skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how economical it becomes to run their own generation at some point. I know in the US I've seen datacenters that will switch over to backup generators at peak demand times as part of load shedding agreements, but I don't have any idea on the economics (other than running your own diesel generators must be more expensive than grid power).
Just a smidge, or a bridge too far? Slang use in the ICU
I was naive back then and had very little understanding of how things work. I jumped into things because I felt they were cool and not really worrying about solving a problem.

And I wish I could share some pics of my failed ones, I did try my best to differentiate.
Yes, we should all strive to emulate tiny, culturally homogeneous de facto ethnostates. Their policies will surely work in gigantic, culturally hyper-heterogeneous nations that already struggle with bureaucratic bloat, public service abuse, and horrid quality of public goods and services.
Wow. That is really interesting. I didnt realize that. Has there been any notable recasting's due to death or contract negotiations or something like that? I could imagine Luke Skywalker sounds drastically different in the third film being a pretty jarring experience.
> I sourced test images from:
> In total, this amounted to 336 test images.

Nice post, it's good to have data like this!

For PNG images I crop with GIMP (magnified to 800% so I can cut down to the pixel), then reduce the color depth with pngquant, then compress with zopflipng. The result is excellent, even better than WebP (which is almost always better than unoptimized PNG). Haven't experimented enough with AVIF yet.
I might be missing a trick. Some options, listed below, do most of the things and even those which the FAQ admits are beyond its scope. Amongst a multitude of alternatives, I have settled upon TwinkleTray for Windows. MonitorControl on macOS. OLEDify for iOS/iPadOS/Android, or just take a shot at one of the superb wallpapers from r/Amoledbackgrounds. As an example, in order to comprehensively test the display, I used DisplayTester on Galaxy S20, when I first acquired it. There are similar tools for other OS'.

https://twinkletray.com/

https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oledify-pure-black-wallpapers/...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gombosdev....

https://www.testmyscreen.com/
This general problem is called the "unmoved mover" in philosophy. Aristotle famously determined that there were a couple dozen unmoved movers, i.e. celestial spheres.

Which begs the question: why limit ourselves to one guy in a robe when we can have a couple dozen of them pushing planets around?[1] :-)

[1]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... and forward.
That is the most boring Tail of the Dragon driving vid I have ever seen.
Bringing the benefits of our 5th generation hardware to trucking
It sounds like you accidentally started writing a logic programming language.
It really does not beg that question at all.

You might as well say "well, if the sky is blue, then who invented the color blue?". Nobody, it's just a name we give to a random light wavelength.
Inverting PhotoDNA
We could pass another law that simply makes crime illegal.
+1, i also like Sam Harris's Making Sense which is a little more pompous but still interesting
> they blow up their smallest discomforts into Big Societal Problems That Must Be Solved

aka a micro-agression?
Garnishing wages is very much a real thing.
Isn't the same thing true for bitcoin? As far as I know, it was set with the first implementation, and can only be changed when a majority of miners agree to change it.
Really, whatever you know. But since that's a boring answer, so I'll assume you know exactly what I know. Anyway, as usual, "it depends," but there's probably a big split based on a specific question:

"How rich is your frontend?" (and how rich will it need to get in the next few years)?

If the answer is "rich enough" - ie you want a fair deal of dynamic content and a web-app feel, I'd do:

- ReactJS via create-react-app with typescript and ReactQuery for talking to the API

- Rails in api mode serving a rest api

- Postgres for the db and Redis for caching/job storage.

- Heroku

If the answer is "not that rich," save yourself some complexity:

- Normal Rails with server-rendered pages

- Postgres/redis

- Heroku

Note: swap out Rails with whatever similar thing is in a language you know: Django, Phoenix, Laravel, etc.

Now, all that said, I strongly suspect the dominant answer to this question is shifting. There seems to be a new wave of JS-based tools like Next.JS and RedwoodJS that seem batteries-included-enough to replace Rails as the getting-off-the-ground-quickly framework of choice. We'll see, though- it's still early.
I can't avoid pointing out the glaring miscategorization of microbiota as insects in the title.
Blockchain for Access Control Systems: Draft Available for Comment
Costs and Benefits of Local DNSSEC Validation
Life, uh.. finds a way.
The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Startups
I'm using https://shotcut.org/ but I'm not sure it's the best. (I only make a short 10 minutes video every two months.)
Haha, I did not expect that plot-twist, well done.

