skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my opinion, a hash map that needs to chase an extra pointer to do a lookup and uses insertion order to provide deterministic iteration order seems like a hash map that hates me.

In most cases it's the other way around: Python switched to compact hash map for performance reasons, the natural ordering was a side-effect of it:

* The compact hashmap scheme has much better memory behaviour (as befits its name) because the the storage buffer is contiguous instead of being sparse so less space is wasted on empty cells, this is especially important in a language like Python where everything is a reference and each entry is 24 bytes

* It can also be further optimised by making the indices in the array adaptive (Pypy does that though I don't think CPython does): if you have less than 255 entries (which is rather common especially in languages where most everything is a dict — again python) you can use an array of u8s instead of usize.

* Finally the primary purpose of the compact hashmap for Python was iteration speed: in a normal hashmap unless you have a very high load factor the map is full of holes iteration needs to skip over, and furthermore the hole locations are basically random so the branch is completely impredictable, even with tombstoning the compact dict has a much better predictability.
> I fail to see what Russia’s myriad dysfunctionalities have to do with the topic at hand.

I'll explain. See, the thread starter says that US now reaps the consequences from letting people subverted by soviet idiological subversion into the circles of power.

Then people say its all irrelevant as USSR is no more.

Then, I come here and tell to people to open snap out of this. The former CPSU is not only still around, but is even more aggressive, and concerted at idiological subversion.

Now, they are putting an even bigger priority on melding themselves into American political elites, and bureaucracy.

How many more Hunter Bidens are there waiting to join American political establishment? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
The main paradigm in RSS, also, is to make it look like e-mail.

Every feed reading mechanism I've ever tried that was usable looked like a mail client. Feeds look like mail folders, and arriving items look like mail delivery, with UI notifications like "Foo (15)" indicating that feed Foo has 15 unread items.

The advantage over e-mail is that it is pull; you don't have an RSS identity that can be spammed. Kill a feed and it is gone.
Water is very heavy though. For watering crops I think you would do better in terms of energy efficiency with land-based infrastructure. At the very least, if you're going with drones, you ideally want something more energy-efficient than quadcopters.
I use Safari as my daily browser, with AdGuard as my adblocker. (It's the second result on the Mac App Store for "ad blocker"—the first after AdBlock Pro, which I won't use because it sells whitelist space, AIUI.)

I...don't see ads.

It's not as hyper-configurable as uMatrix, and there are certainly annoyances that don't get filtered out (first-party videos, "subscribe to our newsletter" overlays, etc), but it's got some decent user input, such that I could probably block more of those if I cared to spend some effort, and...well, I just don't see ads in my common usage.
> Umm am I missing something?

Probably.

> Wouldn't you just use GSuite and set up other domains as aliases?

Not if you think this Migadu or some other service suits your needs better or provides better value.
I can't find that. Here's what I think you're citing as the relevant passage from Stundin:

> Thus, when Thordarson continued his previous pattern of requesting attacks on Icelandic interests, the FBI knew and saw an opportunity to implicate Julian Assange.

> Later that month a DDoS attack was performed against the websites of several government institutions.

> That deed was done under the watchful eyes of the FBI who must have authorized the attack or even initiated it, as Sabu was at that point their man. What followed was an episode where it seems obvious that Icelandic authorities were fooled into cooperation under false pretenses.

That's not saying the FBI attacked Iceland at all, it's saying THORDARSON was "asking" for attacks (From... other wikileaks-affiliated folks? That isn't clear to me). And it's just inferring without other evidence that the FBI must have known because they were working both Thordarson and Sabu as sources.

I mean, maybe the FBI did know. But it's not substantiated that they did, at all. And it's certainly not substantiated that they were "complicit" in those attacks as Media Lens reports.

Gotta say, that one word makes me question a ton more about this article. That's just not a minor mistake, someone is spinning hard here. What else is spun?
One data point: a Homo Sapiens settlement with a child burial who was 1/8 Neanderthal. May have been born in the settlement? That original mother may have been of the settlement. Anyway three generations of mixed heritage, and still worth burying with reverence.
Population of France 1891: 39.6 million

2020: 65 million

2100: 65 million

Population of DR Congo 1891: 8.23 million

2020: 90 million (about 8 million rely on food aid to survive)

2100: 362 million

Europe and the West can feed themselves without cheap fertilizer, they have done so for 200 years (about the time since the last major famine in France).

