skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a matter of whether a contract was breached. People tend to get upset when trust is broken. I suppose your argument is that people shouldn't have trusted RedHat because no money was exchanged but that's not really how trust works in real life.
Vertical farming seems to be good for crops that are mostly water and not very useful for cereals (or anything else with much caloric content).

So there's a profit to be made for urban luxury vegetables, and that's about it.
I had the same experience. The biggest thing for me was keeping it clean was a gigantic pain. The plants would get massive with tons of leaves that would fall down inside plant and start breaking down on top of the plastic. In soil, that just breaks down and becomes more dirt.
That clock makes it sound like just another Intel server chip
Also, locking people into their homes does not help with Vitamin D levels. I am really suprised that this is not being discussed more.
A good measure is to see if there is consensus in the literature. Do other papers report something similar? Is this paper widely cited and/or results accepted in more recent papers?

But to begin with, the article you cite is not a proper peer reviewed article. It's merely a webpage on a private website. It's not indexed on pubmed. No one has cited it, nor will they.
> 32:9 master race

living the dream, my friend
I started keygen.sh while I had a full-time job. I ran it for 4 years on the side and just recently went full-time on it. You have to make time to keep moving forward.
I appreciated that the article brought this up become in HN discussion it is usually presented as a liberal idea, but that was never my experience before moving to California.

It's incredibly easy to find anti-development movements and policies across the country. Look at public transit in red states, for instance.

In somewhere like Georgia, denser housing, public transit, and walkable neighborhoods are the domain of the interior parts of Atlanta, inside the freeway loop. That area is FAR more liberal than the rest of the state. Texas (Austin, Dallas, etc), too.
> In the U.S. the president at the moment got to decide how we'd respond to the pandemic as it happened. Lots of people disagreed.

This is the case for every single decision that any election official makes. The general public doesn't vote on individual laws, unless you live in Switzerland. Calling quarantine measures "not democratic" is dishonest for this reason.
Schema as a Service here we goo
I don't see a lot of production workloads running debian unless it's a Ubuntu which is backed by canonical.
This is sort of correct, except for two parts: The first constitution was the Articles of Confederation, which was extremely different from British constitutional design of the day; and the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is distinctly British and did not migrate into the US Constitution.

The idea of a First Amendment such as we have in America would be entirely foreign in Britain, for instance, since no sitting parliament could ever restrict a majority of a future parliament from passing any law they saw fit. Even Royal Assent at the time was largely ceremonial and usually carried out by Royal Commissioners rather than the monarch. In fact, the last time assent was withheld was 1708 under Queen Anne.
> It's purely amazing that you can steer the machine on such a level but also use it for high level programming.

It's also handy for debugging -- as you stepped your program you could simply see the pc, flags, etc.
Well, that would be what they're doing here, no?
This is beautifully written; I stepped away from keeping up an in-depth understanding of silicon processing a bit before FinFETs took over and this feels like one of the best introductions to the basics of gate geometry of FETs.
Yes! Totally right about the time zone benefits (although some of our talent is willing to adjust to US time zones, the employers rarely seem to believe it).

Also true about the fact that this sort of thing has sprouted in other regions, including South/Latin America. We've been trying to connect with them & share lessons learned because we think there's a big need in this space & we should all help each other succeed. I'm not sure I understand how Globant is similar to us though, is it an agency?

The ones we've spoken to so far that are pretty similar to ours (last-mile prep for job placement) include: PestoTech (engineers in India), PAZ.AI (refugees in Europe), Shift.org (veterans in USA), Insight Fellows (data science in USA), Talently.Tech (devs in LatAm), Laboratoria (women in LatAm), Outtalent (devs in Eastern Europe).

So far it seems to me that they're not far ahead of us, but nevertheless they've made enough progress to share some important lessons. First, it's important to start with and maintain quality. Quality for candidates means getting a job that's much better than what they would've gotten on their own, within 2-6 months of meeting our requirements. On the demand side, quality means that candidates meet or exceed the expectations of their standard talent selection process and performance post hire. Second, it's important to take a talent-first approach because that's what attracts the top talent. This includes being careful not to charge the talent an unreasonable rate. Employers may not all pay for the talent at the beginning when we're establishing our reputation, but ultimately that's where the main financial opportunity is - and charging a subscription fee ensures long-term mutually beneficial relationships.

Of course there's also the outsourcing agency/staff augmentation model that has existed for decades in Eastern Europe and South Asia... Andela is a more recent/visible example in Africa. Those are more easily profitable, but we've avoided that approach for now because we see that the top engineers prefer to work directly for great companies (whether remotely or on-site) and it is more beneficial for their career growth to do so.
F-strings are great. The only downside I’ve found is they are incompatible with the stdlib logging framework’s deferred string interpolation feature (using %s style string interpolation), which can give you a nice performance boost if you make lots of expensive debug logs for tests, but run at info level in production.

