). For high-myopia lenses, they often remove the lens material away from the centre to limit the maximum thickness at the expense of reducing the field of view. The resulting surface is usually left unpolished, but the lens underneath will still bend light, resulting in the circular patterns you mentioned. In this case a very large amount of material is removed as they would be impossible to use with a conventional frame otherwise. The alternative would be to use glasses with very small lenses.
The founder of Obsidian is a former Minecraft modder.
A decade is far too short a time span for a shift like that. I'm aware that journals are quite entrenched; I've heard the phrase "publish or perish". If it happens, it'll be on more of a generational time scale. It has to be proven possible for someone to make a career without getting "published". Maybe by the time we're both almost dead, truth will be enough. :)

And yeah, all those features you mention that academia values are useful for the press, too. It's really handy to have a finite set of vetted sources, rather than trying to keep track of the reputations of various scientists and use that to parse their comment threads. That's why I said it will be rough.
I’m not sure I see a huge quality difference in the second example, but the A in the first example definitely looks awful.
Last time I checked with some exceptions especially for very rich people can't just go and land in a country of their choice. It is a rather long process that often does not lead to desired outcome.
And now it has a website:

https://everythingcanbe.art/gallery.html
> Why are people forced to live if they don't want to?

Because we live in a society, not some libertarian utopia of sovereign citizens. Your life doesn’t belong only to yourself, but it belongs to all of us. Your parents, your kids, your friends, your acquaintances. We are all affected by what you do to yourself and, concomitantly, get a say in it.
To get you to use Edge, Windows nerfs Chrome’s background performance by shunting all the processes on to a single core (or it used to) randomly.

You can’t fucking win.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple does something similar to Chrome/Edge.
> go past every fucking alarm bell and human instinct

This is mind blowingly archaic as an attitude and very dangerous. Maybe you don’t know many people or are lucky to only be surrounded by mentally healthy individuals but many in the spectrum of depression and other ailments which are pretty common feel suicidal. They fight the urge not to consider this fate. If a doctor comes and tells them maybe you should consider killing your self, it’s alright, I’ll help you, guess what, they’re going to feel utterly helpless.

Agreed that MAD for cancer patients and patients with unimaginable incurable chronic pain is not bad, but there needs to be immense scrutiny into every case where this dangerous tool is used for people who have mental disorders.
Speaking very broadly, because it's not all standardized and many companies have their own definitions, in degrees C:

Range Min Max
Commercial 0 to + 70
Industrial 0 to + 85
Automotive -40 to +105
Extended Automotive -40 to +125
Military -55 to +125

But that's for the parts themselves, and just working at that. Weird things can and do happen at temperature extremes. If you're very lucky, they're documented in datasheets/manuals. If you're lucky, they're known enough to be in white papers or industry presentations, or known to one of the companies that do this stuff for a living. If not... well, hope someone's heard of it, or you've got a huge testing budget....
I'm literally 21, and I'm killing it in life. I'll tell you what motivated me to write this comment - I had an observation about his actions, and I told it to him like it is. I don't use Discord that much because I'm not an autistic weirdo like OP.
Windows 11 is just marketing. It’s still Windows 10 version string in the code.
Why scientists can’t give up the hunt for alien life
Thanks to a big PR around that particular case. And what if the press did not decide to make a story about it?
My life is incredible. I'm banging 10's. I go to a top tier university. I'm on track to make 250K+ at my first job out of college.
Can you elaborate on the harmful policies being pushed by medical professionals and public health officials?
You're making the common mistake that these parties are about their platforms, not their leaders. It's not so much a difference between Likud and Yesh Atid so much as a difference between Netanyahu and Lapid, with Netanyahu's struggles to avoid a corruption verdict and Lapid's insistence that elected politicians must not continue to serve after indictment.

Lapid and other center-opposition leaders have all indicated a willingness to negotiate with a Likud without Netanyahu at the helm.
What If Extinction Wasn’t Forever?
If I had a kid, I would be so proud if he was a bully. Bullies are alpha males. I wouldn't want my kid to be some geek beta male programmer.
They also don't have the same size. Portugal has around 10million people. Would you say the British empire was x6 times larger than the Portuguese one?
You're describing a bargaining power that unions have, except instead of "pay me or I leave" it's "pay me or we leave".

Why would you want a less powerful version of the same thing? Even if you don't involve your union, you can still do what you're describing.

