skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One important fact you might consider is that not all Republicans are the same. ...and that the worst actors held up by the media are not even representative of the average.

...and that moreover, you might consider you are intentionally fed biased information to help reinforce your political stances and hyper-emotional content, because emotional voters are more loyal than thinking voters.

Think for yourself. Recognize the good in your opposition. Denounce the bad in your own. No political party (nor their associated media outlets) are above lying and public manipulation.
>> to the car I see most on the street here in my city (more than Corollas and Camrys even)

US Sales 2020

Tesla: 235,000 units

Toyota: 1,837,898 total units, Camry: 294,348 units, Corolla: 237,179 units

...and that's just last year, they've sold at least 500K units combined annually over the past decade.

So either you live on a anomaly street or your observations don't count much against easily verifiable numbers.
> Please don't make this a partisan issue.

It is a partisan issue though. Republicans across the United States are largely pushing to reject science and schooling and are increasingly pushing through laws and changes that make the populace dumber, and more easily controllable.

You know this is happening, yet you still voted for republicans in the past.

It's your own fault if you continue to do so even in the face of overwhelming evidence that this is destroying America.

Whether or not you feel alienated is no concern, your feelings don't matter here, and the fact that you are feeling alienated means you have the capacity to change, because the people that keep voting against intellectualism don't feel alienated, they feel emboldened when someone calls them out, they feel pride in knowing they are doing something "the left hates me for", even if that something is destroying America in the process.
An analysis of 7,020,950 NFT transactions on the Ethereum blockchain [pdf]
I think it's closer to 0.75 of a Silicon Valley developer's fully loaded salary than 1.5.
One of the worst things about twitter is the flood of “unroll” bots in the replies for every single thread that gets any amount of attention. Personally, I don’t find threads hard to navigate or consume, but clearly plenty of users would rather just read a blog post. I can’t blame them, I miss blogging.
What % of engineered bamboo flooring is stuff other than bamboo (like glue)? From looking at the side when installing it, it seemed like very little.
The sentry team is pretty cool too. Not to mention the product is very well made.

I now almost always setup the free tiers by default on new web projects. I have yet to regret it.
LET THEM EAT LIKES!
This is probably the most toxic thread I've read on this site in a long time. Like wow.
The real life interactions are much more civil because of the fact that being an a*hole gets retribution from the person you are being an a*hole to or from the society.

Perfectly nice people turn into psychos when they interact with people online. Observe kids playing games in real life, they are very rarely as vulgar or sadistic as on online games.

A walk even in the most crowded places is much nicer experience that an anonymous online place.

Oh and yes, the very few cases where anonymity is useful are exactly that kind of cases(whistleblowing, journalism targeting powerful figures etc.). These are rarities and are valuable but %99 of the discussion on the internet are not about these and I suggested a mechanism for anonymity anyway.
It's not volume, it's vertically integrated agility. Can't get Continental radar hardware anymore? Tesla updates their vehicle software to use vision only. Tesla can't get certain chips? They have motivated engineers (culture!) in house able to refactor the vehicle software to support a new silicon configuration.

This is a symptom of legacy automaker stagnation, believing their role is to make a profit from bolting together a bunch of external supplier parts, which works until it doesn't. Their supply chain failure is Tesla's opportunity. This is really no different than SpaceX versus Blue Origin, and how each approaches their culture and management.

EDIT (HN throttling, can't reply directly to your comment): @filereaper Musk is an engineer at his core, and sets the culture of his organizations (high expectations but respect for engineering talent). Bezos and Blue Origin are what you'd expect if McKinsey & Company (the consulting firm) were building a space exploration company. Check out upwardbound's comment below, it's spot on, specifically the section on finding talent.

@malcolmgreaves: There is a delta between what we believe makes a good engineer.
If NaN and Inf values can still happen, but you don't have reliable ways of working with them, that is poor.

I think what people really want is a sane floating point mode that throws exceptions instead of these Inf and NaN things, so if their program isn't debugged, they get a clear signal by way of its abnormal termination.
This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations
A recruiter for these guys reached out to me and I was like 99 percent sure it was a joke - apparently not.

Also, this tells me Sam Altman has never seen Demolition Man.
The biggest problem with CLT and other engineered wood beams is that it fails extremely quickly in a fire.

