skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of typing was a huge pain. It sucks to not be able to navigate to the underlying library in your IDE, or navigate upwards in the calling stack etc because it is (afaik) hard for the IDE to help you navigate through this without typing. The larger the project, the slower it makes you since reading is 99% of your work.

Django, Flask etc have a lot of magic annotation business which became untenable after 2-3 years. It is really hard to reason about what they do and in what order. Much easier to reason about it with Java and Golang.
Normalizing a vector needs this. And it's super common as whenever you just want to have a direction you're likely going to need it. Your GPU also has a fast instruction for this because in graphics it's very very common operation.
“It is easier to push the bottle neck to another piece of the system than to remove it.” http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html
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Not here you can’t. They specifically ban anyone with covid like symptoms from entering which is like everything.

Besides what are the outcomes for using ICUs for covid. I bet long term outcomes are pretty dismal, that might be a good time to say unless you are healthy and under 55 if you need icu it might just be your time. Rationing care is a ethical and practical thing to do.
Re. "food grade": I think maybe some plastics might be ok, but, when I've recently done some projects involving plastic parts, I've been shocked to learn how little is food-grade. Like, almost nothing with any dye, especially any black dye. Yet how often does one see black plastic cutlery and plates, or microwave dinner trays? Then they have this legalese on them like "do not reheat". WTF? Rubbermaid containers don't seem to be food-grade either.

I'd bet that some small minority of plastic really is food grade, that the rest hides behind legalese, that consumers can't tell one from the other, and that both are routinely used for food, certainly within the home, and probably also commercially.

Also: There are a bunch of dirty political tricks that industry could pull to "problematize" concern about endocrine disruptors. Think of the famous "crying Indian" ad that started the recycling scam, but with hip 2021 sensibilities. I think we're going to have to be ready for that trick. "Those right-wingers! It's like that scene in Dr. Strangelove -- always concerned with their precious bodily fluids." You can see how it'll work.
From the article:

Gas stations have been in decline for several decades.

In 1995, there were ~195k of them in the US; today, that number is down to ~115k. Contributors are Natural Gas, Electric Vehicles, Real Estate

I think this leaves out the shift toward much larger gas stations with 2x-3x as many pumps. I'm generally okay with this trend. The odds of me waiting for a pump are low and we seem to have enough stations to compete on price.
We can take a realistic look at the increased risks involved with particular behaviors and the relative gains.

There are people who don't have kids of their own because of the high risk of passing potentially fatal genetic defects to their children. If you are an at risk epileptic, driving regularly is something you should avoid.

If an you are contemplating an activity that has a significant risk of causing harm to others, you have a moral obligation to consider if the benefits are big enough to be worth that risk.

If you have a higher than average level of contact with vulnerable populations, you should take higher than normal precautions to reduce your chances of infection. This is just basic moral common sense.
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Hardened valve seats are useful in racing engines and diesels, but car makers stopped using them in gasoline-fueled road cars simply because they weren't worth the cost regardless of whether the fuel was leaded. Reports of excessive valve seat recession after the phaseout of TEL were all anecdotal, and for every mechanic who swears there was a a rash of worn seats, there are others who say there wasn't.

The theory that leaded gas prevents micro-weld induced valve abrasion has not been verified in controlled tests. The final report from the EPA's Valve Seat Recession Working Group found no evidence that leaded gas reduces engine wear under any but the most extreme operating conditions:

https://archive.epa.gov/international/air/web/pdf/vsr-finald...

"In real world conditions, virtually no evidence of excessive valve wear has been found in vehicle or engine operation in normal everyday use, and several studies that monitored vehicles in actual daily service in countries that eliminated lead found no excessive valve wear."
> we're going to need much more difficult driving tests.

Sounds good to me. Let's require regular re-testing while we're at it.
"What nastiness are we subjecting ourselves to today?"

I have a suspicion that slathering typical consumer sunblock agents (and spraying the out of aerosol cans, and breathing the sunblock, etc.) is going to seem unwise to future us.
Sugar is an excellent example.

