skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far we've got no evidence that industrial scale meat production has caused this, and the only similar hypothesis has been zoonotic spill-over - which has it's own trouble substantiating evidence, nevermind explaining how a disease perfectly mutated for human infection seemingly sprung up in Wuhan.
"No man, no problem", as they used to say in Soviet Russia.
They even deployed balloons in Venusian atmosphere back in the 80s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program#Balloon
Only 70 more though and you're right there at Venus' pressure.
> Doesn't matter if it's from a bank account or bitcoin cold storage on planet Musk.

It's a lot easier for the government to pilfer your bank account, than for them to torture you to hand over your seed phrase (that is if they even know your real identity). Decentralization absolutely takes power away from the state. That's not even touching the truly anonymous crypto like zCash.
Even on earth we have still lots to learn about its geology, and 100% of our geologists live on its surface. It never stops. Each answered questions opens two new ones.
> How about a co-op of scientists pooling money to rent the kinds of AI chips the big players are starting to put out?

What is really expensive and complicated for now is “wet” data collections: it is a finicky process stuffed to the brim with very expensive machinery, consumables, lab space and manual workers. Computing power is not really a limitation nowadays, you can comparably get a whole lot of bangs for your bucks.

Concerning the sharing part, equipment pooling is definitely already happening, at least at the local scale. And what is getting more and more developed is the “platform” concept, where some labs/teams slowly transition from doing research to producing data according to a standardized protocol (genome sequencing, genotyping, ChIP-seq, etc.) for other teams doing the research.
This makes me feel old. The bitkeeper saga is why GitHub exists. The drama is archived in 2004-5 lkml.
> Imagine a discussion on Linux and Torvalds comments on it.

This seems like a rarity. The vast majority of HN discussions don't have this situation, and it seems odd if the only purpose of HN voting is to upvote "celebrity" comments. There are much better places to follow the comments of celebrities than on HN.

> the alternative of randomly selecting people to govern also has its problems.

I strongly believe this is actually the least bad form of government, and vastly superior to elections, which are glorified high school prom royalty pageants.

> Do you know any platforms which have successfully done the randomisation thing?

No, though I have no idea what "algorithm" Twitter uses to determine the order of replies in a thread. (Probably not totally random.)
You are right, it is avoiding a runtime error, but there have been, and continue to be, many cases where it leads to one. I suppose am asking about things that are undefined behavior in C.
those are fair points, but I specifically tried to avoid saying 'do not eat meat', I said it's something that we should reduce or cut down. Those don'ts that you listed unfortunately conflict...

most people weren't able to have a vacation this year because of the pandemic, which in all likelihood is related to our relationship with animals. Same with meeting friends and family.

In my opinion those aren't all equal, there are certain desires that are incredibly important to us as a species as well as our democracy, and those include social interactions with other humans and arguably more important that the ability to consume meat thrice a day.

I'm not saying humans shouldn't eat meat at all, eating meat has been part of the human diet for many centuries - but eating meat day in and out, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that's where we took a wrong turn, we're on an extreme side of the spectrum here, and that's never healthy.
Thanks! What sort of work did you do in the field of applying categorical methods to programming?
Exec was written in assembly.
http://wandel.ca/homepage/execdis/exec_disassembly.txt

Intuition was written in C. Gfx was a mix of assembly and C.
I can’t help but be upset and concerned that when the phrase AI ethics is used, it is a reference to the effort to make sure that AIs are, for lack of a better term, politically correct. It is my genuine belief that mining out algorithm space will continue to produce results that are surprising, unexpected and not forecasted by “experts,” and that soon we will strike a very regrettable vein. In my best judgement, the threat of increasingly sophisticated AIs disrupting the economy, geopolitical stability and our very way of life is something that should be given respect.
We have photos from the surface Titan too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huygens_surface_color_sr....
It is certainly not simple, and while there's a limit to what languages can do to assist correctness, C sets a particularly low bar, one that newer low-level languages like Zig and Rust can and do improve upon. Having said that, eliminating memory errors from C is not only doable in principle, but used in practice, so far more than new low-level languages (see, e.g. https://trust-in-soft.com/). It does take a fair deal of work, but for established codebases, the approach is cheaper, less risky and better established than new languages.
The is interesting to me because I want to do frontend and I don't know javascript.

At first glance, it seems there is a big problem: _every_ event means a client<>server round trip! I tried this with their basic examples, when I cut the server the client becomes static. It seems to me a lot of the logic could be kept client side. Am I missing anything here?
> It adds a lot of value to Linux and to a lesser extent Mac users: before a electron a lot of apps didn't have a version for these platform at all

What value does _this_ add over a web app?

I've been an exclusive Linux user since college so I'm aware of the disadvantages of app/service unavailability (I remember the dark days of running Netflix in a windows VM that I barely had enough RAM to run...).

But what's the advantage of using the Slack app over a browser tab? This is a sincere question, since enough people reference the benefit of faux-native wrapped webapps that I assume there's some value.

I seem to be the only one in my company who doesn't use Slack's app, and I'm always shocked when I see a colleague's computer freeze and have them say "ugh it's almost definitely the Slack app". I work in autonomous vehicle engineering, so these are _monster_ machines I'm talking about, capable of running the entire car's stack locally. The only advantage I can think of are desktop notifications, but 1) I'm pretty sure browsers support those and 2) is that really worth using an app that's amateurish enough that it freezes your computer regularly?
It boils down to the fact that markets don’t plan for things they can’t “see.” Extreme weather like this has not happened in ages in Texas so there was no price signal for it.
It may, but source says "You will need: Means for focusing a good few percent of the Sun's energy output directly on the Earth.", then posits using mirrors to do this. Mirrors could get Earth to something approaching 5800 kelvin, but that is nowhere near "a few good percent of the sun's energy output."
Intel's documentation isn't a charity but they still massively lead most of the industry.

This information has to exist internally, and compiling is literally makework for an intern - it's just that Apple have a very secretive culture.
I have not looked at any of it, but would think they'd back it up with some form of math proof for at least some modules, and then applying those algorithms is just like any other C++ or Python code.
For those not in the know, cranelift is primarily used as a wasm compiler backend, but there is also work being done on integrating it into the rust compiler.
Fair enough, but we're still left with the gaping problem of "how did all of this material -- get here in the first place?"...
It's probably the CIA/Israel trying to do another Stuxnet. All their computer science resources are now focused on this 24/7. So be careful.
This is great. The documentation was clear and highlighted the value proposition immediately. This makes ML a lot more accessible for a developer such as myself.
> Repeat that 5 times, and your organization has created a monster.

Yes, this. Jira is cancer:

> Any problem gets solved with "more JIRA " which stops working when the remaining problems are caused by too much JIRA. And yet they keep trying, because it gives "control". JIRA is a like metastatic tumour that will grow until it kills the host.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590846
Ah, there's Galileo, again. A lot of that stuff is mostly myth.

He was subjected to house arrest for advocating for a "new" idea. We now accept heliocentrism as the correct answer. It's not terribly important to me if it was, in fact, his idea...etc. etc. He's the best known example of "scientist says something we now currently accept as scientific fact -- and there is hell to pay for him during his lifetime."

W.r.t. Semmelweis, I don't know how this played out,

He was a physician in charge of two clinics who had studies backing up his "crazy" idea that physicians should properly sterilize their hands before delivering babies if they wanted to reduce mortality rates. He was essentially driven crazy, thrown in an insane asylum and beaten to death by the guards in short order.

I view it in simpler terms as "He was effectively murdered." because although he had studies, he had no explanation for how and why, so it was rejected out of hand.

This was maybe two decades or so before we accepted germ theory and modern sterilization techniques for surgeries and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
You can't really 'sacrifice' data. A more technically correct phrasing would be "I'm happy to reveal some data about me in return to get top notch search results".

But even that obscures the most important considerations: what does "some data" mean, and to whom are you revealing it? So if we make it a bit more verbose (but still keeping to the facts), it's more like: "I'm happy to reveal my browsing and purchasing history to unknown third parties, in unknown juristictions around the world, in order to get top notch search results." If you're happy to do make that trade, great, but I'd argue it's not such an obviously good deal as you make it sound.
Your comment reminded me of this breathtaking composite : https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/g6llys/p...
A private blockchain is just a blockchain where miners have to be authorized by a central authority i.e. the central bank.

Since each miner is linked to a publicly known institution, attacks on the blockchain could be punished with jail time and revocation of the authorization.

Proof of work is just a very advanced anti spam protection system. In decentralized systems people can create as many accounts as they want. You need to make sure that they can't.

I'm just saying this is how it could work. It's not obvious whether its a good or bad idea.
If you enjoy Soviet space exploration and Venus in particular, follow Don Mitchell’s “archaeology” in the area. His old website [1] still has great things on it, but he’s since moved to Twitter unfortunately [2]. But at least posting this has let me see that Don is getting back into rendering (albeit I’m sure it’s for his space interests [3]).

