skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short, you appear to be mixing cause and effect; i.e., correlation is not causation.

A higher suicide rate among the LGBT population can mean two things:

1. Being LGBT causes a higher suicide rate

2. Being LGBT is correlated with a higher suicide rate

The first conclusion postulates that the mere state of being LGBT, independent of environmental, social, circumstantial, or other factors, increases suicide risk; in other words, no matter how accepted or ostracized LGBT people are, no matter their upbringing, no matter any other factor, they will always have a higher suicide rate.

The second conclusion, on the other hand, allows for the possibility that some external factor can come into the picture to produce the observed result, and that being LGBT does not innately mean a higher risk for suicide. For example, perhaps LGBT people are relegated to a second-class place in society, with reduced opportunity to find love and having to constantly act in an “unnatural” way in order to be treated fairly. These additional stresses can add up to an increased suicide risk, without which an LGBT person would have a “normal” suicide risk.

By saying “ I think it's clear that it is harmful to be LGBT”, then bringing up suicide rates without mentioning possible confounding factors, it seems you’re drawing conclusion number 1 from above, which, strictly speaking, is too strong of a conclusion to draw given the stated data.
Although probably an unpopular position I agree with Finegold who is quoted in the article.

Ever since chess became big on twitch, online communities are increasingly filled with drama around Nakamura's persona, other twitch related drama, or just general gamer-community style content that was largely absent before.

The popularity largely focusses on a few twitch celebrities rather than talented players, it does very little to promote chess players who deserve to get more attention for the quality of their play, or just genuinely players who have played for a long time.

I think it does little to foster growth of chess as a sport and is just an opportunity to milk whatever commercial value anyone can out of the attention which I wager will be short-lived, as the twitch crowd moves on to the next thing.
I don't think it is completely a foregone conclusion that self-driving is even that much of an ML problem.

It might be possible to handle steering, navigation, obstacle and accident avoidance purely with non-ML approaches. Then ML could be left to less safety critical features such as predicting the types of obstacles surrounding it, and their likely next moves. LIDAR (gasp!) might even help make the problem much easier.

So no, I don't think that just saying you have more data is the end of the story. It's certainly AN approach, and maybe a good one, but I don't think you can conclude their engineering is better because of it.
Backblaze, or Amazon Glacier with the inconvenience of having to wait some hours to restore the tape backups.
It's not live streaming all the data. They have an independently running AI that looks for events/problems and streams problematic areas. The cars do this by default.
Warren Buffett is 50% bodyfat. Bill Gates is like 20%. Bezos, Zuck, and Elon are like 10%.

There is a lot of variability for the meat content of the rich.
No this isn't really possible. The computation required for training is extensive compared to the computation required for simply running the system.
so did you end up paying?
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I'm not advocating this usecase for squashfs, just saying that the perf I'm seeing in snaps is not necessarily what properly configured squashfs would give.
It looks like the Linux port of Fractint was last updated in August 2020!

https://fractint.org/ftp/current/linux/
They store the data on each car and query it from the mothership, then send only the most relevant samples back.

There is indeed way more data captured than can be sent back, or even stored long term on the car.
I think he meant more non-state-sanctioned violence, because there is no state to do it for you
The cost of housing also goes up significantly...
Exactly. I don't think people realize just how terrible cars at at scaling, whether they are human driven or completely controlled centrally as a fleet. Even parking a single car requires as much square footage as the typical worker requirement for office space. And if you don't have onsite parking, you have double the miles travelled as cars leave the central business district to temporary storage far away, only to come back to pick people up for their commutes back.

The past century of car-based thinking has damaged the US's planning brains. We need to go back to first principles and think about serving the needs and wants of humans, rather than serving the needs of a hugely space inefficient and health-damaging transit mode.
Ironically, if you submit the form the data gets sent to Facebook, among others.
At least having a word like "filter" in it narrows down the choices even if it doesn't make it unique. If instead it was "Bloom's construction" or "Bloom's algorithm", or "Tim's procedure", we'll be at a total loss to even guess what it was about, which is what happens with a lot of math starting from "Pythagorus theorem", anyone instantly recall "Apollonius' theorem", "Ackerman function", "Euler's function"?. If "Fermat's last theorem" or "Goldbach conjectures" weren't crazy famous I wouldn't have a clue.. The request to at least give us a "Fourier transform", if not "frequency spectrum" is not unreasonable.

I've lamented this for a long time, but on the other side, I doubt if mathematicians would ever get sufficient recognition if their names weren't immortalized thus, since they can't get patents on their works. They totally deserve recognition. Would you even remember Leonard Euler if his work was named factually? Most of us I guess have no idea who came up with sin/cos/exp/log etc. I'm glad for the names of these functions, but lament the loss of knowledge about the one (or many) who discovered them.

