skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related: I built a library to speed up matching many regexes with mostly mismatches by adding non-regex pre matchers. https://github.com/Quantco/multiregex
What would be a better measure? Tons of carbon locked up in the wood? The amount of carbon they can remove from the atmosphere on an average day?
Eveyone knows somebody that almost died after a week of trying veganism. You can take a look at the major killer diseases reasons and see how a diet that “requires much less planning” works for the majority.

What are those “expensive dietary supplements”?
Try disabling addons. 10ten reader, for example, is known to alter pages' style and to break Acid3. There may be other addons doing the same.
Fixed link: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-whale-clans-vocalizations-cult...
This is actually something we’re working on at PropelAuth[0]. Our general philosophy is that most SP’s don’t want to deal SAML and would prefer to just have their users manage their own org membership - whether that’s via SAML, invitations, etc.

We haven’t built an API for it though, instead opting for a UI that walks the end-user through the steps of integrating with their IDP. That’s partially because every IDP is so different that we felt you really need a UI to show exactly what to do.

[0] https://www.propelauth.com
MegaSDM: Dispersal and time-step analyses in species distribution models
> You can make "a browser", but it's impossible to make a modern one that supports all sites

So what? Interested people can have multiple browsers installed.

Not even Firefox is supported by all sites, in which case I dust off Chromium I keep installed for just such situations.
What Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth?
A correlation between mass extinctions and certain volcanic episodes known as "large igneous provinces" has been emerging over the last decade or two; this paper quantifies that correlation and suggests that there may have been an extinction at the end of the Cretaceous even without the asteroid impact.

All the computational work (and plotting) in here was done with Julia, including the parallel calculations with MPI.jl and VectorizedRNG.jl
I would say food - most asian people I know (even ones that eat a pretty western diet) still randomly incorporate a lot of things that are Real Foods or processed type foods that are close to Real Foods. They also eat a lot (generally) more mushrooms and fermented food (and great variety of fermented food - not just yeast based stuff like yogurt).

Does it really make sense that Western diets basically just ignore a whole kingdom of foods? Plants, Animals, Fungi. Those are the three. Why do we eat so few of the latter?
I'm not surprised more and more art communities are banning AI images, 99% of them are dull and ugly. Definitely not something I would print out and hang on my wall. I tried playing around with these models, but I was too bored to bother futzing around with prompts to try and make something I liked.

But I have seen some cool things made using these models by creators who put more effort in than just writing a prompt to get back an image. I can definitely see how these tools can enhance human creativity but like most art the results are just bad.

At least with some human art even if it's not aesthetically pleasing you can appreciate the thinking or time and effort put into producing a piece of work. When you go to an art museum you can learn about history, politics, culture etc even if you don't appreciate how something might look.

Most AI art, however, is useless and ugly.
I wrote about impostor syndrome and how to deal with it.
> Java can take away the virtual dispatch if it finds a single implementation of interface or single concrete class of an abstract class

It can even do that if there are multiple implementations, by adding checks to detect when it is necessary to recompile the code with looser assumptions, or by keeping around multiple versions of the compiled code.

It needs the ability to recompile code as assumptions are violated anyways, as “there’s only one implementation of this interface” can change when new JARs are loaded.
I was at a a highprofile tech company that everyone on HN knows about. Since I highly dislike bullshit, I straightup asked the hiring manager "does this mean the technical bar is lower for diversity?" Answer: "Yes."

Now, there is some possible justification, in the sense that diversity may bring value to the team. After all, hires are holistic (communication skills, etc.). Especially if diversity of {race, sexuality, gender, etc} meant a diversity of ideas. But without evidence for this (please correct me as needed), and with seemingly less-than-well-justified reasons, it was quite upsetting to me. Something to think about: if we value diversity of ideas, why not value diversity of religion? Beyond the fact that it's a legally protected class, of course (i.e. ethics/value prop, not legality). Or would that somehow be less than ideal?

As an Asian, I feel the issue of "reverse" affirmative action well.
Giving alms to the poor isn't "revenge-driven justice against the rich" - it's helping out people in need.

Refusing to give alms to the poor "because it would discriminate against the rich" seems obviously fallacious to me.

