skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give up trying to have any reason or rationality about this.

The world wants this mass hysteria. I'm starting to think it's not even about Corona virus anymore. Everyone has an agenda. From the remote workers to the politicians to the news media to the people getting unemployment.

You just have to let the madness pass as it looks like it's making progress towards being behind us.
I also wanted to understand why GQL was getting so much attention in a REST vs GraphQL way so I implemented a GQL microservice that had the same features as a service that I had implemented previously as REST. Both services ran on node.js and connected to the same data stores, etc. I ran both services on the same load test lab and documented my findings at https://glennengstrand.info/software/architecture/microservi...

The TL;DR of that blog is this. There isn't much value that GQL can provide over REST + OpenAPI. GQL is still in its infancy so APM is easier with REST. The biggest argument for GQL is returning the right amount of data but GQL is slightly slower than REST because the server is having to parse what is essentially a mini program with every request.
things like this are useful if you have a user that is integrating your api into some kind of legacy application that does not support json. Then in the future when JSON goes out of style, you could easily add support whatever the new format is.
https://cheapeth.org/
We could support "fields" query parameter in REST API to get only necessary attributes. Eg. ?fields=f1,f2,f3 etc.
Now we can place configurable smart contracts on blockchaim that keep track of your prisoners!

PrisonChain©
Makes you wonder why most languages don't come with good refactoring tools.
It's not about teams, it's about attempting to evaluate the counterfactual. If the difference between the US and Australia is primarily due to lockdowns, you would expect to see areas with more lockdown do better than areas with less. Much better, to a degree that drowns out any noise, since the overall difference is so vast. And that really doesn't seem to be what we observe.
API Practices If You Hate Your Customers

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/12/241052-api-practices-...
Getting further away from Christmas/New Year's probably explains a lot of it.
NFTs are not easy to understand, but sit within the intersection of these two questions:

1. What is the value of art?

2. What is the value of money?

When we look for analogues, they're of the industrial era, things about intellectual property, branding, merchandise etc. This is a way of directly speculating on an idea. Is it a good idea? If so, then other people will want it, right? Then, the token must have value. There are no gatekeepers or enforcers to say otherwise.

We have barely begun to grasp what that means.
Go uses $GOPATH to save it's own packages/binaries but uses $HOME/go if $GOPATH is not set. Originally needed $GOPATH to be set, but that changed later
> CBT and exposure therapy, is this what you're referring to?

No, this is something totally different.

The core of the process is a double-disassociation and a kind of time
reversal. You watch yourself watching yourself watching yourself and
then play the movie backwards. Somehow that changes, quickly and durably,
the way the brain responds (to kittens or elevators or whatever.)

Here's a brief video of Dr. Bandler talking about the background and how
he developed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGUXQRubBrY

And here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syIXq7e41sY
Wouldn't it be great if parents could select what schools their kids go to and teachers could select what students/parents they want to teach. Provide some choice and allow people to choose what meets their needs.
The Matses language in the article is interesting, where the verb form indicates how you know the information you are imparting. Something like that would be very useful for HN, making people tag statements to indicate their reliability.

Imagine the benefit of verb tenses such as "I am an expert in this area", "I read something about this topic a while ago", "I know nothing about the topic and am confidently speculating", or "I didn't read the article and am commenting off the title." Edit: the key point is that this verb tense is required; you can't say anything without stating your confidence.
I really don't understand how you could come to that conclusion. Whether something matters or not is entirely subjective or depends on context. Like, what does that even mean? My happiness matters very much to me, but doesn't matter at all to someone who will never meet me, or to the orbit of the earth around the sun... Yet the mass of the earth objectively matters very much to its orbit around the sun, and to many other things that would be affected by earth having a different mass. Maybe you mean, does it matter to me personally? Even then, I can't possibly see any reason why it would have to be all or nothing. Some distant galaxy on the other side of the known universe doesn't matter at all to me and likely never will. The current temperature outside matters to me a fair bit though, because it'll influence how likely I am to want to avoid the cold, or how long I stay outside.

Like I'm just trying to figure out if you're actually trying to say something meaningful or just saying something vague and abstract to try and sound "deep".
UK readers over 50 will remember how the Wombles pulled this off in the 70s. A huge series of hits performed by basically a bunch of furries.
... inspiring that famous song "The Contract Drafting Em" - The special horror when your employer has root on your brain:

https://secularsolstice.github.io/Contract_Drafting_Em/gen/
It's not an informative comment criticizing the author's credentials. It a drive-by insult.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm very happy with the way all our numbers are heading. I just don't quite understand how it is that in the US we've come to latch onto the positivity rate as a meaningful measure of stuff. In the UK and Europe, they routinely report the R0 (...or other related measures), which is a zillion times more useful when thinking about how the pandemic is going.
Its noted that a 747 had a very similar issue the same day as this 777 with the same series of engine.