You've gained nothing unique by avoiding the union.
That idea is so far from practical reality it isn't even funny.
People with attitudes like yours are why Zuckerberg _WILL_ fail in his vision. If Meta VR cannot be more compelling than video games, it is and will continue to be Dead on Arrival. Good luck though, with your feelings and whatnot. The "avatars" that Mark was forced to present are frankly embarrassing and humiliating in this day and age. 5% GPU utilization is a joke. Mark's gotta give all of you the boot. I'm happy for John that he got to escape that sycophantian paradise.
Probably still a little shortsighted. Should be ok for any publicly traded company.
> Being counselled to suicide should be ineffective if they want to live, no?

The risk is that vulnerable populations such as the elderly and the sick will be (or are being) subjected to pressure. The case where a medical "ethicist" was trying to shame someone into accepting death because of the cost they were inflicting on the medical system was chilling, and convinced me that this was a real issue. Surely we can agree that we don't want that?
You could look at Australia (which has multiple "rural" parties), and which uses RCV (called preferential voting here).
Bali. I'm booking for the first day of the next year; and the average one-night price on AirBnb is $230.
Context matters.

Commenter was replying to someone who said

> I feel that Terrence Tao doesn't get much recognition outside of maths circles but he's one of those people who just seem to be in a totally different league.

and I highlight

> one of those people who just seem to be in a totally different league.
I still don't understand how industry got conned into thinking sending all your DNS requests to essentially one actor (DoH) is a good idea
The difference between all the other Apps you mentioned and Obsidian is that in Obsidian, it it just a layer on top of your text files (Markdown) and do not ingest in its format.

For instance, with Notion, I have to be able to export that and figure out how I fit in to the next Awesome Note App.

What I like about Obsidian is -- I don't have to. The day I want to walk out, I just walk out and use the next tool that can look at my content and do its magic.

The caveat is, I make it my discipline not to use tool-specific features. For instance, Obsidian has a really nice Plugin called "Dataview", I use it at times but don't depend on it. I can walk out and nothing gets lost.

Own the content, then use whatever tool you like on top of your content.
Fair enough, seems conflict resolution is better in person. What could we do to make our voices level and spread contagious intellect and positive discussions?
I can tell you why: For nuclear you calculate with a near 100% uptime, for renewables there was always variability calculated.

You people talk like nobody knew the sun don't shine all day or that wind isn't entirely predictable. Yeah, people know, including the engineers who plan and build such projects...
That looks like it adds to ~91%, are you missing an entry or do you just have a very long tail of unique low-volume browsers?
So cryptech was just too soon? (FPGA open source HSM design)
> The opposite should be true if unions were the great equalizers, no single actor/athlete would be making hundreds of millions a year and all of them would be making enough to buy a house in Beverly Hills.

This makes no sense. Two people that are in unions are doing the thing you say they can't. What in the world?
Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain disorder and is hospitalized in London, Ontario, was so alarmed by staffers mentioning euthanasia that he began secretly recording some of their conversations.

In one recording obtained by the AP, the hospital’s director of ethics told Foley that for him to remain in the hospital, it would cost “north of $1,500 a day.” Foley replied that mentioning fees felt like coercion and asked what plan there was for his long-term care.

“Roger, this is not my show,” the ethicist responded. “My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”

Foley said he had never previously mentioned euthanasia. The hospital says there is no prohibition on staff raising the issue.

Catherine Frazee, a professor emerita at Toronto’s Ryerson University, said cases like Foley’s were likely just the tip of the iceberg.

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c63...
It depends on the device, but it's not necessarily true that the software behind it is trivial. Interfacing with the human body is tricky and knowing how to use the hardware to make the most of the limited set of electrodes or whatever interface the device has is complex.
The VNS Therapy received FDA approval in 1997....

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmedt.2021.6965...
Nope, this is already happened in Chrome. Client Hints are the way forward.
Most cutting edge olap engines use SIMD extensively though how and where and how much is always left to imagination (confirmed with snowflake and databricks). At least practically speaking, I’ve sometimes amazed at how these engines are almost an order of magnitude faster for some computations when I have done similar computations using C and Java and assumed I knew the best possible performance for a typical cpu..
>Mist showers would need to use distilled water to prevent lung damage from breathing in hard water minerals.

Unless you have a source for this, it sounds like some strong "programmer medicine".

The lungs have cilia, mucus, and leukocytes that can remove impressive amounts of contaminants (like coal dust or tar from smoking) before it starts becoming a problem, so it's hard to believe hard water mist for less than an hour per day poses any risk. Your showerhead/water being contaminated with Legionella would though.
Already happening. Client Hints are the way forward.
> did Germany have any say in Tunisia's voting system? Wasn't Tunisia a French protectorate?

It's different, I think. Germany offered help (along with the EU) and Tunisia(ans) don't know any better so they took up the offer. Plus it was free help and free money. I don't think Germany or the EU had any malicious intentions, I think they truly wanted to help.