[1] http://mentallandscape.com/V_DigitalImages.htm

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/donaldm38768041

[3] https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/1362219784...
I don’t think that is true. Energy can be focused to a smaller volume with a higher temp and you can keep adding energy. This is how laser fusion works.
Why not flash it with vanilla Android?
Yeah - explain deregulation to my 70 year old neighbor who didn't know how to light her fireplace and asks me questions about how Netflix works.

You're right - every single Texan wants freedom and doesn't want help.

As an aside, have you ever been to Texas or met many Texans?
Sure, until you want to go to college, or buy a house, or have access to healthcare or buy some stocks to save for retirement.

But if you don't want to improve your life and just want to survive until the next paycheck sure, I guess inflation is low.
Twitch is already adding 2nd, separate music tracks, via Twitch Soundtrack[1]. They have negotiated their own licensing of some music catalogs for use here.

The article mentions "sync" rights, which is the right to have music accompanying a video system. So in your system the user having the right to listen to the music is not enough. In this hell-hole shit-world the RIAA & MPAA & others have created, there are endless infinite licenses & they all require brutally disgusting carefully negotiated licenses, each & every time. What terrible people. The legalese continually gums of the creative & cultural works of our society, causes endless nightmares & prohibitions. The systems seem to only grow in complexity & become ever more inhumane.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21562372/twitch-soundtra...
There's three things I've always been baffled by the lack of interest in the current deep learning based AI field when it comes to parallels with biological brain:

1. Biological plausibility of back prop.

2. The lack of interest/consideration of time-continuous input on network. They are currently discrete and "learning" and inference is done separately. That's not how most organisms work.

3. The lack of consideration how brains (architecture, not weight) grows.

I might just be me missing something but I really have hard time seeing how things would scale in real world (ex: in Robotics applications of Neural nets) without those things addressed
So, is either of these not standard-compliant? I Looked at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/unique_ptr (yes, I know that’s not the standard, but _I_ trust it to follow it close enough), and couldn’t find evidence for it.

I suspect, however, that the standards committee, knowing of this discrepancy, would go with libc++. They explicitly said that reset has to update the pointer before deleting the old object (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/unique_ptr/reset), so one would think they don’t want get() to return the pointer while the unique_pointer destructor is running.

On the other hand, none of that matters in the case if multiple threads or out-of-order CPUs (or do I read https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/unique_ptr/reset incorrectly, and is some sort of fence implied there?)
Recent discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26199410
Seems like the NYPD could catch dozens of thieves per day just by setting up sting operations with honeypots around the city.
The car crash disfigured the car into something people wouldn't really call it a car anymore. However, even if earth stops supporting human life (or, more likely, greatly reduce the number of places on earth that humans can live on), no one would argue it is still a planet.
The question is, why would banks run nodes? How do they get money to pay for the datacenters?
That's a lot extrapolation from one single bug.
> Who is arguing with facts?

You are since you didn't even read the darn article that states the opposite. But sure, keep believing in your well documented psychological literature.
Not the OP, but I did a search for Firefox extensions and I found this:

Hide Comments Everywhere-An anti-social social extension to hide commenting systems like Disqus, Livefyre, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-comments...

Obviously uBlock Origin is a necessity, too.

Another tip: Prior to going to a shopping website (such as Amazon), I go to my Firefox browser settings, and I disable all images. This keeps me from buying useless junk via addicting recommendation algorithms, and removes the temptation very well. I also never go to one of these websites, unless I know exactly what I am planning on buying. In other words, I make a paper list of things I need to buy before I get onto one of these sites.
NASA is working on some mechanical computer concepts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton_Rover_for_Extreme_En...
> So did you go further than the title of the article because you made it seem like you actually read it? It is entertaining to give people a venue to explain themselves and they reveal the weakness of their own arguments.

Oh yeah? Why don't you care to explain the "weakness of my own arguments"? You made the claim that popular anti-bullying programs specifically address high-to-low bullying. I disputed this claim, asked which region you are referring to, and explained that in Finland the popular anti-bullying programs don't work like this - instead they assume bullying mostly occurs "among peers" like this article suggests. Instead of answering which region / anti-bullying programs you are referring to, or perhaps disputing my description of Finnish anti-bullying programs, you simply imply I didn't read the article [which is false & against HN rules & not relevant to this question since the article does not address it] and just laugh at me. Sure.
Although they have live versions in the documentation, are these widgets being served by a dedicated server or is it all client side?
What a mess.

