skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those stories were shown to be false by the MSM. The original story came from a local newspaper. http://web.archive.org/web/20210902202007/https://kfor.com/n...

CNN said it's not true. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/politics/fact-check-oklahoma-...
USA Today Fact Check rated the claim as false: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/15/fac...
AFP Fact Check false: https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252...

People often complain about mainstream media getting things wrong, but they generally overlook the fact that the editorless non-mainstream media gets far more stories wrong.
>There is no theory for a just riot, because riots are never just. Substitute "terrorism" for "riot" and see where the reasoning takes you.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. America's independence was fomented by terrorists, who have only been legitimized due to the structural power America eventually acquired. To say "rioting is like terrorism-- they're both never just" is just insufficient. If we believe that, we should be against America as a whole
Thank god Stack Overflow hasn't gone in that direction.
Maybe the good copy was the counterfeit.
> Let's make it really obvious who the unvaccinated are. I'm thinking we could maybe have some kind of article of clothing that could be worn over top of normal clothes. Perhaps an armband would suffice? Would that make you feel comfortable? It would also make it easier for you to mistreat them and shame them at will. Perhaps we could have a different armband for people that are unvaccinated but have a record of a positive test and recovery. They could be subject to shaming as well for not going along with your sacrament.

I’m not going to accept you trying to make comparisons between the unvaxxed and Jews. Being unvaccinated is a _choice_. If you make choices you deal with the consequence. I’m never going to be behind treating people different for aspects of their life they had no choice in, but I am 100% behind treating people differently based on their choices.

> 59% of Democratic party voters surveyed support a policy of confining unvaccinated people to their homes. We should go ahead and do that right? I'm taking this to its logical end because you don't dare do so.

You didn’t ask. I’m completely fine taking this to the logical end. Not a democrat but I’d be in the 59%. If you want to be unvaxxed and not enter society, that’s fine. You’ve kept your externalities to yourself. If you want to have access to public areas and not take steps to stop breaking down public systems, then you’re pushing your problems on us and that’s where I have a problem with it

> I literally had a man brandish a shotgun at me in his driveway

And? It’s America, who grew up here and hasn’t had someone threaten to kill them for coming on their land?

> This coercion was the last straw and I'm never voting for the party again. Congratulations you and your ilk have created a monster.

I didn’t talk about being democrat at all, but if I was in the Democratic Party and you were threatening to leave over not being getting vaccinated then I wouldn’t lift a finger to stop you. It’s not a threat when I already don’t want the unvaccinated associated with me. Go ahead, take your ball, and go home.
I used Puppeteer on a project recently to generate some really big and complex PDFs that would have been a massive pain to do any other way, so thanks for your work, and I'm very happy to hear that the project isn't dead.
Is there any chance that they’ve stopped confusing everyone by aliasing gcc to clang transparently? That’s the change I really want to see. The programs inherently accept different arguments. The amount of GitHub issues that boil down to someone thinking they’re calling GCC but calling Clang instead is staggering. Let my build fail.
Green Threads Explained in 200 lines of Rust
You should ship malware instead, those appear to pass "inspection" more often :/.
it is striking that people have such a misapprehension of the resolution of 35mm film

I agree with you. I've recently become a film nut, but I agree that modern high-end digital outperforms film hands down. That said, film is still great but a lot of people still think very poorly of it.

My suspicion is that in the time before digital and everyone shot on film, most people were just really bad at taking photos ~ people used 35mm point-and-shoot, disposable cameras, 110 cameras, and similar. The general population weren't photographers and weren't using film to it's full potential - as a result, they got tons and tons of bad photos. Modern digital cameras (including those in phones) have great auto features for proper exposure, etc... and it's easy to delete bad photos (out of focus, too dark, etc...). I'm inclined to believe that most people's poor opinion of film is conflating the medium (film vs digital) with the camera experience (manual & confusing vs automagic).

There was recently a post here on HN about how the internet killed bad photos [1]. I made a similar comment at the time [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987554

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28989625
The parent comment says "any researcher's talk, paper, research, materials, etc. must undergo an export controls review first before it leaves the United States or is shown to a foreign national. This is SOP at every research lab in the United States." My purpose in the comment is to point out that such review is not legally required for public academic research, and there are good constitutional and policy reasons it should not be. Moreover we should be careful about letting the government implement such policies via indirect means.

While I'm not in the field of semiconductor research, the export control laws in my field are quite similar (in fact, they're literally the same Federal laws.) And if you read the US code, you'll see that it excludes "[p]ublic domain information which is published and is accessible or available to the public, unrestricted: publications & conferences, patents, fundamental research." These exceptions exist because earlier laws did not have such exceptions and were found (in a case involving cryptography) to be unconstitutional.
A divided population , a minority that sees itself as a victim of oppression, rioting and other violence. Yes, the people doing the rioting don't have similar excuses at all.

