skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m from the 80’s. First they used to actually use beef tallow up until the 90s when they switched to vegetable oil. Major decline in taste and texture. Fries used to stay crispy longer and the flavour was much more rich. Also you used to be able to get a cheese burger for like $0.60. It used to be affordable but at some point the prices skyrocketed and they got their new menu items which mostly sucked. They used to have pizza and I’ve seen a lot of people wish for that back. It seems to me like they wanted to portray themselves as a high end burger joint and start charging as much like you would see at a restaurant. What made them famous was cheap food. They should have kept that as a focus imo.
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It does say it’s for “professional” thinkers. I’m a non-professional thinker.

(Sorry, can’t help the snark.)
What's interesting is that beyond a certain threshold (perhaps around the left-hand normal distribution inflection point), further reducing failure rate ends up also reducing the rate of super-success among students in the same classroom.
If black students do worse mainly on account of poverty, why do wealthy black kids score worse than poor whites on the SAT?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2999198
> Tracking where it's created seems like a difficult process

It isn't easy.

> I'd propose instead a tax at the point of extraction.

Is this based on anything serious? The problem is greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere, not extraction of chemicals containing carbon from the ground.

Where does biological methane emission from farming or GHG release from clearing forests figure in the "extraction"? Why should natural gas that's used to manufacture "blue hydrogen" incur as much tax as that which is burnt directly?

> Our issue lies In the fact that we are adding to the carbon cycle faster than geologic processes can sequester it back into the Earth. Disincentivizing mining and drilling operations, and creating incentives for sequestration, are the only solutions that stick on the scale of a lifetime.

The issue is entirely atmospheric GHG, so taxing at the point of emission is the most efficient way to reduce that, all else being equal. If there are specific cases that are much easier to account at downstream consumption or upstream production then at some point it would be more efficient to account those and pass costs along, but you wouldn't go all the way back to extraction if you could avoid it (e.g., gasoline or domestic natural gas producers or distributors may incur the tax rather than individual people burning it, but probably not the wells).
We get it, you missed the boat so you have to shit on everything with barely doing actual research. HN is all boomers or almost retired out of touch engineers at this point. Excitement of the internet days? How about let youth run with something new and fun, and actually bring some positivity to things? Ironic huh
Two of my favorite artifacts in the British Museum are the Young letter and the Champollion publication, where Young in 1818 explains his theory that hieroglyphic pictograms sometimes represent sounds, and Champollion in 1822 gives a detailed phonetic breakdown of each hieroglyph (photos in https://blog.britishmuseum.org/everything-you-ever-wanted-to... and also in https://cosmolearning.org/images/a-letter-from-thomas-young-...).

They're on display in a case, easy to miss, near the replica Rosetta stone that you can touch ( https://g.co/arts/Jc9fSG2q4FfZzCPT9 )

I love these artifacts because they show a real live example of the way people did science a few centuries ago.

The pace is thought-provoking -- it took 4+ years between one person's letter and another's results? we didn't even declare the translation "done" until 1824? -- and I've always wondered what was going on there.

This is an interesting book review, helps fill in some gaps for me!

I am a little surprised to see the author use the phrase "Elgin Marbles". This was used ubiquitously a few years back but at some point in the past 5-10 years the preferred phrase seems to have become "The Parthenon Sculptures" (see e.g. https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/...). I'm not quite sure when this happened and when I looked it up recently I couldn't find good news coverage explaining the conscious choice to change the name.
I think you got that backwards; the long axis of an O'Neill cylinder is the principle axis, and the only one that would be stable. The second (unstable) and third (stable) would both be unsafe because the issue with contents shifting making them potentially switch rolls. But that was never the plan, so no great loss.
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The reasoning given in the framework seems sensible enough:

> Even for the highest-achieving students, pressures to use mathematics courses as social capital for advancement can often undercut efforts to promote learning with understanding. This often results in what some deem a “rush to calculus,” which has not helped students. Bressoud (2017) studied the mathematics pathways of students moving from calculus to college. He found that out of the 800,000 students who take calculus in high school, roughly 250,000 or 31.25 percent of students move ‘backwards’ and take precalculus, college algebra, or remedial mathematics. Roughly 150,000 students take other courses such as Business Calculus, Statistics, or no mathematics course at all. Another 250,000, retake Calculus 1 and of these students about 60 percent of them earn an A or B and 40 percent earn a C or lower. Only 150,000 or 19 percent of students go on to Calculus II. This signals that the approach that is so prevalent in schools––of rushing students to calculus, without depth of understanding––is not helping their long term mathematics preparation.

