skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose, mainly is to warn people of the pain I’ve suffered. My life should be a lesson here because honestly it is _painful_ to realise you have lost monetary data and have to go hat in hand to the CTO and CFO to explain why.

The strict mode setting should have been the default since the beginning. It is absolutely unthinkable that it wasn’t, the only justification I can think of is that:

a) it wasn’t built with that in mind and thus was experimental.

b) was not enabled to ease adoption (this is kinda evil, in my personal opinion because it teaches bad habits)

c) was considered a power-user feature, which is ridiculous.

What you’ve said just exemplifies the trend I’ve seen before: MySQL does not care about creating footguns, and people who have bought into the ecosystem like to exhalt that “you’re holding it wrong”- which is absolutely not a good warning.

If you listen to my rambling about the pain I’ve seen, and you still want to use it: at least it’s an informed decision. But pretending that all is well is not ideal, it doesn’t lead anyone to make better software or practices (MySQL) or better developers (because they don’t see footguns before they’ve sprung some self-inflicted wounds on themselves)
I did not know about this: https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/nomad-vs-kubernetes

Is it good? Is there a growing user base? Why do I not hear about it?
It doesn't work well in print. It's less legible than more common typefaces in comparable sizes on account of its lightness, for certain printing technologies
Not if it's run through a system webview (Safari) though, right? They only want interpreted code run through a VM they control so they can effectively restrict what it can do on the OS.
It means that the order they fire is imperative and determined by how you run your migrations.
Day Trading for Pain and Suffering
In-laws installed a generator after a hurricane, maybe 15 years ago. Next hurricane with major power outages they were still sol- so many generators kicked on, combined with gas wells shut-in for the storm, meant the gas grid collapsed.

They immediately had a propane backup tank installed that could run things for 2 weeks.
> Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

That just sounds like a tautology but maybe I am missing something.

> It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it.

The flashlight only needs long-term memory to deduce "hey wait a second, that thing wasn't under my flashlight a second ago". (I am not including working memory to be fair to the analogy, it can already be thought as a part of, if not the consciousness).
Yeah this is an awesome suggestion. It can be pretty easy to predict who someone would enjoy reading if they follow related people within their domain.
These folks make modern modular video synths: https://lzxindustries.net
I think it's important to remember that "connections" in networking aren't actually connections. Everything is sent one packet at a time over networks that aren't presumed to be stable.

That means the entire system is resilient. A 2-second pause in connectivity usually won't mean the app dies. It means the application presumes it dropped a few packets, which it did.

Now, if you're playing a very fast-paced multi-player game, a 2-second lag at the wrong moment can spell disaster. But most video call programs can easily handle a 2-second blip in connectivity, annoying though it is for participants- I see those all the time on my non-Satellite based internet.
We are fast approaching the limit of the Greek alphabet.

Better than country names, though.
Agreed. Blockchain is a convoluted solution, but it’s a solution for distributed consensus, if one feels that’s required. But in general I would argue the current root system has served us well and is open and free.

The world you describe, effectively with multiple roots, is coming. Russia have a switch (they’ve even tested it), to anycast out the root DNS IPs within the country, and block them externally. In theory this doesn’t make another “internet” (if IP space is still globally routable,) but in practice it does. Don’t be surprised if other countries follow suit (should they fail to leverage control of current infra via ITU or something.)
I don't see how you read "this happens where you work" any differently
Yup, just added the MIT license. Thanks for reminding!
Are you suggesting that we’d inevitably place ads in our emails alerts?
Of course it’s been heavily suggested! They have been openly hypothesizing this is some sort of directed microwave attack on people, from Cuba.

Articles by the NYT initially put the microwave hypothesis hand in hand with strained US-Cuba relations!

Of course now it’s being revealed that people in other countries are having it so it’s hard. But they’re actively implying this is some microwave super weapon (it feels so absurd that when talking about it even Obama alum Ben Rhodes basically talks about it as “allegedly some weapon thing” in a “don’t believe that” theory).

I’m curious what is going on here too, but definitely don’t believe the weapon hypothesis compared to the much more banal explanations that we all know.
Who wouldn’t?
Hrm. Simple minded being like me thought of making something like the BA-330 inflatable habitat study from Bigelow Aerospace out of it. For advanced 'Tin-Canning' in orbit, little steps and all that, you know? :-)
“I doubt that even happened lol.”

Says man who, earlier in the same thread on weed-induced arrogance, writes, “my experience is the opposite.“
An amusing coincidence makes it that these days I'm actually reading this book.

