skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe gus_massa was just saying that we simply define out of existence this supposed problem with measurement (for macro objects). This is done because even though the 'furniture of the world'/everyday objects/macroscopic objects are still quantum entities, at this level, error rates are such that they can be treated in a classical manner.
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Something I'm not seeing represented in the comments: Libraries are already under attack. The library in my hometown was the subject of national reporting for the attempt by theocrats to attempt to remove gay parenting books from the library. It was vigorously protested by members of the community, the state ACLU actually sent someone to speak at our county commissioners court meeting. Its still ongoing and the fight has shifted terrain, but my point is that things like the LFL are used, again and again, as ways to undermine state institutions. When individuals and groups with a motive to attack and undermine a specific institution can point to an alternative that allows them to say they aren't actually, say, anti-intellectual, they will do that. On top of that, its worth pointing out that libraries represent the spectrum of human achievement and failure on their shelves. There's a beautiful quote on the wall in the downtown branch (Harold Washington) that goes something to the effect of "libraries are a record of both human genius and stupidity". Librarians are there to make sure that books that are records of our past, that may not have wide cultural currency, are not only preserved and defended, but accessible to the public for free. Exchanging that for an upper middle class located box of, truth be told, overwhelmingly Dan Brown style potboilers seems like a really bad call. Librarians as a group are one of the fiercest defenders of free speech we have in this society, and we subtlety undermine them when we crow about "free" boxes of mass market paperbacks and, at least in texas, where for awhile I stopped constantly to check, lots and lots of conservative Regnery-type political screeds and Protestant apologetics.
The American Heart Association now recommends against daily aspirin use for most people.

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/03/18/avoid-daily-aspirin...
They're explicitly not claiming sovereignty.
That's pretty different from what I have heard elsewhere. Could you please provide some references so I could read further?

Here is a link that argues the opposite side:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-residence-time.htm
Are you implying that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist? Because that is patently false. Yes, Trump may be racist, but just because someone is racist, doesn’t mean everyone who supports them is racist.

Also, the argument that majority rule is what should elect someone is wrong for many reasons; The biggest being that the constitution is what created the electoral college. Yes, the electoral college has issues, but it’s the best we have when only 58% of the voting population turns up.
Chaucer was covered in a sense, but in History rather than English. The class did not read him, except for one student who chose that as the focus of a class project.

I did have a high school English class covering (among other, non-medieval works) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the story of Tristan and Iseult. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was read in translation, but Tristan and Iseult was a fairly modern reimagining (set in the original period), with an author's introduction discussing how she chose to omit the magic that was present in the original because she thought it detracted from the agency of the characters.

Edit: found it - it was this one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374479828/ . "Tristan and Iseult: an inspired retelling of the legendary love story".
I'm very appreciative until I come by a limitation that would be trivial in a "traditional" development environment, but practically impossible in the low-code platform due to it's design. Then the magic is gone and suddenly I have a bunch of negative emotions about the platform as a whole.
I thought the current fad was to use holography to explain it. The problem is that to measure something in quantum mechanics requires separating the world into two systems. To make exact measurements, the observing system has to be infinitely large to avoid quantum fluctuation, and the experiment has to be repeated infinitely often because it is probabilistic.

To deal with the infinite size, particle physicists push the observer systems out to infinity. This is fine for scattering experiments because collider detectors are so large and far away from a collision it might as well be infinity, but this poses a problem for quantum gravity and cosmology.

It seems that the most popular approaches to dealing with it have been based on Juan Maldecena's AdS/CFT correspondance, which is a toy model that allows those observers off at infinity to live on the boundary of spacetime and to describe the behavior of the interior entirely in terms of the projection of that behavior onto the boundary.

The challenge is that our universe doesn't look like Anti de Sitter space, but rather like (plain) de Sitter space, and so there is no natural boundary to project onto, which has led some physicists to question the legitimacy of dividing the quantum mechanics need to divide the world into 2 systems.

