skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should blame myself for 60 years of public policy none of which I was consulted on? Ok. How about I just not do that and get a job that doesn’t require me to commute? That’s how labor markets work, and feels a lot more productive than commuting for penance.

Edit: I used to commute by train in NYC for 10 years, and I would most certainly rather drive nails through my eyes than do it again.

Why shouldn’t I blame the management for a demonstrably optional policy that materially makes my life worse? They could just say “work the way that works best for you” and leave it at that.

Just because “work” involved large headquarters and offices in the 1920’s doesn’t mean it did for all of history before that, nor must it be so into the future. Better than trains, used to be work was decentralized into many offices within walking distance. Work 1000 years ago looked nothing like today. Nothing - nothing - says work has to be ANYTHING. Work is a fiction we created to enlist more people in our projects, and it’s construction in reality is artificial and emergent.

We have the tools and ability to break the emergent reality and reclaim our downtown space for residential and retail use - that sounds much more attractive than trains to work.
What Canada’s largest art heist reveals about the art world’s shady side
Of course, now that all the software is free.
It's been said that Perl is a write-once, read-never language. Applescript is the opposite: read-many, write-never.
Scientists have finally figured out how to charge an EV in less than 10 minutes
Just be glad the lawyers didn’t make the prices exclusively available via the traditional UHaul full of Banker’s Boxes.
Old enough to remember upgrading the RAM in our home PC so we could play Doom —quadrupled it to 4 megabytes.
Look at the US reaction towards the Solomon Islands [1] earlier this year. And we are not talking about memberships in random international organizations, we are talking about placing military assets close to rival borders. Do you think the USA would tolerate Chinese bases, tanks and airplanes in northern Mexico? What happened when Cuba asked for Soviet ICBMs as deterent against the USA trying to overthrow their government?

Sovereignty does not mean you can do whatever you want. Why do the USA and Israel try to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons, are they not a sovereign state? Why invade Afghanistan, is hosting terrorists not something sovereign state can do if they want? You can of course maintain that sovereignty grants you the right to do whatever you want inside your territory, but then you also have to admit that not only the evil Russians are violating rights left and right.
Warren Buffet turned a textile manufacturing company into a holding.

An automatic loom manufacture got turned into one of the biggest automobile companies: Toyota

Nokia was initially a pulp mill.

Microsoft initially sold a BASIC interpreter, then a Unix, then MS-DOS.
... what in the blue hell...?
It's a big tank, but not so big it couldn't be shipped anywhere in the world it is needed and reassembled.
Thank you for sharing this -- I didn't realize this existed. Instagram is covered in your link, and you can hear about it from the founder in this really good Lex Fridman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvpNKUPbIY

These lists always kind of remind me of popular bands that changed music over time. The most drastic "pivot" I've ever come across in a known band is Ministry, who went from a benign new-wave Depeche Mode clone in 1983 [1] to a pseudo-Cabaret Voltaire in 1986 [2], then to full-on metal by 1991 [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFqVRepm6U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mui0sj-kxLY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYYGKCanqfA
20 years overdue...

Another one that is massively overdue: take multiple arrays as arguments and return the distinct values, sorted (kind of like the remove duplicate button, but that doesn't require to click a button). [edit] actually it was introduced in 2021 ("UNIQUE" function)

Also take multiple arrays and returns the values that are in common (like an inner join). Use case: you want to align two time series by creating a 3rd time series made of the dates common to both original time series.

Then you can have all sort of finance related function. Validate the checksum for an ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, etc.

Excel should also come with the most common holiday list (all the major cities at least).
OK, but there is literally no business in the universe that won't drop you as a customer if you cause them enough trouble.
Eh, the half-size relationship is hardly an innovation of the A-series of paper: the US uses letter, tabloid/ledger (double-letter-size), and half and quarter letter size. US printed matter and blank books mostly end up in that same set of sizes, because they're all made by cutting and folding the starting stock in half, modulo some trimming of the edges to square them up after binding.

