skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ethical approval Our study was approved by the director of the Burnet Institute.

For research on humans, you need to use the institutional research board. It’s unethical to use approval from a director, as they have a direct conflict of interest in this crucial research being performed.
Yeah the one good decision by that former dev was to use Mongo Atlas, so the data layer is completely decoupled from GCP.
Thanks, fixed — I misremembered the platform I watched it on.
Thats how you grow a kid whos addicted to netflix and frozen chicken nuggets.
From what I understand, British supermarkets are insanely cheap when it comes to food. You can't usually get even remotely similar prices in the US.
Yes, the number of Pakistanian, Indian, Nigerian and so on websites EU people visit is off the scale. Oh, wait, it isn't. And even then: technically they do fall under the GDPR.
Audio and video production, and web and app development.

I don’t think many people are switching from linux and windows (although I switched from a linux thinkpad to m1 air), but those upgrading from intel macs to m1 macs are seeing huge jumps.
If have a feeling that those cosmonauts will have place in history as being last Russian cosmonauts in Russian spacecraft for a long time.

Russia is becoming North Korea. They have no money to do things on their own and they are being shut out from collaboration. Chinese may take Russians cosmonauts to visit, but that's it.
I remember a lot of the same sentiment about GNOME 3, but if you recall, were you aware of WMs or other DEs at the time?

There was a short lag between when 2.32 was deprecated and when Maté and Cinnamon were released, and I remember XFCE and KDE still being pretty excellent. I used tiling WMs on my other TTYs so changing the defaults didn't affect me.
I went to Reed as an undergraduate in the recent past and spent 2 academic years (freshman and sophomore) attending the training courses to earn both a Reactor Operator and Senior Reactor Operator licenses. Each level took about one and a half semester and consisted of weekly lectures and labs. The remaining half semester is spent on prepping for the federal licensing exam. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission fly out 2 examiners at the end of each academic year to administer these exams (around 3 hours of written exam and 2 hours of “walk through” exam where they walk with you around the facility and ask you anything and everything about the reactor and its supporting systems). As an undergraduate, your license automatically expires when you graduate unless you become an associate director of the reactor (I personally know one person who was good enough to qualify for this exception). It was a unique experience and I learned a lot about nuclear physics in the process.
She underwent six months of chemotherapy and a mastectomy in April 2018, followed by 15 cycles of radiotherapy which cleared her body of cancer.

But in October 2019 the cancer returned, and scans showed it had spread to her lung, lymph nodes and chest bone and she was told she had a poor prognosis.
'Horrible side effects'

Two months later, the mother-of-two was offered a two-year trial at The Christie of an experimental medicine combined with Atezolizumab, an immunotherapy drug.
Doctors have told her she is now showing no evidence of the disease.
Great write!

When I started Linux I was confused by the cpu/processor scheduler and IO scheduler, would be even better if the article can point out the difference briefly.

In AI workload these days, how to schedule thousands of parallel threads(SIMD style) becomes more and more interesting, wish someone had a good write on that topic.
Among the interesting developments is the growing set of non-profit newsrooms.

There are the venerable institutions of PBS and NPR in the US, broadcasting on television and radio respectively, as well as increasingly online through video and podcasts.

ProPublica is probably the best known of the recent arrivals, providing investigative journalism at a national level.

I'd submitted a couple of items on Chicago's public radio station, WBEZ, acquiring one of the city's two remaining daily print papers, the Sun Times.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/1/18/22890454/chicago-sun-...

The other, the Tribune, was acquired by the vampire-capital firm Alden Capital somewhat over a year ago and has been emitting coronal mass ejections of reporters, columnists, and staff, since, though many curiously remain on the paper's masthead...).

WBEZ didn't pay for the acquisition, it was paid to take over the paper. Which might tell you something of the market for print news media presently.

Another notable example is the Baltimore Banner, which officially launched two weeks ago on June 14. It's another non-profit, is looking to expand to 70 journalists. It is online-only.

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimore-banner-offic...

But both the Sun Times and the Banner are big-city papers. They're not papers reaching into small towns and rural areas, in which the news desert truly exists.

I see two possible paths forward. One is for news-as-public-good, in which jouranlism is publicly (and preferably locally) supported. Another is a return to the partisan press of the past, notably the 19th and early 20th centuries. Given the dominance of right-wing talk radio, Fox, OANN, Breitbart, and similar organisations, it seems at least one political party is already largely there.
We're just exiting an ice age. The world is currently one of the coolest times its ever been.
But he promised to use them only for good, not for evil! (I may have just strained my eye-rolling muscle)
I agree. There are zillions of stories like this every day. This one does not belong on HN.
relevant info on the earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake
Those enjoying them aren't gonna wanna talk about them much for fear they get ruined by strangers who "know whats best."

