skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a smart work around, but quite the lengthy workflow. We tried building something that doesn't require any of that.
OpenPlotter – open-source sailing platform for ARM computers
Y Combinator.
Validation on the client, for user convenience.
Validation on the backend, for security.
Validation on the DB, for sanity.

Error states are a bit funky if you don't validate in the backend logic.
I think a team with a diverse set of expertise, skills, and training, will be safer and outperform a team with an ideological monoculture.

Everyone having the same background opens you up to blind spots, that are arguably worse IMO when you're trying to put things in human brains.

Also, PhD EEs != competence.
If I can get my hands on one of these I definitely intend to try running NixOS on it…
The Steam Deck seems like a smaller iPad with physical controls. Game makers need just make their stuff work on iPad and then suddenly millions of people won't have to buy a new "small PC" to enjoy their content.
Windows doesn't have it so they don't cut off most of the playerbase. Linux + online gaming on the other hand is basically nonexistant right now so they don't have to deal with legacy hardware.
This simple change is about 3x as fast. I think it is relevant because the same should be done in the original c code. 2x comes from the list swap, the rest comes from the use of N in the while conditional.

def merge2(l1, l2):
if len(l1) == 0:
return [x for x in l2]

if len(l2) == 0:
return [x for x in l1]

# ensure l1 is exhausted first to minimize
# comparisons
if l1[-1] > l2[-1]:
l1, l2 = l2, l1

sorted_list = []
i = 0
j = 0
N = len(l1)
while i < N:
if l1[i] <= l2[j]:
sorted_list.append(l1[i])
i += 1
else:
sorted_list.append(l2[j])
j += 1
sorted_list.extend(l2[j:])
return sorted_list
It really is a shame that there isn’t better names for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. They have such different stories, and yet get lumped together constantly.
Surely Valve would be better served by having some immutable system partition and maybe even A/B image based updates?
I would upvote this twice if I could. Life science quite often NP-hard still approximate results are extremely useful.

Joke, which I think is from Sean Eddy (hammer).

Bioinformatics approaches a Computer Scientist for help with a hard problem. CS agrees to help. Year later CS comes back very excitedly. "your problem is not hard it is NP-hard!". Bioinformatics nods, and says "I still got to solve it" and continues finding ever faster and better approximations ;)

Also problem space is both bounded (you don't have infinite length proteins) and f'd up in reality. e.g protein hijacking and re-conformation in the face of an infectious agent.
Thank you for the information/tip. It would be great to have occasional support from the #qemu community too!
(BTW, I am Enygmator, the author of the post)
Have you a link to a specific project?
Well the OP didn't talk about wipe out people, but birth control. That can be enforced in many ways but for sure the best one is education https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/female-education-and-chil...
Not giving an opinion on the model itself, I do find it interesting how many of these cultural narratives of collapse and Armageddon are almost directly from older religious traditions. Specifically, Christianity in the Western World. The parallels become increasingly obvious if you dig deeper into the theology; everything is present, from climate “sinners” to apocalyptic scenarios in which everything collapses into a ball of fire, unless we repent and change our ways.

Again, not saying that these predictions are wrong or overly inaccurate. But even if many people in the Western world are not “religious” today, they inevitably seem to fall into these same thought patterns. I have noticed that this approach is not shared by many other non-Western countries, who absolutely recognize the dangers facing global society from climate, political polarization, etc. yet lack the “apocalypse” culture points. I worry if Western culture has a self-reinforcing obsession with the collapse narrative, to its own detriment.
30-Second Habit
OK, I'll do so.

To put it brutally it's because on Hacker News and probably your social circle, there are too many people whose social status and income depends on being clever, or at least the perception of being clever. This leads us to seriously over-index on things that look like science or data analysis, without even being able to see alternatives that in my experience easily occur to the less (over?) educated.

Consider this article. It's actually a good case in point. The article can be summarized like this:

1. In the 1970s there were these modellers who predicted disaster. Lots of very influential and educated people took them uber-seriously and thought the Limits To Growth was proof positive that everything needed to change.

2. The model turned out to be useless and the disaster it predicted never happened, because the numbers it used for natural resource availability were garbage.

3. This major error did not reduce the modellers confidence in what they were doing (this seems to be a common theme with modellers). Instead they just doubled the number of natural resources and kept on going. That sounds rather arbitrary and not like a real fix to me, but alright. The new models indicated that nothing makes much of a difference for decades (until 2020), conveniently making the predictions unfalsifiable on any timeline that the original authors may have cared about.

4. Now a new researcher has published a new paper on these models, which also says nothing useful. We read that the models "aren't terribly enlightening" because we don't have any data past 2020 yet so which scenario we're supposedly in cannot be determined.

