skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wilson suggests that too-smart people tend to be lazy

There is some truth to this. Bright students often don't have to work that hard at getting good grades. Some kids who just knew all the answers without studying until high school or college never learned how to study. It isn't uncommon for them to have a really tough adjustment period when they suddenly do need to study.

Though maybe lazy is not the best word for it.
> But that's not what's happening here, as you said, the jobs are still here (low unemployment). They're not automated or outsourced, they're done manually for minimum wage (or lower) by hard working immigrants from poorer countries.

If this new labour force had not appeared are you seriously suggesting that UK employers would just have paid more and more to attract workers from other sectors? How would they remain competitive?
> One tab on chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

Two reasons

1) Because, Chrome is ready to do something with that tab: browse the web. Do this, create a browser that doesn't use much memory when a tab is idle. Switch back to that tab and interact with the page or go to a new page. You will experience latency. It will feel slow. That's why the tab uses a lot of memory. It is staying ready at all times to be interacted with by the user and the network.

2) The real reason: Chrome either has no memory budget or the memory budget was set to 100 MB. The engineers decided that some amount of memory usage was acceptable and that's what you get. If a new budget was created, say 10 MB, then what you would see is some very clever engineering to overcome the problems in the first reason I gave. Chrome would be responsive at all times and use very little memory per tab, but at great engineering cost. It would be very difficult, but interesting work.
The only copy I had on my PC was corrupt, but I managed to find a floppy disk from 1997 and a USB floppy drive that worked. I booted into a Linux VM, passed the USB floppy through to the VM, used dd to create a disk image, added it to my BasiliskII configuration, and started a BasiliskII VM inside the Linux VM. I was able to get a Compact Pro file off of the floppy disk image, extract it, and get a working copy of the stack from the archive.

At the time that I wrote this, I had never taken any programming courses. I didn't even have any programming books. I was about 15 and entirely self-taught from reading the source code to other people's HyperCard stacks, so the code quality is probably terrible.

It is very strange to find out that someone else remembers a stupid project I did as a teenager 23 years ago.

http://www.wwddfd.com/plushpuffin/Vumpir.hqx.zip
It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects
I'm starting to think a study focusing on Swedish mothers with really low D (similar to Somali mothers) with Swedish mothers with high D would solve all the mystery here.
Google and Facebook give soldiers intelligence products? Or Palantir operates websites and does analytics of their users? I don't think I understand the comparison.
Obviously the rate you charge would not stay the same if your effective tax rate goes up

In time, that may become true, assuming the market will bear the higher rates. Even that won't necessarily happen, because at some point the higher direct costs of bringing in flexible labour may start to outweigh the benefits of not hiring in-house staff. And as you say, in some industries, there is also the risk of being undercut by cheaper competition working in lower tax environments abroad.

In any case, in the shorter term, you can't just turn around to existing clients and say you're putting their rates up because your taxes changed. You've already got contracts in place and agreements made, and the risk of the business environment changing is borne by the contractor/freelancer/consultancy.

The two are very much equivalent for a large number of small businesses, such as software development and consulting services (not just single person companies).

I don't think that's entirely true even if the direct financial investment in starting the business is low. There is still some overhead, because you have to deal with business paperwork, preparing and filing annual financial statements, in many cases administering a pension scheme these days, handling all the tax and accounting overheads, etc.

More importantly, when you go independent you take on a lot more risk and give up a lot of the security and benefits that come with being an employee. The benchmark of 50-100% higher fees than salary for a similar position is mostly not caused by direct financial differences, it's caused by the uncertainty and inefficiency that come from working from one gig to another, needing to take time out to find new clients and set up new contracts, and so on. In other words, you have to cover the fully loaded cost of an employee to an employer, and you have to do it without the economies of scale of a larger business when you first start (and possibly for much longer).

So even for those businesses with relatively little up-front capital investment, there is still a lot of investment in other respects that goes into getting a business started and keeping it going. And this brings me back to my basic point that if you try to equate income received by an employee with income received through an independent business, even if you allow for the direct financial effects like employers' NI contributions, it's still very hostile to small businesses to increase dividend tax dramatically as the UK government did not long ago.
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
I was just going to ask about evidence of increasing disease. The OP's claim smacks of rosy retrospective bias.

Even if the numbers did increase, most of the time this is due to improved detection, or shifting age distributions, ie. an older population will necessarily have more health issues.
> "That is literate programming, is closer to a jupyter notebook than to 'comments on scripts'."

Surely that's a matter of perspective? Imagine you have a text document containing one command and one description of that command. Is this a literate programming document or not?