The measurement problem seems like an artifact of that, and what's really happening is that measurement causes the two systems to become entangled. Wave function collapse would then be the subjective result of the two systems entering a mixed state, because the observed system can no longer be described independently of the system that just observed it.
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> The other issue would be "taming" the ARC

Has anyone considered replacing ARC? It actually has fairly poor hit rates compared to other policies, with very modest improvements over LRU. I also wonder how much ghost entries contribute to space overhead, which is actually trivial to remove (ARC is an adaptive SLRU - so replace ghosts with a sampling hill climber).
Apple has little motivation to fix durability issues. They've always been willing to prioritize elegance and form over durability anyway. This is a fine Italian motorcycle, not a Russian dirtbike, of course it has less tolerance for the user "using it wrong". Sure it would be nice if they made them more durable but that's just not the kind of product they are interested in making and it's working out well for them thus far. Part of owning a "premium" product is signaling that you can pay the associated costs that go with it so being not durable enough isn't as bad of a thing for a high end product like an iPhone or MBP.
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They dared questioning the power of government.
People need multiple things. A big-screen TV is of no help to someone dying of measles.
I now feel both wrong and vindicated at the same time. It's a very specifically HN state to enjoy. Thanks!
Check out the link above from Apple's website, the quote is from their extended warranty page.
Inflation is not (directly) related to the supply of a currency, but to the value of that currency (usually measured vs the amount of goods/services a unit can purchase). When a currency loses value over time, it is inflating, when it gains value over time, it is deflating.

Now, supply of a currency CAN impact its value, so large increases in supply can lead to large decreases in value. It seems pretty obvious that the main driver of value changes in Bitcoin is not the supply but the demand. The block reward will only have a significant impact on the deflation of bitcoin if demand becomes much, much more stable. Since the primary driver of Bitcoin demand is speculation, this does not seem likely anytime soon.
I just donated 200+ books. They were ecstatic to receive them. It's a reasonably good way to go. Plus, what they don't want or won't sell, then they can decide what to do with so that I'm not a book murderer. My book conscience is clean.
>Wasn’t his appointment an elaborate practical joke, in that it was the federal department he wanted to shut down but forgot the name of

Do not downplay this appointment. It was not a joke. Attempting to dismantle government institutions is stated republican policy.
New, probably. But used sailboats aren't hard to find at good prices. Something about there being two great days for boat owners: the day they buy it and the day they sell it.

They go for US$20k-US$30k if you're okay with a 30 year old one.
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/Sail/Cruiser%252FRacer/Cata...
With Technology, a New Walk of Freedom
No. It would take far more digits of accuracy than we can measure.

For example, here's an object of 1 kg mass. The product of the uncertainty of its position and momentum is h-bar / 2, or h / 4 pi, which is about 5e-35 kg m^2/s. We're going to measure the position to one wavelength of visible light (say, 500 nm wavelength, so 5e-7 m). That means that we need to be able to measure the momentum to an accuracy of 1e-28 kg m/s, which for a mass of 1 kg means measuring the velocity to within an accuracy of 1e-28 m/s. Good luck with that...
They used to have a good native iOS app back in the early days. They now replaced that with an Apache Cordova or React Native app (actually it’s probably too shitty to be a React Native app).

It is the worst pile of shit I have ever used. I’ve used non-native apps like that before but this is the worst I’ve seen so far.

And of course, the app has the usual dark patterns around trying to get you to share your contacts, add a photo (there’s a persistent banner at the top of the feed asking you to add a photo and follow some “sources” - hashtags full of spam that is - even though I’ve had the account for 2 years now so they clearly should know I am not going to do any of those things no matter how many times they ask).
DI for testability adds complexity to code and reduces readability. In Ruby it's almost always unncessessary to use DI because in Ruby you can stub at runtime.

In other statically typed langues like Rust the type system itself eliminates the need for a lot of these tests but at the cost of mental overhead of expressing your logic in a way which will satisy the type system.
Can you explain to me how the last sentence speaks to the need for subsidies?
I completely agree, scrolled through a lot to get to some positive comments. Love the keyboard, especially considering how thin my 13" MBP is (I have a "huge" Windows laptop also, since I work in CAD development, and its keyboard is pretty good too). I do generally dislike the touch bar though (it does have its moments).

One thing I find interesting, is that the first couple dozen of negative comments are from people saying "I left Apple products behind X years/months ago"... Not necessarily people that use Apple products, or this keyboard, daily.
Cellular Activity in Pig Brains Was Restored Four Hours After Death
You are spreading mis-information. Attention, and lack of it, is something humans have understood for thousands of years.

1) stimulants and narcotics are two very different things, with diametrically opposite effects.

2) Not everyone can improve performance, due to U-shaped response curve. Those that are functioning optimally will actually see their performance decline.

