skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to give VSCode a decent shot...and it is not bad at all; actually pretty good. I do like its customizability, the plugins, etc...and it does check the box of being available on the major operating systems that i use (windows for work, linux for personal)...but it can get quite heavy on resources. I'm on the fence about anything electron-related: great to be able to roll out on numerous OS/platforms, but heavy on resources. Ultimately, because of the heavy overhead - in my mind - i've put vscode as only a second-best text editor to my preferred notepad++. Thank you very much, though, for the recommendation!!

p.s. - Because of some comments here, I'm actually trying Geany (seems lightweight, cross-platform, etc.)...we'll see if it can replace notepad++ for me.
As a general rule, too much of anything is bad.
Good thing you don't have kids then, because that sort of parenting would just guarantee to make things worse for you and the teenager.

This is a parenting failure in the first place.
Rubbish HN article title. The Abstract and Intro in the article do not mention the word iron at all.

Later on we get: "Mendelian randomisation of iron traits" and the HN title looks very suspect. The sort of cobblers a supplement pusher might write.
To be useful? That seems to be an extraordinary low bar to hurdle for a QA environment. I imagine most clear that bar easily. I know mine does.
The authors explicitly address this point, calling it "healthspan".
5V is extremely bad from efficiency point of view. The voltage drop over an LED is ~3V, that leaves 2V to be sent through the current limiting resistor (dissipated as heat). There could be only a single LED (no series).
GitHub: no expectation of an immediate reply even during your local "business hours". I'm new here and really appreciating the aggressively asynchronous culture.
Clickbait articles have been generated by AI for many years, yet they still exist.

In fact, clickbait is a global GAN monetized by Ad revenue.

(In this case the adversary is humans who decide whether or not a specific title is worth a click.)
Unfortunate that they didn't improve the handle, but really nice effort nonetheless.
For Urban Population I would argue the percentage is a bit higher. It’s not that uncommon for 3rd tier city children to go abroad nowadays.

If you are talking about the billions of rural area population, it’s a hard problem and I think they wouldn’t have the spare time to learn or think about democracy values until their lives get better. Their dream is still “get out of my village and find a spot in Tier-3/2/1 city”.

Its a bit “何不食肉糜” (let them eat cake) to Chinese people actually
Larry Tesler has Died:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282

I had no idea who Larry was before I clicked on these comments, but the many stories from people who knew and worked with him. Obviously Larry was a brilliant guy who did great things, but the stories were pretty universally about what a fantastic person he was to work with. I think about that all the time with regards to how I interact with my coworkers.
"Basic" is ill-defined, but I think sloonz is right about it only requiring calc + linalg, which most CS / Eng majors will have taken.
So if iron accumulation is bad does that mean the medieval doctors with their bloodletting were on to something after all?
For sound, at least, the waves are not up and down, but longitudinal. Perhaps most easily illustrated using a slinky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIkeGBXqWW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxQj-wPePBU

For electromagnetic waves, as i understand it, there isn't actually movement up and down in space; there are oscillations in the electric and magnetic fields. Which do somehow have a spatial direction, which is why light can be polarised. I don't have an intuition for it at all!
The syntax is alien (coming as it does from Prolog, which few people know), but it actually is as much a feature as an anti-feature. You end up not bringing your own understandings to the language (as illustrated by the one instance where it seems familiar - if statements do not behave the way you expect them to; it pattern matches and must match to true in one of its branches or it's a runtime error). It also doesn't have macros, so far less 'magic' in the libraries and things. Either way, the size of the language to grok is smaller than Elixir, so I'd argue in some ways it's easier, even if it's offputting.

That said, Erlang has Dialyzer, which gives you 'optional' typing. Elixir can make use of it too, though I don't think it's quite as good (though I haven't used it in prod the same way). Basically, it'll walk through your code, infer types, and tell you anywhere the code can't work based on what it could infer. You can help it by adding type annotations as well. So for instance, you read from ETS; Dialyzer will infer it can be type "any". But, what's this, you append to it; it must be a list of some type then. So that place you're multiplying it by a number must be wrong, since you can't multiply a list by a number. But in reality what's coming out is a binary; both operations are wrong. Diyalyzer can't tell you that, but you can tell it that via type spec.

Regardless, I'd probably create new projects in Elixir at this point; mix is such a good tool, and Elixir has some real niceties (looking at you, actual string type and pipe operator), to where it would probably be my default at this point.
That's so ignorant. How can we possibly know how other animals experience pain or suffering? You just assume that the further you diverge from us in the animal kingdom the less animals are able to suffer. That certainly makes things easier.
I mean, Sam Altman is just one of the founders and the CEO of OpenAI - so yeah, what does he know.
> I've read that teamwork and communal nature of the game appealed to Chinese leadership.

