skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal is testing “stories” feature
A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries – Slime Mold Time Mold
> A silly mistake can cost you so much money and they tend to word the e-mails strongly.

They tend to word emails strongly to affect action.

As for the cost overruns: I don't know anyone who wrote one of those blog posts (or emailed support) who didn't get their bill refunded.

We can argue about spending caps or hard limits (which people generally dislike for their production apps), but the people side of the business is (or at least was) solid.

Source: worded emails strongly to affect action at Firebase and refunded a number of bills.
> I don't understand the relevance of your paragraph beginning "If I see an amazing demo" to the question at hand. I assume it's meant to be an analogy that justifies your answer to Q2, or something of the kind, but I don't quite understand what's being analogized to what; could you give some more details?

I'm assuming we're ultimately talking about the capabilities of the human mind - comprehensively, it's capabilities are significant. But then, we also know it to be incredibly flawed, which should be kept in mind during such considerations.

> For the avoidance of doubt, the intention of the thought experiment is that it does indeed make accurate and precise predictions, so that if you give the real person and the simulated person the same experiences, they respond in the same way.

So something kinda like this (way more complex likely)?:

"select distinct [phenomenon] from [human_mind_capabilities] where [type] in ('experience','response')"

I wonder how many rows that would return. I also wonder how much diversity would be in the resultset. Either way, I think one would need a pretty powerful thought experiment for even remotely comprehensive coverage.

> So in cases where how you act is exquisitely sensitive to the details of your starting state or the experiences you have, simulation and reality might diverge.

One example (singular, at least kinda):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer

Another (when networked):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

> My guess is that many things aren't so delicate, and I personally would be pretty impressed by a me-simulation that consistently said and did things that are the sort of things I would be likely to say and do.

I too have an intuition that there is a very rich vein of ore at some level, and that it may be accessible, were we to look for it.
I read the article. And yes, this was probably a mistake to engage with you on it.

Yandex N.V. (A dutch holding company of Yandex Russia) is listed as an investor of Clickhouse Inc. This is all I'm stating.
Good, means I'm getting one when it's released :D

I'm in Europe, pre-ordered on Amazon, was thinking of waiting for reviews but the 256GB version went temporarily out of stock so I just pre-ordered. Let's see if I get fucked heh.

Funny enough, there was a scarcity of Quest 2s which drove prices up to dumb levels, while the US had Q2s aplenty :/

But really, I want one to watch stuff and play PC games and maybe use it as a monitor - the pancake lens apparently make it much more palatable.
I believe they mean mobile push notifications (e.g. APNS/FCM), which ultimately flow through Apple and Google.
To quote a certain blogger I follow:

"The ongoing Pandemic has solidified my belief that that most people would be better off in this world if they listened less to laypeople who think they know a lot about medicine and instead listened more to people who have graduated medical school and have a whole bunch of framed diplomas and certificates on the walls of their medical office. It's also a good indicator of competence if they have a medical office."

And no I don't think searching the world for the one doctor out of one thousand willing to tell you what you want to hear is really in the spirit of that quote.
Flutter builds a parallel accessibility tree in the DOM that screen readers and search engines scrape. It's kinda cool, you don't have to rely on HTML, CSS and JS as the application layer, use something else like WASM for that, but for the document layer, use HTML. In a way, it's like the original purpose of HTML is preserved, as I see many people on HN complain about how the DOM shouldn't be used for applications and should only be used for documents.
They don't turn them away because "they don't know how to operate on them" they turn them away because many surgical procedures on obese patients are well studied to have negative outcomes and risks for obese patients that do not justify the procedure. There is no polite way to say "you are too obese to undergo this procedure" using a modern framework of body acceptance, and that is a problem with the body acceptance framework, not the limitations of modern medicine.
This stops when CEOs go to jail not when companies pay the fines.
>>If by sheer luck all gas particles moved to the exact left side of the container the energy wouldn't change, the macrostate wouldn't change, the entropy wouldn't change - it doesn't matter how unlikely that is.

> Wrong. Energy wouldn't change. Macrostate changes. Entropy changes.

That's my thermodynamical system - that I decided to describe using the state variables N, V, E. S_kgwgk = constant

I have agreed that you can chose to define macrostates as you wish! (You cannot measure them though. You don't have access to my system. They are purely hypothetical.) And then you can say things like "If the position of the particles in your system is X, S_deltasevennine = whatever."

Hopefully you will agree that someone else could choose to define the macrostate differently and say things like "If the position of the particles in kgwgk's system is X, S_anon = somethingelse."