Cheap fertilizer is just leading to unsustainable population explosions in the developing world, where the reproduction strategies of men (these are patriachal societies where women lack consistent access to education, contraception, abortion) will inevitably push the ecosystem to its limits.

We are essentially in violation of the Prime Directive in terms of the free food, goods, technology we are giving some of these countries.
I'm curious if you can find certain keywords that may leak private code...
The intent of the officers, combined with the fact that they are agents of the government matter a great deal here.

If this was a regular citizen with intent to cause copyright strikes it would not be an issue.

The fact that these officers are acting on behalf of the government means that it is arguably the government acting to restrict the distribution of these videos.

In the US, there are strong restrictions on officers acting in a way that could have a 'chilling effect' (legal term) free speech.
> when we go to work

This is the problem for most of us right here.
you still get this excess mortality if covid merely brings the deaths forward by 3-6 months.
I remain baffled at the folk wisdom of using providers outside the United States in order to avoid the Five Eyes IC. You accomplish the opposite thing by doing that. NSA is literally chartered to hack into things outside of US jurisdiction; they don't even need permission to do it. They might even need permission not to do it.

Obviously, hosting in the US isn't a cure-all. And there are other good reasons to work with companies in Europe; for instance, their data privacy rules can often be better than ours, which can give you some commercial protections.

But these discussions about where people's email is hosted always talk about jurisdictional issues, and the only jurisdictional issue that matters here is this: if NSA is going to swipe mail from Google Mail, there's a whole fuckload of paperwork they have to do. If they want to get mail from your random email provider in Switzerland, they can just push a button.
> I'm not really sure that type of tool could really be anything else.

It can't be, because they've chosen to use a deep learning approach. That makes it a dead end right from the start.

> How would a model become aware of all of the various edge cases that depend on which SQL database you use or differences in language versions over time?

A lot of things that we call "edge cases" are only a problem for humans. They're not "edge cases" from the point of view of the grammar / semantics of programming languages and libraries. The way a hypothetical, better Copilot could work, is by having directly encoded grammars and semantics metadata corresponding to popular languages and tools. It could generate code in principled and introspectable way, by having a model of the computation it wants to express and encoding it in a target language.

Of course, such hypothetical Copilot is a harder task - someone would have to come up with a structure for explicitly representing understanding of the abstract computation the user wants to happen, and then translate user input into that structure. That's a lot of drudgery, and from my vague understanding of the "classical" AI space, there might be a bunch of unsolved problems on the way.

Real Copilot uses DNNs, because they let you ignore all that - you just keep shoving code at it, until the black-box model starts to give you mostly correct answers. The hard work is done automagically. It makes sense for some tasks, less for others - and I think code generation is one of those things where black-box DNNs are a bad idea.
They didn’t enslave people because they were racist, they enslaved people because it was effectively free labor. Sure, they chose Africans because they were racist and thought them savages, but that isn’t why the institution of slavery existed.
To the American employees complaining about Amazon's ethical practices, just don't work for them. This isn't mainland China, it's not either Foxconn or farm work.
it is a race to the bottom, and people are trying to win. any skilled trade is being turned into an unskilled job. it might suck, the results might suck, but it's more profitable, and that's what matters.
Devastating Drought Across the West Could Mean an Increase in Farmer Suicides
Redhat are one of the few real open source companies that made a commercial success of things.

From the outside they seemed pretty open. I've got no idea about how they did with black / LGBTQ+ - but it seems a big jump (in an industry where there are not that many black female LGBTQ+ engineers) to say they were so bad.

What is the engineering company with lots of black female LGBTQ+ folks? It might be helpful to be able to look at a model that has worked rather than just trashing RedHat for not being an engineering company that gets this right (and all these companies are pushing initiatives in most of these areas).
You are making unstated assumptions: we have no idea if dogs, by this point, have been bred to seek human companionship, which we believe generally to be the case. If left alone, lacking companionship (since most pet owners don't tend to be abusive, though it can happen), I would argue the animal would potentially be much less happy on the street.

