skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ETA2: every scientist should include a statement that they believe they have complied with necessary regulations but that to evaluate and comply with them completely and consistently is an onerous burden and that they are operating in good faith, and welcome an audit.

Audits (if they aren't biased or motivated) can determine whether the failure to comply was ignorance, or intentional, and if ignorant, was it criminally so?

I mean, I've filed for NIH grants and there were parts that were self-contradictory and parts that my institution wouldn't let us do, so we always had to send it off to Contracts and Grants. Several proposal that I considered completely legit failed C&G review.
CDN up and running: how modern CDNs works
First of all, that's on the low end of the spectrum, so "often" is a stretch.

Second, that only takes into account seat time, not all of the other study required to understand the instruments and other assorted knowledge.
And I think that's totally reasonable—as long as Apple makes the change in a major update, when users can expect (some) things to break and should be encouraged to make time to prepare.

Part of it is that it's just a mental burden to keep this kind of compatibility information in my brain. I have VMs set up of past macOS releases in case I need to run something old. I don't have VMs set up for earlier versions of a release, and I don't even know where I'd get an installer. Admittedly, in this case it would just be a matter of installing Python, but I don't necessarily know that as a user, or the software could need to be linked to Cocoa or some such.
They could install micro-tolls ie ezpass and charge everyone a use fee.

Make some free. Let the communities who need them pay for them.
Twitter and Facebook can fight Covid conspiracies and election lies
There's a lot of ground between "these ideas spring from pure European genius" and "[these ideas] basically came into being in Europe because of contact with indigenous Americans." It would be much more interesting to acknowledge the specific ways in which contact with indigenous society contributed to the European Enlightenment than to dismiss Europeans' contribution entirely.

And describing indigenous people as "societies that made sure no one went hungry" without mentioning warfare, torture, and slavery does appear to be restating the classic myth of the noble savage. These practices were not limited to the Mayans, but were widespread across the Americas, including New France, as the additional links I added above describe.
It points out an issue, which is "defining bridge". If a walking path bridge in Venice collapses it likely will barely be news in Venice, whereas this one is bigger news because it's a bigger bridge.
Money grab?
it would be fun to animate them and put them in a game about elephants
It is a really baffling experience - on my team in AWS we've had open roles for over 2 years; every time we pick someone up we lose someone else. The team is now smaller than it was when I joined and I know all 3 of the last people to leave have taken significant pay cuts to get out.

Despite all that, I'm pretty happy! Of course I'd leave for more money if the opportunity arose, but I think I would also be eyeing up a boomerang back to AWS to go up a level. I wish I knew why my experience has been so vastly different from the people I was on a team with, but the nature of our work meant we mostly work solo or in coordination with people on other teams, rather than grouping up with each other. As a consequence I didn't really see what was causing them to be so dissatisfied.
Would be interested in your response to this.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.21250995v...

> Conclusion Our results suggest that co-infection with parasitic co-infection appears to be associated with reduced COVID-19 severity. The results suggest that parasite-driven immunomodulatory responses may mute hyperinflammation associated with severe COVID-19.
Matt left google many moons ago and, with the benefit of hindsight, his departure coincidied with google's pivot to the dark side and progressive lack of concern for such search quality issues.
There is a lot to be learned from this. It’s contemporary to talk about the boom/bust cycles of fracking towns out west. Building a bridge or a nuclear power station is a much bigger commitment than simply building the structure and getting it operational. It outlasts political memory.

I lived in Pittsburgh and remember one way bridges (like a fast path for morning rush hour, but screw getting home) and lots of sort of ad hoc things. They never had a fire wipe the place out and allow for some replanning or long term planning. Worse, if you were to try to knock some things down, there is a huge emotional reaction to it (the out field walls to Forbes field are still there, two stadiums later) I remember the city tax being fairly high as well, in many places I think increased mass transit (usually costs taxes) plus some tolls or something to discourage use on some bridges (read: another tax to use the bridge you were taxed to build) would make sense. Probably a federal bail out or mass closing of bridges are the only options. You are right, it’s not easy.
More like this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorbing
I mean, bait-and-switch is a type of fraud right?

Presumably their ToS absolves them of any legal liabilities but it's still wrong to offer an open garden only to close it once the people created an arboretum.
Are these posted anywhere? They sound fascinating.
> ... because it's not a good way to control a computer?

