skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even alcohol resistance is common in some species: people regularly breed brewer’s yeast to tolerate high alcohol concentrations so that we can brew high-ABV beer. Fortunately there seem to be few or no pathogens that can tolerate much alcohol.

Similarly, if plants can evolve to tolerate extreme salt concentrations, it should be possible for bacteria to evolve copper resistance.
Lime production is carbon intensive (heat + chemical C02 release from the limestone) and the hempcrete curing will take 50 years to fix back the second part. So it can be carbon negative (by fixing the carbon of the hemp itself) but only on the long term (50 years after production) and assuming that the heat used for lime production was from non-fossil source in the first place (which is not the case today: the cement industry typically produces heat by burning natural gas).

The heat could be produced from burning green hydrogen (hydrogen produced by water electrolysis using renewable power) but as of today is still too expensive compared to using fossil fuels.
With Wordpress you can buy a cool design in a supermarket.
Regarding complexity: Probably anything with a brain has the problem of balancing lots of different sources of information and maintaining (enough) coherence of behavior. So even very simple worms will need a simple version of this...
Looks like it's time to fork. And this seems to have already happened:

> Many editors, including some of the dissenting admins, have left Croatian Wikipedia. Those who haven't abandoned Wikipedia altogether are resigned to edit elsewhere, chiefly at Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

All that's left now is for Wikipedia to drop Croatian.
It is. People with hope in their lives and something to work for don't try to numb themselves with drugs.
I've always loved this story. It's a great demonstration of how incredibly difficult inventions become easier just by knowing they're possible. Other than once in the fertile crescent (arguably once soon after by Egypt), once in China and once in Mesoamerica people haven't successfully invented writing.

But after knowing writing was possible it just took a single determined individual, such as Sequoyah, to create a writing system for a language previously only spoken.
Very well done, although it starts slow (thought it was going to be just the initial simple text).

Like others I had a problem with the page cert (GitHub cert). Going to http://strml.net fixed it on the redirect to https://www.strml.net (which is using a Letsencrypt cert for www.strml.net)
I mean it is a small inconvenience for telescopes on earth, and not that "it is a small inconvenience in general because there are space telescopes".

Genuine question: is your opinion about these satellites based on working in some related field, or simply on dislike of greedy capitalists? I have a phd in physics and have friends who work as astronomers, with whom i've talked about this. Of course there is always a chance that we misunderstand everything, but i have never seen any plausible arguments for why are some people considering starlink to be the end of world for astronomy, and i don't understand why are there so many people on hn defending "poor astronomers" from "The Evil Corporation".
Imho this is seriously amazing: https://dynamicwebpaige.github.io/info/
For a few million queries we needed to index, many of them close to 30 characters in length(some even longer than that), the generated index size for max edit distance 3, was really large.

So we used 3 indices (one for unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams respectively) -- and during query processing we would segment the input query and for each segment we ‘d consult any of those 3 indices that made sense and would keep the top-K ones, and then we ‘d proceed to the next segment and we ‘d consider the n-gram sequence of the “suffix” and “prefix” matches between the “carried” top-K from the previous segment and the current/next segment, and so on, until we have exhausted the query. Segmentation was particularly hard to get right.

It was a fairly involved process but it was what worked for us -- again, SymSpell is _very_ fast for short tokens, but we had to execute maybe 1000s of such SymSpell queries when processing an input query and it adds up quickly. (We will probably open-source our SymSpell implementation soon).
They have a magic overload for '+'. Consistency wasn't much of a priority.
Long time lurker here, but I had to create an account to voice my opinion:

I am a really happy Windows 10 user!
Please, don't judge what others (dis)like and make sweeping generalizations.

Many of the issues you mentioned can be addressed (even if imperfectly by your standard). For example, you can pause updates for over a month, then when that time is up, pause again right away. I always get to choose when my computers update.

And Windows 10 comes with many improvements over Windows 7. [0][1]
Some highlights for me:

- Full boot in under 10 seconds (with an SSD)

- Dark theme

- Windows Sandbox (to run un-trusted/one-off apps in a light VM)

- Multiple desktops

- Support for new hardware innovations: NVMe, High DPI, HDR, Raytracing

But it is fine if you don't consider these improvements as important enough over the cons of Windows 10. Just don't pretend that they don't exist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10
A simpler alternative to get carbon negative buildings is to use Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) to build both the frame and the walls themselves.
This seems like a good opportunity to post this book review about an alternate take on the intellectual history behind modernist / brutalist architecture. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
"The idea that private companies can just do whatever" distorted the other comment into something ideologically inflammatory (which the site guidelines explicitly ask not to do), and took the thread on a generic ideological tangent. Those routinely turn into flamewars. Posting something that predictably induces a flamewar is flamebait.
> Alternately if you can convert enough of the heat to electricity some other way

Thermodynamics says "lolnope", I'm afraid. You need a temperature differential to convert heat to power.
If capitalism wasn't systemically geared towards creating an underclass of unemployed and desperate part time workers it might not be a failure.
I really liked Joe Armstrongs GitHub blog here:

https://joearms.github.io/

He wanted something that would enable anybody to PR his Wiki and wasnt at the mercy of a server side static site generator engine since the GH one screwed up his links for his former blog. Its simple and works mostly on the client side and gives you an exportable file.

