skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember decades ago building a menu system for a homebrew media center to launch game emulators and so on. I wanted it to have a loud arcade style feel. All menu text was rendered in 3d and would bounce and vibrate. Lots of flashing lights, noise, music and high energy. Functionally, it was just a simplified file explorer. It was very fun to use.

I agree with most of the opinions in this article, but I don't like the idea that all software should convey calm, or the conflation between a simplified intuitive interface and calm. Video games are a great example of simplified, intuitive interfaces which are often the polar opposite of calm.

Elements like calm and intuitive are also extremely subjective. I find emacs calm, intuitive and extremely accessible. People with different context will have a comically different response. Humans need interfaces that cater to their different experiences.
I am not confused, the article is under a paywall so probably lots of people only read the tite, like me. But feel free to skip my comments of course.
To be pedantic, you mean immoral right? It's bad, they shouldn't waste usable resources just to fit their marketing scheme.

Amoral means that it is not moral or immoral.
It is not preventative in the sense that you can't ask millions of people to get chemotherapy just in case.
Well I disagree. I don’t think there is any such thing as a neutral term in politics. No one has an objective understanding of some combination of words. Just because the term does not illicit emotions in you, does not mean it doesn’t in other people. Like I said, Biden has already recommended the term “illegal alien” be changed - thus highlighting its politicization.

And on your second point I take issue with the premise. Like I said earlier, I think our understanding of words have consequences, debating their meaning is debating the issue. However, is it the most fruitful and meaningful debate? Perhaps not.. but again, we are in a comment section about word usage in media bias - so that’s why I’m focusing on it.
Because many, if not most parents are not good parents and don't give a fuck. Phones and tablets are handed to kids to get the kids to shut up for a couple hours while the parents do the exact same thing.
I don't get how Swiftkey went from being almost perfect to being almost perfectly shit at predicting what I want to say. I've switched to GBoard and also hate it (e.g. it won't auto-capitalize "I" for me), but at least the predictions are usable.
Can someone ELI5 the relationship between electrons and photons? So far we have:

* Electrons emit photons when going from a high energy state to a low energy state (but remain electrons)

* Two photons colliding produce an electron-positron pair (always exactly one?)
I think this is doable. It will take time, however they have an increasing number of frozen mammoths, and even more mammoth tusks (I do not know if the tusk has a 'root' as a tooth does. By sequencing all these sources they have a good shot at crafting the full genome. As a mammal, the closely related species of elephant they have found should be able to provide viable eggs that can be renucleated with mammoth DNA based starters with the correct initiators to render them viable. They have the ability to make the eggs in the lab, fertilize them and see how they progress through numbers of divisions. Once they reach that point, they can try implantation, or even artificial wombs that has been done for mice - will it scale?
Their timeline of ~~6 years also seems viable, and it may be faster or slower.
Man has caused many extinctions, they say mammoths are one of them - perhaps others we extincted can be saved as well, if suitable source material can be found, such as earlier races of man that might be as good or better than man?
I am amazed that the bio establishment does/has not do/done/tried this - leaving it to entrepreneurs?
Looks very good, excited to dig in
People can identify things hurting them, but not always correctly. But people also can blame personal failings on external sources easily as well.

It’s like asking why studies using self-reported survey numbers on penis sizes cannot be treated as the ultimate truth, despite adults surely being able to use a measurement tape or a ruler. There is a reason for why the average numbers on all those studies using self-reported numbers are always at least one standard deviation larger than the average numbers obtained from a study that wasn’t just a self-reported survey.
Probably they got too much flak and a drop in market share (aka companies uninstalling Java, which they probably track in the uninstaller)...
I understand that criticism, but I really don't think it applies in the general case. I don't know a single developer that doesn't have some code lying around that they can show off.

It will probably not match language/framework with your company, but something general like "this is a web backend" or "this is a CLI tool" or "this is the script I use to backup my media server" is still more valuable IMO than inverting the goddamn single linked list again.
Agree 100% with your comment, there has been a breakdown when it comes to technical definitions. The medical professional's definition of "airborne spread" for example. By their textbook definition, "airborne spread" was impossible and it got into the definition of what a droplet is.
Fair enough, yes, Twitter was intended to be an example of a mine-able medium where people express political opinions, but to your point mining Twitter data may be more difficult than I imagined.
It depends on the orbit.

The satellites we put in orbit will naturally have orbits which will decay in a matter of days to hundreds of millions of years. End of life is indeed a consideration for launch approval and many satellites do accelerate their decay with onboard thrust.

Some satellites can’t, would require too much thrust to get back to earth. Some push in to higher orbits to get out of the way for replacement satellites.