This basically lines up with my experience.
I was in accelerated math and took AP Calc AB in High School.
I got an A, but only by memorizing the symbol manipulation rules:
I could't have explained why they worked.
I don't think I could have even explained what calculus was for—and I was too busy
trying to maximize my grades in 5 other AP classes
to bother finding out.
I got into my first choice of college
and was sufficiently dissatisfied with math
that I didn't take any classes in it until I was required to do so
after I declared a major in Computer Science.
I took Calc II and Linear algebra and got Cs in both.
Well said! The community is amazing and I always love sending people to Daniel Shiffman's Coding Train (https://thecodingtrain.com/) as that to me is a great example of how to do tutorials in a very accessible way.
I didn't know he went back into retirement. Last I recall, he came out if retirement sometime after Your Name became the number one animated hit of all time at the box office.
Additionally, Bitcoin in particular has structural issues (transaction fees, limited transaction rate driven by block size limits) which make it poorly suited for use as legal tender.

Yes, Lightning exists. I know. But it's essentially a system of private IOUs -- it's not something which would always be available to settle a debt between any two people.
> where a chinese national shipped viruses to wuhan

No where in the linked article does it say that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu shipped viruses to Wuhan.

NMLs lips have been sealed and there was never a reason given why they were dismissed. Going as far as saying that they were shipping viruses to wuhan is baseless speculation.

A more recent article from CBC had more up to date details than the article you linked: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6090188
That sounds like it requires a high-school math sequence that prepares students for college calculus, doesn't it?

Edit: You hardly contradicted me. My claim was that the math requirements of non-engineering science majors were 0-2 semesters of calculus and a course on statistical methods. You added combinatorics, which I usually just see taught as part of that applied methods course, rather than a stand-alone semester of mathematical combinatorics (I welcome correction). This is exactly what the current secondary math curriculum leads up to: calculus.
Motel 6 used to be $6.
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GAS fees are nuts.
They are not digital photos, but from films. Color films require 4 layers for colors. B&W has only one metalic silver layer and because there are no colors, it can be more granulated. I think, that silver crystals were even smaller than what was from color layer crystals, so B&W films had not 4x times more silver "pixels" but even more, compared to what color films had, hence the reason why those color pictures look so blury, compared to so good B&W pictures.

Not to mention, that B&W films and pictures with very good results could develop every amateur and during the development process add various effects - sepia is one of them, but you could get blue tint by mixing some other chemicals.
Fair enough, but the suggestion that it is a motivation is always there once they leave the range of products that are well-captured by generic affiliate programs.
The trouble with the synthetic furin hypothesis and all this DRASTIC stuff on that grant, etc. is that all of this work would certainly be done in known viral vectors... you would never go messing around testing spike proteins in some totally random virus backbone whose in-vitro behavior hadn't been worked out before in your assay cell lines.

So, maybe I missed something, but none of the experimental designs I've seen in those grants would ever plausibly lead to the SARS-COV-2 sequence. Again, pre-pandemic there was no reason to be sneaky about this stuff if it were actually being done... I don't know why anyone would waste their time on some uncharacterized, completely markerless viral vector for these RBD and proteolysis tests.

Sigh... maybe if we -had- been doing those experiments earlier we would have discovered this new clade and been more ready for it. That grant looks spooky to some people precisely because it was so prophetic.
Thank you for this. It is educational.
Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Ben Horowitz (a16z), and many more. While you have some point, the Bay Area only raises so many kids while it's economic engine is unprecedented in attracting intelligent folks from around the world.
iirc dockertest does not need docker itself to be installed. Container start up time otoh is instant.
I've never seen them provide value for money here in Europe compared to what was already available. What boosted them - and killed a lot of the local competition - was that tourists seemed to prefer them. We had plenty of fast food here that was quite ok before then.
7+ years old BMW i3 so yes it does.
The Soviets successfully covered up a lab leak for multiple decades even after independent investigations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
There’s one in the town of 20,000 next to me (15 minutes away) along with two other grocery stores and a Walmart.

There’s nothing in my town of 2,000 of course, though I believe there’s a Dollar-Something in another local town.
Why would there not be any CRC library for an FPGA?
Side question - does anyone know of other python auth libraries, which support a fine-grained access control, ideally close to that of AWS IAM?
> IMO The only "lab leak" hypothesis that makes any sense at all, was that someone just *ked up, the dice rolled horribly badly (like the worst outcome out of 10^64 possible outcomes), and it all went pear shaped.

This is really not that unlikely. Probably someone designed something like 2^10-ish different recombinant grafts from related coronaviruses, with various design parameters, and the selective pressure was "oh it was actually infectious enough to infect the careless postdoc pulling the 100 hour workweek". Surely 1 out of 2^10 is likely to be more transmissible than the parent bat strain.

