skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I was taking quantum chemistry, and I learned that every molecule’s physical configuration is realizable as a very simple looking Hamiltonian (the typical charge potential + kinetic terms). How is it possible that this simple little equation accounts for all (non-relativistic) chemical properties and geometries??

For example, consider a water molecule: 10 protons, 10 electrons, and 8 neutrons. The Hamiltonian for this molecule consists of the pairwise interactions of the charges along with the kinetic terms for the individual particles, and that’s it. You don’t distinguish between the “atoms” in the molecule. Then, it’s too hard to calculate directly (we typically use various approximations, e.g., Born-Oppenheimer), but if you were able to explicitly compute the energy eigenstates for the full molecular (Coulomb) Hamiltonian, you could take these state vectors to generate probability distributions over physical particle configurations, and you would find that the “clusters” of eigenstates that correspond to energy eigenvalues yield the actual physical shapes of the water molecule. That’s mind-blowing!

And this applies to any molecule at all (or physical system). If, for a specific piece of DNA, you were able to compute the energy eigenstates of the Hamiltonian corresponding to the total number of protons, neutrons, and electrons for that DNA strand (just three integers used to generate the form of the entire molecular Hamiltonian), you would find that somewhere very (very) far along in the landscape of energy eigenvalues that your particular piece of DNA and its geometric form exists.

My multiple attempts to share with friends and family my excitement about the beauty of such a simple equation encoding the physical manifestation of the entirety of chemistry were met with blank stares and a change of the subject, so yes, the well-being benefit to admiring nature’s beauty probably applies only if you’re in a relationship with another scientist.
I don't think this is rocket science.

"The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "
Well the optic nerve has a direct route to the brain

(where the placebo effect begins)
The older you are, the more likely that you will pass genetic abnormalities to your child. Sperm gene quality (i.e. the genetic version of not having bitflips in memory) deteriorates with age. If you have a choice it's probably better to have a similar timetable as women
It's a question of trust, for starters?
Anyone know the current update price? The website says you get a year of updates included but no mention of what each additional year now costs.

> All licenses come with one year of free updates. You can continue to use any version that is released within your free update period forever.
The parent's comment isn't about hospitals sending more money to Epic.
No, some people want to rent from a fleet of cars, so that even if it needs servicing it can be replaced in less than a second.
That model fits functional reasoning. It doesn’t fit all programs, though, as it doesn’t allow the input to depend on the _execution_ of the mutation instructions.

Example: input “I step forward”, output “monster appears”, next input “I try to shoot it”.

That second input wouldn’t be there if the output weren’t executed.
That worked because IE was a steaming pile of garbage after years of neglect. That was also a time when the web was younger and users were more techno-literate. I’d argue that IE was a hedge against the web displacing the OS. After it succeeded in killing off Netscape there wasn’t much to hedge against. A hedge does not make for good product.

Chrome on the other hand is not a hedge, it’s a key strategic interest for Google. It’s a great product from the users perspective, free, fast, leading experience. That’s likely not to falter.

Firefox is a great counterbalance but don’t expect it to lead with average consumers any time soon. From what I can tell it’s playing catch up on core features and it’s innovating in areas where more techno-literate users might care.
Last month I created a menu bar app for Mac to solve a problem I had when traveling. I decided to write about how I came up with the idea, learnt to use Swift from zero, and how I marketed it to get thousands of dollars in sales. Hope you find it interesting!
> Debt does generally have an expiration and is discardable in bankruptcy... unless you live in America.

If we start with other countries, there will be many other catches. Such as personal bankruptcy not being a concept at all in many jurisdictions.
What's the pricing on this?
There's an open source version that works as a simple bookmarklet here: https://github.com/ds300/jetzt
I have not read it, but it likely complements another Hex strategy book: Hex Strategy: Making the Right Connections by Cameron Browne.

[1]. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hex_Strategy/tR7XkqeV31...
All conscientious objectors are required to register
Yes and yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

The thing holding us back from having thorium reactors seems to be how expensive nuclear reactor research is and how unpopular nuclear reactors are.
It puts me in a tough spot, because on one hand I believe public space should be able to be recorded, but on the other hand this is pretty obnoxious behavior and pretty threatening in context. There are laws that cover this kind of stuff that are unrelated to filming, so police definitely could do something here. We see it as a video on the internet and know the intent but in the moment, it's some guy filming you and your family and not explaining why, I would totally get why people are furious.
Percentage increases will never not confuse people. Just like double negatives.
> Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Drinking

You mean "Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking"?
> I suppose I'll have to wait 25 years (or whatever the French patent expiry length is), though.

Is that how patents work in general?

