skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As APL shows, you then need quite a large alphabet of symbols, though.

But I'm not strongly in either camp. A few common branches of mathematics taken together have quite a large alphabet of symbols, too, and we work well with it. It feels like symbolic notations can seem obtuse at first and be hard to get into, but once you're used to it the alternative may appear worse.
Everyone is noting that fire is good for California forests. Which is correct. Some trees actually depend on it, and seeds in the ground will wait for a fire before sprouting - I don't know, a temperature change makes it happen, not sure.

But, what is happening is that there is SO much extra wood and flamable materials because of suppression, that it is actually TOO hot and the seeds get burned to ashes.
> That wouldn't be the case if fires were 20-25% smaller and less frequent.

until the small fire grows out of control [1]. Then it should have been put out earlier [2][3].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/us/california-tamarack-fire-b...

[2] https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-mcc...

[3] https://twitter.com/Wheeler4Nevada/status/141831383122321817...
A few years ago, but long after people'd already started praising Yarn as a superior and completely-ready replacement for npm, it was still very easy to run into missing functionality if you went off the "happy path" of just installing stuff from NPM, and even then there was a decent chance of hitting bugs, often due to missing features or lack of extra safety checks that NPM was doing.

Nepotism wasn't the reason the agency I was at kept starting projects with yarn (JS devs, whatcha gonna do) and pretty much always switching to NPM about the time each project was seriously getting going. It's because the likelihood of Yarn being the cause of some mysterious runtime or build bug you'd spend a couple hours chasing was at least 10x higher than NPM, or because we'd find we needed a feature Yarn didn't support.

Yarn proponents have a history of pushing it despite its not being ready. Perhaps it's actually good now, though, I dunno. NPM's definitely not perfect, so there's plenty of room to improve on it.
VSCode isn't a gift to developers. It's a marketing tool.
> Covid is not a highly virulent pathogen. Virulence means severity

You're right, but that does not preclude the current mRNA based vaccines from being undermined by viral evolution driven by mass vaccination.

In general a leaky vaccine is one that keeps the host alive without necessarily stopping further infection and transmission. These conditions contribute to an environment that can allow the virus to accumulate mutations which eventually lead to immune escape [1][2].

Because the current mRNA vaccines induce an immune response highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD, there is concern that mass vaccination may create tremendous selective pressure which further enhances the fitness of the virus [3]. It's difficult to predict if such selective pressure will lead to enhanced virulence or infectiousness, but so far many variants of concern have mutations impacting the spike protein RBD. These mutations result in partial immune escape and manifest as increased infectiousness, reduced vaccine efficiency, and also reduced immunity in naturally infected individuals [4][5].

[1] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[2] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[3] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[4] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

[5] mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03324-6
Yeah, I have one of those introductory Incident Command System certificates floating around somewhere, too.

The Incident Command System contains guidelines to help different organizations work together in an emergency. You might need the fire service, or police, or hazmat, or EMS, possibly across multiple jurisdictions. If I recall correctly, ICS bans all those "10-4" radio codes, standardizes job roles, etc. And it contains rules for scaling the temporary organization up and transfering leadership as necessary.

Overall, it seems well-suited to real-world emergency response. And the training materials recommended using it in non-emergency situations, too, such as large parades. The idea was that major emergencies are rare, but it's worth getting practice with more common events.

I'm not quite sure how well the ideas behind ICS applies to IT outages. Most outages occur within a single organization, so there's less need to coordinate with outsiders. But some of the advice for scaling the response team and handling leadership transfers might be very useful.
> now they've flagged the thread

Just to be clear, users flagged it, not moderators.

When you see [flagged] on a submission, it nearly always means that users flagged it (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
It doesn't satisfy E2E, it works around it.
I love the feel of a physical scanner though, especially the process of aligning the paper. I suppose the difference is like a phone camera vs a DSLR.
Co-incidentally, lately we're getting lots of anti-Lukashenka stories. Is Uncle Sam planning a little regime change in Belarus. That would knock Belarus out of the Russian orbit. And transfer control of the Russian oil and gas pipelines to Washington. And remind the EU as to the true nature of the special relationship.
I argue that there is no such thing as formulating a hypothesis with no prior knowledge. We all have prior observations - hypotheses don't appear out of nowhere.

In this respect I think GP's comment is admirable - it means teaching kids to use their experiences to formulate hypotheses, rather than forcing them to guess what you want them to formulate.

