skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was unfamiliar with the chestnut debacle until I read The Overstory - I immediately put the book down and went to read about chestnuts being wiped out in droves.
I may well be mistaken, but I don't think MOND started off as being a theory in which "there’s no reason that, in a dynamical system, these fields have to be focused at the same place where the normal matter is." In fact, I thought the original motivation for MOND was to preserve just that, and if so, then if it has become, as a result of challenges such as this, unable to preserve that simplicity, then it has, in one sense, already failed.

More significantly, however, and regardless of whether the point about some galaxies behaving as expected is a problem for MOND, the issue here is whether they are a problem for the resolution posited in the paper under discussion.
The goal can be accomplished through hybridization and backcrossing, with marker assisted selection.

I have a Chinese-American F1 hybrid growing here on my farm that is in its 8th year doing very well. I keep meaning to get some more, since I don't get consistent pollination on it.
Our Ship Stocks Up on Food Provisions for the Next Voyage – Seaman Vlog
> It’s just a bunch of wasted energy to arbitrarily move money from one set of traders to another.

If it's wasted energy, then it's wasted money. But traders don't have unlimited funds. They are somehow generating at least as much wealth as the value of the electricity that is being used.
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Microsoft Has Just Blackmailed Linux Twice in One Single Week (2016)
The most disturbing work by Wilhelm Busch is "Flipps der Affe": http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Busch,+Wilhelm/Bildergeschic...
You don't seem to know how to comment properly or respectfully here.[0] Glass houses and such. Best wishes to you.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You'd think fire regulations would need to be adhered to before production was allowed to start. Small businesses have endless compliance check ups for this type of thing and big fines if they don't have safety and fire suppression in order
Our local hospital tried to quote us for a routine fertility related procedure because we thought insurance wouldn't cover it. It took several hours on the phone before they figured it out. Day of the procedure they told us they forgot to factor something in and they gave us the wrong price.

They said it was fine though because insurance would actually cover it.

But they were wrong on that account too.

In comparison, the actual fertility clinic we went to was upfront and told us the price of everything ahead of time.

Everytime I've had to deal with a hospital the billing experience has been a nightmare. Fuck hospitals.
Scientists may have solved ancient mystery of 'first computer'
Interestingly, Turks have broadly one type of cheese (not really true, but compared to France let's go with it) per use. So cheese really isn't just cheese.

You have your cheese for sandwiches and melting, you have your cheese for stuffing pastries, you have your cheese for breakfast, you have a couple of ones with special shapes like the braided ones. And please, try not to mix these up. The white cheese for breakfast is not the one for the pastry, even though it looks similar. And why do Europeans crumble any sort on their dishes and call it Turkish? The nerve!

In some sense, Turks are some of the least "Cheese is cheese" people I met.
Then it must have been late 1992 when I got it, not 91 :-)
Apple lost the sense of taste a while ago.
Same; reading Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers (which deserved its Pulitzer) was a profound experience. Trees are amazing.
Disappointed that they mean discovered and not created.
Reading that page, I think the problem is that that hybrid might be insufficiently derived from the American chestnut for wide-scale replanting of it to count as conservation.
Ok... cause the 8% is approx what BF is known for.

DeFi is much, much, much higher than 8%... 8% is often _daily_.
> as with dark matter, it is possible for this new field to be concentrated away from the normal matter.

That sounds like dark matter with extra steps. If normal matter isn’t producing the field it’s just another unknown phenomenon.
Huh, well, this explains why my 8-year old repo is suddenly getting a bunch of comments and PRs...
Slack will soon respect your chosen skin tone color for emoji reactions
It's a "molten metal" machine at the Fremont factory, it contains "molten aluminum" and is used to stamp vehicle parts... so yeah, "Giga press".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press
I'm intruiged as to your take on how this ties into this.
Good for you. I grew up in the eighties, and if I couldn’t remember your phone number you probably weren’t my friend. I’m okay with the same rules now. Twitter and Facebook are the Internet equivalent of Skid Row - a bunch of hobos fighting over a bottle of thunderbird. The only winning solution is not to play.
When I take a prescription from my Kaiser doctor, covered by my Kaiser insurance, to the Kaiser pharmacy, and ask them how much it will cost they cannot tell me. This is completely ridiculous.
hey @icsa

> [these regexps] look [suspiciously] like algebra!

where do i sign! it is 2021, and the following universal truth still evaluates to false for them:

x=x+1
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what do they mean by "no it isn't"? what is this right-of-left-no-precedence-rules nonsense?

what a retarded tech. turing award, seriously? who's idea was this?

must've been some brainiacs on a nerd patrol. my gut always tells me when i look at a good complang, and i'm definitely not looking at one right now.

lol.
George Costakis: The Keeper of Modernities
> Sure, emissions are undeniably better (unless you have a VW, haha)

I have a 1985 VW van, so it's haha the wrong direction for me.
I'm not incredulous, I have no doubt that someone might have specific preferences for milk.

