skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire point of leap seconds is to make sure that our system of time keeping stays tied to the natural world. The same is true of leap years and time zones, but leap seconds are very direct in that they are introduced as way to always keep our time keeping system within one second of the planet's rotation, no matter how irregular the latter is.
> built their careers by writing books and explaining arcane C++ details.

This is only true of Meyers. Alexandrescu and Sutter are accomplished software architects and have been working for large companies.
Reviving Video Games Made by Teens Behind the Iron Curtain
>that GPs in particular would be replaced by a lower-cost Watson descendant

It is happening. They are called physician assistants and nurse practitioners, "supervised" by a doctor. I assume going forward, they will take more and more of the usual pink eye/ear infection/flu and other common work that does not require 6 to 8 years of post bachelor education.
> But GPs often make astounding amounts of money while leaning heavily on their staff to actually handle patients and keep the business running.

The private ones might the ones in the public system at least in my country need to see a patient every 10 minutes to keep their heads above water.
> Didn't make it.

Same. I got halfway through and gave up because it didn’t say anything meaningful.

I was hoping there was something interesting in there but no. At least not unless it was hidden in the last half of the drivel.
It's also a Kafka Trap, where any attempt to disagree with the premise can be blamed on "white fragility".
Well, no. Medical interventions that save lives are not clock-based but skill-based. An emergency C-section works just as well at 41 weeks as it does at 40 weeks.

Time-based medical interventions include, for example, inducing labor if the doctor doesn’t think it is starting fast enough. Those are associated with complications, although usually not fatal ones.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/wear-sunscreen-lyrics.html It's funny and most of it is pretty solid advice.
Just evaluate evidence and methodology. Historical factors are irrelevant. You obviously have a preconceived Truth that could never be disproven no matter what was empirically shown, but that's not science.
I think that's the wrong conclusion from this story. The conclusion I draw is that some companies (and Tesla in particular) don't appreciate the "last mile" when trying to apply AI breakthroughs to consumer products.

"The plane lands safely 99% of the time" is an impressive demonstration and a completely worthless product, but if that's all you have then what can you do other than launch it?
Mock time-series – synthetic data generation
I’m shocked people believe such a simple story … they didn’t mistakenly pay 30x the value of the asset based on a legal misunderstanding … it’s money laundering.
> This was a surprising one to me. Simplified Chinese was expectedly more efficient than Traditional Chinese, but both were beaten out by Cantonese (which also uses traditional characters).

Let's put aside the fact that this guy just equated "Chinese" with "Mandarin". This claim he's making suggests his entire measurement mechanism is broken.

Simplified Chinese is more "efficient" in terms of Traditional Chinese only in that it requires fewer strokes to draw each character. But the author spent quite some time harping on information. Given that Simplified and Traditional chinese have (for purposes of discussion here) identical characters, just represented differently, from an information standpoint they are exactly the same. Information means something, and it is not number of pixels.

I know this is outside the topic of the article, but it's worth mentioning that many Chinese scholars think Simplified Chinese has been a disaster. Traditional Chinese characters have strong visual relationships to one another depending on how they both sound, or whether they have similar meanings, or whether they were linguistically derived from the same historical source. This assists in memorizing them: a chinese person might come across some character she doesn't know but looks like a set of other characters, and can make a good guess as to what it actually is based on its relationship to them and its context in the sentence. The designers of Simplified Chinese broke a very large number of these rules: similarity didn't matter any more, just reduction in stroke count. As a result, Simplified Chinese is much harder to learn.
Better still, no comma and no space.
I had no idea utilitarianism was an ethical framework.TIL.
Turning this into a DAO might be an interesting direction.

Cool project - good luck!
>>So I can just simply say Microsoft has patents and therefore operating systems are not progressing because of that? You realize that's what you're claiming.

In part yes... Look at the suppression of UNIX do to SCO.. I mean hell this is recorded history. I am honestly surprised I need to even debate this. SCO effectively killed Unix, and harmed Linux and BSD

Software patents have a long history of suppression innovation in software

>Your reality doesn't match mine. I work in the display industry.

