skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There clearly are risk factors for paralytic Polio disease but it's likely to be in the very complex interaction between the person's genome and the environment, causing variability in certain types of immune responses. Even now it's not very clear how you would go about testing for them in advance. In the 1950s the "risk group" for a specific serotype of Polio virus is that you were statistically less likely to already have been infected with that serotype. They found out the Salk vaccine was almost entirely ineffective against transmissions pretty quick as well.
I worked for a sugar drink company for over a decade in the poorest neighborhoods.
They won't even notice the tax. They'll still buy the product. They'll just have less money to spend in other areas.
But by all means push another tax on people who can least afford it.
And potentially reduce the cost of fusion reactors by tens of percent.
You need a furnace that can hold a vacuum, though.
This was everybody's dream machine of 1976. I even had a professor who wanted my thesis to be printed by real typewriter and not by a computer, because that would be cheating.

Luckily I managed to gain access to fancy Olivetti terminal, which had reasonably typewriterish font.
a well known client of mine runs tru64 servers. new servers obviously run linux but the tru64 boxes do well.
>How mini are we talking? I've seen some tiny ones!

Size of a bucket haha. It just does steam. There's also an option to have a tent-like thing you sit in but I find it works better if I just pipe it into the shower and I can get a plastic chair and an ipad and just relax.
>everything should be hyperlinked

>almost nothing in the article is hyperlinked

What did he mean by this?
Yes but the premise of the article is that you don’t need to test under load (i.e. benchmark) - only accurately measure the time it takes to fulfill a single request.
It's possible it was a component of that but I never specifically tracked MCAS symptoms. I basically took everything anyone remotely mentioned as helping them or appearing in some medical literature if it was OTC ;-)
Same. Although, I have also noticed there is nothing 100% remote. Many of the messages even highlight "100% on-site." Best I've seen recently is a 3 day hybrid.
In the Lab Oppenheimer Built, the U.S. Is Building Nuclear Bomb Cores Again
A private consultation is typically 200 GBP in London, any minor injury would easily cost you around the amount you say.

Or you can go to A&E and wait 8 hours, and have it be free.
Not saying that XMPP overall is a great protocol, but you always could parse a XMPP stream with an event based XML parser (eg. a SAX parser). Yes you likely have to implement namespace resolution on top of the event stream, but it's not that hard.
> Does your person in Peru have experience with US labour law? US Taxes?

Why would, say, a Ruby developer need to know any of these things? I don't think most US developers are familiar with them, other than during tax season.

Ironically it's technology that's shortening the gaps between offshore / onshore resources.
Doesn’t a hummingbird fly better than a Cessna? Better collision avoidance, easier maneuverability and tiny size…
I think this is true generally, but I’d narrow down this particular trade off further: a complex language can do more validation, that otherwise has to be manual. As such, it’s a trade off between language complexity and boilerplate.

It’s easy to argue against boilerplate: just find an example where a particular language feature shines and show that it reduces amount of code. Less noise reduces risk of human oversight. Arguing against complexity is much harder, similar to arguing against a suffocating bureaucracy: the cost is much more deferred, global, and often is only evident when it’s too late. Death by a thousand paper cuts.

And even with the most elaborate type acrobatics, we still have to validate things “manually”, so we need a “standard process” anyway. So while reducing boilerplate can be worthwhile, it’s not sufficient.

In order to argue language complexity, imo, you need truly compelling and recurring real-world examples. Rust strikes many heavy-weight birds here, but has some sources of immense complexity that yield very meager returns, like async Send, Sync, Pin gymnastics and function coloring. Go otoh suffers some very repetitive boilerplate, like the `if err != nil` 3-liner, for instance, which was elegantly solved in Rust with `?` etc.
Hi. Question: I'm an engineer living outside the US. If I were to establish a consultancy company in the US and offer my services through it, would that fulfill the legal and security concerns?
There should at least be several ways to sort the comments (like reddit) and then each page load should randomly select one way to sort it unless a user has explicitly set a sort method preference in their account settings.
FWIW, Cloudflare also seems confused, so it is no wonder that we are? :(

https://blog.cloudflare.com/private-attestation-token-device...

> At WWDC 2022, Apple announced Private Attestation Tokens. Today, we’re announcing that Cloudflare Access will support verifying a Private Attestation token. This means that security teams that rely on Cloudflare Access can verify a user’s Apple device before they access a sensitive application — no additional software required.

> Private Attestation Tokens do not require any additional software to be installed on the user’s device. This is because the “attestation” of device health and validity is attested directly by the device operating system’s manufacturer — in this case, Apple.

> This means that a security team can use Cloudflare Access and Private Attestation Tokens to verify if a user is accessing from a “healthy” Apple device before allowing access to a sensitive corporate application. Some checks as part of the attestation include:

> Is the device on the latest OS version?