Furthermore, does the mode change depending on which tool is used to open the source file? For example, if I open a Bash script in a text editor then it's a document, and if I open it in Bash then it's a script, but if I could open it in a tool that allows me to both read and execute the script at my leisure does it then become a literate programming document?

Aside from this, to use your Jupyter notebook example, is it necessary for the results of execution to be captured in-line in order to follow the literate programming methodology?
The stated failed element was Northrop Grumman separation module, so there's no way to tell really.
Are you kidding!? This is Emacs! You can tell it exactly how to do everything. Just advise/redefine the relevant functions. ;) The documentation of ox and publish does not cover everything, but when in doubt, just ask Emacs what code it runs when you do the thing you want to modify.

On my site (https://two-wrongs.com/) there is very little left of the original HTML. I'll see tomorrow if I can dig up the Lisp code I wrote for it.
You don’t get to define the word. He started a company which is now public and worth close to a billion dollars.
Something is odd here. From the study itself, the observed declines in lung function were only observed in females, not males. This was among respondents that identified as occupational cleaners too, so you can't just attribute that difference to "gender roles". Also, for women, the rate of decline was the same for occupational cleaners (it was their job) vs home cleaners (they cleaned their own home).

Nothing good comes from breathing cleaning spray, and this research references other pieces to suppprt that claim, but it seems possible that this research is honing in on some other common factor besides cleaning exposure, else degree of exposure is negligible in the outcomes and male biochemistry renders men immune to this effect.
Technically Sri only reduces the amount of trusted data you need to keep around; you'd need an index.html that loads gpg.js and a js client that talks to a server (eg: jmap or a bespoke jsonapi that allows getting/sending mail).

This is pretty much what browser extensions do; bottle up some hypertext resources, signed and versioned.

You still have three obvious threats: local superuser can read application memory etc; your local user can read your memory and any browser compromise/bug can likely read your browser/session data.

The real question is if the browser sandbox is ever likely to be good enough that you don't have to worry about a font file from a compromised website about kittens reading your email in another tab.
Umm, maybe you think the founders of this "growth strategy" website submitted it multiple times?
Not everyone can read the link. Many people are just presented with a disclaimer : " No attempts have been made to support older webbrowsers like Internet explorer and Edge 15.
I recommend: Firefox ".
> "the father of sociobology"

I will never understand why people write articles without a spell-checker.
I Suppose one could say the same thing about your post. Yes we all have personal issues to deal with but what level of insecurity or damage pushes individuals to use this as a coping mechanism.

I don’t know about others but quite often when I see what I, and likely most people, classify as an over-achiever I usually wonder what could push them to want to do those things. Best guess is they need to keep their mind in overdrive lest some personal reflection occur. I don’t envy them or their successes.
Solar is not going to work in many states the way it can in say CA, AZ or NV. Beyond that though, I really wonder how they are going to find enough resources to build a robust enough system of backup/peak use storage not just in CA but the entire country? I thought this was already going to be a challenge as electric car/truck share grew.
Thanks, this really got the old gears turning.
If I remember correctly, I had a look at the pandoc option, but got to the conclusion that this way, I would throw away useful 'syntactical' information (for example, I use todo-flags, tags and timestamps to track open tasks).

If you use org-mode without the need to extract such specific information (and are only interested in generating a document), pandoc might of course be a good way to go.

Edit: ...or maybe there even is a hack to identify and extract things like timestamps anyway. I didn't look into it that much.
It's even worse than that. If you Google "Ivan Castellanos github" to try to find him that way, you get this:

https://github.com/IvanCastellanos

But that is not the right Ivan Castellanos. The Ivan CSS3 animated resume is from this Ivan Castellanos:

https://github.com/Ivanca

That one does not show up anywhere on the first couple of pages of Google results. Even if we narrow the search specifically to Github by Googling for "Ivan Castellanos site:github.com", it does not show up. Apparently, he doesn't have his name anywhere on his Github pages, so Google doesn't find him.

LinkedIn has over a hundred Ivan Castellanos profiles. I gave up when I saw that so have no idea if you can find his LinkedIn that way.
So you are saying that my ATTITUDE made THEM rape or stab or kill someone?
M-x profiler-start

M-x magit

M-x profiler-report

You can accomplish a surprising amount of optimisation after seeing what it is that takes time.
Isn't it interesting that solar/wind was dismissed because it was erratic, and now it is being proposed (with battery storage) instead of "peaker" plants?
That’s interesting, I always thought that React brought a little bit of the desktop experience to the web since you can create components that are fairly self-contained. Of course, as you said, the opposite is also true since you’re using JavaScript.

