skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also too many unknowns and assumptions about the goal.

From what I can tell, the best science right now is that if you simply put enough neurons in the same place, they'll start questioning the universe.

Why do these building blocks in some circumstances do anything? Why do they make life, or sentience, or even something to reproduce when the building blocks don't need to reproduce at all - nothing new is created or destroyed just the same building blocks being recycled in different configurations. Why would the building blocks go beyond the mere reproducing-life to something that thinks unnecessarily? All an accident that we can appreciate?
Well... Sending out a letter can get lost in the junk mail,. I'm sure the other establishments got this message though.
This seems to be a separable point, though. The issue here is not the act of pre-registration, but the friction it imposes. I know most of the experiments and research I have done could have been summarized at the time in 10 minutes - to the effect of "I will manipulate variable X over time ranges Y, this is supported by <source or professional explanation> and I expect Z", or even "We performed a gradient over variables X and Y expecting to modulate Z and looked for phenotypes not previously described for further characterization".

My experience in research is that there is very little pre-commitment on this level of granularity. Grant applications should be at the level of "We hope to study X because it is known to be correlated with Y and are hoping to elucidate a mechanistic relationship between these two". The experiments which go into proving such should more closely resemble mathematical proofs, is a viewpoint I currently hold.
This comment is obviously not an endorsement of these beliefs, for the down voters.
After working in all the other UNIX variants through the 90s and 00s, all road lead to Linux eventually.
not simple, just not fossilized. complex things would not have been fossilized if they were not in an area conducive to fossilization. natural selection assumes rapid iteration, so for every evolution tree, you have to imagine thousands of more variants at each step, not shown and not fossilized.
I can understand the issue you describe with doctors not being willing to deviate from their standard training. It's exhausting when they don't listen ("right, right, you've read something on the internet, yes, yes... why don't you let me take a look at it first") or they only try their common approaches that have failed before and if you don't fit that mold, well, too bad.

I hope you find a way to manage (or better yet, get rid of) your pain. It's such a waste that, unless you're famous, rich or a rare, scientifically interesting case, the point of "sorry, there's nothing else I'm willing to do for you" comes rather quickly. It seems with most chronic problems, you need to become an expert and then find and convince somebody who is certified and can write a prescription.
In Germany the operators are bound by law to monitor their systems and fines are steep.
Prevailing wage laws that are used in many areas. (added: private contractors must pay them if working in the government constructions projects)

https://secure.lni.wa.gov/wagelookup/ApprenticeWageLookup.as...
OxyContin isn’t an unmitigated evil, but the Sacklers are quite a bit closer.
Guys I won the best paper award!
In the late 90s, my brother gave me his old 486 machine. Around the same time, the Seattle Weekly published an April fools article[1] which mentioned a free operating system called Linux. I thought it was part of the joke, but on further research, I discovered it was real. Fascinated, I bought a CD with the RedHat 5.0 installer and put it on my 486. I quickly decided the 486 was too slow, and the excitement of learning more about Linux prompted me to build myself a much better machine.

Then I discovered there were many free operating systems available, such as FreeBSD. I installed it on my machine and started going to the local BSD users group meetings. I met a guy there who hosted weekly programming classes at his house. One of the people that went to his classes worked for a small web hosting company and helped me to get an interview. I landed the job, and that is how I got my foot in the door as a professional.

1. https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/microsofts-new-brain-proj...
That's pretty much the premise of the RNA world.
I assume your actual question is why we don't observe RNA based lifeforms anymore. And the most likely explanation is that this type of life form has a massive evolutionary disadvantage to currently existing life forms in terms of competing over resources and is extinct as the huge majority of all once existing species have gone extinct in the course of this planet's history.
Do note that the author is living in Europe.
While you're back there, please have them implement router based IP fragmentation as simple truncation (and some flag), rather than turning it into two packets or dropping and sending an out of band response that often gets lost.
And those of the rest of the world. Especially those of us in X eyes countries.
Depends on the drug, and the interpretation of "not striving for more":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome
The Senate is required to approve city's road maintenance expenditures? I thought the US was more decentralized than that.
I took this to be more about writing for the express purpose of being accepted (or not rejected) instead of a defense of lazy writing. When the outcome of the work can only be “accept” or “reject” it incentivizes writing from a defensive perspective rather than one that is more speculative or questioning.
> It's facile and wrong to think of Oxycontin as an unmitigated evil in society. What about all the people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer and were suffering from unimaginable pain? It doesn't matter if you will get a crippling addiction if you're going to be dead in 8 months anyway. From what I've read, Oxycontin was the first available drug that could be easily administered at home once or twice a day and gave meaningful pain relief even for the worst pain. The drug may well have made bearable the last months of millions of people.