Some satellites break in orbit and can’t be controlled.
This resonates with my experience, which is basically doing this the wrong way and watching all of it play out the way OP warns it will.

I'm sure there are others with the opposite experience but I can vouch both for the desire and expectation of devs to build general-purpose APIs when not needed, and the ongoing pain resulting from that year after year.
It's worth noting that you may not always want to use the ARM JVM on M1 even if it's available, because then anything linked by JNI needs to be running on ARM also.

I'm on an M1 Mac and have spent more time using the x86 JVM because the ARM JVM is less likely to have applications Just Work.
Wow, this is such a thoughtful post. I really drummed my fingers thinking of something witty to reply.

About #1: From my childhood experience, this is accurate. Youth fashion magazines and network TV from 7PM to 10PM played and outsized role to influence our (small) world view. However, I find it interesting that as social media has exploded, there is parellel movement to reduce digital post processing on models photographs. It is still a moving target, but the trend is less and less processing of photographs in fashion magazines and adverts. (Note: This "commitment" varies wildly by region!)

About #2: This comment is so deep. I remember reading the novel "Orphan Train" a few years ago, and the author spent considerable time pulling you into the world within which these young people lived. Granted, the events occur about 100 years ago, but they help us the understand the pressures of youth from four generations ago. By the end, you felt like a movie director, peering into their fractured lives. Generally speaking, I think about a "generation" as being 25 years. If we look back 100 years, someone born in 1921, then each 25 years is a new generation. Assuming these people lived in relatively free and prosperous places... I dunno, pick Belgium or Argentina or Australia... each 25 years, children's lives would be hugely different than their parents due to major social advances, improved education, and new media outlets. In my generation, one of the biggest concerns was "peer pressure" and "too much TV or video games". Some of that still exists, but it has morphed more towards bullying (including early-age homophobia and transphobia) and too much Internet / social media. An exciting question: What comes after this generation? Too much AR / VR!?
I don't know if mobile cores factor into the same process, but if you have a lot of demand for 2 core system for cheap laptops that can't supply the power or cooling for a 4 core then having more 4 cores, even if they're cheaper doesn't help.
Cryptocurrencies will solve this problem very soon. Middlemen are cancer. Ask Satoshi.
Why would they have hardly been outside? Outside is the best place to be w/r/t COVID.
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Those are all drugs which try to make curing addiction easier, but it's still hard and you're going to suffer withdrawal symptoms and take these drugs for months. Very different from this magical hypothetical. Probably taking something like one of these is, however, advisable if trying to get off alcohol?
>Biden should frankly push legislation to replace or reform the FDA

That's a very American-centric view. I'm not aware of any regulatory bodies (WHO included) which allow vaccination for kids under 12.
“Race is a social construct” does not mean that inheritable biological differences between groups people does not exist. It means that the categories we use to classify people into races are cultural. For example the "black" and "white" categories in the US.
I did find an obscure prefix:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quater-
They accounted for specifically intensity maximum, but your overall concern is solid; I don't see anything in the paper suggesting they accounted for a full spectrum of risk factors (broad-image noise, rotation, individual "stuck pixels" that could create a hard-to-spot thumbprint in the image, for example).
The engine is not the problem. It's the fuel. Large orbit changes take a lot. Lowering orbit is not easier than raising orbit, it takes the same delta-v.

IMO what should happen is we should ban putting satellites in high orbits. Satellites in low orbit decay naturally within a few years due to atmospheric drag. Satellites in high orbit will stay there essentially forever. More importantly, any collision in high orbit creates a permanent debris cloud which will spread over time and pollute orbit forever, being essentially impossible to clean up even with sci-fi technology. A collision in low orbit creates a similar debris cloud but it will be naturally cleaned up in a few years or less.

Putting satellites in high orbits made sense back when it was incredibly expensive to launch each satellite, because satellites last longer in high orbit and you don't need as many to cover an area. Also, stationary satellite dishes only work with geostationary satellites, and geostationary orbit is a very high orbit. But today we can use phased arrays to communicate with moving satellites without physically moving a dish, and SpaceX is about to drop launch prices through the floor with Starship, making it feasible to launch enough satellites to cover the Earth even in low orbit and replace them frequently. So to me, the space debris pollution risk of high orbit satellites can no longer be justified.
How to Lie with Benchmarks
I think it’s obviously a mix, however, an algorithm that maximizes purely for attention or time on site causes a lot of issues.

Sometimes people are seeking something that is beneficial, and maximizing that is fine. Lots more times, people are mostly responding to angry posts, or falling down a conspiracy rabbit hole that they cannot critically think their way out of. Maximizing the attention of those people is clearly negative.

