skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue is that the scales don't well-match. And there are actually many time-scales beneath us, not just a few (and that biology/life is working at them all - including those on the order of millions of years.

An event like a "protein folding" can take milliseconds, in a tube [1]. While atomic/biophysical/biochemical simulations have time-steps of femto-seconds.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcp2Xpd29I

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890418/

"Traditional MD [Molecular Dynamics (protein folding)] simulations are limited in length by timestep limits. Studies by our group and others have shown that traditional MD is limited to timesteps of about 2 fs due to high-frequency resonance frequencies.1–3 Many biologically relevant motions occur on the microsecond to millisecond range, which is 9 to 12 orders of magnitude greater than the timesteps possible with traditional MD. Further, each step requires a costly force calculation (O(N) to O(N2)). As such, simulating medium-size proteins often requires months of computer time on a large distributed cluster such as Folding@home4,5 to simulate milliseconds of dynamics, while simulating a large protein (e.g. the β-2 Adrenergic Receptor) on biologically-relevant time scales (milliseconds through hours) using a standard desktop computer would take years. Thus, it is not feasible to simulate timescales of biological interest without substantial advances in MD methods."

12 orders of magnitude of difference in time is akin to the difference between causal events happening once per millisecond and those happening once per century. How do you show a movie capturing the nuance of someone's blink reflex, along with their birth life and death...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeTQLNFTgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmbpAo9JR4
Hypothetically, what would the net change to the GDP year over year be if we killed all people over a threshold age when they were diagnosed with a terminal disease?

My point is not that this would be a good idea, it's that GDP growth is not a good measure for a society across the board.

Maybe GDP growth would be higher if we could simply dump toxic waste in water supplies, and the threat of lawyers/class action suits that helps prevent that behavior hurts economic growth.
If you make your front-end interface more complex than is needed to represent current data, you may save clients a migration in the future. But you force your clients to deal with the complexity right now, and you could wind up needing to change things in a different way in the future. Neither of these concerns clearly dominates all the time - it's a question of just how much effort you're saving them, just how likely various changes are, etc.

On the other hand, if you make your internal representation support more complexity than what you hand out to your users, there arises the question of how you simplify (probably lossily!) or break when you wind up with data that can't be expressed with the simpler interface. But you might well be saving yourself a costly data migration down the line. Also a decision with trade-offs that could potentially go either way.
We will figure this out, rest assured!
I use it too much and it has caused consternation with both American and Egyptian colleagues. Not sure what to reprogram my brain to use because it’s pretty ingrained at this point.
A good part of the problem could be the timelines involved. With something like Excel, you have a large number of people who can put something together in a short amount of time and perform the needed analysis.

Contrast that to a database.

The first problem you run into is the limited number of people who actually have meaningful experience with databases. Databases ceased being consumer products about 20 years ago, so most people have only interacted with very limited front ends. They certainly haven't created a database, nor performed anything more than trivial queries. (Even then, they probably aren't thinking in terms of databases and queries.)

Okay then, we are reliant on a much smaller number of skilled database administrators and developers. Do their tools facilitate rapid development? Even if they do have access to suitable tools, the process is going to be slowed by communications between the people who need the analysis done and the people who can actually perform the analysis. Needless to say that Excel, with all of its limitations is starting to look like a good option.
Are wire transfers free in Europe? I've only used them a handful of times, but each time the cost was not insignificant, like $30 or so. A quick look around online suggests that price is consistent.

This suggests to me that there's a intrinsic cost to supplying the guarantees that a person gets with a wire transfer over something like an ACH. And that's probably why ACH has the shortcomings that it does.
why didn’t he just renounce citizenship. he hasn’t been to america in a long time has he
People in Brazil go to law school not to be a lawyer, but to be able to work for the government, since many government jobs require you a Bachelor in Law.
Show HN: BlackJack/21 in C89
[F]ire was seen as a social problem, a problem of social order and disorder. [Bernhard Eduard] Fernow looked at the American fire scene and declared that it was all a problem of "bad habits and loose morals.”

You left out the part where the person whose attitude is described in that quote came from a climate where "the only fires that occur in your part of the world are ones set by people." So, the problem wasn't necessarily driven by a bad moral habit of ascribing all problems to bad moral habits. He applied an idea that made sense in one context in a different context where it didn't make sense, because "he and his colleagues were smart, committed people, but they had no sense of how fire actually functioned outside of Europe."

You don't solve systems problems by punishing or torturing them

Unless you have more information that this guy had a sadistic authoritarian streak that influenced his policies, I think this is a harsh interpretation.
Here's an illustrative case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes#Income_tax_convi...
I agree that elan is full of shit a lot of the time. But you’re not doing yourself any favors , to compare 11k cars sold in Germany versus the rest of the German / international auto makers.