Problem is that it was pushed on people who didn't suffer from terminal disease but milder chronic pain, only to make more money, not for the sake of their health. Yes it was effective but it turned people in hardcore addicts who then turned to nastier drugs when they couldn't get their fix. It killed a lot of people and destroyed a lot of families.
How about a system for root zone distribution akin to rpki using bittorrent where updates are signed by a trusted key? Then any resolver could easily be a root server.
You are allowed to require proof of identity before you hand out data.

That might be as simple as requiring someone to log into their account (as you can already do on HN) to sending them a confirmation email, or other.

> What if they got a request like this from someone who claimed not to have access to the email they used to sign up? HN couldn't possibly comply.

No, and nor should they.

> One could easily envision another site that had some non-public data associated with email address, pseudonym, and no other PII.

"Dear requester, please log into you account and use the "request my data" link on your account page"

There's a few things written about this around the web:

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28998/right-of-acces...

> ISTM the system you describe could lead to more data collection.

It really doesn't. What it does is attempt to gatekeep data (which these days is a huge risk) collection to organisations that are competent. You always have the option of not collecting data if you don't want to take that responsibility.
As someone who came from industry and now works with mostly academics at a scientific non-profit, I feel this.

Especially the parts about publishing - there are so many people who are so obsessed by publishing, and most honestly don't have anything useful to say at all. I swear most of these papers aren't even read, even if they are cited. There are whole layers of publication politics that force people to cite work that is almost completely unrelated, if not unrelated and saying so, just to inflate citation counts. It's basically a follow-for-follow system. Same for author lists.

Also totally agree that the papers are written for these referees, instead of the people reading them (which many times I think is not any). Many of these papers are also written in order to give presentations or talks at conferences where papers are expected, since it is publishing and not speaking that gives you a line on your CV.

Also how tenure doesn't save you, I feel this is the same as in tech, where they won't fire you but they will try to manage you out or make life so unpalatable that you will just leave.
I can't find the article describing it but the gender bias tends to be disregarded when you add one additional parameter: place of birth.

In third world countries, women reprensent 50% of the students in engineering classes ( for reasons that are easily understandable).

Actually, the bias observed applyies in countries where freedom of choice is given to everyone.
he uses the framing of debate to propose that his speech & message should be protected & taught

but ignores that his speech is harmful

but ignores that "compliance" is often state mandated

his suggested counter/remedy takes an attempt to get people to shape up, with no listed examples of penalty pain or anything but slava's feelings being hurt, his inchoate rage at having to suffer other people, into an attempt to bully & harass.
Is this an episode of Ancient Aliens?
I do not understand these arguments that always come up. Everything Kubernetes gives you out of the box you'd have to reimplement yourself for a production-grade system. From dealing with service discovery, networking, persistence and volume management to enforcing processes.

Maybe you have spend some time learning those things, but it's much less in from a total cost of ownership perspective than maintaining your own custom ansible/puppet/chef/terraform god-knows-what scripts
CRAY-1 Division Algorithm
> What if the CIA were wiretapping the president, or the supreme court? Well, that would be illegal wouldn't it? Wouldn't you want a whistleblower to feel like they could safely expose it?

Yeah you're basically describing Watergate here. And I don't think anyone objected to that being made public. Well except for Nixon :D

IMO Whistleblowing has a place in society as a safeguard against the abuse of power.
No, my take is that if your strategy for new ideas and productivity at work is random conversations then you’re doing something wrong. If you’re doing work then figure out what that work is and schedule a time for it with the right people.
thanks, that seems to be a reasonable analysis. i'd like to look into the disproportionate risk side of things too, but data on that seems less accessible/more scattered.
In 1995, I was in engineering school and we had a lab with SGI workstations like Indy, Indigo. IRIX os on them was a joy to use. Before this I had only used Windows 3.1 and Dos. SGI machines were always hogged by final year students and we poor 2nd year kids had only 486s with win 3.1. A friends brother got us a Slackware distro on 10 or so 3.5" floppies. That was how I started.

Getting just the terminal or text mode was easy but getting Xwindows which was the GUI interface was a PITA at that time. Major issues was we had some generic monitors in the lab. There was this file xf86config that had the configuration for various monitors from different vendors. Noname Indian monitors were not there. I have fond memories of summer of 95 spending muggy afternoons changing frequency settings one slowly, save, restart cycles. Still remember the kick i got when i finally made it to work.
Wow these are really interesting projects
Take a look at Jordan Singer's SwiftUI apps. All are open source, most are macOS apps.

https://ibuildmyideas.com
I see. The word "obligation" threw me off because it is generally understood to mean the actions you're legally or morally bound to.

