skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a look at the code and I was wondering about the implementation performance where there are a lot of if() statements in the low level functions. Like Vector4F DotProduct2D() has if (Sse41.IsSupported) else if (Sse3.IsSupported) else if (Sse.IsSupported) and finally a default implementation. This seems inefficient but I don't know if somehow the booleans are more like compile time flags and the extraneous code disappears in a puff of logic.
Plea bargains.

Although the root fault is that a "guilty" plea costs the court less resources than a "not guilty" plea. If you wanted to solve this properly, you'd require that even if the defendant pleads guilty, there still has to be the full process of jury selection, presenting evidence and arguments (even if the defence's argument is "yeah, I did it") and deliberation (which, by design, gives twelve opportunities for someone to say "what the hell are we doing; this is clearly bunk" without that person being under threat of twenty-five-to-life for contempt of cop).

Edit: oh right, and you also need to make offering plea bargains (outside of state's-evidence cases) a twenty-five-to-life felony for the prosecutor.
Have been using io-ts to accomplish the latter. We create io-ts types first and then leverage its TypeOf function to generate the regular TS types.
How expensive is health care in the US? IE, in my country dentistry is fully private, and it costs about 100 USD for a teeth cleaning. How much is that in America?
Tell me what is the wait time when you can never get treatment?
I wonder how many other cases like this can be solved with an image recognition based AI scraping the rest of Google Maps out there.. anyone on here interested in collab on that?
I was not being judgemental. As you could imagine, I am pretty upset at the moment...
Hadn't seen this before, but I've been using a library from Facebook called idx:

https://github.com/facebookincubator/idx

Idx is a bit more verbose because you have to write an arrow function for each invocation, and it doesn't support default values.
My only problem with 1. is that it desn’t work that well with Error
A lot of people focus on the creepy factor, but I'd argue that this is vegan and a lot of people have health needs that aren't easily met without eating meat. Plus the article emphasizes the eco-friendly ramifications of this. Sounds like lab meat won't consume the massive quantities of water and produce the insane amount of methane that growing cattle does.
Yes you should definitely judge the content on its own merit and not blindly trust the source. The article is well sourced and even cites "left-wing" economists (yes they exist) and political figures.
That's because Australia has incredibly easily accessible tourist working visas. It's what makes it attractive for a broke college kid to bum around in for a few months, in a way that would never happen in Canada, or the United States...
Well, the original autochthonous inhabitants of Americas would almost certainly preferred to be left alone than getting the Germs, Gold, and Guns "gifts" from the explorers and colonists...
Yet they're all very popular destinations for migrants - they haven't got the memo?
To get more time to generate betten codegen so a faster program (but slower "launch time")
> Moreover the US actually had more or less open borders for a long time

Well, what's changed is that the US is rich and traveling is pretty easy.
Freeciv has gotten me through many bouts of mental and physical health
The author of the article, who is by the way the indoor enthusiasts, feels that scooters shouldn't be disallowed on the sidewalks.

Pedestrians do not have lanes.
Pedestrians are unpredictable.
Pedestrians often step around things, like dogshit.

I cannot count on my hands and toes the number of times someone > 150 LBS has whipped around me on the sidewalk.

The damage they can do, should they collide with me, is great. The max is death. People fall in the bathtub and die all the time, from head injuries.

This idea that scooters can coexist with pedestrians is BS and needs to die.
We already have the ultimate shading language: SPIR-V.
There is already a Microsoft library for this - System.Numerics.Vectors, see documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics?...

Not sure how MathSharp compares in performance or usability, however.
In principle, nothing. In practice, current policy at the southern US border is directly responsible for acts which are unconscionably cruel and inhumane.

Separating children, babies and toddlers from their parents. Keeping children in bed-less, 24/7 lit rooms. Not giving sanitary pads to menstruating girls, etc. The list of atrocities is growing, depressing and unforgivable. Apprehended migrants are treated in ways that most humans would consider too cruel for dogs.

It is because of these policies that enforcing border security is immoral. Because of these policies, any increase in enforcement has a direct, causal, traceable and immediate consequence of increasing human suffering.

"Law and order vs chaos" is a false dichotomy. There can be peaceful lawlessness and cruel law and everything in between.

Anduril, anyone working there, and anyone backing them, will now be directly responsible for an increase in human suffering. I will never pitch A16Z again.
People have wildly different views about death.