The innovation of the A-series line was using the golden ratio, so that the half-sized paper has the same aspect ratio; half-sized paper always had half the area.
A new science fiction award, short story reviews for July 2022, and a survey
Yeah, I'm a big fan of bogleheads, but that definition is just wrong.

There's a big difference between splitting an available sum into equal parts and then periodically investing, and periodically investing money as it becomes regularly available.

Dollar Cost Averaging technically refers to neither. It simply refers to regularly investing a set sum (like $1000) at periodic intervals, as the price goes up and down. It refers to the average cost being less than the average price. As price goes down, that sum buys more shares. As price goes up, that sum buys fewer shares. But it says nothing about where the money comes from.

People then try to apply that definition in two different ways:

1) Using it to regularly invest a periodic income stream, like a portion of your paycheck. Note that in this case the lump sum (the yearly salary) is not entirely available at the beginning. The money is invested as it arrives.

2) Using it to split apart an already-available lump sump into n equal parts, and then buying into the market n times at regular intervals. Note that in this case, a large portion of the lump sum is entirely available at the beginning, and is not invested as it arrives.

Bogleheads is incorrect to phrase DCA as specifically dividing a lump sum into equal parts. It's not the common usage of DCA even on the Bogleheads forums or subreddits. And Bogleheads participants regularly chant that time in market is better than market timing. Splitting a lump sum over time is an example of market timing, since you are judging that later will be better than now. Bogleheads believe market timing is generally bad. They believe that definition #1 is generally good. They believe that definition #2 is generally bad.

So that's where the terminology confusion comes in. People refer to #1 as DCA, and call DCA good, and then misunderstand and also say that #2 is good, when it's (generally) bad.
Agree but still a grand vision. Organizing the world's monetizable information and making it accessible.

They added the monetizable part later.

There has been other information besides the web that they have organized: YouTube.
Seriously, there's just random angry blog posts. You can't get the equivalent of a 300 page book teaching you programming concepts from the @*#& on the Internet.
The alternative is the ancient PowerPC-based RAD series of which the most recent incarnation is now almost 2 decades old.
Why I Use a Chromebox
Yikes. How are we supposed to construct the floating cities? Mining Venus is out of the question with non sci-fi tech, even if all we wanted was to make, say, concrete.

If something happens to the floating cities, the "fall" would be a horrendous fate.

Temperature isn't "nice", would still be around 160F high up.

Importing materials... at that point why not just make space stations?

No water.
I think of signals as recoiljs atoms or svelte stores. Glad this approach is slowly popping up more and more in different places.
FWIW, there is a plan to support password-protected chat rooms: https://github.com/jeremyckahn/chitchatter#project-roadmap
But he was measuring the width of the monitor, which is not how monitors and TVs are measured -- they're measured diagonally across the screen.

So, assuming he was talking about a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor (which he certainly was not -- he was talking 4:3 -- but I can't be bothered to do the math), a 40" wide monitor is actually a 46" monitor.

And a 27" monitor would be 23.5" wide.
A good trick to convince oneselves to backup and the cost of redoing the work lost.

Sometimes, just a couple of pages of documents, or a setup script, is worth weeks of work, ressources, money, etc. And it's nothing compare to the costs of creating multiple backups.
I actually have 100GB of RAM in my desktop machine! It's great, but my usage is pretty niche. I use it as drive space to hold large ML datasets for super fast access.

I think for most use cases ssd is fast enough though.
> WC3 creates the standards and it’s up to the browsers to implement them.

That was mostly true until they came out with XHTML2, then the browser vendors were, like, “LOL, no, that’s not happening, here's what we’re going to do”, and thus was born WHATWG and the HTML Living Standard.
I often tend to sprinkle conditional code with "in theory you shouldn't ever get here" printouts.

They get triggered more often than you'd think.
> Overall, the simplest explanation…

"New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic"

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-07-26/new-studies...