That has nothing to do with me wanting to own a pet, and everything to do with there being plenty of pets available who I would rather get loved by someone than, well, die on the street.
It is quite simple to do the same in Julia
I'm not familiar with Jukebox, so maybe I'm wrong. It seems like you'd want a fast architecture to use a model to generate sheet music / MIDI, then layer another model on top to create instrumentals?
I am in no way saying they will not be popular with consumers, these curated AI constructions; nor am I saying the people behind them will not hire PR agencies to promote them and their work as serious Art. It is curation that carries any human expression within them, and not the generative AI art's idiot savant pooping output.
What is the argument you're referring to, and how is it flawed due to the fact that factory-raised and pasture-raised animals are both killed, regardless of the nature of their killing and the nature of their lives?
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I've just hit my 16 year veganniversary...

Number of times I have been to the doctor for protein deficiency... zero.

I have found that the biggest problem with being vegan is depression, depression because you have no friends. You basically go through this very traumatic learning experience to learn the truth about where food comes from and then you are isolated. Friends make jokes about you, and become not so good friends anymore. Then you become depressed because of the isolation and then _some_ think it is because of the diet, which it could be, but likely isn't. And it is because of the isolation. (watch the film Happy)

The evidence based book Eat to Live will guide anyone interested in a vegan or plant-based diet to nutritional excellence, so they aren't missing any nutrients etc.

However, it won't get you friends and help others be more compassionate and open minded, it is quite miserable. So, I suggest that priority #1 if anyone goes vegan is to move. Yes, move to a city where there is a vegan community, along with that comes more compassionate individuals. We did that and moved to Portland, Oregon and now I have a TON of friends (I did work hard at it, meeting people in real life on FB groups) and I encourage more to come to Portland as well! There are over 40 vegan-only restaurants, 40 more that are vegan and vegetarian and over 80 more that have vegan menu items. This means there is quite the population already here, so move here, make it better, get in a good supportive bubble!

If you move here for the vegan community, hit me up and I'll introduce you to others!

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Thanks for the reply. I thought IMAP servers keep the messages on the server, not on the client. Is that incorrect?
Genetic screening is looking for a particular genetic disorder. Polygenic screening looks for more than one genetic condition at one time.
> I'm wondering why Google doesn't allow developers to build the optimizes APKs still

> Noone really used it

I think you answered your own question
Rust I agree, Python not really as the language doesn't provide any way to keep invariants.
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The U.S. does sort of have a habit of treating NATO allies as such publicly while privately violating their sovereignty and treating them as vassal states or something so I wouldn’t really be surprised. There are regularly stories of us getting caught spying on allies etc
That instantly made me think of this: https://hackertyper.net/
> general minimum wage is peanuts, yes. but tipped waitstaff only make $2.83/hr is not true.

True, tipped minimum is $2.13/hr.

> If the employer did not make up the difference then they risk being fined/shutdown.

Employers make up reported shortfalls in tipped jobs, but they also often treat shortfalls as a negative performance indicator, justifying termination. In jobs where there are cash tips (not everything through a payment system), this incentivizes enployees to assure that there are no shortfalls.
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This site is neat! There is thoughtful commentary on each book in each list, on why it was picked. Very cool. This can be a starting point for anyone to learn about pretty much any subject.
> Dogs are omnivores

It may be technically true that animals like dogs and humans with meat-optimized digestive systems can survive off plant material alone, but that doesn’t mean it’s advisable. Neither of us can metabolize cellulose, both of us run into metabolic diseases with excessive carbohydrate consumption (e.g. diabetes), etc.
Or at the very least, put the electronic switch on the mechanical handle.
Thanks for the reply. Fastmail is indeed nice (I've used them before but not hosting my own domain). But at this point, I'm not willing to risk moving to another player besides MS or Google.
> Would you say that the person who made the machine/software at least has claim to the title of artist?

Here a machine has memorized/trained on millions of art works. Then you ask it make something out of what it knows (understands?).

This in its own right is like an artist who see other people's artwork and creates his own out of some idea.

If you are a good painter and I ask you to paint something for me because I can't. I will only be claiming that idea not the artwork you created.

It's like GPT-3 which can write article based on some initial idea/prompt. Can I claim the whole thing it generated for me based on the initial prompt? I recently read that "unicorn who speak English" text that it generated and its amazing. It's a generated text but it's amazing. It won't be fair to claim ownership because it was trained on millions of texts written by other humans.

