skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like arguing hydroponics will never be more cosy-efficient than a greenhouse which will never be more cost-efficient than a garden. Because the former each uses more energy and speciality materials while the latter each can offer a more integrated ecosystem.

I'd you see it purely economically, the question is just a matter of inputs vs outputs. If you can take grain and circumvent the inefficiencies of a chicken (gets sick, grows feathers, grows bones, produces excrement, ...) and instead get the same nutrients more directly to produce meat of course it's more efficient. The question is just how much else is needed - energy, space, cost of producing the initial materials, harvesting time, ...

Not to mention moral implications that a vegetarian might care about or practical elements (can you grow it with flavour?; do you need less space?; ...).

That said, obviously its not going to touch the ubiquity of chickens anytime soon - eapecially in poorer countries - as the tech is high cost while you can start your own chicken coop with two eggs or chicka. But heated greenhouses are also not replacing tomato fields and yet they have a huge role in some regions of the world.
But this supposes that there is some deep and nefarious need for Google to kill a paper written by some AI Ethics people. From looking at their recent pubs I can't think of anything remotely significant about any one paper they could write. Hopefully we'll get a full leak at some point.
> Timnit had submitted dozens of papers before and unless the process requirements are completely new, she would be well aware of them. This seems more of a case of selective enforcement, where she had been allowed to go around the process in the past (or felt that she has enough leverage to be able to do so now) and then not being allowed to do so this time.

If the established practice differs from the nominal process, a no-notice switch to rigorously enforcing the nominal process is for most practical purposes no different than a no-notice change of process. Out of date documentation is at least as common in human processes as software; the real process is what is actually recurrently executed, including how that recurrent practice takes into account position of particular participants.
I've always wanted a metric for how well talent correlates to victory in a given game.

For me, Super Smash Brothers Melee is a great example. Let's say I'm rank 1,000 in my city, and I play someone rank 250. I expect to loose 99% of those games.

I can't say the same thing is true for Call of Duty. It may be perception bias, but I think there's a LOT more variance between skill and victory. What's the breakdown of expected to actual performance? Would it be a 90% win rate, etc?
My wife gets most of her clothes on threadup. It’s great. Menswear and boys clothes are much harder to find used. My guess (based on my kids) is that boys are just so rough on their clothes that they are only good for rags when they’re done.
Imagine an immortal Mark Zuckerberg. Stuff of nightmares.
"voluntary" is pulling a lot of weight here. Let me know when food and water become voluntary things for people
I don't think so. I once took on the challenge of writing as many unit tests as possible for a project at work (the project did not have unit tests - but was well covered with other types of tests).

The two key takeaways I got from the effort:

First, I had no idea how coupled my code was until I tried writing many unit tests for it. If it's hard for you to instantiate your class without involving N other libraries/objects, your code is very coupled. No one in my team would have looked at the code and said "It's highly coupled". The real proof was "Can you test this in isolation?" If not, you're strongly coupled.

I had to redesign a lot of bits to succeed, and as another commenter pointed out, in my attempts to do so my code really was a lot better. I discovered good principles of design in doing it.

The second thing I learned, which may appear to disagree with the first: There are always easy ways to write code to be unit testable. Most of those easy ways are bad and reduce the "quality" of your code. Forcing yourself to not redesign just "for the sake of writing tests", while still ensuring you have 100% code coverage, will really force you to think heavily about your code, architecture, failure points, etc.

So a 100% code coverage really doesn't tell you if you have good code. But less than 100% does indicate potential problems.

(I personally did not go for 100%, FYI).
I think you are missing the biggest advantage of F#: computation expressions.

Computation expressions are like do-notation and list comprehensions in one feature. Now that I have tried them, I don't want to go back to a language without!
Conferences of this kind would not allow major revisions unless they were requested by the conference's reviewers.
If Amazon hired warehouse workers at $25/hr would it still be making massive profits?

Amazon has 1.3M employees in the US and $11B in profit globally.

If you increase the wages at the bottom that pushes everyone up (why would a manager of the warehouse workers make less than the people they manage?).

So if you divide up that $11B in global profit across all 1.3M US workers, you get $8,700 per worker or maybe $500 extra per month after tax. A much appreciated boost by the folks at the bottom, but now global profit is $0.

I’m certainly not arguing against paying warehouse workers more. I’m just saying the “billions in profit” don’t go that far in a company the size of Amazon.
So? I already said that I have utmost respect for those who create wealth. I am in full support to letting people create wealth as much as they want.

What I firmly oppose is someone who has a birth lottery of being born to such wealth creators - they don't deserve to inherit a vast fortune and all the power and privilege that come with it.
I’d offer that you would find that most vegetarians and virtually all vegans would not eat lab-grown meat.
A few answers based on my recollections. JavaScript was a trade with Sun. Sun allowed them to name it that and Netscape integrated Applets into the browser.

