skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people use a specific strategy to 'find their meaning', and they're aware whether or not they've found it, then we can get some idea of the efficacy of the strategy over say, doing nothing specific.

Is it necessary? No, but there are lots of strategies to choose from, and some will likely be more effective than others. Life is short, and I have finite time and energy to dedicate to 'finding my meaning'. I'd prefer to know ahead of time if a strategy is likely to work for me.
Progress like this was, in my view, inevitable after the invention of unsupervised transformers.

It'll be genetics next.

e: although AlphaFold appears to be convolutionally based! I suspect that'll change soon.
We can’t build ships of large size from wood. It’s just not technically possible, wood is not a suitable material for a structure that’s subject to stresses required. You’d need to add extensive steel skeleton structure to support it, and even then you’d be fighting constant leaks, and risking sinking at high seas.

Wood works great for constructing large buildings, but ships are not like buildings: unlike them, they are subject to large dynamic stresses. That’s why before widespread structural steel in 19th century, wooden ships were tiny. Mayflower was less than 30 meters long. They didn’t build it larger because they lacked lumber, they did it because previous attempts at larger ships tended to break apart at sea.
> Furthermore, processors reset into 16-bit mode on startup for compatibility reasons, so killing 16-bit and 32-bit mode would introduce major compatibility headaches.

Didn't the switch to UEFI effectively reduce the scope of this problem to only apply to motherboard firmware? Operating systems no longer need 16-bit code to boot.
This doesn't prove anything. One can always cherry-pick and refute certain peripheral points but that doesn't address the core premise of the argument. The only way to disprove such argument wold be exhaustively and that is simply not possible.

For example, just off the top of my head, I can think of one aspect which was not mentioned; the number of years of training that are required to become a doctor; this is in itself a limiting factor which reduces the number of applicants and therefore graduates. Do doctors need so many years of training; who decides that? Maybe they could specialize sooner and still yield excellent results? Another aspect would be cost; it's likely that the high costs of education themselves are limiting the number of applicants.

Unfortunately, these types of debates are always going to end up being a case of trusting authority versus trusting your own critical thinking (and common sense). Showing a bunch of arbitrary data doesn't mean anything unless you can prove that all the relevant aspects have been covered exhaustively and this never happens in practice. In practice, the main use of data is to lend credence to profitable narratives.

The foundation of our modern economy is to draw attention towards convenient facts and suppress inconvenient ones even when both are true and equally relevant.
I like how people will be snobby about everything. Belgian-style French fries can be good, but that doesn't mean that they're better than the rest, it's a matter of taste. I personally prefer McDonalds-style fries which are smaller and more homogeneous. And no I'm not ashamed of that, it's fried potatoes, not some kind of fancy technical delicacy.

There's no wrong target. Some people enjoy deep-dish pizza. It kinda baffles me but I wouldn't be telling them that they're "shooting for the wrong target" if they tried to replicate this particular recipe because that's what they like.
And yet I had many open book tests/assignments decades ago before there were even personal computers. Technology doesn't solve everything and some things aren't worth trying to solve 100%.
Building a multi-component app without uploading each component to Maven
Sure. Have at most ten to twenty students per teacher. Then the teacher can spend a couple of hours per student to assess their understanding. Unfortunately, in education quantity seems to be prioritized over quality. When you have over 50 students, let alone over 200 hundred, good luck grading authentic open-ended projects or papers in just two weeks.

As a result, most tests consists of multiple-choice questions and standard-format open questions. It is unclear to what extent they test students' understanding, and students do become quite proficient test takers, but at least theses tests can be executed given the current constraints of available staff, acceptable rigor, and student expectations.

Unfortunately, you cannot move these type of test to an online setting and expect students not to cheat at all. It is too easy to talk to classmates, look at the study materials, or even on the Internet for some hints to answers or even the actual answers. The only option many institutions saw was to move to a draconian proctoring solution because they just lack the means to roll-out anything else given the constraints they have to work with.

Ideally, they would re-evaluate their choices regarding quality versus quantity, but because they need the large number of students to stay afloat, nothing meaningful will happen.
I think this misses the parent’s point.

The point is to not let the algorithm make decisions. The human bureaucracy is suppose to be there to determine the quality of the flags and analyze whether there is any discrimination at play. A company that lacks this human element is negligent and should be held responsible. Unless algorithms can be trialed and held accountable, they shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions.

Also guns don’t kill people, people do. Otherwise explain to me why it would be okay for certain institutions to be armed but not individuals. If guns are the problem, then no one should have them (including the military/police).
I'm interested in this as the only pushback I've heard has been from some Christian folks on YouTube claiming that we're no longer "human" if we hack or mix our DNA. I tend to look at it more like "right to repair". If I buy an iPhone, I should be able to hack it to my heart's content.

