skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually quite like R's error handling. It's as good as Common Lisp's which is often held up as the epitome of this.

You also have the dump.frames option, which will save your workspace on failure, which is incredibly useful when running R stuff remotely/in a distributed fashion.
Vtubers are a really interesting side phenomenon to this. I think part of the appeal of a vtuber is that it seems more fair and effort-based than an influencer -- as far as I can see, you can become a successful influencer with nothing but a pretty face and maybe some good photography/photo editing skills, but in the vtuber world 99% of your success is just your ability to make entertaining content. There are vtubers with janky homemade live2d rigs that manage to be successful despite that, and there are vtubers with beautiful models commissioned by well-known illustrators that remain fairly obscure because the talent behind them is mediocre.
I dunno if that's an explicit discouragement though.

Pathing in the 90s was all sorts of bad for all games except Civilization (because there's no collision detection in Civ, so... all units just walk on top of each other).
I put myself out there as a frontline healthcare worker and was vaccinated prior to Christmas. My second dose fell before the 1/20 time frame by over a week.

It was a one-off thing for me - trying to help - did COVID testing and vaccination until late April... As one of the first groups of people to be vaccinated, I am concerned that my immune response is starting to lessen.

It's sad and ironic that if I were the type to lie at all about this, I'd even have my state paying me to get a first vaccination - no ID required...

It's a hard decision - and I suppose my actions may depend on how booster shots are or are not approved.
Just like smoking cigarettes can have the positive side-effect of reducing your chance of catching covid!
The risk to the vaccinated increases over time, as the protection wears off.

Not to mention, the original version of the virus is gone, it has been outcompeted by the variants. The booster should be updated to work against the latest dominant variants. Think of it as a software update.
Why does my mouse not move the direction of the gun when pressing W, A, S or D?

Was frustrated by a similar experience with Q1K3 earlier.
I think the first efficacy data is going to be about preventing infections. Data about preventing deaths will take longer to obtain.
Dude... follow the chain. This was about whether or not illegal immigration has a neutral term, it does, illegal alien, the legal term. I did dive into the issue itself, but it doesn't make it a false debate, unlike the semantics debate.

I was pointing out how bias in the media in this topic always turns to a word debate not a debate on the issue.

Keep in mind YOU brought up xenophobia and not the cartels. You continued the semantics debate, but not the root issue.
That's what Michael Cohen is for.
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Because you can get away with not training people so long as there is a sizeable pool of people who've already been trained at someone else's expense.
This happens all the time. Go search for Stripe problems here.
Opponents to cryptocurrency are a very vocal "think of the children" minority as far as I can tell. In the US there seems to be broad interest mostly gated by technical difficulties.

As noted many times here, anonymous crypto is only as bad as cash.
Right, I'm doubtful that the die area consumed by the chip's ECC circuitry would fail often enough to support a "non-ECC" manufacturing bin.
> The 0.00001%ers are out there

Actually, on Instagram, they're not. It's Photoshop.

Also, we should abolish the Forbes rich list, but in a different way and for a different reason. There's a limited amount of resources on the planet, so it shouldn't be allowed for some to have billions while others starve. But that's off-topic here.
Any kind of equivalence statement to the flu is a well-known conservative "dog whistle"
Apart from language-imposed limitations (haskell is nowhere near the theoretical completeness of category theory, e.g. bottom-type), the "pure" nature of FP forces the use of abstract structures able to handle it (e.g. Monads), thus, wanting to write code, you first need to think even possible side effects trough to be able to write code containing them, which by definition is a stronger criterion of catching unwanted effects compared to imperative, where you can produce whatever you want. And sure, it is in no way a guarantee to produce good code, it is just a stronger condition. It effectively boils down do "assembly is just as good as C", and we see where it took us.

Anyone telling me to think it through as rigorous in imperative is lying to him/her self practically, unless they're actually verifying their code.
This is probably a great time to remind everyone that the reason the blood types are A, B, AB, and O (as opposed to, say, A, B, C, D or another nomenclature) is that when the first blood type experiments were run, only people with A and B protein configurations were available for testing in the lab where the tests were executed.

I'd be very cautious drawing sweeping conclusions from research like this. The researchers have a heavy burden to prove that what they don't mean is "recognizes race in this training dataset."
You're talking to a lot of players who likely only played on Chieftan AI levels: where the enemy AI would rarely meet you in the field and often times only retreat to cities. Even then, they would rarely try to stack-kill the player. It was always possible, but since the easy-AI never attacked in such a manner, the mechanic was basically irrelevant on easy/Chieftan mode.

