skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a physicist, but I think it is not.

It seems they can account for mass in various places in universe, they can model how things should be moving (being affected by gravity), they can measure how things are actually moving and from this they can infer where this missing mass actually is placed.

This is currently all pretty early stage but the resolution is expected to increase with time.

So no, I don't think dark matter is an epicycle. It is more or less like the case of gravitational disturbance affecting planets in solar system and somebody theorising a planet placed somewhere would explain the effect, we just can't yet measure things accurately enough to tell where the planet is exactly.
You are right its not the fact that it updates frequently. It is when the distro package is an inferior option either because of version or build options.
This is the cause of why NIH/Fauci said untrue things about Covid; he can't say true things, because new true information is too surprising and you'd lose trust in him due to it changing too fast.

Instead, he can only say things that "sound like what a trustworthy person would say", which is why they have to stick with medical dogma even when it's clearly expired.
Been in a similar situation. I was a lead with almost 20 years experience, and I got laid off right before the pandemic.

It takes a bit of patience. One thing that I learned is that ageism really isn't a thing, but that most openings really are for people with a little less experience than us. This is because a lot of companies are willing to take a chance on someone who costs less; but set the bar exceptionally high for someone who costs more.

To keep sane, I worked on learning projects and only hunted for jobs about 50% of my day-to-day time. My general pattern was to spend a few mornings or afternoons hunting through the "who's hiring" Hacker News thread, and then spend the remainder of the month seeing where it went. By the end of the month I was ready to hit the next "who's hiring" thread.

It took me almost a year. Thankfully pandemic unemployment kept me from digging into savings.

Some things to keep in mind:

I recently worked with someone brilliant who told me he had lots and lots of interviews before finding the job. He occasionally rubbed me the wrong way. I suspect he may have habitually rubbed people the wrong way in interviews, too.

Another time I rejected a candidate who was hired against my recommendation, who then went to be a lead. At times he was very difficult to work with, although he generally did the job well. My questions weren't hard, in this case, he interviewed for a job in C# and didn't know how to use a dictionary in a whiteboarding coding session... The interview just got... awkward.

Finally, don't forget that getting this kind of job is always a numbers game. Keep trying. Really. Just keep trying.
YouTube Premium is the only video service for which I have consistently keep a running subscription over the last couple years. Reasons:

- I vastly prefer an ad-free experience, and I'm willing to pay for it.

- I don't care for popular TV shows or movies. The content I want is only available on YouTube.

- I use the Premium-only ability to run the app in background on my phone every day.

- 55% of the monthly fee is shared with the content creators whose monetized videos I watch, so this helps support creators that I enjoy (not as much as direct donations, but it's not nothing either).
I'm trying to remember from the last em64t/ia32e & ia32 ISA toy OS I messed around with.

i386 ISA is the bare minimum for functioning protected mode to be better than real-mode DOS. i286 protected mode is absolute trash.

i386 is so bad at dealing with SMP primitives, it was standard practice to have a non-SMP kernel. Then, you get into the business of maintaining 2 kernel flavors or a major kernel feature flag.

For those interested, there is a quirky processor mode trick called "unreal mode" that allows flat addressing without switching to protected mode (no protections, just like real-mode DOS).
It's the generic congressional vote, which is simply the percent of people polled who prefer either party. It's analogous to the popular vote for President, not the percent of seats either party is predicted to win.
Sure but If I’m gonna watch mortally questionable content I might as well spin up a Jellyfin server and have a better viewing experience, or simply use an ad blocker instead of paying for premium.
Something that works when implemented infrequently tells you very little about implementing it permanently.

If a couple times a year I don't have car access to my home, I'll be just fine. If you did that permanently I'd be pretty unhappy.
These are the native SQLite datatypes, that are also used as column affinities.

TEXT - text string, stored using the database encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE).

BLOB - blob of data, stored exactly as it was input.

NUMERIC - generic number, attempts to devolve to integer or real.

INTEGER - signed, stored in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 bytes depending on the magnitude of the value.

REAL - floating point value, stored as an 8-byte IEEE-754 format.

Any CHAR variant is really text. If you really need it to be 50 characters, then a suitable CHECK constraint must be in place.

You can also create tables with unknown types:

CREATE TABLE foo(bar razzamataz);

With some gymnastics, you can see the affinity assigned to this column:

create table bar as select * from foo where 1=0;

sqlite> .dump bar
PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE bar(
bar NUM
);
COMMIT;
The article states:

> ... to ensure that an up-to-date version of our dataset is easily available for those who need it, and will work to improve its readability and reduce its size so there is less friction for end users...
This really hits home with me:

>But in a world of Felony Contempt of Business Model, that discussion changes to "Given that we can literally imprison anyone who helps our users get more out of this product, how can we punish users who are disloyal enough to simply quit our service or switch away from our product?"