As for the API, yes. You could control the DOM from Java without the big grey square of an applet through an API built into browers at the time:

https://web.mit.edu/java_v1.5.0_22/distrib/share/docs/guide/...

However, it was rarely used. The world might be a far different place if folks had used a higher performance (and at the time far more capable) language for manipulating the DOM early on rather than the focus on recreating the whole UI of the application on a canvas.
That's not my problem. Seems worse to force companies to do business with groups like QAnon.

Freedom of Speech vs Freedom of Association, which do you support?
Altcoin outperforms top digital assets, surging 50%
Cherry-picking C++ as an example?
Jeff's document says she submitted without asking for approval, so the request was to withdraw that unapproved submission. It is reasonable to interpret that as permission to revise and resubmit. She seems to have had her heart set on this particular conference and submission deadline.
> Define better.

Apple's "little" cores are roughly on par with the performance of the big cores in a Galaxy S10 while only having the power draw of the current gen ARM "little" cores.

>The performance showcased here roughly matches a 2.2GHz Cortex-A76 which is essentially 4x faster than the performance of any other mobile SoC today which relies on Cortex-A55 cores, all while using roughly the same amount of system power and having 3x the power efficiency.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16192/the-iphone-12-review/2
Its intentional. Even with the redesign it used to be somewhat usable on mobile but they make it worse every update to push you on to the app.
I don’t know about you but I’m able to pass the initial phone screens of most companies including every “FAANG”. It’s the technical interview portion which is the trap. You are expected to think on the fly while being scrutinized by someone who doesn’t want to be there and who’s seen failure after failure and fully expects you to fail too. Meanwhile they have all the right answers to the questions while you’re floundering around. All this undue pressure and your then expected to solve some esoteric question and put it in the form of an algorithm. If you’re able to do this than at this stage you’re well on your way to actually landing the job.
Yes, but what does this have to do with anything? Except that it's vaguely futuristic and somehow people are obsessed with the idea that futurism === Mars colony.
Well the other way to think about the problem is that protein structure can be robust to sequence changes. Among natural proteins, proteins that look similar can differ up to about 70% in sequence identity (since evolution had a hand in making sure the structure stayed folded as the sequence diverged from its ancestor). So long as some critical members of the sequence are preserved, the protein folds roughly to the same structure. AlphaFold does take advantage of this since part of the algorithm looks for sequence alignments with known proteins.
I am not using SAFE, but something similar:

* Suave

* AWS

* Fable

* React

SAFR? It's great, but missing a snazzy acronym.
r/BuyItForLife on reddit is a decent resource.
The name of astromycologist character on ST:D is not a coincidence.
Tracked vehicles require centralised traffic management and scheduling as they cannot casually overtake one another as street traffic can, and setting switching points and clearing control blocks is required for safety.

Passengers transferring to other lines or transit modes may also appreciate predictability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralized_traffic_control
> "I don't know why we're so hesitant to just close bars and restaurants everywhere..."

because despite the fearful hype, there's no evidence restaurants are significant sources of spread. bars, at least, are more plausible (because of social dynamics, not fluid or viral ones), but still not conclusively proven to be significant transmission localities. transmission is primarily happening in private social gatherings, not in public places like restaurants, gyms, or grocery stores where we see so much attention being misdirected.

this paper, like similar others, paints a possible but unlikely picture of how a couple infection cases might be related, out of probably thousands (millions? billions?) of other possibilities. it's a classic case of availability bias--creating an explanation based on the limited observed information at our disposal, while expressly ignoring the much vaster array of information we don't, or can't, observe.

it's clues tied together to create a pat narrative, not conclusive, nor even particularly persuasive, proof on how transmission happened in this scenario. it's only one possibility among many.
One of the best comments I've ever read on HN said that they should be called interruptions not notifications. Interruptions are fine for certain things, but not the vast majority of them.

The biggest one I've switched off is email notifications and it's made me so much more organized. Instead of swiping away an interruption when I can't respond properly I'll pull the information when I do have time/ability to respond, bills now get paid on time for example.

Google is one of the biggest offenders at re-enabling it's own notification though. Youtube, an app I don't want and can't remove decided to start spamming me again last week.
Quantum computational advantage using photons
Not really. If someone designs a COVID vaccine tomorrow and decide to charge just 1$ for every person receiving that, I would not begrudge them becoming a billionaire when a billion people benefit from that vaccine. That is some real value created and delivered to the society.
The actual visual design of the new site is better. Its just functionally crap and loaded with spyware/adverts.
> Gupta is not an expert on viruses..

