skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Treating unicode as something optional was fine for early 2000s, but it's really not fine today.

The issues are:

* how unicode support is implemented in third party libraries: how easy it turns out to manipulate this datatype with those libraries

* how easy it is to integrate third party libraries in a project

OCaml went a long way in both accounts since the early 2000s, perhaps you should give it a second look?
> how is it acceptable that Yelp can charge them for doing so? Did they consent to this fee?

In America, only the government is allowed to come up to you and say pay me this without you consenting. In all the businesses I’ve been involved with for over 2 decades, there are plenty of times someone sends an invoice for something you didn’t agree to, and you can always just ignore it.
Is Japan going to basically rearm and formally acquire nuclear deterrent soon?
You start of saying don't lobby and then suggest a course of action that is lobbying.
"How late are you open tonight? Ok, thanks."
Fair enough, let me try again:

https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/24946

> The most comprehensive and recent publication I've found related to this question is The relationship between cognitive ability and chess skill: A comprehensive meta-analysis.

> The bottom line is that according to a meta-analysis of numerous studies, there is clearly a correlation between chess skill and cognitive ability, but cognitive ability explains only about 6% of the variance in chess skill (12% if you only consider numerical ability only). There must be other factors as well (e.g., training), some of which could be more important than cognitive ability.

From my personal observations I very much agree with 6%.
>especially one in as prestigious a journal as the Lancet

While I agree in principle, the Lancet aren't immune to crummy papers (indeed, no-one is). Even just this year, they published that super-dodgy Surgisphere paper that turned out to be completely irreproducible (to put it kindly).

Scientific papers are written by people, and the peers of people who (for example) don't really understand statistics are likely to also not understand statistics, so while peer review is definitely helpful, one should always read scientific papers sceptically.

That being said, low-effort dismissals based on anecdotes are much, much worse than the average scientific paper.
Not sure about this particular video - but the idea could make for a really good follow-up script.

An "anti-sequel", as it were.
If someone wants to do that bit I'd say go ahead. Don't tell people not to pursue lobbying though.

After the last four years I have now blocked all social media and all american news sources in my house with the expressed intent of not hearing a word about politics, news, etc... It has taken a massive toll on how I feel day to day, I found my personal relationships waning, and made me feel uncomfortable meeting new people. I'd rather pay someone to involve themselves with this kind of world, not be involved in it myself.
Having reddit crack down on hate speech makes it a corporate shill-chamber/chicomm focal point, along with an anti-1A and against American-rights. The evil is always there with these companies brother.
Really great news for the Biosecurity industry because the mRNA vaccines are far easier to manufacture. Main hurdle now seems to be to freeze dry (“lyophilize”) them for transport, cuz otherwise you gotta keep em at extremely cold temperatures, which adds a ton of cost (and may not even be doable)
your arguement seriously makes the whole _privacy arguement_ seem futile.

what about a _telegram_ message?
It does for some people, not for others.

I took up exercise during the pandemic shut in and I gotta say: I've heard enough people report that it vastly improved their mood that I believe them. But me? Nope. It's a chore every single time. Never gets easier; I just get better at dealing with the physical stress of it. Same pain and same exhaustion every time; none of that reported "runner's high" or "feeling of euphoria" other people seem to experience, and no particular change in mood week-to-week. The pain curve is flatter the more I do it (so I can go for longer periods of time before will gives out and I give a hearty "fuuuuuck THIS" to further running that day), but I still feel like crap every time I finish. I keep telling myself "It's not about feeling good; it's about being better."

The pain won't stop me, but it means it doesn't come for free.
Well i posted the free version too around 12 hours back. I generally cross post on multiple platforms like Dev.to and Medium.

Honestly, on Medium I try to generate some revenue through paid traffic.

I don't see anything wrong with it.
Exactly, so let's not repeat that mistake!
Be a white English-speaking foreigner, and spend money.
I largely agree with you - we need to get past the notion of IP, but it’s a long where from where we currently are, and for all the problems with the current system, there are going to be problems with dismantling the IP regime.

What is the first step?
Like a lot of things, vitamin D may have a slight effect on COVID mortality rates, but won't accomplish much by itself.

Edit: The study linked below is pretty compelling. My comment appears to be incorrect.
I never use Yelp because they have very sketchy/bullying business practices. I much prefer word of mouth and Google, combined those two are more than enough for my needs.
If you're using github pages you should just structure jekyll such that you can edit data/_links.yml instead of having thousands of users wasting compute power for github api when its not necessary
> a test in isolation cannot be bullshit.

A test trying to measure something we can't even properly define is kinda flawed in it's whole premise.

As such the best an IQ test can do is measure how well somebody prepared for a test like that, but it will struggle to properly catch any knowledge or skill domains not covered by the test, of which there are a lot.
Absolutely. Exercise is also an activity you need to voluntarily commit to doing. The effects of mild/moderate/severe depression can make keeping up this commitment a challenge.

