skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at Google too, and it's embarrassing to see you attack your colleagues like this in public - how is Jeff's statement "a lie"? Whether or not you believe the 2 week deadline is a hard and fast rule followed 100% of the time, Jeff never made that claim. 1 day is certainly unreasonable.

What makes you think they weren't given the opportunity? We were told specifically they _were_ given an opportunity to revise, and instead, demanded HR(!?) provide attributed versions of any and all statements made by any colleagues regarding the paper (!??!!?), or they'd 'work on setting an end date'

I'm not exactly proud, excited, or anything but pensive about this series of developments, and it's _highly_ likely Jeff feels the same way. Everything got too hostile and out of control here for people to be able to work together healthily moving forward, and I'm skeptical of anything beyond that being anything more than people attaching a narrative to an unfortunate breakdown in a relationship.
You seem to think I am stating Prettier removes all arguments and opinions. I said it "reduces the opinion surface". If some other formatter becomes popular, debating between it and Prettier is still way preferable over arguing over single versus double quote? Space around params? Opening brace at end of line or new line? Should if statements always have brackets? Should else statements start on a new line? Template strings or concatenation? Single or multi var? Let or const? Line up variable values on the same column? How many blank lines between functions? How long should a line be? How to format ternaries?

I could go on and on and on. And on some teams I've been on, people have. I just roll my eyes at all of this. None of it matters. At all!

Prettier takes 10 seconds to set up and our prettierrc file typically has one or two settings at most, often we don't stray from the defaults at all. It's totally painless. It'd take a very compelling tool to compete with that. If one comes along, sure, whatever. The goal is to minimize bikeshedding. Truly eliminating it is a tall order.
Please don't editorialize titles with misleading conclusions. The reword implies that D3 blood levels have no effect.

Actual title: "Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Severe COVID-19: A Multicenter, Double-blind, Randomized Controlled Trial"
I find this statement to be overly hopeful.

Legacy systems exist in all walks of life, for all kinds of systems. They've solved the problem they were set up for, and so even maintaining them is often something management can be unwilling to set a budget for.

There's an oft shown, but rarely sourced, image suggesting that the US Navy food service management system was running on MS-DOS in 2011, and if that is accurate, I can't find any suggestion they have since changed that situation.
Do you have examples? The closest I've seen is the person I replied to saying a key person in their less academic department spiked papers he thought weren't interesting enough.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25308225
It’s irrelevant to the argument and a strawman

Just because something isn’t the way we expected doesn’t imply that there isn’t an objective, underlying reality.

And that’s the heart of what nonlocal deterministic interpretations try to answer.

Given the chance.
They're not even a non-profit. I'm sure there are much deserving places to give your clothes to.
No, with `xrandr` you can scale to any fractional amount. For example, I had 2 24" external monitors (full-hd, not 4k), and a 13" thinkpad (chromebook, booted into linux). Obviously, the respective DPI's were way off.

Just a quick calculation in a repl, then called xrandr with the right scaling number, and presto, I had them exactly the same.

Then, with precise lining up of the displays, it was basically one seamless "sheet of paper". If I had a long web page or pdf spanning the displays (the laptop was directly under the monitors), then scrolling through it was quite "trippy".

I think because this was now a unified display where the bottom 1/3 was tilted differently to the top 2/3'rds (think of a curved ultrawide, but in portrait mode)

Honestly, it really was that simple.
You can't tell me if you placed advertising on Pornhub, your brand is not going to get recognized by men all over. I realize it's not what a lot of prudish corporations care for, but is it really going to affect Pepsi or mcdonalds if they just have an ad for one of their products next to that? Not a single person would think of less of them and only the media would criticize them.
Outdoor dining has been disallowed by many governments despite the evidence. I also fail to see how 500 people crammed into a supermarket is safer than 50 people browsing a giant hardware store.
What gets me is all this talk of an employee making their terms of employment known (this so-called "ultimatum") being somehow unusual. An employee/employer relationship is ultimately a running series of ultimatums. What's really discouraged is making each one explicit, but of course, that doesn't mean they aren't there, nor that occasional forthright discussions aren't customary. What do these people think a performance review is?