But again that's also how writers train. They read lots of text written by other people. If you write something for me, you are the writer.

This is how I think about art/text generated by machines that learned that specific domain.

EDIT: writing code to draw a line and then drawing a line is different from training on millions of lines drawn by other people to explain what a line is and then asking to draw something that looks like a line. So to answer your original question, we still can't say the person who wrote that software is the artist. He can be if he feeds it his own artwork only but that's not the case here.
No, those features have also been intrinsic to bureaucrat classes as a whole since the dawn of organized society.

Bueracrats are sort of like neurons in the organism of society. They don't have a lot individual intrisic power, but gain power by moving to common (albeit very complex) beat, and commanding the other types of cells according to the machinations of that emergent beat. That manifests as both groupthink as they attempt to play their part in the neural system as a whole, and "ends justify the means" mentality as they look at the rest of us as other specialized cells that exist to serve the societal organism as a whole.

I guarantee you that on average a 15th century BCE Egyptian bureaucrat trended the same way, as it's core to the space.
Thanks, that's great to know. Love the Why It F*ing Matters page. Definitely going to make sure we get straight to the point.
You’re getting a lot of comments along the lines of “aren’t you being inconsistent by letting your dog eat meat?” And I just want to add one point (not for you, OP, but for the group of replies). We don’t have to be perfectly consistent beings, and it’s often better that we are not.

Being a vegan owner who has a carnivore dog is still better than being a carnivore owner with a carnivore dog. It’s better to be inconsistently ethical than it is to be consistently unethical.

I think we can get into logic traps here on HN that ignore the realities (and benefits!) of the messiness of human behavior.
Even that would be contested though. Fox/FoxNews isn't actually considered all that Republican right now because they aren't fullstop on Trump.

And these categorizations could probably vary wildly. This is the first time I've ever heard of the WaPo being aligned with the US military industrial complex and I was part of that complex for twenty years. I'm guessing this new title is because it's owned by Bezos and he provides a lot of AWS tech?
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Agreed that different people have different synapses based on how they grow up. I didn't drink a lot of milk and never had cheese for most of my life. We used coconut milk for the creamy base. But I grew up eating, limited but regular, meat. I was ready to give up dairy before I could give up my lamb chops. I grew What I crave is seafood. So I go to a local fisherman for that. I'm vegan in all other aspects and I don't give an F about some people preaching me.

The vegan cheeses (Miyako in particular), Oat Milk (the barista kind) and Just Egg are great substitutes btw. Impossible tastes just like meat to me now.
Some people want to limit their exposure to google. Also a healthy market for email is a good thing.
I disagree. How much innovation did we lose because of 90s Microsoft? We might be 5 years more advanced in tech if Bill Gates hadn’t been such an asshole. The same goes for Intel, Amazon, etc.. They're stifling innovation for their own personal gain.
That article starts with:

"Vegan and vegetarian diets are both very healthy ways of eating. They’ve been linked to multiple health benefits and a lower risk of excess weight, heart disease, and even some types of cancer."

Which was an interesting choice for you, I think. Also there are some seriously misleading facts in the article:

B12 doesn't from from meat, and meat only has B12 today because animals are supplemented with it.

DHA comes from algae, so again, the animals you eat have it as a result of having eaten plants.

Creatine, carnosine, and taurine are considered nonessential, in the very article.

And with regard to iron: "However, iron deficiency is easy to avoid on a well-planned vegan diet", according to the article.

But this is kind of irrelevant, because even if these things _were_ hard to get for vegans and supplements were needed, it still makes veganism a moral imperative, because the small price to pay of taking a pill to save billions of sentient animals every year is a no brainer.
A reaction that builds upon and encapsulates Marxist meta-narratives. Yes in theory postmodernism can point to a diverse set of perspectives but in practice it's homogenous groupthink within a Marxist meta-narrative. End result is people operating in worldviews consisting of moral relativism and variations of "Marxist struggles". It's a worldview that has conflict intrinsic to it.
But the small business cannot hire, so even if they do find a couple more suckers, it won't matter as they will immediately be losing money on a per unit of delivery basis.