skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do agree with a lot of the presentation. A word of caution though: some technologies that start by offering simplicity evolve over time to provide a very difficult to grok environment. So the evaluation about the cost of maintenance is not a do once and forget.

And sometimes boring means roll your own. An important aspect of this for me is to pick the simplest solution: A bit of code > A library > A Framework > Platform, which I think is in line with the presentation.
And, MFA wise it is a disaster to rely on them to keep your credentials safe against social engineering.
> Exact same investment, very different outcomes.

not exactly the same. The quantity is itself a difference.

All investments would have a risk. The $1million investment has 1000x the risk, and thus, they obtain 1000x the reward. So, the weighted reward for both situations are the same per dollar.
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is one of the most sought-after credentials in the project management field. It demonstrates that a professional has the knowledge, skills, and experience to manage projects effectively.
Nvidia, Please make CUDA open source and compatible with all other GPUs. What you are doing currently is anti-competance and I wish Government passed Anti-Trust Regulations over this.
Actually E-ink contrast is very good if enough light reaches the E-ink display, the problem is that to add color to an E-ink display you need to add an LCD layer to it so you can change the colors. Many e-readers then also add a digitizer for touch screen capabilities.

Each of these layers added on top of each other reduces the amount of ambient light that will reach the E-ink layer reducing the brightness of the white parts of the display, thus lowering the contrast. To compensate for this you need to add LED lighting to illuminate the display which increases eye strain and requires adding a diffuser layer which, you guessed it, lower the contrast.

Compare an e-reader from back in the early days without all these extra layers to a modern e-reader and you'll see just how much the contrast has degraded over the years if you don't have the LED lighting turned on.
So this is the 2005 paper that started it all: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16111635/

I often wonder if, as a lay person, I would be capable of understanding the significance of really technical papers like this if I were to randomly start reading. Probably not without the right foundation.
The Dam square in the centre of Amsterdam has extremely bumpy cobblestones. It's not impossible to bike on, but even for bikes it's more comfortable if you go a bit slower than usual, which might be the intention.

The lines between the lanes are made from much smoother stone though, so when I'm in a hurry, I just ride on those lines.
Yes, the delivery system definitely has that drawback. However, the lipid nanoparticles as a delivery system have problems of their own, which I laid out in a sibling comment to your own.

But my question is more related to the pop-science perception of mRNA vs viral vector. mRNA were presented as new technology, but on media publication after media publication, the viral vectors were presented as the "old"/"traditional" way of doing things. 9/10 people have that understanding of the mRNA vs vv vaccines. The truth is that both are radical departures from existing technologies and they're both genetic platforms very similar in nature, and both completely novel being deployed at this scale.
They are part of a wider context of a war they did not initiate, often in occupied territories, fighting alongside the native People of said territories (eg. Siegfried Line campaign, Invasion of [German occupied] Elba, Allied invasion of [German occupied] Italy, [German occupied] Normandy landings, Operation Overlord, Battle of [German occupied] Marseille.)
> I'm not even sure what tech is out there that would qualify as "spending your innovation tokens" other than AI.

Spending a few hundred K on Unnecessary Kubernetes (and the surprises that result) is definitely still a popular thing amongst junior/mid devops people.
I've always liked javadocs
Even if they were market established, there would always have been conspiracy theories about any vaccines. It's about a worldview shaping your reality
To be honest and in this context. Nobel prize committees doesn't do any better and have history of failing in recognizing great scientific achievements until long time passes [1] (and sometimes scientists die before that which disqualify them from the prize)

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03086-3
I wonder if suddenly going from masks and sanitizing constantly to immediately stopping (at least in my country) may have contributed to the sudden jump. Also we were encouraged not to visit the hospital unless it was necessary so many opted not to for almost 3 years.
Apparently, humanity is damned to repeat it's mistakes over and over again.

"100 years should be enough" is what led us to a mountain of Y2K issues, because when would a two digit year ever be ambigious?

But I guess it's a psychological issue. Unless you're a megalomaniac, it's just natural to assume that your decisions won't matter much outside of your life and lifetime. And in that case, 100 years totally is enough because I probably won't live that long.
And even more, in a lot of cases, it's also the correct assumption and the project won't live longer than a few years.

So, thinking about it, unless you are developing a novel standard or something that you want the world to adopt, 100 years probably IS fine.
Unfortunately, KSUID wants to be a novel standard, so there's an issue.
Tell me that in the real world, if you ask a question, you will get only answers and no opinions.