(As an aside, I set out to comment here because I tire of the point that XYZ can be done incorrectly... Everything can be - it's not very interesting - I wish we could discuss less about that, more about new things to do correctly.)
While I agree, in principle, I think that cat's been out of the bag for a while. The government will continue to mandate things away from end-to-end encryption (they're already trying to pass bills to make it illegal) and this seems like the most reasonable solution I've seen thus far that still allows for end-to-end encryption while addressing the concerns of governments around the world. If you want what's on your device to stay on your device, I think you have to live in a place that doesn't exist - namely, a world without governments or the internet.
notice how maven appears twice in your list for anything jvm related - that's because the jvm ecosystem is mature, and there's really only 1 package manager.
Mercury's mass is 3.285 × 10^23 kg, so if we assume each satellite is 328.5 kg and there are 1,000 of them, then that's 1/10^18 of Mercury's mass.

So, if each satellite changes speed by 10 km/s, then Mercury's orbital speed will change by 10^-14 m/s, or about 0.03mm/century.

Doesn't seem like we'll notice it.
Well, have you seen any industry NLP product that exercises any meaningful level of language understanding?

I haven't. The Turing test has never even been close to being passed at the annual Loebner Prize. The best such industry NLP products I know of don't even use ML at their cores.
Agree.

The computations are performed on device, but only for images that have been uploaded to iCloud.

I’ll keep on using Nextcloud for cloud storage and keep iCloud disabled as it has always been.

There’s more pressing matters right now
will i be able to avoid this if i put linux onto my mac?
> so you can track performance for reporting and public perception

Well you can't track performance if splits wreak havoc on it. Garbage in, garbage out. So __at least__ fix that by adjusting weight when splits happen. THEN you can track performance for reporting.
Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
I think this is a question of what is grid scale. Is the Tesla facility in Australia grid scale? Why not? What about the large facilities being planned currently with lithium ion batteries?
AWS executive leaving after 23 years
I guess that makes sense. A lot of energy, but relatively little impact area for that energy to be transferred. Not that physics at that scale makes intuitive sense.

I hope he taught after the incident, I do not think there would be a better professor story than "let met tell you about when I put my head in the particle accelerator!"
Federal Court overturns record payout to former TechnologyOne manager
I don't think those are the same "problems". "Design patterns" is about code, not solving business problems. To stay in the well known books in OOP, DDD would be about solving business problems.
I guess that's acceptable too, as it isn't as resource hungry as KaiOS, and is perhaps even lighter than Symbian too.
There are no zero cost abstractions. (According to Chandler Carruth, and he makes a convincing point). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc
Firefighter/EMT here. The fire service has trained on the Incident Command System for decades because it works, not because it's "cool." I didn't know ICS was used in emergency reliability response but it makes perfect sense. Heck, ICS works great for organizing a family camping trip.

Like Agile, ICS is a set of principles that work well if you are properly trained in the system. Unlike Agile, ICS has not yet been buzzword-harvested by clueless managers to get promoted, so the concept itself still has some value.
Never knew NNT wrote a Bitcoin "black paper" ;)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14204.pdf

>>> Gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance
free

Hard to argue that transacting large quantities of Gold around the world requires little to no infrastructure!
Good quality for a phone call is 2 * 64 kbps, but you can go down significantly (probably around 2 * 8 kbps; that's more than GSM half-rate, with modern codecs it could actually sound acceptable). [edit: added spaces to avoid multiplication being misinterpreted as formatting]

More importantly, in order to effectively exploit these phone calls, they'll want to transcribe them. Transcription AI is getting better and cheaper every year, especially when you can use custom hardware. Then, you can store the full voice recording for "interesting" calls (e.g. activists, their contacts, people with "suspicious" patterns etc. - it doesn't have to be accurate, storage is cheap) for a few years, and transcripts for everyone basically forever.

Encrypt your calls people!
{x#x{x,+/-2#x}/0 1}

I'm sure if you used K for a year or so, that would be obvious and understandable at a single glance. But all I can think of is that I used to see that in my terminal session right after my modem got disconnected.
Immersion and Role Playing in the 1970s
You mean the npm, which is maintained by npm Inc., a subsidiary of GitHub (Microsoft)? IMO, that's where the problem lies.
>Thus far, tech companies like Google and AOL have gone out of their way to testify that there is no coercion (I haven't found a case involving Apple). If there were coercion it would be a shocking conspiracy.

Isn't Google a company with billion dollar government contracts? No coercion required...
> When my students encounter a math problem they can’t answer, I have them put it in the error log with an explanation of how they did and how they knew how to do it.

I'm gonna assume a step where they learned how to do it?

TFA's method is for incremental discovery expertise. Feynman talks about an inverse, where he maintained a list of interesting problems, and when he learnt a new technique, tried it on each one.

But Feynman's actual breakthroughs came from playfully looking at phenomena.

I think the incremental skills are basics like reading, writing and arithmetic - it's harder to really get to grips with something you've noticed without them.

I mean, Einstein famously didn't have adequate math for special relativity and sought help. He was however the one to notice something.