>That is, "how can we raise the switching costs of our products so that users who are angry at us keep using our products?"

I keep telling myself that the reason interoperability disappeared is because software updates and platforms are just fast-moving targets, and we don't have the relative stability computers had 25 years ago. But I know that's not true, and it's really the other way around.
Yes! Rider education and constantly practicing is key. It also helps you enjoy motorcycling more too.
Workflows, a new abstraction for distributed systems
This talk, delivered by Dominik Tornow at Strange Loop 2022, explores how workflow systems provide platform-level mitigation for reliability challenges, giving us a developer experience for distributed systems that rivals what we've enjoyed for nearly 50 years with databases. Workflows are to distributed systems what transactions are to databases.
not so, if i square a number, and get 4, There is no basis in evidence for the claim that the number I squared was 2. it could equally likely have been -2. Science is capable of making no stronger a claim than that.
I’m a bit skeptical of this figure that chess grandmasters have admitted it. From what I understand, if chess.com accused you of cheating, they tell you “you have 3 days to admit it or be banned”. So in the face of that, of course they’re going to admit to cheating (since admitting it leads to no other repercussions). To me it seems like a way for the anticheat team to farm credibility. This was my impression based on Maxim Dlugy’s statement

https://sites.google.com/view/gmdlugystatement/home
The claims made in the article are developed into very exaggerated forms and thus make it really difficult to take seriously.

It would have been better if the author stuck strictly to tenable claims, since veering into amateur political agitation is usually the last resort of writers without substantial prospects elsewhere.

e.g.

>" The problem is when you can't choose someone else – when leaving a platform involves high switching costs, whether that's having to replace hardware, buy new media, or say goodbye to your friends, customers, community or family."

Here the author tries to turns a mundane observation, that switching costs are high when you put your entire life on a single platform, into an emotive and attention grabbing claim.

> "That's why plans to impose interoperability on tech giants are so exciting – because the problem with Facebook isn't "the people I want to speak to are all gathered in one convenient place," no more than the problem with app stores is "these companies generally have good judgment about which apps I want to use. The problem is that when those companies don't have your back, you have to pay a blisteringly high price to leave their walled gardens. That's where interop comes in. Think of how an interoperable Facebook could let you leave behind Zuckerberg's dominion without forswearing access to the people who matter to you"

Here the author alleges Zuck to be ruling a vast dominion of billions of Facebook users. And the fabled 'interop' shall grant users the magic key for passage through the most expedient gates into the land of unbounded freedom outside.

In reality Facebook usage is already declining in North America, and no magic keys are necessary for people to just leave and delete their accounts.

The idea of interop may be valuable yet this phrasing and casting of the folks at Facebook as arch-demons and feudal lords will more likely retard rather than promote the prospects of its integration.
> Want to save lives? High speed motorcycling should simply be illegal.

Just make that; high speed _cars_ should simply be illegal. It is drivers killing motorcyclists, not motorcyclists killing drivers. Because cars are both heavy and fast, they are deadly by their very nature. With more power comes more responsibility. For drivers, this responsibility must translate to slowing down.
>95% effective at what?

It doesn't matter. What matters is that we don't see the number 100 anywhere, so one shouldn't pretend that anyone said the vaccine is 100% effective at anything with regard to prevention. If you decide to pretend someone did say that, it's not their fault.
I did. If you need eviction, things get either suboptimal, complicated or costly. If you don't need that the only other thing to watch out is the upload size limit, and we'll only if that is ever relevant to you. You might want a direct endpoint for these.
That’s not really accurate. There only part that’s accurate is the US “sucking up all the dollars”, but it’s not due to a credit crisis. The U.S. is the most aggressive in terms of raising its baseline interest rate. The interest rate is higher in the US than anywhere else, relative to the safety of its government bonds. Therefore, people with money want dollars so they can buy treasuries and earn a higher yield.
The description in the article about what "superblocks" are, is, I think, wrong.

It's not a binary thing "cars" vs. "not cars at all". Inside the "superblocks" is possible to use the car. Is just that you can't go anywhere except around the super-block and you have to drive in a slow pace.

Parking is also restricted to neighbors and short times for loading and unloading goods or people.

All that, disincentive cars going there except for specific needs. Also a lot of space is take away from cars for common pedestrian spaces and cycling.
You mean AND them together.

OR will give you non-zero If one of the inputs is non-zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan

I find it shocking that there is no "continuous quality assurance" of these labs - for example, one should take the lab as a blackbox, and send 10% known-negatives, 10% known-positives, and 10% random samples from previous batches in every batch, and then evaluate a) how many known positives/negatives turned out right, b) how many samples from previous batches return the same result.
And more powerful indicators. They should burn your eyes!
Same here. I was a teenager in 1985 when Sting released "Russians".

