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There are quite a large number of well regarded universities and hospitals. In addition, Under Armour and a few other Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Baltimore.

Baltimore is a cool town. People have a perception of it based on national media, and don’t get me wrong, it has it’s share of issues, but every city does. It is one of the quirkiest, weirdest cities in the US. It is not quite a northern city and not quite southern either.
> I tried to join the purism Gitlab group or something ha don't know what happened there.

Purism to my knowledge uses that for development, not tech support. They also tend to not give accounts to their gitlab unless they know who you are (i.e. a Pinephone dev, active on their Matrix Channel, etc.)

I think your best bet, depending on the underlying issue, is to hop on the Matrix channel for help.
I've worked with 10-K's and 8-K's extensively for the purposes of using them for NLP. This is extremely arduous work and a clear winner in terms of profitable ideas, so kudos to the team for the launch, this is really impressive.

Perhaps this is giving a bit too much away in terms of the secret sauce, but would love if you could talk a bit about how you handle the wild disparities in the structure of the documents. Do you parse the XBRL?
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A gravimeter is not a stick.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/instruments/gra...
- The paddings are all seemingly arbitrary.

- The proportions are inconsistent.

- There are way too many icons; I generally dislike this Linux GUI convention that every button must have an icon on the left. These icons add no information, they just make the whole thing look more busy.

- Sometimes there are shadows, but sometimes there aren't. You have to pick one or the other. And if you pick the other, you'd want borders because there needs to be a visual hierarchy either way.

- Sharp corners and small shadows don't work well together.

I'm not a designer, I'm a developer, but I've seen way too many people make these same mistakes when designing UIs.

Gnome does look more polished, and it's maybe nice to use with a touchscreen, but they're being weird by optimizing everything for touchscreens yet positioning it as a laptop/desktop DE.
Sequoia: A deep root in Linux's filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)
Gopuff's Major Expansion
Imagine the article was about a right wing anti-trans activist. The criticism would be that the NYT was providing a platform to someone that doesn’t deserve it.

But this water witch is clearly a fraud. They are giving a platform to someone who does not deserve it because that are ripping off people. They are humanizing a fraudster.
Square is a public company. Not a startup by any means.
Mistakes to avoid during your Product Hunt launch
I generally agree with everything, but thought I would just use this as a springboard into a related topic:

> What’s the difference between a “bug” and “defect”? Well, one’s a bug and the other’s a defect, duh!

This kind of issue is common but I'm not sure how to avoid it. Any group of people > 1 will start to use their own lingo, which often is made up of similar words from "outside" but have different connotations. This is true in science, medicine, software engineering, law, everywhere.

(I mean, why would I search for "bug"? Like, I'm searching for problems with computer code, not insects!)

This phenomenon unfortunately leads to misunderstandings with the general public, which leads to mistrust. Part of it is on scientists (and lawyers...) to be clearer in their communication, but I think it is also on the public to recognize that when reading scientific literature they are not the intended audience and are therefore missing a ton of context that is not explicitly stated.

Also:

>I’m sure this is slightly easier if you’re deeply embedded in academia

Also depends on the field. Chemistry has SciFinder, which although very expensive for institutions, is very good. It is fairly specific to chemistry though (and some overlapping fields).

His process for finding node papers and grinding through citations is pretty much how most scientists do it, though. And conferences.
That's interesting. Most of the WP cache plugins I've seen handle that by bypassing the cache for logged in users.
No it was not. The Civil War was about states wanting to abolish federal laws they didn't support such as those that impinged upon the right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wanted to(see Western Expansion.) How could that be considered anything but "misbehavior"? Secession was simply the byproduct of this.
True. Crap now is better than a good product later.

And I don't have customers, but deal with this with my product manager. He just won't stop adding stuff to the backlog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear...

While routine transportation of nuclear devices by air is a different ballgame than, say, Operation Chrome Dome, there isn't exactly a stellar record to look back to.
But there has been space tourism since the 00's. For the right amount of money anyone could ride a Soyuz rocket.
It might also become worse. It seems to me that GitHub has opened themselves (well, this Copilot thing anyway) up to a form of DoS attack: Just imagine what might happen if a bunch of people opened up a number of public repos filled with utter crap?

Not suggesting anything, here, just musing on a possibility.
I make apps and nearly everyone says, "I have a great app idea." Not a one has checked if this idea exists. I had to send a friend this article as he is fairly blunt but wants to dump ideas a lot. Your response is a good one for most people.
I suspect, but could be wrong, that the people in your circles are busy on other things and would not have the cycles to steal your idea.

