skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm lucky to have grown up quite fortunate. My family was upper-middle class, living in a nice neighborhood in Canada. My parents' money came almost entirely from fortuitous (dare I say reckless) property investment. It worked out for them, but I don't believe it was the result of great ambition or wise decisions. They always encouraged me to do my best, but didn't push me much at all academically or in any extra-curricular sense. So far, things have gone great for me too, but I don't attribute much of my personal work ethic to them. I independently decided to pursue challenging work opportunities in the United States and enroll in graduate-level higher education to better myself.
30kg carbon per 100 miles seems off...

An entier 18 gallon gas tank weighs ~113 pounds and it can take you ~500 miles.
I think its just as good to vote by hacking. Like when pirating music was a result of people just saying f-u to the way industry was trying to sell us music, why not have hacking car software be a way of saving f-u to the car industry trying to rent-seek us to death. The music industry changed and now we have reasonable streaming alternatives. See if the car industry gets the message as well.
What a disgusting mindset you have.
A remote devops guy is enjoying some quiet time at home when...

https://youtu.be/-sQqc6xy_og?t=42
Oil is over 100x more valuable per unit than water, isn’t it?

My residential water source charges $8/1000 gallons, or about $.30/bbl. Oil is around $100.
They have different focal lengths, so even if the glass was originally for a KH-11 it couldn't have been used in Hubble "as is", which makes it nothing more than a rough polished mirror blank.
phone: leave your device in another room

web: not opening non-work related sites

The solutions to these self inflicted problems do not require more "tech". Quite the opposite, really
>> here are 15 or 16 different e-mail related functions

Is this you showboating the greats of layered code?

Depth is not width and width is not depth, but surely you see the difference in the two?
Although most of the other comments seem to want to blame ZipCar for doing something unethical here, I have to say this kind of "random glitch" scenario makes the most sense to me. No sane company would want to rack up disputes with their payment processor for such little potential gain.
Dead spiders: nature’s robot hands
Thank you for the clarity. Good to know.
This isn’t realllly right. Urban water usage isn’t really crazy. Take a shower or flush a toilet and the water has just moved and become something to clean.

Agriculture is the problem. Arizona shows us that cities can be very water lean.
Will the NOx and particulate emission be the same as with traditional fuels? Is there a way to refine this process or an additional process to reduce or eliminate these emissions?
> So that's nice, when your own national anthem called for you to be crushed.

It’s not calling for loyal Scots to be crushed, just rebellious ones!
Love seeing an αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε in the wild!
> your typical programmer could automate the assembly

Alignment. You could easily automate alignment of raw sequencing reads to their position in the reference genome. From there, even variant calling (finding your individual changes from the reference) is pretty easy as well.

Assembly is a bigger challenge that takes the raw reads and puts them together into a larger (graph) structure. This is usually de-novo, but could be able to be done with a reference as well. But this is not really something that is routine or possible with 30X sequence coverage to the degree one would expect.

The wet-lab portion isn't terrible and anyone with skills making anything (soldering, for example), should be able to do it -- once you figured out some of the jargon.

The bigger challenge someone not trained in this would have is interpreting the variations that you'd find. This can be quite difficult to figure out if an A>C at a particular position is meaningful or not. Again, much of these can be filtered using existing tools, but even then, it can be quite difficult to interpret results.
this looks rad, thanks for sharing.
At the time this was relevant, it wouldn't have been premature optimization. Reducing that many cycles per function call would be a reasonable win.
> no-blame culture

We have this where I work and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it's certainly freeing that we don't get fired for mistakes. On another, it's strange to feel that the people who objectively caused the headache for everyone else go without serious attention to remediation.

IMO, we don't have to name names, but Root Cause Analysis should include the decision tree that the primary motivator chose. No blame culture also hampers a lot of insider-threat analysis.
And if Fontana had written, and LWN excerpted, a statement like...

"The reason for the change: Over a long period of time a consensus has been building in FOSS that licenses that EXPLICITLY DISCLAIM PATENT FORBEARANCE cannot be considered FOSS."

...I'd have not flagged any apparent textual contradiction – and understood the rationale better. It was the broad, unqualified allegation that CC0's text would "preclude any form of patent licensing or patent forbearance" that created the impression of mismatch between reasoning and literal text.

(And note: submission link has changed since I commented from a tiny excerpt of Fontana's announcement, and the full email.)
Not in my jurisdiction - but it should be a simple matter of registering a numbered company / sole proprietor / LLC if that’s actually legally required (I never needed to even take it that far).

I guess the other thing to consider is potentially claiming it as income if you do end up charging them.

