skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it annoy you when someone says "Good morning"? Do they really wish you to have a good morning or is it an insincere and cheap catchphrase?

Chill, it's just small talk, it fills a gap.
In fairness, C standard library functions mostly look like magic incantations to me (I think due in large part to the old-school convention of abbreviating function names). malloc, sprintf, atoi, etc don't exactly read like english... (unless you happen to already know what they stand for)
At some point punishment has to end and you move forward in life. The justice system would be a lot more fair if this was applied equally.
I don't think that's possible because, if I understand correctly, many of the parts need to be adjusted periodically to maintain accuracy. It's not a set-once-and-forget type situation. Those parts need to be able to make extraordinarily precise adjustments repeatedly for the life of the mission.

"Aligning the primary mirror segments as though they are a single large mirror means each mirror is aligned to 1/10,000th the thickness of a human hair. This alignment has to be done at 50 degrees above absolute zero! [0]

[0]https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/webb-actuato...
Because of data disclosure concerns, in that students' data may be disclosed to US interests.
The point is if Google causes her employer to violate labor law I believe google would also be legally responsible for violating labor law. If Google directs her company's actions then Google becomes liable for the results. If anything illegal happened it's only if Google had nothing to do with the decision making that would cause it to not be Google's problem.
I visit HN daily and wade through dozens of posts looking for an occasional gem like this. I just ordered the book. Thank you!
I would think that the sanctity of "the mail" was observed internationally.
Mail was opened only secretly, and by spies, and spying was always considered a dishonourable profession. So even if opened, it would have been done secretly, and not revealed to anyone, except on a bed to know, basis.
I remember working on an audit of JWST back in 2012-ish and thought that it would never be launched or, if it did, something critical would fail. I'm happy my doubts were proven wrong
I was just curious, you were drifting off.

To your point, I think democrats and republicans positions on climate are very different:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-support-for-envir...

That would go against your point that they support "largely the same ideas".
Partly puzzle-based games like Zelda have lost a lot of the magic for me, as they became more obvious and started to feel more like turning the crank instead of creativity & discovery.
Even with Google Translate I can't read it because it's paywalled. But the first paragraph reads something like:

"The Data Protection Authority has banned the use of Workspace - the applications on the Chromebook - because students' data may be disclosed to US authorities"

Wouldn't that be the case with all US hosted services?
We have banks and law enforcement.
> Using "me" in subject context is, besides being wrong, a social low-class marker. It does not come naturally to English speakers

This is not even a theoretical possibility. There are no low-class markers that don't come naturally, because no one is going to make an effort to present themselves as low-class.
That's great! Hopefully, domestic tourism will return. No more flying to Med for some sun.
Firm managers may benefit from transparency in machine-learning algorithms
If robots were way cheaper it would change quite a bit.
Earlier discussion: Danish DPA bans Google Workspace for municipalities https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32108164
Definitely not current diesel trains, but maybe gp is referring to when they were first introduced.
> What would that have cost?

No idea. Do you? Genuinely interested, particularly regarding methodology. Not intending at all to be insulting.
Famous among who? Are you in the space launch industry?
The ill feeling is no doubt from not being used to the higher catecholamnine release.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-013-0039-8

High levels of serotonin will make most people nauseous.
Well, it isn’t THAT different. Ukraine was part of the USSR after all, and it wasn’t that long ago that most of Eastern Europe was too - because of war.

That Stalin wasn’t the most aggressive aggressor that started it THAT time being cold comfort for everyone under the Russian thumb.

Europe has a long history of wars of conquest, extermination, religious intolerance, etc.

We did recently have a nice sunny spell though.
I don't remember that experiment measuring the speed, but merely showing (via lack of a beat pattern) that there was no difference in the speed, whatever it was, in two paths at right angles to each other.
What was this "audit"? And why did you think it would never launch, or fail?
What is the timescale you are thinking of for 10% chance of success? 10% first light success is different than 10% 10-year survey success.

There’s physically not enough infrastructure (clean rooms, testing facilities, vacuum chambers, etc…) nor skilled manpower available to NASA to be able to build more than one in parallel, so that would add to the cost significantly.
The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I
Being able to statically assert your program does not panic is predicated on being able to detect infinite loops. For example a panic could be detected to occur after a loop which may or may not be infinite. If you can't detect infinite loops you also can't detect if the program will panic or not.
What do you mean? There’s a line of companies waiting to sue anyone involved with that site. That’s been the case for many years.
My explanation is that it doesn’t actually take a lot of deep thought to understand this dynamic. The guy who runs your local hardware store could’ve figured this one out, given the information.

The problem is that the over “educated” and credentialed class of political elites weren’t ever taught elementary common sense in their textbooks, and have never operated within institutions that have held them accountable for it.

