skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean. Representation is fixed-sum, if some groups saw increased representation other groups need to have reduced representation. What were the representation before and after the elimination of tests?

Looking on Google, the share of Asians and whites decreased: https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/USA/Education/2...
Most sources say that cotton is worse than plastic or paper.

https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotto...

Intuitively, this makes sense to me: cotton comes from a plant that can be harvested and replanted, just like paper. The main difference is that you use a lot more cotton to make a cotton bag.
thanks for clearing that up I was also confused at first like OP but kinda convinced myself of what you said
I can think of many reasons why using a non-qwerty keyboard layout is not a good idea
What are you guys expecting? A complete dissection of the government’s network topology, and detailed inventory of past and future mitigations?

These are classified gov systems. We are lucky to get an acknowledgment that something even happened.
> extruded polymers like plastic bags, wraps and containers are almost always synthesized from waste products of fossil fuel refinement

That's almost completely false.

It obviously depends on the kind of plastic. PE and PP are made from ethene and propene, which are indeed byproducts of fuel refining. But demand far outstrips supply now, so these are now made on purpose. PS is made from styrene, which is not a byproduct. It is made from low-value chemicals, so it's upgraded waste. PET is made from terepthalic acid, which is very much not a waste product of any process.

Even if there were any waste products from fuel refining, they would certainly not be vented. They'd be burned as fuel. Which is also a sensible thing to do with waste plastics. (Someone is going to object that this releases CO2. It does. Burning fuel releases CO2. We can come back to this point once we longer burn coal or methane for energy.)
There have always been issues with Cloudflare's DNS and archive.is, IIRC it's because Cloudflare don't pass on some information that the operators of archive.is think they should. Unfortunate, but both parties perceive it as something the other should fix.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1017902875949793285
I'm not so sure, though. I think there's still an argument to be made for multiple approaches and different technology, which you're not likely to get if everyone works together. I'm not sure that "avoiding a monoculture" is important for this sort of thing, but maybe it can't hurt?

Another problem when multiple independent orgs pool resources and work together is you either end up with design-by-committee (which leads to overengineering and extra expense, both of which are anti-goals for SpaceX and BO), or deadlock when the parties can't agree. And you'd better believe personalities like Musk and Bezos would clash a lot if they ever did a joint venture on something.
Also good for training
August 4 will mark 1 year since this explosion. Lebanon has continued to devolve into an abyss of financial ruin (90% of savings have been wiped out by hyper-inflation), government incompetence (no government or even an inkling of one forming anytime soon), rolling blackouts (lebanons electrical capacity is 900GW with a peak demand of 3000GW - the gap is insurmountable in any reasonable amount of time), the international community has given up giving Lebanon any aid.

Where did the rest of AN go? I am pretty sure Hezbollah knows the answer.
It's interesting how the USB protocol is so flexible while also having hard-coded support for all kinds of extremely application-specific features
Firefox has been breaking down on me the past few months. This inspired me to go back to Chrome.
That's a great idea! And thanks for the tip on ssheven, I have an OS 9 machine I've gotten networked but having a devil of a time getting any network client software onto it without a lot of floppy hoop-jumping, and scp would be real handy.
We talked about this last night with my family, and found out that most people that don't want to get vaccinated that we know were people not affected by the second lockdown (in France) because they didn't follow the rules. I understand why some people don't want to get vaccinated, but on the other hand I feel like they're just exploiting the part of the population that's compliant. I wish there was a way to easily divided everyone, like "this city is for non-compliers, and this one is for compliers". I'm starting a new job soon and I'd like to be able to go to work normally. I don't want to be under a lockdown again because some people can't stop themselves from partying, don't want to get the vaccine and don't want to follow the rules. I guess this is just another prisonner's dilemma.
>With less efficient vehicles

It's less efficient, but not by much. The most popular passenger vehicle that's not a truck is the toyota rav 4[1], which gets 30 mpg[2]. A ford transit connect gets 22[3]. Using those figures, an amazon van that delivers to at least 2 houses in a suburb probably spends less fuel than those two households driving directly to a store. Even if they make separate deliveries, it will probably be worth it.
A todo list is not a plan to get things done.