Nassim Taleb says we should thank founders, successful or failed, for the risk they took, and I agree with him. So here it is, from the bottom of my heart: Thank you!
Win32 is probably the most lightweight tech stack in a modern OS.
No. Even the things we do know you've just said aren't explainable by anything but God in this thread.
I first heard mods on a PC speaker. A bit noisy, but having only ever heard mono tones before, it was like black magic hearing some software vibrate that clunky thing to such effect.
Snowless Winters Are Already Here
When Hypocrites Rule Washington and Washington Is Exempt from the World’s Rules
I believe this is why ruby decreased in popularity. Rails preceded its reputation. A similar thing almost happened with Django and Python. I've heard of a few people who call themselves django developers.
Which other ones?
I came to the comments to make a similar assertion of Clojure(script) being fun.
Usually I work in IntelliJ with Cursive. VSCode with calva isn't bad.

The stack for my project is:

Backend:

Redis (no relational DB needed for my use case)

Clojure:

Carmine - (redis interop)

Reitit - Nice API definition and routing

Malli - Nice schema validation and coercion

Timbre - Logging without known RCE vulnerability ;)

Frontend:

Clojurescript

Figwheel - CLJS compiling and hot-reloading in browser. Would probably use ShadowCLJS these days though.

Rum - It's a simple wrapper around react, with Hiccup-style list syntax for HTML. Though in a do-over I'd probably try Reagent since it seems to have a bigger ecosystem of wrapped react libraries, but I really like Rum best. That said, it's also not that hard to use native JS React components with Rum.

All of the libraries and idioms in this stack guide the design to push side effects out to the edges of the program - this makes testing easier in a lot of cases. E.g., for a web request you can craft a test request, or pretty-print a literal request object and paste it into your code, then pass it to your API in Reitit without an http-server attached, and get back the result object, and assert that it matches the desired output. Clojure's mutability make it pretty simple to stub or mock calls to storage, or to create a fixture to use a test database.
Because almost everywhere you would use data will expect it as interleaved. Separating the channels would require a second pass to re-interleave the data.
Or plumbing, drainage, electronics, cars, and a million other things
I had meant I switched when the news of the new access to data request started last year.
> The problem with this dream is that to achieve it, (1) everything would need to be rewritten in a single language

Not true. Look at COM. It has a reputation for being "ugly" and "legacy", but having worked with it, it's a marvel of engineering. There's still no "modern" system that can compare with it, IMO. In a C++ project of mine I implemented a COM server (not _that_ difficult) and could control the program from Powershell "for free". IOW, I got scripting with no glue, no bindings, nothing -- just instantiate the component from Powershell and invoke methods on it. (Courtesy of IDispatch, default implementation provided by ATL.)

> (2) to support remote distribution, every procedure/interface/method would need to have full remote semantics.

COM and DCOM implemented that. Where it came short -- or where I failed to find the documentation -- is about customizing timeouts of remote calls. I found some documentation about defaults, but, IIRC, the setting was system-wide and not applicable to a particular "connection".
When I saw bugs, I thought "that's new". But apparently it's just bacteria, which is old news.

Or, as you put it, another find showing the same trend.

I think it would be difficult to pinpoint how long it will take for plastic to become biodegradable. Evolution is a sporadic process.
I would just build a simple web service using FastAPI and use React on the FE. FastAPI is a really nice framework for prototyping or even for building POCs. When the need arises to scale you don't have to to undo a lot of your work. Swagger first class support is a boon. Pydantic and all other database related support also comes at no cost.

You already know about React so just go for it.

DB - You won't go wrong with either MySQL or Postgres or you could save some setup time and go with one of the PaaS offerings from Google or AWS.
Surely you’ve heard disease causing agents referred to that way
Mythologizing can be fun, sure.

However, putting a very negative spin on another culture’s god to make a point about the incipient banality of authority – that’s unnecessary, and outrageously insulting to the culture they’re appropriating from.

The author should have made up their own god and left the Egyptians out of this little crusade.
i would rather say, such comparison builds bad team dynamics. The is more of a management problem when it compares the team members like this. Whole team should have a shared vision of the goal not just the 10x performers. Sit with the management and talk.
I think I have settled on this: an "FM radio". She listens almost exclusively to Classic FM so doesn't really have much reason to touch the dial. But I think she would get a real kick out of adjusting the channel to "tune in" to her friends and family.

Some other ideas in case people are also looking for other ideas:

- A "safe" dial (when she bought her house they found an old antique safe under the stairs which became a source of some mystery until it was cracked open (it was empty))

- A numeric keypad (my mum used to use this a lot when she worked as a translator and had to memorise the unicode for all the French characters)

- Just a simple box with a big rotary dial knob on the front - can't really think of a good story for this though.
In Norway we have a 2FA provider that all banks use. They have implemented a 2FA solution that is installed on the SIM card itself and locked to that card. You also get a separate hardware key device if you want. This way they would need to hijack both your phone and your 2FA pin.

If you lose your SIM card and don’t have the hardware key you need to go to your bank and identify yourself with a valid ID.

