skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've got eugenics, corporatism, sci-fi bait, and worse. I do like the idea of a field of "China studies" through the very specific lens that they've sketched, which focuses on the experience of Hong Kong throughout the past century, but otherwise, ugh, what a series of shallow tropes. Their "climate studies" list is papering over the fact that those studies were done decades ago and the conclusions were well-understood. Here's one question in each field which is better than any of theirs:

Genetics: To what extent does the RNA world (leadzyme, ribozyme, RNA bases) influence our DNA's actions; is there more beyond genome and epigenome?

Business Development: Enumerate all models of cooperation.

Climatology: Classify the climates of Venus and Mars under anthropogenic climate change; what will terraforming do to their climates?

Earth Science: Classify the minerals and rocks of Venus and Mars.

Neuroscience: Is demyelination preventable or treatable?

Economics: Are markets efficient? Prove that either P<NP (no) or FP=PPAD (yes).

Medicine: Can phage therapy prevent an antibiotic-resistant bacterial doom scenario?

History: Just let historians critique history books for a few hours live on stage, and broadcast the results. This will more socially impactful than any specific question or research agenda.

Law: I do have a soft spot for "What rights might digital minds have under current law?" It's a good question. However, a better one, in terms of social impact today, might be: How can the law establish effective oversight over its executors and legislators?

Statistics: Are there tighter bounds on neural net performance than PAC/VC theory? Alternatively, are neural nets essentially polynomial regression?

Philosophy: The Hard Problem.

Physics: Scale quantum computing to today's classical computational regimes.

Astronomy: Finish building planned telescopes; do the planned experiments have results which agree with current theories?

Political Science: How can two-party democracies be converted by the will of the people to multi-party democracies; can Duverger's Law be bent?

Psychology: The Hard Problem.

Philosophy of Science: The Demarcation Problem.

Sociology: How do societies collapse; how are technologies lost? Case studies won't cut it; we need models.

Mathematics: The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis. If metamathematics is allowed, then whether P<NP, P=NP, etc.

Research on these lines of thought does have a big social impact today just by consideration and exploration, and will have big social impacts if they ever actually answer the questions.
Just curious: can you recount a time when a card has broken you out of an idea deadlock in a real life situation?

I can definitely see how this could work (I've used writing prompts in the past and they've helped). Just wondered if there were examples outside of the writing world.
Very easy process to hire for all experience levels and techs:

Use multiple (2-4) recruiters paid on contingency. Receive about 5-20 resumes a week from them (total, not per recruiter!)

Filter these resumes to about 3 per week. Interview these three yourself for 30 mins each. Just ask them for more details about technical experience on their resumes to detect liars. If your recruiters are any good they will have filtered out people based on the soft skills / career questions.

Reject the liars and accept just one of the honest people (if there are any). Push the one forward to your team. Let your team loose on the candidate with any bizarre (but legal) questions they like. Give them the final say on the hire. Repeat until position is filled.
Why was Netflix not there? How are they different from other addictive platforms?
I think it is that Google says its carbon footprint is "zero", just like folks who maybe recycle 100% of everything they buy from the store, but in reality much of that isn't actually recyclable even if it has the logo on it. Thus this statement should likely be taken with a grain of salt.
I Am Not A Climate Scientist. If you take issue with the 3 scopes model of greenhouse gas emissions, go argue with the EPA. Here's their explainer on it:

https://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/greenhouse-gases-epa

There are many more academic sources just a duckduckgo search away. (Or Bing, I guess) personally I find the MS blog explanation really clear, but obviously the EPA or a peer reviewed climate science journal are more reliable sources.
That's true - and we see that sort of "seeking" behaviour in single celled organisms as well (e.g. https://www.mit.edu/~kardar/teaching/projects/chemotaxis(And...) - but this can be explained by a pretty simple feedback loop, and so the the difference in complexity between that and, say, the ability to keep track of different individuals in a social group and reacti differently, is orders of magnitude.
My go-to for simple queries is https://github.com/tidwall/jj

It is not nearly as expressive as jq, but it is faster for my use cases (written in golang).
Graviton is Neoverse, ARM's Neoverse.
The announcement blog post[1] includes this line:

"Will a Facebook account be required to use future Oculus devices?
Yes. Future Oculus devices will require a Facebook account."

My current understanding is that new devices, such as the Quest 2, will also mandate the use of a FB account.

[1] https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-...
Other explanations:

- Technicians were extra careful (slow) when installing the equipment.

