skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this reads like a line out of a dystopic neal stephenson novel

or some or douglas adams quote about a comically primitive species of alien

doesn’t it have that sort of ring to it?

is existence not more than sets of problems and solutions?
Anyone who's had to parse free-text international addresses can tell you that this is terrible advice. People type things into computers incorrectly all day long. We prompt users to select things like country from dropdowns with good reason. Imagine having to delete user data for GDPR compliance and needing to determine which of your 1,000,000 users are in the EU from a free-text field. Oh, this user wrote "Czechia" instead of "Czech Republic"? What do you mean they wrote the name with accents? Oh they wrote the name in their native language and not English? Have fun parsing all this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_names_in_vario...
Wow all of those people seem so miserable. We are so much better off for our technological advancements ;)
Frist you'll have to find a researcher you want to work with. Go through all the schools you would apply to and look at the individual faculty pages. Reach out to them and mention your interest with specificity. I get a lot of cold e-mail with a generic "I've looked at your research and it is interesting to me." and those letters go right into the junk folder.

You're most likely to get a reply from a PI who just landed a big grant. They will be flush with cash and in need of students. Departments like to trumpet when their faculty get these big grants, so you can monitor department pages and see who is getting grants. Then you can congratulate them and ask if they need any help, and if so you'd like to join their lab.

I disagree with the sibling comment that you would ever be "locked out" of anything. You might not be getting in to the tippy-top programs as the competition there will be quite fierce, but there's so many programs I think you can find something somewhere. You don't even have to have that much relevant experience in the field. Some programs have catch-up coursework for students who are cross discipline. I did an undergrad in Physics and switched to a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and really didn't know much going in.

So I wouldn't worry about being behind. And honestly, if you've been in industry a while you might have quite a leg up on 22 year-olds from a project and time management standpoint.
Exactly. The right way in this example would be like this (where '>' is a tab and '_' is a space).

(For a better readability and ease of edition, I however prefer to actually indent arguments (each on it's line) rather than the suggested alignment, as I show in the second function)

class Something {
>const obj = {
>>somePropName: 1,
>>xyz_________: 2,
>};
>function foo(arg1, arg2, arg3,
>_____________arg4, arg5, arg6) {
>>code
>}
>
>function bar(
>>arg1,
>>arg2,
>>arg3,
>) {
>>code
>}
}
Only make flights with a minimum of 35% passenger load count towards operating the slot
No Way Home seemed like it was doing the "let's reexamine the legacy of a long-established superhero IP" thing that Into the Spider-Verse already did three years ago.
How would the auction work? For example, how often? I guess the airline need stability in their schedules. I don't know what incentivizes airports to take the "use it or lose it" model, it I'd be curious to understand that, because it must be at the center of this.

I agree of course that if a flight is happening only to maintain a slot then it's a ridiculous outcome. But as others have pointed out, there is cargo, plus pilots keeping current, plus keeping the plane in service (I dont believe you can just park a plane for months and then bring it into service again without a lot of work). Lots of procedures have been established under the premise of regular flights and it's not so simple to just rework all of them is my guess.
Do I have people who really need me to stick around and support them in some important way? How old/aged am I already? What is my priest advising I do? How much does it cost, can that money do something more meaningful in the lives of others?

I'm not simply anti-medicine for the sake of being anti-medicine. Rather, medicine is itself a powerful tool that needs to fit into the teleology of my worldview. One that I could misuse if I am not considerate of what its use does and why I'm using it.
> many people did wait a long time to adopt cell phones and smart phones on the basis of worries about cancer, but there was already overwhelming evidence that non ionizing radiation doesn't cause cancer, so their concerns were misguided

Right, but they’re taking an action in response to a specific concern: cancer. When approached in that way, it can be measured, tested, debated, etc. Even if they’re wrong, they’re putting forth a useful dialog that can be approached scientifically and then put to rest.

This is opposed to a non-specific concern: something being new.

If you don’t do something because of the unknown, that’s fine, but you don’t get any kudos for being right down the line if it turns out to be dangerous. You basically bet on something going wrong and sometimes you’ll be right, sometimes you won’t, but your decision making process was not informed by information or probabilities in any way. And as with many conspiracy theories you can never really be wrong, because who knows, maybe data will come out in 2 years, or 10 or 20. Something can always go wrong later if you don’t define what you’re worried about and then retroactively claim that thing that went wrong as the thing you were worried about.
I'm pretty certain there is mental illness involved when he's making bombs

https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...
You are missing the point. This isn't just about monetary transaction fees, but the psychological cost of making a purchasing decision.
> to sabotage downstream code in revenge for not being paid for work he willingly took on knowing full well that he may never be paid?

Some consumers of his project chose to use his 3rd party dependency in their code for free knowing full well that it could disappear or break at any time, and yet they still chose not to mitigate those risks they chose to take on.
Checked it out, no go.

Replies extremely heavy on POSIX api and threads. All the cool functionality is with sockets. There is an inproc:// but it doesn’t do much.

Lighter to just work it out using RTOS objects like queues and streams.
Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
I like this take.

I actually really enjoyed the first ~half of the movie, even laughed out loud a couple of times (esp the 'warner bros will make the game with or without us so we'd better just take on the job').

The second half of action-soup was, for me at least, boring and as far as I can tell nonsensical.

I think the movie would have done a lot better without trying to redo any of the gunplay/holodeck-type fantasy, and instead stuck to the more grounded storyline from the first half.

At this point we need commentary in the popular culture on reboots, there is enough grist in that mill for 2 hours at least.
FTA: they flew 18k empty even after removing 33k flights (and even as the requirement went down to 50%, or maybe 65%)

Sounds like there are no good answers here, omicron came too quickly
The concern, I think, that it's obviously unethical to grow a 100% human child and then harvest its heart, right? You're talking about a living, feeling, thinking person! Causing them to suffer or to die is morally wrong, conversely, their life and their right to life have precious, incalculable, sacred value. The thought of harvesting, murdering a human being for one of their organs is repulsive, harvesting them for food is cannibalism and a taboo of the highest order.

And yet many humans eat bacon for breakfast without a second thought. On the operating table, the human heart and pig heart would probably be indistinguishable to a layperson, so why is the one sacred and the other free for the taking?
Honestly, `npm install` should come with a big honking warning that the lockfiles will change. Or change the behaviour. This would negate this attack on 90% of the cases.
Historically, most vaccine problems show up early. First, there's the risk of an immediate allergic reaction, which, if it's going to happen, happens within minutes to hours.

Then there's the risk of an inactivated or weakened virus vaccine causing the disease it's supposed to prevent. That happened in a big way in 1955, with a defective batch of polio vaccine. The mRNA vaccines can't do that - they don't have an entire virus.

There's the Guillain-Barré syndrome with some vaccines, including the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. If it shows, it does so in the first two months.
I'm still stunned that such a significant portion of the population could be, um, so divisive.
> Axiom: You can only see The Matrix for the first time, once.

THE MATRIX IS SINGULAR
There have been two theories:

- Since China controlled the pandemic via strict lockdown, where one cannot leave their apartments / housing compound for ANY reason, couples would be bored and get busy in bed to pass the time, resulting in a surge in birth rate.

- Also because of the strict lockdown, couples would be wary of having babies in such uncertainty. For example, if a woman gets pregnant and their compound goes into lockdown, she would have trouble getting prenatal care. Even if they can go to the hospital, they are afraid they will get COVID there.

So far it seems the second theory is closer to truth.
I know someone who worked with mice but switched fields, he explained he could no longer do it because even though they are heavily inbred for research, each one had a different personality when in his hands and killing all of them took too much of a mental toll after years of work.
2021 Cloud Review and 5 Trends
There's been a lot of HN discussion [1][2][3] about Google Search recently, and whether it’s gone downhill.

I used to work on Search and Search Measurement at YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft, so I thought it would be fun to move beyond anecdotes, grab some data, and do a quantitative analysis.

tl;dr I didn't have historical data, to see how Google Search has trended over time. But compared to Bing, Google still generally outperforms -- although some of its failures are pretty surprising!

If there are particular areas of Google Search that people are interested in digging into, give a shout -- I love running these kinds of search / human eval analyses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417061
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392702
That's true, though it's a tricky problem. The requirement to fly was to ensure airlines weren't buying gates, then not using them, solely to stave off competitors. That situation results in less capacity, direct-connect cities, flights, etc, to serve the airport's customers.

It's also not feasible to switch carriers too often, as the carriers need some amount of infrastructure of their own, time to fold in service/schedules, local employees or contractors, etc. Some airports now have common use gate terminals, networks, kiosks...that helps, but it's only a small percentage of them.

I'm sure there's a better system for how things are now, but I think it was set up with the right ideas in mind at the time.
Hollywood Accounting is absolutely a real thing but that doesn't mean that movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make and promote don't routinely lose huge amounts of money when they bomb.
The first time I saw Resurrections, I was lol'ing at the brainstorming montage, as I saw it as her explicitly sticking her finger in the eye of all the haters and crackheads out there. But the second time it was cringe. I mean, the first Matrix was this unabashedly bad-ass movie that was so fresh, and then by the time number 4 rolled around, it hates itself and everyone else so much that most of the screen time is spent just trying to get even...with whom? Screw those stupid critics; make a kick-ass movie that completely leaves those morons in the dust. Instead, the more I think about it, the more it just drags everything into the muck.
Even though it's not out of beta yet, I feel really productive using SvelteKit. It's the first framework that I've used in 15 years of programming and said "Ahh, finally". I use it in production and am going to release a SaaS starter kit for other folks to use so they don't have to build all the same features every app needs: https://sveltesaas.com/

If you'll indulge me as I wax poetic: Things I like about SvelteKit: none of the front-end/back-end plumbing you usually need to do with JS/HTML/CSS, can use JS/TS throughout the entire stack, filesystem-based routing is so easy to use and maintain, performant and SEO-optimized server-rendered routes with automatic client-side hydration, optional client-side routing for optimal performance, can specify statically-generated pages per route (marketing site and app are all part of one bundle), super fast dev experience.

And Svelte itself is awesome too: Svelte components run super fast (no virtual DOM), have tiny build sizes, stellar interactive documentation, and the developer experience is fire. Svelte was also just voted the #1 most loved web framework in the 2021 Stack Overflow developer survey (it beat out React, Rails, Django, Spring, Laravel, etc): https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
When you're starting to make homemade bombs, there's a good chance that mental illness is involved

https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...
Pong: Fake Ping Times
There seem to be a lot of comments about civil war or splitting being a solution to the country's woes. If, however, you look at a voting map on a county by county basis, it is startling -- vast majority are red.
I think that big part of that maybe also that you aren’t a kid anymore.
Yes, but it's also next to the Evergreen Aviation Museum, which is absolutely worth stopping at if you're in the area! And, actually, is worth most of a day to visit.

I was there earlier last year and we took the time to go through the Hughes HG-1 (aka "Spruce Goose"). It's an excellent museum on the west coast!

https://www.sevarg.net/2021/04/24/evergreen-aviation-museum/
At least they must now put effort into their reasons for collecting data, and share this data with the subject; which was previously impossible or unfeasable. In that regard there have been significant changes.
Don't self-deprecate your very rational perspective with that last paragraph. You are spot on, and you don't have to be an old man grumbling at cops to think the way you do.
Anecdotally I did. Well for that and Dune - and I’ll probably keep it, I was surprised and impressed with the selection.
Comparable to the number of atoms in the observable universe.
> trolling the WB executives

In my mind that's undeniably true. The question I want to know is why was the rest of the movie so bad, was that also bad on purpose or just poor execution?
Vijay Mallya, Patricia Kluge, and Eike Batista are all entrepreneurs who lost a billion or more and are now worth nothing. Masayoshi Son lost $60 billion and only made back about $20 billion. Technically Bezos, Buffett, and Bill Gates have all lost billions many times, just due to market fluctuations, but that probably doesn't count. Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, spends $1B like nothing: $500 million yacht, $300 million dollar house (one of many), $450 million on a painting. I'm certain that many members of that family have spent $1B or more.

You know what they say: a million here, a million there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Because it's an infringement of bodily autonomy. This is very serious to many people (myself included). I'd be more receptive to sacrifice on behalf of others if it looked like it was more effective and less performative.

"No serious adverse effects" < Nonsense. People have been injured and died from these vaccines. Perhaps you meant to say "side effects so far appear very rare"? (which I'd agree with).

If there are no serious side effects we can remove the liability protections drug companies currently enjoy right?

I do agree the vaccines work to an extent for some months. They have reduced deaths. I'm glad they exist and would encourage any vulnerable person to take them. But my risk profile is very low. My Covid experience was a short cold a week ago. And the statistics aren't showing they do a whole lot to prevent transmission.

So I won't be playing any level of Russian roulette with unneeded pharma products, even if it's a 1 in a million chance of serious issues or death.
Many countries have free college education. Some even pay people to go. It works, and it's expected, and rightfully so. If America wanted, we could copy the best aspects of other countries higher education models - the rest of the world would love to see Americans better educated, and would likely be more than happy to help.

It's not ridiculous, it's not a scheme. It's basic common sense, and an investment.

The rest of the developed world laughs at America for charging so much for college. They really do. It's a common punchline. It would be funny to me too, if I didn't have a distaste for schadenfreude.

And hell yeah. Let's retire capitalism before we lose the oceans, insects, birds, steady climate and a life worth living.
So, perhaps instead of making the flight, the airlines should be allowed to pay a tax equal to 80% of whatever it costs to actually operate the flight?
Use something like crev to do distributed code review:

https://github.com/crev-dev/
> It's hard to pass up making my 2x or more in industry.

Austin's salary is public data, and I have a really good sample of what people like him make in industry.