This sounds more like market forces, competition.
> I don't quite follow. I think you just mean reactance at higher frequencies (since resistance is DC), and total impedance is then DCR + frequency-dependent reactance.

No, he's correct. Ferrites are a specifically-designed lossy inductor over a targeted frequency range. There is more than just DC resistance + a linearly-increasing reactance with frequency. Just like dielectrics exhibit loss and can be characterized by complex permittivity and a loss tangent, magnetic materials are also lossy and have a complex permeability. Here is a ferrite I used on the data lines for a GPS module:

https://www.murata.com/en-eu/products/productdetail?partno=B...

Look at the impedance chart at the end and you'll see the resistive component is basically zero at DC and starts to increase in the HF range, peaking close to 1 GHz. The reactance of it is also highly nonlinear.
I don't understand. What's the failure mode you're thinking of?
You may be right, but s/prolific/tasty/ mostly works as well.

Species can survive humans if (1) the humans can't wipe them out (badass, prolific) or (2) humans don't want to wipe them out (tasty/useful, invisible, cute).
That wasn't a lie. Tolerance is an issue with any narcotic medicine - from amphetamines to opiates. Many patients, whether they take Oxycontin or Vyvanse, will eventually complain that their tolerance will make that claim untrue. It doesn't mean the chemical isn't in their system.
Visitor needs a GitHub account to comment? OK if all of your readers are programmers I guess...
> Yet, few of us forego our comforts and vacations when that could measurably help many with basic life necessities.

Paying for those comforts helps pay for the basic life necessities of those who provide the comforts.

> If you contribute 20% of your salary to charity, you're already in the significant minority, leave alone higher ratios.

Few common workers can afford to contribute 20% to charity without living paycheck to paycheck.

This is what progressive taxation is for. The marginal utility of money for funding the basics of life diminishes as you move into the .1% of the income/wealth distribution, which is the argument for taxing those people more. The marginal utility for political power, however scales up with wealth, which is an even more compelling argument for strongly progressive taxation.
"How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/ho...
To be fair, that posting is largely tongue in cheek because they're bitter for getting banned on reddit under the false pretense of violence. I'm sure a couple people believe it unironically but no one is actually organizing to hurt anyone.
Diagnosing Covid from a Person's Voice
Something like that yea. But what could have changed so radically that it would kill every trace of those simpler life forms? Anaerobic bacteria thrive despite the oxygen rich atmosphere. One would expect at least a trace of these simpler life form if not an abundance. What environment existed 4 billion years ago that is totally gone today? Thats the more interesting question to me.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Different people have different challenges.

For companies being built from scratch today, you get to pick your technologies and providers as you see fit. In that case, I’ve always been sad when I see folks doing least-common denominator and excusing it via “multi cloud” or “no lock in”. I remind them that “you don’t need to pick GCP, but your biggest challenge will be not going out of business. Focus on that. If you end up with a lock-in problem and you’re successful, that’s a good problem to have”.

However, there are many folks who end up in either a multi-cloud or at least hybrid cloud setup.

Any existing enterprise with sufficient infrastructure is going to start their migration to cloud as a hybrid affair, because they aren’t just going to burn their equipment to the ground.

Even companies “born in the cloud” eventually get larger and often acquire other companies. If the acquired company was on Azure but you’re an AWS shop, you are suddenly multicloud. If the acquired company is a serious enough fraction of your infrastructure, or it’s locked in economically via contracts, you have the same model as on-prem plus cloud. As with hybrid, some companies push themselves to get out of this state as quickly as possible. Others accept it as “we’ll always have bits and pieces everywhere”. It really depends on the company and their business values.

Finally, heavily regulated industries often have dual-sourcing or “must be able to get off within 12 months” restrictions as an example. Those folks are kind of in the “must always be either multi loud or at least hybrid”, and really appreciate a consistent “universe”.

tl;dr: you can impugn Craig’s motivation for creating the CNCF, but there are people and businesses that derive value from consistency and a theoretical ability to switch.
Japanese people are incredible. Such an advanced race of people. I have so much respect for them.
Ask HN: What scares you the most about the future?
In my experience [0], the grant funding tends to be something more akin to "We will attempt to further characterize area X, using tools Y and Z, which we expect to be involved in important area A, but has not been proven so, yet". The granularity I'm speaking to is at the lab-notebook level, give or take. If I'm performing an assay, formally documenting the premise, evidence supporting that premise, and result under that grant heading would mean we could easily publish both negative and positive results for a given study.

