skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm the one who sent this link. It's funny to see you here, since I actually discovered it by reading your blog post! I honestly not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I liked it. Thank you!

As for the link, what really resonated with me was the concept of commitment vehicles. We all hit external deadlines (a form of commitment vehicle) on a regular basis, so how can we harness their power to meet OUR OWN goals? This article presents some approaches (Beeminder and otherwise). I wonder what other approaches exist!
384 well plates (16x24) are one of the “standard” sizes and the densest that a typical lab is likely to have on-hand. The next size up/down (fewer, bigger wells) is probably 96 wells in an 8x12 grid.
> The special JavaScript instructions

That's an ARMv8 feature, not specific to Apple.
That's very interesting. I am guessing ClojureScript generates a lot more code that runs through interfaces that sophisticated JITs can partially evaluate away.

For us, the performance difference was an order of magnitude, to the point that we were too slow in cases for search engines. We were investigating building an external Node proxy instance to prerender pages.

I sincerely hope there's no flag or simple tweak we were missing. It's possible the instances were starved for memory, for instance.
I made a version of Mahjong Solitaire for Yahoo! Games back in the early aughties. I was stuck in figuring out how to make each board solvable. I asked Udi Manber, and he obviously in hind sight, was like, "why don't you just place them in pairs to set up?"
> the most viral and captivating content is often content that purposefully instills anger, fear, outgroup-hatred, schadenfreude, etc

Another aspect is that on social media, virality isn't just based on people actively sharing stuff, but also content being so captivating that the platform amplifies it into virality based on user interaction statistics. (E.g. high click-through rates being used as a feedback signal to show content to more people, thus amplifying clickbait.)

I experienced that first-hand with a YouTube channel I started recently: one day I noticed the impression count (i.e. the number of times YouTube showed a video thumbnail to someone) growing exponentially. But view counts didn't grow nearly as much. So my content didn't suddenly get more popular, it had just randomly gotten a boost in the recommendation algorithm, showing it to many more people, most of whom weren't interested. (The boost subsequently disappeared.)

I think if social media were just people talking to each other, we'd be mostly fine. But imagine how little time you'd spend e.g. on YouTube if the only way to watch a video were to have someone send you the link. Obviously not enough for the platform.

So the search for virality turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy: if the recommendation algorithm thinks something will go viral, it can make it happen simply by pushing it in front of enough eyeballs.
Some other good comments already on changing and introducing new DNA to the world, trying to outsmart nature, and the agribusiness effort to lock farmers in to seeds. Two other things come to mind.

First, biodiversity among crops is essential for food security and ecosystem protection. When you have hectares of crops with the same genetic makeup, not only does that make the system fragile (as another reply hinted at), but it also affects the other species that depend on that crop. Perhaps this is also a complaint against monocropping, which are generally GMO operations. But more genetic diversity strengthens resilience of the crop and the system that supports and coexists among it. Spontaneity in complex systems is good because it protects from colossal crop wipe-outs. It's also the fundamental difference between hybridization and GMO, so don't ever let some jackass from Monsanto say they are merely extending farming practices of genetic modification as old as farming itself.

Second, GMOs are often created to work in tandem with pesticides. So while the genetically modified strawberry might not damage my body, that shit on it will, and that doesn't always come off with a quick rinse in the sink. Pesticide (and herbicide, fungicide, etc.) use also doesn't stop with the target species making a meal out of the crop. It kills anything like it. Case in point is the dramatic decline in pollinators and insects hence bird species[1]. Again, futzing with nature's mechanics is folly because ecosystems rely on vastly complex networks of biomes that are themselves built on complex biodiversities. The truth is that while scientists can analyze insect and bird populations, understanding the complex interplay between many species in biomes is nebulous at best and generally outright opaque. The time it takes for scientists to say "with confidence" that X-->Y-->Z takes years, and even then we're talking about 3 variables and ignoring knock-on effects.

It is high time we learn our lessons and start trying to figure out how to work with nature rather than beat it back. I am always fascinated that HN draws such a brilliant crowd yet many people around here seem convinced that technology's inexorable advances are all we need to solve our problems.

[1]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pesticides-have-le...
Peano-HASEL actuators: Muscle-mimetic, electrohydraulic transducers that
Edge has the same engine as Chrome, so no real reason to test both in most circumstances.
Nice article that brings back memories. It missed a couple things surrounding the Amiga that contributed to make it great:
Among libraries, the arp.library, whose windowing functions were somewhat precursor to the ASL library.