Since the issue is most likely with fracture detection during maintenance inspection and P&W introduced new procedures for that a few years back, its likely the issue is with the tech being used or the procedures. Which would mean any P&W engines using the same technologies and procedures to detect fan and turbine blade cracks would be affected.
It is one of the better ones, at nuclear plants the spent fuel is typically kept in what amounts to swimming pools as a cheap way to shield from the radiation.
The benefit of the internet is that for niche subjects you can always find friends. The stupid part of social media is that many of those niche groups ended up using facebook/twitter/etc as a SSO/single place to discuss those things. But you don't need to - that niche can still exist.

I use forums, email and IRC for those ends, so the internet still remains useful for me, for now.
In the UK, people often sue for wrongful arrest etc. and I though the US was much worse for litigation. Is it simply that the victims are mainly poor and not connected enough to sue or is the legal system there really that immune from action due to wrongful process?
> Apparently you haven't done the math on this, but I did: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/lithium-supplies.html

Only 5 minutes of storage exist in known energy reserves. Only 18 minutes exist in lithium reserves accessible with current extraction techniques.

How is this supposed to be in favor of renewables? The lesson we take aware here is that demand for lithium needs to drive prices up high enough to incentivize pioneering new mining techniques such that an order-of-magnitude increase in accessible lithium reserves can be tapped.

> However, independent of the above, your assertion, "Generating another 500 MW of solar energy doesn't actually represent any decarbonization if that energy is produced when demand is already saturated," is also incorrect. Generating another 500 MW of solar energy to satisfy demand currently being satisfied by coal, oil, or gas allows us to turn off coal, oil, and especially gas plants more often, which does actually represent decarbonization.

No, no it doesn't. If you generate 10 GWh of solar during the day and 10 GWh from methane during the night, and you install an additional 10 GWh of daytime solar how much did your carbon emissions go down? Zero. How is this hard to comprehend?

> It's only during hours when 100% of demand is being satisfied by solar energy that generating another 500 MW of solar energy doesn't represent decarbonization

Which is already the case in some markets. Prophecy that once markets are saturated we'll start using storage to capture the excess is not panning out.
How often do people really jump to an arbitrary page? I'd say filtering / searching capabilities are far more important for users than paging.
See also:
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/09/11/postgresql-11-just...
News firms in USA optimize for audience size. Most Americans would rather listen to Pollyanna bullshit than uncomfortable truth. So, the news firms mostly publish wishful thinking. According to some of these shallow beings, we were supposed to have "herd immunity" by last April. Here in the real world, it's still not clear that this concept is even possible with the covid virus.
Time and Attendance Tracking Software: A Step by Step Guide
Depends how you have it configured on android at least, if the phone is unlocked already you can install from the play store w/o additional permissions unless it is a paid app
I'm not sure the New York Times is a good example here. It's definitely not just their opinion page that is partisan these days, and whilst this does seem to have gotten worse I'm not sure there was exactly a golden era - they seem to have always been particularly keen on pushing narratives.
I think we miss that many of the issues faced with getting software-driven systems to accomplish anything in the world is constrained by the interface with the world more than it is by anything computational. Alpha Go can beat the best human at Go, but Alpha Go can't even load itself into memory on a machine that doesn't have ld.so installed and won't execute without the right version of libstdc++ (I'm making up the stack because I have no idea what they actually used, but you get the idea). Human limbs, on the other hand, are a near universal interface to any tactile objects with chemical properties that don't destroy human flesh. The interconnection between the sensors and the CPU units achieves bandwidth and parallelism more comparable to the entire Internet than any single computer attached to a robotic arm.

Besides that, I don't see that computational intractability being solved by efficient heuristic approximation algorithms necessarily helps when those heuristics require data-generating processes that can't be accomplished efficiently. They're more efficient than NP-hard problems that possibly can't be solved before the heat death of the universe, but still, if your decision making function requires data to be trained and that data requires physical experimentation and collection in the world, you're inherently rate-limited by the speed with which experiments can be carried out. That has contributed to stagnation in particle physics, for instance. Physicists aren't using shitty algorithms. It just takes a long time to build a particle accelerator, and you can't do it faster just because you're a computer. Manufacturing processes and collection of physical material isn't made faster by having faster clock speeds in your decision making center.

