skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm someone who hacks on Linux for a living.

What do I do now?
He's talking about the replication crisis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
It's possibile to believe that humans are causing climate change but not care about it. I know potato chips are unhealthy, but I still eat them because they taste good.
Chinese Flying Car Startup HT Aero Raises over $500M
Love the campaign. Is the narrator the same guy who did the narration in Idiocracy?
This is hilarious considering there’s trillions of dollars invested in assuming climate change doesn’t exist.
Sometimes even "regular" ASCII surnames cause problems.

When written in the Latin alphabet, my surname is one letter.

I've had an amazing amount of problems with this not just due to technical limitations (like various forms marking the entry as invalid), but--much more aggravatingly--human limitations.

One particularly infuriating anecdote: at a past job many years ago, the email structure was lastname@company.com. I dutifully sent the IT person in charge of creating emails my desired email. The IT person wrote back an amazingly condescending email that as per the policy, emails had to be last names, not individual letters. I then had to go find a bunch of random websites which explained single-letter names and forwarded them to the IT person. They then obliged, but did not apologize for insulting me. That is not right that I had to put up with that.
Anybody who had a feet for more than 5 minutes in a lab know he's right.

Heck I can't even challenge my own supervisors when they make swallow statements that are in fact contradicted by a bunch of papers, how could I get funding from external entities by submitting socially unpopular ideas? Impossible, especially in highly politicized fields.
Except you can extract 237 kJ/mole from hydrogen. A fuel cell is a battery and can approach the efficiency of a lithium-ion battery.

> No, you cannot use existing gas pipelines for transporting hydrogen.

You absolutely can. In fact gas companies are already planning this exact thing.

> For passenger cars, EVs today are already better than what physics allow hydrogen cars to ever be.

Your "physics" is entirely pseudoscience.
The cheap box aesthetic peaked in the sixties.
So, any solid evidence?

And even if you did, it wouldn't disprove the consensus on climate change in any way. Or are you also saying that all the research was falsified? Any evidence of that?
Did you forget about Amazon and Google Arm servers? It's not just Apple, everyone is moving away from x86.
Have you noticed that you just described “conversation”?

That is what it looks like when people get together and talk to each other. Lots of us are here for that, and it seems like a pretty natural thing to do. The articles do a nice job of suggesting topics to talk about.
"Consensus is extremely common, and it's almost universally a good thing." isn't about saying things are assumed when they are not, just that the community is able to quickly adapt to changes in fundamental theory in order to explore the new ground opened up as a result.

Take your example about StyleGAN vs BigGan, I assume once it became clear that the latter was superior to the former that likely resulted in changes to existing architectures that then found additional improvements. This change in consensus is what enables that and is a good thing.

I think the problem here is conflating consensus with faith, that is assuming truth in absence of data. Consensus is easily changed with the introduction of new data, faith hangs on no matter how much evidence is put forward that it's horseshit.
Unrelated to the article but I ran across an interesting result recently that is related to AI (and the hype surrounding it): Let A be an agent and let S be a Turing machine deductive system. If A correctly understands S, then A can correctly deduce that S does not have A’s capability for solving halting problems. [1]

One way to interpret this is that all existing AI systems are obviously halting computations simply because they are acyclic dataflow graphs of floating point operations and this fact is both easy to state and to prove in any formal system that can express the logic of contemporary AI models. So no matter how much Ray Kurzweil might hope, we are still very far from the singularity.

1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-014-9349-3
U.S. Government set to ban sale of hacking tools to China and Russia
Lina Khan Memo to FTC Staff and Commissioners (22 Sept 2021) [pdf]
You can already own a fuel cell car in California
i often wonder why we cannot build a small ai inspector for devops in general. so much time is spent piecing together technologies, the config files alone could be automated to be complete honest
what degree of seriousness would be excessive for "democracy dies in darkness"?
I’ve been using teddit.net as an alternative to Reddit. It’s not bad to browse specific subreddits but you can’t log in.
It was no paradise
> A hex grid certainly addresses that problem, but since I was limited to text, squares it was!

FWIW, you can do hex pretty well as:

# # # # # # # ()()()()()()()
# # # # # # or ()()()()()()
# # # # # # # ()()()()()()()

although unless you're using CJK-width characters, the visual design can be a bit nontrivial.
There are many documents in the world, but knowing when to look or how to find them comes over time and with much frustration.
A bit odd topic but the commas seem strange in the numbers there:

>Total Vaccination Doses:
1,00,13,38,625

Is that an Indian thing?
You just summarized my career so far.
But here’s the thing.

Why does every fossil fuel company accept the science of climate change.

Not just that they are unable to get their contrarian studies published in academic papers.

