skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because multiplying matrices together in chains of functions is among the ugliest code I've ever had to look at.

OK, but how much code is it? I doubt even a game engine has matrix operations in more than 0.1% of its lines of code (obviously, in Matlab/Julia it can by 99%). The beauty of so little code is a worthy sacrifice for the explicitness of a low-level language.
I've had Arch on 3 servers for 5-6 years also and only had a couple of incidents where Arch updates messed things up.

But one of those was a big compatibility breaking one that I hadn't done the prep for (because I'd missed the whole lead up for various reasons and was months late on the update anyway) and I still can't really explain the other.

Compared to Debian which I managed to break many times in the same time frame...
Thanks for letting us know, I will look into it!
Tape is worthless except for archival purposes (and it's not particularly good). it should not be the constraint on the dataset (IE, any important dataset should already be in live serving with replication).

Very few players wrangle petabytes effectively. Many players have petabytes, but they're just piles of disorganized data that couldn't be used for training ML. Moving petabytes is still a huge pain and few folks have proficiency in giving ML algorithms high performance access to the data.
On the complex, vital role played by interpreters
For those who didn't read the article, this is talking about a substantial drop in performance after covid hit, going from 24% of students with a GPA below 1.0 in the second quarter of the 2019-2020 school year to 41% now.

This seems like a case of educators failing to properly adjust their methods and expectations in the midst of the pandemic. While understandable given the unprecedented nature of the event, the fact is if performance drops that widely the school needs to course correct.

Honestly though, we'd probably be well off just calling the 2020-2021 school year a wash and ignoring stuff like GPA from the past year. Just teach it all again and those kids who did somehow manage to learn the material last year get an easy year.
I'd argue it's addressing the wrong criticism then. People should feel fine critiquing what a celebrity is wearing on social media: that's not toxic behavior, but having your real name inextricably linked to your account would definitely make you think twice.

The real issue here is the dedicated toxic users: sites like 4chan and Kiwifarm for example. Those groups are typically responsible for the real damage we see on the internet, and there's likely no way for us to ever flush them out. It's a cat-and-mouse game that cannot be won, only indefinitely postponed (which is a victory in their books).
After Apple bought NextStep to serve as the basis of their next gen OS, Rhapsody was a developer preview that was a reskinned NextStep running on Mac Hardware.

Existing Macintosh software could be run under emulation, and the original plan was that everything going forward would need to be rewritten using the NextStep APIs. (All those NS frameworks still used on iPhones and Macs today)

Eventually Apple decided they would have to create an additional set of APIs (Carbon) based on the existing Macintosh APIs that would allow software vendors an easier path forward.

Developers could adopt Carbon with much less effort and eventually transition to the NextStep APIs as part of a future large scale rewrite.

Carbon never transitioned to 64 bit, so those NextStep APIs did eventually become the default for native software.
s/\([Ee]vil\)ness/\1/g

The noun form of "evil" is "evil".
Ergonomics for me. The buttons are far too close to the edge for my big hands, and it's so thin and flat I have to grip it more with my outer-most fingers than a random comfortable controller.
In general, rockets work better the larger they get. Smaller rocket means more structure made per volume of fuel, which will translate to smaller proportional payload capacity. Manufacture cost is mostly a function of the surface while payload capacity is a function of the volume.
Feasibility is not the problem. It's the lack of political will.

I honestly and sincerely believe that most people simply don't know how to fix this and that is an underlying cause of the "lack of political will." It's why I research answers and have for a long time and write about it. I sincerely believe that if I can pinpoint the pain points and viable solutions, there will be people who will act on it and if they succeed, others will be happy to copy them.

Once someone is homeless for a while, it's hard to help them because they develop mental health and substance abuse issues if they didn't already.

I fully agree that being homeless is traumatic enough that it creates mental health issues. I feel like I have some kind of financial and social PTSD from nearly 6 years on the street.

But I think the perception that homeless people are all junkies is likely rooted in prejudice. It takes money to get high all the time. Serious drug users I've personally known had jobs, sometimes quite well-paid jobs.

You don't snort tons of cocaine by panhandling. I mostly saw evidence of alcohol and marijuana use by other homeless people. Granted, there are some hard core addicts who are homeless and that gets a lot of press, but the "face of the homeless" tends to be the most visibly homeless and problematic. The reality is there are homeless people with jobs, going to college, etc and doing all they can to not be discovered for fear of being fired, etc.
> Texas politics, which leaks to Austin, is very top-down big-government. SF and maybe CA politics is more personal freedom.

