skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I would put the actions of the committer for 90% in the area of trolling. The committer is a great proponent of free speech, and uses this to prove that there is no free speech anymore (and choose his friends accordingly).

The fact that this may or not be true, doesn't matter to him. Nor that he damages the Raku community with this (as well as the Perl community).

However, that this even applies to TPF / the Perl community, is mostly mr. Riedel work, using this trolling for his own agenda (which is reforming The Perl Foundation). The matter has been dealt with within the Raku community already. And Mr. Riedel should know that.

Now, there is that final 10%. Whether the committer knows this or not, he does show some other tendencies that could be considered racist. But in a country like the Netherlands, that is still trying to deal with "Zwarte Piet" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet) this is sadly not as uncommon as it should be.
> I think a geometric interpretation can help some non-chemists understand how intercalating molecules bind to dna.

Absolutely, geometry of electric fields is the primary factor in biochemical interactions. "The electron is where its at" as my o-chem teacher always said.

But that's exactly why aspartame is totally different than intercalators like EthBr, doxorubicin, and PAHs. That phenyl moeity has a rotational degree of freedom, and the whole peptide backbone is floppy. EthBr has a Ph but it's stabilized in-plane by the tri-ring. Intercalators typically have 300-500 daltons worth in a "planar greasy brick" regime, with very little in the way of bulky or floppy steric groups. On paper, aspartame looks pretty flat, but you gotta think about thermal molecules in solution.

E: just noticed this

> I would also say two rings with a carbon-carbon link seem to be potent binding as well.

Oh yeah, like biphenylyl, -Ph-Ph? So that's actually much more planar than a single Ph. The conjugation (any time you see carbon chains with alternating double bonds) of the pi-orbitals stabilizes the rings in-plane. Also it's rather unnatural, there's not a lot of reactions which forge a sigma bond between two aromatics like that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphenyl
I also think that some kind of negotiation between Apple and the government happened in the background. Probably something like “don’t break up the company and we give you a backdoor”. Maybe we throw stones at the wrong window? I wish we could know more about this, but it is probably that the inner workings of state surveillance are not meant to be public. What do we do?
Reading the list of attendees to the conference, is an interesting glimpse into computing history.
Sounds like wishful thinking to me. In the meantime, we are seeing the climate get worse year after year and we know that this is only the beginning. Moreover, there are non-linear effects at play that we can't even model, all of which will make the situation worse, none of which will make it any better. Doesn't seem very wise to bet human survival on technology that doesn't for the most part yet exist, and parts of which do exist don't work at scale with experts divided on future feasibility.
This. Not only that but newest M1 is a league on its own and a clear path for Apple to dominate the desktop market. What Apple should do is entrench their hardware position with M2 and M3 and heavily invest in macOS for desktop compute purposes.
Can either of you recommend resources or tools for learning how to design good protocols?
Recognising the orignal bug opener's name, Markus Triska, I know he's on HN. I checked his username to see if he's been active recently and, well, see for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=triska
> A new open command is available as a convenience alias to xdg-open

It's 2021 and we can finally open files from the terminal with "open". Hooray !
In the systems I build, I always have the lambda's throw the error to Slack. I have been told many times, that is crazy, and that it doesn't scale. By guess what, when a developer's errors are blowing up a slack channel, they always get fixed.
What kind of trick? At a glance wavenet looks like you could reuse most of the computation from earlier timesteps (would gave to take a closer look to see if it'd actually work), but I assume you're talking about something less obvious?
That's a fair point.

Funny how without these efforts the web and technologies pretty much the entire world used over the last two decades would probably have been very, very different - I'm not judging better or worse.

In fact Microsoft as a company might not even be relevant anymore without what these folks did. Sun, Netscape and Corel might rule the IT world today.
I really like the MDMA comparison, it truly pinpoints it. It seems like most of the people in this thread not agreeing with the process or even showing their hatred for it miss the point. AI in this specific case is not meant to replace a writer, but rather to act as a tool that a writer (or anyone) can use to get everything off their chest and access to what had been hidden from them for a while.

Now, people have been arguing whether or not this article is an ad. To be honest, I do not care. The story was moving and it highlights the remarkable progress of AI in writing, which is all that matters to me.
You’re arguing for a founder effect explaining the higher Denisovan proportion on the island vis a vis other parts of southeast asia?
Flu is a bad example --- it has 8 "segments" (basically "chromosomes") that get reassorted among the offspring when a cell is infected by multiple strains, leading to a crude form of "sexual recombination". (The numbers after the "H" and "N" indicate the variant-numbers of the Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase "segments" that the flu-variant got; a cell infected by H1N1 and H2N5 will also produce some H2N1 and H1N5 offspring in addition to H1N1 and H2N5, leading to very rapid genepool evolution)

By contrast SARS-CoV-2 only has a single chromosome, and so it primarily evolves via "genetic drift". While it's _possible_ for a cell infected by multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants to generate "chimeric" offspring via a process called "crossover" AKA "homologous recombination", that mechanism is much less effective than the simple segment-reassortment that drives flu evolution.
Close.

