skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing this, but I have a hard time believing Covid is so much more contagious than the flu that it managed to spread like wildfire while the flu ceased to exist in the same timeframe. The entire narrative was that the US was terrible at mitigating the spread of Covid, but if the US was able to mitigate the flu with above and beyond success in that same time period, what anti-flu measures were taken that didn’t effect Covid?
It's easy to lose track of the scale after scrolling for a while.

This website uses a ruler and distance to help show scale: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
That's nothing. I've lived in a cave for 125 years and without contact with the world. Unfortunately, I came out on April Fools' Day a couple of years ago so no one believed me. Next day I made a Hacker News account. Now that's impressive. Not this puny yogi shit.
> Her school guidance counselor suggested that she become a librarian, advice that she ignored. Instead she applied to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was one of about a dozen women in her entering class.

Gus Sorola spins in his metaphorical grave...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWjqtlZldM&t=1660s
Technical books.

I started writing in 2011. After a few books I was able to do look during launches but sales fell dramatically after.

Now I have a couple books doing $2k / month.

Since I do corporate training I have probably made dramatically more than this from the marketing from my books but don't really have a way to track that.

https://store.metasnake.com/
Formance https://www.formance.com
The idea of the cave is egotistical?
With all of that death, you'd think we'd have a worldwide moratorium on Gain of Function research and a massive international investigation into the EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology by now.

Nope. Back to the office, piggies.
The cynic in me always suspects these questions are fishing attempts to see what ideas can be cloned to steal some of the revenue.
Languages and runtimes often grow beyond their original scope. And since the introduction of Dirty NIFs to the Erlang VM five years (or so) ago, integrating with native code (which is what powers a lot of data analysis and machine learning tools in high-level languages) has become a real possibility. There is a similar-ish discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572128
At my last job we designed a lot of wireless devices. One problem we saw frequently was that in high population-density areas, e.g., apartment buildings in NYC, Bluetooth was often useless because there was simply so much interference from so many devices in a small space.

Wired communication definitely still has its place.
>Flying on a 737 MAX—even including the fatal crashes due to MCAS—remains quite literally the safest way to travel by both time and distance.

There are 2,698 A320neos in service that have been involved in two fatal accidents, with no passenger fatalities.

The first was when an A320neo struck a motorbike that mistakenly entered the runway during the aircraft's landing. The two riders on the motorbike were killed and no passengers were injured.

The second incident was when an A320neo struck a firetruck that mistakenly crossed the runway during the aircraft's takeoff. Two firefighters were killed and no passengers were injured.

Boeing 737 MAX: 1,144 built, 346 passenger deaths.

Airbus A320neo: 2,698 built, 0 passenger deaths.

There are multiple aircraft types that have had 0 passenger fatalities. There is one aircraft family that is not only statistically safer than the 737 MAX, but also safer than the entire 737 family: the ERJ.

The A320neo sprang to mind instantly but I looked it up and the Dreamliner is safer with 1,048 built and 0 passenger (or other) fatalities.

Your statement is completely false.

Ludicrously false.

Maliciously and purposefully false?
> The article says that manufacturers are not allowed to list sesame as an ingredient unless it actually is an ingredient.

Correct. I wasn't suggesting adding it to the ingredients list.

> The law says they can't warn about potential sesame contamination.

The law does not say that. It says that manufacturers can't do that instead of following standard cleaning practices.

> Instead it must either be an actual ingredient or manufacturers must clean the equipment.

Yes, they
must clean the equipment. None of this is new stuff, this has been the case for many years.

Why is it suddenly too much of a burden for food manufacturers to clean their equipment? Is wanting to avoid cleaning not a huge red flag about that manufacturer?

> I'm guessing this isn't a question of a small amount of profit loss; it's probably a big expensive deal to comply with this law.

Knowing large corporations, I'm guessing that the economics of it aren't the real issue at all. If it costs substantially more, they'd just add a few cents to the cost of the food.
Water shields can mitigate the radiation damage.
I've never seen the movie, but as a child, Battlefield Earth was one of my favorite novels. I read it maybe ten times before age 20. I think it's a fairly childish and simplistic novel, but it is VERY long, and that is what I was looking for as a 13 year old voracious reader in the 90s.

I moved on to LRH's 'Mission Earth' decalogy. It's substantially weirder, with some sexual themes that seemed to my teenage self to be pretty far out of left field. But, again - it was very long. It gave me months of reading about a sci-fi world, which was basically the only thing I was looking for.
That this happened the way it did is deeply concerning and should anger you. The media worked with a rare diligence to help the government apprehend someone who made information about which we've been repeatedly lied to available to the public. Let's not forget both the media and the government have spent the last couple of weeks on a gaslighting tour telling us the leak was Russian propaganda, etc. The tenacity with which they pursued and arrested the leaker is astounding considering we still don't know who leaked the Supreme Court draft decision, or who was on the Epstein client list.

