skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Romuald Koperski,
A Duel with Siberia.
That is my own translation from the Polish title. It is a phenomenal book, I found it in audiobook format- possibly YouTube, with a great reader. Very engaging, exciting, sometimes funny, and often philosophical.
Unfortunately haven't found it in English, and have contemplated having it translated.
And then there's the flip side (overly simplified, of course):

1. All politicians are corrupt.

2. Therefore, I will not support any of them.

3. The more people are disgusted of general politics, the easier it is for a corrupt politician to gain power.

4. But that's not my fault, because I never supported the elected one. In fact I never supported any of them!

5. Wow, this country is really going to shit. Go to step 1.
You conveniently forgot the a330 which is Airbus' most successful widebody.

You are right that for now, Boeing is better in widebodies. But let's see Boeing new aircraft program, because currently Airbus is better prepared for the future.
Maybe? Sometimes a breakthrough isn't obvious, or can only be understood by a few people on the planet. The story of polar codes comes to mind. How is a journal committee to distinguish such papers from all the other junk?
What empirical data would that be? If the only way to gain empirical evidence is through experience, and the previous hypothesis failed, then you would need a new hypothesis based on that failure.

The way you state it, you are implying that there exists other evidence/data which is being ignored, but the scenario doesn't actually say that such evidence exists nor that it is being misstated.
> If they can walk, they can learn social protocol.

At the beginning of a conference talk a couple years ago, my 2.5-year-old demonstrated his ability to "learn social protocol".

2 minutes into the talk, he shouted "Don't talk in the lecture!" (and was promptly removed by one parent to the hallway).
This is an excellent compilation of studies and a good presentation. However it drove me to the exact opposite conclusion. There is a large amount of observational evidence for Vit-D. The interventional data is mixed or weak. This all strongly points to Vit-D as a marker and not a factor.

I continue to take my Vit-D though less diligently but instead have made a conscious effort to get sun exposure. Even in the north east winter, it is possible to get sun a few days a week. The mechanism behind what the Sun does to the body is complex and best to be safe.
Well, there was that one Republican guy who attempted to vote on behalf of his dead mother. That's voter fraud though, not election fraud.
I remember when app stores started up and everyone said "this is great, you can get verified results, reviews, and they can handle disputes."

However, this is the reality. Apple created a fixed game and you are the victim. Don't play their game, poison their well. (Inform others and your users what goes on in that environment and that they're bad actors/middlemen)
Getting bullied so much you're afraid to use the bathroom may not be a health issue, but it sure is an issue. If I was a parent I would want to know if that was happening.
> The economic development achieved by the Soviet Union in the first half of its reign was incredible.

That's a regurgitation of a great lie. Krusev indicated in his memoire that economic data of Stalin's years was defying kindergarden level arithmetics, was utter garbage, and he gave few convincing examples of that, and here, I would believe him.

Union's economy saw few ups, and downs during its existence, and those under Stalin, and Breznev were not ups by any extend of imagination.
You might take a look at the "unschooling" movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

I don't have any first-hand knowledge of how such initiatives work in practice; but at a high level, it's like home-schooling with more community involvement and socialization, as well as off-site learning experiences. I've also heard of some families who do half-and-half between a formal school environment, and unschooling/homeschooling.
My brief advice to anyone writing such a post: start with the most serious accusation you have, and avoid the temptation to add ancillary grievances, however justified, until you have the reader fully engaged and outraged.

The way this post structured now, beginning with fairly unspecific complaints about the hiring process, who invited whom to lunch, etc. makes the author come across as a young high-drama individual even though it ramps up to more serious matters.

Remember you only have a couple of paragraphs to set the hook and get the reader on your side in a piece like this. Not even your SO or mom want to read the full wall of text about how you were mistreated, let alone internet strangers.
Departments specializing in risk related to mooning emoji? I think not. Your username is apropos.

Repetitive rule based risk assessments, such as made by lenders, are often assigned to specialized departments. This isn't at all the same as unique product design choices which are nearly always decided by the individual product leaders. Legal might rope in higher levels of leadership but never a "risk management team" for something like an offensive icon in an app.
I currently use the Great Suspender on Chrome, which will suspend a tab that's been open for a while. The suspended tab just shows a Great Suspender icon, so it takes up ~0 RAM. I've whitelisted certain domains and sites (eg Messenger apps).

I know there are a ton of extensions aimed at this problem, including OneTab (which will collapse many tabs into a single page of links), but TGS works the best for my workflow.

