skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't think it is worth holding contact in that case.

That's a common counterargument that's similar to "then I guess they weren't very good friends, were they?!?" -- but oversimplifies the complexity of social life. It's not a simple binary dichotomy between "very good friends" and "no friends".

People also have an in-between status of "weak ties" that are mutually beneficial : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties

These types of relationships are more fragile and easier to "lose" by putting up barriers to communication. It's not realistic to impose a condition of "either you follow me to the Signal network or you weren't really my friend at all" on the whole world. Everybody doesn't have same weight of importance to everyone else and that's ok. Dunbar's Number may also be relevant here.

>, but every professional understands if you want to use other channels.

No they don't if you're one of hundreds of "disposable vendors" in Asia or other parts of the world using WhatsApp for business. The other business professional (with more leverage) just ignores your excentricity and works with others who don't inconvenience them.

>, although there are side effects

If the "side effects" are $0 income, that's a really big deal. It seems like you swept this aside.

>Clout chasing

It's not about about chasing "clout". Unfortunately, I used the word "influential" and I forgot that it has been tainted by recent phenomenon of "social media influencer". I couldn't think of a better word for "significant connector node on a social graph" other than "influential". (I think it's irony that by Donald Knuth insisting on USPS snail mail for correspondence -- and people actually getting past that friction to contact him -- that actually proves he has clout.)

In any case, I think your perspective is shaped by your experience in Western Europe so you really can't empathize with how some people (farmers, etc) depend on WhatsApp for their livelihood. They don't use it like a TikTok type of social network.
good luck hacking my password horse correct battery staple
d -> s (or a typo) I can get behind but there's just no way you one would type 'clear' instead of 'show' and expect the command to behave in a similar way
Unfortunately that is not how ANC works.

ANC = Active Noise Cancelation

Noise is rather objective here...

Its noises like droning sounds, like a machine or background noises like traffic or inside a train and airplane.
But I see all the time US bullying other countries with sanctions, US could for example stop doing business with China until UN guys are happy with human rights , but at the same time US should allow UN guys to verify human rights condition in US too(including the secret torture places and also the suspicious suicide cases of incommode people).

I am disgusted by human rights demands only from China but not from "US partners" that are doing maybe even worse (like not offering equal rights for women or killing gay people with stones). I would have more respect if you equally condemn everyone or just shut up and fix your local issues .
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Only 2% of US adults have high literacy
But you don't have to be physically somewhere to read the electromagnetic signals. You just have to parse the signal. This can be done remotely.
I never seen any of them put themselves "outside" of the left-right spectrum.

I probably read what they say in a different way. What I see both movements doing is not align enough to either side to position themselves as such.

You said it yourself: they need to position themselves on "all issues". If you align yourself 90% to the left or right, you can align with a traditional party. If you split your positions 40-60% on the issues, you are neither right or left wing.

One example for both Novo and MBL: Both movements align in economic ideas closer to right wing parties, but both movements are pro environmental polices. Traditionally you don't see political groups in Brazil that support both ideas.
A "clean" environment is so subjective and temporal, I don't understand how it can be a "human" right... Why does UN keep digging into this hole of irrelevancy and bs?
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Just throwing it out there - most software and OS's adapt to fit hardware constraints. I was running 32GB of RAM, and regularly hit 20-24GB of use in my web browser. When I switched to 128GB of RAM and reloaded my session, my web browser expanded its use to 40-44GB and performed a lot better. While Firefox may be working with 6GB, it may work a lot better with 16GB, for example.

The crashes could be some addon or other profile feature interfering with Firefox's stability. I had a profile that I migrated from FF 1.x, and I finally had to put that one to rest...
We should thank hackers in a way for exposing what the world is becoming in terms of mass surveillance.

If they did not pull stunts like these we would be much more trusting of our devices. Governments and shadier entities would access our data at their will and wouldn't stupidly publicize what they are doing when they don't have to.

Of course a presidential candidate has powerful enemies who may be themselves part of the state establishment. So in this case I believe the situations are intertwined
I tend to be picky about what libraries I use in any project so it's best to pick a couple that you know you'll need and make sure to trim the fat where possible. If a specific date/time library seems far too big for your purposes then see if you can make some functions that fit the bill on your own. Eventually, you'll figure out what's absolutely necessary from trial and error and what's just "nice to have."
This is a, maybe, long way to get to this, but keep with me. I have always been fascinated by understanding what is edible, useful, or "traditionally medicinal" in the natural world around me.

I have spent decades of my life learning about how to use, propagate, and cultivate most plants, animals, fungi, and minerals (not the propagate part here) in an area +/- 100 miles from where I live. I've taught a couple of State University extension classes, and regularly sell at a farmers market the things I gather/grow, just for shits and giggles.

