skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science in general still basically operates on the "NASA invented xyz while going to the moon"-model from the 20th century. Things get developed and then trickle into industry via back-channels (or people moving) but the idea of open-source is still both culturally alien and legally suspect.

Even in CS papers directly dealing with a piece of software there is no obligation to publish code.
I’ve listened to too many to pick a favourite but this one from Lex Friedman is a random pick. Difficult subject matter but quite moving:

#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11

https://pca.st/episode/cb175a0c-b0c1-4200-a8e3-9702ebf0525c

Edit: and here’s an oddball recommendation on the other end of the spectrum, and outside of the normal HN bubble. For the Brits here and those who may enjoy extremely juvenile British humour (like me):

RHLSTP 268 - Charlie Brooker

https://pca.st/episode/57ee8b54-2d47-4506-924a-bb7636362f9e

(Charlie Brooker is the British writer behind Black Mirror.)
Financial Media Builds You Up and Tears You Down
Half of those things you list are already handled by the browser, that's why htmx is so simple. Htmx does not preclude building an SPA, because all resources can be directed through service workers, but that's outside of the scope of htmx specifically. It just directs you to use hypermedia and exploit native browser technologies instead of inventing ad-hoc JS libraries and/or protocols.
I've been using DDG for what seems like forever now and have no problems with searching for things.

Perhaps I just don't search for much, though since I tend to visit sites that have what I want and search within those sites.
There was a lot of FUD being spread about supposed non enforceable quality of license.
Well, a modern optimizing compiler can get rid of the indirection if it inlines qsort() and then inlines the comparison function. Of course, it needs to be able to see the source of qsort() to do so (which might be a problem if it's dynamically linked).
I mirrored it and am not affiliated, so we can now flag their comment for their protection
It makes little difference if the person is on another remote continent. We used IR imagery to trace forests in Africa, but incorrectly routing someone on an abandoned road in -50°C temperatures because "this route is 30 minutes faster" is just irresponsible. Roads through the African jungle can change every few years. That's why one should prefer local mapping resources to AI while navigating.
For new installation, yes, for any size a switched mode supply will usually be better in all dimensions. For the largest sizes, you can't buy them off the shelf, and there design costs may dominate. But after the thing is designed, in component costs, switched mode will win. Everything scales linearly with kVA, so there is no economics crossover point for the fundamental materials.

Eventually it will be worth switching out old transformers - they contain a massive amount of valuable copper and quite valuable steel, and their lower efficiency means every year they remain in service they are wasting $$$'s of electricity.

Transformers in cities can often be replaced with much smaller switched mode units underground, allowing the building housing the old transformer to be rebuilt as luxury flats to make the project much more profitable too!
> MABs not working on Omicron was new to me. Is that based on the vaccine's (in)efficacy against it?

To answer my own question, no:

> But a slew of publications posted on preprint servers report laboratory evidence that Omicron is totally or partially resistant to all currently available treatments based on these monoclonal antibodies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03829-0
I agree that communion with nature is really important. Noticing beauty in nature is especially helpful. I am happy you are finding the joy in simplicity. I'm still cultivating that virtue.
Hey fellow former devout mormon here. Im sure our journeys have been radically different but I identify so much with what you are saying here.
There’s also physiological stress, which some smartwatches do record.
how is that enforceable? you can't determine what the encrypted communication is.
How does this align you to the teachings? How does this alignment manifest in your moment-to-moment experiences?
Want something worse? Blu-ray constantly changes the keys as they get cracked/over time. If you don't have new keys you can't play new discs. Our first Blu-ray player stopped getting firmware updates and so stopped getting new codes. Became basically junk as who wants a Blu-ray player where it only can play films released pre-2012?
My preferred method is to tokenize sensitive data before storing in the immutable logs/database.
Expected a video, so here ya go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKy_pmuB9-g
Article is about public relations malfeasance in the Elizabeth Holmes case. The jury has been deliberating for four days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
I'm a Discordian. To me, that means a sort of pandeistic existentialist absurdism.

A (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) argument:

God is the greatest possible being.
The universe is, by definition, everything that exists.
Everything is greater than any subset of everything.
Therefore God is must be the entirety of existence.
God seems to have numerous mostly disconnected consciousnesses, but is mostly Hydrogen.
There's no inherent meaning given by a bunch of Hydrogen. Therefore we tiny conscious bits of the universe have to make our own meaning.
Assigning a singular consciousness to God would be utterly arbitrary and quite silly.
Silly things are fun.
Therefore God is also a woman, her name is Eris, nonsense is the source of salvation, and God is the universe and isn't any singular being.

