skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I searched for an explanation of what it does in layman's terms and found this:

None of the currently approved drugs can modify the underlying pathology of the disease. Voxelotor, first of its kind, is an orally administered drug that can alter the underlying disease pathology (by increasing the affinity between Hb and oxygen) and inhibit sickling of red blood cells.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7100618/
We are in general long overdue for an overhaul of how corporations are run. The current model of hierarchical decision making and control parallels the monarchies and tyrannies of old. The worker is asked to be a corporate robot for 8 hours every day - think only corporate thoughts, perform only corporate actions. Except "corporate" here is defined as "whatever the people above in the hierarchy say". There is little fairness and justice inherent in such a system - the worker's productivity enriches the corporation without the worker having a say in how their contributions should be used.

The alternative is a democratically-run corporation, one in which everyone has a stake and can influence the direction of, e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117729012338178557 . In an ideal world this model would be partly enforced by law and employees' speech regarding company politics would be as protected as their political speech in public. Yes, right now a wise CEO would listen to their employees like how a wise ruler listens to their subjects, but there is no requirement for that. Tyranny is not only allowed, but rewarded and employees' only recourse is leaving one life of serfdom for another. Obviously, the current situation is better than what it used to be, but corporations are still entirely structured for the enrichment of the ruling class at the expense of the working class. We can do better, maybe.

Even this very comment I am writing, I would not dare to write under my real name for fear of retribution. I am extremely thankful for the somewhat obscuring nature of pseudonymous internet communications, but the fact that I can only voice my thoughts in this format is somewhat of a problem itself.
Let's not forget the endless stream of commenters on other platforms who troll, are called on it, and then backpedal by claiming that it was a joke and everyone else can't take a joke. I enjoy that HN is a place where that tactic falls flat because most humor is frowned on.
Accurate and Efficient 3D Motion Tracking Using Deep Learning
Marijuana is seen as having no medically accepted use, therefore it’s more illegal than cocaine.

Except at this point it's obvious to even the most arrogant "evidence-based" medicine advocate that marijuana is indeed medically useful, and moreover that it is neither highly addicting nor dangerous, and that Schedule 1 classification for it makes absolutely no medical or legal sense.
Give that full generational gains are definitely slowing, yes, but there is no "iron wall" yet for squeezing a 4 fold gain.

Existing fin/gaa fets can get at least 2 times smaller themselves in both dimensions. 20nm gate length does not look impossible.

Device spacing can get smaller with existing tech, and trench to wall move will add to that.

Metal is actually the biggest worry from what I heard. Lab scale demos for metal capable of 1BT/mm² were done long ago, but contact, and line defect rates are still unworkable, and arise from very fundamental metal deposition physics issues. A completely new approach to building middle end, and M0 may be needed.
Oh no, owning property and having a place in the community. What a nightmare.
Kind of timely with that Oomba piece. I'm a bit surprised though, this seems like a site MS could build in under a year and Smash.gg doesn't have much traction in the major esports AFAIK. Also, I assumed Mixer shutting down was MS stepping away from esports.
Disney Is Teaching Robots How to Sculpt with Clay
yes, but that's not the right framing of the problem.

if all outcomes are equally likely from the machine, but humans are more likely to choose numbers with personal significance.

Therefore more tickets will be sold with 1-31 in them vs. higher numbers, and the expected value of your ticket will therefore be higher if you include numbers above them.
It seems impossible to view the horizon with this viewer, which is kind of frustrating.
> ... strange to see such a normally open-minded community (hackers) shut it down ...

Well, hackers tend to hate pretentiousness.
I don't think the kinds of 'problems' people may have articulated that these things solve would have been revelatory enough to argue they fit into this process. At best, the problems would have been so general like "I am uneducated about the world" or "it takes a long time to travel between places" that they are effectively immaterial when it comes to the process that led to these innovations.

For example, if someone told you today "I don't like that I am going to die one day", would you be able to iterate your way via customer development to stop death? Would the fact that people don't want to die be incorporated in the understanding of the process that led to any solution that gets created? No. Some problems are either so obvious or so non-obvious that the spark of insight that leads to solutions is barely influenced by the articulation of the problem or lack thereof by those who are suffering under it, often completely oblivious of it.
RTFA:

Batteries and electricity storage follow learning curves too
One of the downsides of renewable sources is their intermittent supply cycle. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. Technologies like batteries that store electric power are key to balance the changing supply from renewables with the inflexible demand for electricity.

Fortunately electricity storage technologies are also among the few technologies that are following steeply declining learning curves.
There is humor here, but this ain't reddit.
What's remarkable is that archive.org apparently embeds some kind of full-on Winamp emulator for demonstrating each skin.
Not a Googler, but probably "to fix the json in case someone leaves out a comma causing the notification system to no longer work".
What about Jira?

