skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think she was trying to say that those disciplines contribute to the progress of society in any meaningful way. The point, in my opinion, was that particle physics has neither relevance for societal progress, nor currently makes progress in the foundations of physics (as opposed to the other two disciplines).
Write down the value/impact of each task, and time to completion. Work on tasks with highest value/time-spent.
While I generally agree with Epic's positions, it seems like a bit of a stretch here, considering that Android allows both sideloading and alternative app stores.

Unlike on iOS, there's nothing on Android stopping Bandcamp from releasing a standalone sideloadable app with any payment system they desire.
Gear – The iOS Browser Supports Userscript
It's real. Now that I think of it, I vaguely remember in early primary school frequently finishing tasks* early, and then having nothing to do, or being put on some time wasting activity. Not very enjoyable. Might be a learned behaviour from that.

*In one instance that I recall, we had these children books for learning to read. While other kids were whispering while reading, I was silent reading them, and much faster than them. (I particularly remember the other kids commenting that I was just pretending to read.) So, I went through the available books.

*Another time we were supposed to underline all the words we didn't understand in a story. Since there were none, I just went through it again a few times and underlined words that looked more difficult just to finish the task. (When the teacher checked it, they just said they knew I already understood those words.) (I suppose "frog" doesn't qualify as a difficult word.)

(That was during first and second grade.)
There's a saying I learned in shooting that applies to most physical activities/sports. "Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast." It also applies to working as part of an aorganization. Process and bureaucracy might make you slower as an individual contributer but still speed up the organization.
In the context of 100 years of electric buses, 10 years is still quite new.

Agreed that this is an error on the manufacturer. It's actually really hard to get design and manufacturing quality to such a high degree to prevent one of the many many many cells from shorting and causing a fire. The battery manufacturers that have this figured out have built a really great wall for themselves, which is probably why we won't see many new large battery manufacturers from here on out.
True. But people think about it a bit differently. People don't always expect == to be a function call.
I’m interested in the studies that will come out using pandemic traffic data and public surveys. There’s been a dramatic shift in commuting from 3 years ago and I wonder if we’ll return to the same sort of gridlock.

Some questions:

If companies broadly reject work from home policies would they also reject peak shifting policies?

Are workers interested in returning to offices and then working odd hours?

If everyone adopts hybrid schedules does it just drop white collar commuters by 40%?

If traffic stays light and downtowns are empty, which transit or highway projects are now needed or may no longer be needed?
At least in Android it is already the case, I have installed both F-Droid and Huawei's AppGallery in an otherwise stock android. (And prefer to get as much as possible from F-Droid)

Apple on the other hand has a war against "evil" sideloading. :P
Boats/Cutters in the USCG are painted pretty regularly for this exact reason. Shipmates, get your paint buckets and brushes out...
PyScript: Run Python in your HTML
You are right. But Go Channels come also with the superpower of „select“, which allows to wait for multiple objects to become ready and atomic execution of actions. I don’t think this part can be retrofitted on top of simple BlockingQueues.
Why, do pay attention to headlines like that if you have money to invest. You want to buy good stocks at the bottom.
As the island of improvement grows, so grows the shores of suffering.

But can a dataset really encapsulate human suffering? Is there a lower percent of people suffering but are they each suffering more individually? What is the quality of the suffering? Is it better to suffer 30 years with pain or to die after a month of it?
i posted a longer protest & got censored for it.

in short, i think there's a lot of extremely disruptive & chaotic uses of platforms & platforms have no obligation to host discord & chaos & madness. trying to suss out where the line is is hard, and sites do sometimes fail, sometimes acknowledged & fixed & sometimes not. but i don't see this as systematic, i don't see it as suppressive. most views are expressible.

people need to be able to set up their own spaces & stop being so angry & distraught they get kicked off of places that don't want to host their brand of speech. sites have a right to govern themselves, to select, and there should be no problem, no constraint about that: people need to be able to host themselves, host each other, become the alternatives they want to see. people could do that, could make their own spaces, there's nothing in the slightest preventing alternatives from arising, but it feels like outrage & indignation is the popular response, not taking action. we're too bound up, we care too much what individual sites do.
Gentle reminder, there is also ClojureCLR.

https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
I mean, we still have records of Josephus Flavius' (not a Christian and not associated with the early church) writings. He was writing something like 50 to 60 years after the date of Jesus death. However, it should be pointed out he mentioned something like 20 people all called Jesus (in Koine Greek), because it was at the time a relative common soubriquet. No early writers seem to doubt the existence of such a person although they definitely differ on the details.