I also use Session Buddy to periodically backup my current window/tab state, which I find more reliable and powerful than the default tab-restore functionality.
Well, to some extent. LLVM IR isn’t magic, and Apple doesn’t really change much.
Read his biography. He was abusive and got shit done.
Animal Crossing is massively popular, but if you don’t check in every so often, your island will be overrun by weeds among other things.
It’s a huge difference — you’re increasing by 20-40%!

Which means you’re dropping to 75-100 PSI... which is also a big change from 120 PSI.

1.5 the width and 0.65 the pressure is a “big” change for a part like a tire.

That it’s because we assumed something untrue about the mechanics is fascinating.
It is in the corporate DNA from the very beginning.

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/steve-jobss-dark-pas...
I'm sad they dropped Literotica from the dataset. It's available in the old "preliminary components" archive, if anyone wants to train a Literotica-Enron-Email GPT:

https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile_preliminary_components/

I think The Pile is probably one of the most important AI projects of the last year or so, at least for lone wolf researchers like me. Gathering training data at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. (Perhaps someone will do something similar for GAN training one day: a large dataset for image modeling would help a lot.)

By the way, consider contributing to The Eye: https://the-eye.eu/

Without them, I’m not sure any of us would have been able to host the datasets we gathered — or organized torrent seeds, or fielded DMCA complaints, etc. So I feel The Eye deserves an explicit shoutout for being such an asset to the AI community, along with TFRC and Eleuther.
I can't speak for the entirety of the Europe but from my experience with certain countries in the EU, there is a pervasive culture of avoiding risk at all costs in favor of stability. The culture extends from the government to investors and even employees.

Government has no appetite for creative destruction and pushes policy favoring large incumbents over upstarts. Investors have no appetite for risk and only seek conservative investments. The best minds (that don't leave the EU) would rather work for large companies, schools, government, etc. than at smaller, riskier organizations that may not be around in a few years.

My family in Europe thought I was a loser and/or crazy for leaving a job as an adjunct professor to work at a 100-person startup. It makes no sense to us but it's understandable to someone who views landing a lifetime cushy bureaucratic job as the gold standard.
> That’s a totally different goalpost from a country which gives everyone a good childhood.

And coincidentally precisely what I was talking about before you created your "good childhood" straw man. I have carelessly used your straw man term afterwards because I thought a) it was just poorly phrased on your part (and not a straw man) and b) the correct interpretation was contextually evident, but alas…
I can’t find much to disagree with in the post. And I expect to be downvoted for saying so unqualified. So in anticipation of that, I hope whoever is annoyed by what’s in it is keeping in mind the author’s repeated insistence that he’s not an expert and expects his lay perspective to be wrong.
I'm 5'7" and 130lbs (so not fat) and I definitely can't go four hours between meals. I get very angry.
Show HN: Fast search for no-code tools
I think you are dreaming.

Have you done that? Sue the powerful (a school board) from a position of powerlessness (black working class in the ghetto)? Probably not, unfair question. Do you really think it is a realistic prospect? Really?
The evolutionary environment we create with our collective actions, which determines natural selection of covid19 mutations, also matters -- potentially a lot. As Isabelle Eckerle, the Co-Head of the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva, posted on Twitter earlier today:

> Is it just me or does uncontrolled, high level community transmission with circulation of several new #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 variants while starting vaccination with modified schemes, leading to partial immunity in a large proportion, sounds like a bad idea? #evolution #thirdwave

https://twitter.com/EckerleIsabella/status/13450246946432081...
Any company that has to change its name to avoid bad publicity is not worth working for.
The service can call itself, forever

import urllib.request
import json
import threading

def do_request():
data = {"lang":"python", "code": open(__file__).read(), "stdin": ""}
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://www.sharepad.io/run",
data=json.dumps(data).encode('utf-8'),
headers={
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
)

f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
print(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
x = threading.Thread(target=do_request)
x.start()
do_request()
x.join()
A modular design might work if you're starting from a blank slate, and had relatively few variables to account for. But this is rarely the case, even in new construction on a vacant lot.

Land isn't uniform, lots have shapes, roads already exist, utilities have to be connected, local construction requirements vary, existing structures have to be accounted for. You're likely not going to save money by forcing everyone to use the same 5 designs because that will just shift inefficiencies elsewhere -- where they're even more expensive. Unnecessarily moving earth or buying more property to fit the 5 mandatory designs is going to be way more expensive than simply building the structure to fit existing limitations.
Thank you for such extended answer.

1. I would politely disagree with Go channels are efficient. If they would be efficient, they would be actively used internally as a synchronization primitive. I don't remember seeing external libraries using it past notification mechanism of "it is done" kind either. There would be some nifty tricks possible if cost of channels is much lower, or compiler would be able to use some "very light" channels if it sees it is possible (not sure if it even theoretically possible, but I am not an CS theory guru...)

