skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d encourage you to just apply to some good programs, don’t get psyched out by your perceptions of the competition.

Grades, papers, recommendations are all important, but they’re not everything. There’s a certain randomness to the graduate admissions process - different departments have differing values and priorities, and often the graduate admissions committee is different year to year. Many departments just use grades and such as a heuristic to help narrow the pool.

A demonstrated ability to write well (put time and care into your statements) and think independently count for a whole lot.
A lot of people mentioning Soulver as a great alternative. But after running into limitations with Soulver, I eventually discovered Magic Calculator, and I fell in love. It allows for more precise calculations, and it's way cheaper at $4: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magic-calculator/id421993158?m...
This is also a great way to work around many paywalls, as when reader mode is on by default, it kicks in before the JavaScript that throws up the paywall.
Yes, the even healthy cells are constantly transporting protein fragments to the cell surface but the immune system learns to ignore these as it is developing.

In addition, B and T cells only detect fragments on the surface of active Dendric cells. Dendric cells become active in response to alternate and less specific indications of infection such as an unusually high amount of mRNA translation or families of protein that occur only in bacteria and viruses.
I've seen good intentioned leaders open up a group with such activities.

I've yet to see concrete value.

The current MBA leadership culture is just counter to creativity, innovation and safety.
A suggestion that there are things you haven't heard of doesn't equate to infinite things. Let's say there are 10 arguments for God's existence, but the only one you are familiar with is "a thing exists, but there is no evidence for it", isn't my statement accurate?

In turn, your statement suggests that all possible ideas about religion for the past thousands of years of human history can be boiled down to a single sentence. You have assumed that everything you don't know about religion is exactly the same as the very little you do know about it. Which one of us is supposed to be close-minded again?

I am willing to consider anything and listen to what anybody has to say. As I said in my post above I went through an atheist period of my own, after all.
As a software/hardware guy who knows less than zero about the subject: is this something that (given the right resources) makes possible to replicate the vaccines? I mean in countries where they can't afford enough vaccines but already have or could invest in the ability to replicate them without caring about patents.
Mutually assured stupid destruction.
Well... I didn't expect much from the game and received that, a good game that felt unfinished and too short.

I also called it when I saw the trailers and presentations.
They promised more than any team could deliver in that timeframe. Then they postponed it and it was clear that this game will be released buggy and unfinished.

Witcher 3 was so big and also boring that I never got to finish all the quests.
CP2077 is the opposite. Too short but exciting.
I don't like game like GTA, yet CP2077 captured me and I couldn't stop playing until I've done ever quest that wasn't buggy, except the fighting quests. The opponents just always kicked my ass.

And now reading about patch 1.2 I think, who cares, it's like sex with your ex or cold coffee. Been there done that, moving on.
I feel like it might be dangerous to equate Google with societal laws, but you have some compelling arguments.

If I may counter to flesh this out:

Take books. Authors have copyright laws to protect the content but they also have to accept that humans will look at, remember, and catalog the content of their books.

And we ended up with libraries which catalog on a large scale, as well as laws that dictate how people can use the content of those books (especially when they do borrow them).

But Google could be considered as a company that borrows all the books, has people transcribe and file them, returns the books, and then advertises that they are “better than the library” because they have hired the best and fastest librarians in the world. However, they charge a cover fee. (In reality this fee is paid by advertisers, but it’s still there and Google is still a for-profit company)

I think that it would be hard to argue that that type of business is reasonable or expected, and to bring it back to the example of a content creator: I think many of us would push back if a reclusive author brought a manuscript back to the city after 20 years of being a hermit, had it turned in to a book, and then found out that every single person who read it did so without paying him, without him being able to connect with those readers, and without him even being able to know how many people because this for-profit library chose not to tell him.
It blows my mind to see how life (and death) work at the molecular level--it's almost like some kind of manmade machine, but far more subtle and complex.
Of course; I'm just pointing out that the conflation has both precedent and cultural roots.
We Can Live with the Way You Handled That (2008)
> It, to me, is Go's third biggest wart.

Out of curiosity, what are the first two?
You can increase up your sales with some of the best social media platforms
Yes, that's one of the concerns many have about this technology. Literally, anything can be injected and done at this point.

