skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folks you need to realize the difference between 'material discussion' within the scientific community etc. and 'drug populism' i.e. people making stuff up on Twitter and that information flowing to millions.

Nobody is 'smearing' the drug or even the people talking abot it.

They're saying 'stop telling the public about it because it's not approved yet and potentially dangerous'.

Whatever Donald Trump says - people believe. And they will go out in droves, self diagnose, self medicate, demand doctors prescribe them the 'cure' (when the doctor knows they shouldn't) etc..

And the amount of stupid conspiratorial memes that come up are pretty shocking. I avoid FB fro this reason and TikTok had a bunch of that for a bit, but I think they've shut down Ivermectin talk.

I quite like Joe Rogan, but he's not a doctor, and neither is his partner in goofydom Brett Weinstein, they have zero medical credibility on the issue, they should straight up not be talking about the drug.

If there is some kind of coverup, or there's hard evidence and the FDA is refusing to look at it, or if someone in Big Pharma bribed someone else ... then that's a story, but this is not that.

Oxford has just launched a trial for Ivermectin, and there are others. When the results come in, and if it works and is safe, then CNN et. al. will talk about it and parameterize it appropriately. We'll all hear about it pretty quickly.

The CDC can't stop Joe Rogan from talking about it and the haven't tried, but they can say 'STFU' until we have done the actual science, which is reasonable.
Hmm 'select' before 'filter'. This is one of the things that's clunky in SQL; you have to select what you want before you know what you have.
There is such a thing as wake-on-lan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
> Text analysis, reinforcement learning, etc. seem to be areas where deep learning might very well reach a plateau... changing one piece position in a chess game is the difference between a win or loss. These "binary" situations aren't a good match with the assumptions of continuity, differentiablity and such that neural networks depend on.

Deep learning can't do board games like chess and go?!

Wait... are you using pretty darn subtle dry sarcasm to argue that deep learning won't reach a plateau?
Yes and no. Here, the sociopathy is generated by the dynamics of the organization that Amazon is, but not by the upbringing or the genetics of the individual.
That is a terrible thing to research, and potent fuel for cynicism, but thank you for the data, that was interesting =)
The info related to the title is buried in the middle of the article. For those who don't have patience..

..Uranus and Neptune must contain vast quantities of water, ammonia, and methane on the inside..

He finds that the carbon atoms spontaneously break free of their molecules and arrange themselves into diamonds. Inside Uranus and Neptune, such diamonds could grow to the size of a person, slowly raining down toward the core of the planet..
This article contains many good points.

However, in my opinion, it is still overly lax: The aim should always be complete coverage.

The article hints at this with:

“Test every combination of events? Test every output for every combination of events? Test every possible corner case? You would need an absolutely enormous number of tests in order to achieve that!”

However, it does not really follow through on it, and even continues with a dedicated section on "Why Random Testing Works". At least symbolic execution with coarse approximations should be used to cover all cases subsumed by more abstract domains.

The reason for this is that the number of possible cases is usually so large, and the areas where problems lie often so small, that random tests are unlikely to discover all mistakes. The article mentions precisely this situation: "The bug only manifested itself during a small set of overlapping corner cases." QuickCheck and fuzzing are popular and do find mistakes in practice. However, how many mistakes are not found by these tools, if such random approaches already discover mistakes?

In my opinion, an ideal test case only terminates if a mistake is found. If not, it will simply keep on searching, potentially for months, years, ... You need to be able to start the search for mistakes and keep it running for as long as you want.

Logic programming languages like Prolog excel at writing test cases, because they provide search as an implicit language feature. It is easy to write a query that asks: "Are there cases where such-and-such holds?", and the system will search for them exhaustively. The ability to concisely write test cases that cover vast areas of the search space is a major attraction of logic programming languages.
Is this why some stores are perpetually “going out of business” and “liquidating” their stock?
PS5 CPU Inside? AMD Says Eighty 4700S Desktops Coming
I don’t want to waste mental capacity on someone’s dumpster-fire interface. I reserve that mental capacity for the task that I’m trying to accomplish with the tool.
I use Apple Maps for navigation and Google Maps in the browser for everything else.
That site is awful on mobile. I can’t tell what is part of the story and what is an ad!
I assume the actual radiative power is greater than the cooling capability, since cooling power = radiative power - heat intake from atmosphere - heat intake from sun

so the math works out even better than it seems...?
Love it.

