skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats pretty tame. I once got a bug like: Some contractor wrote this, got mgmt to get a new, insane deployment procedure scripted and deploy it on completely the wrong server. Some days it produces a report, other days it swallows 16GB and dies.

After he left we wrote the contents of his hard drive to this stack of CDs, and they are scratchy enough to have data loss. Of course the prod executable differs from all variants of code found on the CDs.

It turns out to be a custom reporting framework for producing exactly 1 report. For extra speed, it starts 100 threads but doesnt have any synchronisation. Which turns out not to matter as they are all fighting for 1 DB connection.

You are not allowed to touch prod directly, but have to get some unix guy on the phone so far to recover logs, executable, and config. And as that guy has to support this mess, he hates your guts by association.
> American universities graduated 100,000 new PhDs but only created 16,000 new professorships

Here we go again - this weird idea that the only purpose for doing a PhD is to become a professor.
It took mere 8 years for Java to implement generics, though.
This looks like a case study in tendentious reasoning - for example "This is because much of the scientific benefit of human missions will consist of samples returned, drill cores drilled and geophysical instruments deployed, all of which were demonstrated by Apollo on the Moon, but none of which have been achieved by the MERs nor will be achieved by the more capable (and vastly more expensive) Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) that is due to land on Mars in 2012."

MSL is "vastly more expensive" than what? Not Apollo, and not a human mission to Mars, which are the benchmarks that matter in this context.

I am not opposed to manned missions, but the case for their utility is thin, to say the least.
And you don’t need to go far for this effect. I still to this day remember a beautiful calming moment I had when on a walk in the backyard near a house outside of Portland Maine.
Right because the average iPhone user cares about what happens in China.
Show HN: Smart American Roadtrips
You're using the word "hack" to refer to what most of us would call "engineering." Life absolutely can be hacked. It just can't be engineered.
Oh Delhi
Yes. Lead moreso that other pollutants. Areas with higher concentrations of ground lead (older, poorer parts of cities) are pretty strongly linked with violent crime.

Pretty well documented, don't have the citations handy though. It's been thoroughly discuss on HN.

Rudimentary citation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
I’m sharing the essay and personal statement that got me into the Harvard LLM program.

I hope this helps anyone who's thinking of applying but doesn’t have connections with Harvard alumni who can provide personal tips or share sample essays.

Feel free to reach out here or connect on LinkedIn if you want to see it. :)
2.5K monitor with slightly bigger fonts and a few tweaks here and there is best of worlds on linux now, sadly
Yes.
I already sorta do. My current schedule is nine longer days, with the tenth day off. I work enough time in the first nine days to make up for the tenth day.
It's not exactly the same as a four-day work week though. I would jump on that in a heartbeat.

I immediately noticed an improvement to my overall happiness when switching to my current work schedule.
From a global perspective, awarding two European writers yet again is just a failure.

From a purely literary perspective, Handke is a great and influential writer, who was a hot candidate for a long time. For his work, I think the award is justified.

On a personal level, his ex-wife accused him of physical abuse, he held a eulogy for a war criminal, was known for cursing and berating his audience, ...

If he still should have received it regardless depends on a difficult value judgement: do you purely choose based on a writers work, or does his personality influence the decision?
> In real life if you find your performance bottleneck is some part of a Python library, chances are you're going to look around your company and not find someone that has the competence and time to fix your performance bottleneck by creating a usable and bug-free C implementation.

Okay but:

1. How often do you find your performance bottleneck is some part of a Python library? My entire point is that modern Python development almost always delegates hotspots to pre-optimized libraries.

2. If your bottleneck is a use case that's unsolved so that there isn't a pre-existing library for it, it's probably unsolved because it's a difficult enough problem that using the C foreign-function interface is the least of your problems. It's also likely that you need a level of optimization which Go can't give you, so you're going to have to drop down to C/Fortran/assembly/whatever regardless of whether you're using Python or Go.
They may be referring to W7-X. The lower the aspect ratio of stellarators, the larger the major radius is. This makes a bigger, more expensive machine, but really blows the doors wide open on the largest engineering challenges (high neutron flux, high heat flux materials).
https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations (or https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html ).

Just in case anyone ever needs come correlation resources :).
It's on the front page now.
> Android users win this round.

There are no winners in this game, only losers. Google make similar concessions for the Chinese government.

I say that as an Android user.
I know how that feels, with camping as well. But I cannot shake the thought that most of our life is simply about survival.

