skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked about a plausible physical phenomenon - something that can be seen and measured in the real world. You will never measure a passable E-R bridge or Alcubierre drive because it's purely mathematical exercise, it has zero possibility/probability of being engineered into existence as it relies on things that straight-up can never exist. I'm not saying FTL is impossible but it's definitely not going to be either of these - our universe would be totally broken and self-destruct if these were possible.
> If you discuss averages or percentiles, people identify to that metric like if it applied to every individual of that distribution. That makes the debate on D&I particularly unproductive.

Damore included a graph of overlapping bell curves in his document to illustrate this point. Yet quite a lot of critiques I saw don't seem to understand that.
They are still mangling it. If you are setting up IMAP, they only allow you to download the latest 10,000 messages.
On the other hand you cannot create and maintain a community purely by contract.
> they actively went after third party coordination servers, wherenas I hear headscale mentioned by tailscale employees all the time.

ZeroTier founder here. We never did anything remotely like that, so I'm curious about where in the world you heard that. Is someone out there saying that?

We regularly tell people about FOSS stuff like this:

https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui

We did adopt an AGPL or SSPL style licensing strategy a while back to discourage closed for-profit attempts to basically expropriate the product. We are considering going back to a more liberal license in the future since that issue seems to have lessened. But we never had any issue with FOSS or not-for-profit stuff using ZeroTier.
> So if you are talking about "feeling" in the sense of emotion, we actually have a very detailed understanding of how that system works.

I'm talking about consciousness, not emotions. About the sense of self. Understanding how emotions manifest as a chemical process doesn't have much to do with it. It doesn't solve the consciousness issue, doesn't explain how this "observer process" that is self-aware (and capable of registering: "oh, I'm experiencing such and such emotion now") comes to be.
Tangent related to this. I had an old yahoo mail address from late 90s till mid 00s before I switched to gmail. Lots of family / high school / college / early professional emails were there.

The other month I logged in to view them as I do every so often and yahoo had purged the entire archive. Like 20MB worth of emails gone.

Apparently they have a policy if you do not log in in a year of time they will delete everything with no way to recover.

I can’t imagine the decision making to put this policy in nor could I ever imagine using yahoo email again for any purpose whatsoever.
These tech writers should be following the steps and verifying the engineers' rough content, not merely translating it for the masses.
Dan Wang is a credible commentator on China but he is careful to caveat the headline with 'the claim here is that'.
Guessing this is set a low triple-digit number of weeks in the future. Plenty of time for YT/TT values to fray and shift.
> Redux is also just an abstraction on top of Context

No, this is a very common but incorrect misunderstanding of how Redux works.

It's true that React-Redux does use context internally... but only to pass down the Redux store instance, _not_ the current state value.

Also, because Redux itself is separate from React, there's a lot of things you can do with it that are completely different than what Context does. _One_ bit of overlap is that both can be used to access state across the component tree, but Redux does much more than that.

See my post here for more details:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...
Centralia coal mine burning for sixty years and counting
Along the same lines: https://www.leadingsapiens.com/technology-dumbs-you-down/
> "You'd be surprised how many people get turned off by seeing something that other people tell them is simple, and then it's not simple to them."

This. This should be every platform/infrastructure engineer's motto. Don't tell me your DSL is simple. Don't tell me that Puppet is so simple because oh my god, it uses Ruby. Don't tell me that HCL or terraform or whatever yaml crap is so simple because "they are in yaml". No. They are not.

Don't. Make. Me. Learn. It's not because I don't want to learn. It's because I want to learn fundamentals instead of your specific, non-generalizable, 6-month-or-less half-life stuff.
> only works with swears

It also works with "diddly" which isn't.

It's intersting what information can be found out there in this world, even about something as diddly.

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/wendell.kimper/...
You didn't do enough research into your house purchase, or you weren't able to afford a well built house.

Houses like anything else have lifetimes, You don't get to be a 200 year old house without having major maintenance done at least a couple times. Buying a poorly maintained, or constructed, old house is a nightmare, if it's bad enough you've discovered why some houses are condemned.

Modern construction often has a longer lifespan and more readily accessible materials, older houses are a mixed bag - some gems that may last hundreds (thousands?) of years, lots of houses that need major repair. Some in the middle too...
> current biggest grip with dt... why are those damn arrows at the edges of the screen so tiny??? Expanding and retracting the side panels requires pixel-perfect accuracy on a ~20px target. I know I could use keyboard shortcuts, but my brain isn't wired for them yet.