I've heard firefighters talk about how their departments are considering scaling back entries on newer homes because those beams can fail so early in a fire when the binder fails.
A man with two watches never knows the time.
> also using online usernames with no photo or personal information

haha I feel the bias like when I get a downvote "what did I do wrong, conform". I'm not denying intelligence/facts and also I think it's "this is not Reddit" kind of thing.
The Imperfectionist: Too many needles
In re: Michael Levin, do see his talks "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg and "Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9rLlFgcm0
The question is do they want to produce more nurses and web developers, or more informed citizens. I believe the emphasis is on the former.
George Orwell weighs in on tea-making, 1946

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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Not to mention all that carbon released when the wood decomposes - no ?
I had to check the date of the article to make sure it wasn't April 1.
Retro synth emulators are terrible at proper analog audio emulation. Higan (the "most accurate" SNES emulator) uses cubic teaming for the output without an attempt to emulate the stairstepped ZOH DAC or analog lowpass, or implement a brick wall. Plogue is one of the few developers to produce proper analog emulation, and they say they document all their research (https://youtu.be/V3yWXVAZgO0), but I'll have to check again to see if I can find it in the video or not.
Unless he knows how to add two numbers and divide by two, and to generalize the arithmetic to hour-minute-second time.
Well, keep it mature just so you do not create further mental pollution, and contribute pulling everything down, then.
I thought so too, but any find any evidence of this. Have you got anything?
Thanks for providing this context, good to know.
I think you are being overly pedantic. Do you not understand the message, or should Pollan be less whimsical? If it is going to turn people off the message, perhaps he should be a little more serious.
That was kinda a thing. Tribe.net , it was glorious when it was at its peak. I met so many friends and acquaintances and lovers and great ideas there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe.net
The value of “I don't know”
People in these poorer areas could benefit more from such a biocryptocurrency. There is no need for a physical wallet anymore. I am not defending the idea but there may be upsides those creators have thought about.
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Who knows? Since the majority of healthy vaccinated individuals who get a breakthrough infection are likely to have mild symptoms or be totally asymptomatic, I'd imagine most breakthroughs are not being detected in most places.

In this case, the individual (who was ostensibly healthy as she's in her 40s and working as a pilot) was asymptomatic and her infection was only detected because Taiwan has strict border controls that require quarantine and multiple tests.

Also worth noting that Moderna appears to be the most efficacious of the vaccines (probably due to its higher amount of mRNA) and even then, it's possible to catch a breakthrough after a couple of months.
This reads like "it's time to stop drinking water because some was found to be contaminated"

Just use Mullvad (no affiliation).

Privacytools.io
Quantum bogosort is probably my personal favorite. Randomly permute the input using a quantum source of entropy. If the input is not sorted, destroy the universe. The only universe remaining is one where the input was already sorted. Runs in O(n) time.
On trying to launch reality television in Russia
So two points: First you advocate special people should get special protections for being in a special job, I am sure that will work out real well.

Second all of these arguments seem to suggest just letting the government know you identity as some sort of compromise, but what about when it is the government I am trying to avoid, sure someone can dox me, or can tell my employer to fire me, but only the government can arrest me and execute me if they determine I've done something to upset someone powerful enough within the government. Sure the government can eventually track me down with their resources, but anything that makes it harder is better.
Human communication is only 10% the words we use. But the internet for most of its lifetime has been words-only (disregarding recent trends like TikTok). We have lost 90% of what makes our communication human.

There are biological factors as well, not just things like body language. You put off pheromones which I absorb and my brain analyzes for me when I am near you. You don't get the biological aspects unless you're in person.
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There are many humans that think better than, well, average human. If not in all areas of life, but in one or couple of them, at the very least.

Frankly, one of reasons I visit HN is to find these. ;)

Flattering aside, what fascinates me is the difference in thinking - a new approaches, not seen or thought by me.
But when would you have enough to start paying people? When the average return on the investment is $150K/year? Do you start paying at $15K/year? Should you raise more money and wait until you can fund $1.5M/year?
Did you at least snag one of those delicious pies for your troubles?
Too little too late for that.

Invoking Godwins law, cause it seems apropos:

"As we say in Germany, if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis"
Would like to add a few things to these tweets myself:

- It's moderately well-accepted that fasting for short periods such as 8-23 hours in humans is not at all metabolically equivalent to fasting for longer periods such as 1-7+ days in humans. I'd personally believe you could get some interesting (potentially beneficial!) effects by fasting for a week here and there due to mTOR, but we're obviously lacking the level of evidence we'd want to confidently make this claim. Regardless, intermittent fasting can help in other areas, so it doesn't mean it is useless.

- As is always the case, there's some other studies to consider: for example this one a few days ago that showed (in mice!) that fasting periods specifically were what drove lifespan increases, and that caloric restriction without any change in diet schedule did not improve lifespan: https://twitter.com/LammingLab/status/1450121276270514181 (many studies 'accidentally' combine both of them and end up with a partially confounded result. there's also some literature contrary to this, but it's an additional data point).