This new age of dueling realities is a false. There is only one reality, and mine is based on recorded historical fact, your is based on personal experience and anecdote

Mine is actual reality, yours is a belief

>I'm not going to spend my time educating you repeatedly.

Nor am I
> what made that guy a doctor was bedside manner + being able to remember a lot of things

That sounds like a lot of professions, engineering management included :-)
Bribing politicians is far more profitable. Never thought my own prime minster would become a pfizer sales rep...but here we are.
It definitely had a bit of a marketing tone, but it was focused on what's ultimately an open source product you can run pretty much anywhere, from a different cloud provider to your own bare metal, they just happened to use it on Azure.
Protecting Code Integrity with PGP
MTR Corporation is 75% owned by the Hong Kong government and receives subsidies in the form of land leases granted below market value and a monopoly on rail infrastructure. I really appreciate the MTR, and am also a part of the 25%, but it's not really a truly private company.
As someone who’s used both extensively:

Svelte is just perfect for small to medium projects. I’ve never used Svelte in a professional team environment though. And that’s where React is best- enterprise environment with a team.

For hobby; svelte 100%
Less boilerplate, super easy set up and you write less code in general.
Squoosh is WASM version of popular Mac App ImageOptim
> Examples here are (again) the cryptocurrency scene which has been pretty good at othering critics as “no-coiners” or lately with the phrase “have fun staying poor”.

I’m somebody that spends a good deal of time thinking deeply on cryptocurrencies and the implications to society. I believe they a positive, revolutionary step in the right direction of human liberty. And I’ll gladly acknowledge that it’s still speculative until it’s not.

But crypto, like any other movement, attracts total scumbags. It’s unfortunate because people who speak negatively only serve to undermine their group - whether it’s crypto or a social cause group etc. and often they, themselves, are the insecure ignorant one that don’t even deeply understand what they’re fighting for.
Self driving cars are not made by IBM. I wouldn’t consider their utter failure at everything they touch to be a sign that that AI field failed.
I think this happens with most self-help books. Most of the time it's just lecturing about a single point for a number of pages that can be summed up into a paragraph or even a sentence at times. Personally for me, the value of the long form style is that it allows the author's message to brew slowly in my head.
So is Lisp in good shape today? See some cool releases of this year: https://www.reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp/comments/rp5lik/what_wa... CLOG (GUI in browser), M1 support for SBCL, LispWorks 8, VSCode plugin, Coalton (ML on top of CL), SB-SIMD and many new improvements to SBCL, new Clozure version, we know of more companies using CL...
No, we actually do lose the night sky as we understand it and have understood it for generations. That literally is a thing.

No, there are many scientific instruments, basic optical telescopes, advanced observatories to NEO detection tools that will be affected (see article). The costs of placing telescopes in orbit is exceptionally high relative to constructing them on the ground, so again, no optical astronomy is going to experience a significantly higher cost of operations.

Yes, few people will notice. Few people noticed when we poisoned rivers with PCBs or approved the demolition of Penn Station. There is an aesthetic, social and practical value that is lost when we allow a select set of firms to dominate certain frequency bands and orbital locations.

No, we cannot stop being so dramatic, these are legitimate questions. Space is for everyone's benefit, not just SpaceX, despite their remarkable accomplishments.

It is reasonable to have a discussion about how we will mitigate the tragedy of the commons in advance, have a plan and ensure that again...broadband internet in space, a regulated business doing a thing for money in a common setting...benefits us from its use of our common domain.
History will see our current decade of AI and only see over promises and under deliveries.

I have decent amount of hope for AI, but corporate greed, hype by practitioners, a general explosion of various edTech companies hyping up the hype to drive online course sales and general excess of VC money is driving an embarrassing amount of AI failures.

I am sure that any fad now and in the future, will have a similar cycle.
The American medical system is truly bizarre.

