skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Interesting career history btw - AgTech is a cool field :)
My nerves are showing here, but economic-policy-by-literary-allusion is, I kid you not, a bad idea. Policy questions should be decided by cause, effect, evidence and discussion. "You've got sympathies for Ebenezer Scrooge!" is possibly the bottom of the barrel of counters if you seriously want good outcomes.
All AI based systems that use your data to improve itself is incentivised to collect everything. Especially if it's free
Not the OP, but I am guessing something along the lines of the following.

If you assume that it's your calculation errors that lead to observed discrepancies (in eg. speed of light), you won't be able to measure speed of light until you can get those errors below the observation threshold.

If you don't even assume that you can get those errors below the threshold, you won't try and you will live happily in belief that the speed of light is, well, infinite.
Modafinil, the prescription nootropic that reduces need for sleep by 2/3 (2018)
I'm not sure what a trash compactor bag is made of, but I imagine it's intended to be disposable.

I recommend a pack liner made of a more durable plastic, as they have a couple of advantages in emergency situations.

1) They can retain air and thus keep you buoyant if you come to grief crossing a river.
2) Assuming you're using a large pack for multi-day trips, you can use a pack liner (and in my country they're designed for this) as emergency shelter if you don't have a bivvy bag or tent.
Definitely. I don't think hammering PyPI's API would be much of problem if the companies doing the hammering paid for the privilege of doing so, though.
Wait, you simply let users know what's a button by the visual decorations and differentiated edges?

And you let them know the status of toggle buttons without forcing them to toggle multiple times and guess based on which colors what might mean what?

Blasphemy!

Next you'll be letting web pages readers know what is and is not a link by using a consistent underline scheme. Which would be a completely unacceptable level of interpretability.
Particulars aside, the pathology is exactly what I’d expect from low level manually managed memory languages. Oh you want a multithreaded abstraction without a VM or GC and you want it to just work? It’s going to do a lot of extra work or it’s gonna be the next “logging failboat” or both.
I really want to rebuild this in a for an existing OS. It’s not the same but it has the perfect feel.
None of that is 'esoteric knowledge' knowledge!

When you hire people you need to check for basic competence.

I've hired plenty of FEDs and it's a nightmare, let me tell you!

It's not about answering the questions as such; it's about how you answer them and your ability to reason.

The lack of basic knowledge is appalling across the board. The industry is full of copy and paste developers with Computing degrees that essentially have zero useful skills. I'm speaking as an Australia BTW. So YMMV :-)
The paper you've linked seems to be written by a crackpot with no training in biology, nor was the paper published in any journal, much less a reputable biology/medical one.
it's a tradeoff between time wasted to react to the situation and time wasted to keep yourself informed. Based on my own experience the time you need to adapt to the situation is a fraction from the time you spend watching the news.
Depends on your use cases :)

For me, a rain cover is a hindrance when I need to retrieve things from my pack, I have to remove it entirely, whereas a pack liner, I just need to unfurl the top of it.

Secondly, as there are very few bridges in the New Zealand back country, we frequently have to cross the channels of braided rivers. A rain cover keeps out water from above, not so much from below.

And as I mentioned in a previous comment, pack liners can, in an emergency, function as a flotation device or emergency shelter.
Which of them is the more complex one?
The interesting thing is to notice how Putin calls the Ukrainians Nazis. It's like he's thinking that it's an easy word to throw around because our society is so prevalent with people throwing that word around. It's like the subversion tactics were to make it easy to call someone a nazi and make it so commonplace to cancel people that he's literally using that term himself.
Why is Ukraine the West’s fault? (2015)
> Border disputes are everywhere, even between close allies like the US and Canada, the UK and France.

Such a weird thing to say. When was the last time Americans and Canadians beat each other to death with barbed-wire wrapped clubs?
Having normal procedural language for build automation is of course useful. That's for those 10% of cases when "standard" build DSL (make,CMake,etc.) simply do not have facilities.