Surely one can by analogy reason that there are ways to support historically disadvantaged groups that aren't "perpetuating discrimination"?
I posit that "racists are winning elections" precisely because of the broken race ideology that was meant to combat racism in the first place (not just in admissions and hiring, but all over our discourse). The stuff we do in the name of fighting racism looks like exactly the sort of thing one would do if they wanted to create a thoroughly racist society--get everyone to hyper-identify with their race and create separate and mete out rewards and consequences on the basis of race. Imply that fault and victimhood are racial (rather than individual) attributes. Deal only in abstractions and ignore intra-racial variance. Police people to make sure they don't explore ("appropriate") cultures outside of their own. Use "nazi" and "white supremacy" as liberally as possible--make sure those words have no power to censure actual, bonafide racists. Stuff like this.
If they're at school, they're not being allowed to pick their preferred subjects to explore. School kids these days are literally expected to teach themselves everything, it's not really about exploration or interest.
Aren't the actual PhD students often from those other countries?
Kayak.com shows more options. Also, prices for some international flight are about $30-$40 cheaper than Google Flight.
That is true. Surprisingly we have a pretty diverse team, so no questions there :).

But let's assume that wasn't the case and questions are asked. I think I would move a big part of the interview process to a standardised written test, so you have the results on paper of everyone that was screened.
Really?

My power is some of the cheapest in the country and we pay ~13 cents/kWh. It's a little misleading though since my bill breaks out generation and distribution costs into separate line items. They are both billed per kWH though and add up to 13 cents.
Burn my windows four new effects
Trouble is that I don’t think everyone’s moved on with Markdown, I still encounter different dialects that are subtly different. Even within one suite of tools from a single vendor … [angry stares in the direction of Atlassian]
"Those who work in group will always achieve and learn a lot more than those who do it alone, unless the latter are truly exceptional."

Many people in the US who have done group projects at school will disagree - you typically end up with dead weight or overbearing partners (it tends to get better when you get out of the compulsory school years).

With the right partners, I completely agree though. In my undergrad and even moreso in my masters I had some good groups.
The integration of dark sky was definitely rocky but apple is running dark sky as a data api now, this android app is apparently using it as it’s weather data source now:

https://www.boondogglelabs.com/projects/forecaster.html
Just remember when buying bacon, that uncured bacon is still cured.
Researchers develop method to protect privacy and safety in encrypted messaging
C# has also recently put a lot of work into speeding up regex. MS put up a post about it a while ago going into the specifics. I expected the vectorization. I did not expect source code generation.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regular-expression-imp...
I'm similarly throwing in the towel. I tested a few units with me and one of my team, both 11g. Mine freezes constantly, even after swapping out the mainboard and going through a loooong back-and-forth of testing with support. Colleague's has thermal management issues from time to time, occasional freezes but not nearly as bad as the unit I'musing. Both of us tested several operating systems from Linux as well as Win 10 pro.

Unfortunately, we didn't get an extended warranty, so its a loss. Hoping Framework can address their quality issues because the notion of extensibility and repairability is fantastic. We'll look forward to checking in on them in a few years after they work through the QA issues. Gotta having a laptop that works.
Power consumption is an issue, but worrying about CPUs of a gaming machine is like worrying about straws in the context of the pollution.

Electricity needs of an average household in western world are going to increase a lot in coming decades, with transition to more electric heating, cooking, cars, etc. Gaming machine power usage is minuscule compared to those.
There's also Vectorscan[1], which is a fork of Hyperscan that runs on more platforms.

[1] https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan
U.S. Justice Dept. fights class 'incentive' awards in $63M privacy pact
Why wouldn’t it matter if we’ve planted trees elsewhere? Nobody is suggesting we’ve magically fixed every environmental issue, but wouldn’t you rather see trends like total number of trees (or number of rivers catching on fire, as you put it) trend in the right direction? I take it as a cautiously optimistic signal that people/ governments are paying attention to the problems at hand, and making progress. This is a good thing, unless you really ARE hoping for some sort of magical one off fix.
I always thought of any human progress like gradient descent algo. Hindsight is clear, and if current tools/services/methods/processes don't work, look at how it used to be done. Was it better objectively? May be we took a step in the wrong direction, go back and learn; try to take in a different direction, may be there is a higher ground ahead. It is also important to allow (and be tolerant) to experimentation in different directions because without it; we risk getting stuck in a local optima forever. Opposite of that is Chesterton's fence, there is a reason why we are on this hill, if you go back, it's a steep cliff.
> Wonder what the chances are for someone writing about their conservative viewpoint...

I'd imagine it is about the same! Why? Because they don't really care about the essays.

Applications are not reviewed by "admissions people". They hire temporary workers (grad students, retirees etc) to review applications, and give them 8min per application. And that's for the whole application, and they have barely any time to read your essay. See story about UW, which I am referencing here [1].

The reason for making you write essays is just to obfuscate the reason you were denied admission.

[1] https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/a-look-inside-admis...
Ask HN: Can cryptographic time-stamping protect our history from deepfakes?
As the rate and quality of AI-generated content keeps increasing, it seems inevitable that it will become easier to create fake content and harder to verify/refute it.

