skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon. Something about this book, jumping between eras, keeps me interested each time I jump into it.
I was trying to make the point that not reading an article doesn’t mean shallow comment or a tendency for more shallow comments on its own.

I am a first generation person, but I didn’t find the article interesting. I skipped all comment threads about the story once I saw they were similarly uninteresting to me. I enjoyed the Costco comment threads. A Costco opened up near me this year so I care about that. I don’t begrudge the people commenting about the story though.
I really like the thinness. These large watches thick watches with rims I dislike greatly. I also really like the flat metal look. I agree that the logo and other details are not so good. I would have preferred just plain unmarked brushed metal. Even better have a completely transparent face which allows one to see the insides functioning.
You don't want your pipes freezing though
From the HN guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

This was not the first awkward science press event and it won’t be the last. It’s annoying but that is not noteworthy; life is full of annoyances. A new deep image from a new space telescope is what is really noteworthy.

Also from a practical perspective, complaining here won’t reach the people you actually want to influence. NASA staff are publicly available; if you want to complain, look up their email addresses and write to them directly. You might even get a reply!
Is there any evidence for time dilation though? My 1000 years number is a rough guess, and it could be shorter or even longer than that. I was thinking since physics breaks down that you would have to endure being spaghettified whilst still being able to feel and have nerves intact and thinking capacity.
Would you recommend reading Flow if I've already engaged with the concept of flow itself outside of the book?
By what definition of "cleaned up" and "contained"? By stuffing them in a mountain and putting signs outside that we hope people in 10,000 years will understand means death is inside?

Nuclear power is not needed and it is worse than fossil fuels. Renewables with battery storage can be 100% of our power. We just have to stop being distracted by the fossil fuel and nuclear industries who keep telling us we can't do it.
This blogpost and a lot of comments in this thread (but absolutely not all) don’t seem to realize that monads are an abstraction over lots of different, but common programming constructs.

- Read-only values (e.g. environment variable, configuration)

- Write-only functions (e.g. logging, compiler output)

- State (read-write-values)

- Sum-types (e.g. Optionals/Maybe, Either/result)

- Inductive lists

- Arrays/vectors

- Contexts (e.g IO, file handlers, database cursors, etc)

- Functions

- Sequenced operations

- Continuations

- Parallelization

- Concurrency

- Interpreters

- Compilers

- Combinations of all of the above (plus more)

- And whole programs

- (and a whole lot more)

All of these can be built as monads, since it’s an extremely general abstraction. But when you try to attach the specifics of any of these constructs to your explanation/view/understanding of monads you will inevitably run into issues/contradictions with other things that are also monads.

At its core, monads are just an interface with two (or three) functions:

- unit/pure/return, which puts a value into a monad

- bind (or map and join) which combines a value in a monad with a function from that value into the same monad

(Plus some algebraic laws about how these functions behave when combined.)

However, the technical simplicity of this interface does not make it easy to understand how and why it’s a useful abstraction over so many programming constructs.

IMHO, the best way to get a grasp of this, is to actually use and play around with a bunch of of these constructs via these monadic functions.

(I am also thoroughly convinced that you can ignore Category Theory if you are only interested in monads as they are used in programming.)
School and College: it’s more than just conformity and obedience
German net includes unemployment, social security and health care, among other things (did the stat include church tax or not?), not sure about the California thing. That being said, one million in mortgage buys you one hell of an house in Berlin! And mortgage payments can be tax deductible to an extent as well.
We’re talking about economies that make a difference.

our tiny economy makes no difference to global spasms.
Except you don’t need a heavily armed person to issue a citation. If you’re going to have people with the ability to inflict deadly force, only deploy them when deadly force may be required.
Drupal supports headless. It's an investment to learn but works well.
It’s interesting the extent to which police varies geographically. I’d love for any police officer of Oregon to be at my side in times of trouble, but god forbid any King country officer show up when I’m in need.

I’d wager any “blue lives matter” folks would change their mind when presented with urban officers, and on the flip side all “ACAB” people would flip when dealing with rural enforcement.
Same comparison zoomed into my favorite part without motion:
https://twitter.com/sprigland/status/1546633629236748294
I mean, it's your choice to make it violent. They should be able to counter _your_ threat of violence effectively, but violence is not the default way that someone gets taken to jail. Ultimately, the law is based on threat of punishment, which can come in many forms. For a lot of us here on HN, being violently thrown into a squad car is less threatening than having your career put into jeopardy by having a mark on your record.
BC too. I imagine it goes hand in hand with hydro
Which anarchist would use the word 'state' in the title of their book? Or be concerned with diplomatic recognition? I also don't think the author is a libertarian, nor does he identify as such.