- The datacenter pod used no recycled parts. Traditional datacenters are full of recycled marginal-quality parts. Maintenance teams balance the cost of buying new parts, the cost of testing used parts, and the labor & downtime costs from recycled parts failing.

Extreme reliability is already achievable but not economical. One reason why Google Search beats Bing is that Google's infrastructure software is more tolerant of flaky hardware, so Google can spend less money on hardware maintenance, reducing the cost per search.

Hopefully Microsoft will release a report and tell us the source of the underwater datacenter pod's low failure rate.
Not to mention that if the problems created by climate change start costing lives and infrastructure, our ability to implement solutions dwindle as well. We need to have done the research and start on fixing the issues before populations and research facilities have been decimated or destroyed. The only reason we have the ability now to even think about colonizing mars and developing a new and unproven energy generation method is because we have such large societies where these things can eke out of the cracks.
They probably want to run the budget as fast as possible because sooner or later you get caught and care little how effective it is or how much to optimize it.
Would you continue paying for a game where you lost 99% of the time?
It’s simply targeted advertising. People are more likely to consider your ad if it’s related to what they are doing. In this case, it’s a music streaming service ad when you are going to play music. The ad wouldn’t be as effective if it was in the iTunes/App Store.

Now, the constant nagging? That’s annoying.
I personally don't listen to the debates, find them mostly a waste of time. But as someone who occasionally listens to Rogan, I would probably listen to this debate...Might be a good way to get more people to take an interest in this election.
I actually think there is nothing wrong with the upgrade process. What about pkg-style makes it better? On those other systems you still need a reboot for kernel changes to take effect.
The idea is though, once the low hanging fruit of cheap offsetting dries up, causing offsets to become more expensive, the more appealing the price of carbon neutral energy becomes.

Say now the reason people still burn coal is because it's cheap and you can offset it cheaply, once offestting becomes more expensive, you may as well spend the same total amount, but buy green energy instead of coal+an offest.
Cut that down to 2 minutes by listening the podcast on double speed.
Batting practice.

We'd all be better off if plebes grew their skills by reimplementing common tools.
With it looking like SMIC will be added to the excluded company list I don't think they'd mind producing unlicensed chips. I doubt the Chinese government would ban their sale either.
also, the scene in Breaking Bad where they determine how much of each element is involved in making up a human.
MIPS support was removed from the Android NDK, though older versions of the NDK stand a good chance of working, still. So app developers with components needing the NDK support have a bit of work to remain compatible.
False dichotomy.

Google could up its Play Store review process + not installing from outside the store would result in the exact same security advantages you're talking about, while still letting you install from third party sources if you're a power user.
Anything that seeks, which you can't do on a pipe.
So, "it's just fat and sick people that are dead, and they'll all be gone soon enough, who cares"?
They can succeed in the internal market using the same government assistance and non market forces they always have. The question is the global market and will the Chinese firewall seal them inside.
Seeking doesn’t work on stdin for example. Or mmapping, I imagine
Perhaps a 'truth in forums' regulation should require all comments to be accessible, with the reason for their removal from standard view being indicated? That way removal of all negative comments could be monitored and consumers would have sufficient information to moderate their trust in companies advertising.

I reported one of the 'miracle showerheads' to UK Trading Standards [it was possibly ASA?] as it clearly gave false (physically impossible) claims. I was seeing lots of their ads on FB and people were clearly falling for it.

They reported back that it was a foreign company and so they couldn't do anything. Which is weird because they're allowed to advertise to me, so they should have to follow the rules. Also, they had a UK Trademark, which seems a major flaw - protect the trade of scammers but don't hold them to account.
> Mr. Martin did not appear before the board. In a statement released on Friday night, Michel Stern, a representative for Mr. Martin, said: “Mr. Martin and his wife are frankly in the midst of processing this disappointing news. They are carefully weighing their options with their advisers.”

Hope his absence was due to him being too busy writing.
The paper posits the microbes living in droplets in the clouds hypothesis. Heat and pressure at ground level are not as conducive to life.
Most of these apps are useless garbage nobody wants and few people are proud of working on. Even the biggest flagship apps are pretty thin - organized hitchhiking, a replacement for television, a new modern version of the Sears catalog.

This "article" is just an ad for Airtable which looks like a reasonably competent low-code system. Commercial low-code systems (e.g. ServiceNow as a more entrenched established comparison) exist so as to lock you into a platform for which you'll pay exorbitant per-user pricing that really starts to hurt as you scale up.