Usually the goal of management is to employ explicit, stop-gap communication to avoid having to get to the explicit question of continued employment, because the company has already made a committment to that employment by hiring the employee in the first place. Obviously, most employees want to continue on, also. So it seems nonsensical to view anything save an explicit declaration of resignation as the same. "I would like to discuss what would cause me to resign," is not a declaration of resignation, and the people reading this situation in good faith understand that.
Great article. A must-read for any researcher, especially in today's climate of research-mill academic production. It missed a nugget about the H.Pylori bacterial cause of stomach ulcer. To prove his hypothesis, Barry Marshall deliberately infected himself with the suspected bacteria. From Wikipedia:

"After failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Marshall, after having a baseline endoscopy done, drank a broth containing cultured H. pylori, expecting to develop, perhaps years later, an ulcer.[13] He was surprised when, only three days later, he developed vague nausea and halitosis (due to the achlorhydria, there was no acid to kill bacteria in the stomach, and their waste products manifested as bad breath), noticed only by his mother."
"Close" is relative. Most of the population of Brazil lives within the tropics, and the furthest point from the equator in Brazil is closer than the southernmost points in the US or Europe, where much of the relevant studies were conducted.
If Exxon had a fracking safety department it's goal would be to help Exxon make fracking safer, not to call out Exxon for being an unsafe fracker.
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2001)
That's why I think both are important: -h/--help for a short description, man pages for more detailed "handbooks". There Ideally there would also be a "compatibility" rendering of man pages bundled for systems like Windows that don't have anything like man.
I think you underestimate the effects of high bandwidth. There was a sweet spot in the late 90's when some people had broadband (early cable modems, generally 3 megabits, or DSL.) I had an ISDN line from 1996 through 1998, then a cable modem after that. The web was fast because it was built for dial up. As broadband gained more and more market-share, the bloat increased.
The answer to that depends on what is wrong with the mental models of the individual in question.

But I will suggest these two ideas as a rebuttal for some things I see as common errors in thinking:

A college degree doesn't guarantee a real career with a good income and financial security.

Being "good with money" can help a whole lot, but only if you first have some money. It fixes nothing if there is no money to work with or if the money you have is wholly inadequate.
The fish itself is pretty tasteless but it can be useful if you're Tracking Hayamoto.
Google claims they neutralized their legacy emissions over the entire history of the company.

Now about the billion cars on the road and the 40% of the world’s electricity being generated from coal.
If you legitimately agree with Bernie Sanders that "billionaires should not exist" (an increasingly mainstream idea), it seems unsurprising that you would get this outcome. If someone thinks smoking is killing people and you say "but actually it's good!", it's hard to see what kind of intellectually stimulating and complex conversation could be had from there.
Debit, credit
I've personally hit the point where I feel like React is my go to for anything - especially with Gatsby.

* If I'm keeping it simple, it's barely different than pure HTML.
* Free templating
* If I need Javascript (which I likely will), it's extremely easy to add anything I need.
I never understood why some peoplr could be so entitled and harsh to the people trying tl provide guidance and help.

Its disgusting.
a hidden major advantage of web is for hackability for power users/devs.

i can't hack dlls and local binaries, but i can easily make extensions and hack anything on the web to hell and back
I believe this is also the real reason why newspapers are sometimes called "rags" - although now it's been retconned into a a derogatory term. Cotton paper was way more expensive than pure wood-pulp paper, and far superior to it in terms of clarity, resolution of printed material, and durability.
If Exxon had a fracking safety department, it's goal would be to help Exxon sell it's fracking as safe.
On my 2013 macbook pro running Firefox 83 it spends about ~130ms in "layout" when expanding the comments (quick enough to be almost imperceptible).

https://imgur.com/a/nV14ybI

Seems to be a Chrome-only issue?
I don't get it. The website operator could remove or moderate posts. He could be forced to, and the whole website could simply be taken offline.
I didn’t have a bankroll during this time, but have a job that i found through a guy i knew who knew another guy at the gym, which kept me afloat.

I can say that I have been fortunate enough to not have ever been at that level of poverty and should probably adjust my statements accordingly. Looking back, as i wrote that, I most likely had just the States in mind and other Western countries, not societies that are considered 3rd world.

For those, I cannot fathom the issues they face nor will i even attempt to speculate as that would be just foolish of me.
"X has an insurmountable lead" almost always turns out to be wrong. You could have made the same argument with x86. Intel/AMD used to at least have the argument that they had vertically integrated because they not only designed the chips, but also designed the fabs.

Apple is a fabless designer, other vendors have access to TSMC as well, as long as they have space capacity. Realistically, other ARM vendors are about 2 years behind. A Snapdragon 875 scores the same as an Apple A12 on Single Thread Geekbench.

On GPU and TPU, Apple isn't that far ahead at all. TPUs are relatively simple devices, and the Snapdragon 888 already has almost double the A14 performance in TOPS on paper. GPU wise, the A14 (PowerVR derived) GPU is roughly equivalent to a 2016 era NVidia 1060. AMD's RDNA2 based cores for SOCs are likely more powerful and more capable (e.g. raytracing acceleration)

Much is made of how far Qualcomm is behind Apple, but like with AMD and Intel, Qualcomm has a wider market focus to address. Apple sells only a few SKUs, Qualcomm needs to make chips for a much wider array of demands, and so they're a jack of all trades, master of none. In much the same way, AMD and Intel have desktops and enterprise vendors to satisfy, including people running SMP systems. Does the M1 support multiple M1 SMP? Does it support ECC? The other vendors are kind of hamstrung by trying to make one architecture that pleases too many markets at once.