AI risk enthusiasts tend to hand wave around this by saying a sufficiently powerful AI can learn from simulation instead of experimentation, but surely there are some limits to how scalable this idea is? Simulating Go is trivial. You've got a 361 cell world where each cell can be in one of two states. On the other hand, I just looked up how many atoms are in a human skin cell and I'm seeing 10^14? Trying to simulate human society from first principles of physics to learn optimal war strategy seems like it require more memory than a computer will ever have access to.
Distributed Priority Queue at Facebook Supporting Async Computing
Facebook's Asynchronous computing infrastructure runs all the near realtime workloads on the website. This is the blog post describing the distributed priority queue that powers various asynchronous computing frameworks in Facebook.
The article I'm remembering was linked as part of an obit right after Bowie's death. I wish I could find it, but I'm apparently not coming up with the right phrase for Google.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a common trait of celebrities. Wear a mask, literally or figuratively, on stage or camera. Take the mask off and you're just an ordinary person that no one else will notice.

Bowie talked about that mask here, and how he used it to face his fears:

https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/166082106996/my-friend-t...
Yeah, this will immediately stop me from wanting to further engage with you if you do this.

It's kind of ironic how little respect for someone else's privacy this behavior exhibits, considering the intent.
I think it has been shown that standard corona seasonality shows the same shape of all case loads we have seen?

That is, most of the recovery we saw last year going into summer could potentially be explained by regular cycles of similar viruses in the areas. The impression being that that could also explain or current recovery.

It is not an argument against vaccination. And I haven't seen people pushing we have heard immunity, yet. But the stark drops we are seeing do seen surprisingly sharp.
Sounds like trained networks to efficiently manipulate uploaded brains would be a thing in your scenario.
> nor do I miss its endless group talks without anything useful

Much of human communication is useless (on the surface).

> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them

Pretty invasive. Also where I started thinking maybe the author just preferred for everyone to be on their medium of choice (rather than they be on somebody else's medium of choice).
Your point 1 contradicts your monopoly theory.

Your point 2 says you really want to join the Amish.

You mean smaller platforms like Parler or 4chan?
valid path: maybe return 200 (the request is ok), but return an empty object.

invalid path: 404
Seven Eves has a breakaway civilization that survives an apocalyptic event by moving underground, though it's not the focus of the story.
Well, prison fundamentally is about holding someone against their will. The specific issue here is that they’re being held contrary to the rules laid out by society.
I'm wondering if there isn't a business model in this: couldn't the inmates (or their families) hire some law firm that calculates the correct release date and sues the state to get a hefty compensation for every day the inmates serve longer than they should? That would turn around the incentives...
Bloomberg and Wired went online 4 years after the invention of the World Wide Web. In the first ten years, Amazon, eBay, Google, and PayPal were all founded. Technology adoption curves have only gotten steeper since then (e.g. iPhone/Android was basically the dominant consumer computing platform 10 years after its introduction).
I strongly disagree with this loaded characterization of mining as "waste". Converting power into value is the opposite of waste, and that's not even addressing the network security that it provides. Mining provides useful work. If you don't like cryptocurrency, fine, but don't pretend that no value is being created or that no purpose exists.

Waste would be an incandescent bulb that throws away the majority of its energy generating heat that isn't used for any purpose.
I wish S3 supported filters on predefined content - eg. json. That would be a killer feature
Are ya'll doing any crazy multiphysics topology optimization to optimize magnetic fields, heat transfer, and fluid flow?
Totally. That’s exactly what I think when I see people on reality shows get their fame.
I dropped this in a comment elsewhere in this discussion, but also makes sense here...

I find the government "requirements" process tends to create situations like this. Rather than build flexible software that puts some degree of trust in the person using it, they tend to overspecify the current bureaucratic process. In many cases, the person pushing for the software is looking to use software to enforce bureaucratic control that they have been unable to otherwise exercise, with the effect of the people the project initiator wants to use the software simply working around it. They then institute all sorts of punishments and controls to insure it must be used. This then results in the kind of insane situation we have here, where you can't do something perfectly legal because "computer says no".
I think people like it because the popular frontend library (Apollo) makes certain things easy in React, like caching.

From a backend perspective, it's about 100x more work than dumb RPC (which I prefer over "REST"). I have spent so much time becoming aware of very "interesting" decisions. For example, gqlgen for Go generates code that fetches every element of a slice in parallel. We used to create one database transaction per HTTP request, but you can't do this with GraphQL, because it fetches each row of the database in a separate goroutine, and that is not something you can do with database transactions. It's also exceedingly inefficient.

All in all, it's clear to me that GraphQL is built with the mindset that you are reaching out to an external service to fetch every piece of data. That makes a lot of sense in certain use cases, but makes less sense if you are just building a CRUD app that talks to a single database.

I am hoping that people get bored with this and make gRPC/Web not require a terabyte of Javascript to be sent to the client. RPCs are so easy. Call a function with an argument. Receive a return value and status code. Easy. Boring. It's perfect.
> a pretty reasonable assumption that holidays lead to increased gatherings

Not necessarily. They also removed one big set of gatherings: Work.