Unsolicited feedback: can you shuffle the results with each page refresh or add some local state that tracks which posters have been seen? Would be cool to go back to for new content
This man showed some extreme self restraint in not even bringing up Elon Musk beyond a casual mention of the submarine idea. If Elon had called me a pedo because I didn't use his spaceship submarine I don't think I'd have held back quite as much.
Thanks, that was a beautiful read in spite of the desolate circumstances.
I prefer to listen to people who actually put AI/ML models into production, instead of random programmer / AI dilettante types.
I have experienced 50 in Multan, Pakistan many summers multiple times. It's a city though, not a desert. There are many other cities where temperatures go this high each summer.
ah true. though that number is coefficient of performance, not efficiency
I as well.
that's in interesting angle with the grad school advisor reality. Very true, never thought about how an "advisor" would function throughout the entirety of one's education.
> MikroTik 4-port CRS305-1G-4S+IN

I have two of these at home, they're neat little bits of kit.

They're fanless and therefore silent, which is fine until you realise you want to do 10GbE over existing copper cables with something like Mikrotik's S+RJ10 adapter. Then the temps start to rise...

So, I've decided to go completely to fibre, even if it means opening up the walls of the house. Just bought a job lot of used ConnectX-3 cards off ebay.
Yes, I've tried it in a couple countries and the best McDonald's meal I've had was in Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.
In fact, didn't the Guardian / Observer include some pages from the NYT, perhaps at the weekend, at one time? Perhaps they still do.
> The problem is that defaults are very powerful

This isn't the problem, it's the whole point.

Things need to be made opt-in because we want there to be a meaningful barrier to companies using data that does not belong to them in order to make money.
I guess that makes sense, but I never would have guessed that the category is in-place stable algorithms as it's only mentioned in the "about" line and not the text itself.

Sorting on an integer key isn't the same as sorting a list of integers. They have different performance considerations.
Half of the triumph of SQL here is the strength of the relational model, which rests on a solid mathematical foundation and is well and truly the best way to model the vast majority of data domains.

The other half is just having no meaningful competition in that one domain. So I agree with the author (and you presumably) that building something better on top of the relational algebra should be a priority for the profession.
Google Maps has unmatched traffic data accuracy, especially here in India where it has literally hundreds of millions of Android devices moving on roads.
Very cool, thanks. The nice thing would be the drag and drop functionality. As far as I can tell (I might be wrong) you still have to find the CSS selectors manually using the dev tools which adds a little friction.
The commercial version of Christmas is "celebrated" across East Asia. It's treated pretty much as a Hallmark Holiday.
I’m always asked how I am so good at sql. I laugh given I know how crappy my sql skills are. It’s really that I just know our schema so well I can formulate a decent enough query to extract what I need.

Knowing your schema design is just as important as knowing sql.
I never realized that Christmas is right after the winter equinox (or never connected these two dates), but it makes a lot of sense, thank you very much!
For cycling in London, in my experience:

CityMapper >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Apple Maps >>>>> Google Maps
Exactly. Mass of air has temperature and an object like thermometer can come into equilibrium with air temperature.

On the other hand an object in sunlight will have temperature that has very complex relationship with a lot of parameters including shape of the object or windspeed.

Further, the object will not come into equilibrium and will show a gradient of temperature meaning the readout will depend on where you measure.
The (almost) only problem that's left is the requirement of having the webcam on.

Regardless of the client-side software that you can't trust, there are also third-party servers that will store all the recordings with personal information for a potentially long time, which is unacceptable and isn't fixable by temporary hardware (as we don't have a temporary face).
I think this is specifically meant for GitHub and showcasing code examples within readme files.
The idea is that you can show some code snippet within your project without having to update the readme file whenever the code is altered.

Seems like a cool idea, although I don't think this is necessary unless one has a very big readme file with a lot of examples.
Me neither until I met a real case: an uncle lost his family in an accident when he was in his forties; he wanted to start over, so he marries a 25 year old woman, they have 2 kids and that was about 25 years ago (the older son is in his twenties, the younger is almost to 20).

Doing that with a woman his age is almost impossible, fertility and children health when the mother is over 30 is declining rapidly.

In any case, that made me think about life a bit different. In the same situation I would do the same.
The tech looks impressive and interesting.

How will you guys make money? As a prospective user, what are the chances of being rethinkdb'd?
Musk wrote that tweet about a separate UK diver.

Still, this Finnish diver did show remarkable restraint here.
That's true, but then again I wouldn't be comfortable with a single-disk NAS...

