skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experiments that take a long time aren’t always expensive, sometimes you just need time. What actually happens to a sample held at X condition for some period of time?

As to other field moving on, it can be a reason to reject the paper in it’s entirety but has zero impact on the results which is the only thing that actually matters. Papers aren’t textbooks, the goal is to communicate what was done and what happened not inform the reader of some wider context.

In the end if I am reading 30 papers on some topic I really want them to be as short and clear as possible. And for topics I keep up with I sure don’t need this fluff.
I mean, I took a quick look at your post history and it seems you engage in the exact opposite manner when an article or situation seems to be positive of Elon Musk or something that Tesla does, so it doesn't seem that you're adhering to your own argument.

Regardless, the traits that Musk exhibits (sleeping with subordinates, lack of self-control, impulsive decisions) are generally speaking not good traits for leaders to have, and it's starting to feel like it's finally catching up to him.
Mistake. Musk never had a kid with Riley. The 2 kids you listed under Riley belong to Justin, and if IIRC...a pair of twins and another pair of triplets.

So, Musk has two pairs of twins and a pair of triplets...a fertile man indeed!
This is possibly the dumbest argument against Tesla one could make.

From the origin of autopilot from its aviation history, its pretty clear that autopilot was not designed to prevent you from hitting things.
Well there is this issue right of for example men saying women aren't good at programming because of hormones, which is nonsense. But the real answer isn't to assume anything in one direction or the other it is to look for scientific evidence. And in this case trans people going either way provide for some great information on this topic and trans people are also often very willing to talk about these changes (when its safe).
This is my interpretation as well. Also weird to think about publication bias in this way: "these studies about the effectiveness of snake oil as a drug weren't published, so we must be overestimating how effective drugs are".

The authors do mention that there is likely to be heterogeneity in (real) effect sizes, but somehow still go with this title/abstract.

Maybe there is a valid conclusion that some of the many nudge studies are probably claiming effects that don't exist. That could be interesting in itself. But rejecting the whole field based on this kind of argument seems wrong.
if you're at the size of needing K8S, you can afford a devops/cloud engineering team.

To OP's point, this seems to be a trend among corporate blogs. Targeting devs with irrelevant content. A few weeks back I remember seeing a "SOC 2 for devs" blog article and was really scratching my head. That's not the level that devs work at, at all. If you're paying six figure salaries to devs to sit around all day worrying about overweight bureaucratic nonsense, or other tasks way beyond their expertise, then you're doing it wrong. I'm guessing these orgs think devs has some decision making influence or perhaps it looks good for recruiting? Or maybe they just want that HN juice. What next, I wonder? Neurosurgery for devs?
Maybe they like the laws in Texas more, alot companies have been moving to Texas for that reason. Although that is conjecture. Also having them geographically close has perks for logistics.
We have literal decades of evidence that interfering with amyloid synthesis has no desirable effect on Alzheimer's patients. That is painfully and (expensively!) clearly the way to bet.

Is it possible, in principle, that by some miracle a magical new way of interfering with amyloid synthesis will turn out to fix everything? Sure. But the question remains the same. What would they all move on to, then?

They should be moved onto that thing right away. Something where actually getting somewhere useful is not important. If I were hiring biochemists, I own I would not count an amyloid research background in an applicant's favor. If you can see some reason to think otherwise, please explain. ("Not easily frustrated", maybe?)

Recall that we are discussing tens of billions of tax dollars poured down that rathole. All the comments posted in response to the fraud just assumed that fooling with this or that amyloid was still the key. There was no hint of doubt about their program, evident.

Somebody should be asking questions about a future direction. Criticizing me for asking it is criticizing exactly the wrong person. The people who should have been asking the unpleasant questions, and deserve sharp criticism for not asking them, are the ones still dispensing themselves NIH grants.
> I suspect there are also people who share their account out of inertia.

This move is perfect for these situations. The kids get a discounted Netflix account without losing their account.
Building a tiny little broken calculator with parser combinators
I personally know a lot of right leaning, church going, gun toting, EE/material science/physics/fab-related-field people in Texas. There's plenty of people working highly skilled jobs who don't have that much of a problem with the recent reversal of Roe.

You can technically be highly educated and still be pro gun, anti gay marriage, and pro-life. It's not like learning how silicon crystals form or how electrons move suddenly makes you pro choice.
Is there anyway to prevent such a thing from happening in the first place?
Well I personally know several Samsung people in the area. Samsung is very serious about expanding into Texas in a big way. I'm not sure if recent attempts by Texas government to promote Christian Nationalist/Qanon ideas has dissuaded them, although I consider that the biggest detriment for businesses going forward in Texas (attracting young people to a state where half the population and their rights is considered less valuable than the other half)
That's purely a problem of capitalism itself rather than any specific industry. If we nationalize power generation we should be able to avoid those problems.
That’s what I would’ve taken it to mean, but I’m rather confused with regards to where you might actually run into that?
Showed the video to my speedcubing Son, and he agreed 100% with you.
It doesn't seem like all that many people are all that crazy about self-driving cars? It's a frequent topic of conversation because some companies have invested a lot of money in it. But people express fairly negative sentiments about it.

