skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more the meat and potatoes I was interested in reading, so I appreciate the response.

I think there are probably better lenses that are equally simple (maybe Big 5/MBTI, though I know little about them), but the advantage of the colour pie is that MTG players already spend time engaging with it and have a broad understanding of the tropes/stereotypes/etc. There's an example of applying it in the article, but I'm guessing you think that that's an outlier situation, and that it wouldn't broadly be useful. I can respect that, and I'm not sure I disagree yet. Call me back in a year or two.

Hadn't thought of using it as a narrative scaffold, and can definitely see why you wouldn't want it as your sole source for such. Having 5 possible character themes and 10-15 possible relationships does not an interesting story make.

I thought that demonstrating the use of the flat Earth model as a lens would be interesting, so apologies if it came across as a retort.
The Case Against Superforecasting
> I have been one of those people disaffected by the previous code of conduct, the "virtual hugs" and "no commenting on lifestyle choices such as eating habits" rubbed me very much the wrong way.

Please don't be disingenuous about the old CoC. You can dislike it or disagree with it, but you're taking that example way out of context[1]:

> Harassment includes but is not limited to:

> ∗ Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "∗hug∗" or "∗backrub∗") without consent or after a request to stop.

It's a problem when people don't want you to be doing it, and you do it to them anyway. Much like it would be a problem in the real world.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200108075747/https://www.freeb...
Maybe. About 3/4 of all outages get a post mortem. There's 1/4 of the time they refuse to tell us anything.
> you can't grow trees faster than you can burn them.

This is probably true for the UK (large population, not a lot of forest or areas to plant forest).

For e.g. Canada or Sweden it would seem possible. Sweden has 25k square meters (2.5 hectares, or 5 football fields) forest peer person. 85M cubic meters per year is cut down which is around 2% and roughly the same area planted (8.5cubic meters per person). The energy content of it is 150-200Twh which is comparable to Sweden’s energy consumption of 350Twh/year.

Obviously as little as possible is really used for energy because the value in wood for other products (timber, paper) is higher, but at least it shows that the forest as a source of energy is viable and largely sustainable. All that’s needed is a huge country full of mostly forest. Places that don’t have ten thousand trees per head to begin with can’t do this obviously, and countries that do have trees will much rather sell toilet paper and bookshelves to the UK than burn pellets.
Seems pretty dumb to host a status page in a way that it could go down, when it should be a static page that is trivially hosted on CDN's worldwide.
It's almost like the economy is doing exactly what it was setup to do: extract as much money from the system as possible for the good of the share holders. Overtime, the system starts to decay because of the initial goal.
Ask your parents or grandparents. My grandfather worked a crap job to provide for two kids, while going to med school nights and weekends. My grandmother had a p/t job and a side business. They managed. Their story doesn’t seem unusual for their generation (right after WW2). By comparison my f/t job with three kids and a consulting business on the side (which I now do full-time) seemed easy. You just do it, try to maintain balance, look forward. There’s no secret.
All of Broadcastify's audio servers (hosted with Softlayer in their Dallas datacenter) are completely unreachable and down.

I'm going to wait a bit to see if we get a status update, otherwise we'll be spinning up instances on AWS to failover (which will be enormously costly for bandwidth)

No status, no nothing, we're in the dark.
So do coal, nuclear and gas. What forms of power generation don't lobby governments?
Like later versions of BeOS, it looks like Haiku still supports the gcc compiler chain, so things may not be hopeless.
I had the vague sense that it was as easy to cross-compile rust binaries as it is for go.

Distributing single binary would be easier, but `cargo install xyz` seems harder than python script
> instead of getting rid of it

Like we can get rid of Coronavirus? Escaping to space for them is a form of quarantine, or a "green zone" to escape from the "red zone" of Earth. There's no hope of disinfecting a planet.

> Somehow they also know how to get rid of the blight at least in specimens,

It's easy to disinfect small things, like a handful of seeds.

> you wonder why instead of launching giant capsules in space full of plants without the blight, they wouldn't just build giant airtight greenhouses on earth?

The implication is that they're already doing everything they can, but that the Blight will eventually leave Earth about as habitable as Mars, so at that point you may as well go somewhere else.

> They plan and build an interstellar mission all by themselves

It's mentioned several times that the staff of hundreds are NASA (logos everywhere), and that the spaceships are largely the same that Coop used to fly before the Blight. That's why they want him specifically, he's a trained pilot with previous experience.

There's also a lot of technology left, such as AIs with apparent sentience. These are common enough to be used to pilot harvesters!

> hasn't trained for at least ten years

They skipped over the simulator time, it's a movie, not a documentary. What would you rather have as a pilot: Someone who's never flown before or someone who has?

> They could just throw some in space: no suit or capsule needed- do your job and report.

The AIs may not be as good as humans.

