skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4 million times harder

I don't think you really understand the problem domain. There are 3 main independent parameters you can tweak to improve maximum transmission range: transmit power (100,000x more power has been done commercially), antenna size (we now have a dish antenna over 250x larger), and you can increase the transmission frequency to substantially improve collimation by many orders of magnitude (e.g. use a laser instead of sub-GHz).

> your friends on Earth pointing their antennas towards you are blinded by the star that practically touches your spaceship

A star puts out a lot of power, but it's spread pretty evenly across a blackbody spectrum. You can certainly overpower it within a very narrow frequency range. Your bandwidth/power ratio might be quite abysmal compared to wifi, but it's workable.

> How is SETI supposed to discover aliens who are not purposely beaming waves straight at us

I think the idea is that perhaps they would be beaming waves straight at various stars. This is something I can easily imagine humans doing in the near future.
>This. Since becoming a father I realised how annoying our analogue microwave knob is when you just need to blast something for 20 second while dealing with a screaming child. Either it's too short and you get 2 second, or it's too long and you get 60, now you need to do your best to cool the thing down quickly

Not sure about your microwave, but mine (ca. 1996 Panasonic) has an analog knob (actually, that's the only control) for time.

If I need less than a minute, I turn the knob past 1 minute, then turn it back where I want it. That pretty much always works for me.

Perhaps it might for you too.
> I was diagnosed when I was younger, made the mistake of letting my prescription lapse (because I give myself breaks and therefore end up accumulating excess), and now can’t get the medication I need to function.

Wtf? I have done the same thing, gone off-and-on my RX I think 3 times now.

Whenever I wanted to get back on, I just found a random psychiatrist or clinic and said "Can you please renew my ADHD Rx? It's starting to really negatively impact my work performance." and then they'd say okay, sure.

This was in Colorado though, Boulder/Denver area. Half the university students and tech workers had prescriptions so it might be a biased area. Not sure what it might be like other places in the US.

Sorry you're going through that nonsense, if you want to shell out the money you can google "ADHD specialist" and pick a psychiatrist from the list that pops up. Will cost you ~$300-500 (IME) out of pocket for consultation and re-diagnosis.
Yes, uniform laws are an assumption; they aren't a better explanation based on testing, they are an assumption without which testing is meaningless. They are the key working assumption underlying the scientific method.

> The idea, for example, that physical constants change over time is very much a hypothesis that is given serious consideration

That's not an alternative to uniform laws, that's the idea that a particular term in the uniform law is variable rather than constant.
I know of lots of people who would disagree with you; possibly more than half of humans alive, and certainly more than half of humans who have lived.
"Apple threads, this is the point: government is somehow going to do a better job than Apple or Google."

No, it's absolutely not.

It's about user and vendor choice.

Nobody is suggesting that the 'US Government' make an alternative app store.

But a lot of people are suggesting that people should be able to buy directly from Epic, Adobe - or whoever.
I don’t think I’d want to receive one of your magnanimous bug reports. Hope you have a good night.
That’s not really a helpful statement. There are so many coprocessors that we need them to actively release the details for those.. not just say they won’t oppose it.

The former requires their support. The later just says they won’t oppose reverse engineering. The later is far more difficult and will likely mean any OS will be buggy and flaky. Unless Apple comes out and says they will actively support 3rd parties, it’s just going to be a shit show with no good alternative OS options.
He’s also been critical of other drug trials, so it seems like this is something he does... seems like a reasonably trustworthy source.
LCD Monitor with VGA + Displayport + HDMI
I pomodoro, like others have mentioned, but I find it works really well with extensive logging. I log that I completed a pomodoro and what I learned or discovered, sometimes cross-referencing other notes. I also sometimes log what I intend to get done during a pomodoro’s worth of work. The end product is the closest thing I’ll have to a lab notebook. The end product is really useful over different time scales: standups, one-on-ones, those annual self-evaluations where you have to try to remember everything you did last year...
I can’t speak to their effectiveness in air, but they work very well for e.g. bacteria in rapidly flowing water. Aquariums have been using them for as long as I can remember.
Asking gave me several links verified to be what the person I was responding to was thinking of, rather than something possibly wrong I may find via search.
>> "God did it" accounts perfectly for every possible measurement

> Yes, but it is a very poor explanation.

Depends on who you ask:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism

Which is why natural philosophy / science flourished in some world views more than others:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_causation
> If your child node has unique name among its siblings and does not contain nested nodes, then it's an attribute. Otherwise it's an element. Seems pretty obvious to me.

That is really not what attributes are for. I feel a bit of a fraud posting that because I'm not an XML expert and so not really clear what they actually are for. (This reenforces the parent's point: you need to be an expert to know what such a fundamental feature is for.) I remember it's something like "something used to help interpret the actual value" e.g. units of measurement. But most of the time, even if it's non-repeating with no children, you're supposed to use elements rather than attributes.

