skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fast once a week, and eat once a day. Everyone is over-eating too many calories. We're not in the wilderness in a tribe of 150 people anymore, there is literally a problem of too much food. Imagine gas becomes so cheap, people keep going to the gas station and fill their cars and homes with barrels of gasoline, and then everyone's car is breaking because of all the weight you carry around because gas used to be expensive. I believe in people, they can figure something out. No need to be skinny, but at least the bar should be at being able to walk and do light exercise comfortably.
Kinda, but Square actually had an alternative way of managing UI flow, enabled by a couple libraries they wrote, and a bunch of other support libraries for basic stuff like making HTTP requests, all of which was so much saner than Google's standard way(s) of doing things. You'd end up writing Square/Android, in the sense of GNU/Linux, if that makes sense. Why Square, of all places, straight-up killed it on that particular platform, I have no idea (no shade intended to folks at Square, it's just unexpected situation). It's not like they just had a really good project template or something.
University of London just sounds a bit wonky, a reputable UoL college such as: UCL, King’s QMW, SoAS, LSE, or Birkbeck would be recognisable by name.

Imperial was part of UoL until 2007.
It is a cool idea but I got "Server error" in every paper I tried besides the example one in the homepage.

Anyway here's a trivial bookmarklet

javascript:location.href=document.URL.replace('arxiv.org','arxivdiff.org')
With how much advice there is in dealing with BPD women, yeah, I would say they are desirable despite being in an extreme poor state.
GPS, accelerometer, AI. It can't be impossible.
OK, but the corollary to this is that there are a fair few people sitting around doing not a lot on the taxpayer's dime. That's the visible side-effect of organisational slack (as TFA points out: the secretary spends most of her day doing nothing).

There's been a lack of tolerance for that. We tend to feel that if our tax dollars are paying for someone, that someone had better be busy all day long. Politicians have made political capital from "cutting slack" in public services.

We need a cultural recognition that slack is good. And I doubt that's going to happen any time soon.
> Got a less public point of contact?

Thank you for asking; I've since put my email address into the "about" field in my profile.
To me: If I'm behind schedule in important work, obsessed with a problem etc. NOT engaging with work feels a lot worse than working on it in reduced capacity. If I take a break, call it a day etc. my mind keeps working on it, I feel anxious etc. Working on the problem though, feels just fine. I'm just tired, but probably having fun.

Also the "gambler" instinct is there. I have solved hairy problems when I'm tired (because when you are out of ideas, you tend to consider creative options) though it is rare. But you seek the "rush" of solving it, finishing something that will give you a "high" for hours after you leave the desk.
Sure, but it's almost been a decade!
The minigun was suitcase-sized, and such weapons have been built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4veQxu-NWM

I'd say the farthest from reality are the skateboard/motorcycle wheels.
I think it should work with anything that functions as a disk device in the system. The program itself likely doesn't do much guessing about sector sizes and such, and just uses smaller and smaller read blocks where larger ones can't be read.

It also doesn't know anything about file systems, simply dumping the disk as an image. After that you work with the image, mounting it, rummaging in it with data-restoring tools, or writing to another disk. This minimizes the chance that the original disk kicks the bucket while you're in the middle of the restoration process, or at least the damage from such misfortune.
Ok, honest question: What if there's two populations that don't mix? A Gene drive doesn't just teleport, right?
The solution is to stop dating for dating's sake, and just get out there and socialize with people. At some point, you'll end up in conversation with someone really interesting and things can/will escalate from there.

Get out of the "dating scene" and just do stuff with people.
There is more: the pizza tracker:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dominos-pizza-tracker_b_59477...

Also, sadly, most gated communities are basically "white columns" burbclaves.
It seems like a majority of the comments here are not aware of this.
Skiff, A privacy-centric alternative to Google docs
Note: I'm not affiliated with this project, but I saw it recently and think it's really cool. It seems they're trying to do for collaboration / office tools what signal did for messaging. Pretty awesome.
I have met many people in left and progressive circles who literally advocate for equality in outcomes and dismiss meritocracy as various internalized not-giving-them-what-they-wantisms.
Me too. If anything STEM is gaining steam.
I phrased this quite poorly; my quibble isn't with the concept of scaling or that it's possible to fish sustainably at some defined scale. I was getting at the idea that most people's definition of doing something _at scale_ is going to be well above the tipping point, in the same way that processing data _at scale_ usually invokes rows of server racks, and not a single thread on a dinky laptop.
Can You Move the Button 30px to the Left?
CPython explicitly doesn't want these "improvements" CPython has explicitly declined performance boosting pull requests if they add too much complexity to the code base. The two project have very different goals.
I wonder if they are in touch with kmod or tried pyston: https://blog.pyston.org/.
Instagram upstreams a lot of changes to cpython, and most of the IG backend runs on services outside of python/Django.

