skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the SETI Institute's site says we wouldn't be able to pick up signals from an earth like civilization in the system closest to us[1]:

> If an extraterrestrial civilization has a SETI project similar to our own, could they detect signals from Earth?

> In general, no. Most earthly transmissions are too weak to be found by equipment similar to ours at the distance of even the nearest star. But there are some important exceptions. High-powered radars and the Arecibo broadcast of 1974 (which lasted for only three minutes) could be detected at distances of tens to hundreds of light-years with a setup similar to our best SETI experiments.

It's not really a surprise why we aren't finding things. It's a surprise that we're still acting like this is a good way to look.

[1] https://www.seti.org/faq#obs12
Blue LEDs, like optical dental drills gouging their nasty hue onto retinas.
Will it really be a difference? Corporate speak is already a thing, people already feign emotions and sympathy. Sure, this is more, but it feels to me like more of the same; I don't think it even magnifies the problem that much.
i came here to say this (specifically saving cmd line equivalents)
> On the other hand: no, people are technically ignorant, xenophobic, and more willing to scapegoat and project anger than reflect on their own behavior.

Doesn't matter. Truth should be prioritized first. There are mechanisms to deal with Xenophobia and hate and those should be strengthened.
Thx still not understanding. Some Google Fu is telling me people aren't happy with Vanguard because they invest in fossil fuel industry and they don't vote enough for social based shareholder resolutions. Sorry but that is how passive investing works.
No you posting it as a source for your comment implies it makes a similar claim, but I do appreciate you for following up with more information
Students don't use ritalin to achieve high quality cognitive effort, they use it to achieve high quantity cognitive effort. To pass a university exam I don't need to be able to come up with some novel high quality reasoning about a topic, I need to regurgitate 12 weeks worth of lectures on demand. The only way I could do that is by sitting down for 10hrs a day and reading the shit out of those lecture notes, ritalin is quite useful for that.
Reminded me of this scene where Eric Dale was getting let go and HR was regurgitating canned script.

https://youtu.be/zn2Xf9hAFcE?t=151
Personal attacks like this will get you banned on HN. No more of this, please.

Also, please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
People did for decades and a lot of that "regular back-end stuff" is in C++ at the moment. If you wanted to move it to a different language, you might currently choose to move it bit-by-bit to Go. But you could also move it bit-by-bit to Zig, and it wouldn't be an unreasonable choice. Zig is in that sense an alternative to Go, IMO.
The article discusses this and says active charcoal air filtration is better than a hood. Which raises at least one eyebrow but maybe I shouldn’t be so skeptical.
Quantum entanglement communication is science fiction. There are strong theoretical reasons to think that it could never work.
I think the GP meant that their pizza job paid so poorly, if their wage had been increased enough for them to be able to buy a home, the cost of the pizza itself would have to be increased quite a bit in order for the pizza shop to stay afloat.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—regardless of how bad or provocative another commenter is, or you feel it is.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
What do you agree with on Vanguard, what are they doing?
Their take on remote working spaces is an interesting one for people who perhaps lack a good work space and I agree the idea is enticing.

I imagine working in a collaborative space with my colleagues but also other friends in other jobs in the same virtual space. On paper it sounds great.

But I worry that spending too much time in a virtual world, will rid the need for people to build and live in their spaces in the real world. I can tell that there will significant monetization of virtual furniture that will be up for sale in the digital world.

Not only will I buy furniture in the real world, but also in the virtual world, which will likely become just as important in some respects. You might not have a great office space at home, but you'll need to fork out plenty of money to access premium workspaces virtually.

If Apple (and companies) can't make money off of the chair you buy in your home study, they'll sure as hell make sure you buy one from them in the virtual world.
> Some experts think these QA/QC requirements and their downstream market effects are the prime reason for high nuclear construction costs

And one example of intrinsic issues:

> Meeting these requirements for a site-produced material is difficult. Nuclear concrete typically has multiple closely-spaced reinforcing bars that can be difficult to arrange properly (the Royal Academy of Engineer’s 30-page Guide to Nuclear Concrete mentions “congestion” 13 times). Concrete placement issues have plagued every recent nuclear project and are frequently the source of delays and cost overruns. Examples abound: a 6 month delay from incorrectly placed rebar on Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia, a 4 month delay on the VC Summer plants for similar reasons, and a 9-month delay from poor concrete composition at the Olkiluoto 3 in Finland.

> The difficulty of meeting requirements, combined with the lack of construction expertise due to long periods without constructing new plants, means that any new construction inevitably struggles as the builders learn how to meet the high level of stringency required. Delays at Vogtle Units 3 and 4 were partially due to a contractor unprepared for the difficulty of nuclear construction. Similar issues seem to be responsible for delays and cost overruns on Flamanville in France and Olkiluoto in Finland.