Internet is the same. You ask and someone made the effort to voice their opinion on something and you have to put the effort into figuring out if they would fit your situation. If not, continue on.
> the Venus of Willendorf could indicate some of those things, but it equally could have just been made by one especially advanced human

Hundreds of such figurines have survived to the present day, so tens of thousands must have been produced. They used materials transported over 1000+ kilometers. Clearly, those were made by a large-scale network of artists learning from one another, part of a pan-European culture – not by a random genius doodling around, otherwise they wouldn't be so similar to each other.

It's also pretty obvious from looking at the figurine that this wasn't the artist's first work. They probably had to make hundreds such statuettes before achieving this level of detail, so they were likely at least part-time professionals.
In a place like that, the banking infrastructure must be really poor.

And as a consequence, anyone who can improve this banking infrastructure can reap the rewards from this infrastructure.
Why should I do it, to "do your own research" types like you?

Do your own research.
That's absolutely untrue; the data shows that lockdowns did not reduce deaths: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737 .

>Using an event study approach and data from 43 countries and all U.S. states, we measure changes in excess deaths following the implementation of COVID-19 shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. We do not find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier had lower excess deaths. We do not observe differences in excess deaths before and after the implementation of SIP policies, even when accounting for pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates.
With pandoc-plot [0] you can even include them in your markdown documents and render it all to a nice PDF or website using pandoc.

[0] https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot
CryFS (and gocryptfs) both suffer from the same lack of support on iOS, which Cryptomator has, which is the reason i'm sticking with it.

As for how it encrypts files, there is a description here : https://docs.cryptomator.org/en/1.5/security/architecture/#f...
Yes, I can only (semi-)comfortably read e-ink with backlighting, but then I may as well use LCD or OLED, with the extra benefits those bring. OLED in particular is great for reading at night (light text on pitch-black background).
Absolutely not. There is a point where ease of use decrease the knowledge of the users. Most "digital natives" are worse with technology than Gen X and early millenial, simply because they didn't have to learn how it worked to use it
Sorry but this sounds more of making shit up to sound fancy, what he's talking about is just plain old monopolistic company.

Also unherd is such a red flag for me when you look who gets to usually write, and about which topic (right wing align and the "left" which is just blue labour, effectively spcially conservative, economically labour), it's usually very one-sided and slanted to the right, the "left" are either writing on issues the right (conservative) agree on like progressive liberals are bad because they support LGBT (usually its against the T) or they write something vague like this that anyone can sort of agree on.
In the US, pandemic mitigation dropped poverty numbers drastically.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/business/economy/income-p...

Going back up now.
> The vaccines massively reduced mortality and severe disease in the vulnerable populations. That is a big win.

That’s changing the goalposts. The vaccines were not necessary for the vast majority of the population or society as a whole to “open up”.

That’s assuming you analyze only physical harm from the spreading virus. After months of brainwashing, they were definitely required for large swathes of the population to given them a mental protection to come out of their shells.

> They also could have stopped the spread for the early variants, but the later ones were simply too contagious. There simply was no chance to keep transmission fully down at that point.

There was never a chance to keep transmission fully down. It was like trying to prevent a cold or the flu from spreading.
Democratizing 5G: Bringing technology to a wider audience
They just had a very sparse population and the highest rate of single-occupancy housing...

And socialized medicine.

Really, what a fine example for e.g. New York to follow!
Amazon Anthropic: Poison Pill or Empire Strikes Back
What we call "lock down" was hardly anything. And usually in reaction to surging cases. So the data probably couldn't show it working, even if it did. And it probably didn't.
This seems to be the way a lot of companies are organized. They have a data analysis product that can do everything you need no matter what that is. However, their product is actually a subscription service to their company to access what amounts to a list of their consultants who then implement some custom solution, for a price, into the platform.

Wouldn't it be easier to simply hire consultants directly?
Really cool, I've implemented something similar for MySQL on top of Ubuntu and LVM snapshots. With a very low space overhead, we were able to create tens of copies of the main database for development purpose.
Netherland uses lots of traffic calming measures, but I think this particular one would be completely unacceptable here.
How do you know his account is blocked?
I can get behind this. It'd definitely be great to see VoiceOver, the screen reader on Mac, get some competition. Maybe then blind Mac users could do their work on Mac, even in Salesforce and Google Docs and Sheets and such, and not hear "Safari not responding" at the slightest sign of overused JavaScript. There's a reason most blind people either use Windows, or don't use a desktop or laptop at all.
https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surve...

Browsable map: https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=TQ7237355141
I have used rclone with crypt in the past, and it works well, but doesn't easily lend itself to being used from mobile devices, which is what led me to Cryptomator in the first place.