But the rest of 90% tasks should have compact (easily readable) definitions.

I personally found that Premake5 has quite good balance for these tasks.

Premake files are plain .lua files and due to Lua syntax they are easily readable. And if needed you can call from them procedures defined in again Lua.

So typical project (multiplatform) definition looks pretty readable, for example one project from Sciter SDK:

https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/premake5....
Working now (in Australia)
From the paper:

“ Because of the large variation in timescales and concentrations, developing a whole-cell model that treats metabolism, genetic information processes, and growth can, at the moment, only be achieved by hybrid stochastic and deterministic simulations. Kinetics of the essential metabolic network (Breuer et al., 2019) are handled deterministically via ordinary differential equations (ODEs), and the kinetics of the genetic information processes are handled with stochastic simulations.”

This reminds me of a description of how different levels of realism were chosen and combined to simulate a whole person in a Greg Egan science fiction book (Permutation City - I think). IIRC there is a scene where a character spends some time in the shower knowing that the partial differential equations for simulation of the water will be driving up the costs of running the simulation.

Edit: added the bit about Greg Egan.
The code is on Github:

https://github.com/Luthey-Schulten-Lab/Minimal_Cell

https://github.com/Luthey-Schulten-Lab/Lattice_Microbes

This is an impressive result. They've found a nice level at which to simulate. Down at the atom level would take too long. They got this to work at the chemical reaction in 3D space level, low enough that the model maps directly to the biochemistry.

They don't seem to say how many GPUs they used, but the article seems to indicate small numbers, not entire data centers. Current speed is about 1/30 of real time for one minimal cell, which is pretty good.
No, Ebenezer eventually saw the humanity in other people and showed empathy.
Obsessive compulsive disorder isn’t like that. Obsessive would have worked, but OCD is a very poor way to describe this.
The crux of the DDPS architecture seems to be allowing a model to train the many parameters of the sound synthesizer. You would never be able to create a truly realistic piano from a software synth by merely tuning the knobs because there are too many near-imperceptible minor fluctuations in the wave form, like the way the vibrations in aggregate vibrate the wooden piano housing. Training on real life examples, in this case an impressively short clip, gives the model enough data to train these near-imperceptible variations into the synth parameters.

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp
Not scientifically proven, but I used to listen to and love these free playlists: https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/
Well, I think you'd first have to know the resource requirements, and it's reasonable that so few people would be willing/capable of running it that it doesn't make much business sense to focus on that as an option.

I'm certainly curious to know.
You don't have to look much farther than the Facebook page a small town sheriff's department. In the rural midwest-usa county where I live, the sheriff posts mugshots on Facebook and then people just pile on with all kinds of comments celebrating the fact that these awful lowlife drug offenders will finally get the punishment that they deserve. Oh but they are innocent until proven guilty, don't forget.
You're responding to a bitcoin maximalist my friend ;)
Kopia looks great! I am currently using Duplicati for my personal machines, but Mono and its dependencies have been less than reliable. borg/restic/... look good but seem like only part of a solution, having to write my own scripts and crontabs with monitoring etc on top seems counter-productive.

edit: No web interface?
The vertical text alignment is all wrong. :(
People like what they like. It’s likely your grinder isn’t up to my standard. But I’m not going to put it down for no reason.
They literally state that every few months. Lavrov just said it in December.
It was always hard for me to understand exactly what SWIFT is. From what I could get, it’s a bunch of protocols that were standardized in order for banks to communicate between them. When you buy something in thailand with your apple card, barclay’s debit your account, talks to the feds, the feds talks to the BIS or some bank in thailand or some bank that might be able to talk to thailand, and so on. I think swift is the protocol each bank and central bank use to communicate.

