skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The National Science Foundation (for good reasons) will not fund more than a month or two of a Principal Investigator's annual salary. They'll fund many other types of position, but not that one.

Our University (for good reasons) is reticent to hire into faculty positions, where the state/university would fund a PI's salary. Furthermore, any research professors must fund themselves through grants.

NSF is the only serious game in town for our grant funding.

Even though we have the country's best infrastructure for these experiments, are leaders in our field, can attract grants, and have done so since 1987, we haven't been institutionally capable of retaining promising early/mid-career researchers since ~1999.

The big losers in this situation are the country's experimental capability and science in general. We easily have at least another decade's advances ahead of us. The issue isn't really one of total amounts of funding, but rather whether we are allowed to invest in retaining skilled and knowledgeable leadership.
Energy density is a physical argument that is pretty sound. If you get more energy from less material and land, that can lead directly to a smaller land/material/waste/emissions footprint and therefore a smaller overall footprint. Nuclear being borderline magical here due to E=MC² is the key argument in support of splitting atoms for civilian power. The large land and material footprint of low-density renewables is only barely beginning to be noticed, though they still produce less than 5% of the world's energy. At scale it will be serious, mark my words.

EROI for renewables, especially as it decreases substantially with added storage at scale, is by some accounts (the paper linked) troublingly low. If you have to put in roughly the same amount of energy into a system as it produces in its full lifecycle, you run into issues. This is another good physical argument for nuclear.

One can state they're failed arguments, as anti-nuclear propagandists always do, but that alone is not, as David Deutsch would say, a "good argument".
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I wouldn't know without examining the studies who to trust more there. Harvard might be getting money from some fancy "non-profit" to put out some dubious study as well.
I sincerely wanted to get into android development and this is why I didn’t. You’re totally right. I couldn’t tell if I was missing something. How can a major mobile platform (THE major platform?) be such a rats nest to begin developing for?
27k lines isn't that crazy. I've merged larger patches, it just takes a while. This is a very negative view of an open source contribution.
I had wondered, if the present warming rate goes on indefinitely, how long is it before we go back to the levels that produced 3 foot bugs and such in the carboniferous or whatever it was? Because I'd really worry about going past that. Massive change to human civilization and the ecosystem is one thing; Venus is another.

I finally looked it up and a rough estimate appears to be 300 years. So I guess 446 years to melt all the ice sounds generally consistent.
This reminds me of bop.fm (YC S14, I think) in a way.
ISO 13346[0] is supported everywhere and can handle files larger than 4GB. It's used on DVDs, but it can also be used on a flash drive[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
[1] https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf
But we've established that it's not based on you personally believing the goal is noble. It's the belief of the person fighting for it that matters.
To some extend. It running single threaded and doing only one request at a time is a bit painful.
Is there benefit to setting an example that Chinese citizens would never see anyways?
Seconded, I would do this with my mom each year in her garden when I was a kid. Works 100% of the time, and it's a non-invasive way to address the issue.
True. There might be other more expensive contracts, but most people in Taiwan that I know either have a "real" unlimited data contract for like 17 USD per month or a "fake" unlimited contract (with like 25GB and reduced but still acceptable speeds afterwards) for about 14 USD per month. One example provider would be Tstar.

Nobody uses SMS anymore.
I believe sometime anonymity empowers one to speak their mind out and eventually be a part of the change that seeks to benefit the millions. This platform provides the tools to everybody to speak their thoughts and share their feelings. I like the ease of use that this platform provides.
Do we really understand? What's the mechanism for that?

My thinking is that we humans have some ability to do things by rote until we have a good statistical understanding, at which point we use the statistical understanding mostly, and fall back to rote where we have to be careful. But, mostly, we're stats machines too.
I never knew! What fascinating stuff. The idea that anyone who has the entire file could generate a block that fits as the final piece seems totally magical. You could do a final even block or odd, group every 3rd, every 4th, first half second half... and then the "last" block just magically fits... for everyone... mind blown!
Well, I'm not sure what you mean by diminishing returns, because you can't mean it literally. At some point, you get Venus. I can't recall what leads to a lot more CO2 being released, but there's something. Not in the next hundred years, of course.
I agree with what you said. I am very concerned about the well documented possibility of vaccines sometimes making the disease course worse or causing auto-immune problems down the line.