Longer names are a candidate .. along the lines of "Einstein's theory of general relativity". "Euler's relative prime counting function" .. but they too will likely, depending on familiarity, collapse over time.
That's not what it does at all.
"... most americans will realize that the only way to continue the properity and global power we've enjoyed over the past century is to import more people ..."

Given the global externalities produced by that prosperity and global power, why is it obvious that "most americans" would want that to continue ?

It may, in fact, be the case that importing citizens is the only way to continue this, but it's not obvious that there aren't other modes of living and growing.

Living things are born, they mature, then grow old and die ... mature living things don't consume the same resources or create the same outputs as juvenile living things. That's not necessarily bad ...
> Clojure's failure to gain adoption is undeniable

What... are.. you.. talking... about? Do some googling around. Clojure today is the most popular in its category of the languages with strong FP emphasis and slowly and steadily growing. It has already generated more jobs, books, active podcasts, conferences. More than Haskell, OCaml, F#, Elm, Purescript, Erlang, Elixir, Idris, Julia, and has recently surpassed Scala and become 3rd most used JVM language after Java and Kotlin.

Of course, one can say: "actually, none of these have gained much adoption in the industry", and speaking in relative numbers, they'd be right. But those who can no longer bear the pain of writing awful, deeply nested Java class hierarchies or tired of debugging concurrency issues would always find projects to write and sometimes even get paid for, using their preferred tool.

I honestly don't understand people, when they say: "It's really nice, I love it, but I'm getting paid to use something else." Well, do you really expect someone to call you and say: "Hey, I saw your comment on HN, it seems you'd love to use Clojure, can we offer you a lot of money?", or something like that?

I for one, after only a week of playing with Clojure, immediately quit my job. It took me just a few days to find a Clojure gig. I switched jobs three times since then, never (even during the COVID-19 crisis, when I was laid off) was a question for me "Is the fun over? Do I have to start looking for Python jobs now?" Luck of course is a factor, but you have to herd, guide and push your luck forward. It's no one's fault that you are forced to use something you don't like.
Recommend organic rankin or Sterling cycle engines over thermoelectric generator. I believe households in Sweden actually have heaters that use methane and also produce electricity at reasonably high efficiency.
Most things that put off enough voltage to require one of those probes arc through air at that distance. If it's close enough for a clusmy person to short something, it's already either blown up or the insulation is thick enough to withstand some awkward poking with a probe (or its submerged in an oil or other nonpolar solvent).
would have been preferable if they put it in better terms, i feel like the quality of comments on hn have been getting lower and lower and there fewer and fewer calling them out/flagging them when they're there
At some point we’ll get to meet the viruses that were frozen in the polar ice caps for millennia...
You sound like you know a bit about TI-99s, so let me ask you this: Do you have any idea why they made the lower case character set be small upper case letters instead of real lowercase like the Apple II or C64? A couple of years ago I did a Sunday morning project of inserting the Apple II font into the TI-99 ROM to run on an emulator, and other than having to shift the j's and g's up a pixel or two it worked beautifully.
Mass transit doesn't take you to every location and cannot. Cars must exist in some form or another for access to many locations. Mass transit has not replaced all cars in any (non-city-state) country on this planet.
You just proved you have no idea what you're talking about.
> In 30 years the population will double again

How would it double if the population growth rate has been falling down for decades?
Psychiatry as a profession is very dark. Even today if someone is wronged by it. They will receive little to no remedy unless very financially well off, or public outcry, and or the psychiatrist admitted wrong to his or her actions.

I frequent a website where most people are seeking to end their life from an assortment of mental illnesses. Majority of them have tried multiple psychiatrists as well as therapists and with little to no success in curing their suffering. I find it egregious that people may think psychiatrists actually seek the benefit of the patient's wishes because I know personally the request for MAiD falls on deaf ears. Instead these patients continue to experience involuntary treatment if they live in less civil countries or advised to try different medication.

I've known someone labeled schizophrenic where it costed their insurance well over 60k and in less than a year from involuntary hospitalization while being drugged & observed. I know other psychological illnesses like Gender Dysphoria where a person went through the wrong puberty never get that funded for their quality of life to improve (fixing voice & appearance). Anyway I think the whole field is very questionable if psychiatrists have a sincere interest in the person their treating that's basically their customer that keeps coming back.
> For anyone reading this and considering seeking help: There is a strong anti-psychiatry movement online following in the footsteps of the anti-vax movement.

There has been a strong anti-pschiatry movement in academia/science. It's not just "online", it's in the real world.

> The most important thing is to try to make progress, try different treatment modalities, and see what works for you.

We also have a over medication issue which leads to a lot of deaths just on mistakes alone.

"Well over 125,000 people die from drug reactions and mistakes each year, landmark medical studies of the 1990s suggest."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-the-medicated/

More people die from drug mistakes in the US each year than has died from covid so far.

