skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean it quite like that.

Think for instance of a song that got stuck in your head. It probably hits some parts of it just right. What if we could fine tune that? What if we take a brain simulator, a synthesizer, and write a GA that keeps on trying to create a sound that hits some maximum?

It's possible that we could make something that would get it stuck in your head, or tune it until it's almost a drug in musical form.
FAA Releases Remote ID, the Largest Regulatory Change for Drones in Years
Thanks! I like the "if" "and" example. Do you have any other examples of the "internalization of the category's morphisms?"
> rust is far easier

That's an unusual claim :) Could you elaborate? How is the learning curve, especially for fresh graduates who have been trained only on languages like C, Java and Python?

> The fact that you can just drop a future to cancel it, as opposed to having to thread around a ctx which may or may not work has been amazing.

Agreed. I like Go, but that's big drawback of goroutines and threads.
I tried to use this to ease the front end work load of students in a compiler project (building a C compiler) for a University course, so that the project could be focused on the more interesting middle and back end parts of the compiler.
However, reported bugs in the C grammar that saw no activity at all [1] made this impossible. From this small sample of experiences, I was left with the impression that Tree Sitter is great for things like syntax highlighting, where wrong results are annoying but not dramatic, but not so suitable for tools that need a really correct syntax tree.

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[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-c/issues/51
While there are many people out to make a quick buck in the crypto world, investment fuels innovation. It gives people incentive to build decentralized ecosystems.

Given that we are more than ever moving toward a centalised society where corporations have an increasingly tightened grip over the people, decentalised technologies are in my opinion a glimmer of technological hope.
I have a dust mite allergy and have tried doing this in the past, but had to stop because I moved away from my allergist. I would be interested in this type of service, but $99/month is a bit expensive for me. I have health insurance, is there any way I could get them to pay for it for me?

I have had surgery for nasal polyps related to this twice if that might help my case.
The question I’d have is “why use a custom cache at all”, this sounds like a problem that has a whole pile of battle-tested off-the-shelf solutions.
Is there a reason why time-of-use systems can’t have a customer-defined price limit, beyond which they opt into a blackout? The sense I got from the stories of people suddenly facing five-figure power bills is that most would have gladly spent a night or two with propane and candles rather than cleaning out their savings.
That’s as insightful as people saying “ just follow the constitution” when in reality people have been fighting about the exact meaning for centuries. Most laws leave some room for interpretation. This is pretty much necessary because the law can’t specify each corner case.

Same goes for software requirements. Good requirements make the intent clear but allow implementers some flexibility. Specifying everything in minute detail is usually a recipe for disaster.
Epic's bid to sue Apple over Fortnite in UK rejected
> Given the high correlation between COVID# cases (or %Positive) and hospitalizations, why not just use COVID# and "gain" 2 weeks of information?

As we vaccinate the people at the highest risk of hospitalization, the correlation will change: Numbers may stay very similar, but hospitalizations should go way down.
Sorry, when I said "your site," I was not referring to you, but sites in general. Appreciate the insight from your comment.
"By the fourth week after receiving the initial dose, the Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines had reduced the risk of hospital admissions from Covid-19 by up to 85% and 94% respectively, according to a study by Scottish universities and Public Health Scotland."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/22/one-vaccine-pr...
As someone who mainly consumes Spotify using Bluetooth headphones supporting AAC (and one pair LDAC) but none Vorbis, I may end up subscribing to this.

While it's arguable that there'll be no perceptible difference listening to 320kbps Vorbis versus "HiFi" on a dedicated device, I imagine there could be a difference when transcoding to AAC. Time will tell.
C elegans is a small nematode composed of 959 cells and 302 neurons, where the location, connectivity, and developmental origin/fate of every cell is known.

We still can't simulate it.

Part of the problem is that the physical diffusion of chemicals (e.g., neuromodulators) may matter and this is 'dispensed with' in most connectivity-based models.

Neurons rarely produce identical response to the same stimuli, and their past history (on scales of milliseconds to days) accounts for much of this variability. In larger brains, the electric fields produced by activity in a bundle of nerve fibers may "ephaptically couple" nearby neurons...without actually making contact with them[0].

In short, we have no idea what can be thrown out.

[0] This sounds crazy but data from several labs--including mine--suggests it's probably happening.
This appears to be the bill in question, if anyone would like to read it.

https://legiscan.com/AZ/amendment/HB2005/id/89532

I'm not sure why it was introduced as an amendment for a bill about distributing federal education funds, but I'm sure there's some justification in the legislative process.