People have asked me for years why I don't do this for a living. Why don't I do that instead of working a job that I am neutral to, but that pays the bills.

Because all of that sounds exhausting. Needing to maintain a presence on so many platforms, interact with so many people, and constantly be thinking about my next thing for all of the various platforms is just exhausting.

I don't know how people can do it without burning out.
good luck with that. laughs in libertarian
By repeatedly joining high profile political races, and repeatedly getting destroyed in them? Strange strategy there.
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Inside the model, “the reals are uncountable” means you have two sets R and N, and there is no surjective function from N onto R. That function would be a set as well; a certain subset F of NxR, say. But even if we can externally enumerate R, there is no reason to expect that our external enumeration corresponds to a set F that exists in the model.
Not for me either. ANC gives me the feeling of holding a sea shell to my ear which makes me nauseous. My favorite headphones are still the Sony MDR-1A. I can wear those for 10 hours straight without issue.
Prodkernel is not in the monorepo - it's in a separate git repo and uses it's own systems for building and qualifying new releases.

There is a system for using git* in conjunction with the monorepo that some developers use, but that system has nothing to do with the prodkernel.

* there is also a similar system for using mecurial with the monorepo that some folks love.
> hurr-durr inhumane laws

Dura lex, sed lex.

Laws were humane enough when allowed one to run for president
What do you mean? You think all coders are security engineers? All code has dependencies, often dozens of them. You might just need a single vulnerability in a trusted third party library to allow this to happen. These are humans creating these products. I would say that SPECIALLY because of the size of these products, vulnerabilities are inevitable.
> there is some hope after all

Inferno was created as a potential Java competitor. That hope is long gone.
But if you know someone with access to the text then any screen they use is bypassing authentication if a signal can be remotely parsed identifying / spying on their screen. This is known to be done pretty easily...
Uninformed point of view - I'd be curious the split of that army of employees, since the money isn't in keeping the lights on, it's in sales and feature development. Stability is rarely the forethought unless it's there from day one. It probably takes a lot of money and human hours to keep the streamers engaged, and far less to watch Grafana dashboards.
If a company desired to be able to sow doubt if its impacts on society ever came under a microscope... one gambit (and an effective one, based on your reaction) would be to hire people who genuinely and passionately research and work on trust and safety, then systematically under-resource their teams and gaslight them into thinking there are fundamental reasons their recommendations must be ignored.

For instance, contrast Zuckerberg's statement here:

> And if social media were as responsible for polarizing society as some people claim, then why are we seeing polarization increase in the US while it stays flat or declines in many countries with just as heavy use of social media around the world?

With such severe under-resourcing and deprioritization that one person had the literal weight of worldwide election integrity on her shoulders, as revealed more than a year ago: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

> The memo is a damning account of Facebook’s failures. It’s the story of Facebook abdicating responsibility for malign activities on its platform that could affect the political fate of nations outside the United States or Western Europe. It's also the story of a junior employee wielding extraordinary moderation powers that affected millions of people without any real institutional support, and the personal torment that followed.

Haugen echoes the same in https://archive.is/tQwE9 :

> She soon grew skeptical that her team could make an impact, she said. Her team had few resources, she said, and she felt the company put growth and user engagement ahead of what it knew through its own research about its platforms’ ill effects.

The fact of the matter is that if Zuckerberg were to say "I'm going to pour our profits into trust and safety and abuse avoidance in order to ensure that our position as a trusted brand is sustainable for generations to come," his high levels of voting control and clear defense to any allegations that this was against long-term shareholder interest would fully make that possible. The fact that quite the opposite has happened should be considered with much more weight than his words in a reactive press statement.
There’s a feature that allows the moderators to boost a recent post that seems interesting but didn’t get enough traction.
I find it so weird when you sit in a room that sounds silent and you put the ANC headphones on and it sounds even quieter!

Does this mean there is a tonne of sub-sonic noise that we don't conciously hear but we do notice when it is taken away by noise cancelling or is it just the headphones reducing the pressure on the eardrum so it sounds quieter?
Also, if it is a right, who is to provide it?
The look is reminiscent of magma/lava.
A question I have about this:

Is there really an energy shortage and now silicon shortage in China (all of a sudden)? Or are they diverting energy and production to other things?
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US (Florida) checking in. A hammer drill is your friend.