I don't see that at all. California is one of the hardest places in the country to run a small business. It's #1 or #2 in high taxes every year. California very restrictive and proscriptive land use laws (Rent control, permitting requirements, mandatory building laws, etc). California also has some of the strictest professional/occupational licensing laws in the country.

Unless you're only focused on getting booze delivered and buying pot, almost anything you want to do is cheaper, easier, and more legal in Texas.
Nah probably not. Better idea would be to do it yourself. If you are already technical then there’s nothing stopping you, you don’t need magic engineers.
If you're just publishing equations, you should have an associated notebook which executes the equations.

I don't know what you mean you can't put your thesis work into git. Is it a physical thing? Too big for git?
Active investing is not the same as day trading. Most people do not realize that "passive investing" is basically zero sum (albeit harder to calculate because of being stretched over long periods where inflation becomes significant), just like short term trading. Value creation only comes from active investing (long term focused, but active and researched). The kind of active investing that Warren Buffett does is more similar to what VC's and private equity firms do than someone who buys and holds an index, spreading their money evenly across all big companies without any regard to which companies are deserving of investment.
First of all, what makes a bra only suitable if you are over 50, other than discrimination?

You can always find an example of a product that is easier to sell to a specific niche group of people. That doesn’t give the advertiser the right to know that fact about everyone. For the specific case of bras - how would you sell bras for women with large breasts if you don’t know who has large breasts? Do you think that slight inconvenience on behalf of the advertiser should give them the right to keep a database of everyone’s cup size?
Are game UX designed for such screens? E.g would Hollow knight render well?
It's as unethical as blowing through a broken traffic light stuck on red.
A lot of times larger SSD have a faster throughput. If each flash module can do n mB/sec then 2n is twice as much. Obviously there’s overhead and how much the actual bus can manage, but plenty of 512gb SSDs are ~20% faster than their 256gb brethren.
"You can’t stop people making demands on your time and energy, but you can develop the skills to protect yourself..."

Wouldn't it be nice if the article had at least identified those skills?
Screen is 720p by default, but it can be used as a gaming laptop, which is really cool. I hope this will be new PSP
The finish looks horrible: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploade...
Three Months in Monte Carlo
It's actually fairly difficult to remove attribution from a Git repository. It's embedded in each commit. You'd have to rewrite the entire project history - something far different from just "branching" a repo.
This allows you to map the real range (0, 1) to (-infinity, infinity). It does not allow you to map the integers to the reals.
> they truly, sincerely, earnestly believe there is no evil to be seen

Truly? Sincerely? Earnestly? All that?

I must be a lot more cynical than you. I think they absolutely know the score. I think they sincerely would rather not be painted with the brush of accountability, would prefer deniability.
If I understand the argument, he's saying that rather than use branches to gate what code actually is live in production, you should use feature flags or some other modularizing system, and have a discipline on your team where features that take weeks to develop should be introduced in a series of short-lived (~1 day) branches that don't break the build because their code is hidden by a feature flag (or something) until the whole feature is done.
How long until Epic Games sues Valve because they're not a first-class store on Steam Deck?

Companies like Apple, Valve, and Microsoft build out ecosystems and take massive risks doing so, only to have someone who made millions if not billions of dollars off of these systems to come knocking.

Epic made millions if not billions off these platforms. Nintendo is locked to their store. So is Xbox and PS. Not sure why anyone else that designed it that way would be any different. If it's a closed ecosystem, it's just not for you.

If Ram pickup trucks sold door chimes on the dash's touchscreen, Epic Games would be suing for access for their alternative marketplace.
In the same spirit, I saw this post recently[0]:

"All institutions & organizations must shut the hell up. To all egregores: you do not speak unless spoken to, and I will NEVER speak to you. I do not want to hear 'thank you' from a corporation. I am a divine being : you are a construct. You have no right to speak in my holy tongue."

[0] https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1413780183283294208
Wut? You put data in a database. Logic goes in the app.
$80 USD for 1000mbps in Tennessee, USA. Unfortunately I have the best internet of all my friend groups and will be moving across town to a newer home soon where the best I can get is 50mbps for $50 USD.

It is completely random what internet speeds you can get. The only constant is the monopoly of Comcast & AT&T.
Interesting that NFX posts always get showcased in HN in front page.Plus, any top comments on other posts also link to NFX website. Guess there is a big pro NFX lobby lurking in HN.
This exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test
This APU is slower than base PS4, and ~2x slower than 8 year old GTX 760.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4z4igRnlLQ
"It's about coercing people into changing their behavior..."

Isn't that the point?
> So the problem is that you can make some statistical predictions about what someone's views are based on their reading habits. But you can't morally judge them on that basis

Companies are making these kinds of flawed assumptions about you and every one of us every single day. They often then sell that info to data brokers who happily sell that data to others who will then start with incorrect assumptions about you as an individual and let that influence how they interpret the rest of the data they collect about you.