If you're serious about getting more done, tracking how you spend your all your time is worth trying as a starting point. It allows you to identify where your time actually goes and what you need to do to prioritize differently (and if that's even possible.)

I try to live a spreadsheet driven life. I have a workbook with a sheet for my todo items with due dates if applicable, a sheet for both prospective and retrospective time tracking, a sheet for things I need to buy, etc. all in one place so I can pull tasks in as part of weekly planning. The week usually doesn't go according to plan but I think I still get more done than if I didn't go through the process. Weekly planning also gives me opportunities to start over fairly frequently if I fall off the wagon.
It’s like an average person spending $1,000 per year for a hobby.
> Apparently the Rust compiler saw a 5% improvement (on average) when they enabled automatic aliasing information (they are now working with LLVM to get it back on).

For now, it should be part of the next release (1.54).

It was originally slated for 1.53, but then a new miscompilation was discovered during the 1.53 release cycle, so it stayed off.
It's certainly enough to turn off those optional settings, don't you think? But fair enough, I didn't phrase this right.

I'm wondering how they count users, and whether installations with telemetry disabled are counted at all.
I do use a piece of float glass on my 3D printer bed, and it works well enough. Maybe I'll see if I can figure out how much it distorts when heated (not enough to cause a noticeable problem with the relatively low-precision stuff I've been making thus far).

Some people do use borosilicate glass (like Pyrex) for this, but I've been satisfied so far with a piece of regular float glass window stock I had cut to size at Lowes.
Neat. Do you have integrations with Element?
With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
Some people prefer less clutter. You can’t satisfy everyone.
They pushed the world, certainly. Whether they pushed it "forward" is debatable.
This is probably true. It's axiomatic that an english concept will be both misused, and is mutable across time.
humans inflict pain for money, mostly. nature does so to be sustainable. I don't believe that any sentient life can exist and thrive without pain. that's part of the beauty of nature. things die. new things come up. it's absolutely bonkers to me how someone could think otherwise. good and bad is a human construct to classify human behavior. nothing would exist if there's no death.
To Slightly Reduce How Much the Internet Sucks, Use Positive Reinforcement
I thought it was a joke when I read about in some journal.
I am wondering if the graph that shows Safari performance is actually quadratic. I am referring to the the 2nd linear segment.

On that graph, 400,000 length required 2500 in time. If it's quadratic, 800,000 would require 10,000 in time. If you imagine the plot goes all the way to 800,000 - it's not hard to see that the line/curve hitting at 10,000.

Thoughts?
There is also more affluence in California and the Northeast vs Middle America. Regardless of politics Middle America is not going to be granted the same economic opportunities as coastal regions.
1. If the appendix was both useless and deadly (before procreation), there would be a strong evolutionary pressure against it, so it likely is unobviously useful

2. Western diet possibly causes problems with the appendix - "Appendicitis is uncommon in rural Africa and Asia"

3. Anatomy involved with immune function or microbiome is hard to understand function.

From links:

The peak incidence occurs in the 15- to 24-year-old age group. However older individuals are more likely to have complications and die from the malady. Symptoms of appendicitis in older people frequently are not as clear-cut as are symptoms in younger people.

People with acute appendicitis often think they would feel better if they just could move their bowels. To encourage a bowel movement, they take a laxative. This is a serious mistake, one that may lead to rupture of the appendix.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-04-14-87012404...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-funct...
According to the article, the ones they built don’t meet federal safety standards. This is probably why it seems easy.
How is this different from raised beds?
I think you're underestimating things here. These days we have two new milestones: a crewed mission to Mars, and a permanent moon base. The fervor to get there is of course nowhere near what it was like in the 50s and 60s, and I probably wouldn't even call this a new "space race", but the US doesn't want to look weak in matters like this, especially with China's general technological and economic rise over the past decades.

