skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It turns out anecdotes are different for everyone, that doesn't make them full of crap.

Indeed, wouldn't have included it if I didn't think the same.

I do however think making a blanket statement which has direct anecdotal evidence refuting it is pretty much bunk.
Can you see the Martian Volcanoes through a telescope?
I get 2-3 recruiter emails per week. That's ~10/mo or ~100/year. I respond to 5-10 emails like this in a year. Out of these 10 only 1-2 will result in an actual call. So they would be completely justified in asking me why I chose their company out of 100 that wanted me.
Just dongles for any inexpensive / older hardware.
Epstein was a powerful man, was it a friendship or just business?
It doesn't need to be an extra round-trip in HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 thanks to server push (which is basically link rel preload, but without the roundtrip part)
Knowing people such as Chuck Feeney exist is very motivating. I have had many near-death experiences. When I came back to this world everything saddened me. It’s supposed to be good to be alive. And it is! But ontologically suffering appears to be a fundamental nature about this world. And there are so much unnecessary suffering around us. So many miseries. So many heart-broken things and false dreams and inauthenticity that just result in more sadness. All for nothing at the face of the death.

This is why I want to believe. I want to believe in the goodness of people. Just as I’m constantly troubled by the realistic notion of death as I try to appreciate the transient presence of being here, I want to believe things will get better in the sense that there will be less suffering and people will learn and mature and become wiser and nicer to each other.

As we approach death and become one with nothing, we become one.

As we exist, we are only inducing more pains to ourselves. There are meanings though. I hope there are more meaningful things. We are sentient.
Isn't budget a part of elections platform, and so democracy? Because certainly when it comes to giving money to people bureaucracy becomes a factor, but then rather than redistributing money, things that you could spend tax money on:

- Universal healthcare
- Free education
- Funding homeless assistance programs
- Employment insurance
- UBI

(granted these last 2 are pretty much just redistributing money)

The question is whether you want the few billionaires to decide where to spend the money, or everyone (that is, people who haven't been disenfranchised).

AND THEN arguably given the polarization of the US today, I can understand that anyone feels frisky in raising the taxes to found the other side's ideas (being republicans not wanting to fund healthcare or democrats not wanting to fund a wall)
This is the perfect opportunity to pitch my own version of this robot! Implemented in a ROS framework, with a working walking gait, and some decent documentation: https://github.com/mike4192/spotMicro

I stumbled on nicrusso7's github page as I was doing my own initial research. I initially, naively, thought I could easily expand on his work and reinforcement learn my way to a working walking gait pretty quickly. However once I got a feel for the hardware and it's performance limits and the play in the system, I realized differences between the simulated model and real life would be significant, and would make debugging the translation from simulation to real life difficult. Also I'm teaching myself software development and reinforcement learning was another whole thing to learn.

So instead I took a different approach and implemented a more "conventional" gait, with inspiration and examples from other similar projects.

I've abandoned reinforcement learning for now, as I'm more interested in implementing mapping and motion planning going forward. But one day I'd like to revisit it and see how the pipeline for ML to real implementation works for something like this low level control.
Every safety standard that modern aircraft have to meet is written in blood.

Even then, Boeing thought they were better than they are, and we have lives lost to 737 MAX because they tried to play the rules to get a completely new aircraft certified as an existing one. The reason we don't have planes constantly crashing is because if a serious problem is found we can stop the planes flying, grounding the entire fleet of that model/variant around the world because airlines know that they'll be taken to the cleaners by governments if they keep flying a known-dangerous plane.

Companies everywhere are placing profits ahead of safety and reliability. You order parts for a nuclear reactor that have to be made out of a specific alloy due to radiation, the contractor ends up giving you a slightly different alloy that is just as strong mechanically, but costs them 20% less, and it turns out that the bit they removed is the trace material that makes the specified alloy radiation resistant (they're casting contractors, not metallurgists).

But because we're all cutting costs you're certifying the factory not the part, so you end up shipping a thousand small nuclear reactors with coolant systems that perish due to radiation and end up leaking toxic radioactive waste two or three years after being powered up.

How do you ground a fleet of nuclear reactors? It's not like having a fridge or hot water is a luxury that we can just do without for a few months while the problem is resolved.
I'd say, keymaps + GIFs are nice. For example, I may have never have tried magit or swiper[1] in its early days, if I had not seen someone use it. Keymaps I can configure rather easily, UI flows not so much.

[1] https://writequit.org/denver-emacs/presentations/2017-04-11-...
Do you know the system that encodes your name and address into the serial number? I hope it's a strong one-way hash in order to preserve your anonymity. I also hope it's valid, and not easily identified as one to discard in favor of the right one. Since the state generates the serial number encoded from your personal deets, it's not anonymous until the vote has been separated from the envelope without any association of its contents to your serial number. If there's any such association, your vote is no longer anonymous.

