skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, but I was familiar with that conclusion already and that's not quite what I'm asking for.

What I'm asking is some ballpark idea of the relative plausibility of (1) microbes, compared to (2) having discovered some new physical/chemical processes.

Is it a case where we feel like we've got our understanding of (2) locked down, and so "it would have to be a chemical process we've never seen" is a way of saying it's highly likely to be life? Or is it very plausible that we do have much more to learn about chemical processes, and it's just a face value statement? Are we talking 99% life, 1% likelihood of new process? 50/50? Something else?
Verifying every claim you read on the internet is an impossible endeavor. It's much healthier for discourse if strong claims that aren't "general knowledge" for lack of a better term are ignored unless supplied alongside reliable sources or some sort of justification/explanation (and even then, making ridiculous claims and backing them up with heavily biased sources is a common tactic too).

This is mostly necessary in politically charged topics (energy generation (because that relates to climate change) and mentioning Russia specifically were both red flags to me) because spurious emotive bullshit and deliberate misinformation are very common.

This particular comment also didn't have enough information to be very useful - How much energy does the UK import from Russia? In what form? Has that amount changed recently? Why do you believe this is a bad thing? are all interesting questions the commenter could answer that would add to the conversation in a useful way.
Was unconvinced of the value of this until I found I site where my bliss was 100% guaranteed.

https://brothersetup.online/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Examples_of_... ought to narrow it down. We're neither doubly landlocked, nor have we ever listed our entire country on Airbnb.

TIL about SI thin-spacing.

(Pedantically speaking, there's a large middle range between guerrilla warfare, irregular and asymmetric, and total warfare, in which instead of an economy with an army one has an army with an economy. Note that Clausewitz, whose ignorance of the twentieth century made him use Napoleonic France as an example of "total", considered total war, not as misattributed a desirable state, but as an asymptote. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24316395 )

PS. Assuming we're both under the same atmosphere, which windows: visible, mid-wave infrared, or radio?
I dont buy laptops with nvidia GPUs because of nightmares I had working with them in 2014-2015. Has the support improved?
You’re welcome! Also, flux. Lots of it. Buy some good one, and use tons of it. Then clean the hell out of your PCB!
Intel has been promising high-end graphics for decades, and delivering low end integrated graphics as a feature for their CPUs. Which makes sense, the market for CPUs is worth more than the market for game oriented GPUs. The rise of GPUs used in AI might change this calculation, but I doubt it. I suspect that nVidia just would like to move into the CPU market.
Just last week I was trying to extract text from a PDF and it had extra spaces between all the characters. Eventually in frustration I exported to PNG, made a new PDF, and OCRed it.

It felt dirty.
I disagree. That is a perversion of the principles and not true "Jugaad". As an example see the success of the "Generic Drug" pharmaceutical industry and how it came to be.

https://blogs.deloitte.co.uk/health/2020/03/the-indian-pharm...
I think it's worth mentioning that the PinePhone exists as well an can be had for 150$ whenever they launch a new batch (every 2 months or so). It is also a Linux phone, maybe not as privacy focuses as the Librem 5, but it serves a similar niche in my opinion.
> does make untraceable hacking and distortion much easier

IME, high tech voting makes changing one vote a little harder, but it makes changing the outcome much easier.
Most JVM implementations are around 80% Java with some C++ for the JIT/AOT and GC, GraalVM and JikesRVM have even bigger percentage.

It is an illusion to use JVM without touching or understanding Java works.
On what grounds/with what authority?
It should be more performant in the cloud. That flexibility and scalability is what you're paying for. There are various tools and strategies for moving this data as explained by several posts here that would've made the process much easier.
pdfsandwich helps make this a one command process

http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/
Off-topic: I found it hard to parse "How we threat model"; the sentence is grammatically incorrect. It should either be "How we model threats" or "How we threat-model".

"Model" by itself can be used in the verb sense, but I'm having a hard time accepting the model in "threat model" as a (qualified?) verb.
Good idea, cheers
SQLite “license”[0]:

Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing:

May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/different.html
Right. This just reminds me of the news cycle from 2011 or so about a paper reporting neutrinos moving at faster-than-light speed. Which turned out to be a false alarm.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/9/110923-neutri...
Exactly, they don't show how these people performed in a standardized exit test _after_ college, so there's no way to measure how well they did relative to each other in terms of education.
Yes and it ends eventually. A single AI makes it out of here
You can count the number of Haskell users here:

https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-sta...

"to push your agenda while disregarding facts. "

I have no agenda, what agenda would that be? What do you think my agenda is? I've written code in 20+ languages in 40 years from 6502 machine code to Prolog, LOGO and Blockly. Everyone of them has strengths and weaknesses. I like coding in most of them.

"while disregarding facts"

What are the facts?