No, they literally spend a ton of money in Super Bowl ads trying to convince the world that they are trying to reduce climate change.

And they have pages on their websites:

BP: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/sustainability.html

Exxon: https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/Sustainability/Environmenta...

There’s almost no organization other than the American right in the world that currently denies the reality of climate change.
My thoughts are that most of the problems, like most things, stem from the Baby Boomer generation, the generation that likes to pin everything on Millennials and Gen Z now, which stemmed from their prior generations. It was Baby Boomers who divorced more than any other and yet pitched this idealized, fairytale version of marriages. Well, Millenials can see that doesn’t work, because they have first hand experience.

So Millenials, from what I can gather, are much more willing to be naturally skeptical of the pitch of marriage and wait it out. I myself view it as more of a partnership, entailing legal details (such as taxes and ownership) and a personal, non-religious commitment. Religion has also fallen out of favor, reducing the push to marry, at least in the faith. This also contributes to the newer generations living together longer before marriage, which prevents both marriages and divorces at the same time and certainly delays marriages. Lastly, there’s the finances. Millenials and Gen Z are slammed with rising costs, taxes, debt, one “lifetime” economic crisis after another, and more. All of this contributes to delays in and distractions to “settling down”. I simply don’t understand how I would have felt comfortable marrying in my 20s or even done it. I wasn’t prepared and couldn’t afford stable life and also moved a lot between school, graduate school, and finding a job that didn’t suck, all of which slows meeting people.

There are some financial benefits to marrying, if the marriage sticks, but I think those don't away the sheer pressure newer generations are under.
Consensus is just people agreeing on something. Science depends on tests passing, which does not depend on anyone agreeing on their results. Indeed, the point of tests is to remove the human from the 'equation' so to speak, therefore consensus isn't even possible.

If consensus is needed, it's probably because rigorous science cannot be done for whatever reason, like maybe not having enough fossil evidence.
It’s a (not well executed) joke about electron’s memory consumption and how developers refuse to use anything better.
> The Ford F-150 Lighting is about to drop. (…) In < 5 years from now, the best selling EV will be the F-150 Lighting.

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> They're planning on making:[1]

> 2022: 15,000

> 2023: 55,000

> 2024: 80,000

[1] https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/ford-f-150-lightning-e...

So I don’t really see how you think the F-150 lightning will be the best selling EV in < 5 years when they don’t even plan on making 200k of them in the first three years.
i.e. stop the backbone of everything in the world with no practical replacement.

Probably not the best step 1
so they bring nothing new to the field, just rehash and repeat: "he said this, she said that..."

Agree, this is pretty common for "climate research" and is one of the reasons why climate research has major credibility problems and deniers - there will be people who deny this garbage level "research" due to lack of rigor
i keep seeing these pinterest complaints. i haven't gotten any, what are you guys looking up? pumpkin spice latte results are gonna turn up pinterest results for sure. ymmv
They’ve announced a social network that is nearly identical to Twitter, and they’ve used the code straight out of Mastodon (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon). Basically identical to what Gab has done.
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The point that "Web design" is part of pop culture is something I've had a very hard time with working as a dev at non-software companies; Everybody from every department wants to have a say about how the website looks.

Web devs are expected to acknowledge and obey the opinions of those with "pull", i.e. "Gary from sales", the CEO's wife, or whatever "hot new hire's behind" the company is currently blowing steam up.

Projects would always end up as "designed by committee" and way worse than they'd have to. Management just shrugs, even if they understand the problem. After 1-2 years nobody remembers why the result is as bad as it is and assumes that the web dev just isn't that capable.

But the web dev, even if he's got a "Head of.." title is never seen as equal to the Head of Sales or Head of HR, so the cycle continues.

I've heard many devs envy people like me who work in non-IT or non-Software companies: "Nobody understands your job so you must be able to do whatever you want!" - but the opposite is true, because people don't understand how little they understand about web dev. They think it's all the same, from building a service like Gmail to the CEO's teenage son's band homepage.

Around 2006 I've even got someone from marketing with no technical background whatsoever set up a "think tank" inside the company because his idea was to "create a Facebook competitor". As in, world wide social media juggernaut, using the resources found in our company: 1 web dev, 1 infrastructure guy, and one Windows help desk person.
The shocking thing was that his superior didn't immediately shut him down, but let him waste everybody's time for weeks.
i recommend reading this "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names". world is crazy place if you expect some system in how people name each other and are writing it down.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
When you start a Windows computer for the first time, Windows gives you a text box and asks you to choose a user name. It does not explain in detail what this means or what it is for.

Does it really surprise you that people are going to type just about anything into that box that it will allow?
I think you're massively misrepresenting the senior devs you've worked with if you think the reason they've advocated for monorepos is because they're "too lazy to change minor versions".

