skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a strong recollection that part of the Appalachians are stuck in South America, but I'm not finding much information online. Here's one very old article discussing some research into it.

http://www.kencroswell.com/SouthAmericanAppalachians.html
You are aware of that almost all known protein structures come from crystallography?
I don't think "advances" implies that something is subjectively better, but that it builds upon previous techniques and methods in some way.

You can dislike synthesizers and samples all you want, but there's no denying that they opened up new creative avenues for composers and sound designers.
I lived in tenderloin about 6 years ago, and the police really don't care. For example, every Sunday at 11pm a rival gang would throw explosives from their cars at rival street dealers. We called the police many times, and we where told more than once that "these things usual sort themselves out between these gangs." Meanwhile we wanted as an ambulance took our corner dealer after having an explosive thrown in their face.

We ultimately left that otherwise nice apartment, because of this situation combined with the landlord not caring about a new bedbug infestation. SF could be a wonderful place if they built more middle density housing and improved city institutions.
I was thinking about somewhere like Israel or Taiwan, that a sitting president might be willing to push the button to defend a nation, but not have confidence that their successor would do the same, and so put the matter in the hands of the nation itself.
It's largely a speed game, so you need mouse.
Yes, who are famous in large part for Dead Cells. One of the developers even went on to lead Shiro Games, which has done stuff like Dune and Northgard.
The Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 91.119 indicates that, except when necessary for departure or landing, the minimum altitude over urban areas is 1,000 feet above ground level (AGL) and 500 feet AGL over rural areas. But small aircraft often violate this; new laws would need to enforce this minimum height in order for personal flying vehicles to be safe.
I honestly dont know which one I prefer at this point: police who spend their time beating protestors, profiling black people and shooting family dogs, or police who simply don’t do anything. Seems like many are responding to recent widespread calls for accountability by just not doing their jobs.
It’s from before the https-everywhere days, or around the same time letsencrypt was started up, IIRC. Back then, I feel like security wasn’t as big of an issue, at least for less sensitive things. Like literally the entire site would be http until you got to checkout and the only reason you had the certs was to be PCI compliant.
I did not specifically mention ZFS anywhere in my comment, bad memory corrupting data being actively changed remains a problem for any filesystem. If the filesystem is actively changing data it can not rely on anything it is writing to disk being correct if the in memory buffers and other data structures are themselves corrupted.
45 traffic cops is a pathetic amount for a city that size. It gives you maybe 10 who are actually on the streets at any given time.

I'll buy they're busy all day just responding to accidents.
They just need a large batch of mushrooms and grind it to a powder and weighed out and placed in a pill capsule, much like what I saw back in high school being sold. No taste as it is in a pill capsule and the dose is pretty consistent.
IIRC, Apple periodically merges some kernel bits from FreeBSD and user space utilities from NetBSD. (Though I can’t find a source mentioning NetBSD, atm.) I don’t know why Apple would choose NetBSD utilities instead of FreeBSD if they are also using FreeBSD kernel bits.

I understand why Apple doesn’t bother to contribute to upstream FreeBSD or NetBSD, but I’m curious why they aren’t eager to merge updates from them more frequently.
Ask HN: Why are incumbents so slow to embrace electric drivetrain technology?
Given Tesla’s success and clear demand for an EV option, why are incumbents in the car, boat, ATV, and tractor industries so slow to embrace this technology? As a consumer it seems like there are rarely any options among incumbents and so the only way to go electric in a wide range of industries is to make a large purchase from a startup that may or may not exist in a few years and doesn’t have any of the widespread dealer support that incumbents have built. What is taking them so long?

For example: John Deere announced an electric tractor in… 2016. It’s now 2022 and this tractor is still nowhere to be found. It’s the same everywhere I look. Options to go electric are seemingly as limited today as they have ever been in everything but cars (and even then it is only marginally better).
What kind of grai would they be getting fed? That probably matters too.
Very easy for you and me, I agree - it has certainly improved from where it was even just a year ago.

I'm more commenting on the average Joe who has landed on Linux but is averse to the terminal or really anything that's not push-button/OOTB

These are the types that'll see it, maybe manage to fix it, then later be flabbergasted when they can't boot (with SB enabled) because the import was lost

I'm not sure there's a good answer, other than just trying to press the ball forward -- enduring whatever turmoil may follow

Maybe this prompt will lead to better mok utilies for self service, instead of tailored (and often fragile) releases. I personally have stopped bothering
For what it's worth, I'm not one of the downvoters but as much as it its an honest question, it also has obvious answers. If you bucket by age/gender/race you will immediately be accused of ageism, sexism and racism. Your statistical model can even be 99.9% accurate too and it won't even matter because it will take just that 0.1% walking into an elevator, becoming offended, posting about it on Twitter and it blowing up in your face.
Obviously it’s been quite a long time, but as someone whose first VCR was beta, this rings true. If nothing else, I definitely don’t remember a noticeable quality difference when we later switched to VHS.
Read Shane’s well-commented shaders on shadertoy:

https://www.shadertoy.com/user/Shane/sort=popular&from=8&num...
I also would like to know. My guess is maybe password dumps?
It's not, but the OP is saying this to pre-empt the "just use GraphQL for private APIs" defence.
It is incredibly hard to get a good grasp of the consensus in a literature as a non-expert just by searching Google Scholar. People spend years in graduate school to learn to do that.