And a root of trust here is state IT systems. In addition to state actors (the nation-state type), we have the classic insider threats driven by both elected and career officials. Need to assume a higher level of competence at least than election commissions have deserved in the past.

The poll watchers are interesting. Do they watch each box from the time it's placed on the curb until the time its contents are entered into the counting system? (What's the overnight security like on them?, what's the transit security?)

Yes I sound like I'm trying to find problems...
But many millions of others besides these.

So these authors were drowned out in the noise.

I'm talking about training on just a relatively small number of authors, so the model can acquire some of their distinctive traits.
A mix of both, I think, and it's hard to be sure which is what.
> To have an economist leading off with a moral argument
> tells you how strong the economic argument is.

This is an ad hominem argument.
I sense some hippie shame (maybe I'm wrong)! IMO a lot of that feeling stems from the government and ruling class pushing back against counter-culture. They were more right about the environment (among other issues) than they even realized at the time.

Earthships are unconventional in appearance and implementation, but are great examples of the type of thinking we're going to need to overcome imminent climate issues. If we started doing more of that in the 60s and 70s we'd be in a better position today.
I'm thinking about "buildable" in terms of how an agent that would construct it thinks: if I spend X amount of money will I have anything to show for it?

In the US, the percentage of build failures has been too high for any utility or merchant generators to stomach the risk.

So the existence of new reactors is not sufficient to define "buildable." The existence frequency of failed builds is what scares off new projects, and what makes them "unbuildable."

Which also points to another difficulty with build ability: even if Rosatom or China or South Korea have figured out a way to build with a high success rate, that doesn't mean that it will translates to a different build crew and culture. We would have to see a string of probable 5 successes in a row in the US before a utility exec would consider risking their entire company on a new nuclear power plant. Too many gigantic companies have been destroyed in the attempt. There's a hilarious video of a SCANA (I think?) exec delivering blisteringly sarcastic remarks about the possibility of somebody else being able to pick up the pieces of their failed AP-1000 build. Nuclear is a career killer and a corporation killer in the US. It's likely that many execs in South Carolina will end up in jail for the stuff they did to try to keep the build going.

And this is from people that have none of the safety or environmental concerns about nuclear. It's purely economic and "can I ever build this thing and will it destroy the company I lead."
Higher net worth individuals like the ones you find in the upper middle class also aren't going to be risking their life daily on a bicycle outside just for exercise.

You can easily just roll out of bed at 6 AM and jump on a peloton and safely get good exercise everyday, no matter the weather or terrain.
They make the argument hate speech is not a form of protected speech, but it is.
but is it worth it, energy wise (or for any other reason)?
Instead of rationalising, try researching. Ivy League universities, for example, almost uniformly use "need-blind admission". Meaning they admit you first, and the decision comes with a promise to find a way to make it affordable for you to attend given your circumstances.

As a datapoint, "Fifty-five percent of Harvard College students receive need-based scholarship aid, and the average grant this year is more than $53,000." (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=harvard...)
Reursive descent is debuggable. A grammar rule is a function, which means you can put a breakpoint on a grammar rule, and the backtrace tells you how you got there when you hit it.

Recursive descent carries no tooling dependencies.

Recursive descent is re-entrant, unless you don't know what you're doing.
Multi-divisional form (MDF / M-form).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-divisional_form

Usually contrasted with unitary form (U-form).
But even a release titled “Final-1.2.8” releases a year ago doesn’t tell you if the last release was because it was abandoned and shouldn’t be used anymore because it’s out of date or if it still works and just hasn’t been updated because there was nothing else to fix right now.
"Extra" $1000 up front. So presumably for Fitness+ you still need to buy a normal exercise bike or treadmill. Peloton's are priced higher, but the alternative isn't $0 either.
Depends if we measure use by number of people moving, amount of currency moved, or something else.
>Mobile GPUs are like integrated graphics on CPUs

I really don't think so. For the high end PC consumer, integrated performance can be ignored because you'll get a dedicated card. Not so with mobile SOCs.

It makes sense that nVidia might want to squeeze out Qualcomm and get their GPUs in Samsung flagships, for example.
I invite you to spend some time in a pediatric oncology unit, look at the mind-boggling variety of single-use plastics consumed over the course of the day, and research their manufacturers and origins. The results will be more illuminating than some dramatic hypothetical.
Strictly speaking, the US is both a republic and a democracy, and this stupid meme needs to die.
It's not super easy to be in the filters subscription business. People have odd size filters (I'm one of them, it's 1" shorter than the standard size), so it's a bit labor intensive. This is the sort of thing you should really be able to subscribe to when you get your furnace.
Some really compelling points here, nice
I can't understand why developers take these rules seriously and why they don't just abandon the platform. I guess it must be the money.
I’m voting yes because that was some serious bullshit.
I have misquoted a repair before. Either I clicked the wrong box. Because either I didn't do my do diligence or because I was scatter brained and copied and pasted the wrong number. Regardless this is still a reflection of the way apple trains the agents and QC team not catching this agents mistake.

