skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The construction of most buildings along these coastal regions is expressly considering these kinds of concerns. Storm surge during a hurricane is an excellent facsimile for this scenario and encourages compensation on the engineering side. I haven't been down to South Padre Island in a long time to confirm, but I know for a fact that no beachfront property in Galveston has a meaningful first floor layout. Every one of these homes is constructed with the expectation that the first floor will flood, so everything important starts on the 2nd floor and up. Ground floor is typically just parking/storage/stairs/elevator.

I don't think any place on earth is a good spot to build when playing with geologic timescales.
BTW there's a discord for people working on low level programming languages: https://discord.gg/tgmUz9cFyv

Maybe you find it interesting?
I think it stops being science at that point though. For example, if someone made a quantum computer powerful enough to factorise large numbers then that would appear to disprove superdeterminism. However, proponents could always argue that the computer only works because the universe conspires to make the human entering in the numbers to be factorized enter specific values which the computer will then know the factors of.

I'm not a physicist though, so I might have something wrong here.
We can argue all we want and present other points of view and narratives, but it seems the basic fact is just that the Chinese system is better...at least for these kind of big projects. Somehow America can't get it's act together for projects with some public good. we need to ease off the military shit for a while!
but why?

maintaining features is cost
Science is a (flawed) process, not a source of truth. Glass houses and all.
The difference is that the interstate highway system was not simply built for mass civilian transit, but as part of a post-WW2 initiative, functioning as emergency landing strips and providing easier access between airports, seaports, rail terminals, and military bases (which tend to reside near interstate highways).
The economics are just silly. 4 passengers at $250k each is only $1M in revenue per flight. Between fuel costs, rocket costs (even assuming 10x reuses per rocket, you'd need to build the rocket for significantly under $10M to have a chance at profitability, could you imagine building a rocket for under 10M?), engineer and employee salaries and benefits, advertising, liability, etc.

Add in the fact that you have a very viable competitor in Virgin Galactic and SpaceX who could leapfrog both and provide even better experiences, and I don't see how Blue Origin will ever be viable without government funding
I don't see it as a big job. Am I wrong?

Imagine there's a suitable narrow::<type>() function introduced which has the same consequence, always narrowing, if your data was too wide it may drop important stuff on the floor, and narrow() just says that's too bad.

Rust 2030 can introduce narrow::<type>(), warn for narrowing as usage and then Rust 2035 can error for as. The Rust 2030 -> 2035 conversion software can consume code that does { x as y } and write { x.narrow::<y>() } instead. This code is not better but it's still working in Rust 2035 and this explicit narrow() function is less tempting for new programmers than as IMO.
Send+more=money and how to use forward-checking in search
Re-read my comment and then re-read that quote.
> Moreover a rail attendant/engineer for a long haul trip cannot be back at home to family at the end of the day,

That would be problematic for some long distance train connections in germany as well (north-south connections), but they just schedule around that: attendants change mid-journey as needed.
dude goes to space but can't show me a webpage without executing js
My partial solution to this was just learning to say 'no' to large amounts of categories of information. It sucks and I'm still discontent with it, but I cannot be an expert in everything, and the amount of time and bandwidth I have is severely limited.

I took some time going over my interests and decided which were more valuable to me than others, and then started cutting down on some of the ones that ended up lower on the list. While this may be a practical solution, I am still left pretty discontent with it, because the amount of things I am 'missing out on' is still unfathomably large. Improving the emotional and personal aspects of dealing with this is something that is harder to help with (and likely differs quite a bit between individuals), but I would hope that improving the current state of things is at least a fruitful starting point.
keep in mind though that -Weverything is not intended to be used in production: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2018/12/06/dont-use-wever...
And it's not just parameter passing. It can apply to anything that acts like an assignment. That includes assignment (of course), parameter passing, and returning a value from a function.
We just need a small tax on satellites (linked to their reflectivity etc) ring fenced to pay for more space based telescopes...
> It does not exist

Sure does! First line from a random page (44) of 61362:2012: "...the runner blade opening is brought to a certain position to provide a given flow rate after load..."
This is frustrating. FTP is really handy for distributing some files and there are lots of servers in place that now Firefox users can’t access.

One can argue that servers should upgrade, and that’s valid. But they don’t and they likely won’t do this just harms Firefox’s user base and is one more reason I no longer recommend Firefox. They just don’t seem user friendly as they once were.