To me the biggest benefit is that you write your code once though. Especially with a React based kit like Expo.
Memory usage of a browser mostly depends on the web page. Compare a static web page with a JavaScript heavy web page that creates thousands of objects.
Scons and CMake are both heavier garbage, for mostly the same reasons: both require unnecesary dependencies, Scons requires Python which is a monster, and CMake is a bitch to build. Neither fully implement all of Make's capabilities, because both authors never really mastered Make and misunderstand it.

As a final slap to CMake, in the end it generates Makefiles, proving that Make is the be all, end all when it comes to build engines.

You better buy the book on Make and learn it and learn it well instead of wasting your time on toy tools. The longer you try to avoid it, the more time you'll waste.
Proposed by who? The Sierra Club?

It's still far less efficient that fossil fuels, harder to store, and more expensive to collect.

This has "rolling blackouts" written all over it.
To what now?

Add that to the list of sentences that are syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical.
> (the attacks described only work on convolutional neural nets as far as I know).

These attacks work on basically every classifier. It works for multi-layer perceptrons, it works for linear models, it works for random forests, it works for SVMs. It works on basically anything that tries to generalize far from the points it is trained on.

There are a lot of super interesting results in this area, but it's practical significance is waaaaaay over-hyped. One cool thing I saw recently was that some researchers made a physical turtle statue with a texture on it that fooled ML systems into thinking it was a gun, with I think the implication that you could make an AI system think a gun was a turtle, but you could also just put a gun in a turtle case, which fools humans as well as AI systems.
High schoolers teach basic tech literacy to former prisoners that life passed by
At least in the US, it's almost certainly not written into the law or sentencing guidelines, so any leniency based on improved safety would have to be at the sole discretion of the judge.
He estimated the cost of a hyperloop connection between LA and SF at $6b. In other words, less than newest rise in projected cost of this government train. Can it be built in less than 15 years...
Hey, at least the author didn't misspell the first word in the title of their thesis: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/52804... , http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Birke.html

Strangely enough, which I didn't know when first writing this post, is that my aunt knows this lady as they overlapped during their tenure as professors at the university of warwick
> Since 2010, Bloomberg New Energy Finance data show, the price of lithium-ion battery packs have fallen 79 percent.

But aren't Li batteries irrelevant for power plants? The advantage of Li is power/weight, but weight and size are no issue for power plants.
Ok, but the article makes it sound like the whole drive was unencrypted. But maybe that was just inexact reporting.
One thing not touched on in the article is the marginal cost of wind and solar is near zero. Meaning when supply exceeds normal demand the price falls to near zero. This usually presented as a problem, but for some businesses this is potentially a big opportunity. If you consider a electric furnace processing scrap steel can easily use 10-100 MW of power for thirty minutes at a time. Potentially zero margin electricity can be used to decarbonize other industries as well.
Or maybe people are naturally more attracted to the extremes (left and right) when given the choice. Outlets such as the NYT or their right wing counter parts have historically filtered out extreme views. What if youtube was just giving people what they want and the NYT was the de-Radicalizer? For better or for worse. Also note that today's mainstream pro-democracy/social democracy views used to be regarded as radical a couple of centuries ago or just today a few thousands miles away.

Radical ideologues by virtue of not holding any power are devoid of corruption compared to mainstream politicians and for this reason always attract the crowd when they (rightfully) denounce the corruption of the current power that be. Not that they would be just as corrupt in their place.
Show HN: Location based text/photo sharing
This is great to hear! If/when protonmail transitions to be mail host that support open standards in a wider sense, I'd more seriously consider becoming a customer :-)

Fwiw, while I'm not that interested in the current project - I actually think it's great to build a walled garden on open standards - especially for secure services. Makes it easier to evaluate, and opens the door fore secure interop in the future.
Sure. I have this issue and I assume others do to, based on the success of the browser extensions that auto-sleep tabs.

For my part, whenever my computer is slow, browsers are almost always the cause. I typically restart one or both of my browsers (Chrome/Firefox) when my computer is slow or the fan is whirring like crazy.
From the article:

> change the way it supplies power when demand peaks. Instead of relying on electricity from three gas-fired plants run by Calpine Corp., PG&E will have to use batteries or other non-fossil fuel resources to keep the lights on in the most-populated U.S. state. The shift is possible in California partly because there’s a surplus of solar power,
Slack Shutting Down IRC Gateway
"Collapsing magic" consists of a projection that somehow happens during the time-evolution of the wavefunction, changing it from a superposition of eigenfunctions into one eigenfunction.