However, for running random VMs, etc, I think a laptop is quite a good proposition.
Researchers have taught a drone to recognize, hunt down meteorites autonomously
From an outside perspective, it seems like your organization could very much do something about the last item. Make the unsubscribe link unique to each user. Then whether they click the link or hit reply 99.99% of the time, you have a way of uniquely identifying an individual. There's probably a lot going on under the surface though, since this seems like a pretty obvious approach.
I use pomodoros religiously, and you touched on one of the few gotchas of the technique; Never use your break to attend to other work, unless it's thoughtless. Can't say how many times I've lost the thread and been kicking myself because of mixed contexts.
I'd settle for any life beyond Earth or intelligent life on Earth.
> I hope we can one day identify intelligent life outside of Earth in my lifetime.

Discovery of a simple life would be a big deal too. Perhaps the whole notion of intellegence or even our own origins could as well be affected by such a discovery.
The problem is people irrationally believe that a 'vaccine is unsafe' but at the same time 'some other drug is safe' and might therefore take the drug.

My father is kind of scared of the COVID vaccine - understandable.

But he gets his 'flu shot' (and a bunch of other things) by the doctor all the time.

He has zero problem running all the other tests, taking pills and taking the 'flu shot' which is literally a vaccine!

But he also reads stupid conspiracy theory stuff on Facebook and watches Fox News, and I believe to this day he has not been vaccinated.

That's how powerful misinformation can be.

My bet is that he'll probably take Ivermectin if he's heard about it on Facebook a bunch of times as being that 'safe drug that the government tried to hide'.

My father is not a dumb man, and neither are most of the people involved in this - but about 40% of the population can't effectively deal with information. They will take the drug depending whether Biden or Trump told them to take it.
Work with code you didn’t write. Jump into unfamiliar code and fix problems and improve it. Don’t worry about learning languages first — if you know a couple of languages already you can probably read others with help from reference materials. Lots of legacy code out there.

Learn how businesses work (known as domain knowledge). Ask questions, listen to non-programmers. Domain expertise plus technical skills make you more valuable to employers and clients.
Ask HN: Experience Running Neo4j in Production?
I’ve been working on an application which has “social network” shaped data. I’ve been using Postgres to get started because I know it inside and out, but the queries are getting increasingly complicated and difficult to reason about as the data model grows.

I’ve heard about graph databases but never used one in prod before. I recently grabbed a book on Neo4j and then tested migrating my data into it. I have to say, I’m impressed by how much easier and faster it is to construct many of the queries I’m interested in using Cypher.

I have no experience operationalizing Neo4j, and a lot of questions…

Are there any pitfalls I should be wary of? If anyone has experience with both running Neo and Postgres in prod, what are the trade offs? Does it make sense to convert all the application data into Neo, or try to run it side by side with Postgres? if you go with two data stores, where should you draw the line between them?

Thanks for any experience or input anyone can share. I’ve been googling on this for a while and haven’t found many good resources.
No. They’re hard work, and consume a lot of your time, but they’re awesome. Especially during the pandemic when we’re shut in the house so much of the time, they bring laughter, energy, and change to the house daily (my kids a young so developing fast).

I know his articles often land to mixed reviews, but this one resonated with me a lot: http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html
"Under a tent" (or air temperature) is more useful. It is going to telly you how hot will be objects that come into equilibrium with air which you can't tell from wet bulb temperature. You can derive wet bulb temperature from air temperature and humidity.

Also measuring air temperature is easier and more practical as it is just enough to measure temperature of an object that comes into equilibrium with air.
I have tried to run it within anbox on my Pinephone devkit before, which runs linux. The app itself worked although all the videos didn't work. Maybe it has gotten better since though.
It sounds like you're saying that working a shitty service job is not something anyone would willing do unless they were economically coerced into it.

I wonder if this says anything about whether our economic system is based on coercion rather than free choice.
Mapy.cz works globally.
It's excellent.
Don't have to share anything.
The First is not about artistic freedom only and it is visibly under attack from all sides. I am an European and I don't take sides, it is just what I have observed.
> "cargo update" will update the packages along with Cargo.lock content

Disregarding the rev attribute?
To answer your last question Blu-ray, especially M-DISC. Can store up to 100GB [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
See also GAN Theft Auto.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559106

You are a Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0

GitHub: https://github.com/sentdex/GANTheftAuto/
Don't have kids so no direct experience but I read the book Everybody Lies which looked at google search trends and was just fascinating and I do think mentioned that many people actually do regret having kids (and also a lot of women wonder if they're male partners are gay). So, if you regret having kids, you're probably less alone than you think!
I'm agreeing with you, but I want to say a bit more about appeal to authority.