2. That's kind of unfortunate, I would prefer if error is requested, just return an error

err := ch <- data_to_send

vs

ch <- data_to_send

which might panic. But looks like neither of languages allow this. I proposed the syntax above to Go, but it was rejected.

3. That's nice. Is there an error to catch if needed?

err := close(ch)
Arc welding structural steel with lead-acid batteries is well-established among hobbyists. Here's somebody who reinforced their truck bumper using six 6-volt golf cart batteries, jumper cables, and filler rod, in 2008:

https://www.instructables.com/Golfcart--Welder/
Thank you for your perspective. Hopefully one day we can change this system.
That question doesn't get asked enough. I'm tired of getting downvoted with no comments. I'm tired of people not understanding the subtleties of my positions and arguing against me just based on a communication issue.
Virtualization isn't that recent. It at least goes back to the 60's with the IBM 360 mainframe.

For micros, it has been available, in some form, on x86 since 1985 when the 386 processor was first released. Remember the vm86 mode that let people run DOS apps under Windows 2.x?
Reminds me of Cicero - On Old Age

> For when Caecilius speaks of ” the old fools of the comic stage,” he has in mind old men characterized by credulity, forgetfulness, and carelessness, which are faults, not of old age generally, but only of an old age that is drowsy, slothful, and inert.

> Yet his literary culture must have been of a high order. He learned Greek in his old age, after despising the language and its writers during the whole of his earlier life. He was a friend and patron of the poet Ennius, and brought him to Rome, though manifestly without any generous provision for his subsistence; for Ennius led in Rome as poor and straitened a life as he could have left in Sardinia, where Cato found him.

https://www.butwhatfor.com/on-old-age-with-cicero/
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

We are working on getting the images to generate on the fly but GPU compute time is expensive so for now we are doing batch uploads of the images
Car manufacturers are legally required to provide spare parts for about 7 years after sale. That's part of why discontinued car models are destroyed instead of sold at clearance discount.
And parts can be reverse-engineered/cloned too (as long as they aren't software-locked).

Zynga could offer to it's user to give their users credits to use in an alternate game, if they want.
This is not so much a technical answer to your question, but a generalization. If you can determine what specifically an application must be able to do to function properly, then you can write rules and implement them in Linux Security Modules (SELinux, AppArmor, Tomoyo) [1] that enforce mandatory access controls describing what the applications are permitted to do, then it becomes a bit harder to bend an application to do your bidding through code bugs and deficiencies. Android has SELinux, so this could be done on some cell phones. It would be up to cell phone vendors and app developers to work together to implement this properly. I am betting they won't actually do this, but some of the open source phones like PinePhone [2] might be open to it. You can also containerize applications and set/unset "capabilities" [3] for the container to the bare minimum required for the application. MAC + Capabilities implemented properly can make exploiting zero days significantly harder. It can also make spotting and logging exploit attempts easier. This raises the risk for people holding zero days to utilize and burn them.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Security_Modules

[2] - https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

[3] - https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html
OT, but Indian food also travels very well.
I think it could also be argued that the proliferation of roads and highways in the United States led to more mobility for citizens. A chicken-and-egg question, for sure, but people are unlikely to move to a place that is largely inaccessible.
Student died out of excesss maturbation
I mean, speaking of the shoes, yes it was one time. But once it was shown to work, there would probably have been many copycats without a countermeasure.
> derived from English common law
TIL Chinesium Shock. A good entry into a new year full of cyberskun...err punk :-)

Btw. Moulinex isn't what it once was anymore. Just sayin'.
Thank you very much for this detailed explanation, I really appreciate it!
The German army at the gates of Moscow, Stalingrad/Volgagrad, and Lenningrad/St Petersburg found it was no lie.

Do not rely on state propaganda, look at the results
Show HN: Tracker inspired by Atomic Habits with results
Hi All,

Sharing a template that I have successfully used to track and improve my habits (using plain old excel), and have seen good results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10j_wA27aiRoOMP3DL9TqHrcG2_pskAW9iB_k857uohk/edit?usp=sharing

If anyone is interested, here is some write-up that covers my introspection about this sheet, and the process that lead to it, and the results I have seen in the past: https://littleblah.com/post/patterns_and_habits/

P.S. I have no affiliations with Atomic Habits or https://jamesclear.com/, but I have found it as one of the best books for changing habits to get positive results.

Thanks.
We need automated and mainstream Vitamin and Mineral testing - without needing to go through the traditional healthcare system.
According to the new copyright law in Japan, you could actually be criminally prosecuted for downloading papers from scihub even if you never share them. Starting today.
The effect on compiler robustness of high volume randomized testing is also very significant, I think. This was post-1996 (McKeeman in 1998).
I’m not following the logic in your last paragraph.

