skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, as an industry we don't have a great way to know what is or isn't reliable.

I'm not sure it matters. You can assume it will be as reliable as your own buggy code that you wrote yourself. The more important question is how maintainable or replaceable is it. Once you include a dependency it becomes your code to maintain, so it had better be something that you're comfortable jumping in and getting your hands dirty with if need be.
+1 for "let's run this big UI change using our TEST platform past some physical rooms full of typical users to see if they hate it" rather than just firing it into prod with some buzzwords to justify traumatising millions of previously satisfied customers!

Personal favourite was Spotify removing their playback widget to "improve the customer experience" and oh my God the backlash was ferocious. It was entirely moronic and screamed of Product Manager -> Customer with zero actual user feedback gathering:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Android-Widget-Remo...

26 pages of complaints produced this response, basically we removed a thing you love and use constantly, but you can vote for it as a feature request:

"We always take retiring features in Spotify very seriously, and do want your continued feedback. The best way for us to measure your comments are via votes in our Idea Exchange.

For this reason we're going to lock this thread. We encourage you to move to the Idea Exchange area where you can vote and comment on feature requests."

Approaches and terms like "iterating fast", "responding to change", I dunno, just feels like a poor substitute for better planning and evaluation because those can be hard.
What is the issue with having a monthly hackathon? Is it just the lack of urgency to complete the project?
The highest zoom levels are generally generated on demand, as there’s so many tiles.

Zoom level 20 is over a trillion tiles, most of them worthless blue sea tiles. We’re probably talking hundreds of terabytes just for the file system metadata, to say nothing of the tiles themselves.

Of course, you could forego the ability to zoom in very far.
If he's lying, why not provide some pointers so we can check whether the GP is lying or not?
Yeah, same here, but for proof of concept viruses.
The UK system is .. better than nothing, but as you say almost all the hardware is owned by Openreach. So if there's a fault it collapses into a finger-pointing game. And the underlying cost of the hardware and operations to support it is the same.

So what is an ISP? Well, it's like an electricity "supplier" in the UK (eg Bulb passim): it's a thin shell company that buys in a wholesale market and sells to the retail one, while running a call centre to deal with the annoying retail customers. Some people have called this the "playing at shops" theory of market operation.
Vast majority of the gray goo in our heads is dumb as f*ck and can't hold a coherent thought more complicated than "I am hungry" together other than by accident. That's why writing is a superpower for thinking. It freezes concepts down and you are able to return and rethink them from more than one angle. Of course, mathematics is a thinking superpower on another level, and programming yet another level of superpowers of thinking. Which is why it would be important to teach basics of programming to everyone. Not so that all become software developers, but to tech them to think. Like writing and math is not teached because all should become authors or mathematicians.
About global cooling: the French green party was born in the 70s over water availability and global warming. Idk where this global cooling myth came from, i tracked it down to an American weekly newspaper, but couldn't find published research about it. I've found articles about nuclear winter and on the cyclical nature of historical climate (and explanation on how we average the temperature of a century studying Antarctica ice), but nothing on a global cooling fear.

Until someone point me to a peer reviewed research paper of the 70s, i will consider anybody using this argument a grifter. Sorry, it's like the third time on this website i ask for sources and i guess I will be ignored for the third time.

For people who don't have time to research: it seems to be a newspaper hoax used by grifters.
You’re not just voicing disagreement, you’re being extremely hostile. I may or may not agree with you, but the way you framed your argument made me completely disinterested in reading what you had to say.

To be blunt, your way of communicating is not effective.
The pros and cons of online learning
Among the rest, Kyocera, originally producer of ceramic components for electronics, was the producer in 1983 of one of the first laptops, the 'TRS-80 Model 100' or 'Kyotronic 85'.
I mainly use Kiwi browser on Android which is Chromium fork with full extension support and DevTools. It is not update very often and I can feel that they are in need of more maintainers but it still works best for me. I stopped using Firefox since they restricted addons and removed about:config
> Have you done ten seconds of research about this yet? You should find time for that. Would clear up a lot of things for you.

Point me to whatever source you think supports your argument that it can't be done.

> Short version: we are far, far too late to start building infrastructure now and make up for a Colorado River's worth of water,

We're going to need water forever. It's never too late.

> and desalination tech right now uses a LOT of energy. Which exacerbates all the climate issues that are causing this to begin with.

So build power plants that don't release carbon. If you want to get really particular, sell the water at a price that lets you build 2x as many power plants as you need, so even after considering construction costs you're reducing the net CO2 output.

