skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is really fascinating to me. The article touches on this, but PrEP has to be having a huge impact. PrEP is now the default basically for young gay men, at least in urban settings. Plus, since gay men are more likely to know their status, they're more likely to be on treatment allowing "U=U" to be a thing: undetectable equals untransmittable.
Anaheim Ducks center Trevor Zegras' play might force EA Sports' hand
I run my own PBX too, and like you I had the IVR message for 'press 1 to connect your call'. Too many legitimate callers are morons though and couldn't figure out how to press 1. A lot of bitching especially from Gov service's oe similar, when I got around to calling them and wondering why they hadn't called me. "We did, but got a wierd message". Fucking infuriating. It worked great for stopping spam and robo callers though.
You start by shipping a million tons of freight to Mars, while I do meaningful stuff at places that are not a waste of time and effort. By the time you are ready to supply fuel FOB at Mars, I have sent a million tons to places worth sending it to, instead.

Maybe my million tons of freight includes a liquid methane sump on Titan, where I don't even need to synthesize, never mind liquify the stuff; it is sloshing around in puddles everywhere. There is an interior liquid water ocean, and ice lava flows.

Seriously, if you need more delta-V for a Jupiter or Saturn trip than spaceship design A gives you, you are much better off making a spaceship design B with enough tankage to make the trip. (Maybe B is just A with an extra tank strapped on; or, a tug boosts A to escape velocity and then loops around Luna and back, aerobraking to LEO.) Park fuel depots at both low and high Earth orbits; you waste nothing by using those, unlike anything parked foolishly at Luna or Mars.

Luna, anyway, has stuff that is worth visiting, like craters in permanent shade at the south pole, and lava tubes where vapors have maybe drifted in and froze for hundreds of millions of years. Mars is the armpit of the Solar System.
> You can, if course, just measure and draw it out yourself. But the rounded sides are likely going to be guesses.

Use a caliper measuring device and a flatbed scanner.

With the flatbed scanner, make a high res (600 dpi, or maybe even 1200 dpi) 2D scan of the front of the phone. Keep the screen of the phone on while scanning, and have it display some image that contrasts well against the edges of the screen, so you can clearly see where the edges are. (Ie if the phone is black or other dark color, use a an all white image. If the phone is a bright color, use a dark image.)

Scan the back of the phone as well, so you can see where the camera lenses on the back of the phone are.

Import the 2D images into your 3D modeling software of choice and create a flat polygon covering the front view. Extrude into a 3D shape.

Scale according to physical width, height and depth of the phone that you measure with the caliper.

Make room for the lenses using the scan of the back of the phone.

Buttons on the side and charging port on the bottom you can decide on how to fit from using caliper measurements, and adding some additional room around those as that is often desired.

Then model a shell that fits around it.

It will probably take a couple of test prints and refinements to get it right even so, but I think said approach will work well in terms of benefit to effort.
> perhaps they were just unlucky to end up with some who are difficult to tolerate.

Oh, that seems extremely likely now.

It really only takes one client throwing a tantrum over a problem they caused to completely ruin your week, especially if the manager you report to won't back you up and just insists that you 'deal'.
Based on first principle I simply believe nuclear is the better long term play. In terms of total resources and land required modern nuclear beat anything by order of magnitude. Current prices based on 40 year old technology are not my main concern.

Nuclear is proven and proven at massive scale, its proven massive industrial nation can transition to almost 100% nuclear and can do so within a few decades.

The method that you advocate where you overbuild massive amounts of unsolved issues and it not even proven on a medium scale. And in the cost calculation sited don't account for the problem all in from production to distribution.

Methane produced in the way you advocate would still be transported in leaky pipelines. Massive power grids would need to be build to connect the regions optimal for collection with where it is most used. Massive batteries would still be required in such a system.

I am 100% sure that if a government today said, lets build 100 nuclear reactors in the next 30 years and put them next to each operating coal plant. I am 99% sure they could do it and that it would be a robust system for the next 50-100 years. For that certainty I would be worth paying a premium for.

Again, look at German, had they spent 2 decades on a green transformation on nuclear, they would now already be nearly CO2 free by now.
Well most SaaS products provide value as you pay, or even before you pay. You're not expecting to get money back once you give it to them
Is publicly revealing vulnerabilities/exploits that can damage a competitor considered part of what you're referring to as "research"?
Maybe it's just not your kind of film, or you weren't in the mood. There was _very_ little wrong with that movie.
I don't know if we could have just offered peace. The Japanese forces on various islands were refusing to surrender, even when vastly outnumbered. Japan may not have recognized a peace treaty without an occupation. Further, if the US didn't occupy Japan, the USSR could and the Japanese people could have been absorbed as another soviet state.
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With no support whatsoever for that claim.
Anyone can mint an NFT containing anything they want, if they have the crypto to fund the transaction.