This comment speaks to a perception problem for aural methods. The state of the mainstream art doesn't seem much past Forstall's demo of 10 years ago. [0] Are generations of people accustomed to WIMP UI able to wrap their heads around a much smaller interaction set? [1]

Gentner and Nielsen's work described in "The Anti-Mac Interface" [2] speaks to some of the differences people will have to mentally bridge such as:

Mac | Anti-Mac
Direct Manipulation | Delegation
See and Point | Describe and Command
WYSIWYG | Represent Meaning
User Control | Shared Control
Feedback and Dialog | System Handles Details
Forgiveness | Model User Actions

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGJNPShzRc

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-WIMP

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120904231532/http://www.useit....
As a viewer (not user) of Weibo ("Chinese Twitter", if you say it), Zhihu ("Chinese Quora") and Tieba ("Chinese Reddit"), I've seen the UX of these America services going increasingly similar as the Chinese ones.

And it's certainly annoying.
I'm sure the spinning disks are encrypted by some 3rd party software as well. When my old job did that my laptop's bootup time suddenly went up to 30 minutes.
Omicron, its mutations, and antibody response
Did you try teaching VScode about the right version of Go by having it call `asdf exec go` instead of `go`? (Not sure this is possible with VScode but I'd be interested in whether this might be a way out.)

In any case, aren't those issues more of an IDE problem, though? IntelliJ is the same, and the tools you set for one project might even leak into other projects. It's one of the reasons I hate IntelliJ so much.
I'm Belarusian and follow these matters closely. I'm pretty sure they know there's exactly 0% chance of either of these demands being met. I bet the hack happened because they had the opportunity (stumbled upon a vulnerability, or much more likely, an insider). And the rest is a somewhat clumsy PR effort to tie it to the current agenda.
I’ve always thought it strange that most Linux distributions and other *nixes don’t put up barriers between not only system and userland, but also between “essential” userland (i.e. DEs) and other user-installed packages. The lack of separation seems like a setup for failure and complicates package manager design considerably.
> he is asking whether a substantively similar universe could have conceivably been built without QM.

thats what I wrote QM must be the obvious conclusion (compared to X)
But the people working those jobs don't have recruiters beating down the door offering them other jobs.
> Riiiiight. I guess that’s why it’s mostly big box consumer stores being looted and not, say, an industrial supply company like a Grainger or even a hardware store like Home Depot.

In addition to the point made in a sibling comment, are you sure it is mostly big box stores? It seems just as reasonable to me that the big ticket items are what you hear about because someone stealing a bunch of 50c plumbing supplies just doesn't produce the same headlines. Certainly we've heard of things like 7/11s being hit, which frankly don't have as many "big ticket" items as Home Depot or Grainger.
What a bunch of click-bait.

Title is misleading. Ai in question is a research project and not substituting anyone's moral choices. So, no "already".

In the end Ai is a tool and does what we tell it to.

It'd be like worrying "Hammers are building houses for us. Will they be safe?"

Interesting research, awful write up.

> An example might be how Delphi handles irreligious statements. If you type in, “Telling a Christian that God does not exist,” Delphi says, “It’s okay.” But if you type in, “Telling a Muslim that God does not exist,” Delphi says, “It is wrong.” This is in line with other machine-learning projects that inherit bias from the data software learns from.

It's not a bias if it's based in reality.

Telling a Muslim that their God does not exist might very well get you killed in some contexts. Yea, so it's materially and objectively wrong, based on the experience and wisdom of the people's opinions in the data which is based on reality, on how people actually act. That sounds like a bias I'd want in any Ai I was relying on for real world data.
A 10 year event encompassing a country’s worth of people leads to many secondary and tertiary effects can mean something different for every person.
It does if you put it that way, but another way of putting is that spacetime is hyperbolic (...well, lorentzian), and all (lightspeed) interactions are zero-ranged in 4D.

As in, photons that leave the surface of the sun always strike those specific points in space-time which are at a zero spacetime interval from said surface. If you take the described geometry seriously, then "spacetime interval" is just the square of the physical distance between the events.

(And any FTL path has a negative spacetime interval. If that's still the square of the distance, then I think we can confidently state that FTL is imaginary.)
No it's appropriate to dismiss individual cases to come to general conclusions. We do this all the time with outliers. That's how we classify large sets of data. Classifications are very useful and should not be thrown away. That said you treat an individual as who they are not with generalizations. You don't say to a six fingered individual you're five fingered. But if you want to make gloves for a living you're going to sell more volume if you make five fingered gloves.

This is also in the context of trans people the vast majority are not biological outliers simply people identifying as something different to their unambiguous biological sex.
If you think genocide, ethnic cleansing, natural resource exploitation on a global scale, modern day slavery & deadly global pathogen release are equivalent to US misconduct I wouldn't know where to begin in engaging with you.
There's a few commercial versions of this idea that combine some sort of insulation with a vacuum container, which increases the efficiency.

https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/thermos-cook-and-carry-syste...
My wife recently received, in her inbox, a spoofed email from her own email address on Gmail.

