skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically it's up to the people to hold their government accountable and pressurise them to make decent decisions.
Out-of-Process Iframes (OOPIFs)
The real question is, how many of those were bots? You know, the big problem he identified and that he was absolutely going to solve,
Of course, if people had questioned the potential of flight because most of the people egging its potential was arguing that within a few years we'd no longer need cities because we'd all live wherever we wanted and whistle for the nearest mechanical bird to give us a lift, they wouldn't have been wrong to question that scenario. Even more so if discussion of powered flight was dominated by speculation about mechanical birds throwing us off cliffs if we didn't solve their alignment problems. Back in the world of AI, a spreadsheet can't even play chess, but it's a remarkably useful thing to have, has given people that used to be employed as clerks more tasks rather than less, and the person that notes how this changed everything but not at all like the futurists said it would isn't necessarily pessimistic about spreadsheets.

Powered flight is enormously useful in a lot of domains, and yet for all its obvious superiority in many dimensions it hasn't even made infantry or shipping obsolete. And if I felt like hunting, I'd probably prefer a hawk...
We had a case a few years ago in Argentina, when a child got an overdose of Potassium Chloride. The nurse was new in the hospital and in the previous hospital they had a different concentration, so she prepared a wrong dilution. [1]. Anyway, it's a problem that is common enough that the English NHS added it to a list of recommendations [page 8] https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2018-N...

It looks like a random accident, but it's one of the silly mistakes that are more common when someone has worked 12 or 24 hours straight and has no checklists.

[1] I tried looking for the case, because the details matter, but most of the recent news are about a case where it apparently was intentional https://www-telam-com-ar.translate.goog/notas/202208/602435-...
UTM supports this, you can choose Apple virtualisation instead of QEMU when creating the VM
VSCode was born as client-server model, if anything they pivoted into desktop to gather more audience.

"Erich Gamma: VS Code an Overnight Success… 10 years in the making"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilznKQij7A
Unfortunatly the inverse is also true.
>From the company's POV, aren't they likely to benefit from setting you up on dates that either go mildly unfortunately, or leading to a short-term relationship at best? The customers are paying for dates after all, not long term relationships.

I can't imagine there's a data scientist alive who could devise an algorithm that accurately, reliably predicts "kind of a good match but not really", given only some limited inputs (basic info + photos).

I reckon from the company's perspective that positive word of mouth from people who like the app is a much better focus point.
Every buying or support decision you make is (in the end) political.
Elon Musk uses his money to support his political agenda.
If you are on Twitter you support Elon Musk and his political agenda.
So if you do not support his views, get out. I did.
It is as simple as that!
ArXiv of the mentioned paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04226
I don't quite understand the "art" comment. I've seen it several times so this is not aimed at you.

The point of art art is that it is created by a human or group of humans. Artists (performance or visual) will be out of a job when runners are all replaced by race-cars, and pro golfers, tennis players, football players, and basketball players by robots.
Good. Absurd for social platforms to permaban a former POTUS.

Anyway, not sure if the average democrat has realized that Trump being on Twitter is terrible for the Republican party and great for the dems.

Clearly the democratic party leaders have realized that, considering how they donated tens of millions of dollars to Trump-supported candidates in the 2020 primaries. [1]

Great for the democrats, terrible for America.

1 - https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-stra...
Per Moravec, it's tended to be the opposite. The tendency to assume that excellence in chess - a game machines play by lookup table - is a sign of extreme intelligence because people aren't particularly good calculators and most of them haven't memorised many openings, but walking around interacting with an environment and forming goals as a result is something any dumb animal can do.
There's not surprise here. Anyone who saw the beginning of Tinder realised it wasn't efficient.

There's many reasons for this, probably the most simple is that I'd it were efficient it wouldn't be popular. Knowing that you know it won't work, but not really why...

Perhaps the articles right and the way is the lack of committment/loyalty?

I think a big aspect of it was that before tinder finding people who were in a eating mindset was bloody rare.

I dated people purely because I didn't know anyone else single.

You dated all your friends in the end because it was so hard to find others. Not necessarily shagged them.

That did two things, firstly it made people pragmatic and consider dating more types of people. And it got people used to compromise and sticking it out that's vital for a relationship to work.
I actually found the contrast between the lower part of the article labelled 'draft' and the upper finished part instructive. I could sort of imagine how the unfinished paragraphs might be completed finally.

PS: 1977 Tools for Thought was by C.H. Waddington, a UK biologist with an interest in complex systems. Club of Rome era about systems thinking and all.
Isn't that a bit harsh? If something comes up and you can't make it, or your date didn't like you and says you didn't come, you can no longer date?
Good idea, so I can quickly block the ideological spammers who hate diversity of thought.