You might want to call back and mention the delamination repair program. If you're still within the 4 year purchase period it should be fixed for free.
Nursing home is not “healthcare.”
Depends on your relationship with cloud storage:

10-20 years ago it was pretty normal to keep and show off nude photos of your kids. I've seen plenty of nude photos of my friends from "a heatwave in the garden + paddling pool" when they were a toddler.

There's nothing sexual or nude about it unless you want to make it that way. For 99.x% percent of us, having one of two genders is as universal as it comes...
It’s Cheaper to Use Apple Watch Family Sharing with Verizon Now
I think the root of the problem you’re getting at isn’t that we shouldn't have leaders we elect, but that education and trustworthy journalism in a democracy are vitally important.
Just part of the broader trend.

America failed to build cohesive and stable global institutions after the post-Soviet era.

We spoiled this magical post 1992 golden hour, and now those institutions (WHO, WTO, among others) fail to hold rising powers like China accountable.

Rather than rebuild and reinvigorate those institutions, we turn to nationalism, sectarian politics and isolationism.

That American retrenchment then further weakens those international institutions, hastening their devolution into proxy organizations.

Which the isolationists then use as evidence, to argue for a further reduction in our foreign commitments.

Until the cycle finds a bottom.
Pygg – Ggplot2 Syntax in Python
Very honestly, I’ve started looking at CV since I’ve integrated the robotic arm in my model (a couple of days ago :)). I‘m actually searching paper/project on it - My next step is the “open a door” task
Personal anecdote. I ran into Bill Gates and his dad at the Taj Mahal once when I was there visiting with family. I remember being struck with how tall he was, and their stark height difference! I was 22 at the time and being a huge fan, I walked up to them - except Bill jr thought I was trying to sell him something and preemptively said no thanks and started to walk away. Bill sr, however, took a minute and engaged with me with a smile and the two of them talked to me for a couple of minutes about the Taj and what got me into tech. I remembered this friendliness today on reading this. And that last line about overusing the word incredible really resonates. RIP.
Bill Gates has come a long way since the days of absolutely ruthless Microsoft. It's not surprising that there are still many people whose lives were made worse by its business practices who really do not like Bill Gates, and are inclined to believe bad things about him.

I'm one of those people whose livelihoods was negatively impacted by all that, and for a long time I really didn't like him. He is doing amazing work now, but it is pretty hard to get past that.
Power laws are powerful things.
I just saw this. Even if you are beyond the 4 year purchase window. The repair should only be considered a "display only replacement" I suspect if display somehow got "fried" and failed the repair wouldn't not be a tier 4 repair.

You also have an option of just removing the anti-reflective coating using solvents like 90% ISO or stronger.
That Bill Gates is using the Coronavirus vaccine to implant microchips into civilization for population control and that he's harvesting the blood of children so that he can extract adrenochrome -- Definitely some pretty unhinged conspiracy theories. Of which apparently nearly half of American Republicans believe them?

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/inline...
Yeah, that's fair. My take may have been a bit naive. It is a bit like Enterprise software, though. Even if you're getting screwed, they'll be polite to you at least. When I badly broke an appliance, they replaced it no questions asked. Going through the same with my current individual-owner landlord would definitely be an event.
I'm going to quote from this article, "Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude’s Death Quiet" at length:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/rochester-police...

"The June 4 exchange was contained in a mass of city documents released on Monday that show how the police chief, La’Ron Singletary, and other prominent Rochester officials did everything in their power to keep the troubling videos of the incident out of public view, and to prevent damaging fallout from Mr. Prude’s death.

The dozens of emails, police reports and internal reviews reveal an array of delay tactics — from citing hospital privacy laws to blaming an overworked employee’s backlog in processing videos — used in that mission.

The documents show how the police attempted to frame the narrative in the earliest hours, playing up Mr. Prude’s potential for danger and glossing over the tactics of the officers who pinned him, naked and hooded, to the ground before he stopped breathing.

In a police report on the confrontation, marking a box for “victim type,” an officer on the scene listed Mr. Prude — who the police believed had broken a store window that night — simply as an “individual.” But another officer circled the word in red and scribbled a note.

