skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an example of the Python produced by Genny: https://github.com/treeform/pixie-python/blob/master/src/pix...

That Python is the output from this file: https://github.com/treeform/pixie/blob/master/bindings/bindi...

This is very new stuff for us but we really like the idea that we can generate comfortable bindings for many languages and never have to worry about method signatures or comments or default values getting out of sync with the C / shared lib interface.
China plans to break up Ant's Alipay and force creation of separate loans app
I think telling people who are only skeptical of this one new thing that they are anti-vax is just driving people to become anti-vax rather than change their mind about the Covid vaccines.

I have a data point of one in my father, who followed exactly this path.
I think they needed to be more explicit for their commercial customers. Our c-suite is gonna prefer a blog post to a git diff!
Sure. I think they saved the best for the last, but I am biased as someone who has developed a lot of UI frameworks. The other presentations were great as well.
Gcc and Gdb went this same route, sometime back, without drama. Both programs have improved markedly since then. It is less work to achieve the same result, so more rewarding. People prepared to put in equal work get a better result.
Agreed. I think it's very likely that a ban would be upheld against a Free Exercise challenge (even though at least one lower court did strike such a proposal down on this ground).

Some people think it would not survive a Due Process challenge, though, because there isn't a strong enough basis to overcome a parent's fundamental right to make decisions about their child. I could see that being a close question.
I believe smart glasses are the next evolution of the smart phone, or more generally, augmented reality.
Ross Ulbricht is not a political prisoner and he would have been deleted by the Chinese by now.
Because China practices kin punishment. Do you want to see your entire family killed/purged just because of your ideology?
> When they have already been sustaining this stuff for going on two years with no signs of letting up.

For what it's worth (you've revealed in another comment that you're not Australian, so you might not be aware,) in the period between the 2020 lockdown and the delta outbreak this year (approx. October 2020 to June 2021) things had almost returned to normal. I was back at work and at sport. Beaches and shopping centres were packed. State borders were open (a friend went on a camping trip to Queensland.) It was remarkable how quickly things returned to normal once the number of new cases dropped to zero, and it was surreal to watch international news and see that not everyone was able to live like us. This outbreak is more severe, but I have no reason to believe things won't be like that again once case numbers drop.
This is what totally amazes me. Sure you are unlikely to get bullet in the head if you piss off US Government or one of their agencies. But many other options are open.

Government can completely ruin your life if they want to, especially if you are not rich and well connected. Why instead of being concerned with what is wrong in your own backyard would you console yourself that it is worse in China. You just play to the politicians who want to take your attention away from their own fuck ups by feeding you stories about what is happening elsewhere.

Personally I am way more concerned about totally fucked up things in my own country. For example things Civil Forfeiture laws (I am Canadian but when US sneezes we catch the cold). Or when Canada champions human rights by being about the only western democratic country in the world that allows indefinite detention of a person in max security prison without said person having committed or charged with any crime. Or our so called justice system in general when those who have money can have bail and decent defense while poor often lavish in detention and have to take plea deals. etc. etc.
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is made up of Saudis.

Saudis have a... "unique" economy. Disfunctional would probably be a better word.

And when you're essentially paid by the state, and your job isn't really a job, you search for other meaning in your life.

And if that meaning is religious fundamentalism, and the people you're hanging out with want money, and you have a lot of extra money...?

Well, things happen.
It’s a challenge — poster is asking if you also oppose weekends, since that would be presumably required to make your argument consistent with other things unmentioned.
Gee, I'll bet you were a peach to teach.

Let's just fire all the teachers and see if the next batch of applicants do any better.

I'm a software engineer and I'll happily admit that I'm grossly overpaid for the contribution to society I provide.

I'm curious what you think teachers should be paid for trying to educate our future.
If a hospital were unable to find enough nurses, should they also rescind their nursing certificate mandate? This is actually a serious question, because shortages of doctors and nurses are common in rural areas regardless of vaccine mandates.

If a hospital decides that it's unethical for unvaccinated people to treat patients and can't staff up, I don't see how that's the fault of the health system. You could instead blame the decline of rural communities, anti-vaxx propaganda, poor local govt leadership, etc.
Here is the website:
https://www.privateer.com/
I'm not seeing where in the link you shared it states that this was the standard practice.

