skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are too many fields in which advances in complex systems modelling will be revolutionary and I frankly don't have the knowledge to describe most those. Let me tell you about my own field, soft condensed matter physics.

A grand aim of soft matter physicists is to be able to describe biology in the quantitative language of physics. However, this is hard: biology is ridiculously complicated. However, as mentioned, we're slowly but surely making consistent progress. Advanced molecular simulation combined with machine learning appears to be an incredibly powerful approach that an entire generation of PhD students have begun to master. This has the add on effect in that it becomes easier to build theories if you have precise numerical undestanding of the physical system you're trying to study: something that simulation provides that traditional experiment doesn't.

Let's get onto the sci-fi. Imagine now that it's the 2050s and we've gotten to a point where the complexity of biology is manageable. Not fully solved: that's not going to happen any time soon. But manageable. At this point we can harness microbiology as an engineering tool. Viruses especially become active materials for construction: this has actually already happened [1], but in an extremely rudimentary way. Viruses are essentially spontaneously self-assembling molecular machines: even having a vague understanding of how they can be engineered promises a nanotechnology revolution. And that's just viruses. Imagine the other players of biology being actively used as tools for humanity: where does that even end?

We're taking our first teeny-tiny steps towards actually developing an understanding of biology in the same way we've developed an undestanding of electronics. We can't do it in the same way because the challenges are so much more tremendous, but we're honestly getting there. Ordinary lives won't so much as be changed for the better - rather, the meaning of "ordinary" life will be changed entirely.

[1] Fischlechner, M. and Donath, E. (2007), Viruses as Building Blocks for Materials and Devices.
Thanks for the great advice, which I have a feeling is applicable to more than just game development!

I’m always in awe of anyone who can finish anything, nevermind an entire game. So nice work on that, and good luck finishing it some more. :)
Oh that write protect could prevent wear and tear!
Any minority group that is not acknowledged by the majority as being worthy of basic rights will struggle and probably be marginalized.

Western nations do well with certain minority groups (they have many allies). Other cultures do not. The question is whether the majority of people would fall into a western like mindset or not. I think not.
Who knows how much the average TikTok star makes, but the higher end are making bank. Like $500k/yr

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-tiktokers-mak...
TL;DR It doesn’t let you edit. Which is frankly insane.

P.S. This blog post was way longer than it needed to be.
Not sure it mattered much in terms of the big picture.

The North had plenty of highly placed spies in the South. Both sides were running espionage operations throughout the war.

And the North had a “fighting while talking” strategy which meant if they made advances on the battlefield they exploited them during negotiations and when they took loses they just delayed until better opportunities arose.
> Looks like this OSS project was launched and cancelled in a single day.

Touché :-)

However the idea of a federated search is some measure of protection against that. If it ever happens.
I've always been fond of Svelte. Their reference docs are great, but their tutorial really shines: https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics. Each step provides a working example next to the documentation, allowing you to figure it out before clicking the "Show me" button for help.
The png rotates with this:

.rotate {animation: rotation .5s infinite linear;}

I think it wasn't like this before. They must've updated it at one point.
Those friends and relatives weren't really starving themselves brown rice and broccoli. They were eating a bunch of other stuff when you weren't looking.

We have existence proofs that diet-only interventions work for some people. I literally know people who have lost large amounts of weight and kept it off for years that way. Medications have risks and side effects, so should only be prescribed if behavior modification has failed.
In the article she says "she expressed her frustration" and had been on the job for only 9 days. The specifics of how she "expressed her frustration" are likely quite relevant here...
Ask HN: Do you like it when your manager starts a meeting with “how are you”?
After moving to a new country and position, I'm surprised how often I'm greeted with this question. Maybe it's cultural, but I find it extremely superfluous, especially in a work context. It signals a very cheap understanding of care: a standard one-shot catchphrase one can use to measure mood and happiness. Whenever I mentioned this everyone defended it saying "I don't use it in the _classical_ way, I actually mean it". If someone would actually care, one could ask something specific about the person (what game you played last time?) even without knowing background (what did you do in this nice weather?).

Is it just me who is annoyed by similar conversational generics - do I expect too much of small talks?
Why is the US Dollar a reserve currency?
I'm surprised that's noy in violation of the affiliate and getting them kicked off the program.
Site seems to be really slow currently.
What I find scary is that we might invest lots of resources into "reversing" climate change, and while under this belief that the reversal is just around the corner, we let the degradation continue at unnecessary rates, pretty much creating a race between the ability to reverse it, and it reaching a point of no reversal
ARM War on the cloud – GCP Tau T2A vs. AWS Graviton, who is faster?
> forever being assaulted by Result<>. Without .unwrap() your progress would be destroyed as you'd have to immediately deal with every unhappy path.

