skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment kind of implies that theorists analyse the data. (They don't even have access to it.) Analysis is the job of experimental physicists (like me) and can take years.

We don't wait until we have theoretical interpretations before publishing the discovery of a new particle. In fact, our results are kept confidential until the end of the collaboration's internal review process. In the absence of leaks, the first any theorist should hear of this new particle would have been the conference talk or press release.
> If we stopped emitting carbon immediately, warming would halt (not reverse but halt) within a few decades

Again it comes down to caring about decades in the future. Look at the age of people who control everything. There are very few people under forty so if we take “a few decades” to mean forty years even people in their thirties are going to be near end of life before we see any benefit.

For the majority of people in positions of power they are in their fifties, sixties or seventies. They just don’t care about forty years+ in the future.

They say they care for their grandchildren’s futures but they clearly don’t as they never take strong action. They act as if pathetic targets will make a difference when what we need is extreme reductions.
Switzerland also has the 'hobby-business' problem, where a rich housewife wants to have a fashion brand or something similar. Walk through Niederdorf in Zurich for an example of what happens when this takes over...
which begs the question what do you need MVC for, what is it if not a way of structuring code? If you can just structure your code by splitting to multiple files abitrarily, regardless of MVC
Goddess Manifestation Secrets Review, Legit or a Scam?
>So, as current vaccines don't stop infection and spread, why would the most of the population whose risk of hospitalization is very low need (and even forced) to vaccinate?

Good point.
Keep in mind you have to be aware of the difference of a phonetic and a phonemic transcription
Sounds abusive
It’s somewhat terrifying that a single person or a small team can develop an operating system, with a GUI, but won’t be able to create a modern web browser to run on the same OS.
This is the most honest explanation I have ever of USA and its sociopathic brand of capitalism.
That's beautiful, thank you :)
critical theory, which insists that any measurement that results in different outcomes among ethnic or racial groups is a priori racist

Well, at least this writer puts his personal hysteria up front so we can see it.
I mean, does not imply..
Not a biologist, but could you engineer this stuff to coat objects that you can use INSIDE the human body, and because its not biodegradable within our body, it wont break down or be attacked by our immune system?
Did not worked for me either.

We might be the edge cases though and in general it works. In the way autonomous driving works in general, just not in unexpected situations ...
Performance vs. Programming Effort Between Rust and C on Multicore Architectures
I think it's related, and I say so because I read in one of the Yuval Harari books about war vets who had lost their limbs being more likely to support said war, and he attributed it to sunken cost fallacy. seems similar to the situation to me, but I think this is a case of different opinions and I respect yours and thank you for sharing it in a constructive way.
I will never work in an office again, myself.
According to wikipedia, at least, it's 4bn [1] But you're correct, for a (UK) infrastructure project that's actually pretty good especially considering it has to go underground through a city that has medieval and Roman ruins littered all over the place [2]

> The total estimated cost has risen from an initial budget of £14.8 billion to £18.7 billion, as of August 2020.[7]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/21/crossrail-de...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Mithraeum
ah you're correct, I misunderstood the meaning of Working Note. It seems like Safari is adding support for WebM this year, but even so since it's still an editor's draft I think it's reasonable to expect websites to provide alternatives to WebM if unsupported. I guess that's why it was not included in the list of complaints in the origjnal article
We benefited from it in London, I think we all wanted it too. Even if it kind of was an austerity Olympics compared to before it and after it? Sure we wasted some money here and there (was who the fuck needs a giant slide) but overall it turned an industrial wasteland into a useful area for East London.
>I don’t expect small developers to be able to make a top-notch browser engine any more than I expect them to make software equivalent to Photoshop

Specifically for this example I do strongly believe Photoshop will be dethroned in the next 5 years and the app that will achieve it will be by a <30 person dev team.

Think this is an outlier though because it's so antiquated and barely uses your computing power and the dev team clearly doesn't want to actually do anything challenging to fix it. Yet a team starting from scratch today would build it in a very different way, much more GPU focused and I think it will surprise us just how much better it is.
Announced this week that they're aiming for Feb 2022.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/07/27/crossrail-aiming...
If consciousness doesn't exist, who is it that can disprove it, and why should anyone listen? It's a bit like proving the universe is a simulation or not. These can never be proved or disproved.