> Is the device jailbroken?

> Is the window attempting to log in, in focus?

> And much more.
I buy a lottery ticket for a dollar.

I don't win; I'm out the dollar.

I buy a stock for a dollar.

It goes down 50% tomorrow.
Then up 25% the next day and so on it fluctuates like a train going through the mountains.

One point in time it is low and another point in time it is high. I prefer to leave the train when it is high on the mountain.

i e. Picking a stock is a gamble but unlike the lottery I get to play the same game with the same money everyday until I win or die.
As opposed to eastern "science"?
> are just a copies, they don't reinvent anything fundamental.

if by copies, you mean they fit in a genere? The engines are constrained by the heardware. what we really need is new paradigms for how we interact with computers before engines are going to start giving us new novel ways of doing things. at the end of the day, all an engine is giving you is a fast and performant way to draw to the screen and send audio to the speakers based on whats coming in from the input.
How about how much tax money will be gained from having alive and healthy people earning money and paying taxes? I bet it's going to be more than whatever cigarette tax will be lost...
This reminds me of an incredible episode of 'Yes, Prime Minister'.

I dug up the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DviQ9mva0

Edit: To get straight to the point, I would suggest jumping straight to 1:50
Not sure this claim can be made unless we are getting picky about defining cloud providers or how you mean 'biggest'.

They can not be the 'best free speech champion' if they block multiple speech platforms and started to work with gov agencies on how to craft rules to force more blocking, imho.

every provider hosts some form of something that 'some people and content holder want to taken down.' - some more than others - that has nothing to do with the fact that cloudlflare promoted themselves as free speech champions / we are a dumb pipe - into we block and are making it easier to block things.
Wasn't the Master Settlement Agreement meant to account for these costs?
Anyone sane should oppose _some_ unions. They don’t all make sense/provide positive value. Looking at you, public sector unions.
> the important thing is to do X

... or you think it's good enough, put it in prod, claim the impact, and move to the next problem.
So say it does collapse, in layman's terms what does that mean?
Do you think it is front person for a dev shop or people who are partaking in the /r/overemployed movement?
By that reasoning "Chemistry" is just a marketing term. It was used mostly interchangeably with "Alchemy" until Georg Stahl and others began writing (without justification!) that "Chemistry" describes more a more rational science and "Alchemists" were more interested in wealth. These untrue claims still became a self-fulfilling prophecy, where theories, teachings, and practice of chemistry evolved out of the former ways of thinking to become what we know it as today.

AI, as used today, is certainly a coherent concept, and this article has justified and described it more thoroughly than most concepts I use daily. Who cares about the shaky history if it means something real today?
> According to [THE CRYSTAL BALL USED BY] Allied Market Research [the only source of data for our article], the global astrology industry was valued at $12.8 billion in 2021, up considerably from $2.2 billion in 2018. By 2031, it’s expected to rise to $22.8 billion.
right, she's a victim of it, I got that.

Wow, she's got an awesome set of true friends, really heartening to see that support and love surrounding her. Amazing.
I did not know Pixel phones have EOL built in. This is a deal-breaker for me.
> Emotions are about other people, and about social positioning

That's... one way to put it for sure.

Emotions can teach you about yourself: what you like/dislike, what actions you are likely to take after a trigger, how you respond if others act a certain way (as you mention), what situations are more/less likely to impact you in different ways, etc.

Understanding what you feel will help you become a better thinker. We're constantly being tugged around by our mind and emotions are a big part of that push/pull. We think we're rational but most of our mind does not work that way and has subtle ways to nudge us.

This can be an exploration about yourself exclusively if you make it so. You could climb a mountain to avoid contact with other human beings and still learn about yourself by paying attention to your emotions.
You do not want the Treasury Department knocking on your door to ask you why you're sending money to a North Korean front company in exchange for slave labor.
Polish hypermarkets, at least in my experience, were never car-only. They were always within the city enough that one could easily use public transportation to shop there. What is car-only in Poland are wholesaler shops like Makro, which are often located well outside cities, but those are not meant for ordinary consumers.
Yes, it's definitely understandable, just saying that the quality of comments around that time was IMHO pretty bad
UPS and Teamsters' union reach agreement, averting strike
"You should fight for some more rights sometime" comes across as pretty condescending, regardless of the trailing emoticon. And unduly self- congratulatory, too--just as it's not within the realm of possibility for the average American worker to change the system they've inherited, it's unlikely that you yourself did a great deal to further the labor-rights regime of Western Europe.
30 million people smoke

$1.50 per pack tax (1.01 fed, giving high estimate for state taxes)

2 packs a day (high)

(30,000,000 x 1%) x (1.5 x 2) x (2 x 365) = 657,000,000

You'd need 4% to quit to even out.
> And second, it's still not wasted effort if you get the fix that you need.