That said most apps probably won’t see much of a difference in perf between the two approaches.
Perhaps GPT-3 goes purely by body count.

Or perhaps it, having access to such a wealth and breadth of knowledge, is able to ascertain human rights standards in all countries, discern the majority/ruling religious groups of those countries, and extrapolate.

If so, it would be wise not to let GPT-3 have access to other records, for example FBI crime records, lest it develop other uncomfortable conclusions.
Are you European? Because I am, and despite what you said being true, I don't think I have much in common with other European countries, not even the ones that border mine... We don't even speak the same language!
Well endless growth is the goal in capitalism at the level of a publicly traded corporation, but I get what you’re saying that it can actually lead to beneficial impacts if that’s more efficient.

However, I think short term monetary efficiency and long term sustainability are not always going to align.

Is it possible there’s an alternative where we aren’t beholden to the whims of a heavily manipulated market to solve our problems? Where we can address an issue head on instead of waiting until the fix is more efficient than the problem?
GitLab oversaw a $195M secondary sale that values the company at USD $6B
If Microsoft moved GitHub out of the US, Microsoft is still a US company and subject to their laws. Microsoft could move out, but the Long Arm of the US Law(tm) won’t care if the executives live in the US.
Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" is a excellent book for understanding art.
Cantor proved that R, the set of all reals, cannot be countable. That was never controversial. What's controversial is claiming that R (or any uncountable set) exists, as no one has rigorously proved without adding an axiom.
HN is also the place where political topics are quickly flagged and die. Even topics like women in tech that could be interesting typically don't last long because the discussion can't help but turn political.

I think that's for the best, there are places other than HN to talk politics. It also means, as you said, that HN is not the right place to ask.

Now if you just want to bring back the old art of rethoric instead of the negatively charged "political debates". You may have a bit more chance.
R&D spending by semiconductor companies to hit another record high in 2021
Surely there's no way locking down distribution this much helps anything or anyone if working around the terms is simply some minor tedium that can be automated.
I think this is a good write up, but I think the notation is still carrying some mental baggage. It's not necessary to have these open and closed brackets/parenthesis. They don't add anything, and if anything, they confuse the matter. An interval is just (1, 2) (or [1, 2] if preferred aesthetically). Since a base cannot be "on" either 1 or 2, it's not meaningful to have these open/closed interval notion. In other words, (1, 2) == [1, 2) == (1, 2] == [1, 2].

Open/closed intervals only come into play in continuous dimensions. DNA sequences, arrays in memory, et al are discrete.
I don't think I entirely agree. If you're correct, why doesn't anyone point at a famous portrait painting by a renowned artist, or a photorealistic pencil sketch of a fruit bowl and say, "anyone could do that"? These works might have very little creative effort, but people recognize they wouldn't be able to reproduce such a piece, so they don't make that statement. Instead, they look over at that painting with the square patches of color (https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-perseus-images/f832e28211a5c9793...) and say their child could do that.

So, when someone says, "anyone could do that", it's likely a statement about being able to produce a similar piece of art. Could they paint a painting similar to the squares above that people could mistake as another painting from the same artist? Yes, so they make that statement. Could they write a novel that could be mistaken as a follow-up book from a famous writer? Not likely, so they don't say it. So, it's not a statement about being able to directly copy the work (like I might have referred to in my previous comment), or a reference to the creative effort involved, but a statement about being able to produce a similar piece. However, I think people mostly take into consideration the technical ability of the artist, they overlook the creative process to reach that point, and they're focused on a single piece when a large part of the talent is in being able to consistently produce such work.
If you're holding a hammer ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
It is interesting that in Iran the ratio of people with Vitamin D deficiency is high compared to other countries. Probably behaviour (clothing, staying at home) plays quite a large role.
Huh, I had to ask specifically for it during my annual. Still salty about that since my insurance supposedly covers annual physicals but asking for the test meant that I was going beyond a routine physical and so they coded it as an office visit and billed me a not insignificant amount for it (for the visit, not the test itself, which was extra). Talking to the billing department and the insurance company got me nowhere.
I agree that it's a lot harder to lose your cool or offend someone.

But it's also much harder to argue about truths. People in my circles say things like "I did a lot of research and this new mRNA vaccine is dangerous."

And there's absolutely no way to disagree with that, because they can't present the research and you can't read for yourself what it was. You can't critique the author/organization, you can't dispute any "facts" in the article, etc.

I think in-person can be good for very high level arguments, like "I believe in personal responsibility," and figuring out "I like this person even though I disagree with them." And terrible for intricate arguments like "gun restrictions will save lives," covid policy, etc etc.