On more difficult AI levels (Prince or Emperor), the AI would meet you in the field, and you'd have to worry about stack kills. And also worry about cheating AIs who just had more resources than you...
I'm trying to find a good use case for records, but the best I can come up with is using it for composite hashmap keys. I suppose when combined with sealed classes and pattern matching features at some point it might be more useful, but what is the main use for records right now? Given that they're immutable and have no convenient way to be copied when modified, I find them quite tedious to use.
If they've already had and recovered from Covid, as in the case of this 100 MM, their case fatality rate is nothing near that, and may well be lower than that for vaccinated-but-never-infected people.

Their choice is this, if they are otherwise healthy and young: With protection as good or better than the vaccinated, should I get a shot that might lower my already minuscule chance of dying or serious disease by a further tiny amount.

I could see rational people coming down on both sides of that.
Well, yes and no. While they are different topics, both are trying to present facts to back up their viewpoint. Is it a _fact_ that a rhinovirus infection helps fight Covid? Is it a _fact_ that booster shots are necessary, or is the current vaccine regimen sufficient? The facts seem to be changing in headlines faster than I can recall.
Anecdotally, there are people who say it only based upon symptoms. I'd even argue that they are probably right, but its fair to say that they have any way of validating or proving that knowledge.
They’re not the best metrics but the related Spasm toolkit had surprisingly many stars and forks for being D. This was the more interesting tool I discovered here, rather than the JS game port to D, where honestly the impressive part is already done in JS.

So yes it got me thinking the same thing.

https://github.com/skoppe/spasm
At a minimum, maybe it’s shit timing to resurrect an animal better for colder weather.
not a convincing argument. Same can be said for the other side
Under what/ which/ whos jurisdiction?
I'm totally with you on these points, and it's one of the places where R's genesis as a scheme program has lead to really, really good consequences.

Fundamentally though, both DS Python and R are abstractions over well-tested Fortran linear algebra routines (I'm sortof kidding, but only sortof).
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https://hn.algolia.com/?query=AI%20has%20the%20worst%20super...

Personally think 'race' is nothing more than a fantastical vanity construct. Really its tribalism. Furthermore, I find it hard as well to comprehend how it holds weight in the medical industry. Race is not real science. Race is entertainment science. AI is mostly entertainment science.
I'm not sure that the view that "mathematicians reason syntactically and not semantically" is that unpopular. After all, a lot of modern mathematics nowadays is concerned with how structures are made up of interactions between elements and not the "nature" of the elements themselves.

In that sense, the fact that log(a) + log(b) = log(ab) can be viewed as a homomorphism from an multiplicative group to an additive one (whereas the exponential function is the inverse map).

But I also think it can be illuminating to see that this is not the only "definition" of logarithms, and that there are equivalent definitions. That's precisely the beauty of mathematics, that you can define a number of things and then show them to be exactly the same. There are a number of different ways to define e.g. the exponential function and each of them highlights a different aspect and is interesting to mathematicians working in different disciplines (e.g. the exponential function is also the unique solution to the IVP y'=y with y(0)=1). I don't know if it's possible to teach something like that to children, but it does seem like we're not even trying right now.
> not in an abstract sense

...and everyone that owns (is "enrolled" in) AAPL is "incentivized to get other people to buy" Apple products. So Apple is a "pyramid scheme" right?

"Pyramid scheme" is a real thing with a real meaning. Someone posting "BTC to the moon!" on Twitter does not make BTC a pyramid scheme. Typically people are describing market manipulation, and they just don't know what a pyramid scheme is (your post).
It evolved, so no need to worry.

Americans pronounce 'r' where British do not. Not a problem. There is no "correct" in a language which lived for centuries and does no more.
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I have a D435 and it is pretty great. Easy to use SDK, high quality depth information, high frame rate. One of the few true USB-3 UVC cameras too. Unfortunately it's really expensive, combined with limited applications and heavy processing requirements I wouldn't be surprised if they discontinue those too.
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are you still on the frontline? If so I'd personally be less worried about getting severely ill because you've probably had many small doses of exposure in your time there. Which is not precisely equivalent to a vaccine but is in the same ballpark.
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>quater

Quater is not a unit (or a word) so why would it ever mean 'fourth'? Quarter is probably the word you're looking for.
This also brings some big gotchas, such as the closing of encapsulation loopholes. Unsafe code and various hacks calling into the JDK will break a lot of programs; so you might be stuck on 11 if you use HBase, Spark, etc.
I always had this question, though maybe there's a simple answer why nobody is doing this.

Why it's not mandatory to have some smallish engine attached, which at the end of satellite's life would lower the orbit enough until atmosphere picks it up and it will slow down significantly on it's own and burn up?

