skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually problems like this are fixed because the people who vote for you complain. But Belgium, in spite of its small size, has a hypercomplex democratic system which is also fairly split between a "Flemish part" and "Walloon part" who will essentially battle each other.

Another example of the kind of political culture in Belgium: a big reason Belgium has a very high national debt is because in the interest of fairness both sides got treated equally in all things: "waffle-iron politics". What this meant in practice is that of side A got a new bridge somewhere because it was needed, side B also got a new bridge, whether one was really needed or not. This kind of waste occurs everywhere to some degree, but Belgium really perfected it to some kind of (expensive) performance art.

None of this is not a problem unique to Belgium, and occurs in international relations as well, or in the US between states at times. Politicians in Belgium however are too busy fighting on which language to use in Brussels and similar Very Important Issues™ so everything moves at glacial speeds :-/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle-iron_politics
The FOIA files are on cia.gov, but that disinformation campaign around the Shuttle is a pretty epic story. They basically took STS blueprints and added a bunch of fatal flaws then let the double agent pass it to the Soviets.
but map also creates a new array, and within map you are not mutating the items of the old array but creating brand new ones no?
[...].map(p => ({...p, canDrink}))

^ the original items of the array are not mutated in this map callback. you could mutate them if you really wanted, i.e.

[...].map(p => {p.canDrink = p.age > 20; return p})

but that is a straight up hack.
> Not everybody grew up using windows.

No, but almost everybody did. Very few people grew up using korn, readline, and emacs.
Cool. I will take a look!
I’m pretty sure the majority of consumers don’t want to be associated with such a thing - almost certainly tied to SSN and part of any credit report.
Exactly. I don’t really like Java but if I were starting a business that required writing a CRUD backend, I would 100% chose a boring popular language like Java over something “smart”. Smart doesn’t scale - if there’s no tooling, bad library support, and no ecosystem, any gain you get by being clever gets erased by needing to reimplement the wheel. In many ways I’d say the language itself is one of the least important factors in choosing a language for a commercial project.
One of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, Ron Jeffries, suggests developers abandon the word Agile [1]. Instead, we should recommend and practice "Manifesto Agile".

1. https://ronjeffries.com/articles/018-01ff/abandon-1/
1962 study: Subjects divided in two groups, both angered. The study cohort believed their frustrater had been harmed and experiences less emotional tension than the control group. Of note, the group who enjoyed hostility catharsis did not become friendlier.

I don't think it's a shocking observation political hostility on all sides is often a strategy for self-care in the form of hostility catharsis.

Along these lines, if Facebook, Twitter, etc. were sincerely interested in improving online discourse, they would jettison "fact checking" and censorship for additional content that focuses on the safety of the present moment, temporal perspective, breathing, visualization, humor & timeouts.

Every one of those interventions are proven to work in many cases, do no harm, allow the free flow of ideas and where effective open doors for bridge building.

Yeah, seems hokey... until you actually try these strategies and discover they provide tremendous relief.

Study abstract: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1963-05053-001
Assembly language for ARM or RISC-V. It will provide a better appreciation for what's going on under the hood.

You'll also see which high level languages fit (or don't fit) this underlying fundamental model which may help cut through the marketing fluff from their various proponents and provide an unpleasant appreciation of the performance costs of popular programming paradigms.
I’d guess billions of dollars flow through pornhub, they’re the 10th most visited website in the world. They apparently have still had incredible difficulty getting anyone to process payments for them.
"Once it works properly, you won't need to spend anything at all on marketing... people will flock to it in droves."

I agree.

However this really remains to be seen. If Waymo got everything working as right as they could it might still fail. This is a culture shift you're talking about, and even when past tech has required less to shift some has failed.
HelpPC – x86 Info
Tesla Model X. My wife, my daughter and I have just returned from a trip to Switzerland. All three of us slept in the car (latex mattress in the back, full climate control). You can glide along mountain paths silently. And on your way to your destination and back, autopilot keeps you relaxed and focused. The car is magic.
My guess is it’s the chargebacks that banks really care about, which licensing and regulation won’t solve.
What people don‘t realize is that they ARE paying the price either way, just indirectly.
Definitely being worked on: https://interledger.org/
No doubt about that (even then, you will probably want the 90 or 99 percentile, depending on how many interactions you expect a person to have).

Th real median is just very hard to measure, and an easier 99.99 (with more 9's as needed) rank is almost as good.
> John Lennon wearing a Space Invaders t-shirt on Thanksgiving 1979 in Long Island. A massive hit for Taito in Japan, Midway only started distributing the game in the U.S. a year before in October 1978.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5OnttaUUAAacMB?format=jpg
>This is also my understanding - though I think it’s mostly a side effect of the regulation (which is intended to increase the liability around enabling sex trafficking).

