skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tons tons of people were working on special. Hilbert had sent a paper on nearly every part of it in n before Einstein, it got delayed at the publisher, Einstein submitted his, then Hilbert sent in an updated manuscript with the same results before Einstein published. As a result of this there was a lifelong priority cold war between them.

Hilbert derived general relativity 5 days before Einstein [1]. Einstein won the public relations difference because his previous work.

It was that close.

Recall Hilbert was vastly better at the math, and was catching up leaps and bounds on Einsteins intuition at the time.

Dozens of others were also close. Minkowski, Cartan, Poincare, all were doing the same stuff, trying to unify the same items.

So had Einstein done nothing, many others were immediately going to reach the same results.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_...
Happy owner of 21 Mazda CX-5. Agreed completely that they keep it simple. And hide a lot of tech under the hood. I also own an X5 and my CX-5 actually has more tech, but it’s more accessible.

+1 for Mazda.
Unlike the WTA, ironically the IOC is silent, given that Zhang Gaoli (the ex-Vice Premier accused by Peng Shuai) has been working with the IOC and overseeing the preparation of the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic for years [1].

[1]: https://olympics.com/en/news/beijing-2022-unveils-official-e...
> if you want something meritocratic, what we find is that testing ends up reinforcing existing social strata more often than not

Compared to what? It's not a criticism to simply state that standardized testing fails to be perfectly meritocratic.
Ok I get it now.
Don't you think that for an average maker making a mold from sand, epoxy and a metal frame is rather doable, especially with good instructions and minimal tools? Why not?
Probable with Realtors (or any other broker): They can value speed a lot more than you do. Getting .5% extra on something might not be worth it, when that would take up 125% of their time, and 25%*normalprofit might exceed 25% extra on one deal.

You have to accurately put your bonus structure >= their normal compensation. That's really hard to do.
Correct, things used to be worse than they are now. Does that mean that the automatic rebuttal to any complaint with anything remotely modern is that at least we're not still living in mud huts and writing on sheepskins? Nobody's forgotten that things were worse, we're just not willing to let that hold us back from making them better. To claim the article "reeks of entitlement" is unnecessarily dismissive of the (in my experience) entirely accurate claims the author makes about the current state of on-demand television.
Love that story also, and the conclusion of "oh no what have we done"
People seem to always want to buy my 90s Miata for these reasons. Parts are still affordable and it's reliable...
The animals thing is huge. I have a backyard with 8 foot fences and clean out 3-4 pieces of food wrapping every day from my backyard, hauled in by various animals.
>supercooled and ultrasqueezed

sound like there may be a link to black holes?
Lot of people with serious mental health and substance abuse issues on the streets of SF, at least when I lived there (moved away about 6 months ago).

Beyond trash, the streets actually had a lot of shit and piss on them, too. I think it's hard to really understand just how bad it was unless you go there. I'd watch movies and they didn't seem real to me because the streets were too clean.

To me it seems like an obvious failure of the government, but perhaps it does reflect a popular sentiment of the dominant culture, that people's individual right to live a life of misery in squalor on the street trumps any other concern. I dunno.
Which means its worthless.

I dont know why anyone would trust Emin when he freaked out and sold all his Bitcoin years ago. He never understood the value of proof of work.
I think you are right and I should have put more thought and research into my response.

Looking back I've no idea where I got the impression from that MEV is welcomed by the core client Devs.
Amazing, thanks for letting me know!
Florida and Texas seem to be doing just fine.
I've heard it said before, there is no economic benefit to going and there never will be. People will go because they want to go. Perhaps one day, when a ton of people live outside of gravity wells, there will be an economic incentive, but as of right now, there's no money to be made.
Oh, the people who criticize everyone else are hypocrites? Really?
I have a wasd code keyboard (on my third). It's a good place to start if you're not interested in building your own.

On my third because first was my old works, second was my own clear, third is works.
Re: visual cues, a de-powered electric fence almost works as well as a powered-on fence.

(It doesn't, because cows will reach through and around a fence to get bites of tall grass on the other side, and if it doesn't shock them at that point they'll start pushing through to reach more.)
It wasn't until I rented a floor of a house (and garage and front yard) in SF (Outer Sunset) last year that I really noticed the problem in North America with personal responsibility and keeping streets clean.

I'm constantly picking up litter from my tiny front yard, sidewalk, and curb. Cigarette butts are the worst and I bought a small electric leaf blower to help deal with it quickly. It wouldn't be as much of an issue if everyone took care of their own front property as well, instead of leaving litter and letting it blow onto mine. Also doesn't help that people see a full garbage can at nearby fields and just place their waste next to it instead of bringing it with them.