In fact, the sugar industry has been behind the effort to deflect blame to fat for the last 50 years.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
Also some restaurants say “customers only”.
Isn't it really amazing that no malicious bot author thought about these before...
I don't have that experience (using AAC, that is), but I do enjoy being able to select the Bluetooth audio codec with Pipewire (SBC, AAC, SBC-XQ, mSBC, etc.).

The array of supported and configurable Bluetooth codecs are the reason I switched. Now I can use AAC for music, SBC-XQ for video and interactive content and switch to mSBC when I need to make a call, all from the user interface.
It's impossible to eliminate bias. Whenever you report a measurement, the answer to "why did you choose to measure that particular thing to represent the phenomena" implicitly encodes a set of biases, and a tower of biases that a lot of other accessory things are built on (why did you use that instrument? Why does that instrument use mechanism X and not mechanism Y? Why do you use filter Z when processing your data? Why did you use exposure time T for the imaging, why did you pick that particular P-value threshold, etc.) these are all at some point, subjective judgements. Biases are not a priori bad
governments have no such vested interest.

existing corporations do, and yes, they are often successful at regulatory capture.

but ... private citizens, families, communities (geographic and of interest) also have a vested (and legitimate) interest in more rules and regulations, verifications, and safety checks, and sometimes (just sometimes) they are successful are getting government to implement these things.

when you look at a rule or regulation, you'd better be really sure about its history before you lay the blame at the feet of corporations seeking to restrict freedom.
It isn't just performance that you can throw more instances at perhaps. It is also about dev productivity, readability of code (in spite of writing clean code), not making silly errors that would be caught by static typing easily.

Building in Python feels like playing Jenga - easy enough at first but every change after a while is made with a silent prayer and anxiety.
It's a simple and easy way to reduce chances of spreading it to another person. It diverts airflow from directly forward, changing the distance outward that aerosols from your mouth go. Since, as you point out, this virus is spread via aerosols, this impacts the chances of spreading it, by reducing the contagion radius around you.
There probably isn’t a constitutional difference, but it depends on whether you care about the original text of the constitution or the precedence set by prior SCOTUS cases. Jacobson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts) set a precedent that the state (meaning government in general and not just a state-level government) has some powers that supersede individual liberty, including vaccination to protect public health, and this precedence has been used to force collectivist decision making in other situations as well. However the ninth amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_...) explicitly gives individuals all liberties not discussed by the constitution and would therefore suggest that individual liberty is supreme even in the case of bodily autonomy.

Leaving that debate aside however, I think it’s important to recognize that the US is built on federalism. It is less of a unified monolithic nation and more of a diverse set of nations that share a small set of common services like the military. Over time the federal government has become bloated and powerful, and has been erasing the locality of choice that state and local jurisdictions are supposed to provide. This leads to situations like the national vaccine mandate, where a narrow majority can implement a tyranny over the rest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority), when the system is meant to allow greater local liberty and independence over such choices. If this type of governance continues I expect as some point the US will break up.
That's because it's keeping things fairly simple. Implementing the more involved/advanced techniques would quickly outpace what's possible in python, now and for the foreseeable future

(see https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/useful-algorithms-that-a... but also other reasons such as composability )
You didn't know that Wikipedia is editorialized by the left?
> "NPR article honestly just sounds like fear-mongering."

that's nearly all of npr (and nyt) now, especially the covid-related news that's 50+% of npr stories. i can no longer stomach more than their 10-minute hourly news summary on the radio these days.
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Israel isn’t a very big or globally powerful nation, so I’d be very surprised if they care enough about minor nations not in their immediate area to even bother trying most places.
Those people had nothing to do with why 9/11 is remembered, which was the topic at hand.

They should certainly be remembered when we talk about how horrific the American response to 9/11 was, though.
I think that that’s just an excuse, considering how we didn’t stop when we finally knew.
The problem is, 73% of drivers think they're above-average drivers[1]. So just as you can't know whether you're the one spreading COVID, you can't know if you're the bad driver.

The solution is to get rid of cars as a primary mode of transport, and I really do think we should do that!

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-overconfident-...
I don't know when this will end, nor what the end will look like.

