skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a scientist (Systems and AI) and unfortunately had to learn a lot about cancer due to it striking a parent recently.

Cancer is certainly an umbrella term and a complex disease. Here is a ELI5 explanation I thought was very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tzaWOdvGMw

Personal Tirade: I am extremely disappointed how stupid medical research is .. trying to uphold the scientific method in the face of a near and certain death. It is all being done wrong and wasteful. I found papers from the 80s and 90s from physicians complaining about the same thing. If things go the way they are, we are not curing any significant form of cancer in my lifetime. Btw .. the fast-track of vaccines during covid shows there are scientifically rigorous ways of doing things fast. But the people who run the show .. I am not even convinced they are motivated to solve the problem expediently. We should be (A) sequencing cancer cells like crazy and (B) tracking patient histories. No matter where people live in the world. The data is GOLD.

My parent has a "rare" cancer .. but the definition of "rare" seems unquantifiable. If I was running the show, I'd sequence the heck of the cells for EVERY cancer patient, and throwing modern computing at it. As for therapeutics, we should be paralleling treatments and composing treatments. I have some doctors in the family who tell me since we are dealing with human beings, we can't be reckless. But what is the point being conservative when someone has 6 months or less to live? We need to move fast and break things .. at least we bloody tried.
Asionometry has a fantastic series all about ASML that I highly recommend, starting with this video https://youtu.be/CFsn1CUyXWs
> "This article is doing a lot of work to cover up this
fact. The article says, "Despite the fact that natural gas is a fossil fuel, its conversion... "

So they're covering it up yet pointing it out directly.

Using fossil fuels more efficiently is good, and is consistent with using them less. Using fossil gas more efficiently will keep it in the ground longer, meanwhile we make progress on renewables which keeps gas in the ground longer, etc.
The printer will go burr and wages will increase because a load of bread is $10. Most of todays debt will be wiped out.
The base price of the Pi has remained at $35, they just aren't possible to get. Regardless, the Pi Foundation / Pi Trading Company / whatever weird part of the Pi Empire actually sells them haven't raised the base price version-over-version.
He is just slumming it for kicks but taking the position of someone who needed the job to eat and pay rent.
RSS is pretty good for this, or works for me at least. The only minor annoyance is that when a title is edited, it shows up in the feed as a new duplicate.
University SE/CS courses give you foundational knowledge in the field. For some jobs it might help, not always. It is practical, especially domain specific experience that employers are looking for. You can always take time off to do a masters after you have solid experience and a better understanding of where your strengths and interests lie. Obviously, this advice isn't for everybody, but based on my experience of going back to do a PhD in SE after 20+ years industry experience, I can attest that I had a far clearer picture of what I needed/wanted to know more about.
Thanks for that Vox link:

“Of note, black mothers who are college-educated fare worse than women of all other races who never finished high school. Obese women of all races do better than black women who are of normal weight. And black women in the wealthiest neighborhoods do worse than white, Hispanic and Asian mothers in the poorest ones.”
ms-windows-store://pdp/?ProductId=9n4wgh0z6vhq

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/hevc-video-extension...
Calling a constructor is DI. ‘new’ is the only DI framework required.

Benefits:

Unbelievably fast startup time

No magic

No annotations, XML or YAML required

No classpath scanning related security vulnerabilities

Conpletely deterministic

In no other language is ‘calling a constructor’ considered so complicated a framework is required.

Try it!
Nintendo learned their lesson with the 3DS, where they *could not even detect* if you were playing a pirated game online.

You could also directly download any game from the eShop CDN witbout buying it (because the only authorization method was a key per game, not bound to a user, so freely shareable for modded consoles) until like a year before the eshop shut down.

Now with the switch they send tons of telemetry and ban at the first suspicious report. I haven't heard about non modded switches being banned though.

Switch jailbreak usually involves blocking Nintendo servers when booted into the modded OS to prevent bans (since CFW is not permanent on the switch for now)
Custom views offers a very different perspective of what is "front page" for Hacker News, and it severely interacts with the argument of how the front page ought be curated. IMO most consumer apps and feed-like experiences should offer custom views for those who care for something other than an officially curated experience.
Banana Pi variants from Aliexpress are still shipping for affordable prices if you are willing to wait a few weeks for shipping from China.
Two problems, first a state machine, or collection of, will be able to describe the behaviour desired much of the time, if you really understand your problem and how to solve it. Agile often doesn't really know exactly the problem it's trying to solve, so that's a problem. If you have the state machines the code is trivial, but it's a lot of work to define to that granularity.