Workplaces and the commute to them are massive contributors. Many people are in (loose) contact with many more people at work than at a large Thanksgiving dinner, and contact tracing is a lot more effective for the Thanksgiving dinner (everyone there is a close contact) vs. work ("oh, but they were more than 1.5 meters apart, so it doesn't count" because you can't quarantine everyone in a 100+ people open plan office that you've been saturating with infectious aerosols for 8 hours).
NFT art seems like the dumbest/faddiest/scammiest idea to come out of the crypto sure yet, and not just because the art market is super faddy and maybe scammy already.

I know artists that think this is going to be their ticket. But it was never the lack of crypto that kept them from making money. It was the lack of any consumer value to their art.

There are two ways to make money as an artist: you either make a few, huge pieces that sell to very rich people (making your yearly bank on one or two pieces), or you make a huge number of easily reproduceable pieces that sell to the general populace. The difficulty in both is not the creation of the pieces. It's the marketing and sales pipeline. Both rely on selling a purchaser a narrative on what the art will mean to them. Exclusivity in the former, worldliness in the latter.

If you can't crack that marketing problem, you're going to ask equally zero pieces as NFT than as any other medium. And if you can crack that marketing problem, selling it as NFT does nothing for you as the artist.
The new Zen 3 offerings are indeed tantalizing. Even if you never buy an Apple Silicon Mac, the kick in the pants it has no doubt delivered to both Intel and AMD benefits all of us.

And as a friend keeps reminding me, this is their cheapest entry level processor :)
Wow! No wonder Canada beat covid-19. Oh wait, they didn’t. But at least they are in the worst economic depression in decades.
You're probably right. If I'm remembering the article correctly, he would just put a bland hard face on. Wear boring & ordinary clothing. No one would pay him any attention.
This is really exciting, congrats on the launch! Exciting to see engineers coming from college engineering teams like FSAE -- I was a member of a solar boat racing team, which is a very similar problem space and also relies on "stacking efficiencies" in your drivetrain system.

If you don't mind, I have a few questions about how you collect data and evaluate the performance of your motor quantitatively. Do you have any particular software stack for data collection? I see the motor communicates over CAN -- Is that just to send control signals, or do you also expose sensor readings like temperature, power input/output, etc? Lastly, did you need to write any custom software to collect/visualize motor performance and what does that look like?

The reason I ask is because I'm in the early stages of building a data collection & analysis platform for experimental hardware (https://www.telemetryjet.com/), targeted at small engineering teams or individuals. I don't want to focus too much on what I'm building (this is your thread!) so I'll just say in general I'm really interested in learning more about how small engineering teams like yours collect & utilize data in the engineering process.

Congrats again on the launch.
“Excel predecessor”. Harsh description of the invention of spreadsheet software.
[EDITED to make the example actually line up with OP's test]

There's no symbol table in the parser, so at parse time, we don't distinguish those cases:

$ cat test.rb
module Test
def test1
x = 14; x
end

def test2
y = 14; x
end
end
$ tree-sitter parse test.rb
(program [0, 0] - [9, 0]
(module [0, 0] - [8, 3]
name: (constant [0, 7] - [0, 11])
(method [1, 2] - [3, 5]
name: (identifier [1, 6] - [1, 11])
(assignment [2, 4] - [2, 10]
left: (identifier [2, 4] - [2, 5])
right: (integer [2, 8] - [2, 10]))
(identifier [2, 12] - [2, 13]))
(method [5, 2] - [7, 5]
name: (identifier [5, 6] - [5, 11])
(assignment [6, 4] - [6, 10]
left: (identifier [6, 4] - [6, 5])
right: (integer [6, 8] - [6, 10]))
(identifier [6, 12] - [6, 13]))))

In both cases the bit after the semicolon just parses as (identifier).

For some use cases (e.g. syntax highlighting, depending on your colorization rules) it doesn't matter, and so we don't want to pay the cost. If it does matter (like in an actual implementation), then you'd have to implement this yourself and drive it by the parse tree you get from tree-sitter.
Simulation and models are not real. Maybe some "attacks" could be developed against a simulated mind, but are they due to the mind itself or the underlying infrastructure? Just because you can simulate a warp drive in software doesn't mean you can build a FTL ship.
Social media used to be fun 10 years ago. Twitter was a fun place with fun people when I started using it in 2009. Now social media has turned into a platform for misinformation, contrarians, and ‘gotcha’ folks.
Then again Jerry Seinfeld said: There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.
Absolutely. It's easy to focus on comparing what we are working on with the other (few) electric solutions being built out there, but compared to combustion engines the specific power is a big step change. When you combine that with improved specific energy (either from cutting-edge batteries like what QuantumScape is working on, or cutting-edge fuel cell systems like what HyPoint is working on), you can see the path to GA electric planes and even small business jets is not far off.