skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate a bit? My son is a mathematician, a post doc right now. While I would not say math is over funded, my understanding is that most of the money they spend (above and beyond salaries) is just travel related so they can talk together. That is they don't have expensive equipment like electron microscopes, server farms, etc. On the other hand I think you can make a strong case that math education outreach to under represented groups in math, like some minorities and women in some countries maybe does not get the attention it deserves.
> Electricity is only 15-20% of a country's electricity.

Huh?
But Marvel is a comic book universe not sci-fi.
> which means it's much harder to apply any sort of rigor, and much harder to get an actual result. But that shouldn't be an excuse to stop trying!

By this comment, if you program, I sincerely hope you've never written a buggy line of code in your life. As well I expect you have fewer bugs per line of code as your programs get larger and more complex.

As well I'd expect your code experiences the opposite of "code rot" the more changing requirements you receive.
Our landlord proactively offered! We pushed back a little and got an overall savings of around $6000 for committing to another year in an apartment we love. Well worth it.

Added bonus: The apartment is rent controlled so it will take 2 to 3 years before rent climbs back up to our old level, if we stay.
> Nobody is arguing that. The debate is around whether manufactured public praise is tasteless

I suppose it can feel that way, but on the other hand forcing oneself to find and appreciate others efforts and good qualities—even if there are perceptibly few of them—can be a good exercise, especially for those of us who are naturally quite critical. While I'd argue that it's a good virtue and intrinsically valuable, the habit is also practically beneficial: people perform better when they're appreciated and recognized; one's ability to form and work with teams is noticeably easier; it's easier to adjust performance and expectations; et c.

People often put the cart before the horse when talking about stuff like this. Manufacturing gratitude is doesn't make it less genuine or fundamentally less good.
I think things like Bootstrap are great because you don't have to get low level and create your own CSS theme from scratch. That's why a lot of the creativity you do see on the web is a mish-mash of different abstractions. Rarely now you see something built from the low level baseline and done entirely from scratch.

That's why I love things like the JS1K[0] code-golf competition which doesn't use frameworks or abstraction layers.

[0] https://js1k.com/
That’s an interesting thought. With all the work to “run doom” there has been since the early 90s, I wonder how much of that effort would make Doom run better on that old hardware; I suspect not a lot.

It ram poorly on 386 machines, and wasn’t until the 486-66 that it was acceptable and the first Pentium (P6?) that I remember it being smooth.
I think it's most appliances. We have owned three TV's, the first drew 450W, the next 160W and the current one is 65W. The new one doesn't even register on my meter on standby.
What's interesting and something I've witnessed first hand in NYC, that the tenants of rent controlled apartments will setup a black market for their rent controlled apartment in collusion with their landlord. So if they do move they will attempt to sell for the privilege of renting the unit, at the time this could range as high as $50k, the landlord and previous tenant would split this 'fee'. What's incredible is that for the right apartment in the right part of NYC amortized over a few years, this was a great deal for the new tenant.
Taxing unoccupied homes and apartments will fix things real fast.
> 100% keys with no gaps

The purpose of the gaps is orientation: you can feel that you are going to press F4, because there's a gap below and to the right of it.
All costs are eventually paid by the end-consumer
Public housing projects.
looks like a dyslexic mistake
The anti-tivoization clauses
Show HN: Low Fractional Dimensional Trajectories via Reinforcement Learning
The coolest ancient weapons discovered in 2020
Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, was recently in the Finnish news due to her negative experiences with trying to immigrate to Finland. She also wrote some recommendations to Migri (Finnish Immigration Service) for attracting talent to Finland.

https://caterina.net/2020/12/19/recommendations-for-migri/
Yes. Apparently, a new interconnection with France has just been completed, and there are plans for connections to Norway and Denmark.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/our-businesses/national-grid-ve...
The Design Space of Minds-in-General (2008)
Perhaps among other reasons, folks don't want to carry a giant adapter around with their laptop. I've seen adapters for "engineering" laptops, that seemed as big as my entire laptop.
I'm saying the analogy makes no sense because the keyboard doesn't affect the quality of what you type on it.
>It doesn’t get more left than SF and the corruption is rampant here.

Most of SF’s politicians would be center right in Europe and are more or less only accountable to their wealthy donors. This is the primary source of their corruption.
Wordpress is a fascinating example of worse-is-better in market-facing technology.
I was working with Wordpress early on and finally fired my last client 2 years ago.

What many inexperienced clients expect from technology is a miracle, a magic pill, and if they get an experience that is "easier" and "intuitive", they will ignore all other issues. It got uneasy quick enough for them.