Secondly, system and subsystem decomposition is an architectural skill that is near black art to do well, and requires significant experience to do well, especially on large systems, but once again, done well makes the following work easier.

So having to do big work up front is not move fast and break things, so it hasn't really been popular, note the sort of people really interested are those used to big work up front, eg aviation.
> The shift ends and its done.

The main good feature of blue-collar work.
how big is 2nm? like 10nm?
When I was young, there was a song I'd sing Beelentzin Gluejeez which I'd drive my mom mad singing.

It wasn't until decades later I realized it was Venus in Blue Jeans.
If parent is referring to what I think she/he is referring to, then it's something like this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6768. Keep in mind this is only to do with comptime not runtime. So not ideal, but not catastrophic in the sense of "my program evaluated the wrong conditional branch at runtime!"
I've never met anyone who remodels their kitchen every 10 years.

That'd get expensive quick, a lame way to spend a million dollars over the course of a lifetime.
I usually just `git rebase --onto` any dependent branches. I will have to see if `--update-refs` is more convenient (it should be) and if it works well enough for me.
I get the feeling that any good, truly "massive" MMO eventually has to deal with stuff like this beyond a technical level, beyond a gameplay balance level, and straight into social ramifications.

As a younger guy than these players, this story reminded me of the Disk of returning and Thordur's black hole from RuneScape.
I have very mixed feelings about all of this. Obviously, it's disappointing news to see. But at the same time, it's hard to be surprised.

Let's be honest here, the internet runs on ads, full stop. I have no concrete data but if you were take an aggregate of tech workers whose salary is made either fully or partially on ad revenue either directly by their employer OR customers, it would have to be a significant percentage, right? I'm not gonna guess but it's gotta be significant. Hell, FAANG alone is tremendously ad-driven, and those are largely considered the most prestigious jobs in the industry.

If you've spent 10 years working in tech, what are the chances that you've never taken a dollar that was earned through an online ad? Maybe I'm overly cynical here and I'm no Apple cheerleader here, but we see this same pattern emerge over and over and over again. Companies have to grow or else. That's always been the game, how did we honestly think it would go any other way than this?
Thanks. I agree with you. We don't have unemployment benefit like France so we choose the safe way to keep both full time and startup job
I usually set up any new computer of mine as dual boot Linux (default) / Windows.

The Windows installation remains largely untouched and unconfigured, and only used for when there's no other option than a damn .exe. It's permanently there as an option when required.
Doesn’t pg_dump/pg_restore work across versions? (So long as the CLI tools are the latest version). I guess version compatibility could be an issue in theory, but I’m yet to hit into a backwards compatibility issue with Postgres.
Yes definitely /s
The ”average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid is actually just statistical error. The average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted”
Not my personal experience, but that of a family member. Getting an advanced degree at a German university is far better regarded by German employers than a foreign degree, especially if the university is not well known internationally.
It’s simple:

1. Reduce your consumption of carbs (not just sugar) as much as possible (below 50g a day).

2. Increase your consumption of fibre.

3. Eat real unprocessed food as much as possible (eat the apple instead of drinking apple juice).

If you do that you will dramatically improve your health compared with most people.
It sorts by time and shows new stories since I last visited.

That's the killer feature, it's amazing what a little cookie can do to vastly improve the user experience.
Unrelated to javascript, but in the robotics industry there is a trend towards Behaviour Trees. https://www.behaviortree.dev/ is a C++ library that was originally designed for controlling robots via ROS, but it appears to be decoupled from the ROS ecosystem so it could be used for other projects.

There is a basic UI available for editing the tree https://github.com/BehaviorTree/Groot
Insightful take.

I’m going with ”yes/and.” He could have taken up martial arts.
In the linked study, 10% said they believed vaccines caused autism, and while they were not asked whether they accepted Wakefield’s claims, presumably just about all who did were included within that group. 45% said they were unsure, leaving open the important question of which way they would go when faced with a choice.
Of all the comments in this thread, I think this one most accurately captures the mentality of those disparaging the author. It certainly aligns with how I reflexively reacted, before taking time to consider more deeply.
What is missing from the Linux experience that is keeping you from switching? I have found Linux Mint to be quite capable for the last decade personally
Thanks for reading my post. Edison once said, “I have not failed 10,000 times—I've successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work". Keep fighting is a good slogan for startup founders
This supply/demand equation doesn't necessarily have to involve incentivising increased supply, maybe the increase in capacity from offering the difference to drivers isn't worth it compared to just profiting from the scarcity.
As fare as I can tell, it's a pretty mixed bag; a lot of engg departments feel if you are going to get serious about control you are going to have to do it in graduate studies anyway which is probably fair.
Interested isn't a synonym for need. If you are "interested" in junk food, ads for it aren't something to you "need."
Dear Hckr news, I'm one of those overly curious weirdoes who just has to know what every `DEAD undefined` is for, so now I have to click through on each. You used to display the headlines, and I could dismiss most of them by doing nothing. Could you put back the dead headlines?

