skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the burden of proof is on those who claimed it is biologically dead. I'd find it hard to believe no microbial life was in the Thames.

You find life in the most harsh environments, geysers, volcano vents, miles deep in mines.

But in reality the statement "biologically dead" is a hyperbole from the media meaning fish and animals weren't present, not microbes or biological life in general.

GP was making a tongue-in-cheek statement against that hyperbole I believe.

I'll see my way out...
Ever heard of surplus energy? Do you think miners would ever pay for non-surplus energy?
A Former Facebook VP Thinks Investing in Humans Is the Future of VC
No, did I suggest that approach?
There's really no excuse for this kind of strawman this late into the game. For one, Proof of work blockchains are migrating to first world countries which are moving to renewable/nuclear energy quickly, so even if proof of work was the only consensus mechanism in the blockchain space, this sentiment would be horribly outdated and uninformed.

Secondly, the vast majority of the market cap is in crypto that isn't proof of work. So the first point doesn't even matter. Even bitcoin is moving towards a layer2 solution with the lightening network that means the settlement layer won't continue to put more pressure on needing more and more wasted energy.
Let’s ban CI. Imagine all the extra CPU cycles we spend testing our software.
Litmus test on whether this is about "health" and "science" rather than mindless compliance: are people who already had covid exempt from the lockdown and vaccination? And if not, why not?
Smalltalk is designed around this functionality. In fact the whole Smalltalk system is a live instance that has been modified like that since development started.
And this is probably why it won't be popular because I don't think it's possible for FB to do. The entire company is based on "increasing connection".

Note: not "meaningful connection" but just connection.
Related: a list of similar map generators at https://www.fiction.tools/#worldbuilding-map-generators
I haven’t kept up with this too much lately, but to my knowledge there is very little documentation or working code to set up a Darwin environment from scratch with FOSS, and there aren’t any modern Darwin “distributions” because of this difficulty and lack of documentation and code.

I wish this weren’t the case, but whatever PureDarwin has right now is probably about the closest you can get to a Darwin environment that boots without nonfree code.
Unless I thought I had some value to add that was in line with my value in the job market, I'd rather earn money and donate to causes I support. Same philosophy as for other public work like medical research that I support
A thousand times this!

Scientists and mathematicians should be embracing cold hard reality instead of wallowing in self-aggrandising mysticism. That's the point of science! Empiricism and rationality is are its distinguishing features. These elevate it above the near-worthless philosophies that it replaced.

The worst offender by far in the mainstream sciences is Quantum Mechanics, which is absolutely infested with woo and self-contradictory nonsense. Its overuse of complex numbers is just the beginning.

Mysterious action at a distance isn't mysterious and isn't action at a distance at all.

The electromagnetic field is made up of continuous waves filling space, there are no point-like photon particles. That was just a mathematical abstraction -- a convenient shorthand term for describing interactions with matter, and shouldn't be taken literally.

Electrons aren't little hard balls, which is why they don't rotate, and this is why spin isn't some huge mystery.

Etc...
One thing that's striking with their "roadmap" is how they seem to plan on doing seemingly everything you could think of in the field of crypto + video games. L1, DAO, DEX, social platform, fun-in-its-own-right game, user content creation platform, ...

That pattern of over promising and vague roadmaps is endemic in the speculation-driven field of crypto.
On the flip side, my first week was “here are three disparate teams that are all on fire, go put them all out by yourself.” And honestly, that was my best manager, one that I returned to years later. It’s a huge company, almost any set of onboarding circumstances have transpired.
I don't understand, I actually agree with the OP? unless it's also bad to list facts?

I don't see any 'whataboutism' with my statement.
If you have a program which finds some order of items in order to optimize something, and then you introduce some confounding technology which scrambles the order of the items afterward, that's indistinguishable from introducing bugs into that optimizing program; the output no longer implements the optimization requirements that the program tries to ensure.

I don't see how Herbie's accuracy improvements could not be undone, if Herbie's output is fed to a back-end which doesn't preserve Herbie's order of operations as Herbie requires and depends on.
Losing weight absolutely protects you from serious COVID19 effects. Weight is a comorbidity.
Yes! Personally I don’t like DRM at all. It makes the legitimate product inferior to the pirated copy, which used to never be the case. And I like the idea of my work surviving migrations between devices and operating systems.
You can also explore PEO's which are organizations set up specifically do this. For single or small number of impacted workers in a given country, a PEO might be the better route than establishing your own company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_employer_organiza...
My late dad's Kashmiri cardamom lamb recipe keeps me close to him
Space mining: Sustainability and profitability combined
> The risk calculus has changed and so must the response shift from the public to the private: from government to individual.

