skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently created a Twitter account after ignoring the platform for years. I'm pretty well known and have had several significant presences online, but I didn't try to leverage any of that and wanted to see if the network had matured to the point that it is decaying (where it is just cemented into a core).

I commented on various tweets. Left thoughtful tweets of my own on a variety of topics. Zero political tweets, but rather participated in the tech sphere including some niche realms.

Zero engagement after months. I realized later that some of my comments were hidden under "see more" for other users -- even where I added a helpful comment to a person who themselves had double-digit followers, and where there were only a tiny handful of other comments. My tweets would get hundreds of views (maybe all scrapers), but no one is going to be the first to like some comment by some tiny account with a handful of "followers". So it sits there in Pathetic Valley.

It's the curse of social networks. They get their long tail cemented in and pretty soon it's better for everyone else to wait for it to die and join something new. I deleted my twitter account and moved on. When Twitter's replacement comes along I'll get in on day one, copy some jokes some other people make and leave trite cynical comments and by month 2 I'll be a superstar.

I feel like Instagram might be taking a stab at dealing with that, rather than some concern over mental health. When everyone new faces Pathetic Valley (unless they're going to buy followers, or go on a desperate campaign outside of the platform to foment engagement), it's the inevitable decline of the platform.
Or google docs on "Suggestion mode" ?
Certain EMRs have lab data and diagnostics stored like this. That data is used in ML algorithms. That data lies outside of free-text.
Wonder why the M1 is so much worse on certain benchmarks. I wish they’d gone into detail there as it’s not uniform across their tests.
> I’d say “neither”. CentOS would have fail had Redhat not taken over.

While it's possible that CentOS would have failed (I'm not sure slow initial releases actually indicate that), it also wasn't the only popular clone of RHEL in popular use. Scientific Linux (developed by FermiLab) was also popular and in fairly wide use. I doubt Red Hat would have made the change to CentOS that spurred all this if Scientific Linux hadn't decided not to continue and just use CentOS instead in 2019, because instead of a "crap, we have to start a new distro to provide what CentOS did" movement there would have been a much quicker and easier mass exodus to Scientific Linux.
Those binaries even sometimes work on Ubuntu, with a little manual linking and good luck, even though it's a total abuse. :D
Ok, interesting that you interpret those articles that way. I'm reading something completely different, and those two links support my perspective. It seems we are now in the semantics of doubt territory... we're trying to pin down what we mean by doubt.

To clarify, it's ok we're now discussing the semantics of doubt, it is relevant to the bigger discussion. Both links are talking about doubt as something to at least not lean into, from the perspective of religion and faith. Doubt is there, and you can even appreciate it, but the appreciation of it is to strengthen your faith.

> "So, doubt in the absolute sense is bad. But doubt in the form of a temptation is—like any temptation we experience passively—not a sin."

So the first article is definitely talking about doubt in the sense of "not being sure of the meaning of something". I didn't say there is absolutely no doubt in religion, my point was it is not the goal of religion to be doubting. It is not part of its CORE, it is not "absolute doubt". You can have absolute doubt in science without problem (of course you just have to prove it).

This same point arises in the second article:

> "The key, he said, is to see those doubts as a call to deepen one’s faith either through study or through seeking the guidance of another believer."

Absolute doubt will not deepen your faith... "doubting the validity or the veracity of something" will not deepen your faith. The pope is clear here, he is seeing the glass half-full of doubt. He means doubting as in not being sure, not as in trying to prove it wrong. He even adds another warning:

> "When faith is seen mainly as “an abstract theory,” he said, “doubts multiply.”

Abstract theory is basically science. He is making my point. Science is about multiplying doubt, faith is about reducing it. Both articles are saying this from my understanding.

> there is an easy test to perform, all you have to die

How is that a test? Again, a bit of semantics here, "test" I refer to as something being done by science--a scientific experiment/test. You can't just call anything a test, especially if you have no access to the results! Death is not a test for the living, and science deals with the world of the living. Call it "religious test" if you want, but I was using the word to mean checking something, for which being alive is absolutely necessary.
Which of your applications or your clients applications running at the same time are currently bottlenecked?
Thanks for linking the paradox post, very interesting!

Unfortunately, this writer is seriously overusing parentheses and this disrupts the reading flow.
The Real Costs of Context-Switching
I hope this leads to stripping Section 230 protections from social media companies.
This was released back at the end of April.

https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-3-rc1-release/
Text file in a github repo, seriously.
Talon doesn't require a $300 mic or a completely silent room. It works fine on my macbook air's builtin mic, and explicitly handles some interesting background noise scenarios (e.g. loud music, sitting next to a running dryer).
Some of the countries that implement universal healthcare could actually use some increased inflation. So it doesn't seem like a real concern in practice.
I failed a job application because of the IQ test. It was administered in a second language for me, so I really didn't do well... the interviews had been completely smooth and I got on well with everyone I had talked with...

