skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s because it’s probably not possible to define within the standard “toolset”. Look at for example the thoughts of the definition of energy by R. Feynman. You might think us physicists for sure can define energy. After all it’s one of the basis of physics. But it turns out it’s not possible without circular arguments
The highlighted responses to suggested natural language questions are comically bad. Answers to different questions, complete failure to apply simple contextualisers like 'today', and treating some random on Quora or some splog as an authoritative source for identifying a fact that has authoritative sources. I know it's difficult to do this stuff without human curation, but it's like a campaign to discourage people from taking NLP seriously.
Java stagnated for a long time at 7. Java 8 really started the change and it has been moving forward at a good pace since then.

I'm going to say maybe too fast. Not that the changes aren't good (they are good) but rather that the pace of features from 8 to 11 and then 11 to 17 has been fast and trying to get old toolchains updated to 8 (yes, it pains me) - much less use the features that are present in 11.

While in the organization that I work in there was some "ok, we've got old things on the computers, update to the latest Java now?" was postponed until September so that we can say "Java 17 is the standard" and have that be our long term platform for awhile.

But there are a lot of people who are still writing code that would compile in 7.

Looking at the version history, 12 years ago would have been Java 6... there were a lot of good changes with collections in Java 7. https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk7-relnote...

The try with resources and catches were the two big things that made 7 much better than 6 for me. And with 8 - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8-whats-new.... - while:

* Classes in the new java.util.stream package provide a Stream API to support functional-style operations on streams of elements.

is only a single bullet point, that's a big thing.
Because by definition rich means “can buy house”, and poor means “no choice but to rent”.

What sort of rich person rents a house, except whilst between selling old and new?

It’s a strange question to ask .... who doesn’t see this as self evident?
The author is irresponsibility propagating a conspiracy theory and elevating its status in the public’s mind.

I’m a bioscientist. It’s frustrating to respond with evidence and in good faith, and be downvoted by those who simply disagree. But sadly it appears that the loudest voice prevails over reason.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00599-7
Indeed, recently I tried Yandex for the first time and the results were way better for everything I had to search in the past 2 months since discovering it.
Stop pretending your shit doesn't stink. Hunger is eating away at our lands and some nerds are working on networks without some perceived moral shortcomings.
As someone who uses the language every day, I fully agree. My work would be easier if they all conformed to some syntax not easily mistaken for an ordinary line comment. A standard preamble of '///', say.

No doubt sophisticated IDEs highlight them somehow, but more naive editor extensions e.g. Emacs 'go-mode', do not. No color-coding.
The essential feature is subjective experience of sensations, referred to as qualia. I've seen no debate about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Capitalism its self is fine. Just as water is fine. It needs to be properly regulated. And regulations rely on federal/local culture. What works for the French isn't going to work for Peruvians isn't going to work for Nigerians.

100% recycle:

Remove unpaid externalities. Price in everything down to the exhaust and the packaging. Every manufacturer needs to be responsible for all of what they sell, make sure its all recyclable/reclaimable.

True responsibility:

Make CO level suite leaders personally responsible when they mess up big enough. Mostly in terms of negligence and loss of life. Things like Bhopal, heads should roll.

Firewall between politics and money:

Nothing's going to work if the people running it can be bribed (or any other similar term). Have an election? Here's a pool of tax money and advertisers have to provide discounted time and space.
Agreed 100%. Occasionally my wife and I will be watching something that features some violence or threat to children and we just look at each other like "why are we voluntarily watching this and vicariously feeling these things?" and shut it off.

Clearly people get desensitized to it, both as viewers and as writers. Christopher Nolan, for instance, is a parent but all of his movies have tough child dynamics (e.g. Inception and Leo's character trying to see his kids again).

Maybe by writing stories like that you can exorcise the demon a bit?
You absolutely will when people on the cusp of making a living use them to push themselves over that edge. As is pretty common on other content platforms.

Here it’s happening already:
https://medialyte.substack.com/p/the-curious-emergence-of-th...
I am not putting words in your mouth. I am trying to understand what your concern is. Every major vendor of Linux distributions maintains their own source tree with patches specific to their usage. That is the way Linux is normally used. So what?

I don't see how it's useful to say that it's a "modified kernel" due to it being packaged for a specific application in a way that is necessary to use it.
Outside of being open source, and not Firebase, what advantages does this offer over Firebase? It wasn't obvious by looking at the page.

Although, like FractalHQ mentions below, it may be because I'm vewing the site on mobile. It's quite difficult to browse on mobile.

