skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice case study on why it's good to predict distributions instead of raw values. Low comment accounts should have a high degree of uncertainty, which should translate into weaker similarity scores, of you compute the expected similarity of two accounts.
I remember my 1990 Ford Escort and grandmother’s 1990 Camry having automatic shoulder belts that were mounted on the driver and front passenger door frames and would be pulled down when the door was opened and up when you closed it. You still had to buckle the lap belt yourself.

This was apparently because at that point, manufacturers could get out of putting in front airbags if they put in those automatic should belts. Not sure when that was tightened up.
Not just within the body. Life itself is layers upon layers of interconnected systems from a micro to a macro to a global level.

Humans have a very surface level understanding of the our internal systems that make our bodies work, we know next to nothing about most of the ecological and environmental systems we also rely on. Everything from our external environments, to the things that enter our bodies to all the things that live in and on our bodies, all the things play a part in our health and functioning.
Samsung with AMD mRDNA 2 in July; Google signing up for mRDNA 2 as well
I had a very similar experience with Amazon and Facebook interviews.
One nice thing is you can sell without taxes becoming due immediately. Pretty handy if you want to move between a concentrated holding to a diversified holding. Getting the tax deduction upfront and making the donation later sounds nice too, although I'd guess with real investment choices, chances are good the donation is bigger than the deduction.

But all of these things really only grant you more utility than just paying the taxes if you get (non-economic) utility out of the donation or (non-economic) utility out of the feeling of paying less taxes. Of course, you could get economic utility out of the donation, but that is likely to be less than legal.

OTOH, I could see a possible way to make donating apprechiated assets work out to have economic utility. If the tax rates are high enough, and assuming zero cost basis and high ordinary income, you avoid X * Y% tax by donating, and you reduce tax on other income by X * Z%, where X is your donation, Y% is your total (marginal) capital gains tax rate, and Z% is your total ordinary income tax rate. If Y + Z is greater than 100%, that's a real savings.

IIRC, top federal capital gains rate is 20 + 3.8 (net investment income tax), and if you live in california, 13.3 state tax = 37.1%

Top federal ordinary income is 37%, if in california that ends up with 50.3% tax rate.

Adding those up we get 87.4%, so a donation of apprechiated assets with zero basis doesn't quite create value, but it's close. Maybe some other state has a higher top tax rate.
> That nice collision avoidance/lane keeper and camera system? that was implemented as a countermeasure for increasing A and B pillar size after regulatory agencies decided too many americans were getting crushed to death in roll-over accidents.

I don't buy this. It is simply a competitive advantage enabling those systems, plus being software-heavy, they do scale well. Thicker pillars are not a bad thing. Visibility is not appreciably limited by them either. If that was the case we would have a significant differential in crash statistics between the trims of the same cars with and without those systems. They would have different safety ratings.

> no infofainment means they are safer for the driver,

Unless you have data, I strongly doubt this too. No infotainment means people will handle their phone more often for navigation, music, calls etc. Stuff like CarPlay don't even allow time seeking sliders on music interfaces, they are much less distracting than full fidelity mobile interfaces.

> older cars teach you a healthy fear of operating a 2000lb rolling death machine

By that token motorcycles would teach you a healthy fear of operating without a chassis, and thus a safer vehicle?
I'm personally very empathetic to this. Fortunately, I think most "real" developers are pretty restraint regarding this in popular packages' code.

Some proper use casees IMHO are:
1. in "terminal" code: scripts, notebooks.
2. function internal variables
3. for making the code look like their counterpart of a paper.

idk what to think of 3. if you look at any paper, non of them only uses ASCII, which raises the question, if we're happy with reading papers (even CS ones) with symbols, why not in our code?
But the flip side is true, too. The people dismissing the possibility at the begging were also not doing so for honorable reasons, or even because they knew they were right at the time.
> So either your vehicle was sold in no first-world nations, or you are indeed mistaken.

I'm obviously not going to be mistaken about my own car, am I?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Defender#2012_updat...

Selling as late as 2016 with no air bags, in many Western first-world nations, obviously including such as the UK where it was built, but I think also France, Germany, etc.

In fact they even specifically say:

> However, safety regulations due for introduction in 2015 requiring minimum pedestrian safety standards and the fitment of airbags to commercial vehicles cannot be met without a wholesale redesign of the Defender.

Another source.

https://www.carbuyer.co.uk/reviews/land-rover/defender/sport...

Which says:

> it was never fitted with any airbags
Is there? Everybody I've met talked about how the 2nd shot knocked them out for a few days at least.

From my POV there is a heavy stigma associated with anti-vaccine activists downplaying and disbelieving the very real stats about covid sicknesses and deaths.
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I agree that some features in Outlook feel like bloat and that it too has legacy UI.