One problem here is that attributes are so much more compact (and so often easier to read) than elements that it's tempting to use them in places where you ought to use an element (and many people over time have given in to that temptation). Another problem is that the distinction between attributes and elements is almost never useful. That was the parent comment's point by the looks of things.

> The fundamental issue with XML is its impedance mismatch with common data structures

That's probably part of it, but I think at least as problematic is that it has many features that most of the time you don't need and don't want to have to care about. Things like CDATA (also mentioned by the parent comment), custom entities, external entities, DTDs (which can be inline in XML files so you need to know all about DTDs to understand XML properly). That's why there are all sorts of weird XML vulnerabilities that JSON doesn't have. Did you know you can make an XML file that reads your /etc/passwd file when it's parsed? That is not an issue with JSON.
For me, the key is set and setting.

I go somewhere without other people, silence notifications, and start working while listening to light music or a familiar audiobook/podcast/etc.

There's nothing magic about listening to things, but over the years I've avoided doing things other than creative or deep work while sitting alone in a room half-listening to something, and now when I do that my mind sort of takes the hint.

Back in college, I saw a lot of people do this sort of thing to study. You'd see the same people at the same library tables week after week, friends didn't let friends study in bed because beds were mostly for sleeping, and there were always a few people who staggered unsteadily into exams to try the whole "state-dependent memory" thing. It wasn't particularly evidence-based, but after a few years of wildly oscillating between thinking about different topics, you notice that your brain likes to associate modes of thought with sensory input. I doubt my experience is unique there.
Hyperventilation
I think you are missing the OP's assumption that by raising the subject's entire body to +X Volts, any virus particles they breath out will start out with this same positive charge. I'm not sure this assumption is true, but it seems plausible.
Is this true? I thought most of the reasons why AMD can push higher core counts is largely caused by very recent manufacturing innovations with chiplet/infinity fabric.

Namely that it enabled the manufacturing process to glue together slightly broken CCXes to enable high core count lower binned parts.
Um, you would think the author would insert at least one audio link into such a specialized story for people to be able to hear the music?

Thanks to the others here who have posted links.

It brings back to mind a lot of Eastern European / klezmer tones and sentiments... and sighing because of your fate in life.
Understanding the Galapagos Syndrome Through Japan’s Unique Quirks
The ancient Neanderthal hand in severe Covid-19
Apologies, it looks like pre es6, they were unordered objects. But now there are rules that guarantee insertion order.
Python Enhancement Proposal 638: Syntactic Macros
This shows you didn't read the full article, especially the part at the bottom—the author's bio:

"I am a scientist, businessman, author, and philanthropist. For nearly two decades, I was a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health where I founded two academic research departments, the Division of Biochemical Pharmacology and the Division of Human Retrovirology. I am perhaps most well known for my work on cancer, HIV/AIDS, and genomics. My work now also includes efforts to improve access to high quality, affordable healthcare for people in low, middle, and high income countries alike. I am chair and president of ACCESS Health International, a nonprofit organization I founded that fosters innovative solutions to the greatest health challenges of our day. Each of my articles at Forbes.com will focus on a specific healthcare challenge and offer best practices and innovative solutions to overcome those challenges for the benefit of all."
Brainstorm: Could it help to run 'coverage' through the web of dependencies and shake out all the code that is not explicitly exercised by an app test? Is that technically feasible? Is that cost effective?
As of protobuf 3 they also have a canonical JSON representation, which you can access from all the supported languages.
Having a "tit for tat" ethical strategy lets you be ethical without being a pushover.
Hopefully it runs rm as sudo
“ This could be true only when the price of oil holds stable between a narrow range such that pipeline shipments profitable, but not rail shipments.”

Are you saying this because you know it to be true, or are you speculating?
Climate change in mind, Wall Street to start trading a new commodity: Water
> You can just compile any constant as a stand-alone serialized message that you mmap into your code in a safe way.

Are you suggesting using a binary format for your config files? I think most people would find that more trouble than a decent text format.

> ... than you get with things like text protobuf

You can just use protobuf's canonical JSON representation (thought the lack of ability to use comments is annoying).
The pop ups make this article unreadable.
Like a family reunion.
One of those would need to survive. Kotlin could, conceivably.
If you have a hierarchy of types

struct A {vector<B> Children; int NChildren = 2, ...};
struct B {vector<C> Children; int NChildren = 2; ...};
struct C {vector<D> Children; int NChildren = 2; ...};
struct D {...)

and a function template

template<typename T> T miniParser() { return T{}; }

and you call it like

struct A;
recurseFillChildren<A, B, C, D>(A);

It expands into nested loops that fill the "Children" areas of each type with two default-constructed values of the next type down the hierarchy, until you get to D, at which point it does nothing.