I think you have the entitlement characterization backward though. It is entitled to think people should do work for free so that you can use the output of their work. IG is saying "we built this stuff, we're making it open source". They are not asking for or expecting anything from the open source community or you, but you are asking for a lot (millions of dollars worth of work) from them.
The Dark Forest, the second book of Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy (Three Body Problem) goes into a good bit of exploration of the ramifications of space observation, communication and espionage in combination with relativistic distances starting out with roughly current human technology.
Not OP, but Answer 1: Yes, it's anecdotal but you definitely see the trend.

Answer 2: So I did the Google search as you requested, and read about the book [1]. I hadn't heard of it but it looks interesting, thanks for recommending. From what I can tell, it's central claim is that feminism has an image problem due to it being co-opted by the US right-wing which she calls "choice feminism", and the remedy is a need to return to a leftist concept of what she calls "radical feminism". Is that what you're saying?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Why-Am-Not-Feminist-Manifesto/dp/1612...
AWS drops price for managed Prometheus service by 84%
It’s not obvious CPython wants any or most of this stuff.
Irrelevant. They have are two policy points. Firstly, they oppose tax exemptions for native mothers. Secondly, they support immigration.

Let's think critically here. Please tell me exactly what immigration has to do with children. Immigrants are mostly adult males. Native-born babies are ... babies. So, to sum up, they're against babies, and they're for adult males from other places.

And then there is the 'pro-labor' policy. They suggest to increase the number of adult males in the labor force. What effect will that have on wages? So to sum up their policy: more workers at lower wages. Hmm... sounds a lot like every other media outlet that supports gutting the middle class and farming the poor.

Sorry; you've been lied to.
While I agree, I think at the same time companies prioritize engineers to work as fast as possible, so no slack time means no time to deeply learn the product.
That’s the price of a low trust environment and management theory where managers are supposed to be able to manage anything without being subject matter experts. Everything needs to be controlled. On the surface it looks more efficient but the result usually isn’t.

Government contracting is a prime example. To avoid mistakes and fraud everything gets specified to the last detail. The result is that nobody is empowered or motivated to make changes on the way and everything costs way more than it should and takes longer.
If one can presume that Einstein did not grow wiser with age, then sure, one can use any quote to back up any point you care to make

Yes, and the people who do so tend to presume just that.

But if you're being honest about the man and his legacy, I think one should probably stick with his latter-life views.

Sure. But my point is that the quote in question was from 1931, only one year before he was forced to flee Germany with a price on his head. Einstein found that while it was easy enough to dismiss national loyalty as an unpleasant artifact of the past, national governments weren't willing to dismiss racism and prejudice in the bargain. Once he understood that whoever got the Bomb first was going to win the war, it was necessary for him to pick a side, and he did just that.

After the war was won by the good guys, there was plenty of time for second-guessing and self-flagellation, and he did his share of that, too. He had the luxury of pacifism in 1951 just as he did in 1931.
What about when people say it does exist - is that a falsifiable position?

If nobody can conclusively say anything about "free will" - if all we can agree on is that it's intrinsically ineffable - then it all starts to sound a bit like Russell's Teapot, or angels dancing on pinheads, and we should probably focus our energies on something more effable.
Do it. Less competition for my sons.
Thanks! These both look great.
In these cases, I try to think "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good".
Hard Wired to Hate Exercise
I went through the tutorials/demos and this seems very intuitive. I don't do a lot of visualisation, but when I do, I've found manually coaxing data and configuring visual parameters to please a library to be tedious as it's time spent doing busy work I'd rather spend analysing the results. So for me the major drawcard is being able to drop a simple table of results in and let the library handle the necessary inferences for the type of vis I'm after. If it works for the majority of my use-cases, that's a big timesaver for me.

One type of visualisation I sometimes (honestly rarely) use but is extremely useful for finding unintuitive relationships in higher dimensions of data are parallel coordinates charts (actually it's your d3 code I've been borrowing in the past - so thanks for that!) Is this something that can be achieved with Plot at this stage? I'm not sure if it would be a facet, a transform, or something else, like a cross between marks and links (if that's doable).

Anyway, definitely bookmarked - I'll be sure to spend more time using this next time I need to visualise some data, looks like it will handle a lot of the standard vis without the typical boilerplate, thanks for releasing this.
This is why set works hours for jobs that require more cognitive skills are silly. My brain is shot about after lunch until about 3-4pm and yet I'm forced to sit around and pretend to be productive. Yeah there are occasionally some low end tasks that could be done in that period but I'd be better off just taking a nap and zoning out.
What a ridiculous conclusion you came to based on a single line from that page. The very next line says:

> We've made Cinder publicly available in order to facilitate conversation about potentially upstreaming some of this work to CPython and to reduce duplication of effort among people working on CPython performance.