Some of the other QA/QC issues are likely due to over-regulation, but you're probably not going to find any person in a management position in overseeing these projects who would agree to reducing those regulations. Nobody wants to be the person making the call to "cut corners" which then creates an accident, and there's good money to be made in adhering to the regulations.
Gampangjp
It has always seemed to me far too coincidental that a lab studying coronaviruses was located at the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak. Sometimes there are coincidences, but if you are looking for the most obvious answer it has always been right there and I never understood why it was dismissed so easily.

With that being said, I don’t buy into any conspiracy theories about this being intentional or anything else. There were poor controls and a virus mutated.
That seems crazy. When a new spec comes out and a previously reserved bit starts meaning something, you really don’t want old software to just drop packets as malformed. Reserved means ignore, not an assertion that it must be zero.
That shouldn't reduce performance too much, right? Getting the current time is such a frequently-executed system call that, as far as I understand, its implementation is in a vDSO in Linux that is loaded into every process. This means you shouldn't need the full cost of a system call when you get the current time.
Eating out in the US is also much less affordable than it is in Asia, even countries like Japan.
Homeopathy may be no more effective than a placebo - but placebos can work pretty well! In this day and age, when patients often aren't satisfied until the doctor gives them a prescription, a "worthless" placebo may be superior to unneeded antibiotics, or other drug with bad side effects.
Whoa - you can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong some people are or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
You have it backwards. Labor is the single largest cost of running a restaurant, followed by lease. Cost of ingredients is usually the lowest cost of running a restaurant. I know you are trying to divide all those costs up by dish, but it doesn't work that way.

Source: me. I used to co-own a restaurant.
There are four of us! (bookofjoe is an anesthesiologist as well)

I've only seen one really bad reaction to ketamine, but it was rather haunting. Still, it's a magnificent drug.
Anybody can send corrupt messages that the device won't show; getting your phone to send its GPS coordinates is a part of the GSM standard, but only your operator can send that kind of request (or the cops if they stingray you).
The issue arises with certain managers and non-specialized workers who operate in brief, scattered bursts of time. Their work pattern consists of making calls, writing emails, or superficially scouring the internet. These individuals often view quiet, focused colleagues with suspicion, misinterpreting their intense concentration for idleness as they sit at their desks, lost in their computer screens. Under the mistaken belief that they need to "shake things up," these managers or workers disrupt the focused workers by inundating them with a barrage of messages that demand immediate responses.
Better link: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...
Also, ensure your suppliers have a helpdesk where you can place a ticket that a real person who is paid by them will have to look at.
Lesson learned on a bookkeeping service recently - I went for lowest price, and they had NO customer support, it was all crowd sourced :(
Yep. Incorrect trailing commas ad nauseum for me.
Uh, that's uncalled for. I think your hint is right there in the title: Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches. Was there an inaccuracy in the article with respect to CPU Caches?
Nobody owes you an apology because your argument is fundamentally flawed.

You say the 99% need the 1% to do reproduction, but do they really? The 99%, by opting out of having children, have clocked out on the very premise of the question of population stability. They either don't care insofar as procreation, or won't mind seeing humanity as a species go extinct.

The only ones who "want a stable population" (your words) are the 1% who do have children. The 1% who do have children will maintain humanity onwards while the 99% who didn't will eventually clock out of this plane of existence to no concern of the 1%. It's a self-solving problem, the world will always be inherited by those who outbreed the rest.

I'm going to include a response to your other post[1] since I can't be bothered to reply twice and it's related to this one:

What you're doing is implying people have arbitrary obligations and quotas to society and humanity, and guilt tripping the people who refuse to oblige those arbitrary obligations and quotas.

Nobody owes anyone anything coming into this world. Nobody is obliged to have children or otherwise continue humanity as a species. Nobody is obliged to marry someone.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36329392
Would it really though? I would still have to attend that early meeting tomorrow. Still have to go grocery shopping. Still have to pay my mortgage.

Finding signals from aliens on some distant planet would be interesting for one news cycle. Then everything would continue on as before.
I apologize. Thank you.

I’m ESL and sometimes I forget my tone comes off as crass. I will try better.
He must have edited the post you're responding too.

He no longer suggests homeopathy or ignoring reality.
It’s called a go dark clause. Fairly common in retail, not as common in office but it happens.
this was written by gpt, or if it wasn't then it should have been.
Apple’s game porting toolkit is already showing results
Twitter still seems to be used by entertainment stars, sports stars, politicians, and business leaders around the world.

Hating Musk doesn't change this.
I can see some argument for certain substances having, at the least, some adjacency to psychedelia, e.g. by way of some shared or similar mechanisms based around 5-HT receptor agonism and key involvement of the dopaminergic & serotonergic systems. But in the end we can't accurately split a hair whose bounds we can't define.
I have recently tried JavaFX again, and while it definitely involves some getting used to, it has SceneBuilder as a drag’n’drop GUI editor, and that is hard to beat. Plus it will run on every platform and you can choose from plenty languages.

It is a niche (let’s be honest, desktop development is also one), but it has a surprising amount of libraries available as well.
There might be some corporate actors in favor of this, but housing as an investment is wildly popular among most Americans. I wouldn't be surprised if most renters support it because they see it as a vehicle to wealth rather than what prices them out of the market.
And? What is wrong with being inundated with empathy?
> I think trying to reproduce some of the diagrams with physical blocks would be difficult unless multiple blocks are placed at the same time.

Might be easier to build the entire stack on its side and lift the entire stack using a large flat board. I'm too dumb to figure out if the weight loading from the top blocks during the rotation/lift would balance the forces pulling the ends out. At worse some pressure on the top would be needed.
Spanner offers both linearizability and serializability. They use the non-standard term "external consistency" to describe the union of those two properties.

>Doesn't spanner introduce new (very unlikely) failure modes that other databases are not impacted by?

Curious if you could go into that.
>A non-profit funding model simply solves the problem of venture capital undermining the core product in search of profits.

It also introduces a larger problem of shutting down entirely if they can't pay for server costs. That's always going to be a bigger problem than VC's.

Wikipedia only does so because it is bankrolled by universities and other institutions. And we should note that Wikipedia doesn't have to host videos, and has strict requirements on how to host images. I can't think of those places doing the same for Reddit.
Clearly, the goal here is not to solve homelessness but to reduce exposure to homelessness.

You don't have to hate homeless people to not want to be around them.
Almost every expert recommends better diet, exercise and sleep, so I’m not sure why you’re viewing the “go natural” statement as a necessarily anti-expert one.
If you really want to be pedantic, Zig could maybe be considered a GC’d lang, if you count selecting a GC for as it’s allocator (presumably with some ugly(?) comptime assurances) ;-)
Would love to know how you personally suffer from ADHD and aren't just projecting your neuro-typical experience onto those who experience reality differently than you.
Not deplatforming people for discussing it would be the most visible difference.
Uhh, what does a random Chinese citizen have to do with the lab leak? Bankrupting a country would mainly punish a bunch of innocent peasants.
They dropped high clinical doses of stimulants onto unacclimated subjects and had them do 8 knapsack problems, 4-minute limit each. There was an increase in number of moves, decrease in average score, chance of finding the optimal solution was the same.

In other words, if you get a random person high and hand them a puzzle, they do a little bit worse. I'm not surprised.

Anyone who is not neurotypical, plans to take more than one dose per lifetime, or is working longer than 32 minutes may want to question if this study applies to them.
Don't some of these benefit individuals more than companies? Loans aren't as subsidized as they are for individuals.
It never presents an incoherent view to software.

I'm using coherency as in the term of art, not a colloquial meaning. Every agent observes stores to a location in the same order[*]. Cache coherency says nothing about observed ordering of stores to different locations.

[*] Although store forwarding throws a bit of a spanner in that definition, there can still be reordering occurring absent that local reordering.
It's pretty bizarre how many people simply don't believe that supply and demand are relevant to housing

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4266459

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/us-housing...
Is that understanding based on any evidence or is it a personal theory?
Thanks... though the listing confirmed what I said. :-(

https://www.relatedrentals.com/search?city=46&field_line_spe...
Fake or not, people are incorporating ChatGPT into their work. We had a pipeline break today and when we looked at the PR that introduced the change it was in the PR notes that the tooling configuration was derived from a ChatGPT prompt. What do you even say or do about that?
This might sound rude but as a matter of fact, being FOSS developer I don't consider FOSS projects using Discord/Slack etc. to be worthy of my time.