I think it's the first time I can comfortably use the phrase 'thought provoking' both in its literal sense as well as a euphemism to describe something. Like most commenters here I found the core hypothesis striking enough on its own, but I have to say that so far (~200 pages in) I haven't seen anything that goes beyond hypotheses and conjectures. So far it mostly reads like an essay in speculative psychology/anthropology, not like anything that can be taken seriously.

As a (layman) fan of Chomsky's scientific work I was also surprised that Jaynes never mentions him, even when discussing linguistics and the origins of language.
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As a former wireless ISP architect/engineer, it's wonderful to see the leadership that Starlink is providing in LEO satellite connectivity (due to the low latency compared to geostationary). I hope the "block the sky with satellites" visual/astronomy concerns won't play out as an actual issue, because this seems like a great platform to address connectivity needs in harder-to-reach areas.
> Except there’s a lot of people (myself included) who don’t consider a quantum annealer to be a quantum computer.

Well, great; that's an opinion. The thing is, if a device uses the quantum-mechanical properties of the universe to do calculation, then it is a quantum computer; asserting that it isn't one is a matter of semantics and categorization, since what you're really doing is redefining the term "quantum computer" to inherently include "gate model" as part of it, which is not a foregone conclusion yet.

I believe, from what I've read, that at this point current and projected gate-model quantum computers will not be competitive on optimization problems where quantum annealing will be, so there is definitely utility in continuing to pursue this research and development exercise.

> There has been also very little if any actual research in other fields powered with quantum computing.

Here's our latest:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/07/14/scie...

As a physics playground, annealers are very compelling, and materials research will definitely benefit from these devices.
Meh. Without DNS, or something similar, there really is no internet.

Obviously you are technically correct.
It's only "stupid" if one suffers from a catastrophic lack of empathy for people who are not programmers and for the incentives to which they are exposed--which do not include using a software developer's preferred tools, nor do they include the carving out of time with which to learn them.

I would hope that we would be generally wiser than that here.
Thanks. Love it, wish the old site is the default everywhere in reddit.
This is a really important point that underscores the persistent tech education gap that exists across our economies. Mike Duncan observed some time ago that our politicians can barely handle e-mail on their own, making them particularly vulnerable to infrastructure disruption. Low and behold, we've now got an army of firms _legally trading_ in tools whose only purpose is to disrupt (or capture) infrastructure.
Exactly. And yet people in this thread are arguing against the idea that the CIA would do it.
Wonder given there is an obvious pattern to it can a script (!) one line and ensure even if copy to the dot file still ok to clean it up … if it is so common why not use computer to check and clean it.
This is a position I could support if most privacy advocates didn't also expect accommodation to access services that would normally be funded by their information. I like that my information has value and I'm happy to spend it in place of currency to support a service. Why should someone get the same access I do if they're not willing to pay the toll? It's like listening to a bittorrent leech try to justify themselves.
Just as an aside, eradicating small pox really doesn't get enough press. The day the last case of small pox happened should be a global holiday celebration. It is probably the greatest achievement of humanity in the last few hundred years, and is a gift to all future humans with unbounded upside. Sure we could have done it earlier, better, with more equality etc, but we still did it and we did it everywhere. I try to remember this on the days when the world seems to be going to hell.
Given the amount of tracking that's possible today, I think that anybody who cared would be able to easily determine your exact salary if the salary of every position at a company were published.
Problem is, if your on Akamai’s CDN, only Akamai know where the local caches are. You need to be on their DNS only.
There are production systems that run on 30+ years old software. Upgrade for a sake of upgrade is often a wrong decision.
That's fair, good luck.

I do mean fraud by sellers not buyers though.

The others were more active but quite possibly. Good luck on th journey m8 hmu if you like.
I agree with you 100%. There are very good and valuable reasons to follow some of the purist “rules” around designing REST APIs. It makes them significantly easier to consume when they don’t violate the principle of least astonishment.
well, maybe if FF updates didn't seem to make it worse each time I'd be more inclined in believing you
The matter of judgement comes down to "Who's judgement?"

AirBnB clearly thinks it is fine. The people on either side of AirBnB renting may think it is fine. People living next door don't get a say, and yet have to deal with the social outcome. They want a say.

Why do they want a say?

Reputation with your neighbours is the outcome of repeated interaction - prisoners dilemma-ish in action.

Humans prove time and again their behaviour can't be guaranteed when they perceive they are anonymous, or the interaction is a once off.