I prefer the new open and divers Twitter, thank you.
"One of the biggest"? I looked at the instance, it is octodon.social, which does not even make top 50.
It's entirely possible somewhere in the stack of a 32-bit Windows application sits a DLL that uses POSIX time, stat, etc. functions and will fail in a similar way.
The worst part is that the helpdesk staff were nice. More than a decade later I can't remember anything else about them, except that they were all lovely people.

I'm sure they got new jobs and whatnot, but I still feel bad about the whole thing.

Intellectually, I agree with you that bullshit jobs ought to be eliminated, but I suspect that this process will continue to be morally a gray area until we have something like universal basic income.
Air Quality World Map
Apropos. Is there reader macro definitions for "(" and ")" ?

Or is Gödel rolling in his grave for such insolent heresy?
I remember coming face to face with an IBM 3800/003. It was impressive. And yet it sees it was only 1/3 as fast as this monster (1.7mph).

The print quality was excellent though. The distinctive (default?) font was seen everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fall where? There’s always new faces on Tinder, even if the platform itself became hostile and essentially barely-freemium.

Every single issue described in the article has to do with how you use the app.

Talking to 10 guys? Don’t. Focus on one and unmatch if there’s no feeling.

Waiting 1-3 days before meeting? Why. I (male) was recently asked to meet at a nearby mall within 30 minutes of matching.

Dating for many people is more complicated than it needs to me, too many requirements and made-up rules.

The only rules are: be decent and say bye when it doesn’t work.
The amount of absorption by fungus versus plant is huge — that’s why they form a symbiotic relationship:

The fungus collects stuff from the dirt; the plant trades those nutrients for sugars produced with sunlight.
> “In fact, the only people who should feel imposter syndrome are the ones whose strongest skill is selling themselves. But since selling yourself entails some self-deception, they are, naturally, the ones who think they’re surrounded by lazy idiots.”

Sounds like a certain entrepreneur who bought a social media site he didn’t actually want anymore, and now is asking everyone to work extra hardcore.
Post author here - I sent an email to mail-tester.com from an email alias I've set up as described in my post; it's gets a "Good stuff. Your email is almost perfect" and a score of 7.5/10

-0.5 from SpamAssassin (FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN & HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS)
-1 for not being DKIM signed
-1 Because Google is in some blacklists

The critical steps, which I think people often gloss over are the SPF (https://jay.gooby.org/2022/05/06/use-a-basic-gmail-account-t...) and DKIM ones (https://jay.gooby.org/2022/05/06/use-a-basic-gmail-account-t...) without these, you'll definitely have deliverability issues.
Abstract of the research article:

> Fungi are central to every terrestrial and many aquatic ecosystems, but the mechanisms underlying fungal tolerance to mercury, a global pollutant, remain unknown. Here, we show that the plant symbiotic fungus Metarhizium robertsii degrades methylmercury and reduces divalent mercury, decreasing mercury accumulation in plants and greatly increasing their growth in contaminated soils. M. robertsii does this by demethylating methylmercury via a methylmercury demethylase (MMD) and using a mercury ion reductase (MIR) to reduce divalent mercury to volatile elemental mercury. M. robertsii can also remove methylmercury and divalent mercury from fresh and sea water even in the absence of added nutrients. Overexpression of MMD and MIR significantly improved the ability of M. robertsii to bioremediate soil and water contaminated with methylmercury and divalent mercury. MIR homologs, and thereby divalent mercury tolerance, are widespread in fungi. In contrast, MMD homologs were patchily distributed among the few plant associates and soil fungi that were also able to demethylate methylmercury. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that fungi could have acquired methylmercury demethylase genes from bacteria via two independent horizontal gene transfer events. Heterologous expression of MMD in fungi that lack MMD homologs enabled them to demethylate methylmercury. Our work reveals the mechanisms underlying mercury tolerance in fungi, and may provide a cheap and environmentally friendly means of cleaning up mercury pollution.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2214513119
Definitely. That's why 24h before your date a support phone number would come online where you could call about this kind of stuff. Explaining to another human on the phone why you can't make it is IMO exactly the right amount of friction for cancelling a date!
You are watching on DeFi as a hype-risk, but it is not. It's more about technology, for example bridges, oracles, staking.
I definitely experienced Tinder fatigue some years ago.

Thankfully I stuck with it for a bit, since me and my partner for some years now got randomly matched by the system (neither one of us remembered having seen or swiped yes on the other). She was using a Windows phone and the 3rd party Timber app, so not sure if that had anything to do with it.

At one point, 4 years later we played around with polyamory and used Tinder for it, and quickly both of us became fatigued with the amount of conversations and attention needed to use it.

I can only imagine it has become worse since.
-- funny you're getting down voted we say this all the time here in Korea - we even copied the Japanese strawberry - but we make everything way better - so who cares --

https://thehustle.co/japan-south-korea-strawberries/
I mean they're dating apps, not relationship apps! Tinder was built to facilitate quick hookups, not being selective about your next long-term relationship.

