skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting!

The idea that in Physics, Heat = Information, that is, an identity or potential identity.

Now, i'm currently 50/50 on that idea, that is, that Heat = Information (and vice versa).

I'd love to see something which conclusively proves this, with say, the rigor of a mathematical or logical proof.

Also, if Heat = Information, then we need some way of accounting for what happens when a system cools, that is, how does the information (again, without being lost) propagate into the environment, such that when an object cools, no information is lost?

As I said, I'm 50/50 on this idea... I'd like to see a really good proof. The best proof would be short, logical, and highly consistent... Prove to me that no information is lost, or are we just accepting that because heat physically difuses and no heat is lost, that no information is as well?

That would be both a simple and logical explanation, but then we'd have to search the entire universe for no physical anomaly (to be sure that we're absolutely correct), that is, there's no exceptional case where heat in a system was lost or gained without exchange with an external system... which is quite the search, let me tell you!

See, if we think that heat is never lost in the universe, we got that idea from somewhere... it may have been given to us as one of the first axioms given to us in an elementary Physics class... but where does it come from that brought it there, and why do we never question it?

Help me to understand...
Here’s a link to the full episode:

https://youtu.be/zUEWILMJIlE
Sounds a lot like jiu jitsu, which I find to be an amazing workout both mentally and physically.
Cool idea but probably too difficult. I tinker with ML but don't have that kind of ability.
Here's a link to the actual post https://www.facebook.com/WAStateDeptAg/photos/a.101510256200...
I got a letter from my representative "thanks for allowing me to represent you...". Along with the letter came a package of seeds.
The artist has stopped updating it, unfortunately, but formalsweatpants.com has a certain farside-esque charm, in my opinion. Similar story with Perry Bible Fellowship. Not for kids though.
I wonder if this is an attack by a single or a small group of individuals against countries they dislike. This sounds like something you'd do if you wanted to make a dent that way as a regular person.
It's called brushing and basically a Chinese seller sends something cheap (like seeds, or trinkets) and then creates a review from "someone in the US".

The shipping portion is necessary because they need the tracking info for the sale to be counted.

edit:oops, accidentally mixed up churning with brushing. churning is something else
Hi there, Java Dev at big tech company (not FFANG big, but big) here. Just did 3 interviews last week, and we have 4 more people lined up next week. I looked at resumes before each interview so I could see what experience they had and what they worked on, so I would know what to ask about, and could calibrate my technical questions appropriately.

I never once looked at someone's education. Quite frankly, I do not give a singular shit.

Management/HR might be different, other devs may have different attitudes. But I thought it might be worth putting my recent experience out there. Which, to reiterate, is that I care what you've worked on, and what you have experience with, not what credentials you have.
I guess you don't have to be there if you mail them out, but man if you were for some reason wanting to spread an invasive species.... you could just plant the seeds yourself....

You would also be able to target what you might want to happen and where.

Random individuals would seem sort of silly to target unless it spread dramatically or was something else.

Just doesn't make a lot of sense as a sort of intentional invasive species thing.
> Along with a story of a Chinese National attempting to transport birds into Virginia which are known to be transmitters of Avian flu.

> Um... China... what’s the deal?

China's a country of over a billion people.

Let's not attribute the actions of individuals to sinister top-down plot from the CCO politboru until there's actual evidence.
Last I checked max you can claim for purchasing home office equipment in Australia is $300. Although he claim the decline in value every year. Which would probably get you $300 again.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Income-and-deductions/Ded...
It really amazing playing with old technology. In Super Mario Bros on the NES, when you press the jump button Mario jumps the very next frame. And with a CRT you get instant response time.

You just can't get that responsiveness anymore.
From the website [1]:

> Fortunately, today's modern cloud services like Microsoft Azure make it possible to do this without breaking the bank!

So I'd guess it's not for that.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/About
It's clearly the first line of a deeply rooted plot. These plants, when fully grown, will be identifiable from special satellites. They just have to get enough unwitting people planting them as well to make the strategic plants from sticking out.
Been there. It was wonderful... and then pretty good... and then it got kind of boring. (I'm at 11 years.) It doesn't stay goldilocks forever. While it's good, though, it can be really good. Enjoy it while it's good, because it won't be forever.

Things change. People change. Businesses change. Good situations become not so good, sometimes very quickly. If you're in a good situation, value it.
Not op but I guess it depends. E.g. I know aikido, salsa (ny and Cuban), bachata, kizomba and tango. For me NY salsa looks the most martial artsy.
I've heard about this on plant and gardening groups on facebook only yesterday. Glad to see it reach the top. I can't figure out why..
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Who is going to decide which activities are "non-essential" ? How will they go about determining whether there are more benefits or costs associated with a particular activity?