I think the big problem here is that there's no inertia to keep the place clean.

I recently ran into a great youtube video※ about how Japan stays clean (spoiler: it's about personal responsibility from a young age). When kids have to clean their own classrooms and be held accountable by their peers, they grow up with good habits. When I lived in South Korea, it wasn't as spotless as Japan despite a similar education, but not as bad as North American cities.

I would absolutely support littering enforcement officers, paid by large fines (in addition to community service), constantly roaming areas. Not sure how practical it would be in lower density areas like Outer Sunset but I can see it working along any commercial strips, or downtown.

※ - https://youtu.be/BOGMkgnc2YY
I have never seen a jpeg decode fail until the above website fed it some “obscure” format. The fact it works or doesn’t based on hardware is pretty crazy. If I didn’t know that hardware was responsible for decoding the jpeg it would have been one hell of a bug to diagnose.
That’s a terrible workaround, now your neighborhood is non walkable.
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Poincaré was very close to the special theory of relativity when Einstein published "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" in 1905. And David Hilbert discovered the Einstein Field Equations a few days before Einstein. (They really should be called the Hilbert-Einstein Field Equations.) If Einstein hadn't existed we wouldn't have had to wait generations to learn of relativity.
This is a pretty awesome New Zealand company, been following them since they first got funding. I love farm tech! Another is OmniEye: https://www.irisdata.co.nz/omnieye I've seen this in person and it's fantastic stuff.

I note in the article they say "Holy cow!" as a play on words I guess, but here in Dunedin we have a milk company called Holy Cow: https://www.holycow.nz/

It's wonderful milk.
It's much more than a bit flip - that's just the input. The output side is where tooling like this becomes useful, i.e., getting analytics on each variant. That's what lets you run A-B tests to optimise conversion, ensure a new feature isn't going to cause stabilty problems, etc.

And then there's the need for interfaces to allow changes on a live system, and giving certain abilities to non-technical users who want to change settings on a simple web dashboard.

If an external service goes down, the system should be able to degrade gracefully. I haven't used an external service, but I'd hope the SDK allows for a simple fallback strategy for each flag, such as random assignment or fixing to a particular value. Data collection should still resume once the external service is back up.
This perfectly encapsulates my feeling. I see a lot of talk about the psychosis hypothesis but little in the way of evidence. Folks have some really rustled jimmies about being called out that evidence.
A lot of people like low profile. There's even mechanical switches for these. I think Kailh Low Profile Choc being one of the more popular ones.
shrugs sometimes you have to choose your battles
https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/newsoms-experiment-to-get-r...

Linked in the article, too. While it's not the only source of the problem, it's still a big reason people get tired of looking around for a can in SF and just toss their litter.
With Everything, I can access any episode of whatever tv show I want instantly in full resolution. With Emby it takes a few extra seconds. I don't see how streaming can compete with local files.
This is likely not going to be popular, because your small errors won't seem worthy of the level of harm I'm going to attribute to them, but I hope you'll take the critique according to the good intent that motivates it and understand that even as I ask this I'm not so much angry with you as disturbed by a tendency I see in online discourse which I feel doesn't get nearly as much push back as it should.

A while before I came to this thread I was reading conversations between random people on the internet. These people were talking about murdering Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos because false narratives built on hyperbolic criticisms made it sensible for them to believe that all billionaires investing in space travel are evil. When I say random people, I mean that if the same thing were happening in real life there would be a thousand strong mob all echoing this sentiment.

Your words are the fuel of this mob. Your hyperbole is the fire that lights the outrage. Don't you see this?

We're not even opponents:

> It has about 1/100th the amount of energy needed to reach orbit.

I agree with this and did well before I asked my question.

> and has produced nothing.

This isn't true. It just isn't true. They did produce a rocket. They produced factories and office buildings as well. They produced some things.

You seem to believe that if you convince people to take your view for the wrong reasons that you will benefit from it. This isn't the case. If you convince people by prompting them into emotional outrage then what you get is people who can't be reasoned with easily.

These angry mobs you are helping to create aren't under your control. You are extremely reckless with your words. I hope the fires you kindle are doused and will continue to assert that they built a rocket even though I know that the rocket isn't particularly good relative to other rockets.

There is this horrible thing that happens on the internet. People say untrue things into a crowd of people and you don't see that your words lead to an angry mob forming down the street. It's all invisible. Even when you're part of an angry mob you can't really tell you are. It seems so harmless. Hopefully it remains that way, but we've seen real harm bubble out of the internet and into our national conversation.

