skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone give an ELI5 for what the limitation is in terms of processing these computationally? Is the challenge that it's difficult to model how a molecule will interact with another molecule, so you have to do it with atoms and test the interaction across every other molecule in the search space?

For context I got a B- in high school chemistry and haven't looked back.

*Edit: "do it with atoms" is confusing in this context. I mean do it in the real world outside of bits.
Per lifetime? Per year? Per kilogram of food? Can you give a bit more context to this comment?
Regulating and managing consumer chemicals after the fact is no longer sufficient, and in some cases counter-productive.

For example, bans on long-chain PFASs (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has meant industry has just switched to short-chain PFASs, which are more difficult to filter out of water:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00004

We need to establish a whitelist of acceptable compounds and force industry to work within that for anything that will shed into the environment, be exposed to foodstuffs, or be worn by humans.
I, for one, 100% believe that at least some of this is advanced, non-human tech.

Trying to convince HN about the "why" is at best problematic. I could give evidence from my own observations and experiences, but they would be easily dismissed due to lack of evidence.

I'll just say that we, as humans, do not fully understand how consciousness works. I'm certain that there are others in this galaxy who do, and I have personal experience to back that up. What percentage of HN is going to believe that I, for whatever reason, have come into contact with an advanced, non-human intelligence?

Spoiler: near zero. That's why I post about this topic on a burner account.
I think that is what was meant by "These observations could be the result of ... spoofing" in the document just released.
Go has repeatedly chosen "(1) break lots of people".

Not for the language itself, but the tooling around it.
They should make the tilesets easily moddable on the Steam versions, modern pixel artists could do some incredible work with these games. Maybe open up post processing modding to allow CRT effects too.
A child care business owner couldn’t hire layer off workers back, if she took a pay cut to attract workers she’d be making less than UI so she closed her business in June 2020 and probably went on UI herself. Even business owners can make more on UI than working. Thus child care is more expensive and out of reach for low wage workers who want to go back to work.
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Banking and Telecoms pay their lobbying tax and their old-media advertising tax. Its a pretty simple protection racket they grew up with. FAANG thought they'd be allowed to operate without it. They're not. As soon as they pump some money into both parties and buy some ads they'll be fine.
I expect future generations to harbor a unique and refined fire of hatred for our current plastics obsession. In no particular order:

- We extract oil from the ground, transport it thousands of miles to a factory, build precursors, transport those thousands of miles to other factories, build plastic containers, transport those to yet other places for use, fill them, use them for 10 minutes, discard them, and then transport them tens or hundreds of miles to a landfill (can't recycle them, they've got food waste... or you use a bunch of water to clean them for recycling, but see below). This is insane in any reasonable world.

- Plastic recycling is... a polite lie, at best, and more realistically oil company {marketing, propaganda} at work. Some plastics, some of the time, are recyclable a few times to build a high cost, crap material (and relatively few people want to pay more for worse material to work with). Most plastics, most of the time, are junk and somewhere between "not worth the cost" and "technically not possible" to recycle. We used to (as western nations) stuff plastics in a container, ship it to China, and count it as recycled as soon as it left the port regardless of the result. Now, with China having decided that this was stupid, we ship it to whoever will take it, count it as recycled, and then wonder why we find a ton of plastics in the atmosphere and oceans.

- As we learn more about plastics, most of the stuff that makes them work turns out to be some level of "somewhat toxic to some life" and "really violently toxic to all life." Most of the really nasty stuff simply doesn't degrade in a useful span, so will be with everyone else on the planet, for somewhere between "an awfully long time" and "the remaining span of humans on the planet."

But, hey, super convenient for a couple decades! Can't blame us for making it, right? I mean, there was profit involved - and, more than just profit, convenience. Such profit! Much convenience. All plastics!

I don't mind, quite as much, "durable plastics" that are intended to last for a long while. But the entire disposable, super soft plastic ecosystem? This is going to be very, very hated in centuries to come. If it's not sterilized all humans by then. :/
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True! it's just that the convention is not to link to past submissions that didn't get interesting threads. Otherwise users get cranky when they click on the links and find nothing interesting there.
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I think “vetocracy” may be related to Taleb’s idea that “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority”

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Until that happens, start with your home.

How many pollutants do you voluntarily introduce into your own environment-habitat?

(And for every pound you buy, several pounds of byproducts are shed during production.)
> It's so short-sighted too.

> How many people decided to get the new Playstation next time because of a frustrating experience cancelling their xbox subscription

If you make it hard to unsubscribe when people are short on time/money/interest, they will probably be less likely to resubscribe when they have the time/money/interest.