I would expect Mozilla to advocate for more FTP as a cheap way of distributing files.
As a Pythonista since version 1.2, I have to (sadly) report that there is absolutely nothing out there that even comes close to what Node-RED has done. I have searched high and low, and eventually gave up.
Mature teams ship better code faster and you can too
I hate it because it takes three taps and a delay to change the volume or brightness, 99% of my use case.
Essentially yes. In theory, you could start from quantum mechanics and get the structure of any chemical matter. In practice, that's intractable. So there has been decades of work to make ever-simpler, less expensive approximations, and use these models of forces/energies to predict the structures of complex biomolecules.For example, google "molecular mechanics" or "molecular dynamics", and you'll find discussion o f things like the van der waals model of an atom, models of chemical bonds that resemble springs from physics 101, coulomb's law, and so on.

People take these simple models, chain them together in different ways, adjust the free parameters (i.e. weights) by fitting to known data, and thus create "force fields" that can be used to estimate the energies and/or forces on a molecule, given only the coordinates of the atoms. These methods work OK for some limited problems, but tend to fly off the rails as simulation times get longer, or if atomic systems have more electrostatics, motion, "weird" atoms (like heavy metals), etc.

This (Alphafold) kind of work is completely different, in that it starts from data, and uses the physical models only to do final refinements (if at all).
> Why did they open source it? Wouldn’t this model be very valuable to the pharma industry?

This is a question we should remember when we feel like condemning big corporations for monopolizing AI. HuggingFace lists 12,257 models in its zoo, many coming from FAANG. You can start one in 3 lines of Python, or fine-tune it with a little more effort.
> replacing negative thoughts and feelings

Really? That sounds like efforting.

> The way that I've been taught meditation and mindfulness are that they should be positive practices that support your life. If they are making life worse, something is off with that teacher or meditation school.

Um. This is not the accurate from vajrayana point of view and certainly didn't seem the case from the theravada school (when I practiced at IMS.). The waking up process is incredibly painful. As Ken Mcleod says - if you can avoid going down a spiritual path - avoid it. It is nothing but a pandora's box.

Witnessing suffering is hard. I would say the first two years of practice for me was pretty difficult. Setting aside transient mental states - just being aware of my moment-to-moment suffering, striving, wanting, grasping, etc. Is hard. Very hard. It is neither positive nor negative.

I am pretty convinced at this point that I have fully been brainwashed by Vajrayana teachings. I think something like Diamond Approach is more likely useful for people in the west.
The README on GitHub f*cked up my phone. I had to take out the battery and boot.
Given your example boilerplate disclosure, is one of your key conditional statements simply categorizing boilerplate? Like instead of simply putting a sentiment score on the wording, you first isolate it as boilerplate or as a unique potential aberration and then assign weights?
Chemical weapons are banned but I doubt most governments do not have access to them, ‘in case someone else uses them’
That's not what they want the front page to be, it's the stuff you might like page. They have an actual page for your subscriptions if that's what you want to see.. I was always confuse in the beginning about all the creators and viewers saying they weren't seeing uploads till I realized people just weren't using the subscription tab.
That is all false.

You don't need attendants on rail at all - what is there for them to do? For flight you need them to oversee preparing for a crash trains should get this failure mode should be designed out - which does imply doing the regular maintenance and using good safety systems. Just give a small discount to anyone with current first aid/CPR and you can be sure there are more than enough regular riders to take care of the remaining issues.

Even if you do decide you want attendants for some reason, train should stop not less than once an hour, which means the crews can get off the train after 4 hours and staff the one back home. (I don't believe freight rail shouldn't do the same, but they have different operations from passenger rail such that more than an hour between stops might be reasonable)

Note that if the train really is going through the middle of nowhere at one hour you just pick a random dot on the map and grant it a station just to get your stops. The cost to stopping a train is less than 5 minutes for the full trip (this adds up if you stop every few km, but when it is once an hour it isn't a big deal)
I think there are risks to doing porn, but even in this article, the issues are not always related to the porn itself, but bad passwords leading to account compromise, or linking your family identity to your porn identity.

Understand that "I don't like it" is not a convincing argument to anyone but yourself. Be aware of the consequences, but don't over dramatize it. If you only share the worst case examples, your kids will understand that you are using scare tactics and what you are saying is unlikely. They live in this world and will know plenty of counter examples where nothing bad happened to the person in question.

So, be informed, and be reasonable. Express caution, and concern around linking porn to your "real" identity, and the trouble that this causes people. Discuss things protecting your privacy by avoiding showing your face, house, etc. Don't re-use usernames. A person who is informed on the real dangers of how people get found, will be more likely to think twice before posting a nude.

And if your children are of the female persuasion, it's worth pointing out that women tend to get the brunt of "punishment", while men often are not really affected. Maybe if your children are male, you might not want to mention that, but it's probably good for you to be aware of it.
That's called full-stack.
Bezos doesn’t know the science as well as Elon. Not to say Elon is a rocket scientist, but knows enough to impact something (direction, velocity).