Also, it is my experience that others often don't see the merit of your idea as clearly as you do, don't see the end-result that is so clear in your mind.
Cool, good to know! thanks for the reply
Bacteria enlisted in French push for rare earths autonomy
A human with stick (in the colloquial sense, they ones used by Dow sets) would absolutely not be able to perceive the differences in gravity with/without the presence of underground water. The signal to noise ratio would be too high to know the difference. In that sense I don’t think it’s too much of a exaggeration to say it defies the law of physics IMO
Right, this is a publicity stunt more than a demonstration of useful technology.

My suspicion is that Amazon is angling for a suborbital (Earth-to-Earth) delivery platform with "space" tourism as a side gig, while Branson is going full hog for "space" tourism and Musk is focusing on delivery to orbit. Of the three, going to orbit is definitely the most interesting and technologically advanced, and the others are just meant to get investors excited.
I was listening to an interview with John Greene, the author of A Fault in Our Stars and the excellent The Anthroposcene Reviewed podcast.

He talked about how one of his books basically sat on the shelf for ages (possibly a year), he just couldn't get the idea to work, until one day he came back to it and figured it out. People massively underestimate how much work it takes to turn an idea for a story into a working novel with a coherent plot and characters.

In sci-fi and fantasy I think this is particularly obvious. There's a lot of sci-fi that has an interesting idea or concept at it's heart, but the actual story just falls flat. I think it's why short stories are often a better format for sci-fi ideas.

Similarly I've encountered a lot of fantasy that was all about world-building but where the book itself just went nowhere. World building is kind of easy compared to actually writing a novel with a compelling story. It seems to be common for aspiring fantasy authors to spend years doing the former and never getting round to the latter.
There's still lots of non Military / Fed stuff! And it's getting better.

https://www.sparkpost.com/
https://www.cloudtamer.io/
https://www.contrastsecurity.com/

A few off the top of my head. I'm currently working (remotely) for a BigCo that acquired my startup employer last year.

Technical.ly can be a good resource for local postings. I've worked as a SWE in Baltimore for 10 years and have never had employment issues. I don't quite make SV money, but I make solid 6 figures and can afford a very nice home on just my salary and send my kids to private school, etc.
That theft happens now. Small fish cannot compete with big fish without risking getting eaten alive.

You think one pathetic patent would stand up against a FAANG’s warchest, if they really wanted to implement it? They will use your idea and bury you with their own patent portfolio, unless you license it under terms that are generous and favorable to their interests. If you want to play hardball, they will use their lawyers to drown you in legal debt before a judge ever hears the case.

In this light, it should be clear that innovation has been completely crushed under the heel of the present system of fascist corporatism. Eliminating patents will not solve that overarching problem, though we know such an outcome would never be permitted to happen. Patent pools do not solve it, as that sacrifices the autonomy and independence that is the very essence of being a small fish.
But you do realize, most technological advancement is done by the government right? Government investment in tech surpasses VC funding by a lot.
I would think that TERFs etc cause and contribute to a significantly larger amount of human suffering than water dousers, though.
I'm an atheist. But this is perhaps a trickier issue than it might seem at first glance.

Yes, the claims of "water witches" are objectively untrue.

In a very real sense, it is fraudulent to charge for such "services."

However, the supernatural claims of any religion are equally untrue. And just about any major organized religion expects money from its followers either directly or indirectly in terms of donations, tithing, tax breaks, etc. In an objective sense these practices are all just as fraudulent as a "water witch" charging for their services.

And this is where the trickiness arises - do we want to single out some religions for debunking, while allowing others' claims to go unquestioned?

I don't like the idea of marks forking over money for these fraudulent water dowsing services provided by "water witches", nor the idea of a publication like the NYT lending any credence whatsoever to such antiscience.

But I'm also not in love with giving established world religions a free pass while picking on the smaller and less centralized religions. It's not too long ago that we literally burned "witches" here in America, and unfortunately it is common throughout history.
I remember that the scientific game "Fold It" was also quite exciting when it came out 12-13 years ago or so, since populations of players could get results beyond what either specialists or computer systems could achieve. I guess one could argue that an AI such as this could be compared to a large automated population of trained players trying to solve a 3D puzzle.
Oh, wow! Who are the idiots that will pay $200/mo for this?!
This isn’t a brutalist site just because it has little color.
There's another strategy that works better than searching for a keyword, which is to read the article.

It's about the difficulty/expense of systematically and scientifically studying the software development process (e.g. finding out what data actually exists to support the claim that "a bug is cheaper to squash when it is caught during the specification process").

The title expresses frustration not at science itself, but at how needlessly difficult this process is, since both the secondary and primary academic literature surrounding it are of extremely low quality.
Exactly, plus all major cloud provider will happily host a kubernetes cluster for you if you ask them with your money. In a previous project, we managed more than 20 clusters on Azure (AKS) and AWS (EC2) with 4 people. The only tool that made this possible was kubernetes.