If I have an agenda it's to split propaganda from facts. It's moving software development from strong opinions, fashion and cults towards facts and science, so as an industry and profession we can grow up.

"Haskell didn't solve a real problem"

lead to the downvotes, and not one reply with a counter example.

If Haskell solves a development problem the many people have and struggle with, what would it be? What problem does lazyness solve? I wrote 100k+ lines of Scala code with Monads and Monad transformers, it isn't better than my Typescript code. Purity? Good developers write pure methods in any programming language minimizing side effects. I could go on with immutability, which get's you down a rabbit whole of lenses ( I wrote a lengthy article here https://svese.dev/concurrency-with-immutable-data-primer/ ) with few benefits.

There are two possible prominent explanations for Haskells failure in the development world. First it didn't solve a real problem as Assembler (easier to read and write than machine code), C (everyone did 'C' already with extensive assembler macro collections), Perl (better shell programming), Lua (easy to embed), Java (garbage collection), PHP (everyone who can write HTML can write PHP), JS/Node (people allready know frontend JS), Ruby (Rails) and Typescript (JS with type safety) did and Rust (safe C) now does. Or every developer is too stupid to see the light.
That's an absolutely brilliant hack! wow!
It seems they just focus on the cost while the real problem is of sovereignty, and need to include an European dimension. The US have been found spying on the whole world (including their own citizens), so it’s warranted Europeans push back against US hardware and software the same way it’s done with China (Huawei).
I went to an "elite" Indian college. Anecdotally, I can say the quality of education was quite a bit higher than what could be had at non-elite colleges. I can also say with reasonable certainty that the large salary difference is mostly due to signalling. Even the graduates from a top college has much to learn before they can contribute to their job.

Also, elite college admissions are based on test score on one day in the student's life in high school, while their brain is still developing. I have personally seen many who didn't qualify, but have gone on to do great things. Their initial salary was definitely low.
For me the appeal is being able to build things from scratch, and make big decisions before the stakes are too high. It also opens the possibility of growing into a larger role than if you join a big company.
TikTok rejects Microsoft bid at eleventh hour
My personal favorite RNG is the logistical map. x_{n+1} = 4x_n(1-x_n). There is no hidden seed beyond the current output. Thus if you have a scientific calculator that lets you refer to the value on screen then you can rig it into an RNG. Seeing a simple, non-programmable machine "misbehave" and act random melts my mind a little.
How meaningful the text is is going to depend on how the PDF was generated.

Consider that creating a PDF is generally just the layout software rendering into a PDF context — no different as far as it is concerned than rendering to the screen.

Space are not necessary for display (although they might help for text selection so often are present). It is not important that headers are drawn first, or footers last — so often these scraps of text will appear in unexpected places....

PDF has support for screen readers, but of course very few PDFs in the wild were created with this extra feature.
Remote First at Brex
> something less complex than life (but still possibly quite complex) which produces phosphine is also possible?

Of course it is possible. Everything is possible. But we have never seen such a process and we have seen life. So if life explains it but nothing else does except "possibly something" then life is the simplest explanation. The alternative really is no explanation, only speculation.

We could be living in a simulated universe, everything is possible, the simulation can include logically contradictory simulated laws of physics in other words "miracles". But such speculations don't really explain anything, they only say it is always possible that some other explanation may be found at a later time. Until an alternative equally good or better explanation is found it is best to use as working hypothesis the simplest explanation which explains all the observations, which seems to be "life" according to these scientists.
Technically that would make it a startup incubator :-)
When I measured jitter I found that it was higher in cheaper instruments [1], so I think it might be dependent on the hardware that is listening to the MIDI output.

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/miti/issues/4
> The problem is to move capital from where it's not useful (in the bank accounts and portfolios of ultra-wealthy) to where it's useful.

Its quite useful in bank accounts because those banks make loans to businesses, which secure the loan with collateral and invest the loan in expanding their business, offering more goods and services at more competitive prices, Thereby generating more value. This is investment.

> A tax on consumption will have a bigger impact on less wealthy people whose income is spent towards basic needs

Perhaps so, but taxing investment also hurts less wealthy people to a greater extent, because they have less money to invest and so the investment tax makes it more difficult for them to catch up to more wealthy people by investing.

> whereas more wealthy people hoard their capital (and profit out of it).

This is why they are wealthy and this behavior should be emulated by the less wealthy if they wish to have more money available for consumption in the long run.

> I fail to see how a focus on consumption should be favored?

Because the aggregate effect of tax incentives shapes the market and investment increases the amount of value created by a given unit of labor, and the amount of value available in the market at all price levels. Incentivizing consumption (by taxing investment more than consumption) causes more people to consume more of their value. Incentivizing investment causes more people to invest more value, creating more aggregate value.
Yeah I remember Abbyy also has an interface to define layouts for this kind of problem. I.E., this thing is a table and here are the headers etc.

