skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of my father. He worked hard, spent much time away from home, and when he was home during weekends, he was usually tired, sleeping during the day on the couch in the living room -- that's exactly how I see him when I try to remember his face.

His plan was to make a lot of money, build a huge house for the family, and then probably to switch to some less stressful work and enjoy a calm family life.

But right after buying the land for the house, he died of heart attack. His money disappeared (he always handled the finances himself, my mother had no idea where any of it was, some things most likely got stolen), we struggled financially, had to sell the land, so at the end nothing remained, except for memories of a few great vacations spent together. Even there, he often brought the family to the vacation, but disappeared in the middle of it to handle some business, so I have more memories of the places than I have of him.
People in the top 1% don't have an issue paying a CPA to make sure their taxes are correct. That being said the tax code and filling process is made purposely obtuse due to lobbying for tax prep companies.
And the students I know all say the teachers are phoning it in...

Anecdotes aren't useful here. I suspect once the data starts coming out, we'll see some serious educational deficits in most kids.
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/global-2020-funding-and-exi...

Global VC Report 2020: Funding And Exits Blow Past 2019 Despite Pandemic Headwinds
I specifically try to hire TAs who struggled in my classes and demonstrated that they increased their competency through the semester. A student who got a C on the first exam but an A on the final and a B+ average makes a much better TA than one who got As on every assignment. They are able to empathize with the kinds of students who come to see them during office hours.
Terms like ”master / slaves” carry racial overtones so many prefer terms like ”primary / replicas”. Similarly, ”allowlist / blocklist” rather than ”whitelist / blacklist”.
Actually the NASA Act in 2010 required them to build a 130 ton rocket by 2016. However SLS was not planned to fly even with a 70-90 ton in 2017.
Viscose is impressive, but emacs is a lisp machine.
I believe this is called “optimistic locking”
All recordings have loss, nothing unique about digital in that regard. The point I was making was simply that once CD quality (16-bit, 44hz) became mainstream and only modestly more expensive hardware could get into 24-bit / 96khz range you were past the point where almost anyone – even trained “golden ears” listeners — could notice a difference from further improvements in that regard. Given real-world limits, the threshold was lower for most people.

The reason I mentioned compression is because you’d find people who’d say digital recordings didn’t sound good but misattributed why: the problem wasn’t digital, it was either low-quality codec implementations, constricted bit-rates[1], or technical flaws like the MP3 format’s inability to precisely handle sharp attack sounds like cymbals. If you did an A/B test with those, yes, people would notice a difference but the same was true of uncompressed audio or compression using newer codecs.

1. e.g. pre-VoLTE cell phone audio sounded terrible on most carriers unless you edited your phone’s settings to increase the bitrate, because the carriers were trying to fit more customers onto each cell tower. A little more bandwidth and it sounded much closer to landline calls.
Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about machine learning.

Isn't GPT-3 the architecture? Are they doing something different or why would it not scale?
My take is that a lot of the people jailed, aren't that dangerous.

Issues with Education, Mental Health, Crappy Families, Substance abuse etc all seem to wash up in the criminal justice system - like somebody being lazy with their exception handling.

If I had to guess why it's not working, it's that every cog in the system is doing the job they've been asked to do (police are arresting, prosecutors are sentencing, jailers are filling shiny jails etc). There's no single person responsible for the system, who's in a position to change it. You'd think a politician might try - but all opposing sides will take a pop at 'soft on crime' if they try. Mercy/Pragmatism doesn't play well.

Similar to those giant soviet factories - there's one way to do it, it's always been done this way and each worker will add a cog to keep those shitty tractors coming off the production line. Nobody will be rewarded for solving the problem.

Actually, maybe that's the answer - free-market rehabilitation. At sentencing put fulfilment of sentence out to tender - with cash payable on results. 50% up front, then 10% a year after release until they re-offend (or die).
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Which resource do you think is the best for beginners into ML?
"There is no single person that is so deserving of praise [that] their comments deprecating others should be allowed to slide. Particularly when those comments are excuses about rape, assault, and child sex trafficking.”
Because their lives aren't independent. They're all connected through the economy and social interactions. Would Jeff bezos be worth as much if millions of people didn't throw money at his company and he didn't squeeze as much productivity out of his employees whole paying most of them as little as possible? Probably not.
I suspect the first thing that's needed is a publicly accessible breakdown of public spending. Really quickly I imagine it would be clear what needs to be explained or not.

https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...

This looks like a good place to start

Jail Operations: $1.1 billion
Operations -Rikers Security & Operations: $37.1 million
Operations -Infrastructure & Environmental Health: $41.1 million
Health and Programs: $48.7million
Operations -Hospital Prison Ward: $13.7 million
Administration -Academy & Training: $17.7 million
Administration -Management & Administration: $97.4 million

After spending a while with wikipedia going through citations and some other things I arrived at: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/nyc-department-of-correc...