I'm arguing that 'commodity' isn't a bad word, because it means 'consistent' and similar, not 'low quality', as your up thread comment implies.

If you don't investigate every package, you are taking commoditization for granted, there's trust that it will be what it is supposed to be. That's it's done at the level of the individual farm is all the better, they are able to deliver commercial volumes to Whole Foods with consistent (predictable) quality.
We're a boutique consultancy that's been doing this for about seven years. Most of the people who apply have a lot of misconceptions. The usual Coursera MOOC and Kaggle challenges on a nice, clean, CSV with clear objectives and well defined metrics, train a model and boom, build a Flask application and "deploy the model" for the most adventurous. Obviously, very few have an idea of the work it took to even define the problem, and rarely about the work it took to get to that "clean CSV", let alone how that model will actually deliver value or its lifecycle.

Yes, the overwhelming majority thinks that. I can't blame them really. Most of the content out there about this is by data virgins who've never touched actual data, mostly Tweeting/blogging/Mediuming/YouTubing/audience building. This is due to the fact that relatively few are actually doing this in real life. ML projects can be quite expensive and you're either in a large organization's ML team or, like us, a company that large organizations hire either for lack of an internal team, or to support their team. That is, if you want to work on actual problems, with real data, and real stakes, real infrastructure questions, etc.

Recently, though, there has been an uptick in the amount of MLOps content. That, too, has been innundated by people writing for "that site on Medium".

That is the way it is for now and the field is immature. There will be a lot of churn. Most people will give up. Some will keep up and learn and actually get to do that and evolve. So, one may be dismissive and it would be understandable. But we could also see it from a stand-point of a conversion funnel, and all that is driving people through that funnel. The content may irk me, but if it's driving someone to the field and that person sticks and learns... Sysadmin, webmaster, webdev, IT... all went through something similar.

We have been building our own platform[0] to leverage what we have learned and at least remove some of the toil from our plate and ease off a bit of the hiring pressure resulting of that shortage. Our PhD people needed to tap on someone's shoulder to set up or fix their environment, or deploy their model. We're removing taps on shoulders, reducing the cardinality of the profiles we need, and the skills required to operate. These issues can kill a small company, as you either had to hire people who could do it all, or people who were specialized. And you're left with people jumping around putting out fires on several projects at a time. It can drive many people crazy.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
Ethereum blocks have a gas limit so it wouldn't be Turing complete under your definition either.
Each time when I see something offer "unlimited storage" for free account, I know this is either a lie or not sustainable.
But the seeds from these hybrid trees will not breed true in the next generation meaning that some of the characteristics of your hybrid will not be in the plants grown from it's seeds.
That's great but Windows Vista??
Does "memory" include fundamental changes to the self and perception along with personal growth due to exposure to new experiences and situations and time away from the grind?
Oh, no worries. Love your work!
If RNA is the point of discussion I would think that the viruses that are part of the animal you eat would transfer some of the traits.

Viruses are definitely carriers of both DNA and RNA from specie to specie.

I wonder how an embryo is affected when dealing with an attacking virus? I would think this would be a good PhD research project.
To contrast leaf-miners with other agricultural pests – before the leaf-miners came to town, we also had a bunch of Giant Swallowtail Butterflies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_cresphontes) that made their homes in our citrus trees. Their caterpillars never did too much damage, and the annual presence of huge, striking butterflies was pretty enjoyable.

Sadly, I think our (organic) efforts to get rid of the leaf-miners also killed off the butterflies.
Ask HN: Is startup PTSD real and possible?
To you individually, do you believe startup PTSD is real and possible?

Do you yourself - or someone you know and/or love - have it?

I ask this as a young person who has had both success and failure in tech entrepreneurship, with particular moments from the hardships causing severe negative emotional reactions and ultimately (at least temporarily) debilitating me from accomplishing things effectively, if at all.

