skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a rule in linguistics, that the more often a word is used, the shorter it will be

I’m really interested in linguistics, but I’ve never heard of such a rule. Could you give a source please? I’d be curious to know if this is true.

(A striking counterexample I ran into just yesterday: the Urim word for ‘head’ is tukŋunakŋ, and ‘we (incl.)’ is mentepm-. I don’t think this is because Urim people avoid talking about heads or groups of people. That being said, it’s tricky concluding anything from a sample size of n=1.)
Something like the Intel Data Center SSDs: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/mem...

They measure lifespan in petabytes instead of terabytes. Or data writes per day (DWPD).
fairplay, yeah, never ever noticed that option on the profile. or heard anyone reference things 'going dead'. There's no downvoting on the site at the top level of posts tho. So things rise up only based on upvotes. Dead = noninterest or perhaps numerous flags?

Just getting at that it's probably just the ebb and flow of system and not some conspiracy. Well, other than maybe being singled out by bad faith actors for flagging but what can you do. It did eventually get going/upvoted
> I could never understand people writing about art, analyzing some painting texture, style of brush strokes, author intent, historical context or whatnot, or digging into artist biography or their development; not in order to learn how to make art, mastering the craft, but for the sole sake of analysis, critique or "art appreciation".

You don't get more out of art if you know its context?

For example, it's interesting to know that much of art, starting with Impressionism was a response to photography (https://kiamaartgallery.wordpress.com/tag/influence-of-photo...). Previously, art was judged based on how realistic it was. But when photography came around, painting could not compete. So artists had to come up with new methods and goals. Some wanted to make the viewer experience a feeling, even if that meant not literally painting truth.

Another example: the Surrealists used Freud's work on free association, dreams, and the unconscious in their own work.

Or this poster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Klinger-Johannisthal-1908.... While the characters are interesting, there's more to it than that. It was originally designed for a 1908 air show in Germany. That's only five years after the Wright brothers' first flight! Airplanes were still brand new. Doesn't that impact how you see the characters here?

I certainly agree that anyone can create art, but I don't believe that the only thing worth doing with art is either creating it or blindly consuming it. To bring it back to your programming example, don't you get more out of Babbage's Difference Engine when you find out that it was built in the 1990s -- and worked?
In WoW players don't collide with each other. Every player is really just a point and a facing. There's no collision detection with spell shots. Of you're within range and LOS, you can cast the spell. And once the spell is cast it doesn't collide with objects.

Basically, WoW gets around it by vastly simplifying player interaction.
It’s time to abolish tipping once and for all
Bugs:

First, RNA does not have T (thymine) bases, it uses U (uracil).

Second, the bases between 3' and 5' have to come in threes; the game only admits [ACGT]*, not [ACGT]{3}* (never mind [ACGU]{3}*).

Third, it treats any form of the latter, constructed purely via its block stacking, as a syntax error, which should be impossible to construct that way.
For anyone not familiar with flight sim ATC, this guy is the GOAT - https://youtube.com/channel/UCfoK9LI9vmQQ36zqsFZtNJQ
Humans also code switch to be a good "cultural fit".
Bird in the Hand Recruiting: Do It
Wow this is awesome. Like other has asked, is there a way to download these? Would love to listen to these when I’m driving or at work.
> There are workarounds, some detailed on forums within Tesla’s own website. The company has more than a dozen Texas “galleries,” where cars can be viewed and described—though staffers may not discuss prices.

Sounds like that chills speech and expression

I think I found a way to change the law guys
If that's the best question you can ask, maybe you should sit out science too.

Science needs people who can ask the right question. This isn't it, chief.
I wonder how many car accidents are the result of driving while overworked.
We certainly raise our pitch to avoid conflict.
AirPods must outsell AirPod Pros by what, 100 to 1?

Each AirPod weighs only 4g.
I expect it works both ways: I expect a weak natural immunity to COVID-19 would have been considered a political loss to some.

I don't have sufficient expertise on the matter to hold strong positions either way.
Yeah, no disagreement from me. It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect at scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
That's your definition, it doesn't meet the definition of the words nor my definition.

By performing gain-of-function research, this particular virus would not have existed by itself. Ergo, the Chinese lab created the virus.

Making any modification to the virus' function means you are the subsequent creator of it. Nature has nothing to do with it once you've got it in a lab and start messing around with it.

"Chinese created" does not mean "Chinese weaponised". There's no evidence nor suggestion that this was deliberate or even that the gain-of-function research was for nefarious purposes. To suggest otherwise is to strawman.
> but endlessly starting new litigations.

