skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps television fucked my head up too much, but shouldn't a society where women have equal pay, get rid of all this animal hierarchy bullshit and find someone they actually connect with? Is the divorce rate still 50%? Is all of this just to spit out a child?
This seems to be a cultural UK/US difference which I've noticed moving to the US. In the UK a glass of wine with food every night would be seen as part of a healthy mediterranean diet and health advice on alcohol was refocussed to discourage binge drinking, emphasizing daily rather than weekly consumption limits.

In the US daily drinking seems to be seen as bad (perhaps a legacy of prohibition?) while binge drinking once a week doesn't seem to be seen as particularly problematic.
How does it mean that? There are much cheaper phones without bloatware, and iPhones with very little "bloatware" -- there are built-in apps but only one or two of them are shitty.
Why is this company called HuggingFace?
You can use QUIC without HTTP/3. QUIC streams are just bidirectional Streams without HTTP semantics, and can therefore carry arbitrary data.

The HTTP mapping on top of QUIC is called HTTP/3.
Depends what you mean. If you mean "can you use it in production", sure. If you mean "should you use it in production", no, never.
So, I'm not exactly a booster for the US, but having lived outside it for a while I really miss the can-do attitude and (even misplaced) optimism. I'm really sorry for the cliche but after you've been in a place where tall-poppy syndrome is _real_, trying to have some business success is called "notions", and making a mistake like a failed startup is considered some sort of personality disorder, it is, in fact, something I really miss about the US.
I for one am glad other smaller, more focused StackOverflows exist, like they do for Unity3d and Unreal.

Anecdotally, I've lost count the number of Closed or Duplicate answers were better and more helpful than the canonical one.
Hah, unconstructive response. I socialize a ton and meet people from many walks of life, living in nyc. Of course this is an n=1 generalization, but those can hold some weight. Also these are for nationals that live abroad, not 1st+ generation immigrants. These people were really smart too, PhDs.
‘ For example, although the iPhone was derided for not having many users in its first year or two, most people who had an iPhone raved about it in a way that they never did about previous smartphones.’

I was there, and that was only half-true, or not really true.

I recall statements like “I’ve never had such a feeling of relief as the moment when I threw it out of a moving car window.” And early adopters generally complaining with almost brain melting frustration at any number of UX boondoggles.

I think people knew somehow it was the future, and couldn’t stop talking about their iPhones, but a lot of the talk was negative.

Without hindsight bias there might be a deeper lesson to learn from the iPhone, that “users love it” isn’t the perfectly accurate wording to summarize adoption conditions.
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We are on the brink of completing the transition to python3 at my work.

The end result of this is that I just spent a good chunk of last week reviewing a pull request with 70,000 lines of changes, which was one of the final in a series of ~10k line pull requests that came in through the fall.

All of this was the heroic effort of one of my coworkers who had the unenviable task of combing through our entire codebase to determine "This is unicode. This is bytes. Here is an api boundary where we need to encode / decode." etc.

It was a nightmare of effort that I'm glad to have behind us.
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it wouldn't be a knee-jerk reaction given how long this has been an issue, and there is little to no bureaucracy or legislation involved other than telling companies what not to do with their consumer's devices. Giving users the right to delete applications is technically straight forward and involves zero additional bureaucrats. Honestly the only knee-jerk thing about this is describing freedom-enhancing measures in the interest of users with the absolutely meaningless 'red tape' buzzword.

And I don't think this is a bubble issue either. People being frustrated with having applications fill up their menus or screens and memory is an everyday issue that everyone complains about.
Do it little by little throughout the year. I keep a work log. At the end of every week I take 60 seconds or less to write down what I accomplished that week. By the time review season rolls around, I have all the content I need. No need to dread/sweat it.
If the US lied they would never have an extradition request approved ever again, the treaty would in effect be null and void. The next case the defendants laywer would bring up this case and the judge would dismiss the extradition case and that not even considering the a huge diplomatic incident it would start.

If the HS lied and forged paperwork relating to this many people getting are going to get dragged into court over it, get found guilty of crimes, get jail time, lawyers for the home office losing their licenses all over a single case over a single extradition...
"promising the airlines too much with regards to delivery date and training requirements. That created too much of an incentive to ship an unsafe product."

I think this is the real failure of a CEO. They can't be constantly on the watch for engineering mistakes but they are the ones who set the tone for the company culture. Setting unachievable deadlines, pressure to deliver to the point where it can only be done by cutting corners, choosing strategies that are unsustainable long run in the chase for short term profits. These are the real failures and if they lead to loss of life they should be treated accordingly.

