skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once a topic is associated with something fringe or woo-woo, it becomes extremely difficult to discuss it rationally.

Try bringing up the possibility that at least some small fraction of UFOs actually are extraterrestrial. We have a decent number of compelling radar/visual encounters that suggest something artificial with maneuvering and propulsion capabilities beyond anything we know how to achieve. They could be illusions, unknown natural phenomena, hoaxes, classified tech, or equipment failures, but they are anomalies nonetheless.

The Fermi paradox really is a paradox, especially now that we've found planets in habitable zones orbiting stars within "reasonable" (less than a thousand years) distance if one were traveling at a meaningful fraction of the speed of light. One possible solution to the paradox that is always left off the table is "they are in fact here, they're just not making overt contact." There are numerous rational reasons that an intelligence would choose not to "land on the White House lawn" from planetary protection protocols akin to ours to self-interested concerns about triggering a violent response from the demonstrably violent and rapidly technologically advancing inhabitants of Earth. We'd be no threat to them now, but give us another few hundred years and we could be capable of e.g. sending a relativistic impactor their way.

But nope... the fact that the UFO topic is linked to fringe, new age, and wacky stuff means that it can't be discussed and must be absolutely dismissed. Also means that if someone wishes to discredit a topic, all they have to do is get new agey woo woo types to start talking about it.

This is just how humans think. We use ideas as signifiers of group membership and apply primate in-group / out-group behavior to them. Scientists are human, so science is not immune. IMHO this tendency is one of our species' greatest weaknesses.
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Automated bare metal provisioning with Tinkerbell
Really? How?

If you want to enable communication where both parties don't need to be online at the same time, and with easy setup of a trusted system, you will need something very much like the signal protocol.

That requires setting up a pretty complicated central service. Moreover, you are going to need to do quite some updating on the end-points of the e2e encrypted communications? Setting up this kind of operation, when illegal to do so, is hard. Moreover, it requires certain expertise that is not common among criminals.

How many criminals are going to be able to run this correctly? How many of these systems will get infiltrated by police, with a 'security update' being pushed that surreptitiously breaks the encryption?

Banning e2e encryption would do pretty good at moving almost everyone of off e2e encryption I think.
On a slightly related note, what are you favourite science fiction works set largely on Mars or Venus?
Agreed on the fact that ownership is a huge element of a successful remote team. The hardest part of ownership is that the person has to care about the job/project/business they're working with.
Thanks. I didn't think to look in the original sciencemag.org article.
It would be immoral to to place figurative death on a living persons social status due to actual acts

But it’s moral to let people starve, die of preventable disease due to sitting on your ha day

Welcome to America’s emotional prison

Old people have convinced young people to pander to them until they’re the grave, they’re locking up the judiciary to force themselves on the future

And Americans sit here like coddled children

Isn’t that pretty much living in a sinking ship of a country?

No one here going to admit the top down political failures of the past aren’t able to handle modern reality?

There is no artificial shortage of code anymore. GitHub and GitLab are gutting that labor market. Who cares if they can’t make new code shapes? Business only cares that the machines keep sorting. Self aggrandizing nerds care about code shapes.
There's also LibreWolf, which has a flatpak/AppImage and is more up to date with the latest Firefox - https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser
>U.S. cities have acute shortages of masks, test kits, ventilators as they face coronavirus threat (March 27, 2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-mayors-m...

https://archive.vn/mLvbK
I love this idea, but there is something missing: nitrogen. You need to extract some of that from Venus as well, and bring it with you.

But if you really want to have fun with terraforming you should make Venus earth-like. I suggest an exciting starting point: build a solar shade at the Lagrange point and block the sun. That would eliminate most of the hard problems with Venus temporarily while we did whatever work is needed to get it spruced up. CO2 freezes to dry ice below -80C or so. You could let through just enough sunlight to get the atmosphere at a pressure humans can survive- then all we need is warm clothes and an oxygen tank.

Once Venus is in that state, the problem is simpler- how to get all the carbon and oxygen separated so that the carbon stays in some kind of solid form.

Oh, and we'll want to go get a load of hydrogen, likely from Jupiter, to mix with that Oxygen to form water. Your fleet of transports moving CO2 to Mars needs to make a detour on the way back.