I don't want to rely on having a server running at home, which i can then connect to via VPN, in order to download encrypted stuff from the cloud. With Cryptomator i can simply download from the cloud and decrypt locally.
Thank you. I recently dropped my full time job to start a consulting job. I needed LinkedIn for the crucial networking during my early stages. Now I am completely banned without knowing why
It's up to you to take over their platforms just like they took over pretty much all the social media platforms. If you care about your causes just as much as you may care about a coffee and a cookie you can chip in about as much money, which is 8$/m, and cause them problems.

No one is entitled to use this billions dollar infrastructure for free even though the ad and tracking business models might have given that impression. Those who care, put in resources. Nazis care enough, put in time and money and are achieving quite a bit. If you suspect that you are not treated the same for your money, you can go after that. Those Conspiracy theorist did the same and are achieving quite a lot because despite that they are so wrong about so many things they were right about some stuff like speech suppression and they worked hard and came on top of it.
All those models you ask "why not" of are exhibiting the same surge in nostalgia. I have 2 Spectrums and 2 Amigas next to me right now. It's a general surge in nostalgia to all of the computers from that era I suppose. I personally don't discriminate - I admire their capabilities and limitations all the same. I also suppose that for me, personally, they represent my childhood in the early 80s and into the 90s. I started with a VIC20 and moved to Amiga before giving up quite late in the 90s and gone the PC route. That's the "emotional" angle if you ever needed one.
If governments cared about dead people they would regulate the fast food and processed food industry. McDonald’s kills more people than covid ever could.
Yeah, for me this is why nothing else can compete. If there's native support in GitHub it's hard to see anything else as better without that feature.
It's about incentives: vaccines are one of the only products where manufacturers are completely immune from liability, and given big pharma's historical willingness to priotise profit over lives, it's hard to just trust them. Especially when the reason big pharma lobbied for that liability immunity was because they claimed they'd be sued into bankruptcy without it.
This article seems incorrect enough to question the motives behind publishing the piece at all. As other comments in this thread have already pointed out, many authors predate Lester del Rey by many decades. Genres rarely just spring out of nothing, if ever, and gradually arise and take the shape of the genres we recognize today.

Did Lester play a part in shaping fantasy fiction? Of course. Did he "invent fantasy fiction as we know it"? Come on. If you trace things back arguably something like "Der Ring des Nibelungen" is the invention of the fantasy genre, but is even that it!? It's perhaps not even a modern opera since it's from 1869. If you had to point to only one author it would certainly be Tolkien, but he didn't write in a vacuum and was certainly inspired by others as well.

So can anyone here speculate as to why Slate and Dan Sinykin decided to publish this piece, they make a completely offside mention of white supremacy and sexism towards the end, so I'm drawn to suspect this is just another piece trying to rewrite history to make it seem like modern and less "problematic" authors invented genres we all cherish.
Sweden has twice the death rate as its closest neighbors (both geographically and culturally), Norway and Denmark. Note that the differences in policy between Sweden and other European countries were largest early on in the pandemic, and the differences in Sweden's death rate then were even more extreme.

In a broader international comparison, Sweden (and Europe generally) did not fare well. Countries that took a zero-CoVID approach, such as China, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Singapore ended up with much lower death rates, because most of them vaccinated their populations before allowing the virus to spread.
Any sources or data to back that up? Or is this just your own hypothesis you came up with yourself?

There is an enormous body of knowledge proving vaccines did reduce transmissions, you can easily find them online. So a claim that goes counter to the outcome of hundreds of studies should have some backup, otherwise it no better than saying 'here is a snowball that proves 100% of climate scientists are wrong'
I think the peace prize is a totally separate decision-making groups - it's a political award.
Add "hate" to that.
Just friday I've had a discussion with a colleague about filenames.

We do a lot of computer vision and in his project, each processed object is assigned a UUID and he wanted to save images to files for each one.

So we took some time to go over various timestamp formats to be embedded into the filename to make the files sort chronologically. UUIDv7 is just spot-on solving our problem. In this use case, there are no real security considerations.
Only 5%? While most of us in the US been drinking lead filled water for the last 70 years.
30% of adblock user penetration in the US is not that neglectable.
Viral vectors on the other hand are.
I'm distracting myself from the mandatory unnecessary meeting which is distracting me from my work.
Doesn’t this rely on the app developer maintaining the correct labeling of each category? An unethical developer would just mix advertisements into all notification category, while an ethical developer wouldn’t be sending the spurious notifications in the first place.
Good thing you're 100% convinced, I'm still looking for the proof
See the line “The tables look a little uncouth at first but it is not hard to figure out what is going on”: this blog post is about the author's thought process in figuring out what is going on, carrying the reader along: such a figuring-out will often be messier, with occasional wrong turns, than presenting the end of the process as a fait accompli, but it can be more illuminating (like Euler's writing rather than Gauss's who was accused of being “like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail”). I wouldn't call it obfuscating.