Is it because most satellites will not fully burn and actually hit the ground, i.e. it's liability?

Is it because of too great of a risk of crossing and colliding with a satellite in another orbit, i.e. liability again?

Is it because "attaching smallish engine" which will fire at satellite's end life is actually really hard thing to do?

Something else?
>> I think it is correct that prosperity will eventually bring democracy.

> Xi sees that too and is busy trying to knock China's wealthy citizens down a couple of notches.

What do billionaire-wealthy citizens have to do with prosperity or democracy (besides the fantasies of pro-billionaire propaganda)?
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I'm reminded of the (perhaps apocryphal) story of how starbucks overroasts its coffee beans to achieve a consistent taste despite having multiple sources for beans (necessary due to its scale). the implication being that they sacrifice the average quality of the finished product to reduce variance.

is there a similar tradeoff in brewing? I do notice fairly obvious differences batch-to-batch in microbrews, but I would still prefer the worst batches of my favorite local beers to any AB product I can think of. are they trading away best/average taste for consistency, or is it more a function of the price point (microbrews being quite a bit more expensive)?
My bad, should have looked it up before posting, thanks!
afaik, LAPACK is highly architecture-adapted / optimized, so it makes sense to "decouple" the two, leaving it to the user to use it for highly performance critical binaries.
Because if they're capable of making plenty of good 4-cores but have more demand for 2-cores so are cutting good 4c, they should just make the 4-cores a little cheaper. But maybe they already do this.

Anyways, agreed ECC should be standard, but it requires an extra die and most people can do fine without it, so it probably won't happen. But an ECC CPU option with clearly marketed consumer full ECC RAM would be nice. DDR5 is a nice step in this direction but isn't "full" ECC.
What you want is to work with a service that customers will choose to rely on. This implies that sometimes—to get the benefit of being "an Uber driver" and not just some random guy with a car taking people for rides—you need to accept clients you wouldn't have chosen on your own, at standard prices set by someone else. It's not that you wouldn't prefer to pick and choose your clients or set your own prices, but if you insisted on doing things your own way all the time you wouldn't have nearly as many clients since they couldn't trust your service and your revenues would be much lower. Uber sets standards for drivers, which means clients can expect a certain quality of service, without which they would be much less inclined to accept rides, even from the same drivers.

You can certainly take that approach if you want, though. As an independent driver you own all the capital equipment in this business (your car) and you can stop working for Uber at any point without penalty and start offering rides under your own brand, on your own terms. However, you'll find that you still need to meet certain standards as to price and reliability if you want people to choose you over calling an Uber. Working for yourself doesn't mean you get to do whatever you feel like all the time without any commitments.
While that is true, many people (especially teenagers) curate their Instagram page as if they had tons of followers.
That doesn't come with the downsides that actually having many followers does (hateful comments, etc.), but it certainly fosters a stressful mindset where every posts success is closely monitored and the content is carefully chosen to achieve as much growth as possible.

Doesn't matter if it reaches 10 or 10000 people.
Lame attacks used by both sides. It is a template

Billionaires (Koch or Soros) attacking using organization (anecdotes about worst members worst actions, communists beating up a journalist, Nazi's beating up a journalist) tied to activity (riots/attempted coup)... blah blah blah
Then do not defend facebook.

Period

Their business model is poisoning the well of society, and strip-mining its value by breaking the bonds that hold it together.

The very best that can be concluded about it's entire leadership is that they entirely lack any hint of moral compass or sense of responsibility to the society from which they extract their wealth.

The more I observe their behavior, the more it looks like worse conclusions are supported by the data.

Just stop justifying things on technical bases. It is what FB is doing the the top post above
Ordinary citizens don't really care. This is SK giving Samsung what they want: an Android-fork OS for their smartwatches and other gadgets where the app store can be controlled by Samsung, not Google.
Sure, but that applies equally to the quarter pounder, which is 4oz before cookie.
I'm no expert, but is that really a consideration for modern launches? I'm not aware of any space agency that is currently limited in what they can do by orbital debris. Maybe it changes the launch windows, or they adjust an orbit by a few km. But are missions actually being canceled such that they would fund someone to make those missions possible again?
> In September of 2021, the content server for Massive Ads (http://madserver.net) started delivering blank content to anyone that requested it. Presumably, Microsoft shut down the service. Of course, this had the effect of knocking a few games offline that couldn’t understand the responses they were getting. I sent a few emails to Microsoft and they were helpful enough to refuse connections to the address. So as of now, you should be able to play SWAT 4 again.

Neat fix - presumably an empty response blew up the XML parser but ECONNREFUSED escapes to safer code?
The idea would be to build a nanoassembler that can receive instructions via light.
Film Grain effects were available in ffdshow since forever, but it’s unmaintained.
A lifestyle change is something that you need to actively pursue forever. It's not just a one time decision and action. I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse, or you actually can't see the difference.

And yes, all the issues listed are ones that can (usually) be corrected by action of the person involved. But the _level_ of action is on a totally different scale.
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Nice, I'd love for this to see the light of day. I suspect it'll see some resistance (even pattern matching caused conflict, and I thought that was terribly innocuous).

(Why can I reply at this level of nesting now, whereas before I couldn't?)
I have so many problems with USB 3 devices (hard to find a hub that doesn't "drop out" web cams, hard drives, and other USB 3 devices.) I can't trust anything to work reliably if I plug it into the left side of any Dell I have.

I thought it was bad cables (and other EMI shielding issues) but reading this article I know it is bad cables.
But it's not limited to skin tone. Have you never been able to identify an albino African as African?
Quite literally if you are not careful: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ransomware-victims-suffer-repea...

I expect the 80% figure to be rather inflated, unless they are talking about attempted attacks and not just successful second attacks, but paying the ransom in no way means you won't be attacked again.

Though thinking about it, if it were only attempted attacks I'd expect the figure to be 100% - criminal types are not known for leaving a potential easy mark alone! If they don't re-attack themselves then they could at least sell or swap to another group information about the potential target (or another group could just catch news on the grapevine).
a lot of these were the killer feature of scala that separated it from other languages
I imagine orbital velocities of debris is all over the place. It sound like you would need a magic source of thrust for all that delta-v to match orbits and whatnot.
Just read that 1946 New Yorker article on the first bombing that made HNs front page a week back. This passage is probably the one Zuckerberg would use:

> Over everything—up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks—was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses. Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city’s bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of plants intact; it had stimulated them. Everywhere were bluets and Spanish bayonets, goosefoot, morning glories and day lilies, the hairy-fruited bean, purslane and clotbur and sesame and panic grass and feverfew. Especially in a circle at the center, sickle senna grew in extraordinary regeneration, not only standing among the charred remnants of the same plant but pushing up in new places, among bricks and through cracks in the asphalt. It actually seemed as if a load of sickle-senna seed had been dropped along with the bomb.

Never mind that the rest of the article will probably elicit a few spontaneous sobs from an empathetic reader.
How is 1/3 of a number that the vast majority of people don't even blink at "depressingly high"?
I'll just throw out a comment (even though this is mostly a thought experiment) that doing any type of twitter analysis is either nearly impossible (in the scraping case) or prohibitively expensive (e.g. using their API). They've really shut off access to third parties in the last few years. (Just thought I'd mention it since the parent post continues this pre-2015-ish idea that still floats around that using twitter for projects could be a thing.)
i know. as i said he miscalculated efficiency for age cohorts.
israeli data for most age ranges is 45 to 25 percent lower than his calculated 95%-99%+ efficiency.
So maybe, as paradox it's nice, but as calculation go, they suck. and now everybody running around with this site as proof that there is no need in booster because efficiency is still 95%
Interestingly, seat belts and air bags are still controversial among some (few?) folks.
It's a weird phenomenon that's unique to HN. I understand that the idea is to elevate online discussion here, but many do it to such an absurd degree that anything anyone says always has someone asking for a source.

I sometimes wonder how these people would have survived at parties or social gatherings before the Internet when you couldn't just whip out your phone, spend 2 minutes not talking to anyone, click on the first Google search result, and then proclaiming "um acksually..."
I worked as a datascientist for a couple of years and tabular data was a very small part of my job. I spent far more time with image-analysis and JSON, both of which I found R sucks at.
Yeah it sounds like they are just selling off stock:

https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-says-i...
Looking forward to those cheap Xeons then. I'm eyeing an HP Gen 10 Plus and trying to find out if its better than a Ryzen Pro build in the same price range.
What I heard from the mouth of the guy who interrogated and discovered it, who was persecuted by us law enforcement agencies and news rags, must have just been “US propaganda”.
Good list, although some still feel like the 2000's. I would add Mailerlite and Mailersend and if you have a few bucks to spare Mailercheck. With this suite your email communication will be tip top They have a simple UI that feels like fresh air among mostly busy screens.
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Teen girls are not at all ready for pregnancy in any respect. Just because they started puberty doesn't mean puberty has been completed.
And therein lies the problem: to politicize a perfectly testable statement and put intent into it.
This sounds kinda creepy, but I don't think it is.

To be part of a society is to work together, if you've shown to be willing to go the extra mile for your fellow citizens, it's a good sign of being a good society member.