I am interested in a compelling Firebase alterative though, this sounds interesting.
Sure, retirement and those other kinds of work you mention aren't incompatible. I think when we talk about retirement and not "working", we're specifically talking about not having a job that pays money. Though many people still consider themselves retired while holding a part-time job or working freelance some number of hours.

This is why in part I think the distinction between "FI" and "RE" is pretty small. I absolutely agree with you that the important part is financial independence, getting to a point where if you quit or lost your job tomorrow, and never brought in any labor-related income again, you'd be fine. From there it's just defining what life means to you. You might stick with a 9-to-5 for a while because that makes you happy. You might drop to part-time. You might quit entirely and focus on personal projects and interests (like the hobbies you mention). Or you might take 5 years to focus on personal projects, but then take a full-time job for a couple years just because you feel like it, with the knowledge that you can quit at any time if you don't like it.

> I would definitely challenge from a general standpoint any life where you’re not doing something productive.

Eh... if someone decided to retire and spend every day of the rest of their life going to the beach and lying in the sun, that's... fine? It's not what I'd do with my retirement, but I don't think I'm qualified to tell someone else what to do with their life, especially if they're financially independent and aren't a drag on anyone else.

But yeah, for me, I do agree that I want to be productive to some extent. But I love the idea of even that being infinitely flexible. Right now if I don't feel like being productive I can dick around on HN for a little while (like I am right now), but I have to limit myself, and get back to work soon, hoping that my short break will help me gain some desire to be productive. My midafternoon time is not my own; to a very real extent it belongs to my employer. I feel guilty about not being able to focus on work right now, and I hate that feeling. If it were just me doing whatever I want to do, I might feel guilty about not finishing a fun woodworking project, but that guilt would be isolated to myself: I'm not depriving someone else (like an employer) of something they're entitled to.

And with that... back to work.
1. The virus did not originate in our own house. Seems like a deflection to say we should focus on ourselves when we're starting at evidence that Chinese missteps could have caused a global pandemic that has killed millions and upended life for billions.

2. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try. We should also acknowledge that an investigation much earlier on could have happened if it were not for Chinese government obstructionism and cover-ups.

3. Why do you not care about where it came from? The allegation at hand is that China's irresponsible scientific experimentation "created" this virus (intentional oversimplification) and allowed it to leak. If the truth never comes out, and China is never held accountable, the same thing could happen again. Why is your sole interest the global response to the pandemic as opposed to the missteps that caused the pandemic in the first place?
Sorry I meant locate.

But as for find ... are you serious?
I said simple example.

There are lots of examples, yes, but all do quite complicated stuff (and I had to scroll lots of text to get there). I mean, I can use them, sure, I studied IT. But at that moment, I just wanted to look for one file on all my hd. Not find files with readpermission flag in combination with deleting etc.

Imagine a newb. Make things simple.
That means you start with the easy things.

Like in the case of find, with an example, that looks on a given path for that string.

And if I know that, I can work myself up, if I want to.

But don't bombard people with information they do not need or want.
And if people manage
the only countries doing well are those that have stepped outside of the EU commission's bungled programme
It is seriously so gratifying to make. It's also really nice to be able to share it with friends/family. I think post-covid, I'd like to share with neighbours as well.

Try mixing gochujang with it after the autolyse step, it adds a wonderful aroma and depending on how much you put in a nice kick too!
Usually inheritance and gifts from wealthy relatives. If you don't have that, you won't be buying a house and will forever be renting save the rare outliers with $200k/year jobs. It still doesn't make renting a good idea.
> Only got through one question, and even that required assistance from the interviewer. My understanding is that if you don't finish two problems, you're doomed.

Different loops and interviewers conduct interviews in different ways. There is no "one problem" rule.

Usually the questions are structured in layers where there's many follow-ups available. Based on the question, the interviewer, the loop, they can ask one problem or more. Unless you are the interviewer, it's not clear how far into the question you've been and what the expectations were. It is common to ask two questions though.

Context: I have 300+ interviews at Facebook and been active in the whole process.
Wow, thanks! It's always good to see if one's intuitive concerns are actually well-known computer science problems.
If true, I think this would be the first ever case of a novel virus ever being developed in a lab and then accidentally released.

If false, then it's yet another viral mutation / species cross over which have happened all the time throughout history.

When I hear hoofbeats I think "horses" not "zebras"...
There's a big difference between spending $60K/year on average, and having a firm upper limit of $60K/year that can never be exceeded for the entire rest of your life (inflation adjusted), lest your entire financial plan collapses.

If you had an unlucky year and had to spend an extra $10K on various things (car breaks down, medical expenses, moving for a job) it's probably not a big deal for you. If a leanFIRE person had an unexpected extra $10K expense, they'd have to cut $10K out of the rest of their budget for the entire year.