The fact that they are growing during economic headwinds shows that people are still interested in their product.
Same, my thoughts are its one of those things that it was revolutionary at the time but the ideas have become so distributed now so it seems obvious. Originally published in 1988, windows 3.0 was released in 1990, it was published when MS-DOS was king.
To be fair, that has problems like counting "do this thing; do that thing" twice as much as "do these four things" rather than vice-versa. Still useful though.
>> To my understanding, these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right? They aren't storing or sending everything they hear throughout the day.

This is the intended behavior.

But - there is a non-zero rate of false positives (when the device detects something that it thinks is the wake word, but is not), in which case, the audio is streamed to the cloud. This audio could (should?) be used for model training to improve the future precision of wake word detection. But, it could also potentially end up being subpoenaed by a law enforcement agency.
Circuit Patterns, Part 1: Understanding Circuits Through Patterns
Fibers under the magnifying glass (2018) [pdf]
I interviewed with them this summer and they did then and continue to come off really snarky. Glad I took something else
We have a pair of machines for resiliency, but on test and staging environments we run many times the services and experiments on one box with many other services without a problem, it maybe need a bit more memory for the .net virtual machine vs the erlang one, but totally doable with a basic machine.
Practical guide to SAML security vulnerabilities
They either didn’t know how to, or didn’t have time to, train for the tone they wanted. So they passed on everyone who didn’t write the way they were looking for out of the gate. It is common at new companies, consciously or not. Just explaining, not defending or accusing.
> As opposed to Dikembe Mutumbo, who has actually killed a lion. (It was asleep when he did, but still...)

Manute Bol did the same!
Yes, there are multiple different wake words and they can be updated / reprogrammed via firmware updates.
Got it! I'm currently at the stage of my life where I want to venture out on my own. Few questions that I have are -

a) How relevant was your experience (as engineers) in building and growing startups?

b) Looking back, what skills would you have liked to acquire before starting up?

c) How much of startups is marketing and networking compared to product and growth?

Thanks,
Economic growth correlates negatively with ecological health.

So ... lawyers are good for the planet?
So, misconceptions and generalizations then?

I don't understand how you can make sweeping generalizations about every desktop environment that runs on Linux. Every DE is an afterthought? Just the fact you call them "Linux GUIs" makes me question how much you have even used any DE with Linux.

I spend no time writing system config files. Drivers are part of the kernel, so I also spend zero time on that. Brand-new laptop hardware sometimes takes a while to get support, but it is really easy to check before you buy.

It is perfectly OK to prefer a padded, walled garden. Just like it is OK to prefer a modular OSS Linux environment where everything is knowable. Nobody needs to be "right", and nobody needs to bash the other with unsubstantiated claims.
> Otherwise they disappear into meetings with people who have nothing to do with your product or team, presumably for very important reasons.

Why do managers spend 70% of their time on mysterious external meetings? What are they actually doing?
This. Whilst the hypothesis is plausible, there are plenty of other reasons for diminishing returns to growth in more developed states which are difficult to distinguish.

Skimming through the short paper its basic regression attempts to control for differences in development by including variables for other development indicators, but it's a very small sample skewed by Korea, Japan and especially autocratic-era Taiwan reporting low levels of [formally qualified] lawyers. The authors even comment they 'would be surprised if someone could not come up with a specification to support the opposite conclusion'!
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Don't try to normalize this behavior or generate sympathy for these idiots. People like you make my blood boil. I have had multiple family members almost killed (one suffered horrific brain damage) because of drunk/drowsy drivers. Seriously, screw you, bigly.

>this isnt about me or my opinion. there are literal millions of people that simply cannot do what you propose

What so we're in some kind of hunger games now? "I have to kill your family so that I can feed mine"?.

Some options: Stay home, stay hungry, get fired, take a lower paying job, go on welfare, go live in the jungle if you have to, Just.. don't kill my family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialized_view
Starlink is going to be brutal for these combined entertainment slash Internet mega corps.
> Further for every $1 you spend on an attorney, someone else has to spend $$ and the society has wasted that $$$ plus that time, none of which is productive.

I’m not sure that money spent on lawyers is, by any measure, money that society has wasted.

Every dollar that society spends is a dollar that society earns. Economic activity isn’t a pie that is split up and expended. If I give you a dollar to do something and then you give it back to me to do something else, we’ve generated $2 in GDP with a single dollar bill.

Besides, lawyers are providing an important service of ensuring that the rest of the economy can chug along with confidence. Also, how many lives are saved because of conflicts resolved by law instead of lawlessness?