Long-term customers on something like Xbox Live have a larger incentive to resubscribe to recover access to their game library.

On the other hand, random web site X is probably just looking to churn through subscribers.

It's something of a tragedy of the commons; the incredible difficulty of unsubscribing from (everything that's a monthly bill) makes people wary of subscribing to anything.
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But there are no cases of a successful tech industry without government support. So we can safely say government support is key. Perhaps government support is necessary but not sufficient.
These perceptions are notoriously in the eye of the beholder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870. The opposite side to you makes exactly the opposite generalizations. It's obvious that these claims can't all be right. What's less obvious, but I think also true, is that because they're so identical, there must be some common mechanism producing them. I think it's that people's perceptions are strongly conditioned by their passions.

In other words, while "I rarely see" is no doubt true, the reasons for that have to do with your own filters as much as the objective situation. This explains why the opposite side reaches the opposite conclusions from the same data: they have the opposite filters. It's the same mechanism in both cases, and there are more than enough datapoints to support every pre-existing view. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As you can imagine, what this boils down to is that all passionate political observers feel equally aggrieved and, ironically, all share the same perception that HN is stacked against them and they're being treated unfairly.
I genuinely gave up after two unsuccessful clicks. It probably says something about my personality or current state of mind.
The mortgage tax deduction is only for the first $375 (or $750 for couples).

It seems pretty fair as billionaires don’t even notice such a tiny deduction.

If anything it gives money to the middle/upper class but encouraging home ownership is an overall positive force.
Thanks for your comment.

The DNS is used for a lot more than converting domain to IPs and mail servers, run:

dig target.com TXT

And be amazed at the pollution at the apex.

SPF, DMARC and others show that DNS is already being used for much more.

The DNS is a distributed database. The primary key is the domain and we believe that converting human friendly domains to machine readable data shouldn’t stop at IPs, mail servers and anti-spam measures (SPF and DMARC). It should extend to phone numbers, gps coordinates, bank details and more.
I suppose I'll follow the rules, but I think shadowbanning is really tacky to do except in the case of actual spam.

Note my name. I was shadow-banned for one sarcastic comment eight years ago, despite being an otherwise good-faith, decent contributor. Maybe things are different now, but I've never gotten over the feeling of wasting my time putting thoughts together and responding to a conversation and finding out I muted.

Hell, I'm a mod of a city subreddit, and one of the other mods has shadowbanned a complete asshat of a person. I don't have ban powers, otherwise I would ban them outright. It makes me uncomfortable to be a party to disrespect like that.
I use ltree with UUIDs. What's really annoying is that I needed to replace the '-' characters of the UUIDs to '_' in order to store the hierarchy in the ltree column.
Yeah so to clarify my bit about open source I have two points:

1) It's made FNF very easy to mod, and these mods drive a lot of viral engagement with the game. If you scan social media you'll see that this is what keeps the community excited and engaged when the authors themselves are not putting out updates.

2) I mention it because many people see being open source as a liability because of concerns about cloning. Seeing a FOSS game like this pull in literal millions shows that at least in this one case, FOSS games aren't literally doomed to failure because of being FOSS, is all.

So my position is, no actual players care that you have a github repo with source available, unless that actually affects them somehow, and in FNF's case I argue it does affect them by enabling the community to keep making more weird content for the game (though it could be achieved in other ways, like using a modding API like [polymod](https://github.com/larsiusprime/polymod), which it has been integrating with recently).
2) Bad behaviour stems from psychological issues.

1) Psychological issues are things that cause bad behaviour.
Does anyone have a link that isn't behind a paywall?
>use a fake name and social

They let you use a fake social security #?
> totally amazing that insects basically rearrange themselves on near celular level though at certain points in their lifespan

What I find more amazing is that, in the popular culture, this is usually presented as something unusual that butterflies do. When in reality all insects do it and the metamorphosis of butterflies is notable only for its extreme typicality.
I don't think anthropomorphizing aliens is a good way to speculate on how they possibly would behave. I really don't have a better system, but I see this tendency in alot of discussions about 'them'. (Disclaimer: I usually play as isolationist in Stellaris)
If you've ever tried playing old games in an emulator, and thought to yourself, wow this looks terrible, take a look at how much better these games could look on a CRT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9C_TfmPgYM
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International Islamophobia is quite relevant to a large Islamic nation.

Foreign separatism crises are not.
That’s because you’ve only looked on the top side. If you peek over the edge at the bottom you will see.
So the rest of the story is that Ohio was the first state to pass a law requiring users be able to cancel subscriptions on-line. So we had to add it back in, but only for users in Ohio and it was burried on the site and had like 7 pages of "account saving" stuff.

