skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I go back and forth. Sometimes I'm an extrovert, like when I've had a few beers and at a party. Sometimes I'm an introvert. For extroverts, socializing is like air, they need it to feel healthy (or to live in some cases). For introverts, socializing is like water. You can swim in it or tread water, but it takes effort and you tire quickly. Sure it can be refreshing sometimes, but it wears you out and you don't wanna do it every day.

That's about the best way I can sum it up for how it works in my mind.
America’s permanent and resilient presence in space will be nuclear powered
I'm sorry for the experience you had. The meter should be in thousand VND, so 100 means 100,000 VND which is a bit less than $5 (1 USD = 23,000 VND). But did the driver make you pay in USD or VND?
That’s hardly a spoiler
haha, can't agree more with you.

He's the legend. I totally admire his "nocode" tool.

But this library is not a no-code tool but "for" no-code tools.
In the USA... what a spending frenzy/waste it is... Not very eco-friendly.
Calling any benchmark "abysmal" requires a point of comparison, and you have provided none... so it doesn't really encourage good discussion. What's the point of your comment? It seems to just be a way of insulting someone else's product.

Which comparably priced router are you thinking of that has a "non-abysmal" performance curve for small packet bandwidth?
haha, that's a fact.

but this library helps you to make those no-code tools.
Yes half the population has an IQ under 100 but only a third of adults have a college degree. You're assuming the make up of marketing departments mimics broader society which I'm sure it doesn't.
This fast inverse square root function is also getting old. If it was a software patent, which are not recognized in many places, it would have expired a few years ago.
Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. Big pharma has huge influence in the government. The vaccines are authorized under emergency use, which is predicated on not having alternatives. That there is a campaign to discredit cheap off patent alternatives (Ivermectin) is at least concerning.
Fair. It was the first router I found on their site with listed throughout >= 25 Gbit/s.
Wings over the Rockies Air Museum
If you want to use metaprogramming in C you are better off doing the parsing/tokenizing yourself and creating your own macros than trying to use the C preprocessor, its a lot less work.
Only in the way I “experienced” 300+C by jumping through a bonfire. You never reach a true equilibrium in a Sauna that hot, but you can reach an equilibrium in 50C when the humidity is low enough.
Yes, strip mining obviously doesn't happen underwater, but large global destruction of one the few ecologies that mankind hasn't yet obliterated is something I think we should probably think twice about.

Of course Li-ion is a singular example, but the problems with ion based battery solutions are scale, cost, reliability and longevity. Not to mention requiring more material in the long run to be mined or extracted from difficult to access areas of the planet.

If we make a quantum leap for longevity and reliability for an ion battery (a battery with modest early 2000's densities which lasts 100years+) I would say we should be seriously investing in this if it wasn't made from say 99% yttrium or dark-matter would be the way the obvious way to go.

Uranium, Thorium and other more "readily" nuclear-fissable materials are surprisingly plentiful (and in regions we already mine) when factoring in the next 200-300 years of expected energy demand and by that point hopefully we would be talking about fusion levels of energy density so we'd be pouring serious investment into improving fusion as a power source.
I use Waze because I want to know where the cops are.
Apple AirPod batteries and the need for right-to-repair reform
Probably the intended submission was

https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2021/06/17/is-aging-i...
the original number isn't totally made up though. I think it's usually the msrp. you almost never find things selling at msrp online or at a big box store, but it's what you would probably pay at a smaller brick and mortar.
The problem with this view is that the outside world has such an immensely vast amount of data to it that the problem becomes uncomputable.

It took ~3 billion years of real evolution to reach Humans. This evolution occurred on a planet scale, including naturally formed barriers which rose and fell, changes to climatic conditions, and even a few stellar events to shake up evolution. There isn't even a compelling reason to think that Humans couldn't have arisen anytime within the last ~300 million years. Implying that the probabilities of intelligent life emerging are low, or that the conditions are poorly understood and rare.

