skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Ultimately, we don’t only need to increase the number of girls choosing science, we need to increase the proportion of women who stay in science,”

We need to do neither of those things. Women who are smart enough to contribute to science are also smart enough to make their own mind about whether or not they want to contribute to science.
The point is to track and monitor its use if it is not approved. The inquiry and scrutiny exists. Im not sure why you assume it doesnt.

Do all of the patients die from the drug?
Are doctors administer it as a new fad for the common cold, ect?
I don't think application developers are the main target for their product. OTOH, if AWS/GCP/ETC. adopted Bun transparently to run your cloud functions faster and using less resources (thus less $$) that would be a win/win situation for all parties involved.
I never use async when given the choice. The syntax hides away the asynchronous nature of the code so well that I frequently use it incorrectly.

I much prefer threads, which are convenient to use in Rust anyway. Is it possible to go faster? Maybe, but how often is it really a bottleneck given how fast Rust already is?
There are two people involved. One is sometimes ignored, or dehumanized, but still there.
You are simply wrong and are touching a sensitive point.

I grew up in Córdoba (which is west from Sierra Nevada). It gets to 49 centigrades in the summer. It’s not officially considered “a desert”… but it will soon. Temperature has been going up and rain went down. Fewer plants survive each summer.

This is a pattern that you see through all the Spanish south. Desertification is a big, visible problem that should not be minimized. I recommend that you apply your own advice to yourself.
ProgrammableWeb Is Being Retired
> Wikipedia has become a bureaucratic behemoth sucking up donations

Every large organisation becomes bureaucratic - you are holding them to fictional standards thay have never been achieved
POV: The experts are busy working, the non-experts are commenting on HN threads.
> you give most software engineers a bridge building problem and they'll build the bay bridge when all they needed was a simple suspension bridge for foot traffic.

Care to give me an example in the physical world a case where overnight that foot bridge overnight suddenly becomes a highway off-ramp? Oh and suddenly we’ve realized that our highway motorists all need a place to park within walking distance of the hotel right nearby that we built last night? Also, there’s going to be spies looking for weaknesses in your bridge, robbers and invading armies looking to loot and pillage on a daily basis.
TL from the project here: you're right, the changes to the kernel are not yet formally verified, but that's on the roadmap -- there's quite a lot of work that has been done here, and tons more to come. The vast majority of changes we have made have involved lots of conversations with folks on the seL4 mailing list including Gernot Heiser and video conferences to work out the best way to do what we're doing.

I realize the blog post comes out pretty strongly on this topic, and that's my oversight -- I let my aspirations leak out instead of tempering them (this is not your typical PM-driven project) properly.

Please understand that this is an engineer-driven project in Research with a very small team where we're doing our hardest to do the right thing, so please bear with us.
Relevant story from earlier this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32377063
>And there is little financial incentive by the company that owns the drug to invest in its research and development.

This is the real reason it hasn't been approved. If only we had some kind of system in place where profit wasn't the main, and often only, motivator for getting life-saving medications approved by the FDA.
I was not very successful myself, but just pick up the phone and talk with them would be already a big step.

After the first couple of calls you stop being afraid of it and it just go much smoother. But following up and make sure everything is aligned takes much more time that I expected.

Often it is not a yes or no answer straight away, but it is more a chasing, communicate, listen, learn, plan, follow up, etc...

But again maybe I was doing something wrong myself.
These were done by Chiat/Day, an independent ad agency.
I didn’t reply to the spec though :D

Of course I’m all for reducing animations, and not even only for accessibility reasons, but I don’t agree with calling all of them useless, when they do in fact have a very important role.
But it doesn't fit when its small?
The article doesn't answer its own question. It's a given that babies should not be inhaling smoke, sure. But can the smell of weed that lingers on clothes and skin actually harm a baby? Read another article to find out.
It does happen, although books rarely go for the wide appeal that films do. The most common case is literary fiction that is well received in the literary world but falls flat with the public. In that case, whether to buy the book or not will depend on some local variables: Do you have a patron group that's into 'serious' literature? Do you need to signal to others that the library is a place of serious learning in addition to being 'fun'? (This can happen in, for example, academic libraries where the academic librarians have an odd status and need buy in/respect from faculty members).

The books that are good but for a small audience are the ones that it's hardest to decide on. In the geek world, think of books like Godel, Escher, Bach.

It's usually measured informally: You get an idea of what audience a tool is chasing or speaking to and then compare that to the audience you're providing materials for.

Also librarians should be decently well-read in their subject area, which means that they're also familiar with both internal and external criticisms, how the genre/category has been evaluated historically, etc. This means we can tell the difference between a sci-fi novel that's poorly written and one that is good/decent but appealing to a small audience. And between clickbait/politically motivated criticisms and criticisms of the work's structure or content.

