skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone with more specialized knowledge can shime in, but this looks awfully similar to me to a discretized SU(1) symmetry (maybe SU(2)? My intuition in Lie algebras is extremely rusty)

If so, hexaflexagons (or general flexagons) could present interesting analogies to Calabi-Yau manifolds, especially in terms of holonomic properties, which might yield some insights or parallels for type II string theory. Or in more intuitive terms as I see it, a flexagon looks suspiciously similar to a string oscillating on a folded dimension, but discretized as some sort of torus/state machine. (not a physicist, worked at a HEP lab ages ago, I hope some of my comment made sense)
Actually, yes. The tech industry has a strong fetish for "young and capable" and a proven record of ageism and undervaluation of professionals.

I have taken my share on both sides of the spectrum.

And I understand your "reactive" reaction perfectly. And approve it wholeheartedly, but we are reaching the point where things are looking scary and someone must take "the burden" and share honestly. Self-censoring is a real thing.

With all this "political correctness" we forget that this friction between "young and old" when managed properly can make the world a better place.

By the way, I respect and work with a lot of young people and regularly listen carefully for inspiration and fresh points of view from them.
Another option is to use a read-only filesystem with overlayfs to provide a writeable filesystem (like JFFS2) that also has a solid static FS underneath in case of error. OpenWrt does, or at least did, this.
Civil services, even state civil services were designed from the perspective that they would defacto govern the country. Which is actually a fact. No politician can hold a candle to civil services cadre in a country like India. Even before India got independence, the fact that most of India was unlettered and even with a democracy cannot make informed decisions was fairly obvious.

This is apart from the fact that most elected representatives themselves cannot read/write, and even if they can they have little idea about how to run things. Even the good ones take a while to get a hang of things, and are not really trained to make policy decisions. Given most elected representatives are also more like 1 - 2 term politicians, they also can't think long term or anything beyond roads and drinking water.

When you have a set up like this you need a dedicated cadre of life long administrators who can defacto govern the country. For all practical purposes civil services are ruling elite of India. They are also treated as such. The only real problem is the process of selection is made to select trivia scholars and people with a knack for theatricality than real competence. There is also an assumption that people who make it after such a process will be competent life long. Both the process and assumptions are wrong.

The sheer small size(4500 people) of civil services cadres, far reaching powers, lack of accountability, assumption of static/growing competence, there is no concept of continuous learning or training. This creates a problem of scarcity. By that comes privilege, corruption, autocratic behaviour etc. Eventually these are like mini rulers of India.

This is a big reason why even in corporate sectors everybody wants to be managers, there is an assumption that these management/administration jobs have no work, and unlimited power and perks.

India's culture makes it look like a failure to work regular engineering jobs where you build things, take a salary and go home.
I am doing similar things in C++, Java, C# and Typescript. You don’t need LISP style macros to do it. All you need is a way to declare your intent (what the end result should be) and then code that transforms the intent into running code. You can do it offline (generating code) and/or online (running an “interpreter” that “runs” your intent live).
Heaviest neutron star on record is 2.35 times the Solar mass
Amazing! Love this!

How do you choose the books to added to your library?
Yes, I hired people and managed orgs at companies from 50 to 100k employees. I have a bit of experience doing this.
It's a bit more insidious than that, because uncertainty on the part of the importer means that they don't know how much to charge. A tariff action in the future can be assessed on past sales, and when you don't know how much can be assessed, you can't even really hedge or buy and then give rebates later. It's a really fucked up situation.
Why Haven Healthcare Failed (2021)
> They don't preregister their trials.

First of all, preregistration is not a requirement for the scientific method, which has functioned well for centuries. That is a recent trend in response to the overflowing amount of haphazardly published science.

Second, it is up to the individual scientist to decide to preregister or not. Some social scientists may preregister.

Third, small sample size may be a fair critique, however that overlooks how difficult it is to collect such data.

You've made a lot of generalizations here that amount to, "social scientists aren't as rigorous as other areas of science, therefore we should only believe studies that disagree with their results". I don't think throwing the baby out with the bath water is helpful. You can take results of studies with small sample sizes with a grain of salt, watch for replication, etc. Lambasting the field as a whole doesn't make sense to me.

Finally, readers should note that this isn't a new argument. People have been making this claim about social science for 120 years, if not longer, but at least since Freud and contemporaries began publishing.
Why I Use the GPL
My wife is an admin on the PG project. She puts in a lot of effort to keep the site secure. I think they welcome efforts like yours, and reuse is part of why they exist! They also research the copyrights, to make sure they are clear to share.

