skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but they're engineered to minimize such effect. I noted in another comment I started with a Seiko 5, one of the cheapest, most inaccurate movements (being the name for the timekeeping mechanism itself), and I see multi-minute differences after weeks without adjustment. I'm not a daily runner or anything (in which I'd use my smartwatch anyways), but my job does involve a fair amount of getting up and walking between places, as well as the temperature shift of controlled environment rooms for computers and SoCal outdoor heat.
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Bingo. If you chose devices that aren't open, you're chosing to give away your freedoms. I makes the jump to LineageOS earlier this year because I could see the signs that Apple were getting to comfortable with government. Now, I've got the confirmation I was right in my hunch
The EU just released an 11,000 page report on that topic. Their findings contradict your four word comment.

https://ec.europa.eu/food/system/files/2021-06/pesticides_aa...
> Again, the phase-III trials

The only citation you ever provided was to a Russia study, paid for by the Russia government.

> Many countries carefully monitor real-world effectiveness of vaccines. This is incredibly informative data

Yes they do, it's a very helpful supplement to clinical data. What it isn't meant to do is stand by itself, and in the case of Russian and Chinese vaccines third parties are left to scramble to determine efficacy because, again, raw patient data isn't released and gov-run studies are not to be trusted, ever.

You managed to not respond to a single thing I said and not give anything of substance in response. I'm not going to spend any more time trying to figure out why you are arguing against open and transparent vaccine development and in favor of dictatorships hiding/obscuring and lying about their products.

My guess is you sold your soul for a job and now you have to convince others (and yourself) that it was worth it, that the authoritarians really aren't that bad. Maybe this is all ideological and you never got over your Uni communist phase. Maybe you married in, idk.

In any case, good luck with that.
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Can second this, I got a Manta a few months ago and I love it. I sleep better when it's pitch dark and the sleep mask helps ensure that it is.

The only nitpick is that if you're a side sleeper (I am) it can be a little uncomfortable depending on what kind of pillow you use. I use shredded memory foam pillows and they're pretty firm.
Chinese scientists develop world’s strongest glass that’s as hard as diamond
here it's super simple

- allow remote, not hybrid, not "back to office after covid" on any job that can (not because you want asses in seats, but because the job duties are doable)

- pay livable wages

there, your hiring problem is solved

- nb: if you (not don't want to, but actually can't) can't afford to pay livable wages your business probably shouldn't exist
Yeah, I had to look it up. I thought it was more like 87.
The title image has a solid-fuel missile in it (attached to left-blimp). That render has very interesting backstory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8760732

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Altitude_Venus_Operationa...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1/...

Reading the actual study, it does seem their rank for "top 5% polluting" is total emissions. They do calculate relative intensity, as you say. But the ranking for plants with greatest emissions was done without regard for capacity.

Also, the "73%" reduction would only be for GHG's from electricity-generation, not all sources.

I mean, obviously coal is a pretty awful fuel from an environmental standpoint and it's good to quantify these things. Just reading these are hard when the authors didn't necessarily make 100% clear the last few tables.
Working by yourself (or with friends) you get to make the engine and that's where the fun is. You can write really unique stuff that may or may not work.

Working for a big studio is like creating a movie with directors and for some that feels like fun but working on mortgage software is about data normalization which can offer it's own high.
Nope, Apple is opening this up to 3rd party app devs as announced today.
Your assumption is wrong. Reading the linked paper [0], it measures the CO2 output vs energy output (kg CO2 per MWh), and these are indeed hyper emitting plants compared to other similar sized plants. The paper also discusses the capacity of these plants, which is not even close to > 50% of the total electricity generation, as you suggest.

0: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1/...
Please, correct me if I'm wrong: when I invoke "time" on a Unix system (eg. 'time ./a.out'), is the reported execution time calculated from start to finish, or is it calculated from the sum of CPU cycles? Perhaps a silly question, but I'm curious if *nix developers had the foresight to play with this at any point.
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Fusion isn't a commercially viable solution I agree.

The focus should be on traditional nuclear fission reactions. Indeed China are leading the development, but the USA still remains the number 1 producer in nuclear power followed by France.

While you do mention governments, it's really a popularity issue that prevents widespread acceptance and adoption.

Similar to COVID vaccinations, people need more education on Nuclear as a safe and real solution to replace carbon based energy generation technologies.

My country Australia is an example of how ineffective governments are in educating people on what the right thing to do is.

You mention cost as an issue, but it's only an issue due to man-made red tape and systems put in place by interest groups to force nuclear out of the public and make it so difficult to attain. People pandered on the same rhetoric about lithium batteries and look where we are now. The economics will work themselves out once things are placed into motion in that direction.