But big surprise: Tunisia is not a Nordic country! Apparently, what works there doesn't work here at all.
You are right; the rest of the replies to you are wrong.

Anyone unclear on this should read some of the research about phone proximity and cognitive impairment. https://www.dataquest.io/blog/phone-proximity-effect/

Obviously it's actually your brain doing the calling, not the phone, but the effect is the same: it has an effect on you just by existing that you cannot control. It has nothing to do with notifications settings.
This is almost certainly true, and if the strike isn't allowed the only recourse they have that is not punishable is just quitting (iirc). Things like wildcat strikes and work slowdowns would probably lead to fines or worse.

I'm always reminded that the first aerial ordinance dropped on US soil was the US army bombing striking railroad workers [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Random User Agent
Show HN: I Put Artificial Intelligence Inside Google Sheets
Hello Everyone, I built =SHEETAI(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets.
It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial.

For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

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AFAIK, authors usually do not write titles
As long as the yes/no doesn't have an inversion error, I'm fine with the coarse granularity. Unless you're targeted by an APT, the threat model would consider all of this to be noise. It's just odd to single out Gmail E2E of all things for this reason in a top-level HN comment on this article. Within a reasonable confidence interval, it's irrelevant to anyone already concerned about using Gmail for their high-security data (because they aren't using Gmail!), and irrelevant to everyone else because they don't care (because it's just their email).

I'm way more worried about all the dirty little fingers on the hundreds of Rust crates, Python packages, Java libraries, and NPM packages that get slurped, unreviewed, into so much software these days. (But I'm still not actually going to do anything about it.)
I don't agree that becoming a chess grandmaster is on the same level or even near the same level as becoming a Fields medalist or being in the shortlist of the best mathematicians alive.

> It really does seem that heavy investment from a young age by a good teacher can work wonders.

This is not the bet. It is not any arbitrary skill.

I specifically said

> I'd bet any amount of money you want that you could just do the same thing with any arbitrary human and create a mathematician of his caliber.
I dunno, I like it. It would be normally impossible to do something like this. The forest or rules surrounding something this massive would normally make it a fools errant.

Or maybe that’s why they make it so huge. Only need to deal with all the permits once.
Too many ISPs hijacking requests to user configured DNS servers and too many ISPs providing default servers that 'helpfully' redirect to a placeholder domain with ads rather than just an NX record.
It doesn't seem to actually require DNSSEC. Let's Encrypt will happily use these new fields to restrict issuance, the same way they were checking CAA records previously, for domains with and without DNSSEC.
Of course they can express their opinions. But it's not black and white.

The Twitter Files already has a statement from a Congressperson that Twitter's actions with the Hunter laptop will "result in a blood bath" during Congressional hearings.

If the 800 lb gorilla that is the US government is threatening a "blood bath", do you really have a choice when they ask for your "cooperation"?
I automatically thought temp too but only because of watching that aeroplane crash tv show which would go over a plane crash to figure out what went wrong.

I remember one episode where they figured the wings would freeze and not move so the pilots lose control and would crash.

They reengineered the part to not freeze during extreme temperatures.
This post is inspired by the post currently on the frontpage.

This is a small website I'd created a while back to get a random UA string in a way as simple as:

% curl usera.gent

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Mi 9T) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.78 Mobile Safari/537.36

I'd built a lot of scrapers and instead of building out randomized UA generation for each of them, I built this.
I’ve tried everything but I can’t stop my google maps from randomly changing to Portugese. I went there for 5 days, years ago. I always change it back to English. It’s so frustrating.
Have you been to any of those places?
Democracies elsewhere can learn a thing or two from recent election rounds in the US, the UK, and elsewhere. Basically, we've seen a surge in populism and irrational sentiment dominating politics and being translated into actual policy with disastrous results. The lesson there is that you can win an election and then loose an empire.

I don't think it's a British problem either. We've had populists dominating politics in quite a few countries in recent decades. France just had a close call where a neo fascist came close to winning the elections. The Austrians have actually gone there. My home country the Netherlands has had populists come close a couple of times as well. Italy just elected a populist. The issue is that the type of policies populists preach tend to not involve a whole lot of carefully considered long term planning. Big gestures that are supposedly popular and then all hell breaks loose when reality and fantasy meet.

Brexit sounded great to people with no clue about how economies work. Now they are dealing with inflation, lots of failing policies, and the notion that they might soon have to rename their country as it is won't be great or united anymore if Scotland and Northern Ireland cease to be a part of it. I don't think anyone voted for that in England. But it would be a direct consequence of what they did vote for.
Yep, Visual Basic was very much under-appreciated. That, combined with a great IDE, Visual Forms, and a very decent compiler. Then .Net came and ruined a good thing.