skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're bringing in character flaws into something that doesn't require them. Nothing is to be lost by treating the vials as live samples and having the appropriate experts deal with them. On the other hand, if you decide that there really isn't a risk -- a conclusion you have no data to support -- and you screw it up, you're going to unleash a pox on the world that is highly contagious and very few are vaccinated against. The 1978 outbreak in the UK [1] really upended many lives. Given the modern political climate in the US, I'm going to guess containment would be next to impossible.

Maybe the risk is low, but the severity is very high. If there's an outbreak, we may never get it contained again. So, follow the appropriate protocols and hopefully no one gets hurt. If it turns out they were a prank or not viable, no one gets hurt either. This has nothing to do with shirking responsibility. It's quite the opposite. Going all cowboy on the handling of the samples would be incredibly selfish. For what? The ability to tell a story of sticking it to the man?

[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_...
There are competing conventions for this in different kinds of apps. In the end, I went with the design app convention.

If you want it to stick with the same shape, double click the shape in the toolbar!
Do you have any examples offhand where this was true? To me it seems that the Twitter mob has much less real-world impact than people think. Someone loses a particular gig one day, then gets hired somewhere else like nothing happened. Half the time it ends up being free publicity.
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> But there are diminishing returns.

Why? Just because some topic was discussed on some site once doesn't mean all possible ideas were expressed on that topic. Unless the users of a site are static and unchanging there's going to be new members seeing that old topic for the first time. It's ok to talk about old things.

I like that HN allows reposts (within reason) and people typically link to previous discussions in the new discussion. You can see the old points made about a topic but then take a look at the new ones. A lot of forums have similar policies on thread necromancy. And it encourages discussion and even just revisiting interesting topics.

The social media All New All the Time content treadmill leads to shallow discussion.
There is a certain truth to this. I'm listening to the wonderful History of Byzantium podcast, and an episode is devoted to the plague during Justinian's reign that killed maybe 40% of the population of Constantinople. Whole ships of dead sailors drifted the seas. The description of the disease progression caused by Yersinia pestis is awful. People were throwing themselves off buildings to end their suffering. So higher mortality, and more visible, less ambiguous symptoms (like necrosis, giant lymph nodes, etc.).

Not to discount the seriousness of covid at all. I have a relative in his 40s whose life hangs on a thread right now.
Um.. I don't want to sound dismissive, but that mentality is part of society already ( especially if you consider the surveillance US population happily places where they live ).
The last 20 years has taught me to be suspicious of renormalization arguments. History marches on; people have memories, but history itself seems to be a big Markov process where the future depends only on the present and the forces that drive it, not the past.

I could believe an argument based on causal links of supply & demand, but I'm skeptical that they'll operate in the direction you suggest. To my eye: remote work was a spring that's been ready to burst since about 2014 but needed the pandemic to catalyze it; we're not going back to offices; home offices are going to become very desirable; savings (in the form of financial assets, at least) are increasing because of inflation; and supply chain bottlenecks are not normalizing anytime soon.
> For the bubble to burst, a lot of underutilized housing would need to come onto the market at once...

It doesn't have to be a lot. It might only require a little underutilized housing to cause a price drop, depending on how inelastic the market is. If that is indeed the case, then the high-price situation would be fairly fragile, and worthy of being called a "bubble", even if it reflects a current shortage.
Lithium iron phosphate batteries have about 95% round trip efficiency. Some manufacturers say 98%. AC-DC-AC conversion is around 98%-99% efficiency now. So batteries are way ahead on efficiency.

Tesla is switching from lithium-ion to lithium iron phosphate for fixed battery installations.[1] The energy per unit weight is somewhat lower, but that doesn't matter much for fixed installations. The safety is better, too - lithium iron phosphate batteries don't have the thermal runaway problem. BYD, which is the biggest producer of batteries in the world, sells shipping container sized lithium iron phosphate sized battery packs for large scale solar backup.

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/tesla-shifts-battery-chemis...
> 60 years ago also had much higher interest rates than today.

60 years ago had much higher inflation as well. People are scoffing at 6% inflation during this dramatic COVID19 period... but 1974 had 11% inflation, and 1980 had 13.50% inflation.

Under such a market, you had to have higher interest rates. After all, 10% interest rates would _LOSE_ money under real terms in 1974, 1979 and 1980 (all three years famous for having "double-digit" inflation rates).

