skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a former astronomer and I've talked to some of my friends who are still in astronomy about this. One way they've put it is that there are some papers that end up being wrong for some subtle, non-obvious reason which gets worked out over the course of a series of publications. This is fine, this is how science progresses.

Then there is work where the authors made basic, sloppy mistakes that other specialists in the field could have immediately caught. This work falls in the latter category, which is bad enough, but then it managed to get accepted to Nature (which tends to select for hype over rigor) and received breathless media coverage.

I don't think anyone in astronomy is so concerned about this mistake not getting corrected. People in the field were immediately skeptical of the results and after some digging pretty conclusively showed that they must be wrong. The problem is more that extensive media coverage of sloppy work propagates a perception among the general public that scientists can't be trusted. The media does a poor job at communicating what results are speculative or disputed, and what results are solidly accepted by a large amount of evidence. If scientists are changing their mind about this and whether chocolate and wine are good for you, how can they be trusted on matters like climate change or even whether the Earth is round? Why give them billions of dollars to build telescopes if they're changing their mind every other day and can't seem to figure anything out?

So I think most scientists tend to be very conservative about their results and only to try advertise results that they have a lot of confidence in so as to uphold this sort of social contract with the public. When they see other scientists go on a media blitz with some shoddy work, they view it as a violation of that social contract.
Would it affect my music player
So the issue is not paying for compute when you're not using it. Firstly I've tried running postgres on a low powered lightsail instance and while it runs, it's kinda insane that it takes a ton of time to load data and then to query it. Indexless scans of data in large tables (let's say a db with all my emails) can take a while!

I've tried the same in snowflake, and I'm only using their smallest warehouse, and everything happens in seconds. Loading GBS of data is seconds, scanning GBs of data is seconds. Their smallest compute warehouse is still significantly beefier than the cpu you get with a puny lightsail with a shared vcpu and while it's disk io is shit (since it's reading from S3) the parallelism makes up for it.

In the end I think it's the pricing model that makes the difference. With snowflake you seamlessly launch a very powerful machine to run your query and only get billed for a minute, and with running postgres you need to run your machine all the time. Also hot storage (as opposed to s3) is also non trivially expensive. Haven't seen any way to get 200gb of ssd storage without spending that 25 dollar minimum that snowflake costs anyway. This is data I intend to not even update or query more than a few times a month, so I really don't want to pay for compute running all the time in its name.
"Research by R.L. Polk says that the average age of a modern vehicle is 11.4 years, while the average length of time drivers keep a new vehicle is 71.4 months — around 6 years."

https://www.autotrader.com/car-shopping/buying-car-how-long-...
The problem is this was done is a public school, funded by taxpayer money. Although most of its population are muslim, Indonesia is not an islamic country (except Aceh, which is a special region with its own laws and autonomous government), so the public schools must accommodate every religion recognized by the country (there are 6 of them). If it's happening in a private school (e.g. islamic boarding schools or catholic schools), no one would bat an eye.
What does 2.0 bring us?
Even less than that now. The ability of specific donors to direct funds to specific academic groups for specific research is WAY more constrained now than it was pre-Epstein. Institutions want that that extra layer of indirection.
It's called job security bub. I'm not going to write out everything you need to know. Hire an expert and whatever time it takes him to figure out is how much it's going to cost you to churn through employees. Don't like it? Be a better employer so your employees don't leave.
> My Bitch Mother.

It's always strange to see this kind of thing said. It's uniquely western that this behaviour would be tolerated.

In my neck of the woods, such disrespect would result in a hiding, such that by the time a child is 3 they know not to disrespect their parents... at least not to the extent of verbal insults like that.

What would anyone other than Ted Cruz allow someone else to disrespect their spouse like that?
if all of reality is just emergent phenomena (excluding some presumed "bottom thing" that we haven't found yet), there is no such thing as an "object" as a coherent whole - just collections of collections of collections. The ship of theseus does not exist as a distinct entity with clear boundaries - it is just the thing that Theseus uses to sail. If you replace every piece, as long as Theseus considers the ship his own then it's still the ship of Theseus, or in other words, identity is perceptual and based on a continuous structure or pattern rather than the present constituent pieces being all together.
Very cool, thanks or making this!
Medicine used to be, and in substantial part still is, a disordered heap of hypotheses relying on practical experience and relayed by the stars of the field. There are plenty of strange examples throughout history. For example, we used to believe until not so long ago that infants couldn't feel pain (with all the 'interesting' consequences on practice you can imagine).
Still need to convert USD into crypto. Who will do that?
Generally I've found that the problem is not breathless scientists, it is breathless journos.

They're looking for the "next big scoop" and so mostly misinterpret findings in order to come up with the most sensational headline possible.

