skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a - b >> 100 * x * sqrt y >> x ** 2 >> 50 * >> + >> + ;

That's a mix of infix and postfix. I don't think writing code like that will be very readable for most people. Humans are much more trained for prefix and infix notations, than for postfix stack operations. We don't see widespread usage of postfix notations in programming languages besides languages like Forth, Postscript or Factor.

The Lisp notation has a different reason why it has been invented: it is based on a data structure around nested lists of symbols. That's a very simple and powerful model. code is written as data. Lisp programmers find the code as data idea attractive. Without that, Lisp would have kept the original idea of a conventional syntax.
could prob do with a HTTPS redirect tho :p and maybe a sprinkling of HSTS
Indian food with real, low processed ingredients is of course better than ultra processed fake meat.
100% agree. A very good implementation of your ideas can be found in the Redis codebase. Most important files have a long doc comment in the beginning.

See https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/ziplist.c for an example.
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Dang, we moved the AI goalposts from "good at chess" to "new Bogart films"? Tough!
It would be great to get rid of the armies of the world, but that's neither here nor there. Armies and military spending wouldn't go away if people dealt in Bitcoin.

Oh, the purpose of the US army and nuclear arsenal is not to "enforce the USD reserve status", it is to advance America's imperial goals, which vary a lot. The status of the US dollar is a second-order consequence of America's power.
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If a neighborhood is mostly black, whites and Asians moving in is pernicious "gentrifying". But if a neighborhood is mostly white, blacks and Hispanics moving in is considered progress -- an increase in diversity. I reject this double standard. People of any race should be able to live where they can afford to, and it's not the role of government to preserve the racial mix of any neighborhood.
No, I think that data-driven approaches have limitations. And, yes, the main attraction of AGI is (human) reasoning. The fact is: do we think that human reasoning is enough? Do we think that using machines to scale human reasoning is enough?
Best comment I've read all week. Thank you!

I think nay saying needs to be seriously curtailed. It's far too effective for way too little actual content. This is a great example of a trend that's infecting and harming HN discussions.

We need more people to read up on a topic and have an earnest conversation around it. Gut reactions or memories from years gone by of old techniques aren't constructive and are actively destructive.
I think ML's currently temporarily useful in fields that have been making decisions mostly based on intuition and heuristics. The medical field's one example, even with some knowledge on biology and anatomy it's hard to diagnose and treat patients only with deductive reasoning, a lot of guesswork and "experience" is involved. In that case ML might be able to perform better than humans, but I think this will have its limits. Above a certain point, I think biological simulation (as in physics simulation) would be a much more useful tool for doctors to understand the human body.
Do you have a similar post in English?

Autotranlation https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...
Nah.

The elevator stack in high rise buildings is predicated on almost all the trips terminating at the entrance. That is is why the NYT building has the cafeteria on the 2nd floor.

Thus a highrise is mostly a place where you live and leave or work and leave. If it had the kind of N*(N-1) scaling of interactions a city had there would be no room for apartments and offices between the shafts.
We didn’t hijack anything. Go read up on the history of the games. Soccer and American football evolved separately from the same family of proto-football games (as did Rugby and Australian football). These were all called “football” well before the modern rules of either current game had crystallized.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
Buildings not exactly matching the architect's original design is so common that there's a term, "as-builts", for the set of drawings the prime contractor prepares and delivers along with the building, showing what was actually built (hence the name) and, by comparison with the originals, what was changed in the course of the build.

I'm not the right kind of engineer to hazard a guess as to whether this is an unusually high variance for this scale of project. We also don't know what "failed to conform" means - the language is as vague as, given the ubiquity of changes at build time, intentionally pejorative. There's really not enough here to judge either the architect or the contractor; it could be a brilliant design badly implemented, or it could be a terrible design the contractor did their best to make work, and no one here or in the NYT article, including its writer, has enough information to say which.
Correct, and it indeed not a legal requirement in the U.S.
One side tries to say that retail investors don't have enough buying power to move a stock, meanwhile this side is trying to say that WSB is pumping something. Could these sides finally reconcile?
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It's so strange to see people switch to the other side in an open source/hacking debate, when it comes to hacking systems that are not 'traditional' computers.

Of course in this case the systems in question are actually most definitely Turing complete on many levels; and much, much older.

'Life' is ultra-advanced (non-artificially) intelligent (non-alien) nano-technology. If that doesn't seem totally fascinating and something people might want to hack... what on earth does?
Unfortunately, my marriage resembles that of your parents. My only counterpoint to your belief that they would be happier if they divorced, is to suggest you may be minimizing they value they get from stability and certainty.