To consult recent history, my layperson's vague impression is, if early on we'd had better leadership and precautions compliance, we would've already incurred vastly fewer family tragedies, and the pandemic might've even been all but over by now.

So, personally (and I know my situation is easier than many people's), I can hold out longer with precautions, and I'm not yet willing to just give in to the same mistakes that seemed to contribute to us getting into the current challenging situation.
Excellent point.

I’ve also worked in feminism. None of the scientific results are correct (We often think women have always been oppressed, remembering the right to vote, but disregarding that ILO’s convention on slavery in 1930 excluded men 18-49 - which literally reverses the conclusion about oppression). And yet this scientific field was funded and hyped in 2013-2020.

The common points with Afghanistan and Covid: Every study is slightly wrong enough to lead to an incorrect global picture, and obviously enough that simply reading the studies is enough to find the major flaws; Laws are written in emergency; Actions that are undertaken either amplify the problem or are orthogonal to solving it; Those very actions harm the bystanders in a significant way, enough that it causes major outrage and focalises everyone’s mind.

I wonder to which point they are rotating the topics, whether they have a major cycle on 20 years (otherwise people would get too knowledgeable and able to disprove the sophisms) and a short cycle on 6 years (perhaps election cycle, the swings of the two-party), or whether this is a natural phenomenon emerging from large nations in peace.

Next topic will be something else such as microrobot attacks, so they are not visible but everyone will have to protect themselves.
There is a lot of value in being able to identify users, and starbucks 100% is constantly analyzing the gain they get from identifying users against the losses the incur from an increased bounce rate. (I work in adtech and am part of similar tests for similar brands)

Almost certainly these tests do not take into account longterm affects on user's opinions on the brand, etc.
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‘Shady business’ - what and how exactly, out of interest?
No right-minded person would claim that mere determination leads to success. You need a lot of other things, including knowledge, luck, and more. However, it is correct to assert the contra-positive: if you don't try, then you will fail 100% of the time.

But, to empathize with you, I understand the concern. It is disheartening to think that your efforts may go to waste, and result in...nothing. Worse than nothing, because you've paid the opportunity cost of the attempt. This is real.

The mitigation is to reduce your opportunity cost. Send a letter to your legislature, an email to a newspaper. Talk to your friends about the issue. The positive effect is that you're broadcasting a truth, and maybe someone will respond.

(Also, chicks dig a guy who actually believes in shit.)
> These still exist.

But they don't get you out of the mandates anymore. Adults who already finished school used to never have to tell anyone their vaccination status to participate in society.
I use Bluetooth ear buds (OnePlus Buds) daily on Fedora with Pipewire and haven't noticed any perceivable sync issues myself.

Edit: Other comments are mentioning codec selection for Bluetooth in relation to lag/sync issues. I'm using whatever is default on Fedora 34. I've never looked and am not at my computer to check right now unfortunately.
The US issued a 15-cent BANKNOTE in the 1870s. It's a complete non-sequitir. It was part of a sort of emergency issue meant to replace the silver coins that disappeared during the Civil War and weren't returned fast enough, but there was no 15c coin to replace.

More relevant to this community, it always made me think about the abstract math of change making algorithms.

With the coin denominations we have in the US, the optimal (fewest number of coins) change can always be made by going for the largest coin available less than the remaining balance due. It's entirely possible to make a currency system that was not the case.

As a trivial example:

In a hypothetical system with coins denominated 20, 15, 10, 3, 2, and 1 (basically the Soviet-era model without the 5-kopeck coin) the optimal way to make 25 units (15+10) is not the "largest first" way (20+3+2)
Already that little does much, as C++'s type system is more strict.

The rest can be (hopefully) increasingly migrated.

This was both the plus (and now Achilles's heel regarding fixing C++) of migrating C code into C++.
People can do that, stay home when sick. Then they just have fewer vacation days. At least, that's how it works for me. I suppose we could think of it as an incentive to remain healthy.
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> The company decides to leverage the users, tools, and ecosystem of Apple to make money

Apple does not own its users. If the legal owner of an iPhone wants to run code from a third-party on it Apple should have no right to interfere. Apple can set its own terms on its SDKs and tools but we should be able to forego them.