I always found it hilarious, when I still had a consulting gig, when clients would cancel their yearly service and upkeep subscription because "we can do everything with plug-ins, and my kid/ friend/ junior assistant can do Wordpress" only to come back with a last-minute "save us" fix request because their install was hacked due to disabled automatic updates, crappy plug-ins (the new "wordpress expert" could not review plug-in quality).

And whatever they do, they always start changing the theme and colors when they take over. Because everyone is an expert on what they can see. Oh boy, does choice of font and headings formatting matter! Why waste budget on back-ups, static world-facing pages, hardening the admin, let alone implementing testing and statistics to identify customer needs and interest, etc.

People are fascinating - today, most of them have lost data when a phone or computer crashed. They know about back-ups from past painful experience. But if you look at statistics for themes vs back-up implementations and downloads, It's the presentation that matters most. They can't tell you why. It hurts them to articulate why!

If you look at logs for any world-facing website, you will see multiple scans for Wordpress vulnerabilities. If you review WP security history, it includes astounding penetration of core architecture. They decide Emojis are a core system feature? Not preventing user enumeration or XSS? Emojis get hacked. Tweaking theme colors is ever so important? Core Wordpress color tweaking gets hacked. JSON REST API is important turned on out of the box for some reasion? That gets hacked. Long history of bad decisions that should have not been enabled by default.

Wordpress right is not easy. But it gives the inexperienced customers more of what they think they want, out of the box, than any other CMS system. There's a lesson there.

For me as a consultant, it was: either outsource a large part of my business to someone very cheap and work as a reseller if I want to stay in Wordpress, or raise my customer quality.

It is unfair to blame the customer, we are not any closer to core scientific principles in computer education than when we started. Information science should be core of the school curriculum, and we should have the same open scientific standards in our digital literacy courses that we have in physics or biology. It would be great if people could understand the difference between information and presentation, for starters.

It was impossible to point out to my customers that Craigslist was successful without any styling because they were delivering value to their customers. Most thought a good website "looked good, you know, like Apple".
I imagine even if something like that was being actively worked on, very powerful people would be working day and night to halt it, probably successfully.
While I'd never buy this, I find it fascinating that outside of the Western lens there are still a ton of different and competing technologies. Reminds me of how Russia advanced research into Ternary computing considerably further than the West.
Gutenberg Is horrible for blogging. It's great to design pages though.
Lots of ways:

direct ad sales and "reads" (old school way of doing it)

run pre and mid-roll in the content (again, already done)

paid live-streams with ticket sales. Paul Richards from Stream Geeks wrote a book on this.

Merch

Paid newsletters / content which is marketed in the show.

Everything exists -- lots of value in helping creators stitch it all together.

I see a similar opportunity how web devs helped grow the e-commerce for small companies, we will see the same growth helping creators stand on their own.
From what I read, main issue is a ban immediately creates permanent enforcement overhead. You have to continually test people's skis for fluoro-doping.
That is back in throwing out the full bath tub, though. I am sympathetic to the thought, but I'm not convinced it is efficient.

Would be interesting to see how often the studies can replicate. Are they worse than studies in other fields?

And, to my other point, is this and different from other fields?
From seeing the robotics field from a distance - the issue doesn't simply stop at high-level intelligent algorithms; there is also the problem with actual hardware. The human body is an incredibly efficient biomechanical system that can perform a wide array of delicate movements, and current robotic systems are still too far away from reasonably mimicking human muscles, joints, and sensory nervous systems. Robots might still has difficulty in performing everyday tasks done by humans, even if the algorithms are intelligent enough.
>Its arguably harder for Countries outside your own/those that are in good standing with yours to affect your life.

Given full access to your email they can do a lot of things that would cost you your job and potentially lead to criminal charges. Given that these governments are actively performing cyber crimes in your nation of residence why wouldn't they use you (and your credentials) as a stepping stone?

The risk is low but so is the risk of your own government going after you. Neither is zero.
Accurate Estimations
The giant parking lots and 6 to 8 lane roads are what would need to go in order to make a place walkable on the level of SF or NYC. Additionally, a lot of the smaller, quirky high density living in these cities is because they didn’t have to comply with ADA at the time of construction. If you start adding elevators and ramps and the space needed in passages and doorways for wheelchairs to turn around, you will end up with a much larger footprint.