There’s value in knowing who’s going to care for you when you get cancer, even if there’s a lot of animosity now.
I believe you will find that there are artificial intelligences in different Star Trek productions.
You are assuming what you are mean to prove, namely that life is inherently valuable, and that marriage is not inherently valuable. Someone who favours euthanasia could easily say that death is a positive resolution to disease.

To those who say life has inherent value, death is not positive, no matter the pain it may relieve. To those who say marriage has inherent value, divorce is not positive, no matter the pain it may relieve.

To turn your argument back on you:
Death as a reaction to health/life turning sour is a positive outcome, since we've conditioned on that development and it's now a sunk cost.

I happen to think that both life and marriage are inherently valuable and worth sacrificing for and holding on to, and for similar reasons.
From my experience of trading on both it is rather different. With spread betting you are basically just making a bet with the exchange at a price they quote. With the bitmex product you are trading with other traders rather than with the exchange.

They claim to have invented it: "A Perpetual Swap is an innovative product invented by BitMEX"
Great case study on how not to introduce yourself to a project, even if they might have some valid points. And then go to SO to ask "Is it wrong to demand features in open source projects", impressive. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/11240/is-it-w...
As someone who's is directly involved in developing and deploying automation software in complex organisations here are a few thoughts:

- I can resonate with the author that automation can easily create new tasks (work) that didn't exist before.

- These tasks generally speaking are of a more cognitive nature to the ones they replace.

- If deployed right automation takes out the robot from the human to allow the human to focus on these cognitive tasks which all being equal are more rewarding and satisfying.

- From our own deployment of automation (software in services sector) we have not seen a fall in number of humans in the business where we deploy automation.

- However, we have observed these businesses adopting human capital at a much lower rate than they were in the past as their business grows in favour of technology.

- Labour costs will have to come down a significant amount for to reverse this trend where business are seeing success through automation.

- Automation is a not a one-shot exercise. For it to be effective firms need to establish (literally write down) what their intention are from investing in automation. What is the measure(s) they are trying to optimise and improve.

- Firms need to re-evaluate these 3,6,12 months after deployment periodically and refine the automation machinery. This itself is one of the new tasks to emerge from deploying automation and lends itself to individuals who are more analytical and can make sense of vast amounts of data.

If your interested in looking beyond the obvious with Automation I can highly recommend also reading 'Ironies of Automation
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Do you have a source for this? To me it always seemed the people running the best parties weren't making a lot of money anyway, just enough to rent some decrepit building and a few speakers. This gave me hope that they'd just start again, some time in the far future, when they can get a crowd in that pays the bills.

Obviously many of the more institutionalized, mid-sized venues will be heavily affected - on the other hand, there is less need for office space right now, so I don't think everything will be rented out soon.
NFL pledged to address racism, owners still won’t put Black coaches in charge
Of course if you want to attract investors you have to take their interests into account, thats just self preservation.
but many people seem to believe that companies are legally required to maximize returns which is false.
General Motors, the Largest U.S. Automaker, Plans to Be Carbon Neutral by 2040
Why a Major Covid-19 Tracking Project Is Shutting Down
Maybe in that dystopian future where bacon doesn’t exist and I get very nostalgic for the carbonara of my childhood, sure.

But that’s not quite what we’re discussing. Meat exists but some people want to go vegetarian without sacrificing anything. I suppose it’s pretty similar to the logic of people who want to lose weight without giving up sweets or soda, so they switch to aspartame versions.
They’re just gonna die and then new capital (obv there’s a lot right now) is gonna come in and buy a ready to go venue for under prior market rates. Then prob hire some of the same people and start it again under a different name and or vibe.
Impeachment Is Working–Just Not as the Framers Expected
Ibiza is the 17Euro waters. 17 euro tiny beers.
> Then prob hire some of the same people and start it again under a different name and or vibe.

Unfortunately it's much more likely the new capital will close it and turn it into flats.
OSTEP is a great OS book. I wish I had discovered it when I was doing my Cs degree.

I'm planning to follow through it this year to brush up my OS knowledge and will also use 6.828 as a guide for labs and video lectures [1].

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/schedule.html
Correct, it's just a log of IP addresses that you "visited" which is why I really struggle with it. Visiting any website can hit hundreds if not thousands of IPs, without your knowledge or any intent behind it.
That’s $26 billion in revenue: profit was $4 billion. Note also that half of their stores are “licensed”. The difference between that and franchised is unclear to me at present.
The cynical take:

They'll do what's profitable over what's accurate.
Some of that would apply to homely brands like Amazon and Walmart, but how can that apply to brands mostly about flaunting consumption and status as well as being the opposite of cookie cutter mass appeal uniformity?
What I think I hear you saying is:
1. Maybe if someone like Trump can lie all the time snd still be believed by ~30-40% of people, it doesn’t matter whether a public figure is honest, people will just believe them anyway.
2. It’s unfair to criticize Fauci for dishonesty when other people aren’t criticized for being worse.