When banks are charging maybe 15% or 20% for mortgages, housing prices necessarily have to plummet to make those houses affordable to the masses.
Is there anything like how copiers won't copy money to stop mail order DNA places from supplying smallpox (and similar)?
You are going to be very interested in Hubris, our de novo Rust operating system for MCUs.[0] We have been doing most of our development on STM32H7s, but Hubris works on both the F3 and F4 as well. We'll be open sourcing it in advance of my colleague Cliff Biffle's presentation at the Open Source Firmware Conference[1]; stay tuned!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbBzSSvT_P0

[1] https://talks.osfc.io/osfc2021/talk/JTWYEH/
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I stand corrected on that point and will edit my post accordingly, but there's still absolutely zero discussion about that point in that thread. You even said, "we're discussing" but you haven't even commented there yourself.
I am assuming good faith. What part of my statement is a strawman?
This is the wrong question to ask.

Hydrogen is not for use cases where there is an electric alternative. Electric almost always wins. But there are use cases where there is no electric alternative or none that is available any time soon, most notably chemicals and steel.
Another +1 from me for mkdocs and mkdocs-material (and I'm also a supporter of squidfunk). I use it for lab exercises[1] as part of my online courses (deployed onto Netlify). It just works and looks good.

[1] https://moretestable.com
Humor absolutely will not be tolerated!!!
I was vaccinated. Back then, it was meant to last a lifetime. Not sure that's the case, though.
If you're an undergraduate at a research institution, the odds are extremely high (>>20%). Similar if you're a graduate student/postdoc. Almost every undergraduate I've taken on has been the result of a cold email with clear intent/interest.

If you're coming in from outside academia, be prepared to have useful skills/knowledge to bring to the collaboration and a clear ability to commit enough time to be valuable. Expect a much lower conversion-rate. Most people that academics encounter with cold emails (at least in physics) from the outside are insufficiently prepared or advancing a pet (usually demonstrably-incorrect) theory.

If you email the right person with,

"Hi, ISL!

I'm j7ake, and have a ton of experience with X (link to resume) and am really interested in learning more about experimental gravitational physics. I've read several of your papers [1,2,3], and your work is really interesting.

It looks like you might be able to use X to improve your results with Y -- might you have a little time to answer some questions about your group's work and see if there's a way I might be able to help you put X to good use?

Thank you!

j7ake"

you'll get replies.
How not to do spam detection
There's rumors from yesterday that jurors had told court officials (?) they feared the consequences, for themselves and their families, of a "not guilty" verdict.

I think they'd be correct in that fear. I wish them the strength to do what they know is right.
"comparable" was interpreted to mean "similar risk profiles", which is not true.

We don't have a recent smallpox outbreak to compare to for mortality with modern medical treatment. It's possible smallpox is only 5% deadly these days, we just don't know.
Thanks! I hadn’t considered that but it would definitely be possible. I’m considering having a “view only” version of the editor, and this could be one of its options.
The main issue, as I see things, is that the average person has been losing their faculties to determine what is genuine online and what isn't. This greatly favors capitalism, which can perform native marketing on Twitter with brand accounts and hired reply-guys, as well as through advertisements and other methods of attention diversion. The final incarnation of this is platforms like Tik-Tok, which behave as perpetual, unfiltered streams of internet that intentionally mixes your wheat and your chaff.

With relation to mental illness, this issue becomes exacerbated. The anomie, or separation from the human race, is almost intolerable on platforms like Twitter and Instagram. All of it feeds into the grinder of selling more widgets and moving more product.
Another good example (from a Nation article):

"Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, in a tizzy over the discontinuation by the estate of Dr. Seuss of six lesser-known books with racist content, had the audacity to gripe via social media that “the woke mob” is trying “to erase our history and cancel anyone who disagrees.” This is the same Tom Cotton who wrote a whole legislative act aimed at banning schools from teaching the 1619 Project, the initiative exploring how the United States was indelibly shaped by slavery—or what Cotton blithely describes as “the necessary evil upon which the union was built.” Cotton is not concerned about the censoring of history; he’s just picky about what parts of history get erased. What the Arkansas senator really means when he gets prickly about preserving “our history” is making sure the mythical white-supremacist recollection of American events is the only version schoolkids can read. Along with racist Dr. Seuss books, of course."
Nations can already ban usage of Facebook if they want to. We don't need to "allow" anything. But that kind of censorship takes us down a dangerous path. It would be horrible to see the rest of the world turn into China.
How does a grid solve a storage problem?
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What's your opinion on anti "critical race theory" laws that generally speaking ban teaching important aspects of civil rights history? These are basically solely pushed by the right, and have been passed in nearly a dozen states.

The economist article you cite is interesting in that it doesn't actually explain what's wrong with the progressive approach, it just describes it as bad. It says

> Individuals, not just groups, must be treated fairly for society to flourish.

But this fails to realize that favoring "individuals" over groups disfavored the invidiuals in those groups. Intersectionality suggests that you can't treat individuals fairly without understanding how the groups they're apart of impact their identity.

