skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it is a strange choice, maybe just reflecting what the creators of Go are used to. They have always had null and haven't had any problems with it, why change?

Null made since in the early days of C, an option type back then would have been prohibitively expensive. Today, not so, any language that can afford garbage collection, the cost of an option type is lost in the noise, and modern compilers can often optimize the cost away entirely. (though that would hurt Go's fast compile times a little bit)
What Does “Guard Your Heart” Mean? – Gospel of God
> I thought this was pretty interesting and goes into a hypothesis of why ECT might be effective (in the context of sleep deprivation being effective) https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d...

This is entirely subjective but I suspect there might be something else at play than anything mentioned in that blog post. (edit: that is, when it comes to sleep deprivation vs depression.)

I've had to go through depression myself, and also noticed that my mood is different when I'm sleep-deprived. The mood when sleep-deprived would often be elevated, assuming I didn't have to force myself to do something that required concentration. I'm not sure that state is so much an absence of depression as it might be a slightly hyper mood. (I once read someone's comment on the topic somewhere that it seems like the depression gets replaced by some kind of a hypomania-like state rather than a normal, non-depressed mood. I don't even remember where that comment was and it was also just speculation, but it rang a bell.)

I've noticed that kind of slightly hyper mood has also happened when sleep deprived outside of a depressive episode. (Perhaps it is in compensation for feeling tired when you for some reason psych yourself to still staying active, or something.)

It might feel preferable to a depressed state but I'm slightly sceptical of the idea that something with a similar mechanism could be used directly to return to a normal non-depressive state.

I don't know about ECT though.
The article is not generic, it is spesific to the issue being discussed, and it explains the issue better than I can.

"And it's not and should not be a filesystem concern which optimizes for a different kind of access"

Why not? Is that by Pope's decree, or is there an actual reason for that?

The filesystem already has like 3 different APIs, with and without caches, sync and async, so clearly they do optimise for different kinds of access.

Can you demonstrate a tool that can search efficiently in different alphabets, or when the same character is presentes by different unicode codepoints?
Isn't the automatic reaction of a Windows desktop/laptop user to lock their workstation (Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter, Enter) if they leave for any reason?

Edit: that was a great Chaos Monkey to reiterate security hygiene. Or was it a Mini Chaos Monkey? https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
I'm not certain but if they were serious there would be legal filings of some sort. I'm not an expert in trademarks and I understand that sometimes trademarks can be filed but held in confidence until a company is ready--Apple does this if I recall correctly.

Whois is also less than certain. Domain redirects to a generic parking site.

https://www.whois.com/whois/voltswagen.com
No idea about the camera (there's lively discussion here about that already), but the other measures like sealing the ballot boxes and restricting/auditing access all sound like "make sure the results won't be contentious".

It's totally in Amazon's interest (but also in the interest of anyone who wants a fair vote) to avoid any doubt/claims about tampering.
Sure, but some folks like me also believe the ontological claims are true. For example, here's a sort of summary argument based mainly on the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BfItu3Hm94okBn0dCJfRTjX6...
I like to think of this from a statistical perspective, where climate change makes the mean peak bloom come earlier in the year. However, there are lots of external factors that can affect peak bloom date as well. If you look at the graph in the linked article, you'd see that there's a wide variety of different peak dates even in the 1400's but that the overall trend is towards earlier in the year as we get closer to present day.
I practiced poker around 2010.

> In poker sometimes you make a bet and you win, but it turns out it was a very bad bet and you got lucky.

What I did was simply simulate variations on the scenario that I lucked out at or had an amazing bad beat. The moment you start to pick 20 variations, you can see quite clearly whether you made the right decision. This is especially the case when it's a bad beat or you lucking out extremely.
The sheer degree of superiority in your comment is stunning.

I worked lots of jobs before my career in coding. Manual, sometime menial work. The fact that you deem me to be a “proud slave”, too stupid to even see my shackles might be the most stunning condescension I’ve heard, and there’s no shortage of it on the internet.

There is a fulfillment I still miss in that work. I could see the effect of my work immediately, as it was grounded in the physical world. I could leave and the work wouldn’t follow me.
People need to have skills that fit the job market. You can't simply lift people out of poverty, it happens from the inside (with help).
It's not about his wealth. If Jeff had been independently wealthy before starting Amazon this wouldn't be an issue. The problem is the percentage workers receive of the value they generate. Jeff has gotten rich by pushing that number as low as possible, while also working to kill off businesses that might offer alternative employment to low skill workers.
Relative lack of syntactic sugar is one of Go's best features though.
That is a low-tech solution for a low-tech world. There are studies that even with the current level of water treatment, some rivers contain 90% (or so) female fish, due to the remaining pharmaceuticals in the water. European cities are now starting level 4 water treatment with activated charcoal and ozon to improve the water further but even then, some substances will remain in the water. So maybe we can use the untreated water to grow plants for energy generation but I would be very skeptical of any food production.
You mean it's not controlled by those who mine the most? Which would be miners in CH that could execute a 51% attack? :)

And what about the whole tether scam?