Effectively each attempt to learn an agent which has to interact with the real world runs into these problems. The solution is to make the reward more complex and the simulated environment more realistic - both actions which increase the computational costs of the problem faster than the improvements arrive.
The other difference is that Google Maps has to build everything into the app directly. The privacy label for Apple Maps gets a 'free ride' on so many things by virtue of piggybacking on OS-level functionality.

Same thing applies to Messages vs. WhatsApp/Messenger and bunch of others.
> Pharma lobbyists gained enough control over FDA oversight to get a failed Alzheimer's drug approved.

We'll see. What's playing out now is exactly how robust institutions work. Individual components can be corrupted, but the institution has a whole holds because of checks and balances.

Here, one individual component of the FDA was compromised, but other checks-and-balances are coming to bear (namely, inclusion of Scientific Advisors in the review process, public records, and political accountability at the top).

When an unconstitutional law is passed, it's law. Until a court strikes it down. If an unconstitutional law is passed and then struck down by a court, that's not the system failing. That's individuals within the institution failing but the institution as a whole working exactly as intended.

> I'll put my hand up to perform ethically at my job and not allow regulatory capture.

But that's not what he asked you to volunteer for. He didn't ask you to perform ethically at a job. He asked you to actually go get a PhD, do a post-doc or two, and then turn down well-paying industry jobs to work at the FDA and get demonized all day. Which, speaking as someone who has turned down similar types of government jobs because I could make 5x in the private sector, is quite a bit more of a sacrifice than I think you realize. (This isn't meant to excuse unethical behavior, btw, it's just that your comment is literally not responsive to GP's and GP is exactly right -- those jobs suck and if we want fewer failures like this one maybe we, the people, as the employer, should be at least paying market rate.)
It is fundamentally a containerized build technology and people use it for that reason.

That might make it not have value for you, buts fundamental to the reason that those who use it do find it valuable.
> For those who use Matlab/Numpy regularly, you should definitely check it out.

May I ask how was transition like from Matlab/Numpy to Julia like did you migrate your work or start from the scratch using Julia?
See also:

Everyone's Airpods Will Die; Not Possible to Swap (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21194977
Our introvert family mostly enjoyed lockdown but we are six adults who get on very well with each other. We also really appreciated months of less traffic and fewer people at the store.

However, had our work been impacted, it would have been a very different experience. What did hit us was this year's 99% housing shortage (our rental was sold). Although we beat the very long odds, it was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.
A rotational symmetry implies conservation of angular momentum.
> Recent advances in amyloid imaging have made it possible to observe Aβ amyloid accumulation in the patient's brain. As a result, it has been found that there are many normal patients with amyloid deposits, and also AD patients with very few amyloid deposits (Edison et al., 2007; Li et al., 2008). [0]

How long is it going to take for the scientists who have built their career on the amyloid hypothesis to die out so new ideas can be investigated?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5797629/#s3titl...
Pretty early case of marketing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#Introduction_of_the_...
The Ramanujan Machine
It’s correct the same way “on accident” is correct.
You are right. I understood earnings as company earnings, as that is usually the meaning in the context of stocks. Now I realize you were talking about the stockholder’s earnings.
If you're interested in Firecracker, I wrote a summary of the original paper here: https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/06/17/firecracker-lightweig...
In .cz there's mapy.cz, BTW.
There's a "campaign to discredit cheap off patent alternatives" because they don't actually work and people are going out and poisoning themselves with pills made for horses.
In reality mail-in emergency authorized gene therapy related mortality-cases are extremely rare and the FDA and WHO are bastions of integrity and truth.
In fact, you will find that all the agents at the FDA have been secretly engaged in a campaign to "secure" the approval process, to protect our democracy and society from the evils of critical thought and reason.
There is some dispute about whether other, supposedly higher recorded temperatures were actually valid readings. Original long-form blog post here[1], and a summary taken from here[2] reads as follows:

"Burt wrote a detailed 2016 blog post at Weather Underground challenging the 1913 record at Death Valley, explaining that official readings of 134, 130, and 131 degrees Fahrenheit taken on July 10, 12, and 13, 1913 were likely the result of an inexperienced observer. In order for the 1913 Death Valley record to be decertified, though, an official World Meteorological Organization investigation committee would have to be assembled to look into the matter, a years-long process for which there is currently no motivation.