If having one's virus research repeatedly published in the world's top journals, and securing a patent for a novel influenza vaccine, does not make one an expert, I think maybe we're casting too narrow a net. Not only in Sunetra Gupta an expert on viruses in my book, but one of the world's best.

> Asserting that all coronaviruses are similar and must have very similar effects in the short and long term seems like a very bad assumption to make

But I didn't do that. This brings us back to my original question: is there evidence that "long COVID19" is different than other long covids? If I'm understanding you correctly, you seem wont to presume that the answer is "yes", simply because the acute affects are different. But, as I pointed out, viruses with a wide-range of acute effects all produce clinically similar "post-viral syndrome". To my knowledge, there is no convincing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is an outlier in this specific respect. Or am I wrong?
You'll get there. In five years, your life is going to look quite different.

But on the way, don't focus so much on what's bad that you miss enjoying what's good. You're not going to get this time back.
You saw 25 doctors?
Cheap, renewable, flexible, durable. You can put nails and screws through it pretty easily. K.I.S.S. Also... cave shortage.
Sorry, as you know it's a contentious issue and we get tired of repeating the same information. Then again, I'm sure you get tired of repeating yourself too.
Protein folding is often aided by chaperones.

Usually chaperones just accelerate the process, but some proteins requires chaperones to fold properly. chaperones. some of them prevent or correct damage caused by manifolding.
Really? Even those that converted to being vegetarian and/or vegan?
I have no horse in this race, but generally speaking you should really refrain from teaching propaganda trolls how to be less obvious. Letting them out _themselves_ simplifies life for everyone else.
Android on RISC-V will go over as well as it did on Atom. Apps with native ARM code will suck or be unusable.
Well, the company is in slightly different position from the manager. They can abrogate the manager's authority, but that would permanently undermine that individual. On the other hand, they can also choose to accept the subordinate's resignation. They could try to transfer the subordinate somewhere else, but that's also risky, and wouldn't really address the ultimatum in this case.

Accepting a resignation achieves three separate objectives:

-resolves the ultimatum

-discourages future ultimatums

-preserves the status quo ante
> The problem with accepting anti-social behavior is that you encourage it.

Not saying it's wrong or right, but couldn't she make the exactly symmetric argument?
Sounds great! While I have been gradually reducing my meat intake. I still love it too much to totally give it up. This sounds like a great solution.

I don’t think eating animals is unethical but I am not a fan of how industrial agriculture works. Especially how animals are treated.

This approach could solve all the problems. It is better for the animals and we don’t have to listen to the most crazy animals rights activists anymore.
Poshmark is doing all right. I've bought some Patagonia items at a steep discount.
Heritability studies suggest this is much more strongly mediated by genetic factors (such as IQ and time preference) than social factors.
Can't resolve that domain name.
Impressively bold moves. Thanks for the links... very related.
I've actually built several wooden (frame) houses, although in Europe. They have their advantages and disadvantages. Essentially, they are fast and cheap to build. Personally if I was building myself a long term house I would not use wood as a core material.
You're still assuming that all the clothes you own are clothes you can or would wear in the first place.

There's all the t-shirts that get handed out at work or volunteering that are required to wear at a specific event. College students at some universities get a lot of these, but don't have much space to store them.

There's gifts from well-meaning family members that don't fit or are totally inappropriate (clothes for the wrong gender, fancy clothes that have to be dry-cleaned and don't follow the work dress code).

There's clothes that used to fit but don't any more (again, basically everything teenagers and young adults own). There's clothes that were required for one job and aren't for a new one, especially clothes that would have to be dry-cleaned.
FWIW, I didn't take offense at this. The truth is it's probably a little of both. But in my defense, I will just say that if I failed to explain it well, I would not be the first.
There is not strong evidence that these feedback loops actually exist. Wealth is actually strongly mean-reverting along genetically heritable lines.
For this (me) critic of billionaires (the possibility of being one, not the humans who are), it’s not ideological. It’s based on an analysis of leverage (like GP’s comment), where the levers are necessarily some mix of advantage/privilege (feedback loop as discussed all over) and exploitation (not solely as a moral issue, but that issue is inescapable). It’s impossible to be/become a millionaire without access to, and activating, those levers. I don’t care about the moral character of the humans this analysis addresses. I care about the opportunity and moral failure it imposes on others.
You know what, you're absolutely correct! I should do a bunch of research in order to convince you of my point. I suspect this will be a really productive conversation, and will get right on that.
Hmm... in my experience, stable code is more likely to be correct than code that changes often. In fact, I would consider this obvious, given that there's a non-zero chance to introduce a bug with every change.
When you say we would not have Tesla or SpaceX, do you just mean the brand? Or that we would not have reusable rockets and electric cars?