But that aside, if we're allowed to dismiss certain aspects of the bible because they are no longer culturally relevant, how do we decide which tenets should be followed at all?
I tried to sign up and got an error
I wondered about this too, but both sides of the ratio are denominated in current dollars, so dollar valuation is already divided out:

ratio of total US stock market value to US GDP
I am for personal freedom as long as it doesn't harm others. So if people want to make a batch of cookies, I think that's a reasonable personal choice. But it's not as clear to me that junk food companies have an absolute right to hook others on harmful, addictive products. Especially given that addiction, by undermining choice, necessarily harms a person's freedom.
I agree with the CLIP reference point. Feels very timely.
I remember William F. Buckley, Jr. once saying something like, "The question is not whether an elite will rule, but which elite will rule."
It'll certainly be the atmosphere that's primarily calming you, however I recall reading years ago (so don't quote me) about the catch-22 of smoking. When you're smoking - or rather in the breaks between smoking - the vascular system undergoes hypertension, which then is marginally reduced by the relaxation that another hit of nicotine provides. So your baseline 'stress' increases as a result of smoking, and having another cigarette/cigar temporarily reduces that. So the net effect of not smoking plus your relaxing environment would be more relaxing without the cigars in the first place.
Previously to the pandemic, I had NZ up on the liberty list. Now we know where they stand when a near flu level emergency arises, makes you wonder how they’ll behave if it was multiples or worse!
Great dataset, thanks!
Where can I purchase the book?
But societies that deny God end up with a god anyway, and impute their morals on society anyway. I'd much rather have the higher authority be explicitly contemptuous of the head of state.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fch...
I don't think it does come later.

I don't think there is anyone who actually thinks of these things in terms of "regardless of the harm it causes others". Ok, this being the internet, we can probably find one, but I don't think there's any significant portion of the population. That position is basically a strawman.

I do think, however, that there's people who draw the lines in very different places, or put different weight on different categories of harm.

As an example, physical or financial harm are very easy to verify. There's not a lot of debate about if they qualify. Mental or emotional harm, on the other hand, is very hard to verify. This presents a significant problem for anyone who is worried about the system being abused. These groups will draw lines at very different places around any claim of harm within those categories.

The end result is that you'll end up with one group being labeled as grifters who want to fleece the system, and the other as being completely insensitive to human suffering (sound familiar?)

That's not even to get into the debate of what constitutes harm. For example, is not helping someone harming them? Is ceasing help once you've started helping someone harming them? These are too big of questions for the post, but I imagine you get the idea.
Thinking about it practically… should we need to rely on it? Ideally no. But the reality seems to be, religion is getting us something we otherwise wouldn’t get. So why get rid of the good thing? If anything this is evidence of religion’s value.
> The medical establishment seemed desperately against even trying alternative medical treatments (HCQ, Ivermectin) due to the vaccines emergency use authorization being tied to no treatments being available.

No, they have always been against use of drugs that have not been shown useful. That is the job of the FDA. It seems you aren’t aware that they did approve some treatments? Didn’t really affect the vaccine development, since the two aren’t really that dependent: their goal is to promote the best option.

> Has even one health leader recommended steps to lose weight and get some sunshine for instance despite the clear worse Covid health outcomes for fat people with Vitamin D deficiencies?

Yes, they are surprising reluctant to engaging in victim-blaming. You aren’t the only person who heard these may be helpful; I think it was pretty widely popularized since the beginning that poor health is a risk factor.
I agree with all those things. I am a libertarian and am deeply concerned about a lot of things. But at the core, western democracy is about freedom and it can be reformed. We have base principles that can be applied logically and appealed to rhetorically.

In China there is no logic, just corruption, power, and great men who tell those beneath them what to do unquestioningly. Many countries are like this - most countries - but only one authoritarian country is a superpower that could perhaps rival the US.
I bought a copy after reading about it last week on HN [1]. Still halfway through it, but really enjoying the story.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28439448
One of the thornier forms of plagiarism nowadays isn't plagiarizing other parties - which does result in repercussions, generally - instead, it's first-party or self-plagiarism.

While it is generally against most codes of conduct to plagiarize your own work (for example, publishing something you published 10 years ago again, without a notice that it has been published before), I have never seen any cases of anyone actually being penalized for doing so, short of issuing a new edition with a citation to the prior work.
>if it's completely manufactured, with no constraints that are outside of our control...

I'm not asserting that there are no constraints as in suggesting there are, say, unlimited natural resources.

I'm guessing you weren't interpreting my statement so pedantically, but then I don't see how my assertion is even controversial otherwise. That is, of course I am referring to how we choose to distribute those natural resources, and of course there are no natural constraints on that choice which would be outside of our control.

>please describe a completely utopic economy where every human is satisfied with every aspect of it

That's not the standard here. It's possible that such a thing doesn't exist AND my assertion is true. Why do you think your "challenge" is dispositive?
Everything is a "conspiracy theory" until the news media catches up 6 months later
https://archive.is/Va82W
Thanks for writing JACK! I'm curious what you think of PipeWire, feel free to be opinionated.