Exactly. He was still following the law. You don't think an actual dictator would have been a little bit more effective at holding power? And who attempts an insurrection without guns and gives up immediately? An actual insurrection would have been a bloodbath.

I agree with your last point, we need the center to build the bridge, and start closing the gap. Failure to do so could mean we all suffer from it anyway.
Thy Myth. The Man. The Legend
Source: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

Relevant text: For the lab escape scenario, the double CGG codon is no surprise. The human-preferred codon is routinely used in labs. So anyone who wanted to insert a furin cleavage site into the virus’s genome would synthesize the PRRA-making sequence in the lab and would be likely to use CGG codons to do so. “When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus,” said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of CalTech. “These features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for SARS2,” he said.
Another browser that you probably never heard of (Orion Browser) is also holding its independence on this key issue, keeping the support for webRequest API, and on top of WebKit no less. (disclaimer: founder)
Or maybe some people thought that serious accusations like this require evidence and looked askance upon Trump's xenophobic blame-shifting and hate-mongering. "the China virus" he likes to say.

And we see the consequences with old Asian ladies being punched in streets by young white thugs.

I've personally always held it as a possibility. But no way I'll defend the Trump administration on this.
Which MMO did you work at?
I am watching this video now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KehSJ_fdTxU

It has a tour of features for SerenityOS... They have built an impressive amount of stuff at an incredibly high pace.
It's good to see that Terraform switched to gRPC for invoking plugins. The old Go serialization dissuaded me from trying to write any.
I’m glad you highlighted the materials/manufacturing component, which I think is frequently overlooked by tech people (who mostly focus on the chips and software). Apple’s ability to build millions of devices with such precision and tight tolerances is really a huge accomplishment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_law
Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap. Plans for open source in future :)
I Think I Have Adult Separation Anxiety
Natural immunity is great. If you survive. And if you don't give it to others.

Almost impossible not to give it to others.

Relying on it was pretty reckless, especially given how little we understand it.
In modern multiplayer games "server" is just a thin layer passing packets around with zero validation, then you have a rootkit installed on clients trying to sniff for known cheat signatures, again not doing any packet validation.

No true server source of truth, no common sense packet parsing, just sand castles and cheats allowing you to fly around and spawn items.
The lag around the Britain bank when busy (even sometimes Moonglow bank) made it nearly unplayable though, and the game was only 2D.
For me it's the fact that you can generally see the other person typing in an iMessage, while you can't in normal SMS.

That tells me whether the person is replying right now, so it's worth keeping my phone out, or busy and therefore won't be getting back to me for a while.

The time savings add up.
>"bellingcat" is a CIA-sponsored limited-hangout sock puppet, run by video-game enthusiasts, and that's all it has ever been.

Any links or sources for this?
Could you not make the same argument about JavaScript? JavaScript was pretty slow for many years. Google then put some significant engineering investment into the V8 engine, resulting in a huge increase in JavaScript's performance.
Hmm trying to change history? India govt is right winged but don't think they denied efficiency of masks or vaccination.
Browsers already have mechanism to let the user chose if they want the extension to access certain APIs. Another way to do this whole thing would be to simply require special permission for webRequest API that the user can then chose to assign for uBO for example.
man, the armchair doctors really want this iv*rmectin story to be a thing, huh?
You said it! Apple has been unethical from the get go and yet somehow the cult doesn’t care. I’m unhappy apple user but still on 6S and will be switching over to Android phones until pine phone (Linux OS) becomes better.
I really wanted to follow this class taught by Steven Pinker [1] recently, but the audio becomes so bad after the first lecture that it's almost impossible to follow. It made me also think that there could probably be some interesting post-processing applied, to improve the quality.

[1] https://stevenpinker.com/classes/psychological-science-scien...
>We all know each other and all have the warp bug as we now have a path

What do you mean by that? Not to be a negative Nancy but the titles of both the paper and the video are a bit click-baity. None of this will be possible in our lifetime, the amounts of energy required are way too large, even if it could be engineered (which I have doubts about). Imo as a society we need to focus on getting off earth and establishing colonies in our own solar system first, before we can even start dreaming about going to other stars.
It's actually a good thing, because it destroys confidence in YC and their reputation is deservedly diminished. This results in actually successful companies not bothering to apply for YC, which hurts their performance.