“Make him a suspect,” it read."
Loom will be a performance game changer even for reactive frameworks. I'm not even talking about it the fact it use io_uring and other SOTA OS technologies.
I'm talking about the fact it allows to have a non blocking socket thus enabling for the first time asynchronous jdbc access and thus postrgresql pipelineing/batching.
This will allow spring to come at the top 4 fastest http servers on earth according to the benchmarckgame
I can imagine GTP-3 being used to make legal documents that are even more difficult for a human being to parse. That's probably a net-negative for society as a whole if it is used that way.

Of course, it's fun to chuckle at the thought of a lawyer having to read through the most insane document of all time and muttering profanities to himself the entire time.
• You don't control your ABI. For example, you can't reserve a register for error object return like Swift does.

• You don't control your stack and stack frames. You can't implement a segmented stack, for example.

• You have very limited options for unwinding. setjmp doesn't really cut it. You could leverage C++ exceptions or platform-specific things like SEH, but you can't design anything radically different.

• You can't have debug information fancier than #line and maybe reusing C++ name mangling. You can't make debuggers see your higher-level constructs and data as anything other than their lowering.

• You have very limited options for specifying pointer aliasing.

• If you don't want to inherit UB from C, you'll have to be very clever about using alternative constructs that don't cause UB while still compile to efficient code you wanted.

• If you mean standard C, not C with compiler extensions, then look at the whole list of non-standard intrinsics and built-ins for things C can't do.
In my experience these have been completely wrong recently for my neck of the woods (PDX) even at 6-12 hours. Cliff explains in one of his posts that this is because of not modeling the inversion. I’m having better luck with the Copernicus CAMS forecast in Windy
AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads
> “What we can do is spray insecticide right where it’s needed and herbicide right where it’s needed,”

And if you remembered where you sprayed it, you can sell a part of your crop at a premium, i.e. as "insecticide-free".
My understanding is that you can "liquidate" by taking out a home equity line of credit or by doing a cash out refinance. Both of those options only work if your home has appreciated in value.
I watched it too and I failed to see how the whiteness of those people was relevant. I can understand how skin pigmentation may correlate with income in the US, but that’s an American problem not a property of the skin colour that Apple are not required to solve
9. When the donation wouldn’t occur without a tax break.
Correction: "on a single candidate" should be "[electing] a single candidate".
Portland burbs here. It's been a crazy week for us. When those howling east winds started a week ago Monday (9/7) we got some smoke initially that evening as fires started flaming up immediately with that dry wind. Then we awoke on Tuesday to the pleasant surprise of blue skies as I guess the winds shifted just a bit so that the smoke missed us here, but down valley we were seeing some very apocalyptic pics. And we could look to the south and see the smoke plume. The good air stayed around till Thursday afternoon. We've had AQI up into the 400s on occasion since. Yesterday it went down a bit into the mid 300s. Today it's down to about 250 and we're just elated that it's gone from hazardous to very unhealthy. The house has been closed up since last Thursday, we're fortunate to have a HEPA filter that move to whatever room we're in at the time - but it's definitely still noticeable - scratchy throat, tight chest, headache, eyes stinging by evening. We've gone through one of the HEPA filter cartridges already.

I hadn't been out of the house from last Thursday until this afternoon when I ventured out with an N95 mask to water the garden and make a quick trip to the store - my eyes are still smarting a couple hours later. On the weekend we were told things would get better with some showers on Monday, but they never materialized. Now they're telling us it'll be Thursday or Friday before we get some significant (but not complete) clearing. I hope they're right this time - a lot of people are starting to lose hope.
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Your fingerprints and face ID data never leave the device. There’s plenty of documentation about this.
And? They would be using something else as packaging if not for plastics. People are resourceful like that.
France and the UK still maintain nuclear arsenals.
Is it necessary to describe the woman as a transgender woman?

I'm not an SJW by any means, in fact I'm the opposite because I feel facist leftists are ruining any rational conversations we are having.

But I firmly believe in transgender rights, so if this person is a transgender female, shouldn't we just call her "female" instead of labelling her "transgender female" for the rest of her life?
Regarding the part about wasting time on setting up stuff - because I've been plagued with that on every laptop I've used (due to conflicting/competing software and DLL hell):

repl.it or google colab.

Won't work offline, but it takes 5 seconds from launch/load to coding. Those tools are a godsend. I haven't opened an IDE or touched Conda for Python in probably 3 months now.
It's not really. That would fund the US Government for about 9 months.
> Beyond that, you get into demonstrating a classical education, with the inference that knowledge of Latin phrases ipso facto means intelligence.

I’ve been reading some classic English books, and it is really noteworthy that the writers use Greek phrases and references to Greek plays, clearly as a sign of status (synonym: culture). The οἱ πολλοί are not educated.

Having one’s English corrected is reviled by many, because the implication is that they are poorly educated and lower status. Take care when correcting anyone’s English online or offline!