skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just a problem for Medicare/medicaid. BioGen will be allowed to push this through their marketing to desperate patients and caregivers, who will nag their doctors into prescribing it, even though they could just as well drink a glass of water.
You have excellently described the job of business analysts and system architects, but this is not the job of 90% of programmers today, including senior-level. Part of this is already done by other people and doesn't require specific programming skills, hence, at the very least, programmers will lose their privileged position. Another part of it is actually too hard for most people who are currently employed as programmers to do on a decent level (such as meaningfully hacking on Linux kernel).
38% of the electricity globally is coal. We’ve got quite a long way to go.
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The mystery of Jupiter’s X-ray auroras finally solved
Because of sunk costs (not in the fallacy sense). Doesn't mean it makes sense to build a new one.

Agreed we have a long way to go :)
That's not the hard part of using a Pi as a desktop PC...

I've been using them for light to moderate desktop use for years now. The important things in desktopping a Pi, as far as I'm concerned:

- Fix the storage. The SD card is fine for a toy. It will not withstand actual daily use, either in "delivering sane performance" or "handling a lot of random writes without dying in a year." Get a USB to SSD adapter and a cheap 32GB or 64GB SSD from eBay - doesn't have to be fast, doesn't have to be new. It's radically better than an SD card in any use case that resembles desktop use. You can either boot straight from USB, or, to improve compatibility with weird USB to SSD adapters, boot from the SD card, mount root from the SSD, and use the SD card for swap or something (see below).

- Enable zswap if you're not on a 4GB or 8GB Pi4. It should be a module included in the Pi kernel now (I had to argue for a while to get it included). This is not zram - this is zswap. There's a huge difference. It's a compressed swap system that can flush out old or poorly compressible pages to the actual swapfile - which, since you're now fronting it with a compressed swap region in RAM, can be over on the SD card. The bulk of the stuff written to it will never be used again, unless you're just massively overcommitting RAM, at which point nothing really will help. I think around the 5.x kernels, z3fold starts working, though I've not seen a real practical difference between z3fold (up to 3 compressed pages per page of RAM) and zbud (only two compressed pages), as long as same filled pages are enabled - that will crunch a page of 0s down into a "Got it, all 0s, done!" note and not bother wasting space compressing it.

- Set the governor to performance. 'sudo cpufreq-set -g performance' The stock governor is really bad about ramping up, and leads to lag in typing, especially if you're using the atrocities that are modern "desktop" apps (Electron). Eventually, the system will spin up and do something useful, but you improve the performance and responsiveness rather substantially by just pinning the cores to their fastest speed and letting them stay there. I'm sure there's some measurable power difference doing this if you're concerned about the absolute lowest power, but it's not substantial, and "race to idle" solves a lot. If you're using a Pi as a desktop, try it - you'll like the change.

- Use adblockers. It's amazing how much CPU time the internet spends on stuff that is advertising, tracking, and generally evil. Most websites behave a lot better once you remove that garbage.

Otherwise... once you've done that, they're actually quite capable little systems! The Pi4 with 4GB or 8GB is the best option right now, and for most people I'm not sure the 8GB really gains you much - I have one, use it fairly heavily, and rarely see any RAM pressure past about 4GB. But it does make up for some slow disk.

I've written about some of this more extensively over on my blog over the years, if anyone wants more details - link is in my profile.
What DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 really achieved (2020)
It's not a matter of infantilism. Calling this substance 'medication' when it has not been proven to have any affect at all on any disease is simply fraud. Marketing it as medication will be like marketing homeopathic junk as medicine.
Don’t we use coal for two main things? Energy and steel?

Do we have a replacement for coal in the steel industry?
Wow I actually vibed with the music it was like some weird industrial, alien soundtrack with delayed but on beat drops.
COVID-19: Countries are learning what others paid for vaccines (Jan 2021)
The linked article says:

The Department of Energy in late 2020 declared a moratorium on endorsing new coal-fired power plants as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to shift to a more flexible power supply and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.

You don’t need a moratorium on something that makes no economic sense. This is a decision that takes into account externalities (and that’s great!)
You might have something there; I still remember Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp/Vagrant fame as an erlang blogger.
Parenting is the most wonderful horrible thing you’ll ever do in life.

This provides the opportunity to share this related poem: “ They fuck you up your mum and dad, they may not mean to but they do. They fill you with the faults they had and add some extra just for you.” - Philip Larkin: This be the verse
We're discussing copyright though, not patents, which for better or worse, have terms of almost a century.

In the US, the copyright lapses 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation, or 70 years from author death, whichever is shortest.

