skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The motive behind his dangerous tweets and tantrums is pretty clear for everyone to see.

Does his motive necessarily matter? Or more specifically, is his motive reason enough to essentially spite him?

If Elon wanted to cure all disease in every single on of his workers (because that would mean they would never take sick days, and thus produce more) does that mean you would oppose the curing of disease in Elon's workers? After all, Elon's motivations are purely selfish in this case as well

Now maybe you want to argue that curing disease in workers and allowing them to work are two different things and don't match up at all. Are they though? Jobs ensure quality healthcare, pay for the roof over your head, the food on your table, the pain killers you take for your bad back, etc. A lot of being 'healthy' and having a job (in the US) are intimately related.

I'm sure there are plenty of holes in my example above that can be quibbled over; however, my question still stands: is someone's motivation reason enough to spite something that could be a net good? I do not think so.

You may wish to argue that "the workers don't want to go back to work, it's worse for them to do so": are you one of these workers; do you know what the consequences are of them not being able to work versus the consequences of going into work?
Mr. Burns, eat your heart out.
Just noting, you hide window controls in settings.
It's taking time to get used to. Windows did and still does very strongly hinted fonts. When I first started using Linux blurriness annoyed me greatly, but after few years I don't care anymore.
Anything which spies on me for Microsoft, I want disabled. I'd like my Windows to:

* Occasionally grab a list of patches available, see which ones apply to my system

* If I install new hardware, with my permission, find drivers.

Sending random information about me to Microsoft is not okay.

But no, the author doesn't disable all Microsoft ads as advertised; you also need to uninstall the massive number of paid pre-installed craplets, which as far as I know, can only be done with command line incantations.

I think Microsoft is doing this since OS licensing costs will disappear at some point, with

(1) actual increasingly fierce competition from places like Android

(2) ease of future free OS competition as things moving online (20 years ago, no business could run Ubuntu because Word; now, Ubuntu, Chromebooks, etc. are enough to run a business on)

The Microsoft tax will become increasingly unsustainable on the low-end, and that may quickly trickle up.
It’s moulded. The vacuum helps to make the end result hold the shape better.
Money on that scale is of a very different character to money as normal people understand it.

It’s more like being a medieval king: to the extent that you’re the shareholder, your wealth is the “nation’s” wealth; your guards are paid for out of your pocket; and you can be drawn into conflicts that lead to you losing everything.

It’s that latter part that I’d be worried about with Musk. He took a very big gamble with SpaceX, and if one more launch had failed in the early years, he would’ve become a mere footnote on someone else’s Wikipedia page. The concern is he might make similar gambles in future.
Better to experiment off earth than on it in such planet changing endeavors. You can afford less attention to (safety)detail in that scenario.
Idea for next article: How to build an appropriate third stage using existing spare pieces to enable GEO, LLO, reaching Mars...
Title is completely misleading
The play store is not really relevant to what I was talking about because
it is intentionally not curated. There will always be at least one place like
this where the developers who can't afford the expensive fees to get on the
curated stores will congregate. It also seems irrelevant to me to keep referring
to the "crash of 1983" when that was very obviously caused by Atari having a
monopoly, i.e. the exact opposite of there being an open market for hardware.

I personally have avoided many game development communities for exactly the reasons
you describe — overly extreme fear of "copy cats" to the point of paranoia, coupled with way too much enthusiasm to adopt certain pieces of cargo-culted technology without considering the question of who will
support it and for how long. I think Godot is a step in the right direction, but it will take these companies time to let go of these other APIs that cost them high prices just for the privilege of being able to read the documentation. They are not immune to these price dynamics.
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Article is paywalled for me so I don't know if it's mentioned, but it's a shame the one in Texas was never finished. Was supposed to be 3x more powerful than the LHC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
The “Cocktails” section goes straight from one Springsteen reference to another (“Racing in the Street” and “The River”). I love it.
I disagree. Math is very experimental - it is bottom up science where you first touch various details in the dark and generalization comes later.