Using regular old SMS as 2FA these days seem highly irresponsible for a company. Regular people might not know better.
Norway is not part of EU. Perhaps you meant something different?
I have used charles/proxyman/burp/figma and the best software I have used is httptoolkit. The opensource model of httptoolkit is praise worthy. And the maintainer is down to earth :).

I am very delighted to use software like httptoolkit.

The only issue with httptoolkit is electron but it isn't problem for me because I can always run it in browser <3.
>"the more democratic the better"

I no longer believe this to be the case. I am pro-democracy but I am not a suffrage maximalist. During the last election cycle I looked at the myriad of obscure positions I had the right to vote for on the ballot and I realized most of what I was voting for I was unqualified to weigh in on.

For instance, why do I vote for the Railroad Commissioner? Why do I vote for my local county's community college board of trustees seat 5 and 6? You could say that I should be informing myself before I go to cast the ballot. While you wouldn't be wrong for saying that is my responsibility as a voter, I can assure you virtually no one actually does this. I also find the down ballot candidate's pitches so generic and milquetoast that there isn't enough substance to actually distinguish between them.

What's worse is that the obscure positions have either unopposed candidates or just two. And most of the time, people just look for the (R) or the (D) by the name and that's what they go on.
Preventing Déjà Vu: Vector Similarity Search for Security Alerts (video)
I grew up in the same neighborhood as the writer, even went to the same college. It was normal that my family members collected cans. We all struggled to get by and that struggle is something that you will never forget. It keeps you grounded especially when you're in a tech industry that often forgets about how it is for people at the bottom of our society. Value that twitch and that feeling. I consider it sort of a lower brain stem function that reminds us of where we came from, what we had to do and why we have to be there for others going through the same.

My partner teases me about it but I collect every single can/bottle from my household and any other place I can find them and put them into trashbags in the trunk of my car. I often have no space to store other things in the trunk. When I'm back in my old neighborhood visiting family, I make it a point to stop and give these bags to individuals collecting. I know there are better ways to give back and donate but it's something that I will never stop doing because I know people appreciate reaching them on their level and letting them know we don't judge it, in fact we support it.
No need to be rude. From what I recall, the Oops system originally allowed any employee to request action on behalf of anyone, but they changed the policy not too long ago that you can only request help for people you know personally and are vouching for. The team behind it simply does not have the resources to help everyone, which yes, absolutely sucks for people impacted (I'm in a similar boat with a longtime Google account).
Probably - widespread microbial digestion of plastics is a civilization ending event for us, I expect.
It was just a joke. I mean if this person didn't just get really unlucky and something broke between QA and them getting the phone, they should obviously improve their QA. I was more trying to justify the high price tag in general
Only in America, and it rubs me wrong each time. Regardless of my feelings on local dialect, this is the title of an article on scientific advancement. They shouldn't be taxonomically vague. It's misleading at best, clickbait at worst.
I do not believe that either GAAP or IFRS has a standard definition for "profit". Even GAAP under 703(a) refers to it as net income (and several other related numbers like gross profit).
We could easily turn bottle-collecting into a job with guaranteed hours and pay.

Bottle-collecting is a poor example for the broader issue I was discussing. Those programs are intended for the (mostly homeless) poor to pick up trash they see instead of leaving it behind. It does what it's supposed to do.
> how much about protein denaturation do we need to know before protein structure prediction is useful ?

Denaturation is not all that significant. Physiological conditions (i.e. pH, temperature, etc) tend to be maintained by homeostasis. Protein structure prediction is already incredibly useful.

> what is the status of our current metabolic pathway simulations for example ?

IMO we do not have the data to build useful metabolic pathway simulations. To do a good simulation you need to know (1) the proteins and metabolites involved, (2) their functions and key biophysical properties (ex. Km), (3) feedback / control elements. For most pathways we do not have (1). The data for (2) are mostly nonexistent, buried in literature, and / or unreliable. Same with (3).
It's a rabbit hole, for sure. The way I came to this point of view is through programming and the intentionality of it all. Evolution is just an algorithm. Based on what we know about the world, something or someone had to write that algorithm. I've burned some serious cycles thinking about this and always end up laughing at how little we know.
I appreciate I left little to assist your conclusion, but that isn't it at all.

This isn't the the path I want us going down. If this applies / impacts a few thousand Tesla 'owners' so enamoured by the that cultish brand that they'll accept this BS, so be it.

But apply variations of this to the world, and the countless mistakes and mishaps that can happen and you're in further down into a nasty world of things happening.

I mean, look at getting something fixed with Google or a Facebook. Those bastions of the tech world.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the money aspect of this.

Case in point: literally this happened yesterday. I set up a D/D with one of our internet providers 3 months ago. They have been chasing me for 3 months for payments. New supplier so their email went to spam. I have evidence I did all the right things to do this. And yet, yesterday, I checked my spam luckily and there was a 7 day suspension notice if the bill wasn't paid. So, basically, our business internet connections relied on me being lucky that I caught a stray e-mail ... apply this to your car ... or your home (where there have been stories of this kind of BS, only for the owner come home and realise their home had been sold on and they can't get it back).