This is absolutely a thing. I have servers hosted on my local tiny ISP that only permit my local ISP's CIDR blocks as there is really no need for others to access them. It's literally for the local community. I might set up a VPN endpoint for people that travel some day.
Roemer's Law
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
My least favorite thing about Uber is the cars with interiors that are absolutely coated with cleaners, conditioners, disinfectants, and perfumes.

As a driver with experience cleaning a car after someone threw up in it, I can sympathize with their plight, but I hate stinking like a urinal cake after spending $50-100 for a ride.
Ask HN: Is an undergrad research experience in something other than CS useful?
I am asking this as someone who is not an undergraduate, but rather a post-doctoral researcher who is advising undergraduates who will work with our group. I am a computational physicist, that means that yes I deal with the horrors of scientific code, etc etc, but the general pitch I make for undergraduate students to join us for two semesters is that they will pick up and practice generalizable "power user" level skills, like working with the terminal, shell scripting for coordinating simulation runs, doing basic analysis (making plots), as well as developing basic performance-minded reasoning. The idea is that these skills are definitely a plus if they are physics or engineering students moving on to graduate work, but are also generalizeable to CS in general in case they want to do data science or something like that eventually.

What I'm asking is how truthful is this? To people who are actual developer types, would an undergraduate research project like ours in computational physics look interesting on a resume if you're hiring a fresh graduate? I generally think of myself as adjacent to dev work but not really a developer given the difference in focus and just day to day operations, so I don't want to lie to students when I tell them that this is valuable if you want to be a dev someday.

I'm assuming if you ranked what is remarkable or valuable on a resume for an undergrad, something like an internship at a company is first followed by an undergrad research project in CS followed by working for us, then followed by any other sort of research experience that has no connection to computing in general. Is this correct?
Lawyers at least are going to a school to be professionally trained...

If you're going to roll your own crypto maybe make sure you're professionally trained.
AMD is going to be on the same node as Apple as of this year - Apple is not moving onto N3, they're staying on N5P, and Zen4 will also be N5P, so we can make iso-node comparisons.
Baltimore Banner officially launches, plans to expand to 70 journalists
Show HN: BlablaBlock – A Decentralized Mutual Fund
> And yet, as a solo dev, I've written auto-scaling architecture using, for example, the AWS ec2 apis that let you launch configure and shutdown instances. I don't know what else you need.

This is fine, if you’re on AWS and can use AWS APIs. If you’re not (especially if you’re on bare metal), something like K8s can be nice.
Note that the equality sign is less than, but the algorithm sorts in a descending order.
One beautiful thing about science is that it doesn’t really matter if you believe in it or not. It’s based on the seeking of truth using a proven method. Those who ignore climate change will suffer, especially those who are poor and uneducated. Luckily, this knowledge is not hard to find these days, and I suspect the youth of the coming generations will take a different outlook of climate change, one irrespective of political belief. At a certain point if you want to continue living your life, you need to accept the facts and vote for positive change. Whether that comes from a blue person or a red person loses its meaning when the world around us burns.
Barrelshifter!
It's Impossible to Tell If This Story Exists, According to Quantum Physics
I agree. And part of the magic comes from ASML.
Is the market for flash devs really that different than similar software? I highly doubt those Flash devs ended up on the street.

Aside from that, Adobe has like 100 other pieces of software that creators have trusted going back to the early 80s. They have sustained millions and millions of successful careers.
Ah, that's for sure. I just wanted to point out that we are not talking about Vercel or Netlify here ;)
I don't even think my Sony Android TV is capable of turning off! Press power on the remote and it goes to sleep. Ok, that's fine. But when an app is unresponsive I have to hold the remote power button for something like 6 seconds and it only reboots the TV. I can't even find a software shutdown button.
in this case everyone will suffer
Spotify has an opportunity here to sell a hi quality portable player with a good DAC and headphones amp.

It's obviously a niche product, but if they started streaming in FLAC and paired it with their own audiophile player, it would be a fantastic marketing stunt they would probably turn a profit by selling the devices. God knows what audiophiles do to be able to listen to audio on the go with a good DAC and amp.
That is an elegant proof... for a totally different algorithm. J starts at 1, not at I. Every element of the loop is subject to be moved in every single outer iteration. Besides it gets the comparison backwards.
Yes, a great app, it does OCR on subtitles that are stored as images and converts to a Chromecast compatible text format so it is incredibly powerful.
“Smart people won’t suffer from climate change because they believe in it” is a pretty wild argument.
> Americans want very different things, and pulling together in a crisis only helps when we're in crisis mode

The world _is_ in crisis mode.

Unfortunately, some people have a vested interest in looking at the train crash, and not helping, and maybe even preventing people from helping.