Meanwhile, huge amounts of money is spent on improving mass transit. It's fairly conventional wisdom that it's a good thing. (The money doesn't seem to go very far though, compared to the need.)
Researchers discovered thousands of unknown bacteria in Hawaiian caves
There are a few problems with this idea.

A forward position is much faster, both in terms of aerodynamics and the muscle groups involved with the pedal stroke. It allows even a relatively unfit cyclist to ride 20mph quite easily, rather than 13-14mph.

This also means you can go further on a single ride. The purpose might be training, but you can't go very far on an upright bicycle—after 2 or 3 hours, there is quite a difference.

Sitting upright puts more pressure on the sitbones. In a forward position, you can distribute the weight among the saddle, hands, and pedals. Again, this allows for longer, more productive rides.
This is exactly my point. Plants and viruses are not sentient, but there are very well studied and proven mechanism by which survival traits are naturally selected.

Nobody has yet suggested any such mechanism for an ANN.
I hope they are bringing their own power grid along with those fab plans. Power bumps and brownouts are terrible for fabs.
> It does not sufficiently alleviate the effects of WW2 and other developments.

Remember, we are still talking about the claim that renovation of the building stock takes approximately 100 years.

It does not matter whether we are building more because people need more space, or because houses are actually replaced. All that matters is that the percentage of the building stock built under modern energetic regulations rises sufficiently fast.

This is why this discussion is so frustrating for me. It's all about semantics that don't matter, when my point was actually just disproving a point I thought to be ridiculous (which with the new research I did for my rebuttals was actually sort of disproved, as Germany seems to be really good at renovating the building stock compared to e.g. Eastern Europe), which is also why this will probably be my last post in this thread.

> You are misinterpreting them. They don't literally say "houses are worseless on average after a 100 years". They say "houses are worseless on average after a 100 years without doing anything to increase their value". And this is certaily more or less accurate.

You seem really hung up on the topic of depreciation accounting (AfA) and don't seem to get my point. Depreciation is regulated and does not exist in a vacuum.

Depreciation is a legal fiction to model the reduction in value of assets in such a way that it is easy to calculate, but also close to the actual value that would be fetched on the market due to the depreciation.

You are essentially claiming several things with your argument: 1. depreciation is not correlated with actual value loss, and therefore 2. the economic lifetime model used to calculate depreciation does not correlate with actual use lifetime.

The first is correct: Renovation expenses can be used to raise the book value of the asset making them balance-neutral.
The second is not and especially does not follow from the first for the reason that I told you, the lifetime model used in depreciation calculation is based on the observed lifetimes in reality. There is also feedback in the other direction as engineering decisions are taken based on the best practices in economic lifetimes, which is why I cited the relevant DIN norm for cost calculation for builders in my first post.

> That solution is what I would try in your situation.

Thanks for your advice. But I already tried that. And it's pretty funny that you literally try to explain the mentality of my grandma to me. But what do I know it's only my grandma.

Let's just let the topic rest, I do not really care about this discussion anymore.
I disagree with this advice. Nostalgia is a waste of time. I started coding in about 1988. I have nothing that goes back further than 2010. And I don't waste any time on anything I'm not currently working on. Keep working, keep moving forward. Don't waste your time looking backwards.

That's just my opinion, obviously. But I find the obsession with nostalgia in our culture to be sad and destructive.
The ONLY things stopping the US from building are paranoid environmentalist concerns and NIMBYs (even in the middle of nowhere, a NIMBY will surely appear to complain at the planning meeting, possibly because they want more cash for their land).

I don't think putting infrastructure under the ground is going to magically make these factors go away.
Wasm definitely has some useful ideas for efficient reproducible computing, but it is ridiculous to describe it as "a simple VM" in comparison to Wirth's RISC, the Cult of the Bound Variable's UM, Chifir, Smalltalk-78, or even the NES or uxn/Varvara. I think this page lists over 1000 instructions: https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/syntax/instructions....
People are always way less active today, which could explain some of the ED in 20-30 something range versus men that age 25+ years ago. I think people can be too quick to point at porn as causing ED when it could be any combination of things (obesity, poor cardio health, nutrition, etc)
So, I wouldn't know, because I haven't watched Fox News in many years. The best low-emotion, technically informed analysis of "Snowpocalypse" is probably this one from "Practical Engineering", made by a San Antonio-based engineer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM

The outages were not from any one "main cause", except perhaps "Texas doesn't get cold that often and wasn't ready". But, wind icing up was certainly one of several major causes, along with natural gas pressure dropping so that natgas-powered electrical plants could not keep operating.
Sometimes things get canceled because they suck.
> Remember when a Big Mac was actually a big burger? It's a very small burger, these days.