I know it's in my best interests to exercise and I know it makes me feel better when I do it, but when I'm feeling low it's also one of the last things I want to do.
When 2 extortionists (Yelp and Grubhub) meet, what you get is extortion 2.0.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
As someone who was in the thick of it, what do you think could've been done differently to improve the problems with the rating system?
It’s the other way around: an intermediate state of compilation is uploaded (basically the internal state after all non-machine-specific optimizations have been done, like hoisting invariants out of loops, etc). The App Store finishes compiling with the flags for the various CPUs supported (iPhone 6, iPhone 12, etc).
"An accident of the past few years is that this feature has been used primarily by political actors working in a manner that many people find agreeable — either because it suits a partisan preference, or because the people who got “caught” sort of deserved it.

But bad things happen to good people too. If you build a mechanism that incentivizes crime, sooner or later you will get crimed on."
> I'd be surprised if anyone in a meeting at Apple (seriously) said "let's black-screen-of-death the 2013/2014 models.

Nah, dude, they are in there saying "let's make more bags of money", which is exactly why software continues to suck at an accelerated rate. None of it is reliable long term and it changes so fast users can't keep up, other than having to shell out more and more money to stay in the game of usable software.

A few days ago I woke up and my Sonos won't respond with Alexa. The software got updated and now they expect me to jump through a bunch of hoops (including logging out of Amazon on my devices) to get it back, but I'm not.
Does anyone have an alternative to Yelp. What I care about:

- Open Now (Optional)

- Sort by Rating

- Search by food category, not name of restaurant.

Part of the problem is I have a food allergy. I'm highly allergic to soy, so I can't eat all dishes at most restaurants except their drinks. The few I can eat at tend to be very high end or very highly rated, because the alternative to ingredients that use soy is almost always better tasting (eg, they make their own bread from scratch at a sandwich shop), so if I sort by rating I can find restaurants I'm not allergic to. I still have to ask 20 questions when I call in. Flavor is not enough alone, but it's a surprisingly accurate indicator. I use Yelp for this reason and feel disgusted when doing so.
Glicko is just ELO with an uncertainty factor that speeds up down how quickly your rating changes if you've played fewer games. Actually, FIDE's implementation of ELO also has an approximate version of this, increasing its "k" value for new players and decreasing it for some thresholds of games played, ratings, and player age. Both these adjustments just affect how quickly your rating would change if your win rate changes. They do not your equilibrium rating at a particular skill level.

Lichess ratings are inflated not because of Glicko but because of the player pool. New players start at 1500 ELO in both Lichess and FIDE, but Lichess's pool of "new players" is a lot wider and has a lot more amateurs than FIDE's new players. The amateurs' points ultimately get spread around the player pool while they descend from 1500 to a more realistic rating, inflating the ratings of other players on the way.
It is essentially a mental issue.

Food is addictive. It is the mother of all addictive substances, for good reasons. Refined sugar and rich food particularly so, pure energy, exactly what our body needs to stay alive.

What changed is that what was originally rare, high value food sources are now abundant, and we didn't have time to adapt.

The same could be said about alcohol and tobacco. Why do so many people in developed countries drink and smoke when we all know it is bad?

People care, they just can't help it.
Of course you can’t just tack on another hobby that’s 2 hrs/day when you’ve already got others. There are sacrifices with everything. If you want to take up chess as a hobby you’ll need to make room by doing less of another hobby or something else.
Relations between China and other Asian countries aren't as bad as what the western mainstream media portrays. China is far more willing to negotiate win-win deals, and is far less of a boogeyman/invader, than what mainstream media wants you to believe. Pompeo visited many countries, urging everyone to 'unite and stand up against the bully that is China', but the reality is very different from that narrative, and as a result Asian countries signed the RCEP instead.

The Western narrative of China is a bubble of alternate reality. This RCEP event shows you just how alternate it is.
Presumably you have seen the movie "Gattica", if not I can recommend it.

Imagine that we figure out the genetic sequence for total memory recall. It isn't an "illness" it is a feature that some people have. And perhaps the procedure costs $2M to have it done. Further assume that is a price that "upper middle class" people can afford to have it done for their kids. Now you have thousands of kids who are artificially "better" for jobs than unmodified kids. How do the unmodified kids compete?

It is just a hypothetical of course, there are dozens of things that appear to be genetic that give people an advantage over their peers. Unequal access to such things has always been a force for stratification in the world.
Like, but that's still far more than the capacity of many Western medical systems.

