skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked this question once. I couldn't figure out why there's no SPICE for chemistry (SPICE being any of several accurate, refined, and well-understood simulation programs for EE work).

You know the whole deal with the three-body problem? How closed-form solutions become intractable in a hurry once you go past two or three mutually-influential orbiting bodies? As it was explained to me, that's why there's no SPICE for chemistry. Modeling exactly what happens when complex orbitals with dozens or hundreds of electrons interact with each other is one of those things we just have no clue how to implement in a practical application.
I feel like that website is slightly counter-productive, because it puts a very strong emphasis on timing, whereas for producing high-quality bread, things like dough handling techniques, dough and oven humidity, or baking temperature have a much stronger effect than timing.
A guide to healthy skepticism of artificial intelligence and coronavirus
Random beeps and mouse movement are less intrusive?!
Some may even say a funnel is pointless since you can create one with paper or foil lined paper for that once a year time you might use it.
So, to not function. Great reason.
> I can't believe that in 2020 and with all the knowledge we've acquired as humanity we've allowed a few people to acquire all the wealth.

This is the most prosperous time in human history. There are more people alive right now than ever before. They live longer healthier lives and they’re more educated than ever before.

On every continent but Africa people are richer now than was the case after WWII. In the US, the richest country that has ever existed people are just coming out of one of the longest economic expansions in history.
Right but they didn't result in Hilton / Disney having 80-90% revenue drops overnight. This is a very unique contraction. Even in the depths of 2008, DisneyWorld still had a steady flow of visitors, and Hilton hotels across the world still welcomed guests.
In my (unfortunately much greater than I would like) experience of people engaged with 5G conspiracies, they are not generally young.
Interesting. The report says they tested airplane noise, which spreads on a wide spectrum of frequencies but is a continuous noise. A keyboard noise is very different : short bursts. Maybe there is a regression in that case, which the method in their report would not spot.
> Don't put methods on it like pandas.DataFrame. You won't get the API right the first many times and you'll end up with a million methods.

I was actually thinking about this for a bit. Since the data layout seems unlikely to ever
backwards-incompatibly change, can you not define the API entirely in traits on the struct,
and package them into one super trait (e.g. DataFrameAPIVersion1)?

Then you can simply import the DataFrame struct as well as the version of the API you'll use, and
be 100% compatible with any other code regardless of API version they use to manipulate the dataframes.
You have to go to the original Crichton novel for the real cringeworthy misrepresentation of tech: the "code" listings will make you weep. He's a great writer, don't get me wrong, but would a little bit of research and/or editorial assistance have hurt ?!
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Don’t need to catch bugs if you just don’t write them! taps head.

It is still worthwhile imo to have something that catches mistakes even great people make.
FWIW, if you're in Minnesota, it's in every Cub Foods supermarket.

Then again, Minneapolis is AKA the Mill City!
You're refuting all the points by saying "X country also as Y attribute" but what you fail to grasp is that China is one of the only country that combines all at the same time.

Japan might have a good gdp but you can nuke then out of existence with a few bombs. Iraq might have a good army but they're not anywhere close to an economical power.

> There is quite a drop from #1 and the rest.

Not really https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp

> the point is Europe can't be a superpower when it has foreign military/occupation presence

Maybe, maybe not, if we start making up our own definitions of a superpower it's going to be a long discussion.
Ask HN: Best sites for remote or contract developer work?
Tried some job boards, but they were great. Don't trust using recruiters as had bad experiences in the past. Any reliable site out there for this type of work?.
Self-supervised learning is the future of AI
Completely agree. A few paragraphs in, I felt dread because it was going to be yet another rehash of minimalist history with with very little original thought. It’s too scared to say things directly. I think if it started with the last 2 or so paragraphs, it could offer something unique or challenging.
Your solution requires shell support and is incompatible with previous code, while the author’s solution works today.

Who has the wrong solution now?
Out of curiosity: We seem to have a very good understanding how synthesis in biological processes works (from DNA to the eventual molecules), we are able to create DNA/RNA molecules with arbitrary content and we're increasingly able to simulate what molecule a particular nucleotide sequence would produce.

So, putting the three together, would it be possible to use actual biosynthesis for designed molecules by basically writing your own DNA/RNA and inserting it into a cell?

(Or is this already what's being done?)
https://twitter.com/tradel/status/1246526465207869440
This is rather worse than your typical 8-year contraction. Like, experts aren't sure if it's going to be better or worse than the Great Depression and they're not optimistic based on what we've seen so far levels of bad.
I’ve wanted to create a list of my belongings, with maybe a few other metrics like category, rough value, happiness factor, etc. How detailed did you go, and did you use it as a survey tool to initially figure out what you don’t need?
I own a Sennheiser HD600 and a Bose QC25. They don't race in the same league. The HD600 has better sound quality hands down and I try to use it whenever I can. Where the QC25 shines is the noise canceling. I fly a lot and during a transatlantic flight, Bose is a godsend. It blocks out the engine noise very effectively. I can listen to music, podcasts, videos without cranking up the volume to max. Sometimes I use it in the office to block out office noises. Every other situation the HD600 is better.
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Hello Everyone,

I developed a product https://feedfront.me, and people are coming but not signing up...

Could you test it and let me know what's wrong with my product?
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This is just good regular marketing from a company who happen to market to developers. If it had no value then it would be fine to complain, but they’re giving away a free tool, it’s definitely worth something. I’ve yet to see a post from Snyk that wasn’t at least “not bad”, and plenty have been much better than that.

This is no different to GitLab’s marketing - huge release announcements every month, or Cloudflare’s technical blog posts, but I don’t see complaints about them.
You’re right, but even these older people are not the ones who would be starting fires. They are usually the ones motivating the younger ones.
When you override a bash built-in like `cd` with an alias, `command` is the only option.
If what's huge, is blank space. maybe it does?
Some people just don't like cooking. I guess the magical kitchen gadgets may appeal to them in the sense of "this might make me like cooking" because it looks easy.
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Update: Here is Mochizuki's website that contains links to many more details of the discussion:

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/IUTch-discussions-...
There are tons of gullible people out there. Twitter for instance is rife with accounts that spread this nonsense around as though it is gospel. Social media has been weaponized to get people to distrust anything they see or read online, alternatively to believe nonsense to the point that the real news starts to feel like nonsense too.

This is the flip side of the coin, universal access to information and universal capability to generate information is a power that comes with a lot of responsibility and so far we are failing at that.

Similar things are happening here on HN, there are accounts whose sole purpose it seems to be to derail any normal conversation or to bait others in to crossing the rules so they can be eliminated resulting in a lower signal:noise ratio.

It's up to all of us to call this nonsense out and to relentlessly aim to stop it from spreading because at some level this is a fight with consequences reaching much further than just out little fora and comment sections of blogs. It is a war for mindshare of bogus ideas vs ideas with a basis in fact, the final prize is the votes of the gullible and to paralyze societies to be able to respond to crisis, man made or natural.

The funny thing is that as soon as you go down that rabbit hole far enough the conspiracy theories end up being peddled by the ones who are actually conspiring. See for instance pizzagate.
The article describes the problems but are vague on the solutions. I encourage more writing in this space because the problems are real and very common, while the current literature is old and hard to understand.
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Interesting idea, but I would think a personally optimum pallette is optimum, and altering that is working against oneself.
They aren't taking a 30% cut to "promote" you. They are taking the cut and providing billing services like credit card processing. They also provide access to your app and apis for you to connect and use phone features. They also host your app binary and provide update services. But the main reason they charge 30% is because they can. If they offered no value for that 30%, then no one would pay for it.

I agree it's too much. But they do offer something for that 30%.
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> It's worse than that. At this point, the person who bridges that gap will almost certainly get his name added to the proof--that's a big incentive.

Taylor Dupuy together with Anton Hilado is attempting this:

https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/taylor-du...
Assuming a "tech startup".
d) Little to no costs with many-month wind-down period. A lease contract for a restaurant or shop might be 1-2 years, and one is still on the hook for that despite 0 income due to closed shop.
As an IT guy, I am wondering why this is still a mostly manual and rather dangerous process. Surely programmable machines can be built to process reagents in a safe and flexible way?
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Serious question: are there 'pandemics' we don't hear about because the virus doesn't hurt us? Are those outbreaks also studied?
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> _that's_ minimalism

I must have missed it, who is in charge of the definition of minimalism?
If no content blocker like µBlock is used, Google will probably find out about the website visit through Google Analytics. But the important difference is that Analytics is not essential for visiting a website while the CAPTCHA from the CloudFlare page in front of the website is.

But the change is especially good for Tor users as they are often blocked from using Google reCAPTCHA (due to "suspicious" activity from the network) at all.

Finally I hope more companies follow the lead of CloudFlare and change some parts of their services to not solely use Google so that the web becomes more diverse again.
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No, Apple just has better marketing and has managed to make their products popular amongst the wealthiest people.
That still means that (after a few grueling weeks) 1/3rd of the patients could survive. Moreover there's all the non-covid19 patients that could also survive if they wouldn't find the ICU fulls.

That's not irrelevant.

Btw, you're right that we're not capitalizing on the lockdown as much as we could: we're supposed to build out the testing, contract tracing and early detection infrastructure (temperature checks at every office and grocery shops... Italy just started)

Shutting down plane flights is actually not that useful: we should just do what South Korea is doing and test every single arrival, and then we could keep that infrastructure in place (obviously, if the number of flights make it untenable to test every arrival, that should be heavily capped)
I'm in the same situation. I still have some (finely ground) wheat flour, but can't get any bread flour nor rye flour :/
I've always taken it for granted that self-reliance and minimalism are contradictions in terms. The reason we have things like factories in society is because it's not practical or efficient for everyone to manufacture everything they need for themselves. By collaborating, be it from borrowing a saw from a neighbor or by building a multi-national logging corporation, this "cooperation" makes things more efficient. It's this "societal" efficiency that makes minimalism possible in the first place.

Every description I have seen of minimalism has not been centered around self-reliance, but around anti-materialism. Since we live in a society where our collective production output and efficiency is higher than it has ever been throughout human history, it's easier than ever to collect property that has limited or no real use, and consume without being mindful of the effect it has on our environment or at the very least on your own economy.

So, in my mind, "minimalism", whatever that means, is not a means to self-reliance, it's a questioning of modern consumerism and whether we are perhaps over-spending on things that do not improve our lives. Whoever is trying to combine minimalism with "prepping", "self-reliance", call it what you will, is at the very least confused in my book.
Has there been any effort at making an open source version of these noise cancelling headphones? It would seem to make for a pretty neat project.
>If you're touchy about people gently correcting accidental unintended sexism

The point was that there is no sexism, unintended or otherwise, in the post you are "correcting". Projecting your touchiness onto others isn't very polite or constructive.
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I agree with your guess, what I don't understand is why they would play along with this type of delusion. It's not going to accomplish anything apart from making these people more convinced in the face of opposing evidence that they were right all along.
This is especially true since the number of possible "instructions" is pretty low. Heat it, cool it, mix it, filter it, centrifuge it, compress it, take a sample and put it through a test instrument.

Pretty much all chemistry is some sequence of the above.
Facebook medical advice? No thanks.
nice! thanks for sharing :)
On this topic though I think we have to be huge grateful to HN, its community, and its moderators, who keep it - in my opinion - one of the least ridden with unsubstantiated nonsense sources on the net.
Don't laugh, it has real consequences on health: "black text on white paper heavily overstimulated retinal OFF pathways. Conversely, white text on black paper overstimulated ON pathways." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598

I have good experience using the theme-changer package in emacs which turns dark theme after sunset automatically.
Great, thanks for sharing!
There is also a group of politicians who are not too proud to promote these conspiracies as a way to rally their base.
Yes, but is it normal for a work of such importance by a mathematician so respected (which would presumably have publications fighting for it) to be apparently publishable - especially after such contention as to its validity - only in a journal he is associated with? And let's be clear, by "associated with", we mean chief editor.

I was actually careful to exclude that particular job title from my OP to avoid the unfairness you are implying in my initial summary.

However, your point is correct in ordinary situations. This is no ordinary situation.
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I’m sorry you had a bad experience, but mine was fantastic. When I had problems with my pair of Bose headphones they immediately sent new ones, even out of warranty.
Not a biologist or chemist, but the articles I've read that invoke biochemistry or molecular biology always reminded me of the intricate mechanical automata that were constructed before electricity could be used for computation.

Back then, you had a certain number of mechanical properties in mind as well as well-known "parts" (gears, linkages, etc) that you could predict the properties of very well - and the task was then to assemble them into larger mechanisms that did what you wanted them to do.

Seems to me, the intuition here could be similar - except the number of dimensions in which parts can interact is larger, the "clockworks" are orders of magnitude more complex - and your tools are much more coarse, so mostly, even if you know what you need to build, the building itself can only be done indirectly.
What on earth are y'all talking about?! Buying unbaked grains to eat is to become self reliant? That's just unrealistic and makes no sense.

Why not buy bread (as GP said), cut it, and freeze it? Surely that would be a minimalist approach.

Minimalism is not reinventing how to do everything, but just having what's needed now. If bread is your breakfast, then it's what's needed daily.

FYI: it's possible to be a mechanic and a minimalist. Owning equipment in a garage is not anti-minimalism, it's just common sense. Especially if you have multiple cars (e.g. a family).
Every time this whole conspiracy theory comes up in my circles, I ponder on the means by which it might be true, even though it (probably) isn't.

<tinfoil>
Perhaps there are microwave frequencies which are conducive to agitating bacterial/microbial/viral activity - I could imagine a scenario, though I have no idea of the science/math involved, where the structures of the targeted vector are 'assisted' by remote stimulation.

Like, you can give flagellum a little 'kick' in the thrashing-around frequencies, which make it more violent against cell-wall structures, and so on.

Think, magnetohydrodynamics at pico scale.

Were such a thing feasible, I'm quite sure DARPA discovered it decades ago. That's what its for, right?

Either way, there is a way to approach this subject which doesn't encourage hand-waving and woohoo thinking, but I'm not capable of it. I'm sure there are ways that microwaves can be applied against biological targets that we, the non-scanning-electron-microscope-using general public, probably don't quite get, just yet, has been weaponised ..

</tinfoil>
I'm a controls engineer. We're very good at making machines that will do a single process over and over. It's insanely difficult to do arbitrary processes with one machine.
Same here. Suffering with Soundsport Free since I got them. They frequently disconnect even when I'm near my phone. Also, the audio/video lag issue is a total deal breaker. Bose seems to be the only one who has such issues.
There are machines that do this. Prety expensive though. Maybe too expensive for a uni's department where there won't be enough work to justify the machine's price?
I have not heard much about Generic Algorithms for years. Oddly, this morning I saw a book on my shelf which I thought I might revisit, An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms.

Are they called something else these days?
Thats awesome to hear! Would love to learn more. I assume you are part of the South Africa Nando's group...
I used to be somehow in the middle regarding "is X dangerous" discussions because while probably generally not an issue for large majority people, there is probably a small .% of people who are legitimately oversensitive to various stuff (like, say, some people are allergic to certain foods). And it sucks to be the ignored "edge case" person and not be able to do anything about it (think any time your bug report was rejected).

However I came across this thread that made me realize, many people come up with claims out of thin air (perhaps not even being malicious, just doing fake correlations etc.):

https://twitter.com/sTeamTraen/status/1245814828079427585

> an anecode that was told to me when I visited the operations centre of a large French mobile phone operator a few years ago.

(after installation of new tower)

> everyone who can see the tower, calls the mayor and says they have headaches

> the mayor demands to know what we're going to do to make the headaches stop.

> And we say, well, we haven't switched the mast on yet.
You really think the rabble will continue working as the infection rate rises into the double digits.
As COVID-19 hits, people understand Taleb's idea about critical importance of multiple redundancies. These are clearly incompatible with minimalism. To be alive is more important than to be a minimalist in the end.
So xkcd 386 but with global consequences?
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You can delete the app after doing firmware upgrades. Of course, the monitoring should have been opt in, but at least it is not required.
Let me take Grado off the list then. The Beyers and Sennheisers, at least the studio models are very durable.
I bought a pair of Etymotic Research ER4p IEMs in 2011, and was not even remotely gentle with them. They worked fantastically until 2017, at which point one of the cables came loose, and while I could have replaced the cable for $50 (Alas, not a user-servicable part), I decided that I wanted a second pair as a backup, and the replacement has user-servicable cables. My father, who is somewhat kinder to his electronics than I am, has been using the same pair of ER4p's since 2008 or so.

Quality earbuds don't need to be fragile.
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Yes, but it is a constant battle.
It does, but only to google domains and only in non-incognito mode. If you're still paranoid and clear your cookies after you close Chrome, you can add a commandline option to Chrome so that this UUID is randomized on each start of Chrome.
I also wonder how many breakthroughs we would not have because of somebody saying that something didn’t work.
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