Armstrong passed away sometime back sadly and my hope is that GitHub maintains his blog undisturbed. He had a beautiful way of explaining concurrency and software issues that I think anybody could follow. Also for those unaware he was one of the creators of the Erlang programming language.
Over the public internet its likely going to be a TCP feed. I would expect OP was capturing that feed and doing the analysis offline. Most firms do this, even with the collocated UDP setups.
Here is the summary results of the first 100 signups.

https://twitter.com/rememberlenny/status/1203752652905037827
Very true. My brother lost his job at Blockbuster when they closed down. Since then he hasn't been able to find a job. When I mentioned to him that unemployment is at a 50 year low and maybe now would be a good time to try again to find a job he was dismissive. He went on to explain to me how due to capitalism he will never work again. Now I can't stop worrying that I'll lose my job and never be able to work again.
Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim (“Slime for Vim”)
Or you can build your own CDN with Cloudflare Workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/configur...

Did it with https://sdan.io/cdn (I host a ton of files so my other websites can quickly access them) an example: http://sdan.cc/gradient.jpg (may be a bit slow... it's 1MB)
How does it compare to context mixing algorithms such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPAQ ?
Looks interesting but why? Just fail whatever input is given if it's not in an expected format - why even bother trying so hard to recover?
* Still weak support for JSON (use Dict[str, Any])

Python 3.8 added TypedDict which finally helps this particular shortcoming.
What you are describing is the code-reading equivalent of skimming or speed reading. Yes, you can gain some information from it. At best you are going to miss things, at worst you will learn the wrong information. No one is saying "read all the code we depend on." What I am saying is that people do this for code they need to work on, or to review (because this is the only time most people ever bother to read code), which is why most people do such a poor job of understanding programs or spotting issues. Reading code by looking at its shape is a lazy acquired habit that is inappropriate in the most common code reading circumstances.
At Japan’s Most Elite University, Just 1 in 5 Students Is a Woman
>Then lately this messy cryptocurrency integration which so far just seems shady.

Stellar is actually pretty legit and is backed by a real organization going back to 2014: https://www.stellar.org/foundation

As far as Keybase is concerned, I can't complain when a company sends me free money every month—I'm up to about $60 USD now and there’s another airdrop next week.

I think we're just at the beginning of the integration of messaging clients + digital currency—you know if Facebook’s Libra gets off the ground, people will be using Facebook Messenger to send it around.
Kiyamet IÇİI Allah'a? Hz İsI Mesih, Mehdi, Deccal – 2020
Wasnt there a guy who invented the first GUI, programming language and I forgot what else and when someone asked him he just said "I didnt know it was hard."
Deep-Fried Butter
What do you mean by "true data center level"? A FS with posix semantics suitable for normal apps doing file IO or something else?
Hosting on GH; #weird-flex-but-ok

Still, I like the style
I understand the marketing tagline / spin part. To be fair, since it's a theoretical framework, the analogy is done in such a way it's hard to disprove. There's a Barnum effect thing to it. I could keep firing off examples and make it really hard to disprove.

I don't necessarily accept this as science, but as way of analogize complex human behavior without being overwhelmed by variables and contradictions.

A framework will tend to pick what's important and be a way of handling signal:noise.

For example, you could take a more grim framework, like terror management theory will say we're all in fear of death and so society make rules, individuals focus on self-esteem, all to shake off the anxiety mortality gives us. It's hard to disprove that, but that's the point: it posits a core human motivation while willfully ignoring other things to get from Point A -> Point B (example: the motivation of Alexander the Great's military campaigns were to spread his cultural standards/law and ensure forces threatening those rules at home were contained / eliminated. Him naming cities after himself explains the self-esteem motive :P. Napoleon, Emperor Qin, all conquered and placed legal/regulatory systems in their wake)

Back to frameworks in general: It's built off observational anecdotes and if put to the rigors of say - a physics experiment - it'd be hard to give that kind control / certainty. We can't read minds, and various types of reporting methods may not pan out. Our whole lives we're forming object relations that have meanings/associations/intricacies on an individual basis. So to handle things, we pick a common denominator and use that to inspect the situation.

We have to look back into relationships and see conditions / cause / effect, rather than being able to simulate in a controlled setting.