Sex trafficking is the flagship target of these regulations but it's fairly obvious from their messaging that the original lobbyists are trying to shut down sex work of all kinds and using sex trafficking as an excuse.
It's not an Open Source License, but it's an open source license.

I'm not going to call it differently just beceause some self-appointed OSS hardliner wants everyone to use communist licenses.
The impossibility of fairness: a generalized impossibility result for decisions
I've been impressed with Waymo from watching JJRicks videos. In this video the Waymo vehicle gets cut-off by a driver changing lanes in front of them, and it handled it correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3DxyTxdUU

I don't see why more people aren't taking advantage of it.
Covid-19 in children with cancer: Severe disease and disrupted treatment
I wonder if there's a form of cognitive bias where an unknown is treated as an absence rather than unknown, or rather a local known is extrapolated into a global one. We have fairly high confidence that there's not other intelligent life in our solar system. Not much is known beyond that. One extrapolation is that the universe is more of that. The other is that we exist as evidence and that pattern repeats elsewhere.

A multiverse I can equally accept as not. What I would find far more incomprehensible is if we were to discover with certainty that we were the only intelligent life in the universe.
We are moving towards a time where the entire notion of programming languages would be nothing more than compiling a proper dataset.

Programming languages will not become irrelevant but would be more akin to the fate of humanities, likely a personal passion. The economic value of learning programming languages in the distant future would be close to none.

Programmers should view languages as nothing more than a tool to perform some tasks.
Up to a certain level you don't need to have an accounting qualification.

Even then, if you outsource statutory accounts, I wouldn't have thought that counts.
I read somewhere that each vehicle cost $250k because of all the hardware
Politicians don't have anonymity and yet we see plenty of fuckwad politicians.
Can Nuclear Propulsion Take Us to Mars? – Real Engineering [video]
This is an important observation. People (myself included) are tired of the power exerted by large corporations with centralized platforms, while at the same time, we're just waiting around for another large centralized platform to come and save us.

I have no idea how to get started, but I agree with you, the onus is on people to do something different, not just to complain about it.
Agree with the criticism of this piece so far, but what really makes this piece laughable is the fact that the vast majority of proprietary AI is just open source AI that's been hidden behind an organization's firewall. So, this piece is arguing that the problem with open source AI is that people can see it. When it's hidden behind a firewall, it will magically become more transparent and accountable.

Makes perfect sense, right?

And while we're at it, the piece stinks of casual misinformation right from the first paragraph. AI isn't "curing disease", this is just nonsense hype. Why would I listen to the author if he can't get through his short introductory paragraph without spouting nonsense?

Par for the course for IEEE, which has always come off to me as a very self-aggrandizing, bullshitty organization.
I think what you're saying has been true in the past: estimates of the cost of solar energy have often overlooked storage. But that has been changing, thanks to people like you raising it as a concern.

There are now some fairly good estimates including these 2020 calculations by the International Energy Agency that illustrate that onshore wind, utility-scale solar, and hydro are competitive with nuclear power:

https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...

Solar, wind and hydro power all benefit from relatively short (and safe) construction times and (as I naively understand it) usually require less complicated on-site security, maintenance and monitoring.

It feels like there is a large opportunity for renewable sources of energy to gain momentum and scale up.
>Why do you favor blaming rent for homelessness instead of lack of jobs that pay well enough?

Two sides of the same coin.

>Unless you only care to push an agenda.

Some people prefer to prevaricate and show only faux concern for the homeless, I guess.

It's understandable - there are a lot of people who while they dont want to be seen to be outright hostile to the plight of the homeless, will react negatively to the idea of seeing the value of their assets decline.
There's also Siamese Networks, they're pretty fast and simple, and people keep updating their backbone CNNs to more modern (computationally expensive) ones.
I don't want to knock Lisp, or any other exotic language choices. They have their benefits, people have built successful things with them, and learning a different way of doing things can expand your thinking as a developer.

On the other hand, most of the world's most complex systems are built in boring choices like C, C++, Java, or Python. The claim that this or that can only have been built or get to market fast enough if it's in Lisp doesn't pass the smell test for me.
The emphasis on literature is definitely part of the problem. I was lucky enough to take an AP English Language class my senior year of high school, where the focus was on short essays and other nonfiction. That's what really ignited my love of reading. Before that I did enjoy my sci-fi novels, but I was much more of a TV/movies/video games person.
Quite. But is that what virtualwhys meant?
There's been a lot of discussion about AI bias on HN lately, this paper discusses just what kind of fairness is possible.
'Friendly' fraud is a problem that was supposed to be solved with 3D Secure (Verified by Visa etc) but it still doesn't protect merchants for billing code 5967 which is what anything involving adult sites is typically billed on.

