skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but for most packages, that's not really an issue. I.e. there might be a tensorflow library, but there is no libnumpy or libpandas, as far as I know.

As I also mention in the blog post, if you set out to create fundamental library software like FFTW, you should indeed use a static language, and Julia is no good.
I ended up adding the 'Live TV' option to my existing Hulu subscription, and now have access to all the replays as well as the primetime coverage. It's working very well. It's ~$65/mo extra, so I'll just cancel that add-on after the games end.

I'd prefer to have native internet streaming coverage. IIRC the 2016 or '18 games had fantastic free coverage on streaming boxes, with a nice app that had an easy way to watch live for any sport. not sure why we are regressing so badly. Probably money.
It's not simply a matter of public sentiment. Federal courts have consistently ruled that cities can't criminalize homelessness, or involuntarily commit people to mental institutions if they don't present an immediate risk. Changing this might require a Constitutional amendment.
Japan generally has the population density to roll out new infrastructure very quickly, so while I have no idea if they have any existing infrastructure in that area, the feeling may be that hydrogen is a "better" solution and they would rather just roll that out instead of the "easier, worse" solution (which also requires an infrastructure roll out to a large degree - just not as much as hydrogen).

I'm not saying hydrogen actually is better here, mind you, but if they think so, they may want to just go ahead and do it.
A side note: wow Dijkstra really has some top-notch handwriting.
Reclassifying the type of sound is possibly reasonable. Changing the coordinates seems like falsification of evidence. Later in the article it mentions adding a fifth shot in a different event.

If shotspotter wants to be relied on for evidence, allowing technicians to go back and modify data seems like a recipe to quickly eliminate its use in cities and destroy its market share. Adding notes about manual review after the fact would be the only acceptable thing, but the originals should never be modified/deleted.
The free apps I have are not very popular. I did try some basic marketing, but it wasn't that successful.

I would guess the best marketing you can do for a developer tool is to create tutorials around whatever problem you tool solves. I know I tend to stumble across stuff when googling "how do I do...".
Sometimes genius is in the little things :)
It should go without saying that Julia also has had a C FFI for years. And a Python FFI. And an R FFI.

The C++ one was dodgy last I looked (which was several years ago; I'm sure it's better now). In practice I typically wrote explicit C wrappers, restoring genericity on either side of the wrapper. Faintly tedious, but nothing a couple macros couldn't solve.
This is not as easy as YOU imagine.

It's at the level of deciding: "Hey, silicon is just like carbon so let's replace carbon in everything: living things, etc. with silicon!"

There are myriad of details that can't be ignored but always get brushed aside in ideological fervor and the network of interconnected things that gets disrupted will "fight back" because it's already in the lowest energy state - it's already optimal and the new big thing is not and will not be.
I remember reading John Carmack's comments a few years back and it kind of broke my coding style because it seemed like I did everything opposite of his suggestions.

I haven't recovered since. For anyone interested, here is my notes summary from various articles and videos from John.

### John Carmack

* Do-always, then inhibit or ignore strategy

* Common pattern for me: get first results with hacky code, then write a brand new and clean implementation with the lessons learned, so they both exist and can be cross checked.

* If a function is only called from a single place, consider inlining it.

* If a function is called from multiple places, see if it is possible to arrange for the work to be done in a single place, perhaps with flags, and inline that.

* If there are multiple versions of a function, consider making a single function with more, possibly defaulted, parameters.

* If the work is close to purely functional, with few references to global state, try to make it completely functional.

* Try to use const on both parameters and functions when the function really must be used in multiple places.

* Minimize control flow complexity and "area under ifs", favoring consistent execution paths and times over "optimally" avoiding unnecessary work.
This is a dupe from a few days ago, but it looks like the original thread has been deleted.

What's going on?
Calling it innovation seems pretty naive.

- defi: images hosted on url's that can disappear

- eth sites: exists since 1970?

- eth auth: a step back, lose keys, lose account. No recovery possible.

...

Can you say what exactly was "innovated"?
My pet theory as to why is the 90s is when japan was at its peak productive (late 20s, early 40s) population demographics, and now with the county having more seniors than children, they are stuck in the past, since the dominant age group still wields all the political and business power. The olds see no reason to change, as olds are prone to do.

You see it in the USA today too with their aging boomer ruling class, but since its not as bad as japan, they’re not staying as stuck in the past.
Neuremburg, may have been a little dramatic but the core of their argument is correct.

Giving experimental vaccines to healthy people not in the vulnerable population is a violation of their rights.

Hundreds of thousands of people protesting Paris and other regions of the world seem to agree.

