skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are able to build a competing product that can offer what cloudflare does at the scale that it does I promise there is billions of dollars in it for you.
They don't need to ensure that all test groups are exposed to people with HIV. There is already a known risk factor for the specific population. All they need to do is see if the people who received the medication had more/fewer/similar infection rates as those who didn't.

Think about it like studies on which cars perform better in crashes. They don't need to have people drive more wrecklessly to determine if the car is safer. They just need to look at the expected risk compared to the outcomes of the people who drive that car. They are already doing the risky thing.
Oops I made a typo, I meant you CAN count on them surviving

In Js world it's better to not bet everything on a single horse
Is this trying to imply there wasn’t computer speech synthesis until 2000?
Please ban it for me too thank you
The UI wasn’t the only issue, but I will look into that.
> Open source maintainer is a stressful, thankless job which pays peanuts compared to what you could get for the skills and time

Precisely why Open Source must fund itself with things like freemium. Otherwise its impossible to justify the effort it requires in the long run. Like how the freemium format has been very successful in the WordPress ecosystem and many individual devs have made a very good living by developing their themes/plugins/services and creating sustainable communities around their software - independently without any kind of VC money. It is a good pattern that keeps the control of projects in the community's hands.
Why you keep saying it's magical to me? You're the one describing the underlying maths as if it makes it special. To the model these 'high dimensional embeddings' are just long lists of numbers.

I've said it before and I'll repeat. Using terabytes of number lists to achieve a decent NLP isn't all that impressive.
>bubbling them through an alkali mixture

Which turns the liberated halogens back to salt automatically, in a very favorable reaction which is so strongly favored it is almost irreversible.

Almost.

But not if you carefully apply energy to the brine using an electrochemical process, especially one which has been improved for over a century after the patent expired, and you can't get much more efficient than that. Especially at the scale these operate at. These are not petrochemical plants since they were doing this before petrochemicals actually had plants. Crude oil wasn't even that popular yet.

But who's going to need to do that, the spent alkali after scrubbing the halogens has no need for additional energy to be added.

Unless you wanted to turn it back into full-strength alkali. Which wouldn't be cost-efective anyway, and nobody should be paying more than it's worth.

Because there's planty of fresh material coming out of the caustic plants already.

But you know how much energy it takes to produce that alkali originally from the virgin brine feedstock those plants use?

More than it's worth. It a plain electrochemical reaction. No other raw materials needed.

It's that "irreversable" reaction that's just a little too strong. So it takes a lot of energy to reverse. Kind of like trying to turn CO2 back into hydrocarbons.

And if you want to try and capture CO2 from the atmosphere using alkali, fuggedaboutit. You're going to need a bigger caustic plant, and a lot more of them.

There's a thing called material balance too, not just electrochemistry and thermodynamics at work.
That's a legit question: drugs are now day tested in Europe on a relatively small and strictly controlled cohort and in China/India/Africa on much larger cohorts with much different rules.

It's easier and cheaper to test new drugs outside the us/eu because laxer regulations.
That's not entirely true. If someone is spending outside the budget and preventing those goals, then someone isn't paying/saving/contributing, regardless of their contribution or lack of contribution. At the end of the day you still need individual accountability towards the shared goals.
Nothing of value will be lost if they do.
What is ZIRP, and how did it impact the startup world? [video]
I assure you that people made the same mistake plenty in the old days, too. Most programmers who come across an array of values assume they know what the values mean, and that stands true across time. Many paint packages and other programs still get many transforms/effects wrong due to it, and in fact some people seem to prefer some effects when not linearized.
Here's how we filter out shit customers at my company: We publish our god damned prices clearly.
still working up to the math i need to get this one :)
Russia has no allies. Every single 'compatible' nation ran the hell away from them as soon as it become marginally possible in late 80s, and in typical russian victim fashion west and US specifically is to blame.

Just look at what they are doing to their supposed brothers in Ukraine, for one old man's greed and twisted view on reality and his legacy, 0 other reasons. This is how they treat everybody, including other russians.

What they have are temporarily aligned forces who see some benefit in such action, nothing more. Most of them would take over russian territory and its mineral riches without blinking an eye if they could.
Yes, it's way too complicated. You either need to run your app as a SaaS or give people an executable they can just run.
Nobody said it was equivalent. The subdiscussion was about whether you can even get that much cash anywhere else, once TCO got pulled apart into cash and stock to be compared in more detail.

Again, the person that made the original claim about where you can get "400k cash base" accepted the Netflix example. Are you saying they're wrong about what they meant?
Was briefly concerned until I saw it wasn't Ivan Sutherland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland
> So, my thinking was how they ensure that all test groups are sexually exposed to other people with HIV, for the trial to be effective.