The root is the rhetoric. So I'm trying to counter the stoking of anger now rather than waiting for it to build up to something more substantial.
Well, that's sufficiently scare-mongery, it takes me back to my youth when I was worried the Soviets would make the shades in my window glow orange for a few seconds before I was incinerated. Living within a few miles of the world's most productive steel mills, guaranteed I'd be suffused with an incandescent glow.
Thanks, I appreciate more data points.
tabnine - ai in the same vein as GitHub copilot. Speeds coding up quite a lot
The environmental argument is a red herring. PoS is worthless, and I don't believe Eth will actually transition anytime soon.

Anyone bringing up the energy argument lacks any other good arguments.
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Hear me out: trash cleaning robots…
You should try Gazzew Boba U4 Silent.

Much more pleasant sounding.
Nice! Still not on the same level of Serenity but very helpful, thanks.
To be specific, contributors were only getting an advisory vote aka suggestion on things that could be done with the document. There was no requirement or impetus for the private owners to heed or even read those suggestions.
Yes, but the cost of N streaming services is not N * (Netflix + Internet), it's (N * Netflix) + Internet — and the internet has utility outside of streaming services as well. The internet price is the same whether you subscribe to 0 or 100 streaming services. If you just want to stream from one provider and otherwise not use the internet at all, I guess counting them together that way as the "price of entertainment" makes sense. But I don't think that's a very common situation.
Is it more likely that Nature suddenly lost it's integrity or that people on HN might be jumping to conclusions about what the study actually says and how it was run?

I don't see anything in the study that claims anything other than the truth? It's not like it's saying "Microdosing will make you happy".

The title is literally "Adults who microdose psychedelics report health related motivations and lower levels of anxiety and depression compared to non-microdosers"

It then tells you how the research was done, and what the statistics were. This isn't a random news website saying "Chocolate prevents cancers" or something.
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I haven't gotten around to putting a monitor in my bathroom and my phone is right there.
I gave up cleaning the trash in my apartment courtyard as certain neighbors took it as an invitation to dump ever increasing amounts of trash (including entire kitchen sized trash bags) knowing "someone" would pick it up. Sometimes you just can't win.
Simply lovely! All the best to you!
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And don't forget that the data group everyone with ancestors from Asia, a rather large and diverse place, as being from a single demographic. That is, if they don't group people from an Asian background in the broad "not historically underrepresented" category. As if Uighers and Cambodians (for instance) have massive institutional advantages.
> That‘s not true. Going in a straight line, blocking wheels will stop you in less distance than with active ABS.

Most certainly not. The sliding coefficient of friction of a tire is quite a bit less than the static coefficient of friction. Shortest stopping distance is achieved by keeping the tire rolling, just on the very edge of lockup, for the entire braking distance.

Early ABS systems had slow pulse cycles and couldn't control wheels individually, so a good driver could outbrake them but the ones from the last 20 years are quite good.

ABS is one rare example of a safety technology that doesn't have much drawbacks. Very much unlike newer technologies like lane assist and self braking, which have benefits but also clear drawbacks.

Even for ABS though, there are edge case dangers that a non-ABS car wouldn't have (like ice mode disabling brakes when not on ice).

There's no magic answer with tehcnologies. Every time a system increases complexity, it increases failure mode potential as well.
This is why I leave Realforce. Splitting is far more important than switch preference for me. Then I'm in journey to find best switch,
I think it's technically feasible, but a fair chunk of work, especially if you want wide compatibility (either presenting the same hardware interface as a real card, no doubt with lots of reverse engineering to do or doing your own interface and writing a DX driver for it and then testing it across lots of games).

It's also not going to be cheap, on top of the FPGA you'll want a PCB and support chips. Charging a few hundred dollars for retro hardware replacements is feasible but for now at least actual retro 3D cards can be had for less money.

So an interesting project, but I don't think we've reached the point it's interesting enough for someone to attempt. I think there's far more interest in FPGA replication of full consoles right now (check out the MiSTer project https://github.com/MiSTer-devel). There's lots of excitement around the upcoming PSX and Saturn cores for that. I suspect a Voodoo/GeForce replica would be a similar amount of work but far fewer people interested in having it.
I haven't seen one of those in years. But I get most of my stuff from a private tracker.
> but it also sends the message that shooting up heroin is tolerated, even encouraged

So what? An addict is going to shoot up whether it’s tolerated or not, and non-addicts aren’t going to take up heroin because they say a billboard. If you really want to end it, it’s going to need to be a lot more comprehensive, expensive, and expansive than the presence or absence of a billboard.
You don't seem to understand that you don't need to bottom out your switches to actuate them. I have Kailh Copper switches which barely require me to push them down very far in order to actuate. Also they're pretty quiet. You can have your preferences, but blanketly saying that all mech keyboards "require too much strength" and are "loud" is wrong. The "expensive" part isn't even true in all cases.
The frustrating thing is that I could swear there used to be a "home videos" section or something for videos w/o metadata, but they seem to have killed that, or hidden it so well I can no longer find it.
I would argue that TypeScript does yeoman's work in doing much of that walking back.