This is just gross. It doesn't matter where you align politically, the degree to which the media has been working with the government against the interest of the public is unprecedented. We have US troops on the ground presumably fighting Russia - who is, contrary to what we were told, winning the war - and there was no formal declaration of war, nor was the public informed of it. And not a single journalist in the recent WH press conferences has asked about it. Instead, we got questions such as "How do we prevent leaks like this in the future [so we can keep lying to the public]"?

Perhaps Elon was being a troll by labeling some of these outfits "state-sponsored", but they sure as hell have earned the moniker.
That's very cool - does it support corporate proxy stuff like PAC files, HTTPS, NTLM, Kerberos, authenticating with current user, etc? For example would I be able to write a rule to capture traffic going to certain proxies and redirect it to another proxy? Sorry if this is explained somewhere already but I couldn't find anything about it on your webpage or github. Many thanks for your time!
If the user can use reasonable measures (such as different settings, or an alternative browser) to access the content, that's not at all the same as asking a wheelchair user to drag themselves up the stairs.

There is absolutely no legal requirement to either spend a fortune on designers, or reduce your website to some boring text-only mush, in the name of "accessibility". The website in question is accessible via a screen-reader, but even if it wasn't, they are not in a market where broad accessibility would be considered a legal requirement. If that were the case, half the websites on the internet would be taken offline.

If you did take this to court, you would lose.
If so, of what is this a simulation, exactly?
Without the developers who use the processes you create or get inspired by the actions you take there will be less need for a principle.
I get this mindset, but there are also loads of cases where society overrules this.

Consider the case of VCRs/DVRs: the cable companies said "this is for live viewing", but people wanted to record video. There was big pushback, but it was ruled that people have the right to use the video that way, even if television channels don't want them to.

We don't have a right to the labor of someone else, but if we're consuming the fruits of that labor, there's a case to be made that we should be allowed to do so how we see fit.

For instance, your current fork is "if you don't like the company's terms, don't use the company's products". Another fork that we could use might be "if companies don't like the users' consumption practices, they can exit business or change their product".
It would be great if once a certain threshold of people were interested vs bored it would automatically kick out all the bored people into a different room.

In highschool I moved to a place where if you weren't talking about people magazine gossip or football no one was interested, I'd like to know who those people are in my remote org/club, etc.
> Killing and being killed is normal in the animal world. Animals are often quite cruel, I had a cat when I was young and living in the countryside. I remember seeing him play with mouses and bird that were clearly in pain and about to die.

Animals like cats are carnivores, they need meat to survive and they act on instinct. And since you are comparing yourself with a cat then please eat animal flesh raw - don't cook it or season it to make it palatable. I doubt you would be able to eat raw flesh every day to sustain yourself.

We can choose between inflicting or not inflicting suffering on animals. So since we don't need meat to thrive - I mean high performance athletes do without [0] - then why inflict suffering on animals if we don't need to? The only reason is because it tastes good. So does your insatiable hunger for animal flesh justify the suffering and death of an animals?

> Yes, factory farms exist everywhere, but you don't have to eat meat from them

The point is if we want to feed the world using your 'happy farm' method - it wouldn't be possible, because we don't have the land or resources required to maintain our current meat consumption using your method. So the goal is to abolish factory farms. The type of farms you describe would probably continue to exist, but the price would increase even more.

> This, just like electric cars, gender issues and climate-change advocacy, is mainly just virtue-signaling from affluent people who do not want that society questions their way of life.

Please don't conflate all those different topics and assume it's about virtue signalling.

> You just want to constrain others to assert your domination on society, not solve problems.

Where did I talk about domination? Abolishing factory farms and encouraging people to reduce or avoid meat & dairy completely is part of solving the problem of the climate crisis. This is a scientific fact, but of course you can choose to bury your head in the sand and ignore the dangers of going beyond 2.0C global heating.

[0] https://www.pcrm.org/news/blog/six-reasons-athletes-are-runn...
By using traditional finance combined with modern electronic payment processing (credit card) ledger models and not actually doing micropayments. I'd do micro accumulation and only ever pay out once a threshold is reached.

Many credit cards rewards programs do just this. You accumulate points when you spend, where a single point may be a fraction of a penny, and you can only claim the cash-back reward with a minimum of X-hundred or -thousand so points.

It's just too inefficient to actually pay out extremely small sums in a single transaction. Blockchain doesn't solve this - you'd still burn more fuel than it's worth.
It doesn't have my favorite Deluxe Paint feature: split-screen zoom.

When you pressed M, it zoomed area under the cursor, while also keeping a 1:1 view on the side. This gave fine motor control to edit pixels, while also allowed seeing how the overall image looks like. This was especially important when dithering by hand.

