skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lesson I don't see the general population learning very well over the past 5-7 years. Just because somebody throws a tantrum over their stance about a moral quandary does not make them better informed about its resolutions. And often there are no resolutions proposed anyway, which can be hard to notice beneath the sound and fury.

It also seems to be often the most natural approach taken by people who make a living from gaming the attention economy. It isn't about the merits of one idea or another but the engagement it generates from outrage, self-righteousness or other reactionary emotions.
I do feel frustrated with the vaccine hesitancy but I'm finding that folks fears are real, if not completely rational.

I would think that a straightforward comparison of the risks of getting vaccination versus getting infected would be enough, but I also understand that sometimes fears are simply not based on rational thought.

In my case, one aspect of wearing a big scary kn95 mask is my way of reminding the unvaccinated that this virus is still around, heh maybe thats me being a bit of a pain by intruding into folks fantasy of the virus not being a thing anymore.

Right now, my county of residence has a vaccination rate of under 40 percent among folks 60 years or older and thats crazy, but cases have been at zero for a bit. I'm thinking that this won't last, and this county I live in is a giant target for the delta variant. I hope wearing a big ugly mask about town might remind folks that covid19 is still a thing to think about.
> Demographer Ron Lee of the University of California, Berkeley, and others have shown that GDP per person, and hence living standards, are highest when fertility falls just below replacement level (around 2.1 births per woman) – to 1.6 or even less. When fertility is either much higher or much lower than that, quality of life falls off again. Lee would be worried if he was South Korea at 0.8 births per woman, or China at an estimated 1.3, he says, but England and Wales (1.6), the European Union (1.5) and the US (1.6) are all hovering around that sweet spot. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/08/why-de...
I imagine it also greatly improves the air quality for anyone down wind from the treatment plants.
I was diagnosed as having Low-T (exhibited the symptoms -- low libido, low energy, bad sleep, cranky, disinterested in stuff I used to enjoy, etc.) and tried the T gel application but it did nothing. I kept on it for a year, and my T levels didn't come up at all, so I started in on injectable T with the same company that the OP is part of, and boy, what a difference!
> Remember the hand washing phase of the pandemic?

Guidelines need to be enumerated, like product releases.

So much angst would be avoided. When there's a disagreement, the parties (operating in good faith) could go meta and compare guideline versions. Which would help resolve differences.

"Oh, you're following guidelines USA-1.4. I see. FYI, last week our governor issued USA-NY-1.5, clarifying protocols for open air retail. All these revisions! Such a bother, I know. I'm so glad you and me are back on the same page. Be safe! We'll get thru this."
> To entice Branson and his space ambitions, taxpayers in New Mexico funded the bulk of the costs for the $220 million Spaceport America.

This was not, to my understanding, connected to the X Prize. Also they didn't win the X Prize according this article [0].

[0] > A team led by Burt Rutan would [claim the X Prize eight years later](https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/06/3908-2/), barely within the deadline. Rutan’s team built SpaceShipOne, a small rocket-powered vehicle dropped from an aircraft.
Sure and there are people in this thread implying that that's not a relevant factor and places like the UK and US are going to be seeing massive deaths soon.

And nobody talks about the natural immunity aspect either. Even if it just blunts the severity of the symptoms, places like florida probably have had ~30% of their population infected. I'm going to guess the "bad" people who didn't wear masks, got infected, are mostly part of the non-vaccinated percentage of the population. They could be added to any vaccine percentages from a pandemic response perspective (with downsides of being less accurate count, presumably less consistent immune response ect...).
Oh that's very interesting, how ready for production is it? It only works for TF right?

> If you need a few dozen inferences per second per server, this is the cheapest way. And you're not depending on a proprietary solution whose parent company could go out of business in a year.

Definitely the cheapest way.

We've been in business for more than a year already actually :)
In practice, what I've seen is GraphQL used where REST[0] would have been. I've not seen it used in any case where the solution wouldn't, previously, have been REST, or in a case for which there would otherwise have been no solution. They are, de facto, competing tech, from what I've seen. I expect there are some examples where that's not true, but I think as experienced by most people it's an alternative to REST.

[0] The colloquial sense of REST, that is, which is RESTish. Yes, I know, no-one actually does REST, for practically any value of "actually".
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> Regardless whether Russia did any of the outlandish things that the UK accuses it of, what business does the UK have picking a fight with Russia or anybody else?

