skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modula-2 doesn't have a GC, it is just like Pascal in that regard.

Modula-2+, which was developed by the same group that did Mesa/Cedar, does have GC.

However Modula-2+ was short lived and eventually grew into Modula-3, also by the same group of researchers.

As for Oberon, while it was a very nice system for 1992, it doesn't make sense in 2021, specially given its limitations for low level programming. There are a couple of ETHZ papers that talk about its GC limitations.

From the Oberon linage, Active Oberon is the best one, which adopts the same concepts as Modula-3 for low level control of the GC, with safe pointers under GC control and unsafe ones used for C like tricks like DMA transfers. This kind of language features were already present in Mesa/Cedar, but Wirth didn't want to complicate his Oberon design.

So in Oberon you are left with explicit calls to dispose resources or hope that the callbacks registered to the finallizer actually happen to run some day.

By the way, there were some Modula-2 extensions that did add support for GC, but I am not aware of any major compiler, specially given Modula-3's existence.

https://adtmag.com/articles/2001/11/01/extensions-to-the-mod...
Stay home. Stay safe. Give all your money to Jeff Bezos. Kill yourself. Fin.
A private partnership seems to solve this quickly though in many jurisdictions with OpenDoor, Redfin, Zillow; and that's not counting the old guard, banks and mls. Obviously, even if you take a weighted average of the above, the homeowner should be able to pay for their own assessment.
To add to this she says she's in apartment 349 which is on the third floor. Very hard to imagine off gassing from the ground creates hazardous conditions three floors up.

Not to be indelicate, but the thing that reliably spikes my air monitor is passing gas. Would match up with the nausea and other symptoms. Not to mention the "earthquake" hallucination

That said, it's hard to argue with the measured heart rate. A 10 bpm drop then rise correlated with moving into and out of the apartment is pretty strong evidence of something. It just seems very unlikely it's from ground contamination.
I hadn't heard of "Privacy Pass" before.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...

Sounds like it allows you to browse without tracking in a way that more reliably signals you're a human, which seems very useful.

Why would a human browsing the internet with Tor not want to use Privacy Pass?
I think the age distribution is important. The claim is that AZ vaccine causes this rare blood clotting in people below 55 years old. Unfortunately I don't see information about this in the article.
The risk is quite low for the AZ vaccine (1 death per 2 million), but the 3 that have FDA emergency authorization are even safer (zero known side effect deaths). I wouldn’t take the AZ vaccine unless I was in a high-risk group. Use the AZ vaccine on older people and the others on younger people, the risk calculus changes as you get older.
I'm not trying to refute the problem of biased AI data, but I do want to understand it better.

You mention an "insurance policy AI". The rest of this thread seems to be about image recognition. What's an insurance policy AI and how does it work? Is it a thing or a hypothetical future thing?

Can bias effects have equally bad effects in image recognition? I know about the story of the photo software that categorized a man's holiday photos under "gorillas" because it was trained only on white people. This is terribly insulting, but less terrible than an insurance company unfairly overcharging you or refusing you service.

I guess what I'm saying is I can't come up with biased image recognition AIs having unfair outcomes that actually affect people deeply, and I'm likely missing lots of terrible examples, and I'd love if someone can educate me.

EDIT: before people erupt in outrage, I'm not saying that a computer telling you that you're a gorilla isn't terrible, but in the end it's an indictment of the software, not you.
Hi Adnan! Sorry for the delay, I've added your blog: https://bilbof.com/blogosphere/blogs/33759.
When systemd first appeared in the Fedora distribution that I use(d) it was the shiny new, but not fully debugged thing. I had more than one nasty hang because of it and why did they have to mess up something that worked, and could be understood by mere mortals?

But let's face it, systemd has now matured. My machines work, recipes for getting things done the systemd way are easily googled, and anyway I rely on it (I assume it's systemd) anyway for the relatively painless multi-seat setup on a big computer that would otherwise not be worth running 24/7.

And maybe this is the best part: Since systemd has completely taken over Linux, and IBM has taken over Fedora and I'm not so sure about the direction that's going (Silverblue? CentOS now being a bleeding-edge testbed?) maybe I should try Debian. It's a more "pure" Linux experience anyway. Surprise! All the hard stuff is the same, almost no pain in switching.

The pure old days of Unix/Linux, where a mere mortal could understand the entire boot/init process, are over. But in those old days you couldn't just plug in an encrypted or NTFS-formatted portable hard disk and expect it to just work either.

I do get the impression that systemd keeps the pain alive by continually absorbing functionality, Borg-like. Service X worked trouble-free for years? Never mind that, use our rewrite. And then you have to wait for that to mature.
You proved how? Why would the EU not be allowed to publish things proving that what the UK newspaper articles are false?