The cable MSM isn't covering it obviously.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protesters-against-covi...
This reads like a troll message to me, so I'm not sure I should even engage. But in the off chance it isn't, then if you actually want to convince people of something you should try:

* Not using ridiculous hyperbole

* Providing a well-reasoned solution instead of just stating what the problem is
Japan’s virtual YouTubers have millions of real subscribers
Same period of employment for me too and I agree that it mostly matches my experience. Even though I find the article an exaggerated polemic, there are a few things that really resonate with me:

1. Open offices are stupid. For proof just see how many people love working from home where they have far fewer unwanted distractions. Yes there are other reasons to like remote work too, but I bet lack of distracting surroundings is up there.

2. Not having dedicated QA is mega stupid for something like Windows. You can clearly see that in Windows 10.

Other than that, yes I am a bit more accepting of some of the newer stuff, but I get where he's coming from. y'all need to get off my lawn.
In the USA: WPA, Atomic bomb, Moon landing, and most successfully development of the Military Industrial Complex, exultation of the military (integration into Hollywood, professional sports etc) coupled with the forever war system to channel taxpayer funds to friends in a way that cannot be unwound. It's hard to understand the public attitude towards the US military 1780s-1960s if you only know the 180° position from the mid 1980s onward.

Great Leap Forward? Electrification of the Soviet Union? Elimination of the smallpox virus?

Arguably the Cultural Revolution and, to a lesser extent the restructuring of German culture in the 1930s were extremely "successful" in that they accomplished their putative goals, and also had led to long term changes in those societies, though fortunately not the long term changes intended by their instigators.
The average Japanese employee works less hours per year than the average American, on what comes down to having an additional two weeks off per year (1713 vs 1783 hours worked annually [1]).

Of course, with statistics like these one has to consider the fact that second-income earners working part-time jobs make the statistic skew low, which means that in countries where wages are high enough to feed a family with only one parent working, the numbers will skew higher despite less actual hours worked. I am note sure to what degree the statistics address this issue.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
Those laws won't be better if all this amounts to is special pleading to not obsolete Toyota's R&D and capex in gas engines. India also "struggles" with petroleum infrastructure, safe handling, pollution, etc.
Oops, didn't wait for it to load enough. Here's a wikimedia link for another JIS keyboard https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Lo...
So much money, too few startups to invest it into.
Not sure this is right. Coal plants are at best 40% efficient, combined-cycle natural gas 60%. Then you have transmission losses (2-13%), and then inefficiency in EV chargers. Atkinson-cycle engines (often used in hybrids like the Prius) can reach 40% efficiency. Seems like a wash to me in terms of efficiency. On the other hand, if using solar or wind, efficiency becomes a little less interesting because the fuel is "free".
Correction:

The lawful arrest of George Floyd. Jury was biased. Arsonists and a criminal mob influenced the judge.

The lawful encounter with Adam Toledo.

Criminals everywhere: change your ways or be destroyed.
There’s a real problem here: those are still the books to read if you really want to understand Windows. They’re great books but they’re old, often out of print, and the onus is on the reader to distinguish outdated info from still-relevant info. Yet as far as I can tell, nobody’s publishing better books about Windows programming today.

It’s remarkably hard in 2021 for a newbie to start learning Windows programming “properly”.
There is a workforce more diverse than another one.
‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study
No, apart from Alto Adige, which is an Austrian region occupied after WWI, still inhabited by Austrians, nobody has any exposure to German. (I honestly don’t know if they consider themselves Italians or Austrians, but they usually are native German speakers and have limited knowledge of Italian).

It is hard to find a 45+ year old Italian who knows a foreign language.
>the Japanese are so hostile to foreigners/immigrants that it's borderline xenophobia

Have you ever actually visited Japan?

If so, how do you usually behave?

I'm white and haven't really had a single negative experience. I've also made several friends who are incredibly friendly, keep in touch, etc.

When I've been lost, random Japanese citizens, not even government officials, have helped me find my way, even taking me over a block away from where they were to make sure I found what I was looking for.

Occasionally there are glances and stares but I'd definitely not classify that as "hostile".
Why Crypto Fostered an Online Community That Stocks Could Not
The Peacock app coverage is horrible. I ended up paying for Hulu + Live TV to get live coverage as well as the full backlog of replays.
I was of the same opinion and had respect for what Tesla stands for and what they do. Until I encountered Tesla Solar. The contracts these guys try to get you into makes Comcast or Exxon Mobil or medical insurance companies feel like saints.They have door to door salesmen who sell this to unsuspecting 80 year olds who don't even understand what they are signing up for

There is a thing called PPA. Usual lease terms is for 20 years or more. No way to get out of them without signing your life away. They make you pay for what it generates, not what you use.. I had to walk away from a really good house just because it came with a Tesla Solar PPA..
I like the new way because it's very easy to get through the day without working and pretending you work. I like the old way because it makes coding expectations more realistic and enjoyable.
I like this but you might want to up the z score for LeBron. GM is 2500 plus norms. LeBron has 4 rings and 4 MVPs. He would be Magnus level or at least one of the few who hit 2800 (there have only been 13).