I use Project Gutenberg a lot personally, and in fact I'm using one of their books as a study for my upcoming startup:

https://github.com/carter-brothers/hand-propped#first-stage-...

One thing I really like about the PG site is that a few years ago they removed most of the JavaScript, which IMO makes it more usable. I haven't looked at Standard Ebooks yet, but I look forward to. Thanks!

One book I'd like to see on Standard Ebooks is "The Flying Girl", which my wife and I just read and loved. It's by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), and is about a flying startup in 1911, which I previously posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142757
On the contrary, it will mutate (I'm not a viral scientist but seems expected) and it won't and isn't only sexual. Blaming sexual activity isn't reasonable because its not a "STI". Sex is a vector, but not the sole vector. It will mutate, it will spread, and it won't be stopped by telling gay people to stop having sex or shaming them for it.

Proactivity is vaccinating the high-risk, and getting the word out there on transmission vectors - and this is happening. Proactivity is setting the "global health emergency" status by the WHO so governments can be aware to start ramping up vaccine productions and teaching doctors/nurses/etc to start screening for it. Proactivity is getting samples into labs so it can be tracked, and setting up tests so we can more easily identify cases.

Proactivity is NOT shaming gay people for having sex. People were shamed for not wearing a mask with COVID when COVID was killing thousands and we didn't have vaccines and we didn't have tests and we couldn't keep hospitals functioning and old people were actively dying in alarming numbers. COVID took 14 days before symptoms started, so you couldn't adjust your risk and activities according to your health status. Today, we don't shame people for not still wearing a mask - because we have vaccines that work even better and are widely distributed. Likewise, we shouldn't shame people for engaging in sex, but instead encourage them to get vaccinated.
Yes, land lords are quite literally rent-seeking. They don't provide any value to society and just leech off of people who are poorer than themselves. All rental housing property should be owned by non-profit organizations.
Fellow TimeSnapper user. I combine it with a script that collapses it to a daily archive video. 4kx2 monitor setup, at 5 second intervals, have also been saving things for >5 years now.

It feels like a superpower sometimes... Reviewing the exact research steps of projects from years ago based on a timestamp from browser history, digging up an archaic screenshot of just the right configuration screen based on a file modification date, etc.

Sorry you find it useless...
I think this misses the point about the sorts of team players these companies are trying to get, who are usually decent solo programmers but who also are often fun, light and friendly, actively work to build trust with a team through socialization, promote good practices and patterns and don't begrudge the fact that a portion of their day is to be spent in meetings, reviewing others' code and generally communicating. These people exist, I've met some of them. I've met some of their opposites too, who are usually more quiet, sometimes cranky people who just want to be left alone all the time, and I can definitely see why the former is more attractive from a management perspective.

There probably are tens of thousands of developers readily available who say they like to work in long uninterrupted blocks, and who will be happy to just own something like a dog with a bone before they throw it over the fence for others to look at, and I just don't think that's that special in a person - I think most humans like to work this way naturally, so when you talk about this to a hiring manager or team lead, I can certainly imagine why they aren't energized by the prospect. Also, you have to remember that these people aren't naive, and have probably seen enough staff and candidates to suspect that this sort of description is a cover for general irritability or other personality qualities that interfere with team harmony.

Also, in my experience, in a company that's scaling, with software with lots of interlocking pieces and projects large enough that an individual can't tackle them solo, these people tend not to do so well when compared to "social developers", I would imagine.
I use a similar setup to store code snippets (certain Java annotations for integration/unit tests, various things like that), vehicle license plate/vins, internal (but nonsensitive) ids for test accounts, tons of things like that.

Honestly a password manager would probably be technically better—or a bunch of flat files lol—but there was a certain charm to having it displayed / function exactly as I like it, and lightning quick with nothing I didn’t need.

IDE would be another natural place for a lot of my usages, but I kept finding I needed to leave it in a pull request review or slack conversation or similar, not necessarily programming myself.
It's not really relevant whether they're fully responsible. Is a dog responsible when it bites a person? No, but it's unfit for civilization, and must be put down.
I said that because psychedelic therapy is an emerging treatment so you're going to get a lot of young therapists at first. There aren't enough older ones with psychedelic experience to go around.

I've done psychedelic therapy with an experienced therapist at a precursor to MAPS Santa Cruz [1] and I felt the therapist got in the way. She was mostly there to keep me safe, which I didn't need. Then she projected her own experience in interpreting mine.

That said, for the average person who doesn't do psychedelics (my mother for example) the therapist patient setting is the way to go. That model also provides the best path for legalization.

I'm not going to complain about how it gets legalized because I understand how to compromise. My complaint is that I shouldn't have to go to a therapist to do it legally, but that's further down the road. As you said, that process has been successful for marijuana.

