skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if you ride a pedal-assist e-bike, which is pretty much the only type of e-bike that is legal across Europe, then you can take comfort in knowing that you’re likely getting just as much exercise than if you were on a pedal bike

Pretty sure that isn't implied by the study. Even if e-bikers get more exercise than cyclists, that doesn't mean switching to an e-bike causes you to get more exercise, the study didn't show causation. I ride recreationally, for a fixed amount of time. If I switched to an e-bike, I would just work less hard during that time, and get less exercise.
I think the OP wanted to return the land to its' natural state, not farm it or build on it
Right, no one is perfect. Would be great if the issue wasn’t so endemic.
It was a normal reboot via the Start menu.

Quite certainly a cold reboot will wipe GPU RAM, but that's beside the point that software should make sure that unprivileged software from one OS should be able to read privileged contents from another if the first one had all the chances to wipe it from memory.

Alternatively the GPU or driver could, at initialisation time, wipe the memory.
Studies always tout honeybee population decline.

First, honeybees (apis mellifera) are non-native to North America.

As beekeeping history buff (my appeal to auth), the decline in my (unpopular) opinion is little to do with pesticides. It has to do with change on how bees are over-wintered and propagated, and with insufficient knowledge of beekeeping.

Current practice is to "split" hives after last harvest, and then over-winter them, cutting their strength in half.
Prior to the 1960s, the practice was to "combine" the hives after harvest, and then over-winter them, doubling their strength.

This is significant, as splitting hives reduces the hive chances to survive significantly. Less workers, less collection for the remainder of the season, less housekeeping, less chances to resist pests & ilnesses, less heat generation during winter.

The reason for splitting is the promise of nearly doubling the hives in just one year.

Unfortunately the beekeeping expertise curve is very left-skew of the median. Most have less than 3 hives, less than 3 years of expertise. This additionally reduces the chances of the split, and now weakened hives' survival. Of course, when spring comes and they hives are found dead, no one will admit to killing them. It must have been the pesticides.

Anecdotally, from beek meetings some keepers are going "all natural" with no assistance to the hive from small hive beetle, wax moth, varroa & trachea mites, etc. Almost all those hives are now dead. But, not only dead also potentially re- and infecting other beeks' hives despite their best efforts. This is identical to the same thinking as anti-vaxers.

Sure; I know first hand pesticides can kill entire hives. But, in my opinion it is not the primary reason.
Plenty - https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/9301/207/9301_1352...
Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters
Darch[0]?

>Think Dockerfiles, but for bootable, immutable, stateless, graphical (or not) environments for your everyday usage.

[0] - https://godarch.com/
From our point of view, any omnipotent being is a god. Even a near-omnipotent simulated being would fit the definition.

This doesn't mean they have to be worshiped or the center of any religion, it would just mean omnipotent beings do exist.
I see four different, yet incredibly similar, video conferencing tools on that list. That doesn't fill me with confidence when it comes to just how curated the list is.
But would you expect that program to itself be useful for anything else? It literally just takes no input and outputs that one specific Wikipedia dump. It’s not like I can tweak it slightly and have it output new predictions of things that sound like Wikipedia articles.

Unless the idea is that whatever methodology is required to build this particular program could then be adapted to do other things that seem intelligent. That seems possible, but not at all likely given my reading of the challenge requirements.
> A lot of people justify genocide by calling the targets of their mass murder "criminals".

As an aside, the US government currently justifies it's incredibly dehumanising treatment of migrants because they're labelled "illegals".
>So it's more motivating to work hard going uphill.

This is a feature in a sport, but a bug in a transportation method.
Don't you think if those FAANG companies could offshore those jobs they would have already? You think they keep them in SV because they love paying some Javascript guy more than a dentist just so he can afford rent? Please.
+1 for NixOS, it changed the way I approach my personal computer.
Meet the Macaronis
Simulated clock speed, which could be immensely slower than the real clock speed.
I think it just makes you sound like a cute anime character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhfIv5NSqY
If on *nix, gnu stow + git is the holy grail (imo).

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...
"Now 20% less calories!" ??
Very much a nitpick, but I really wish the font remained consistent between articles.
Now do it in consumption growth adjusted for marginal utility of the growth.
My company calls what I do DevOps but I write full stack webapps to support the network operations team. I prefer to call it OpsDev, but noone seems to agree with me.
Who cares? For most Canadians, the goal would be to make some money then go back. The US is a downgrade from Canada in most metrics.
Ansible is probably what you're looking for.
I don't think diversity is important, it is just a meme paddled for a certain political reason, there is no one proof that it is better than an homogenous society and I doubt a proof exists for such a complicated and untestable subject.

