skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is not "testing" in a broad sense, the difference is "tests guaranteed to pass" vs "tests may run if they exist but we don't gate on them passing."

Being able to guarantee that they pass means having the expertise to fix any issues, and with a timeliness to be able to fix them and not block a release. That requires people around to support the target, with a higher burden than tier 2.

(Technically, it's even more than "not block a release" it's "not block any PR that may start failing on that target," since all tests must pass before a PR is landed.)
You can't layer down to less than nothing. Even if you are naked, most people will find being in 100 degrees of heat with 80% humidity extremely unpleasant. And it is the high humidity that is a major factor. 110 and 15% humidity is much more tolerable.
Why do the bits add up to 63 rather than 64?
You can't be serious. There is an entire culture of seasonal migration (snowbirds) to places like Arizona, that exists simply to escape the weather in the midwest/northeast. There is no one migrating from Texas to Ohio to enjoy the winters there.
1) Non-fiction: Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

Entire e-book available free online. The recursion part is especially fun. If you haven't tried Lisp, this is a great book to start with, and it will open your mind to new approaches to computing without the tough academic grinding of SICP.

2) Fiction: The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.

It's dark fantasy. Emphasis on dark. Feels like real life, except less victimology. I find the darkness a palate cleanser, excellent for when I have to deal with the realities of people and their burning desire to avoid responsibility for their own actions.

You can read some short bits by Joe free at the publishers site

https://www.tor.com/2016/01/12/twos-company-joe-abercrombie/
Nim fits great on microcontrollers! Benefit is that it compiles to C and therefore can run anywhere C can. It also lets you reuse all the rest of the embedded C environment and build tools, which given the nature of embedded toolchains is handy for hitting the ground running. Rust's standard library/runtime binaries are really heavy compared to Nim's.
The assertion I responded to was that the only way to ensure "quality" was to support government regulation. I disagreed. Using the heavy hand of government to be sure that these toys don't break within a day is overkill. I suggested an alternative

Rather than argue against that specific point, people began arguing against another easier point: that government regulation protects us from dangerous things

While true, it's a distracting non-sequitur. Argue against what I said, not against a stupider argument that I did not say
You don't need to CE mark things that aren't sold.
Thanks for pointing out the thing about Uber, I honestly didn't know that!

For the spelling problem, I guess that in the end it's a non-problem, but for sure at the beginning it may be painful to keep repeating to you future customers how to spell it. If you have a good logo and a good brand, I think that the spelling problem is solved automatically as soon as your brand gets more awareness (:
I think that you are misunderstanding the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem states that in the event of a network partition, a system can either be consistent or available, but not both. So a messaging system that provided exactly once message delivery would not provide availability during a network partition. However, there are many applications for which consistency is more important than availability, especially if the period of unavailability can be limited.
I think it’s probably not worth having this debate because nowadays, unless you’re actually talking about a valid context (like a rocket engine), the use of the term more often means “soft realtime” which is, “pushed out across systems when it occurs, not as part of a periodic batch process”
Last I checked, there are _tons_ of "liberal elites" here (speaking as one of those, I suppose).

Let me check the public schools in my immediate neighborhood (I walk my dog past all of these)... We have two dual-language immersion schools (Spanish/English and Arabic/English), a Montessori school, and one school that doesn't fall into any particular bucket but is highly ranked. Those are the _public_ schools for this neighborhood. If you live here, you're going to one of those three or paying for one of the private (mostly Catholic) schools nearby. Hell, we're not even in one of the "good" school districts... Those are out in the suburbs.

You do realize that Houston _is_ the global R&D center for multiple domains, right? Medicine, Geoscience, several different engineering disciplines.

The migration you're talking about started in the 70's and has been going strong for many decades. As someone who moved here for work after getting a PhD, I can assure you, it's not that hard to "attract scientific-minded employees" here. My previous employer had thousands of positions that required a PhD. The overwhelming majority of those were filled by people who moved here for the job.

Yes, the TX state educational board is fucked up. That doesn't translate to what's taught in most schools in urban areas. It unfortunately _does_ mean that schools have the leeway to teach bizarre stuff, but most in the areas being discussed by this article don't.

The reason folks don't want to move here has more to do with the weather and traffic than anything else. (The weather really does suck half the year, but we get 4-5 really nice months of weather in the winter.)

There are definitely some sprawly areas that I'd recommend avoiding (Houston has more in common with LA than with SF), but by and large, Houston's a great place to live. I walk more or less everywhere I go, have a 110 year old house with a great backyard, and live within walking distance many of the best-rated restaurants and bars as well as downtown. This is the expensive area, and you can still easily buy a house for under $500k.