After all, one problem with sars-cov-2 is that the virus mimics human self-identification all over the place, one reason it is so effective. What if a non-negligible part of the population develop a chronic auto-immune disease? Those diseases are treated with steroids. If we have to give immune-suppressing steroids to a large part of the population, are we not setting ourselves up for a second pandemic?

These are just speculations, but I am extremely adverse to this rush mentality like we're trying to get a new software UI out and it doesn't matter if it breaks. While we are under the gun here, I still think we should take a considered approach and indeed mobilize against the virus. Much of this mobilization would involve not only production, but also non-production i.e. paying people to stay home and building structures that enable safe socialization etc.

There's a mentality that we must preserve our highly competitive way of life at all costs, and the people leading us are the ones that "won". I think this is the wrong course.

Further, I think this discussion of liabilities and profits is insanity. The relevant phrama companies should be nationalized and anyone harmed should be able to make a claim against the government. I don't understand why an entire civilization needs to rely on the kindness of buisness people.
Heh. I did something like that: https://xach.livejournal.com/227751.html
Exactly- people don't/can't really comparison shop when it comes to medical procedures. They don't know how good their doctors are at it, this is all unpublished information.

Similarly college textbooks- if your professors assigns work from their book, then you need that book. You can't competitively shop on that.

As the response points out, all of these groups and then backed by accreditation systems to limit new entrants.
As an American business owner, in my experience reality has no concern for “fairness” but is constructed by leverage and power.
Few questions, would be glad if anyone can answer these:

- Would you know of good companies which have a good work life balance in Japan?

- I know among the big tech, Microsoft and Google have offices there. Both seem to pay well as well. Do they have similar WLB as their US offices?

- I have heard of racism, like certain apartments being off limits for non Japanese people. Some clubs only allowing white caucasians among foreigners. How true is this in your experience?

- I have no problem in learning Japanese over time, but without it at the start, is it very difficult to get by?

- Do most people live in Tokyo/Kyoto(where Tech companies seem to be) itself or can you live a bit in outskirts(a bit of greenery) and commute using the fast public transport?
This is incredible and also very frightening. Has anyone tried to distribute one of these binaries in a real context?
Nope. If the bag looks blue that means it's scattering away blue light while letting the rest through. So it's filtering (out) the blue. OP is right.
Keeping and maintaining that excitement for self-driven learning is the most challenging part.
China is still vast majority Han Chinese, with 55 minorities. It does not invalidate the point.
Doesn't make what he said false though. If your state caters to mostly the wishes of the 93% majority suppressing others, you can effectively consider it to be an ethnostate for arguments.
Valve says time to download MS Flight Simulator won't affect refund requests
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In the early 2000s there were still a lot of great used bookstores in New York. Being younger I could not compare to the 70s or 80s but could see the shocking transformation in the last 20 years. Too many shops closed only to remain empty storefronts
Sounds like you've had some bad experiences. I really appreciate your sharing this. Regarding the balloon, you'll have to check out some of my other responses about the obviousness legal standard for obtaining a patent. Unfortunately, when problem patents are allowed it makes the whole system look bad.

I rather agree with you in the sense that we've got a winner-take-all system, that has a lot of arbitrariness built into it, with huge ability by big players to game the system, where there's huge misinformation and everyone (whichever side they're on) thinks they're right and won't really listen to the other side. I can tell you that if you talk to a room full of patent lawyers, when they're being honest and not brown nosing their clients, are pro-software patents just as much as people on here will be anti. These are reasons why I'm looking to disrupt, it's like Ma Bell before everyone woke up and AT&T was broken up.
You got the gist of what I was saying which is physics is at play and the answer is always "it depends". But people don't like that. Hence, AC off I'm a good person. Green roof I'm a good person. 'etc.

> I agree to a certain extent with his points, but found his tone incredibly condescending and offputting

That kind of says it all, doesn't it?

Personally I found it good natured tongue-firmly-in-cheek conspiratorial humour. Considering he is an actual authority on the subject and has seen a lot of incredibly idiotic behaviour and expensive and downright dangerous mistakes I think you can forgive him if his comedy schtick is not to your taste as long as the info is good.

This talk is even better:
https://youtu.be/rkfAcWpOYAA

He seems like the grumpy Linus of the building science world and if he is a jerk he is my kind of jerk.
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Collecting? No. Using Stripe to charge $1 to gate brigading. Unless you think everyone using payment processors on HN are also "collecting"?

