skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if they are that different. I met a biker once who told how he designed his own automatic speed-control. Asked him to see it. What he showed me was a lock on the gas. Seemed very dangerous to me.
Also, another guy showed me a contraption he built himself for a stick car. He put a sensor on the stick and whenever the sensor detected his hand, a servo automatically pressed the clutch pedal. It also automatically slowly releases the clutch pedal when his hand was removed from the stick.

These are all electronic and/or mechanical systems and a mistake on its software or mechanical design may impact the safety of the vehicle. I got negatively impressed in both cases and told them that it was probably illegal.

But well, my car... I would love to be abe to have access to the code. Not that I want to check or modify it myself, but the fact the I know anyone can check. The same reason I like to use FLOSS on my own machine. Actually, for safety reasons, it makes sense for it to signed, but I wan to be able to access it. If it was in ROM, maybe I wouldn't care. If it needs a critical update, would not bother going for a recall. Actually I think forcing ROM for safety critical software would encourage developers to make it right at the first try since it would be way more expensive to fix it later; probably would make engineers design systems as simple as they possibly can.

The auto clutch I saw was similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2J6uQH-khY
Thanks for the thoughtful comment!

It's true, not all cattle production can be held accountable for deforestation. For example, here in the UK, it's supposed to be a less carbon-intensive industry than in South America, because the grasslands on which cattle graze are good for little else - they are not really suited for crops. I agree on that point.

However (and from this point, it's speculation from my part), I am very skeptical about that grassland being grassland before agriculture arrived. Eg. was it part of the ancient forest that largely covered Britain? If so, it was indeed deforestation, only it was around 500-1000 years ago.

And this gives a whole other dimension to the discussion - we are OK with our deforestation here in Europe, because it happened a long time ago, but we are not OK with deforestation in Indonesia to produce palm oil (which WE consume) because it's happening now. Strangely, we are not that keen on re-forestation and we just want to push the burden to developing nations (a form of de-humanizing the poor, in my opinion).

I don't have any argument here, I just thought I would share my thoughts.
Two things make extracting the data more complex than something like a QR code or punchcard. First, the image quality from a die usually isn't perfect. There are often a few spots where it's hard to figure out visually, let alone with software.

Second, the ROM layout isn't documented and there are a lot of possibilities. Big-endian or little-endian? Is a transistor a 1 or 0? What direction does the layout go? Are columns or rows more significant bits? So you end up with 2×2×2×... possibilities for interpretation. And that's assuming the ROM layout doesn't have something entirely unexpected, which happens quite often.
Is it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216
Dammit! I mean, uh, it was a clever marketing ploy to attract attention and you totally fell for it. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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I work on embedded code with no malloc, no threading. We still find Rust valuable. YMMV :)
Again, it is not something that can be done with a flip of a switch, across the entire ecosystem.

Rome wasn't built in a day either.
> To my knowledge, Google has not denied any information requests they've received

Your knowledge stops very short in this area then. Google is utilizing the entire playbook to delay and obscure information from antitrust regulators. For example, Google almost always responds to requests for response from regulators on the last legally permissible day to do so, often after requesting multiple extensions. Here's an article about the third extension they got to respond to one of the EU charges: https://phys.org/news/2015-08-google-extension-eu-case.html (Google responded to this one four days before the deadline of the third extension, https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-responds-to-european-uni...)

In another example, Google was to respond by April of 2016. After getting extensions out to the end of September and then October... Google finally responded on November 3rd: https://www.digitaltrends.com/business/google-antitrust-eu-r...

Each of these months-delayed responses of course, can be summarized down to "Google doesn't believe Google is anticompetitive" in a blog post I could've written in an afternoon.

They managed to drag out the EU cases years longer than they should've taken through these sorts of games, and the US cases are now just getting started.

This was three days ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-doj-accuses-google-dragging...

Google has taken states to court to try and block them from sharing information necessary to investigate the case: https://www.axios.com/google-texas-paxton-antitrust-microsof...

And have straight up refused to turn over emails and texts from corporate executives relevant to the case: https://nypost.com/2020/02/21/google-stonewalling-ags-over-e...

Also, bear in mind, Google and Facebook agreed to cooperate in fighting antitrust investigations against them, to avoid one providing information on the other's side of the deal: https://news.yahoo.com/google-facebook-agreed-team-against-0...

Essentially what's happening here is Google knows it's in the wrong, and it knows it's making more money than it will ever be forced to give up in fines and penalties, so they want to drag all of these processes out as long as possible.