There is a lot of "anti-X" online, but there are also a lot of "pro-X" online from fanatics, pharma advertisers, etc. And for all the psychiatry and drugs, we keep getting more mental issues rather than less. Perhaps it's society.

But I've noticed a very vocal and well placed "pro-[fill in the blank]" online. Haven't a clue who is funding the "anti-X", but I have a good idea who is funding the "pro-X". But yes, people who really truly absolutely need help should seek it. There has to be a balance between no medication and overmedication because both are harmful to individuals and society at large.
Shoddy engineering wins all the time! Ever heard of the DOS, Windows, or Android (in the early days)?

Tesla could win, with shoddy engineering, if they can convince the public and government (using the classic reality distortion field :) ) their self driving tech is ready for prime time (when, for the sake of argument, presume it's not ready).

They could then use the investment dollars generated to take it to the next level and perhaps make it solid over time -- but it could take a long time.

In the mean time, the public was effectively deceived as to the true safety level of the product. I would prefer if the opposite happened instead.
> you can think of it as a drop-in replacement for those tools

Unless I misunderstood the app while playing around with it and reading every word on your product page, it is not a _ drop-in replacement_ for those tools. Albeit, I didn't try creating my own url/launchers but if anything its functionalities seem like a subset of Alfred's abilities as opposed to a replacement.

..which was one of my primary hesitations considering this tool for adoption while playing with it. I already have Alfred, this doesn't replace Alfred, and I don't want yet another launcher to keep in mind. I could just sync all apps locally (Dropbox/Google Drive) and get the majority of the value proposition of Slapdash with Alfred.
Tesla used to have non-ML approaches for most of their systems but they've been gradually replacing all their non-ML systems with ML systems.
And he found it by “reading the code”!
Which link specifically?
If they genuinely ran this experiment without a time bound, I'd easily have at least $3k by now.
I too received this message, but I didn't join the study. I'm concerned with how the results of the study will be used.
Yglesias is a divisive enough figure who has been around for a long enough time that he could pull a thesis out of a hat, noodle around for 100 pages without ever building a recognizable argument, hire a couple of interns to pad it out to 300 pages (when extensive back matter is included), arrange for a well-orchestrated pay-for-review campaign to get some small fraction of the public excited or perturbed, and then just about pay for the advance (after extensive publishing-company accounting shenanigans). So, that's what he does. He doesn't actually give a hoot whether there are more or fewer Americans.
I am absolutely shocked by this and am amazed that this is the first time I've heard of it.
SVE looks pretty good. But ARM themselves are showing absolutely no signs of incorporating it into any of their own cores, despite the specs being published as part of ARMv8.2-A in January 2016. They're up to ARMv8.6-A now, with 8.7 or maybe ARMv9 expected any time.
For some reason, I thought equality and inequality pointer comparisons required pointers to be in the same object. It's actually only the relational operators that are undefined if not in the same object. (Although I believe most compilers will treat them as unspecified instead of undefined).
> Let those of us with mediocre knowledge and skills play the game at the level the masters play at with the help of some AI.

Correspondance games on lichess.org give you an opening explorer which shows you what masters have played before. (Click on the microscope, then on the book icon.)

Here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/Hj5Rt0b.png

If you really want to play with AI assistance, look for cyborg/centaur/advanced chess.

It looks like there's a lichess group for that, but it doesn't seem active anymore: https://lichess.org/team/cyborg
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It’s not an advertisement, it’s an excerpt.

Printing excerpts or serializing longer works is a staple form of journalism.
Actually, yeah, it looks to be about 60 years if things don't change... My bad. I misread a chart on Wikipedia earlier, just used this instead:

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/9...
They are probably using proprietary tools for mongo such as rockset: https://rockset.com/

Someone pointed that out to me when I answered a question dismissing mongo.
It's growing in popularity for sure. Nakamura's streaming, Magnus's tournament and everything moving online due to covid helped. But I wouldn't call it "taking over" and I doubt it has staying power. How long will the casual fans stick around?
I frequently see the word "anymore" used in comments like this, but the aliasing rules and the rules on undefined behavior date from the C89 standard, and they weren't invented in 1989. By the early 80s compiler writers were already pointing out that strictly treating pointers as addresses and forbidding the compiler from making any assumptions about whether addresses could clash forced very slow code, meaning that any fast code had to be written in Fortran (which actually have tougher aliasing rules than C has; given two arrays passed into a function, the compiler is entitled to assume that they do not alias).
If you'd like to wager that the population will be > 15B in 2050, you will find lots of people eager to take the other side of that bet.
> "...why is it obvious that "most americans" would want that to continue ?"

because the pie doesn't grow otherwise, and folks are fighting over the pie we have already. also, a growing pie doesn't mean maintaining the same inefficiencies/externalities we've gotten used to. part of the imported innovation will have to go towards mitigating those very problems if the growth is to be sustainable.
Tabs and Makefile
Honestly, most of these comments here are disgustingly tone deaf.