But also, what are you talking about when you say it's not solvable or buildable? Adding 50% more water to the residential supply would be 3 million acre-feet, which would take 15-30 terawatt hours of power each year. California already uses 260TWh. That's very obviously feasible.
Suggest them to block-lists. Some of them accept issues in GitHub.
I disagree. It's pretty easy to detect the OS using things that can't possibly change like ABI calling convention (the BSDs differ from Linux.) There's thousands of ways to differentiate Windows from Linux that can't be changed...
One crucial difference is that Antarctica isn’t strategically important, so there is no incentive to colonize.
Being busy is more about power struggle between someone paying the money and someone doing the job. It's similar in other jobs. The most important part is that the one paying, usually have no idea how to do the thing. If she trust you that you do your job well or is scared that you leave - you wont be busy, but if she doesn't trust you or thinks she knows better, and you can't stand up to this, the only thing left is being absurdly too busy.
I thought getting dumber was the actual purpose of drinking? :)
Thanks! A Quadro m2000 can still be found fr around 100 today, but I found an m4000 for 150, and ordered that... We'll see...
It's a different instance, and this was the one that tickled the author's fancy. Who was, according to her own bio, "a data reporter in China, covering topics like business, gender, and government policies".
12 is a special number, it’s a highly composite number but it’s also a small number, this means that a large percentage of the numbers less than 12 divide it. This gives the group Z12 some interesting properties, there’s a wide range of element orders. Tritones come in pairs, major thirds come in 4 sets of 3 thirds, minor thirds come in 3 sets of diminished seventh chords, etc, major seconds form the two whole tone scales. Fourths (5) and fifths (7) don’t divide 12, so they generate the group, producing the cycle of fourths and fifths.

If we look at the groups next door, Z11 and Z13, they are of prime order, so every element generates the group => there is a cycle of “fifths” for each interval. Beautifully symmetric, perhaps, but less structure to enjoy.
That's very surprising and shouldn't be the case in general (the exception being things like compound words or spelling errors maybe).

Do you have some examples?

Are you fixing the random seed? If not the variation is more likely to be that than a single space.
> Not deliberately obfuscated, true. But any code that contains tokens like "CAR", "caar", "CDR", "cdar", "CONS", "caddr", etc

Do you code in Lisp? I do and I don't find it obfuscated at all. On the other hand I find it absolutely clear and beautiful.

car, caar, cdr, etc. are no more obfuscated than chmod, chown, cp, ls, etc. in shell. If you are unfamiliar with Lisp, sure they would seem obfuscated but so would those commands in shell to someone who has never done shell. But after using the shell for a while those commands become clear, concise and convenient. So do car, cdr, caar, etc. "cons" just constructs a cell. (cons "foo" "bar") constructs a cell with "foo" as its car (first element) and "bar" as its cdr (second element). It can't get simpler than that!
Just like with the other post about cloudflare providing service for a racist website, no site should be blocked for content only for crimes and that should be the job of law enforcement and not ISPs.

When companies play internet police we all suffer. Taking down a site filled with racists isn't going to suddenly make all of those people posting there not-racist. Having them right out in the open lets us know who they are and what they're up to.

With the site up law enforcement can keep an eye on it, and so can researchers and other people concerned with fighting racism.

I really can't understand why everyone's first reaction to seeing something they don't like is to sweep it under the rug. You can't fight something if you aren't allowed to see it, and the things you can't see in the shadows are just going to blindside you. We should work to keep evil in the sunlight so that everyone knows exactly what it is, and where it's spreading.

People who want to force sites offline for "hate speech" aren't fighting hate, they're only hindering our ability to fight it.
The worst deserts on Earth are still the sovereign territory of other governments, and if you do anything to make them not deserts there'll be a lot of people interested in the environmental impact or planning to come and take/ruin it.

Mars is appealing partly because it'll be a long time before it's crowded enough for any of that to matter.
Have been running a 14" M1 Pro w/ the 10 core processor and 32gb of ram since the beginning of the year (I use a lot of tabs and docker containers, so wanted to get the extra ram).

Overall been extremely pleased with it, after coming from a 16" i9 model that ran at close to 100 degrees almost always.

Docker performs pretty well (or not noticeable difference from my 16" i9). Usually hover around 40-50C for my usual workload, and sometimes will get up to 60-70C during a heavy compile (but fans are still whisper quiet).

I personally like a smaller form factor since I occasionally travel, but don't know that it really makes _that_ much of a difference to me and probably comes down to personal preference more than anything else
Absolutely, this is probably the most important thing a founder can do
This wasnt the case with industrial revolution. Most craftsmen either ended up doing a lot more joyless work as cog in factory OR they had to accept/adopt the factory process moved their creativity to design and ultimately lost their craft.