However, what we do know is that having large groups of various dominant cultures in one country usually brings divisions in the best case and wars in the worst.

There is already cultural tension between the large groups in the American society. Adding another large dominant group is not going to make anything better, that's why the immigration policy is trying to make an equal blend as much as it can, it would be more accurate to make it based on culture or race but that would be frowned upon, so the next best thing is by country.
when i stopped studying and started working full time, i began to get pain in my wrists. so i got an ergonomic keyboard and a large trackball. i'm fairly sure it's replacing the mouse with a trackball that makes the most difference to the acute pain, but they both do make a difference. but everyone is different. act fast and change everythin,
Can those of us born in the US and educated there be moved to Canada by FAANGs? If that's already happening by all means reply and let me know how to get in on it before all the stuff really hits the fan in the US.
Cool. I'm sure anyone who's played FPS serious knows keyboards are superior. I played Rainbow Six at the top tier on both platforms and I remember the e-sports still uses controllers for FPS games. It's quite amazing what they can do with it given the limitations of joysticks.

Drones are being piloted with Joysticks as are underwater submarines and other technology. Use-cases where high percussion mouse movements and the millisecond differences between mechanical keyboards and a gamepad button are of no value as they are mechanically limited machines - not simulations.
Var, Let, and Const in JavaScript
TypeScript types should be moved to DefinitelyTyped
The article points out that bees are only used as a proxy for all insects and that second-order effects like significant declines in insect-eating birds align with neonic usage.

Your points about bees may be true, but I think they talk about bees specifically because popular culture cares about bees as pollinators and doesn't harbor much sympathy for other insects.
I read about Stow a while ago here in HN, and have been using that + restoring bulk data from backups, as a method to migrate between computers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8487840
I think that percentage gives a reasonable job of looking at the impact that immigrants have on the existing system - NZ takes in far fewer immigrants than the US, but compared with their population they're taking more and would be expected to have a larger impact on society (NZ has lower taxes that the US)
Instead of fighting over the same people for a decade, they could try hiring some junior people and letting them take on increasing responsibility. The guy who made Stardew Valley lived in Seattle, had a CS degree, and couldn't get a job! It worked out for him in the end, but not for the companies constantly whining that they can't find workers.
By the way, those are called the Lucas numbers.
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A pseudo-random noise source may be just as good as the real thing, for producing satisfyingly even-handed results.

But it turns out to be a lot harder to design a really good emulator of randomness than one might guess. Certain Monte Carlo simulations using the Mersenne Twister turned out to be oddly but unmistakeably biased.
Shepard Tone
> Well, H1B visas do not expand the labor pool. H1B visas allow members of an already expanded labor pool to join and contribute to the US economy.

Semantics. In economic terms, it's expanding the labour pool.
What does more specific means?

You have a fleet of N vehicles, a list of M locations. You have to visit all in the shortest amount of time. Now add time windows for the locations, now add the constraint that out of these M locations you have pickups which need to be delivered (one location needs to be visited before the other on the same vehicle ride). Add another constraint - several drivers need to meet at the same time at one of the locations. Let's say drivers do weekly shifts, not daily, so they drive around the country, finding hotels on the go.

Here's another one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_scheduling_problem

There's plenty of similar problems with small and big customers.

Don't see why the startup cost is high. Most of the big players have solutions that suck and most of the big players want yearly contracts or are too expensive for small or middle sized businesses. Big businesses that make a deal realize after a year or two that the feature spec was a lie and that the system just does not work.
Didn't 2600 change fonts all over too?
It's comical that the article suggests we always try to falsify randomness, when the "simple" deterministic explanations (Superdeterminism) at this point are unfalsifiable.
In the US everyone except for the native Americans are descended from immigrants .... something in the range of 99% - here in NZ it's more like 80%
I am a computer person, and I am falling onto my knees with tearful thanks for the wisdom of this. We have barely escaped really-stupid but we're not out of the woods yet.
This whole "how much math is required to work in ______" always feels like reading Rashomon. Everyone is looking at the same situation, but no one sees it the same way. Data Science teams range in size and sophistication across various industries, so obviously "what it takes to be a data scientist" varies based on the company.

Want to be a data scientist in a large org. with limited data science sophistication? You may not need an advanced mathematics background to make an impact; out-of-the-box models/techniques might produce actionable results if you have access to clean data.

Try doing the same thing at sophisticated tech companies (FANG, BAT, etc.). The datasets are massive, heterogenous, and often unstructured. Add to that, large teams full of former Ph.Ds and clever engineers have already given the common problems a go, so any better solution will need to be 'more clever'. It's difficult to be 'more clever' without advanced math.