The reason you can't implement this in Rust is that Rust Generics (their "template-y" language feature) is missing a few capabilities relative to C++ templates. Namely,

1. They don't operate on numbers

2. They have no notion of collections of types

Because of this, they

1. Can't know that there is a collection of types

2. Can't extract the size of the collection of types

This comes up in numerical code, where in C++ it is easy to write e.g. geometry code that is generic in the number of spatial dimensions, but in Rust it is a pain in the ass.
Perhaps a good microcosm is the Las Vegas Strip. Street crime is extremely low on the Strip and nearby — muggings, car breakins, etc. That’s because the guys who run the most lucrative rackets in town, the casinos, simply don’t permit street thugs to ply their trade on the Strip — if you try to embark on a career as a petty criminal on the Strip, you’ll quickly find yourself in a dark basement with a guy whose neck is thicker than your thigh.

The country operates on the same principle — the “criminals” who get punished are the guys who sow chaos and disrupt the real racket in town, which is Corporatism.
Concentration camp in China = your race and religion mean you get a free invite you just can't say no to!

Concentration camp in America = break the law by entering the country illegally and need to be processed before you're deported.

Those things do not sound at all similar.
Not me. I appreciate bug reports and the time the submitter took to post them. Even if they aren't clear enough for me to find the problem, someone else may run over the bug, too, and having multiple inadequate submissions often provides enough clues that we can fix the problem.

No need to stroke our egos, just the facts is just fine.
Note that the majority of hydrogen trains currently under development are all multiple units, and don't have dedicated locomotives. In the UK at least, track access charges push things towards distributed traction in part because of the axle loadings of any dedicated locomotive (or battery car). You see this to varying degrees across countries where speed is relevant.

To take as an example: each British Class 802 motor car has a 1550 litre fuel tank. If we (slightly optimistically) assume the diesel engine is 50% efficient, and diesel fuel to have 10.8kWh/L energy density, then that's 8370kWh of energy produced. The Tesla 3 battery pack manages 160Wh/kg, so to carry 8370kWh the battery pack would be 52 tonnes. That's more than each car currently weighs in total. And a nine-car train has five such fuel tanks and engines.
> Unless you have actual type annotations/tags (eg xml, jsonld, graphql),

YAML has actual type annotations (tags).
I'd say somewhere in the 2005 ballpark.

Performance per watt matters for mobile, obviously, but also for "hyperscalers". If you plug a chip in and run it at full tilt for five years, the cost of the electricity eclipses the cost of the chip quite handily.
There is such a thing as JSON Schemas if you really want to nail down types.

I don't see this thing getting any traction. JSON is pretty much the standard at this point and I don't see anything changing that anytime soon.
According to Fox News Trump saved thousands of lives
Amosmia can be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease, and people who lose their sense of smell can suffer from depression and weight loss. It can also happen after head trauma.

In thinking about it, noticeable changes in any sense probably warrants a trip to the doctor.

My email is in my profile if you want to talk more.
I'm ADHD so Deep Work is one of the only two modes I have. I'm always in it when I'm doing what I want. When I'm not in it I'm usually being required by someone else to perform a task, in which case the mode I'm in is generally disinterested, uncooperative, aloof and constantly thinking about when can I get back to doing what I want to do?

My brain is only ever comfortable in Deep Work mode.
It's worse than this, not NPM specifically, rather github's atrocious permission system. Tons of github integrations ask for way to big of permissions basically allowing any of those companies, or disgruntled employees, bribed employees, breach data holders, to hack your repos.

https://games.greggman.com/game/github-permission-problem/

This isn't just npm, it's any dev who runs a library hosted from github who signed up to allow random 3rd parties write access to their repos. Could be C++ library, C#, a VSC plugin, a Unity asset. Tons of devs sharing code and giving out write access to that code.
open timelite.app and watch the minutes you're wasting pass
Funny how the authors think the Chinese started out farming rice. The Chinese grew wheat for thousands of years before they caught onto rice.
There was a time you could, with as much justification, say that about XML. Not that long ago, actually.
I think he was suggesting that he’d prefer the vaccine prevent mortality from COVID rather than some mild flu symptom.

And that the protocols should be aligned with that goal too.
I would like to know what others think of btrfs.
We love hearing about that in the D forums. But in bug database submissions, just the facts, Ma'am.

P.S. I have several letters from Empire users who reported that the game caused them to flunk out of college and/or get divorced. I'm not sure if they were complimenting or complaining :-/
I think it's an insightful observation. All humans are subject to being corrupted in by power. It's explained by our biology. Until our biology is no longer a meaningful problem, we need systems that hold those in power accountable. No one should be above the law. We need true equality.
I'm the same, although I add a third: lots of caffeine + adderall is interesting to say the least.
That's similar, but mine doesn't quite do 4k.