I despise locking down knowledge to a walled garden.
We have really high quality studies pointing out that things like fixing your sleep and going to the gym outperform other interventions in, key word here, healthy individuals.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30627769/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896469/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26271496/
For some people better diet, exercise, and sleep require taking drugs to make it more likely they can even do those things. It's a dumb take.
It is easier to con someone who THINKS he is intelligent. A smart person does not think he is smart and knows he can be fooled.
Aside: I never could get into it. It feels too much like 'punching down' to me. Not in the real sense, but the hosts always come off as 'better' and so when they make fun, it's just not a good vibe. The recordings also come off to me as unprofessional. Things like googling during the taping, not being well briefed on the material, being salty that they have to cut to ads (and there seem to be a lot of ads!), and just bad audio quality. I've really tried, but the podcast somehow rubs me the wrong way. What am I missing?
It’s a shit take for edge cases, but actually on point for the vast, vast majority of us. We have an awful and absurd habit of denying simple truths in homage to very exceptional cases. It’s a convenient reason for most to do less.
Not really. A password is meant to be memorized and reproduced correctly regularlt, whereas a recovery key doesn't need that and can be very long and complicated since it is rarely used.
My current thinking is this:

* I work full time, not in AI, and don't have tonnes of free time. It is unlikely I will get to even Masters level, let alone PhD, unless something changes drastically. Therefore I don't need to go super deep into papers and suchlike.

* On the other hand I want some tactile understanding, so doing Andrej Kaparthy's course. Fiddling with some PyTorch, even if I know my model will be shittier than the cheapest of chips OpenAI models, just to get a feel.

^ From this I really got a sense of what an embedding is, and why we have those and not human picked features, for example. I feel this helps me understand stuff I read online a lot more easily. So speeds things up in general even if I am just hustling with various APIs from JS code or whatever.

* Once I understand how transformers work, roughly, I will move on to the FastAI course which I think will give me a broad but shallow view of lots of models, and sort of make the top part of the T shape.

* I really like microsoft's "guidance" api, so I will probably focus on building out quick apps using that to solve everyday problems. There is also YC company doing something similar called Glass.

* I will ignore the latest LLaMA or other fluffy animal derivatives. They come out at a crazy rate, all seem to run on different platforms, some Python, some C++, need a decent machine etc. I feel that is moving to fast to even keep up on the download it and try it cycle. Probably the most I will do is play with them in a HuggingFace interface.

* Generally will ignore all of that stuff you mention i.e.: press releases/research papers/news/blogs/library updates/videos and tweets. Too much of a barrage of information.

* Most important: find a problem to solve.

I see myself enjoying being an applier, a glue coder, rather than the person who keeps training model and writing math hoping that their idea will be the next breakthrough (sort of like an Edison I guess), but kudos to those who do it. At the same time I want to understand a little of what happens under the hood!
I wish they had some API to tell me my labels :D
Probably the biggest bureaucracy in the world. Wonder how it compares per capita with China
Another thing that helps is the accessibility feature known as "sticky keys". Specifically it helps prevent/reduce ulnar and other deviations. The paucity of modifier keys in vim also helps, as noted earlier.
From the link it looks like it had many changes implemented to improve safety:
The EPR is a so-called “evolutionary” reactor, that is to say that its design is based on that of existing reactors, the French N4 type nuclear reactors and the German Konvoi . It thus benefits from proven technologies and operating feedback from its predecessors.
It is a powerful reactor with a production capacity of 1,600 megawatts (MWe) compared to 1,450 MWe for the latest reactors built in France (type N4). It is designed for a service life of 60 years .
Significant changes have however been introduced compared to existing reactors
Exercising, eating right, and getting outside might or might not do for people what Ritalin does, but it’s not accurate to conflate Babelthuap’s prescription with homeopathy. It’s also not accurate to call homeopathy natural. I think it’s better classed as a folk belief not backed by science or any sort of evidence, like astrology.
Big investors are not helping the housing market. But after years of telling people that 'housing is a great investment' and enacting all kinds of policies to jack up prices... are we surprised they piled in?

They're kind of scapegoats though: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...

They even come right out and say this stuff in their SEC filings, that if markets stop being supply constrained it'll negatively impact their investments.
Whenever I need an opinion about a product or a service or comparing 2 similar things reddit is the only place I can consistently get real people with honest takes. Sometimes there are paid comments but it's usually pretty obvious and the experience is still miles better than a SEO fluff affiliate marketing blog that makes up 99% of Google searches.
TL;DR

ChatGPT: "using empathy, tell the family why an iv is bad for someone with fluids in their lungs, keep it short and concise"

"I understand your concerns. It's tough to see a loved one struggling. When there's fluid in the lungs, adding more fluid to the body via IV can make the problem worse. It's like adding more water to a cup that's already overflowing. The body needs to remove excess fluid, not add more. Your loved one's healthcare team is making decisions to help, not harm. Please keep asking questions – it's important to understand the process. We're all here with the same goal: to ensure the best possible care for your family member."
What an amazing resource. I look forward to reading it.