And yet in spite of this, McDonald's Corp has never been more valuable.

See my point?
There’s no “free market” for electricity anywhere in the developed world, including Texas. In the US, the grid is centrally planned by several regional transmission organizations. In Texas that’s ERCOT. An artificial market, a bid-auction system, is used to decide the actual price of electricity at any given moment. But in the case of ERCOT they concluded that, because outages prevent generators from making money during periods of peak demand, generators had adequate incentives to invest in reliability without a separate capacity market. And that worked fine for decades!

It’s not a choice of “free market versus regulation.” It’s a heavily regulated market. The question is only about the design of the regulatory scheme.
Yeah it's kind of confusing, Blueprint's table is more like a spreadsheet ( https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#table).
Honestly that is a good question for the NFL. Why was Sunday Ticket not available on cable systems? Why are great games often blacked out in favor of a "local" team's games (even when local may mean another state or hundreds of miles away)? Why does RedZone have a hard cutoff at 8pm even if overtime games are still in play?
Thank you and @throwaway_4ever, excellent explanation!
Yes, that's going to happen. The books are in the US public domain and anyone in the US can do anything they want with them, including reselling them. Obviously we are not the ones selling these.
> What Netflix is doing is baffling

I wouldn't agree with this, and apparently neither would they. But none of this answers my question.
To a programmer every problem looks like a software problem. Information technology tends to free ride on public goods, essentially profiting from commons without contributing to them. That’s the feedback loop that is lacking. The negative externality, if you will, that should be brought in.

If, let’s say ubers and taxis paid a tax when they rode around without passengers and that tax specifically went to road upkeep and construction, that would close the gap. But this takes policy change, and engineers not only cannot independently make that fix in a democracy; they think they know better than democracy because they know how to program a car in a simulated road in abstraction.

So, not only is the focus often misplaced towards IT solutions, those IT solutions often accelerate the underlying problem. Whereas there are policy solutions but they require smart young politicians and just flat getting out the vote and encouraging optimism for progress through an imperfect but best available democratic system.

The amazingly fast capabilities of modern IT should not be unfairly compared to the more difficult democratic process; leading us to lose faith in the more equitable practice of democracy. Let’s be humble enough to know when we personally are not subject matter experts.
congratulations on your anti-social behavior. do you want an award? perhaps a plaque?

"words mean what I say they mean, not what you say they mean." -- mathgladiator
The NoCode movement is not anti-code just a way to do things without code, and in some cases achieve the same thing. Not every technical problem requires code.
> But I find the obsession with nostalgia in our culture to be sad and destructive

My occassional evenings spend looking back through the life that brought me where I am are sad and destructive?

I find them to be very effective tools for reflection.
Can you tell me what specific challenges you've had with deploying non-HTTP services using Kubernetes? Many features are http-centric, but others seem fairly agnostic to me. What kind of non-http services are we talking about anyway?
"We’re all susceptible to what our bodies tell us. When there’s a strange pain or sickness, our bodies are hinting at us that there should be something done about it," the article opens, then goes on to uncritically describe people using alarming techniques to power through with a grueling activity which has just caused a serious injury.

Spending 8 days in near-constant intense aerobic activity on 1 hour of sleep is likely to cause lifelong health repercussions. We should not be glamorizing these people.
What would be a good affordable ebook reader to enjoy this books?
You have to have a certain amount of karma to change the banner color.
Receiving power from where? 40MW is the capacity of a medium sized wind farm.
The larger tunnel configuration uses 1.38GW. That’s more than most large scale coal or nuclear plants.

Even if they could obtain the supply from a plant operator the cabling to get to the site of the tunnel cost a fortune
if you have an Alexa it can read ebooks you've bought on Amazon.
Pretty good otherwise, very frequently updated since it looks like Palantir actually uses it internally.

Another issue is it's completely mobile incompatible, which is kinda sad but usually not practically a big deal for the usecases it's used for.
Yeah there’s two solutions:

1. Merge #2 into #1 then merge the result, but this can obscure your history

2. Don’t make the test fail. Eg expect the incorrect behaviour and leave a comment explaining why it is incorrect and what the correct thing should be.
Sad this only has 9/70 patrons??
I always preferred it that way myself. Used netobjects Fusion for years and many sites.

From what I remember, the push for html5 and super lean / clean / and 'validating code' for google search results made it difficult for the older tools to stay in favor.