You just have to survive August...
> And the worst part is Amazon isn't cheap anymore, I have found that they have a 20-30% markup over their competitors and the cheap things just third party fake goods.

I’ve noticed this too, except it’s mostly with health and skin care brands that are trying to use Amazon for free advert / discovery and then push users to their site with lower prices and no Amazon take. I view this as a scumbag move by the vendor myself and find a new product from a vendor not doing this.
Oh great, maximizing alpha intergalactically. Time is money, space is time and the universe is infinite so why do I need to invest? The physics of heaven would invalidate everything you think is true.

Oh and I vote we change this to Cracker News since this place is full of stale minds and clueless coders who are experts at protocols and interfaces except when it comes to the ultimate device, iGirl.
I was actually confused if it also applied to non-EU European countries. I find equivocating EU and Europe when talking about laws pretty weird since there are many non-EU countries in Europe with very different laws and treaties.
Commits don't reach master until they have passed all the test suites. As such, it is very burdensome to add more test suites: it increases the time taken to run the test suite and reduces the throughput of all rust development. Not to mention, many of the tier 2 or lower targets are not easy to run in CI.

You could ask: why aren't the tier 2 tests just run before release? But then, if they are broken it may be a significant amount of work to fix, and could delay the release.

Maybe there is a middle-ground where tier 2 tests are run daily, but then you need a team of people just to fix those tests, because it will no longer be on the original PR author to make sure those tests pass before their PR is merged.
STUN is basically a way to know your external IP address to share to others and have both peers try to connect to one another through them. It's lightweight.

If that fails, then there's TURN which acts like a proxy between the peers.
That's good enough for a human.

Not for a machine which you can file a lawsuit over and say "it had a decision that it can actually make and chose to kill my son." See how that changes things? It's no longer "an accident."
It would be nice if there was a no-javascript fallback - at least a message saying "This site only works with javascript enabled."

If you have noscript, this site is completely blank until you enable a couple of things and reload.
More to the point, the UK can't really diverge from EU market rules while selling into Europe.
1. You 're the one that told me I had control of the client network as per MITM; don't move the goalposts.

2. You're overthinking this. I'm not talking about hijacking established sessions. I'm talking about never letting the authentic session start in the first place.

As soon as the attacker controls the DNS resolver it doesn't matter what security you have in place. The bank and the LE servers and all that can be perfectly secure. But if the client is going to the wrong IPs they never will interact with them. They'll only interact with the perfectly valid HTTPS hosts the attacker sets up.
If you write medical software that runs on an iPhone then your iPhone is now a medical device, subject to CE marking.
There’s still no usable userspace firewall on Linux. There’s OpenSnitch but it’s so far from being any good.
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
Even exchanging information doesn't doesn't make much sense, given the time lag involved with light-speed limitations.

Another answer for the Fermi Paradox, maybe.
I think it’s that the tests aren’t run, and consequently, they don’t guarantee the tests pass, which means it might not behave exactly the same as a tier 1 platform. So the difference is bigger than just tests.
R is better if your raw data is already tabular. I prefer Python if the raw data is unstructured / semi-structured. You can make the case that once Python has converted the data to tabular then move to R, but at that point I like the soup to nuts to be in one language.
Panpsychism is dumb.
The statute of limitations on the CFAA is two years.
I am surprised the blog post doesn't mention the stabilization of binding both by-move and by-ref in patterns [1]. I have personally been waiting on this one for several years. Time to go remove my workarounds. Thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76119
I didn’t see them mention why they didn’t go with the more obvious websocket for the actual last mile communication with the device, since they wanted it to be bidirectional.

My guess is because doing this in Java is a huge pain whereas it’s practically a breeze in something like elixir.
Or use the "Downsizing" (Matt Damon movie) approach: reduce humans in size so as to inherently consume fewer resources.

For example, use growth inhibitors to keep people stunted at, say, one meter in height. If applied to every baby today, would eliminate the need for billions of tons of carbon emissions, meat consumption, cultivated land, etc., after about 15-20 years.
I don't think it's always the case that the market will eat any attempted improvements - it's just that an attempt to raise the wage floor without any other changes isn't enough to prevent the market from adjusting to the new baseline.

There are tons of other ways to change the calculus. E.g. tax code, employment laws, separating health care from employment, etc. I'm no expert and I don't know what the 'right' answer is but I imagine it's some combination of thought-out policy changes that, when combined, apply an economic force to pull the wealth gap closer over time.
It's just an attempt to explain modern social trends, and relate it to a more interpersonal level of shame.

We need to acknowledge this conflict is inherent in latest modern trends: autonomy vs social control. It's a change of governance happening, hence the change of strategies actually become forced.