3) ADHD is one of the best understood disorders. Impaired working memory (i.e. ability to concentrate) can be easily diagnosed quite definitively with CPT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_performance_task

It is of course personal choice in the end to decide on treatment, but if the ability to concentrate is in the bottom 1-5% - it is going to be painfully obvious to any half-decent paediatrician.
A modest proposal for overloading arithmetic operators in JavaScript
I'm curious, why not override the usual + operator, which is far more idiomatic, instead of trying to get cute by using using an operating which generally implies division. Yes, it's fun once you understand it, but at a first look, it's more confusing than useful, whereas + would be fairly self explanatory.
Did you read the wiki page? It would move in stealth mode for weeks until it gets close enough to strike at high speed. This is a deadmans switch kind of weapon more than anything designed to counter us anti ballistic initiative on a budget.
For people who aren't familiar with "the church" mentioned above, it is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA LDS Church AKA the Mormon Church[1].

In Utah the Church has a large (usually indirect) influence over politics. They don't often pick sides, but with some social issues like Gay marriage and legalized Cannabis they have specifically reached out to members encouraging them to vote a certain way.

[1] https://www.lds.org/
Hilarious and very well done!
In my experience to get decent "show off in benchmarks" performance with ES you want your index to fit in RAM as well, but I haven't done much work with ES outside of high RAM boxes.
Keyboard and processor are unrelated dimensions of improvement.
i can easily imagine a NIMBY who doesn’t go to public libraries because they might get the poor on them, but puts a box at the corner of their street because it’s cute and raises property values.
Even Germany had an inkling of what was going on. The research papers before the war were talking about possibilities like bombs, and then there was suddenly radio silence on the issue. The physicists left in the Axis understood what that meant
I do understand the sea-steaders POV.
It is annoying how when you are born, you are born into a pre-existing system of corporations and government over which you have little to no say in.
One must get some pointless job in order to pay rent and not be homeless.
For large sections of our evolutionary history humans lived in small groups and were nomadic.
I reckon we still have instincts to explore and be self-governing and independent which are utterly stymied in the current milieu.

ps. I'm not intending to romanticize the past, which was pretty much chronic warfare and disease.
That statement is categorically false. One simple example is online gaming/MMOGs where a latency of 200 ms would be be a miserable experience. The upper bound often targeted for "acceptable interactivity" is somewhere between 100-130ms.
We also got this little thing called Prop 13 in California between then and now.

That and we figured out how to make really tiny transistors and the entirely new industry set up shop here.
what about polycom? the one used to have more markshare before Cisco purchases its major competitor Tanderberg, it seems zoom does not build its own hardware, the legacy players like polycom/tanderberg(cisco) still do, maybe it's the time to use off-the-shelf hardware with zoom software these days.
Apple has public and private metrics for battery life that at least incentivize the internal teams.

There are also orders of magnitude difference between a sleeping device and an idle device, and an idle device to a fully loaded device. We are talking three weeks to 20 hours to 35 minutes. And that gap will only continue to get larger
I would hope that most folks are smart enough to realize that the people who perpetuated these atrocities are all (almost?) dead now. Modern Japanese folks had nothing to do with it, most of them weren't even born yet.
People and their technology are part of both nature and the universe, so, you're wrong.
Looking at the map of my own neighborhood, I'd be surprised if half of the Little Free Libraries are registered.

If I didn't have a lot of money, but had some scrap wood to make a little something for my neighbors to use, I sure as heck wouldn't spend $40 to register it!
Annecdata. I had someone accidentally knock a glass of water over a working T440s and it died.
Just get up and walk around every hour or two...
That is literally the worst implementation. Even Linux which fell for this stupidity too (GDM has a locksceeen) at least does the good thing that any typed character automatically dismisses the lock screen and is typed into the password field.
That's what I'm thinking. An old enough and used one is like an old diesel car. As long as it still runs, it will still be worth what you paid for it.
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RTS would be a major breakthrough for both fusion (superconducting electromagnets) and energy storage (SMES), actually.
I love her response, and I'll have to remember it for when people ask me the same sort of question. My experience is very much like hers.
Truth.

That said, I'm not calling for the abolition of either public libraries or little free libraries. I'm just saying we need to be clear about our goals when we do things (especially social justice things). If the goal is "put more books in the hands of poor kids" as an act of personal charity, then there are better ways to do it. Hence the example of my spouse.

There's a lot of intellectual dishonesty in the virtue-signaling claims of those in the article. It's not the virtue signaling itself that's the problem, it's being dishonest about the motivations of others for selfish aims.

Why do people put up LFLs? To share something they love. To decorate their yards. As a statement of culture for themselves and their neighborhood. Dismissing it as "virtue signaling" is deliberately derogatory. And this sort of argument is rife in the social justice movement in general. As someone who wears the "social justice warrior" label proudly, I'm not fond of the warriors who prefer circular firing squads.
The question, as always is, who is going to stop them?

"international law" exists only up until the point that nations respect it.