The fun part is insinuating you’ll also send it to collections if they don’t pay.
Yep. I've joked a fair amount that watching Casablanca now is very likely to make you think "this is full of clichés" until you realize, "wait, this is where all these clichés actually started, isn't it?"
The best of us can't be bothered with those insignificant things! They're too busy building algorithms to squeeze every penny out of advertisement dollars on social media.
In addition to what other commenters mentioned, in some states there is a legal gray area for registering a vehicle as just modifications on top of a donor vehicle that's already street legal. Commonly you start with a donor as a base anyway and no one is going to independently verify that your mods align with DOT standards.
Yeah, because they probably still pay like it's the 90s.
I think you're straw-manning. Decreasing degrees of concern for those farther removed isn't a problem until you reach zero concern or empathy for people you don't know/don't look like or don't share a language or god with. That is how you justify taking their freedom, raping or killing their defenders and stealing their land.

Letting it get to that point, so as to put your tribe first is selfishness and IMO a deep character flaw. A flaw in so many of us that the idea of star-manning is, in so many cases, naive.
Canada limits foreign ownership of telecommunications.
Crazy part is how kids got it
No doubt. Because all the instruments are active when observing, teams will end up with tons of data unrelated/unused in their own research. A treasure trove for future researchers for sure.
Docker is still the right choice if you want environmental parity without needing to separately manage it. It's less specific and that's good.
Honestly this is probably true sigh. the temptation is to say most of the cost of manufacturing an item is in r & d, setup, confirmation testing, etc these are mostly one time costs, the actual price of manufacturing the item is fairly trivial in comparison, this is what makes economy of scale work.

So one james web space telescope costs 10 billion and take 20 years to build. However two space telescopes cost 10 billion 100 million and take the same twenty years to build. three would be 10B 200M + 20Y etc.

But this would of only worked if you built the second one at the same time you had the setup and test facilitys prepared for building the first one, I will be generous and assume the r & d is not so space and time critical.

Personally I think the main argument for making a second is that you are putting this thing in a location where it cannot be serviced. The parable of having all your eggs in one basket comes to mind.
That would require additional transistors/surface, which was at a premium.

The 8086 was designed under harsh technical constraints by moderns standards. Don't forget that.
Only four percent of the captured solar energy was converted into chemical energy in the syngas, although they see a route to increasing that to above 15 percent

Seems like a fairly significant problem. The level of investment required to make this work at scale would probably be in the same ballpark as replacing the system with high speed rail wouldn't it?
TBH I'm still flabbergasted that modern SoCs will "just put a CPU there" rather than a DMA, because we can actually afford it. 6502 cores are sprinkled around like fairy dust.
No-blame culture and no-consequence culture are not the same thing. Just because you don’t get fired doesn’t mean the org should allow someone the capability to make the same mistake, whether that’s access/permissions/change in org etc
I would strongly argue that Comcast would be a huge step backwards even for the Canadians. "Comcast Is America's Most Hated Company" [0]. Roger's 10.2 million wireless subscribers lost connectivity for maybe a couple of days. Comcast has been failing at servicing more than 31 million broadband internet subscribers for decades. Comcast has also done everything they can to destroy net neutrality. The sooner Comcast is a thing of the past, the better.

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/comcast-is-americas-most-hated-co...
Whoops! You're right, instead of "successor" I should have just said "newer".
For a plane you want to reduce weight as much as possible, and steel isn’t particularly lightweight.

A lot of commercial aircraft have switch to composite materials to reduce weight even further than would be possible with just metals, though that approach has its own drawbacks.
Maybe related are the exceptions to labour laws while you make your 67K a year

https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...

But I'm sure Rogers would never abuse any of those.
> The GP's point is that astronomers find leap seconds annoying too

That just means that Meta is even more correct.

So you would be arguing that meta was being to charitable to the opposing side, and is even more correct than they originally appeared.
That’s not it either: most of the water use is agricultural. Even if you move, you’re affected by that - even to some extent internationally.

What we should be doing is taxing water heavily with some kind of progressive scale, and a phase-in saying the tax will go up 10% a year to encourage people to invest in efficiency improvements.
Finally a decent use case for blockchain.
It might be; I was mathing fast
What if we drop leap seconds completely, but for display and input, we use continuous interpolation, with factors published every year, a year in advance(So that mostly offline devices stay accurate)

Imaginary civil days would always have exactly 3600×24 seconds. We could always convert any past date easily with a small table. We could convert any future date with reasonable accuracy just based on extrapolation.

No ambiguity, no jumps, we still stay roughly in sync.

We could even just use 10 year blocks so that in the short term, most projects would have the entire future conversion factor timeline known at the start.
Current amount of damage has JWST operating perfectly fine, it was created to sustain some damage and still function for its mission. If the JWST gets hit by a second unexpectedly large micrometeorite it’ll become an issue though. Getting hit once this quickly is bad luck, getting hit twice would probably mean we were wrong about how common debris of that size was at JWST’s position.
And can you blame them? That's where the money is.

