skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the best outcome would be if news stories said things like

* "5 crashes have happened at this intersection so far this year"

* "The speed limit at the crash site was 35, above the standard arterial speed limit of 25"

* "The road at the bend had sharrow markings, which cycling advocates say are ineffective and inferior to marked or protected bike lines."
I'm not sure it is. "Facebook went down for six hours and it was so rare that it made international news. You should consider paying me $100+/hr to build and maintain a website for you as a backup." Doesn't seem like obvious ROI.
javascript, at least, has "undefined" and "null", an infuriating duality of falsiness. PHP also has a notion of not being set as well as being set but null.
Hello Golden Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association!
I've been using one off and on for about 4 years.

They work in the sense that it helps people quantify/gamify meditation practice, which can work as positive reinforcement.

I also find it much more relaxing than guided meditation.

If you're unlikely to continue a meditation practice, you'll probably use it a handful of times and will end up in a drawer, and you pull it out occasionally as a novelty to show people.

Still, would recommend.
Servicing over 1MM API requests / week using API gateway and lambda. It’s been set and forget for 6 years or so. AWS lambda is incredibly maintenance free if your use case fits the lambda constraints.
Toast: Containerize your development and CI environments
I would never switch from a PaaS unless I was expanding the team beyond just myself. Working on DevOps brings 0 value to my users.
NewEgg killed themselves for me with their marketplace; I don't even bother looking at them ever anymore.
I was also one of Cynthia's Ph.D. advisors when she was a graduate student at Princeton, some twenty years ago. It was obvious to me then that she would go on to do great things, so it's delightful to read this news this morning.

My fondest memory of Cynthia, however, has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with just being a kind person. We were at the NEC Research Institute's company picnic where they had an inflatable dragon for the kids to jump around within its interior. Me, Cynthia, and my wife went inside without any kids and jumped around like idiots for a while. Cynthia and my wife got bored, so I stayed behind for One More Big Bounce. With the epic bounce, I also succeeded in cracking a vertebra, nearly passing out on the spot from the pain. Eventually, I would crawl out, an ambulance was called, and I was brought to the Princeton ER.

I would have a full recovery, but I was in the ER for several hours that night. Cynthia came with us to the ER, and when she saw how uncomfortable I was on the gurney, she went back to her dorm to retrieve her favorite blanket, so that I would have even a small comfort. I am not sure how long she stayed, but I know that she was there with me longer than anyone else except my wife.

Anyhow, she's a lovely human being and I am honored and proud to have known her and witnessed the origins of her career.
Consider Fennec instead of Firefox -- I just switched yesterday, and I think the only difference is that Fennec is usually a couple of versions behind because it removes some Mozilla crapware.
OP here - One of the things that really helped me get back into coding was to listen to podcasts. Especially "Django Chat" and "Talk Python to Me". I'd put them on while jogging and they really helped me to get a survey of the Django/Python ecosystem and also what a warm and welcoming community it is.
> immediately it told me that Facebook attempted internet access.

I am not sure how that information is useful to you or anyone else, not trying to be snarky, but an internet app wanting internet access...is the expected behavior?

Most apps and operating systems communicate over the internet for any number of reasons, heck, apps can even check if you have internet access or not (and respond accordingly, such as caching content to send later on).

Doesn't make it weird or suspicious...
I fondly remember the 90s, when 8pt was a normal font size, and 12pt was considered "big".

Folks have their system / browser font settings default to way too small now, but that's partially hardware folks' fault (people don't know their display is hdpi unless it renders super tiny text).

Maybe a font size knob could go into /profile alongside topcolor, but browser zoom works Really Well with HN on Desktop (150% - 300% works well for me).
Drunk driving laws are not the Prohibition. They merely say don't drive if you drank too much alcohol. If only there were something that someone could do if getting sick... hmmm... like stay at home?
There are definitely legitimate use cases, like rendering text tiles in parallel workers and letting the main thread blit them all together. Text rendering is one of the slowest canvas drawing operations, and blitting is super fast, so this can make a huge difference in responsiveness if you’re zooming or scrolling.
Running Rust on AWS Lambda on ARM64
> Sometimes I wanna learn how to fly a plane

Do it! Earning your private license usually costs between $6k and $12k, typically, and you can get started with just a discovery flight for a small amount.
I think CoqIDE is great and ProofGeneral (Emacs) is something all Coq experts use.

I have the opposite experience with Lean 4, the VSCode integration is horrid and documentation is awful.

The only good sources are papers for Lean4.