I do however find it to be the best (on Windows; unsure about on Mac).

I would so much like Microsoft to sell it outside of "Office Pro" as I would like to use it at home too but do not otherwise need "Office Pro" at home.
`precompile` is a one-time thing.

Actually loading them when running scripts is O(s) even for some of the biggest library (Plotting, Differential equations etc.)
if professional sports team have unionized players why dont we...

our egos tend to block any imagination...

https://www.nfl.com/news/full-term-sheet-of-proposed-collect...

"NFL–NFLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement 2020"
https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/NFLPA/C...

https://nbpa.com/cba/

one day, some startups will realize it will be to their advantage to form some association to collectively bargain with a small union pool of software engineers. It will be to their benefit to compete for labor against the big FANG companies... The salaries won't be as high in the beginning but the clarity and transparency will win over new entrants into the labor pool.
> controversial opinion here but older cars teach you a healthy fear of operating a 2000lb rolling death machine. no infofainment means they are safer for the driver, and no nanny-state A pillars mean you arent doing 80 in a 65 quite as often.

Yes, because that's how people work. Nobody was driving unsafely before, because they were afraid of their cars rolling over.

No, that's not how they work. They just died at higher rates.

Would you look at that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Turns out unsafe cars killed more people and when we started making them really safe, they stopped killing as many people, despite people driving more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
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With IIAB running on platform like raspberry pi you can carry a slice of internet content in your pocket in a safe way. No need for any external network connectivity as it acts as local hotspot using Wi-Fi. With open source educational content like full Wikipedia, TED videos, text books, medical reference material you have you own portable reference library which can be shared with a group of people for self learning. IIAB opens up access to free knowledge which can provide huge opportunities for remote communities for a very small set up cost.
What would a compelling narrative that everything isn't narrative look like?
It’s not about economic status. At TJ, where I went, the Asian majority is comfortably middle class, but less so than the white kids there. Stuyvesant, despite being 75% Asian, is 50% low income, and eligible for Title I funding a result: https://nypost.com/2014/07/19/why-nycs-push-to-change-school...
RTP PCM packets timed to a Precision Time Protocol clock.

As most (all?) PC audio devices don't support clock drifting the audio clock to the PTP clock, this application will either resample fractionally or click now and then. So not AES67 in the true sense.
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An interesting counterpoint comes from coin collecting.

You can send coins to a professional authenticator and grader, like PCGS or NGC, who would certify the coin and place it in a serialized holder. Such "slabbed" coins are often easier to sell and command higher prices. This is a huge deal for some types, where a single point increase of grade (on a 70-point scale) turns $500 into $5000, and some where there are so many fakes that the standard best practice is to buy certified only.

Originally, they'd just have a lookup system on their site so you could see "Certificate 123456 was assigned to a 1825 half dollar, graded XF-45". If someone's selling certificate 12456, but on a 1912 nickel, red flags.

They still ended up with a problem of fake holders/certificates. Just scrape their database and get a cert number for the type and grade you're trying to sell, and pair it with a fake or lesser coin. So the next step was to include a high res photo of the coin in their repository. You could pull up a certificate and see "well, that's a 1825 half dollar in the container, but the one they graded has obviously different wear pattern, toning, die variety". This makes faking it much harder.

Notice it didn't require a blockchain though. There's a clear chain of trust back to the grading service, who has been in business for decades and established their brand and usually guarantees that if they misauthenticate a coin, they'll make the buyer whole.
How do you know eating a cheese sandwich doesn't interfere?

How do you know what I did doesn't improve immunity since all those things I mentioned do seem to lessen the severity of covid?

One thing I do know, is that no doctor anywhere has claimed what I did lessens the effectiveness of those vaccines.
Is this a common issue for MacOS?
The high prices are driven by the chip shortage decreasing supply. In 2019 there were 17 million light vehicles sold, and in 2020, there were only 14.5 million sold. The chip shortage/covid prevented 3 million cars from being manufactured, which drove up prices.

It will be a couple of years before this supply effect works through the system. It has nothing to do with consumer behavior choosing to purchase more new cars and driving up the price as a result of increased demand.
To this day I have to stop and think every time to remember which is which between mitochondria and midichlorians.
Do you have concrete examples of things that are missing? We are aware that documentation is generally lacking, but it's not easy to see exactly how/where from inside. Would gladly contribute on such a list.
OK, but "microbiology" doesn't mean what you think it means. (It is the study of microbes, i.e., very small independent life forms.) "Molecular biology" though would fit right in to your comment.
>Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Jim Farley has said he wants the company to have an “always-on” connection to Ford’s customers and break the traditional model of selling a car and simply waiting a few years before the owner returns for an upgrade.