I have no idea if that's the angle you're mentioning. I'd be really interested to hear the other potential dangers that others see.
Classic pump and dump.
https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#_reductions
> it’s kind of weird to me that Apple didn’t sponsor the work needed for this

Apple has lost its way.

They should not only be helping with this, but SHIPPING more stuff like this themselves.

And "pro" has lost its meaning. It is now for "youtubers who want nice stuff" and don't mind someone else controlling their experience, as opposed to engineers and scientists and creative people who are actually creating the future.
Then I don't think I'd wait long at all. It's the responsible thing to do if I hope to see my mother safely. To the extent that I feel there is any risk to getting vaccinated (which is almost none), there don't seem to be any meaningful advantages to waiting.
It's the same rinse repeat cycle, it'll crash back down to 8k in a few weeks.
Yes, but that didn’t happen until 2014, while the economic realities were clear to investors (including people deciding where to live and raise families) for decades already.

Unfortunately, the political machine can move slower than society needs it to and in the meantime, the infrastructure and real physical things degrade.
But MySpace was obviously setup to be used as a dating site and was rampantly used as such... Facebook created an environment where this type of activity would be seen as hostile.
You can also find US-market Coca-Cola sweetened with sugar at most Walmarts. It costs a bit less than the Mexican Coke. There's a section in the soda aisle that has a variety of "classic" and new soft drinks that don't have HFCS.
It didn't cross my mind and I used MSDOS based systems for nearly a decade. It did spark my brain about the 8 characters long limitation for getting a non-shortened name though.
I would like to know what thought process was involved in deciding to post this article.

I can imagine why it was written and could attack each argument made within it, but really there is no point as that would be as pointless as posting this dated article was and only result in a flame war filled with feeling hurting comments.
A sunburn can change/damage your DNA.
It really depends on the type of integration used between the terminal and the POS. Sometimes the terminal handles everything and just communicates the status to the POS, in which case your attack would be viable. But it's also possible for the terminal to just package up the info and pass it off to the POS to handle the communication.

Source: I've built a custom integration with Verifone terminals.
Definitely, we actually come from a super nerdy psych background: it took us 3 years and 5 failed products to learn how to make the “science” approachable. We have a partnership with Stanford who developed the psychological model we’re basing everything on (from Charles O’Reilly, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/charle...).

As for the rest, we have as many psychologists in house as we have software engineers, if that speaks for anything. Also after building our startup for 4 years now, we have definitely been through the grind (still going through it), and don’t push stuff that we wouldn’t use ourselves.
Thanks! Yes I should have googled it myself as you mentioned. Silly me!
It can't fundamentally change your own DNA. The mRNA codes for a stabilized version of the sars-cov2 spike protein. Your cells then use the mRNA to build that protein. Your immune system will then build up a response. It is a terrible idea to wait for a version 2 of this vaccine. Get vaccinated or this will not go away.
>Good point but one additional advantage on mobile is the app stores.

True. That, however leads down the walled-garden path. Which honestly might be our best bet, but I'm not comfortable with that thought. In order for the walled garden to work, you have to trust the gardener, and I don't trust any of the current ones.
Better link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
I have no knowledge of this but if injecting spike proteins worked wouldn’t we just always do that? Seems like way easier than the rest of the delivery mechanism.
Why is AstraZeneca asking for exemption from liability claims stemming from their COVID-19 vaccine? https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-results-vaccin...
Most Americans think gathering for Thanksgiving and Christmas is both altruistic and very important. Selfishly, I would have preferred to stay home and call in, but my mom didn't want to be alone on Thanksgiving so I drove down to be with her.

They're perhaps not necessary in the strict sense of the word, but health authorities have consistently said that very important gatherings are okay as long as you try to do them safely.
You do realize homebrew has worked as well on Apple silicon since launch under Rosetta as it ever did on more
Intel Macs?

There is essentially no regression, and Apple is donating hardware to enable Homebrew to do the work to extract more performance from the new chips.

What ‘more’ do you think they should do?
In my experience this is less to do with the fast pace of development, and more to do with the fact that many engineers use virtualenvs, and virtualenvs "vendor" the pip version so you need to update pip in each virtualenv you use. This is correct, but does lead to needing to upgrade so much.
Yes, you remove them completely from the oil and let them rest a bit. Mostly the fries are baked in 'fat' rather than oil though. Besides this, the type of potato that is used is pretty important too, as its consistency will impact a great deal too. The potatoes we use at home are called 'bintjes', they are a bit 'flowery'.
Right, but are there any vaccines out there that protect against disease but don’t prevent transmission? I thought that’s what herd immunity was all about.
It's not a coincidence that Bitcoin is hitting highs at the same time as the stock market. Both are highly speculative at this point, and historically correlated.