I don't think it has shifted all that much in many countries. Yes, we have vaccines and better treatment. At the same time, vaccination rates aren't as high as they should be, plus we're dealing with a new variant that's more than twice as contagious and probably causes more severe cases. We're also dealing with waning immunity.

I wouldn't go as far as saying these factors offset each other completely, but last year, we've had all kinds of non-pharmaceutical interventions in place (masks, contact restrictions). Many countries have now abolished these.

I might buy the "individual choice" argument if negative effects were only felt by those choosing to not get vaccinated, not wear masks or similar, but once hospitals/ICUs overflow, other people suffer or die too.
I'd trust Nintendo far more than I'd trust Facebook. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
Dryers and video games are useful.
Working on that, but meanwhile, it's still faster and simpler to run it on bigger nodes.
But that actually makes it more similar to Python.

In Python, `for value in iterator: x(value)` is syntactic sugar for (roughly)

while True:
try:
value = next(iterator)
except IterationError:
break
x(value)

Basically, it seems that `while conditional` are both low-level control flow constructs in both: how do they differ between languages?
This isn't a meaningful question IMO. TS, S, polygraph level and SCI/SAP are really the only thing on your employee record with uncle Sam. There is no such thing as "above top secret"

Q clearance is anyone with a CNWDI modifier, so that's secret and top secret.
Anti-vaccine groups embrace pseudoscience “detox” treatments to undo vaccination
Personally, I get tired of the apples to oranges comparisons whereby bitcoins and blockchain have the same feature set as currency and banks.

Also get tired of the aspirational rants of how it is going to fix supply chains and offer banking to the underserved communities. And yes, I understand banking, supply chains, and crypto enough to know that that will never happen.
Levity: No-Code AI Automation
Oh man that thing is a blast from the past. It's crazy the memories that come flashing back just from seeing that image. It's extraordinary that my brain hasn't ditched the thing as garbage and deleted it. Must be 35+ years ago. Jesus.
Someone who just cost their company millions in revenues is gonna be _extremely_ careful not to make the same mistake again. Hence, million-dollsr training.
I believe you but I didn't say the near future. It seems to work pretty well for me, but I hope to reduce my usage at some point. I really only say this because I am making a public comment endorsing a drug and I do not want people to read this and think I am saying it is 100% good and everyone should do it.
If there were only some way to allocate resources based on their most productive means.

Imagine if you could attach a number to a resource, like energy, that accounts for its various possible usages. If the resource becomes more available, this number will go down and if it becomes more scarce, the number would go up.

If you wanted to use the resource, you would have to pay this number. So naturally, you wouldn't pay to use the resource for something silly. Similarly, if it's important, you'd pay as much as you had to to use the resource. This would discourage people from using the resource foolishly.

The beautiful thing about this system is that you don't have to have moral judgements about what is or isn't worthy. It wouldn't be up to any one individual to say you should use resource for X and not Y. The number would be self adjusting as more or less resources become made available or more or less uses for the resources are discovered. And as the number went up, it would incentivize people to create more of that resource or create a resource to replace it.

If only such a number existed...
That's like a whole different topic, this article is about the US warning the EU that Russia invading Ukraine is a big possibility.

If one's goal is to stop the US getting involved, then the US giving the locals a heads up so they can be adequately prepared would be probably one of the best actions. Not sure what the problem with this info sharing is unless the unstated goal is to have Russia blitzkrieg Ukraine with the least resistance.
Thank you. Any thoughts on when that'll happen? Weeks, months or years?
> virtual reality is delightfully egalitarian

It could be, but I'm willing to bet it'll be primarily used to oppress and control people. The potential for things like VR and AR is great, but the reality is that it will be used against you in ways that couldn't have been possible without it.
You are 1 person. For many people the effects are long lasting and disruptive, if not devastating.

You should consider that there are people other than yourself and you know, try to be somewhat empathetic or at least non-solipsistic in your thinking. Just because you don’t suffer from a sleep disorder has no bearing in the fact that millions of other people do.
I am going for a certain kind of sativa-dominant effect that doesn't seem to be the same with any edibles I have tried. But I should probably see what the latest and greatest edible science has to offer.
I'm confused. If you're saying that betting your project against a technology could have significant impact on the success of your project, then isn't that very much the opposite of "virtue signaling"? Or do you use "virtue signaling" to mean "any public stance that I don't like"?
>> I gave my manager a piece of my mind. She brought gender into the equation and said that I couldn’t speak to a girl like that