Is there some sort of legal principle I'm missing that says that government entities are not allowed to defend themselves from lies?
Just to add to your point, how many of the 18mil (mostly old or ill) people vaccinated would have had blood clot issues in the next few months anyway?
> Assessing land value though is actually quite easy.

I agree that land taxes are ideal from an abstract point of view but strongly disagree that they are easy to ascertain, particularly in cities and suburbs that are completely built out. The best an assessor can hope for are tear down sales, but even those are few and far between in a place like Manhattan.
I very much doubt that many flat-earthers and the like would be likely to change their minds on reading the Republic. After all, they have already rejected much more pragmatic arguments.
Which one is the more dangerous kind?
>the incidence of the clot is likely lower than the incidence rate in the population in general

It's lower than the incidence rate of general blood clots, not than that specific type of blood clots. One of Norway's chief physicians (not just some quack) concluded that the clots are indeed due to the AstraZeneca vaccine: https://sciencenorway.no/covid19/norwegian-experts-say-deadl... . At the time that occured, only 130,000 people had been vaccinated in Norway, and so the four deaths of people under age 50 resulting from the clots actually suggested the AstraZeneca might be more dangerous to young people than Covid (which has a less than 4/130,000 fatality rate for the young).
The first advice you’ll get from most people is to document everything.

Her taking a photo wearing medical equipment is extremely important. It would be normal to include it in the story. Also, people post their lives on social media as part of their journey. Being extremely sick would certainly be part of her journey.
CVSTs happen in women taking oral contraceptives at a rate of 1 in 1000 per year?
They’re not proud because they’re killing themselves for their employer, they’re proud for killing themselves to feed their families, and perhaps because they are creating energy for others to use.
When I started using tmux, screen development was stagnant, and basic features (vertical splits, for me) weren’t available natively—a patch was required to enable it.

On the other hand, tmux provided it out of the box, and had a vibrant dev community with frequent updates.

It looks like the dev situation for screen “reset” around 2014 with the 4.2.0 release, including vertical splits. And that’s great! But for a long time tmux was the future and screen very much the past.

By now it’s mostly force of habit, I suspect—but I’ve never looked back from tmux and I’m not sure there’s any reason I would (but by the same token no reason you should switch either).
"I think" therefore "I'm not" is false because it is contradictory: thinking implies being. Unless it is just our logic coerced by the evil demon which makes it so.
All software development has failed. Everyone is mindlessly copying megacorps with terrible development practices. Then when their crappy systems fail constantly, they blame the tools and demand even more complicated tools from their corporate masters... Which make their code even less reliable.

Tooling is not the problem, the problem is you and your selfish subconscious urge to create more complexity to create more work and more income for yourself.
I once added it to my bashrc or as the starting command of my terminal,but I quickly removed it since when configured so, if the session detached you have no easy way to open a non tmux terminal session to use for reattaching.
> one of my neighbors at the same complex complained about blue tap water and paid for a private lab test showing “very high” levels of lead, copper and other contaminants in the water.

That's weird, though "copper" could just be from the pipes, and it's probably unrelated to VOCs. The complex should be on city water, and all the pipes are new.
Well, it’s probably not what OP was talking about, but in California, thanks to Prop 13 people will deliberately not improve their home so they can continue to pay low property taxes, since they only go up a certain amount a year. Lots of long-time homeowners are paying ridiculously low property taxes, shifting the burden to new homeowners.
It ideally should've been made clear that the veracity is unconfirmed, but aren't there more charitable interpretations for why it wasn't?
I bought a CO2 meter for work, with the intention of taking it into (small) conference rooms once in a while to see what happened to the CO2 there.

What I found surprised but pleased me: The CO2 levels at my desk are quite low, spike at night when HVAC is off (when the building is empty), but generally during daytime are about the same as being at home with windows open in a suburban area.

Granted, it's been more than a year since I've sat at my desk... But still, it was nice to know.
Yeah after years of suffering from reCAPTCHA I'm somewhat thankful for
hCaptcha. It is still annoying (especially Cloudflare's integration which
seems barely compatible with the Tor Browser's cookie and circuit management),
but at least I don't have to switch exit nodes twenty times just to have a
chance of my solution being accepted (like with reCAPTCHA).
How reliable are those devices? Last I looked only the professional ones ($150+) could guarantee independently verified results. Consumer stuff often depended upon calibration and might vary wildly even between two different devices by the same manufacturer.
Ah, interesting.

Agriculture is a pretty diffuse source though. And ultimately, we need to take CO2 levels back down to 350ppm or so.
Occam's Razor says she had magical pre-cognitive powers that allowed her to get hysterical before she took the readings. Because woe betide we not dismiss her.
https://lafibre.info/ipv6/ipv6-le-firewall/

For context, Free recently boasted reaching 99% IPv6 coverage. On their (now) midrange Freebox Revolution router, the IPv6 firewall is (AFAIK still today) opt-in.
Media websites are a bad way to judge the state of web app development (which sucks for its own reasons). If you manage to hire good developers on a media site, they will try to optimize how ads and the endless list of third party libraries are pulled in.

