skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those quantum models are just more obscure and more accurate abstractions. Otherwise we wouldn't have copenhagen and other interpretations. The fact that abstractions are accurate doesn't make them more real. Example: navier stokes equations are accurate, but they aren't water; moreover, by adding complexity to the diff equations, they won't become more like water.

This is what I really don't like about the modern physics: it's become an elaborate fortress of math models shielding us from the reality, and whenever we discover a missing wall in the fortress (dark matter), we just patch it with another clever math abstraction.
They will...
> The market

It is known that the FSP is holy, for it shall cure all our ails with nary a lift of our clicky fingers. /snark.

The market is us. We will adjust wages if people are behaving rationally - but people don't. The market isn't some external, independently existing force; it's observations about our collective actions. We're the market. It's weird (to me) every time that term is used that way.

> it isn't rational behavior

Of course not, people aren't rational, but even if they were, you'd still be (generally) incorrect. People coming to decisions that are against your expectations is much more commonly about your lack of visibility into other forces and information than it is about their cognitive processing.
The study didn't actually ask people to save dogs or people; it only asked people to SAY which they would save. In real life a person might save their pet over a stranger but might not say so in a study.
Why mothers?
I exist there for I am?
Yes, absolutely. During and after college (4 year university), I worked at a bakery in a fairly major Midwestern city. For working ~45 hours a week, I made roughly $1,200 after taxes. One room in a 2-bedroom apartment was $350, leaving me with about $850 for everything else. Definitely enough for cheap beer, groceries at Aldi, and other budget entertainment.

It certainly wasn't a luxurious lifestyle and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone, but it also wasn't much different than living in a dorm at college...or even the startup lifestyle, seeing that this is HN. Absolutely doable for a young person (as the original link is about) and not a straight ticket to homelessness.

For what it's worth, I also spent quite a bit of time traveling around Europe and had many art student friends living on half as much money in smaller cities in France, Germany, etc.
I don't know about firefighters but some public services are dependent on workers who commute from outside of San Francisco.
You're right on the money.

Any breakthrough that could either dramatically shorten the feedback cycle (from years to weeks), or reduce the cost of drug development by 100-1000x would unlock so much value as to completely reshape the structure of the Pharma industry.

The consolidation of the industry in recent decades could be justified by the high fixed costs of drug development that made it necessary to seek greater economies of scale, but in a world where the cost of drug development drops precipitously, the pendulum could swing in the other direction, unleashing a wave of decentralization in the industry.

Absent this kind of breakthrough, I expect only more intense regulatory and pricing pressures for the Pharma industry in coming years.
It's not 20 years, but the old Circuit City building in Assembly Square (just outside of Boston) has been vacant for 11.
Presumably the next iteration of the processor can remove them and use the opcodes for something else. Apple recompiles their system library, hence is unaffected. You can't do the same so peak M1 performance is unavailable for you.
They may be ever-shrinking, but their share of the revenue pie is growing.
> The idea that society would be functioning as normal without lockdowns is silly.

Given the large number of people disobeying restrictions, even in California, it seems that society would be quite a bit more "normal" if people were allowed to behave as they wished. See also how people flocked back to bars and restaurants when they reopened, how people have been crowding shops and malls, etc.
terrible hacking :Ð
Covid-19 made digital the default. Will it stay?
Why do you continue to keep the pet? Out of some sense of duty or shame of giving it up?

If someone told me they don't love their child but consider it cute I'd also wonder if they should remain the child's guardian.
Indeed, great point!
Vitamin D and Vitamin A and anything else you've heard from a naturopath in the last 10 years to stop covid. And there's proof:

> IgA antibodies were five times more effective than IgG antibodies at neutralizing SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/iga-antibodies-vitam...

> Conclusion Greater proportion of vitamin D-deficient individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection turned SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative with a significant decrease in fibrinogen on high-dose cholecalciferol supplementation.

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/12/postgradmedj-20...
> That enables the M1 chip to be faster in this case when developers use these instructions in their applications.

Or more typically the compiler will emit those instructions and everyone gets them for free.
Children can reason morally and do, they just didn't learn a lot of morals to reason with yet. Morals, i.e. what is good and what is bad, is something people never stop learning. Obviously learning moral values from cartoons isn't helping in situations with real people.
I believe that that's such a good idea that SF already agrees with you, has for years, and put it into practice long ago. The people who labor on public housing construction projects in SF are rarely city employees directly and generally employees of construction companies.

The items that make this expensive have to do with the standards that must be met, zoning and approval processes, and so on. These are things that a private construction firm, under contract with SF, does not find easier or cheaper.

Personally, I like the idea of SF maybe getting in the way of housing construction a bit less. But I also understand that voters seem to like the system as it is. Plus, only some of these laws are readily changed by SF - the plebiscite for public housing law is a state prop from the 70s. Many of the other requirements are also propositions at either state or local levels.

