skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always been possible to feign knowledge and wisdom with cynicism, even before public discourse was carried out "online".

It's also always been possible to feign knowledge and wisdom with breathless enthusiasm or optimism. Fakery is fakery.

In general, we are not cynical enough. Humans have been out to take advantage of each other for as long as we have recorded history, and probably for much longer than that. Civilization is maintained in equilibrium between forces that seek to destroy each other, so you can and should assume that those forces exist and are currently and actively attempting to pursue their own gain at your expense. The heart of propaganda is convincing people to act against their own best interests. This is built into the essence of humanity.
WhatsApp Launches a Tool to Fight Internet Censorship
Emotionify – Sort Spotify playlists by emotion and energy
I wish they would so something about iPad magic keyboards and sticky keys. Mine stated with one sticky key and quickly others become sticky. Cleaning didn’t help. It’s out of warranty and I can’t justify spending another $399(?) on a new one.
I'm done with Walgreens. No matter what I need from their pharmacy, it takes a minimum of an hour to do it, including simple refill pick up. CVS takes no where near that, in and out quickly. Walgreens has a major management failure and they do not want to fix it.
As we’ve seen from China’s secretive police stations, they have no qualms “visiting” regular people.
Maybe superficial but it seemed "tacked on" in terms of UI/UX. I don't think most people go to Twitter to read newsletters, and the way it was implemented just felt weird.
HR exists to maximize shareholder value, like every other function. They do things that sound nice in support of this. But don’t ever expect them to take someone’s side out of principle if that hurts shareholder value.

They push for anti-harassment policies because it’s good for shareholders. They normalize compensation because it’s good for shareholders. If they treat people good on the way out, it’s because it’s good for shareholders.

They’re no different than the Finance, Legal or any other department.
EXcellent! The chief HW guy went on to Palm, and succeed. He uses his EO 440 to display a clock. So, it's still useful.
Lots of conflicting views held by the scientific community:

* Science is progressing too fast
* Science is progressing too slow with not enough breakthroughs
* The barrier to publish is too high and is wrought with politics
* There's too many papers published and we need a higher bar as not everyone is a genius
* My research is important and deserves funding
* Others research is trivial and they don't deserve funding
* Committees suck, they do nothing, just gate-keep who gets money and there's politics involved
* X research is trivial, shouldn't receive funding, someone has to stop this
* The public should understand what we're doing research on
* A lot of the research being published is being exaggerated in quality, difficulty and correctness

I guess it's no different than the conflicting views of any community. If there's no conflict, things get stale.
I mean thats mostly posthock justification. (speaking from a tech giant)

The business cares about the following (in order):

o does it do what it's supposed to do?

o does it make the $thing quicker/cheaper/more efficient?

o is it reliable for the end user?

Everything else is supplementary. Even, in most cases security.

look, Its great that people are happy about a language. But its just a brush for logic. Yes, rust is better than C++ for most things.

But, and I cannot emphasise this enough, it is not the new messiah. Its not going to magically make that badly run project run better. Its not going to solve the structural problems that your current project has.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/harvard-super-tall-towers-powe...

There's a famous-in-the-area ex-NASA blogger with good (not perfect) articles on the topic, but I can't Google and find him 'cause authoritative institutions now seems to trump and drown out mere experts on Google.

Others here cite him:
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/blog-series-co...
Yes, I know why it was disruptive. The question (for this paper) is, what other biological papers were more disruptive (since, based on the range of the scale, they barely made the first quintile).

I think the more important question is, how do we validate the usefulness of the CD5 metric. And, why is it better to be "disruptive" than "consolidating"?

Based on the examples shown (and others that I can imagine), it is unclear that it measures anything related to scientific significance.
So the difference is psycopg2-binary* bundles the libpq native code and pg-native doesn't? I'm no expert, but I think npm packages can include native code if they want thanks to node-gyp, only the node-libpq (which pg-native relies on) author seemingly decided not to package in libpq itself.

* Back when I used this, there was just psycopg2 which had the bin included.
TBF, the same can happen here to a lesser extent. False or misleading stories blow up quickly because “$BIGCORP bad”.
From personal experience, Chicago is kind of both the best case and the worst case for rollerblading: it's very flat and has nice wide sidewalks, but the sidewalks and even the streets are pretty rough and require large wheels for a smooth ride.

Having a good amount of reasonably well maintained dedicated bike lanes would have made rollerblading to work a lot easier!
Our first PC was an AST Advantage 486dx/33

Purchased from the McChord AFB computer shop.

Originally my dad wanted to “upgrade” our Amiga1000 to be PC compatible, but learned such a thing was not possible.
That's expressing a lot of confidence for something that I assume you don't know much about?