Are there reputable journals or conference proceedings that you specifically recommend reading for high-quality literature reviews?
Some people like to be in a position of power over other people. Some people see it as military-lite. Some people like guns. Some people her off on hurting other people. Some people are not smart enough to do any kind of job that requires a smidgen of intelligence, so they go into police work (it has even been shown that you will be rejected from becoming a police officer if you are intelligent - at least in the US). Etc.
Ask HN: Is the Arch Linux AUR Down?
URL: https://aur.archlinux.org

I'm personally getting an Error 502: Bad gateway from their nginx server and would like to confirm it isn't just me
There are many professions where you don’t know that you have too many, but you know when you have too few. I suspect police are one of these.
Was in SF a week ago and my Uber driver took an illegal u-turn. He noticed me being quizzical and said that police don’t enforce anything anymore. He said a few years ago they had a big push to enforce traffic laws to the letter and everyone got a lot of tickets but it’s now totally different. Kind of weird to have big swings on enforcement of things like that. It’s like there is a broken control algorithm somewhere.
Too bad BSD has such obscure hardware support, anyone running BSD over GNU/Linux is going to lose performance and responsiveness having to run everything through layers of code and emulation.
Also, due to squalid support, it's only really usable without GUI - bad scaling and graphical acceleration, or the lack hereof, as well as poor support just means that most GUI solutions for BSD look worse than Windows 3.0.I've yet to see anyone make BSD look agreeable, the only viable solutions being KDE and XFCE, both of which suck. Surely that'll take away from productivity as well, but that's just me.
The poor support is the worst offender, also because it seems to me that a lot of the lacking hardware support stems not from a lack of users, but a general apathy towards doing anything on your computer that isn't just using emacs or compiling. The lack of wifi support is most baffling and contributes to the fact that doing anything with BSD on a laptop that isn't owned by one of the developers themselves, will result in sluggish or subpar performance.
I have the same opinion on desktop BSD users as I do with GNU/Hurd users. You do you. But as soon as you start talking about the perceived sufficiency and/or supremacy of your deprecated, wet 80's FOSS fever dream of an OS, it becomes impossible to communicate.
At least compared to classical REST, usually access is limited to whatever the programmer explicitly chose to add, instead of being open by default.
> I don't know what the answer is

Automated enforcement? Cameras checking for speeding, red light running, etc. are trivial and already existant. That makes enforcement better, with more coverage, faster, cheaper and removes any selection bias (that looks like my friend's car, I'll not stop them to write a ticket for speeding).
QDirstat and K4Dirstat were the ones to use as of a few years ago; I don't know if there's a newer option since then.
Hanging out with spider demons at the end of time, that sort of shit.
Some trees that I have loved
Learn a polygon-modeling tool. The obvious choice is Blender, but Houdini and Cinema4d are also good alternatives if you're willing to pay up.

Learn the basics, a little bit of sub-division modeling (it'll take a month of youtube tutorials to get that down), a little bit of particles work, a little bit of lighting setups, a little bit of generator/matrix/cloner functions, flow fields and forces, etc. in your chosen modeling tool.

When you have this down, dive into programming -- Blender and Cinema4d can let you do a lot with python coding and geometry/scene nodes; likewise for Houdini but with a custom DSL called 'Vex'. And that's where a lot of magic is done.

If you're a particularly talented programmer, you can skip that part and write your own ray-tracing code like Michl (https://www.instagram.com/iamasoyboy/) or otherwise do 2d-stuff like Tyler: https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2020/flow-fields

Keep exploring and checking out what others are doing. There's r/generative: https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/top/?t=all et al. for inspiration.

In comments, artists will more often than not share the code they use to come up with their art.
here is the imnage -> https://ibb.co/0KLRScn
At least he didn't recommend Factorio. 5000 hours and climbing...
Forgive my ignorance (and far be it from me to typically defend Twitter), but, sure?

Not every vulnerability is part of a system that is being logged. And by virtue of a zero-day exploit being an exploit that is unknown to the owner of the code, well, then yeah... of course not.
This article makes some good points, but is incorrect on some others.