If Visa/MC wanted to fix this problem they could overnight, but they refuse to.
> Similarly Smalltalk was like: "Everything is an object?". I mean the language doesn't have an "if" statement! You send a code block as a message to a boolean value with an "ifTrue" method.

Incidentally, I don't think that this is how they got there, but this could have come from taking the lambda calculus extremely seriously: in the classical encoding, `true = fst` and `false = snd` (i.e., `true x y = x` and `false x y = y`; or, pointlessly, `true = const` and `false = true id`), so that `if` is just `id`, in the sense that `if true = true` (meaning `if true x y = true x y = x`) and `if false = false` (meaning `if false x y = false x y = y`).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Logic_and_pred...
From Aristotle to Einstein: a brief history of power nappers
I’m quite curious how “learn” turned into “mean snot.”

In any case, I agree: I consider myself fairly adept at solving issues like these, but I would have used a different set of tools—probably strace and gdb. There are quite a few tools in this post that I’ll need to check out. I know “programmer solves weird crash in everyday app” doesn’t make headlines, but I wish we’d see more of these posts.
You mean $1M in value or in revenue over some period?

Worth $1M - I think so. It's not too unrealistic to hit that with moderate annual income and some assets.

Making $1M per year - I think this is technically possible but not very common.
It's strange to see people lying/exaggerating about their racial diversity on census forms when under a century ago people lied about their racial purity on these forms to avoid being targeted by one-drop laws.

It seems like a risky decision to make, as if those laws ever return your entire family tree could be punished for that box you checked.
Some things are more reliable and fail safe than others. SD would not rank high on that list and that's not even talking about the cheap mechanical connector involved.
> Where polar coordinates is expressed by angels and distance from a zero point.

This is surely the only chance I'll ever have to say "non angeli, sed angli", and by God I'm going to use it.
This sounds like you might be able to get Discord to approve your privileged intent
> So what? Who cares?

If you don't understand their perspective you are at a disadvantage. You won't be able to do a good job predicting what they will do. You may unnecessarily start a war. You may be manipulated into starting a war. You may start a war that you can't win. You may be wasting resources. You may be operating out of emotional fear rather than calculated reason.

Wars are lost over such misunderstandings. In the case of the United States that would include Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Lots of blood and treasure wasted. One might also add the cold war, given what is now known about how the maliciousness and capabilities of the Soviets were vastly overestimated, meaning we wasted a vast amount of resources there, also.

In this case I suppose it would be important to understand their motives and capabilities. Are they posturing for domestic consumption? They have said before that they are not in a rush to reclaim Taiwan. Is that still true? How do they feel about the trade-offs involved in a war? How would the war most likely be started and fought from their side? And can we stop them? Are we willing to make the trade-offs that would be involved.

I'm wary of anyone who calls for war and hasn't looked into these things. Blood and treasure for wars doesn't grow on trees.
Do you have any examples of Smithsonian operating honestly with regard to something where it would be in their interest to not be honest?
> Many homeless people prefer to camp outside rather than stay in the shelter system

Why?
Facebook AI: Reimagining database querying on unstructured data
On paper, people who bought those units, own multi million $$$ apartments, but what's their market value, zero? Who would ever buy an apartment in that building?
Wouldn't be better to tear it down?
People are helpful in general and will try to talk with you, but their English will most likely be on a poor level. It's much easier to get around if you know at least a little Mandarin.

Also, it's a total opposite of "some place quiet" :) All the major Taiwanese cities are very densely populated, busy and loud.
This piece was baffling. It seems to be conflating the issue of AI bias with the concept of open source software development.

"If an open-source algorithm is flawed, it is harder to undo the damage than if the software came from one proprietary—and accountable—company."
Thanks, but I think that lucb1e's confusion was probably the same as mine -- given pretrained CLIP features, how is this translated to zero-shot tracking?

Are initial bounding boxes given as usual, or are objects of interest created automagically?

Or are they tracked just from text descriptions?

Lots of questions after reading the post :)
They are completely wrong. There is some b12 generated by our gut bacteria but it is too low in the digestive track to be effectively absorbed. There is a reason vegans eat foods enriched in b vitamins.
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Found this recently I think it fulfills your idea https://dogecoin.com/
Many businesses cannot hire enough employees. Everywhere I walk I see help wanted signs. Hourly rates are going up.