“I was quite convinced of the lab leak myself until we dove into this very carefully and looked at it much closer,” Andersen said. “Actually, the data points to this particular market.”
A debt of 1 to 1.5 years salary does not go very far to explain why US doctors are paid double what they would be in other countries.

The US brought this problem upon itself by cutting medical school funding in the 1980s to reduce the number of doctors and keep salaries high. That situation remained until 2005. Now we have too few doctors, too few schools, and a generation that grabbed all the money for themselves and is now retiring.
Cluny III
seriously though, I think a copilot-like ML to improve flash fill is a genuinely amazing idea which could save insane hours, especially with people less familiar with complex formulas/coding
https://kumu.io/

You can import an Elements table and a Relations table and it shows you a graph. Can also attach fields/attributes to each element and the relations to see those when selecting an element in the 'map'.
A few years ago, they realized it would be in the public archival interest to ignore robots.txt for gov/mil sites, and then possibly more types of sites. They have long had a manual process for submitting takedown requests by email; here's someone on reddit who claimed to have successfully gotten a page (presumably not under their control) removed from the archive [1]

[0] https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/eut3na/can_i_get_p...
The belief is that people are not as productive at home (with distractions etc).

WFH 100% may not necessarily be a win for workers. It might consolidate to short-term project-based contracting that can be stressful to deliver. When you work from office, if it doesn’t work, well, at least you are at work trying! Of course, you might still be responsible, but perhaps that’s slightly better than assuming responsibility at home (if it doesn’t work, you are not working on it).
That assumes that there is a free market with significantly different options. in this case most of the manufacturers provide much shorter support timelines and there is no benefit of switching from one to another as they are all limited. The closest to a standout would be Apple and for someone on Android, that would entail a significant switching cost.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ with the latest Chrome.
Interesting! This isn't something I know anything about. I will research it!
Dashboard for objkt.com marketplace smart contract – Largest Tezos NFT platform
Charts show how many offers and asks are placed, how many wallets are interacting, the mean/median/sum of xtz transacted per marketplace interaction.
> "Compliance is hard" is not an excuse accepted anywhere.

Happens in government without any repercussions all the time. Washington state took ten years after being ordered by the state Supreme Court to fully fund education to actually do it.
"What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?"
I don't really disagree. They narrowed their vision over time but did start out with a grand vision.
I don't think that disproves a general trend that increased socialization in healthcare costs leads to better outcomes and less per-capita spending.

Also FWIW France and Switzerland both have universal healthcare, under different systems where France splits payments 3 ways and covers more with the govt[1], and Switzerland seems to have a system like the ACA in the US where it's compulsory, but they also set caps on the deductibles and maximum price.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
>They're also very complex and to make the best use of them you do need to understand both SQL and some basics on how your specific ORM generates this SQL.

I think the biggest pitfall is how it maps object model to SQL.

The thing people fear about SQL query generation - IMO it's a non issue - when you identify hotspots you write your query manually, tools for that are there, it's easy to do retroactively and >90% of the code won't be the critical path.

DbContext is basically shared mutable state between your entire execution scope, and worst of all it makes it non-obvious.
All GNU documentation is written in this format. But here they seem to have neglected the standard procedure of converting to HTML before publishing...
On-die ECC should help with data integrity, but on-die ECC doesn't protect integrity all the way to the memory controller, and lack of reporting means I don't think you'll even know when there's an uncorrectable error. Which means you've still got the same basic issue --- memory is not stable, although the error rate is likely reduced.
The pattern to check the package and all subpackages for pretty much all Go tools is "./...". So:

govulncheck ./...
I love helping people accidentally. That's the problem when my people often suggest me to do voluntary activities, it also feel like pseudo self-help feeling, weird and awkward.

I never forget those accidental moments (their smiling and thankful feeling).