In particular the statement " It is very, very rare for knowledge of a protein’s structure to be any sort of rate-limiting step in a drug discovery project!" does not reflect the realities of drug discovery.

Knowing a protein's structure, and its structure when complexed with ligands/drugs, is a massively important bit of data in the armoury of medicinal chemists, which Derek Lowe knows all too well.

Of course, it may be that knowing which protein to target is more important, and that problem isn't affected by AlphaFold.
Urban sprawl is caused by bad city planning, not the inability to fly your car. If you add flying cars without fixing the planning, the city will just spread out even more, and you’ll end up with the same commute times. Exactly the same thing happened when automobiles became widespread.
I often type

du -ax / | xdu -n -c 9
> unless you change your schema to where everything is nullable

At my current job, this was done before I was involved. It isn’t a deal breaker, but it throws away one of the best features of GraphQL.

In the end you just have every client implement the rules that should have been in an API tier (if they are competent), or worse no validation that gets you a giant mess.
Amazon buying iRobot the most dangerous acquisition in the company's history
it's a useful device like the circle of fifths but i don't see it displacing existing models.
I came of age in an era in which it was often important which version of a language you were programming in. Not all C code could compile with all C compilers (which was part of the motivation behind the C preprocessor), likewise with Pascal, BASIC, FORTRAN, etc. IBM had two different Pascal compilers for VM/CMS named, confusingly, VS/Pascal and Pascal/VS which were almost but not quite identical in functionality and features. On timesharing systems, you might discover all manner of legacy languages lurking on the (dishwasher-sized) hard drives. I checked out a book on SNOBOL from the library to understand what was happening in some SPITBOL code that I found on UIC’s mainframe that was part of the source for a C compiler. Most personal computers came with some version of a Microsoft BASIC in ROM, but there were differences from one platform to the next so you couldn’t necessarily just type in a program written in AppleSoft BASIC and run it in QBASIC under DOS. The fact that in 2022 JVM languages run identically anywhere and that Rust is (almost) platform-agnostic is, to be honest, kind of miraculous.
Thanks for this perspective and also thanks for taking crackpots seriously. I get that it’s usually not worth the effort, but I’m glad someone is doing it. If nothing else I imagine it hones our ability articulate what we do know to an audience that doesn’t have the training.
IMO you should absolutely buy what he produces, partly as you say to support a genuine craftsman, but also because (unsurprisingly) the games he produces are really good. I also think of my purchases as a donation to keep his blog posts coming.
> (In general)

Yes, I agree.
This take seems to be somewhat over sceptical and slightly over-reaching to me.

> when your entire computational technique is built on finding analogies to known structures, what can you do when there’s no structure to compare to

Lots of people seem focused on the idea that deep networks can't do anything novel and are just like fancy search engines that find a similar example and copy it. This is not true. They do learn from much deeper low level structures in the domain they are exposed to. They can be aware of implicit correlations and constraints that are totally outside what may be recognised in the scientific understanding. Hence AlphaFold is quite capable of predicting a structure for which there is no previous direct "analogy". As long as the protein has to follow the laws of physics then AlphaFold as at least a basis to work from in successfully predicting the structure.

> It is very, very rare for knowledge of a protein’s structure to be any sort of rate-limiting step in a drug discovery project!

This and the following text are very reductive. It's like saying, back in 1945 that nuclear weapons would not be any sort of advantage in WW2 because it is very rare for weapons of mass destruction to win a war. Well yes it was rare, because they didn't exist. And so too did we not have a meaningfully accurate way to predict protein structures until AlphaFold. We've barely even begun to exploit the possible new opportunities for how to use that. And people have barely scratched the surface in adapting AlphaFold to tackle the related challenges downstream from straight up structure prediction. Predicting formation of complexes and interactions is the obvious next step and it's exactly what people are doing.

It's not to say that it will revolutionise drug development, but the author's argument here is that he is confident it will not and he really doesn't assert much evidence of that.
I tried everything from direnv (with the nix direnv thing and a diverse direnv extensions for vscode) to opening vscode from a flake dev shell, nothing works on my mac
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Techbro: a lot of you have asked how I earn 400k/yr(Techbro sits at a mac and starts typing furiously)
I played through Papers, Please back when it came out on desktop, and at the time I remember wondering: "why is this fun?" I enjoyed it tremendously, but on the surface that didn't make any sense. Who wants to play an immigration officer sim? Getting this peek behind the curtain helped me understand all the little decisions that add up to an unexpectedly fun experience.