And this is really just disparate impact, a well understood, classically liberal, civil rights era policy that the right is slowly scratching away at!
You can probably use https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/tree/main/python/dask_cudf a dask wrapper around cuDF.
Article is about ECB not Fed. The 30 year fixed rate mortgage is a pretty American thing.
But how are you handling availability? If something happens to the hardware (ex. motherboard) or even just for installing OS updates (ex. FreeBSD security patches), do you lose storage for the whole cluster?
Certainly I'd like to think there's a special place in hell for those who accuse innocent people of sexual abuse; there's not much worse that one can be accused of.

Mental illness or not, there's no excuse for these kinds of false accusations. It's certainly understandable given Freddie's condition. But us understanding why it happened doesn't ethically justify their actions, and it also doesn't relieve the perpetrators from the consequences of their actions.

"To those of you who are not people I harmed in my psychotic episode in August 2017… what is it you think I owe you?" - What I'd like is to simply not hear from this person in public again. I don't want them to have any sort of public social power, given their capability to totally ruin an innocent person's life.

Get a job, like most of the rest of us, and stop being a public figure. That's what I'd like
Rising rates could adversely impact their business model. It sounds like they’re a finance company masquerading as a tech company
The big distros are quite customizable in order to suit a large audience. A large organization typically has defaults and customizations that need to be added. A common strategy is to _distribute_ their customizations by creating a distribution based on some more widely used distribution. Google had Goobuntu based on Ubuntu.
Only 1.1% of the population in the world has more than 1 million dollars of net worth.
My wife is obsessed with these groups. We lived in a nice neighborhood and people would give away nice stuff all of the time. But in most places since then it's either a community of hoarders enabling each other or spaces for grifters to grift.

Really nice used stuff is so cheap and easy to get ahold of locally thanks to Marketplace or Craigslist. If it's not worth at least $20 it's not something that will last you a while anyway.
Isn't that only about separating government powers? As in separating Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. I just don't see the connection to non-government economical powers. Seems like a stretch.
And then you will have to pay 1.1% tax every year.
How's the gravity storage going, it looked really promising and simple.
Isn't it at least a little bit embarrassing to you to start with:

"You may be right about one instance, but I've never seen anything but pro-freedom of speech from the right."

And then wind up saying sure, there are plenty of examples of right-wing censorship, but check out this article in the Economist?

Come on.
It is when you look at the flu data. You think the flu kills more people on average? It doesn't, and most people that die from the flu are also elderly or have pre-existing conditions.
> So in a way it's still all just barbaric societies, but with extra steps.

You've got it. Proper civilization and a free society are still a long way off. Laws and democracy limit the variance (good and bad) but don't automatically create a better outcome. We still need people to make the right decisions. And these systems of law and democracy which serve mainly to promote stability introduce their own problems by encouraging people to confuse "legal" or "popular" with "right", and "illegal" or "unpopular" with "wrong".
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> The last 20 years has taught me to be suspicious of renormalization arguments.

2021-2008 = 13 < 20.
>I can see the closed-source approach working for really complicated subdomains (like a geometrical constraint solver)

Ha! Funny you should bring that up. CAD is one of the reasons why I don't run Linux as my daily driver and I just don't see the current projects ever catching up with companies like Dassault or Autodesk thanks to the size of their teams. Overall I think I agree with your assessment, there's nothing that special in most software that most people or companies need, but wow does it suck when you're not most people.

As for specialized equipment...if you're making boutique soap, the equipment is specialized but not terribly special, so you can and probably will work on it yourself or contract with a local service company rather than getting a factory tech for every little thing, but if you're cranking out high precision parts it's pretty standard for a tech to hop on a plane at a moment's notice to get your equipment running again because it's usually cheaper to do that with an expert than to suffer extended downtime. I couldn't say what the exact breakdown is of total machines in the US that falls into the two categories, but the more precise and automated it is the less likely you are to own or work on it.
Just replied to another commenter with the same feedback, but agreed that there are times where you want to stick with one of those shapes.

Double click on the shape in the toolbar to keep it selected!
On the SQL front there has been some active work to make that experience better with DASK.

See dask-sql:
https://dask-sql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/api.html
Is it on GitHub?
> What is the dog whistle?

The original article has nothing to do with Bill Gates, but the commenter in this thread posted this wholly unrelated article, pronouncing it "Related", without any other comment to explain the context of the linked article or how it relates to the original story. You need look no further than the other (also heavily downvoted) commenters in this thread to see who heard the dog whistle loud and clear.
It seems crazy to say that we have not seen evidence for new physics when the size estimates of dark matter and dark energy account for about 95% of known energy in the observable universe. How is that not evidence for new physics?