I don't know much about Rust but eg. in Haskell you run a Result-returning computation in its monadic context where success continuation/failure propagation is taken care of by the underlying machinery (ie. the implementation of bind), eg.:

f :: Either Error Stuff
f = do
foo <- getFoo ...
bar <- getBar ...
...

Does Rust have something similar?
Thank you for your reply. I really like your framing of the "what it a strategy" definition problem and the examples. That's what I was and still an missing. You also describe very much the struggles that can be seen at companies.

Did you write more down somewhere or read more on strategy that informed your position on it? Would love to read up on that.
I'm not arguing that ground-launching gliders isn't possible.

I'm saying that having an airworthy craft once you're off the ground takes some doing, and it's probably easier to get there if you're experimenting with powered craft.

The early powered heavier-than-air craft were not especially aeronautically sound. But with the ability to perform design-build-test cycles, and not kill overly many pilots in the process, once engines existed design progressed rapidly.

Getting from the Wright Flyer to a modern sailplane would have been far more challenging without engines.
> There's no perfect solution, but nuclear is definitely a strong contender for the best way forward.

Absolutely! But:

Nuclear was approximately as cheap as the equivalent LiIon storage a few years ago, but the batteries are getting cheaper and the reactors are not.

There are also other chemistries, and other storage options, which I'd include under the banner of "no perfect solution, so let's do everything".

> You'd need multiple weeks worth of battery capacity to really run on renewables.

I have no idea why this meme propagates. How many people live where there is no sunlight for multiple weeks at a time? And it's not like we don't already have some long distance power lines.

PV is so absurdly cheap that overproduction is seriously not a bad solution if you're just concerned about cloudy weeks.
It's false, Italy didn't use EU subsidies, it's all plain italian debt.
Perhaps the read head seeked (sought?) to the wrong offset, causing empty blocks to be read.
> What leads to weight gain is still eating like you're lifting when you're not.

Yeah, that's what I meant. So it is not nonsense.
Doesn't the game use "skill" based matchmaking? If so, then those were bottom of the barrel "tryhards". I had a similar experience in CS:GO YEARS ago when I bothered to play matchmaking except instead of being reported, I got repeatedly team killed for playing the objective or something.

My experiences in overwatch weren't any good either. I remember the match that made me stop playing very well too. We lost, but I had gold in every category with my two friends taking silver and bronze. Essentially, the other two people weren't playing well at all and started spouting the most toxic shit I had heard in a long while. I guess fuck us because we were just playing for fun and still managed to do better than them? Like it wasn't a blowout or anything either.

I just don't understand some people I guess. Your post managed to bring that memory and reminded me why I don't play competitive games anymore lol. There are plenty of toxic players out there, but in my experience, a lot of them are pretty bad and are most likely projecting.
Any proofs?
Macron warns of 'likely risk' France will be cut off from Russian natural gas
I live in Santa Monica and often walk past the Lowell Milken Family Foundation (which is close to the posh downtown). I always kind of smile and think about the story of how the Milken Family completely reinvented itself. Michael Milken, for context, was paid the highest yearly salary in the history of the world (~250M in one of his highest years if I remember correctly). He served 2 years in prison, his fine was 600M and the guy is still a billionaire (he also got pardoned by Trump in 2020). He's a self-admitted crook and liar[1].

How many lives were destroyed (or at least harmed) by hustling junk bonds? Is that okay now that he is donating money to cancer research? Forbes and CNN certainly think so[2] (even in 2004, for that matter). William K. Black put it well: "the best way to rob a bank is to own one."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220428215122/https://www.nytim...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004...
That sounds like the inverse paperclip problem. Instead of sucking up all resources in the world maximizing for paperclip production, the AGI recurses that out and realizes the end result is no more paperclip production, and chooses something else.
You can definitely get smaller from there, I was using an example of another common desktop operating system for reference though
You don't have, it's false, it's all plain old italian debt.
Agreed no one knows what the last mile looks like, but all data demonstrates fossil fuels have very little role in that last mile. Your splitting hairs while the data is a bazooka of good news (with regards to cost decline and tech/manufacturing learning curves).
Irony I guess is using google translate to read it

https://politiken-dk.translate.goog/viden/art8882501/Lærere-...

“The books no longer exist. Neither do the chalkboards, they are digital too.”

The world is always changing, it’s hard to go back, but many of us were shouting the warnings when people used things like chrome books. 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.
You still need somebody to install it for you. That's where the waiting begins.
Champagne bottle with a Bored Ape NFT sold for $2.5M
Actually, on most other operating systems since the adoption of Xerox's ideas, the GUI is part of the OS, unless we are talking about UNIX as you well put it, and the few surviving mainframes/micro-computers.
Sounds like the predicted further desertification of the southwest (among other regions of the globe) is taking hold due to climate change.