Ergo the outsized elite hatred for Trump among the managerial elite caste, who shone a spotlight on the astonishing triviality of their ineptitude.
Similar approach with lunch trays, https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R282SPN2EU416K/
Machine learning isn't really science, since it's only statistical methods. It doesn't provide insight into what intelligence is. It's only techniques, so it's just engineering. It's brute force hacking at best, and when it sort of works, it's impossible to figure out why it does because it's black boxes all the way down.

So of course there are cool things like gpt, but it's not like it's scientific progress. It doesn't really to understand how brains work, and how to understand what general intelligence really is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30730726
Thanks for the respectful nudge and reminder that HN has some of the more thoughtful and nuanced content guidelines of any popular forum. The discussion tone fostered here is what makes this site enduringly great. I didn’t project my initial comment would cause such offense amongst certain users and now realize my offhand followup was insensitive.
hmm... is it possible to correct those errors? I have some old images with errors, and I've always wondered if it were possible to fix the individual corrupted bytes to restore at least the remainder of the photos.
Eyeing you jealously from my position at 237,014 on the list... We're almost neighbors, I guess.
Palmer Luckey: Big Tech is too scared of China to help defend the U.S.
That point has to be further away than the gain a person got from the crime.
Consider when you have two distinct statements that are related but the former does not necessarily lead into the latter; a semicolon is appropriate in such an instance.

Alternatively, just don't bother and use two sentences.
I don’t follow the news anymore, but there are boatloads of studies over the last several decades showing some plastics (and commonly used plasticizers) are Not Great in various ways, from hormone interference to cancers.

Most of the more obvious offenders got banned or voluntarily phased out awhile ago, but new variants of many plastics come out every year, and large swaths of existing ones are known bad but don’t commonly get used in good contact anymore so we don’t think about it.

One of those ‘we’ll probably figure out which one in the basket is causing what problems in a decade or two’ situations, and how bad a problem it actually is. Hopefully no thalidomide chirality level horrors, but who knows.
Yup, that'll do it.
I don't doubt Robinson's technical ability at all, but the credential that matters is the track record at NASA. Bachelors degrees in math and EE don't signify much at all; plenty of irrational thinking and people in SV have better STEM degrees than that. Personally, I'd trust someone more if one of the degrees was in the humanities, showing an ability to deal with questions that aren't solvable with algorithms.
How is this fundamentally different from raw pointers?
It lets me only read the introduction the full article is behind a paywall.

Summary: The national data protection forbids continued use because students' data are transferred to the US.

That's probably a good thing. Google is an evil company interested only in profiling their users instead of offering any decent customer service. And the US does allow spying on non-citizens. No reason to do any business with those.

The problem is that Europe lacks any serious alternative. We live as digital colonies.
If you don't want to implement a console (that is fair) you can just use the console provided by the BIOS (the VGA console, as DOS did back in the days) or nowadays UEFI (as for example GRUB or even Linux if you don't load a graphics driver does). BIOS/UEFI have the primitives necessary to read/write to the console so you can just use them.

A text-only console is useful in a lot of situations, for example when the graphics driver doesn't work or crashes (in that situations in Windows you have to reboot or start in recovery mode, while on Linux you can open a text console and with the CLI fix the issue or restart the graphics server). It would also be useful to boot computers without a GPU, by exposing the text console trough a serial port, another thing that you can do in Linux, most embedded devices, such as routers, doesn't have any GPU but a serial port used for the console access (of course only for recovery and debugging, since otherwise you connect trough SSH).

By the way the question is not only for hardware that doesn't have the GPU, but also for containers/VM. If you drop the requirement of a GPU it would be far easier and lightweight to virtualize Windows, since you don't have to virtualize any graphics hardware at all but only the CPU. The text console would be provided by the virtualization program itself.
Or Linear. The only project management tool I enjoy using as a developer.
Exactly. How is this a question?

Someone with experience living there could explain how they perceive the state's reach and influence.
Intent is everything.
> Perhaps they should flatten them and put a proper OS on them with proper storage and teach kids the importance of data sovereignty and computer freedom.

It's a cute idea, but these lucky kids are probably 'upgrading' to Windows 11 with some nice in-school MDM. It's always frying-pan-to-fire situations when people get pedantic like this.
See https://perf.rust-lang.org/compare.html?start=2021-11-11&end...
it's lovely. the sound of the keys...
> So, I treat strong D&I initiatives as a red flag, personally.

Based off the general vibe of your comment, those companies don't want you. D&I driving away people who are made uncomfortable by D&I is working exactly as designed.

Somehow I have managed to be employed at a number of companies for decades without once been in fear about being bullied by false accusations of being misogynistic or racist. I've never seen another white person bullied under the pretense of having been racist or misogynistic.

I have, however, seen blatantly homophobic and racist behavior - some of it violent (in a professional workplace) and seen it covered up by management.