If you're already squeezing by on $30K/year like this author, somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of that might go to basic living expenses (rent, utilities, food). If the other 1/3 of your budget gets wiped out by an unexpected $10K expense, it's going to be a very lean year.

This is the problem with most leanFIRE plans: They only work if nothing ever goes wrong, no unexpected expenses occur (for 4 or more decades straight), and a person's lifestyle never expands at all.
This is PERFECT! A few weeks ago someone posted a newsletter for IPO announcements. This seems like a great solution. Honestly, I'm surprised this doesn't exist yet.

Maybe I'm an old fuddy duddy, but I like weekly digest emails. Thank you!
I'm not sure I take your point here. Broadly, humans. More specifically, a company, a government, a country, an open source community, a family.

Is your point that there be disagreement on ML policy? I don't think that makes any difference to the fundamental research problem.
I guess Swift just adopted a similar thing to -ffast-math which some C compilers offer where guarantees about precision of floating-point operations are thrown away to get a similar result faster. Incidentally, that could deserve a better name as well (oh, there seems to be a -funsafe-math-optimizations, which reads a lot closer to what is intended).
Xplain – P2P Credentialing System – a decentralized Lambda School
A cohort-marketplace for professionals to be their own university with P2P limited credentials with deflationary supply. – a decentralized Lambda School.

From assembly line to Proof-of-Time.

Trying to do to Harvard what Bitcoin is doing to the Fed.
Can you believe Generac standby generators need you to download an app and receive an activation code which no doubt you key into the generator before it will work. I nearly got caught out with this when we were looking to replace our cottage genny. We don't have internet access how stupid a concept is this. Thankfully I found out before completing the purchase so I bought a different brand but I'm with this guy all the way. I'm not connecting my lightbulbs, toaster or intelligent microflushing loo to anything internet just to use the product.
My understanding of the author's central thesis is this: the US, despite its world-class virology and disease study labs, regularly has lapses in procedure that regularly lead to situations in which the public might be exposed. Given that this is happening in our own backyard, we might reasonably expect countries of similar status (like China) to experience similar lapses.

That reads as reasonable to me, but raises a subsequent question: if these lapses are so common and so many countries possess the capacity for serious mistakes, why don't we see more regular outbreaks (if not full-blown pandemics) caused by labs? In other words, what makes COVID special? I didn't find a satisfactory answer to the latter question in the article.

It's my (uninformed, uneducated) opinion that the severity of the author's claims don't correspond to the reality of the last few national and international disease crises (AIDS, Ebola, Zika, COVID). Which isn't to say that we should absolutely dismiss the possibility that COVID originated in a lab, only that claims that it did amount to currently unsubstantiated claims about COVID's special status among other recent pandemics.
You are mixing two theories here:
A) A lab leak
B) Gain of function research.

My understanding is that A) is very much possible because it has happened before (SARS), but we have no evidence yet (and might never acquire).

For B) however, from my limited understanding, there is no strong evidence. We only know about a fraction of existing coronaviruses out there and given we observe one, that has caused a pandemic, the (conditional!) probability that it is well adapted is extremely high (survivorship bias).

If you have a credible source that claims B) please share it.
> I've noticed that many of the linux repos are not up to date

This is very tricky.

Thunderbird keeps breaking addons compatibility (as an end user, I don't care if this is justified or not), by supporting main versions for short times (v68 was released less than two years ago).

An O/S like LTS Ubuntu, which has a 4+ years support cycles, is systematically forced to break TB compatibility during each cycle, which is contrary to the O/S versioning guidelines (which typically freeze the program versions, with the exception of security upgrades, e.g. web browsers).

As a side effect, addons, which give TB a significant value (I'd argue that they give its only value - even Google Calendar is not natively supported) slowly disappear.

Thunderbird is essentially systematically and forcefully breaking versioning and compatibility. I believe something's broken in the team/company.
That's insane they got 2X. I'm sure if some of their neighbors knew that, they'd consider selling themselves.
Often this is due to laws that limit annual rent increases. If landlords don't increase the rent by the allowed amount each year, it greatly increases the risk they will be unable to 'catch up' to market rates in the future.

Luxury housing is often not subject to these limitations, so landlords are forced to compete and respond to market dynamics.
I'd go a step farther, because I think it's what should really be relevant in this case.

You come to a restaurant to eat dinner with your friend, who arrived early. Unbeknownst to you, your friend arranged for one of their acquaintances, who owns a business, to observe and document your arrival, from a concealed location, behind a sign for that business.