It's quite silly to deny consciousness though! It's similar to deny one's existence. So philosophy and psychology shines some light on these questions.
Colours Can Compute – An overview of why graph 3-colouring is NP-Complete
Stop Calling Professors ‘Professor’
The Spring Paradox
I guess this is a more direct approach than giving them coffee and cigarettes.
> Shows a keen misunderstanding of American history. The US government commits far more atrocities on a yearly basis than the private sector ever has. I could fill up this whole page with links describing absurd infringements on our constitutional rights by the US government, many of them ongoing to this day.

On behalf of the oil industry, the USA is committint genocide in Yemen, on contract. Saudi Arabia literally paid Trump for the cost of American troops in Yemen.

pretty much all atrocities done by the US government are in service of politically connected private industries.
When saying "Safari's behind Chrome in features" is not a valid criticism, the fact that the author is opposed to JavaScript is a massive caveat, since the feature disparity will likely come down to differences in the APIs available in JS.

I'm personally extremely worried about the fact that Chromium's eating the world, but if you're dictating what is and is not a valid criticism of the browser space, and you're starting from the premise that browsers shouldn't have JS, it's not surprising that some people aren't interested in what you have to say.
Reminds me of "Everything in moderation, including moderation"
Only the second remembers who finished second...
Webacus – Calculator for Developers
If wikipedia used this approach they could stop asking for money for server upkeep.
Article 4-11:

> Consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

And 6-1:

> Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

> the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

So whether consent is given or not depends on what people would write in their HN bio next to their email.
NSF funds $20M grant to merge AI and Mathematical Optimization
Those statistics are very incomplete, as they don't measure the emissions connected to the whole lifecycle of products, but rather seem to track only a weighted average of production based emissions (which appears to be their definition of consumption based emissions).

In order to get a realistic measure, we need to keep track of the whole product lifecycle, from gathering materials and production, to lifetime usage, waste disposal and reabsorption into the earth and atmosphere. This multiplies the total sum of emissions many times over, and heavily disfavours high-consuming per capita countries.

If we compare household consumption rates, China is emitting only a fraction of that of western households. In terms of money spent, consumption per capita of the US is about 6-7 times larger than that of China.
Probably worth designing and ordering those specific parts online >> https://www.weerg.com/en/global/materials
The understanding that I think that attentive observers are taking away from this games, is that the Olympics Committee and political cohort bring shame on the host nation, not glory. I hope I'm not being too sensitive, but I really have felt as if the Japanese people have been reacting not merely to the patent illogic and consequently unjustifiable dangers, but I like to think that the Japanese are reacting to the contemptuous and privileged solipsism of those responsible, with a demonstration of regret and protest that's going to make everyone start to see these organisers for who they are.
I'm completing against the idea that 1 person can own 100 houses while the other 99 are forced to rent from that person.

Developing land is a no brainer. No need to keep making the rich richer while pricing out first time buyers from the market.

We can all afford to purchase water and there's no fear of it running out when investment is properly done to manage water as a resource. Surely we can do the same with housing so people can afford to buy.
> reading brightness, contrast or volume from the monitor fails about 30% of the time

There is a good chance this is because the read is done too fast. If it gets less reliable with a super long HDMI cable then it's almost certainly the clock speed.

I2C is a clocked protocol where the host (the laptop) decides the clock speed. It isn't designed as a high speed data transfer mechanism, and requires that all the signals get to the other end of the wire and back all within every clock cycle. Since there is very little data to send, a clock speed of 10kHz should do the job just fine. But I bet the hardware is set to something silly like 10 MHz by default, since it probably uses the same I2C drivers and hardware blocks as used for communicating with other things on-chip and within the system.
damn this is not opt-in? lol
> a relatively insecure browser, Firefox

In what way is Firefox any more insecure than Chrome or Safari?
sizeof would give you the actual size if you pass in a statically declared array.
Hotel API – Price Comparison API – Makcorps
Google's 'time crystals' could be one of the greatest scientific achievements
Chess boxing solves this issue.
I like the idea of all the practical stuff

Git
Ci/cd
Scrum/agile/standups
Jira
Etc

That stuff alone is more than enough imo

My challenge to you as a teacher would be

Can you get them relatively comfortable with git?

Like actually comfortable?

I suspect no, but that is on git not you

Not just git but github etc

How to debug?

How to set up a virtual environment and why.

Diff between 2 and 3 and why.

How to dive into a code base you don't know shit about, run some broken web app in your dev env, then find the broken code, pull/clone/branch/commit/push, etc.