Remains to be see if new forested areas will appear in once cooler climates to make up for the losses here.
Yes, he even mentioned the AlphaSmart in the article. I had a Neo...an excellent writing device with a great keyboard, fantastic battery life, and enough storage to keep me satisfied for a week or so (and the editor was full screen, none of this "only go forward" crap). The only thing it required a computer for was to offload the text you'd written...and with additional software, you could even upload files to it and modify the fonts to give you more lines per screen.
This is movie script material right here.
Thanks for this breakdown. Do you have confirmation that 蠻夷 was what was used in the original text?
Obviously a great deal of the cost also came from making sure it would work, because there wouldn't be another.

What if 10 were built, each with only a 10% chance of success? What would that have cost? After all, it doesn't need the expense of being man-rated.
Rust is also unlikely to break because of dependency version changes caused by the thirty-seventh party. Despite similarly large dependency trees, the Rust ecosystem takes backwards compatibility much more seriously than e.g. the JavaScript ecosystem.
Have you read his thesis?
my impression is that mostly NNs made progress when compute got really cheap.
i disagree. more of my data has been compromised due to attacks/leaks/etc on the host than has been compromised due to someone having access to my machine.
Ah! Acmella oleracea — also known as a Szechuan Button. Chandelier Bar at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas famously does an off-menu cocktail with Jambú called The Verbena.
Brad Feld: They Can’t Kill You and They Can’t Eat You (2017)
It's important to remember that Russian influence operations across the globe have been generating anti-nuclear sentiment. It was part of their plan to hook Germany on Russian natural gas. They literally bribed German politicians to agree to shut down nuclear plants and double down on Russian gas imports, while also preaching the miracles of renewable energy that were never even designed to provide baseline power.

The same is true in the US, Japan, Canada, France, New Zealand, UK... all of these countries have been nerfing their nuclear plant programs due to pressure from "green party" lobbyists that are veiled Russian interests.
Isn't exactly the cult aspect that prevents you from making real improvements and grow? You get no critical feedback, no worthwhile reflection on what works and what does not. So you do less adjustments and cannot reach the optimum as fast.
Bytewax is the first streaming data python client that I can finally get my head around. I've used Bytewax and I love the developer experience, you folks really dialed it in there.

Also the docs are great, which many developer tools tend to neglect. Good docs are the first thing I notice when looking at a project.

Great work, and congrats on the launch.
Closer to "rule of capitalism". Whoever signed that deal probably agreed to an at-will service that could be terminated at any time by either party. If Psychz makes the decision to avoid fallout and cut them off their network, that's their call. They have no obligation to serve a customer that they see as a liability.
See also: his video about RAIDs of floppy drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc52_PWeU8).
Maybe he's wise?
This sort of polling exaggerates differences because it asks binary questions. That just gets people to give the answer that matches their political identity.

When you ask people to put a dollar value on that feeling, however, you get a different picture: https://www.cato.org/blog/68-americans-wouldnt-pay-10-month-...

If you ask people would they pay $1/month to combat climate change, most say yes. That’s probably your Dem/GOP split. But if you increase that to $20/month, then 68% of people won’t pay it, versus 30% who will. Only 15% will pay $75/month.

When the question is, in substance, “do you value climate change as a serious threat that you are personally willing to sacrifice to avoid,” the partisan gap narrows dramatically. The vast majority of people don’t put a dollar value on climate change that reflects the scientific consensus about its threat.
No, I'm painting historical secessionist libertarian movements as secessionist libertarian movements.

The abolition and replacement of the state.

Reformist libertarians are categorically excluded from the context of my criticism.
Don't we also have 60 years of experience with motors, actuators, and assemblies in space?
There's an inherent resistance to change, even where it provides improvement.

Bernhard J. Stein's *Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937) is a fascinating read in this regard:

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

As Markdown: https://rentry.co/szi3g

I'd heard of it via Isaac Asimov who mentions it in his biography and a few other contexts. Asimov was Stern's research assistant, and incorporated the ideas into several of his own stories.
Cloudflare Protects and Mislabels Russian Wagner Group Website as Personal Blog
Well, if I hadn't seen him for the day I might expect "Hi" or "Doing OK?"

Perhaps a bit sensitive on your part? Depends a lot on the company.
Oh, is that the one with like 10 1" fans spinning at 8,000 RPM, so that it sounds like a Harrier jet coming in for a landing?
This is correct. His actual thesis has 28 example story shapes.
Russian influence operations have been sabotaging western gas production via "green party" lobbyists.

They've done the same for nuclear.