> What about forager societies with loose sexual norms and cultures that did not emphasize monogamy or long-term partner bonding?

Attachment theory tries to be a theory of everything. It'd then be chalked up to difference in culture/customs, rather than the theory not fitting. If a monogamous relationship isn't there, some other bond likely will. Doesn't have to be romantic.

The relations between the hunting group, the teamwork and dynamics of the tribe. It could be argued the cooperation based on trust is what kept it together, so they could survive. It involved letting their guard down at times to trust someone else.

It could also explain betrayals, outcasts and desertion, longstanding protracted hostilities and alliances.
All this work... for something I paid for!

...yeah, well, might as well use Linux then, if I'm going to spend the same time configuring both. At least with Linux, I'm fighting a shortage of developers and a lack of official support, and not the OS itself.
Most attacks are opportunistic, trying credentials that were leaked online or brute forcing simple passwords. It's also heavily weighted from russia, china, tor, open proxy, non-reputable hosting and cheap VPS. Each of these can be detected and blocked.

Attacker do not maintain proxies, especially not proxies across tens of developers countries, and if they that would be organized crime and it's a whole new level. By the way, banking trojans evolved to operate from the browser of the victim specifically to evade these protections.

Should I cover all these in a blog post if it's something you're interested in?
it's a failure because that condition was one of the reasons that he did not automate his job. A success of capitalism would be if it provided some incentive to automate the job.
reflectivity/aborbtion is more than a percentage value. it's also a hemispherical distribution. if you glued retroreflectors to the surface most of the light would go back in the direction of the sun and thus never hit the surface. Those are probably too costly or bulk for satellites. If specular reflections are the problem they might just apply a more diffuse coating.
There is no irony other than the fact that you think it's ironic. Monogamy is the default for same-sex couples as well. Orthogonal issue.

The issue with non-monogamy is that a pairing (2 people) is the smallest working group, and that's what the game theory of dating proves to be most durable and successful. A 3-person working group requires at least 3x more relationship work, and a 4-person pairing requires 6x as much.
I really have a hard time believing that after your brother lost his job at Blockbuster (10 years ago?) that he will 'never work again'.

On top of this, Capitalism is what continues to create new jobs, and ensures, for the post part, that you will be able to find another job if you lose your current one.
I like that email response time graph... thinking of doing that as well when I have time.
Joseph Stigltiz is a nobel prize winner so it seems ridiculously of me to disagree... but as someone who worked in the industry, the amount of debt that lenders are willing to lend was not in our control - its a market with supply and demand like any other. I don't believe that legislation that decides how much leverage is OK is more efficient than a market that decides
Yes. If it were on Steam, it would rank about even with GTA V Online. Average online users, all in the same world, is in the 35,000-50,000 range.
In my company, each engineer spends about ¼ of their time building or improving tools for sales, marketing, support, or operations. Notice the preposition “for” there.

I think the flaw with the scenario you described is that your programs are “replacing” these peoples’ “jobs”, when, in reality, we’re building tools that empower them to perform their jobs more effectively.

In the case where we create a self-service option for our customers, such that they no longer need to call in, our ops friends are grateful that we’ve removed a tedious task from their day to day work. From my POV, internal users are as much our customers as external users are.

Of course, there’s a fine line between “empowering” and “replacing”. As our tools become more powerful, we need fewer hours to do a greater number of tasks, so ops’ headcount can scale sub-linearly with the number of tasks they need to complete.

While that gives us a business edge, it also means that we can invest in making our fewer people more generally-skilled, so that we avoid the case you describe (where a person’s job description is encapsulated in a single task, which is eventually automated away). We can also afford to pay them well, and their work is generally more varied and interesting. It’s a clear win for those on the inside.

The only losers are the hypothetical 100 or so unskilled people we’ll never hire or invest in, because our existing 100 are adequately supported. I don’t know a solution to that problem, but it can’t be to hire 200 people and give them terrible tools.
GC is not the bottleneck in Clojure startup time. There has been a fair bit written about it.

You can use GraalVM to build fast startup Clojure binaries.
I think they've started doing those for the Assassin's Creed series, so you never know, future iterations might bring something like that.
I’m fairly proud of mine: https://rymc.io

The mobile reading is especially smooth, a point of pride
I would expect this to work as well as contacting Google when you have a problem with their service.
Manual is often the best option. I worked for a company that was hell bent on automating a booking process and minimizing the number of humans involved until they realized how much many people preferred having a human guide them through different parts of the process.

They hired 100x as many call center workers as they thought they'd end up needing and sales skyrocketed.

