skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's scary (completely expected though) to see people switching to bashing the BBC when it publishes a view they disagree with. People pretend that science is somehow involved in the covid orthodoxy, and I expect it was at one point, but we've moved into religious territory. What credentials, evidence, source combination would actually convince people to question the current religious view?
>Embedded is a fuzzy category, specs range from <1kb Ram to the low megabytes.

After a career in embedded software, I'd have to say that I've only worked on a couple of products that had less oomph than a high-end PC of the same era.
Masking doesn't change your CO2 status. Or dehydrate you.

Outdoor masking, outside the context of something like a crowded concert, is probably silly. But we can be pretty confident it won't affect your respiratory health.
I solved the problem with this: https://www.amazon.com/Injection-manganese-Removal-Oxidizing...
... works really well and requires little/no maintenance for the first few years. Before that I had a chlorine injection system and it was a nightmare (maintenance-wise).
If you have an outbreak in a highly vaccinated population, guess what is true of the people that get sick?

Consider the limit case, a 100% vaccinated population. If you have an outbreak, everyone that gets sick will have been vaccinated.
Thank you! I didn't know about this resource, it's quite helpful! The site makes it possible to compare any two countries on the same graph. That's what I did, but the qualitative effect looks as sharp as in google's graphs. Please take a look
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/palestine?cou...
Yes but what is known is the number of deaths from covid, currently standing at 4.4 millions worldwide and 600k and counting in the US vs. very few if any attributable to taking the vaccine.

So I would argue any reasonable measure of risk is pointing to the vaccine being absolutely the safer alternative (also taking into account that vaccines have been around a very long time, the long term risk is not likely to be high).

And thats is before taking into account the fact that no matter how isolated you are, unless you never interact with anyone, you will likely come into contact with the virus sooner or later.
Sure, but you often hear it being talked about in terms of a victimhood hierarchy or “oppression Olympics” which is a mischaracterisation that is used to stake out a position against listening to people who are being marginalised.

In my experience, it’s an effort made to listen to people whose needs aren’t being met, because whatever policy or design is being discussed either forgot them entirely or designed something inappropriately. Easiest non-political example I can think of is an office bike locker where I worked which had hanging bike racks — as people started using e-bikes, that worked out badly, because e-bikes are heavy and the people using them didn’t all have the strength to hoist them. They weren’t the majority of cyclists, but they were causing the majority the problems of bikes being left in awkward or unsafe places. Turns out some regular cyclists struggled to lift their bikes too, so we installed floor racks (and power outlets) - clutter solved and back injuries hopefully avoided.

That effort to listen is definitely misused by some people who (in my respectful opinion) thrive on attention, but I think you’d find lefties talking about the project in terms of equality and inclusion.
Can AI be taught to play Flappy Bird?
Some of the earliest languages were made by women, as women were the original (human) computers and then the first programmers.
One tactic I use to avoid this is to ask myself “would a smart person who knows only what I’ve written up to this point about this subject understand what I just wrote?”

If the answer is no, I need to break the concepts down more.

I picture this as a tiny editor sitting on my shoulder who asks this question as I write.
I agree with you, it definitely counts as a change for me too. I don't think contracting is ideal to find a "family" like atmosphere because such places are probably reluctant to use contractors (there are other benefits of contracting of course).
If the ideas are correct or built on a widely accepted basis, and can be reliably shown to be correct by third party investigators, i.e. in the hard sciences and engineering, the extra friction in exchange would hardly matter.

If you mean when the ideas are contentious than yes the language barrier and different culture would add noticeable friction and probably put japanese academics in a disadvantageous position in debate. Though that degree of friction seems to be independent of closeness to the ideals of ancient Greece, unless you know of some correlation?
> it means literally nothing for how another person's immune system will behave when they encounter it.

Vaccinations teach everyone's immune system to target the same part of the virus. Since everyone has immunity to the same spike protein, a change in that protein means something to all vaccinated people.
Bat 1: What'ya doing?

Bat 2: Just hanging.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Man, the bit about neural networks hits close to home.

I'd kill for a NN tutorial that doesn't go "Anyway, as you can see, by multiplying the derivative by a small value we can eventually find the local minima of this curve. Anyway, just use these exact tensorflow functions with the parameters we give you and you're all set!"
None of this solves the basic problem of what features in the world you want to put into the model.