So the inverse square root function will stay copyrighted until 2100 (the source was published in 2005 I believe).
Yes, actually, how dare they sell a substance with no known effect on any disease as 'Alzheimer's medicine', just because they might lose some money if they don't? How dare they market this to desperate people willing to try anything?
Can you clarify what you mean by 'non-differentiable outcomes'?
> the same bureaucratic organization

Every large organization is bureaucratic. The US federal government does pretty well, IME: Parks, highways, air travel, food safety, drug safety, medical and scientific research, public universities, NASA, military, etc etc. It's not perfect, but nothing is.
GCP CloudSQL has a lot of issues. There was one with query insights being enabled causing segfaults on `LEFT JOIN` operations. Its since been patched, but really shitty.
> it should be illegal to market it as medication

That's exactly what I stated. But banning substances outright is anti-science and anti-freedom. Just prevent fraud, and make sure it isn't poison.
To see a creature with not enough confirmation bias watch a horse if it encounters something even slightly usual. It will shy away and or investigate or refuse to move until you have investigated the slightly oddly positioned leaf on the path.

If we did indeed check everything we nevertheless expected to be as usual we’d never get anything done and would get stuck in mega loops.
It is not a matter of not willing to share, but a capacity problem. All production is fully bought up. Throwing more money at it won't increase the supply.
It might work if posted on /r/wallstreetbets
> The concept of stability doesn't apply when elements that compare the same are indistinguishable, which is the case for integers.

If you’re considering the raw comparison value, then sure, stability isn’t applicable. But it's really rare that people are just sorting normal lists of numbers.

Stable sorts come into the picture when the comparisons are referring to records, ie rows in a DB.
Check lists of other acknowledged biases, such as putting too much weight on earlier presented information
Why should I assume I would be a better philanthropist billionaire than the next guy? To make a 'greater good' case for becoming a billionaire, this seems like a question we need to explore.

> the odds of becoming a billionaire are low, but it doesn’t matter if you only consider the conditional probabilities. [...] The bet sounds insane to begin with, but at each step you’re taking on a very reasonable level of risk.

I'm still not convinced that it makes self-interested sense to do the risky thing and spin the billionaire roulette wheel i.e. leave a steady well-paying job and try my luck with a start-up. (Ignoring that some people just prefer being in a start-up, and some prefer not being in a start-up.)

The most likely outcome is a significantly reduced personal wealth. There's a vanishingly small probability of vastly increased personal wealth, but as the article acknowledges, this suffers from diminishing returns. It's a question of what statisticians call 'expected value', and it seems unlikely to me that spinning the wheel improves the expected value of the sum of my happiness and life-satisfaction numbers. Even if I increase the expected value of my wealth, the non-linearity will presumably easily outweigh this.
As others have said, I've been in many NYC taxis for a long time, and I've never experienced those tings.
Sorry, what’s racist—or at least unseemly in the same way as stolen valor—is white progressives trading on the political capital of POC to further their own ends.

I was never opposed to “identity politics” until I realized that, because white liberals control most media outlets as well as institutions, it’s trivial to invoke people’s identities for political ends without actually having their support. CNN will have some professor of XYZ studies on TV, but who selected that professor to be on TV? Or granted her tenure?
I agree with what you're saying, and I noticed that trend earlier when people were talking about 70% vs 99% effective vaccines...

But IMO, the flu vaccine is pretty useless. I've never had any confidence that it's actually doing anything for me or anyone I know. I notice no difference between years I get it and years I don't. And if the Covid vaccines were only providing 10-40% protection, this whole situation would be a lot worse.
I don’t know if he is right, but Bill Gates has been saying that we should basically accept that certain kinds of steel will never be made with a net zero process. We need steel though, so we will have to offset those carbon costs.
"Bizarrely, Unsworth's lawyer was L Lin Wood, famous for later apparently having a mental breakdown and supporting conspiracy theories accusing chief justice John Roberts of pedophilia and murder, and being asked to undergo a mental examination by the state bar of Georgia.

"L Lin Wood's handling of the Unsworth trial was widely panned as incompetent. Unsworth is clearly a hero, and Musk inserting himself into that situation and permanently tainting Unsworth's name was unconscionable."