Main users of these tools will have to be illustrators. It will drive their prices down (it will be race to the bottom when you compete with instant AI) and over time there will be fewer and fewer people who will be able to create these visuals without AI because there will be no incentive to learn. Everyone will become prompt operator expert that will be the job.

You can imagine the slowly dying generation of illustrators in 40 years doing interviews for local TV about their wierd craft called drawing. (just like now you can see docs about scottish grandmas making tweed by hand).
You're editorializing the original title, which is not allowed.

Besides it's 9 characters too long. So you'll have to cut on the nuance.
This article is as junk science as the junk it purports.

There is a stimulus response component. Ask pavlov, or anyone aroused by a hot [ideal sexual representation] who enters a room. This may not be the whole story, yet this reactionary opposition of ideas is an instrument of self deception.

Your brain certainly has compartments, whether their origin stories are a myth. You can meditate on a region of your mind in such a way as to reroute your thoughts through that part of your mind. For example, meditate on thinking from the front of your mind, or the back, or the right or the left. Be warned, this will at first make you stupid. After months of training, that part will become more competent, and you will notice subtle behavioral differences among regions.

When I train in martial arts, I allow myself to switch between right and left handedness. After years I can perceive the difference in cognitive strategy between sides, and allow each to train the other (developing a combination of methodical and improvisational techniques.)

All of your neurons are not firing all of the time. Your mind (and psychology) drifts between regions distributing the cognitive load. Various parts of the mind are more or less proficient in their strategies. These differences however are subtle and average out (defying all but the most determined introspection.)

Modern “science based thinking” is a sham. Science is a tool and guide, not a sanctified error free all encompassing representation of Truth.

Every ten years new scientific proof disputes the scientific proof which stood before it, and many times are full reversals of what had been said before.
docker is not cross-platform
More to the point, irrelevant.

The article claims that someone wants to put power stations in space and transmit the power over long distances. If you're willing to do long-distance transmission (to central Europe), there are enough low-population area with much sunlight in winter, and the technology to generate solar power on the surface of the planet is cheap and getting cheaper.
I assume it was the same as this one: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AfAmwLMd_Vx33O9IwY2...
One man agencies are quite interesting to set up. What I learnt the most from reading Angad's journey is on how he picked his niche (content for ed-tech startups) and stuck to optimsing his game for that.

This quote is still stuck in my mind. — "There are 700000 podcasters in the world. I need only 5 to leave my job, 25 to lead a luxurious life, and 83 to hit a home run." You just need 5 to leave your job and go full on as a one-man agency.
Looks great!

If author wants some inspiration then this tokyo map is awesome:

https://github.com/nagix/mini-tokyo-3d
Some years ago I was working on solar powered water pumps in California's Central Valley. The valley is irrigated by the California Aqueduct and also by groundwater (it sits on top of an aquifer).*

Turns out most of the farmers use "witchers" -- people with divining rods. Well, not all rods, some use a willow stick, yes, some use a wire coat hanger, and others, well, anything goes.

I asked one of these farmers -- a retired navy officer with a couple of graduate degrees how will it worked (his guy was the wire coat hanger guy). He said, "well, he can never tell me how deep to drill but when he finds a location there's invariably water."

* yes, they are pulling out water that flowed in 20,000 years ago faster than it's being replaced...and the dry parts collapse.
> The Catholic Church didn't survive the printing press.

It's a little bit off-topic, but you have to live in a very different world to believe that, as the Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian church still today.

The only religion that is larger than it, not by an extremely large margin, is Islam (not sure if you split Islam in its different branches).

The reality is that after a short initial resistance, the Catholic Church quickly turned around and embraced printing. I would argue that the Catholic Church is probably one of the most agile among the main organised religions and adapts rather well to changes. It pains me to say that, but it's clearly not going to die anytime soon.
I'm quite familiar with PG ratings. Not just because it's mentioned everywhere, but also because we had some passionate discussions about which to go for during the making of one of the Need for Speed games. Honestly, I feel they warp a lot of not just how media is presented but even how it is produced, sometimes in ways which make things feel very weird and inauthentic.

However, when I first started seeing this stuff as a kid I had no idea why and it really struck me as odd.

I think the funniest thing I've heard about censorship was Magnus Uggla, a Swedish artist, complaining that because he had a UK firm produce one of his music videos it was a real struggle getting them not to blur a scene where they're drinking shots.
True, it should be plenty for the vast majority of projects. But it's still an advantage Cloudflare has, albeit a fairly insignificant one.
I think people are primed to that joke; I personally hear that "What they pass off as chicken" alludes to "mystery meat" - a derogatory term for meat that doesn's have a clear origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat
I'm not a user, but was just checking out the docs and it looks like you can set it up so that you can still edit your files directly and "save" the changes automatically: https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/advanced/use-chezmoi-with-...
Something that makes me smile every time, "The incompetence Opera : Dunning-Kruger Effect meet the Peter Principle". It was for an Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNGusIvpVxc
How Photography Became an Art Form
I'm a ~30K MRR indie hacker, and 10y backend developer. I 100% confirm everything he said, but I too agree the most important features all came from talking with users/prospects/customers.