At the end of the day, we should be willing to pay rather than being cheap about the environment and letting natural disaster after natural disaster continue.
"The most immediate influences upon ADBD were probably de Camp & Pratt, REH, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, HPL, and A. Merritt;"

I'm not familiar with most of these, but it seems to me AD&D is basically entirely Tolkien aside from the level and pervasive nature of magic. The monster manual seems the biggest giveaway.

The races (halflings instead of hobbits, the elves are 99% tolkien elves), overall tech level and setting, etc are straight Tolkien.

Can anyone comment as to how much the other authors used the same tropes for elves / orcs / dragons / etc?

Edit: As mentioned above, Vancian magic, and the Tolkien lawsuit/complaints would explain the de-emphasis.

Also, I second the "Stan Lee" component.

Also, what are the EL comics referenced in App.N?
But I fail to see how icloud backups are a good place to tackle it.

And I doubt this system, which looks for known files, is going to do very much to impact production.
I'm interested in learning more about the performance possibilities of mmap for the case read-only X 64-bit-only and found this interesting article by Justin Willmert [0] from 2020-11-05 on using the Linux-specific MAP_POPULATE flag to prefault memory on a single-thread to increase performance.

Surprisingly, the article didn't appear to have been submitted previously when I searched for its URL.

And seeing as there are lots of HN folks who know a lot more about it than me, I submitted it to see what I could learn from the comments.

Edit 0: also found that it wasn't on archive.org so I submitted it there [1].

Edit 1: and just to make sure that this nice article is saved for posterity, I submitted it to archive.is too [2].

[0] https://justinwillmert.com/about/
"an experimental physicist with an affinity for modeling and analysis. I am particularly interested in melding computational physics and software engineering to solve novel problems."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210810021537/https://justinwil...

[2] https://archive.is/VjtSh
Whenever I hear that China is the biggest polluter, I think that all they need to do is divide themselves into twelve countries, then none of them would be the biggest polluters anymore.
We dabbled in heat-resistant walls with Asbestos and didn't turn out too well for our health.
I argued for years in favor of keeping the minimum runtime of a number of samples; never found much support.
So how much do batteries have to improve to make small electric energy based weapons practical? If Li-Ion could store double the energy in the same weight and volume would that change the nature of small guns? Just wondering how close we are to a major change in weapons technologies if it all depends on batteries. Maybe there is a certain limit beyond which batteries should start becoming controlled technology? Even current lithium batteries of all kinds are close to being explosives (at least chemically) which is an indication of how much energy is stored in them.
From the video, 1ms feels real time, but with 5ms you can still notice the lag. So wouldn't it be more appropriate to say "4ms is significant"?
I'm afraid quotes are the way to go. The alternatives are basically escaping (which looks even worse) or using a different language. The book also mentions a few more tricks you probably want to know about for dealing with the really tricky stuff, like filenames starting with a hyphen or ending with a newline.
Thanks for the link and all who replied! Will read that thread and keep avoiding apps.
You can engineer “round-up resistant” crop seed and then nuke the field leaving only your crop as survivor. In this context it is, but yes it is otherwise not.
The reality of not being able to publish negative results, and the publish or perish system of academia paralyzes researchers.
Vendor lock-in is due to hybrid vigor, not due to GM technology.

Many modern crops are high-yielding due to hybrid vigor, when you cross two distantly related cultivars their offspring will outperform their parents. However that vigor disappears on self-crossing, so you can't reuse your own seeds. That's why the seed company has a license to print money, they have to keep on remaking these hybrids. Farmers can do that themselves which is where seed co-ops come from, but these usually don't have the internal cultivars that the seed companies use to remake the hybrids. Could be that parent A has a useful resistance and B has the high yielding variety, and both parents themselves were made in a long breeding process.

This goes back to the 1900s but had its big breakthrough with Norman Borlaug's green revolution in the 60s. He crossed Japanese dwarf wheat and Mexican 'regular' wheat to get smaller high-yielding varieties he had to keep on remaking. There was no GM involved.

Edit: there's a very good critical essay from Lewontin on the politics of hybrid corn: https://monthlyreview.org/1986/07/01/the-political-economy-o...
> Old VC's funded a lot of hardware (networking, graphics card and microprocessor) companies, for example.

Yeah, venture capitalists were already funding companies like this in Silicon Valley (hence its name) a half a century ago, long before the days of the consumer internet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley#Venture_capital

Back in 1968, VCs were funding Intel. And Intel IPO'ed only two years after being founded, so investors weren't pouring money into it for very long.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Origins
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On US-English keyboards, the pipe character is in the regular spot, but the back-quote/tilde key is on the number pad instead of its usual location above the Tab key. The Escape key is above Tab (Because there are no function keys).