The thing is, I really needed that job... ended up going to another job that offered me a very low salary (I had no visa in the country , so was looking for a sponsor, which makes things a lot harder) and the company went bankrupt within a few months!

Anyway, I still got the visa, and then, with a few months to find another job with more peace of mind, I eventually got much nicer job, paying a lot more! But I still dread the though of doing an IQ test, despite my years of experience indicating I am more competent than average, at least.
Oh, I realize that I left out important context. I didn't mean relative to other USB cables, but rather relative to other non-standard laptop power cables. This goal is to replace those high power cables, and those did not have significant safeties against damaged wire.
Where is your source that TikTok makes up the view counts. As a developer myself, their interest graph is second to none. It has by far the best recommendation algorithm in the social media space to date. Of course they are doing it with all the data they collect, but it doesn't bother me because it shows me endless amounts of the type of content I want to see, which is not half-naked dancing teens, but lots of political commentary and real life stories.
> If it is, it'll win out and you won't have to force it on others. They will copy it willingly and eagerly.

I don't really think this is a fair comparison when Uber's business model is literally to undercut the competition in a market to drive out local competitors, then raise prices once they're basically a monopoly in an area.
Good to see this project moving along, and if the team is monitoring this, give Brian a smack from me :P
Wow very impressive! She could probably save a lot of battery too, there is no reason for that screen to be on. Sort of mind blowing when you think about it as a seeing person.
To clarify for readers who aren't current on all the lingo: app direct mode refers to one of the modes for using the Optane persistent memory modules that connect to the CPU's DRAM controller. It doesn't apply to the Optane NVMe SSDs that use PCI Express and require the software overhead of a traditional IO stack. In a few years, something like CXL may allow for something close to the app direct mode to be usable on persistent memory devices with an SSD-like form factor, but we're not there yet.
Free online workshop: simple coding with Marco Cecconi
When I applied to work for a bank in Canada back in the 80's I had to write a Wolfe-Spence Programming Aptitude Test (was basically an IQ test).

The hiring company would send your answer sheet and work sheets off to the company to analyze and provide a score.

Anyone else remember those?
Similar effect existed for the HDDs of old.

As the platter density increased, the head could glide over more data at the same spindle speed and you would get increasingly higher sequential speed. But you would not get much better latency - physically moving the head to a different track could not be done significantly faster. With each new generation, you would get only marginally better speed for many workloads that users actually care about. The latest HDDs could saturate SATA bus with sequential reads, but would still dip into KB territory (not MB, let alone GB) for sufficiently random-access workloads.

SSDs are similar in a sense that they can be massively parallelized for the increased throughput, but the latency of an individual cell is much harder to improve. Benchmarks will saturate the I/O queue and reach astronomical numbers by reading many cells in parallel, but for most desktop users, the queue depth of 1 (and the individual cell latency) is probably more relevant. That's why a lowly SATA SSD will be only marginally slower than the newest NVMe SSD for booting an OS or loading a game.
https://www.redblobgames.com/ Amit Patel's blog, there's lots of game dev articles there and many of them have interactive demos
An open-source remote desktop server for RustDesk
I'm responsible for fairly critical infrastructure and I've been putting all my bets on RHEL/CentOS these last 7 years.

So my plan is to just sit back and watch how all this develops until 2023. Use RHEL when possible, Fedora or CentOS 7. Worst case maybe CentOS Stream.

But there is no rush. Just sit back and let time decide which of these new contenders looks the best after 2 years.
The fog of war may confound weapons that think for themselves
A Better Fog-Trap
> affected up to 0.1%, approximately 90 000, of our users

Does this mean the bug affected .1% of accounts or that only .1% logged in during the 31 minute window when the bug was present?
Case in point: The Netflix prize fiasco.
I'm extrapolating it from various personal encounters, but I have no data.

Vox doesn't have data either. They are stating that government spends money very inefficiently at homeless and assumes it would be more efficient to hand out homes. This is wrong because:

* government will hand out homes also very inefficiently

* handing out homes might be cheaper than policing homeless people, but it does not guarantee that it fixes homeless problem for reasons I described and for other reasons (like some people might consider declaring themselves homeless to get free apartments)

I'm not saying Vox is wrong, I'm just saying that Vox is correctly writing about different aspect of the issue, but does not explain how to solve homelessness.
The country’s c-section rate is somewhere near 33% when most estimates say it should be around 15%. That’s a pretty good indicator of systematic over-medicalization.
Looks good - for monetization you should make the integrations paid and the core thing free.
> With our current two-compiler model, we can’t tier up to optimised code much faster; we can (and are) working on making the optimisation faster, but at some point you can only get faster by removing optimisation passes [...]