Kudos for including post mortems in the feed at all though! Many would not.
I highly recommend reading “Body by Science”. I more than doubled my muscle strength spending less than 20 min a week in the gym.
> this means I'll have to start migrating away from Apple over the next few years

I'm glad that you will, because unless a lot of people do this, it'll just prove to Apple that their customers will keep buying their products no matter what. Nine times out of ten, what Apple does is make decision that loyal users hate, but then those same people keep buying their products anyway, so they just stop listening to them at a certain point.
This is impressive, especially remembering all the exact lyrics after all those years, but hey, he's Paul McCartney!:)

I usually have decent memory for tunes: some I can sorta play at the 1st listen, others need a lot more time, not necessarily related to their difficulty, but nothing special.
However the most accurate memory I have is for sounds, or actually how a song sounds in its whole: I have on some occasions guessed a song, artist and title, just by listening just one second of it, probably less, while for example a friend was quickly changing stations on the car radio. I have never been able to give an explanation of this, but happened a few times. Sometimes I guessed the wrong song but got correctly the artist and album, which reinforces the idea that I could have memorized the sounding (that album sound) rather than the song structure itself, which probably would have been meaningless when mentally decoding such a short sample.
I have read a lot about the history of science in Britain. Even before the creation of the Royal Society, people doing science generally all knew each other and communicated extensively, so I think there was a high degree of accountability. Even in the 19th century, scientific sub-communities were small. I suspect that the problem of accountability arose in the 20th century with the expansion of institutional science.
iOS ad-blocking is no where near as good as you can get with (real, not iOS) Firefox. I’ve tried just about every option and they all fail to block a lot of ads, and they more frequently cause issues on pages as well.
The Japanese government warned citizens to take cover as the missile appears to have flown over and past its territory before falling into the Pacific ocean.

The latest launch was Pyongyang's fifth in 10 days, amid military muscle-flexing by the United States and South Korea, which staged trilateral anti-submarine exercises last week with Japanese naval forces.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-miss...
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Eclipse is building the first customizable blockchain infrastructure, using the Solana virtual machine. We recently announced our $15M fundraise: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/27/blockchain-infr...

I'm looking for a great Chief of Staff for a generalist role, doing everything from traveling, helping strategize, handling payroll, talking to investors, etc. I just need a right hand person who maybe comes from a consulting or investment banking background.

People describe working at Eclipse as the most fun they've had at a job. We move quickly but we've gotten a lot of positive attention and we're growing fast. Here's a job description: https://eclipse-labs.notion.site/Eclipse-Chief-of-Staff-1645...
Thanks for your recomemdation. Copy writer is harder for us because english is not a native language
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It’s worth remembering that the “baseload problem” of nuclear and the intermittency problem of renewables both have the same solution: storage technologies.
> Historically scientists were drawn to the field in order to improve human understanding of our reality.

I doubt that in the general case. People have always been driven by base selfish motives.
So this title means Raft will never catch on? Is that by design? Maybe I'm missing the joke.
I understand that, but was it really hard to deploy web apps in any of those languages before? Granted, you wouldn’t use Apache to run them, but the current reverse proxy through nginx method seems much better in terms of complexity and performance than wasm + Apache. Am I missing something?
> lack of accountability.

I think this also applies at all levels. I'd argue that it is the big reason people feel very frustrated with reviewing, and especially in hyped areas (e.g. ML). There's plenty of incentives to reject papers (low acceptance rates mean "higher quality" publications, advantage yourself by rejecting or being overly critical of your competitors, you get no clout for reviewing and no one will get upset if you take all of 5 minutes to review), but very few incentives (I can't even name one) to accept papers. It is fairly easy to dismiss papers as not novel because we all build off the shoulders of giants and things are substantially more obvious post hoc. Metareviewers and Area Chairs will 99/100 times stand with reviewers even if they are in the wrong and can be proven so (I had a reviewer give me a strong reject claiming I should compare to another work, which was actually our main comparitor and we compared to in 5+ tables and 5+ graphs). I can't see these issues being resolved until we all agree that there needs to be some incentive to write high quality reviews. The worst of this is that the people it hurts the most is the grad students and junior researchers (prevents graduating and career advancement). I'm not saying we have to accept papers, but I am saying we need to ensure that we are providing high quality reviews. Rejections suck, but rejections that don't provide valuable feedback are worse.