As you say, it's completely true that the government can change the relevant laws. It's just perhaps more subtle than that, as there are multiple levels of government involved and some of the relevant laws are quite challenging to change.
Torrents seed automatically. If I purposefully make my own film available as a torrent (I could be an indie filmmaker with limited funds for bandwidth), shouldn't seeding be understood as implicitly allowed?
To take this example to an extreme, would you allow the Pyramids to be destroyed in order to save one goat? A crab?

It seems entirely reasonable to me that some people would value an important cultural artifact over a kitten. However, I wouldn't expect ordinary people to choose the Mona Lisa over a human child.
Buttplug Project lead here! AMA.
As I understand most of the cost of a new drug is the testing and certification. It's unlikely that a new drug with the same testing/certification requirements is significantly cheaper than an old one.
Glad to see HN really interested in the technologies that will truly advance humanity to the stars, rather than those that encourage distraction by our limbic systems.

I'm sure that climate change and other existential risks will wait until after we're done with our sex toys to wipe us out.

edit: Brilliant response, "Hacker News". Maybe if you cum enough, we'll be able to grow enough cereal crops to feed 8 billion people in 102 degree weather, after potash is a thing of the past.
Some cars such as new Genesis models attempt this.
This behavior is defined in the HTML spec, here:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsers.html#crossor...
You gotta be careful with interpreting the old stories. Many of them were not meant for 5 years old crowd. I honestly never thought about Red Riding Hood as grooming story.

I personally prefered new stories to my children. When they were small, the traditional ones were too long for their attentention span and my patience. And when they were older, it kind of turned out we find them more fun.

Anyway, we liked Hilda comic the most. You might like it, or definitely did not led to psychotherapy feeling.
What's an example of a position that they completely liquidated?
I'm not who you replied to, but I'm the same age. Your questions are interesting so I'll answer anyway.

1. The 80s sucked. I was a dateless nerd in a shitty town in a shitty state for most of it. They got marginally better when I went to college in the more sophisticated and urbane state to the immediate east.

And that state was Alabama. No kidding, UA was MILES more sophisticated than the crappy college town I grew up in. I think this is probably because the University had much, much more influence in Tuscaloosa than USM had in Hattiesburg.

The music was cool, though. The last waves of punk plus the waves of more indie-style stuff, plus the explosion in Athens, GA, all made for great tunes. To this day, the opening chords of REM's first albums are incredibly transportive and soothing to me. (And one of the only times I've ever been truly star-struck is when I found myself in line at an airport bookstore behind Mike Mills.)

2. In the late 90s, I was briefly (and theoretically) rich on paper. Not "Netscape stock" rich or "MSFT rich," but worth about $5MM. Sadly, it was not liquid, and became worth $0 in short order. I was an investing partner in an Internet tech consultancy -- mostly, custom web sites and software, which at the time you could charge a lot of money for -- but didn't have enough stock to turn the boat. We got sucked into the massive-land-grab mentality, and tried to go toe to toe vs. firms like Agency, and predictably lost. But had we aimed lower we could've been a tidily profitable regional player. The lesson is that there's nothing WRONG with mid-market, you know?

The experience cost me actual money (not options), but it was also incredibly educational, and cheaper than grad school would've been, so I'm not sore about it.

Sadly, the dot-com crash left me richer only in skills. I had to burn savings to keep my house from late 2001 through early 20003, when I started making money again.

3. I have enjoyed my life in every state. At 50, I could prattle on about this or that that used to be cooler, but so many things are manifestly cooler NOW it's a bankrupt enterprise. And God knows I don't want to come off like some bellyaching boomer. I mean, think about it: how much would this pandemic have sucked in an era without broad connectivity and online community? There's widespread enough bandwidth, and good enough software, that my 80 year old mother can very easily initiate a video call with anyone she likes. Sure, most of the folks who post on HN probably had online pals they were gaming with or chatting with or working with a decade ago, but the non-digital would've been materially more isolated.

However, I will admit I definitely miss the Internet before Eternal September happened. There's more HERE now, but the broad internet culture moved from fairly intelligent and articulate to, well, nihilism. Few places reward multi-sentence or multi-paragraph expression now. (HN is a very notable exception.)
Perhaps children in our culture are "clueless" because usually they grow up far removed from the animals they eat. I wonder if children who grow up with farm animals, or in a culture dependent on hunting would feel differently.
Much of it is also unpalatable.
Right, and imagine that if instead of all your money going to the profits of the previous owner, your money could be used productively to pay labor to build new housing for you!