This song suck so much that I can barely listen to it even today.

And this was in France, a country that was not that engaged in the child war on a day to day basis (at least for a 15 yo).
Flir cameras too, their chips, lenses, etc.
https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report
Rome was a warrior culture too, especially in the beginning. Even their sports were bloody and gruesome, with people being maimed and dying for the enjoyment of the population.
Tech firm listed on $1.2M ArriveCan contract never worked on it, CEO says
I think there's a few reasonable reasons. I think 65 might be too low, I'd probably go with 70, but one reason is just to make room for new legislators which is good both to get new ideas & perspectives in from time to time, and also to ensure our government isn't excessively skewed towards the perspectives of older people. The average age of a senator is 64.3 years[1]– the average age!

Average age of US citizens is 38.8 years. I don't think this needs to be exactly the same & I think it's good for senators to skew older as wisdom accrues with age, but this doesn't simply mean "older is better."

Mostly I think it would be good to build the next generation of leaders periodically. Senate seats are and congress are zero-sum, the next person can't get into that seat until someone else gets out, and those "years as a legislator" are important to operate effectively.

1: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46705#:~:text....
>The costs of cars seem to going up considerably because of all the advanced features.

Or Maybe they could just not add all those features? Crazy, I know.
There is more than 50% chance that Herschel Walker is going to win. He is definitely not bright.

There are many such examples.

Then there are Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley type politicians who are definitely smart, but say/do insane stuff because it serves their needs.

Then there is Mitch. Very smart but very scary, in a league of his own.
This is already quite simple. You can have a .org buffer with SRC blocks & have their output displayed underneath (exactly like a jupyter/Pluto notebook). I’m thinking you can define a function and underneath it you can say something like “@structure myfunc” to get an image of the structure as the src-block output.
> Pfizer had to pay the largest fine in US history for a fraud case, yet questioning their data (which we weren't allowed to see until they were sued) is forbidden.

Questioning it is fine, and the data should be public.

But also note that Pfizer also has credibility because they have made a decently high ratio of non fraudulent claims since they have a history of making and selling medicines that work.
If we got 8 million signatures they couldn't move the BQE. Closing streets is like banning alcohol or abortions. If you choke off supply it just makes the price go up. The solution is to throttle _demand_. Like making our subway stations less dank. Curing America's car addiction is not going to be easy.
There were at least two errors in the video demo, and that was just 15 seconds of audio. “I can take some notes from a meeting” was transcribed as “I can take some notes from meeting”, and “I click stop [recording]” ended up as “And click the stop”.
Switch the balls with water, and the channels with turbines, and you have discovered a hydroelectric reservoir, which is quite feasible, given that quite a few are already built.

> Once all balls are on the bottom, generated electricity is used to rotate the whole thing and start process anew.

If here, you mean part of the electricity generated by the flow, then it can't work because pumping it back up is subject to friction (in fact, generation from when it flows down is also subject to friction) and to mechanical/electrical conversion losses.

On a 100% efficient system with no losses, you would get perpetual motion, but subtracting any energy from the system would make it slow or stop.
iPhone has a tiny market share in India. They probably don't consider them large enough to be worth regulating.
Yes, you can see it in the body scan video.
"Mental illness is not a byproduct of modern society, its study and treatment is. "

If you have data on the incidence of depression in hunter gatherer societies we can compare to modern societies feel free to share it.

"Why is the rate of mental illness going up? It's because the stigma over mental healthcare is dropping rapidly and more people are getting formally diagnosed."

So in your mind the functioning of a society has no impact on the rate of mental health problems?
About that Caltrain connection...the terminal was built before the connecting tunnel was planned. It is still unclear how the terminal will accommodate the required number of trains without the tunnel backing up. The latest workaround being studied is to make it a Through-station -- which would be great except these same city officials allowed a bunch of skyscrapers to be built east of the terminal (i.e. where the through-tracks would go).

As for the bus-station-in-the-sky...talk to any AC Transit planner and they will say (privately) the agency would have much preferred for transbay buses to continue down Market St (i.e. similar to how BART works). But AC Transit is not allowed to compete with SF Muni, so instead a giant bus parking lot was built above some of the most pricey real estate in the world.

So yes, the station is yet another example of Bay Area dysfunction.
Do they stroll restrict nonfree audio/video codecs?

I would use fedora, but I want my repository set limited to trusted sources only. Core repositories are RedHat endorsed, afaict the user managed ones are not.