Appeal to authority is exactly as valid as the authority. The way "appeal to authority" is a fallacy is usually something like "Y says X", where Y is not actually an expert on X. Y may be a politician or a pundit, or even a scientist outside their area of expertise. (Scientists should be less eager to opine on subjects outside their expertise, but hey, we're here on HN, and we do it all the time, so...)

The other way it happens is "Y says X", and Y is an expert on X, but Y has a fringe view on X (or we could be charitable and call it a highly minority view on X). This is harder, because you can't detect that just by examining Y's credentials.

But if you disallow all appeals to authority, then you're left with just each person's own arguments and knowledge. And why do we think that's better? Why do we think that the personal opinion of amateurs is more valid than the considered opinion of experts? So we have to allow appeals to authority (as you said).

The trick is to only flag the fallacious ones. I say "the trick", because it is not easy...
Also, evolution isn’t trying to get to human level intelligence. It’s just one out of millions of adaptations that work, it’s recent, and it’s rare. Change Earths parameters a little over the past several million years, and maybe we don’t evolve.
Oh thank you! That makes it more interesting. As I'm in Switzerland, I would try this service out if I wasn't a broke college student.
I've also tried to rewrite some of my challenging queries [0] in my hypothetical syntax and while I think your observation about pipeline length is correct, the result still came out much better than SQL. Frankly, even in F#, most of my pipelines are around 5 functions too. In my view, pipelines are just a convenient mental model. I'd love to see your sketches, here are my (very WIP) concepts: [1]

I don't quite see how a computation graph would work as the core of a textual language and I'm sceptical about using it with existing DBMSs (I'd like to actually use my creation one day :) ), but I'm open to ideas.

[0]: for example this monstrosity: https://gitlab.com/dvdkon/jrutil/-/blob/dbb971c18526e68dcc97...

[1]: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2147895
It reminded me a lot of this Aphex Twin video: https://youtu.be/SqayDnQ2wmw

For now I prefer the human (curated?) one but you could imagine this improving to be really cool.
Psychedelics promote growth of neural connections lost due to depression
Yes: give more resources to the ramsonwares groups :-)
One has to only look at the dumpster fire that is the USDA nutritional guidelines to know "never".
There is a couple of other stories that comes to mind, unfortunately both of them were about recovering the dead.

"Raising the Dead" is about the accidental discovery of a diver in SA, and the recovery efforts there. [1]

"The cave divers who went back for their friends" is about a trio of finns who went back into a Norwegian underwater cave system to recover two friends who got stuck and died there. [2]

[1] - https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activi...

[2] - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300
Maybe micro-celebrity personality cults, where micro-communities develop a design language that only has meaning within their bubble, and they practice consumer rituals around their idol's birthday, for example.
Kaseya: The ransomware behind the attack avoided Russian-speaking systems
Good post, bring me back old memories where I used to setup my own PCs back in high school.
I think the graphics card and GPU are really not required for a router. Few years ago there was a Linux project called zebra router which was deprecated in favor of https://www.quagga.net/
> I think what you’re implying by “dumbed down” technology is technology that is made easy to use.

Specifically regarding this, I think what the poster is implying is that all of the options within a piece of software have been removed. The interface has been dumbed down until you can only do the exact couple tasks the team has designed it to do to, and nothing more. The options that allow us to fine tune the software operation to our needs, to flexibly use the tool have been removed to the point where all you get is a button to do the task, and if it fails you get a cute cartoon that says "omg, sorry!".

When using technology that hasn't been dumbed down, the development team can often be surprised at what users are doing with it, because they are doing all kinds of things we never thought of. Once the software has been dumbed down enough thats not possible, because the software wont let you do anything the development team didn't think of.
Yeah. I've used OpenStreetMap too, and while it does tend to be more accurate than Apple Maps, Google Maps is still unmatched. If you're on an iPhone, I'd recommend you switch to OpenStreetMaps at the very least.
It does as part of the ‘New Maps’ but very limited geographically unless you’re in China, California, or a few other cities- see https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#maps-cycling
Yeah there is a field that does incremental learning and “lifelong learning” which employ these tactics. It’s successful on some domains
It is just the assertion that UNIX wars got replaced with Linux distribution wars.