skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Local protobuf user here. Appreciate seeing a comparison chart. :-) It's unfortunate that it isn't documented very well, but Protobuf does have a text format [1] which I've used a lot, usually when writing test cases, but also when inspecting logs. Similar to the CBE encoder spec [2], it does use variable length encoding for ints [3] and preserves the type information. Another efficiency item to compare against different message types is the implementation itself, e.g. memory arenas out of the box. [4]

Regarding CE, what would be the use case? APIs, data at rest, inter-service communications? If data at rest meant for analysis, then there probably are a handful more formats to compare against.

If one doesn't wish to decode the whole message into memory to read it, FlatBuffers [5] can be checked out which is also supported as a message type in gRPC. It is similar to what is used in some trading systems. There is also a FlexBuffers variation if you'd want something closer to JSON/BSON.

Must say however, I found it cool that you have some Mac/iOS GitHub repos. Definitely going take some time to check them out -- I used to develop iOS apps.

[1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...

[3] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#s...

[4] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...

[5] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_white_paper...
> Searching my inbox, I found an email from April 16, 2020 where I told someone who’d me asked that the lab-leak hypothesis seemed entirely plausible to me, that in fact I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t being investigated more, but that I was hesitant to blog about these matters. As I wrote seven months ago, I now see my lack of courage as having been a personal failing. Obviously, I’m just a quantum computing theorist, not a biologist, so I don’t have to have any opinion at all about the origin of COVID-19 … but I did, and I didn’t share it only because of the likelihood that I’d be called an idiot on social media. Having now read Chan and Ridley, though, I think I’d take being called an idiot for this book review more as a positive signal about my courage than as a negative signal about my reasoning skills!

The groupthink around the lab leak hypothesis, and especially that letter signed by scientists in the early days of the pandemic, has done a lot of damage. The problem is that is isn't just this topic. About a dozen other topics have become minefields of politics and mind control masquerading as science. We only see the idiocy of this approach in the case of the lab leak because the consensus has crumbled.

Hopefully, this won't be the last wall to fall under its own weight.
Some journeys never truly (truly never) end -- what a lovely compilation and reflection. The best books and the best adventures share a certain feel.
Well he's just describing his experiences. And I believe they are mostly truthful and that they generalize to some extent, in other words, the stark difference from other countries he's visited is not a statistical anomaly. He has hitchhiked across Africa (from south to north), the Americas and Asia so he has a lot of countries to compare.

Are you saying that people are equally friendly, hospitable, kind and ethical across the world?
I’m talking about before WhatsApp existed when they were pitching Dropbox.
> They do not look alike to me, but I know people do mistake them from time to time with tragic consequences.

Some people just shouldn't be foraging. I've met enough idiots out in the field that I do believe some have the natural skill and for others... it at least would have to really work at it.

I don't entirely agree with your statement that "there is no such thing as safest mushrooms". If you consider what a mushroom grows in, the region, the time of year, the gills or pores, the scent (often unappreciated), among any more specific distinguishing features, things like oyster mushrooms and morels can be more reliably identified by less experienced foragers than say hen of the woods.

Like, I basically agree when it comes to the least apt of foragers, but that doesn't mean that someone skilled has to apply equal paranoia to all mushrooms as if they've never seen a mushroom before. Just don't go on looks alone.
I’m kind of inclined to think that completely indefferentiated username and password forms are much more of a godsent?
However when you build your next app you already have code you can reuse from your previous app. So the cost goes to zero over N products. Also remember that using a framework has a non-zero learning cost.
If each case is reviewed on its own merits, then what is case law
Yeah, one exception will always exist somewhere, but I'm not much worried about the exceptions.
Trace amounts of radiation do not poison the entire air. There is natural radiation everywhere, from rocks, from space, from our own bones. The amount remaining from the tests is not even remotely close to a health hazard.

It's all to easy to conflate 'detectable' with 'hazardous' when you're dealing with some of the most sensitive instruments on earth.

See: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ioni...
>nutrition science is really hard, in part because different people react to foods differently.

Nutrition science is really hard because people LIE, and all western run studies use self reporting. 'My 600-lb Life' is all you need to know about self reporting.
send me an email at <my-user-name>@gmail.com if you want to chat more,

I am in a software role, focused on future architectures and HPC, WLB is good in our department.

Job security is really good IFF you are an FTE, if you are a postdoc or an LTE then meh.

Changing departments requires some work, but at least on the open science side it's easy to switch projects. You keep the same manager, but just work on different stuff. If you are in a super specific mission area it might be harder to change work.