5. Despite all the above, the author concludes that "the most important takeaway from these models is that we need to take definitive action".

Wrong! A rational person can conclude nothing from the evidence in the article. Given that we can only judge the models by prior performance, we should anticipate that the models are probably wrong again. Moreover, the model scenarios don't have any probabilities attached to them and are described in sufficiently vague terms that nobody would ever be able to conclude which scenario we actually followed, again, making it an exercise in stargazing, not science.

Therefore, we cannot actually say we've "known for at least 50 years that our current pattern of consumption is not sustainable". We've known no such thing. The conclusions of the article and many of the commenters here seem like motivated reasoning as a consequence - or at least, it's certainly not Bayesian reasoning!
It's also apparently kind of a dupe* and the top comment in the previous discussion indicates they looked and there's seemingly nothing "open" about this initiative.

I mentioned diet and lifestyle because that's how I manage my otherwise insanely expensive and debilitating condition and did so that way even while homeless. If you are genuinely concerned about the health and finances of poor people, finding a way to educate people about diet and lifestyle strikes me as at least part and parcel if what you ought to be doing and as a generally superior approach. One reason medicine is highly regulated is because screwing it up with unsanitary practices can maim or kill people.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27854041
Creating the Golfcart Programming Language
In the early years of ads on facebook they had targeted ads in the sidebar, but the news feed was left untouched. One change that happened is that Likes started giving pages access to space in your feed. Eventually pages that I didn't explicitly like started gaining access there. After that the algorithm for ordering the feed changed (probably more than once).

I was okay with the targeted ads in the sidebar, when that's all it was. I opted not to block ads on facebook with adblock plus. I learned of all sorts of products that I probably never would have heard of had I been getting random ads, or ads intended to appeal to a wide audience. I never felt manipulated.

The tweaking of the news feed feels wrong though even without ads. Maybe it was an inevitable result of the quest for profits, but if I could go back to targeted ads the way they used to be, I would do it in a heartbeat.

The reality is that I've been fed targeted ads all my life, but the targeting wasn't was optimized. Automotive magazines are more likely to have ads for spark plugs than hair products. A cooking website is more likely to have ads for spatulas than tractors. At least, that's how it used to be. With ads fed from Google, ads are likely to be related to what I've recently searched for with their search engine. The result is often comical: I no longer see ads relevant to what I'm interested in at the time, but to what I was interested in 30 minutes ago. I'm not clicking any of those ads; I've already moved on.
What is a wet bulb temperature?
Genuine curiosity. The whole debate about BigTech keeps recurring on so many levels, and there are so many individuals talking about privacy concerns, their power etc.
I have many friends that keep uttering such concerns, and so do I to some degree.
So I am trying to boil these concerns down to more specific issues.
> Dozens

Death toll is 80, according to the latest reports

https://www.bild.de/news/2021/news/unwetter-news-im-live-tic...
Damn, no point in me starting the one I have been making for the last few years.
favorited this one along other 100+ topics that I am about to read some time.
It is sad how little we (the human race) has achieved in space in the past 60 years. And it seems that it’s national prestige that will drive the next ‘race’ into space - the trouble with that is that after some patriotic wins, people and politicians lose interest, the funding dries up and it will go dormant for another generation.
> Aren’t there any initiatives in some US states to make socialized healthcare?

Some initiatives have been put forth at the state level, but it's essentially impractical for US states to do it without active federal cooperation (which itself is practically unlikely without the same faction controlling the federal levers of power that would federally implement socialized medicine, making the state programs unnecessary.)
You're right that energy ultimately dissipates as heat, but the important thing is what the energy achieves in between hitting the earth as sunlight and then heading off into space as infrared. If you put a solar panel in place to turn the light into electricity and then use that electricity to write a Python plugin for Flake8 https://github.com/tlocke/flake8-alphabetize then maybe you've contributed something to the economy :-)
Apple arcade?
Came here to mention this. I'm not exactly a connoisseur when it comes to classical music, but if there's one thing I like it is Liszt, and I haven't heard it like this before. I mean this bass reminds me of 'proper' bass in electronic music (synth or guitar), unheard for a piano in my limited experience.
> I doubt that free spirits like herself are compatible with any of the former or existing Governments though

Hence distributed by the theanarchistlibrary.org :)
See that’s the the thing… racists, sexists, and others of their ilk are proud to be themselves. They have political motive. They want society to be reorganized according to their ideals, and they don’t see anything wrong with themselves or any reason to hide.

Even people who smoke joints are more surreptitious than racists.
Pregnant man emoji added to draft
We have vastly different definitions of what "impressive" means - TW3 was already two years old in 2017 ; the screenshot of the games you linked looks barely like a good PC indie with a metric ton of post-processing FX to hide the textures' low resolution
A few examples of such deaths:

- An older man was found dead in his flooded basement. Presumably he went to check the status but exact circumstances and cause of death are not clear yet.
- Another older man tried to remove some branches from a clogged drain pipe. When he succeeded he got dragged along with the sudden surge of draining water and has not been found since.

- A twenty-something guy got the idea to go 'play around in the water with some kind of floaty toy'. He got dragged away.

- A fire brigade rescue boat got into trouble during a mission. The three elder people they had rescued went overboard and have been missing since. Two of the five firemen on the boat also went overboard but managed to secure themselves until they were rescued.

It's a tragedy. Flooding of this scale has not been seen here. People don't know the dangers. And culturally a house is quite important for most people (the saying is that we "are born with a brick in our stomach") so they often refuse to leave their house.

The last decade or so there have been improvements to give rivers more space, open up streams again that got covered up, make available basins that can be flooded to buffer water, increase/strengthen dikes and embankments, ... But what we've seen now was of a different order of magnitude: we've had locations that got like 100L+ of water in 24h whereas they would normally receive 800L in a whole year.
The problem with the title is that it will suggest to many people that vaccinations are not working. This is not what the author is saying. A large proportion of the Israeli citizens have been vaccinated. Vaccines are not perfect, so there is nothing really surprising that vaccinated people get infected.

The actual thread of posts by this author show that he has a lot more to say than just this silly headline.
FWIW, it seems this[1] (from[2]) confirms my intuition. HTH!

[1]: https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/852/what-is-git-rebase-and-how-...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699804
> has only been going on since around the 1940s

In the 1960's, China had the Great Famine followed by the purges of the Cultural Revolution. So arguably the current period of stability has not even been that long.
It does? Maybe technical expertise, but money?

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/

https://prism-break.org/en/

https://www.privacytools.io/

Those all list FLOSS alternatives to the services out there. Maybe one or two things needs self-hosting but ProtonMail now has ProtonCalendar, Tutanota is coming out with a calendar too, files can be synced with Syncthing, and so on and so forth.

Of course, it's nice to donate if you have money, but it's not mandatory and that's better than the alternatives.

Don't use Google (except maybe Android, but there are ROMs), Apple, Facebook (yes, that includes Whatsapp), Microsoft and you're already most of the way there.
There are other forms of diabetes. I know of CFRD and have heard it is neither type 1 nor type 2 and I think there is at least one other form beyond that, but can't recall anything about it.

Edit:

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499376

You can add a sixth class. I have been told that Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes (CFRD) is neither Type 1 nor Type 2.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499548
One thing I don't understand is, what is preventing anyone from just starting a new factory or importing insulin from abroad to sell it cheaper than the competitors?
> but absolute numbers matter more in this problem

Indeed. And "World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam" [0]

It's not double per person. It's the total. So focusing on the rich is definitely not distracting from the actual problem. It is the actual problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-r...
Perhaps because it makes an bad faith statement/argument using the standard meme of "We in Europe are so advanced with our free health care vs. you Americans that have to (over) pay for everything" that is overused in any almost any discussion about healthcare cost on HN by some Europeans.
They are built upon the same basic principles - QAM modulation, error correcting codes and MPEG/HEVC codecs, so there should be no significant difference.

The newest ATSC3.0 standard has a somewhat richer toolbox allowing the optional use of 1024 or 4096QAM vs 256QAM for DVB, more advanced LDPC error correcting codes, LDM multiplexing and MIMO. The industry seems to believe the added complexity is not worth the marginal benefits.

The fundamental difference between Europe (or at least UK) and US seems to be the concern regulators had for improving over the air TV. So while in the UK, the move to digital was employed to broadly improve the offering and reception quality, in the US there was less concern and the stations found the death of analog a good opportunity to close down transmitters, recover spectrum and remove free programing.
I've always seen it more as a measure of human attention. A dollar gives you acces to someone else's time.

Energy and resources are force multipliers for that human, so making more energy available increases what someone can do.

There is also an organisational aspect in there: A better organized group can do more with resources and reach more resources for the same amount of human time. A human's time is more valuable if the human has a more centralized location an an organisation.

I look at psychologists, hookers, priests as people who sell basically their attention for emotional needs. Not much energy or resources in those transactions, but very lucrative. At the other end of the spectrum is the sun, dumping tons of energy on us, mostly worthless until humans organize the power.
>When people show how to accomplish that, you state 'well what about my test that doesn't need all three?'

You've phrased this as if I said this after I'd been given a solution for the initial problem. In reality, I mentioned this in the original post itself, but it seems many people didn't read it.

It's almost like I have prior real-world experience of this problem, where I already went down the path of making common functions for all the creation and cleanup respectively, only to find that it doesn't help when all the functions don't create the same subset of things.

>Why are you testing things your code doesn't do?

I have no idea how you came to this conclusion.
I came here to comment, but reading the comments with exactly the kind of humor I was aiming for, saved me some time to check some cute cat videos, thanks!
GP's point is that it may be cost prohibitive to some but it's too cheap to be a marker of class in developed countries. It'd be like saying a Netflix subscription is a marker of class.
But not having any of the players able to stand up to TSMC is also not good for competition.

Allowing smaller market participants to consolidate to face the behemoth is not necessarily going to be perceived as anti-competitive.
Max Hodak, co-founder (the other founder being Musk himself) and president, left the company a couple of months ago.
But when the version control system is distributed you already have a form of "feature branches" since everyone has a local copy with the changes they're working on. The question is perhaps more about if it's okay to push to trunk or not (without having a review process)?
It’s reasonable to assume there will be various kinds of game-changing new technologies, but it’s not a given that it will provide usable solutions to the specific problems we need to solve.
What is the advantage of this over an ordinary Linux laptop?
It's okay, money are dirt cheap in USA.
Why do you have to adapt each plant for its location? or just find a suitable location and build a bunch of such plants and transmit the power to where it’s used.

Buildings are also “adapted for each location”, but there is still an entire corpus of standardized techniques to do that that massively reduces costs compared to literally solving the problem from scratch at each site.

And why is it the case that “we don’t have the skilled people to do that”? If people value it, they’ll pay for it- and people can learn new skills in response to market need / pay - there is no predetermined number of “ad-tech software engineers” for example, they were “created” by the people themselves responding to market forces (pay)
Same here. I does not cost much even if you get it yourself but I guess some US law exists that forbids sending from EU to the states.
Sure, but the article is talking about government action. If every child in the UK grows up with age restricted internet then no ones relationships will be disadvantaged.

The only thing that would be influenced is cross national relationships, and sitting in a separate country probably affects that way more than having equal access to the same webpages.
Polish Government Threatened to Get Telegram Removed from App Stores
Congratulations on the launch!

I've recently moved to UK and doing research on payroll/tax matters. I am working remotely for an overseas company making foreign income.

Do you support foreign company having employees in UK? The things I think needed support are

- Send Full Payment Submission to HMRC

- Apply pay as you earn scheme for employer (or is it for employee?)

- Filing Self Assessment tax returns to report foreign income

I am new to this matter so am not sure if the list makes sense at all.
Working with one of the team providing the uniref dataset used here. Running any kind of torrent stuff in an university network setting is a central policy fight one just does not want to get into at all.

On the other hand outbound network traffic from an university is "free". So the benefit is absolutely minimal from a hosting perspective.

It was tried (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...) but it is gone the way of the dodo for the above reasons.
Content was a different story, until ads started showing up in the same place on the page as content. Now ads aren't something on the side you can passively ignore; they are sponsored content.
Cloudflare is well known for vulnerabilities. kinda looks sketchy.
Yep, but there's a couple of problems. Firstly, AFAIK Deepmind haven't made all the code and settings they used to train the model available (although the paper does describe the architecture). Secondly, training a machine-learning model of this complexity is generally much more expensive, in terms of time and compute requirements, than using the resulting model.

If you're a a medical startup, having an off-the-shelf prediction model you can just start using for all your protein folding needs is a very different proposition from having to train one yourself from scratch.

That said, hopefully other researchers and institutions will take Google's research and produce an equivalently powerful model but with a more commercially-friendly open-source license. From some comments in this thread, it sounds like that's already happening, in fact.
I think you're right but it's not exclusively a religious issue. Karl Marx was famously obsessed with an apocalyptic end-of-days style vision in which the sinners would be punished and the pure elevated above. At the same time he wasn't a big fan of (other) religions.
Let’s say you invent the cart, and in the patent, you describe a platform with two wheels and two handles to push it.

Then, I can patent a cart with “a number of wheels” and “at least one handle”.

That’s why patents tend to be so vague.

You don’t want to keep the tiniest door open for such cases, so you don’t use a mirror, you use a light-reflecting device. If you’re smart, you don’t even use the term ‘light’. Your invention likely works with radar and röntgen, too. Maybe avoid electromagnetic fields, too. Who knows whether something similar, in the abstract, is possible with sound?

You also don’t say a device needs to do A, then B if there’s a tiny chance it might be possible to accomplish the same doing B first, then A.