skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With 6 subjects, it feels a bit silly to even turn on the math. 5% is about two legs of a participant. I think humans can process those low numbers instantly, intuitively; we can do it by pattern recognition, without the need for abstraction. The statistics of a dinner party. I think even some animals could do some "math" on 6 food.

Should be called "collected case studies" or something.
Social security is just a hole in the Dutch law, freelancers should just also start paying social security. Like they do for instance in Spain, then they can also get unemployment money etc.

The effect of this will be temporary 0 hour contract and you create exactly the same situation with less flexibility for the employee and a limit of three contracts of a year.
It’s no more alchemical than the fact that it apparently arises from a skull of leaky salt membranes.
BitSighter here. Happy to answer questions.
Again, those are two different things, as I discussed in my post.

But let's run with your argument for a minute: So what you're arguing is that we should kick out of our hospitals anyone with cancer, ALS, HIV/AIDS, heck, the cold and the flu - because if we don't know how to heal it, we clearly don't have enough data yet. How about letting people drive cars even though we haven't been able to solve 'accidents'?
The fun bit (the generation of the "UserChoice" hash) is here:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone...
We do hydro and biomass[1] in Sweden. I'm not sure why Germany, France and Italy, given the topographies, would have a problem with that. Have they not diverisifed as much?

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Sweden
Or you could just use Fortran's C bindings to your language of choice. String support in Fortran is irritating to work with at best.
Precisely, in the exact same way that you can fool people that "paper" has the same value as "gold".
I think just a matter of priorities and also EVM has accumulated so much tooling that eWASM would be a setback.
Peer review is not mechanism for settling differences. Scientific consensus is. Peer review is bare minimum, plus some nitpick, plus formalities checked.

Scientific consensus is "when almost all scientists in this speciality believe this" and takes a lot of time to reach.
As good as pixijs is, I wouldn't call it a gaming engine. Unless things have evolved in that direction. I haven't used it in 3 years or so
"Show: open a pull request for review, but merge into mainline immediately"

This is literally the opposite of Shift Left. Merging in crap and talking about fixing it later. This should be renamed the "Tech debt accelerator".
waw. so now everyone should smoke?

in me country we non-smokers live in a cloudy hell anyway, no smoker respects non-smokers, be them babies or children or whatever..

hah
>>It's intuitive, that a general should not know about the flawed boot of a soldier.

Yes the army is a good example, with the caveat that if too many soldiers have flawed boots, i.e., there is a problem in the supply chain that results in many flawed boots, and this results in many soldiers who appear ready but are actually not ready for battle, the general better damn well know about this flaw.

As the saying goes: 'privates think about techniques, sergeants think about tactics, lieutenants think about strategy, and generals think about logistics'.

So the article is right that the key is to be able to run up and down the chain of abstraction as necessary, usually filtering out the details, but raising prominence of key details that will affect system performance or that can cause unexpected failures.
I think of Fortran as one of the most important half-dozen languages in use. But I think of computers as devices for computing things, rather than primarily for serving advertising over the web.

But I would’t use a Fortran web framework. It’s not well-suited to that.

Fortran is one of only two languages with a concise array syntax that’s used at the most demanding levels of high performance computing. The other is Julia.
One could also quite reasonably ask what qualifies as a machine. Does an abacus count? Does pen and paper count?
So I was at my parents house some time ago and my mom's computer is for some reason set allow installing software from the Microsoft store only. Nobody knows how that was set, my mom's computer usage is characterized by randomly clicking on things until the website she wants open, but somehow that option have appeared for her to click on.
Just need Astrophage /s
This article was published in Jewish culture magazine (nothing wrong with Tablet, but it's not a science discussion forum; there's possibly a hint of their Orthodox right-of-center political bias behind their interest in this article), so maybe the mainstream science community has tired of his nonsense.
The flagship Matrix client, Element, is just as bad as any other Electron app. :( The alternatives (Nheko and such) don't tend to support the full feature set.
I wrote up some notes about it here: https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland/tree/master/src#p...

In short: only updating when needed, minimizing the number of DOM queries, and avoiding costly CSS layouts.
I agree about consequence. Both for speech and religion however, you are protected from and you are free from consequence by the government!
> it's the general public who are entitled to make that choice for their country instead of accepting the decisions of elites/experts and waiting for safety net policies to compensate for the suck.

Nah, people will do as they're told.
Or sometimes more commonly, an AUTOEXEC.BAT that provided the user a menu for which "mode" they wanted to boot into. Imagine having to choose between loading mouse drivers, or loading sound drivers.

Then when networking started to be more common, choosing between loading an IP stack or pretty much anything else :)
>Is there anything redeeming about “for profit” prison?