Granted I can go back to Lean3 but why would I?
yet you get universal healthcare, pension, and a bunch of other stuff which makes life affordable.
One way to make roads safer is to make better drivers. There is a lot of training and continuing education that can be done to make better drivers. It is far too easy to drive, and once you get your license it is very hard to lose it even as your body degrades to the point you cannot see. People think of bad driving tickets (mostly speeding) as just a price you pay to drive. I've never heard of someone getting a tailgating ticket even though it is rare to see someone maintain their proper following distance in traffic.

Don't take the above as excusing bad road design.
This is obviously false, they did know that it was better to wear a mask. Most of the population of the world was already wearing masks or being told to do so if possible. Doctors and other health professionals wear masks.

National policy should not be made on the basis of 'some people kindof have this pet theory that you might infect yourself if you touch your ear'. I don't know of a single study that says you increase your chance of respiratory virus transmission from touching the sides and back of your head.
No, quantum phenomena do not make physics easier to simulate in any setting that obeys the already measured laws of physics in our universe. Your example does not really have anything even remotely to do with the wave-particle duality. You are making a significant categorical error: the duality is not that things are both particles and/or waves. "Things" are quantum fields that are more difficult to represent than either of classical counterparts, but they do happen to kinda behave like them (particles or waves) in some parameter limits. The metaphor you are using is simply wrong.
I first encountered Algebraic Effects in Unison where they're called "abilities" [0] via the strangeloop talk from 2 years ago [1]. Just from the little I've seen of it I feel like AE is a fundamental abstraction tool that's been missing in programming language design. "Fundamental" as in the same level as function arguments. So many problems that were solved with myriad complex programming language constructs are just absorbed as a trivial user-implementation with an effect system: exceptions, sync vs async, dependency injection, cancellation tokens, dynamic contexts... all of these problems where the essential complexity is a need to have an effect that cuts through the function call stack.

I'm not saying that all our problems are solved and the programming world will now be rainbows and butterflies, I'm just saying that this feature is the correct framing and abstraction for issues we've run into many times in the past, and it has the potential to greatly simplify and unify the hacky, bespoke, situational solutions we've found.

[0]: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/abilities

[1]: https://youtu.be/gCWtkvDQ2ZI
Gotcha. Sounds like we may have a difference of perspective. I am not familiar with the CCC talk you speak of, and am mostly familiar with Joscha's work (to the extent that I am, which is not "deeply" so) from his work on MicroPsi[1].

[1]: http://www.cognitive-ai.com/page2/page2.html
nice, sounds like double-buffering [1] for canvas is finally a viable option.

[1] https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Default_Framebuffer#Doub...
no, it's the direct translation of the benchmark of this post

cold start should be a thing of the past, hence the "failed to reinvent themselves to stay relevant"

you need to speak to the hardware directly, not to the VM or the embedded compiler

with ARM and ultimately RISC-V coming, that's gonna be even more true
At what point would it make sense to move to a 24v or 48v power standard in PCs? The dc-dc conversion world has improved a lot since ATX was invented.
It's like being an entrepreneur. Since there's no certification, anyone can say this about themselves. But Gates and Edison are also entrepreneurs.
If there's easy out the box ways to write things that a normal Dev would do without pushing the language to its limits then it seems a bit unfair to ignore it. If I declared python to be the world's most performant concurrent language by hand wiring Cython and the deepest depths of the language and then completely ignored the out the box constructs in other languages that would be a bit misleading too.
This is some bike shedding of the top tier variety.
China is investing in nuclear power.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2021/04/23/china-wil...

> As of this month, China has 49 nuclear reactors in operation with a capacity of 47.5 GW, third only to the United States and France. And 17 under construction with a capacity of 18.5 GW. None have been shut down. Nuclear provides only 2% of China’s electrical power now, but the country intends nuclear to eventually surpass all other sources
Hard truths and politics aren't compatible because there's too much incentive misalignment. People in power have no reason to tell the truth because it'll get them fired, and the reason for that is most people don't even want the truth anyhow, it triggers some form of pain. The path of least resistance inevitably seems to be lying in some form.
>That’s the biggest downside

Downside for whom?
Long ago, way back in high school philosophy I wrote a paper arguing against the monarchy (I'm in Canada) on the grounds that raising a child born into that position with no life choices is a form of child abuse. I was a bit tongue-in-cheek at the time. But I still haven't encountered any decent counterargument.
Google files countersuit to Epic Games, claims it’s owed damages
Have you considered just looking for a job that still requires in-person attendance. Not sure what it's like where you are, but here in the UK there seem to be plenty of those.
being anti-nuclear at times of climate crisis is a moral and intellectual equivalent to being anti-vaccines during the pandemic
>Is it worth it to leave her unvaccinated against Covid, at least for now, in order to get some natural immunity?