I doubt any other nations are going to launch a formal complaint on the couple's behalf.
Just wondering as to why I have to deal with a reseller (and find one - it’s not like they just give you a link in the system settings saying “hey, want enterprise? Get it here!”).

This is one of the few places where their miserable App Store can make a difference, and yet they don’t even use it.
It also reinforces us to confuse popularity with quality, a common mistake on the Internet going all the way back to PageRank.
TYVM.

This kind of feedback gets me pumped about continuing to work on it.
This was something that boggled my mind when reading about the history of Sealand, and specifically how they tried to set up an extraterritorial "data haven" on it. Like, OK, some random Joe decides his floating rock is an independent nation, that's all fine and good. But apparently they actually believed that countries took their independence claims seriously, as opposed to it just not being worth the Royal Navy's time and money to do anything about some yahoo on an abandoned artillery platform. And so they tried to set up illegal businesses on it! Did none of them think that this would only last as long as it took for somebody at a government to actually pay attention?

The same goes for all these libertarian dreams about seasteading nations with no regulations. Guys, that's only going to last as long as nobody actually cares about what you're doing. The moment you begin actually pissing off countries with navies, the aircraft carriers are going to come and all your legalisms about international waters aren't going to count for squat. Because at the end of the day, in both domestic and international law, might makes right. "Seastanders" are a bunch of LARPers who have somehow forgotten that none of this is real.
I'm not talking about Akamai directly, I'm talking about the Azure interface, which is as close to Akamai as most HN commenters are likely to get. Akamai itself is great but the Azure interface makes you (and VZN) look terrible
Considering the time the treatment takes, I'd be curious to compare the results to 25 minutes a day doing something else which syncs up the brain. Playing an instrument (if physically capable) or meditation.
Does not tell us the settings for text analysis done by two engines. Secondly on query side - again, scoring settings of RediSearch vs Elastic are not discussed.

With that it’s just 2 points in space which gives us little information to deduce 58% faster at X or whatever.
Going to keep praying for type/performance optimizations in Python so we can all get past the "python is slow" thing.

Async python is an absolute joy to develop with.
Other users downvoted and flagged your comment until it died. Now you can only see if it you have dead comments visible.
OP here. No climate scientist, just someone who's been following climate change for a couple decades. Not a climate change denier by a long shot, if anything I've actually already made a bunch of large life decisions under the assumption that climate change is going to change this world quite a bit in the next few decades.

The main accusation you make, that I (and other who are promoting this article) are suggesting that the scientists don't know what they are talking about, I actually plead guilty for that. I really do think we don't know what we're talking about anythign other than the primary assertion that we are warming this planet through our actions. I don't believe we actually have a real handle on the rate (we could be drastically under or overestimating) of climate change, and I definitely don't think we have an inkling on whether geoengineering efforts would work the way we expect it to.

The main light bulb for me from this article is it has made me consider even planting trees as a geoengineering effort, as vicarious as other proposals like dumping iron in the ocean or particles into the stratosphere. Right now I would consider any effort at controlling global warming other than actually just reducing emissions as geoengineering.

The most apt analogy I have found for geoengineering efforts like this was given by the comedian Bill Burr in a podcast, where he shits on a Ted talk about genetically engineering malaria mosquitos (https://youtu.be/vEZ0z0WSrUA ).

I have seen similar over-confidence among my fellow scientitsts in biology, in complicated subjects like cancer, immunology and metabolism. Time and again, people will assert they have understood a system, make a drug, and it won't work, and then they will blame the failure on the same complexity they said they had conquered.

We have made tremendous progress on all these scientific fronts (biology, climate science, etc) but the systems under study have become so complex, I would consider it a criminal offense if any scientist makes a claim that they really have figured out all the ramifications of their geoengineering plans. Criminal because I am worried that any major geoengineering effort if it goes wrong might be irreversible. Orders of magnitude more studies are needed IMO to make sure we understand these systems, and I don't think we are going to invest that effort until things get far, far worse. Until then I would prefer we err on the side of caution.

Btw it's not just methane, they actually talk about a bunch of other potential issues (like VOCs) in that article. Also, this is nature mag, if you think nature mag is anti-science or climate change denying I'm not sure who else you think is your ally.
Or not, as it may be.
> a function taking a single argument usually does not need that argument to be named

Would you rather have:

thread_pool.shutdown(True)

or

thread_pool.shutdown(wait=True)

Even with single argument, it's not always clear what the argument means from the function name, so being explicit makes the code more readable.

EDIT: I realize you said "usually", but my point still stands.