Putting aside the impracticality of building Chrome or Android from source in perpetuity - and the fact that you'd actually end up with Chromium and AOSP - what good does it do if you fix a bug for one user? You still have to deal with it existing for 99.99999% of users in your app/website.
https://archive.is/oKqe3
That won't save us. Not unless you know how to build it in the next 5 years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36836722
Antarctic sea ice levels are declining faster than ever
That's fair. I guess it comes down to routines. I love being able to wake up, walk to the gym (like 2 min away) do my exercise and be home, shower and sitting ready to work all in under an hour. 15 min walk would be 30 min of decent exercise, not bad at all.
Do dead people pay taxes? Whatever is gained for the health care system by people dying early will be lost several times in tax income in general.
The highest band is the only one that matters really, at least if we're talking about people that could freely choose to work in either country at top tech companies.
I've heard that some countries half converted and it's been a disaster for them. They're using grams and meters but are still clinging to on the old base-12 time-keeping system. I hope the US doesn't stumble down the same path.
> How does this affect browser modifications and extensions?
Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality: E.g. if the browser allows extensions, the user may use extensions; if a browser is modified, the modified browser can still request Web Environment Integrity attestation.
Do you find the article's definition lacking?
Insane if true. Unlocks a completely new chapter for the human tech tree.
There's an open source implementation at https://openmls.tech/
what if these people then live longer due to quitting smoking?
#TheyDidTheMath
On the other hand, for those same reasons, there is less information available about those markets.
Not if the smoking cohort is concentrated in older, retired members of the population.
It would be if it were socially acceptable for all of the smokers in question to have the option of assisted suicide when diagnosed with the almost inevitable terminal cancer. As it stands, end of life for a chronic smoker who develops cancer is typically prolonged, painful, and extremely expensive.
Explain how it wasn't clear as a statute gallon of 277.274 cubic inches of water.
>
Europe has increased both, regardless of their rhetoric.

Meanwhile, back in the real world:
https://ip-quarterly.com/sites/default/files/styles/dgap_tea...
I can't imagine the legroom in a smart cart with a rear facing car seat behind me. I also can't imagine bringing home groceries for our family in a car that small. Who said anything about buying and driving cars solely based on NEED?
The hardest part is probably <setjmp.h>. We tried once on s390x (after it introduced vector registers), and it didn't work: https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/ And was eventually reverted: https://lwn.net/Articles/606377/

Not every function boundary is an ABI boundary, and compilers can and will automatically use custom ABIs for static functions (and, with LTO, for unexported global functions, too).
It's why having a plan and a strong conviction of that plan (for me this means having to schedule time to purposefully "sit down" with myself quarterly to ensure the plan is still accurate) is so important. When the shit hits the fan you want to be able to realize you are dealing with emotion, and to go look at your pre-flight checklist so to speak before you sell anything. If pre-set conditions aren't met, you have no decisions to make.

If you go into a "situation" thinking you are already overleveraged or whatever, you are much more likely to do something silly vs. if you went into the same situation comfortable in the logic of how you have your finances configured.
Well, the thing is that it once had value. But before computers and the internet and real time data made creating all sorts of charts really easy. Jesse Livermore is regarded as an early technician in that he would spot price patterns that he interpreted to signify behavior. For example if he saw a lot of buying while people were bearish he would reason that there were insiders who knew something driving the buying. And yes, he did hand chart stock prices meticulously according to a particular system. But again, in those days it took a tremendous amount of work.

Hell, stock indices which we all take for granted today were largely created because it was so difficult to know at a given moment what the overall market was doing and tabulating those was a ton of work by today’s standards.

But now technical analysis has been democratized and everyone has access to the same indicators. So the value has been destroyed.

This brings me to a larger point. Markets are constantly evolving to take what used to be hardly noticed and difficult to understand and make it the focal point of everyone after it works. But people fail to realize that because so much attention is now placed on it that it changes the market in the process so that that thing no longer has significance.

One recent example- the fed used to not even tell you that they had changed the fed funds rate! So some clever market observers would follow the prime rate and figured out that there was a relationship between that and the stock market. Eventually everyone caught on and so the fed itself became politicized and so now they telegraph to the market what they’re going to weeks and sometimes months in advance. So what the market might only begin to price in after like a rate hike now gets priced in months before they start hiking. This has caused market cycles to be thrown out of whack and very few can make sense of it because they believe market should continue to behave with similar timing as before.
These are indeed the contortions people are going through. Basically, as the evidence for zoonotic original allegedly mounted and lab leak origins became less convincing, suddenly the Proximal origin authors become less convinced of their own arguments. Astounding.
The article says the collapse would cause an ice age in Northern Europe. Would that "cure" global warming?
That's not how cryptographic signing works.