- As far as fat loss goes, there's some papers that show that intermittent fasting (that is, alternate-day fasting in this case) is worse than eating daily(a recent summary of one from Peter Attia: https://peterattiamd.com/is-alternate-day-fasting-superior-t...). This study precisely manages calories in participants, so one reason this could not apply to an individual is that eating patterns obviously influence how much you eat and of what.

- One of the best points from this thread is that translating results from mice to humans is hard and nontrivial, and there's many reasons for this that go beyond the obvious fact that, well, they're very different organisms. Similar to how translating the proper dose of a supplement may be difficult, translating the time period(s) of various effects and interventions is also difficult!

My takeaway as usual is that science is pretty hard, so exercising healthy skepticism is generally the right option, especially in areas that involve nutrition/diet/biology, since this is even harder than many other areas of science.
At least this material has a main ingredient that is renewable. No part of steel is renewable right? You can't grow more iron ore (though there is a lot of it lying around).

Also I'm doubting "minimal processing" for steel. You have to dig up the ore with giant machines, transport huge amounts of it by train, smash it with a lot of energy and heavy equipment, melt it with a lot of energy and heavy equipment, etc., etc. This seems like the opposite of minimal?
If anyone is interested in exploring software based FM synthesis, Csound is capable of doing FM synthesis [1], and can model the Yamaha TX81Z FM Synthesizer [2]. (I had one years ago and I loved the sounds).

[1] https://csound.com/docs/manual/SiggenFmsynth.html

[2] https://csound.com/icsc2019/proceedings/3.pdf
Thank You! As a younger person it is so difficult to comprehend the massive amount of wisdom and intelligence in this community, who actively converse almost exclusively in logical fallacies, and it is never referenced! Your comment made me feel like this is not a crazy observation.
Word of warning. I lost several days of debugging what looked like a working serial bus using a logic analyzer. I was about to give up when a friend asked what it looked like under the scope. The problem jumped right out at me. Certain bit patterns would distort the signal and I wasn’t crossing a threshold. Solution was trivial to fix after that, just replace a pair of pull up resistors and the scope showed good squares again. Had a similar problem with an optocoupler after that. Logic analyzer hid the fact that the optocoupler was too slow, and none of the leading edges were ever square. Ended up replacing that outdated part with a similar priced newer part. My client at the time was strggling with a whole batch of these optos for a number of SKUs that were within spec, but the variance was so high that it was common to get a batch that weren’t good enough for his designs.
To compare from the "other side" (though I'm not actually a Democrat), this is how I feel when I see the people I vote for screech propagandized speaking points for anti-gun stances.

There are 2A Democrats out there that have to tolerate the insane (to them) things their representatives support.
Steel is amazing - and as a result we use it in all kinds of places where its properties aren't fully utilized.

Aluminum has been growing into that role of "steel alternative", but there's still room for other alternatives.
With no shortages, GM would be be shipping >2m vehicles / quarter, so it’s about 10x larger. But fair point - Tesla has grown a lot
The obvious major difference is the ability to use the crowd as well as automate; which I believe is unique to Rainforest.

Outwardly, the way they automate is very similar to us. Looking a little deeper, it seems like they _do_ use the DOM pretty heavily (from re watching the video at https://reflect.run). For us, this is a fundamental difference - we do not believe in this; we want to automate testing-like-humans. It's harder, but we believe replicating how a human would detect things working or not (visually, via kvm) ends up with less brittle, easier to maintain tests that are closer to the reality of how a human would interact with your app.

Also, we test using VMs (or physical devices if needed for mobile) - allowing us to test the browser, or any other kind of software. This lets us support a large combination of OS and browser variants out of the box, or custom images for enterprise. Reflect doesn't seem to support more than Chrome when I last looked.
Hi Steve,

I came across this post which presents an example using rust's transmute and it's incorrect behavior when the alignment is different. https://andrewkelley.me/post/unsafe-zig-safer-than-unsafe-ru...

Is this issue still present? I tried to figure it out the other day using latest rust's nightly but the llvm ir output has so much going on that I didn't _really_ understand what was going on
Recognizing a flower is absolutely AI.

https://xkcd.com/1425/

ok - or a bird.
They are, however, completely representative of your elected officials.
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> www.wsj.com

Axios in this case is taking something away.
Ah totally. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! In my case I’m evaluating clickhouse as a source of truth for customer telemetry data. Totally agree about the OLTP limitations.
I'm sorry you feel that the parent comment has an air of superiority about it. Perhaps you can help some of us out by demonstrating how we can have a more productive conversation about the data and the graphs in the cited poll. Can you give an example of how you'd like the poll discussed? And I'm honestly asking here, btw, for the sake of the quality of discussion.
Always Switch: The Monty Hall Problem (Finally) Explained
The strict guidelines followed by the one Perl shop I worked at briefly kept things very simple, but also very different from the "Modern Perl" revival that was being pushed back then, in the early 2010s.