If you didn’t get some dope developers then they will just half ass dump all of the stuff needed onto the page (which is why most of the the web sucks).

What’s worse is that these sites sit under a publishing/media business, so they aren’t tech companies (the devs are second class citizens).

Everyday I run into at least one site where they couldn’t figure out a sticky header, or a decent ‘accept-cookies’ box (where it takes up half the screen, and when you hit X (if you find it), it stutters away, as if css transitions is a mind blowing concept).

Then after that, the page janks down as a whole ad gets rendered. Zero effort is being put in at some of these places. I would consider lazy loading content in the visible viewport the moon for these sites.

This is a necessary discussion because the web is becoming a tech slum with these poorly designed websites. To bring it back to the larger web development (both app and website), it can be difficult to suggest to a team a very simple question - ‘Do you not see that the end result looks and feels like shit?’. It’s too abrasive, but all of us need to start asking these basic question for quality’s sake.
WB should add a post-credits scene with somethings about the jam :-)
> The completion report said, “While not an environmental remedy, because there are no significant risks, a VIMS consisting of a vapor barrier and a sub-slab venting system has been designed and installed.” Installing these apparently could cost millions of dollars. It’s curious to me that Roux would plan to build four VIMS, or even build one, if they really thought VOCs were not an issue.

That sounds awfully like the way that ordinary houses are constructed, especially anywhere with (naturally occurring!) radium in or under the soil. When one builds a house with a slab foundation, one first builds a capillary break (a bunch of rocks with no fines, perhaps — this is an air-permeable layer), then applies a vapor barrier (polyethylene sheets), then pours the slab directly on the vapor barrier. The only thing special about sub slab venting is a pipe from the capillary break to the roof that may or may not be fan assisted. The goal isn’t so much to remove gas from under the slab as to reduce the pressure under the slab below the pressure above the slab such that gas doesn’t intrude.

All of this except the pipe is done regardless of soil gas concerns — water vapor coming through the slab destroys floor coverings.

I know basically nothing about commercial construction, and I could easily believe that vapor barriers are optional under parking lots.

Given that the VOCs in question are easily measurable in real time with a cheap sensor, it could be interesting to measure the VOCs at the lowest level of the parking lot over time. Some parking lots have CO (or CO2?) sensors that control exhaust fans. If there is less car activity at 3am, the fans could turn off, and that could have any number of effects.

(Also, the author doesn’t seem to have tried to distinguish between gasses coming from the building and gasses coming from under or outside the building. There is no actual evidence I saw in the article that the problem is a problem with the site. Heck, a building air intake being contaminated by gasses from the parking lot could introduce a fair amount of CO and NOx even if the levels were too low to set off a CO alarm. Builders mess up the airflow in buildings all the time.

Sadly, NOx sensors do not appear to be available at comparable prices to tVOC and CO sensors.
I live in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. We're are downwind from a compost facility sometimes. The smell is horrible k if you grew up using outhouses, it's the smell after a weekend when the extended family visits). Very intense some days. However, it is just "a bad smell".

They recently lost thier operating permit and need to relocate in a year or so - so this is a real thing and not just the collective imagination of a Facebook group of local homeowners.

However, people report crazy symptoms from "the smell". Migraines, hives, etc. Not being able to sleep, having to rewash clothes because they think the dryer air intake made them stink.

I think the vast, vast majority of these symptoms and effects are people outraged that their very expensive home has an odour, only detectable outside, that they don't like. The stress of not getting thier way immediately leads them to these other health issues in my opinion. And it takes thier argument up a notch (prove they don't have a headache).

Anyway, my opinion is not popular. :)

I don't like the smell either and I'm glad they are moving the facility but it was just a bad smell.
They might make that 1M off of jams
> If native own property they can continue living there as long as they wish.

Provided they can afford to pay the ever-rising property taxes. Your take may apply in some places, but it is certainly not universal.
I don't see how you can "conclude" that with N=30, though. If these numbers were the basis for a study about some unimportant thing submitted to a peer reviewed journal it would be thoroughly laughed at and rejected.