One of the areas I helped write a paper for as an undergraduate was later proven to have a completely different mechanistic understanding than we proposed. I think having this more detailed set of observations would have helped both us and any people citing our paper come to this conclusion earlier. Physics is great at this [1] - seeing "dark matter" or something unexplainable is an opportunity, but many fields treat presenting something as 'unexplainable' as a weakness.

[0] I don't have experience in particle physics or anything of that nature where you're working on constructing something like the LHC

[1] Once again, outside observer bias
It's straightforward to compare the net present value of overbuilt boondoggles to modern commercial architecture which trades dramatically lower initial construction costs for modestly higher ongoing maintenance. The reason private entities overwhelmingly choose the latter is not that they prefer to waste their own money.

Moreover, longevity is often a cost. How many overbuilt old post offices and municipal buildings are we now effectively stuck with in places where they're no longer an appropriate size for the locality? The city's needs are going to be different in twenty or thirty years than they are now, so there is no point in designing ordinary structures to last longer than that when it so often makes more sense to build a new one after that period of time consistent with the needs of today rather than a generation ago.
In the US, it common for local or federal RFP's (requests for proposals) to include a hard requirement that qualified vendors have done the same kind of project before. This usually excludes any new players from the game.

How many companies build large bridges, airports, subways, railroads, tunnels, etc? Not many.

It is part of the racket that discourages innovation.
I really need an open alternative -- sonos speakers run linux under the hood (AFAIK), and I would be surprised if there is not a RPi powered project somewhere. The speaker hardware is perhaps the hard part.
Someone at Google pushes yet another invalid config of death, taking out their global network and, with this proposal, also taking down 1/3rd of all DNS root capacity.
The percentage is fixed in the context of the discussion about why a $3,300 tax is needed on top of an existing $1,500 tax. This is not a discussion about how the rate of use of tax for infrastructure can change.
Doesn't seem dissimilar from all the rotting Soviet prestige projects/infrastructure sitting around eastern Europe lol.
Neither of those prices you quoted seem particularly high for having someone turn up and do an inspection.

Given that you're operating a public area, and things like aircon and electrics can be deadly when failing or operated incorrectly it doesn't seem too onerous a requirement.

If you're a landlord in the UK (I'm not) you need a current gas safety certificate if you've got gas appliances (most houses do, eg heating) and plumbers cost a reasonable amount of money. It's just the cost of doing business.
A lot of the discussion is about federal taxes and subsidies. The federal government funds a lot of local stuff too. It maintains a lot of control over cities and states through funding. For example, if your roads and schools don't meet federal standards, that's okay, but you're not getting federal funding.

Everyone opts for federal funding.
The fact that he took a detour is only proof he is trying to hide his real masters. /s
That is an impressive amount of mental gymnastics
> Of course papers are expected to be "bulletproof." It's called a standard of excellence.

And sometimes it's just having to add verbiage in anticipation of a lazy or uninformed reviewer, who is not necessarily the audience that you actually care about. The net result is that there is a lot of work and fluff that interested readers often have to put up with that exists solely to get the paper through review and serves little other purpose.

> The rest of the post aside, this particular bit of the "rant" just feels like a defense of lazy writing. An academic paper isn't just a blog post, and it shouldn't be.

If your point here is that blog posts are "lazy writing", then I assure you I have read many blog posts that are much more thorough, well-researched, and worked-over than academic papers. I do agree with you that the two are separate things, but blog posts have a number of desirable qualities that academic papers have difficulty optimizing for–either because they are not prioritized, or because they would actively hurt the chances of acceptance.
been on a kick of watching old Bruce Sterling videos recently (they are so very good).

i happened across this one from next 2017, where he is proposing we pretend we are in 2027 looking 10 years in the past, back at 2017.

https://youtu.be/C2O_fxmrP_Q

in this view he suggests that Germany right now is the way to act and the people doing it right. some good materials here to consider, a way to look at how the world has been running, and perhaps in line with this article from foreign policy.
A wonderful thing about calesthenics: you do not need to get into a car to do them.
See the Billion Prices Project by MIT for all things inflation. Still lots of government data there though.
True. I'd be happy if it stayed acceptable for them (and anyone else, myself included) to wear one if they want to; prior to Covid, taking such precautions was pretty much impossible, regardless of how vulnerable one might be or feel. Of course this would have to include types of masks with significant protection for the wearer. But I'd like for that option to stay, and I'd like it lots if society would rethink how service workers are treated with regard to such risks (not that I believe that's going to happen for real, but still)
Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying
> more good than harm comes of it

I have yet to see any compelling argument that opioids do not provide a net good to society.

A cursory glance at the statistics re: opioid abuse suggests that it negatively affects us at about the same level as alcohol, which has absolutely zero therapeutic use.
Good point. See my reply to paulryanrogers