How is basketball different from almost any team sport in this regard?
Thank you for the links. The podcast was excellent. I guess my focus locus upright “seat” was a good idea after all. Haha.

Interesting about the paywall history. And what irony, indeed.
I think the article says iron levels are negatively correlated to longevity, but "the association might be due to a already-known correlation to haemochromatosis" which I have no idea what that is. I presume it's some known population that's old that happens to also have an enrichment of haemochromatosis but where individuals in that population without it do not show a positive defect in longevity?

Edit: specified as negatively correlated
This drives me crazy too.
Can you explain that more? Aren’t most of the complex modern tools specifically designed to automate provisioning servers and deploying code?
Great advice. My undergrad thesis had nothing to do with my master’s thesis, which had nothing to do with my PhD thesis, and now my current job is straying farther and farther away from my grad school work. But the skills I learned by doing semi-independent research, coming up with ideas, solving new problems and what I learned from my advisors are what go me through all of that.
PageRank was originally designed to track Usenet posts that referenced one another. The "pages" in web nomenclature is a complete coincidence.
> is this saying too much iron is good or bad?

No, it's saying neither. The submission title could be seen as misleading.
Yep, I have read both books. And I have also read the multiple books which were written in the 19th century which also said this...how did that wisdom end up working?

Again, the idea that there is a small group of people extracting wealth from everyone else in society is one of the oldest ideas in the world. It substantially predates capitalism, it is also wrong.
Looks interesting, especially USB-C input. There's a TS80 (and TS80P) which does Qualcomm Quick Charge (and the P for USB-PD) USB-C input, but the Pinecil's flexibility of both seems better. The TS80s also uses different tip form factors, so I would need entirely new tips compared to this.
Ready for School Get everything on their list for less
Om Malik – It Started with a Single Tweet
>Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do.

I'm not agreeing with the grandfather comment, but there are "post-meritocracy" movements[0] in the world that fall more in line with the opinion that meritocracy as a concept is flawed.

[0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/ (sidenote: I agree with a lot of things in this link)
I took this class in-person before reading ESL. I'd say there's more overlap between this class (18.650) and the class textbook All of Statistics (Wasserman) than ESL.

That said, ESL is a better companion than Wasserman if you want to apply the statistics to ML and don't plan on studying the graduate-level statistics courses. ESL + 18.650 + 9.520 (Statistical Learning Theory, Poggio and Sasha Raklin) covers 95% of the math and statistics I've seen in ML research.
That moment when those who lack the slightest clue what's broken with democrazy.

Decide they want to reinvent it.

What could go wrong.
The two biggest issues with current remote work for me are: my work day is now constantly stretched longer for many reasons (if everyone's on different schedules how are there boundaries?), and my house is just too small for two of us to work from home and it's taken over space that's supposed to be for other things.
Thanks to you and all the original devs for some of the best and most hilarious couch multiplayer fun I've ever had!
I'm also tired. Now it's only a folder of Markdown files and pictures, Google Drive and VScode. Nobody can take it away from me. I'm in control.

Btw. I think git is too cumbersome for notes. I don't care about history and git log and I don't want to push things manually for notes.
check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feAW1AVzNwo

But also there are GUIs (I believe there are wx bindings) that are shipped with erlang (wobserver for example)

By and large, though people are writing servers in erlang, so building GUIs has never been a priority, and by the time erlang got a kick in butt in popularity due to Elixir, the way to write a GUI in erlang, became "write a web interface in Elixir".

Finally don't necessarily trust stackoverflow; the entire elixir community has basically left SO and gone to elixir-specific fora, which we think is why elixir dropped off the SO developer's survey.
The flood unleashed may drive humanity to return to one-one communication (face to face) as the only form of authentic communication.
There's a few neat projects moving in this direction:

https://github.com/purerl/purerl

https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam

https://github.com/wende/elchemy
Humans don’t need AC power to operate either, but presumably these aren’t the kind of differences we’re interested in.
Rubbish comment. The paper studies many things and found iron metabolism is a common factor for aging.

"Haem synthesis declines with age and its deficiency leads to iron accumulation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction. In turn, iron accumulation helps pathogens to sustain an infection, which is in line with the known increase in infection susceptibility with age. In the brain, abnormal iron homeostasis is commonly seen in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis"

Also FYI in the title "Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing", haem implies iron.
There are plenty of nipples on cable TV (and the internet). What you can't do is broadcast a nipple on over the air TV.
It's not that complex. Our personal privacies have deteriorated with either party in power for decades. Both Dems and GOP have voted to extend the Patriot Act and similar acts. Most of the NSA/PRISM drama happened under Obama (PRISM in 2007 with Bush, to be fair) and I'm not sure anything changed by 2016.

