skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could one use NLP/ML to score a metric on the distance between the phrase and the concept? I think it needs some historical context as well.

Like when "School of the Americas" got renamed to, "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" which are both names for sniping civilians and throwing people out of helicopters.

I could see _eating a copper banana_ as a euphemism for assassinating a south american labor leader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...
Europe Overtakes U.S. in New Cases of Covid-19
Distinguish "perfect" from "better than natural diamonds".
I wasn’t talking about private projects.

Git doesn’t do well with blobs and binaries (it’s convenient to have in VCS).

Git also isn’t so great with classic software structures either, where different teams work on different modules to build up into a whole.

There are third party tools to paper over this difference, but the right tool for the right project applies.
How to create your first serverless website in 15 minutes
Ancedote: I've usually seen foggy lights (front or rear) with the Teslas.

From what I've heard it's improved. They're neat cars, just sucks having quality issues with any high end product.
Can confirm. This app works like a charm.

I remember attempting to move over from Spotify to Apple Music in 2017. Used some other apps at that time. Didn’t work so well. So I gave up and used Spotify for a few years. And then switched afresh to Apple Music in 2019.

Today, though, I found freeyourmusic and I was super impressed by their pricing.

Figured I’d give it a shot and I am convinced this is the best $10 I have ever spent!
> SPINCO exclaimed in frustration, "We took all the measures public health offered, even added a few, and still the pandemic struck us again!'"

People need to realize that all of the measures and mitigations -- all of them -- are political. Social distancing, masks, staying at home, sanitizing, etc. will not protect anyone from getting the virus in an absolute sense. The only thing that would do that is to give everyone in the country an airtight suit and force them at gunpoint to wear it at all times. We all know that's impossible. So what follows is a negotiation between epidemiologists, the government, and the public, about what has the highest probability of moving the needle, what the government is logistically capable of doing, what the public will let them get away with. Scientific evidence may come into play on the epidemiology side of the equation, but it is not in any sense the deciding factor.
I think you meant "very low resistance" or "very high conductivity", right?
My C63 AMG and Porsche GT3 were the most reliable (and cheapest to maintain) cars I have ever owned. BMW M5 (E60) was the least reliable. Tesla Model X sucked satan's balls in coming up with new ways to break and model S feels flimsy, and a toy compared to the Lexus (both a sedan, lc500 and a suv, LX570).
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The pandemic made 107,000 oil and gas jobs disappear
I find the overall economics of subscription TV services like Netflix to be fascinating. Look at this from Netflix's perspective:

- Viewers watching shows costs money to pay for networking.

- Producings shows cost money.

- Consumers pay the same amount regardless of how much they watch.

Sort of like a gym membership, the ideal Netflix customer never actually uses Netflix. But, of course, if Netflix had no shows and someone didn't use it at all, they'll eventually cancel the subscription. If Netflix were the only game in town, then its incentive would be to produce the fewest, shittiest (i.e. cheapest) shows they can and have its customers watch just enough to not bother canceling.

But now that there are other subscription services, they have to compete against them. Customers can and do pay for multiple subscription services, but there is an innate limit to how many it makes sense to have in parallel: your watch time is finite.

I witnessed this in game dev when MMOs first got big. There was a big rush where every game company thought MMOs would be the next big thing. But almost all of them died, because it turns out even gamers who love MMOs can really only afford the time to keep up with one or two. The market was a lot more competitive and limited than they realized.

This is less true for TV shows since there is less social interaction and need to "commit" to a show than to a game. You don't have to worry about leaving your guild behind, etc. But there is still a limit to how many shows a person can watch, which means the marginal value of adding another subscription goes down very quickly.

I think that's the main thing driving Netflix's strategy. They aren't trying to earn customers so much as they are trying to starve competitors and claim territory.

To claim territory, what they want to do is soak up as much watch time as possible. If people are constantly watching Netflix shows—even if they barely enjoy doing so!—it makes their other subscriptions less utilized and thus less valuable.

Given that, I think it makes some sense for them to just throw a ton of shit at the wall and see what sticks. Their main goal is that is to have something just good enough to watch show up in a search result when a viewer is trying to decide what to spend their evening on.

Of course, none of this incentivizes telling meaningful, important, gratifying stories about the human condition. But Netflix, like every large corporation, doesn't care on whit about that. They turn human attention into shareholder value. The fact that they happen to create films ("content" as they say) to do so is mostly incidental, in the same way that cattle ranchers happen to buy a lot of corn.
Efficiency is something like output per unit of time. Bureaucracy can be a process involved in producing the output. It can harm or help, although mostly it is viewed as harming. But it can equally well make things work more orderly. In any case, it is not opposed to efficiency.
>As recently as 2018, when the California-based company was having troubles with the serial production of its Model 3, Volkswagen considered becoming a strategic investor in Tesla to teach Musk how to do mass production. But reality has long since overtaken that idea: Tesla is now worth five times as much as Volkswagen on the stock exchange.

