skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that this sentiment almost exclusively comes from people with almost no knowledge about dark matter.

What do you think is more likely, there is a theory that makes all observations look exactly like there is invisible matter without actually being invisible matter, or that there is invisible matter? I am going with the latter.

I also do not understand why laypeople are of the opinion that all massive particles must interact electromagnetically. If you are open to the idea that there is a massive particle that doesn't, you got dark matter.
> I was watching translated videos early last year made by chinese scientists trying to get the word out

So you're saying the Great Firewall is porous and leak happen, but also saying that in this case, the information containment is 100% successful.
Well, just as inlining is necessary for constant propagation or loop hoisting in a lot of cases, specialization is necessary for inlining in a lot of cases. Despite the nominative similarity, inline caches don't enable inlining in the same way specialization does, because they just enact the transfer of control more quickly; the code they transfer control to is just the standard generic version of the code, not an inline copy that can be optimized further according to the arguments at that callsite.
> Or we don't want to deal with stupid bureaucracy and an arcane process to set up the sub.

More like this IMO. There tends to be a lot of process with this sort of thing, which makes me reluctant to bother. Especially if I'll have to do it over and over again.

Everyone's suggesting lower price levels, but I'd suggest they have a higher enterprise price level. I bet a lot of medium-large corporations would pay a few thousand a year for all of their employees to have access to this new top-tier MDN plus. Would probably have to support the usual rigamarole of corporate POs and billing and tools to administer accounts with large numbers of users.
> Which lisp though?

Whichever works best for your particular constraints.

> It's like the difference between "use SQL" and "use SQLite" or "use Postgres."

Precisely! "Use Postgres" is a valid answer to the question, "which database should I use?", or "which relational database should I use?". And "use SQL" is a valid recommendation when you see someone reinventing relational data model and reimplementing a relational database without realizing it.

Similarly, "use a Lisp" is a valid recommendation when you see someone reinventing programming using trees from first principles - of which a telltale sign is reinventing s-expressions.
Optane comes in two flavors. As NVMe storage and as NVDIMM. The former sits a bit below flash in terms of latency. The latter sits between a bit above DRAM in terms of latency and is byte-addressable.
> things like this: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dropbox-s3/

Yeah but why do they have 34 PB of analytics data?
Plenty of people are smart enough to manipulate others, but don't because they're not assholes.

Manipulating people for personal gain doesn't make you smart. It just makes you a psychopath.
> Why would the virus first appear in a city near a virology institute instead of out in the country near bat habitats?

Have you considered the possibility that it first appeared in the vicinity of a lab that experiments on similar viruses is because if it had appeared elsewhere, there would have been no sufficiently-equipped lab to isolate it? This is the streetlight effect: you find things where you (are able to) look for them.
In other words, it couldn't have appeared somewhere far from a properly-equipped lab, because there would be no properly-equipped lab to detect it.
Congrats on the launch of your product! It's damn impressive.
Google has great web documentation, I still have this tab open from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27233019
Yea pretty soon we’ll have infra engs that had gone through their whole career without ever working a real server rack. I personally find that thought discomforting
You exaggerate. He replaces bad tubes and keeps the rest. He rarely replaces resistors; old carbon resistors are very durable and some resistors should not be replaced without good reason, such as those in instruments. He aggressively replaces paper caps and lectures about exactly why these have to go rather than indulging foolish nostalgia (they turn into resistors which overloads grids which melts irreplaceable transformers while starting a house fire.) Mica caps and most ceramics are tested and left alone. And he doesn't leave the function of the device to "magic." The design and operation of the circuit is analyzed; the first thing you see after an intro usually a circuit schematic.

It is astonishing how people perceive things.
Don't most of the problems with "logic-inside-configuration" come from turing-completeness? This spec has neither control-flow nor reusable functions (recursion); it's nothing but simple expressions. That seems safe to me.
Ah, I think I misread your original post. I thought you were saying that the infra costs were constant on EC2 too.
Let me forward this advice to Mercedes AMG Petronas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyUA91ILsE
Tests are here : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/master/.github/workflo...

https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/runs/2687614633?check_suite...
It just introduces other bias. "Everyone says this guy killed his interviews, but looks like he doesn't have a college degree... pass!"
> practical applications are nil

It's 80% of mass on the universe. You don't think that has applications in space travel? Maybe it doesn't effect your day to day life, but it's rather ridiculous to say there is no applications at all.
They’re the same thing: NHTSA certified the safety features provided by the radar. The vision system isn’t certified because it wasn’t reviewed, and it hasn’t been reviewed in part because Tesla hasn’t finished developing feature parity.