The only other temperature of at least 130 degrees Fahrenheit officially recognized by the World Meteorological Organization is a 131-degree reading at Kebili, Tunisia, set July 7, 1931, which is considered to be Africa’s hottest temperature.

Burt disputed this record: “I mentioned to the WMO about the Kebili temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit back in 2012, when asked what I thought the next hottest temperature in Africa (after Al Azzia) might be, since that was the only temperature over 130 degrees Fahrenheit that had an actual date attached to it. However, the Kebili ‘record’ is even more bogus than even the Al Azzia record, and I said so. Kebili is a relatively cool spot in Tunisia (an oasis) and never since the 1930s ever again recorded a maximum temperature above 118 degrees Fahrenheit. The WMO wanted something for their ‘Africa’ section at that time, and somehow the 131 degrees Fahrenheit made it into the database with no consideration of its validity whatsoever. Nowhere in Africa has any reliably observed temperature been measured above 126 degrees Fahrenheit.”"

1. https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/an-invest...

2. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/08/death-valley-cali...
I am literally forced to pay it. I am living on this planet, and Bitcoin is helping destroy it. I can not opt out of paying this price. You are literally forcing me to pay it.
I was sketching a syntax for python to work with pandas, and avoid extra annoying code, and surprisingly some of the elements and approaches I see in your code are similar. My syntax for subsetting was

df{\*, -column1}
df{column1: new_name1, column2, column3: new_name3}

I noticed in working with pandas you often need to do lookups into other dataframes. It's partially solved by assignment operator if left field equals right index, or .map method, the same way.

But often you need a lookup with merging by an arbitrary column, then grouping and aggregation by the left table items. This is partially doable without special functions. But this can be a killer feature if one makes this for spatial joins.

Very often you need to do the following:

gdf1 = geodataframe of points
gdf2 = geodataframe of points

need to make gdf1.geometry.buffer(500 m) and sjoin it with gdf2.geometry, then lookup gdf2 fields and bring them to gdf1, and keep original gdf1.geometry (points). This operation takes a dozen of lines and leaves lots of variable garbage if not put into a separate function.

But IMO it could be condensed to something more natively supported.
Not that bad workarounds. The N + 1 problem is usually not a big issue with ORM:s but one should the check the generated code I think. Seen far worse written code. (Well, if you don't do SELECT *...)

I have other issues with SQL:

The linear way resources are needed with the amount of data but no built in way to handle it.

That integer ids are way overused and basically locking every database to a specific environment.

The index tweaking.

The workarounds for write speed.

The fact that you can do anything in SQL and people know it.
I tried apple maps 2 years ago just because my android died and my wife pulled out her iphone.

It was on a tahoe trip to ski, we happened to hit a snowstorm that day. Apple Maps decided to optimize the route and suggested a better route through a friggin road that passed rather close to a ski station (could even look the name up).

We had a 4x4 and we were fine for the most part, but things got really bad when descending, started loosing traction and in one turn we actually slided and the snow stopped us on the edge of a cliff, not even exagerating.

To be 100% clear, this is entirely our fault. We should have been with chains from the very beginning. But it's still shocking to me Apple Maps would suggest such a freaking route in the middle of a snow storm. Would Gmaps have done the same? Probably?

Experience was bad enough to swear never open AMaps again.
They try really hard to hide the fact that it's yet another Linux distro
That might be the law, but that's irrelevant. The parent asserted that it's fair, not that it's lawful.