You can easily vet the payment flow in the browser console, which is taken directly from the Stripe docs. Also, since there's no data collection, period, there's nothing to unsubscribe.

Please take some time to actually either read the privacy link, or if you are really concerned, inspect what the browser does with your information as Stripe's library processes it with their servers for a one time transaction.
Software to make marketing and growth easier (free ATM to help during Covid)
I am sometimes baffled at how the leaders at NK can't have a look at just down the DMZ and see what they could have. The difference in social indicators is magnitudes better. Their ideology has been proven so wrong. I wonder what will take them to just give up.

If they are worried about punishments for what they have done, they could just cut a deal to let them have a lot of assets and be immune from judgement against past crimes.
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Uber/Lyft drivers have 0 quotas.
No, I started with Turbo Pascal in the late 80s and early 90s and then moved onto Delphi, Turbo C etc later. I programmed in Delphi till about version 7/8 when Borland decided to implode by going after "Application Lifecycle Management" etc.
I just started doing a Chip-8 after finding this: http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulato...

It seems to be well regarded.
> Anthropogenic emissions dominate climate change, and will for the remainder of the athropocene.

That's true by definition, since the anthropocene is defined as the geologic era where humans have had a measurable effect on the geologic record.

The anthropocene may or may not actually exist for future species' geologists. One fairly likely scenario I can imagine is that global warming leads to mass migrations, which lead to nuclear war, which lead to the deaths of 90% of the human population and the reversal of anthropogenic climate change. Boom, global warming solved...except that'll be cold comfort (literally) for the 90% of us who are dead.

If it happens, it'll probably happen before 2100, which means the anthropocene will last less than 150 years, a blink of an eye in geologic time. Future dino-geologists will observe it as a very thin layer that led to a change in the radiation signature and composition of elements in the earth's crust, as well as a small mass extinction. Come to think of it, that's not all that different from the K-T boundary.
for cross-platform apps, from my own experience, I find Qt often deliver the highest quality.
At least on Linux, Tk apps still tend to look like remnants from before Windows 95. (Which personally is the main reason I avoid Tk apps whenever possible, including Tkinter apps.)
You would have to spray the surface every day, plants need watering much less, close to never if they're native to the region.
Some of these are odd questions.

"How do we help more experimental cities get started?

It seems that the returns to entrepreneurialism in cities remain high: Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and others, "

???

HK and to a lesser extent Singapore are some of the most inegalitarian places in the world, that thrive because they have established Western commercial practices in a sea of otherwise more obvious corruption. There is a very dark underbelly to HK.

Dubai is an Oil Rich state, with a fairly ruthless totalitarian leadership wherein the pay Indian workers 10's of cents an hour in a form of indentured servitude. An Arab Dubai resident could kill one of these workers and probably get away with it.

They also are nice places for rich people to hide their money.

There are no mysteries here.

Dubai is the 'anti civilisation' - maybe one of he worst examples of 'what to build'.

As for 'why some things are more expensive'?

Some things are commodities, some are not, some things have price inelasticity, some do not.

Why was the P43 made in a few months?

Because WW2 planes are very simple, and it was during war, and we didn't care about safety back in the day. 'Crash tests' for cars? We didn't even wear seat belts. No emissions standards. etc.. Most of today's projects are much more complex. It takes government 10 years to do anything because those systems are complicated, we have strong government unions, and a kind of civic dysfunction in many places.

The GDP is not consistent - it just looks like that in the chart.

The GDP naturally, is not going to change that much year over year - because we are largely engaged in the same patters of activity. But the rate of growth swings a lot. There is no mystery to solve here.
Love this whole thread. I thought I'd add a bit more for those who ended up in the same position I ended up in a little while back: if you're ever stuck in a position where you're forced to use an environment where you iterate so slowly that it takes days to a week to get from one error to the next error: take notes along the way as you go. Take notes about things which could be done differently if they weren't stuck a certain way. Not only does it neatly manage deadline anxieties, but it helps you build a map of friction points that are keeping things slower than you'd like, and it gives you the detail you need to slowly build cohesive and persuasive plans for improving the situation.