And society is a better alternative than hunting/farming on your own.
Or you know, you could go to the gym and start exercising? Try to stay awake after a heavy day of lifting.
Facebook flags thousands of kids as interested in gambling, booze
"The task force said the certification documents that Boeing provided to the F.A.A. “were not updated during the certification program to reflect the changes” made to MCAS. It added that two critical documents that describe the potential dangers of a system like MCAS, the system safety assessment and the functional hazard assessment, “were not consistently updated."
Well seeing the app does nothing that the website can’t do, developing for the web instead of an app when it’s appropriate seems to win.
Cook has said repeatedly that they can't buy the labor they have available n China ta any price anywhere in the world. It's not a problem they can throw money at unfortunately.
Or anything, for that matter.
The funny thing is - this matches what Bob Lazar claimed to be working on at Area-51:

- A compact energy generator;

- A device that generated gravitational waves;

Is the Navy in on the joke?
The old classic BPF is still used by seccomp, but in the kernel transparently converted into eBPF. In the kernel we dropped the notion of eBPF and just call everything BPF (as the old classic BPF is pretty much a thing of the past and not extended / developed any further).
I can see that it is an annoyance (need of USB-C to USB-A adapter), but where is the "major problem"?
This is a collective action problem, which is on their list.
"I want you to panic" is exactly what she said: https://youtu.be/RjsLm5PCdVQ?t=145
I'm more concerned about the health of Amazon Forest
Except it's not a case of ice cream and summer time.

Lead fucks people up. Always has, always will. Pretty easy to trace a relationship between lead concentrations and societal disfunction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
The plug will be shaped like an X so you have four possible orientations for plugging it in, unlike the two that type-C has. What an upgrade!
If you think that lack of disaster preparedness is bad, apparently many dialysis clinics in California don't have the generation capacity to continue operating during a power outage like this one. No big deal, I mean they're only keeping people alive after all...
i think what the parent poster might have meant was that for-profit state monopolies are bloated and inefficient (as opposed to non-profit public utilities)

that was my interpretation (from the context) anyways... maybe i’m wrong ^^;
Well the largest advantage is you can write and test scripts on Linux that will work on UN*X (like AIX) where bash does not exist. Also this works:

awk '{printf("%s %s %s %s", $1, $2, $3, $4)}' < file | read v1 v2 v3 v4

and many ksh scripts outside of Linux uses that syntax
I can attest that using free software is not ruinous to productivity - least of all in the field of software development itself.

You don't have to fix every bug you find. Just fix the odd bug, and work around the rest until somebody else fixes it; many hands make light work. But the work doesn't get done at all if you run away to proprietary platforms.

You don't have to boil the ocean. Just do your civic duty from time to time. Once a year, even. If everybody on HN used desktop Linux and, once a year, invested an hour into fixing a minor, polish-level bug, desktop Linux's polish problem would completely disappear.
It's one of the assignments of the second part of the Princeton Algorithms course on Coursera: https://coursera.cs.princeton.edu/algs4/assignments/seam/spe...
There are lots of things in the rest of the world that don’t exist in the US.
There seem to have been quite a few high-profile outright tech frauds the last couple of years

Quintillion

Theranos

UBeam
etc
When I have long bouts of binge coding (the last month) my dreams are just me constantly refactoring the same bits of code, usually related to the task at hand when I fell asleep.
I'm pretty sure there would be some way to financialise tech debt. You are deliberately incurring future costs in order to realise present benefits.
Sure, but is it a better alternative than hunting/farming in groups? I'm not convinced.
Why is the government filing patents? The research is paid for by our tax dollars. Patenting it doesn’t seem right.
Even when Occam's razor would point the way of this being an intel ops to make adversaries waste resources, wouldn't it be cool to be proven wrong, and actually have a sudden and unexpected giant leap forward in science?

But yet again... I wouldn't bet on that.
The Dr Furman diet mostly eliminates processed foods. It radically changed my life, seriously. Only eating salads (only with simple home made dressings), beans, some brown rice, small amount of dense whole wheat pita bread, raw unsalted nuts, some lean meat, lots of green veggies, some fruit.

I don’t recommend this diet to other people though because the first three weeks or so of this detoxing diet is really rough. It was like my body was fightly back, pissed off at me.

Then, when I came through the other side, my levels of inflammation were drastically reduced, I was sleeping great, and my mood and energy level were great! I felt twenty years younger.

However, the first three weeks or so of getting used to the diet were awful which is why I hesitate to recommend it to other people.

EDIT: by processed foods, I am referring to packaged foods, not how they are cooked.
Lesson learned: stay away from CEOs named Elizabeth.
Undermining, possibly, but I don’t see how it can be even close to the point of collapse.

Even if the USA could launch an attack that takes out all Russia’s ground based ICBMs, Russia still would have those 500-ish submarine-based ones, wouldn’t it? If those ignore military targets, and manage to hit the top 100 largest population centers in the USA, everything larger than Spokane (population: 220k) would be hit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...)
The boss who rescued 300 Syrian refugees
Australia Belongs to China [video] (from a long time expat)
>GO syntax is very regressive comparing to where we hopped programming languages should go.