Sorry, I was not trying to say deep learning would be a substitute for all such issues, just that new approaches may help a smaller team build those tools more efficiently.

I don't know if Abbyy combines its layout tool with training a model for customers, but it seems like a reasonable thing to build and expose.
Not if oneplus has any protections for their design.

But ianal
i did this too. OCR is much better than text extraction from PDF
New fossil ape is discovered in India
One of my favorite YouTubers is Rob Dahm because of that exact reason.
Joke's on them. Turns out there really was a big, widespread comet strike, probably multiple air bursts, and it was also responsible for extinctions in South America and Africa. Evidence of the singular event surfaced as far afield as South Africa, Chile, and Syria.

Was there an advanced civilization? First, what do you mean by "advanced"? Any civilization at all preceding known Harappan and Mesopotamian settlements would be a big upset to the current narrative. There are extensively built-up areas known, off the coast of India and south of Harappan sites, that were last above water more than 6000 years ago.
Gpudirect is only on the data center cards afaik.
They also developed TRIZ, a Russian algorithm for inventing new systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ

> a theory which defines generalisable patterns in the nature of inventive solutions and the distinguishing characteristics of the problems that these inventions have overcome

It's been used by Samsung and other orgs.
The large outsourcing of pollution would also be heavy industry.
Sounds like the intro of The Swarm, the novel.
AMD strikes back at Nvidia by releasing bicycles
One wonders if that isn't proving too much; if the atmosphere of Venus is "teeming with life" one would not expect the only such signature to be an excess of phosphine only noticed after centuries of observation.

I mean, I realize not all life necessarily engages in photosynthesis that emits highly reactive O2 into their atmosphere and radically and highly visibly transforms the entire atmosphere, but since the only energy source on the geological time frames those bacteria are going to be able to count on in the high atmosphere is going to be sunlight one would rather expect "teeming with life" to have very obvious spectra effects, i.e., "turning the planet funny colors" as life uses light energy in some sort of photosynthesis-like reaction, not merely creating an unexpected abundance of phosphine.

"Life scraping by" is a lot easier to believe than "teeming with life". "Teeming" life has no compelling evolutionary reason to also be well-hidden from us, and a lot of pathways to being very obvious as it exploits the energy available.
https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/smt-breakout-pc... can help. I have hand soldered STM32s to this adapter (use flux, a small tip)
For a more recent study about the Chilean approach, I can recommend "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" by Eden Medina (2011, MIT Press, [link](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries)).
I agree, it's analogous to Pascal's wager. I'm not sure what it being free or costing money has to do with it. If you're about to die, arguably you have less concern about your savings account.
The Gartner Hype Cycle might be branded but the basic delta between overhyped technology vs actual production processes has been observed for a long time.
Speaking of which, I remember when I thought Minecraft andead because Microsoft bought them.d Mojang were
The front end is not core.
Its a really cool idea and I think its helpful. However, I've unfortunately realized that I don't really need that kind of creativity in anything I do. I need insight and understanding, I need to actually do the things I want to do, and I need to research solutions, but very rarely do I actually need to be creative in the sense of coming up with completely new ideas to get past a creative block. It was kind of a sad realization.
The owner of nazisr.us could redirect their site to trump.com, your point being?
Arm’s primary base is in the IoT and the edge, and it has been very successful there. Its focus on low power allowed it to shut out Intel from the mobile phone market, and from there it has been gaining ground in a slew of vertical markets ranging from medical devices to Apple computers. But as more intelligence is added to the edge, the next big challenge is to be able to radically improve performance and further reduce power, and the only way to make that happen is to more tightly customize the algorithms to the hardware, and vice versa https://semiengineering.com/nvidia-to-buy-arm-for-40b/
"Where earlier reductions were largely negated by rising imports, the past decade has seen genuine cuts in the amount of CO2 for which the UK is responsible."

- https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-uks-co2-emissio...
Not much you can do.

I certainly wouldn't buy a house thats been blured.
As if Microsoft would be an angel vendor.

.NET Core also doesn't run in all platforms where there is a Java implementation and not everyone is happy to rewrite their .NET Framework into Core, while Microsoft is in mix of leaving again stuff behind like the ongoing discussions about CoreRT, .NET Native, Project Reunion, MAUI vs Blazor vs WPF vs Forms show.
Would love to see RISC-V catch up and be more widely adopted.
Are you saying the UK outsourced all it's heavy industry off-shore to cut-down upon emission locally?
This would probably be something that would have to be determined after actually trying it out. If we have a good social safety net, are there still a lot of people working in dangerous jobs? Is there still a pattern of exploitative behavior from employers?