If it is so, I’m not sure how you can cut swift from a country. It doesn’t sound like a centralized thing.
What does 'call his bluff' translate to in this context? Not take the threat of a nuclear war seriously and engage with Russia militarily anyways as-if the threat didn't exist?
The "perfect answer" for the doctype is odd, the "also accepted" is, IMO, the perfect answer.

Unless you're hiring someone with indepth experience/PTSD of supporting IE6.
I thought swift was just a protocol that banks used to talk to one another. If so how can it be used to cut russia? I’m guessing I’m missing a part where it is some centralized server somewhere?
How exactly do you return a null object by value?

I know about RVO, but that's irrelevant here because a factory function returning an object by value does nothing to avoid needing to throw exceptions if construction fails.
Very nice. Someone needs to do Windows 3.1 :)
Split-flap clocks don’t have to be as expensive as the Solari clock. They don’t seem to have the economies of scale to be super-cheap these days, but their mechanisms are fairly simple (essentially analog clocks with really weird-shaped hands) and can be had in the ballpark of $50-$100 if you’re not buying what is essentially a name-brand art piece.

Alphanumeric split-flap displays are way more complex and expensive; you won’t find those anywhere for cheap. The higher-end Solari clocks (the ones with added complications like day and date) likely sit somewhere in the middle; I wouldn’t be surprised if these resemble big watch mechanisms with similar complications.
My French Canadian grandmother made:

- Sun tea (room temperature and during the day).

- Moon tea (room temperature and during the night).

- Fridge tea (refrigerated).

She passed away over thirty years ago so do with this what you will, but I’m convinced I could tell the difference. Who knows though.
> It's like he's thinking that it's an easy word to throw around because our society is so prevalent with people throwing that word around.

No, it's more like he is a Russian authoritarian leader appealing to the greatest imagery of Russian national struggle to make a war of aggression look like something more noble.
Have you tried the gnome app "drawing" or the kde apt "kolourpaint" ?
How about WINE?
The system can’t do that. As a matter of fact I know someone who works for a French bank, and they fucked up and created a bunch of money. They had to work overnight with a bunch of accountants going through the books to make sure they reverted everything.

EDIT: apparently they use some old XML protocol, where twice a day a correspondant bank send them a list of accounts to debit or credit. They didn’t send something once, so my friend’s bank just replayed the previous settlement list.
Duolingo was more useful to me when you could fail until you got it right instead of losing your hearts and then getting bumped out of the lesson.

I don't use it any more, but when they added the heart feature, I finally bought a subscription. Without it, Duolingo ends the lesson just as you're about to learn from your mistakes which is unfortunate.
Some people like very simple interfaces, icons and schemes. It's a very utilitarian interface and works fine. I often use lxqt which is pretty barebones on VMs to cut down a bit on the memory footprint.
But does it support thumbnails in the file picker?
Well given China is already running its own genocide why would we expect otherwise?
> By the normal definition, that is plagiarism.

Depends on how much they changed it.

> It is even plagiarism if the person was the original author of the pasted paragraph and it came from another work.

Nah that concept can go screw itself.
I think what he means is that they can literally credit an account with new money in their database and it would work.
In a similar vein, there’s one called brain.fm which I’ve used for years now and it gets me in the zone every time.
American culture IS incredibly backward and barbaric. And that's really putting it mildly.
Not sure what you mean, but I think that’s why crypto is so interesting: you have this public ledger that is auditable and where safety is maintained by consensus.
Either or? Sometimes I drink it cold and other times I’ll heat it up. It depends on my mood.

Heated up is when I think I taste the biggest difference but sometimes I wonder if I just think it tastes good because I spent a whole day waiting for it…:)
There's also the Vestaboard (about 3k) if money is no object. Compared to the price of building one from scratch it's probably not a bad deal. 132 characters including colours. It is essentially an art piece, but it does look amazing.

https://europe.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard
Yes but my point is that the liability and asset paradigm described still will hold.