No. But there's nothing redeeming about state prisons either. The whole system is broken regardless of who's letterhead the warden's pay stubs are on.

The typical argument for "for profit" prisons is that it provides a motive to keep costs under control, a motive that is very obviously in too short supply in most other government endeavors. Furthermore, the government is far more willing to screw its contractors to satiate public outrage (when the prisons are inevitable caught abusing prisoners and failing to deliver the services the state is paying for) than it is to screw its own departments. In my observation this breaks down in practice because of the revolving door and the government's willingness to absolve itself of responsibility for actions of its contractors and people's willingness to entertain that.

I think 3rd party contractor prisons could work in a state where the people both have high expectations of ethical behavior in both government and business AND strongly care about controlling the costs of government. The catch is that no state satisfies both those criteria as far as I can tell and state operated prisons would work just fine in any state that did so IMO it's a wash.

The reason we hear so much about for profit prisons and not the abuses within state prisons and jails is mostly one of ideological convenience. It's harder to get the people who care about prison reform to get angry at the .gov for mismanaging prisons than it is to get them angry at private contractors doing the same thing.
Formal methods are good and all, but you can still run into trouble when you fail to account for everything.

Some years ago, I had to work on a massively distributed system that scaled up or down with minimal communication between nodes, depending on the amount of work the system had. The developer of that scaling algorithm, a mathematician that gives quite a few software talks, and writes books teaching functional programming, wrote a proof for the system, guaranteeing its upper and lower bounds of performance. I was brought in because the system wasn't acting anywhere near those parameters: The worst part was that often it'd not downscale at all. The mathematician pointed at his proof, and therefore at the fact that if there was a problem, it must be a bug somewhere else.

So after learning how to read his proof, executing it, and doing all the typical ops stuff to identify what the system believed was going on at any particular time, it became clear that the proof had a significant flaw: It believed that the amount of work that the system received was perfect information, with no latency. Since the real world has latency, and none of that was accounted for, the proof was guaranteeing success in a universe that is different from ours. Once I modified the model to represent the real information quality, the outcomes were pretty close to what we were seeing in reality, and equally unacceptable.

So proofs are powerful, and maybe there are zero issues in the proof of this smart contract, but formal models and proofs can still fail you, they'll just fail far less often than your typical system made with unit tests and chewing gum.
No one does this... Well I guess not "no one" because I guess you do it. But I can say with 100% certainty that 99% of people don't do it.
In the article it says that "CNBC reports that a Walmart spokesperson confirmed the press release is not authentic" [1]. Fake news for pump and dump seems very likely.

- [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/walmart-to-accept-payments-w...
realistically building batteries or thermal storage at that scale will probably take as long as nuclear plants
Volkswagen takes next step towards developing and producing own battery cells
While I agree in general, I'd argue that energy/climate gas emissions are in its own category, because they represent an unpriced externality that will have terrible consequences if the world doesn't get serious about sustainable solutions very soon.

Also keep in mind that my country has an annual national budget of $35,000 per capita, one third of which goes to welfare programs. We practically have a basic income program going already.

We're not totally insulated from the forces that besiege the middle class, but I'm pretty sure we're mitigating them as well as anyone. Would love to hear your suggestions on what policies would do better, assuming an intention to prevent catastrophic global climate change.
> In I/O heavy workloads, the correct thing to do is to do asynchronous I/O

You can't async mmap into memory reads (or the GPU-equivalent: cudaMallocManaged).

Today's I/O is looking more-and-more like a memory read/write. As such, your typical "node = node->next" pointer traversals could very well be an incredible string of I/O. That indirection could be in RAM, over SSD (mmap), over RDMA (ethernet pretending to be RAM), or into GPU-RAM (cudaMallocManaged)... with an appropriate PCIe command (possibly atomic-PCIe) to boot.

Async only works on the simplest of reading/writing patterns.

EDIT: Consider the "persistent kernel" pattern on GPGPU (which starts off with a lot of the similar thought process you have on CPU-land. Launch only X wavefronts, where X is the size of the GPU). You primarily communicate with a persistent kernel over RAM / atomics. You don't use the classic cuda <<<blocks, threads>>>() (which admittingly has an async interface)... Instead: you read/write to magic managed-memory locations that will be eventually sync'd over PCIe to the GPU. This is because the "persistent kernel" is always executing. You launched it upon program start, there's no event to async-trigger on. You just pass data to the GPU. The GPU operates on the data at its leisure. Then it eventually returns data to a buffer elsewhere (probably with atomic compare-and-swaps, which traverse PCIe these days, to ensure coherence)
It's a false premise because those who would like to get the vaccine, but can't, can voluntarily do things to make sure they don't contract COVID. Instead, they clamor for governments to force people to do something so that they are not inconvenienced.