Bezos is showing where he does know things. He knows what works (spacex design and vertical landing), so copy that. Amazon didn’t invent books, they just sold it cheaply and on the internet.

It’s interesting, I think Musk and Bezos would make a good team, especially on something like Tesla.
You have no moral compass. Your only guidance for what is right is money. If he has the money to do it then it is justified. There is something missing in your brain and that is why you will eagerly simp for a billionaire.
Open Source API Documentation Building Blocks
Do you mean to say they are > or < than middle-class?
Chines public rail projects tend to come with an interpretation of property law (that you have none) that would not fly in the west.
If CASP is calling methods that use any sequence similarity (the grey area) 'ab initio', that's disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.

ab initio means from nothing, and at most, you're allowed to have physically inspired force fields, not sequence similarity to known structures. I put a lot of effort into improving the state of the art in that area, but ultimately concluded it made more sense to concentrate experimental structural determination in the area that was most useful- in proteins that had unknown folds or no known homology (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h... for some previous work I did in this area).
Yes, as far as I can see the draft talks about crypto-asset service providers explicitly.
Fair enough we'll simply disagree on that.

Entanglement is not a property about wave functions and really has nothing to do with waves. It's a logical consequence of the uncertainty principle and was ironically deduced by Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky (EPR Paradox) as a way to argue that quantum mechanics is an incomplete description of physical reality. Being that it's strictly a consequence of the uncertainty principle, it applies equally well to non-wave function formulations of quantum mechanics such as the matrix formulation which does not use a wave function.

Entanglement is precisely the principle that a physical system can exist such that no part of the system can be described without describing the rest of the system as a whole. Einstein argued that this made quantum mechanics incomplete, the idea that somehow two properties of a physical system separated potentially by light years could not be decomposed into two physical systems that behaved independently of one another violated basic notions of local realism.

The issue is that as soon as you stated that one ball is red you have made a statement about some property of the physical system that is independent of the rest of the system. That is fundamentally what entanglement states you can not do. All you can state is that there are two balls that are in a superposition of being red and blue and there is no way to describe one ball as red and the other as blue, they are both red and blue simultaneously.

That is what entanglement is and that is the new principle that was neither known to the ancient Greeks or something that a 3 year old could figure out. Not the idea that if there are two balls and one ball is red and the other is blue, then if you see the red ball you know that the other ball is blue. Nothing about that ever baffled any physicist.
Can anyone give a perspective why is it the case? In Europe it seems impossible not to have commercial software positions in a big local hub city - and in US whole areas seem to be devoid of them as HN crowd implies.
I was talking generally about HSR, rather than specifically about maglev.

Maglev is complex because:

* it guarantees you can't run services beyond the limit of the new-built track,

* the extra speed comes with higher operational costs (because drag, so you need the time saving to increase modal shift), and

* higher construction costs (to get the higher speeds, you need to build it with very large radii corners, which limits your ability to choose one's route to minimise significant structures; and if you want city-centre stations, you have no choice but to build a new line all the way in, and it turns out that acquiring land in cities is expensive).

I wouldn't _totally_ write off maglev, but there are relatively few corridors which align to make all of this worthwhile.
FTP support works in Windows explorer.
> He did pull out of JCPOA, which some of his electorate actually wanted for various reasons

How's that worked out for them? People in Appalachia feeling pleased about the pain inflicted on the Iranian people? Or are they pleased that Iran stopped adhering to the deal and have resumed uranium enrichment? Or are they pleased about Iran's expanding influence in the Middle East?

It doesn't take much to to give people what they want. Pulling out of the JCPOA took only a couple of days. But it was not a good decision, and the fallout wasn't felt by the people who pushed for it.
There's a gradient of material.

At the core, a neutron star is likely very nearly pure neutronium, as other particles simply won't exist long under the conditions present.

As depth decreases, other particles can exist, and at the surface there are likely free nuclei and atoms of elements, though my probably with low nuclear potential. Fission and fusion would be accelerated by the energies involved.

That's a lay reading / bits of stray collected memories, though quick checking seems to confirm most of this. See:

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/binaries/neutron_...
Beware of the Unicode no-break space (0xC2 0xA0)
Hi all!

Yesterday I saw a very strange behavior while working with some tags, I thought this was a bug!

Can you spot the difference? (https://jsfiddle.net/vbjtcf3d/)

<div pagews-snapshot="true" referenceid="remotemkt.listws.app" snapshotid="snapshot/board-companies" ></div>

the other ( https://jsfiddle.net/q9d08xp1/ )

<div pagews-snapshot="true" referenceid="remotemkt.listws.app" snapshotid="snapshot/board-companies" ></div>

Both looks exactly the same!, but only one is working....