Let's imagine that the position of the particles is actually X. What is the entropy of the system then? S_kgwgk? S_deltasevennine? S_anon? They are all different!

If you think that you can define macrostates for my system in some arbitrary way (your own words: "I'll choose something arbitrary.") and others can't - or that yours are somehow more real - I really wonder why.

And as I said, someone could also come and say "If the position [and velocities] of the particles in kgwgk's system is X, S_vonneumann = 0." [a complete definition of the microstate requires knowing both position and momentum - there might have been some ambiguity about that before but it shouldn't distract us from the main points]
Razer’s Edge is one sharp-looking cloud gaming Android handheld
Also demographics and ethnicity possibly? Utah has a 24% Hispanic population and NM is 49% Check out this study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1658387621000297

"Conclusion
Hispanic ethnicity was associated with better survival in NSCLC. This survival advantage is likely the result of complex interactions amongst several physical, social, cultural, genomic, and environmental factors."

Well put, these things are always complex.
Myths about Cloning – FDA
Interesting to note:

> Variations in medical care among states may also result in differences in cancer rates. In states where higher percentages of people participate in cancer screenings, more cancers are diagnosed early when the prognosis is often better.

It seems like this data could be impacted such that better healthcare would result in worse cancer rate, since this study naturally counts know cancer rates. That is, it would not necessarily result in literally more incidents of cancer, just the rate as measured.
But Google only tracks you if the website you visit belongs to Google or the website uses something Google Analytics. In either case, it's explicit in how Google gets your information.

Is there other ways Google is tracking you in incognito mode? Additionally, there's other websites like Meta or things like Fullstory, segment, or really any third party tracking that gathers data in the same way GA does.
That was a neat blog post! Can you clarify this bit: "If a pipeline fails, the associated MR is kicked from the train and all preceding pipelines are restarted." - Do you mean all the pipelines _already started_ are restarted? Because I'm guessing that if a pipeline fails, the preceding pipelines shouldn't be affected, strictly speaking.
This was a surprisingly good list of things to look for and / or avoid, thanks @ohjeez.
AWS Lambda now supports more event filtering
> You don't have to like the work other people post but you can't be a jerk about it.

Ok, since I have to spell it out....

My post was NOT "being a jerk". My post was NOT personally targetting anyone.

My post was telling the reality. Truth hurts, as they say.

Do a search of HN. Do a Google search.

There are SO MANY people out there touting themselves as an alternative to Bloomberg, when they are clearly not. The product under discussion here is just following the same path many before it have trodden.

It is an abuse of the Bloomberg name, plain and simple.

Sell your product in other means, but don't go pretending you are something you are not.
I was going to say “this guy has never played around on the C=64!” lol
Consider adding a disclaimer that you're the founder of Convex
Stop billing hourly. Instead bill for the value you provide. How you provide it should be immaterial, and so you can do it as cheaply and efficiently as possible while still reaping heaps of money as long as it creates value.

That's how all other markets work. Billing hourly is the death of progress.
Yes they are. Any information that can be used to identify a person by definition is PII.

Once all the PII is removed, by definition the dataset is anonymized.
librePCB is really great. its got a ways to go but updates like this show how quickly its accelerating. while i dont hate and use kicad a ton its always nice to have solid competition and choices in workflows and tools and cross pollination of course
Decentralized web / dWeb – what is it? (2020)
Those states are the core of coal country.
First glance is impressive. I’ve spent a lot of time in ncurses for a security appliance we make, so I have to ask: how does Textualize compare to ncurses in terms of a) richness and b) complexity?

We create some fairly complex and feature rich forms for managing transfers in this appliance, but ncurses isn’t always the friendliest beast - we’ve managed to make it simpler to use with a lot (a lot!) of component-like functions to get to the level of abstraction we need, but one wonders about the grass over yonder fence.
Yeah, that's one reason. At least with a VPN/VPS, you can choose who's spying on you, instead of the local monopoly.
Yes, that is in fact the subject of the lawsuit. From literally the first sentence of the article:

> alleges the Silicon Valley giant misled the public about how much data it collects from users even when they're in its Chrome browser's "Incognito" private browsing mode.

The accusation is that Google is leveraging Chrome to track you even in incognito mode, and it does not give any notice that it is doing so. It warns about the websites you visit, about who owns your local network, and about the ISP, it doesn't warn that Google is still actively tracking you in incognito.
It's in part more dangerous in operation because the surgeons have not trained to operate on bodies in that condition. In part, because they refuse to operate on bodies in that condition, living or dead.

