skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

The programme was called "Brot aus Luft" (Bread from air).
The process still uses 1-2% if the worlds energy today.
That's the point of this library ?

It scroll up slowing, harmful to my eyes. I'd rather "teleport to the top" or quickly scroll to top on my own than watching the animation…

And I cannot cancel the scrolling in the middle of process if I accidentally click it.
That makes sense. As you said, those two sources don't have to be contradicting each other if they complement instead.
Genuinely curious here - isn't it better for eyes to move more? Can moving in unnatural way be a good thing considering most of the time they move naturally? Like a sort fo stretching.
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No, it's suggesting that Scott Alexander is wise to be cautious.

That you consider caution in the context of repeated cancel-attacks on anything not on-message with the Ctrl-Left is "weird" and "conspiratorial" and "silly" indicates a personal bias you are unaware of and should reflect on before commenting further.
Finally, this is the first step in fixing the US medical system, which seems to be designed to bring the most profits to the hospitals and insurance companies, at the expense of everyone else.

Sure, there will be hurdles along the way, but this is a good direction overall.
I really thinks it's a weird move. Safari user will disapear from our understanding of the web. We might not design and code for Safari because these users will become virtually innexistent.

I am a small publisher, Safari users are demonetized , untracable, i might just say to them gtfo.
I'm curious to get your input on the Model Monitor, Debugger, and Experiments features on Amazon SageMaker. Have you had a chance to play around with them?
On the Paradigms of AI
If you're always able to come up with topics to write on, that itself will become an excellent motivator to write more. Maybe take a step forward and imagine how you'd feel once you publish the post—the exhilarating feeling. Awesome, right?

Initially, I used to think it's not a good idea to blog if you're not saying something new. So I tried hard to come up with topics to write on, and that process consumed most of my time. And I ended up not writing anything at all.

Later I changed the way I thought about blogging.

- Blind posts. What's obvious to you isn't obvious to others. No matter what it is about, keep writing.

- Writing is thinking. It's the best way to become aware of your biases and ignorance. A sure shot way to improve the way you think.

- New knowledge. What was the last thing you searched on the internet? Can you write about that?

Here are a few essays that have helped me get past my 'writing lethargy':

https://sivers.org/nod
https://sivers.org/7
https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/the...
http://paulgraham.com/useful.html

I hope this helps. :)
I am a big fun of learning best practices but also of iterative “projects”. You know why most business projects fail? Because they are too big and to reduce risks the tendency is to follow _only_ best practices. This doesn’t work because each project is different with its own set of challenges and unknowns. Prescriptions are a good guidance but only sticking to prescriptions is path to failure. These days I rather iterate to a solution the same way startups iterate to a product. In fact I started to call our team’s project managers product managers instead.
I honestly thought they were finally renouncing GitLab flow as a massively misguided idea. They are both flawed. You shouldn't be using branches in your version control system to denote stages in your development process or deployment targets. It totally breaks down when you move to CICD, which should be your goal. Trunk based is the way to go. These git flow things persist because that is what the search engines puke up when people google for git branching.
Really hate the second column on the right, which for a long README or documentation does nothing but make it so that there's less room for the text. I frequently use GitHub to store and read notes or to create larger docs, this essentially kills my desire to do any of that and makes me want to move what I have. The information in that column is also extremely low value.
That's because most major metros shut their econmies down in march well ahead of them having significant community spread. We are now starting to see the results of opening back up and the daily incident rate is increasing super linearly again.
The risk are the absolute numbers, not the relative. If it were the relative numbers most Western European countries are on the very top. Esp. the EU country itself, Belgium, which is still leading the Top rankings of poor COVID-19 response due to their habit of mask sharing in infected nursing homes. No budget for masks, become world leader in COVID-19 deaths.

Also Swedish tourists are allowed to travel to Germany for over a month now, due to a famous high court decision.
Right but what it's doing in the womb is also lots of moving around ("kicking" and "jumping") so I just don't think this argument makes much sense to anyone who has experienced having a baby.
Thanks. Good point.

Some time back, I've received a similar feature request for deployment scripts to diagram conversion (and vice versa).

However:

- A very, very small fraction of CloudSkew users have actually requested this feature (i.e. not a whole lot of user demand).

- This is a "high-effort-required" yet "hard-to-get-right" feature (extremely error prone).

So currently, there are no plans to work on this feature.

That said, if enough users demand it AND there is a compelling business case for this, I can definitely add this to the product roadmap.
Agreed about the right column. Distracting and leaves much less room for what matters, typically a README.
I think the solution is to make e-bikes into full vehicles you can use for the majority of your transportation needs. I'm building an e-bike right now with a range of hopefully around 150-200km, using recycled batteries. Sadly, it would still be too expensive to build one with new batteries, but it's getting there.