So singling out Trump isn't really relevant or even useful.
China's ambassador to the US says America must make a 'fundamental choice'
Because I liked the people in my department doing research in my niche! Unfortunately federal funding in the US disappeared almost overnight for my slice of CS, so I'm currently operating and publishing in a cross-disciplinary fashion in an industry research scientist position. I'm considering leaving the US for a faculty position to get back to the research I really enjoy... so don't do what I did. :)
China won, they already hold power on all relevant companies in the US and Europe. Thing is, how can we make sure we at least keep some individual liberty as they slowly take control of the world.
(I would read the comment you are responding to as sarcasm making the same point that this is a "parenting failure".)
For me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration really opened my eyes to post-classical physics. Not only is it a great way to understand entropy, but soon we may have quiet and efficient refrigerators in every home thanks to this research!

I wish there was a similar intuitive application for quantum plasma and superfluidity too, but the existence of high-temperature superconductivity seems to indicate there is none as of yet.
A lot of modern irons also have motion sensors built into the handle. Allowing it to cooldown or even turn off when it detects no activity, and automatically heat back up when it does. I can't be the only one who has left an iron on overnight by accident.

The TS100 custom firmware, https://github.com/Ralim/ts100 , also has features like detecting incoming voltage for use on lithium battery packs to prevent overdischarge. Pine64 even mentions they've sent a prototype to this developer.
Wine's the best you're going to get here, probably for a long time.

And it works really, really well. It even works under Wayland, which is not the case for a whole lot of games in Wine.

Buy it on Steam, hit Play, enjoy. Seriously.
Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI
'You are not going to die from Covid-19' – Washington Times
yes, seconded. China isn't North Korea or the USSR. Don't take for granted that the West is "better", at this point China is looking over and saying "prove it"

Can you blame Chinese citizens for preferring the stability and prosperity of their own regime, when they have the current disarray of American democracy to compare to?

Frankly I would argue that the Chinese have a much better understanding of the US than the other way around. They study English, they are exposed to Western cultural exports (we're in a thread about the NBA, for instance), heck the general populace looked up to the US for a long time (not anymore)
> outdated knowledge

Personally I never totally 'got' CIDR until I went back and learned what it replaced and why it was needed.
I think it was because of tape-drive manufacturers. Tar was often used to move big data off the platters and onto magnetic tape - cpio didn't have that killer application. In the bad old days of metal, tape was how you saved things, while the disks were for processing ..
Good luck with the "doing nothing" strategy then?
Love the first comment on the youtube video:

"RIchard Feyman's wife: "WHY did you not take the trash out yet?!"

Richard proceeds to go on a long tirade about electromagnetic forces, gravity, string theory etc. until the wife sighs in despair and takes out the garbage herself. Again."
You paint the not-city with way too broad a brush, and nowhere did I say that people outside of cities should control the city.

But you are literally advocating for subjugation without representation. The opposite of localism you describe is imperialism/colonialism.
It's worth revisiting Thiel's, "You are not a lottery ticket" (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM_JmZdqCw, in which he outlines a compelling model for reasoning about the present world and the future: Outlook can be located on a grid where:

- y-axis: optimistic/pessimistic

- x-axis determinate/indeterminate

The key point is that we could interpret the US in 1982-2007 as an historical moment where the general mindset was optimistic-indeterminate i.e. we assumed the future will be better but we had no idea exactly what concrete steps to take to make it better. In such an environment, finance and law are the dominant industries (while engineering and art decline).

After 2008, there was a shift in mindset to pessimistic-indeterminate in which there is a large increase in discretionary expenditure on insurance/savings (with education being a form of insurance, thus the education bubble: "I don't know what my degree is for, but I had better get it anyway to avoid falling through the ever larger cracks in society."), while real investment in novel/radical projects declines.
So the implied trust due to legal backing through same ownership as a law firm?

Interesting.
I assure you this already considered offensive right now in the present!
I’ve found Supernotes (https://supernotes.app) to be quite useful for this
>The increasing censorship within China leaves less and less opportunity for the greater Chinese population to learn about the capabilities of other countries.
Most of my friends back in China, especially devs, use VPN daily. Many Chinese learn English via English media or TV shows. check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

>The CCP news tells me how terrible the USA is, yet, these elements in my life are excellent beyond what is created by my own country.
just not true. I was really shocked about the homeless situation in NA which was never really reported back in China.

and also from u/bpodgursky
>the Chinese students with the education and wealth to study abroad are already among the top 5% in China.
Not the case for most graduate students. Especially the ones received scholarships (such as me).

Please check your sources guys. Try learn a bit Mandarin if you could or at least talk to Chinese ppl living around you. China is sick yes. But imagine diagnosing the illness of a patient without looking or talking to them but only via a malicious translator.
Author here - Thanks for posting ve55!

I decided to write this after reflecting on a failed project I created, Ottr (a local social network).