The A-team is effectively a platoon (it’s the size of a squad—well, about the size of a USMC rifle squad, a bit bigger than an Army rifle squad—and normally commanded by a Captain, which is more typical of a company, but its the organizational level below the company, which typically has ~6 of them.) A B-team is the company HQ element (so a company has one B-team as well as the A-teams.) A C-team is the battalion HQ element (an SF battalion has ~4 SF companies + 1 C-team.)
Gestural text input is very much a possibility. It was available on palmtop devices some 20 years ago, and these had far worse touch sensitivity than any modern tablet or even a modern phone.
I'd like to see this extended slightly to give a half-life based on the masses or similar.

Another interesting 3-body problem is the quarks in a proton or neutron. These can be critically stable with the resulting magnetic field adding more stability. But physics as a field has truly abandoned all mechanical models in favor or purely statistical ones.
This brings back memories of playing around with Visual Basic 6 as an 11 year old, trying to figure out how exactly Microsoft came up with the flat toolbars used in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office 97 while the toolbar controls provided by Visual Basic were the standard Windows 95 rows of buttons (though VB 6 itself used flat toolbars). Today I have no issues making flat toolbars even from scratch, but my 11 year-old self had no idea how to come up with them. Still, sometimes I miss being a kid.
I noticed switching from juice to artificially sweetened iced tea, that I was more tired.
Time for a neomacs?
It is a failure in continuation from the ground of being to a view on the totality of the existence.

No one has a problem finding meaning in the minutiae of their here and now; they avoid pain, they feed themselves, they breathe. They conform to the meaning of the signals (mostly pain) that demand we do these things. At this level, everything is meaningful.

Then we scale up temporally (longer spans of times) and spatially (wider spans of space); we can think about tomorrow, we find it meaningful to go to grocery store and get our favorite ice cream etc.

A couple of scale ups later sometimes, something wrong happens and we can find ourselves in the ultimate scale; totality of universe; (assumed) "creation" and "death" of the universe. Even only from a computation perspective; we don't fully 'understand' this scale, our intelligibility is limited in comparison to the 'objects' at hand (hyperobjects if you will); we're using symbolic processing to make sense of it but we can't frame the ultimate frame, we can't compress this information very accurately (yet).

At that point some folks show up with their propositions that are harder to refute because everything is hard to compute to begin with. They shine light to certain possibilities (light bringer pun is intended), they conflate current state of not knowing with unknowability, or worse non-existence. They conflate our intelligence with intelligibility of the universe. They go "there is no single organizing principle, because that sounds a lot like god" and can't explain how multiple organizing principles can share the same space if they are not bound by a common one. They claim pure stochasticity and ignore the physical reality we have been conforming to through evolution; or principled approximation to its first principles; that we can compress reality into formulas, while noise really wouldn't compress. They have no good idea on how to relate to the existence of existence. Nihilism is the result of such cognitive distortions at this level.

The problem is not actually about being at the top of the scale, it is to omit the continuity from our daily scale to it; it is skipping the intermediary steps that mislead us. That's why they can conceptualize complete stochasticity at top while perform perfect faith in meaningfulness of gravity. In neoplatonic tradition this is countered with practicing the anagogic ascent, in stoic traditions with the view from above practices.

In modern times however we only have DIY spirituality without proper grounding in what have been tried before. Throw some McMindfulness, read a translation of Nietzche, performatively worship the god of market normativity and you're already confused enough. Blog belongs to a person who has "founded, managed, grown, and sold a successful biotech informatics company.", this is their hobby (as they admit) and bunch of people talk about it. This is how new nihilists are made.
Maybe Adorno's Minima Moralia might be nice? It's well written, in the sense Nietzsche is well written. Can also recommend Walter Benjamin.

In terms of interpreters of Nietzsche, it's considerably more difficult, but Deleuze wrote a really good book on Nietzsche that's worth reading.
You are what you eat and/or excrete!
My bad, I meant to say far-left instead of leftist. Hopefully that sentiment is evident throughout the rest of my comment.
Are you implying that wouldn't make sense? Because it makes sense to me.
You believe that the first clause somehow balances the second?