Anyway, this is very clearly tailored towards the current Epic vs Apple/Google fight, right down to disallowing "retaliation" from platform providers.
Entry, Descent and Landing
>Software Bug Keeping Hundreds of Inmates in Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates

language as the key as usual, it builds mental model different from reality and sets the discussion context obscuring the real issue and already skewed toward the angle the speaker wants - "software bug keeping". It isn't software who keeps the inmates, it is the people employed in that branch of government, and ultimately it is "we, the people". Blaming "computer" is as old an excuse as the pyramids as we still fall for it. Even more today i think.
Licensed professionals have to exercise caution because of possible liability. An electrician, for example, who gives advice you act on, get wrong, and end up creating a hazard could face legal problems. An electrician explained that to me when I asked for advice doing my own house wiring.
> Eric Weinstein also seemed to run into this fairly quickly ...

No, I don't think so. Any blowback he's gotten is not from "fame" but rather his difficult personality.
> the employees that end up in those jobs tend to be among the least skilled and motivated

This. The job itself is terrible and as you mention the pay is terrible too. With conditions like that, I'm not surprised the product is buggy, over-budget, and difficult to improve.
Can you say more on this? What is Rust doing differently here that simplifies things?
On the other hand, would you be surprised to learn the .NET runtime includes a ringtone?
The Wikipedia format made me imagine the cloud of article improvements reverted by idle, self-important Wikipedia editors.
Prodoscore: The Bleak Future of Work
I recently took a sales pitch from Prodoscore, and I'm now concerned about a "global employment score" that might become a new barrier to employment.
SrClient DLL Hijacking: a Windows Server 2012 0-day that won't be patched
The point isn't that we use hospital admissions as a metric to infer cases or some other metric, it IS the metric that matters. The problem over the last year wasn't that there exists a person who is at risk, it's that there didn't exist any healthcare system capacity to treat them.

From very early on in the pandemic, it seemed to me like our goal for optimal balance between caution/risk was to try and maintain the highest level of hospital occupancy that is sustainable. If every single person quarantines perfectly, then our hospitals are empty, but so is every business. If no one quarantines, our businesses are full, but so are hospitals and everyone's viral load; i.e. maximum mortality.

With the vaccines now available, it seems like our goal should still be be to maintain the highest level of sustainable medical system occupancy.
I don't think so. There is a full load of people with experience in C++ or Java, but people with experience in performance critical (whatever that means) Rust code is more limited for being a newer language. You however win on the hipness scale and attention in places like hacker news.

As others have said, however, a big factor certainly is that an internal lead developer lobbied for Rust, which they experimented with.
Here I think it makes sense to split the API in two classes:

1. APIs consumed by other backends lets call them API2B

2. APIs consumed by frontends lets call them API2C

In this case cursors are better for API2B but not for API2C as in case of API2C most users expect to be able to jump directly to a specific page.

At least when I am designing an API i take different decisions based on this split. For example in case of API2C I always want to see FE design even if I work on backend.
I'd propose either 421 Misdirected Request or 400 Bad Request, both with more detailed error message in the body when the URI Path is incorrect and doesn't map to anything, and 404 Not Found for valid requests for things that don't exist.
It's in progress:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/32/2316/
We CAN be at normalcy in the US by April if we do the following:
-approve Astrazeneca
-First Doses First

If we vaccinate those over 50 who want to be vaccinated, the death rate will plummet about 90%. Then, COVID is similar to flu level of societal death and I don't see any reason most people can't be completely normal. This ignores anti vaxers whose deaths are sad but should probably be considered closer to "negligent deaths" or something.

But this article is just wishful thinking, that boils down to "we expect us to 10x the pace we vaccinate new people over the next 40 days and actual infection rates are 2x what experts think."

I guess I hope he is right but this is probably just fantasy thinking.
iNat is good, but crowdsourced, and anything but a panacea; for example, I'm very confident in my identifications of the Auplopus mellipes and Auplopus architectus metallicus individuals I encountered and photographed last year, but those (plus one braconid, of which I'm admittedly uncertain myself) are the only observations I have on iNat that haven't had any species confirmations from other users. (That's fair; I needed considerable literature review to develop that level of confidence, and I doubt most iNat users share the extent of my interest in wasps.)

Another option is BugGuide (https://bugguide.net), which I've actually found more useful - it did me a lot of good figuring out those auplopids. It doesn't provide any sort of dichotomous key (that I've been able to find), but there are a lot of observations available, often with very high-quality images, which helps a lot when specific identification depends on subtle features.