Wasn't one of those "outlandish things" trying to assassinate a naturalized UK citizen in UK territory and causing one collateral death and several other collateral non-fatal poisonings of other British citizens? And wasn't the poison used so obviously Russian that it turned up in another attempted assassination of a Russian dissident that occurred in Russian territory? And the dudes that were identified as responsible from security footage turned out to be the same dudes involved in blowing up a Czech ammunition depot that contained arms manufactured by a Bulgarian that the Russian government has a beef with?

That's not the UK "picking a fight," and seems enough reason to convince any reasonable person that UK involvement is justified.
"This only really works if you have a representative subset of he population"

Of course. Never said otherwise.
Get a matte screen protector. I got this for my iPad and it's nice:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VNC4H8D

They have them for 14" Lenovo screens too:

https://www.amazon.com/Supershieldz-Lenovo-Chromebook-Protec...
There was a really interesting paper here on HN a few months back, basically if your SDF was data based you could do a low resolution pruning pre-pass over the screen and remove the datapoints of the SDF that didn't contribute anything in that screenspace region.

Other than that you can actually re-use many simpler SDF's to work as bounding spheres,etc. For example I did a kind of skinned character rendering that kinda started turning expensive and a simple way to accelerate it was to first do a sphere calculation that bounded it, if the sphere calc was producing a large enough value it was output directly instead of the "detail" value of the actual character. Now for a GPU that isn't ideal if one of the "threads" enters the character, but I think most GPU's do triangles one-tile-at-a-time so these threads will most of the time have converging calculations within each tile.
First, I'm pretty sure I said "in the dark" and was responding to "in the night". Human eyes are extremely terrible at discerning actual details in low light compared to even moderate low light camera sensors.

Second, diverting the conversation from low light performance to dynamic range is an unimportant tangent. Deciding that one sensor needs to cover the entire illumination range rather than multiple sensors each simultaneously capturing farther in each direction than we're capable of is an arbitrary unimaginative choice.
No, there wouldn't be an implication toward performance by "not formalized." I mean the function is obfuscated by its encoding in the model. To formalize, you'd need to pick apart those encodings and derive explicit formula and conjectures. The models in situ are essentially black boxes, but that can be fixed.

The tools to do that with transformers in particular and neural networks in general are still pretty new and specific to particular models.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-...

Someone with extensive knowledge of protein folding and chemistry and any relevant domain would need to manually categorize different neurons, their contexts, and effects, then experiment with the model in a static/procedural inference mode, then parse out the overall functions. By reproducing well known simple instances and tracing the propagation of information through the network, you can validate what a model knows by mapping to current knowledge.

Using the model in this way can also lead to interesting real world experiment choices, by processing targets suggested by real life phenomena and then coordinating from known functions of the model and real life experiment. Different proteins in coronavirus, for example, would likely have a different cascade of activations in the model than the flu virus. Any shared features between the two might be captured in the activation patterns, possibly leading to new information about the diseases that would opaque to science without these models.
> This hypothetical young programmer could - I believe - invest some time to understand not so much the actual codebase, but rather the workflow of the program and re-write it along that same workflow in a new language/platform/whatever.

> I am pretty sure that those niche users would be ready to pay a fair amount of money to have something modern/updated that actually works and works like the old one.

I don't know. My experience is, for many smaller niche things, they're entrenched in orgs and used The One Way, and any deviation - change a button label, add a menu, etc - will result in a lot of complaints from existing users. They'll have to 'retrain', etc.

No doubt some people will appreciate and welcome 'new/modern' stuff, but many won't. And figuring that out ahead of time is... time. and effort. And along with that, there's usually heaps of institutional/domain knowledge that just can't be replaced without... time in the trenches.

It's not that it's not possible, it's just not typically 'worth it' for most people. ROI is too low compared to other options.
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The whole point of being able to tag items in a hierarchical folder structure is to not have to manually find and update every duplicate copy of your bookmark when you want to change or delete it.
Amazed to see Germany so far to the left.
I've been on a 1-year sabbatical as of 4 June 2021. Not the exact same as early retirement but I bet the motivations / experiences probably have parallels. I'll note my own responses as someone 1-month into a period of no work:

> Let’s talk a bit about the idea of loss. Having a sense of loss is not restricted to things that you like or love.

I don't feel that much yet, but intuitively I see how it might creep up in the coming months.