When this (partial) quote is used, it's generally in a context where the first clause is arguably irrelevant. I don't think it's like your "more or less" analogy. There are not many corporations that fail to benefit when the country does well, so the first clause is broadly agreed upon. The second clause, however, is controversial, and has implications that are quite independent of the first clause.

"It will be sunny today, and tomorrow there will be snow" - if you hear this weather forecast at 13:00 on a sunny day, the first clause is close to information-free, but the second is very striking.

So it is with the quote from the head of GM.
Are the ASC firmware blobs encrypted too? ie. are they easily available for static analysis?
Far-left and far-right intersect at totalitarianism.
Yup I'm applying for an EU country passport myself (via family ties). Canada is a terrible place if you want to start a business, now house prices are getting insane and the recent encroachment on freedoms as well as lack of pushback from the population is pretty much the last straw for me. You can make more money and pay less taxes while having more affordable housing and better healthcare and education in a number of countries.
> Respect some things, don't respect other things... is not doublethink.

Admitting that you are merely “respecting” the elements of the culture that don't conflict strongly with your cultural values but not the ones that do clash isn’t doublethink.

Thinking that you are respecting the cultural as a whole while you campaign to eliminate the elements of it that offend your cultural values, however, is.
GraphQL is SOAP 2.0
Electron is fine. While you find it "offensive" when an app "fails to behave like proper, 'native' apps on whatever platform they operate", I find it offensive when those various platforms create the expectation that apps should behave differently on their platform (and people blindly follow that).

(maybe offensive is too strong word... but I think it is not a positive)

Can you imagine if the various browsers ... Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ... had the expectation that web pages would be custom tailored to behave differently in their browser? Even worse, what if they expected you to code them from scratch, poosibly in a different language, just so they could be optimal? Would that be a positive?

Or how about if different car makers thought that in all cars of their brand, the turn signal or gear shifter must be in a special position, just to differentiate the look and feel of the cars from that of other car makers? How would that be a positive for drivers?

To me, we are past the point where it should feel different to be on a different platform. I go back and forth between Windows and Mac all the time, and apps that behave identically (or nearly identically) on both are my favorites. Visual Studio Code, while far from perfect (but certainly better than the last editor I used, which was native), works identically on all of them and I like that.

The desire for things to "feel native to the platform" seems to be either 1) something that comes from the platform makers themselves, for marketing reasons, or 2) simple tribal thinking.

Electron isn't perfect (I wish it didn't require downloading an entire browser engine, but simply used the one that is already installed), but the more apps that use it, the better it will get. Browser engines themselves are getting really really good, which means that many of these electron apps can also run as a simple web page for those that don't want to install them.... and again, they work the same, which is a big plus.
Fruit also contains fiber, which most sweets do not.
Here's a nice 'from the horse's mouth' sum up on how the CRA views the residency status:

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/technic...
Demographic signatures of the transition from pandemic emergence to endemicity
Have you studied math? I know Greeks used angles and distances lol. The point is how. Did they describe them algebraically or did they do the Euclidean thing where they “take a compass and bisect and you’ll see each part is equal to this other side”. Euclid/Greeks used pure geometry. They might have had all geometric concepts. But they didn’t manipulate algebraic equations to obtain geometric insights. And yes that is analytic geometry
First of all, congratulations, when you get Bruce Schneier to endorse your work, you have probably done something interesting.

But still the article is not very clear on technical details. Of course on initial contacts your phone has to provide information about your service provider (they will somehow have to pay for your communications) and it has also has to have some form of identification about your phone (so that the service provider can decide if they want to pay for it). If I understand it correctly, normally this identification is the IMSI, which is normally constant for your phone. From the article it is not clear if you are proposing to generate multiple IMSI's for a phone or using other types of information in the protocols.

Do you have some links to a more technical explanation of PGPP?
Agreed. As I read the lines on the long hours and resultant divorces, all I could think of was "...and for what? A better browser?". Certainly IE advanced the state of the art at the time, but if Microsoft hadn't won the browser wars and Netscape had remained dominant and inched along with incremental improvements, we still would have reached the point where we are today, but maybe a little later.
It's not a cheap reaction to them "doing something cool", people this wealthy have not earned the right to be celebrated, because wealth is not a virtue. Multibillionaires actively make the world a worse place and their wealth comes at the expense of thousands below them. One individual should not have that much economic sway, they're like unelected nobility, unaccountable to anyone. They represent a staggering policy failure to build a humane society and their donations to charity, if any, are not a good substitute for what they have taken from society. Andrew Carnegie gave back substantially (76 billion, adjusted to GDP) to the society from which he derived his wealth. Billionaires these days are far less charitable.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ceo-says-billionaires-...