Ha ha seriously though, I was on a video call and people heard my laptop fans kick on and thought I was compiling.

In reality, I opened Jira.
In the case of Nintendo: probably not.
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>"I don’t think the effects of CBD are comparable to THC with respect to getting “high”, though I don’t know much about the other cannabinoids."

It's not just about CBD. CBD is one of hundreds of cannabinoids contained in whole-flower cannabis sativa. The synergistic effect of them is what causes the effects of marijuana. THC is just one of many.

>"Are you speaking from firsthand experience?"

Absolutely, from someone who used medicinally for years in California.
Some details of an offer & acceptance of employment are trivial and not worth spoiling good will.

Me: "Hey manager, can I make an expense report for this work phone?" No matter the response, I'm ok with it, because I make Google money, and that's policy. I should work towards becoming management if I want that to change. But I probably have better things to do than such a trivial disagreement.

I wish corporations were less psychopathic, too, but this is not the hill I'd die on. Or, I'd be damn sure ready to die if I redlined as a "nice to meet you" first act.
"I am mediocre at math, but I can write it, and then verify that it is correct, and then it is quite abstractable and transferrable."

Imagine you encountered a meaningful equation with as many symbols as you have in that sentence. Count characters, or even count words+punctuation if you like. Odds are, you are not going to apprehend that equation with anything like the fluidity or speed your wrote your sentence or I read it... yet if you really dig into it, such as by diagramming, your sentence is a quite non-trivial expression. That you are handling fuzzy parsing, and doing so so well, argues for you being better at language understanding than mathematics rather than against it. Trying to read fuzzily-serialized math is even worse.

The average IQ-100 human being will on-the-fly both generate and comprehend in real time fairly complicated grammar structures, even with no formal training, while at the same time, it takes years of formal training to even begin to process very simple mathematical expressions.

On the flip side, one can argue that there are other considerations. What we call "math" has a very different shape that the things we use language to describe... "sharper", all the details matter, etc. On the other hand, my day job, like most of us here, is slinging around many thousands of mathematical constructs fairly casually as well, more like a language than doing math. I'm using fairly mathematical tools, but I often have the impression that I'm spraying them around like some sort of quick-setting concrete coming out of a hose, rather than crafting magnificent cathedrals of precisely-chosen abstractions, and there's a lot of reasons to prefer the former to the latter.

On the flip flip side, getting to the point that I can do this took me longer than it took to speak in English, and it doesn't appear to be something the average human can do very well....

Basically, the upshot of my point here is that language users casually manipulate hundreds of symbols spontaneously so easily that it barely even registers as effort to you, whereas math is generally not so easy. And even if the "shape" of language is somehow easier, it's not like it isn't precise. This sentance is incorrect, despite only a small error. This incorrect is sentence too. Math may be more precise than language, but it's not like it's a night-and-day contrast; if you look at language carefully enough you can see it's still fairly high on the precision scale overall.
The UK is doing all it can to save its citizens while the EU hangs on to bureaucracy and to save face it points fingers at the UK for approving a life saving vaccine during a pandemic. There isnt much more i can substantiate, the evidence is right there in the title. The EU has a long history or cutting funding to countries that go on their own - it even complained about countries closing borders early on in the pandemic and hinted retaliation. What more do I need to say?

Also yes, my account is trolling the collective echo chamber. Fee free to shadow ban it.
The Biden Administration Needs to Do Something About Tesla
I thought Slack was running on Perl CGI..
I walked a similar path and feel a similar sort of way. I'm not sure I'd have ever made it in this industry if it wasn't for the fact that I grew up when things were either simpler or had an illusion of simplicity around them that made them more approachable.
Machine learning (and more generally modeling) on graphs seems really powerful. Interesting to see continued progress in this area.
Yes. And note that this was introduced by Kamala Harris who was voting and releasing bills based on setting herself up for a presidential run.

This specific bill — which she knew would never even reach the floor of the Senate — was to counter her conservatism on drugs and incarceration as CA Attorney General.

She had one of — if not the — most "progressive" voting records in the Senate, but that's not to say she'll push these policies as VP or that they reflect what a Democratic majority would vote on (let alone pass.)
What surprises me is how common it is to not provide full contracts during the negotiation phase. How can you know if there is a clause that needs to be negotiated out without first seeing what clauses there are?
Linking to the homepage would be better, since there is no explanatory copy on the download page.
I discovered delta 8 a couple of weeks back and tried it. My first thought was pretty much "Oh man, they made a huge oversight."
Many people that have tried it, say that they prefer it because it is not taxed as marijuana so they get around paying a lot. I mean you can buy an entire ounce of 95% pure Delta-8-THC distillate for $100ish. To give perspective, it is a sizable jar and you literally can scrape out about the size of a rice grain of this hard/sticky substance and get ripped. There is a whole thriving market emerging with vape cartridges/pens, candies and different blends of various cannabinoids to elicit different desired effects.

