skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's good that data is lost . Only items where someone gives enough of a duck to save it should be preserved. It's not as if physical paper content, which ends up recycled or in a landfill 99.999 of the time is any different. It's true that digital formats change but fighting that is the cost of preservation. A museum of software needs to also preserve the context on which software was run in order to save it from the mists of time, albeit temporarily.
inverse square law and lack of any volume of any highly active source makes dirty bombs a nonissue. they are scarier than they are effective.

Again, waste storage is incredibly secure and safe. It wouldn't leech into the water. Nuclear subs have sank into the ocean, and, surprise, there wasn't a global disaster.
Oh man - the thought of trying to build structures with "straight" walls using triangular prisms is giving me the heebie-jeebies. Entirely aside from the impossibility of creating smooth surfaces and right angles - I can imagine coming up with a pattern that reasonably approximates a straightness (to a viewer at a reasonable distance, just like Minecraft's current diagonal patterns [0]) at least on a local scale but which would quickly require somewhat ad-hoc and constant adjustment for structures past a certain size.

I assume the center of gravity of such a world would be the actual center of mass of however the voxels are arranged, meaning players could affect it with large enough structures or small enough worlds. Without adjusting "straight" "horizontal" structures to conform the curvature of the world, gravity would no longer be a force that was normal to the surface of the structure at some points on it.

I can also imagine people digging to the center of a world to find the gravity flip-flop point and playing with it. Or hollowing out the interior of the world in order to get a zero-G chamber (assuming no atmosphere) [1]. Or building gravity trains [2].

[0] https://imgur.com/a/0J5RoE1

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/sphshel...

[2] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gravity_train
True, they also absorbed DEC and Compaq ages ago.
High-Throughput Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling of Plant Cell Types
Basically, it's part of the lie of the mythology of the metric system.

The metric system did some great things (eliminated the use of measures that depended on the substance being measured, dry pints vs wet pints, bushel of wheat versus bushel of oats; simple relationship between units of length, area and volume), some things that were already common at the time (eliminated regional definitions of units; related the volume and mass of water), and some stupid things (metric prefixes).

But at the end of the day, the size of the meter and kilogram were chosen to be very nearly 3 Parisian feet and 2 Parisian pounds, because that made it easier to adopt.
Why is it so important to blame someone now for something they haven't said publicly in over 13 years?
This happened to me too. I rented a Hertz vehicle while on a trip to San Diego in 2005. I had to exchange the car at their airport location due to a flat tire. Two days later while driving from Coronado to Imperial Beach, I was stopped. About four additional officers showed up and had me exit the vehicle at gun point and lay flat on the road, and that's when I was informed the car had been reported stolen. Thankfully I wasn't arrested either, but spent about an hour with the Coronado police on the side of the road getting this mess resolved. I avoid renting whenever possible to this day.
Wow! Really a great tool.

At the crossroads of Web an Vectorgraphics, I’d love to see a „wysiwyg“ svg editor with the visual interface of a great drawing tool like amandine and at the same time a split window pane like the chrome inspector to modify a resulting svg code and having changes there be immediately visible in the visual interface…

Imagine I’d be amazing to get a hang of svg and as a result be able to build some great stuff for example by hooking up d3js…
Was this with 68? If so, could you share specific around what felt buggy.
One aspect many overlook about 4 day weeks is public transport costs.
I speak as somebody who lives in outer London and 15 years ago looked into this with my employer at the time and whilst the salary adjustment aspect for reduced hours was fine with me, what tipped it was the travel costs. Reason being you can buy daily/weekly/monthly or yearly tickets. Which scale in price, and 4x daily tickets was no cheaper than a weekly ticket. So found I would in effect still be paying the same money weekly travel even if only traveling 4 days instead of 5. Whilst such details for many won't be an issue, it is little things like this that add up. Maybe your employer offers free meals, so you then have the extra cost of a days food with a 4 day week.

Whilst we will see the working week reduced, I'm equally aware that for some it may not be ideal. For me an ideal working week would be 3-4 days and 1-2 days education. But then that is another area that gets overlooked - ongoing education.

What is better for many though is proper flexi-hours. The ability to travel to work off-peak - starting later, makes the travel costs more palatable and more importantly - far less stressful. Oh and you can get a seat as well, which is a bonus for London trains.
Have fun replacing all of the CPUs after a few months. There hasn't been an AMD CPU since Opteron that worked correctly on the first stepping. EPYC has a huge number of errata ranging from bit flips to voltage dropouts to hangs and reboots, most of which remain unfixed. I mean "Load Operation May Receive Stale Data From Older Store Operation" is a pretty serious erratum. And AMD has a history of this going back to Barcelona which just flat out didn't work (workarounds for broken Barcelona B3 parts cost 50% performance or more). They don't have the resources to qualify new parts properly and they rely on customers to find all the bugs for them.
Why doesn't everyone just move toward a standard where all executables can be a ZIP file with some glue, and every execution results in the OS unzipping into a cache folder matching the hash of the zip? The OS could also scan a set of directories for executables and pre-extract all of them, and then you could run a command which reverse-matches hashes to executables, so that for example, if you have an app and it's built against a dependency with a specific hash, it can find that hash on the system regardless of the file name.