Don't get me wrong, science has it's own (major) problems, such as losing sight of reproducibility, falsifiability, etc, but usually when it comes to "I read about a discovery that sounded fabulous but didn't pan out", the heightened expectations are usually coming from the media, not the other way around.
I’m totally out of the loop on this but curious to know Hayes’ views on racism, especially considering how likely it is that he holds libertarian views. It piques my interest because I’ve recently been hearing heterodox views from commentators like Kmele Foster and seeing split reactions from the left.
No, I know. I was referring to other comments on this story. I think garbage is also strong.
The income factor is a big deal. Rust is also much less of a factor in some regions than others.

Outside of the US, some countries have heavy import taxes on new vehicles, meaning that the secondary market dominates and older vehicles are more likely to be overhauled than junked.
I want the db to be in the cloud. I'm not on my laptop most of my time and I'm definitely not on the same laptop more than 20% of my time. Hosting any sqlite db or postgres db on the cloud means I pay for hot storage which is significantly expensive if I have 200gb of data say. (Which I do; I have a ton of data from my lab days that also I want queryable like this; I also intend to purchase some datasets that I think might be fun to keep at hand so)
Too many tampons
That’s so true. When I was a boy I was on first-name basis with one ER nurse. As an adult with a boy ... I’m on first-name basis with an ER nurse.
While this may work for you, I really hate "just do this" solutions to mental health problems. "Just go outside." "Just do some exercise." "Just sit quietly and listen to this."

Mental health problems are complicated, and real, and not "all in the mind". Any "just" solution will at best work for a tiny fraction of sufferers, and for everyone else, the assumption that there is a quick and obvious fix is insulting.
> the average age of a modern vehicle is 11.4 years

I don't think you can use this statistic on its own to say how many live >20 years can you?
How much data are you storing? How much is 200gb of storage? At least on lightsail it wasn't cheap! Also that's not even backed up!
Which exchanges? I'm only aware of Bittrex, whose Monero volume was insignificant to begin with. And what evidence is there that government pressure had anything to do with it?
I have something of a tendency to take things literally online, but, also, it's becoming clear to me here lately that I sometimes miss friendly banter on HN because no one ever talks to me that way. If a guy here is being "friendly," you can pretty much bet dollars to donuts that he is really wanting to know if I will sleep with him, which makes it enormously difficult to figure out how to interact here "normally" and I sometimes don't know why in the hell I bother because it seems like a lose-lose scenario for me and maybe this entire thing is a giant waste of my time and will never be anything else.
Interesting thought. I'm torn because on one hand I agree with you, had incredible value of mining people's twitter likes as a way of truly sampling other people's feeds (often times find them to be better quality and more honest than retweets).

On the other hand - personally subscribe to a very, very wide variety of RSS feeds ... some heterodox enough in opinions that I would be instantly canceled / run out of other social zones. So there's a very real sense of protection in RSS feed privacy that's a huge plus there, and would never want to give up.
Yesterday was my last day at Google
Forgot about BigQuery, will have to give it a shot!

The Snowflakes minimum Is something my colleague got from them when we set up an account for a startup idea.
This is solving the wrong problem. Taxes suck in the USA because Intuit exists; the existence of more tools will not fix the problem where tools are required in order to file taxes.

For 80% of the country, a 1040 (the "EZ" form) suffices and no adjustments are needed. Those folks are the ones that need help. A $50k fund for a luxury tool is not going to address most peoples' needs.
It could be. I eat meat, and my guess is that manufacturers label things as "meat", "milk", and so on, is to imply they can be used as replacements for those in certain circumstances.

I can also see why some people wouldn't like them. Take almond milk. To me, it's pretty good as a milk replacement in most cereal, but there are some where it kinda tastes off and dairy milk tastes great. I imagine veggie meat is similar.

YMMV of course.
Can we all just agree to coalesce around atom this time?
Can you help me understand what this means? A SPAC has a NAV at IPO that then fluctuates. Are you saying to track the NAV and see if the units (or shares?) are close to that value?
I understand that. How much labor does this require relative to a similarly entrenched and costly mechanical part?
I think it's:

> Improvements in metallurgy, changes in brake design, first to finned drums and then to disks, and changes in wheel nut architecture, from flat washer to conical design have effectively reduced the problem.
Calibre runs great in a container too. As always, the Linuxserver image is great.
The Docker Package on Synology made this very easy when I was new to Docker some years ago, and it hasn’t been touched since the initial install, it just works.

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre
>Many of today's health epidemics are linked to a lack of fat and an excess of carbohydrates.

I'm genuinely curious as to what you're getting at. When you say "excess of carbohydrates", are you referring specifically to processed foods or refined sugars?

>Try finding fatty fruits and veggies: they were incredibly scarce for most the human population until the last 100 years.