My mother had terminal kidney cancer and was given two weeks to live. After radical surgery and chemotherapy she got to live 4 extra years. The cancer was still terminal, and the chemo wasn't a walk in the park, but she was deeply grateful for the extra time.
I remember thinking this was terrible when it came out.
It's illegal most places to ride them on the sidewalk.
In (belgian) French we use "mobilette" or "scooter" for the vespa-like ones. and "trottinette" for the kick-like ones
”Europeans outnumbered Americans in the RV parks”

I don’t find that _that_ surprising.

Air travel is dirt-cheap, there are more Europeans than Americans (taking the relatively richer north: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK combined already have 295M. That doesn’t include the 60M Italians, 45M Spaniards, 38M Poles, 10M Portuguese, etc.), Europeans have more holidays, and many of them cannot run out of sick days, so that they don’t have to use their holidays when sick.

I also would _guess_ the lower wealth inequality makes more European than American pensioners wealthy enough to make such a trip.

That’s offset by Americans having a higher average income than Europeans (but income inequality being higher, it wouldn’t surprise me if more Europeans can afford to make the journey), and those parks being closer to where American live than to where Europeans live (but the USA being large and air travel being cheap, I doubt that matters much)
Hahaha

I always get amazed by ability of locals guessing ones socioeconomic background just by looks.

Allegedly locals can guess which major town around one fares from just by facial features.
I suppose it would need more context than just image recognition. There may be lots of sunken cars with no bodies or no unsolved case.
I know about S-1s but it's the first time I see an S-1 amendment
That sounds more like implimentation details of how opengl is used, rather than something 'different' from webgl. Wouldn't it be possible to just modify the webgl implimentation or flavor it for the performance seen here?
I don't get any text on the page, just the picture at the top. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: that was in Chrome, works fine in Firefox.
Thoughts on Dashboard Design
Not at the moment. Feel kinda depressed, and lacking any motivation to do anything. Part of me wonders if it's simple burn out from trying to do too many things at once (multiple side projects plus a full time job), the other part wonders if I've simply lost most interest in coding altogether.

Still, not as if there are many alternatives now. Software engineering is the only thing I have any interest in that makes money any more, and the only ticket to a decent lifestyle. Other interests (like writing, journalism, etc) simply don't pay any more because of the internet whereas things like video production and game design are like buying lottery tickets.

Regardless, it's getting difficult to sleep because of it all. I always feel like there's more I should be doing, while having no energy or interest in actually doing it.

I also feel I can't really trust anyone either, which probably adds to the pressure a bit. Just found no one I can work with or even truly empathise with, so end up doing everything for every project I work on myself. If I make a game, then I have to draw the graphics, compose the soundtrack, design every level, write every line of code and text and do every aspect of the marketing myself, and I can't be happy til each and every one is at a professional standard. This obviously means few things actually get finished.

So yeah, depressed, finding it hard to sleep, obsessed over perfectionism in everything, unable to trust anyone and always stuck feeling there's far more I should be doing and that I should be more successful at everything.
They are healthier than burgers (barely), but that's a really low bar. They are not health foods, and nobody is eating them because they think that they are.
Such is the difference between an emoji and an emoticon.

https://writingexplained.org/emoji-vs-emoticon-difference
His demo page, in my Chrome, if I enter 10000, it takes about 2 seconds to finish with 10k digits.

But if I enter 100k, it takes 30 seconds to get to reporting 10k digits worth of progress.

Hmm. Have to think about that one. Just cause it's asking JS to do comparisons of much larger numbers?
Do you realize that there are many scary-sounding chemicals in a cow's digestive system too? That's not even counting things like artificial growth hormones and antibiotics. Beef is a processed food too. You could feed a lot of these same ingredients to a cow to get beef. How is that really better? One processing system is repeatable and auditable. The other says moo. I'm not saying the organic ambulatory processor is worse, but we need to get past assuming it's better.
Could Moses Have Been the Pharaoh Akhenaten?
The barriers to entry for building HTTPS software are a lot lower than building out cellular infrastructure. For HTTPS you have a lot of altruistic people and companies, like letsencrypt and Mozilla willing to give some resources to make HTTPS everywhere possible.

There really isn’t a similar entity in the cellular carrier world. Trying to start something new tomorrow that is more secure would take a huge investment and would likely take a very long time to recoup that investment in today’s climate, as mentioned it’s not enough to get regular users to switch.

So unless the government mandates it which I think we all agree is not in their best interest or some very rich person comes along and offers carriers a compelling reason to switch I just don’t see it happening.