Scala Multimedia, an absolutely top notch presentation/titling software.
Many local TV stations were using it to add titles to their video material, advertising etc. Its animations were super smooth, the PC world had nothing that could come close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5V0J2BB5Ho

The demoscene, it literally forged a generation of coders/artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLjHZ85KwzM
Not many but as Matt explains in his video, you can downsample the 8K footage to 4K to get higher detailed 4K. The same is often done with 4K to 1080p footage for the same reason.
Thanks for bringing up the part about superfluous use of herbicides, it goes hand and hand with factory farming GMO's
Pretty OT, but: I know of many large providers using MetalLB as a core part of their k8s infrastructure, who gave nothing back. If walking away punishes them for that, then I'm very pleased :)

MetalLB is in a healthier place now than with me at the helm. It's being maintained and developed by people who still believe in and use k8s, which is how it should be.
Trading on the stock market (by and large) doesn't create value. If someone makes a killing, it's because someone lost it. You hear about those who make money - because it's the story you 'want' to hear.

People don't understand how money comes from value created, in the long run. People think they can game the system. Everyone feels they are not a part of the average.
I don't know about cultural emphasis, but you can certainly go too far with grit and perseverance themselves, if you stick with a perceived opportunity too far past the point where its returns have fallen below those of other available opportunities.
Tom is sooooo 2007. An is the new Tom.
The effect of an EMP on a hardened i.e. Faraday cage-shielded target is quite limited. Even modern automobiles are only momentarily disrupted, if at all, by significant pulses produced in a controlled test setting. As I understand it, common measures taken to protect vehicle electronics against electro-static discharge (ESD) also provide some level of protection against EMP attack. Your mileage may vary with commercial off-the-shelf drones, of course, but it’s not an expensive or difficult technology to retrofit.

My understanding derives chiefly from a U.S. government-commissioned study on the effects of an EMP weapon or natural disaster on things like cars, trucks, airplanes and computers. The results were made public, and are overall fairly reassuring:

http://www.empcommission.org/reports.php
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Thanks for sharing. At what point does something like this become a PhD thesis level topic and not "just" a paper quality topic?
For the record, I disagree with some of your points, but the one point I agree with is really important.

There's no clear guarantee that there will be other performance-competitive arm64 CPUs in laptops anytime soon. I don't think anyone has as much incentive as Apple does.
Who else is as incentivized to make a laptop/desktop-class arm64 chip? Maybe ARM themselves ... but without a mainstream OS to run it on (with mainstream software available for it), I don't see it happening in the next 5 years. Its a chicken-and-egg problem that Apple is uniquely suited to address with their vertical control over the Mac ecosystem (hardware/dev tools/OS/competitive software).

Server chips, maybe - but we can already see with Azure that competitive x86 chips from AMD have killed Microsoft's plans to deploy arm64 on their cloud service.

But this:

- Apple could make all this futile with a push of a button (SecureBoot can be disabled for now, but what guarantees are there this won't change?);

This is huge. We could all contribute to getting Linux ported to M1, and then Apple could shut us down with little or no effort. And ... maybe they won't? They probably won't? But who knows? Why build an ecosystem around a hostile hardware vendor?
Sounds great to me.

When I search for "minisign gitlab" I find implementations of minisign, when I search for "GPG gitlab" I find out how to use my GPG key to sign git commits.

When that changes, I'll switch.

There's no sarcasm intended here whatsoever, to be clear.
It's interesting to see a critique of Signal and defense of PGP premised on how difficult it is to verify safety numbers, given that the dominant APIs for PGP release unverified plaintext to callers, with verification passed out of band.
“Fully slept....” That’s the dream. My daughter will try to open up my eye lids whilst I’m asleep and then start yelling “it’s morning time” at the top of her lungs. She has done this before at 4am and now I jolt awake at the sound of her entering our bedroom. Sadly it has been very effective at waking me up, and it’s hard to train her out of it when it works so well. To be honest I think I’m also sort of hard impressed by the brutality of it all.
I didn't downvote, but I'm assuming that suggesting an equivalence between concerns with GMO and being antimask/antivaxx comes off as hyperbolic.

I sometimes have a difficult time separating legit benefits of GMO with shilling or astroturfing, which is unfortunate when trying to have a reasoned discussion.
I mean, rubber is certainly important when compared modern compounds to stuff from the 60's & 70's.

But the advent of ABS and Disc Brakes is also a big factor in stopping power & distance.
No sarcasm taken, that makes perfect sense. Keep minisign/signify in mind for future designs.
Yes it is simple. I like it a lot. But could it be made even simpler? For example, rather than gpg, which is in itself complex, could it use something else? What is the point of using a public key crypto for something entirely private?
I'm also a longtime Ocaml user, albeit a sporadic one.

I think the language is potentially becoming interesting as a statically typed data analysis platform. I don't see any good competitor in the area. I would love to be able to perform longer analyses in a statically typed platform, and transition to a production system without having to change languages. I think lots of people have similar needs.

The OWL libraries are surprisingly good despite having very little developer mass behind them. Of course the whole ecosystem is tiny in comparison with Julia, let alone Python. I wonder if large users like Jane Street have their own private Ocaml implementations of the equivalents to NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Keras.
Indeed. Git repo at https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu.

Note that that is 2 years behind. You can get a newer source dump from https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-6153.141.1/.

So, open source, but development isn’t done in the open. You can’t really expect you’ll be able to see recent commit messages or even just regular source dumps.
You can still respond. Even if just to say "that's not a supported scenario and may void your warranty."
The mysterious Utah monolith has disappeared now
I still can't believe someone came up with this syntax and thought it was a good idea.
Wouldn't it of been easier to just buy the camera and send it back if it didn't work ?
I highly recommend the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60z_hpEAtD8 linked from the site above

~40 minutes, and I get the point of geometric algebra now.
I don't agree with you on that. (I am not the person who downvoted you, however.)

Both z/OS and Windows NT use the word "subsystem" to refer to OS components, but the commonality is purely at the terminological and most abstract conceptual level, I don't see any commonality at the level of technical details, and I see no evidence of any concrete technical influence from z/OS on Windows NT.

"Subsystem" is a highly generic term used to refer to an OS subcomponent across many operating systems – z/OS, OS/400, OpenVMS, Windows, Linux, among others. The meaning of the term varies widely, and what counts as a subsystem isn't always precisely defined. In z/OS, "subsystem" is a quite precisely defined term – it is something which is installed by calling the "IEFSSI REQUEST=ADD" macro, and which then is displayed in the output of the "DISPLAY SSI" console command. By contrast, in Windows NT, the term "subsystem" is never clearly defined – for example, is Client/Server Run-Time Subsystem (CSRSS) a subsystem or part of the Win32 subsystem (a subsystem of a subsystem)? Is the Session Manager Subsystem an integral subsystem or a part of the integral subsystem? I'm not sure there is a clear answer to these questions, whereas the question of what counts as a subsystem on z/OS is quite clear – is it visible in the "DISPLAY SSI" output?

(Slightly complicating the issue is that z/OS has both subsystems and functional subsystems, which are different things despite the similar name – subsystems implement the Subsystem Interface (SSI), functional subsystems implement the Functional Subsystem Interface (FSI).)
Yeah, I'm a Computer and Electrical Engineering student from Nebraska.

I know the world gets continually better. Crime, infant fatality, hunger, etc. rates throughout history have gotten continually better. Socially, more and more previously marginalized groups are gaining rights. I don't expect to be in a utopia where everything is perfect or for the world to suddenly 'get it' and all wars to stop. I don't think the world is going to stop turning.

What I do think, is we've been setting ourselves up for greater and great inequality to exist in ways that mankind has never known, that we're destroying our environment, and that large businesses and governments both are able to carry out corruption and misinformation campaigns like the world has never seen, and that more and more the government is becoming a puppet of businesses with deep pockets. Maybe that has gotten better, but if nothing else it's as bad as it's always been, but now with light on it people still can't do anything about it.

I don't think our problems are nothing compared to those of the past. Let's look at 50 years ago- Do you think the racial progress that we had in the 60's and 70's could have happened today, in a world where social media platforms and the internet can be used to drag anybody down. The FBI had a wire tap on MLK and used the information they gained as blackmail, imagine if that were today. Today we're carrying the perfect spytool in our pockets and we either have the choice of join Facebook, Twitter, etc. or have limited contact with many people we care about. We're facing police that have been given military equipment but with none of the training. We face an impending climate disaster that has already caused the number of disasters requiring FEMA responses to skyrocket in the last decade. I think our problems are less personal, I think we have new tools that make everyday life better, but I think on a societal and global scale things are absolutely worse than they were 100 years ago.

We made tools that give each and every person access to untold information and communication with everyone else, so now we have a generation split between those that are under constant stress about how boned our planet is, about governments and large corporations being able to see and censor all that we say online, etc. but can't do anything about it and those that have given up and just accept the state of the world and use TikTok and Twitter and Facebook and go out to drink every night on the money they're getting from their student loans they'll never be able to repay, that probably have at least one mental illness because they're just repressing that fear.

Yeah. 20, 50, 100, 200 years ago we had different problems, but today, today our problems are 2019 having more mass shootings than days, in CO2 levels rising to over 400ppm, and teen suicide rates keep going up.

I'm 22. I'm right on the edge of what a lot of adults call a kid. I don't think schooling or my parents insulated me. I think they tried, but I think if anything they made it worse by not taking us seriously when we do see though it. By saying, 20, 50, 100 years ago things were worse.
Canon is well adapted to digital age. They simply sell much much more expensive professional gear that can do the unlimited 8K recording.
If they were to add this feature to R5 out of the box, they could see reduced pro gear sales.
Your question is too broad, but to give at least one data point: a data science dev with a few years of experience (1 to 5), can expect between ¥6M and ¥12M/year in a startup.

> it should at least be higher than megacorps

Yes, with exceptions

> how much culture clash there are for foreigners

In my subjective and limited experience, not much. Start-ups in Japan are rare (compared to most tech cities), Japanese founders/employees often do not want to emulate the working culture of big companies, on the contrary they might work in a startup to avoid it. Knowledge of English and living abroad experience also seem more common than average
Hipppo is a hiphop community centered around link aggregation and discussion
DMT. This explains how Joe Rogan unlocked the galaxy brain.
Guilty as charged. But damn, every time I used Linux on laptops up to 2012, batteries would invariably run out in 2 hours max, sleep/hibernate would fail half the time, fans would never stop, and 3d drivers were a tire fire... It has been nice not having to think about all of that for almost a decade.

I am very tempted to go back to Linux sometime next year, but I really fear I'd end up in the same situation (or worse, since I'm also reliant on scaled HiDpi screens now and support for that sort of thing is completely absent in some distros).
I guess I'm using the wrong term, then. I often find it useful to have a concept of "smallest representable positive number," specifically for handling edge cases such as the one I gave up-thread. I see how that doesn't map to infinitesimal as defined in the shared link.

There are other instances where I've had a need for such a smallest positive number, where logic is simplified as opposed to checking for 0 in a special way. Whether there's an agreed upon term for that, I know where I've found value in programming tasks.

When I need such a thing, it is almost invariably in comparisons, so I am not doing arithmetic with multiple instances of that smallest representable positive number.
People have these conversations about Windows all the time. And it's usually worse when it comes to Windows because the software is closed both in the "source" sense and the "visibility" (logs, etc) sense, so nobody has any idea what to do except "try restarting", "try reinstalling the software", "try reinstalling Windows".

(No idea about Macs; I don't pay attention to conversations about them.)
It’s because they were trying to sound authoritative while presenting an evidence-free narrative which is by some strange coincidence the one favored by a well-funded corporate PR movement. Trying to paint it as anti-science ignores all of the scientists urging caution & regulation, not to mention the other arguments. The antivax and birth control complaints are similarly unfounded - you can find people with any combination of views but that one is not even remotely representative.

As a simple example of an argument which the poster omitted, I know multiple scientists - people who use genetic modification techniques for their work – who are in favor of GMOs conceptually but opposed to Monsanto’s sweeping ownership views (hybridization of GMOs with other crops), broader ecological impacts from increased pesticide usage, or want stricter regulation before things are released into the wild. None of those positions are honestly characterized as anti-science.
Of course it's the OP's call to make. Most companies have a finite set of resources from which they can draw to reward employees, except maybe defense contractors.

If someone is not competent and is hurting the team effort, it is not badmouthing that person to express your concern.
That's a good question. I don't have a good answer.
Fun trip down memory lane. My first C compiler was Lattice C which I made resident so I wouldn't have to swap floppies on my single drive Amiga 2000. I can see now how it was a great stepping stone to learning UNIX.
The origins of it was outlandish claims with no data to back it up, so it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with regulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic

Back pain related therapy in general is filled with “qualified” people ready to dole out “treatments” in exchange for money, including MD surgeons who do back surgery.

The problem is succinctly explained in this clip, starting at 2min:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyugCJ40IIw

As the video says, we’re using a clothesline as a flagpole. Other than squats, deadlifts, and core workouts, keeping your weight low, and avoiding work that stresses the back, I doubt there’s real solution, and even those are probably just pushing the back pain into the future. It’s probably inevitable as you get older.
The biggest problem for me (note: others may not care or consider that an advantage): implemented in go.

I'm however interested in something as small as possible, with minimal number of dependencies and implemented in C. Yes I know it's an old language with its own issues. But C is the "highest level" I at this moment consider acceptable for something that should be a competition to GPG.
Panama, and probably few more.
Maybe it was leftover from a movie set or something and dude had the "oh s..." moment when it hit the news.
This. I miss that refugee camp of misfits, outcast from society, before that which haunted us came back with a vengeance.

There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.
The interesting question isn't "how many cryptography engineers repudiate PGP"; it's "how many cryptography engineers stick up for it". I'd be interested in some examples of that. Are there any?
Maybe even better: it is the limit of the binomial distribution as the n goes to infinity with n * p constant, where p is the probability of success.
They also have debt of about 200% of GDP, with a quickly diminishing population, that's a very bad situation. High debt levels are understandable during eras of rapidly increasing productivity but not otherwise.

It's a giant, very well manicured, thoughtfully attended 'house of cards'.

But none of this means that job boards necessarily need to be regulated.

Montana has an unemployment rate of 3% and very few homeless as well, very stable economy.
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