Not sure where the technology is exactly at, but I suspect we're no more than 5 years from major incident related to this.

Even this vaccine, we really don't know the long-term impacts or risks involved with this. For instance, this vaccine does appear more risky than the standard flu vaccine:

https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D8/D137F981

Presumably this is due to increased inflammation. It's not hard to imagine that we'll be doing genetic editing soon enough with this (if we aren't already).
I would expect that if you don't tell people what you want they will fail to produce it.

I recall a mind reading interview I received once. He described a problem he faced, asked me how he solved it. ?! I explained how I would solve it, and while it's possible my answer missed something or was non-performant, I'm pretty sure it was a correct implementation. Nope. It wasn't what he did. I got a job offer, but turned it down, because holy crap.
Ah, but, I don't write "to be an expert"... <g>

I write to:

clarify the way I think

!

So, what's the difference?

?

Well you see, if:

a) Someone writes something

and:

b) They are basically honest, at least with respect to themself, their own thoughts, in their own writings;

and

c) They are given a chance to review and edit and correct their own writings (in Law, we call this "Amending" something) after having written them;

Then, typically, as a result of these conditions:

d) They discover, and can subsequently think about, ("examine")

their own self-contradictions

...which if they are subsequently thought about, and subsequently resolved (again, in thought) -- will invariably lead to

better and clearer thinking...

We might call this the process of "self-examination" -- through writing...

I believe Socrates said something to the effect of "The unexamined life -- is not worth living".

Now, I don't know if that's true or not...

What I do know, is that I write to:

clarify the way I think

(And of course there are other reasons too, like communication, human communication... but it's not "to be an expert"... (What would I possibly gain from being "an expert", other than a title, a higher pay grade, and possibly more incompetency than the guy who's at the next pay grade higher than me? <g>))

(Oh, and sometimes I get good jokes, good humor, good comedy ideas -- from writing... but these are slag by-products of the writing process -- and not the norm...)

Anyway, that's why I do it...

Not "to be an expert"...

"The true knowledge -- consists in knowing that one knows nothing..."

-Socrates
Coronavirus replication is pretty dramatically different from HIV replication-- coronaviruses are not retroviruses, and do not have a step where viral RNA is converted into DNA and integrated into the host cell's genome. Instead, coronavirus RNA is directly interpreted by the cell's ribosomes to make the proteins that ultimately build and comprise the replicated viruses.

The mRNA vaccines work in much the same way-- it's just that the mRNA vaccines only include the code for the spike protein and not the rest of the virus's machinery. So you get the vaccine and your body produces a bunch of spike protein by itself, which gives your immune system the opportunity to learn how to identify and react to the spike protein before it sees it on a real virus.
Wow this is so cool. Sometimes, OpenVPN traffic is blocked using deep packet inspection and the likes. I use shadowsocks to access internet there but it requires additional server setup.

SSH Tunneling works with zero config so I use it as well, and rsp solves one of my major gripes with ssh tunnelling.
The story seems to me very easily tied into current hot topics - I'm not going to regurgitate the details which are on Wikipedia, but they are pretty disturbing and link to some key themes for MeToo.

Possible alternative hypotheses I'd consider to your logic - maybe people don't care because it's old news? Maybe people just think of the comedian when they hear the name? Maybe people do care and it just hasn't hit HN?
Nice to have a hard-sided sleeping unit for bear country.

Nice to have a reasonable bed after an exhausting day canyoneering.

Nice to have a heater for that sudden snowstorm in June.

It isn't going on the backpacking trip (but could be a great mobile base for punctuated backpacking!) but it can facilitate a lot of great experiences (and can broaden the experience of people who wouldn't go on that backpacking trip...)
I doubt the perception in slowness is really going to be that different between a 5 min TTL and a 15 min TTL.

1. DNS lookups add on the order of 100ms to load time.

2. In both cases (5 min and 15 min) the user is going to do a DNS lookup on the first page, then have cached DNS while they browse for a bit, then have a DNS lookup at some point in the future.

Most web sessions are relatively short, so I doubt most users would even notice the difference where they see an extra 100ms load time at, say, 2 points in their session instead of 1.