Edit: fixed a word and also lol, just start with building a planet-sized solar shade, says some a-hole on the internet.
This is the same ADL that got this [0] emote banned from Call of Duty because “it‘s a symbol for white power”. Very unbiased source for sure.

[0]: https://images.mein-mmo.de/medien/2020/07/cod-modern-warfare...
Well... first, the "studio system" where actors were tied to a single studio by contract hasn't held sway for half a century. Talent (stars and especially directors) have been founding their own studios off and on for a century now.

Examples: United Artists was started in 1919 by W.D. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Or Mercury Theater, founded by Orson Wells and Houseman. Dreamworks, founded by Spielberg (and Katzenberg and Geffen). And there are dozens of production companies owned by actors and directors. Many of these firms eventually get acquired by major studios.

While it may be easier to find success with an indie game than an indie film, I don't see why one is easier than the other assuming the team has the appropriate skillset. The parallels between film making and game making are quite substantial, IMO. Both the business and process.
Isnt the makefile generation the only reason one uses cmake?
The US not only scooped up all our domestic capacity, but we got in trouble for stealing some from other countries too.

https://www.ibtimes.com/us-accused-modern-piracy-redirecting...
For blogging, how do you overcome the perception that you have nothing new to add to the discourse?
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I keep thinking when these types of interventions are proposed how homomorphic encryption can solve a lot of the described issues in a more secure and ethical way.
This is a cool idea, but I'm worried (like a lot of other commenters) that a "rapid fire" approach like this may not work, and could get you banned from a lot of communities. As a developer I need help with marketing, but I also don't want to spam a bunch of communities (especially ones I use, like HN).

I would definitely put more information about (1) The messaging you are using, (2) who you post as (do you post as the owner?), and (3) the directories you submit to (it looks like all 160, but further comments seem to indicate that it's a subset).

I wonder if it would be more valuable to find a good messaging formula for a few specific communities, and post things that way? I would be much more interested in a service that not only posts, but also follows comment threads and answers questions. Thats probably a more premium offering, but worth considering.
It's not difficult to imagine mandating signed bootloaders and signed software to be the norm aswell, there is no one who can make chips by themselves.
The EU doesn't have a particularly strong stance on privacy from law enforcement. Law enforcement organizations are specifically exempt from e.g. GDPR.
I only trust IBM® Watson™️ Brand clinical research.
It’s not having just one of them is bad; it’s that striving to include as many of them as possible in your language—and not having any convention or constraint discouraging using them all at once—is bad. Look at the code that implements the C++ STL, for example.
As I attempted to express in my initial comment, I find it creepy when the details which are remembered exceed the level of expectation for the relationship between the people.

Remembering my birthday? Well, I know you wrote it down (or in OP case, it's in the HR file), but we have a relationship that is formalized around paperwork. So OK, whatevs.

Remembering my oldest child's birthday? There is no way in hell you remembered that organically. So I'm led to suspect that you made an active effort to log the detail for future use. And I have to envision you, listening to me casually discuss family ephemera, taking notes of items that might have some future value.

That's creepy, IMO. But I can accept that different people view it differently.

Nevertheless, if your goal is to create a connection between yourself and another person (as indicated in OP comment) -- you will not succeed if you fail to understand your audience. This is the idea I was attempting to express to OP.

The other person may choose to overlook your offensiveness, but they will not think more highly of you after the fact, than before. For certain definitions of "other person". Do with that what you will.
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Excelize 2.3.1 is Released – Go library for spreadsheet (Excel) files
Neuroscience Reframes Architectural History
Yesterday we received a box from a relative in South Korea with 90 KF94 masks (the Korean equivalent to N95). They would have sent us more but the post office said there was a restriction on sending too many out. It took 3 days to arrive in the U.S. There is no mask shortage of these high quality masks in South Korea.
I mean, that's not a dick move tho? Going "on background" or "off the record" is not a one-way conversation. It's a negotiation with the journalist. It's not a magical invocation that binds the other party once they hear the words.
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Every single year when the wildfires torch California N95 masks become unobtainable for a couple of weeks.

That hasn't affected the National N95 stockpile until this year.

Maybe California should build their own N95 stockpile, at least if these fires keep happening more regularly.
Mike Morhaime was the president of blizzard for quite a while. He should be very familiar with the management side of things.
Not talking about an emulator. It's fundamentally taking the assets and art and making a mobile first gaming experience.