We need to kill this before it ever manages to take hold.
Peoples salaries didn’t go up by that same fraction either
I think both can be true. While what you say feels holistic and true philosophically, in day to day, we cannot control for 1000 different variables and some things have more of an outsized effect than others.

For example if someone wrote "Is Exercise the key to a healthy brain", it sure can look click-baity, but in practice it's a tried and tested lever to improve brain health. Sure, you can say "oh there are 10,000 other things that influence brain health and it's a very complex inter-connected system", but you miss the fact that not all of those 10,000 things are equally deserving of your time or even under your influence. In fact, things like exercise or meditation can fall under the "weird trick" category.

If focusing on mitochondria's health falls under that "outsized effect" category is the thesis of the article and remains to be seen if it can be included in the same category as other tried and true influential levers.
Who did j sell to and who did You buy from?
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This is absolutely not true. You might be able to make the argument that if a dev was careless with disk space they may also be careless with performance, but there are plenty of applications that are large and performant (see: any AAA video game, Linux, web browsers).
A quick google suggests 'endogenous ketones' are ketones produced from inside the body, as opposed to 'exogenous ketones' which are supplemented.
Even in small numbers they would be great to patrol lesser used hiking trails once the battery is improved a bit.

It’s not uncommon for a hiker, particularly an elderly one, to stumble and slide downhill off the trail and be unable to make it back up due to an injury.

Just last Fall my wife and I came across a man whose horse had stumbled during a stream crossing and had fallen down a hill. The man had a torn ACL and couldn’t get out.

Had we and some passing trail runners not found this man, he would have certainly died that night as he had no gear, was soaked wet, and it was going to be well below freezing.

Imagine if the parks service just had a robot dog to do a final patrol of the trail at sundown, maybe with some thermal cameras or something.
I don't think anyone doubts the technical fact, or it wouldn't be a decent joke. The problem is if people think Wadler (might have) said it as such, and that it reflects a community attitude. It's trotted out often enough in a disparaging way. As far as I remember, Milewski left it to the end as something he just felt obliged to show.
It’s just-ahead-of-time compiled and no «interpreted mode» so it’s always slow to start, if I understand correctly. Really annoying, especially the first time you use it.
Additionally, this is all the more reason why Microsoft should think through before they release a new UI frameworks and instead of releazing and then shortly moving on to a new one. I do not really understand why this cannot be thought through to make it long-lasting without running into alleged backward compatibility issues.
The OP said it was hard to find the data and documents. I searched for “fda vaccine pfizer documents” and the 2nd link is the FDA page with every document and study that was reviewed for approval.

The information is not hard to find. Yes, there are a lot of pro-vaccine resources and anti-vaccine resources as well, but it’s obviously not hard to find the source materials.
Physicists, mathematicians, and engineers have been writing µ and u on chalkboards for years with no issues. Why should it be harder on a screen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cswngk6SomU
I contract a lot of work to build manage and build tools that directly integrate into Shotgun/ShotGrid. At it's most basic, Shotgun/ShotGrid is just a really nice front end to a database that has collections of schemas that align with the task workflows at studios that produce content for TV series, movies and video games.

Asset management is not as built in but there is some infrastructure there that can be leveraged.
Because the justice system consistently lets drivers who cause injuries to, or kill, pedestrians with their cars slide.

Consequences for injuring or killing pedestrians only seem to enter the equation when serious negligence is involved, like when drivers are intoxicated, or when there is a hit-and-run.
People who have got Covid are also immune - there is a paper published in Nature which showed that even people who had mild cases of Covid have long-term (possibly) lifetime Covid immunity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4
I'll be getting downvoted but it doesn't matter: it's you. You and people like you are the reason I'm not getting vaccinated. I'm from a time when having and exercising autonomy over what one does or does not with their own body was something celebrated, however now society has normalized insulting and bullying people for making their own choices.

I will not tolerate a society that does this, fortunately I'm in a position to hurt it by simply not getting vaccinated. I have no doubts that it's perfectly safe and I'd be fine, with the bonus of being more protected.

So yes. You are the reason I'm doing my part to ensure we'll never achieve herd immunity. Good job.
Easy to remember: Midichlorians are the ones which led to the standardization of the computer/music interface.
This will be important when new gas cars are banned. But I also worry about the lack of repairability in modern cars, where there is so much that is electronic.
Interesting to see.. for so many years julia was so much in a blur.
Hey, they said it was _performative_ erudition
They’ve been compiler warnings for a decade+ at this point
In an efficient market anyway, and auto insurance definitely isn't where I am!

Theft premium stays the same, even though replacement cost has gone down and it's less valuable as a target. You'd think other cars becoming safer on average would decrease the risk of getting into accidents at their fault and at my fault, but the comprehensive premium stays the same on a now older car.

