skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't your reasoning backwards?

We know that improvements in living conditions lead to reduced fertility. And climate change will worsen living conditions, not improve them. So if areas with poor living conditions have high fertility now, why would even worse conditions (due to climate change) reduce their fertility? Sure, the outcomes and quality of life of the children will be even worse than it is but I can't see how that will impact rates of reproduction.
I'm pretty sure I could hit at least 2 keys repeatedly without any problems. I would probably hit keys on 4 actual keyboards without too much trouble.

If I made custom keyboards with just a few choices each, I think I could probably handle half a dozen without any problems.

And if I'm literally just always telling the bot "okay, go" with 1 button, I think I could handle dozens.
I understand why you are getting downvoted. Yet I think you make a valid and important point. Sure marketing and sales are putting a lot of pressure on, in that case RandD. But then RandD is, at some point, deciding to publish or find what is wanted. And, at least in my experience, good marketing people would rather not have falsified results and even if it is just for PR reasons.

Just blaming someone else, like marketing and sales, is quite often juat a lazy excuse to not have to look at oneself. Goes zhe other way round, so. Marketing saying "we didn't force them to find value X" might be literally true as marketing almost certainly didn't use these words. But pressure cam be applied in more than one way, it doesn't have to be explicit.

One good example is the series Chernobyl. Pressure from above to deliver certain things, ignoring truth until it's too late and then looking for someone to blame. Plant management did it with the reactor control crew and the political higher ups indirectly with plant management. So yes, all of them have to blamed. Not simply a communist problem as this thread about pharma R and D shows, right?
I think it's fair to say that rust is the first mainstream languages bringing these notions out of the woods. Who on earth knows about ML or cyclone ? 0.0001% of the programming crowd maybe.

World operates in spirals. We branch off trying things and then go back to old forgotten ideas, etc etc
Here is a more readable version:

https://outline.com/FSMxUN
is that 10^12 or 10^18?
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This is very much true. Especially for private travel like city trips etc, I wouldn't mind at all if the trip took a little longer, for me the trip itself is part of the experience. But the prices for long-distance train trips are just insane. I can fly from the airport 10 minutes from my home to basically any city in europe for less than 100 euro, London or Paris often for less than 50. But a two-way train ticket to London for example could easily run over 400 euro's.

The problem is not so much with the price of train travel, even though I would not mind subsidizing it more so it could be cheaper. The problem is simply that plane tickets are way, way too cheap. I get that people like to fly and free market capitalism pretty much dictates making it cheaper is a good thing, but right now air fares are not including the hidden, socialized cost of air travel (pollution, noise, need for infrastructure, spoiling of touristic destinations, etc) of everyone being able to take flights on a whimsy just because it's so cheap. I would be fully in favor of taxing air travel heavily to compensate for these things, even more so if the proceeds could be used to make train travel cheaper.
If you care so much about etymology, at least refer to a resource that isn't biased:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gimp

"GIMP" is merely an unfortunate consequence of the editor being named "GNU Image Manipulation Editor". GIMP is the obvious acronym.
P.s. never ever link any account with shared funds to PayPal. Business or otherwise, open a completely separate account for PayPal if you must use it.

Imagine having PayPal place a hold on the funds in your account to make sure refunds/fraud can be handled. Then when a customer does request a refund you’re literally unable to process the refund because it won’t take it from the funds you just received that are held. So now you automatically lose all disputes and they just start raiding your linked bank account. So why did they hold the funds in the first place?

PayPal needs to end IMO.
I've long stopped using Paypal, except where absolutely necessary because of this sort of thing.
The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
One of the scarier things about this is that 7-Eleven isn't a convenience store here -- it's a retail chain owned by 7&i Holdings and closely associated with Seven Bank.

They also provide various things like health, car, and automobile insurance.

So you'd really expect a conglomerate of this size to have financial things down.
Most people here know that they are on the Internet Archive. I personally don't like their interface, and their wider movie collection [1] is mingled with a lot of other material (TV ads, speedruns and machinima?). The IA is more about creating a complete historical collection than providing an entertainment service.

All streaming services currently lack older classics. I like the idea of a dedicated "Netflix for public domain" movies.

Maybe someone would like to pick this idea up and improve it (I don't know the dev). The video quality improvement sounds like a good idea already.

It would also be good to create versions of silent movies at their original presentation speed [2] (16Hz is probably more accurate than 24Hz). Movies like "The Passion of Joan of Arc" [3] should not be watched at a comical speed.

