skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is true for the most part. It's one of those things that feels really wrong but the truth is that your code can be hot garbage for way longer than anyone cares to admit. I think a lot of shops should be popping champagne the moment they need to hire a dedicated DBA / ops person to clean house because it means they got big enough that they need to do better.
If only there were abundant sources of energy around like maybe nuclear fusion from a giant orange ball in the sky? Or perhaps hydro electric from the plethora of oceans? It wouldn't be easy, but it would be possible to create enormous amounts of energy from the normal daily cycle of the waves if it became necessary.

There are plenty of ways to create energy given the abundance of resources on this planet, even before homo sapiens.
>If you read my initial message one more time, you may notice that I mentionned a google serach container.

It's pretty common knowledge within the tech community that those fields are populated automatically, often via scraping (just look at what happened with Google and Genius, re: lyrics). Google is notorious for faulty data being in there, either through questionable sources or misquotes, for an untold number of queries.

I'm not saying this to doubt your claim that that was what was displayed and it appeared misleading; Google needs to fix it because clearly it causes problems. I just think that it's an incredible stretch on your part to suggest it was intentional misinformation placed there by a "side".

Edit: I say this as someone who usually doesn't defend Google whatsoever.
Yes, language like that. Put it this way, a cease and desist should contain an IF THEN. If you don’t stop copying my CD then I will sue you for injunctive relief and monetary damages.

Contrast that to the subject email. There’s no if you don’t respond then I will sue you. It’s not a threat, it’s a request and the requestor’s reference to a statute that they think might apply.
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
I haven't coded music in haskell, but I've coded it in Max/MSP and ChucK and I enjoyed them both

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

https://cycling74.com/products/max
Yet, neither of your comments added any information at all.

"Termination shock" and "ocean acidification" may be looked up and read about in as much detail as anybody cares for. Likewise, recent history of US nuke projects.
> Infection rate is orthogonal to preventing people from being infected. If you're not exposed, you can never be infected.

Sure, there are confounds: people who choose to be vaccinated don't behave exactly the same way that people who don't choose to be vaccinated do. Therefore, the observational data is somewhat confounded.

Two directions for the confound: people who are vaccinated may choose to take more risk after vaccination. People who are vaccinated may be those who take COVID seriously to begin with and be biased to take less risk in general. Probably the latter "wins", though I certainly do a lot more than I would do if I wasn't vaccinated.

However, IMO this is all moot: we have vaccines that showed massive efficacy in randomized, controlled trials (over a period of time), and case control studies that show ongoing high efficacy against Delta... and the confounded observational data shows a truly massive effect.
> But the level of coincidence involved invokes such an absurdly complex series of coincidences, that your coin flip comes up heads on these particular people, that occam’s razor might as well spontaneously cease to exist.

Sure, but the experiments you have to run to see these absurd coincidence are also absurdly contrived, so is that really surprising?

It's worth noting that Sabine's take on superdeterminism is also a bit different than past takes that are rife with "conspiracy", so I suggest reading her papers.
Have you seen the graphs? From what I’ve gathered, the amount of ObjC has been steadily increasing.

It’s not in maintenance legacy mode. It’s thriving.
Software Engineering Roadmap (Via Books)
Thanks. I was more interested in the philosophical argument.

Not having children is wildly popular in gen-Z folks. And I get them. To be honest, I cannot really do the mental gymnastics to see bringing a natal child into this world, at this moment in time, as an act of love. It's actually rather cruel.
If your house is a source of Qi shouldn't you share with the rest of the world? Or is it removed by the sewage processing plant?
>Those I have talked to in pharmaceuticals are entirely unwilling to stake billion dollar projects on it.