It doesn't matter how much you overshoot medical capacity, because as soon as you do, death rates go way, way up.
Nah, zero just means “redirect after zero seconds”, meaning immediately. You definitely want zero.
If your goal is to destroy them and return us to Microsoft era stagnation, then sure.
that's how understood it as well:

"youtube-dl stands in place of a Web browser and performs a similar function with respect to user-uploaded videos. Importantly, youtube-dl does not decrypt video streams that are encrypted with commercial DRM technologies, such as Widevine, that are used by subscription video sites, such as Netflix."

"We presume that this “signature” code is what RIAA refers to as a “rolling cipher,” although YouTube’s JavaScript code does not contain this phrase. Regardless of what this mechanism is called, youtube-dl does not “circumvent” it as that term is defined in Section 1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, because YouTube provides the means of accessing these video streams to anyone who requests them. As federal appeals court recently ruled, one does not “circumvent” an access control by using a publicly available password. Circumvention is limited to actions that “descramble, decrypt, avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or impair a technological measure,” without the authority of the copyright owner."
Wow, I have a late 2013 MBP... If I'd read this before, I wouldn't upgraded. I think I was very lucky, no issues with Big Sur for now.
In the past, doesn't Apple just EOL computers past 5 years of age? imo this is why Apple historically "just works". Compared to MS's strategy of supporting every hardware variation and configuration under the sun, Apple just ends support for anything that doesn't conform to the new paradigm. I'm not keen on having to spend $2000 every 5 years, but it makes sense.
I like your recursive "degrees of binarity" argument :)

You're right about the principle, of course. I just think it would be "10% pointless", and thus well worth doing.
You mean medians don't matter?
To some extent we are guessing because nothing is approved. Maybe something "funny" we be found in the data and nothing get approved and we never get a vaccine. Maybe everything goes perfect and we have both vaccines approved by December 1st, with the other following (which currently don't have enough data to apply for approval) in a few days.
I'm a fan of scylla too, but if I could go back in time I'd have recommended waiting until mid 2019 to migrate. 'Fully optimized C++ rewrite's tend to take years to become battle tested.
Let’s try to keep snark and sarcasm out of the discussion, and instead argue out of data or first principles. HN is a rare bastion of light on the internet - a refuge of civil discussion
To be fair, Rhode Island is all syrup no pancake.
Nvidia Announces A100 80GB: Ampere Gets HBM2E Memory Upgrade
It might surprise people that in the last 150 years people are actually doing more exercise than they ever have before with a lot more science behind what they do for better results. Even with that as the backdrop obesity has shot up. It is not just lazy people, it is bad food and the science that says its great that underpins it all.
The software side of AMD has been (in preceding years) a disaster. I say that as someone interested in their products. Who would love to see a realistic competitor to CUDA.

AMDs linux support has been somewhere between no-assed to half-assed for the preceding decade. I think they believed that the world will return to windows for everything. That ship has sailed, long ago. The point about CUDA being usable up/down the HW stack is quite salient. When I develop GPU things, I start on my laptop GTX1060. Test on my deskside RTX2060, and run them on V100s. Code is in Julia, C, Fortran, so it should work anywhere with good underlying library support. I've got a zen laptop with integrated Radeon. No dice, can't do computing on it (yet).

AMDs function/library support is nascent, and will take years to get to a viable point for many.

I am hoping ... hoping ... that AMD sees this as an opportunity long term, and not a short term expense that must provide immediate ROI. SW ecosystems drive the HW purchases, but there is usually a lag of years before this engine really gets started.

AMD needs to be in this for the long haul.
hopefully it kills people instead of saving lifes.
This is a helpful comment because not having DKIM is in the same range of bad outcomes as having your eyes gouged out.
Well I've lost 30lbs in the past two years, but I don't think blaming others will help with the remaining 35 it would take to get me under 25 BMI (I'm presently a hair over 30.) Cajoling myself to reign in on my portion size seems more likely to continue working than adopting a victim mentality, but you do you I guess.
It is never that straightforward. It typically is a decision to deprioritize testing of some things.
No it hasn't, it's very inconsistent though. Emacs and some other software does it everytime, although most seem well behaved. I'm on 5.20, probably not the latest version I'd have if I were on Arch though.
That is only in the UK. In the rest of the continent it is illegal.
I agree that the title is very strange. To the extent that anyone has ever said that time is "just another dimension" it won't be in conflict with what the article explains.
That's really a problem of picking up a url/uri/iri in text without delimeters. You see the same thing when there's 'uncommon' ascii characters in urls, like a trailing period, or commas or exclamation points. The proper thing to do is to enclose links in <>, as was done in well-formed email, but that wasn't super consistent either, and it hasn't transitioned to the world conciousness.
Sure. One undeniable advantage they have is when it comes to scaling multiple numbers by the same factor (for example in the kitchen.) You just set it to the scaling factor and then don't touch it again. Reading off a scaled number is as easy as it gets.