Conflict between countries is top of the list of things that could kill 100 million people or just end civillisation as we know it. The next superpower is run by a cabal who are unfortunatey very competent and yet still think one of the worst murderers in history was a great leader. Perhaps we should welcome ideas about how we can end the current atavistic geo-locked world structure drenched in blood and history.
>80% of all US dollars in existence were printed very recently

They were not. Minor changes to official definitions can make graphs look funny but doesn't change much else https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
I'd suggest its much more like, as a Python dev, not being up on the latest applications of Rust for HPC.
As an extreme introvert, I only use self-checkout to avoid talking to people.

I love self-checkout.
I’m not European, but if I saw something like this, I’m not going to turn on my vpn, I’m just going to close the tab.
WFC3 and ACS are names of Hubble cameras, so I believe these are just Hubble. (Looking mainly at your second link)
I'm surprised there aren't quantum blockchains already.
3 Mile Island has not killed anybody AFAIK, but it showed the the world's leading tech nation failed completely in responding to the accident. Some facts could be found only years later when the reactor could be inspected and others will remain in the dark forever because they just could not be collected in time. You want to trust a technology where even accidents without fatalities cannot be investigated?

For Chernobyl the overall death toll is estimated between 50 and 4000. Nobody knows and nobody knows how to even count. How do you count the disabled and sick babies born after it?

For Fukushima 1600 fatalities were reported during evacution. I am not an expert, but I guess it's difficult to attribute because the whole area was devastated already by the tsunami.

There will be lucky outcomes also in the future. But if you have hundreds of thousands or millions of people around, some day we'll be out of luck.
Reading this first helps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries
Man, wouldn't it suck if it turned out the only place in that vastness that supported sentient life was Earth and we fucked it up?
yep, I was more talking about instruction semantics, not really the encoding itself.

And even with fixes since software should come as assembly source files ultimately with risc-v, we should be sort of very fine, even if the encoding does change. We are not talking about absurdely and grotesquely complex c++ compiler backends!
tldr; Elon damaged twitter by pointing out its obvious flaws. Boo hoo.
Bayesian play is not necessarily optimal for imperfect information games. The reason is: You don't only need to play optimally with respect to the information you have observed, you also need to hide your own information and balance those two needs.

See the Deep Mind "Player of Games" paper from last year for an agent that takes a more game theoretic approach, which is probably needed for "simpler" games like Poker, that we can play to higher levels of accuracy: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03178.pdf
The German calculator (quite transparently) prices in {pension,health,unemployment} insurance. Still a ~10k difference favoring Cali but it shouldn't be left unsaid.
There are situations where time passes differently like with high speeds and in gravity wells, but except for unusual circumstances, time will pass mostly at the same rate for life on any two planets across the universe. Because on relativistic scales they’ll be in very nearly exactly the same inertial frame.

Like maybe a few nanoseconds over ten minutes difference. One could probably come up with a standard deviation statistic, but whatever it would be would be way below a perceptual difference. (We can measure the difference in the flow of time with a clock on a table compared to another on the floor, but of course that’s way less than could be felt)
Reading responses, is this site supposed to be populated by luddites with communistic tendencies? I mean yeah, crypto ppl kind of forgotten about building any value into the whole thing to make it imperishable but network state is still way cooler than North Korea
There’s that, but their protests are what I was referring too.
I highly suspect proper diet is quite variable based on genes/environment/etc. I wonder how mature (or not) dietary science is. We have this firm idea of allergies and vague idea of sensitivities, but I imagine there is a lot more nuance to how different people react to different foods.
A library is potentially quite large - essentially, you need a phage that's for that particular organism. Potentially a large number of each species, given that phage and bacteria are in an evolutionary arms race.

The trickier part is you have to keep them active and functional over long periods. That's not something most hospital labs are equipped to deal with.
All the very red galaxies in the JWST image are mostly or completely invisible in the Hubble image. That’s because they’re so redshifted that they’re out of the spectrum Hubble can see. Those are the galaxies that are really far away.
The directions of the spiral galaxies seem to align tangential to the middle of the photo. Is that just an artifact of the image, or is there a reason behind it?
this is also paraphrased in the paper by the Columbia professor.

> Almost any numerical standard, no matter how closely related to academic merit, becomes a malignant force as soon as universities know that it is the standard. A proxy for merit, rather than merit itself, becomes the goal.
I still think it's best to use something outside of the database, unless you don't have a large volume of docs, don't have complex searches, and don't have a lot of concurrent searches.
> I'm not sure how one measures SOTA (state of the art).