I find it hard to believe that auto thieves somehow avoid the equally dense town 1hr down the highway.
Well, further, python's performance problems tend to come from it's C/C++ interop. Python made a few mistakes early on that make JITing it really hard without making backwards incompatible concessions.

Easy/Fast C interop is a blessing and a curse. Yes, you can do fast things from C with little overhead, but it also makes things like having a generational garbage collector or a JIT really hard.
Seems the problem is supply. Build more. Problem solved? Why don’t we build more? Politics, locals often don’t want more housing near them so you can’t get a permit to build… many people in life don’t want change and oppose it as they only care about themselves and not the greater good (and their house price increases in value because it’s an “investment” more than a utility).

What can we do? Change local opinions, make the problem more visible in the news with actionable things people can do, find a way to reach people to remove red tape and get higher density, mixed use and more land available. Maybe community builds where people group together to build pre-fabs as a collective.

I personally wish this situation could be improved, we have recently been evicted by our landlord who’s selling in to the local price bubble and now all renters are looking simultaneously, we’ll likely have to relocate to find somewhere we aren’t price gouged… I’m sure you can tell this is a sore subject for me right now.
The thing is, symbols like µ and λ often have well-understood meanings in context, especially when using a particular package. It would be like a programmer complaining about using `i` to iterate through an array or `row` and `col` to iterate through a 2D array.
I just read the show HN rules and realised I made a mistake. Show HN is used to show something you yourself have made. I didn't make this song. The song is made my stdout the rapper. Here is the link to the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGRABtFGU7ng79NqF0KuIQ
I definitely agree with this. It's just a pain to type out.

Maybe I'm behind on this, but needing to use the mouse to find symbols in a huge menu is very painful.

You can copy and paste too but again, huge break of flow.

Do some editors support discord-style emoji syntax, where typing :fo would bring up a menu of emojis that might match foo. Then hitting enter inserts the emoji over the :foo: representation. You can also not use the auto complete menu.

Ex. :pow2: might turn into ²
Show us the proof that they're lying...
I don't see why the equivalent of a software engineer is an actor. They could also be compared to the lighting or sound crew or the film editors, all of whom are unionized trained professionals and none of whom receive royalties.
Thanks for mentioning.

LDtk is just amazing! One of those "why didn't someone made that before?" (maybe I'm missing something? it on some level resembles puzzlescript.net) Genius, relatively simple to implement and extremely useful. Easily can save you hundreds hours of work for even in a small project.

Sébastien deserves all the praise - LDtk is not only a great idea, but also super-polished and open-source. What not to love?
Related to part of what you said. I've worked in a half dozen different industries; I've worked in little companies with a half-dozen employees and globe spanning companies with tens of thousands and employees. They all think that they have special unique problems that nobody else has - 90% of it is the same problem I've seen in other companies in different industries, with different industry specific acronyms and words.

Every damn job, the same basic problems over and over, with the insistence that these problems are specific to the industry and usually to that specific company and that specific product.
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I thought a dead simple military application would be sentries. Have them patrolling around FOBs, return and charge when they need to, fresh ones go out. Unarmed of course.
Some portion of the value is the precision of thinking that the compute environment and the languages force upon sw engineers. There is gain for businesses in not fudging processes that should have some precise state or flow - independent of the software.
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I am 42, fairly fit and healthy too, and I still suffer from minor heart arrhythmia and an occasional fatigue 6 months after contracting a mild case of covid.
I recently (last week) started using numba, for similar reasons to why the author seems to like Julia. I tested translating his example to numba:

@numba.njit(parallel=True, fastmath=True)
def w(M, a):
n = len(a)
for i in numba.prange(n):
for j in range(n):
M[i,j] = np.exp(1j*k * np.sqrt(a[i]**2 + a[j]**2))

and timed it like this:

%%timeit
n = len(a)
M = np.zeros((n,n), dtype=complex)
w(M, a)

On my 8-core system, this ends up more than 10x as fast as the numpy version he listed (which seems to lack the sqrt, though), which would place it close to the multithreaded Julia, even considering that ran it on a 4-core system. As an added bonus, it can also pretty much automatically translate to GPU as well.
I guess some kind of large rig, that could be lifted on to site and literally print the whole house there and then.
Mathematica has many non-latin symbols as well, and it works great. The symbols in my paper are the same symbols in my code. No confusion at all.
> But you would have to redefine pain to ignore the experience aspect

No, it's the opposite. Plants clearly don't have the reactive aspect, but we have no idea whether they have the experience aspect, because we have no idea what causes experience or how it works.

We also don't know that consciousness provides an advantage to animals. We associate consciousness with intelligent response. But it may well be possible to have intelligent response without consciousness (e.g. like computers, although technically we can't be sure that they don't have consciousness either)