I would also argue that our safety regulations should not be tied to whether a person is an employee or a contractor. Safety rules should be the same regardless.

I do think some regulation will still be needed, even if everyone had enough that they didn't have to work to survive. It is simply too easy for an employer to hide the danger from their employees; without regulations and inspections, it is likely that a lot of employees wouldn't even realize the danger until something bad happened.
Android is open source though.
Everyone is someone else's bigot.
Speaking of which, I remember when my friends thought Minecraft was going to die because Microsoft bought Mojang.
Also manufacturing to China, no?
I haven’t read any of the books mentioned, but as a software worker I’m sure many of us have seen problems which would be solvable, even very simply, if the other parameters (often people) were more readily changeable.

I’ve done some reading on cybernetics but I’ll have to look up Beer.
That’s an interesting way to look at the world, especially in terms of economic policy. I would surmise though that not a single person making those policies you mention from the countries you mentioned hold up unfettered supply side / unrestricted free market as an ideal endpoint.

None of the countries or politicians you mentioned have the same policies. Sanders doesn’t want government control of means of production (traditional left wing economics). All the European countries have universal healthcare and will never take it away.
I will not stop recommending Hancock's books. In many cases they are the only source of excellent photography of ancient constructions.

Furthermore, Hancock is always very careful to separate factual exposition from his speculations.

Finally, he has remarkably often turned out to be right, and his critics badly wrong. The Younger Dryas Boundary comet strike is now mainstream pre-history, supported by excavations as far afield as Chile, South Africa, and Syria. A culture cultivating the whole Amazon basin for at least 1500 years before being wiped out by smallpox 500 years ago is now well established fact, supported by LIDAR surveys revealing hundreds of miles of major earthworks.
In Oregon, a New Climate Menace: Fires Raging Where They Don’t Usually Burn
I missed the last part when I first read this - I am confused as to what you mean; how is this example an abuse of UBI?
I shared this with my girlfriend, and she, without being phased even slightly, replied, “Can I tell you a secret? I’ve always known that Venus is alive.”
This is such a huge clusterfuck, I don't know why anyone would buy it. Microsoft is lucky to have gotten away from it. What does acquiring the US operations even mean? Do they get code and if so who is going to take it forward? The engineers are all byte dance employees. They have a few engineers outside of China but the bulk of the talent is in China, that is where the innovation is coming from. Without them it doesn't make sense to get the operations. The user base is going to drastically fall and it will be a write-off in 2yrs time. All of the money is wasted.
That's not the way it worked. You couldn't migrate your code until your libraries had migrated. They didn't always want to migrate because their userbase was generally mostly on 2.

This is what worries me - the lack of understanding of how broken these backward compat breaking changes are. Mercurial, built on python, took 10 years of work to get to python 3 - for basically no reward (they just need bytes and unicode is not super relevant to them) as just one example of MANY.

Let me give you an example. in Python 2 you could use u'' for a unicode string. Perfect, I could update python 2 code to use this or b'' if I needed bytes so in the python 3 setting the right things could happen. The python developers literally TOOK THIS AWAY in python 3. So now, for no reason we can ever hope to understand, you couldn't write code that work work in 2 and 3 by using u'' and b''. This was the type of screw the developer in your face attitude that developers got.

Let's be clear, library folks would need to write code that worked for python 2 and 3 for a long time. And instead of making this easy or at least reasonable, the python developers went out of their way to basically screw folks over here.

Others will remember that the very reasonable formating approaches to bytes (yes, those are useful) was trashed in python 3, again for no seemingly good reason. % operator .format etc. WHY? I'm serious.

"You had 12 years of warning" - hey how about python follows some other languages. Make the update compelling so folks are excited to move. Think about things that will make it easier instead of just pulling all these silly stunts. You couldn't practically move initially. Something as simple as doing u'' in python 2 that would alias properly in 3 - was a no go.

This is what worries me about posts like yours, python developers have really no clue how stupid this type of backward compat breaking approach is if you have limited upside and go out of your way to make it hard to support both versions. It is critical that lesson be learned - but it seems hopeless.

Anyways, go and others I think are going to make a reasonable run at this sort of utility language space with I think some stronger efforts around backward compatability. I think the next backwards incompatible change in python (python 4?) will probably see a much bigger migration off python.
If your point is that at least a dozen or so elected pols thought it worth doing this as a “virtue signaling” exercise, then yes I agree. Not sure it has all that much chance of dissuading rich folks from coming. I honestly don’t know who in their right mind with the geographic option would ever choose to make their permanent residency in a state with income tax. Buy a condo in Las Vegas, register to vote there, and spend all your time in San Diego.

As to your second point, I sincerely doubt California’s greatest problem is too few wannabe founders. ::smiley face emoji::