What is hilarious about these articles is none of them ever say "Math as a SENIOR data scientist", because we all acknowledge that senior scientists know the math. Almost every job listing for senior data scientist will prefer a Ph.D. On larger teams, the Ph.D (advanced math) crowd will come up with the general approach that junior data scientists will work on. So yes, getting in the door as a data scientist requires having enough math/programming so you can at least understand what a senior scientist wants you to do. But if you want to lead a team in a technical capacity, you can't possibly imagine doing that without really knowing the math or having a brilliant track record.

And if you are the rockstar 10x guru Data Scientist who consistently delivers actionable insights without a strong math background, you deserve the respect of everyone here and will probably be my boss someday.
That’s why startups compete with equity for FAANG-types.

If you have offered sizeable equity packages (and have a nice office (or cushy remote benefits) and decent modern tech stack) then even the most boring startups can attract the best - so what is your company doing?
> We can certainly agree that not everyone with a degree or experience is a good hire, but good talent is not one in a hundred.

It also not 1 of 2. And that's quite the gist of it. We get plenty of interest, but people fall off quickly through the hiring process. We don't care what their prior experiences are. We don't demand 50+ hour work week (in fact, we actively discourage people to work past that including commute). Still takes time to find people that can learn to build for scale.

> I don't mean to demean what you do and again, you obviously know more about your product than I do, but no, scale is really not that hard, can be taught pretty readily, and the hardest problems of scaling are already solved by your cloud platform, which is half if not more of their value proposition in the first place. There are a lot of people operating at massive scales even without cloud services. It isn't that unusual.

They do take a huge load off the plate. That doesn't mean you can easily build for scale. There are plenty of companies that can put a few millions of rows in table and serve hundreds of concurrent users. Very few can do that in orders of magnitude higher. That's where we operate.

> I sincerely think you should take a very close look about what your jobs really require and what most software engineers are actually capable of doing. I've no doubt it requires skill and experience. I just don't think it requires as much as you think it does

This is hard to argue. I'm doing this for 5.5 years now, so would guess that I know what we need at this point.
If having simulated beings who prove they're in a simulation is a failure mode, then the super beings would not be running those simulations any more. They've programmed that fatal bug out. What are the odds we're in such a simulation? Exceedingly low.
Bells theorem rules out only local hidden variables. Quantum mechanics itself works around the issue not because of indeterminism, but because wave function collapses everywhere at once in a non local way.

But perhaps we do not even need to abandon locality, if we modify it a bit. There is no good reason to believe that space at short distances should be similar to Euclidean space, one interesting hypothesis is that space is more like a graph, and entangled particles in addition to the normal long path through the graph are also connected directly, which allows measurement on one of them to change the state of the other.
Why do we bend our arms when we run?
Fisher Space Pens are amazing ballpoints that never fail to write smoothly on the first try. Throw the others out. No connection, just picked one up as a kid and still use one: https://www.spacepen.com/
Nixos + storing dotfiles using the simple technique described here (essentially a git repo stored in something other than .git): https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

With the above, the most difficult step in getting a new system installed is now only typing in the WIFI password, drivers and the filesystem partitions...
Assertion pretty obvious, non? (Of course a knowledge-based economy is going to pollute less than an industrial- and/or resource-driven one.)

Then the first line of the author's thesis (more capitalism needed) doesn't follow from the premise:

As China and Sweden demonstrate, advanced economies need not necessarily be strictly capitalist.
Why smartphones are no longer driving the search for 'blue gold'
There's actually a good amount of evidence that the emotion of disgust - and even the associated facial expressions - are universal among human cultures. See research by Plutchik, Rozin, and Ekman.

It's elicited typically by potential biological contaminants, like bodily fluids, spoiled foods, vermin, bodily violations (blood, gore, etc.), and infection.
A friend of mine "copied" a bunch of songs from an audio CD to a floppy disk this way.
https://fullstacknews.com/s/twmxmp/paged_out
>because the attacker can steal the TOTP secret key

My question is why are we worrying so much about theft of the secret key? There are easier things to steal and abuse (cookies, TOTP codes, website data). Those can be stolen even if the TOTP generator is a different device than the logging in device.
Its very small too.
Which leaves the question; What external support does she have? Internal politics suggest she has no real power and is at risk of government sponsored 'suicide' if she steps out of line. I think she's both a survivor and someone who, maybe just might, have the power to do something good in the future. We are just watchers. P.S. Hope I'm right for gods sake once.
Some cars do that automatically - in which case there are tons of complaints about the car turning on the climate control automatically. This is something where you just can't win...
That site is run by a porn industry shill. See this link for a debunking of he above page - https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...
Remember that scene in Back to the Future 2 at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance when 1985 Marty had to somehow neutralize Biff’s thugs from the catwalk before they jumped 1955 Johnny-B-Goode-playing Marty, all while trying to avoid seeing him or else the universe would explode in a space-time paradox?