Also the move to mobile.. and not just "m.site" - making so javacript / bootstrap type things came to be favored for a while (lack of grid / flex in browsers at the time) - which mostly required text editors instead of wysiwyg.

the business models for investing in software were shaping cloud things around that time (some say for better, I say for worse) - so webflow, wordpress, adobe cloud everything, and similar had a chance to do the things that stand alone download and own software could of been doing.

Faster internet being more prevalent and such of course helped with these things.

I've been itching to spend a couple hours testing pinegrow site building ( https://pinegrow.com ) to see if it is reminiscent of the netobjects days.. and now that wordpress is getting increasingly painful to use and maintain, I'll likely get to that sooner than later.
Have they fixed the Firefox 2.0/XSLT dependency in Hyperscope yet?
Have a look at the comments on this post and let me know what you think after that. https://www.alzforum.org/news/community-news/sylvain-lesne-w...

Starting with just Dr. Ashe's comment at the top:

> Based on my published work (Liu et al., 2015; Ashe, 2020), it is clear that there are two general forms of Aβ, type 1 and type 2. One particular form of type 1 (referred to in our papers as Aβ*56 and in the Science article as “toxic oligomers”) was shown by my lab and others to impair memory function in mice. The type 2 form of Aβ is the one found in amyloid plaques. It is this latter form that drug developers have repeatedly but unsuccessfully targeted. There have been no clinical trials targeting the type 1 form of Aβ, the form which my research has suggested is more relevant to dementia. Mr. Piller erroneously conflated the two forms of Aβ.

There's a lot of interesting comments after Ashe's as well.
See also: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-crazy-like...

> Around the Meiji Restoration, when everyone was obsessed with how great foreign stuff was, Japanese medical students went to Germany, learned psychiatry, came back to Japan, and told everyone they were neurasthenic. Being neurasthenic became first a fashion, then a class marker. The idea was that neurasthenics were people who were working too hard (good, admirable), and who were so smart and doing so much furious intellectual activity that it was straining their nerves (impressive). Also, they were probably sensitive souls too pure for this world. The most embarrassing extreme of this happened in 1903, when some photogenic Japanese youth carved a poem in a tree, went to a beautiful waterfall, and leapt to his death. Everyone praised him for how sensitive and artistic and neurasthenic this was, and turned him into a posthumous national hero. Meanwhile, “in 1902 an article reported that fully one-third of patients visiting hospitals for consultations were suffering from the new disease.”

> Eventually Japanese psychiatrists got fed up, and started announcing that actually neurasthenia sucked and you should not have it. From a 1906 Japanese neurology journal:

>> These days, young students talk about such stuff as “the philosophy of life”. They confront important and profound problems of life, are defeated, and develop neurasthenia. Those who jump off a waterfall or throw themselves in front of a train are weak-minded. They do not have a strong mental constitution and develop mental illness, dying in the end. How useless they are! Such weak-minded people would only cause harm even if they remained alive.

> Finally everyone struck a compromise and agreed that most of the lower-class patients weren’t real neurasthenics (hard-working, intelligent, sensitive, admirable), but had a similar condition, imitating the symptoms of neurasthenia, based on being too weak and pathetic to cope. This seemed to do the trick, and people stopped coming to the hospital with neurasthenia symptoms. Watters writes:

>> Looking back on the debate, it seems as if acceptance of neurasthenia had been so successful that psychiatrists felt obligated to restigmatize this mental disorder in hopes of limiting its adoption. By the end of World War II the diagnosis had almost completely gone out of style among both psychiatrists and the population at large.

> He who has ears to hear, let him listen.

Glorifying illness causes a lot of harm.
maybe some HN readers don't get the madeleine reference: https://www.thelocal.fr/20190814/french-expression-of-the-da...
"The old UI was better" should be a bus people who say it get on and that bus should drive off into the sunset so the rest of us never have to hear such a boring take ever again.
The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan
Love my $75 HP LaserJet Pro M15W Printer (Refurbished) from Ebay... fast and toner lasts forever.
Deady epidemic - let’s work from home!

Russians attack Europe - let’s invest in nuclear!

What is the next disaster that will make another common sense thing happen ?
Hah, you could have done worse. The double-dose introduction to stack-based programming via HP calculators and Adobe PostScript in the 90s led me to spend on the order of 3000 hours developing Onyx (https://github.com/canonware/onyx), which started off as a PostScript clone minus graphics, and ended up a thing of its own.

On the bright side, I learned a tremendous amount about lexing, interpreters, exceptions, tail-call optimization, data structures, garbage collection, etc., which opened up lots of possibilities in later projects. With the benefit of hard experience I would never recommend using a stack-based language for a large project, but as a learning tool it has some nice qualities.
It can’t build it with any finite budget.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-cant-america-build-tra...

Though it can’t maintain a lot of it either, but it’s the unsexy suburbs it can’t maintain.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme