skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does life emerge from materials that are not alive?

It is still possible to believe all of current scientific knowledge and also be a vitalist without contradiction, but few people aware of the state of current knowledge hold that artificial life is utterly implausible.

Einstein famously held that certain experimental outcomes could only be explained by local hidden variables, but we have since found, to the contrary, that they actually rule out local hidden variables as an explanation.

Statements of incredulity are not, by themselves, evidence against a proposition.
I'd recommend some of the classic deathstar disks and their click of death, just so those of us with PTSD can relive it.
Don't forget that as you get older you need more medical support, so your cost of living will actually be increasing while inflation is eating away at the buying power of your savings.

You need an investment that at least matches inflation, and is large enough to cover fixed living + increasing medical costs.
The overload is the absence of feature-branches and PR/MRs with review. A git-flow-like model and CI are fully compatible. OPs model is explicitly incompatible.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future"
-- Y Berra
Contra (Series B, next Unicorn) is hiring an exceptional DevOps engineer
Read The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great?

http://amzn.to/1GmFRvX
This is a good paper on the theory and history of compiler development. (from 1997)

https://keybase.theophile.me/info/morgan-optimizing-compiler...
The groups.google.com search is working again. Why not?
Creative procrastination is a good way to put it. Sometimes I found myself procrastinating and couldn't push myself to move beyond a certain point. Later I realized it's the wrong path after all and it's like my subconscious is recognizing the approaching leading to nowhere and stops me from wasting time.
Of course this advice doesn't always make sense, but it makes sense more often than people want to admit. Not that this is an original claim, if anybody remembers the "majestic monolith."

Simply put, the microservice path makes a lot more sense when your organization is so big that you don't really know what other teams are doing all the time and need a clear delineation of areas of responsibility, or maybe if you have very large volumes you're dealing with. That doesn't describe most orgs, but if it describes you consider microservices.
Who is being hurt? Some people say mean things, other people get mad. Doesn’t really hold a candle to what black folks have to contend with.
Haha, nice. I’m a happy Password Store user of some 2-3 years, but I starred your repository - very cool idea to use PKCS#11 modules.
The sheer size of our government workforce is an alarming problem (2019)
Sounds reasonable. Especially for a ML group. I just know that many times the prototype turns into the production product.
It's possible they weren't aware of it and were answering honestly. Systems can grow incredibly complex. These dependencies and contracts became not-so-well-defined after long periods of time.
This was way too many words to say "my language may have offensive and antiquated roots but I don't care and if you do you're sensitive and should not be taken seriously"

Like cool opinion, nobody has to accommodate you the same way you don't have to care about how the words leaving your mouth may be perceived by others unlike you
This is on steam too. With achievements.

It’s actually kinda fun.
I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve had to give up on a problem after banging away at it for an afternoon only to solve it in 20 mins the next morning. Almost never fails.
I've seen it suggested that people tend to be level in personal growth while advancing in career growth, or level in career growth while advancing in personal growth, either more or less deliberately.
My point was about a broad categorization, not individual bad ideas and theories. Building up a general intolerance to a vague and broad category called "woo" ends up in you calling a non-zero percentage of viable theories "woo" because it's outside of your world model, rather than being contradictory with evidence.

It's the science equivalent of labeling someone a "conspiracy nut" in politics, where CIA manipulation of the media (a real thing with plenty of evidence) gets bucketed with reptilian overlords to unfairly denigrate the former valid theory.

There is absolutely a ruling class with personal interest in the status quo within the scientific community that applies unthinking skepticism to perfectly valid ideas to protect their own agendas. I'd recommend listening to Dr. Avi Loeb's thoughts on this.
Honestly - I expected it to be harder than it was. I read the entire handbook cover to cover before doing an install. I think that was the trick. It’s just been smooth sailing.

I keep an R620 running Linux that I can ssh into if I need Docker - but I use it a lot less than I expected.
That raises an interesting question: how much control do humans have over their laugh? Is it reasonable to ask people to not laugh, or is it physically impossible?
LibreOffice reads and writes MSOffice files just fine. I do it every day. Maybe there are some edge cases that affect someone, but it's never been an issue for me.
or just feel both.. at the same time.
Blacklist all binaries in SmartScreen and Windows Defender, distribute a Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool that deletes it through Windows Update, revoke any Windows or Visual Studio licenses belonging to Mozilla Corp, they have a lot of options actually. But if they tried any of that, there would be consequences.
The individual code bases of a microservice might not involve spaghetti code, but the interconnections certain can. I'm looking at a diagram of the service I work on, with seven components (written in three languages), five databases, 25 internal connections, two external interfaces, and three connections to outside databases, all cross-wired (via 6 connections) with a similar setup geographically elsewhere in case we need to cut over. And that's the simplified diagram, not showing the number of individual instances of each component running.

There is clear separation of concerns among all the components, but it's the interconnections between them that take a while to pick up on.
Please don't.

Edit: we already asked you not to do this once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189891. I'm going to assume that maybe you didn't see that request. Please don't do it again.
Does virtually nobody know? I haven't met a black American yet who didn't. Perhaps a better question: if you know a term has a racist history, why are you so attached to the specific term?
And yet Finns, spectacularily outnumbered, held off Russian invasion anyway with machine guns and German drugs.
Contrary to what some may believe, this is not a good thing for India. We Indians have grown old before we became rich. https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/557446/a... (The story is about Sri Lanka, but the insights are applicable to South India in general. And now to parts of North India.)
Anti-trust laws are not only for true monopolies. Any company that has a significant percentage in the market (determined by the regulations and courts) can be scrutinized under anti-trust laws. At least in the EU.
1. It is impossible to keep up with everything.

2. Probably, but you can only work with what you've got.

3. Work on being comfortable in your own mind, and make a home that reflects your mind, then you will be comfortable in your own body. In that state, your existence is self-explanatory.
Although “propriety” is a word and the sentence still makes sense with it.
sudo e4defrag /
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/zeros; sudo rm -f /zeros

While write intensive, I run this on my ZFS VMs on occasion to keep the zstd compression ratio high. No pretty interface, but it's still satisfying when I see the volume's compression ratio is close to entropy. Even in 2021. Even with all-flash.
>If a user that was happily using version 727 is now on a version that's almost identical to 402

lol. That’s not how this works.
It works because it's false when uninitialized (as default value). So if not initialized it represents Nothing value. When it is initialized it's Just T.
There is a massive mismatch between what people think an average employee looks like versus actual reality.

My girlfriend and I both have reasonable higher education, but it's nothing fancy. Culturally, we come from a working class background. So we have a very strong sense of duty and a great work ethic. It doesn't translate into crazy hours, but we're reliable. We show up. Focus during work hours. Deliver on promises.

We've always considered this to be the absolute minimum one can do. We're basic workers, nothing more.

How wrong we were. It seems that in whichever company we work, or in whichever department of some large company, we almost immediately rise to the top 10-20%. Every single time. There's almost a gravitational pull towards us as peers and managers discover that we get things done.

We've said it many times to each other: "surely it can't be this easy?"

This isn't a compliment to ourselves. We're not brilliant. We don't work crazy hours. We're not super ambitious. Just plain workers. I don't know what everybody else is doing, but apparently not that much.

And this connects to your situation, the standard is very low.

Another aspect that works in your favor is obscurity. Even if they have the idea that you don't do much, they can't be sure, it could be that you're working on things they're not aware of.

Confronting a peer that seems to do little has a very high social cost, so people prefer to avoid it. It's not their money pissed away and people prefer to avoid drama.

And yet another aspect is our species' adaptability. We rapidly adjust to any situation. When we have a lazy co-worker, a few weeks down the road that's the new normal. It's no longer remarkable and we've adjusted to work with that reality.

By the way, I pass no judgement on people with a lower work ethic. A huge amount of work is incredibly dreadful, boring, non-rewarding, and we ask people to basically sacrifice their entire life to it, decades in a row, every waking moment. This idea that everybody should just switch to their dream job isn't as realistic as some claim it to be.
I've always been very honest when logging my hours, that is when I was paid by hour, and back then I was doing 6 hours of effective work per day.

A few months ago I started being payed by month, and now I do around 5 hours of effective work per day. The more relaxed work day due to less effective hours done was something I was looking forward to; I don't drag this mental burden with me the whole day anymore and it feels great.

My friends always say I work more than I should, but doing less always seemed like cheating and stealing to me.

Employees and colleagues value my output, which is encouraging, but hearing my friends' arguments and reading this post and comments makes me feel like I'm missing out.
Check out “Get Out of your Mind and Into Your Life”. Helped me immeasurably.
The other talk Dr. Chris Lattner recommends watching is this one, and is very interesting

David Patterson - A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: History, Challenges and Opportunities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFT54hO1X8M

I didn't realize IBM would have went with the Motorola 68000 for the IBM personal computer if Motorola had been ready. That would have been awesome for me because I could have applied my Mac 68000 asm skills to the much larger IBM PC market.
Lavie
I imagined this entire sequence as a scene from The Simpsons, sound effect and all - thank you.
police/army is probably 90% of it? if you include the black budget
I'm not really sure what they're trying to accomplish here, but I never thought I'd read a quantum physics-related paper with the sentences:

"We place a tardigrade tun on a superconducting transmon qubit and observe coupling between the qubit and the tardigrade tun via a shift in the resonance frequency of the new qubit-tardigrade system. This joint qubit-tardigrade system is then entangled with a second superconducting qubit."
> The risk of losing power could potentially happen every month, if you have elections every month. Electing 3 people a month for 15 years would give a legislature of 540 people, the size of the combined houses of the USA Congress

The proposal was for Senators specifically. This is clearly different, but it's not clear what it is. So, is your proposal:

(1) to abolish the Senate, and do this in the House, or
(2) to abolish the House, and do this to the Senate, maintains equal representation (540 not being divisible by 50 makes this problematic),
(3) to abolish the House, and do this to the Senate without equal representation, or
(4) to do this to the House, but retain the Senate as is, or
(5) something else?

Note that #3 and arguably #1 are outside the power of even a Constitutional Amendment, since the power to amend the Constitution explicitly does not extend to removing equal representation of states in the Senate.

> Of course, when one side has a large lead, it means they are safe for a few months

A 4 seat (<1%) lead is safe for 6 mmonths. A 16 seat (3%) lead is safe for 15 months. A margin the proportional size of that after the 2018 House election in the US would take losing every seat up for election for 3 years, 9 months to lose. These are small margins; a large lead is absolutely secure for lot longer than “a fee months”.

> The important thing to realize is that most of the current problems with

I’m fully behind that. Long legislative terms just is a very bad idea that is hyperfocused on one (overstated) problem and which makes (almost independent of what else you try to do alongside) most other problems worse.
All: could you please not post dumb, obvious comments about this?

Either the story is interesting and significant [1] or it shouldn't be on HN's front page. Either way, the thread shouldn't fill up with shallow internet reflux. I get that the novelty of this story is activating, but we're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] which does seem to be the case? I can't really tell. But this alone is significant: "setting a new record for the conditions that a complex form of life can survive"

Edit: I'm downweighting this as some sort of parody, barring more information.
Depends on the drive technology. For SSDs you want to avoid extra writes as those wear down the cells. For traditional hard drives you can consolidate empty space to reduce cluster waste, or go for broke and just place everything in order (most fun to watch). Probably the best way would be to group frequently accessed files near each other so the heads traveled less distance.

So far as the algorithm, what I observed is the program would look at how much room was needed to place the next file, then clear that many blocks out of the way by moving them to the end of the drive. Then copy the blocks for the file to form a contiguous stretch of blocks. And repeat. You wanted to have as much free space as the largest file (plus a little), but I think some of them were able to move large files in pieces.

Back in the days of Windows NT we had a network share with 8+ million files on it (a lot for the time) and we had a serious fragmentation problem, where it could take a second or more to read a file. Most of the defraggers just gave up, or weren't making any progress, but we eventually found one that worked (PerfectDisk, maybe?)
Both very informative. Thanks!!
Thanks for clarifying, it was a bit hard for me to follow on mobile
It is really fun when you have a seduction going on and your wife understands her role in that is to provide social proof of your desirability.
For a few decades now, suitable filesystems work in a way that makes defragmentation essentially unnecessary. I don't you ever really had to defragment on Linux, by the time it came into existence its filesystem was already advanced enough (though I know nothing about ext, which existed briefly before ext2, and neither about the minix filesystem that Linux used briefly even before).
As a business owner, I am absolutely furious at the suggestion to have the government clamp down on my ability to yank products retroactively, modify user license agreements, and experiment with product pricing and feature availability. If users find a better match for their needs elsewhere, they are free to leave (after fulfilling the terms of the contracts they agreed to, of course). Don't screw with entrepreneurs!
Long single terms would remove the lone check of the ballot box. Get in, and then shamelessly profit for an 18 year term. Maybe it would be better because a newcomer might produce a year or two of honest work at the start of their term, but more likely they'd be coming from a lower office where they learned to be thoroughly corrupt.

What's really needed is an end to backwards plurality voting and monopolistic primaries - have one big runoff vote. Make voting for better candidates not be at odds with accepting the safe option. Of course no politician is going to support this, as marketing themselves as the lesser of two evils has become the entirety of their promotion.

Furthermore, get rid of terms and have every single office on the ballot every single year, or better yet every quarter. This would make it much harder to spend overwhelmingly on campaigns (since the campaign would never end). It would also provide a stage for challengers to gain momentum organically rather than this long-iterated process where a challenger becomes viable in one cycle only to be forgotten the next time.
What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydraulic Tool
Hydraulic tool is the combination of hydraulic system and ordinary tools as a whole.The strong hydraulic power is converted into reciprocating linear motion, rotating motion, cycloidal motion and other mechanical motion. A complete hydraulic tool system consists of five parts: power element, actuating element, control element, auxiliary element and hydraulic fluid.

Hydraulic tools include: hydraulic crimping tool, hydraulic pump, hydraulic jack, hydraulic bolt stretcher, hydraulic flange separator, hydraulic nut breaker, hydraulic puller, etc. Hydraulic tools have the advantages of high efficiency and convenience.

Advantages
Generally using mineral oil as the working medium, relative to the moving surface can be self-lubrication, long service life.

Light weight, small volume, small motion inertia and fast reaction speed.

Various components of hydraulic transmission can be arranged conveniently and flexibly according to needs.

Overload protection can be realized automatically.

convenient control, can achieve a wide range of stepless speed (speed range up to 2000:1).
It’s easy to move in a straight line.

It is easy to achieve the automation of the machine, when the use of electro-hydraulic joint control, not only to achieve a higher degree of automatic control process, but also to achieve remote control.

Disadvantages
Easy to leak.The oil pressure of the hydraulic system is high, and the hydraulic oil is easy to leak through sealing or clearance, which causes the consumption of hydraulic media and environmental pollution.

Hydraulic transmission in the process of energy transmission, there are often more energy losses (pressure loss and flow loss, etc.), so that the transmission efficiency is low.

The viscosity of temperature-sensitive oil varies with the temperature, and the viscosity changes lead to the change of flow, leakage and resistance, which easily leads to the unstable movement of the working mechanism.

High manufacturing cost in order to reduce leakage, the manufacturing accuracy of hydraulic components is required to be higher, thus increasing the manufacturing cost.
> how far am I supposed to excuse an engineer who has committed 100 lines of code in 10 months

The problem is poor understanding of an employee's performance. Squarely on the management side.
I root caused so many hard to debug issues in the shower! Including some obscure bug in Darwin kernel implemented in assembly. Not that I take my laptop to the shower but exactly like the parent thread mentioned, the problem is still background processing in your head.
Whenever I research the performance problem of a JavaScript library, I stumble over many deep clones even when it is not necessary most of the time.
People are just not aware how CPU expensive a deep clone in JavaScript is, even more on big objects.

For example when you run a Node.JS profiling on the PouchDB test suite, most CPU cycles are spend in running the clone() function.

Having an updated performance comparison of structuredClone() would be great.
Yes, it changes the process. The trouble is, with a lack of outside input, you tend to get writing about me, Me, ME. Unless you're already a good pro writer.
There is indeed a hilarious backstory. Back in time one of my friends was looking for a task for the Distributed Computing course where you write a program for the Cell microprocessor, and I half-jokingly suggested this, not realizing that it won't work at all because of the shared window. The friend eventually came to realize that issue and couldn't finish the project in time, but still got a good grade solely because of the novelty of the task (!). (According to that friend virtually everyone else did the parallel JPEG stuffs.)
I understand what you're trying to accomplish. This topic is heated. To me, you'd have to be a ghoul to celebrate this. How can one come at this with an opposing view without it being considered flamebait? (Not saying the GP wasn't being inflammatory.)
I don't use Godot, but I don't think there's an official Steamworks integration.

This is speculation, but I think this means they're working on an official module, and it'll come with support that ensures all controller bindings pass through nicely, etc.
Angular velocity of the edge of the plate is higher, so it is faster than the center. However this only applies to plates that have the same data density on the inside and outside rings.
https://archive.md/8rArs
The page INSISTED on re-directing me to https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-close-are-computers-to-au... which was odd
> Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels present an abundance of evidence that there is no popular will.

If one takes that seriously, the solution is to abandon elections and the pretense of democracy entirely.

Arend Lijphart, on the other hand, has shown that there is a public will, people do know what they want, and that democratic systems with greater electoral proportionality deliver it to them better and make them happier with government.
facebook used user data as an incentive for companies to build apps on their platform. at one point their ambition was to compete with iphone/android (they got as far as an android skin, but amazon and firefox were competing in this space as well, it wasn’t crazy to think they could do it)

if you want people running your OS, you need a good app store, and facebook’s whole thing was free apps (farmville and the like) - without traditional monetization, how could facebook attract big developers to fill their phone platform with apps and avoid the fate of windows phone?

well, when you use an app on facebook, you give the app permission to read your data, sometimes a lot of your data.

see this illuminating article, “What the fuck was facebook thinking” [0]. facebook can say truthfully they never sold anyone’s data, because they gave it away for free to anyone who would build an app to keep people on their platform.

[0] https://jamesallworth.medium.com/what-the-f-was-facebook-thi...
Doesn’t this article need a trigger warning