That’s DevOps.
I don't necessarily have a problem with people being motivated and as a result of their efforts making money - moreso that most people seem to be motivated just to save face and "show" others how rich they are (mostly a media driven idea). I think these kinds of narratives harm poor people more since they are inclined to make horrible financial choices to be like these "rich" people, who in reality are probably in nearly just as much debt as actual poor people.

I think the most interesting thought experiment here is when you consider extremist progressives who want to "kill the rich and elite" - in reality if this actually did play out I think they'd just end up killing people who are most evidently "rich" but not actually withholding wealth from the poor. In essence, they'd be killing all the self-obsessed and narcissistic consumerists. Anyone who was actually rich or still in control of banking infrastructure would be smart enough to not be showy. (yes, I understand this is a pretty extreme tangent)

All in all, I do think the rat race is empowering to people who are able to understand what is really valuable to them.
> Well, it worked on Star Trek.

IIRC the official explanation from the makers of Star Trek is that the displays look like simple touch screens, but they are actually overlaid with structured force fields, so for the users it feels like a physical button press.
The pay outs are in Stacks (STX) tokens. Only the pilot phase was in USD/BTC which came from a developer growth/marketing budget that Blockstack PBC funded.

See this post for details: https://blog.blockstack.org/app-mining-plans-to-pay-blocksta...

Newly minted tokens as incentives have been in use since Bitcoin started 10+ years ago. We are using that concept for developer incentives.
Oh hey, that's our issue.

If folks have further feedback on this question, please feel free to comment there!
Here, you should really check out this subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/
Unsure if mentioned already, but I keep a repository of all my Linux configuration files. I have scripts that link them all out to the correct places. Then for almost any tweak I make, I script it into a massive install.sh script I maintain. Now I'm at a point where I can set up a 98% perfectly customized machine with a sequence of `./install.sh some_scripted_setting` calls. All this takes effort and care, but well worth it to me. And since it's all my scripting, I know exactly what's going on.

It's quite tough to do that for Windows (which I partially do). Ultimately I keep a list of the stuff I need to do and manually do a lot of it.

An alternative which I have dabbled with is basing your config in VMs. Keep stable backups of them. That way the host OS is not important, and just re-use the VMs if you switch hosts. QubesOS is what really opened my eyes to this. Of course this is really only useful for particular workflows probably more development oriented, and at some point you'll want to update them/start fresh.
I rather suspect the opposite problem: the author has too much math background to realize when they're using too much lingo and skipping too many steps. That or they're really just copy-pasting from someone like that. Anyway, the article did make sense eventually, mostly, after I read it three times.
See reply above. Thanks,
From an old patio11 post: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...

> As someone who sold to teachers for six years let me strongly suggest pounding your own hand with a hammer prior to selling to school districts. It is less painful and approximately as lucrative.

HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6255431 (227 points | Aug 22, 2013 | 56 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8800727 (295 points | Dec 26, 2014 | 62 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527620 (111 points | June 10, 2017 | 24 comments)
I can only agree. But I thought the reason this worked was that it assured I engaged the assistance of the brightest person in the room.

Aside: I wish I were joking.
Yes, our co-op programs were successful in providing a junior pipeline.
My response: clever article, but whatevs.

Lisp is homoiconic because the syntax for code matches the syntax for a list. Keep saying it.
Ah yes, the 'drip campaigns' from 'cold email senders' that you get once your email address is 'in the wild'.

Also known as ongoing spam from spammers once they scrape your email address or pull it from an API in violation of that API's terms of service.

Don't forget the bonus invisible tracking image and CAN-SPAM-YOU compliant unsubscribe link at the bottom in gray text to make it harder to see.
Define "chip implant" first.

My grandfather has a pacemaker. That's a chip of sorts, and I wouldn't have a problem with that if required.

If it was a "smart" chip sending data to Apple Health.. Yeah, nah.
How long until executive jobs are offshored as well? What stops that from happening 10 years after many of the skilled labor jobs are offshored

The only barrier I see is the capital to create competing startups, but places like China may be well on the way to doing a “head transplant” on much of the work they have already been doing.

Discuss, pro / con?
Just about every Human Computer Interaction focused computer scientist I know is adamant that touch screens are inappropriate and vastly sub-optimal for many of the purposes it is currently employed in.

I don't think it's that researchers think it's good. I think that executives and programmers do.