If you are interested in HPC at Sandia just email me and lets chat more, HPC is where I currently sit and know the most people.
CS Conferences in 2022
What is your bar for “terrible”? Resumes are a demonstration of written communication skill — they should at least be competent at expressing certain basic things about the candidate. An underwhelming list of accomplishments or lack of significant prior experience need not be showstoppers, of course.
Only tangentially related, but Melancholia is a beautiful (and uh melancholic) movie about a rogue planet that perfectly captures a prevailing mood about our present moment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia_(2011_film)

Not that we ever actually have to worry about a collision with a rogue planet.
If you mean “existential” as in existentialism, then no. I don’t see many quotes from Dostoevsky, Sartre and the like, not even Herzog. This is marigolds and sunshine compared to the 1950s, when it was a fashion statement to be morose and despairing until it was globally discovered that angst was unsexy and boring.

If you mean midlife crisis sorts of things, then part of it is probably you and part age demographics, in that it is something that folks in their mid thirties tend to slide down into for a time. HN may be underrepresented in the enthusiastic youth and mellowed oldster demographics that provide more of a balanced perspective. There is certainly enough wisdom literature to read for the mellow perspective. Babysitting kids can cover the youth end.

The Whole Earth platform The WELL was (is?) pretty good at that better balance in days past.

Tech forums like HN tend to be more resonant cavity or optical resonator than echo chamber, and that is one of their unique value-adds…it can be sparkly in certain good ways. Tech forums aren’t really designed for echo chamber stuff, which makes the occasional attempts at astroturfing, influencing and the like that occasionally slip through the cracks risible and ineffective…another value-add.

Or maybe you just need more fiber in more diet.
> - Has lower-level officials that accept bribes

How many countries does that leave? And why only low level, why not also high level? Doesn't that rule out the US as well?

> - Has had airlines and planes for fewer than 5 decades

Also sounds arbitrary.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to get senior management to engage. If it's just a botched order they let the cowboys be cowboys and consider it a cost of business. Rigorous process requires too much painful self-reflection, so it only happens maybe after they get sued. Even in hospitals, death from improper dosing is surprisingly high.

Regulators play an important role in life safety situations. Beware of regulatory capture (737MAX not getting new type certification).
You should add email to your profile! Have had some ideas in these areas and would love to chat sometime.
this is much better tool from Java developer's perspective.
In my childhood I remember (perhaps overly- optimistically) having distinct seasons and in particular crisp, snowy winters. The combination of climate change and moving west of the Pennines is really shit.
I can't figure out but does it support showing a popup on every new program trying to connect to Internet and blocks it until I provide permission to connect?
Is there a book a layperson could read to get up to speed on what’s known about fungi? Or set of papers?

I’m curious about algae too.
finding the log4j jar is not the problem, it could have been patched. Finding the one that has vulnerable code is the issue.
Nope. Unexploded nuclear bombs are not meaningfully radioactive. Radiation starts in earnest after the larger atoms split.
Ask HN: What's your impression of signal vs. noise on HN over time?
I've been around under throwaway accounts since 2010. I'll leave my impression for later to reduce bias.
No but it would be nice to be able to selectively restore a subset of backups.
Cosmic rays come from the sun, as well as other sources, but mostly from the sun. Cosmic rays are highly charged particles, not a particular type or class of radiation, and are energetic enough to produce ionizing cascades in the atmosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray
Even the fastest passenger trains are quite slow compared to average airliners, and there's a lot of places connected by air that don't have train tracks between them. Air travel should stay dominant until both of those things change.
before shouting misinformation you might want to inform yourself
first paragraph
I never said having gas was exclusive of getting a bad grade. however gas is now considered a bad energy and will reduce your grade. and it is one of the key factors. when your investment is six digits or more and a stupid law destroy it you know it. and no it is not for new constructions. in paris a huge chunk of the old apartments have a bad grade. people won t be allowed to put their apt for rent on the market, they will sell, which will reduce the nbr of apartment available and increase rent prices.

second paragraph:
you should look at how electricity works. it is a european market not a french one. per wikipedia « In 2020, France retains its position as the leading exporter in Europe with a total exporter of 43.2 TWh, down by around 13 TWh compared to 2019; commercial export volumes decreased by 7% to 77.8 TWh, while import volumes increased by 22% to 34.6 TWh. The balance of trade remained an exporter every month except September, which is usually a very exporting month; this anomaly is explained in particular by the sharp drop in the availability of nuclear power plants«
and it was same for 2021
Sure thing. For anyone interested I also heard of this book. I bought a copy but I seem to be more of a book collector than anything else:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520277465/agrarian-dreams

"In this groundbreaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. Many continue to believe that small-scale organic farming is the answer to our environmental and health problems, but Guthman refutes popular portrayals that pit “small organic” against “big organic” and offers an alternative analysis that underscores the limits of an organic label as a pathway to transforming agriculture.

This second edition includes a thorough investigation of the federal organic program, a discussion of how the certification arena has continued to grow and change since its implementation, and an up-to-date guide to the structure of the organic farming sector. Agrarian Dreams delivers an indispensable examination of organic farming in California and will appeal to readers in a variety of areas, including food studies, agriculture, environmental studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, and history."

I just confirmed for those so inclined, you can quickly download a PDF of the book for free on Library Genesis.
The "Hey Google" detection in the Google app has a hard Play Services dependency. Unfortunately, I don't think a replacement for the wake word is possible without some kind of system-level implementation. microG might be able to implement this, but I don't think the project has enough resources to make it a priority.
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No, the point of this one is that pilots can hit something during takeoff, be told about it, and decide to continue and climb only to be forced to land at the request of their own airline company! What is wrong with people?:-)
LHR was one attempt at it with varying success.

And it won’t take a few years to balance out. If ETH really does go PoS in the next six months then you’ll see a lot of RTX 3080 and 3090 come on the market for very cheap.

A lot of ETH miners say they’ll go to RVN or others but there is no way other coins can take the hash rate currently devoted to ETH.
The problem seems to be the product managers. Not the software developers. It is the product managers that prioritise the features to be implemented and the UI to go with it.
This is a third party mod. You shouldn't need a third party mod to get the main gameplay experience.

Note that Dwarf Fortress is not open source.
Rimworld is an accessible game and while it has a certain level of depth compared to other games, especially on the emotional side of your characters, it's shallow compared to DF.

The problem with DF is, it's hardly accessible. This is why so many people hope for the Steam version. It's often more fun to read people stories playing the game compared to playing it yourself.

DF offers you the illusion of a living world, that is writing it's own history.

Dwarfs discovering some kind of creature living on a mountain edge. They gain interest in it. Throwing stuff at it, talking about it, giving this creature a funny name. Later on your mason will carve stories on your walls in your castle and somewhere in the story, maybe, he will write about this creature.

It's these little things that make DF fun.
Right, but what I mean is that it shouldn’t be possible to skip those steps and have things coincidentally work because of the state the plane was left in. I’m not a pilot or even much of an aviation geek, so maybe I’m misunderstanding the description of this incident, but it sounds to me like this crew did what they always do, and that normally works fine, but this time it didn’t.
But, who cares? If this worked for the developer, what's wrong?
Given that bees are the biggest likely victims of neonicotinoids, isn't restricting their use to greenhouses exactly what we want? Let bugs outside be, keep bugs inside under control?
I tried DF once and decided it wasn't for me, but based upon this article and the research I had done years ago, DF is his baby.

I don't think he'd just sell it.
"at levels above 0.03 becquerels per kilogram" -- note that an average banana contains about half a gram of potassium, producing 15 Bq, or about 25,000 times the radiation from a typical serving of honey. I'm not sure if cesium sticks around in the body -- the potassium in bananas doesn't.
I am not a pilot, but here some very fundamental rules of flying a plane have been broken and from my point of view I can't classify this as a simple error.

The crucial job of the crew planning/taking off is to

a) calculate the decision points (speeds, distances) at which they have to decide to take off or not

b) monitor speed and progress along the runway

c) abort if they can't take off safely before the decision point

What they did suggests to me a complete breakdown of discipline and process in the cockpit.

The autopilot settings have absolutely nothing to do with it.
> didn't apply to greenhouses

I guess the logic was that plants in greenhouses are pollinated manually, without any help from bees. /s
> on a foreign policy basis that's often dictated from across the Atlantic.

So Russian sabre rattling is actually the US? There is a long and complicated history between Western Europe and Russia, but the time when one is selling gas to the other is just the final 20 years. It is not in the EU’s interest to depend on an unreliable partner that is trying to destabilise it. Even more so for something as vital as energy production.

> Particularly when they go completely contrary to the other stated goal; Climate change.

How is getting rid of gas contrary to the climate change related goals? These call for the end of all fossil fuel generated electricity.

> Western Europe has been dependent on Eastern Europe's resources for a very long time

Some references would be useful here. I don’t really doubt it but as you wrote it, it sounds too much like hand waving.

> Another huge chunk is household use for heating and kitchen appliances

Electricity is perfectly fine for these uses. Transitioning is expensive but mitigation if we don’t will be even more.

> While trying to supply that demand with imported American NGL would be the complete opposite of "Think of the climate!".

It would also be contrary to the EU’s long term interest. We love the Americans, but we’ll be wary that another Trump could tear down treaties and agreements way too easily. Some companies are already importing shale gas from North America and nobody is pleased.