But ah +1, I see what you mean. I must confess I had only skimmed both articles earlier, but having thought about it now, While the blog post treats Table1 as a trivial consequence and reverse-engineers Table2, it is cleaner to do it the other way around (treating T2 as a consequence of T1 and reverse-engineering T1). I have done so, and ended up actually writing the “explain from scratch how to come up with that code” blog post: https://shreevatsa.net/post/irish-logarithm/ — and only after writing it out myself do I understand what Coghlan was getting at :) This is also basically what the posted blog post has BTW — it's not really any harder; it's just that it's hard to follow someone else's reasoning in text while it would be easier at a blackboard with pictures and gestures.
Because the guy wants me to refund the Money and we met alteady 2 times since the transaction happend. He showed me his account and called the customer sercive together to unblock it.
> Why is this the job of the OS? If we trust the SSD ourselves, it should simply accept that and proceed using the API as intended.

Because in the event of the crypto being only for show, people might blame the software for not warning them.

> I've so far not understood the purpose of the TPM here. Why can't the key be derived off a password entered during boot?

The general idea behind using the TPM as a crypto HSM was to provide at least a basic protection against simple disk cloning, i.e. evil-maid attacks.

> It seems wild to even consider software encryption for the whole disk at the bandwidth and iops modern SSDs are expected to deliver.

CPUs are pretty fast these days at anything crypto, as virtually all popular architectures have native AES instructions.
I think you've made this point at least 50 times in as many COVID threads and you've been refuted at least as many times, why do you keep doing this?
Where I work, it just means I have to maintain my own infrastructure in addition to being a developer.
The reasons for not using/supporting typescript[0] seem irrelevant.

1. Is wholly immaterial.

2. Is pure conjecture ("Dynamic typing is a good thing") that I happen to vehemently disagree with.

3. Also wholly immaterial.

[0]: https://nuejs.org/faq/#ts
Recognizing emergent behaviour has led to a lot of deeper understanding of the universe. Why should this be any different?

I'm not saying there's some consciousness field that my mind is a perturbation of. But it is interesting that we all have more or less the same experience of existing even though we are simply a collection of atoms in a local low entropy state.
Attenuated/weakened viruses still infect cells and go through normal protein-making machinery. Inactivated viruses and subunit/recombinant vaccines, however, just directly expose our immune system to the antigen(s) of the pathogen.

mRNA/viral vector/attenuated all involve some degree of "code execution."
In my experience, shadow IT is where all the business benefit is added, its where all the innovation happens

However shadow IT doesn't allow large procurement contracts and expensive steak dinners in the Maldives for those at the top.
I applaud the sheer scale of this whataboutism, to the point I am unsure if it is a parody.

The distance between topics has to be somewhere close to a world record!
Yes, we should have saturated hospitals even more, it would have had no effect on mortality!

https://youtu.be/0P8KyaYuaTg?si=emkhsme03r9shDxE
Ask HN: Are we upon the convergence of Apache, Nginx and “other”?
Common wisdom suggests that there are two major web servers: Apache (losing popularity) and Nginx (gaining popularity).

However, a look at the latest trends[1] suggests that we are upon the age of a "triple convergence" in popularity between Apache, Nginx, and the mysterious "other" category.

Which leads to the logical questions: What is the "other" category? How did it become so big? And does it threaten the rule of the Spartan Apachinexology?

[1]: https://www.netcraft.com/blog/september-2023-web-server-survey/
This is kinda the premise of the show Black Knight.
I would argue that title belongs to Typescript. Every client I talk to wants help getting started with it.
Thinking a bit more on this, the PixelQi display didn’t have a use case where it was clearly the best option. You could use it reflectively, but, then, it was grayscale only (because the colors come from the backlight) while, when used transmissively, the colors seemed washed out because the prisms didn’t separate RGB components completely enough, unlike the filters used in pure transmissive LCDs.

A bummer, really. It was a nice technology.

As was the XO, BTW. I have the feeling they should have started with rich countries. My daughter’s school is pushing for Windows laptops for students running mostly Office stuff and OneNote instead of paper notebooks.
South Dakota, the state that ranks 46 (out of 50) in terms of population density?
BASIC defaults to the tape device if you leave off the device number in LOAD/SAVE commands. So you can save another byte or two by saving to tape instead.