Granted, ADA and other upgrades in quality of life are nowhere near the big problem of the cost of reducing lot and block sizes retroactively. The design for cities made for cars and for pedestrians are fundamentally opposed, and cannot coexist.
The option for a monthly/yearly email with a summary of your reviews might work well to avoid too much spam.
It's an age old issue. Christianity, before it became the religion that it currently is, was known as the religion of widows and orphans when founded. It was meant as an insult as it wasn't prestigious at the time, but clearly there was a fundamental lack of care for those groups that caused them to cling to a new religion.
I find this whole discussion a bit off but if you don't have a stake in the WordPress ecosystem and don't want to self host why not try Ghost, substack, weebly, wix and others ?
Tangential: Noah Smith is one of the more rewarding people to follow on Twitter. He often posts long, thoughtful threads. I've learned a lot from them.
Welcome to a place in a Pompei insulae, circa 100 BC :-))
It's such a simple solution which would never pass almost anywhere in the world
There are two very different versions of this.

People who refuse to learn any new tech or tooling while on the job will find fewer and fewer positions. That's fair. The key thing is that there is a second group, that doesn't know the trendy technology and would be able to easily learn on the job but doesn't get hired because they didn't learn it on their own time. Failing to hire the second group is a problem.

I've never encountered a skilled engineer that couldn't pick up a new language/framework/architecture/workflow/process relatively quickly.
We still sell and use them (small B2B focused clec/isp in Oregon). We use them fairly commonly as dedicated voip links, or for PRI phone systems where the customer insists on avoiding voip. Also in some places they are about the best connectivity you can get when the only alternatives are way oversold dsl or trying to aim a wisp antenna though some trees to catch a signal bounced off a mountainside. And, if you have the means, (and ILEC cabling facilities), the circuits can be bonded together to arbitrary numbers. So, yeah, it's slow. But it's better than nothing. That said I fully expect Starlink to take that ultra-rural business in the coming year or two.
Probably not. Not in any language. If it was it would have been done a dozen times.
Aren't NYC apartments consistently cheaper than SF?
H So by that token, hats off to the developers who don't intentionally put bugs in their code when they could and allow a friend to capture the exploit to split the bounty.
Couldn't that just be made with a browser that would allow to be run in a runtime mode with limited features?
apparently commercial printers leave microdots on printed pages that can be used as fingerprints. Perhaps an open source one would not. just a guess though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
It’s not illegal, criminally, to break terms and conditions. At least in the US.

You may have some impact on your career and be judged by your peers or perhaps brought to civil court for damages, but if done right it’s totally legal to sell exploits.
It's as if SS7 was deliberately SIGINT-Enabled to allow for snooping. I'm not saying it is deliberately weak, but they could have done a better job baking in privacy. SS7 telephony is horribly outdated and needs something else in its place, and preferably something not weak and something that can stand the test of time, going forward (possibly even quantum resistant secure comms would be nice to have).
Maybe something exponential? Small value first year, smallish value second year, expensive third year, super expensive afterwards.
It's a shame there isn't something between the Model B and the Compute Module, like the CM but with a built-in PCIe header say.

There have been a few popular submissions using multiple Pis in clusters recently, really the only reason not to use CMs there js the complexity of the (limited) IO that is needed, and the CM development board (for each one) dominates the cost and would be motr expensive than Model Bs.
How the police executed a lawful arrest warrant on a racist piece of garbage drug dealer who bragged in prison about turning people into junkies because they were white. And how his fat insidious thief girlfriend who is all over the internet flashing cash made by poisoning entire communities was dumb enough to walk in the middle of a gunfight, home invasion or not.

The Arab Spring turned into the Jihadi Winter. Black Lives Matter is quickly turning into Kill the Criminals.
I think NIMBYism only looks financially attractive because everyone who bought a square of land in a "city" since the 1970s or so and held for at least a decade has won big regardless of where. That doesn't mean that SF/SV isn't forgoing a lot of money in order to keep its NIMBY policy. Think about how much just the squares of land those single family homes and low rise buildings in SV are on would be worth if the SF was developed to NYC, Chicago or Boston levels.

I think the fundamental problem here is that the people of SV people do not believe in property rights (e.g. the right to develop property you own as you see fit) to such an extent that they are willing to put their money where their mouth is and codify it in the form of (restrictive zoning and other shenanigans that hinder development) even though this inhibits growth and limits their upside.

Edited for clarity
I picked uranium because it's sufficiently scary to most people, not because it's special - you can say the same thing about any (stable) artificial particle too. My point was that without talking numerically about real-world impacts, this article has no meaningful content.

To clarify, you should absolutely be concerned about this particular category of particles - the impacts are not fully understood, but they are substantial and meaningful. I'm just railing against the consistent failures of modern scientific 'journalism'.
I would focus on eliminating nonstick cookware from your kitchen long before worrying about clothing. Maybe a RO water filter for your kitchen.
By the way, it's not a FOSS project. It's just open-sourced but it's not allowed to be republished even without changes.
The author undercuts his claims when he writes:

t’s true that some popular picture books do seem to have a suburban setting: Victoria Kann’s Pinkalicious series (2006-), the Berenstain Bears series (1962-) by the Berenstain family, and Norman Bridwell’s Clifford the Big Red Dog (1963-) come to mind. But these books also come to mind when I consider books I’d rather burn than read – not because they take place in the suburbs but because they’re so poorly written and illustrated. My only claim here is that the best children’s books forgo suburbia.