In my experience the appropriate use of the preconnect and dns-prefetch hints has a much bigger impact on perceived performance than worrying about DNS TTLs beyond 5 min.
I will wholly disagree with this point of view. Telling people that their whole category of thought doesn't exist based on your own personal variants of definitions is belittling.

I put in a different comment that this isn't that different in concept from telling homosexuals that they don't exist because we all love our mothers.
You want your calculator to be a web page?
I’ve been amazed at how much better Starlink has been compared to my vdsl connection has been. Even with beta downtime it’s more reliable.
> I've never understood the commonly expressed idea that if the end of the world seems inevitable that it is therefore logical to work towards it.

Because the consequence being the end of the world rather than just a large part of it is what keeps the peace.
You are very opinionated for what ultimately is a piece from a fiction writer.

Of course he's going to play on words and conflate emotions when waxing about the meaning of life.

I don't understand why so many have to be such a harsh critic. Yeesh.
Wow, thanks; I was wondering if anyone would notice - there was one or two a while later, and I was happy someone got it.

Then came back just then after a few busy days and had to do a massive double take at the number of upvotes; I probably shouldn't discuss the actual number, but it's my most upvoted reply ever - there must be a lot more punsters here! :)

I used the reference to the NZ "Beached As" due to its brilliance, if you haven't seen it it's a silly treat especially if you love the accent.

And again I greatly enjoyed that sardonic tone of the original video, which I saved for future repeats.
I don't think its hard. I just think they don't. I think it's really sad how few senior scientists with standing do this. They seem to lack the fortitude to do something, which isn't that hard when it comes down to it.

I don't blame fresh starts who go for the lucrative roles, they need the money. Once you're established, finding a hill to stand on and choosing to stand on it seems to get .. less likely?

You made the call, good for you. I admire that. I wish more people with established status did, and said so.

Am I missing something? is there a lot of news out there about CompSci and AI profs sticking it to the man (faang) about things? I don't see it, and thats what I'm responding to here. Norbert Weiner was apex in his field. He looked at what was going to happen with it, and decided to stop feeding the beast. Where's the equivalent behavour from his peer-set in todays world?
Yikes. This is like JavaScript's null/undefined, but even worse because they don't even have distinct names. No thank you
I applaud the effort here, it looks like a worthy project. I like the idea of effortless git deployments & databases. Easy upgrades, backups, analytics etc.

But as others have pointed out, to call it a self-hostable Heroku & Netlify is indeed missing the point. It’s a bit of an oxymoron right?

The benefit of those services is in their CDN network, and the fact that they provide the platform and you don’t have to maintain your own server. Things I do not get with maintaining my own VPS.

Doesn’t mean I’m still not interested in this project, it looks pretty nice! But I would approach the marketing differently.
And, hmmm, everyone (by which I mean I) thought there’d be a baby boom nine months after covid kicked in.

Instead, there have been a lot fewer babies being made.

It’s the things that make you go hmmm.
Oh yeah, that's the trick that lets you shove a zip into other file formats and have it be valid, right?
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Check out calc (M-x calc RET). Full RPN calculator built into emacs, with matrix and symbolic solving capabilities. Best calculator I have ever used.
If you think that still holds you have seen where the branches on this tree are starting to lead.

Feels like we found a magic bean
Love it! This article is right on target. This is what censorship from the left looks like. Evil dressed as doing good.

I was just told the other day on a tinder date that I, "need to not use the word female" because it is demeaning for a "white male" to use it.

This entire generation is fucking retarded.

This world is so fucked.
Well, there are different views of "appropriate". When you do team development and everything is done via feature branches, it's nice to have merge commits so that the integrity of the each feature development effort is preserved via a merged branch in the history. If everything is flattened, it's harder to see where the branches (standing in for development initiatives) begin and end.

You can't always get fast-forward merges anyway. Long-lived branches with merge conflicts are undesirable but unavoidable in the long run. At least some of the time, you're going to have merge commits even when your "appropriateness" test says there shouldn't be one.
What you're looking for in that case is lua_topointer, which can turn any Lua userdata, table, thread, or function into a void pointer.
WH launches science review after claims of political interference under Trump
I'm seeing weirdly negative comments about brainstorming along the lines of 'let people go off and solve the problems'.

