skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't you experiment with coming up with a new 'cultivar' or 'variety' by growing some 'dioecious' plants or trees?

For example, apples are cultivars because if you grow an apple seed from a delicious apple you eat, the apples that get produced from your tree won't taste anything like the original. Orchards get around issue with growing tasty apples you love to eat by taking 'cuttings' (which are in essence a clone copy of that tree) from the parent tree and growing the cuttings into full mature trees.

Now I'm not saying grow apples, but look at interesting plants/trees that interest you and what you want to accomplish. Do you want to improve make a fruit more tasty? Faster growing plant? More medically potent effect? Etc.

> In short, a cultivar is a plant that is produced and maintained by horticulturists but does not produce true-to-seed; whereas, a variety is a group of plants within a species that has one or more distinguishing characteristics and usually produces true-to-seed. [0]

[0] - https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/buffalo/Yard/Cultivar%20...
That's the trick : English is _not_ neutral. It is perceived, with quite a bit of truth, as a vehicle for English-speaking culture (duh) and in particular American strategies and worldviews. The way specifically American social topics have exported over social networks to Europe in a linear relationship to the degree of English-speaking is quite telling in that respect. There's also a worry that it would hasten the road to the exact opposite of multi-lingualism, that is mono-culture. There's no universe in which adopting English wholeheartedly would somehow result in German, French, Spanish and others receiving the same amount of attention or respect.

It's a fruitless discussion if you pretend that all languages are equal and have the same inertia and networks effects anyway. The network effects of English are too strong, and there would be absolutely no coming back from openly using it as a Paneuropean vehicular language. It's a massive civilisational choice, not some technical detail.

As for orthography, I was merely making an observation. The formal history of both French and English are interesting. I don't think it's a valid point in favour of one language or the other.
But each time you take more debt on, you presumably get some value from it, and if that value is greater than the interest on the debt in real terms you come out ahead. It's not money for free, it's money for cheap.
> Telegram, arguably the world’s most dangerous messenger service.

yet again, unfettered conversations, very frighting for traditional media outlets.

It's rather telling that spiegel chose this particular topic for its international section just days after the german Bundestag approved further public surveillance measures. With this new law federal police and all 19 intelligence services in Germany will be allowed to hack into suspects' computers and smartphones.
And also the Snowden revelations just had their anniversary today. spiegel: crickets
The original poster you replied to expressed a desire to "never go back to the office". That's a personal preference and a totally reasonable position. By bringing up Atwood's post out of nowhere, you're building a strawman.
Something important to understand is that the hard sciences are more rigorous, but that's because they're easier to model than what the social sciences have to deal with. The naming is confusing.
> Jeff Bezos, this one’s for you. This provision aims at Amazon’s practice of using data it collects from third-party merchants to enhance its own private label offerings. If it passes, the practice would be blatantly illegal.

Would it equally apply to physical stores like Safeway, Kroger, Costco's private labels like "Private Selection", "Simple Truth", "Kirkland", ...

What makes Amazon different in this regard? Is Amazon doing it differently? (Like go out on their own instead of partnering with the product company to produce "Amazon" branded version of theirs)
The classic basic first exercise with genetic engineering is to make creatures glow in the dark. Lots of news has been made by doing this to animals, but one rather safe and low impact variation is to make glow in the dark yeast and then use that to make glow in the dark beer. Do some searching for "add gene glow in the dark" or some similar and you should find plenty of material. There was at least one open science outfit that was trying to make a basic tutorial for this process.
I always had pretty severe DSPS for most of my adult life. Luckily I usually had the flexibility to accommodate a super night owl schedule.

What "cured" me was having kids. I now have no problem falling asleep at 10 PM. I would guess it's due to pretty brutal sleep deprivation (our first took a very long time to get through the night). I'm guessing this pretty much smashed my pre-existing circadian rhythm.
Yeah, the level of thought behind proposals like this leaves something to be desired. Benefit of living a life downstream of a mostly functional drug safety regime...
Someone mentioned the "City of London" being smaller than you might imagine - that's not just a geographical curiousity, there's a very real consequence to that: https://www.ft.com/content/41dba03e-5d29-11e5-9846-de406ccb3...

And the reason it's Switzerland and not Zurich (or another city like Geneva, or a given Canton) is that AFAIK Switzerland's famously privacy-friendly finance regulation weren't just restricted to one area, so it would be incorrect to pick one place out of them all. I know there has been some movement in recent years that has curbed Switzerland's status as a tax haven, though I don't know to what extent. Maybe someone who's a bit more familiar can weigh in on this.
nah, this is a huge problem in STEM fields
Without debating any of your points: bitcoin is a terrible choice for this. It is horribly volatile, it is incredibly expensive to transact in, it is an awful waste of energy.

Using a stablecoin on a proof of stake blockchain with high transaction rates would make a lot of sense.

