skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a beautiful machine, superb build quality, as good as genuine HP pre-Fiorina. If anyone is considering one, you will not be disappointed.
Locking up crazy fuckers. Shocking idea I know.
HD video-rate multicolor structured illumination microscopy
I haven't done one, but a close friend has done Vipassana [1] a few times, which are free [2] in the USA. They run on donations and are 10 days of silence and meditation.

1. https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/courses/search

2. https://www.dhamma.org/en/about/qanda

edit -- added another link
A patchset is not an OS. Like I can make it work for myself but good luck making it work for users.
I assumed these were cache servers that went into ISPs, does anyone know what they mean by "Increases AWS cloud management overhead" on a couple of the slides?
Seattle suburbs. Coding, videogames, cars.

I've recently fell out of all of my hobbies and even stopped playing online games where I had some community going on.
It's a little slow. I've used a Mega, but all around prefer the Adafruit Feather line.
As I understood Linux made a lot of progress in the last couple of years with say zero-copy patches, etc. I thought they reached some kind of parity.
Agreed.

I believe technology as a whole is light-years ahead of where it would be if companies treated all of their findings and system designs as closely-guarded secrets. I am relatively early in my career and I get to open-source a project that I have been working on for the first time and it feels great.
Something something your right to compassion ends where your fist hits my face something something
> Then this is equally true of you now and the you who first read that comment, isn't it?

The difference here is that there are not two entities, one that read the comment and one that didn't. All beings that associate with me have that shared experience, frankly because as far as we can tell there's only a single being here (and no evidence to suggest otherwise). (The scenario I set above there is a being in the computer and a being outside)

That's the big difference. That's where we can pose the question "Which one is 'you'". We need multiple entities for this to become a valid question. For an instant, I think they both would be. But an instant more, they are different.
As I understand it, the coffee largely replaced alcohol, so there was an effective two-for-one effect of less depressant and more stimulant consumption.
I have a thesis that the most compelling thing about the ds9 characters is that they're all struggling with impostor syndrome. The first episode is a microcosm with sisko feeling IS about staying in Starfleet, morphing into IS about being the emissary; kira, Bashir, dax 2, odo, quark, rom, all do too in their own ways. And of course nog's character exemplifies this, over his arc.

Incidentally the foils (Winn and dukat) all exemplify aspects of toxic leadership so well.
The whole era was immensely corrupt. You might try reading Edmund Morgan's American Slavery, American Freedom, which is a summary of one folly after another, even before getting to slavery.

After going through all that, it's pretty amazing anything good at all came out of colonial Virginia.
These seem to be much stronger claims than were made last time this was discussed:

”””While our processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of the quantum circuit 1 million times, a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task.”””

”””Quantum processors based on superconducting qubits can now perform computations in a Hilbert space of dimension 2^53 ≈ 9 × 10^15, beyond the reach of the fastest classical supercomputers available today. To our knowledge, this experiment marks the first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor. Quantum processors have thus reached the regime of quantum supremacy. We expect their computational power will continue to grow at a double exponential rate: the classical cost of simulating a quantum circuit increases exponentially with computational volume, and hardware improvements will likely follow a quantum-processor equivalent of Moore’s law [52, 53], doubling this computational volume every few years. To sustain the double exponential growth rate and to eventually offer the computational volume needed to run well-known quantum algorithms, such as the Shor or Grover algorithms [19, 54], the engineering of quantum error correction will have to become a focus of attention.

The “Extended Church-Turing Thesis” formulated by Bernstein and Vazirani [55] asserts that any “reasonable” model of computation can be efficiently simulated by a Turing machine. Our experiment suggests that a model of computation may now be available that violates this assertion. We have performed random quantum circuit sampling in polynomial time with a physically realized quantum processor (with sufficiently low error rates), yet no efficient method is known to exist for classical computing machinery. As a result of these developments, quantum computing is transitioning from a research topic to a technology that unlocks new computational capabilities. We are only one creative algorithm away from valuable near-term applications.”””
What are the viable alternatives for every use case we currently use ICEs for?

Speaking as a member of a 2 electric car family, I can tell you the current EVs are not 100% replacements for ICE vehicles.

200+ mile EVs can easily supplant ICE vehicles in almost all use cases but they're still more expensive than the average selling price of a new car in the US. That says nothing about the used car market.
It's worth remembering that the situation of the colonies was rather grim in 1780.

Washington was locked in an extended stalemate around New York, struggling to keep morale up, supplies acquired, and his army from melting away.