> That's why declaring Eastern Europe's resources just as "taboo" is not a solution that will get us anywhere useful.

It’s a good thing nobody is doing that, then.

> At some point we have to decide what's more important; Fighting climate change as a species or instrumentalizing it for these kinds of foreign policy games that usually leave everybody worse off, at least on this side of the Atlantic.

Cute. Now, in the real world, we’re not going to fight climate change with gas either. Also in the real world, the EU is not the US.
Is this actually hell on UX or is that something product people and designers tell us because it’s in their personal interest to create custom solutions for every webapp? iOS apps pretty regularly defer user actions to OS level controls and prompts and frankly I believe the UX there is far superior to webapps using bespoke UX for these. Wouldn’t standardised browser behaviour and OS level styling for common flows and behaviour be a big win for webapps and take some of the drudgery out of web development?
Renewables are what you should compare nuclear with. And by your own stats they win even there.

Framing it as a contest versus fossil fuels is building a strawman nowadays.
On iOS I’ve tried a bunch of apps and have finally settled on Hack [0] which is excellent.

Looks like there is an Android version too. [1]

[0] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
It's still poison. Check msds.
Just because there is already poison in the air, doesn't mean people can't put more poison in the air.
Just because the poison doesn't kill everyone, doesn't mean it isn't poison.
It doesn't work on my device. Maybe an older version of TTS does it, but the most recent version of Google Speech Services checks signatures or something(I would have to check my logs on what exactly happens). I think it might work if signature spoofing is enabled in the ROM.

For some reason I thought eSpeak is abandoned.

EDIT: No you don't need signature spoofing. That's a feature that was added later. Plenty of things work without signature spoofing and it wasn't part of the initial feature set to begin with. This is more google trying to make sure you can't circumvent their stuff
Linking a heavily manipulated Wikipedia article is the definition of fallacious book-throwing.

Do you have any primary evidence that isn't blatant hearsay, Google Earth speculation, or bad-faith mistranslations? In my extensive research, virtually 100% of "the evidence" falls into these 3 easily manipulated categories.

The year is 2022. There should be convincing photo and video evidence of the supposed atrocities. Western intelligence community has high-resolution aerial cameras. China has a billion people on social media, some using VPNs. There would certainly be whistleblowers. Smoking guns of this alleged Holocaust should be everywhere, on a daily basis. But they're suspiciously absent.

WMDs all over again.
There is Ultraviolet, EM, maybe one could even use the plasma itself as an antenna/sensor...
What’s the mileage driven on private roads vs public roads?
> Transoceanic train lines

These don't exist, and probably won't for the foreseeable future. What should we all do until then?
Moveable barrier for improving traffic capacity
filter this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDY3I841q0
> Why are you labelling this an East/West thing?

Propaganda.
They also tend to be less-educated that one would think, and they get hit on the head a lot. Granted, they have excellent football-sense, but that's not sense. They also, in many cases, be quite self-centred and less interested in how they affect those surrounding them.

And, of course, the teams take the money over any alternative. Certainly over public health.
Is this how backups work with your personal computers?
The harm is the stress. I know amniocentesis is commonly performed afterwards, but these companies are grossly over promising the accuracy of their prenatal tests. Waiting weeks to “confirm” you will be advised to terminate, only to discover the result was a false positive is harm when it happens in 80% of tests! That’s terrible.
Shenango: Achieving High CPU Efficiency for Latency-Sensitive Workloads
There are valid safety reasons why you’d go faster than allowed in an area with a speed limit. They’re emergencies but those situations do exist. And let me be honest with you - I find the speed limiter the most useful button in my car.

Let’s not conflate speeding with reckless driving.
I don't understand why the automation feature in question is even available during takeoff. What would be a situation in which use of the FD at this point in the flight would be a preferable option?
that is exactly why you would create a transformation to something like a big fat integer with each segment of the version number isolated to separate parts of the bit mask so you can compare it as an integer.
> plant plans to switch to low carbon gases (biogas?) by the end of 2035.

Which will of course not be enforced, besides the fact that biogas as a “green energy” has huge caveats.
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That's a perspective one can have, for sure. Something that's like 10 orders of magnitude below the known hazard level is not something anyone should raise alarms about to the general public though. Otherwise you'd have to go around policing every little bird that's exhaling CO₂, etc.
Private pilot here. Yes, that is exactly right.
This page explains the structure of a Caddyfile: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/concepts. What are you missing from there?
Some of the best software I have ever used was proprietary. Some of the worst software I have ever used was not. Most software (proprietary or not) is average to pretty bad.