skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like the engineers and scientists built it, but legal and PR think it's a bad idea to release. Which they're probably right about considering the reception Galactica got.
I've been job searching for the past few months. Advertised salary ranges seem to skew lower than 6 months ago.
Neuro research is diverse, just like any field.

In my neck of the woods, intracellular stuff, some of the large findings are (in no particular order):

-Cilia regulate hormonal changes (thing we thought did nothing, does a lot)

-Astrocytes participate in non-electrical modulation of the synapse (it's not just electricity you have to worry about now)

-CLARITY, just in general

-Opsins and light based stimulation of the neuron (use light to make them fire)

-Just all the crazy shit from CRISPR-CAS9

Anyone in other fields of neuro, please chime in.
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
At what point trying to label something as racist ends up backfiring?

For people born toward the end of last century, the stereotypes you mention barely register at all. I only know them for having studied Weimar at undergrad level, but tbh the only stereotype of Jewishness, for me and my peers, is of well-dressed New Yorker professionals and LA executives using funny words.

Without comments as yours, I honestly would never have thought of late-1800s caricatures of Jews when looking at a Ferengi. You are effectively re-popularizing something that is utterly dead in the mainstream.
I can't fanthom how a "no vehicles" sign would NOT apply to bicycles. What else would you call a bicycle if not a vehicle? It would be clear to me that park is catering to pedestrians and not cyclists (or car drivers).
The extra typing is all worth it when I can fearlessly refactor a function or component. I've seen fear of breakage paralyze larger vanilla JS codebases.
> I was actually in the school of thought that this article describes until I read and worked through the book How to Design Programs

What distinguishes the approach from what is presented in this blog post, can you provide a summary for those of us who haven't read the book? I am sincerely interested.
A counterpoint that makes this argument a bit weaker: Rust’s “unsafe” marker doesn’t pollute only its scope and actually pollutes the whole module; You need to make sure that the invariants in unsafe code are met even in safe code. (An explanation of this in the Rustonomicon: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/working-with-unsafe.html)

So there’s quite a lot more code to actually check then what some of the Rust proponents are saying. One can say that C++ is still worse in this regard (theoretically you need to check 100% of your code to be safe in C++). But for some minority of developers who frequently needs to delve into unsafe code, the advantages of Rust might seem a bit more disappointing (“the compiler doesn’t really do that much for the more important stuff…”)
Very apt quote, sadly.

Offtopic:

Regarding your Ask HN thread - some years ago I used (well, tried to) a small smartphone stylus which 'docked' in the headphone socket so it would be always with the phone. It wasn't good for me, because it wasn't sensitive enough for sketching, but overall it was fine for navigating the UI.

If your phone has no 3.5 jack but you use a case it can be attached to the case.

Maybe you can try to use a notebook style case, so your palms would sweat the case, not the phone and therefore you would have a bit less trouble with false touches.

Eg: https://www.amazon.com/x-girl-P-TPS-XG1-Collaboration-Stylus...
> Gangsterism is not individualism.

Thats exactly how I would expect individualism to manifest itself in a lawless society.

How would you expect to see individualism manifest itaelf in a lawless area?
How many rockets do you think NASA themselves have R&D'd?
Enterprise pushed first contact back a bit when they disabled and robbed the ship. The contact in the 1950s never happened.
Except those rules weren't applied to the titan sub.
Haha that's true. Like you said in another post, there are benefits and drawbacks to everything. I'd personally rather have corruption and chaos than "too much order."

But, different strokes for different folks.
I really disliked WFH from the start. It just exaggerates my worst tendencies, and I also struggle to empathize with team members if I don't see them on the regular
The chance that any of those samples contains evidence of extraterrestrial life is quite low. No one is betting this much money on those kind of odds. The samples are scientifically valuable even if they are “just dirt”.
Anki is really not that great. All the implementations I’ve tried are ugly as hell and have crappy UX.

It’s also over complicated for something as simple as flash cards.
Wow. Now I really don't understand the cult-like reverence for PG on here. That he begins his post about Livingstone by referring to her as the "mom" of YC corroborates the Gawker piece in my mind.
We did this at Allstate circa 2015 and it worked really well. I’m not sure how popular this idea was elsewhere in the company, but our team had all meetings on Wednesday (minus the daily scrum). We were remote Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Came in only on Wednesday for the meetings. Wednesday was the perfect day because it was hump day, and it went by quickly typically, because of all the meetings (and coworker conversation). As a software engineer, it was hard to get anything done on Wednesday because coworkers would ping me (in person of course) with questions about the software and so on. Like how can I test this feature, has this feature been pushed to the QA environment, etc. I won’t say that part was necessarily ideal, but being remote 4 days/week allowed me and the other devs to concentrate free of the “annoying” coworkers.