I plumb forgot that assigning a variable without `var` or `let` put it in the global scope because TypeScript yells at you for it.
> People do make smaller mice. But the downside is that they are generally cheapies, and not very robust

The last mouse I had was a white Apple Magic Mouse: still a bit on the large side, yet much smaller than the Logitech G600.

But multitouch is not as good as 12 dedicated keys for shortcuts!

> When it comes to left-handed mice, it's often easier to obtain a symmetrical mouse, and change its handidness in software

Symmetrical could do, but then I'd miss the 12 keys right by my thumb!
How law and punishment works:
You can put death penalty for littering, but if you know you can get away with it because nobody is watching (and you don't care about it), you will continue doing it. The opposite a smaller fine but with good monitoring (where you know that you will get caught) is better.

Even better is getting the idea inside people's brain. "I don't litter, because this is how I am". There is a book titled "Made to stick" where they expose the case of Texas and the problem they had with littering. A campaign was made "Don't mess with Texas", basically everyone should police anyone who doesn't comply with this don't litter attitude. This was done by appealing to the ideal of what a Texan should be, through clever advertising and marketing. Never been to Texas btw :)
It takes balls , arrogance and self-confidence to publish what Einstein published.

Those are independent variables and affect the global population as a whole, not just theoretical physicists.

All those factors are down bad globally, and should probably go up again.

But you also have to embrace the fact that in such system it's not possible to get Einsteins without also getting Hitlers.

Again, arrogance and self-confidence affect everybody and it's an independent variable so theoretical physicists, but also politicians, generals, gang members, mafia bosses etc.

It also means bar brawls would come back, so will fights and stimulants use (ranging from nicotine to cocaine)
> I just don't understand why throwing trash on the ground is tolerated. There is virtually no argument for why someone should need or be allowed to throw or leave their trash on the ground.

It comes back to the policies around law enforcement adopted by SF. Since it is effectively the epicenter of progressive politics in the world, there are a lot of radical policies in play. One of them is "restorative justice", which claims to make criminals / law breakers less stigmatized and more able to constructively reintegrate into society. Personally, I feel the motivations are sincere and have good intentions behind them.

However in practice, that framework of restorative justice has been warped into something more like an us versus them narrative, where those who break the law are viewed as helpless victims while those who seek to enforce the law are viewed as oppressors. I think this is partly because of the divisive nature of American politics in general, and partly because of the extremist language used by some activists who support these policies.

While I agree there is no excuse for this, and it shouldn't be tolerated (alongside open drug abuse, shoplifting, defecating on the street, assault, armed robberies, burglaries, and so on), the reality is that the politicians elected in SF and people like Chesa Boudin (the District Attorney) are very much all-in on restorative justice. In effect, they've decriminalized most crimes. And unfortunately it is a two-tier justice system where law abiding taxpayers are subject to the penalties of the law, while criminals are somehow not subject to penalties.

As far as I can tell, the only practical way out for SF is for constituents to wholesale reject fringe progressive politics and return to moderate politics that is closer to the Clinton or Obama era left. However, I don't view that as being very likely despite all the complaints, simply because the voice of activists is louder and more feared than other voices.
He has more than a few hundred thousand followers. If those accounts aren't just bots and are real people then presumably they're paying attention to nonsense and thinking it is sensible and so he's deserving of criticism. If he's doing this on purpose then he's acting in bad faith. If he's not doing this on purpose then that's even worse and someone should help him log off because it seems to me like he's going senile.

He's also actually contributing to the problem he's criticizing. He's creating destabilizing narratives and reducing trust in democratic institutions by spreading fear and paranoia to a few hundred thousand people. [1] That might actually be his goal in which case he should be rightfully criticized.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636231/
No way there are lots of people who excelled at math stocking shelves
I don't understand. I often hear about people making $200k, $300k a year in that city. I know that it's not everyone, but I think there are lots of people like that. Why is this problem not solved by the market? That may make a good YCombinator project, go to San Francisco-based tech companies, ask them (or the people in them) to give you money to clean the streets. Is this because there is no cheap labour in San Francisco?
FYI: The first reported death in Wuhan was Dec. 1, 2019.