>Based on these figures, MarketWatch reported Bezos donated just .5 percent of his net worth last year - a quarter of the 2 percent the average American donates each year.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/12/americ...

>And why should we believe that Gates or any other billionaire’s “boldness” necessarily reflects society’s values and needs? Oligarchies aren’t the same as democracies.
I would estimate the chance of a user coming back to close a bug at near zero, even after only two months.
I'd go further than the video and not even really differentiate between hard work, skill and luck. The former two to me are also a kind of luck. In the sense of "you can do what you want, but you can't want what you want."

Whether I'm extremely skilled or have the behavioral tendencies to work hard is also pretty much just a factor I have no control over.

I didn't choose to have an interest in technical things or an aptitude for math yet it's what got me into development which is superficially a 'successful' job. And even if I did 'chose' that? How did I choose that? This dichotomy between skill and luck seems to come from a dualism that doesn't even conceptually make sense to me.
The author of this is part of the binary grand prix and made my favorite submission to the contest. Very cool content thanks for posting it.
Exactly! Imagine the mayhem these fools would cause by putting the names and addresses of every person with a telephone number in a freely searchable directory.

For my safety, I only want governments and organizations with unlimited legal resources to be able to divine private information like who owns taxable property or the people who own the companies who own the companies who own the congresspeople who oh no.
"I don't know who is learning from their parents that if you work hard you'll get rich."

I read that line a lot from successful people: "I have achieved X. IF I can achieve it, you can too. Let me explain how. "
The Leung et. al. paper (first link) should never have passed editorial review. Look at figure 1: the only significant result in the entire paper (1a, panel 3) is based on four data points. I don't know if this is p-hacking, per se, but it's not a robust result. And not that I give the paper a lot of credence, but it's worth nothing that the overall trend across all pathogens is that masks are ineffective against aerosols.

Link two is a news article and contributes no data.

Link three is a survey of people self-reporting a bunch of different things, where they've thrown out 32% of the data for non-response, selected the ones who did respond (bias!) and used that to make claims about face masks. Moreover, their data shows that as people wear face-masks more often, their chance of getting Covid goes up! This paper has so many confounders and potential sources of bias that it simply cannot be taken seriously.

When I said that the research literature on masks over 2020 hasn't gotten any better, these kinds of papers are exactly what I meant. They're terrible, they're littered with methodological and data analysis flaws, and provide no useful information to the debate. If these "seem clear to you", you don't understand what you're reading and lack the ability to assess research literature.

Sadly, top-tier journals publish a lot of garbage, particularly when that garbage is topical and will get press. You cannot use "Nature paper" as a badge of quality. You still have to read and understand the paper.
No matter what they say, nobody likes fruit enough to get fat off of it.

Can't say that about candy bars.
The laws I mentioned are relatively new [0]. So for now it's hard to compete in numbers with a century of already built apartments. And eventually all "for rent" units do go on the market for sale.

But it's also easy to see why for someone looking for rent in many big cities today it looks like most apartments are owned by big management companies. New developments in "hot" cities with high demand and such laws are owned by a management company because that's the only way it works. You'd see entire buildings owned by the developer. It will take decades for those new apartments to go into private ownership.

[0] https://www.thelocal.de/20210708/explained-munichs-radical-n...
A big issue there is accessibility to a broader audience—something that Emacs and Lisp Machines don't quite have. Like you said, iOS Shortcuts is a very interesting example. You could say Internet-native automation tools like Zapier and Integromat fit the bill here too.

I wouldn't see potential maintenance or QA work as a deterrent to mainstream adoption. Users would underestimate it just like developers today do.
> I don't think that works anymore with the speed that languages are moving and breaking these days.

The beauty of this approach is you don't have to use the latest version if you don't want to, but the option is there if your app is compatible. You can still use Python 3.7.x or whatever you want. Docker has official Python images going way back.
Do you know what “at the time of publish” means?

By having a fluid changing story, two people won’t even have the same reference point if they both read the same NYTimes article.
The most effective way to attenuate global warming and a number of other problems would be rapid global population reduction. Obviously this solution is not morally or politically practical.
You've clearly not met my dog..
I've been happiest with PopOS! and their preconfigured NVIDIA package. They've done quite well for an out of the box minimal configuration distro that you can jump into ML without all the normal headaches.
So they’ve been lying to us about vaccine boosters not being necessary just like with the masks fiasco early last year? Sigh.

Also how did all these people manage to get a third shot? Is that something we can just walk up and get?
More snow in winter, hotter summers what’s not to love?

Unless you live somewhere it’s already stupidly hot it’s not like a degree is going to make any difference.