You can make them bigger through some CSS tweaks: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/development/en/prefere...
WHO calls for ‘urgent’ action to stem monkeypox spread in Europe as cases surge
This was a really good analysis of the security schemes going on in crypto and the wider financial sector. I quite enjoyed reading it!
Your whole comments sounds like you are trying to get some kind of validation for using clojure.
I'm 99% sure that Africa is not going to reach 4.3 billion inhabitants. Climate change, food insecurity, economic growth and global instability will ensure that it doesn't turn out that way.
You need to look at system usage because it’s the tunneling that’s draining the battery, afaict
Scunthorpe is in England.
You’re right. That makes sense. I’ve been out of web dev for about 4 years so I’m just reactionary now I guess.
Yeah this. The classic is unread state in a mail app. Unread state is usually displayed both as bold state per message in a message list, and as a count in the folder list. These need to stay in sync as the user reads mail (and sometimes marks read state explicitly). Two views of the same underlying state.
While high quality is indeed more than just carbs, protein, and fat, it’s equally an oversimplification to talk of “naturally grown” when that was last true a bit before the domestication of plants and agricultural animals (c. 13k BC), and the invention of basic irrigation and the discovery that crop rotation helped yields (both c. 6k BC).
You can't imagine paying for storage of things that appear to not be used when you are giving it away free?
Yeah, it's amazing how often I ended up at DigitalOcean to understand a competitor's architecture.
Bohr was an observant observer.

Does a wave function collapses faster, when the measurement is not intentional?
I wonder how a rewrite of the core algorithms in modern C++ and a Swift wrapper + UI would have compared. This also would have allowed easy porting of the core to other platforms.
The result of the experiment in the article was that there was no correlation.
Bacteria-made biofuel packs higher energy density than jet fuel
Took a bit longer than 10 minutes but baking soda paste definitely did the trick. Thanks for this comment. All I do on this laptop is surf the web and send texts on iMessage so you just bought me a lot of time before I need to upgrade.
> Egger advises also writing out the full name the first time an acronym is used. Egger even links acronyms to their definition at the beginning or end of the document.

When someone does not do this, it irritates me to no end. It's so simple to do and is a major improvement. It goes from being a doc that is incomprehensible without understanding unexplained to a doc that beginners can begin to learn from.
I'd additionally add Bruce Williams' "Understanding Darktable" series to that list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlYWvzmJQTrRq7JrYdD7k...
A Man with the Golden Pun
There are more galaxies than even Carl Sagan imagined
How are they giving it away for free?
D'oh, apologies.
simple problems easily becomes complex in mainstream contexts.. due to bazaar like soil. NASA had to solve one immensely hard problem but they owned the context. Vertical integration if you will.
You should watch tiny home remodeling, its a tv channel (I think?) I was shocked that a couple in NYC bought essentially a cottage in a high-rise for 10 million, then did a half million dollar renovation on it...

In the country-side that kind of money gets you a 12 bedroom mansion with a pool and a view...
> How much should postgres cost for example?

I might match it to install base. How to handle "linux" or "bash" or "coreutils" is the real question. Do "core" projects need this kind of cash?

> Finally, how will they determine which of the devs get how much each? Does it all go to the repo owner or will there be a pro-rata split over each contributor?

Could be determined on a per project basis. Project could say upfront -- sorry, all money goes to core contributors, or to cancer research.

These don't seem like tough problems so much as they seem like nice, high class problems to me.
Even Rose's article (I haven't read his book yet so I can't really say about that) tiptoes around what was going on here. It wasn't just a naive application of statistics. Rose gets through the Norma story without mentioning eugenics once, but the whole episode is so obviously part of America's pre-WWII eugenics swoon. Beyond specific beliefs about politics, race or genetics, but linked to them, there was a whole Zeitgeist, the collectivist spirit of the age that gave us Busby Berkeley musical numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysvQ5MaUbd8 and the IBM company songbook https://www.networkworld.com/article/2333702/a-history-of-si... . This was a time when it was acceptable, indeed it was progressive, to be violently hostile to difference or defectiveness: see for example War Against the Weak https://waragainsttheweak.com/ and, maybe most especially, The Black Stork https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-black-stork-9780... . And of course it's no coincidence that the pioneers of statistics tended to be particular fans of eugenics themselves.

(I am not an expert on anything.)
Along the lines of “I won a $100 million dollars and it ruined my life”…

Basically one does not value money, fame, beauty, power etc. if you already have it in plenty. Take it away suddenly and then you will realise how much you were taking your cachet for granted.
The researchers identified natural cyclopropane-producing bacteria in a family called Streptomyces, then copied the associated gene clusters into other bacteria that are more lab-friendly. The end result was POP-FAME molecules that the team called fuelimycins, which only require one further chemical processing step to turn them into a ready-to-burn fuel.