Of course, the optimal plan at that point could easily be for you (as it was for me) to leave the situation, but even so -- at least it makes that clearer!
I don't really see how most of this is actually relevant to TikTok or all the drama surrounding it. The point of western societies is that certain things like art and speech are considered worthy of bestowing protections upon. TikTok is a platform that mixes speech and art and it's immensely popular with American youth who aren't allowed to advocate for themselves politically due to age. Why is it alright to block their access to a platform with these properties simply because it's politically convenient, especially when many of these same youths also use TikTok as a medium for artistic expression?
hah, i had a tool where i configured ~/something as a target directory in its config. except that the tool did not understand ~ and literally created a directory named '~'

guess what i typed to remove it?

i lost a lot of work that day.

since then i developed the habit to always only use rmdir for directories, and first go into the directory to remove files with rm.

i also avoid rm * by finding some common parts like an extension that most files share.

i don't want rm * to be in my history where i might accidentally call it.
I strongly disagree that Zuckerberg is the mastermind behind taking out TikTok. A lot of this discussion was explicitly Chinese propaganda a few years ago egging on past presidents to ban a few foreign companies.

In my opinion Trump is driving this particular issue not at the behest of Zuckerberg. I dont think Trump sees eye to eye with other american social media companies. I think Trump just sees sensitive data about americans in foreign hands.

This EO action lacks complexity and is a somewhat, extremely messy way to do things. Trump's response does not react with the reality of the industry and that is all of our data is being scooped by everyone and banning a single company will do nothing. Hypothetically if he wanted to promote a culture change there needs to be more pointed discussion on this issue.

Additionally if Trump really really wanted to shove some regulation down data miners/brokers throats he would ban the sale of data (like ccpa but with actual teeth), and obliterate S.J.Res.34. GDPR is a farce and is like a cop making everything illegal but selectively enforcing the law.

This discussion on HN is somewhat helpful but few comments here are including the necessary complexity of this case.
If you see blue on BOTH the outside of the bag and the inside, what does that mean? I’ve never thought of this.
I'm sure the leaders enjoy their position in north korea quite a lot. Better to be a king in somewhere like North Korea than to be an ordinary person somewhere else.
In my informal searches, a surprising number of the really interesting new catalytic materials seem to be coming from Chinese researchers.
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It has nothing to do with moral high ground.
It's about being the better alternative and about and free markets.
But now everybody knows the US will play dirty to protect their it predominance.
The way the US acted against Huawei and TikTok showed what could happen to anybody who opposes the will of the US.
Even the EU now is looking for alternatives for the IT tech giants.
The trust is gone.
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I'm not the person you asked, but I made an educational simulator for RISC-V [0].

The most critical resource even if it is not super convenient is the official RISC-V specification [1] (this is the latest draft as of writing this comment).

There are a bunch of open source simulators [2] to look at for reference if you are unsure of how something is suppose to work. I would recommend compiling a C program to RISC-V and looking at disassembled machine code to get an idea for how things are normally done in terms of RISC-V assembly.

There isn't any particularly nice documentation that I am aware of, but enough universities teach using it that there should be some resources that would be helpful for making a simulator. I can probably come up with some links if you are serious about making a simulator, but its a little too much effort to do for a drive-by comment.

[0]: https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars

[1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/releases/download/...

[2]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-software-list#simulators
This is perverse in the best way possible.
Why are people creating a community at the local bike shop? I ride my bike to work everyday (or did). But I only went to the local bike shop to purchase a new bike about every five years and went in for parts a few times a year. What in the world are people doing that they are going there so frequently that a community can be built up?
Agreed. Let the propaganda flow on HN.

I hate to say it but I think well be drawing data lines on free trade agreements sooner than we think.

The cloud act is an experiment that might be adopted across continents.
What do you mean, $0 to $1? Am I missing something?
Do you intend to learn writing Chinese or speaking Chinese? They are different.
You restart the backup process, maybe ?
When was the last time North Korea had a race riot?

Also North Korea has a lot more geopolitical disadvantages at hand, namely sanctions.

An ethno state helps you avoid several classes of problems, like strict typing prevents runtime type errors. It doesn’t solve all administration problems.
Who said they need to prove a negative? I'm saying these guys are citing a study about apples while making claims about oranges.

They studied the impact of a temporary stipend. Yet the title of the article ("Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being") is not a claim about the impact of temporary stipends. It is a claim about UBI.

You cannot honestly infer anything about UBI or the incentives created by UBI from a study of something that is fundamentally different than UBI.

I agree that the results of the study should give us confidence to do larger studies. If studies of UBI result in the same findings, it would likely win me over to the pro-UBI camp.

But for now, I find it irksome that the article claims a study of apples has taught us something about oranges.