My guess is that you don't see 'light' racist, misogynistic, or homophobic behavior as problematic - "can't make a joke these days" - and therefore see the people who are disciplined for such behavior as "bullied."
I'm glad you're seeking help! Taking medication of almost any kind is a scary proposition nowadays.

I have taken many different SSRIs and SNRIs since when Prozac was released in the US. I'm not going to say they are without side effects, but I can honestly say they haven't affected my brain, with the exception of helping me feel like getting up in the morning and being productive.

I wish you the best and hope that all goes well. You might also want to consider cognitive behavioral therapy if it's available where you are. I found that really helpful, especially when it comes to my predilection for "catastrophizing". And it could help you decrease your escitalopram dose.
It seems like you're right and they're different; there are apparently a whole bunch of different species.

Sansho is Zanthoxylum piperitum and green sichuan pepper apparently may be Zanthoxylum armatum, so red sichuan pepper, green sichuan pepper, and sansho may all be different species.

There is also Zanthoxylum schinifolium which is apparently used in Korean "Sancho".
The People need to use tombstone logic with a field as markAsDead.
Intro to Convex Query Performance
Does it have the same perceived 50 hertz frequency as Sichuan pepper? https://www.science.org/content/article/tuning-buzz-peppers
Has anybody had good experience with an alternative they're willing to share? The Alexa API is turning off in December and I haven't found a good drop-in replacement, yet.
Ask HN: How will things work out this school year without an effective vaccine?
If there is no vaccine for the now dominant BA.5 covid variant, what is going to happen this coming school year?

It seems like a pretty bad plan to stick the kids and teacher all in a room together. Why would teachers even sign up for this?

Low pay, low appreciation, near-guaranteed eventual covid infection.

The school districts in Oakland, CA have a massive number of vacant teaching positions they're becoming increasingly desperate to fill.

Arizona relaxed the requirements to allow anyone to teach as long as they're currently enrolled in college to become a teacher.

It seems crazy.
To me the most surprising thing about this series is that de Caus had a working CSP (concentrated solar power) setup by 01615 (https://antonhowes.substack.com/i/57230676/solar-powered-ste..., original source https://archive.org/details/raisonsdesforce00Caus). I had thought CSP only dated to Shuman's installation in Egypt in 01913, but I see that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power#Histo... also mentions that Mouchout did a solar steam engine in 01866.

But 01615! We've had working solar power machinery for four centuries.
Better battery technology won't allow mobile device electronics to run cooler. We need more power efficient chips using the upcoming 3 nm process technology.
I'll take cheap kindness over no kindness any day.
Yes and no. It raises a bunch of questions/problems, wuch as:

1. Where doe the telescope deploy? Ideally in LEO so you have a chance fo fix things but then that complicated the launch. You have to park in orbit and restart th eengine at a later point. AFAIK JWST didn't enter a parking orbit so would've required additional fuel. That might not have been possible;

2. What if the launcher itself fails? Do you want to have the capacity to launch another rocket, have it rock with JWST and then go on? If so, that's a whole new level of complexity and a set of problesm you have to solve as well as things that can go wrong;

3. If you look at the flight plan there are a bunch of turns. How would the G-forces affect, say, the deployed heat shield?

4. JWST actually had to rotate during launch to point the instruments away from the Sun so as not to destroy them. This already added complexity. Doing this with the deployed spacecraft would probably only further complicate this.
Well, I should hope so. Nevertheless every dependency removed completely removes even the possibility of such breakage.
Yes, I thought it would go there as well.
Display cost remains a huge barrier, with little thanks to E-Ink's (the company) control over patents and I'm presuming excusive contracts.

I've some sympathy as hardware is a mug's game and price competition when it does hit is absolutely brutal.

That said, the 10" and 13" displays available now are excellent, and are being found in Android tablets (sold as e-book readers, but fully general-purpose). The Onyx BOOX line for example.

Android itself is hugely limiting in numerous ways. I'd like to see actual e-ink laptops, and suspect we will before too much longer.

A quick note on power use: if the device is only used for reading reasonably static text, battery life is exceptional. Once radios, backlights, and in particular web-surfing are added to the workload, power draw really ramps up. You'll get a full day or two off a charge, but not a week or more as with reading books.
I should write one! I've tried it enough times haha.

I'll look into starting that tonight and will share here if I go through with it!
A school district asked the danish government if they could still use google "workspace" for their teaching. The answer was no, and all other school districts were cautioned to also follow the new guidance.

The "no" is said to be based on the possibility that google workspace data COULD be handed over to american authorities jy google.
> Dhall is a programmable configuration language that you can think of as: JSON + functions + types + imports

At the top of the main page.

See also the Hello World and other examples.
Oh jeez, you're totally right :sweat:
My experience is actually rather good after 10 years. The 2 years I stopped it (fluoxetine) meant symptoms returned and quality of life declined hard.