Hopefully they will just pass the MORE act and we'll have full legalization across the board, but at least it will be harder to change the law with respect to just hemp derived products now.
I did not know that!

Is it new research?

I have read previously in many places (including NIH's webpage) that a link between marijuana OD and death is not (yet?) clearly established. Example:

> Overall, the committee identified no study in which cannabis was determined to be the direct cause of overdose death.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425742/#_NBK425742_pub...

This is a few years older than what you linked, so maybe my knowledge is outdated. But I'm not sure "popular belief" is the right description.
Or you can read it as "social pressure to do something for your entire life that you don't really want to do."
I used to hold Google in the highest esteem, definitively cracks in the wall. Is "don't be evil" still the company motto?
The privatized electric grid companies were granted permission to raise prices for funding grid expansion. A later audit discovered that they pocketed 90% of the raise. (the expansion cost only 10%)

Even closer than the hydro dam there's a waste incinerator plant 3km from my home. Even if the hydro wasn't 100% reliable which of course it isn't (the channel is drained occasionally for maintenance), they can burn trash at any time to make up the difference. On some days there's a funny smell in the air.

It's greed that adds to these costs.
> In Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, the neuroscientist is blunt: “The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span.”

I find it sad that people are still quoting this book. Many claims in this book have been debunked online[0]. The misinformation may even cause people to get too much sleep causing different kinds of issues.

As for me, this has caused me to come back with an impression of "we don't really know why we sleep." I wish there was a definitive source of information on this as popular as this book, but which is actually reputable. Now I just end up doubting my sleep patterns, waking up naturally and still being left unsure why I feel tired.

[0] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
I looked the name you mentioned up and found nothing. If you remember what the post is called, I'd be interested. I tend to enjoy Yarvin's writing.
This is not what's happening, and you have demonstrated both a lack of knowledge about the mechanics of the EU and a deliberate attempt to spread misinformation.
Taking the choice not to take the vaccine is not taking a choice about personal risk.

It's like driving drunk. It's personal risk AND risk to every other person around you.

When you do not vaccinate, and then go out and about, you are inflicting risk on immuno-compromised persons, for whom the vaccine doesn't work well.

Unless we lock anti-vaxxers in their homes, or unless we hold them criminally liable for infecting someone else, it's not a question of their personal risk.
You should read about the conspiracy to kill ie6.

The magical access to add stuff and just have fun was what made google a fun place to work at.

In this case adding stuff for your own corporate employees didn’t hurt the company’s customers and users. It shouldn’t have resulted in a termination. Had the person put a hate message they would have been terminated or penalized for hate but not for adding insecure code.
Here's a 15-minute introduction to Timely Dataflow by Frank, our co-founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnPmVf4YWo
Also, people probably don't understand the difference between the container runtime and container build environment. You can build your container with Docker still and it can run in a different environment.
You aren't required to have any phone. If you have a phone and want it to have access to corp resources, you need to agree to some conditions.

I have coworkers who choose to keep their phone personal only, and others who choose to have the company pay for them to have a separate work phone.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
One of the best media players back in the day. I believe even to this date it still is, offering a level of customisation and playability unparalleled by modern players.
I disagree. I haven't touched urbit in a long time but learning the language (hoon) and trying to do something with it was a delightful experience. After learning some number of programming languages it's hard to find something new, where you feel like you are exploring something. Most of them are just a simple mapping of concepts that you already know (yes, ultimately it's a mapping too but it seems to have more layers).

I don't know what secret of the universe do you expect to find there. If it would be highly practical technology or pareto optimal to anything else that's popular, it wouldn't be obscure.

If you did a deep dive and regret spending time, for things like these I suggest not going deep if you are not enjoying the dive. Life's too short for things you don't enjoy when you have your basic needs covered.

Also, while I enjoyed talking with Curtis I think it's important to be able to separate great things that people create from those people themselves. You don't want to throw out most of physics, math and computer science.
Your right it's not vague. It's pretty clear.

Add the fact that the contract was just 1 page, it seems they signed without reading. Basing their decision only on the words of the smooth talking sales rep.

They would have had my sympathy if the clause was buried within many pages of legalese.

