skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for politicians, you should definitely be satisfied.

Something I've been thinking about... certain politicians sometimes get crap for being wishy-washy or whatever, but we live in a representative democracy. A representative is supposed to do whatever his or her constituents want.

The ideal representative wouldn't have values. They would simply do their best to carry out their constituents's will, whatever it was at that moment.
I'm not entirely sure how you think looking at an image on a computer screen compensates for the experience of doing observations with your own eyes.

There are plenty of good pictures on wikipedia already, do looking at those compare to going out on a clear night and looking at the stars yourself?
HN prevents Arthur's from being resubmit to the site for some reason, but here's a 40 comment discussion on it from 2009:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944559
Interesting that Bolton Valley (one of my favourites!) is on both passes.

Freedom looks tempting except absolutely nothing Canadian on it. Too bad.
That’s only part of it. She is also a woman and a foreigner and she is reasonably well-educated. Americans spend more on the war efforts of other countries than we do to our own public schools. Fear, xenophobia and intellectual insecurity are part of this phenomenon as well. She is also economically privileged and Americans are increasingly divided by income and income-related health factors like physical fitness and addiction. Taking advice from a wealthy, educated European female is simply not an option without opening the door to some uncomfortable observations.

These people make take some unscientific ideas to their graves but they will also take a lot of fear and hatred with them.
LED lights are incredibly efficient though. Large buildings are creepy if you turn off most of the lights.
For some reason, the first thing I clicked was 1983, which led me to an ad for the Lisa computer.

I remember seeing it at the local mall at a computer retailer, and being in awe of how cool it looked compared to other computers at the time, and shocked that it cost $10,000 (equivalent to ~ $25,000 today.)

Even though the Lisa never really went anywhere, it was an amazing achievement at the time.
Then do you count emissions from Microsoft's suppliers? This announcement says they are considering emissions from their entire supply chain, so I can't imagine a reason why this wouldn't also apply to people they pay to work for them.
Add overpopulation to that list as well.

It was huge concern in the 1970s and 1980s. Now population growth is expected to be flat by the end of the 21st century.

It's fallen so much that that it's creating problems in some areas.
Anytime human labour that is required is ignored that makes the startup more deceptively attractive to VC - and may end up bordering on fraud if done with intent.
A lot of arguments in this HN discussion boil down to "It's not that bad and it doesn't matter because this will earn Saint Elon enough money will fix it!"

That's like saying "Sure, let the giant industrial conglomerate dump toxins in the drinking water. That way it can earn enough money to build a machine to clean the water up and sell it back to us and everyone will be happy!"

Why not just not pollute the water in the first place?
I think the real trick is avoiding trickery in the first place.

If you got yourself in a weird situation with Maven, either you have a seriously interesting project or you should admit you are probably doing something you shouldn't be doing and should take steps to fix it.

Just this week I've been cleaning up some old Java project and as often a major part of it has been to cut down the pom file by 50%.

It is now upgraded, faster and easier to understand and upgrade :-)
I once worked on a larger Rails project where we had decided to utilize Postgres views and materialized views to optimize the performance of parts of our application. This was about 7 years ago, so before Scenic existed to help with this (or at least before it was known). We had to manually manage the use of our views while keeping Rails apprised of the underlying schema through custom schema files and migration methods.

One of the main issues we had run into, in addition to all the complexity that comes with managing a cache and no longer being able to count on your db queries to return the latest information, was that our views had to be deleted and re-created for nearly every schema change (at least every schema change that affected the views, but we had so many views, this ended up being probably 90% of our schema changes).

We ended up overriding the standard Rails "up" and "down" migration methods to prepend the deletion of these views, append their re-creation, clean up after failed migrations, etc. I remember us spending a good amount of time across the team dealing with weird edge cases that cropped up from this. I also remember spending a fair amount of time training all the developers on these issues since almost no one on the team had experience using or dealing with database views. I assume managing migrations and schema of your views within Rails is all included in what Scenic does for you for free, since these hassles weren't mentioned in the article.

It's really nice to see something that handles all that complexity for you. However, that still leaves the standard and age-old caching issues with stale data. Another side effect was that they started being a bandaid for inefficient queries and data structures in the database, which is probably how we ended up with so many db views in the first place.

In the end, after probably 8 months of using these views, we decided to excise them from the application entirely and go back to optimizing our actual database queries. We got to delete a lot of custom code, our schema changes and migrations became simpler, our data became fresh again, and we got to reinvest that time into improving our underlying data structures and queries.