I also quite like the ontological argument for atheism:

God is the greatest possible being.
Completing a task with a bigger handicap is greater (more impressive) than completing it without that handicap.
Not existing is the greatest possible handicap.
Therefore God must be a being capable of creating the universe despite not existing.

Faith, to me, is a joke. It's a deliberate choice to believe in things one has no evidence for (at best) or knows are false (at worst). So why not treat religion as a joke, and humor as sacred? It makes as much sense as any other choice in the matter.

So I try to live each day with a bit of humor.
My children are sufficiently distinct as to need different answers. Key feedback: parents often don’t choose same approach for different kids.
Nobody would actually do this, right?
Note the article is written by senior editor Alex Wawro, not founder Thomas Pabst
I rarely ever do need a sorting algorithm for what I do. I might not have done even one sort call in 2021. Usually the data I have is sorted by construction, or doesn't need to be sorted in any particular order.

When I do need to sort, I just use qsort from libc. It's also easy to write my own version of qsort.

I once measured qsort vs std::sort on plain ints (basically the most pessimistic case for qsort vs std::sort) and the difference was like 2x. If this becomes a bottleneck then it's worth investigating how to take advantage of additional context to speed up the sorting much more than any generic sorting algorithm could do anyway. Simple example: bucket sort. (I'm 100% confident sorting performance hasn't ever been noticeable in my career so far, but I've done simple optimizations like that once in a while for fun).

> Both solutions are really bad.

Due to what I described above, I'm actually in favour of qsort - no new code is generated, just a simple library call that takes a pointer to the comparison function. Really really easy to use.
The last company I worked at was very metrics-driven, and used a really methodical, numbers-driven approach to make big, unpopular, counter-intuitive bets that failed catastrophically, while ruining morale, and trust in leadership, and gutting the company.

After that experience, my view of metrics-driven product development is that it's a way to offload the burden of thinking too hard or understanding where you're going. When people talk about metrics-driven product development, I think of drivers who blindly follow their GPS' directions into a lake. Obviously, metrics can be a useful supplement to a deep understanding of the product, the domain, the users, and the company, but keep it on a leash.
The FDA has approved 13 test kits for at-home use with a self-collected sample, according to https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and...

Germany has approved a much larger number of test kits for use, per https://antigentest.bfarm.de/ords/f?p=110:100:4793921863454:::::. It was >50 as of August 2021 according to https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/te..., including from American companies that the FDA has not approved.

I suspect that the supply-restriction effects of the approval situation go a long way toward explaining the pricing differences...
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That background is making me terrible unhappy. The article is all right.
But what’s the whole point of rewriting the URL and rerendering in JS the whole page? I’m fairly sure that browsers are really great at caching, so no additional HTML, JS should be downloaded and the change might very well be faster with better history and UX if we drop SPAs.
Are you American?

I think it makes sense to pay attention to other people's perspective on our own country, because we can get an outside perspective while also applying our firsthand knowledge to evaluate if they are talking out of their ass.

In this case, the actual article is about a photographer. I suspect he didn't actually find the 'soul' of 1950's Japan, although I've never been to any Japan, but he did take some nice photos.
I think you misunderstood the entire point of the author, especially since you have called it an 'anti-js essay'.

From the article:

> Accept that sometimes, or for some people, your JavaScript will not work. Put some thought into what that means. Err on the side of basing your work on existing HTML mechanisms whenever you can

As you have observed, disabling JavaScript does not make the site stop working entirely for no reason. It degrades meaningfully, and the author put thought into what that means

Moreover, enabling JS does not break browser functionality you're used to.

That's the entire point.
why not name it?
I'm excited to try out a new reader app, especially one that integrates with Pocket and Instapaper. Those apps haven't added many new features in years, so there's room for innovators in the space, and using their APIs gives people an easy offramp. Smart!

One bit of feedback on the onboarding process: you hit people with the subscription prompt before they've started using the app, and you show them the features they can only have if they pay. At this point in the process, they have no idea what other features are in the app, and whether they want to keep using it at all.

I would never subscribe to an app — or even start a free trial that will automatically rollover into a paid subscription — before exploring the app a bit. Perhaps you could put a comparison checklist at this stage, so people can see what features are included in the free version? I probably still wouldn't subscribe at that point, but at least it would feel like the app has shown me the relevant info before asking me to sign up.

I do realize this is for a free trial, not the paid subscription, but I don't want to put another to-do on my calendar for "cancel app subscription for $appIJustDownloaded".

Looking forward to trying out the app and seeing what's under the hood. Good luck!
Stars are not, as a rule, orbiting in perfect circles. So, they are continually whizzing past one another as they trace out their respective orbits.

The orbits are not even nice ellipses. Those only happen with point or (equivalently) spherical masses. The Milky Way is a quite irregular shape, and we are orbiting inside it. Our path bobs up and down through the galactic plane as we orbit, and not just once per orbit like a planet, but over and over.