In general, though, hymenopterans and especially solitary wasps are just difficult. There are many genera and even whole families that are hard to tell apart with much confidence. One of the first things you notice in the literature is the importance to specific identification of male genitalia, which are internal, practically microscopic, and only even potentially useful if you have the good fortune to happen on a very rare male of a solitary wasp species - and even then, sexual dimorphism can be such as to make a solid male identification useless for spotting a female unless you actually observe them to be in copula. (Female mutillids, aka "velvet ants", don't even have wings!)

All of which is to say, I would expect the more obscure solitary bees to pose the same sort of difficulty.
Which policies in particular are the ineffective one(s), may I ask?

We say "lockdowns" colloquially but it's really a package of policies, such as capacity limits for restaurants, schools potentially closing down, etc. Which ones are the ineffective ones that Massachusetts subscribed to but Florida did not?
From the title "lena" and the reference to compression algorithms made with MMAlcevedo, it's clear that the story is trying to draw parallels to image processing. In which case being able to store images has come decades before realistic 3D rendering, photoshop, or even computer vision. For example, the sprites from some early video games look like they were modeled in 3D, but were actually images based off of photographs of clay models. I think (with suspension of disbelief that sinulating consciousness is possible) it is realistic to think that being able to capture consciousness would come before being able to understand and manipulate it.
people really dont worry enough about the existential threats involved with ai. there are things that will be possible in the future that we cant imagine today, including being kept alive for millions of years and enduring deliberate torture for every second of it. people dont appreciate that life today is incredibly safe because there is no way for any entity, no matter how motivated or powerful, to intrude into your mind, control your mind, keep you alive or plant you into simulated realities. you are guaranteed relatively short and benign torture at the very worst. its an intrinsic part of the world. when this is no longer true, life will be very different. it may be a massive net loss, unlike advances in technology more recently. despite what people say, there is no natural law that says a technology has to cut equally in both directions. remember that.
This does not address wether the GPU throttles in high CPU usage scenarios.

That being said, RAM and storage is pretty negligible. LPDDR4/X uses around 0.2-0.5w, and around 0.1-0.05w for storage.

There is also no reason to compare to Intel. The competition for Macs aren't older macs - newer macs are always going to be better than older macs. The competition is to what they could have been if they went for AMD, and to other computers of similar form-factors.

In both cases, you're comparing to AMD, not Intel.
Note: this is an account of using Rust in a single service

> The service we switched from Go to Rust is the “Read States” service.

And the conclusion doesn't indicate "switching", but rather Rust is an "option" for Discord, and already used in the stack:

> When starting a new project or software component, we consider using Rust. Of course, we only use it where it makes sense.
IE6 was a great browser when released, the problem was that IE7 wasn’t released for another 5 years, a lifetime in those days.
This is a good point. Markets sting when they skyrocket to high prices. But the sting is supposed to be matched bit for bit by the benefits-- incentivizing people to cut back when they should (something most people would only begrudgingly acknowledge as a benefit when it's happening to them, if acknowledge it at all), and incentivizing innovative behaviors to exploit it to make a quick buck.

I haven't heard much about that last part; like you said, it would be great if the market works such that on the margin a player can exploit that price to make a quick buck (by, e.g. rigging some kind of battery up before a storm that's coming and making bank off the arbitrage when the storm hits by emptying the battery back in to the grid). Now maybe the transaction costs or economies of scale or whatever make that infeasible-- if so too bad-- but it's worth remembering this is half the benefit of a market system.
Thankfully the idea is unrealistic.

Ants are the only creatures on Earth besides humans that have built a civilization - they farm, build cities, store and cook food and generally do all the things we classify as "intelligence".

They do this while lacking any brains in the conventional sense; in any case, whatever the number of neurons in an ant colony is, it is surely orders of magnitude less than the number in our deep learning networks.

At this point us trying to make artificial intelligence is like Daedalus trying to master flight by gluing feathers on his arms.
In my opinion, the best fiction book about this subject is 'Permutation City' by Greg Egan.

Also, this one is pretty good:

https://sifter.org/~simon/AfterLife/index.html

And, in a very similar line to "Lena", this one by Vernor Vinge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_(novella)
I think your stance is completely faulty. Children aren't sent to 6-8 hours of school a day because it was discovered that some subset of them liked it and we decided to just implement it across the board.

We decided as a society that not only is education valuable for people, it's a human right. So we, as a society, have failed if we fail to provide an education for our children.

Many children don't like going to school. Some subset of children wind up acting out in a ton of different ways, but often it is disruptive to classes and wastes a ton of time. Their actions have a direct negative impact on the children who actually want to attend classes and learn. But education is the right of everyone, even children who actively resist school, so we don't remove them.