NFTs don't really solve many problems.
Thanks for working on such a great project. I've seriously hacked on the codebase about a decade ago and recall what a minefield it can be!

I'm not going to purchase a service I'll never use - I'm also philosophically opposed to centralised 3rd party VPN endpoints no matter who operates them. It's not a "Private" network, it's simply a proxy to side-step (most) ISP level interference or geo-fencing by services.

But if Mozilla can re-sell the Mullvad VPN service then sell me a unique personalised copy of Firefox that has my name in the Help>About* dialog! No messing about with donations then :)

*actually just read the string from a (possibly downloaded) prefs.js/user.js key.
This is being too charitable to Java imo, after all we had stuff like Retrolambda at the time.

Kotlin exists because Java moved like molasses for years

If Java had moved like C# it'd be a much nicer language today, and Kotlin wouldn't be needed.

Even comparing Kotlin 1.0 to today's Java nearly 6 years later would favor Kotlin for ergonomics with stdlib, nullability, reified generics, and syntax
"You can disable them entirely at game start, completely skip military tech, and your pollution cloud will still blight the land, poisoning trees and lakes (and fish) around you."

You can turn off pollution too.

There are also mods that'll let you grow trees or fight pollution in other ways.

There's a cost to pollution in the vanilla game, when both pollution and biters are turned on, so it's not like this game is pro-pollution.

I have a bigger problem with nuclear waste having no consequences.

But even then... it's just a game!

I find it curious that some people get up in arms over the ethical issues in a game like Factorio, yet hardly anyone (outside the religious right) complains in all the violence in the most popular games of all: AAA first-person-shooters... or most games, really, as most of them place the player in the role of a killer, where you solve problems and win by learning to be a more effective killer.
I’m building a web scraper (also as an excuse to learn Python) so that I can aggregate K-12 district check register data (many states require this data to be published on a regular basis). My goal is uncover pricing trends from education publishers and edtech firms, which I’ve long suspected sell at whatever price they can fetch (or undercut one another) regardless of usage or effectiveness.
Misleading title.

What he said was that that would be likely happen if Ukraine joins NATO and "attempts to retake Crimea by force" -- which would be a rather different set of circumstances than simply "joining NATO".
NFT is basically a digital certificate of authenticity that somebody made (of something).

it's easy to make many, and pretend that they are legit.
Haha, you know you can't apologize for someone's feelings, right? Their feelings are their responsibility, not yours. But your actions are your responsibility. Trying to incorrectly apologize for someone else's feelings is not owning your responsibility, and doubly bad because you seem to suggest that the problem is not your action but someone else's reaction which is incorrect. So if you feel you need to apologize, you can only do so for your actions. Got it? So go ahead, if you want to apologize, your can say, "I'm sorry for posting that"

The problem with that post is it's unnecessarily mean and you don't actually have any data to back up that claim, it's just speculation and a nasty one at that. It degrades the tone of discussion on a Show HN which is inappropriate, and is not what is aimed for here. If you feel there's an issue then email the mods, as they can take a look at the real data. Don't make baseless and cruel speculation on someone showing their work. Got it?
Agreed--I don't see how someone who has deeply imbibed a serious culture could wonder this. To try to leave on a technicality would be hugely embarrassing and forever mark that person as untrustworthy. Everyone in that room was eager to contribute to the success of future missions and reputation of NASA by making the disaster analysis as thorough and accurate as possible.
The intern in question is Matthew Tancik, who is one of the primary driving forces behind Neural Radiance Fields. It is one of those cases, where the employer (Waymo) is lucky to have such an intern.

I can't comment on the second part of the message, because I don't know what I am allowed to say (I work for Google, but not Waymo).
So everything is on me? I need to be the one wrapping my opinions in a way they can understand (which I do), and any (theortical) misunderstanding of their advice is also on me. Sounds like a bum deal. I don't think this is happening. Why else would they be saying that I'm well spoken and even diplomatic if these were the issues. They mostly don't like me to be candid when my opinion runs counter to theirs and I have points they don't want to counter.

Yes, I can and do facilitate meetings. That's not a problem. They just want me to be loud and talkative in meetings that could have been emails, or at least with a much smaller group.
"Sense" does this, although some people have problems with the training. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B08N5GWZWQ
Yeah - you've probably got the right one. I think the real thing this shows is that if you teach intro classes well (and try really hard to get people from atypical backgrounds to take those intro classes in the first place), students don't drop out the moment the going gets tough because they feel unsupported and assume STEM "isn't for them." (I certainly was in that category and would never have studied computer science if I had had a different introduction to the subject.) The failure to teach many more intro classes this way is all the more acute at Ivy+ institutions because they're not lacking for resources.
Rome was unusually superior to its rivals. Chinese, Indian and Persianate empires occurred again and again. Rome happened once and was never reassembled. Great big plains where you can grow lots of food are a much better foundation for an enduring empire than a sea where almost all of the connecting land masses has mountains nearby. I’m not aware of anything similar to the Punic Wars happening elsewhere until the Hundred Years’ War. That’s staggering levels of state and popular commitment to war, for a very long time.