To these I would say:

1. Public health officials start out more trusted than controversial politicians, but they don’t have many die-hards who will just believe no matter what either. So, someone like Fauci has more to lose from being dishonest. I don’t think we can conclude that because Trump “got away with it” that Fauci can too.

And even if he were as impervious to criticism on this front as Trump, 40% of people trusting someone in his position wouldn’t be nearly good enough.

2. I’m not sure about this one. I think Trump got a lot of (completely deserved) criticism for being mendacious. It’s true that some of the people who always gave him a pass criticize Fauci for dishonesty, but what are you donna do? People are hypocrites. I think more people would trust public health experts if they were more honest, and that’s all that matters to me.
If anyone is interested :)
Output from GPT-3:

Detritus and Carrot walked into a dwarf bar.

"How do we get in?" asked Carrot, looking around.

"That's a good question," said a dwarf. "You look like you're from far away."

"We are. We're from Arbouretum."

"That's a long way away."

"That's where the Arbouretum are from."

"The Arbouretum?"

"Yeah."

"What does that mean?"

"It's a long story."

"I've got time."

"I've got no time."
Any ways to prevent loading favicons using uBlockOrigin/uMatrix?
Your comments read as contrarian and determined to find fault with this product. If your instinct is to dislike it so much, the answer is simple: don't eat it.

Each of the ingredients bar "natural flavors" (which usually means a proprietary spice blend or msg) can be found with a simple Google search - as someone else said, konjac is an Asian vegetable, textured wheat protein has been a staple of vegan cooking for decades and can be bought in any health food shop, and so on.

> isn't the "used" yeast slurry removed

From beer, partially. From bread, no.
I also work in the field and while the work itself keeps me obsessed, similar to you, I keep a list of companies doing amazing things beyond "better ad personalization" so that I don't get a bit jaded. Some that might be interesting to you:

PostEra - A medicinal chemistry platform that accelerates the compound development process in pharmaceuticals. They're running an open source moonshot for developing a compound for treating COVID, with tons of chemists around the world participating.

Thorn - They use ML to identify child abuse content, both to help platforms filter it and to help law enforcement save children/arrest abusers.

All of the healthcare startups (too many to list all), including Benevolent, Grail, Freenome, and more.

Wildlife Protection Services - use ML to detect poachers in nature preserves around the world, and have already significantly increased the capture rate by rangers.
This is bizarre. If your name, date of birth, vaccination dates, and a manufacturer's name can be used to facilitate identity theft, why hasn't the FTC or some other competent--oh, right--agency cracked down on lax business practices that allow this in the first place?

People talk. Often, people talk to people who know their name and birthdate. This sounds more like fearmongering than a real concern.
Providing service for money is not grifting.
That kids are attracted to candy is a constant. I was referring to ease of food preparation, since that was the context.

Notwithstanding the food-swaps at school (I think to liken this all to be candy is hyperbolic), the kids eat what you feed them for breakfast and dinner. Whether this is a battle has little to do with the nature of the food itself. I'm sure you don't believe that perpetually relenting to kids when they whine, piss and moan will make your life easier - they'll normalize the behavior to get what they want and misbehavior will be the norm. Being a parent is the battle and it doesn't end at letting kids eat candy any time they want, which makes healthy eating a moot point.
This is the one I always come back to when I'm a bit confused about the ordering of ips and ports.
"This might make this composite a better choice than polycarbonate or acrylic glass in many applications"

It'd be great if it was cheaper. Even before the demand from the pandemic those were expensive.
Thanks! My understanding was that even these grammatical similarities (between Hungarian and Finnish) could be somewhat coincidental.
But that might just be because there he's in a different subculture. The clubbers were never the majority of population and there was also always a "bar crowd", "park drinking crowd" (not so much in US I guess), "home party crowd", etc. etc.
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>Big Bang things are probably a few years off

As far as I have seen experts see autonomous driving as at least ten years away (unless you look at the sliding "next year" BS from Tesla) so I don't think we're only a few years off big changes because of ML. More like 10-15.
> I truly believe most Americans would not hoard masks if they were asked to, into yet more evidence that institutions are rotten and cannot be trusted.