In short, it's highly unlikely Jesus is purely fictional, and there was almost certainly someone known as Jesus executed by Pontius Pilate. Is this going to make a difference to your beliefs in any direction? No.
> and there's no still no date when it's supposed to be

September 20 (in Preview)

> I'm saying I can get the benefits of Project Loom -right now-, in production ready languages/libraries, outside of the JVM

Only sort-of. The only languages offering something similar in terms of programming model are Erlang (/Elixir) and Go — both inspired virtual threads. But Erlang doesn't offer similar performance, and Go doesn't offer similar observbility. Neither offers the same popularity.
I think it's very easy to vastly underestimate how much brainpower went into making JS fast. It's looks like a very slow language on the tin, with it's interpreter, associative objects and overall structure, but, given how much people use it, browsers spent a lot of money making it seriously fast.

It's a bit like x86: Other concepts like ARM, RISC and Itanium seem like they should be a lot faster than the outdated, massively retrofitted house of cards that is x86, but with billions of dollars invested into getting it fast, it's really hard to beat it with a different design at a lower budget.
That's probably an average figure as of 5 or more years ago. The number varies depending on the patent classification and pay grade. (Higher pay grade means you get less time.) I don't know what the average across the entire USPTO was, but as a new examiner I frequently had an "expectancy" (the name for the number you quoted) of around 20-25 hours. And as I said, getting a ton of extra claims only got me 1 more hour. (Typical US patent applications have 20 claims. I once had an application with 45 claims that other examiners kept transferring around because they didn't want to work on it... I had to work on that one and it was a huge waste of my time. The attorney basically used the shotgun approach to claims drafting, hoping that one claim would get through, but none did.)

And keep in mind that's for only a certain amount of examination. The first "office action" (response to the application) gets 62.5% of that time, and subsequent actions get a different (smaller) fraction of that time.
Also IMAP has this unfortunate property.
Basically, it would already work if you left out the diverging part.
However, the exhaust has still excess pressure.
You want to make it do work while expanding to ambient pressure, so you provide a ring around the throat where the exhaust pressure pushes against to direct the exhaust momentum vector for every part of the exhaust plume to be as close to retrograde as possible.
Sideways momentum is wasted momentum.

To actually get it to push against your ring, the diameter can't increase too fast, because the sideways flow velocity of the exhaust inside your bell needs to be subsonic. So you first increase steeply, because it's still high pressure and thus hot and thus has a high speed-of-sound, and gradually reduce how fast you increase (gradually reducing the taper).

Eventually you have expanded it to a pressure equalling ambient pressure, and won't get more thrust from further expansion (doing more also causes flow separation at the edge where ambient air pushes the plume radially inwards and separates it from the inside surface of the bell. The supersonic shock effects can break your bell if you're not careful.).

Also at low pressure you get little thrust per additional nozzle area, while the low temperature requires a low taper that requires a lot of surface for the additional nozzle area. That is why even vacuum engines don't go down to extremely low exhaust pressure.

IIRC you can only ever double your momentum with an expanding nozzle, even in the asymptotic limit of an infinite bell in perfect vacuum and compared to a knife edge throat.

Fundamentally, rocket nozzles are weird open-cycle heat engines subject to the Carnot limit. Thrust times (exhaust) velocity is power, and the chamber (combustion) temperature your hot side.
If your exhaust has a different molecular mix than the atmosphere, there is some additional energy to theoretically gain from there. Otherwise, you should have IIUC reached outside temperature when you reach outside pressure. Or maybe you would need to expand to outside temperature regardless of pressure to scratch at Carnot-efficiency...
I remember correctly, I remember learning Sinclair BASIC from the manual, when I was 8 years old (1983).
Underwater power cables make lobsters larvae bad swimmers
> ...extreme-couponing aspect for people who budget down to the penny...

It's the opposite. 1.5% of zero is zero, but 1.5% of a large sum is something material. The cashback credit cards are worth for those who spend a lot of money for it to be worthwhile.

Back of the envelope: $6K per month is $1,000 per month of cashback (or airline miles, points, etc).
I dunno about "progress" per se but when smart physicists and mathematicians leave their fields, they often end up in finance and tech. Mostly doing the opposite of "societal progress," they're pulling levers to maximize profit from the destruction of society.

What I'm saying here is essentially "idle hands are the devil's playground." Keeping wonks fascinated by the minutae of the nature of the universe is, in my mind, better for society than many alternatives I see.
I had a girlfriend in Amsterdam who taught me to make scrambled eggs in a double boiler. This keeps the eggs at the temperature of boiling water. The result is so much better (light and fluffy) that you will never use your skillet again. I have heard that there are special large double boilers that are used to prepare scrambled eggs for restaurants, but I have never seen one.

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That's so far away that "indefinitely" applies. If I told you could live until there was no more usable energy left in space, would you worry about not being immortal?
As opposed to open season on new theory - or even new kinds of theory.

The Standard Model is a bit of a franken-theory of a thing, a kit of parts bolted together in awkward ways. It looks a lot like the pre-quantum ad-hoc theories that attempted to describe quantum effects before QM was invented.