The company I worked at maintained some ETL pipeline on behalf of Yahoo, and the strict guidelines from the client and the ones developed internally stayed you from using anything coming from CPAN.

That means that you didn't get to have function signatures, as those were a package back then, you had to declare all your arguments at the beginning of the subroutine body by taking them off the implicit parameter variables.

Programming in it wasn't crazy for sure, but it just felt like a really clunky Python. The split between the data structures that could be handled by reference and the ones that didn't was very unfortunate, Yahoo mandated that you only use the ref-type, and you had to be converting back and forth.

Well, that was part of my experience working for some 6 months at a team where strict discipline kept a big system working, but there was little upside to using Perl. The worst was the error handling in this scheme, keeping your own makeshift stack trace with backing up the error variables was a hassle.
Looking forward to a future where someone attacks me in a dark alley and cuts out my eyeball.
I am just window shopping to some extent, but I just looked to see how long it would take to get the no-frills (standard wheels), cheapest Tesla 3 delivered - August ( https://www.tesla.com/model3/design ).
I've never met a college grad who came out of college having learned critical thinking while in a bachelors program in college. If they are critical thinkers it was a predisposition. If anything it teaches conformism to a central line of thought. More critical skills seem to be developed if they decide to pursue a higher degree and/or engage in some research which not nearly as many people pursue.

Increase in earnings is a poor way to look at it, that is mainly from the credentialism that companies look for (which is horrible but it is what it is), and the networking that happens.
In general: pundits, writers, and other high-profile people who are uncomfortable with trans people.

The little rhetorical trick they use, which I understand you are baiting here, is to say that they are simply so many different isolated individuals who are "concerned" or "asking questions," and the "other side" is some monolithic gender-queer gestapo of sorts that stifles and harasses these poor individuals for no reason.

Putting aside the bad faith at display here (which has very much a political and financial paper trail if you care to look), I just think you can simply look at the literal body count of either side and come to some straightforward moral conclusions.
I do think this illustrates one of the issues with goto: normally the compiler would be able to warn that you were using buf2 potentially uninitialized, but I think you wouldn't get a warning in this case.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...

has some good thoughts. The main thing you'll likely need is some sort of a buffer layer so you can do bulk inserts. Do not write a high-volume of single-row inserts into Clickhouse.
More bluntly my question is if SciML is that good, why aren’t more people doing it yet? Why is it limited to a small group of Julia developers and packages?

(There are good possible explanations - it could be very new, have only niche applications, Julia is somehow uniquely suited for it etc. I don’t know)
I agree. Your choices are determined by your options, and all our options are determined by corporations. There is no free will in this system.

You have to detach from the passive ingestion of the datastream and instead figure out a way to create as many options as possible in order to have any real choice.

What options can we create that weren't determined by corporations?
Both sides could accept intellectualism like they accept capitalism? There is nothing that says each party needs to take an opposing view on literally every topic. Rs and Ds like to fight all day in the media, but there is plenty of things concerning money and control that they will happily pass without public debate.
I agree, I'm just pointing out that protected classes apply to everyone, and not just some minorities.
Show me a majority of democratic leaders wanting Ranked Voting, and I have a bridge to sell you, for example.

Democrats and Republican leadership *want* the "good v evil" dichotomy of their party versus the other.
Must be bay area or LA. I see a few Model 3 and Ys on every street.
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I very much enjoy a library - htmx - that allows me to write much less js and still have SPA like interactivity where needed. It's great in combination with Django where it can be sprinkled in as needed. What other libs/tools are available to allow you to write less js and leverage more server side templating?
Same kind of thing happened in Virginia last year. But if this had happened (somehow) then Virginia wouldn't have a competitive campaign for governor this year

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/politics/west-virginia-republ...
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You thought credit card skimmers and SS fraud were bad.. I'm going to take my black-market orb to time square and start collecting identities..

But seriously, I get the feeling software people just assume hardware is infallible somehow? Hardware-centric blockchains are extremely sensitive to Sybil attacks. Somewhere in that glorified iPhone of an Orb, there's a sensor sending a plaintext 'yes this is a valid iris, proceed' message. Now the validity of your blockchain is based in the physical security of a device..which you're distributing to contractors worldwide?