From back in June, a prediction that Bitcoin would catch up with the S&P 500 based on the historical correlation:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-sp-500-correlation-me...
It was (as the article says), but I think it is very much known as the graphics editor for Amiga. I would imagine that more people will remember it as an Amiga tool than as a PC tool.
A Netflix film cover generator in Nuxt.js
Actually, you can get Coca-Cola with cane sugar anywhere in the States every year from late March to mid April.

HFCS is not "Kosher for Passover", so as soon as the Passover season rolls around, you can get the original recipe as long as the bottling plant is one that carries a supervision. I know aficionados that stock up every year.
> require some portion of responses to reference the lectures such that only someone who attended the class in this semester would be able to correctly answer, for example "use the method we discussed in the first half of lecture 3, use the third of the four numbers I told you to write down that day as variable y, if you weren't in class that day instead do X"

Then you are measuring class attendance rather than subject matter mastery. If someone has already mastered the year’s material by the third class, why penalize them for skipping the rest of the lectures?
When I took my qualifying exam for physics grad school they asked what colloquium talk interested me and I said this one about quantum cryptography, "what was it about?" and I started drawing bra's and ket's on the board and the prof stops me and said "that's not the scheme they talked about" and I said... "but it's one that I made up so I could understand it."

Last weekend I had one hell of a fight with the Java compiler while developing (for fun) a system for writing Java ASTs in Java and manipulating them. (e.g. think "write Java with LISP syntax as a statically-typed DSL in Java")

It is doing things like that will teach you how things really work.
How will you assess if there is any risk?
For Postgres, there is also disabling fsync delays (20x speed claimed) and even running it all in memory.

https://dev.to/thejessleigh/speed-up-your-postgresql-unit-te...
>As a startup founder in Europe, who works what I think of as a lot, but also finds time to make dinner for my kids and read to them at night, this type of article always gives me anxiety and/or guilt. Am I hustling enough? Is it wrong to watch Netflix on Saturday night instead of coding? What about that walk/workout - was there time for that?

The answer is "yes" to all questions. I don't know what the article author wanted to say, but she just reminded me personally that the US tech "scene" is not healthy.
The Bitter Lesson – Richard Sutton
Downvote because of two questions? Which dumbo did that?
Does it mean there is no point in playing fold.it anymore?
Yeah, although this is speculation, I imagine its less of an issue because cheaters would get board somewhat easily.

I mean whats the fun in copying what a machine says to win chess games against strangers?

Its not like its people they know who might be impressed and if they cheat then their ranking will rise far above their skill, so if they wanted to play a real game, they would then be crushed.
If you get covid, there's a P(unknown) of long term harm as well.

It's an unknown vs an unknown. Novel virus, novel immunization (first mRNA or maybe first widespread modified adenovirus)
Yes, but it is still a legit question.
Cars became pervasive around the early 1900's. Are you seriously suggesting the average person's general wellbeing hasn't changed since 1908? I guess we could debate if cars were a critical technology to spur such change, but I don't know I can debate someone who disagrees that the average person was just as well off in 1920 compared to 2020. In what measures would you consider the person in the developed world in 1920 to be just as well off as the average person in the developed world in 2020? I limit this to just developed world because that would be where automobiles would have had the greater impact or lack of impact despite pervasiveness.
Accent is the correct word.

> I do not pronounce the words in the way people around me expect to hear.

This is an interesting way of putting it - an accent is a collection of linguistic tendencies that together can clue a listener in on your social class, geographical origin, or other biographical information. However, I think it is possible to make a distinction between "having an accent" and simply mispronouncing words. Stressing the wrong syllable is an example of the latter. Both having an accent and mispronouncing words can lead to misunderstandings, but one is easily correctible and the other is not.
it mostly breaks CIs or docker builds if you don't hardwire the pip version, because they tend to use latest pip by default..., It's mostly not directly pip's fault, but it can get annoying.

I remember issues when they changed their caching mechanism, or when a couple of libraries I was using were importing internal stuff from pip which got changed in a new version.

Also some packages for some reason need to be installed in the correct order and it's not immediately clear until pip tweaks their installation procedure.
That's how I know chess broadcasts. For me the signal to noise ratio is simply not favorable, I rarely learn from the comments because they cater all levels of players, not just mine. I found it more worthwhile to replay the moves at my computer and ask it: "why not just do x?".
We're hiring.... https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/915502/Senior-Softwa...

And definitely looking at doing something like this next year.
That's unsurprising. Those whose preference vector is very different won't see it. After all, the thing you see in Newton is outcome and you don't care for the attempt. But that's not the entirety of it (though it is a significant part) for the craftsman. These craftsmen are driven by the craft itself.