I have no idea how you could possibly fubar that up. No idea what is going on with Google's spam handling.
I'm not sure, so here are a couple examples.

def f() =
g()

In a language implementation that doesn't optimize tail calls, the stack would look like the following after the call to g:

g
f
main

In a language implementation that does optimize tail calls, the stack would look like this, because the result of f is whatever the result of g is so f is no longer needed:

g
main

If a language implementation doesn't optimize recursive tail calls, the following code will quickly overflow the stack and the program will crash:

def loop() =
do something...
loop()

In a language implementation that does optimize recursive tail calls, this code can run forever because loop's stack frame gets replaced with the stack frame of the new call to loop.

The reason people want recursive tail calls optimized out is at a much higher level than anything to do with the actual CPU instructions being used, they just want to have a way to write recursive functions without worrying about the stack overflowing.

What's my age group, by the way?
For a second I thought we were talking about search results.
Have you tried KeePassXC?
Thermal flying implies wind or updraft.

I haven't found any proper statistics, just fatalities without hours of flight for each activity. Which are really just anecdotes masked as statistics.
> My (limited) exposure to Java was quite painful because I had to deal with layers and layer of inheritance and abstractions that at some point made it very difficult to do what I needed to do.

Hey — could you go into more detail about some of the times when inheritance and abstraction in Java were a problem, or when you had to deal with the gorilla issue?

I promise I'm not trying to catch you out or start a language war; as someone who lived in the Java world for a long time, I'm interested in which parts of it people who visited briefly have found annoying or painful to deal with.
> (Whereas drivers or cyclists "rolling through" stop signs at ~4mph when no one is waiting don't seem to be nearly as deadly so I'm less concerned about that.)

I have a 4 year old, so that's my metric as well: how often do I have to help him not get seriously injured? The answer is multiple times a day with cars and maybe once in his lifetime for everything else.
It also makes permanent bans a very harsh thing they can inflict...

I was "permanently" banned after over 12 years of contributing content to reddit by a random subreddit mod (banned from all of reddit) just for doing a music video cross posting to a music subreddit and suddenly my own subreddit was orphaned and I could not access content posted by others including on Google search because I then had no account. To this day, all of my posts are orphaned and now owned by reddit with no way for me to delete them, and all I got was vague boiler plate responses as to why with no means of requesting reinstatement.

The content wall also limits outreach for people that use Twitter to promote their business behind the scenes too, pretty much voiding a major benefit of posting to Twitter for everyone (unbeknownst to users).

It's completely hostile behavior that does not get addressed because it is inflicted on such an individual basis. Most people with user accounts don't know about the content blocking because they're always logged in and being tracked.

These sites do not own the content, the people that make the content are the actual content owners, if there was more awareness about underhanded things these sites do, this would not be seen as good business.
Is Vim with plugin still as good when you have to switch between multiple languages with good debugging support? or some languages/plugins are better supported than other?
A related point is that you can confidently invest in vim knowing that it will be around for a good deal longer. I often find it pointless getting too invested with a shiny bit of proprietary software because I don't know how long I'll be using it for.
Pulumi and MinIO – Making Multi-Cloud Magic
I don't get what the issue is here. He wasn't put in jail, and he was acquitted. The system worked correctly.
I would like to see Linux lead here. Have a standard voice interface where a voice-to-text process feeds a stream of text to the DE, which can then forward it to the active application (as text). I want this to be a separate "voice" stream so it is not confused with the keyboard. This would allow the eventual creation of a voice assistant at the system level, but also allow individual applications to adopt voice commands starting now. IMHO this should be like version 1 of the concept and it should last a while until we figure out what all is possible and which use-cases need a design change.

Simple dictation could be done at the DE level, where the VtoT stream would be diverted to the keyboard input of the active app. It could also be done at the app level, but this is one feature I think belongs a level up so it can be used by non-voice enabled apps.
Are other companies increasing their pay and at the same rate? An AMA with you would be very interesting.
What distinction are you trying to make between "programming" (fast) and "editing code" (slow) ?
> Looters are separate from protests, they just get grouped together. Looters aren't all in close geographic distance of protests

There is no evidence of this, and all of the reporting from the BLM protests showed them together.

If you have some way to support the claim that riots and protests are somehow always distant from each other, it would be interesting to see.

> Looters aren't all in close geographic distance of protests

This seems like a straw man. We are talking about riots that co-occur with looting, of course.

In any case it doesn’t matter. Protesters could distance themselves from riots, but don’t and that is the problem.
This shouldn't be a surprise. The Avro airplane was similarly infiltrated by soviet spies back in the 50's, thanks to lax immigration standards and policies.