Rock climbers can fall - they also build physical and mental fitness as well as learn to work together with and trust others in a high pressure environment.

Motorcyclists can crash, but they're choosing a form of transport that is far more efficient than a single passenger vehicle in many ways (fuel consumption, parking requirements, traffic impact).

People are already incentivized by nature to sort out on their own what sorts of activities will allow them and their communities to flourish. Let them. We will all be better for it.
The courage to do business as usual.
The most heroic sort of courage there is. (This IS sarcasm.)

It's actually worse than this. They studied the sort of wrong they were doing, then kept doing it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-di...
The issue with health care is it is a superior good. This means if someones incomes increases by 10%, people spend 12-13% more on health care.

Canada has more regulated health care than the US, and yet the health care has better outcomes and is delivered at a lower price. It isn't perfect, but having seen both systems, the Canadian one is overall better.

One of the reasons, although not the only one, for higher education prices is less subsidies for education at the state level.

I agree that city zoning, and the lack of quick public transit, explains much of the increased price of housing. But some of this increase in cost is due to increased population, and the amount of land in and close to cities being fixed. Higher density would help, but higher density housing to also more expensive to create than lower density housing. A lack of regulation also leads to outcomes like houses in Houston being build on flood plains.

There is a role for government and regulation, and a role for free enterprise, but to understand the balance one need to look a other countries it see if they have a better balance and what works well.
Kudzu was the first wave. This deeply rooted plot goes way back.
Can you show some examples of Kliban being funnier? Genuine interest.
As someone who has no knowledge or interest in your project, I will say that starring can be anything from "I love this project" to "Looks interesting, maybeee I'll take a look at this in 6 months". There is no guarantee of fandom.

Finding the email of someone who starred your repo and auto-subscribing them to your email list is in poor taste. It's the software version of that person who suddenly adds you on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter the same day you briefly said Hi to them at some event, and then sends you an email saying "Hi!" just in case.

I would request you to please stop doing it, and not contribute to this slippery slope of treating your open source project as a marketing exercise.
seems like the sort of thing that would be better suited to an AWS instance (or azure, if you're a regional director at microsoft) rather than running a crazy power-hungry computer as your primary workstation.
That seems like hysteria. Yes, birds can potentially carry bird flu. Also, Chinese culture is more open-minded about animal consumption than USA culture and health safety laws. Culture clash is more likely explanation than bio warfare.

If you want to smuggle bird flu into USA, are you really going to do it in a bag of whole dead birds, and not some processed form that is more convenient and less suspicious?
Adding to this; there is also no evidence that the US's politicians care about financial incentives as applied to the US government.

If it affects them personally then they'd jump like a cat on a stove; but if it only affects the budget they aren't going to respond to any incentive.

If the US was being influenced by financial incentives it wouldn't be doing many of the things it does. Like tax cuts or spending more money.
When I got bored with software engineering, I decided to invest in developing leadership skills and to try to build teams.

Many people (myself included) are motivated by the impact their career can have. The impact of a great leader is exponentially larger than that of a direct contributor (based on the number people they can typically influence, and the amount of resources at their disposal to pursue “bigger” ideas). A great engineer who is also a great leader will garner more respect from their team, and will be more effective than a great leader who was not a great engineer.

I’m currently a Director of Engineering, and have a goal of becoming a CEO. This is something I never remotely considered, and even scoffed at early in my career.

The transition has been difficult and exciting. I considered myself to be an excellent engineer, so transitioning to a role where the new challenge is how to convince other brilliant (but possibly less honed) technical minds to do things has been extremely fulfilling. It forces me to think harder about my habits as an engineer and why they are important and how I can communicate that — it also forces me to have humility and admit that some of my habits may not have been as good as some things other folks are doing. It’s been extremely fulfilling, and I’m much more excited about my future than I was during the last few years I was a software engineer.
> NZ is in a similar situation as VN where a local transmission appeared today without known infection chain. It only takes one error and you're back to square 1.

Citation? I'm not seeing it on any of the usual NZ news sites, and I rather suspect it would be big news.

edit: oh, i see, I've misparsed your sentence. VN is where the local transmission occurred, not NZ. nevermind.
It always seemed to me like they intentionally made it so to specifically hinder people from logging in blindly or unlocking blindly; I always assumed to avoid people accidentally typing their login password into an IM app if the machine wasn't actually locked.
It isn’t really even clear that it is an attack...
Wasn't it the other way round - current varieties do not contain much solanine but are comparatively prone to mould and other plant pathogens? Defense against pathogens is why evolution developed these alkaloids in geological time.
Can (anecdotally) confirm

Just did some interviews last week. Read through each candidate's experience section so I would have an idea of what they worked on and how I should calibrate my technical questions.