Heights of A, B, C? Age? Gender? Educational history? Reading or watching preferences? Handedness? Favorite color? You have absolute no idea which, if any, of the possible characteristics you could use to describe A, B or C, and so you only choices are to be vaguely selective and hope your guess is right, or throw everything you can think at the model and hope that there's still a clear signal. You may still get it wrong.
If you can train an NN in a day, then you can probably train SVD in minutes/hours- so why not start with it? Otherwise you might not even recognize the symptoms of bad hyperparameters fo r the NN resulting in poor performance.
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I suspect a lot of things we associate with obesity are more bidirectional than we realize.
> -roulette. Burn the matchmaking algorithms...

Heh. True.

--

The road less traveled was foraging.

Prior to relevant search and recommenders, information science people (eg librarians) facilitated user directed discovery.

Instead, most effort has been put preventing user agency. We know what you want. We'll tell you. Leave the details to us; no need to worry yourself about our algorithms.

IMHO, web directories (eg curlie, neé DMOZ) are maybe the closest digital analog of foraging. goodreads.com was pretty good. I'm struggling to think of other examples. Maybe BBSs like craigslist and metafilter.
Does it make a difference that Apple is the hardware manufacturer, whereas Microsoft just provides the OS for PCs in general?
The new FTC chair, Lina Khan, read this like Birdman, rubbing her hands.
> I don't think I find 97% of people I encounter in general disagreeable, in my experience Software Engineering just has loads and loads of "that guy"’s. You know, the ones you try to avoid at parties. Except that's most of them, so you don't show up to the parties in the first place.

I should probably mention here that I'm not a professional software developer.

I could have become one. I've always liked coding and working with computers—it's why I'm hanging out on Hacker News—and a lot of people in my life encouraged me to pursue that as a career. But I resisted, and if I'm completely honest with myself, it's because I didn't see programmers as the type of people I wanted to work with.

Talking about this—even thinking about it—feels kind of ugly, because I know I'm stereotyping! And, there are plenty of programmers who I consider wonderful people, some of whom I'm even lucky enough to count as friends! But on average, across the broader population of people who pursue software engineering, I do think there's a lot of truth to the stereotype.

(I currently work at a small graphic design agency, as a sort of bridge between the design and development teams. I'm eventually planning to get a masters in elementary education.)
do you have a source available?
It sounds awfully as unpaid overtime. If she is doing good job at 9-5, she should get a promotion.

And it is kind of risky. Some colleague may feel harassed, or disagree with some personal views. Good way to get fired!
The other big difference is in a family, with rare exceptions, no matter how poorly you do, you don’t get fired or sacked.

And, they also tolerate a lot more meanness and uncouthness than a company. You don’t get fired for not following an employee handbook or code of conduct. In a family you get away with a lot.

At work a minor transgression will get most non top managers fired due to lots of reasons but mostly liability and fragility from other “family” (colleagues).
In a biology course, less than ten years ago, we cut out the graphs we sketched and weighed them, to calculate area-under-curve.
Right, I understand the claims, but as you can see with AMD there's a ton of work to actually be competitive, and AMD has a large team working on it. I'm just skeptical at the claim the the software is of any use to anyone but a small group.
I’ll bite. I’m not necessarily the new generation, but I understand the viewpoint you’re arguing against.

I am the on the more technical side, making me the help desk for friends and family. For the vast majority of people, the safest and easiest thing to hand them is a chromebook. If they want more capability or better hardware, then they will step up into OS X or windows.

They don’t care about the UX until they have to care about the UX because it’s not working the way it was intended. Then they want to fix it back to the way it was (unhide icons or the task bar). They don’t grasp how computers should work, and while I’ve tried explaining, it just doesn’t take. So they remember how to get to email by clicking icons.

99% of people for casual use would just be confused if you dropped them into a command line. There’s a reason things weren’t as popular before we made advances like we have today.

So - for the vast majority of users - an upgrade is an annoyance and downtime that is there during the 10-30 minutes a day they may need the machine (not the 10-30 minutes they are taking a break from the machine). They don’t understand, and don’t care about, the security updates.

Apple and Microsoft and Samsung and Google have no obligation to you, an edge customer, to create a lot more opportunities to screw things up for the vast majority of users who would just get confused. They have no obligation to enable users to perform illegal activity on their hardware. And they can put whatever they want to in the user agreement for their hardware and software. Your option as a consumer is to not buy it. You can complain about it, but that ship has sailed, as the vast majority of users don’t even understand the complaint and the potential implication.

But no. If you want a UX that’s fully configurable and secure and has privacy protections in place and places emphasis on security over convenience, a private, cloud focused, company like Google or Microsoft or Apple is not the right tree to be barking up.
Recruitment means you need to spend money on the new people. Retention means you need to spend money on everyone.
This is a project they haven't done anything about yet, from the presentation it looks like they just came up with the idea that they would work on this within a week before.