I am with Arnold on that.

> Arnold was an outspoken critic of the trend towards high levels of abstraction in mathematics during the middle of the last century. He had very strong opinions on how this approach—which was most popularly implemented by the Bourbaki school in France—initially had a negative impact on French mathematical education, and then later on that of other countries as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold
> Furthermore, in order to have multiple workers, Kinesis Streams require you to use multiple shards. Each worker will make claim to a shard.

It helps if you think of Kinesis as AWS Kafkaesque rather than a message queue, because then shards = partitions and how you work with a Kinesis stream makes a lot of sense.

Multiple concurrent consumers? You're going to need shards/partitions.

Now, question is, as a replacement for homerolled Kafka in EC2, or AWS's Managed Kafka, is it cheaper?

So far, magic 8-ball says "benchmarking for your given use case needed". So far my experiments for our workload and patterns say - maybe, but more investigation is needed. I plan to role out a side-by-side Kafka and Kinesis experiment on a given topic and ascertain the costs.

Although ultimately, like any distributed messaging system, you end up engineering to the foibles of the system - in Kinesis' case, it's the fact that it rounds each sent message (which could be a batch of records, or a single record) up to the nearest 5KB for billing that you have to engineer for.
If that works for you I don't want you get you of that view, but that seems to romanticize illnesses too much for my taste.

Almost every disease can be traced back to genes (as you said it doesn't matter how many of them). Of course how much those genes play a factor varies immensely based on many factors. And there absolutely is something genetically deterministic about your asthma - you just have found another way of shutting down the biochemical pathways that would normally lead you to have symptoms.

To anyone in research in the field, the distinction you are trying to make is moot. Huntington's is just as regulated as any of the "conditional diseases" you try to put in a separate category. Sure, it has a more deterministic ultimate fate, but it's gene expression likely varies by a lot of factors too, especially between different cell types. And with that exact differential view is how all diseases are studied.
Why would anyone pay for something that's already doable without spending a dime?
Lightwater in Surrey is still censored.
You are thinking about regions, dirty rectangles were a common thing in games to avoid redrawing the entire thing and rarely seen outside of them.
So your point is that a .x release is a minor, point release? Isn't that obvious by itself?
I assumed many on HN would've scrolled to the bottom, inspired by the message on the plant on the entry? Leads to an affiliate link. Very curious way to monetize.

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> The Hetzer-equivalent service is Amazon Lightsail,

No it isn't. Hetzner provides full blown linux instances with 2GB of RAM, while the Ligthsail instance type you're trying to compare has a barely workable 512MB of RAM. That's the equivalent of a meager Orange Pi Zero.

The Lightsail instance type that is equivalent to Hetzner's 4€/month instance is sold for 20€/month.
I've seen companies using Gentoo (with a lot of tooling around it) in specialized context.

Particularly in military contracts, Gentoo brings you several things:

1) you have a full audit trace from the compilation, and in paranoid situation, it's a huge plus.

2) it permits you to minimize the OS footprint quite a lot (feature flags), which helps improving security (less exposure).

3) it permits an high degree of customization, including the combination of software versions used.

4) it's relatively easy to import a patch and maintain an overlay yourself.

We have to keep in mind the constrains of Military contracts: The systems tends to be quite complex, validation is quite lengthy, updates are far in between, they tend to use specialized/weird/not powerful hardware which might need some tweaking, and the level of traceability is generally quite high.
What Is Unsupervised Meta-Learning
You can do the same easily with push.
In many parts of the world, the alternative is to not buy a car at all.