If a monorepo puts a barrier in the way of turning everything into a microservice, then all the better, as far as I'm concerned.
If I recall correctly, the math for fuel cells doesn't really work out. It's more efficient to charge a battery directly than to use energy to create hydrogen and then to convert it back into electricity.

There are certain use-cases where you might want it, but probably most of the cars of the future should be battery-based EV's.
It’s the Indian numeral system: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
To be honest, I find that in the long term using an autoformatter greatly reduces what I call "diff spam". There's always that one guy using another IDE with his own auto-formatting tool that rewrites whole files. This is extremely annoying when reviewing merge requests and commit histories. Using an autoformatter solves this issue (and many other formatting related timesinks).

In addition, I think for most use cases having formatting-dependent code is kind of bad practice (not talking about indentation based code scoping à la python here). Although I do have the occasional struggle with ascii diagrams / comment formatting.

All-in-all I understand both sides, with a slight preference for using one. Manually formatted code in some cases can be much more beautiful than autoformatted counterparts. It's certainly not something I would impose; rather a team-decision after a short discussion.
This isn't true in general, and your specific example isn't true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Pe...

For nearly 50 years, the "consensus" was "Newton's theory explains most things but doesn't explain this one big thing". The same could have been true of climate change, but there is no "precession of Mercury" for human-caused climate change. The data is clear, and the theory matches the data close enough to justify overwhelming consensus.
Well, I've been hacking on Linux for 8 years and been a maintainer for a few packages in AUR so what?

Even the way you present yourself here proves my point. This is not an OS for a comfortable life, it's a system for "hacking" (including the system itself).

If you still have passion and time for this - cool, most people don't want to spend their days on this.
Yes, India doesn't use millions and billions, but lakhs and crores.

10 lakh = 1 million

100 lakh = 1 crore
Citation please on “the Xeon dell smokes the M1 air”, geek bench says the M1 air can be twice as fast.

All other things being equal: your statement is simply not true.

I just checked and I can’t find a mobile Xeon with a greater TDP than 45w, so you’re stuck with that geek bench score because that’s essentially as good as it gets for a modern mobile Xeon.

Xeons, fwiw, are just higher binned i7s and i9s with features still enabled. The reason they can be slower than i7s and i9s is that the memory controller has to do more work and the way Intel does multi-core (essentially a ring bus) doesn’t scale gracefully always.
I don't think the word literally was meant literally in this case
Climate science has made many predictions with a lot of success. Read the IPCC reports - read the older ones if you want to see the older predictions.
Shouldn't this kind of research have been carried out before billions of people were vaccinated? Is it ethical to enforce vaccinations (via mandate) with these matters unresolved?
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Given this logic, The web and windows are infallible tools because they are the ones most people have to use.
It's very well possible to have the right conclusion ('climate change is man made') while working with imprecise data and models. High precision is not required for consensus about cause and effect to be established, merely that within the boundary of error no other explanation is viable.
The mechanism has sort of revealed itself recently, and it is not a net positive: ransomware.
This sounds ideal. What kinds of min-wage gigs are you doing this and where are you finding them? I haven't found work in a hella long time.
I agree, but there are only so many algorithms; You should keep practicing and it'll definitely change your perspective!
I just checked Flow out from the library yesterday. :(

Mentions on HN: https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...
"A Palestinian town".
No, it's an Israeli town, or if you wanna call it an Arab-Israeli or Palestinian-Israeli town that's fine as well. These people have Israeli citizenship and in fact when surveyed they show very little enthusiasm to go under Palestinian rule.
Dell Precision. 6 core xeon, 128GB RAM, 9 hour battery life. [...] My laptop is like 5x or more faster that the Air.

Very unlikely. You seem to go out of your way not to mention the Xeon's part number. So what Xeon is it?
Mobile/laptops eg the sector where apple/ms are switching. Big-small is the way to get high power efficiency.
The scientific method does not deal in 'ultimate descriptions', it only deals in 'to the best of our knowledge' and the whole point of the scientific method is to be able to replace today's best version of the explanation with a better one tomorrow.
Yes. Indians don’t usually break numbers down by the thousands.

After thousand, numbers are usually grouped by the hundreds.

So, for example, Indians usually use:

Number: Indian Term/Others
1000: Thousand/Thousand
100,000: Lac/Hundred Thousand
1,000,000: 10 Lac/Million
1,00,00,000: Crore/Ten Million

and so on…
Do you only rely on God? Where do you get information, other than from other humans?
It's still an important sign in terms of where Tesla will end up in the overall market.