Ideally maybe push them for a particular position that may interest them

QA and Support are good starting points for any aspiring dev

Really my advice is for old and young

If you're able to, I'd talk to folks about how much they actually like or hate this stuff

Most will likely not want to be honest but you might be able to pull it out of them depending on what your goals are

Talk about other positions dev evangelist/marketing, pre-sales engineer, tam, product/project manager, etc.
I agree that immigrant doctors should have an easier time practicing (and that we should be producing more doctors regardless of their origin). I think that the overall lack of qualified medical workers did lead to unnecessary deaths during the worst of the pandemic.

I think a robustness/efficiency dichotomy isn't the right way to look at this. One doesn't preclude the other. A medical system that is both efficient and robust is certainly possible. This discussion deserves its own thread.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure how other countries do it, but for the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) they basically renewed this giant landfill site. There's been a bunch of apartments, etc, built around there since then because it basically became a suburb where you could live.
It appears to be globally, though it depends on what you count exactly (65% of the total revenues, I was off sorry, but 80% of all subscription revenues). The reality is that the hundreds of millions in poorer countries with Android spend peanuts compared to rich countries.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

But whatever the exact number, the point stands. In most cases, not supporting iOS is a silly business decision.
> the Chinese would be quite happy leaving the 1992 Consensus alone.

No and that's the main issue. China has a long term strategy going all the way to 2049, the centenary of the revolution and Xi has repeatedly hinted that getting Taiwan back is part of it.

Modern China has an aggressively expansionist political strategy. Leaving China alone now would be making the same mistake which the world did with Nazi Germany in the 30s. Direct war is made complex by China's nuclear arsenal yet might be unavoidable in the long run but as of now all the diplomatic tools available should be used to contain them.
Watching the soccer made we think maybe we could get used to watching athletes compete in beautiful locations with no stadiums and crowds. Maybe you could do olympics really cheap with no tourists
History has shown that there is absolutely nothing the CCP can do to provoke the west to care more about the freedom of Chinese citizens than we do about thr availability of cheap goods for consumers.

Xi could literally kill 60m of its own peoples, and the west wouldn’t even declare sanctions.
The body can attack foreign stuff, like metals, even if they are not biodegradable.

Which is why for example only a few materials are biocompatible.
Many thanks to everyone who is actively slowing down the advances in web push notifications. 1% valid use cases, 99% spam.
is this optimism?

given that countries can force all the major tech companies to censor and remove selective content, what makes people think Stalink will be immune to governmental forces of oppression?

If it's not immune and I don't think it is, how could a billionaire design a system to make it immune today, as I think it's possible to at least try to make it immune from censorship.
It isn't done yet... To really see how far the budget miss is, you have to wait for the thing to be finished and all costs accounted for, while also seeing how much the project has been scaled back (for example travel time goals not met because the trains are poorer performance than initially specced)
Yeah! Big thanks to Mark and the Fly team for pushing Elixir hard on their platform.

This is a fantastic article and as you said, a novel use case of Livebook I hadn't thought of before.
It won't cost anything if you don't want to spend anything.

That's why "do nothing" is right: do (or don't) what you want according to your own needs and means. Most people are fine as-is.

This nonsense article reminds me of the Ford Pinto complaints by busybodies like these guys: everyone has to be saved by over-designed cars even if that alone made all Pinto would-be buyers unable to own a car.

"In order to prevent 0.00001% of population dying from heat, we had to increase unemployment by 5%."

Some success.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, because it is most likely true.

Focus in Western civilization shifted to trivia. We are spending all our effort deciding whether or not to take vaccines rather than deal with this problem efficiently and talk about really important problems like, you know, future of our civilization.
If anyone is interested, I found the relevant posts - Murray calling the photo released by Bellingcat ”a very obvious fake" [0], and a Russian website, still online, to which Bellingcat timed travelled and retroactively uploaded the same Photoshop from another angle [1]

[0] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/10/bellingcats-...

[1] https://www.glory-gallery.ru/news/ekskursiya-v-dvoku
>>"As far as I can make out David Deutsch started Quantum Computation to be able to have a quantum observer to probe the nature of quantum reality."

That's very surprising to me, because Deutsch is heavily in the Everett interpretation branch of possible quantum interpretations (pun intended).

So, he doesn't need any wave-function-collapse magic to explain quantum mechanics.

>>"Remember that quantum theorists have a strange dog in the race due to the whole wave-function-collapse by an observer thing."

That's very insightful.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think Googling a person's email address and contacting them in regards to something they posted on HN qualifies as "processing of personal data".
A bit more information for your mental model:

Afaik, reddit has a pretty stable upvote vs downvote ratio, like 7:1. (Sorry, no source, but I remember the reddit founder saying it in an interview).