And even if you are into charity, it's usually more efficient for you as an individual to make more money and then donate to whatever GiweWell lists at the top of their list of most bang-for-your-back charities. Instead of working in a soup kitchen, or a Canadian bank.
This is ignorant and wrong.

If we look at something like a Netflix sales pipeline we have:

Marketing that arranges interviews with stars of their new shows on new channels and on youtube and gives TikTokker preview screenings and merchandise and proposes pieces to the New Yorker and the NYTimes on how deep the script is etc..

Advertising makes sure that when you search "that new show staring XX from the NYTimes" they find the right thing

Sales takes the visitor to the website and tries to turn them into a customer.

It's the C-suite, mostly the CEO and maybe the CFO and the revenue team that decides "we will offer subscriptions".

So it's sales, not marketing the convinces people to part with their money, and it's the company management that decides on subscriptions.

(And I'd note that I prefer a subscription model for Netflix to one-off payments.)
I think there are more fundamental issues - especially in healthcare infrastructure.
That really can't be the lesson. You can have redudancy, but there's still some central spot where that redundancy gets configured and controlled, and you can mess that up. So sure, maybe then you'd have multiple controllers and have them vote or something to see who wins. But then that configuration needs to be known to them and you could mess that up. No matter how much you design, there's still a point at the top of the stack where it's a human being typing numbers into a text file or something equivalent.

And the Big Failures are always around this spot in the stack. Things like routing topology control (also top-level DNS configuration, another famous fat-finger lever) are "single points of failure" more or less by definition.
Christo Grozev's thread on this topic: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1551535542180929536
Wouldn’t an economist just tax the water to encourage using less?
Many years ago I released some software with a major algorithm replacement that delivered a roughly 10x speed improvement.

Within six months I discovered a bug in the new algorithm whose removal delivered roughly another 10x improvement. (That’s the most dramatic single speed up of a previously well designed algorithm I have delivered in my career.)

Numerical algorithm bugs can be tricky to detect when sandwiched between dramatic improvements like that!
Would there be fotons of walking dinosaur still floating around into our direction after making a complete u turn somewhere?
How to Better Define Information in Physics
Amazing best softwares in 2022
I think the most shocking thing about this outage was that the country's national payment system, Interac, was down most of the day.

This is an interbank network which is essentially a cooperative operated by the country's major financial institutions.

Who would have thought Interac would've only had one ISP? Thankfully, they've stated they're adding at least one additional service provider.

I drove from Winnipeg to Calgary that day (a 12 hour drive) and had to stop in several small towns with TDs to pull cash to fill up.

It was quite bizarre checking Twitter all day to see if it was back yet and seeing it was still down.
Well, you should be concerned that so many people are hurt by an organization that pays your family. It’s harder for you to see the problem. Believe the people who are describing the abuses, and he willing to support meaningful policy change to protect families and give them a more appropriate degree of rights in family court systems.
Thanks for the pointer, I'll check that out. It is a relief at least to know someone is making something that meets those criteria. I have no experience with hardware but I use my kindle so much I was legit considering buying an e-ink display and hacking together my own device to replace it if I couldn't find something that met those criteria
When first prescribed depression meds, I once how the doctor came to the chemical imbalance diagnosis, could we measure these chemicals for a better diagnosis?

He told me it was guess work, we don’t know why the meds work, but often they do.

I was surprised.
That's not a lot of money for software folks. Especially folks with access to the American labour market.
Flight information online is huge. Just yesterday[1], we had to pick someone up at the airport when their flight was 10 hours late. We got to do our waiting not at the airport. That's a game changer.

[1] Well, we were supposed to pick them up yesterday. They actually arrived today. 10 hours late on an afternoon flight is like that.
I live in a rural area. I know NOBODY moving closer to the city. Exactly the opposite here. People are fleeing the Bay Area to my area and every single person I've met that has moved here, say it's because of crime and the high cost of living.

I read some of the other work put out by the author, Ben Abrams, as well as some of the work espoused by the expert referenced in the article, professor Dave Peters. Abrams appears to be a cookie cutter left leaning journalist that doesn't appear to have spent much time in rural America. Professor Peters is focused on "rural change".

I don't think either of these people really understand rural America and this feels like signaling rather than reporting.
So how about that pressure-treated lumber that they make the playground equipment with? Filled with Arsenic.
Bitcoin Dumpster Guy Has a Wild Plan to Rescue Millions in Crypto from Landfill
https://www.youtube.com/c/SamoBurja

Samo Burja is a social theorist with a scientist's soul. He manages a political consulting firm by day, and tries to explain how civilizations work by night. He often touches on geopolitics, technology, institutions, epistemology, societal collapse, etc in one stroke. A lot of his claims seem outlandish for three seconds, but are actually very thought out. The guy's really sharp and did many podcasts throughout the pandemic, which was a treat. Don't be put off by the low view-count, the guy's a rising star and I hope to see more of him

Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge, and the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACdYmuFyjWM
Not for fingerprinting, but I wrote a tool that does this to hide messages in x86 binaries[1]. I also wrote an explanation here[2].