The public would be best served by raiding the offices, seizing the information, and stopping all illegal operations from continuing while the investigation is completed, so that Google executives have adequate incentive to respond quickly to restore business.
"...she had acquired, somehow, New Life Dreams, which had to do with Conspicuous Consumption and Keeping Up and being Visibly Awesome..."

I was thinking the same thing: geeze, isn't there anything between virtue signalling early retirement and conspicuous consumption?
oh whoa, yea, that's a bit beefy for my use case

but if you like the brand I'll check 'em out
Sounds like the plot of Atlas Shrugged.
Check your citation, it refers to overdose deaths nationwide between the period of June 2019 until May 2020. The vast majority of those deaths occurred before there were lock downs in the end of March and beginning of April 2020.

Your stats include about a month or two of lock downs at most.

My stats refer to the period between January 2020 and the end of December 2020 in a single state. I'm not about to dox myself, but we can use another state's data to illustrate the same point. In NJ, there were 3,021 overdose deaths in 2019, and in 2020, there were 3,046 overdoses, an increase of only 25 deaths[1], or 0.83%.

> "Overdose deaths involving cocaine also increased by 26.5 percent" [0]. How do you explain that one?

Cocaine and psychostimulants are becoming increasingly popular year-over-year. For example, the CDC reports that psychostimulant overdose deaths increased by 37% in 2017[2], and drug overdose deaths involving cocaine increased by more than 34%.

The CDC reports that from 2009 to 2018, cocaine overdose deaths nearly tripled[3], and between 2014 and 2018, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine with opioids increased at a faster pace than the rate of cocaine deaths without opioids. If you look at the compiled data[3], between 2015 and 2018, cocaine overdose deaths skyrocketed.

Part of the trend might be related to increasingly adulterated cocaine[4] with fentanyl and designer stimulants over the past few years.

[1] https://whyy.org/articles/n-j-saw-a-slight-uptick-in-drug-ov...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/otherdrugs.html

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db384.htm

[4] https://khn.org/news/not-yesterdays-cocaine-death-toll-risin...
Absolutely. I'm really glad that the Thunderbird project is healthy and alive. The ecosystem very much needs a solid open source email client to compete with commercial alternatives - particularly the cloud providers with their cloud vendor lock-in. Re-writing Thunderbird in a more accessible framework (JavaScript) will doubtless help more contributors to work on the codebase.
Somewhere in the comments here, one of them said "estrogen fixed my social autism". That is really surprising.
Well, first let me say that being a parent is the best thing in my life (and there is a lot of very good stuff in my life), so don't over-index on what I'm about to say next. You'll be fine and better for it!

You might have heard the quote "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken."

YMMV but the lowest of the low are the times when you feel the reality that you have become utterly, completely, impossibly vulnerable in a way that you've never felt before. Speaking for myself, I haven't loved anything in my life even remotely closely to how I love my kids. Closest thing is my wife (and I really love her).

You go from... not wanting your plane to crash because, you know, it would suck to die and your spouse would be wrecked... to... my kids will grow up without me there to teach them, keep them safe, show them love. The angst I feel towards that is about 10000x worse than in how I thought about dying before kids.

Heck even your understanding of "my parents would be sad if I died as a 30-year-old man" changes. No parent should ever have to outlive their child.

Every headline that right now seems like a "sad story" - a parent losing a child, a child losing a parent, kids in cages, a daughter and father who are estranged, etc -- becomes an absolutely wrenching sadness if you even FLIRT with the idea of "what if that happened to me/my child"? You develop sensitivities that you are surprised at. You realize you have inherited an impossible and awesome responsibility of providing for, protecting, loving little blank slates of humanity... in a chaotic and dangerous world.

There's no answer to it except to do your best, and hope/pray that you never have to face the unfaceable.

That feeling isn't always present. But that's the dark shadow that occasionally crosses the sun.

Oh and BTW - this love doesn't just magically appear for everyone right away. I know lots of fathers especially who don't feel much right away, but as you see your children go from blobs to little people, you fall in love with them. So don't sweat asking yourself if you're feeling it. Just let it happen. :)
Bing image search is much better too
I don't know of a company that does this sort of work, but I know of some technologies that experts in receive these types of calls. The one that comes to mind is an ERP-focused database system. It's called "Progress" by "OpenEdge". IMHO, it's awful, but this has no hindered adoption in the slightest. I wrote Progress/4gl (their query language) often enough in a prior position to have it on my resume. Every 2 or 3 months, I'll get an email/call, asking if I could be available for short-term contracting upwards of $200/hr for Progress emergencies. I have declined all of these, because I found it soul crushing to work with in the past. However, if you could enjoy that sort of thing, that's one example of a very lucrative field to dabble in.
The Gitlab licensing model was recently change and the lowest tier starter license was removed.
Anyone knows which of these new features a customer receives that is still on "starter" (which can be kept for up to one year after the change to the license model)?
> The closest ones to this are probably vector vaccines like the AZ one, because they use a "relatively" well-known delivery technique (as in: one that was at least already used for a single market-ready vaccine before the Covid-19 ones). For that reason, AZ has several production partnerships around the world already, for example with the Serum Institute of India, and the AZ vaccine is considered the likely "workhorse" for global immunization because of this relative ease of manufacturing (and storage, of course).