That drastically changes the value proposition as you can use it to commute to work, to go on road trips, to get groceries, and so on.
Possibly, but advanced malware like this can add many re-infection paths, opening a safari tab might be sufficient to trigger a re-infect upon browser launch. Many apps also make periodic background http requests, might be enough to just hijack one of those to trigger the RCE after reboot.
I'm sorry, but I don't think this is true at all. Like not even remotely. The closest thing I could say is that prescriptions are almost never sufficient to achieve real innovation, but that's a far cry from "dead end." It's like saying that flu vaccines are a "dead end" because they don't cure AIDS. Sure, they may not be not sufficient, but no one would want to get the flu without an immune system.

We should find it shocking how many "new" things aren't really that new, but just looking at some existing problem slightly askew and seeing a cleaner arrangement. Pure accident is likely an even bigger cause of the new. This is true of the invention of calculus to the discovery of penicillin. (Does anyone seriously find it mysterious that Leibniz and Newton independently invented calculus at roughly the same time?)

"Prescriptions" themselves often take the form of a procedure or algorithm that is used to improve some instrumental or operational aspect of achieving the new. If I follow the Pomodoro technique, for instance, that's not new, but it might help me actually stay a bit more focused and even creative. Maybe it won't. It's just a prescription, it's not going to change my life by itself, but it might move me in the right direction.

Finally, prescriptions can often help us do "dimensionality reduction" on the present and help filter out a lot of the extra _signal_ (not just the noise) from the present, which is simply too vivid for a human to process. Our brains do this normally with most sensory-level information, but we can use prescriptions as sort of a higher-order, more conscious variant of this. Since most genuinely new things actually involve tearing down a complex thing and rearranging it just a bit better, filtering out everything except for what is most likely to help you solve a problem (and thus create something new) can make you much more productive and see the problem more clearly.

I'd also observe that most great artists find some set of constraints under which to work. Picasso was excellent at producing classical-style art (most great artists actually are, contrary to popular "my-five-year-old-paints-better" bullshit), but constrained himself to imagining the objects of his paintings as cubes. Monet, Manet and Van Gogh constrained themselves to seeing a very short (possibly infinitesimal) glimpse. I have had Hollywood screenwriters say to me that they can get nothing done if they don't constrain themselves in some way, even if it's something like "I'm writing sci-fi today."

TL;DR: Prescriptions are all they're cracked up to be, and nothing more; (almost) never sufficient but often necessary.
Discussed in detail here today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23620374

Short answer: Oculus Quest
FB, Amazon, etc are not having H1Bs work any more hours than other employees. If you’re already paid $300K+ before you’re 30, I don’t think you’re being abused if you ask for a raise and the employer says no, but in any case, these companies have stringent promotion processes. It’s not based on your visa or residential status. These conspiracies may be real at the IT recruiting companies that farm talent from India, but FB, Amazon, Google, MSFT are actually going after top hires. They’re hiring H1Bs because a lot of Americans don’t pass the interviews. The technical bar is high... now whether you agree on that style of leet code interviews is another topic entirely.
The acquisition didn’t reduce competition for advertisers because Instagram didn’t have ads before Facebook owned them.
These are not mutually exclusive scenarios. Even if you have universal healthcare it doesn’t mean necessarily that the hospitals are government run as well.

Who cares about ideology here. There’s a lot of evidence this lowers the cost of elective surgeries. This is great for those with and without insurance and might drive the price down. This ruling in now way hurts the public option unless you see this as a zero sum game where any improvement to the health care system without an overhaul is bad politically. I’m in favor of the public option and this ruling.
As someone who used to make pitch books in investment banking (not GS), I'll tell you some of the awesome things I saw from a user perspective.

-- Funny when they mentioned fitting in a lot of text in a small space. I've never used so much 8-pt font in my life before or since. A lot of the time you are very space constrained in things like detailed footnotes, so you are almost tweet speaking to fit it all in there

-- The number section blew me away, the fact that you are getting fixed width number performance (and capital letter tickers too) in a "normal" font is incredible. There is a lot of focus on perfect number alignment (the dreaded #,##0_);(#,##0) number format in Excel).