Maybe fatty fruits and veggies were scarce for most humans 100+ years ago, but I highly doubt nuts and seeds were. But that doesn't really matter if we're talking about what we can do today. Things like avocados, olives, coconuts, and the above-mentioned large categories of nuts and seeds, are readily available for most people making these sorts of arguments. Plus, if you're vegetarian and not vegan, then you have access to cheese, yogurt, milk, and eggs. It's easy to eat high fat and low carb while avoiding meat, so the argument for eating meat to be healthy on these grounds seems quite weak to me.
Man runs barefoot half marathon in the snow to break Guinness record
First Dairy-Identical Vegan Ice Cream Launches at 5k Stores
All of the above.

The genders clearly are quite different (on average with large individual variations). It also must matter a lot how society is structured to handle the young maturing. I don't think 2021 America is particularly good at this.
Sure there are.

Opiods are available at many different magnitudes of strength.

For instance, on a per milligram basis, Oxycodone is about 1.5 times stronger than morphine.

Codeine, which is actually available OTC in some countries (Including Canada, but NOT the US), is about 1/20th as strong.
Yeah probably, but there would still be the open question of distribution and update (inc dependencies).
From a strategic perspective grain is the most important thing in a food shortage. People can live a year or two without fruit or vegetables, but without the calories in grain things will get violent fast.
20-Thousand Hertz did a great podcast on this:

https://www.20k.org/episodes/wilhelmscream
That doesn't seem to bad, all considered. 5% would be the natural number for any one year out of 20, to get to 0.4% from 5% in 20 yrs should be about 8 yrs of mean life per car, assuming exponential decay. I'm fairly sure this thought process is missing some fudge factor to make it exact, but seems about the right ballpark.
If only...

Anyone who talks about scientific conspiracy theories really astonishes me because it is so obvious they do not know any actual scientists all that well.
Work Towards Solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Julian Assange isn't American :)
My son never called me a bitch and the only time in 22 years of marriage their father ever did was to say "Honey, I think you are pregnant. You are being such a bitch." and because he never, ever spoke to me that way, I didn't say one word in reply. I just went and got a pregnancy test (like that same day or within a day or two) and, lo and behold, I was in fact pregnant.

I'm the one in the family with a potty mouth who swears like a sailor. It was funny to them and they all three laughed in part because that line was colorfully descriptive of his cranky, blamey behavior, not because anyone in the family ever spoke to me that way.
Just a note: Your front page text doesn't wrap on mobile (android), requiring side scrolling.
That’s quite a leap at the end.

You’re saying 0.6% of fathers sexually abuse a daughter?
> specifically engineered to be low churn

This is not actually possible. You're kidding yourself if you think such a document is "future proof."
Hayao Miyazaki response to AI animation is a stinging critique for all of Tech
> Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but the implicit message here is that people actually care about the animals and sustainability of meat farming.

Given what I see people saying and doing - in person and online - seems that too many people don't even care about other people. People don't want to raise minimum wage because a burger would cost a few cents more. I have a hard time imagining them giving up their burgers because of the animals.
I don't know what you think BitMEX is, but I'm pretty sure they never offered banking services.
Not sure. I don't know what kind of resolution I'll get.
1.4 drive writes per day is a shit ton of a lot of writes to hit a drive with daily. this is a computational not an automotive concern, & a pretty frelling heinous oversight at that.
yeah except retail for the life of them can't figure out how to price quantos and the exchange is dying. They had such a headstart and squandered it. ftx is now positioning itself as the leading exchange.
Helluva read.

“When testing snow, Ryan said, you should never look for proof of stability. With stability the goal, you’re testing for permission to do what you want to do. Instead, you should test the snow for proof of instability. You should look and look and look until you find it.”

I learned somewhat similar risk analysis as a student pilot. When on your final approach to landing, descending through 500 feet, then 100, then 10, you should always be on a hair trigger, spring-loaded to hit the throttle, abort the landing, and go around. If you’re doing it right, actually making the landing should almost be a surprise!

Then again, my flight instructor said a Piper J-3 Cub is best to learn in, because “it goes just barely fast enough to kill you.”
I think there's definitely a gradient in terms of how "meat"-like veggie patties can be. What I take issue with is that instead of offering products for what they are and letting people build their culture around them, it feels like the food industry is essentially operating in tunnel-vision mode and perpetuating what IMHO is a pretty mediocre culinary culture.

So while you may get spicy veggie cake hotpots elsewhere in the world, in the US you get... air quotes burgers? To really understand what I mean, it would likely be eye opening to see what american fast food chains look like in Asia: they have an insane amount of variety that makes their counterparts in the US look like bad jokes. It took ages for McD to wake up to breakfast culture, and likewise for Lays to pick up on mexicans' taste for spicy snacks and now these are huge segments for them. I'm still dumbfounded that food company execs don't see the lost opportunity of not introducing more variety rather than trying to make everything conform to pre-establish molds.
Just to clarify, if you update toReadableNumber to take a second parameter and that parameter is not a number, typescript will complain.*

TypeScript won't catch the original landmine because it ignores the extra parameters; maybe some linter would? Is there a rule that enforces "functions used by map must spell out all the parameters?"