Of course, Tinder is synonymous to dating for some, which is the weird part.
Fully agree. There is further discussion to be had as to why the pipeline is so male-dominated. Societal labeling of programming as male, inherita of being so male dominated for so long, and stereotypes around women interacting with people and men with things are likely factors.

But it needs to be fixed at start of the funnel rather than the end.
That sounds odd to me. If you say このリュックは大きくて便利 it's clearly the backpack that's convenient, not the statement, so why would 大きくていい be different?
very cool. Is it possible to collapse “sidebar” to “main”?
What were the vulnerable groups? But it's ok if you don't want to answer.
"We’re now so used to conducting our dating life via our phones, when we’re out we never think of meeting anyone."

We, the writers for The Guardian, never think of meeting anyone when we're out.
Closures don’t have inheritance or any of the other machinery that object oriented programming typically comes with.

Perhaps saying they are light weight objects (where objects has its meaning as instances of classes) is a good way of saying it.

The realisation that closures and objects are very similar is one of the main turning points in becoming proficient in both OOP and Functional Programming, it was for me at least.
As others have pointed out, the phys.org link is quite vague. I went to the cited article at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214513119, but there is a paywall. Yet another tedious paywall. It's too early in my day for that.

But at least the pnas page has a link that gets you to a PDF of supplemental material from that site, which might be of help to those who would like to know about the Hg compounds in question here.

I do wish the phys.org article had chosen to feature the word "compounds" in the title, and perhaps also the word "transform" instead of "remove". But that wouldn't be as eye-catching, and it seems that phys.org is all about catching eyes, lately.
I worked on a big project showing arbitrary family trees. Collapsing what are actually graphs into visually compact trees is very hard! Nice job
I don't know why but the online dating experience has gotten worse this year. A lot more ghosting. I don't know if that's just me. I recently removed 3/4 of my matches because they were not answering after 2 weeks.

OLD works this way:

* There are very few women going on those apps (ratio is about 1 woman for 3 or 5 men). It's by design. OLD apps don't care about the bad reputation of OLD. They could introduce a reputation system to force men to behave, but it's not profitable.

* A woman picks one guy among her matches. She finds one and it works. She doesn't bother answering other guys for obvious reasons (she could be polite but she doesn't want to deal with the reactions of those men)

* The other guys get frustrated, which is good because it incites them to pay for more matches and to land on top of the pile.

Dating apps are a well-oiled scam. It's the worst social media because it preys on users by deceiving and misleading them, by using love as a medium.

I have suggested to automatically remove matches if one user doesn't answer after 10 days. 90% of my matches would go away. It would change everything.

Another suggestion would be to introduce a calendar feature where the dating app can automatically pick a time and safe place for a meet (a public place, usually) depending on your availability. That way, everybody feels safe, it improves the selection process, and you don't circle around in chat conversations, and you only match with people who wants to see you.

It's a bit easy to accuse men of being responsible for the bad reputation of dating apps, but it degrades the women/men ratio, which is obviously the root of the problem. Women cannot properly deal with that ratio (and the whole "biology teaches that uterii are scarce" which is a nature fallacy).

Dating apps solve that problem by making men pay, or by arguing that men are not attractive enough. This also puts oil on the fire of the incel narrative, but it doesn't excuse it.
In Germany you cannot build "positive credit" by spending money. I also think this is inherently unfair.

As long as you never defaulted on a loan or forgot/failed to pay a bill you automatically have a perfect credit score in Germany.
I was more thinking based on input data about things like what you are looking for in a partner, whether you are after a long-term relationship or not, etc. Then you throw in all that data to the ML deities and hope the output is something roughly related to what you're after.

Fair enough about word of mouth though, relationship durations are probably linearly correlated to the number of endorsements given by each customer - at some point in a relationship you end up with a rehearsed "so how did you two meet?"!
Yeah it would put a lot more pressure on women, though.
> I was powerless to stop it.

You could have found a new job, driving up their costs or delaying them slightly.
The first example is just not comparable, republicans are to this day proclaiming election stolen without ANY evidence of fraud.

While the 2016 event has always been about Russian election interference NOT election conspiracy by democrats.

The article you provided is Hillary saying sour grapes (not sure why poor ol Jimmy is asked about it), not rambling about crazy conspiracies to the point of embracing it.

Second example is more make sense, because Republicans strategy since Gingrich (of never compromise always obstruct), so if democrats are in favor of A then republican strategy is to literally advocate for B even though they are also for A (look at gun control passed in red states or voter encouragement laws).
Winning Habits of Effective Data Engineers
From a pure scientific point of view, there are a number of challenges when matching people. The first challenge is that people don't always have a good insight in themselves, and fill in the matching questions wrongly (this ignores people lying on purpose). Secondly matching algorithms aren't always very good. Most match on similarity of interests and this isn't as important as people think. Good relationships are based on similarity of values, however that is harder to quantify. As matching algorithms aren't very good, this leaves rapid scanning of profile pictures. This is known to result in a high signal to noise ratio.
I think there were two big consequences of switching into same-sex education when I was 15.