Rome was in fact special.
It really isn't just me. Other people have also brought this up.
This is awesome! A great add to our command line utilities!
For the title, I did say "At Harvard" and not "In Harvard" or "By Harvard". I think the student newspaper is indeed at Harvard. I'm also pretty clear about what text I'm looking at in the article. In the title I used "Harvard" over "The Crimson" because I figured fewer people would know "The Crimson" compared to "Harvard".

Regarding the flaws in the article (phew, I'm glad I didn't quite reach criminal level) - I'm curious which assumptions you think are horrible or what data shoddy. I don't think, for example, that I'm assuming the latent space model is "correct" as you say. I don't think I really have any significant assumptions about the technique or the meaning behind it. I read about the technique in the linked paper and reproduced it in my blog with a different dataset and found a similar result. It's strange to me that the signal produced by this technique is as consistent as it is across the 120 years of data. Beyond that, I'm pretty explicit that I don't know what it means or why it happens.

Regarding the "arbitrarily fit" line - as I say explicitly in the post, that's a regression plot to illustrate the trend.

Regarding the possibilities that The Crimson has more articles per year - it's true that's possible. It's not reality, they run about (for a generous definition of "about") the same number of articles every year. The articles do get longer over time. Either way, it's not clear to me what impact this should have on average cosine distance.

There are a lot of things that I looked at that didn't make it into the blog post. Without including them, then perhaps it looks like I'm cutting corners. If I did include them then I think the blog post would be shooting off in many directions. For example, I considered that political violence might be related - like maybe, in times where there's lots of political violence elite institutions come together and their language becomes more similar. That didn't really pan out though. I graphed a bunch of things that ultimately I decided didn't contribute very much and did not include.

Another way of thinking about it is in the original article Rasmussen (the original author) says "Look at this elite writing in NSF grants. The cosine distance is decreasing over time." I then say "Here is some elite writing - student newspaper at an elite school. Is the cosine distance decreasing there over time too?" And, it is. That's what the blog post is trying to say.

Now, maybe the latent space is "incorrect" - although Rasmussen and I use different embeddings that find a similar trend. Maybe it's not meaningful to use cosine distance in this context. But, it does seem like something has to cause it. Whatever it is and whatever it means, it doesn't look like the kind of thing that happens entirely by chance because it is consistent in different datasets and over many years.
I'm partial to the watering hole attack they found with TAG that had a bunch of browser 0days in it, personally:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-i...
The power of brand to sustain an organization for decades is incredible.

It seems like a terribly run org in so many ways but only slowly dies.
At first glance I thought this was a self-hosted thing, which would be really great. Still a fun idea though, best of luck. Someone should do an open source version of this, if it's not already,
This is really just a matter of time. A race is simply a group that has been a nationality for a long time.
The original stands up with 2049. Highly recommended
As you compress a gas, its temperature rises. The air at the leading edge of the machine is static, meaning its compressed. (This is how pitot tubes measure airspeed - they are simply pressure sensors.)

The temperature rise from the compression matches what one predicts from PV=NkT

A shock wave is unnecessary. It happens with subsonic flow, too. In fact, it's how refrigerators work.

(In ME101 Fluid Mechanics, the Prof showed how a re-entering satellite would melt even if the atmosphere was a frictionless gas.)
Yes, for one person/house. Everywhere else you would just amplify same noise by producing its copy out of phase.
2049 was an incredible film in my opinion. Hooker sex scene and the baseline test were pretty fantastic.
How does anybody tell? Tattoos?
Flooding 911 is not "making someone uncomfortable" it's endangering the public and interfering with law enforcement.

Blocking an international bridge and disrupting the economy, is that just "making someone uncomfortable"?
> Highly superior to Dune which has a boring plot and mostly lacks compelling images. Seriously, where were the guild steersmen? The dragonfly vessels were okay but do you even remember a spaceship from Dune? Stellan Skarsgard was unrecognizable and boring in the villain role. Plus the fight scenes were horrible.

What movie did you watch? I am so confused.

The _fight scenes_ were horrible? In what way? Even just the first fight scene with the shields was cool and well done.

The thopters were just _okay_? They were _brilliantly_ done, had really interesting special effects, etc.

The spaceship of note in the film would probably be the guild ship, whatever they're called, the hiliners? Looked nice to me. Dune doesn't really have a ton of spaceships, it's planet-centric which makes sense really.