It’s simply that the liabilities are held by people who aren’t born or are obsfucated to the point that people don’t realize they are holding them. Inflation is one example
I suggest starting with Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Specialization set of courses. It is a very decent overview.
To my recollection it’s manual and yes that’s why it’s expensive. Imagine it gets added to a queue, then daily via swift, the banks settle with each other. The queue has a bunch of different stuff and is a net single transfer between bank A and B depending on who owes who today. The manual part confirms that it was added to the queue which allows them the comfort of giving you access to the cash immediately. I think the fed insures these transactions and requires immediate availability of funds.
Why do you think facebook etc. doesn't try to limit posting etc? They already enforce such step. But when somebody pays these trolls to create new account and spread intolerance what can you do? These are not bots but a real people hired using pennies to spread misinformation.
Protocols like fastpay, at2, bullshark, have all claimed hundreds of thousands of transaction/s
I was hoping that there will be something in the guide for session hijacking.

I recently seen many youtubers having their channel hijacked due to hackers taking over their Google account.
First paragraph I follow, but how do you get to the point of the second paragraph? Cryptocurrencies are an update on the current system to remove some of that trust.
Depends on the season. In the summer months, I like to add it to milk and, maybe, ice. In the winter, I add hot water. Cold brew coffee is often stronger, so drinking it straight (heated or cold) is a good way to end up jittery.
I'm surprised that they haven't learned the lessons of Afghanistan (the Soviet era, the NATO era) about a population that is fighting for their homeland, vs. soldiers fighting because they were told to.

Or, I guess, the lessons of the Eastern Front of WW2.
Doesn't HTTPS encrypt your traffic to Grammarly's server?
1. Ethereum is probably one of the slowest cryptocurrency

2. You’re citing avalanche numbers that are not at peak traffic

3. Avalanche is not far from being the fastest crypto
I used to be able to tell the difference between pre- and freshly-ground. These days I really don't care that much; you can still get decent results. Similarly weighing the coffee is going to be more accurate, but it's not as crucial as in espresso or moka where you the amounts are small and significantly affect the resistance to the flow.
It's not your nerves that are showing here if you can't figure out that 98% of employees make more than the Federal minimum wage because state/city minimum wage is higher than Federal in many states and cities.

That's ignoring a huge number of people making barely above minimum wage in their locality (enough to fall in that percentage, not enough to make a difference in quality of life).

I'll take economic policy by allusion to literature over economic policy by ignorance and bad faith any time of the day, thank you.
AWS's recent redesign makes every single UI element have 16px of whitespace. What exactly was the point?
> If it is so, I’m not sure how you can cut swift from a country. It doesn’t sound like a centralized thing.

Like any other sanctions: the government says “If you do X, don't do it with any Russian bank. If you do, people with guns will come, throw you personally in jail, and impose financial penalties on your business.”

And then transactions from Russian banks to banks in countries with that kind of sanctions suddenly have a very high rate of falling into the bit bucket without having any business effect.
Maybe there is a way to enforce integrity without revealing anonymity like phone number, credit card number without revealing personal identity or some trusted third party who can verify the identity during registration? I just want to say nobody should be able to get away by posting atrocious things, scams etc.
This is awesome. The last time I looked, the only background removal I found for OBS required a green screen.

It's a shame Nvidia broadcast doesn't work on Linux. If you use this with CUDA, are the results comparable?
It is so wonderful to see that <dialog> finally shipped in Firefox 98, yielding full cross-browser support for that feature at long last.

That nine year journey was tracked here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840640
I've also written a Linux driver, a filesystem, IPC code across an ARM CPU and proprietary DSP, web apps in PHP, Python, React, and Go, desktop apps, data pipelines, reporting dashboards, and all kinds of other things. Same as my sibling I stay curious and say yes a lot.
Have you spotted a better way to put ratings on a game based on this data?