For example, take Braid - that whole time skipping mechanic. I'm pretty sure there are ways to do that mechanic on the mobile...but you can't emulate.

It could make for a good business model. You are taking out the cost of design, story, art direction, everything.. because you're licensing it.

You are basically creating a game engine company that licenses assets, story and gameplay.
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It's doubtful all this would be required just for refugees. Though I've heard of conspiracy theories about taking them in order to justify all-encompassing surveillance to your own populace
That's a nice list of links!

I have to say.. all the bamboozle netflix etc are pulling off, I kind of appreciate how it used to work when you simply wanted to watch something, and could actually find it.
What is your hypothesis for why the UK, Germany, France, Russia, China, etc. have not been able to simply dictate sufficient capacity? Even if we assume the US is going to be uniquely awful in this regard, we could just buy from those countries if they had all been able to dictate capacity. They haven't.
The government could also simply pay for the whole deal, from the design of production facilities to their eventual removal, and tack on a nice profit for the vendor. That's called "cost plus" and with the appropriate performance bonuses, other incentives, and some redundancy would probably solve.

We've demonstrated this repeatedly with military spending and NASA contracts. It doesn't always go well but if made sufficiently lucrative and performance-based (think wartime footing), with appropriate oversight, it certainly can get results.

We just don't have leadership at the moment, it seems, that has the intellectual capacity to consider these levers and pull them.
It could be theoretical. The high baseline effort and cost to run even a simple experiment would probably preclude empirical work. The theoretical area is probably saturated by now, will be difficult to carve out a niche.
My pi is connected to the router directly with an ethernet cable. The port is rated for 100Mbps as far as I can tell.
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I think it's a one-dimensional view, assuming that there is no compensation. For starters, most of us work for for-profit companies and use open source to do our jobs.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent source code released
150 mile an hour trains are commonly inter-city.

There are no examples in the world of them being used within cities.

I could imagine a high speed loop of some kind around the entire 100 mile bay, with say 10 stops.

A 50 mile segment would take 33 minutes at 150 miles an hour with no stops, but there would be 5 stops in this case. It takes multiple miles to reach 150 mph and multiple miles to slow back down from that speed, plus a typically mandated doors open time of 30 seconds. We can easily estimate an additional 2-3 minutes per stop.

So high speed train portion would alone be in the order of 40-45 minutes.

That leaves 3 legs unaccounted for - getting to and from the high speed terminal at each end, and walking to and from the local transit. Given wait times and walking it would be generous to call those 15 minutes each.

That takes us to 1hr 15. The train cannot get you there faster than the car, unless you live next to the terminal and your destination is next to the terminal.

This is in the situation where we build a completely new kind of local train that accelerated to 150 mph between stops.

Musk’s hyper loop might do it. But no hyperloop has ever been put into production yet.

This shows that the problem is density and lack of available technology, and not anything to do with bad management.
It's got some brilliant writing and voice acting as well. It's also not too long a game, I played about an hour a night and completed it in a week. It's not a giant time sink like some games try to be.

I'm definitely interested to hear about similar games - I was never able to find anything that quite compared. Amnesia looked quite dated and unpolished by comparison after playing SOMA and I couldn't quite get into it.
I wish the education system produced more people like you, rather than trying to force them to conform. Conformism hurts science specifically because to make a new discovery you must beleive something to be true which everyone else disagrees with you about. A lot of currently accepted scientific ideas were heretical when first proposed, and laughed out of the conversation.

If you want to see an example of this happening right now, look at how it's impossible to publish anything exploring a lab-origin hypothesis for Covid-19 in a peer-reviewed journal. Somehow that became heresy among virologists. Now maybe it has a natural origin, but you don't determine that by shutting down the conversation.

If you stop and think for a second, one must admit it's a rather large coincidence that this disease begins in the same city as the world's pre-eminent lab not just studying SARS coronaviruses, but actually conducting gain of function experiments with them. Now perhaps that's just a coincidence, but knowing nothing else, a-priori your assumption must be to favor the lab origin hypothesis. Now that the seafood market origin hypothesis has been found unlikely, the case grows stronger for a lab origin. But you still can't publish a paper making that case.