Eventually most states passed similar laws and so we opened it up to all US accounts. I'm not sure what the experience is like today.
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Nitpicking here, but there probably wasn’t anything we would define as “marriage”. That Wikipedia article says “copulate” instead.
Now I want to go down the wiki rabbit hole about the history of human marriage.

Also, I’d imagine there were at least far fewer viruses before urbanization. My understanding is early civilization was really good for diseases.
Self-host. It's cheaper, more flexibility, and more control.
> Why is Edge 200MB?

Edge is Chromium + various integration libraries. The barebone Chromium 64-bit build on Android, without any google integration, is 130MB.

Add to that several video codecs, replacements for google proprietary libraries (crash reporting, malware/malicious page scanning engine, push messages etc), and you quickly reach 200MB.
The US leaves a documented trail of blood.

And yet, the US never went to any length of stopping the head of state being compared to Winnie the Poo.

In fact, the mere fact that the US fuckery is so well documented is quite telling. Remember “tank man” not returning any results on Bing just a few weeks back?
Having worked in the publishing industry, my experiences support the conclusions of this article.

About ~40% of authors I worked with had diagnosed mental health issues, and were quite open about their struggles. Most were a delight to work with--I strongly admire people who can be open and honest about their struggles.

But about ~15% were... not so delightful. Working with them was hell, because they'd flip-flop constantly between treating me as sworn enemy or best friend.

Their twitter feeds reflected this attitude. They were quick to pick fights with bewildered victims, to scream to the skies how evil X person was, how they were the victim of X's behavior.

Having worked with them, I knew they were unstable and to ignore their online shrieking. But to an outsider....

All outsiders see is an award-winning author, touted as a genius, with that little blue check mark declaring that they're a respected member of their field. So of course they're going to listen when that author screams that they've been victimized.

Of course, pointing out that this person is mentally ill isn't an option--for one, it's confidential information. For two, you'll be fired for being "disability-phobic".

So there's no choice but to sit back and watch the unstable troll rip apart other people.

It's horrible. And it's one of the reasons I left the publishing industry. It's slowly and steadily being overrun by mentally unstable trolls, and it's starting to have a serious impact on which books get published and which don't. (Hint: anything that might possibly trigger the trolls will NOT get a publishing contract.)
Our Model 3 saved not only my life, but my pregnant girlfriend and our 4yo son
Did it originate in China?
I agree. It's also "new," so there is more room to find opportunities to improve productivity.
> Once word spread that you could do it on the web, huge numbers of customers, that had been stuck paying for an Xbox Live Gold subscription they weren't using, began cancelling.

Unfortunately that's the allure of dark and customer-hostile patterns - they extract a lot of money from people, at least in the short term.

If you're Microsoft/Xbox, though, you might want to think a bit about long term.
> what is the problem they're even solving?

The problem they're solving is that a lot of people just enter their email wrong and then wonder why they didn't get the signup email.

> Like if someone tries to register an already registered email, send an email about it don't leak that it's registered.

This is something that's cargo-culted far too often. Maybe for some services it's worth keeping secret which emails are signed up, but for most it isn't.
Maybe spend some time reading up on it. Libertarian socialism is the umbrella term for different anarchist schools of thoughts, it's not something I came up with. And spoiler alert, there is no one single "anarchism". So if you want to criticize it, be more precise. The US brand of "libertarianism" has very little to do with the origins of the term, they came late to the party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

Also, since you seem interested in history, here are two books, that portray the communities, without them being overly dogmatic:

- Anarchy’s Brief Summer THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BUENAVENTURA DURRUTI, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

- Beer and Revolution
The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914, Tom Goyens

> You wouldn't mind this you say? Because you imagine you get to do whatever you want.

Absolutely not. I imagine the most direct forms of democracy and ditch the representatives if they don't represent. So unlike pretty much all nations, actually taking democracy seriously and seeing it trough to all its consequences. Very different thing.
How many do? Which ones? I’m curious what you’re still running into.

(This is me being curious about your Rust comment, not implying anything about the relative stability of the two languages)
Star Citizen is no longer a video game, it's a sci-fi simulation.

Definitely a vast change in scope, and probably disappointing for early backers, but I'm actually intrigued and excited about how far they can go with this.
If youre looking for data to back up a feeling you have about it “being bad sometimes” youll find it. But you knew that.