Scientists at Sandia National Labs then conducted computer simulations of the resulting fuels to estimate their properties compared to conventional fuels. This analysis suggested that the new fuels would be safe and stable at room temperature, and would have an energy density of over 50 megajoules per liter (MJ/L). That’s a huge increase over existing fuels – gasoline’s energy density is around 32 MJ/L, while common jet and rocket fuels top out around 35 MJ/L.

...

“This biosynthetic pathway provides a clean route to highly energy-dense fuels that, prior to this work, could only be produced from petroleum using a highly toxic synthesis process,” said Jay Keasling, project leader. “As these fuels would be produced from bacteria fed with plant matter – which is made from carbon dioxide pulled from the atmosphere – burning them in engines will significantly reduce the amount of added greenhouse gas relative to any fuel generated from petroleum.”

I find this exciting because every biofuel I've ever previously read about struggles to reach the energy density of conventional hydrocarbon fuels. The high ring strain embodied in this family of molecules takes it beyond conventional hydrocarbon fuels. Even if the scale-up challenges can be overcome it's unlikely to take over high-volume fuel applications, but there are special roles where extremely energy dense fuels could justify a higher price.

For example, some cruise missiles use an expensive specialty fuel called JP-10 [1] because it offers about 11% more energy density than ordinary JP-8, which directly translates into better range. JP-10 costs over $25 per gallon at present to get that 11% premium. A fuel that offers a ~40% energy density premium over JP-8 could justify significantly higher cost premiums than JP-10.

[1] https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security...
I recommend you look into Blumats [1] - no electronics required watering system.

[1] https://blumat.com/
I am glad Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline right away.
That will help a Republican takeover of Congress this year.

This will the the first year since 1959 that USA has not held offshore Gas and Oil lease auctions.

You think fuel is expensive now?
Wait until that decision catches up with supply.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/05/1...

Americans are sick and tired of socialists and virtual signaling.
Guess he’s not fake anymore if he owns a huge PE firm.
I think I see your point, here: that, being a US company, the US can give it directions regardless of what the company would have chosen to do; and even in places the company is not compelled by law, it may be in their interest to stay on good terms with the feds where for a company based elsewhere it might not.
Graphing Calculator was one of the delightfully “impossible” things I discovered in the hard disk of our brand new iMac back in 1998. I had just started using a TI-83+ at school, so seeing a 3D full-color animatable graphing calculator with a beautiful equation editor slotted directly into my brain as “this shouldn’t be possible! yet here it is!!” I have never found a real use for it, but always wish I could. I bought the iOS version when I found out about it to pay back the authors for my teen-aged delight.

The origin story is cool as heck, too. As discussed many many times on HN: http://pacifict.com/Story/
A bit of clickbait.

The article just says he liked solitude and after being out of the pubic eye fit _40 years_, the Nobel prize made him a public figure temporarily. Hardly life ruining.
Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis
Ada/Spark Crate of the Year 2022 Contest
Hiding from reality via censorship sets one up for even greater harm and suffering, because they never have a chance to build up their mental strength and armor that they will need in the real world.

Like never letting your child ever ride a bike without training wheels.

It's a form of agoraphobia.

Kevin Hart talks about the fact that no one can insult or harm him with words because of the initiative gauntlet he went through to become a comedian.
This is incorrect in my experience. My company was sued by LinkedIn about a year after receiving a $1MM seed round. We were low on money with about $250K left and raising when the suit hit.

This is a game of leverage.

Lawyers are tools that have to be used effectively to apply leverage. Like any tool, good ones make a big difference.

At the time LI was worth about $30 Billion, we had $250K. We convinced LinkedIn to settle after about 4 months in SF court for a nominal amount.

Good/ethical lawyers were critical along with significant creativity from our side on how to use them.

We survived, raised a round and the company is still kicking.
Un-pawywall: https://archive.ph/PMA3m
Doesn't every company do performance reviews?
> never heard of tools

These libs are at 4.7k, 8.9k and 17.1k stars on GitHub...

> discuss the deep inner workings of things

The article is a few thousand words and there are a few interesting reflections...

> of things that already exist

The point of the article is to actually talk about "new wave stuff"...

You are arguably incorrect on many fronts, but more importantly, did you have to spend this many words being an utter dick to the author?
Yes. They can delete it, they can create it, they can mutate it. That’s how it works when you send information about yourself to somebody else for them to store on their hard drives. This is true utterly irrespective of whether they in fact delete it (or do any other of those things).
As God has always intended
Agreed. This is exactly my experience.
> the only thing worse than no documentation is incorrect documentation. verify instructions work.

i absolutely agree with the principle but i notice especially with internal projects that it is often not lived up to. once-valid docs become invalid over time. once you have the experience of getting bad information from a documentation project it loses credibility. readers ends up with extra work determining validity and communicating when changes are needed.

what does it look like when that problem is solved? i think of StackOverflow and DigitalOcean. they both have comment sections and date stamps. authors respond to comments. that's often how i figure out if something is still valid or not. it seems important that authors revisit or re-verify things they wrote. and if that's not something that is rewarded then it's not likely to happen.
I'm sort of curious what the best choice is for wireless on that tier of hardware. I sort of want to use the NTP client rather than waste a slot for a clock card, but I don't think I'm going to have a good spot with Ethernet access for the machine.