I want the ability to say that packages are from maintainers that are well trusted in a court of law. I cannot do that with fedora due to this, Ubuntu seems to be my only solution and it’s rapidly becoming unusable (I don’t hate snap, but it’s broken my workflow).
Part of those activities is sociocultural, but they are grounded in physical benefits. "High heat makes many nutrients more bioavailable", and "some metals and alloys have excellent mechanical strength compared to organic materials", sound like perfectly good aspects of nature to me.
I'm really tired of motorists decimating our environment and wasting 40,000 human lives every year. But I guess we have different values. For example, having my car less than two blocks from me has almost no value in my view. Maintaining a livable planet and saving human live tends to have a lot of value in my view.
GitHub is actively transitioning away from Rails. Netflix is mostly Java / Node.js, they are not a significant Rails shop. Also, OP said "modern", probably to mean not companies that chose their tech stack a decade ago. New SaaS these days trend towards Next.js / Node (Supabase, Substack, Notion, Planetscale, Railway, Secureframe, Newfront, etc.), some Django, the occasional Rails or Phoenix.
> They want to somehow have every single person in a 3 block radius park on the perimeter of that area? And this is somehow supposed to make things better?

Very few people in Barcelona own cars. Residents will have access to drop off things, but not parking.

> I'm really tired of anti-car advocates that have just a single idea: Make people too miserable to use a car, and maybe then there will be less cars

European cities tend to be pretty miserable places for cars by default, for the anti-car advocates it would generally be enough to stop subsidising cars.
It looks like ECC is supported on K series processors according to Intel Ark.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/230496/...
> Elevator operator became a job sometime in the latter half of the eighteenth century, first appearing as its own category on the U.S. Census in 1910. It is the only job since 1950, according to a recent study, to have been fully eliminated by automation.

I'm pretty sure video rental store clerks and elevator operators have roughly the same non-zero number.
Before smartphones it was the case that most non-PC devices had terrible price performance, for instance a router might have a USB port and run Linux and Samba to serve files off a USB stick but the file server was unspeakably slow. It was like the cost was 1/5 but the performance was like 1/500.

Since smartphones came out, now it is smartphone and PC that beat everything else. That’s why game consoles today are made from either PC or Smartphone parts.

QR codes are remarkable though because they were designed in 1994 to be read from robots moving at 30 mph so from a UX perspective QR codes are great because they scan fast. In my county there is a ‘reuse center’ that has a custom POS system that reads QR stickers with cheap readers that I think would struggle with UPC.
May be related to not being able to monetize 4k (https://9to5google.com/2022/10/17/youtube-premium-4k-test/), so they just charge more.
Yes. Let's violate the first amendment, that should be fun.

The term "lobbying" is essentially slang.

Lobbying is just the name we give to the act of paying someone to petition the government for a redress of grievances on someone else's behalf. So to ban someone from lobbying for any amount of time is essentially banning them from petitioning the government. Which is forbidden by the Constitution.

It's a way more complicated issue than "ban lobbying".
- Last I checked, the $20 plan has no SLA whatsoever and the $200 has a pretty poor one. Thought admittedly I don't know whether Cloudfront is better there.

- You can't serve all kinds of traffic with Cloudflare self-serve plans. Including some of the ones that tend to use the most bandwidth.

- According to the CloudFlare self-serve plan TOS, IIRC, if you start being a too-heavy user on the those plans CloudFlare can (and, I've heard, will) tell you to upgrade to an enterprise plan. Last I checked (this part's personal experience) they're not super interested in serving enterprise customers very far under a minimum $5k/month level, so there's a huge gap there in which other services are a much, much better value.
As a long time ZeroTier user I want to point out that they have some interesting DNS solutions as well.[1]

(Personally, have not felt the need to change something that has a great free tier, self hosting controllers, etc, and has been working reliably for years... Tailscale looks cool though)

[1]https://www.zerotier.com/2022/04/11/the-zerotier-dns-story/
It's a persuasive argument, but most of the "dead" tools mentioned in the talk were created in the era where the creators were inspired more by the beauty of their creations than their relevance to some bottom line. C C++ Pascal Python Go .NET ML Docker etc. were all made by people who saw a niche and sculpted something new for the joy of it. (Not just for the joy, but still.)

The current "...but does it monetize?" culture is a recent thing. For most of the history of computing, nearly everything was done by starry-eyed idealists and outcasts who were in love with exploring the new conceptual frontiers opened up by technology. Sure, even then there were Larry Ellisons out to skin the selkies and sell their pelts to the highest bidder, but they weren't driving the field. The vast majority of developments came from people on BBSes or MUDs or just in their private basement rooms, who delighted in coming up with working demonstrations of crazy new ideas and showing them off.

Silicon Valley was the Kingdom of the Geek, before the Geek had been tempted to crawl into the gilt cage and be locked inside by the army of MBAs and VCs. But we did it to ourselves—where once we might show off a live coding hack or a self-modifying set of scenes in a MUSH, now we show off our new Tesla or whatever the latest variant of a giant cell phone on wheels is.

(I don't disagree with what we should be moving towards.)
The most powerful flash yet seen in the sky was recorded on October 9th