skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You and everyone in the food science field can convince me to stop this by providing a peer reviewed article indicating that roasting garlic does not get an internal temp hot enough to kill botulism (I will actually check this next time) and that botulism spores can inhabit the interior of the garlic. I would expect the latter to be false even if the former is true (the surface is the place all of these things grow). I also suspect that the former may be true - you roast garlic enclosed in foil and covered in oil, which are correct conditions for raising the internal temp past the boiling point of water without the water being able to completely boil off, and the sugars in the garlic do caramelize, indicating a relatively high internal temp (Fructose starts caramelizing at 110C).

You are asking me to follow the words of scientists who have not done the science. I am asking them to do the science. Particularly since their mechanistic theory has a huge hole: the actual processing of the vegetable. By the same standard, they should be telling you that cooked chicken and eggs are both unsafe - the raw product carries salmonella and the final cooked form is an ideal environment in which salmonella can grow.

You know as well as I do that scientists do not publish negative results. I haven't found anyone replicating growth of botulism in raw garlic, though, so I assume that the studies just haven't been done, not that anyone is hiding anything (this would be an interesting negative result). There have also been 0 food safety incidents, as far as I can tell, implicating cooked garlic stored in oil - it's all raw garlic.

With regards to this publication, I am mostly shocked that they are recommending acidification with no expiration date - they should be giving it a very hard timeframe of months if they want to hold themselves to a consistent standard.

It costs the FDA and USDA (and these people at UC Davis) nothing to say "conditions seem fine to grow bacteria so don't do it" without checking whether the process is actually safe with acceptable food handling procedures. I am fine with the FDA saying that - I have no plans to sell food - but the FDA has a lot of rules that are written out of an abundance of caution rather than out of need.

By the way - another way of making roasted garlic in oil is to "confit" the garlic completely in oil - submerge the garlic in the oil and cook it at 275F (~135C) for ~3 hours. This will absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, raise the internal temp of the garlic to 135C, and if you handle it correctly, you will not re-introduce any bad bacteria. The FDA still won't let you sell it and that still goes against the UC Davis recommendations, despite being obviously sanitized. It is also delicious.

In other words, science is smart, but scientists can be dumb. Follow the science, not the scientists.
In my understanding the authenticator app is not the only way to have 2FA. It looks like here Booking was using the email for verification? This seems similar to a forgot password flow.
I Googled for: "Daniel Levy ai"

First hit: <<Daniel Levy - Stanford AI Lab: Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory https://ai.stanford.edu › ~danilevy Bio. I currently lead the Optimization team at OpenAI. Before that, I was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Stanford University advised by John Duchi.>>
Completely agree.

Imo we'll come to see that these categorizations of mental disorders are far too simplistic
In the computing industry as such, few people find it preferable, because few people know and work with Lisp.

In Lisp circles, I would say that the majority of the people find Lisp syntax preferable. Opinions similar "I'm only tolerating this to get to the macros" are hardly ever heard. The opinion, "I wish this non-Lisp language I have to work with were written in S-expressions" is often heard.

Lisp syntax is uniform, consistent, easily formatted in different levels of line breaking, easily manipulated by text editors.

There is no ambiguity due to associativity of precedence. You never wonder which expressions belong to which operator.

I got hooked on Lisp before Lisp macros became a meme; I liked working with it before learning about macros.

Lisp-syntax front ends for non-Lisp languages prove that there are communities of people who prefer that syntax. E.g. Hy or Hissp for Python, Fennel for Lua and such.

Lisps have a considerable amount of notation in addition to the parentheses. Not everything in the written source code is denoted by an open parenthesis and symbol. That's a strawman view of Lisp syntax. However, the notations are token notations that play along with the rest of the syntax.

Not all languages in the Lisp family or Lisp-likes have reader macros. Scheme doesn't have them, except the descendant Racket dialect which has the #lang thing. The Lisp-like functional language Clojure doesn't have reader macros, yet is quite popular.

In TXR Lisp, I intentionally didn't provide reader macros.

Reader macros are not heavily used in Common Lisp. Not all uses of reader macros in Common Lisp programs and libraries are for the purpose of deviating from the concepts of Lisp syntax.

Reader macros have disadvantages:

- the Lisp printer doesn't know about the syntax and doesn't use it.

- external code tooling doesn't know about reader macros: everything from syntax coloring to identifier cross-referencing and whatnot. That makes reader macros disruptive.

- reader macros can clash. (In the Common Lisp FOSS landscape, there is now a "named readtables" module for disciplined use of multiple custom syntaxes).
I think we should assume it will be badly aligned. Not only are there the usual bugs and unforeseen edge conditions, but there are sure to be unintended consequences. We have a long, public history of unintended consequences in laws, which are at least publicly debated and discussed. But perhaps the biggest problem is that computers are, by nature, unthinking bureaucrats who can't make the slightest deviation from the rules no matter how obviously the current situation requires it. This makes people livid in a hurry. As a non-AI example (or perhaps AI-anticipating), consider Google's customer support...
I think it is sort of different, though, Balmer was motivated to minimize the iPhone because they were his competition. It is an attempt to manipulate people. This odd thing where commenters online are never impressed by any tech thing, I’m not sure what the motivation is. They don’t even get a reputation for being so clever and jaded, because they are mostly pseudonymous.
Meanwhile Baker is chair of both Mozilla Corporation board and Mozilla Foundation board.
The examples you list are not known as mathematicians; they’re popularisers who (sometimes) happen to have qualifications and a history of studying the subject. 3B1B is absolutely brilliant but Grant Sanderson is not a ‘mathematician’ in the sense of someone who does research in mathematics.

Ironically, the fact that mathematics popularisation is as visible as it is is itself a sign of how much it is needed and therefore how unpopular and misunderstood the subject is. Branches of science like, say, astrophysics don’t need popularisation; people already think they’re cool.

The view of ‘people who are good at mathematics’ being bad at English is a relatively common one, in my experience. At least at the level of university students. People think there’s some sort of conservation of ability or equilibrium in the universe that means that if you have a ‘maths brain’ then you’re no good at much else, and vice versa. If anything, I think there’s a positive correlation between mathematical and communication ability — after all, mathematics is basically just the science of clever notation and clear-headed thinking.
yeah, at the end of the day if you can push it off, then its better than having to implement a shitty solution.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
All of them, really.
As a tourist, you don't have to work a regular job there, you don't have to rent an apartment or buy a home there, you don't have to deal with the locals on a day-to-day basis, you're usually not aware of the political issues (esp. at the local level). You just go to some popular tourist destinations, take photos, eat in restaurants, walk around a bit, and go home. Of course you're not going to get a very good idea of what it's really like to live there. You can, however, get a good feel for the place, especially if you step outside the tourist zones more, but it's going to be very incomplete because of the factors above.
Can you offer a counterexample?
If you design and build an airplane and it flies as expected, you know a lot about aeronautical engineering.

You cannot pretend it is flying when it isn't.

One of the reasons I chose to be an engineer.
quantfi doesn’t pay stock at all usually so i disagree that it implies cash + stock
Valid call out, this was firmly motivated by it being a super intelligence.
NSA already considers and flags Linux users as "extremists", so it was only a question of time before agencies in EU would do the same
During the early days of the pandemic, as advice to wear masks started to propagate into the population, and laypeople started to have to develop familiarity with concepts like ‘N95’, a community of helpful experts (often nurses and doctors, people with actual qualifications and real experience) piped up to tell the world that they had been trained in the proper use of PPE, and that there were very important donning and doffing procedures that needed to be followed (not touching the outside of the mask, eg), without which ordinary untrained mask users were going to be exposed to enormous risks. If you tried to use such masks without following these procedures you might as well just rub a dead bat on your face.

The thing is, though, that the PPE handling requirements which practitioners like nurses and doctors are trained in, for working in a clinical environment with patients who are highly infectious or highly vulnerable to infection, are not the same as the PPE handling requirements for walking around a supermarket during a public health emergency. Public health usage of masks was not supposed to solve the same problems as masks solve in surgery or in infectious disease care contexts.

Experts are vulnerable to having highly specific knowledge about how something works in a very narrow domain, but overestimating how well that knowledge applies to even quite closely related nearby domains.
Dinosaur fossils had been discovered before, but they were misidentified as elephants, whales or even giants and dragons.
> This is the opposite of idealism - is there a word for it?

Far from being the opposite of idealism, this approach is in fact the only one by which high ideals can be approximated in reality.

> You seem to be complaining that something is impossible because it can't be implemented in a perfect utopian way.

Quite to the contrary, the complaint is not merely that the pursuit of these goals would fall short of perfection, but rather that the consequences would largely be the inverse of the intentions.

In essence, idealism is its own opposite -- if you're looking for a single word to describe this critique, some good options might be "correctness", "efficacy", and "reasonableness".
No problem! Nice to hear you found the writing and code clear and easy to understand!
I learned in the last 3-4 years to never take seriously an article about aviation by a journalist.
This is a trash policy. It's reputation laundering as a service.
Ableton Live: The WineHQ page says "disable Max." I need that!

Affinity Suite: There's a long, involved dance to get it kind of working.

Arturia V Collection X: Mixed reports

Native Instruments stuff: Mixed reports

And even if it works at some point, I don't look forward to the prospect of waiting for someone to figure out how to make the next version work.

There are official Nvidia drivers for Linux for my GPU, but I don't know how well it would work, and I don't have anything to put install media on to test. Doing the dance with configuring EFI to boot a live CD from the SSD doesn't appeal to me.
I highly recommend "With Each And Every Breath": https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/WithEachAndEveryBreath/Con...

Also, the "Waking Up" app, which has a fantastic collection of guided meditations, dharma talks, theory, etc.

"The Mind Illuminated" is a really good book too, with a very specific (and effective) technique taught in a lot of detail.
I was listening to the latest Lex Friedman podcast from the Amazon jungle and there was an interesting comment that the “reality is a simulation” folks have never had to survive in the Amazon and that the belief is somewhat of a side effect of the relative safety of everyday life.
Now I'm suspicious of your Emerson quote.
One of my earliest jobs as a mechanical engineer was checking the pneumatic tube shop drawings for Perth Children's Hospital. Basically looking for bends with too small a radius and appropriate collars through firewalls.

One of the engineers suggested adding a transparent loop the loop passing through the public atrium for a bit of fun but predictably this was denied.
I live and drive in the U.S. and the perception of what counts as being “cut off” is regional and correlated with density.

A maneuver that’s perfectly acceptable in NYC can earn you an angry honk in the suburbs. For better or worse, in large swaths of the US people are accustomed to having loads of space on the road and ample time to react to changes in traffic patterns.

New Yorkers would call other people lazy/inefficient drivers. Other people call New Yorkers crazy/aggressive drivers. YMMV.
Nah, idealism is itself defeatism -- nothing sustains the status quo greater than people wallowing in speculation unmoored from reality instead of taking practical measures to address the problems before them.
It's insane to read all the vile abuse thrown at you because people are angry at Silicon Valley big wigs and your absolute composure over it.

You're a beast, dang, and I highly respect you for it.
This is an excellent writeup, it's refreshing to see detailed writeups that are quick to load
Very cool!

How hard is it to use though for someone without a real technical skill set ?
My degree in AgSci has nothing to do with farming?
Eating cheese plays a role in healthy, happy aging – who are we to argue?
Might be running on a botnet of CoPilot PCs
Which open source Python based ETL tool would one recommend for someone starting an ETL project today? It’s a data volume heavy project with lot of interdependencies between import tasks.
Does it have to be pneumatic? Electric propulsion would be simpler and not need a tight fit in the tube.
Then I supposed I'd have to re-evaluate my priors. Are there any 'facts of the matter' that might substantiate an alternate conclusion?
An educated populace can better resist such issues. The solution is better journalism/reporting and better education.

Instead, the knee jerk reaction seems to be calling for further hollowing out of public education and less investment in traditional news media. I fear what that looks like after a few more decades.
As I recall in that case he did a experiment to test his theory, (he chilled a sample of material the O-ring was made of and observered the result) and proved his hypothesis. The scientific method at work. You dont need to be a expert at everything when you have the resources to do adaquite research and experimentally test theories.
> It seems to assume that everyone has a webserver running a LAMP stack.

Shared hosts are pretty near a dime a dozen. Or just `apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php` and you’re ready to go with no project changes.

> You have a much easier to set up local dev server (Install `node`, then `npm install` and `npm dev`)

Which version of node? Which version of npm? When I come back to this in six months am I going to find out some dependency relies on a dependency that relies on a dependency that only works on node 3.14 and end up installing nvm and stepping through versions trying to get this running?

For PHP I will need to install PHP. For this kind of stuff basically any version from the past decade will work. It’s in every package manager everywhere, has a windows installer, etc. (There’s a reason every PHP dev isn’t using a PHP equivalent to “PHP version manager”.)

Once that’s installed, just `php -S 127.0.0.1:8000` and open it in your browser. Serves all your static files and stuff too without any changes to any of them—an existing jumble of HTML and CSS is a 100% valid PHP project.

It’s usually substantially easier for me to get a ten year old PHP project running than a six month old JS project.
And Snow Crash (1992)
Very similar to my experience! By the time I was a senior in '94, I was the student employee for the University Computing Center's Unix group and had to run around fixing all the workstations on campus and spent a lot of time administrating the various departments multi-user servers. Didn't touch the VMS machines though, there was a different group for that. I don't believe they had a student employee.
Smug people tend to be wrong, because they are emotionally entangled with their beliefs.
Did you read TFA? This exact phenomenon is discussed thoroughly in the post.
> The monopoly of Chrome over the marketplace suggests you are wrong

It would seem to suggest the exact opposite, since the "monopoly" (sic; actually dominance in a competitive space) you are referring to is the product entirely of user adoption at scale.
> I want to find someone who is actually proud of saving a tone of people over the years.

See if you can talk to somebody who has staffed a suicide prevention (telephone) hotline for a decade or so.
Woah, this is really cool to see here! Thanks for the post!
You have the vacuum serviced, of course! Like any other appliance. My parents built their dream home in 1999 and included a central vac, it needed some TLC in the mid 2010's so they called the company up to service it since it had a lifetime warranty.

Naturally 'lifetime' meant for the homeowner who purchased the unit, so the company often didn't have to honor the warranty as failures were uncommon until the 3rd, 4th or 5th owner. The tech was bemused when he came out to work on it since it was his first warranty call.
Does it mean that chat communications with steganography would also be outlawed in EU?
Cybersecurity i think.
My question is: "How the hell can these landlords continue to eat all that cashflow loss?"

Somebody in all this financing is lying through their teeth. The Feds need to go find and unravel that loose thread post haste.
This appears to be governement software for Serious People doing Serious Work so I'm guessing... not very.
Bhutan, for one, restricts tourists to a subset of the country to limit the damage caused by overtourism.
Honestly curious, what is the benefit of blockchain outside of providing evidence in court?
Whenever I see results like this, I wonder if these scientists can diagnose depression with an MRI. It would be pretty easy to do that experiment, and my sense is that we just aren't there yet. And so I wonder if experiments like this are just measuring noise.
Perhaps it was simply a very big fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and thought that no-one should be without a towel.
Things like "best phone 2024 reddit".

J/k, I don't disagree.
A counter argument is that nuclear arms brought unprecedented worldwide peace. If it's to be used as an analogy for AI, we should consider that the outcome isn't clear cut and lies in the eye of the beholder.
And yet the current dominance of Chrome, having decisively displaced IE in all use cases except entrenched legacy ones with high switching costs, conclusively disproves the very point you are making: nearly everyone did switch away from IE despite Microsoft doing the exact things you are describing.
> solari board

TIL what those are called! I've only ever seen them in movies and when going through Frankfurt airport.
No one appreciates this tide reversal back towards hateoas principles and semantic HTML more than me, but why does it always come with prescriptions to adopt some new tech? You can implement all this stuff using literally any framework from the past 15 years if you want.
I used to use custom modelines to overclock CRT monitors.

Monitors had a spec, of course -- and it was easy-enough to stay within that spec. They were bandwidth-constrained, but as analog devices that bandwidth was always somewhat flexible.

So why have settle for 1024x768 at 75Hz that the book says will work, when that same 15" monitor would do 1360x1020 or more at a similar refresh rate and still have readable tiny text? Why not run a 19" monitor at 2130x1598?

"You can fit so many xterms in this baby!"

And why not shrink down the vertical blanking interval and front and back porches as far as possible before geometry got too bad, to maximize the number of pixels that could be pushed down the wire within a given bandwidth? And why not tweak the trimpots inside to put the monitor's front panel controls into a better range for this kind of service?

Fun times, those. The quality of the VGA cable made a substantial difference in smear when pushing things hard enough (literally bandwidth-throttled video), and getting a better DAC to drive the kit with (for even more literal bandwidth) was a primary motivation for periodically finding a better video card.

(No fires to report even after a decade and a half or so of these games. Sorry. I guess if any of this stuff ever caught on fire I'd have found a different approach.)
In the context of articles the answer is simple: because the journalist isnt the specialist, they likely just interviewed a few people and wrapped it up the article.

For comments it's a different story. You do occasionally get the real experts, but more often then not, you just get another mediocre human like myself that just voiced their opinion. Furthermore, there is a strong correlation with experts not commenting as they've got better things to do vs the average Joe that is commenting with little effort, essentially outputting significantly more comments.
Another detrimental factor is that mentally unwell people will often output orders of magnitude more comments then everyone else, complicating everything even more.
As soon as I read that quote I immediately searched to verify and stopped reading the rest of the blog post.

I found another blog quoting this one, but pointing out the quote was fake, and another vaguely similar quote:

"Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room." - Idries Shah
Ouch. I've been reading and commenting for years here, but I don't presume to gatekeep, or indeed lament that it's turning into reddit(?), the latter being distinctly against the HN commenting guidelines. Just downvote me and move on, you've got the karma for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I want to do some laser etching with this format, though the density or ultimately path length might take more time than I want.

Posted previously by the author, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905534

Other fun in browser art links

* https://scrollart.org/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419088
there's a difference between hating and wanting to rein in out of control criminal organizations