And I totally agree with you that it should be done. I just don’t see how given where we are today.
Willing to ellobarate on your actual daily journaling processes. When? Where? Any structure around what you actually write/questions you answer.
It's funny, but whatever remains should actually be html, css and images.
Linking to search engine results page is almost never helpful.
I just wanted to comment to recommend a book: The Earth Has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life
I could definitely see the gun emoji mentioned in the article causing issues in a court case. For example, if two people get in an argument, and one person thinks they are sending a playful water gun emoji, but the other person receives a real gun emoji. The person receiving the "real gun" emoji might feel threatened, even though the sender thought they were being playful. It's like when you frustrate your spouse and they say they're going to kill you; context matters, and some device vendors silently change the context for political reasons.
Thank you for the advice. I will try my best to not badmouth my former manager.

> iOS apps are essentially SIGKILLed if they’re swiped up on in the app switcher.

Sorry, I worded that poorly. To be clear, he use the word literally to describe it. Which I think is pretty misleading. iOS still calls the delegate method (and probably some other stuff) beforehand.
Ok, that makes sense, but you make it sound like I know what I should be doing.

It's impossible to know what I should be doing in any kind of optimal way without knowing when I'm going to die.

If I'm going to die next year, I'd be pretty upset that I didn't quit my job today.

If I'm going to die far in the future, then I'm going to die homeless if I quit my job today, because I don't think I'd be ever be able to force myself to go back. I sometimes wonder what percentage of homeless people started off like me, where they couldn't take it anymore so they quit and then the money runs out.

> If you are so miserable while doing any kind of thing in a set way over any length of time, then you may find a soul-crushing moment where you have achieved permanent financial independence, are living your dream, and find this feeling overtaking you again. But this time there is no hope of an eventual way out.

I don't even think I'd be upset if this is what happens. At least I'd learn something about myself. I really have no idea who I am, and I've never had the chance to explore who I'd be without work for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Based on the few limited breaks I've had over the years, I suspect I'd be a very different person than I am today.
2. Check out fp-ts or io-ts for runtime type checking.
My sister was diagnosed with GBM five months ago. It is a death sentence. Surfen is mentioned in the referenced article.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/uog-edc09101...

How can we take advantage of this ?
I think that's underthinking the issue. It's not just about individual court cases, it's about the dramatic and rapid influence that corporations exert on human-to-human language use. Emoji designs are for-profit investments made by corporations and they are not like normal language.

Corporations are making these emoji and people are using them to communicate. The meanings are ambiguous, never taught in school, tied to profit motives of domestic or foreign corporations, and liable to change at a moment's notice without all parties receiving the same change. It's a mess for future of society and communication, and that it's showing up in court cases with confusion already is a leading indicator that the problems will get worse.
Crimes committed while in prison count as recidivism.
Never heard of [1] before. Impressive stuff.
Intelligence agencies should not be permitted to launder their accountability and reputation through private contractors. By that I mean, when they inevitably do it you should call it what it is, not play along with their convenient fiction.
Planet Labs images all land once a day at 3m-5m resolution and will sell you the data. At least that's their goal/pitch and they get reasonably close

https://nbremer.github.io/planet-globe/
If free trade ends up being bad for a country, it's much easier to change that compared to deporting some insane amount of people. Especially when the migrant home country can't even be determined.

Having a constant flow of immigrants is fine, however I think it's important to monitor how it affects the vitals of the country and not crash its welfare system etc.
There oughta be an anthology of everyday fixtures. This essay can sit next to an account of the Jazz design (https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2015/06/...). Or, at least, the history of SkiFree.
Your comment seems flatly accurate and yet you get downvoted. I still can’t understand this phenomenon.
Do you know about OpenSCAD and OpenJSCAD?

https://www.openscad.org/

https://openjscad.org/

They are both basically "CAD/CAM for programmers" - and allow for parametric models to be designed. In fact, there are more than a few models like that on Thingiverse, so if you needed to resize something to fit your needs, you can (plus tons of gear and other similar custom power-transmission systems).

Of course, that's all for design and modeling - it wouldn't help for other problems, where some form of calculation and checking of a "model" (in the sense of a simulation or idea - not necessarily a complete physical object rendering) is needed.

You see a ton of these kinds of tools in the electronics and hobbyist realms; quick calculators to tell you how much resistance to use for various LED configurations, or 555 timer customizers for common circuits - things like that. I know of one out there which gives you torque/power curves for a variety of different RC hobby electric motors. There are of course several for physics simulation and testing, too...
Dear NY Times... - Youtuber proves electric vehicle article inaccurate
> I'm inclined to believe in the possibility of parallel constructions being used to cover up the best sources of intel.

So am I, to a point, but even if they prefer not to disclose their actual methods (and are willing to commit perjury) they can't exactly hide the results. And others wouldn't have any incentive to keep their successes hidden.

> ...I think it is probably cost-effective to come up with that technology...