This was in 2015, and they’d been doing it for some time prior.
I am a bioinformatics scientist that works almost entirely remotely. I miss the impromptu discussions that happen around the lab, which can help solve a problem you or a co-worker is stuck on or they can lead to a new and interesting collaborations. I also miss most of the invited speaker series because they stopped providing a virtual option, which is very frustrating.

Edit: I don't miss the noise of young trainees treating the office space like a party room, the desks with poor ergonomics for programming work, or the annoying commute. So there are definitely advantages to counteract the loneliness.
>Just curious to know how many people are tired of being fully remote? ... I'm interested to hear from the people who are tired of being remote...

Out of interest, what are you hoping to learn? Your feelings about remote working are valid regardless of whether 10 people agree with you, or 10,000. You do you!
Headphones? Smart watches? MP3 players?

They didn’t invent any of those, and they didn’t invent the innovations that made their products successful. But the user experience of all of them was so much better than existing products that they went from nothing to dominating the category in just a few years.
Great game, cleverly demonstrates a fundamental problem with creating rules/laws. I've wondered if focusing on the goal/intent when creating rules would be more effective? For example, instead of just a rule that says "No vehicles in the park", you could say, the community wants the park:
- to be safe
- to be peaceful/relaxing
- to accommodate physical activities/games

For these reasons, we don't allow vehicles that will unnecessarily compromise safety and/or make a lot of noise.

Of course the goal/intent I've written suffers from the same problem as the rules did, the definitions are ambiguous, but I think there's a distinction between capturing the spirit vs the letter of the law. It's a guide for why the rules exist and when they should or shouldn't be applied. It's not perfect, but, I think it's an improvement of just listing rules. If capturing/publishing the reasons for rules alongside the rules was normalized I wonder how different things could be?
I've been remote for about 8 years now. I never thought I would get tired of it, but the last few years have been draining.

My previous job had some mandatory travel every few months which was great to get out and be around the team I worked with. My current job is happy to never get everyone together and I miss it.
I went fully remote last year and I miss the in person interaction and dynamics as well, so I believe I get how you feel. It definitely feels more lonely, and it's affected my choice of what projects to work on. I bias my work towards projects that don't require a lot of human interaction.

That said, its not worth trading even 1 hour of commute time per day. I can play with my kids the moment I close the door to the office. It's awesome.
Can you write a program though? Programs are generally “big”, we can safely assume one isn’t writing Hello World for their employer.
You bring up a good point. I think the type of work is important here. On my current team our work is pretty dynamic and changes a lot, so I think that is one reason I feel we'd be better in person (we are fully remote).
It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to register apis mellifora as anything other than APIs mellifora.
This is a very laconic scenario and it's packed with meaning, and I'm not quite grasping all of it. Primarily, it says he "wants to share... via sneakernet" and then the next sentence says he's using slow network links. Sneakernet, by definition, is not a network protocol, it's passing around physical media by hand. So how does this make sense? If he shares his patches with his friends via sneakernet, none of this cloak and dagger networking is a concern, just their physical movements.
Same here. Firefox has always been really stable for me but after moving to Linux I had some crashing which coincided with a new bios update. Turns out my memory timings were a bit too high, it couldn't handle the XMP profile with the new bios.
"cult-like reverence"? People love making fun of PG here
Yep, but with the added condition of “don’t DRY pre-maturely, that is, before you have duplicated code”.
Nope - 8 years and counting
In the US we're especially bad at building new long-distance transmission. Some projects have languished for decades.

There are probably other places where it's difficult to get that large-enough region, for geographic or geopolitical reasons.
I wonder how much this cost will be reduced if the project was managed by NASA but open source, with feedback from a tech, science community. As opposed with the current model that relies on deals with companies such as Lockheed Martin.
That's not such a big issue, if NASA pays them, they can have stipulations about ownership of the resulting data. If NASA doesn't pay them and they do it on their own dime, then they get to do whatever they want with the data.
I think we're probably operating on different definitions of individualism. It does not much matter.

FWIW I'm not American nor in this supposed American mindset prison.

But I think it should be pretty clear this point which ideological-imperial-economic sphere is the better place for the average person to live in, though personally I'm a fan of neither.

(What I do find fascinating is how easily certain sycophants in the western far right and useful idiots generally have fallen for an ideological line out of Russia, and how difficult it's turning out for them to see the evidence of Russia's failure...)
Yes, that's true, they could support emitting metadata with explicit keyword which would help and wouldn't bloat anything implicitly, they already do emit code for enums for example.

Personally I'm fan of not introducing new language that runs at comp time, just use the same language to have macros and operations on types for free - just like Zig does it.