So you could have executables just sprawled out everywhere on disk, but executing one program would only result in the exact dependencies being loaded, no conflicts. At the same time, you could reference an executable name instead of a hash to use the latest installed version. So you could run an app with "as-originally-compiled-dependencies" or "latest-installed-dependencies". And if you supported recursively resolving zips inside other zips, you could deliver an entire app stack with one file.

As far as avoiding a cache directory, it should be possible to mmap() each specific file in the [uncompressed] zip into memory, have a filesystem driver translate a zip index into a virtual filesystem, and then reading from the virtual filesystem would just read from those mmap()ed sections of memory. That may be stupid, though, so perhaps the zip file can just be a delivery mechanism and a flat-file standard along with kernel modules can provide the rest of the utility?
I don't know what the equivalent to Taleb would be in the hard sciences, but it wouldn't be an antidote to bullshit research. The answer to a bad paper is generally a better paper, not loud whining.
Co-transcriptional loading of RNA export factors shapes the human transcriptome
I like black. As hprotagonist pointed out, everyone has a few things about it they don't like. What I like to do:

$ black --skip-string-normalization my_python_script.py
$ git add --patch my_python_script.py

Then I accept or reject all its suggestions (other than the string "normalization" idea which is not our convention) on a case-by-case basis, then `git commit; git reset HEAD --hard`.
Oracle's server division (Sun) could get sold off, theoretically speaking.
>the metrics of success have always been different in tech.

It hasn't always been that way at all, but it certainly is now. I think this is one of the huge red flags about the modern incarnation of the tech industry.
They're not a government and it's reasonable for them to have some editorial control over what's posted to their platform (in the interest of keeping it a place their users want to be).

A lot of this is detailed in the article, it's helpful to read it.
If books are all we need, why did anyone bother creating the Internet?
>A few days later, I was walking toward the railroad crossing I often had to wait at between my house and campus, and just for a moment looked at those tracks and I seriously thought about where I should place the Minecraft blocks to build a bridge and avoid waiting for the train.

This is called the tetris effect. I've had it with, you guessed it, tetris. Whenever I get a bout of addiction and play tetris for an hour at a time I get up from the computer and just start seeing the stuff around me start fitting together in an interlocking fashion.

Happened with 2048 as well, I vividly remember being stopped at a red light and feeling the car in front of me fusing the one ahead to make a bigger-numbered car. Very weird.

Happens when coding as well, in fact it is happening right now as I type this! I'm having this very strong urge to wrap all "key" words in this post [like so], in ocaml documentation syntax.

(* Brains are weird! *)
Siderophore-inspired chelator hijacks uranium from aqueous medium
Doesn’t it cache everything that it’s formatted, meaning you could paste + save to achieve the same effect? I had the same annoyance as well but stated doing it this way and never had any complaints.
Apple and Google Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with Featured Apps
Reading between the lines, I think someone forgot a WHERE clause in their UPDATE statement....
My priority date is 10 years away. Petition filed in 2017.
Identification of a regeneration-organizing cell in the Xenopus tail
If you think in terms of promoting a culture of safety rather than finding the right people to blame, I think there are more creative solutions available.

Despite Boeing's recent problems, the airline industry is very good at safety. Government regulation has a lot to do with this. (And allowing Boeing to use in-house workers as a substitute for government regulators seems to have been part of the problem.)
spud bud
I am a product manager and basically live in slack. My job is basically to communicate all day. On the flipside I've spent the last couple years learning to code in my free time and I can't imagine being interrupted by slack while im in a groove. It's def made me better about waiting to talk to my devs in our daily meetings despite being right next to them
> We still build career expectations around this model, but it's mostly not true anymore.

Back in the day, the stodgy "legacy" SV companies like HP recruited for all positions internally. The NYT had a story in 2017 about a custodial worker who worked her way up into a corporate role over 10+ years. That was only possible because she saw and spoke with office staff every day and the familiarity and mutual respect helped her get a foot in the door when non-custodial positions became available.