This probably is not an argument against using db views, but rather an anecdote of what can happen when you resort to them prematurely. If you have queries that are 100ms or more, there are probably more traditional optimizations you can find, such as restructuring your relational data, adding/removing indexes, etc. If you're actually trying to eliminate those last 10s of milliseconds from your queries though, as is shown in the article, I can see them being a good option.
I'm trying to figure out a way to incorporate this notion of hierarchical life into panpsychism and the "global brain" hypothesis. (Disclaimer: I'm already sold on and a proponent of the theory of panpsychism.)

It seems more and more to me like this hierarchy goes all the way up (to the single superorganism that is the universe) and all the way down (to the presence or absence of fermions in particular states, inducing a duality and thus a basis of computation via the Pauli exclusion principle). If this hierarchy is consistent across all scales, then we can conclude that if consciousness exists at one level then it exists at all levels. Sentience/awareness is a different question, mind you, and "memories" are associated with awareness of past events.

I'm also starting to believe that "consciousness" in terms of directed will doesn't truly exist, and that only "experience" exists. The rest (wants, desires, opinions, will) are electrochemical reactions which respond to local changes in the environment, although we experience them as much more than that for ultimately self- (and macrosystem-)serving reasons. These electrochemical reactions are present because they have over time become more important in the processes necessary for the propagation of whatever they're supporting. This is all very vague and hand-wavy but this article on the thermodynamic theory of life might be clearer [1].

In the discussion yesterday about this topic on HN I brought up the example of ant colonies [2] in an attempt to spur discussion in this direction.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047653
Uh, my work device is a laptop and I use multi-large-monitors. With external keyboard and mouse.

I can unplug it (single cable) and take to a conference room if the need arises. I can take off early and plug it at home. It has a built-in UPS by the virtue of having a battery. Why would a desktop be better, unless you need crazy hardware?

I do have a desktop at home, but that's for my personal uses.
That's odd. It should be available on all stores. Try searching directly?
The viewing window is the same length no matter how many satellites there are at the same altitude, because Earth's shadow is the same for all of them.
Indeed, I an older version of https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition... in two weekends. (I never got around to implementing job control).

While doing so, I found a part of the specification that (as far as I can tell) no shell implements (sourcing my /etc/profile failed with my shell due to the difference): the specification blesses (at the time)[1] 20 utilities that should be run without regards to the PATH, but any other built-ins should not be run if the command does not exist in the path.

So, for example:

PATH=""
echo "Hello"

Should fail on every POSIX compliant shell. I haven't found a shell that implements echo as a builtin in which the above fails though.

1: Now it has a larger list for which it is unspecified what happens. See "Command search and execution" for the list. "echo" is not on the list though, so my example is still well-defined in POSIX yet breaks on all shells I tried.
If you're in the US, try to get some "Aplets and Cotlets". They're a delicious variety of Turkish Delight made in Washington state from apples and apricots.
While I'm taking NMN, as it's proven to be safe, I know that HGH + DHEA is the only drug from the list that has already proven to make healthy people younger.

I'm seriously considering it in a few years after it has more time to be proven safe enough.

For now I'm planning to measure DNA methylation in my body to understand the reason for my chronic illnesses better. I already got my DNA sequenced, but now that methylation can be measured cheaply as well, I don't see a reason why not to.
This, combined with the expense of doing physical therapy is what led me to make MoveWell (https://movewellapp.com).

Most people don't know how good they can actually feel. Sitting down all day isn't natural and taking opioids or expensive surgeries that aren't guaranteed to work (see Steve Kerr's story) aren't great options.

I think most people would be surprised at how good they can feel by just taking 5-10 minutes every day to do mobility work and/or foam rolling as part of their daily work habit. You spend 8 hours a day messing up your posture. You should take 5 minutes to help undo it.
Thank you for adding sarcasm to your comment, it really helps.
> Plus the last thing my kid needs is more screentime. I don't want to have to sit next to them all night making sure that they are only doing 'productive' work.

And you don't have to, there's youtube-dl, finding the right level material is another story though.
If it's flying in front of the sun, you are correct. If it's flying in front of an object 100 light years away, you are incorrect.
> More accurate? Updated more often?

Yes. There's only one other (public) source, https://space-track.org/ which publishes tracking results from US military radars. But the tracking results aren't as accurate as the satellites' own telemetry data.
Are you an amateur astronomer or just trying to be the devil's advocate?

I'd be curious to know what the impact is on impactful amateur astronomy (as opposed to backyard hobbyists who are just engaged for personal pleasure). I know some amateurs use images created by public telescopes, I'm not sure how much meaningful work is done by amateurs using backyard equipment anymore.