They've planned this invasion and freezing Europe this winter is all part of their plan.
Probably even worse than that. They're effectively often designing special fabrics, threads, and tools to do the sewing. Not that I have a need any longer, but custom suits in lower cost of labor areas aren't a big deal and even off-the-rack suits pretty much have to be tailored for many of us to look good.
Alexa: End of Service Notice
Musk has nothing to do with it. The cost is not due to lack of Musk.
How many physicians can do a DXA scan in their office? Calipers give you ballpark numbers and often that's good enough for a physician. It's certainly better than BMI.
Article is in Danish. Anyone know why they were banned?
5,502 opium, 3,946 fentanyl deaths in California for 2020, which is the most recent this dashboard presents: https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash

For comparison: There were 3,449 gun related deaths reported in the same year:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/...

* edited to clarify that gun deaths were from all cause, not just homicide
They do! http://cyberpunk.jackalope-larp.com/ is run both in-person and online at the same time and apparently has a pretty high production value.
The “dust” from a whiteboard is worse, imo. And I used to like clapping the erasers!
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but to divide a vector in Inkscape, draw a strait line through it, it doesn't matter if the line goes past the edge of the vector, then select both objects (vector and line) and go the the "Path" menu and chose "Division" (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+/ ).
Google AI Blog: Deep Hierarchical Planning from Pixels
Because they are morons and shut down their nuclear plants and bet everything on Russian gas and renewables that aren't even designed to provide baseload.

They absolutely should have seen this coming.
The problem is that (early) Medieval Europe has lost much of that.

Romans built blocks of dwelling houses 5-6 stories high, houses with central heating, and running water delivered to their cities (and wealthier homes) by systems of aqueducts and pipes, etc. These are things that we associate with 19th or even 20th century in large parts of Europe.

Sadly, their social institutions, even as famous as the republic, were also not practiced and even forgotten for long centuries. Much of the Enlightenment was fueled by re-reading and re-understanding of classic Greek and Roman works, which felt fresh and mind-expanding at the time.
We already had the discussion. Could you link to it? Is it worth having it again?
Dzhanibekov Effect
If you read English literature from the mid-18th century there doesn't seem to have been a sense that they were in the late stages of humanity. People were adaptable and accustomed to tolerating hardships that would shock most of us. Yes, the large trees had mostly been cut down but they were able to import enough lumber for essential construction projects.
That managing projects require a combination of social ability

> he can go into a room, he can sit in a cafeteria, and by the time he leaves the cafeteria, he knows half of the people.

and ability to think technically/rationally

> He earned a bachelor’s in math from Virginia Union and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Howard.

...to be able to carefully reason through what's required for a technical project, and get stakeholders on board.
None of that contradicts what I was saying?

You don’t have to not be a hypocrite to enjoy calling out others as hypocrites when it serves your purpose?

In fact, if anything, being a hypocrite makes it even easier since you don’t need to worry about if you’re being a hypocrite while doing it!
According to the Google translated beginning of the article:

"When elementary school students return from vacation, they can no longer use their portable Chromebooks. The Data Protection Authority has banned the use of Workspace - the applications on the Chromebook - because students' data may be disclosed to US authorities.

"The specific decision applies to Helsingør Municipality. But the Danish Data Protection Agency makes it clear that all the other municipalities that use Google's learning platform - that is about half of the country's 98 municipalities - should stop using Chromebooks in teaching. "The Danish Data Protection Agency expects these municipalities to take relevant steps on the basis of the decision," writes the Danish Data Protection Agency.
Middle management overhead.
Some of the parts are so sensitive them weren't deployed until the telescope got into its final position at the moon's L2 Lagrange point. If you had humans assemble it in orbit it would still have to undergo the stresses of acceleration to get to the L2 Lagrange point.
the devs seem to blame go-imap (https://github.com/emersion/go-imap). at a quick glance the library itself doesn't seem to have an open issue describing the problem.

curious if that author's (deprecated) protonmail bridge hydroxide (https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide) has the same problem.
Nobody said it was. What's your point here?
What is the measure of success though?

Successful launch and arrival at the observation point? The 6 month setup period before observations can be made?

I contend that success here is a full mission that yields science data over decades of observation. If we cut down the acceptable error rate so we can launch early, how does that impact longevity?
How does China build 24 Gen III+ reactors in 10 years, and we spend billions in court arguing about environmental reviews.

We F ourselves because we don't allow construction companies to do their jobs.
Because American authorities can through the Cloud Act reach the data which violates GDPR.
> if SpaceX Starship was available, it would've saved a ton of money on JWST

How much? How much did it cost for the actual JWST? Do you have any evidence of this great cost?

The glorification of Musk's ego is endless. Can JWST see the farthest reaches of it? Is it expanding or contracting?
An engineering way to deal with inaccuracy is to make things adjustable with feedback.

It's like the silly analogy I hear now and then that sending a probe into the solar system is like throwing a baseball from LA to NYC and hitting a small target there. It isn't like that at all. The probes undergo course corrections as necessary.