I get the point you're trying to make, that maybe our children would benefit more from just being allowed to be children, to be rowdy and play with friends, have freedom and activity instead of hours of lessons per day sitting in a chair. I get that. I even agree with it to a point.

But it's extremely asinine to suggest that somehow this is the fault of the well behaved kids or the kids who genuinely love school.
> resume building

We call this project farming where I am. I'm not a dev and don't work in IT industry, but I do work for a large company and every few months some new project is rolled out to 'improve' things and most of the time we all collectively groan and wait for the person to get promoted.

The most frustrating part is when once in a blue moon the project turns out to be useful, and the person gets promoted off of it and abandons the project. Nobody then wants to pick it up since they won't get any credit for running it and it ends up getting abandoned.
Perfect competition only happens in text books. In the real world monopolies, oligopolies, regulatory capture, control over social connections and capital, markets with asymmetric information (VCs vs public, employees vs companies), management consecrating itself into a class with its own interests , mean that companies can go on for 10-15 years before they are punished.

By the time the market wakes up you’ve switched 3 times and after 10 times you’re retired in the suburbs with a nice BMW. Who cares then.
Completely agree. Capital is used to make Kings. Companies like Uber, Lyft, WeWork - won't exist without this. As for quality of the founders, I think, with enough money (and loss appetite), a mediocre team can execute well on an decent opportunity.
>If your grid covers a large region

Like a belt of solar panels around the equator? Works for Dyson Sphere Program but that's a game. As big as the US is, for CONUS the entire continent is in the dark for significant portions of the day. It doesn't get more intermittent than that!

> and you have sufficient transmission,

Well duh. And assuming zero transmission loss. Or enough resources to overcome transmission loss and still be economically viable.

Quite a bit of hand waving there.
Or even a hybrid. Age 65+ stays on the 2 dose schedule 3 weeks apart, and under 65 follows FDF.
Laws generally prevent this (generally a customer's supply can only be cut off with a long and precise legal procedure).

It's possible it might be doable with a user override.
Every dictionary definition of the word I’m looking at right now includes the words “original”, “originality”, or “not imitated.”

I think the word “prolific” applies to what TikTok facilitates, much more than the word “creative.” And personally I find the amount of word for word and beat for beat mimicry on the app maddening.
Is rehabilitation not the main goal in the USA? We call the places correctional facilities, and do other things that are ostensibly there to correct behavior and prevent recidivism. In fact, it seems like most of the things that prevent people from being successful are unintended side effects.

Here's a thought: Why do we permit private companies to not hire ex-cons? Why do you just get to decide that you don't want to hold up your civic responsibilities like that? Who wants to work with someone that used to be violent maniac, sleazy thief, or worse?

I agree about cost cutting measures and the criminal justice industrial complex. Still we have bigger issues around crime and reconciliation that prevent us from making progress. To be honest, I have trouble understanding how we're going to change, unless the average person can live with someone ruining their life, then spending "only" a year or so in prison and moving on to be successful in a decent paying job.

We still find that outrageous in the US, and it's going to be very tough to make progress that way. It's not about making something "a goal", especially in a country like the US, it's about convincing the wealthy and powerful class to do anything at all about it and stop making it worse.
Did you hear about the guy who won a downhill race after losing his chain out of the gate?

Mountain biking is a lot closer to mountain skiing than it is to race biking - very little locomotion, a whole lot of body balancing.

https://www.bicycling.com/racing/a20022483/video-aaron-gwin-...
That sounds like basically what they did; they rewrote the ReadStates service in Rust and it sounds like that's basically a wrapper around an LRU cache. The rest of Discord is still Go/Elixer/whatever else they use.
There are the various Tilde.club and similar servers, and SDF.
My wife tells me what she wants or doesn't want.

As for OKRs... they aren't well defined and subject to change at her discretion without notification.
It does not disprove the claim, but it does put it in perspective, and warn that you shouldn't take the claim with fully understanding it, and, preferably finding reputable analysis or rebuttals.
It’s dismissive to call it luddism. I am a big anti-GraphQL voice but in the specific cases where I tend to work: on small cross functional, often full stack dev teams. It’s a layer of formal promises about the API that I find extremely unnecessary & unproductive for small teams that I can see the appeal for at a huge corp like Facebook where frontend devs probably don’t write much or any backend code.

The problem usually isn’t the library itself and that’s true of GraohQL. It’s the cargo culting of GraphQL & other new tech that might be unnecessary or overengineering for your specific use case.