So until they finish developing and releasing the features, they aren’t available. Once that’s happened, NHTSA can review them for certification.
Thank you for a very insightful comment. Houses are worth what people will pay for them, and when you can borrow money so cheaply they are worth a lot! What else are you going to buy? Having a nice place where you spend a lot of time that is near things you do be it work or recreation is worth as much as you can afford to pay - a house in a good location saves precious minutes of your life!
SPD is infamously brutal [1]. They just don't give a f** about actually helping people, just destroying homeless encampments and covering their badges at protests.

Source: Lived here for 5 years and have never seen an SPD officer do anything helpful or solve any crime, but have seen them be brutal at multiple protests. My wife literally saw someone be set on fire at a local park, but I never saw a cop there until they decided to sweep a homeless encampment a year and a half later.

[1]

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/12000-complain...

https://www.king5.com/article/news/what-the-federal-consent-...
The illustration in the article ([1]) seems to be a (slightly cropped) Mollweide projection [2], in familiar equatorial coordinates such that the north pole is top center, south pole is bottom center, and the equator is a (imaginary) horizontal line in the middle. The region of acquired dark matter data is located in the southern hemisphere sky, which makes sense given that the observatories used were in Chile. At the bottom you can see the Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of the Milky Way which can only ever be seen from the southern hemisphere.

[1] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F39E/production/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollweide_projection
But what's the meaning behind "goodnight noises everywhere"?
> If the CCP didn't have such a startling surveillance system and tight grip over any international narrative

and yet not so startling and tight that we don't have leaks and we don't know they have a surveillance system and don't like leaks.
Is the manual a PDF file? No HTML pages? That was getting already old in the 90s.

No Linux version. Maybe is it a language only for GUI apps?
This was a practice I had to adopt for a period of time where connecting my Sony bluetooth headphones to my iPhone would reset the system volume to max, sometimes only after I had pressed play on Spotify. Numerous occasions where my ears were instantly blasted with whatever music I had last paused at maximum volume trained the habit.

It was finally fixed a couple updates ago, I think around when they introduced the health feature to track whether you've been listening to music too loudly. Go figure. It had been getting frustrating enough that I was ready to write a blogpost wondering how much cumulative hearing damage had occurred across the iPhone userbase as a result of that bug.
Man... those quotes...

I really wanna know how much he spent on drugs that night.
It's been like this forever. Tribalism is nothing new. We are predisposed to think like this, because our violent and tribal ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago killed off lineages who might have been more predisposed to peaceful, collective thought. Look at the abhorrant acts that charismatic leaders were able to make their fanatics do to other humans throughout history. Ancient times were no different. Fearing the dangerous other may have even meant survival in a warlike time. Humanity went through a bottleneck and we are what emerged bloodied over warring for resources. To fight this natural tendency take serious education in critical thinking to recognize these biases, and root them out.
> Salisbury is very much the kind of place that appeals to Russians

Why? I lived not very far from Salisbury for much of my adult life and rarely encountered Russians.
'm skeptical. No matter how good the Phoenician sailors were, it seems unlikely to me that they could have blithely sailed past Cape Bojador

You assume the coast was the same two milennia before.

My hometown, a thousand km north, was in the coast two thousand years ago. Now it's 5 km inland.
Thank you for mentioning, what is the safari version ? looks good at 11.1.2
Even then, his heavy duty dump truck tires were stuck down deep in muck and mire.
None of this matters to ASA. All they care about is that the number of pounds you can swap for Bitcoin can go up or can go down, so Luno have to say that in their adverts. They'd be held to the same standard if they were flogging index funds.
That seems like normal corporate behavior, you can't expect a company to allow cracking and hacking of their games.

> This allows players to access full multiplayer functionality of Battle.net capable games without a valid CD key, by connecting to a bnetd server.

It's nothing compared to Activision/Blizzard, in my opinion. The fact that they provided map editors for WC and SC is what I mean. They used to allow a level of community control and sharing that in recent games is not there anymore.
“Freenode isn't enough. Andrew also owns IRC.com“
Except the very first experiment that was supposed to confirm the ether showed that there is no ether, while every astrophysical observation we made on any scale [1] confirmed that there is dark matter.

[1] https://www.twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1371141258236764...
Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
Nanite Virtualized Geometry
The paradox is that in spite of the huge costs, very large companies are still moving to (or using) the cloud.

I've had this discussion many times where I work, and we've refrained from using cloud services since they are extraordinary expensive compared to what we can do internally.

Yet, people seem to be convinced that prices are ok, and that going outside will let them reduce their infrastructure footprint.

For some reason I don't quite understand, people tend to be attracted by the cloud, even when it makes no sense economically whatsoever, and talking sense into them is surprisingly difficult.