If our physical theories cover only about ~5% of what we observe… that seems like a bit of an issue, no matter how accurately they model that 5%.
I don't think we can grow our smallpox vaccine stockpile that fast. We know how to make them and have the ability, but getting production to scale will take a fair amount of time.
Electricity-to-electricity efficiency should not be compared with solar-to-electricity efficiency.

The typical solar panel is maybe 25% efficient or less. The typical steam engine is maybe 50% efficient. Once things are in the form of electricity, we have a large variety of options for efficient transport and storage.

But sometimes electricity isn't useful. Li-Ion will never be light enough for a serious airplane for example, while hydrogen _IS_ light enough for an airplane. (But maybe too volumetric, as every practical H2 airplane engine relies upon high-pressure storage or even cryogenics to keep H2 at a small enough volume).

EDIT: If we think of it as chemistry... perhaps we can make liquid fuels out of H2 like coal liquefaction turns one fuel source into another. After all, classical fuels are nothing more than carbon + hydrogen + energy... and H2 is a very efficient form of storing energy for that reaction. Or maybe we learn to just use H2 directly? There are fuel cells and engines running on H2 today, but I'm always worried about the volume of H2 (requiring either compression or cyrogenics before you reach practicality).
Docusaurus. It is so easy. I only wish I could figure out how to integrate xterm.js into it.
I wonder why someone who works at google bothers to come here to try to defend the worst practices of the company.

I mean, it's never going to go well.

Is it some sort of deranged catharsis in trying to convince yourself?
The idea that cancel culture isn't effective isn't limited to cancel culture by conservatives; many of the cancellations decried by conservatives seem ineffective too. Still, I wouldn't have wanted to be the person on the receiving end, and there have been a bunch nasty campaigns - including by conservatives.

But if cancel culture is synonymous with effective public harassment, then virtually every single non-trumpist republican is a victim. Various public servants related to voting and elections have told a few harrowing tales.

A quick bit of googling find a bunch of articles devoted to conservative cancel culture, e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/fact-check-trump..., https://www.salon.com/2021/05/01/conservatives-claim-to-hate..., https://www.vox.com/22384308/cancel-culture-free-speech-acco..., https://www.thenation.com/article/society/republicans-cancel...

And while cancel culture may typically be about retribution for perceived slights by the public (or a mob), if you take a slightly broader view and include any backlash against speaking out, well, then most whistleblowers unfortunately suffer consequences that qualify. Many whistleblowers are treated absolutely terribly, and some suffer really serious consequences - inflicted not just by liberals, corporations, or the politically agnostic, but also by conservatives. While this may be stretching the definition, the most reasonable criticism of cancel culture I've heard is that it stifles reasonable discourse, and from that perspective cancel culture and whistleblower punishments are in a similar ballpark.

(I don't really want to express an opinion on right or wrong here - because given today's hyper-partisan and highly combative atmosphere it seems to me that these kind of backslashes or mob outrages are inevitable; i.e. this is a symptom, not really a cause.)
aren't recent owners locked into a monthly payment for the next 15/30 years? People don't really get ARMs anymore.

A rate hike would only affect prospective buyers.
I paid a very high price in opportunity costs, and additional degrees. If you want to peek my cohort, I am behind by about 5-7y if you were to look at salary min/maxing.

You are right in that the skills I have gave me some opportunity, but I think I could have done without the last 3y of academia trying to make it work :).
Mate, you literally linked Australian legislation that was passed by the "Right" party in Australia.

They are just called the Liberals, but they are Economic Liberals, not social, and are considered our "right wing" party with an evangelical Christian as our Prime Minister.
Good question. I never tried to look at them under the microscope so I have no clue what they showed. But I have no doubt there was a slide of small pox since after my grandpa died we found all sorts of weird shit in his basement. Big jar of mercury, giant moths, frogs, strange bugs in jars of formaldehyde and some even weirder shit.
> are all extraordinary talented people

They are not talented singers, but they were able to compensate for that.

Fred Astaire, handsome? I don't think so. He's short and very thin. But he is very elegant and charming, which more than made up for it. He is very aware of his body language and uses that to maximum advantage. If you passed him on the street, you'd never conclude he was handsome.

P.S. I've encountered a few hollywood celebrities off camera. The surprising thing is how ordinary they look without the hair, makeup, lighting, costume, etc.

> a phenomenal power to her voice

Oh come on.

> a unique voice

You may not remember her early reviews - "raspy", "unpleasant". I do. Her first album was a complete flop. The only reason Fleetwood Mac took her on was because the band was on the ropes and Buckingham demanded they give his girlfriend a spot.

> had something extraordinary about them

They all worked their ass off, which you confused with talent.

When I eventually got tolerably good at ballroom dancing, people who didn't know me called me "talented". ROFL.