So does society share some blame? Sure. Does an algorithm that maximizes some people into very bad places share some blame? Absolutely.
Never mind the images; who was deciding what 'race' the training data matched against? In this modern age of globalism, they must have searched hard to find anyone with any kind of historically-categorized dna.

I'm guessing, they just used folks' self-identification for race on some form. Which is largely a social construct.
> (usually conservatives)

Usually nationalists. Conservatives love wages being lowered, and employees that can't complain without being deported. They're anti-immigration when it comes to law, but very pro-immigration when it comes to enforcement. Ideally, for them, they would have draconian immigration laws that would only begin investigations based on a tipline that only employers would have access to.
One is a typo, the other is using the wrong word.
I disagree that it isn't "ignoring the situation". By analogy, if you saw a purple streetlight would you keep driving, stop, turn left, turn right, or make a U turn? You have to do something!

You'd probably assume it's a prank, and treat it as a green light by proceeding normally. Compiler code gen around UB is no more complex than this, though the consequences can cause complex chains of reasoning in later optimization passes.
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I once benchmarked a simple loop, and the same loop done via recursion. The recursive solution was an order of magnitude slower.
A consumer PC should see a single bit error roughly once a week. That’s hardly non-existent
> For me I had with pandas the most issues using it's multiindex.

Yessss. I loathe indices, and have never been in a situation where I was better off with them than without them.

> Regarding fast you have something like Vaex on python sid

I've never used Vaex, but I've used datatable (https://github.com/h2oai/datatable) and polars (https://github.com/pola-rs/polars). Polars is my favorite API, but datatable was faster at reading data (Polars was faster in execution). I'll have to give Vaex a try at some point.
The thing is, absent going into the military, there isn't really another system set up to help people become mature. A gap year works, if you can afford it. But unless you have a strong plan, it can accidentally move to a gap two years, and possibly never going back to school.
they might try out solar powered ion engines. Deep space one is powered by an engine of this type, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_electric_propulsion
Indeed. I heard one of the PIs on the 100,000 genomes project [1] giving a talk in which they flat-out said that anyone whose four grandparents were white and irish is basically a clone compared to anyone whose four grandparents were from sub-saharan africa. The whole point is that there's so much variability within each societal clustering that it tends to make not that much sense to talk about it -- and the degree of homogeneity is different, too, mostly depending on ancient geography (hello Iceland, as an example).

There are lots of "exceptions" to this, like sickle cell anaemia, for example [2], which is used as a teaching example of an Mendelian autosomal recessive disease. But note that it goes hand-in-hand with a historical pattern of malaria, covering a fairly large and inhomogeneous blob of africa, the middle east, italy/turkey/greece and india. Our social construct of race varies quite substantially over those places.

[1] https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/about-genomics-england/the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease
the point of SpaceX putting things into LEO (which we should really call SLEO or something, because it's super-low) is that the orbits are self-clearing on a reasonable timescale, months or single-digit years.

GEO is likewise not a problem because things out there are really far apart and they generally don't cross each other's orbits.

MEO (where GNSS services live) is the real danger. Thankfully there aren't a ton of objects there, but deorbiting the dead ones should be a very high priority on anyone's list.
>>In time, society will abolish or tightly constrain them in the same way society has banned other highly addictive substances.

I hope not, the War on Drugs is one of the biggest disasters in modern history, directly linked to untold problems in society
> Also, removing beef consumption would increase consumption of other foods so the emissions reduction wouldn't be as drastic.

Well, since you have a factor between 10x (cereals) and 100x (legumes) in the CO2 emissions between beef and vegetables, yeah it does drastically decrease emissions.

> Objectively, chicken and pork have much lower emissions than beef.
Right. However, pork is mostly fed with cereals, inducing a high level of CO2eq/kg + land use + loss of diversity.
I'm not quite following you here.

If the "everyone dies" scenario where AI isn't used? Isn't that a false dichotomy?

Or is it where AI is used but in a completely uncontrolled, run-amok kind of manner?
Wait till you find out that two people side by side on an airplane may pay 10x or more difference in ticket price, for the same ride.
Thanks, All good ideas, Will research more about these.
> I caught covid in August so I'm immune for the next year at least.

Yeah and if you got vaccinated you probably wouldn't have caught it in August. Great hill to (hopefully metaphorically) die on.
dd and photorec + testdisk.

Image the failing drive, then run recovery tools on the image.
I am confused by the license. The way I read it, a "bundling" with commercially licensed Software is forbidden, that is, you can't ship the JRE along with a product that you are selling. So your users will face rxtra installation steps
If memory serves, the nominal price of most video games has not changed in about 30 years. US dollars are, at least officially, worth 2.5x less now than when Mario came with Duck Hunt. I’m not that shocked that alternative monetization strategies are employed (micropayments are a big one).

