skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying attention to who? Instagram influencers? Podcast hosts?

What's sensible? How many workouts per week? What kind? What food to eat? How much of each?
normally, yes/kinda(though not REWRITE actually just RECOMPILE - no code changes unless you need to use the new field) . that happens. though you can abstract file access and use a modular approach to do that and only recompile that abstraction layer (think Hibernate but for the old days)

keep in mind the system used this as a safety feature. to make sure that you dont blow off your foot with incorrect access to the file.
You can just look at any libc sources...
I'm not sure of their source, but you get the exact same figures on Statista. [1] Somebody who has an account should be able to get the source from that site, which I'm quite curious of. I was initially ready to dismiss you as a nutter, but I do agree actually - even Russian official numbers give lower rates, so far as I can tell.

That said, your analysis is a bit misleading. Because while deaths/births are ultimately what fertility comes down to, it's a long lagging result. Taken to extremes, if a country of 20 year olds had a rapid extinction level fertility rate of 0.1, births would still far outpace deaths for many decades. Vice versa if there was a country made up of mostly of the elderly and then a small number of high fertility youth, deaths would outpace births for many years - in spite of [now] healthy demographics.

So fertility is what matters. And no, I don't think Russia is the epitome of what we should do. They have endless problems including alcohol abuse, a hugely imbalanced sex ratio, high suicide rates, and more. But I do think they're working to solve their problems in a way that is likely to create a better and more sustainable future for themselves. By contrast much of the Western world today seems content to behave in a generally myopic and reactionary fashion. Even in this very thread you see some people positive about lower fertility rates because climate. It's like seeing your house burning down and being happy that you won't have to fix that leaking sink anymore.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033851/fertility-rate-r...
> I have around 100 domains. Had no issues

20+ years, fewer domains. Their expiration process is generous. That said, some international domains they sell have a poorly handled expiration process (as noted by the OP). Their upstream provider has a crappy+short grace system. I think NC could offset the harm by having the expiration 30+ days sooner but they don't.

> I also don’t use any other services they have.

I tried mail their mail hosting 10 years ago. They use an open source server and app plugin to mimic Outlook push. It was a disaster and my customer was not happy with me.

I stick to domains, DNS and DDNS now.
How much of that “natural size” has been dictated by common monitor sizes, the limits of desk size/setup, and aesthetics?

My work setup as a 43” monitor set about 1 arm’s length away. I can just touch it when my fingertip if I stretch slightly. In a virtual space, I’d probably go slightly larger, maybe 45-48”, pushed a little further back.
I get a link by email, the PDF has to be retrieved from the web portal.

That PDF has my name and address at the top though.
> I would have thought they were pretty well positioned to find new targets for currently untreatable diseases

To find new targets yes but to develop a drug to market (and revenue/profit) takes 10-15 years. Even a drug to a state that gets approved for human testing seems beyond what they could do themselves without so much funding it would wipe out the existing shareholders. Selling to/Partnering with other drug companies with targets they've discovered/IP from DNA etc would seem more realistic.
They may have them, it just didn't cross my mind so I went straight for the junk hardware stores. I had an afternoon to kill anyway and had fun looking at all the weird Japanese retro hardware.
> Also, why isn't that patch in an MR to GTK (if the author wanted to upstream it)?

These MRs do a minimal change to just add thumbnails. The current file manager uses outdated widgets. Gnome/GTK expects MRs to also replace deprecated widgets in all files touched by that MR. Replacing those deprecated widgets would require a massive refactor.
They are conceptually related, and the more antennas you add ("massive MIMO"), the more you get into the "phased array" domain, especially on the base station side, which is where MU-MIMO is exploited.

But on common mobile devices, you only have two or four antennas, so the beamforming gain is much more limited. Having more than one antenna there is mostly done to leverage multipath propagation in a non-line-of-sight environment for capacity gains as far as I understand it, and in a line-of-sight environment, you only get very moderate steering gains of a few dB (and practically no steering/beamforming effect). Satellite communication is primarily line-of-sight, though.

So while the satellite can steer its beams towards a given mobile device (both for transmit and receive), and this allows for higher spectral efficiency and better use of the satellite's transmit power and better noise rejection, the mobile device can't do the same and will easily be overwhelmed by a jammer at least in the downlink path, as far as I understand.
> Plus, factory-farmed meat is significantly different from free-range animals w.r.t fat, hormone and antibiotics content.

A version of that argument applies to most things you would buy at a grocery store, e.g. modern apples are a lot sweeter than what our ancestors would've been accustomed to.
> It sounds to me like the who of science doesn't matter as much as the where and the when. There are ideas floating around in the ether, and the discovery of these ideas generate more ether for future discoveries. To a large extent being a scientific luminary is being in the right place at the right time.

I think it's really an empirical question how it works. My own take is that it takes both. You need the ideas floating around and you need an obsessive synthesizer.

A music example might be Bob Dylan. Folk music could have been a passing local fad, but Dylan studied all of it, distilled it down, and produced a version that seems different in kind than what came before. Without Dylan, we could look back on that era as being like the swing revival of the 90s. Just a period where a kind of music was popular again but with no real lasting change.

Similarly, there could be areas of math that are ripe for a Newton figure to come in and clarify everything. But that field could wait 100 years in the backwaters of math journals before anyone took notice. So you can't directly jump from the ideas floating around to the synthesis, you do need some sort of figure who will read and understand everything and put all the pieces together into a coherent piece of writing that people can read.
There are actually 10,100 equally likely situations: 101 choices of N x 100 choices of ball. When you completely discount the N=0 case, it’s because all choices of ball are green. You similarly need to almost completely discount the N=1 case, because almost all choices of ball in that situation are green, etc.
We ran out of good names years ago. Then Java came along and we used up all the words beginning with J. Then the dotcom years scooped up all the domain names and all the twsted up wrds like flickr. Then npm took all the variationsofpunctuation, varations-of-punctuation and variations_of_punctuation. Now there are no virgin words left in the English speaking world.

TBH, I'm amazed that Proton wasn't already taken.
"You", "me", alls of "us" are probably just a single Boltzmann brain. There is no past and no future for this existence. It's a flash with the illusion of a past that never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Between the desperately slow web app and awful customer support, I don't understand how anyone uses or recommends namecheap.

Cloudflare is the go to unless they don't have the tld.
That can hardly apply to .FR — no-one uses that for domain hacks, it's from a very stable country, and has very wide use within that country.

I'd rather suggest that using the very cheapest service providers means you're risking problems when you need customer support — in this case because notifications were missed due to a broken phone or whatever.
My impression is that math is strange and disconnected. When I was a grad student the (large) physics department had a colloquium series that brought in speakers that were interesting to the whole department despite that department having major splits between astrophysics, condensed matter, accelerator physics, high energy physics, biophysics, etc.

There was a chemistry colloquium that I went to occasionally, partially because I had some friends in the chemistry department who were into the same quantum chaos stuff I was into, but it was clear that a certain faction of the chemistry department showed up there and the rest of them went to other talks.

The math department didn't have any lecture series which was of broad interest to the department.

Physics brought in senior people who had something interesting to say at the colloquium, but more than half of the people the CS department brought in for their colloquium (which I attended a lot later when I had a software dev job at the library) were job talks and often the people did not know what they were talking about and it could get embarrassingly bad. I was lucky to see Geoff Hinton speak before he got famous but there were times I would team up with "the meanest physicist in the world" (for real, not my evil twin) to ask questions at the end that would call out the weakness of the speaker because the audience was just not holding therm accountable.
Yes, much better. In the last 8 years I haven’t had an update reset my settings yet. On major OS upgrades it will ask me to opt into telemetry but it defaults to my last selection which is “off”.

Apple is far from perfect but I haven’t seen any dark patterns make it into MacOS yet.
Author of the paper summary here - my understanding is that XFaaS doesn't run functions that are run in response to user input (e.g. XFaaS does not execute code that fetches and returns data because a user clicked on a button).
Why US drivers may be thinking about EVs all wrong
I wonder now, do flies ever venture inside of caves?
You can talk today to your phone in natural language. They don't seem very destroyed.

There seems something fairly fundamental about smartphone like devices at the moment in that people want a screen where they can see pictures, text messages and so on. A smartphone is a fairly minimal implementation of that. I don't think people want goggles / glasses stuck on their heads especially, at least I don't, regardless of how advanced the tech is. I mean looking around the cafe I'm in it's roughly 100% of people have smartphones, zero have google glass like things. Although the tech has been with us longer than you might think. I first tried a wearable computer with a small eye level display in the 90s and thought hey cool but they never caught on. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-pc-goes-readytowear
The system you're envisioning whereby banks refuse payment on otherwise valid checks based on Reasons seems a lot crazier.

So a valid check is presented to my bank with sequence number N and cashed. Another valid check is presented with sequence number N+10000 and refused. So now I've got to pay a fee to the second vendor for the returned check, they probably won't accept a check from me now so I've got to pay with a credit card and there's a decent chance I'm paying 3% more for that pleasure. So the bank trying to be helpful just cost me $25-50+3% and has done nothing to prevent actual fraud from occurring - I would not be using that bank for very long!

The guy at that landscaping company already committed a bunch of felonies, it's computer fraud, bank fraud, probably one or two others. Not sure what the bank wasting its efforts trying to combat this would accomplish.
> I would like the actual code compiled (vs some p-code bundled with an interpreter).

What's wrong with p-code bundled with an interpreter?

Some libc+cc combos add some code to do things the target architecture doesn't support natively, like ints of certain sizes. From this to the example you said, where in this spectrum do you consider it not to be compiled anymore?

Unless you're debugging the emitted binary instructions, why does the compiled output matter if it reaches the desired CPU and memory requirements?
People, overwhelmingly, don’t like the simulation hypothesis.

Simulation suggests that an intelligence created, crafted, made our simulation.

As a Christian the hypothesis fits.

“Store not treasures for yourselves here where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy and thieves do not break in and steal.”

“This is not your home you are sojourners here.”

“The Father is spirit and not flesh He looks for those who worship Him in spirit.”

These phrases make much more sense if we live in a simulation.

Jesus’ miracles and resurrection make sense if we’re in a simulation.

The Bible makes sense if we’re in a simulation.
github search, the downside being that you need to have an account
> . I don’t like optical disks. They allowed for higher capacity but they were like multiple steps backward and a huge waste of material.

Oh no, optical disk is superior - I can backup family photos to M-disk and shove it in a bank vault, and in 100 years it will still work.

Just like photos, I have family photos that are 60 years old. Digital photos of 10 years old are lost

How are you gonna store a video for 50 years? flash memory discharges, hard disks rust, upload to google drive and hope they don’t kill the service?
The worst part of this in the biomedical field is the conferences. Thats because sometimes you get toddlers with an advanced degree and a chair position picking the conference presenters, who will unilaterally reject or accept people on the grounds of whether they like them or see them as a competitor, even within the same department, no regards to what the poster or talk might be. At least with journals you have the editor who can sometimes mediate a hotheaded reviewer dispute in a level headed manner.
Do many in academia advocate that? I agree that paying for reviewing would make it even worse.

Money in general is a bad incentive if honesty and rigor are wanted.
Also Saddam was told by the US ambassador that the US has no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts...
The data are heterogenous. I broadly see three categories: jobs where RTO is a clear win, jobs where the RTO penalty is more and the WFH penalty less than the offshoring penalty and jobs where both are more.

The first will RTO. The second will permit WFH with good compensation. The last will be offshored. We’re presently figuring out the divides, with a strong bias on the coasts towards domestic layoffs and offshoring experimentation in software development.

The missing category, jobs where WFH is a clear win, continues to elude. From what I’ve seen, it’s dominated by niche groups of ultra-elite workers providing unique services within otherwise mixed work environments. (Disclaimer: I do this.)
It's not exactly the same, because there's actually studies that tries to answer this exact question - https://youtu.be/-3dt7rpvz4g?t=294

TLDW; the curve of risk/mortality vs amount of exercise is a u-shaped curve, which means if you _don't_ exercise, you also die earlier, and if exercised _too much_ , you also die earlier.
Good that he is/was not leading Apple.

what do they say at apple?
"a thousand no's for every yes" - Hope this is still the case
The end goal here - multiple people who are isolated by the technology they're wearing experiencing a simulacrum of human interaction mediated by that technology - is not only unbelievably depressing but also honestly just really boring. We've already built this. It was called the "metaverse" and it sucked. Everyone left.
Is replication a big problem in computer science?

If anything, I'd think replication has gotten easier with the advent of open source and the expectation that top papers will include git repos which make it easy to reproduce. The advent of docker, locked-version-dependencies etc have all contributed as well. 10-20 years ago, we didn't have this - but I also didn't see * widespread * problems even then: if someone published a result saying that technique <x> led to <y> performance gain, I thought it usually did?

(that said, computer science research doesn't have the same money on the line as medicine and the "perish" part of the publish-or-perish equation isn't the same when the fallback for failed academics is still six figure salaries at tech companies)
Sony has the worst case of not-invented-here syndrome. If they released a great mp3 player before Apple we could be living in a very different world. Instead they forced you to convert your MP3s to ATRAC.
Reverse-Engineering a Scoreboard Display
> Sooner or later, the company is going to realize they can hire the same developer for 15% of the salary that the company is paying you.

Only if there is some kind of downturn in the software developer market that frees up those developers from the jobs they are currently doing. Otherwise, the companies will get into bidding wars, and the price will quickly return – at which point it's a lot cheaper to keep you.

It's not like companies didn't figure that out in the 1990s. It was on the news like every single day.

Granted, there are signs that we may be in the midst of that downturn. But if that's the case, an office isn't going to save you. You won't be needed regardless of where you happen to be sitting.
> I believe a 30% fee for other developers to innovate on their platform ultimately bad for everyone but Apple.

Then how is Apple to continue development of the platform? Is your point that Apple should spend the money developing something hundreds of millions of people use, literally inventing smart phones as we know it, and they shouldn’t be able to make money on it to maintain it?

> what protections do we have should Apple ever start taking advantage?

In general, it’s illegal to punish someone or something for an action they have not taken. You are preemptively attempting to regulate with no damages. If this were a lawsuit, it’d be thrown out and used as the new definition of frivolous.

Now answer my question. Who do you trust more to be pro consumer? The company with the proven track record and a great reputation to lose or “Random Shady Company, LLC, were totes not gonna scam you”?
Thunderf00t about 6 months or so ago made a prediction about Elon Musk. This is very uncharacteristic of thunderf00t. He said "I predict that before 5 years Elon Musk will go bankrupt".

He sure got lucky with the timing of that.
To be fair, the U.S. is very unique in that sense. No other society in the world is this uncommitted to one single place. Moving in the States is like getting lunch. Some extreme rent savers do nothing but move every year.

Even if the move process is frictionless, in most countries, it's just not a thing. You are "tied" to your family house or apartment, passed from generation to generation. Here, real estate is just a commodity.
Fixing a Gap in the SEP Regulation
I guess it depends on the journal. If you're publishing in some low tier or even predatory journal then yeah there might be problems like this with the editor but in good, respected journals the editors usually do their jobs properly.
I think they are trying to hammer home that its not a realtime system. Anything you pass into will be executed at some point in the future. so if you want something synchronous, its not the tool to use.
Or a new strain of COVID...
Would you say that this is due to overzealous bureaucracy or does it have a point?

Since I'm not sure how much paper work you can do to confirm thst you are indeed moving away or loving in.

Also wondering if this could be elevated somewhat by having the form be digitalized as it is in certain European countries.
Sammy Kamkar's "Just Bing it!" joke will recurse on that day.
I dunno. When I was in grad school I regularly would find papers in Annals of Mathematical Physics that would go on for 50 pages and have critical errors on page 17 and 45. I did a calculation like that which I know what right at the equation-by-equation level because I made unit tests for everything, but the whole thing was still useless (published in my thesis but not Annals) because the coordinate system we were using converted a periodic orbit into something like a spiral so the we couldn't compute a topological factor because there was no topological invariant...
Compared to the UK where you need to have some utility bills or bank statements as proof of an address, having an ID card with an address is a lot easier in practice.

But, yes, different societies have different approaches there and they are kind of designed around it.
You might enjoy the ECOSTRESS Spectral Library [1]. It has downloadable reflectance spectra overlapping with your sensor for a variety of materials. These spectra are collected in highly controlled lab conditions for pure material samples. Could be useful for calibration or making your tricorder ;)

I do consulting work in this area, in case you've ever got questions or could use a hand developing something.

[1]: https://speclib.jpl.nasa.gov/
What's 'cockroach charging'?
> And what better tooling could it be if not a tool explicitly designed for software development, like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea?

It would be better if the user could actually select his tool instead of being forced upon a tool by a project or company. The former used to be the standard with email. Today, I have the impression half of my colleagues never used a mail program that wasn't called Outlook or Gmail. Spoiler alert: Both are abysmal mail readers for the purpose of following and participating in technical discussions. To fix that, they should at least support proper threading and encourage selective inline replies.

Making the tools a user choice over an established protocol/data model creates lots of possibilities to innovate. As long as Outlook-ordering decisions are made at the C* level it will never support software developers properly.
Is it any different from getting a .co.uk domain, really?
Rest of the VR industry already systems that only really put the rendering hardware to use where you're looking it's called Foveated rendering, because essentially your eyes can't even see the detail in the edges of vision even if it were rendered there. Handles this all very fast and seamlessly.

Not a stretch the same thing could be applied to a virtual desktop environment especially when you have eye tracking.
Ask HN: Is there a single purpose device to listen to podcasts?
I really like the concept of single purpose devices. So instead of reading on the phone, I pick the e-ink eBook Reader and the distraction goes away.

So now I'm looking for a portable device to listen to podcasts.

- Small
- Compatible with normal headphones and Bluetooth like AirPods
- Some usefull user interface
- I can subscribe to podcasts using RSS
- so no need to manually upload files

Any ideas? Any projects to build something like that?
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