> Our goal in making this code available is a unified faster CPython.

Facebook is a Python Software Foundation sponsor[1], and they sponsor every PyCon. I don't know why you got the idea that they don't contribute back.

https://www.python.org/psf/sponsorship/sponsors/
"Poepen" is nl_nl for "to defecate", and nl_be for "to have sexual intercourse".
Again, I think these fall under Android vs iOS and not Android Studio vs Xcode. Although it does get fuzzy when Xcode is the only way to do something in the iOS stack.
vertical always works better. until it doesn't. dictatorships, autocracies and none other then the failed Soviet Republics are testament to this. the job of our lawmakers is to judge when top- down decision making stops being beneficial to society in general and our economy in particular.
It's a shame this account is a throwaway.
I agree with this. Flow is a useful adaptation for something like learning muscle memory - practicing athletics or performing music. But when we're talking about intellectual pursuits like programming, if what you've done by entering flow is convert thinking into muscle memory - a cycle of mashing edit and debug keys - you may have just "laborized" your work. And this has some implications for what kinds of software can be sold to people, as well as how software is created.

The norm of programming is really to flip between "trivial 5 minute task" and "requires a day off to contemplate". And in the industrial context, it's evident that most of software is built to restate a preexisting belief - this is good, if we make an app that does it, it's better. This means disengaging from the philosophical problem of whether it's actually "good" and contemplating it until the resulting belief structure has grown so unwieldy and contradictory that it is a technical challenge to maintain it. But selling a preexisting belief is one of the best markets to be in: if you're selling to artists, you sell software that looks like a paint canvas. If you sell to musicians, you sell software that looks like studio gear from 50 years ago. If you sell to investors, you sell a thing that looks like money. What you can't sell(easily) is: new ways of making visuals, new ways of describing and performing music, new ways of explaining credit and value transfer in an economy.

Hence there is an awful conundrum; if you are experiencing a lot of flow, a lot of "wind in your sails", the whole thing is almost certainly on the wrong track and you'll only wake up to it later, because it means your ability to contemplate went out the window. The problem is not just that you can write something bad this way, you can even be praised and given access to more resources if your wrong belief is shared!

That is probably why software has this underlying tendency towards mysticism and cargo cults, in fact; "It's a good practice." "Why?" "It makes me feel good and the customer likes it." "What's the benchmark?" "I get paid, and it hasn't failed yet."
A weak woman will still be able to find a man to take care of her. A weak man not so much.
Thanks! This bit is particularly helpful:

> Almanac is an excellent tool for organizations building their first handbook. It allows you to pull in expert guides from other companies (GitLab included) and modify to suit your company. This shortens the time between acknowledging that a handbook is necessary and having a minimum viable product available for your team to reference and iterate on.
Reminds me of realising years and years ago that one can make a macro lens by reversing a normal prime. (Which I know! Everyone knows that, you can even get proper adapters for it, but it was a genuine discovery for me at the time.) Doing things in camera, rather than later in software, just is more enjoyable for a lot of photographers. I know I find it more fun.
I found the navigation shortcuts useful: ctrl-a, ctrl-e, etc.
crazy, agressive, looks good in finely curated competitions but little evolutionary value for the general fitness of society
And there it is, your bias is exactly the problem.

Per https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics 81% of women experience sexual harassment/assault in their lifetimes along with 43% of men.

Please educate yourself and stop spreading the lie that men are not sexually assaulted, it’s incredibly destructive.
> Very few people actually advocate for "equality of outcome"

There are certainly many people advocating for explicit "equality of outcome" policies e.g. various quota systems that mandate granting unequal opportunities for otherwise equally suitable applicants in order to achieve an equitable outcome for various groups (e.g. gender, ethnicity, caste, etc) the applicants represent.
actually, i do personally prefer women of poor, humble backgrounds myself. and believe it or not, since i'm just a random person on the internet, i'm actually worth $15m (from inheritance) so it's not like i'm trying to date within my class or something.
Assuming you're a straight male, I dare you to cry in front of your girlfriend/wife.
You are completely right in the appropriate context: when talking about ideology A we should consider more than just its most standard version. But when comparing ideology A and ideology B, focusing on the extremes of ideology A while considering only the middle ground of ideology B (what happened in this thread) is more or less whataboutism.
Or "talk me through it as you do it" whiteboard interviewing
I think there is a really good point here. However, it should be recognized that some of those studies do not control for divorced vs never married very well and the magnitude of the benefit of marriage is over-stated. Not to say marriage does not have health/happiness/other benefits, but the effect is smaller (although the Harvard study seems to control for it certain cases, in strange ways).
It's more "a rule the US Navy and its agreeable subsidiaries are happy to enforce by strategic novel shipwreck generation".
Search is a type of machine learning!
I wonder why Cinder and not building off of PyPy. Isn't there also a GraalVM implementation?
I just don't think people value sexual compatibility enough.