[1] https://archive.org/details/movies

[2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSpeedOfSilent...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_KDf4xhU8
If the majority of people are only now limiting their fertility due to reduced infant mortality, availability of contraception, and both parents working making childcare more expensive, and increased cost of education and housing (itself often a proxy for education), then genetic or cultural traits that promote fertility even in the face of these trends will only now come to the fore.
we should plant food producing trees
also if we don't stem climate change, it is likely that no one will exist nevermind money
> but upon a few "investigations"

> Upon investigating him

Hella creepy. Glad you gave the business your all and learned valuable lessons.
One should however mention that the failing sensor gave an "unreliable airspeed" warning. The checklist for that requires a designated power setting as well as a designated pitch for which the airspeed is known for the altitude. Afaik the pilots executed that checklist at least for the power setting part before moving to the stab trim runaway memory item. The failing AoA sensor triggered several checklists to work on.

From an armchair perspective a checklist for AoA sensor failure would have been required for the flight to end safely (maybe with "cutoff stab trim" on the list).
There Salbutamol, marketed as Ventolin, used to treat asthma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol
That is an inappropriate way of checking your assumptions. Assuming a normal is assuming a model (a model is a simplification of a situation by only considering the relative parts). Writing a simulation is also assuming a model, although the process is a lot less formal than traditional statistical regression.

If a modeler has assumed two different models of a situation and are getting vastly different results then that is evidence something is wrong, but it is also evidence that the modeler is out of their depth. It is not appropriate to fit two different models and then claim that the differences are delivering insight. The differences are revealing big gaps in the modelers understanding of key influences, rendering both models highly suspect. They should not be creating models, they should be putting more time into understanding the thing they are modeling.

There are times when a modeler would have two different models, but they should certainly not be surprised that they give different results. Indeed, they should be assuming two different models because they are going to give completely different results. There will probably be other edge cases, but in my experience they are rarer than people just making mistakes about where MCM is appropriate.
buried trunks decompose though
This is exactly the same as legalizing every loophole and abuse of wording.

Above all, if the law would be code, who would decide the input? Unless every conversation and record is already in the Law-Bots huge power is given to the "formatting" of the evidences.
Yes, but it's a marker that the world is (too slowly) changing.
Are you volunteering at https://www.hackyourfuture.net by any chance?
> enough entertainment gambling for at least an hour. So in the end, even if everything is lost, I had my fun.

I wonder what you find entertaining/fun about this. I've been to casinos a couple of times. The only parts I found entertaining were observing people and the free drinks.
Yes, I meant uniform distribution. My method was to give it a higher chance to have a lower gap between the numbers to see if it would make a difference within a montecarlo simulation and it did. So if you have say 16 slots and you need to choose four numbers, according to my simulation, highest likelyhood of winning is to spread out your numbers like [3 6 9 12] or [4 7 10 13] and lowest likelyhood of winning is to spread like [1 2 3 4] [2 3 4 5] all the time.

Not exactly sure why.
I spent the last year bootstrapping Wallfly: Smart Volume Control.

Ever been to a bar where the music was too loud?

Wallfly is cruise control for sound. The sonic control system measures the ambient audio levels in every room using your device's microphone or Wallfly Sonic Sensor (coming Q4 2019) and modulates amplifier gain to keep the levels just right...because you can't tell someone you love them when they can't hear you.

https://wallfly.app
I agree - in a prototyping phase it may be beneficial to be able to throw something together. The problem is that what you throw together is invariably the base for the real thing. The motto of "design one to throw away" is great, but I haven't seen it applied as much as it should.

Using a "stiff" set of tools might slow down the first stages of prototyping, but it also makes the prototype easier to modify as requirements change. The question I suppose is simply where the equilibrium occurs. I.e. does Rust or F# make a thing that is easier to modify (because of less coupling) already after one or two months, or only after one or two years?
I'd have a problem with both in the support case. The alternative to a human contact is a natural language interface that just wastes my time and/or laziness in other parts of the business. If my problem is covered by your FAQ, improve search. If my problem can be solved by a bot, let me do it in your UI. If handling my problem through a human requires more information prepend a form. Provide a clear path to skip/escalate.

To be fair though, I'm annoyed by human first level support for similar reasons most of the time but at least escalation/problem solving with them is easier than a bot that explodes when you go off-script. I think, personally, that making me talk to your fancy answering machine is just devalueing. If a company wants my business they should have human support and pay them enough to work with the customer.
" all the locations identified by his team are on degraded land, rather than agricultural or urban areas"
You are not supposed to inspect laws for loopholes. Many laws are exactly that, and consider circumvention as aggravating.
Once I had to call a Spanish academic about a payment to a software he wrote; we needed that software badly so instead of exchanging email, we called the 'professor' and had a conversation. Never in my life did I ever experienced a person who was so full of smugness and self-rightouness. So, I guess that southern european country is Spain because I have heard stories from people who worked there that Spanish can be quite a bunch of a@@holes. Is that right?
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Postformal Thought
Maybe, but has been used since dozen of years successfully and productively by millions of programmers. It may be worth learning instead of reinventing...
In Bash/Zsh you can do it with `git config --global alias.cof $'!git for-each-ref --format=\''%\(refname:short\)\'' refs/heads | fzf | xargs git checkout'`

and then do a checkout with `git cof`
It ceased to be a public place long ago. - We fucked it up, when we wanted it all for free and shoved all our data up Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Whatever's asses. When financial interest and gains are high enough, how do you want to stop it? Opensource all the infrastructure, let it be owned by some supranational, "communist" organization? How would you guarantee that this be any better than those quasi monopolies?
Very interesting. I see non-profit orgs advertising 1 planted tree for $1 [1]. Depending on how that scales, and whether this article is true, it should make it possible to effectively combat carbon increase for $1T.

Seems like a rather low number, all things considered.

[1] https://onetreeplanted.org/products/kenya
A few years ago, I sent my youngest son to a well-known online retailer to buy some computer gear.

What he got was a counterfeit, a fake that was broken.

He started the refund process, but I was pretty miffed that my reputation with my kid got mixed up in these poor business practices. So I emailed management and asked that they apologize to the kid.

It took almost forever to get them to figure out that I was not asking for a refund. I was asking for somebody to explain what happened, apologize, and take steps for it not to happen again.

He finally got a refund, although whether it was from my actions or his nobody knows. He said it came in three chunks, as if various departments were each pitching in a bit.

I thought my point was pretty clear: as leadership, when you take your company and allow its reputation to suffer like that, this is something you are responsible for and need to take action to fix. The money has nothing to do with anything. But they only have certain predefined channels that they seem to be able to communicate through. Anything outside of those channels causes a weird org fault.

I've worked with call centers before, and it continues to amaze me the strange place we are putting humans. They're paid to answer the phone, but after that? They're basically little robots, paid to execute a predefined program, adding in a bit of human-sounding noises now and then to make things slightly more palatable to the person on the other end.
I look forward to the first airline to offer night train routes.
A nice test to implement would be that if the function of the human operator can be replaced by a dumb bot, then it is functionally a bot.
Well it wasn't happy with some source code files I tried to send the other day. None of which were natively executable and all text only. They may have had the 'x' flag set in the permissions. But I was surprised by that, not allowing me to send a bunch of php files.
Not that many places near a city you can park a trailer free of charge - and if there were, you can bet this scheme would accelerate charging for them.

I suppose the next phase would be electric self-driving vehicles, circulating endlessly on the roads while the occupants sleep or study. That would probably force the city to implement tiered congestion pricing to force them out.
I think this is so expected. Rabb.it is a good idea and how it was before the update was amazing besides the fact anybody literally anybody could pull IP's from accounts. I'm part of the more "trolling" aspect of Rabb.it only toxic rooms & a toxic community who've known each other throughout years, Yes years. The fact Rabb.it couldn't even stand on its feet as a business is truly disappointing, The developers just couldn't use their mind I guess, Enable the option to Flip your Camera, Being able to a room your friends in by clicking a button & the fact their was so many Muslims,Arabic people who just showed up out of the blue and took over #music Rabb.it rooms. Just simple things they could not fix. I'm not shocked at all, Hours and hours on the site, Getting a huge reputation and community just for it to all disappear and never be seen again I can see all Successful business people vouching for you and Thanking you for the notice, But just know this was you, and not being able to run a simple website. #squeakersquad #RIPRABBIT
It looks like the paper is "General formula to design a freeform singlet free of spherical aberration and astigmatism", Rafael G. González-Acuña, Héctor A. Chaparro-Romo, and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega, Applied Optics Vol. 58, Issue 4, pp. 1010-1015 (2019), at https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-58-4-10...

> In this paper, an analytical closed-form formula for the design of freeform lenses free of spherical aberration and astigmatism is presented. Given the equation of the freeform input surface, the formula gives the equation of the second surface to correct the spherical aberration. The derivation is based on the formal application of the variational Fermat principle under the standard geometrical optics approximation.
Yes, my experience with PayPal has involved inconsistent UIs, bad UX, locked funds, and incompetent customer service. I only use paypal where absolutely necessary, such as for selling on ebay.
I think the problem with OOP is that it is merely a pattern and yet has been integrated into many languages in a very prominent way. This can mislead people into thinking it's something more fundamental and generally applicable - but it's not, it's just another pattern, which for some things works great, and for others is terrible. Just like when you read that aweful code that someone wrote just after reading a book on pattern x and forced it upon a project, the difference is OOP is forced on almost everything.

Once you realise this it's fine, you just don't use those features when it doesn't make sense.
Many states in the USA are similar once you get above a certain blade length to allow for common pocket knives. Then again the same rules will get you in trouble for having a baseball bat and don't seem to have a good reason.
>> A lot more knowledge in the relevant space that I have.

Relevant to what? You've already got a microservice mesh, which means you've also got a microservice architecture that's supposed to handle all of the RPCs.

Adding a layer of Redis on top is probably going to introduce more entities into the system and make it less homogenous.
I used this for a while. I think the free version. Really loved using it. Great job
https://paypalsucks.org/toon1.shtml
There's a really good chance the rights owners are the same people who own modern films and wouldn't want to undercut their new productions.
Releasing code is not a big deal
Sure. Here's a gist with 3 versions (original, the 25ms version and the 3ms version): https://gist.github.com/nickjj/99ea84f460f41dae4139d0610ce80...

The reason I didn't use the 3ms version was due to it having too many concepts that are unknown to me. At the end of the day I would still need to maintain the code and the 25ms version is a lot easier to change (for me at least).

But, if I had very strict time requirements, I could just drop in the 3ms version at any time to get the speed boost which I think is reasonable. I only need to bring in the operational complexity when the demand calls for it. Otherwise the more human readable version is fast enough for my use case.
From a quick look at the repository it looks like there are optimizations performed: this code[1] seems to perform function inlining at the AST level, this code[2] converts the AST to SSA form which is generally meant to be used for optimizations, the SSA directory[3] contains a bunch of optimizations like common subexpression elimination[4], deadcode elimination[5], useless branch elimination[6] and other stuff (just browse around the files, they have comments about what they do). The SSA seems to contain both generic and machine-specific opcodes (basically instructions for the latter) with the former being converted to the latter using a bunch of rule tables[7] which seem to contain both generic-to-native transforms as well as peephole optimization rules (these are converted to go source code, most likely the huge files in the parent directory). Finally there seem to be a few optimizations in the machine-specific code generator (e.g. [8]).

Of course it really depends on your definition of "meaningful", but i think that as long as it isn't equal to "as many optimizations known to humankind as possible, everything else be damned", the compiler looks to perform a decent amount of them. At least for me it passes the subjectively vague "meaningful" check :-P.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[3] https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[4] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int... https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[5] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[6] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[7] https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

[8] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...
Why would informing people about the importance of testing make you look like an asshole? You could do it in a polite and helpful way, instead of being an asshole about it.
Yes. The composability (in usual Unix way) is the best thing about fzf.

I use it for a slew of git subcommands for example, e.g. if they expect a ref and I don't provide one, open log and fzf a SHA.

I also use it in vim to find files or lines within them.

I also use it with my password manager to find the one I want if what I specify isn't an exact match.

fzf is great.
I am very surprised that this is something that needs to be said in a hacker news site? Would there be community members here that don't understand basic arithmetic and stats?
First shoot, then ask.
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Can't say anything about shaders but I do know a thing or two about database queries:

1. Queries are often repeated, i.e. most of backend DBs get the same requests over and over again. Even a slow jit compiler is fine here as things just get cached.
2. Queries usually take some time to complete, and this offsets the jit-related latency.

Also, Postgres has a very limited kind of jit compilation, i.e. for expressions only.

Notice that javascript jit compilers usually have a multi-tiered compilation. That's because proper compilation takes time, and sometimes it is more efficient to just do some basic template jiting (or no additional compilation) instead of firing the heavy guns.

None of them use LLVM, btw.