skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If sortition is used to select the members of a second legislative chamber, then we would expect the randomly chosen set of people to have the same average intelligence as the general population. This chamber would have the right to veto and suggest changes to legislation, but not initiate it or unilaterally change any laws.

Just as politicians may not be experts in the specific areas that they legislate on, the members of this second chamber would have the right to ask for input from specialists. This could be seen as an extension of the right that juries have in some states to ask questions of expert witnesses.

Even if, in practice, the second chamber end up mostly listening to advisers (or lobbyists) provided by the existing political parties, they would at least have to hear a variety of opinions, let's say in proportion to the partisan leanings of that chamber. This would eliminate gerrymandering and other problems like campaign financing.
To me, the interesting thing is not the specific results but rather that you can accurately predict crystal structures from sequence alone. This begets the question: what other physical biological properties can we predict?
> Actual socialist politics are not permitted in US discourse

We have multiple socialists elected to US Congress.
> Honestly, what is happening there?

Despite HN being explicitly not a venue for politics, enough of the userbase has de-facto decided it should be. This of course invites all the sort of internet antics that come with politics which HN users in the past have decried and claimed that the lack of here makes it a more pleasant place in general.

That's when you find these otherwise normal accounts, acting up, accounts that exist solely for flamebating, drive by throwaways attempting to derail threads, etc. And since HN is primarily user-moderated (ironically despite what a subset of the previously described types often insinuate), these sort of behavior can become encouraged if enough people agree the the text or subtext of such comments.
Funny but something similar happened to me as well even though not with a trading account. We tried to open an account (I have excellent credit) and they flagged it for "fraud" or whatever. Then they can't figure out how to return my money. Took like a few times of going in person to finally get my money back. One of the shittest banking experiences I ever had and I have dealt with some really shitty banks. TD takes the cake so far.
> high heat-to-light ratio

Sorry for the ignorance but what does this mean?
Browse /r/ppc or /r/adops on reddit, or browse the big slack and discord channels for marketers and there's a lot of panicked posts.
Don't do this.

It will create various problems when next engineer adds some business logic, another one adds some stored procedures....
thesausageking replied with the link but I moved the comment to the top of the page so everyone gets it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27849027)
Hanlon's Razor has a counter law, Gray's Law (or Clark's Law):

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".

If responsible people are blind to the problem, and claim incompetence, they're probably profiting from it.
Sure, never planned to pour everything into the startup, just some funding to launch and show more traction, then raise a round, or switch to another idea. Makes it possible to iterate more quickly and try more things, but yeah I will need to pay rent and still will have to get a job if my ventures won't be successful, so not much changes?
After they break a bunch working out the kinks I bet hundreds and dozens will be realistic.
It's not a random person. It's a person who did something mafia didn't want him to do and was killed because of that. So basically mafia can dictate what you are allowed to do and kill you if you don't obey. Doesn't sound like a safe environment, does it?
I've worked low-wage jobs and stopped the gas pump before my tank is full because I can't afford more. It's still way lower-stress than high school. It's not even close.
The moment liberals got in bed with technology corporations they almost immediately requested opposition views be scrubbed from the internet. It reveals how weak their ideas are.
Like others have said, it really depends on the game for me. I have the Oculus Quest 2 and some games (Beat Saber, Half Life: Alyx) are fine, but some like Star Wars Squadrons make me really nauseous.
According to this answer[0] it seems it's actually NP-Hard, my bad. Haven't seen the proof though, and I'm not an expert.

[0] https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/128493/is-protein-fol...
> Investment serves an economy by allowing production to happen to meet demand. It's not something we need to encourage particularly hard because it has a built-in profit motive.

Which is why billionaires invest. For a profit. We are on the same page.

GP post, on the other hand, was making the nonsense argument that our problem is billionaires reducing demand by investing money instead of spending billions on consumption.
I'd simply prefer if all services became paid.
Based on my experience, people wanting to play games which are over 20 years old are much more of a niche crowd than those using beefy GPUs. Obviously, few people have RTX 3080/3090 levels of investment, but based on Steam statistics, mid-tier cards from a few years back like the GTX 1060, RTX 2060/2070, and RX 580 are all near the top of the most recent steam surveys.
Unfortunately we are bleeding talent because our national market is really bad.
It'd be great if clients could be completely untrusted, but the reality is that it's impractical--if not impossible--to have the server dictate what's visible. Games rely on client-side rendering to determine if you can see something. In milliseconds-matter FPS games, there's no way that the server can calculate whether you can see someone poke their head around the corner or whether you're using wall hack to see them in advance. Human reaction time is way too fast, and even great networking is too slow for that to be effective, even if there were enough computing power server-side to run all the numbers. I can't even think of a way that things like aimbots could be prevented server-side; it's hard enough just to detect them.
I wondered why they didn't go for the same style as their Steam controllers with the concave pads.
You initially called me something, then added the link to the Irish newspaper, then removed the entire text of the original comment.