But that wouldn't help the officials who pushed this get rich from their stash of bitcoin...
It took a couple world wars to learn that only looking after your own interests leads to confrontation

Using your country's priviledged position to your advantage creates grievances and division

Just picture a world full of embargos as retaliation for tax dodging. Many countries could decide it's not worth keeping an open border (with flow of goods) with a country that tries to attract companies (that sell in your country) with low taxes. A trade agreemeny (EEC etc) rests on the good will of its signatories. But offering your country as a tax haven breaks this relationship. The only reason it has taken this long to get this type of agreement going is that the underpriviledged countries lacked democratic pressure. No healthy democracy would allow the flow of untaxed goods from third countries

The democratic will is slowly building up, and if it is denied it will lead to confrontation and overall waste of resources. It is in everyone's interest to agree to a global minimum tax rate (but it requires vision)
The issue is that DDR4 is like that too. Not only the 64 byte cache line, but DDR4 requires a transfer to the sense amplifiers (aka a RAS, row access strobe) before you can read or write.

The RAS command eradicated the entire row, like 1024 bytes or so. This is because the DDR4 cells only have enough charge for one reliable read, after that the capacitors don't have enough electrons to know if a 0 or 1 was stored.

A row close command returns the data from the sense amps back to the capacitors. Refresh commands renew the 0 or 1 as the capacitor can only hold the data for a few milliseconds.

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The CAS latency statistic assumes that the row was already open. It's a measure of the sense amplifiers and not of the actual data.
for item 4, one has to have limited responsibilities towards society.
What I'm wondering is: why would you ever want a CDN configuration to override no-cache instructions from the backend? I assume there's a use case for this, but I can't figure out what it is. Can anyone explain?
You can pretty much do that with Unreal Engine which allows you access without relying on stolen goods...
You're right, the ideal solution is to keep putting in the effort to be sincere and engaging. I certainly don't believe I am entitled to a response. I'm just trying to convey how demoralizing it can be to put your best foot forward so many times only for nothing to come from it. I think it's human nature to be tempted to slack when your big efforts have had so little payoff.
I think this kind of attitude says more about the person expressing it than it does about the value good management brings.
As far as I can tell, nearly everything about Covid herd immunity and whether it can be achieved under any given conditions (including 100% vaccination of the entire population) is entirely guesswork at this point.
And common sense reforms like longer hours and more polling places? Those are also used in most functioning democracies, but bills for voter ID nearly always do precisely the opposite, e.g.:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/29/texas-voting-restric...

It creates the perception that it has nothing to do with ensuring the quality of the vote at all.
The economics of geothermal are often unfavorable for consumer/industrial electricity production. Bitcoin mining is unique in that provides a consistent consumer for electricity at a reliable price 24/7.

The long-term effect of Bitcoin mining will probably be to subsidize the creation of reliable constant-output power sources like geothermal and nuclear, with some of that capacity being used for consumer/industrial usage during peak hours.
no you don't get it

if they don't get those 6 people in a room, then they'll just solve the same problem in the same time remotely and mr manager won't get any credit!
So the problem: managing different accounts across different sites/“services” is annoying.

The solution: you pay (crucial point no one is mentioning - no one is going to pay for this) to register a domain which acts as your internet passport/bank account across every site that supports it and to access this account you will need an auto generated private key which will need to be stored somewhere because it’s too long to be memorized, requiring a password manager which is where we are at right now already.

Considering Google SSO would also integrate with Google Pay, I’m not quite sure of the unique value prop here besides distributed systems woo that only nerds like us care about. Plus the current gas fees for Ethereum are one of the top
complaints about it from end users. Nothing is going to sour the first experience more than seeing “DOMAIN FOR JUST $5 ^*(+ $39.99 shipping and handling)” It almost seems irresponsible from an adoption standpoint to make such bold claims about the tech with such huge issues like this still unsolved.
There are tradeoffs, though - the resources that are poured into higher education are resources that cannot be spent on other vital things.
The elected representative of the City of London, i.e., the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the agreement.
I still think the best way to deal with this stuff is to use interval arithmetic. Calculate the numbers with rounding set to round up, and separately to round down and compare the results. See PyInterval https://pyinterval.readthedocs.io/ for an implementation.

>>> from interval import interval

>>> data = (interval(1_000_000_000.1), interval(1.1)) * 50_000

>>> sum(data) / len(data)

interval([500000000.5971994, 500000000.601347])

The result is definitely between the 2 values. If you try another method to do the calculation, (e.g. sorting first) you will know which one was better without the answer having to be obvious as it is in this case.

You might find one method is better at the lower bound, the other is better at the higher bound, which means you can narrow the value further than using either individually. It's a really powerful system that I think should be much better known.
It's always been that way with online dating. Men, on average, putting zero effort on the profile (including photos). Women put slightly more than zero effort into their profiles but get inundated with messages from mostly-terrible choices anyway because men like women.