I actually think the US hasn't made such a big deal about Mars and the moon because they're afraid China will latch onto that and make it a big deal, and more likely "win". So instead we focus on LEO, ISS, Mars rovers, probes, telescopes, etc. And if China does eventually build a permanent moon base or get a crew to Mars before the US does, the US can claim "cool, good job, but we didn't think it was all that important, so we didn't pursue it as hard as they did".

(Note that I believe that Musk pushing hard for Mars is not the same as the US pushing hard for Mars. The US seems more outwardly excited about Musk's ability to cheaply ferry things to and from orbit than anything much farther.)
The moral of the tortise and the hare fable is that the hare lost because he took breaks. He lost despite having a faster top speed not because of it.
If you're in California and enjoy this sort of thing, the Bristlecone pines near Mammoth Lakes are the oldest trees in the world. I'm not religious but to me, visiting them is almost sacred.
The article asks who should pay to build dikes that keep the water out of Silicon Valley. Instead of building dikes, though, we should fill the Bay in: https://jefftk.com/p/make-more-land
Going to the moon again is pushing the world forward? Why? Humans got there and there's been no reason to go back
JavaScript's FinalizationRegistry
When you let a terror organization run your country...

it doesn't work
Blue Origin was founded in 2000, SpaceX 2002. SpaceX achieved orbit in 2008. Blue Origin is still sub orbital yet planning on a moon mission.

At this point Bezos might be better off starting over with a new team.
"Sounds to me like Freud wasn't an addict."

He definitely was.

From some other articles:

Freud "was using cocaine quite a bit in 1895 on himself, to the point he was having chest pain. He was depressed. And he also -- his nose was so congested, he had to have a surgeon open it up with a knife so he could breathe, lots of signs that you might want to lay off the stuff."[1]

"At no point in his letters does Freud consider the possibility that cocaine may produce adverse effects, or indeed any effects apart from those he values. This is clearly illustrated in another letter: "… I was suffering from migraine, the third attack this week, by the way, although I am otherwise in excellent health. I took some cocaine, watched the migraine vanish at once, went on writing my paper as well as a letter to Professor Mendel, but I was so wound up that I had to go on working and writing and couldn't get to sleep before four in the morning." It does not appear from this letter that Freud was aware of the connection between his use of cocaine and his being wound up and unable to sleep."[2]

"Freud, for a few years, became such a regular consumer that his nose was red and wet. To put an end to the bad habit of drinking, he tried to keep busy as long as possible: he got up at six in the morning, saw twelve patients, read and wrote until the middle of the night. Freud managed to rehabilitate himself and completely abandoned his addiction."[3]

[1] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/cocaine-how-miracle-drug-n...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/22/archives/freuds-disaster-...

[3] - https://psychologysays.net/psychology/sigmund-freud-and-his-...
They have certainly pushed the world. Whether the direction we're going is 'forward' is extremely debatable. It certainly might look that way from certain positions, but not all points of view agree, and there's no clear way to determine which should be privileged.
Since it's presented as a "tiny" runtime, I'd like a size comparaison between this and Node in the readme. Same thing with the use cases (learning projects or "just for fun" are very valid use cases!).
Maybe because it suggests our elites have brain damage making them more likely to have poor impulse control.
Just to let you know that when I tried your website from my current country (UAE), it showed price units in the lowest denomination rather than in the standard denomination. It would be like quoting 49 cents per month instead of $49.
Before COVID there were between thirteen and seventeen million empty homes in he US, many due to foreclosure. There were (and likely still are) enough homes to house everyone, including the homeless, only the distribution is skewed so that there are few empty houses where jobs are (cities).
I thought Eric Cartman was the only creature that drinks tears
I appreciate the point you’re trying to make, but I disagree with this.