Instead of your wealth being transferred to a laborer who has less wealthy, it was transferred to somebody who is likely quite a bit more wealthy. And instead of your wealth being used to improve the city, it was all used for the profits of somebody els.
Great project. I made a fork of this recently that starts in full-screen mode: http://skhg.github.io/listen-to-wikipedia/?fullscreen for ambient sound on our TV

Repo at https://github.com/skhg/listen-to-wikipedia
2020 has proven that electric vehicles are the future of transportation
Lets not be too hasty on this. There are over seven (over eight?) billion (with a B) humans. There are fewer than a billion dogs. Pretty sure the answer is clear: prefer saving dog lives over human lives. Now, if it was chicken vs humans, of course, save human lives.

Now take this to another extreme, would you rather save the life of ONE giant panda or one hundred humans? I think all reasonable people will press the button to save the live of one giant panda and kill one hundred humans before you can finish the question.

Edit: Google says there are only 1,864 pandas in the wild with an additional four hundred in captivity. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+giant+pandas+are+th...
Similarly my dog is about to turn 8 months old in a couple of days. Not the first pet I've owned but the one I've had the strongest bond with by a long, long shot. But it's anything but the cuddly type, on the contrary - largely indifferent towards people or other dogs but he will go into full murder mode if he senses a thread(not so much for himself but for me). I'm not sure what that says about me but I wouldn't trade it's life for a stranger's.
Apple has been using GCP and AWS for years.

My understanding was they ditched Azure.
> Is there any good books that talk in-depth about cross-species mammalian friendships?

Looks like there might be some. You tell us when you've read a few ; )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecies_friendship#Refere...
From an AWS employee:

https://twitter.com/WindexCowboy/status/1333876188385841158

> The use of the Dedicated Hosts concept keeps the license requirement decoupled from the instance life cycle. While you do need to allocate the Mac for a minimum of 24 hours, you can launch and terminate a fresh mac1.metal instance on that box as many times as you like.
Roam-block: An all-purpose block ref and block embed implement in Emacs
Pretty cool! Why is it showing data that's 4 days old?
The Mac mini isn't intended for that type of use... they do make a rack mount Mac Pro ( https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack ). Give it a generation to get to the M series chips.
I would consider other organizations like Operation Kindness that have actual no-kill shelters. Personally, I do not like PETA, and would never have even thought their name in this discussion had they not been mentioned by someone like yourself. I get how other people might be enitced to believe in them as you pointed out Ethical is in their name. However, I don't put any more weight in that than MacBookPro is a professional device with its Prosumer specs (as I type this out on my maxed at 32GB RAM MBP).
You might want to read up on 'Fallacy of Relative Privation' to see why this point of view is likely to not be helpful. A good starting point is this[0].

[0] https://academy4sc.org/topic/fallacy-of-relative-privation-a...
Apple uses GCP as well as AWS.
- For knowledge-base organisation - Obsidian. It's a nice program and it works with markdown files with some nice features like a graph view and support for LaTeX equations. I don't need to access these notes on my phone/tablet.

- Anything else i.e. shorter form notes that I want to sync across devices and which don't require fancy formatting or organisation - Apple Notes.

Perfectly happy with both of these for their respective use cases.
Thanx goverment
Sure I can, because this post is not about me. I'm an example to illustrate a point. The point is actually about the economic rationality of centralized food production - whether it is more efficient for one person to cook for many, or for each person to cook for themselves, in aggregate. Economics doesn't care about individual people; it cares about incentives, efficiency, and the behavior of abstract firms in response to those.

The rest of my post was about specific ways that the behavior of individual firms (using myself as an example) may diverge from what the economic model predicts, specifically because of transaction costs. That and a counterfactual (Taiwan) where these transaction costs don't exist, to illustrate how behavior then converges on what economics would predict.
What scale is it using? It sounds very harmonious
This kind of service would be amazing with a browser extension.

Nowadays a lot of bloggers/reporters keep running round in circles before coming to a point. I actually wrote a post related about this a while back [0]. With browser extension this can save lot of time of readers. Heck I would pay for such a service!

[0]: https://www.ankshilp.com/stop_beating_around_the_bush/
I don't mean to dismiss algorithmic discovery entirely, I should say. It's good if you want it. But mostly I play stuff I've gleaned from elsewhere (read that article, got a suggestion, whatever).
They’re able to slip this into agreements because conventional wisdom (even post 2009) still thinks real estate never drops in value. Momentum is the strongest inefficiency in most financial markets because humans have short memories.

If I’m a dumb real estate investor in SF pre-2020, I don’t care if the bank puts that kind of requirement on me, because rents in SF always go up!
Scared is not the word. I am outraged that the community I belong to is so cowardly that it has allowed itself to be stifled and bullied by people with nothing to offer but their self-awarded moral virtue, a situation that I feel should be denounced loudly and often.
But I don't want to cure cancer.

I want to turn people into dinosaurs.

(https://imgur.com/YKaqaTH)
I assume it's just that some places are quite cheap, if you're fine with living in council flat from the 60s in a poor neighborhood.