It can record to usb but I haven't tried it.

It's not Android* - just some lesser, and less intrusive feature.

* at least there is no evidence of Android.
I think your view of Rust is quite off. How is Rust view "state is evil"? At its core, Rust is very imperative and procedural.

Global reasoning about state is hard, hence the assistance from borrow checker. Locally mutating local state in small function? Put a reference to vars, if you want them to be mutated, just make them mut. It's also as fast.

In a way, Rust does better job of localize/encapsulate mutation than functional/monad world.
By way of comparison, the Royal Border Bridge, with relatively lightweight and specifically designed gantries: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/60163_To...
No one is using neural nets or machine learning I can see here.

AI is just computer power, hard disk space, big databases, fast networks, cheap cameras etc sums up the 'AI' community though.

Letting cheap hardware make it look like they can do something. I will agree to that.
It's named after how we annoyed our parents and teachers as kids. Such a terrible name for it.
But he doesn't have someone a) charging him for training and b) dictating when he's available for business in a manner that suits their bottom line and not his, does he?

If these employees were truly independent contractors, that's fine, I have no qualms with that. What shits me to tears is when businesses claim an employee is an independent contractor when they're very much not able to be independent because of the demands of the company employing them.
X depends upon the distance between people. (and upon the propensity for the exhaled particles to be neutralized)
Not sure how a new language can help with an ecosystem problem. In the old days, people write your own code and relied on a vendor provided standard lib, for example C++ stdlib, Java platform or Python's batteries included. Since software is expensive, to save time and money people started to rely on 3rd party libraries, conveniently delivered by package repositories, for example CPAN, PyPI or npm. A new language will be subject to the exact same cost and delivery deadline pressures. If anything, newer languages tend to have ecosystems even more dependent of 3rd party modules. The PL problem is largely solved, the ecosystem problem is not.
"Heads up! Reelgood does not support your region yet."

I'd love a service like this that works internationally (or better yet, a world where I don't need this sort of thing).
Modafanil. It’s incredibly effective.
When we start getting into hypotheticals, it's useful to reframe the discussion in more concrete terms. What would it mean to have a "small industrial society"? I can think of a number of "things" that would fit that term:

1) Ancient Aliens: Essentially similar to what a human martian colony would look like. In this case, resources, population, and knowledge are brought from off-world and there's little to no local exploitation. The only way to detect something like this is direct material evidence, which also means it's practically unverifiable. Not really a useful hypothesis.

2) the dystopia: an anomalously advanced human society surrounded by hunter-gatherers in the wastelands outside. As a twist, the population is small and in-line with contemporaneous HG populations. One problem with this scenario is that it just doesn't look like any human society ever discovered. There's libraries worth of work on how technological development happens and the two big accelerators we see across most of history are high (effective) populations and communication "density". The lower either of these are, the more likely that the information network breaks down over time. At the population levels we're talking, simply having enough people to do all the various jobs that need doing in a high-tech society is a problem, let alone redundancy and exploration of new ones.

3) Non-human societies: Something incredibly old, non-human, and lost in the mists of time. This is where you get into the silurian hypothesis and given enough technology/magic/moved goalposts, it gets difficult to say anything concrete. There would probably still be evidence in some form or fashion, but ultimately you have to define some model of what the society looks like it to actually say anything about it.
> The reason GHC didn't just turn on all flags by default is that many of them are mutually incompatible, so your individual .hs file has to pick a compatible set of language features it wants to work with.

This is profoundly untrue. Its not an opinion, its simply wrong.

Other things said about Haskell, such as "memory leaks are difficult to debug" is the type of thing you hear people repeating a lot but I experienced very little of. Pretty much every language has flaws that are a bigger issue and cost more wasted time than that.
> These tend to be a problem when bugs crop up, because bug reports are like a personal insult to them.

I got over that a few decades ago.

> bug reports are GOOD and EXCELLENT because they give very clear hints were the project can be improved.

Absolutely. And fixed bug reports go into the test suite so they never darken anyone's door again.
The article says the TB experiment ran for four years. It isn't clear that you need four years to prove airborne transmission, but it is likely that you need a lot of time.
For a person that's not a dictator, Xi sure does have a lot of dictatorial tendencies.

> check and balance in China

Do tell.

Last I checked, China was a one-party state and doesn't have the same judiciary-executive freedom that typically defines 'checks and balances'
PS, mine was a display unit, during a shop shutdown sale.

So it cost me around $400 instead of $800 or so. And $800 is way less than similar but 'smart' TVs.
Well, unfortunately everything is so political these days. Principles or potential legal precedents are barely being discussed at all.