skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better coverage of the space of weights (less clumps and holes).
If I understand the lottery ticket hypothesis [0] correctly, this would lead to a better exploration of the space and thus better results.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
While they advocate against doing just that.
There do exist frameworks that allow exhaustive testing of concurrent code. They never really became mainstream though.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/chess-a...

http://www.1024cores.net/home/relacy-race-detector
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Per Capita (Metric Tons of CO2e Per capita):

China: 8.49
India: 2.28
United States: 19.9
Japan: 10.55

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
These kind of article raises more questions than answers. Leaving aside politics on this, I need to know more.

How does this "greening" help? Is it more due to agriculture or forests? If it's due to agriculture, what are the unintended consequences?

While this article is positive in its tone (which I appreciate) I can't help but feel that it's shallow. It's green so yayy! But what comes next? Increased greenery due to agriculture can probably never have the same positive effects as a forest, at least for the surrounding ecology and biome.
Ended up checking the zippers on my hoodie and pants. Yep, they have tabs.
Yeah, nuts are pretty much my staple snack food.

I try to reduce sugars, though -- they've got an addictive quality -- which takes out fruit and most snack bars and cookies.
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I invested two weeks with in-depth analysis of the available papers and came to the conclusion that there is no good evidence. Usually the produced quantities where below the error margins of the background noise, or they put in so much energy that the measured effects could have come from any reaction, or it was not reproducible by others.
Yes, but read up a bit:

> For thousands of years, diseases had been seen through the lens of kampo, traditional Chinese herbal medicine. In kampo, disease was caused by heat or evils and was treated with herbal remedies.

> Sometimes the medicine was hokey, but other times it worked—as was the case with azuki and barley supplements for beriberi.

We can find, using science, if some folk medicine is hokey or useful. That is the key. Ground rhino horn still doesn't cure squat. Science fights "pre-scientific human knowledge" here in an uphill battle that will probably result in extinction of rhinos before this "pre-scientific human knowledge" is countered by science and reason.
The cost is in opportunity. I know a number of competent developers who wanted to add something to OpenBSD (and had a good chance of succeeding), but were so put off by CVS (which is especially inconvenient if you're not already an OpenBSD maintainer) that they either stopped right there, or didn't continue after getting CVS "working". It's not that people can't use CVS, it's that nobody in their right mind would willingly suffer the personal insult of being required to use CVS, because it has basically nothing going for it, and there are so many other options.

I think this is a bit of survivorship bias: CVS is working fine for the people it works fine for, but who knows? Maybe out there somewhere, there's somebody who was put off by CVS, who would otherwise have gone on to finally update the Radeon drivers for GPUs from the last five years.
I tuned out about 18 months ago. One Mod In Particular got all uppity and started swinging a big stick about, so i logged off and haven't been back. The archived posts are still valuable, though.
For sure! I'm not saying democracy should be abandoned. I'm saying that

1) china might not actually be quite like its depicted in the west
2) what we call authoritarian is often just counter to our ideology that people should be able to deploy capital however they see fit with little consequence.

Anyway your point that it just takes correctly allocated capital to solve this problem is 100% salient.

(And before anyone jumps on #2, yes, the CPC does not allow some types of political dissent that we are allowed in public in the west and that should be criticized. But we need to criticize it for the right reasons, as opposed to blindly asserting that nothing horrible has ever happened due to what I would call free speech fundamentalism.)
There’s another response to this supporting staying where you grow up. I’m not against this in any way, but leaving your home community has value as well.

I left where I grew up in rural suburban Ohio and followed my girlfriend to a college 500 miles from home. Beyond her, I knew no one else (and we quickly broke up).

I then moved east to Boston after graduating. Once again, knew no one. I had no financial support from family, no couches to sleep on, just quite literally me and my dog.

I built a life there, which was my own. It was tough, had some bad roommates at times, was in debt and poor, but quickly learned all the things I needed to be self sufficient (sans the food gathering) in this life. I met the woman who would later become my wife, started a career, made great friends, and eventually moved to LA.

My wife grew up in NH, went to school in Boston, and her “moving away” was when we went to LA. It was an important growth moment for her, and she’s been able to learn things about herself she couldn’t with her support structure in Boston.

So, moving away has tons of challenges. But, in a lot of ways, it’s like joining a startup. You end up wearing a lot of hats because there’s no one else to wear them for you. You quickly learn you can tackle problems in front of you better than you realized, and you gain confidence that will serve you throughout your life.
It's a lot easier and more affordable to source eggs and dairy from humane sources than it is to source meat.
Is this a global phenomenon?

In the UK we had an unemployment problem when Margaret Thatcher was around, one solution to that was to lower the entry barriers for further education. University became remarkably easy to get into, however, the economics of this were such that teaching was different.

In the sciences it was much more profitable for a university to run access courses with 10x the amount of 'customers'. However, you would not have students getting one to one tuition time and having experiments taking up ten foot of a workbench. It was more a matter of multiple choice questions with none of the staff personally mentoring the students.

Some of the older courses were impossible to get a first in. The course I did had historically only ever given out one first, just getting a pass was a heroic achievement.

Due to the elitist nature of how it worked back then a given institution had a certain amount of reputation that went with it so an employer would know that getting a third from a highly reputable university was of merit, not to be compared with a higher grade issued by a mere 'polytechnic'.

I did not think the elitism was bad back then. The reason being that if the state had invested so much money in you then there was an expectation to pay it back. But that all changes when the onus of payment falls on the students and the bank of mum and dad.

Perhaps that is the nub of the problem. When you have students paying for their education you need to have a certain amount of grade inflation to make the investment worthwhile to them.

I would be interested to know if countries that do have state funded free tertiary education can keep a grip of grade inflation. I know that some professional degrees, e.g. in medicine, are not internationally comparable. So, if Western countries don't recognise East European or other degrees in the same way, there should be no need to grade inflate.
Nice theory, but the facts don't support it.

While elite institutions use such arguments to justify their grade inflation, grade inflation is actually seen across all kinds of educational institutions. The system overall is less selective than it used to be. And grade inflation is proceeding far too quickly in recent years to be explained by a changing student body.

See http://www.gradeinflation.com/ for data backing up what I claim.
Teaching research is unfortunately fairly balkanised and my brief stint in the science of teaching was in German, so I could, for the most part, only offer references to German text books. However, it’s established that active learning increases student performance significantly [1], and systematic active learning was only introduced into curricula fairly recently (and not yet pervasively). Where this was done this has by necessity caused an at least partial “grade inflation” but I’ll admit that its adoption is far from satisfactory so (as my comment already noted!) it might not be sufficient to explain grade inflation.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410.full
You implement a Job Guarantee. The ability to sell your labour to the central bank at the living wage, who then allocates it to local democracy to use as local democracy sees fit working for the public good.

After all the 'interest rate targeting' function of the central bank, and the unelected wonks that run it, is supposed to guarantee full employment. If it isn't doing so, then those who screwed up should obviously pay the price of their failure.

That it acts as a powerful targeted automatic stabiliser injecting liquidity temporally and spatially on demand into local economies in a manner bank lending could never hope to match is just an added bonus.
Many US hospitals are for-profit... and they still have the same problems, or worse. The tv show The Resident is based on the experience of two doctors at a for profit hospital at the start of their careers.
AI can now fabricate a video from still images
The amount of stuff I have has never led me to rent a larger apartment than I otherwise would've, so it seems like the marginal cost of more stuff is zero for me, at least for now? It's not like I'm renting additional storage space or anything (which is an option in the basement of my apartment building, but that certainly wouldn't be worth it).

All the extra tools, parts, and such that I have fit into two normal sized moving boxes, which can easily be stuffed under the bed or take up a shelf in a closet.

I have more of a problem with books than I do with tools and parts.
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....And it’s currently run by a fossil fuel lobbyist.

While I’m not arguing for the US to not be a democracy, it’s important to accept that democracies are not perfect, have many flaws and require constant vigilance to ensure the knobs of State power don’t end up in the hands of incompetent idiots (as they are in the current administration).
The designer's perception that people will see it as a defect is perhaps giving consumers too much credit. I inspected several zippers around me, and most of them have the tab, yet I have never noticed, and I am not sure why I would care. A zipper pull with a tab seems slightly easier to grasp, anyway. Furthermore, many jackets and bags have cordage threaded through their zipper pulls, so it wouldn't even be felt by the user.
Hey Brian, great to see you on here. Any updates or thoughts as to where Signal is these days? I would love to switch over to it as my primary messenger, but the majority of my non-tech friends haven't heard of it before.
Show HN: Emu – language for numerical computing embedded in Rust
From 1936 onwards, the Gestapo was entirely subordinate to the SS, as were most of the police organizations in Germany. There was no rivalry between it and the SS, nor with the Wehrmacht.
Wow, that's almost exactly what I would have guessed. The block distance in Chicago is 1/8th mile (200m).
Fine with me. Maybe this will put an end to the conspiracy theories about suppression of of cold fusion experiments.
> Moreover, ER wait times also increased for many during that time period: In 2017, the median ER wait time for patients before admission as inpatients to California hospitals was 336 minutes — or more than 5½ hours

Comparable stats from the UK: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/urgent-emergency-care/...

> By September 2017, the median waiting time had increased to 2 hours 28 minutes, and 95 per cent of patients departed A&E within 7 hours of arrival.

So not only do Americans get to wait twice as long, but they have to pay for it as well? You have to pay for ambulances? Why is this not politicized more?

Mind you, where ever you go and however the system is run, queues will be worse in the evening especially at weekends. Some queueing is unavoidable and best dealt with by triage.
"the government arrests people and seizes factories that violate these ecological goals"

Why isn't this a good thing? Shouldn't people who ignore ecological laws be punished? And anyway, how do you propose to fix climate change without massive, centralized planning, including punishment of those who subvert such a fix for personal gain?

Also, in your link, the plants are closed, not seized.
Was 0.99 per year even profitable?
Not the point. The point is that we are the opposite of the facebook mum. She believes anything that is posted without evidence, while we don't dare to even try something without 4 white papers.

It's especially funny given that meditation, psychedelic and open source software were all ridiculed concepts 30 years ago, and now we are promoting them in this very comment section.
Muon catalysed fusion is not comparable to chemical catalysts for one thing. Secondly, although enough muons can actually be created, too many are lost for the reaction to work out.
On the other hand, India is more federated and much less centralized (nor authoritarian) and they’ve achieved progress in this area too!
> But programming has strict rules itself and will also fail if not adhered to so I never understood the complaint of "draconian" error checking in XML/XHTML.

In most cases, if your code has some syntax error, the author of the code sees the syntax error; in the web case, if your code has some syntax error, the user sees the syntax error. That's the dramatic difference.

The other reality is unlike program code, there's vastly more often user content intermixed in (X)HTML and it's rare for people to implement sanitisation correctly (do you handle U+0000? U+FFFF? U+1FFFF? most people outputting XHTML historically haven't, even if they get the security critical stuff (like "<") right).
This is part of the code-as-docs ethos which has really changed how I write everything. I try to make my code as intuitive as possible to obviate comments and documentation that only explain what the code is doing. You could also call it code-as-prose.

This is impeded when languages have popular modules with names that are absolutely unintuitive, like the Python "requests" module. Requests what? Oh, HTTP? Then it should have been called http_requests. And the module that one uses, urllib3, is actually an HTTP library, not a generic URL library (URLs can be any web request, such as ftp, mailto, jdbc, etc).
You're talking about the grossly-misnamed (since large portions of it do not contain any questions) OpenBSD FAQ, which is where guide and tutorial stuff is to be found.

BSDs (and some others) come with variously-named Handbooks. OpenBSD has the aforementioned. FreeBSD has a Handbook. So do DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, and others. They are distinct from the user manuals, which are the reference doco. They are, indeed, hyperlinked. Already.

* OpenBSD FAQ: http://openbsd.org/faq/index.html

* NetBSD Guide: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/

* FreeBSD Handbook: https://freebsd.org/doc/handbook/book.html

* DragonFly BSD Handbook: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/

* GhostBSD Handbook: https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/GhostBSD_User_Handbook

* MicroBSD Handbook: http://damnsmallbsd.org/MicroBSD/handbook/

* OpenIndiana Hipster Handbook: http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/

* old TrueOS User Guide: https://trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html
I'd think that making an exam like that is a hellish amount of work. One might propose that students are definitely not going to remember all of that, so you can basically reuse stuff from previous years anyway, but that's not how the world works, sadly.
It didn't help that much of Google went all-in on Polymer when it was originally built on standards that nobody else was interested in implementing, ensuring that non-Chrome browsers got a laggy polyfilled experience. It remains an awful framework, and YouTube's tooling has been incredibly slow since migrating.
I was involved in a project where we could identify Transit deserts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_desert). Sadly the new administration cancelled this project. We were using GTFS data and US Census data to identify these. Quite interesting stuff. Perhaps the OP is interested in that as well.
Off-topic:

Your book looks lovely, very much in the style of practicaltypography.com. Perhaps I'll follow along, despite being, as you put it, a "cryptocurrency skeptic".

I'm not sure if fixing this would look better than leaving it as it is (I'm not a typographer), but the "jumping" of the main body during the transitions to (and from) the rare pages that don't have side-notes, feels slightly jarring.
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> Mr. Trump is less an ideologue than an armchair naysayer about climate change, according to people who know him.

It's hard to tell if Mr. Trump is acting out of ignorance or malice. In case of the latter, it's not hard to image he will face an equivalent of Nuremberg trial in the future.
What we really need to do is stop basing a person's capability based on their college record at all. I completely understand why students want grade inflation, professors want it, and the universities want it. Too much is based on someone's GPA (and an extent their degree type). I've seen many places lump every applicant together regardless of where they went to college and say, "we only will hire someone with a 3.5 or above." That doesn't take into account, the difficulty of the college, the classes taken, or the personal circumstance of the individual. In instances like this, if you go to a harder college and have a lower gpa, you're at a disadvantage even if you are more qualified. That doesn't behoove anyone, and so grade inflation helps correct that. Now I'm not saying I'm in favor of it, you should get what you work for, but the world is rarely fair, so I at least understand why it occurs.
That's why it's newsworthy. A lot of people don't know that this is what "business as usual" looks like.
No. IMO, the moment SZ uncovered that the judge had made that phone call which both parties denied, the case couldn't proceed. Lying witnesses lied plus a lying judge adds up to too much doubt. In dubio pro.

(Didn't the judge refuse to talk about that phone call once its existence was public, too, or am I confusing it with a different case? It's been a few years.)
I suspect that instituting very strong campaign finance laws would get us 90% of the way towards solving this problem.
> There is no way in the W3C to say "I sign over my IPR rights" without also paying thousands of dollars per year.

Or, as you mention up-thread, get invited into the group by the chairs and with consent of the W3C staff. Which… is an opaque process, and totally non-obvious to an outsider.
That's the thing. Autism has so many manifestations that the saying goes "When you've met one autistic person, you met one autistic person." In fact autistic people are more neurodiverse with respect to each other than allistic people are. In addition, there are different ADHD variants as well. So any stereotypes you picked up from media are likely to be not true in the general case.
Oh I hoped it was clear that I think it's a very, very good thing that we should do here. Also v good point, they are closed. (However I would bet that they'll be reopened under new management. Definitely my western bias saying 'seized.')
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Those first two seem like inadequate insulation of the test suite (no pun intended).
There are many ways to achieve success and fulfillment that do not involve attending an elite college. Instead of encouraging people to pursue options well-matched to their abilities, however, we tell young people that their self-worth hinges entirely on the brand name on their college diploma.

Oh, please. They make it sound like going to a top school is simply about ego enhancement. It's more like about enhancing your net worth in the long run.

Grade inflation is probably about two forces colliding:

1. Schools being used primarily for credentialing rather than for educating per se.

2. Increased awareness of "diversity" issues, for lack of a better term.

What you see is that members of some in group -- in this case upper class cis het white males -- generally get scored better than members of various out groups, such as women, people of color and LGBTQ. There are various factor as to why that is, but part of the problem is straight up prejudice. There is plenty of evidence that if an in group member does x, it gets credit and when an out group member does the exact same thing, it doesn't get the same credit.

So there is a legitimate argument to be made that if your grades at a college most strongly correlate to a particular demographic rather than performance - especially if that demographic is the known and long standing in group that controls everything -- then those grades aren't really measuring performance per se to begin with. Thus they are merely a credentialing mechanism being used to exclude out group members and perpetuate historical injustices.

The problem is that passing out As like candy doesn't actually fix prejudice and social exclusion. It merely serves to erode the value of the signal that grades are supposed to provide.

I don't know what the solution is. But I suspect that's a large part of the mechanism driving such trends.
Indeed, why would this be flagged? There's plenty of vegan stuff on this site and it's never flagged. The same argument always comes up too: "red meat causes cancer!". Now we have an article exploring that point and it's flagged so we can't discuss it. Lame.
Hi Dijksterhuis,

Some organizations do indeed move from KPIs to OKRs. I personally think they are different tools for different purposes, and they could work well together.

I believe KPIs are a great tool to define and monitor your business as usual, whereas OKRs is more about realizing your ambitions and pushing the company further ahead.

If it helps, more info here: https://www.perdoo.com/blog/kpis-okrs-the-goals-that-drive-b...

Best,
HJ
> how much the NHS would charge you for their recommended course of action.

That's because the answers are "nothing", "the ~$10 prescription charge", or one of the fairly short list of allowed price bands for dental work.
> He lost me at: [...]

For me it was "Do these make little sense to you? I know, it's difficult to fully understand. Your reference is "Windows VS Linux" which are so different on many aspects, like an elephant with a sparrow. To the untrained eye, distinguishing a pigeon with a turtledove may not be so evident."

What a rooster.
> Most people just don’t understand the concept of stating an assertion and defending it with premises.

Did you perhaps mean: defending the assertion with arguments built upon explicitly stated premises?