And yet the VW ID.3 is set to overtake the Model 3 in models sold in Norway: https://twitter.com/TESLAcharts/status/1316044411055243264?s...
I think what the parent was suggesting was that if more time were spent up-front to maximize the chance that the chance that a show that makes it on is good, you wouldn't be pulling the plug on as many shows. I'm not sure that would actually work though. I assume they already try to do that in development where it's a lot cheaper to experiment than in production.

I only half-jokingly say that I lose interest in most series after, at most, 5 seasons. And it can be a lot less than that. A series can coast through maybe a season or two in significant part on a fresh concept, original characters, a different style, etc. Sure, the writing needs to be good too but it's not the only thing to engage the viewer. It gets harder after that and so does finding fresh stories.
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What? woocommerce is viewed as next step from Shopify and Medium/Substack is basically graveyard at this point
In the 50s a few megabyte hard drive was the size and weight of a refrigerator-- and came with a huge price tag, impractical price and impractical size. It'll be interesting to see what we can do in a few decades!
>Has anybody legitimately had good experiences with microservices these days?

Yes. I work for a company that started out with a few separate monoliths that were hacked together under intense time pressure by some smart folks that didn't anticipate the scale they were going to be operating under. As the team expanded and more talent was added, they were able to partition up some of the functionality into separate services.

When I joined we had a small team with a mixture of legacy systems written in Java, Perl, PHP, Scala and Python. Some of the microservices were poorly done, others were fine. The new teams were able to completely overhaul each service one at a time to where they were stable and needing almost no maintenance/babysitting.

Would microservices have been a good starting decision for this company, given its current level of engineering talent? Probably not. However, take a bootstrapped team crunched for time, with some foresight to know that there would need to be rewrites but not certain where, microservices can end up mitigating a lot of unknowable future issues.
> Crime and homelessness, while problems, aren't major factors for people in my experience. After all, those two things haven't really changed

I disagree. Its consistently brought up, along with high rent, as one of the worst parts of living in the area. In my experience, the people who stay in SF are willing tolerate it for access to all the amenities there. When the pandemic makes it difficult to enjoy those amenities, it will drive people away.
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The Nyxt Thesis
SF is tiny compared to NYC. Much more of a buffer in NYC.
This is Jose, CEO of Shasqi. There are three firsts that Shasqi announced this morning:
1. First time click chemistry is used in humans.
2. First YC company to reach first-in-human clinical trials
3. First two patients dosed for SQ3370 in Shasqi's Phase 1 clinical trial

More info can be found here:

https://www.shasqi.com/

https://blog.ycombinator.com/shasqi-first-in-human-clinical-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_chemistry
I don't find your view and threatripper's view to be contradictory. Nobody is perfectly optimized in all categories all the time, so even as the maxima decays, one can find areas to enjoy improving. Still, that does not negate the fact that the maxima is decreasing. Being aware of aging gives the activities an extra edge that being young does not give.
Thanks all for the love and suggestions! I made this site more than five years ago and am so happy it helps folks daily. This is a project that can always be expanded and what's there is never enough. Super helpful to hear from y'all on some low-hanging next steps. Happy to hear more suggestions on what next steps and/or can't-be-left-out topics. (With the eye towards beginners and folks without a ton of math background – the goal isn't to be a drop-in for Box2D or Unity or whatever but to outline the fundamentals and get folks started.)
X-rays are also widely used to probe high pressure matter within diamond anvil cells

Here is an example at an ESRF beamline https://www.esrf.eu/home/UsersAndScience/Experiments/MEx/ID1...
Not having to install anything (or upgrade anything ever) is indeed pretty amazing.
> It seems like a good first step would be to set the minimum age to compete at world championships or the olympics at 16 or 17 or maybe even 20. Then delaying puberty wouldn't be a thing because everyone will have passed it.

Delaying puberty will still be a thing because people that end up competing at the top levels start training intensely long before they are eligible to compete.

Its not like someone wakes up one day and says "I think I'd like to be an Olympic gymnast", trains for a few months, and competes at the Olympics.
Thanks, I'll put this as an option when creating a new game. As for myself, I definitely like the feel of nailing a larger crystal of empty space and get that Pavlovian sound.

What's funny is that most of the server code is already in place in dev, it's just disabled. I just need to carve some time to pick a direction and work on it. When a board is generated, there's already an algorithm that locates the center of the biggest empty space on a board, and if it exists, it assigns its address to game.clearest_tile.