My (largely younger, tech savvy) friends are always slightly shocked to hear this story - because they didn't appreciate having a human guide them.
Setting Up GitHub Package Registry with Docker and Golang
Added a gradient to spice what I wanted to be a plain website:

https://sdan.io/surya
I assume that in the game, though, being treated by the medic means you go straight back into play, rather than being medivaced and spending months in hospital followed by years of learning to walk again?
Yes, and yes it is secure. That is to say the data is encrypted and only you and the person(s) you are sending to have access to it.

I have used it for credential sharing and use kbfs (Keybase's encrypted file sharing) for a simple secret storage mechanism for shell scripts. I map my encpass (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh) directory to kbfs.
Tbh that just sounds like the regular Wikipedia editing drama.

"Everyone can edit Wikipedia!" except almost every page has an editor or group of editors who feels it belongs to them and they will push their own agenda. This is not a unique situation at all. It's a deep rooted problem with Wikipedia almost from the very beginning.
I think in the long run, python, ruby, js, etc are all bad ideas. You are solving high level problems with these languages, correctness should be the main priority.

Realising that type checking is a good thing, then bolting it on, I feel is a crappy solution, when you should just use something designed better from the start.

I completely disagree that there is a "productivity toll". If you dont know how to speak a language then obviously it seems difficult. I think you save time in the long run not dealing with all the type errors.
IIRC I used litestep for a while, and it felt awesome.

The weird themes were something that made sense in a world where Winamp skins where a fertile ground for UI experimentation, and would probably be shunned today.

Still, AFAIR, there wasn't much deep innovation on the UX front, it still boiled down to the same operations as explorer.exe, while this Cairo thing seems to push things a bit more.
> modern attachment theory could be used to formulate a hypothesis ... there could be dyads between startup co-founders, founder <-> employee, investor <-> founder, employee <-> employee

No question.

// source: former serial co-founder
> Not every experience of art, music, etc. is going to appeal to you at the start. Some things are worth learning about. It's worth cultivating a real sensitivity to brutalism among many other things.

> I know this sounds sanctimonious. OTOH rejecting a controversial piece of creative work in a shrill and clichéd way sounds ignorant and arrogant

The ordinary people of Boston shouldn’t have to “cultivate a sensitivity” to something sitting on their public land, built for their use paid for with their tax dollars. Public architecture should cater to the tastes of the masses—that is the sole legitimate criterion for judging public art and architecture—not the egos and fantasies of the architectural elite.
"Founder" is a label decided by the company, not by outsiders. Many Silicon Valley companies have "founders" who were not there on Day 1.
I really like the breakdown sequence of "Automation in real life" because it nearly perfectly describes the process I go through to evaluate if something is worth trying to build.

Introducing the "would someone pay for this" is a key step because it tells me if it's worth pursuing even if I didn't need it myself. The answer is almost always no.

Further, the majority of these small automations increasingly look like they are feature improvements on existing products. This example is also perfect because it was a feature within Powerpoint that would probably take the Microsoft Office team a day to prototype [1] and a few months to build into the next update with backward compatibility etc...

So to me the value at the outset isn't in the code, which is fairly trivial, but the value is in knowing what to code and how to integrate the new automation.

Here's where this breaks down though...you can't evaluate what you should be building and how it would be built, if you have no idea how to build something. So it is important to learn to code, if only to understand how hard it is to do different things. That holds true for everything though, from making a meal to fixing a carburetor or doing braids. You need experience doing things before you can know how to estimate whether they are worth doing in a new context.

[1]Something like...

#Compute centroid of rectangle:

>self = (coord[0]+(coord[2]/2), coord[1]+(coord[3]/2))

#Compute centroid of background rectangle

>other = same formula

>#Align

>def add(self, other):
self.x = self.x + other.x
self.y = self.y + other.y
I'm assuming the game is playable, i.e. the decompression code is included on the cartridge and you just don't know how it works. In that case you could emulate the game and use a language model to identify strings containing Japanese text (you'd need to know the encoding to do that) so they can be extracted for translation. That doesn't allow you to put the translations into the compressed code, but you might be able to instrument the emulator to inject translated strings on-the-fly.
Im not sure this is the exact solution in your case. It sounds more like you are looking for labor, rather than a contributor.

I don't have answers around ownership/legal. In short, the idea should be that the project's owner is also the sole legal owner. If you write code for someone else's project, you don't sudden get a stake in the project.

Definitely something to work through.
I'd be very interested to know if any of the people who strongly disagree with the above comment are professional astronomers, or physicists.
>There is no tangible evidence of mass executions [taking place in the Jasenovac concentration camp]

Shame that there are no links in the article pointing to the Croatian wiki articles in questions, the one on Ante Pavelić, for instance, states that the estimated number of victims in Jasenovac is 70 000 - 80 000 people.
"Među ustaškom logorima najpoznatiji je Sabirni logor Jasenovac, gdje je, prema pretpostavkama, stradalo od 70 000 - 80 000 ljudi."
https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Paveli%C4%87