Maybe there's value to be realized by letting individual teams have influence over their business processes while still using a centrally organized system; but there are many significant costs to locking into something like this, and when you hit its limits you're still going to need coders and custom middleware, all of which will again be a sunk cost into a proprietary system you can never have real control over.
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> Math is the foundation of science, right?

No. The scientific method is the foundation of science. Math is a wonderful tool that is used in science and other fields like business, architecture, music, etc.

> Things in science are provable because of the rigorous mathematical proofs applied to data, correlating with reproducible results, is my perception.

Nothing in science is "provable". Science is not math or logic. Go look up what a scientific theory is.

> The point of science is to build a model that can be used to build other models, or ultimately be applied to game the subject.

That is not the point of science. It is a benefit of science but not the point of science.

> Your definition of science seems to only exclude some folks from the term that are doing the exact same work in a different subject.

Not my definition. I didn't make it up. Just because you haven't a clue what science really is doesn't mean it's "my" definition. How about you take a few seconds and relearn what was taught in high school.

You have a bizarre notion that science exists to benefit ourselves. Religion, art, literature, music, business, etc also benefit us. Doesn't make it science.

Society is a human creation with human laws. That is no more "natural law" than the man-made laws governing chess or monopoly are "natural law".

Now that doesn't mean social "science" is worthy of study. Of course, humanities are worthy of study. But it isn't a science. I think politics is just as valid a field of study as physics or art or literature. But it doesn't make political science a science.

But your real worry is that removing science from social science takes away much of the credibility and respect that real scientists in physics, biology, chemistry, etc have earned right? In my experience, it's usually the social "scientists" who are the most vocal about latching onto "science" because they so desperate want cling onto that unearned authority and credibility.

But then again, it's also why creationists ( creation science ) also want to latch on to science. Pretty much frauds who want to manipulate society want something to give them credibility.
How do you know science?
The TSA is responsible for creating the roadblock, and therefore should be responsible for keeping travelers whole. "read the rules" is not a justification for their policies, as it's common to have an arbitrarily-prohibited item hide in your bag. Especially the types of items that you want to live in your backpack (eg pocket knives) that you have to make sure to unpack before the airport.

For anything that can be checked on the airplane, there should be a free miniature bag that gets added to your checked luggage.

Anything that cannot ride on the airplane but can be ground shipped should get you a free envelope to ship.

For the remaining stuff (eg bulging lithium batteries), there should be a system whereby you can leave it at the checkpoint to be picked up by someone else within the same day.

Failing all of those, disposal should be the last option.
Let's start by clarifying something. There are two uses for predictions: making decisions based on the knowledge that something will be X units by a specific date (e.g. buying stocks), or making decisions to avoid something becoming X by that date (e.g. planning interventions). Nearly all predictions of COVID-19 death tolls are the latter. They're meant to predict the outcome if all things remain the same so we can decide if something more needs done. If we respond to predictions by changing behavior, and the eventual number is lower, that's a good thing. The prediction worked. The model assumed no change, so you can't use reality after a change to dismiss the model.

Your link is a discussion about a news report from March 11th, before the US and state governments started taking drastic actions. I'm not surprised the model predicted dire results and was followed by drastic action.
If only it actually worked...
> While many of us (technologists) were unsurprised, is there any reaction from friends and relatives who say, "wait, you knew about this and you didn't say anything?"

This was basically the reaction my girlfriend had after watching it.
> Still, John Carpenter, an ALMA observatory scientist, is skeptical that the phosphine observations themselves are real.

The reality is that John Carpenter was taken over by an alien in 1982. This, finally, is confirmation that the alien came from Venus.

Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
I’ve often thought about this too, I think the printing press is a similar time to examine as well [1]. I do think the internet provides an entirely new scale, the dissemination is global and instantaneous, and that makes the previous problems that much more explosive and harder to contain.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/before-...
Sure, where "doesn't matter" read "is way way less important than CO2 emissions".
Not the best example here, but try to open a file descriptor in VSCode. I had a scenario where I wanted to diff a file on two different servers with a user-specified diff tool, and certain ones won't even operate in a read-only manner.
Those people who say that about section 230 are better known as either dishonest or complete fucking morons.

The entire mutually exclusive division between platform and publisher is a zombie propaganda lie that won't stay dead.
> Seized the adapters. That would have been enough for me to be more careful about adapters in the future. Seizing the whole shipment hurts me, but not the supplier.

Where the adapters packaged separately to make that possible? Or are you asking some customs inspector to unbox all your items, remove the adapters, and repack it all?
Facebook Ads are the worst ones. Full of scams!

Never click on them
Reminds me of “I, Pencil”. Here’s Milton Friedman’s 2 minute video about it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws

The sheer number of vendors google has makes it nearly impossible to be 100% carbon neutral.
Do you really not know what hand mirrors and compacts are? You know, how people do their make-up? Walgreen's definitely sells them (and they'll be cheaper than CDs besides working better as mirrors, too). I'm trying to interpret your post in good faith but you're making it so hard.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07PWD75TG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_...

This is one example that may well work as-is, no pencil or tape necessary. And that $5 is the inflated "shipping is factored in" Amazon price; they're cheaper in dollar stores and similar.
That's right. Even _if_ the climate change killed off all the members of a civilization, provided there is any life left, it should rise up again in 100M years and presumably not do it again.
Earlier discussion, still on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467635
Check the following threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460142

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24471058

There also is a Python library:

- https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
He's not just the most accurate, he's also the designated official responsible for coordinating the nationwide covid response. You're comparing him to randos on HN making armchair extrapolations.
If it happens, I am interested in the long-form conversation Rogan is known for. The soundbite-gotcha format is exhausting.
Consumer rights and warranty protections are usually tied together in many countries.
Yeah, I had the same experience when I learned about this stuff. It's really interesting; the trick is quality assurance--making sure that the carbon offset you buy actually represents 1 ton of carbon being removed from the atmosphere, or more commonly 1 ton that would have been added to the atmosphere but won't be on account of your offset. As far as I can tell, the difficulty of QA is the only valid criticism of offsets.
Also works nicely against advertising too, a good principle ;)
How about stop the hysterical hyperbole of calling speech traps instead?
One of the authors agrees that the finding needs additional confirmation in the last paragraph.
They have a recent change that is anti merchant, when someone request for a refund they wont give back the transaction fee. Seller lose out on the sale and pay paypal a transaction fee, buyer get their full money and paypal keeps the transaction fee. It used to be returned to the merchant.
It could be as simple as a microbe that eats an elementary molecule in our bodies that is so foreign our immune system can't spot it. No need to target us directly.
Post-Fowler, HR became very concerned about income inequality. They implemented this by severely compressing the range of compensation at each level. For a year or two, there was no way to meaningfully reward a high performer in her level other than to promote her.

Since mid-2019 or so, the company realized this mistake and the pendulum swung back towards TK’s more Ayn Randian compensation philosophy. But the damage was done. FWIW I never saw much of a power dynamic around title. But it is definitely the most important task of an engineering manager to secure promotion-worthy projects and hand them out intelligently. Since promotion is based on impact, it’s almost entirely determined by the project charter. Difficulty or skill deployed in execution is a tertiary concern.

Also given the precipitous drop in equity value, promotions with hefty raises are required just to keep people’s TC in moderate decline instead of freefall.
So.... False sense of security is OK, just because "Apple". Give me a break...
Then give us a control to adjust the threshold.
Correctly 100% of the time, as long as all of your contacts have names that match "Firstname Lastname". Google Contacts has separate fields, which enables "Vince" but at the expense of assuming that his full name is "Vince Sato" when he may write it "Sato Vince".

The problem with probabilistic algorithms is that you trade predictability for getting it right more frequently (but not 100% of the time). Eg. I could match common Japanese family names or look for a .jp TLD, but neither of these are guarantees that the family name comes first, and even less does their absence imply that they lead with the first name.

I imagine Google's algorithm is no more sophisticated than:

1. Are they in your contacts? Use their first name from your contacts.
2. Are they a Google user with a profile you can view? Use the first name they provided.
3. Use your locale to make a wild guess.
I’m with Q!
> do you count secondary services your employees use

I find this question to be a classic ridiculous slippery slope. For example: Do you count the foot print of the plane that takes employees on vacation bought using the company's salary? Or the foot print of the extra child they decided to bear thanks to the finical stability the company offers?

I feel these type of claims should not be taken literally but rather as "We made a substantial dent in our footprint".
On the other hand, I spot errors in major brands copy pretty regularly.

Verification of origin is something companies need to put more effort into in general.
Some executive probably said "I think it would be good to take stock of the experiment now to reduce time-risk and arrive at a decision point regarding future strategy".
abiotic pathways ruled out

To the best of the reasearchers' knowledge: All known pathways to produce phosphane couldn't explain the observation (they were talking several orders of magnitude off). Abiotic 'exotic' chemistry is still an option (ie the 'unknown unknown' hasn't been ruled out).