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/steg86

[2]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/08/16/Hiding-messages-in-x86...
For my phone, all I have to do is put it face down, Android do not disturb mode.

The real answer to your problem is awareness and discipline. Sounds like your at least halfway there!
It's not a problem for astronomers. It's a problem for everyone. It's a small problem for everyone today. And it will remain a small problem for a long time. Eventually it will not be a small problem.

Meanwhile, making sure everyone agrees as to the kind of time they're talking about it hard enough.
I'm not understanding. What is the benefit of this? This is better than sending emails from my own server using smtp?
Well, that really drives home the point that these telescopes might not be as fragile as we laypeople would assume
I like it but many don't. Certainly not as in-demand as salmon, tuna, halibut, etc...
> "Look at what FB is doing!" It made sense for FB

Except Facebook started as a product.
Nice! This really helps students struggle less with syntax and think more about the behavior of the code that they want to write in a different way from Scratch. It's like Python with handles!
A few from a low-end SKU available only in China isn't exactly a launch. I've seen paper launches with more chips than that.
I am a dev with 4 years experience. I haven’t been able to get a bank, telecom, or especially health care org to offer me more than 80K Canadian a year. 64K USD.

These are sleepy places where you go to work 15 hours a week and on demanding days call in sick.
Well, nothing to do but read a book sounds delightful.
Assuming we could build more, in theory economies of scale would result from more development happening regardless of who the buyer is. And it would in theory result in overbuilding capacity for that many residents and then being left with spare capacity, the cost of which would be allocated in equal part ideally to the investor properties as well.
> we cannot rule out that the colours have been enhanced in post processing

The JWST literally cannot take colour images, the colours are entirely a post processing choice.

And there really isn't any obvious choice either, I suspect they chose colour values so the end result looks like a Hubble image.
Ya gently related, I was able to get off anti anxiety/depression meds and ADHD medication with Kratom.

Worth researching if one is in a similar situation.
Because as bad as it is, we don't need it to be any worse.
This is a great trivia question indeed! Lesotho shows up in my favourite one to ask too of "How many countries are contained entirely within another? And what are they?"

From your officemate's one I naturally had to look up the other entries in the quadrant (which could flesh out a nice geography round):

Highest high: Nepal/China (8848m)
Highest low: Lesotho (1400m)
Lowest high: Tuvalu (5m)
Lowest low: Israel (-428m)

And just learned that the summit of Everest is on the Nepal/China border!
I just signed up for fiber optic yesterday. It was built about 3 months ago in my small town.
The city could own housing managed by renters associations
It would seem to be the opposite in practice, though. All the major publishers who should be able to push a weird and experimental game by the cachet of their brand alone just end up making safe and derivative games. And then because indie devs don't have the funding to compete with AAA studios in the space of safe and derivative games, no-name companies end up making all the weird and experimental games.

If you're the CEO of a AAA game studio, you really just need to have a handful of tiny two-person in-house teams where you just give them 1/10,000th the budget of the most recent Far Cry 516 and tell them to make something weird.
About the first and third ones, see https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AirlineDeregulation.html
Email marketing is a behemoth and showing no signs of slowing down. It’s a fine market to be in.

For sure, if your goal is to find some famous person and contact them directly, Twitter might be the better tool. But if you want to convert a one-off purchase into a repeat customer I think email will stay the best channel for that (at least for many, many businesses) for a long time
> Chipotle’s Buy The Dip

Amazon marketing tbh.

I don’t get the controversy here. The argument of the reporter is weak.
I'm astounded that the author's 2-year old son is not only reading, but typing. Is this not outrageously young to be capable of reading, writing, and typography? I thought age 6 is the standard age at which children start reading, but perhaps this has changed with so much socialization happening online now
HIV-like technique for attacking brain cells and evading immune system?

> the findings could explain why some people who get COVID-19 experience brain fog and other neurological symptoms ...The nanotube route “is a shortcut that propagates infection fast and between different organs ... it might be also a way for the virus to hide and escape the immune response.” ... The experiments also showed that cells infected with the coronavirus grew far more tunneling nanotubes than uninfected cells, suggesting that the virus itself spurs a cell to put out these connectors. SARS-CoV-2 isn’t the only pathogen that controls cells in this way. HIV also takes advantage of tunneling nanotubes to move between cells, and the Marburg virus triggers the growth of filopodia.