The gradient tool is affecting the entire area, instead of being a quirky flood fill of line gradients. I don't see a blur brush either. These two tools gave DP-painted images a recognizable style.

It's a nice editor, but it gives me vibes of Photoshop 5, not Deluxe Paint.
Thanks ! if you feel like making a PR i'll be happy to merge it !
Well, you're going to have to do a little thinking for yourself. We've been slaughtering coyote by the hundreds of thousands annually for over a century, and in that time their range has expanded to 48 stages. The coyote population has tripled since 1980 alone. You think there are less hunters? No, there are a lot more. We've gotten really good at killing coyote, upwards of half a million a year. It is ineffective. Hunters are causing the problem, not helping it. When coyote are killed, this pressure increases litter sizes. That's why it's happening. And if hunters continue the way they have been, we're going to be literally swimming in coyote.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-killing-coyot...
Owls? Eagles? Against a 300 lb. hog? Regardless, half of those animals don’t even live in the U. S.
Uh...no, it's the opposite. THis quote explains why what they're saying is true and an actual consequent of the rules. Per the FDA, it's not enough to just say "it may contain traces". You need to do full, expensive, cross-contamination protection, or actually have sesame as an ingredient, so that's what companies are doing.
It wouldn’t be corrupted, but in-flight transactions could fail to commit, just like queued jobs can be lost with sidekiq. The failure modes are similar.

I take your point that at a certain scale, hardware failure is inevitable, but if you’re running that many servers, you can afford sidekiq’s enterprise plan. It’s not something that will realistically happen if you’re just running like 20 instances on AWS. It’s perfectly reasonable to charge extra for something only large organizations with huge infrastructure budgets need.
I couldn't agree with you more! We'd also love a future where all APIs are IaC friendly, and until then, Ampersand is aiming to bridge the gap :)
To join in the pedantry, I think that the better phrasing would be "to second guess as you write."

The sentence uses "as" as a conjunction, and the former phrase is "it short circuits [...]". That phrase uses the simple present tense, so I think the default parallelism is to continue the tense into the subordinate clause.

In particular, I think that the use of the present progressive in "as you're writing" makes the sentence more imminent, as if it's referring to a specific instance, e.g. "The dinner bell interrupts me as I'm writing this sentence." That's less consistent with "the tendency to," which to me speaks in a more abstract way.
Where can we confirm this claim?

Specifically in the case of the official ONS data to which you responded l. I don’t disagree with what you say, but equally I also don’t agree with it unless you can show proof?
Bet this is gonna be true in less than 10 years. Train some AI to shorten your sentence.
Like making loitering a crime and then using police and prosecutor discretion to selectively enforce said crime only against poor minorities.

And like magic! You can re-enslave the people who were 'freed'.
The Reality Winner leak wasn't real, it was intentional.

It was a leak of no importance (more summaries and assessments i.e. editorial) that claimed Russiagate stuff was true. The most important part of the leak was the identity of the woman who leaked it, who was a Bernie supporter with idiosyncratic politics. The goal was to bring the Bernie wing of the Democrats into the anti-Russian buildup by putting it into the mouth of a quirky left-leaning woman of pretty impeccable character (as far as that can be true for someone who works in US intelligence.) I absolutely guarantee that she wasn't in on it, they just played to her urge to feel heroic.

Richard Esposito (https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr0218/nypd-executive-app...) was part of handling her leak on the other side (The Intercept is lousy with spooks), so they had whatever help they needed for their parallel construction, which they would have no obligation to fully explain, anyway. The trial went perfectly because Omidyar was paying her lawyers, so spies on both sides.

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edit: the growing cynic consensus is that this leak is fake, too. The fact that there were "crudely altered" casualty figures and that point was repeated multiple times is bizarre. Why would Russians be altering information that they're meant to use? If it were meant for propaganda purposes, why would it be crude?

And for the papers: why were they immediately convinced of the authenticity of these "crudely altered" documents when past leaked documents that had no indication of falsehood and were easy to authenticate were held in question for months or years after discovery by these same outlets?
Right. Which means the law isn't stopping them. They just want to avoid cleaning.
Maybe I'm more cynical than you because I think lots of hn posts are fishing attempts :)
nice thing about a parabolic speaker: just put it on a gimbal and yell at everyone who needs it. People who don't talk during a conference talk don't need discouraging.
> As a person whose mother has worked at restaurants for over 40 years, and whose best friends owned a restaurant for close to 20, I can tell you that those "serious issues" and "all restaurants" are FUD.

"Among restaurant inspections with a total score of >80, at lease one critical violation was cited in 44% of those inspections"

Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323064/

Now imagine which percent of restaurants would fail if we also included failures to comply in other subjects?

> It will be the same: they will get it wrong the first time, get issued a warning, fix it, and carry on.