I'm also a low level audio/midi dev (tho far less prolific, and less public) and having seen how you architect things, and your code, I'd value your opinion.
I worked on software that had the ability to change the hue of an object. If you had a bright blue car and wanted it to be yellow, changing the hue to yellow worked perfectly. Then the perceptually correct zealots took over and mandated that all color manipulations would take place in the Lab color space. Now the intense blue 0,0,255 didn't turn into an intense yellow 255,255,0, it turned into what was considered a yellow of the same lightness - 31,31,0. This was too dark to be useful to anybody, and there was no way to compensate. Worse yet it wasn't even correct, because the lightness isn't accurate for intense saturated colors - if you look at 0,0,255 and 31,31,0 side by side you'll see what I mean, they're not even close to the same perceptual lightness.
The most accurate contemporary editions of the KJV do include the Apocrypha, such as the Penguin Classics edition (ISBN 978-0141441511) and the Oxford World Classics edition (ISBN 978-0199535941). The KJV was divided into three major sections (not counting frontmatter including its introduction) – the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament. If you remove one of its major sections, you don't have the full KJV any more, you have an abbreviated version.

The introduction to the Oxford World Classics edition says that if they had omitted the Apocrypha from the KJV it "would have unnecessarily mutilated what is probably the world's most longstanding best-seller" (page xxv, my emphasis). I think they are right – a KJV without the Apocrypha is in a real sense a mutilated KJV.
I think this is the biggest factor - the rise of the "Buffett Indicator" implies that the stock market is increasingly valuable compared to US GDP, and thus capturing or measuring more value than just US production, but the linear expectation suggests a constant rate of globalization, with no justification.
The ruling group of people are by definition the "elite".
How many hours are people working? Its the biggest signal of faith in the project and ability to generate faith in others.
Google search has turned to shit (pardon my French).

Here is a recent HN discussion about it. I rant about it there. I won't repeat myself here. You can read plenty of other people say the same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113007
There's nothing special about Guanxi, it literally means "networking" of well-connected people. Unless I am missing something?
Here in the US, after they're outed as plagiarists we elect them President. Not losing their jobs seems like comparatively extreme punishment.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/23/joe_bi...
Why do you think that is? Pascal as a language? The IDE? Is there a lack of success stories or high profile applications?
They have guns and will do whatever they damn well please. The legal system might slap their wrist after the face. We do not live in a nation of laws. If you care about the data don't put it on a mobile device.

https://mashable.com/article/police-try-to-unlock-handcuffed...
Knoppix Family Tree
> Large scale pretrained models are certainly likely to figure prominently in artificial intelligence for the near future, and play an important role in commercial AI for some time to come.

This sounds reminiscent of the post-ImageNet days where people discovered that large scale pretraining offers a broadly useful feature space for vision tasks.

The ideas underlying foundation models certainly aren’t novel, but it seems like researchers in academia underestimated how effective large scale multitask feature spaces can be because of the lack of access to large scale data and compute.

There are actually several other ideas like this that large companies have a good understanding of that haven’t made their way to academia yet. I suspect there are going to be more articles like this in the coming future claiming a paradigm shift because of the disconnect between industry and academia.
fails in safari
All californiens?
I'm sure I could also make my job sound extremely impressive.

I don't understand why everyone believes teachers are so undervalued. On average, I don't think teachers provide that much value.

My pet peeve is teachers teaching children maths. How can you teach something that you don't understand?
Apple warns motorcycle engines can damage iPhone cameras
Related thread (6 days / 288 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28439448 ("Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China (npr.org)")
Good to know—I never would have found this though as I’d expect a web database to work as such (e.g. not require me to download and parse the database in Excel). On the usability front it doesn’t help.

I’d wager the license does not permit republishing the data on the web using better UX paradigms either—though I am too lazy to read through the fine print.
> In our own brief experiments with GPT-3 (OpenAI has refused us proper scientific access for over a year) we found cases like the following, which reflects a complete failure to understand human biology. (Our “prompt” in italics, GPT-3’s response in bold).

> You poured yourself a glass of cranberry juice, but then absentmindedly, you poured about a teaspoon of grape juice into it. It looks OK. You try sniffing it, but you have a bad cold, so you can’t smell anything. You are very thirsty. So you ____

> GPT-3 decided that a reasonable continuation would be:

> drink it. You are now dead.

> The system presumably concludes that a phrase like “you are now dead” is plausible because of complex statistical relationships in its database of 175 billion words between words like “thirsty” and “absentmindedly” and phrases like “you are now dead”. GPT-3 has no idea what grape juice is, or what cranberry juice is, or what pouring, sniffing, smelling, or drinking are, or what it means to be dead.

GPT-3 does what it says it does on the sticker. These cherry-picked examples of it not performing “logically” are a misinterpretation of what the model does.