Bizarre! I saw his suits when I went digging through the post-election hootenanny. Incompetent would be the gentlest way to describe them.
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> Taxis were crap everywhere in the US except NYC

Not my experience. I used taxis in many cities for many years.
But this is part of the author's point: where are all the production reinforcement learning models?
Is the aduhelm company publicly traded? Seems like a lot of fun volatility upcoming on binary outcomes

If I was a gambling man, which I am, I would add this to my paid newsletter and call it investing (with contradictory and nullifying disclaimers of course)
there is always medical exception
You're right. I've looked at quantum codes before, but apparently my understanding was lacking - thanks for the info.
its why I don't start fights with billionaires who can afford to look into you without effort. I wouldn't do it, but once it became a thing I'm 100% every billionaire has a firm who looks into people who start fights with them.
JK Rowling is a good example. She became a billionaire from writing Harry Potter but didn't stay one for long as she donated most of it
And massive lobbying contributions and public communication campaigns, such as op-eds in local papers.
I used to work at one of the Musk companies. He was a huge mark in the "cons" column when I was deciding whether or not to take the job. He is embarrassing and he made me a little ashamed to say where I worked. I did my best to ignore him and I suspect others did too. No one ever talked about him.
> anyone has looked into using genetic algorithms combined with RL where the genetics determine the reward function

There is an introductory guide to rust, deep learning and genetic algorithms that I really like, it's called "Learning to fly" [^0]

[0]: https://pwy.io/en/posts/learning-to-fly-pt1/
> It is not a matter of not willing to share, but a capacity problem. All production is fully bought up. Throwing more money at it won't increase the supply.

This is why we should suspend IP / patent protection and increase production.
I've been using lxqt on my Pi 400. It's the closest thing to a "light" KDE that I can find, and I like it a lot. The only problem is that the version on the Raspbian repository is quite out of date. You can get a slightly less old version by enabling backports. I wish there was a good rolling distribution for the Raspberry Pi. openSUSE Tumbleweed is probably the best but it's been glitchy for me and I haven't figured out how to netboot it.
> Ripgrep, fd, hyperfine, bat, exa, bottom, gdu, wc, sd, hexyl...

Thanks for that list! Is there any place where more of these "modern alternatives to coreutils" are collected?
I'm not sure that shade map is so accurate. I looked at my house and it wasn't even close. Also, it completely changed based on zoom level. If you zoom in it will show tall buildings shading all day, but I assure you that the tall buildings nearby do not provide any shade to my property.
FDA approval is needed to seek something as medication. If they want to package it as a supplement, they can sell it today.
I have to admit ignorance on exactly what COM does. Doesn't Direct3D (all versions including the latest) use COM despite being essentially a C++-only API?
Many people in government cannot be bought.
I think you mean Monte Carlo Tree Search rather (MCTS) rather than MCMC?
What I think, and what you think, is irrelevant. Back up your claims, or they're just you trying to convince yourself you know something you don't.

Cutting out the middle man does not by definition lead to monopolies, especially not when the market has tens of thousands of sellers (if not orders of magnitude more), and tens of thousands of buyers (or, renters, in this case. And again, if not orders of magnitudes more).
Instagram Has Become SkyMall
Let’s not go too far the other way now.

He’s chief engineer at spacex for starters.
> You don’t need a moratorium on something that makes no economic sense.

Yes, you do. Some will make decisions that are uneconomic because captive rate payers have no choice (this is prevalent with coal in the US MISO and PJM ISO grids) but to pay, and those making them are doing so to support coal even while in its death throes. About 160 cities are locked into the prairie state coal plant in southern Illinois (one of the largest coal plants east of the Mississippi) because of bonds they issued and debt they’ve taken on they can’t afford to accelerate payback on to close the plant early.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/6/4/22517456/prai...

TLDR You have to kill coal with extreme prejudice, not just hope economic sanity is enough, because the evidence has demonstrated it isn’t.
California to require masks at school regardless of vaccination status
Learning to Fly: Let's simulate evolution in Rust (pt 4, complete)
>Although in my opinion, code review should be enough to catch any "accidental" incidents of plagiarism, the differences in writing style should make it very obvious when the employee has copied something.

You must do some CSI level code reviews. Best I'm able to do is figure out if code will work and if something can be done obviously better. Stylistic calls (beyond lint enforceable) are up to authors as far as I'm concerned.

And even then it's trivial to fix up naming schemes and such to march codebase - doubt that gets you out of copyright issues.
Cement production is another big one.
I'll point out that the 2013 peak predates many of these environmental moratoriums to phase out coal.

I'm cynical and jaded so i feel that the only reason we're finally getting some traction on the environmental side is that the poor economics of coal made the environmental battle not worth fighting anymore. Effectively the coal lobby is disintegrating at this point.
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Only one nit: The "heavy metal" Microsoft logo silkscreened onto that card was introduced in early 1980, not the 70s, and hung around for less than two years before being replaced by the "Blibbet" logo in 1982.

Heavy Metal Microsoft will always be my favorite of their logos.
That’s not my reading of that article. He thinks CentOS Stream is nice because it allows them to easily upstream RHEL bugfixes.

Nowhere in the interview does he say that killing off CentOS was a good idea.