It takes the edge away (no significant happiness/motivational boost for me). My intellect definitely has been damaged but it's impossible for me to ascribe it to any one factor.

That said without it the anxiety/panic would return and I don't know if I could take that anymore.

BTW for a time I also tried some of the harder stuff like high dose fluoxetine plus aripiprazole+biperiden (for the extrapyramidal side effects) and that does mess you up.

Also, cannabis gave me a good boost for a bit over a year (under fluoxetine). Almost normal productivity, but with a whiff of artificiality. Not a long term solution for me though. Guess it'll stay this intermediate way for now (and ever?).
Here is my take on the confluence of factors at play:

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1. The telescope and instruments are designed for a one-time special use, shared by no one else (pretty much). That means many if not all the requirements are being discovered as they go, and it is not a very predictable process in terms of the risks and unknowns. Many delays happen/happened because people believed the requirements were set, and started building things, only to have them change later, leading to wasted time and resources. But that's how something in research phase goes.

2. The size, materials, instruments, etc were pretty much unprecedented, aside from some very low level legacy components. Everything had to be designed for the first time. This often leads to many unexpected cost overruns.

3. It was a huge project, which is always in tension with something that is R&D / being discovered as you go. It takes a long time for many different and scattered teams to be able to communicate their requirements and capabilities and schedules to each other when they are so distributed. There really is something to the idea that 6 people in one room can do things that 100 people in multiple rooms cannot, but by the sheer size required, and the fragmentation of expertise to do the job, it had accompanying schedule and risk problems.

4. Because the telescope is a one-off and so valuable as a project, it had to be risk-free or risk-minimal. When something costs so much, it has to cost even more to protect it against mistakes. That means that you can't cheap out and risk certain things, leading to it taking more time and resources to get it right. It is the opposite of the Mars program "fast and cheap and fail quickly". It has advantages and disadvantages.

5. Also a sort of less tangible factor is that these projects, even when delayed, have to keep a certain group of people employed to maintain continuity of knowledge and technical expertise. If you get delayed, you cannot just cut people from the program, you will lose them to other projects and further delay progress. So every year of delay incurs you a very high cost.

**

The costs were not the cost of launch. That was a relatively small part of the project. Ariane, etc. are known factors at this point. It was the fact that everything about the telescope was new, will never be reproduced again, and had to be gotten right the first time.

I am probably oversimplifying some things that happened during the process, and other related factors, but that's my opinion.
Where in this study does it suggest that calorie intake was limited? The only line I saw relating to calorie management was this one:

|All the pigs had ad libitum access to diets and water and consumed the diets for 2 months.

So they could eat as much as they wanted to, it seems.
I think the question is, imagine we built 10 — and got an outcome like:

2x — failed to deploy, mission lost

4x — early operation error, 6mo lifetime

3x — lower performance, 3 year lifetime

1x — mission successful, 10 year lifetime

…do we get a better deal building them with larger faults, at a lower cost?

A lot of expense is in developing technologies, assembly tooling, and test rigs — all of which is easier if we don’t need them to be as assured because only 1 in 10 needs to succeed.
Everyone misses the point when it comes to Microsoft vs open-source. The problem isn't Microsoft, the problem is open-source is kryptonite to capitalist enterprise. Giving things away for free is a poor way to make money. So, any company in Microsoft's position would be similarly threatened, and try to kill it any way you can. If desktop Linux were a serious threat to Windows once again, Microsoft would likely behave the exact same way it did in the 2000s. The fact that they release open-source software, including Linux distros, is irrelevant. AWS appeared and showed Microsoft a way to make money from Linux, so they're pursuing that avenue. Also, contributions to Linux servers does little to help desktop Linux, so they're not working against their own desktop OS dominance.
The Google Chromebook doesn't have a real operating system, only a web browser. Good decision, Denmark.
I haven't been as into cocktails as I used to be (having kids and getting older curtailed it), so it's been a long time since I've tried to replicate the cocktail experience I've had at bars.

I don't know if I ever tried to directly replicate cocktails that I've had in bars. I mostly just focused on picking recipes and then iterating on them until I got them dialed in. It's a fun place to just explore.

What I did learn, though, is that almost all of the craft cocktails I see on menus are really just variations on a few basic classic cocktails. They'll give it a fancy name and tweak a few secondary ingredients, but in general, if it's got whiskey, it's often a variation on an old fashioned or Manhattan. (City names are a clue for the latter.) If it has simple syrup and citrus, it's in the ballpark of a sour.
“I was not alone in realizing that it was spurious at best,” Andy Wirth, an American hospitality executive who worked on Neom in 2020, says of the project. “The complete absence of being tethered to reality, objectively, is what was demonstrated there.”

Dang.