Also to address some of the comments why they didn't put a slash through the 0. The audience is financial professionals and the slashed 0 is not used, and would be very distracting and especially so for large round numbers ie

1,000,000
No, they do indeed use the same technology. They have an accelerator fed into a micro-controller that provides the exact wheel torque necessary to prevent the user. Which is exactly how a Segway works.
And yet it's still a step in the right direction, and hopefully the start of a trend of limiting just how much companies are allowed to keep secret.
My company has a clause that we can’t hire people from this company for 9 months. If he waits around 9 months he’ll have to leave the country wayyyy before that.
We gave it up because Americans didn't want to implement such painful measures. You can call it MAGA, but people on the left were just as happy to start attending and promoting mass gatherings once they had a good reason, and the article's example of California is hardly Trump country.
The Yale paper wants it both ways. If any app with friends/follows is a competitor then there’s plenty of competitors and the acquisition didn’t substantially reduce competition. Yet if only products similar to Facebook are considered competitors then they’ve never acquired a competitor.
It's where a lot of projects keep their binaries, appended to releases. They've made it harder to get to.
Exactly why as a grad student I have decided to go into Quantative Finance instead of Data Science.

Literally anyone can become a data scientist, which is not a bad thing by all means. But for me, it makes it hard to justify me going to an elite French school and dealing with theoretical stuff (that will not be useful on a job, think VC dimension and all) for over a year.
The kind of people that need to buy Windows (ie, those that build their own computers) are the kind of people that either pirate it or buy illegally sourced volume keys for 3$.
> "What’s going on is that without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don’t have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling them. The things you say often don’t stick, and the few things that do stick are often distorted"

I was just thinking about this today when reading about "Petrodollars", Gaddafi, and all the wars and hostilities started with countries that try to sell oil for anything but US dollars. There is a lot of complexities to geo-politics that are far outside the confines of the simple versions that are transmitted over and over again in news and popular culture. When we come across these big complex issues, it's hard to synthesis this new information into understanding, or an extended worldview, because there is nowhere to stick it in the first place. It takes a lot of mental energy to build the scaffold to hold new information. I think the aversion to expending mental energy is one thing that leads to just ignoring these things, or seeking the easy path of conspiracism.

It is the graphic and emotionally compelling part of these stories that my mind tends to be able to hang onto. In the case of Libya, video of the young Tuareg men in now ungoverned southern regions driving their beat up car from one town to the next and being shot at by snipers. Think about the HK or BLM demonstrations. It is often these tactical scenes that are transmitted to us, more than the cultural or political side. I guess the manipulation of these emotional images is just propaganda and is as old as conflict. ("the other side are baby eaters")

Maturation as a critical thinker is a long hard process that can't be done alone. I worry that it is not something that we as societies are generally not well set up to do.
With the shift to a tribal, partisan world, where there are more informations comes from privately employed Public relationships specialist, than Journalist working in the public interest, what will be the state of scaffolds in many peoples minds, and will they be able to support being told anything new..
Well I can tell it's a Microsoft project now. Not in a good way. People almost never like re-designs so maybe it'll feel natural later, it's not terrible. Just sterile and corporate feeling.
1) it lists "contributors" in the corner and listed an old employee which made me worry that they were still able to access the repository. they're not. i don't need to see their profile on my repo, it's not helpful
2) because of that I noticed that i'd been paying for two additional seats for god knows how long and downgraded. I'm kind of disappointed i've been overbilled for no reason
$8000 for an electric rickshaw.
Yup. To absolutely maximize performance, you need none of your code paths to swap your binary out of L1. Of course, it's not the end of the world if one of them does (an occasional call to a large dynamic lib isn't too bad) but a small binary has important performance implications that most developers don't internalize.
Likewise, I was expecting some kind of redox flow battery. Compressed air is heinously inefficient due to thermal losses (and pumping losses to a lesser extent) but I guess if the energy is literally free (eg. solar or wind overproduction) then that matters less than the cost per kWh stored.
As with data science, the number of people that say they do "data science" and "machine learning" are in far greater supply than the number of opportunities.

Likewise, the number of people that are able to apply their domain knowledge to actually help their company's businesses/product or problems will always have work.

I've often used an analogy comparing this to cooking. Just because people say they know how to "cook" a dish, doesn't mean they'll be able to function or be effective in a restaurant or other type of business context kitchen. Yes, there's an element of this domain knowledge required, which are table stakes, but often the factors that distinguish success have more to do with understanding the context of the work and the surrounding business.

To update this for recent fads, learning to make sourdough bread does not mean one has learned how to run a bakery.

If you're able to be a pure researcher, or pure specialist, you're very lucky and working somewhere whey they can afford to have deep specializations.

The plethora of emerging tools and practices related to AI/ML "workflow" are related to the collective realization that training ML models is just one piece of the puzzle:

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-m... (See: Figure 1)
He said that over twenty years ago. Things changed. A lot.
I love a harpsichord sound. My favourite performer is Trevor Pinnock. Just about everything he’s put out is awesome
I thinks there’s three main reasons for this:

1) It’s boilerplate hero’s journey and that shit works. It’s a tale as old as tales.