From what I can find, minimum wage is around €1500/m, before taxes.
I'm with you. As I said below:

> People die all the time. Animals die all the time too. But this animal dying would have a huge negative impact on my life, whereas whether or not someone I've never met would not.

I also agree with you that human life doesn't have intrinsic value. Lots of humans are "good", but lots cause a lot of pain and harm to lots of other people and animals too.

So choosing a stranger of whom I know nothing over my own pet? Nope. Not doing that.
covid based loss of smell is suspected to be a result of an infection of the sustentacular and basal cells in the olfactory epithelium. It should return once the infection is gone. You should probably have that checked out.
So you went from hearing some promises to discovering gotchas in complex, decades old technology, decided to stop and then school the haskell community on topics they are very well aware of.

How very modest of you, if only they could listen.
How Romans ordered take-out at Pompeii
> Almost half of Americans live in the 100 largest MSAs.

Meaning just over half live in the rest, with far lower cost of living.
Octave on Linux has no problem with UTF-8 filenames, it can read from and write to such files without problem.

It's true you cannot use non-ASCII UTF-8 names for script and functions, since in that case the file name is also the command/function name. But that's a statement about valid identifiers, not supported filenames. Every language I know of has restrictions on identifiers.
I guess I think of Fortnite as a "custom" game engine since Epic owns both the game and the Unreal engine. So it matches the pattern, "FPSes are built on engines owned by the same entity that owns the game." But you could argue that since Unreal is commercially available Fortnite runs on a non-"custom" game engine. Depends on your definition.
I've been looking forward to this episode since the announcement of "new magic". The DHH interviews by Adam are some of my favorite episodes.

https://fullstackradio.com/32 Is another great episode that I re-listen to once a year, even if it is a bit old.
Have just been 'going deep' into type theory + FP + ML from a data science perspective, definitely interesting to hear about Dex here since alot of data science use found in the wild is based around numpy ndarrays & associated tools & easy/quick ways to do multidimensional numerics is a pretty 'core' requirement for heavy-duty number crunching.. having this as a built-in using ML types for indexing would be pretty ideal i think..

Anyone have any perspective to share about ML-family languages in the domain of what we're calling 'data science' these days?
MarginNote
This reminds me of a story an industrial designer told me: he worked on a dildo with a scripting system, so the ladies could set the number of milliseconds for each waveform profile on the haptic motor. The product was not a success.
I wonder how much of this, if any, is due to the fact that a lot of children may have faced the death of an animal, perhaps a dog but maybe a hamster etc. and have yet to live through the death of a close human. If so, animals dying is visceral, real and happening. Whereas human death is this abstract that they can't even really empathize with as it is so unsupported by any lived experience.
I haven't heard a great argument explaining why human life is objectively more valuable than animal life. The most common argument I hear, even from otherwise thoughtful people I know, is something along the lines of "because one is a human and the other is an animal, duh!" but I don't consider that to be a persuasive argument.

Is it because we value organisms that are "smarter"? If that's the case, is the life of a person with a high IQ objectively more valuable than the life of a person with a lower IQ?

Is it because we think animals aren't capable of feeling fear, pain, anxiety, and love?

Is it a tribalism thing? If we assume that elephants, chimps, or whales are capable of some level of ethical reasoning, are they expected to also value human life higher than their own, or would that be considered immoral because they're "species traitors"? Is the "moral" expectation that a chimp would value chimp life higher, a dog would value dog life higher, and a human would value human life higher?
There's something about news media that likes to emphasize Teslas and catching fire. I remember mid/late 2000's FUD about electric vehicles being a big fire risk, but I don't know why articles like these keep happening. By making individual Tesla-fires newsworthy they exaggerate the actual risk of fire. No one interviews the driver of a Dodge Charger that caught fire on the interstate.
Next decades? See the growth of China in 2020 with less than 100k infections and 5k deaths.
Ever since Lion(? IIRC when the license terms changed) there was nothing preventing a hypervisor to run on bare Apple metal and host macOS in VMs; in fact a frequently used one is VMware ESXi/Vsphere.

It just seems that the market isn't there and people just go for full-machine MacStadium rental or use their own hardware.
I view hunger almost like an addiction or a strong habit. If you eat 3 meals a day at 8am, 1pm, and 6pm, then you will feel hungry around those times every day. If you change your eating habits to eat only between 10am and 3pm, then you go through a period (of around a few days to a week) where you continue to feel hungry around 8am and 6pm or later, but your body adjusts to the new schedule.

At least, that's how my body adjusts when I go between phases of eating breakfast and not easting breakfast.
Automated testing should be done at CI stage, and you can submit a binary to Apple without having to send it live on the AppStore (TestFlight is for that), or you could send it to other beta distribution channels