> When most people ask you what you’re going to do with your free time, they typically see you sitting at home, alone, in an empty space.

Personally, I absolutely do not have that problem and is probably why I knew I could take the leap. There is SO much that I want to do and work on, I don't even think a year is enough time.

> folks who cruise into post-employment life with a firm vision of how things are going to look tend to do better.

One thing that's helping me a lot is that I pick a focus for each week. Last week I worked on my grandpa's autobiography (he told me stories and I turned it into a coherent chronological text and I'm now in the process of making a website out of all the stories, supplemented with historical photos). One week is a decent amount of time to make progress and then by the end of the week I start to get bored and get to transition to something else which keeps it exciting and fun. I also lined up a long list of goals before the sabbatical started.

> My favorite method was created by Ernie Zelinski, author of several early-retirement lifestyle books.

I'm not seeing anything on this author. Does anyone have a link to his most popular work?

> We sort of know what we want to do, but when given a full day with no obligations, it’s common for us to fritter hours away.

So far, this is not as much of a problem for me as I expected. It's not hard to focus on things that are interesting to me. I'm actually more aware of wasteful habits (Instagram, HN) because I know that I only have a year to really do all this sabbatical stuff.

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue
I personally want to use SML as a base to develop a new language, one which eschew's side effects. Personally I think such a thing would be 100x more approachable than Haskell for newcomers, and could provide a basis for pure functional programming to make a significant impact on the industry.

The main thing that SML brings to the table IMO is its definition. This specifically forces things to be well-defined, and hence well-thought-out, and thus prevents the adding of a bunch of bad features that later need to be maintained for the lifetime of the language.

There are many areas in which I think formal methods are overkill, but PLs are one of the exceptions. Any mistakes early on in the language are usually VERY hard to resolve.
Yep and there's something more ... wholesome seeming about Canadian dairy farmers getting a leg up vs Bell and Rogers getting a leg up.

In reality most dairy farms are large industrial operations, though.
GraphQL should have been called FacebookQL and microservices should have been called Netflix-services.

Otherwise hype-following developers think it's a good idea to just go ahead and use them, despite not having the unique needs and resources of neither of those megacorps.
I'm not sure how much of a difference the day of the week would make for people who are really burnt out.
I am 40, and drank 2 pints, one of Suffolk County and Old Growler respectively (both from the excellent Nethergate Brewery). It was truly a wild night for me.
I wanted to give you kudos for bringing up the Brontes. For several years I like to read in bed, and the more boring the better if sleep is the aim. Boring reading plus getting up early to work out means I usually only get a few pages per night before I can't keep my eyes open.

As a side note, when I was in high school I threatened to hire my Chemistry teacher to read me bedtime stories, though I never followed through, and alas she is likely no longer living. Always had a hard time staying awake while listening to her.
I'd gladly pay for Montreal-only coverage if it meant getting China style pricing. Why isn't there anyone offering that? My guess is that Canada's size isn't the sole issue.
> Here in the UK (we don't call it gas, so that threw me off, and) not 'pumping your own' is unheard of - payment either self serve at the pump (in the last ~15y anyway, since 'chip & PIN' I suppose), or inside.

This is also true almost everywhere in the US. Except that we do call it gas. (The word is not directly related to "gas", the phase of matter; it's short for "gasoline", which appears to have originated as a brand name.)

The fact that pumping your own is legal everywhere without any problems doesn't prevent people in Oregon from forecasting dire calamities if the law of Oregon were to change.
My children did karate - as well as being exercise, I liked it terms of giving them the experience of how they could get better at something with practice and discipline, especially as they aren't typically sporty. 'Being able to fight' was never a motivation.
They do indeed hand wave away things like the cost and other concerns and cheer on the "vision"...

"The billionaires see a future in which humanity, constrained for resources such as water, food, and energy, fights ever harder for a more meager share. “We really could go down one of two paths,” Garriott said. “In a few decades we could reach a point where we have to ration birth rates, energy, food, and more in a stark way. Or, we could bring back the bounty of resources in space, and now is the time to start that process."

It's good that billionaires are looking into a distant future, I can't fault them for that. It surprises me that they're not also looking at the present and wondering how they can also have a meaningful and large impact on problems we have right now that are going to impact that future they see. Those hundreds of millions of dollars and huge number of people working on going into space could be doing some serious work on the ground here.