That would be impossible today because most firms use contract labour, that rotate across different employers. If I remember the article correctly, Google's policy even puts technical contractors and FT staff in separate canteens, so there's even less ability to share ideas and network with FT staff who might be able to recognize your work and recommend you to the internal HR team.
Brand necrophilia. Compaq consistently built better gear than HP before being absorbed. HP used that brand for their junk as a way of getting back at Compaq.
> The ideal way to validate it is to be so immerse in the industry/problem such that you understand most of the pain points. Do the job that your ideal customer is doing.

I think this is a great reason to have a co-founder. I co-founded a company with a domain expert, and her ability to get in front of and understand our target audience was way more important to our startup success than my development ability (and the equity shares reflected that). I mean, we needed each other, but she was far more unique than I was.

The alternative for a developer is you immerse yourself into a different domain, or you build tools for developers. Both of which are good paths, but the former is far more time commitment and latter is more common (and thus more competitive).
I am from Washington DC and, while it's true that the President is always accompanied by a security retinue -- for reasons well-founded in history -- it is not uncommon to see members of either legislative body walking around unattended. It used to be more common, that's true, but it's still not unusual. The less of a media profile they have, the more likely it is that you'll run into them at a coffee shop.
I don't get your last point - I think he is clearly in favor of "if you take the risk, you deserve both the win and the loss" - explicitly calling out that people who risk other people's money and take their cut whether it wins or loses are the worst.
> Plex doesn't convert files for storage on a portable device

I don't know about Plex, but Kodi does this.
Is it still a quarter in Canada? Even if it is, they can look forward to using loonies and toonies in the future while dollar coins never seem to take hold in USA …

Surely a lot of people don't mind losing USD25¢ to toss the Aldi shopping card in the ditch behind the parking lot?
Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst on the IBM Merger, SUSE and Ubuntu
Imagine the rules that are codified because of this being used by people to ideologically disagree with. Generally laws are very _very_ hard to get rid of.
It's one of those subjective things with design and why we have so many cars/etc to choose from. To each his/her own. I personally like the design.
> Primary care being part of insurance is ridicolous.

It’s the cheapest to provide and saves a lot of “downstream” costs
"Every large team I spoke to had an exceptionally high bar and was unwilling to entertain Level until it was significantly more “mature.”"

They all made the right decision, as it folded only a couple months later.
If it doesn't provide anything useful then why was it included in the first place?
Some books are not meant to have any changes to fonts, size or reflow. "House of Leaves" is one example of a book formatted specifically for printed books which does not translate well to ePub. (source: I read this book in epub)

When it comes to preserving the intended layout, PDF simply translates better.
Not really that unambiguous depending on the market and/or product. You could make the argument that these HIV drugs are miraculously helpful! As you jack up the price. People keep buying it at any price, must means its fantastically effective, right?
Tesla’s self driving strategy is to throw more data at a neural network until it learns to drive. That’s as out of touch with reality as a person thinking they can learn to fly if they just flap their arms enough times.
Either choice is a bet. We choose to abort the pregnancy because we had first hand experience with spina bifida going very bad, and felt we protected our child from the unsufferable suffering many of them live through, but there are some amazing exceptions in this thread.

We'll never know if we made the right choice, and I wish with all my heart this kind of surgery was available eight years ago, holding her corpse broke me completly. At least she is not suffering.
I think this is more of a Youtube issue than a music issue.

I can't imagine Youtube Music is going to exist for long, given that 90% of the GPM subscribers I've talked to would rather swap to spotify than use YTM.
Why not add unlimited resources to the list and call it a day? The problem here isn’t a lack of compassion, political will or information. The problem is the costs, largely due to the legal system which incentivizes litigation and high level policy debate for aggregate clinical outcomes that would benefit societies at the cost of individual liberty.
> I listen from time to time to stations that play the kind of music I like.

You're lucky! In my area, there are no such stations. All of the stations are essentially top 40 (in each of the major genres -- top 40 country, top 40 pop, etc.), talk, and sports.

There's nothing in any of those for me.
Not that it'd be easy but I imagine that you can steal their customers by adding chat rooms and integrations slowly to some other type of software, rather than a more direct angle where you have to win at one of those two moments.
Well sure, but an automatic formatter can still be better or worse. Maybe it won't be as good as hand-crafted formatting, but more bad examples can be avoided.
Seems like there are two things they want to see fixed:

> Several developers report that, in their experience, Black made code formatting worse and decreased readability. Concrete examples shown in the discussion were short lists, which Black reformats when they fit on a single line, and vertically aligned comments, which Black is unable to preserve. This is being addressed [0] in Black and is expected to be resolved before Black becomes stable.

[0] https://github.com/python/black/pull/826
Great post - it really resonated with me, having personally tried to do an overambitious startup that failed with a small budget. I agree with you that doing a 'lifestyle business' and getting to really zero in on a niche group's needs is an ideal area to be.