If every researcher who took public funds (even by proxy, from the university) was required to publish in an open access journal... it seems like enough research would shift that either prestigious journals would become open access or existing open access journals would become prestigious.
> Then in the US we also have a major problem of turning schools into defacto social welfare centers.

I think we’ve arrived at the heart of the problem. Seems like the problem is a massive scope creep on what a school should do.

How does this happen and what can we do to limit the scope to just education? Or I should back up and ask should we even attempt to limit the scope of schools?
There is no "working for Google". There is "working at Google on Something, with People". There's a great deal of variety within Something, and variety within People. There's cutting edge research, there's the boring slog of what must be done, and there's everything in between. There's 20% time, where you can define your own Something. There's very hard work being done on a massive scale to ensure user and customer security and privacy are pervasive through everything.

Plenty of xooglers will tell you exactly what they thought about working at Google. You will hear all types of opinions when you do. Cachet simply isn't a factor for most.

Apply Occam's razor to the stories that xooglers tell. Are they all lying and "covering up"? Or is the diversity of opinions you read about real, and reflective of the experiences of that writer?

I'd go with with real.
28mm is not the optimum. It's all I can fit on my bike. I'm not sure what the state of the art is -- the podcast mentions testing 50mm and wider tires, and running less than half the pressure of what people used to use. They're talking about, basically, the widest possible tire you can fit, and the lowest pressure you can go (including going tubeless) without the tire coming off the rim in corners or cracking a wheel in an impact.

It's truly a remarkable change in strategy and thinking. As you go wider it's unquestionable that the weight and aerodynamic properties get worse, which means for wider tires to be more efficient, the rolling resistance decrease has to be huge to overcome the aero loss.
It's absurd in the sense that, if you accept that definition, then anything at all - taking any action or even taking no action at all - could be called violent, which makes the word meaningless. It points to an Orwellian level of thought control. If anything at all can be called violent by any level of tortured logic, then it's very good to be the person who decrees what actions will be considered to be violent and what will not.
I did in fact talk to them beforehand, and only sent two notes in two years.
The issue is the overall complexity and untestability of such a system:
The (human) organism is very very complex and we don't have a model that accurately describes it in its entirety or even sufficiently enough to do any kind of complex testing. This means that we instead look at the part of the organism that is usefull and we can reasonably model.

Systems like AlphaFold2 only solve a tiny tiny part of the problem (i.e. the question "given this amino Acid sequence: how does this Protein look like in 3d"), but it doesn't adress any of the other problems (like: "how does X structure behave in Y environment", "how are the interactions between these N Protein structures", "How do Proteins form complexes?", "how do proteins interact with RNA?", "How do you determine the location of Amino Acid side-chains?" and, most importantly, "what does X do?" )

I liken this to the problems we have in automatic theorem proving: We have formal logics/Type theories that allow for automatic theorem proving, but we still need computer scientists or mathmaticians even for sometimes very trivially complex tasks, because the scale of the problems is way to big to handle automatically. My AI-professor framed it like this "If you have a problem that would take you 10 minutes to solve, a theorem prover will solve it in 50ms. If you have a problem that takes you 20 minutes, the theorem prover won't solve it". We are at a similar, if not worse position, in Biology: We don't even know the system we're working in, yet.
Here are the clickable links:

1.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10j_wA27aiRoOMP3DL9Tq...

2. https://littleblah.com/post/patterns_and_habits/
I feel like YouTube is going to be a major source of language data in the future. The last statistic I saw was 500 hours of video uploaded every minute. If only 10% of those videos have original speaking in them and those average 40 words a minute, that’s almost 300 GB of transcribed speech per year.
> A state diagram is usually richer than a directed graph—usually the edges are labelled. This multiplies the number of possible transitions by the number of possible labels.

This is true. The technical term for this is a "multigraph."

> (Also, for anyone interested in comparing with the graph-theoretic terminology, the term "complete graph" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_graph) is often used for undirected graphs with no self-loops, in which case there are only \binom n 2 possible edges.)

You gave the formula for the number of edges in an undirected graph. The number of edges in a complete directed graph is n^2 - n when transitions from a state to itself is not considered. I take liberty with that fact, and often just say there are n^2 edges in a complete directed graph, since transitions to self don't usually harm the design. Either way, it's O(n^2).

As you said though, state diagrams can be multigraphs. In that case, I'm not aware of a general formula for the number of states. But I imagine it would still be O(n^2), just with possibly more edges.
Bring back flogging!

Another great way to deal with male criminals would be to cut their balls off. Solves the root problem.