Not so feasible in a car-centric country, but that's a other problem that needs to be solved.
Hehe, who remembers Mary Whitehouse these days?
The links I see see usually go off to things like a Bandcamp page or a print sales site not under their own domain. Or referral links.
More likely than not the next collider will be build in China, quite a few particle physicist luminaries have already made their case there. I for one am glad that I stayed clear of the siren call to join the 3000+ grad student workforce at CERN. Sifting through the heap of data that was assigned to you is about as fun as it sounds I think. You get to look for the J/Psi, Pomeron, Dark Matter how exciting! In reality most of the detectors are barely functional, Alice for example doesn’t produce useful data for most of the runs.
That one took me a few seconds . . . ;)
The responses at the bottom of that article are very interesting, and not necessarily all supportive. But thanks.
I think if I was not aware of the Monty Hall problem and I ran that simulation, I'd assume there was a bug in my code.
Ask HN: Can Covid-19 cause irreversible damage?
Mainstream coverage on the disease has mostly been about #infected and #deaths. But to what extent can COVID-19 cause irreversible damage?

It's almost half May, this thing started around January in some places. We should have some initial data now to kick of the discussion. There are some doctors on HN. If you're not a doctor but are interested in knowing this as well, please upvote.

I'm by far not a doctor and the only seemingly credible source I could find was:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-some-patients-may-suffer-lasting-lung-damage

Seemingly credible because they link to RSNA, NIH, themself, Springer, American Journal of Roentgenology and Nature.

One can presume that related questions to this question are also part of the discussion.

Example questions:

- What is irreversibly damaged?

- To what extent is it irreversibly damaged?

- How does it impact quality of life?

- How strong is the evidence?
When Will Companies Let Workers Back into the Office
Math is experimental at its roots. If the result here wasn't usable in real life, scarcely anyone would develop that specific branch of probability theory.

Instead they would think of adjusting the axioms and work out a useful probability theory.

For example, most children check 1+2 experimentally before accepting the theory.
> First of all, I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this.

For money. All companies do things for money.

> so it's not like they need the few cents advertising generates.

Few cents? Advertising is behind some of the most profitable companies in the world today.

> Probably the windows group trying to up their own numbers, not noting they are hurting the company as whole.

When windows 10 was released, MSFT had a market cap of around $400 billion. Today it has a market cap of $1.4 trillion. If the windows group is hurting microsoft, that isn't being reflected in its market cap.
The author links to a Wikipedia article, which lists many common “censoring” mistakes, to show they have overcome one of those, but all others I’ve tried from the article are indeed incorrectly “censored”.
We did the same and it has been a war of attrition.
I have plenty of evidence. Most companies keep logs and make the available to law enforcement. In countries different than the user accessing the data.

On top of that, the Snowden revelations.
> cool it down

If you blocked all incoming sunlight, how long would it take for the surface to cool to human-tolerable temperatures?

Or more extreme, how long would it take to cool it down to the freezing point of CO2, then build some sort of maglev launch system and lob solid CO2 to... Mars maybe, that planet could use more atmosphere.

And how much stuff would you need to launch to spin up Venus? Months long nights are not fun. Can you launch stuff to yield more spin, then have it sling around Earth or Mercury, and then have it hit Venus again, resulting in more spin up, i.e. getting twice the rotational acceleration from a launch?
> We all have the same voice here

We have the same access to a website, sure, but you don't have the right to freely outright lie, specially when confronted with the facts.

Again, don't spread misinformation.
Why did you single out Orthogonal as lesser? I found those better than some of his other books (Quarantine, Teranesia and Distress). I would say Diaspora is his best by miles, with Schild's Ladder.

In general, I like the physics discovery books more than the books focusing on subjective quantum mechanics (especially Quarantine), although they are still well done.
Tapas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-Training
It's always really obvious when someone asks a question just to hear themself speak or to feel like they made a mark on the meeting or whatnot. To me it comes off as mildly irritating and a waste of everyone's time. I personally won't be taking this advice, sorry.
Like the other guy, you are thinking about regions (which is what the X11 DAMAGE / WM_PAINT / etc stuff use). Dirty rectangles is a method used in older games where the game kept track of -usually- sprites on screen and whenever something changed (e.g. a sprite moving) that part of the screen was marked as dirty (often implemented as a list of non-overlapping rectangles, hence the name). Dirty rects also flows only in one direction.
Disrupting flight increases sleep in fruit flies
Actually seat belts are a legal requirement here.