They will get crushed by their pessimism. It is definitely a big deal and you throwing "muh 90% is not enough" just points that ignorance is still widespread.
There used to be a GamesWiki, and it was good, but got polluted by bots, like almost all open wikis, most of which have long disappeared, or been locked down.
I’ve made my point and have nothing else to say. I don’t think there’s a notable difference between “attack on algebra” and “attacks on early algebra” - my point is that saying it either way is reductive and misleading. Sorry to upset you.
Kind of background information on the topic: https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/podcasts/chinas-foreign-policy-i...
Swift is a language that feels right to me in ways that others don't. I code on Linux and Windows, not on Macs. Swift on Linux works OK, but it's there that you really see how few pure Swift libraries there are. For example, on the project we were exploring, the only Swift library for handling zip files--and we asked the community several times--was a personal project with 14 stars. That was not going to work for our enterprise.

The port of Swift to Windows barely functions and in every dimension is in worse shape.

It's a shame b/c the language is truly beautifully designed.
Could you enlighten me of my ignorance on the topic?
I think this is more of the case of "all regions have some food item that they project as their 'signature' dish but is almost more of a prank".

I don't think I know anyone in Pennsylvania that actually likes scrapple.
Agreed! Reminds me of Dan Abramov's post where he talks about what he doesn't know. We need more of these!
Wow! That's impressive
CEO of Xlear Nasal Spray Responds to U.S. DOJ Lawsuit Alleging FTC Violation
Sonos and Tile execs warn Congress that Amazon, Google, and Apple are killing competition: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21070812/sonos-tile-basec...
I would be so slow without google.

I wonder how much search has dramatically changed productivity.
The "farms here, forests there" agenda seems to be coming to the spotlight quite frequently lately https://www.dgardiner.com/farms-here-forests-there-tropical-...
There had to shutdown a few plants in the past few days.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/edf-shares-plunge-after...
Agreed. My bad. Coming up without a formal degree, a title felt important for me to get a foot in the door where I could then prove I can code. I got defensive.
Have an honest discussion and don’t make it an argument.
That “big tent” is tearing itself apart, through introducing more and more stringent purity tests, judging people pariahs for views shared by majorities of Americans.

As terrible as the Republicans are, some opinion polls are showing historic numbers of voters planning to vote Republican in the midterms, including a growing number of non white voters.
> Money is fungible. Each cent spent on X is a cent not spent on Y.

Money is fungible, but the supply curves for nuclear plants, solar panels, storage, etc, are not flat.

Further, as a political reality: the money allocated to renewable subsidies and nuclear subsidies isn't a direct exchange. If you convince governments to subsidize nuclear $20B less, you don't magically get $20B more for renewables.

> Nuke costs are going up, not down.

Yup, and why is that? Certainly that has something to do with the current regulatory environment and the scale at which nuclear is deployed. I.e. there's no magical way it has gotten "harder" other than us doing it less and losing expertise.

> "Not going to be feasible", and "doesn't look practical" are not based in fact. Storage is not being built out yet because solar watts still displace NG watts, 1:1

In summer, we already have wholesale power costs dip negative at midday from time to time. That's going to become more pronounced.

And at night, we have about 16GW of natural gas (counting imports) vs. 3GW of wind (counting imports) here in California. Maybe we can triple wind with a massive investment, but IMO that's about the point where we're going to see significantly diminished returns. And this is one of the markets that has most aggressively deployed renewables in the US and has some of the best resources for solar and wind outside of the desert.

A few GW more of nuclear in the mix would make a significant difference.

All these numbers are about present demand, too. Increased vehicle electrification is going to push up nighttime demand further.
> So leave.

This is like being unwillingly thrust on the top antenna of a skyscraper, barely hanging on, and you saying "Don't like it here? Then jump."
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's probably as processed and 'ground up' as fish could possibly be
Oh but every negoatiation article that shows up on HN says you should never say a number first.

I got tired of wasting multiple personal days off of work to interview and then receive a stupidly lowball offer in return.