Shamelessness is nothing new, but was previously found only in rulers and jesters.
No, he explained why it's not a complete solution. It is a step in the right direction even if it's not strictly zero carbon.
They covered it up just like the USSR covered up the Chernobyl nuclear accident, so China is at the very least liable for doing that, which led to a delayed response to the outbreak. Responsible parties were doctor Zhang Yongzhen who published the virus sequence, enabling research on vaccines, Li Wenliang and his colleagues who shared the news about the outbreak and were punished for doing so.
I use a Nokia 6030. It's not a smart phone. I don't carry it with me. When I do bring it I take the battery out and put it back in to receive or make calls.
Qoobo – A Tailed Robotic Cushion That Heals Your Heart
Most people try to do the right thing and to follow laws and regulations.

Putting regulations in place removes most of the problems because most people and drone manufacturers will follow them. There is always a minority who does not, from idiots to criminals, and that's why we have the police to enforce the law.

License plates do make enforcement laws and regulations easier by the way, and thus do help protect everyone.
> The GIL prevents parallelism - not concurrency.

When a Python thread is holding on to the GIL (running Python bytecode), how many other Python threads can concurrently run in the same process?

The answer is zero.

Sure the interpreter releases the GIL every n bytecode ops, and C extensions can release the GIL before doing anything IO bound and reacquire it (i.e wait for it) afterwards, but that isn’t full concurrency, in my books.
See my answer to WJW above. Yes, even in the face of network partition, but with system unavailability in the event of a network partition.
Especially given Rogan has had Adam Curry on a couple of times. Then again I defy anyone to turn down eye watering money. The sellout of open podcasting remains though.
"Continental Europe", is a thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25569883
I'm not sure why you feel this, but it's far off the mark.

In audio-land (where I work) we're seeing great performance on the new processor, and little or no porting effort, just a recompilation to get things working nicely. What's not to like?
Only if there's some magical elemental material that exists in one place and not in another and just has to be shipped...

As someone's who has gotten into 3D printing lately (it's super cheap now...), I'm still wrapping my mind around all the things I can just make at home, vs having them fabricated elsewhere and going to pick them up or having them shipped to me.

> It seems to me that the only thing that would ever be exchanged between solar systems, would be information.

Maybe Thingiverse is onto something here?
There is always an art to what to decide to put in vs not, and it wasn't 100% clear to us how important folks consider this feature. We waffled a bit, it was basically a coinflip on putting it in or not.
From the abstract

Taller individuals were less supportive of government wealth redistribution overall, but were especially averse if they were also wealthier. Post-hoc analyses suggested that for lower income deciles, the association was reversed. For these people, there was a positive association between height and support for wealth redistribution.
Duh. I knew that. I’ve been to the HQ and for some reason I was probably conflating with EDS.
Phrased more broadly: People born with inherent advantages (appearance, stature, wealth, citizenship, etc.) are less likely to empathize with those who were not.
You thought a web page webasm ide would work without javascript?
This is a really unprofessional and unreasonable approach (and I can see you're being downvoted for it). Since you say you're a scientist and engineer, can you share your prior work so we can evaluate it?
I think you're describing parallelism. The thread is about concurrency. I think you'll find this definition of concurrency matches industry standard definitions like Padua.
There is a github link at he top right, you could start there.
If you are trying to do a bayesian analysis, you need a prior probability. That is, what it would be expected to be, without your analysis. This would be zoonosis.

There is never absence of evidence for zoonosis, because by association all other viruses came to be via zoonosis. So, before you do any further investigation, it's the default. And then, when you do, zoonosis is already the null hypothesis as it was the most likely before you being your further investigation.
> AlphaFold is an important advance, and it is laughable that the author is dismissing it citing NP-hardness

Well, the NP-hardness argument might not be the relevant one, but how useful the structures determined by AF2 are has yet to be demonstrated. Protein folding is very complex; what AF2 has in the training set and CASP in the test set are proteins which were accessible to structure determination up to now at all; most proteins were measured in crystallized (i.e. not their natural) form, so the resulting static structure is likely not representative; and not to forget that many proteins get another conformation than the one to be expected by thermodynamics etc. e.g. because they're integrated in a complex with other proteins and/or "modified" by chaperones; so it would be quite naive to assume that from now on you can just throw a sequence into the black box and the right structure comes out.

This article two clicks away from the referenced one is much more relevant: https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/alphafold2-cas...
License number on cars are not only for criminals and terrorists. There are also used to identify who hit your parked car, who hit a person and run , who is driving dangerously.
missing the <body> tag :)
We can’t expect it in a long term. However, our understanding of the world around us is rather primitive. There’s so much room for growth in both fundamental and applied sciences that the growth potential is “infinite”.
HTTPS ensures the data isn't tampered during transport, but it doesn't ensure the integrity of the data itself. That's why there's things like Subresource Integrity (which doesn't apply to top-level resources like HTML).