You can see a department of corrections cost which is roughly the first document divided by incarcerated individuals, as well as an additional cost which is almost double the Department of Corrections cost, which is stated as: Fringe Benefits, Pensions, and Medical Services

If I had to make a guess Pensions seem pretty suspicious.

On this website:

https://www.seethroughny.net/pensions/126507913

2019 DOC pensions results in: 13,619 Results
Total: $582,352,875

Here we can see "fringe" benefits:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/jointheboldest/officer/salary-bene...

So working staff from the original document is 9,714, 600mil is pensions for 13.5k people, leaving something like 1.8 bil for those 9,714 employees, facilities, programs, training, etc. Which is roughly 185k per person.

That doesn't seem too terribly outrageous to me. Why are there so many staff despite decreasing jail population seems like the most pressing question, but nothing I've read so far shouts outrageous corruption.
Taiwan also has serious quarantine monitoring/enforcement that would never fly in America, which you didn’t mention:

https://qz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors...

‘They both pointed out that while there’s broad public support for the digital surveillance, many people don’t fully understand how the technology works. “The main worry is not knowing what it is, not knowing that turning my phone off means the police will come knocking, not knowing how they’re triangulating my coordinates,” Hsieh said, adding that the onus should be on the government to explain the technology clearly.

The government has said the tracking system would be discontinued after the pandemic passes.’
It would seem off heap messages could be a base for this. I've not gone all the way into the weeds on those, but it seems like it could be possible to start with sending a whole message to another process by bumping a refcount and adding a reference to that process's mailbox without needing to make a new copy.

If that works, and is useful, you could extend by bumping the refcount, and adding a new type of subreference to a process's mailbox.

I don't think you'd want to send something referencing multiple off-heap messages or adding some terms and a reference (although maybe, who knows), because that would be a lot of complexity. And you would also want to be sensitive to subreference memory leaks, like can happen with binaries where a binary is large, but only small subreferences stick around, leading to lots of wasted space (this is extra fun when you put a small subbinary into ets/mnesia and it lives forever (well until you restart beam, but that can be a long time).
> High income people get almost nothing ...

They get high incomes.
Swift's Array type is just so well designed. It's a delight to use.

Two things stood out to me here as being really nice for someone coming from C++:

- Implicit upcasting to convert `[Derived]` to `[Base]` in O(1).

- Checked conversions convert `[T]` to `[U]?` in O(N) via `a as [U]` in O(n).

These are both operations I've manually written the C++ code to do, because there's no ergonomic way to do it with `std::vector`.
I don't get this. "You should abandon any other ideals you have when working for our ideological project."
I call it "source available"
Maybe you can tell us what's so magical about the age 18, that warrants calling people who support lower age limits pedophiles. (it doesn't even match the psychiatric definition)

Brain is not fully developed by age 18 anyway, not by a long shot, and there's no obvious developmental milestone there either, like puberty, or whatever.
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This would make (some) sense if otherwise these skills were going away, but they very much are not.

If NASA budget were used effectively you would create tons of jobs at the private contractors.

SpaceX and to a lesser extent BO, RelativitySpace, Electron and so on are all working on innovative engine and rockets. At SpaceX they are doing things far more advanced then anything on SLS along pretty much every metric.

This is specifically about employing people in Alabama and Utah.
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Did he redact his statement or not? A simple Yes or No will suffice.
Do people actually support all software being free?

Note that I said above:

> but I don’t support all software being “free of cost”

Does anyone really support all software being free?

That means developers would have to live like saints / monks, with donations to support themselves (and forgo the the 250k income that's become the standard/median in Silicon Valley today...).
The sloppyness isn't an issue. Lack of competition that can keep up is. Especially in a geopolitically charged environment.
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> just engaging in work theater

I do not have firsthand experience at this, but from my understanding being a salaryman in Japan means staying in the office until the boss leaves. It does not matter if you are producing value or not in that time, it is more about appearance and company loyalty.

I agree with you 100%...I think the most I've ever worked in a week was probably in the 50-60 hour range and that was one of the worst experiences of my life. I cannot fathom doing 90 hours for SEVERAL YEARS without wanting to drive into oncoming traffic.
> So the alternative to copying the message would be to use a cross-process reference in memory that GC has to take the extra step of looking at two processes per message

To be frank, erlang already does this with binaries over some size limit (I think 64B)
Exactly. "Tech influencer" worked for patio11 much more than "creator of Bingo Card Creator"
I have exactly zero sympathy for the children not being able to go to school in person. Schools aren't in my opinion places where we park children through the day. We have completely overloaded schools to be anything and everything children and it is ridiculous.

