skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fear there is another potential pitfall to this. When you've heard "the Linux Kernel is 15M LOC" you might conclude "reading other code is unnatainable", as quite some commenters do in this thread. It is not: there's very neat OSS out there that you can pick apart in a spare hour and go "AHA!".

It might even span across to other niches. "Baking your own bread" is not that hard, if you get to it. But, becausethe entire process (fertilising ground, selecting seeds, growing grain, milling it) is too much for one person, lot's of people just give up alltogether and conclude that "today it is impossible to make your own food". Especially once you learn that bread mostly comes from large, complex industrial complexes today. Yet "just doing it" is very rewarding, as all the home-bakers will tell you.

And it spans across time as well: Sure, no-one can make a toaster from 0: mine own ore, distill your own plastics etc (there's a brilliant documentary from someone attempting just this, forgot its name). So people conclude that when the toaster stops working, there's nothing one can do, and they turn to Ali-express or Amazon and just buy a new one.

In short: I think labor alienation is toxic, in that it seeds itself into areas that don't need hyper specialisation.
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Container proxy plus a putty socks tunnel over SSH through a pinhole firewall rules to my work linux system is my preferred poor man's work VPN. One main benefit being that allowing the non-VPN traffic to handle the video meeting works way better.
Slightly off topic, but the url seems to be conflict with a user called "certifications". You can find that user using GitHub api or Mobile app, but you can't view his profile page on desktop.
> This would push the dial in the direction of incremental, very conservative research and discourage novel methods.

Yes, there there are obviously edge cases, where reproduction is difficult or impossible. I think, the effort needed to do so should also be honoured, not simply skipped over. I disagree though, that it will stop innovation. On the contrary, if the capabilities and knowledge are spread, it allows people to build on that.

Currently, I think, we vastly favour novelty over reproducibility. We still can have "innovation", but I think, it is right to take the novelty under consideration, if it hasn't been reproduced. In my opinion, exceptionalism is used more often as not as protectionism.

If results in physics produced at the LHC are held to that standard, I do not see, why we let anyone else of the hook.

Unfortunately, in the current "publish-or-die" environment, there is next to no incentive to reproduce results or to make them reproducible. I do not get academic jobs for merely reproducing results, you cannot publish that stuff, or only on low impact papers.
And if I do produce something new and others can easily reproduce my results, then they can simply pick up the work where I started, and I lose my edge. Even if I am more open to competition, it still may be a lot of work to make it reproducible for others, time I rather can spend on furthering my research.

E.g. there is no excuse, that in computer science practically all the results can be easily reproduced, but how many are?
Does that include mandatory health insurance though? That's effectively an extra ring-fenced tax.

They're probably still lower than US taxes, but in Switzerland the difference between income after tax and actual take-home income can be significant.
i tried really hard to not call any names... :)
The main problematic thing about this is that it can be used as a way for Microsoft to push their beliefs and agendas. It further centralizes git even more.

For example (extreme case to make a point), imagine if the questions were like:

1) Which is the most reliable git platform? (a) github (b) gitlab (c) gitweb

2) Which is the best license for new code? (a) MIT (b) GPLv3 (c) ALv2

3) Which is better for coding? (a) spaces (b) tabs (c) both

The point is that Microsoft shouldn't be the central authority for git things. Lets make the internet, the web, and development in general more decentralized.
It might be the only time in the day where you are idle and undistracted. Try going on a walk, it achieves the same effect. You can also just sit in a quiet place with a notebook. No music, no podcasts, just you and your thoughts.
I agree. I know people that spend hundreds on keyboards, for example. I also think the debates about vim vs IDEs falls into this same category. It's just a tool. I really don't type all that much as a percentage of my work day.
There are 'smart alarm clocks' available, but they are usually not cheap and you might not want the smart function at all.

I use an old Android phone as an alarm clock, I nearly uninstalled all other apps and it's on airplane mode most of the time to save battery. Works like a charm.
> I would honestly pay significantly higher taxes if we could get Swiss-quality train service in parts of the US (and especially if they have good internet).

The US lacks the required density. Trains are by far the most expensive mode of mass transport per mile, both because of infrastructure and labor cost. Labor costs are higher than eg a plane because trains go much slower! In a personal car, there are no other labor costs. The natural monopoly on the network and the ensuing lack of competition doesn't help either.

Planes and electric autonomous cars are the better alternative for the US.
We'd have to review the contenu to be sure, but my initial reaction was the same as @breakingcups. That would fit with a push against gitlab's devops strategy, amongst other things ?
I suspect the Swiss calculated that individual transportation doesn’t scale well.

The US build ever bigger highways (I recall a summit at Stanford on clean energy in 2014 where some guy from McKinsey claimed that the solution to all problems is to increase highway throughout by having self driving cars closer to each other - never would it have occurred to him or anyone on the panel to replace cars with a train or bus) and Germany somehow tries to deal with their bad infrastructure choices after deciding to be car centric in favor of their car industry for many years.

Edit: fun little note: I actually wanted to ask the McKinsey guy what his take on public transportation was, but wasn’t chosen for the q&a since I was sitting in the very back after I arrived late due to some issue on the Caltrain.
Pro TIP: Emobdy on HM website was 1685$, but i ordered from the dealer i found o their website, ended-up ~560$ cheaper.
Keepass2Android is pretty much the de-facto standard client for KeePass database. Also open source.
One of the biggest improvements is absolutely free to do (by Congress).

Give passenger rail priority.

No where in the Western world does a passenger train have to give way to a freight train. It' s always the other way around. Except in the US. In the US when freight companies are late they make passenger trains wait.

They can do this because they own the track. But with a presidential stroke of a pen many delays in Amtrak can be resolved in one go.
I'm up to about 30 hours of general anesthesia after a near fatal snowboarding accident left me with a spinal cord injury. I like to think how smart I'd be if I hadn't needed it!
Realistically, you can't do "data sharing of unknown types" - at that point you're just sharing binary blobs.

ASN.1 and CORBA both let you share types that are unknown ahead of receiving.
10MW ~= $3M/yr @ $30/Mwh (going by https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesale/xls/ice_electric-2... )
Yep, I was in almost exactly that situation and the doctor said something along the lines of "it's almost always a hemorrhoid, but we'd better schedule you for a colonoscopy just to make sure" and sure enough there was a tumor that wasn't cancerous yet, but could very well have become so and killed me in a few years if nothing had been done.

(It runs in the family apparently; my grandmother on my mom's side was from a large family, with seven or eight siblings. They all died of colon cancer. She got it too, but since she went to the doctor with her symptoms instead of staying at home, they were able to remove part of her colon before it got really bad and she lived for many more years.)

Moral of the story: go to the doctor if you're bleeding from unexpected places.
Come to think of it, even Google Calendar does this if you leave the tab open in Safari for more than a day. Is this Safari's fault or Google?
Ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed window (with all the tabs it had) just like ctrl-shift-n will reopen a closed tab. Try it a few times after closing multiple firefox windows with multiple tabs each if they don't come up automatically on start.
Big business drives the economy. Small businesses are the future big businesses.

Squelching big business will doom the economy to mediocrity.
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> Many have argued that policies seeking to avoid reproducibility issues will create a constrictive atmosphere that inhibits innovation and discovery.

Aka we can't be encumbered by the truth that it does or doesn't work, we'll just say it does until it doesn't.

You can be serious...
I did some googling; here's some studies on death rate due to anasthesia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697561/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3147285/ ; the latter does highlight that the incident rate has dropped a lot since the 1940's. Another one on "anesthetic awareness", or waking up during the procedure / recalling things without being able to respond, which happens 1-2 times out of 1000: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900098

"Not a single shred of evidence to be found" -> "I didn't actually look but like telling people they're wrong lol"
Love the story, though the examples feel off to me. For many, it is just highlighting that at the full system level, performance and features are effectively a game of whack-a-mole.

That is, sometimes isn't it good to over optimize a part to the detriment of the system, so that you can then fix the parts it leaves exposed?

Take the example of the register file in the article, it was bad because they had to route over parts of the chip that had been planned for the file, but were now empty. That said, they now had a better target for how much they had to allocate to the file next time, such that they could use that space or a smaller die.

This is equally true for the example on the wide execution stage. If you can manage to do that without blowing some other budget, then you expose a target that the fetch now needs to be improved.

In a sense, sometimes you can either improve the cart or the horse. Sometimes you can improve both. Often the full system only benefits when you get both to the same level of benefit, but doing both at the same time can be prohibitive. And if you preclude work that can't benefit without other work, then you often starve out ways for that work to happen.
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Portland, Victoria had geothermal nearly 40 years ago.

https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/12/13/3910988.htm
I use Rclone to sync the database to a online storage. It is not triggered automatically, so every time I change the database I need to manually run a one-line script. But it's not that bad because once stable, one doesn't change the database often. Rclone also support strict one-way copy. On the mobile side, Keepass2Android can automatically sync down the database.

Also, not all hopes are lost. There is a 3-year-old ticket to add trigger system to KeePassXC: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/1016
I think this is pretty common at sewage treatment plants. Our local plant (EBMUD in West Oakland) does this too. In fact it seems they import additional organic waste to throw into their methane digester, with the resulting generation covering all of the plant's needs:

https://www.ebmud.com/wastewater/collection-treatment/wastew...
Almost all of these are products of the wealthy, for the wealthy. America used to stand for quality and ingenuity - american tools, cars, or even just methods of work and production were world class and many countries strived to copy them, import them, buy them. Nowadays America has turned into a playground for the rich, with American products generally considered sub-par, with systems and methods being studied as how to "not" do things, and generally settling into a position of a global player who only has to be respected because it's wealthy, not because it is actually a leader in anything other than wealth extraction.

To put it in a different way - America is falling down in almost every metric that measures quality of life globally. But yeah, they built Facebook and Apple, and Apple is one of it not the wealthiest companies in the world, so that counts for something, yeah?
> Assuming it is a 0-sum game is a mistake. The rich can stay rich and yet other people can rise above

Money is not 0-sum, but power is, and power is really the point of economic inequality.

So yes, right now some people have too little power in our society, and for them to rise, others have to fall (relatively speaking).
was going to say "of course, why would the router care for layer4 proto" but then again, netgear is like a synonym for "unpredictable crappy middlebox".
"I'm being oppressed by my own retirement fund". :/
Anecdotally, I've had covid 19 and I hate to say it, but it is taking me longer to gather my thoughts at present. My ability to sum up the correct word I need seems to have really suffered.

I understand tiredness is a longer term effect of covid, so I'm hoping it's that.

I didn't suffer any breathing difficulties, though I was told my viral count (I think they called it that) was very high. Also, my short sightedness seems to have noticeably got worse.

As I said, this is entirely anecdotal. However, I noticed these differences even before I read this article. I am a little worried.
When recruiting, I usually take certifications as a token of the lack of skills rather than a demonstration of skills
I am not sure how unreasonable is prolonged 1g. You can’t do it for months (since if it’s all in one direction you will start getting relativistic, one month of 1g gets you to almost 0.1c) but at medium speeds it isn’t too bad. Suppose you have a megaton ship moving at 100km/s with 10 m/s^2 acceleration

Power = m v a = 1e9 x 1e5 x 1e1 = 1e15 W

While petawatt is a lot, a megaton ship is also huge. Epstein drive is a fusion drive of sort, the easiest aneutronic reaction would be

B+p -> C + 16 MeV

So 2.5e-12 Joules per fusion

Which means you need to burn

1e15 J/s /(2.5e-12 J/atom)*(2e-26 kg/atom) = 8 kg/s

Suppose your engine runs at 10% efficiency, it means you are powering a megaton ship on less than a 100kg/s of material. So if your megaton ship starts as 10% fuel you have ~115 days of continuous thrust.
Wow thats incredible. Stay strong!
China is going to eat the seas empty and they just don't seem to care.
> It would be cool if we could tag comments such as this one for intuitive retrieval later down the line.

You can click on the message timestamp, which will take you to a page just with that message, which has more options. One of them is "favorite" which will add it to your personal favorites list.
I saw a paper once saying that in any market where the top four competitors controlled more than 60% of the market, they'd act as a de-facto cartel. (I wish I could find it again).
Taking a look at the sample questions provided (questions and correct answers):

Q4: Which licensing statement best describes a project to be truly open source?

* it is recommended to choose a license because without it, the default copyright laws apply

(technically correct but yeah)

Q5: Which statements are true about GitHub Marketplace?

* a digital catalog with hundreds of software listings from independent software vendors

* a place where apps and actions can be found to improve your workflow

(marketing/ad)
Yep. My point is that if you use an ORM, but don't understand your database, you're asking for trouble.
not sure where you think this meme (never heard of it) was brought up itt.
:-) Interesting to read many describe that feeling you get when you read Chekhov. A Russian friend once told me it is тоска (toska) - an unbearable, inescapable anguish - "Really you have to be Russian to understand it. toska is rent for being Russian. More Vodka?"
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Propofol is definitely used as one of probably a cocktail of drugs required for various levels of sedation (AKA “general anesthesia” in this case).

I’ve experienced the exact same pain you’re talking about but with IV antibiotics. No nurse or doctor could actually explain why it was happening to me, other than to say the IV had “gone bad.” Because I was in the hospital for so long, they eventually switched me to a PICC line. Absolutely zero pain with that.

My own experiences with propofol involved either the PICC line, or maybe some kind of arterial line or something (I was unconscious when I was first sedated during this incident).
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When I saw the headline, my first thought was: I’m actually trying to get out of the habit of cat’ing to view files.

Head or tail to leave a peak in the terminal history or less to actually read the file, seems to me to be a much better habit.

Thanks for the great tip on cless - I might just extend it to a chead and ctail !
I'm curious, how does syncthing and ios work for you? What kind of apps/settings do you use on the clients?
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> Personally I've found certifications are a good way to show you're good at passing certifications, and nothing else.

Some are good. I did AWS Solution Architect Pro, and this one was tough, one needs years of hands on to pass. Anyone with this one will get an instant plus in my book. I did not bother renewing it though, after 3yrs expired :)
I tried opening my test site and it was displayed without CSS styles or images. Could this be because I have a restrictive content security policy set?
I was just denied YC application and it's fine
I was doing this software last 15 years and I can continue for 15 years more. My market size is every small company in the world, my solution is general, universal and free to start. Yet I don't fit. Well, guess I have to do something differently =)

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Good example, although what if you just assigned it a reward of like 100 trillion dollars? It might not be exactly correct but then you're assuming that exactly correct rewards are required for AGI which seems like a pretty big assumption.

Actually I thought about this some more, and maybe money wasn't the best example, but I think there must be some internal measure of utility that humans use that can be represented by real numbers.

Imagine you are presented with an array of possible actions with associated (possibly estimated) rewards. You can only pick one. Maybe there are some doors but you can only open one - behind the first is $1m, behind the second is a superdollar, behind the third is a button that cures world hunger, behind the 4th is your loving family, whatever.

As a human I can pick one. No matter what the rewards are. Even if one reward is "you essentially become God". That means I can order them, and therefore that they can be represented by real numbers (plus infinity for the god option).

I don't see why the infinity would cause an issue: the "you can now do literally anything" reward is worth more than every other reward, but it's the only one. Also it doesn't actually exist so who cares?

Actually I guess it can exist in games, e.g. God mode in Quake. But that should have an infinite reward and agents should choose it over everything else so I can't see the problem really.
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I don't find it disturbing. I think your interpretation is close enough.
Since when is constructive criticism expressed in words like “awful”?
Not only expats; I've moved a few times but hadn't bothered to change my GP for over 5 years because I never needed it (thankfully). The last time I needed it was because the skin on my hands was fucked (cold + dry air and a newfound habit of actually washing my hands; vaseline cream helped) and chronic neck pain (treatment didn't help, but changing my backpack apparently did?).

Anyway I bought a house a few years ago and I'm a bit more settled so I've moved to a local GP, and I hope to never need it.
Excellent! Thanks for the tip :)
A lot of people have written a lot of arguments about everything. Has anyone actually demonstrated that it isn't true?
I am aware. I was not saying that this is a characteristic of the English language, merely that it is more commonly use in the English spoken in England than in the United States, for example.
> I do think she is a winner and was a wise choice to get Katz’s mobile-first content out the door..the failure is due to mobile not being a thing during the Shelter In Place orders.

"Mobile only" is a self imposed limitation, so that's on Katzenberg and everyone else who had influence on that decision.
Gut biome is IMO one of the most interesting (and gross) areas of medical science at the moment; this morning's news mentioned a 1 million research starting to investigate gut biome and diabetes.
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Some photographer-lawyer pairs in Germany turned this into a business model. I got in trouble for not following a very specific citation format.
> Von Trapps

What makes you think that’s not nurturing?
You're assuming way too high an efficiency. A real fusion rocket would fall far, far short of that. 2% efficiency would be generous. Googling fusion rocket mass efficiencies shows estimates of around 1 ton / MW, so you're not too far from the mark.

But that gets to what the Epstein drive basically is, in-universe: a 100% efficient fusion drive. No physical laws being broken, technically, just the nuclear rocket equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.

They do in fact go around at 1G (or 1/3 G) thrust for months at a time in the books and show, accelerating full speed for half the trip, then turn around and decelerate for the other half, for trips to/from the outer solar system. In the inner solar system it's only a few days to weeks to get anywhere. This lets them operate in artificial gravity without spinning the spacecraft, which is convenient for filming (although it's in the source novels too).
HTTP/1 is a plain text protocol over TCP. Requests are sequential per connection. Browsers tend to use up to six connections at a time to work around this.

HTTP/2 is a binary protocol over TCP. Requests are multiplexed. It’s normally better than HTTP/1, but in environments with higher packet loss rates (e.g. remote mobile networks) it can perform markedly worse than HTTP/1, because of TCP head-of-line blocking and the fact that the browser is now using only one connection.

HTTP/3 is a binary protocol over QUIC which is over UDP. Requests are multiplexed. If it works, it should be fairly uniformly better than both HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, because you can think of it as roughly HTTP/2 minus the bad parts of TCP. However, on a few networks (business networks typically, I think) it won’t work because they have firewalls that hate unknown UDP traffic.

(HTTP/3 is not actually just HTTP/2 over QUIC; HTTP/2’s header compression scheme HPACK is stateful in a way that depends on TCP’s sequential nature so that it couldn’t work over QUIC without completely reintroducing the head-of-line blocking problem, so it’s replaced with a variant that mitigates that problem substantially, called QPACK. But other than that, I think they’re roughly the same. Don’t quote me on that, though, it’s a few years since I read the specs and I’ve forgotten it all, not to mention that the specs have changed plenty in that time.)

I think this is a fair summary, but I don’t have any practical experience with HTTP/3, so I welcome any corrections.