Basically, part of the job is having an awareness of the meta-conversation and history of a category and reading the critics critically. This is also idealized and it gets much messier on the floor as we have less time for the 'non-productive' knowledge gathering than we used to.
I’m curious why non-local hidden variables aren’t a bigger topic, given that we know there’s non-local quantum numbers, eg those carried by anyons.

If we believe reality is non-local, then why would we also believe it’s non-determinate?
It's definitely not as accurate as a trackpad or a mouse, but it's not to hard to get very close. The benefit of it is that it's right on home row. You don't need to move your hands to use the mouse.

On my thinkpad, I use the trackpoint and trackpad equally.
Is Google Analytics 4 GDPR compliant?
Read the first word of the reply you're questioning.
On the other hand, there are some absolute gems on the other end of the spectrum, such as ticket #1024971 on pages 26 and 27 entitled "High FEC Uncorrectable Errors on Upstream Caused by Very High SNR on Upstream Node"
The D-He3 reaction itself is aneutronic. Overall, Helion's reactor would produce only 6% of its energy as neutron radiation, compared to 80% for D-T reactors. For Helion that means they extract electricity directly from fast-moving charged particles instead of using a heat cycle. In practical terms that's often what people are thinking about what they refer to aneutronic fusion.

The NRC and their UK equivalent have already been moving towards lighter regulation for fusion reactors, and that's for D-T reactors. A reactor like Helion's could well be regulated more like medical devices than fission reactors.
This serves as a great illustration of the "women are wonderful" effect, which was featured on HN the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33175754
With i3, I press mod+n, and desktop n appears. What information is missing that an animation would provide?

This feels like arguing that when we type, the computer should scribble each letter just as we would with a pen, or when a web page loads, it should slowly fill in like it did on dial-up. I want the computer to work as an extension of my brain; it should react as fast as I can think. I want it to show me something, and that thing simply appears as it would in the mind's eye.
I don't understand the logic of the argument. Let's go through the claims. First,

> Compiling is repeatable, however. Porting is done once.

Second,

> The original Tcl codebase written in C remains the source and must be compiled each time it is modified to keep this Go package in sync.

which implies that it is done more than once. If you are talking about something else than the Go "port" of tcl, it is not really obvious to me what it is.
I have my digital garden as a mediawiki-based website which is only accessible within my home network (and my vpn).

It runs on a small (yet capable!) computer in the corner of my living room.

It's lovely because mediawiki is just great, and I share that garden with my SO.

Among the niceties, I have collected the PDF manuals for the various appliances that we bought over the years, and there's a nice template to embed the pdf into a wiki page. No need for wondering where that instruction manual is today.

Taking tech notes works very well too, because mediawiki can display math just fine (mathjax and stuff) and can highlight code in a decent amount of languages.

Oh, and galleries look beautiful in mediawiki. And the template (the Timeless skin) looks nice on mobile too.

The editing experience is nice, now that VisualEditor is built-in into MediaWiki.

After two years and a couple hundred pages, it only weighs about ~350 megabytes.

I'm thinking about making a public version, as a personal website.

Notes:

- i'd love to have the ability to install an equivalent of the mobile app for my private wiki.

- the computer is a fujitsu esprimo q520 (core i5-4590T 4c4T, 16GB ram, 250gb main ssd + 1tb data ssd + 4TB backup external magnetic disk).
Well if your thermostat or meeting room door sign runs an instance of chromium in kiosk mode to use HTML/CSS/JS for its UI then you need 2 gigabytes of RAM.
TL from the project here: yeah, I should have done more work on the wording -- we locked the content too fast, and I pushed a tad too hard at getting the post out. :P

Side-channel attacks are out of scope for the security model of both seL4 and our KataOS project, so bear that in mind for sure.
Good and bad together here.

On the one hand Jessica Wade's commitment elevates the under appreciated achievements of these women scientists, in so doing exposing the bias in how we record history and attribute credit.

On the other, it also reveals the vulnerability of open edit repositories where the 'truth' can be determined by those with the most time and motivation. What is to stop politicisation of the content? Nothing at all.

Indeed, seeing as Wikipedia has become the de facto source of truth for many, it would be surprising if government does not already have a program to ensure edits and articles support designed narratives and justify domestic and foreign policy behaviours
The microbiology of milk and milk products in certainly complex and 'raw vs. pasteurized' is an oversimplification, but practically, most people look at milk and cheese with "is this safe and healthy to consume" in mind. So when the author says this, it avoids that question.

