skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like imagine a few decades ago when it could have cost more than 1 billion dollars to sequence the dna of a cancer tumor. If science could show that it is effective in treating cancer to have the dna sequenced should the tax payers have paid 1 billion dollars to save one persons life? That would plainly be absurd.
IPFS or torrent are the best options for distributing data
According to their site you should consult an attorney.

This falls into the “neat, but what can I do” category and at $400, someone really needs to be into self data.
> Many of the indie darlings from that era would be lost in the noise now.

This isn't specific to games. I doubt many dot-com millionaires would have the same success with the web if they were born today.
"driving helps a ton of people get around, but sometimes people drive drunk and kill other people, so it's definitely unforgivingly bad"
I suppose you are being facetious because what you said sounds absurd.
I would also say this attitude was pervasive when we used leaded gasoline, which widely contaminated the biosphere, roads and people.

It's everywhere. We all have it. Why bother.

I think we now know there's no safe level of lead in the blood. If you have suspected exposure in 2023, doctors quantify your lead level through a blood test and if it's elevated, recommend a medical procedure called chelation to remove it.

With PFAS, the medicine is just starting to catch up to the horrors of the news cycle.

But I think in the future, PFAS contamination is going to be treated in a similar way to lead exposure. That is, medically.

But right now, it's easy to throw up ones hands and say, it's all fucked. Why bother doing anything.
Lawyers have the reputation for being tech-ignorant because for a long time they were. Long after everyone else was using word-processors, lawyers relied on typists and shorthand secretaries.

That got shaken up with the arrival of knowledge management systems; law firms led that charge.

Most politicians are lawyers; and most politicians are tech-ignorant. That sustains the myth.
you can just look at the news coming out of atlanta right now.
If there are indeed people that work on this stuff, are paid well, and this stops funding maybe disclosing it to congress is a way to get the gravy train turned back on.
posted to Reddit to see i could find it
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthemoviecalled/comments/14lhq2...
>I guess because Canada only has like... 6 large cities? (1 million+ people)

More than that, if you want to get to the top of your industry, all major companies (and their jobs) are based on Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver (plus Edmonton and Calgary for oil/gas). In the US, depending on the industry, it's entirely possible to get to the top of your field while living in (say) Denver, Dallas, Orlando, Charlotte, or Las Vegas.
It came from people organically reacting to the flood of juvenile comic book stories put out in the 50s. Nothing to do with "the church" at all.
This is kind of sobering.

Standard male levels of testosterone are between 3-7 ng/mL.

Standard female levels of testosterone are between 0.1-0.7 ng/mL.

And you're over 10 ng/mL of this crap?

Even if this stuff is a fraction as bioactive as testosterone, having more of it might explain a few societal health trends.
thanks! neat!
> and yet sightings of UFOs (or any cryptid) have been at an all-time low.

Source? I see the opposite when I Google around for reports per year. There was a dip during COVID, buts it's easy to attribute that to people not being outside, and it's picked right back up since.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/05/20/global...
> Would a US President have the necessary clearance to know of the existence of non-human superior technology spacecraft?

Clearance flows from the President who neither has nor needs it; it is a delegation of executive power of which the President is the source.

OTOH, just because the President is not unauthorized does not mean he will be briefed on it.
>Service ceiling: 10,000 ft (3,000 m) (estimated), 3 ft (0.91 m) (actual)

I don't know if I'd call that a flying saucer- it was more of a hovering saucer.
And they could afford to own that device readily while almost certainly believing in one of the more regulated nations in the world, right?

How are the citizens in the least regulated doing on that front?

Yea....
You'd want a good reason to test
Looks like Canada shut off the A/C. Albertans should have tried that decades ago.

(This is a parody of the very real race-to-the-bottom attitude in the industry, and the oft-repeated "a little global warming goes a long way in Canada")
Donating blood or plasma has evidence of reducing pfas. If I knew I had high measured levels, I'd certainly think about doing it more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/
>Microsoft has gotten so much better with integrating and supporting open source over the years.

Eh...integrating yes, support? And effectively declaring themselves in charge of MIDI specs, hmmm ("...no longer under NDA etc").
Do you vote accordingly?
What I meant to say was, you're already saving them money by not going in. You're saving them the cost of office space, parking, etc.

And then as you've pointed out, on top of all that they're paying you less.
> I think for certain high risk populations, specifically pregnant women or women planning on becoming pregnant, it makes sense.

Does it though? What will a pregnant woman do based on her results? Will having PFAS affect someone’s decision about becoming pregnant?

Pregnant women are going to monitor BP anyway. And the intervention is $100 for a BP cuff so that’s cheaper than the test. So we’re better off just recommending monitoring BP more closely than this test.
Easy to do! I've known several in my hometown, even rented one for a while. Recently looking at properties for sale around the state, found a fancy house with a pillar'd porch and elaborate newel post, pillared doorways, sliding doors, screened summer kitchen in the back - and instantly recognized it as a Sears Roebuck house with added features!

If you enter into a 'parlor' with a switchback staircase on the right, fancy newel post, maybe a gabled landing then it's a good chance. To the left, a double doorway to a sitting room. Right from there, pillared fancy doorway (possibly sliding doors) to a dining room with bay window. Behind that a pantry and then a screened summer kitchen, often closed in in later years.

Straight from the entryway you get a sort of closet with the basement stairs on the right (and maybe another exterior door) and a shelving unit on the left. Through that to a play room or downstairs bedroom. If there's a bathroom it's behind that.

All lathe-and-plaster walls, wainscoting of various designs depending on the money they had to spend.

Upstairs a short hallway with four doors to four bedrooms. Maybe a sleeping porch behind the first bedroom on the right.

Anyway seen this design around here (midwest) many times, sometimes a little larger or smaller but always the same layout!
The best place to get surplus huge computer monitors was the local law school they always needed to be showing off the latest and greatest shiny tech amongst themselves.
I cook 99 out of 100 of my meals, and 9 out of 10 meals I cook in a small counter-top air-fryer. The whole gadget costs less than a good pan. That 10th meal is probably eggs in a non-stick pan, so that pan lasts years longer now.

I bought a nice new range right before I discovered the air-fryer, and it now functions mostly as a device for holding up the air-fryer.
MIDI is similar to RS-232 only if you conflate RS-232 (which specifies voltage levels and physical connector) with asynchronous start-stop serial, while that is the most common application for RS-232, it can be carried over a lot of physical layers and also RS-232 can carry synchronous serial (which is a part of the reason for the DB25 with a lot of “unused” pins).

MIDI physical layer is pretty much unique to MIDI and a kind of an ugly, but cheap and reliable (when done correctly), hack.

Edit: technically you can wire RS232 transmitter to MIDI receiver and if both follow the respective specification the Tx should not source enough current to blow the Rx optocoupler. But it will generally not work the other way around because in absence of said optocoupler the relationship of the MIDI signal (which is a current loop referenced to more or less unspecified potential) to receiver ground matters.
You do know most nations aren't printing money out of nowhere right? People buy bonds/etc and those are what back the new printings....
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits
> But the money is ultimately that of the Venmo user.

Sure, but that's completely independent of the finality, settlement timing, payment rails etc. of the payout side.

So if you're talking about the funding side, ACH is indeed very risky, since it's ACH direct debit. But great-GP was talking about Venmo payouts. There, Venmo is an ACH credit sender, which is risk-free.
Yes they do, streams make collections processing quite readable.
That would be $1 billion :-)

So I guess 400 bank accounts would be enough?
Wow I hadn't thought about that. Really puts it into perspective.
I think it's more accurate to say that lawyers only know about lawyer stuff. They live in their own constructed reality that is quite different from normal logic, intuition, and processes.
If those mythical safety features actually make an impact then shouldn't they slow down everything, including a hello world program? Yet the performance gap between well-optimized and sluggish software only grows.
I was just looking at inference, meaning you need some separate infra to do the training either way. If the DB does the training too, then yeah. I think we're pretty far from that, and Postgres by itself might not be the platform for it. There are platforms with SQL-like interfaces that use databases underneath, but there's a lot happening on top.
On the flip side, with individual contenteditables, you can be more confident you're not accidentally editing a block you didn't mean to.
Yeah, let's talk about the difference in accessibility between the text on this site and Newton's Principia...
Writing a Node Library in Rust
> Consider this - the flying saucer craze really took off right after the United States developed the atomic bomb - wouldn't such an event pique the interest of an advanced civilization?

Isn't the paranoid atmosphere cold war and the increase in weapons testing, satellites, spy balloons, etc. a much simpler explanation?
Except, you always interact with computerS no matter what provider or architecture you use. It's inescapable as long as you're doing business in software. The trade-offs in architecture and regionality do NOT go away just because a company abstracts over it. They may be able to set up read replicas and consensus on the fly and be able to detect when various approaches make the most sense, but you are still at the mercy of the accompanying constraints. For most use cases, none of this may matter. When you do run into a use case where it matters, you should be fully aware of what trade-offs you're making and have control over them.

Not to mention, regions matter when you're serious. GDPR/DSA/DMA/India/China -- the list goes on. Certain data must live in certain bubbles.
The problem is that for a productive H-1B holder in the US, they have no incentive to move to Canada if they're already doing well. Canada's wages will be less than half of what they would get in the US and healthcare in the US is better if you have good insurance.

What's more likely to happen is the people who take Canada's offer will be the ones that were let go for performance reasons or have other productivity or efficiency issues.
> It makes me wonder what the point of citizenship

There's a pretty important point to citizenship. If you have it, you can't be kicked out.
Anyone who's used both, how does it compare to Google's internal tooling?
>Pretty much every day, I read something to the effect of "lawyers are clueless when it comes to tech lol".

<chuckle> Read the article, seems reasonable.

Connect with Neil on LinkedIn -> 404 page.

All righty then.
A lot probably don't. Since everyone is a year older at the same time, you could've gotten away with storing one integer.
Hmm, I tried googling "00:00 / 17:02" youtube and none of the results were the right duration on both Chrome and Firefox. Any ideas?
Edward Fredkin, ‘visionary’ scientist and fighter pilot, has died
They could have meant prostitutes.
Isn't all this stuff written in C++? I suspect the slowness is bad system design.
Sorry to hear that. Join the wait list and we'll email you when it's available.

Waitlist link: https://pfas.report/waitlist/
I think the whole trope that “making a successful game is close to impossible” is overly cynical.

I’ve found a few people online say that they don’t understand why their game did really poorly even though it’s like X and does Y AND Z. So I ask them to show me their game. I haven’t found a single scenario where the game wasn’t unfinished, janky and/or just plain unfun.

I want to go against the grain here and say if you have a game idea, just make it. But don’t expect people to buy it if it sucks. Like with all good artists, you have to be conscious of whether the thing you’re making is a good product or not. I think the author of this article realized that eventually.
EU advances rules that wrestle control of user data away from Big Tech
This is an interesting and complicated set of problems. It's similar to problems in the LLM & social network spaces. You have several dimensions, like recipes, ingredients, nutrition, cultural context, etc, and you have gradients to help determine recommendations, which points to a graph DB. But you also have rules when it comes to substitutions (not every substitution is appropriate for every situation), and you might have rules on other dimensions as well. That points to a layer of business logic. But to serve recommendations performantly, you might want to run rules upon writes or on a schedule to persist the results to the DB. Either that or do some sophisticated caching.
Are you giving someone bad blood in that case?
Interesting. I did more research and there isn't a ton out in the public domain, but it looks to be that the USN and others are using MonoEthanolAmine (MEA) as a regenerative CO2 scrubber. MEA

>Weeks et al. (1960) reported that volunteers who smelled MEA vapor described the odor as ammoniacal, musty, or foreign; some volunteers were unable to characterize the odor.

> Ethanolamine is a colorless, viscous liquid with an odor reminiscent of ammonia.

Ammonia is a lot of what "cat piss" smells of, so that tracks. Thanks! That was really interesting to read about!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanolamine

* https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA389253

* https://www.sonistics.com/wp-content/uploads/01-KEY-DEVELOPM...

* https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11170/chapter/10#197
Project Gutenberg has three pdfs of her works: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554
Not sure if true, but I also recall reading that ICs made with larger processes are more resilient to cosmic ray strikes. So modern 7nm chips might have an inherent disadvantage in these applications.
But that's true of everything. You can't use a struct except through an "executor" of some sort. Once you've created it, it sits there and does nothing until you exercise it through its methods or other methods that take it. In that case, there's no ambiguity because the type is explicit. I guess the problem is that really `async fn` looks like a function, but isn't really a function, it's a future. The semantics of a future are quite different to the semantics of a function. That's only a problem if you think the semantics of `async fn` should closely reflect a function.

The thing is, once you grok async in rust, other things make sense, like being able to construct futures by implementing `Future` on a struct. You don't actually need `async fn` to do async rust. It's just syntactic sugar, just like await is.
How does one avoid being so ignorant of things?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the global lead poisoning hypothesis that was popularized by Neil DeGrasse Tyson's remake of Cosmos was determined to be based on extremely scant evidence and may have been outright false
In what countries is it not complicated?
One duty of the programmer and product manager is to think about the likely uses of the program and to build a UI to enable it. If users wanted a blank slate they could write the program themselves, or have chatGPT write it.

Maximum expressiveness is not the goal, because it comes with a price. There is a balance to be struck between expressiveness, and economy of effort and cognition.
My Cousin Vinny did it. Honestly I don't think VFX has ever truly helped a comedy.

Imagine what that movie could have been with cheap gratuitous CGI. Instead of Vinny getting covered in real mud, you could have slow motion closeups of glossy mud drops with fluid simulation flying through the air, the camera spinning around the mud in three dimensions before it cakes Vinny. But would such a visual spectacle make the movie funnier? I don't think so.

And quite frankly, She Hulk would look a lot better if they simply found a buff actress and painted her green.
Time to start blood letting. A human has ~5 liters of blood and blood donations are 0.5 liters, every two months. So with a year of effort, could cut your levels in half (0.9^6 = 53%).
This is cool and reminds me a bit of Jens Johansson's old tool:

http://www.panix.com/~jens/polymath-old.par
Yes, and the audience mainly consisted of young adults. Now that this is settled, I think you should stop insulting people because of their hobbies and taste.
As somebody deploying some very advanced technologies in the litigation space I think this is a reflection of his own docket, not the broader space. There is definitely a need and a market for highly specialized tools in certain segments of the law.
Please explain how it's not true. I understand the system and its design pretty well and I literally don't understand how you can't see the risk of this happening here.
A musical database might be called a CardiB-MS
Wow, I'd be interested in knowing how to fix this. I don't currently write math on the web but if I had to, I would be tempted to do it exactly like this: bare HTML with MathML, no JavaScript. And would do it thinking about blind people relying on accessible content to read it.
Low-altitude ground-effect flight is still flight, I guess.
Also great for reducing your blood iron levels if they're too high
> Does this not apply also to the elementary formulas you mention?

Oh, you are right! I disliked the 2pi factor in the exponential because it messes with derivatives. But if you define your scaled derivative then the factor disappears again. So cool!
Wondering what makes you think your belief, experience, or recounting of either (truthful or otherwise) would be credible enough to be worth enunciating.

I could just as easily say I had a bunch of friends who were targeted. I could tell you I spent time at a black site held by feds who wouldn't identify themselves or their agency. So obviously anecdotes here in this context carry no value.

What is more believable and trustworthy is the investigative reporting that clearly states that what giraffe_lady et al. have been saying is closer to the truth than your tiny (and statistically probably white and/or middle-to-upper class, considering you have an account here -- obviously not a threat to the status quo and so quite low on the list of targets for state-sanctioned kidnapping) bubble's experience, faithfully represented or otherwise.

I guess what I'm saying is basically what ends up being the appropriate response to the problem always on this site: you don't know the extent of what you don't know, so more than a little humility is warranted here, particularly in the face of real reporting by real journalists.
We are wrong to think that morality is declining over time
From what I can tell it's the opposite (on Firefox): the math is in the source HTML twice, once in <span class="katex-mathml">, which is hidden using CSS in the non-reader mode but is rendered in the reader mode, and <span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true">, which is what FF displays normally, and it's missing from the source when I inspect it in reader mode. Having two spans like this comes directly from KaTeX, whose authors I'm sure have thought about accessibility. I imagined that MathML would be somewhat standard and screen readers would understand it.
Even if the frantic handshaking is somewhat necessary, I don't think it's justified that it takes over 1 millisecond, let along multiple seconds with monitors turning on and off in the meantime. Seems like shoddy work on every end.
> The question here is whether the new, optimized SM64 implementation is CPU-bound in the first place. Games on the N64 are often limited by memory bandwidth, which is taken up by rasterization,

Your premise is correct but your conclusion is wrong.

The CPU and the "GPU" (the RSP, Reality Signal Processor, was not actually a GPU, but for the purposes of this discussion it's close enough) shared memory bandwidth. If the CPU was using memory bandwidth, it was stealing memory bandwidth from the GPU, slowing down rasterization.

The thing to make better was to reduce the total amount of bytes the CPU sends to/from main memory. If you could reduce the number of bytes the CPU sends to/from RAM, that gave the GPU more memory bandwidth, and that would improve GPU performance. CPU time was irrelevant.

This changes a lot of what you think about when you think about performance optimization. -Os is substantially faster than -O2, for instance. Loop unrolling is always a loss, even for small fixed size loops. Temporary variables are bad; if you can do a thing by manipulating an existing variable and then de-manipulating it, and that prevents it from spilling onto the stack, that will improve performance. Lots of optimizations a normal programmer and/or the compiler does will make the CPU faster but the extra RAM bandwidth used will slow down the GPU.

> After recompiling with optimizations enabled, and maybe after swapping in newer versions of the RSP microcode, my guess is that further improvements to CPU efficiency would have very limited returns.

He's actually done this, it is not a hypothetical. The original game got 20FPS. (ballpark) He recompiled with optimizations enabled and was getting 30FPS. (ballpark) He performed a bunch of other code optimizations and got this up to 60FPS. So there were enormous returns still on the table.
If you made money, why wouldn’t it be worth it?
From what I understand the helicopter was a special case and sort of a side mission meant to test off the shelf parts.
if there really was such a clear and obvious and dire threat that could have been mitigated it likely would have been, but this theory has been repeatedly debunked by climate scientists, it’s just that many of us only hear one side of the story because our media (hint hint) has been captured by political interests that want convenient black/white fear mongering they can use to manipulate the flow of money and regulation to help them direct power and wealth toward their allies, interests, investments, etc
It seems to be a kind of overspecialization, especially in a dynamic world that's constantly changing.
There are other subtle taxation differences that could really matter by jurisdiction as well (ie. low property taxes in much of Canada) and of course low healthcare costs (though this matters less for the highly paid tech worker).

I mean for parents in Canada they could get $10/day daycare in some places as that's ramping up more and more. That could be a dramatic cost savings for a certain person.

It would be interesting to see someone do a real comprehensive look between the countries that touches literally every possible cost. I don't think I've seen that.

With my own back of the envelope math comparisons, the countries did tighten up.