1/ The hormonal chaos of a bunch of teenagers was partially quelled. There weren't any girls around to impress, we could be more open with one another with less fear of judgement and no expectation to be the big man. I could ask more questions in class without being petrified of looking dumb in front of a girl I liked.

2/ Learning could become a sport. It may seem immature, but I grew up playing sports my entire childhood, pretty much every season. At my HS you had class rank, and that turned learning into a game for me, which is exactly what I needed for motivation to work hard and study. By the time I was 17 I really fell in love with math, but I wouldn't have gotten there without the competitive gaming component of my first few years. This isn't intrinsic to same sex schooling, but it wasn't available at my local co-ed schools.
> Maybe you’ll dare to approach the new girl at the office with the suede jacket and the messy fringe and ask if you can take her for dinner sometime.

Only if you don’t value your career. Or if you’re very attractive and therefore approaching office mates is low risk.
As someone who has spent much more than my fair share of time in ICU and on "the floor" I can honestly say that being in the hospital is similar to being in prison in one respect. Having someone on the outside working for you is critical. Medical staff will almost immediately try to establish a power dynamic over you to keep you cooperative and docile. Having people from outside who are polite but inquisitive and questioning is key.
I've also noticed that people who have frequent and varied family visitors get more attentive care than those who never have visitors such as the elderly whose family may all be gone and friends can't really travel.
To be pedantic, fusion also already works, just not economically!
The “Underlying Technology” Shibboleth
It seems similar to the old-time joke of a monk-senior all-knower engineer and a junior, where the latter tries to find “The Truth” and comes back with The answer three times, OOP, FP and actors, and it turns out that they are all the same.
> As you say, collective bargaining is usually going to be more effective than individual.

It may be more effective in terms of salary and working conditions (though I doubt that in software engineering I would have been able to get better pay through collective).

But in terms of ethics?

Individually, it’s almost impossible to make me support surveillance and censorship. But a big collective is much more vulnerable to manipulation. Comes 9/11 and you’ll get “collective” support for Patriot act, comes 6/1 and you’ll get “collective” support for censorship.
These people have an app called Twitter don't they?
This is yet another amazing cherry-on-top of an amazing product. I switched Internet providers a couple months ago and was horrified to find that I was now behind a CGNAT. I went looking for a solution to reach my home lab on the go and found Tailscale. Tailscale solved that issue - and I actually had the epiphany that if I couldn't reach my home network without it then nobody else could either. So, maybe the CGNAT is actually a big security benefit in that way - but I digress.

I originally was thinking of it like a network-level VPN but realised if I installed it on everything individually it would give me DNS and HTTPS certs for all the machines in my home lab - that work from anywhere as long as my laptop was connected to Tailscale. That is something I always wanted to do with let's encrypt but never got around to. And now this!

It has really inspired my imagination. I've been running labs teaching 5-15 people k8s and k8s security out of AWS but this means I might be able to just run a bunch of VMs in my home lab all with Tailscale loaded and point people easily at them all. Maybe with code-server (VS code in a browser) on them to give them a browser-based terminal. And that is just one possible usecase...

Thank you Tailscale people - it is such a great product that has exceeded all my expectations!
OK. I was going with something Mr Musk quoted the other day, but my aging memory may well be faulty.
> Nix does not guarantee any Nix derivation/package will seamlessly run on Linux, Mac, and Windows. So in this one aspect it is less capable than Docker, i.m.h.o.

Nix runs on Windows exactly like Docker runs on Windows— only inside a Linux VM. If you ship a Linux VM on Mac or Windows like people usually do for Docker, you're free to run the Linux version of a Nix package on those platforms.

> i.e. if a package depends on the systemd package https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=syst... , Nix will not automatically find a replacement to run the package on Mac. But it may be possible to manually work around this with https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

Nix-Darwin doesn't do anything for packaging issues, it just offers an alternative module system for declaratively managing services and configurations in a NixOS-like way.

Docker containers also don't normally do any kind of service management, they're single-process images. They're not really comparable to orchestrated services managed by NixOS or Nix-Darwin modules. But if your concern is just shipping the same thing and you don't care about what's managing the services, a whole NixOS VM isn't any less efficient than some other VM in which you run `docker-compose` or Kubernetes.

That said, there are Nix-y ways to ship one or more supervised processes in a way that's portable across the platforms that Nix supports. One way is with a manually tailored supervisord config with a nix-shell or something like devenv.sh. Another strategy would be to leverage something an abstraction layer like this one: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt
I believe that Futurama has answers.