I would like to see a shift back to previous times, where nobody was outing their political beliefs, and everyone didn't pretend to be an expert on domestic policies, covid, foreign policy, minimum wage, inflation, and everything else that they feel inclined to chime in about.

My grandmother (RIP) said in her youth (1930s), they didn't know how their neighbor voted, how their teachers voted, and they might not even know how their spouse voted. I like that.
AI and the Future
Some Armageddon – 5th generation war comes to the Capitol
While I agree with many points in this post, I wholeheartedly disagree that a 4 year bachelors in CS contributes much (if any) to the path from coder to developer.
Ah, that's not our restriction, that's the reality of visas for people from these countries. It's almost impossible for a junior engineer to get a visa to the United States. One of our candidates had a job offer at Amazon in the USA but couldn't get the visa. So he ended up at a startup in Germany instead.

So far our participants have ended up primarily in Germany and Poland, and we're seeing possibilities in Sweden, France, and the UK too. We're still figuring out what the Canadian visa situation is for junior engineers but it seems possible (probably best for them to apply for residency first and then get a job).

If you have any more insight on this do let us know!
I have yet to see any verbiage in the Discord ToS that mentions this…do they really not read their own legalese?
> I thought when someone sends a DMCA request to you, the platform, that you are required to take the content down and wait for a counter notice from that contents author.

This is almost correct. GitHub could refuse to take it down and in doing so accept liability for any copyright infringement that exists. If the repository is not infringing (which in this case there's a solid chance it's not), then GitHub is doing nothing wrong. Of course, since the penalties for copyright infringement are so high and defending suits would not be worth it for GitHub, they are effectively required to take it down.
Yup. The last Mac I ran Linux on was a 2016 MBP. And even then, audio and suspend/resume didn't work (well, suspend was fine, resume... not so much), and battery life was terrible. When I first installed it, the keyboard and touchpad required an out-of-tree driver.

That driver has been upstreamed, but I hear the 2017 and onward touchbar MBPs still require and out-of-tree driver, and a similar level of things don't work.

In 2019 I finally gave up and got a Dell XPS13. It's... basically perfect? The keyboard doesn't suck like recent MacBooks, though the touchpad isn't quite as nice (though really, it's perfectly fine). The only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader, but I knew that going in and didn't care. And subjectively the hardware isn't as pretty, but... oh well. On the plus side, I really do like the "soft touch" palm rest better than the harsh aluminum of the MacBook.

I'm definitely interested in the Linux-on-M1 project's progress from an intellectual curiosity standpoint, but I'm expecting long-term as a user it'll be just as -- if not more -- frustrating as running Linux on any Intel MacBook from the last 5 years, which means I won't bother.
Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a Hacker News for biology?
I have a life science and computer science background. Given the increasing interest in biotechnology, synthetic biology, and life extension research on this site, I am considering building out a hacker news style discussion board for biology, with an emphasis on biotechnology and bioengineering.

I have noticed a lot of discussions related to life science topics on HN tend to be overly speculative, poorly grounded in empirical research, or simply pseudoscientific. The level of biochemical knowledge here is rather inconsistent compared to say, CS or physics. Most of the time the conversation is merely parroting existing popular science buzzwords, with no real understanding of scale, difficulty, or time to market. I hope by making a new platform that is life science focused rather than on software (yes I am aware HN isn't exclusively for software discussions only), there can be greater agglomeration effects for biotechnology research, akin to what hacker news have done for promoting internet startups.
As a foreigner, gerrymandering[0] baffles me. Someone please explain how this makes sense?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
Sounds like a bug in your formatter, if it's meant to just do formatting but actually replaces valid syntax with invalid.
What you're saying is true most of the time, but some times a difference in quality really is a difference in kind.

I'm really not a fan of most store-bought bread. I'd eat it if the alternative was homelessness, or if I thought I'd embarass someone by rejecting food they "made"; however, homemade sourdough bread is to die for.

Generally, mediocre stuff can be pretty decent, and is worth trying to enjoy, but some crap is really just crap.
> The Fediverse is an interesting social experiment testing the hypothesis of whether the ad revenue/profit motive of twitter, and the subsequent algorithms that maximize engagement, are the primary source of toxicity and other negative qualities of social media that have been documented recently (social dilemma et al)

that's not why it was created
What are some of the great books & resources one might want to have if the want to get into Hydroponics?
Another thought this article caused me to have: is anti-gentrification NIMBY-ism ever a "first order" thing?

How much gentrification happens only because NIMBYism in other areas pushes new residents into previously poorer areas that are less politically able to keep newcomers out?