> "There are many factors influencing this ecology which I will refrain from getting into further in this piece (teat treatment, animal bedding, milking equipment, climate, herd size and health, farming practices)."

If all milk was produced by a herd of cows living off the grass in some bucolic Swiss canton, with a careful farmer ensuring no udder infections etc., well, it wouldn't be a concern.

However, what if the cow was injected with growth hormones to double milk output per cow, and then treated with prophylactic antibiotics to prevent the resulting udder infections, and locked in a stall and fed with alfalfa laced with three different kinds of herbicides and pesticides? What happens to milk with trace antibiotics when you try to make cheese out of it using microbes?

See this:

"Whole-Genome Sequencing of Drug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Isolates from Dairy Cattle and Humans in New York and Washington States Reveals Source and Geographic Associations. (2017)"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28389536/

If you're going to ingest that product, ultra-pasteurization will at least kill all the salmonella, but even so it doens't sound that great.
A lot of people seem to overdo it, but I'd recommend

- Some sort of assembly

- C

- Java/Kotlin/C#/similar

- Python

- Javascript

- Some Lisp flavor

- Possibly Erlang

- Possibly Rust

This covers a lot of layers of the stack, along with some unique paradigms. I'd use it somewhat seriously for a while (months to year), not just as a toy to learn a language in a week. For a toy, JS and Java are close enough that you might not appreciate that once you get past the syntax, they're radically different.
Unexpected Protective Properties of Pain
That's interesting. Which country would you say you see/saw the highest signal to noise from?
thanks! Can you share any non trivial J codebases on github (not from you or your organization)?
“The algorithms that decide…”

You’re sounding conspiratorial. You need to provide some evidence for your claims.
Location: Calgary

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: maybe in the future

Technology: Rust, C, JS/TS, High-scale

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewmastracci/

Email: matthew@mastracci.com

Ideal roles: firmware/low-level, high-traffic, large-scale backend service work (working w/large data sets that need bespoke engineering), "impossible" technical challenges.

I've done everything up and down the stack from low-level assembly up to massive web-scale work. Most recently I was a director of engineering at FullStory, focused on a mobile analytics product that I built from zero, wrote patents for, and hired up a team to take over. I'm looking more at low-level work right now at a small company with good culture.

I'm also happy to discuss any other interesting opportunities, especially if they come with difficult and interesting problems.
I want to lodge a complaint that I'm unable to find the most impossibly niche meme I'm aware of:

https://i.redd.it/6yy9lqxjjcw51.jpg
Overly complex and feature-filled (or extremely barebones and "fast") frameworks can also have the property of giving no responses for additional months at a time. (i.e., sometimes "it works" is good enough, and our ego in design elegance doesn't need to get in the way of our need to keep existing as a business. If we need to rebuild or refactor later when we really know what we want, we can. :) )
$500 won't even pay for the ticket to most conferences.
Around 4,000 websites are blocked by Hadrian's firewall in the UK, for instance.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2020/03/Internet...
JavaScript is ranked 5th on the ranking you linked to.

4 ranks before .Net.
Not too long, given scaling laws. In tokamaks for example, fusion output is proportional to the square of plasma volume, and the fourth power of magnetic field strength.
But this is the problem with basically every functional programming article that makes it's way to HN. As a thought experiment it makes sense but it's not transferrable to the real world.

Like take the log out action as an example. Mid request we are going to have to change the state from a user logged in to a user logged out. Otherwise when we render the home screen, as an example, they'll see the logged in version instead of the anonymous user one.

And realistically we want need a transition state to show a successfully logged out message since we do not want that message to show the next time they come. So the whole sequence for this simple action is:

Old State -> Intermediate State -> Render Response -> New State for the next request.

So we have to change state a couple times and pass that along.

And then how do we deal with stuff that's actually state. Like a database or whatever. Are we really passing that as a function parameter so that 10 calls deep can use it?

And what happens 6 months in when we want a caching layer? Do we go back and edit every single function to accept a Redis argument now?

Realistically, no. We have some sort of config or server object that we pass along. So we have an object that contains all of our server state that gets passed to most functions. How is that better than a single global variable holding that state accessible everywhere in the application?
That is funny. It is Kagi's own news crawler.
Read section 4 again.

Renewables will not replace fossil fuels to an acceptable degree without first solving energy storage. The question is "is industrial energy storage cheaper than fusion energy". Not such a clear answer when the order of magnitude of either of those is not established.

Do futile jabs at fusion, but also try to keep in mind the goal is legacy, not identity.
I don't do anything with ML and yet I routinely see this site sitting in the top results. They appear to have a large amount of "generic" content that is probably purpose-built to show up in common queries.
The world I live in is one which accepts both usual and unusual circumstances.

