skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair most TLDs have similar rights and rules. Some don't and they're on most shitlists out there. In the end you're never buying a domain, it's always renting. Unless you're a TLD, then that actually is conceptually a bit different.
Wow, clicking through "Live Examples" made my jaw drop. How do they do that transition?
> technology is clearly going to make the idea of speaking different languages completely irrelevant

Only in certain contexts. Business, transactions, news and, to some degree, science, can all be done with machine translation already. You can literally walk into a store right now somewhere that you don't speak the language and have a full conversation with the staff using Google Translate. But once you move beyond straightforward transactional interactions, start caring about expressing feelings and experiences, or understanding diverse cultures, no translation app is going to help you. I'm not sure how relevant this is in West Virginia, because it's such a culturally homogeneous and isolated place. But in multicultural places and places near cultural borders, it's absolutely essential for harmonious relationships between cultures. What happens when people from West Virginia move to Texas or Florida and start to encounter Spanish in their daily lives? Until they learn Spanish, they're going to build cultural walls that prevent them from seeing and understanding the Spanish speaking culture around them. And that will have profound implications on society at scale.

Personally, I think language learning is important if not for practical reasons, for reasons of personal development. Everyone should become fluent in at least one language other than their native one simply for the ability to see and express different cultural perspectives.
The GPU in my 5700u is enough to run Valorant on high.
Not all scientists are equal.

For sure, most of the ones I know are pretty honest with a high degree of integrity.

But it's also not hard to see there's an increasingly lot of politics involved in "science", the further up you go in the hierarchies, not to mention among public figures.
Michelson’s experiments only proved there is no “Aether”, a supposedly invisible medium to carriers light. It also proved that the speed of light isn’t affected by (relative) movements. In some sense, yes one can say the speed of light of is constant. But in the context of the cosmos, it strictly doesn’t say anything about the speed of light in the past.
To be fair to Raj (the guy who had just accidentally killed a bull), from his perspective "the bull is dead" is a very important part of the story.

It's maybe a question of perspective. His ability to consider his parents' perspective might have been somewhat limited by the fact that he was 17, it was late at night and he'd just been in a car crash which resulted in the death of a bull.

I think he did a great job and it's a great story. Glad to hear he's ok, he's lucky! RIP the bull though :(
I think you have a couple options [0], I currently have a project that uses 'echo' in debug mode.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27748053/how-to-log-sql-...
Heh, found this game:

https://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/
Maybe it’s not a myth, in a sense that without a phone they had to interact and learn how to do it, but that is too bad compared to what phones give for free.
Scientists or professionals?

Like I've found a lot of people thinks medical doctors are scientist. A doctor has learned the knowledge at the time they were in school. Now practices medicine, maybe keeps themselves up to date a little, but can often be very biased in their ways, because they're used to some practice and will use their anecdotal experience during their practice as truth.

You could say they are "experts" or "professionals", but they'd not be actively applying the scientific method or even keeping themselves up to date on all the relevant and related studies about a subject.
I think that’s not at all the point being made. In fact it’s quite the opposite. With a real time bi directional universal language translator pervasively available and ergonomically adapted it would be relatively irrelevant which language you spoke. This would in fact be a boon to minority languages or languages outside the language of business and science (today English). It would allow minority languages to flourish without extrinsic pressure to assimilate into more influential languages because its relatively toll free to be monolingual. Most of the pressure outside of planned cultural eradication is economic, and making the economic cost of speaking your native language close to zero is the best way to preserve native languages. Dreaming of mass literacy of minority languages won’t work - its impractical to expect everyone to learn hundreds of languages to meet people at their native tongue, especially in a multicultural society like modern western societies. That’s not a horror; that’s human nature. But technology has the chance to make it irrelevant, allowing people to communicate without assimilation.

That said people will still learn languages to do comparative analysis and out of personal drive. That’s great too.
Homepage has slow scrolling performance in Firefox (desktop) and fans spinning up.
Do you know of any good resources to understand sql explain plan. In my current project, we are facing a lot of issues related to query performance on MS SQL server. Do we need to always specify index hint with queries. Sometimes index exists but query does not seem to be using the index. I am thinking using sql execution plan could help us understand this issue better. tia.
In some languages e.g. C# you can have unboxed product types. Confusingly for anyone with a C/C++ background, they’re called “Strucks”. Of course, you lose the GC when you do so but it’s nonetheless common to see in the stdlib.
"You guys had a health and wellness budget?!"
That's not correct.

Consider a human who can speak both spanish and english. They can translate intrinsically. Why? Because language is an interface to their knowledge. You do not require a special intermediary language that only trained professionals can teach.

Language -> knowledge (embeddings) -> Language is fine
I don't use the whole reverse order thing, but I do start with the main point "I think we should prioritise refactoring the scheduling component", then build up the argument to justify it. I'm generally thinking about persuading though rather than just communicating.

The consultancy I used to work for called this Top Down Thinking but it's basically just the Barbara Minto Pyramid Principle.
«Big Bang» model of Universe evolution has religious origin. It's politics.
This is absolutely being orchestrated, right out in the open. OP’s entire post is fundamentally about the balance of power between labor and capital. The Fed’s stated goal is to cool the labor market so that wage growth will calm down. In other words, the Fed thinks labor is too strong, calls too many of the shots in negotiations and so wants employees to be more desperate so that their employers will have the upper hand.
Is there anything in that article that makes you think their condemnation is limited to theories of deliberate release? I don't see it, and I don't think e.g. Facebook did either--they justified their ban with the (false) scientific consensus established by papers like that Lancet correspondence, and their ban applied to accidental release too.
Only if you don't use the room for anything except work.

You've got a computer in there that you're also using for private stuff? Not tax-deductible anymore.

Private books on the bookshelf? Not tax-deductible anymore.

You've got a wardrobe with some clothes you're only accessing once per season (to store off-season clothes)? Not tax-deductible anymore.
But a universal translator makes it irrelevant if you learn a common language, it’ll allow people to speak their native language without material friction. IMO that’ll be the best thing for preserving a rich linguistic body of languages and dialects.
Quite agree. The example given is bad because we don't know about the bull and we don't care about it. Lots more, we are not given the final details about the accident, so the report looks rather incomplete at the end.
Can we change the title of this article to "We need scientists"? Clearly this guy was a scientist and changed the world for the better. He was a dissident at the time because we didn't know about "germs". Now we do.

We really need people to be more open-minded about using science as a general approach to life (especially where it matters like in health).
That might work if the job is fully remote and doesn't have a physical office for you to work at, as most companies will simply say "you can come to the office and use the facilities there for free".

Most decent companies will give you some money though for WFH or let you borrow stuff from the office like chairs and monitors.

While I'd love to have the financial burden of commuting/WFH be imposed on the employer instead on the workforce, that would require another labor revolution, so far I'd just be happy to have 100% WFH possibly. Internet I use anyway, and I can pay for the extra water, energy and heating by myself, the extra difference is insignificant compared to the time I save commuting to the office.
> Proper science is value neutral.

Is that supposed to be a neutral scientific statement?
How to learn to use protoc in 21 easily infuriating steps
Another similarly incredible explanation is in the video by ScienceClic [1], which goes more into the geometric interpretation whereby Lorentz boosts are hyperbolic rotations of spacetime.

[1]: https://youtu.be/qdycfWfAtsM
I would add that the numbers are possible to compare, but container shipping is pretty efficient.

One container from Shenzhen to Oakland (~10,000 km) is going to be the CO₂ equivalent of burning 60 gallons of gasoline.
> you both are utterly misinterpreting what journalists do

yet, journalists almost never link their source material.

> * The reason why a journalist can be bad at doing this summarization in pieces like this is because they are human.*

The source is most likely to be digitized and in front of you. How on earth does one manage to not link it, yet has the time to write multiple paragraphs based on it?
Thanks for the lifetime appsumo idea. Never thought of that!
> From software industry / programming industry / web framework prominent figures, yes all the software guys all apparently have ZERO understanding about hardware.

Which websites give me a better understanding?

Anandtech, website mentioned above and what more?
How The Intercept has fallen, publishing childish drivel like this.
Every one of the CoVID examples given there is obviously wrong, even with hindsight:

* The "Great Barrington Declaration," if followed, would have likely doubled America's already extremely high death toll. Which countries did the best in the pandemic? The dreaded zero-CoVID countries, which got all the way to vaccines with extremely low death tolls, often with a much greater level of normalcy in everyday life than the US (see: Taiwan, China, Singapore, New Zealand, etc.). The idea of letting all controls on viral spread drop (which is what the GBD effectively was) before vaccines were developed was just a plan for everyone to get the virus without the benefits of vaccination, with the ensuing high death toll.

* Mask mandates supposedly useless: challenging the idea that proper masks (N-95s or equivalent) do not dramatically reduce spread of the virus is like challenging the idea that parachutes break falls. They do, for very simple mechanistic reasons.

* Young people being vaccinated: The risks of vaccination are far lower than the risks of CoVID in all age groups. The worst side-effects of the vaccine (which are extrememly rare) are actually far more prevalent after infection than after vaccination.
There are downsides. Face recognition is not as reliable with masks on.
This is interesting, but I feel like it only scratches the surface. What about all the types that _aren’t_ an int or a pointer?
There is quite a bit of water in soda. While there is a lot of sugar, it is about 10% which is a bit less than 100.
Specifying per 100g (or some other size) makes it quite easy to compare two different products. Of course you also have to take into consideration how much of the product you will consume
It not only works. It beats tokamak reactors by orders of magnitude to the point that it and ITER are the only fusion reactors that even matter, so saying that you forgot about one of the most important fusion reactors in history is highly condescending.
⑯ Psyche - Largest M-type Asteroid
A team member and manager don’t operate in a vacuum. It’s your job to communicate priorities and ensure the team buys in to the priorities. If they don’t and you didn’t get that buy in, then you can’t blame them for having their own priorities. You can say “these are the priorities” all day long, but so can anyone. The team, as a team, should agree on the priorities. Your job is to communicate the business priorities, the teams job is to turn them into technical priorities which may or may not match the business’s exactly. If you’re not getting the last part and communicating it back upstream, you’re not doing your job.
Haven't got an offer from Stripe Capital, revenue probably doesn't meet their criteria.
The British Computer Society recently asked it's members to sign an open letter [1] on the future of AI that opens with:

"AI is not an existential threat to humanity".

I would not sign this letter. While I think the risk is currently fairly low, I do not agree that there is no risk, and I do think this risk will rise unless we pay careful attention to it.

[1] https://www.bcs.org/sign-our-open-letter-on-the-future-of-ai...
> I find it very difficult to find meaning in a large portion of the jobs available today. Most workers are just another cog in the wheel. The system is so large that one cannot directly appreciate the effects of their work, or even know whether they are positive at all.

My experience is that the same job also has a large range for meaningfulness depending on how well leadership manages to facilitate it.
Yeah, that's true, a good abstract is usually similar to an executive summary, it's very short and easy to read.
The big plus of stellarator design is inherent absence of plasma instabilities affecting tokamaks. Notice that future upgrade of Wendelstein may allow to hold plasma for a hour compared with minutes at best with tokamaks. Many physicists for that reason believes stellarator is the only way to archive practical fusion.
garage a competitor with a rust code based think thats legal.
Can't even count how many "next Gen architecture" sessions I've been at which certainly could've been replaced with due diligence on the current implementation.

You don't fix bad coding with a new architecture. That just puts the problem off by some time.
You make it sound like masking for a cold is as obvious as knowing it’s going to rain.

When was the first time you wore a mask when you realized you had a cold? (Serious question; not rhetorical.)

I have to say, I don’t know anyone who thought that was an obvious thing to do until 3 years ago. In fact, I know a few people who still wear masks every day, but otherwise, no one I know does it anymore, even if they have a cold.

I don’t think there’s anything obvious about it at all, if obvious means something that everyone can see.
Yes it is, even more so when concluded with "I wish we had free speech online".
Alain Juillet, former head of the French CIA (DGSE) recently claimed in a youtube interview that "if you do not know what is happening in the African freemason circles, you can't understand the current geopolitics of Africa". He was the head of several lodges/masonic confederations.

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/137763/politique/franc-ma-onner...

> discusses the power play between American and French controlled lodges in Ivory Coast.

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/141986/politique/franc-ma-onner...

> In the neighboring countries of Mali and Guinea, the same expansion phenomenon is observed. Amadou Toumani Touré, overthrown on March 21st, and Alpha Condé oversee the destinies of the Grand Lodge of Mali and that of Guinea, respectively. As for Blaise Compaoré, he was - until he gave way to Djibrill Bassolé, his head of diplomacy - grand master of the Grand Lodge of Burkina, which counts among its ranks numerous ministers, diplomats, and businessmen, notably a part of the management of the national chamber of commerce. Further south, Beninese Thomas Boni Yayi, a known evangelist, has always denied his affiliation to Freemasonry but maintains close relations in the field. Togolese Faure Gnassingbé keeps people guessing, causing some of his brothers to smile: "This young president quickly understood the means to control his elite," they note.
I was hoping to see something like this. Thank-you!
You can use my open source tool aider from the cli. It is integrated with your local git repo and commits each change from the AI.

Right now only GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 seem to be capable of this sort of "code editing" task. But aider has support for connecting to other/local LLMs and an active community of folks experimenting with them.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
Not sure that's fair - the battery packs come with a 5 year warranty. If you increase the 'full range' - you're increasing the odds you'll need to claim on that, which needs paying for.
That's a great observation. Though on the other hand, you can probably deduce that it was some kind of accident involving the car. Which begs the question; what happened to the car, which might even be more important than the fact that the bull dies. This question is of course answered, but IMHO not very well, and while leaving out more than a few questions that might help assess the damage.
I'm curious. I find saunas to be overwhelming and suffocating. Not unenjoyable but not net enjoyable either regardless of circumstance. I tend to attribute this to generally being a bit more sensitive to things and lightly on the spectrum. The author mentions being an aspie.

Might the sauna tech being described here achieve a different result from what I might be used to in the US?
If someone kicks in your door in the middle of the night while you're asleep you may react in a way that isn't rational. I'm against forced entry no-knock raids unless a crime is in progress and lives are at stake. And I feel that way whether the homeowner is black, brown, white, or a space alien.
His family and he is extremely well connected, I'm sure they can scrape together some money for lawyers
Thank you Viktor. Keep up the good work.
I may not know AI very well but I know that automatic sinks, soap dispensers, and toilets don't work for me because they weren't tested against people with my skin tone. And these are low-stakes use cases.

I really don't like thinking about that same problem, but with AI thrown in the mix. And I'm not even factoring in malicious intent yet.

I may not buy in to the "Horizon Zero Dawn incoming" mentality yet but I do know there's great potential for great harm if we don't get ethics in place before AI really takes off.
In aviation, these kinds of things are solved with training and process. There is a reason pilots need a certain number of hours and multiple/recurrent checkrides to be able to fly people around for hire.

Most people think they are good drivers which makes them immune to actually getting better through training. As for process, good luck implementing it if you can’t train it.
The thing is, policy and policymaking and the responsibility of policymakers all bring about different dimensions from pure scientific inquiry.

For example, it's probably best that we learn later that it actually was a lab leak from China. Because during a global pandemic, making China an enemy, when you're trying to all collaborate on dealing with the problem, maybe is not good policy.

Similarly, masks might be a toss up, but you make a decision on policy and you commit on the gamble.

Causing unnecessary panic also doesn't help. We saw that a lot of people kind of lost it, conspiracy theories exploded, now some of those theories might be legitimate, the scientific method could evaluate them one by one, it would take time, but in the meantime, people might act irrationally and cause more harm from a hypothesis. So maybe you try and not bring it up. As not to cause more concern that isn't productive.

And I think true censorship is terrible here, but something that's more a toning down of certain theories that are not really doing any good and causing panic, doubts, distrust, etc.

Keep the information available if someone searches for it, but maybe don't let it get promoted and fed to more people, until a more appropriate time comes, and it's now had time to develop more evidence, etc.

This whole area around policymaking is much more of an imperfect art, it's not science, it's more similar to a betting market, it makes bets, as leadership, and hopes that it leads people into the right outcome.

But I agree, there's a fine line, you also don't want to swallow alternate hypothesis that might end up proving to be the truth. It's a difficult balance to be honest.
btw. elastic would not exists without lucense which in itself is already a open source library. they cried because of their license choice.
A fair number of countries did have lockdowns that successfully eliminated (as in: completely eliminated the virus within their borders) the virus within weeks. China is the elephant in the room (local elimination by about April 2020), but there are several other countries that did the same thing (such as New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan).

On the assumption that you're an American, your country was not organized enough to couple a lockdown with effective contact tracing and mass testing, which is what other countries did to eliminate the virus.
I too write a Substack and I have also experienced this. There have been articles that I’ve written that have out performed my expectations, articles that I was sure would do well and flopped, articles that didn’t do well when I initially posted, then suddenly receive a lot of traffic a few months later due to a share, etc.

Very rarely do I write an article, know it will go viral, and then have it do well. It’s still hard when I have a string of bad weeks where nothing does well, because I still want to grow my audience and viewership. I have to remind myself that I started writing because I just desperately wanted to see a certain type of content put out into this world. This means that there are lots of times I write about things I know won’t do well ( a history about BSD, a tutorial about using xml with C#). As my readership grows it can be hard to write those types of articles, but I’m trying to stay true to myself.

Most of the time writing is fun, but there are definitely weeks were it’s hard to feel inspired. But for some reason for me writing just feels like breathing. It’s something I have to do, even if I don’t always enjoy it.
Can't find the source right now, but I think I've read a discussion on pijul's forum about its ability to change the tokenizer depending on the file type, for a more meaningful granularity level. I think someone was talking about plugging treesitter there to get an AST.
> For further info: https://mrchromebox.tech/

Tangent - Why is this static site using JavaScript as replacement for regular HTML links?
Could you fill in the logical leap from "spiritual institutions are no longer credible" to "science is now political"? That is not an intuitive leap. There are many independent and more plausible explanations.

Also, the pretense of scientists not being good at science (i.e. cannot handle dissent) is a rocky one. Any scientist worth their salt is a person of science.
Fedora Silverblue is immutable and should be easier to manage than Nix: https://fedoraproject.org/en/silverblue/
I just edit things in the web inspector and then paste the values in the css file when I’m satisfied.