It's a real problem because those flawed data sets you aren't allowed to see, contest, or update are increasingly being used to meaningfully impact your everyday life in ways that you'll never be aware of.

The bottom line is that companies don't care. If they will make more money by being right most of the time that's what they are going to do. You might be the fittest, healthiest person on Earth, but if your health insurance company sees that people in your area code have started buying fast food more often they can decide to raise your rates. They won't tell you why they did it. They'll just do it. You could be the most financially responsible person on Earth but if you live in the wrong zip code don't be surprised when you get denied certain services or told that a company's polices are one thing when they would have told you they were something else if you lived on the other side of town.

That said, it's probably a whole lot easier to make accurate predictions about people than you think. Sure you'd read fox news, but most of your time is probably not spent on right wing sites, you probably aren't leaving comments espousing right wing talking points, and you probably aren't donating money to right wing causes.

With enough data it's not that hard to figure out if you're regularly hanging out at stormfront because you're working for the Anti-Defamation League or because you're a racist.

Algorithms can detect (and exploit) mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and Alzheimer's companies can certainly detect "stupid" well enough for their own needs.
You are making a straw man argument by assuming that GP claims they can infer individual-level attributes from telemetry while all they claim is to infer population-level attributes.
If there aren't staff on the cruise ship to remind you to brush your teeth, to ensure you take the correct pills at the correct time, and to help you get to the toilet several times per day, then I don't think they're comparable at all, before actual medical care as in treatment or rehabilitation of any kind enters the picture.

Ability to tolerate and care for residents in severe mental and mobility decline are kind of the differentiator between a nursing home and other kinds of lodging.
Thank you, he seems to have very distinct and interesting views!
> And you're leaving/left because you had to wear a face mask?

You really shouldn't put words in the author's mouth. They very clearly said:

> government can arbitrarily shut down your office for several months

and

> a city that could shut down bars, restaurants, and theaters for a year

There are a number of states that managed to keep schools, restaurants, and barbershops open without having worse outcomes than California did. And when the state chose to ignore the CDC for an entire month and keep things locked down, even for vaccinated people, it kinda pushed a lot of people over the edge.
They don't block JavaScript, they block the loading of resources deemed to be for advertising. These are typically ads, but they can also be images, CSS, or other resources hosted by advertisers. Such blocking will also block any other kind of tracking done by the external domain.

On the other hand, JavaScript inline in the page is almost never blocked by users.
Lots in the embedded space.
Your response was sharp for no reason if they weren't responsible for the situation. And too indirect if they were.

"Thanks. But I'm not interested. Someone warned me the politics are vicious. Please don't ask again."
The specs look good enough to smoothly run The Witcher 3 in 720p (screen size).
Of course, but I think providing shelter, food, stability even in the short term is a necessary first step.

I know one issue a lot of homeless who are working to get back up on their feet face is even having a stable address to receive mail or include when applying to jobs etc.

I'm with you that there are many other issues and that homelessness is one symptom of a problem, but providing some stability through housing and food seems like a productive, and achievable first step for a city government to accomplish.
Why do I feel like I'm solving someone else's CAPTCHA?
The lock-in they were talking about was that of the only way to get software to Windows would be from Store.
On the other hand all the half baked "modern" apis were Sinofskys revenge for not getting the CEO job.
> "Poor people aren't the reason all that CO2 is being emitted, it's the people with multiple houses."

You're not alone in that view. → [1]

[1] https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-worlds-richest-people-also-e...
Or PostGraphile: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
WHO's Chief: It Was Premature to Rule Out a Lab Leak as the Pandemic's Origin
Mobile Development Trends to Adopt in 2021
physically remove an ad to open a door to a building

"Oh, that's where it is. I couldn't find the product because the ad was in the way." Grocery store standalone displays partially blocking aisles and shelves are a pain during busy periods. You get cart jams.
Didn't we already have this with Java? Write once, run anywhere and the hardware would magically adapt the incoming code to run on the new hardware? Except now, it's LLVM byte-code instead of Java (and x86 asm)?

I'm not trying to be cynical here, but I can see how this would sound like that. I guess I'm just confused about what this actually is and how it is new/different than all of the things that have been tried before.
Classifieds were a huge source of income as well.
I've had this problem recently with parsing a webpage using some webscraping library, and returning nothing since everyone seems to be running a SPA now. It's infuriating that you pretty much need to run some headless browser to just scrape a damn website now.
We absolutely need a media walled garden for children. There's no good reason to give them unfettered access to the internet right out of the chute. They can grow out of it at their own pace.