The British southern strategy was off to a smashing start, inflicting a series of bad defeats through the Carolinas. Then Gates, who Arnold hated and thought got the credit he deserved for Saratoga, was given command in the south, and immediately disgraced himself.

There were also a whole series of other debacles around Newport, RI, and the disastrous Penobscot campaign.

Not long after Arnold's defection, there were several major mutinies by formations of the Continental Army over extended enlistments, lack of pay and poor conditions.

The whole situation was much more touch and go than it appears in hindsight.
You can give people a choice between either being prosecuted as a mentally healthy person, or getting mental health treatment. It's not involuntary but gives mentally disabled people a way to get help.
The need for things like this is partly why I quit my job 6 months ago to start my own company (in profile). We need to start building companies and products that provide valuable communities and services (like social networks) without the need for ads/privacy violations. My belief is that the issue is largely related to incentive misalignment (users != customers).

Congrats on the launch!
Well...doctors and nurses are some of the highest paid people in the US and these problems are directly caused by a lack of a social safety net and mental health care. It's like they took the Hippocratic oath and didn't think it applied to not bankrupting people for getting sick.

Color me completely unsympathetic.
There's 3 main factors talked about in deterrence theory - severity, certainty, and speed.

The US generally has severe enough punishments, and increases do little to add deterrence (and the downsides then take over).

Certainty and speed are weak though. People drive in a civilised manner because if you don't, a cop will write you out a ticket. But if people behave in an uncivilised manner in a more criminal way, it's actually unconstitutional to have swift and certain penalties.

People are fine arguing that the 2nd amendment was more appropriate for the era of muskets. Maybe the 5th is more appropriate for an era where overly harsh sentences were applied to political prisoners through the use of torture.
Materialized views, common table expressions, outer joins, are all missing in mysql and essential. The Postgresql's stored procedure language blows mysql out of the water, and it's possible to use different language backends.

SQLite has json extensions. You need to select them at compile time though, so you can't just assume they'll be there by default.
So big fucking surprise. Getting away from your life for a month is good for your mental health.

Why the fuck are people kicking in open doors being funded and published in what appears to be a decently respectable psychology journal?
There's some chapters on emotional development in the book emotional intelligence that's a summary of social sciences.

It's about nurturing empathy and socializing behaviour. There's also some materials on how to counter natural anxiety (new foods/new people/new experiences) by forcing controlled exposure.

From my own experience having a child with my wife (an engineer as well) reading up on all the materials. Having and maintaining a trust-bond with your child is the most important, especially when you realize there is lots of bad advice out there related to baby sleep.

Essentially, the first 6 months your baby is too "stupid" to cry for nothing but basic needs like:

1/ too warm

2/ too cold

3/ hungry

4/ thirsty

5/ tired (need sleep)

6/ oversensitive (too much light/noise)

7/ wet diapers

8/ pain (sickness/teething/diaper rash)

Afterwards she/he can start to get into habits like waking up for some breastmilk while it's possible to go without. But babies are pretty flexible and can adopt a new routine within 3 days of enforcing that routine.
100 Best Books of the 21st Century
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029598
Frankly, I don't trust healthcare leadership to people who call a suffering human "a crazy", and that's why those places were shut down. Society reaps what it sows.
The second graph is evidently curved, but it can be fitted quite good by a parabola. Crappy fit: https://imgur.com/a/ViBR21p

Why do you think it is an exponential function?
I'm not quite sure. There's multiple scenarios here. If we upload your consciousness into a computer and you're still alive, then there's multiple entities. If we replace your organs with machinery over time, then there is only a single entity that is changing. The latter is like the ship, but the former is not.
> I get that, in part, this is a way to get people excited to work for Netflix

It's even more amazing to me that this is a successful tactic in light of the fact that there's no shortage of people willing to work for ad-tech firms. If working for a company with good values was such a draw, you'd think it would give them more of a competitive advantage. Maybe the real reason is that Netflix's "good values" are genuine, not just a draw for employees. I'm really not sure.
Why do uneducated, unworking, or nonprofessionals deserve it more? That's sick.
The glibc maintainers removed it because a dated oblique joke didn't help anyone use glibc. People got upset when Stallman demanded they revert the change and refused to compromise.
A huge(!) release for a minor version. I’m most excited about default values for memberwise initializers, opaque return types and property wrappers.
> The President and Congress make decisions for all of the federal government.

That’s fundamentally not true. Appropriations and appointments are not the same as “making decisions”, but even if they were, the judiciary still exists.
To clarify, I also know a few gay men in lodges, sexuality isn't an issue there.