But it wasn't a problem, because if you typed "Shift+Escape" it would translate to the tilde character, just as if the back-quote/tilde key was in its proper location.

I always thought that was a clever touch.
And even then, I've often heard it stated as "zero cost if you don't use it", eg, exceptions have zero runtime cost unless an exception is actually thrown, so, given that they should only be thrown in exceptional cases, that really shouldn't impact your program. (Whether or not its truly zero cost depends, I guess, eg does memory count as cost? What if it makes something not fit in cache?)
This definitely brings it closer, but on my machine, touching the entire array still ends up being 2 seconds slower (5.4s for the calloc side, 7.8s for the clone side)
Don't blame Apple for this. Blame the liberal lawmakers and political advocacy groups in EU and the US who are pushing for regulations that force Apple and other phone makers to implement this kind of mass surveillance. It always starts from
Accounts from language designers or reference material would work.
Right. The problem I've seen way too much is modularizing code too early in its lifecycle. This mistake seems to happen a lot by smart programmers who are inexperienced.

The instinct seems to be that they want hinges in their code, so their code can adapt and be reusable between projects. But they don't actually know where the hinges should go, because they don't need them yet. So they just put hinges all over the place - even where hinges aren't useful. If the metaphor is confusing, I'm talking about things like making an interface around a class, when there's only one implementor of that interface anyway. Or breaking a complex function into small, "reusable" pieces spread over multiple files - except where those small pieces are only ever used by that one call stack anyway. (And where they aren't that semantically self contained.) The result is harder to follow code with no actual benefit. And the resulting code is almost always bigger and more complex, and thus harder to work with.

Usually code thats the easiest to refactor is code thats the easiest to understand. That means, small, dense, correct code, with a simple test suite. If you write code knowing that you can (and will refactor) later anyway, the result is almost always better software. You will come up with a better design after you know more about your problem domain. Plan for that, and set yourself up to take advantage of that knowledge later.
Sounds like you’re saying that you’ve been able to make any language fast enough where performance is not critical, but that you realize that when it is (you mention HFT, but there is also HPC for science and engineering, a vast area), the slow languages won’t cut it. I can’t disagree, but your comment also seems like a bit of a tautology.
Taken with a grain of salt, this seems to be most of the low-hanging fruit: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3140808/chin...
This is not true.

It isn't sweet corn, which is essentially a mutation variety from hundreds of years ago eaten like a vegetable instead of a grain.

All field corn (dent corn, lots of names) is perfectly edible. There are varieties with different characteristics like protein, oil, or starch content, or varieties grown to grind up and feed the whole plant to animals.

Regulation approves only certain genetics and grain millers will have certain approved varieties that mill well, and in general lots of extra care must be taken for human food corn. Ultimately though, it is extremely similar to all other corn.
>Quartz watches are just cheaper and more reliable.

And more accurate. Better in every measurable way, honestly. Which just makes me love mechanicals even more.
Yeah, but taking >5s to zero 16GB is still atrociously slow.
The GE corn is specifically engineered to be tolerant of glyphosate. That way you can spray it all over the fields and it kills the nutrient stealing weeds and not the corn. It seems their goal is to get rid of the GE corn and outlawing glyphosate to reduce the demand for the GE corn is a big part of the process.

So, non-glyphosate herbicides aren't really relevant to the goals of the program.
> cheap, government-subsidized U.S. corn

Maybe the US gov't should stop subsidizing it? I assume that brings the price down quite a bit.
The ag/biotech space is fascinating.

There are several varieties of insect-resistance traits, multiple brands of herbicide resistance (off the top of my head there’s Roundup Ready and Liberty Link), drought resistance, and several more. I was last deeply interested around 2008 so my knowledge is stale.

I found this USDA data sheet that lists a bunch of varieties for corn; others exist for the other GMO crops:
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/BECornCro...

Watching the path-dependent nature of technology is fascinating. It seems Monsanto has largely given up on GMOs, due to public backlash, just as crispr and the like are set to make the whole endeavor a lot more precise. https://www.motherjones.com/food/2014/01/monsanto-gmo-techno...

The hot new thing these days (as I understand it, I am not a farmer) is precision ag - better use of maps, sensors, drones, robotics, etc to make better use of resources and better target chemical application. Bayer’s marketing site is probably a good place to get the farmer’s perspective: https://www.cropscience.bayer.com/innovations/data-science/d...
A couple other options beside hydrogen/helium: vacuum chambers, hot air.

I don't know if we have the technology to build a compressive structure that can withstand atmospheric pressure and yet be lighter than the air it displaces. That sounds like an interesting problem to work on. I imagine getting it to work out would be easier the larger the structure is, within reason.