You measure it by practical performance on a test suite of important POMDPs and games.
Haha love the sarcasm! You forgot to add how solar panels are ethically produced in a carbon neutral and sustainable way from our trading fwend China :)
Let's say the universe is 14 billion years old and the galaxies in this image are 13 billion years old. The largest the universe could have been at the time is 2 billion light-years across if the universe expanded at the speed of light after the Big Bang. However, if we pointed the Webb in the exact opposite direction we would see galaxies that are 26 billion light years away from those in this image. How is this possible if the galaxy could have only been 2 billion light years across 13 billion years ago?

Also, if the Milky Way galaxy was somewhere within the 2 billion light year diameter sphere of the universe at that time (it wasn't because it isn't that old), the light from this image should have hit us a long time ago.
This must be a uniquely American viewpoint because most police across the world don't carry a gun.
Lucky that some regions actually understood how isolation of pipes works...
To anyone looking for information about the infrared color mapping, it's buried on the webbtelescope.org page:

- "In this case, the assigned colors are: Red: F444W Orange: F356W Green: F200W + F277W Blue: F090W + F150W"

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/038/01G...

You can reference JWST's NIRCam filters here. The longest wavelength this image is 4.4 µm, and the shortest is 0.9 µm (900 nm).

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-camera/nircam... ("NIRCam Filters")
I TA'd in the attendance office at my high school back in the day.

The city's tracking of student attendance only lasted a portion of the year or a portion of each quarter.

During those times, much more effort went into calling the homes of missing students and finding out why they were not showing up to class.

I remember asking about why all the calls were happening or not happening and it was sort of quietly explained by the staffer: measurement of attendance affected how the school was being evaluated by the district. Presumably, budget was hooked to it in some way.

I didn't make any waves about it because "working" in this office was super powerful and the staffer always brought in cookies for us. Amazing gig.
The focus on best paper awards is odd as the major conferences of some CS subfields dole out awards as if they were party favors, and those of other subfields don't have best paper awards at all.

For instance SIGCHI 2021 had 28 best papers out of 747 accepted papers (or 3.7%) whereas CVPR 2021 had one best paper out of 1660 accepted papers (0.06%).

I have no opinion about whether it's "better" to be stingy or generous with best paper awards. But obviously any kind of ranking that doesn't account for differences between conferences and subfields is going to be quite suspect.
Maybe we train them to leave to their weapons in the car unless told otherwise?
I still feel like 0AD (https://play0ad.com) moves at just the right speed and isn't as chaotic as everything else. With the source open, soundtrack/art/etc, it's really a more relaxing play, especially when you find the right opening play/map/options.
Nuclear receives a fraction of the subsidies that renewables do: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/2016_Ene...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies_in_the_United...

And remember, "renewable" energy is really natural gas supplemented by wind and solar. There's no plan for a 100% renewable grid until some massive breakthrough in energy storage happens.
I you read the article you will see a lot of discussion on different strategies the bot has (re)discovered. You can also try playing against others on the internet and see how well your method works.
In the past the fake narrative was used to bolster our institutions (church and state). Now the fake narratives are used to dismantle them.
https://www.gamefly.com exists but I feel it's days are numbered, what with console makers doing everything they can to tie games to accounts tied to a given console ...
Either you don't know the extent of what he did and what he enabled or you and I do not share any kind of sense of justice.
Possibly. The data is consistent with an infinite universe, that expanded, and so we can only see a finite portion of it (back to the CMB). It's also consistent with a finite universe, that expanded, and so we can only see a small portion of it...
New Images from the James Webb Space Telescope to Be Analyzed By, Train, AI
The saying is silly, because there have been a number of instances where firemen are attacked or ambushed.
We're low on uranium demand, more than uranium supply.

There is no exploration going on to find new uranium deposits because there isn't much willingness to make new mines
It is strange to find something laughable that you haven't read
We are still arguing whether to bump the C standard from 89 to 99 where I work. I kinda like the pacing with C.

Or as Wikipedia puts it:
"C17 addresses defects in C11 without introducing new language features."
Introducing Location-Aware DDoS Protection
Similarly, at a large land grant university, we talk a lot about improving our rankings, but acknowledge that one of the major metrics (% of students not accepted) is something that's contrary to our mission.

It was an open secret when I was in Boston that Harvard actively encourages people to "give it a shot" when they know full well they're not getting in to boost that metric.
I think that is the correct answer for most of us. Whatever it is you're offering, the probability I actually need it is preeeeetty low. I waste too much time on the internet anyways, thanks for the reminder, website.
> Facebook has and continues to police its platform for illegal activity and cooperates with law enforcement.