Men spray low-effort messages at lots of women hoping for a bite. Women don't message because they have options.

Quality men trying to find any sort of extra have to work extra hard on selling themselves. Women looking for quality men have to work extra hard on creating a profile that deters the poor options they get (hard) _and_ deal with more subpar dates.
Defaulting an int to 0 is understandable. Defaulting a uid to 0 is terrible (if you reread my response that’s what I said)
> We all would be healthier if we'd just sleep when tired, eat when hungry. But that isn't how our society rolls.

Last year, at the beginning of the pandemic, our whole family basically went with no alarms or bedtimes. We slept when we were tired, we ate when we were hungry.

We all basically ended up going to bed between 2-4am (including the 3 and 5 year old) and waking around 11am. Sometimes we would take naps too.

The only reason we got away with that of course was because the pandemic had removed all requirements to interact with society. We literally had no where to go and no one to meet with (all my work meetings start after 1pm).

It was amazing and glorious.
inspired by that last sentence, the analogy could be rewritten as:

- lines on page
- pages of paper
- whole notebooks

and might be easier for people to grok than the earlier houses/paint analogy.
Right to repair started out as a demand by farmers to be able to repair their John Deere's.

This "greater safety" concern is nothing but masquerade.
>This isn't about changing the native language to English, France gets to keep its French language

Ireland kept its Gaelic language. And nobody speaks it.
> Long term student debts

I agree that this is a problem, and to the extent that we make it too easy for 18 year olds to take out massive amounts of debt, that is bad.

But I feel like many of the people arguing about "elite overproduction" would be opposed to something like making all public schools free or just free community college.
> You are 100% incorrect. Bitcoin is wildly deflationary. Therefore it does not encourage an economy to function, it encourages people to hold onto it with white knuckles. It's not oil for the economy, it's sand.

In my opinion, that's the biggest lie that people have been made to believe to justify constant stealing of their purchasing power over time.

People will always spend money for things they need, they will also spend money for things they want, our current system is forcing them to spend it for the sake of spending it causing unnecessary over-consumerism.

It doesn't matter how much Bitcoin price will appreciate in 5 years. If I need to eat, I'll have to spend today, if I want to buy a house, I'll have to spend too. Instead, I will think twice on upgrading to the shiny new iPhone every year, maybe doing it once every 2-3 years, which is a good thing.
A distinction should be drawn between “this entire field is useless” and “the current discussions in this field are wankery”. IMO, STEMlordery stems from students surmising—correctly or not—that their humanities professor’s publications are wankery and then falsely assuming that the entire field is hokey junk.

Accrediting boards who demand proof that all departments produce relevant scholarly work are also to blame for the situation, as it leads to a proliferation of write-only journals that will publish any word salad that can be convincingly proven to be in dialogue with contemporary scholarship.
The idea is to replace banks. You can trust math better than men. Not your keys, not your coins, banks are the opposite of you being free, they take your money while you beg them to access it. Modern legacy finance is disgusting. Maximum fees, minimum choice, minimum convience. Fewer hours open and even fewer ATMS every year.
Any discussion about backup should always include a shout out to one of the most beautiful versions of this: bvckup2

About 10 years ago the founder just decided to start writing the most streamlined, beautiful pieces of software he could - obsession around NTFS nuances to improve performance and reduce overhead to an unbelievable degree.

10 years later, it's still him (and maybe a few other folks) and the software is unbelievably polished.
Yeah, humans can roughly speaking infer the schema of a text-based protocol but require one for a binary protocol.
>In the abstract this might be a difficult question to answer, but today, it’s really not. Guys, a third of social science papers have zero citations. Let’s not kid ourselves: most of this work might as well never have been written; it affects nothing; nobody even cares enough to disagree. Meanwhile, two thirds of social psychology experiments fail to replicate. Does economics do better? Well, sure, yes, some experimental economists are quietly smug because 60% of their results replicated. Whoopee! Only 40% of what we produce is misleading, i.e. literally harmful!

>We aren’t starving for quantity: we’re drowning in garbage. If we have higher standards than other social science disciplines, good, they should be higher still.

I dunno why this article went so viral. The author makes elementary reasoning errors. Top journals have very high standards in terms of adhering to academic rigor, competitiveness, statistical analysis, etc. Whether or not it replicates or is cited is secondary. The journal has little way of predicting how often something will be cited or how well it will replicate; their main focus is publishing papers that meet academic standards and are of interest to subscribers and the scope of the journal...