I think "it is up for debate" as to how to proceed in future. I don't think it is up for debate that we can continue without change.
My understanding was that objective physiological differences were found in the original group reporting "Havana Syndrome", and clearly the government is still claiming it is real. Your link doesn't mention Havana at all - why do you think this case was mass hysteria? I'm aware that hysteria can cause physiological symptoms to some extent, but this doesn't read to me like something that was purely psychosomatic.
Glad they draw attention to the difference between “healthy years” and “just more years”. From our work at GoGo (GoGoGrandparent.com) our clients specifically value more time in the community they grew old in. As you age the trip to church every Sunday becomes what you live for, and taking that away so you can live more years in a retrofitted apartment building isn’t worth it to a lot of people.
Logic tell me that "it would have to be someone with the resources to carry out such attacks across the world" 99% point to USA?

Not trying to disclaim you, but this part of reasoning seems rather weird. Even China has more global influence than Russia? Or even UK, France, German.

If you think this attack by "enemy", why not just kill someone? I mean, given the length of what's happening, it must be that there is no way to obtain concrete evidences.

Russia would know for sure that US would accuse Russia anyway, even without any concrete evidences; which has been the behavior pattern of US for quite a long time.

Turns out that, if we follow logic, then we can fairly sure that this is indeed a unsolved case. And more investigation is needed. And that's what CIA chief is doing, and I think CIA chief is doing something right.
> It's like they think it's 1995 and MeToo never happened.

Maybe they think their customers are more Gamer-gatey types, and will side with them over a bunch of underpaid, sexually-harassed female employees.
There’s some truth to what you say but I think understanding that truth requires a lot of context and nuance, which I don’t think is easy to do here on a comment forum. On the flip side, it’s not all roses in the quantum industry. There’s more pressure (implicitly and often explicitly) to demo, dazzle, and deliver on “innovation”. Mass layoffs, re-orgs, change of management, hyper-pressurized funding rounds, investor and board pressure, CEO “realignment”, etc. all happen in this sector of the quantum biz. Entire departments—even whole companies—of scientists are funded to work with “industry partners” to solve “industrial problems”, problems for which there’s no published evidence of advantage. A scientist in such a department squeezes out a paper that’s of little, and dare I say completely inconsequential value from time to time.
Records have to be kept in sync.

If one dept deletes a record and the other doesn’t, how do you decide who’s right?

You could add a third dept that gives them both orders, but now that third dept is a single point of failure.
Naturally. Thanks!
Seems like vaccine antibodies target a broader range of variants https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...

Antibody titers are higher from vaccines as well. "After the second dose of the vaccine, antibody titers were up to 10 times higher than those of patients who had recovered from natural COVID-19 infection, suggesting that even those with prior exposure could benefit from vaccination."

https://www.contagionlive.com/view/immune-response-from-mrna...
Is this really that rare?
I mean my wedding ring on my finger right now is 1/3 Gibeon Meteorite... the Gibeon Meteorites are about 4 billion years old.
"Most companies do not keep their books in spreadsheets."
Iceberg issue (only n% visible). Most companies do not have the self awareness to know that their ERP systems and server class database apps are shadowed by an enormous volume of spreadsheets created by their own employees. Audits and Auditors will never see them because they are not part of the official work flow.

I have seen a case where entry happened in the spreadsheet and "locally processed/validated" in some way that satisfied the clerical person. Then the now "correct" mass of data was cut and pasted from Excel into the ERP system which used a development control that worked like a crippled Excel sheet.

They did this to avoid the cryptic and most unhelpful errors from the ERP system, if the data was not ERP rules "perfect".
The government asked random people to remote view Mars in the year 1 million B.C. and then wrote it down. That's the whole story.

Enough proof to believe though, right?
Is it because it now is using a web view instead? and it's too hard for the employees in charge to support native drag&drop? xD
"Interpolation" here I think effectively boils down to np.searchsorted() or its equivalent, which is implemented in all the major ML libs (jittable and backpropable).
I don't think they're saying its been here for that long, just that it was formed in space before the earth was... it arrived on earth much later having spent its time touring the solar system.
As you wish :)
https://meetryanflowers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DNS.m...
This is a touchy subject to discuss on HN, but I’d caution you that much of the scientific literature on the topic of depression and cannabis is not positive. Obviously there is some possibility of bidirectional causation (cannabis worsens depression, depression increases cannabis consumption) but even the most “both sides” papers on the subject still lean toward cannabis worsening depression over time. This paper is a decent “both sides” overview if you can get the full text: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33332004/

Note that the negative effects of cannabis on depression aren’t immediately obvious, as the drug itself makes users temporarily feel better. As such, people tend to associate cannabis with an immediate improvement of symptoms, yet can’t quite pinpoint the long-term downward trend in their depressive symptoms that occurs due to long-term changes of repeated consumption. There is also some concerning evidence to suggest that traditional depression treatments are less effective when someone is consuming cannabis.