Typescript type system is already turing complete so it's not like they'd be loosing anything there.
Everyone should watch season 1 at least once. Rewatches I usually skip it.
GitHub Copilot Makes Nice with Visual Studio IntelliSense
Show HN: Cwop.rest – An easy way to submit weather station reports to NOAA CWOP
This guy is just pushing his own militaristic agenda. Also, he's not a general. He's the head of a mercenary/human trafficking organization. The US equivalent would be Erik Prince who has definitely been working his own agenda also and it isn't more benevolent than the Pentagon.
We're now working 1 day a week in the office, which is fine for me. There's close to zero work benefit to those days in the office, but nice to see the guys in person and go out for lunch.
Loved it! I couldn't find any info on the case and keyboard though. Did he just reuse an old one? They did look to be in mint condition. No mention of those in the video either (or maybe I just missed it as I was skipping over some sections).
Giving free stuff to people will in many cases free up resources that are currently being wasted on solving the same problem. Then there actually would be more money available for science and technology.
I loved WFH... for, maybe, a month. I realized I need to separate work and home for maximum productivity and well-being.

Most people tend to disagree with me, though.
This kind of thinking is dangerous as it allows the management class to force all workers back into the office. Forcing workers into the office discriminates against employees with families, disabilities and non neurotypical folks who might be more effective WFH. Go to technical meetups, cultivate good conversations with your colleagues on Slack, generally make sure you have a life outside of work that give you meaningful social interactions (hobbies, sports, clubs, etc) but before you complain about remote work. Being forced to sit in a office with a bunch of people is very ineffective and prevents companies from hiring the best folks they can. Work is not meant to be a social venue, you can make friends with coworkers but you need to cultivate meaningful social relations beyond work. It is unhealthy and selfish to force other people back into the office just so you can have friends with you in the same location while you work. One thing to try if you really need social interactions while working might be to get together with other remote workers at the same coworking space once in a while. I would also suggest also looking into having random coffee syncups with your remote colleagues in order to build a meaningful rapport with them.
> I'm pretty surprised that you thought it was so black-and-white to allow things like emergency vehicles

I didn't think that. I thought that the emergency vehicle one was a good question in which the resulting disagreement supports the author's point. The point being that content moderation involves shades of gray that two content moderators might reasonably disagree on.

But other questions (the wheelchair, toy cars, the ISS) are bad examples in which any disagreement demonstrates an implausible level of communication breakdown. An analogous situation would be a content moderator who painstakingly considers the letter of the law to determine whether time dilation opens a loophole in the "no child porn" rule - if the employer and the content moderator are acting in good faith, I cannot imagine this happening.
Eh, I'd do like... 5% on site, "it's actually entirely up to me" hybrid, or if someone actually gave me a real-ass office of my own (room, window, door...). There are negatives to both remote and onsite and it's about picking your poison.

Long commutes to long days in a few square feet in a field of desks in a big room is quite unpleasant for me, but I still like being around my coworkers... getting lunch, speaking in person, etc.

Give me a 4 day work week and one week out of 4 in office, that'd be pretty ideal.
Two's complement is a special case of p-adic numbers. A recent introductory video comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaq4aYPzCc Veritasium - "A totally different way to do math" (33m05s, 2023-06-06)
There was also a Google employee who said the same about Bard
$10 billion is roughly $6 per homeless person per year in California. How much are you expecting this one free cup of coffee per quarter to accomplish?
> Would prefer not to hear the "I love being remote, it works with my lifestyle, etc" or "I hated the commute, I don't see why we were in the office five days, more productive at home" comments because mostly it's not the response I'm looking for.

Meta comment: Maybe it's not the best use of "Ask HN" if you only want to hear one answer. IMO this really isn't the place to go if you just want validation.

This Ask HN feels like "What's the best programming language? Please don't say anything except Rust."
And the Swiss have important differences. Compared to many countries, Switzerland is politcally weak at federal level with the power in regional areas.
Can’t wait till ITAR gets ruled unconstitutional
Two's complement was described carefully in Preliminary design of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument¹ §5.7 (Burks, Goldstine, von Neumann, 1946), but it's not an easy read. I suspect some early machines used signed-magnitude or one's complement simply because they didn't get it.

¹ https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall13/cos375/B...
This might be the most Hacker News comment I’ve ever seen

Love this site
That’s not a contradiction. However, they largely failed in that, and one might say that it was predictable.

Most Windows users don’t care about “new and bold”. They care about stuff working, having a consistent UI, stuff not changing each year, not having their preferences reset by updates, and not being subjected to ads and telemetry.
The (current) upper bound on the cost of building a high-speed rail line from SF to LA is nearly $100 billion.

https://hsr.ca.gov/about/capital-costs-funding/

A statewide light rail system would probably run closer to a trillion dollars.

They could probably do the statewide light rail for $100 billion if private property rights were ignored. But $10 billion doesn't sound plausible. Maybe just the single already planned line could be built for $10 billion, if private property were ignored and the state did good planning.
Wow. Neve heard of these features. Would love a link to a great write up.
Pre-COVID employees were treated like children who had to ask for permission to not be in the office. The freedom of WFH during COVID was intoxicating for a while, but I think both ends of the spectrum are unhealthy and hybrid is the only way forward. There is no doubt in my mind that WFH adds friction to varying degrees depending on the organization and role, but there is always friction. The degree of friction should dictate the level of hybrid.

I suspect the range will be 2 to 3 days a week in the office and very few will be more or less.

I am exhausted by the people on the outer edges of the range arguing that their preference is the one true path and that nothing else is acceptable. Just because it (WFH or WFO) works for you doesn’t mean it works for your team, your division, your company, your customers, etc. Stop being selfish and accept a compromise in the middle that strikes the right balance of freedom.
At that point it's giving you a foreign code base that's hard to reason about until you grok what it is it has done.

Prompting you to make the changes allows you to cognitively keep up in lockstep with the code changes. Further, it has no concept of your present/future intent, so perhaps not all of its suggestions apply.
Garry Kasparov -The Fall of Putin Is Inevitable
Inflation is as corrosive to investing as it is to the real economy
You can rebind caps to backspace in GNOME. I think you use GNOME tweaks. I've done it on all of my computers.
Wall Street Sours on America’s Downtowns
>We’re talking about California. Are you saying California is owned by the logging companies? That seems rather dubious.

Most of the forested land in California is owned by the federal government, who has historically managed the land based on the priorities of natural resource extractors like logging companies.

This article is about the PNW, but it functioned the same way in California

https://wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Ron-Vorderstrasse.pdf

>I won’t say you’re incredibly incorrect myself, but maybe just simply incorrect?

You're complete lack of knowledge on this subject doesn't make me incorrect. Please go do some reading and come back with an intelligent argument.
Can we "just" build a Mars space elevator? It should be free of a lot of the concerns an earth space elevator would have - no terrorists, no populated areas, rather less gravity.
"Too dangerous to release" just means "we don't think anyone else has something better."

Just wait, if their next version of LLaMA beats GPT4 it'll be "too dangerous" otherwise it'll be released as soon as they think it's peaked.
Vitrification enables long-term kidney cryopreservation transplantation in rats
Vova will have to purge whatever is left after this coup.

Doing so will make an already paper-tiger of an army/bureaucracy even worse off, as paranoia and shows of loyalty will be paramount, not effective fighting ability. Think North Korea, but even more so.

Whatever command structure of the army is left will have even worse of a time in Ukraine and, especially, in Crimea.

Vova is running out of cards to play, Wagner having now taken some double-digit percent of his remaining deck.

When Ukraine pushes into Crimea, the chances of nukes going off goes up a lot now.
Are you an extrovert or introvert? If the former, then yeah, being in a crowd is a win. If the latter, however, you have a commute and a crowd, both of which take time and effort away from work. Unless your commute is on foot and your office is old-school with those doors and walls thingies.

I assume you're in the first half of your career. In the second half, looking where you can settle, or settle kids (if you have them) becomes important. Can't kick back or enter retirement with a living-space debt. So unless you can safely move to a lower-cost area with a lot of equity, you have to factor in picking a place you can pay off.
Because people use flags as superdownvotes for posts which are inconvenient for their worldview (among other things). Some people just flag everything non-tech-related too.
It feels like playing a really weird video game all day. If it wasn’t paid I think it would be treated as some kind of strange addiction. I’ve never played e.g. World of Warcraft, but I’m not sure how remote work is different from being a really hardcore “gamer”. It doesn’t seem healthy for several reasons. I definitely move around less since I’m not forced to walk between meetings or between buildings for food or to meet up with coworkers on campus. Video calls do not currently trick my ape brain into thinking I’m actually socializing. Though I don’t miss writing code in an open office, that was always ridiculous.
The main difference is that SpaceX operates very efficiently, while most public institutions (like JPL, which currently develops the lander, apparently while being ill-prepared for the task) are highly inefficient.

A striking example is the large amounts of money NASA spends on SLS, which is in most places already an extremely conservative vehicle which reuses as much as possible and keeps any innovations at a minimum. With the JPL lander the situation could be even worse.
Is that a sustainable profit model? Lockheed Martin is barely staying alive making new engines for 5 year old jets. Two trillion dollars doesn't go as far as it used to you know.