A lot of the consequences of those choices are artificial. They are authoritarian measures designed to elicit compliance, not natural consequences.

Also, the very fact that there are people who can't get vaccinated means that the vaccines are dangerous. You have decided that the folks who decide to skip the vaccines are doing so because they don't get it, when in reality, a lot of them probably understand the dangers. While the people who can't get vaccinated would be merely inconvenienced by changing their lives to avoid the virus, those who take the shot could have life-changing consequences.

Also, you claim that people like me will not be able to get a job. I laugh at this. There is already a hospital that won't deliver babies because they can't get enough staff after so many quit over a vaccine mandate. If you and the authoritarians push us out of the economy, be prepared for the consequences. The natural consequences.

We'll see how long the mandates last.
> Can't believe they let someone like that steer an American cultural icon into the ground.

Yeah, how dare they let Steven Spielberg make Indiana Jones 4 and George Lucas make Star Wars 1-3.
Yes, there’s almost always some 15% extra credit thing going on somewhere. I don’t known who pays for it.
It’s similar to how when Doctors receive a terminal diagnosis, they choose to just accept it and die, rather than pursue aggressive treatment.
No, I think it was "yes but I want to be pedantic about it". If you had just said "Mozilla" the answer is an easy yes. But you made the mistake of specifying MoFo (as opposed to MoCo).

That said, I work for Mozilla and in practice we're very independent. Our user base, small as it may be compared to the past, is still a valuable bargaining chip. We are still very much fighting for an open and accessible Web in the standards arena (where technical and philosophical arguments work well with the actual Google people doing the work, even if the outcome is not optimal for google the advertising juggernaut.)

Opinions my own, can't speak for Moz,etc.
I would keep WordPress and PHP entirely separate in my mind. WordPress is... blegh. PHP and Laravel is a totally different story.

As for the reflex... PHP has had this bad reputation for so long, that most PHP programmers (IMHO, just an opinion!) feel looked down-on for using what is actually a pretty decent system now. Viewed as inferior programmers for preferring it.
The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago, the second best time is now.
Why would it be called legacy, I wrote that just last week. This is active development.

Besides merely being an old technology doesn't mean legacy. SQL is fairly old.
How were they fooled? In the Netherlands, no one is forced to work anywhere. People drive Ubers out of their own volition, whether we think it's stupid or not. I'm not sure about other countries but in China where the market used to be even less regulated, both drivers and customers switched in droves from traditional taxis to ride hailing apps. For various reasons they just like it better. And it's not exactly difficult to see the advantages even if you have concerns about labor laws.

There's always a case to be made that any form of employment is exploitation. Sararīman, as the corporate slave is known in Japan. The question is how much regulation do we want. And do we want it for regulation's sake, or does it actually benefit the people. There are many labor laws that hinder innovation and keep employment down.
Most of these controversial questions contain more nuance than can be covered in a debate, though. You could say "simplify them", but simplifying a scientific topic is very difficult and time-consuming work at which scientists themselves often fail. And it's comparatively very easy to present an inaccurate simplified version, to make your opponent look wronger than they actually are.

My view on this is kind of pessimistic. The mindset of science, based on curiosity, feels to me like a small boat which can only sail when seas are relatively calm. But politics is a storm. The waves are too tall. Maybe the boat just cannot sail in this storm.
> Did they learn nothing from the antitrust cases of the 2000's

They learnt that all they risk is a slap on the wrist a decade later, and a fee that's a drop in their profits.
Have a link handy about the 13x research? Not doubting, just want to read more about it as I hadn't seen that one yet!
Litecoin drops 20% following fake press release touting Walmart partnership
Nomad vs. Kubernetes
What about smol?
Well that's because it's not a development workflow. That's a live systems change. It's like changing the tire on a moving vehicle.

If you have a very repeatable environment, you can have an entire pipeline that creates new infra from scratch (w/Terraform), build and deploy your new app, test it, and then point traffic at the new infra. It's like blue/green but bigger. You aren't changing the tire, you're moving from one moving vehicle to another one. That works well because there's no chance for unusual problems from trying to figure out how to re-jigger things on the fly.

The former is configuration-management-organized infrastructure, and the latter is immutable infrastructure.

The problem comes in with things like changing an S3 bucket or IAM role. Changing those things is like changing the highway... you can't replace the highway. You have to close down a lane of traffic, put up traffic cones, reduce the speed limit, make your changes carefully. Ideally test on a strip of test highway first.

These cloud-managed services cannot be made immutable, so you have to use configuration-management. So you have to have a change management system in place, and tightly manage the dependency between your app and the change.
College students reported record-high marijuana use, record-low drinking in 2020
> how we deal with the latter, today

News and images like this https://www.thelocal.de/20141010/one-third-of-barrels-leak-a... (2014) don't exactly help restore confidence.