I did add and clarify, but not remove.
> That can be reasonably done at the end of a session or even weekly.

At the end of a session might be reasonable cryptographically, but isn't really reasonable in terms of application development; you don't consistently get to have use CPU and network when a session ends and you may not get access again until a new session begins. A weekly trigger is more likely to be practical, but that may not work consistently either. Better to do the ratchetting as you're doing the messaging to guarantee it gets done.
> "Possibly, but they only need them on initial request I think."

I don't see how this is going work.

If this is data the backend needs the client is either going to have to send it out on every request (like it does today with the User-Agent header) - or the client will only send it out once, and the response would be cached by the backend somehow. The requirement to cache this data on the backend is non-trivial to implement and is a huge paradigm shift. That's actually another pitfall with the RFC in a sense.

> It doesn't commit the exact same info though. This says "the client is aware of this scheme and doesn't reply, vs the client is unaware of the rfc. It's the true/false/none issue."

This doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

The "scheme" is what we make it out to be. If the scheme would allow for omitting headers (as it should have) - then the client would be in compliance with the scheme, wouldn't it?

By designing an RFC which allows for omitting headers we actually resolve the ambiguity between "false" and "none": the data is either explicitly there, or it's not.

I'm simply claiming that the scheme as currently proposed is nonsensical and negligent. At Chrome's scale - I expect each proposal to introduce more headers and data to every request to be very carefully weighed against impact on global bandwidth consumption and resource utilization (and energy use). I don't feel like any of that is reflected in this RFC, which is an absolute shame and a big part of the problem: we keep piling up more crap thinking "it doesn't really make a difference". I think it reflects poorly on the people involved with designing and building this.

Perhaps we should mandate providing these numbers explicitly with every RFC so that we can know how much the implementation actually "costs" in terms of bandwidth, memory, etc at the web's scale. This should help identify RFCs like this one which are seriously off on the engineering side of things.
Yes! Reminds me of how my great uncle used to talk and talk and talk after family reunions until one time, I sat there and I think did exactly that, I slapped my hands on my lap, said, "Ok! I'm tired, I'm gonna head to sleep." And he seemed to snap out of his story and we all got up to go to bed. I had been feeling frustrated because he just kept going and my parents had been falling asleep but no one said anything.

I agree nonverbals can often help by themselves or even as a starter to more verbal communication in these situations. Thanks for posting this :-)

*edit: and my great uncle wasn't trying to harm us, he just liked to talk and probably just got caught up in the moment, not realizing how much he was talking :-)
I thought they were made before life had figured out how to digest cellulose.
The biggest mistake of the ML field is its metaphorical naming. So many people seem to be taking Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks etc literally. They don't do this for other concepts in coding (eg for an absurd example, no one is arguing we ride a CPU "bus" to work), but with ML algos its a free-for-all. Grandiose naming conventions might be good for extracting VC money but it's also seriously confusing people.
Good to know. Didn't know H.261 had it. I know MPEG4 (H.264) has it. MPEG4 was like coming out in 1990s/2000s? It's pretty old. But the idea is the same for all newer codecs. They just have different ways to chop up a frame into blocks and do shifting at the block level.
If the legal prices were very cheap, this might work. Do I have to attend a class once, or every time I want to get something? If it’s too onerous many might still use the black market and you haven’t solved the problem. The devil is in the details.
There is a lot of bias in the chat here from a more chemistry and pharma slant. If you ignore this AlphaFold solves in a very meaningful way the problem blocking a lot of science investigation.

For comparative and evolutionary analysis structure is far more conserved than sequence. Especially in things like viruses or anything with a high rate of reproduction like bacteria. Just knowing the general fold or overall structure is enough to do structural alignment and tell if two genes are related on that basis, even if their genomic sequence is completely dissimilar. Large groups of researchers rely on sequence homology built from sequences of known structure.

But AlphaFold works well in new sequence space to far more accuracy than is needed. If we had an AlphaFold prediction for every known sequence suddenly the evolutionary relationships between all genes and even all species would be far clearer. This on its own unlocks a new foundation to reason about function and molecular interaction with a wholistic systems view without gaps in what we can know with some reasonable assurance.