Some interesting analysis of the evidence for an against on github: https://project-evidence.github.io/

A recent non-peer reviewed paper on the subject: https://zenodo.org/record/4028830
rustc was originally written in Ocaml. Rust just has lots of influences :)
> What if you don't get the best people by offering huge financial incentives

You aren’t guaranteed the best people if you do; but you are excluded from getting the best people if you don’t.

If a person is the best person, then all other things being equal (they interview well, like all potential job opportunities equally), they will accept the job with the highest pay. Obviously that’s a simplification of any situation.

Focusing on financial incentives and career development is what makes most of us get better. I study my craft and improve not just because of intrinsic value, but because I can make more money. The extrinsic rewards are the only reason people join corporations, otherwise we’d all work for ourselves. You may not like it, but it is true.
One thing they could have done better is releasing a Firefox plugin that lets you do the same model but from Firefox... I like the model but I like Firefox more.

Another thing that comes to mind is if it was possible for a "creator" to reward those that donated.
Unrelated anecdote - the person that develops that site is part of a community of generator website creators.

We build all kinds of fun tools like that.
Your professor was right. Cold fusion is known to be pseudoscience.
To clarify it wasn't for my thesis but for a nuclear engineering course where we could research whatever. I know not all profs are the same, but generally I do think there is a bit of a herd mentality in academia. My point is that there have been roadblocks for LENR researchers in academia for quite some time, and I hope we can finally remove those.
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"Should I acknowledge Oracle support for my research project work, for example, in publications or on websites?
Please acknowledge the “Oracle for Research” program in any publications or on websites."

https://www.oracle.com/oracle-for-research/faq.html

Apparently pushed as a requirement for the "free" Oracle cloud resources researchers can apply for.
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Cost isn't the problem. The problem is that there's only two companies in the world with the technical expertise to make these machines, they have a high failure rate, and literally every country on the planet simultaneously demanded new production capacity. I admit, I don't know for certain, but I feel very confident that the tiny number of people with applicable expertise are extremely busy right now.
It is valid to reject home-grown solutions in the workplace, which is what I assume the missing context is behind many of these comments.

By all means build everything you want to! But keep it out of your company’s production code.
A new novel by Derek Kunsken called "House of Styx" explores in detail human habitation of Venus. In floating cities and airships and realistically dealing with pressures, temps, and the acidity of the atmosphere.
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Shift your focus. You're not writing for others (strictly) but for yourself. Express your ideas, thoughts, what you've learned. I write a lot, but don't publish, and it's for that purpose. The act of writing is an act of communication, which forces you to formulate your ideas into more coherent forms (and to try and remove ambiguity). If you've just learned a topic, or are learning it, and want to write about it, it makes you think about how to express what you've read or studied (ideally try to do it from memory versus pulling up the references you've been studying).

It's similar to the benefit of teaching, my classmates and I always learned more (in undergrad) by teaching each other in a quasi-seminar format in the computer lab during our study sessions. Someone would naturally take over after a bit as the "teacher" for the session as they found that communicating what we were studying to the rest of us clarified their ideas. Blogging can be similar.
The author seems to like Julia for numerics -- have the language and community improved since Dan Luu's damning review six years ago? https://danluu.com/julialang/

I use Python / numpy heavily, and the giant hole numpy opens in my type annotations causes me grief daily. If there's something better out there, I want to try it, but it has to work. It has to work not just in the "I'm putting together a journal article and I need it to run" sense, but in the "I'm building a system that crunches some heavy engineering numbers all the time, and customers expect consistent results" sense. Can Julia be trusted?
I disagree. Pay should be relative to the market rate for their skills - capped at your value to the company.

If a company needs to buy some widget - and this widget is worth $100 to the company - the company would be foolhardy to ignore the market and pay $100. Instead, the company should be looking at different suppliers and choosing one with the best quality, price, etc. If there is a lot of supply, it might be able to get the widget for $10. If the supply is limited, it might be forced to spend $90. In both cases though, the value to the company is $100.

If this CEO is not performing adequately in his role, then he should be fired. Full stop. But bringing his pay into the picture (which isn't all that much higher than high-level employees at FAANG) is just trying to incite anger in the mob.
Now it's quite clearly a plug - but serious amounts of compute power are required for protein analysis, and chucking cloud at it is a pretty good way of doing that.

Look at Folding@Home