This is jurisdiction-dependent. Facebook (a US entity) does things in other countries that would be illegal in the US, such as in Vietnam where it turns over identity information of protesters to police without due process, for beatings/torture purposes.

> Ulbricht created a website to sell drugs and made efforts not to police the platform.

There is another separate moral question about whether or not this should be illegal at all. Even if you think it should, most people agree that the penalties imposed for same in the USA are insanely disproportionate.

Jimmy Carter once said:

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed."

There's also the small issue of the hundreds of billions of dollars of whoring and drug retailing that happens via WhatsApp and Facebook and Instagram DMs. WhatsApp is literally the biggest drug marketplace on planet Earth. Nobody seems to bat an eye at the fact that Meta/Facebook could but does not police these.

The other commenter is right: If Zuckerberg is free, then so should DPR be.
Police are responsible for clearing the scene of any danger before other first responders arrive.
He tried to have people murdered. He ran an illicit marketplace for tons of illegal activity. He deserves life.
I’ve seen far more semi-automatic rifles in the hands of police offers in Europe than I ever have in the US. Our front line police here might be over-armed but they have no issue with the application of state violence anywhere else in the world.
the maintainer of atomicwrites, the person that started this whole saga, I guess that I had assumed context was sufficient here. I've updated the original text.
Refuse to do what one says for a while. They'll find the gun.
> That said, I do kinda miss the Amex and its automatic extended warranty

The Costco Visa also include an automatic warranty extension of 2 years beyond manufacturer.
1 cup oats, 1 cup skim 1% milk, strawberries, mix that in a container uncooked the night before/eat the next day.

Overnight oats are great.
In some sense, pain is also a mental construct — just some electrons bouncing around in one's brain, yet it feels very much real.
Yeah, there’s some “new gold rush money” thinking going on in this thread. Harvard has had 5 US Presidents. Yale has had 3. Stanford has had just one. Not a single Supreme Court justice went to Stanford. 4 went to Yale and 4 went to Harvard.

Stanford tied with Harvard for 6 Senators in the 117th Congress, impressively, but obviously Harvard dominates that metric over a longer time.

Harvard still has more than twice as many billionaire alumni notwithstanding how many billionaires these days are in the tech industry.
False.

Three struts, but because of light diffraction, six spikes.

There are much smaller diffraction effects which are in part due to the mirrors, but these are far smaller and not immediately evident. Both apply largely to foreground point sources, which is to say, relatively nearby stars. Distant objects with an appreciable size don't produce diffraction spikes.

Read: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/

(Via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32063220)
Silk Road wasn't only for drugs.
In regards to the first point. For the year of 2021 I did not eat any added sugar. If the label said any grams of added sugar I just didn’t eat it. Super easy diet and it worked really well for me.
Perhaps the first nearly disposable device. Can a stalker rig a GPS device to your car to follow you, FBI-style? Sure, but setting that up is pretty involved and maintaining the service adds a cost for the wannabe-stalker. Using Apple's system is just the cost of the tags themselves. Mr. Stalker (or worse) need not be so discerning about his targets.

In the car of a celebrity like this, I wouldn't be surprised if Paps are trying to use these.

Some things Apple seems to have not done:
Allow for reporting as stalking. Why not, upon deactivation, ask where it was found? In my car/in my purse or on my person. Apple knows the account the tag is associated with, why not provide that info to the person being tracked? To differentiate between stalking and accidental loss or coincidental tracking, enable an approved list. If I'm tracking my car, have all the known drivers manually scan for and approve the tag or approve it when they are alerted to being tracked. Then if an approved device is present, don't register reports from non-approved devices.
And if potential stalking is reported, disable AirTag use for the account at a minimum until it gets cleared up or doesn't. Maybe this is a repeat offender that law enforcement needs to address. Apple would have the data.

Apple is really doing the bare minimum to keep a lid on complaints IMO. The corporate balance between doing nothing and being called out for it and potentially being held liable when someone uses the system to assault someone else and actually making it safe, thus highlighting the myriad ways in which it's so very unsafe and ending up with too many people wondering if it's risks outway it's benefits.
Depends on your solution to the Drake equation. But unless you think life is universally unique to earth, I’d say it’s quite likely. The universe is big, if there’s any more life, there’s a lot of it, and models predict there are lots of black holes out there in every galaxy.
That would never happen, because some non-zero number of people would lure police to their house to kill them.
when you write 'tl;dr', the emphasis is on the 'didn't read' part - the book is not a book promoting anarcho-libertarianism. quite the contrary
Thanks for writing this article. I tried to implement this algorithm a few years ago, but had trouble wrapping my head around the quad edge data structure.