The level of thought given to tiny UI interactions here is wonderful. Details like being able to swipe around to "play" with the dangling pull chain. Any other dev would just make it a static image and call it a day. But these little bits of magic working together transform one of the most boring possible topics into a real gem of a game. This post should be required reading for interaction designers.
Always buy DRM-free at https://www.gog.com/
More like 8 billion (next year).
Ah that might be why I had these problems. Do you know what a solution could be?
For certain things it’s really good. “Simulation and Simulacra” is a really good one and I think describes the world today well - and part of our frustration with it. Nothing is real anymore and nothing can be.

It’s why McMansions exist. The simulate the ornate, large home of the mid/late 19th century.

Bacon flavored toothpaste simulates the idea of bacon, etc. we are just drenched in irony.

I think where post modernism goes wrong though is it’s conclusions. Nothing matters, nothing is real, decay is all that can happen.

It’s just not true.
`vidir` in moreutils [1] does exactly this.

[1]: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
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I did not work with the nuclear regulators, but I worked plenty with other regulators. Like lots, maybe thousands of hours of interaction. I noticed the tendency among the industry people who interact with regulators to grumble that "they don't even know what questions to ask", etc. I always found that unfair. Of course, as a worker you'd always rather do something else than produce documentation for regulators, but I personally appreciate that the regulators have a job to do, and in my experience they do it well. In many cases I was simply amazed of how thorough they can be.

I spent some time looking at the NRC safety approval of the NuScale design [1]. You look at all those documents published there and realize that they are all necessary. You pick one randomly and open it at a random page, and you don't find superfluous things.

Now, when you have a review that takes millions of man-hours of effort, you'll find cases of irrelevant inquiries. I suspect however that most of these inquires were irrelevant only in hindsight, not because the NRC supervisors were incompetent.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/smr/nuscale/ser-op...
It's very much the same problem with the PC. They do make laptops smaller and lighter, and removing them makes them cheaper (DVD/bluray players include the cost of licensing fees), but online distribution of software often provides similar benefits to Apple and Microsoft. They get to push more ads and gain more control when you have to use their marketplaces to get software.

Optical drives in computers can also be a nightmare for consumers. Try playing 4k bluray content on your PC for example. It wouldn't be unreasonable for people to complain to Dell that they bought a computer with an optical drive but can't play the media they own without jumping through hoops due to DRM like this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/606652/4k-blu-ray-support-is... so Dell saves themselves a lot of problems by removing those drives.
What's the state of the portable oscilloscopes nowadays? Is there any modern/portable equivalent of the DS1054Z?
> We investigated the acute and short-term effects of 0.5 g of dried mushrooms on subjective experience, behavior ... and brain activity.
That's the thing--personal aerial vehicles eliminate urban sprawl because destinations can be reached vertically with landing docks on a building's roof or side. It's easier to add a new layer of aerial streets than fix bad city planning, which LA has been trying to fruitlessly do for years.

This would also free up more roads for trucks hauling container shipments. It's frustrating and dangerous to have to constantly change lanes because some tractor trailer cut in front you on the road.
Inigo Quilez is one of the authors of Shadertoy, and has some amazing SDF-based art on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez
Spreadsheets are great for ad hoc work. I think they’re intuitive and agile. I use them for that purpose too. All the time.

Using them for business processes is a recipe for sadness. People don’t have the discipline to use them for that, and the tools have too many shortcomings.

In terms of “exploring data” I’ve been in way too many meetings where different users have worked on forks of the same original spreadsheet and come up with contradictory answers.

Re: slowing people down - I’ve had the fortune to show a few “MBA types” how to do JOINs in lieu of the eldritch horrors they’d created attempting to re-implement JOIN with VLOOKUP. The productivity gains were significant. Excel is using a screwdriver to drive nails in some very glaring cases.
> The more common explanation was that Linux got a head start by a few years by being a clean-sheet implementation

My favorite theory for why Linux got a head start is in this (long) comment I found some time ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21420338

Some excerpts:

"With Linux, I just booted from a Linux boot floppy with my Linux install CD in the CD-ROM drive, and ran the installation. With BSD...it could not find the drive because I had an IDE CD-ROM and it only supported SCSI."

"It insisted on being given a disk upon which it could completely repartition. [...] Linux, on the other hand, was happy to come second after my existing DOS/Windows."

"By the time the BSD people realized they really should be supporting IDE CD-ROM and get along with prior DOS/Windows on the same disk, Linux was way ahead."
Some DRM does indeed make it into the shop, and ideally it shouldn't. Luckily, the 1-star reviews follow very quickly.
This seems like a good time to shill my very favorite YouTube video, the “Meat Wrapped in Dough” song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUZe1Qc-Bo
Not only rock solid but also very easy!
So we can be tracked more than we already are?

A lot of people probably don't give a damn about surveillance, but think about all the future politicians who are having their entire lives recorded.

"I know where you were on August 6th. You might want to vote X unless you want everyone else to know."

The more we build, the easier it is to press further with it.