It’s something that has frustrated me, as a manager, when fellow managers said it to me. I feel like it gives permission to managers to detach themselves from the reality of their organization.

The trick is to know WHEN to dive deep, because you are right that managers also have to maintain a broad perspective.

But being able to sniff out problems and then dive into them has always been the hallmark of a great manager/executive, at least in my own experiences.
Rather beside the point, but for people who aren't used to this, the usual dodges are first to search for the "final text" produced by the relevant standard committee (I have C and Fortran stashed, but I once got work to pay for the real C one). If that fails maybe consult the manual of a well-documented, high-quality implementation; that should tell you what versions(s) of the relevant standard(s) it supports and clearly mark extensions of the standard.
It’s not the R rating necessarily, it’s how they’ve sanitized the story. The whole book is rife with islamic/arabic and at least from the trailer they’ve anglicized everything, which doesn’t give me much hope. I really don’t see a reason for it.
Well, everything we ever explained in biology and related fields turned out to be fully explained by plain wet chemistry, so claim that conciousness is not is quite extraordinary.

Conciousness is a function of the brain like digestion is a function of the stomach. Why not explain digestion with spooky quantum mechanics?
Is Jeffy still going with the "here's $2 billion, pick me instead" attempt? https://www.inputmag.com/culture/jeff-bezos-is-straight-up-t...
I don’t know what Element is. Tell me more. Integrations are a big part of our roadmap this year, so… maybe!
This is helpful but if you're trying to reconcile credit card charges to purchase it's _maddening_. See, sometimes Amazon will take an order for a single item and split it across two separate credit card charges.

The only way that I've figured out how to accurately reconcile orders to charges is to crawl the invoice pages for every order and extract the charge information (this is not something I do often).
Having some competition is probably the best way to make space companies work efficiently, cheaply, and reliably, so these two egomaniacs fighting it out in a space race might be the best possible thing for progress in the industry.
I know this is completely random, but I just love how HN posters rarely communicate with each other past one or two comments.
It occurs to me that there are other things in a similar boat, like the SPEC benchmarks.
why stop at that? 'high dimensional matrix parameterised data derived non linear function optimisation and unique hypothesis generation' just rolls off the tongue doesn't it xD
Fwiw I never heard the "save the trees" only "save the rainforest" (which still makes sense). I grew up with 10k trees per capita though and now it's probably more because farmland is abandoned.
Ask HN: What are some of the best non-technical talks of all time?
Here's mine:

1. Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&list=PLrekO4JKU4v0oxfgug1sOuaDORDEXf_vp&index=12

2. Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYemnKEKx0c&list=PLrekO4JKU4v0oxfgug1sOuaDORDEXf_vp&index=4

3. The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg&list=PLrekO4JKU4v0oxfgug1sOuaDORDEXf_vp&index=8

4. Steve Jobs MIT Class: What he learnt after he was fired from Apple? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXUhLbV8Nrg&list=PLrekO4JKU4v0oxfgug1sOuaDORDEXf_vp&index=22&t=8s

5. Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd0JH1AreDw&list=PLrekO4JKU4v0oxfgug1sOuaDORDEXf_vp&index=24

6. Peter Lynch 1994 Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Pq5zKEi_g&list=PLrekO4JKU4v0oxfgug1sOuaDORDEXf_vp&index=20
The Netherlands?
The same this is happening in the academics.
I'm not sure what issue others had with your comment. You're quite correct that he ignores vast swaths of current ML art and attacks a narrow conception of what ML is. Many of his criticism are legit with the right caveats, but he leaves out a lot of information that could lead to a different thesis.

My read of the discussion here is that there is lots of idle speculation by people who don't have any real experience with ML research / engineering, that overwhelms a minority who actually know what they are talking about and are calling CD out on this, or at least challenging aspects of his arguments.
> is it even possible to fix enough to stop dedicate states as big as CCP or Russia?