This debacle will cost them a LOT more than the cash they gave to the scam.
YCombinator doesn't put in that much money though. I'm sure they don't intentionally fund scams or juiceros, but if they do, that's not the end of the world. It's a bigger deal to miss the dumb thing that turns out to be good then to accidentally fund a few dumb things.
The Evolution of Modern Chess Rules: Pawn Promotion
Following the law... and telling his followers to revolt & overthrow the government.
Well, here's one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/03/08/zapier-bo.... Sorry I don't have a list for you, but HN seems to have warped my memory in strange ways. I'm sure that YC has funded at least dozens, probably hundreds of profitable companies, including many that people wouldn't remember, because they found a lucrative niche for the founders and a small team (or maybe even just the one or two founders), and opted out of the fundraising track and are happily making a good living. That's not the preferred outcome from a venture investor's point of view, of course, but YC has always supported what founders want to do. Also, Zapier's an outlier - there are others that have followed a more conventional fundraising path.
Transgender Issues and Journalism: A Small Reflection
After We Found Biden's Account, Venmo Will Let You Make Your Friend List Private
Doing back of the napkin math you could accomplish this with 770 cloud instances in Google Cloud all running 8 attached GPUs. Now running lustre in the cloud is a pita so you would have to find out how to take advantage of cloud native storage. Running Rapids should be possible using Dataproc. Anyone have the budget to kick off the largest cloud native HPC workload?
It's not traditional LOD baking. There's no LOD baking. It's the new rasterization system doing the whole work.

And most of us doesn't use fast SSDs like in PS5 and it works really well. Also these engineers said, it even works just fine with slowers HDDs too. Because, they don't stream meshes for each camera movements. But it's a continuos setup.
A bit confused. My mental model is
- Ukraine is part of Soviet Union
- currently the Russian speaking Ukraine part is well ...

other than that I do not associate Ukrainian as Russian. They are separately in identity ?
it's not easy to find good quality & condition used furniture that fits the style and space, this is why people buy new (it's just easier/faster)
Is this really true? I would imagine you get something more like Zipf’s law in practice, N log N.

Even if there were interactions between everyone, presumably you could still exploit locality, like: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/aaai10b.pdf
It's not true at all. It's impossible only if money and experience is limited. In this case, the scam has no money or experience.

$100k won't buy you a stripped down alpha vertical slice, even if you cut 90% of promised features.
looks shady af
What about "virus killed x amount of people last year", when the vast majority of these deaths were patients older than the median life expectancy with significant existing health problems prior to the infection?

I do agree people need to be more critical of science reporting. And often science needs to do a much better job at both sciencing and explaining the results to people who aren't experienced in interpreting them.
As far as I am concerned, there was only one side that was trying to score political points. The other side was trying to do what was right based on the best evidence that we had at the time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-...
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Yeah I don't buy it. You're moving the goalposts. Censorship is when they prohibit information being distributed. It looks like Government Health Agencies are just not believing the evidence and are therefore not recommending it. They're not saying "don't talk about it" they're not saying "don't research it" they're saying "the evidence so far is inconclusive, we don't recommend treating with it"

That's not censorship.

Just found this overview by NIH on why they don't recommend treament. https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the...

Pretty detailed overview of why they are not convinced. Are they wrong? Maybe, but they're not censoring anything in my books.
You don't need the source code to make a executable version of the Game. And it won't take 1 hour on a decent machine.
Oh I wish I could tell my past Caltech student self to tape record the lectures.

Feynman gave a guest lecture to our freshman Physics class about potato chip worlds. I wish someone recorded it.

It simply never occurred to me, or apparently anyone else, even though those portable Radio Shack cassette recorders were around.
Not here to defend Intel (their decision to remove ECC support from X299 chipset pretty much tanked their own HEDT platform), but I often wonder how much of the current disregard of ECC is the fault of the system integrators.

As of now they would gladly ship configurations with single channel memory and under-par cooling to save a few bucks, while these cut corners could hurt performance by as much as 30% due to insufficient memory bandwidth and thermal throttling.

Even if ECC is available everywhere I doubt any OEM will use it without charging their users a premium. This is kind of what has been going on with AMD MSDT platforms: ECC support is in the CPU but many motherboard does not even implement the necessary memory traces to enable it, and software support is even messier to the point that most people can't be bothered with it.
Based on work from similar coronaviruses, the spike protein was quickly identified at the beginning of the pandemic as an important component for viral binding to the ACE-2 receptor. It is one protein component of the viral shell, but has proven to be an excellent target, given its induced immune response to the mRNA vaccines.

Covid will not be able to mutate away from using the spike protein, but it will continue to evolve mutations within the protein as it responds to selective pressure. Fortunately, when the body creates an adaptive immune response through antibody or the T-cell receptor, this response is polyclonal. Think of it as not a single antibody to spike but rather a population of antibodies, all targeting a variety of residues on the protein. This is why most immunologists are not terribly worried about the variants that have emerged wrecking all of our immunization efforts—those variants are usually based on just a couple of mutant residues and so will not (generally speaking) be able to evade the population of antibody and t-cell responses that have been generated. You may have heard about monoclonal antibody therapies to covid ... those, unfortunately, are very susceptible to mutation because if a critical targeted residue mutates, you could lose all efficacy of the drug.