Being recognized as a good guy by a bunch of other guys is no small feat. Someone who is trustworthy, kind, fair minded, honest, with only moderate conceits, good natured, charitable, and magnanimous is rare to begin with. I think if someone has these qualities, there is very, very little that will stand in their way.
Coding Abomination: Conway's Game of Life in TSQL
Very well. In their own About page, they say they are "heavily inspired" by Simon Tathams "Coroutines in C". In fact, it even more closely resembles that than it does the original Duff's Device.

So even they admit it isn't entirely their own work, and I still see no reason to claim they "invented" it.

edit: my "pat on the back" was absolutely not "condescending". Turning a neat design in theory into a safe, functional implementation is not to be sniffed at.
still a hetzner dedicated host would be as low as 25Euro/month and has unmetered 1Gbit which would be 324 TB . (i use them , but not affiliated - was just making calculations aloud)
This is a widely known effect. I work for a big outsourcing company, they equip developers in open spaces with small personal infrared LEDs. It can be mounted to a headset and programmatically connected to pomodoro time tracker, so that they are switched on during rest periods automatically.
I get that, but technically Amtrak has priority. None of the freight railroads abide by that unfortunately....
postcodes aren't mailbox identifers and were never designed to be exact

they are a routing code for the postal service

the number and postcode uniquely identify a mailbox
Very cool! Reminds me of https://tldrlegal.com/ and https://fossa.com/.
I don't think we're disagreeing per-se. It's merely a matter of perspective. Continuity and singularity are what you're leaning on for your definition, and I'm just rejecting that criteria as illusory because it is self-imposed and arbitrary. Certainly such distinctions are useful for legal or societal purposes, but those themselves are just constructs of the human mind, not the intrinsic nature of the universe.
I think this is more difficult than it sounds. Kid A is very different from kid B. I've found that things that 'work' with my kids don't work on other kids.

Along these lines, I thought this book was interesting: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
You reach an age (I have) where that's just no longer an issue.
California's chronic water overuse leads to sinking towns, arsenic pollution
The dymaxion projection works well for this too
Beep. Ding. Vroom. Electric Cars Need to Make Noise for Safety, but What Kind?
Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling
Think about this for a moment.

You prosecute someone that's mentally ill and send them to jail. Now the jail has to deal with violent outbursts and is generally not equipped to handle people on a medical level like that. Our prison system is designed to punish people, so those people if they get out of jail fall back into the same issues.

The answer to solve these problems is better preventative care. Meaning better healthcare for vulnerable populations, better solutions to housing for the homeless and so forth. Unfortunately solutions like this require things like increased taxes or recognizing the problem exists and many would prefer to just sweep it under the rug for people in emergency rooms and jails to deal with.
Ask HN: Considerations for building a near shore development team?
I am working on a project and we are rolling out an MVP in the next few weeks. There’s a lot of learning to be done but it is becoming quite clear that we will need additional engineering resources in the coming months as I am the only designer/engineer on the founding team. The other cofounder focuses on marketing/sales/operations and this split has worked well for us. We have access to capital but want to be frugal and stretch our budget. We are looking at building a near shore development team. The current members as US based and we want to hire in Mexico or Central America so we are in similar time zones and can avoid latency. These new hires would be treated like just the same as if they were joining locally, with stock incentives, salaries at top of their market, shared company culture, perks etc.

With that context what is any advise you all have for executing this strategy? Resources for finding and hiring talented near shore engineers (this is the biggest question)? Considerations for things like payroll? Any and all insights appreciated.
It should be called casualty chain analysis. Even though newspapers are awful, and proper RCAs are hard, Taleb likes to diss on anything and everything not invented by himself, without offering much.
I've been out of this field for a while, if there are any experts with up to date knowledge I'm trying to figure out the following:

- Why this particular calculation chosen?

- With this many qubits I would think they could take some quantum simulations already. Is the gate fidelity not high enough?
- Am i reading this correctly that they do no error correction or entabglement distillation?
I'm glad to hear that you can make it work. About how frequently do you cancel contracts because you've discovered your client is doing something unethical?
A barbell, plates, squat stands...so I can get in a decent workout whenever I want without driving to or waiting for equipment at a gym.
Bzzzz?
So by that reasoning, if we upload your consciousness into a computer and make sure we destroy you before we activate it, same difference right? We've just made the "slow replacement" process significantly more efficient.
> Involuntary mental health treatment.

It can be dangerous to give governments carte blanche to do this...

> Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia was a diagnostic category used in the Soviet Union to describe what was claimed to be a form of schizophrenia characterized by a slowly progressive course; it was diagnosed even in patients who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later. The diagnosis has long been discredited because of its scientific inadequacy and its use as a means of confining dissenters. It is considered a prime example of the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia
I wasn't able to find any reference to wealth or income, either. People who have the ability to do a one-month retreat end up with better mental health - is this surprising?
snake-oil salesmen hate him
The whole ad tech space as a data nerd is super enticing. I could work on some really cool data warehouse / database issues but at the end of the day I’d be helping an ad tech company...

Worse yet is I’ve met some really cool people in the space but it is still ad tech
I'm just on the "Alligator Lizards ..." video and he's asking "are you learning anything here [about "MFLs!] or are you just, like, hearing that silly fucking accent".

Honestly, this guy is great. So knowledgeable, such a lively delivery, so inspiring.
GCC can compile both C and Go. I searched for benchmarks but found none for GCC 9 that compares the performance of C and Go. Do you have any sources on this?
Good community takes work and consistency among other things. Often you put in hard work, end up personally worse off, but everyone else benefits. Often, the connection between action and benefit are very disconnected.

Point being, at least in my experience, it's not possible to separate belief from community. Things like prioritizing forgiveness do not make both intellectual and emotional sense. At least not enough to keep families together, let alone groups less officially affiliated.
It's true that qubit states are inherently quantized. However, the control circuitry, couplers or gates, and often the qubits themselves, are analog devices. The "un-sexy" truth is that calibration is one of the most difficult parts of producing a useful quantum computer.
I’ve been using the iOS version for longer than I remember. It lets me leave my actual 42S at home where it’s safe and sound...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/free42/id337692629

There's also an Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thomasokke...
That sounds like it was a Vipassana retreat, and they’re nearly always free (or donation based). They’ll encourage you to return to volunteer at a future retreat, but that’s about it for obligations.
it’s a cult comedy TV program from the UK. They had a very special kind of humor, with a strong taste for the absurd.

In one of their sketch, spanish inquisitors would just pop out of nowhere and start wrecking havoc. Hence saying « nobody expects the spanish inquisition ».

You know something has reached a high level of absurdity whenever it makes you think of one of monty python’s program.
Guess I don’t have decent morals and good sense, because open borders sounds like a really bad idea and is something that’s only ever advocated for by an entrenched elite that’s completely insulated from any potential problems that policy will cause.
Ancient Technology: The Emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant
something something you're an ignorant dickhead who is probably a snivelling coward something something
The darkest years in political scene of Latin America, football fanatisism was thriving. People would be starving, but they would rebel only when their favourite team would lose a game. Not when they were starving. A similar decadance was taking place in Europe in the 70s and 80s. It so happens that soccer fanaticism grew wherever there was incometent to solve problems and heavily corrupted government(s).

Yes football is still being used as tool, even in Europe to distract people that should know better. Combine that with crappy education et voila!

I kindly remind how one of the filthiest and most violent (UK) football scene was cleaned up when true political will was present. And you can see some other European countries (Portugal, Greece) where there only 1-2 teams good enough to be champions, who happen to have massive following, and said following is usually lower class.
I like the idea but one problem is that you usually encounter a buffer underrun when the cpu can't keep up, and so adding an extra step would require something like leaving enough processing headroom each buffer to halt it early and run the approximater.

edited typo
It can work, but they need more anchors. Stripe, Gitlab, ... companies that are remote but have workers prefer to cowork. Economic downturn might actually help them if they can gobble long term low leases. More unemployed also means more consumer base outside big corporate America. Their biggest threat is small mom and pop coworking spaces like Gravitate in DSM. Geoff wouldn't sell for less than a massive premium, and nobody is going for WeWorks bad service if they tried to compete.
OneNote uses the virtual printer on Windows. It is actually really helpful.
Some ISP-run and or company/network-internal ones do, but over the public internet there is no infrastructure for that, so the vast majority doesn't do it.
How does performance compare with an ASIC specialised at generating random numbers?

Also what is the error rate?
Biobots modeled after sperm cells can now swim
It's an amazing place. At least when I visited, you walk through the door to see some bland looking furniture (some maybe even the cheap MDF self-assembled type that you buy in a cardboard box), but then you walk through a doorway that opens up into a gigantic space of every sort of electronic game, device, accessory, geegaw, tchotchke, peripheral, plaything, and delight you could imagine. The staff were highly trained, happy to be there, knowledgeable, helpful, and made me want to come back and buy more.
Because if you're using this, you're likely using an embedded device with limited memory and C or assembly are your only real options.
They are on producthunt.