(If you can't get that to load, here's the same in German https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Loechrige-Atom-Faesser-entdeckt-...)

Edit to add, the infamous old picture of a loader dumping barrels into a pit in the Asse II salt mine: https://static.dw.com/image/16445664_303.jpg - while this happened decades ago, the mine is an ongoing problem that makes the news every year with new leaks or progress of the remediation effort, lack of progress, or predictions of collapse before the remediation can be completed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine).
I'm Dutch but not particularly knowledgeable about this, but as far as I understand it the reason being a ZZP'er is so popular is precisely because you don't have to hand in a lot of money to required stuff like retirement and insurance and stuff.

The types of zzzp'ers I'm most familiar with are in construction and they are cheaper than traditional businesses. They're outcompeting traditional businesses because they don't have to pay retirement and insurance and all that.

It's been a topic for years here what to do about ZZP'ers because if something _does_ happen to one at work (ie an accident to their health or to the house they're working on it whatever) they typically don't have insurance which leads to big personal problems for them.

It's like a high risk high reward type of thing, but the issue is that they're also outcompeting traditional workers all over the place.

Otoh, if you were to require them to pay for stuff like insurance and retirement, the whole idea of being a zzp'er will cease to make any sense. You don't earn any higher any more, you will need to charge more so people have no reason to prefer your services over traditional ones.

Zzp'er just means that you work alone and have no personnel. Ie,
similar to a freelancer basically.

Also sadly enough, often zzp'ers are less skilled than traditionally employed individuals. Not exactly sure why that is but might be related to how they were trained and a lack of institutional knowledge due to not working with an established workplace/having regular colleagues etc
Just use half of them in fan mode.
Apple notes or a notes.txt which later gets added to Apple notes.
A French equivalent of the "Polish Hacking keyboard"? Never used it (not even remotely Polish), but I know several people who speak well of it.
Variable-Sweep Wing
To be fair, I was without doubt influenced by one of these 'This is fine' memes, but instead with the line 'But what are the long-term effects of fire extinguishers?'.
"Things that resonate in proximity to each other will, under certain conditions, achieve a shared physical resonance, and thereby a combined consciousness."

Or in other words: https://www.norrag.org/app/uploads/2012/08/then-a-miracle.pn...
Game AI is a perfectly ok name to describe a very specific software application.

It doesn't really matter how the AI is implemented (the famous lots of "ifs"), just what it does. The only quality metric for it is a subjective one about how fun the AI is to interact with.
As far as cryptocurrencies go I feel like litecoin isn't that bad. It's been around forever and it's basically just a bitcoin fork with different parameters. Because it's not crazily-over speculated like btc using it feels more liquid. I have actually used it for some online purchases, unlike btc which is more or less a lottery ticket for me.
The motivation for prison for a significant portion of US population is punishment not rehabilitation
>Freedom of Speech != Freedom of Consequence

Ah yes, Godwin's law for the 2020's. So we can fire people for spouting commie propaganda (ie promoting unions) now?
Your first two cases are equivalent to the `Some(o) => o` case; the syntax I used was a bit ad-hoc but the following F# typechecks:

let join_option oo =
match oo with
| Some(o) -> o
| None -> None
Maybe someone can correct me, but I don't see how we're going to get out of climate change (generally, but also specifically) without nuclear power. We need something which can produce a reliable base load and I don't think there are any other widely available options which don't produce heaps of emissions.
That is not true. Public polling indicates that most people do care about privacy, but are unaware of how software tracks them, or when aware, feel powerless to change anything.
Because that was "worst case scenario" model, in order to anger "worst case scenario estimation" question.
The thing is, we know how to store nuclear waste in such a way that it's a solved problem forever. Literally gone and not a worry for any generation from now until forever.

It's called deep borehole disposal[0]. Drill a hole all the way down to Earth's crust, put your waste there = it's not coming back on anything shorter than geological timescale. " It is estimated that only 800 boreholes would be sufficient to store the entire existing nuclear waste stockpile of the USA"[0]

From what I understand it isn't being done for two reasons:

1) cost

2) once stored this way it's almost impossible to retrieve. Spent nuclear fuel is kept around partially because we know we might be able to recycle it into fresh fuel in the future. If we dump it in a hole deep in the ground it's gone forever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal
Strong disagree. It might be the only thing that does actually matter. Rocks, present-day computers and other unconscious objects have no moral value because they're incapable of suffering and experiences. An AGI that's unconscious has no moral value either. It is just a tool, no different in concept and moral worth to my screwdriver.
Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules