skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then you make a change, that change impacts 10 of those. You now need to go back and re-test, manually, those 10 thing and check they haven't broke.

Unit tests provide no guarantee that those 10 things haven't broke. They can break in a way that's not under test. Or they can be working individually, but breaking as a whole.

You still have to test those 10 things manually before merging.

Sure, sometimes unit tests will show you regression early on. Early feedback can be useful. But it will never give you confidence, it doesn't eliminate manual testing.

The important part is that you're making a change and you don't have confidence that it is safe. This is a signal of bad design. In most cases the right solution is to fix the design, not throw tests at the problem. There are exceptions of course, but even in those cases tests are not something to celebrate or be proud of.

It's like getting obese and then celebrating statin therapy. I mean it's great, but not as great as not being obese in the first place.
There aren’t just rogue waves, there are rogue holes too. Imagine being in a boat and it just drops a 50ft.
Image Alchemy [1]
Unfortunately not longer available. But one of the greatest image conversion software I know (including most of the here described algorithm for dithering and some more). And this feature set is from at least 25-30 years ago.

I'm always getting a bit nostalgia when I see these dithered images and remember the time then with the fascination for the opposite direction: 'true color... wow that would be great' ;)

[1] https://www.handmadesw.com/products/image_alchemy.htm
Cruise ship a month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Kuq9lgSyk
> So here he's claiming that he wanted the Robinhood shares to be available to FTX creditors, even as he's previously made a motion to claim them as his own.

And his claim to the bankruptcy court was that he needed them to pay for his criminal defense, not to have them available to voluntarily backstop FTX US liabilities. (Also, the idea that the proceeds of the property acquired through the dubious backdoor self-dealing FTX international -> Alameda -> SBF loan should go to backstop FTX US customers is... interesting.)
> The human genome comprises only billions of bits, much of which is low-information repetition.

We constantly find out that certain things are actually really important even though we thought it was junk. Recall that our best ability to test Genes is by knocking them out one by one and trying to observe the effect

The brain is comprised of many extremely specialized sub systems and formulas for generating knowledge. We don’t know English at birth, sure, but we do have a language processing capability. The training baked into the brain is a level of abstraction higher, establishing frameworks to learn other things. It may not be as storage data heavy, but it’s much harder to arrive at and is the bulk of the learning process (learning to learn)
The only kind of climate action possible in those days was nuclear power.

If you go check who actually delayed nuclear deployment you will discover it was environmentalists.
Plus the iron powder which I am pretty sure would start burning too...
I've chatted with a few folks who have spent their entire lives working in climate science while being employed by the oil industry. They're some of the most moderate, intelligent, considered people I've ever talked to. And most people hear "a climate scientist who works for an oil company" and assumes they're the worst sort - a profiteer or a liar or a complicit drone. They're not leadership - they don't get to decide what is to be done with their conclusions - but they're not all evil.

Now... the leadership folks who commissioned these predictions and then ignored them... That's another matter!
What do you think of the Chrome origin trial process?
You may never see this, but I want to clarify. I have no qualms about jumping ship; I have and will again. I was referring to the morality of doing bad work and propelling oneself upward on the good work of teammates. Writing code that works but is impossible to maintain and selling oneself as a hero is, in my opinion, a Shitty Thing To Do.
I run 4 different screens with different resolutions in X with no problem, no setup. Is there a specific error you run into?
This article does a great job of bringing ancient history to life. Thanks for sharing.
That and historical lobbies, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
Theoretical question: if spectrography advanced to the point that we could see individual organisms and their behavior from lightyears away, and then we placed a very large mirror very far away from our planet, could we aim a telescope at that mirror and watch ourselves going about our lives in the past? Could we use this technology to solve crimes, answer historical questions, see dinosaurs, etc?
It's probably a little easier to fool people with AI generated scientific literature than a regular piece of literature. Most scientists are not good writers to begin with. English might not even be their first, or even second or third language. Even then, there are a lot of crutch words and phrases that scientists rely upon. "Novel finding" "elucidate" "putative" "could one day pave way for" "laying important groundwork" and all sorts of similar words and phrases are highly overused, especially in the abstract, intro, and discussion sections where you wax lyrical about hypothetical translational utility from your basic research finding. A lot of scientific writers could really use a thesaurus, and learn more ways to structure a sentence.
Except that the author of ruamel.yaml:

refuses to use git [0]

refuses to take community submissions (except through Stack Overflow? Seems like a misuse of SO) [1]

and refuses to implement .dumps() [2].

He is difficult to work with, and any time I need to debug code that intimately deals with ruamel.yaml types, I wince.

[0] https://github.com/pycontribs/ruyaml/issues/1

[1] https://yaml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/63179923/15170511
1992 was 30 years ago. You should probably add for a project with limited military potential. The time between Sputnik's launch and the first manned Moon landings was only 12 years, but there you had the military component. Of course it's still amazing progress and there is a lot of engineering involved in it. I'm definitely a fan.
Cancer death rates decline because people find that dying of cancer is too damn expensive?
Prostate cancer is one that men should be especially familiar with. My dad was diagnosed years ago after his PCP ignored escalating PSA levels. Although he's a "survivor" of Stage 4 his life is a shell of what it was, and has expressed a number of times he wishes he was dead. When I spoke to the oncologist after his diagnosis I remember this adage specifically: "If you did an autopsy on every man that dies over 40, you'd find the beginnings of prostate cancer in all of them. It's a question of when, not if."

I say this to highlight three things:

- Physicians routinely ignore things they shouldn't. Be your own advocate and research the things your doctor tells you, especially the things they believe are just worth watching.

- There is little to no awareness in the public over prostate cancer.

- Surviving isn't always a good metric. In my dad's case, surviving was a promise for a slow and miserable death.
I’d have to pay thousands of dollars for an induction range, then buy a whole set of expensive new cookware

So much drama.

We recently switched to an induction cooktop (AEG) because we moved from gas heating to a heat pump. It cost maybe 500 Euro (500 dollar). Some older pots didn’t work well, 10 Euro IKEA replacements do the job. It took a few days to get used to, but it’s not that big a transition coming from gas.

And it is so much easier to clean.

(We have 100% wind/solar energy, so it’s definitely an improvement over gas.)
National Grid ESO are the system operator for the GB grid.

National Grid Electricity Transmission operate the transmission network in England and Wales. The transmission network in the south of Scotland is operated by SP Transmission; in the north of Scotland, it's SSEN Transmission.
Welcome to dynamic typing hell.

As long as you ask your configuration language to infer the data type from a piece of text, these are the kinds of edge cases you get to experience. (They vary by language. Less types means less mistakes, and so does less expressive power - but without some form of type hinting, that's where you are)

Personally, I like YAML for expressive simplicity at the start of a project, and then if it becomes an actual load bearing piece of software (vs a haphazard one off, or an experiment), let's add some schema validation & typing.
Why do we get our best ideas in the shower?
You are missing a few things about the Ruby based CLI:

1. dependencies for Gems are specified in the gemspec file and not the Gemfile. See https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/blob/main/shopify-cli... for example. There's a few non-development dependencies.

2. since it's difficult to package up a Ruby gem for distribution, maybe dependencies were vendored directly in the codebase: https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/tree/main/vendor

This isn't meant to be a comparison of the number of dependencies or anything. Just pointing out a few nuances to how the Ruby dependencies were handled.
I think it’s trusting your gut when it says „no”, not that you can trust only your gut when it comes to hiring. Wasn’t clear but that’s how I understand it and agree.
XQuery gives you 90% of XSLT with a syntax that is a superset of XPath. Verbose queries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLWOR) are especially nice and readable.
His first set of lawyers apparently told him that, and they were fired (with a public “F-ck you” tweet) an d he kept Tweeting through it.
It sucks that when you buy fun games with cute characters you're helping a regressive corrupt monarchy maintain power.

I don't like that about capitalism.
Very good points, thanks for sharing
Introducing buf curl – Call your gRPC endpoints with the simplicity of buf
For the brave!

But seriously (author of article here) I think that agile tariffs and more demand flexibility are probably a big part of the solution
Loss of smell (not the stuffy nose kind) is a good indicator that you have covid.

Not losing smell tells you almost nothing, especially since Omicron. Before that, even if it was frequent, most of the people with covid didn't have this symptom so it was only a weak indicator.

But speaking of reassurance, not losing taste and smell is great simply because you don't lose taste and smell. It is one of the most annoying "mild" covid symptoms. And severe cases are becoming less and less common.
Isn't pancreatic cancer in particular usually very far advanced before it's detected?
> And if I can use ChatGPT to write an abstract for me from my paper, let's go!

Is ChatGPT located in a central repository or cloud? Is centralized? If that, probably a bad idea.

A private company having access to your abstract before you publish it could easily lead to problems like plagiarism (even worse, automatized plagiarism) or give an unfair advantage to one in two teams running to publish the same result. Science has a lot of this cases.
I would recommend listening to this song. It is a ballad-ization? of a science fiction short story built around the rogue wave concept.

Take it however you want, but the stated goal is still valid and we have the technology.

https://archive.org/details/filk_fire_in_the_sky/14+Waveride...
Birds aren’t real!
Meet your neighbors before signing a lease.
Please, chuck-e-cheese has been around since I was a kid
Very significantly worse.
ChatGPT right now also likes to make up fake citations when you ask it how it knows something, which could be checked quickly.
I think part of the problem is that the "small internet" isn't a concretely definable thing in the same way that "Gemini space" is. Gemini browsers are meant to browse Gemini space and the expectations and limitations of that are known ahead of time.

Meanwhile, this app is meant for browsing an unknown, undefined limited subset of the plain old HTTP web; and when you step out of that sandbox (and you most definitely will inadvertently do so) what you are left with is a broken experience. A web browser that goes out of its way to not support foundational basics is just a shitty web browser given that my normal web browser can hit the same sites.
Quite frankly, all YAML DSLs in the wild are terrible, so if that's a major use-case, I'd say it was a failure.
You not only need a system that has exoplanet transiting its star, you also need to have it happen at right time (it happens at most once per exopelanet's orbit) and also at right time for Webb to look at (remember, it is severely restricted in where it can point).
Neodymium magnets can get to around 13,000 gauss. Digging about, Niron Magnetics is aiming for 9,000 gauss for the first generation at 15,000 gauss for the second generation, so these should be comparable.

Expanded temperature range. If they're even slightly less brittle than the notoriously frangible neodymium magnets, the second generation ought to clobber them.

Curious to know what, if any, drawbacks would exist.
Interesting, but seems that this still has a long way to go. The highest maximum energy product they've been able to achieve is 20 MGOe in thin foils, compared to approx 40 for NdFeB. But, at least might work out being a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to SmCo.

https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/219403
I was thinking about something weird right now.

We don't (can't?) even know if there weren't multiple Big Bangs, right?

I.e we're just in a specific "universe" we can observe, but maybe several of these are just side by side, not necessarily parallel as in parallel realities.
React sucks and is not equivalent to "web development."

Build something, serve HTML and CSS. That's web development too, it turns out. Build an app that is suited to the format.
But oddly the most recent one as well
https://xkcd.com/2723
> That maybe something has changed since you took advantage of them?

Some things have indeed changed:

1. it's easy to get a loan for the full cost of college

2. pay for STEM engineers is a lot higher

3. you can start a business and reach a worldwide audience for free

4. you can start a business and hand over the logistics of shipping world wide for free (i.e. pay as you go, no upfront costs)

5. you can learn anything you want, via the internet, instantly for free

6. you can start investing in stocks for only a few bucks, with ZERO commission fees

7. you can reach collaborators for your business all over the world, for nothing

8. you can get funding via gofundme.com or kickstarter.com. Wow!

9. if you run an online business, nobody needs to know your name, background, race, religion, age, gender, whatever, unless you choose to tell them. Even then, you can just make it up, because nobody checks or cares

None of this was available in my youth.

Want a ticket from poverty to the middle class? This works:

a. stay in school

b. pay attention in school and learn the stuff

c. get a loan and go to college, selecting a lucrative major

d. don't do drugs

e. don't do crimes.
You well eat ze bugs and be happy.
After looking at git commit trees for a while It seems clear to me that there is a glaring deficiency with this linux distros. No Merges!
Data engineering, a good career choice?
White, redshifted so hard it's the blackest black we ever experience.

(I want to add a H2G2 joke here, but I can't figure the right way to reference making God disappear in a puff of logic related to the Babelfish…)
Theseus’ submarine.
So if we can see CMB in all directions, why do we really even say "the observable universe" as though there could be more matter and more galaxies beyond what we can see? If the maximum of what we can see is implied to be before all galaxies, then shouldn't it be implied that all galaxies that exist can be seen?
> because the light from it won't reach us.

This is one of the most interesting aspects to the universe. It's not, "because the light from it hasn't reached us yet but is on the way and will get here eventually."

Rather it's that the rate of expansion of the universe is accelerating, so that we're moving away from parts of it faster than its light can cover the distance to us. It will never reach us.

That's mindboggling.
This is an interesting study in that topic, I would have thought the answer is no to your question, but possibly a very large wind farm could change wind velocity/temp and thus have a knock on effect.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0406930101
If a developer codes up an AI to scour the web, write an article, and submit it to a scientific journal without letting the developer see the article, is the developer doing science?

If someone trains a translation model between languages they don't know, is that someone a translator?

I guess the users of said model would be "translators" as they would be doing the translation (without necessarily knowing the languages either).
But MOND itself is a "retrofit" to make it agree with the data, isn't it? It's in the name.
I have the luxury of a 13khw battery, so it might make sense. But I suspect that when I need to use the grid will be uber peak £1.04 per kwhr.

Edit: for those who are curious, here is some data on prices over the last month: https://agileprices.co.uk/
Wow, airplanes are writing FAA regs now? I hope the 737 Max opts out of those duties.
Quick question to TA/HR folks[0]: did all companies doing layoffs over-hire by exactly 15% by some magical convergence? Is this copycat behavior, cargo culting or something else?

0. Numerologist may also chime in
Researchers Could Track GPS Location All California New Digital License Plates
We do, but corporations which are rich enough just bribe the government and gets bailouts or special treatments.

If it was the people vs Exxon with private judges in private courts (judges which compete with one another on who's the best, not government officials with a comfy chair and a guaranteed lifetime of administering "justice"), it would be way harder to corrupt.

That's why we need to decentralise our government power.
Why is this not the default behaviour!?
My mind accidentally translated that wrong. Thanks!
People you don’t like, some of whom do terrible things and hold horrendous ideologies, will participate in the same economies as you do.

The notion that people on separate planes of morality will occupy completely separate economic systems is … not realistic.
I think what that is, is the probability prediction you get from the naive model, known to underestimate the probability of very large waves.
Thank goodness the author's "Great Barrington Declaration" was not implemented. Enough people died even without letting COVID-19 spread rampantly with no interventions, and we now know that getting infected doesn't do much to prevent multiple infections, so the idea that we would reach herd immunity quickly seems problematic in retrospect (and, seemed problematic to a significant number of epidemiologists at the time).

I'll point out two things, the author claims that tens of thousands of people signed the GBD. From Wikipedia:

> While the authors' website claims that over 14,000 scientists, 40,000 medical practitioners, and more than 800,000 members of the public signed the declaration,[44][45] this list—which anyone could sign online and which required merely clicking a checkbox to claim the status of "scientist"—contains some evidently-fake names, including: "Mr Banana Rama", "Harold Shipman", and "Prof Cominic Dummings".[46][47][48] More than 100 psychotherapists, numerous homeopaths, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and other non-relevant people were found to be signatories, including a performer of Khoomei—a Mongolian style of overtone singing—described as a "therapeutic sound practitioner".[47] An article in The Independent reported that the false signatures put claims about the breadth of support in doubt.[48] Bhattacharya responded by saying that the authors "did not have the resources to audit each signature," and that people had "abused our trust" by adding fake names.

Second, the author admits that he was not negatively punished by Stanford. Instead he felt "deplatformed". But no one is entitled to the right to speak, publicize, or foment on the behalf of their employer, or by using the resources of their employer. No one was stopping the author from publicizing his philosophy freely on his own and he is still gainfully employed to this day. His version of "academic freedom" means the university must support research and proselytizing that it founds noxious.

I'm sure he's free to be a professor somewhere else more suited to his pursuits.
They appear to be combat headsets with unique functions like night vision - not the ones you'd buy for gaming.
I'm seeing this right now in retail, actually. Particularly retail that got snapped up during the pandemic by private equity which already had high levels of debt. They are opening new stores left and right… and their expansion seems unabated by recent rate hikes. I have to imagine that can not last forever.
Let's go with your assumption. What you are saying is purely due to political leaning, one is more likely to grift than another?
There was plenty of action possible; building more railways, different city design less dependent on car travel and maybe publishing their own research instead of burying it for 40 years...
Every theory is a retrofit. A useful theory is also predictive.
> there are more js devs than ruby devs.

Not at Shopify there ain't.
I think that for most businesses, their sites could be statically generated, with iframes and embed tags for interactive parts like forms, and the web would become much faster, more pleasant to use, and have a notably lower carbon footprint. Making images smaller by default would help too.

For interactive sites, if videos were limited to 480p on mobile and 720p on desktop unless manually changed, I imagine the carbon impact of data centers would drop considerably. For content viewed on TVs (where you usually sit quite a bit farther back than a monitor), such as Netflix or Hulu, I think they could set it to 480p by default and a lot of people would never bother to change it.

Unfortunately actually calculating the carbon footprint of a bloated web (compared to a lite version) would be very difficult. As you mention, a lot of that bloat is on the backend. New Reddit may transfer 6x more resources over the network than Old Reddit, but both of them have to process on the back-end what links should even be shown for a given user, so I doubt switching to Old Reddit would result in 6x fewer emissions. But even if it only resulted in 2x fewer emissions, that'd still be a considerable improvement. Part of the investigation would require seeing how much energy is used by the data centers processing what to send, versus how much energy is used by ISPs transferring that data across networks to the end-users.

In any case, if sites were more like Hacker News, Craigslist, and Wikipedia, versus New Reddit, Amazon, and most news sites, I feel confident that the carbon footprint of the Internet would go down notably. HN and Craigslist's designs are going to be hard sell for most businesses, but something like Wikipedia proves you can have an attractive design with low page sizes. And in the case for newspapers, it'd be nice if their web versions were more similar to their paper versions. That is tough with a free + ads model, but honestly I'm more likely to see an ad if the whole site is just text and there's a text ad in the middle of it (hopefully properly identified as such, though.)
I just rewatched that clip, did the writer transition from technobable to relationship dialogue? Because the scene has this tension and saying "RISC is good" can also be heard as "risk is good".