Isn't the point of immunity against COVID to prevent COVID? What's the logic of getting COVID to get immunity against COVID?
> I would say this - older developers don't leave the industry, but they do get tired of learning different ways to achieve the same things

This is a big part of it. I agree! A lot of what the software industry calls "learning" is actually just the Language/Framework treadmill. "Learning" how to solve the same problems but in this language or with that framework. And inevitably realizing that this thing the hip guys call new is just a re-implementation of something we already did well back in the 90's, but this time in Rust! That kind of learning is kind of neat the first one or two times, but after a while you notice the treadmill, and want to just settle down and actually solve problems.
Copperhead advert?
politics extends past the democrat vs republican system. "political" means power, whether it's a minority group fighting for power so they can have some basic human rights, or it's some crypto bros fighting for decentralization so they can have power.
Show HN: Visualizing Kubernetes Traffic
adding a reference for what a boltzmann brain is for those who don't know. If you've enjoyed the article I think you'll also enjoy learning about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain#:~:text=In%20t....

TLDR: The Boltzmann brain argument suggests that it is more likely for a single brain to spontaneously and briefly form in a void (complete with a false memory of having existed in our universe) than it is for the universe to have come about as the result of a random fluctuation in a universe in thermal equilibrium.
COVID lesson: Never trust the high-priesthood of professional science with political decisions.
> I am still bitter that we don't invest more on this research which has the potential to solve the climate crisis "unexpectedly".

Unfortunately, solving the climate crisis would put many a pundit out of a job.
The author is completely right in that the government at least in the US attempting to downplay, mislead or 'avoid panic' absolutely destroyed any credibility and is still suffering from it. Most people are not stupid, if provided with all available information as well as clear statements regarding the reliability of that information and just a clear message saying "hey this is new and we have no idea, we are making our best guess" people will make decent choices. Unfortunately the US decided to torpedo its credibility, and all sides decided to turn it into a political issue which a pandemic should very much not be. All politics all the time and the US is now crippling itself. In the absence of real honest leadership people turned to the loudest voices of the media. Once the people distrust the government and think they are lying its very hard to appeal to their logic again. I am very much not a fan of Bush II but he did it right after 9/11. What he did after though is a topic for another day.
It really wasn't false at the time; there's a bunch of uncertainty around it for this virus. For quite a long time, people really did believe SARS-CoV-2 could transmit through surfaces easily. We now know that to be incorrect.
everybody is fighting for power. politics is power. decentralization is very much a fight for power.
Such pandemics don't start every other year. Last great one was 100 years ago. So i wouldn't worry at all for the "winners", there's plenty of time for generations to refresh.

Worry about government's inability to learn and improve based on past mistakes, also complacency. It's not hard to imagine 100 years from now, popular presidential guy spearheading the next great pandemic, calming the subjects down with the great medical advancements they had since today and how well prepared they are. Until nature, as it always does, disregards everything and does its own thing unchallenged.
Are there any plans to include location metadata for merchants with a physical presence?
That's fine.
Here's a few of my online talks:

UC Berkeley / ICSI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zgul4oygMc

Stanford ICME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQUItQi-B-I

and a couple of Mikes's

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVuNRKsQa8

Physics Informed Machine Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXhwLtjtUsI

and our KDD workshop
KDD: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3292500.3332294

many more talks and papers available

And my favorite, a podcast that has featured LeCun himself:

https://blog.rebellionresearch.com/blog/theoretical-physicis...
bullshit.

If there are cheaper and safer alternatives. being anti-nuclear is common sense.
The theoretical format would have to represent the more-specific numbers using strings, e.g. if we want to mimic the edn:

{"#ieee754/b64": "123.45"}

Nevermind that this takes up way more space, and whatever other problems.

If an intermediate parser encounters this, we don't have to worry about its representation of JSON numbers, because our numbers don't involve JSON's.
I think we've worked in very different jobs, in my case the analysts had a good idea of the underlying application data and often worked closely with both data engineering and regular engineering to understand it so they can make better analyses. They were quite competent in their own right, otherwise I wouldn't have given them control over the T which only made a net benefit to my life as reduced work.
Forward P2P E2E encrypted (Hyperswarm and Noise Protocol)
Couldn’t part of the larger “why?” be that individual drivers are not sufficiently subject to liability for causing accidents with pedestrians, cyclists, etc.? If it is the case that it’s almost impossible for a driver to get in any trouble for causing such an accident (except in the most egregious cases of reckless driving) then it doesn’t make sense to avoid talking about that.
Broadly after seeing some of the material coming out of the UK "think tanks" in early 2020 this was really "govt, starched collar, upper class" thinking that the proles will start eating themselves if we even mention that there's a chance they could die.