> I can see how he snapped over his moron manager bringing gender into things.

he "snapped", then they "brought up gender". Since it sounds like he was fired for cause he probably called them a B!#$^ or C@!$, but who knows.
In this case the game is not building 'electric airplanes' but 'better batteries'. If you have the power plant at a reasonable power output / weight building the airplane is not such a challenge.
I guess you mean a pair of pairs, as we expected to have two solutions that were normally real numbers. Yeah it's one of those times when the veil lifts and you find out you'd not seen the imaginary part until now. I guess enough has been said about completeness by other commentators, but there's no obvious answer as to why adding just one number solves your problem. Why won't it simply create new problems once you use those new complex numbers as coefficients in an expression? Surprisingly it's all we need.
List of association footballers who died while playing
Author here, I think this would have made the post better for sure, especially to contrast how `yield` does the opposite thing in each language
> who is buying all the SLPs ‘players’ farming this for $?

Novice traders looking at the SLP token price chart and thinking it has to mean-reverse (instead of looking at the marketcap chart as they should).
the way I see it, complaining about the environmental impact of blockchain is a bit like complaining that a early adopter's toyota prius' car has more of an environmental impact. Sure, that's strictly speaking true, but you are helping make a point - at expense to you - building investment in infrastructure that someday result in a vehicle that IS less of an impact. In the ideal case (which I am not necessarily optimistic will happen) we have a global currency that respects that there are finite resources on the planet, and doesn't require a belligerent military that goes around littering depleted uranium around the world to back its value.

(fwiw, I'm working towards getting solar on my house and mining with my excess electricity)
With a quadcopter drone, a rifle from a helicopter, whatever. These planes are very fragile. You take out the windshield and it doesn't fly. They are much better protected up at 35,000 feet.

The other possibility is depressed trajectory SLBMs. Those could hit most targets in the U.S. in 7 minutes or less. The only problem is that the depressed trajectory means that the reentry vehicle spends more time in the atmosphere, so they're less accurate. With a maneuvering reentry vehicle, you can get better accuracy.
No, there is a ton of data and valid science to support the fact that DST is terrible in terms of aggregate health costs.
Probably because preinstalled manjaro bloat includes Steam, which I never really understood.
While we're dreaming, I'm dreaming of fusion power or solar power being used to synthesize 100LL or Jet A from the atmosphere, but I'm not holding my breath.

That would solve the climate issue though it wouldn't solve the air pollution problem.
> I don't see why there is this distinction where lambdas have to be called differently than functions.

Ruby doesn't have functions; things that look like bare (non-method) function calls in other languages are just method calls on self.

So procs/lambdas can't be called the same as, or differently from, functions—they are the closest thing Ruby has to functions to start with.
There is no way to get around the fact that the HTTP protocol adds overhead (serialization and parsing of additional data) at the application layer. Binary RPC protocols are faster, and that is why Redis uses one of those instead of HTTP. There is no debate about that, it is simply a set of trade-offs that balances out differently for different use cases.
True! I just focused on factoids because that's what I feel most keenly. Even though the availability of educational resources has arguably made a bigger difference in my own life, the thing that tickles my fancy is still that I can get answers to silly questions like "what is that damn lyric?" that were completely mysterious before.
Agreed, if there were sleeper trains available. But finding a sleeper trains from A to B is much harder than finding a plane from A to B.
I've no idea if their self-declared 'back of the envelope' calculations are realistic, but it doesn't really matter. The comparison is plain dumb because unlike Bitcoin, clothes driers actually do something useful with their energy.
Wrong metric. Cost per passenger per mile is a better one.

The reason big jets are popular is that jets burn lots of fuel, which is expensive. Bigger jets burn fuel a bit more efficiently so the cost per passenger becomes more reasonable. Big battery electric planes are likely not possible with current battery technology.

But the good news is that small electrical planes are pretty cheap and the electricity is cheap too. So, instead of buying a big Boeing to save fuel, you could buy a few dozen smaller planes, fly to smaller airports that Boeing would not even be allowed to land, and drop passengers off closer to their destinations.
Hah. They do make a nice chat solution though. I would have enjoyed all the time and effort used for this to have been redirected to a good old tech stack blog, or a feature showcase of why some of their features standout
Say bye bye to BBQ grills and any sort of frying then!
>Proof of work blockchains are migrating to first world countries

The whole point of blockchains is that everyone has a copy. I don't understand why you think they're migrating unless you don't want third-world countries using blockchains.
I'm a software engineer, I understand the blockchain and crypto. I've been around Bitcoin since 2010.