They don't. Some people will organically have sex with people with HIV, and some will not. Your study just needs to recruit enough participants that it is likely some will. Your study absolutely does not tell people to deliberately have sex with HIV+ partners.
Yes... lets make life more expensive by getting rid of taxes.

The reason life is so expensive OBVIOUSLY isn't because of the massive and ever increasing tax burden. NOOOO of course not. Its because people aren't taxed enough.

So lets increase taxes more so we can have goverment solutions to the government problem. Obviously we simply aren't governmenting enough.

Yo dawg... I heard you like government. So I got some government to put in your government!
the real win will be when it can also generate the codename for the exploit. FATEFATAL
When I tithe to my church, I've already been taxed on it. It would be a real bummer for it to be taxed again.
"Those drugs" = drugs against HIV?

Subsaharan Africa has the largest epidemic of HIV, that is why. Because you need a control group and compare the frequency of new infections.

It would make no sense to study HIV drugs in, say, Egypt, where the sexual mores are rather strict due to the conservative Islamic character of the society, and thus infection rates remain very low.

(Note that Egypt is also Africa, but probably the "wrong kind of"... at least as far as the fashionable racial classifications go.)
FMLA provides unpaid leave, and usually only up to 12 weeks. I'm not sure how well ADA would apply here, but my wife had a lot of trouble using ADA to even get her employer to use video meeting software with captions (she's deaf, and Zoom didn't have captions at the time.) It eventually worked but took something like 6 months.
Maybe look into Electron? As I understand, you basically have a web client and Node server packaged up as an executable.
After many nodejs app iterations this will be my next nodejs architecture:

sql statements in ./sql/*

endpoint functions in ./endpoints/*

router files in ./routes

Subdirs under those that group things logically for that app

Auth functions in a separate server called by caddy forward auth like checkpoint401 which I wrote

User flow functions in a separate server like identoro which I wrote

Data validation in a separate server like youvalidateme which I wrote

I write big Postgres stored functions/procs and minimal sql in node

I gotta say though I’ll probably use Golang instead of node going forward, after building many node apps.
I could easily imagine a person who thought that GNOME was 99% good but wanted one thing changed, and this doesn't require said person to lack understanding.
Brilliant episode of the BBC’s In Our Time that goes down this rabbit hole. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v59gz
> That's very clearly not what the article says. Its key themes are that the world is "fragmented" and "ambivalent"

That's what it says, like how Bloomberg does. Except, NYT cannot tell it as Bloomberg tells it so it must make it so that the establishment that it backs has still some chance. It has not. 80% of the world increased its business with Russia, including even Europe, despite all those sanctions.

> You are clearly misinformed about a lot of things -- and even when an NYT article is right in front of you, you can't seem to read its main points correctly.

Say the people who have been roped into believing all kinds of sh*t ranging from nonexistent WMDs to 'ghost of kiev'. When called out, NYT just admitted that yes, it was a lie, but it was 'good for morale so it was ok'.

You people who subscribe to the Angloamerican Western media have no business talking about being misinformed.
Everything can be theoretically be safe if you just do X and Y, but very often the economical incentives are to avoid doing X and Y (mostly to reduce expenses) so if you don't have safety as a complete stopper (as in: program does not compile if you don't abide by safety) then programs will be unsafe until the end of time.

We have to stop the problem at the door, not let it in and try to pacify it after it has destroyed half the room.

What a nonsensical article. I mean yeah, guns with the safety off are perfectly safe if 100% of all users have perfect trigger discipline, right?
It's not (often) workers calling for RTO. It's not hard to imagine why.
Ah okay -- the second one had a map with the same shape as the border, which I think made me mentally lump the map's border with the box's borders and invalidate the claim that it's looking at the box's borders as part of the map. I also assumed you wouldn't possibly expect someone to have to explicitly draw all their borders when they can piggyback off the box.

Entirely my mistake because I was kind of ignoring everything you said lol
FMLA also has a twelve week limit, and for "highly compensated" employees (a lot of software devs in the US would qualify) you can lose the right to return to the same, or equivalent, position as when you left.
They should go to court in that country.
sure, but from actually using this hardware in the mid-80s and later, labs had QIC drives once they had suns, which was rather later on, and I don't think I ever saw a QIC drive on a VAX (a bunch of weird 9 track drives including a top loader, sure.) And microvaxes tended to have (non-functional) TK-50/TK-70 "linear" tapes (ancient ancestors of DLT)...
I can't theorize on the 'Why' part of your question, but there are ways around using Android Studio IDE to make Android builds without gradle build system.

If you want to learn exactly how the APK/AAB is built and compiled, here are some resources I used to learn:

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59504840/create-jni-ndk-...

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69566622/android-build-w...

- https://github.com/HemanthJabalpuri/AndroidExplorer/blob/mas...