Edit infact in school I was taught Catholic civil right protestors drew inspiration from the black civil rights movement
> lots of technology that took billions of dollars and decades to develop? Why would you give that away for free?

I don't know, ask Alexander Fleming maybe.
To save lives? Make the life better for scores of other people, no matter their nationality or class? Why do you even do research, just for the bilions?
When I say ab initio I mean "classical newtonian force field with approximate classical terms derived from QM", AKA something like https://ambermd.org/AmberModels.php

Other people use ab initio very differently (for example, since you said "level of theory" I think you mean basis set). I don't think something like QM levels of theory provide a great deal of value on top of classical (and at a significant computational cost), but I do like 6-31g* as a simple set.

Other people use ab initio very differently. For example, CASP, the protein structure prediction, uses ab initio very loosely to me: "some level of classicial force field, not using any explicit constraints derived from homology or fragment similarity" which typically involves a really simplified or parameterized function (ROSETTA).

Personally I don't think atomistic simulations of cells really provide a lot of extra value for the detail. I would isntead treat cell objects as centroids with mass and "agent properties" ("sticks to this other type of protein for ~1 microsecond"). A single ribosome is a single entity, even if in reality it's made up of 100 proteins and RNAs, and the cell membrane is modelled as a stretchy sheet enclosing an incompressible liquid.
I had a company at one point come out with detailed justification about who gets what. Only the data analysts were allowed to get two monitors. This was actually spelled out in the policy. None of the standard laptops had high end GPUs, even those assigned to people doing CUDA ML research - they had to rely on client machines, which means remote work was cut off at the knees.
Ask HN: Could we decrease the HN points counter to 0 for new comments?
This is something that bugs me a little about Hacker News. It's a very minor issue, but I'm bringing it up because it's Hacker News.

Let's say I make a comment, and it has 14 upvotes. That does not mean 14 people saw it and liked it, it means 13 people did. A new submission with 2,834 upvotes only had 2,833 people who actually upvoted it. I know that there are downvotes which make things not a perfect match, but I don't think that affects my view.

In my ideal world, every submission and comment would start at 0. And they'd either go up or down from there.

This would also be adjusted in the "fading" for downvoted comments, with them starting to fade at -2 instead of -1.
All countries have spies and all fight foreign spies all the time. If you find this fight noble, so be it, but it's not really relevant. McCarthyism was really just a total abuse of power, a witch hunt only several times amplified through the power of modern media. And it destroyed the lives of thousands of people for no reason at all. So sorry, but I don't like it being mentioned in any kind of a positive context. There wasn't any.
I saw robo-taxis tooling around Mountain View CA in 2019 so I interviewed at the company to get a safety driver job. I used to see them stopped waiting for a train to pass and became curious about how they worked. They were adding second safety drivers to keep the first safety drivers awake. They were also watching the safety drivers by remote video to make sure their eyes were on the road. I was told the Lidar doesn't work in rain or snow.

I didn't get the job despite having a perfect driving record. I probably wouldn't have taken it anyway, because I got the impression they didn't want safety drivers asking too many questions or really giving much input. I was satisfied however because my question about depending on a autonomous system to stop properly for an oncoming train was answered - that's not something I would trust yet. I ended up getting a retirement job at Uber and Lyft which was much more interesting and fun.
Hint: they do.
And finding documentation.
In the old days, software was like math - it had immutable, provable qualities. In the last several decades software has gradually become more and more like biology, where the core mechanisms are shrouded in mystery and we rely on observation and experiments to understand. The Star Trek game in Basic I typed into a computer is eternally true, a platonic form in a way software now no longer even aspires to be.
You can claim unknown unknowns for literally anything and claim it's high risk as a result.

There are unknown unknowns about 5G, therefore it's too risky to build and use.
My setup is neovim + VSCode + VSCode Neovim + clangd with which I am extremely happy. I am otherwise a vanilla vim user.
Your near certainty is not justified by numbers which are publicly available and could have been consulted.

The population of Pittsburgh proper is half what it was in 1950. Here's a convenient tabulation:

http://population.city/united-states/pittsburgh/

You're equally wrong about the suburbs, which have grown as the city center shrank.
Yes one bridge collapse a decade would be acceptable to me provided it keeps the cost down. Other people may be willing to pay for more nines, the point is that infinity nines costs infinity dollars.
I've watched a ton of LPL videos, but I think they have had the opposite of the intended effect on me.