However, there's no way to ensure the files we download are created by who they say they are. A domain for example can change hands and existing links say on HN can be loaded with unexpected, potentially malicious, content. Same for hacked servers.

IMO we need some form standard page signing to enforce actual integrity of information, not just transport. I made a proof-of-concept Web Extension to show how that might be possible using PGP [1]. Of course PGP has its own issues but it's just an experiment.

[1] https://webverify.jahed.dev/
Meh, from figure 1b it looks like the effect mainly due to the richest 10% being strongly opposed to it. In fact,

> [...] all other deciles showed non-significant effects of height on redistribution attitudes when tested separately (all p >0.13), except the 10th decile which showed a significant negative effect (β=-0.06, se=0.02, p=0.02)

TL;DR: ignore and forget.
I think it's obvious that "real-time" has different meanings in different contexts. Besides operating systems we also have the "Real-Time Transport Protocol" (RTP) which has different timing constraints than an real-time OS.
I was talking about the general problem of new inaccessible apps being developed, not this specific project.
I could picture legal requirements that cars check for say, alcohol consumption though. Then they wouldn’t have a choice.
Wait until we have Galactic Economics and other voodoo fields of study* , and beings start being convinced of "specialisation" on a cosmic scale.

*Not unlike it's current-day counterpart, Macroeconomics.
Agreed. The backlash has been horrible, even if the feelings behind understated. I'm afraid we're up against genetic and cultural traits that are biased against equal opportunity and fair play. However, people can today claim higher autonomy and need to change strategy to become counted.
Shamelessness for politicians forms a special kind of protection for them. Take Trump - if he had any shame then the revelation of multiple affairs would have been enough to bring him down. But by being so previously shameless it just runs off him.

The problem is this expectation for politicians to be perfect humans and never do or say, or have done or have said anything wrong. So they're all kind of emulating this robotic version of themselves that never has any opinion people can object to.

Shamelessness cut right through that and let Trump speak from his (very dark) heart, which is part of why people like him.
You can `brew install sbcl`
How to improve your chances of success when you arrive at a software dev team
PWA are the only plausible way towards a more free internet and apps, too bad people don't see it. No matter how much it benefits google, it benefits us all in opening up a world beyond app stores.
Any bets on of this result will reproduce?
Insta, a snapshot testing library for rust
You're dumb if you think that.
Yes but not for colliding with Russia, which is a fairly important part of a conspiracy about Trump colluding with Russia to steal the election.
I don’t think we consumers do. Businesses want concentrated reason for you to come to them. If you want podcast x you have to come to service y. Walled gardens are the strategy where exclusivity yields more customers. We saw this with video and now audio is going down this path.
As much as people bemoan the complexity of Webpack, it's far superior to the (IMO) spaghetti code of gulp that inevitably results. I'll choose Webpack and npm scripts every time.
>> The vast majority of hydrogen for fuel cells comes from petroleum and natural gas reserves

A quick google for mitsubishi hydrogen turns up several large scale investments they’ve made in developing alternative generation processes.

Is this one of those cases where you need to invest to produce something but that’s wasted investment if there’s nothing to consume that something?
Hiding Messages in Chess Games
I’d rather do that than indulge in mindless hedonism.
To add I believe PyPy also inspired asm.js the precursor to Web Assembly.
Introduction to Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Azure Monitor
That is up to the manufacturer. Anyway, you don't need to register the drone in this kind of case, only you as a pilot and even that is questionable in the case of Tiny Whoop which would be flown mostly inside (i believe that the regulation doesn't cover indoors).
The Year in Visual Graphics
Indeed, I was going to say exactly this but I am glad I found your comment instead. The first question in the interview is about the reason good typesetting was important to Knuth and the .pdf sort of answers it. It is an excellent read but a bit painful to look at. Proper typesetting of TeX and LaTeX would go a long way to alleviate that, not to mention jagged vertical spacing in the titles and elsewhere.
I also have many thing I don't like in every language I use, but I still use them because they're still useful. If we're talking about syntax for example, for me it is Clojure > Python > Elixir >> Ruby, but I know lots of people that thing Ruby is the most beautiful language on earth.

BTW, if we are talking about things that really goes on nerve for me it is the fact that Golang doesn't compile when there is unused imports in the module, so I can't simple comment a random line and try to compile it again. But I know people that like this because they editor are configured so the import is automatically removed. Ok I guess, but I still find this behavior annoying (I would much prefer that this was a compiler warning).
Regulation is an important part of a capitalist system. “Setting the price” is something the market does. Regulation can influence that by manipulating incentives. That does not mean prices are set by the state.
Journal Prompts for the New Year