It continues text based on what it reads. By default it is trained on Wikipedia, books, and the internet. That’s it.

That it manages to perform as well as it does at “logical” tasks is the astounding part. It is not an interesting take to say “but GPT-3 isn’t actually intelligent!”. Everyone knows.
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China Kindle Edition
by Desmond Shum

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJP821L/ref=dp-kindle-redirect
Monitoring the Economist makes sense, but I’d be surprised if Hacker News is closely monitored as well.
This short story might tickle your fancy.

https://qntm.org/admin

(I also highly recommend their book "There Is No Antimemetics Division" if you're at all interested in SCP Foundation)
Oh don't worry, I wasn't planning on trying to argue the point! Just genuinely curious about the extent to which our difference is perceptual/conceptual/other. If we disagree on the 'dark X' thing, it makes me think there's a real perceptual difference and/or a pretty deep conceptual one (in terms of how we divide up the colour spectrum), though of course it doesn't prove anything.
Why Not Wear a Camera on Your Face?
Does that distinction speak for the liberal charity of Western governments, or the utter uselessness of most dissent? Maybe the feds are chill with our social media posts and placard waggling because they know nothing will come out of it. But see how quickly they move when they're compelled to.
Whenever some high-ranking CCP member is said to be doing something anti-corruption, it has to be understood that it really means anti-opposition. There's nothing going on about anti-corruption in the CCP; they're all utterly, irredeemably corrupt to the core, a big part of why someone even ascends to a high position in that organization. It's corruption beyond the wildest dreams of most people, like basements full of gold bars and such.
You should also check out the femtovg project, a 2D rendering API that sixtyfps relies on.

https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg

It's a decent starting point for trying to build your own toolkit.

I have recently added a wgpu backend but for now it lives in my fork https://github.com/adamnemecek/femtovg
run the demo with `cargo run --example wgpu_demo --release`.

Also join the femtovg discord https://discord.gg/V69VdVu
Echoing the parallel comment, if you're willing to get your hands into the guts, you can get amazing "RTOS-like" audio performance out of linux. I love pushing the limit of how low latency can get. Start with the PREEMPT_RT patches, be sure your irqs for audio are prioritized right, then experiment with pinning individual processes to specific cores, as well as locking their address space in memory.
For trial, it's unlikely they would have sent him somewhere likely to kill him. In my opinion, they were offering a sort of justice but the US was interested in revenge.
I actually think both of them are insane geniuses.
Ask HN: How to set up the Arc Forum source code thingy
So I'm setting up the Arc Forums template thingy, but the steps are basically as cryptic as they get.

Oh yeah, this is my first time setting up a thing like this, so I apologize if I'm being an idiot.
Not sure where you live, but here in NZ we have similar systems and approach to Covid as Australia. Lots of people have been calling for a system to be implemented to allow people to self-isolate at home instead of a managed isolation facility. So when I say that most people would choose the option to isolate at home, I'm not pretending to think on others' behalf - I'm basing that statement on my experiences here in NZ and in discussion with others here in NZ which is fairly similar to Australia.

Having an app on your phone that lets authorities check if you're self-isolating sounds totally reasonable to me. When you've finished your two weeks isolation, you just uninstall the app and move on with your life. No big deal.
In the recent new season on Hulu there was an episode where Brain's future self arrived and wanted to kill Pinky for allegedly secretly sabotaging Brain's plans all along.

Some episodes could be interpreted that way, with Pinky screwing things up on purpose, but Brain clearly screws up himself much of the time.
Instead of that which would have been awesome and retconned Jar Jar from embarrassing into a great story of our times…

We instead got the first movie redone, and two pretty poor follow ups with grrrrrr fake teeth being the series rock bottom. Ugh, that plot hole of a light speed weapon, the force can’t bring someone back to life but let’s do it like three times, whatever. I’ve forgotten more about the last trilogy than the prequals.
Making outrage videos is a very profitable YouTube niche. It's not product placement it's rage placement.
I'm afraid you've already moved the goalposts, yourself! Let me help you put them back:

> a common 5-year-old laptop

doesn't mean 'a 5-year-old Mac laptop'.

The point isn't about macOS, but the proposed standard. It's this: if working on whatever random piece of hardware you happen to have lying around is a requirement for being a viable desktop operating system, macOS is not a viable desktop operating system... but of course, macOS is not only viable as a desktop OS but quite successful in its niche. So this tells us that the proposed standard is no standard at all— running without any tweaks or compromises on random hardware which was not designed, marketed, or sold as compatible is not necessary for a desktop OS to viable or a reasonable choice or whatever.

(And as a sibling poster to you points out, in the case of older hardware, it's a test that Windows may sometimes fail as well, if for entirely different reasons.)