This is self-fulfilling. Of course people who are large enough that surgeons chose not to operate on them have worse health outcomes. They will also get fewer interventions that are less invasive, because practitioners won't want to take the risk that the intervention goes bad and the patient needs surgery, because surgeons won't operate.

Of course people who are large enough that every interaction with the medical system involves an irrelevant discussion of weight and diabetes despite a lack of diabetes symptoms will avoid interacting with the medical system, because it's tedious. (sometimes a discussion of weight is relevant, but often times it really isn't)
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Also, could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or snarky and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Russia's Stranglehold on the World's Nuclear Power Cycle
I know it was more to talk about the slavery and human rights half but it’s sort of fascinating to see flogging in the penalty list. Makes me wonder if that would be a more effective punitive deterrent against recidivism. While I know some people get off from it and it wouldn’t deter everyone, I have to wonder how much more viscerally unwilling to risk the punishment the average criminal would be if instead of 6 months or a year or two, you got 10 to 100 with the lash. Is it more humane to have the violence over quickly and let the rehabilitation begin nearly immediately? Or better they rot away in jail mentally and emotionally for months to years making more associations with other criminals the longer they are in jail?
I have a friend who worked at a prestigious hospital as a receptionist. Her and her coworkers got vaccinated and after talking figured out the regularity and flow of their periods was thrown out of wack afterwards. Before it had been regular and consistent. Now several months ago research was released saying this was a side effect. It took over 2 years for the scientific community to validate a blatant side effect which these women recognized in the first months. It does make me wonder how long it will take for subtler effects of these fast tracked vaccines to be recognized as more than just anecdotes.
I don't see how one can conclusively say rough conditions improved immune systems.

What rules out the theory that those who survived were born with superior immune systems, or that they were missing traits that would make them susceptible to severe illness?
Similar reasons we're still waiting for weeks with only Sundays in them?
Love the stab at the “Google engineering grunts” hah!
The journalist is not precise at all when stating:

> a nation where two thirds of the population is now considered overweight or obese

Their own link give a total of 73.1% for overweight among adults US peoples in 2018. The latest data of the CDC has 73.6%. In any case, it's almost three quarters, not two thirds. And that's before the covid crisis, which probably worsened the situation.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
Do people have basements? Radon?
"Maintaining cross platform compatibility has helped prevent potential bugs because each architecture and compiler set expose different sets of issues. The tools available for each platform differ enough that it is worthwhile to try and maintain cross compatibility."

I agree, I'm always surprised by this. I develop primarily on Linux, and I always enable all compiler warnings, treat warnings as errors, use static analysis; I keep my projects at a state where not a single issue at any level is pointed out. Then I'll switch over to Windows and load up the same project in Visual Studio and it'll start reporting warnings for new, valid, issues that were completely missed before.
Please don't try to force me to min/max every part of my life. I'm happily mediocre. Leave me alone.
OR, they should be on the hook more if they're going to exercise this degree of control; ie, a common carrier rule (though its inability to actually get applied to social media leaves me less than hopeful). IF they want editorial capacity on what gets allowed, and what doesn't, then they should be taking on liability for harms caused by businesses they support (ie, going after Visa for lung cancer because they support purchasing cigarettes). On the other hand, if that sounds draconian (it should!) then they should have the option to avoid this by acting as dumb pipes.

If they're saying they want to pick winners, they should be responsible for the harms those winners they pick create. Otherwise, let the police do the policing.
That’s actually illegal on the part of the company.
Alternatively, you need a controlled interface that constrains what users can do and provides responsive, comprehensive validation, but you cannot use a GUI because of the excessive attack surface.

It is easier to code a relatively more secure constrained TUI login shell with ncurses than with a full GUI library.
Eh, just use LVM. I have no idea why it isn't a standard on some distros. Then you can mix, match and resize at will, and as a bonus you can migrate system live from one device to another without rebooting.

> (If you're willing to use swap files anyway you can always add more swap space with a swap file even if you started with a swap partition. However, if your swap partition is too big, shrinking it or limiting how much of it gets used is more annoying.)

You can't shrink swap file without swapoff & swapon anyway so it's illusion of an improvement
I haven’t tried LibrePCB, but I should really give it a go. Designing PCBs can be fun and useful when hacking around electronics.

I know my way around Eagle, but the free version is way too restricted and I can’t justify spending that kind of money when it’s a hobby that I poke a few times a year. But I also have had a hard time getting into Kicad for the same reason — a few months ago I wanted to make a board for a project and I decided to give KiCad another try, and after not making much progress over a long period of time I ended up downloading Eagle and dealing with the limitations.