The planets like the sun that formed from the same gas cloud are long gone, stirred into the galactic soup.
Who would be your top AMA for Startups
I'm asking for /r/startups, who would you like to see in our AMAs? We are taking suggestions as to well known or secret geniuses that you would like to see or ask questions to.
FYI: There's a button labeled "Button" (right above "Contact Us") that doesn't do anything.
On “the universe is God” - there’s a great video of Carl Sagan answering the question of whether he believes in God.

And - if you are to perceive God - where is it? Up? Around? Inside?
Cheers, look forward to it.
Alfread looks great, congrats. I'm going to give it a spin, but I would desperately need a web app to go with the iOS one.

I usually just open a myriad tabs on my computers and my phone and hope I recall there was something I meant to read later. Doesn't work too well. Google Keep comes close, but the UX doesn't really do it for me.

What I'd love it a simple (think HN) interface where I can scroll through article titles. And being able to save articles seamlessly from anywhere (app, bookmarklet, maybe even email to a custom address).

Any other apps I've tried were sadly bloated.
It's complicated.

I believe there is something bigger than physical existence, and I find the fact that many don't worrying, because much of what's good about humans clearly come from somewhere else from what I can see.

My own accumulated experience from meditation, psychedelics & life/death situations says that whatever I am, I'm definitely not my body.

The challenge I've set before me is to be the best version of myself that I'm capable of, whatever that is at the moment.

Organized religion is a distraction at best.
I would strongly, STRONGLY advise you to email the recruiter and say that after getting some more info about the process, you would like to please postpone the interview.

Get yourself onto http://leetcode.com
Start practicing. Aim for three questions per day. Work on it for one hour, if you can’t get it, look at the solution in discuss tab and then understand it and rewrite it.

Don’t waste your time taking any FAANG tier company interviews until you can do a medium difficulty question in 20 minutes.

Once you feel ready, sign up for the 10 mock interview package on http://interviewing.io and apply for the cost deferral program (you don’t pay until you get a job).

Also read on http://teamblind.com

As other posters have said, the alternative is to go for very very old tech and find a job doing cobol or something for a bank.

On salaries: are you aware of the current pay scales?

If you can work on leetcode.com for 2-4 months and get your skills up, you should be able to land a “senior software engineer” position. This pays around $300-400k at FAANG.

Look at the total compensation on http://levels.fyi
Hmm. Admittedly, I didn't use postfix, but dovecot was the largest process running on my 1G server and adding rspamd resulted in it doing the Out-of-memory mambo a couple of times a week. This was just for my domain, but I do get a crap ton of spam.
I created a read-later service pre-Instapaper ca. ~2005 and only recently ditched all of them after having ~10k articles in the queue. Today I only use Safari's reading list and purge it every morning. If it's important/really interesting, I'll read it immediately — all these services just provide peace of mind but won't solve the time or discipline issue.
Ultimately it depends on the claim, but the basis of it would that you'd have to be able to both test and repeatably reproduce whatever effect is claimed.

For example, let's say the claim is "God will heal you if you pray to him". Ok, let's pray that someone is healed in the hospital. How about another? And another? Do those prayers fail? Why?

The issue that one runs into is that the prayers will often fail and the answer is generally "mysterious ways". Yet, no religion seems to statistically fair better than other religions when it comes to diseases. So either, the prayer isn't working, or god is working extra hard to make sure to hide itself (Why would a divine being do that?)

Some claims I'll just reject outright. If the proof is "feelings" that's manipulation, not proof. Because, as I said, feelings are easily triggered. Pretty much every religion has figured that one out.
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I asked for more details on the implication as the parent quote

> what's happening to that energy? The common wisdom would say it heats up but that's not guaranteed.

As the first and second laws of thermodynamics are well understood and tested theoretical principals that have been experimentally and theoretically verified for ~170 years, there is far more than "the common wisdom" backing the expectation that the system would heat up.

A common conversational tactic to lead the conversation into conspiracy territory is to cast unsubstantiated doubt on a settled topic - then frame the orthodox view as something pushed by an "establishment". A far more interesting discussion emerges when data is presented, or absent data a plausible mechanism for harm.