So I name my price up front now. Doesn't have to be what I'm currently making - it's what number will make me jump. It's a binary decision at that point for both of us.
You're a liar and by not apologizing for and fixing what you actually did, you are doubling down on your entitlement to lie.
I don't think I'd pursue that approach. The figure they named signalled their expectations. I think it's best to just say you're too far apart and that you're going to move on, and do so. If they want to come back with another offer, they can, but their initial number was a non-starter.
> The Government tells people to wash their hands; Yet COVID-19 is an upper respiratory illness. Most COVID-19 infections start in the nose. It makes commonsense to wash your nose. People have been using nasal cleansing to fight respiratory illnesses going back thousands of years.

Earlier this year, March 2021, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210324005241/en/Xle...

> Xlear previously filed a pre-EUA seeking approval for use of the nasal spray as a medical device in combatting COVID-19. However, because the FDA determined that Xlear “works against the virus,” the FDA told Xlear it would need to be considered as a drug or combination product EUA. Xlear is currently sold in over 50,000 pharmacies, grocery stores, and online as a nasal spray. “Xlear doesn’t require the EUA to be sold and used—we only need an EUA to be able to inform people about the benefits of using Xlear to protect themselves from COVID-19".
No, it's worse. Some states have far-outsized voting power compared to others. Same as the electoral college.
idk i hear space crap is kind of a big deal there?

not to mention most readers who care at all about this new telescope probably have indeed read about the old one..
> ...spent most of my waking hours as a teenager reading books. I’m 35 now and can barely hold attention on anything, I read maybe 3 books a year if I’m lucky.

Additional anecdata: 57, maybe 8-10 books a year nowadays (if that?). Which was a (low-end) monthly ration up through my twenties, into my thirties.

:-(
Great reverse proxy

Great configurations

Very nice i like it
The article mentioned the fish were farmed.....
The Klein Bottle and the 4th dimension [4D Toys] [video]
I agree with you about doing a job well. I just don't put the job at the top of my list in terms of where to focus my efforts.

Mind you, I'm not FAANG material nor the entrepreneurial sort. The feeling is mutual: I'm not interested in devoting my time to reach those heights in the workplace. They are not interested in hiring people like me. I don't apply for those jobs, and they don't try to recruit me. I'm sure the work is fine there but I can't see myself getting excited about it.

Now, let's talk about my FTP or VO2max and what I'm doing to increase my numbers. I'm really interested in my HRV and what factors affect it. I'm presently also interested in building an analog compressor - electronics are cool - and not at all interested in Tensorflow, deep learning, or spending my free time taking Coursera classes. Why would I spend time learning Rust when I can be improving my flexibility with some yoga? But that's just me.

And finally, I do get what I "deserve" on the job front: I'll always be a middle-of-the-pack guy and not a hot shot. I'm not lazy, but my ambitions are not in career advancement. So I get paid accordingly. But to me, a real hot shot is a 52 year old guy nailing a sub-20 5K.
I think these consequences are only conspirational if time is an independent variable? What if everything, the entire universe’s past, present, and future ‘happened’ at the same time, as a self consistent solution of some kind of underlying equation or set of rules? Our brain, the seat of our perception of time, is part of the same universe that we’re trying to explain. Maybe time is an artifact of the self referential feedback loop that causes our consciousness.
Neanderthals Were Altering the Landscape 125,000 Years Ago New Evidence Suggests
Koalas have two opposable thumbs, in a parallel universe just imagine how the civilization would be build by them. They would need to be much more social and have a bunch more time over than just sitting there digesting food. We freed so much of our time and metabolic needs just by cooking meals - it's insane. What I'm getting at, there's so many factors that we never even consider.
Literally the least we can do.
This is the first time I've read some way of looking at quantum physics that actually make sense. I hope it is indeed correct and all those ~smart people who were putting their ridiculously complex theory of quantum physics at our throats end up being ridiculed.
This is a weird spam website, this isn't an article. There's not even a citation.
Heh dear God :)
Many worlds is not deterministic in the sense that the experimenter cannot predict in which world they will end up.

Pilot wave theory is deterministic, but non-locality is retrocausal influence under GR.