Stopped reading after the technical section because quite frankly educational attainment, in my experience, is at best loosely correlated with being able to think clearly and get things done.

Also, kudos to you rxsel!
Didn’t the last guy who planted seeds from China end up with a golden harp and marrying a princess?

“The government of Virginia wishes to clarify there is no such thing as magic beans...”
Is this how Attack of the Killer Tomatoes began?
DPC Frontier has a mapper with many, many practices on it along with prices, open date, and if it’s a “pure DPC” (i.e. no insurance) or hybrid (i.e. they also accept insurance for Medicare or other reasons).
https://mapper.dpcfrontier.com/

Disclosure: I am the founder of Akute Health which makes software for DPC practices.
https://www.akutehealth.com
I had heard of it but never tried to use it.

I hope at least some of those languages get enough adoption to become viable production choices. I feel, apart from Elixir, Gleam has the most “popularity potential” right now.
If the PinePhone does not have the exact same apps that you will find in the Play Store or App Store, then it is not a viable replacement for the Pixel 2 user, unless they are Linux fans or enthusiasts.

It's easier to get a new Pixel device or iOS device, but this duopoly really needs a credible alternative and the PinePhone is really not an option unless it has the latest Android and can run the same Android apps without the hassle.

Looking at the list of OSes it supports, it just slapping on Linux distros running on a tiny screen. That tells me its for Linux enthusiasts and that's too bad. I'd rather buy and iPhone 12 or a new Pixel device when they both come out than to do this ROM flashing business like its 2010.
My grandma used to go dancing at the VFW every weekend up until I think shortly after her 95th birthday. She fell at a dance and broke her arm. She had lived on her own until then, but moved to a nursing home while her arm healed and then decided to just stay after she got better.

Her memory has definitely gone downhill since she moved there, which could just be age. But I also feel like the physical activity and social aspect of always going out to dance helped keep her going longer than she otherwise would have.

Hard to say I guess.
He way overspent. A threadripper build would be 2k max.
We must shine the light of day on this deeply rooted pot, in an investigation that leaves no stone unturned.
Think of it as Accounting is how you keep score, Finance is how you justify strategy. For better or worse you have to learn financial accounting first. I’ve been unable to learn it on my own - I needed to take courses. If you don’t want to be a full time accountant, where you take the courses doesn’t matter. The material is the same. Finance my require coursework or book learning, but you can advance a lot on your own if you have the basics. Just apply NPV and ROInto everything you see. You didn’t mention Econ, but most senior execs think in terms of Micro. Supply and Demand.
Well the Chinese Communist Party has the personal information of at least 44% of all Americans thanks to their hack of Equifax so it probably wasn't too hard for them to do a mail merge.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/804501991/chinese-hackers-cha...
If you look at this from a socioeconomic standpoint, the poor are more obese and exercise less than the better off. Being poor is hard, so the wealth gap of the US looks to be partial cause of this, but the whole cause and effect is hard to determine here.
+1

A handy substitute for mqtt since it doesn't allow a simple http get/post method to set and query keys - something very useful with iot stuff!
This is some really cool stuff on a scientific level - RNA binding proteins are just really fascinating and throwing in some post transcriptional splicing and, wow. That's some really fun stuff!

One awesome thing about the state of biology now is that basic research like this that might have once been dismissed as "useless" is now definitively not useless. It's always been true that knowing more about the world is going to help you when you try and shape it to your own benefit, but the line from "hey lets explore this random pathway in this plant" to "hey, let's apply this new on-off switch as a part of this useful synthetic gene circuit to improve crops or engineer plants for bio-remediation or whatever" is short enough that it's hopefully becoming easier to get funding for this sort of stuff. Before, the scientists that discovered enzymes that revolutionized PCR (an important biological tool that is the core technology used to diagnose COVID-19) in thermophilic bacteria at Yellowstone could barely get interest in their work. IIRC the scientists basically used their downtime on vacation to collect samples and do their work since they couldn't make it out to Yellowstone otherwise. Now, agencies everywhere are tripping over themselves to figure out how weird organisms work since something like "this bacteria is capable of eating literal electricity from electrodes to fix carbon" or "this weird on-off switch exists" has direct and powerful applications in synthetic biology, biofuels, etc.
I'm not looking for equivalency in that sense. On one hand you have arsonists seeking to destroy federal property. On the other you had armed (not specifically violent) men occupying federal property. One of these men was shot.

The equivalence is the partisan hypocrisy. There are several sources citing violence in Portland. Even left leaning sources acknowledge this.

When you dismiss someone's view you disagree with as "manipulated", you illustrate the larger point I was making.
No, but it is owned by FB who wants to own your economy
I could find no credible source with a precise success rate for AA, but all my reading suggested much higher than 2%. This Scientific American article[1]explains why it’s hard to measure and suggests the success rate is probably somewhere between 20 and 60%.