I always thought (and could be very wrong here) that if a patent exists for something but you've developed an alternative something in total isolation without seeing the patent then you would have free reign on how to design and develop your thing without violating the patent.
He wrote Easyway books on a bunch of subjects including smoking, drinking and weight gain.
Hmmmmm.
In the event of a draft, our agency would partner with @fema
to provide opportunities to conscientious objectors to ensure our nation keeps moving forward

https://twitter.com/SSS_gov/status/1506677659182551040
what if Mozilla completely ditched the entire "front-end" and just focus on core (and let every wanting person/company build on top of it)?
> rump showed a fondness for Putin but didn't do anything that would benefit Russia, quite the opposite.

I would count photo ops with Putin and Kislyak in the WH as a win, but not as big as Trump blackmailing Ukraine or openly floating a U.S. pullout from NATO. We're talking about the same Trump, right?

The Russians and Ukrainians I have met in the U.S. all bring up corruption, not the failure of socialism. They tend to be pretty clear on their politics.
It's hard to justify reading the book if I don't think I do want to stop smoking or drinking.

It's enjoyable on multiple levels, just like gaming, commenting on HN, reading interesting articles, going for bike rides, eating good food and many other things.

I understand for people who have negative consequences for something would like to stop (when they're addicted), but if the negative consequences are small compared to the enjoyability, what's the point of stopping something?
I don't think this is rocket science.

"The latest statistics show that 18.4% of women and 7.8% of men on the continent live with obesity "

Couple low BMI with a much lower life expectancy so less people over 65 and I think the main variables are covered.
I'm having trouble understanding the desirability of 'fairness' in spreading ICBM technology beyond the UN security council permanent members (which already include at least one rogue nuclear power) to regimes like the one in North Korea for the rest of the world.. Care to expand on why you chose to highlight the fact that the nations who possess this technology don't want it to spread?
> He should have talked to the paper's authors first.

Sheldrick did exactly that. It is the first line of the article.

"Below is an email I have sent to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, the editor of CHEST Journal, and prof Paul E Marik"
My guess is that part of the issue could be lock contention creating unexpected interactions between multiple simultaneous transactions. Issues like that can be really hard to pin down since there isn't a single transaction causing the problem; instead the load is the result of idiosyncratic interactions between multiple different transactions.
It’s amazing to read your process of learning a completely new tool and overcoming different obstacles along the way. Admire how you keep inspiring people to create, make and solve problems!
Would you be willing to share the details of your PC? I’d really like to build a custom Linux machine with the latest Intel CPUs, but I’ve never built a PC before and I don’t know which components are Linux-friendly.
Yes, I was going to say that making and keeping friends is to do with paying attention to it. If there is an app it is a to do app.
i started self-hosting a bunch of stuff last month: Pleroma (like Mastodon/Twitter), Matrix (chat), Gitea (like Github) and Jellyfin (like Plex, a media server). AFTER i set up the hardware/OS, these each took about 1-2 hours to setup, and it gets faster each time as i get more accustomed to the common parts (nginx, systemd, Lets Encrypt, and whatever containerization you use).

today i accidentally nuked everything by not flushing the disk before rebooting and then naively letting fsck try to ‘fix’ it (which just makes things worse since it unlinks every inode it thinks is wrong instead of helping you recover data). now i’m manually dumping blocks and re-linking them in, supplementing whatever’s not recoverable with a 3-day old backup. that’s probably gonna take an entire day to fix up.

after this i have to figure out a better backup solution, because it costs me $5 of API requests every time i rclone the system to Backblaze, making frequent backups too expensive.

after that, i have to figure out the email part of things. AFAICT it’s pretty much impossible to 100% self-host email because of blacklisting. you have to at least proxy it through a VPS, or something.

and in between that i may spin up a DNS server to overcome the part where it takes 60min for any new service to be accessible because of the negative caching common in DNS.

no, this stuff is just way too involved for anyone who hasn’t already spent a decade in the CLI. i’m only doing this because i’m a nerd with time on his hands between jobs. self-hosting isn’t gonna catch on this decade. but maybe we can federate, so that you just need to have one friend who cares about this stuff manage the infra and provide it to their peers as a social good.

also, i don’t think privacy is the right angle for promoting self-hosting. a good deal of the things that people self-host have a public-facing component (websites; public chatrooms; etc). if privacy is what you seek, then you should strive to live life offline. the larger differentiator for self-housing is control.
For me it seems to be the latency rather than raw speed. It's like how a sprinter can get off the line far quicker than a muscle car even if it's not going to win over a mile. For 90% of what I do, the snappiness of things on the M1 beats raw high end performance. It feels like when I first got an SSD.
Is there a language where people don't use weight for mass?
There goes my karmaaaaaaaa!
But they work the most efficient in mainly sunny and arid areas, which is why it might make sense, to focus automatic constraction there and then later also adopt to more harsh conditions.
I'm not going to try to persuade you (or anyone) from stopping drinking, I'm just saying that for most people it seems a bizarre oversight to not even consider it. You don't need to be so defensive.
> An interesting principle at Meta: compensation and career progression are separate. You can make more when not promoted, than those who are.