I'm shit at it, but the mantra I tell to myself is: "remember when you were a kid? These are other kids that play with the same toys as you. Just talk about the toys and how to make toys more fun. Same enthusiasm!".

Just stay away from the mindset of "convincing people". Nobody likes being convinced to do something.
Scientists find clues to what makes “immortal jellyfish” immortal
Great work!
Is there a similar project for (local) text generation (NLP) on a CPU + lots of RAM. I mean something transformers-based and of similar quality to GPT-3 (i.e. better than GPT-2). I understand that each prompt would take almost forever to complete but still curious if something like that exists
I wonder how this is going to look like in real world tests and if the motherboards will come as buggy as for 5XXX series, where it took almost a year to get a stable system.

I am feeling a bit sceptical, as I am not sure if these numbers are that impressing in comparison to previous gen. I am worried that AMD is starting to follow the Intel path. Hyping up the new line up, while selling essentially the same CPU with some cosmetic changes that in real world get you that 1% performance bump on a full moon.
But don't outsource talking to users! It's the literal compass for a successful roadmap.
I think DNS-based blocking will eventually be less effective over time. It shouldn't be difficult to host ads on the main domain, modern distributed reverse proxies are very fast. So they will probably soon just stop using ad-only domains and host everything on the main one.
It all about ROI (Radio On Internet).
I wonder where will the people move up from the knowledge work. One would hope it would be more free time but we all know how that worked after industrial revolution :)
Sometimes market is wondering. Imagine anyone said freedom to choose is what Microsoft is. In a sense it was (as it basically copied Apple II open hardware and against macintosh closed system). In a sense it is not (it tried closed on the software part somehow and even get anti-trust on browser). Even then the “embrace, extend and extinguish” is well known. But now. It seems it is that major game. That is crazy. Can linux …
People can and will downgrade to absorb costs.

> ...individual landlords may charge less than what individual tenants can bear...

I lived in a supply-constrained city once and my landlord, a nationwide public company, could have charged me significantly more without prompting me to move. I am one individual though and you called out that exception.

However, had I been priced out of the unit in which I lived I would have found a smaller and/or less desirable unit at lower cost. Rental units vary in size and quality.

The existence of individuals who can pay more and the non-fungibilty of rental stock makes me suspect that such taxes will simply be passed on.
Best machine I've ever owned, I no longer touch my 16" MacBook Pro

1. never noise or hot
2. dev is great, there are still some AI packages in python that are not fully accelerated but most everything works well
3. use arm based containers if you can
4. ram is perfect, I have 16gb, this is fastest machine I've ever owned
The royal roots of Quebec's French
> [Scientists at the] University of Oviedo mapped the genetic sequence of Turritopsis dohrnii, the only known species of jellyfish able to repeatedly revert back into a larval stage after sexual reproduction

> Like other types of jellyfish, the T. dohrnii goes through a two-part life cycle, living on the sea floor during an asexual phase, where its chief role is to stay alive during times of food scarcity. When conditions are right, jellyfish reproduce sexually. // Although many types of jellyfish have some capacity to reverse aging and revert to a larval stage, most lose this ability once they reach sexual maturity[...: ]not so for T. dohrnii

> What they found is that T. dohrnii has variations in its genome that may make it better at copying and repairing DNA. They also appear to be better at maintaining the ends of chromosomes called telomeres. In humans and other species, telomere length has been shown to shorten with age

Original research article: Comparative genomics of mortal and immortal cnidarians unveils novel keys behind rejuvenation - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118763119

> Turritopsis dohrnii is the only metazoan able to rejuvenate repeatedly after its medusae reproduce, hinting at biological immortality and challenging our understanding of aging. We present and compare whole-genome assemblies of T. dohrnii and the nonimmortal Turritopsis rubra using automatic and manual annotations, together with the transcriptome of life cycle reversal (LCR) process of T. dohrnii. We have identified variants and expansions of genes associated with replication, DNA repair, telomere maintenance, redox environment, stem cell population, and intercellular communication. Moreover, we have found silencing of polycomb repressive complex 2 targets and activation of pluripotency targets during LCR, which points to these transcription factors as pluripotency inducers in T. dohrnii. Accordingly, we propose these factors as key elements in the ability of T. dohrnii to undergo rejuvenation