I've now been convinced that if someone wants to pick a lock, they pretty much can. So I just buy the cheapest lock with the strongest shackle.
Wars (just or otherwise) are almost always fought "over there". "Our" military may be involved, but "our" property generally is not (assuming we win).

Riots happen "here", and destroy "our" property.

Political/philosophical justifications for things generally support the interests of the property owning classes, because that's how the money reaches those who get to spend their time thinking about such things and then distributing their ideas.

That's why there is no theory of a just riot.
Build a service/loop/CI/cron job/whatever to pull feature flag state from prod and check into your relevant branch(es). Make the dev deployment apply this state by default.

You’ll get a lot of extra value out of this if you have an automated test pass that exercises the bulk of the product. You get bonus points if you can integrate individual feature flags back to your branch(es) independently, because it will let you easily identify which flag has broken automation.
I remember hiking under this bridge - it's a nice park but often this area was super crowded on nice days during warm weather. Lots of people with their dogs. In the years I lived in PGH I always thought about how it was just a matter of time before a bridge would collapse - there's an insane amount of bridges throughout the city and just by the looks of some of them, gravity was going to win sooner than later. It's amazing that no one was killed, glad it wasn't the middle of the Summer when Frick Park is full, it could have been a lot worse.
> where you would walk out of your apartment and be able to visit your local coffee bar, diner, park, grocery store, etc

You mean, like, a normal city?
For another deep rabbit hole of true old colour photography, check Prokudin-Gorsky's photos of Russian Empire before WW1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Gallery

He took 3 photos with different colour filters in succession and captured them on large glass plates. Naive alignment possible before digital technology limited the quality of results, but as original separate negatives survived - it was possible to scan them at high quality and properly align digitally. So now we can see those photos in true colour and high quality.

As one of examples a very vivid photo of Emir of Bukhara taken in 1911:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Prokudin...
Oh man ... the cruft that corporate IT installs slows down the computers so much. Its better if companies start handing out linux machines if they cant afford macs. I would trade my windows laptop with IT cruft any day for a linux machine.
I worked at a company where all software was designed around a 1024x768 resolution. They decided to upgrade from CRTs to LCDs. I strongly suggested they buy the 17” LCDs of the same native resolution, instead they saved a few hundred dollars per person by choosing the smaller 15” 800x600 LCDs. Users either had to deal with a headache inducing blurriness of non native resolution or spend half their days scrolling their screen up and down and left to right. These people were used to keyboard only interactions and now had to keep one hand on the mouse. It was maddening. Half of their staff ~50 people quit over just that one thing.
Isn't "rarehistoricalphotos.com" one of those clickbait sites that I always see in news sites "Sponsored Links" sections?

A lot of those sites have modern photos that have had "antique" filters, applied. I love seeing "Wild West" photos, with pictures of women in modern makeup.
All simulations have to make the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, nuclei have to be treated as frozen, otherwise electrons don't have a reference point.

There will never be true knowledge of both a particle's location and momentum a la uncertainty principle, and will always have to be estimated.
After you enter you get the error to enter a deanery number, if you unfocused the tab, the binary number gets entered automatically anyway
No, we mainly benefit from operating systems protecting us from bad developers (at the cost of performance). Take a look at all the LSPs on Linux ad an example.
Why is it pretty wild? There are tons of scammers, crooks, etc., this stuff is common place, not abnormal.

Humans tend towards greed and lining their own pockets, just look at any dysfunctional government that has ever existed. I would not be surprised that half the politicians in office in thw US are taking bribes or dealing under the table. There are numerous public examples, you can guess that its only the tip of the iceberg.
But the discussion we're having right now is about academic research, which gets published openly. Professors move between institutions all the time. Has Harvard sued MIT because some professor didn't get tenure and took their research and students with them?

I think that there's a difference if the professor in question were consulting for US companies, or specifically in projects within the DoD(versus receiving a grant, which again is a different situation), and shared those with Chinese entities. But as far as I can tell, nobody in this comments section is looking into that and we're just having arguments about other situations instead of what has actually happened. That obfuscates the matter at hand.
Deprecate, from Latin deprecari, "to pray (something) away".

It would seem the gods eventually answered!

OT: it's the same precari that is in precarious, which originally meant something more like "dependent on the will of another". Both definitions have loosened nicely, but it's still fun to see how we got here, and to think of marking something Deprecated as an act of piety!
Hopefully this explains it...
https://twitter.com/2FAS_com/status/1487063320804929537
The population of metro area Pittsburgh has declined in the last 20 years and is over 100,000 people less than it was in 1970 [1]. Pittsburgh’s population today is 10% less than it was in 2000 and is considerably smaller than it was at its peak [2].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23100/pittsburgh/populati...