One of my good friends is a professional therapist who is very open about her own personal cannabis use. However, she says she spends much of her professional time convincing depression patients to stop consuming cannabis, with positive results for those who can follow through.
The embargo can only be lifted by Congress.

What Trump says and does are two different things. Follow the policy. He never actually reversed it.

> EDIT: I'm still not sure what you mean by "incorrect when it comes to actual policy," in case that wasn't clear. The policy of the U.S. has been to prevent Cuba from engaging in international trade as a sovereign nation for decades. That is still the case.

There cannot be a campaign to sway public opinion for US intervention when there has been a policy in effect for the warming of relations for the last 7 years. It's a contradiction in policy.
I agree that if it was just EM even a undergrad physics lab could've found it in 10 minutes, worth keeping in mind all the wacky shit the KGB used to track people (radioactive dust on shoes for example) - spy tech was insane multiple careers ago, it's probably not gotten worse (although I imagine the internet has killed off a lot of physical spying).
> On the other hand, if repair is easy for third parties, warranty becomes far less important.

Exactly. Not a single car I've owned has been under warranty, and that's been entirely fine by me, because I can always take it to a shop or take it to a mechanically-inclined friend or fix it myself. Likewise with desktops and laptops; there's been no need for a warranty if I can fix it myself, and until recently (what with the "let's make everything as pointlessly thin as possible" craze) that's almost always been the case.
It's clearly an extension, but in the same way that computer science is an extension of boolean logic.
This is cool. Buttons are surprising hard to get right.
> Shit I'll only use throwaways on this site because I don't want to get blackballed for saying that the only thing lockdowns do is cause deaths of despair

Lockdowns do slow the transmission of the virus. However some lockdowns are more effective than others.

I am an Australian, and I live in a country which has been in lockdown for somewhere around 500 days. While it is difficult to prove what would have happened if the country here did not go into lockdown, I can honestly say that the lockdown here hasn't been highly effective, as there are still 1000s of cases a day and high levels of community transfer. I would say things would have been worse.

I would rather be in lockdown in Australia than here, there are many safety nets in Australia which while life might be difficult in these times prevent what happens like people starving to death. These don't reflect on the effectiveness of the lockdown, but rather the effectiveness of the management of the lockdown.

There is also the mentality of the citizens, lockdowns are less effective when the citizens are less compliant or due to certain government stances. Take one of the areas here, you can travel there and you only have to go into quarantine for 7 days if you are vaccinated, no consideration to the fact that you can still get infected by the virus when you are vaccinated and can still transmit it.

To sum up, are lockdowns effective and the answer is yes if they are done effectively. Do lockdowns impact on personal freedoms, yes they do if they are done effectively or not. Do lockdowns have social and economic impacts, yes they do and so does not having a lockdown.
We use spreadsheets to manage data that would 1000% be better suited for storage in a database (and extracted the data would be sooooo much simpler than my monthly half day job of updating management reports).

Why? Because we don't have access to any databases. I dread to think of the requests and committees I would need to find and traverse to get a database set up for my team, let alone a system that I can write and run code on. Yet we can guarantee that every internal and external user has access to Excel.

Unless you are working for a software firm, or are part of a dedicated analytics team with access to suitable systems, large companies and government pretty much have no chance of being able to roll your own database.

Don't suggest Access. Never suggest Access.
Some details of the case are a grab bag (I'm not sure I see how "male employees proudly came into work hungover" is an incident of sexual harassment), but there are multiple accusations here that are both far beyond the "every large company" level and clearly implicate senior leadership. They probably should have been less... toxic about it, but a good response can only go so far if the underlying incidents are true. Personally, if I worked for Blizzard, anything other than a vehement denial would have sent me right out the door.

That's not to rule out the possibility that it was just a panicked response nobody thought through in detail, since there's gotta be a big overlap between people responsible for this message and people responsible for stopping sexual harassment.
No shit...

anyone I know thats a heavy pot smoker tends to become unstable....
I was going to recommend the Zettelkasten method then realised you asked for something simple. But for others who are curious or don't mind a more involved system then I would recommend it. Works digitally as well.
> mentioning a class of people without qualification colloquially means 'all'

Does it? I've never heard that usage and think you're probably inferring things. But there are cases where local language varies. In those cases you should try to understand the intent behind the statement. It's clear to me the writer did not intend the statement you're trying to attribute to them.

Do you say "I had lunch with friends" or "I had lunch with some of my friends"