I keep thinking that "someone" could use cryptographic time-stamping as one line of defense. As a philanthropic effort, it seems relatively easy, cheap and valuable to do so. I imagine a web archive could save a stream of hashes not seen before, occasionally compile a merkle root and publish it in several places where time of publication is common knowledge.

Is this being done, else why not? It seems like an opportunity too good to pass on.
I think you really underestimate the value of physical stores. For example, browsing for books on Amazon is much more inefficient in my experience than just going to a physical bookstore. Sure, you can preview the text for books on Amazon, but I doubt it's ever going to be as seamless as picking up a physical book and reading the first few paragraphs.
If you're using Safari there's password management builtin, though obviously that assumes you're Apple+iCloud+safari ecosystem only

Safari actually uses Keychain, which has been part of macOS since it existed and long before Safari and iCloud were even thought of.

But again it seems possible that you hit similar "are you a safari only user?" ecosystem issues.

Passkeys is WebAuthn, an industry standard that uses public key encryption. Your public key is your identity and the private key is essentially your password. It doesn’t require a secure element or anything like that.

There’s no reason why Passkeys created on a Mac can’t work on Windows or Linux that have browsers and password managers that support Passkeys/WebAuthn.
There should be a corollary to Hanlon's Razor. Something like, "Don't attribute to genius that which is adequately explained by laziness."

Frankly, calling it Bezos's Razor would be very appropriate, because that's basically how the whole Amazon storefront works.
Speaking of honey, some rhododendron honey can be poisonous https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/honey-poisonin...

also called mad honey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin
You're building Rust client libraries at no cost? Why? Seems too good to be true.
this implies we should still be using the web like we did in the 90s. evolution happens in stages and is never perfect nor free from error
I don't know why they're still grasping at straws. We know why we're fat, the science has already been concluded, and a dozen papers get published every year continuing to hammer nails in a coffin we already buried: diets low in salt and/or low in saturated fat and/or high in oxidized unsaturated fats and/or high in carbohydrates and otherwise devoid of nutrition case weight gain, and the Standard American Diet prides itself on being all four.

Washington Post doesn't publish stories about those papers.
Our old RJ45 transceivers always caused the cards to run at the maximum wattage required for the longest supported run of cable. I don't recall if it was a quirk of the spec or a lack of sensing.
My experience is somewhat similar to yours, I just loved "discovering" concepts, but I think that while this might work for us, it doesn't work for all. And this might be exactly what makes this problem hard, each person responds to different stimuli and then you either have to find a way to identify this, OR just pick something you want to optimize for (the average kid, prodigies, whatever) and apply the method that works for them, to all. I think this second method is what happens in most educational systems.
Rust is actually good at parallelization. Good examples include ripgrep (multithreaded grep) and Stylo (multithreaded CSS selector matching), both are state of the art in their fields.

I agree with you that Rust is not best at implementing data structures and dynamic language runtimes and async networking. But Rust is good at parallelization.
Exactly. That’s why sustainable forestry is a great way to capture both CO2 and building materials, which will store the carbon for decades.
You seem to be missing the point that standing stationary with no shade in 100+ weather will make some people sweat, even if in shape. Its a natural response, and thats before you consider your attire.

Again people can bring a change of clothes, but Ive worked places that require a suit year round, or at least no shorts. Biking around in pants in 100f heat is hardly fun.
But the 100 year old tree that was removed (and everything growing on it and in the soil near it) added a lot of CO2 to the air, and it's unlikely that was grows back now will be as rich in biodiversity and CO2 binding capacity than the old one.
What's your proposed mechanism for incentivizing me to efficiently provide energy to customers without capitalism? To invest in the capital intensive industries necessary to refine and extract this energy? Are you thinking a form of anarchism without property rights kind of situation, or more of a command economy?
This seems like a bit of a strawman. I don’t know Jo Boaler but I have never encountered the idea that students could rediscover everything from scratch. It’s clearly a dumb idea.

A much more common position is that self-paced exploration — but using the latest textbooks and also a variety of teaching styles — could interest students much more than “no child left behind” style common curricula which constrain both the teacher and the student.

Personally I think the current system is terrible for below- and above-average students, and perhaps passable for average students.
intersting because thats the laptop alot of their engineers use internally
That's starting to look a lot Haskell's typeclasses.
On the one hand, yes I like native apps. On the other, I don't want to have each site install its native app and have one more trojan/tracker to worry about.

I guess SPAs and WASM kind of give you that within the security of the browser's sandbox.
Fascinating survey of how we got here.

I would also note that, whatever the API, parser games still leave something to be desired in the year 2022 compared to what is now possible with other gaming frameworks. I'm thinking of indie games like Papers Please and Beholder. But also Twine, et al.