[1] Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
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Was she working as a SWE? I don't believe there have ever been SWE layoffs at Google.
Here in Japan Uniqlo’s self checkout is awesome, you dump the clothes into a bin and then it wirelessly/barcodelessly scans everything and just tells you the total. Idk if they’re doing that in the USA yet.
The LSAT and Other Standardized Tests Are Good for Diversity
Meh, the so-called "fake Kim Il Sung theory" isn't a new info found in 2011, it was a raging conspiracy theory all the way back from 1940s. If you speak Korean, search for "김일성 가짜설", you'll find wiki pages the size of a book chapter.

From what I've heard, the theory is largely discredited now. (Of course that doesn't mean North Korea's breathless account of Kim's heroic adventures is anywhere near believable, but that's a separate issue.)
Ask HN: Experience with Elastic Cloud?
I'm looking into using Elastic Cloud on GCP to host a cluster containing about 300TB of log data (35 days retention, about 15k shards total if that matters).

Does anyone have real world experience to share on how Elastic Cloud works/feels/scales at that volume and beyond?

I also intend to use Frozen Tier to offload data older than 24h to an object storage. Does it really work as well as Elastic docs say?

Thanks!
It's legal in only half the country and its stupid everywhere.

"The overall crash rate for cyclists was 0.29 per 1000 cycled kilometres and 6.1 per 1000 cycled hours. The crash rate for cyclists riding on pedestrian paths was 26.4 per 1000 h, which was considerably greater than other road environments. For example, the risk was 8.8 on shared pedestrian and bicycle paths, 5.8 on cycle lanes and 4.7 on roads."

https://etrr.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12544-021-00...

I understand it may be preferable from the cyclists perspective to injure a pedestrian rather than risk getting hit by a car but your unilaterally risking them to procure a benefit for your self. Morally you are fucking them.

Furthermore some are more vulnerable to serious or permanent injury than others and they don't have an option not to be on a sidewalk especially in the city.

If you have access to a car and are cycling for your health or to achieve a warm fuzzy for saving the earth and hypothetical and mostly fictional people while actually risking, injuring, or killing existing people because actually biking on the street is too dangerous you should probably bike on the street like an adult or turn the key in your car.
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Cover art must be in a fine art oil painting style, and it's up to each producer to find something thematically appropriate. Once they do we require proof of US public domain status. See https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.6.4/10-art-and-images#10...

Wikiart and Artvee are good places to start cover art research. Many museums now have explicit CC0 collections, too.

Finding good public domain cover art can be extremely time consuming - it's the part of the process most likely to make a new contributor give up. But when you find a great cover, it feels great!
> (But the most infuriating thing is when they assume the error message doesn't have any info, and when sharing the screen you have to repeatedly ask them to not navigate away because you're reading it)

Oh yeah - this drives me nuts, although I've seen it more from laypeople than developers. Some people are hard wired to just hit Enter for any informational window that pops up on the screen. I've talked to people who have no idea they're getting errors: "I just hit Enter so I can get to the program."
These people weren't betting it all on a get rich quick scheme though. This was not putting money into something that lost market value. Their accounts still claimed to have a specific value, and then Voyager stopped letting them withdraw any of it.

What they did put their savings into an account that had a higher interest rat than a bank or credit union. The amount they were promised was lower than the normal interest rate for a normal bank savings account when I was a kid - again, not some promised massive return that you seem to think it was.

What you are saying is that anyone who has their money in a single bank is an idiot, because that bank or credit union could actually have been stealing their money, and be lying about having FDIC coverage.

Now, many (most?) of the victims here had their entire balances in USDC - a coin that is still 1:1 with US dollars - they were told that their accounts were in US dollars. They were repeatedly told that their accounts were FDIC insured, and that the company had sufficient reserves to repay all balances. This was a publicly traded US company, and the CEO was a former etrade CEO. They had no reason to not believe any of those claims - after all, the SEC, etc exists specifically to prevent that kind of fraud, and surely claiming FDIC insurance when you don't have it would be called out by the FDIC.

So again, this was NOT people trying a get rich quick scheme, these were people who were trying to have their savings in a higher, though still entirely plausible, interest rate. They were not investing in anything risky - they were keeping, as far as they knew, US dollars - and even though it was actually USDC, USDC is still 1:1 with US dollar, so they should be able to withdraw those coins.

Stop trying to blame victims.

Stop trying to claim that they were "investing" in a get rich quick scheme.

Stop trying to claim that they "should have known" it was fraudulent.

Just stop.