[2] https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/pittsburgh-pennsylvania
> completion of this course and one other super basic one [...] opens you up to apply for a learner's license of z/OS

That's still a problem and IMO a short-sighted approach. They wouldn't lose anything by making the software freely available as they make money on selling the actual mainframe, support & consulting services, so why add these extra steps (that are still very easy to pass for anyone determined to obtain & use the software without a license)?
Why wouldn't it? That's how long it takes to swap memory on an HDD, it doesn't surprise me, especially with how many resources today's browsers and sites consume.
I think it's antithetical, their profession exist only to avoid moving complicated stuff when it's too late. Of course architect can design wrong and then it's costly too.
Thanks for your analysis of both Wordle and Bytle — when my friends and I came up with this game, we didn't expect the game to be in any form challenging compared to games that are similar in nature to it. It was mainly just a joke considering that it is trivial to find the value of a cell when there are only two states. The base-10 entry is designed to make it some way a bit more challanging than entering base-2, but of course isn't how Wordle and its clones normally work.

Your feedback is certainly valuable though — mayble Hexle could be a thing! I'm happy to give that idea away to anyone who's looking for the challange of implementing it. And as you say with modifying the domain space, adding some sort of requirement for the entered number would be a good addition, too.
For the purpose of this discussion I absolutely do not care about the candidate’s political position or fitness for the job, and find it absurd that my comment is being used to inject advocacy for it or any political position.

The only reason I brought up my political difference was to make absolutely clear that I am advocating for seating a political opponent, because not doing so is undemocratic.
Sometimes companies spend extra to slow their employees down. We hired a dev team to develop a custom dev environment that takes twenty minutes to stand up. Our old off the shelf tech took about thirty seconds but lacked all the buzzwords of today.

VMs and plain Docker containers are for suckers apparently. We went from one not like prod environment to another, but at least this one costs us a few millions in salary per year to create. Someone is getting a promotion, right?
Yes. But, the machine doesn't care. The startup ecosystem is the prime example of the golden rule - "He who has the gold, makes the rules."

Startups are very much like President Trump's administration. Everyone is all in on the golden goose and they'll slowly twist themselves in circles justifying and doing unseemly things, to hold on to the power, and especially the payout, at the end of the tunnel.
Do you have any experience with using cscope on other languages like Java?
Yeah, the commercial ventures are all trying to do autonomous driving on a budget. The military systems work a whole lot better but that's because they pack way more sensors and way more compute power and can essentially power through issues like rain, snow, sandstorms, etc.
So, what do you propose? Knocking them down? Put fences? Which are you going to do that on? Are you going to fend off all the people using those bridges for destroying their commute? None of those options are cheap either. Even selecting the bridges to keep/not keep takes time and effort and thus money.
Well, that would help with making technology more accessible.

Developers, especially highly paid ones, are as selfish as anyone else on the planet. If you have a strategy to make them care about literally a single other person, I suggest you go for it.
The Universe is full of magical coincidences, and it works also is mysterious ways.
Lets amaze ourselves with one of these coincidences:

Servier, an international pharmaceutical company, has an agreement with MaSTherCell a manufacturing organization specializing in the delivery of optimized process for the development of a manufacturing platform for
allogeneic cell therapies, more specifically UCART-19. Cell therapies
have shown promising results in treating cancers

Pfizer has exclusive rights from Servier to develop and
commercialize UCART19 in the United States.

Now it happens MaSTherCell is a company that is a subsidiary
of Orgenesis Inc. Orgenesis is a company that as of
May 2020, also decided to move into vaccine platforms
targeting SARS-CoV-2.

And who is Orgenesis medical director as of Sep 2020 you ask...
https://orgenesis.com/team

"Orgenesis launches cell-based vaccine platform targeting SARS-CoV-2"
https://www.manufacturingchemist.com/news/article_page/Orgen...

https://servier.com/en/news/servier-appoints-masthercell-for...
> I think this is a much better approach that baking tree sitter into VS Code

they're implementing both, with tree sitter being 'dumb' version of LSP syntax highlighting: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-anycode
My company started life in about 2014 and for python is only on 3. And python 3 is great. Having written python 2 before and also perl, I really appreciate UTF-8 just works.

And I hope that python learned from 2 -> 3 and that in the future it will be better
JavaScript static analysis comparison: ESLint vs. Semgrep
Yes, let's put the incompetent buffoons who thought installing McAfee on every government computer was a good idea in charge of their rolling own Linux distro. That sure would solve all of these problems.