It’s not like they are the first company to award people - new hires or veteran employees- with titles instead of money.
I think a lot explains where they went to go.

Considering most want to go to EU, UK, Canada and the US and not eg. Turkeye / Kazachstan / ... They don't share the Putin mindset.

Note: Turkey is popular, bit less than the west according to my observations on telegram where they want to relocate.
Thank you so much! I'm trying to be more open with my process :)
> I have more but I don't want to veer to far off onto a rant, but if you'd like to hear about my interaction/conversation with a recruiter last Friday, I'll gladly share it in a response.

Please do brother. These experiences are important to share for us and everyone that’s not us to understand what goes on.
Also there are only two outcomes - humanity survives, and remembers where we've deeply buried spent fuel, or humanity reverts to the stone age, and loses the technology to dig down to the deeply buried fuel (or goes extinct). Either way, it's not really a problem.
We Knew That Something Big and Awful Was Coming
Are you self taught?
Here's one, though the AI is said to be pretty dumb:

https://boardspace.net/english/about_hex.html

Last time I checked there were a couple of mobile games. Looks like these are still available:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hex-ai-board-game/id1326484730

https://appadvice.com/app/hex-for-ipad/626696176
Could you expand on "I found that ensuring he always has a supply at home has helped with this too"?

I guess you mean that when they'd go out to a pub or bar they'd spend too much, which means that social pressure of embarrassment and bar-staff weren't effective controls. Did the extra money spent add to the pressure?

What I'm curious at is that makes it sound like they're somewhat controlled within their home, or just haven't got an easy source. If that's the case I wonder how small nudges around the home (putting alcohol in a tricky to reach cupboard or out-of-sight) would help.
It's possible that in many areas of life ignorance truly is bliss. Being educated might mean you see through the BS but there's nothing you can do to change it.
I'm sure the work verification information is siloed so they can monetize it better
What a story... glad life found its way. I had a chance to meet you at IG, and that made the story more real than real, so to say. All the best Daniel!
sound samples are often loaded into RAM and can easily cross into 10+GB
Language syntax is always a highly personal matter, subject a coder's preferences. That being said, I'm not very fond of the latest changes that have been implemented in the Python language. The "walrus operator" being the latest example.

As always, there is very good reasoning behind this PEP. And ultimately, when growing a language and becoming more "professional", complexity is added to the language or syntax.

From a personal point of view, I can get behind the following syntax change

value = my_object?.value

instead of doing

if my_object:
value = my_object.value
else:
value = None

or even

value = my_object.value if my_object else None

But looking into other examples given in the PEP, things can get quite messy and "ugly".

mangle_from_ = policy?.mangle_from_ ?? True

I love Python and will continue to use it, both personally and professionally. I just hope the Python developers try to draw a line somewhere. Sometimes a design is good enough and further evolution / development should not be done, because every change can be justified in some way or another.
Not sure if understand what you mean, but if you mean that black holes could eat up the traces of the past and make history inaccessible, then no, at least theoretically. I would assume that the current consensus is that black holes can not do this - which implies that the no-hair theorem is at best approximately true - but we only have unproven ideas which mechanism prevents black holes from destroying information. In practice recovering information from black holes is probably no easier than trying to recover the text of a book by inspecting the smoke of the fire you threw the book into.
Frank was going to die anyway.
I will go and look them up right now. Thanks for sharing @mastah88!
> Chromium is open source too. You can see what settings and telemetry are sent by default

Chromium is. But Chrome isn't.
Also as far away as you could get geographically, though I suppose this is far less of an issue that it would have been in the past. I wonder if nuclear-powered ships could be utilised to deliver the uranium, further cutting the climate impact?
Northern Europe tends to have a few weeks in the winter where both wind and solar are problematic for a few weeks on end. Southern Europe is fine around that time and off shore wind is fine too.

That's why interconnecting grids is so important. We can have Norwegian hydro and Moroccan solar picking up the slack. Plugin all those nice new EVs with vehicle to grid capability built in (Ford, Kia, and a few other manufacturers produce these already) and we're talking a few GWH of standby battery capacity ready to balance the grids as well.

That 5% base load is what we need to secure long term. But given that we essentially have that right now, there's no urgency for that. Maybe it's 10%.