I've been running my own kubernetes cluster on a Raspberry pi. Does my cat count as an engineering team?
Regarding the point about "freedom to do whatever you want to your property" - how does that fit with the rules that condo boards, home owner associations, and other relevant groups place on owners in their "jurisdiction".

I agree with you on your points, I have this rent-vs-buy mental agonising every few months. I'm just curious what folks are doing - if freedom is the key value, then basically you buy land somewhere where the least amount of people can harass you, and hope property prices and crime/services are at levels one can tolerate.
Another shallow clickbait article from substack, purposely lying about the tone of the article for clicks.
Let me clarify, my point is neither about their wealth or expertise. I'm simply pointing out that this could be a similar point in time for future commercial travel; focusing on their wealth is beside the point. Or it could fizzle out...
A lil' bit of both actually!
Why pay $1400 when you can get the same results for free?

Do you hire a lottery number picker service?
Except for bigger, better more efficient engines :

Although Raptors are a great achievement, their design if used alone is not made for bigger loads. SpaceX is stacking them now for larger ships. Hopefully the whole system will prove reliable on higher flights, and a different design won't be needed.
Polish "computer-related people" can come out well even without graduating. This doesn't say much about universities.

Let me put this way: I know people who graduated in Computer Science, in Poland, who can't program. Not in some particular language; they can't write programs, they just don't quite get the idea.
the biggest concern and reason to pump the brakes on copilot is the unresolved elephant in the room: the growing consensus that it violates FOSS licenses.
First ever since the concept was created (..checks notes..) 1 month ago?
Thanks a lot for your effort. Especially the last feature. I had personally made some modifications to mupdf on my machine for doing this, and add annotations using shortcut keys. But MacOS Catalina somehow screwed up my GL, and it renders the page very oddly, so it no longer works. This reader seems great.
It has been possible for 20 years now! Dennis Tito was the first, he went into orbit as a civilian/tourist in 2001, Mark Shuttleworth in 2002, ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Adventures#Clients_who_h...
The thing that amuses me is that if SpaceX can make Starship and the Heavy booster work, they could actually come up with a tourism/joyride that would blow these piffling jumps by Branson and Bezos into irrelevance.

If you can send 50-100 people on an actual orbiting jaunt, perhaps a night in 'space rocket hotel', rich folk would gladly pay millions, which makes the business case a lot more compelling.

Then they'd just need to get environmentally-friendly methane production going and we can all be a bit happier.
I think what they're calling the both-sides treatment is misnamed to make it sound better than it is. One quote from each side isn't an equal treatment of both sides, it's a biased treatment towards the side with less to say.
"Square, Inc. is a financial services company, not a bank. "
Our annotation process has been manual so far, but we are working on building something to make it more efficient :-)
We see our solution as an AI-powered assistant for qualitative research that makes the job of an analyst much easier, and don't see it as 'replacing' humans for the foreseeable future.
Since it is down, wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210720134229/https://ably.com/...
> Do you have thoughts on creating peer-to-peer systems that don't enable surveillance capitalism?

Yes, it's call TOR. However, legislation is where we should start. Crippling/abandoning an incredibly useful technology which works very well just because it's often used nefariously seems to be a bit of an overreaction.

Until then, stop using social platforms, use an ad blocker, and use VPN if you really care about "surveillance capitalism".
I don't think that does make it clear that it's BS, unless you come from a very particular pro-science mindset that's common in our circles but far from universal. You'll note that quote is immediately followed by two wineyard managers explaining how their professional experience suggests the scientists are wrong. I'm confident a substantial number of people would read this article and see it as an example of scientists ignoring the value of practical experience and traditional wisdom.

Compare something like their Aduhelm article from today (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/health/alzheimers-drug-ad...). The NYT isn't quite insulting Biogen, true, but they're being much more confrontational and not giving Biogen any space to frame the story how they might prefer.
>While I was at a family wedding a few weeks ago, one of my aunts asked me, “So, what’s the hardest part about designing a game? It must be coming up with the ideas, right?”

The hardest part in running a business is finding customers. Going by that logic, the hardest part in game design (and entertainment in general) is finding an audience. The biggest risk is that you end up making a perfect game with the best ideas possible that only you want to play. You can also do the opposite. Design a game trying to appeal to everyone and thereby having no audience whatsoever. Although liked by many, it's quality will be poor.
At the very least, they will have perspectives and sensibilities which are possibly representative of a different group of people that can be enlightening and can broaden the interests of regular museum goers.
A similar explanation, the "ideomotor effect," has been put forward for the Ouija board and several other divination techniques that sometimes seem to do better than chance or produce other kinds of "spooky" results.