2) Looking for agency and power over your life is a theme adolescents connect with easily.

3) Harry Potter was a bonanza. That explains the recent spate of copycats, but the actual format way predates it. I don’t know about you, but I grew up buying Spider Man comics from the rack at the bodega. It’s the same thing.

It also certainly isn’t limited to YA media, and is probably more pernicious when it’s aimed at adults who should theoretically know better. The Matrix is a prime example, but there are plenty more where that came from.
He isn’t a source, he’s the subject. Your argument makes no sense.
Yeah Sibelius just dominated for so long that people got used to it. I see Logic Pro also does notation.
It is redesign for sake of redesign unfortunately. My guess is GitHub/MS has a bunch of designers paid full-time and they need to justify their salaries.
That quote is misleading. The part with "how the sausage is made" refers to reading the developer mailing list, not to building GHC.
Generative art is op art[1] made with math and a computer instead of a paintbrush and a ruler.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_art
> Not surprising after COVID burned through their population (quarantine or not) the case numbers have subsided. If anything NYC demonstrates that quarantine was entirely ineffective, and that the biggest mistake was not focusing on protecting the people actually at risk.

Are you serious? How do you even come up with misinformation like this and not even bother to back anything up with any sources? How do you seriously look at the case charts and pretend like going from 10k cases/day to 500 cases/day was an inevitable outcome resulting from burning through nursing homes? It would be funny if it weren't completely insulting to their herculean efforts in containing everything when so much of the rest of the country is going in the opposite direction. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronav...
Mobile phones are way safer for normal users compared general purpose computers.
Gotta love the tempo of that 1981 theme, so slow, so stately
Im not sure this article understands why torrenting is popular.
There's some amount of truth to this. The I/O facilities that ship with Haskell are in many regards lacking. Fortunately, the community has created some fantastic libraries to help do I/O much better.

It was a while since I was involved in that space, but at the time, you had things like the Text library to properly handle human text, ByteString to handle plain 8-bit arrays, Conduit and Pipes as two libraries to do streaming I/O (both network and file) with resource usage guarantees.
The story was that it took two engineers to keep OS X compatible with Intel when they were on PPC.

It took only a small company - Connectix - to make a better 68K emulator that worked perfectly with PPC/Classic MacOS than Apple could.
The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel-Zapffe [pdf]
is it a competition? Because nobody is winning. Nobody in the world says, oh please Americans come to fuck us because at least you use lubricant.
I don't believe you are "arguing in favor of ending all lockdown-ish behavior, letting the chips fall where they may, and relying on herd immunity to save us". My point is, if you aren't, then why are you acting like you are disagreeing with me?

I've seen you ask about Japan in other threads, using much of the same words, without the various counterpoints seeming to register to you, and now you're making the same points here. It just seems weird. Why are you bringing Japan up as if it's some sort of counterpoint, when it's a counterpoint to something that you apparently believe in? Why are you bringing it up if you aren't in favor of ending mitigation and aren't in favor of acting more like... Japan? I don't care if (R0-1)/R0 is off by some negligible percentage - it would still mean there's a huge difference in death depending on whether we do or don't stop mitigation. I'm arguing against the people that don't even seem to have a rough mathematical sense about this, and also the people that seem content to be like Thanos and shrug their shoulders at a million, 350k, or 200k people in the US dying as long as it's not their friends.

I mean, back to your first comment, if you think herd immunity maxes out at 30%, and that IFR of 0.5 - 1% is a "significant overestimate", then you're pretty close to projecting our current death toll anyway. 0.25% IFR at 30% would be like 250k in the US, which we'll probably hit with our half-hearted mitigation. But since you're in favor of mitigation efforts, you clearly don't believe the estimates to be that low. So... again, what is the relevance of what you're saying? Are you just being sophist? What's the syllogistic connective tissue in your points? What's your therefore? You believe the R0 and IFR estimates are overestimates; therefore what?

Why do I need to explain Japan? I mean obviously something must be happening in Japan that is consistent with what is happening elsewhere, it's not like they are an alternate universe. It's not like Japan is a counterpoint to NYC or Lombardy; they're in the same reality somehow. How do you explain Japan? It's probably some mixture of culture and bad stats in a way that doesn't really have any bearing on what we should do - we already have sufficient data to know that mitigation saves lives, and we're stupid enough that we're about to learn it all over again for the first time over the next six weeks.
A list of software (not) adhering to this specification is maintained in the Arch Linux wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory
What does Free/OSS software have to do with the article?

If the phone wasn't proprietary, would it have made any difference?

The answer is obvious.