Depression? I'm still stuck in it, no ways out! I know what causes it but it's damn hard to fix.
As always, whenever we have something like this people get overexcited for terraforming Mars. Or even living on Mars.

First, terraforming. This is such a monumentally massive task that it is almost beyond comprehension. The distribution of molecular velocities in a fluid is a Boltzmann distribution. The average of that is the temperature. Some molecules go very fast. In a liquid this allows them to overcome surface tension and gravity and become a gas. This is evaporation in water. In an atmosphere, a certain portion of the molecules are fast enough to escape the atmosphere and to be lost to space. This is called the Jeans escape energy.

The Earth's atmosphere loses about a million tons of gas every year. And that's fine because the atmosphere is many orders of magnitude more massive than this.

Mars has lower atmosphere and no protective magnetosphere from solar winds. This means proportionally more mass loss. The atmosphere would have to be so massive that you can afford to lose possibly millions of tons of it every year.

You can calculate how much energy that requires and it is massive.

So this brings us to creating oxygen for habitats. This is a way more solvable problem. Mars still has all the suual negatives:

1. A weak atmosphere, which is actually worse than no atmosphere, because it covers all your stuff in dust. Some dust storms last months;

2. The ground is toxic (eg perchlorates). There'd be no growing food like in The martian;

3. Low gravity;

4. No protection from solar and cosmic radiation because of no magnetosphere and (almost) no atmosphere.

So you can calculate the energy cost per gram of oxygen this produces and work out how much you'd need to create for whatever use (eg breatheable air, making water, making rocket fuel) and then work out how you'd get that energy. Solar is the likely candidate. I think you'll find the required footprint is massive.

Oh and cosmic radiation is important for life on Earth. Why? Cosmic rays are constantly hitting nitrogen in the atmosphere. At a predictable rate, some of these nitrogen atoms (7 protons, 7 neutrons) such that a proton becomes a neutron. 6 protons and 8 neutrons is Carbon-14. That's literally how we do carbon dating (because C14 is radioactive).
I always wondered why NASA never sent any surface probes to Venus, until I read about the insane engineering (and lots of trial and error) that went into the Soviet Union's Venera program. Despite all that effort, the successful Venera probes only lasted minutes on the surface before failing.
And if you get 3x full body vive trackers for your index, those each have a USB receiver and you need 3 more ports and they can't be consolidated for some reason. And if you want to charge those from your computer, that's 3 more ports.

I have an anker 5-port USB power hub (no data, not connected to computer) next to my machine for charging phone, headphones, earbuds, etc, and another 10-port hub for charging the 2 index controllers, 3 full body trackers, and 3 track straps with builtin batteries for extended play (for days when you feel like spending more than 7 hours in VR anyways...)
People are rarely satisfied with this answer but its demonstrably true and was proven time and time again at the facilities ClearHealth managed.

1) Feverent, almost religious, adherence to hand washing.
2) No neck ties or dangly sleves whatsoever in buildings that house patients.
3) Change from stainless steel hardware for doors and travel touch surfaces back to "brass/copper".

Those are simple, virtually free, things that have a very meaningful impact on outcomes. Some of the most viscous fights I've had with hospital boards were over what amounted to the "uglier look" of copper/brass.

It is an extremely unpopular topic in healthcare but the area that takes a lot of effort to solve but also has a tremendously out-weighted benefit is reducing preventable medical errors. My opinion after being in healthcare ~20 years is that preventable medical error is absolutely in the top 3 causes of death in the US. The easiest subset of it to resolve is prescription related errors, we have all the tools to resolve those but not the will.
Because of that, I think it's more likely we'll build up an micro g manufacturing base. Manufacturing without super fund sites, and you can drop the finished goods in any gravity well that wants them, earth or mars.
We filed the basic patents in 1994. Given a 20 year patent lifetime, they should have expired by now.
If most people here use laptops (which is my -- perhaps flawed -- perception), then maybe not.

