skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've given some thought to this and a related idea.

Let's say that for a subset of scientific papers you have the possibility of specifying both the premises and results in a way that can be composed.

Let's say for example that your result is that the rate of expansion of the universe is N. Other papers could cite this result let's say through a URL of the result. Other papers could then use this URL as premise for their results and we could create an automatic system that would notify all this papers if the result has changed after new data for any of the elements of the chain. Scientists could be notified that they should revise their own papers to see if their conclusions change with the new data so other papers depending on them can be notified. A paper could be even marked stale if after the change of one of the premises the authors have not confirmed that the conclusions are still valid, this staleness would propagate down the chain

A very simplified structure of the data would be sth like this:

{
premises: ['urlOfResult1', 'urlOfResult2',...],
conclusions: [RateOfExpansion: > N]
}

This is obviously terribly simplified, I suppose it'd take me a lot of time to clearly explain in more detail how such a system could work and I thought about it a long time ago.

It could be interesting to apply this to other fields, for example public policy: In this case let's say that we have created this law because of this piece of data. The data changes, we could be notified that perhaps the law could benefit from a new look.

{
premises: ['urlOfResultLeadIsNotDangerous'],
conclusions: ['PeopleCanUseLeadInPipesAsMuchAsTheyWant']
}

Such a system could be made even more generic. Probably people have already worked in this kind of systems but I never took the time to investigate it. If someone knows of examples of this kind of systems applied I'd be very happy to know more
I'm not convinced it was because of his "political views" is an automatic fact.

People say "political views", that's how he might frame it, but I would assume Google would frame it as they fired him for making statements that women are less capable.
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I don't know how it's rude, shingling means 'many small roof tiles' to me.
Myself and the Mrs. took free cycling lessons from the council a few years back with the idea we wanted to start cycling to work etc more. We decided it was too risky due to the terrible traffic. As a regular pedestrian, I've almost been run over multiple times in the last few years. I think the city really needs to look at banning non delivery vehicles from zones 1 and 2, or something to that effect.
Yeah, I do think nothing would change. The vast majority of people I know have complete apathy over 3rd party tracking. It's just not something on their minds (for both devs and non-devs)
There is no proof that your latter claim is true. South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan were all authoritarian before they got economically prosperous. Only after that did they become democratic.

The states in the middle east, which had democracy forced upon them, aren't doing that well either.

It takes a while to get there, and not all stages of development of a country is a good match for democracy.

And you say that it is not that hard to do things less badly than before. I disagree. The CCP is literally the first functional and competent government they've had in 150 years. I think you are massively underestimating how difficult it is to develop China.

I am not saying economic concerns should forever be their number one priority. At some point that has to change. But is democracy really the best path for China right now? Do they deserve no credit for what they have already achieved?
The most popular game modes in Overwatch and CSGO are their ranked modes. They'd lose much of their playerbases if they didn't have those modes, and you can't really have them without the inclusion of developer-controlled anti-cheat in the client.

And console games did not have server software 10-12 years ago so I think it's a bit unfair to claim that the move away from player-hosted servers was only done for monetary reasons.
> People are too meek, too intimidated and cleverly divided

Sometimes this is done intentionally with the strategy of divide and rule [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
Every such such language does it insecurely. The only exceptions are Java, rust and cperl.

I rather have no unicode identifiers than insecure identifiers, which don't follow the unicode security guidelines for identifiers.
In theory for arxiv preprints this exists with arxiv-sanity[0]. In practice nobody is discussing anything there.

Same thing for most other preprint sites that have integrated comment sections.

[0]: http://www.arxiv-sanity.com
No, any word processor should do. MS Word is quite frictionless because its document format is a defacto standard.

Of the word processors, I like Apple Pages a lot, and its inline math typesetting supports LaTeX. But it didn't at one time, and I already had a ton of stuff in my Word diary.
I'd like to talk to you about ray tracing. Have an algo that would be incredibly fast in hardware. I think I may have tried integer math at one time.
Ah, my bad. That said, beamed power could be applied to anything, and the post I wrote above is one of the better use cases, in my opinion.
According to the DHS (I’m struggling to find a source that isn’t the White House slides, which I loath to link too) COVID-19 has a half life of about 2 minutes in sunlight on a warm day (21C).

So we’re safe from lingering viruses because COVID-19 doesn’t linger that long outside.

As viruses go COVID-19 is pretty easy to break down, and doesn’t last that long in the wild (especially compared to things like bacteria). But it’s still virulent enough to cause a pandemic, despite being pretty easy to destroy using light and alcohol.
You are the one claiming things about the future you can't prove, not me.

I have pointed to a source you haven't pointed to anything.