Look at the Anandtech Snapdragon 888 article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888...

"Qualcomm’s 25% generational boost is also less than Arm’s advertised 30% as the new S888 continues to use a 4MB L3 cache for the CPU cluster, versus Arm’s envisioned 8MB configuration for a high-end 5nm SoC with the new X1 cores. Qualcomm explained to us that this was simply a balance between cost, implementation effort, and diminishing returns of a higher cache configuration design."

Basically, Qualcomm needs to worry about what their customers are willing to pay for the chip and how much work it takes to integrate. Apple doesn't, if need be, they can bump the price for a more expensive SOC, Qualcomm Android vendors can't.

25% CPU performance uplift and 30% GPU performance uplift for the 888. the A14 gets 1583 Single Thread in Geekbench, the 888 will likely turn in a final Single Core perf between 1300-1450, only 9% less than the A14. The situation is the same for multi-core, roughly on par, and on Antutu, the Snapdragon 875 beats the A14 substantially, and wins on several 3dMark tests.

Apple does not have an insurmountable lead over the other vendors in terms of SOC, I'd argue that their primary advantage right now is their software has always been better. In particular, WebKit's JIT for ARM does a lot better than V8 for ARM, and Android Dalvik does not produce code that runs as well as LLVM on Swift (plus there's generational GC vs ARC+refcounting).

Otherwise, a 9% CPU advantage in single thread performance is nothing to write home about.
It depends on the org. Depending on company size, the Product Manger and the Project Manager can be the same person.
If you were familiar with the data, you wouldn't make statements like that, because heritability is a population statistic, not a constant. It varies significantly between populations, to the point where you can't make claims about it without controlling for the population you're studying.

For instance, we could say that the heritability of intelligence among the children of suburban Chicago families in a particular income bracket is 70%, but not that the heritability of intelligence in general is 70%.
Note that FAST was built by China alone, SKA is an international collaboration but without US involvement and NOEMA does have a partnership agreement for data access with the university of Michigan, but is operated and payed for by IRAM, a collaboration between France, Germany and Spain. Meerkat (at the top of the list) is also a radio telescope and while it is not build solely by South Africa and Germany, I have not heard of any US involvement that goes beyond US citizens hiring on at Hartrao or Cape Town. And in the last few years NSF has not just stopped funding Arecibo Observatory, but also Greenbank Observatory. (But they were more successful in finding their on funding and staying operational.)

And while the planetary radar at Arecibo was one of a kind, and something that simply no other facility has right now, it is not the only food thing about AO. The huge collecting area and the low noise receivers were actually rather good at finding faint signals. Networks of dishes shine when it comes to resolving power, but they have their own drawbacks such as poor coverage of the u-v plane or the inability to image extended faint objects.
As an engineer I find it very frustrating when the PM takes that role instead of the EM or the team via consensus.
Her exit from the company was not due to her research. It was for her behavior and her attitude. The paper was just the catalyst that kicked everything else off.

Why did they not fight to keep her, if she was so singularly brilliant? IMO, it's because she wasn't an employee they wanted to keep around.

People don't get fired for asking for opportunities to respond to criticisms. My guess is there were previous incidences regarding her behavior and, in this situation, she threatened to quit and they accepted.
> Do you believe in meritocracy? Because ownership of that amount of wealth is surely going to skew the entire system.

Your focus is too narrow. Broaden the timeline -- the meritocratic spoils cascade across the generations, as they ever have. It's part of the motivation to achieve.
Timnit: "if you don't give me x, then i am going to do y in a week."

Google: "we aren't going to give you x, so you can have y. in fact, you can have y starting right now."

i'd say she tendered a conditional resignation and they called her bluff and accepted it.
To be more accurate, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.

https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secret...
> the 80 column "rule" is as stupid in code as it would be in prose

I follow the 80-column rule in prose.
The alternative that most people go for is generally to pay people in higher wage economies - worsening the lack of opportunity in low wage economies.
This is a false dichotomy. GP did not suggest a planned economy as a solution, and more generally a planned economy is not the only alternative to wanton capitalism where government rather has more control over resources.
It’s not hard to escape poverty at all, especially in America. Just requires that you’re willing to pursue a skilled career.
No, starting a business takes capital. You can build a Django website from your basement for free, but to turn it into a profitable business takes cash.
Investors are an instantiation of the class Customer.
How the hell are you supposed to learn to code when you’re working 50 hours per week just to make rent and eat? How can you afford to deploy? And how can you market your product if you don’t know how to talk to your audience?

