skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My apologies, some analogies are definitely tone-deaf. Developers, producers, QA in North Carolina definitely have more options than most people on the planet. And I am definitely not in a position to tell them what to do with their lives. Voting with the wallet is probably the most effective way available to me personally,
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The only phrase which really is "too French" here is "proposes to the sagacity of its admirers". (It's not wrong, but not many English speakers still use "propose" in its sense of "set before someone as a goal".) Other than that, I see a well-balanced sentence in which every word has a purpose – but "well-balanced" versus "straight-forward" is a matter of taste.
Some time around the early 500's, the Roman-British people pushed back against the Saxon invasion. We know this from archaeological and numismatic finds.

Yet we have no idea who the hell led this beyond the legends of King Arthur.

Dark enough for me.
You think everyone not using C is just being idiots?
Laser interferometry will pinpoint the distance to far less than a millimeter.
I’m not saying people seek out being sad to attain pleasure. I’m saying that when people are already sad, pushing the buttons in your brain to explore that sadness results in a positive feeling. Science is already on board that crying releases oxytocin and endorphins. I’m merely suggesting that crying is not absolutely required for the brain offer a similar comforting response when sad.

I further posit that given humans have a tendency to get addicted to any source of endorphins from phone screens to spicy peppers, they can and do get addicted to this one.

If you want to triple down on strictness and say only crying gives pleasure from sadness... sure whatever. I’m not going to make that my hill to die on.

Edit: and note that if someone did accumulate tolerance to natural calming emotional counteragents, that sounds like a very compelling setup for depression.
> now will you fix the keyboards for realsies this time?

Hopefully with the quick turnaround more people will bring theirs in and get the failure rate numbers up closer to reality vs. the "small number" of failures they seem to think there is.
> Same reason purses don't NEED logos all over them.

In a way, they do. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/gLUzgWAEGjY
Very important excerpt:

> Beginning today, commercial licenses are no longer required for commercial use of any Caddy binaries.
>It's not meant to be a list of purely literal facts. It's entertaining and a pleasure to read.
> It’s food advice because the English-speaking culture of today values writing that sounds like speech.

And lord forbid us for writing in a way or about subjects that don't please as much of the potential readers as possible. They might not click on our data-mined ads if we did. The fucks.
> without Homebrew, Macports (oh hey, BSD ports!), or pkgsrc (oh hey, BSD ports again!)

The only thing that makes macos at all usable for me is Nix.
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I posted about this on my blog here: https://1125.io/#/2019-01-21_21:58_Playing_within_a_Windows_...

Also I recently discovered some very in-depth blog posts here: https://heiko-sieger.info/iommu-groups-what-you-need-to-cons...

Another whole website about this topic (no joke): https://passthroughpo.st/
not defending it, but I think it boils down to the requirement to be able to quickly issue specific commands to various subsystems. So one choice would be a Domain-Specific Language, the other would be an "everyone-already-knows-it" language like JS.
After working on the neural speech-prosthesis problem in the single (or nearly single) electrode case, this seems to be a promising result from the ECoG side of things. While there's a few more results I'd like to see about how things would be expected to generalize more broadly over time/neural-input, it does look like the results are fairly solid.

Hopefully there can be some further development from here into some practical applications.
Wild... incredibly interesting, but a REALLY long way around, effectively using two layers of FFI abstractions in/out of the CLR and a lot of extra overhead to do it.

Not that I haven't done similar before, to work around problems as a faster way to the end... but I'd think if the source were available for the C# bindings, that it might be possible to look into that as for hints in how to access the missing API piece directly.
If I understand the Nim manual correctly, there is no sharing of objects across threads. Instead, Nim assumes message passing. When you communicate between threads, Nim makes a deep copy of the message.

In theory, that strategy could be very inefficient if the messages are large, but it also means the garbage collector is unaware of threads and therefore simpler.
Interpreters tend to have repls, which tends to influence how development happens. I'm not stating an absolute law though.

I think you may be misinterpreting my original question. It was asked out of ignorance, it wasn't a challenge. I was hypothesising some kind of self modifying code, or realtime adaptive optimising or something. I was attempting to show you my current level of knowledge so you could ELI7 instead of 5 :)
I know little about flying, so I'm not sure if this would be useful, or even if it's done already, but I wonder if it isn't possible to arrange the flight warnings/alarms into some kind of heirarchy or order them by priority?
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I think we should all be able to agree that there are no commercially-available "current self-driving cars" - there are cars with ADAS, but they are far from self-driving. And if you tried to let your "self-driving car" actually drive itself on the typical routes that a person takes through the course of a month (not on a closed course), you would never arrive, either because you died in a crash or because the car gave up.

(NB: I own a Tesla Model 3 and have the various "self driving" options.)
Most of the time I cannot drop by their office or home office and watch over their shoulder, but I try to do my due diligence as much as possible. Last game I played for example, was from this team [1], started playing it when it was an actual indie company (Alex as a single developer and Lacey as ops)

[1] http://edgeworksentertainment.com/about
> If the answer is a universal religion plus a sea faring civilization gives you world power it still makes me wonder why it took until the late 1400s to kick off.

I'm not sure it would fit the idea, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
Yep, it's extremely mistaken (but very American) to assume that American preferences on writing style prevail in all other languages and regions. To take one example, in written German the passive voice is often considered better style, whereas in contemporary English it's the exact opposite.
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I dont think this will solve the problem. The problem results from the deep barriers to proper study construction, especially in biomedical science, where enrolling patients in a controlled study is often extremely challenging. This means samples are acquired as available and not prospectively.

Does this mean we cant do "science" on such a dataset? Maybe we cant do the "usual" science, of case vs. control => p.value. But a lot of domains of science operate on uncontrolled data sets and make do with post-hoc interpretation (geology, I'm looking at you).

We need different mathematical tools and epistemologies to confront these datatsets; we cant just hope that everyone will suddenly start doing it "right".
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Mid FAANG level compensation goes a lot further in Cary, NC than it does in the Bay Area though. If bonuses are 3-4x salary like mentioned in the article, then most employees are making more than they would for an equivalent role at FAANG (baring stock anomalies). According to glass door senior software engineers at Epic make around ~$150K. Three to four times that is $450K-$600K, which is higher than the equivalent at FAANG according to level.fyi (L5 at Google and E5 at FB make ~$350K). This isn't justifying crunch so much as it's pointing out that Epic games seems to be paying out bonuses that are on another level. I've worked on break-away game titles and currently work at FAANG so I generally agree with you and have points of reference.
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I can't tell from the video if the hot code reloading is meant for production workflows or dev only workflows. For example being able to use HCR to update a long-lived TCP server (like a video streaming server) without disconnecting clients.

It seems like it forces pointers for everything which, which seems to me will break a lot of optimizations (like inlining)

Edit: I guess production use is limited anyway since you can't add, modify, or remove types with HCR yet.

Edit2: I just saw in the video they said it's 2x times slower, so definitely can't be used for a lot of workflows in production. Still useful though.
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I find that page kind of dubious at best, given the substantial number of factual assertions without sources, the conveniently unavailable video, the entirely anonymous letter cited as a source, and the basic fact that even the very existence of "aerotoxic syndrome" has been rejected by inquiries and studies in several countries[1][2].

[1]: http://www.asma.org/asma/media/asma/Travel-Publications/Cabi...

[2]: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsc...

Edit: The "evidence" on that page is the existence of pilots who died prematurely of heart conditions and suicides, an anonymous letter scanned from a self-published book, a conveniently unavailable video, a bunch of slides without citations, the presumption that a lack of official information about a supposed previous event (which has all the same hallmarks of non-proof) is proof of a nefarious conspiracy, and a death report that mentions acute myocardial infarction and lethal levels of opioids from which we're somehow supposed to conclude that the actual cause of death was an airborne neurotoxin inhaled 50 days before.
Not this article but this has happened

http://avherald.com/h?article=4b6eb830&opt=1024
From an end user perspective, Paypal is a service which magically sends money over the Internet, and you're near-permanently logged into it, so you can pay for anything with almost no friction after you use it for the first time. A Stripe dialog is just a form/modal you see on a website asking you for your credit card details.

They're similar services when you break them down, but Paypal is almost more like a social network for users, with accounts people may re-use dozens or hundreds of times over a year to pay for things. Many end users probably have no clue what Stripe is and just see a generic Web 3.0-looking credit card form (probably ignoring reassurances about how the merchant website doesn't actually receive the card data; that stuff goes over many people's heads, or they just don't even notice it).
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I don't know much about the strict definition, but that's how I use them. I have had several clients that want to analyze data they didn't capture in their schema. I'd say: disk is cheap. Throw everything in there (medical records, events, etc.). If we need it later, we'll fish it out. Ugly, but simple.
I lurked for years both here and on reddit before creating an account. I finally created one when I wanted to say something.
I think the fact that it's audio recordings makes it seem more emotive and intimate than plain text.

It's like when you're on the phone to some robot booking service and a real person takes over you're suddenly embarrassed to have been talking to the robot at all.
> what boils down to shaming people for not communicating the way you want is wrong

Which is exactly what the second half of your post is, but moreso than the person you are criticizing.

There is no point in having a discussion board if people are going to be criticized because something they said with sincerity might offend somebody. That is the nature of speech.
Ron, you're hung up on Shor's algorithm. But you continue to avoid addressing my claim (above). Perhaps that's because you don't understand the fundamental difference between localist and distributed representations. In any case, your continued use of "quack" while you also continue to admit you don't understand the thing you're criticizing,...well, it's just pathetic. Anyway, let's stop. I don't really see any value in communicating with you further.
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That's fair enough. I can certainly see that games have gotten so large that there just isn't enough time in the day to play multiple 80h+ games all at once.
Uh? I much preferred NX instead of VNC because I didn't have to define the resolution when starting the server, plus it felt faster
Yeah, written English corresponds to spoken English more than in a lot of other languages, where the vocabulary and grammar can vary considerably between the written and spoken word.
Why tho?

It seems odd to require client side code (probably rendered by the server anyway) just to do a redirect, servers are perfectly capable of that. Doesn't the server have the sessionId and public key anyway? Why do you do it this way?
I think PBS has a nicer ring to it myself.
I've seen announcement about .Net interior support in Apache Spark some time ago.
The benchmarks are interesting and tell the story - in few cases it is faster than Python, but slower than native (for Spark) Scala/JVM. Maybe with Arrow interchange Python's performance would increase (and for other interpose that would use Array - i.e. for .Net).

But performance is not the only thing - there is also ability to debug issues. For this you still need to dig into Apache core which is in Scala.

This implementation in .Net would be "gateway drug" for moving your production to Scala/JVM.

It happened to me with PySpark - majority or tasks at hand can be solved with PySpark. But digging into the issues and stack traces brought me to Scala internals of Apache Spark.
As a result in cases when python specific libraries are not needed and high performance needed I would write Spark programs Scala from the beginning.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any relation to the Remarkable Tablet?
Make a vacuum onion.

1d-compressium, 1d-tensilium, and 2d-tensilium are all allotropes of obtainium, being the materials with the highest uniaxial compressive strength to mass ratio, the highest uniaxial tensile strength to mass ratio, and the highest biaxial tensile/shear strength to mass ratio. Currently, those are probably diamond struts, buckytube fiber cables, and graphene sheets.

Throw 2d-tensilium envelope around a tensegrity frame with 1d-compressium struts and 1d-tensilium cables. Pump out the interior gas until it breaches or collapses.

Start over. This time, put another frame and envelope around the first, and anchor them to each other with more 1d-tensilium cables. Pump out the interior gas of both pockets until the outer shell breaches or collapses.

Repeat, until the pressure differential on every envelope and shell is insufficient to breach the envelope or buckle the frame. Now you have a gradient from vacuum to atmospheric pressure instead of a perfect vacuum in the whole volume, but you don't have to find any unobtainium to build it.

As a bonus, you can put the envelope on the inside of the shells, and follow a similar process of breaking each one with air, to make an inflatable spacecraft hull that can hold 1 atm of breathing gas on the inside without rupturing in vacuum, using minimal mass.
"mostly college educated, live in a large city, have a sense of professional ethics, are exposed to people from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities"

You're making "cosmopolitan bias" look good, when it's not. It's still bias. Having a better education and being exposed to more cultures than the average person does not guarantee that you won't be a closed-minded, fundamentalist, holier-than-thou jerk.

Source: country-raised metropolitan-educated journalist
I've wondered recently if historical prominence and quality of life are anticorrelated: if the civilizations we think of as biggest and greatest are the ones that were the worst to live under. Or, more provocatively, if civilization is just relationship dysfunction on a grand scale.

What is civilization? It's centralization of power, increasing specialization of roles, usually higher population density, greater interconnectedness between people, a dominant ideology & discourse, and subordination of individual will to collective power. We look at the Romans or the Mongols or the Aztecs or the Pax Britannia or Pax Americana as great civilizations because there is something there that us, as observers centuries later, can point to and hang our minds on.

But what does life look like for individual humans under one of these civilizations? The Romans practiced slavery on a grand scale; the Mongols conquest, the Aztecs human sacrifice; the British colonialism; and the Americans capitalist exploitation.

There is a movement, today, that life should be more focused around local communities, person-to-person interactions, individual freedom, authenticity, and a return to human-centric ideologies. What would such a society look like to future historiographers? Communications would revert to person-to-person interactions rather than massively published tracts. Much of it would be ephemeral; Snapchat or Whatsapp rather than the WWW or Twitter. There's no need to fix communications into a tangible medium or distribute it widely when the audience is a single human being at a single moment in time. Large infrastructure projects would essentially become impossible, as getting the required cooperation from different interests without a monopoly on coercion becomes unrealistic. Think of NIMBYism on a society-wide scale. Trade might continue, but rather than organized supply-chains, it reverts back to supplying individual wants.

To an observer a millenia in the future, it would look like a collapse of civilization, because there would be no big entities that they could look at and say "That's how people lived back then." But to the individual human living in the moment, it could instead be viewed as a return to freedom, community, and person-to-person relationships, all of which are valued highly by nearly everyone (particularly today). Both viewpoints are true; the difference is in the scale that the observer observes them.
It might seem surprising, but OS X is pretty fine for programming without dealing with Homebrew, Macports or whatever.

That is not what matters to developers invested into Apple's ecosystem.
The idea of "fumes that are causing pilots to pass out in the cockpit and then die" (supposedly "aerotoxic syndrome") has been rejected by inquiries and studies in several countries[1][2].

[1]: http://www.asma.org/asma/media/asma/Travel-Publications/Cabi...

[2]: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldselect/ldsc...
Excluding risk variants, they are FDA approved to test :

BRCA1
BRCA2
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
G6PD Deficiency
Hereditary Amyloidosis (TTR-Related)
Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HFE‑Related)
Hereditary Thrombophilia
Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

They are also able to report carrier status for 40 other diseases which I am too lazy to copy and paste here.

Lastly they have dozens of risk alleles reported for parkinsons, CVD, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and many other diseases.

Being positive for any one of these tests would be a constitute a significant, life-altering diagnosis. Know the carrier status could also impact and help avoid bad outcomes in your children. All of these are provided by the basic SNP array and have real and immediate value and which you can use to help mitigate the development of future disease.
Whats the benefit of immediate mode libs? I haven't had the opportunity to use one before. I'm hopeful for libui in the future, but maybe I should consider immediate mode libraries?

https://github.com/andlabs/libui
> So I trust the authors published on nytimes.com... because I trust the NYT. Likewise, if I mistrust the org, I'll mistrust the contributors.

This is probably the best argument I know of for having journalistic 'institutions'. Gellman Amnesia is a real thing, and very hard to solve for any topic where you're not an expert. But if a source manages to provide a predictable level of quality over many stories, it's suddenly possible to use the topics you know as a way to predict the quality of everything else.

Of course, the downside of that is the way it creates confidence that can then be abused, and in particular the risk that everyday accuracy will provide an aegis for misrepresenting topics which people can't fact-check. Functionally, it's something like the SSL chain-of-trust problem; the tradeoff for being able to trust things we can't personally inspect is having a system which propagates any claim that gets past the weakest gatekeeper involved.

I don't think it's very common for journalism orgs to go off the rails completely, and when they do people eventually catch up to the loss of quality. Rather, I worry about trusted names being manipulated to spread stories without showing proper evidence. If you're running Theranos and know actual scientists would laugh at your data, or you're promoting the invasion of Iraq and know no one can challenge your "classified evidence", the name of a trusted news source becomes a welcome road to legitimacy. And instead of convincing a bunch of reputable blogs or analysts who each have their own reputation on the line, you can shop a claim until someone bites and then start using their output to convince further voices.

(There's an interesting debate hidden in there about source anonymity: keeping sources anonymous from other journalists, even after they're proven dishonest, allows them to try out a lie repeatedly without being caught. It's a tough problem.)

As you say, most of my favorite sources are either bloggers or specific writers I trust by name instead of organization. But there's a lot to be said for delinking "knows and writes about a topic" from "has strong verification practices and a reputation to risk"; there are just too many interesting stories to rely on personal reputation for every one of them.
The reduction in pigs will drop demand and price for soy which is already commonly used for meat/protein substitutes (like the Impossible Burger v2 is a lot of soy, and raw TVP is pretty close to ground meat in texture). I don't think that people will be happy, but they aren't going to have to go hungry unless they're carnivores.
Would be nice if Unixes provided better support for pipelines of this sort...