Seems like the common consensus is $10 scrapyard NIC plus Wi-Fi bridge. TBH, I was always surprised that the consumer Wi-Fi bridge was never a popular thing. You'd think it would sell more easily to customers, because most PCs have had Ethernet on board since like 2000, and even adding a USB dongle means having to bring new drivers in.

Now going full off tangent-- what happened to old wireless client hardware? If you go into any thrift shop, you're going to see a bunch of old 802.11g or n routers, but you usually don't see the adapters. I could see internal ones being scrapped with the PCs they were in, but I'd expect people who bought a new-spec router and matching adapter would replace them together.
Hardly click bait - It’s a direct reported quote from the man himself.

> One of the biggest shocks I had when I was interviewing him was when he said the discovery of the boson “ruined [his] life.” I thought, “How can it ruin your life when you have done some beautiful mathematics, and then it turns out you had mysteriously touched on the pulse of nature, and everything you’ve believed in has been shown to be correct, and you’ve won a Nobel Prize? How can these things amount to ruin?” He said, “My relatively peaceful existence was ending. My style is to work in isolation and occasionally have a bright idea.” He is a very retiring person who was being thrust into the limelight.
the topic originally under discussion being self-censorship, it is an expertly subtle reference to how things like rape (especially child rape), while not directly censored in the same way as expletives, are very rude subjects to bring up in polite conversation
There is nothing to suggest it was issue that this bug was not resolved quickly. It does not sounds like involved people spent whole day every day on it.

Instead, there was mail thread and jira or some such discussion where people moved issue forward as they should. This sounds like issue involving multiple teams that have to cooperate in non urgent situation.

You want someone "drive this forward" and interrupt people from they usual flow. But that costs and slows down all other tasks. So for that, you would need to have actual urgent situation.
On what basis is your source better than mine?
Reeder (et al.) + iCloud sync was a game-changer for me too.
Yes, compared to Todd Rose's own article telling the story https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... this feels like a bland summary. Mind you, even Rose's version waters things down quite a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961179 .
Thankfully, I haven't. Telling someone who was physically assaulted that at least they weren't murdered isn't much comfort. If you're saying "the amount of harm they do is different", I agree. If you're saying "people can't be harmed by words", I disagree - especially at a population level; popularising and spreading of ideas that certain subgroups are subhuman has happened over and over in many countries and caused lots of harm. Punching someone is worse than calling them a moron, but bruises from childhood heal in weeks where verbal assault from childhood (e.g. by an abusive parent or teacher, as well as by peers) can still be hurting decades later with wider knock-on effects.
Congrats!

> One Binary

> Build frontend apps along with your backend and ship everything in a single binary.

I'm doing something similar and love it. Do you embed the entire `public` directory and then traverse the embed.FS to access the files in memory?
A note on multiple inheritance in Python
Which isn’t necessarily a problem because of insurance. If insurance reimburses $500, than that $700 MRI costs $200. If insurance reimbursed $800, then the $700 MRI is free. (Presumably the rules should be that providers may not discriminate on price except for genuine charity and that insurers must advertise the extent to which their coverage is sufficient for, say, the lower 40% percentile costs in the area.

The goal here is to remove incentives for various forms of corruption:

Providers (especially pharmaceutical companies) to charge outlandish amounts and then reimburse copays.

Providers to optimize pricing to extract money from insurers, when insurers have very little say as to where patients go.

Patients to simply not care what procedures cost at different places (right now, patients often can’t even find out).

Providers to invent charges after the fact. (If a patient gets a binding estimate in advance with a line item that makes so sense, the patient will argue. If a patient’s insurance is billed for nonsense, there may not be anyone paying attention who knows better.)
I agree, the non-stop one-sided accusations of entitlement didn't seem very productive to me. I wonder if some day someone will write a post about things maintainers aren't entitled to. I can think of several things.

This is in no way exclusive to software. It's people in general. Dealing with people is extremely difficult. At least software developers aren't likely to get sued over these complaints.
I feel like the author is trying to shock the reader by writing that 37% of the people who supported armed insurrection have guns. Another way to read that statement however is that almost two thirds of those in favour of this do not own guns, and therefore are probably talking the talk without having the intention of walking the walk.