AFAIK the Serum Institute wasn't manufacturing any vector based vaccines prior to the Oxford/AZ vaccine, despite being the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world. They put in $100 Million of their own money to adapt to the AZ pipeline & scale it up.
In addition to everything else mentioned, the UK is also prioritizing first-doses while delaying the second dose far later than recommended (second dose at 12 weeks, instead of 3-4 weeks)[0]. That's on top of administering first doses without keeping a complete stockpile for second doses (ie, they are betting that it will be relatively easy to obtain a supply of second doses when the time comes).

So yes, the UK is far ahead of most other countries in first doses administered, but they're also going off-book for their vaccination protocol in a lot of ways that make it a bad point of comparison for other countries which are following clinical recommendations more closely.

[0] There's some clinical evidence in support of the 12-week gap for the AstraZeneca vaccine, though the UK made this decision before that study had been released, and there is not yet analogous data to support the efficacy of a 12-week period for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which the UK is also administering on a 12-week gap.
The EU has failed to secure contracts ensuring the EU produced vaccine stays in the EU[1].

So far the EU has exported 41.6 million doses of the vaccine (the largest importer being the UK)[2]. Both the US and the UK have exported 0 vaccines.

[1] https://twitter.com/davekeating/status/1372897635577761803

[2] https://twitter.com/AlexTaylorNews/status/137362147260701081...
From what I can see, that doesn't look too good. There are likely issues with the data, which is not easily solvable given that complete databases are expensive. And there are likely issues with the modelling, it looks like the model is just scenario analysis. This is better than a misspecified parametric model (most advisers don't do scenario analysis either, so it is definitely valuable...although requires market knowledge to parse fully) but relies on good data...the data is not good.

The correct way to do it is a Monte Carlo simulation using either: a good parametric model (this is very tricky, something like a T distribution is least worst...but is still bad, the ideal is some kind of regime model, proper volatility modelling, and something that models expectation accurately between regimes...tricky), or using block bootstrap on good historical data (more robust quantitatively...but again, good long-term data costs $100k+).

So...it is straightforward if you have good data and understand how to build a proper event-based backtesting system (or code something good enough)...but, as said, 99.99% of advisers do not have the resources for this. In most cases, they are unable to buy software implementing this or even know they need it (I have seen this software but it is usually at advisers that require liquid wealth of $10m+...it isn't only the cost of the software but most advisers below this level have no quantitative skills/staff so don't understand why it is necessary).

Again, I would be cautious about any numbers that come out, and focus on the 5th percentile (and understand that it is a wild over-estimate if the data isn't good).
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No, no direct optic nerve interface. That isn't feasible with any technology we know of. The nerve bundle, like the spinal cord, is incredibly dense withe fibers. There's also pre-processing and network stuff that goes on in the retinal layers that you don't want to skip.

Fortunately (though I may be wrong here) I believe a lot of blindness upstream from the optic nerve is capable of being addressed by artificial lenses, corneas, replacement fluid, retina augmentation etc. The nerve and central nervous system really represents where it starts getting beyond our depth.
When I was looking I picked out the houses I wanted to look at. Then got my friend the real estate agent to get disclosures and and show me the house during the week day.

I don't think that the incentive to show you more expensive homes is that strong. Impression from a friend of mine is a real estate agent wants to close as many deals a year as possible. Closing houses a year, more money. Being known as someone that closes fast and often means hopefully being poached by more upscale agencies.

Buyers agent though has an incentive to soft bully the buyer into over bidding.
There is a limit on how many carries can be full time youtubers. It's limited by people's watch time. YouTube has grown a lot but that is plateauing.
> Doesn’t competition push down the price of [MRIs in the US]?

Oh, you sweet, innocent babe.