Do these people complain about each and every feature on other products that keeps someone attached to a platform?
No, it doesn't imply that.

It's just that if your code doesn't need 32 different vector variables then you can step down to, say, 4 variables with 8x longer registers for more efficiency. You need to know how many live variables your code has (which the compiler knows), not how long the registers are.
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Then make sure you don’t drive near anyone with a learner’s permit!
TBH I feel like I already get paid--temporally and emotionally--for staying away.

I suspect this would be a little like the cobra bounty?
Cool, except people choose to be parents, and when you do that you accept the additional work involved in that.

It is unfair to offer arbitrary benefits to people with children, and then compensate them the same amount as people who are doing more work.

That’s a “I chose to to do something I knew would take up a lot of time, I want work to give me time off to do that, but I also want work to continue to pay me as much as anyone else, including those people who are doing more work”.

P/maternity leave is one thing, arbitrary benefits from that point on is clearly unfair.

If I choose to sign up for 40 hours a week of volunteer work on top of my normal work hours I don’t get to ask for additional time off benefits from my employer, even though my volunteer work is likely to benefit far more people than just my immediate family.
Perhaps, but dynamic linking solves a very important set of problems (Speed, storage, memory, bandwidth, ...etc).
Surprising question, as I think REST is probably the leading paradigm for public APIs. At least in terms of what people call their API. What RESTful actually is varies from person to person.
In the dark ages, that would have allowed a single-pass compiler to reuse registers more aggressively.
Is this actually unsafe? In theory, won’t the circuit breaker flip if the load ever becomes unsafe? ISTM, this might end up being inconvenient (Plug another Computer into the UPS, and the breaker flips), but it won’t be dangerous, unless someone also “upgraded” the breaker.
Having used FreeCAD, I agree.

Constructive solid geometry is hard, but it's all math. User interfaces for 3D CAD are very hard. Open source is terrible at hard user interfaces. Hence, no really good free 3D CAD.
Chess-related software is certainly booming as well. My favorite recent addition is OpeningTree[0], a platform that lets you input anyone's Lichess or chess.com username and load a tree of their opening moves. I play in the Lichess4545[1] league and its an incredible tool.

My contributions to the chess community are much smaller. I wrote u/relevant_post_bot[2] for /r/anarchychess and stylochess[3] in an attempt to solve the identity of mysterious super grandmasters[4].

[0] https://www.openingtree.com

[1] https://www.lichess4545.com/team4545/

[2] https://github.com/fmhall/relevant-post-bot

[3] https://github.com/fmhall/stylochess

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/gqlqlz/the_identity_...
I disagree, federated learning is a very valid approach. The cars have a ton of computational power especially with HW3. (Although I think they don't have high precision floating point - the chips are for inference)

Federated learning is a lot like distributed training of a neural network.

The trouble with distributed training is that it's not as fast to converge as simply running more training steps. It is basically like increasing the batch size.

Also, it sounds like a general hassle for Tesla to use federated learning. I believe they need to be carefully auditing and labelling their training data for almost all their tasks. Perhaps some like depth-estimation don't require labelled data.
Our fire guy didn't like the unfused kind of extension cords much. One can understand why, you overload the electric lead and hope that the breaker is thrown before the insulation burns through.
To add to the sibling comment, Taiwan convened an emergency committee very early in the pandemic.

The first thing they looked at was masks: they could produce 2 million a day, and needed 20 million.

So they ramped up, and made them. These were, as I understand it, medical masks, not N95 respirators. But the results speak for themselves.
Oh boy, a real engineer is here to tell the immature ones what’s what.

First, you made a huge assumption. I never said I approve of how they are doing it. Engineering at the highest level encompasses morality, obviously.

But you wooshed real hard on the context of this thread in your rush to get that sweet feeling of moral superiority.

I’ll rewind it for you.

I was replying to someone claiming they hope Google delivers self-driving first because they see them as executing better at the engineering portion of doing so.

Do you see now? If they had said they see them as engineering more ethically and so they hope they win, fine. But they didn’t. Read it again.

The context is: is Google’s engineering strategy going to deliver self-driving first?

I replied to that. I even called out that you can totally disagree on moral grounds, and I do disagree with much of what they do, so it’s funny to call me out on something I was leaving purposely open as a further topic to discuss.

But the context was who would deliver self-driving faster, due strictly to their engineering strategy, I made the case that real world data trumps artificial data. And it does.
I am reminded of the Marx Brothers joke about getting paid more to not play music than to play. "How much to also have you not practice?" "You can't afford it."