It's almost as if they don't want people to use & enjoy music.
We are star stuff, I guess fits here.
reminds me of Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse TV series my son used to watch.
LNG does not produce any electricity, it's just a platform for gas storage and stuff. so not sure why you mix those two different things.
It demonstrates irrational faith in the Free Market Fairy: https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
For a counter-anecdote, I've seen the Slack app freeze up colleagues' workstations many times, and these are monster machines designed to run an autonomous vehicle stack on raw sensor data.
What's the punishment? What are the odds of stopping them from doing it again? They'll just go back to stealing packages after spending a few days in jail. People who do these things frequently have no reason not to because the available punishments do not affect them.
You say "it definitely didn't just get cheaper to mine", which sounds obviously true, but in a way I'm not sure it is. If the price of gold decreases by $200/oz, that probably makes a bunch of mines unprofitable, leading them to close down (or at least pause) their operations. Which in a way would mean that (on average) gold got "cheaper to mine". And it seems to me that the Bitcoin mining market works basically the same in that sense.
$24 is not a sizeable fraction of wealth by any measure. And here we are talking averages. The average per capita GDP is $18k. $24 is a very small number to that.
Something tells me fighting racism with racism is not a good idea, but I'm not an expert.

BTW, this training material hasn't been retracted and is still publicly available:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/confronting-racism-with-ro...
> I hope politicians are planning ahead.

Excuse me?
Depends on where you want to live and the lifestyle you want. Personally for me, it’s not enough. I’d need $10mil+ to retire. Even then, I don’t want to retire. I’d prefer to keep learning and growing. I have goals of eventually running a large organization or doing my own startup.

Also, again, you’re literally trading years of your life away.
archive.is should add (paid) accounts too, it creates much better page captures than pinboard.
Oh man, this is glorious. The obscenely rich fuckwits that led the charge against Napster getting censored by the effects of their own actions.
Salesforce Research wields AI to study medicine, economics, and speech
Micropayments for comment authors: experiments with new web economics
Is Dynamic Dispatching supposed to be the holy grail of OOP per Smalltalk’s ideal design of message passing?

An example of Dynamic Dispatch, is say you create a Class object of a person. And you give that object the method ‘jump’.

Then, you create say 30 persons, one for each student in your classroom. Then, you collect them all into a list. And you iterate through that list, and tell each person to jump.

So in Python, it might be something like:

John = Person()
Jane = Person()
# then create 30 of them students
student_list = []
student_list.extend([John, Jane, ...])

# Then make them all jump.
for kid in student_list:
kid.jump()

So, per my understanding this is what Dynamic Dispatch is. It allows you to reassign a variable to an existing set of objects, and to massively activate all of them. Such that, you’re sending an execute command to all of the associated objects.

Was this the genius innovation to OOP, as opposed to procedural languages before it? And can something like this be simulated in other imperative or functional type of programming languages?
How much energy is a good few percent?
Was this just for the restreamed videos?
The question is, why would KDE need the pointer value after the referenced object is destroyed? That implies a use-after-free.
While there may be some strong arguments for the China approach to COVID management, I’m not sure I find your enumerated list of ad-hominem strawmans and head shaking very convincing.
some are hopeful it will provide a faster debug compile option, and/or just a non llvm dependent option
Oh they resisted eh? Exactly how? I'm not seeing much of anything in this article, besides getting a security camera reactivated so that they can see a video of who stole their stuff, which will never be followed up on anyways.

I want to feel sorry for them, but I cannot forget that this is exactly what they asked for. In all probability, the actual people in this building they featured, that is. They got the state to abolish bail for people arrested for these "low-value property crimes". They elected DAs who promised to not prosecute them at all. They are probably even now campaigning to "abolish the police" entirely. In case anyone was wondering, they've also published articles declaring that yes they really do want to literally abolish the police and it is not at all a euphemism for some kind of reform. What they're seeing now is exactly what they asked for. Now they want to whine about their packages getting stolen? Too bad, wake me when the start advocating for actual enforcement against brazen theft.
Switzerland isn't considered progressive in any way, in fact it's a very conservative country compared to its neighbors (source: I'm from there).
Yes, Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme that collapsed 4 times. The problem is that people will bet that there will be more ponzi schemes to come in the future.
> I think most of us would just be satisfied with rendering the Earth a lifeless husk.

You're probably right. I mean, have you seen Factorio?
> This is unfortunately true. I do know people who aren't happy in their job (maybe not to the point of actively hating it), but stick around because of their golden handcuffs.

For anyone "stuck" in this situation, recruiters from the other FAANGs you don't currently work at will try to match unvested shares in their offer. It always pays to interview once a year or so to see what the current offers are like, and it's fun to try out the other microkitchens. Well, until 2020 I guess.