If there needs to be outrage, it should be against monopolies like Comcast which has said it will expand data caps to more markets this year. I for one would support life in prison for the current Comcast CEO as well as dismantling the company and making an example out of it.
> They would probably be better off just giving the inmates 250k a pop and asking them to stay out of trouble.

Doing this preemptively in at-risk-of-offense groups has been a serious thing. [0]

Specifically targeting convicted offenders is problematic since it creates an incentive to commit a first offense to qualify.

[0]
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/should-we-pay-people-not-...
I think there are a lot of people out there that enjoy being an ass. You can even be rich by being an ass, like the Fox News anchors.
Yup. I work at a non-Apple FAANG and there are many rooms/buildings I don’t have access to (and many chats I don’t have access to- it’s all need to know).
Yes. I spent a lot of time wondering how you could say to a patient as a doctor "my treatment options are now limited by your weight" and it not be confronting or hard.

eg an ultrasound technician fighting belly fat, trying to image something underlying, and the unavoidable issues around "if you had less this diagnostic would be simpler"

The woman with gall bladder issues got really short shrift in the article. She wasn't properly diagnosed.
Reading further down the thread, backblaze responded that they are using Facebook pixel and the concern has been forwarded to the appropriate team.
It's the model, not the architecture, but you could say the model contains the architecture.
A simpler tax code would likely make for fewer unintended loopholes so revenue may very well go up but I don't find "oopsie" to be a remotely plausible explanation for this state of affairs.

The wealthy have wealth managers who know exactly what they are doing.
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Probably you will be able to switch raspberry 4 compute module to raspberry 5 when it came out. No guarantee of course but probably slot will be the same.
In general, 9P2000 is simple and fairly elegant. If you don't need POSIX semantics (and fs metadata), it's really quite simple to implement. For a bit more cost in terms of complexity you can go for 9P2000.u which makes things POSIXy enough if you've got a single client (as you do with VM -> host). This is great if you want to provide virtual filesystems, either proxied from the host or backed by something more exotic. In addition to QEMU, the gVisor folks (https://gvisor.dev/) have made heavy use of 9P (with enhancements) for similar reasons (in addition to Google being generally populated with Plan 9 aficionados).

Then, there's 9P2000.L... This has that "let's just take the filesystem vtable and export it as a protocol" flavor. This works well enough on Linux if you're just looking to translate the calls over into syscalls. I wouldn't recommend implementing a bespoke server for it, though. You're better off just implementing things with FUSE.
> keep dangerous people outside of society

This kind of assumption about prisoners is unhelpful. Not everyone who goes to jail is "dangerous". Laws are made based on the lowest common denominator, not universal demarcations between goodies vs baddies.

Ex-con here, got in trouble about a decade ago (non-violent crime) when I was in my early 30s. Did my year inside and didn't even get into any fights. Turns out most prisoners are actually fairly reasonable if you don't go causing trouble with them. Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, that's all you have to do.

I kind of found prison beneficial, in that it gave me time to reflect on how I had been shooting myself in the foot, and what I should do to be a better person in future. And I haven't been in any trouble since leaving.

But was it the optimal way for me to learn the lessons I needed to learn? I'm not sure about the answer to that question, but I can tell you what would have been a really stupid idea: pack me off to some corrupt 3rd world country for a year without easy ways for friends and family to visit me and support my transition back out into the community after release.
> the total erosion of my belief that most people were basically good, and decent, and cared about the welfare of others

Oh my god, this. When the pandemic is over, I’ll be left with the knowledge that a significant fraction of the people around me at any given moment wouldn’t lift a finger for someone else if it meant even the slightest inconvenience or discomfort for them. I don’t know how to recover from that.
Are there? This is an opinion piece. This is your evidence? Really?

The OP linked to an uncontrolled, self-reported survey of those who claim to have long covid, and the most that showed is that a small (<13%) number of people show a constellation of mild symptoms, like hypertension. Even the much-discussed “brain fog” was only reported 2% of the time in that biased sample.

Downvote all you want, but you keep making big claims, and backing it with anecdotes and editorials.

Want people to believe you? Bring data. Not blogposts. If there’s so much evidence, it should be easy for you.
Yikes, that's a lot of good will burned. Doesn't matter if it is unintentional or not.
Hey sorry could you clarify what you mean by Public Law?

Certain banks and payment providers do have restrictions among which countries they can serve and they publish these lists on their website!
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The primary goal of the penitentiary system is to reform criminals and to reintegrate them into society as productive members. A reformed criminal is worth infinitely more than a person who you sent away and who is now contributing zero. We should focus on improving this high-level function of prisons, rather than look for new australias.