Not being dismissive, genuinely curious.
It doesn't surprise me. I've seen WWII-era torpedoes and their innards at the Science of Museum and Industry in Chicago in the U-505 exhibit (seriously, if you're ever in Chicago to to the museum and pay the extra fee to go aboard U-505. Totally worth it) and there is a lot going on in one of those.

Here's a low-ish quality photo of the innars of a torpedo in the exhibit (not mine) https://www.reddit.com/r/ThingsCutInHalfPorn/comments/1jxk7k...

Specifically in that thread these photos https://imgur.com/a/zNry7

Sadly my photos from last year aren't any better, the cavern that U-505 is in has terrible lighting for photography.

I was quite surprised by the amount of gears, tubes, segments, weights, etc inside one. Even the amount of batteries initially caught me off guard because I'm used to thinking in modern lithium batteries and not lead acid.

I think that is a G7e torpedo above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7e_torpedo
liver == steak * 1000
Only problem is being able to stomach liver a few days every month. I know it's a super food but I'll be damned if I can eat it more than once every few months.
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It's lost in the sense that water used for one purpose is not immediately available for something else, even if it will eventually turn into usable water again.
Hey thanks for the lesson in anecdotal data. I had no idea! Extremely valuable.
What good is a memory dump if you don't have the codebase to navigate? without the code and structure of how its managed a memory dump would just look like an alien language.
> In summary, what you propose here is not only vanishingly atypical, but also bad coding practice.

What I'm describing has been SOP in bash for twenty years. You can program in a more modern style and replace some uses of eval with ${!indirect_references}, declare, and associative arrays but eval is still in wide use today. Search through /etc for eval with grep and you'll return plenty of results in the wild.

For example the eval in my previous post could be rewritten as the following

declare -g "$1"="result"

but this form, although safer, is the less common usage.

Assigning to global variables or passing in a variable name to get the return value is just how bash works. See $MAPFILE $OPTIND $OPTARG for examples of the former and read as an example of the latter.
The canals were sewer and freight, not regular transportation.
No one said purposefully, and they were dropped.

It's the sort of incident Dr. Strangelove predicted might accidentally cause a nuclear war.
Well, it doesn’t always, but I’d prefer not to live during the equivalent of a self imposed asteroid impact kthxbye.

Like, sure, mass extinctions happen... but this one is totally optional.
I’m a physicist so I can say for certain that a typical college graduate majoring in physics but not looking into a Ph.D. isn’t equipped to discuss any advanced topic (say, quantum field theory). They are usually fifty to a hundred years behind frontier research.

That doesn’t necessarily translate to psychology, which I have no idea.
bunch of research into metformin for anti-aging, which is very cheap
Does this link not work either? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/screenshot-hero/id1493170794?l...
Thanks again, this is very helpful.
The Xiaomi A3 is an Android One phone and comes with Aliexpress and the Xiaomi store pre-installed.
The Chinese Room sounds to me like a language model

> that tells me exactly which sequence of Chinese characters I should use to reply to any sequence of Chinese characters you give me

Then the question becomes - can a language model understand the meaning of the text it generates? Or does it assign its own meaning to the data?
> and taking opioids or expensive surgeries that aren't guaranteed to work (see Steve Kerr's story) aren't great options.

Not only not work but make things worse or irreversibly damage the body.
The child's pose really helped me, yoga is awesome
Getting real footage from some location is kind of trivial.

If you try to edit a person into a scene, you have to do a lot of work to carefully fix up the lighting and shadows, which is difficult to do perfectly. That's not the case with a tiny distant object against a dark sky. There aren't many editing artifacts to look for.
The Programming Language Oberon (2016) [pdf]
Well this is timely content for me. I am 32, healthy weight range, and going to have athroplasty next week to replace L5/S1 disc. Information I was told is 9/10 have positive outcome with 1/10 still experiencing pain post recovery.
Plenty more examples abound. Even the American Red Cross — raised $500mm in 2015 for Haiti earthquake relief. Used $125mm for internal expenses[0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-fin...
The water usage alone is huge.
At the end of the day, whatever benefits are supposed to derive from the technique seem mostly academic.
Dr. Strangelove is the origin of what I consider the most brilliantly absurd one-liner in cinematic history.

'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the war room!'
Whenever I go too long without exercise, I get back pain. It's like clockwork. Then I start exercising and it goes away until I lapse.

Certainly that's not going to be the solution for all cases of back pain, but I do wonder how many are taking painkillers and such when some regular exercise or other physical changes (posture, weight) could do the trick.
“I’m really bummed about the way it makes my arm look” said the stage 4 terminal skin cancer patient.