I guess my rambly point is, EDA software has phenomenally bad UI in my experience that takes a lot of time and effort (and reading, not just poking around!) to learn, and I really would love to see something that could flip that trend without itself being overly limiting.
> a lot better than having your site break altogether.

that's a humble baseline, isn't it?
I was expecting more video.
They can’t prohibit you from working other roles. That’s the whole point of being an “independent contractor”.

Most contractors I know take on many clients.
Not paywalled: https://archive.ph/2022.04.22-170337/https://www.theatlantic...
There’s also the realization they are wasting literally half of their lifetime doing stuff that’s mostly either evil or useless. Bit like those Lenin busts factory workers.
Also these!

Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775297 - Aug 2019 (24 comments)

The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982361 - July 2015 (5 comments)

Working with the ELK stack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008119 - Feb 2015 (35 comments)
Computational chemist here, working at the moment on small molecule ligands in the context of drug discovery.

The small molecule itself is the ligand. There is interaction of the ligand with the binding site amino acids via hydrogen bonds to several locations on the ligand.

Have a look at the RCSB PDB entry for 6EZO - ISRIB bound to eIF2B (the 3D view is https://www.rcsb.org/3d-view/6EZO), turn on Dynamic Bonds and click on the ligand.

While this static shot does not reveal all the interactions (such as those that are longer-range, cation-pi, water-mediated, and so on) that one would see in a molecular dynamics simulation or by docking, it's very useful.

Finally, when benzene is attached to something, it's a phenyl group; amphetamine is the ligand; and the functional group is amine, not amide.
Anyone building web-scale apps should check out Aperture[1] - a flow control platform that dynamically adjusts concurrency limits on services when queue buildup is detected. Aperture has a weighted fair queuing scheduler that prioritizes workloads when concurrency limits are adjusted.

[1] https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
They didn't just give estimates, they gave recommendations based on weak knowledge.
The quote is so dumb it makes my head hurt. The CDC dies not regulate the marketing of vaccines - i.e. the claims about safety and effectiveness the manufacturer is allowed to make. That falls under the statutory authority of FDA who requires any claims of safety and effectiveness to be backed by evidence.

Generally the people who talk about “no evidence of safety and effectiveness” have no idea who CDER / CBER are, no idea what an IND is, no idea how clinical trials are done, and no idea of how the FDA does postmarket surveillance / monitoring. Basically they are not informed enough to have a well reasoned opinion or argument.

Somebody not even being able to name the correct federal agency - which is not obscure insider knowledge - is a sure sign they are a crank who does not know what they are talking about.
That's a cool story.

Ardour is awesome and shows that specialized niche software can compete or even out-compete commercial proprietary software (like QGIS in the GIS space).

I hope it will be around for a long time and it's a nice piece of software, thx Paul.
Yeap, it's a bit strange, but the post was very well written, with a nice breakdown and easily understandable steps that can be followed by most software engineers.

There have been some sporadic posts from Skroutz in the past, but nothing that gained so much attention.

For those that don't know it, Skroutz is the biggest Greek online price aggregator/e-commerce market/price comparison site.
In Europe. Trumps not advocating for an ethno state, political violence or anything else we’d typically associate with the far right.
Ok, fine, but (a) why are you using "Bloomberg" to promote your product (b) have you done some competitive research ? As I said, you are tier 3, and at that tier there are hundreds just like you. Are you really that much different to what every other man and his dog is offering at tier 3 ?

Financial data is a competitive space and so (to be perfectly honest) you should have some clear differentiator otherwise you'll just end up another random tier-3 name.

As I said in a reply to someone else here, to be absolutely clear: I'm not seeking to be a jerk, I'm just injecting a bit of reality. You've chosen a tough space to operate in...
> is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda

You don’t see a small handful of enabling technologies that came to market between the Iraq War and Ukraine?
Air pollution, just as "second hand" smoke, is way overblown as a risk factor for lung cancer. Nothing compares, not even close, to sending foreign particles, the end results of combustion, straight to your lungs, like smokers do. The result of years and years of this sludge accumulating on your alveoli is going to be bad, you don't have to be oncologist to see it. And that's why I always tell my pot head friends to beware of what will happen to their lungs 20, 30 years from now. "Muh, it's a natural plant!!!" If you burn it and send the results of the combustion to your lungs on a daily basis, good luck. I don't know about vaping, but in my opinion, if it's not air, pure and simple air, it should not be entering your lungs. Vaping probably is orders of magnitude safer than smoking, but who knows. We never know what we don't know before it happens.
You could use the same reasoning to buy lottery tickets. That's basically what he's doing, by buying Twitter at a premium.
Operating theater overflow :)