These days (aka 10 years ago) with molecular biology, 2^6 is not unreasonable to do by hand, by a well-trained undergrad intern, in three months. Oh and hey... out of 2^6 we discovered one GOF with higher normalized output than its parent. Citation (disclaimer, I supervised the intern, so it's possible I'm a three-sigma-above-median intern manager): https://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2...
I don't care about having enterprise sales as much as about the "hide stuff behind bubbles" design, but it's still also interesting that here we talk a scenario where you easily could reach the "call enterprise sales" point with <$1000 monthly spend, which feels kind of absurd. One can hope the answer is an uncomplicated "ok, we'll unlock more contributors for another $20 per person", because anything else would be a waste of sales-people-time, but still...
The security of cryptographic primitives relies on the mixing that happens from the first round to the last round. If you can analyze the input-output relationship of a single round, you can easily derive the round key (and the way the AES key schedule works, if you have any round key you can run it backwards to derive the original key). Bit flips in the middle of the algorithm allow you to do just that; if you have a bit flip in the second to last round, that'll have a specific effect on the output, and that effect will depend on a small part of the round key. Collect enough samples and you can solve for it. It turns the problem of brute forcing a 128 bit key into the problem of brute forcing a few bits at a time, because with only a round or two there is very little diffusion, i.e. every output bit only depends on a few key bits.

I've done the same thing to break "white-box" AES implementations, which are software versions of AES with the algorithm obfuscated and the key baked into it, in the form of flattened per-round-byte lookup tables (this concept is complete snake oil, but a few companies insist on selling it; they claim it's hard or impossible to get the key out, but this method works every time). You can introduce faults by patching the code or using a debugger to change state in the last round or two, and compute the key from the results. I did a targeted attack where I surgically introduced faults by replacing intermediate values with ones from a different input (which works even when the algorithm uses redundant, booby trapped encodings, which is another feature these vendors peddle), but in most cases you can also just literally randomly corrupt execution and use the same script Yifanlu wrote, just like a random hardware glitching attack.
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It really makes you think about how many of the things we know today are based on very loose wisps of foundational information, and this makes knowledge both more precious (because it's so hard to come by), and also should give us great pause to consider any knowledge so sacrosanct, given how it could take a very small piece of new uncovered information to completely change how we think about the world.

George Washington didn't know about dinosaurs. What don't we know about yet, and what do we think is true that will turn out not to be?
Add to this how fabricated the "wet-market" theory just feels. Perhaps it may be a viable theory, but it smells like such BS, the kind of bad-but-effective theory you know you could get away with thanks to classic "ooh weird foreigner food racism." No one's going to stop to ask, uh, why NOW?
Bitcoin has crashed on the largest Indian exchange WazirX by 25%.
You're not required to have a board. You can have an LLC or S Corp (or C, I mix them up) all with you as the sole member/shareholder. You can legally even write in the Operating Agreement/Bylaws "X Member can never be ousted from the board until death" if you honestly wanted to. You can even have a one page agreement that says "X owns 100% of the company shares and we will have meetings once a year on x date" and signed.

I worked as a commercial lending processor for a while and got to learn how many businesses operated. The majority are family or sole proprietors. The few that are with others usually get really drawn out with lots of legal jargon. Typically, one person retains 51% and has sole rights to act without the full boards approval.

In all running a business isn't really difficult. It's the exact same as personal budgeting. It's just high level stuff warrants these types of situations because some moron VP is upset they don't get to destroy part of the company they contribute no value to.
Then why would California school discriminate against Asians in admissions? Wasn't the point of affirmative action to counteract discrimination, but now it seems like it just makes the discrimination Asians already face even worse? If institutions openly discriminating against you is not "institutional racism" then I don't know what is.
Have you tried ordering them well done? Its on the "secret menu" - http://hackthemenu.com/in-n-out/secret-menu/well-done-fries/
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> The fact that colleges are able to command tens of thousands of dollars per year should tell us something about what their campuses are offering that general society and its structure is unable to provide.

They provide a piece of paper at the end that puts you an edge up above the people that cannot attend for one reason or another in the job market, which is going to be a part of your life for the next 40 years or so.
Kobayashi Maru Difficulty: Discover and solve both puzzles in two queries.
Valve as well. I believe they also have the highest profitability/employee ratio of American companies.
The biggest problem with this idea is proving data replication and guaranteed retrievability to the users in a trustless manner.

With a traditional cloud provider, you trust them, upload your data and they deal with the rest, backing it up internally and guaranteeing retrievability with their reputation.