Sure, you will be able to point to many people who have managed to do it. But many, many others have tried and failed - through no fault of their own.
Do people really wear secondhand clothes and shoes if they care about appearance and can afford more fashionable, better fitting locally made stuff? This could be equally applicable to first-world countries, where most people don't wear cheap secondhand clothes although they're readily available
The children's genes are a collage of the parent's.
She is clearly the hero. Public seems to be on her side.
Good to know Paul Graham is still writing poorly thought-out articles. That guy's Lisp code must be a nightmare.
It was written in 9 days, which is astounding. I suspect that the project was given a week to complete and it came 2 days late. In any case it seems unlikely that it’s problems would go away if given another 5 days. A lot of the wired things in a scripting language only become obvious at scale.
VS Code respects the indentation level (provided editor.wordWrap has some value other than "off" and editor.wrappingIndent has some value other than "none"). In other words, if a line needs to be split into 2 "virtual" lines to fit in the window, VS Code inserts a "virtual copy" of the line's initial whitespace before the second virtual line. By "virtual copy", I mean that the copy of the whitespace is never inserted into the file, but is added during the rendering of the contents of the file into the window.

Emacs on the other hand, has the problem you describe, and probably always will because of how hard xdisp.c is to modify and because the maintainers of Emacs probably do not consider the problem important enough to justify a big change to xdisp.c.

I was never a vim user, but my cursory investigation led me to conclude that vim, too, has the problem you describe.
I'm in that category - I've noticed is that me and other mountain climbers and hikers seem to age better.

Could be selection bias - the unhealthy with poor eyesight could have quit or fallen off a ledge.
I assume that foundation was started by David A. Sinclair? Same author of this book?

https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-audiobook/dp/B07QGH1Q43/ref=...

Very interesting research in that book but honestly, very little actionable paths for the reader. We aren't yet to a point where it's possible to just pop a pill and live another 100 years. Probably the most effective thing you can do right now is caloric restriction, but that can kind of suck. The holy grail would be some way to eat normally, and slow the aging process.
I work for a restaurant group and during COVID we had a rather successful outdoor dining setup built with you guessed it... wood! Super versatile, inexpensive, and easy to work with. As winter approached, we had to think about ways to do 'outdoor dining' in a bit of a nicer method so we opted to partner with a modular home builder. Aside from the steel frame, the structure is clad with marine grade plywood, etc and was trucked and dropped into place. Minimal disruption to our operations or service! Imagine trucking in a cement or brick structure? It would be insanely heavy. Our current structures are estimated to weight about 20,000 lbs?
lmao get fucked what is wrong with you
I am not a physicist.

With that disclaimer.

Back in the 1990s I was excited after stumbling on some article on Bohm. Sure, the math was beyond me but determinism wasn’t actually ruled out!

Sharing this on various forums was met with outright hostility. The usual schlock like Bell’s Inequality “proving” that hidden variable theories are impossible, etc.

Bohm was definitely not well known outside of experts back then.

Things hav improved in the last decade, but I wonder how far we’ve setback physics by being so dismissive?

i.e., the failure of the scientific method is us.
I did my PhD program at one the world's foremost structural biology program at the time (TSRI). I've solved loose structures of metastable peptides in NMR (by hand-- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi800828u, those assignments were painstakingly conducted by yours truly with assistance from Jane Dyson). I've done thousands of crystal drops with insulin to try to cocrystalize it (and failed; the x-ray structure I got did not have the cocrystal partner). I provided the critical insight for the prep enabled EM structure solved by the postdoc at the bench next to me: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04339 . I'm pretty familiar with many aspects of the world of structural biology, but more importantly it's never been my primary - I've always been a consumer of the results first, a practitioner of it second.

It is my judgement that if you presented these results in 2003 anyone would have said "the protein folding problem has been solved". Nobody then expected "the solution to protein folding" to solve every single protein, and it's silly to now. If you're complaining about the 33% error rate, you don't know enough about ML to realize that that gap is going to get closed, and rapidly.

My argument is that it is "good enough for the uses that are in the domain of protein folding". There are a lot of things that are adjacent to protein folding (enzyme pocket analysis .e.g), but they never have been considered to protein folding per se.
Maybe they're just saying that "think of the possible uses" needs to be applied to itself -- "think of the possible uses of claiming to think of the possible uses."
You also need to already have the capital to get a skilled education and to support yourself while you do. Or you could assume large amounts of student debt before having a job, gambling on being able to complete your education and get a job before the payments start coming in. There's a student debt crisis for a reason.

And you better not get too ambitious and pursue a degree that's too difficult, or you won't be able to complete your degree and you'll have all the debt but none of the credentials.
OpenAI was founded in Dec 2015. They have a smaller budget than Pfizer and work on less practical problems.

It's a lack of vision and leadership from pharma labs.
This guy really considers himself exceptional
Opener works pretty well for this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/opener-open-links-in-apps/id98...