YIMBYism-but-only-for-the-poor-neighborhoods does sound like a distinctly inequal policy, so I can understand people's concerns there. Upzone Beverly Hills!
I think that is also the case for Zig. The build system is a zig file.
What Gelsinger Can Do to Unscrew Intel
> to generate the genetic risk score for vitamin D deficiency

That's what the entire paper is based on.
All of our bridges (except Slack and Discord, but will soon) use Matrix's e2e encryption scheme and all messages are stored encrypted on Beeper servers with a key that you control. We can't decrypt your messages.
He also extracted the tech to build his next product, slip.so which should generate some nice revenue for him as well.
That is the question. Quite a few studies suggest a correlation of Vitamin D and COVID-19 severity, but we do not not if there is a causality or if vitamin D levels are just marker. But it is not wrong to avoid vitamin d deviciency in any case. It is also easy and cheap.
Xe on TSMC was officially announced by Intel; it's not a rumor.
> Oh come one now, don't be silly.

Don't be snarky.

I mentioned it's theoretically possible and outlined the specific conditions for optimizations to happen.

But I also mentioned that in reality various things often prevent compilers (assuming it's a compiled language, and not interpreted, like that LUA implementation) from applying such optimizations:

- you're programming against an API or are compiling an API (i.e. non-static functions).

- you have time-constraints for emitting optimized code, like most JITs - you can't afford any deep analysis that would enable such optimizations, you're mostly pattern-matching for lower hanging fruits.

Since pictures say more than a thousand words, here's the actual disassembly of that lua function I linked earlier, as shipped by my Linux distribution: https://i.imgur.com/DnqVC8E.png

The green stuff is the "fast path". For 0-based indexing you would completely drop the first LEA and replace those last MOV/SHL/LEA with a (faster?) MOV r,r/SHL/ADD r,m - which is what GCC is likely to generate.

So that's Lua (one implementation at least) in practice. No compiler magic making arrays fast here.

LuaJIT (from my current reading) goes the different route of just pretending the first array element doesn't exist, meaning that in memory they have an element '0', but they simply don't use it. This trades some memory for speed.

From lj_tab.c:

** The array size is non-inclusive. E.g. asize=128 creates array slots
** for 0..127, but not for 128. If you need slots 1..128, pass asize=129
** (slot 0 is wasted in this case).

Personally I quite like this approach. A lot better than hoping compilers will magically fix everything and quite hard to argue with, considering LuaJIT's performance. Though it would be a ludicrous design for a lower-level language.
Yes, Beeper is the new name for NovaChat.
I've added this to my reading list, thanks for sharing.

In another thread earlier today I was talking about the book American Buffalo by Steven Rinella. He has a whole section dedicated to the demise of bison in water, mud, floods, and swamps. In one bit he mentions that an entire herd was killed when they ran into a river too deep to ford, resulting in a literal stream of tens of thousands of bison corpses floating down the river.
The State of Eth2, Jan 2021
this isn't the usual browser one, this is an overlay.
This article opens with a bold statement that I don't think is true:

> We’re all familiar by now with Right-NIMBYs — conservatives who block transit and housing development in order to keep poor people and minorities out of their quiet white-flight suburban neighborhoods. These are still the most common kind, given that Republicans tend to value low-density communities while Democrats tend to value denser, more walkable places.

The link offered to support this is based on personal choices of conservatives vs. liberals on where to live, NOT conservatives using government policy to block development.

If you look at data in areas where building codes are most restrictive and home prices are increasing the most, it is almost all exclusively in progressive deep blue cities, states, and areas. Most "deep red" large cities (like Houston, TX - famous for having almost no zoning laws) are still very affordable with lots more construction happening everywhere. This would lead me to believe that NIMBY behavior is most often associated with progressives, not conservatives.
Why can’t I have multiple source DBs?

Each has a torrent with an author, but I query both and then run extra SQL over the results.

There’s already data fusion and torrent indexing technologies; it seems like this creates a way for users to have many providers.
What affect does this have on dogs (if any)?
I would be. Some of the problems with online debate is that you don't know who you are arguing with and you don't know what positions they actually hold.

If you can solve those, I'm in
Not necessarily. It's going to depend on your age, skin color and skin condition as to whether a pill beats sun.

But generally being outdoors, on a grey winters day in the northern hemisphere, with just your face exposed, and having darker skin, for an hour, is not going to get you enough D.
A fine argument to counter with, however when we look at population density, you'll see that the vast majority of concrete, steel and asphalt goes to support a tiny fraction of the number of people. Thousands of miles of roads... to connect just thousands of rural people.

Meanwhile, thousands of people can live in just a few acres in the city. Far more people per kg of asphalt and concrete!

Which is the kind of efficiencies you expect with economies of scale.

You'd be surprised how much asphalt and concrete we use to give every 500 person village roads and infrastructure!
2018, for keyboard and touchpad support on a 2016 MacBook Pro. (That driver was eventually upstreamed, but wasn't at the time.)

But I guess that's kinda in-line with this thread, that Macs are a pain to run Linux on.
Chapter Three: The Power of Positive Thinking