> Enter Sparkplug: our new non-optimising JavaScript compiler we’re releasing with V8 v9.1, which nestles between the Ignition interpreter and the TurboFan optimising compiler.

This surprised me. Didn't V8 have a 'fast JIT' alongside an optimizing JIT as early as 2013? It was called full-codegen. Did they remove it?

https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/04/18/inside-full-codegen...
If you want venture financing. Delaware C Corp. Don't even think of anything else. Use Stripe Atlas. But that's not most businesses.

If you don't live in a country with CFC rules (not the US) why not Panama? Uses the US dollar and has no taxes on foreign source income. Dividends from companies that earned foreign source income are taxed at 5%. Strong financial services sector that can wire and receive money anywhere in USD.

If you optionally put the company inside a personal foundation you get incredibly strong protection from lawsuits, inheritance taxes, and even divorce.

There is no support from major US payment companies like stripe. So you'll need to handle payments through a foreign company or through a local bank which offers the service (expect to pay more than stripe). I setup an integration over a decade ago (with Multibank), it wasn't too bad, and I'm sure it has improved since then.
Please don't make assumptions about what people believe like you are doing here. It limits your ability to engage in any sort of meaningful discussion and encourages more of the pointless partisan bickering that is causing such great harm to our country.

You can make the same sort of point without such language. Rather than asserting that "everyone who beleives X also believes Y and that is contradictory", you should assert "believing X and Y together is contradictory".
The standard Ocaml compiler doesn't elide it and as far as I'm aware neither do any of the publicly available libraries. All of the lazy stream implementations in Ocaml have a performance cost similar to Java streams. Haskell and Rust are relatively unique in that they can completely eliminate the performance cost in the typical cases.
I pursued something similar. I created the Tree Notation Lab in Oahu (https://lab.treenotation.org/), secured a physical home for it at a university, got funding commitments, started recruiting, and came close to pulling the trigger, but slowed down at the last moment circa January 2020.

The reason I hit the brakes were some specific incidents that made me realize how much I was underestimating how difficult recruiting, retaining, and enabling the level of talent I hoped for. I was probably underestimating those challenges by 2 orders of magnitude.

The majority of folks you'd want to recruit probably have great careers already and probably families, and are likely world class, so in today's market you'd need probably on the order of a $100M - $1B+ war-chest to be able to efficiently compete for them and not have recruitment and retainment as an urgent problem that would keep you up every night.

I instead pivoted and decided to make it a remote first, part time thing. I have a number of advisors and collaborators. New people pitch me ideas and I fund them or not. I sometimes put a few weeks in, sometimes just a day a month. I can scale it organically and pause it when I want. I can be an active part of other remote research groups as well. I made this decision pre-COVID, when it was more of a tossup, but now I'd say it's a no brainer.

If you're just looking to house a group of like minded people perhaps something like https://www.together.casa/ or https://www.pandopooling.com/ might be interesting to check out.

Happy to chat more too if that would be helpful. I definitely encourage you to go for it, as I think we need more of these, but at least for me the better bet was to start remote.
Matt Mullenweg actually registered the domain for $500 per year for the first 2 years :)

.tt domains are quite expensive in general so I think he got a pretty good deal for ma.tt

https://ma.tt/2008/01/on-matt/

Interesting conincidence, the .blog TLD used by diff.blog, is owned by Automattic, the company started by Matt Mullenweg :)
Yeah it's extremely messed up and BBC likes to pretend it's not really responsible for it by hiding it under the guise of a "TV Licencing" body to distance itself [1]. I used to be pro-national broadcasting but honestly the quality of shows they produce has dropped so dramatically and how biased their news coverage has become I refuse to ever pay for it again.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
When you stay at a hotel do you receive a specific line-item in your bill for being time spent lying in bed with your partner?
> She interacts so smoothly and quickly with the keyboard. I wonder why she doesn’t use voice input though?

Presumably because interactimg with the keyboard is smooth and quick.

A keyboard is also private and works in noisy environments. Some people (including me) would prefer not to speak when avoidable, jusr as some would prefer not to type when avoidable. It may be easier (or higher throughput) to use audio feedback from the computer while providing touch inputs than if both feedback and input are audio.

Personally, while I've spent lots of time training typing, the learning curve on speech to text is too high and the apparenr reward too meager for me to go much beyond the bare minimum (I can cancel many accidental summonings of speech interfaces)
brew cask is a whole separate quasi-package management system built around pre-built macOS GUI applications distributed/installed as .app folders, same as you'd get downloading a .dmg from the web them doing a drag and drop install.

Think of it as an installer fetcher and runner, as opposed to a collection of integrated and uniformly built packages.

It's great, because downloading and running installers manually by clicking around sucks. But it's totally separate from the rest of Homebrew, which is a monorepo of build recipes targeting a separate base system, similar in that basic way to things like pkgsrc and FreeBSD Ports.
I just set an absurdly older age, while keeping my age filter the same. The 23 year olds actually looking for that can be amused and interested.