Once you spend a few decades in concrete houses, everything else seems cheap and suspect.
Is that a joke? Most "western" countries have wiped their asses with international laws. Be it illegal wars, illegal kidnappings and torture (US), illegal deportations and violations of international agreements signed months prior(UK), bombing a neutral ship in a foreign country ( France), etc. etc. The examples are too numerous to list, but here's some academic material just for the US:

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29766228
I would argue they still have a better record at HUMINT than China/Russia/et al.
What messages did you find inspiring coming from him? I find a lot his messages to be too abstract to appeal to the American mass. It's missing the kind of "build the wall" messages that get people excited.
Exactly. Thank you. So ultimately, so security is an illusion unless everyone uses a unique language which is orthogonal to encryption but not exactly. The weakness of encryption is trusting the math behind it and it's general use vs non-general use of a unique language per person.

Interesting stuff.
I found that silicone earplug are even better for noise cancelling
Thanks for this. Btw, wtf is up with the banned account reply here? Very weird spam.
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Yes, it sounds almost exactly what HN and Reddit is.

I would be interested to hear what OP meant and how it would be different.
In this case "a ton" is an understatement, getting a Nobel requires the right mix of excellent research, significant discovery and a healthy dose of luck/timing.

Inverting the comment that you were replying to it's akin to saying "I wish I had finished my software engineer degree and made a billion dollar startup instead of getting a chemistry PhD".
Probably fine for a journalist to argue, but I'd guess a tech guy saying it's "research" won't have much luck.
What messages did you find inspiring coming from him? I find a lot his messages to be too abstract to appeal to the American mass. It's missing the kind of "build the wall" messages that get some people excited.
Does that mean China and Russia approve of making a clean environment a human right?
You may want to try Opera. I found it more stable than Chrome, at least after spending an hour in the Settings and about:flags disabling all the extra features that I didn't need.
The US political system is broken, that much is true, Yang says the right words but can make any headway I wonder.
Got the Sony WH-1000XM4 after a long wait time before jumping on the ANC wagon. Have done probably 20 hours of flight time since then - unreal how much more enjoyable travel has been from lack of fatigue from noise and reduced volume, comfort of the actual product.

Totally hear how it could also be detrimental for other people but for me its been amazing. Also at work, drones out all other noise pretty much completely except loud voices.

Only downside is that whenever I am on a call with them or someone talks to me am obviously yelling in response :P
> Meanwhile nations like China spewing godawful particulates all over Shanghai will surely WILL FOLLOW THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW AND ALLOW THE LITTLE GUY TO SPEAK UP AGAINST THE ABUSES OF THEIR STATE RUN INDUSTRY. Mmmhmm.

The article makes no mention of China, I'm wondering where this idea is coming from? Can you have a good faith discussion about anything political without going so far out of your way to smear the DPRC? Is it possible to accept responsibility without pointing fingers at others?

The DPRC has only been an industrial power for the past 30-40 years, 70+ years after the western industrial boom - Western nations had already put astronauts/cosmonauts in space. If you feel your country isn't accountable for anything, then argue your point because this finger pointing isn't helping anyone nor is it interesting.
On a couple occasions, two different cis women said that I must be slightly colorblind because I was assigned male at birth and we disagreed on whether a color (on a physical object we were both looking at) was more blue or more green.

(As far as I can tell, I am not even slightly colorblind.)

I really want this linguistics thing to be known, because I think it's a sufficient explanation that _people just name colors differently and that's fine._
To continue on the "American national identity" trope. Could the (un)conscious fear of the country loosing cohesiveness the reason for displaying national US signs in many contexts of American life so frequently, in order to counter any possible de-federalisation movements?

Flags are frequent on walls of event venues, people put them on cars as stickers/flags or on their clothing (rarely, I know), and the US populace displays national symbols much more frequently than elsewhere (maybe with the exception of war/conflict zones for other reasons).

Living in Europe, the flag is used typically in the "us vs them" (sport, marking of some products maybe) and in official (army, embassies, governmental buildings and posts) contexts. Of course, there are exceptions.

The "proud to be American" saying doesn't really seem to answer the question, as it's on some level just word salad which begs for another set of explanations, so I was thinking that my original thesis might be closer to the reality.
Thanks for the chuckle.

Same here but mostly brown hair except red in the beard. I suspect it's not limited to red haired folks but that the gene occurs in people with relatively northern ancestors (Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia).

IIRC there were lots of red haired people in the continental Celtic population too. Would they have the same adaptation for less need of sunlight?

Also makes me wonder how the Inuit manage.
A single data point, but were I've found ANC technology to be amazing is air travel. I used to be tired after a flight, even short ones. Since I got an in-ear ANC headset (Jabra in case it matters to anyone) even transatlantic flights are a breeze and I get out of the plane well rested, just like you would expect after sitting for so many hours.
Huh, TIL that there are forks of Arc!