A library of techniques is a poor substitute for actual thought.
I knew that particle accelerarors require a vacuum to operate so at first I didn't understand how you could stick your head in one without releasing the vacuum and stopping the accelerator. It turns out that the vacuum is only needed to accelerate the particles and then after that they can pass through normal air as they make their way to the sensors.
> knock Belarus out of the Russian orbit

This is the most nonsensical thing I've ever read on Hacker News.
I don’t want to speak for the commenter, but I suspect they are talking about getting the US beyond a 70% vax rate goal and not the vaccine success against the virus. That rate was always going to be a tall order and was made all the more difficult by the politicization around the pandemic and the vaccine along with some of the serious bonehead moves in the last year by the CDC and Fauci.

Basically the US gov made it easy for a couple of groups that were already distrustful of the government to justify their distrust.
1. A lot of companies are shitty in a lot of ways. Your only option is to quit is you don't like them, and if you can't change them. There's plenty of companies that don't surveil their employees. I don't see it as an argument against working remotely. I could argue the same thing against working in an office. I don't want a manager dropping by every hour to make sure that I'm working.

2. I only mentioned online meetings because you mentioned meeting people. There's plenty of other ways to organize people online. Emails, chats, calls, issue trackers, etc.
This is an awesome response, thanks for so much detail!
Nation state actors perpetrate these kinds of hacks to hide their identities as nation state actors.
When a new hacker group says its a-political and it's toppling a regime or weakening a government of a nation significantly you have to ask yourself if they really are.
Chaino: New social media and traffic source for all niches
That's true, but that's still a large refactoring to do, especially with going from mutability to immutability. The community might also just not like them.
Enum.max(...list) ;)
As an Australian I can only cringingly verify this as true.

The level of IT stupidity of BOTH our major parties hurts me when I think about it.
This really smells of an insider job to me
> For example, if we are sure that parse A is correct and parse B is incorrect, and we can explain why, perhaps our confidence comes from our ability to explain, and the machine should be trained to produce logical explanations of its decisions. Or perhaps some of us humans have developed a sort of ambiguity detector, because of the likelihood and cost of certain misunderstandings, which triggers a more careful analysis of the grammatical situation, and the model needs something like that to be more human-like (or more like a careful and conscientious communicator, anyway).

There are lots of weird phenomena possible here...!

Maybe there's a sentence where parse B would never occur to some large group of human listeners, but, once it's explained to them, they tend to change their minds and believe that parse B is, in fact, preferable? (Like being told how to find a camouflaged animal in a photograph, or something?)

Maybe there's a sentence where parse B is a great joke or pun? (Presumably this is a really common case.)

Maybe there's a sentence where different speaker communities would consistently argue with one another over which one is plausible, totally disagreeing with one another's intuitions? (Maybe due other to far-reaching cultural differences, or something.)
Fake Covid-19 vaccination cards worry college officials
Essentially they are planning safari on protesters. Plan is something like following: women will be a bait who will lure protesters out of their homes by vandalizing symbols of Belarusian protest and militia will cover the bait by violently detaining those who will come out to protect the symbols.

Woman is Lukashenka's press-secretary and man is a commander of Belarusian Militia Special Purpose Squad(that's responsible for the most horrible acts of violence in Belarus since 9th Aug 2020 presidential election day).
But personalized meal kits and fitness routines adjusted to fit your life, weekly.
Hrm. I did that, too in 1988/89 in a corporate store. Though it was different there and then. I took about an hour, but most of the time was for parts swimming in buckets, IIRC 4 different ones. While the parts were in the buckets one did other stuff. Also no morning shift to assemble that. That was the task of the last shift, who disassembled and cleaned them. IIRC that's the way it was done at the franchisees.

What was different at the franchisees, to my horror I might add, that some of them did it only every other day, or about 2 times a week.

The question now is, was there ever a case where someone got 'Montezumas Revenge' from spoiled shakes, or something like that? Would we even know it, with the resources corporate has to suppress such news?
This sealed the deal for me. I always knew one day I would have to migrate away Apple. This is just where it starts. This software will be expanded and used by the US government and more totalitarian states world wide, it's just a matte of time. Wake up, the tool of your enslavement are being built. Tools of freedom like open source OSs and applications, E2EE, Bitcoin, and IPFS are the future. There is no room for compromises here. Either you create levers of totalitarianism or you don't. This is the first incarnation of one such lever and was probably inevitable.

My Apple Escape Plan

1. Backup and migrate all things caught within the Apple Ecosystem

2. Buy a Pixel 5

3. Load it with Graphene OS. https://grapheneos.org/

4. Over time replace cloud services with ones that use true and provable end-to-end encryption.

5. Delete Everything from Apple. Delete Account. Create New One pseudonymously for development use required with a duel booted Mac.