I think that even though the project is "dead" there is a lot of value that can be built from its ashes. There are a lot of parts to creating a modern tech-stack or business that can sometimes a bit hard to see when you are going through a bunch of tutorials.

I want this code to be helpful to beginners to understand how a full deployment fits together from the database, through to the API and how that API can drive client applications.

I am currently writing a little bit on how to deploy this to AWS, how to install SSL certs and how to improve application performance in prod. I hope people get some value from it.
The type of content that gets people running in circles like headless chickens with a false sense of purpose.
I'm considering to change my Master of Science degree to Mainly Scientist. Not sure if it'll work out ...
I love how this is shared a few hours after the post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888799) shared by someone who is tired of note taking apps.

In all seriousness though, this looks dope. I'm installing VSCode just to try this out.
Because of many of your noted downfalls of popular note-taking apps, I spent a few years developing MinimaList Outline: a nested list mobile app for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.toadlybrood...

I use it everyday as it easily helps me organize huge amounts of data in a clean hierarchical manner. Give it a try, let me know what you think!
> If I have a chat with the model and I ask it "what did we talk about thirty minutes ago" it's as clueless as anything.

Come on, this is from a specific structural limit. The transformer only looks back a thousand symbols or so.

If you simply scaled it up it would handle that fine. (it's costly to scale up this architecture).

> but if you actually read the poems they're just lyrically sounding word salad,

This is what a lot of famous poetry sounds like to some people.

Saying it doesn't "understand" really sounds like a lot of what people said about chess engines in the early 90s. However you define understanding, if it doesn't have it probably doesn't need it to still do amazing and useful things.

The new Navy Seal copypasta GPT3 wrote on gwerns blog is the greatest of that form I've ever seen by a wide margin. It is witty, clever, and hilarious. Could a very talented writer do as well? Probably. But none would ever bother ... because it's just a silly joke yet gpt3 generates world class raging navy seal 24/7 rain or shine on demand.

https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#navy-seal-copypasta (best screamed)

People seem unbounded in their ability to hype this stuff. Sure, it has significant limitations. But so what? Decades ago someone might have asked "What use is a 'computer' if it cannot learn to love?" --- yet we can all agree computers have been extremely useful.

If GPT's output brings beauty or truth to you does it matter that the computer lacks some vague property humans have? People can find meaning in waterfalls and sunsets, knowledge from looking at the stars. If we learn or feel something on an account of a great machine that read the whole internet that would seem to me to be the least surprising of all these examples.
World’s largest open source DNA registry suffers outage, possible data exposure
Not always the right explanation. Magnetism of material is usually not because of charges but spin alignment of electrons. Spin is an intrinsic property of point particles, there are no moving charges (or moving anything) involved. You can have magnetism at 0K and 0 charge.
Is there a TL;DR version of what to take away from this article?

I read it, but didn’t understand what the conclusion is, or if it’s actionable or not. Should I better monitor my iron intake or something?
But that is a sign is it not? If tools as badly designed as webpack is the standard, is that not saying there is an issue with the entire ecosystem?
No! It's one of the few great partnerships in tech.
If it's only needed by the routes modules, you should create a folder named "routes" and put the "models" module in there.
I agree with this. I found it very off putting and not what I'd expected from someone lauded as an amazing teacher.

Having said that, there is a lot to think about in his irritation. For example: the mysteries of magnets are no more mysterious than lots of other things that we take for granted and treat as entirely unmysterious. To priviledge magnets with an almost magical respect when we haven't spotted that gravity is at least as mysterious is a failure of imagination.

There's also the question 'what kind of answer would you accept'? When we can only express bafflement about a phenomenon, we're still in the prescientific myths and magic world. You can't really get to the scientific world until you can formulate some kind of question. The passage from Hitchikers about the Ultimate Question touches on something pretty profound.

Still, I think an honest expression of bafflement is an excellent beginning (or at least it's where I often find myself), and I think there may have been more sympathetic ways Feynmann could have expressed his thoughts on the topic.
To my mind, trying this hard to circumvent a platform's huge and seemingly irremovable flaws instead of ditching it for good is a very unreasonable option. I'd say quit Twitter abruptly, not gradually--here's how:

- Do you want to follow the news? Try selecting reliable news outlets or aggregators (like HN) guided by your own criteria, so you can check their websites on a regular basis and stay up to date, if you're interested in that--I'd personally recommend sticking to local news.

- Do you want to follow specific people that publish content you find interesting on the Internet? Follow their personal websites or repositories.

- Do you want to publish content on the Internet yourself? Host a personal website. If you don't want to pay, consider using a decentralized option (Beaker Browser, .onion site, I2P, ZeroNet, etcetera).

That's it. Goodbye social media. RSS, bookmarks, and our good old memory are our best allies.