// first click, surprise!
if( game.click_count === 1 && game.clearest_tile !== false ) {
// sigh, this is too inelegant
// game.board.private[payload.parameters.address].mine = false;

// sigh, and this looks like garbage when shifted
// this is what i get for picking a hexagonal board
// game.shift_mines_to_center(payload.parameters.address);

// todo: fixplz
}

Obviously I can just clear that tile on that first click and be done with it. Or, highlight the emptiest tile on game board render. But the shift_mines_to_center algorithm is something that needs tweaking.
Sure but he could have prevented others and not know about it!
Making a product change like that in 9 months would have been very difficult. It is on the edge of what could be accomplished, however with Apples very predictable release cycle I wouldn't have been surprised if the designs were being finalized as the pandemic was getting started.
I've heard people unselfconsciously testify against translation (Chinese, Spanish) of voting materials and ballots. Worse, they advocated literacy tests.

Jim Crow much?

There's plenty of popular support for disenfranchising eligible voters.
To be clear, I think the FB/Oculus devs are doing impressive work. I get value out of FB (that's why I still have an account) and Oculus is the primary driver of progress in VR today.

However, I don't believe it's a user-friendly product decision to tightly couple FB's VR hardware to its social media platform. It's yet another push towards a walled garden, much like Google's AMP and Apple's app store.
I think this is what OP is saying, you need _both_ unit and integration tests.

In unit specs you should use mocks/fakes for external behaviour.
Then you can simply verify that it's calling the dependency correctly.

Isolation specs are useful because when integration tests fail, they usually give little feedback as to what exactly went wrong in the system.

Also integration specs are expensive and slow to run since they execute everything.

Finally I think mocks/fakes are useful because if you find yourself mocking 20 objects to get a single unit test working, then it's a sign that you need to redesign the code.
"Simulations show Webb Telescope can reveal distant galaxies hidden in quasars' glare"

The JWST is still sitting on the ground here on Earth, so it can't currently do anything.
Very disingenuous title.

First, China was already trying to move toward manufacturing independence.

Second, instead of buying 5nm chips, China is settling for working on initial 14nm production. That's 8 YEARS old at this point (not even comparable to Intel's 14++++ stack).

Third, this also seemed to be on the back of equipment purchased earlier. Moving forward, they can't buy cutting-edge manufacturing devices. Instead, they have to create a whole industry to make the machines to make advanced chip fabs. I somehow doubt that the normal, rather loose Chinese tolerances are up for the job.

Fourth, they also need to build out an entire silicon refinery industry which is itself not an easy task to be accomplished within the next few years.

By the time all this is in place, the economic repercussions will have been extreme.

If Biden wins the election, he's going to continue the same process, but I somehow doubt this same outlet will continue pumping out such dumb partisan pieces.
If macros offer the same benefit at no additional cost, why not?
I don't know if death can really be considered a disease, since it's a fundamental part of evolution. If anything, lack of death could be detrimental to a species.
Evaluating Risk in an Application
The landing page is beautiful - it says you used shopify for this?

In terms of the product, I would feel uncomfortable using this in a job setting, but to support engagement in a less "traditional" work environment like an incubator slack channel would be really cool.
I remember that Johnathan Ive was also a personality during Steve Jobs' time.

But I agree, it seems like it's easier to think only about the leader while it's actually the work of thousands of humans.
Maybe. Though I do not know as a salaried, non-executive employee media recognition is the thing anywhere. At best it might be employee of the quarter type stuff on intranet portal.
You like the taste of internal combustion engines?
OMG! A three season arc, where everyone knows at the beginning that that's the extent of the series, is perfect. Netflix has the perfect platform to put up the money to have great talent and production sign on for a short run series like this, much like the Brits do.

I couldn't agree more!
Noob question here: is it difficult to implement E2E encryption one would think Zoom has all the resources required to build such a system?
This seems about right, I see large numbers of people wearing masks which should reduce the chance of getting the virus. I see low numbers of people not wearing masks. It makes sense to me that the sizable majority would experience a majority of infections.
Yeah... People act upset because they spend money on a product they cannot use. It's not for me to discuss if it's even legal, but if it is, then the only thing to discuss is if it's fair, which is a philosophical question. I, on the other hand, wouldn't buy this stuff anyway, I don't want to do anything with Facebook, I don't want to have an account. The problem is, it's a fucking monopoly, so not wanting to do stuff is Facebook doesn't align well with living normal life. Gyms, clubs and hobbyist communities don't even bother making websites anymore. All news and meetup days will be on Facebook. But if I'm not a registered user, I cannot see them. Now, is this fair? This is just as philosophical question, as with not being able to use stuff you paid for.