I will leave it to others to judge who have facts to back up their claims.
I don't know if you could kill birds with this, considering that the beam would move at something like 250 m/s during regular flight. Is microwave radiation more deadly than solar radiation?

Might be a problem at the base station, but there should be multiple of those for greater fault tolerance anyway.
Hi mimixco, I just wrote a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124707 about some thoughts I had about this kind of ideas, what do you think?, I'll try to read more about what you are doing as soon as I find some free time :)
That's such an unlikely claim that the onus to show proof lies on you.
The biggest advantage of touch screens is that they are infinitely reconfigurable. So things like phones where you can have dozens of different types of applications running in the span of a day they provide a clear win.

Another advantage is that you can share control space with display space but I think this is rarely a big advantage (other than the benefits described above in that you can reconfigure what is control-space and display space).

For most devices that aren't general purpose computers I don't think touchscreens are beneficial. For example in a car there isn't that much variability in what you do so there is little benefit of a touchscreen so it doesn't outweigh the downsides.
> which is probably some trivial math...

The clock hand problem can be solved with the Rule of Three

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-multiplication#Rule_of_T...
None of those organizations (or even state governments for that matter) have a large amount of resources, either through direct taxation or money printing. I'm all for advocating decentralization, but it's only a solution if DC stops sucking most of the resources upwards and squandering them.
Unclutter on macOS is simple and doesn't get in the way as clipboard manager. It also has quick memo feature which I use to keep my to-do list.

These small things are part of the reasons I stick with macOS.

Not sure why in decades, Windows never have these things.
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I love that last line. I think sometimes developers can feel like they can be the hero, stopping the business from going down the wrong path simply because nobody else asked the question. They may even be right! But question your motives. Are you asking questions and throwing up roadblocks to make yourself look and feel important? Or is it purely to make the best business decision?

That's not a leading question. Honestly, both of those goals can be important and effective. But if your goal is to actually effect business change, you'll probably have better luck talking to a product person offline and having the idea come from them.
Sitting in your car getting fat isn't scary, though. Not in the same way. If you fear cars hitting you while cycling, that is scary. And it is that last one that humans are more likely to pay attention to.

If we are serious about folks walking and cycling, we'd - as a society, both in one's country and not - fix the issues surrounding it.
If someone distributes a memo that's likely to alienate half of their colleagues, the first thing I'll question is their lack of judgement.

If he was uncertain about hiring policies and thought those were negatively affecting productivity, he should have taken the question to his manager or to HR, along with some evidence.
Stanford's Probability & Statistics is now available at https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/guest/join.do?section=prob...
(googler, opinions are my own)

Google interestingly also still contributes to mercurial[0], but I don't think has said why externally officially.

But yes, my understanding is that mercurial is much easier to replace parts of the flow without entirely hacking the codebase to bits. Microsoft's solution for git required them to fork the code base, which I still don't think has been fully merged with upstream yet? And as others said, the mercurial community was more open to enterprise contributing things than git can be.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/5.2sprint
So in other words. You can't back up your claim about the future.

No one claimed that there won't be battery storage or grids in the future. But the claim that it can somehow be done with renewables is simply flat out factually wrong.

I have already answered with regard to density. Heat is one of them. This is why you don't see any large scale investments ex. from the Chinese either.

It's as simple as that.

The future will still need plenty of gas, oil, nuclear and coal for a long time to go. Renewables will never be able to fill that gab, they are inferior and unreliable.
Do alternative iOS browsers allow exchanging the search engine? As far as I'm aware Apple only locks them into using WebKit.
I grew up in the UK (0-25) and now live in The Netherlands (26-39).

There's no way that you can compare the two countries. Car drivers in the UK are entitled t*ts who think that they own the road.

In the UK the total costs of driving a large car premium car (Mercedes, BMW, Volvo) are lower than the costs of driving a small city car in The Netherlands (Kia Picanto, Renault Clio, VW Up) so you see a lot more SUVs on the road there.

Further the infrastructure for cycling in the UK is poor.

I cycled a lot in the UK but never felt safe doing so. The Netherlands, although far from perfect, is heaven in comparison.

I really hope that they learn from the things the Dutch have done right (having significant infrastructure) and from the things they do wrong (inconsistent right-of-way for cyclists are standard crossings - the cyclist/pedestrians should always have priority).
This is AMAZING. Thanks so much!

(fyi, for others: you need not use ctrl-r, just type and press up and down)
No. Looks interesting, but it looks like it is available only on Windows?
Tip: You can use uBlock Origin filters to effectively remove the crap from twitch chatboxes (I do!)