The moralizing coming from all angles is weird, since everyone involved would probably consider themselves a problem-solver.
Yeah, pretty frustrating when whatsapp is the only messenger i can't have open on both my phone and tablet.

Incidentally, the only messenger I use that requires a phone number is again, whatsapp. Because it has basically replaced SMS here.

Other than that, if they want me to sign up with my phone number, I say no thank you and move on. Looking at you Signal, and other "security/privacy conscious" messengers.
Upper stage reuse doesn’t require a landing. If you could refuel an upper stage in space, you could use it for deep space exploration.

Do they deliberately deorbit the Falcon second stage? Would be interesting if we could keep a couple parked in LEO and refuel them for different missions.
> The results of ⍸ for different rank arguments are actually inconsistent.

Yep. For this reason deep where ideally wouldn't live on '&'. It should be able to absorb any structure for subsequent use with deep indexing etc, regardless of rank. Perhaps another reason to make 'explode' an adverb...?
This thing has GPU 2x weaker than 8 year old GTX 760. You might as well buy one used for $100.
Loops are the other option you’d need to prove don’t exist.

I think I can see why trying to solve this problem is popular. It almost feels like it should be easy to solve but it just quite isn’t!
Government can offer rather simple infrastructure to enable digitally signing crawler requests and any legal entity should be able to acquire and renew signatures at very low cost. Total implementation costs for search engines won’t be high in such case.
I just used the new arch installer script, even though I've gotten my install time down to under an hour over time. It took maybe 10 minutes. I don't have very complicated or unique needs, but it "just worked" on my 4 year old Thinkpad.
What I Did on my Summer Vacation.
Adaptive Hugepage Subrelease for Non-Moving Memory Allocators
The consequences of requiring government IDs for basic Internet usage are much worse than just making crawling and indexing more difficult. I worry that due to government/'activist' pressure and the difficulty of dealing with spam/bots/identity (think of the captcha/ML rat race we are in), we may end up with an Internet that is not only completely centralized (as ours is becoming), but that also completely disallows anonymous and pseudonymous usage in most cases. I'm definitely not a fan of the direction many government bodies are taking us with respect to this.
Finally a way to sort out candidates that's even cheaper than making them implement B-trees.
I mostly "boost" posts to my page, for what it's worth.

Also, all three of those are worthless for photographers. We're not like a plumber where as long as the job is done right and priced well you're good. Our style is why you're hiring us, so an ad showing one of my images makes a lot of sense.
I have no idea how you drew that conclusion.

I explicitly stated a company could prohibit proselytizing at work.

That includes even if "God told me to do it".

Congrats! Your "medieval voodoo" made my eyes roll. Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity far pre-date the medieval era, while voodoo, as a mix of traditional West African religions and Roman Catholicism, post-dates the medieval era.

> when it comes to disobeying the laws which everyone else is subject to

Are you so naive to believe that laws cannot have a built-in bias for or against a specific population?

As Anatole France wrote in The Red Lily: “For the poor it consists in supporting and maintaining the rich in their power and their idleness. At this task they must labour in the face of the majestic equality of the laws, which forbid rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. This equality is one of the benefits of the Revolution.” - https://archive.org/details/redlily00frangoog/page/n100/mode...

The same happens with religions.

Normille's from the UK. The Church of England has been the established church of England since 1534 (just after the medieval era).

Want to guess how many British laws have a built-in 'Get Out of Jail Free' card for the CoE practices that so strongly influenced British culture? Here's one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_prayer#Countries_that_p...

> ... all pupils in state schools must take part in a daily act of collective worship, unless their parents request that they be excused from attending.[7] The majority of these acts of collective worship are required to be "wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character", with two exceptions

Here's another - until somewhat recently abolished, blasphemy laws in England "only protect[ed] the Christian beliefs as held by the Church of England" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_United_Ki... .

Those wouldn't be allowed in the US. Where somehow the phrase "In God We Trust" is 'ceremonial deism' in the US and therefore not religious?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_deism

Or where Blue Laws, which are nominally secular, according the the courts, also happen to coincide with "the prohibition of Sabbath desecration in Christian Churches following the first-day Sabbatarian tradition" common in the US. Why is it illegal for most stores in Maine to be open on Easter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States...

(I presume that's the Easter of Western Christianity, not Eastern Orthodox.)

Name a "modern egalitarian and secular society" in the West and I guarantee there are laws biased that favor the long-standing dominant local religious practices.
Yes it's real! In rural cities in the USA many people only have 1-2mbps speeds still!

My family in rural areas are waiting and hoping for 5G internet to save them, but I live in a rather hilly region and many are worried their homes won't get good 5G service!