Check out the is-ought fallacy.
How reliable is that?
Richard Branson will ride own rocket to space
you suspect wrong. I've written Photoshop readers since 1993. They all still work. Photoshop has never broken their format
So are there problems with disabling overcommit? Or is it really that simple (at least for dedicated db hosts)?
Amazon hopes to track your sleep habits with radar
I don’t think Apple needs perfect coverage, just more than “parts of the USA and 10 major cities worldwide”.
This is very familiar to me. I can work a room but when that's done I want to be gone.
Growing up in Palm Springs I remember it breaking 120 all the time. For me these records seem like a particularly hot day in Palm Springs.
Fair enough regarding the people's consent. Looking at your subsequent comment you obviously know a lot more about the situation than I do. My mother was born in Hong Kong because my grandmother lived there for some years, but we barely have any connection to it.

(It is interesting that I can't tell from your comments whether you are arguing in support of the HK people or in support of the PRC. I find your writing curiously ambiguous on this.)

I would agree there was no people's consent in the usual meaning. But what my GP comment really means is a kind of passive consent of the people (along with active consent of the British government on their behalf), where the expressed anxieties and anger of the Hong Kong people were much more restrained in 1997 due to the Sino-British treaty and the adoption of the Hong Kong Basic Law, compared with what they would have been if they'd known China was going to dishonour those after signing them.

Even not considering consent, it looks clear to me that PRC has reneged on the high profile agreement it signed with Britain that was designed to protect the Hong Kong people and way of life as Britain departed.

From that I stand by my view that: "This should be borne in mind by anyone evaluating whether to trust China on any important agreement in future."

If I understand correctly: Although the Hong Kong Basic Law is a PRC national law as well as effectively the constitution of Hong Kong, it's existence and content is connected to the Sino-British treaty, and its adoption is a condition of the handover.

It cannot be regarded as an entirely "domestic" PRC thing, and it was not created by the PRC in isolation. There is ample evidence that the PRC no longer follows some fundamental tenets of the Basic Law (for example freedom of speech and freedom of assembly), and that now looks like a blatant contravention of the Sino-British treaty.

It looks to me like the situation is heading towards one where even if a resident has a BNO passport (a kind of British passport) and could theoretically move to Britain, they may be prevented from leaving Hong Kong by the PRC authorities.
I do wonder what percentage do you have to be in to have friends that have the same number of friends as you.
This is a good paper that talks about Aurora and provides some insight into how RDS operates: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.p...

It’s nice that AWS builds their own higher level abstractions on the same primitives outside developers use. Feels like they eat their own dogfood much more than Google where they bypass GCP and instead utilize underlying Borg primitives for many services.
Tesla finally begins shipping 'Full Self-Driving' beta version 9
Doesn’t sound too dissimilar to schools before the pandemic. They weren’t exactly libertarian paradises
Inspiring article (I love SQL, but it's also frustrating). My only wish would be to see the criticisms used as a checklist to evaluate SQL improvements or new query languages.

EdgeQL, indirectly linked at the end of the article, looks at a glance like it might score well. EdgeDB's blog post [1] criticizing SQL and introducing EdgeQL seems to cover the same concepts (inexpressive, incompressible, non-porous) with slightly differing language in some cases (e.g.. system cohesion for porousness).

Noticed after posting this comment that there's a post today about EdgeQL. [2]

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27793398
Redhat Spain or Redhat's Pain?
RetailMeNot.com has a decent hit rate for me (30-50%).

And surely you mean DuckDuckGo, not Google…
I’m in the opposite boat. What is this “wizard” you speak of?
Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)
CDC: Floodwater After a Disaster or Emergency
I've always thought it's always interesting to follow the accounting of the likes of greenpeace....
Several postings previously, but no discussion on any of them.
And if there are no problems, why is it not disabled by default?
That's brilliant marketing: find a cultural event that doesn't have established traditions in an area, and fill the void with your product. I wonder what might be some cultural vacuums waiting to be filled in the United States... I suppose one example might be how big Cinco de Mayo is in the US, and its association with margaritas.
Introversion has nothing to do with social skills or confidence. Being an introvert is not the same as being shy or awkward.