The ability to transact confidently is a very valuable service.
This is a great clarification. I'd even argue that systems and organizations can have an independent intent, though we don't often use the word in that context.
I think there are a thousand nails and you hit one of the most outstanding ones in the head. GDP is as much a metric of wealth as it is of the speed with which we consume natural resources.

If we account for externalities witha reasonable "weight" most economic activity must be operating close to or at an absolute loss
Are you against extradition? You want people to be able to commit crimes and as long as they get out of the country they’re untouchable?
Sad that you use your strict etiquette as a leading question in job interviews. How do you know that code is bug free when you commit to master? What qualifies as fully tested? If you are convinced that there are absolute and known answers to these questions I would suggest analyzing your logic again.
That's a great set of links. The hotmail comparison is apt - Microsoft basically trashed / dropped hotmail? So these acquisitions can go either way?

The risk with what's up is definitely higher. That said, Facebook has an INCREDIBLE acquisition success rate with insta and whatsup.
Precisely true. For a state so prescient about the effects of climate change, it's downright hypocritical to foresee droughts and fires but then allow that zoning (it's the same to worse in Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt). All the towns built flush to or into ther forest, little access, and no buffer. They're big on the dramatic things like establishing a carbon exchange or banning gas cars 15 years from now, but obvious and pragmatic preparedness escapes them. Time to balance "heads in the clouds" with "feet on the ground".
Serious question: how do people get fire insurance for those houses? Or do they not, and all of those houses are bought and sold for cash and never insured?
It’s not just the generic intro, but also the copy paste template email that follows. If you don’t have time to spend even 30 seconds researching the company before applying, we just aren’t the right fit for you. The first hires at an early stage startup are so important.
>" Best ISP in the world sonic.net is still reselling Fiber To The Node (FTTN) AT&T 50Mbps DSL in my area."

How does this work? Is it FTTN from one ISP and then copper from the node to the home via another ISP? Is it one bill?
> As they note, it seems like an easy thing to fix if Congress had the will

Ah, there's the problem. If it's not appointing Judges, good luck getting Congress to do it.
Print on demand is a challenge by itself. Depending on where your offer the service, you can source local small printing facilities that focus on PoD. I have done that in UK where I am based. However for global reach you would need to partner with companies like blurb or lulu. We are exploring a combination of both but it is early to pick a clear winner.
Logistics are hard, especially today, what can I say.
Flashing QMK Firmware with the Help of Docker
How to use Docker to flash your DIY keyboard.
The country in the study with the fewest lawyers was Taiwan, which was under martial law for the entire period...
I went to my doctor while in good health at 35. He told me to lose 5 pounds and not come back unless I had problems ️
> just a hack to save some memory

.. and time. If we needed to compute an account balance by summing all the debits and credits since the account was opened...
renouncing US citizenship is a taxable event itself if you have a net worth greater than $2mm. IIRC, you have to pay what the capital gains would be on all your assets if you sold them that day. you also have to settle any other unpaid obligations. if john mcafee already doesn't feel obligated to pay taxes, I don't see why he would go through a formality that just triggers another tax obligation.
The topics that other companies aren’t willing to write about make for the best and most helpful articles. We were careful to anonymize the individual.
And bar associations are famously slow to discipline lawyers that misbehave. In some states you basically need to be convicted of a felony before the bar will step in and do something.
Tell HN: Netflix Is Down
To be fair, the majority (vast majority?) of people who get paid to work on the kernel do in fact have to endure HR bullshit, salary negotiations, etc.; they're just doing it with Intel HR or Qualcomm HR rather than Linux Foundation HR.
https://youtu.be/_M-oHxknfnI

This is more like how their infrastructure currently looks like I guess as it’s somewhat newer and follows up as an update to your video.

They still use MySQL though.
There should always be somewhere to go, just in case you're being prosecuted unjustly. Snowden is a great example. Assange is another.
Haha, I wondered if anyone would catch the reference. Sadly, they're disappearing along with "plop plop fizz fizz", "where's the beef", "hey mikey", "hello betty" or "gee your hair smells terrific".
Or it could be as simple as rules limiting change, and growth simply being positive change.
Starlink satellites for microgrids ML. Classify power grids ammendable to MICROGRIDS ML. Use Geni.org power grid maps or California ISO maps. What is the right size for redundant wind/solar based microgrids?
Browserstack is my go-to for this. I've been very happy with it.
> what a stunningly pretentious and ignorant thing to say.

You might want to brush up on the HN guidelines. Talking like that to people is never OK here, nowhere near it.
This geneticist thing is a complete misunderstanding. Excel is tuned to autoconvert things that look like dates to dates. Best would be to be able to disable this, but Microsoft research shows that more users need it.