There is nothing wrong with studying the biological effects of EM fields. We certainly know that small quantities of Benzene, or Arsenic have large impacts on biological organisms - and that biological organisms react to certain portions of the EM spectrum in complex manners e.g. Visible light, and infrared. However we do have some good bounds on how much impact there can be and where it is likely to emerge based on ~120 years of radio spectrum deployments.
I think this is an important concern, but not a disqualifying one. There is already a lot of variety in the space of controls, for example compare browser controls to the Office Suite to native OS, it's a big spectrum. When controls are customized correctly they become more usable within the context of the app because they are sized consistently, line up with the content grid, follow visual cues from the rest of the app, etc.
There is a group policy to "turn off windows consumer experience". To edit local group policies win 10 pro is needed. It is also possible to change the register value. See the link for more info.

https://www.prajwaldesai.com/turn-off-windows-10-microsoft-c...
Netflix's HDR playback broken on Windows for almost an year
Austin says it's innovative but it's just Business as usual
Oops, that's embarrassing -- that should be https://rentrobinhq.com !
Does this have, or are there any plans for a change-feed? Has anyone used this as an event sourcing db?
https://store.google.com/category/phones
https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ All of season 10, it's a lot, it's great.
From a language design point of view, the hard thing about newline as a statement terminator is how to deal with expressions that span multiple lines. In shell you have to use explicit line continuations. In Python, the line breaks are ignored if they are inside parenthesis (which is one of the reasons why it doesn't allow multi-line lambdas). Javascript deals with it by having an ad-hoc semicolon insertion algorithm.

The way Lua does it is closer to what you might be taught if you take a compilers class. It's just a plain old context free grammar. The tricky bit was designing the grammar so that semicolons were not needed. You have to be careful when there is something that could either be parsed as a continuation of the previous statement or as the start of the next statement. One place where Lua does this is in the rule that the return statement must be the last in the block. Another is that not every expression can appear as the function part of a function call. For example, something like 1() is a syntax error because the grammar doesn't allow function calls where the function is a numeric literal.
Personally I don't and just release web apps. But if I was a for-profit company you can likely attract more customers by releasing an iOS app. Unfortunately the costs of complying with their policies are lower than the profit available.

On the other hand I don't see why users are happy to let Apple dictate which apps they are allowed to install. But as long as users are satisfied with that I understand why companies put up with it.
Muslims pray towards the Kaaba (the house of God, built for him by Ibrahim (Abraham)) which is in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. So people across the world face different directions.
Of some interest, this is the proposed imaging breakdown by time:

2.0 % observation calibration
4.9 % instrument calibration
7.9 % solar system (comets, asteroids, kuiper belt objects, etc)
16.1 % exoplanets
17.2 % nearby galaxies
20.4 % galactic (debris disks, etc)
31.5 % distant galaxies and cosmology

There's a whole huge breakdown of what instrumentation calibration entails: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/about-jwst/history/science-operat...

This doc was drafted in 2012, and so this might've already changed or will be: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/about/history/science-operations-...
You can add mod support in any game engine. Just implement whatever mechanics you want to be moddable with your own interpreter and file format.

For example, say you’re making a card game. Store all the card data in a folder, with a text file containing each card’s stats / abilities, and images for each card. Then, add the ability to load custom cards from external folders. Bam, now modders can create their own cards with their own stats, abilities, and graphics. Similarly if you make all of the graphics accessible (i’m pretty sure this is the norm), modders can edit them to re-skin your game.

If you want to enable more advanced mods, write most of your game in a scripting language like Lua, and allow modders to add their own scripts.

A great example of mod support done right is Factorio. They expose enough of the game logic in Lua, so that big chunk of the base game is actually implemented in a “mod”.
A much bigger library of modules with a lot more funky ideas about module function and operation.
...and the experience you describe is very, very resonant with Zen Buddhism.
You are basically getting payed as PAYE that way so yes.
I agree wholeheartedly. People complain about snow but these are areas that evolved (over eons and over human timescales) to adapt to the local weather patterns, cold and snow included. They don't just "handle it," they rely on it whether they realize it or not.

It's not just kudzu. Ticks, termites, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and so much more.
I've never understood what part of the crucifixion was a sacrifice. Jesus is literally a god. He knew he would end up on the cross before he even took on human form. He could have left at any time. He can return any time he wants. And how can his death on the cross be actually considered a death? If he was dead, are we to understand that for those few days there was no god overlooking all of creation?

It seems to me that Jesus allowing himself to be crucified is poetic but ultimately an empty gesture.
There are a few properties to be aware of. Although it might be a KV store, you're probably going to want sensible queries using other than the primary key. Eg time series or secondary keys. So in addition to the KV store, there is probably a need for an external index and query mechanism. Another issue is obtaining consistent hashing, where multiple documents might have the same content but vary by order or by date format. Finally, do you have to go to the beginning and hash everything to get a proof of one transaction, or is there some shortcut aggregation possible?

We evaluated AWS QLDB for these things in our application as a financial ledger and were impressed at their progress with a novel data store. They invented some of the tech in house for this product instead of grabbing an off the shelf open product. Lockin would be a downside here.

Immudb looks promising because it's not locked to a cloud host.

https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/faqs/