Introversion is a measure of what effect socializing has on you, and how comfortable you are being alone.

Extroverts dislike being alone, Introverts like it. Extroverts feel energized by social interaction, Introverts feel drained by it.

That's it. I'm tired of these ignorant "Introverts are just socially awkward and if they just went out more they would be cured" type takes.
A government agency requesting an investigation into its own actions from an inspector general is not that weird. It can happen for a variety of reasons.

Sometimes, the agency is confident that it handled things correctly, so they want an auditor to come in to prove it to the public and reassure everyone that nothing untold happened. Other times, the agency suspects internal wrongdoing but lack the resources to investigate it without disrupting their day-to-day operations. It can also be a political move from a presidential appointee when they suspect that the investigation will uncover that it was their predecessors fault.

At the end of the day, though, inspectors general have wide latitude to investigate what they choose. HHSOIG would probably have investigated this anyway, so it’s just a good PR move for the agency to invite the scrutiny.
> While millions do celebrate Christmas with KFC, others in Japan treat it as a romantic holiday similar to Valentine’s Day, and couples mark the occasion with dinner in upscale restaurants. For other Japanese families, Christmas is acknowledged but not celebrated in any particular way.

It seems strange at first, but it makes sense when you consider only about 1.5% of Japanese people are Christians. Christmas as we know it in countries with a Christian majority doesn't mean much to them.
Could you give a concrete example for such a check constraint?
I imagine each shape-table would need to have it's own check to test the existence of the same id in all other shape tables, which scales qudratically.

Or if you inverse the FK to make the user-table reference the shape tables you would need multiple potential nullable columns and a check constrain that exactly one is non-null. And it would still not solve the query side of things.
In brand new neighbourhoods, I've also found OSM much better than Google Maps. E.g., lots of new developments in Cambridge were extremely well annotated whereas Google Maps didn't even have streetnames. This is super helpful when you are shopping for a new property.
Maybe you're just better off not porting the STL :P
These are outside advisors, probably about 1/2 of them or more are academics as well as patient advocates, etc. They maybe paid some amount, but its not their primary income source.
It's worth noting that KFC in other countries is often better than the greasy mess we typically find in the US. Same with McDonald's in my experience as well.
You make it sound like Apple's efforts stop after announcing at WWDC. They do seem to be following through. The "new maps" were announced in 2018. They finished the continental US in January 2020 and since expanded to Canada, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Italy with the most previous update released last month.

Justin O'Beirne has followed Google/Apple maps in detail for years https://www.justinobeirne.com/

Forbes is an American business magazine and the author covers cover security and surveillance. So I wouldn't think his advice is meant for everyone.
Lambda gets you back to the one request per process model that made php so easy to reason about and performance flat. With normally deployed JavaScript and single process concurrency, callbacks could all complete at same time and all block waiting to get cpu time to complete the request.
Just because there is a bigger threat doesn't mean this isn't still a threat. And it's better to address an issue before it becomes insurmountable. Imagine if we'd taken global warming seriously 50 years ago. Who knows how bad the plastic problem will be in 50 years? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
US Intelligence Agency Photoshops Cover Photo of Diversity Report
>An EO is not going to change precedent or case law about what is considered a restraint of trade by the supreme court

Based on the quote from the FTC, it doesn't need to.

The Supreme Court said that something must be "unreasonable" to be a restraint of trade.

Declaring something to be unreasonable is not modifying the criterion set forth by the courts one iota.

If the door is open, drive a truck through it.
Good point, 5 minutes at 100C is nothing like spending all day at 50C.