But with blockchain p2p storage, it's really hard to provide the same guarantees. If you only upload the file once and let the blockchain replicate it, then a malicious (or greedy) entity can manipulate the blockchain and control all replicas (backed by a single disk copy). So your software must encrypt multiple copies of your data and upload seperate replicas with different encryption keys.

But that still leaves you open to a very malicious entity going out of it's way to track all uploads from a node, and monopolising control over them, then deleting them when you try to download them. To actually provide the same guarantees that a cloud provider does in a trustless way, your local software will also have to continually download chunks to make sure they are still retrievable, and you might also need to use the tor network for all accesses.

With all that extra complexity, there is a lot to go wrong, and a traditional cloud provider might end up being the cheapest option. I used to agree with you, but after trying to design such a system with these trustless guarantees myself, I've come to the conclusion that there is no good use case for blockchain, outside of exchanging value.
Tragically, Aaron Swartz.
1: such things can take time. Sometimes decades.

2: which proves what?

3: all coronavirus strains are related, that's why they have that common element in their name

4: we have some pretty good candidates though.

https://time.com/6121482/first-covid-19-case-wuhan-wet-marke...
Hi Justin. We appreciate your criticism. It's not intended to be a "lie" but rather an explanation of how people can use existing molds if they have them. You are correct that you can't fit a third party mold onto the CocoTerra machine, but you can either pour the chocolate while still liquid into your own molds or remelt. Many people don't know whether or not you can remelt the chocolate while also maintaining temper. We'll take a look at the language in the FAQ. Thank you.
In the 1970s, you could walk into a suburban shopping mall, and there would often be a "Tobacco Village" kiosk. And one section of its shelves would be filled with bright, colorful bongs, pipes, waterpipes, rolling papers, rolling machines and all other manner of weed paraphernalia.

You can call me old-fashioned, but I miss those days.
This is truly fantastic work. This is going to be my new recommendation for anyone who wants to seriously grapple with the space. I'm a crypto skeptic, but I think you make a strong point that crypto doesn't have to win the future on technical terms, it may be the place where new products emerge simply because it inspires people.
What Are POAPs and Why Are They Important?
Hi, I live in Delhi. New Delhi is one of 11 districts in Delhi.

Not sure if you meant "look at the roads in New Delhi" in a "derogatory" sense, but I'd just like to say that the roads in New Delhi are some of the best roads here.
Yeah a centralized and regulated market to exchange funds would definitely make it easier to use crypto as anything more than a scam or buying drugs.
I took a really awful* graphics programming course during my Masters degree, to the point where I didn't drop, stayed in, and took the bad grade just to leave a final review about how bad it was. I later discovered processing and graphics programming was a breeze. That is really what the course should have been taught in. I've used it multiple times since to make animated graphics for videos, 3d text that I couldn't figure out how to make in Photoshop or Gimp, and a visualization for the cue ball's departure angle in billiards.

*I believe my issue was it never built up the mental model of OpenGL to the point that I couldn't comprehend the difference between a VAO and VBO. [1]

1. https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Tutorial2:_VAOs,_VBOs,_V...
>You can’t “engineer away” a virus.

If the virus is caused by risky research, you can stop doing risky research.

>arguably no business telling them what to do in their own country

Aren't there international standards for dealing with viruses? Also, some of the research in the Wuhan lab was funded by the US. So the US did have business telling them what to do in some cases regardless of international standards.
> You can't seriously expect people to tolerate restrictions indefinitely.

We tolerate all kinds of restrictions indefinitely - that's quite literally what laws are. Well, most laws that aren't based on age criteria.
Employees with full (exercised and vested) shares at my company don't have any voting power until after an exit event. The paperwork these days is truly ridiculous.
There is a critical element the post doesn't state: a successful small project has (has) very limited scope of customers and use patterns. That is where complexity in writing databases arises: limited scope databases are far easier.
IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
How to implement and use .noinit RAM
Isn’t the proxy setup on ethereum a loophole in this tho? You just deploy a new contract and redirect the proxy
The thought of any military being advanced due to Microsoft’s help made me giggle.

My opinion is that the best you can do is to hire people with a similar set of core values and there’s nothing wrong with everybody having their own ethical scale that they act upon accordingly.
Released by ByteDance, who operate Tiktok.
I'm in my 40s and attended a Baptist Church in my youth that required formal members to tithe. It was the primary reason my parents stopped taking us there.

> Do you have any sources for this assertion?

Don't be that person. Take or leave the anecdote, but don't make an asinine request of evidence for something clearly anecdotal.
The moment you have value types and stack passed small structs you start beating Java pretty hard in precisely the collections area.