> the rocket launches from inside the nasa office building.

It was explained that this is a launch silo, the same as the type used by ballistic missiles. This is standard stuff.

The reasoning is that they're working largely in secret, because their work is unpopular with the public.

PS: The American public being this rabidly anti-scientific is entirely plausible! cough5G conspiracy nutscough.

> Random adventures with CGI on alien planets and very human squabbles follow

They're mankind's only hope and under incredible stress. Their friend dies. They're not exactly going to go about their business like emotionless robots.

Also, drama is entertaining. This is a movie!

Adventures are also entertaining. What's wrong with adventure!?

> Then there's black hole

Which was awesome to see in a Hollywood movie.

> love silliness.

Probably the most out-there part of the movie, but so what? If they didn't put this in there, like you said, they could have just sent robots.

Look at it like this: Have you ever heard stories of lost dogs that travel a thousand miles to get back to their home? Because they love their owners and are desperate to get back, no matter the hardship? Coop is like that dog, his love for his daughter is the thing that helps him find the way home. It's sappy, but whatever.

> the hero rejoins the cute lady in dire need of company- she surely won't reject his love.

Agreed, the mandatory relationship is a trope too many.

So clearly it's a crap movie that nobody should watch.

We should stick to the sci-fi classics like Transformers.
Account managers are texting, but they have no VPN access right now.
586 Google Fi / Pixel Customers Today Report Texts Sent in Chinese
Hadn't planned on the random feature, but totally open to pull requests!
From TWF #252 [1]:

"""
Back in 1897, a mathematician named William Burnside wrote the first book in English on finite groups. It was called Theory of Groups of Finite Order.

In the preface, Burnside explained why he studied finite groups by letting them act as permutations of sets, but not as linear transformations of vector spaces:

'Cayley's dictum that "a group is defined by means of the laws of combination of its symbols" would imply that, in dealing with the theory of groups, no more concrete mode of representation should be used than is absolutely necessary. It may then be asked why, in a book that professes to leave all applications to one side, a considerable space is devoted to substitution groups [permutation groups], but other particular modes of representation, such as groups of linear transformations, are not even referred to. My answer to this question is that while, in the present state of our knowledge, many results in the pure theory are arrived at most readily by dealing with properties of substitution groups, it would be difficult to find a result that could most directly be obtained by the consideration of groups of linear transformations.'

In short, he didn't see the point of representing groups on vector spaces - at least as a tool in the "pure" theory of finite groups, as opposed to their applications.

However, within months after this book was published, he discovered the work of Georg Frobenius, who used linear algebra very effectively to study groups!

So, Burnside started using linear algebra in his own work on finite groups, and by the time he wrote the second edition of his book in 1911, he'd changed his tune completely:

Very considerable advances in the theory of groups of finite order have been made since the appearance of the first edition of this book. In particular the theory of groups of linear substitutions has been the subject of numerous and important investigations by several writers; and the reason given in the original preface for omitting any account of it no longer holds good. In fact it is now more true to say that for further advances in the abstract theory one must look largely to the representation of a group as a group of linear transformations.
It's interesting to see exactly how representing finite groups on vector spaces lets us understand them better. By now almost everyone agrees this is true. But how much of the detailed machinery of linear algebra is really needed?
"""

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week252.html
Ah, is this the exception that proves the rule that "no one was ever fired for buying IBM?"

Sorry to be glib, I'm sure it's a tough time for people who were sold on their cloud platform and work on it!
The Charisma Machine (2019)
Their real crime is trying to cream off the healthy patients onto their service.

GP services get paid a flat fee per patient regardless of how much attention that patient needs. Babylon is trying to attract healthy tech savvy patients from across London and is leaving the more challenging patients to local GPs who will now be cash strapped.
It's on a path to standardised, but not there yet: etcd vs. others, different ingress controllers, providers replacing most of network parts, storage is bumpy/not so standard, deploy may be kubectl apply/helm/operator.

I would really appreciate a more mature ecosystem.
You need something to provide the peak load when the wind isn't blowing.
In keeping with this new spirit of inclusiveness and consideration for social justice, someone should submit a proposal to rename "CoC" to something less potentially triggering and/or misinterpretable, like perhaps a long string of randomly generated digits.
> But if all you are going to use on Haiku is ported software that ignores native APIs then what is the point of using an OS with less hardware support and features?

Haiku already has its own third-party 'native apps' that directly use its APIs and also promotes them in HaikuDepot [0]. Users from other OSes will always ask for other apps and if the OS has a 'modern browser' even when WebPositive is based on the same technology as Safari. i.e, WebKit. But they'll still ask for Firefox and Chrome.