I would actually focus more on what kinds of behaviours, skills, and values you appreciate in your coworkers and apply that to the founders. The culture of any company is dictated by them primarily, so meet with them after you decide what works best for you.
During the pandemic I had colleagues sitting in their garage for one full year. These was spot no other place to be. Other younger colleagues has studios where they said when they sit up straight in their bed they are at the ' office'. So to me this is a discussion we should have.
In Australia and Germany there are tax deductions for utilities as far as I know.
If it involves spending money and your business model isn’t to make pennies at massive scale, it makes no sense to optimize for those who actively reduce costs. I don’t remember the exact percentages, but there’s a quip that Apple has something like 90% of the profit with under 30% market share.
Would you use the same approach for food additives?

"Any manufacturer can put anything they want into their food, but if some substance turns out to be one of the top causes of food poisoning or addiction and this can be proven without doubt and the manufacturer chooses to disclose all the necessary information, then we can think about introducing regulation for that substance..."
Yes but it’s the mindset of the VAG software engineering staff that created these problems. I didn’t go into the extremely confusing MMI, lack of OTA updates, etc. There is no way to escalate issues to VAG corporate. Even if they pressed reset on their software engineering team tomorrow it’d take a few years to ramp up to catch Tesla.
But, realistically, what recourse do users have if there's a breach?

A few years ago I got a letter from Washington State University saying that they'd obtained my personal health data (which I never directly consented to, nor had I interacted with WSU in any way prior to receiving this latter) and subsequently allowed it to be stolen by unknown malicious actors. In case you're curious, they kept the data on an unencrypted hard drive in a physical safe that was then physically stolen.

There was some class action pittance that meant nothing to me, and WSU does not seem to have been subject to any meaningful consequences. It seems to be viewed as a cost of doing business sort of thing. For all of us who had their data stolen, the horse has left the barn, and I see no real deterrent effect. This seems to be the norm when data breaches happen.

So while "pinky promise" might be a bit hyperbolic, there is a lot of truth to it in general and I don't know how this case is supposed to be any different. If there is some paradigm-breaking accountability mechanism built in, I'd love to hear more about it.
What do you think about ByteDance? The crown jewel of social media no longer belongs to the US.
Who are you to decide of the superiority scale ?

How would you even know if you are correctly setting it, even against what you think are your own standards ?

What if your worldview is extremely warped, but you can't realize it, because you haven't ever looked outside of yourself ? What if you don't even know how to ?

And what if, by chance, if by inheritance, you're very powerful ?

Wouldn't that make you an immature inconsiderate ignorant twisted bully thinking he knows better ?
I've worked for two YC companies. One was around 10 people, the other around 40. There was good and bad as with any company, none of which was directly attributable to being a YC company. I don't think there's much signal you can derive from it as a candidate really.
> "There is nonhuman intelligence visiting and engaging with Earth. We could not tell you before for national security reasons, but now we can tell you." At least, not without many years of plausibly deniable hints before-hand.

Do you really think that'll be the outcome?

I'd be shocked.

If there is nonhuman intelligence in our solar system, it's orders of magnitude smarter than us, and I'd also wager it's probably by design impossible for us detect.
I just started on Kahneman's Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment 2 days ago.

I mean it took so long for Kahneman and Tversky ideas on bias to disperse that we can even be talking about bias in this context.

Bias isn't even the real problem with ML, noise is obviously.
>This could be done by sending special "cancel" messages; it was then up to individual Usenet servers to figure out whether to honor these cancel requests, through unspecified criteria. The feature was somewhat hidden away in some Usenet clients to discourage pointless abuse, but it was there.

In practice the cancel/supersede messages were and are never universally honored.
having grown up in Nesher myself... makes me wonder how many degrees apart we are (not that either name is all that uncommon)
That's still really good for Europe. That's €84k, not a lot of careers pay like that after 10 years, even in STEM.
The people with the most expertise on assets work at Blackrock, not Treasury. This is only a scandal if they didn't also consult with other people who didn't have a vested interest in propping up asset prices.
All the things in that list are like that though, "Airborne Clutter", "Natural Atmospheric Phenomena", etc. If they knew it was one of those it wouldn't be unidentified. It is entirely possible for a plane to be detected but not identified as such, so planes should be possible causes too.
>I think it’s a cool distinction, and hopefully future social networks will take a cue from it. Being able to see what’s going on (showdead) felt like an important diff from Reddit, and avoided much of the “un-edit Reddit” wars.

I did not know this and am glad to hear it. Yes, I've wished for a long time that Reddit would make all mod actions visible in diff form. Not being able to tell without opening a post/comment while logged out whether it has been hidden by a mod without any notification is maddening.
Here is a DuckDB FDW for Postgres! I have not used it, but it sounds like what you need!
https://github.com/alitrack/duckdb_fdw
Lobby for something like GDPR. Half the stuff in this thread is illegal in the EU.
>But a false positive means an invasive biopsy.

Nah, there's plenty of other things you'd try before the biopsy.