A child seat on a plane is an illusion of safety. If the plane crashes it won't help. The only reason to bring one into the cabin (and it is a good reason) is if you need one where you are going.
I use Windows (not 10), I like the convenience of it that most things, drivers work out of the box.

But given the direction Microsoft is going it's likely my next machine will run Linux. All the software I use is available for Linux too, so I guess the main unconvenience will be that I'll have to pay attention when buying hardware to make sure there are proper Linux drivers for them.

I guess there are plenty of people using Windows for convenience, but if the longer trend is that it will have ads, I'll need a Microsoft account to run it, etc. then many of those people who know their way around computer OSs may switch to Linux instead.
Let's step back an perfect the physics we know. Perfect fission and fusion first! The short and long term benefits of that is more important the verifying for example the next Higgs boson.

While verifying the Higgs is nice there are no practical applications for the knowledge.
Inscom briefing to US Army Secretary 1983 [pdf]
From the description at least it does sound there is book-keeping for the tiles so i'm not sure why you think there isn't such a burden.
>If it's society in general that is sexist, why have many industries that are "high-status high-skill" seen a serious increase in the number of women in the profession, while engineering has not?

Because those industries accepted that they had a problem and took steps to fix it. Altering the perceptions of the broader society can be a big part of that. People no longer see anything unusual about a woman being a lawyer or a doctor. Fifty years ago, that wasn't the case. So there's no paradox here. "General sexism" includes stereotypes about appropriate occupations for men and women. These can change over time, as we've seen in the case of lawyers and doctors.

>First it matters that "the majority of programmers were women". But then it doesn't actually matter, because the people in charge of hiring weren't women.

It matters because it shows that women were, at one time, both interested in and capable of programming. No-one has said that it doesn't matter, so your 'but' makes no sense.

You're quite right that there's nothing to be learned by throwing around citations to half-read and half-understood studies (which is why I haven't done any of that). All you have to do is listen to what women in tech say. If James Danmore had done that for five minutes instead of wasting his time on his half-assed "research", none of this would have happened.
Might be because org-mode outside of emacs has little worth, while markdown is more dominating. On emacs you have gazillion tools and apps enriching the org-sphere, which for vs code you would need to replicate all by yourself. And the format itself is just not good enough to survive on it's own IMHO.
For additional context of this briefing: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788...
Side note: The vel+pos example is a common one in ECS. It also often follow that you should put them in one type in the real world. However, nowadays thanks to SIMD instructions, it is probably faster to have them separate, as you don't have to unpack/align the various fields:

// p={(x0,y0),(x1,y1),...} and v={(vx0,vy0),(vx1,vy1),...}
for(int j=0;j<2*SIZE;j++)p[j]+=v[j];

vs.

// pv={(x0,y0,vx0,vy0),(x1,y1,vx1,vy1),...}
for(int j=0;j<4*SIZE;j+=4)
pv[i+0]+=pv[i+2],pv[i+1]+=pv[i+3];
Well, since I don't know what guideline I broke, and you refuse to tell me, I guess the obvious answer is no.
Why No Padlock?
When a space visitor came to country Victoria (2019)
Perhaps ”some” but certainly not ”any”.
The Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi.
It has become a challange to have a sane default for text rendering. Many users are still on really bad LCD monitors with low contrast. Macbooks also does 2x scaling. On a 4k monitor on PC i recommend fractional scaling eg 1.5 but as an app dev you cant control that. So do you increase text size to make up for the small pixels, or do you leave that up to the user.
I fell in love with MacOS when I discovered I can scale text or web pages to arbitrary values—without letters losing their shapes unless I stick to certain numbers.
Ton Labs has launched Free TON blockchain, claiming independence of Telegram
It‘s like a strong light shines from behind the background.
> It's not only old people, but it's mostly old people and people with severe comorbidities.