There are more problems to crypto currency than that any crypto solves now.
According to the article:

>...Amazon had sought to place a video camera in the NLRB’s Birmingham office, where votes will be tabulated, to keep an eye on the ballot boxes in the off hours between counting, according to an NLRB order denying Amazon’s request. The camera feed would have been accessible by both Amazon and the RWDSU.
I'm not saying they're doing the right thing - just that the game theory is what it is. I'm trying to give an explanation, not an excuse.

Anonymous only works in a small spectrum of possible whistle blowing - where the issue and the players are large enough to matter, but small enough that it won't be trivial to guess who the anonymous tip came from.
I knew this was going to be posted. I've been thinking about this post for a decade now and I can't help but feel that, although it does reflect part of reality, the Gervais Principle is overly cynical in my opinion, and those who adopt the view will have it compounded by confirmation bias because it is partially true.

The things described happen at toxic organizations but the author leaves no room for honest positive and meaningful work, and at risk of pointing out the obvious, there's a lot of meaningful work to be done.

To the author of this post, finding meaning in your employment means that you're necessarily a sucker or a psychopath. Where does that leave people like doctors who earnestly help their patients?

And God forbid you find the real nobility in doing your workaday job and doing a good job at it, and feel good about yourself. According to the Gervais Principle that makes you the ultimate sucker.

Adopting this philosophy is dooming oneself to a neverending feeling of being exploited and the argument that this is what is actually happening in totality is all philosophical opinion so why would I adopt a philosophy that is so personally ruinous, demoralizing, and demotivating?
I love Canada now more than ever. https://ibb.co/TWnNdGJ
What people don't realize is that the USDA and FDA operate on guidelines such that the most basic cook can follow them. J Kenji Lopez-Alt points this out in his book Food Lab. There are graphs that show that there are safe temperatures for foods below the often quoted temperatures. 165 for chicken is quoted as the minimum safe temperature, but that's actually the instant temperature. Holding chicken at 155 is safe as long as it's done for the recommended amount of time.

The USDA just wants to prevent wide-spread food borne illnesses that are easily preventable. Hence why the small scale experiments where someone eats chicken only cooked to 155 turn out successful all the time.

Note that this isn't to discredit what you're saying. I just wanted to point out that there's more to the guidelines than the parroted parts.
Don't quote me on this, it has been a long time since I read the article on Mars, so I'm probably out of date on my information.

There is a theory that Mars used to have plate tectonics, but was hit by a MASSIVE asteroid (around the size of our moon) a long time ago, probably in the southern hemisphere. This is also why Mars has such a huge volcano in the north, almost directly opposite where the asteroid hit. This turned Mars into an egg shaped planet for a while, which caused the core to stop spinning, and stopped its plate tectonics.

This is the closest article I could find on this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-asteroid-co...
He did this.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter...
A quick 10 minute google shows there are a ton of mines around Pabineau, evidence of heavy metal contamination in the area, as well as historical spraying of chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (CDDs) in the area.

Would be interesting to know whether the cluster are mostly first-nations who eat what they trap/catch.
Good thing it was a kid and not his cat; a cat would have declared war.
This reminds me strongly of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. These poor folks are overworked and used up and the "kiss asses" get a little something extra for busting up any hint of unionizing.
Dont worry we will all eventually just be working for the military-industrial complex in some form eventually, directly or indirectly. That’s basically the end state.
Why should we think that China would be better for small developing countries than the West? Or that the West's interests are in keeping small developing countries poor? Specifically, I would think Western countries with capitalist economies would want wealthy trading partners, and indeed give hundreds of billions of dollars in aid per year (ignoring private investment altogether).
Is it my imagination but it seems so many of these failures are not recorded (or have really bad video quality / cut in-and-out).

Is it correlated to the success of the mission or just a coincidence.
I've described them as a geek spa or fantasy nerd camp. It doesn't have much to do with the act of delivering talks in-person on online; that's the the mechanism for a very special type of social interaction that is hard (or impossible) to replicate online.
Climate does fluctuate and there is randomness. When you look at the tend you can see how the line has recently taken a dramatic turn.

The takeaway is that we've seen these conditions once in the last 1200 years, but based on recent data we expect things to continue to get hotter. As I saw someone say: don't think of this as the hottest year on record, think of this as the coolest year for the rest of your life.
> what exactly is the barrier to taking all the humans previously doing those jobs and leveling them up to do jobs machines can't do as well?