In the extreme case, consider a small company whose few owners and employees suddenly pass away (e.g. in a plane crash). The fact that the company suddenly has 0 employees and even 0 shareholders does not immediately terminate the company. It still continues to exist as a business and legal entity, until the government / lawyers either find new shareholders (typically heirs) who are willing to run the company, or appoint a director to initiate foreclosure.
IIRC, early credit cards weren’t tied to a pre-paid account, but you were generally required to pay the balance every month.
My 2 cents... you need to start doing cold sales and it'll be very difficult as you'll get flat-out rejected 95/100 times.

Learning about sales will feel more productive and in your comfort zone but you should start by going out there and talking to customers. Get out of your comfort zone.

I'd start by going door-to-door so you can start gathering feedback from SMBs and get a sense of the true ICP. Once you've closed ~10 clients this way then you should consider using a sales engagement platform like Outreach, Hubspot or Salesloft which will automate the cold email to call. If it's a 1-call close type sale, then you can use something like https://www.mojosells.com/. You can buy lists from Zoominfo or otherwise.

That all said, any type of human-centered sales motion in North America will require a minimum annual contract value of $10,000/yr to scale up.
Looks awesome! Wish I had this for windows!
I’m not the one posting an article full of borderline political propaganda.

Don’t you see you’re blaming the wrong person here?

At what point does staying "neutral" is just cowardice or playing both sides? What does it take for you to take a stance? We’re being flooded with disinformation, and you punish the ones denouncing it.

I’m tired with this cold and fake neutrality. Being neutral wrt an aggression is helping the aggressor. Democracy and western values are under attack, you are only helping the aggressors.

Now is the time to fight back, in the information space, too.

Inb4 the paranoia accusations…
Ah, darn. Sorry -- picking names is hard.
> I know companies need revenue, but there are ways of getting revenue without being obnoxious or deceptive.

100% agree. Can't take consumer market customers for granted like you can enterprise ones.

Best option for them was to drop their costs to bare minimum and show some ads.

Have popular content creators spread the word enough.
> the vast majority of people give up something they really like

I don't know what you mean that people like exactly but it's definitely possible to let people use software in fair ways so they don't have to give up anything.
A lot of times the use of javascript is unnecessary so removing it doesn't make any difference for the user.

> the exchange (you run arbitrary code on my device, I get software I want to use) is helpful to most people, not harmful

It doesn't matter that the exchange is helpful if it happens in an unfair way.
Compare this to prostitution.
It's illegal (at least the other side of it) in many countries.
But everyone involved gets what they want or need and the exchange is helpful to everyone, so why is it illegal?
I guess it's because some people just think it's wrong and that it's an exchange that can't happen in a fair way even if everyone involved is happy with it.
Part of how these things always work:

- War effort requires a whole lot of capital investment -- factories built, equipment developed, people come up to speed, etc.

- Postwar, radar is still important, but the overall government expenditure falls.

- Much of the capital (manufacturing and expertise) searches for a peacetime use... and what's the low hanging fruit? Telecommunications.
Not really... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
So imagine I sell a future-looking feature which is incompete and unreliable, even causing an order of magnitude more fatalities per usage (e.g. mile) than the alternative. And continue to sell and offer it under a confusing name for years. What would have to happen for it to cross over from naive aspiration to fraud. I.e. for Tesla FSD to become like Theranos?

For me that line was crossed when Tesla offered FSD on public roads, to the general public, and continuing to include 'full' and "self driving" in the name. Every day it continues more non-Tesla owners are put at risk while the government is asleep at the wheel.
> Making 60k a year in not-SF is like making 200k a year in SF. Except 60k is far more attainable basically everywhere.

I hear this a lot. It sounds absurd to me, I do not think there is a $140k cost of living difference for a single person living in SF vs not SF.

> My favorite restaurant where I line now (northern Arizona) is cheap at $8 a person, and tastes mostly the same. There’s also no reservations, and it doesn’t take 3 hours to get to because of traffic.

You must have lived in the suburbs in the Bay, as nowhere takes 3 hours to get to because of traffic living in SF. I would expect in Arizona things would generally take longer to get to, on average. Definitely agreed on the price aspect there though.
The Right Dose of Resilience
The existential crisis you are talking about is happening right here, right now - and nothing meaningful is being done about it. The correct course of action is to reduce further damage, and not count on our ability to tech our way out of this in a further degraded environment decades from now.

I keep saying "you don't grasp" the scale here because really you don't. Myself and others have explained how enormous this undertaking would be, but you haven't given any kind of solution to the manifold problems we outlined.