I've been to private practices where every day at lunch or near end of day there would be some drug rep with food for all the staff.

And a psychiatrist that had stacks of free samples of drugs.

Even contact lenses are marketed with free samples.
Spot on, we wake up groggy because the VM is kicking in
I actually use wasm build by https://squoosh.app/ team.
I work with React every day.

As a hobbyist, if you’re getting what you want out of vanilla JS, stick with that.

There’s no reason to chase all the frameworks if you’re already accomplishing what you want.
What's the logic here? Do you somehow think that taxes will encourage innovation ?

Anybody can compete, but apparently most of us choose not to. Who forces a young talent to settle for a job instead of taking the risk to innovate ? Maybe risk-taking for innovation is what could be the encouraged through taxation.
Currently they have one of the only if not the only enterprise permissioned blockchain project called fabric and it’s open source.

I could see them making a comeback with crypto but not the way we think about it today. Instead, inter-enterprise operations infrastructure.
You seem to be conflating two related but distinct ideas. On the one hand, the availability of high-quality science-based medical care has been nothing short of a miracle.

On the other hand, the hubris shown by doctors (and generally speaking only MDs, not DOs or nursing staff) is incredible. MDs have a tendency to assume that they alone are able to fix things, and the attitude seems to be that patient rights just get in the way.

We see this pattern over and over: doctors tend to not believe in a medical effect until they personally experience it. The treatment of pregnancy and childbirth is one prime example; the history of post-viral syndrome being another good one.
Apparently, not! I feel old…
> Instead of a standard HF etch, a buffered oxide etch of NH4F (Ammonium Fluoride) in HF can be used to control the etch rate and photoresist lifting. I use approximately 20-30g of 100% NH4F per 50mL of HF (stock whink rust remover) and etch time for 6000Å SiO2 is 20min at 20C. A couple drops of Triton X-100 nonionic surfactant may be added to the BOE to improve etch uniformity, wetting, and ensure consistency through a thicker resist. A good BOE recipe can be found here but assumes industrial-strength HF.

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/sio2-patterning/

See my other threads. HF is Serious Business, but approachable for the hobbyist if you know about chemical hygiene. You can buy Whink at the hardware store.
You can count on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
How is the most common open source license not open source?
Then why don’t companies adopt a flatter structure with higher compensated engineers? The goal of a company is to make money after all. If management could be removed and top engineers retained with higher salaries, then a company would surely have an advantage in the marketplace. Since this doesn’t happen, there must be more to the picture than people in upper management simply clinging to their jobs. If removing middle management were so obvious a change to make, then shareholders would demand it.
Amazon, the book store has everything published under the sun and still cannot recommend something better than "oh, here you go, this is sci-fi as well!".
There is no evidence they have such a desire. In fact the opposite is true.

Why you want to find disease here is unclear.
> there wouldn't be any point in the pharma companies sending out salespeople to do lunch seminars to convince the GPs to prescribe this or that drug

Right, but there would be a lot of point in making deals with whoever builds Watson-like devices, to turn them ever-so-slightly more likely to prescribe one drug over another or make one diagnosis over another. It might even be cheaper than hiring and sending out a bunch of salespeople.
Gas fees are high because there's so much demand for limited block space. This is being addressed by moving things to rollups, and later by expanding rollup capacity with shards. Some stuff is in production on rollups already, but everything's in flux because the tech is still improving at a rapid pace.

Rollups take transaction capacity from a couple dozen transactions per second to a couple thousand, and sharding will multiply rollup capacity by a factor of twenty initially, and significantly more later as hardware improves.
being cynical is easy because most things fail, the challenge is in identifying winners early or identifying losers after they’ve had some measure of success.
It's happening because hospital corporations love them.

Corps can pay less, and since they have a tenth of the education, they order tons of profitable tests, consults, and scans because they don't know otherwise.
Hebrew also omits the verb "to be". It is assumed in most cases, and tenses and possessives are denoted in suffixes. Prepositions become prefixes, as does the word "the."

So "I am happy" is

אני שמח

(Ani Sameach lit. "I Happy")

And

"The book is in the house" is

הספר נמצא בבית

HaSefer (the book) Nimtza (is avaiable) B'Bayet (in [the] house).

Six words become three.

(Hebrew was my second language, after Yiddish. Grew up in Brooklyn, and learned "English" on the streets.)
I can't read the main link anyway, that's why I archived it: https://archive.is/I3yIK
Possibly, but surely only a few of them would be that bad to be willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces like that.
What failed/loss-making products is Google using to promote YouTube?
We haven't banned other kinds of lobbying, why would doctors be different?
That’s true. Definitively this was on the plus side for IBM PR and Marketing.
As someone who doesn’t want to use FB, are there any good alternatives to FB marketplace besides ebay?
Under $500, you can update your current bike to an e-bike.

In fact, that's the best way to do it. Get a good bike and modify it into an electric. You get much better customization and quality for the price.

But that's not for everyone. Perhaps someone with access to funding can start a chain of conversion shops... but honestly, Swapfiets is cheaper.
A) I agree regenerative braking plus a front brake could be a reasonable compromise. This is actually a pretty good idea. Could be simpler than trying to have some algorithm decide when to use dynamic vs mechanical braking. Front and rear brakes feel different already so it might be pretty intuitive to operate.

B) Potentially those other things are subtracted, but a lot of e-bikes get rid of a lot of those components too and keep either a single speed with motor assist, or use a 3 speed internal gear hub. Really, if you're making the argument for a cheap, decent bike, you have to compare against the single speed option. The article didn't go into this detail but as long as the battery has juice, single speed e-bikes with motor assist don't have a big disadvantage compared to multiple speeds.

C) And in this article a bottom bracket generator is required (about 2-3kg, more likely 3 for a "Corolla") plus a hub motor (also 2-3kg and more likely 3 for a "Corolla"). So it's "drivetrain plus motor" vs "generator plus motor" with some room for discussion about how many drivetrain components are involved. Until I read your reply I didn't even think about the fact that this proposed e-bike needs a hub motor instead of a BB motor, so it loses some more efficiency there automatically.

D) I think front/rear lights are probably required for many jurisdictions and ought to be permanently fixed to the bike in any decent design to take advantage of the battery and be harder to steal, and battery level indication is of course required. A speedometer and programmable speed limiter would be good things to include if you want to make an e-bike that can be sold in as many places as possible without changes.
I'm more interested how he managed to master the knowledge of chip manufacturing plus a ton of electronics repairs (see his microscope and other equipment) at such an early age. Very admirable.

Look at what he did:

> Photolithography machines are expensive—up to $150 million—and so Zeloof made his own by bolting a modified conference room projector bought on Amazon onto a microscope. It projects his designs at tiny scale onto silicon wafers that Zeloof coats in material sensitive to ultraviolet light.

> One of Zeloof’s best finds was a broken electron microscope that cost $250,000 in the early ’90s; he bought it for $1,000 and repaired it. He uses it to inspect his chips for flaws, as well as the nanostructures on butterfly wings.

Damn this guy is good.
> You know nothing about who you're replying to.

And you do?
Not directly related but saw Applied Science make an LCD in a video, was really interesting seemed more tangible.
star-history.com is already the de-facto GitHub star history graph. Recently, we just finished a major update.

1. Generate high resolution chart image.
2. Timeline mode to align trajectory among repos debuted from different times.
3. Embed chart into other websites.
4. Temporarily toggle a particular repo.

We try to keep its original sketching feel while rewrite the entire site using modern stack (Vue + TailwindCSS + Vite).

Hope these improvements will make it more useful to open source project maintainers.
I would have been ecstatic to even make a baking soda and vinegar volcano or lemon battery. The poor schools didn't have science fairs or anything like that.