But as far as NYC goes: yes, 500k is a lot. NY taxpayers should look into why it costs so much.
Possibly nefarious stuff, but indications seem like it's mostly just a lot of internal competition, people unwittingly building doomed prototypes and such, like the famed "Acorn OS" that was a candidate to be iPhone OS but based on the iPod firmware rather than OS X.
It is and good pickup. That site has some really good pull and has managed to put itself in some really big name articles for pure seo purposes over the past couple years
To be fair, Apple does not have the need to run after external investors.

To some extent, companies like Theranos succumb to the greed and vanity of its founders.

Sure, the idea is revolutionary, but when the time comes where you realize you have a lemon, it ought to be shut down, or pivoted.
If you are honest with yourself, the JPL missions are often insanely expensive.

The Curiosity rover was supposed to be 1.5 billion, but ended up 2.5 billion, and the main explanation of that was 'to develop a new landing mechanism'. Ok, I guess.

And now Perseverance is again 2.5 billion despite large parts of the rover, landing system and so on, were already 95% developed.

Not to mention it took 8+ years from Curiosity to Perseverance.

Space Nerds bitch less about these programs since they at least are successful compared to the human part of NASA but if you really look at the achievement per $ its not that fantastic.
It is never about the children.

It is always about he teachers unions using students and children to accomplish a political goal. If you do not raise teacher pay, you are hurting children. Do not fund education in the next funding round, hurting the children.

The second the teachers needed to be brave and show what bravery was, they buckled, hid, and showed that it was all bluster.
It’s because it’s a poorly written article
No the point was to protect national security interests by making sure that Huawei devices were not used in our infrastructure so they couldn’t back door us. It was implemented with a heavy-handed “don’t do business of any kind with Huawei” sanctions regime. In retrospect, supplying to Huawei should have been allowed.
Imagine if S3 did this. I don't like Amazon, but at least they are security professionals.

Ad tracking pixels in your object store dashboard is just clownshoes from a security engineering standpoint, over and above the fact that it's a slimy, dickhead move for a paid service.
Maybe someone with an extremely low emotional IQ should not be the public face of an activism organization whose primariy job is to persuade the public, then?

A lot of the internal-to-the-free-software-community frustration with RMS was how he had basically stopped contributing code to GNU but still felt entitled to overrule maintainers. He is a talented coder! He could have continued to use his skills to write free software and delegated the work of being the face of the movement to others. He could have listened when people suggested to him that he'd be of greater service to the movement that way. He didn't do any of that.

Not everyone is ideally suited for every role. That's part of being understanding of neurodivergence.
This is a terrible take. The people who made the decision to commit fraud are the ones at fault.
Gen Z today are becoming increasingly more isolated; the long-term effects of this are yet to be known and could be serious. But it angers me that this is often an issue that's overlooked, especially when it's such a prevalent one.

It's truly disturbing to think of the little regard there is for the mental health of young people, especially in an age fraught with enough social isolation as it is. Gen Z will be forever known as The Lonely Generation if something won't be done to help.

Recently, RTE News in Ireland did a segment covering short films that young people made about their experiences in lockdown (link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_jZWm6tzpQ), and it was truly harrowing to hear what they had to say and the short films that resulted.
I agree with this 100%, and just want the parent commenter to see that at least one other person cares enough to say so to offset the toxic dismissal.

It’s easy to shit on work, but hard to create it. You created something, that’s awesome and I wish you luck! Don’t try to make all the naysayers happy, especially in this community, or you’ll go insane lol.
Hey Arjun here! Ah I understand your question. Yes there are ways to accept payments (with Stripe or even other payment processors from certain countries!)

But we've found that founders in countries that even have access to Stripe or payments are still interested in getting access to US banking and Stripe because they are global, digital first companies and having a base in the US helps when selling globally! Also having a US LLC company gives you access to the US startup ecosystem.

Let me know if this makes sense / if I can help clarify anything!
Thing veiled lookism.

People here think he must be autistic and hard to work with because he's ugly and old and dirty.

Maybe you (the collective you) should actually stop assuming that dirty people are incompetent.
Of course, nobody wants to believe this, but I suspect you will ultimately be proven right.
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It’s not prejudging at all. It’s judging the real (in)actions of people. Things that people have been doing and not doing for the past year. This is not “I think you might...”, it’s “I know you did.”
Awesome resource

The website is built in julia with https://github.com/tlienart/Franklin.jl, Cool!

Would be interesting to have it teach DL in Julia as well.
It's been done with police departments, when the old one gets out of hand. Minneapolis is doing this after a litany of problems culminating in George Floyd's murder.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/this-city-disbanded-its-police-de...

Sometimes the only way to really fix a problem is to start over, because the current actors have a stake in resisting change.