And the plot was boring? I don't even know what to say, that story is very well loved and the movie didn't change too much.
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Unsurprisingly, countries invaded/occupied by another country tend to band together against that county.
> There may well have been in that scene in Lord of the Flies, or not. I don't find it a very interesting question, because absent a statement from the author it's guesswork.

What narrative purposes something serves are absolutely an interesting question-- whether the author intended it or not. And, in quality literature, there's a lot less put there on accident that survives the editing process.

In the end, we can't know anything about intent, but we can figure out a whole lot about what makes the book work, at least for us.

Studying this type of thing makes people into better writers and more astute readers.

I've not read your books, but you have Goodreads reviews indicating that you do a whole lot of telling the reader about your world and things rather than setting up scenes that show them. The bits with pigs in Lord of the Flies are very clear showing, with a combination of literary intent and leaving room for readers' own interpretations.
That's correct, we were fortunate enough to win an ACX Grant (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/acx-grants-results)!
> The temperature rise from the compression matches what one predicts from PV=NkT

That's a null statement, since that holds for any (ideal) gas regardless of how it got into its current state.

If you mean, the temperature rise is the same as if it were adiabatically compressed to the density or pressure the gas has after the shock, then that is not true.
Perimeter: services totally naive to authentication and authorization. It is assumed that no bad actors could open a connection in the first place. If you are in the office or on VPN, you’re good. Perhaps there are broad compartments like different rooms in the office or different firewall profiles loaded by the VPN.

Proxy (BeyondCorp): services remain naive but employees and offices are evicted from the trusted network. Employee requests go to the proxy, which checks authentication and authorization before passing along the trusted network to services. Services and potentially engineers/SREs who can get on the production network can still make whatever requests they like.

Zero Trust: all services on the production network authenticate all requests. Even if you are root on a production box you would need tokens/certs to get useful responses from other services on the same production network segment.

I entered the industry at a “proxy” company that is pushing towards zero trust. It’s hard to believe that the “perimeter” model is real. But you look at something like Target getting owned by thermostats in its stores that merely needed internet access, it is clear that some enterprises do work that way.
The twin facts that the market maker gets to decide the outcome, and there being no binding requirements for how something closes, makes it an exercise in absurdity. By leaving the decision up to them, you've made it impossible to measure the variables independently, so you'll never even be able to draw any useful opinion data out of it. It's not that hard to write a trading platform. I thought of an open prediction platform like this in 2011. The really hard part would be to write a framework in business logic and code that lets people design and resolve prediction contracts in a clear, enforceable, stable way. I'd personally be embarrassed if I wasted time building something like this just to say bluntly that there are a hundred ways it could be taken advantage of. If that's the case, you've thought just enough about the real problem to know that you can't solve it, and you want points for coding the easy part? Garbage.
Open segregation in a workplace is rare due to the "corporate Darwinism" involved with large legal liabilities. So I think that qualifies even with many other real and significant problems of racism.
That doesn't mean they're wrong. 2049 is a very good movie.
This sounds like (hopefully a better executed) PredictionBook. [1] Definitely worth doing, as PredictionBook's UI leaves a lot to be desired, but I was confused at first seeing it described as a totally new concept.

Where can I follow updates on it so that I can join when there's Email signup? Will you be posting to the Substack for future updates too?

[1] https://predictionbook.com/
If you are interested in building programs with proofs of correctness, one of the authors of A Tensor Language (ATL), Adam Chlipala, has a book called "Certified Programming with Dependent Types" that can be read at http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/
I’ve been wanting the same structure of hacker news but for other topics too.

Im currently building one of fashion as it’s a huge interest of mine.

I realised while I’m building this, the solution is not the tech but actually the community providing the posts abs the moderation. I love hacker news because of the highly safe space to be able to have great open discussions.

I get more value from the discussion thread than the link that this shared.
Um, aren't prediction markets backed by real money flat out illegal in the US, except for a few specific exceptions like political races? I hear there's a prediction market that allows you to use real money in the EU but not in the US for this reason.
This is great! I use the JSONVue Chrome extension at work to display JSON files, and I can see the similarities.

If I could suggest one thing: ctrl-u and ctrl-d are pretty common shortcuts for page up and page down, they're even supported in Vim and less. It would make sense to add support for those in addition to the actual PageUp/PageDown keys.
> The copters

Ornithopters.

> the hiliners?

Heighliners.
This is great.

Are there other plain text sites?
I've come to the conclusion that absolute security is a fool's game, sort of like never getting sick. You have a Turing machine, you have a tape, it's not going to be secure. It's better to invest in research on an adversarial "immune system", so to speak.
That's good to hear! Harsimony floated the idea in this post https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/d43f6HCWawNSazZqb/... , and I think it's quite an interesting idea, especially because regulators may look more favorably upon this kind of system if the proceeds go to charity; think of donor lotteries and charity poker nights.