Are they being forced to sell something, or a conscious choice?
Instead of instructing your browser to delete cookies after you leave, why not instruct your browser to not accept cookies from such sites in the first place? I currently have google.com and youtube.com to "Never allow cookies from this site" in my browser.
George Carlin, maybe?
I was not, but looking now (only skimmed a few articles so far) - it's so interesting that the essential underlying idea for machine-assisted-learning was already laid out clearly by over 65 years ago, and yet, such systems don't appear to be all that widespread despite having been proven to increase learning - makes me wonder what the real blockers are..

As for Skinner's core belief that positive reinforcement is a more effective long-term motivator for learning, I couldn't agree more, and have seen it time and time again when user-testing with kids.

I think we forget as adults just how much mental energy is needed to approach a new concept or idea. And the energy level of kids can wane very quickly when they're discouraged (never mind punishment, even just 2-3 wrong questions in a row with encouraging parents present can sap them completely). I think we also forget how earth-shattering it can be to get a question wrong - I've seen kids go from answering questions correctly no problem, to completely doubting whether they still understand even the basics of the questions they were previously getting correct.

I've found it's crucial to help build back up their confidence whenever this happens. Part of the benefit of Grokkoli is that it will immediately try to get to the core of the learner's confusion towards a given question, usually by asking troubleshooting questions that start with the simplest/easiest components of a question and build back up to the original. And a big part of why this works is that it restores kids confidence very quickly at that moment.

Once their energy is back up, kids are primed to learn, and they want to keep going. Grokkoli checks in with learners after a certain number of questions (a function of their grade-level) to see if they want to take a break. So far, I'm seeing kids opt to keep answering questions 3-5 times per session.

Englemann's ideas seem a little more complex (not as easily distillable) but every bit as interesting - I need to read more before getting back to you.

Thank you for sharing, and definitely let me know if there's anything else you recommend I look into.
Obviously achievable and I think you’d be surprised what some people can generate on their own even outside dev world:

- ads / digital marketing type individual

- high paid consultants

- small SaaS (know guy who did this)

- big hit wonders on App Store

- real estate

- small business brokers

- lawyers

- authors

The question really is how soon until someone does $1B on their own.
This story cannot be discussed in any meaningful way without reference to Wikileaks being fully denied access to payment tech while having been charged with no crime.
No, I didn't. The thing about startup economy: fast-growing companies don't give a damn about losing some of their existing paying customers by doing something that they see can lead to more growth. As apparently was the case with OF, if one is to take their initial porn-ban announcement at face value.
I think EU has met its 2020 targets [1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/strategies/progress_en
> there are extremely performant Lisps out there

Yes, that’s because CommonLisp also provides native high performance data structures like vectors, arrays and hash tables that complement basic linked lists. Furthermore, most Lisp compilers are pretty mature and create well-optimized x86 code. You can annotate your code with type hints to help and guide the compiler in hot spots of your program.
Droning On
It's a rational response to the extreme social, political, financial and potentially criminal risks associated with profiting off content that may be identified as child pornography or sexual assault.

The Traci Lords case is a good illustration of this. One day everything is order, the next somebody realizes she used a fake ID and bam, everybody involved is suddenly manufacturing/profiting off/in possession of child pornography. Add in the massively lowered bar for OnlyFans/PornHub, where anybody with a phone can now DIY, and it's a legal minefield.
> the cost of meat should be priced to also cover external costs of water and harm to the environment

I think that should apply to everything, and not just meat. Air travel, vegetables, plastic, you name it.

> I think that there should be a tax on meat that directly supported research and infrastructure for water and energy efficient farming, lower cost desalinization, etc.

I don't agree with that. As long as you pay the full cost of everything, adding a tax over it seems unfair to me.

> In some ways I think that “meat hurting the environment deniers” are even a little worse than climate change deniers because industrial meat production hits chaotic climate change and water resources.

I think you're oversimplifying things. For example, nuts use a lot of water. More than sheep, goat, pig and chicken according to this https://www.statista.com/chart/9483/how-thirsty-is-our-food/. Vegetarians and vegans both consume more nuts than omnivores (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707691/). We should take that into account to.

I also wonder, how much of the water consumed by animals is just rainwater on non-arable land? Animals put on land where you can't grow anything but grass anyways is a smart utilisation of resources. Animals put on land where you could grow cereals, vegetables, or legumes is a waste. Having a way to make the distinction between the two when buying meat would be great.
Jeff Bezos’ NASA Lawsuit Is So It’s Crashing the DOJ Computer System
I’ve used monkey patching tools like this — they rock. Detours was at one point of of Microsoft’s most expensive tools, now open source. I don’t see why this tool has anything to do with ransomware. It’s like comparing Ebola with a speciality hammer.
Tangentially related, sometimes making a bot do mistakes is harder than making a correct bot.See Command and Conquer's pathfinding anecdote:

https://youtu.be/S-VAL7Epn3o