Tesla is a tiny player in terms of overall sales, so a 50% YOY growth in marketshare is still possible. If they're also experiencing a 50% decrease in the share of new EV's sold, that's not a sign that they will dominate the EV market as their current valuation would suggest.
Fairphone 4 has 5 years of updates; and it's much more ethical and better for earth to buy phone made with Fairtrade, than another Pixel. You are guaranteed there were no forced or child labour put into your phone too.
I believe it was these three:

Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

Susan Cain, "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"

Daniel Pink, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"

So, maybe not entirely unrelated, but I certainly wasn't looking for a specific theme. Just working down my non-fiction list.
I think we’re losing the perspective here that Apple is not in the business of selling chips, but rather in the business of selling laptop to professional who would never even need what you describe
I'm a first year Surveying student, after I spent all of high school thinking I'd study computer science / software. I don't see much discussion of the topic on HN so I'm glad this is getting upvoted!

The opportunity of working outdoors appeals to me a lot, as does the technology (drones, remote sensing, GIS). It also seems like a much more relaxed job market than a more traditional tech / engineering job (albiet with less pay).

I'd love to hear any thoughts on the profession or suggestions for those early in their career.
> And who decides whether a theory is “proved”?

The tests passing or failing. And sure, the tests are designed by humans, but that's why there are controls, and there is no limit on how many tests per hypothesis. Each test can improve on the previous one, every time removing more and more of the bias, if needed.
> Since the naysayers aren't interested in coming up with legitimate alternative models, the only refuge is to downplay "consensus"

It's important to note that this pattern plays out for many issues. It's reactionary politics and rhetoric, which is simply against things and for nothing - to deny: climate change, covid, racism, etc.
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I remember people telling me before the 2016 US election how if Hillary wins it will go up to 500k.
How long do you think they can realistically maintain a 50% YOY growth rate in deliveries? They're small enough now that 50% growth is very attainable, but that doesn't mean it's sustainable.
SGML (and its subset XML) lets you declare content models telling a parser what elements to expect below others and in what sequence (regular tree grammar). SGML (but not XML which left that feature out) also allows content inclusions/exclusions allowing or forbidding, resp., a particular element such as <script> to appear anywhere below a node. This, coupled with specific entity expansion and escaping rules into various contexts (into regular or RCDATA text nodes, into attributes, ...) amounts to a system that is agnostic of the particular markup language used. Strictly better than defining "sanitation" or gross PHPesque "safe string" approximations. And the "browser community" (browser cartel) moved away from it when they introduced JavaScript and CSS inlined into HTML (eg to prevent non-script, non-CSS browsers to render those as content, where these never had any reason to appear in content in the first place). Incidentally, script and the piece of garbage that is CSS also marks the end of hypertext systems as decried by TFA. Browsers continue to hang on that crap in the name of backward compat, but really due to the Web having become an insane self-referential ecosystem for job security and lock-in.

Don't let the false narrative of HTML exceptionalism taint your reasoning: markup language are envisioned as a rational technique for authoring, reusing, and preserving text and other documents. Unlike moribund browser tech putting ads and monopolistic media distribution models at the helmet. Soon, there will be only Chrome left, with FF only a token implementation also financed by Google.
Third-party tooling already interfaces with hooks/merge config without having to check them in. You put the script that does it in the repo, and you ask users to run the script on checkout.
Haha my thought exactly
Having taken commuter trains on gray November Euro-mornings, I still prefer them to cars for commuting. Sitting in a traffic jam on a gray November Euro-morning is more depressing to me. But you’re right, I live in the center of a city. I can get by without a car just fine. On the country side this is not really an option. Whether the suburbs are well connected depends on where you are. In the end, plenty of people still commute by car, it’s just that there’s a sizeable proportion that doesn’t and it changes the feel of public space (and your own sense of options).
“Democracy dies in darkness” is their main slogan.
Has Hacker News always been full of USA style right wing cultists?
Which is why more studies are needed
Well I’m not suggesting the following is a better alt shell, but in murex you have something that’s a little bit akin to a Windows Registry in that all of the shell settings are navigable through a builtin called ‘config’

https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/config.html

You can set prompt functions with that; strings, ints and Booleans too. And ‘config’ comes with descriptions for each configurable thing, choices of options in many cases, and an easy way to default back to shell defaults too. So it’s dead easy to play around configuring whatever you want (you never need to leave the shell to look up an option).

The shell has its own problems though but it’s an interesting alternative take for grouping shell config.
> Increased stress, changes in weight and exercise

Sounds like they've already decided what the findings are going to point at.
Thanks for linking to this nice 40-minute deep dive by Sandy Munro with help from his peers at https://www.3isinc.com
2011 desktop CPUs will perform about half as well as a modern laptop one.

I don’t even think Sandybridge (Intel 2011) CPUs support h264 decode- a pretty common requirement these days for zoom, slack, teams and video streaming sites such as YouTube.