The fragmentation argument can be made from a maintenance point of view. For typical platform support, it's easier to maintain and target one OS that has a single unified stack and SDKs (GUI toolkit, sound, input APIs, etc) than to do this on multiple distros and to only officially support 5 Linux distros, which is why Windows and Mac are always targeted easily. There is no 'standard' SDK on Linux distros, which is why one user could be using ALSA or OSS, X11, XWayland or pure Wayland with Sway, etc. Haiku has first-party default system components which it maintains.

It also sits in middle of macOS and Linux, being that its open-source like Linux and has a standard defaults and a SDK like macOS. So maintenance-wise, maintaining one of each OS like macOS or Windows sounds less expensive than targeting 3 separate distros here.

[0] https://depot.haiku-os.org/
Sorry to hijack your comment, but do you know of resources I can read to write my own custom layouts using awesomewm? I have a 21:9 monitor, and would like to write a layout where I can have a game running in 1080p + some windows on the side. Currently I do this just fine with floating windows, but surely there must be a way to use the tiling system.
How do you distinguish between an evil virtue signaler and a virtuous person?
So it has little to nothing to do with sandboxing.
Low Energy I think.
Yeah they had IE for ARM because of the Surface RT, I believe
FBI tried to recruit ANTIFA informant based on joke tweet
> Britain's energy mix is ~80% Nuclear/Hydro and 20% Wind/Solar/Other ('other' must be either natural gas or bio fuels, garbage or wood)

That’s not even remotely true.
I think what really sets Art Deco apart, and what makes it closer to what came before than what came after, are the decorative embellishments. These are what make the buildings engaging at the street level.

Can an architect here comment on the cost of such embellishments, such as terra cotta molding or mosaic friezes? Is it prohibitive, is it simply a "nice to have" that's never had for property developers, or is there a stylistic bias against embellishment?
How to create a social networking event remotely for a happy hour or business networking event or party is an interesting unsolved problem. Here are a few other early protypes from teams working on it. Both of these have a UI where you walk around a 2d space and can communicate with groups nearby:

https://theonline.town/

https://www.highfidelity.com/
Re-watching a consultation is useful for both the patient and the consultant. As far as I know (I did some consulting work for them), the data is encrypted and not accessed for any other purpose.
They had bare metal before Packet or AWS and inter-region traffic is free.
https://www.oracle.com/assets/java-se-subscription-pricelist...

Well with per core licensing combined with monthly subscriptions it's not that cut and dry that you will pay less. I can't remember what we paid for Sun Java in licensing but it wasn't per core.
Yeah, all those banking apps, streaming clients and even games that require locked boot loader and a singned image are basically another wave of thrusted computing. Totally disgusting.
You're only looking at the deltas of carbon in/out. I am referring to the absolute amount of carbon stored per area. Older forests -> higher soil carbon and larger trees
> [...] Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable

-- LLVM COC

Bold coming from a project that associates with Outreachy, an organization that intentionally and explicitly discriminates people based on their sex, nationality and ethnicity [0].

An important contributor left LLVM a few years ago because of that association, and I totally agree with him. [1]

I would like a clause that says: The project will not discriminate people based on their {sex, ethnicity, etc.} or spend resources in iniciatives that discriminate people based on their {sex, ethnicity, etc}.

[0] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/
[1] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122928.ht...
Yes, you can float a whole group. It's a bit fiddly though.
I'm really confused by this. Don't debuggers come embedded into any IDE worth using?

How could someone start programming this century without access to one?
> How do you distinguish between an evil virtue signaler and a virtuous person?

The latter do good things silently instead of showing off about it.
Of course no one can ban a word. Words exist independently of any authority... that said, it’s not an absurd proposition to think people will want to control those words for their own reasons. I don’t think my examples are a stretch given that it’s a stretch to tie conceptual data relationships to human relationships and see something untowards in it.

Do we change the name for “Slavic” people too because it harkens back to their history where Slavs were the default slave people in Western Europe and the origin of the word’s English meaning?

If anything, Slavs would have a point as it unfairly defaults them as being slaves etymologically.
Coal is irredeemable. We don't talk about if it's neutral because you can't even see neutral from where coal is.

We need improvements, and we should encourage them. But.

If we stop shy of the goal because people start misusing terminology or using fuzzy math then we are just as dead but drag it out longer. The Earth doesn't care about spreadsheets or feelings. It only cares what actually happened.
The news aggregator copies the full page content of other blogs so if something is interesting the URL of the relevant blog should be submitted.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf/search?q=pizza&un...
If I was developing software on Linux, which distro should I choose?

Can I write a native GUI program that is guaranteed to work on all Linux distros, just as I can develop native software on Windows and target all Windows users?
I do the same using kanel. It's just enough to make the typings smooth without dictating anything else about how they are used. I prefer to write the queries directly in sql using pg-promise and then type the results of the query and the parameters of the query using the output of kanel. Any changes to the db result in generating new typings followed by running the tests to make sure nothing broke.
Oh darn, I already have WebStorm and PHPStorm. Cheers.
Second this.