Suppose the cool jobs require knowledge of physics, linear algebra, coding, genetics - most people will be unable to do these jobs or unwilling. There are going to be human-in-the-loop kind of jobs for monitoring AI models though.

And there are going to be new applications that will keep us busy, whenever we gain new abilities we also expand our ambitions - like the car industry, which killed the horse and buggy industry but created a huge number of new jobs.
This would be great to have.

I don't use types in my Python much. Yet at least.

Can you submit a PR to add this? That'd be awesome.
CISA Will Use New Authority over Internet Service Providers to Fight Ransomware
So if I understand it correctly the value add is that you get to see how much a SaaS platform is charging other customers and compare that against what you are being charged?
My ponzi scheme?

Clearly this person does want to participate in the "ponzi scheme", they just want people to ignore the PoW schemes they're not holding a bag for and instead participate in the PoS schemes which they are.
That turns out to be hard because in your typical log file you have bursts of requests localized to a particular part of the file that get something into the top-N without even appearing in other segments. So essentially you can end up having to do a complete N-way merge between the segments to make sure you really find the top hits.
In truth we too have a command: shout "Crumbs!" and they come hoover up anything nearby, including things we didn't notice.

Those who say "dont share food," do have a point; it's also important to teach the hounds civility about sharing food. It's important to teach the hounds civility about everything tho so I think some make too big a deal of food.

When we cook dinner we're surrounded by an adoring, attentive audience, eager to assist and suggest the addition of more curry sauce.
> There won't be any anonymity on that network, sure

That's exactly why. It would allow ideas and speech with psychological safety to proliferate while everything else is shut down. It's bad enough already due to voluntary censorship (cancel culture).
Taxes are one of the reasons why the decline in price due to the dividend distribution may not be exactly equal to the amount distributed. And of course the decline in price due to the dividend distribution cannot be measured.
For those who cannot spend 5k and a work week on a conference, the fully online format is way superior though.
>The best is when someone tells you that 100 scientists agree on it, so it must be true, but it turns out that a few claimed it and a bunch of other scientists back them up without actually doing any science.

Im not looking to get into an argument, so I'm going to be short.
These 100 scientists' opinions are based on a lot of collective years practicing as a scientist and everything that it entails, so them agreeing with a scientific fact has a _lot_ more weight behind it than
>people that don't believe what a scientist tells them.
I'd like to see more discussion of keeping this safe from pathogens; the article includes a handful of throwaway lines like "keeping bacterial loads to an acceptable level under WHO guidelines" and "let the untreated sewage water sit in primary and secondary ponds before mixing it into fish ponds, effectively killing harmful pathogens and allowing large solids to sediment", but I'd like a little stronger explanation for why this okay when we're talking about intermingling human waste with food supply, which I'm given to understand is avoided for very good reasons most of the time. How is this not begging for an E Coli breakout?
Full title:

CISA Will Use New Authority Over Internet Service Providers to Fight Ransomware, Official Says
I know a guy who regularly takes them backpacking, multiple days, no refrigeration, no negative effects.
Assuming you are not just trolling, random fluctuations are expected to create the occasional outlier.

The difference is the steep trend in the past 150 years.
Since HN loves to veer wildly into rampant ageism, I'll bite... :)

When you make your age distinctions, you might be talking about people who are non-technical.

Early Internet techies predicted situations like this before they happened. (Pre-Web, we had all kinds of sci-fi predictions, awareness from historical analogues, etc. Post-Web, I talked with startup founders 20 years ago, who would also be 40yo+ by now, who predicted that their company's accounts would be used for shill identities for things like manipulation, and the implications of that.)

Passive consumers, of your under-40 group, who grew up in it never knew anything else, have had things framed for them, and are just starting to realize the situations we're now in.
Bitcoin avoids the double-spending problem by using a public ledger. This means all bitcoin transactions are known to any observer. There is no way round it. The best you can hope for is some "anonymity through obscurity" but this only gives a false sense of anonymity.
>I'm not sure which category I fall in

If you aren't sure, he would say you're not allowed to stick a fork in toasters.
The problem is previous generations who don't really understand this.

No, this isn’t the reason, you’re missing some crucial context about the early to mid 90s Internet - most people were using institutional accounts. It was very clear that someone with a whatever.ac.uk or .edu or .mil or even most .com that weren’t ISPs were who they said they were, and anons were explicitly anons. Many people even had phone numbers and addresses in their .sig blocks posting on Usenet, or on their homepages. There was a pretty high degree of trust, it was comparatively civilised!

The problem is that people got stuck in that assumption.
Have you ever dissected a novel in English class? Did you discuss motivations for various historical events in history? Did you talk about theory of public speaking purposes and styles?