I also don't think your take on superdeterminism is entirely correct. As Sabine says, "statistical independence" is the "no superdeterminism" assumption, and some superdeterministic theories can be conspiratorial, but that doesn't mean all such theories are conspiratorial. This is the mistake.
> Super interesting work is overrated compared to maximizing comp. Money buys opportunities and freedom. Optimize for comp and quality of life.

To a degree. In this particular case the numbers are so far apart that I wouldn't accept the low offer.

But fun and exciting work is part of my quality of life. If I were deciding between two offers in the same numeric "neighborhood" I'd take the one that was more interesting even if it were the lower of the two. A mind-sucking slog purely for money would not be desirable to me.
The word “modern” has been so thoroughly corrupted and overused to the point of meaninglessness as a software marketing term.

I’ve been more productive as a software user taking the term “modern” to be a signal to avoid the software in question instead of a signal to engage with it.
And the American revolution was rational and free of bloodshed? Or the Confederation's revolution?
Original on left has noise/grain in the sky. In AVIF compression, this grain has been blurred away. JXL and HEIF keep the grain.

I can see banding in the AVIF image at all densities, including 'big' at 1.7 bpp. The banding is easier to see when brightness is increased, but is visible to me in normal viewing conditions. Perhaps your monitor is at dark settings or you have a plenty of light in your room. The bands are horizontal stripes in the Moscow image.
Can we have a Trillion People on Earth? [video]
Touché, but I think it's pretty clear that even under the most generous but still fact-based interpretation of the effects of "lockdowns," covid kills a lot more people.
Why is GR required? Already in standard QFT (Minkowski metric; flat spacetime; special relativity) the propagator 'violates causality'. Although that phrasing is misleading; it doesn't mean there's any logical inconsistency.

'The future affects the past' you might say. Yes, well, all information about the future is derivable from information about the present. So actually those 'future influences' are determined by the present. In the same way, 'locality' is almost a moot concept, because the analyticity of fields implies that the value of fields at remote locations is determined entirely by the field locally.
Because she's accessible and prolific. It doesn't matter if she's wrong, because there are not better qualified physicists who make youtube videos every week.
Personally I think it's outrageous that Apple doesn't maintain and distribute OpenJDK as part of macOS. Wouldn't even require much internal effort—they could just throw a bit of money at Adopt (or similar) to maintain it.

It would also be a download-on-first-use thing, much like Rosetta 2 or Xcode command line tools. Latest version only, updated regularly, updates delivered similarly to Safari Technology Preview. If you need a specific version, download it yourself.
I once left mine under the bed, but the cats pushed it out during the night and I stood on it. The screen is very fragile. Back then I could find no way at all to repair it.

I did just buy the latest model on Amazon for $30 during Black Friday. I find reading on the Kindle is way better than on the phone because it removes all the distractions.
Sports clubs in Europe are privately funded and if anything it’s cheaper to play competitively there than in the US.
Yup, good points.

Perhaps it is just announced that it is logged and subject to police search.

IDK, just trying to think of ideas for a tough situation, but when a primary use case becomes enabling property and violent sex crimes ...

Heck, I was earlier wishing for tags like this that worked better, more trackable and a lot smaller for a variety of uses, including embedding in products. Which would make them all better crime tools. Ugh. Sociopaths really do ruin it for everyone.
I too am using AlphaFold when I can, and it is immensely valuable as a tool. The same way Phyre and ITASSER were immensely valuable. But it still suffers from the same categorical limitations that all homology modeling suffers from (although those limitations aren't reaching the public narrative, likely because they're technical details). It's a generational improvement in homology modeling, which is nice, but not particularly groundbreaking, and doesn't get us a whole lot closer to solving the big problems of drug design.

It's still lousy when there's inadequate folding, it's lousy at oligomeric state (although that can probably be improved), and it's got tons of baked in, innate bias. It's also lousy at conformational states (but so is most empirical data). It's good enough for something that doesn't need to be high resolution, but so were preexisting methods. It's not good enough to predict a fold de novo.
Manhattan level?