No, they will most likely never be inspected because there are far too many businesses to control and thus will never implement or fix their practices.

> And yeah, small business (or any business for that matter) really has no business collecting my private data, and selling it to third-parties.

They have just as many rights to do it as large companies
Yeah, I tried to stick to HN guidelines and maintain the original title... but wow, are you right! Also the clip in that Tweet doesn't do it justice either -- the whole interview/podcast is worth listening to.
GPT chimes in:
In this context, GTM stands for "Go-To-Market." It refers to the strategy and tactics used to introduce and promote a product or service to potential customers.
Instructions weren't clear, ended up with a free cafe in front of raspberry store.
Actual numbers mean everything to me, you can enjoy your pixels and ruler based estimation, I’ll take my actual numbers.
My sense is the expected value is positive (new paying users > revenue stolen)
What's the current MRR out of curiosity? I think about it every time I get it in my inbox :)
The problem is 90% of proper will think that a grease stained pizza box is dry.
My apologies if I have misinterpreted your statements.

Perhaps you could clarify what you meant when you said:

"if you give a raise to one engineer, word will spread, and you'll have to give raises to all of them, and your burn will skyrocket since engineers are all a bunch of gossips"

or

"Quite frankly, they are used to be overworked, have very high demands, and pay that does not match the amount of work and hours they put in. Oftentimes, they're requests for higher pay are denied which is when they become resentful and move on. They don’t care about your mission and they don’t care about your company."

Please, correct my interpretation of your "trick" based off your statement:

"Well, fortunately there's a shortcut I’ve learned rather than having to increase pay or give out bonuses. Invest heavily in fixed assets."

How do you feel I am misinterpreting your statement?

"on an engineer's first day, they'd walk in to an empty desk, sit down, and we'd say today is Christmas. Go home and think about your dream workspace. Computer(s), monitors, keyboard, mouse, headphone setup, plants, anything. And make a list. Send it to us and if everything is within reason, we'll get it for you. Now, this was first a test to see if they would make reasonable requests. Out of 50 engineers, only one made outrageous requests and he was shown the door."
Wouldn't Fritzl's victims beat that by like 20 years?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

Disturbingly, also Austrian...
Interesting. I've wondered how to build a media or presentation editor like this myself.

Looks like it centers around the canvas object and a bunch of divs pretending to be widgets. I found this interesting as well, from the readme:

It is written in 100% plain JavaScript and has no dependencies.
It's 100% free, no ads, no tracking, no accounts, no nothing.
All processing is done in your browser, no data is sent to any server.

So no big framework, eh? I'm kinda glad to hear that, yet wonder how maintainable it will be in the future. Are there any books/blog-series that go over how to build one of these things?

Also looks like this was cranked out in ~6 months or so (with a big gap in the middle), impressive.
Well then, you're quite an optimist if it takes the cynic in you to suspect that.
GPTCache – High-Performance Cache for Language Models
> And I am confident in that guess because I understand people and people's behavior.

How am I supposed to respond seriously to an assertion like that?
Another idea would be to feed zod's validation errors, if any, to the llm to let it have a second try automatically
>I object to the new definition of “leaking” that tries to make all cases of it unquestionably good.

I don't think this has ever been the case. There's still large contingents of the US that think the Snowden leaks were part of a Russian operation, that the Manning leaks were bad and so on. I wasn't alive during Vietnam, but were those leaks considered unquestionably good?
You may be overthinking this just a little bit. The HTTP spec[0] is IMO pretty clear about what each verb is.

> POST
> The POST method submits an entity to the specified resource, often causing a change in state or side effects on the server.

> PUT
> The PUT method replaces all current representations of the target resource with the request payload.

> PATCH
> The PATCH method applies partial modifications to a resource.

The Mozilla documentation further differentiates POST and PUT with respect to idempotency. To wit:

> The difference between PUT and POST is that PUT is idempotent: calling it once or several times successively has the same effect (that is no side effect), whereas successive identical POST requests may have additional effects, akin to placing an order several times.

So just to summarize: PUT is idempotent replacement, POST is potentially not-idempotent change, and PATCH is a partial update.

There's nothing in the spec that says POST = create and PUT = update. Instead, it describes different idempotency restrictions.

I know it doesn't exactly answer your question, exactly, but this is what the "official" definitions are.

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods
Pure sophistry. The problem isn't selling items with sesame in it, it's improperly labeling that sesame is in an item in the first place. Did you read the article?
Info about Business Insider: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/business-insider/
Assuming signals move through fiber optic cables at 69% of c, it has already been done.

A similar argument could be made for a key being transmitted via radio signal that has slipped out to space.
If you write about what it is that you're doing and keep a blog, that has been a very effective way for me to "market" the work that I'm doing without it sound scummy af. (I don't like feeling like a greasy used car salesman, and writing about developing stuff feels much more natural to me.)