1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-alcoholics-a...
> If anything Napoleonic Wars brought peace

I can't tell if this is a serious comment or not.
A "reversible" virtual machine (software) can be created without too much difficulty -- at the expense of using a lot of memory, and only being reversible for as many steps as are state changes that are stored in that memory.

Simple example, an assembly language instruction changes a memory address to a new value, mov [eax], $FFFFFFFF where eax contains the address where the $FFFFFFFF should go.

But now your virtual machine intercepts that instruction before it executes.

Before it stores the value to the address, it saves a copy of what the address was BEFORE the mov/store -- in OTHER MEMORY (as a stack data structure, since this could occur multiple times for individual memory locations...).

If/when eax changed, that would also have to be stored in OTHER MEMORY...

To reverse it then, we restore eax if it changed, then look at the memory location referenced, and restore the previous value (from the stack in other memory that we buffered it in).

With this approach a virtual machine can be created that can go back (rewind) as many instructions as you have memory for.

A machine like this also must buffer the state of things that a program interacts with, such as files and sockets, and be able to restore previous states of those in steps.

It's a bit complex... but it can be done in software, and software alone... but again, you couldn't reverse a program that had run infinitely long, you could only reverse for as many steps as fit into the other memory area that you buffered previous states in...

Also, drawback: It would be much slower than a regular virtual machine...

But it could be done...
Actually, this is what I thought might be meant. But I am used to the phrase "industry is toxic" to mean basically "not nice", as opposed to literally toxic.
I never stated this to be an attack.
Maybe they are rot13 encrypted.
Finance for Non-Financial Managers is a very well written and approachable book with a good amount of humor. It’s concise enough to not waste your time and doesn’t assume you have a finance background. Great launching off book! https://www.amazon.com/Finance-Non-Financial-Managers-Briefc...
Reuters is in fact a foreign source (British).
Ok, so you get the accurate inexpensive fast test... then aren't you still hostage to the least compliant person?
Thank you for sharing this anecdote. I don’t think enough people understand the value of direct primary care.
Of note, concierge primary care is more associated with something like one medical where you pay a membership in addition to your regular insurance co-pays. Direct primary care, or DPC, is full stop no insurance, only membership. And the doctor will limit their patient panel (the patients they see) to about 600 or even less to ensure they can provide amazing service to those patients. Generally, primary care doctors see 3000 or more patients.

Disclosure: I am the founder of a DPC software company. I absolutely love this model for so many reasons. I’d love to answer questions people have.
Even more interesting is Naringin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naringin

This is a toxic flavonoid found in a variety of common fruits. It has been well known since the mid 80s when grapefruits became known for killing elderly people in nursing homes. Last year the FDA posted an advisory not to drink any fruit juice with powerful medications.

I remember this came up in conversation last year on HN when people were deeply offended when I pointed out that eating gold, an extreme heavy metal, is toxic especially with certain food combinations and then a week later reading about the FDA advisory on CNN.
Fauci admitted on camera that he gave that advice because he was worried that medical staff would run into shortages.

I was not speculating in my comment, this is Fauci's own admission.

Source: https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...
Yes, they did. There are explicit videos of people attempting to break into and set entrances on fire.
Can you list your reasons to dislike Dart in a format without the vitriol?
Stanford's John Ioannidis Tried to Warn Trump Against Lockdowns in March
I found your article on how to use Anki.

https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a...

I'm likely not going to use Anki but many of the tips and strategies in your article resonated with me. Thanks!
This is the underlying theory of the vendors at the State Fair of ________.
Not just that but there's also a method where the product name and photo is edited later. So they ship one dollar items and later edit it to be something much more valuable on amazon.
Sadly he was let go before the items had a chance to arrive.
The pictures from the VA story look like morning glories; the WA pictures from facebook look like citrus or a melon. I'd think any sort of "bio attack" would use a consistent medium.

Seeds are a bitch, too. It's usually hard to hide anything in them, isn't it? That's one of the reasons plants make them, they're less vulnerable to infections etc.

"Invasive!" is a boogey man, here. So many things are invasive, especially now. Ask, instead, "could i buy this seed somewhere else grow it legally?" I expect the answer might well be "yes".

[VA] https://www.wdbj7.com/2020/07/24/got-seeds-you-didnt-ask-for...

[WA] https://www.facebook.com/WAStateDeptAg/photos/a.101510256200...
Yeah - I'd totally plant them... In fact, I have.

My seeds arrived about 2 years ago, from China, entirely unannounced, and directed to my address in London, but with no name.

They turned out to be strawberries. Nothing unusual about them as far as I can taste...

They inspired me to make a service for other people to get random gifts from China... [1]

[1]: https://erraticpacket.com