Basically, automation is great, but don't automate interaction with your customers on key situatons.
Her parents collected cans to give their child an education and now her writing is on the front page of hackernews.

They fucking made it.
> "bugs"

By which they mean bacteria. I was hoping they meant insects
What's the difference in terms of energy reward? Might there be greater evokutionary pressure to digest plastic?
The project is called Aadhaar, and on it's surface it doesn't seem to be that bad, its a government ID that contains biometric and demographic data and doesn't seem to contain much more than what is requested of people at the US boarder, or what is contained on most national ID cards in jurisdictions where those exist, and at least the Aadhaar is voluntary, that is the government cannot deny service if someone chooses not to possess an Aadhaar ID. Reading the Wikipedia article also gives hope that the project isn't as bad as it might be.

"On 24 March 2014, the Supreme Court restrained the central government and the UIDAI from sharing data with any third party or agency, whether government or private, without the consent of the Aadhaar-holder in writing." [0]

"On 26 September 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act was unconstitutional, meaning that private entities cannot compel their customers to provide their Aadhaar number as a condition of service to verify their identity, specifically citing requiring it for bank accounts, school admissions, and mobile phone service as examples of unlawful use cases" [0]

I still wouldn't want to have this kind of a system pushed on me, but then I would prefer if the ID chip was removed from my passport...

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar#Legality_of_sharing_da...
I don’t know you so take this for what it’s worth:

One thing that has worked quite well for me is meditation. I use the Headspace app, and I like it.

Meditation is not a silver bullet, but for me it has been a net positive. It has definitely helped me to be a calmer person.

Seeing a therapist can also help sometimes. But it can be hard to find the right type of help. Is there any trustworthy medical center in your region? If you have the means to get help from them then you might want to try that. As 'Ensorceled pointed out, there could be an underlying psychiatric condition that affects you. But that is very hard to tell without further details and without the right competence, that’s why seeking care can be helpful. But the specifics of those possibilities will probably vary a lot depending on where you live.
I don't agree at all. The author doesn't mention filler content. He seems to implicitly assume that Mike's podcasts have no filler content. And he assumes Mike's motive to be trying to learn faster - rather than skipping filler - without presenting any evidence that Mike believes this.

I'd say the author constructs what is probably a strawman, that Mike is consuming so fast because he desires to learn as fast as possible, rather than the other obvious hypothesis - Mike is probably consuming so fast because he finds the content a little boring.

I don't think saivan is misunderstanding the author by pointing out the authors (mis)assumption - I think the author is misunderstanding Mike and you are axiomizing the author's misunderstanding to criticize other commenters.
Sorry, no. Carbon dioxide will not react further with oxygen no matter how hot you get it. In other words, it will not burn.
Of course you can decide that. That's what the French did before the price peak in 2016. The thing is that only some of the decisions involved plannable dates.

They decided that when problems were discovered such that redundant security mechanisms weren't, then the problems should be fixed, with time limits. They decided what kind of problems should require fixes within set time limits, and they decided what those time limits should be.

And they decided that some reactors should be taken down for planned maintenance in specific periods.

When problems were discovered at inoppportune moments, the decisions combined to leave them with too few operational reactors.
This! I believe while we have this powerful machines at our fingertips, we still haven't scratched the surface of them being useful. And now, people think more about how to get customers then how to make useful stuff that people would love to use and it would make their life better.
Doughnuts: The fried treat that conquered the modern world
There is no reason a tuition should cost more than $2,000 a semester. An entire undergraduate education should be under $20,000 without grants or assistance.

I went to a small state STEM school with low tuition and a small student body. Most of my upper level classes had 20 students max, and the school was profitable. (Organic Chemistry III and P. Chem had only 4 students, myself included, and we were asked to take turns teaching the material and were corrected if we stumbled -- trial by combat.)

I now earn $500k a year total comp.

Also telling: my company hires people without degrees into six figure positions.

Get a degree if you can get it for cheap. The socialization and academics can be beneficial. Some fields will still require it (biochem, medical, lots of engineering disciplines). But I'm also a fan of Peter Thiel's approach. Just jump into your field if you have the resources at your fingertips.
You mean cooties?
I'm not sure what an acceptable time horizon for these types of things is in an industrial setting, but as a middle aged person in management, I'd consider anything that lasts until after I retire a success. I don't deal a lot in mechanical systems, however, but I can certainly see someone who's not fully versed in a technology thinking 20-30 years is a longer lifespan than almost anything they interact with on a daily basis. What is the expected lifespan of system with a microchip that presumably needs to be updated, secured, etc on a regular basis?