Musk's fans give him too much credit for announcing future work.
>Marketshare. The law sees marketshare.

As I understand it, the law sees detrimental effects on consumers.
Well really, I think it's the responsibility of the parents. In an ideal world, a parent can decide when their child is mentally ready to engage in an industry like that, and can also decide where the line is safe (teases? partial nudity? full softcore? hardcore? intense BDSM?)

The reality of course though is that not every child has a responsible parent, and many children have parents who would happily exploit their children to make a couple thousand extra dollars (which really sucks, but it's also just how the world is). So as a general legal policy, putting the burden on parents may lead to substantially more harm of children.
HPL is a stress test with a notionally useful output measurement - just about the most effective way of pushing CPU load to the limit, and it tells you what fraction of the theoretical maximum FLOPS you can actually achieve given the other system constraints like memory and network throughput.
Whether the vaccine works perfectly or not is actually completely irrelevant to the simple question of whether the government is inviting corruption by allowing what are effectively lobbyist scientists to apply suasion with "participating" in the studies, and aside from whether "participation" now adds the veneer of respectability that you cite.
I try to fight this by defining any technical term immediately before or after the first time I use it. It makes you aware of stack depth if you find yourself defining a term within the definition of a term within the definition of a term, and may give you a hint you should reconsider the order of your explanation. It also helps you stay aware of your target audience if you stay aware of the words and phrases they're not expected to know your usage of.
It not only works, but is among the most beautiful structures I've seen. Someone should really build that.

It also once again makes me consider the idea that da Vinci was a time travelling physicist having the time of his life.
Team building exercises and helping others with their projects is hardly what makes co-workers "family". I've worked full time for my company for 38 years. I've helped people with their homework to get through school, celebrated marriages, babysat, visited them in the hospital, celebrated holidays, supported them through cancer, looked after their house while they were away, hired their kids, threw retirement parties, and unfortunately attended seven funerals. That's when co-workers become family. I don't think it's very common in companies any longer.
Swagger ‘documentation’.

I understand every programmer I talk to loves this auto generated ‘documentation’ (prolly for selfish reasons). For me the tautological definitions, and lack of overview (which resources you need to form basic reporting—my introduction was swagger api for a Platform POS) undermine the description as ‘documentation’. I’m not complaining about what Swagger does, but about the cavalier way other programmers and vendor managers sound all chipper about their (un-)helpful ‘documentation’.
which is basically nothing compared to google/apple of today.They are basically forcing you to use them as a middle-man for any app you want. While getting a cut from all transactions.

Non-google app stores cannot automatically update aps, side-loading is hidden in menus behind scary warnings.

IOS forcing you to use safari no matter what, and there is no way to side-load apps, nor any non-apple app stores.

chrome de facto sets web standards, giving them slight edge over other browsers - and they do use chrome specific APIs to cripple other browsers - like YouTube working worse on Firefox due that reason.

And that's even without taking into the consideration all the tracking in form of telemetry on the devices, coupled with their own ads markets.
>> professional body builders who go to the gym a couple times per week

I've never heard of a professional body builder, or any other athlete, who only went to the gym a couple times every week. The handful of semi-pro body builders I have known are more likely to be at the gym a couple times per day.
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There’s a federal vaccine injury program you realize
You're absolutely right! Have to append "lang" to those searches as well to filter out crystal reports or stuff on Etsy :)
Not according to leaked CDC materials:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccin...

Who are you to determine what is "misinformation"?
It seems like the parent has an understanding of the term quite different from the norm.
the approach of meson to hardcode the properties (including the name of the main executable!) of each and every compiler in the universe seems pretty short-sighted if not outright dumb and isn't quite how the designers of UNIX, the C language and compiler toolchains envisioned a build system to work.

if meson was properly designed, a user could just run `CC=whatevercc meson ...` and it would work with basically each and every single compiler available on *NIX and every POSIX compatible environment, including gcc, clang, tcc, cproc and even within cygwin.
the only compiler i know that works differently is MSVC and it would be easier to just provide a wrapper that transforms POSIX-compatible compile command lines into ones that MSVC understands.

(this reminds me of the head-desk approach CMake takes to adding library dependencies: each library has a hardcoded configuration file, which can go as far as scanning your /usr/lib for libfoo.so rather than just assuming "-lfoo works, and if it doesn't, use $PKG_CONFIG --libs foo"...)

the author of cproc actually filed an issue report in 2019 pointing out this very fallacy, which is still open: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5406
I tried to split an NVMe into different blocks sizes per region recently. It was to get the small performance improvement (~2%) of 4096 byte sectors, while needing to boot on a motherboard that needs 512 byte sectors (I didn't want to deal with switching a remote server to UEFI and figure out every issue remotely; it's a shame there isn't some trivial BIOS extension to support 4096 byte sectors).