I don't think brainstorming is about solving specific, well-defined problems.

It's about getting a diversity of view and experience to approach something. If you're not listening to a more diverse set of voices, you may be trying to solve the wrong problem from the start, and the value is along the lines of "you may have overlooked this angle/consideration/issue".

Sure, if you're at the world's greatest company, no problem comes without a very clear set of requirements and specifications that have been real-world market tested. I don't think that's a normal reality so a discussion of ways to address things is great.

Personally, my least fav is being invited to a brainstorm where blue sky is off the table and everyone is trying to say why things won't work or that they've been tried. The thing is I've been in a lot of situations where the problem was previously determined unsolvable, but where someone with different experience tried something that worked easily.

That said, I've been in brainstorming sessions that were claimed to be "blue sky" but a large subset of entrenched micro-serfs would claim everything was impossible and already attempted on their team. Brainstorming, like improv (which I'm thinking about from another comment from techdragon), relies on not being shut down. A fluid (supportive), "go on" mentality is necessary.
I will not presume to know your reasons for staying in your church beyond what you said here, and I respect your position on leaving the choice to your kids on whether they stick with it.

I will say though that in general there are two points I often see missing from this position:

1) At what point in the kids’ lives will it be their decision? Many kids are required to attend church until a certain age or until they are no longer living under their parents’ roof.

2) Why not start by not taking the kids to church until they are old enough to make the decision themselves? Instilling a fear of hell can be difficult to overcome later in life, even after people lose their faith, which isn’t fair to kids who don’t get a say in the matter.

I hope this doesn’t come off as hostile, as I sincerely don’t mean it to be. I do hope more people consider this though when deciding what is best for their kids, both at the beginning of their lives and once they’re grown.
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That's actually the same ballpark as mine; thanks again for sharing it, I'm sure it'll be one of my all time favourites as the years go by.
tar also wins by making it trivial to swap the compression; these days I personally favor .tar.xz or .tar.zstd over gzip.
Any situation where one group is forced to go along with what another group wants is tyranny, regardless of the sizes of the groups. When the first group is large and the second group is small you have an oligopoly or dictatorship. When the reverse is true you have tyranny of the majority, which isn't much of an improvement.

The democratic ideal is people coming together voluntarily to work toward their common interests, with no one being forced to participate against their will. The right to secede is key—it's not a legitimate democracy if you aren't allowed to leave.
Why do you imagine the NYT isn't taking a bigger paycheck for saying the same thing the fake Amazon reviews are saying? We live in a world where brands are trash. They're built by the lowest bidder with the absolute cheapest parts ("the Toyota Way", heavy airquotes), and packaged with lies (marketing). Where did this idea come from that it's only the foreign resellers of Chinese products that are posting fake Amazon reviews, when it is absolutely the same case with household brand name companies? Go to Fakespot and look up random brand name companies you would normally "trust" and see what how Fakespot rates the company. We are WAY past the point where the vast majority of companies (governments, organizations, etc) aren't using these types of mass propaganda campaigns. A brand name in the general case is no more trustworthy than some imitator.
I think people need to learn about how power and politics work in the real world. This, like many other things, is political.

The people that are making these binary determinations to wield social power could not care less about the academic nuanced views everyone is discussing here in the comments. They are not acting in good faith, so reasoning with them will not work.
User perspective:

As a user with 20+ years of experience, I have never regretted using authoritative DNS as the source for DNS data instead of DNS caches. Instead of using a shared cache, I bind local authoritative servers loaded with zone files containing the DNS data that applications need to the loopback. IME, lookups are faster than with a cache.

IMO as a user, recursive queries to shared caches are overrated. I want to know what lookups the applications I use are making and I want control over what DNS data is available to them. IME, giving applications license to lookup any resource at any time means this permission will be abused to further the interests of the online ad industry and all those who service it instead of 100% serving the interests of the user.

For example, a commercial router's management console does not need to be able to look up the addresses of ad servers. Letting it have access to a remote shared cache, or even a local one, that does recursive queries is unnecessary. The user has already paid for the router.
This is on the hosted interface, right? I can sorta understand that, especially when the ads are for their own gear. But if I start seeing ads in my locally installed copy of Unifi, this will be a problem.