- https://developer.android.com/tools

Some of the links haven't aged too well, but it's a starting point for learning how things work under the "Android Studio" / "gradle" hood.
What’s the “rm -rf /“ for?
The “definitions” section of the bill is a lot more decent than I expected it to be.

Page 3 of the bill pdf:

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S7694A
Another approach framework 'Pro' (Re: Adonis)
I did a quick comparison of framework promoted today on HN and framework I built. Is it impressive to anyone?
Best one that I have heard of is Sodabottleopenerwala.

Not sure if it's made up or real.
That one does have 6DoF tracking, it's just based on the Valve Lighthouse system. Upside of that system is it's more privacy respecting.
Testing and distributing are two different things. If drug makers really care so much about Africa they surely will share their patents.
The first image I have of Donald Sutherland is his character in The Great Train Robbery, which I think is a mostly forgotten movie which, for some reason, I was obsessed with as a teenager. Later, MASH and Kelly's Heroes, of course. He'll be missed, but his enormous catalog is a testament to his versatility.
A convincing argument that cannot be checked is not a proof. If you want to extend the definition of proofs you're welcome to do that, but for academic mathematics the meaning of proof doesn't contain a middle ground.
maybe if regulations and taxes weren't so high, there could be more competition? Transparency and the like would help...

Increasing taxes and removing alternatives is never a good deal.

"market forces aren't enough" government forces aren't enough either.

The VA is the penultimate example and I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy. That's where our veterans go to commit suicide in the parking lots waiting on help.

22 Veterans.
Not just lead but a well studied mechanism of crime is simply poverty.

The more poverty, the more crime. Crime rates are very highly associated with material conditions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Major_Major_Major
I’m young enough that I never had reason to create a Facebook account (my friends never socialized on it), until a couple days ago—I wanted to buy something on Facebook marketplace. I thought, this is how Facebook stays relevant while creating my account. Of course, in order to prove me wrong, my account was instantly suspended. I was asked to provide a verification selfie, which I did, but I haven’t heard back.

It’s amusing in a depressing way that these anti-bot measures hit so many people.
There is STK Toolkit by Julius O. Smith - which has a stunning violin model. But because I havent learnt C++ i dont know how stunted it is - as the IP is owned by Yamaha - but the code is still available, i dont know how that works.
One thought that is likely to be controversial... Prefer simpler and flatter directory structure over heavily nested and over-organized directory structure.

It's annoying to have a slight error in your import (ie features/segment/part/buttons/MyButton should be features/segment/portion/buttons/MyButton)

I've found through trial and error it's better to just have components/MyButton, maybe another level down
If anyone would like to try it for coding in Neovim, I just added it to:

https://github.com/frankroeder/parrot.nvim/
It's the opposite of AR, it's VR augmented with real imagery.
Only if there’s enough forewarning, the radar is operational, the aircraft is within its range given prevailing space weather conditions, and that it’s pointing in the right direction. The latter is important because OTH radars are almost all fixed and can’t be steered.

Yes, governments would love to have global 24/7 coverage even over the open ocean. In practice that’s neither possible nor practical.
That's only the last two years and does not negate over two decades of data showing a downward trend
Very cool, you might like this - https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/porta...

A single photon source from an LED. I need to read it more closely, but was curious if it could be used to create a quantum RNG.
tracker1 is saying that in that case there would be a feature named shared, which other features then reference.
Confused him with Ivan Sutherland and got very sad for a moment.

Don't know who Donald Sutherland is.
For me that's only true if I itemize. With the standard deduction being $29,200 for me this year, that's a tall hurdle. And at that, the only benefit is any amount over the standard deduction.
I'd question the source on that. Unless something changed in the last couple months, Tax Foundation puts the burden higher in Washington.
Yeah I didn't mention Friedl because I've dumped on him in the past, and didn't want to belabor it. But Friedl definitely didn't start this. According to him, he was just using what was common vernacular even back then: http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/248 (Note that blog is from 2006, but he's actually quoting himself from ~10 years prior to that in 1997.)

But... he is the one who ultimately installed this ambiguity into a classic book that is still read to this day. So I think he can at least be blamed for popularizing the confusion. And especially since the entire book is framed around "NFA" and "DFA" regex engines. It's not like it was just some one-off mention. The mix-up is baked into the conceptual fabric of the book. The landscape also looked different back then. It predated RE2 for example, and RE2 is, I think, principally responsible for bringing "backtracking semantics" to finite automata oriented engines. So Friedl's book is forever stuck in a false dichotomy that only happened to exist back when he wrote it.
During a conversation it mentioned "my last update April 2024".
You're not taxed on it if you deduct your charitable contributions. (Presuming you're in the US, and don't make so much that you're under Alternative Minimum Tax, and maybe a few other assumptions...)
It's only a solution if you actually have the means to do so.