Agreed, but I think it's deeper: when I was in my 20's I didn't even know what sexual compatibility was. Given that, how could I even have made it a criteria for partner selection?

That assumes people figure out their sexuality. I've seen way too many people that didn't figure it out until their 50's. Like, "heterosexual until later in life" figure it out. And, there's an entire spectrum until that.
I mean, America is deeply behind and I'm not sure it can be reformed. Maybe the best thing to do is move some place that does it better and hope to help set an example, I'm not sure.

But stuff like congestion pricing, the 14th street bus lane, and bridge conversions, in NYC gives me a little hope. Manhattan can also set a better example for the rest of the US --- active measures rather than simply basking in good decisions made 100 years ago.
I did a thread on the history of cryptocurrencies today. It explains the history of DAOs, their benefits and some future aspects we are likely to see:

https://mobile.twitter.com/moo9000/status/138957146600232551...
Here was a thread that this article was posted in response to: https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1389456546753437699

"In the name of “equity”, California DOE’s 2021 Mathematics Framework attacks the idea of gifted students and eliminates opportunities for accelerated math.

- no grouping students by ability
- no Algebra for 8th graders
- no Calculus for high schoolers

https://cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/
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“What often happens is that the application owner now has to know about, find, and correctly understand a form that they see once (or less) per year.”

That’s the worst. I have several processes I do once or twice a year like booking travel or submitting documents to our document management system (worst system ever). Each time it takes me forever to figure out these tasks because I forgot from last time how works. Or the UX has changed in the meantime. It would save huge amounts of supposedly expensive engineering time if we had somebody who did this full time.
I have a pet theory for this phenomenon. If you look at recently contacted peoples or those who have little contact with the outside world, endemic warfare is common. In these societies, well over 20% of men are killed in the ongoing conflicts. Evidence points to endemic warfare being common for most of human history and prehistory. Looking at our closest evolutionary cousins, the chimpanzees, it is the same if not more brutal.

I think, on average, that men are more polyamorous than women partially because this fit our environment. It allowed women in a clan to be in child-bearing partnerships even if gender ratios were grossly imbalanced. While we are now in a very different environment where almost all men survive, our relative sexual and coupling urges have remained the same.

Through most of the modern-era, post feudalism, this was solved through socially enforced monogamy. Now of course, with loosening restrictions, polyamory is gaining an acceptance it probably hasn't experienced since earlier eras of endemic warfare.

To be clear, the lack of violence in modern life is a strictly _good_ thing. But I'm not sure where it leaves us for the future.
So most lens design software I've seen is optimized for a "scientific instrument" workflow - optimizing for sharpness across spectrum and angle.

Is there software that helps with artistic lens design?
I'd say it's a basic urge or desire in most people, but not even necessarily a need. A goal, an aspiration, something to seek. Similar to wealth, status, respect etc.

Also, there are asexual people. It seems strange to define something as a "basic" human need if many people can live a healthy life without it.

And yes, a certain level of socialization is definitely necessary to become a functional human.
AGI isn't something that is scoped. It must be painted.
Apple is nothing whatsoever like a dictatorship, autocracy, or failed soviet republic.

It’s a silly comparison.
This is typical of Facebook.

Years ago, Facebook maintained a Python SDK for their API. One day, with no warning, Facebook announced they would no longer support it because they didn't have the resources, and the repo was removed from their Github org, which caused a huge headache. IIRC, the community settled around someones fork.

A few months later, Facebook was a major sponsor of PyCon and they set up a recruitment booth. "We'll take your developers, but we won't support your ecosystem." Really rubbed me the wrong way.
To the incredulous: the argument is that expensive engagement rings helped fill the cultural gaps left by the repeal of Breach of Promise to Marry laws. The supporting evidence is an apparently strong geographic correlation between repeal of these laws and increases in high-value diamond engagement rings, the latter beginning after the start of the repeal movement yet before the infamous De Beers marketing campaigns.

For the overview: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/the-str...

The original research paper: Margaret F. Brinig,
Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 203-215 (13 pages), https://www.jstor.org/stable/764797

Wikipedia page on Breach of Promise to Marry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_promise
The hard problem of consciousness, which everyone has a hard time defining?
They have good reasons for doing so. Watch this talk if you actually want to learn why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

If you don't, use something else. But using Signal is for sure a lot better than using Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.
There’s a strong willingness to openly talk about mental health in society these days, yet I mostly see zero talk that sexual desire (whether super strong or nonexistent) is most likely due to hormonal circumstances than emotional connections etc. it’s sad to see articles about “cooking for each other”, “talk about X”, yet no articles on “get your blood checked” (in particular, extreme sides of serotonin levels)
A double bind detector!