For an analogy think of the difference between having books in different languages describing objects. You know what some of the book in English might say but you dont even know if the book in Spanish is even talking about the same things. AlphaFold is like an AI that transforms all the books into picture books and now we can use image similarity or have one person look at all pictures.
Indeed. So-called "country folk" are a serious minority, and if the right in the US had to rely on rural voters exclusively for support they'd never win an election.

For sure, there's a right wing voting block that might see itself as "salt of the earth" or "country folk" or "common sense"; but it's just an ideological package held together with shoestring and old gum made out of old school nativism, pro-life stuff, and an appeal to a sense of lost opportunity.

And I grew up in rural Alberta, Canada, oil country heartland of "country folk" in Canada, the Texas of Canada, and I live rural now, too. It's never been the case that all "country folk" vote right or hold right wing opinions, even if a sizable chunk do.

I do think "city folk" hold some pretty stereotyped views of rural life though.
Musk has stated it's SpaceX intention to create methane from the CO2 in the air, powered by solar panels. (Basically the same technology they want to use on Mars to produce the return trip propellant)

Burning the methane will of course release CO2 back into the atmosphere, but if they indeed make the methane by pulling CO2 from the air, it would effectively make Starship (the fuel anyway) carbon neutral.

(I guess actually it's a bit carbon negative because some of the engine burn will happen in space).
They aren't going anywhere. They are, along with Google, scared of the current head of the FTC. They claim she is biased.

"scared" is the wrong word for these powerful companies. She is probally the last thing Mark is worried about. Does he even have worries at this point?
Here's some background on the proof [1]. Here's a video explaining it little better [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvOZm0d4H0
Forcing is about a completely different question.

The question is not where there are reals between reals, it's a question of the size of sets. In particular is there a set strictly larger than the natural numbers, but strictly smaller than the reals? Forcing allows us to construct such a set in ZFC.
This has been the appeal behind Phoenix LiveView for me.
If you want to call them that, sure.
This is a link to the full speech: https://youtu.be/O613tUE2X3o?t=630

The video is her speaking about what limitations on political speech is appropriate for Facebook to impose. Facebook is not a government, Facebook is not in a position to make things like violent threats or incitement legal, even if they wanted to.

This is about what legal speech should be allowed on Facebook.
A First Principles Anecdote – How I Avoided Burnout at Amazon
>>For clients that are coming out of school, the project section is often a large portion of the document. For people with a few years of experience, the project section tends to slip down the resume towards the end, and eventually falls off entirely. Experienced professionals with a projects section are usually trying to demonstrate skills they developed outside their day job

Thank you for writing so succinctly what I wanted to say.

Agree with this 100%. When I was starting out my career, my personal projects were on the top of my resume. Now that I have experience, my personal projects get omitted or only added at the bottom of the resume if they're relevant to the position.
Yeah, it'll be great once it starts rolling out. It'll just take a long time.

Right now it seems like the only people deploying it are paid services (which, IMO, shouldn't be legal. We shouldn't have to share public broadcast frequencies with private corps).
Actually, I thought it was very easy to understand. For instance,

> Fortunately, 2,000 MW of energy storage capacity is coming online by August 1, per the California Public Utility Commission. Much of this capacity will have four hours of battery energy sitting behind it, nearly 8,000 MWh in total.

That's 2 GW of power delivery backed by 8 GWh of storage.
It’s trying to say light is more valuable than heat, or some such folksy thing. I cook steak in the dark so I don’t find it to be a very insightful metaphor.
I ended up tracking down the tweet thread and every single subthread I read had nothing meaningful to share. There were no insights to glean.

I get this sense from a lot of people in security: smart enough to follow conventional advice, too uneducated to explain why.

This password manager will almost certainly generate basically anything that will get hashed and salted in the end, so it’s all irrelevant as long as it’s basically not outputting passwords from exposed lists, and even then it’s still mostly irrelevant.

I have never once heard of particular passwords being an issue in the industry outside of social engineering or common password lists. Completely irrelevant. It’s almost always data breaches.

Never does it hit the news that 3.5 million password were cracked due to hackers reverse engineering the time the accounts were created against popular password managers.

What nonsense.

If you simply generated a password from /dev/urandom, it would have almost as much consequence as whatever they’re doing here.

Edit: The source article referenced is the only thing meaningful, which explains the severity, everyone else commenting on it was a dope.
Time Trouble Misery
I downvoted you. Not because I disagree, but because I too believe your arguments are in bad faith and/or misrepresenting the positions of those you disagree with.

> It's funny that the party of "my body my choice" is so against people wanting a say over what goes into their bodies.