* Example of typescript giving an error on toReadableNumber_v2:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/FAYw9gdgzgLgBAQwE5...
Inoreader. Has all the features of Feedly (that I care about) at half the price. I switched recently after using Feedly for years and so far I'm very happy with it. Migration process was very painless.

On mobile, it has a killer feature. For the feeds that only give a short snippet and then require you to go to the site (i.e. ArsTechnica), you can just pull the page down and release. Inoreader will load the full article without requiring you to go to the website.

I also use it to subscribe to all the newsletters to keep my mailbox clean and Twitter users that I want to monitor but not follow on Twitter itself.
So what exactly are the frills that you're setting aside? XM radio? Regen, DC-DC converter, all of these things require more than just a single microcontroller.
I’m not sure “nobody” would notice. I’ve had impossible meat burger and beyond meat burger. The beyond meat was disgusting. It wasn’t even slightly convincing. Impossible was more convincing texture wise but taste wise it makes you look at what you’re eating cos it’s like “huh it feels like meat but doesn’t taste like it...”
> Not to get too autobiographical here, but isn't divorce a pretty healthy outcome to a marriage?

i guess it isn't very healthy for the kids. http://marripedia.org/effects_of_divorce_on_children_s_healt...
A bit of context: I read that tweet a few days ago:

> A symptom that appears in the Akkadian Diagnostic Handbook is ašuštu "depression".

> "If depression continually befalls him, he often sighs; he eats bread and drinks beer but it does not go well for him; he cries out, 'Oh, my heart!' and is dejected, he is sick with Lovesickness"
> https://t.co/MEphr6Ln8f
Thalidomide babies were my age and not unknown where I grew up. Limb deformities differed: sometimes they had flipper-like appendages, sometimes shortened limbs. (FWIW while cruelty was extremely common back then I never saw a single case of anyone handicapped being made fun of. Nor did I ever witness any racist behavior in my racially integrated neighborhood.)

There was a locally famous dude at the public pool who was kind of the coolest guy around. His legs stopped at knee length and he would pull himself up the high dive ladder, walk on his hands to the end of the diving board, and casually launch himself off the end perfectly every time. It was spectacular.
I didn't expect more than 10 people to see this website, to be honest. Should be back now!
While reading this, I'm running the following commands on my media server in the sitting room corner:

eject /dev/sr0 && read && eject -t /dev/sr0

The `read` is there so I only have to press the Enter key to close the disc tray before my feline fired catches it (I learned the hard way when the motor stopped working on `/dev/sr1`). He’s clever enough to have figured out that it’s me typing on the laptop that causes the DVD tray to eject and he gets equally excited when he sees me pick up the remote control for the Blu-Ray or CD player.
This is true. I wonder, did “inverse” derivatives exist in any real markets before BitMEX? That is, contracts denominated in the quote currency.
Most of these contracts are still traded on cex. total volume on cex exceeds 200bn a day, defi is not even close.

The balance of power is shifting though.
It does a somewhat decent job of English <-> Russian, keeping most of the meaning, but some mistakes it makes are hilarious.

For example, I tried this: "I had tried translating a test sentence and I got a rate limit related error..." It used the word "приговор", which does mean "sentence", except it's the kind courts give. The right word is "предложение", which means a (grammatical) sentence, but also a suggestion.

Languages are hard. I'm impressed.

edit: "I'm impressed." for some reason translates into "Я впечатлена." — technically correct but as though the speaker is female. That's weird.
Signals are most important when the intention they communicate is counterintuitive. Guessing is a poor approach.
Fixed. That's 1 broken website fixed thanks to my services.
The dynamic hedging required for quantos is annoying. You’re pretty much required to run a trading bot to keep your position delta where you want it.
> Really? My Ledger app says 112 sat/byte, which comes out to $8 for me, and I'm pretty sure they were higher a few weeks ago, when I checked. Am I way overpaying?

Hm, maybe? I think those clients usually just use the average fee paid in recent transactions, which will result in overpayment if everyone else is doing it too.

The real question, "how low can I set the fee and still have my tx confirmed," is given an attempt at an answer by https://fees.watch, which is what I checked -- it showed less than $2 for every speed at the time.

To be honest I don't actually use Bitcoin, but I do use Ethereum regularly and I use this fees.watch site for that. My transactions almost always get confirmed exactly when expected, and it's almost always cheaper than whatever the wallet suggests.