Try 5x. Before RSU appreciation.

Maybe 3x. But 3x would imply a VERY chill industry position. "Name your interest space and we'll let you work on that" type of gig. Probably way more chill than academia.

> The freedom and unstructured time to explore fuzzy problems is unmatched.

Industry also provides this. Actually, I find much more freedom in industry than in academia. And, if we're honest, my industry position is probably at least as secure as a faculty position at a public university in a red state.

> I don't know any other job that gives you 6-figure salary and lets you basically do whatever you want for 42% of the year.

In industry research, you can't do whatever you want. But you can usually do what you want.

In fact, the caveat of "prove your worth" is a huge tell. In industry, you REALLY CAN do what you want! Real freedom; just be useful. In academia you have "freedom". By which we mean "raise money".

But even if not... look at it like this: an industry position that pays 5x allows you to work for a year and then take the next 4 off. 2/5 is bigger than 1/5. And that is time you can actually take off. To do whatever. Not "off" in the "better be writing grant proposals!" sense. Actually off.

> Is a 2x salary increase worth giving up that kind of time?

Probably not. But if you can land an R1 CS position in SE, you should be making closer to 5x.
I wonder how many millennia of using paper straws a single day of this fiasco wiped out from carbon savings.
They had a deal for home streaming simultaneously with the box office release. This means that yes it is highly likely that far more people streamed this movie than movies that do theater-exclusive releases.

And people with existing subscriptions don’t matter, because Warner Bros isn’t getting subscription money directly, they’re getting money from deals with subscription services.

Edit: HBO is owned by Warner. So even if they don’t do accounting such that HBO pays Warner but just track subscription revenue directly, it still doesn’t matter. Retaining subscribers is hugely important, not just getting brand new subscriptions. It does make it a lot harder to compare box office receipts though.
I should add, though, I did like the interesting tidbits on what happened with Zion, how the machines went to war with _each other_, and how a new Zion (I forget the name) was formed, but instead allying with exiled machines. I was fascinated and wanted to know more about that "blue" faction and the "red" faction of robots that are seen briefly fighting each other. That glimpse into the lore was worth it for me.

This is also just a really good evolution from the central conflict of the first three films which is basically like "technology = bad, but we need it". This film shows us "technology can be bad, but we can work together with it to build something beautiful and brighter". Really good evolution there.

I think what ultimately sank the movie for a lot of fans was the Agent Smith actor was replaced. Too bad.
Crev – Socially scalable Code REView and recommendation system
> blossom into the complexity of the eukaryotic cell, via a very specific endosymbiotic event.

Citation needed. There is a hell of a lot more to being a eukaryote than having mitochondria. They're defined by having a nucleus, not mitochondria, and I think that's a good definition.

If mitochondria were a necessary step to modern eukaryotic complexity, it could only be by providing a bigger power budget, which could have happened lots of ways. Again, cellular endosymbiosis is common, other notable examples being chloroplasts and red algae serving as chloroplasts for brown algae.

So, I'm not saying mitochondria are not important, but I don't think they were the blocker to eukaryote evolution.
That's because there is a lot of politically disinterested corn in most red counties.
They’ve been building tons of apartments in Davis. Tons. I’m afraid of oversupply if the college becomes less popular.
Part of the problem is that many of the people with a stake in the “higher profits” camp risk losing future opportunities. If you start to make a ruckus about contract profits you find yourself not employed by that studio, and you start to be looked over by other studios. It’s a shell game but everyone agrees to it so as to book another gig.

The recent scuff-up between Scarlett Johannson and Disney was an example, and the rumors of Disney being unwilling and to work with her was the quod-pro-quo rearing it’s head.
Project names are generally never translated.
The population density in a lot of those areas that are colored red is much lower than the major cities.
The airline and airport industries are some of the most regulated industries on the planet. A free market would not cause this.
Uncensorable private communications are useful, but become 100x more useful when they are coupled along with uncensorable private payments.
Mandating using ODF would indeed be much better, but of course that mandate doesn't prevent interop issues from occurring.
Thanks, very useful article.
In case anyone else needs it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
Yea…I mean, I got through it because I loved the originals but it was very much a fan-service movie.

Not unlike the latest Spiderman with how much it tried to reference from the others in the collection, but the constant flashovers to the originals were a bit exhausting.

Was tough to watch. I mean, I got it…but it was tough to watch.
Partitioning the internet using Anycast catchments [pdf]
I assume the space heater was not using natural gas. Is electricity the safe clean heat NYC needs?

Council Votes to Ban Gas Usage in New Buildings

https://council.nyc.gov/press/2021/12/15/2116/
Female dolphins have a clitoris much like humans’
A sad indictment of Google.