The only answer to rapidly mutating pathogens is an entire inducible population of neutralizing proteins in each of us and it’s no coincidence that we have this defense. If we didn’t, our species could not be here right now.
Pertinent point, IMO:

> Google I/O 2021. At its 2021 developers conference, Google showed signs of finally taking wrist wearables seriously by ditching Wear OS and partnering with Samsung on a new OS. While it is fair to be skeptical that the effort will end up being successful, the announcement was a marked change from prior Google I/Os when wearables were all but ignored. Diving a bit deeper into Google’s announcement, it’s easy to see how far behind Google truly is in wearables.

Google completely dropped the ball on Wear OS. To add to this, Qualcomm’s wearable SoCs have also been lagging. Samsung is generally good at keeping pace with hardware, but has been hobbled by Tizen and a weak ecosystem. These things cannot change overnight, and Google’s stewardship track record is something that doesn’t improve drastically, regardless of any announcements it makes.

For wearables as a whole, I don’t believe Apple has a decade-long lead though. We’ll have to wait and practically see what it does for AR wearables before concluding on a number.
Eve could go more granular than single threaded Server Blade per Solar System, go down to at lest server node per Grid, or even per 250km mini grid with BSP tree partition mechanism. They could also work on real dynamic scaling.

Instead last time I looked into it they migrated Solar systems around once a day during mandatory downtime relocating the ones where huge battles were pre-planned to happen in near future to the dedicated high MHz blade nodes, and everything was single threaded. Result was two small battles in different parts of one solar system loaded the node as much as one bigger battle.

Oh, and they ran a lot of Stackless Python code for that extra slowness.
Those are all example of observable phenomena. Dark matter is an inference made by inconsistencies with theory. I think they’re vastly different because it overstates the certainty. Maybe I’m splitting hairs
I grew up in the U.S., spent ~7 years volunteering at a soup kitchen (not an actual soup kitchen, but a program which cooked and served meals to the public), and I had no idea what "food pantry" was. The term I'm familiar with is "food bank". Maybe it's regional? I was living in Memphis, TN
This may sound too basic, but for most people, going through these links[1][2] is more than enough to know what to do.

Once you have understood them, learn the tools of the trade. Come up with clever ideas. "There are always shortcuts and loopholes"[3].

Good tools and execution of effective ideas make all the difference.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/beginner/get-start...

[2] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...

[3] http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/10/applied-philosophy-...
Are there hard objectives that get reached or achieved with the simulations or whatever's being run? Or is it some amount of data that may or may not show something significant but up to interpretation?
I'd argue it's a fine analogy. You can get into Yale undergrad with an SAT of 1250, for example.
As an engineer you need to know how to be efficient with code. Not every single test case needs to be handled otherwise your code becomes unwieldy and brittle. Sometimes it's okay to handle an exception, write to the log so that you can detect something went wrong, and move on.
cook@apple is appealing somehow.
Sure, but your website needs to make me trust you over other similar services, and also needs to give me a good reason to use your service instead of going and requesting removal myself at the numerous data brokers directly. I forgive poor design when there is lots of technical detail present instead, but your website lacks that too.
Approximately 3.5 million globally have died from covid according to the WHO: https://covid19.who.int/

If you include deaths from related factors, like increased poverty or unrest, I'm sure the numbers go up a bit, but not to tens of millions.

I don't state this as an attack, by the way. Covid and its entangled cultural and political issues are enormously emotionally charged, and, one way or another, that tends to skew our perception of even relatively simple facts.

One thing I think the Hacker News community does well, at least aspirationally, is try to keep sight of the fundamental technical details of issues. For a pandemic, having an accurate intuition of its scale falls into this category IMO.
Computers Will Be Able to Read Images from Your Brain Within a Decade
I wonder who would be held responsible in case of security breaches. The IT soldier? The soldier who outranked him? Both?
Looking over your site, I'm curious about a few things:

- The FAQ says you'll eventually open source your SDK. I admire that as a software engineer, but from a business perspective, isn't this risky? It seems like--if you don't pass messages through an intermediary service--your value-add is mostly in this SDK + your design. All of these elements are copy-able.
- The jobs page includes a backend engineer, so what will go through your backend, if not any message data?

- Are there legal concerns about reverse-engineering these APIs and using them? Some of your supported chat services have open APIs, but others seem intentionally closed. (And a couple parent companies seem downright hostile to 3rd party use.)