Speak for yourself maybe, but I appreciate Go's overall style. You also mention Rust and Scala in your post. If that is to be the future of language syntax, I should quit.
Its a defensive patent scheme. Remember the old days of the internet where people would take boring business model X and patent "doing X on the internet" and try to make millions or billions? The idea is if it costs $5K to file a patent and you think there's a 1 in a 1000 chance of someone actually inventing room temp superconductors soon-ish, then you net profit if you license your patent for more than $5M which seems quite reasonable. Say, for example, GE discovers and commercializes room temp semiconductors, it would be a lot cheaper and faster to pay this guy off (despite him doing nothing) for perhaps $10M than to fight him in court and try to explain to a completely non-technical judge that the guy didn't actually invent anything. Any one patent will almost certainly not pay off, but file enough patents and you'll win the lotto eventually. Somebody out there working independent of the patent guy will eventually invent an actual real world room temp superconductor and the patent guy will get a lot of money for doing, well, essentially nothing.

Really, everyone should be patenting everything in science fiction. We can do the "doing X on the internet" thing with drones. Why hasn't someone patented the idea of "delivery of bags of dogfood ... via drone", that was a classic of dotcom 1.0.
It's a U-shaped mortality curve. More generally, many things show a Pareto power law distribution: if the thing has existed for 10 seconds, expected remaining life is 10 seconds. If it has existed for 2 days, expected remaining life is 2 days. And so on. It shows up in a lot of places.
Enriching Bert with Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Document Classification
Conflicted on this, on one hand things listed make it all sound crackpot.
Then again he is listed as a researcher in Navy R&D (http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad/)

Also is that typical for supposedly cutting edge things from a defense perspective to get patented before a functional use case is demonstrated?
How would you know it's doing evil stuff from the outside though?
Agreed. CS PhDs don't typically identify themselves with a Dr prefix, so our population (I have one, I don't use a Dr prefix) is rather hidden. People don't know how many of us there are. When I was at Google, about 25% of googlers had PhDs.
Nice!

Also thank goodness it didn’t go to Trump — there was some article mentioning that he was in the running.
It will be stopped by millions of smaller stores being on a single platform with the ability to get a product in 1hr to overnight within the same metro area.
The challenge is to categorise the inventory at those millions - can start with thousands - of local stores. Once that happens, watch out amazon.
> SpaceX solves that with refueling in low Earth orbit, that allows to scale rocket fuel needs linearly with regard to payload instead of exponentially.

I don't think that's the case. The rocket equation has the delta-v under exponent, not the mass ratio. Fuel mass scales linearly with payload in any case.

I don't think orbital refueling changes any scaling laws. It just means you can launch several small rockets instead of one huge one. Total mass launched stays approximately the same.
Here in south-eastern Canada the lowbush blueberry refers to the species vaccinium angustifolium. It is a native ant species. If someone is talking about blueberries here it is vaccinium angustifolium.

Many are grown in my region for many years. Tobacco was also grown here but when the farmers got out of tobacco blueberries were the crop they chose. Blueberries grow in poor sandy soil similar to what tobacco plants liked so the switch was easym

So many blueberries are grown here the US grower Wyman opened a plant.

A few years go another US grower started a highbush farm. I dont think the highbush blueberries are as good as the lowbush. I'm not sure why but I recall hearing a reason. There's also a food science department at the local university (UPEI) here that studies blueberries.
In many fields, that's actually not far from the truth, though. Yes, PhDs in computer science, engineering, and natural sciences can find jobs in industry, but it's not like anyone getting a PhD in 19th century German literature can easily find a job using that other than in academia.
The Homeless Myth
So that France cannot copy it?
Don't think anybody involved in this is coming out looking good except maybe the aviation authorities who grounded Max's early.

From outside the US it's shredding the soft power the FAA has world wide.

Decades of earned trust burnt so quickly.
I can't help but mention the word "neb" is used as slang for this https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nebach in a some Jewish communities.
I seriously do not understand how people read about W3W and not feel icky just by being near. Right off the bat the talk about fleecing..ahem, selling their service, to developing nations. The whole thing is a PR operation, a CRUD database, and a sales team sufficiently soulless to wine and dine governing structures in developing nations to reap the juicy public dollars.

Who gives a damn about copyright infringement. These guys should be in prison. I have yet to hear a problem it solves that wouldn't be solved better by a post office.
To make money so those tax dollars have been soundly invested?

To protect the invention from commercial patents?

Sounds sensible to me.
To stop someone else patenting it and then trying to claim license fees from the Navy.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Pretty apt for space travel, as well. The Moon Landing and Sci-Fi have probably done more for getting people into in science than a million textbooks and outreach programs.
"We are unsure how we feel about terms like 'cognitive bias'"

What the heck does that mean? They leave a big turd like that on the table and then just move on without elaborating.
For those that don't wanna read the book, I enjoyed Peter Attia's interview with Walker. I haven't read the book though, so no idea if you'd be missing something.