But 1 page? Come on.
The Germans paid for it creating the market/industry. Vast amounts. Then the Chinese thought it looked like a good industry to be in and threw unbelievable money at developing manufacturing capacity. If the Germans keep voting green and being parsimonious savers then we may yet get cheap batteries and survive.
> exposure is exposure

Because damage to DNA adds up, and that's what causes cancer, right?

Turns out, DNA is constantly being repaired, because it constantly suffers chemical insults, mostly from reactive oxygen species. A carcinogen is dangerous once it overwhelms these repair mechanisms, and for that, it clearly makes a difference whether you take a single large dose or many small ones.
I said in a thread a few days ago that I'd help fund a port, but didn't think it would happen (the "binary blob" closed-source drivers being the main reason for that).

Guess I need to put some money where my mouth is!
The insistence on making the spoken interaction feel as "human" and "natural" as possible honestly introduces way more confusion than it needs to and makes the whole thing feel uncomfortable for its parasociability and stiltedness.

In Star Trek they were perfectly comfortable saying "Computer! Do the thing" in a more specific, 'computer' intonation. It was all fairly natural language, but there is no attempt to pretend the computer is a person. This made the thing feel more futuristic than what they're trying to do now.
I remember using Woodamp. That's one variation of it: https://archive.org/details/winampskin_dj-designs_woodamp
You can correlate virtually anything that requires foregoing immediate gratification with health and income. People that use condoms consistently have better health and income than those that do not. The list is endless.

It isn’t correlation vs causation, it is misattribution of a hidden variable.
Unless there's some hidden complexity to this site.. it looks fairly straight forward. Why have MS bought it?
This was news for me. Thanks for pointing this out. Makes sense to have cocaine at Schedule I.

Still, having Cannabis at Schedule IV is funny.
> That's very.. one dimensional point of view. You can't just call something a success when you made other people worse off in the process and simply ignored it.

Not really. It made people better off in the way it was designed to do. It was always going to cost more to give more people access to medical care (e.g. those with preexisting conditions). Rather than "making people worse off", it set the trade-off to a different point than it was before.
I also don't have a CS degree. The book CS:APP (Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective) is recommended on HN frequently. I picked up a copy about 4 years back and have slowly worked through it and my understanding of computer systems has grown tremendously. I spent the first 7 years of my career in embedded, I thought that I had a good handle on these topics already. I was wrong.
It isn't about the topic. Like if you tell me it's going to give me computer security tips and instead it's advocating for peace in the middle east I genuinely don't give a fuck. It's bonzibuddy crap. It's getting blacklisted.

I'd prefer you don't get fired for doing dumb shit like that because whatever, it's not going to kill someone, but I'm not going to use that team's adware shit anymore.
I always preferred good old Winamp Modern[1] and I also still use it on my Windows box. It's just clean and easy to see.

I don't have a high DPI screen, but I seem to remember there being a 2x mode, although I can't find that setting now so maybe I'm imagining it.

[1] https://archive.org/details/WinampSkinPack
Like work?
The future is now. Already my local gas station has a screen that starts playing ads the moment you start pumping gas. The mute button on it is broken from being pushed too many times, too hard.

Last year my parents rented a room at a 5 star hotel. The hotel had a smart mirror and I only ever saw that mirror play ads. It's insane.
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But if two numbers have an equal chance of being drawn, it's better to choose a pot you won't have to share.
Kiewit is the precursor company to MFS and Level 3 Communications. Level3 merged with CenturyLink and is now known as Lumen.

Kiewit formed in 1884.
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The Trello status page doesn't indicate an incident, but I'm receiving 503s and unable to load boards.

https://trello.status.atlassian.com/
Here in Norway it's because we sell our cheap hydro overseas, so that we can buy back more expensive energy when hydro is low. The owners make a ton of cash, and us consumers can only say "thank you".

Sure something something more reliable, but don't come here and say the cash they skim isn't a strong motivation in this equation.

At least a lot of the hydro is owned by local municipalities and counties, so most of it goes back into the local communities. But not all.
I played a game that implemented something like this. A player could have 32 buffs simultaneously, and on release there were fewer than 255 unique buffs. The id for each buff was stored in one byte and was bundled along with all of the other buffs into a much larger packet which also contained other player data.

The game later surpassed 255 unique buffs. Rather than change the packet structure, they repurposed a group of 64 bits which had previously been padding. Each buff id could then be unpacked by using the nth pair of bits from the block of 64 as the two high bits, and tacking on the original byte as the lower eight.
Yes. It’s called xhelper and it can survive factory resets.

https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/xhelper-malware...

Unless the factory image and firmware are completely immutable they can be infected. There have been other non phone malware that can survive on certain chips on computer motherboards which would exist independently of both RAM and hard disks. Even GPUs can be infected if they have memory that does not clear when the capacitors discharge.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/intel...