So yes, it seems obvious that people will choose the most cost effective solution. However, it seems like they don't!
> The problem with this is that the nature can stay hostile for much longer than humans can stay alive.

Seems to me, as a species we are smart enough to recognize we are all playing guided by game theory, we should be smart enough to step outside of game theory's limitations for mass negotiations. We should able to work within natures limits by group bargaining toward more environmental approaches. Yet we can't. Not even a little. We aren't even close. This has been a well known issue for decades, and nothing, nothing even close to what is needed has been done. Capitalism failed us, democracy failed us, the US failed us, our parents and our children failed us. Not even close to a passing grade.

I imagine I'm not going to make many friends for saying this, but... This was a test. We failed. Why should humans get to survive to the next round? Why are we so sure we are good? All I see is distractions, destruction, pollution and consumption... maybe that's on me cause I had a bad day... We destroyed the planet, killed the majority of insects, and the majority of vertebrates, toxified all the lakes and streams, over fished the oceans then dumped DDT, PCBs, VX nerve agent, and radioactive waste. We aren't done. We keep going. More more more. Now other countries are just coming on the scene and they want some polluting rights too.
There's been a lot of interesting progress recently using high-temperature superconductors that weren't available when ITER was being designed. This should make fusion a lot more attainable and practically useful.

That said, I don't think we should count on fusion to get us out of this when renewables are a good-enough solution that's available now and they're cheap. (If storage is an issue, perhaps that means we should be investing in long-distance transmission lines so we can, for instance, power North America at night using solar panels in the Sahara.)
> If I was starting "another CentOS" I would ensure that companies above a certain amount of revenue had to pay (either in licensing fees or in engineer time). Non-corporate and FOSS uses should remain free. The reason I suggest this is differences in user engagement.

That's just RHEL; https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/extending-no-cost-red-hat-ent... for FOSS and https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/10/how-to-activat... for non-corporate users.
Waymo claims to already be able to deal with things like hand signals[1]. Assuming that’s true, would that make you question whether AGI is required?

[1] https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymo-self-driving-cars-p...
I can't exactly speak to legacy admissions, but I went to the same public US university as my dad, and because of that I got my out-of-state tuition fee ($8000 a semester) waived entirely. Even though we are solidly middle-class financially, because my dad couldn't find steady work after the 2008 recession, we kids were on our own for college (that is, I paid/am paying all my own bills & student loans). This waiver is what made his alma mater an option for me financially, and while I certainly could have gone somewhere cheaper & closer to home to make it easier on my checkbook, I don't regret my choice at all and I'm happy I get to share that connection with my dad (and now also my sister!). It was an awesome place to be, and being so far from home all the time means I learned some really important lessons, so I definitely don't take it for granted.

I think it's also worth mentioning that we both exceeded the minimum requirement for automatic admission, so the fact that we were legacy students didn't really mean anything in that regard, but now I wonder what it would have been like if we didn't meet that criteria - knowing this university, sadly it is almost definitely something that influences their decision, despite their large size. I don't know that I want them to do away with legacy benefits entirely, as by proxy it's a huge reason for who I am now, but I am 100% behind the idea to do away with using them in admissions settings, I really don't think that's fair. Truthfully, me still getting hefty kickback from it isn't really all too fair, and while getting residency in this state is not difficult, that's not the same either. It's tough to balance my appreciation for what the program does enable, and my distaste for the way it excludes many equally if not more deserving people.
Someone non technical once told me they "programmed as well" and proceed to talk about planning and scheduling things.
Sabine is a great science (physics) communicator to the "masses", she recently did an update on dark matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_qJptwikRc
Is Airtable being closed-source a problem anyone has ever had?

"I was going to use this hosted, no-code spreadsheet/database platform, but then I realized it's closed source!" is not something anyone who ever would have paid for Airtable has ever said.
Maybe it's a kind of having your cake and eating it too: enjoying the flexibility of passing code around and running it with eval, while not having the security, stability and runtime problems implied by eval.

There are limited scopes in which this can work but it seems to be more about the environment or code loader than about the programming language, per se: for example, plugin systems for build tools and servers. The plugin might be isolated by runtime features (like in the JVM) or by processes (as some web servers do, or as Postgres does) but it's not language features that tend to be useful.

Tensorflow models and CSS selectors are both examples of fairly useful plugins that still have limited enough semantics to be sandboxed effectively.
I've done this debugging a system with a pneumatic controller on one of the threads. Hit a breakpoint with the compressor still running and after a minute, hoses start blowing off. It happened often enough that we learned to not use hose clamps since losing a hose connection was a safe failure point.