Unlike anti-abortion laws which force women to take pregnancies to term against their will, I am aware of zero proposed legislation that aims to force people into vaccination against their will. The one potential exception to this is for entry to public schooling, for which religious exemptions are (generally but not always) easy to come by.

If not bad faith or misrepresentation, then what?

> Also regarding election fraud, when on election night you see charts like [1] with enormous one party spikes, it is entirely natural for people to be suspicious. Those people then asked for audits and were told to go to hell.

It is reasonable for people to be suspicious. But far from being told to go to hell, people have been given repeated and convincing evidence for why these spikes occur (blue votes tending to cluster in high-density, high-population districts). There was even ample discussion in advance of the election about how, where, and when we expected these spikes to occur, why they're expected, and demonstrating their historical precedent.

Some people still demanded investigations of fraud. Most of those claims were dismissed through official processes due to lack of evidence. Being denied an investigation into claims that have been repeatedly debunked is not being told to go to hell. In fact some of those claims were investigated, but essentially zero systemic fraud has been found to date.

If not bad faith or misrepresentation, then what?
Wow, you probably have the best garbage-truck-run around here, then. Well, it probably is a lot of hanging and little garbage-hauling!
A great example here with the archive link sitting atop this thread to allow us all to skip past the paywall.
Cool project! Will definitely 'invest' some money.

However, are the repayments by the entrepreneurs also required to pay the 5% service fee? This new pay it forward models seems mostly to be a way to keep all the money in the system and slowly make it yours via the 5% fee. I don't see what the benefit of this model is towards the lender. Or am I misunderstanding it?
Individually, or independently, axioms have no truth value. But when you put together a system of multiple axioms, they can contradict eachother. I see no problem with the question of whether the continuum hypothesis is true, given ZFC as a precondition. All we are asking is if the axiom contradicts ZFC. Axiom independence is very similar to operator commutation in quantum mechanics.
Incandescent light bulbs are generally very inefficient in producing light, compared to LED for example. They produce a lot of heat and not much light for which they are made.

So in this context I suppose that gp implies that these threads don't provide much meaningful discussion but rather lots of hand waving.
The obligatory comment to these posts is always "check out PostgREST". We use it for all frontend api's. Combined with Node or any other middleware, we add additional code if everything can't be done in plpgsql, but requests are usually just passed straight through Node.
Online ID / age verification: the death of online search
And then there will be a new set of rich and powerful, cloaked in the robes of the new ideology, and wielding its power to destroy their enemies and solidify their hold on power. Including many of the people who led the last revolution. We see it pretty much every single time.
True, planning for life and tax stuff does seem like a more distinctly helpful service. I have no connections in the financial advisory space, but in general I'd be open to discussing this kind of idea further.
It's easy to see how pro abortion can be a decision based on money. So it might be considered a practical decision.

The opposite position could be practical in certain societies. A Mexican parent would encourage having the baby. In other areas with more traditional values it might be more practical.

Whatever position you have could be moral or practical or cyclical or spiritual.
The other option of "what you can give" is "give up using the service". That is, if you don't want ads, if you don't want to be tracked, and you don't want to mine crypto, the remaining option is to not use the service. If you insist on none of the first three, the service providers will eventually force the fourth option on you.

Or, as continuational said, you will have to pay for it.
James Gunn Nearly Blew Up His Career. Now He’s Back with ‘The Suicide Squad’
One of the major reasons people play PC games is mouse and keyboard are way better than joystick. I don't see myself playing PC games on a handheld.
A book management software to track the books I have borrowed from the libraries in my city by automatically syncing with the library account via the online catalog of the library. It is the worst project ever

I am hardly getting any users. The people who go to the library, do not know about my software. The people who randomly find my software, do not go the library in my German city. I tried to add other libraries in other cities, but I cannot really do that without traveling to that city to get a library card there. The librarians refuse to talk about it, because it also warns people about the due dates, and they want people to miss the due dates to raise more late fees.

It took like 15h / week for 15 years. It takes a massive amount of time, because every time the library changes their webpage, I need to make an update to read the webpage. Especially since I can only see the change, when I have borrowed a book from them. When they are in other cities, I can spend entire weeks writing mails to the library to ask what they have changed, and not getting any answer

But there are still some people using it, otherwise I could have abandoned the project ten years ago. Now I cannot get rid of it
Lmfao, I definitely didn't expect to see someone brown nosing the beastie boys today. I've finally seen it all.
The fact that the poster is considering selling their house to fund a startup would seem to indicate they do not have a good pile of savings to fall back on.
What are the most biggest challenges with frontend/backend hand-off? I'm exploring this area to build products, so curious to hear what you and your team experience.