Also, he has to work with the CentOS Stream people moving forward, so of course he’s going to speak diplomatically in public.
My dad worked in coal India for around 3 decades, and I grew up in one of the townships. I have never heard of Mafia involvement. However, I have seen coal being stolen from moving trains that transport coal. They are mostly locals who probably sell it or use it themselves, but it doesn't account to much AFAIK.
As a layman I'd expect advanced sorting algorithms to depend on the dimensions of the underlying memory architecture, e.g. size of CPU caches, and memory latency, bandwidth and such.
I think the FDA board resignations and general scientist outcry is notable and not routine, but it didn't set the precedent on it's own, it's been a trend long in development.

From January 2020 (17 months before aduhelm approved):

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/14/7962270...

FDA Approves Drugs Faster Than Ever But Relies On Weaker Evidence, Researchers Find

> Almost half of recent new drug approvals were based on only one pivotal clinical trial instead of the two or more that used to be the norm, according to the study published Tuesday in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association. And the reliance on surrogate measures — stand-ins for presumed patient benefits — has increased. In the case of cancer drugs, a surrogate measure could be shrinkage of tumors instead of improvements in survival after treatment.

> …Drugmakers also began paying the FDA fees to fund the review process after AIDS activists protested the agency's sluggishness in the 1980s… "There is some concern about the incentives that this is created within the FDA," Darrow says. "And whether it has created a culture in the FDA where the primary client is no longer viewed as the patient, but as the industry."

["surrogate measures" is a complaint with aduhelm approval, when they say there was no "evidence showing the drug slowed the disease", they mean the approval was based only on surrogate measures.]
Hilarious stuff
Solving the mystery of Rudyard Kipling’s son (2016)
Thank you for highlighting that extrovert behaviour can be accompanied by poor social skills and introverts can be highly skilled socially.

It seems to be a moderately common assumption in discussions like these that the extrovert is the one with social skills and the introvert finds them difficult, but the reverse is often true.

Think about someone who is often out and seems to be consistently loud, boisterous and showing poor social awareness to the point of irritating others in social settings. That's a sign of poor social skills that I'd associate with extroversion.

Compare with someone who is quiet, thoughtful, and rarely seen, but when they are seen they seem to be caring, interesting and listen thoughtfully and engage with each person they talk with, leaving a positive impression each time. That's high social skill.
It needs to be said that software formal verification is much, much harder than hardware, and it will put much harder limits on they way you design a programs.

I suspect it would not be rare for a software project written this way to have more work hours spent on verification, than the development itself.

The use of shared code would be even more pervasive to the point whole library will likely be replaced rather than doing a single LOC change.

Hardware verification is very much like a pyramid. Verified cells are made of verified, and characterised to death semiconductor devices. Verified gates are made of verified cells. Verified logic components are made of verified logic gate designs. Verified libraries are built upon verified logic components. Verified blocks built upon verified libraries. And verified macroblocks built upon verified blocks.
> I can do is grant you the fact that political science has had a difficult time proving the impact of money on policy in representative democracies.

Perhaps because it’s not as strong an effect as people would like to believe.

Wouldn’t you say political activists have a disproportionate influence on our democracies too? Why is that ok and the influence of billionaires not?
Trout Appear to Get Hooked on Meth
130 is a medium rare steak. You could literally let your steak sit outside all day and end up with a perfectly cooked steak - although I suspect it would be gross and probably loaded with bacteria.
You have 3 joints with 3 dimensions. So 9 variables you can control. If each variable has 10 choices, and you need to make a choice for each, that is 10^9 possible combinations.
If it’s not instantaneous, I just flag all mail from that domain as spam. The filter eventually learns. It’s far more reliable than the manual process.
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I assume it wasn't just darkness they were dealing with, but also that the water was so muddy it became opaque, in which case lights wouldn't have helped them.
No idea why you got downvoted so much, but yes it’s out, it’s called The Cave
a necessary evil is still an evil. No one 'wins' it.
I presume it's 3 dimensions for each joint, so 10^3 * 10^3 * 10^3
Yes, but you also have to weigh the fact that we don't know what the long term effects may be. Some people would rather trust their immune system, with or without drugs that have been in use for decades. That's not my personal calculation, but I can see why others would net out that way. Particularly women who are concerned about the possible effects on fertility.
Note well that there are two top-level comments in this thread, both claiming that the author is engaging in the both-sides fallacy, but each claiming that the bias is in opposite political directions. I'm not saying either of them is totally wrong, but it's food for thought.
I think it does make the same point. The cultural similarities were achieved but it wasn’t without loss or consequence. There may have been less bloodshed though?
Yes, actually. It's pretty great.
>what the training dataset is

All non-private repositories on GitHub.