You realize that you're speaking of a majority of the population, right? 1 in 3 Americans are prediabetic. Nearly half of Americans suffer from heart disease.

> the world is rarely ideal

That's a platitude.

Also given we do talk about the real world, we also have to consider that a country's first priority is towards saving its own citizens. Not ideal, but a fact, driven by those who vote and pay taxes. Nobody is going to allow the death of their own citizens in order to save people living on another continent.

People bring the starving children of Africa into the discussion without actually caring or doing anything about those children.

> If two people need a lung transplant and we only have one, what do we do?

False analogy. Medical triage is at some point necessary, but that's not what we are talking about.

But I'm glad that you brought this point up, because young people that need oxygen or ventilators will die if they don't receive it.
Perhaps a common protocol to query index search items would help with all this. New search engines pop up but how can they realistically stand a chance unless they depend om bing or google at least in the back end,even if they can they simply can't out spend or out hire google
The crucial part is missing in the Readme - how it works.

Nothing else matters until this bit is explained.

From the looks of it, it's just a proxy that forwards search requests to Google. Unless these happen to go out via Tor or similar anonymizer tech, that's hardly a "privacy-respective alternative to Google search".
I largely agree on using SOA (although Amazon sometimes goes too far) but this thread is not about design.
> The whole point of evolution is that only genes that promote survival and replication can make it through. Sure, you can get random mutations, but that doesn't explain why so many people have the same kinds of "disorders"

Evolution is not proactive. It's passive. Genes introduce possibilities, so are beneficial, so are not.

The mind is plastic. Human "conform" to the world around them. Perhaps the commonness of disorders are the result in common patterns in the human condition, as well as a finite number of genetic contributions?

And of course, there's gut bacteria. A wonky gut often leads to a wonky mind. Perhaps diseases of the mind are actually symptoms of other abnormalities?
I was surprised by the possibility (raised by the article) that the Higgs could turn out to not actually be the Higgs, but just another particle with the right mass. Is that a real possibility?
Potentially habitable planets close enough to colonize are rare enough that we can’t afford mistakes either way.
Non-toy meaning a serious website, not something someone plays with in their time off.
A list of pitfalls and best practices on building Service Workers
I didn’t single out Othogonal for being (necessarily) lesser, I singled it out for being mainfestly different from most of his other stuff, in the sense that it occurs in a Universe with physical laws evidently different from that of our own (though his most recent book Dichronauts, which I have not yet read, also follows in this trend of “what-if” counterfactual speculation).

To be honest I also found the concluding book of Orthogonal to be rather disappointing, but that’s personal preference.

I would have most certainly not drawn attention to the different nature of Orthogonal if I hadn’t had the feeling that the original poster is seeking for “hard sci-fi” that presents avenues for what our futures in this universe may be, as opposed to what other universes may be like.
A counter point by Sabine Hossenfelder: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/particle-physics-...
I'll go for some low hanging fruit here.

Anonymous email, VPN and tell him. Demonstrate it, explain it and don't claim the glory.

Disclaimer: I'm not a security expert so I've never done responsible disclosure.
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My favourite part of that website is the position:fixed ceiling fan GIF

https://www.dinostomatopie.com/dinostomatomenu.html
There are blurry fonts on 1080p screens, which are the default to this day and essentially required if you seek high refresh rates on a budget.

Everyone without a retina screen is wrong, according to you. And yet, fonts used to look just fine on our terrible screens.
> With the Lambda server-less paradigm, you end up with 1 lambda function per route

I’m not sure why this is the case. You could host all modules in the same lambda endpoint /api/v1/*
Using the same technology you would use with any other backend