We keep waiting for the market to punish them but the market punishes companies not people. We don't need to just apply punishments, we need deterrents. We need a bonus-malus system where they don't just jump off with a golden parachute. If there is indeed no legal recourse to prevent such matters (ridiculous as it may sound), they should at least be subjected to penalties as a standard practice.
The third book you're thinking of is "My World".

You make good points about Goodnight Moon, but I have an emotional reaction against it.
The part about all of this containerization technology I don't understand is that it was originally sold as a way (among other benefits) to unburden devs of having to think about ops stuff and just code.

Well, my experience with Docker, k8s, and related technologies, is that I now need to be an expert with these things just to get through my day. It's exhausting.
I feel like a lot of the problems K8s solves are fake problems that we have because all our software links/imports so many libraries/packages it's impossible to tell what's going on. It feels like have built an entire infrastructure around hopefully capturing that one time we got it working and being able to reboot to that state when things go wrong.
> All of this was the heroic effort of one of my coworkers who had the unenviable task of combing through our entire codebase to determine "This is unicode. This is bytes.

Dynamic typing!
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The Aether.

Einstein isn't alone though, there are others. Like how Heaviside ruined Maxwells original 20 equations. And there aren't really that many explanations to how this came about. It could be a result of stupidity of course - or it could be that someone for some reason maybe didn't want everyone to know.

Imagine if you could modulate electromagnetic scalar waves to in-phase at a specific point in space. Someone could put a quad of energy confined to your bedroom and no one could tell where it came from. It would make the Hiroshima bomb sound like a firecracker and all you need is a lot of electricity and antennas. Big antennas though.
I too worry this might be a big issue holding us all back. As well as poor diet and lack of proper exercise.
I read here previously, I think it was here, that the primary difference was that after repeated counteraction by the crew the speed-trim system would give up, whereas MCAS doubles down and reduces the time between its attempts to force trim "correction", literally wearing pilots down physically until the system wins and the plane crashes.

Another post showed how AoA sensors (IIRC) has systematic errors causing MCAS to operate when corrections weren't required. As you say, lack of redundant sensors.
You don't necessarily have to go that deep to get useful amounts of heat. This varies by location of course. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/report-geothermal-co...

If you want a single project at a huge scale, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596350
A lot of folks here being real casual about adding radioactive poison to the only known biosphere in the whole Universe, especially considering that's where all our kids live.

There is a fusion reactor in the sky. It's maintenance-free and so powerful that it can burn out your retinas from a hundred and fifty giga-meters away.
It's not necessarily about if the fund outperforms an index. Most hedge funds have the primary goal of not losing money. The Sharpe Ratio should be used when comparing hedge funds vs equities/indexes.
Isn't that like any device behind NAT?
They are not recommending that you drink 4 drinks every day, but right now guidelines come in two forms:

1. Drinks per week, eg 14 drinks/week

2. Average drinks per day, eg 4 drinks/day

If you drink your entire drinks per week in a day, that's really bad. If you drink your average drinks per day, every day, that's also bad.

For others who might be reading this: You should have some days (ideally a majority) in which you don't drink at all, some days in which you drink at or below the daily guideline, and you probably aren't all the worse off if you occasionally exceed the daily average guideline.
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Did cavemen have a conception of worth? Probably nowhere near what we would think of it. I think if you took these men and tossed them on an island with a forest some would wait to die, many, most would start chopping wood just to have something to do. It's better than being bored.

I'm willing to bet very few of these social dropouts just lay in bed like vegetables all day, they're playing games, consuming media, doing something. And unfortunately that has a better, quicker mental payoff than going to work.

I think the problem is that in older societies you didnt have much else to do but work outside of certain hours because of strict social taboos. Work was the fruit of exploiting men's simple behavior of looking for something to keep busy. Now video games and YouTube are accessible all day long as long as you have a computer or phone and internet, which benefits can provide. I sont think there's any complex civilization level social phenomenon, we just gave men something better to do and the means to do it
Sure-- there's really two operations going on here. Finding the contractions needed for a properly indistinguishable quantum expectation value (there's a geometric number with the number of quantum particles ie: A_ij \cdot B_ji + A_ij \cdot B_ij \rightarrow C_ij for two particles), and then evaluating those tensor contractions in-silico. Exactly as in ML frameworks like PyTorch/TF, these contractions are executed as: unravel tensors ==> matrix multiply ==> Reravel. Sometimes there might be more than one contraction too, and more than two tensors. The order of raveling, factorization etc. completely controls the efficiency assuming you're always getting near peak in your matrix multiply with several orders of magnitude separating best/worst. Batching out the different factorizations, contractions etc. even just for the symbolic logic is a huge combinatoric problem.
While I am no authority on the subject of holes, I'd argue that a borehole is not dug as such, hence any borehole is disqualified from the 'deepest hole dug' contest.