I’d really like to treat this like any problem in my life: acknowledge it, understand it, take responsibility for it, and work to improve it, but struggle to find authoritative related resources.

P.S. I wrote this via my phone while sitting on my couch in silence on a Friday evening pondering this. My apologies for any spelling or grammar errors.
My favourite medium ever. Still rocking one in my car, one in my home studio and one in my lounge entertainment unit. Only ceased production in 2019. I’m hoping it has a comeback like vinyl did! Haha but we all know that any medium that had a record function was killed my American music labels ;:
> If all the time I've wasted on 4chan has taught me anything, it's that calling people shitheads, or more colorful variants, does little to change their mind.

I'm not here to convert anyone. Catharsis is also a perfectly valid reason to do something.

> The problem with pedophilia isn't that it's offensive, it's the harm caused. As you well know... If you can make a good case that soydev memes are as bad as, you know, molesting kids, then please do.

Filling people's heads with 'edgy' stuff has led us to the current situation were we have self-declared incels shooting up public places while live-streaming their violence 'for the lulz'. The Christchurch massacre was the perfect example of the logical conclusion of the nihilistic onanism that is 4chan shitposting.

I'd argue that setting people into the edgy -> racist to be edgy -> conspiracy theories about replacement -> violence sausage machine, on the premise of laughing at 'soydevs' (whatever that is supposed to mean) has real-life consequences just as bad as pedophilia.

> That space isn't really meant for you and doesn't have to conform to the rules of politeness of mainstream culture, much as you wouldn't go into, I don't know, a punk rock concert and ask them to tone down their language a bit.

> Would you deny these weirdos their safe space, where they can joke about wagecucks and gnutards?

As I said, the problem with these weirdos' safe-space is that it is increasingly leading to consequences in the real world. They can say whatever the hell they want in their safe-space, but you can't ask me to not tell them how stupid and/or deranged they sound when they come to my space. That's the only way to adjust their expectations ``

> Ironically, you're being more interpersonally combative/abrasive than anyone I've seen on LS's channel! Less nice, in other words. With your attitude, and your sailor's mouth, you might belong on 4chan, after all.

Almost like people can have strong opinions without having to resort to calling others 'soydevs' and 'suburban white women'.
I find the whole FIRE thing a little odd. Why would you spend your entire life on a short budget just to 'retire early'. Besides, how enjoyable is that retirement if you're constantly fighting to pinch every penny you can.
> When a new trends starts organically, it's all impulsive and genuine, then people start to profit on it and the game is over.

I think I have seen the same argument about anime conventions. The idea is that a trend starts with a small group of passionate people, as things get bigger and more popular, followers arrive. Followers are not really passionate, they just jump on the bandwagon, but will leave and jump on another bandwagon as the thing gets less trendy. With the followers come people who will try to profit on them since they represent a sizable market. Among the "exploiters" are former members of the original group, who see a find a way to monetize their passion, taking advantage of their deep knowledge of the field.

So the idea that "people start to profit and the game is over" is mostly right, but the dynamic is more complex than just having a small number of people ruining it from everyone else.

And it is not all bad. While the community is less genuine, it is also more productive, if anything, just from the sheer numbers.
The blocks will be variable sized and can still fill up.

Point #1 and #10 from the image here:

https://hackmd.io/@timbeiko/1559-updates/https%3A%2F%2Fhackm...
This is also my answer for the “why don’t you like dark matter?” question.
For a lot of people, it's more than a sport. It's a huge chunk of Canada's identity for well over a century. Changing the number of players on the ice would be like... well, I can't think of an analogy. But they'd never go for that. (Watch them prove me wrong...)

But if the goalie can cover 90% of the small
goal, and 70% of a goal just a few percent
bigger, it makes sense to me that could be a
bigger change than changing the number of players.

I don't think they're trying to make the biggest change possible, right? I don't think anybody's talking about changing the fundamental nature of the sport. 4 vs. 4 would change everything right down to roster construction, who you want to draft, and other aspects. Also there's now less ice time to go around. etc.

It's also a very coarse adjustment. Versus changing net dimensions, something they could experiment with in small increments at the minor league level.
Recycling isn't limited to plastics.
I agree with Paul. I tend to pick the simplest language that works. However, it largely depends on who you write for.