6. Migrate over time to decentralized cloud solutions on IPFS/File Coin
New app focuses on anonymous location based sharing
Been doing k for a bit (under a year). A single glance is optimistic, but probably only took me a few seconds. Almost certainly faster than any equivalent code in any other language. It's even easier if you give it a nice name, like "fib".
With a more modern audio codec like Opus, which does better at low bitrates, a minute at phone-line quality would take around 80-120 kB, one third of MP3. Which makes it even cheaper.
Right; breaking it up doesn't necessarily make it more modular, it just necessarily spreads it around. This is -a bad thing-, with no other context. The hope is that it modularizes the code enough to enable better understanding/reuse/extension (thus being a necessary evil).
Let's be clear: this is an ad for his app.
AWOOOGA AWOOOGA DING DONG DING DONG.
I find this quite interesting.
A few years ago I found a book, titled "Cosmogony and Evolution", published in 1907. I'm puzzled about the relation among mythology, cosmogonies, or the lack of these with our becoming.
Its not a new subject.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evolution
Why can't it be both? Microsoft has been doing great things recently, with VSCode, Typescript, C#. Of course maybe it's the first step of EEE. I'm personally worried about the VSCode/developing in containers that's closed source/Github/NPM acquisition, that sounds like they're preparing some kind of best of class developing experience (probably linked with Azure too) that will be proprieteray. But for now they remain well behaved, and everything until now is open source.
Does that chart separate out the transportation that's involved in agriculture, though? It has transportation at nearly 30%. If the answer to my question is "yes", then the question is how much of the transportation slice is part of the agricultural process (transportation of raw materials, to processing facilities, to packaging facilities, to grocery stores, etc).

And a further question, regardless of the answer to the above question, is: how much does this change depending on the type of agriculture? For example, I would imagine the supply chain for beef would have much more transportation involved than that for beans or soy (think of all the steps that go into making animal feed alone, and that is step 0).
Anti-vax protesters attempt to storm studio at BBC Television Centre
There was an interview with a mathematician who used Anki and spaced repetition to learn and solve novel problems.[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RdjsVngZz8&t=1049s
"I suspect that there might be more carnivorous plants out there than we think."

Now we just need to bio-engineer them to ...

Somehow I'm sensing the onset of something that might have once been the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster.... or an episode of Doctor Who.
If it’s just stats why do I need Google?

I can write code to bubble up stats across text sources in any language.

I’m reminded of a behind the scenes video of Batman 1989, where they discuss a complicated layering of Joker makeup to achieve the effect in the scene where he wipes off fleshy colored face paint; white makeup on Nicholson, special coating to be able to apply the next layer, on and on.

No one thought to just have him wipe white face paint onto his forehead.

I can easily see a bunch of programmers making a mess out of an elegant problem given the spaghetti code I’ve worked in.

Maybe English means nothing about consciousness? Many linguists take the position it’s random sounds we’ve been polishing definitions of for years.
In this doco they run through the ammunition types they tried and actually fire some from WW1 and they still worked.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/zeppelin-terror-attack/
A bottle of isopropyl alcohol. I did not own any until I was well into adulthood, and am continually amazed by how well alcohol cleans almost everything. (Barkeeper's Friend and copper scrubbing pads are a close second, for kitchen cleaning duties.)

For woodworking -- a pocket hole jig. Around $50, with only that, a drill, a saw, and (optionally) wood glue, you can make a ton of useful and sturdy stuff, with minimal training. A chisel and mallet are similarly surprisingly useful.
Agree. We tend to believe that most of the important stuff has already been discovered. What if it's the opposite? Hasn't it always been the opposite - Why should it be different now?
Yes exactly. And if you were driving the other way into the wind, you’d flip the lever and use a turbine to extract energy from the wind and push against the ground.
Why relief, and not a higher tax for the additional work required to stop their house from catching fire?
1 k bytes per second. You can [1] squish it down to 1 kbit/s but it will become hard to understand accurately at that point, even under good conditions, and hopeless if there is noise. Opus simply doesn't support bitrates below 6 kbps.

[1] https://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452
A bad driver never misses an exit
This is many steps removed from the current situation, which is that the feature rolls out in the US and photo hashes are provided by the NCMEC. Please describe how you think the system would work in China.
So Apple might end up with thumbnails of the "end-to-end encrypted" content I send, and you think that it counts as end-to-end encryption even if (a low-resolution version of) my messages can end up in a third party's hands. Did I get that right?
Snowden did. (Well, effectively did. He'd totally go to prison if he stepped foot in a country that'd extradite him to the US.)

But you're right, none of the people who broke all the laws Snowden showed us were getting broken has suffered any consequences.