How does poisoning abunch of poor island people help global warming?
By the time I was done with school, subgroup dominance was shared among jocks and punk kids. Previously, it seemed that jocks were the most admired. After my time in school, the shift towards "weird and smart" kept increasing, to the point that bullying is now anathema and kids seem much freer to express their non-normie views.

I think this is a micro example of a tendency for people to value raw physical power over mental faculties, and how it eventually shifts as the environment changes. On earth and elsewhere, there may be species that evolved to dominate through power, snuffing out those with the potential for dominating through intelligence. I agree, this might be one of those filters that are hard to surpass. For example, by sheer luck, dinosaurs were wiped out leaving room for mammals to take over the planet. Could dinosaurs have evolved to discover computation?

On an intraspecies level, we breached a similar filter when we began organizing into agricultural/specializing societies. Those societies were started as a way for the physically powerful to harness lower-status humans. The consequence was the emergence of information-societies where intelligence is more valuable than physical power.
Agreed. I donate to a charity that covers medical expenses of those who elect permanent birth control but have a balance after whatever their insurance picks up. Defaults are important, and kids are expensive. Younger folks need every advantage they can get (in a world drastically different than decades prior), and I don’t see much support in helping them in this regard.
Facebook is the worst company of the year, Yahoo Finance audience survey finds
to me its sounds like its too slow.
how many variant have we had this year already?

I hope the pill from pfizer can withstand the evolution cycle of this blasted virus.
I enjoy scrapple. Fried slices on their own are not too bad, but it really shines as the meat in a breakfast burrito. It’s certainly better than SPAM.
I feel like academica kind of incentivizes this. It’s hard to resist without a good base of support, and I feel like having such a base isn’t the average. I notice this pressure felt strongly across the board by my friends who are adjuncts (or tenure-track, but not yet tenured) in the soft sciences. But this is just anecdotal of course.
It has become an extension of my memory.

Their quality going down the drain is often quite literally painful.

Gonna need to adapt. Well, already did with my own notes and garbage dumps like Reddit, but it's not enough.
Apologies for a dumb question from someone not in the field. A protein's structure is also dependent on its environment, correct? Things like pH and temperature, but also the fact that proteins bind to particular ions or other molecules. How do these factors figure into the "protein folding" problem?
Sexual assualt is all kinds of sexual activity that occurs without consent. It doesn't matter if you eventually relented after you initially didn't consent, or if you consented to similar things beforehand.

In the case of Peng Shaui she did say that she felt forced into it when he took her to his house (带我去你家逼我和你发生关系). She said she initially didn't agree, and cried about it (我原本没有同意一直哭). After dinner he tried again, she said she refused again, and his response was to tell her that he hated her (我也并不愿意，你说恨我). Finally, scared and panicked (又怕又慌带), she agreed to have sex. This is at least emotional abuse. Perhaps eventually she "consented", but this should have stopped the first time she said no.

Regardless of whether you classify this as sexual assualt or "merely" sexual and/or emotional abuse, Zhang Gaoli was obviously using his position and power to pressure her into something she didn't want to do. The fact that they had a fling in the past and she still held complicated feelings for him at the encounter after his retirement doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong. And many would argue that him even getting into the original relationship was wrong as well - an abuse of his privilege as a high-level government official, taking advantage of a much younger athlete who (as she admits) was lonely and desperate for someone to love her.
Catalytic converter theft is big everywhere, unfortunately. It's most common in larger cities, but it's worth the effort for thieves to travel out of town as well.

[catalytic converter theft map] is a productive search with some graphics, some dating back years: https://www.google.com/search?q=catalytic+converter+theft+ma...

Not intending any greater point about AirTags.
Scrapple with a sprinkle of pepper and a drizzle of syrup is good eats. Fried up properly, it's basically a protein-filled hash brown.