It's hard to believe that physics can't do better. But easy to believe that physics won't do better while most of the money and all of the mental space is owned by concepts that are more than a hundred years old now.
I hope they are not expecting normal people to use these silly words.
India has painted entire cities before! (Jodhpur blue, Jaipur pink)
If you have to ask you can't afford it :)
> I think today there's even variants approved for such use.

Yeah, look up ‘Vetbond’ and ‘Dermabond’. They are not strictly superglue, but longer chain cyanoacrylates, which confer them some properties such as higher flexibility and bacterial growth inhibition.
How do you earn a living?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329598:

"You can use popcount() to implement a sparse array of length N containing M < N members using bitmap of length N and a packed vector of M elements. A member i is present in the array if bit i is set, so M == popcount(bitmap). The index of member i in the packed vector is the popcount of the bits preceding i."

FWIW: These kind of sparse array tricks have been around forever:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-03/msg01308.html

The original idea for that patch didn't come from philip bagwell's paper, but from some code from the late 80's i saw at IBM.

Thus, i suspect this kind of thing has been around forever
I think that you are wrong in many ways, but I will point out just one of them: GPS was developed in the 1970s, and was made available for public use in the early 1990s. Quite a lot of people whose taxes paid for the development of GPS in the 70s were still alive in the 90s to make use of it. In fact, many of them are still alive today, 30 years later. They have benefited greatly from that investment.
As long as you’re not using docker for windows you should be fine. Docker desktop for windows uses a network share, to connect the Windows filesystems to the Linux docker system.

Volumes are made exactly for holding databases. And also bind mounts should work without any issue in most configurations.

But if there is some kind of network/virtualization between the physical disk and the container, you should investigate it in more detail.
> There’s been a dramatic shift in commuting from 3 years ago and I wonder if we’ll return to the same sort of gridlock.

AFAICT, we largely have in my area. The durable changes seems to for a very narrow slice of the workforce, which I am fortunate enough to be in, but whenever I have a (non-commuting) reason to drive in normal commute hours, it already looks pretty similar to pre-pandemic, even while the process of orgs announcing rollbacks of regular telecommuting continues.
Indefinitely doesn't mean forever. I think hundreds of billions of years would suffice.
As I understand it, not so much.

More like "how we see ourselves through our assumptions about how other people see us."
It seems anachronistic to refer to the Spectrum as a PC rather than as a microcomputer.

I miss the term microcomputer, but now that everything contains microprocessors (up to and including supercomputers), I suppose it makes more sense to call personal computers personal computers.
We don't know that. There are a lot of potential answers to the Fermi paradox.
Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people
That's been used to refer to the changes caused by Covid over the last couple years. It's added mostly up to mild inconvenience for me, but it definitely has had serious impact on the Healthcare sector and is being blamed for the undermanned crews in the Navy.
Yes, we might collapse and never recover, but the universe is a really big place, so there might be civilizations which avoid that. And if they did, then maybe we can also.
In SICStus Prolog, the query I showed yields C = 108 by default, because "Hello, world!" is interpreted as the list of character codes [72,101,108,...].

In contrast, in all the recent systems I mentioned, the double-quoted string "Hello, world!" is interpreted as the list of atoms of length one ['H',e,l,l,o,...]. This is preferable because it is more readable, and also because reasoning about such atoms in Prolog programs does not depend on any system-specific character encoding.

In all ISO conforming systems, we can switch between these two interpretations of double-quoted strings by setting the Prolog flag double_quotes to codes and chars, respectively. The interesting phenomenon I mentioned is that both the earliest and the most recent Prolog systems acted as if this flag (which was not available yet in the first Prolog systems) was set to chars, interrupted by a number of years where it was set to a different default value in the Edinburgh tradition of Prolog systems. It is interesting because the newest Prolog systems follow the Marseille tradition in this respect, which precedes the Edinburgh tradition.

Prolog does not have a native "string" type, neither SICStus nor the other systems I mentioned have it, because such a type does not fit into the language. Still, we often call a list of characters a string, much like we call a char array a string in C, even though C does not have a native string type either.

One can force an ISO conforming Prolog system to interpret double-quoted strings as atoms, i.e., to interpret "Hello, world!" as the atom 'Hello, world!', by setting the flag to the value atom. It is preferable to set it to chars though, because this allows the application of DCGs for reasoning about strings.
I do datacenter optimization at Google and SCIP is ~2 orders of magnitude slower than Gurobi for our problems.
In India’s defense, not much of the world has condemned china’s aggression at the Indian border over the past 2 years, and this has factored into India’s response on Ukraine
> And EPIC now has to individually manage the acquired companies, make sure they're not competing against each other

Tim Sweeney is buying creator marketplaces. The Github in each market: 3D (sketchup/artstation), 2D (artstation), music (bandcamp), etc. It's the Microsoft play, but for creatives.