A mine of the crazy deep variety, then, in my book, is more of a tunnel than a hole in the strict sense - hence it, too, is disqualified.

YMMV. :)
automatic failover obviously
With new software tools and services, some data scientists may become irrelevant
Not dynamic typing's fault.

The issue is they changed the types out from underneath you.

And then left it to each library to decide which type it was actually going to accept.
Interesting this sounds like the opposite of what I want.

In my opinion the Telegram Desktop and Mobile apps are the best in class, way better than anything else.

What I think would be a great addition would be re-using those opensource apps for work related chats, but using Matrix as the chat service, with working E2EE.
Reminds me of the excitement around Java Beans
The layman is often more interested in the end result, and history has provided ample evidence that the legal system doesn't do the best job at making sure the general cultural message gets across.

The layman wants "don't cut corners and kill people, or punishment". The legal system tends to deliver "Accept a plea bargain, get reduced sentence," or "Cut corners,and apply sufficient lawyer to defray the consequences."

Justice is for many distinct from the machinations of the legal system. I like to use the story told in the song "The Night the Lights went out in Georgia" as an example.

A person finds out their wife was cheating with the whole town. Gets distraught. Goes home, finds just his gun left behind. Goes to a friend's house, sees weirdly sized footprints that don't match his friend's, eventually finds his friend dead. Flags down a cop with a shot. Cop assumes he killed the friend, Judge open shuts the case, guy gets hanged.

Turns out hanged guy's sister killed the friend and the cheating wife.

Without knowledge of the sister's deeds, the legal system believes justice was served by hanging him. He killed, therefore his life is forfeit. Where's the justice when the sister is taken into account and the hanging has been done? The legal system would have hanged the sister if it bothered to work right and done nothing to the man, but as the score stands, two will have been executed for the crime, one wrongfully. The judge facilitated the death of an innocent man. Should the Judge not suffer for his dereliction of duty? What about the sister? Even if we recognize she forfeit her life through her actions, an innocent man was killed. To balance that out, it stands one must be spared. Does the Sister get let off Scot-free?

Justice != legality. We try to keep them lined up as well as we can, and collectively we begrudgingly submit to it as the best compromise overall. That doesn't mean though that everyone feels that what the legal system musters is always appropriate for the perceived wrong doing.

Messy business all of it. The messier the business, the worse the legal system seems to be at generating a long-term satisfying result.
Sam Altman has this weird style of writing with such an authoritative voice to sound convincing with very little substance to back up his claims (my other favorite one is the one about "life advice" when he turned 30 years old [1]). It would be perfectly fine to convey the same thoughts by just being a bit more humble and make it clear that these are just his (unfounded) opinions.

> I look for founders who are scrappy and formidable at the same time (a rarer combination than it sounds); mission-oriented, obsessed with their companies, relentless, and determined; extremely smart (necessary but certainly not sufficient); decisive, fast-moving, and willful; courageous, high-conviction, and willing to be misunderstood; strong communicators and infectious evangelists; and capable of becoming tough and ambitious.

> The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar. They usually have most of the following characteristics: compelling founders, a mission that attracts talented people into the startup’s orbit, a product so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it, a rapidly growing market, a network effect and low marginal costs, the ability to grow fast, and a product that is either fundamentally new or 10x better than existing options.

This reads like a bad Tinder profile. It becomes problematic when aspiring entrepreneurs (I certainly have been guilty of this when I was just starting out) start believing they should now optimize for a certain founder profile that a particular investor (especially a well-known one, like Sam Altman) is looking for. Other investors have other profiles, I know of one who supposedly only invests in GSB graduates, even though his investment track record has very little to do with GSB. When you believe this as a young founder, you'll work hard to fit that profile and will reach out to them when you think you've finally marked off all the check marks, only to find out that the investors will back track on their thesis and find another reason not to fund you. The truth is that most investor theses, no matter how well formulated, break down in the face of FOMO, and will not matter much when it comes to writing checks. The paradox of raising money is painfully obvious: investors will want to invest the most when you least need it, not when you meet some random investment thesis.

It's important to realize that Sam Altman is human too, and makes mistakes like anyone else:

> However, sometimes bad founders have good ideas too, and investing in them is the chronic investing mistake that has been hardest for me to correct. (My second biggest chronic mistake has been chasing investments primarily because other investors like them.)

I'm willing to bet that in reality, most of Sam's investments looked more like this rather than meeting the high standards he laid out. I just wished he would be more humble to admit this.

[1] https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
It might be nice, but that's not really comparable to what this proposal entails.
> This anecdotally appears to be the case.