Hint: it’s not actually about the skiing.
> If you think that there's some kind of connection between the (alleged) illusory nature of consciousness and practical issues of workplace politics, then you've probably gone off on an enormous tangent.

Yeah, I absolutely did. Upvoted.

> In any case, I have no idea how you think your main argument gets from A to B, so I can't usefully respond to it.

It boils down to "professionals should not allow differing opinions on non-work-related issues to negatively impact their working relationships, no matter how strongly they disagree." The fact that no one knows anything about anything just helps people cope with that reality.

> I assume that you don't intend this as a characterization of the beliefs of actual white supremacists (?), so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

It's a placeholder for any ideology, at least insofar as it remains in the realm of ideology and isn't unduly brought into the professional environment by the accused ideologue.

If someone starts bringing up politics, religion, or other controversial topics at work, redirect the conversation and ignore. If someone dispenses of their personal time advocating for causes that some others may find distasteful or even repugnant? Ignore, live and let live. It's not a professional issue.

Taking adverse action against an employee for using their private time to participate in the political process is not only already illegal in many states, but it's also hugely counterproductive. The ideologue is essentially compelled to lay their career at the problem ideology's altar (often post-facto, because the muckrakers are digging up some ancient LiveJournal entry or whatever). This creates fertile ground for a new internal narrative of heroic and principled self-martyrdom in behalf of the problem ideology. It's a fast track to radicalization, and you've likely just made the ideologue unsure how they're going to pay their rent next month. Bad scene.

If someone really hates the problem ideology and not the individual currently fascinated with it, "fire ideologue" will be pretty far down on the todo list.

tl;dr, If the employee is doing good work and they're not disrupting the work environment, leave them alone.

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Pre-edit: harassment, stalking, direct interference with other employees' lives, threats of violence, and other types of red-flag behaviors should never be ignored, no matter how professionally someone behaves during business hours. Dangerous behavior should always be reported to HR and any applicable civil organization.

Pre-edit 2: This is not medical advice and I'm not your attorney. I'm not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or counselor of any type. As discussed in the grandparent comment, I made all this up mostly on accident, everything I think is surely wrong and dumb, and everything I type should be ignored.
It looks like Chrome does: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/ccd149af47315e4c6f...

Credit to this person's comment in the Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/eooyil/cve20200601/...
Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for storing markdown notes
By the lizard people, naturally.
Browsers are fixing the Internet's most annoying problem
Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books
Such a gobbledygook of an article, sure some tech spending isn't helpful and may even be harmful to education but this author doesn't even fully explain what he means by "technology".
What about things that are not part of R6RS like the picture language or parallel-execute?
I think you've got some homework to do :-)

https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/lifespan/
This is not right. The current rounding mode is not guaranteed to apply to integer to floating point conversions. Quoting C99, section 6.3.1.4, paragraph 2:

"When a value of integer type is converted to a real floating type, if the value being converted can be represented exactly in the new type, it is unchanged. If the value being converted is in the range of values that can be represented but cannot be represented exactly, the result is either the nearest higher or nearest lower representable value, chosen in an implementation-defined manner. If the value being converted is outside the range of values that can be represented, the behavior is undefined."

See it says implementation-defined manner, not according to the current rounding mode.

Test case:

#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <fenv.h>

int main()
{
fesetround(FE_DOWNWARD);
printf("%f\n", (double)UINT64_MAX);
fesetround(FE_UPWARD);
printf("%f\n", (double)UINT64_MAX);
return 0;
}

$ gcc -std=c99 -frounding-math x.c -lm
$ ./a.out
18446744073709551616.000000
18446744073709551616.000000

In both cases it rounded up.
That's amazing! We started Campus Hook in 2002 (I think) but the timing was bad for a few reasons:
1. A few years early in terms of college student adoption of internet
2. A few years later in terms of founders' ages (we were seniors and didn't really care about campus dating anymore)

So happy to hear you met on there, and, apparently, are still married! Perhaps it wasn't a failure after all :)
There were aspects of DARE that were based on Psuedoscience but lots of major and minor campaigns, from ending dueling to getting people not to steal things from the Petrified Forest National Park, have been derailed by this effect without involving lies or pseudoscience.
If I recall correctly there's also a remake, made in the same style.
If we're willing to be liberal with our usage of the word computer, I'd like to nominate the Xserve RAID. I still consider buying one to put in my home rack from time to time because they're just so damn pretty.
They are one of the biggest companies in the world and they dominate the internet. It is okay to complain about them, people should probably do it even more.