He's trying to leapfrog the gaming industry and build a content creation engine that encompasses Hollywood, marketing, architecture, automotive, you name it. He's actively cultivating skilled creator mindshare and winning.

He's also trying to set legal precedent that siloed distribution marketplaces can't charge an arm and a leg and enforce draconian rules, because his play is a two sided multi-channel marketplace where he wins regardless of where you buy or sell.

The endgame for Tim is huge if it works.
RelationalAI wants to change the way intelligent apps are built
teenagers don't watch tv but toddlers and younger children that want to emulate teenagers watch tv, because their parents have cable or re-subscribed to cable

a lot of children in a structured household get brief doses of unguided tiktok and social media due to parental controls, and the things they do see they want more of it

it kind of filters for those kinds of families, which typically have other forms of stability to accomplish structure, which means money.
Cool information and links. Thanks for sharing!
"Design language"? It looks like a bad rip-off.
This answer is growing on me. My first reaction was "well that's not really what I meant", but actually my question could have been phrased as "I want to use one-process-per-logical-task design, but this is too heavyweight, so I want a solution designed around (lightweight process technical details)" and your answer is basically "Elixir and Erlang have lightweight processes allowing you to use one process per logical task". It doesn't really matter if it's using the exact technical details I specified; it has one process per task, and therefore no library fragmentation because that basic design scales well.
Feel Like a Kid Again in This Stylish Treehotel in Sweden(2016)
The Narcissist Family Files
The pyramid does confuse and muddy the waters a lot. Scott Kaufman's post[1] on his "sailboat" metaphor unpacks the problem well:

The familiar pyramid shape suggests that once we complete each step, we’re done dealing with that need forever. As if life were a video game, and once we complete each level, we unlock the next, with no looking back. It’s an appealing concept. It’s also a gross misrepresentation of the humanistic vision that propelled Maslow’s work.

Maslow emphasized that we are always in a state of becoming and that one’s “inner core” consists merely of “potentialities, not final actualizations” that are “weak, subtle, and delicate, very easily drowned out by learning, by cultural expectations, by fear, by disapproval, etc.”

[1] https://scottbarrykaufman.com/sailboat-metaphor/
The concept of "carriers" might change as they start to carry smaller unmanned planes - quadcopters tend to be at a disadvantage to fixed wing drones when longer ranges and longer loiter times are required.

The solution to ship-killer weapons is decentralization, replacing a single juicy target with many dispersed targets. A Predator or Bayraktar sized drone designed for naval operations could be launched from a "dronecarrier" much, much smaller and cheaper than the current carriers.
“The most common eye disease associated with near-infrared radiation is cataracts. Prolonged exposure to IR radiation causes a gradual but irreversible opacity of the lens. Other forms of damage to the eye from IR exposure include scotoma, which is a loss of vision due to the damage to the retina. Even low-level IR absorption can cause symptoms such as redness of the eye, swelling, or hemorrhaging.”

https://ehs.lbl.gov/resource/documents/radiation-protection/...
pron talks about this on https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part2....
Show HN: Accountability tool that puts your money on the line
Show HN: Accountability tool that puts your money on the line

Hi HN!

I built a tool on Optimism (an L2 rollup) on Ethereum that helps help you ACTUALLY stay accountable for your tasks/goals.

Pick an accountability buddy and lock some in the contract.

If you complete the task, you get your money back.
If you fail, it’s donated to @khanacademy

More details here:
https://twitter.com/amirbolous/status/1520447612234600448?s=20&t=zWi_wLGjIJGX2UDVnK0HQg

https://keepmeaccountable.xyz/
https://github.com/amirgamil/accountable

Tool is completely free to use minus gas fees which should be relatively low (less than $0.5) because this on Optimism!
Though the install rate would drop considerably. Most users are not comfortable with sideloading.
> Why does this malady strike the U.S. Navy and healthcare so severely?

Totally government run in the case of the military, and healthcare is the most heavily regulated industry (by far) in the US. Heavy bureaucratic regulations make an organization unable to adapt to local and/or changing circumstances.

I read in the book "The Pity of War" by Ferguson that the reason the death rates of the German army in WW1 were so much lower than that of the British is the British generals would craft detailed orders on how the soldiers were to achieve objectives. The German generals would instead just give the officers the objectives. The officers were free to adapt to local circumstances.

A similar idea is a story I heard where a class of new lieutenants were asked how would they go about raising a flagpole. The lieutenants all wrote down detailed instructions and procedures. The instructor said you're all wrong. The correct answer is "sergeant, get that flagpole up!".
This sounds like the lessons of Prolog. And Prolog needs hints once it gets real. Naive search generates too large a space.