Seems like there could be a demand for an independent standards committee that certifies games as shenanigan-free. My children are starting to play games themselves, so I’d like a service like that. I would pay a premium to know my kids aren’t going to be prompted to put in my credit card information and won’t be assailed with toxic marketing ploys.
There is no one good interview practice. You got to ask the dev what evidence they have that they're competent and see if you believe them. That's the only way to minimize your chances of false negatives.
Where are people dying because the hospitals are too full of unvaccinated patients dying of COVID-19?
Automated synonym replacement is the current cutting edge in plagiarism, or more generously, avoiding automated plagiarism detection. There was recently a large scandal in which some large number of scientific papers were traced to a ghostwriting house via their automated synonyms.

So my guess would be that the science news "author" is rewording things to avoid stepping on another author's copyright.
It looks like it might be due to Safari pre-15 not supporting WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming().
First, it's possible to do worse and be factually incorrect. This was, and still is, common.

Second, it's possible to objective demonstrate whether a factual statement is correct or not. But whether a statement is disingenuous or misleading cannot be proven with the same level of certainty (absent evidence of intent). So bad-faith actors can always guarantee that disputing that contention will end in an "agree to disagree" draw at worst.
Covered sewerage is one of the most significant health benefits of modern cities.

How much of a bad thing is a good thing?
It doesnt, still cant game with it.
>employee, not contractor

You should reconsider this. Everything you want - and more - can be had if you go contracting and stick with the same contract/company when it rolls over every 6 months (which they often do).

As a contractor, you're external to the company, so there's no mentoring of junior devs, no on-call, no researching new tech. You're brought in to write code, and that's it.

Interviews are short and easy, with no Leetcode or other tests, and the day rate for someone with 10 years experience will easily give you above €100k a year, allowing for 5 weeks holiday.

That's in Europe, where contracting via recruiting agencies is huge. In the US it's very different, and contractors have to find end clients themselves and manage those clients.
I'll say the same thing about fraudsters I tell clients about hackers, ransomware gangs, etc. What they do is their jobs and some of them are quite good at those jobs. Don't think of them as the stereotype angry teen that might have come to mind 30 years ago - these days it's more likely that they look just like your IT department working from home - or like technical employees in a Russian government office in Moscow.
I'm not so sure about the whole "just pay workers more" solution every talks about. If that were viable for many businesses, don't you think they'd choose to do that over closing their doors? A business owner has to consider what kind of wage increases would even be needed for a short-term hiring boom and whether they could sustain that increase in the long term.

A case could be made that some businesses are not viable if they can't afford to pay market rates for labor, so they should close. However, the market rates for labor seem to be in fluctuation due to the ongoing pandemic and associated government responses. It looks to me like many businesses are still just trying to ride the storm out and hope things look better for them on the other side, hence many businesses opting to close temporarily rather than committing to more expenses - especially in a time when revenue is still down.

I'm also concerned about the competitive landscape going forward. Big businesses will all survive this recession no doubt, but what happens when a significant portion of their competition vanishes? I'd guess markets will consolidate even more as competition dries up and we'll double down on our dependency on cheap foreign labor.

Maybe raising wages is part of the solution, but I think this problem is a bit trickier than just that.
Poverty rose to 11.4% in 2020 amid pandemic
That is not true at all. I'm fairly progressive and I found the analysis done there credible and welcome the information.
Code Purification Rituals
How would the quality of life of Software Engineers improve by periodically taking time to cleanse and detox our coding environments?
Are you using MBR/BIOS boot?

Windows seems to leave UEFI stuff alone.
Those who pay the attackers might have no other choice. Sure they should have taken backups. But right now they don't have any. What else can they do?
Maybe government can enact laws asking to maintain backups regularly in critical industries.
Everything in an orbit moves at exactly the same speed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_laws_of_planetary_m...

You can only collide with an orbiting object if one of you is changing orbits.

It's very difficult to force to objects to meet in orbit with nearly the same velocity; it requires complex active maneuvering.
As an additional comment on this point:

The fact that trained neural networks cannot tell us why they give an answer and the best tool we have to explore that is to wiggle the inputs and see how the black box responds is a major concern for the whole space. Figuring out how to tag data with enough information to generate a "why" was an active area of research ten years ago and still is.
> 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
Is it something like C++ vector class?
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Isn't that ethnicity?
Race: biological category
Ethnicity: Cultural category
> … thereby harming all those companies and citizens that do pay their taxes as required.

The only one harming them is the tax collector. Taxes are the harm here; Uber is providing a means for some to avoid being harmed. It's just too bad that they can't help everyone else the same way.