In the ongoing protests etc. I’ve realised how much the stories about Vimes have shaped my ideas of what a policeman should be.
They're getting so cheap because they produce energy at times we don't need it, so market price fall through the ground to zero or even negative flash prices. Low prices are an compound artefact of heavy subsidizing and production in complete inadequacy with demand.

Electricity storage doesn't exist. There is no existing industrial solution at scale (except hydro, but there's no room left for expansion in Europe). We're talking of scales of many GWh of storage. Then there's price of a multi-GWh storage.

Our society is entirely relying on on-demand power generation. Wind and solar are utterly inadequate tools. In actuality while Spain installed 20GW of wind and solar, it also installed 15 GW of gas-powered plants. Climate change anyone?
Having a good heart is better than glitter on a paper heart on a sign.

Virtue signaling is all about marketing, not about actually having virtues.
> Not to mention FreeBSD was never a democracy.

Not sure why you think so. FreeBSD Core team is a democratically elected body, by the developers. There is an ongoing election for the next Core as we speak.
Not really. User Experience typically applies to the frontend. What the user sees and experiences.

That said, you could,in an abstract way, say Understandablity is the UX for the development team. Works for me ;)
Solar is currently close to being the cheapest way of generating a unit of electricity that has ever been existed. Very strange definition of vanity. Anywhere near the equator the technology is going to totally replace all other generation within 20-30 years.
How sure are we that this outage is limited to IBM cloud?

Pindom[1] had a spike of website outages from 11k => 27k.

[1] https://livemap.pingdom.com/
I like the insight in this comment, but I worry that you subscribe to the idea that there is any kind of sanity in buisness decisions in a large org. As a researcher pleb mucking around in the undergrowth of a university organisation, many of the decisions admin makes don't make any strategic sense if the university is considered as a rational machine looking out for it's own good. If instead, the university is seen as being controlled by a bunch of self serving sociopaths looking to get a leg-up on the competition, the insane decisions admin makes suddenly become a lot more understandable.
The big thing for me was discovering JetBrains products and how much care and thought is taken in building a product that provides the right tools when you need it.
Well, Intel can improve it with each new processor design so it will continue to get better.
My critique is mostly tactical, as in, I am literally saying ‘we don’t need you in this discussion anymore, even to provide insight’.

This is something that can happen after egregious patterns over time. It is a valid consequence.

There’s almost nothing they have to lend to the debate anymore, those opportunities existed for ages.

We’ll fix this without them. My stance on this is as valid as their need to have a say.

If this stance is a problem that ails the world, that’s fine, it a better problem than what comes with whatever police have to express at this point.

It’s a better problem.

Edit: I just want to add, the cop is also admitting to crimes. Is the modern blog post ornamentation? Where you can dress yourself up in absolution? Wonderful you put it in blog form. We have no time for it, plus your guilty of crimes. How poetic.
UX is User Experience (external to the product).

This would be DX, Dev Experience (internal to the product).
Imo this is uncharitable to Babylon

They are trying to attract patients to their service of course, that's their business. The NHS hasn't properly recalibrated costs per patients and so it happens that the type of patients Babylon gets (young, tech savvy) are higher margin patients

It's not true that gps get a flat fee, the fees are scaled depending on patient age and other factors, but still aren't in line with costs
It's most likely customers of IBM cloud whose systems rely on something hosted there and are thus down as well.
> It adds a lot of latency, 500ms is not unusual…

How are you measuring? Half that is considered high-end from what I'm reading[1], and AirPods Pro apparently reduce that to 150ms.

[1] https://stephencoyle.net/airpods-pro
That would work if I was running tmux locally, but what about when I’m running tmux on a remote server?
This is only for git commands though? `diff` and `grep` are their own thing.
Though, if this imagery is the same as what's on https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu — then its resolution is apparently on the level of ‘I can see mountains’.
I wouldn’t allow my doctors surgery to record my in person GP sessions, why would I allow an app to do the same?
> Companies / researchers in general have no strong requirement to show you any artifacts to reproduce their work.

That's quite literally the opposite of what science is all about! If they don't want others to reproduce their results, they might just as well end each paper with "You can take our word for it!" and skip the details altogether...

What I'm rather interested in are points of comparison. Performance in terms of a chosen metric is one thing, but research gets more useful if it can easily be reproduced. This is the norm in all other sciences - why not in AI research?

If I can see that their approach is 20% better than SOTA, but they require 1M LoC plus 3 weeks of total computation time on a 100 machine cluster with 8 V100 per node, I can safely say - sod it! - use the inferior commercial product instead and add 20% manual effort (since I need to add manual work anyways as the accuracy isn't 100%).