In effect yes, because this is an arbitrarily asymmetric environment. You can make them spend say $1Bn for every $1 you spend, if you actually put the work in. And they can't afford that.

The US President is just a man, the Russians could, in principle, shoot him in the head. But the US spends a lot of money to make that really hard, and so it isn't worth it and only random American nutjobs try. Most countries don't do that, it's certainly interesting how relatively few of their political leaders get shot in the head...

But that's the wrong mindset to have in this space, and it's how you get this outcome. The US focuses resources on protecting a few high value assets and so your opponent just seizes whatever low value assets they want and leverages those to achieve their goals. The right strategy is to jack up the baseline. That is, rather than spend more money protecting those you perceive as biggest targets, spend that money protecting everybody, including ordinary folks so that these broad attacks are too expensive to pursue.

Suppose you're an adversary today, somebody in your team figures out a way to target maybe 80% of California Department of Food & Agriculture employees for $1 each. You won't get the most senior people, or those most on the ball about security, but hey, 80% of all employees for $1 each is a bargain so of course you take that.

Now suppose the price goes up steeply due to a better approach to this problem from the US government, and they cost $1000 each. That sucks. Instead of just saying "Do it" on your own authority you need to go talk to management about budget. Nobody wants to authorise $2M for this speculative work that might not go anywhere. They authorise you to spend $100 000 identifying the best targets and attacking those instead. A month later you've identified twenty good targets at the CDFA and successfully breached twelve accounts instead of hundreds. This sucks.

Imagine if instead of $1000 it was $1M. Or $1Bn. At some point it gets escalated so that an aide is explaining to Putin that it's a choice whether to spend money on fixing the Kuznetsov or breaking into the accounts of some more US civil servants moaning about the coffee machine in their office on the hope that it helps somehow down the line. This is not a hard choice.

> I'm sure the US is guilty too but we don't have the same type of state owned/sponsored corporations that we hand over hacked materials to copy

This is startlingly naive. Of course the NSA can and goes obtain commercially sensitive information for US corporations like Boeing. Maybe the US counts as stupider for not insisting on a cut of the proceeds, who can say.
Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Are we made of math? Is math real?
It's pretty brave of moths to do this since they are naturally preyed upon by birds. Maybe birds don't mind this activity. Perhaps there's some benefit to the birds too?
For me it'd not about partying. It's about keeping my body healthy and not injecting it with chemicals and risking long term damage for the rest of my life. I don't believe the vaccine is better than my natural antibodies at fighting covid. I also believe most of us already had covid and we have antibodies already.

Also, you are saying that you value avoiding a lockdown more than letting people on the planet decide what goes into their bodies. I can't agree with that. If we don't have freedom to decide that, we are nothing. Just resources to be exploited.
The Galileo Project: Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial
Did you mean "teeming"? Because I enjoyed the utopian pun of "teaming": all lifeforms in the universe collaborating somehow.
last time I used it, it didn't play well with simultaneous editing
Whenever Bitcoin collapses, whether it be next week or 5 years, we will look back in history and wonder what the fuck we wasted all that energy on.
Do a fellowship in Congress, learn the ropes and if you don’t want to stay on the Hill, you’ll still have had a unbeatable crash course on how politics works. https://www.techcongress.io/
You sound like a Sunday golf narrator.
It probably has something to do with not getting notified when someone replies to your post.
Good Gawd. Enough with all the self-introspection and angst.

I remember back when most entrepreneurs were single location grocery stores, plumbing companies, small factories making an aquarium pump.

I guess that an economy led by large scale surveillance marketing allows for more overwrought behavior.
Very nice project. Did you eventually cast more stuff with it than your motor mounts? You should take a look at this Youtube channel by a Russian guy, Advoko Makes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc1ufNROdAxto9Fr0jnEE2Q