But since I said something now I guess I’ll have to pivot to something else.
So the fact that somewhere on earth there might exist some fanatical people who might be offended by something, becomes sufficient reason to shut down access to a cartoon generating capability?

Seems like you are setting a pretty low bar for what we will allow with AI on one end, and what will trigger an AI feature’s general availability to be cancelled, on the other end. Everything else in between these two is going to be even harder.

To make my point more clear, imagine a magic quadrant with two axes. On one axis it goes from capability - harsh to mild. Harsh would be like "it can physically burn and kill everything to ashes" and mild would be "it can temporarily distract someone."

The other axis would be who gets affected. That axis goes from "every living being in the known universe" on one end, to "nobody" on the other end, with "a very small handful of fanatics with extreme outlier beliefs" somewhere out there toward the "nobody" end.

In the graph, you are setting the bar way over on the "just a slight distraction" side, and way over toward the edge of the "nobody" side, and saying that this is sufficient reason to cancel AI access for the general public.
> Let's discuss in public, I think others might be interested. What do you mean by scale? Are you saying that the biologica are too expensive and you are looking for cheaper solutions? Apart from the price AFAIK they are the best known solution.
In that case hurting yourself trying to find sth. cheaper is not worth it, because: a) it is bad for you b) it doesn't help others either, since even if your special cocktail ends up working for you it will most likely not work for others.

OK, lets start with just the official stuff that they actually admit.

HUMIRA can cause serious side effects including hepatitis B infection in carriers of the virus, allergic reactions, nervous system problems, blood problems, heart failure, certain immune reactions including a lupus-like syndrome, liver problems, and new or worsening psoriasis.

Do you see a trend here? Auto-immune treatment causes more auto-iummune diseases. Thats real sus to me.

> I would focus on making tnf-a blockers cheaper, probably by circumventing or straight out ignoring the patents. This stuff is not rocket science anymore.

You are actually trained at this and I am not but I do not understand why youy would focus on alpha when beta is far more cytotoxic. Like I said, I don't have your training but that seems odd given the rate of colo rectal cancer in Crohn's patients.

Given that the entire family of drugs refers to Cytokines which is cell-death it seems a bit asinine to focus on alpha.

> Have you researched the prices in other countries? Looks like in Europe its below 2k€ per month but more around 20k in the us? Whats the price in India?

India does not sell the name brand I am familiar with; they have Zydus' Exemptia and its around $4,500 USD.

> What do you mean by scale?

I mean scale. Given that N patients have Crohn's and wish to treat themselves with Z. If Z is a finite resource what are the obstacles to Z being produced and distributed at a "scale" great enough to reach each patient, for life.

> it doesn't help others either, since even if your special cocktail ends up working for you it will most likely not work for others.

Please provide some form of empirical evidence to support this position, I was saying in private because I have actual clinical outcomes that i can report form myself and a number of others, but doing so publicly is not ethical or legal; HIPPA and all.

Can you expand a bit more on what you meant when you said you were a researcher? Possibly point me to a white paper or jupiter notebook, anything so that I may get a better understanding of your work.

I do not even know how to begin to address the reductive nature of pharma disco and production "not being rocket science" other than to state the obvious, yes it's not rocket science its bio chem.

I am sure i'm just missing something given that you work professionally in the field.

FYI: It has nothing to do w/ the price at all, even on the worst medical/medicare plan humera is only 250 for 2 viles and it was less, now it just has the extra lux tax.
Calling death an experiment is a stretch, because you can't obtain results back from it. And good luck "running" this experiment on others lol.
I think some of it was sincere criticism of a unpleasantly stereotypical main character. The novel was initially popular among mostly-white female book clubs, then as the Latino population started to read it there was a collective WTF.

Disclosure, I am a white female who occasionally participates in book clubs. I don't want this to sound like a cheap-shot, it's just that by their nature they tend to have a common reaction. I could say the same thing about articles targeted to mostly-male engineers which tend to get uniform feedback.
https://tinyprojects.dev/

convinced me to begin marketing the little projects I make :) very fun, informative, and inspiring
The book "Shahname", translated to "The Book of Kings" which is referenced in the article is not the first occurrence of these legends and mythologies. They are a collection made of much older folklore stories. While you can find Iranian girls nowadays named "Helia" or "Atena" which came from greek (a testament to Greek influence) but these legends date back to before the Greek invasion. But yes, as you mentioned, they run deep in Indo-European cultures.
Alibaba vs. Tencent: the battle for China’s e-commerce deliveries
Make it a priority. Really emphasize that it is a priority. You can start by providing some of the documentation yourself (via whatever system it is you use). The tool is irrelevant.
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