What's relevant in this case should be that a reasonable person, upon observing a Facebook "Like" button on a page, comes to the conclusion that "that button exists for me to interact with, and interact with Facebook, related to this business."

More specifically, a reasonable person would not come to the conclusion that a Facebook "Like" button allows Facebook to load arbitrary code into your session with the business, the purpose of which is to track you and compile information on you.

It's unreasonable to expect people to choose to opt out of what they don't even understand.
Go ticks all those boxes, including "easy to learn".
No, I was echoing the mainstream media and many articles - including on this very site - pushing and wishing and demanding a crackdown on misinformation. And I sarcastically asked the crowd whether this article means only mainstream media outlets are allowed, permitted, to suggest conspiracies.
> what's the point of a contract that's not enforceable?

That's why the USA didn't bother ordering rapidely. They knew they could use the defense act and executive orders to block exports and they did as soon as they could. Even Canada is buying vaccines in Belgium.

The UK was wise. They prevented Oxford associating with Merks and forced them to partner with AstraZeneca. That's the key take away from the pfizer debacle and the Nordstream interferences. Europe needs to strike American companies hard and push them out of the European market as fast as possible. The USA is not our ally.
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way way way more nerds are getting bread off shitty bad failing products that society can't maintain or fix. there is incredible damage being done by the status quo that a very minimal investment proposed very excellent fixes for.

you are being extremely scarcity conscious in only the narrowest most self-selective view possible. doing good things ought be worthwhile & it could be. rather than shit on the attempters I think we should consider what beyond the tech made webinos not succeed? and how and what pieces are addressable and how?
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Pretty incredible how far the US media will go to deflect attention from how bad the US response to the pandemic was to China.

"Let me be clear: Labs in Wuhan might not have played any role in the origin of the pandemic. But a year later, no source has been found, and the world deserves a thorough, unbiased investigation of all plausible theories that is conducted without fear or favor."

Okay. So basically this author has no evidence other than the fact that it's very difficult, maybe impossible to identify the site of first transmission. I don't know what progress would look like, but maybe sampling animals in the wild to find a carrier with a genetic signature that looks like an early version?

This is just speculative nonsense to try to hype the government's pivot to China. That's why its in the opinion section, the worst part of the newspaper.
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You should read the rest of that wikipedia article instead of just the first line.

There are many variations discussed in the article. What you should look for are the market varieties of socialism, especially the ones where the objective is to achieve socialism by following peaceful mechanisms of achieving socialistic goals instead of achieving socialism via revolution.
That is not correct. Not all words mean the same as each other. A sensation is an experience. A feeling is an emotional state. Sometimes, a feeling is idiomatically thought of as an unfounded belief, which can be traced back to a belief founded on an emotional state.
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But when will rates be high? Rates have been consistently falling since 1981...for the last 40 years! They have been under 5% for the last 10 years. No sign of any upward pressure at all.
This is one of the reasons crypto sucks. I'm building a list:

- Attacks sovereign currencies and ability of countries to set fiscal and monetary policy. Instead, it rewards "crypto geniuses" that got in early. I'm not sure these are the people that should have power over our elected governments.

- A waste of human and resource capital that could be spent solving more important problems

- Hugely bad for the environment

- Lack of KYC that enables money laundering, terrorism, and other illicit activities. Including randomware attacking hospitals

- Rewards pump and dump and crazy schemes like NFTs that don't contribute to innovation or the economy

- Relies on cryptography to remain post-quantum safe
There seems to be some copy issues - "Get help from senior engineers && ace your tech interviews". Several other characters seem to be repeated.

What is the vetting process like for the interviewers? There wasn't much information available on the site.
As long as it doesnt add another carbon producing supply chain along the way...

Certainly the neutrality matters - that makes it a O(1) process, where as we have somewhere between O(n) to O(e^n) emissions.
Why not? There are multiple hurricanes every single year, but I still hear about them. Especially the ones that might affect my area.

But it might be more like: "Yet another hurricane cause by weather." Not really a story, since they all have been. The opposite, though, that'd be a real story: "Hurricane not caused by weather!"
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In a supply-limited housing market, landlords are competing with owner-occupiers for the same units, so you end up housing the same number of people either way. More investor money just means that purchase prices are higher, and rental supply is greater vs. owner-occupied. In that case, the government making it hard to be a landlord will be good for marginal home buyers, but bad for marginal renters.

In a market where housing development is less restricted and construction occurs to meet demand, the addition of more investor capital means that more houses will get built. This is a good thing! It means that renters who don’t have enough wealth to build a house still get a place to live. In that case, you want to make it easy to be a landlord to encourage more capital to be in the landlord business and building homes.
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