That seems unlikely, considering the USSR produced the space launches, and electric cars existed before Tesla. Without billionaires, you'd also lose the Koch's making it hard to move away from fossil fuels, which I think would make electric cars significantly easier, rather than harder

If you just mean that we won't have those brand names, should I care? It's just a name
> Interesting thing to me is recirculated air vs. contained air.

The paper that started this thread notes that the only people who got infected in the indoor restaurant scenario they studied were the ones in the airflow path. Nobody else did, even though they were all in the same room with the same contained air. So this one study, at least, seems to indicate that just having contained air is lower risk; it's being in the airflow path of recirculated air that is higher risk.

That said, there is nothing in the paper that says that having uncontained air outdoors is not even lower risk than contained (but not recirculated) air.
I think code coverage (particularly condition coverage) is mostly useful for one purpose:

You need to get it close to 100% before you can use mutation testing.

Without mutation testing you really shouldn't be particularly confident that your tests are testing much of anything useful.
> Edit: Apparently they already ran JS on the server! I had no idea

Hmm, I started work as a web developer back in 2000, and I don't remember ever coming across such a notion. The first time I heard of JavaScript being used server-side was NodeJS many years later.
I agree with you that a researcher should be aware of current work relevant to the problem under discussion. Jeff's quoted email states that part of the issue was that Timnit's paper "ignored too much relevant research", without specifically saying whether the unmentioned relevant research was done by Google.

But the parent comment to which I responded, and which I quoted, specifically said the problem was to criticize google while working for google, and seemed to approve that this should be judged unacceptable.

> I get the impression that she wrote a hit piece on Google and published with Google's name. For me, it's correct they demand a retraction.

The "regardless of who's doing the work" part is key, and not all participants in this conversation are on the same page about it.
Cant they use an API Key to track down offenders?
How would your comment read if you replaced the word “amass wealth” versus “create value”?
Of course it’s happening, that’s what the article is all about. It’s what other commenters here are talking about.

And all the families that currently live high quality loves, without cars, in these places would find your assertion about “can’t have a family without cars” absolutely comical.

For large chunks of the US, top down urban planning has forces people in most areas to own cars. But it doesn’t have to be that way, it was a choice that was made, and a choice that can be changed.
According to Anandtech, the 888 performance didn't live up to expectations.

The one big core is only 13% faster than the big core on the 865+.

>Compared to the Snapdragon 865+ which clocks in at 3.09GHz, this performance advantage should reduce to only 13%, which is less impressive.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888...
In dirty bomb there were three objectives per match and if you somehow stomped the other team on defense the match would end after 5 min ran out on the first objective. If you stomped the team on offense then it was possible to complete all objectives in 7 minutes or less. On the other hand if there was actually a stalemate then the match could last the whole 15 minutes. It's an "old" game though. It's officially shutdown but the servers are still running.
This is a great example of the divergence between "military-grade" security and real world security. Most people will never "fully wipe, zero out, and then boot from cryptographically verified (locally, on other high assurance systems) boot media" so Apple's restrictions aren't a problem.
Why don’t we call one “naturally grown and killed chicken” and the other “humanely grown synthetic chicken”
> but it should be noted that those are not environmental questions.

Aren’t some of the ethical questions connected to environmental ones? Instead of chicken feed could one produce something better?

industrial chicken farming also produces waste and consumes water. Together with noise and smell there are surely environmental impacts.

Also an investment in labgrown meats could bring the cost down and is potentially a good driver for innovation. Not only growing meat for consumption, but maybe skin or other more complex cell structures for transplants or other medical purposes.
No, if the kid wants to be a billionaire, they should build
And ad revenue is 1/500th or so
CSS custom properties are not CSS variables
Scientists Suggest Using Graphene Heatpipes for 3.5x Better Cooling
I don't play COD any more, last I played was Black Ops 2, but yeah, I liked the swing of the rounds.

Having some easier rounds also allowed me to goof off, like doing pistol or knife only rounds. Sure I didn't contribute as much to the team, but the team didn't need it and I had fun.

Having some more difficult rounds could make it more rewarding to win the next round.

But constantly having to play against similarly skilled players to me would totally not be what I'd be after.
I understand that he poured a lot of money into the Las Vegas startup ecosystem in an attempt to mimic the success of Silicon Valley and had borrowed some concepts from what was happening in with Silicon Slopes.

I got the impression that he was a lone Atlas pushing a rock up a hill in Vegas, and the startup ecosystem he envisioned never really caught on. It doesn't surprise me that he moved to Utah at the end. They seemed to be accomplishing what he had been trying to do alone.

I didn't like the way Utah was moving though, and I left right before he got there.
I love how my parent question is being downvoted for politely asking a scientific question, in good faith.