I just put together a new Framework laptop with 64GiB, and that was a huge jump from my Dell XPS 13 with 16GiB. All of the other 13" laptops I looked at max out at either 16GiB or 32GiB. Even 15"/16" laptops probably usually only have 16GiB or 32GiB, on average, though I'm sure there are some with 64GiB.

And then phones, even the high end ones max out at around 8GiB, right? I think mine has 6GiB, though it's a few years old now.

Even someone with a desktop machine (for gaming, perhaps) probably "only" has 64GiB. So the total (64GiB desktop + 16GiB laptop + 8GiB phone = 88GiB) is still under 100GiB. I guess if we include the dedicated VRAM on a the discrete GPU that might be in the desktop? Not sure I'd count that, though.

I do have a few Raspberry Pis (of various vintage) and an old Mac Mini that are doing various things around the house, so I guess that's another 4+4+1+0.5+16 = 25.5GiB. So my grand total (including my phone and laptop; I don't have a desktop) comes to 97.5GiB -- so close!

I wouldn't count these, but my router has 2GiB, and I have two APs with 128MiB each, so that'd bring me to 99.75GiB. Can't believe I'm only 256MiB short!
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Can confirm. Also, it is not better in tech companies, they just have the same data in higher variety of formats and storage systems.
I just did a test, checking RAM usage before/after closing Chrome (which has 8 tabs open, three of which are Google apps and three of which are Jira, so pretty heavyweight). It's using 2.8GB
Wikipedia is reliable to non-controversial topics only. Anything controversial is taken over by one side of the argument and only information that confirms that groups bias is allowed on the page.
The market is still involved lab leak hypothesis or not. The market may still be the place where the earliest animal-human crossover occurred, even if the lab leak hypothesis is correct.

Say a group of animals intended to be euthanized were actually clandestinely sold at the market, it's completely reasonable that the virus could have mutated at the lab in the animal population before being transmitted to humans. In fact, this is literally exactly what occurs during gain of function research, when scientists are explicitly trying to get a virus to mutate in live animals.

There is simply not any hard evidence to concretely prove either hypothesis. Any evidence that points to the market can just as easily be involved in a lab leak scenario.

When you have no comprehensive data on transmission, and no audit trail of how the animals arrived at the market, it's not possible to determine origin from super spreader. The evidence for both would look identical!
Don't they have arrays in single cells?

https://www.lifewire.com/excel-single-cell-array-formula-312...
> How about moving the working/middle class from single family homes to apartment complexes and starting using public transportation instead of cars? That would certainly be more energy efficient than cancelling a few private jet flights.

How about we move healthtech CTOs into dungeons deep underground, where no climate control is neccessary; and provide them a single terminal to continue working and a diet of 2000 kcal/day of the cheapest, most climate friendly vegan food? No spices -- too many food miles.

[The parent poster describes themselves as a "Healthtech CTO, entrepreneur, writing code since 1991, living in Berlin, Germany" (https://web.archive.org/web/20220906213159/https://news.ycom...)]
A transfer case with a clutch and manual shifter…is innovative enough for a patent?
A requirement to provide security and OS updates for 3-5 years affects EU-based companies just as it affects non-EU companies, so I don't see your point. Many phones sold by both EU and non-EU manufacturers don't meet this requirement. These new rules apply equally to all manufacturers, and would not give a special advantage to EU-based ones.

Any government has the authority to regulate commerce in its own jurisdiction, and nobody is proposing price caps for anything.

If you are a phone manufacturer that steadfastly refuses to provide security and OS updates for 3-5 years for any of your phones, then you are free to not sell them in the EU.
> no matter how badly we screw up Earth,

Really? Our weather can potentially get incredibly violent and completely obliterate any structure we can conceivably make. There's a limit on how badly we can mess up.

I think we should be focusing on establishing a space industry (or moon bases) before we even think about mars. And at that point, unless it's for hiking, we might find that we don't need planets anymore.