This isn't a matter of "technology" where some R&D spending up front is likely to lead to a method of cheaply tracing funds. If such a method existed then the system would indeed be broken; it would be akin to finding a critical weakness in an encryption scheme. Barring design flaws, however, the idea is to make all the transactions look the same so that even using your best graph theory tools you can't narrow down the possibilities enough to reasonably investigate all of them. That's what I meant by "not cost-effective": When there are 50 transfers that fit the parameters then you can investigate them all, but if there are 50,000 plausible trails to investigate then that effort would only be worthwhile in very high-profile cases.
I'd say "shut up, climate scientists". Not on the science, but on this simple-minded superstitious view of political 'choice' (which, incidentally, completely ignores all science related to choice, human cognitive development, etc).

WTF does 'choice' mean for 7 billion people organised into a bunch of mutually-hostile nations? Not one person in the world has a clue how to herd the global mob of semi-conscious apes. 30 years of failure amply demonstrate this.
As counter-intuitive as it seems, this should happen. People should not look at rental property with no rent stabilization provision as a stable housing arrangement. If there is a sudden shortage in housing, we need prices to suddenly reflect that shortage, in order for people to be suddenly incentivised to and compensated for building housing to fill that shortage.

Shortage is pain and rent control simply distributes that pain in a different way than the market would and does so in a way that reduces the ability of the market to gradually alleviate that pain.

The more the government intervenes in rental contracts to mandate that they be like a lifetime lease agreement, the less incentives and sustenance there is to build a rental property overall. Society is better off having more rental units that have prices that are not legislatively stabilized than have a smaller supply of rental units with mandatorily stabilize prices.

If someone wants stabilized rental prices and they should sign a lease agreement with the landlord that gives them that at the price of a slightly higher per month rental rate. These kinds of things should arranged by actors in the market rather than having the government ban all alternatives in order to force people into stabalized rent contracts.
World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year, report finds
The law apparently says that hoarding biometric data is not protected -- only abusing it for harm is. Until a harm is artiulated, no foul. The law could be changed to overturn the longstanding precedent that facial data is not private.

The simple fact is that the digital world is a new world, and we need new law. Old law simply doesn't extrapolate.
Last Stand: The Hostage Crisis That Ended Japan’s Red Army
In some areas the soil has a lot of iron in it and looks reddish (like rust-colored literally). But I'm not sure whether this is one of those areas, and also the particular shade of red here seems a bit more vivid than just rusty-red!
The risks of immigration (of any sort) include:

- spread of disease

- erosion of social trust due to conflicting cultures

- erosion of other social capital if immigrant culture has a higher time preference than native culture

- identity politics (people vote along ethnic rather than ideological lines)

Now, there are certainly benefits to immigration as well, but they must be put in balance.

I agree that trade and immigration have many parallels, but there is still a difference between an economic transaction at arms-distance vs. inviting someone into your home.
I take it with me. On the train, restaurants, market, work, etc. I don't own a bike lock.

https://www.brompton.com/
It could still raise the question of whether the sender knew how their emoji would be rendered on the receivers screen. Did the sender know that their water gun would get rendered as a real gun, causing the receiver to feel threatened, or did they assume it would also be a water gun to the receiver, giving off a playful vibe.
If you're truly replacing bike trips (and the cyclist isn't eating or showering* more than they would riding a scooter), then the scooter is less eco-friendly.

If you're also replacing an occasional car trip, the scooter is likely a net win (an electric car has something like 300-500 scooter batteries in it).

*The energy used by a single hot shower will get you most of the way to LA (from San Francisco) on a scooter.
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But LEA are the ones setting up the illegitimate “towers”. It’s not about them keeping you safe from scary black hats, it’s about them being able to use them without hurdles to jump over.

And as far as the carriers are concerned most of the public doesn’t care, LE is happy and they don’t have to spend money upgrading anything.
> Where are people going in public that'a such a secret?

It really doesn't take much of an imagination to come up with dozens of examples, so I'll just give a couple: gay bars, abortion clinics
Skype is still pretty big in the enterprise chat space.
> There are rebuttals all over the place including from some of the most prominent Climate scientists in the world

None of whom have a clue how to make the word 'choice' meaningful for billions of people, armed to the teeth, relentlessly propagandised for over a century as to the merits of unhindered consumption. The science of climate change is entirely irrelevant to this, so these are not in this context 'experts'.

> Franzen's essay was garbage.

Perhaps, but his conclusion is hard to argue with. The apocalypse is coming, for anyone other than fantasists. There isn't a single remotely plausible political route from where we are to a healthy living planet. Not one.