I did, in a very rural, very underfunded school district - all of those things are critical thinking.

It is integrated into other studies. But there tend to not be "This lesson is critical thinking" sorts of headers on the lesson plans.

Look for the phrase "lifelong learner". That tends to be where the "critical thinking" lives for many schools.
Looks cool!

Nebula has mobile apps. Might this be possible for Innernet in some distant future? It seems like no if it needs root.
_April Fools_
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26632837
It might generate higher emissions, but whether using it for another year or two generated more emissions overall, I think it's a bit trickier to know if it was worse overall.

Enough VW's not sold mean VW's not built, and producing the car is a large amount of the car's expected lifetime CO2 footprint (I've seen from 1/5th to 1/3rd).

If they were just delaying a less polluting vehicle purchase, a delay is a net negative, but since now they are driving nothing, that means it's actually possible the older vehicle was the better choice, especially since pollution from cars if very front-loaded (if we assume a new car that was purchased would be unused or very lightly used, since they are able to go without a car now).
I have looked at the Model 3 and Hyundai Ioniq and even there the energy usage seems to be rather off. 15 kWh/100km WLTP vs 19 kWh/100km according to spritmonitor on the Model 3. 11 vs 14 with the Ioniq.

So yeah, it seems like WLTP is not really accurate for EVs either.
I am beginning to wonder if either:

1. This landing procedure is not viable. Restarting an engine in the middle of a rotation like that, fuel sloshing around is really hard. Just restarting an engine in zero G has always been tricky, because the fuel is floating around and doesn't have gravity pulling it to the pump. This case is even more dynamic, and you have to get it right immediately.

or

2. If the raptor engine is too complex to be reliable.

Then again Falcon9 also failed to land many many times early on, and it has become rather routine. Though still not routine enough that you would want to be a passenger riding one down.

please nobody reply with "prototype" or "rapid iteration" we know, we have seen your posts 20,000 times here already :)_
So you were copying somebody else's work for free, without even giving them the attribution they ask for as- and THEY are the vultures?
How would you authenticate the physical documents?

https://osamabinnaughty.github.io/FakeID-Barcode/sc.html
Embedding Rust into Zephyr Firmware Using C-Bindgen
It's interesting that in the chart we even see an expected peak around 1600-1700 that correspond to the Little Ice Age period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age (colder weather = late cherry blossom season)
That's an old-school shortcut! Windows+L is faster, fwiw.
If it's cheap enough for everyone to access it's cheap enough for governments and companies to create mass accounts.
Isn't win+L easier?
IRB boards view the inability to adhere to their submission protocols as an extreme red flag because research itself is much more stringent and demanding in the protocols to be followed than simply following IRB submission guidelines.

The story you linked to is exactly this situation. They showed up on the doorstep with nothing but a vague idea and no clue on how a project like this was supposed to be organized-- details they could have learned in an hour or two.

Research with human subjects is not something you can approach with an MVP, move fast and break things approach. (Also a resident doctor is still literally in training. Needing someone above that level to oversee the process is by no means unreasonable, and a PI is not the same as giving that person credit for the research: The person that wrote this blog could still have received first author placement.)

I've had to work with IRBs and I've heard the same committeee described as a nightmare to work with, or a breeze. The difference I've notice is that people who are organized about it do fine. The rest get basic things wrong, raise those red flags, and have a hard time as a result. If you do not, for example, fully describe the data you will use and how it will be used in your initial submission then an IRB must be conservative and assume a general lack of care for such things.

Stakes are much higher. There are no "build it in a weekend" projects with human research subjects. You need to be willing to put in at least a few weeks of lit review, proposal organization before you get ready to submit something for review. If a person doesn't have the discipline for that then no serious project they undertake in any profession should be trusted, even when that isn't required.

Do you think closing a VC deal would be any less stringent? Would you show up on their doorstep without even knowing how their pitch process worked and expect to be welcomed with open arms? Of course not.
>"Some things just cycle."

What are local maxima?
The article makes it clear that 812 is merely the extent of the historical record-keeping, not that 812 had a remarkably early peak. The article also includes a graph that illustrates no obvious cyclical behavior over that time span.
Or hiding in plain sight in posts here.
This person needs to be introduced to ChubbyEmu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0d6Dpx2li4
censorship and discouraging socially unacceptable views is the upside. What else do you think throwing Amazon shill bots off your platform is? That's the entire point of identity systems. Deciding who stays in and who stays out and sanctioning bad actors. Identity makes it so that harming a community has costs, and helping a community accrues trust. That's all it is.
Have you read what I said?

I'm specifically warning about the hubris of going full-bore ahead on something with the steely conviction of science that you're doing God's work.
I mean Bluechecks spread misinformation and harass people all the time. Not sure how verification solves anything.