NB: I'm a huge LeBron fan and a huge Magnus fan.
> But having any kind of notification that an install is uncommon? We call it a general purpose computer because we want to use it for general purposes: which is to say, uncommon purposes.

How much % of the windows install base do you think is running random programs that they downloaded off github, and how many are just running the top 1000 programs (eg. chrome/office/winrar)?
Amazon ‘definitely’ lining up Bitcoin payments and token, confirms insider
Sounds like they’ll be able to leverage that legislation to encourage grid improvements.
Those that I trust say that most of the content providers have gotten good at blocking known vpn hosts.
Reduced incidence of dementia after vaccination against chickenpox and shingles
EU != Europe. The UK left the political and economic union called the EU, they are still very much part of Europe.
Their wikipedia page says 25 tons of water are required for every ton of carbon dioxide.

First, they'll have to expend energy to pump all that seawater to wherever they want to inject it. Will CO2 be created to generate that energy? What percentage of a CO2-producing power plant's output will be required to move all the water around?

Second, what potential does injecting all that brine have to spoil underground sources of fresh water?
Dependabot PM here:

We've provided an action that will provide metadata (e.g. semver bump) that you can use to enable granular automerge. See https://github.com/dependabot/fetch-metadata/#enabling-auto-... for an example.
I think they mean computer-verified proofs. As you note, the existing proofs are already formally verified, so this might not add much.
If there's an automated algorithm that determines the prompt for "Sign in to confirm your age" ... it's has strange false positives.

Here's a video that requires age-confirmation:

"Weed Identification of Cool and Warm Season Weeds in the Lawn" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znCi9lpIy60

His channel is just typical lawn care stuff: https://www.youtube.com/c/bluecreel/videos

Maybe that's happening with Bret Weinstein's video.
> I also used to be on several hiring committees and it was very obvious that HR essentially forced non-white-males to be hired in some instances.

Fast forward a few years, and when looking at internal transfers you'll hear "don't worry, he's a white/asian male, so you know he's here on merit". First time I heard that I was shocked.

> Obviously as a white male I experience incredible privilege overall.

Go tell that to the trailer trash white kid who last saw his mother with a needle in her arm when he was a teenager, never met his father and managed to somehow make it in tech thanks to Community College and scholarships.
Sorry, but I’m an expert shooter. I can reasonably identify the round and sometimes the gun on the range next to me - I would say I have an excellently tuned ear for these things…

And not a chance I could do that based on microphone playback between firework and gunshot with some random mic in a city. 1/2 the “trick” is knowing the location, at my range I know the echo of a 12ga vs a 45ACP, the crack difference in a 223 or a 6.5prc, if I went to some random place and you shot one random shot, it would be ridiculously less accurate.

Shotspotter seems like a ton of bullshit to me after reading this article including…

> Both the company and the Rochester Police Department “lost, deleted and/or destroyed the spool and/or other information containing sounds pertaining to the officer-involved shooting,”
The minting amount of Tether is absurd and does have the free reign to mint how much they want. This issue was already exposed a long time ago, yet as the BTC price went up, they suddenly put up this Tether FUD news. There are some other alternative stable coins vs. USDT, and I think if you weigh in the pros and cons and with the issue of Tether right now, surely USDC and other stable coins would win.
>It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content

It's very easy. I modify my hosts file with lists such as Steven Blacks [1] or the EnergizedProtection host lists [2] which are both continuously updated files containing know ad server URL's and whatnot.

I can honestly say that I haven't seen an ad in years, let alone any form of divisive content. But I also might just not visit many websites where they show that stuff. The best solution to that is to avoid those sites if possible.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[2] https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block
This is all also described in the book "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams". Especially the importance of individual flowtime. I tried to explain this once to an agile coach and suggested he read that book. We then continued to stuff our faces with candy while he started a "flow" game mostly focusing on imaginary situations demonstrating that collaborating as much as possible increased the flow of the team.
I think this could be driven by personalization of internet content. It started with the innocuous idea of presenting only the information you need. And, it turned into a system of echo chambers where your world view would be limited to certain ideas that you are comfortable with. And, it leads to lots of cognitive distortions. Also, the abundance of media on the internet force the content of the media to be louder for it to be visible. Nuance has to give way to crass generalization to get deeper media engagement.