I've repeatedly looked for this exact product in the past, "wheel-augmented shoes", for my 10-to-30 minutes travels (to the shop, to the public transportation, to a friend's...). So as anecdata, I would absolutely be interested in this: maybe not at $1400 but I'd certainly pay a few hundreds.

> cultural association of sillyness and the aesthetic disaster that is "rolly-sandals with shoes".

I don't know how many "that's what was said of Airpods" are needed for this argument to die. Actually, I'm much less weirded out by these shoes than I was of airpods, I don't find them silly at all
Ok, so no medical study then or other peer reviewed paper.

If you could back this up with any fact then I'd be interested in discussing.

As this is just your ill-informed opinion, then I've no interest in talking more.
Berkeley Lab scientists develop a new method of refrigeration
> If Musk actually believed this it was irresponsible of him to sell any cars at all since holding onto them would have yielded a better return for investors/stockholders.

When Musk announced this, he said they were still selling Teslas because they needed just a bit more real-world data to 'complete' FSD.
I recently had to deal with some onerous IP clauses that were essentially a non-compete. Fortunately they agreed to drop it.

But for the future: Any advice on finding a good IP lawyer who knows software/media? Lots of IP lawyers around here happy to charge me $300/hr, not so many I'm confident understand the creation of videogame code & assets.
At least in my neighborhood I think these would be more trouble than they're worth. It's a historic neighborhood so all the houses are built up on berms from when they dug the basements cuz the streets were full of muddy manure, so every walk up to a mailbox has stairs. Unless you're agile enough to go down stairs without doing the lock/unlock dance, these would probably slow you down overall.
Retrospectively it was so easy to predict this. Interesting to hear it first hand though
I don't have a metric for in-demand, but as I said, they are amongst the most expensive on a per-sq-ft basis, which is a much more useful metric for "expensive" than total cost. I didn't move the goalposts at all.
The context of the story here is kids and music, we’re not talking about people who no longer really bother with worrying about an audience we are talking about kids.

I think kids should play music that reaches other people or they aren’t likely to actually become musicians.

Not sure how controversial that actually is, I’m mostly just making a tree falling in the forest argument.
I just started using 'nbb' which is a node.js version of Babashka for automating various web tasks using playwright and it has been fantastic
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023
If you want to provide an option to upload artifacts to the Internet Archive, you could crib off of https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup It too relies on yt-dlp for extraction.

Importantly, pay close attention to what artifacts are uploaded to an item created, and what metadata is set as part of the upload process.
> cost of getting a PV array into orbit is very expensive

Musk will find a way. Another stepping stone to Mars.
Two things: first, are you referring to a regulation and saying that another regulation is inconsistent? It seems that neither is making "law" in the sense of an act of Congress. It would be different if the law had its own definition.

Second, your citation appears to be out of date and the current regulation defines "frame or receiver" differently.
That seems ripe for exploitation. Someone could setup a company that effectively does nothing but offer to hire people for exorbitant rates.
How fast is the "walking" speed with these? Is it significantly faster than just walking really fast?
There are a few "frozen orbits" that are stable: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/3...
> Crypto is as much a part of the "real world" as anything else.

I disagree. It's tulip mania all over again and serves only to facilitate corruption and fraud. Name any single legit use cases that are more than 20% of transactions.
Fantastic answer, thank you. Thinking about it, it's literally decades since I last wrote creative prose, maybe my formal writing muscle memory was just kicking in here.
For those that accept the author's premise and thought experiment. What's the recommended alternative?

Let's take a humanist approach and say the biggest problems humanity need to solve right now that we aren't doing enough on are life extension and energy generation/storage/distribution. Even 5 years ago, "AI" might've been on the list, but that seems to be booming with progress, and between CRISPR/mRNA we also seem to be making incredible progress on disease cure/prevention. Meanwhile, with longer lifespans, and cheap available energy who knows what other advances we might unlock.

OK, how do you proceed with maximizing scientific progress?
Thanks for this, I was wondering why my show had massive artifacting even after I changed settings which supposedly should have made the picture quality better. I'll have to try another browser.
Re looking silly, I am not so sure. Only 10 years ago no one would have expected adults to proudly navigate the city on flashy colored elwctric kick scooters, and yet look at any big (european?) city nowadays. Even investment bankers in tailor-made suits move on those abominations as if it was the next lamborghini.

I actually find them quite attractive as a means to access my local train station: easier to take with me than a bike or kick scooter, apparently much safer than rollerblades or skateboard. Just not for that price, but let's give it a few years to see if it takes on.
It was what Szilard, von Neumann, Feynman, and others were doing.
Seems like I'm late to the party, but I feel the idea of willpower is really underrated and misunderstood and I see it all over this thread.