How so? You were given no anecdotes in the parent comment, so I don't understand why you think this is anecdotally demonstrated.
This is not necessarily correct, and I suspect specifically not correct in this particular case.

The first step in the synthesis of ranitidine is a Mannich reaction on a furan compound (furfuryl alcohol) to produce essentially one half of the molecule. The key reagent in that step is dimethylamine hydrochloride.

The final steps of the synthesis involve conditions that will form nitrosamines from amines.

Thus, if any dimethylamine hydrochloride is left over after the first step, conditions exist to turn it into NDMA.

Dimethylamine is a bugger to get out of a reaction mixture, and it would not surprise me to find that a poorly-designed or badly executed reaction scheme may fail to remove some trace amounts, therefore opening the door to producing NDMA. In other words, as an impurity existing from the first step of the synthesis.

So it's not just a case of "NDMA accumulation".

I have had experience witnessing syntheses of pharmaceutical APIs at Indian manufacturing plants, and have seen some horror stories.

The NYT reports that Sanofi's recall "applied only to the United States and Canada, and that its products sold outside the two countries were sourced from different suppliers", which is fairly common practice. So it may be that only some API makers have the problem, which is likely a manufacturing and QC problem.
SS3D Needs You! – We need more programmers for an open source project
Check the Discord for more information!

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Those are principally forums for people who would like to work in the industry. Take with a grain of salt.
Conveying ideas and instructions is also at the heart of architecture. Digital representations are embedded at every stage of a contemporary building design and construction pipeline. 98% of those representations are something else than text.

I strongly believe software application design is fundamentally closer to architectural design than the kind of work done in a purely textual realm — say, writing a novel or a research paper. But it's a really hard nut to crack.

I hope CASE today is like AI and neural nets were in early 2000s — a bit of a laughing stock, "something people in the 1980s wasted a lot of time on but nowadays everyone knows it doesn't work."
Maybe something like lnav (https://lnav.org) would suit your needs?

Edit: I mean as a part of a custom solution
> How can we learn more if we don't change our mind?

I think it's also possible to learn without having strongly held beliefs about the subject beforehand. This alternative reminds me of Descartes (don't assimilate knowledge until you are sure of it's veracity) and Bayes (keep track of degree of belief about traditionally non-probabilistic things). Maybe such an approach would help getting trapped in local optima. E.g., I'd imagine it would be hard to climb out of the theist energy well once your world view were based on it.
I just did this. Assistant still pops up asking me to enable it when it takes me too long to move my thumb off the home button.
Lucky 10000: "If and only if" [0] is a particular phrase in English with a particular meaning. It is symmetric, so that your version has the same logical content as the original.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if
When they can get drive by wire to match the feedback that I get through my entirely mechanically linked '09 135i BMW I'll happily test drive another Model 3.

Model 3 is a great way to achieve mobility, but it's not a great driving experience.
I thought that government benefits in the US were shite? I can understand why European men might opt-out but I thought that you were basically dooming yourself to homelessness without a job in America. How are these men living?
Well this is one way to write a web page.

<body>
<div id='rain-container'></div>
<div id='root'></div>
<script src='/deps/marked/lib/marked.js'></script>
<script src='/deps/highlight.js/src/highlight.js'></script>

<!-- Start preload for performance -->
<script type='module' src='/components/core.js'></script>
<script type='module' src='/components/tutorials.js'></script>
<script type='module' src='/components/about.js'></script>
<!-- End preload for performance -->

<script type='module' src='/index.js'></script>
</body>
Just depends on your application. Hard to judge without more understanding.

I would use whatever you know and not try to add new learning in unless you absolutely need to.
While I would agree that this is an unpopular opinion, it's one I've come to terms with myself as I've grown older. There's a book I read that's popular in men's rights advocate circles called "The Myth of Male Power" that explores the idea of males being the "disposable" sex. Unfortunately, we live in a time where you're branded a misogynist for even mentioning the possibility that men face some serious disadvantages in modern American society.
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Android isn't intrinsically tied to Google, unlike iOS is to Apple. Once upon a time, Android had its own, neutral Browser app. It was then replaced with Google Chrome, just like Email was replaced with Gmail. A pointless branding exercise in my opinion.
HTTP is the lingua franca of the internet.
When you build stuff, please make it work with simple URLs.

Can't argue with that can we?
I am continuously impressed with your ability to cite your sources in comments like this. Do you find them in real time or do you just keep a file somewhere with this stuff indexed?
by ssh I meant this sort of thing:

#!/bin/sh
ssh remote "$*"

invoked as follows (for example):

./ssh-remote.sh cat your-favorite-file.txt

This works.

I was mistaken about su / sudo.
Anyone know what malware was served?