I seriously worry about the trend and I am not very hopeful about the direction it takes.
Precision is an attribute of the deployed system. The same tech in an affluent suburb will have different precision deployed in an inner city. Ran into this exact problem in biometrics, where NIST publishes tech error rates like FNMR and FMR, and system owners don't even know precision is a thing. They expect the vendor to tell them if it will work, when it depends how many true and false events you throw at the system.
Parallax beyond the distance equivalent to that between the cameras very quickly drops the distance accuracy possible to resolve into the noise floor.

E.g. just a quarter mile is already in the noise.
This article is painfully true. Julia is full of gems, but also features so many warts everywhere that I'm not sure whether it will be able to overcome the latter – I hope it will.

I would add to the author's list the subtle differences between REPL and scripts, the weird obsession of Julia for embedding slightly different and out of date versions of its dependencies (BLAS, uv, LLVM, ...) that makes it a nightmare to package, the painfully slow documentation website,
the sometimes surprising function names, and wholeheartedly agree on the failure that is functional programming handling, both in syntax and implementation – which is surprising for a language stemming from MIT.
Fucking Pirates: A Teeny, Tiny Call to Arms
In a way that's what makes the question of AI math interesting. Probably AIs will be better than us at math in a couple decades. But that might not change anything because it's still up to humans to determine whether a result is interesting. And it may take us just as long to understand AI-created concepts as to build them up ourselves. Maybe math starts looking more like archaeology at that point. (Though it's arguably archaeology anyway -- the proofs are all "out there", we just have to find them).
Just like Google Stadia made ISPs stop having data caps?
>Providing a well-reasoned solution instead of just stating what the problem is

I did:

>modern policing must be abolished and something entirely different needs to take its place
That's not what they're saying. The "chrome custom tabs" feature is a service interface exposed by an application, not the OS. There is no "open a custom tab" feature provided by Android. Therefore applications have to locate an installed browser that is known to support CCT before asking that application to start a Custom Tabs activity. The involvement of the OS in this interaction is to show the calling activity a list of applications that handle the ACTION_VIEW intent for URLs, and to bind the browser's CCT service to the interface for the client. The clients are the one choosing to only interact with Chrome at this point!
There’s also a significant amount of emissions from the production and transportation of petrol/diesel for use in vehicles you have to factor in.
>a Model 3 Long Range operating at peak efficiency can recover up to 75 miles of charge in 5 minutes and charge at rates of up to 1,000 miles per hour.[1]

I agree we need more public chargers, but I don't think "chargers are too slow" is really a valid forward looking argument anymore.

[1] - https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-v3-supercharging
Careful: the number of people on HN who are now firmly in the camp of: "there are no facts, there is no truth, all journalism is propoganda" is astonishingly large, and growing (it seems to me, anyway).
> Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots.

Wait, what?
I am completely with you. IMHO, it is because of easy numbers. Here's CO2 per km and here's Wh per km.

Also people (pushed by oil lobby??) not only forget whole pipeline (pun intended) of petrol industry, but are very concerned that couple hundred kg of batteries is worse than tens of thousands of liters of petrol burned over lifetime of a vehicle.
My understanding is the following.

While BEVs are the clear technological winner based on “source to wheels” efficiency - you could make the case that, if looking at Hydrogen vehicles in isolation, that Japan would be one of the best places for it / the most likely place where it could have success. From high density metropolises (less expense for fueling stations than would be required elsewhere), a strong political interest to not use oil anymore (as Japan as to import almost all of their primary energy), to a desire to build out with less dependence on China based minerals and supply chains - building out a domestic supply chain of fuel cells and hydrolyzers is arguably easier than for BEVs (even though, some of the most experienced and respected li-ion cell developers are Japanese).

The Japanese car market is also significantly more utilitarian than in other parts of the world (meaning performance matters less).

Yes, the Japanese government would be wise to shift course. But from a Japanese national security perspective/energy independence perspective, as well as hypothetical roll out - if there is any place it could work, it would be Japan.
I believe access to battery supply is one of the bottlenecks in changing course. Globally, batteries are in high demand and forecast supply is spoken for. Others like VW have been investing to ensure sufficient supply for their EV production. So my guess is that Toyota is unable to change direction quickly enough to meet proposed deadlines for full electrification.

It seems to me that there's a medium-term role for (plug-in) hybrids and that Toyota could serve that niche well if the legal structure allowed them to get "partial EV" credit for those cars.