So, for instance, while you'd (taking a leap here and guessing) rate it useless for a Theravada monk to master his chanting, there is a portion of it that to him is sufficient to just be good at. A portion apart from the outcome that is just dedicated to the craft itself.

If you're not driven by the craft, you likely won't get it. That's okay. The path to living a fulfilling life is to find your preference vector and optimize for it.
The R in ARM is for RISC.
Meanwhile, actual US citizens who were married to somebody with an ITIN (for example, my wife is in the process of getting her immigrant visa and green card), got $0 stimulus money whatsoever. Apparently the administration was trying to punish people married to illegal immigrants, and all the people suffering through the legal and extremely slow immigration process get bundled in with them?
Ransomware halts classes for 115,000 Baltimore pupils
$17 billion for a chat app.
These 'taxable people' are in the minority:

> Approximately 6 in 10 households in the United States own securities investments—typically through taxable accounts, IRAs or employer-sponsored retirement plans. However, this figure drops to a little over 3 in 10 if only taxable investments are considered. Households that own taxable accounts are more likely to be older, affluent, college educated and white relative to households with only retirement accounts or households without investment accounts.

* PDF: https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/fixed-income-advisory-committe...

The 3-in-10 would also have sheltered accounts:

> Importantly, most of these taxable investor households (89 percent) also own a retirement account like a 401(k) or IRA.

I stand by my statement: most people don't have to worry about tax events in mutual funds, and those that are in the situation have a 'good problem'.
If a prof needs a final exam to be able to assess a student's proficiency, they are doing it wrong.
> “This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in ... four years the vaccine is showing side effects,” Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra’s senior executive team, told Reuters.

Seems pretty straightforward to me. It’s an unproven method of vaccine creation and hasn’t been tested by anyone. I really can’t imagine this holding up in courts though.
How many windows users do you think have never looked in the windows logs because they’ve never had to?

This is coming from a Linux fan, and someone whose tried to do linux on the desktop many times, and a technical user at that. I stick with macOS not because I want to but because I have to.
And people take precautions to avoid it because skin cancer can result. Not sure that's the best counter example.
Came here to say this as well. I have a background in mechatronics, and when I think "robotics", I think of an assembly line with a number of specialized devices on the line. When I talk to other people about robotics, they think of a "humanoid robot that can cook and clean and move stuff for them". As far as I can imagine, a generalized robot would also need a generalized intelligence to perform general tasks, and to learn how to use the tools available to it to accomplish those.
I get that that's probably Lupe's shtick, but I think half (or more) of the things he's describing to Hotep Jesus are things that your average person doesn't know!
Relevant criteria for the question "does it it exclude old, fragile people with various common pre-existing conditions?" (not exhaustive, but indicative):

Included: Pre-existing conditions are okay as long as they are in a stable condition (defined as no significant change in therapy etc for the 3 months before enrollment).

Excluded: Immunosuppressive or immunodeficient state, asplenia, recurrent severe infections (HIV-positive participants with CD4 count ≥350 cells/mm 3 and an undetectable HIV viral load within the past year [low level variations from 50-500 viral copies which do not lead to changes in antiretroviral therapy [ART] are permitted]).

Looks fair enough to an amateur like myself.

Edit: Not sure how common a immunosuppressive or immunodeficient state is in a typical population. Perhaps it's common enough to be relevant?
2.5m at 3% SWR (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/safe-withdrawal-rate-sw...) would generate 75k per year thus resulting in a negative burn rate and last for infinite time (or at least until society no longer uses financial instruments). At the very least, it'd last much longer than "several" decades.
IMO Erlang/Elixir does it best with the "let it crash" mentality. Once you internalize and truly understand how it works, you won't want to do error handling in any other way. The tldr; handle errors you can handle, let everything else crash and rely on the runtime to bring you back online.

The zen of erlang (https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html) goes more in depth if you're curious.
As someone with more money than time, if I buy an e smartphone, will it Just Work and be usable?

https://esolutions.shop/

Or am I setting myself up for a world of hurt?

They're not expensive either! I figured I'd be paying an arm and a leg.
What about the known long term effects of Covid?
I don't know of any profiling tools, but I've always relied on llvm-mca[0] -register-file-stats to show me what the expected register file usage is on an ISA

[0] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
Hey I feel you. Same category.

The gist: If you didn't inherit, you are fkd in Germany.

MOST of wealthy people inherit it (and 2/3 of super wealthy inheritance in Germany is former Nazi money). It's unfair.

What helps me get by: I know my life is good, even though exiting the treadmill is most likely not possible. Enjoy what you have, invest a bit and focus on things that make you happy :)
How about P(get covid, infect others, they die)? Does that factor in to your calculations?
Hackers are targeting macOS users with this updated malware