skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If its like the other projects, it may never generate a single kWh when it gets cancelled.

Also, it will be much too late to avoid massive climate change so its a bit mute. And that's assuming we also cut all our other emissions and every other country on earth cuts theirs...

Plus "no matter what the cost" is a pretty weird attitude if you don't mind me saying. If we can save more carbon by spending the same money elsewhere, shouldn't we do that instead?
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Improve your alertness. Bring these two things together - alertness and joyfulness and you will ne er look back. Your fearlessness, and firmness will lift your spirits. Move in this world with confidence and realize your dreams. It is impossible for anyone to stop you. Do you want to train yourself to succeed?
I wondered if there might be, but did you post the right link? I can't see anything about open source USB device implementations there.
The impressive part is the ux more than the particular choice of algorithms and frameworks. As you alluded, those are fairly commodity but executing so that an end user can understand and be engaged enough to get where they want is a big accomplishment.
Maybe it is just the "movies" perspective, the "wild-west cowboy riding into the sunset" and "hippies relaxing on a california beach with a guitar and some pot" stereotypes are transported frequently. The "white supremacist manning a checkpoint" not so much, or at least only in movies that are meant to be fictional/endtime/faraway.

Also, seen from europe, it may be hard to get an accurate picture. The media do not really transport the perspective of the inhabitants accurately. And perception of the media is often skewed towards the more positive end, one tends to ignore negative information that contradicts one's premade impression. Even people you know who tell you about a foreign country will usually gloss over the bad stuff and dwell on the good.
He gets stoned and laughs as Alex's crazy rants. I don't think he is giving any legitimacy to him so I don't have any issue with that.
One thing to follow in terms of nuclear power in the UK is the work being done in small modular reactors (SMR). These are much smaller PWR reactors that are intended to be considerably cheaper and faster to build than the massive reactors at places like Hinkley Point, Sizewell etc, as well as being far less onerous to decommission. The designs will be such that components can be mass produced in an assembly-line like fashion and transported to the sites.

Development is going forward under the UK SMR Consortium (Rolls Royce, NAMRC, NNL and a few others) and there is quite a lot of buzz in the UK's civil nuclear industry at the moment.

Some further reading for the interested:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advanced-nuclear-...

https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/nuclear/sm...

https://namrc.co.uk/intelligence/smr/
"Bubblesaur"?
You still have to do upgrades every 3 months, sometimes with breaking changes.

Because the underlying infrastructure gets replaced, it means spinning up a new cluster, deploying the application on it to make sure that everything is working. Then switch the traffic to it. If the cluster hold any state this can be quite a bit of work to replicate all of the data.
Yeah I would say 'They look middle-eastern' as opposed to Asian.

Not sure why it's relevant to bring up how far the continent of Asia extends when it's a reference to people and culture rather than geography.
From across the pond I have the feeling that fox news is a lost cause, whereas liberal media seems to, at least officially, hold journalistic integrity as a high priority and actually believe what they say.

One quite obvious example from the Atlantic: There was a trump speech maybe 2 months ago when trump acknowledged that there has been people in the military complex profiteering from war (and also choosing the lovely words "making our wonderful wonderful bombs" or something along those lines). This is something that the Atlantic has been saying since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But for some reason they chose not to write something along the lines of "trump acknowledges war profiteering" and recapping why some people (probably including the reader base of the Atlantic) believe that war profiteering in the military-industrial complex is bad thing. Instead they chose to angle it like "trump criticises the army. The atlantic supports the troops!".

This is just a small thing that I (a leftist, Marxist Swedish commie-sheeple) saw when doing my weekly skimming of the news on your side of the pond. There is of course a more complex political game going on, but at the same time: is it so hard to understand why someone becomes disillusioned with the media landscape?
Ownership in capitalism has nothing to do with usage. If I rent a car, I am using it, but I definitely don't own it. Ownership is about a right, the right to decide what to do with a property. Ownership is also not exclusive: Several people can own a house or a car simultaneously.

Communist countries tried to reconcile ownership with usage by enforcing that everyone owns one flat at maximum. The results are mixed.

To sum up, I still think that ownership is a social construct, be it for a physical item or an intellectual artefact.
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Same as Israel is criticised more often for (minor) human rights abuses than Syria for major ones.

We expect more of them. My guess is also that Glenn is centre-left so he probably used to trust NYT and CNN while having ignored Fox News since forever.
AI plays an important role in augmenting our ability as humans, not replacing us
He is rich, and Trump's gang is targeting rich people before anything else. Rich people know (or feel) this, so they collaborate, consciously or not.
I recommend reading “The prophet and the wizard” that among others things discuss overpopulation.

Many times have there been claims that the earth can not sustain a growing population, there must be an upper limit, but It is not easy to Know if we’re close to, already past, or at the limit right now
Soft delete for Azure file shares is now generally available in all regions
Just intonation is interesting, but it sort of explodes the composition complexity, because for each note the next (or concurrent) note can be based either on some root note or the current note. For example going up major thirds in C would be C-E-G#, but with just intonation you have to make the choice if that last note should be (C * 5/4) * 5/4 , or C * 8/5. The magic of equal temperament makes the distinction go away, so things are simpler.
The limited activity of soil microbes is caused by cold climates, and as the local climate in that forest warms up, we would expect microbes to decompose all that organic material better, improving the soil. Regarding soil acidity, wood ash is highly basic, so large quantities of ash from a major fire would help reduce the acidity.

In essence, with warming climate and mass wood fires we would expect also the soil in these areas to change in ways that are better for agriculture; the only question is about the speed of that change.

Also, the whole point of slash-and-burn agriculture in northern europe was that it was infertile and lacking nutrients otherwise - it was not a way of increasing the quantity your fields, you would abandon your fields after a couple of years to overgrow with forest, and slash-and-burn a new one for that temporary influx of nutrients in soil that is otherwise lacking them.
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Binary search doesn't always turn out well.
Advice gets old after awhile.

Someone finds out you suffer migraines, “oh drink some water!”

Also chronic conditions tend to have cycles of weeks to months.

People get tired of dealing with you much faster. So you learn to hide your symptoms as best possible.
Thank you. One idea I thought I might implement is to have little special library machines to do things like read a file and create a physical representation of it so that other machines can manipulate it. Maybe a XML file can be represented by a physical tree which machines could prune and rearrange. You could make sure it works on a small test file then there should be a way to run the program without the expensive 3d rendering on bigger files.
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"is to go hack on"

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"lemming status of developers"

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"laying in"

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"tables"

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"recompete"
Specific framing aside...

A "common enemy" dynamic is not guaranteed even when/if the enemy is a non-metaphorical enemy army. The opposite dynamic can also unfold, as well as the more common many-against many dynamic with multiple, competing, fluid alliances. See the Syrian civil war for a recent example.

When the "enemy" is a disease, disaster or somesuch... I think the opposite often emerges. In fact, these things tend to produce exactly this kind of thing. Hardening of identities, conflict between groups, blame... In Jewish history, for example, epidemics and plagues yielded some of the darkest times.

Times of plenty are better for solidarity, usually. When times are tough, people group. People conflict... unfortunately.
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Is there something wrong in this? Better qualified candidates were preferred for a research job. Of course, if you argue that the job didn't actually require PhD-level knowledge/experience, then the problem is in oversaturated job market of the field, not in the PhD system.
Woman has her account blocked by Facebook after she searched for a local eatery
The data seems kind of mixed on that. I would guess that the variant had little selective pressure - being grouchy and tired all the time isn't enough to kill people or prevent them from reproducing.

Here is the specific mutation in the gnomAD genome browser / variant database: https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/12-107386740-T-G?d...

The variant is particularly frequent in Ashkenazi Jews (which says very little about any selective effects), but it seems to be more prevalent in African-descent people than Finns, and more prevalent in South Asians than Europeans. So it doesn't seem especially common in Europeans, or even particularly related to latitude/longitude.
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I would've liked if people recognized more about the "social" struggles Asians face in America (and Europe) rather than the economical one, since this is not invisible but rather very visible, just that people don't notice it. Which means everyone as individuals can do more about these issues...

The way media & entertainment propagate the normalization of still making fun of Asians[1], affect not only Asians in America but also in Europe. (We in Europe have this weird self-perception that racism is more of an US thing, and the only resemblance of that here is either Nazis or Islamophobia.) People might not realize this but it does have a quite deep historical root [4]

One thing about the article though. Not so surprising that the (elderly) Asian Americans have low trust for the government when the government track record to them is:

* the Asians were the first to be targeted by explicit ethnic/national immigration ban[2]

* American citizen who married Asian could lose their citizenship[3].

* Yellow Peril[4]

* and now, disguised as good-will, through Affirmative action actively creating disadvantage to enter higher education. (or higher positions)

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/131631/still-okay-make-fun-a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Un...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril
Based on a quick read I didn't understand:

a) What is the goal?
b) What is the problem relative to the goal?
c) What is the solution that will help to reach the goal?
d) Who would use it (whatever it is), how and why?
Land tax is among, if not the most equitable tax there is.
Exactly. Even if it could, they would never let it.
zimbatm mentioned "early startups", I take that to assume you've just started the company and you're working on getting the product market fit right. There is absolutely no need for any clusters for that, unless you're anticipating Google-level traffic on launch day.

Most companies today are better off NOT running distributed anything, as everything will get harder to do, from logging to deployments. People start with clusters when they really should start with centralized services and only go distributed when they need to.
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Kate Temkin's Luna project is super cool, although I think it's still a WIP: https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/luna

It's a USB stack implemented as pure gateware - no hard/soft CPU needed, although I think you can hook one up if you want to.
He's already tried to pull this one multiple times before, apparently hoping that nobody bothers looking things up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24798212

No reply to that answer either. Just to repeat it two weeks later.
> I’m not from the US but I can see that this is yet another effect of two-party politics rotting your country.

United States is perhaps the oldest continuously existing democracy [0], in has existed 244 years, and most of that time (about 200 years) it has been a two-party system. I don't think it's the two-party system that is responsible for the rotting now. Something else is going on.

[0] Well, we can debate how to define a democracy (an interesting and educational debate), and who is oldest still existing depends on the definition. But a good case can be made that it's the US.
Show HN: A task manager app having a feature as GitHub contribution calendar
As a software engineer, I spent a lot of my time with GitHub, and I love the tiny green dots in its contribution calendar. And I felt that feature gives motivation for its user to contribute more and more.
Then, I came up with an idea to build a personal task manager app that shows the user activities in a similar way. Then, during the development, the feature list has been grown more and more.And I named the app Tinido with a slogan: "Do tiny things". I hope that this app can manage small tasks and encourage users to complete these smalls steps continuously.

I am so happy that the first version has just been released on App Store. I wrote this post to introduce the app and look for your valuable feedback.
Besides, if you have any questions related to technical things, I am happy to share my experience related to iOS programming, or backend-less development using Amazon Amplify.

Thank you.
Possibly. I enjoy historical fiction not because I think it can tell me much about the problems of today but more because it can put them in perspective. Reading about Europe in the Middle Ages is great for making me appreciate the quality of life I enjoy today.
You don't always get to work on what you want. Especially if it's outside what's expected in your field.
First the article says:

> Getting tested for COVID-19 didn’t seem like an option for the Rongs. The rumor was that the tests were expensive. Rong also feared the reaction from neighbors.

> “If you test positive, everyone would be scared of you,” said Rong. “Everyone would think you are the devil.”

then:

> Asian case-fatality rate nearly triple that of all other groups in San Francisco County

If a group gets tested less CFR would go up for that group.
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I think one point of defence for this would be that it's so obvious that Fox is biased, that it need not be mentioned.

I think Joe also mentioned at some point that he used to read and watch CNN a lot (and he implied that he trusted it at the time), so perhaps this is the reason why he's now putting it down.
> I can at least tell you that people don't choose Arch over Debian for the installation experience

Well, I do (sample of one). The Arch installation has been streamlined a lot. Now it’s all about

0) boot the image (cd, usb, PXE), which is actually an Arch install

a) creating your filesystem (pick you poison), and mounting it

b) telling pacman to install base, base-devel, and a bootloader on the target fs

c) installing and configuring the bootloader

d) rebooting

Done.

d-i barely takes care of that for you, it’s “just” wrapping it behind a UI (which is sort of useful, sure saves one from reading docs, but has been an annoying abstraction/obfuscation/magic layer for me more often than not).

The remainder (setting up X/Wayland/whatever is no different on Debian than on Arch, as d-i does not help much.
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Glenn Greenwald needs an achievable goal otherwise all that persistence and energy he has is going to be squandered. Lot of it has been already.

His frustrations have been building, if not overflowing, and social media just enjoys/encourages the wastage of those energies. Sad to watch.
There's a Royal Institute video featuring Sean Carroll and Jen Ouelette[1] that more fully explains the problem, but as I understand it it comes down to a quantum mechanical principle called monogamy of entanglement---there's only so much entanglement to go around, and if two particles (e.g. the pair of Hawking radiation particles) are fully entangled then they cannot have any amount of entanglement with anything else (e.g. information about the black hole). The result in TFA breaks the entanglement between the Hawking pair, allowing the outgoing particles to encode the black hole's information.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8bhtEgB8Mo
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In the scheme of things, please realize that 5 years is not "extremely long lasting", it is fleeting and the damage to the planet (and people) for those 5 years will take millenia to repair, if it even can.
Asians in the UK means Indians, Asians in the US frequently refers to East Asians.

Although in the US, I feel like the ethnicity question is more about pinning down what socioeconomic class you’re in, so the options will lump all of Asia together.
> JSON and most other formats also have no real semantics.

This is true, but due to its origin I think we have a weak agreement over the JSON data model: it is a JavaScript value unless ambiguous. We do expect dotted number literals represent IEEE 754 binary64 numbers (importantly, this is pretty much the only case that excess precision do not alter the value), undotted number literals of the range (-2^31, 2^31) (exclusive) represent 32-bit integers, string literals with no lone surrogates and no unescaped U+2028/U+2029 represent Unicode strings, objects with no duplicate keys represent a partial mapping from strings to values.

It is very common to avoid a valid but ambiguous and/or problematic subset of JSON, e.g. most encoders avoid unescaped U+2028/U+2029. Given that I think it is more useful to have a profile of JSON with the defined semantics than to have a substantially different format. Preferably that should be included to the JSON standard (RFC 8259, ECMA-404, ISO/IEC 21778 or whatever) itself.

> See also https://preserves.gitlab.io/preserves/why-not-json.html

Note that this link was also submitted to HN by its own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24946268
Sure, when you know the "news" is all fake, it is easy to call it not news.

But people who watch Fox News - for the most part - are watching for actual news. They often believe it. They aren't questioning the 'facts'. It isn't even as fake as Tabloids saying "I had an alien baby!".

While Fox is as trustworthy as 'The Onion', 'The Onion' openly states it is satire: Fox News is still claiming news and facts.
Sorry but name calling is what people do if they have no real critisism.

I don't even know what a pseudo centrist is supposed to be. What does pseudo in this regard even mean?

Are you a bot?
Mix of both.

Went through massive medical problems. Zero support from doctors fo years.

I had to go into trail and error mode for years to start figuring out what was wrong, and what effected me.

All with an Exhaustion and pain level on par with a dying cancer patient. Oh and a comet brain fog.

Eventually found answers, several conditions that were inter-related. Uncommon response to most drugs the doctors tried.

If I hadn’t gone through this trial and error approach, I would not have lived through it all.
What? That’s a weird, shitty thing to say. Why am I not allowed to ask someone how to get health insurance?
Even when we are talking about data, biases have a way of creeping in
We still have that problem today, passing new parcel taxes. That's why every parcel tax we pass now has a clause that allows people over 55 to get out of paying it. It's the only way to get all the over 55 people to vote for it.
As an european, I often picture myself US like a mix between european culture and japanese culture. The brand and flavor is european, but everything is pushed to the extreme (from an european point of view) like in Japan.
I’ve heard episodes where he shits on fox. I think he focuses more on liberal news outlets because he actually leans liberal himself.

And I completely understand this because as a left-leaning person CNN has become an obsolete atrocity of a news network.
> the most environmentally responsible in the game

Yay! Says nothing, though. The entire industry is helping to rapidly destroy everything of true value on this planet, for throwaway toys. So apple is rape lite?
White space has value in design just as it has in logos. It accentuates the other elements; allows for grouping and mental breathing space.

This article presents a straw man argument of two extremes, it’s a nice observation but there is no takeaway.
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I‘m a scientist diagnosed with delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD). I studied the related protein CRY2 for part of my PhD (ironically not why I joined the lab), and now I’m doing human genomics research. It’s encouraging that this recently described heritable mutation causing familial DSPD is getting more attention. Most normal chronotypes (non-night owls) don’t even know DSPD is a thing. The Facebook groups for DSPD are full of truly emotional stories about how hard life with DSPD is. They are also full of people connecting over relief and validation that we’re neither freaks nor consciously at fault for our late schedules.

Unfortunately, accessible genetic testing is probably a long way away. It looks like 23andMe won’t tell you if you have this mutation; the variant rs184039278 that causes CRY1 Δ11 disappointingly isn’t part of their panel. Whole exome sequencing might work, or might not, depending on the capture kit. But if you suspect you have DSPD, my advice is to see a sleep doctor as soon as possible to get a diagnosis. You’ll get prescribed a morning light box like I did. Your brain will get tricked into thinking it’s later than it actually is. It’s not a cure, but life and the 9-5 should get a little bit easier.
I was at your awesome talk at GopherCon some years ago, and it was one of the major reasons why I wanted to work at Google rather than FB or other companies. I kept telling all my friends to watch your recorded talks if they need inspiration :)