So I decided to format a boot region and main region.

What I found with the particular models I had was:

- Multiple regions were fine, and different block sizes (512 or 4096 bytes) were fine too, but they wouln't accept different block sizes in different regions at the same time. Format commands failed when you tried that.

- The atomicity size and alignment were identical regardless of block size. Durable (power fail safe) atomicity was reported as 4096 byte aligned blocks. Write command overlapping atomicity was reported as 512kiB aligned blocks.

I'm not sure why you may think I think NVMe resembles a HDD regarding atomicity. HDDs don't claim to do atomic replacement of sector contents, and neither do non-NVMe SSDs.

However, NVMe specifies the atomicity, and the device reports atomicity parameters. Are you saying the NVMe devices lie about their atomicity as well? If so, that's a real shame, after going to the effort of reporting atomicity parameters in the first place. Or are you inferring it from experience with HDDs and non-NVMe SSDs?

With SSDs (at least low-quality non-NVMe ones) I'm not convinced you can make use of "you don't break what you don't touch". Blocks are remapped all over the place, so you don't know which banks you are touching, so if there are faults with the SSD you don't know which random blocks may become corrupt as a side effect of the blocks you are writing to, so you can't work around it.

In other words, such devices are not usable for anything if you need power fail safety. Atomicity is the least of your worries.

The most extreme awfulness I've heard of is USB flash reporting fake capacity. So when you write your important files to it, it's guaranteed to corrupt them.
https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html#_fake_capacity_usb_...

However, to the extent you decide to depend on a device not corrupting random unrelated data on power failure, it's hard to see why you should not include the NVMe-reported block atomicity in that assumption and modify your storage algorithm to take advantage of it.

Of course any device can fail catastrophically to meet its own basic specifications, such as your bit 2 in every byte example, and in general random corruption due to design or manufacturing issues. It doesn't make sense to design around those kinds of "unknown unknowns" at the B-tree and logging format design level though. Those need to be handled at a higher level, where we are willing to write off a database and perhaps switch to a backup.

Edit: ps. Thanks for the Usenix paper link. It's a good paper, and I'd hoped to see someone do those measurements. I hope to see a similar paper about NVMe someday.
Google and Apple have been caught colluding before on trying to keep software engineer salaries low.

They also conveniently had the exact same app store fee for years. Doesn't make much sense if they were actually competing with each other
I don’t know, at this point my guess is that most people just don’t care, so those that can be bothered to comment are a bit fringe.

When Go first came out, it seemed interesting, but when I checked it out it felt more like throwing out the baby with the bathwater than introducing anything of value. Not every idea since 1972 is bad. So I tried to force myself to use it for a project or two, got frustrated by exactly the things people were complaining about, and never looked at it again.

I haven’t seen any meaningful adoption, so my hypothesis is that by not having the features mainstream users want, Go missed its window of opportunity and the world moved on. It’s neat that they’re adding them now, but.. well.. let’s just say that I was an absolute die-hard Perl fan for a long time so I’m familiar with this pattern.
"All the time", got any examples?
It's a great list, but I couldn't help chuckle at item 12 being an example of item 11 :).
That's right, but we don't need to use the Euclidean distance directly, and in fact most often we don't. For example, we usually use dot product, and predict success between two users as sigmoid(A.B), then we can have A.B > 0 and B.C > 0 but A.C < 0, so there's no problem. We can get the same with Euclidean metric too, by (soft) thresholding- anyway we have to map from our distance to a prediction of the interaction somehow.
Yes. You are right. I have still reported your comment for not misinformation. (The Ministry Of Truth has requested that we report as many comments as we can, regardless of whether it's "information" or "misinformation")
They do indeed compete but doesn't Apple have a monopoly on IOS with it's app store and Google on Android with PlayStore?

At least on Android you can install you own market if you're so inclined. I have yet to find an alternative app store for ios though(might be just me not knowing where to look though).

Edit: Forgot to add that when you're talking about Apple vs G I don't see it as 1 big "smartphone" market. It's 2 different ones. Apple hardware running iOS vs generic hardware running Android.
Of course. I use a debugger but I also use print statements. Using a debugger can be great because you can change values on the fly and explore in different ways.

If it's available I would question not using one. If I was pairing with someone who wouldn't use one or didn't know how I would be frustrated.
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