Unless you can provide some kind of justification for your victim blaming that would not equally apply to me as all my cash is in accounts with Wells Fargo.
> You've made a lot of generalizations here that amount to, "social scientists aren't as rigorous as other areas of science, therefore we should only believe studies that disagree with their results".

I think it’s more “ignore them completely.” It brings “science” into disrepute to let social science associate with the other sciences.

> I don't think throwing the baby out with the bath water is helpful.

There is no baby!

> People have been making this claim about social science for 120 years, if not longer, but at least since Freud and contemporaries began publishing.

Doesn’t that prove the point? It wasn’t science then and isn’t science today.
Classic to someone, I suppose?
I'm not an expert, but I think it depends on the license. My understanding is that some licenses are revocable and some aren't.
Also statistically, every species in history that has ever over-specialised has gone extinct.

With specialisation comes interdependence. If you spend 99% of your free time studying computers it is almost certain that you don't know how to grow a potato. You depend on others to do things for you.

Over time specialisation results in critical and basic survival skills being lost from the mainstream.

Usually then, some event occurs that wipes out a critical group of specialists, and everything that depends on them comes crashing down, resulting in the species being wiped out... because the knowledge cannot be rediscovered, or the skills re-learnt, before the food runs out.

We are rushing towards a future where all of our food, water and energy is grown/harvested/generated/distributed by AI-driven machines. The number of people on the planet who will know how those AIs actually work will be minuscule.

Specialists already do things like attend conferences... so gather in a single location... breathe the same air while there... stay at the same hotels... eat at the same restaurants... fly the same planes...

If we care about the long-term survival of the Human species, then we should be very, very careful not to allow over-specialisation to occur in critical fields.
The benefit of Kubernetes for most these days is the standardized api, not the ability to "webscale" although it certainly can. Google itself doesn't use k8s internally anyway - it uses borg. The CNCF oversees the Kubernetes project, not Google.
Ah so such a dashboard would need to display expected vs actual.
Imagine your CEO tweeting this as part of the response...

"Haven’t even had sex in ages (sigh)"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1551389048572301312
If you ride on a sidewalk, it's harder for cars which approach from side streets, alleys and driveways to see you.

Doubly so if you ride opposite to the traffic direction, thinking that it's okay because you're off the road; drivers don't expect something to be coming down the sidewalk at 20-30km/h from the wrong direction, where less of their attention is focused.
We had capacity blackouts in 2020.

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/...
The list of scientists, authors, and innovators who were not only Catholics, but Catholic priests is enormous.

Maybe you've met some dopey religious folks, but don't paint with too broad a brush.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe failure to defend a trademark is a great way to lose a trademark.

I'm surprised Kobo doesn't have a list of banned seller names for situations like this. It would take zero effort on their end, and they're clearly opening themselves to liability.

Off to create Amazon and Disney stores over there... /s
Companies spend hundreds of thousands on unknowns that don't pan out all the time. Sometimes their reasons are even pretty good!
This was my exact experience as well. I was so sad that I never got it running, but maybe I'll fire up some OCR software and an emulator and finally get to play it. I remember pouring over the book and being so excited! It's more than likely that I just typed a lot of things incorrectly - I was quite young.

Edit - looks like it's available online here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2135
You're the one who seemed to be saying the French deserve revenge based on the 1804 massacre. I find the treatment of slaves in Haiti, the massacre, and the indemnity to all be abhorrent acts that should never have happened.

And I don't get your further point. The Hatians taking revenge is what caused their problems, despite the French also taking revenge without similar problems?
I've heard the opposite: Pure math conferences described as places where the attendees struggle to talk in depth about their work with other random attendees, because everyone's working in different, deeply specialised subfields of math.
I can understand why you're puzzled, as my comment was not about mask mandates.

But in the spirit of helping, roughly 6 seconds of Googling in regards to your question turned up this https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072
There's plenty of read-only media out there. I can see this being useful for container deployment -- you've got a database somewhere that you have read/write access to, but the deployed code doesn't need to be updated in the container. A readonly filesystem is a great way to enforce principle of least privilege.
Not to be reductive, but why not `docker run` the sha256 of the last successful stage of the build and run the next command manually?
If you define anything involving timing and lag as out of scope, then yes, any computational sandbox can be run by any computational host with sufficient resources to maintain state, of course.

Hardware still matters for input and output. For your platform to run a guitar pedal, you'll need some way to physically get an audio signal in and out if you want it to be of any use.
Yeah, I was part of those. Sometimes living in CA feels third-world, and due to completely preventable maintenance items.
What makes you say there is no shortage of demand? If demand is elastic then lower price would mean more demand. I know that’s just econ101 which is often misleading, but what makes you say otherwise?