"Hype trains" used to make me want to throw my monitor out of the window, back when I had to see them.
Kerberos set the standard for a lot of authentication protocols and it's model of delegated authentication can be seen in the SAML and OpenId Connect protocols
How is architecture any less about 'things' than software engineering?

The 'things vs people' dichotomy is extremely vague and obviously bullshit. Is Facebook not about people? Airbnb? Uber?

It may be that these companies, perhaps inadvertently, choose to hire people who don't focus on the people-related aspects of their roles. But it's obvious that empathy and an interest in people would in fact be very useful at many tech companies.
I know people who use public transit to get into the city (NYC, not London) and then walk or use bike share to finish the trip. If we're really going to decide transit policy by building a hierarchy of privilege, it seems unfair to consider them more privileged than someone who can afford to take a car and pay for downtown parking.
Not all written comms are as async as others. Chats, once engaged upon, are expected to flow for example.

I work remotely as a principal engineer. I probably spend up to half my time doing “non-coding.” I have, usually, 2 hours of meetings a day. Throughout the day, I use Slack for small questions, conversations, etc. Anything that requires formal commitment or where I don’t need a same day response goes via email. Some conversations in slack get promoted to video.
>start a fire anywhere on earth with zero warning.

Are lasers like this detectable? If not, seems like a good way of creating targeted brain tumors. Disrupting soft infrastructure nodes etc.
This is literally part of Noogler orientation at Google, word for word, and I'm sure at many other companies too.

I sure as hell don't write screeds at work, only design docs that would be completely uninteresting to national media.
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Certainly more subtle cheats exist, but blatant cheating was one of the reasons I had to stop playing Battlefield series games on PC. It was relatively common for there to be some 80-100:1 KDR player on a team who would admit to cheating in game chat. If they'd get banned, they'd buy another hacked account and just do the same thing again.
HOnestly, that is both privilege and poverty.

You may be stuck in your small town because you walk everywhere. Or stuck paying more for housing because you cannot trust your car. Or decline a promotion because the gas station with the available assistant manager position is too far for you to walk before you can get a car - payraise be damned.

Only in some areas can someone take public transport, which does mean that the less privileged live further from workplaces.
I don't think the data has been published properly, as far as I can tell. A article [1] by York University itself is clearer on what they are saying. Look at the second figure here and note

> In the graphs below, the blue bars show the average level of pollution from late February through to late March, taken from 2015 and 2019. The red bars show the average level of pollution between the same dates this year.

You can easily see that PM2.5 has roughly halved in London.

[1] https://ncas.ac.uk/en/18-news/3057-air-pollution-falling-acr...
My point is that such a statement is obviously not referring to a government, but to a people.

Is your point seriously that such a statement is racist when about Jewish people, but not racist when about Chinese people?
I suspect it might be because most Keybase users don't receive data on the Keybase app on the same scale as how they might on Slack etc.
Instead of using something you're quasi-allergic to, you could work on one you're not?
WiFi is an essential utility in 2020. When we shut down schools for Covid19 and scaled up from 7 to 11 grade levels of students using Chromebooks at home that was a major struggle for some families. It’s apparent that a number of families -esp. those with younger kids (new Chromebook recipients) or free/reduced status live in a “digital desert”. Subsidized housing /trailer parks here don’t have WiFi. For many of these families paying rent and putting food on the table is a major struggle. Busses are a creative option but we don’t have a good “unlimited data” provider for hotspots. One hotspot loaned out had 130GB of use for the month. It was used for two students and 6 additional family members.
All you have to do is run the simulation forward enough until sentient life develops and becomes the universe. Then you can bake any pie you like.
It could be considered political in countries and political systems that consider women as second class citizens and bar them from holding elected office or other positions of responsibility, or if he was advocating for the adoption of such model.
I’m talking about the liability of people sitting in the same context. Are you still talking about what James should or shouldn’t be doing? I’m talking about whether you should incur legal risk for leaking facts about people likes James.
The fact that Google doesn’t immediately change bad data for queries is extremely scary to me. Misinformation from a query should be a civil offense, similar to libel or slander. They are effectively causing disruption in lives these days and I’m perfectly okay with Google being sued directly for spreading misinformation. If their algorithm doesn’t work, it shouldn’t be a public, they can’t just say “nope sorry that’s just how it works”.
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Oscilloscope doom? I can dig it. Kinda like I dig this [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPUdhm2VE-o
I'd be surprised if those studies modeled the survivor bias. For example; this link was a standard reference:

http://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/bikepag...

The author of it died in a bike crash.
He’s got a book now, too!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34184069-the-storm-befor...

But the ancients did not think like us—I like Lendon for explaining how and why: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1569074.Empire_of_Honour
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Note that one needs a Google account to watch the video. You probably don't notice if you're logged in all the time so I figured I'd mention this barrier exists.
I don't see Chefs complaining about the difference between getting better kitchen utensils versus working in a more functional kitchen. They go hand in hand.
This is very often the case. So often you see these stateless "service" classes injected everywhere. It's not an object at all, it just free functions packaged in a namespace with a vtable in front of it that now need to be allocated. A language with free function support alleviates that problem.
Or modify the roads; driver and cyclist behavior are heavily influenced by road design. Protected lanes actually protect cyclists, and narrower roads naturally cause drivers to slow down.
I had the same experience with battlefield.
“Fascism, sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the center” —Benito Mussolini
Why shouldn't people get punished for lacking perceptual and expressive subtlety? I doubt you would have a problem with rewarding people for possessing such skills (e.g. well-paid actors, or clever detectives).
Bumbling geeks with zero real life experience can be a huge liability to large corporations generally, and often don't make for good employees solely for that reason.

He's an adult. He bears responsibility for his actions. Ignorance is not enough of an excuse to save him. But even that's not valid here because he repeatedly defended the same views in the media long after someone who was merely bumbling would have realized the error of their ways. He doubled down on it. What started out as bumbling, didn't end that way.
1 more plus for the form of frameworks. People on your team must be on the same page and work within that form. If everyone is left to their own devices you will get a lot of friction when going into parts of the code you did not create yourself.

I like to think of frameworks like a kitchen. The chef sets the menu and everyone works to produce how the chef thought it should be.

Sure sometimes you will run into things that you fight the framework, but a good framework normally allows a "raw" way of doing it "by hand" instead of the sugary framework way that "just works (most of the time)". But most of the time it does work out fine and you can hop between other's proejcts/parts of the code and have instant familiarity and intent
Saying that people who disagreed with him must not have read the memo is a cliche at this point. It wouldn’t add anything to the conversation even if it wasn’t factually incorrect, and the guidelines here discourage that kind of behavior.

As someone who did read it, I also don’t see how the comment you’re dismissing is inaccurate. Can you point out exactly why you feel it is?
How does this compare to Karpathys Stanford material?
Is there an option for using this for authenticated pages?
What happens to poor households where there is a single computer for like 3 kids
Indeed. Never assume that anything you write at work on a work computer won't be seen by your manager or used against you. Even if it's supposedly confidential correspondence with HR or protected labour organisation, and theoretically illegal for them to access. Even if it's personal info under GDPR.

And especially not if you post it to a huge internal mailing list.

(I'm also curious as to what the overlap is between believers in "at-will firing is great and there should be no notice requirements on employers" and "Damore should have had far more process before being fired")
Not a finished one but this concept is cool.
Doom on a Vectrex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuVnoqFF3II
You raise an interesting point when you ask me to explain why I think HN is anti-China. It was so self-evident to me, but apparently you don't experience it as such. Maybe the HN crowd is not so much anti-China, but rather just misinformed, by virtue of living in the western media bubble which paints a one-sided picture of China.

I gave the Wuhan lab virus theory as an example. Actually the entire COVID-19 reporting is a big example, and is what triggered me to speak up in the first place. I was in China in January, I personally witnessed the news, lockdown progression, etc. And yet when I look at western reporting, there is so much misinformation, so much unjustified blame for things that are obviously not true.

For example, I see so many comments on HN saying China covered up for months (they didn't -- downplayed jan 1 to jan 20 at most), saying that China deliberately allowed international flights from Wuhan after the lockdown in order to infect the world (they didn't), and more. I see so many extreme, obviously untrue information, that I see this as anti-China.

And Chinese media is very weak against such unsubstantiated attacks. How can I sit back, see all the lies and bullying, and not hope that Chinese media gets their act together? This has got nothing to do with whether I support the CCP in the end -- just because CCP has problems, and that there are legit criticisms against CCP, doesn't mean we should accept lies against CCP, nor does it mean that they shouldn't be able to defend themselves against lies.
If atoms don't have perimeters then no objects made of atoms have perimeter.
And also assume anything you say can/will be purposefully taken out of context and twisted in order to create rage click bait to satisfy someone's ideological crusade, or to generate revenue for a dying industry which is incentivized to cater to the lowest common denominator just to survive.
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I believe she’s found her missing self confidence to go on in life.

(edit - typo)
What? How is anything you just said relevant?

I think I missed something.
Lol definitely left it hanging at the end there!
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Wikipedia/WikiData seem to have already all solved all these problems.

Which is why I think a lot of burnt out scientists spend their time there editing articles.