Thanks for sharing, and hope you find what you're looking for in your next venture (and keep sharing details!).
There are many people looking for introduction into genomics and NGS applications. One of the books I found to be extremely useful is Genomic Quirks (https://www.amazon.com/Genomic-Quirks-Search-Spelling-Errors...). This book explains genomic concepts with several case studies.

Here is a video by the author - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVo8EkeDVI
Hey Aldi! Could you do us all a huge favor and make an accredited, academically sound, university in the US, so we can afford to pay our way through college again instead going into a 100k of debt?
California Classifies Immigration Enforcement as Misuse of Network
>holding down the mouse button to mine

And football is just kicking a ball in a pitch, and racing games is just going in circles in a track. Obviously there's more to it than that simplistic reduction. In particular, you have to think where you mine, how you organise your explorations. Then, you can run into myriad things as you explore: caves, water, lava, dungeons, monster spawners, many types of ore and rock...

And if you don't fancy that and just want the equivalent of a bottomless box of legos, just fire up creative mode.
HP was once considered one of the best places to work, and known for innovation and making some of the best products.

I understand that HP executives had a belief in management by walking around, and talking to the people on the ground.

I think it was around the time of Fiorina that this changed. There were mergers/acquisitions, changes in management style, and changes in industry.

Today, I still see signs of greatness in some HP products, though I can't forget seeing their brand on corner-cutting consumer PCs, and the playing of games with inkjet consumables is bad for brand goodwill.

I don't know how HPE fits into that history, but I suspect that their market demands they perform well.

I hope HPE keeps the Cray name for at least some purposes, and honors the name with great work befitting it. There's also the great name of HP to honor.

(Story: As a nerdy teen, I once got to go to a Cray division (Cray Research Superservers), to port some software. I'd grown up reading about Cray supercomputers, seeing them on the top supercomputers list, etc., Cray had both technical innovation and style, and there was a huge mystique around them. On-site, typing on a workstation frontend, telneted into a big cabinet across the room that would say Cray on it if the panels were on, was an experience I couldn't process, because I was half-terrified into accomplishing the mission (it turned out to be easy), but there was much gushing in awe to coworkers afterwards.)
Computers were a mistake.
If you use PyCharm, you can use cmd-alt-L to autoformat a file (and also reorder/fix imports). By default, I believe it just uses the pep8 standard, which I find generally sufficient, but you can evidently integrate Black via:

https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/editor_integration.ht...
Eh? Straight 6.022*10^23 is what I learned in highschool chemistry in 2003..
I cannot find anything at all that supports such a claim. Do you have any links or supporting spec sheets? All I can find are the same "Supports ECC: Yes" listing for Epyc, Threadripper, and Ryzen. The only spec differences I can find for Epyc vs. Threadripper on the memory side of things is 8-channel vs. 4-channel.
This is a bit annoying. Just collapsing the subthread would be a better option. Context is not lost and the same objective is served.
I fly out of Atlanta (the world’s busiest airport). While it’s usually not that bad, I would never take a chance on arriving less than the recommended two hours.
Can you say more? Which peerweb? Looking at the search results for "peerweb" [1], none of them seems like a serious active project.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=peerweb
My daughter started around 4 after she could hold an Xbox 1 controller. She could hardly push any buttons or move the characters around in the beginning, but within a few weeks she had mastered the common stuff. She usually sticks to creative mode because the monsters used to scare her. She got over that too after learning how to spawn them herself and then it became: how many skeletons can I fit in my house? It's been amazing to watch her growth.
BinaryAST keeps getting proposed, yet hasn't actually demonstrated real improvements.

The first real problem is this adds yet another parser to JS engines, which means more attack surface, and more duplicated effort as it becomes necessary to re-implement new language features in both parsers. That also means you have potential to have bugs where binary-ast and actual JS diverge.

As far as speed goes: parsing and validating JS is already extraordinarily fast, and none of that validation work goes away with binaryast, because the validation also exists to prevent malicious code from compromising the system. Being a binary "AST" doesn't change the simple and obvious fact: it's downloaded over a network so must be treated as malicious.

The cloud flare blog post also makes a number of incorrect claims: A large amount of variable and function resolution already occurs during parsing, binary AST doesn't change anything at all.

The BinaryAST also doesn't do away with deferred compilation, because the reality is that developers keep shipping code with functions that aren't called (either unintentionally, or because different browsers, screen resolutions, etc require different logic). Deferred parsing also doesn't cost much as the validation requirements are more or less all handled in the initial parse (even delayed compilation needs to verify syntactic correctness to avoid executing JS if there's invalid code embedded in a nest function)

It also only compares timings of the Mozilla JS engine but IIRC out of JSC, V8, and SM, SM has the slowest parser.