Before anyone asks, I'm basing my numbers on what Michael Liebreich cited in his podcast a while back. Interesting person. He's a british conservative with a technical and economic background. Not your usually hippy environmentalist. Founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance; generally seems to be extremely solid on his numbers. The economics in this area are quite fascinating. If you have better numbers and sources, please share. Base load without numbers is just people waffling.
I would not be surprised to learn that they have similar procedures to one of my past employers, where exec signoff was needed to even publish an update to the service status dashboard...
The first 5-10 years of ... what?
There is a big difference between filming a specific public location, which I happen to pass through, and filming _me_ specifically.

If the location is the subject and I am free to exit or enter the scene without my presence affecting the creativity of the work, then I have far fewer objections. But a video in which _I_ become the subject, which moves to focus my actions, is far more objectionable.
So is ASAP, and there are people who say it as a word ["A-Sap"] as well as people who verbally spell it out ["A-S-A-P"].
The ID would be kept in the glove box as a backup as you would take your phone everywhere.
More accurately, Rosetta doesn't support kernel extensions, and it will not run software that virtualizes x86 machines.

But it's not as if you can't run a virtual machine native to the platform. Qemu works on M1, Parallels works on M1 (ARM VM only) and there is a preview for VMWare's Hypervisor that will run even Windows 11 on the M1, but the VM software is native code (but not necessarily the system in the VM), so Rosetta isn't used.
I respectfully disagree: public shaming should be enough. After all, we have a scientific community for this exact reason: we can tell frauds, or blatant mistakes if we want to feel charitable, by examining them collectively. And that serves as an immunity system against these cases. No other vengeanceful punishment is really necessary.

Also, if we really are fond of consequences, frauds carry over the price of having to confront, for future publishing, with a scientific community that has grown a bias against the frauder; and the latter will have to regain trust if he/she wants to publish again.

The criminal charges should be for those who use unproven scientific results to endorse their own foul agenda.
Way back in the day, I wrote an AI to play hex based on the Genetic Algorithm, for which I drew inspiration from Blondie24, a checkers AI. At the time I didn't realize how much broader the search tree for Hex was compared to checkers. The results were disappointing. I had to reduce the board size to get even modest performance.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie24
The New Internet We Can Expect, Not the One We Want
Mozilla of the past decade is a political and lobbying organization that must maintain market share in the browser market to remain relevant.

Firefox has good engineers who work hard and deserve your trust but they don't set the product direction. The lawyers and politicians do.
Arguably, if you consider things like military spend to be a benefit equally shared by those living in the country being secured: a couple paying taxes with no kids compared to a couple with two kids, are paying double the tax burden already. Anything spent on education, is (arguably) above that.

Careful what you wish for! ;)
> we're consuming significantly more resources then our planet could provide sustainably.

That is not true of everyone. Billions live on/with very little, sustainably.
Yes, I think that the word happy and happiness are wrong words. Acceptance or contentment are better words, but are not as attractive. If you think about permanent acceptance then you can actually see it happening. It's permanent euphoria what's unachievable.
I'd like to question how poorly the article was peer reviewed before publication
What i understand is a slight difference. It is not about stop doing but in understanding it is getting "done through you"
There is currently still no licensed long term storage site for high-level waste in the world. That is amazing really. I consider that a major issue, even if the barriers are mostly political rather than technical.
The RP2040 Stamp
> blocktube

Never heard of it, but it sounds just like the thing I need!

> splashscreens

Must be thumbnails. God I hate clickbait thumbnails. They are even worse than clickbait titles! And those, in return, are even worse than Hitler.
Checks out:

"Madeleine Albright Saying Iraqi Kids' Deaths 'Worth It' Resurfaces"

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...
I'm not defensive, I'm trying to explain my position (as a self-proclaimed "smart and rational" person) since you claimed there was no (logical) reason to have those vices.

You're making strong claims, and I'm just asking you to back those up without forcing people to buy a book that you say supports those claims. Otherwise there isn't much value in you making your claims here.

I'm sure (or rather, I hope) the book helps many who face addiction with those things and there isn't much to lose by helping more people finding the book if they are looking for help, so thanks for sharing it anyway.
Many film scanners capture four channels of exposure data: RGB and infrared. Since developed film can block visible light but is more or less transparent to IR, that winds up being a pretty good map of where all the dust specks are. Which, in turn, allows automatic and very targeted software dust removal that can completely avoid parts of the exposure without dust, producing A quality of output more comparable to that of laborious retouching than inferior automatic software dust removal without a dust map.

IMO that alone is sufficient to justify a film scanner over a DSLR.
The Bitbucket folks were kind enough to delay deletion to let us at Software Heritage archive their Mercurial repositories.

I only see one mercurial repo (yamlconfig) from you, though: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=https%... But you can search them directly on https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ if you used a different username.