If the publication system is a noisy signal then we need to fix it AND recognize it as such. There's been plenty of studies to show that this process is highly noisy but we're all acting like publications are all that matters.

This is all before we even talk about advantages linked to connections even in double blind reviews, collusion rings, or citation hacking. I feel we can't even get the first step right.
If you are able to get a job at a FAANG, you should also be able to take a look at your expenditures and determine what you actually need in life. Maybe getting a smaller living place will be the stumbling block for most, but think of the freedom you gain. If you find yourself fantasizing about working in Costco during your daily life, chances are the things you spend on aren't that effective at bringing you satisfaction anyway. Yet unlike the vast majority of people you actually have the means to escape and build the life you want i.e. a massively well remunerated job with remote working options. So why not do it?
Still hopeful that someone will make a new exciting sandbox MMO that fills the gap left by UO.
> "Science and scientists are part of society. Neither sit on a lofty perch that makes them impervious to societal shifts."

Ironically, this is not the general public's perception. Even more ironic is the fact that celebrity "scientists" like Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson are fond of pushing the "science is better than the rest of us" narrative.
There are even more banal games. Check out Lawn Mower Simulator and Power Wash Simulator.

Second Life hit this three years ago. You can buy land, build a house or buy and install a prefab one, and build pretty much anything you want. But about a hundred thousand users paid for a premium membership so they could get a nice, but rather banal, pre-built American suburban house. A house in an enormous suburbs with strict rules and a sort of homeowner's association. There's even a mini-game where you can put out a trash can on specified days and people come around with the garbage truck and empty it.

Given the ability to do anything, most of the population runs out of ideas fast.
LOL, wut? I'm in the UK but I don't see any of these... (although my AppleID is non-UK, maybe that's why?)

These are literally the trashiest, scammiest, lowest-tier clickbait ads. You would expect these on the bottom of tabloid articles from The Sun, not a stocks app (!) from Apple (!!).

Holy shit, I am appalled!
Most of the reports I've seen site a few factors:

Availability of cheap skilled labor. Europe often sources it's cheap engineers and Trades workers from the East.

Inefficient regulatory Frameworks such as mandated workers to do nothing and an onerous environmental monitoring.

Political dysfunction and gridlock. Projects are often poorly conceived and continually change their design and intent over the course of a project.

Some of these might be considered Network effects I guess. If you don't build infrastructure, you don't have a healthy market for workers and companies with expertise
I use PG with an alternative materialized views implementation[0] that is pure PlPgSQL and that exposes real tables that can be used to write to in triggers, and where the views can be marked stale too.

This means hand-coding triggers to keep the materializations up to date, or else to mark them as out of date (because maybe some operations would be slow or hard to hand-code triggers for), but this works remarkably well.

As a bonus, I get an update history table that can be used to generate updates to external systems.

In principle one can get the AST for a VIEW's query from the PG catalog and use that generate triggers on the tables it queries to keep it up to date. In practice that's only trivial for some kinds of queries, and I've not written such a tool yet.

[0] https://github.com/twosigma/postgresql-contrib/blob/master/m...
While I hate to parse words, by definition, fabrication of data it's not science. It's fraud.
and also the format of desktop backgrounds, taking up hundreds of MB on every Mac...
yay, you invented UUIDs (?)
Is it suppose to tell me if I guessed correctly or not? Seems pretty broken on safari/iPhone
Thanks, I'll inquire with our staff and see what is the history of this program. The executive order was linked in the email (which HN copy paste didn't show), there is a lot of stuff in there which I need to read through.

The way I read this is that now this is mandatory and must be done before Dec 1.
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I worked with Python for almost a decade, building things for the web with Zope, Plone and Django. Then did a couple of gigs with various tech stacks (Java for Android and JavaEE, React, and many more) and then worked with Golang microservices at MercadoEnvios, the logistics unit at MercadoLibre, an enormous Brazilian marketplace. Currently working as a contractor for an American client in the business of Telco and networking, with most projects using Python. Recently started to lead a team of four devs and it's been an interesting endeavor.
Uber is way more expensive and less reliable in the SF Bay Area for me
It has not. And "a lack of accountability" is a band-aid on the real problem: bad gatekeeping. People getting into science, not for the search for truth, but in search of respectability, green card, money, or whatever else. Trying to whip them into real scientists through transparency and accountability is like trying to achieve security in your home by flinging the gates and doors wide open but slapping cameras and motion detectors everywhere. Either they win, or you get fatigued.