Praise your lucky stars for every single day that you don't have to deal with our "health care" system.
Whereas flatpak doesn't rely on benevolent volunteers? I think having a dedicated community where maintainers can easily pool their package updates together would be more reliable.
It is not undefined behavior. Bytecodes are modified via custom CL and superclass was swapped from e.g. Object to something else. As for errors, honestly its been 23+ years so don’t really remember. Naturally you can’t just swap any random class - it has to be correct e.g. can’t have an override method in the child that has no corresponding method in the super. And if memory serves, you can also play this trick using classpaths. Assume a stub package com.foo.Context which is simply an extension of Object, and derive components from com.foo.Context.SuperClass. You simply need to provide a different eponymous package for the adapted instance of the code.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-4.ht...
https://archive.is/NOL3v
At what point more people start calling out mental illness?
An actual carbon neutral car made from hemp and stronger than steal
I have noticed an eerily accurate prediction of my search term though. Several times, when I hit a bug and attempt to learn more about it, Google makes precise auto-complete suggestions
I bought a house for my family to live in, or more precisely, I put 20% down on a house and borrowed a bunch of money from the bank that I'm now paying off quite possibly even into retirement.

If that's now frowned upon, I must have missed a memo.
Yes.

Taiwan had very purposeful government strategy. First import substitution, then export expansion.

Taiwanese industrial policy was to concentrate support for export expansion into two industries, petrochemical industry and electronics industry. First there was these plastic "made in Taiwan" exports. Then came electronics.
> Not surprisingly, dozens of major ransomware gangs now exist worldwide, including in Russia, Eastern Europe, and North Korea.

To what extent should ransomware activity be considered low-grade economic warfare by nation-states who can't or won't police cyber-criminals, and thus justification for robust national responses such as sanctions?
Well, there was a presidential candidate promoting "European style socialism" for a while.
It is the same. What is the point of being alive if you aren't providing value to other people? Just sitting on your mountain of gold, and count it all day long.
You are 100% correct about the switch to Semantic Search and dense vectors being one of the main reasons. BERT shouldn't be anywhere near my search results.
Yes -- I agree. The specifics of meaning are idiosyncratic to the individual. We shouldn't assume that things that are meaningful to us will be meaningful to others!
As many people learned last year, it's easy to gloss over the parts of someone you don't like when you're both actively working towards a goal. When you start spending too much time together, it's easy to have the relationship die from a thousand cuts.
Thanks.

Are you no longer concerned because memory usage dropped significantly?

How's the overall latency?

I remember seeing some benchmarks where ActionCable was using like 1-2gb of memory for around a thousand active connections with 95% percentile latency in the multi-second range to broadcast a message. I do see AnyCable makes huge improvements here and I love the idea of it but also not too sure how backwards compatible it is with Hotwire / Turbo Streams.

I've always thought Rails was good / fast enough but the ActionCable stuff worries me a little because a single low end VPS could happily handle a very solid amount of traffic (tens of thousands of daily page views, etc.) but once you start factoring in websocket connections that changes everything. Suddenly pages that have completed the request / response cycle are still on the hook to keep a ws connection open even if they're not doing anything that causes a state change.
> Extreme frugality

Were you reading FIRE blogs or extreme frugality blogs? Or maybe I can just ask "how do you define extreme frugality?" (I think of myself as kind of frugal, and planning to have the choice to avoid compulsory paid work before I'm 50, but I also live in one of the most expensive areas of the United States outside of big cities / California, with somewhat regular trips to Disney World and other countries.) But a blog like earlyretirementextreme.com isn't focused on high earners cutting down on consumption and retiring early (that's MrMoneyMustache.com) - it's a version of extreme frugality and self-reliance (and adaptability regardless of changing life circumstances.)

> bare minimum savings

I assume by this you mean "leanFIRE" as in "just enough of a nest egg to retire with 25x your annual expenses and everything goes perfectly?!" Of course, that sounds like a recipe for disaster, and I think in some cases it's a bit of a "oh I can quit my stupid job at the exact moment I hit this magic number" mentality, but a misunderstanding of putting a real plan in place for a future that is filled with variables. Depending on the blogs you frequented, they could be "copycat" blogs that just took the juicy headlines from more in-depth blogs and throwing up quick articles so they can get some ad revenue.

Any idea, handled poorly, is going to either come off unappealing or be riddled with shortcomings. That doesn't mean the original idea can't work (and it does for some - some by luck, others by proper strategy.)
I would totally be down for that, but I don't have access to the breaker box, and I don't feel like trying to install anything into anything that has hot wires.
Spotlight handles the majority of unit conversions and quick calculations that Google can do. I think it is, or was, powered by Wolfram Alpha.