First, willpower is absolutely a trainable skill. In the late 90s there was scientific support for the idea that willpower was a limited resource. The let people choose weather they wanted to eat a healthy snack (radish or cucumber, I think) or a cookie, then after that had them solve an impossible puzzle. People who ate the cookie kept trying almost twice as long as the healthy-snack group. They took it to mean that willpower was limited and the healthy-snack group had used it up in resisting the cookie. More recently this was disproved and an even stronger conclusion was reached - The reason why the stop exerting willpower is that they _believe_ it is a limited resource. People who don't have that idea, tend to stay in it longe.

Second, it's not exclusively willpower that keeps people healthy - things CAN get easier or harder. People who are already obese, for instance, will have a hard time loosing weight and an even harder time staying lean - because the body is indeed pushing towards that same body-fat content.

It gets easier when you avoid a situation where you need to exert the willpower in the first place. I recall a study where they seated kids in a room with a marshmallow and if they didn't eat it for X minutes, they'd get another one and then they could eat two - The kids who were allowed to leave the room for the X minutes (and did leave) had much higher success rates than the ones who chose (or were forced) to stay in the room.

I also recall some neurochemistry that makes it easier to do hard things (like working out) in the morning that later in the day.

People also tend to operate in absolutes - stay on a strict regiment of calorie counting until that one weak moment when they have a cookie. And now they're completely off because, well, they're streak was broken or because they tell themselves "I failed so I can't do it."

None of that should discount the effects of willpower. But the degree to which people need to apply it varies a lot. Just like it's easier for a non-smoker to not pick a cigarette than it is for a chain-smoker going a-pack-a-day. If someone is in the hard-to-lose weight category, I empathise - you have your work cutout for you. But training your willpower is the only long-term sustainable way to do it.
Sounds a lot like the effect of venture capital in the present day.

> First of all, the best scientists would be removed from their laboratories and kept busy on committees passing on applications for funds

Convince talented technical innovators that the best way they can apply themselves is to become a 'business person'"; then, talk to VCs and feel important by spending a lot of money instead of building something

> Secondly, the scientific workers in need of funds would concentrate on problems which were considered promising and were pretty certain to lead to publishable results

Do whatever VCs think is hot

> For a few years there might be a great increase in scientific output

The last 15 years?

> There would be fashions. Those who followed the fashion would get grants. Those who wouldn’t would not, and pretty soon they would learn to follow the fashion, too.

Yep.
It matters more where your old company is than your new one. If you work in a state that does allow non-competes and move to a new job in CA which does not, your old employer can come after you in their/your old home state courts where CA law does not matter one bit.
> Congress could reset the term of patents and copyrights at any moment, on any terms. That's a much weaker thing than actual property rights.

Property comes in many forms. There's real estate, and movable property, in the most basic sense of property. But there is also intangible property. You can own a licence for use of part of the radio spectrum in a region. This is a valuable thing and you can sell it or buy it from another licensee. Radio regulation is basically all created by government legislation, and it could probably be changed at any moment, too. There are also financial assets, such as shares or bonds. Corporations themselves are legal fictions, and might be modified by legislation, with associated impacts on the property.

I strictly avoid the term "intellectual property" myself. Because conflating all these senses of property is highly confusing. A car is not a steel mill, which is not a patent, which is not a taxi licence, which is not a share in a corporation, which is not land. We need to carefully distinguish these, in most cases. But in a political science sense, they are property: legally recognized rights, usually transferrable, that claim exclusivity to something, tangible or intangible.
This might be further down the rabbit hole than you want to go, but I enjoyed the incredibly detailed blog post here with Babashka and deploying a AWS Lambda: https://jmglov.net/blog/2023-01-04-blambda-analyses-sites.ht...
"Threat Actors" - beware the vernacular of the self promoting.
Untangle: Solving Problems with Fuzzy Constraints
Thanks for your feedback.

Feel free to apply if you are interested. We can of course negotiate if local average + 20% is not an acceptable baseline. It's hard to come up with a transparent rule that works for every situations.
99% in a lab, if you are very good. 90% IRL (on industrial scale) is my educated guess given that you have losses in the whole reduction network and diminishing returns in the extraction process.
It’s anyway just making it more difficult right, as ebooks can be converted anyway using an external program, many which have way to use gui’s. But i guess it’sas far as they can make use of liability laws
As a passionate rollerblader who's been practising for over 10 years, I've lost count of the multiple attempts at reinventing shoes with wheels, maybe people should just learn how to skate? :)
That's a somewhat reasonable concern. But if it really matters to an employer...pay for it. For example, offer a security that vests after 5 years or whatever. Saying 'it's already built into the compensation' doesn't cut it, because then it starts becoming the norm for everyone.
Yes I agree. Except I think real time ray tracing really is that much better and shifts the goal posts again.
When I was interviewing last year, I cut off an interview loop with a company primarily because I don't reside in California and their NDA was, "Anything you say, anything we say, forever." Since I was also interviewing with one of their direct competitors that I really preferred, I didn't want to put myself anywhere near a legal situation where they might try to mess things up for my career.

They freaked out when I told them I didn't want to complete the interview loop because apparently I had passed their initial "weeder" interview and they were getting really excited about the possibility of me joining. But I would have had to sign that "everything, forever" NDA to keep going, and they weren't willing to go back to legal or do anything to change it, so that was that.

I personally know several people in my state who had their careers impacted due to threats from former employers over an NDA, so I really don't feel like that was an overreaction on my end. And I'm super-happy where I ended up.

I just wanted to provide a data point on how NDAs that go overboard ("everything, forever") can cut both ways.
that's a cherry on top. 99% of people come to unfortunate realization that in this country they need to buy some car to get their ass to work or daycare on time. That's what drives the big number. Everything else is just "now that you're here, let us show you how much more fun than the other brands we are"
They were already the market leader in computers and portable devices (iPod), plus "smartphone" was a very recent and underdeveloped sector to begin with (existing products were all focused on business use cases and no end consumer had one). Very different from cars.

Look at all their other efforts to enter areas with a dominant player. People were saying Spotify was doomed when Apple Music launched, yet it has barely has an impact (even though Apple had a massive amount of expertise and industry connections in music). Their social network (Ping) was an instant failure. Hopepod couldn't compete with Echo and Sonos. They tried multiple times to get into video gaming and went nowhere (Pippin, Arcade). iAd was dead in the water when it tried to compete with Google and Facebook. Same with Maps, MobileMe. Heck they are even having trouble with a wireless charging pad, and have basically conceded the market to Qi.

Dominance in one sector rarely extends to an unrelated one regardless of how many billions you throw at the problem.
Australia doing the same.

https://www.treasury.sa.gov.au/Growing-South-Australia/incen...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-28/sa-adopts-electric-ve...
I watched a review from a shoe guy about these. He was very impressed with the wheel design - basically the inset raised wheels allow them to mimic a larger radius wheel and handle potholes and such smoothly.

The designer did talk about how failures would be very bad (and it sounded like he had experienced plenty of fails with the earlier designs to be speaking from experience) which might be why they are pushing the terminology there.
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Solar on earth makes sense in some contexts, but there's questions of how it's not scalable, clean up methods, local climate effects, is intermittent and causes the power grid instability. These are fair questions that should be looked at and solar on earth is not some solution to the problem of gas without tradeoffs, but these questions and concerns are usually ignored.

https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2020/renewables-rescue-st...

These concerns are not really brought up by the media.
I have a capital one credit card that allows unlimited virt cards that basically can only be used at one online merchant. I use this card exclusively for subscriptions, then pay it off every month.
> banning .ru is just dumb.

Why? Is it perfect, no. But perfect is the enemy of good. If it noticeably reduces posts and votes which Reddit's teams have to deal with, while also no having a material effect on the general user experience, then why not use geo-blocking?
Word is, the current top of the line chips can already compile it in 1 minute (!)
Are there really any upsides to NTFS other than it being native to Windows?

I often forget how nice APFS is until I have to use NTFS.
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Why would you want to do that? To vent? Everyone self-censors nowadays you're not alone.

I guess you want to test your opinions against the groupthink and get some feedback, improve or reject them. Well the mainstream internet is not good for that anymore, sorry. Try anonymous chats or even 1-1 chat. It doesnt matter that it is a small group - people are more similar than we think.

Especially on reddit where the remaining small group of unpaid workers who do the moderation have become pretty vicious and use the ban hammer as a de-stress toy.
there are many researches on going, so all of these opinions can be valid at the same time
EVs might be less efficient, but not by multiple orders of magnitude. A google search indicates about 5.8 to 125 Wh/km per person. I don't think traveling with trains changes the overall travel time by much, even though they do go faster, and a Tesla with 2 people will probably use about 100Wh/km per person.

I think bicycles certainly have a place in the Netherlands, with actively car-hostile policy, a very high population density and hardly any distance longer than 300km; but any nationality that enjoys their personal space will probably be better of with something else.

I do wonder if rails or road are more efficient ecologically and economically. I've been wondering about smaller-and-slower-than-airliner planes or even eVTOLs, since they don't need a lot of infrastructure and the physics are surprisingly efficient. The technology isn't there yet but sooner or later I don't think flying is a bad idea. A small 4-seater airplane uses about 10-20 liters of fuel per 100km at faster speeds and more direct travel than a car, and if legislation allowed barrier-less mass-use and thus mass-production, planes wouldn't cost much more to the end user.
You say that like Musk didn't say a whole litany of things, including "By 2019, it will be financially irresponsible NOT to own a Tesla, because it will be paying for itself and making you money in your sleep as a Robotaxi."