If you do not, then the best you can do is to learn to play the game as best you can, so that at least you won't lose quite so badly.
The other thing with ADA it's always distinctly had the feel of the kind of thing that sure, they have to (eventually, maybe) comply with, but I can't help but feel it's the sort of thing that will implicitly count against you when it comes to things like promotions. Similar debate (also applicable to me) to "I have diagnosed high-function autism. Do I disclose?"
If everything is subjective, we lose all sense of right and wrong.
You can do this today by querying the AST output by a compiler. Regardless, the parent comment was talking about exploits, not vulnerabilities/bugs. Vulns are a dime-a-dozen compared to even PoC exploits let alone shippable exploits.
Every tech company tends to die if they don't survive and profit the next breakthrough, there's no stability. Google is far from stable right now and not winning on AI won't help.
I see a lot of workers in HN taking that position, or at least some very persistent sock puppet corporate accounts hah.
HN is my most addictive social media, should this site be banned? :)
It is telling, perhaps, that a few of these are no longer alive (kable, astro etc)
lmao sad but true
> The compounding problem for Russia is that not only is the war killing a million plus people.

The compounding problem is that the said number which doesn't even make sense, is reported by its enemies, who also sold things like the nonexistent Iraqi WMDs and ghost of kiev. Who also said that Ukraine would be at Moscow's gates in a month. And yet people like you still keep believing their sht. No wonder you people cant get out of the knee-deep sht that you put yourselves into.

You people are delirious. You buy into things because you like what you hear. Then you end tits up, unable to make sense of how you ended up in the sh*t pits that you end up in, and start somewhere to throw the blame at.

But then again, what a convenient situation to end the imperialism that has been propagated by the Angloamerican-dominated West for the last 200 years. There cant be a worse external enemy to your countries than your lying elite and the foolish public who believes in their lies.
If someone says they care, observe their actions. This is the revealed intent. The words are meaningless, and cost nothing to speak.

If it is clear someone is being dishonest due to action speech delta, say so, loudly and in a manner that leaves a durable paper trail. Accountability dies in the darkness and silence.
I'm curious to know if you avoid movies/TV-shows in a similar manner?
I also recommend Bart Hopkin's book "Musical Instrument Design" - which is a practical crash course in DIY musical instrument making / mixed in with a below informal instroduction to acoustics/physics.
Actual? Is this not reversed engineered?
I really wish more people would realize this about the ADA and other similar legislation in other countries - yes, a company is legally required to make reasonable accommodations... but they don't have to be happy about it or hop to it right away. They will delay as long as they can and try to avoid it like the plague if it's going to cost them money.
I found it surprisingly approachable -- yes it discusses convolutions, but it also teaches you what that means in a very step-by-step manner, with nice illustrations.
Are there? I would easily accept that it might struggle with drivers, but what architectural reasons would stop XP working on brand new x86 hardware? The CPU should be backwards compatible, boot will be a little funky if you're on a pure UEFI system but some web searching seems to show people booting XP on UEFI with only a bit of awful hacks, ... and I'm blanking on what else would be a problem, honestly.

Edit: Oh, just now noticing your comment about P/E cores being a problem. Maybe? I'm surprised that that would break it, but maybe if it's explicitly checking that the CPU cores all match or something? Still seems like a minor, self-inflicted, and easily-patchable problem? Not that it would handle P/E cores well, just that I'd expect it to run on them.
Plus according to Jonathan Haidt in Happiness Hypothesis, commuting, noise and lack of control are among the most significant things that make people unhappy. All of them are manageable at home. And also these are rarely taken into the discussion.
They relied on the taxpayer to fund their de facto customer service. It's like aged care homes overusing a public ambulance service instead of hiring an on-call doctor or nurse. Or shops not hiring security and overusing police resources.

Public services are there to be used, but there's a line that gets regularly crossed by profit-seeking entities who do not optimize for public good and see public resources as something to be used up as much as possible as long as they can save a dollar.
no, I'm saying I believe in the free market. buy a product that meets your requirements. if you find it doesn't, return it for a refund. do a chargeback if they won't do a refund. you are entitled to a refund within 14 days.

https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/return-refund-laws-eu/#:~:tex...
This is exactly what I was looking for!

They feature an "Ask AI" widget in the bottom-right of their own docs site (https://docs.kapa.ai/) and some of their customers are doing the same: https://www.prisma.io/docs | https://docs.mapbox.com/ | https://circleci.com/docs/ | https://fusionauth.io/docs/
A better metric is "people who have N times the median wealth", since that accurately captures the power disparity that stems from access to more resources. The exact percentage will vary significantly depending on how unequal distribution of wealth is in any given society.