I feel like there are more mediocre games with "Overwhelmingly positive" reviews than "mostly positive". I barely play most games that I buy, so I don't really want to waste time on meh games with high reviews. I'm looking for the type of games that I might love but everyone else hates.
> Yep! This is the fundamental "disruption" blockchain tech introduced. It doesn't require trust.

Not a native English speaker, so I may miss some nuances, but can you explain how you do not need trust that you find tomorrow someone fool enough to give you something valuable against your token? Where else does the "store of value" come than trust that there are greater fools tomorrow?
I'd happily hire someone who can write clear, maintainable code in the framework-of-the-month over someone who can remember how to change the Apple status bar color without Googling it.
>Simple example - show me a method of handling reconciliation of fraud/contract dispute for bitcoin that doesn't fall back on the legal systems of those government systems you're so happy to rail against.

There are some people who would much rather trust the government with total control over their money, and there are some people who would much rather take responsibility for their money even if that means the government isn't there to swoop in and save them if they are foolish enough to be swindled or entrust money to someone who defrauds them. In a free society, people would be able to choose whether to incur the risks associated with the government or the risks associated with total control over their own finances. It is very telling that adherents for government control seek to eliminate this choice at the point of a gun.
Ask HN: Similar communities to HN that are less cynical?
This post was on the front page a few days and really resonated with me [1]. I love HN, because there is nowhere else on the internet with the same concentration of intelligence, deep knowledge and mature perspective on things.

However like the author I’ve noticed myself becoming increasingly cynical about tech, and the world. This is a very bad attitude to have for any startup ambitions, where optimism (bordering on irrationality) is necessary to succeed. So I want to start reading other things more often.

What other communities are there that are more optimistic, but still have a similar level of intelligence, experience etc?

1. https://kg.dev/thoughts/i-love-you-hn-but-youre-toxic
Ukrainian tech companies hope for the best, plan for worst
I also agree in theory, but Ben McCormick's ~/.vimrc is tiny and is easy to understand for newbies, so I'm OK with it.

But yes, adopting the rule that you should never put anything in your ~/.vimrc that you don't understand from building it up over time and usage is a good one.
MIT abandons Russian high-tech campus partnership in light of Ukraine invasion
With lightning you can have infinite tx per day while having final settlement. In contrast Visa and Mastercard have delayed settlement and operate on many layers of trust
I would argue it would be better to use

font: RobotoBold.ttf

font: RobotoBlack.ttf

font: RobotoThin.tff

As they are named here. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto

using Roboto 600 is meaningless and should be an error.

Because the font designers have made specific decisions about how the font should change as it gets thinner or heavier. There is no continuum along which you can just choose how think you want the font.

The numbers are meaningless noise.
I plan to switch to Linux for my main machine and the only thing I'll miss is Nvidia Broadcast. I know the voice part of it is integrated in OBS, but not sure if that works on OBS Linux.
I've found <fieldset> to be immensely useful.

For one it lets you create logical groupings and paired with legend give you a header type element.

The main bonus is if you add the attribute "disabled" it will disable all the child form elements. Which makes it very simple to lock a form when it's being submitted to the server
Same. It took about 25+ years, and a hobby that happens to pay the bills. Interesting that you say that about how things are similar. It’s so true! The same patterns/abstractions are everywhere, just with different words in them, different orders, and sometimes, different names.

I also have no interest in an SRE role. I don’t like being on-call. I build systems to fail gracefully so I never work weekends, but most people don’t do that for some reason.

I currently work as a SWE. We don’t have explicit roles where I work, but my responsibilities are in-line with a principal or lead engineer.
Surely you don't think this would be the _only_ tech-oriented conversation starter / interview question in a full-stack interview. This is for testing the front-end "half" of a full-stack dev's skills. A separate conversation in the same interview would be had for node, SQL, etc.
I mean the colloquial usage of OCD.
Perhaps, but perhaps not.

We think in stories, and economists use the term "story" frequently as a quasi term of art.

Well understood cause, effect and evidence are few and far between in social sciences.