And in your calculations you assumed that every post receives the same number of votes. Also that is not true, because of ranking. Higher ranking posts get more views, more votes, more views and so on. In this case the upvote-downvote difference is different for two posts with different popularity, but same upvote:downvote ratio.
A Wikipedia dump, a large illegal collection of ebooks, a few favourite software and video games, and porn.
Nanobodies from camelid mice and llamas neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants
Tesseract-based.
> Do they not show up in all collisions

This is the biggest factor

> why not, wrong matter, wrong speed?

Quantum mechanics is probabilistic. The probability of these particular particles in these particular collisions is very small. So we need to do a lot of collisions in order to have a statistically significant signal.

> but the "camera" has limitations?

Sure. While we regularly upgrade our detectors or build newer, fancier ones, there will always be some limitations.

> but measurement interpretation inefficient?

It's certainly slow. It can take months/years to infer a result from the data. The major bottleneck is people. Even the thousands-strong armies of physicists who work on the LHC experiments would take decades to fully exploit the available datasets.
What? We have to model human health. Find good proxies for it (non invasive scans, bloodwork, PCR, rapid antigen test, whole genome sequencing, anamnesis [medical history]) and there's ample to predict. Of course there are better and worse signals to use.
Cheat, lie, sabotage and steal whenever it can help you advance. Meritocracy is a myth.

The only reward for hard work is more work.

Also, stock options are worthless unless you’re a co-founder.
When the stupid think they know how civil liberties & tech work
I look forward to your similarly vitriolic complaints when a politician you support wins the premiership (not the football one).

Well of course I will. The system won't have changed, will it? I think you're actually accusing me of complaining just because I don't like Bojo. That's a really underhanded thing to do, and if you're going to say that, just say it straight like an adult. The rest of your comments are thoughtful and considered and part of an adult conversation; this passive-aggressive childishness really works against that.
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Remember, nobody is going to change their mind on this issue because of a perfectly worded response in an internet discussion. If you want to change anyone's mind, focus on the people you can speak to in the real world—and have a conversation filled with love and respect. Trust in vaccination is a powerful meme which cannot be countered by deriding the people who are sincerely captured by it. Instead, I suggest you walk them through the statistics and place them into human terms and human context. Show them how to calculate risk of death. Show them how to calculate risk of long term injury.
That is a pessimistic spin on things. They're opening the final part of the line (the new tunnels), they're confident of doing this in February, and there's a clear plan on how the rest will open in stages in the following 12 months or so.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/07/12/crossrail-to-mak...
I'm researching different voting algorithms for HN. If you're interested, please contact me (email in profile).
Results for even the most plain and recognizable cases (english language screenshots) are absolutely terrible. This aligns with my other experiences with Tesseract. In fact the only OCR I ever had any success with is ABBYY.
That more or less defeats the purpose of the idea. Almost the entire machine is cast from melted-down scrap metal and then (variously) machined, bootstrapping from the first tool, the lathe, which is hand-finished.
Like almost everything in software development it's a trade-off, length + pointer means that your data structures become bigger and that often you will use more registers. That used to matter more than it does today.
Lobster isn’t a new language - it’s probably a decade old by now - although this GC system is relatively recent (3 years or so, I think)

Nim switched to a similar GC system recently, arc/orc ;

And iiuc, this is similar to rust’s borrow checker - except you get an ref increase/decrease instead of a compile time error (if the compiler cannot prove references are unique).
I plowed the 40 GiB database file into sqlite_zstd_vfs [1] which reduced it 75% to 10 GiB. This plug-in also supports HTTP access [2] in the spirit of phiresky's, however, I don't have a WebAssembly build of mine yet, so it's a library for desktop/command-line apps for now. You can try it out on Linux or macOS x86-64:

pip3 install genomicsqlite
genomicsqlite https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/mlin-public/static.wiki/en.zstd.db "select text from wiki_articles where title = 'SQLite'"

("genomicsqlite" is the CLI for my Genomics Extension [3], which is built around these Zstandard compression & web layers.)

[1] https://github.com/mlin/sqlite_zstd_vfs

[2] https://github.com/mlin/sqlite_web_vfs

[3] https://mlin.github.io/GenomicSQLite

EDITS: I expanded on this comment in this gist https://gist.github.com/mlin/ee20d7c5156baf9b12518961f36590c...

If you want to download the whole en.zstd.db, then please kindly get it from zenodo (which doesn't support HTTP range requests, but is free): https://zenodo.org/record/5149677
I remember seeing a throwaway hn account stating it was used by multiple people.

Could help, as long as you trust each other.