The idea is that you have subconscious thought processes, sensory awareness, or knowledge, and when you put yourself into an observation/motor feedback loop this subtile cognition can influence fine motor responses which are then amplified by feedback as you observe your own movements. You're putting weak neural "noise" through a feedback amplifier, but the noise is not random and could contain information. There is no way to control for this because the test is not blind.

It's become popular in recent years to chase "chains of synchronicity." A very entertaining semi-documentary about this can be found here:

https://www.hellier.tv

There's even an app for it called Randonautica.

A very similar phenomenon could be at work in that. It might start with subconsciously biased paradolia and as you follow a "chain of synchronicities" you are running an amplification and filtration feedback loop similar to what happens when you watch a planchette move across a Ouija board or watch a dowsing rod move. You've grabbed a set of weak neural signals and amplified them.

It's not supernatural but it might be neurologically and cognitively interesting. I've had the intuition for a long time that all creativity probably involves processes like this. An artist or a musician doesn't just emerge with a fully formed work from nowhere. They "noodle around..."

BTW...

Hellier is a great bit of independent film. I've compared it to the cult sci-fi film "Primer" in terms of quality, originality, and creativity on a shoestring budget, and if you liked that film you'll probably like it. Also heard it described by someone as "like Ghost Hunters or Paranormal State but for thinking people." It's a fun ride if you suspend disbelief. There's a scene in season two where a practicing witch uses a transcranial magnetic stimulation device to try to talk to aliens. It's worth it just for that, gives it a hint of "post-cyberpunk."

Edit:

Has anyone ever experimented with these techniques as a cognitive or creativity enhancer without the "woo woo" assumptions? Treat it like a brain hack to get at subconscious thought processes, sort of like what you can do with psychedelics but without the drugs.
The healthcare industry does a lot of really shady things, but you're picking the worst example.

No doubt drugs could be cheaper, but denying pharma an incentive to ever develop them is not the answer. Of course manufacturing is cheap, but the research and clinical trials are expensive and have to be paid for somehow. Focusing on only the manufacturing costs is a bizarre combination of dumb and disingenuous.
Best HN comment ever
I had this discussion with my team at one point. Most of them were fairly early career and believed they just needed a great idea. I believe the opposite. Ideas are cheap. Execution is very very hard.

My example for a long time was that Netflix for video games is a great idea. At some point we will be able to "rent" or "use" games for a low monthly few instead of buying video games. It's happened with most other media and the large hurdle is figuring out copyright and logistics. But someone will come along with that knowledge and make it happen eventually.

We're about 4 years from that conversation with my team and I believe Netflix announced they are going to get into the videogame space recently.
- Format strings, are you thinking about string interpolation or?

- A module isn't a file in C3 but that's a deep subject to get into.

- Automatic C header file import is something Zig is also touting as a feature. This was something I thought I would want early on. But as I worked myself through examples I find that it's hard to get right in all cases, which means that you'll run into cases where your language "almost" works. Plus now you actually tied your language not only to the C ABI, but the entire C standard (note how headers will for example contain static inline code that you will need to parse, or macros that define aliases of functions and builtins). That said a tool to automatically extract a "best effort" interface is planned.

- Regarding macros the difficulty has been to balance power with readability. So that is something which I am considering but still haven't quite embraced. Instead I have macros taking unevaluated expressions and you can in compile time get different things, e.g. `$offsetof("Foo", "a")` will give you the offset of the member `a` in the type `Foo`, but it's done through a special function rather than allowing straight up string interpolation. We'll see once the standard library work starts for real.
It's so funny that we fall into that trap, because Google and Facebook both usurped previous services in their domains. What's interesting is that there is a different category of ideas that is just "Facebook but slightly different" that genuinely won't succeed - but people tend to pursue those ideas more frequently, because they have seen proper execution lead to success, often missing that the proper execution was what mattered, not Facebook as an idea.
There are 1000s of SHOW HN. But a fraction of them get attention. So does that mean the idea was worthless and the person went ahead spending time building it? No, the person who builds always finds it fascinating. It may not become a hit. But you can't say the idea is worthless. It is a lottery. Only few make it. The magic is about doing the best you can on the idea you like and leave it to the audience to decide just like a Movie.
Harry Stine Takes Off the Gloves Regarding Dicamba
> Imagine if your spouse told you, “I have an idea for a delicious 10-course meal. You should spend the next few days researching each dish, buying the ingredients, testing different versions, preparing the final meal, and serving it plate by plate at a dinner party. We’ll split the credit 50/50.”

This is brilliant. I am going to use this next time someone tells me they want to give me equity for building their entire product.
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