Just thinking about my kids' favorites of late and the Ladybug Girl series is set in exurbia and Mac B Kid Spy is set in suburban California when he's not flying off to England and elsewhere in the service of the Queen of England.
Part of the issue is I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with this project, so I'd rather not pay for it quite yet (especially as money is much tighter now that our third roommate moved out). WordPress I knew had a free plan without needing to host anything. I was hoping I'd like it/stick with the project and eventually pay and host it either through them or via a self-hosted instance. It was simply to get the project off the ground and started, but I wasn't willing to do that all yet.
Execpt that you entered "[in the Switch]" from your own imagination and it's simply not there in my original comment.

> Nintendo actual devices use microkernel based designs. We are way past the usual FUD against microkernels.

Regarding pjmlp post, yes that's true, it wasn't clear (and still isn't) to me from his post, that he specifically speaks about the Switch when referring to "devices".
Do you mean I should talk on phone to strangers, voluntarily???

I... am too awkward for that, sorry
2020 Was a Breakout Year for Crispr
Dear SF,

More apartments built are the only thing to make housing more affordable for normal people. But, when you think of them, you're thinking way too small. You need to think in terms of, like, literally doubling the number of apartments available, and they may then be in reach of normal people once more.

You also need to get yourself together and reverse that trend where your transit system has carried fewer people more slowly for more money since the eighties. (The bus-rapid-transit corridors are a good start, as they're much more transiting for much less money than new subways, but you're still thinking too small, and need to 10x your ambitions.)
Edmund Clarke, 2007 Winner of the Turing Award, Dies of Covid-19
Hm, that definition accidentally includes Electrical Engineering, doesn't it?
I actually fear for gen Z.

Imagine the meanest dumbest thing you ever said at 19 or whatever.

Now that's a part of a permanent record that could come back to haunt you well into your thirties. I often shake my head whenever I hear of a story of someone who wrote something nasty as a teenager on Twitter or something, and as an adult their life is ruined over it.

Like we all didn't say stupid mean things in our youth. Now it's just easier to broadcast it all over the world.

With Social media the only winning move is not to play
Bare metal amd64 with BIOS, amd64 Windows, amd64 platforms that understand shell scripts and ELF or Mach-O, and any platform that understands shell scripts and has QEMU installed.
5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. For a massive capital intensive business, high-tech, and with a much smaller internal market than China, that's quite an achievement.
I think my concern really is about the final 'negotiated' compensation & the parent's universal strategy to get there. I would imagine (correct me if I'm wrong) that regardless of the spread of the initial offers, you can reach a final negotiated compensation that is more or less in line with your market value. I would imagine that the more seasoned you are, the better you are at estimating your market value. You have a relatively clear eyed belief about what the final negotiated compensation would be, so why not just pad that as your starting bid? What's the downside? The parent's strategy of never revealing your number first doesn't make sense in that regard. For a seasoned worker, I don't see the payoffs at all.
You can buy a nanopore, no need to go with an Illumina. You can clearly do genomics at home with this.
It’s completely possible to live on a minimum wage job and not be a miser. The trick is to not live in a coastal megacity.

Source: myself, after college, working at a bakery in a Midwestern city.
One thing is the low level of educational attainment required for cops in the US.

Some US police train only few weeks. Others just few months. In most European countries they train for years before they can go to the street. Selecting people who don't manage to get education to carry a gun makes different culture than requiring high school bachelors degree. Trained professionals vs. incompetent bunch of dropouts.

FBI seems to be more in line with what you would expect from a cop on a street in developed world
Financial services doesn't help, it's such a large part of our economy that it tends to suppress other sectors. It's our form of Dutch disease.

Brexit adds to the pressure, we are likely to lose most of our car production over the next decade.
That's an entire research/engineering field. I guess you can read/view SIGGRAPH papers and presentations to get an idea what they're doing to achieve realtime performance.

Common things that make a scene too difficult to handle for brute force sampling approaches: caustics, difficult to reach light sources (small or behind openings), many light sources, camera or motion blur, volumetric materials, etc.
Algorithms approximating the behavior of real materials also is a complex topic, e.g. skin or hair are handled separately from dielectric or metallic surface models.
Some optimizations can solve one problem well in isolation but fail when encountering a combination of them.

Here's one that tries to solve caustics and small light sources at the same time: https://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/papers/2012-vcm/2012-vcm-p...