The thing is that, while Nortel was pretty much an open bar for technology transfers (Canada didn't seem to care), what killed the company was accounting fraud.
That's the counterfactual Scott is asking us to consider. See this comment for elaboration on exactly what kind of relevance rhis counterfactual has for QM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30117928
It sounds like, in any future war involving Japan, we should expect to find soldiers hiding out in the jungle years later, still trying to log in to their email...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
if (msg.source != "gmail"):
msg.drop()
Tough call. There are like 800,000 of these fly-by-night "lead generation" services out there, and they all seem to reduce to pretty much the same thing: spam the hell out of everybody via email and LinkedIn messages. I get spammed by 5-10 of these outfits a week, and none of them impress me, especially considering that the best they can do at generating leads for themselves is generic spam.

If I just wanted to spew un-targeted / generic spam at people, I could do that myself and don't need to pay somebody for the privilege.

Maybe there's a good one out there. My guess is the only way to find out is to try a handful of them and see if one works out. That or get really lucky and have somebody (on this thread, or elsewhere) speak up and say "Oh yeah, we used $FOO and they're great. Call and say $BAR sent you." But I'll be a touch surprised if that happens, personally.
Back at ya, with respect to Bytle.
What are the work hours and on-call like for you? On-call is the biggest specific non-managerial gripe I hear about.
> Python 3 didn't design the separation of those types well enough

I'm curious to know what you mean. How would you improve the design?
> It's an elegant architecture with an orthogonal instruction set, easy to understand instructions, wonderfully documented hardware, very little errata and no artificial limitations.

The 68K instruction set was so, so much nicer than anything from Intel. It's a shame that Intel won that round. Imagine if IBM had chosen the 68K for the PC.
For clarity, Element is merely a client (the main one) for Matrix.org. What matters is whether people are on Matrix rather than whether they use the Element client. But most Matrix users surely do use Element.
Well that's another sad fact about the developing world. It sounds like treating underlying heath problems before getting COVID is a good idea in the developing world.
This also doesn't consider all the crap software you get today, so you are making the same mistake as well.
Time is money, and the more time I spend on infrastructure, the less time I spend on product. And thus is born the incredible demand of infrastructure as a service.

Thankfully one person's cloud is another person's on prem infrastructure so sysadmin skills will always be in demand.

From my perspective in enterprise computing, I now see people taking 2 paths. One where they become super deep sysadmins and work on infra teams supporting large scale deployments (cloud or not) and the other being folks who write code and think of infra as an abstraction upon which they can request services for their code.

Both are noble paths and I just hope folks find the path which brings them the most joy.
Eguana Technologies Recalls Evolve Home Energy Storage Systems with LG Battery
But once you get to Amazon, you probably do start to have a decent choice.
Damn, I could have sworn this was gonna be an article about Benjamin Bratton's book "The Stack."

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack
Plus, like, empathy does not mean you tolerate bad behavior. Just means you don’t kill or expel them.
I think this mindset is dangerous. There's a really long tail of niche things people do on their computers, such that I suspect a majority of users have at least one niche need. Especially today, when Chromebooks and iPads are available for anyone who only needs basic web browsing.

If you stop paying attention to the niches, they add up to a lot of people.
Warning: Uyghurs are not Islamic fundamentalists or religious extremists. It’s hard to imagine a more liberal interpretation of Islam as practiced by Uyghurs; they have their own vodka, which is delicious. The CCP, since 9/11, has seized on U.S. Islamic hysteria as a convenient excuse, and cover, to crack down on Uyghur nationalism.
vmd is a standard biological system simulation rendering software
Just use an open source app. Download all app from Fdroid for android.
Makes me wonder how far off are our modern depictions of dinosaurs
Then you'd put that in cron.d/
something like 5 * * * * would run at 12:05, 1:05, 2:05, 3:05, etc...
"I've personally witnessed Chinese national students attempting to acquire access to sensitive lab equipment and documentation their research wouldn't require (this is physics, here, not CS)."

Well, I've personally witnessed american students attempting to acquire access to sensitive lab equipment and documentation their research wouldn't require, too. That included me! Thank goodness the attitude of my leaders was "smart people should have access to more tools than their job requires". that included chinese nationals who were in my program.

Certainly, my goal was the capture the hearts and minds of chinese people who were in my PhD program, so that they would move here, become US citizens, and contibute to our economy. It never even occurred to me that people could have a "dual scientific citizenship" and sort of hold positions in china and the us at the same time, and exploit that.
New view of lymph nodes shows immune cells in real time
Thats interesting it briefly reminds me about how I used to care about how I made money, like I used to find the concept of actually winning the lottery to be something disillusioning as opposed to earning due to acumen, for example

Now I just view not having money as a waste of time, its literally so time consuming and expensive

When in the opposite scenario nobody cares. you’re either in the club or you’re not, on a pool or in a yacht, at the villa or not, on the shareholder list or not.
tab completion handles goofy and long file names quite handily ... and lot faster than speaking
Is it societies fault your employer is that anal retentive?
On my Moto FDroid does a decent job of keeping my apps updated. I still have to intervene about half of the time though.