There are other softer benefits too, such as making the quantities in the computation somehow more... visceral.
The ACLU has had a bit of a paradigm shift recently, from "defend any speech" to "defend any speech we do not think is abhorrent". That's not necessarily a bad change, or a good change, depending on where you stand. I am just wanting to point out that the ACLU isn't necessarily "remaining", more "reinventing" these days.

Here is a fresh Glenn Greenwald writeup on it (which is just one opinion, of course):

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-death-of-free-s...
Why not just use Linux?
Apple's new chip "shreds" a 2016-era GPU?

Wow.
I would suppose doing a push every time a new URL is added would be quite expensive for GitHub too. Plus, GitHUb pages is not updated immediately upon push and it takes some time for new links to work. That being said, this is definitely not the most realistic implementation of a URL shortener. It is meant to be cool and hacky and definitely not used for production!
You can go ahead and toss out the post office here, as part of the US Government arguably the first amendment applies directly to it, which isn't going to be true for any private companies.

So the general rule is that the government can override one's right to free association, but that the government needs a compelling reason to do so. This is the basis for very important civil rights rulings, as the courts have overridden one's ability to refuse service based on various protected characteristics. The question is, does speech and speech alone rise to this standard? In a few cases yes, but in general no.

The rationale for phone companies is that they're classified as "Common Carriers", a concept that comes from common law. A common carrier is a regulatory concept that places certain obligations on service providers (typically transit companies) in exchange for the right to sell to the general public. This has never been a mandatory thing, private and contract carriers have always existed in parallel with common carriers, but if you want to sell to the public directly without drawing up a contract per client one has to be a common carrier. Telephone companies fall under this common carrier distinction largely because they must connect with each other; it's pretty much impossible to create the equivalent of a "contract carrier" in the telephone space, since they're only useful when interconnected.

You'll note that your ISP is not actually a common carrier, as the FCC reversed its stance in 2017. Technically speaking there is no legal requirement that your ISP carry any speech disagrees with, even though from a marketing standpoint that would be a disaster. Given that we haven't regulated ISPs as common carriers, despite the relative lack of competition in this area, there is no clear legal rationale for the government to regulate hosting providers as common carriers. They don't sell to the general public, you in fact actually sign a one-off contract to work with them, and the end consumer has a dizzying array of options for hosting providers in the case of bad behavior by one. Any attempt by the government to force a host like Wordpress to carry speech would be both an unnecessary attempted expansion of government power, but would probably crash and burn in the courts almost immediately.
We also got an email from IT telling us not to update to Big Sur, but not because of any specific problem. Our IT department blocks all major OS updates for a few months while they do post-launch testing.

Big Sur has fewer foundational changes than Catalina did. Most the changes are just UI changes (though I think there were some changes that affect Audio processing apps).
Implying that there is space separate from time denies spacetime
"Scientists say virus as deadly as ebola for hospital victims"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-19-death-rates-are-...

Apparently that claim was based on this study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.20076042v...

There are a few comments on that page about how that claim was misleading and/or inaccurate and mis-reported by the media.
Amiga 1000 Adventures – The Apollo Vampire 500 V2 in an Amiga 1000
I ask this in all seriousness - do you have parents who are still alive? Do they have any chronic conditions that make them more vulnerable?

The economy is not the only thing that matters, and if children can have their grandparents for another 5-10 years, then that's massively important to them, while being irrelevant to GDP.

Full disclosure: Both my mother and my wife's parents are in the age group that is super vulnerable to Covid, and I'd like my daughter to remember them.
You mean spell checker? Libre office has it.
I think it is even worse than that! A healthy 30 year old is going to have a much better quality of life than an obese 20 year old. They will be able to climb stairs, walk without getting winded, have more energy, look better ect.
It's not relevant to Moderna's vaccine, you are correct. However, the discussion in this thread swerved very strongly away from vaccines (and the related thoughts, emotions, and feelings about vaccination) and veered towards coronavirus, its impact on society, and people's behaviors re:covid.

It was only at that point (I think the thread had about 200 comments or so) that I added my 2cents. Ideally, this whole thread should have been ONLY about vaccination.
You could. But as one of the Mathematica devout, it works be a massive pain in the as compared to other languages better suited for it. Assuming languages are equivalently expressive (in the Turing complete sense), the difference is in what they make easy.

It’s easier to make a small web API in python than assembly, even though they can do the same things. Mathematica is designed to make (symbolic) mathematics easiest. It excelled there at the expense of weirdness elsewhere.

The answer unfortunately reduces to “I dunno, try it and see.”
Oh yeah, I used to run Emacs+org-mode on an N900. Nowadays I run it in Termux. Fits my needs.
Github and others should team up to repeal DMCA 1201 for good. This censorship and rogue lawmaking tool shouldn't have existed in the first place.
If a program had its own implementation of widevine, why wouldn't you also be "effectively a web browser" ?