So, of course I wish for Facebook to die. But it's not very realistic to hope it actually will.
Best quest 2 alternatives ?

Not being able to create a burner account is a deal breaker
The Google One experiment seems to be that model. Of charging a premium for actual human support.
Having worked in materials science research, the problem is that you generally need a very bespoke specific thing crafted for you by a professional lab supplier, and that is expensive.
Sure, it's not ready for those use cases yet, but the fact that it has been achieved at room temperature is a milestone, and those use cases are things that would benefit from room temperature superconductivity.
They are designed to suck money out of their owners (maintenance costs). You are expected to periodically cash out just to keep driving the thing.

Tesla on the other hand, took a different approach. They offer new software features for additional price. Their cars are not designed to break down.
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You can only sort by popularity, which maps to 'score' in the data structure that the API sorts. You can see that here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
The highest position on front page is not, AFAICT stored in any way and is not searchable.
I'm thinking in terms of money, we are talking well into the trillions of dollars. And probably having to develop AGI.
That’s too bad. I was judging based on the overview of Zig that was recently posted here. I gladly defer to your more informed opinion on the subject, but I’ll maintain Dijkstra would have liked the design goal of executing the procedure as written absent fancy obfuscated control structures.

The cult-like attitude that many programmers have about languages certainly supports Dijkstra’s claims about the immaturity of the field.
1MWh is almost 1 ton of TNT. If you have that energy in a flywheel or in a electric circuit and something goes wrong, you need containment in both cases.

If the circuit losses superconductivity and a part overheats, it will release 1MWh in a very short time, that will cause an explosion.
Given dynamic resource catalogs and dynamic credentials, any plans to integrate dynamic policy engines, such as Open Policy Agent? https://www.openpolicyagent.org
> True. What about a minimum height? Like 5’3” or so?

That's above the median adult female height in many countries. And gymnasts (even at full adult height), of both genders, tend to skew short.
Algolia doesn't have those vast amounts of data on the users, so they can't do too much magic.
Ice lake bath + sauna is almost better than any drug.
just make the voting day into 3 voting days and legally require employers to give employees a day off to vote at full pay or face severe punishment up to jailtime.
Also a handwavy explanation aimed at people who aren't familiar with a lot of the concepts of condensed matter physics. Please salt with the knowledge that current theory can't fully explain how high temperature superconductors work. And that I'm not an expert in the field.

First concept, virtual particles vs real particles. When we talk about "an electron flowing through metal" it is not actually a single electron. As it moves, the electron will move into an atom, another gets knocked out. But in aggregate it "acts like" a single particle with possibly different properties from a real electron. For example it likely has a different mass. A virtual photon will travel slower than a real one. And so on.

Virtual particles can even correspond to things that aren't particles at all! For example sound is a wave, and quantum mechanically is carried by virtual particles known as phonons. These act exactly like any other particle, even though they are actually aggregate behavior of lots of other things!

A Cooper pair is a pair of things (eg electrons) that are interacting enough that they have a lower energy together than they would apart. Electrons are fermions, with half spin. They have a variety of properties, such as the Fermi exclusion principle. A bound pair of electrons becomes a virtual particle with an integer spin. Which makes it a boson, which behaves differently.

Superconductivity happens when charge is carried by bosons.

In high temperature superconductors, it looks like the electrons are at least partially bound by interaction with phonons. The high pressures change the speed of sound, and therefore change how easily Cooper pairs form.
Oh definitely discourage them, but don't give away how you know. In the defense world the secrets are usually classified lower (sometimes much more so) than the sources.
The court opinion explains what actually happened. My point was that the controversy was fake, not that the events were fake.
It's "money" that's not meaningfully exchangeable for goods or services. I can't buy a sandwich with it, or pay my taxes with it, or get my salary in it. Its only utility is that it can (for now) be turned into a large amount of fiat currency. Its only value proposition is that maybe that large amount will be an even larger amount in the future.
> I’d go so far as to say most entrepreneurial challenges that we hear being bemoaned are a direct result of your chosen path being incompatible with your business idea or life circumstances.

This! It seems that the loudest story being told is about the 18h work day, silicon valley VC, elevator pitch, market-fit, exit strategy.

But that is not the only story, the others seems barely told... (except in a few HN threads)
Regarding the story that you recalled some years back - There is conjecture that the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) repurposed some NSA technology. Not exactly a definitive source but Wikipedia has some details.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3448/was-hubble-re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
Not really related but I broke tons of samples during my PhD work where we applied large stresses in an electric field to brittle tiny pieces of ceramic materials. Sometimes you just need to push the limits to do science.
Not having to install anything on any OS or phone with a browser (or upgrade anything ever) is indeed pretty amazing.