And yet I still don't know a single high utility use case for the blockchain. People keep saying it's the future but I can't really figure out how regular banking, accounting, or general software applications can't do the same basic task as one on the blockchain - but quicker and at a lower cost.

For a moment, forget about the "so we can track things forever" and "not based on trust" - those are more ideological than anything. Why should I use the blockchain right now?
Is the parent comment's point that this depth of specific reasoning (maybe with less offense-taking) is needed to justify the linchpin sentence?
On the plus side, we have about 13.2% wooded cover now - up from 12% in 1998 in the UK.
Awesome!

A feature suggestion, if I may. It's fun to play with the rules of the game itself. Would you consider adding a way to tweak the birth/death rules? For example, "B3/S23" denotes the normal rules of the game (a cell is born if it has 3 live neighbors, and remains alive if it has 2 or 3).

You can play with the rules in my version of Life here[1].

[1] https://hoten.cc/life/play/
That or you’re not seeing the value Tesla providing in 10+ years.
It's a fact. Pressurization is a very simply physics problem and it's just delusion to think this will always be slow. The simplest solution is just have bigger or more tanks.

Again, it's a solved problem.

As electricity prices are still going up, and with hydrogen coming down we're not far off from cost parity. People really need to foresee a day where FCEVs are cheaper than BEVs.

EVs in general are heavily subsidized. By the time we switch to hydrogen fuel taxation it's likely gasoline will have already been displaced. Many German manufacturers are making hydrogen vehicles, albeit not passenger cars. That said, this is the most obvious disruptive event in recent memory. It wouldn't be a surprise if all of them went bankrupt due to the arrival of hydrogen cars. It's also something of a surprise as many UK companies are investing in hydrogen cars.
It doesn't matter what you or I want - I'm stating facts. and the fact is that technology is solving the dirty energy problem and miners are moving to cheap energy solutions because clean energy is cheaper.
How can you send thousands of dollars across the globe faster with less fees?
> I hope that Rust joins the pantheon of eternal languages.

I'm torn about this. On one hand, Rust is so much better than C it is ridiculous and I really hope it does become a language with decade-long longevity.

On the other hand, Rust is the first new "systems programming" language in forever and is finally prying the door open to something other than C/C++. I'm really hoping that Rust opening the door and paving the way means that now we can get something better.

What worries me about Rust is the impedance mismatch down at the very primitive hardware level--bytes and registers. The embedded guys are doing an amazing job papering over it, but the abstractions leak through quite a lot and you have to twist things around to satisfy them.

The problem is: that's a lot of fiddly code with all kinds of corner cases. So, you either have a lot of work or you throw up your hands and invoke C (like Zig does).
Yea this doesn't really work when the resource is also necessary to live and in parallel has massive externalities not being properly accounted for.

This is some praise the market reductive lunacy. Obviously energy production, pricing and consumption needs to be heavily regulated in any sensible society.
It is a little odd there's no prior evaluation. Although, in my experience things like this get glossed over.

A question I didn't see talked about is did they think zooming in would help? My experience has generally been that digital zoom doesn't really help in most cases, especially for distant shots (which if looked like they were viewing).
When a study arrives an absurd conclusion then yes I’m happy to dismiss it.
I think dosage plays a role that a lot of users might not understand. I was introduced to marijuana in a college setting and would seemingly randomly have a very hard time with the effects of the drug. In hindsight, I was trying to be macho and take huge hits in a circle of college guys, and I simply had too large of a dose.

But yes I get what you are saying. A larger dose can be nice to kind of shut off for a while, and many users do that intentionally. I just want to articulate this distinction, which is that a large dose (varies by user) of marijuana will make a person pretty slow and forgetful. More controlled lower doses of the right strains can actually have helpful uplifting effects.
Does the parent commenter need to be considering 'dual intent' issues if they are applying for their non-resident alien TN renewal while now engaged to a US citizen and potentially on a path to applying for a green card (resident alien)? More specifically, if the DHS officer asks during the TN renewal if he intends to apply for a green card or stay in the US once he is married, does he need to be thoughtful here?

(former TN holder now on GC)
> I'm curious - what ebike do you have that can easily cruise at 48-53 kph for extended periods?

Those speeds sound like bogus. I can maintain about 40kph on my ebike on a flat surface, but that requires pedaling in addition to the motor and is a fairly energetic exercise.

Also, pushing beyond 45kph, you really start to feel the air resistance and it becomes exponentially harder to go beyond 45kph for any long period of time, unless going downhill.

Most ebikes don't really come with the chainring size to go up to high speeds, unless modified with a giant 50+ size, which is more apt for racing road bikes (non-electric)