(I can't help but picture the "train-crash denier" next to the boy scout, explaning that the train did not crash, it's all a scam from you-know-who to restrict your liberties or serve the car industry, wake up sheeple, etc...)
Managing Kubernetes without loosing your cool
Eh. I'm a teacher these days, and it works with real kids. With my own kids, who know the range of possibility and aren't quite so believing in my authority as that of a real teacher, it's still effective but less so.

[It works to get class buy-in, even if you are offering meh choice A and awful choice B. A class that has chosen "A" will be more engaged doing it than if you just told them to do A...

but you'd better be ready to do 'B' if the class decides to be contrarian. Once, they really wanted to do the quiz to show that they really -do- know what we've been doing, and if I hadn't had the quiz prepped and ready I'd have been in trouble...]
It was a combination of being the sole decision maker, architect, product manager, etc. without having to coordinate with a team, being very senior (25+ years), being a very fast coder (I produced 4x the lines of code of anyone else at the company during my year there), and the fact they only hired jrs other than me straight out of coding camps. They expected code monkeys to write Shakespeare. This was a bank with extreme security requirements that I build in a high sophisticated microservice architecture. My code was easy to read, but the systems were certainly not easy to understand, especially to jrs with zero experience in microservices, Kubernetes, devops at all, etc..
The only flaw in that line of thinking is that the US bears some responsibility in this. As long as the world's biggest powers are willing to exploit the situation, pretending it's a zero-sum game, the smaller powers can't do much. If the US showed true leadership on carbon emissions, it would bring much of the world with it.
Why would they list the movies? Seems counterproductive since you could then broadcast which torrents are monitored.
Yes, it's been done it least three places, to act as a hydrogen buffer for ammonia production (decoupling the steam methane reformers from the ammonia plants for greater operational flexibility.)

There are also large scale plans in progress to do it for grid energy storage, for example in Delta, Utah. The salt formation there has enough space for 100 cavities that could, altogether, store enough hydrogen to power the average US grid electrical energy consumption for about a day.
Sure! I ended up getting the official arduino starter kit and the Elagoo (?) kit Rober mentions in the class list. The Elagoo one is more versatile, but they complemented each other. A lot of learning, for us, came from finding the Elagoo and official projects and tutorials and completing them. There are many good guides and examples, but you may have to dig a bit on the Elagoo and official sites to find them. We had a lot of fun! It’s similar to legos, in a sense, with a little more thinking required and some cool interactive results.
That’s not my argument. Poor people will suffer more by numbers. Poor people are also less educated by numbers. Those with money can move to avoid the soonest impacts, can pay for AC, can pay for rising food prices, etc.
Go Kayaking with her. A camera and lenses and you could do wildlife or macro photography or fishing on your trips. Great Exercise and connection with nature. If you get something like a DJI Mini drone you can capture something people rarely see. Maybe you could even start a youtube channel with all the unique footage. Which would require video editing and photoshop skills.
Not even that expensive:

Mirrorless camera $500

Drone $400

Two kayaks ~$1000
OK, sure, offering a choice of what to eat when they're not excited about the idea of eating isn't going to generate a response. I almost never ate breakfast as a kid... unless there was leftover cake or something I could sneak...
They never gave me time to write documentation. I was working 100 hour weeks, almost all coding, under tight deadlines.

You can see why I wanted a raise.
How did this whole article manage to avoid mentioning that Axios itself has local news?
Anywhere in the world if you fall off your bike someone will help you up.
>> There’s still consciousness left in the space of things we can easily observe on nature but can’t yet explain.

> When doing path integrals for predicting particle interactions, we have to consider ALL possible paths and QED matches very, very well its predictions. So any new force has to either require huge amounts of energy or interact very, very rarely.

Is consciousness, and the causal role that it plays in reality, fully understood by QED theory? It has high predictive power of future states in a system where consciousness is present?

I see elsewhere you deploy:

> Honestly, it just sounds like human exceptionalism and God of the gaps all over again. I find it pretty hard to justify "we don't know exactly therefore I can invoke magic".

This is a rhetorical technique that can be used in both directions, it would be not difficult to put silly words into your mouth also - the neat thing about reality is that it fully supports describing and perceiving it other than it really is. Typically, people tend to dislike when others do this (if they describe it in a way inconsistent with how they experience it), but enjoy doing it themselves.
Classic serious open-source project. Nothing worse than having a serious internal discussion overtaken by a flood of hundreds of meme comments or angry posts from people without the necessary knowledge to participate in the conversation.
Having lived in the deep south, it's easy to see the paradox. Vehemently, deeply racist and judgmental people willing acting so selflessly at random occasions. Southern manners are usually just a facade masking hatred. I hate to say these things, but it is true.
I've noticed that for small orders, Uber Eats/Doordash/etc will suggest flat values, usually larger than standard tip sizes compared to your order., sometimes over half the order price (and that's after they add fees to make small orders too expensive).