IMHO, it is irrelevant if we are 'drowning in garbage'..the more important metric is, are there more diamonds, rather than lamenting about the size of the rough.
"weight of a removable battery"

Why would a removable battery be more heavy? More bulky, probably and with more plastic also a bit more heavy. But not much, as the heavy part is not the plastic.
Abertay student cleared after being investigated for saying women have vaginas
> the only real question is how much error you are willing to tolerate

So, you are, in fact, gonna need an algorithm for summation that controls that error, if you're not willing to tolerate very much.
Maybe we could build laptop cases out of carbon fiber and get the best of both worlds? Or at least make laptop cases easier to open for servicing, with standard screws and no plastic clamps.
And if you're going to rig up a volcano for power production, maybe use that power for something useful in your own country.
Real-Time Support “Preempt_rt” for Linux Held Up Due to Lack of Funding
Not exactly. I'm wondering whether the person who says they're going to do something better than what they're currently saying is correct.
The photos are nice, but the ones that talk about "skin color" are usually "anti-racists".

Actual racists, to the extent that they care about biological race, are interested in the entire phenotype, the statistical groupings of traits like hair color, eye color, facial features, head shape, length, body structure and yes, also skin color.

Africa is full of tribes with similar skin colors that are only very remotely related, often more genetically diverse than Russians and Basques. (There are of course also lots of _different_ skin colors in Africa!) Calling them all "Black" is just reductionist and frankly racist.
Would you rather have amateur repairs being done by someone who has access to proper documentation or by someone who does not?
Reminds me of the Florida laws that explicitly carve out exceptions for businesses that run theme parks (cough cough Disney)

https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-censorship-law-looph...
Yes, doctors can prescribe off-label uses for basically any already approved drug. I'm not sure how it would apply to Aduhelm, which AFAICT has no indicated uses other than Alzheimer's.

But let's assume there is no legal barrier to the doctor prescribing Aduhelm, and somehow you've found a doctor who is going to against the status quo based on inconclusive studies. Which insurers are covering it (certainly not Medicaid or Medicare)? Which pharmacy is stocking it? And where are they getting their supply? Biogen? You think Biogen's lawyers and executives are going to accept high legal exposure (e.g. consumer lawsuits) for an infinitesimally small market?

FDA approval provides a legal and market framework for drugs to be supplied, marketed, and paid for. If your friend who runs Biogen has a spare box of Aduhelm and gifts it to you, it wouldn't be the FDAs problem.
Not for bezos anymore
A podcast I listen to[0] had a throwaway line that’s stuck with me. I’m not sure if it’s actually correct, this isn’t an area I’m an expert in, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

> Colleges are really just real estate speculation businesses that also incidentally give you a degree in dentistry or whatever.

If that’s true, wouldn’t it explain why colleges do things that don’t make sense for education?

0 - Well There’s Your Problem Podcast, Episode 71
Bitcoin subsidizes the creation of constant-output power sources (geothermal, nuclear) which are not usually economical for highly variable consumer/industrial power usage. Long-term, these sources will probably power the grid during peak hours and power Bitcoin hardware during off-peak.
Pretending like computers can do the job of a person is not that much sillier than pretending a poorly paid proctor who doesn't care can do the job of a professor is not that that much sillier than pretending a class grade is sufficient to certify somebody's knowledge is not that much sillier than pretending a written test can do the job of a one-on-one evaluation.

But each step is more "efficient" than the previous one. It's just that each one is also less effective.
At what point do the Bitcoin bros notice the company they keep is getting more and more ridiculous?
Where do you live? This has not been my experience on the west coast.

You might be underselling yourself. In any major city, being average isn’t sufficient. You’re just swiped over for the next guy who is above average. (They always exist on the apps, nearly infinite amount)
Way over budget!
Even if crypto is a good solution for all this, bitcoin is a bad one.
I don’t know, I like the drama of copying a neighborhood and tearing down the old one xD
There is the valid argument, of sealing it in, for water protection.

I am still looking for a new phone, which removable battery.
And Windows 10 only :(
I've had a couple places where I had to go through customer service to get my new account activated because they thought my <theirname>@<verb>.us looked fishy. But I also have a normal enough sounding four letter .org that I can use to seem normal; and a gmail for those couple of occassions where the other end is really inflexible, otoh, there's a handful of people who give my gmail address to their banks and real estate agents and prospective employers, ugh.
Glorious! We're living in a super cool sci fi storyline.
They can literally stop the network though by perpetrating their own attacks. Even if the bitcoin network is perfectly secure to a subtle cyber attack in the vein of stuxnet, all the US or any major power would need to do is bring the mining power low enough that it can undermine the block chain through brute force.

Honestly seems more likely to be a tactic employed in China though due to the more top down nature of that country's power structure.
> why not do both, and more?

We'd all love if they did that instead of what was announced, but that's not the announcement.
If taxing and replacing cash transactions were the main goals, they should maybe use GNU Taler instead of bitcoin.
The more dates I go on, the more likely I am to find a compatible partner. That's an incentive.
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