> I'm referring to taxes.

Are Apple's shareholders going to provide people with education and healthcare? What a complete non-sequitur.
Very sad indeed, hope he gets some help.
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First tone then content...
That is a reasonable argument.

And what you point out is actually the speed limit of causality, instead of light. It just happens that light travel really fast.

Though the article wants to discuss the speed of light as you mentioned, so I focused on speed of light.
I’m not sure if it’s something I want to get into but I don’t really agree.

All I was saying is a policy supported by a large majority, proposed by this government, had to be walked back because of their inability to control the back benches. Boris is a piss poor leader.
> The end state is everyone taking drugs, and nobody being any better off academically.

Will society be better off though? I mean, the same point can be made for using any new technology. I use a computer so now you need to use a computer to stay competitive. Now we both use a computer, so we're at a stale mate once again. But we're both working much more efficiently on a much higher level, and society is definitely better off even if neither of us has any lasting advantage over the other.

Whether that's the case with academics and stimulants, I don't know. Would Paul Erdős have made the same contributions without stimulants? Would we be settling on Mars if everyone optimized for maximum brain output?
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I don't know about any LTS versions, but 21.04 has pipewire in the standard repo. I expect PW to be in the 22.04 LTS based on that, but I don't expect it to be the default any time soon.

This PPA [0] works fine for me in 21.04 to get the latest version. Support for the PPA seems to go back to Bionic, so you should be able to use it on recent LTS versions of Ubuntu as well.

The only annoying part of the whole process is that the migration requires running a bunch of commands to stop and mask PulseAudio and to enable pipewire. This guide [1] worked great for me.

[0]: https://launchpad.net/~pipewire-debian/+archive/ubuntu/pipew...

[1]: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/05/enable-pipewire...
...okay, but could this actually work? I'm assuming because there are no products like this that there's a giant caveat somewhere, but isn't it actually a good idea?

My understanding is heat pumps can move more heat energy in/out of a system than the electrical energy input into them. My peabrain logic thinks, "Wait a moment, doesn't that mean a heatpump oven would be more energy efficient than a conventional electric oven with resistive heating?"

I'm assuming the problem lies somewhere in refrigerants not, uh, behaving well at oven temperatures?
I think you're wrong. For instance, this website about the emergency use authorization for the Moderna vaccine says, for equal sized vaccinated and control groups, that

> Vaccine efficacy against hospitalization due to COVID-19 was 89% (95% CI: 13%, 89%). Deaths were also uncommon, 6 in the vaccine group and 7 in the placebo group.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/grade/covid-19-modern...

In other words, there was not nearly enough data to tell whether it was effective at reducing deaths, and only weak data on hospitalizations.

Do you have a cite that describes it otherwise? If not, please edit your comment.
I spent more than a year working for the guy who went from "raised by ..." to "the richest man in the world". And when I say "working for", I mean "worked in the same converted garage".

Bezos' stratospheric economic "mobility" is not evidence of a more generalized economic mobility. In a system that is even vaguely capitalist, there will always be people who become incredibly wealthy without inheriting most of it. Their existence is not evidence of "considerable mobility", it's merely evidence of some sort of capitalistic economy.

The fact that the 10 richest people on earth were not born into stratospheric wealthy is a testament (of sorts) to capitalism; if you want to know about economic mobility, you're better off focusing on statistics, not the exceptions that prove the rules.
You know, I had sort of forgotten all about this edition. I notice that the public-domain Robinson edition I mentioned was one of the source texts.

And the XML is pretty amazing. Every token is tagged!
I used to smoke once a day at night after work but ended up stopping for the same reason: weed makes you dumb.

I do smoke for social occasions and enjoy it, but even when just smoking occasionally I can definitely feel the negative mental effects for a day or two after.
>it sounds like they basically don't want anything that isn't scoped to a specific goal, like reading a customer service script

enlightening to see that our robot companions already get the same treatment as our meatspace service workers
"Forever chemicals" perhaps?
It does help the rest of us though. I'll also mention for the same reason that there was a thing called ReWire on Windows, not sure what became of it.