AZ is safe. Get your shots, people.
I politely disagree. There is very little useless detail in that book. Every place detail opens up the characters who live there, in how they bother to notice or not notice it. It also creates the contrasts between Paris, Pamplona and the intermediate settings.
Not a valid question when google literally has a patent on unsolvable captcha. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661
Regardless of my tweet, that is a personal opinion based on my feelings, background and experiences, the discussions in the replies are interesting from the POV of understanding what different people think in the programming community. Some will say that critiques are only from old people, in the style "when I was young we had only zeroes! You now have ones and zeroes". Others say that the web is slow because of ADs and trackers and modern frameworks would otherwise be fast. There is who believes that the problem comes from big companies imposing new standards in order to turn the web into the new Java applets (a full fledged application platform), and so forth.
My understanding is that procrastination most commonly stems from emotional disregulation. I’ve definitely experienced that myself.
Author here, was pretty surprised to see this on HN when browsing over my coffee this morning. Your interpretation is correct, you use an encoder-decoder model to figure out what the dimensions of the task best for learning are.

The drawback is you can only learn tasks which are relatively similar (any time you restrict what motions are possible to improve learning, you obviously restrict what tasks are possible). The benefit is that you can learn tasks which do fall within the learned motion ranges a lot more quickly.

The best analogy within 'classical' control is task space control, where you do control in cartesian dimensions rather than the joint positions. But this has its own drawbacks in that you have to define these controllers manually, and Cartesian space is not sufficiently expressive / appropriate for many tasks.
If you only use IPv4, then these days (with not only the Asiatic countries never having got IPv4, but Europe having ran out if IPv4 addresses), technically you don't have a "real" Internet connection any more.
It doesn’t matter. People should know side effects if they can be deadly. Plenty if women don’t take the pill because of side effects and opt to use alternatives.
How is that a niche feature? A lot of people have double monitor setup. Sometimes with a different scaling factor.

Both macOS and Windows can handle it just fine. Linux somehow is is still in the 90s in this regard.

I do agree that the conversation about niche features (or issues) is stupid though. Not like I've started one.
Thanks for the pointers on dock/SATA: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=119738 & https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/6qomsx/51nb_extra...

Have you considered writing a forum/blog post or Tell HN on your X220 NAS mods?
Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users
OpenTTD Developers Q&A livestream on April 9th
> By very definition, we will never be able to prove or disprove the claim.

I don't think thats necessarily true. Here is a neat example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl's_tile_argument

To simulate continuous space and/or time would be impossible, so if you could show that space/time is continuous then it could not be simulated.

Its interesting because the implications are interesting. Or rather, the implications of most other things are less interesting.
“This apartment complex had no physical or written appearance of danger from chemicals, other than a brief and vague note about the presence of “agricultural chemicals” buried towards the end of the “Resident Handbook.”
> AZ is safe. Get your shots, people.

This attitude is what is causing people to distrust authorities.
>I can't help thinking that Scott Alexander has no clue what he's talking about, or more more benevolently, is writing quasi-poetic nonsense. Which is bad for someone with that many followers.

Note how you haven't pointed to a single thing that's bad with his post, but nonetheless managed to sling several condescending accusations (has no clue, quasi-poetic, nonsense) at him...

And all that for a point where he doesn't even pretend to give any specific explanation or causual relationship or anything, just wants recap with a description of the outward appeareance of the phenomenon, precisely to show that we have no clue about it yet:

"It looks like sleep is somehow renewing these people's depressions. As if depression is caused by some injury during sleep, heals part of the way during an average day (or all the way during an extra-long day of sleep deprivation) and then the same injury gets re-inflicted during sleep the next night".

In TFA this is not an explanation of what happens, but an "it looks as if somehow" to highlight exactly the current lack of an explanation, an explicitly presented as such.
The site she’s referring to is almost 100 acres and the apartment in question is on the third floor. It’s exceedingly unlikely that a tank is located precisely in a way to leak into a single 3rd floor apartment.

> The Santa Clara Square project encompasses approximately 93 acres

The challenge with these stories is that they rely on vague details to create an appearance of plausibility. The fact that a tank containing some substance exists somewhere in a 93-acre property would not normally be credible cause to believe that someone’s symptoms in a 3rd story apartment are the result of the soil.

Again, to emphasize: I am not doubting that this person is suffering real symptoms. I think it’s a mistake to focus on the soil or mysterious tanks in unknown location as the cause to the exclusion of other possible causes.
And how does that warrant suggesting mental health issue?
Personally, part of my extracurricular time is occupied with activities which actually make me more valuable, such as open source work, organizing study groups, and presenting at meetups.

But I also have family obligations that I cannot set aside, and I can't do all of these things without burning myself out. Fortunately I am in a position where I can afford to sacrifice some compensation — and that's what I choose to do.

So even setting aside your point about the marginal value of the last 8 hours (which rings true), in my case there is definitely no question about the value of each hour.
You just know everything don't you? What are you the owner's son? Fuck your worthless arguments.
It is available from debian archive: http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/a/amp/
You could write in Elm, which has no runtime exceptions and thus no crashes (barring stack overflows and similar). I have and it didn't seem to result in zero tech debt, incredibly well-formed UX, or a shortage of QA surprises.