Meanwhile scientists use Excel for lots of stuff.. since it works. It has a not nice "feature" of those conversions.

So option 1) throw away the tool you use every day 2) change the gene name

Option 2 makes sense, although everyone would be more happy if Microsoft gave an option to toggle that auto-conversion off [there is option to properly load CSV files but people dont use it, since it takes more time...]
Maybe because he is running for president? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee_2020_presidential_...
Okay. Well, X is specified in the phrase "... The main language of a nation... should be deterred..."

Spanish is the main language in Spain, the only spoken by everybody, therefore can be inferred easily that X = Spanish

Having this in mind, 'Y' can be inferred easily also.

"the idea that Spanish should be deterred from [being used in] part of a territory is surrealist"

Territory means 'Spain' in this context.

Hope this helps
SEC hit him with civil charges too, btw those are dispelled by simply having a disclaimer, or another paragraph in a disclaimer so it hard to the position of the SEC and the character assassination in these charges seriously.

You can have the same tweets that also says *sponsored with 50,000 tokens and cash and speculators wont care and you are magically legal.
I agree that moralizing doesn't help, and that we should fully take into account "realities". But that also means you can't just assume autopilot will help you - it could very well be that having autopilot will end up making people to fall asleep at the wheel more often, and therefore increase the chance of accidents or severity of the accidents. We know for a fact that it does involve some trade off (see those people misusing autopilot and getting into accidents), and we simply don't know autopilot provides better safety overall.

There has been enough indirect evidence to suggest advanced driver assist without a significant driver monitoring is dangerous (Google's report of their employees doing other things, the fatal accident of Uber's self-driving vehicle, various fatal and non-fatal accidents of Tesla autopilot due to misuse), but there's been no systematic study and we don't have enough public data to suggest it's one way or another.
> It's just that you get a lot of "coding is a thing I have to do in order to get to some target", and so people think that once they've finally bashed out their spreadsheet, they've figured it all out.

I have a friend who wrote a 641-line long bash script to automate a web site. It doesn't use subroutines anywhere, the body for the program is a 550 line long loop with multiple if statements and loops inside it.

He thinks the program is maintainable and easy to understand because he didn't have particular difficulty writing it.
Wait, are you saying that compilers can cache the pointer to TLS across function calls, even when inlining is disabled? Does this mean that the OP article is wrong when it says to use a separate getter/setter function for each TLS variable (even if we manually disable inlining for those accessor functions)?

Also, regarding shared libraries, how can compiler cache the TLS address, since the compiler versions that compiled the shared library may be different that the version which is compiling the executable that links to it, and thus may have different caching behaviours?
I can see that - I use neither and don't have the facebook app on my phone so for me it's irrelevant but I know internationally whatsup just crushes the local telcos.
They all do this though don't they? There's a tacit understanding that they don't encroach on the each other's monopolies.
The American dream is not a myth
> Orleans builds on the developer productivity of .NET

As someone who has developed with .NET (using VB, C#, F#) for almost 15 years, I am not sure if I would still advertise .NET as something focused on developer productivity, when in the context of introducing bleeding edge tech. It is a great framework, but I've found much more productivity with Elixir after just 1 year of using it. C# still suffers from statefulness, null references, and boilerplate code, even after newer versions of the language provide some tools to reduce those.

F# is a good alternative to C# if you want to stay in the .NET ecosystem and reap the benefits of functional programming, but I found the compiler to be very slow, 3rd libraries poorly documented, the language excessively complex, and 3rd party IDE support to be limited (as of version 2.0 anyway).

Is developer productivity still a focus of .NET?
Useful Tools for Developing Angular Apps
Having the correct tools available to be able to successfully debug your application is one of the most important requirements. This article will explore a collection of tools which can be used to debug Angular applications.
It's honestly very reassuring knowing that hitting $1M ARR in 3.5 years is considered a massive accomplishment.

This is speaking as someone who's trying to move an older software shop from a one-time on-premise cost to SaaS. Fortunately the current business's revenues are directly being reinvested towards new products that are on the recurring SaaS model.
Rules limit change.
Yeah. I see most people continue paying the ransom and then say to themselves they’ll deal with the gov later. When people get into this kind of trouble it’s always 2 concerns right out the gate: 1. What have I lost forever? 2. How quickly can we recover and get back to work?

Anything else is treated as an afterthought.
They only mention Indistinguishable from Magic by Robert L Forward once. But it belongs in a bunch of these categories.

Basically what it does is pick a variety of topics of interest to science fiction, has a science fact essay about it, then a short story with theoretically possible technology based on that topic.

Highly recommended.