"Branching," to the extent that branching is a good word for what happens, already is known to be a behavior of wavefunctions: as a Gaussian pulse moves, it spreads out (due to dispersion inherent to the Schrodinger equation), and we as humans can arbitrarily call that branching. (But, like I said, it's continuous instead of discrete like the word branching would imply.)

So, what remains is to explain why we find the universe in a definite state, if it time-evolves into something other than specific eigenvalues. But, first, I'll ask you: what happens if you put a manned capsule inside of the isolated particle box, so that the person inside the capsule starts dispersing too?
There are several answers here:

- Is 100 MB the marginal memory cost to add one more tab when you already have a bunch open, or is it the memory usage when you have a single tab open? Don't forget that there is a baseline amount of memory usage for the application itself.

- Measuring memory usage is hard, doubly so for web browsers. You'd think it would just be about counting all the allocations, but shared libraries, sandboxes, and cache make it complicated. Just looking at the "memory usage" panels in Windows/macOS is often misleading: unfortunately I can't find the link at the moment, but there's a great article about how for Chrome, the number you get in those panels is wrong.

- In response to the increasing demands of web standards, browsers have basically become mini-operating systems, and you'd expect them to have memory usage to match.

- Websites are complicated: DOMs get bigger all the time, and it takes memory to store them, especially with the aggressive optimizations browsers use (see next point)

- Browsers use a lot of techniques to maximize performance as much as possible: aggressive caching and JS engines that favor space-time tradeoffs for faster execution being the two big ones. But remember that these are all a question of degree: if there is less memory available, they will use less and just go slower. The browser is just using the RAM available.

tl;dr: you may not be measuring it correctly, it's a difficult problem space, browsers deliberately use as much memory as is available to optimize for speed
This points out a possibility I never thought of: archiving your children's play! I suppose we already keep art that our children produce but something so complexly imagined & constructed over hours was previously fairly ephemeral.

I recently had the pleasure of reviving a game world my brother & I had built three years ago. Wandering around that was a nice trip through nostalgia. These kids will be able to do that for their ten year old selves, all the way up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16539857
I know a fair number of people who've done important new things, and this seems right on the mark:

"There is also an introversion in the innovator that keeps him from team sports and social events. He dislikes authority, or at least being told what to do. He is not a leader in high school or college, nor is he likely to be pledged by social clubs. From an early age he is a dreamer, not a doer. His attention wanders easily. He likes to probe, to collect, to tinker. He is prone to fantasize. He is not inclined to focus. He will not be voted by his classmates most likely to succeed."

An interesting conflict arises when these people become startup founders. If their companies succeed, they're forced to become leaders, whether they want to or not. But they rarely learn to relish it.

And yet these founders are usually the best leaders for their companies, if they can make themselves do it. It's one of the only examples I know where the people who are best at something don't like doing it much.
Only 100? Consider yourself lucky!
Forgive me if this is off the mark, I'm no expert on rails, but isn't that just because CoffeeScript is very ruby-like and therefore makes a lot of sense in the specific context of a ruby-based web framework? I wouldn't see it as a general endorsement of CoffeeScript in any broader sense.
I guess they focus on drugs because there is big money and real goods involved, both of which make it much easier to track down identities.
What is easier to store than electricity in batteries
First and Second Congo Wars, a large part of which is battling for control of the mines in that region. It's one of the conflicts which gave rise to the concept of blood diamonds, which is to say, it's one of the few conflicts that's actually about control of natural resources.

(I'm assuming, of course, that the GP is largely talking about "wars I disagree with" when referring to "actively and openly stealing other countries' resources," because the number of recent conflicts that are openly about resource control is very small and the US is involved with none of them. The Iraq War is often claimed to be about oil grab, but that doesn't really make any sense when you dig into the history of the buildup to the war, and in any case, it certainly wasn't "openly" about it.)
Nice. I use Home Assistant for my Home Automation setup. https://home-assistant.io/

[Over 1,000 components](https://home-assistant.io/components/) are available with more added daily, including [IKEA Tradfri lights](https://home-assistant.io/components/tradfri/).

My Home Assistant config files can be found at https://github.com/brianjking/homeassistant-config if you're interested.

Cheers!
Forward Deployed means you're working at the client place and not in a Palantir office if I recall correctly the information I got when I interviewed with them.
Whatever your position, this reads like a barely touched industry press release.

"Nuclear power is one of the few sources of clean energy that can reliably provide always-on power (unlike solar or wind)"

Ignoring renewable paired with storage when comparing capability with future reactor designs seems dishonest.
This article reminded me how long it's been since I saw the word 'disassembler' anywhere. (IIRC, it started disappearing from common use at about the time the 16-bitters became popular.)