The parser interface accomplished beautiful things in its heyday, but now feels to me to be needlessly constrained and difficult. I think there is a future for text-based IF. I think there are entire genres of games that are only (theoretically) possible with that interface. But the usual <verb> <object> + inventory puzzles formula is just too narrow, too time-consuming to play anymore. And I say this from a place of love.
Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
I'm an unrelated person driving by, and I actually scrolled up to try to find the sentences (i.e., the ones about an argument), and I'm not seeing them, either. I have a PhD in English, so I'm not totally terrible at reading carefully.
https://github.com/ChampSim/ChampSim
It is a theory in the sense that it is epistemic. Bob's quantum state changes depending on Alice's measurement, essentially collapsing the probability distribution to the conditional probability distribution. As science it cannot be proven, but the empirical results match the model. The paper I cited defines precise protocols to define terms like "steerable states." This is standard quantum theory, so the no-communication theorem still applies.

Is the quantum state also ontic, and in what sense? Those are open questions of interpretation.
I wonder what the ratio of this is good samaritan tree planting versus timber industry. Timber plantings account for a large portion of US land. Timber is a very popular investment among long term land owners. Not all land is suitable for farming, and timber is a relatively passive way to extract value form the land.

Additionally timber likes to make claims like "we plant 2 trees for every 1 harvested." What they don't tell you is that half the trees won't make it to the next clear, and often smaller/weaker/sick trees are culled before a full clear to make room for better ones to grow.
"just let the kids learn by themselves"

This is what companies want. They want a diploma just for the credential, but they don't really train you and just want you to learn on the job.
New Cancer Drug Lumakras Beats Chemotherapy in Study
> These are not health conscious meat diets vs health conscious vegan diets.

Still, “no side effects” applies.
Trikes are not a nice solution for people who get hit, lose control, or crash into something.

Again its the consequence of something, even if its your fault. Obviously speeding in a car can kill someone, but fender benders are pretty common and mostly harmless. Also obviously most people can fall off a bike and be fine, but for the elderly a simple fall can be life altering or even lethal, and thats before you get to the physical issues.
I'm not sure, if i get your point.

What i'm saying is that, from the perspective of an employer, i'd be rather impressed by someone who can show me one or more libs, that he wrote and people are actually using, than someone who was given the title 'senior' by whoever with whatever motivation to do so.
I'd be really curious to see how it optimizes for ARM. x86 is great for kitchen-sink optimizations like this, but with ARM you have a much smaller extension set to target. Hell, you'd probably be stuck with NEON unless you figured out a way to GPU-accelerate the process.
First, display an uproad pattern crafted to cause a buffer overflow. 0wn the autpilot, trash recording. Bonus points for taking over the entertainment system, cueing Death Grips "Guillotine" at max volume as the car leaves the road.
Many trees grow continuously until they literally kill themselves with unsustainable weight.

Big trees likely add more biomass per year than young trees
Absolutely. Though I think that speaks to one of the ways we tend to discount the difficulty of developing human artistry, rather than a defense of AI gen being "not hard".
Exactly. Lack of obesity in Asians, like good grades, is only a mystery to people who didn't grow up with Asian friends. It's behavior. More specifically it's discipline, both personal and familial. For an Asian kid, drifting out of line often means getting insulted and humiliated at home. I'm not saying it's worth it, but someone who gets shamed for ordering extra fries tends not to grow up to eat fast food five times a week.
https://grammarist.com/idiom/its-greek-to-me-and-its-all-gre...

Popularized by Shakespeare, but predates him as a latin phrase used by scribes:

Graecum est; non legitur, which means “It is Greek and therefore is impossible to read.”
You're failing to account for all the "buy one we plant a tree // for every N$ spent we'll plant a tree" promotions finally coming to fruition
I've always wanted to try using Twine to prototype a product.

Apropos of nothing, here's Julia Evans using Twine to teach debugging practices: https://computer-mysteries.netlify.app/slow-website.html
It's not all about CO2, preserving habitats and biodiversity is another concern.
Though I personally support breaking Russian law in this case - I also think this is almost certainly in the "clearly illegal" category for Russian law.
Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave on AWS
This does make sense and I've seen the opposite happen all the time. The most competent engineers ended up getting promoted into Management and flounder.
Sure this works great for things like swimming in the deep end and how to use a firearm without grossly endangering yourself or others.

Honestly I'm convinced anyone who believes this stuff has never watched a toddler.
> Literally not a single coherent explanation of how plastics might actually cause obesity

I don't think the onus for that is on the commentariat here. Rather it's on the Washington Post article to bridge these studies of mouse adipose tissue to human health outcomes. It doesn't do that very well, so you're going to see some decrying of potential alarmism and alternative explanations.
I wonder how much of this is The Great Green Walls of Africa and China...