I get it, I really get what they're going after here, but I can't help but think there are really truly better things to do with all that money and time.
the delta is even less virulent then past variants. it's only marginally more lethal than the flu. long covid is a fuzzy excuse to prolong the panic culture.
The author has no credentials in this area.
> Visibility is not a meaningful "reward" for established European newspapers

This is prima facie false. Google is not permitted to simply deindex these papers. The newspapers are demanding to be indexed and referenced, and be paid for it. It's pretty clear here that Google is providing a service to the papers, not the other way around.
Does anyone have experience using this to sync between a Windows PC and a Mac?

I've tried using OneDrive and it's pretty bad. I basically keep it disabled until I remember, "hey I haven't synced in a while, turn it on until complete, then turn off again."
> Previously my underlying approach to life looked like: "I will do X which will enable me to do Y so that I can finally do Z." I now approach my days with "What will make me happy?"

Great insight that is worth repeating.

One of my biggest problems with FIRE discussions is how much they reinforce the idea that retirement is a prerequisite for achieving happiness. This leads a lot of FIRE-minded people to double down on jobs they hate that consume too much of their time and energy, only because they think it will better enable them to be happy later.

For the lucky few who can be early employees at unicorn startups, that might be true. For the average FIRE person working a $100-200K/year job, they might be better off scaling back to a sustainable 40hr/week job and making a point of taking vacations and doing activities in their off time. Even if that means taking a paycut and delaying their target retirement date.

You don't have to wait until FIRE to start taking vacations, doing hobbies, or working on projects. If a job is consuming so much of your life that you feel you don't have time to do anything else, it's time to reevaluate the job.
> I think what's more likely is people who are good leaders go into leadership and good leaders are far more common in men.

This thread is a reaction to this statement. You didn't really back it up, so no-one bothered to pick at it with any care.

People tending to pursue leadership because they're skilled at it is an ok statement. But, you saying that that's why there's more men in leadership positions is a leap. For starters, you're ignoring the possibility of a patriarchal society, and gender roles more specifically, limiting the choices of the men and women involved. As long as gender roles affect the participants, actions between genders cannot be directly compared.

Imagine a woman thinking that she shouldn't be a leader, due to social conditioning, even though her faculties are otherwise suited for it. Imagine an older white male being perceived as leadership material, not due to true merit, but because of social conditioning.
I doubt it. From operations that went public the attack vectors are known and you can extrapolate something about their capabilities.

Of course they could get access if I were a valuable target, but that might just as well be with a large wrench. But they cannot just take control of any device.

And I think many companies might even have better capabilities. Or defense, since intelligence work is very often about industrial espionage.
Can we talk for a second about the fact that to even read this article I needed to enable JavaScript from no fewer than FIVE different sources? I just want some plain HTML, and maybe a little CSS. I don't want your fancy animations and 50 trackers. The modern web is doomed.
> You can teach someone to use a fixed set of macros. But again, in that case why use a language with macro features?

Because sometimes writing a simple macro makes it easier to write (and read) other code.

> If you're never going to use a non-built-in macro with the complexity of the built-in macros, why does the language need this complex macro system rather than a set of built-in keywords and a simpler extension system?

There's a lot to unpack here. A good lisp developer will very rarely need to write a macro that approaches the complexity of the loop macro. Firstly, that's not never. Being able to write a hairy macro is more like an air-bag than power windows. You're glad to have it when you need it, but you mostly forget its there the rest of the time. Secondly the same macro system that lets you write something like loop also lets you write simpler macros that make code both easier to read and harder to write incorrectly.

Lisp does not have a "complex" macro system. It has one of the simplest extension systems of any language I've used that has an extension system.

There are also plenty of people who think loop is too complicated and too inflexible and so avoid it.

Finally everything you said about macros and loop can be applied to other languages and the standard library. If nobody's going to write anything as complex as printf(), why does C need variadic functions? If nobody's going to write anything as complex as itertools, why does python need higher-order functions and generators?

I don't actually see the extensibility of lisp as its "killer feature" but I definitely see it as a net positive, while a lot of people seem to see it as a net negative. I blame books like "Let Over Lambda" which are more to be seen as examples of what you can do rather than what you should do.

There's lots of things to hate about C, but the fact that you can do:

enum { TRUE = 0, FALSE=1 };

is not one of them. There's plenty to hate about lisp, but the fact that it's possible to write bad macros is not one of them.
Oh, you lucky bastards! I could dream of walking to school. We were taking lessons in the snowstorm.