Cryptographic signing means "I wrote this" or "I created this". Sure you could sign an AI generated image as yourself. But you could not sign an image as being created by Getty or NYT
You’d lose that bet.

State and local governments collected $19 billion in revenue from tobacco taxes in 2020. Which was high. In 2022 it had dropped to a more normal level of $11.26 billion.

1% of that is $11 million.

Quite a difference.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wesleytian_startup-yc-ycombin...
According to Musk, Twitter is now at least break even. Who knows if that's true or not.
This is how many mass shootings there have been so far this year
That sounds fascinating, a whole world I know nothing about. Would you mind pointing me at where I could read more?
There will be people who will build bridges between the two webs, so the folks caught in the corporate web don't miss out on anything.

The other way around is not so simple, because of the IDs etc.

Hence the anarchists lose.
Exactly. I don't know why people seem to sleep on hybrid. Some days going into the office works better, other days WFH is better.

If we just finished scoping out a project and I have dozens of programming hours, I'm def going to lock myself in my office with headphones and type away.

If things are slow and I need some motivation, I think going to the office would help.
Checked my order history, the one I got was a “SCHLAGE FE575 PLY 626 ELA Plymouth Keypad Entry”. I don’t remember having any trouble installing this on an interior door (and I’m not very “handy” at all). That said, I don’t know much about doors, so can’t say for sure if it works everywhere. Maybe some interior doors are thinner or something.
How much would Medicaid save if 1% were no longer obese?
Interestingly on my Mastodon client (Ivory), this link is rendered with the following title:

> Delete this version from 7/25/23 since old story got updated.

I don’t see this title when I load the page myself.
HTTPoison seems to have unresolved issues with connection pooling, where your connection gets closed by the remote server under some conditions - like if you are making a large number of one off calls to different servers and are using the default connection pool. I don’t have much experience with the others mentioned in the article.
their own public posting: https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ for starters.

see also https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/ - read all the lines.
How is "The browser company" planing to make a return for their VC investors?

In other words, when is the rug pull coming and what is it going to look like?
There was a science fiction story about this, with phone auto-message and auto-answer systems connecting with each other long after all the humans were dead.
There's a less cynical explanation for that.

"NMR" sounds a lot like "enema" and you don't want to get the two mixed up.
Yeah the title seems backwards - this is capitalism corrupting computers, not the other way around
The entire tobacco tax revenue in 2022 was only $11 billion. At the margin, the proposed reduction in smoking would only reduce revenues by ~$400 million while saving $2.6 billion. That's clearly profitable.
While I don't agree with your hyperbole, yes it is an imperfect system, but it is the best system we have.
I wish people who smoke could be charged more, or maybe, better yet, a large national tax on tobacco.

Where I work, people are asked if they smoke, if you do, you pay higher rates. You and I know everyone, except for a small minority, will say No to that question. So that points to a national Tax.

Where I live, people travel up to 100 miles to buy tobacco products in a neighboring that has tax much less than where I am. So yes, time for a national tax I guess.
I mentioned this elsewhere but if the sickest (or dead) are concentrated in the oldest segment of the population (not unreasonable as young smokers are still fairly healthy on the grand scheme of things) that isn’t working then this doesn’t hold.
That is true for many people, smokers or not. You save money on things like hip replacements, care homes for people who can no longer fend for themselves, etc. etc.
Don't work with sanctioned countries. It's common sense.
Liquid helium is very sneaky stuff. Sure, they try to keep it in as much as they can (it's expensive!) but it's gonna leak eventually. A quick web search indicates that MRIs in common use lose 1-6% of their helium per month.
Ask HN: How long have you been on Twitter? Does the recent rebrand bother you?
I've been a Twitter user for over 5 years, and an admirer for many more.

The branding, the minimalism, high-quality content, and text-emphasis - all of it used to feel great!

Things were actually good in the pre-Elon era. Or stable, to say the least.

While the users are still there and will most likely continue to be, I miss Twitter as it was already.
> Replacing a T-connector with a broken one to sabotage unpopular classes

When I started working in academia they had mostly phased out 10BASE2. Every now and then we'd get reports of network being broken and would have to get out the break detector to track down where. Inevitably we'd find a student had unplugged a T-connector in a classroom, disrupting the others on the same loop.
> The computer can look at every word on the page, every phrase, name, quote, and section of text, and show me a “map” of the words and ideas behind which lay the most interesting ideas I might want to know about

This would be really useful when reading research papers.
I mean, if you're not paying rent, you might want to pack up the shit that's hard to grab in a hurry
This is an interesting piece.

Its easy to see how for negative numbers the softmax operator could simply refrain from making a decision

e.g.
```
sum(softmax1[-100, -100, -100]) ~= 1e-43
```

But is there any basis to assume commas and whitespaces will be negatively correlated with other tokens?
Why would you be interviewing for a job if you were successful in using TA?
What I Learned at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey [video]