I think projected compliance with a lockdown in the UK was initially estimated and serious attempts were made to model it at 40% compliance.
When govt got near 95%+ compliance during the first lock down other idiots took over behind the scenes, patted themselves on the back and decided why not go for "zero-covid" in 2020...

Edit: (I'm not joking there is a statement on record from politicians reacting to the suggestion with "this is not Asia, people would not stand for a lockdown", aka we expect that as policy to not be able to function)

AKA the first lockdown being a success in the UK was a great statement of how the people behave that had damming effect on the direction of health policy.

Heard immunity would have been reached much quicker and the 2020 winter less bad had more healthy people been exposed in the start and summer of 2020.
The fact that lockdown and rules were followed so well actually made the winter worse than the initial (sensible) projections predicted.
Psychedelics have also helped me move to a better diet.

But I am happy to hear that there is no increase in heart problems, considering the vasoconstriction that can happen. The article doesn't have a breakdown of which participants did which chemical, but that could potentially be insightful. ei. Is LSD and Mescaline lower odds than the control group but higher that psilocybin and DMT?
There's an app available on f-droid called Aurora Store that lets you download apks from the Play Store directly, avoiding the need for stuff like APKMirror (where you don't know where or what happens to the apk you're downloading). On desktop you can use the program Raccoon for the same.
Note how France conveniently placed many of their nuclear power plants close to their eastern border.

With winds coming from the west most time of the year...
Sneaky.
Yes, "computers that do the stuff", and "communication method that can be verified up to self-consistency" are best not conflated.

I like thinking about https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-te... and https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/

Historically, desk jobs meant producing and computing streams of documents, and the integration was mostly informal, in our heads. Now, we can collaborate directly rather than shitting out the derivative of what we actually want. This is a huge new capability to enable way better collaboration.

We've seen in programming, but seeing it in an existing discipline like (pure) math would better demonstrate it's ability to supercede existing methods rather than just live along side them as the weird new thing. From pure math, I hope it hits applied math and the sciences next, bridging the shitty-python--LaTeX--thinking divide and getting us more reproducible and trustworthy experimental analysis. Many cool things after that.
Thanks for sharing. It’s frequently the little acts of everyday kindness that go a long way in this world, like the blanket example you cite.
Based on an annual questionnaire of how frequently the food categories were consumed. I struggle to understand how research based on that data can be useful.
I wonder how close crocodilians were to being extinct after the K-Pg limit. If they did, they would be another non-dinosaur archosaurian group only known from fossils, like pterosaurs. Someone from such timeline would probably be delighted to see alive, as seeing one would be the as amazing for them as seeing a pterosaur or triceratops would be for us.

They're the last living non-avian archosaurs. We sure take crocodilians for granted.
JWST Has Arrived in Kourou
Wiktionary is excellent for this too.
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A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage
> Critical Race Theory isn't about blaming white people

Its fairly specifically about how systems (whether due to racist motivations in the past or not) can exist that produce race-biased results without active racism of current participants who perpetuate them, of any race.

While specific applications of its analytical framework to concrete conditions may identify contributions of active racism, past or present, CRT as a whole is a framework that divides individual racism as an active moral failing from societal processes that produce race-biased results and perpetuate pre-existing racial disadvantage.

The people criticizing it as “blaming White people” are actually afraid of the opposite, that it liberates White people to acknowledge structural racism without that requiring them to see themselves as active racists. As the critics very much do not want racist processes to be acknowledged and addressed (sometimes, because they are conscious, active racists, but sometimes just because their identity is tied up in the status quo being seen as free of racism or some other reason), they fear other people being made more free to acknowledge racist processes.
Innovation Books of the Innovation Social Club by Iain Montgomery
I hate business books. Y’know, the padded-out pieces of overpriced guff written by some smug bastard that often knows the square root of fuck all about the real world. Hang on, maybe I should write on? puts on the COVID-19 social distancing to-do list
But seriously, they’re often terrible. I rest my case at Simon Sinek.
no, i'm not suggesting that technology is inherently political. the ideal of decentralization by way of crypto is a fight for power, which is the essence of "political".
Okay fine. Although I did mention MSM.
I prefer types over interfaces because of one simple difference: if you use vs code and hover over type alias, it expands it and shows everything inside, while for interfaces it just shows the name.
> is backed by a reasonably respectable organization.

Respectability of the prize will arise mostly from the people who receive the prizes, not from the organization itself. Would you like to receive the same prize that got all these other geniuses?

The Nobel is respectable because so many great scientists got it. The composition of the Nobel committee is irrelevant, as long as they keep giving the prize to the best.
Cyber Group Targeted Aerospace and Telco Sectors
Non-paywall version:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-record-number-of-w...
I find it interesting that people have this issue. Unless you’re actually on call, can’t you just snooze slack and emails until the next day?