However, I've read about the same thing happening to a couple guys testing a tank turret rotation controller. Controller is paused at a breakpoint, but a hardware counter is still accepting error pulses. Start running again and the error built up enough to command a full speed slew, sending the engineer who was sitting on the turret slamming into the wall, breaking a few bones.
I mean what would you expect it to do with that data? When a person hears a siren it's a signal to check their mirrors for emergency vehicles. Auto pilot doesn't need to check mirrors, it always has a 360 view of its surroundings.

Of all the potential criticisms of fsd this is an odd one.
That seems worse than using the common C/Java/JavaScript syntax for operators and function calls, that can be easily parsed with any JavaScript parser.
RFC 9000: QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
Rating Cyber Security Pros
Isn't that largely offset by cultivating a lot of rice, that being so much more efficient as a crop?

What other things are at play, for example, in Japan's bonkers hight population across history?
bignum as the default integer is quite common in lots of languages[1]. Notably, Lisp, Scheme, Erlang, Python.

Scheme is a bit interesting in that they have a "numeric tower", which contains rationals and even complex numbers (implementations were free to implement a subset of this tower, at least as far as R5RS, not sure today)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arbitrary-precision_ar...
Anybody have a a good recommendation how to self deploy that’s internet accessible? I’m worried messing something up and exposing my network. Or deploying on the cloud be better?
Not trying to peddle cheap skepticism here.

This article only looks at "seen" costs, and assumes that there are no "unseen" costs to running on-prem. Many companies do not have the operational maturity to run on-prem well. The result: high cost of operations, low availability, and large increase in time-to-value.

Second unseen cost: everybody becomes their own SI. So far nobody really sells the "whole stack" for running on prem. I mean hardware, network, virtualization, application, traffic mgmt, etc. I have to buy stuff from two dozen different vendors and cobble it together into a high-labor, rickety Jenga tower of stuff.
No. He recovered from the poisoning.
"Approximately 54 seconds into the flight, a glitch occurred in the pipeline of images being delivered by the navigation camera. This glitch caused a single image to be lost, but more importantly, it resulted in all later navigation images being delivered with inaccurate timestamps."
And this is both maddening AND make the problem worse (from the CEO):

"We are truly sorry for any inconvenience..."
It's about reducing the number of Asian Americans in admissions, who vastly outperform other groups on the SAT(1). Ivy leagues like Harvard have been discriminating against Asians for years with affirmative action and bullshit like "personality score"(2). This is yet another anti-Asian, anti-merit move by ideologues who want an "equitable" pie chart of skin colors for their Powerpoint presentations.

1. https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-h...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
SMS + password works for some Mastercards still but not Visa.

I don't think it's good that users are taught to accept their primary citizen 2FA on any random website and app where the URL doesn't even show.
What about finance, crypto and algo trading? How much time did you spend on those subjects, and what are some good resources?
You can achieve the same thing in those countries much more humanely by simply limiting immigration intake to high-HDI countries only (where the CO2 differential from the migration is smaller, and fertility rates are closer), and limiting the overall level of immigration.

Secondly instead of a one-child policy, Western welfare states could just modify their welfare systems to not reward single mothers for having children (by not paying people extra or giving preferential access to public housing).
Integer types in current versions of Ruby and Python both have arbitrary precision (as is also true for lots of other languages these days). That's not enough to make either intrinsically bug-free...
Question. Would Flutter fall into this category? Because that would be a dealbreaker for my projects.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is “bad science fiction,” brain science pioneer says
I don't use Nextdoor or the Neighbors app but I get the impression that they work in a similar fashion - get the worried people in the area all worked up about every little thing - keep them thinking they are under constant threat.
What has "hogtied" the police is 30 years of the war on drugs. The framing of citizens as "the flock" is also needlessly condescending. Police are, first and foremost, public servants - not a domestic security force. Following up on the crimes listed in the parent doesn't require guns, SWAT teams, or no-knock warrants. Just phone calls and paperwork. Unfortunately individuals who think they're "sheep dogs" find that shit boring.
I was arguing against the idea that adding "luxury" housing won't lower prices.

Most people understands it does it if you add a million units, but for some reason they can't grasp that each new unit contributes.

I was not predicting anyone would build a million units overnight, certainly not accidentally.

> At some point for profit developers will not build because they can't make a return.

SF has been very near this point for decades. Because new construction is mostly illegal, and if not extremely expensive and slow. Because of explicit policy from the SF BoS.

If housing construction were legalized in SF, say by adopting the regulations of Houston or Tokyo, there would be an enormous construction wave in the city. No one can predict to what level, but after that has transformed the city we can take stock and see if any other measures need to taken.

But I don't see SF doing anything of the kind without at least a decade of hesitation. The city is far too conservative to change.