My only point of hesitancy with diving into something like this is my strong suspicion/fear that HN has diverged sufficiently enough from Arc that almost all improvements I made to news.arc et al would need manual/refactoring before they would be useful - and this would need to be done every time I tweaked something on my end.

My interest in Arc is motivated solely by the fact that it's what runs HN, and while part of my motivation to dive into HN from a technical standpoint is because I just like doing that :) the rest is just wanting to help the site get out of users' ways, while retaining a pragmatic focus.
Generally it's no zippy one-liner putdowns, more than no humour. I think the general idea is that if you want to criticise something, you should directly write out an argument against it.

In this case the joke wasn't even related to the discussion, since neither Signal[0] nor Telegram are self-hosted anyway.

[0] You can sort of self-host Signal, but last time I looked there was no way to change the URL in the client without rebuilding it, and it's not federated, so that's pretty pointless unless you also get all your friends to install your new version too.
"Foreign domestic workers aka maids/helpers. Disposable laborers living and working in Singaporean households. Not covered by employment legislation, so can be legally forced to work 365/24/7 with no holidays whatsoever. Not uncommonly physically confined (locked in) to the employer's apartment, denied means of communicating with the outside world, and have both their passports and salaries confiscated for "safekeeping"."

Reminds me of Soylent Green.
It's illegally obtained information, sensitive information, about thousands of individuals and their personal businesses. I don't think its appropriate, and I would hate to be on that list right now.
> the ear pressure it creates is tolerable, but is an additional energy drain over long periods of time and eventually gives me headaches.

This is so noticeable to me (though I don't get headaches). Does everyone else who uses ANC headsets/earbuds not notice? Or they notice and it doesn't bother them?
One way to leave is to garbage the account, then put a max size password on it, generated randomly. Then forget about the whole thing. Maybe that is safe enough?
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Your intermediary result sets can be significantly bigger than your ouput set. By instead of combining whole relations but performing a depth first search through the variable assignment space, while peforming constraint propagation, you can achieve a runtime that is much better than what classical pairwise joining systems can achieve.
Since the proposed solution for joins in RxDB is an especially naive kind of pairwise join, it will be especially bad.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/chrismre/papers/paper49.Ngo.p...
Yeah, that too, it feels like this very easily can be used to violate sovereign rights...
Related: https://old.reddit.com/r/QuantumComputing/comments/hyisg7/wh...
Organic synthesis is about making new molecules that haven't existed before. That's important for developing new drugs, improved batteries, better plastics, etc.

Organic molecules are networks of atoms, with both a distinct connectivity pattern, and a specific 3D orientation [1] of the atoms to each other. See e.g. the Wikipedia page of Lipitor[2] a picture of the connectivity pattern.

We build these molecules through chemical reactions. Over time, we have become pretty good at creating the connectivity patterns we want. However, achieving the correct 3D arrangement is still challenging.

List and MacMillan developed new chemical reactions that enable us to get both the connectivity, and the 3D aspect right. Such new methods are frequent Nobel contenders, and won e.g. in 2001 with Knowles/Noyori/Sharpless.

As for how these reactions work: it is true that they are catalyst-based and that catalysts speed up reactions, but that perspective is a bit misleading. The key point is that without catalysts, these reactions would not happen at all. So the catalysts List&MacMillan found accelerate some desirable reactions so much that they turn from "practically doesn't happen at all" to "done in an hour".

Congratulations to the outstanding work, and to the Nobel price!

[1]: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry) for a deeper look
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atorvastatin
[3]: For a deeper look at the chemistry, check out https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/popular-chemistry... and https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/advanced-chemistr... -- also shared by _Microft
I think people greatly over estimate how many calories you burn while working out. It's very little, unless you're able to train the entire day I doubt the average person is burning many calories from moderate exercise.

Not trying to say exercising isn't worth while, it is but using it as the sole means of weight loss isn't fruitful gotta change the diet as well.
I wonder how this squares up with https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quantum-computing-hype-bad-sc... :

> Crazy headlines abound: "quantum computing will change life as we know it," "quantum computing will solve global warming," "Quantum computing will revolutionize science and industry," etc etc. These statements are not based on any research or reality at all, they are not even wishful thinking. The number of known quantum algorithms, which promise advantage over classical computation, is just a few (and none of them will "solve global warming" for sure). More importantly, exactly zero such algorithms have been demonstrated in practice so far and the gap between what’s needed to realize them and the currently available hardware is huge, and it's not just a question of numbers. There are qualitative challenges with scaling up, which will likely take decades to resolve (if ever).
CDU/CSU aren't particularly socially progressive.

That said, "grudgingly as socially progressive as the public demands we be, economically center-right" is pretty common in European politics; CDU/CSU are an example, as are FF and FG in Ireland.