It turn out that it was an unicode character issue, the spacing between the non working tag was using the unicode non-breaking space (0xC2 0xA0), when I replaced the spaces with the regular space character (0x20) everything worked again.

I think that I copied this tag from an email, I will be extra careful in the future for this kind of issues.

It took me a while to find out this, I hope this could help anyone, if your attributes are null and you are sure that they are present check you html with a hex editor.

Let me know your thoughts
> It got me comparing precision machine design to software engineering.

I think the problem is that the failure of physical systems are often caused by random failures, which can be tested for and probabilities determined e.g how long before a bolt breaks. This as opposed to software, which most often fail due to systematic errors and cannot be tested completely.
This is what I do and I've been a reasonable weight my whole life. People sometimes wonder aloud why I'm so thin while apparently eating like a pig whenever they see me. Could just be genetics or something, though.
That’s fair. I’d also argue that the form factor has a good community around it.

I’m not saying there are no reasons. But people salivating at the Pis as a be all and end all of low energy devices are a bit annoying.

The Pi is primarily a tool for students and to a lesser extent: makers to get a general purpose computer to be as cheap as possible for the purpose of education.

But people want it to be home servers or to compete with other products of a higher price point. But it betrays the original purpose.
Simple started out as a layer on top of The Bancorp Bank (TBBK), and we intended to support multiple backing accounts before the merger with BBVA.
Totally agree with this.

Rimworld itself is amazing and I highly recommend it, but I'm lukewarm on how much value I've gotten from the Royalty expansion. It's cool, but the mods are not only more in-depth but also more customizable to specific playstyles/interests.
Oh... TIL wow man I've been on YT for years
> Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the Universe: they weigh about as much as the Sun, yet measure only around 10km across, similar in size to a large city.

I'm going to be the Hacker News pedant here and say that this sentence bugged me. Weight is a measurement of force. Mass is the word they were looking for.
Harlequin
The idea that we have a system that mints billionaires with outsized power, who we then must shoot into space in order to help them gain sufficient perspective to not want to see the planet destroyed makes me think of Rube Goldberg.
People made exactly the same arguments, almost to the letter, about universalizing TLS. The arguments were made in good faith, often by very clueful people, but it's hard to dispute the positive results of the change. FTP needs to go.
Keep in mind that the fortune of those millionaires might collapse if they die in the adventure. Or insurance cost might might make the trip much more expensive than just the ticket.
I absolutely love the way GPT-3 re-words common phrases. Examples from the article:

artiﬁcial intelligence (AI): ‘(counterfeit | human-made) consciousness’

ant colony: ‘subterranean insect (state | province | area | region | settlement)’

It's so clinical and literal. It reminds me a lot of the way Overwatch phrases things in Half-Life 2. For example, when you use a swarm of antlions (giant alien insects) to stage a prison break, Overwatch says

"Overwatch acknowledges critical exogen breach. Airwatch augmentation force dispatched and inbound. Hold for reinforcement"

"airwatch augmentation" sounds much more ominous than "air support".

I would be interested to see what GPT-3 could come up with if explicity tasked to do this type of re-phrasing. What happens if you ask it to pretend to be an alien intelligence?
Square has an ILC: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/square-financial-services-b...
You think that you can "deal harshly with such hatred/disinfo campaigns, ruthlessly deplatforming fringe elements and denying them the chance to drag the Overton window their way" forever, because if the right people run it, they can keep the wrong people from ever coming to power. That's misguided, for two reasons.

First, sometimes the wrong people come to power anyway. If they can't do it by blatant misinformation and propaganda, they'll do it by "wolf in sheep's clothing" tactics. Once they get power, the machinery is there, just waiting for them to use it to enforce their narrative. Sure, by protecting the narratives that are allowed, you might make it more difficult for such a one to come to power, and therefore less probable. You can't make it impossible, though. And if the thought of such machinery in Orban's hands (or Trump's) doesn't terrify you, you're not thinking.

Second, power changes people. You might be a perfectly fine, democracy-loving person. Give you that kind of power and you might not be the same person forever. As Elrond said, "I fear to take the ring to guard it. I will not take the ring to wield it" - and for very good reason. Too much power is a danger even to the good.
Why villainize the "white American", portraying them as "knowing better"? Yes, the mischaracterization of Buddhism is disrespectful, but it comes from ignorance, not malice.
that doesn't communicate across the distance. that communicates from the common starting point
Last I checked FTP was part of the web?
You make the mistake of assuming the uber-rich want to get to Fiji as soon as possible, when in reality they would rather spend the 8 hrs in their private Gulfstream in a cocaine fueled orgy while the pilot does barrel rolls and loops. Flying is one of the few times that the Uber rich can really disconnect and be alone and relax, why would they want to get to Fiji in an hour in a super stressful flight?