But in larger orders the suggested tip sizes suddenly are percentages, as opposed to large flat values and are usually closer to customary sizes. To me it sounds like they know tips are important for the drivers, and without tips there's barely going to be any takehome as those companies will take most of it themselves (and still be unprofitable), but as a solution the try to get users to enter large tip amounts.
> Unity additionally had their search feature that doubled as a run box which was awesome. Tap meta and type the application name and hit enter.

Gnome Shell does the same thing...
Wow. Worrying about the cryptography on this thing is like worrying about the quality of the padlock you're using to secure the flaps of a cardboard box.
When I was an undergrad I did a data analysis project based on atmospheric observations of a satellite that involved nonlinear curve fitting to chemical reaction networks. It was fun and very worthwhile.
Agree, I am always annoyed when something like McD is the only option because it's really expensive for what it is. And then I am always repeatedly amazed that they get away with selling that and that people choose to eat it. I am definitely not a foodie and can eat a lot of things but McDonalds or Burger King etc are awful.
For some reason this reminded me of the Ray Bradbury story, "The Town Where Noone Got Off" which is a dark little story indeed about two men and a small town on a railroad line. This one is a bit more positive.

However, it turns out this whole incident was apparently due to the lack of a railroad crossing guard system of any kind at the intersection. The most basic system has flashing lights warning of oncoming trains, and even that wasn't present.

https://www.kwch.com/2022/06/30/amtrak-derailment-places-spo...

In that respect it's also a story about the poor state of American infrastructure.
Easy is hard. That is, to make something easy for users, you have to work hard to build great tools for them. Helix appears to be punting on that.

Examples:

> Helix dynamically renders HTML via Markdown that is generated from the content source documents.

Markdown is a lossy format. Sometimes that's good (it'll strip unwanted Word formatting), but there are vital things that get lost too. (The easiest to grasp are the internationalisation issues, like mixing right-to-left and left-to-right scripts in the same paragraph, or multiple language spans.)

> To add metadata to your page, create a table like this at the end of the document

And how is this better than an actual tool, with actual field validation, helpful UX, etc? It's not: it's undiscoverable magic boxes with inexplicable (to the user) side-effects that oblige users to remember secret incantations (or sticky them to their screens) and hope everything works out all right.

This is the opposite of "intuitive and fast". Which anybody familiar with AEM won't be surprised by.
I mean, this is a crisis. There's a constitutional crisis in terms of two extremely divergent views of how to understand the constitution that both carry significant trajectory changes and neither of which sound very helpful. There's a political crisis going on with neo-nazi influence in and around the Republican party that's not being dealt with at all. There's a digital war on-going that's been heating up for the past two-ish decades that promises to get worse. There's a literal housing crisis. There's more, but that's a short list I think most people can agree on.
I quit the bike share because the prices are way too high now. It bothers me that Lyft is going to fail and take down dozens of bike share networks across the country.
Alps Glacier Collapse Kills Seven Amid Record Temperatures
I think it has a higher chance of being released than of the author (intentionally) setting their head on fire, so as much as the author's tone ridicules this ridicule-worthy thing, their preposterous claims make them look equally ridiculous.
JWT with Go
I like to think of it as there are no borders in the atmosphere (nor 'per capita').
I don't know, it is hard for me to just say "go with it", maybe I'm getting old.

Businesses like this are a dream, but it's also a risk. To me seems like the next goldrush, and those mining and rushing to the gold are usually the ones to lose as well.

I feel anxious and not sure if I want to support such movement.

There's a second thought: I don't think paying 10/15 small SaaS each with their own instability, billing issues, risks. Imagine running just an ecommerce like this [0]. This is not the future I want to see for internet businesses. You shouldn't need a plethora of small suppliers to just run a blog with payments. Or most things.

Isn't it fragile to a platform to just take it all?

I feel conflicted.

[0]: Interesting comment from an e-commerce entrepreneur - https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1543740260265361408
Pretending that there's a compromise just floating out there that if we could just get "the extremes" out of the way, would be embraced by all, is a rosy but ultimately utterly false fantasy.

There are very, very different views about the role of government and religion in this country, very different takes on morality, responsibility, and lots more. These are not resolvable via compromise. If things are relatively good economically, people can generally agree to disagree. When things are not so good financially (e.g. after 30+ years of the destruction of the American manufacturing sector and wholesale movement of capital and labor offshore), this becomes much, much less easy.

The answer to "Can't we all just get along" is, fundamentally, "No, unless we're all doing so well that we don't have to care".
They were all code monkeys right out of coding camps.
You might be interested in taking a look at "Adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review" [0] by Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge which goes into detailed studies and datasets showing a rise in recent years in teen suicide, as well as the associations between heavy social media use and bad mental health outcomes, particularly for girls [1].

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6W...

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...