One of the most interesting takeaways / proofs about the importance of sleep mentioned in the podcast, was that there's a huge increase in car accidents and heart attacks after the clocks shift in the spring (I haven't verified the claim).

https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/
SAP CEO Bill McDermott Steps Down
There is not even need for a bifurcated driver. The upstream kernel has AF_XDP which Intel and Mellanox NICs support in their drivers, and DPDK has official integration for it as well: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/af_xdp.html This will make deploying DPDK significantly easier for those that need/want to use it and allows to share the same driver for pushing packets up to DPDK and into the normal kernel stack with very close to "native" (as in user space driver) DPDK performance (target is ~90-95%).
I believe that your experiences may differ from the norm, and I'm not denying your claim at all.

But I also have seen that many truly grumpy, negative people have also lost their self-awareness, and do not realize the state they are in. We see this in the working world quite often, when someone has just gotten into a negative funk, and are bringing down a team, and they don't even realize it. Sometimes those people just need to be told where they are really at, and told to take a break, and yes, to get a good night's sleep.
Someone like Cook is probably very very busy with the logistics of running one of the worlds biggest companies. I dont think he cares that much about products, hes a businessman not a user
Maybe they're worried about their capability to retaliate - US BMDS maybe can not defend against full Russian arsenal but it may be successful against limited retaliation (if most of Russian arsenal gets wiped out in first strike).
That's fine for room temperature superconductors, but things like gravity manipulation and inertial dampeners are, as far as I know, not even technically feasible. Why even bother with a defensive patent for patent nonsense?
They also will gift these patents to businesses to get the technology out there, iirc. I don’t know fully how it works.
I did look at FODMAPs too. I think it caused much of my gas. So took some inspiration from that, but it's tricky:

e.g. FODMAPs says definitely no garlic. While a Harvard "endorsed" anti-inflammation diet said eat lots of garlic.

Beans, lentils etc...it's all over the place depending on whom you listen to. :(

I'll have a look at Whole30 - never heard of it. Also seeing lots of chat about "Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen" on /r/plantbaseddiet

>Glad you found a collection of foods that work for you.

So far so good. :)
> Scots call bilberries blaeberries, so it could be a corruption of that.

Interesting. 'Blae' in Blaeberries seems very close to 'Blå' in Blåbær (Norwegian, Danish), Blåbär (Swedish) which means blueberry; typically found wild in the forest.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRMvca3nXCDJdjyyt8cWFtkbhPHiuztsZRMU9F...

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmRMvca3nXCDJdjyyt8cWFtkbhP...
I understand your point of view, but honestly I have a hard time consolidating the notion of being stress-free with the notion of making as much of an impact as I can.

I want to be as productive as possible (when I'm not allotting necessary time for recreational activity, but my social activity is generally at a minimum) because of a driving fear over the future of earth and humanity. I have a deep urge to do as much good as I can in my life for society, because anything else just seems so selfish.

I was gifted with intelligence and determination, and to waste these skills overwhelmingly in personal pursuits when the world is in flames just seems so irresponsible. Anyone could do that. I want to make a difference, and that requires being as efficient and productive as I can.
Tried to charge my Macbook Pro with a colleagues charger recently. After an hour I unplugged it only to find it hadn't actually been charging.

Turns out the Macbook chargers although looking almost identical to the Macbook Pro chargers can only provide enough power to run the Macbook Pro but not enough power to run and charge it.

Not sure how non-technical people are ever supposed to realize or understand any of this.
> In Germany, where I'm originally from, we have geizhals.de for product and price comparison that works a lot like these pages you linked and has been around for ages.

Geizhals is not only useful as a price aggregator, but also when it comes to product discovery itself - often I look for products with very specific attributes, which may be represented by different names and keys between sellers and manufacturers. Geizhals' ability to collect and aggregate them in such detail is second to none. At that point pricing information is just an extra.
"Solve for the equilibrium": Only the tiniest fraction of superstars, those with nothing better to do, and foreigners from poor countries will go for a PhD. Beyond that, the talented will avoid the PhD.
There are several problems with this idea, as I see it:

1. The assignee is the US Navy. He won't personally profit.

2. Protection is given for the claims, not for the abstract, diagrams or specification. The claims have to describe something relatively concrete or they'll be rejected. You can't obtain patents for titles or elevator pitches.

3. Even if it's granted and you think GE infringes, they might disagree. Welcome to patent litigation, which is super expensive.

4. Even if it's not granted, it might be successfully cited as prior art against GE's application. You won't get royalties on nothing.

5. Patents expire. If you're patenting science fiction, yours might expire decades before it's actually possible.

I have filed a patent on my own time and dime. It is much harder than it looks. ~$50,000 USD and hundreds of hours of work over 5+ years.