I assume that hot air isn't competitive with either hydrogen or helium in terms of lift, and it takes additional energy to keep it hot. On the other hand, air is free and it's not inherently flammable by itself. Maybe a well-insulated airship that acts as a solar greenhouse could get quite warm and stay that way?
What kind of projects does K get used in?
I think what you're saying is true, but I don't think this kind of ambiguity was really a feature of the examples in the article
/because enough of the right minds have not been looking at it as a puzzle worth solving, possibly because it and other AI related concepts are often introduced at or just before the PhD level and so most minds in science never encounter it/

Well, there was a good fifty plus years of linguists without access to good statistical methods who also failed to solve the problems as well... And they also didn't come up with the kinda functional answers that we now have from statistical methods, which are now able to do crazy things like translate reasonably well between nearly arbitrary language pairs.

Your statement sounds like a theoretician's sour grapes...
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Sure. It was an extreme example of the difference between "can't" and "won't", and a point about theory vs practice.
Why don't you let the locals make that decision for themselves?
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I talked to a biologist once that was running experiments on mice in front of a particle accelerator. He was testing to see how well the mice responded to both routine and unfamiliar tasks after receiving some level of dosage from the high energy particles (heavy ions I think). The mice usually responded to routine tasks as well as they had prior to the exposure but had much more trouble responding to the unfamiliar tasks. The theory was that the particles damaged the elastic parts of the brain more than the plastic parts, that the brain had more trouble forming new connections to solve problems but strong connections formed by training survived the exposure. The experiments were to study how space radiation may affect astronauts solve problems when confronted with less familiar or totally new ones.
How common are false positives? I had multiple different tests from different locations. Slow and fast tests. My tests were not early on either.

I’d rather trust that than my neighbor’s paper vaccine card which can be easily faked
Why the heck is this comment getting grayed out? Are people down voting it?! Like literally same. I'm fully vaccinated. I don't want to get sick. I don't want a tiny bit of getting sick. I don't want to be possibly asymptomatic and spread it to people I care about or literally anyone.
No, my point is that if the problem is cheap imports of ready-to-eat corn is the problem, then only banning glyphosate itself will do nothing to stem that. If it's banned alongside GMO corn imports, that's a different matter.
Whether glyphosate causes cancer or not, there is much less doubt that it has a harmful impact on insect populations and on aquatic wildlife from runoff. Hundreds of thousands of tons of glyphosate soaking into the ground and into the water table, reaching our rivers and lakes, year after year. How can it be safe?
>what about modifying a plant to be more drought or pest resistant?

This is mostly done with breeding and hybridization as opposed to genetic engineering, though there have been some transgenics where anti-pest genes from other organisms have been spliced into corn.

There have been more herbicide resistance genetics recently.
What about if the person cannot receive the vaccine due to a known and accepted risk? Are antibodies a suitable alternative?
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The wind pushes the props because they are sails. Moving sails, but sails none the less. But instead of being windmills, they turn as if they were blowing into the wind. Their sheer sail area moves the car forward. The faster the car goes forward, the faster the blades turn.

Eventually the blades are churning the air in front of them, creating a cushion of air behind the vehicle. The wind is no longer pushing the blades, it is pushing the cushion of air created by the blades.

That air cushion is now part of the vehicle. As the speed increases, the cushion grows in size to the point which it collapses behind the vehicle. At that point, it's self sustaining and the vehicle keeps accelerating until all the forces involved reach equilibrium, which is around 2.8x the wind speed.

This all works because the blades are geared to the rear wheels in the opposite way everyone is expecting.
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This would be nice, it sucks that everything in the U.S contains corn syrup.
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I'm really curious if the potential for the wrong files to be exfiltrated is going to force corporations and law firms to prohibit the use of iPhones and Macs for work.

Personally I've been dying for the next gen of M1 macs to come out. I also wonder if this tech has some magical way of getting around a hosts file and little snitch. If I can't gap my data from Apple it would raise ethical issues with my storing client secrets on the machine.
> I don't know if we have the technology to build a compressive structure that can withstand atmospheric pressure and yet be lighter than the air it displaces. That sounds like an interesting problem to work on. I imagine getting it to work out would be easier the larger the structure is, within reason.

It doesn´t exist so far. There are very strong forces involved. I`d say it´s more likely there would be connected small enclosures that could make that work. Perhaps some sort of solid foam blocks with vacuum inside - but it may provide much less lift than a true vacuum.
There's also a safety benefit. It's plausible that these hybrids would substantially outcompete the local flora and you'd have a landscape of corn and beans.
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