On my website [1], I write for immigrants. I pick simple words, and I write simple sentences. I avoid idioms, rare words, and expressions. It's not very interesting to read, but it's easy to understand.

When I'm among fluent speakers, I'll pepper my sentences with idioms, and generally be more expressive. It's more fun to write that way, because I can pour some of myself into my writing. That's how I write most comments and blog posts.

However, one must be cautious as not to overdo it, and in the process alienate the reader with needlessly elongated prose. Though this writing style is entirely too common in academia - particularly in the philosophy department - it serves little more than to prove how full of himself writer is. Perhaps it is believed that this is how intelligent people express themselves, but the reader's energy is better spent on the underlying ideas than on the deciphering of each sentence.

[1] Typical example: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/german-health-insurance
Gasoline and diesel (which is harder to ignite) need a source of ignition to start burning, whereas a lithium ion battery can supply its own. The latter being a solid also means heat can build up deep inside a damaged battery pack enough to cause reignition.
Let's hope never. I'm a fairly average looking person with shocking blue eyes that lets me swing above my weight.
Open source Ethernet switch in the palm of your hand
There is a chestnut tree in North Bergen NJ. Just right on the street. I should grab some of the chestnuts and try and plant them.
Hey, you know you may be right - I guess I just assumed about the source of the milk. Try this out: go to Aldi [1] and choose grocery pickup for anywhere in Illinois or Indiana, and you’ll see a gallon of milk for somewhere between $1.95 and $2.50 per gallon (depending on the store location). Click on the milk and you can clearly see the “Real California Milk” label.

[1] https://www.aldi.us/en/pickup-delivery/grocery-pickup/
For daylight savings, the offset is generated in real-time in our app at the time of transaction and then stored inside the db...so if 2x TXs occurred in CST at 1:58am (1 before and 1 after DST went into effect at 2am) they would both show up as being between 1-2am on the day of time change. However, the spike in data would show the anomaly for our use case. For a more mission critical app, you could have an additional tinyint field that would get set as 1 for all transactions that occurred in these transitional periods to be able to show data with or without the daylight savings.
It's Tesla. They've been selling fake self-driving systems for five years and building $50,000 cars in a circus tent. There is no level of incompetence or malice I would find surprising.
I think the closest thing to counterculture today would be the world of cryptocurrency. It is the least connected thing to the rest of whole mainstream ecosystem that has serious unstoppable vitality.

Btw, reading about Boyd Rice reminded me of Russian experimental electronic band GameBoydRice who makes music using a hacked gameboy and a mixer. https://youtu.be/lxzpatLthxE

Just one of the billions of random little market segments and sub genres out there. The mainstream had much less hold on the world than it used to. The platform censorship though constrains it. Crypto doesn't have those constraints though. One is reminded of how Wikileaks, getting locked out of every bank, took cryptocurrency donations and became hugely wealthy as a result.
both of these things happen all the time at my job.

new folks will show up and start complaining that "stuff doesn't work", at which point I will ask them to read the many READMEs that been sitting right in front of them.

Later, they will say "this documentation is wrong", where inevitably someone else changed some code but didn't change the documentation that is colocated with it.

Because the docs were wrong, nobody will read them next time. And the cycle continues.
Ask HN: New Manager, how to measure developer performance?
Background:
Due to some wild circumstances, I have gone from being a senior developer to the team lead of eight developers in another department with zero hand over or training.
This is my first time as a manager, I have never worked with any of the team and have only briefly meet them before.
I have talked to the business and the team has a concrete goal to develop and deliver a software project in six months.
There is also a big push to raise the quality of the work done, under the last manger features were late, buggy and had a lot of downtime which has been impacting revenue.

Question:
In six months time, I will need to deliver a performance review for each member of the team.
How do I define the goals for each developer and measure their performance against it?
The core goals being features on time, less bugs and a lot less downtime in production.
That's really an incredible price for a computer with a color display. I enjoy and use Linux, but I think it's so versatile and general purpose my inclination is to put it online, run Firefox, play videos or whatever, and then it's magically just another PC. It's kind of like the old saw about every program expanding until it can do email. I'm starting to see the small devices, like esp32 inherit some of the aura of the old home computers which ran BASIC from ROM.
There is a book:

http://franki66.free.fr/Principles%20and%20Practices%20of%20...
The simple way is to use a process that has root for the smallest moment before dropping it. Which means it's vulnerable to a tiny subset of attacks, and it will never be root and serving requests at the same time.