Uh, I was just reminded of something - when I was a kid (5th grade) I was gifted a book of science experiments for kids. I was only able to do maybe 1 experiment in the book because I didn't have access to any materials needed for the experiments. Those books should come with a warning or something, cause I remember being like "what kid has access to this stuff? Where do you even buy this stuff?"

This isn't meant to be a "Woe is me" story, just trying to give some context.
This is a mischaracterization of P.A.s (well, not the being-paid-less bit). Do you know any personally?
I do not understand how IBM stays in business.

As far as I’m concerned the only cool engineering thing IBM does anymore is POWER, which has a sort of unique memory architecture but otherwise is well behind everyone else.

What else did they do in my lifetime? They took a profitable RedHat and gutted it, they took the best Laptop line and sold it to Lenovo and almost ruined it, they tried to be a front runner in ML but blew their budget on marketing (remember Watson on Jeopardy?)

The final straw for me was watching football with a techhy friend and a commercial for IBMs “hybrid cloud” came on. There’s some executive mulling over whether to “go to the cloud” or whether to go with on premises, and they have a eureka moment where they learn about IBM hybrid cloud and they go into a board meeting and save the day. We both just burst out laughing.

IBM doesn’t make stuff anymore. That’s the core problem.
I don't think its a matter of humility being valued for its own sake, but that behavior describable by the antonyms of humility are commonly perceived as correlating with poor judgement and a tendency to substitute their goals for those of the project.
Wordle fans should checkout https://wordhoot.com/
Engineering a Compiler 2nd Edition by Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon is highly regarded.
Is this project related to freecivweb.org ? If so, how? If not, isn't there room for a fair amount of confusion there? What are the main differences from .org that players should be aware of?

Is there a FAQ somewhere? I couldn't see a link to any help or anything.
Some years ago NATO did a report about increasing noise in the HF spectrum because it was concerned that the reliability of its HF communications would be affected—the HF band being its ultimate fallback position for long distance communications.

If I recall correctly, the report said the noise floor had risen some 6 to 8dB in recent years (see the report for exact details).

About a decade later I was at a SMPTE broadcast equipment show and whilst discussing AM broadcast transmitters with the manufacture of said devices I mentioned the NATO figure for the HF spectrum. He retorted where had I been in recent years and said that the figure was over over 17dB.

Note: his company manufactured a range of transmitters and only some were in the normal AM broadcast band, other transmitters were for HF and FM broadcasting. There was no mistake that were were referring to the HF spectrum, i.e. 3 - 30MHz

____________

Edit: Just found the report on my PC, I've not had time to go through it so check my above figure. I'll try and see if it the links is still available, if so I'll add it as another edit:

HF Interference, Procedures and Tools

Final Report of NATO RTO Information Systems Technology (IST)

Panel Research Task Group IST-050/RTG-022 (or Research Task Group IST-050).

Published June 2007

___________

2nd Edit: Here's what I found, I haven't fully checked but I think they're all the same:

https://manualzz.com/doc/18577111/hf-interference--procedure......

Panel Research Task Group IST-050/RTG-022 (or Research Task Group IST-050).

Download: http://www.darc-c12.de/system/files/%24%24TR-IST-050-ALL.pdf

Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA473220
And how long are you planning on working here?
I would take a look at vue and see what you think. It should be simpler and feel more familiar, and it’s been around long enough that folks have made complex frontends with end.

(I spend all day in react and like it, but understand people’s reactions.)
American Century Investments... right across the street from the plex!
I am not trolling. But I agree with you that I was wrong in saying that the Finns were German allies throughout. They were not allies from 1939-1940 and started to be German allies in 1941.
There is no need to market to Doctors now when they market directly to consumers who go demand they get the new medicine.

If we want to reduce costs, we need to move to lower level providers like a LPN or CRNP. Most people coming into a GP have the flu or an ear infection or .... and that can be handled by them. There will be one MD and to handle complicated cases and to supervise. We've already switched so that intake is done by CNA making $15/hour. In the US at least working at FAANG pays far more than being a GP.