You are being idealistic. Even if 99,99% of americans would not hoard masks, the remaining 0,01% could hoard virtually all of the supply. I don't believe you genuinely believe that literally every single american would "not hoard masks when asked to".
Yes, but you need to press enter before using it. Try typing `⏎~?' in an SSH session.
Classic movies for your own merriment
Show HN: I have built a platform that schedules meetings with professionals 1:1
Relatedly, there's a relatively new julia package called MultiFloats.jl [1] for doing arithmetic with numbers of the form a_1 + a_2 + ... + a_n where a_{i+1} is of the order of the round off of a_i. So it's fixed precision, but the cool thing is you can easily generate code for arbitrary `n`. The package itself is just a few hundred lines of code. I've tried it on an NVIDIA GPU with fast double precision, and it seems to "just work" for basic linear algebra.

[1] https://github.com/dzhang314/MultiFloats.jl
I don't know how serious you were intending that to be, but I think it's pretty much spot on. I was dipping in and out of a virtual event last week essentially about current and future work (from The Economist actually) and one person made a comment to the effect of COVID brought the next decade of workplace changes into the present. i.e. there's not a lot that wasn't happening to some degree anyway, but it's been greatly accelerated.
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People also invested in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, and that one didn't cost as much energy as the Czech Republic. Even more interestingly, it seems likely that some people were investing in Bernie's scheme while knowning that it is fraud - they trusted that others trust it, not that it's secure.

Point being, trust and trust-worthiness are two separate things. Most people investing in Bitcoin have not in any way confirmed for themselves that the algorithm is trust-worthy, they just trust that others are also willing to buy it so that they won't be left defrauded. Hell, people have been defrauded by the likes of Mt Gox, and the network didn't collapse entirely.
$26.5 billion dollars in revenue, not profit. 2019 was a particularly good year with $3.599B in net profit. That is $10K per employee. 2020 was worse with $0.928B in net profit: $2.7K for each employee. There really isn't much wiggle-room for significantly higher salaries. And during good years, Starbucks tend to hire more employees rather than increasing salaries (employee count went from 277k in 2017 to 346k in 2019).
> Starbucks in 2019: Made $26.5 billion dollars

Hold on a minute, that's Starbucks' revenue, not profit. You haven't accounted for any non-labour expense.

From its financial data (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SBUX/financials?p=SBUX) (Yahoo link for convenience), that $26.5b revenue is directly offset by $19b in cost-of-goods-sold (including some salaries already paid). Other overhead and depreciation accounts for another $3.5bn, and interest expenses contribute $235m.

The net pre-tax profit for Starbucks is $3.9bn, and if that were distributed equally among all employees (from your figure) it would result in about $11,200/worker over and above their existing salary.

That's closer to the break-even-wage-rate that Starbucks could conceivably offer, if it's intended to have zero return on capital (about $19bn in current assets for FY2019). And that figure is volatile; if you repeat for this fiscal year you'd calculate about $3200/worker.
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Some Google search leads to an original conference article by him. Bookmark here for myself.

https://firstmonday.org/article/view/519/440
90s clubs grew out of a similar scene. Many started as informal house parties, then grew into warehouse parties and field raves, and eventually that generated enough money for a permanent base and/or an official festival and/or supporting merch and other outlets. (Music labels, merch sales, boho restaurants and bars...)

There was a real startup-like scene around this in the 90s in Europe. You actually need impressive organisational, networking, and marketing talent to make a warehouse or field rave happen.

The festivals this spawned eventually turned into gigantic multi-stage events with the latest audio, VJ, laser, and other tech.

Unless Covid restrictions become permanent, I'd expect a similar cycle to repeat, although perhaps with different properties. (Empty shopping malls? Maybe even empty office blocks?)
Men can have kids well into their 50’s. If a girl wastes her 20s on the carousel, by the time she’s in her 30’s, her reproductive opportunities are starting to dwindle.

Women’s attractiveness starts declining in her late 20’s much faster than it does for men. We shouldn’t pretend like it doesn’t, and pretend like we don’t understand why women in their 30’s can’t find Mr. Right.
Yeah, Instagram really should be considered a WMD for self esteem.
App Startup vs. Content Startup
YMMV but I've also disabled favicons as well where I can.

For me the reason is that the icon is too small to be useful while browsing. The details are insignificant, so it just ends up being a "color" cue at best.

I actually hate newer versions of FF mobile that show favicons instead of the page title on the new tab page. I often have no clue what the icon of a site looks like before I stumble on that page or I bookmark it. Presenting me the icon without the text is like asking me a guessing game.

It makes sense for software packages, of which you have about 50 icons that you might be familiar with, but with web browsing it's easy to browse through that many websites in a day while searching for stuff, destroying any visual memory you might have.

It's just noise without purpose for me.